skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Check Your Privilege” is Actually Just a Lousy Argument
It does deprive them of their search ads on the Google landing page. But, what about Google Maps/Android/YouTube? Or any of other data collection services they offer. It would also take a large unison effort by consumers to change their search habits.
Kudos to you for your detailed response.
Nice to see this resurface - I hope it gets as much attention as last time, perhaps even more now that HN has a larger community.
Now that they are (claiming to be) shipping, it seems like a perfect time to introduce their new site. It has new ordering options for getting it sent to you monthly. Once people get their orders, they will have an easy way to order more. The Crowdtilt powered "campaign" site isn't meant to stay long term. This is their transition from it. Makes sense to me.
"The bad news is that the renewal rate was not high enough for us to have sufficient budget for full-time employees. After carefully considering a few different options, we are making the difficult decision to no longer employ any salaried employees, including founders. Dalton and Bryan will continue to be responsible for the operation of App.net, but no longer as employees."

Did these guys burn through over $3 million in less than a year? They got $2.5 million in August 2013. (http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/14/app-net-new-funding/)
4K pixels is pretty low res compared to board games. At 400 DPI thats only about 10 inches of a board game, which is pretty small.

Something like Agricola expands to encompass all space. That's actually a pretty serious issue if you get into "huge" games like steel wolves.

Only slightly off topic, card driven games (not strictly board games, because there is no board) like Dominion and the Pathfinder card game also expand to encompass all space.

One big problem is TVs / computers / monitors are value engineered to only last 2-3 years before replacement, whereas my Carcassone sets from 15 years ago are all fully playable. I'm not saying its an impossible problem, I'm just saying if you try to push tech into board games you're going to get pushback from people who have a copy of Axis and Allies from 1991 which they still play and they're not going to be happy if you try to sell them a $1000 monitor that only lasts two years.
It's frustrating news because the platform never actually got to the point where it could be used as back-end infrastructure in the manner of something like, say, Stripe. In other words, I couldn't built a website where users simply sign up/in, use the service, share content, etc., and not really be aware they're using App.net under the hood. I think App.net shot itself in the foot by being implemented more or less as a Twitter clone to start with. That meant that there was constantly a branding problem -- user wonders "Why am I on Website X and they're asking me to create an App.net account...what's that?!?!"

We still need a ubiquitous social/identity/billing platform that undergirds the web, yet can be used seamlessly by devs of any particular site without exposing the guts of said service. I'm waiting for someone to actually build that...waiting...waiting...
I remember on one of the early StackOverflow podcasts that Joel very specifically wanted to stay away from any kind of monetary compensation for answering questions because as soon as somebody tries to do a $/time equivalency in their head the whole thing looks like a rip-off.

Much better to frame things as a way to show off to peers, help the community, etc.
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Any news on when you guys will move beyond just accepting Starbucks gift cards?

Would love to unload all kinds of random cards that I get (i.e. AMC, iTunes).
Does anyone else seem to think this article suggests anyone who doesn't agree with aggressive western policy is somehow connected to subversive (and often financed) Russian activity?

Maybe some people just don't agree with cruel, aggressive and foolish policy (Iraq being the example that leaps to mind) and Russia is incidental in the matter?

But...probably in their minds Washington intellectuals can do no wrong.
I agree, if everything is stored in the iCloud.

But the reason I love Apple's ecosystem is that you don't (yet) need the cloud for anything. TouchID works offline and even USB contact/calendar sync is coming back. I assume an iWatch would have a Lightning port to charge it, so why not sync it with your Mac running 10.10 at the same time? Is this wishful thinking in 2014?
What makes you think they would be cheaper?
Uhg, I found the problem: HTTPS Everywhere. This is probably the 3rd time posting on here to say this extension is the problem. Thanks for making me double check.
I have given this some thought in the past -- the only analogy I can really think of is comparing it to trying to compete with Amazon

Companies that try to go directly head to head against Amazon (Overstock, Buy) end up meddling along unable to really gain any traction.

The ones that actually do compete with Amazon are the scrappy niche ecommerce sites. The ones that can hyper-target their marketing efforts and deliver a far superior and more engaging experience. I used to work for a company that sold specialty products and we didn't have much trouble competing with Amazon when we offered things like really detailed guides, fun product videos, unique and tailored buying advice, etc. Things that don't scale...

I think what we could eventually see more and more of when it comes to competing with Google will be niche search engines. For example, despite Google's flight search, Kayak still provides a far superior experience. Google can't effectively scale their search results the same way a hyper focused and scrappier company can.

There are a lot of verticals that could eventually begin to chip away at Google's market share moving forward. It will continue to get tougher for Google to compete in each of them.

The natural roadblock of course being initial branding to the point where people stop going to Google to find you, instead opting to go directly to your site to search (no easy task).
This is one more indictment to the idea that you can build a profitable business on consumer apps without just slapping on ads and then the revenues are so low per user that unless you have millions of users, it's probably not going to support much of a business.
Happened to me with FF 29. I wonder if one of their stylesheets/scripts didn't load fast enough because of the traffic. A reload fixed everything, but it drove the point home even more that I really hate the latest trend of having things zip around and animate as I'm scrolling down a page.
Thanks a lot for this script, I was going to check manually.
It has next to nothing to do with France in and of itself. I'm utilizing a stereotype to make a point.

Yes, I've been living in Paris and London, 2 of the most expensive cities in the world. By the way, I've also lived in Mali, where it was not as easy as one would think to eat for less than $4 per day.

Soylent's tag line is "What if you never had to worry about food again?" If their goal is to focus on healthy eating, then they need to rethink their messaging. The entire message is about the speed of eating. "Eat quick...eat cheaper".

"...never had to worry about food again..." Where in that statement is there any ambiguity about their desire to take market share away from home-cooked meals?

Don't get me wrong, if they can make a business out of it, that is great. However, it strikes me that it would be far more profitable, on an individual level, to buy cheap food from the produce section of a grocery store, and healthier.
They renewed me without any reminder. I had forgotten about the service. That's irksome. And I'm willing to bet a VERY LARGE number of the renewals were people just like me.

There is no business there, and worse, they auto-renewed people without a single reminder it was coming.
Why College Is A Bad Investment
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The lane information they're adding to the UI is great, but I hope it's added to the navigator voice, too.

There haven't been many times when I've had to cross three lanes of traffic in a hurry because Google Maps waited until the last minute to tell me to turn right, but they tend to be memorable when they happen.
No, I'm sure it's because they're big fans of Montenegro.
I mean absolutely no offense but I would seriously recnsider your plans and do a LOT more market research before you start buying hardware. I've been in the hosting industry for nearly a decade and have seen hundreds of hosts fail because they went down the same path you're walking.
Well played!!

In fact, I agree with you...I only listen to non-fiction at 2x the speed. Most modern non-fiction has one main point that they stretch out over 200 pages.

I couldn't imagine listening to a novel at double to speed.
While Windows guests look interesting how are people going to get the initial box? Is every individual or organization going to have to create their own box or will there be some way to get a box if you are part of MSDN?
What's new: http://www.vagrantup.com/blog/vagrant-1-6.html
However the 256-character limit in the micro-blogging service and its support for embedded links (so you didn't need to use ugly URL shorteners that hid what you were about to click-through to) and images (which did not require yet another visible URL) are very nice features.
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Case in point: the "self-employeed company". I'm sure you're all familiar with some company out there that uses "Independent Contractors" (various insurance companies... most door-to-door jobs, a lot of sales representatives...)

Do note, independent contractors are considered 1-man companies. Surely, these are NOT "small businesses", but simply employees whose employer is too lazy to get them federal benefits.

Again, large companies who are taking advantage of the tax code... which pads the small business numbers. (In this case, they take advantage of the fact that they don't have to pay payroll taxes on Independent Contractors).

Hedge Fund managers also come in from this side. They can be independent contractors that are responsible for millions of dollars. IIRC, there were some regulations here that benefit the creation of "new independent companies"... usually employing only one person.
The problem with App.net was that it offered nothing new. It was an alternative to existing free, established products—Twitter (and, to an extent, Google+ and Facebook).
I found myself in the same exact position with Canvas/DrawQuest earlier this year. Everyone (including myself) was laid off a few months ago, but we'd hoped to keep the app running with the remaining revenue/cash-on-hand and volunteered time (cut short by a recent hack).

It sucks, but I think we'll see more of it in the coming months/year. A lot of the seed-funded apps/companies from the past few years simply won't represent later-stage venture opportunities, and may find themselves in a position where they can't raise additional capital but can keep the service afloat without the payroll overhead.
Half true: alpha is the Twitter clone, but in theory, that's just one app of many built on the API. The many just never happened.
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The term you need to google for is "vassal engine"

Note the engine might be open but there's all kinds of schemes WRT the data files ranging from "we don't care" to DMCA takedowns to the max.

Also some people are simply tactile and really want meeples and feelies in their games, so an ipad is going to be a very rough sell to them simply because they very explicitly don't want a screen experience.

Also the resolution of a tablet is incredibly low. Maybe some kind of google glass thing can be implemented, walking around in a backyard? I've occasionally considered this problem and I feel cramped at a mere 5-ft round table and 5 feet at 300 dpi is something like eighteen thousand pixels, assuming you can "invest" in a 5 foot round screen and the best COTS available now is only about a tenth of that resolution at that size...
>> Note: 10-12 week delay on orders

Great they've got a pretty site where people can order something they won't see for 3+ (and you can bet that will be a BIG "+") months...
Matasano: http://www.matasano.com/

It's a well-respected security firm that's been around for a long time.
Parallelism in one line (Python)
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Google Debuts Classroom, An Education Platform For Teacher-Student Communication
Same here. I wonder how many cancellations they get today.
Twitter stock down 17%
Fearing Google
Yeah, I live on/near the coast, and locally caught Tuna, on sale, runs 8.99 a lb. Half a pound for two people would ruin your 4 dollar a day budget and that's not even a full meal let alone a day's worth of food.

4 dollars is certainly doable, but it's frugal level here, and lots of beans, rice and lentils, not organic fresh veggies and ahi tuna being a representative meal.
Great question. I had this exact same problem before I came across/contributed to a fork of kippo by micheloosterhof that implemented SCP (and more).

Check it out here: https://github.com/micheloosterhof/kippo
One question...

How many shrimp will it take to supply a city the size of LA with plastic?

It's a neat idea in theory and for niche applications. But I don't see (unfortunately) petroleum based plastics going anywhere soon.
When it comes to security vulnerabilities, hackers usually sell them to the highest bidder, which is why it's good for the highest bidder to be the bug bounty program. Recognition is nice, but money fixes problems.
For all those who can't upgrade to the latest versions of Rails: Zweitag (my employer) maintains a Rails fork with security fixes applied to all Rails releases since 3.1.0.

https://github.com/zweitag/rails/branches
Symantec Declares Antivirus Software Dead, Develops New Attack on Cyberhacking
Here you go:

https://github.com/msliczniak/onetenth

It's long past where I should have just rewritten it in perl, tcl, or python. Running x1k might be a good starting point. You can read in onek what are the keys to press, I redefined them from the vi home keys that the awk script uses by default. Have fun!

Edit; Oh wow, thanks for the heads-up!

https://github.com/themattrix/sed2048
Boardgames are quietly one of the most lucrative categories on Kickstarter. Multiple miniature-based boardgames have out earned Oculus Rift and up until the end of 2013 5 of the top 20 projects were board games. There are a couple companies that are approaching $10MM in revenue by running multiple campaigns. There are also lone artists who have raised millions.

It's fascinating on a number of levels, from the individual creator stories (Frustrated designer quits job, raises $2MM) to the way small businesses are evolving the platform (some co's have turned stretch goals into a marketing artform). I've written about a few of these companies in the past if you'd like more details:

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/12/kingdom-death/

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/08/reaper-miniatures-bones-...

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/06/coolminiornot-success-ki...

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/05/zombie-apocalypse-board-...

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/05/game-salute/

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/02/designers-kickstarter-an...
Happened to me too.

I emailed them and gave me a refund.
Eeek, that's a bit slimy. The only reason I didn't get auto-renewed is that my credit card had expired.
Same here. They did offer a refund in the email. My thoughts were that I like the idea and I didn't want to hit them with a refund. I switched off the auto-renew thinking I bet they'll send me an email to say my subscription is expiring and decide then if I want it again.

I'll bet 80% of subscribers have done likewise since the emails went out and next years update will be less rosy...
Please read the page again (search for "JIT") and follow the link for more info.
One of our core business values in transparency. Feel free to reach out and ask what's next. We'll be happy to talk about it.
> From 4 years working leading teams in an electronic medical software shop, I urge consumers to not assume that vendors will be good stewards of personal data. forget the boilerplate and assurance that data will only be used in an anonymous way.

Thanks. I'm concerned that practices are now using these custom Facebook-style portals for communicating between doctors-patients and viewing medical records and test results with even companion smartphone apps (https://www.healow.com/app.html).

One called eClinicalWeb.com (https://www.google.com/search?q=eClinicalWeb.com) provided by a company called eClinicalWorks comes to mind that many now use. With no oversight and total disregard that people working in the social space have for user data and privacy, I'm terrified that these small medical software shops are just as negligent.
Get on the road, go off the grid, or plan the perfect weekend with Google Maps
Just another ui framework with velocity-like fast animations.
> intentionally causing congestion

Not upgrading their connection is not the same thing as intentionally causing congestion. Especially when the connection would be fine if it weren't for the massive share of Netflix traffic.
Your breakfast point and eating out during lunch are exactly my problems too. I'll add to that - when I get home, I am tired and I can either work-out or cook for myself and eat. If I can have soylent, then I can save energy to work-out or even relax on the days I am really tired.
Startups dying faster than they are being created
No Global Warming Since The Kyoto Treaty Was Rejected
Our investors have been incredibly supportive -- especially these past few [rough] months.

The biggest concern I have is not so much the price it would fetch (which is probably not much given recent events), but rather finding a suitable steward for the community.
How much do i get by writing a Famo.us hype article?
You could almost say the same thing about Twitter. Their web and mobile apps are just one of many apps built on their API.
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Prep time? I like to cook a large pot of chili or a stew for the work week. It's still a tedious thing to procure the ingredients and make it, even if all the prep is one afternoon and 2 minutes of reheating each work day. If there's no single source for the ingredients you need to establish a purchasing routine and a time every week or month to mix up a new batch. Compare to just ordering it if the markup isn't too high.
Sadly, this is the most cynical view, that while valid, I have no choice but to fight against to see medical progress. I also work in this area and after a decade as a publishing neuroscientist where we were bound by HIPAA rules and my universities were liable if there was a breach.

I care greatly, and so my company does, about ensuring anonymity and learning from the data as much as possible, if participants continue to share. We assume anonymity before we touch one bit of data. And users always have the option of using our products without sharing anything at all.
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JetBrains would disagree.
These are some interesting points, thanks for bringing them up! A couple thoughts on some of the examples here:

College student debt - agreed, wording should be "graduates" not "students".

Animal species - the wrong source is used here, thanks for pointing that out. The source for the 30-50% answer should be http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/biodiversity/ele..., which refers to this Nature article: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v427/n6970/full/nature0...

Illiteracy - my understanding of functional illiteracy is in line with how Wikipedia defines it, and I think it's a reasonable phrasing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_illiteracy

Mental health in prisons - this feels a little like splitting hairs here, but the US Dept. of Justice source defines "having mental problems" as "a recent history or symptoms of a mental health problem...A recent history of mental health problems included a clinical diagnosis or treatment by a mental health professional. Symptoms of a mental disorder were based on criteria specified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition". So the wording of the question seems reasonable to me, in accordance with the Dept. of Justice (and including diagnosis by a professional).

On a larger scale, I agree the project is of course biased, both in terms of the questions selected and the multiple choice answers, as is stated right on the site. And I don't know if that is a bad thing. As is mentioned, the point of the site is to highlight things that are consistently misrepresented in the media, and to compare actual data to the common misconceptions that result from this misrepresentation in the media. To do that, the answer bins do need to involve what we believe to be these misconceptions as options.

Above all though, the point is to motivate discussion around these questions, and hopefully this project can help do that. Thanks again for your comment, we will fix those mistakes I mentioned above right away. Cheers!
Not enough people willing to pay to pivot to something people are (possibly) happy to pay for. That's what App.net was. It had good signs of support at the start and they dove in head first -- I think a wise decision.

The odds were against them; as they are with all startups. This just happens to be their day of reckoning.
Great article, thanks. Does sysdig ready for production servers? tested so it does not introduce new issues?
there is a package for that: https://github.com/santip/resize-panes

apm install resize-panes
It was a really hard business model to support and get to work. You are paying for the forward belief that the network itself will be strong enough to ultimately justify the costs, but over time if that belief isn't met (and it wasn't) then you will lose subscribers.

I give Dalton and Brian kudos for trying. Ultimately I think the lesson here is users simply aren't offended enough by ads that they would be willing to pay a subscription service to avoid them.
Didn't mean to make that claim, but I'd guess that chess is better for cognitive development because its demands on working memory are limitless. This is speculative, but it's also speculative to claim that 2048 is any better for learning than Candy Crush.
Some things are necessities for a stable, non-violent civilisation where everybody can live in relative peace. Cars are not included in that. Shelter is, but only a minimum level of shelter is necessary, and anything above that is discretionary spending, which I have no real problem with so long as it doesn't negatively affect others.

Thank you for your statement that you literally could not care less about how people with less money than you are treated.

I've been in a country where the vast majority of businesses never touch Government red tape. They don't pay taxes, the Government doesn't know they exist. Anyone who owns property could easily start up such a business. It still has massive poverty issues. I've lived there for years. I never want to go back. It would be unsafe for me to go back; due to a medical condition that I have, it is very likely that I would be discriminated against, and very possibly raped, with no recourse. And it'd be worse for a native.