skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have tried using "match-making" sites before without much luck, but I personally feel that the best founders are folks who know each other (college, work etc) and have been in the trenches together.
Cranking an animation... this doesn't feel like the future.
GUIX is a scheme frontend relying on Nix.
Same as Honda which is also named after its founder. The transliteration in Honda is modern though, as both Toyota and Honda in Japanese end with a 田.

But back to the naming thing, I think it is not the worst idea to name things after japanese terms, because often they can be pronounced quite easily and are often rather memorable. I have often forgotten company names because they sounded so stupid and hard to remember.
Interesting idea. A well funded competitor could astroturf a "DDOS" outrage attack and prevent a company/org from ever choosing/having a functional CEO.
I'm like you, I'm not sure how to assign a dollar value to this vulnerability. The implications of a broken TOR are huge for all players, especially over time. Considering TOR protects the livelihood (and lives even) of so many people who employ it, it doesn't seem unreasonable to put the ticket price up in the tens of millions to me. TOR's mission-critical for the work of a lot of folks, shady-dealings or no.
It looks like we can't actually read the article before saving it or swiping past it. It would be nice if the box with the article title also linked to the article.
From my experience with cab drivers (not Uber drivers), the idea is supposed to be that if you do not have a preferred route, the driver takes the most efficient route based on some kind of gestalt between lowest cost and fastest service.

The deal is, some passengers are convinced they know the best route from point A to point B, and will accuse drivers of trying to con them if they don't take that route. So if the passenger has a route they want to take, even if the route is stupid, you just shut up and do that. Otherwise, you take the best route.

In theory, of course. I have no doubt that there exist cab drivers and Uber drivers who run up the meter. Hopefully, Uber does some monitoring of routes and catches at least egregious cases.
Why the ‘Hard Drive-Sniffing Dog’ Should Scare the Crap Out of You
Is there anyway to call google help directly? I've heard plenty of stories of google automated email support that never adequately explains anything, but I'm curious if you can actually call them.

If anyone has seen the movie "The Internship" there is a scene where they all have to learn how to do phone support. I would find it very weird if that is entirely a lie and it is nearly impossible to call them.

Also he smashed his apple devices because he disagrees with their ideals? That seems kind of immature.
He used to be a Linux kernel hacker. In 1998, he entered the business world by founding a consulting company around his kernel porting work. His company was acquired and he continued leading related work at the new owner (Linuxcare). From there he went on to various entrepreneurial and senior management jobs at technology companies including HP and Sun.

Chris left Sun to join Mozilla almost ten years ago (October 2004), just before the release of Firefox 1.0, making him one of the first dozen or so employees. He stayed at Mozilla for nine years in a variety of roles. As CIO he founded and led Mozilla Labs, and later was the CMO until leaving last year to work in venture capital and then start another company. He returned to Mozilla as interim CEO after Brendan Eich stepped down several months ago.

[Disclosure: I've been a Mozilla employee for the past 4.5 years.]
What are these questions?
"the car was going to be called the Model E, until Ford said it already had that name trademarked" (...) "We'll have three bars to represent it and it'll be S III X!"

3 also happens to be the '1337' slang variant of E.
Which is even more interesting, since he said he can't open a new account and move on because they'll block him by IP address... so what exactly is he going to lose by sending the verification?
I think this will be a bit harder, as you don't really have control in what order the images are being loaded. They could be loaded in parallel for example. If you try to circumvent it by adding delay's on the server side you quickly block the browser as you will reach the maximum amount of parallel connections.
There are enough examples of US government / secret services doing exactly this. Have they used NSA and Google data? No evidence, but do you really expect they will have a press release? Until Snowden only loonies "knew" that USA/NSA is spying on regular people at al.
Founders Fund forms “FF Science” in search of startups tackling hard problems
I worked on this at NPR back it when it was called the Infinite Player. We'd envisioned NPR branded apps as well as integrations into other platforms (mobile, connected cars) and potentially other apps. We architected the underlying APIs with this in mind, so what you seek will probably happen at some point. At launch though, NPR wanted the pop of a branded offering, and I think they've got it.
That is exactly what the problem is.
Moderators are the people who govern a subreddit, so naturally they are the ones who are most invested in a subreddit, and ones who will have to pay the bill each month if no one else volunteers, or watch their sub die.

> I as a user would certainly pay $10/yr to keep subreddits I care most about going on.

How many subreddits and how many years would you be willing to do this for? This might be feasible for subs like r/AskReddit, r/iama, and the other big ones, but as many other people in this thread have mentioned, "powerhouse" Reddit users are the ones that don't follow the terrible front page subs, and have found their niche. One of my favorite subs to go to, r/tabbletennis, has only about 2k subscribers, and I'm sure that there are more subs that certain people love, but have even less subscribers.

My point is that the logical point for payment would be through a mod, and I'm sure that outside of the larger subs, mods would be the ones footing the bill. This is a very dangerous game as mods are the pillars upon which Reddit stand, and aggravating them would pretty much be the death of Reddit.
We solve a similar problem but our approaches are different. For example, we don't charge for every bit of information and we integrate with social networks to provide a more complete version of the profile, including job position and education.
Yikes...

>window.Uber.pingData.client.paymentProfiles

[
Object
cardExpiration: "2014-03-01T00:00:00+00:00"
cardExpirationEpoch: 1393632000000
cardNumber: "[last 4]"
cardType: "MasterCard"
id: [payment id]
useCase: "personal"
uuid: "[uuid of payment option from their system]"
__proto__: Object
,
Object
accountName: "[acct number]"
billingCountryIso2: "US"
billingZip: "[billing zip]"
cardExpiration: "2017-09-01T00:00:00+00:00"
cardExpirationEpoch: 1504224000000
cardNumber: "[last 4]"
cardType: "Visa"
id: [payment id]
tokenType: "braintree"
useCase: "personal"
uuid: "[uuid of payment option from their system]"
__proto__: Object
]
It's slightly different in Scotland further still. Here almost all estate agency is conducted by solicitors (lawyers). I've just bought a flat in Edinburgh and for a flat rate I had an experienced solicitor advising me on the process, giving me advice on each property I was considering - such as what to look for as warning signs when you're buying a 130 year old flat.
Because they're lawyers they are regulated (which is why gazumping doesn't happen nearly as much in Scotland) so standards of client servicing are much higher.

The moral hazard is removed by them not taking a fee on the buy side, they're aiming on you continuing to use their services for all future legal matters.
You could wait to collect the email address until after users have searched for a product and found something they want an alert on. That way people know what they're getting into and it makes more sense why you need their email address.
Unfortunately Apple's ToS explicitly forbid charitable donations inside of apps, which is exactly what an IAP donation would be. Public radio's hands are tied unless Apple changes it's policies.
C# was considered for Android .. in 2005
It sounds like a lot of this just comes down to the fact that our processes used for producing cylindrical cans aren't optimized for cuboids, and I won't argue with that.

However, part of me thinks that given some time and ingenuity, we'd come up with techniques that are better suited for the efficient production of cuboids. In other words, most of the things you mention are conceivably solvable by the right tooling (i.e. fixed costs). If that were the case, I'd have a hard time believing that marginal/per-unit costs would be significantly higher, and I think it would be interesting to look at the savings in shelf and transportation space compared to any of those increased production costs.
Your sarcasm doesn't help your argument, and this post is about Chris Beard and Mozilla, not anything else.
Why would you use a real estate agent trying to pump the price as high as possible

I was surprised to read this, since I thought you'd hinted at exactly the opposite by mentioning Freakonomics. Isn't the Freakonomics argument that an agent is incentivized to instead sell the property as quickly as possible, regardless of the sale price? For instance, accepting an offer that is $10k under the listing price will cost the seller $9,400 ($10,000 * 94%), but will only cost the selling agent $150 (1.5% * $10,000). If the agent's time is worth almost anything approaching a respectable hourly rate for a sales professional, then they should pressure the seller to take the lower offer, as not doing so would likely incur significant time costs (well over $150 worth of their time) for the listing agent.

Is that view of things mistaken?
Whatever. I'm sure we can find something completely unrelated in his background to disqualify him. Just give the Internet a little bit of time.
Has Chris Beard made any public political donations?

EDIT: Why the downvotes?
Virgin America Files for IPO
> You're awfully willful about this whole thread. To a degree that you might be the author.

Come on! Unnecessary ad-hominem. I'm easily googleable and obviously not the author.

I won't dignify the rest of your comment with an answer.
The Pando article is FUD at its best.

Yes, the government funds Tor. Pando thinks that all of the US government is akin to the NSA and wants to spy on people. This is not how it works. The government is not just one body and there are many parts of it that probably don't agree with what the NSA is doing.

Yes Tor is funded by the US government. My question is, how does it matter? The protocol is open. The code is open. There are research groups at some major universities researching on Tor.

Let the code speak, not fear mongering.
There actually isn't any such thing as an "NPR Station". NPR is not a broadcaster. They are a content-producer. There are stations that are NPR members that carry lots of NPR content, but they are free to also carry local content they produce, content they license from other syndicates (e.g. PRI, American Public Media, PRX)
Thanks for sharing. Homebuying seems like it could still use lots of disruption.

> although they have coverage in most major metropolitan areas at this point

Sadly there's still a ton of major cities not covered :/ https://www.redfin.com/out-of-area-signup
Reminds me of when Facebook did this with Papers[1] too.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7171724
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Hey dang, why was this post killed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8096988
He doesn't have any facial hair while his name suggests the opposite. That's doublespeak if I've ever heard it.
A system without comprehensive tests is one that cannot be changed.

The big question is, do they have tests or not?
Podcasts are a content-agnostic platform. They've been around for a while, the software is easy to use, they're easy to find. NPR, NYT, ESPN and many others have all had podcasts for quite a while.

If you want live radio, you can stream from mobile Safari. I'm not sure about others. Music, of course, has always been available. Since before smart phones, even.

In short, you don't need these apps any more than most other apps.
The primary intended purpose of the tor network was to provide cover for US agents. Many of the core developers of TOR have at various times either directly worked for US intelligence or have been funded by them. It was opened to the public and popularized, because an anomization network that is only used by spies is pointless. Most of the current exit nodes are currently located in the US, so there is no question that almost all TOR traffic is monitored by the NSA. The tradeoff is that while TOR makes it slightly harder to identify targets, the majority of them use TOR and there are still ways to identify them if they are not extremely careful (this has been revealed in some of Snowdens documents).
All of the early maps were hand drawn those from pre-1900 are stunning. It is amazing when you consider the amount of effort that went into creating the old maps when they didn't have the technology we take for granted today - computers and GPS.
> Maybe you and others in the Firefox community don't realize this...

We do.

> This is about users having bad experiences when using Firefox.

Every company creates bad experiences for some users. Hell, I've had bad experiences with Apple technical support, the apparent gold-standard of customer support.

> Your positive experience in no way negates these bad experiences.

And vice-versa. So what? What's the point? If I can't share my positive experience, they can't share their negative ones?

Maybe you think comments like "My experience was bad" is helpful and worthwhile. Maybe. But only if the inverse is true.

So, don't complain when people share anecdotes you don't like. Either accept them, or don't.
About a year and a half ago I bought a home, after looking at dozens of houses. I found my home on Zillow, and I agree with your general sentiment about its strengths and weaknesses. In my case, my home had been on the market over a year so it had been on Zillow a long time, but I found a lot of homes that I wanted to look at on Zillow that were already sold or under contract and Zillow had not been updated for days.

I tried several agents before settling on one, and she was awesome helping my wife and I to tour dozens of homes during our search. Handling the actual negotiation/transaction was cake compared to the time and effort she put in taking us on house tours!

Of course, if the security problems could be solved, I would probably not have needed an agent for that :)
Great news. $110,000 from Russia to find and (although they did not intend it) patch Tor bugs. Thanks, Putin!
Well that was my point. I was assuming you can do some sort of curated-feature situation. Whatever customization the app offers, the output is basically just a list of NPR episodes and links to a server hosting them. If you wrote a server-side application that generates custom RSS feeds per-user, managed using a web panel (or a plugin for existing podcast clients), you'd essentially get the same feature set, but it would be compatible with your preferred audio backend.
Apple Can't Give Away Its Cash Fast Enough
> This is all well and good, but why does everyone need to have their own damn app?

I can't comment on this new app yet but I'm a near daily user of the regular NPR app (which I think is officially called "NPR news"). It's way better than any generic radio app I've tried.

Besides listening to the individual local stations, you can also get the latest news (the ~4-minute hourly blurb), can create playlists of entire shows (without the interludes, i.e. just the content), and built-in news articles (for reading, not listening). I've even used the local NPR station finder to help me tune an analog radio when in a new city where I'm not familiar with the local stations.

It'd take quite a bit of agreement on content licensing and data formats to have anything like that be as usable as the NPR app across multiple content providers.

> Seriously - why does everyone assume that if I want to listen to e.g. NPR, I only want to listen to NPR?

Well some of us do :D
I was told by phone that those same features are coming soon. I am going to check out your product and theirs and run some accuracy and coverage tests.
Interesting. So what is Microsoft Combine Harvesters was founded before Microsoft Corporation yes the latter became larger faster? Even though Microsoft Corp is larger they were also later to the game. Can they try to get exclusive rights to Microsoft?
Concerns around disintermediation and what they stations call "bypass" ( NPR delivering audio direct to consumers and bypassing terrestrial FM) is what prevented this from launching earlier, not the tech or UX concerns. They had to launch with a plurality of stations, localizations was required, and they had to work donations into the mix. Donations is particularly challenging since there is no one donation form (every station is independent, each has their own form/account, and no one would agree to a central account powered by, say Stripe or whatever). They couldn't launch an MVP like Swell, they had to go live with way more. That said, public radio has its strengths, one of which is that they own their content.
> "In light of all these "iron dome doesn't work" articles"

I've not seen them; if you have links handy I'd like to go read some more.

My understanding was that they were managing between 80-90% success rate for the targets they aimed for (which is pretty good) but also that they were deliberately leaving any rockets that were obviously not going to hit anything important.
Granted, the object-orientation [in Perl] felt more like a hack than a normal language feature (because it was one)...

Perl's OOP is definitely a hack! But it's a clever and elegant hack, and younger languages can learn a lot from studying how an awk++ managed to evolve support for all these new programming paradigms, without being totally co-opted by the ones which turned out to be fads. (When these languages are Perl's age, will they have evolved as successfully?)

Take OOP support in Perl. Prior to that, Perl had references, which could point to other basic value types, and it had packages, which were namespaces in the symbol table. Only two small changes were necessary for OOP.

First, a new built-in function `bless` was added which marked a reference as associated with a certain package. Second, a new binary operator for dispatch was added, the familiar `->` from other languages. The dispatch operator looked up a package from the reference on the left hand side, looked up a symbol within that package given by the right hand side, and pushed the reference onto the front of the argument list in the subsequent function call. In the called function, the initial reference argument became the equivalent of `this`, by convention.

Modulo some discussion of @ISA, that's it. You now understand Perl's implementation of OOP.

The elegance of this approach finally hit home for me when building transparent RPC for Perl and other languages. On the client side, when you dispatch a function call on a "stub" object, you'd like to dispatch a real function call on a remote object. In Python, you have to worry about whether you're calling a "bound function" on the remote object, versus calling a static method of the remote object, versus calling a "free function" defined at module scope (how do you address these?), and so on. In Perl, these are all effectively the same thing because the dispatch operator is so simple, and there's no extra OOP structure baked into the language itself like there is with Python.

Disclaimer: I mostly write Python 2.x now, but things like the complicated object runtime and the general uselessness of lambdas strike me as places where the language has stumbled.
Gentlemanly fashion would involve the guilty party to invest all the effort in resolving the situation and apologize to everyone involved, instead of demanding others to educate him and point out how exactly to improve his wrongdoings.

Noone is really entitled to free handholding from others in the first place, and doing harmful stuff (such as spamming the appmarket with those fake apps) doesn't offer any extra rights, it can only offer extra duties.

It would be harsh to punish someone after the first offense, but if someone is showing both with his words (the "clarification" sent to google) and actions (the other two strikes) that he perceives those actions as socially acceptable, then there's no duty for anyone to reeducate him when just putting him on lifetime ignorelist achieves the required result (protecting appstore customers from such publishers) much cheaper, faster and better.
I'm also in the process of buying a home for the first time, and did some search on Trulia/Zillow. It was OK, but the data gets really stale. One home was sold already before it was taken down. I did find out that Houston has a really nice site, har.com that lets you do basically everything Trulia & Zillow does. Realtors have other interface(s) into the same data, which lets them do different things like N sided polygons instead of just squares for map searches.

Tours vs images is definitely an issue. Some people are just bad photographers, some only have 6 images (Houston MLS requires 6 images for a posting). Some are good photographers, that make things look bigger than in person.

Experience is hugely variable though. I called 2 agent offices, and got stuck with their most inexperienced Buyer's Agent. The more experienced people are doing sales of homes or commercial, and getting a cut of the commissions of the people under them. Some Googling led me to roughly a 60/40 split between agent & office, along with the agent paying a desk fee (~$50/monthly). Since the principal is still getting paid, you can involve them if needed for second opinions or more nuanced explanations. Agents are getting roughly 3% of the sales price.

Still read all your documents. I've caught things that slipped past my realtor, and also brought up questions for her to answer.

Inspections are a mixed bag. They have a preferred list, and should also provide you a legal document stating their incentives for any recommended providers (including home warranty companies). I ended up going with one of my realtor's preferred inspectors, but only after calling all 5 on their list, and several more listed on Yelp.

Knowledge goes back to experience. My agent was basically bowled over by 2 of the new home builders in the area. It was so bad I considered buying the Realtor's Residential Construction Certification program (1 day course, ~$300, they'll sell to anyone) and going through it myself if I went with new construction.

Another point about knowledge is that even with experience, you can come up with stuff they don't know. Neither my agent or the broker (my agent's boss) had worked with anyone that negotiated their lender origination fees. I got $500 off one lender and $1000 off another.
"or 2) Russia can, and this is a ruse to make us think they can't."

Even if they could ... why say anything at-all? Perhaps - to encourage use of an exploitable method of communication, but even-then why would somebody looking to hide use a form of communication they know is actively being targeted by the government they're looking to evade?