skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article brings up a good point, sometimes it makes more sense to start with the person. For example, let's say I need to get in touch with my friend to quickly inform them of a change to our plans.

Open Skype? Not online. Check Facebook, nope, they're not on. Messenger? Nope. Ok, I'll open my contact book, and get their number to call.

Wouldn't it make more sense to simply select the person I'm trying to reach, and see what platforms they're online, so I can choose my contact method?

Or what if I want to see what's new with one friend? I should be able to click their name, and see their facebook changes, new tweets, status updates, etc.

Of course, this isn't always the case, I might want to open Facebook without plans to browse a particular person, or I might open Skype just to see who's online that I can video call.

So, there are times when I need to take both routes. They should both be available so I can choose either. It's complicated to aggregate content from a variety of sources into a single page, so it's not a surprise why this option isn't frequently available. You would almost need a new standard, so HN could provide an API for a user's comments, posts, etc, and Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc, all do the same. Then I can build an app that merges all of this information together. So a user opens the app, and creates a page for John, enters John's Facebook profile, Twitter/Reddit/HN handles, and everything appears in a single place. However, these sources then get less direct traffic, and therefore less revenue, so it's unlikely they would jump on-board.
I've been worried about random people opening up exchanges, pools and other BTC transaction web applications. There are so many regulations, particularly in Anti-Money Laundering and Compliance that complicate business. People need to be careful and realize exchanges aren't a business you jump into on a whim.

The worst is, if you innocently run a site like this and don't have the correct AML protections, the baddies will use your service for their goals. You will be in trouble for not having the appropriate controls in place.
EVerything released in January has a url of "January14" which leads me to believe it just means "January 2014":

http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/
The problem is that you can't ask people what they'd pay for and expect a valuable list.

There are plenty of things I think I'd pay for but when it comes to taking out my credit card and paying for it I find something else to distract me from it.
Or for reaching the distant city a gasoline generator in the small trailer. Making it a plugable hybrid.
We didn't run a comprehensive study on pricing. We're probably going to get a lot of people asking for a site license and maybe a discount. At least we didn't price based on fees for placement, as mentioned in the post.

Any thoughts here?
Squarespace at the Super Bowl: A Better Web Awaits
it is kind of an art project, so there's certainly the possibility (also wondering if that is part of the commentary).
Uber and a Child’s Death
Explain it?

Predictably, the car companies are stuck in the past. Much like GSM for your cell phone, keyless entry remotes are not secure and relied on security through obscurity.

The thieves simply have a small computer with an antenna that basically brute forces your keyless entry system.

It's like having 1000000 physical car keys in front of you and pushing the unlock button, key by key, until the door opens
At one point I had an idea for a product that makes it easy for users to do what you're talking about here. Started doubting I could make money off it when LinkedIn gets most of the way there for free (for most people anyway).

Every once in a while I think about spinning that project back up...
http://jfdi.bz/ - $20/month. I'm giving it a try.
Or you could use http://hull.io and not even need backend code
It is definitely one sided and propaganda, but it's better than absolute lack of information I am seeing in the West. I think scenario you mention here will happen only if the rest of Europe chooses to ignore and waive their hands.
I've tried this and it is not that easy, docker containers are meant to run one and only one process. So, for instance my puppet started an upstart job, and this crashes the docker build process.

I'm a docker newbie, though.
I did exactly that with Puppet as an experiment: http://kartar.net/2013/12/building-puppet-apps-inside-docker.... Works reasonably well. I will say though that the Dockerfile syntax is, IMHO, much easier to use than Puppet/Chef/etc.

Disclaimer: I work at Docker and previously worked at Puppet Labs.
FBI seized entire database of TorMail service
I think only because it's harder for the host environment to actually succesfully pull off in a consistent and reliable way.

Which is, I think, the same reason that iOS went so far back from 'document centric' to 'app centric' at first -- because it was easier for them to pull off and make work consistently, both in terms of technology and UI.
The Google Play store will accept multiple build types and will deliver the correct builds to the correct phones automatically, no need for a fat binary.

While NativeActivity is interesting, for LOB apps we're much more likely to stick to native Android UI components, which means Android/Java activities. However, Loaders might then in turn use JNI as a model layer. I'm still working out the details myself, but I feel there should be a way for shared, cross-platform C or C++ code even if it relies on platform-specific UI and localization. The alternative, rather than JS, is probably Java2objc, used by Google for new developments.
I just played this game, and i really like it!

It is like an online RTS mixed with Munchkin.

I don't mind paying for a good game, but buying "into" games are a problem - as described. Maybe add the possibility to either? Launch two options, play your way up or "sell" the game as a package deal.
credulous, that's the word!
SF Chronicle to put its staff through startup-style incubator
Triangle Open Data Day
The American Dream is dead.
True, but some help better than others the herd to control. :)
How I never found that.. thanks! That is going to save us a world of pain in debugging.
I would point out to all the above commenters, that Chrome is still largely native code, with simple wrappers on iOS and Android. http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/android-...
Dressing for the polar vortex. A basic guide to dressing warm.
Given that it is first and foremost my device, or at least a UI oriented at me, I shouldn't have to go inside my self to find my stuff.

People centric design is great if all you do is communicate with a set group of people, however if you're more asocial, then it's just sort of sad and hard to use.
My Answers to Uber's Creative Writing Test
> You can buy a regular car today and an electric one next time; it is not like electric car makers will refuse your business

Precisely. So people need to stop complaining the Tesla S doesn't meet their needs. Wait until it does, then buy one. If it never does, don't buy one, and don't complain about it.

Why is it so common for consumers to complain when a popular company makes a product that doesn't precisely fit their needs?

I personally am happy when I have no use for an expensive product, as it means I don't have any desire to spend money on it, and my $500 car will continue to meet my needs.
It's aggravating, because even this kind of attack is easy to defend against. If the keyless entry system receives, say, five bad signals in a second, just go to sleep for five seconds. Makes brute force impractical.
You could still list people you stalk, or give machines anthropomorphic names, the ever so stereotypical pr0n star name or star trek character name for each server, etc.
Apple didn't store users location data. Cell tower positrons were cached on iOS devices, and this was turned into a false controversy because sensationalism sells. Citing this piece as if it asserts that Apple collects user location data in the way the parent poster fears the NSA might do is dishonest.
I will pay for Craigslist style email obfuscation as a service.

Problem:

I have a marketplace type website where my users would like to be contacted but not have their emails be made public.

How it works:

I set a subdomain of my site, mail.mysite.com to an ip address you designate. On demand, i make an API call to your service (www.emailobfuscationasaservice.com) with

{
real_address:foo@bar.com,
expiration_timestamp:2014-01-20T00:00:00.000Z,
obfuscate_replies: true / false,
callback_url: (optional)
}

www.emailobfuscationasaservice.com responds with either:

(A) a success message and an anonymized, temporary email address like 239fag72wa@mail.mysite.com (the subdomain i gave you), or

(B) an error message like "no such user at that domain" or "domain doesn't exist" or something.

The email address lives until the expiration timestamp. If the obfuscated email receives a message, you forward it to the "real_address".

If "obfuscate_replies" was set to true at email creation time, then if the person responds, you play middleman for both parties and force all their emails to go through you (basically you create another obscured email for person who writes to the obscured email).

If "callback_url" was set, that means that I, the operator of www.mysite.com, want to be notified of activity at the obscured email address, so you POST activity to the specified url. That lets me do things like update activity feeds in my app for the user.

If you build this, I will pay for it. It seems to me that many other startups could use something like this as well.

edit: formatting and owning up that this is me re-posting this from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7024718 in hopes that somebody will build this so I can pay for it.
I read this as "People don't know what they really want something until they are shown it."

While this is true in some retrospects, it's all about solving problems. If people say "they want to solve x need for their y idea" it is essentially the same as "I'd pay for x so I can solve y sooner."

And in that retrospect these lists could be useful. You could try being less negative and think for 5-10 minutes on an idea rather then being a pessimist.
The Winklevoss twins say:

“We were passive investors in BitInstant and will do everything we can to help law enforcement officials. We fully support any and all governmental efforts to ensure that money laundering requirements are enforced, and look forward to clearer regulation being implemented on the purchase and sale of Bitcoins.”

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/two-executives-of-bit...

We don't know all the details of this case but I guess we can all agree that if justice is to be done, and more importantly perhaps, seen to be done, nobody should be given preferential treatment. This means bankers should be sent to prison instead of being allowed to buy their way out:

"HSBC's $1.9 billion agreement with the U.S. to resolve charges it enabled Latin American drug cartels to launder billions of dollars was approved by a federal judge."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-02/hsbc-judge-approves...
I'm not sure the proposed highlighting scheme is any good. To my aging eyes, the riot of colors just confuses things. But I also type ":syntax off" in vim many times a day.

At least one paper exists that says color and font in text editors makes a difference: Rick Kazman and Riston Tapp,
"Determining the Usefulness of Colour and Fonts in a Programming Task", from:
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Program Comprehension, (Washington, DC), November 1994, pp. 154-161.

You can find that at: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.48....
DYNAMIC-SCIENTIFIC PHILOSOPHY -- Metathinking explained
We want to avoid subjectively stating what is definitively true, as this can be a moving target and we encourage dissent. Fields grow and horizons broaden, however our algorithms do sort what is/isn't applicable to a field and the quality/relevance of the content to a specific category!
Pretty true! One of the met efficient way to make information go round is still to collect all and make unified report (as a manager). Still tools like internal instant messaging can improve communication.
Depending on the context unbounded and infinite may mean very different things, for example the surface of a sphere being unbounded but finite.
Book a Jamaican Luxury Villa for 3.5m Dogecoin
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gatsby/quotes.html
Yep! Sandi and I get along very well when it comes to these topics :)
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Maybe you're over thinking it? It sounds like you're already doing the right things.

All the details might not be filled in, and there are surely things I overlook from the high-up view, but for the most part I already envision the solution.

The design part of TDD is just the expectations. So if you were to test an add function for example, you might write something like

assertEqual(add(5,2), 7)
assertEqual(add(-5,2), -3)
assertEqual(add(5,-2), 3)

before actually implementing the function. So here the design is that the add function takes 2 arguments. That's it.

For other things like classes, your expectations will also drive the design of the class -- what fields and methods are exposed, what the fields might default to, what kinds of things the methods return, etc. Your expectations are the things you saw in your head before you start coding. So it's pretty much the same as what you do already. The benefit of TDD is in knowing that you have a correct implementation and you can move on once things are green.

One thing that's easy to misinterpret is that TDD doesn't mean writing a bunch of tests before writing any code...That's pretty much waterfall development. TDD tends to work best with a real tight test-code loop at the function level.
While watching the stream, I was surprised to hear the translator mention a GoPro camera. Sure enough, each of the cosmonauts has one strapped to his forearm. That's pretty cool to see consumer-grade technology attached to a spacewalk.

Via G+[1]:

International Space Station Expedition 38 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) began a planned 6-hour spacewalk from the Earth-facing Pirs Docking Compartment at 9 a.m. EST.

Kotov is performing his sixth spacewalk. This is Ryazanskiy's third spacewalk. Both cosmonauts are wearing Russian Orlan suits with blue stripes. Their suits are equipped with NASA helmet cameras to provide close-up views of the work they are performing outside the station. Kotov's helmet camera displays the number 18, and Ryazanskiy's displays the number 20. The duo also will be wearing a GoPro cameras on their forearms. Kotov will have a single strip of yellow tape around his GoPro camera, and Ryazanskiy will have two strips on his camera.

This is the 178th spacewalk in support of space station assembly and maintenance.

The spacewalking duo's task is to attempt again to install a pair of high fidelity cameras on a platform attached to the Zvezda Service Module as part of a commercial arrangement between Roscosmos and a Canadian company to downlink Earth observation imagery. During their previous spacewalk on Dec. 27, Russian flight controllers were unable to receive telemetry from the cameras and instructed the spacewalking cosmonauts to bring the cameras back inside the Russian airlock. While outside the orbiting complex, Kotov and Ryazanskiy also plan to retrieve an experiment package housed on Zvezda's hull.

Flight controllers at the Mission Control Center in Korolev, outside of Moscow, are providing primary support for the spacewalk and coordinating with Mission Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

NASA Television is providing live coverage of the spacewalk at http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv﻿

[1] https://plus.google.com/+NASA/posts/YJ1i1L2nvY8
FWIW: The "upraised knife" quote is Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Brown v US, and goes "Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife." This is Holmes rejecting the idea that a defendant invoking self defense must carefully reason whether he can safely flee, rather than employing deadly force.
Like a temporary e-mail service that contacts your regular e-mail service? There is countless versions of those like 10minutemail.com or something.

This could be done by running an automated script that makes an e-mail address temporarily adds it to your site. Then another script that check's said e-mail address.

This is a problem with e-mail spam, but I think hiding your real e-mail from spambots is the main concern in this if I am understanding you right.
Yep! Another huge benefit of static typing, particularly for systems that deal with lots of numbers that mean different things. (Some are lengths, some are durations, some are speeds, etc.) Don't want your airplane to crash because you passed in square feet instead of meters per second? Have the type system check your units.
Ask HN: Would you pay for g apps that were privacy oriented?
A coworker and I have been brainstorming some ideas for projects we would like to create or contribute to. One of our favorite ideas was to create a suite of apps combining things like dropbox, lastfm, google docs/calendar/etc. into one place with a twist. Have all of them be privacy oriented. Our biggest example so far is all files synced would be encrypted client side before sending and only unencrypted by the client. My questions are:
1: Would you pay for this? (Yes, no, maybe) and why or why not?
2: If you if you have any ideas or suggestions would you share them?
> The "story" around People Centric is that you don't think "go to twitter and tweet my friend" or "go to Skype and call my friend,"

Yes. Yes, I do. I use Twitter or Tweetcaster for tweeting. I use Google hangouts for video calls. I use Chrome to view websites. Implementation details not only matter, they matter a great deal.
I have a hard time believing that even System 6 would run on the 128K... And System 7 used up a whole MB of RAM. (Memories of juggling OSes and RAM on a Mac Classic with a whopping 2 MB of the stuff).

edit: looks like the 128K system info page is wrong, you needed a Plus for System 6 http://support.apple.com/kb/TA33972?viewlocale=en_US
I'm not sure if the current draft says so, but I talked about how the logical units ought to be "pure functions" most of the time at some point.
Xamarin does have a nice UI for working with Xcode/iOS, though I too fall on the cheap side of the fence. :)
Super Interesting On many levels happy to discuss.
Sounds like it's high time I take a closer look at docker
Worth noting that al-Awlaki himself took credit for Hassan's rampage.
I just drove from Chicago to Tampa, stayed for two weeks in FL, and then drove back over the last two weeks. I did both sprints straight through in a 2008 Infiniti G37, which has a six-speed auto, V6 engine, and 20 gallon tank. At an average speed of 85 mph, the car averaged about 24mpg, giving me a range of around 420 miles per gallon (with ~60 mile reserve).

This is an edge case of course. I'm 31, and drove the entire ~15 hour drive at once with breaks only for fuel/bathroom at the same time. If I owned a Model S, I'd just fly.
Mentioning the original Gmail seems a bit of a red herring.

Surely the community would expect something closer to 2014's Gmail (which is the product of tens of millions of dollars of engineer-hours, even if you skip all of the advertising-enabling gunk that an open-source clone would surely skip) before a theoretical Gmail clone got any kind of traction.

A clone that approaches "modern" Gmail is absolutely possible, of course. My original "Are you serious?" was just a bit of incredulity aimed at the person who asked "Hey, why isn't anybody on this yet? Is it hard?"

Possible? Yes. Hard? Yes.
Because we're still in the stage of figuring out the different and optimal ways of communicating with each other, let alone presenting all choices to a sender.
if you want something "more interesting that what we see from google's satellite imagery" then swtich to bing's map and select bird-view. They did the imagery using airplanes. It is much better for detail then any satelite imagery.

back on topic, this is worthless for this... remember that the space station only goes over the same path every time. ...i think you would only get images of the equator or something.
Haskell libraries and programmers are good about using type synonyms to avoid this problem.

Notice http://hackage.haskell.org/package/happstack-server-7.3.2/do... isn't a string like "GET" or "POST".
Well, is really does what it says, that _was_ random:
http://randomstreetview.com/#phyzb_dnid7_-d_r_-5
Some content might be too violent or scary. Or too sexual. I'm not someone who wraps their kids in cotton wool, but I'd like to protect their innocence until they're ready to watch adult content rather than rush them into adulthood just because the content is out there to be viewed.
Apply for the jobs you want - and then when rejected, ask what jobs you need to work at to be competitive in 2-5 years. HR people suprisingly give really good advice.
37Signals has been interviewing profitable bootstrapped companies for years now. There are indepth articles about each one available here: http://37signals.com/bootstrapped
He wants more than that. He wants it craigslist style, on demand from an API, and forwarding to your real email. 10minutemail.com does none of those things, and doesn't cover the other features he requested either.
This doesn't seem quite right to me. In order to successfully sell to laggards (out side of a fly by night type of operation) a well vetted & supported product needs to exist. In order to profitably get to a well vetted & supported product one would have to go through the entire product cycle before selling to the laggards. Laggards would probably look to others for validation before buying a product, so if you attempt to sell directly to laggards you already need to have a validated, well vetted, & well supported product. I'm probably being a bit verbose here, but I don't think selling to laggards is the best strategy for selling tech products/services.
Indeed. What I see happening is young and liberal Ukrainians (whethers Russian, Ukranian, Tatar, and others) simply want their state to be like many other European countries: free, prosperous, democratic, but still multi-ethnic. In fact, they're actually asking for surrender of some aspects of national sovereignty by joining the EU.
Just kidding about the fourth one?

Perhaps the only genuinely useful thing about the cloud is that it means we no longer have to store porn locally.
Yes. The cars were designed with that sort of future compatibility in mind. That is how they were able to implement and demonstrate the battery pack swapping station.
While I personally don't believe there will ever be as many battery swap stations as there are super chargers, it is quite believable that in 5 to 10 years I'd be able to drive somewhere and swap out my aging battery pack for a new one that will have a higher capacity than what my original pack had when new.
Most of my mistakes are elaborate versions of this:

double :: Int -> Int
double = (3*)

The only amount of typing that is going to help with that is an amount nobody is willing to use.
I justify my sorta-bright idea by being an old married guy with two dressers in the bedroom, mine and hers. Do any married couples randomly intermix clothing, like all shirts go here, mine and yours, even the non-heteronormative couples? So it feels "natural" much as there's his and hers dressers to store clothes (and each kid, too) then the phone would have his and hers phone icons to store clothes, err, to store contact info for apps as per the article.

VLM does accept that this could be highly annoying to some people because VLM knows that some people consider it unholy annoying when other people refer to themselves in third person so VLM feels their pain and accepts that as a perfectly valid style disagreement.