skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice work! I've been looking for a good flight simulator for Android (X-plane is nice but feels amazingly limited).

What is this written in? Would it be possible to port it to Harmattan?
I do not wish to participate in this community. Please remove my account. And thanks for all the fish and hype.
I hope patio11 can comment on this. I've always enjoyed reading his take on Japan. He is extremely well qualified to compare American and Japanese culture: he was born and raised in the US, moved to Japan after graduating and got married there.
http://repaper.org

You can buy a cute dev-kit that works as a MSP430 Launchpad Boosterpack and has extension headers for Arduino, etc. off Digikey.
And why would you tell someone this right before fundraising? What a great way to fuck up your round...tell a cofounder you don't want his ass around in 3 months.

Oh, by the way, can you come to this meeting and pretend you're happy here?
> MS takeover [citation needed]
How we hacked Google’s production server and received a $10K reward
Cool, didn't know about X-Frame-Options. Either way, it'd be cool if there was a good option for when you don't have access to ssh or aren't comfortable with it, which it seems like this could fill.
You've touched on something incredibly deep here.

Fact and fiction are one and the same in storytelling, that is, in the conveying of ideas from one person to another.

A mathematical system of symbolic logic is just a strange loop. It is a fiction. It is rooted in nature, in the world that we observe, but so is a poem.

There's been a trend since the Enlightenment to split the world in to RATIONAL SCIENCE and OTHER THINGS. The goal was mainly to finally remove all of the religious mumbo-jumbo and superstition from the realms of science. In the process however, we ignored our qualities of perception and language. Not only is the majority of what is important and true in our lives expressed through words and feelings but it also colors every aspect of mathematics and science. It basically took those fields eating their own tails to realize the ultimate folly of their philosophical pursuits.

Thoughts like these are often misinterpreted as attacks on reason and rationality. They are merely illustrations of the limitation of pure reason, a topic that has been broached by the great thinkers time and again. The lessons never seem to sit. Language and metaphor are constantly shifting yet our written records are set in stone, destined for misinterpretation.

But life without folly, without mystery, what life is that?
I'd second your words about "bad coder" arguments. This argument is ridiculous, particularly if he had managed to to build a production system that is gaining traction. And did it single-handed (or in a team of two).

I would disagree however about the advice to 'fire him immediately because the politics will fk the company'. The problem is, the moment there is some money on the table politics and power play starts. Unavoidable.
> Xamarin is ... not too cheap if you just want to play around with stuff.

If you just want to play around then take note that the starter plans are free [1].

[1] https://store.xamarin.com/
http://skyler.io/FreeJam.png

I've been working on a cross-platform multitrack audio editor, because it frustrated me that most open-source audio editors work with either synthesized audio or recorded audio but not both.

Code: https://github.com/skykooler/FreeJam
Hrm. I can either argue with you about your continued lack of logic (moving from a non-sequitur to a false dichotomy where you presume a world of two types of people), or I can make a larger point. So I'll do the one that's more productive:

> This represents a problem for Democracy because the President is our civilian leader who is supposed to be in command of the military. If in fact it is the military/intelligence that is leading him, then the Presidency has failed.

Democracy is not a government of presidents. It is a government of people. I agree that you can usefully argue that "the Presidency has failed", but the existence of the Presidency was always a hack, in software terms. It was never a well-designed system; it was a convenience which has been subject to feature creep due to a long history of abuse and counter-abuse. Try to put yourself in the Founders' shoes and seriously think about the question of why the executive branch needs to be headed by a single person; it doesn't. It was just easier that way.

To fix this, the response isn't to whine about NSA overreach or Presidential doublespeak. It's to actually establish a democracy.

(P.S., it is inaccurate to characterize the POTUS as in command of the NSA. He is responsible and accountable for them, but he is not in command. The continued incapability of HNers to internalize basic facts listed on Wikipedia suggests either, how did you put it, that they are either "dumb" or choosing "not to exercise their capability" in understanding their government. I think I like your false dichotomy after all.)
Poll HN: Do you use ad blockers?
if you turn it off for certain sites, which one ar they?

http://strawpoll.me/1489677
Anyone known a real alternative to SSL to secure communications? No GPG, POW(or bitcoin, similar, etc.)
I'm sorry. Am I the only one not getting all the Github/Stackoverflow/whatever down threads?

What's interesting about it? Sites are down from time to time, if they are and you need then, you probably notice. Otherwise, if you don't need them you obviously don't care...
From reading that blog post it is not clear to me if their wrapping code existed prior to the discovery of the heartbleed bug: The post summary says:

Akamai patched the announced Heartbleed vulnerability prior to its public announcement. We, like all users of OpenSSL, could have exposed passwords or session cookies transiting our network from August 2012 through 4 April 2014. Our custom memory allocator protected against nearly every circumstance by which Heartbleed could have leaked SSL keys.

So: did the custom memory allocator exist already in August 2012? From reading the post this looks to be the case. Could it be that someone at Akamai took a look at the heartbeat (or other OpenSSL) code, decided that it could lead to memory leaks, and wrote their own memory allocator wrapper code to guard against this?

Edit: SSL -> OpenSSL
Wow... I couldn't have imagined a more difficult question to ask then global IP and trademark law.

So I'll try to help.

The first question is: Is the offending party in the same business as you?

The goal of the law in dealing with trademarks is: "Will it cause confusion in the marketplace?" and "Is one party trying to benefit from the goodwill of the other party?"

Those are the tests that a US court will apply to your case.

If they are in the same business as you are. I would send them a notification letter of your use of the mark. Not a Cease and Desist.

If you are in the UK you don't need to file a challenge to the USPTO, just a notice to the UK IP Office. Its the job of the petitioner at the USPTO to do a global search.

In the end you can keep operating up until they sue you. They'd have to sue you in a UK court, which may be cost prohibitive for them... and at which point you'll have the evidence to show your use of the mark for the last 6 years and your notice to them of your use of it.

Hope that helps...
A downvote for a pure statement of fact?
Are you sure you are in the right place? It certainly seems relevant to "Hacker News" to me.
For me, I found them interesting because they are among the biggest, highly reputable websites for developers. I am also excited to know what causes the down time and how they addressed the problems if there are.
I find it interesting because SO is run by top-notch ops and dev people and the outage reasons could well be educational. What happened? Why? What can we all learn from it?
In HN not all are developers or coders. Edit: someone who use stackoverflow at least once a day
+1. Posting about it here doesn't help, fix, or even educate anyone. It's more "water cooler conversation" than informative. Major planned maintenance (esp. for GitHub which people rely on for pushing code) would be good so we can plan workarounds or defer deployment, but otherwise not.
Leaving the situation as-is would tank that company.

In a small team, infighting is a much bigger threat to survival than losing skills/results of any single individual.
+1 You are not the only one.
Okay, but why not just link to a writeup of what the issue was afterwards.

THAT would be interesting. The fact that it is down right now. Not so much, imho.
http://stackstatus.net/ doesnt show anything (yet)
It's not just water cooler conversation, it causes said conversations to occur.
There's a notice on their website homepage, something about a 3rd party's services being down, although not worded very politely. I presume lots of other people attempted to contact them about it.
PS: Are you with Trilab by any chance? Look on https://www.powerdns.com/about.html "Trilab hosts a PowerDNS based DNS hosting service called "PowerDNS.Net Hosting". This is a service of Trilab, and not of PowerDNS.COM BV."
Whatever the issue, I am pretty sure they can just Google it and find the answer on .... wait a minute...

They better get it up quickly, or coders the world over will be late meeting their deadlines. :)

Seriously though, I cannot count the number of hours this site has saved me. This tool has done more for software developers than IDEs.
I'm Sorry, I should have been more specific. I was referring to potential moss / buildup on the structure itself.
Sometimes sites are not down and you need them but you are unable to open them.

Same reason sites like these exist

https://status.github.com/

http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status
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Agree completely. I left the misleading title in there since not everyone is familiar yet with some of the lean terminology.

I did include a para further down in the article explaining this further. It's the failure to learn that is failure.

http://arg0s.in/what-we-learnt-from-a-failed-mvp.html#was-th...
Not only Stackoverflow, Superuser.com, Serverfault.com and whole StackExchange sites seem down.
I feel like this should be included in every press release post down-time.

"As issues unfold, information changes and speculations can lead to improper actions based on incorrect information."

So very well said.
Agree completely. We did run a number of phone and face to face interviews, but in hindsight I feel we didnt reach out to the right demographic. This is something we could have done more of. Thanks for the feedback.
I felt a great disturbance in the flow, as if millions of ideas suddenly failed to form and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
While I agree that the sample application is something that needs to be considered from time to time, I don't agree that we need to make it look as simple as the ones offered by micro-frameworks.

For one, Django isn't a micro-framework and using it as such, although possible, is probably overkill.

Anybody who has ever seen an MVC pattern or read about it will understand why it needs 6 parts and won't necessarily be intimidated by it. I know I wasn't when I first looked at it.

On-boarding new users needs to be simple and welcoming, nobody disputes that. But this trend in dumbing down everything should not extend to web frameworks in my humble opinion.
Is btrfs stable with hibernate now? The last couple of times I used it, it crashed on me.
Thanks for sharing this on HN, I was surprised when I suddenly saw a spike in traffic and tweets. ;)

I certainly think the Valley is more open to discussing failures and what worked and what didn't. In my experience, it's been hard to have honest, clear discussions in India with other entrepreneurs about challenges being faced and what people are doing to address them. There's just a lot of noise in the startup ecosystem. That said, all this is maturing, and I'm sure it'll get better soon.
> AT&Ts [...] civil liability is pretty much zero as far as I understand it.

This is the most heartbreaking part of the case.
> The CTO definitely hasn't overstepped his boundaries; he's doing his job. He's responsible for running the engineering team and delivering a product.

Maybe the CTO's request should be interpreted as a request to step back from the engineering team, and focus on other jobs in the company? That's a totally sensible thing to do as the company grows.
I respect your opinion. However, I'm the type of person that fuels from relationships. Regardless of the complications, the added motivation and state of mind in general I get is well worth the cost.
Facebook Is Ending the Free Ride
Thanks!
It's written in C#, we use Xamarin to target both iOS and Android. We also have a PC version running on standard MS.NET

I'm not familiar with Harmattan.
The revealed preference is that the industry doesn't really care about security. We follow "industry best practice" - that is, we do the minimum to stop users complaining - but users don't buy based on security, and so it's not worth putting marginal effort into.
LOL, yes I agree that my writing was a bit dry. But we all play charades, and are passionate about it. That said, I think there are enough examples as well of startups that have succeeded where the founders themselves were not part of the primary target user community, but they developed a deep enough understanding of the users needs to build a successful product.

Incidentally, I OH this on Facebook: We tend to underestimate long term impact of reason and short term impact of passion.
How I read it is that this code already protected their private key, but the Heartbleed bug still disclosed other private details (such as submitted user data).
What makes you say that it's impossible to comprehend?

I've been here on and off ~8 of the last 16 years. Several non Japanese friends that have been here 10, 15, 20, 25 years. I don't get the impression any of them have a hard time comprehending any of it.

As for some Japanese (not all by a long shot) preferring traditional, first off, those are not all or even most. Many of those that do are similar to people in the west that prefer "organic" or "natural" or "traditional" for arguably no rational reason.

I don't personally know any Japanese that want to go back to any kind of "traditional culture". Heck, I'm writing this from "The Terminal", a shared workspace in Harajuku surrounded by Japanese on notebooks. Hardly "traditional" in any sense.
Rule #1: Beware any VC bearing advice on how to negotiate with VCs.

If his claim is true that non-Silicon-Valley investors are applying unethical leverage, why are the valuations still sky high?

This claim would make more sense if there were a bunch of companies taking non-SV investments at strangely low valuations. Or are there hidden unfavorable terms that Andreessen is hinting at? Is there any evidence of that? Exempt evidence I would assume the default position that this is advice calculated to reduce competition with Silicon Valley VCs.
[Not an expert here, just offering another perspective.]

First of all, the CTO telling you he wouldn't hire you at the company you founded is [can't find a polite term]. It's reasonable to say something specific about you is subpar (like coding), and even that you wouldn't fit in a certain role he's planning to define (like full-time coder).

But this is (partially) your company, and an "experienced" CTO came to you because he saw something there. Unless your other partners did all the useful work, you've got some real value -- don't sell yourself short.

There are a lot of options here and you can really make the path for yourself. What is great about you that helped make the company into something? What kind of a role would allow those capabilities to flourish? You could call yourself a Chief Product Officer and say that you have control over what gets delivered and when, what directions the product will take, etc. (not sure if that's what a CPO does, but it doesn't matter).

If you are still inspired to go forward with this startup, and you see such a role for yourself, go make that case. For example, tell the CTO and the CEO that you intend to shed your coding responsibilities as the CTO builds that organization, and get them excited about what you can do as CPO (or whatever). Demand real responsibilities and control, and say that you have the best understanding of the product and the best vision for the future. You could end up much more influential than the CTO, who might end up just being responsible for delivering on your visions. Their whole perspective of you might change, and they might get behind you.

If you've lost inspiration, then probably a buyout makes sense. Again, don't sell yourself short -- you helped get the company this far, and did something right. Considering the risk you took, and probably low pay, it seems fair to get about 2X a fully-loaded engineer's cost for the time you were working full-time there. If your company is doing well maybe significantly more (again, not an expert, just a gut feel).
I'm a programmer in Japan. And there are so many dev jobs here it's ridiculous... IF you can speak Japanese.
Screenshot: https://github.com/pavben/WebIRC#screenshot

GitHub: https://github.com/pavben/WebIRC

I decided to blend an IRC client and a BNC into one, and build this from scratch in Node.js with an AngularJS frontend. Run it on your server and stay connected to IRC 24/7 while hiding your home IP behind the server. Access the same session (server connections, open channels, PMs) from work/home/iPad simultaneously and have them kept perfectly in sync :)
Besides being incredibly cheesy, that joke has been run a zillion times about every country in the world.
From the original post:

> This patch is a variant of what we've been using to help protect customer keys for a decade.

So it protects keys against heartbleed, but not other HTTP related data (urls, cookies, headers, etc).
Cling onto that raft! I fear it's a combination of NIH (despite the same being said of imperial, Fahrenheit, etc), fear of change, and irrational dislike of the French. Of course, Daniel Fahrenheit was Dutch/German, and Anders Celsius was Swedish.

But if you think kg is frustrating, I'm learning electronics now - every book, when starting to talk about capacitors, says something like 'However, the Farad is not a convenient unit, and you'll most be working with 0.0000000001F capacitors'. Yes, the SI unit is unhindered by a prefix, but you can't but help wish they'd thought more carefully about this before writing it down.
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It's like looking through Winston Smith's commits.
> the design habits/guidelines between the two platforms have a lot of difference and you need a separate UI layer for each more often than not

Phonegap is a great tool for writing code once (html5 & javascript) & deploying to many platforms with native capabilities.

I suspect it's not quite there for games, however it has great performance for most CRUD apps.

---

Re: RoboVM, I suspect there will be libraries that will properly use iOS-like UI. Some logic branches will be required, however the main flow is centralized and DRY.

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There's also cross platform, openGL based tools. If you are making an openGL game, you minimize your need to use the native UI.

http://coronalabs.com/products/corona-sdk/
Product name is called scaleqa.

We are building an end to end solution targeted at assisting manual testing. Manual tester can record, assert, playback in multiple platforms his scenarios. We are in final stage of beta and plan to show to few startups for feedback. Currently we are able to create tests for 70% of the scenarios of desktop websites. That percentage can be improved as we go ahead. Following are the screenshots of record and dashboard.

http://imgur.com/65X28Yv,JhZX9xX#0
http://imgur.com/65X28Yv,JhZX9xX#1

We are using modified version of sebuilder as record engine addon while a website integrated with addon as test dashboard. Manual testers we spoke to were enthusiastic about saving time significantly during build release where there are large number of tests run every week or once in 2 days.
I think when it comes to django, too many people go in a start using it without understanding anything that's going on inside. Django's magic often encourages ignorance till debugging forces you to figure out what is going on. This approach could really help mitigate that effect.
This is almost definitely true, but most domestic ovens don't get hot enough (400C from memory is close to ideal). Hottest oven I've had in a 'normal' rented place went as high as 270C, and even with a pizza stone it was hard to get enough moisture out in the 8-9 minutes before the rest of it was at risk of being overcooked.

While the knife wedged under the edge works to stop it going too soggy, the other trick is to use a wooden tray or chopping board to serve on - this pulls out some of the residual moisture.
From the screnshot that looks really cool, but the main use case I would have is ancient Chinese and I'm unconvinced the analysis would remain accurate with ancient Chinese grammar. Also, there's no Linux version. :( Good job though... from an Australian in China.
Their homepage is http://powerdns.net/, not http://powerdns.com/; and yes they are incorporated as TriLab. Like I said, they're (PowerDNS application & TriLab) hosted on their own their own infrastructure, which is currently hosed.

So basically, PowerDNS.COM BV is doing a public service to TriLab BV by putting up a notice. And of course, one is bound to lose politesse when held responsible for stuff one hasn't done or isn't responsible for.

And, no I am not with Trilab and I have nothing to do with their service besides being a harrowed paying customer.

Edit: Blog post by the people at PowerDNS BV (not related to PowerDNS.NET) http://blog.powerdns.com/2014/04/13/on-powerdns-com-and-expr...
The whole post is pure gold.

OP. Just follow it letter-by letter. Make a check-list out of it, if you like. And you probably will be Ok (doesn't necessarily mean that you'll get anything out of it, but it would greatly increase the probability of at least negotiating a clean exit. or at the very least you will know that you've done a good rational move, at least this time around). Do not skip the attorney step. Do not skip the attorney step. (I'm not an attorney myself. I'm just a software developer. And I'm telling you. Do not skip the attorney step).
The language spec is actually based on refining the original Oberon, rather than any later versions. I don't know which code base his implementation was started from - there are so many to pick from..
Breaking news: big fish in smaller pool worried about arrival of bigger fish from larger pool. Details at 10.
I'm working on feenbox, a service to receive feeds on your inbox, with geek-friendly features.

It's about a week close to alpha launch. Would you be interested if I make a call for alpha users on HN?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gcdsdivdk6d5lxt/feenbox.png
No dangerous "dongle" jokes this year I hope ;)
I was going to post the same.

Gentoo + Linux 3.14 + ZFS + dual SSDs + Macbook Pro 17" hardware (~2010).

Theory: Hardware subsystems on MBPs may have relatively strong power up speeds versus some other laptops.
A few question of business.
Are you a shareholder of the company and have company equity ?
Yes - just ignore him.
No - just leave the company.

Is is a startup whom promised equity if the company profit /ipo and no pen paper to prove it
Yes -leave the company.
No - just ignore him.

Most CTO(Chief Technical Officer) and CEO (Chief Execute Officer) are hired by director /co-founder of the company.
So nothing he/she will said will effect you(shareholder of the company) at all.
If he /she proceed with firing process,said you're ain't director/co-founder.So please do it.