skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps the parents should spend some time with their children and show them what is appropriate and what is not?

I have three children, all of whom use the Internet regularly and bar some passive monitoring, I've done nothing. They have healthy browsing habits.

Blacklists, censorship, firewalls and control are missing the point...

Plus you're going to get goatse'd at some point in your life...
The Cardinal Richlieu line has been my G+ profile motto since registering my (2nd, pseudonymous) account.

I'd deleted my initial account after only a couple of weeks.

I'm now winding down my pseudonymous account and most Google activity.
Do you keep anywhere a quick list of various metrics for various types of cases, for a startup?
Design Principles for Building Platforms and Networks
Well, I can't defend against your statement, you say I'm wrong, but don't say why exactly.

> free market ideologies

The name "ideology" suggest that the whole theory is built on top of some assumptions or dogmas. What are they?
It's true that median income does not well correlated with mean productivity. What is the relevance to this topic?
You're comparing the wrong things, we're talking about what happens when Disney, etc. pull their content up from Netflix and set up their own streaming services that just don't have nice interfaces. People will get the thing that lets them watch Avengers 2.
In this case I probably should consider myself happy: I'm on the developer team of Collabtive, a free open source Basecamp alternative, i.e. a project management software.

In fact it is very easy to use our own product not only for project management in the strict sense of the term, but also for bug tracking, file storage and distribution and community management.

Besides it being useful for us, we have already been able to put a lot of our own requirements into the published version.
I think we too often patronise average users. I think it's quite likely that they understand the situation but simply have a different opinion about the privacy/convenience trade-offs. Smacks a bit of "you'd agree with me if only you could understand the problem as well as I do" argument which doesn't account for people who have different values than us.
You seriously believe that IT investment is the sole reason for large companies being more efficient? How about the fact that they can make large investments in general (for example, build a pipeline or a nuclear power plant), at the scale where few competitors exist?
Well let's assume that each URL or domain that is blocked is reviewed by a human who's paid to look at content, not necessarily to have technical knowledge.

That's unlikely. Some parental control filters from ISPs were blocking big name childrens charities like Childline. If they blocked that, then that shows they are very incompetent
Yes, that's certainly possible. My position is that zero regulation is often not the optimal amount of regulation.
We used to do dog fooding in our company with our intranet product; after about 5 years our client wishes diverted so wildly from what we used it for that it began to work against us. We were actually building features for clients which interfered with the features we used/needed (and over 200 people in our company depended on) which resulted in a lot of time lost to make sure both everything worked well. In the end it was not sustainable; we almost went under because of it when we started work on the new major version.

I guess the answer is; it depends, but i'm very cautious now because of the above; once you have your whole organization and client base working with it fulltime, it is hard to switch and you often cannot say no to features as the competitors will be adding them. We should've (hindsight) just forked our intranet and forget about selling that part with the 'new' stuff.
I'm interested in seeing the same approach taken for programming.
Command-line SoundCloud
I can't see any ADSL offerings on their site. Do you have a link?
More Units with MoreUnit
What makes you think the HN thread is drying out? Just curious.
From Java to Scala : Tail Recursion
Sort of related:

I've heard some googlers use ad block on their work machines. And the irony isn't lost on them when you ask them about it.
This post (and article) really need to have "TorMail" in the title.
(a) Non-techie mundane people have heard about the vast wave of horrible kiddie porn and grooming stalkers just waiting to kill your child. Why would they turn off the only thing protecting their loved ones from harm?[1]

(b) What should you do? Phone up the tech support line and tell them you (essentially) want to look at fisting porn? What if they recognise your voice? What if someone finds out that you want to look at all that dodge extreme porn sites?[1]

[1] I'm not saying this is accurate, just how some people think.
Agreed.

Don't know why or even if insurers are pulling out of the U.K., but you don't have to use "climate change" to explain what's happening in Florida, it's a hurricane magnet (although not since 2005) and the state government has heavily intervened in the market, runs a unit that covers 21% of the residential market. It's not financially sound from what I've heard, so private insurance companies who can't make up future losses by raising taxes are obviously at a disadvantage.

There's also quite some distance from "climate change" (predicted by computer models but not been happening for more than a decade) to "increased adverse weather" (totally speculative) to "let's start an insurance company!" (in a state that still has ones covering 79% of the residential market), and trying to compete with the government.

Which has a really crazy criminal justice system (doesn't matter which side you're on in the Zimmerman-Martin case, it's obviously crazy and politicized all the way to the top (AG and governor)).
How Google's new AI genius changed gaming
Sure, that sounds brilliant: allow anybody who can compute a hash collision to poison other sites' JS libraries. facepalm
Wow, already down, that was a fast one ;)

Cached version http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Well, to be fair, Middleman translates authoring files (sass, yaml, haml, etc) into ready-to-publish static assets. It can also be wired to liveroad so that it instantly updates what you see in the browser. In that workflow, the name really makes sense to me.
> As to what it's called; the extortion would be called a compulsory service fee, war would be called large scale protective operations.

You're missing the point. Paying service fees is never taxation because the result of not paying for a service is denying that service, while the result of not paying taxes is forceful alienation of property and possibly imprisonment. I am yet to hear of a private company who threatened its customers with all that if they cancel their subscription. If this happens in the free market with the said protection agency, my point is that it will be called extortion and recognized for what it is. That's important because the threshold of compliance in people lowers when they recognize they are being robbed.

> Prices are set to what the market will pay, in this case it's as close to revolt as the business can get away with.

I don't understand this point. What prevents a competitor (say, a big investor) from entering the market and establishing another big protection firm with lower prices and better service? If you say "they all will form a cartel" then I will point out that cartels are always very unstable and someone deserts or another outsider disrupts the market, historically this has been true.

> I would also like to point out that I don't disagree with your assertion that their are negatives with a government controlled monopoly on law enforcement, I disagree with the idea that a free market system for it would not be subject to worse corruption/abuse.

What could be worse than conducting a theft from people calling it taxation, then be bribed by corporations and using those tax money to serve corporate interests? Simple math: a company bribes an official with $1, the official spends $10 of somebody else's stolen money (so it doesn't cost him anything) for that company interests and that makes the company $100. In the free market, companies at least deal with the money they actually made, so there's no "free" money for them and no one to bribe.
"We’ve been the subject of no little scorn for our actions on this front, but the truth is that there is nothing very unusual about trademarking a common word for specific uses. Think of “Time”, “Money” “Fortune”, “Apple”, and “Sun”, to name a few."

Are any of those words trademarked wrt the title of a computer game? Isn't this analogous to trademarking words within song, film, or book titles?
I'd question whether this is a worthwhile fallback as depending on what the error is then the browser may still wait 30 (ish) seconds for the original request to time out.
I really hope it is going to be a first-person view from an astronaut. First person view!

Commentator mentioned the installed camera could be used by subscribers.

More details:

http://mashable.com/2013/12/04/international-space-station-c...

http://www.urthecast.com/features#coverage

So if the feed is free on Urthecast's website, how does the company expect to make money? With a premium service, of course. Corporate clients might want the cameras pointed at a prospective mining site; the UN has already inked a deal with the company to help document disasters.
"This is an amazingly low tech revolution"

I don't understand a thing of this paragraph. Are they supposed to throw each other Iphones instead of stones? Should they SMS the authorities to death? Have ever been any other way of revolting for those who have no access to assault rifles?
Because we don't have a clue what are "human values" and what it means for an AI (or animal, or frankly, other humans) to be "friendly".

We can sweep this problem under the rug in case of pets; it's not as if they could start making weapons and organizing an army. With human-level intelligence, we already have a friendliness problem with fellow humans, and in case of potential superhuman minds we need to be damn sure that it doesn't do something stupid (in our opinion) like taking all the resources of our planet and using it to tile the solar system with paperclips.

As the saying goes, "The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else."

See also http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer.
Well that would explain why we've never heard about it before :)
a) I know a lot of parents. Not one actually cares about this. They care more than some nasty piece of work will nick their child's phone on the way home, which is far more realistic and common. I reckon the 1% are noisier than the 99% here.

b) No - see my post. When you connect the router and hit it with the first WiFi connection, it is configured by default to allow everything. At which point you can then tell them you don't want oodles of fisting porn shoved at you or just ignore the question and carry on getting your fix.

The only thing these statements prove is that the noiser people are consistently more likely to be wallies.
>The main concern is that something you did today may become a crime tomorrow

Ex post facto laws are unconstitutional in the US.
Yeah, but in a couple years new construction will probably just be putting LCD panels and voice control in instead of light switches anyway. So crude targeting lights on will just be done by voice and you can have a fancy map on the panel if you want since it is just an LCD anyway.
Programming a State Machine in Java
Interview with Edward Snowden on German TV (original version in English)
Pragmatic UX Techniques For Smarter Websites
This i found interesting: http://intelcrawler.com/

"Hacktivism, Illicit Drug trade, Cyber Attacks, Human Trafficking, Money Laundering, and other areas - could have a set of predictive probabilities by analyzing huge volumes of data in virtual space and narrowing the common denominator IPs and other cyber prints."
You're assuming that both the company and that division of the company survives. If it goes under, if labor is outsourced, if a factory closes, the workers lose their jobs. Of course they share in the bad times, and far more than the owners of the company do, since the workers have more at stake.
It is ridiculous to take them at their word.
It's tough. I was at a place where another company ripped off our stuff, including our typos, and our lawyer could really only get them to FOAD after we got the patents issued. And at that point they merely exited the market -- no damages.

I should note that we didn't pour 100% of available resources into suing those assholes as a business decision, because we were busy developing our own software.
It's harder to shoot yourself in the foot by mistyping SELECT, for instance, and it's clearly more composable.
One weird tip Linux kernel devs don't want you to know about!
Employees are negotiating from a vulnerable position when the options are "take pay cut or good luck finding a new job".
Life is a maze, not a marathon
Microsoft renames SkyDrive to OneDrive
Decade dollars and using the right level of precision
In South Korea, Spam Is the Stuff Gifts Are Made Of
There's a guy on Twitch who livestreams "playing" a game with something like this, except there's no map. It's a similar site that shows you a random location and he basically "walks" around and tries to drop a pin on a map as close to the point as possible. Sounds kinda boring but I ended up watching an hour of it and it's interesting the sort of visual clues and techniques you can use to suss places out.
This was problem on russian space stations as well. There was constant stream of alarms, and astronauts practically ignored them after 6 months.
Craziest to me is The Bug by Ellen Ullman.

Personal craziest was an Oracle performance problem on Windows NT in the 90s. Slow as hell. Going to the server, logging in, checking everything: Blazing fast. Back at the desk, slow as hell. Problem was the GL tube screen blanker with software rendering :-)
Getting people to use PGP properly is ... hard.

I've been called out by no less than a Linux evangelist, working at Google, for being so rude as to PGP-encrypt my email to him "because it was such a hassle to open".

When the ICIJ was doing its extensive collaborative investigation of offshore banking, the team evaluated using PGP, but ultimately abandoned it:

The project team’s attempts to use encrypted e-mail systems such as PGP (“Pretty Good Privacy”) were abandoned because of complexity and unreliability that slowed down information sharing. Studies have shown that police and government agents – and even terrorists – also struggle to use secure e-mail systems effectively. Other complex cryptographic systems popular with computer hackers were not considered for the same reasons. While many team members had sophisticated computer knowledge and could use such tools well, many more did not.

http://www.icij.org/offshore/how-icijs-project-team-analyzed...

It's little use if I have and use PGP if I can't convince my counterparties to do so.

Sad, too.
Any commentary on the business plan for this company? Outside of the free options, are they targeting media groups that might want on demand imagery of evolving news events? It seems like you can pay for the right to have a 30 second ability to direct and capture from the camera? Is it exclusive? e.g. "Here's MSNBC's exclusive footage of the evolving protests in the Ukraine, captured from the ISS..."

I always marvel at businesses like this because of the number of barriers they had to get over to literally launch. Build an app and put it on the Play store....or build a space-ready high resolution camera and coordinate its launch and deployment on the ISS?

As one light aside, the mission control person sounds like Téa Leoni in Deep Impact.
E-mail was actually designed to just copy a message file from the sender's computer to the receiver's one; it is sad how it evolved into a plaintext database of private stuff hosted by third parties.
He's talking about SpaceX there because the enforce-ability of patents against governments is questionable - Tesla actually files a lot of patents.
I don't like it either, but for a different reason. This is an example of narrow thinking: let's solve an immediate issue, rather than rethink the whole problem from the ground up.

How often do you need to control a single light that is in a different place than where you stand?

The problem is not with the light switch UI, it's with the whole concept of manually controlling every single light in the house. Why can't we have lighting that senses where we are and adapts accordingly? Why can't our lights go off when we lock the door?

Rather than get excited about a conceptually complex light switch, I'd like to see a home lighting system that doesn't require one in the first place.
Prostitution and drugs adding 10 Billion euros to Spanish GDP
Not sure if its the same one as the video you are referring to but here is a game that does exactly that.

http://geoguessr.com/
https://code.google.com/p/j-road/
How is getting a warrant which includes all users of an email service, AND those who corresponded with them "limited"?
What is meant by 150 degree sphere? The picture indicates it's the angle between two tangents, but what is the significance of those particular tangents?
Also reminds me of an idea I read somewhere that the ability of law enforcement, judges, etc. to "look the other way" instead of following the rules to the letter is the grease for the engine of law - the rules are not perfect and they'd do a lot of damage if followed precisely.
What is the macroeconomic effect of workers 401K stock investment plans? Stock transactions. You get to skim a little off the top both at purchase and sale. Back in the old days when more people were working, on average having higher income, they'd skim more commissions.

There is an interesting secondary effect of small retail players having been net purchasers of stock via retirement plans, which is to push the market up. You can rely on the fed lowering interest rates to push the market up until rates hit zero, you know, like now, then that stops. Hmm what happens to stock prices when more baby boomers are selling than millennials are buying... Maybe their only hope is to get as many people contributing to retirement funds as possible to at least reduce the blow.

Stocks are fundamentally kinda like real estate in that sellers can stamp their feet and pout and demand whatever rate of return they like, but in the long run, the median sales price is going to be whatever the median dude can afford, and "the market" doesn't care what the sellers "need" it only cares what the buyers median income is, which has been falling for a couple decades depending on who cooks your numbers.

In the long run, not just next quarter, GS badly needs a lot more workers contributing to 401K and other retirement options. Maybe they're too heavily leveraged up to survive not having more workers to transactionally skim off of.
If there's apathy it means people don't care. If they cared they would do something. For example, they would be paying a number of independent market research and consumer protection agencies to keep an eye on all other companies, so they wouldn't have to do it all by themselves. So, those companies would pretty much do the regulating/info function of a government, except that no one can force anybody else to use their service. That is, you DON'T HAVE to pay (as with taxes), but if you like, you CAN. That is the crucial difference.

Again, if people are apathetic about something, then what right on earth does a government have to extract money from them and teach them what's good and what's bad on this money, regardless of whether they agreed with that or not?
PyJade: Jade for Python
KickoffLabs (http://www.kickofflabs.com) is all about generating leads, so we use it for quite a few tasks related to our business.

One thing as a business we are trying to do more of this year is put ourselves in our customers position. This was a big reason I started BootStrapped Weekly (http://bootstrappedweekly.com). I wanted to take a step back and start fresh with no existing leads, no inbound links, and no existing market.

It has certainly opened my eyes to new ways we can help our customers be more successful.
Was anything ever?
A lot of unconstitutional practices are law in the US

http://www.scn.org/ccapa/pa-vs-const.html
I was fascinated by what I'd heard about him and wanted to understand his philosophy. I don't think I realised he'd deliberately made it obscure!
Such as what, exactly? I'm sure it was considered, but it's not that simple. Would it involve air blasts? Liquid? A squeegee? The sand/dust content wasn't exactly known so a scraping motion would potentially scratch the glass surface and make things worse. Compressed air would take a tremendous amount of energy to compress and a liquid is heavy.
Social Coding: A Case Study with Julia
Microsoft SkyDrive is now OneDrive
A slightly more sensible approach may be to allow script tags (or any external linking mechanism) to list multiple (trusted) sources, and fallback appropriately.

That certainly feels more inline with how the internet in general was designed.

<script src="googleapi/jquery,code.jquery.com/jquery,/my/own/version/jquery">
Basically, it's a URL in an NFC tag. Might work, if they can assuage the music industry's fears about piracy.

I'm assuming that there's some sort of securekey two factor authentication generated in the flash crystal, and that the url that is generated is guaranteed in some way to always resolve to a working url for its expected lifetime (And I have CDs which are 20 years old and working just fine).
Awesome question.

Imho the core metrics are quantified product assumptions.

Some related to user interaction, later (hopefully) some related to businessmodel assumptions.

Depending on phase the focus tends to shift from retention to growth.

Alistar and Ben made an awesome chart for their Lean Analytics book (recommended)
http://i.imgur.com/0VBP68T.png

These slides by me also might help: http://www.slideshare.net/andreasklinger/startup-metrics-a-l...

hth
Are you looking for work or an actual forum to chat like HN?
Oh, that makes sense. I should have figured that was it.
"If you want to work elsewhere for $X or $2X or whatever, you can."

No, you can't. Government regulations and tax codes were purchased by the companies to eliminate competition and centralize capital, such that there is only one monopoly provider of car factory jobs in your area. The .com and .gov merger made the mess, they should have to clean it up.

If there was a competitive commodity free-ish market, then your plan makes sense. Sometimes that exists. Usually, very intentionally, it is prevented from existing.
Isn't a Big Mac $10 over there?
Strangely hypnotizing! Fun!
A new blog engine for developers
Indeed. Though of course, that would cost them all the clicks of users of other services, curious to see if they are in danger.
> Sony simply did not want to incur the labor costs and risks associated with investing in the local tech industry. Nothing wrong with that (it's their decision), but they are not being truthful to the local consumer.

You can't expect them to set up a factory in every single geopolitical location that imposes these rules.