skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EDIT: I remain convinced that it is impossible to have any credible security discussion on HN. Everyone just clucks and spouts rhetoric, the Ptacek fan club in full effect.

No security solution is absolute, but instead every security approach is a "false sense of security" from some perspective, and every solution is steps on a gradient. Anyone who thinks otherwise is simply naive.

Do we eschew SSL rather than give users a "false sense of security"? There are many potential vulnerabilities to SSL, from stealing private keys, to co-opting or compromising root authorities, to more esoteric mathematical vulnerabilities.

Yet we still use SSL. We find a pragmatic medium where we achieve the greatest security possible within realistic confines and restrictions, understanding that there are (and always will be) potential weaknesses, and improve as we go. Simply tut-tuting and rote repeating the "false sense of security" nonsense does literally nothing for anyone. It is pseudo-enlightened babble.
In Defense of Recruiters
That infrastructure was all built while AT&T was a government-sanctioned monopoly with regulated rates and the whole deal. The vast majority of the cable infrastructure was built with private money, post-deregulation.
> What I don't get is why the FCC can't simply tell ISPs to provide the service their customers pay them to.

Contract law already does that. The transparency provisions of the previous and proposed Open Internet orders aim to solve the main particular problem of that in the ISP world, which is ambiguity on what exactly the service being paid for is.

(The anti-blocking and anti-discrimination provisions, which are different in the old and new orders, go further and aim to align what the service being paid for is with a certain conception of what that service should be.)
Maybe not in the U.S. But the U.S. does not have a monopoly on pedophiles.
What Does it Take to Breakeven for a Startup Gym?
Since I've already made one and it's ready for use, I feel I need to piggyback on your comment to mention it.

https://www.npmjs.org/package/spotify-web-api-node
Let me put it this way - one of the recent scare stories here in the UK involved a supposed "Islamic takeover" of schools in Birmingham that didn't get noticed by inspectors because the schools were delivering an impressively good secular education to deprived inner-city kids. Apparently a few teachers seated girls and boys seperately, though, which is un-British according to our prime minster and education minister who were both educated at exclusive boys-only schools and are proud of it (as were most of our other cabinet minsters).

Funnily enough, the politicians and journalists making a big deal out of this scandal are strong supporters of replacing state-run schools with state-funded academies run by Christian fundamentalists, especially failing ones in deprived inner city areas. Some of those have been caught teaching kids in science classes that the scientific evidence says the world is 6000 years old like the Bible says, but that didn't cause a big controversy for some weird reason. In fact, our leader David Cameron has been using this to push for more Christian indoctrination in schools.
Nice! That will be my next article:

How I tricked Hacker News into reading about my writing about how I tricked TechCrunch into writing about my startup.
JsBin adds new processors
I did my graduate work in Pittsburgh. $20k a year sustained me quite well. Rent for a large two-bedroom blocks from my office was $680/month. I know people who bought homes and paid a mortgage for less. Food is decent, kind people, public transportation is pretty good.
Wow, I didn't realize that one map on COD: Black Ops was designed after an Amazon warehouse.
I think if I was a bit younger and a bit less thoroughly ruined by living in New York for the past six years (I really couldn't live anywhere else in the US long term)—I'd go to Detroit. It's cheap, a bit dangerous, and drawing a shitload of artists and writers. Not being near the ocean would drive me batty, but it would be an awesome excursion for a few years.

I recently did the classic Manhattan to Brooklyn move and I'm thrilled. Perhaps I have Stockholm Syndrome but I love that it's possible to up and move to a different town and still be in New York City.

But, to each their own. Some writers thrive on isolation and some thrive on socialization.
I totally agree with keeping the message short. Also I have read from several other sources that telling a story is key. But how are you supposed to tell a story in 4 sentences?
You're focusing on one macro nutrient. Paleo followers are mindful of what kind of carbohydrates they eat to the point where they will argue to the teeth as to why legumes are somehow not a good form carbohydrate and protein (while vegans would argue the opposite). They also focus on animal fats as a primary source of fat over vegetable oils (olive, coconut, etc), again the opposite of what vegans choose for their fat intake.

Deficiencies exist in all diets (as they are, by nature, restrictive), the problem is that the extent of these deficiencies is blown way out of proportion. It is very hard to be truly deficient in a vitamin/mineral/amino acid in the privileged western world, but there are a few diets which do mess this up, and vegan is one of them, particularly iron for women.
My boss let me spend this workday with studying the new api
This comment is misguided, but it doesn't deserve a downvote. It vocalizes the argument coming from the authority, and so it needs to be examined - and we can't do that if we downvote it to invisibility.

Taking away a person's privacy is a punishment. You can't do it because it might bear interesting information. That you don't know ahead of time whether that information will be important is no excuse: you can't punish someone unless you know they're guilty.

Further, given the shroud of secrecy around the collection of the information, how can we be assured that it's not going to be used for commercial or political ends? Even if you trust the present keepers of these secrets, will the next batch be as clean?

Why do you believe that it's so important to gather this information? Is there any real evidence that it's been used in ways that is truly important to our safety (not just for catching drug dealers), and that cannot be accomplished through conventional means?

And how can you even know? If the government won't even own up to what they're doing, how can the electorate weigh the factors? Given that the nature of the problem renders democratic action impossible, how can it be tolerated in a democratic state?
No, the Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes was published in 1927. Steamboat Willie is from 1928.

Copyright law in the US is basically built around Mickey Mouse. Sherlock Holmes seems to barely make the cut into public domain.
Starting from the second sentence in the article:

"We all know by now that Horizon shoots perfect horizontal videos, even if you rotate your device while shooting! We wanted to stress Horizon’s capabilities by using it under extreme circumstances."
When I was in college in Pittsburgh (1999-2003), I rented rooms in share houses for $75-150/month, in nice parts of Shadyside and Squirrel Hill (after figuring out the dorms were obscenely expensive). I could have probably gotten by on around $20K/year, feeling very comfortable.
> Third, the faulty logic of "this new technique has a bad edge case, so we should completely reject it, despite any benefits".

What you are calling an "edge case" is the main feature since the first iteration of the language. That it runs server scripts on the client. And yes, it does mean that it must be completely rejected for crypto code.

If the article gloes over something, it's the fact that those problems are fundamental. They can't be ammended, and won't go away at any time in the future. Looks like it should make this still more obvious.

I guess that's the second article I upvote on HN... At first I tought "No shit! But I'll take a look", but after reading this kind of responses, yes, I think it should get a few days at the frontpage.
Why not a GoPro on a wheel?

Edit: I just think I should've googled that first.
...And it's interesting because?
competition with an inferior technology outdated product. What a competition. I can see Comcast sweating.
And don't forget, while it is unethical to intentionally deceive a reporter, a large part of a journalist's job is to vet sources and do some research to make sure claims are true.

In reality, blogs make their money on advertising so if they publish downright fabrications or knowingly stretch the truth, they do not care as long as they are getting clicks.

In other words, don't feel bad for the blogs.
Just as a counterweight to inevitable moaning about UK broadband - I am very happy with what I'm getting from Virgin Media. Rock solid, no traffic shaping, 120Mbit line for not much money is not bad at all. I was happy before as well, with a DSL line. There is competition in the market and it seems to drive the tech and prices in the right direction (unless you live in a rural area...)

Some of my friends leave in Hyperoptic-enabled area of London where they get a stable Gigabit service.
This is great for simple, quick job. However, you can do only so much in a local browser itself.

I basically built a bookmarklet that let's you define the actions locally on your browser, and then run the scrapes in your own box, essentially allowing unmetered scraping without charging per page.

http://scrape.ly
#1 is probably easier, but #2 is probably a better user experience. Either way, you're right in that deleting the item wouldn't be necessary.
Chrome does support these codepoints, but it doesn't support the format of Apple's PNG glyphs for emoji. Amusingly, it does support the android colored glyphs in Chrome for Android.
Spent nearly 5hrs on the phone with Comcast last week to get them to un-screwup my account and provide the service they agreed to provide. It's working now, but now they're billing me for someone else's account as well. Comcast has fully accomplished being the worst company in america.
Good idea! it works pretty good in FF but in Chrome when I type "-" nothing gets printed, and when I type = it prints "-".
Thanks, that answers many points very well. VersionPress seems to interest many people so hopefully we'll get chance to properly build it.

You also seem to be very realistic about how large this undertaking is - you're right and we know how big of a thing we're trying to build. That's why we're realistic about our goals for v1 and don't promise more than we can deliver. To support all the complex 3rd party plugins and various hosting environments is something that will come over time. But we have to start somewhere and we believe that we are approaching the problem from the right angle. Thanks!
The other big myth about Bitcoin's anonymity, but this has been beaten into the ground by a lot of people and projects, so I don't think it needed to be repeated.
Those of us old enough to remember how awful the local/long-distance split was don't necessarily want to return to it.

The problem isn't that companies are allowed to offer different levels of service for different prices... it's that the existing ISPs have switched to a rent-seeking business model. Once a company does that, corporate culture makes it impossible for them to switch back to the more benign good-service-for-fair-price model.

The existing companies just need to die and be wiped from existence. There are other companies that aren't doing the rent-seeking thing, and we all love them Sonic, Google Fiber, etc.

Sure, let municipal fiber bloom in those places that can manage the trick, but don't mandate it top-down for the entire fucking country.
I don't disagree with any of this. What's a sensible patent term in aerospace, where a single design might take a decade to bring to market, and what's sensible in consumer electronics isn't the same.
Why bother blaming politics you don't control when instead you can blame the technology that makes this possible in the first place? Support an alternative like http://mailmarkup.org/value.xhtml
Net Neutrality is about packet discrimination by source and destination.

Net Neutrality seems to be a No True Scotsman where if you ask 10 people on HN what it really means, you get a dozen different answers.

There are some kinds of NN I support, and some I don't. I would sign up for the definition in your comment.
On the topic of less popular cities: My parents live in St. Louis. It's a wonderful place. The city was hit hard by de-industrialization, which is probably the reason why it's so affordable. It has Wash U, which is a really excellent private university. The campus is next to Forest Park and a thriving collegetown-type area. There are some gorgeous historic neighborhoods nearby as well which have been maintained over the decades, like Parkview.

The city is so affordable that it's not terribly uncommon for upper middle class folks like doctors to have vacation homes, usually lakehouses.

And I imagine there's a lot of really awesome office space available for rent in downtown at affordable rates for would-be startups; not to mention there's undoubtedly a lot of fantastic local CS talent coming out of Wash U which is largely untapped by the city.

Missouri is fully seasonal as well. It's sometimes breathtaking to see everything in bloom in the spring and early summer, and there are plenty of opportunities to play in the snow in winter.

The only thing it's lacking, of course, is an abundance of well-paying stable jobs in technology.
> And after rolling out, Google would then be required to let anyone else use the last mile they built.

Either way Google would be getting paid for the cost of providing that last-mile service so it'd really come down to a question of whether someone could profitably outcompete them on either bandwidth pricing or other service value-adds.

I rather doubt that prospect would keep anyone at Google up at night – but it would cause plenty of heartburn in the Comcast/Verizon/AT&T etc. executive suites.
I would guess a GoPro doesn't allow Apps nor has the sensors accessible to perform the experiment with an external computer.

[edit] I do wonder why we haven't seen more programmable cameras with the sensors a smartphone has.
Good indian? You need to check out Udipi:
http://udipicafepittsburgh.com

It's out in Monroeville next to a concrete factory -- but fantastic south indian food. Definitely worth the drive.
> I have been trying to find decent Indian food, for example

Tamarind on North Craig Street in Oakland?

Oh how I miss Pittsburgh... I was there four years and it took a little while but it really, really grew on me. I hope you find more spots to your liking!
For most people, wireless is a superior product. I don't know if you have noticed, but the 1990's futuristic ideal of a big fat desktop connected to a fat fiber pipe isn't what people actually ended up wanting. They want a thin light tablet connected to wireless internet they can take on the go. Demand for that "inferior technology" is increasing much faster than demand for wireline technology.
People "paid for" a shared network, with all the benefits and drawbacks of such. You can have a private pipe if you want to guarantee no congestion at all, but expect to pay significantly more for it.
Broken crypto is not an improvement over no crypto.

Javascript crypto solves no problem at all, and can break better encryption implementations if you use both. At best, it's useless.
What the next healthcare unicorn will look like
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll definitely check it out!
I found Tamarind to be pretty bland, but I'll keep exploring! :)
Yes, the team scenario is something that we know we want to support and it will totally be possible.
Silevo seems already have industry grade panels at 21% efficiency. That's quite a lot in home/utility panels:
http://sroeco.com/solar/most-efficient-solar-panels
(13 - 17%)

I can't find easily the price/W, but assuming they can produce panels at similar cost that's going to be huge.
What are these so-called "fast lanes"?
That's great information, thank you. The paper looks really interesting - going to take a little while to get through, might start with the video :)

I'd also read that it's hard to get right (I think that was in a comment on HN by one of the people who worked on wave/sharejs). In my case I've limited myself to two different flavours of small object with a limited set of fields (instead of a totally generalised system). Most of the algorithms I've seen focus on the text element of the syncing but I'm much more interested in the object / list / field part for my use case.

Sharejs actually have a generic system of handling the OT on arbitrary json structures, but I'm not sure how well it works.
Good Pilgrims: Why Mexican immigrants are returning home
That title looks like it was written by a Telco Lobbyist. Immediately it's made partisan (Democrats are regulating!), dire (unveils has a negative connotation), overbearing (forcing the FCC oh noes!), and incorrect (no such thing as an Internet "fast lane").

A better title could read:
"Lawmakers Introduce bill to halt ISPs crippling Netflix-type Internet Services"

It's no wonder we can't get anything done for good in Washington.
To each their own. I'm not interested in systematic scraping. I just want to take back, take home the web experience I've had, and be able to digest and work with it latter. The things that I want to work with are the sights and experiences I've had. Client side is perfect.

Second, if I was trying to scrape, I'd rather do scraping with WebDriver than anything else, and injecting some client side scraping tools and using WebDriver as a driver, not a driver/scraper sounds remarkably better.

I see no reason to ever not use a browser to consume html content.
Quantum network would be most precise clock yet
You don't have to tell the whole story in the first email. In fact, it's often better to only tell half the story so they get curious to hear the rest.

The title of my article is a decent example: "How I tricked TechCrunch into writing my startup"

Happy to give some feedback based on your individual situation if you like. Email: marc[at]betalist.com
FWIW I vote no change.
... Because this is an iOS app?
How do you keep motivated if you work (employed/solo-entrepreneur) from home?
I work from home and on the side I am trying to find business problems I may be able to solve using software. I do struggle to keep myself motivated at times.

How do you keep motivated and fight apathy on a daily basis?
> Actually giving a shit about people, taking time to learn their unique differences, caring for them and doing right by them, that takes so much work.

It's about 50/50 in my anecdotal experience that half of them doesn't give a shit or is basically assholes.

> It would be so much easier if there were just 3 steps to making anyone your friend.

That's actually not true. It's actually a skill and some of these guys, including me, have spent years going out twice a week, 5 days a week, to acquire this skill.

It might seem easy to read those stuff but I think it's hard work to actually practice it.

> But that doesn't stop scam artists from exploiting your hope that it does.

I haven't spend any money on it. Mostly lurking through forums.

But, I know a few coaches and they do make money off of people.

I personally don't believe they can really make a lasting impact with just a week of booth camp or two days. It may help if you have some basis or moderate understanding of communication or social skill. It's more of a skill that take years.

If you do want to see some positive side of PUA I believe 21 convention videoes on youtube is good. It focus on all aspect.
> Either way Google would be getting paid for the cost of providing that last-mile service so it'd really come down to a question of whether someone could profitably outcompete them on either bandwidth pricing or other service value-adds.

When something involves capital investments of billions of dollars, companies don't just want to eke out a small profit. They want enough profit to justify putting the money in that industry as opposed to some other one. If you can make 30% returns over here in social networking, why spend billions of dollars digging holes in the ground for 5% returns?

> I rather doubt that prospect would keep anyone at Google up at night – but it would cause plenty of heartburn in the Comcast/Verizon/AT&T etc. executive suites.

Sure, but only because Google makes 98% of it's money in a very high margin advertising business. Meanwhile, Comcast/Verizon/AT&T actually have to placate their shareholders with the money they make building infrastructure.
Some months ago I found https://import.io/ and it just blow my mind.

I remember the pain it was to write custom scrapers every time (I used to do it with Perl, btw).

They have a custom browser with a nice interface, but the biggest thing are the so called "Connectors": you instruct the system into how to query and parse results and Import.IO will give you an API endpoint for this query, now automatized.

One can, say, create a "connector" which can query Airbnb and parse results, then create another "connector" which queries booking.com. Now it is possible to use the API to make a query for Boa Vista, Roraima (my city) and get the dataset.

I am not affiliated with them in any way, just a very happy old-school scrapper.

Nice walkthrough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_16O10Wx2W4

UPDATE:

Unsurprisingly, import.io was Hacker News stuff in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7582858
Toolbox, Inspector and Scratchpad improvements in Firefox 32
Flixtor Finds Anti-Piracy Investigator on Its Doorstep, Shuts Down
Heavy. Now that's a journey. I remember ToneLoc and I may have used it - although we envied you Americans at the time because local calls were not free for us.
I'm getting motion sickness just thinking about it. Haven't even watched yet.
not indian food, but go across the street to kanda house for the best sashimi
Except how does one tell the difference between Skype and Voip? You don't without deep level packet inspection. Simple QoS based on port could easily piss off a customer, for example, if they want Skype traffic on port 80. The simplest way to deal with this is to treat all traffic equally but serve the bandwidth that you promise your customers.
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I'm doing the same thing for the same reason but in rural Montana near granite big walls and powder covered peaks and I suspect there are many more of us out there. Just bought a large farm house on 3.4 acres with a stream a couple miles from the trailheads and crags for less then a condo in Seattle. I can't imagine moving back to a city for any reason.

This area (the missoula+bitterroot valley area) also has a surprising number of startups, both software and hardware including a utility bike manufacture that is stealing contracts from the Chinese and various biotechs and big data focussed companies.

I think that cheap space and low cost of living are ingredients that are too often overlooked in YC style startups.

I'm primarily a software/machine learning guy but now that I've got a garage i've already got small machine shop set up for various hardware projects and experiments and now that we have guest rooms and space I'll be inviting various collaborators out for coding/hiking/climbing/skiing retreats.
The Supreme Court has already weighed in on A.
I get the impression these companies did it for the advertising. Not on demand from the Italian Space Agency.

It looks like they developed the idea and then pitched the final product to the Agency hoping to get it aboard the IIS.

So While I'm sure it cost them money, it's not as likely to have been taxpayer money, making it a..."waste your money if you want too", type deal.