skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome example of the power of personalizing a request. Funny enough, it has the same story arc (reunite with your sweetie!) as the Hipmunk explainer story video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6teBPUgz4Y8
This is ridiculous to me..
For PSD2HTML? And that round trip ticket price? Ok. Shoot me a mail. (See profile)
Looks promising.

Too bad the last commit was 2 years ago...
New study confirms that eating healthy does indeed cost more
org-mode is vastly superior in every way. If you want to organize audio files, you can do that to with the attachment feature.

Oh and most importantly, you host the data yourself - no verbose plaintext logs containing your sensitive data and no support calls. Org can also encrypt your Org files on-the-fly:

http://orgmode.org/
http://orgmode.org/manual/Attachments.html
I think the author is missing one important bit - most of modern world (or at least the people who built modern technology companies) is created by people like that - middle/upper class white males who know they could take risks because if things don't work out, they still are ok.

Would Gates or Zuckerberg drop out of Harvard if they were the first in their family to attend college with immigrant parents demanding to know why they're not a doctor/lawyer - probably not.

PS I'd also like people to stop using the formulaic 'straight white male' as if one's sexual proclivities make any difference here. Ie someone writing about a field where this matters (say pro sports or fashion industry to pick opposite examples) - fine, talk about it. Otherwise please stop regurgitating same PC keyword over and over.
I'm curious what the Python 3 adoption status is inside of Google, which I think of as a place that's relatively pro-Python, very pro-new stuff, but also possessing a lot of institutional inertia and giant amounts of code. Have parts of Google overcome the inertia and switched to 3? Do fights break out in the halls? Is it 2 forever and always?
> ... an accidental overdose of heroin, cocaine, and prescription drugs.

That'll do it.
I evaluated Evernote once two years ago. The iOS app crashed as I was appending to a text note. The app lost a half hour of unsaved meeting notes. I never trusted Evernote again. In my mind, a shoddy rich text editor cast serious doubt on the durability of Evernote's distributed revision control.
Pigz - Parallel gzip
If speed is of importance, I would second the SimpleNote suggestions. You might also want to take a look at Notational Velocity and its fork, nvALT - the speed of launching, searching and creating notes is unbelievable, and both apps can sync with the SimpleNote service.

http://notational.net
http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/
Other than the word "systems", was there any other indication that the Golang team meant to target OS kernels?
Same thing happened to me. I don't even try to use to ios app any more, unless its absolutely dire. Just opening the app, navigating to a note, waiting for it to load then trying to edit it takes forever.
Yep. Lost 3 hours of writing once. No chance of recovery apparently. Now I've learned to not edit existing notes on mobile devices if I can avoid it. Copy the note to a new one and edit that so I have a backup.
I had to go find the original version of skitch, built by a different company, because of how badly the Evernote team massacred it. They just seem like a company more interested in high level bullshit than actual user experience.
Government’s surveillance powers can’t keep going unchecked
It's not clear if there was any pressure. Carmen Ortiz was rumoured to be planning a run at MA governor. She might have thought this case was a good way to get her name in the press.
That is legit. Good luck man!
The straw man is not the generalist being replaced; it is the "emeritus" advisor to the ceo job that is created out of thin air. Many young companies have execs that just don't scale as quickly as the company (for whatever reason...)[1]. Sometimes its just not teneble politically or practically for them to exert further influence, especially at the C-level. Co-founders and ex CEOs are often different, in that regards. Compare the trajectory of Jack Dorsey at Twitter to the engineer that did the original code, but was never promoted to CTO.

(1) ie, You still can be a very effective "early employee" without being C-level material in your current compan. That doesn't imply lack fo competence in the work you did do; and frankly thats a reason many do change jobs.
Define eating healthy.

Carrots, lettuce, spinach and water are ridiculously cheap.

If it's over-priced, branded, luxury convenience product in tiny quantities, then it's obviously going to cost more.

The other cheap way to eat: freegan.
Hey! I live in Nashville and there's plenty of work out here. With a week or two you could probably find a gig here and turn it into a business trip. Boom 30% discount come tax time!

Hell - while you're in Chattanooga stop in at http://colab.co/. Their office is close to downtown. Find a project based out of Chattanooga and see if they'll pay for you to fly out every couple months!
Here’s what is blocking Bertha, the world’s largest tunneling machine
I've had a lot of the same issues in the Windows client. one particularly annoying bug is how a simple slip of hitting backspace in the wrong spot can delete an audio recording with no possible way of undoing the operation. I've started using the service less and less over the years to where I barely open it at all anymore, relying on services like git and drop box instead.
Blog posts like this make me feel concerned that I'm becoming a generalist right now and I'm not sure I can avoid it. I'm on a really small team doing development of both front end (Javascript/HTML/CSS) and backend (PHP for our back end, SQL db, node server for websocket updates and some other stuff). I feel like I don't spend enough time doing any one thing in order to be considered a specialist at any of it, just passable enough to get done whatever needs to be done at the time.
90% of it was then as well, we just don't reread or remember those. You don't think that there are five cultural critics(whatever that includes) on par with Thompson or mailer? There might be more noise, but there's a lot more signal as well.
I've been an avid Evernote user since the beginning (one of the first few thousand users). I use it to record all sorts of ideas, thoughts, notes, reminders, research, and references.

One year ago, my girlfriend was using Evernote (on my suggestion) to write her travel journal on our trip to Southeast Asia. I saw her note sync a bunch of times (the iOS app shows a little blue arrow when it's uploading). But one day she opened it and the note was gone. I contacted support but they couldn't do anything. (They offered her a year of free Premium service and "apologized for the inconvenience".)

Since then, I've stopped recommending it to people because I don't want to feel personally responsible if they lose notes too. I also have a tinge of doubt every time I record important information. My biggest worry is Evernote quietly losing a note, because once I record something in Evernote I typically push it from my internal memory.

On top of that, their iOS app is incredibly slow. When I want to quickly jot an idea down, it's very inconvenient.

I've started using SimpleNote lately, which is far faster, but I don't know to what extent I should trust it to keep my data safely.
Not sure why you were downvoted - this is a brilliant way for him to get his name out there. Before this, we never would've heard of him, and now he's at the top of HN.
I'm a premium Evernote member, but I've also had lots of problems.

The iOS app is slow and clunky. I hate using it. It crashes all the time, especially when I'm trying to take snapshots of a document with many pages (and all previous snapshots simply disappear).

The desktop app is better, but they really could improve the writing experience. Pasting HTML blobs is impossible, and so is formatting my notes the way I want (I use TextExpander for sanity).

Evernote is great when it works, but they really need to fix their stability and bug problems.
I suppose it was derived somehow from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pypstats

As a number of people have pointed out though, there's no new data since May 2013, no idea why (https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi/issue/33/package-stats-no-lo...), so the the '4%' number is probably out of date anyway.
Ah. So you're suggesting that all gun owners are like you, and none would take the opportunity to live out their "hero moment"?
Forget Mega-Corporations, Here’s The Mega-Network
ClojureCLR has existed for .NET since very early on. ClojureScript also targets javascript. There is also a Clojure on Python and a Clojure on Lua.

At the very least, ClojureCLR and ClojureScript most certainly do make sense.
Targeting another popular platform, Objective-C with the Apple libraries, makes a lot of sense to me. That, and C#/.NET (which is already a thing with clojure-clr) seem like the obvious candidates.
And the dots. Yuck.
Take up the problem with Amazon.
Ugh, correct. Thanks for that.
That's called "full-stack web developer".
https://github.com/wordnik/swagger-codegen

does javascript, scala, java, objective-c, php, python (3), ruby, android, and even flash

Also has the benefit of a commercial backer (https://helloreverb.com) and a real app depending on it
You're a hacker when a hacker calls you a hacker.
The author's idea of branch coverage seems mixed up. I've worked on avionics at the strictest safety level. We had to test every branch and every combination of conditions for the branch, but every combination of branches up and down the code path was not a thing.
So I have an OWC 480 GB Pro 6G that, at the time, was $1.5k. It has an interesting intermittent failure mode: If the temperature of the laptop goes below 16 C (60 F), the system won't recognize it. Guess what the problem is? Condensation. It collect inside the SSD's plastic clamshell and shorts some of the pins. They failed to seal it and failed to include a desiccant in that space, or just pot in the whole thing in epoxy.

Conclusion: Cheap, poorly engineered and poorly tested.
If video frames are of a lower quality than a photo then your technique will not work. From the sounds of it he figured a way to encode the images far faster and this allows for faster use of the photo mode (That is most of the time of higher quality than the video mode)
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/p...
Or maybe they would provide better service.
Definitely thought some of these issues were just me. My hypothesis is that Evernote gets increasingly unstable the more notes (and data) you have stored. Which sucks because I have over 1200 and I pretty much need Evernote at this point. The desktop app is damn near unusable, takes forever to create a new note.

I no longer trust that they will always have all of my notes, so I started to back them up to Dropbox via the HTML export. But I'm lazy, haven't done it for a while.

Perhaps this is an opportunity for a new company to do what Evernote is doing, better. Automatic backups to Dropbox, lighting fast no matter how many notes stored, reliable and instant syncing, etc.
This is a great answer.
You suck. Let God make the melodies, a muse. You have no business playing with chords.

Write lyrics.

I don't worry about delusional bug reports.

gosh ice_cream sad never_happy wanna_bet guilty epic_fail
impossible gosh Yes_you_are what_would_Jesus_do just_lovely
genius mission_from_God smurfs failure_is_not_an_option
It_grieves_me That's_my_favorite run_away busybody humility
ice_cream abnormal money Icarus guilty awful special_case
threads taxes thats_right that's_no_fun genius the_enquirer
hard_working no_way_dude Oh_Hell_No have_fun Angel Russia
Bam so_let_it_be_done taxes you_think_I'm_joking atrocious
Another paying anxious victim here. I'm anxious to the point that I've kept a separate copy of notes I add to evernote on my local machine as well. Recently, I've limited myself to using it as a glorified bookmarker and am questioning my own sanity in paying for a service like evernote.

The kind of response you're talking about is not enough. This kind of speed of response in addressing the issue must have been given when the OP filed the report, not only when he decided to go public with it.

Given that the technology required for evernote isn't advanced or cutting edge or experimental researchy stuff, I find the bug rate appalling.
Her: the scariest movie of 2013
I don't doubt that Kim Dotcom is a very interesting guy, but that piece was complete garbage.
10 things you probably didn't realise npm could do.
Kim Dotcom: The Man Behind Mega A New Documentary
If you are good you can keep getting bullets by killing people and stealing their bullets.

If they charge $40, nobody is going to play the game.

Not a supporter of the app, but it's pretty obvious the pay for bullet business model is the correct decision. It's hardly much at all considering the potential entertainment value for those who play it. Consider how much you would have to pay for paintball.

It's strange, it seems like on every single topic, nobody on HN wants anybody else to make any money at all.
Erm, we live in a democracy. Almost anyone in the country over the age of 30 could potentially become a member of congress in 2 years or less. Being able to discourage someone from running for office is potentially just as distressing as being able to influence someone already in power.
Try asking in #cakephp on freenode or in the google group (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cake-php).
I totally relate to this note on two levels, one as a user and having Evernote go wacky on me and just flat out lose something it used to have saved, and two as an engineer having worked on systems that were not designed but instead evolved at the hands of people "getting things done."

The latter aspect is the most intriguing because if Evernote is in fact evolving and not designing, they are vulnerable to being out executed by someone with good design principles. I sometimes wish I could look inside their system and see how it is put together, and sometimes I worry about what I mind find there if I did.
This is just republishing of a ssd report which was already on hacker news a few days ago, old news.
Most color printers print their serial number on every page to assist in identification of forgeries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography
Interestingly, both intel drives reviewed use their own controllers. I doubt their Sandforce drives would do as well!
You can include assembly in Android apps (it might require the NDK). The bigger problem is that an Android device could be ARM, x86, or even MIPS.
I've been a paying customer almost from the start. Unfortunately, as Evernote has expanded, it's gotten less and less useful for me.

Their web clipper is great, the best around IMO (especially since Clipboard folded), however there's no way to exclude those clipped pages from search, so after using the clipper for a while, searching for just about any phrase is mostly irrelevant results. Ideally it'd be possible to filter by source or have default searches to exclude certain types of content.

Another example of this is that I have a well-curated and geotagged Travel Notebook (this was actually much harder than it should have been since their geocoder is picky and you can't really massage it). I'd love to be able to see these notes on a map, but the "Atlas" map view that Evernote provides doesn't let you filter by notebook (or anything really).

Evernote does a great job of making it fairly painless to capture notes and despite the author's problems, has generally worked well on syncing everything. It's never done a good job for triaging/filing/finding or organizing notes though, and it seems to simply get worse as you use it more (and with each redesign). Evernote seems to want to encourage you to put "everything" into it, but as you do, it becomes harder and harder to get what you need out of it. Honestly, I'm baffled at how the Evernote devs/designers use it.
Microsoft already has. OneNote supports page versioning, edit history, and deleted pages go into a 'Recycling Bin' for 30 days before being deleted permanently. If you sign into OneNote with a Microsoft account, you get auto-syncing to SkyDrive.

They also have pretty snazzy Android and iOS apps for OneNote, although IIRC the mobile apps require an Office 365 subscription.

Out of everything that comes out of Redmond, OneNote is definitely one of the best consumer products.
Agreed, I was surprised to see that they have integrated with Microsoft Outlook.
> Snowden gained access to his cache of documents by persuading 20 to 25 of his fellow employees to give him their logins and passwords, saying he needed the information to help him do his job as systems administrator

Ha!
Didn't that YC company, Markupwand, do something like this automatically? Since they've vanished, I wonder if this problem is hard to do automatically?

Photoshop CS6 has this feature built-in, but it generates horrible css -- it reminds me of the days when people used Dreamweaver to output their html.
>And you know maybe that's a problem we should take seriously.

Why? I'm not trying to be snarky; I just don't see how this is a big deal at all, or why it's worth trying to "fix" it (if you believe that anything is "broken").
Several years ago[1] I installed Evernote on my Mac and used it pretty regularly for a few months, then just tired of the sluggishness and fragility of the app. Mind you, I've never installed the web client, none of the browser extensions, nor have I used it within a browser. It was always the OS X app for me.

Spurred by this post (nicely done, btw) I went and gave a look at what was inside my old Evernote account. Nothing. Everything's gone except the myriad folders and tags I'd added to help keep everything organized. It's a ghost town now.

I guess I don't really care the stuff is gone since I'd given up on the app long, long ago. Still, I can't help wondering what I'm missing, if there was anything truly important that marched in line & jumped off a cliff along with millions of other users' data.

[1] Mid-2009 according to my Evernote Account Summary page.
I do not see a 404, perhaps it was temporary?
As someone who has been in such a relationship before while on a very tight budget, I have respect for this guy. It is really hard to put up a post asking for business like this, too, I imagine.

To the OP: Good luck to you. I hope you not only find business and get your ticket but also do a great job for those who hire you. I sincerely wish you happiness and success in your relationship and your work.
I think it's pretty common. As concrete sources, Eric Raymond's edition of the jargon file not only bothers to cover dress in quite some detail, but is pretty insistent what it includes as well as excludes:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/dress.html

Certainly for me, that entire section of his website (and also his hacker-howto.html) was something that I took seriously when I was in grade school and first learning about hacker culture. Even today I doubt there are things on the web with better claims to defining and documenting the hacker stereotype as Eric Raymond's writings.
Snapchat blames feature 'abuse' for phone & username leak, issues no apology
It's likely an economy-of-scale: bigger the operation, the better the ROI. Low volume would be expensive.
Amazon already has something similar for non-drone deliveries called Amazon Locker, which is actually pretty useful. But you make a good point. Drone deliveries are just one way to cut down on delivery latency. The continued existence of brick and mortar stores is a good example of the value of low latency delivery, often at a high premium. If you can spend the money that would have been spent on storefront rent, attendant wages, and distributed inventory instead on drone systems then maybe in some cases it's a worthwhile tradeoff.
When the AP curriculum was in C++ there was, in fact, such a pedogigical version of the library used in classes. (I took AP CS the first year it was in C++.)

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/courses/teache...
This times a million.

Phone numbers in particular can be a horrid mess to deal with. Some decent libraries have come out to normalize them, but in general it remains difficult.

For example:

013811234
+88-1-3811234
3811234
0118813811234
008813811234

are all be the same number.

To hash them, you could naively just strip off the area codes and country codes, but that is only if you can know ahead of time they are indeed area or country codes. Some countries have 7 digit numbers, others have 9, some have 6, or even 5 digits. Sometimes you don't even know the country to apply these rules to.
It sounds like they probably don't have a comprehensive test suite. Or perhaps they don't have a test suite at all.
Smart mask reduces users’ need for sleep
I really hope Evernote's take-away from this is that they need to scale back development on all their auxiliary stuff - hello, food, whatever, as well as all but the most critical feature requests, and focus as much as possible on making the core experience bulletproof. I would _hate_ to have to give up Evernote, but like others here, am extremely apprehensive about the possibility of losing data.

One stop-gap they might be able to implement quickly would be a scale-up of their version control. They could throw money (storage space and bandwidth) at the problem, increasing the number and frequency of revisions stored. Certainly not as good as preventing loss in the first place, but reliable versioning would help minimize catastrophic loss in the meantime, and would still continue to be valuable once things are more stable.
Its probably easier to just set up a profile on elance and oDesk.
Exact same thing happened to me last week, took notes on a one hour video, clearly saw the online app sync on multiple occasions, after closing the note, only the first 15 minutes of my content was saved. Incredibly irritating.
How is this different from google docs?
What might have gone wrong (i.e. what might the video show)? YouTube has given an error when trying to view the video on every day that I've tried to view it (its viewer #s appear to have flatlined too - so I don't think it's just me).

I'd like some idea just so I'm not completely in the dark : Blue smoke, seizure, wind, sunlight, self-hitting, etc?
It would make sense to write an easier wrapper around current C++ standard library. Because C++ provides very strong inlining, just simple wrapping with better method names will not make any performance hit.

But IMO, naming is one of the hardest work.
Doing it correctly is not trivial.

Beyond the CSS layout, you typically have to cut up the assets and put them in an image sprite. An automatic service wouldn't be able to cut up images correctly if the PSD is flattened. Even with layers, overlapping layers would give the automatic service issues (or bad CSS in the end).

PSD2HTML is more art than science.
Hi, OP here. It was very gracious of him, but I should note that I've met Phil several times over the years (including while I was formerly a TechCrunch reporter), which I suspect had something to do with the speed.
yuck, I don't understand how go people can put up without parametric polymorphism.
I won a Toshiba in a science competition. Even though it was free it still sucked, they make terrible little machines.