skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Cost" is a bad way to put it since time expenditure on the internet is not a zero-sum game.

For companies with good jokes (Google, Blizzard), April Fool's jokes can be an effective marketing tool. Of course, very, very few internet brands/personalities actually put effort behind jokes.

I'd imagine more productivity was lost on days with absurd news (e.g. Facebook's WhatsApp acquisition)
Yeah, I sort of worry about legal and moral issues. I'd feel horrible if someone died in a fire or something while relying on my app. I want people view it as more of a backup that will at least improve their chances. It's better to have a chance than nothing, right?
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We're a YC company with a friendly-beta sales tool (close to going public-beta) that helps small and large companies catch opportunities from slipping through the cracks.

If you've ever run a startup, you know how difficult it can be to stay on top of sales. And you also know how many companies fail because of it. We want to make them succeed.

We also spend time improving our tooling, and tools for other developers.

* We run the SF ClojureScript meetup
* Incredibly modern stack: written entirely in Clojure/ClojureScript/Om/React
* Released the first reference Om app (https://github.com/sgrove/omchaya)
* Given presentations on how we see app development trending http://sgrove.github.io/omchaya/docs/presentation.html (hint: It's about to get much, much better, and referentially-transparent UI's and serializable state play a big part)
* We've vastly improved the source-map capabilities of the ClojureScript compiler
* Reified keywords to the runtime to make ClojureScript a better citizen on the web

We do all of this for two reasons: 1.) We want to build apps that customers love in the best way possible, and that often means taking the time to explore proper approaches. With the right team and stack, we run circles around others, and 2.) because we want to give back to the communities that have enabled us.
We're looking for an engineer who loves the craft, who cares about building product, and is excited about helping customers.

Interested in working with Reactjs, Om, and functional programming in the client? We're building a team that's able to reduce complexity others balk at into simple, easy to reason about system, so we can continue to move quickly and delight both customers and ourselves.
This is fullstack work.

Languages: Clojure, Clojurescript, Javascript. sean @ zenboxapp https://www.zenboxapp.com
Also, come meet us at the SF ClojureScript meetup! http://www.meetup.com/SF-Clojurescript-Meetup/

P.S. Didn't quite make it in this month, but we should have some very cool ideas exploring the edges of composable UI's soon to share with the HN community.
If you’re using Gmail you can use address aliases, like me+site@domain.com. Unfortunately some websites will not validate that type of email address.
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I second this. I'm beginning to hear more an more of this problem, and while this is anecdotal, it does seem to be increasing.
The code would be entirely different so that isn't really the same thing.
We are headed toward a society where almost everyone will be unemployable cause machines 'stole their jobs'. We will have to find new ways to redistribute wealth. I think that a minimum state garanteed wage will be necessary soon.
OkCupid protests Firefox over CEO's anti-same-sex marriage donation
> call it wedlock, give it the same legal ramifications,
> voila, no pissing on everyone's feet, but no, it HAS to
> be called wedding/marriage.

You'll be pleased to hear this was tried, and the country ended up going for marriages anyway after a few years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_partnership_in_the_United...
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- You have a brilliant idea for a new app

- You find a developer just as passionate about the idea as you

- You immediately start working on sketches, wireframes and building a prototype

- A few months go by...things aren't going so well. The project is late, over budget, and critical features have been cut

At this point things usually go from bad to worse. Maybe you decide to stick-it-out or switch to a new developer—neither solution is going to be cheap.

After consulting for a few years, I've unfortunately seen this happen too many times. Projects end up costing 2-3x (or more!) because of poor planning.

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I'm Brad Jasper, a full-stack developer who loves building excellent products. Check out my latest app http://www.heyfocus.com/ — it got a bunch of love on HN, Lifehacker and Breue.

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Awww.

"When this occurs, you loose connectivity..."

"While this type of proactive notification of planned maintenance is not currently provided, we encourage you to provide comments on this topic so we can take the feedback to the product teams."

Wow. They didn't notify at one point?
Please discuss which attack vectors you are worried about for this user enumeration issue affecting a public website.
I believe vibrating or very loud alarms are commonly used.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=alarm+clocks+for...
Sounds like it was just social engineered out of HostMonster. Almost all of the EIG hosts (HostMonster, BlueHost, iPage, HostGator, etc) use awful outsourced support that are only rated on amount of tickets closed/solved. They are very lackadaisical with customer information and verify accounts based on the last four digits of the card used. I'm guessing the "hacker" in this case guessed the last four of the card via livechat or a support ticket and then got in and moved the domain over to GoDaddy.
It's possible that is pattern isn't exclusive to coinbase. Perhaps bitcoin users in general are predominately male
What books for learning Java?
Hi all,

I'm currently learning Java with a hope to build simple CRM systems and perform tasks like database interrogation, reading/writing to excel, reading/writing to CSV/XML and web automation with Selenium web driver.

The books i'm currently thinking of ordering are:

Learning Java by Patrick Niemeyer and Java How to Program: International Version by Harvey Deitel

Any others that are required reading or indeed any useful learning resources are welcome!
that squares with my experience as well

the question though is who needs does it make sense for the business to cater to?

also, from my experience, sometimes getting good answers to those early questions makes young workers exponential more productive going into the future
And that's where the disconnect happens. I assume you are a manager? Because status meetings are useful for you, but absolutely a disruption to the developer, a time sink and a sap to energy and productivity.

To imagine we want our work environment structured around Reporting what we do, and not around actually Doing the work, is the tragic mistake of our industry. And its largely why I became a consultant/contractor instead of a corporate employee.
The Lumia 800 was a WP7.5 device. It's a bit different now with WP8. Battery doesn't suck anymore with the NT kernel, we do have mass storage and it doesn't require Zune anymore. It's a simple MTP device. I can actually plug it into a CentOS 6.5 machine and copy files on and off it quite happily including music/videos.

IMAP is very reliable (better than my wife's iPhone), Google search is integrated into the browser.

I can't say I've tried telegram/whatsapp/bittorrent sync or VNC though.
I track all the emails with 1password (same as for the passwords).

I started doing this four years ago but before that I had an email address that I reserved only for signing up for most websites (to prevent spam leaking into my personal email address).
App A/B testing startup raises money from ex-VP of FB and Cassandra co-creator
FWIW I think it's an insightful question.

Other replies to this thread do a pretty good job at pointing out the applications of lambda calculus. I want to contribute this excerpt from one of the original papers on the topic:

"In this paper we present a set of postulates for the foundation of formal logic, in which we avoid use of the free, or real, variable... Our reason for avoiding use of the free variable is that we require that every combination of symbols belonging to our system, if it represents
a proposition at all, shall represent a particular proposition, unambiguously, and without the addition of verbal explanations."

The motivation was a setting for doing "precise and unambiguous" mathematics. Mathematical results are used pervasively today, so the overall vision is obviously important.

Whereas The Calculus was developed in response to the difficulty of calculating physical quantities, such as those about celestial bodies, the lambda calculus had a more foundational motivation.

None-the-less, lambda calculus is tremendously useful for solving "real world" problems. Most of these problems arise where doing "precise mathematics" is important but tedious, difficult and/or time-consuming; or the related task of defining computations correctly.
Ya this is really slick looking. There are some issues here and there but it's a new site so that is to be expected.

The close tie in with testnet is a nice touch. A lot of developers seem to forget that testnet is there to help them.

Do you plan on trying to farm additional details regarding transactions such as estimated originating IP address or known address labels?
Please, there is no "Gay McCarthy"
I've used sneakemail for a number of years. With their paid account ($12/yr, I think), it lets you create emails on the fly with a specific pattern.

For example:

amazon-flanbiscuit@sneakemail.com

That gets forwarded to your actual email address, and you can see how it was tagged. If needed, you can whitelist/blacklist specific senders from specific tags as well.
My guess is that the author's home computer was compromised or their gmail password was guessed. They mentioned that they ignored a warning that someone logged into their account remotely.
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WhatsApp Unofficial API Back on GitHub
https://twitter.com/SMTDDR/status/438404079438422016

Bonus points: That screenshot also tells you I have an account with Patelco Credit Union.
Dogebase Raises 25 DOGE Led By Andreessen Dogowitz
Look at it from the GoDaddy's point of view: This woman is claiming she has rights to a domain in one of their customer's accounts. As far as they know it was legitimately transferred in by one of their paying customers. Her real issue rests with HostMonster and the ICANN dispute resolution system.
God, what a stupid idea.[1] Something like this could never amount to anything. It's nearly as stupid as that one I heard once about a site where anyone could edit any page: what did they call it... "wiki" or something like that?

[1] - intended as sarcasm
Bright light ones seemed quite popular in the deaf flats at my university.
PNG optimization – saving bandwidth on transparent PNGs with dynamic underlay
I well reasoned, considered argument.

Unlikely nearly all the comments here.
Oh dear god. I hope I never have the misfortune of working with you.
You can always use a service such as spamgourmet to "protect" your main email and be able to disable email addresses at any time. All the emails you get from the disposable email addresses just go to your main email address. Also the email address each email goes through is repeated in the subject line, so it's easy to keep track of things. (you can also get a list of all your disposable email addresses from their website)
There's one reason to believe they have ill intention: their habit of ignoring serious user problems (lost deposits, security problems) until they're widely public.

Their actions make clear that they are enormously untrustworthy.
I've been getting in to Clojure lately as a hobby and I'd love to work with you and see how you evolve your application, but alas I'm pursuing my masters currently :(

Can you please do some write-ups as you go along of how you're building your application with the above stack, what tools you're using, challenges, etc?

edit: also where do you see yourself going in light of web components?
This varies by the individual as well, however. There are some guys at work here who will ask the tech lead how to merge a source code change into the master branch every single time - one guy has done it three times in a row about a week apart each time and needed personal assistance every time. There are other people who just read the internal wiki and do it without needing hand holding every time. If you are one of the latter, you are penalized more and helped less for being in an open office. You are also penalized by being in a work situation that encourages the former bad behavior.
I'm just curious - do you mind elaborating on your thought that Microsoft has been stale and dormant? This just seems so far from reality, so I'm wondering what about them gives you that impression.
Well, marriage is still a preference. I don't think the issue is about reintroducing sodomy laws or something like that.
This blog post shows how you can save up to 80% of bandwidth by smartly eliminating transparencies in PNG photos when embedding them in your websites. The post includes code snippets for Ruby, PHP, Python and Node.js based on Cloudinary's cloud-based image manipulation URLs.
Thanks - it was quite a while ago that I was taught about this kind of stuff and for postgraduate study I ended up going down a AI/engineering route rather than programming languages - I now wish I had done the latter given the resurgence of interest in functional programming :-)
It was. I had domains in ~2000 or so. And even then, many registrars then provided DNS servers, e-mail forwarding, web forwarding, etc.
I would argue that using a personal email and filling in your full name on coinbase, who CLEARLY state you have no expectation of privacy in this regard, is effectively the same as publicizing the information.

If one cares about the privacy aspect, then don't use an email that is tied back to you in any way, and certainly don't fill in your personal information.
Why not set a vibrating alarm on your phone directly...?
Awesome app, can see this coming in handy... you need to promote this and also have an android client before a clone comes out. :)

How is the battery consumption if it runs in the background? I'm guessing it isn't really a worry because if you are in bed you might have a charger, but the best use would be a in a pocket where it be awkward to use a charger, unless you place it under your pillow?
Never heard of them before. Do they have any benefit over Spam Gourmet? (which I use occasionally, and is free)
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This is cool. Can I use it locally on internal sites too?
The problem with these sorts of solutions is that they work perfectly for 'simple' sites like the register, but fail hard with 'modern' sites like, e.g. ASOS.com. Just tried ASOS and the web front end failed to request a product page correctly...

All the dynamic JS and whatnot just plays havoc with these projects. In my experience you have to run through webdriver or something like phantomjs and parse the JS...
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April fools joke, obviously.
Tesla car doors can be hacked
Storing sensitive data in a git repository using git-crypt
Is this post an April Fools joke? I cannot imagine anyone actually getting this bent out of shape about one day of sometimes lame jokes.

The lameness is "crushing"? Really? If something this inconsequential affects you this much I hope you don't ever encounter a real issue.
I think it more likely than not that sexual preference is "inherent". I hold a similar view about risk preference, animal sex preference and mobility preference. To me, the concepts "simple preference" and "inherent" seem orthogonal, yet you seem to be implying they somehow conflict. Could you explain?

If it turns out that risk preference or mobility preference is also "inherent", would that make Obamacare or mortgage subsidies/know your customer laws a violation of civil rights?
What does social life have to do with anything?
Even CVS is, sadly, still in use. Subversion, being far superior, is likely to itself remain in use in even more places well into the next decade. It'd be nice to avoid bitrot and see pain points further smoothed over.
This is an example of a pretty good april fools joke - Enough to cause an emotional reaction, but not so far out there that it is obviously fake.
Don't forget compression too. And don't forget most tweets don't use close to the full available tweet data space. A billion tweets takes up a lot less than 140GB.

I'm just looking at rough comparisons. A single 1/24th of a second of Netflix video approximates 44,000 tweets' worth of data. Anticipating growth, let's assume a billion tweets per day (was half-billion last October). 171 days of tweets takes up the same space as the complete Netflix library.
That's only web servers.
While that could be true, this list also includes the names; which would not be possible from what you're describing.
This could be the end of the Bitcoin era
We already collect that information about relaying IPs (although you can never really be sure who is the originating IP). We have custom nodes that specifically listen for that information. However, we decided this wasn't useful enough to be included in the versioned API.

Although, we are about to release labs.helloblock API, which will include a bunch of experimental features, including information about IP addresses.

Out of curiosity, what do you plan to use information about IP addresses for?
Its for emergency situations.
Epic Privacy Browser
I find it interesting that open offices are too distracting

what would be the reaction if the internet was cut off because that was too distracting?
That doesn't really suggest malice so much as ill attention. From their posts it sounds like they are stretched a little thin under the load, if they wanted to steal they would just be gone not occasionally unresponsive.
I love Lua too but I've tried to get into Moai several times and I just can't seem to stomach it. Maybe I let Corona spoil me.

The documentation is especially off-putting: http://getmoai.com/docs/
SMTP's the API for checking if an address exists at any mail provider. Start sending a mail, if the server doesn't tell you there's no such mailbox right then, you can abandon the connection without sending a message through. No CAPTCHAs there either.
The Real Social Shopping App
Toplist is an iOS app that lets you know if your friends like what you buy, before you buy it...
Not to take a position one way or another, but is it a question of being accountable for past opinions? Has he changed his mind?
I honestly can't think of an instance where a carousel is the best UI element to use, yet everyone requests them. Why?
Shipping an Empty Box – UX in the Enterprise
Maximizing the value of worry: Snowden's new project
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> "Cost" is a bad way to put it since time expenditure on the internet is not a zero-sum game.

That's fair. However development time doesn't feel like it would be zero sum.
I have been at my place for around 3 years, and it was pretty new when I started. I was in an office with one other girl, so when she was speaking, it was usually to me. Now there are 4 of us in the same office, team leads like to discuss stuff with the developers in the office(despite having their own larger offices with tables for that sort of thing). Plus we have more people using my database, so I am getting way more interruptions. I would give my productivity about a quarter of what it was.

Open plan may be better for team productivity, but I doubt it will be 300% more productive.

I personally prefer emails. That way you have something to refer to rather than having to remembered all of the tiny details. Plus we change our mind so often I often can't remember what the final choice was. And tehy don't interrupt what you are doing.
It doesn't look like an alarm to wake you in the morning, but an alarm to listen for fire alarms and other such things and vibrates to wake you in the case of an emergency.
The .tel TLD was established for the purpose of publishing contact/location and other meta info at the DNS level, but it hasn't yet caught on unfortunately.
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Is this the best April Fool's ever?
The video looks promising! Is it that easy to publish changes?
Very good work. Even before seeing it, I've already made my mind. I'd always use a carousel from a guy called Wheeler!
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Smartphones are much more than mere mobile handsets today. They are part of the “family”, practically. Realize that wherever people are, they prey on the phone, sometimes even neglecting the conversation more personal, face to face.
See, now I don't know if this is a joke or not.
Many Americans have an unhealthy obsession with a cycle of public shaming and redemption. Wanting to see a public figure fall, rehab, and be forgiven. It's a bizarre mashup of public executions and Easter resurrection mythology.

There's also a strain of Cultural Revolution. If someone doesn't pass a litmus test, they need to make a public renunciation, or "go away". Even when the litmus test is a good cause, that process is fundamentally sick.

To be clear, I think Prop 8 was repugnant. I also think that a world where Microsoft, Google, and Apple don't have Mozilla to keep them honest, is deeply concerning. Anyone with a minority or unpopular opinion should support Mozilla's choice of anyone to lead them who isn't a convicted felon, if Mozilla thinks that individual can further the organization.

And no, you don't get to (1) tar and feather someone then (2) say "oh gee now they can't be an effective leader".

Edit: Rather than reply, someone gave me their silent disapprobation. Oh the shame.
Does anyone know where or if the full list can be found? I have a Coinbase account but I don't see my name on the abbreviated list.

I suspect that the person who made this Pastebin just ran a huge list of known leaked emails, or dictionary based emails through the minor information leakage vulnerability discussed yesterday (https://hackerone.com/reports/5200). I would be willing to bet that this brief list is actually all he got back, and he is just lying when he says "Full list much bigger."

Since the vulnerability was reliant on knowing the email first, and since my email used on Coinbase is not a known email that I publicize I doubt he would have been able to discover my Coinbase account, nor the Coinbase accounts of anyone else who uses a sufficiently random and unknown email address when signing up.
I don't know that I agree - I find really bad humor to be sometimes worse than no humor.