skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And unlike many such services, they still list you as the owner of the domain; they just mask the email/address/phone information.
I don't know but I would guess because it is a popular funding platform for funding documentary films of all kinds?

Also, there is a track record of success - another bitcoin documentary was successfully funded last year, see: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bitcoinlife/life-on-bit...
It doesn't look like they've updated their changelog page yet http://bucardo.org/wiki/Bucardo/Changes . Does anyone know where a list of changes can be gotten?
> *it's trivial even for non-techies to circumvent hash-based detection

I was under the impression that PhotoDNA was more than simple hashing - that it used an algorithm like Google's "similar images"
I believe that's only for legal reasons. When the laws get sorted out MB looks to be in a great position.
"The problems facing us - energy, food, water, health, education - require big solutions and we are just starting to see some of these solutions come out of a new wave of startup businesses."

You can't engineer technological solutions to social problems. You will get so far, but then you'll run into politics and religion.
Let's do whatever gets us out of bed in the morning, lest we end up doing nothing at all.
> I like the part about producing outcomes that can't readily be ascribed to individual moral choices. It seems this describes human culture in general. So here we all are. Semi-autonomous little components of the larger algorithm called "civilization" which we cannot truly hope to transcend.

Wow! That's a nice paragraph that highlights very accurately why many of us feel 'alienated' in our society.

In other cultures and times one might not even consider this description and instead describe us as useful organs in a greater body, or valuable organisms in a greater ecosystem. Which 'feels' very different.
Yes, the old class system. Engineers, no matter how qualified, better even than managers, are "blue collar" workers still. Better to have the right tie, played the right sports, and your father to use his network to give you a leg up. Even if you only have a a Third from Loughborough or Aberyswyth or Durham or some other joke university.

Only the City pays fair market wages to technical people, because contrary to popular belief, the old boys were ruthlessly driven out in the 80s.
It strikes me as the company equivalent of a fart app.

If money is easy enough to come by that investors can drop $100k like you and I can drop $0.99, sell them what they're buying.
"some of the worlds most driven, focussed, intelligent and inspiring individuals"

It's quite possible that a company does not contain any people like this. This article seems to assume a lot about a large group of random programmers and business people. There are plenty of hacks out there and some of them will be founding a start up near you.
The hype and funding is based on the HOPE that something will come of it. However, retention is already a problem in Tel Aviv, where the app got its start. As fast as it has risen, it will fall (my prediction, anyway).
Dokku is cool, but it is very basic. Deployed apps don't have any sort of restart protection, for instance.
https://github.com/bucardo/bucardo/blob/master/Changes

(Note that Bucardo is mirrored to github; the official repo is on bucardo.org.)
How do servers that offer items for cash fit into that? Because those servers seemed to be very popular.
are you listening, Zuckerberg?
Google has datacenters in low energy cost locations (Oregon, Iowa, etc). Why not source low-cost, quality call center staff from those locations as well ("in sourcing")?
If only I hadn't squandered my life savings on beanie-babies I could've invested in Yo before it went public!
I don't get it, I already have a domain managed by Google with my Google apps account. I understand they shut off this service for new signups a while back. So are they releasing a _new_ managed domain service? How long until I am forced to go through some ugly merge process to put my Google apps account onto this new system? Would really love to hear the rationale for killing the old service to replace it with something that looks a heck of a lot like the old service. After shutting down Reader and all the trouble my Google apps account already gives me (every new Google service has issues with Google apps accounts in my experience) and other annoying things I really hope Google doesn't screw up my email. If it ain't broke don't fix it!
All of your examples take a great deal more work than Yo.
I wonder what performance of Bucardo + Postgres is like vs. Galera + MariaDB. I'm mainly curious if switching from sync to async would be worth the performance benefits. Then again, I suppose since Bucardo can handle MySQL/MariaDB it'd be fairer to compare Galera vs. Bucardo on MySQL.
I probably wouldn't drill holes into my brand new car's roof and spend $10k just to get something like cruise control.

Also FWIW, the Audi in question has adaptive cruise control as an option. That seems to be a much better bang for your buck.
Life insurance is just a tax-advantaged investment vehicle. The companies aren't "profiting from your death." They pay the premiums, those premiums get invested, and the company gets the proceeds when you die. It doesn't preclude you from having your own life insurance. Your only involvement is as the hook that enables the tax advantage.
I couldn't care less about losing you as a visitor to my site. It's 2014. JavaScript is required for using the web.
> Multi-master means exactly what you'd expect: N (where N >= 2) masters

But the FAQ says it only supports 2 masters?

> each of which can accept writes, which will be propagated to all the other nodes Bucardo knows of.

How are conflicts dealt with? Is the resolution serializable?

> The "_singular_" db is Bucardo's configuration store, and is otherwise uninvolved in replication.

If it fails does sync stop? If sync stops how is healing performed?

I appreciate the response but it doesn't really tell me anything about how I can expect the system to perform with nodes/network failures. I swept through the docs but didn't see much of anything on the topic.
> "Some expressed anger that there own startups hadn't received funding"

Hard to take this guy seriously when he can't even grammar right in his intro paragraph. I love yo.
I don't think our big/bigger/biggest problems can be solved by apps.
Sequel is way more actively supported/developed compared to datamapper. Last release of DM was in 13/10/2011...
This happened on my Zenbook prime as well. You need to restart the synaptics driver, which was very annoying.

I got rid of it and just went with a Macbook Air. It's just better in so many ways.
The 'left' has vary little presence in current US government (including in San Francisco) on any level. 'Far-left nutjobs' in the modern context refers to anyone to the left of Nixon.
It seems more like an acquisition play as all the major car makers are going to end up in this space in the near future.
It isn't zero sum. There's still substantial design space to explore.

Lotus being received well just means people are ready for the idea. That may not have been the case in 2011, for instance.
From their FAQ, they pick up RF pulses, tag it with a GPS timestamp, and correlate on a central server.

"A lightning is a pulse not comparable to a broadcast signal on a single frequency. Such a pulse can be described best as a interference of several frequencies. Therefore a ferrite rod for lightning detection has to be a wide-band antenna."
The primary benefit for me (besides the infinitely nicer Web app) is that FastMail lets me send "From" any of my addresses without leaking my fastmail.net address in a header, which GMail kept doing no matter how many hoops I jumped through (SMTP AUTH to another mail server, &c.)
Heroku is a great way to get started fast without having to worry about anything related to operations. That being said, you're effectively outsourcing your entire ops/DevOps to a third party. You don't set the rules, you don't get to argue about the best scaling strategy, and overall your infrastructure is pretty much a black-box.

I've seen a fair amount of people who loved Heroku for ramping up apps only to feel trapped once they started scaling their service. PaaS definitely has its use case, but I wouldn't recommend it for anything beyond prototyping.

In fact (shameless plug), this is why I've been working on devo.ps, to lower the barriers of entries to managing your own servers (on AWS, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, Linode...) using tools familiar to developers (Git + YAML).

@bcardarella happy to add you to our beta testers; we'd love to get feedback from a heavy Heroku user. Email is in my profile.

If there are other Heroku users affected, drop me a line and I'll see if we can help you get set up on your own infrastructure with devo.ps.
It's not wrong to live more than 2 miles from your job, or to have a family, or to want or need to transport more than you can on a bicycle, or to refuse to risk your life more than necessary by mixing cycling with automobile traffic.

A friend of mine was killed riding her bike when a cop ran into her. I live in a relatively small city, and traffic was not busy at the time.

It's a simple fact that cycling with automobile traffic is far more dangerous than driving. Take that risk if you want to; it's your life (though if you're killed by a car, it could be your fault, and it could ruin the driver's life too). It's not wrong to refuse to take that extra, unnecessary risk!

If you think that everyone should do what you do or else they're "doing it wrong", you are thinking wrongly.
IT'S LIKE CANDY CRUSH ... BUT FOR THE BICURIOUS
Had no idea this was going on. I'm aware of life insurance offered through the company for myself at very low premiums (and I guess google and the like are no premiums for whatever-x your salary). First time I've heard of a completely separate policy with the company as beneficiary. If the terms last even until you leave the company, it's a no brainer for the employer. Everyone dies.
There is one open-source project that manages synchronizing a fitbit to their service. Apparently, one used to be able to get data from listening to this communication, but they now encrypt all data coming off of the device.

I got a Jawbone Up24 for my birthday, which seems to be a similar device. I'll see how easy or difficult it is to get data off of that. (I think it's designed to sync via bluetooth directly to a smartphone, which then syncs to their service, so there might be some more wiggle room on communicating to the device).
Build whatever the market wants. Fund whatever the market wants.
most customers don't realize the garden is walled.
I found this blog entry[0] where they've located the photo in question.

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it's available online anywhere in any sort of decent resolution.

[0]http://bookmendc.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-gay-nabokov.html
Why not fund them? If you think you can make a profit investing in Yo, then go for it. Who cares if it's not a life changing app, that's 99.99% of the app market, and it is what it is. If people install it, and use it, then it's providing some benefit to their lives, even if it's just for entertainment purposes.

I'm not going to start telling people to stop watching Game of Thrones, because all those man hours are going to waste, and they could be changing the world.
People should be responsible for what they share on social media.
I've found them to be fairly terrible. They work great until you need to do more than use pip to install stuff (I'm using python). So things as simple as matplotlib get hairy. You have to use a custom buildpack someone contributed (which is based on an old version).

Now say I want to use python with R. It is a huge pain. You have to use heroku-buildpack-multi [1].
The problem is that environment variables and installed code from the first buildpack are invisible to the second. So you end up having to hack individual buildpacks, which is just gross. It worked in the end, but I wasted days on it.

A concept like docker, where you fire up a container, install stuff with apt-get, and then save the results is greatly superior.

[1] https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-buildpack-multi
Ask HN: I want to buy traffic, what are the best services?
I've had some luck with Google AdWords. Facebook ads were a waste of time. Are sponsored blog posts worth the money? What about other advertisement methods/services?
We're actually busy doing a similar move.

fwiw, here's some resources i collected around docker.

http://wayfinder.co/pathways/53619274d95a741100e7f203/docker...

It's a few weeks old, but of those the one that came closest to our needs was Deis.
> You've got to love competition, but I wonder at what point Onedrive's race to the bottom in terms of pricing starts to impact Dropbox's valuation?

Unless you're a Dropbox equity holder why would you care? As a consumer all I care about is cost and reliability, neither of which are impacted by their valuation.
You should probably look a bit closer. It's quite different from Chrome with different features, etc.
Like you, I don't understand the ethical dilemma here. It's not like the company is taking money that would otherwise go to the family, or is misrepresenting the purpose of their taking out the policy. What's the big deal? Perhaps there is an angle I'm missing.
With Awards Like this, Who Needs a Nobel?
Building Yo is not a hard problem.
Ask HN: Self taught hacker graduating in December.How do I find employment?
I have been so focused on learning on my own, that I did not focus on potential employers for when I graduate this December.
How do I go about finding a company with more agile and modern management style, that is looking for someone with more applied experience even though I am fresh out of college.I don't want to sound conceded or narcissistic but I feel that most of the businesses at career fairs are looking for entry level programmers with no prior experience even in the language they are hiring for.

<p>tl;dr : I spent college teaching myself outside the curriculum.About to graduate, How do I find and contact a company for employment.
I think the FAQ is out of date with this release.
It is very common in the US as well. Cyclists are meant to have equal right to the road and, in turn, are meant to follow the vehicle traffic rules. We have lots of campaigns for drivers to "share the road" and "watch for cyclists". But I have yet to see a campaign imploring cyclists to actually follow vehicle traffic rules. Occasionally, I've seen a story about a cyclist getting a speeding ticket and it is usually met with much criticism of the police. I have never heard of a cyclist getting a ticket for blowing a stop sign/light.
1.)Not necessarily, and 2.) is "amount of work required" the critera a pursuit must meet to be valid?
Link to the actual project: http://allaregreen.us/
Programming skills do not translate into solutions to big problems. The amount of education required to tackle something serious weeds out nearly all coders. Most programmers spend their careers writing code to someone else's spec, and a Yo app is a fantastic — and lucky — way to escape that fate. My hat is off to the creator for doing it, getting attention, and raising money.
It looks like it is not a free trial but free with use limits.

IE You can use it for free forever, but just not too much each month. Pay for more CPU time after you hit your limit or wait until next month to get more free time.
None of those fields beat the "change the world" drum as hard as tech startups do. This article seems to be an attempt to an attempt to reconcile action and rhetoric by asking "us" to live up to it.

So yes, you can poke the hole that you do. But that's just pretending to miss the point.

Personally, I think the reconciliation is rhetoric coming back to earth. It's self-perpetuating saccharine and delusion that should probably stop.
I wonder if Yo is popular because people feel it is a funny pointless app or because it makes a common message incredibly easy to send?

I like apps like Yo. They do exactly what they say they will do. Yo requires fewer taps than texting "Yo" to somebody. It's refreshing!

I would venture a guess that the people who are solving for big problems can be inspired by how minimal Yo is, and the decisions that stem from that inspiration may be the tipping point they needed for their businesses. There may be applicable uses for the Yo type of simplicity for any of the problems mentioned in the blog post.

There's a good place for apps like Yo. They challenge the status quo. They disrupt. They prove that removing mundane steps to doing something as common as texting can be popular and worth testing as a business model.

Maybe Yo has already solved a big problem. Maybe we have yet to experience the ripple effect.
Brudgers hit on many of the most important points, but I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned lending requirements from Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac as major contributors to this problem. The impact of their loan policies has increased dramatically as the US moved from small buildings and individual homes on city streets to a model of large housing developments and big apartment complexes.

These two largest and most important lenders will either not lend or lend under worse terms when an apartment building or development has more than some small percentage of units available as rental units (IIRC, something like only 10-30% of units in a development can be available for rent.)

This then leads many HOAs to actively monitor and police the number of rental units in any development or apartment building, since the HOA is often used to institute rules that protect or increase the value of the underlying asset. Renting your housing assets often requires HOA approval, and if the limit has already been reached, your petition to rent will likely be denied.

Because of these lending policies rental units are under-represented in the overwhelming majority of new developments in more densely populated areas.
Their core business was making browsers in general. Being small isn't that much of an advantage anymore. They can now sell something that works reasonably well on most modern hardware.
How about we don't even talk about Yo?
It looks like you registered your own domain with GoDaddy and use NeuStar for DNS. I also can't find you guys listed on the ICANN accredited registrar list.

Not really providing "these services." Just a web hosting shop with some automation and reseller agreements. Sorry.
Come on now, this entire comment is unfair, it's like you're willfully ignoring my post's actual content in order to grind your own axe:

> That's not an "opening salvo" -- that's the thesis of the piece. His contention is that soccer, more than most other sports, is a poisson machine. He goes into the math.

I don't object to the thesis, I object to the opening salvo.

> Well, no, actually. Some things in life are more random than others.

How does this refute my point? Everything in life is random to some degree or another. Football also is.

> And however skilled they may be, the large number of (fallible) people on the field playing this game certainly doesn't make it less random.

What does fallibility have to do with it? Look, my point is that it is not a roulette wheel, there are humans reacting, and that human endeavour is what's interesting to people, not the precise quantity of randomness in the result.

> As games go, soccer doesn't have many structural impediments to randomness.

It also doesn't have much impediment to strategy, tactics and individual skill drastically altering the probabilities of each individual event.

> We'd (hopefully) feel pretty silly if we got worked up every few years about a global coin-flipping tournament, but, here we are, getting worked up over teams of people engaged in an event where the outcome is dominated by chance.

Clearly football falls somewhere in between a coin-flip tournament and say 9-ball pool. But, again, randomness keeps it interesting. Remember, we are not just looking at results, we are watching players play. In individual situations players make decisions and physically control what happens. You can argue about the randomness of these events, but that just leads towards the tiresome free-will-is-an-illusion debate.

> (And oh, hey: it sort of pegs the irony-o-meter that you're accusing the author of being closed-minded about sports when you can't even be bothered to read an argument because you've decided that you disagree with it in advance. Well played.)

What an uncalled for and arrogant remark that can do nothing except derail reasonable debate; if you squint hard enough everyone is a hypocrite. I did read the argument, and I was addressing the opening presentation.
I cringed at the description of "a lady who took an obvious immediate disliking to me" in the visa office. It made me sad to recall times that a woman has controlled my destiny and denied me for whatever reason when the men would have let me in. I'm so sorry that Nikki also knows what that feels and looks like. I hope my daughter never does.
We have two stages. Devs write rough draft of tech doc, include examples.

A writer takes that and makes it ready for public consumption.

They will work as a pair to create final draft and organise that to our doc pages
It's probably no coincidence that repeated prisoner's dilemna models another phenomenon: willpower.

George Ainslie argues in "Breakdown of Will" that will is actually the result of negotiations between past and future selves.

http://www.picoeconomics.org/HTarticles/Bkdn_Precis/Breakdow...
What's the difference, in terms of this discussion?

They both have a cost.
Sorry, I can't agree with this argument, as the line of reasoning essentially boils down to:

"Don't spend your money on things I don't think are important."

That is the great thing personal freedom and property rights. we all have the choice of how we want to spend our money. If you don't like what other people are spending their money on, spend your own money on something else.
Seems odd to make a decision on framework by watching a couple of videos, but then compare dozens of application starters along hundreds of dimensions. I would think the choice of starter would be much less important.

Between the choice of framework, package manager, task runner, test framework, test runner, CI service, seed project, and a million plugins for each of the above, I have no fucking clue how anyone keeps up or writes a line of code anymore. And that's just the front end.
>But absent meaningful regulation around the practice, it grew unchecked, and soon companies were taking out policies on many poorly paid employees like janitors, then reaping millions in profit when they died.

Most of the article is about Universal Life products, which is a product that is generally considered an enormous scam (it is a really poor investment vehicle), however this part really stood out.

Anyone planning on making money through insurance needs to understand that the house odds are against you, at least unless you have insider knowledge or are hiring hit men. Insurance companies are very very smart, and you won't profit by trying to play the odds against them, especially and most certainly in the aggregate.

So you come to the reality that this is wholly a tax avoidance scheme (sometimes legal, sometimes not). Not really about profiting from death, or usurping someone's great insurance payout, but simply hiding money away for some period of time.

This is a tax code discussion that has perilously little to do with life or mortality. Just taxes and ways around them.
Servo is just the browser engine, like Gecko. The UI/browser-chrome will be a separate project (named Crow, but not started yet afaik). Also relevant is the fact that Servo wants to be embeddable, like Webkit.