skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't want to derail offtopic here, but it's really just in the delivery. It came off a tiny bit pretentious to me.
Google Drive is great for writing unversioned content that you don't need to deliver elsewhere and/or manipulate programmatically; I use it myself a lot for this kind of tasks.
But if you want your content to end up automatically online or in another application, if you want to keep full control of how it's displayed easily, and if you want to track and plan changes in an advanced way, then it's for sure not the right tool, and prismic.io sounds more like it.
I always had a hard time using boilerplate setups from the start. I can never form an understanding of what is actually happening.
Argh you are right at 160km it's only dropped about 10%. It's a tough world out there :(
What sort of candidate volume are you seeing? I signed up from the startup side but for $350/month I want to have a pick of a lot of candidates. Maybe some way to preview candidates without getting their contact info so that I can feel better before handing over some money? Or free accounts for startups too while you guys build out your volume?

Also I think your tone is too informal for this kind of thing. Seeing "moar" made me cringe.
Domestic energy usage includes electricity, which is not significantly produced by petroleum (about 1% in the U.S.), so I don't see evidence that the rising cost of oil has had a significant impact on energy consumption.

The 2007-2008 financial crisis and subsequent economic recession were specifically mentioned as factors in the reduction of energy demand in the U.S. (and EU, if I remember right), but growth in energy demand had already started to decline before then.

The University of Michigan in 2007 started trying to follow the average MPG of cars sold in the U.S.; although I'm not familiar with their methodology, they've found a 4.5 MPG increase from 2007 to 2013, from 20.8 MPG to 24.6, for all cars, light trucks, minivans, SUVs, etc.

So, people would have to be driving significantly more now for those gains in efficiency to not contribute to reduced oil consumption, and driving significantly more doesn't really work well with an economic recession.

Have a look at the chart at http://www.investingdaily.com/13503/oil-demand-emerging-mark...: U.S. per capita oil consumption has been flat since about the 80s, a trend that transcends economic recessions and political conflicts.

I see no evidence at all for "Jevon's Paradox". Everything I can find about it suggests that it's a good-sounding economic theory that hasn't yet been comprehensively checked against available statistics.
Beta launch of the FoundationDB SQL Layer
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I'm not so sure your usage of the term "full-stack engineer" is accurate here. I consider myself full-stack, but I don't know half the stuff about Chef that our DevOps guy does and I'm ok with that. To me, a full-stack engineer means that I'm capable of coding both things that make magic happen in the browser and things that make magic happen on the server side of the application. It doesn't mean I'm a jack of all trades.

That said, I don't think that the increased prevalence of DevOps is bad. And I don't think it means "everyone is doing everything" either. It's a new role that is borrowing elements from both development and operations. Not one person doing both roles.
22,000 miles might be necessary to escape the gravity well, but something substantially lower would still be of use.
The Night I Kissed A Girl For The First Time
Having only lived in the SF Bay Area for a few years now, everyone I know that lives in the SF Bay Area refers to San Francisco simply as "the city". They say things like "I went to the city this weekend", etc. So while I agree with the silly capitalisation, I also think it's a losing battle.

It's also not a behaviour unique to the SF Bay Area; when I lived in a fairly rural area (pop. < 10K spread over quite a few miles), the largest city nearby was often referred to as "the city" by everyone that lived outside the largest nearby city (which was Kansas City where I lived).
Out of curiosity, why do you have this as one of the first things people read on your site:

"Pintask promise: we will always keep the service running.
And if anybody tries to shut it down, we will open-source it."
That was a really fun and inspiring workshop! If you are interested in concurrency in browsers, there were two interesting talks about that ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBDJYkSwVFs and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQeqfSGc9q0 ).

I'm hoping more people in the browser world come around to the idea that concurrency and parallelism aren't so tricky if you start with language design. Passing immutable objects cheaply between web workers would be a huge deal for projects like Elm!
It takes, like, 2 minutes to fill out the form so you wouldn't be wasting much time on that side.

That being said, I'm assuming you'll be told what company is interested in you (if any) when/if they make contact rather than the usual recruiter nonsense ie. "A company in the financial services space" etc etc
The paragraph you've posted there is very helpful - it gives me more of an idea of what the product as a whole does, and it does sound really quite interesting!

Even doing something like including that at the top of the current website would work wonders for giving an explanation before delving into finer details.
You just praise the kid personally for displaying values that are healthy and helpful to internalize and base an identity on, while for other behaviors (mostly negative ones), you express disappointment (or some other emotion) about the behavior not the person. Looking at it that way it seems pretty intuitive to me. Try and minimize the amount of therapy the kid's going to need as an adult. It's fine to make occasional mistakes, but if you find yourself constantly wanting to put your kid down or praise them for innate but effortless strengths, maybe you're not being quite fair to them and need to reexamine how you approach the relationship. But for most people (and a lot of good parents already), I'd think that most of these prescriptions are pretty natural and mostly effortless.
A good point. A friend of mine pointed me to six hats[1]. Currently the mock-up mirrors a two-level reddit in its dialogue with a tight focus on facts (the information-based white hats).

The advantage of having only facts is that the interface is simpler. The disadvantage is that not all views might be represented, thus impeding dialogue.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking_Hats
There's no mention of embedding or "white labeling" prismic within other applications. Is this possible? For example, within product X I need to manage quite a bit of content, but would rather not build in a CMS. Can we integrate Prismic to do the content management parts?
I'm a terrible system administrator. Everything I've learned about it has come from necessity because startups. I don't want to be a system administrator and have no desire to be good at it. So I learn the minimum I need in order to get it to do what I need to do and hope that I've done it right.

I might only be slightly better than someone who's new to system administration only because I've written system-level code and understand operating systems and things of that nature.

However a good system administrator understands the entire architecture from a holistic point of view. They know the compiler switches to use, the run-time switches to tweak, the security implications of various configurations and all of the other details it takes to keep a cluster secure.

I often work well with a good system administrator to debug and optimize workloads due to the overlap in our skills. I find this to be the optimal relationship.

Learning and practicing system administration takes away from my ability to learn and be a better programmer (and the opposite is true as well). I don't know about most people but I find I can't be good at both. And I know which one I'd rather be better at (programming).

I don't think the author has hit the nail on the head but I agree that effective teams can't expect one person to manage an entire application from code to managing a secure deployment.
That's sort of a non-solution. Perhaps add a field that asks "which startups would you not like to share your information with?"

This way, you keep your site single-blind (to keep people from skipping using your service) and if a company happened to be in the list, the person could still use your service (just hiding his/her info from that party).
Indeed, you need to set up your application yourself, with your technology of choice.
You want to watch that "Getting started" video to get a better understanding of how to do that: https://developers.prismic.io/documentation/UjBaQsuvzdIHvE4D...
Ah, that does sound interesting! Thanks for the more concise explanation!
"If someone can steal your private key, yes, they can now impersonate your SSL server."

I don't understand this comment. If they steal your private key, they can impersonate the client and do everything the client can do. I don't understand the "impersonate the SSL server".

If they steal the public key, then they can impersonate the server.
oooo great (:
This is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7130746. Please don't post stories that have already had a significant discussion on HN recently. Entering "hackathon starter" into HN Search brings up that post right away.

The cutoff for reposts of stories that have received a lot of attention on HN is about a year.
How much overhead does this add and how difficult would it be to implement in another language like Python or even C? I imagine implementing it for an interpreted language would be much easier if you could save and recover states at any given point.

For example, in a project I just completed where we implemented Scheme in C, perhaps we could just memcopy everything and add it to a stack upon each expression evaluation (much easier in Lisp dialects since expressions are nested and you could 'edit as you go' by just changing an inner expression).
Preface: I don't understand this stuff much at all.

I was under the impression that stuff gets encrypted with the public key, and can only be decrypted with the private key. Doesn't owning the private key let you snoop on all traffic, all of the time, forever until they change the keys?
> The best current understanding of exoplanet systems is that there are planetary systems orbiting the majority of stars out there. Our solar system is neither an extremely lucky coincidence or a rarity among other stars.

All the exoplanet systems were discovered only recently (span of a few decades). So we don't really know if those systems are stable in the long run, and hence we don't really know if our solar system is "lucky" or not.
It's pretty hidden, so it's unlikely that you chose to do this but sometimes gets set if you downloaded a template from somewhere - In Office 2013 desktop (may be similar in 2010), go to File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Settings > Document-specific Settings.
UK Prime Minister asked for permanent police anti-piracy unit funding
Oh, right. People who don't care about the value of their home [investment].
Giving everyone pager duty can lead to higher quality solutions. The band-aid fixes crop up when ownership of a whole system eventually spreads too thinly.

Within the right framework, keeping everyone on pager rotation can lead to much smoother operations, because everyone stays familiar with the system as a whole. This was going around recently, and captures the essence of the philosophy: http://catenary.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/naurs-programming-a...
How do you prevent a bad actor from signing up as a fake startup and harvesting your users?
Is this a souped-up version of Visual Studio Ultimate's[1] IntelliTrace[2]?

[1] retailing for over $10,000: http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Visual-S...

[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd264915.aspx
As a 12 year plus SF Resident, married to a native San Franciscan, who has both rented and now owns property, and who follows local politics closely; I can report this is one of the most complete, articulate, and accurate summaries of the situation I've ever read.

Please encourage others to read this.
Glad you like.
Your startup needs to understand: Aesthetic vs Design
The mode could be a bit more obvious, ie whether you're using the Move or Embed tools is signified only by a subtle border line, so it took me a while to figure out how to embed cards and I can't really tell what mode I'm n from a casual glance. This will become more important as more tools are added, I'd imagine.

Color coding seems pretty arbitrary as the labels aren't descriptive, and there's no filtering. But I guess these can be hacked into being :)

Code editor look spretty bare, although I appreciate the Wiki link and again it's early days. Maybe have a little 'Hello World' code by default, or even a few lines of advice as a comment so the window doesn't look so empty? Casual hackers such as myself have a phobia of blank pages because it's not obvious where to begin.

One small annoyance: Initials. I have a double-barreled name (Firstname Surname-Surname) but it rendered my initials as FS, which was quite confusing because I'm not used to seeing that letter combination at all, and it wasn't until I added an avatar that I realized it was my initials.

That little nitpick aside, I like it a lot!
Apple Upgrade Tracks Customers Even When Marketing Apps Are Off
I hadn't thought of a time frame, should I?
Hey Mason, we'll send you an email to discuss. We just went live (like one hour ago :D) but we're seeing a good deal of traffic.
You can apply probabilties to your edge weights.

Also, if you were considering D, consider looking at D-Lite. It's an alternate approach to the same problem, and more easily understood/implemented.
This is a great use case for prismic.io!

Since all of your content is structured and delivered through your API, you can simply pull it from your application, and use the content the way you want.
Look at me take an existing Bootstrap site, and inject content in it: https://blog.prismic.io/Ux-CMgEAAFwI9kFg/turn-a-bootstrap-th... (here in PHP, but you can use any technology you want). Here, it's a static Bootstrap site, but if your application was more complex, it wouldn't me more complicated to embed prismic.io powered content!
Ask HN: What are some successful startups built on top of other services?
Are there any successful startups built solely on top of other services such as Facebook, Twitter, Google App or others?
It doesn't work for me with the latest FireFox. The interface won't let me do anything. Maybe the server is simply overloaded, because it's almost unresponsive and takes minutes to load the "high scores." It seems to work under Internet Explorer though.
It's the follow up communication that could waste time. I would prefer to do a little research on each company before applying to a dozen of them at once, or to see that the companies listed are known and trustworthy.
I believe they meant finally implemented in Elm. The title has since been changed to clarify.
I've often wondered if there's any hidden terminology in some of these press release, eg:
"http://venturebeat.com/2014/04/15/twitter-buys-gnip-taking-o...

"To that end, we have agreed to acquire Gnip" - I'm wondering for example if the "agreed to acquire Gnip" means that Twitter doesn't see this as a high-value acquisition on the same level as Crashlytics or Mopub.
Sounds like DevOps is new and like Agile isn't always implemented as intended once it gets into the wild at companies. I've experience Agile and Enterprise Agile at companies where meetings are called scrums but are 50 minutes long. Sound like there is DevOps and Enterprise DevOps, or some other bastardization occurring out in the wild. Oh process, oh process, save me from these hardships.
We do our due diligence on every startup before we partner with them.
If you invented time travel people would definitely be writing about it.
That doesn't mean he's not prone to pseudoscientific thinking. The guy takes like 100 different vitamins a day in hopes of extending his life a few years. He promotes the idea that taking tons of vitamins can extend your life long enough to see the singularity, and sells vitamins through one of his companies. https://www.rayandterry.com/

Maybe someone with medical training can tell me if I'm wrong. But as far as I know, otherwise healthy people won't get any benefits from taking massive amounts of vitamins daily.
Is it so hard to look at the README?

> This is tricky. This uses the ssl3_write_bytes() function in order to send heartbeats encrypted after the SSL handshake is complete. This function is sometimes exported in OpenSSL libraries, and sometimes not.

> If that's the trouble, then you have to download and build OpenSSL, then link this tool with their object files. I did this by doing:

git clone git://git.openssl.org/openssl.git
cd openssl
./config
make depend
make

gcc ../heartleech/heartleech.c libcrypto.a libssl.a -ldl -o heartleech

> This is evil, because I'm simultaneously linking to the local libraries and the system libraries for OpenSSL, but it seems to work without too much trouble.
Debian's release cycle still isn't as predictable as Ubuntu; in fact, Debian slipped a bit with wheezy. Whereas lenny and squeeze came out in February of 2009 and 2011 respectively, wheezy didn't come out until May of 2013. I appreciate that Debian took the time to get it right; still, Ubuntu's greater predictability is appealing. Also, Ubuntu offers official backports of newer kernels to LTS releases; that's why Docker, for example, can target Ubuntu Precise.
This is a cool idea that I think a lot of Digital agencies need. I can't think of how many projects I've lead where we had to build a custom cms for a design that needed to be pixel perfect and was hard to do in either Wordpress or an Enterprise CMS.

However, I think your own website does a poor job of communicating what it does. The language of "display content your way" is very vague and it takes a lot of digging to figure out what it is that you are offering. Your target audience is not the general non-technical user, your target audience is the Technical Lead or Software Architect or programmer that is actually building the website. They are going to be the one that says use this instead of Wordpress or some Enterprise sized CMS.

My suggestions are:

1. Put screenshots of the product immediately on the home page (instead a blank desk, pencils, plants... what is that?).

2. Describe precisely what it is: a new type of CMS that eliminates templates and delivers content as a service to your own custom front end. Everyone hates CMS templates so I think you can strike a chord there. I'm not a copywriter so someone can probably spruce that statement up. I actually echo some of the other commenters statements in that you really ought to have a copywriter look through your content on the website and focus it a bit more. I think the writing/copy on the site is weak in describing the product and needs to be much more technical and specific since your target audience is different.
looks suspiciously like hired.com - but as a resume aggregator rather than talent marketplace. maybe you can convince companies to pay $350/mo for your book, maybe you can't. good side project though :)
It's not an investment, it's a hedge.
Sunlight truly is the best disinfectant. The fact is, there are already people writing such tools and actively attempting to compromise systems with it. If the attack vectors are not released to public and made a big hub-bub of, sysadmins are likely to either not be aware of the proper countermeasures and/or not be allocated the resources and time to fix the issue.

Ignorance is not bliss, nor is it security.
Anybody else think the header on this page is too big? If you scroll to the bottom and take the footer into account the content is almost restricted to 1/3 of the window.
The cable has to be "anchored" beyond the point of geostationary orbit in order for it to pull itself taut and keep itself in orbit, else its own weight would cause it to simply fall back to Earth. Anything less than that would be an extremely tall building, and subject to the same limitations therein.
Sorry, off topic, but:

Question: is Twitter's free "garden hose" sampled data stream still available?

I used to use the small garden hose sample of near real time tweets. I just tried running an old script to fetch the garden hose and it didn't work.

On topic: I thought that the Gnip business model was interesting, and I can't help but think that the other data sources that Gnip processes and resells may not like this aquisition.
What's it been like wearing it in public? Any interesting interactions with curious people? Any vocal hatred directed your way? I noticed you live in Virginia, so I'm especially curious!
Something like TodoMVC for backends would be nice... in essence, you create a backend for a TodoMVC front end, each using the same web-server platform and language and TodoMVC front end. The difference being the back end SQL server, with as much processing on the server, if it supports procedures, as possible. Maybe extending the example for a location, and a local date/time.

Using Node.js, and Angular for the server/front end, it would be easy enough to swap out the "todo-mvc-server-data" module... as long as each supported the same interface(s), it could be a good test...

Setup the same hardware for each backend, and then run performance tests against a node cluster for the front end. It would by no means be comprehensive, but would be a nice comparison point (like TodoMVC itself).
From Wikipedia: "At a Sudbury school, students have complete responsibility for their own education, and the school is run by direct democracy in which students and staff are equals. Students individually decide what to do with their time, and tend to learn as a by-product of ordinary experience rather than through coursework. There is no predetermined educational syllabus, prescriptive curriculum or standardized instruction. This is a form of democratic education."

Hey, I'm open to using a child's own interests to help them learn ... but Sudbury takes a good thing way too far.

You say that Sudbury teaches kids how to be moral in a community. Maybe ... if that community is "Lord of the Flies."
I'm still not sure I'm on HN. Where is the person explaining that property tax is theft via government literally holding a gun to your head?
Does anyone know how the hovercraft would work? I'm pretty curious.
Zarafa springs to my mind.
No, you can't do anything with a public key. Public keys are meant to be public. You might be confusing session keys, public keys, and private keys.
"Going on a walk outside in the morning like I do is probably better exercise than yoga."

I also enjoy walking (and hiking).

My personal take is that, rather than viewing one form of exercise as being superior to another, I view different forms of exercise in how they can serve me and fulfill me in their own, unique ways.

Yoga serves me in a different way than walking does, and vice versa. By the same token, kettle-bells serve me in a different way than yoga does, or mountain biking does, or any other fill-in-the-blank exercise activity does.
Do you remember getting the Sunday paper, and how it would be stuffed chock full of advertisement flyers and just taking those out wholesale and tossing them in the recycle bin.
I'm happy for them, I really am, but I think that it's a real shame that we don't see this level of support for Debian.
How misunderstood MVP while following Lean Startup Methodology