skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://coinsierra.com We are working on a C2C marketplace using Bitcoin. Bitcoin community seriously needs a proper and secure marketplace for customers selling goods.

It's been really fun on working on this, and we hope to release the preview of it this month.
This man was kidnapped and tortured without trial.

I did not downvote you, but somehow I feel that your comment does not do justice to the plain reality of the situation. Which is decidedly not allegorical and not abstract at all.
I see this as a reaction to the competition they're facing with Google Chrome.

With Google Chrome you log into your Google account. email + password and all is good. It's simple, but fundamentally insecure. Google, NSA and whoever else they partner with can poke at all your data without restriction because it is based on a centralized authentication model.

Firefox always based its sync on a secure model where no data was stored unencrypted at Mozilla's sync-servers. There was no traditional "account" which Mozilla had to validate. You could also chose to use your own sync server. Either way, they can not peek at your data.

You gave Firefox your email and a "password" and from that it generated some private keys used to encrypt the data sent to Mozilla. Private keys which you then had to distribute to other Firefox'es one way or another.

They attempted to ease the pain by having some "pair this device" wizards with 3 simple values you could copy from device A to device B, but in the end it still meant that the superior security came at a cost.

No non-technical people I know use Firefox's sync, but everyone I know who use Chrome also use its sync feature.

When comparing browser, some people literally list out "sync" as thing Chrome does and Firefox doesn't. That tells you a lot about how a simple and in your face implementation can drive adaptation. (I think Chrome's approach is too in-your-face, but that's another discussion.)

I honestly believe Firefox's original model is superior once you get past the initial warts, but I can see why they are making the changes they do.
Another Redditor points: NYT, WaPO, MSNBC and FOX did not cover the interview.
I have to admit I haven't been following the development as I used to. Could someone in here say to which FS the article is referring to:

"The increasing size of the Linux kernel is due to the incorporation of significant new features, including a file system optimized for solid-state drives"
Why aren't HN readers outraged by this blatant privacy violation?
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The smallest email in my inbox right now has 913 bytes of headers and 132 bytes of content. Between the various hops, including through a spam filter, it took 13 seconds just to land on my server. It was then an additional 0 to 300 seconds before each of my devices knew it existed, because push remains black magic when dealing with clients and servers from different authors/companies.

This is not comparable to the normal performance of SMS or iMessages.
Not at all.

However if you're going to enter a market that already has multiple players and can be assumed to be competitive then surely it's important to understand why your competitors aren't doing whatever your idea is as it's likely to suggest if your idea might not be feasible, or profitable, or if there's another issue that might get in the way that you don't know about yet. Of course on the other hand it might tell you why it's not a good idea for them, but is a good idea for you - they might be burdened with legacy systems that would need to be rewritten to deal with deliveries after 5pm. They might have employee contracts which are hard to renegotiate. They might have hubs that are too far away from their delivery sites to make a shorter delivery run profitable after employee time and fuel costs are taken into account. But unless you're willing to ask the question, you're not going to know are you.
Good that we can spoof in app purchases with in-appstore.com. I'm willing to pay good money for good games (full), but I'm not willing to pay 20 bucks to play and still have limitations to opponents who pay 50 bucks in multiplayer games.
Ok. Don't be angry on me. I am just starting out with writing code that someone other than me see.
How to Bypass Hotspot Logins on a Mac
JCPenney Uses Seemingly Drunken Tweets As Marketing
Agreed. I don't use either sync, but I know Firefox's is secure (at least, the old private key one - not sure if that's about to be removed) and would consider it if I had a use case of many browsers, while Google's probably just dumps all my bookmarks etc (even saved passwords, if I saved them in the browser...) onto a google/NSA server.
Funny you should mention those old arcade cabinets.

Their "pay to try again" model created the perverse incentive to kill the player off quickly in unpredictable ways to give the impression that it wasn't really their fault. Coin eating machines.

They're great examples of how business models color the nature of a game deeply.
Will Mozilla be removing the secure sync option or having this one in parallel?

I don't use it myself, but it's definitely worrying to see a secure option being potentially removed in favour of plaintext storage on servers outside the user's control.
Google permanently bans popular application from Play for not using IAP
The long sync key was ridiculous to type.

I always emailed and copy-pasted, but yeah. If you didn't have a device you could "pair" with, it was definitely not user-friendly or accessible to non-technical people.
I've restarted working on http://myshigoto.com (for finding English-speaking jobs in Japan) after doing pretty much nothing to it since creating it five years ago - scratching my own itch.

With the pick up in the Japanese economy recently I've noticed a few nice comments about it on blogs and forums. Not only is it satisfying to think I've helped people find a job, it's given me the incentive to improve it and maybe find a way to monetise it beyond just break-even AdSense revenue.
Query, a new question app built by a 17 year old  Iphone developer. 
A couple of months ago I released my question app “Query”. I am a 17 year old student who loves
developing apps. Query is listed on the What’s Hot list Productivity in the Turkish app store.
Query It’s a very easy way to find an answer to an question. The only thing you have to know is the
question you feel the need to ask and let Query do the rest for you. It only supports Yahoo! Answers,
however, a lot more Q&A servers will be added soon. I would like to know what you think about Query
and please leave a comment if you feel like.
Creating apps is an amazing experience and, it's so satisfying to write something yourself and actually
see it work!
https://itunes.apple.com/tw/app/query/id725029532?mt=8
If the dip affected everyone equally it wouldn't be that bad, as most of the saturation found above the 4.8 would be leveraged... However these suggestions will be rated, in average, as greater as the overall empathy and knowledge users have regarding the kind of app in question. For instance, regarding my app Tabata Trainer (which went from solid 4.57 in December 9th to 4.21 at the time of this post), how many persons identify with the word "Tabata"? Most of them will never give a 5. If someone creates a game with a very similar name to a widely known and adorable game, then people will probably rate the suggestion highly. This kind of stuff will just lead apps to be rated unequally... and bad (really bad) apps will raise their ratings, which is shameful.
http://www.detoolbox.com

Based on the “Disciplined Entrepreneurship” book and framework used by Bill Aulet, Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, DEToolbox is a set of checklists and tools to help you stay on track, and grow a healthy and successful startup.
We already have a couple hundreds of users and the app is currently used at MIT as part of the Entrepreneurship Development Program.
I've been in the same situation - now you are not in your best mental shape, so help can be obtained from a psychoanalyst or psychiatrist.

After 6 months on antidepressants I was again in top-notch condition and the effect continued after I stopped the medication.

To fight the boredom and anxiety you can use some medicine, widely used in the college, but I don't remember its name. A colleague of mine was using it responsibly and he was extremely productive and was more calm when communicating with our manager.

Good luck, man.
Unmerciful World. RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman.
A few different things:

- Finishing up my PhD -> working on figuring out what's going on in Uranus' outer ring system (https://github.com/kartikkumar/StoMi)

- http://www.gourbangrow.com -> My second attempt at a startup, focussed on the smart gardening/smart farming sector -> check it out!

- http://www.spaceup.nl -> bringing the SpaceUp movement (http://www.spaceup.org) to The Netherlands
Hey that's actually pretty cool, can you post it when you're finished? I'm a bit of politics geek.
Have an attitude like this and you will never have security or privacy.
In my personal experience (UK and EU mostly):

* 100% remote working is rare

* Flexitime around core hours is relatively common

* Remote working from the start is very rare. Most employers want you on site to absorb the company culture and gel with the team before they would consider remote working. You need to show that you're effective and productive first.

* Companies measuring outcomes rather than effort - non-existent outside of the smaller startups.

If you want remote work and outcome based companies then currently you need to be looking to the smaller more startup-ish organisations. Which has associated impact on risk and salary. Or you need to get into a suitable position within the organisation to help make the change to more remote/outcome based work yourself.

A few things to consider from the employer's side:

* If you and the employer are in different countries it can add a considerable administration burden on the employer. In many cases they won't have the skills in-house so you are asking them to acquire a specialised set of HR skills and knowledge for one hire. This is a tough sell unless you have the answers to that problem to hand.

* Something you notice as an employer is that people often mistake their personal productivity with the team productivity. There is quite a lot of evidence that distributed teams are less productive than co-located ones (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5145358 - any research based counter examples very welcome!). You need to have a good argument that remote working will pay off for them.

* Running distributed teams well takes effort and skill. You need to adopt new tools, new structures, take more effort on things that "naturally" happen when folk are co-located. Unless a company already has this in place it's a lot of effort to make for a single new hire.
On virtual reality
So I suppose this thread is just as good a place as any to ask the following question, which I've been curious about for a while now:

What, in your opinion, is the highest quality coding boot camp and why? Follow-up: what should a person who qualifies for one of these schools be looking for?
I don't know much about bootcamps, but there's a lot of hand-wringing in the UK about people working for free ("unpaid internships") in newspapers, high arts, TV and politics. Because it ends up that you can't get into those industries without spending a year working for free, and the only people who can afford to spend a year working for free are people with rich parents, so newspapers, high art, tv and politics end up dominated by the rich.

Admittedly, in the SV programming climate this is not currently much of an issue.
As someone who runs a software business I can't even begin to imagine to hire someone who has only 3 months programming experience. Even if it was a super low paid position - it still would be wasted money.

I guess companies in the valley are becoming really desperate - or they build trivial products where someone with almost no programming experience can productively fill a role.
Those who would sacrifice privacy for convenience deserve neither.
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some games that end up on the humble bundle have in app purchases. I don't know if they've changed their policy about it. I remember one game in particular that was pretty aggressive with it's DLC nag.
I found the open source driver situation to be quite good with AMD. I was able to play non-trivial games (TF2 and Dota2) and use two monitors quite well. In fact, the open source AMD drivers had better multi monitor support then either the proprietary or the community Nvidia drivers.
Ask HN: .me vs .co domains for personal site?
Do you prefer .me or .co for your personal site (e.g. johnsmith.tld) if the .com was not available? And why?
It's a war story from my father, so I have to admit that the details could be corrupted. He worked with a variety of machines in the 60s, so it was believable that one had a permissive enough FORTRAN to allow that. It's also possible that your explanation of it being reference-argument corruption.

I'm almost curious enough to fire up a PDP-8 emulator and see what 4K FORTRAN does. Almost.
http://techtinkering.com/2009/07/14/running-4k-fortran-on-a-...
Radiant Defense on Android works exactly how you described.
It's a tower defense game,where in the free version you are given some towers, but there are a few which are locked behind a paywall - so you have to purchase like 6 separate packs to unlock them all(totalling like £8), but once you do, that's it, you own the entire thing and there is nothing else to buy.
I switched back from AMD proprietary to the open-source drivers just recently. The open-source drivers just seem to work better for desktop Linux, whereas the proprietary drivers were okay but since neither is driving gaming for me yet felt a bit too clunky.

The big change is definitely dynamic power management in the OSS drivers - now my PC doesn't sound like a turbine while I'm in Linux all the time.
> many of these companies charge upwards of $10,000 and make bold claims about alumni making six figure salaries upon graduation

I think the word "scam" applies here.
140 PhD scientists in China, working full-time on thorium power
Very cool! I'm a bit perplexed about the "sharing control" feature. I'm assuming you're going to be deploying some serious security into the app.

Anyway, going to keep an eye out for your progress!
Just out of curiosity, how are you going to monetize this?
>No-one can spread games virally anymore, everyone hates it.

Is this good? Is this bad? I think I'm missing your point.
Some mistakes there, will fix. `null` is most certainly not an object.
LOL. Fast SCSI spinning disks are 200 IOPS. If you RAID 10 of them then you get 2000 IOPS.

Consumer SSDs are now at 50-100K IOPS. How on earth do people think that 2000 IOPS is "marginally better" than 50000? And I am just comparing one SSD to a RAID array.

I think you just must be completely unaware of random access disk performance and the massive disparity there.

The results were close because either the Linode host he was testing on actually had SSD storage or more likely because of some caching which indicates that the benchmark did not actually test random reads or writes or seeks.
I suppose he is talking about F2FS which is in kernel since 3.8.
Have you tried flexbox?

http://html5please.com/#flexbox
> I'm in love with business strategy, project ideas / planning, budgeting, and architecting.

So... do that?

If you tried 3 self-funded ventures you should know there's tons to do outside of coding. Maybe not when there's zero traction and just one person on the team, but as soon as there's more than that, there's plenty to do that's not coding. Managing systems, managing customers, managing finances, marketing, general office 'stuff'. And hell, no coder spends all their time actually coding.

One of my friends is just re-learning coding after being in startups for seven years simply because he was so busy doing all that other stuff for the startups he worked for.

Arguably, managing/dealing with people - not necessarily as their boss - is always going to be part of life, not to mention any business venture, so I'd say there's no getting away from that.
I've never gone very deep with JS. Anything you could recommend, off the top of your head, for a more recent look at the language?
Typical build may look like this: Task 1 passing many files to Task 2, then to Task3, concatenate and so on. It's all about Disk I/O performance. Streams piping reduce files reading/writing.
I got this in an interview once as a curveball. It's most certainly an object in Javascript!

> typeof null
"object"

Contrast that with:

> typeof undefined
"undefined"

Go figure :)
Did you just mean Java 7?
Many of the Python frameworks listed can't be considered minimal, maybe just not bloated. Also, i don't see the purpose of such lists.
Whats wrong with this image?
That blog has a really pretty font. :)
Articles cite qualities such as not being able to work for someone, being innovative, not being able to take instructions and not being able to digest feedback and criticism among others

I'm not sure which articles the author was reading, but if those are the qualities of entrepreneurs being listed, I wouldn't put much value on those articles at all. Digesting feedback and criticism, at least, are very important core traits of successful entrepreneurs and a key part of building the right thing. Not being abke to work for others and not being able to take instruction may be the reason many people look to entrepreneurship, but are hardly traits that make one successful. I'd argue that it likely makes it harder to be successful.

Being innovative is important, can't argue with that, but knowing when to be innovative and when not is something that often cones from feedback. Often innovation is actually a distraction.

Then again, the author says it's a list of "how to know you're an entrepreneur" and maybe a large number of entrepreneurs (especially the less successful ones) do indeed exhibit these traits.
I don't think it's stored in plain text, the post was about standard login/password signing in instead of too-complex current mechanism.
That's great - I can use that whenever the topic of 'the echo-chamber' comes up.
Okay, now all we need is a Gerbil Space Program.
People who never tried, imagine creating a new product (not to say a "disruptive" product) is a simple A-B-C process:

* talk to potential customers

* do it!

* PROFIT

Whereas unless you are an expert yourself in the domain you're entering, it's almost hopeless.

People/businesses don't know what they want, until it's presented to them on a golden platter and all of their colleagues/competitors are already braying about it.
One thing to keep in mind is that you won't genuinely be able to judge a workplace until you've been in it for a while. Some of the best jobs I've had were ones where I thought I was just taking them because I needed any job; conversely, the very worst I ever had was one where I was absolutely certain going in that it would be perfect.
Yes, in a way that was incompatible with other browser i.e. useless.
A not so Svbtle reminder to own your words
Ok fixed them.
We crossed Mauritania when Aziz was running for presidency (the guy who overthrew the democratically elected government) and never even heard of the notion. Amazing article. Thanks CNN
Perotto wrote the Programma 101's story itself. It's on the web, but in Italian only, sadly:

http://www.piergiorgioperotto.it/libriperotto/programma%2010...

He wrote that indeed the management didn't put many resources in the Programma 101 development. Was it because of mainframes or what? We don't know.
typeof null returns "object", but I do not believe it is correct to claim that null "is an object". It is my understanding (maybe a misunderstanding, I will happily state) from reading a ton of comments from Brendan Eich in various places that typeof null is "object" for historical reasons involving the way reference types were implemented in the original JavaScript VM.
Would you do that again? (If $400 is a non negligible amount of money for you).
Or would you rather avoid temptation by not installing such games in the first place?
That's a mistake in the specification. We tried to fix that experimentally but it broke too many sites.

If you check the language specification you can see that `null` is in fact not an object - it's something called a 'primitive value type', just like numbers, strings, undefined and booleans.

Here http://es5.github.io/#x8 :)
Nintendo plans new healthcare venture
This might sound like a focus issue? Three startups in six years?

Are you able to focus on only one thing and for more than 5 years? Almost nothing extraordinary can happen before 5 years. Even if you sell before.

Example: I am 99% sure I can make millions of dollars if I go on my yard and start making a hole in the floor. Although, here are the constraints:
- working 18 hours a day.
- every day and 7 days a week. No vacation.

Are you able to accept the constraints?

This come back to this: passion never fails.

I wish you the best luck on your next thing.
15-year-old boy to build low-cost 3D printer in India
>We have over 400 complicated web app pages that need testing to make sure we haven't broken any edge cases.

Reading your comment I get the feeling the impression that testing these pages is time consuming and difficult.

What kind of QA automation do you have in place?
King, Supercell and EA are destroying gaming
Another slanted NY Post op-ed: Blame Obama for the NSA's power and the IRS's revenge. Funny how none of the groups "targeted" by the IRS were actually denied C4 status. Funny how President George W. Bush appointed Lois Lerner in 2006 as head of the IRS Exempt Organizations Division. Funny how we only hear about "Tea Party" groups targeted by the IRS, when they also targeted groups that used red-flag words like "Israel," "progressive" and "Occupy." Funny how the NSA spying started right after the Patriot Act was enacted by a Republican Congress and signed into law by Pres. Bush on October 26, 2001. The US certainly has become a fascist police state, and we have Pres. Bush and the Republican Congress to thank for it. And we have the NY Post to thank for keeping its mouth shut about these outrages from 2001 to 2006 when their party was calling all the shots. I'm a Libertarian who complained about Republican excesses constantly, back when they were happening. My complaints fell on deaf ears then. Complaining about this stuff now is too little too late.
Become an expert in efficiency. Company processes are what separate great companies from good ones. The ability of having processes down, and duplicating those for scalability without foregoing quality. If you make yourself an expert on being able to see holes in efficiencies, then you create a lot of value for yourself.

This is just what I found when working, it would be the first thing people notice and reward, in companies.
Nice app, but I think you're a bit too old to keep pulling the "17 year old developer" trick out of your sleeve since being 17 in the world of developers isn't that special. Maybe if you were 12...
Ask HN: What's a hacker's setup for home automation in an Internet of things?
If you as a hacker would build a house, what kind of home automation system would you choose? Would you go for a wireless (WLAN/radio/bluetooth ...) solution, the KNX bus system, extensive ethernet cabling, some new system that's in some start-up's pipeline, or a home brewn system? In other words: what's your bet on the future of the industry; which technology is most promising, both from a hardware and software point of view?