skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What, and not get paid to spend half my time on HN while the ravages of Sarbanes-Oxley grind productivity to a halt?

(The funniest thing is that we're not even a public company, and have no shareholders to defraud. That's right, we opt in to Sox-compliance.)
“Civilian casualties” authorized under secret US drone-strike memo
Well, chalk that up to expectations.

With a driving game like Hard Drivin', people expected the game to respond like, well, driving a real car.

There were other games that used higher speed polygons to better effect (Atari's I, Robot), or faster gameplay (Sega's Virtua Fighter).
I'm not sure how you can explain it then.

The file was 600Mbish. It successfully uploaded via the desktop client then was later downloaded on another machine via the desktop sync thing. Later that evening it was gone. I didn't delete it (it wasn't in the recycle bin) and I confirmed it was the correct live account I was signed in as. To be clear it was still on the source machine but not the destination. No antivirus had quarantined at either end.

That by elimination would suggest that either:

1. There is a reliability limit somewhere which is unknown and unpublished or a synchronisation bug.

2. You're unaware of a process or a false positive.

I should have opened another account to test this against with the same file but to be honest if I found a bug, windows live support has been abysmal. Hell they couldn't even work out how to close my account when the close account page refused to work...
Cruise Automation (YC W14) launches self-driving autopilot for your car
Passport to Pluto, Charon and the Kuiper Belt Trans-Neptunian Region
I get it. There are none.
>> “It’s a Fitbit. You synch it with your computer, and it tracks your physical activity.”

Is it sync, or synch? The 'h' really bothers me for some reason.
It's kind of interesting how long it takes status.heroku.com to update - based on our experience and response on twitter, it was about 10 minutes.
So like a pandora for the environmental conditions? That sounds really cool!
Be careful when running the code in a way that can lead to an attacker finding a way to use a timing attack. Anywhere where signatures are done automatically could lead to potential problems. This is also true for Electrum, that implements its own crypto too, and browser-based clients.
The link in the footer to JustYo.co doesn't work.

Neither do links to JustYo.co/username, as far as I can tell. I haven't used the app so the link may have significance to the app even though it doesn't show anything in the browser, in that case I apologize.
Right now, nodejs shines anywhere you need websockets and I personally want to see the modern web move to websockets. It allows for much more cool interactions than the server being unable to get data to the client without the client either clicking on something or constantly polling. On a bb software, having the "this thread has unread posts" indicator update without a page reload would be great, and websockets make that easy.
"When you get back to the "real world" you'll never see it the same again :)"

I've been thinking about taking 9 months off (specifically traveling China, and learning Mandarin).

I'm worried that with all that taste of freedom I'll have an even harder time coming back and sitting in an office 8hrs/day (some weeks it's already like pulling teeth)
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http://yopeoplefinder.appspot.com took 1 hour to build...
I've thought about that, specifically the Lockitron. Do you view this primarily as a defense against theft?
Let's stop beating up on the nerds of Silicon Valley
I'm not sure that's the case, but if it were, perhaps more people would start using Waze again after Google Transit became worse. (Repeat process forever.)
From your site:
How much does it cost?

We have packages starting at $1000, depending on your needs, we can pitch up to 100 customers in your vertical.
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So you are going to visit 100 customers for me, for the price of $1000? This seems to be quite low. From my experience (10 years, outside sales B2B, full commission) a sales person can only visit about 10 locations a day if they are actually talking and not just pitching something for 30 seconds. If you get any traction with the customers, that will drop to 5 per day.

By my numbers you would work for 10 days for $1000 and have the traveling expenses as well. Sounds good for me, and bad for you. I am also curious about performance. How will I know that your sales person did cold calls? How will I know if they are any good, or if your guy is out there damaging my companies reputation?

We currently use manufacturer reps, about 16 of them. It is a continuous challenge to understand the actions that they are actually taking (not what they tell me they are taking) and hard to track direct results because many of our products are sold through multiple tiers of distribution. These reps are old school, with companies that have been in business for 20+ years.

I hope it works, it would be a great service to use. Feet on the street are hard to manage. Good luck.
Just a silly little thing I cobbled together over the weekend. Taking suggestions for additions!
Replace "car" with "box truck" and the metaphor fits a lot more closely and remains strong. Businesses need vehicles to deliver stuff. Drones are poised to replace trucks in that regard.

Also, who says a family won't own 2.2 of them? When I forget a file at home, I have dropbox. What happens when I forget my sandwich? As reliability goes up and cost goes down, a drone becomes a very reasonable family purchase.
Altarboy.io – A new Christian Dating Service
Maybe they are hoping to catch some international issues sooner this way.
I can't wait for a device that can measure how many calories you've eaten. The possibilities for that would be endless. Beeping after you've hit your goal/limit for the day?
Query Real-time SF Bus Locations With GeoFire 2.0
It's an abbreviation for "synchronize." Both Webster and Dictionary.com note that it can go either way.
The Elephant In the Podcast Studio
The Surface Pro 3 seems an awesome device for students. Being able to read PDF textbooks, hand-write notes while using diagram/drawing tools, browse the internet, follow along with (and write on/annotate) lecture slides, word processing with a physical keyboard, writing on PDF practice exams, etc, all in a single device is extremely convenient.
same here, between 10 and 15 minutes before the incident report
I think that not being "productive" is scorned simply because most people are forced into involuntary wage-slave "productivity", and those people hate others who escape it.

But it's also scorned by those who employ the wage-slaves. The profits of "productivity" accrues mostly to the employers, and those who eschew this state of things must therefore be condemned.
Git is Shit
nice try. But I will not ditch Evernote before somebody will copy the web clipper in a really good way.
Cool. You mention restraunts/salons/dog groomers. Any plans to move higher up the chain to SaaS enterprise type sales?
I haven't formalized my process enough to hand off sales to someone else, but I am champing at the bit to try something like this once I get there.
My own site lauradhamilton.com is down too.
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Is it a myth though? I would rather suggest studies are simply inconclusive. There have been studies outside of humans which show lateralization exists as an evolutionary tool. There have also been some in humans ("Sources of mathematical thinking: behavioral and brain-imaging evidence" in Science for example) which shows that they exist in dominant-passive manners, but not in the "all or nothing" marketing drivel that gets sold. Am I missing something scientifically or is the "myth" you're getting at simply the oversold notion of what it means in popular society?
little practical reason to have more than one of each in the U.S

Precaution against natural disaster/nuclear terrorism?
I'm getting a blank page.

Is this the link that was intended? https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/devices/fire-p... (dynamic perspective section)
LinkedIn finally implemented a 'Report Spam' button for add requests
Looking at Second Life as a game I 100% agree with you, however as a platform virtual world sandbox, I think it was a design success (nothing that I know of comes close). Minecraft found a happy middle ground by being more of a game than SL, but less of a platform.
Sorry if the website feels a bit slow: we weren't expecting this much traffic! Happy to answer your questions here directly :)
I love ExpanDrive and use it every day. Thanks for adding OneDrive support in v4 :)

ExpanDrive's WebDAV performance has been kind of rocky, though. From what I can tell, it doesn't appear to support byte range seeking. To get to the middle of a 2 GB file, it tries to download the first 1 GB. Is that something addressed in the v4 update?
Why are they doing maintenance right smack in the middle of a Monday afternoon!? Losing a crap ton of money right now.
In terms of your sketched proof he's advocating that "<" ">" and "=" are not defined over the set "business metrics" so you can't assume a total ordering.
Heroku Dynos Unable to Start
I wasn't sharing it. To be honest if they're checking for CP then they're messing with your files. There isn't a sudden distinction when you bring in "think of the children"...
Innovation Beers: 8 Great Tasting, Low ABV Brews That Keep Your Mind Clear
I have never bought an Apple product. Not even a iTunes file.

Apple is still doing well, though.
FWIW, hiring/interviews aren't just problems in SV culture. They're problematic all across the industries I've worked in.

This article is simply pointing out how the lack of established practices manifests itself within SV culture.

You could write a similarly outrageous article about how the people at one of my former employers knew next-to-nothing about interviewing people and how that resulted in a pileup of even more people who knew even less :)
Hey HN, I’m the author of GeoFire 2.0. We built GeoFire to provide Firebase users with a client-side solution to querying geolocations in an efficient manner. You can use it to store geolocation data about items (e.g. cars, restaurants, hotel rooms) and then do location-based queries on that data in realtime. The library is built entirely on top of Firebase and has no extra server-side components. And its API will now feel right at home for anyone who is familiar with the API for the Firebase web client. It is backed by a comprehensive test suite and fixes some long-standing bugs in the original implementation. I would love to hear and respond to any feedback or questions you’ve got. And also to see what you create with it!
You should definitely limit the sizes that can be generated otherwise with URLs like http://host/WIDTH/HEIGHT/MODE/path/to/image it's pretty easy to mildly DDOS you.
Update on Heroku's status page:

"Update

Due to our scheduled maintenance this morning, dynos are currently unable to start or be restarted. We are working to address the issue.
Posted 2 minutes ago, Jun 23, 2014 18:14 UTC"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7743989
Cloud Transcode – Open source Transcoding platform for AWS
PX dynos seem to be fine (at least mine are). Our staging environment on 2X dynos however are having the same errors as others.
>A complete web framework has client-side components that facilitate two-way communication to/from the server, data binding, HTML5 history state-based page/view swapping, etc. In other words, the type of stuff being addressed by Angular, etc.

No. I can't possibly disagree with this any more strongly.

I'm probably on the wrong side of history here, but Javascript absolutely should _not_ be a requirement for using a website. If your website doesn't work with NoScript turned on, I won't utilize it. Full stop.

In my mind Javascript should be used for progressive enhancement for those users that opt to enable it (or I suppose more correctly: choose not to disable it). Building a thick client web app is the fastest route to ensuring I won't use it.
በጉግል የአማርኛ ቋንቋ አገልግሎት ማስጀመሪያ መመሪያ እና ለአማርኛ ቋንቋ ጦማሪያን ያለው አንድምታ
I know it's popular to be a "developer-centric" organization these days, but please, please, don't schedule risky maintenance operations for 10 AM on a Monday, when your tools are in heavy usage.

Every SaaS product I've built has analyzed traffic, and performed migrations/deployments at off-hours (generally, after midnight in our dominant time zone). In this case, the outage may have resulted in hundreds (thousands?) of paged administrators across the world, but at least fewer end-users would have been affected.

Also, at scale, it's a good idea to deploy to a single cluster/zone first, and check error rates before deploying to the larger environment.

It's pretty scary that the 'professionals' to whom I've trusted my business aren't more savvy when it comes to high availability...
You could easily use Lotus as an API server.
Definitely support it. Perhaps a server incompatibility? Can you re-ping support@expandrive.com ? If you have some temporary credentials for us to test with, it would be super-helpful
Anyone recording me with a camera in their hat or on their lapel or a microphone embedded in their clothes would be treated in roughly the same manner as someone recording me using Glass.

Just because the act of wearing the recording device is in plain-sight doesn't make it anymore acceptable to people who find it objectionable.
In the case where that happens, only a handful of times a year, why wouldn't I rather hire a drone Uber style to deliver that one package?
Very sad.

His book, How to Get Rich, is IMO one of the top 5 best books on, well, getting rich. It was also a very inspiring book to me. Although be warned - a lot of it is caution against trying to get rich.

Seriously, read his book.
I'm fairly active — running on a treadmill for 20 minutes then lifting weights for 30 every day of the week, walking nearly everywhere, only using stairs, etc. — but I can't bring myself to use these types of trackers.

I eagerly ordered the SE Nike+ band when it was announced, I used it for maybe a week before giving it away to a friend. Perhaps it wasn't as interesting to me because there was no way to compare my numbers (no personal friends used similar devices).

The idea of personal fitness trackers still intrigues me (it sounds fun), but in reality the moment you discover your "number" as an average, it's easy to lose interest.
so this is like duplicati? does it have encryption?
San Francisco warns Monkey to stop selling spots
If the Skydrive team is listening, I love the All Photos feed, but can we get something like that for non-photos? I would like to see everything else that has been synced recently. I am not sure what Recent Docs does, but it is definitely not what I expect.
I have to be honest in saying I don't know the science here. I just personally know that I feel a difference in my mental capacity when I switch from programming to writing. That's all that point is about it.
DevOps Doesn't End at Deployment
I found what I was thinking of:

"The Technical Case for Optical and Infrared SETI"

http://seti.harvard.edu/oseti/tech.pdf

http://seti.harvard.edu/oseti/
An Un-American Sport
Was the ISO larger than 2gb?
Hey thanks for the feedback - the link in the footer should now work.

You must have the app installed in order to add users, maybe this should be clearer.
You just have to be careful you don't wedge your screen up into where the tray table folds up into.
Really never understand googles retail strategy.
James Webb Space Telescope deployment sequence
Just found another example app: https://github.com/joneslee85/lotus-blog
Can I ask a noob-ish question?

For the outside B2B sales you mentioned, what the compensation structure is like? Purely commission or with a fixed part / retainer? If it's a high-tech software sales, do you have an idea of what's the going commission rate is?

The only experience I have is with salaried sales with tiered commission, so I just want to understand how the alternatives work.
"since it prioritizes bikes over cars."

That is a way to look at it. Other ones are that it prioritizes the human scale over industrial scale, clean(er) air over pollution, an environment that keeps the population healthy over one promoting a sedentary lifestyle, an environment where people interact over one that distances people from each other.

Also, including public transport: in many urban zones, public transport and biking infrastructure are large reasons why the city isn't gridlocked 24x7. In many Dutch city centers, that separate bicycle lane takes more traffic than the two car lanes alongside it. One can argue that a bike lane that gets used, even if it is built at the cost of a car lane, makes the other car lanes in the street less busy.

If you accept a few of those as valid claims, you are more likely to accept the introduction of separate bike lanes.

"These problems won't be fixed until protected bike lanes are the norm, rather than the exception"

Agreed.

"and following bike lane laws are [...] heavily enforced by police."

That, I disagree with. If you still need strong enforcement, you aren't there yet. If almost every car driver also is, at times, a cyclist, or at least knows how it was to cycle regularly, you don't need strong enforcement anymore.
There is a great deal of evidence that the great majority of voters (not the same as average Americans,) do not vote on the basis of their own self-interest.[1]

The "Those people in Party X or State Y are so dumb that they vote against their own interests" schtick really annoys me. Sometimes my own view of my interests may diverge from the author's. I have no problem voting against my immediate self-interest, if I think I will benefit from improvements to society in the long run.
Those three can be explained easily:

1.If you have never visited a car company's website then it's just that Google categorized your profile wrongly and only the car companies are bidding for you when it comes to show an ad.
2. Just a company wrongly retargeting converters (people who have bought a product) with the same product that they have bought.
3. In Real Time Bidding [1] for Facebook, their information about the user is very much lacking [2] so depending on the advertiser that bids you might get very bad ads.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_bidding

[2] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/ads-api/rtb/#...
s/At least they don't have to use C++/OK/
Ecosystem traps people if I want to be cynical. I do everything on Chrome from personal to work, all my favorites/bookmarks are synced through all my hardware.

Even if there was a sync option for IE to Chrome accounts this is just extra effort. You put too many steps in front of me I'm just not gonna do it (yes, I'm lazy, but UX should consider the lazy).
Yeah, of course, that's a given, I just thought that clicking on the username link without the app installed would at least show something else instead of the Yo landing page. Not a big issue, I wouldn't expect the Yo website to be polished or overly functional, so it's ok :)
Looks like I'm back...
"Cultural compatibility" in hiring is not a new idea (1997)
They really need to increase the maximum file size to be competitive. As a comparison, Dropbox files can be up to 10 GB each[0], and Google Drive files can be up to 1 TB each[1].

[0]: https://www.dropbox.com/help/5/en

[1]: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/37603?hl=en
I won't consider skydrive until they fix this issue: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/forum/sdfiles/sk...
This is pretty cool. Getting to market on even a simple product like this is huge.
Lessons Learned by Being the Client
"MonkeyParking and any motorists using the app face fines of $300 per violation of the city’s law prohibiting selling or contracting for parts of a public street, according to the city attorney."

I was going to ask what the actual law was, but it seems I've found some version of the gist of it here. Where I live (not San Fransisco) we have privatized parking in plots of land that aren't on the public street. Would using this app on places like that in SF be legal?
Getting Started with Swift, For NON-Apple Devs
This post makes me happy: hard work is essential, there are no magic bullets, and quality matters more than you think. The fact that Marco made choices based on quality impresses me. I can only hope to have the courage to do likewise.
What happens if a leaf or some other obstruction blocks the cameras?
Here's an update on the same company from 2000:

http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2000/07/31/sto...
Building a Meaningful Life from the Bottom Up
I believe google drive has a 10GB file size limit, 5 times larger than Microsoft
I plan on dl'ing FireFox, mostly because Chrome doesn't support download helper extension (super helpful since machines run super hot streaming video).
Gun nuts are terrorizing America: The watershed moment everyone missed
Chrome has an option where you can save your edited JS back to the file system; it also feels like another step along this path.

I also think that including dev tools and even an IDE like this in a browser are fundamentally different from including a mail or calendar client in a browser.
Show HN: Dupertest – node module that makes unit testing controllers easier.
This problem isn't endemic to Silicon Valley (and SFO). It's spread to almost any given company in any given location in the US.
Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet NPRM | Condensed with Squishify
Request queueing on New Relic is going haywire on our app right now.
The Gay Nabokov (2000)
As someone that always been on the C++ side on the C++ vs C flames, since the early days, it comes as consequence of statements like "At least they don't have to use C++".

Sorry if you didn't meant like that.