skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a phone owner with kids, I just don't see this happening in my household. Modules getting dropped/lost (especially the critical one that makes the others go), connectors wearing out from constant playing around or, even worse, smeared with food and crammed with junk.

I have a hard time keeping unified units intact and working, much less letting my family near a Lego kit that needs to be 100% assembled to work properly...
> and as much as I rag on it for being plebe as far as food/culture goes

Culture, maybe. Food though? DC's food scene is very surprisingly strong, particularly in new-immigrant ethnic cuisine. For some cuisines (notably Ethiopian) it's the best in the country. And of course, it's long been ground zero for the gourmet hamburger craze.

> The biggest weakness, in my experience working at a D.C.-area startup, is that it's hard to get the hot-shot 22 year olds when you need them. Virginia Tech and U MD are good, but I think the nearest really good CS programs might be CMU in Pittsburgh and maybe GT in Atlanta. Either are quite a hike.

That is an astonishingly high bar. CMU is regarded by many to be the best CS program in the world.

Maryland's CS program is extremely strong: it usually hovers in the low teens nationwide. You forgot GMU and UMBC, both quite strong programs (I can personally vouch for GMU).
> Anonymous complaints are an ethical issue. If you have no recourse then complaints become pernicious.

The complaint itself is not anonymous, there is an intercessor which knows the identities of both parties, and who is the recourse.

> Also, they forwarded some pretty basic details, an email and a name. They weren't sent her SSN, mailing address, or anything like that, so it's no more identity than she associates already with her email address, as far as I can tell.

Oh great, they didn't send enough for a complete identity takeover so I guess everything's… wait what?

They sent personal information to somebody who might — if the complaint was well founded (which it clearly was) — take retributive action. That does not strike me as an ethical or sensible move.

> You need to be able to contact a complainant, otherwise there is no resolution, only a complaint.

No, not necessarily and definitely not if the complaint is simply a well-founded one where the resolution is to fix your shit. And if it turns out you do actually genuinely need to directly contact the complainant, contact information can be asked of the intercessor.
The bcrypt library.
I think it's worthwhile to discuss. Out of the blue, they're suddenly promoting a political party at the same time that they're asking for technical assistance. That can definitely influence one's decision to offer said assistance.

If you want to move the discussion elsewhere, I opened a separate thread when I first saw this last night:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7596182
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No, I'm not even close to qualified to write that book.
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I am not a coffee drinker but this is what I do when I crave for one:

Two cups of water in a blender. Add a teaspoon of instant coffee, a teaspoon of sugar, two spoons of powdered milk. Mix it all for ten seconds.

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> The document then says that in 2011 he sent an email to “hundreds of atheists” with a link to his website and that I had reported him for violating GoDaddy’s policies against spam.

Give it to me in a list along with "hundreds" of red-herrings (let's say < 10000), and sure, no problem.
I share many of the same sentiments. The hackery required was frustrating.

I'm hopeful that it does at least serve as a stepping stone for ripping out all non-DB methods in the ActiveRecord classes into POROs which ought to be WAY faster to test.
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Midnight is not False in Python 3.5 anymore:

https://docs.python.org/3.5/whatsnew/3.5.html
As someone who works as a webdev, though I sometimes have trouble explaining what I do to non technical persons, I always have the "I do websites" explanation.

I cannot even imagine the faces when you answer: "We built high-end reverse engineering software for purposes of security review and malware analysis."

You should sum it up to "I do... computering stuff" :)
Reasonably regulated market where people are free to pursue economic opportunities but with oversight that protects the underclass and underprivileged?
I posted this earlier, but it's relevant for a repost.

My brother got a chrome pixel at Google I/O and he loves it. The hardware is beautiful. The interface is simple. The speed and ease of use is really unparalleled. The downside is by far the most important - the functionality is very limited due to the limited App space.
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SageMathCloud (SMC) is a browser-based hosted cloud computing environment for easily collaborating on Python programs, IPython notebooks, Sage worksheets and LaTeX documents.

The new architecture based on ZFS, bup, rsync & co could scale up to a million users, if only they would come...
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Blackberry is not a US company and is not based in the US. So it's just sheer ignorance on the part of your friends to assume that it is.
You read that when SaltStack managed to set e=1 in their SSH replacement protocol, and what you read was SaltStack and its defenders arguing that the mistake wasn't as calamitous as it actually was. And you probably read about it because people like Coda Hale (and, yes, me) pointed it out on Twitter.

It eludes me how you turn someone's terrible custom crypto into a parable about how we should be nicer to custom crypto.
This is the 3rd article on HN about GoDaddy being an absolute shit-show. I am curious how long they gonna keep up.
SageMathCloud (SMC) is a browser-based hosted cloud computing environment for easily collaborating on Python programs, IPython notebooks, Sage worksheets and LaTeX documents.

The new architecture based on ZFS, bup, rsync & co could scale up to a million users, if only they would come...
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My evidence is anecdotal, so I searched and found this: http://mashable.com/2012/09/20/qualcomm-smartphone-study/

I don't see weight, tactile feel or looks on the list.

For those with cases, I doubt most even know what their phone really "feels" like, let alone actually weighs or even looks like.

As far as having to remove the case to swap a hardware component .. I don't think that's a major hurdle, we're not talking about a daily, weekly or even monthly task that would make that a pain.
Pet peeve: this URL is incorrect. When you're linking to an article on a blog, it's important to use the permalink for the specific entry (in this case it's http://www.ansible.com/blog/confessions-of-a-full-stack-devo... which admittedly wasn't easy to find - you had to click the heading on the article which lacks any clear visual way to tell that it's a link).

If you link to the blog homepage e.g. http://www.ansible.com/blog then in a few weeks time this post on Hacker News will no longer link to the correct content.
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Skills are skills, and religious rules are behaviors or habits (depending). You can of course define 'quality' incredibly broadly if you want, but I meant it in the sense of 'personality characteristics' or 'character attributes'.
That's still more hypothesis, not conclusion. "Self-completed questionnaire on use of cannabis before and during pregnancy." = Observational study = result can ONLY be a hypothesis.

It's right there in the conclusion "may be associated" = "they do not know if this is true at all".

Next step would be to run a double-blind clinical trial, and have an unknown-half of the subjects smoke pot and compare that to the control to test if their hypothesis is true or not. Until then, it's only conjecture.
Without trying to be recklessly confrontational, do you have any proof? I have plenty of anecdotal evidence in my own life to support your claim, but i was wondering academically...
It's not just the complexity. In Australia, we have a ridiculously complicated tax system but the free application that the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) provides walks you through it pretty easily. Usually it only takes me about an hour to file it online, and then you have a return deposited to your bank account (or you get an invoice if you're unlucky) in eight to fifteen days.

The UI is pretty crap but on the whole the app works pretty well. It can 'pre-fill' quite a lot - stuff like salary that has been pre-taxed (called the PAYG system here), share dividends and franking information, bank interest details.

I wish company tax returns were similarly simple, but those have to go in either on paper or electronically through an accountant.
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Great idea! Also see if there's anything you want to steal/borrow from Chronos - http://nerds.airbnb.com/introducing-chronos/
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I'm loathe to defend GoDaddy, but I don't know if they can be "blamed" in this case, if only because what happened here was not the typical spam scenario.

If I'm understanding the situation correctly (and if I'm not, please let me know), a crazy person with an agenda sent a mass-mailing to about hundreds atheists/bloggers in an attempt to push his POV. Skepchick reports him to his email host (in this case, GoDaddy), under their spam terms.

GoDaddy does their standard process, which includes asking for opt-in proof, and revealing the email. Crazy guy goes crazy and makes a website dedicated to trying to defame Skepchick, using info he found about her online.

The problem is, this wasn't typical spam. Meaning, this wasn't some bot sending out Viagra sales pitches or the "great investment leads" people that send me 30 messages a day. This was unsolicited mail, yes, but it was with an agenda. Basically, I'd classify it more as harassment.

I'd imagine the situation would have been handled differently if it was flagged/seen/filed as harassing messages, rather than spam. I don't know, but I have to assume GoDaddy has an abuse team and that their methods of handling this sort of thing would be different.

Please understand, I'm not putting the onus on Skepchick to correctly know how to classify the message. It stands to reason she thought this was spam. But at the same time, I don't know if this sort of edge case is common enough to require a more complex method such as SHA-1 hashes.

Shitty situation all the way around, but I think the biggest problem was this was treated as a normal case of spam, when really it was a case of abuse/crazy.
Nice, I will give the feedback as soon as I test it (later today). By the way, I was recently looking for a crontab manager like this and didn't find any, seems like a tool that was missing.
Actually a pretty impressive about-face from Microsoft. I know some people are all-too-ready to see the demise of Microsoft, but I'm glad to see them try their best to be nimble. The more they fight for eyeballs, the more we win.
Hmm, that's odd. We are using a lot of APIs. Tell me what is taking a long time specifically?
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Yes. My take: it's triggered by consumer needs being "overshot": phones better (2.3GHz, quad-core, 3GB, HD), do you really need it?

Integration is crucial for meeting consumer needs when the tech was not as good: the first iPhone had a tiny CPU and GPU, but they managed to squeeze adequate performance by connecting everything with extreme efficiency.

But once it's good enough, people start to worry about other factors - like I want a big battery, but I don't need 3G (or vice versa). Customization, not just replacing broken bits. Here, a modular approach shines. But it's less efficient, so there needs to be spare power. The key driver is that users want customization more than they want extra compute power.

Android is modular, compared to iOS, and it's worked out well - once phone got powerful enough. It couldn't have in the very earliest days, because the spare power wasn't there. Hardware modularity is the next step. It may be a little early, but I think it's clear that high-end phones have wildly overshot mainstream needs (a quad-core HD phone!? what a boondoggle). Actually, today mid- and low-end phones are perfectly fine for most people.

PS: this pressure will also drive the next category - whether it's iWatches or iGlasses or something else, I don't know, but it will be smaller, more convenient, cheaper, easier to use - and there won't be power to spare in such a small form-factor. Therefore, it's likely that Apple will do it (hence the i's) since they are the company most integrated across all the levels of hardware, silicon, OS, apps, appstore. They are best placed to squeeze the needed performance (doesn't guarantee they will though).
I'll never understand why BB failed to play up the "hey, did you notice that we weren't in any of those leaked documents as a partner of the NSA - unlike all three of our major competitors" angle...

But it seems that they have a lot of marketing fails, that's only one of the more recent.
I think you missed, misunderstood or disagree with the phrase in its conventional systems administration utilization with regards to ssh's evilness in production.

I think its one of the latter two because of your third paragraph there, where you slam the model under proposal (the disposable service container) as a nonexistant dream. Well, let me tell you, it exists and it works. I think most large companies use something similar (Google, etc.) because scaling any other way is too expensive.

Disposable service containers are 100% predictable copies of well tested system images that never, ever get logged in to or altered... only started, communicated with, or destroyed in very well defined ways. They are not allowed to accrue undocumented state, because there be dragons.
Youre right. Real time tranaction is simply what The bankers here in denmark called it. Shows the level of mis-mash between expectations from consumers and the financial sector (in my country at least)
Not sure about increasing the size but being able to replace/fix a broken screen would be huge. I'm no hardware engineer but I would suggest that making the phone/screen bigger would in fact be possible, if the modular platform was designed to accommodate.
People don't want to take the time/resources to invest in making it themselves. Simple as that. Some people are fine (stupid?) with paying for the convenience.
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The hardware of the pixel looks great. If Windows had a proper touchscreen driver, I'd probably buy one and load it up with Windows (or, if I could get OSX running on it...)
At that price point it's all about being unique. A quartz watch isn't unique - but a watch based on a $2300 atomic-clock-on-a-chip sure would be.
Shit, I didn't know that. Whoa.
Not one cup of coffee in over 50 years...

When someone offers all the beer I drink for one low monthly price, I'll be signing up.
How much of the c3.xlarge memory should be reserved for file system caching?
Does everything need to be made into a monthly service? In the past day, I've seen razors, coffee, socks...
> they certainly didn't need to release her personal information to the spammer

At that point in the process, your premise that they are a spammer is flawed. They are an accused spammer. Even though Godaddy's customer service process isn't a courtroom, the principle of innocent before before proven guilty should apply when penalties could be applied.

A small business, individual, big company, anybody should have the right to have full information to adequately defend themselves from false claims.

You don't think there are unscrupulous small businesses out there that file false spamming claims on their competitors? That does happen.

Or you don't think that people actually do opt into email lists, forget it about, and then accuse a company of spamming a few months later? It also happens.
That 30 minute limit would be the dealbreaker for me. I often drink one cup just to get caffeine in, then immediately start another for either flavor or more caffeine or to have something to do.
And the poor ergonomics of a laptop
I'm not in A2, I'm in Detroit area. Not with a startup, maybe one of these days tho. :)
You trumpet NaCl's crypto_box and mentioned other language runtimes are deficient in one way or another, but what do you think about security of crypto in the Java standard library?
Thanks! I've looked into Chronos quite a bit actually, they have a lot of great ideas. I'm hoping to eventually offer something pretty similar but for people who don't want to ditch cron completely.
Someone mentioned in another thread that it seemed (allegedly, I don't know any of these people) like the type of people who apply for investment banking jobs are now applying for YC.

I think the most salient fact about this stereotypical type of person is that they don't know why they're doing it. They wouldn't be doing it if it weren't prestigious. You lose something there, even if the person is theoretically better on paper.
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And there's the policy debate, since people don't necessarily want to give up that much privacy.
For once I find the use of the "Singularity Hub" domain for mirroring a news article entirely acceptable. Whole Brain Emulation for mice would be a big step towards hyperintelligent lobster-ems, and from there it's only a short step to killing all humans and spawning a Matrioshka Brain of capitalistic rational agents that have optimized their consciousness, subjectivity, and humanity away as market inefficiencies!

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People are viewing this project as a 'lego' phone that sounds great in theory but doesn't charm practically. However manufacturers can take a middle ground approach where future electronics slowly move towards hot swappable components. Upgrading & replacing defective parts shouldn't require a screw driver and perhaps as easy as plugging in a USB cable.

When I'm buying a high end phone & spending $600, I'd want it to last 5-6+ years. However the current ones typically stay relevant for barely 2 years and the residual value is below $200. How about a phone that I'm not scared to drop because if something breaks, I can easily swap out a new LCD, ofcourse at a reasonable cost. Many users like me would be willing to sacrifice the form factor slightly to get the ability to make my device last longer.

However all this goes against how manufacturers make money i.e. make you buy new product frequently & charge an arm & a leg for repairs.
If the choice was 500 items for free or pay, I just wouldn't use the service. The vast majority of people would rather have something at no monetary cost and pay by releasing their data for advert targeting.
Hello All - Northern VA resident here and I've been trying to get a bit more 'out there'. If we've got a bunch of people out in northern VA interested in meeting up on April 30th there is a launch party for a new coworking space in Reston:

https://nvite.com/refractionlaunch/party

Is anyone else interested in going?

Also, it's a little more formal but there is a startup weekend in DC:

http://dc.startupweekend.org
You guys are going to owe a lot of folks beers... every search I'm doing doesn't complete after over a minute.
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Thanks, I look forward to it :) And that's great to hear because that's exactly why I made it!
I think g+ is having a significant strategy tax on the rest of google's products (similar to windows for microsoft). However, the benefits of g+ for google are potentially huge. Organizing all products across one account system helps them get to know you better, which in the end should result in better products.
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But not all payments you receive are income, and not all income is a payment you receive. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haig%E2%80%93Simons_income.

Say I'm a shopkeeper. I sell you a candy bar for $2.00, and receive a payment for that amount? Is that my income? No. The credit card processing fee, the cost of getting the candy bar delivered from the wholesaler, and the cost of the candy bar itself must be paid out of that $2.00, but do not represent changes to my own wealth. Deductions exist to go from "gross income" (the payments you receive), and "taxable income" (the amount that your wealth actually increases).

Now, say I'm a farmer. I buy a new tractor. I should be able to deduct the cost of that tractor from what I make selling my crops. But should I get to take the deduction for the full value immediately? No! Unlike a candy bar, which is gone as soon as the customer purchases it, the tractor is a capital asset (an asset that is used to produce income). When I buy a tractor, my wealth just changes form: I have less cash, but I have a tractor. Over time, the value of the tractor will decrease. Eventually, the full cost of the tractor should be deductible, but because the tractor will help produce income over many years, the deductions should be taken over many years. Otherwise, because of the time value of money, the taxes paid will understate my actual increase in wealth. This is what "depreciation" is all about. Because it's impractical to actually sample the change in value of the tractor each year, it happens according to fixed "depreciation schedules." And when you sell the tractor, the difference between its market value and its value according to the depreciation schedule generates income or loss that must be accounted for.

Now, say I own a house (or stock). It's value goes up every year, which represents an increase in my wealth. Should I pay the IRS a tax each year based on an estimated amount? That would be very inconvenient, so we have a whole system of "realization events" that define when continuous changes in wealth must be "sampled" and tax paid.

As I noted in my post, a lot of this complexity just falls out of accounting. You're right that the various measures to use the tax code to create incentives/disincentives also complicates the situation, on top of the inherent complexity. But it's not a given that the value of these incentives/disincentives is less than the burden of the additional complexity.
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But then I would be unemployed.
Facebook prepares to launch e-money transfer service in Europe
If it all goes through, due to the convenience level, how willing would you be to use Facebook to transfer money in between friends instead of using mobile pay/venmo/swish/etc
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A billion dollars has already been raised in the 2014 midterms. A non-presidential year, 6 months before the election, and a billion has already flowed in.

So yes, your millions are a very tiny fraction of the money flowing in.