skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"we continue to believe in the Ubuntu One file services, the quality of the code, and the user experience, so will release the code as open source software to give others an opportunity to build on this code to create an open source file syncing platform"

"We will calculate the refund amount from today’s announcement, even though the service will remain available until 1 June and data available for a further two months."

Very respectable.
A comp sci prof of mine uses it to synchronize notes and sample files for his lectures. I doubt he'll have trouble replacing it.
I rely on it heavily. I have my home folder backed up and synced across machines on Ubuntu One. But I am using the free tier < 5GB. I will have to move on to other alternatives.
I guess it wouldn't have been sustainable for them, seeing as others are giving a lot more in free tier. So they would have had only a handful of paying customers.
Not sure if it's Fluke-only, but the "Touch Hold" on Fluke Meters is intended to do this -- capture a stable voltage, with a beep when it's got it. Had this explained by a Fluke rep in a room of engineers and techs who, along with me, went "ohhhhh."
Oh no, Ubuntu is shutting down a service despite "our users rely so heavily on the functionality"... clearly this means we must never trust Ubuntu again!

At least that's what people on HN say every time other companies launch something new.
Ducks cause flu?
The bill states "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."
Timezones, congressional, state leg, and school districts with geocoding lookups
I mistook this site to be that of Mark Suster [0] at first glance. Pretty similar domain names. Just fyi for others.

[0] http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/
I'm a little bit confused as to what is going on here. There was a vote to migrate the svn project to git. Did it pass legitimately or as a joke? Is it actually going to happen now? Why is it gone wrong? Why does everybody say it's actually gone right? Why does everybody say that this is a rare example of a good April Fools joke?
I went to undergrad with quite a few future CIA analysts. You should not overestimate the average intelligence of CIA analysts. No doubt they have some brilliant people, but you shouldn't be surprised that amateurs with Google News outperform careerists inside a giant bureaucracy.
I like that this is at least opening up to the possibility of new, more efficient transaction methods. Marc Andreessen made me think about credit cards differently after hearing him on a Freakonomics podcast:

"And so one way to think about credit card fraud, is credit card fraud is a two-to-three percent drag on the entire economy. It’s an artifact of the fact that credit cards were never designed to be used the way that they’re being used today. Credit cards never anticipated online transactions. Credit cards, by the way, the credit card system, never anticipated malware running inside a cash register at Target. In the 1950s that was an inconceivable idea, which is when credit cards were dreamed up.

And so if you have a payment system like Bitcoin where you don’t have the credential exchange, and you have no risk of identity fraud, and you have no risk of people being able to run transactions on your credit card after the fact, you can basically eliminate that entire category of fraud…"
If there are people who really use it heavily, then they should give them at least 6 months, I believe. Especially because without further development efforts, just maintaining the service can't be _that_ expensive.
nestgrid is a general purpose tree editor. Description, in-browser flash demo and desktop app installer are available at http://nestgrid.org

ETA: incidentally, architecturally it is structured for easy plugin / "script" extensibility, like a low key emacs.
I read that you're not sure how you will earn an income but basically, you will depend on the generosity of your users. If I might try one tip:

Who are you? What drives you? Tell us a bit about yourself on your website. I think it will help with income.
Database preference is almost silly, once you have figured out the general type of DB you need. If you are in the realm of open-source RDBMS, "do you prefer MySQL or Postgres?" seems designed to just start a religious war. (Yes, there are differences, and I could tell them to you. If you want the differences, ask.)

Added:

How are you using hobbies to evaluate the person's personality matters? Does someone who coaches his son's ultimate Frisbee team have a better personality than someone who plays with his Raspberry Pi?
Getting my feet wet with invasive attacks; Part 2: The attack
> In the 1980s and 1990s, it wasn't uncommon for cars to weigh under 2000 pounds.

It wasn't all that much more, if at all, common than it is now. Sure, some subcompacts were under 2,000 pounds -- just as they are now.

> Now, with regulations like this, closer to 3000 pounds is the norm.

Regulations don't require 3000 pound+ cars, consumer preferences do. The Smart Fortwo meets all applicable US regulations and has a curb weight of 1,600 pounds, a little less than the 1980s Le Car. Neither are exactly rare in their time, but both are notable among contemporaries in the US market for being small.
> a lot of developers don't truly care about productivity in the way that one would expect

A lot of developers are also mature enough not to think that the choice of the developing environment matters (above a reasonable base level, of course).

All serious environments are configurable and programmable. It's a plain matter of taste what you use.
Not to mention someone though it would be "User Friendly" to pop up a notification every time a file finished syncing
I'd be interested if the Prism part folded flat when slide away from the lens but it looks from the photos that it's a permanent sticky-out bit which is going to be hellish in a pocket or bag.
Of course.

You cannot anticipate all future issues but need to be prepared to have the means to act if it creates liability/risk for you (as a company).
If they removed the tracker file then nothing can be wrong. It's not illegal to stream torrents. Just to stream copyrighted torrents.

I will move away from github if this is true! First the sexism and now this!
I love Twitch Plays Pokemon. this looks fun!
The cultural glasses thing was much of what I found strange. It's extremely ironic to write from that perspective and then blatantly state something doesn't exist just because you don't know about it.

The author also doesn't seem to be aware that Google gets a lot of data from people working more locally (by purchasing it or whatever).
I'll bite. I've been studying a lot through tutorials and have built some small side projects, but nothing that I feel really proud of. Am definitely seeking some mentorship as I start to tackle something more important.
Typically, the reason that happens with external recruiters (i.e. those folks who are not employed directly for the company you're talking to), is because the initial engagement is often "anonymized" with the employer.

As a result, they'll take your CV, remove all identifiable information and send it on
Using your power, whether it's your vote, your money, or your vocal platform, to deny other humans basic rights for no valid reason

I have to laugh every time someone uses this argument.

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

I could quote some choice passages, but you should really read it in full. I'm pretty sure every single last one of you has "voted or supported with your vocal platform" positions or politicians taking positions that are directly contrary to what's in there.

We're in a society where even in the most progressive of places we're so far away from this ideal, that whenever someone claims something isn't a political issue because it's "obviously the right thing", I want to throw up.
a pessimist could say this drives the gov even faster into a whitelist-only internet
Links:

Resume - http://bit.ly/tharshancv

Twitter - http://twitter.com/viperfx

Github - http://github.com/viperfx

email - tharshan09@gmail.com
That's about as classy a product shutdown as you could wish for.

Pity this didn't work out financially for Canonical, and too bad for those users that came to rely on it (but this is the issue with pretty much any service that you don't operate yourself).
Europe may be putting more money into robotics than Google :)
Apple's Jobs Declared 'Holy War' on Google Over Android
I'd say that it's deeper than that: in my opinion, people who divide life into personal and professional are missing a large chunk, which could be called as Public, or Social life. And there is necessarily an overlap between that and professional life, because most people work in a social organization (like companies) or at least interact with clients.

And so I think the issue is that, while a political opinion can be considered part of the private realm, it's not unfounded to consider a contribution to a political campaign - which has a direct impact in society - as part of the public realm, and hence open to scrutiny.
On the other hand...

The 2 to 3% drag needs to be corrected for increased liquidity, which is difficult to do. People don't use credit cards because they are convenient, people use credit cards because they do not have the extra money, which drives compounded economic growth. If bitcoin succeeds, credit mechanisms will be built on top of it, and they'll behave almost identically to credit cards, including have fraud.

The premise the article presents (essentially a different crypto currency for every business I interact with, as well as loan instruments built on top of btc) is actually not a preferable reality to the current one.

Also his claim that you have no chance of identity fraud is really only relevant to the merchant (and is obviously worse for the consumer). But merchants have already done the calculation: even at 2-5% transaction fee and eating a lot of fraud, they are happy to process credit cards.
I never said anything about Flash. JavaScript 0-days for Firefox or Chrome are very rare, and you'll never see them if you keep your browser updated. Disabling JavaScript is how stupid people make the lives of web devs more difficult.
https://www.waveapps.com/
I Am Done with Shitty Customers
Regardless the the somewhat deceptive title, this is still an impressive collection of stats. The full study does a great job of explaining how the tech economy is also good for the traditional economy and those without technical backgrounds as well. Some of the anti-tech set in SF could stand to learn from it.
In general, I think this advice is off. Particularly, "don't use a word other than made." Using developed, designed, implemented, deployed, or a variety of other words that have slightly different meaning to indicate what your actual contributions were makes sense. In general I think made is imprecise, and makes whatever the object that was created appear simple.

I also think that if you have a GPA that is worth being proud of you should include it. It takes up very little space, and it summarizes years of accomplishment in a quantitative way. I'm more than 10 years out of my undergrad now, but I'm still going to say that my GPA was 3.98 (4.0 in majors).
Google tells Supreme Court it’s legal to packet sniff open Wi-Fi networks
I never liked their storage service. On top of that, all the videos files which I stored in their server got lost previously, so I never cared to use their service again. It just showed the filename of the video and displayed it's size as zero bytes. A quick google at that time showed me that other peoples had also lost their files and Ubuntu didn't even send a apology mail for that. (But text files was present.)
Even true classified information can cause problems if overvalued. The questions seem to be rather general predictions so publicly available geopolitical context likely matters more than any individual bit of inside information.
Prepping the cloud for the Internet of things
To add to 'making the situation worse'..

One thing that I suspect China finds to their great benefit is using technical loopholes of all sorts as a steam valve. One famous and official example is "Special Economic Zones" if some centralization policy is really hindering business so badly, just take your business to Hong Kong or Xiamen. This relieves the pressure from concentrated pain points.

In the censorship context a Chinese person who wants to access Facebook or some censored magazine can get around the firewall. It's easy enough that it's not a big deal and not some serious dissident act. To most expats, intellectual or student reformist, internet censorship in China is a minor inconvenience. It doesn't prevent businesses in China from doing business effectively. To the average Chinese Internet user, censorship invisibly impacts the headlines they see shaping their worldview a little towards the pro-CCP side. They essentially get a moderate win at minimum cost. Locking down the internet more thoroughly would help them control information more fully, but the cost would be much higher.

Another commonly occurring example is black markets for currency which emerge in every country with a failing currency policy (surpassingly common). Without those black markets failing policies hit a wall much sooner by completely shutting down tourism, international trade, etc. If you tolerate traffic light money changers, you can go on with your stupid policy of currency control.

Without these technical steam valves Russia might seem less livable to certain people who are especially agitated by censorship. Concentrated social or economic interest is a very important component of political change. 5% of the population who make something their no. 1 issue is much more powerful that 50% with a slight preference.
This is so bad, I deployed my sites using Ubuntu One.

However I'm very grateful they decided to opensource it, at least I have a hope to keep implementing it.
I would do it over and over again. I'll tell you why - building a business from the bottom with a group of guys just creates the most amazing comradery and although we have had a LOT of tough all-nighters and too many Roman noodles, we have grown the business together.
Bye Bye UbuntuOne.

You should have been OwnCloud, not a Dropbox wannabe.
How the secret police tracked my childhood
I'm using it for a few months after 10 years of Vim.

It's very similar to Vim, with proper defaults and JavaScript as approachable language compared to vimscript.

I believe the most innovative thing Zed introduces is hackability. Configuration is basically just another project inside the editor.

Other cool features/defaults are presented on http://zedapp.org/features/
PFS doesn't help if one of the parties is leaking information. And, I guess, in case of Snapchat, [at least most] leaks are from the participating users, not the service.

No amount of crypto would prevent malicious party from picking up a camera and taking a photo of the screen.
Does classroom time matter?
> It is a violation of human rights with a clear right and wrong side.

I'm not sure that's true. Look at our murder laws for example. We have several different degrees of murder severity, depending on planning and forethought. In some cases murder is even downgraded to voluntary manslaughter where it legally is no longer considered murder. Causing the death of another human is hardly a black and white issue.

In short, a reasonable person could argue that removing certain people from the population is the best course of action. You and I may disagree, but this other person does have some rationale to back up his/her argument.
Thanks Rob - appreciate your kind words. You could also just shoot me an email after you sign up and take the short body quiz, and ill be sure to bump you :)
or you could always try Fedora at this point. Ubuntu has never worked out of the box like the latest Fedora, and doesn't come with all the bloatware
I use Yodlee. Mainly because there was a problem with Mint authentication for one of my accounts, and YNAB wasn't what I was looking for at the time.
I had to go back to the man pages. I think I got stuck at the "Unlike .gitignore, negative patterns are forbidden." and missed that you could unset attributes instead :)

In the process I also found `git check-attr` that goes 90% of the way of the `git crypt check` idea. Eg: `git check-attr -a -- path/to/file` will output git-crypt if the file is encrypted. A `git crypt ls` that lists all the encrypted files could be useful too to give more visibility.
http://zef.me/about
How countries calculate their GDP
It seems to have at least autocompletion and ctags support. Not really something for me, but best of luck to the author.
Virtu Said to Delay IPO Amid Furor Spurred by Michael Lewis Book
If I wanted to store, say, a 100 GB of photographs (jpeg and raw formats), roughly how much would it cost me per month just for the storage? Let's say I would upload one big archive of photos in the beginning, and then re-archive the photo collection whenever I add significantly more photos to the collection (after a vacation or a birthday).

To go just by the stated pricing of Tarsnap, this would cost me $25 per month for the storage. But then I also see mention of users with terabytes worth of archives who pay less than $10 a month. I read the FAQ entry which explains how this happens, but that does not really tell me whether I can hope for such savings when it comes to photos. Do photo collections (raw/jpeg/both) "shrink" significantly from the deduplication and compression of Tarsnap? I think they don't (and that the savings apply to incremental backups), but it would be great if you could make this clear. Thank you!
I have this crazy idea in the back of my mind to write a visual programming language based on Haskell, where shape and colour convey kind and type information. Still cooking that one.
Great attitude, good luck with your search!
High Frequency Hyperbole
You realize that there are a lot of "they" who don't want to spend all of there lives in NowhereVille in the state of NothingEverHappensHere ?

In fact there are many people who select their career exactly because it allows them to move to places like that?
While I understand that it is useful to have semantic information (nothing stops Zed from having it from what I can see in its mode files which use ace-editor's modes currently), I don't really think a code-editor needs to come with semantic information for all languages it supports. I don't know if that is even possible in a generic way. I mean, the behaviour of scope itself isn't generic. There are dynamic-scoped languages (like elisp) vs block-scoped languages (Java) vs function-scoped languages (JavaScript) which are all syntax-highlighted by most popular editors. I would relegate such work to heavier IDEs.
Bitcoins aren’t cash, so Silk Road creator’s clean: lawyer
Less Accounting - LessAccounting.com - My accounant can use it pretty much just works - they have an actual bookkeeper help you with the setup (it took many hours in my case) and they are extremely helpful.
I glad they did this finally. It was getting really annoying not being able to easily disable the thing in stock Ubuntu.
Very awesome that they release the code.

I wish all companies would open source code they don't use anymore.

I mean it really doesn't cost anything pushing your old code in a github repo or something.
I would argue anyone that is creating anything within software is doing engineering (and know what they are doing):

The American Engineers' Council for Professional Development (ECPD, the predecessor of ABET) has defined "engineering" as:
The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or to forecast their behavior under specific operating conditions; all as respects an intended function, economics of operation or safety to life and property.

Software engineers take scientific methods created/researched/etc from Computer Scientists and created something from it. The difference between an engineer and joe shmo is that an engineer understands the science behind what they are doing.

An engineer could build a bridge and a regular guy could build a bridge. Both may work for 100 years, but the engineer KNOWS it will work for 100 years (under specific conditions obviously) and the regular guy doesn't. The same could be said for software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering
Don't take your website security for granted!
Making hard dependencies on javascript and including 4MB of jquery junk just to make an animated effect that wastes your CPU time is how stupid people make the lives of anyone who isn't running the bleeding edge at default settings on a fast low latency connection more difficult.

If something lets people mine bitcoin on your computer without your consent, it's a risk. That means javascript.
the Yify fork is gone as well.
https://github.com/Yify/popcorn-app
I've always thought that was a profound sentiment, and I've always wondered if, in the long run, that's the way to make a business survive.

That depends on your customer and what your product positioning is. If, for example, you run a discount store, a la Amazon or Wal-Mart, then that advice will work well for you. If, however, you are running a company that sells products that are positioned as premium, lowering your prices can hurt you.

Cutting costs on premium products immediately changes customer perception, such as when Starter was purchased by Wal-Mart or Rock & Republic was purchased by Kohl's.
Show HN: I found a hack to display images on Kindle
I'm only going back to 1/1 so I'm starting over. Pulling data from the banks. Definitely didn't see a way to do a bulk import of accounts. Looks like you can import csv of transactions. Not ideal if you're trying to pull in full history of your business.
Why are you surprised by the result? It's distinctive, easily recognisable, and the keyhole makes it clear that the product's focus is on security.

"During this time, 83 people submitted over 100 designs . . . The winner, as promised, received $500; I decided to create a second prize of $100 for the designer of the other logo, in part as an apology for the time I took up asking him for revisions"
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2013-12-16-tarsnap-logo-cont...

There's also a square version here: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors
Good article. On the authentication note thought, oath should only be used if you have partners that need to access the API on user's behalf. If the API is internal it's overkill.

I prefer single token methods like jwt.
Assuming you can do that (ie: forecast world events), anyone know how you can use that for your own advantage, beside investing in stocks (even if not necessarily with the stock exchange, OTC or classic VC/angel investing enters this too) or commodities?
I use freshbooks but mostly just for invoicing clients. I understand they have more advanced accounting features that I don't have a need for since it's just me doing solo consulting.
One the subject of versioning, one thing I rather like is to make the versions resources withing the API itself so you really can stick to the RESTful rule of clients only having to know one URL.

e.g. For Salesforce's REST API you can see all the versions at:

http://na1.salesforce.com/services/data/

Documentation:

https://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_rest/
Are you 100% sure it was Canonical's fault? I've had issues with dropbox, google drive and sky drive at different points in the past and never received an apology letter from any of those companies either. A simple google search will show literally thousands of people having trouble with all sorts of Microsoft services. I sure hope they get apology letters.
http://www.runmyaccounts.ch/ (Switzerland only)