skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They. Just. Don't. Care.

They should, though. And they will if the state decides to take the gloves off and use all of that illegitimate power against them.
Not if you choose to first type your message in the textarea on the website, but this is optional. You can also click the extension icon, and begin typing your message in the extension window. That way it never touches the DOM of the target page, but it is slightly less convient.
I can't quite grasp what this is (as in, what the software is, is that a server, a client, or a combination of both), or how could I get started in using it.

>Your data should be alive in 80 years, especially if you are

Is there any special significane for 80 years? And exactly how is it safe? The "Download" sections have me installing the server on my box, and my hdd certainly won't survive 80 years.

Under storage, it says that

>Implementations are trivial and exist for local disk, Amazon S3, Google Storage, etc.

How does encryption work? I can't seem to find out at which step the encryption is done (client side, or server side?). The home page mentions it's "private by default", considering that I don't know that much about security and cryptography in general, how safe would I be in using this, for whatever purposes that it could be used for.

Mention under potential use cases: filesystems backups and Document management CMS. That's ... interesting.
s/fan if/fan of/
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Although the trend of more work today than ever is obviously troubling, as an engineer, I can't help but think that the reason we don't yet have what the past promised because "the robots" really are not that great yet--we do, after all, need an entire staff of people to design, test, build, and monitor them.

In addition, for every problem that we solve--global distribution, connectivity, transportation--we create even more. All of these "solutions" require additional infrastructure, research and development, and ultimately, breed entirely new disciplines and fields of study--i.e. STAFF. Additional flexibility breeds complexity.

100 years ago, I probably wouldn't have ventured very far from where I was born. Food would be grown locally. I wouldn't have internet, etc. Today I have MUCH more flexibility, but that comes at the price of complexity. I tend to believe the SUV / iPhone argument but think they're pretty terrible examples. All things equal, I could likely maintain the same level of technology and lifestyle as someone 100 years ago on about half my income. It's simply, not our culture, which is in large part driven by consumerism. Even if I WANTED to, most companies wouldn't allow it.

The real question we should be asking ourselves, is do we need the iPhone / SUVs, etc. And if not, why are we working so hard for them?

The film Happiness [1] also explores the work / leisure balance in depth.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness_(1998_film)
> The word cloud is a crock and i'm not going to get into that.

I can't resist slightly getting into it: it was a perfectly decent metaphor until some marketing numbskull heard a technical person use it and decided to stretch it in ways that made it meaningless.

Back when it simply meant, "look, you push your packets into the network and a bunch of routers decide how to get it to its destination without you having to worry about routing" it was fine.
Thanks for nice words.

Yes, indian women clothing as I currently can't compete with macy's , banana republic and guess by solely selling western clothes.

We have dresses, indo western clothes besides traditional indian clothing.

We have a physical store in mohali, India too.

Lot of people tell me the clothes are expensive but there are sites selling same kind of clothes between $7000 - $15,000. My margins are around 5% - 7% after giving 30% discount so bringing prices more down would be a financial suicide.
I can't afford to ignore it as it matures, but with my dev setup right now, I just can't afford it. Hoping to see this work well in Linux and Windows.
Take Cisco.com for example. There are a lot of systems there that are sending out emails. Employees and newsletters are probably encrypted but only make up a small portion of their outbound mail. Things like ticket updates are going to result in a huge volume of email. Cisco may have (wrongly) decided that because the ticketing system is a trusted source it doesn't need to be encrypted. So some of their email is going directly out from the tool and some is going through a smart host. This is probably why it's <50%.
Don't bother with SEO or print advertising.

Go find some actual people and convince them, yourself and in person, to try the site. Watch them try it. Ask them if they want to buy. If not why not. Expose yourself to that direct feedback.
How on earth having an unknown, unsecure, unreviewed binary blob running on your computer be "the more secure method"? Compared to what?
But having a blob in the browser running in a sea of proprietary code (MacOS), I don't think it makes such a big difference.

"a more secure ... non-DRM video source" - more secure compared to what? What does security means to you?
If you are going to watch non-DRMed video, it's already as secure as it can get, all you need for the efficiency part is better codecs, think of VP9, or Daala.
The downfall is that you an add a complete secondary interface in 9 lines of code?
I'd rather publish these here than with Nature
Part of the sales process is taking the sales feedback and using it to improve the product continuously. If you're not doing that, you're missing the core point which is to improve the product.
Apple has Grand Central Dispatch. It seems that Swift plays well with it, and I won't be surprised if more concurrency-model-as-library stuffs pop up in the future. It's a sound approach and avoids tying the language itself to any singular model.
It's probably relying on normal process isolation (and extensions run in a different process), but in order to disable stack dumps for it, you'd have to have some way of indicating "this process is special", which rules out treating it like any other extension.

Maybe there could be some new extension permission for "encryption extension" or something, but it's possible that could be abused...
Again, with DRM in music, are you making a distinction between streaming music, and owning music? Because I don't care if my Spotify or Rdio stream is encrypted. It has no effect on the user experience whatsoever. (In that sense, Netflix is closer to Spotify or Pandora than to iTunes Movies).

But I absolutely care of the music that I own is encrypted.
What would get me excited if with Roslyn they could give us edit-n-continue everywhere. Even introduce an interpreter or throw exceptions if things were malformed. That would save me some time.
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> There are a couple of studies in this vein

The largest and most instructive one is, I think, Facebook. And tumblr. To a lesser extent reddit. For shits and giggles, 4chan and SA.

And if you look at the latter of those, you'll see kids making things by themselves in large amounts. You could take that as support for basic income - everybody under 18 pretty much lives on basic income and then some. A lot of them make really fun things and publish on the internet.

My hunch is that if we do get basic income, it will take one to two generations before the floodgates really open and our problem will not be people being too uncreative, but exactly the opposite.
I understood your site because I use screenshot browser extensions frequently.

Most people have no idea such tools exist. You are asking them to envision a concept that they never imagined is possible today.

Your animated graphic is clear to me, but it's not explicit enough.

You also appear to include features of tools like Clicktale, which is interesting and not prominent enough.

I agree that this tool must be live on your own site. :)
I believe you're still misunderstanding the issue. A good fraction of engineers count among those whose lives build something and help people. Engineers who build user-facing products are still vastly underpaid relative to rent-seekers, like hedge fund managers and CFOs.

Consider the fact that tech has rampant age discrimination because almost no one wants to pay any extra for experience beyond ten years or so unless that person moves to management.

I think Stephen Colbert explained it best in his recent book, America Again. Being close to money attracts more money. Or as Piketty explained it, capital is valued higher than labor. Roles dealing with how capital is allocated are given undue benefits.
I'd argue the second is clearer in many cases. Readability trumps conciseness any day.
The gas inside will want to expand further, but it will be restrained by the envelope. Imagine the outside air pressing inward until there is an equilibrium. If the balloon then rises again (for instance, because it warms up) then it can get to a point where the outward force on the envelope exceeds the capacity of the envelop material to restrain that force.

For flexible envelopes this is more or less inevitable (balloon rises->atmospheric pressure drops->balloon expands->density decreases->balloon rise etc), for more rigid envelopes it is a balance that may work out in favor of the balloon staying in one piece (oscillating in altitude as it cools down/heats up again with the day/night cycle), or it may burst depending on the pressure differential. Most of them are pretty flimsy.

From: http://www.stratostar.net/faq.html

"When a balloon is filled on the ground with lift gas (helium or hydrogen), it can range in size from 2.5 ft to 8 ft in diameter. During the balloon's flight it will grow more than 4 times the diameter and upto 83 times the volume measured at launch, until it can't strech any more and will burst! A high-altitude weather balloon filled with 268 cu/ft of helium will have a diameter of about 8 ft at sea level, but as the balloon climbs through the atmosphere it will expand to 35ft in diameter and will have a volume of 22,449 cu/ft before it pops."
From the actual download link

>"Installing a CTP release will place a computer in an unsupported state. For that reason, we recommend only installing CTP releases in a virtual machine, or on a computer that is available for reformatting.

>Currently, Visual Studio "14" CTPs have known compatibility issues with previous releases of Visual Studio and should not be installed side-by-side on the same computer."

I don't know how serious that statement is, or maybe it's just a big blanket clause. But it seems like they really, really think you shouldn't install them together.
> Luckily for the Chinese, all this warmongering ended five months later when the guy who the US armed to overthrow Afghanistan's secular government crashed into the Pentagon etc. because he opposed US bases on Saudi soil.

The best part of this whole story is that the day the infamous "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" photo was taken, the US was complying with the terrorists' key demand and pulling all troops out of Saudi Arabia. Someone's mission was definitely accomplished that day.
Are you sure this should work? I checked the grammar once more and it seems that closure-expression should always be enclosed in { ... }
Worse, it works 100%... 99.9% of the times.

The other times, it's when someone wants it not to work.
Other software on your computer might as well. Or people walking by in the hallway. So Google and (insert everyone in the world).
Any up-to-date Java developer already knows Swift :)
IWantMyName are great, +1 for their UI, and their support are excellent! I've switched from Gandi and have never looked back.
I would say pretty much every exchange is essentially to do with your skill as a mediator, however according to the article there is definitely exchange of material goods.
Sasha did write a blog article stating that psilocybin mushrooms would selectively 4-hydroxylate tryptamines. It's one of those reactions that plants can do very selectively quite easily, but if you try to do in a lab, it's difficult to prevent hydroxylation at other sites.

E.g. (well, not a real example, but the idea of the reaction). You could put DPT in the growing media of mushrooms, and get 4-OH-DPT in the mushroom.

Keep in mind that you could put DMT in the media and get 4-OH-DMT, but that would be pointless, that's what the mushrooms make anyway!
Mr. Edamaruku is a coward. If he believes in his cause and has a complaint about the wonderful miracles of India, he should man up and return home to stand trial before his own country's system of justice. —John Kerry
If you're confused as to what this project is about or why it's important, I highly recommend watching the first ~10 minutes of the video posted on the main site. Brad Fitzgerald does a much better way of explaining the value proposition.

I personally think this is one of the most hugely important ideas/protocols to come out of the last decade. Even if Camlistore doesn't do it, it's hard to imagine software programmers of the future not agreeing on a shared protocol to fill this huge, huge need.

I actually wrote a proposal for a Mozilla grant recently outlining a couple of the reasons why decoupling storage from user interface is a fundamentally good thing for society[1].

[1]https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/sto...
It’s excellent! The attention to detail is awesome, as is the thoughtfulness put into each and every feature (and the feature selection). Plus, the dev is super nice and friendly when you report bugs to them.

I have gained a much better understanding of what I see in the sky. It’s nice to be able to pull up this app as soon as you see something in the sky and be able to tell what it is. Of course, other apps do that, too, but none do it as nicely.

I recommend going ISS watching with it. (Requires an IAP, I think, but as always app prices are disastrously low.) The ISS is really bright and easy to see, plus the thought of six people soaring by up there is quite uplifting. And without the app this would always be a thing you have to plan for, not a thing you accidentally see after dinner, then walk out to the big town square to see the ISS go by with the people you were eating with.
I'm sure he is smart enough to realize this, but if he does make Tesla's patents available, I hope it is structured in such a way so as to force some sort of open shared license pooling for those who join in.

If unrestricted I can easily imagine other companies using Tesla's released patents while suing Tesla for violating patents that the other company owns. Because the practice of IP law in this country is fucking insane these days.
Just to clarify, by "evil" I mean, literally, that it makes you do evil things. I'm not talking about overall cost to society.
I think its experience. They built MWS first, which imo, isn't significantly better than Heroku's API in terms of reliability/transparency.
Similarly, I used to wonder why an image constructed with 3-point perspective [1] looks perfectly normal, while one with 4-point perspective [2] does not.

[1] http://www.craftsy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/cropp...
[2] http://www.termespheres.com/images/perspective/fourpointpers...
It should also be noted that there are services that you can mail a sample to, and they will lab test it and publish the results for a reasonable fee.
For each import statement, it has to check each directory in the path. So (num imports) * (length of path).
thank you, the title did not interest me back then. Sometimes I wish HN was more like metafilter.
Co-ops and communes are about as close as you'll get to that kind of experiment. From what I've seen, they start out great, but then as they grow either in size or in age, they begin to show stress fractures from the usual social problems that plague all human political endeavors. It almost seems as if we're doomed to mediocrity in the long run.
The thing is that all of us have different interpretations of what Sales and Marketing represent. Thus I look past those terms and look at the activity she describes instead.

When I look at what she describes, I feel that it is simply a repackaged form of customer development. But for a WSJ audience, I understand the need to frame it in familiar terms.
Eleanor Saitta (@Dymaxion) had a few things to say about this on Twitter:

On the one hand, I'm happy Google is trying to make GPG usable within GMail: https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/ . On the other hand, this leaves many ?s
It sounds like all you get from "end-to-end", other than a name that's going to cause horrible confusion, is a bare mininum of GPG functions.
No TOFU, no pushing users to encrypt by default, no better management of keys, no attempt to stop metadata surveillance.
It's good GMail users will have an easier time with GPG, but if it keeps them on a broken-by-architecture centralized service, we all lose.
This doesn't seem to go far enough in making crypto usable (no indexing solution, for instance) but it will slow development of alternatives.
I admit Google is kind of in a bind here - if they want to help GMail users, they're also necessarily slowing the evolution of a safe net.
Mostly I wish they hadn't called it "end-to-end". Because, you know, words mean things, and like "Off the record", that means something else.
I'm surprised Google weren't willing to spend the internal security resources on end-to-end to be able to stand behind it at time of release.
All told, it pretty much smells like "keep engineers happy" + "win points with the net freedom community as cheaply as possible."
Google, if they wanted to, could do some pretty revolutionary stuff in the secure comms space, but that would cost actual cash.
Ssh, no one wants to talk about how Silicon Valley business models depend on surveillance.

https://twitter.com/Dymaxion
To which audience are they selling clothes at that price? Brides?
A couple more interesting swift features that seemed a bit weird to me after skipping through the reference:

1. Strings, arrays and dictionaries are value types (like structs in C# - stored on stack, not on the heap) with special copying rules for arrays.

2. Custom operators - can be defined as a sequence of "/ = - + * % < > ! & | ^ . ~" characters and made prefix, infix or postfix. There is an example in the reference that defines a prefix operator "+++" for vectors
It might be rare to know what you're getting, but that doesn't preclude you from utilizing various drug testing services that will test what you have and let you know the results.
Heroku builds on AWS, so they're affected both by AWS downtime and by issues in their own infrastructure.
I have both 2012 and 2013 on my machine, 2013 changes caption color, could not see anything on 2012 change.
"but as YC grows in influence, wealth, prestige and power, so too do its overseers, and the shadow of moral hazard darkens. actions impossible yesterday become intolerable today and invisible tomorrow."

I feel like that should be a quote from a Harry Potter novel.
Assuming no illness, doctors help no one.
A telling & loaded question: Are people working so many hours because we’ve just somehow independently conceived this desire for lattes and Panini and dog-walkers and the like, or is it that people are grabbing food and coffee on the go and hiring people to walk their dogs because they’re all working so much?

Making panini or coffee - good ones - takes effort, time, and resources to a degree few are willing to engage on their own. I've a dozen coffee makers, acquired in the quest to learn how to brew a perfect cup, and still drop $1.75 at Starbucks because a swipe of a card and a few minutes of scheduled skilled labor are often preferable to finding decent beans, grinding them, heating water, buying & fitting a filter, pouring, timing, cleaning and stowing what's needed; ditto lunch and dog-walking. Sure, we could all make fancy lunches and fine coffees and walk the dogs, and enjoy doing so at select times, but most people are unable and unwilling to at that level day-in-and-day-out when slinging dirt, paper, or bits can acquire such lifestyle.

As for the "BS jobs": in between the productive (slinging dirt, or deciding who should sling which dirt where) are "glue jobs" and "filler jobs", not notable of themselves but required to cover & hold together aspects of productivity, without which cumulatively expensive problems would arise.

That opportunities in any job may be abused for personal gain, or trail off to nothing useful, is simply a reality of human nature and imperfect systems.

The question, foundational to much of the biased rambling in the rest of the interview, is either naive or disingenuous. We have independently conceived of odd luxuries, and made them profitable for someone to do despite being arguably wasteful, or that they are in fact our chosen outlet for the long-predicted "life of leisure". Like "living on the Moon", the remote notion is romanticized, but when given the option to ... most people are disinterested in eeking out survival on a giant atmosphere-free dead rock, or idly reading or playing games whilst subsisting on mundane food & accommodations; rather, they'd instead choose a routine of imposed obligations, coupled with swipe-a-card easy access to higher luxuries of relatively fine foods and fancier surroundings.

I guess my gripe with the interviewee is that he has a notion of how society should be, and argues toward forcing economic redistributions to make it happen ... decrying & denying the reality that the economy is what it is, on the whole, because it's the cumulation of free choices. Sure, I could be living a "life of leisure" (and nearly did) enjoying majority time of idleness; instead, I (like most) chose a more frantic life of productivity (and sometimes gap-filling) so I could enjoy relatively luxurious goods & services with the swipe of a card. Force redistribution to impose the social structure & values the interviewee wants, and methinks most of us would rebel at the results; we're not living that way for a reason.
showinghn.com is what I use to see what other people have shown HN
I would have liked to used this, but you only offer sign up via facebook or linkedin.
I ran an e-commerce site focused on Indians living in US a few years ago. Here are a few things that might help you:

1. It seems like your target market is Indian women in USA (guessed based on prices in $) IMO this is still not a niche market. Is your target market Indians who immigrated to US or born here? What age group (working moms vs students)? Why do they need these clothes (casual wear vs Indian parties vs weddings, etc.)? Does your target market live in major cities (like Bay Area) where there are a few offline options available or do they live in remote locations where the nearest Indian grocery store is 50 miles away? Or maybe I am completely wrong and your target market is non-Indian women in US.

2. What did you learn from driving traffic to the site? I see that you listed phone numbers, did anyone call? I would highly recommend using Olark/Zopim and actively chat with people who click on your ad campaigns to ask them what they are looking for.

3. Checkout IndianRoots.com. It is owned by NDTV, the biggest USP they have is free world wide shipping and I know a few people who have already used it. Not sure if you can compete with them on free shipping , but worth looking at.

And as the article says, talk to your users. Running ad campaigns work to drive people onto your site but you'll have to talk to your users to find out what are their pain points and what do they need.
I want to help people and give advice about resumes, but did not want the Linkedin or facebook access register. Can you make a regular signup page or anonymous way to use?