skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone else can register it on your behalf, but I'm fairly sure that's as close as you can really get to anonymous. Of course if you do bad things with that domain, people are going to go after that person first.
> How is process isolation not a significant security enhancement?

Significant compared to multiple threads running in same OS process, not significant compared to a fully virtualized OS.

You also don't need Docker to launch multiple processes, you can do it on any modern general purpose operating system.
Agreed.

I was thinking maybe an audio queue... haha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyBSrBqogPY&noredirect=1
I use to not get why people value them so high but if you look at the age group of pre-teens - early twenties, most of the younger users almost use it exclusively while the older ones use it along with Facebook/Instagram.

What I dont understand is how they make money beside getting people to invest in them.
no.

If you ride your genetic lottery winning privilege into success and then have a continuing history of pissing on people less fortunate than you, you must be a narcissistic ass.
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Exactly so - they've suddenly twug that the NSA surveillance doesn't just apply to other people, and that they are, in fact, "Persons of Interest."
I actually had a bad experience with Beats support and I contacted Amazon. Its been way past 30 days (6 months) and they actually gave me a refund for my headphones - I rewarded them by buying another (more expensive) pair of headphones.
Hey Moneer. Just wanted to say, I miss you buddy! I hope this all gets sorted out. Let me know if I can help you in any way.
I don't know if the offer was reasonable or not, so I am not going there. But the "value" of such start-ups are often their user-base, not the product or the technology itself. Can someone else implement a similar idea? Absolutely. Would they be able to get all these users? Probably not.
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Looks like we'll be waiting longer..
Yet another bad-after-sale-support story. Why is this on HN? If you go stand at any laptop brand service centre, you'll hear 50 such stories everyday.
I think this feature was built into a Photoshop plugin in 1996. Digimarc.
Anecdotal Devil's Advocate:

The most productive I've ever been in a job was when I shared an open office totaling around 500 square feet with 7 other devs. There was always something blasting on the TV in that office. There were always people discussing/arguing about one aspect of our software or another. Jenkins would blare a Lo Pan sound clip[0] on build success/failure. And yet, with all this, I put out the best work of my career (both in terms of speed and quality).

I'm not sure why, but it probably has something to do with the atmosphere that was less like a business and more like a place I'd like to go hang out during the days. It didn't feel like work, which was oddly conducive to getting things done. And if someone needed to concentrate and couldn't with the noise, they could toss headphones on and drown out the nonsense (which most of us did very, very rarely) or take a conference room.

Oh, and the private office I had a few years prior to this (incidentally about the same square footage as the 8 man office) had the opposite effect on me. Not great quality, no passion for the job, super quick burnout. For whatever that's worth.

So what I'm saying is: If you need silence, cool. Seek it out. Do whatever it takes to be the most productive you can[1]. But not everyone wants to live in a sound vacuum, and some people thrive in the environments that are the polar opposite of what you think is ideal. Some of us like collaborative spaces and occasional distractions they bring :)

[0] http://www.realmofdarkness.net/pc/sb/movies/lopan Our build failure was "Now this really pisses me off to no end!"

[1] How do I make things bold here? Because that's supposed to be bold. In <blink> tags. font-size: 3em.
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Some might be saved at https://archive.org/details/bliptv see http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Blip.tv

Also long ago IIRC blip.tv had an upload option to make a copy of the the upload at the Internet Archive. Not sure how many uploaders used it or how long it was in place.

Copying your important media to the Internet Archive is always a good idea, whether you're originally publishing to someplace like blip or yt, or self-hosting.
In the US you would sue, in Guatemala, you should probably threaten them with a machete.
anybody remember tamagotchi? beanie babies? pogs?

snapchat is the pogs of 2013. its already 2014. clock is ticking.
Obsoleting an app is a problem, but -- at least in the PC space -- people who do not upgrade from e.g. XP to Win7 are unlikely to pay for new apps - so, if you care about getting paid, there's no point in supporting XP home users (enterprise is different, and I do not wish to go into that).

Does anyone here know if that's also true for iOS devices? I'm quite sure that the big app spenders would be the people who continuously upgrade. There might still be a significant population who does not upgrade to make financial sense for still targeting 5.1 with new apps. I don't know, but my guess would be "not so much".
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Uhh of course they do. Why would they be exempt? If anything they are a legitimate target for fears of compromising national security.
Oh. Of course.

That makes me sad :(
For a meritocracy to work there must be consequences for both good and bad actions.

A pundit's merit is judged by their page views; not by their correctness. Their salary is based off their readership. If their readership wants to be fed convenient lies that reenforce their world view that's their perogative.
agree and would also add "big players are the most important ones" like for example newrelic, these guys have all the resources, man power, tools and "the audience" which in turn helps statuspage a really LOT in getting more customers compared to a decent player who is "less well known"
I've had good luck with Dells from that point of view. I've bought 3 in the US, and two, at some point in their lifetimes, have needed some love from a technician (bad HD, and a cosmetic problem with a very new laptop that I wanted fixed because I spent quite a bit on it). Despite being very much not in the US anymore, they promptly dispatched people on site (in Innsbruck, Austria, and Padua, Italy) to fix the problems with no questions.

(Edit: by the way, most recent one was one of these - nice dev machine if you like Linux! http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd )
I launched my web app development service Built from Ideas (http://BuiltFromIdeas.com) a couple months ago. I've experimented with Facebook ads, but saw no real result. Then I wrote guest articles for Bootstrappist (http://www.bootstrappist.com) and a couple other small, targeted newsletters and saw immediately results. Inbound marketing for the win!
Write about it. Make it so your articles explain useful stuff for people not necessarily interested in your niche: what general learning can you extract from your experience so far? What did you try? What did and didn't work? This will drive high quality content to your article, which will in turn build up links and percolate to your site. This is what's worked for http://greaterskies.com. Nothing else I've tried has had any impact.
As noted elsewhere, notification seems to have been the big issue. I've spoken to some (reputable) people, who said that they basically just got lucky by randomly logging in shortly before the big wipe happened, and seeing a "This account is expiring" notice which gave them enough heads-up to grab copies if they didn't have them already. They didn't receive emails or any other type of off-site notification.

So someone who didn't log in to their blip account might well be totally screwed, since they wouldn't have known they needed to make or check on their backups.
On one hand you have a CEO that responded slowly to a fairly mild privacy exploit. On the other hand, he created an apparently billion+ dollar company almost overnight. So, I'm going to guess that SnapChat should keep its CEO.
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By pimping the projects in threads like this one, by the looks of it.
I know a guy who's still using a 7 year old Toshiba laptop. He installed an SSD, added some RAM, and upgraded Vista to 7. It still runs like new.
Of course it will happen. The fed needs the technology for its ongoing insurrection suppression preparation (DEA, ATF, NSA, etc.) and would have to come out of the closet to develop and deploy a network of sufficient size to be effective at its task. Amazon is the perfect front.
This post is about building untrusted servers, which is somewhat orthogonal to "the snapchat problem."

The best a privacy preserving protocol can hope to achieve is to match the characteristics of its non-privacy preserving equivalent.

Asymmetric PIR (the server transmits an unencrypted bloom filter) falls short of the non-privacy preserving equivalent, since the user makes offline queries that can't be rate limited by the server. Symmetric PIR (the server transmits an encrypted bloom filter) provides identical properties to the non-privacy preserving equivalent, since the user needs to make queries that can be rate limited by the server, even though the queries leak no information to the server.

How that rate limiting (or unlisted numbers, or whatever) works is outside the scope of the protocol, just as it is in the non-privacy preserving case. For TextSecure, you'd need to verify 1 million phone numbers in order to perform your attack. Whether you can do that or not isn't really the point: we simply want to do as least as well as everyone else, without revealing information to the server.
I saw somewhere that Apple doesn't allow new apps to target less than iOS 7. Is that correct?
Can't Get Tenure? Then Get a Real Job
Elephant in the corner of the room: the QE money fuelling the stock bubble is public money.
What are you running that can't view a pdf?
There are some people who simply look down at others because they are not as "smart" as they are. Experience has taught me that these type of people spend too much time writing comments on the internet rather than improving their skills (they are already "smart", they don't need it). I sometimes wonder why I even comment on HN, because somebody will get offended and do a crusade against me. Even to the point of emailing me saying how stupid I am (true story). In reality, I'm never ever the smartest guy in the room. But I do work hard to learn and do things correctly.

There is also the belief of the 1%. People seem to think that there are these magical programmers who are better than anybody out there. This makes a lot of those who have drinked the SV kool-aid look down on others. In reality, all programmers are smart. Just in different areas/aspects. There is no 1%. Just a bunch of people trying to write code and innovate.
I've built a successful side business (http://www.mohawkapps.com) and was even featured in an e-book: http://www.sideprojectbook.com/ - by creating iPhone apps for niche markets and marketing heavily to them through facebook and in-person tradeshows. I gross about $2k-$4k a month but I haven't quit my day job yet.

Apple does a lot of my marketing for me but I also rely heavily on word of mouth. I make sure to have a screen in all my apps that allow users to tell their friends through texting and email about the app. I'm also an apple affiliate so all the traffic that goes to the app store through my site nets me another 7% of all that user's purchases during the session... it makes up for the gigantic chunk of change that Apple takes from my sales.

Recently, I've started branching out into more generic apps that are useful to a wider market, but my niche apps make way more money than the broad-audience apps.
Because they have VC money to try to make other people care about it. If they're successful it might start to matter in a way that's meaningful to you, maybe they've already made it meaningful to someone. Seems pointless to me though at the moment.
An astonishing, dangerous cold snap is about to descend on the U.S.
Many software shops "get this", and it is a recurring discussion in this field. There just isn't much to say about the offices that are designed right, however, so you just don't hear about them.

And it's worth noting that there are competing forces at play in the design of offices, and choices aren't always made with productivity as the primary concern.

Many software shops are desperate to mirror the popular notion of how these places operate: loud, boisterous bullpen type arrangements, whiteboards all over with various contrived things on them, street lights flashing the current iteration progress, desks littered with crazy toys and blimps and toy guns, and various nerdly hijinx. It is, in every way, cargo culting, putting the image of how it should work against the actual of how it works.

It looks like what many outsiders think a software shop should look like, all those geniuses doing their genius thing.

Impress investors. Impress potential hires. To the latter most will say "oh no! That wouldn't impress me", but the truth is that real work in this field occurs in the most boring looking way possible, so we all like to imagine that a vibrant office will be an amazing new experience. But in the end we're still wrangling code all day.
Can Teslas handle cold weather? This man drove hundreds of miles around Norway
When you buy online you need to investigate what happens before you need service. A consumer might not need to go to the effort but for a programmer a good laptop is a tool.

Years ago I bought Dell's and found paying extra for their onsite service was a wise investment. Only needed it for a single machine but they literally came to our office with parts and repaired it. Until I needed it a second time and found they had changed policies and found onsite was in name only.

So when I started buying Toshiba Qosmio's I actually investigated my service options in Michigan. It has paid dividends because whenever I've had a problem I can get on the phone with the company's owner, they turn it around faster than shipping it to Toshiba's depot and keep me informed every step of the way.
The usual term for this is "cache line colouring", and many allocators do this for you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_coloring
They are all the same, trust me, I am facing same on my HP laptop, they say that they are not responsible for poor battery backup after 2 months of purchase because I use my laptop excessively!!
Oh, the irony. You're being weak if you don't speak up and demand silence.
I'm curious to see the results of this. I wonder if there are any negative impacts to consciously acknowledging the passage of time with a device like this considering that when "time flies", it does so because you aren't conscious of its passing.

From TFA:
> how time flies by when you enjoy yourself, and drags along when you wait in line at the post office

I suspect my experience at the post office be made worse by the fact that there's something vibrating on my wrist reminding me of how long I've been waiting?
You probably aren't familiar with how "guarantees" work here in South America, ugh.

See companies like Samsung and Toshiba have "certified" stores that "take guarantees" but they are not tied by their parent company, they are privately owned stores that just negotiated with the parent company to use their "sticker".

I bought a Phillips shaver and under warranty, the Phillips station wanted me to pay 70% of the cost of a new one, despite being a DoA device.

So while the sticker works as it should in the US and Europe, South America has a god damn wild west scenario. Anything goes, and if you don't like it, buy something else. Yep.

(Source: I live in Bolivia)
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Phone numbers are unique values when you need to call a phone or send an SMS, which is what this software does. If you were trying to do your taxes, sure...but in this case a phone number is exactly enough.
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The majority of Snapchat's userbase is young, often in their teens, and most likely not an engineer, software developer, or technologist.

I highly doubt they think the same way.

I'd also caution against employing such a cavalier attitude toward your users if you're building something that isn't 100% for the tech crowd.
Would it be possible to, say, write a definition for the Twilio API in this API description format? That sounds like it would be a wonderful example of its utility.
The biggest problem with that is:

1) Client uploads a bloom filter consisting entirely of ones.

2) Server responds by sending its entire contact database.
Ever had a perfectly crisp dollar bill that a vending machine would just refuse to take?

The majority of people will just take another bill out of their wallet and try again, so it is really a non-issue.
Wired is basically Rolling Stone for techies.

Sometimes there are good reads, though.
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Dell warranty is pretty nice in a pinch, particularly on the road (screen died on my M4700 last year and they replaced the machine, got an extra 16GB RAM to boot).

FWIW, roll with Dell on server front as well, great machines, hope Dell sticks around and doesn't go under.
Asking for a person's head every time a mistake is made isn't something a mature person would do. Maybe Dan Primack (the writer) should be fired and replaced by an "adult" that won't make those claims... Now doesn't that sound ridiculous?
I am really happy you guys are doing this. I have some ideas you could use. What's the best way to contact you? I did not see any contact info on the site.
"Whistleblowers have large egos by nature" - "reference needed"?

So the author believes that a mass surveillance of Americans in America is wrong, but a mass surveillance of all other calls worldwide is absolutely fine, and that hacking into China's or every other country's servers is ok, and they massively tracking ALL internet communication to India and Pakistan is ok as well. Clearly, Snowden thought otherwise. US is defeated in this. People in other countries have reduced trusting Google Apps and Microsoft emails, and rightfully so. Even Google and Microsoft didn't know the extent to which the NSA had hacked into their internal servers.
I'm not attempting to defend Snapchat here, but it's probably because their primary user base is compromised of teenagers and college kids. I think it's fair to say that people don't value their privacy as much until they get older and experience the world for what it is.
Our feeling is that 40MB for an initial download is not acceptable on mobile devices, particularly in many of the areas we'd like to support. Maybe we're wrong, but it seems like too much on edge networks, particularly given that it's only going to grow as more users join. Ideally we'd have 100MM or 500MM, not just 10MM.

We can definitely make lightweight diffs happen, but that initial download is tough, and is going to get tougher.
Why is the author so focused on an apology? Does a forced apology really solve anything?

If I were a Snapchat user, I'd primarily be interested in what they're doing to prevent anything of the sort from happening in the future.
"...if the NSA has spied, or is the NSA currently spying, on members of Congress or other American elected officials"

It depends on your definitions of "has", "spied", "spying", "currently", "elected" and "members".

So the answer is, "No".
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You just never know what will catch on. I don't see what the big deal is with Angry birds, Candy Crush or that awful-looking mindcraft game... but here I sit, very wrong about my predictions and not having tens of thousands flowing into my bank account every month.
I think what the public wants is something that's easy to pick up, addictive and naturally fits into their daily routine.

Maybe I should just go make this game - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is12anYx2Qs
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That is a totally fair point, and you might be right.

But I cannot understand the low-grade media backlash here. That was my point. It seems like writing an article with the thesis that "whoever is planning crisis management at Snapchat is horrible an needs to go" isn't wildly beyond the pale.
Because now you risk your employment by writing a letter that isn't about your employer at all. Anything your (prospective) employer doesn't like is verboten. So people deliberately circumscribe their speech.
Same in Iran, there are private importers that have some deal with Samsung, or Toshiba ... AND they advertise that they represent the mother companies and give you warranty cards, but they don't give a damn to actually do any repairs or replacements, the only one that I had luck with was VAIO laptops,
Funny enough I build an app that is almost identical: http://memeifier.com/

Code: https://github.com/jkupferman/meme-creator
I'll tell you something. Next time I am negotiating I will start HIGH and go LOW. It won't work, but I would love to see the face of the sales guy.
Thoughtful, nuanced commentary doesn't get as many eyeballs. This is part of the problem from journalist's personal brands becoming part of the news story. When I was growing up I had no idea what any of the people who wrote for the newspaper looked like, or what their names were for all but the very largest stories.
> He gave a plausible and coherent explanation of Snapchat's strategy

No, he doesn't. All he did was demonstrate his utter lack of understanding of East Asia.

East Asian cultures are high-context, meaning that when Tencent released non-messenger services (that could actually turn a profit), users were much more likely to use them because they were already familiar with the company and its existing messaging service. But this strategy does not work well in the low-context cultures of the West, where people are more comfortable with giving new companies and products a chance. Snapchat cannot expand into other verticals with the ease that Tencent did.
Yes, my experience with international warranty with Dell has been good as well. They are prompt in servicing or replacing bad stuff.
Probably it's too late already.
You would assume CNNMoney would be more concerned with the CEO's lack of a business plan rather than his lack of apology. Let's get our priorities straight here. I mean, if you're not making money, do you really have a business? Does any of this even matter? If a tree falls in the forest...

It takes a certain type of person to use Snapchat. A person that believes in unicorns. That is, someone that believes you can erase things you send over the internet. I suppose if you believe in that absurdity, then you may also believe in whatever nonsense the CEO might tell you about their enhanced security that will prevent this type of breach from ever occurring again.

Or you could just stop using the damn thing. Vote with your wallet, er, eyeballs.
Like others mentioned, Amazon customer service is (anecdotally) good. You
L never know if you don't ask.
Lots of folks still use land lines.
The point was that the differences within different parts of California are greater than between some cities in different states.
I recently heard Sarah Lacy say they ensure their writers do not know the pageview count.
Sorry for being so uninformed, but is this running docker directly on the kernel, a la CoreOS? Or is this running in a VM?
It's not as much "can't view a pdf" as it is "not willing to pull in 20 packages and dependencies to view a pdf." You might as well send it around as a spreadsheet: who doesn't have Excel installed???

I appreciate the text-based version that was posted in this thread, thank you!
The app for polling your friends. You'll be surprised and entertained.
congress legit targets? when the system can't trust someone, the system can not be trusted.