skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is my biggest complaint about Apple Maps on iOS. Searching doesn't work. And if I get an address or name partially correct, Apple Maps usually fails.

Google can find me places of interest, without an exact name or address. That's my most common use case when using navigation on my mobile device.
I think a lot of the commenters here so far have been too hard on this site.

No, it's not the solution to ever problem ever - it's ephemeral messaging for file sharing and trivial logins. It's SnapChat, applied to the Desktop in a way that doesn't revolve around teenagers sending porn back and forth.

Good luck, Torpedo devs. You found a niche, launched a product and are giving it a good shot. I'd love to see a status update sometime in the future.
Your forgetting about gravitational potential energy. Lower orbits involve less total energy.
With all respect, and I do mean that, if the roles were reversed, what options would you give you? You have a company that was working, and a member of the team changed the rules of the game. The company took the risk for a year, and that risk did not result in a reward, so the company has now given you some very fair options. Obviously, something needs to change and the company is putting the ball in your court to decide how to make that work. That is an opportunity right there! He could have easily done the thing many companies do and just fired you with no warning.

That being said, I will take a stab at answering your questions. First, do you think your sales strategy will be changing, ie, become more successful? If not, then you should not take commission. Of course, if your sales strategy won't become more successful, why would they keep you? But I digress. Where you live, is it hard to find new work in your particular area of expertise? If not, then I would say resign, and find new work. If it is, then I would suggest you need to really think through your career path. In other words, resign if you think you can't make commission sales work. Take commission and become truly successful if you think your sales can improve.

Second, I have hired many employees over the years. I have never asked if they were on unemployment. I don't care one way or the other. The economy in my area has been rough for a long time, I don't take of unemployment as being a negative. Your milage my vary.

Third, if it's not in your original contract, don't expect it. If you are in a sales position and have brought in less revenue than you make in salary over the last year, don't expect it. If you work for a small company that is working hard but isn't ultra successful, don't expect it. So, don't expect it.

I hope my best advise is to not be afraid of finding new work. Get out there, hit the pavement, make yourself look great and get the job that makes you feel good. You're in sales. This is your greatest sales job. Go sell yourself. And good luck!
Deploying a rails app to a VPS (e.g. digital ocean or linode) isn't that much harder than setting up a development rails server on your work machine. If you have some time in the next few days for a screenshare I'll walk you through it - johnnybrown<%= prime_numbers[3] %>@gmail.com
> "One of our upstreams (Telia) appears to have a trans-Atlantic cable cut. We're routing around in many EU locations now." @cloudflare

https://twitter.com/CloudFlare/status/468494276691640320
Hey nwah_,

That's cool, I wasn't really trying to knock the product. I just get a little paranoid :)
it was indeed hyped too much.
It's not Digital Ocean's fault. It seems like CloudFlare, Twitter and Facebook's EU servers are down too..
I find it particularly amusing how many commenters are complaining about the lack of statement/explanation on the security model & encryption used behind the scenes--especially those comments suggesting one should hold out for such an explanation before using this service. Not because that isn't helpful information to have, but because it does not, in fact, provide the slightest shred of increased security, or additional reasons to trust this app (or any others).

I mean, the state of HN comments on things like Torpedo all tend to feature such a ring of comments warning everyone to not try something when there isn't a statement about security/encryption. And yet, such a statement is absolutely worthless for decision-making or increased trust. Anybody could write a statement promising all manner of security/encryption awesomeness all over the things they make. We could have a team put out an app that claims it has encrypted its own source code with AES256 4,096 times before deploying to servers and that everything you do is encrypted a billion times over, and it's just fucking words. Yeah, nobody would trust something that claimed that, I'm sure, cos it sounds ridiculous. But it's not inherently more or less trustable and/or secure based on the content alone.

If you're basing your decisions about who to trust on their words, you're using the wrong metric. "We delete everything, trust us" is no different from " the contents of secrets are encrypted with a randomly generated key, using AES 256 bit encryption, before being stored in our database. The key is then embedded in the share URL for the secret. We don't store the key nor the URL in our DB, so the only way to decrypt it is with the URL."[1]

None of this is to suggest you shouldn't trust the guys behind Torpedo and their app. I think you should. But even my words don't matter. No mere statement about security/encryption can be trusted based on the words alone. You can only actually trust something if you've been able to verify that it complies with the statement. And very few of the services anyone uses allow their users to obtain that level of verification.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7769443
if you're interested in building your own thing, I've just started looking for a co-founder with your level of experience. you can email me at lettersnumbersandperiods24 [at] gmail if you might be interested
Would not referring to specific software versions work approximately the same as including a date in such situations?

E.g., writing about recommendations for Python programming, and stating that you were running Python 2.7.5 at the time, or whatever.
We're working on a similar no-backend product called Hoist that does most of what Hoodie is but is a hosted solution. We do all the 'server' work so you can just build your app. We provide API's for everything from Data management (just post and get JSON) and user management. We're also working on integrating other cloud company API's so you can quickly get hooked up to them (and do the auth with tokens) on the server side and then use their API's in a fully client-side app.

Check it out: http://hoistapps.com

Would love to hear what anyone thinks if you give it a go. I can be emailed on ow@hoistapps.com
I had this issue on the new beeper system, I switched back to the old system and have had no issues since.
I don't necessarily see a problem with Util classes, either. He didn't really say why they're bad. Actually, I guess he didn't describe why we should do most of the things he recommended, but I agree with most of the other advice.
Arbitrary large gaps in small prime powers
Torpedo isn't intended to replace DropBox. We just think about file sharing a little differently – we'd rather think of it the way sharing files over IM is supposed to work (which it doesn't), or the way AirDrop works.

We personally don't use DropBox, but a lot of people do. Hopefully DropBox will add the feature for those users, but I think they solve a different problem and it's probably not a priority to them.

We'll get an FAQ section up on the site with the questions from this thread, all good feedback.
Sad to hear this.

I got into some ugly argument right on the very first try at participating in a discussion on the site, wasn't really impressed by how the mods handled it (although the one I PM'd was actually quite okay), and never really gave it another try.

I always felt like I'm really missing out and this was probably all just bad luck and a bad combination of personalities in this specific comment thread, but whenever I went back to the site those memories kind of killed the fun for me and I never commented again.

sigh
Ask HN: How to get a job at a startup that is not technical?
I'm eager to find a job with an innovative company and I'm very technology savvy, but I don't code or design. How do I get a job at these companies? P.S. I live in Downtown SF.
Not full-on Hindly-Milner, of course, but it seems like C++11's auto is a move in that direction.
What would you guys say is metafilter's core objective now? I used to read it a lot between 2004-2007, then got bored. So if you could describe metafilter & its community, how would you?
Looking Back One Year After The Edward Snowden Disclosures
A bit of tracerouting and some twitter searching[0] suggests that the issue likes with Telia.net. There are some unconfirmed suggestions that a cable was severed[1], which I'm not sure I believe yet but certainly any packet going via telia.net is having a bad time.

Edit: Even CloudFlare are reporting the cable cut[2] so... gosh.

[0] https://twitter.com/search?q=telia&src=typd

[1] https://twitter.com/CurseNetworkSys/status/46849347754249420...

[2] https://twitter.com/CloudFlare/status/468493714134822912
oh god this is awesome. a lot of people will buy this if it is only $10.
Mostly good advice. I'm surprised he talked about Joda Time and Java 8 without mentioning Joda Time is (essentially) included in Java 8.
Transatlantic cable down. Are they busy installing a prism?
I find it interesting how much they seem to be focusing on the "career" aspect. I wonder if they are pivoting to an open source model with premium training.

Even so, I'm not exactly inclined to throw my career behind what boils down to a JS animation library.
People also say this about the SA forums. I paid for it (and some extras), enjoyed what I read in the archive -- there are some real pearls! -- but I have no idea how I could fit in there.

So I'm just a lurker, but I'm still happy I found the site.
Bandwidth/Republic Wireless is hiring innovative Engineers
The $5 entry fee has never been about revenue and my understanding is that it never netted all that much revenue. Most of the money, to my knowledge, came from AdSense ads shown to logged-out users through search traffic. The gatekeeper fee does a lot to build a community of people who are committed to the site and want to be there.
Use the artists as a back door around the label and the venue.

Happy fans and a good purchasing experience make for more sold tickets and more loyal fans. Concerts are artists' bread and butter. That's where they make most of their money.
http://reddit.com/r/answers I like to think it's well moderated
Thanks for sharing this, didn't know about it. Always nice to see how other people tackle the same issue.
Yes! Moz.com has a great example of this. They do a bi-annual industry survey and update the persisting URL with the most recent findings and create a new page for the newly outdated survey.

Current Survey Results: http://moz.com/search-ranking-factors

Past Survey Results:
http://moz.com/search-ranking-factors/2011
http://moz.com/search-ranking-factors/2009
That's not that weird. When I moderated Tagmax, I made it a policy to "welcome people at the door" and try to make their first experience a positive one. My observation was those folks who had a positive initial experience came back and participated enthusiastically. Those who had a negative first experience we seemed to never hear from again.

So I think you aren't at all strange. I don't know what the policies on MetaFilter are but my experience as a moderator suggests that keeping an eye on the site "virgins" and making sure their initial experiences are positive is super important in shaping the site and growing it.

I am sorry you had such a negative experience. I get a lot of value out of MetaFilter, though it has been a long process for me to figure out how to fit in. But, I am not you and some of my issues are specific to me, not to MetaFilter and ...yadda yadda.
Scout app is nice, but no cycling routes - something only Google seems to do. :/
Transatlantic cable has been cut, lots of sites affected.
GoPro S-1
Dating App Loveflutter Reboots As A More “Quirky” Tinder
You basically nailed it :) — Hoodie is probably further along that it might seem. The team has been working on earlier iterations of this for nearly a decade now, and we have learned a lot along the way, allowing us to be very concise this time around. In addition, we have chosen a few powerful abstractions to make the actual implementation rather tiny.

That said, there is lots of work to be done, to make it, say, Rails, or Django-grade production ready, but the rough sketches are there and we are comfortable running a production app since December 2013, and we are working with a bunch of clients on their products, that we are comfortable with putting our reputation on the line for.

After 1.0 (we are pre), we want to be very explicit with the different levels of stability and maturity we ascribe to all parts of the system and the whole release overall. Our current production app handles 10k registered users on a small VPS without much sweat, so anywhere in that order of magnitude, with similar usage patterns, we thing Hoodie rocks the real-world, but if you are significantly diverging from this, we want to be careful and only recommend other’s to rely on Hoodie, when we have reasonable first or second hand experience of similar scale and use.

As for the socio-political statement: that’s definitely a big part of our motivation. We want to write and spread a story that isn’t the usual idea-vc-flip-sunset / abuse-overworking-cheating horror stories. And freeing data and empowering users is a future we want to see, so we are building it :)
Most of MetaFilter's revenue comes from the Adsense ads on Ask MetaFilter pages.
Take a look at the urls and do some calculation on how likely you are to actually get anything. It looks like 14 characters, alphanumeric with uppercase, which is about 10^25. Even if you can try a thousand urls per second, that would take you about 10^16 days to go through them all (that's a long time).

Or, if you want to calculate probabilities, assume that a billion urls are used (this is an astronomic overestimate). That's 10^9 urls. The chance of hitting one of those with a random guess is 0.00000000000014% (if I counted the 0s right). Not very likely.

Now if the url is observed in transit - that's a completely different thing. Just don't think that random guessing is going to reveal this. It's similar to people thinking you can guess your way to product keys for software (hint: you can't).
I have not but other open source projects have similar issues when dealing with copyrighted files. OpenJailbreak, for example, downloads copyrighted firmwares and then applies patches locally. They did not want to host modified Apple binaries in their open source project. They even went the extra mile and developed a library that can partially extract zip files served over HTTP so the entire firmware would not be downloaded. [0]

I agree that a lot of hard work has gone into the ROM reversing. I also cannot dispute that it is fascinating! I just wish the developers could have gone about the project in a manner that would not besmirch the project with copyright concerns.

[0]: https://www.openjailbreak.org/projects/libpartialzip-1-0/rep...
You don't need ad-hoc polymorphism to implement polymorphic operators. Haskell does that with type classes that provide parametric polymorphism.
This is an interesting problem since most companies that post jobs at sites like https://angel.co/san-francisco/jobs are mainly Engineering, Design, or Product Mangagement. Finding companies that aren't building software is your best bet, IMO.
I think there was a hope that an easy to eat mass produced product would finally allow for a simplification of diet without costing the same or more as a normal diet would cost.

That will always have my attention, but these products always seemed to be priced in a way that using them would cost just as much as normal food, I'm sure an economist would be pointing at a graph with two intersecting lines at this point. I get the argument, "well you were going to spend the money anyway, our product is more convenient, therefore it will be worth it to you."

I think most people would agree, I also think most people wouldn't valuate: risk, lock in, change, break of tradition, loss of a common comfort, ect. ect. ect.

They're never worth the value, and Soylent seemed like something that was just going to sell based on the components with margin for profit. I was excited.

bleeehh.
I haven't seen the Google/YouTube comparison on here yet. SoundCloud seems like the default place for audio uploads, similar (but not perfectly analogous) to YouTube for video circa 2006. Youtube has maintained a huge amount of independence from Google, to the point where the Twitch rumors from last week were all titled as, "YouTube to buy Twitch," or something close to that[1]. A similar partnership between Twitter/SoundCloud could work well.

[1] http://www.gamespot.com/articles/youtube-to-buy-twitch-for-1...
Putting together and composing queries in ES is error prone and I have grown quite allergic to libraries that just write off the query/filter API ES provides as "json blob lol lol".

You can lose massive amounts of time debugging a broken query in ES, due in no small part to a lack of an explicit spec.

To respond to the mis-aimed comment:

It's not about just beginning learning - it's a problem the moment you want to properly compose queries and not just have dumb templates.

I am not new to ES, I've been using it for years.

I understand wanting directness and the full breadth of the Elasticsearch API (thus moving away from Haystack), but not actually supporting anything in the API (which is the actual hard work, not wrapping an http-client) is problematic.
Cool! Glad to see more of this on the table :)
I am in Europe, and I can reach Facebook's EU servers just all right :-).
Akamai has a nice visualization map. Look at all that red in Europe.

http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz1.html
Hood.ie is open source, and your code is not. Any chance you can open source your code?
Preliminary investigation indicates that Telias Transatlantic cable are down
And that is the problem with trying to make a moralist based argument in a objectivist discussion right? I chose not to go there.

When debating the SF ordinance about the relative health benefits of "Happy Meals" questions came up like "Does Ronald McDonald house help more people with cancer than Big Macs make fat?" or "Do jobs provided by McDonalds to an otherwise unskilled population lower the crime rate?"

Debating the philosophical aspects of things can be enlightening but in this particular case, and in this particular article, that really wasn't the case. "Experts are worried" is just about as non-useful a statement as can be made about anything.

The observation I make is that *in totality of changes caused" by a technology, those that were created to do 'good' and or 'useful' [1] things generally have more good and useful uses than evil and/or threatening uses. I expect that to be true of the emerging IoT technology as well (more useful things than bad things).

Another interesting side effect is that if the balance shifts things can be made less useful, the case of decongestants comes to mind.

[1] In quotes because they are subjective measures.
After a decade of gently beating wayward mefites over the head with a clue stick, you deserve a break. Thanks for all those years of work!
I found that as these headlines from bloomberg and other financial news apps started to roll in to my phone and now that I've actually read a few of the articles that my reaction of 'let the wrist slaps begin' may not be the reality of the situation.
Three 17 year olds start a 'do-engine'
A couple security issues after a quick look:

> No secure flag set on your session cookie

> No HttpOnly flag or secure flag set on auth-token cookie

> Password reset doesn't require the old password

> Password policy requires only 6 characters

> No x-frame-options header (especially problematic with 3rd item)

> You're running sslstrip on port 10250

> You're MongoDB port is open to the internet

> No support for TLS 1.1 or 1.2

> Info is "encrypted" but keys are kept server side. You may not keep the URL after generation but it's still sitting in your server logs. Look at mega's use of strings after # for how to do client side only keys.
Not interested in being acquired or funded. Just built a little idea we've been sitting on for a while, and largely just to test out a few other projects in the field – things we're hoping to open source sometime soon.

I picked the Forward green, nwah picked the Torpedo blue – nothing more.
Try grabbing the scroll bar with your mouse and pulling it down the page. Nope, apparently scrollbars aren't for that.

This doesn't seem to be designed with regular desktop usage in mind.
Agreed. I had a rough time when I was first learning how to manually build queries as there are few examples of complex queries.
Not bad, but it seems like the author conflates an app's architecture with a framework here.

App architecture, at it's best, is a intentional structuring that isolates what the system does from how it does it. In other words, it separates the business concerns from the technical concerns, as they may change for separate reasons. This is what results if you don't use a framework. It may seem impossible, but there were tons of desktop apps made without a framework (I consider .NET/GTK/Win32 et al to be class libraries because they did not force any architecture on you.)

Contrast this with a framework: a ready-made set of abstractions used for solving a particular problem. Most frameworks prescribe an architecture: their own.
What are the "SA" forums?
Well what can you do?
I'm not forgetting that at all.

The moon can't move up or down without transferring momentum to the earth.

But the amount of momentum transferred and the amount of energy transferred don't match. The difference is expressed as heat in the tides on Earth.

So in one direction there is extra energy, in the other insufficient energy.
How to set up an Online Tutoring Business for $0. A Programmer's Guide
Cars could drive themselves sooner than expected after European push
I was just reading SUN related stuff, reminiscing about mid-late-90's SUN, wondering how you were. Sorry for your loss.
Misfortune of working with PostgreSQL
I would suggest studying marketing and getting your feet wet in that space. Outside of the code and design, I think its one of the most needed skill-sets in this space. I could be mistaken though. Or maybe you are looking for an executive assistant type position?
With cold calls, especially for non professional salesmen (one man startups etc) procrastination can be anxiety related. I wonder if there is anyway software can help with that.
Since the position is static the earth itself would deform too eventually. So I believe the answer is "not much".
If most readers' assessment were instead, Current > Uncertain > Old, then perhaps it would be best for date to be left out of the URL and templates only to include it conditionally? Would it be dishonest to tell you that today's post was written today, but not say when a post from three years ago was written?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Awful

It's a peer of 4chan.
Map My Ride has some great cycle mapping tools. They have several base maps available, I'm not sure exactly where the data comes from.