skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it is what you are passionate about go for it.

You describe it as a web/mobile start-up and later discuss the importance of it and the opportunity to change the world. I think it is worth being clear in your mind if this is a commercial project that you want to earn profits or a social venture (that may pay its own bills).

I would think about why you want to be secretive about it though. Even with businesses I think PG is largely right that secrecy isn't often worth it, you need to show people how good the idea is before they realise it. See AirBNB etc.

If you tell people what it is you can get some advice and maybe even help. At the crowd funding stage at least you need to let people know what your plan is.
Mozilla begins the $25 smartphone push
Bitcoin Mining Virus Spotted on Facebook
Wappalyzer does this as well and is open source, cross-platform and identifies 500+ technologies:

https://github.com/ElbertF/Wappalyzer

https://wappalyzer.com/download
for newbies like me this is just to great, cross device webdev can be a nightmare or this just to good to be true?
Noticed Paul Irish is no longer active on H5BP, is he now on team Web Starter Kit or working on the broader Web Fundamentals?
FSF responds to today's US Supreme Court ruling on Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank
Starbucks admits it's not contributing to scholarship fund
It's a saying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_bites_dog_(journalism)
My own idea is to divide the amount of hum sufferers with the amount of population of the place, and THEN make a heatmap...

Maybe you need to cull places where there are too few people and 1 hum sufferer might already cause lots of heat, but I expect the result would be a proper amount of hum sufferers compared to total population of the place, maybe this way you can trace sources of those hums.

Also I bet lots of people don't talk about this publicy, because people say they are crazy or the sound is inside their head, I mentioned a high-frequency buzzing sound I hear on my apartment, and people already threw lots of disparaging and senseless remarks to me (even with me being very explicit that the sound comes from outside, because I cannot hear it when I close my windows or go to window-less rooms)
Rosetta: Icy quarry coming into view
Scrollback: A friendly portal to your IRC channel
Try downloading Weave (think Tinder for Professional Networking). There are tons of awesome entrepreneurs and investors looking to network on the app.

http://weave.in/app

[full disclosure: I'm one of the founders]
New App MyLaddr Encourages You To Meet Up With Friends
Nice tool, also I had no idea about the moviepy library used by the tool. Looks like a really nice little library for making small video edits in python. Cool!
Now that is absolutely awesome news. Congratulations to Joey & the team, all is well that ends well. I especially like the word 'indefinitely'. Super curious about the backstory to this.
Many businesses and professional individuals operate under a legal requirement to keep records that can't be satisfied if they are too reliant on SSD storage. Also, deleting information after the commencement of legal proceedings can be a criminal offense.
Which is a real shame because if they updated it properly they could be a real competitor to Github or Bitbucket and there's plenty of opportunities to add really simple integration to GAE or Compute.
> A free-space wipe on an SSD can't guarantee that reserved or remapped blocks get erased.

I think most controllers implement a secure erase feature that guarantees the data have been erased from NAND.

> the entire encrypted volume looks like it's in use to the SSD controller

I have always wondered how encrypted volume worked on an SSD. It seems this will lead to serious performance issues due to ineffective garbage collection.
You make some good points, and I tend to personally agree because such work environments rub me the wrong way. It feels a little cultish and I like to have a little space between my personal and professional. But I also agree with the GP that we should leave room for different company cultures.

The bottom line is all company cultures are dysfunctional in some way, and being a little co-dependent and insular is far from the worst crime. I'll take that any day over a place where good technical work is unrecognized or gets downright stifled because of politics.
Recruiter here (independent agency), and I've always felt that the problem is that fees are too high. With this much money being thrown at recruiters, it keeps the bad ones in the business. If fees were lower, only the best recruiters would survive - as well as those that are just best at making money, which doesn't necessarily mean 'best' - and eventually most of the bottom recruiters would exit the market.

Contingency recruiting is the overall source of the problem. Someone could make a few lucky hits a year and make good enough money to stay in business. If fees were say half of what they are now, that would put many out of business, and I'd assume those would the recruiters that everyone complains about.

The size of fees also leads to the ethics problems. You may or may not lie for $5, but what kind of lies might you tell for say $30,000? The large numbers and competitive nature make it a high-reward game that gives incentive to cheat and lie when necessary.

Smaller fees. I use small flat fees with a portion paid up front. The fees are small enough that I have little incentive to lie, and the up front portion is small enough that I'm going to hustle to get the second payment.

Contingency recruiters absorb 100% of the risk, meaning they can work hundreds of hours on a search but if the recruiter down the street fills it they get nothing. This is the reason fees are high - the risk factor. If you remove that risk to some degree (or share the risk) by paying some money up front, recruiters should agree to lower fees and companies should like the results.

As a recruiter, would I rather compete against 20 bigger firms for a 30K fee or would I rather be practically guaranteed a 15K fee? The answer for me is the latter, but may differ for others.
The woman Assange allegedly raped is currently refusing to cooperate with the prosecutor and police. She is even refusing to sign her own testimony. The unsigned testmony states however that she was "half-asleep" when Assange initiated sex, which is what the prosecutor is using to charge Assange for lesser degree rape.

Her intention, as far as public statements has been, is quite clear. She wanted him tested for HIV. She had asked him, but he refused, so a few days later she went to the police to ask if they could force him to take a HIV.

I remember reading that she simply felt tricked by the prosecutor/police when the media circus started with the arrest warrant and extraditions. If we want to take her side (which should do), then what would the correct course of actions be?
Evidence is evidence, it both exonerates and convicts.
Wow, that is a heartwarming sight.

I hope your new super-backer is able to step forward soon, best of luck Joey and team.
It was hard to watch you guys going down that way but seems prayers have been answered. :)
That almost reads as a re-invention of the java applet.
Try finding a China version of Amazon's mechanical turk. And somebody who reads chinese.
This is why I just say bigger than last week's data.
How does this compare to Yeoman, and is it meant to be a replacement? I thought Yeoman was made by some Google folks.
The etymology of "guy" is worth looking up. Apparently derived from Guy Fawkes, who was burnt in effigy. And said effigies became a synonym for "grotesque person" which in turn became just "person". In view of that, male or female shouldn't really matter and, yes, I've heard it used for both genders. (Quite often in the "you guys" form, which is yet another way to compensate for a lack of appropriate grammar in English).
Yes, that was a bit strange.

Posting a comment about idiots who post comments. Of course HN is not technically a news site but still....

I would like to see more quality on news comments. For some perverted reason I enjoy reading political discussion (yes, I agree, it is a waste of time), but this is usually marred by the vast majority of comments being mindless, repetitive and full of hatred. I already know Obama is a Muslim Communist Homosexual who wasn't born in the US and is out to destroy America. And I already know the Koch brothers are out to destroy the last vestiges of women's liberty by buying up the government and polluting our environment. (please don't make me explain sarcasm) I yearn for some serious informed reader opinion and discussion on news stories. Hopefully the Mozilla effort helps with this.
> “I have all this experience but I suffer from a thing that almost every person who doesn’t have an actual background in CS does: I have islands of knowledge with big gaps in between,” she said. “Every time I'd come across some concept, some data structure in the kernel, I'd have to go educate myself on it.”

I get the impression that Morgan Phillips avoids saying she has a background in CS due to not holding a degree in it. I think she has every right to state that she does have a background (being classified as a hacker goes without saying).

Now, I am going to compile her poetry.
Checking IOPS of a fully-virtualized system (even with virtio, and it's unclear from your post whether you were using it or not) is not at all a relative comparison to something which is literally a process on the host system.
How do IPs get assigned? Is that still over nova network?
One of the core values behind this project is that it should work extremely well cross-device and that most definitely means on devices where Chrome isn't the primary browser. During development we've ensured that we test on Firefox OS, Windows phone, iOS and browsers other than Chrome which run on Android. I want to give people something that they can rely on. Chrome isn't the only browser in the world for sure :)
Completely agree with everything you said. I disagree about Impala, right now.

It has great potential, but I don't think it's prod-ready yet.

Also, why no mention of HBase?
'picture' element added to the WHATWG HTML Standard
It's not just lossless/lossy. GIF is also rather primitive; you can store a delta from frame to frame, but the delta has to include every pixel that changed. A lossless animated format invented today wouldn't have that restriction, it would support things like pixel motion (which e.g. H.264 has).

Some years ago there were multiple efforts to produce animated PNGs. There was MNG (Multiple-image Network Graphics, which could contain both PNG and something called JNG) in 2001, and more recently, APNG (Animated PNG) in 2008. The problem here is the spotty support for these formats. AFAIK MNG is effectively dead. I thought APNG was as well (with Firefox being the only browser to support it), but interestingly, the Wikipedia page claims that Safari 8.0 (the upcoming version in OS X 10.10 and iOS 8) supports it. Chrome, Opera, and IE don't, but there is a Canvas-based library for rendering APNG which could presumably be used to polyfill support if you wanted to experiment with APNG.

In any case, the point here is that something like APNG probably has much better compression than GIF while still being lossless (I haven't done any actual comparisons here, but the PNG format itself has support for a lot of fancy compression stuff that GIF doesn't).

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Reading a bit more, I'm actually really surprised to see that Safari 8.0 apparently supports APNG. It seems that the PNG Group officially rejected APNG back in 2007, which means that libpng will never support APNG.
I was sold right up to the point where I needed a Google account to sign in. Is that strictly necessary?
BitLocker at least supports TRIM with SSDs on NTFS volumes: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q...

> When Bitlocker is first configured on a partition, the entire partition is read, encrypted and written back out. As this is done, the NTFS file system will issue Trim commands to help the SSD optimize its behavior.

It's also planned for FreeBSD's geli: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2013-March/016...
> It's only sending a message if you're looking for one.

Conversely, consider that you don't see the message because it's inclusive (I assume) for you.

It's interesting that you also said:

> The kind of people who are so sensitive that they get offended by trivial things like that are not the kind of people I'd want working with/for me

I mean, sure it's trivial to you. But what if it wasn't. What if your boss used language that excluded you for some reason. Would you still not want to work with me when I went to bat for you?

I guess the family/team thing is a good analogy, in the end. In a family you have to put up with your racist/sexist/whatever-ist family and love them regardless. In a team you don't put up with that shit, because you don't have to.

I'd rather work with a team.
Dear yla92,

Apart from being in London, you could be telling my story. I am a 43 year web developer, I have suffered from major depression for most of my life and I have often thought about killing myself. For far too many years, I was utterly miserable and assumed that I was just sad the way some people are blonde and some people are tall; it was just part of who I was and could not be changed. It took a long time for me to realise and accept that I was not inherently fucked but that I was suffering from a condition that distorted my perceptions of myself and that made me want to kill myself.
Part of what made it hard for me to seek help was that I did not think I deserved it. We were well off when I was growing up (both my parents are doctors), I have all my limbs, I am white, straight and male and not subject to persecution on grounds of race, gender or sexuality, I do not suffer from a physical condition or disease. I felt that I did not have a right to help because of the advantages I had had growing up and what right did I have to feel like crap when I objectively had it so good? I mention this because you mention your opportunities in life. This does not invalidate what you feel in the slightest.
I think that talking to someone -- Samaritans or someone else -- is crucial. I wish I had sought help earlier than I did. I would have wasted so much less time. It took me a couple of tries to find a therapist who worked for me but it has helped no end.

How do you break it to your boss and colleagues? Who says you have to? If you had cancer, kidney failure or one of any number of physical conditions that required time off work for treatment, would you be required to tell your co-workers about it or would be a matter of utter confidentiality? Would your reputation be marred if you needed to take time off for dialysis? I am well aware of the stigma around mental health and depression but that should not be a barrier to getting help. It is possible to get help and still be respected by those around you. (http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/West_Australian_Premier_Geoff_Ga...).
If there are people at work who you can confide in, I would suggest reaching out to them. If you can afford to take time off, I would suggest considering it.

Know that you are not alone. As you suggested, there does seem to be a correlation between developers and depression. We are many.
This sounds like a truly dark time for you. It will get better. Don't do anything permanent to fix what is a transient situation.
Kia kaha, brother. Stand strong.
Reminds me of a discussion on HN a few years ago about painting some very famous algorithms on a canvas and expose them in exhibitions. There's a inherent form of beauty in some of them that may be visible even to the non-initiated.
Yes, I agree, but I don't see how that's related to what I said.
https://twitter.com/aphyr/status/479726976471539713
welcome to the future: http://www.netanimations.net/skeltw2.gif
aborting is a terrible, terrible way to signal an error. strlcpy has a return code to report truncation. Discipline around return codes is already required in C. It's not a huge burden to bear (and if you're doing it right there should be lints to detect when checks are missing).
Like they say, there are no original ideas. At some point the W3C needs to give some serious thought as to how to do applications on the web the right way. That's roughly my wishlist for the future.
Couldn't it just be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinnitus

As I get older, I hear some sounds I am certain are like tinnitus. It terrifies me because I love and need quiet. But so far I've been able to move around, create some other sounds, and the fake sound stops. But tinnitus is a disease of old age.
Taiwan's Quanta to start mass production of Apple's smartwatch in July
I'm only going to make one comment on this thread:

If you use this thread to make disparaging comments about Shanley, you're missing the point and you're doing it wrong. Go look at how respectfully I tried to treat Shanley when she gave me tons of crap, and then go do the same thing. Shanley's abuse does not make your abuse okay.

Let's all be kind to each other! :D
hattrick is nice
This is awesome! Earbits is a great service for artists and listeners
Hey all, Bonsai cofounder here.

It was an old API access key that got leaked, not our account credentials. We're still investigating how and where the key got leaked, but bottom line, it should have been revoked ages ago.

2FA is great, but it doesn't cover API keys. Rotate your API keys!
What prevents Chrome from running a simulator of Android, and web pages to embed an Android app that will execute, replacing the web page it came from?

That would be exactly like the Java applet, except with a much better API (and touchscreen laptops would finally make sense).
I'd like to take advantage of the hardware AES encryption present in many SSD implementations. But I have difficulty believing it's not back-doored.

I'm not doing anything nefarious, but these days law enforcement seems ever more determined to gin up evidence and argument to suit their purpose. Also, if they can use the back door, how long until a malicious third party can?
Fluentd maintainer here. A lot of folks indeed use Fluentd for application log collection. Perhaps because we embrace JSON as the core data structure, MongoDB is a common data destination (Second most popular plugin) http://www.fluentd.org/plugins/all
It's an interesting one. Adaptive serving is a reasonable solution when you are a large site and you can't wholesale merge your site in one go into a fully responsive solution. We find that Adaptive (i.e, server side detection of "mobile") leads to way more problems in the long term with maintenance, keeping up with new devices and also ensuring that you have all the correct canonical links etc in place to ensure that your "SEO" is still good.

Our guidance is responsive all the things...
I still find it very strange that comments were so hard to make on that story. It seems almost like Boing Boing wasn't interested in a normal discussion.
>I agreed with this at first glance, but on second glance: What makes you say this? If you are like me, then your antecedent probability assumption itself was based on sexism, and not evidence. And, in fact, some quick Googling suggests that at least half of bloggers are women.

You wrongly assume that the probability assessment was done solely on the fact that it's a blog. It's not. There are additional information that influences the probability. Mainly that there's hacking involved.
Become an Erlang Cowboy and tame the Wild Wild Web – Part I
It wasn't a management console compromise, it was an old API key that got leaked.
From the first few minutes, it appears one wouldn't lose much hearing this without the video. Am I wrong?
The shocking, unprecedented, world-changing difference that the web brings is that on the web all you have to do is click a link and your computer downloads, "installs", and runs a program. No manual installation necessary, no upgrades, no installers or wizards. No delay. This process is safe -- the page is sandboxed and can't interfere with the rest of your machine. And these things can be instantly shared! All I have to do is paste a bit of text to my friends and it turns into another clickable link that's only a touch away.

Engineers frequently undervalue this feature, especially considering the things that the web give up in order to achieve it. So yes, it's a pain in the ass to get that div to align correctly but in exchange you get to run instantly and almost everywhere [1].

Relevant: http://xkcd.com/1367/

[1] Depending on your target audience, old browsers might be a major problem (China), but the browser landscape is rapidly improving in terms of a minimum expected set of features.
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Downloading it now! Would you like to meet up with us for some coffee? Pick the best coffee place in town!
It's not one level of risk-reward, you need to take a look at your specific case to make the call. Formulating a blanket opinion about this outside of a specific context is not wise.

That said, your example doesn't demonstrate much risk at all. What are the incentives for FB to start charging for this? It just doesn't make any sense for them to give up that data and that control to try to squeeze existing site operators out of a buck. I mean, never say never, but the risk is much less than it was with Google Maps where you always had to be asking what Google was getting out of this expensive and difficult-to-build-your-own service.
Paul Irish has given us guidance, input and feedback and is on the same team as me, but Addy Osmani is the main driver of starter kit, with me leading Web Fundamentals.
I received the email with no problem within a few minutes. The problem is that it was virtually useless and not required to login (no activation link).
1.

Track your time. It is likely to show there is no business case for 2.

On the off chance it does, then the business case will be backed by data. But odds are that there won't be a business case.
Please be Derek Sivers, please be Derek Sivers.. :-)
I am really interested in your comments. Me and two teammates are working on this post series. Our goal is to show how to use Erlang and Cowboy with a real working example, based on the experiencie we gained by creating similar systems.
This is awesome, thanks for sharing (had no idea). So, this is basically a set of browser extensions that connect to a public repository or technologies?
Name.com just launched a Website Builder
Can you point to any literature on 2?
Why not just make a web site for this? If this really affects 2%-10% of the population, then it should be pretty easy to determine if the source is internal or external with enough data.
You could get a gigantic bunch of film & television subtitles. Almost every movie ever made and every TV show in the past 30 years has pretty good subtitles available from a variety of online sources.

Using common Python NLP techniques you could very easily search for every instance of a phrase across a massive corpora of subtitles.

If you got a large enough collection of subtitles and videos in a single directory this tool would do what you are asking.
I cannot wait to share the whole story. Who knew all of the upside in starting Earbits would be in the movie rights?
The linked article in no way supports the idea that loud pipes save lives.