skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also love Evernote, and rely on it for a lot.

But even putting aside these syncing issues, it's a really terribly-designed piece of software There are so many issues with it, UI-wise, that is just bugs the hell out of me. (See note below for an example of a feature designed badly).

Still, Evernote fills a need I have that unfortunately there is no other solution for. And while it's taking a long time, it is gradually improving. So I'm still hoping that, one day, Evernote fulfils its destiny and becomes as amazing as it could be.

Note: Example of a badly deigned feature: tagging support is crazy-bad - you can tag things, and you can even organise tags into a tag hierarchy - except, no you can't, because it's only supported on some platforms. And the "support" for it is purely visual - selecting a "parent" tag doesn't auto-select the child tags, so it is basically no help. So let's go to solution 2, which is to tag things with a prefix, like "History\Middle Ages" and "History\US". But now, their generally awesome tag-completer will be annoying, since it will force you to type "History\" before getting to the point. So lets reverse tag it, like "US (History)". No, that wont' work, since you can search tags by prefix (e.g. search for anything with a tag starting with "History") but not by tag suffix. Even though, through the UI, you can do this, you can't do it with an actual search, so you can't select these tags.
There's something fishy about this story. Either you're not telling all of it, or...

You joined before money was raised, and possibly got an oversized equity stake that is being clawed back. If you were supposed to have more than 1%, I'd consider it possible. If you were supposed to have 5%, I'd consider it a certainty.

If my guess is correct, you should talk to a lawyer. You may have options.
that's soo sweet --- i mean, football, beer :)

seriously though, i hope you get hired!
I'll be checking the site - hope you update it or blog or something :)

good luck
Are you an executive? At a lot of companies executives can safely ignore company policies at their discretion.

Also, you could just inform the customer to resend the info to the official channel and make sure someone is actually keeping an eye out for it.
I do lots lots lots of paper notes. I even make my own notebooks according to my system which evolved a lot over past 5 years.

Since 2008, I am making my yearly Evernote migration attempts. So far, Evernote is not any close to the paper notebook + smartphone camera duo. On every account excluding possibly search, it is inconvenient, complex, slow and less reliable.

If core HWR functions of Evernote will be available as an one-button app in my phone (like Camera), that will be a really strong value proposition to me.

Otherwise, the value of notes depends on being within immediate reach (ideal: on the wall, open on the table). Every additional tap, click or wait-one-second halves the value of it.

Navigating a complex unreliable app, paying for it and worrying about privacy/reliability/bugs altogether makes it less than helpful for me, hence a no-go.
One of the earliest appearances of Duke, Java's mascot, 1992.
Agreed. The complexity feels overwhelming at times, and yet all too often isn't flexible enough to do what I want.
Spirit Captured on Film
Randomised testing?? 1000000..... tests take a small amount of time to write.

Not saying thought out tests are worst, just if you really want to go down the road of testing amazing amounts of options there are options, personally rare events who cares, but automation can find things you didn't think of if you can't write quality tests.
building and scaling a multiplatform app is incredibly difficult.

Buggy sure, will they become the leviathan force if they fix the bugs, most likely.

Any good alternatives to Evernote?
Michael, I might have some work for you.

Shoot me an email.
Not only old news but this site is a link farm, scroll down to this recommended blog (http://lifefactopia.com/shopping/m1/?mb=out&sub=usm1&aid=h44). Ii is for QuiBids a full on scam.
Some problems with the Go implementation:

Looks like go does not have something similar to extension methods, so a result() call should be put at the end to unwrap the collection.

The lambda syntax is even worst than C++ and no query expressions (aka monad syntax)

Most important: No IQueryable<T> Expression<Func<...>> so doesn't work with remote data sources (SQL, mongo,...)

But the library looks ok given the possibilities
I think there are more similarities than the author supposes between these "networks" and the traditional asian enterprise groups. For example, it's a classic feature of the keiretsu to have interlocking shareholdings, directors, and financial foundations, ensuring cross-pollination of resources and broadly aligned interests. I think that has more than a few parallels with emerging "business networks" such as ycombinator.

Obviously the scale is a little different, but hey, give it a century...
We're Germans, so just imagine we learnt all our English from 90s rap music.

And he is really dirty. A recent HN commentary by me along the same lines: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6979024
Try getting your daily 2000 kcals from carrots, lettuce, spinach and water. Compare that cost to getting a few items from McDonald's dollar menu.

I'll do the math for you: One pound of carrots has roughly 190 calories. So you'd need to eat at least 10 pounds of carrots to get average your daily energy requirement. How much is a pound of carrots? $0.99?
A McDonald's Bacon Cheddar McChicken has 480 calories for $1. So you'd only have to buy four of them.
I learned about CPS in Lisps but never in "pure" C, making [3] a very interesting read.
REI has a 100% satisfaction guaranteed. About a year or two ago I purchased a few different bicycle parts. I kept them without using them for a few months and decided I didn't really need them after all. Since they were a few hundred dollars worth of parts I didn't want to just keep them or get rid of them, I wanted to return them. Even though their policy is "satisfaction" guaranteed, I felt like I was abusing the good faith of the policy--knowing just how heavily discounted their garage sale items are.

What I ended up deciding to do was returning them but asking for an 80% refund. The guy behind the counter gave me a really weird look and told me he had to ask if that was even allowed. Luckily for me, it was. They refunded me 80% of the total amount and I called it fair.
It is further questionable whether this person could even legally work as a contractor. Depending on the level of control the company exercised over how your friend performed their duties (and "admin stuff" sounds pretty hands-on to me), the government may actually consider them an employee. In that case the company is withholding wages, which would get them in a much bigger amount of trouble.
People put lipoly batteries to their faces each day (in phones), so probably not that big a danger.
WATCH South Korean Dog Rescued from Slaughter
In April of 2013, The Fuzzy Pet Foundation - (TFPF) was asked by a South Korean animal rescue organization (CARE) to take in a Jindo who had been badly abused and neglected by her "owners." This Jindo had been raised for dog-meat slaughter. She had been tightly chained up to a metal pole and her body was covered with mange and open sores. She was crying in pain and desperately waiting for help. CARE discovered that this dog had been bred several times; her puppies were found completely frozen and dead in the dirt.

CARE named her Bomi (봄이) which is derived from the word "spring" in Korean. They treated Bomi's skin issues and socialized her to trust humans again. CARE was determined to give Bomi a fighting chance so they contacted TFPF to work our magic.

For many months, TFPF worked hard to arrange Bomi's transport from Seoul, South Korea to Los Angeles, CA. As responsible rescuers, we wanted to make sure we could provide Bomi with top-notch veterinary care, and secure her a forever home. We also wanted to have a proper plan in place so that we were not just naively flying an animal to a different country without considering the animal overpopulation crisis happening everywhere in this world.

With the generous help from one of our staunch supporters, actress Alyssa Milano, Bomi was flown on airplane to California on November 12, 2013! This has been a magical time for all of us who have worked so hard to rescue Bomi. We are truly humbled by Alyssa's support, and honored to be in the position to save these precious lives.
"Can't imagine/understand" is a figure of speech, not literal statement to be taken by its exact meaning.

Personally, I can imagine how someone could live without $conceptname at all. It's as trivial as just never introducing that concept to to the extent they learn it. Or, maybe, that someone knows the concept but unable to use it due to insuperable force, like a lack of necessary tools for target platform(s) or corporate standard dictating what's permitted and what's not.

The point is, this is an unpleasant imagination one don't want to accept. Or something like that. But this is really getting off-topic...
How do I know if my software idea is big enough?
Can you use it? How much training (approx hour count) is needed before you can really use the gun safely (i.e., shoot the bad guy instead of yourself or bystanders (which may be passive, inside their apartments, unaware of what's going on outside)).
neat! (relatedly: GHC actually does a CPS transform towards the end of compilation phases)
Well, it turned out that the only people wanting to distribute wealth are the ones who were not creating it. By the way, for some reason, neither Asimov nor his estate released his works to the public domain for the greater good.
That's amazing. I agree that would be a fair outcome with no losers in the deal.
I didn't really see anybody getting religious, but why is it you get so emotional about this?

> Eat less, exercise more

So eating above one's caloric requirement and a lack of energy are always problems of willpower?

> eat healthier foods

I think everybody can get behind this, it's like thinking of the children.

> fruits, vegetables, nuts, and whole grains while reducing the amount of sugars and fats, avoiding too much processed food

So grains healthy, fat bad? As you don't mention meat that's probably also bad? Well, it's the details that get interesting, what are healthy foods.
> He now works for GCHQ which is funny.

So he just moved on to even more serious crimes.
They do an OK job if everything is absolutely positioned and the PSD is really clean with layers for everything. But that isn't really acceptable these days where a good conversion is expected to be responsive and interactive.

I think they can save a lot of time with the mundane slicing and dicing though.
When I worked at Microsoft, we had a situation where the office XP upgrade policies were changed but the boxes were not. The fact is that in these cases, my view has always been that the documentation given to the customer is authoritative. After fighting with my boss for two weeks over this (and breaking policies to help fill our written promises to customers), I finally went over their heads to get it fixed and got flack for that :-P No good deed goes unpunished.

The fact is, Toshiba made a written representation to the customer. They can change their policies, but they shouldn't break those promises in the process.
"realized" - at first I thought you couldn't spell, but then I googled it and realised that you're an American.
Markupwand is no longer available but (full disclosure) we've built a Photoshop plugin that does high quality conversions.

The goal is to create HTML and CSS that is identical to what a designer creates by hand.

The plugin takes any Photoshop image and return a virtually identical web page.

I say virtually identical because every browser renders text slightly differently and it would not be proper HTML/CSS to absolutely position and size text exactly to the Photoshop file. In a browser, the exact height of text will vary on each browser/OS and the proper way to write the HTML/CSS is to use static positioning and floats to position items to handle this. In this manner, if there is an image below some text, if the text wraps shorter or longer, the elements below will shrink up or expand down to preserve the design.

It also automatically supports Google fonts. You can use any Google font and it will automatically link them into the file.

It also has CSS3, IE8 and IE9 compatibility levels for your taste. The CSS3 version creates a smaller web page because it can use rounded rectangles and gradients.

Also, some designers will always prefer to code by hand but some parts are rote (e.g. specifying width/height, font size, font family, etc). We can shave off most of the conversion time by generating all the assets and a reference sheet with all the CSS styling, the x/y positions so that you can have full control over your code but still save lots of time.

We can also generate a layout sheet that contains all the elements and styling except for the positioning so you can choose to float, absolute, relative position, etc.

We also export in HAML, Slim, Jade for HTML formats and LESS, SASS, SCSS and Stylus for CSS formats.

But at its simplest, open your image, and click one button and it will generate a web version of any Photoshop image.

www.webbsy.com
> You can thank the law enforcement lobby and ICANN wanting to keep them happy.

Yeah, because there's absolutely no way to have an anonymous email address... /s But seriously, what does law enforcement think this will accomplish? I could see ICANN wanting to cut down on squatters or other domain delinquents, but for tracking down criminals this seems pointless. If anyone has theories or info on what they hope to accomplish I'd be interested.
This is probably the best clarification I've read regarding the difference between Go and Rust. They operate in different domains, and any competition is out of confusion over definitions (the source of many needless disagreements throughout human history).
Cheapest I could come up with:

1/4 onion +

1 can of kidney beans +

3 cups of cooked rice +

1/2 tomato

1/2 lime

Salt, Pepper, Paprica for taste.

1/2 pint of non-fat yoghurt (18oz / 450g)

1 fist full of mixed nuts.

1 apple

1 orange

1 banana

That should cover protein, calcium, vitamin and carb needs for a fairly good diet.
Yeah, having a Darwin build of the docker client is useful but it's only the first step in our OSX support, we need to add a few more things before "zero to docker" feels really seamless on a Mac. Specifically we need to bundle a lightweight VM [1], automate a headless virtualbox/vmware setup [2], wrap it all in a DMG and homebrew recipe, then do it all as part of docker's release flow. When that's ready we'll overhaul the docs.

[1] Probably with the awesome http://github.com/steeve/boot2docker

[2] A possible candidate is http://github.com/noplay/docker-osx if they change a few things, namely expose the native binary instead of wrapping it, and remove the dependency on vagrant which is overkill for a hardcoded image. The boot2docker folks are also working on something similar, maybe they can collaborate.
> every page from their printer has a tiny coded tracking mark that identifies the printer, date, and time.

Another argument for free software.
DarkLogs - An anonymous blogging service based on Bitmessage
What's the point on securing the algorithm?

Especially since this is just OATH-TOTP under the hood, with a weird key provision scheme that uses SHA1 of device's ID (huh?) instead of bank- or user-provided random key.

On the contrary, I think it should be open, so anyone can audit the application.
Oops, sorry about that! We'll fix it.
> What is it about the current democracy you live in that would need to change for it to become a "real" democracy?

Unfortunately, I don't know what to change, but let me tell you why I think the US isn't a real democracy (or any western democracy).

I remember watching the presidential debates. The question of the war(s) was discussed in very simple terms. Basically, both candidates agreed: "we have to catch the bad guys". They disagreed over minor things but that was the idea. Basically, the voters were addressed as they were 5-years old kids, and pretty much didn't have any choice.

This issue is extremely important, both ethically, economically, strategically and so on. Still, no meaningful information was given, or alternative choice or anything.

So you can tell me that the reason why both candidates agreed on this issue is that americans are pro-war, and that's rightly reflected with the two candidates left at that stage of the election. But I don't think americans are pro-war, and even if they are, I don't think there would be if they were correctly informed.

In any case, this decision is not a collective decision made by well-informed people. It's made at a higher level by people with their own agendas. What else is it if not a failure of democracy?

This is true for war, but it's pretty much the same thing with mass surveillance, wealth redistribution.

On the other hand, a friend in Oregon showed me his voting form, and their were several referendum about a variety of things. Then, there were references to what looked like objective websites that weigh the pros and cons about the question to vote for (for instance, a treaty with the indians). I find it ironic that so much detailed information and decision power was given to the voters concerning a treaty with the indian, when wars in iraq and afghanistan are summarized by "trust us, we have to catch the bad guys".

"2. If enough people were to work together to make that change a reality, is there anything that could realistically stop that change from happening?"

No, probably not. But it doesn't mean that our democracies are working. The fact is that for some reasons it doesn't happen and we're left with decisions made that don't represent the public interest (or, at the very least, decisions that weren't collectively made).
What about artificially increasing the size of the hash input.
For instance: when finding out if a a contact exists the client sends 10 iterations of the contact (I.E. the contact number with another digit, each 0-9) hashed, the server keeps only one random hashed one to compare to (presumably the client hashes one of them randomly when sending it's own contact information).

That way you increase the size of the problem from 10^10 to 10^11 but only increase your bandwidth 10 fold.

It still keeps the need to balance the amount of bandwidth used, but the bandwidth is no longer determined by the amount of all the users in the system, only the increase in problem size and the amount of contacts a person has.

Is that a worthwhile solution?
The main use is to identify leakers.
Go pretty much only has extension methods.
I really like how he put, at the bottom:

> This minimalist site was bought, written, and launched in under an hour!

That simple sentence accomplishes so much.

1. It acknowledges the basic look of the site and that he is totally aware of this. i.e. If he does work for you it will not automatically just look like this basic site. Of course! (But good to clarify)

2. Despite being super-basic, it's still a legitimate design choice ("minimalist") and he is also aware of this. i.e. He understands style, at the very least to the extent of a popular archetype.

3. He bought the site, wrote it, and launched it. i.e. Although he is offering PSD to HTML, he may well be able to help and advise on other aspects of getting a website online so potentially could be the only guy you need to use.

4. It all took less than an hour. i.e. Everything involved in setting up that site would have been within his $65/hour, so it gives something to work from in estimating how much hiring him [for a more complicated job] might be.

I don't think I'm reading too much into it, that one sentence seems deliberately written to imply all those things. Which, means:

5. He can write skilfully. i.e. Communication with this guy will be pretty clear.
This has been around for a lot longer then the article (from 2009) suggests. High end publishing printers had a lock-down mechanism built in as early as the late 90's when you attempted to print US currency.

As mentioned in this comment thread, there is a general description of the security features on newmoney.gov - while I was working on the original version of newmoney.gov for the release of the new $20 bill, we were given high DPI scans of the new bill and were only allowed to make low DPI, specific crops - all while in a "war room" that did not have internet access nor were we allowed to bring in any cameras or cellphones.

Some interesting little facts I was told while working with the BEP: most counterfeits are actually done by other countries with proper currency printing machines. Small time counterfeiting is generally bleached out $1 bills printed over with $5 images to retain the same cotton-paper ratio used so that it feels the same.
I would add one thing to the list though: the PIN is stored as part of the data, instead of being used as the basis of an encryption key. With PBKDF2 and the option to supply longer PINs/passphrases, this can improve security by another significant step.
Before many HNers were even born too.
How I got inspired by Steve Jobs to prove him wrong
I wanted to use use evernote to collect information for an app I wanted to make. I can not comment on their iOS and Android app but their windows phone app definitely needs a lot of improvement. No matter how many syncs i do on both my mac and windows phone, the notes entered in the respective devices won't sync. I really wish MS releases their One-note for Mac. The way their one-note app on WP and windows 8 syncs is amazing.
As a high school student looking into the Hacker/Startup scene, I was pretty scared about the nature of unpredictability and instability of startups. But this post really changed the view on the whole idea (failure isn't necessarily bad), now I feel more confident to work on making stuff!
Beware techies talking gobbledegook
Doesn't every serious video game cost like $60?
I've heard numerous stories of racks losing power for innumerable stupid reasons, such as mislabeled wiring, misconfigured wiring, misguided UPS migration procedures, and yes, in one case, where cleaners tripped over a cable.

Point is, even the best systems aren't infallible. It's always, always a matter of reducing and/or managing risks.
May be the study completely missed the 'after effects' aspect from the calculations
People are way to literal here,actually believing what comes out of the mouth of people who fire one of the founding team 13 days before christmas out of the blue.
This has nothing to do with generalist/specialist of any of the other assorted lying bullshit they mentioned.

I will propose two theories.
The board required a more experienced hire, the directors bent over.
They are growing and got greedy,this is an equity grab.

The attitude displayed by Alex is healthy for his own psyche however this is not in anyway a good thing. Effectively he was cheated out of his startup investment.
Yes that's what C# and Python offers.
I am afraid that's actually not 100% accurate. Microsoft also uses term "LINQ" for method-based query syntax. See here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb896339(v=vs.110).a...
Did he not have a car?
You are saying that an answer of "no" is just not credible. I agree with that.
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Great comments. I have thought about creating an interface so people can just implement their own query evaluation methods and, as you said, do querying from remote data sources. That's still a long-term plan, though, I probably need to see somebody using it before digging that deep.
Working Solo
For many popular technologies I think 5 years is pretty extreme. Most of them haven't even existed that long.