skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not buying it.

A "blackhole" full of random emails to and from miscellaneous team members is not a great place to send an email that you think Ben might want to scan.

Realistically, for Ben to even see the email, he'd had to dig through tons of random crap in the hopes that there might be a subject line that catches his eye. There wouldn't even be an indication that someone thought that particular one might be up his alley (CC: Ben).. it's just a giant pool of random subjects to wade through. So that's even more noise for him to wade through.

Realistically, Ben isn't even going to do that. And the sender is going to realize that too and still CC Ben, so that he gets a chance to scan it.
Notice the common theme: people's financial lives get derailed by medical expenses. Yet another argument for healthcare reform.

In New Zealand (as in many other countries) we have a very reasonable system whereby you repay student loans as a small percentage of your income after graduation, taken out of your paychecks until they are fully repaid. If you're unemployed, you don't have to be making repayments. This means no one is under undue strain month to month and seems like a much more humane approach.
It's great, yeah. One useful example of what you can do with SSH access is to set up a cronjob on a computer to do automatic backups of the phone.
i was abroad for quite some time and lived in various different cities. While i dont necessarly need to email/im with all the people i met, its certainly nice to see whats going on in their lives and contact them from time to time.

I know that i wont if id had to write an email, which i dont even have for many of my contacts from these times.
> what else was a more important use of your time

Keeping shit running now is always more important than keeping shit running in case of catastrophic failure.

Because a catastrophic failure is only catastrophic if you actually have something of value in the first place.

In the real world it's a balancing act in which there is no room for absolutism. Choosing which compromises to make is the hardest part of any job that comes with a level of responsibility.
I like the style of these, in that most have low barrier to entry but for the hustle. Also, I don't think any idea is ever really "done", only incumbents waiting to be challenged. It does make sense to ask 'how is this different from X?' but often times the differentiation comes down to just being more hungry than your competitor.

These scribbles from my notebook may be a bit more tech heavy or have other barriers to entry;

Student loan servicing
Programmatic corporate founding docs, term sheets, seed rounds (legalese as code)
Self managed SMB 401k/IRA/125/etc SaaS
Crowd-based intermediation of credit [card] payments
Single-click self-hosted [insert data-sucking, privacy violating SaaS here]
SMS for every business
Bid on anything (build the demand curve)
Stop social fallout (crisis management as a service)
P2P two-party escrow
Telepresent expert hired by-the minute/hour (fix my ___)
LouisCK as a Service (the way he sells his content, not him specifically)
Self-hosted everpix
Yours If You Want It - A way to buy a gift for someone, but only if they 'accept'
Disciple - Subscribe to talks by geniuses in your industry

And the one I'm currently working on... passwords that can't be cracked.

Happy Hacking in 2014!
I think I can speak a little bit on the subject of suicide, since both of my parents have made suicide attempts recently, and since I also struggle with depression and, although I'm currently too stubborn to seriously consider something like suicide, I can tell you it does seem to be an attractive option some days.

Suicide is not completely a personal choice. Part of it is a problem with mental wiring, yes, but a significant part of it is also environmental. Suicide is far more prevalent among people who view themselves to be in hopeless situations, whether financial or otherwise.

I hate to resort to analogy, since everyone always then argues the analogy instead of the subject it's trying to describe, but if you have an engine that redlines at 5,000 rpm and you redline it for a while and it self-destructs, you don't turn around then and say, "well, that wasn't the driver's fault, that was completely the engine's fault."

Aaron made the sad decision to take his own life. Ultimately, yes, he made that decision and nobody else did. But that doesn't mean that there isn't some responsibility to go 'round. He made that decision because of the future he believed he was facing, because of the situation he believed he was in.

Also, the entire point of this article was that MIT did have at least one good reason to defend Aaron: self-interest. He was as much a symbol of what people believed was a hacker ethos at MIT as anyone else of his generation. The message now is clear: hackers are not safe at MIT.

"Just following the rules" has never been a socially acceptable defense for bad behavior. Sometimes the rules are wrong, and the wonderful thing about humans -- when they choose to be human -- is that we have the ability to judge a situation and decide when to bend or even break the rules.
After reading the post, a skeptical person might say that this post is a clever hack to sell domain names. The article has a few links to domain names available for purchase.

However, these are pretty good ideas. At the very least, they should inspire further tweaks to the ideas for execution. Great list!
If you have the skills to charge 125-150/hour or more you could live very comfortably on 80 hours of work a month (10-12k gross). As long as you can keep your clients happy in that amount of time. There is other overhead to this kind of business of course. I'm bootstrapping my startup this way and I have a family as well.

I guess you could always go work for a big software company as an eng. manager or whatever. There are orgs out there where 5PM is quitting time believe it or not. Frankly, as CTO, you should set a better example at your startup. 60-70 hours a week is not sustainable and does not a better company make.
Whats disturbing is that law turned a blind eye to one of America's most promising young men- And No One- No One cared to do a thing about this. History will remember this as a shameful moment when the deprived world lost a messiah when the rich and influential were busy playing poker
I have another way to extract this for you - can you please contact me?
Ask HN: Where in Berlin are most of the startups?
I'm visiting Berlin right now (after speaking at 30c3), and wondering which areas of town have the greatest density of startups. There are various hackerspaces, but a lot of what's going on seems to be less commercial than in SFBA. Would definitely be interested in seeing what the commercial startup scene is like, too.
C code in Ghost In The Shell
Around Point 2 and 3.I have an app that I built on Mysql and now trying to host on Heroku- therefore the confusion.
Can't wait. While they don't have the best coverage everywhere, they more than make up for it with their wifi-calling and great customer service. Right now our family is too big to fit into one "family plan" and it's too small to make it cost efficient to have two, so instead we bundle with our relatives, but it means some of us are on AT&T (aka All abouT sTealing your $$, it's too late at night to come up with a good one) and don't get the great benefits of NO overage charges and freedom to pay for our devices only ONCE!!

I don't work for T-mobile, I just really like how they're one of the few consumer-friendly companies out there (I don't care about their motives).
He's not always an unreasonable man.

https://paragraft.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/progress-and-the-...
Elliptic curve cryptography is logically equivalent to prime-factorization cryptography in a sense: both are special cases of the hidden subgroup problem. DLP is also a version of the hidden subgroup problem. Any variant of HSP can be broken by a quantum computer using a variant of Shor's algorithm.
Good link by yonasb.

But the comment by refurb sounds a bit misleading. As I understand it, they did not produce this solely because of the data (as if the show was born out of the data). The idea, the actors, and the production staff were already chosen before Netflix's involvement. Netflix looked at those things as they had been proposed and realized it was a good gamble to bid on the show.
That's misleading. Apple merged in a bunch of Mach 3 code but still maintains the architecture of Mach 2.5 (i.e., Mach + BSD both running in supervisor mode in one big monolith; no BSD server; xnu is not a microkernel…).
You don't need a quantum computer to break encryption in order to know that it's breakable. This has already been proven (Shor's Algorthm). You also don't need quantum computers to construct stronger cryptography, immune to quantum cryptanalysis. This has also already been done as well (post-quantum cryptography).
As do I. I have a keyboard phone, and things like irssi and screen have nothing that can compete in the Android market.
If we have quantum computers, yes. By that time, we'll upgrade our elliptic curve algorithms to post-quantum cryptography however.
IOKit allows communication between kexts and userland. You could call that "userland drivers", but it's not like you can write only userland code to implement a driver.
Impala v Hive
> XNU seems like a competitive edge over the monolith FreeBSD,

xnu is also a monolithic kernel, just with some nice message-passing primitives. Think Mach 2.5.
That's not necessarily true. The victim quite often has a strong say in whether the prosecution presses forward with charges or not. I can't say whether that prerogative would have applied in this case or not though.
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Thanks, so much. I might be in touch with you about this when I get around to trying it out.
I listened to this podcast the other day and it was one of the more compelling This American Life episodes I've listened to recently. I say that as a pretty big fan of TAL.

They spend the episode interviewing car salespeople and managers at one particular dealership over the course of a week (IIRC), where the salespeople are trying to rack up a certain number of sales to qualify for a bonus payout that means the difference between being in the red vs being in the black. They clear up some myths about car sales and generally get to the heart of what it's like to be a salesperson.

The things that were interesting to me were the various mindsets and tactics the salespeople use to sell a car, especially when they're desperate. The way the salespeople negotiate between two different parties – on one side with the customer, on the other side with their manager – was also something I hadn't thought about.

That's about the gist of it: a week in sales during a somewhat desperate situation from a car dealership's perspective. As a semi-regular podcast listener who really likes TAL but feels like they have some hits and some misses, this one is definitely a hit.
Oh awesome, UoL sounds like a potential option then. Thanks.
Here http://www.sbf5.com/~cduan/technical/git/ this is the only way to understand git.
I should have been clearer. I was specifically referring to simple carbohydrates (glucose, fructose etc) and avoiding all and for a period of 8 weeks I consumed no fruit. During that time I consumed the main bulk of my diet consisted of legumes and vegetables. All meals were prepared and cooked by either myself or my wife.

We did consume rye bread, but that was made ourselves and used only the amount of sugar needed to activate the yeast.

After 8 weeks I have returned fruit into my diet, but always whole.

The point I was trying to make on the root comment in this, was that simply going cold turkey on sugar, in my case, wasn't hassle free because of the headaches, but it was worth it.
"family plan", "bundle", "benefits", "overage charges", "pay for our devices only ONCE".

It pains me to even say this shit let alone have to navigate this trap laden environment they've set up to extract the maximum amount of money from you under the guise of "savings". Disgusting.
On nslookup, in particular, the program has some ambiguous behavior and can be problematic when trying to debug certain DNS issues. Dig was developed to be a reliable replacement that has predictable behavior at all times. There is a companion to dig called "host" that is a simple lookup, including looking up in-addr.arpa entries ("host 8.8.8.8"). In most cases, you will get more consistent results by using dig and host, which is why nslookup is deprecated.
Did you try the Python installers - http://www.python.org/getit/ ? They usually seem to just work...
I have some observations on this.

1. The universe we observe is interpreted by a brain(or conscious entity)

2. There is no proof if the universe is real or fake(Any proof for its existence if all brains are destroyed?)

3. Existence of the universe seem to be a property of the conscious mind

4. There is no probability theory in this realm. Even Randomness is an attribute of existence which itself is under question

5. It is impossible to prove if there is only one conscious mind or there are several(what if all men are fake)

6. Since the physical brain is part of the universe which again depends on its own conscious perception, we have a total breakdown. One possibility is resort to Godel and suggest that consciousness exists outside the physical/energy plane.

7. Therefore what are we talking about
(super mario questions his own origins on an 8 pixel screen)

~random
O Canada! Maybe the picture is a lil more complex...
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/fyi/Local-scientist...
If it's not complicated, stop getting it wrong.
Regrets are of various kind. A lot of people die with a regret they achieved nothing worthwhile in life.

Others die in the regret that they didn't even try.
If you don't get sick, you're not using the unlimited pool of sick days. After all, those are meant to get you healthy again (and protect your coworkers from you, in case it's contagious)

To make sick days more manageable for employers, in Germany the health care system takes over, paying wages after 6 weeks - down to 70% under the assumption that you don't have certain costs related to work (such as health care payments, commute) while sick.

I think some employers take extra (private) insurance for earlier coverage.

Of course, there is some abuse which is, of course, an immediate termination reason.
As mitigation, sick days policies require (by law) to see a doctor if it's more than three days, and most employers require it for the first day.

Yes, all that is terribly unfair to those healthy employees that don't get to enjoy feeling miserable in bed...
Two things (#1 is more important to me):

1. Documented and significant performance improvements.
2. A really good guide to how the hell strings work in Python 3, I still don't really understand how to go between unicode/bytes, etc.
I cannot recommend T-Mobile to anyone any more. Their biggest liability is their customer service infrastructure, which is manned by the same, poorly trained, helpless, and degraded staff as always. In a recent debacle where they forced me into a new plan but promised (in writing) it would only be $30/m. In reality they forced me to a $70/m plan, and customer service was totally helpless. They knew nothing of the forced transition plan, or the letter I had received. Even the executive response team could only force through 2 months of free service rather than honoring their promise.

While I respect the PR they are going for, the reality falls far, far, short, due to years of 'cost management' minded outsourcing and hamstringing of customer service. You simply cannot remake a company if you don't eliminate the cruft of crappy infrastructure. Perhaps they could hire someone from Zappos to start fresh.
Do you know where I could find out more about the kind of work you mention in your first paragraph? Is this just general consulting or are you thinking of something in particular? Any chance you might have a blog where you talk about the experience? Also, any books / reading you might recommend to understand the field better?

Regarding your second assertion, that's true, there's no denying that. Our employees actually work normal hours, but as founders we feel guilty not working insane schedules and it's an attitude I've so far been unable to defeat at the company.
Context. Context. Of course you don't say it to 4yr old who does that thing 20 times a day. You say it to 1.5yr who did it the first or second time, and actually is hesitant.

Somehow I get the impression that you are deliberately trying to interpret everything in the poorest possible light, without any sense of context. Please stop that.
The "Night time Delivery Service" sounds like it could be a big business. The trend in logistics lately is getting closer and closer to same-day shipping.

A "Night time Delivery Service" could help start in one city and expand to others. The existence of Luna in SF shouldn't dissuade anyone from starting the same thing in a different city, because it will take years for any one player to expand and colonize more locations. If anything, Luna is at a geographic disadvantage due to SF's high wages.

The way you use Luna seems very convenient, which is that the customer has the package shipped to Luna by any shipping service, and then once it arrives there, Luna does same-night last-mile delivery for $7. This is nice because it can interface with any existing shipping service without the need for Luna to win any contracts.

Eventually, once a company like this is starting to scale, they could aim to get a contract with UPS, FedEx, DHL, or USPS to pick up packages directly from the UPS/whatever warehouse, saving both time & money for all involved.

If the company wants to exit they could sell to Amazon.

The company might have to pay a wage premium because the work is at night, but then again, in this economy maybe the workers would just be happy to get a job (and the hours involved would make it a great 2nd job). Also, compared to daytime shipping services, the nighttime company would be more productive per hour due to its drivers facing less traffic.
While the present has bad spots, we've lived through the gilded age, japanese internment, slavery, trail of tears, etc.

Good things and bad things are always happening.
Relevant: http://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/confessions-of-a-car-sales...
This is a blunt claim I can't agree with. You totally ignore the context. I know a man who suicide himeself because he was about to lose a trial and it would mean he would have lost his house to pay the huge fine. He was old and to save his wife and child of this misery he commited suicide.

From his perspective it was a rational decision because he didn't see any better one. There is absolutely not mental instability in play here.

My feeling is that most people who commit suicide do it because they decided it on a rational basis. Some people commit suicide because they want to stop a pain they feel and in their view will apparently last forever or will get worse. I.e cancer, someone has to spend the rest of his life in a bed after an accident ... People can also commit suicide as a sacrifice to save others. But I guess you were not talking of these types of suicide.

Suicide due to mental instability is probably just a small fraction of all suicide.

Your claim is typical from someone who didn't took the time and made the effort to understand what can lead someone fully rational to suicide. A rational thinking compares the cost and benefit of dying or living. According to some context a perfectly sain person may rationnaly conclude that commiting suicide is the best choice.

The rational thinking they had from their perspective and knowledge may have been wrong, but this is not to be confused with mental instability.
WTF you were using Paypal???
Great customer service??

I don't have experience with other mobile phone companies in the US, but T-Mobile's customer support line is unlike anything I had ever experienced in Europe. It made my experiences with China Unicom not seem all that bad—and that's saying something!.

I have experienced the following things:

- I would be on the phone for ten or twenty minutes before I could speak to an operator;

- The voice recognition software utterly failed for me (granted, I'm not a native English speaker but I have few to no problems with Siri);

- I would be connected to different departments several times, in circles;

- I would have to enter my mobile phone number over and over again;

- The operators were entirely clueless about SIM cards for iPads and about their inability to accept foreign credit cards.

It's very much reminiscent of calling a national phone company for support in Europe in the 80s.

Also, I've been in T-Mobile shops where they didn't know the term 'SIM card'. They would literally ask me if it was one of those cards you put into an iPhone, and then tell me I could only buy those online (indeed, they're not free!).

They're also very, very expensive by European standards. Again, my previous horrible experience with China telcos made a lot more sense after being a T-Mobile customer. I now realize they just copy the US a little to eagerly!

Edit: Here's an example. When you would call to top up your SIM card they would enumerate all the plans you could get starting from the most absurdly expensive plans that you wouldn't otherwise realize existed. A reasonably priced plan would only come in as the 7th option and it would take a minute or more before they'd tell you what button to press. It was a very painful process to top up my SIM card and I imagine that if I lived in the US longtime I'd ultimately give in and just get a monthly plan that I didn't really want.
"educrastination" - the act of learning something while procrastinating about doing something else.
As much as I love this idea (being a night owl by nature), I find it hard to think that UPS, FedEx, etc. would give up the holding power they have to a possible competitor.

Btw are you talking about Luna as in the nutrition women's bar?
yep. this is my problem is osx. if i complain about something in it, the reply is always "just install (some app)," but that's exactly what i do not want to do. i want the os itself to just... be better and work like its competition has for a long time.
Seriously, people will pay for you to move to one of the coasts, higher cost of living but better salary and ludicrously better time off, if you'd like help finding a place let me know - noah@noahpryor.com. Obviously there are tons of reasons for you to want to stay there, but if it's just financial/cash flow issues, companies will help with those.

(I'm a dev, not a recruiter, no financial interest in this).
Luna is the company linked to in the article. http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/12/03/lunas-moonlit-delivery...
>>Isn't there or shouldn't there be a 'public good'?

Yes, but why does that always have to be at some one else's expense or by making some one suffer?

>>What is your alternative to say everyone just building on top of all the public roads that access the city so there is simply no way to enter or exit the city because there are buildings in the middle of the road?

Sound city planning.

It doesn't take much to make this happen. In my city atleast(Bangalore), I can tell you so many areas of the city that are developing even now don't have sound planning. Its totally reckless, and chaotic at its best. Absolutely no space for public parks, lots of open drains, narrow roads, badly planned water supply and sewage lines.

If you know for sure something is really going to grow, you might as well plan for it. Nothing really prevents governments from enforcing regulations even for private builders.