skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tape is still in use today. Widely. I bet there are more companies archiving to tape than archiving to AWS. For most of the past 27 years it would be the dominant archival method.
Will you be in any way released from legal liability by complying?

This sounds like "We don't quite have enough evidence that you did it, please admit to it fully so we have enough to throw the book at you".
Teenage Haskell
Sorry if I sound naive, but I was a college student myself not so long ago and... I stayed at the same place even when I hated it, just because it was so difficult until Apr/May/Jun to find a better one.

Enter your service.

Difficulty starts going down, business starts being less cyclical. Who knows how much less?
There is no need to use Search Nearby anymore. Search just searches near whatever you are looking at.
As a teenager in the early HAL-PC years I really appreciate the mentoring I received through CHUG and later HAL-PC.

These groups were directly responsible for my advancement into the field of software development which has served me well these 30+ years.
Introducing Kite – Pretty good privacy, anywhere.
LTO5 can do 1.5TB on a $20 tape.
Exactly. And very well said.
And then they proceed and stream the recovered signals as mp3 again. Kinda ironic.
Awesome!

When you leave and return, are your planets saves? Can your planets be attacked while you're away?
It's very familiar if you're a C# or Java developer and provides a rich, clean and consistent API library which abstracts away JavaScript and DOM apis: https://api.dartlang.org/apidocs/channels/stable/dartdoc-vie...

The code-labs provide pretty good, practical walk-thru's:
http://io2014codelabs.appspot.com/static/codelabs/dart-start...
If this was (the only available) programming, I'd quit.

Kudos, I think, to the author. His pain tolerance exceeds mine by a vast amount.
I don't think anyone is saying this is better because it's invite-only. I think it's invite-only so they can keep the total # manageable and make sure all the participants are going to be actual builders instead of wasting others time.
Ask them for their fax number, and beam them the contents of your drive in binary.

Ask them if they have a LOT of paper first.
The government has teeth because it ultimately has the threat of violence over the governed. That's what "law enforcement" is.

A government's legitimacy comes from the consent of the governed, but its power comes from the threat of force. If that wasn't true, then there would be no need for government, since people could just ask nicely for what they want and receive it without any need to coerce others into doing it under threat of forced deprivation of assets or liberty.
Or, in what ways does the design philosophy here differ enough to warrant a separate project instead of making PRs to godep?
Google is the first big player to do flatness well imo.
From a technical POV I also question that contemporary encoders still optimize for those three tracks (which means any encoder but the ISO reference code and very close derivatives like 8Hz).

IIRC LAME which was used for this project, replaced the entire psychoacoustic modelling code (which is possible to do since MP3-the-format only cares about frequency bands and buckets, not about what the encoder does to them), and they likely tuned their new model to larger, more diverse sets of samples and ears.
We can go further, though. Intelligence and tenacity are also things that were given to us. You don't choose to be smart, nor do you choose to be hardworking.
Good point, getting legal advice before doing anything seems like a safe plan!
>Aside from the splash screen, it looks nice and sharp on my retina

Heh, I believe it, but it is a bit of a mess on high-dpi Windows 8 machines (e.g. Lenovo Yoga 2 pro). Some elements get scaled, some don't, and the entire thing looks broken. It is functional, just ugly.
The idea that mutating files in place is actually very expensive is new to me.
I mostly agree, but I've found many Google UI changes to be lacking in terms of discoverability. On both Android and web apps I've been baffled by icons and buttons with no hints or explanation. Through trial and error I'm generally able to grok the new conventions, but I still get frustrated initially when presented with opaque symbology.
Maybe I'm nit-picking... but "Material" is not a language... it's a design guideline. (the article, and the articles the article link to repeatedly call it a language when it's not)
Amen! (Minus the sizzling)
Indeed. There are few wide-spread programming languages around any more that lack such things as, say, any form of arithmetic whatsoever.
I would appreciate a couple examples showing more typical bitrates at 256kbps and 320kbps. I like what it is, but there's this lossy difference between the argument being made and reality. Now, if I could get a copy of the intended argument, I could invert the phase with this site and show you the difference.
This. They're just gathering more evidence by getting you to hand them a hard drive with this on it.
So much wasted space. Looks like any random "responsive design" website.
Things I've hated the most about it so far:

- It trying to introduce me to hidden gestures for "see more results!" when I'm driving. Sorry guys, using maps is not really the time for a tutorial, I'm in the middle of a task!
- Re-routing. The new maps seems to re-route me, more often, and more often incorrectly, than the old maps did.
- It also gives me different route results on my Glass than on my Phone. WTF?
Although it won't fix all the language boilerplate problems, we are also adding Java 8 support to GWT shortly, which does let you go from this nastiness :)

button.addEventListener("click", new EventListener() {

public void onEvent(Event e) { Window.alert("Hello"); }

});

to this:

button.addEventListener("click", e -> Window.alert("hello"));
I don't necessarily disagree, but I'd prefer that this call be made by the judicial system whenever possible. When someone does something bad and escapes punishment for it, it can be harder to forgive. Is that such a stretch?

Very interesting moderation in this thread. HN is not doing itself proud at the moment.
Not a red flag not to share cap table.

But you should see the grant as a percentage of fully-diluted outstanding stock, and you should know the preference on top of the cap table, and you should know the last granted strike price and if there is anything that would prevent your grant from being granted at that price.
There's a reasonable way of handling drug crimes.

Have 2 cars with 2-4 cops go arrest everyone and then look for drugs, given an appropriate warrant. If you see heavy arsenal, THEN calling in heavy guns can be called for.

But you dont just show up at someone's house with SWAT by default and do whatever you want. That's just wrong. But that's done. Just go look up the new phenomenon "Swatting".
Don't lie then, just search google and click through.
I have a very similar problem. We have built a system for building niche websites for collectibles and plan on scaling horizontally - adding new collectibles in a similar way to the way you add universities and re-using the same code to power each niche.

We're making some money on the trial niche ($5000/ MRR and growing) and have our first 100K monthly users close to product/market fit (78% would be "very unhappy" to lose us).

Just like you guys, we don't really know where to go next. Right now, we plan on bootstrapping (we both work full time for well-known firms so all the revenue goes to contractors) but raising a "real" seed round could change everything.

Just like you, we have no idea if we should raise a seed, crowdfund (people LOVE their collections and we made 10K in 3 days in a small crowdfund) or continue to bootstrap.

Not sure it matters, but coming from someone in a very similar place - we are rooting for you!
Be sure to enable full-drive encryption first. They just asked for a hard drive they could copy and erase; they didn't say jack about it being in a readable format.

See also: formatted with DragonFlyBSD's "Hammer" filesystem. Archived in BinHex. Saved with Base37 encoding. And 9-bit bytes. In the "/home/leopard/music" directory of a fresh Debian Potato install.
We don't have to stop parents completely from passing on their advantages to their children -- which is good, because that would be impossible.

What we could and should do, however, is equalize public education spending per child across the entire US. The system we've always had, of funding education out of local property taxes, is grossly unfair.
Do +not+ comply with the demand.

There is nothing (law, morals, or else) that prevents one from scraping a publicly accessible website.
I've long guessed, and this OP reinforces that, that
much of what Bill and Melinda are doing now was
driven by Melinda 'selling' Bill on some
values that Melinda deeply held and got from
her nuns and the Catholic church. But, yes, the
story of Bill's visit to Soweto showed that
some of Bill's own experiences made him fertile
ground for Melinda's values and goals.

I may be underestimating Bill's initial drive
for their work now, but generally I have to
guess that Melinda is the main hero here.
Oh, not to forget, one little thing Melinda did:
She talked both Bill and Warren into handing over,
what, ballpark $100 billion? Then for her second
day, the set up a value that all wealthy people
should give about 50% of their wealth to
philanthropy and got, apparently, quite a list
of wealthy people to do just that.

Another good thing to respect about them clearly
seems to be their marriage; it looks like
on of their beet examples. Perhaps not just
coincidentally, their love and relationship,
if more widely followed, would have helped
those woman and children abandoned in South Asia.
My view is that their example of a good marriage
is huge not just for themselves but for
their goals of curing poverty, that is, it is
easy to see that letting marriage break is one
of the biggest wastes in civilization, in particular,
leading to poverty and the problems they are now
trying to solve.

Why so many people are so eager
to bust up their marriages, or just not be very
devoted to each other at all, seems to be a
grand determination to extract miserable defeat from
the voracious jaws of magnificent victory and just
inexplicable.

Congratulations to them both.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_language
Venture capitalist to venture capitalist: we can do better
Nice. This should be a required reading for every "vision"-happy hipster designer out there:

It works for me, in my context, on my screen, it should be fine, right? Well, that's not designing. That's cheating. You're skewing the content's use, perverting its value.

This point is worth repeating: design without a purpose is not design; it's onanism. Anyone can go spend a weekend playing with photoshop for hours to give free rein to their own "vision" and aesthetic prejudices, given enough familiarity with the tool --in a way, not too different from shopping or 'pimping' a car or what not. But an altogether different challenge is to design for users, the vast majority of whom one will likely never even meet. And that requires at the very least some empathy for the poor victims stuck with one's shitty and arbitrary design choices long after one has moved on check in hand --like disabling zoom, hello!?!??.

So when the OP glibly says in their manifesto[1]:

"I love Wikipedia. It's awesome. But it deserves a better and more delightful design. This is my vision of how the reading experience should be like. Better typography, removed side bar, reduced clutter, improved contrast and clarity, and more open space."

I would respond:

1. Ok, but try first put yourself in the shoes the hundreds of millions of users who rely on wikipedia every day and their whole spectrum of use cases, environments and needs; then

2. try locate the totality of your own experience within that spectrum; and then

3. ask yourself to what extent your prior notions of delight, clarity, typographic beauty, etc might be highly conditioned by the peculiarities of your own experience and environment; and

4. to what extent such acquired "good design" intuitions are really the kind of self-evident, plausibly generalizable ground truths about usability and human interaction you feel it's worth pontificating about.

[1] http://wikipedia.moesalih.com/?about
Happy to chat as well. I know this space well. Would chat with a few seed funds to gauge interest - Resolute is a good place to start.
It says it is inspired by Bundler but in what ways? I am curious as I didn't use much of neither bundler nor goop but I have heard the constraints resolution lays in the heart of bundler.
Just out of interest, how do you know that?

I can't see any byline on the article.
I think that material is great design, but terrible strategy and in the end may land up resulting in the Android design space being worse, not better.

For years google (and many members of the design community) made a very successful argument that android apps should look and act like android apps, and iOS apps should look and act like iOS apps and web apps should act like web apps. Trying to achieve design consistency across platforms was going to annoy your users. Instead you should strive for _branding_ consistency across platforms and use native interaction patterns.

A significant problem for Android has been iOS designs just copied over without adapting to the platform. The apps look and feel weird. As a user I find them confusing and frustrating to use. However progress was being made and people were starting to understand that if you want to build for Android you are going to need to design for Android.

Material throws that out the window. It says it right there in the goals[1]: "Develop a single underlying system that allows for a unified experience across platforms and device sizes."

IF we take it as given that our apps should look the same on all platforms, then why choose Material? Because I know my customers are going to say: "We have this great iOS design sitting right here, that we have already paid to have built. Lets use that! Besides we don't want to re-code our iOS app to suit Android". Or, they will come up with their own cross platform design to "differentiate themselves" and stand out.

[1] - http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introducti...
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Google Just Made Big Data Expertise Much Tougher to Fake
Announcing sysdig 0.1.84
Whats new in Lightroom 5.0 to 5.5:

http://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/help/whats-new.html

This includes a ton of new features, as well as the release of Lightroom mobile, web and sync services.
Sure. But the problem in that case is that the client wanted the goodwill route and wanted it codified, which doesn't work ;).
> So the discussion is not "moot".

I said it was moot unless you could point us to a CA that would (1) sell to Iran and (2) be accepted in most browsers. I'm still not sure if someone in Iran can actually buy from this CA - 10-100x markup aside - as there doesn't appear to be an online purchase ability. The website has also not been updated in 2 years. One final issue is that this is a reseller of TURKTRUST, which was pulled from all major browsers last year due to their major screwup allowing people to impersonate Google. They're back in the browsers, for now, but we'll see how it unfolds in the future.

Multiple UN sanctions against Iran are still in effect. Some relief was granted in December 2013 but most of the sanctions regarding oil, banking, and finance remain in effect. Wikipedia is often out of date with regards to issues like this. It's an extremely poor source of information, but often helpful to find a reliable source from the footnotes.
I sort of like the design. Too bad google's business model is still offensive though. At least with iOS I know the deal is: I give Apple money, they give me a widget. With Google the deal is they give me services, I give them ... gobs of information.
Maybe he wants to make sure they get a hold of <i>his</i> hard drive that he'll be taking in on Monday, not some random HNer's drive with some surprise that gets there first?
That's roughly my understanding, too.
TOS only apply if you agreed to them, and TOS cannot violate any other laws.

Also, the demander would have to prove it was a Bot or something, and that actual data was downloaded. It could be just a guy with a lot of free time to browse every page on the site.

in any regard -- this demand is ludicrous.
It's definitely possible, but much more unlikely than going without a passport, for two reasons:

1) The expanse and culture of the U.S. favors driving cars, so most people learn to drive a car. A driver's license is most people's form of photo ID.

2) A puritanical history makes for strict age limits on alcohol and tobacco; young adults must show photo ID in order to enter many bars and clubs where alcohol is served.

These two factors mean that most Americans have an ID by the time they are 21. In fact, I don't know anyone who doesn't have one.
So, is playing golf in the rain a worse option than walking or driving home and returning later on a city street?

These odds are hardly a compelling reason to continue warning about lighting safety given that the resulting behavior changes might be leading to more of the common causes of death.
This kind of idea is something that can only be pulled off after gaining a threshold level of fame and media attention.

It's not like this would work for anyone other than Wu-Tang.

Critics and Journalists are desperate to proclaim that this is the birth of a new business model for music, but it doesn't take a lot of intuition to understand that things work differently for a popular, talented group that already has millions of fans, as opposed to some random nobody in search of a music career. There's an obvious aspect of demand that plays against the supply startegy here.

Not to mention that the second, third and fourth people who attempt similar stunts will simply be accused of biting Wu's ideas, or perhaps they'll just be met by plain disinterest. Imagine Fred Durst conceives of a solo album with guest artists Korn and Linkin Park playing on select tracks, and then says:

"Hey guys, this amazing work of art will never
see the light of day, unless one hundred billion
dollars."

Okay, Fred Durst, that's great, please promise to never show anyone anything you do ever again, and take Korn and Linkin Park with you. We'll all be eternally grateful. Thanks.
Nice site.

You are creating something similar to the change of address packet and welcome kit by the USPS. When you move to a new area, you get an envelope with a ton of local offers for new movers.

This is what I am talking about: http://imagitas.com/mover-advertising-solution/welcome-kit.h...

You will find its companion Mover's Guide at your local post office. Simply ask for it from any USPS clerk. Studying it may prove to be very interesting as it will help you identify which companies already advertise to movers.

I like that you offer to connect prospects with landlords by prompting the site user for her phone number. Someone needs to figure out how to get them to pay you. You may want to offer landlords pre-filled rental applications instead of just phone calls.

"Apply Online" becomes a premium feature for which some landlords may be willing to pay (this needs to be tested).

We should talk as I may have a way for you to make more money involving my product. I also have contact information for every moving company. I am wiseleo on skype, gtalk, gmail.
I was imprecise. I meant that you need to know financing rounds, prices, classes, and financially relevant terms such as preferences and ratchets. You probably want to know who led each round, and a business should not have a problem disclosing that. The fact that uncle Lenny has 10,000 shares in the seed round is not neccessary.
I've read about studies where just seeing someone else smile and be happy makes others who see it also happier. Like a happy person gets on a bus full of less than happy people and the entire bus ends up happier. I don't think this is really that new, except maybe to the degree it scales the distribution. I imagine words create a smaller impact than a face to face encounter, but I'll leave that to a study to figure out.
Based on the email, I get the feeling that ext3 might be hard enough for them to connect to.
I found the SSD discussion very useful. Bottom line is that deleting (or rewriting) data causes unpredictable and degraged write performance due to "write amplification". Sticking to appends-only writes keeps things fast.

I certainly wouldn't discourage anyone from watching the video. At least read the slides!

http://gotocon.com/dl/goto-aar-2012/slides/MartinThompson_My...
Gets you downvotes on HN.
The advice to just get an LLC going first then convert to a C corp is fine for their stage, I won't argue against it. However, what you're saying in opposition to forming a C corp early doesn't feel very rigorous.

From my limited experience as a founder, forming a C corp early has made some things easier. The time we had to convert a California C corp to a Delaware C corp became messy and I imagine converting a {whatever state} LLC to a Delaware C corp also has the potential for being messy.

The conversion cost us a lot of money to have done right when instead taking boilerplate docs and simply forming in Delaware first would have been much easier.

Angels and incubators will generally want you to be a C corp first or convert ASAP, too (which is a valid option but I feel like there are other more important things to be spending cycles and money on). Raising money without worrying about converting your corporate structure is a pretty big reason to just do it as a C corp from the start.
"I've heard good things about the team at X.", if you've actually heard good things about them. "Those guys at X claim they can do Y.", if you have the folks at X on record actually claiming Y. Otherwise, you're just repeating something you heard, or wish you had heard.
>We don't have to stop parents completely from passing on their advantages to their children

We have to. Parents don't just pass on their advantages, they pass on their values which probably are more important than economic advantages. No amount of school reform will fix instances where kids have to go back to house with a missing father and a overworked mother.

Doing anything else and saying shit like 'lets remember we are lucky' is purest of pure hypocrisy.
> Search just searches near whatever you are looking at.

...except for those times where it doesn't, and instead decides to return only the closest result for something. This is especially problematic for regional stores that have multiple locations. If I'm near one but want to meet someone at another Google apparently wants me to go to the close one and ask them for an address.
Thanks Jonathan. I am not terribly familiar with NLP would you mind resolving the 3 letter acronyms (ATM, ANN)?