skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one is stopping anyone from writing applications by themselves and distributing them by standard installation packages on a website, like what has been common since about 1995. No one is forcing you to set up an open-source project with distributed source control. No one is making you deploy on the app stores. Those are complex systems, and so it's no surprise that setting them up is non-trivial. Learning about Git is almost certain to be simpler than re-writing something Git-like every time you want a DVCS. Submitting to an app store is probably easier than trying to get your program listed in every software directory that exists for a given platform outside of that app store. Of course these things can be simplified a bit, and likely will be, but I think the current state of things is expected as part of the transition to new models of collaborative work and software distribution.
Look at their facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/foursquare
People are hating Swarm, haven't seen a single positive comment over there.
The attitude you exhibit towards iOS doesn't fly when Linux advocates mention that Windows is the target of 98% of PC malware.

And maybe it's true: 98% of the PC malware is targeted at Windows and 98% of the mobile malware is targeted at Android. I certainly take advantage of the Windows malware situation by running Linux, and not running any malware checkers.
Great question. Naturally, most of the inquiries or concerns around this service are going to revolve around trust and security.

The obvious and straight forward answer is that we don't do that. The more complicated one would be that we'd break a large amount of serious laws if we were doing something like that.

When testing the service out, some users asked for further assurance . The solution that seemed to be liked the most involved a video feed (or pictures), that showed how we opened the package, removed the drive and destroyed it. That's something that I'd build down the road if I get enough requests or feel that it would move the needle in the right direction.

For now, here's what we do: receive the drive, degauss (demagnetize) it, destroy it. The customer is notified when the package arrives and when the drive is destroyed, at which point we send a certificate of destruction.

Also, we're in the process of getting our NAID AAA, eStewards, R2 and ISO 14001 certifications. The machines and processes that we use follow all of their guidelines, it's just a matter of getting approved (and paying the fees).

Let me know if you have any other ideas on how we could show/proof that we're trustworthy. Interested in listening to any suggestions.
>no manual management

Of memory. Any other resource, you've basically got C with UNWIND-PROTECT and a cheap Schrödingerian knock-off of destructors.
That appears to be something different, and I am not aware of Color Scheme Designer having an app. The redirect is at http://colorschemedesigner.com/
Here is an interesting look at whether any of these sorts of devices actually work (in comparison to a real polysonogram): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-christopher-winter/sleep-ti.... The answer is: most of these things claim to be able to do a lot more with simple sensing techniques than they can actually do accurately.
I find that pretty obvious.

One example:
I am sitting in a car and will turn to a side road a bit ahead where the road splits in to several lanes.
But due to the fact that the que is longer I can't turn on to the second lane. And it have to sit in the que and make it even longer.
There are always two sides to a coin. This article only describes what spanking causes (conveniently listing just bad things). However, there's no mention (or research, for that matter) of how not spanking affects kids, especially if they are prone to doing bad things - parents can only prevent so much, but then kindergarden and elementary school does it's magic
The first definiton of "use" (as a verb with an object) is very similar:

"1. to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife."
I would LOVE to see that lecture...
welcome to the apple experience?
Recounting just two occasions to judge the user experience is arguably a very low sample size. Could you mention any other experiences as well?
Most MVNO's do not offer roaming, but a few do. I am currently using Republic Wireless, which is Sprint based, but includes all of the regular Sprint roaming on Verizon.

$20/month for unlimited Voice, Text, and Data! Really.

The downside is that they only have a few phones to pick from, and I will probably in a few months for a provider with an iPhone option.
I meant its punier newer incarnation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37
One of my favorite PHP gotchas is to accidentally write a function that calls itself infinitely, and then have the interpreter die without a warning message.
Might as well plug my free(mium) themes:
http://www.portnine.com/bootstrap-themes
Articles about writing code without commenting sound like articles about driving your car without using the brakes: theoretically possible, but impractical.
I disagree. Yelp's reviews are needlessly verbose and possibly gamed or filtered according to the store's affiliation with Yelp. I don't have the same concerns re: 4sq reviews.
The hackers are going to get in trouble with the feds. That's great.

However, certainly, Stub Hub has some culpability here, right? The article is light on details as to how this happened, but but whether it was negligence, or if they knew about this and let it happen, Stub Hub still profited from this, and it will probably happen again.

That's the problem with e-commerce security: e-commerce shops have little incentive to secure their system, especially a shop, like Stub Hub, with such a large piece of the pie.
While a gadget would be fun to help with your new-baby concerns, a bunch of your issues are simply fixed by caring for, and observing your child (aka parenting)

Also, a good deal of "training" or learning has to be done for your child to understand when it's sleep time, and when it's time to eat. Just because your baby thinks he/she is hungry, or not tired does not mean you should accommodate 100%.

It's a constant give and take. You need to care for and console an upset child, but at the same time educate them so that they are able to sleep/eat at times that benefit them overall.

Sometimes that means letting them cry in their crib, sometimes that means picking them up and rocking them back to sleep.

The kicker is eat child is different, so no gadget can help with your particular child's tendencies.

Source: Have 2 kids.
People who don't yet have a smartphone have many reasons besides cost. Older people who are reluctant to move from a true phone to a multimodal pocket computer may be very happy with paying for one that has instant customer support.
Then why does Yelp itself only have 2 1/2 stars on Yelp? Couldn't they just game their own name?

[1]http://www.yelp.com/biz/yelp-san-francisco
Depends, are you in startups/technology? If so then probably not. YMMV
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If your room is too hot, sense will tell you

...in case your skin can't

if your room is too bright, sense will tell you

...in case your eyes don't
This is a pretty direct challenge to keybase.io. I really, really like the keybase implementation, but the one thing I wished for keybase was that it was decentralized.

This has that.

However, in terms of the implementation itself, they still have a way to go before they match keybase.
The website can't find my location. It would be nice if it would let me manually enter my location.
It was wild riding with a Chicago coworker visiting Seattle. Sam used the entirety of paved surfaces knowing other drivers would make way (and often apologize). Both an embarrassing and enlightening experience.
I don't even really understand what this is saying. Is it a critique that LibreSSL faces undue criticism?

This is one of those "Live by the sword, die by the sword" things: LibreSSL was birthed, it seems to me, as an opportunistic venture to take the meager funding and attention away from OpenSSL during its time of crisis, sold on the premise that OpenSSL is a festering heap maintained by a bunch of hacks, and now it's time for the big boys to show how it should be done.

When you start like that, you will face an incredible amount of scrutiny. Every failure will be exaggerated and spread far and wide.

Expect to die by the sword. Or to use another cliche, when you throw rocks at your neighbor's glass house, you should avoid building your own of the same.
This should have been the Flickr native upload app
I think the reason why the experiment, if true, is so fascinating is because it's about normal people put into an abnormal situation rather than inherently bad people being given power.

What I take away from the experiment is that given the right situation and pressures, most people would do things they thought they would never otherwise do. More importantly, I think it's probably a mistake to think that you're the exception and are morally incorruptible.
Also, how does it handle the 1-3 times I get up to pee, let the dogs out to pee, or grab a drink?
I was only providing an example for pcapd rather than all of the items he is classing as backdoors. The entire slide is:

Maybe for Developers for Debugging? No.
- Actual developer tools live on the developer image, and are only available when Developer Mode is enabled
- Xcode does not provide a packet sniffing interface for developers
- Developers don’t need to bypass backup encryption
- Developers don’t need access to such sensitive content
- Apple wants developers to use the SDK APIs to get data
- There are no docs to tell developers about these “features”

To me all those points seem to be provided to systematically deny legitimate uses for pcapd, which is contrary to the blog entry where he states, "I mentioned in my talk that pcapd has many legitimate uses". However it's entirely possible I'm reading it wrong.

As I mentioned, there is good information in there. Adding extra, potentially misleading. fluff is unnecessary and counter-productive to my mind. That's just my opinion though.
Ask HN: AWS vs. self-hosted for collection of small apps
Hi All,

Curious about your thoughts on paying the $10-15/month for a small AWS instance (t1, t2) vs. a self-hosted server.

I have a small collection of apps I run, maybe 3 right now, that need to be available to the outside world, but that do not (and probably won't) see much traffic ever. The apps revolve around a small amount of users intentionally. The apps themselves are small, but a couple do require a database.

Should I just throw these on a machine, open a port, and self-host them, or should I grab a small EC2 instance and pay the small monthly fee?

Any benefits or cons to doing either?
I grabbed a Beddit (http://www.beddit.com/) off Indiegogo, which does something similar. Compared to Fitbit (put something on; remember to start it), apps (remember to start it) and others, I was hoping it would be frictionless -- hop into bed, start collecting metrics. Unfortunately, aside from the long (long) time required to deliver a useful Android app, it's failed me in a few ways.

1. You need the app running to collect metrics from the device (so, still some friction). I forget the app all the time; at the end of the day, I drop my phone on a charger and crawl into bed. Relying on humans to actively intervene is, unfortunately, suboptimal.

2. I was hoping it'd attach to my wifi and dump metrics to an API I could query (there's no smart alarm, so attaching it to my own stack of stuff seemed cool). Unfortunately, it sends data via a private Bluetooth protocol to your phone, rather than the wifi. Intercepting this is non-trivial (although the Android Bluetooth debugging stack helps). I'm trying to build a receiver on the Pi currently.

3. The API still doesn't really exist.

My use case is slightly different from others. I've got a chronic condition, and I'm not really interested in "did I sleep well last night?", which Beddit seems to have targeted. I'm much more interested in trends over a period of time, once my illness flares -- "am I waking up more often?", "how much time am I spending in bed, rather than active?", "over the past week, how many times have I gotten up -- should I see a doctor?". This should correlate with other smart devices (scales -- "how much weight have I lost?"; fitbit -- "am I still relatively active?") to give me a more holistic view of my health. So, long-term data retention is important to me (CockroachDB looks quite neat!).

Smart alarms and overnight statistics are interesting, but I hope companies developing devices for the quantified self start to pay more attention to long-term health data. It paints a far more interesting story :).
This seems to fail when people do whatever they can to keep that person from merging and, sometimes, resulting in minor accidents.
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> The fact that the other major mobile OSs gets 98% of the mobile malware (according to studies), makes this point about the "nonchalant attitude" rather week...

No it does not.

It's not acceptable when any company is nonchalant about any security problem on their device, product or service.

And, taking Android as an example, Google is very open about the malware and malicious app problem[1] -- and takes steps to help mitigate said problem.

Apple is just straight-up telling users it's not a problem. There is a key difference here.

[1] http://en.tempo.co/read/news/2014/03/01/240558528/Google-Adm...
Not sure how 4000 Watts is toylike. (yet)
A lot of startups make the mistake of doing nothing that will anger their current base of users, but that is not how you grow a company. Facebook is a good example. Almost every move they have made has angered their current users but ended up growing the company (opening up the site to everyone, adding the news feed, etc.).
They don't need a backdoor when they have admin rights on your (their) device...
Good point, no, I haven't considered that. I eat breakfast late due to my work routine. If I'm working from home I get up have coffee around 6.30am then work until around 11.30 before getting breakfast. If I'm at the office I up around 5.30, get coffee at the station around 6.30am. I then work on the train until I get in the office around 8.30am I don't eat in this time at all. Maybe I should just not eat, seems I work better without food.
The key is not to force yourself in. If someone is staying 3" away from the person in front of them and is making every effort to keep you out, just get in behind them.
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You're right, I forgot that it would switch to asymmetric crypto after the handshake. My bad.

Still, with root it would be trivial to attach a debugger to the daemon, et cetera.
I'll take a stab at this one. EMBA programs tend to be tailored to people who already have a relatively significant position within an organization. My understanding is that a large majority of people attending these programs have them payed for by their employers. The idea is to provide additional training to people who will have future, higher level roles within the organization.

I think that there are probably different flavors of this type of program depending on where you attend, but from my observations (regular MBA who had some minor interactions with EMBA's during school), they tend to fly/drive in for the weekends and return to work during the week. Depending on the program, you may or may not be exposed to "hard skills" such as finance, accounting, etc, as there is a presumption that students already have some of these skills. My understanding is the focus tends to be more on soft skills like leadership, management, etc, which will help competent employees become better managers in the future.

From the way you posed your question, it sound like you are thinking about paying for this yourself. If that is the case, and you don't already have an undergrad or grad business degree, then I would probably recommend either a full-time or part-time MBA, instead of executive MBA. You will probably get more for your money out of one of these programs.
Incidently, detergent is one of those things that won't work well in seawater. Plus seawater is corrosive. So even if you do manage to clean things, they're not as reusable as they otherwise would be.
The article didn't mention this is called a late merge, zipper method, or zipper merge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_merge
I was in Costa Rica looking for somewhere to go for dinner and drinks. Yelp had NOTHING. Foursquare found me an awesome new restaurant/bar a few minutes away that we loved.

I kind of assumed from this experience that Foursquare has better adoption in some areas of the world, but I'm not sure.
Newspaper classifieds, Craigslist and other on-line classifieds, online job sites like monster. Cold contacting businesses looking for work. Advertising services. Workmarket and other tasks for hire services.

Beyond that it is also networking, knowing people who know where there is an opening available, nepotism - hiring family members to meet needed demand, etc.
Yeah I agree caution in interpretation is important.

However, given enough scientists all three forms of false are being published in parallel (as well as genuinely true results), which is the key problem. Without bounds on publication bias and publication quantity you can't really rigorously associate a probability of truth from a p-value* in isolation.

(hmm, I suppose meta-studies are a kind of remedy to that so maybe it will all work out anyway)

* or whatever
No conspiracy is required for an intelligence agency to turn features into "features".
If your room is too noisy, sense will send the data for further analysis ;)
That was my first thought. Crunchbase shows they raised $10.5m at the end of January(1). Now they need $100k of crowdfunding to build this thing? Disingenuous at best.

[1]http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hello-inc
I may keep a diary and try to eat small and often. I don't really have breakfast at all. First meal is always after 11am.
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Just to be clear, are you suggesting that if the details aren't provided in a slide somewhere, than those details were not mentioned in the talk?
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I understand your concerns, but this particular scenario seems a little far fetched.

USPS would have to have a very strong interest in your hard drive. Know when you ship it. Intersect the package. Repackage it up exactly as it was. And finally, deliver it. This is extremely complicated, and they would be breaking an immense amount of laws. If they had such a strong interest in getting a hold of your drive, they'd be far better off stealing it from your home (or hacking into it).

I do understand that there are some other cases that won't be as extreme (how do we guarantee that we do in fact destroy it upon arrival?). Some level of trust, as with any service that you give you social security info, personal information or even Dropbox has to exist. Our aim is to answer any question that might happen in a realistic and likely scenario, and make sure that our messaging is on point.

Also, as I mentioned above, we're in the process of getting our NAID AAA, eStewards, R2 and ISO 14001 certifications.

Hope this answers your question, let me know if it makes sense (or shoot another question my way). Cheers!
here is some software that sucks less: http://suckless.org/
Software sucks because everyone makes mistakes. Even if the developer avoids mistakes, mistaken users will demand more mistakes which will in turn support their own "wrong wrong wrong" or "software sucks" narrative.

Anyone have a less horrific take?
It makes me wonder what is the equivalent of the wheel when it comes to quantum physics.
Long overdue response, but this is really helpful -- thanks for laying it out.
9. Sentiment of comments, via comment downvotes and/or contextual analysis.

Also, frequent violators of 'hijacking' the most popular comment by commenting on it. :)
If we're getting into conspiracy theories, wouldn't gaming Yelp's reviews simply provide more evidence of gamed Yelp reviews?!?!

I've spoken to numerous business owners in NYC who, after having turned down Yelp's super deluxe premier service^, begin to receive negative reviews that make no sense ("terrible service!" during a night the business was closed) or reference nonexistent items ("terrible apple pie!" for a bakery that doesn't offer apple pie).

^ Not the name, but they offer analytics and other services to businesses.
It takes me around 30 to fall asleep. Tried it once, made me feel a lot worse. Is this something you do?
> Have you ever considered that Valve is successful because of open allocation? It's not like this massive cashflow was conferred upon them by God.

Have you considered that every company which stumbles into a network-effects monopoly is successful regardless of how they run the place? "Conferred by lucky timing" is still an exogenous cause. We've learnt from the Windows and mobile App Stores that you can wind up in this position with and without creative output penalties and management bullshit.

> Microsoft has been in decline for 15 years and a large part of that is stack-ranking, which goes hand-in-hand with closed allocation.

It's definitely declining. It's been declining for decades. This decline has taken the form of a business so profitable that 4 out of 5 divisions by themselves would qualify as Fortune 500 entries.

And Google has been drinking cash from the same river for its entire life. The only diversification from advertising revnue they have is mobile devices, and it's only because they bought Motorola outright.

If you own a gold mine, you make profits because the market demands gold. Not because you are good to your staff, or bad to your staff. What makes you successful is the ownership of the gold mine.

Like I said, you have (so far as I can tell) one and only one example of any seriousness. One data point does not uphold a theory which completely ignores that economics is the subject of satisfying unlimited wants with limited means in the face of unlimited arrangements.
Revolutionizing 3D printed custom CPAP masks for sleep apnea sufferers
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Since I no longer work for the company, i'll mention that I've worked with the team at Apple that used pcapd in the iphone. It was an extremely valuable tool for finding/testing issues.
You may want to wait for the release notes from the public beta before condemning them to not fixing anything in DP4. Odds are some if not many of these things will be addressed before they let the public use them.
I have to say, splitting things up makes me think of the whole Netflix-Qwikster thing - pointless brand splitting that does little more than confuse and frustrate consumers.

I do like the new logo though.
Good Product Team, Bad Product Team
Takei maintains one of the most popular Facebook pages. Shatner is much more well known in other mediums.
Looks great. I'll have to give it a download. Did you use Swift?
CLOS is verbose if all you're doing is encapsulating some state. If, on the other hand, you plan on doing anything remotely interesting, it's very succinct and expressive. Trying to emulate the functionality of CLOS' multiple dispatch and mixins in Java or C++ is hell beyond hell.

As for verbosity, I'll take ":accessor foo" over methods "getFoo" and "setFoo" with inane, useless autogenerated comments any day of the week.
For me, I use Yelp for researching and planning places to go in advance, and Foursquare for finding something spontaneous in the area to do.

I guess I find Yelp's more in-depth reviews helpful for researching and planning, but too cumbersome for finding things to do on the fly.