skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having core functionality dependent on js, if it is trivially avoidable, seems regrettable. But for enhancements, a lot of the experimentation and deviation from strict html in the early days and into the present, has ultimately led to best practices and new useful features being written into the standards. Ideally there should be a balance between interoperability and innovation.
That's a rationalization around the original blaming statement you made. You asked how we should know if they are secure. He said how do you know they haven't been hacked already? Both legitimate, up to the point you said he was making conspiracy theories.
That's nonsense. If a credible actor poses a threat, they will attempt to do a competent job hiding their communications and data. Those that don't are by definition less competent and less likely to pose a threat.

Pardon the bluntless, but it seems like an a priori conclusion that only people taking pains to hide their data/communications should be targeted. That is not because the vast majority of those people are innocent (they are) but because that is the only group that contains a subset that poses a real & present threat.

So, that ignores your slippery slope argument about personal liberties, which are totally valid. How do you balance national security and personal liberty in this case? That's the million dollar question.

Please let me know if you question my reasoning. I'm purely looking at it as a 2x2 matrix of (highly encrypts personal data, does not ...) x (seeks to harm people/nation interests, does not ...)

So only the people hiding their tracks that seek to harm are the ones to worry about. Those that don't hide their tracks are a lot less likely to be operationally successful</euphemism>.

However, I assume that the 99.95% of people that highly encrypt personal do not seek to harm anyone, and are collateral damage here.

Constitutional tradeoffs happen all over. Fire in a crowded theater, felons rights to vote, personal rights to own certain weapons, etc. This is another one that needs to be decided very carefully. But I think both sides have very valid concerns.
I find it funny that this was posted by a guy named "redbulldrinker"
Maybe the guidelines should be stickied up top, along with the current explanation text, at least while this gets going!

https://news.ycombinator.com/show =/=

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

edit: they are, but just not called out as such.

[Show HN] is for something you've made that other people can play with. The newest Show HNs are listed [here].

(eg clicking the first hyperlink will bring them up)
These are awesome, are there more?
Like we shouldn't get our privacy.

Whereas he bought himself a specially isolated penthouse in order to live his open marriage in perfect privacy.
How I Set Up My Development Machine
I know I've definitely been hesitant to post in the past for being called out for self-promotion or something. I think formalizing it like this will encourage a lot of people to share who might otherwise not.
Think of /show as the Show HN equivalent of the front page, and /shownew as the Show HN equivalent of /newest.
I've used Numba to speed up some tight numerical computations written on NumPy arrays and it's incredibly good - about as fast as rewriting it from scratch in Cython, but much, much faster.

The flipside is that it only really results in a speed up for pure numerical code - if you have to use any Python objects, then you lose everything.
It was a different team and different time. The main reason is that Apple decided not to support Ruby/Cocoa anymore and at that time, the team wasn't ready to rebuild it. Now, I can guarantee we'll do everything possible to recover your trust. It would be awesome to have you onboard again.
My favorite 747! It's the 747SP. I love how short and fat it looks.
Apple US Smartphone Market Share Rises to Nearly 42%
In the US (no clue about the rest of the world) cursive has gone out of style. Some schools don't even teach it anymore.
No, but going out of your way to be offended certainly qualifies.
Issuing a false DMCA takedown notice may not be sanctionable under the DMCA, but how is it not the false, fraudulent assertion of copyright ownership? Surely there is nothing that excuses false assertion of copyright.
If you are that sensitive to people pronouncing your name correctly and your name is not bob or chris, leaving the US is probably your best bet.

I certainly gave up long ago.
Thanks! I'm moving to Western Washington later this year and I've been trying to find info on startups!

Thanks again!
Since /ask isn't there either, we'll probably not add it. Or maybe we should add them both.
Plants respond to leaf vibrations caused by insect herbivore chewing
I would be curious to see this versus an electric car cost calculator
Hey dang, I'm sending all invites right as I get requests now and the email gate will fully come down soon. Is there any chance I can get the "Show HN" back?
Winner in the Amazon War
well, first of all I already have someone named Mark in my family. What's worse he works in the same industry.
Second, someone who changes my name to something totally different just to make it easier for them, screams "I don't give a flying f* who you are, and I can't be bothered to learn your name".
I use to allow people calling me many names - Mario, Mark, Marcus,Martin etc. That stopped when I realized that I'm not helping anyone by doing this, but it actually is weird when you're in a meeting and everyone calls you a different name.
The 'arrest filter' is only as good as the inputs. As it currently stands, I'm sure that things like "uses drugs recreationally," "is black," "is Muslim," and "is not Christian," would end up counting towards your 'arrest score.' And also because your arrest score is computed by a machine rather than a human, that will be used as an excuse to call it unimpeachable. E.g. "Machines can't be racist, so the arrest score going after lots of poor, Black men must mean that there's something to it."
I really love the arguments in the category "You criticize 'X' but you offer no real alternative, solution, etc..." as if you can only criticize something if you have the alternative solution at hand. This is not one of those questions with an easy answer.

"Boy you sure criticize those Nazis a lot for genocide, but you offer no _real_ solution."
"Dude... stop criticizing those banks for their greediness when you have no solution". I realize these are rather hyperbolic examples, but you see where I'm getting at.

As for the OP, this does seems like really cool stuff, even if I don't really agree with "the interview" method myself because I don't do too well at them. I mean sure, there should be some on the spot questions to get sort of an outlook feel on the candidate, but that really isn't sufficient.

Why not give the the candidate a real world problem - maybe even related to something your company is trying to solve - and a few days to come up with a solution. I don't care if they also do some copy/paste from SO and other sources on the internet. That's why the interwebz is there in the first place. What would be more important in my view, is how the candidate is able to integrate all the information he finds - be it on the internet, books or his own head - and converge to a solution. And even if he doesn't come up with a working solution, you as an interviewer can now infer a lot more useful pieces of information than with a basic interview. You can ask questions like: 'why did you choose that library over the other ones?', 'why that programming language over the others', 'how did you come across the code on Stack Overflow; is it correct?', 'why that database and not that other one?', 'why is your solution single threaded and event based, rather than multi-threaded?', 'how would you further optimize that piece of code?' and so on.

I think this kind of conversation is something much more likely to happen day to day between the candidate and his coworkers if he does get the job.
I think you're either overestimating the value of experience and title gained at a startup, or undervaluing the same at established companies, or possibly both.

Having a role at a startup doesn't automatically imply useful experience has been gained, or that the specific position and duties are somehow more solid than equivalent roles at established companies.
Any time! Many, if not most, of the startups we profile are hiring. Check them out!
I'm "Rob", and also British. In the US I have to deliberately say "Rahb" so as not to be called Rub, Roob or Robe.
That's actually a surprisingly-good-looking font.
Thanks; we'll fix it.
Damn, this is a great game!

Keep up the great work!
you give us too much credit...finals week at our school was only 1 week long
I'm guessing they just thought they misheard it, since "Nate" is so much more common than "Nat".
Yeah same

{"code":404,"status":"Not found","error":"We couldn't find any hook with this id"}
Wildcat: startup makes legal search easy for curious humans
I wish I could find out my XKeyScore. I'm genuinely interested in how threatening the NSA believes average people are.
Non-hazardous liquid: once it hits surface remains there for a long time
Did you reboot all of the equipment in the rack first? Which version of windows is it running?
Awesome, thanks for listening to feedback and implementing this feature.

One question though, is there a big uptick in Show HN posts today or is something wrong with the HN RSS feed? Just noticed a full page of Show HN posts on the feed and was curious if it was organic or maybe a bug.
Show HN: The Instant Web
I guess sad smiley isn't very explanatory. It happens when there are either no consonants or no vowels selected. It's a dead simple algorithm that alternates between the two.

I should have it ensure at least one vowel or consonant is provided when clicking randomize, or give a popup.

Thanks for your feedback.
> I think [DOS] is easier to understand in it's entirety and find your way around than Unix

Yikes, I recently had to do a bit of development on a windows box and I found the command-line tools (not to mention CMD itself, which seems to have stopped development in 1993) to be absolutely awful. I could barely survive without Cygwin, git bash, etc giving me some semblance of a functional shell setup. I guess it's different strokes for different folks.
I thought it was going to be a game where I could use node.js against my enemies ;)
So the idea is that you add a link, it watches for changes to the article's content and alerts you if a change. Sounds good, but it seems rare for sites to update existing articles, when another could be posted.

Ever thought about watching the parent site for updates with similar content?
Something that's elsewhere in the guidelines is: pretend your talking to someone in person and think what you'd say. For me that strikes the right balance - I might find things I'm not enthusiastic about, but I'd weight my words carefully.
Only about 10% of the human population lives in the southern hemisphere. That doesn't necessarily justify it, but it's far from 50/50.
DoorDash (YC 13) is hiring. Come build the next generation of on-demand delivery
Literally everyone hides something, its all relative. Not to mention the people that do bad things in plain sight.
The default gas price is shown as $3.40/gallon. Where are you getting gas that cheap??
> My opinion is, if a real person uses a bot and then makes these statements under penalty of perjury, then every time that bot makes a mistake we (the tech community) should be filing Amicus curiae

Has this ever been done successfully? I found an example in Disney v. Hotfile[1] but it was eventually settled out of court and not in Hotfile's favour.

An honest mistake shouldn't constitute perjury, but the shotgun approach is not acting in good faith.

[1] https://www.eff.org/cases/disney-v-hotfile
Losing Music
/*
These variables define terms and websites relating to the TAILs (The Amnesic
Incognito Live System) software program, a comsec mechanism advocated by
extremists on extremist forums.
*/

That's an interesting definition. It might cover legitimate extremists, but a quick look at Wikipedia tells me that TAILs has also been used by some pretty respectable Pulitzer Prize winners.

These comments provide an interesting and ultimately disheartening insight to how the people designing these surveillance systems view privacy software (and, by extension, privacy?).
Common libraries for writing Go services/applications by dropbox
In other news: the NSA developed a DSL with embedded C++. Is this the most horrific revelation yet?
Is this something I can download onto my own machine and run, or I need to do it through the website?
I had a friend who really really wanted a way of following a specific news story, such that he could register and then even years later if something developed he would get an email.
My first name get misspelled more commonly than it's spelled correctly. I don't mind that so much from a personal relationships standpoint (it's not an intuitive spelling), but it's caused me real issues. The pharmacy had my name misspelled such that I couldn't fill proscriptions and it was really hard to fix. My ISP spelled it wrong when creating my account. The list goes on. And my name even has the "standard" spelling; I can't imagine what happens to people who don't.
ROS 101 Tutorial: Drive a Grizzly!
Show HN: Stream data into S3 bucket using the multipart upload API and Node.js
That's pretty typical for Houston at least.
Ha, I guess I could have phrased the title a little differently. That would be fun though too!
I agree and disagree O_0

I agree that "from the distance" it might seem possible to run docker on top of OSX or even Windows, because, you know, it's not only about the LXC but the deltas. This is something that many non-linux people ask me "why not in OSX if it's based on..." and they are right... somehow.

I disagree because we know how different the 3 systems are and we know that they cannot come up with a standard for something as simple as CSS much less they will arrive to define a common "LXC" interface.

It is not about other kernels offering similar features, but kernels having the same common interface. As I said, it would be great, but it won't happen.
We have games on iOS, Google play and Amazon app stores. Mostly trivia games, but some arcade games too.
As an example, this is our most popular game across the 3 stores, with 1 million+ downloads https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.froods.dwt...
I agree with this as well. Nintendo seems like a developer hostile company.

And iOS developers complain about provisioning profiles and Apple Review. At least we have awesome documentation and Xcode keeps getting better.
I am being tracked by the NSA
Show HN: Search only the best products on Amazon
Mind if I ask how you managed to solve this? Seems like a painful problem to have!
That is a nice site. All the reviews are from you? You are using a custom tool for the static page generation?

Small thing: on the main page, you have a-links into buttons, for the audio-book, e-book and normal one. That doesn't work for me, a click just presses the button (newest FF under Ubuntu).

Do you want hints for the design?
> I understand this argument, but it's a mistake. It's an incredibly dangerous position for and ISP to take and for what benefit?

Its really not.

Unlike with copyright owners, the ISP usually has the advantage in terms of resources and ability to maintain a legal challenge when compared to users.

Unlike with copyright owners, the ISP usually has a contract with users which already allows them to take down any material, for any reason, in their sole discretion, making the DMCA safe harbor superfluous.

Unlike with copyright owners, even if there were liability to users, that liability would (under well-established contract principles) be almost certainly limited to no more than the amount the user had paid for the service for the time in which the material was improperly kept down.

> But I say "oh no you didn't you don't allow for your users to file counter-notices. Time for the court to decide."

How does that have any bearing. Each half of the DMCA safe harbor expressly applies based on whether or not you did the act you are required with regard to the party with liability in that case. So, the fact that you didn't do something with regard to some other party on the opposite side of a DMCA notice/counternotice exchange in a different case is irrelevant.

> Is it an absolute fact this will happen? No, but the problem is it could happen

Anyone could theoretically raise any argument no matter how little basis it has in the law, but that doesn't make it a real substantial risk.
Where did you get those question marks and periods from?
Linux Journal seems out of place. They must have had an article about Tails?
Yes, absolutely, if the software is ready to be tried out. And we'll put "Show HN" back in the title in that case, too.
Are tethers the answer to safety issues with follow-me drone technology?
It never stops loading and it crashes on me when I try to type anything. I have a self-signed certificate, maybe that is the cause? I'm running the latest version of Wordpress.
It's being compared to "Show HN" which certainly isn't the same as the front page.
No Capitol Hill startups? ._.
My name is simple enough to be pronounced by anyone, at least that's what I thought. Then I realize in the US people had a hardtime remembering it because for them it is unusual.

Now I try to pronounce it the American way just so my name isn't the center of the conversation. I get surprised when I make a mistake and tell someone the correct way of pronouncing it and they get right the first time.
Despite this, I live in a country where my surname is impossible to pronounce correctly.
I'm not sure I see your point. Isn't what you are describing the risk reward ratio:

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/riskrewardratio.asp

By trading salary (you could get paid more at a big co) for equity you are inherently making a financial decision by investing the difference. Keeping these things seperate is not the same as not thinking about them.

If you are talking taking about taking a pay cut to work with people you really like or to do more interesting or less stressful work then I understand. Apart from that I don't see any reason why you would take less salary unless you think the rick reward ratio was favorable.
Google complies with Goldman Sachs request to delete single email
We don't really have a good solution so far. We mainly try to avoid the network tab, but if we must use it, we pause the game to free up some extra resources and generally it won't crash.
Already am!

What would be really cool is a map that shows the location of these startups, so that I can easily find ones that are close to where I will be moving!

This is really awesome, thanks again!
"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty." - Eugene McCarthy
Wow! Many years ago I tried to do the same. Did not manage to get far. I am seriously impressed by what you have achieved
Show HN: A space adventure SpriteKit game I made
I believe this "source code" is made up, invented for the masses. In fact, the more and more I see of these surveillance reports and reveals, the more I believe this is all purposeful deception, and that while it may be true they're doing all these things, they aren't leaks, but announcements.

On a board where most of us should be familiar with the concept of not trusting user input, I think we should all take a step backward and treat these "leaks" as just that: input from an untrusted source. This could all be a fabrication we're buying into.
I'm the guy that wrote this. Thanks for playing with it and fixing the issue. I guess writing interest calculation functions late at night is a really bad idea.
We're always looking for more. :)

seattle.started.in/apply/
Most of our users are in US, UK and Europe. We monetize via In App Purchases (IAPs) and Ads. On average we monetize close to industry standards, 2% of people pay for hints, powerups and other IAPs, while ads give a decent $2 eCPM ($2 for 1000 impressions)
Orthogonal note: when in doubt how to pronounce someone's name, you can use IVONA Text-to-Speech [1] if you know the origin, or Google Translate for pronunciation (GT often can infer the language but this can be misleading).

[1] http://www.ivona.com/en/
Pretty clever idea. My 4-letter nickname, Kyro, gets mispronounced 10 out of 10 times. It's pronounced kero, like hero, but most pronounce it kairo. At first it was irritating, but I later realized it was a great conversation starter. "Kairo, where are you from?" "Egypt" "Haha, like Cairo! Have you been?"

Happy it worked out that way...
LOL neither does having USD deposited with interest rates nowadays...
From my experience, working with any vendors from the pacific northwest, they're all MS shops. Is this trend changing considering the added expense of working with any MS Licensed software (where an OSS solution with little or no cost could suffice)? Does MS offer incentives to local startups to build their platform on existing licensed MS products? Or is it more of a Seattle Pride thing? I personally don't feel the MS Business model is one the works well for scrappy young start-ups, yet pretty much every company in the Pac Nor Dub I've worked is completely MS'd out.

I didn't even know there was a MS service called Lync until we did a training with Mercent (FYI, Lync doesn't work on Linux, I was shocked too).
or you might have an HSA left over from when you used to have insurance. (FSAs expire at the end of the year, but HSAs are permanent.)
Title reminds me of 'Do Things, Tell People' http://carl.flax.ie/dothingstellpeople.html
The first lesson I had in this industry was to always prepare for a lean patch. In a hit driven business, you can never be sure when the next hit will come, so always good to have as large a runway as possible.
Having said that, this has been my largest worry in this startup, and has caused many a sleepless nights.
In the eighties, lots of young ideologues were worried about a Malthusian future; there would be more people in the world than we could feed. They decided that genetic engineering was going to save the world by adding micro-nutrients to rice, by making essential food crops drought resistant and higher yielding, et cetera. So they studied genetic engineering in University and joined Monsanto, which was obviously the company that was most likely to make this happen.

Thirty years later, they are vilified by very similar ideologues.
Show HN: The Gentlemen's Alarm
Imgur:

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_to...

Reddit:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.lisp/vJmLV...
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/nsa-linux-journal-extrem...

I saw it on the HN homepage some moments ago, I guess the mods hid it for some reason?
Awesome and amazing piece of work here.

Don't ask why I searched this, but I found one problem out of everything I searched: http://i.imgur.com/cGlclWU.png
Knowledge is power, and the NSA wants to track those with power.
Not the core topic but the author says:
"The most important extension is AdBlock Plus, to remove ads from the web"

Out of all the extensions this is the most important? I never get this, most web ads just sit there, it is not like TV where I have to listen to them. Ads pay for a lot of things that he probably uses.
Dang, I wish I could tag you. Thank you.
I don't have a good reason to believe that this is real, but if it is the most surprising part to me is the "mapreduce" rule definition in there. As far as I know the only group with a C++ mapreduce implementation called "mapreduce" that also uses protocol buffers (the "proto:" block is protocol buffers) is Google. This seems to say to me that the NSA is using a Google implementation of map reduce. That can't possibly be right, can it?
oh interesting. I'm also a lyft driver/scientist. I'm doing a series of in-car interviews of scientists, I'd love to try to talk to him, would you be able to contact me (details in profile)?