skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. Google is pursing an interesting lock-in strategy with Android. Android is an open standard, but many key apps are now put on the proprietary side. That did not stop Samsung from sneaking in the other way and developing what looks like a fork.

There are two issues with the open data.

The first is that our society is still in a transition process where we realize, there is no such thing as a trusted third party. The concept of a trusted third party is the very basis for governance and rule of law. We're seeing an emergance of technology and social constructs built around the idea of untrusted third parties, and this is still an ongoing process. It has not touched issues with privacy, yet.

The other comes from my weird perspective on life. Well, weird with this group of people :-) Spiritually speaking, there is no such thing as privacy. One of the things you quickly learn in meditation, or in psychedelic experiences, is that you cannot hide the things in your subconscious. You can try for a time, but eventually it has to come out. That applies to every individual.

When people talk about privacy, they are not really talking about privacy. Again, it is a power issue. If I know something about you that you are ashamed of, I can use that as psychological leverage to get you to do what I want, to an extent, or at least, influence your thoughts and behavior. This is a form of power. Ordinary people in societies tend to project their personal power to authority figures. Modern societies tend to have this story, this myth that power is vested in the collective, and there is no personal power. Yet, even with this denial, because people yearn for personal power, it manifests in the form for demanding privacy, rights, liberties, guns, etc.

When taken together, the transition to acknowledging that there are no such thing as a trusted third party will mean having to accept developing personal power ... and the responsibilities that come with that. We've already seen several swings and shifts related to that -- p2p filesharing vs. RIAA/MIAA, bitcoins/digital currencies, NSA, etc. So far, what has been happening is another large organization supplants the legacy organization (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon), but my point is that those very organizations are tied to our notions of trusted third parties. It'll be sometime yet before we thrash our way through this, of which, the privacy concerns of FB + Rift is just a small part.
I reckon non-anonymous bitcoin holders are at greater risk than the average person with money in the bank, since draining the account of the former is a relative cinch once the keys are divulged. The whole crime could be completed within a few minutes.
Here's a cool example of using HLL in javascript to dynamically show set union/intersections for huge sets:

http://www.aggregateknowledge.com/science/blog/venn.html
Not saying it was a good reason. Just that they did address the question.
Agreed. On the client side, a lot of effort was put into WinJS and the whole ModernUI experience.

Speaking as an ex-Microsoftie, my guess is that you'll see some of the innovation behind ModernUI apps back-propagated to thick client desktop stuff in the next major release of Windows.
Nor do laptops anymore.
Good piece on Whisper and Secret and effect on companies/brands
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Yeah...Adam Horwitz. I think that's the guy that ran some get rich quick scam called Mobile Monopoly.

http://mobilemonopolyx.com
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Yep. If you compare a $1,000 Xeon E3 server with a $1,000 cluster of ten Minnowboards, the E3 will deliver more performance. Likewise, a $10,000 E5 server beats a cluster of E3s in many cases.
thankfully we have systemd to manage these kinds of module dependency startup problems in linux now.
They left out "size and wealth of domestic market" and "access to capital," which I suspect are the most important factors beyond a minimal level of market fairness.

It's really not self-evident that the vast majority of successful companies are started in the US?
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Not sure if I'm doing it right, but http://2048.semantics3.com/2048/ (their mvp) just returns
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My main business is sending news in a variety of programming niches on a weekly basis via e-mail to over 170k subscribers.. and it's a successful and growing business (at least by historical standards, though not VC/SV ones - six figure net profits). I would agree with most of what it said in this post.
You're welcome, and thank you for the comment. I noticed this as well; I'm definitely searching a way to make the vibration more noticeable. Someone else suggested abandoning the mobile phone platform altogether to make a more robust product in general. If not me, maybe Nest will do something like this with their smoke detectors. They're already connected to wifi, so it would just take a wifi-enabled vibrator do the same thing, perhaps more reliably. Still, it might be a while before every smoke detector is as smart as a Nest ;)
Xtext is very marginal compared to the far wider world of custom languages. Antlr not so much, but still, tons of people write rec. des. parsers themselves.
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I'm a News.me subscriber and it seems to still work the same.

They did sign up me up (I think?) for the Digg Newsletter, which is annoying. But I still get the News.me newsletter too.

I know part of the original value add for News.me is that it was informed by bit.ly data on who actually clicked which links. I assume there's very little of that data left as bit.ly usage is not what it once was. But just by counting links (and replies? faves?) of people in my twitter stream it is still very useful for me personally.
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Well at least is not the idea to use it being plugged. In fact I even added code so that the app leaves background after 1 hr if it did not go to the foreground in between.

I also found other people with the app being rejected for the same reason after asking about it in the apple dev forum.
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F1 is driving at 10/10ths of the car's capability and unpredictability means you can't stay at 10/10ths - crash or go slower are your only options.
This bounty for a "Detailed Male Arousal indicator" doesn't appear to be a joke
Nope, I haven't tried, I was just looking for a quick answer without having to try it out myself!

Thanks for facilitating my laziness. :)
> Instead of bashing, we should embrace these disciplines.

I'm happy to embrace honest selling, but that seems to be a completely different mindset than most of the sales I saw. If your product is really good and provides value to the customer (instead of trying to extract value out of a customer), then the salesman/marketer has an easier job in 'conquering our hearts', and doesn't need to resort to mental hacks or things that are plainly annoying. I'm happy to pay more for such a product, sold by honest people.

What's your startup, by the way? :).
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I love it. Fantastic. Please share some project documentation.
While I don't find Coinbase's response here reassuring, if you work with a business whose bizmodel is "people can send money to your email address" then it becomes essentially impossible to stop someone from verifying that your address exists.
The seriousness of the conflict depends on where you get your information, sadly.

The situation geopolitically seems pretty simple, in broad strokes. Too bad there's unfounded scaremongering on both sides(or should I say 3 or 4 sides).
Aside from the great work on the carousel, I'm perhaps more impressed by @thekenwheeler digging into all the comment responses on the page and all the comments on HN (including feature pushes based on comments). Makes me much more inclined to use it given the right use case.
I think many users will assume, with a finance site like Coinbase, that the name they have provided is for $ transactions (taxes, Visa, MasterCard, etc.) not for social aspects. In my opinion, getting behind the Privacy Policy and claiming that users know their names will be publicly shared is unethical.

Why people want to hide their names? Personally I don't hide my name. But it is not too hard to understand that on "web-scale" there will be someone who is stalked, who has posted on suicide help forums, etc.
If they have a gag order and they talk about it they go to jail. Probably not going to hear any official word one way or the other.
A few thoughts. I agree with you, which is why we are currently going through a third party security audit in addition to the impromptu peer review by Andreas the day MtGox went down and our normal reviews by accountants. We also hired a director of security from FB. Also, there were rate limits, just not well tuned enough. So it's definitely in focus for us.

Hope this helps clarify

(edited for formatting)
I think when they say MVP they might really mean AFJ, which would make the behavior you observed more understandable. Some AFJ purists would even claim it's the right way to do it under the methodology, which is arguably one of its major differences from the MVP credo.
The future of API design: The orchestration layer
Coinbase said that creating a username is optional.
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> TCP has deep problems figuring out what is really loss. and it speeds up too slowly but still doesn't manage to slow down when it should resulting in induced delay

TCP is really pretty reasonable. Fast retransmit/fast recovery lets TCP eat up small packet losses without entering congestion control. Plus everybody recently upped their intial congestion window to 10.

Also, there was an attempt to deploy ECN (explicit congestion notification) for TCP, but net equipment vendors and providers resisted deploying it. It was specced as an official standards track TCP feature in 2001.
So basically all the noise about the Apple store being draconian apply equally to Google play, and all the claims about additional freedom are false.
BofA and Wells Fargo suffer from account number enumeration.

Wells Fargo has 10-11 digit (depending on if it's WF or previously Wachovia) account numbers. One portion defines the bank branch where the account was opened, another portion defines the account type, and the last digit is a check digit. You can guess at an account number by attempting a deposit (in person or online).

There's also the fact that BofA and Wells Fargo have account numbers displayed in cleartext on pieces of paper that are handed to strangers.

I'm not arguing the merits of Coinbase's security, but traditional banks don't fare well either. Coinbase can improve. Traditional banks are limited by standards that they can't change.
Given it's easily parallelizable, assuming the cost of enumeration is significantly lower than other methods and the value of the data is high enough, how does that actually solve anything? All it does is requires someone to rent time on botnets or similar which doesn't seem like it would raise the cost a huge amount at scale.
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Great write-up. From a user perspective, grid feeds like Flipboard look great, but I find them a bit less friendly. I'll lose my spot, have a hard time finding the other article I wanted to read, and am generally just a bit more frustrated. I always go back to linear feeds in the end.
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Is it possible that they simply have a more generous rate limit than what you think they should have?
Did someone consider the fact that this might be an April 1st joke?
We’d also like to address the claim of a “leaked” list of Coinbase emails and user names. This list (the size of which is less than one half of one percent of Coinbase users) was not the result of a data breach at Coinbase. This list of emails was likely sourced from other sites - probably Bitcoin related ones. It’s clear there was no data breach because no other user information is provided.

That last sentence is doing a lot of lifting, out of its weight class.

This immediate "no it's not true" might reassure some folks, but it scares me because of how quick it is. Have you looked at the audit systems on your database?

"We believe this information is bogus but are investigating to make sure" is a better response, assuming you actually do investigate to make sure.
Perhaps China has a few bigger networks.
First, congratulations! This is one of those choices where either option is a great choice, so don't stress too much about the wrong choice. I'd focus less on fear of a mistake and let yourself relax and choose based on what you think will make you happy.

I was at Penn recently as a grad student, and I joined with a Wharton MBA student to do a startup. Wharton provides a lot of resources, even for undergrads. We participated in Wharton's Venture Initiation Program (VIP) here:

http://vip.wharton.upenn.edu/default.aspx

That's a great program, where you'll learn a ton even if your startup goes nowhere. DreamIt is also in Philly, and a lot of VIP companies seem to get in.

My understanding is that Penn CS grads can expect high salaries right at graduation, so the hardest part might be fighting off the Whartonites who want you to code for equity. There is even a website about that. . . . But I'm sure Berkeley grads command high salaries too. At Penn I think a lot of CS folks go into banking because of the proximity to New York. Something to research if that's interesting to you.

If you're into security, Matt Blaze is at Penn. But again, hard to believe Berkeley doesn't have similar experts. Penn CS is also known for an interest in type safety, so OCaml and Haskell are big there. That specialization may matter more to grad students though. All the VIP companies I knew were using Ruby, PHP, or Python.

Make sure you visit both campuses and their cities. Personally Philly made me pretty unhappy and I was glad to leave. The city's attitude (not necessarily the school's) felt dirty, grasping, corrupt, and pitiless. But grad students are exposed to that more than undergrads.

Whatever you choose, best of luck to you!
I evaluated git-crypt for a previous venture and ended up using gitolite hooks instead. The setup I built stored users PGP Key ID, associated the Key ID with their gitolite account and used hooks to encrypt content for users with permission to the repo. A system account was created with a corresponding keypair to handle user add/mod/del by decrypting and re-encrypting content for the appropriate users in a given repo.

The beauty of this setup was, it was all over SSH and all keys used to access, sign and encrypt content (included the system user) were stored on smart cards.

If security is important, it's wise to take steps that align with or exceed your risk appetite.
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I (Anthony from the story) negotiated the price with the seller to $3,500. I had Jordan wire that to escrow.com while we waited for the domain, db and files to be transferred. We made this decision because nobody was helping (hosts/law enforcement) and with this action the worst case scenario became paying $3,500 for the site (assuming the seller didn't back out). After this the FBI took the case and they were involved in stopping the funds from transferring.

I'm positive she would have gotten it back eventually even if it did sell to someone else and they took control, but it could have been a more lengthy process and her entire living is derived from the website and the business associated with it. Having it out of her control for any amount of time could have been very damaging.

I had a Flippa account with history and no visible connection to her so the seller did not know that I was working with the actual site owner and she was working with the FBI.

The investigation is still ongoing and I've had some interesting conversations with the seller (thief is more accurate) since the money was frozen.
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The strangest outcome of all of this is that Bill O'Reilly's actually made some sense for the first time in history.

http://youtu.be/Pt0ot1LgXZQ?t=1m3s