skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Securing government comms" can be misleading. Tor is not by itself a secure channel, but may be part of a secure channel if you're concerned that a local or semi-local adversary may intercept your communications. My understanding is that Tor was developed primarily to facilitate informants and dissidents in countries with restrictive internet access policies, like China, who would not take kindly to seeing communications between Chinese IPs and U.S. military IPs.

There is a very widespread and dangerous misconception that Tor is a one-stop shop for secure or anonymous communication. This is not true. You need to encrypt your messages separately. When outside the onion network, Tor actually exposes all content sent through it to a third-party, the exit node. This means using Tor may be more dangerous than not using Tor if you don't know what you're doing.
I never said democracy specifically. I meant in a broader sense the systems where a minority have centralized power over a majority of largely unorganized masses.
it's really important to think independently and take the time to really get to know founders and understand businesses

Will this view carry over to YC interviews? 10 mins does not engender this outcome.
> I guess his book writing got in the way of blogging.

There were a number of factors (which I've explained elsewhere in my comment history). That's part of it, but another factor was that, in 2010, there were 2.5 people working full-time[0] on doing research for OkTrends.

The blog posts took a lot of work. "The Real Stuff White People Like"[1] took almost two months of my time, plus some from Max and Christian as well. (Much like the product design process, since we didn't start each post off with a clear end result in mind, not all the work was visible in the final product).

I left to go back to school. Max ended up taking on more responsibility for other data/stats work, which slowed the pace a bit, and he left at the beginning of 2012 to do his own stuff.

People asked me for the last three years whether the reason OkTrends hadn't posted since 2011 was because of the Match.com acquisition and whether Match shut them down and I had to tell everyone "No, trust me, they're still around! It's just a coincidence!". Thankfully I no longer have to. :)

[0] 2.5 full-time means: Two of us full-time, as well as Christian, though he split his work time between OkTrends (the blog) and other stuff.

[1] http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-real-stuff-white-peopl...
The gist doesn't show how to get your network card into monitor/promiscuous mode.

EDIT: I'm not sure -In work with default drivers, but I'll test with my private Mac at home later.
Leading Civil Rights Groups Just Sold Out on Net Neutrality
True, but then you lose comment notifications, and edits can't be made simultaneously to the same post by multiple users.
If only 2% of the human genome is coding proteins and if more than 90% of it is doing nothing, you still have room for ~7% of the genome to be functional, non-coding DNA.
LaunchKey Introduce Facial Recognition feature for Two-Factor Authentication
I funded the Reading Rainbow Kickstarter. I was shocked and dismayed to learn that no portion of the funding would be used to teach rainbows how to read.
I love the way you can star issues on Google Code. Sorting by stars shows the feature most people want. Github could really use this.
Oh, yeah, I exaggerate sometimes. Not really planning to stop, honestly. I think Java never breaks compatibility in the core language or standard library, right?
Or really a minimal version of any genome. Build me a fruit fly with the "non-coding" sequences removed, and show me that its phenotypically normal. The genomes are remarkably similar, thus proving the point while not involving potential ethical issues.
I went and read up a tiny bit and learned about the requirement of showing that goodwill has been taken advantage of. You are indeed correct, sorry to come off as argumentative. It "only" took me one back-and-forth before I went and checked my facts.
As a recreational pilot, this bugs me too. Every time I fuel the aircraft, or check fuel samples, or stick the tanks, I'm interacting with lead. I'm sure that the amount is small enough that I'll never notice any difference, but, I'd really rather not have the lead. I'm hoping for a lead-free Avgas sooner rather than later.
Paul Buchheit has blogged very candidly about his angel investing numbers: http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2011/01/angel-investing-my-...
AltBeacon will not register as a CoreLocation Beacon on an iOS device.

Full disclosure: I work for Radius Networks.
Moving to Berlin
I wasn't trying to bust your balls, really, just poking a little fun at the hyperbole. I enjoyed the article for what it was.
I wrote a solver as a chrome extension : https://github.com/tburette/gameaboutsquaressolver

Javascript is not the best language to write AI.
Rustle, Tingle, Relax: The Compelling World of A.S.M.R
That's true of token replacement (identifiers for things, etc), but not necessarily true for other things, like removing empty tags/etc.
Game About Squares solver as a chrome extension
Looks like you can't pass EC2 user-data to a launch config either, which is frustrating (I'm sure that'll be rapidly fixed, though):

http://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/r/launch_config.h...

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/9b0ba70537a440b3...
I'm also a newbie like the OP, and I would say that from the outside, those high-profile projects are pretty intimidating. I would also assume that most of the "low hanging fruit" has already been picked. What am I going to be able to contribute that somebody else hasn't already done better?

But maybe this is all in my head...?
$10 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean
> The suspension email stated that I was trying to impersonate another company, and that this was forbidden.

> I decided on “Vice TV”

> I didn’t plan on trying to sell Vice TV

> I was also secretly hoping I would get a contract job out of this or someone might say, “Hey, add my blog and Facebook pages and I’ll buy the app from you.”

The last quotation isn't necessarily in context with the third one, but nonetheless this guy was either stupidly naive or ignorant.
Yes, it can. Start the video and put the iPhone to sleep. When you wake the iPhone up a moment later the music controls on the lock screen allow you to resume playing the audio. You can then turn the screen off and the audio will still play.
A more clear tagline: "Listen to the favorite bands of your favorite bands"
I would like the issues to become part of Git repository. Perhaps some folder structure in separate branch.
If underscore was written in es6
"A few weeks went by and I got an email stating one of my apps had been suspended. ... I could understand if an uptight lawyer out there didn’t want my app on the store displaying their videos."

"The suspension email stated that I was trying to impersonate another company, and that this was forbidden. I had no intention of impersonating anyone."
I would say, in this gentleman's situation, that's pretty specific. Especially since he admits above, below, and all around his Google correspondence that he's got a very good understanding that what he's doing violates either US copyright law or Google's terms of services, regardless of intent.

"You, sir, are in violation of copyright law. What? You didn't intend to violate copyright law and have a "disclaimer" in your app? Oh, well in that case..."
That makes sense.

But let's say you have some underlying quality, say intelligence or ambition or determination or "grit". This quality will probably correlate with success at both fundraising and building/running a company.

Now I don't have anywhere near the experience of YC or even you, but I wold imagine that at least intelligence and determination are positively correlated with both. So I'd expect someone who is good at fundraising to also be good at the rest.

There could be a few reasons why this might not be the case. It could be that we're looking at a small subset who have already passed an intelligence/determination threshold, above which these 2 traits matter less, and time spent developing the proper skills matters more. It could be that there are other factors in raising money or building/running companies which matter more, which would be an interesting conclusion to me.

Or it could be that I've made an error in reasoning somewhere :)
Hey OkCupid – How about some SSL Love?

"For the hundreds of thousands of users searching for that special someone through one of the largest free online dating sites, the love fest may be coming to an end. OkCupid is putting users’ privacy in danger by failing to support secure access to its entire website through HTTPS. Every OkCupid email, chat session, search, clicked link, page viewed, and username is transmitted over the Internet in unencrypted plaintext, where it can be intercepted and read by anyone on the network."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/hey-okcupid-how-about-...

The Heartbreaking Truth About Online Dating Privacy:
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/heartbreaking-truth-about...
Prioritisation is something I see in every other tracker. If items are dispatched/fixed/closed from the tracker faster than they come in then it doesn't matter, but that is rarely the case. The moment there is more available issues than can be worked on right now, prioritisation needs to be done. The are many criteria that could be used, but "priority" is a pretty established one. The problem with github issues is there seems to be no viable way to get that.

I agree about having lots of different fields. I once worked somewhere where after a series of acquisitions 11 different bug tracking systems were collapsed into one! Having arbitrary labels mitigates most of those. IIRC Google Code also lets add as many different states as you want so that works too, letting projects be as simple or complicated as suits them.
That's owned by IBM
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4802:4qk...
Well, at least in Scala developers have a choice. You can run the latest Scala compiler and still target a JDK6 runtime. Or use a very old Scala compiler and run it on JDK9 builds.

Compare that with e. g. .NET where picking an older compiler potentially locks you into an older .NET version, too.
Have a look at all the different CLR, .NET and language versions: It's a huge mess, only increasing with projects like WinRT, and building portable assemblies not being available in all Visual Studio versions until very recently.

Of course, the problem is exacerbated by .NET's lackluster dependency management, and I'm not very optimistic that the .NET community is able to build a decent competitor to NuGet to keep it from stagnating, due to "Microsoft products first"-approach of Microsoft shops and Microsoft's inability to contribute to existing open-source projects.
I generally agree with you. One of the interesting bits of information from the article is the financial boost from paid updates. You can sort-of approximate this on the MAS but none of the options are ideal.

In my opinion, you absolutely must give people the chance to try your product. This means having a trial build on your website, which most Mac indies do but it's a bit problematic for paid apps, as I presume a lot of people on the MAS itself are unaware. It's in the best interest of everyone to have trials - for customers, so that they don't feel duped and actually buy a product they're happy with and for developers, so that they acquire real customers, not play a game of "can we convince people to fork over money without trying".

Moreover, it's in the best interest of customers to actually provide paid updates - they can vote with their wallet whether a business should survive. But without the proper availability of paid updates, customers are left with no choice, even if they did want to support developers. Unfortunately, the voice of a vocal minority instils fear in developers to try and charge for such updates.

Given the current climate, our plan for the future is to lower our initial price and offer major versions as paid updates. Instead of, say, charging $40 for the current version + $20 for an update, we'll just always charge $30 for the current version. As a side effect, it lowers the entry for everyone and your real customers can still vote with their wallets and support your efforts, if they choose to do so. One of the downsides is the introduction of a new SKU which is not that much of a problem (before the MAS, you had to do the same anyhow). It's usually wise to provide a way for customers to stay in touch with you and hear about updates but only if they want to (don't smack dialogs repeatedly in their face, that's just not nice).
The workarounds to handle client-side templating seem dirty. Is it really true that e.g. Handlebars requires you to send illegal HTML to the browser? That seems like such a bad idea.
I understand that. I guess what I meant is that people appear to still be involved in the process. In the video there seemed to be people doing most of the interacting.
> It's not paper books that become obsolete, but paper tech books.

Yes, exactly. Maybe I haven't articulated my point in a clear enough way, but I meant only paper tech books, and not all of them, but the ones about topics that change fast enough to make the book obsolete soon after being printed.

I have a paper copy of SICP, which is a quite old book, and yet it's probably not going to lose its value for next few decades. But books about, say, current most hip MVC JS framework get obsolete within a year from the date of publication. I'm hoping that the industry will move to print-on-demand tech books because as you said, there's a great value to having your documentation / tutorials somewhere else than on the screen (heck, I often print out RFCs when I need them for work), but dumping short-lived books on bookstores around the world just feels like a huge waste.
http://dge.stanford.edu/SCOPE/SCOPE_31/SCOPE_31_2.05_Chapter...

Read the summary at the bottom for the goods. Basically, different plants absorb different amounts of cadmium, and different soils have different levels of it, and it's all influenced by whether large human developments are churning Cd into the soils nearby. Nothing that hasn't been covered in studies for the past 30 or 40 years...
Note, that I don't think this would be an easy experiment. For example, if you removed all the Alus, you would likely break something critically functional, but not be able to conclude specifically that it was due to removing the Alu, rather than, say, some other complicated genomic effect.

Another way to look at it: pick a model organism (maybe c elegans), run many experiments in parallel, finding regions which can be removed and allow viability under a wide range of inducible environments (if you remove the heat shock proteins, but never put the worms in a hot environment, you might conclude you increased fitness). Find the largest regions you can remove independently, then start with pairs of regions (you can imagine that removing region 1 and region 2 independently would have no effect, but be fatal if combined), etc.

The resulting genomes would probably still contain regions that contained no recognizable function, have no strong selection pressure, and yet still be completely necessary for viability. This is just speculation on my part, though.
You could think of it this way. If someone is really, really good at sales, would you expect them to also be great at (say) general management too? I wouldn't.

A company needs all kinds of complementary skills but in the beginning it only has whatever the founders can bring with them.
dustingetz didn't say "Scala is bound to attract only mediocre programmers". He (I presume) said "Mediocre programmers can learn Scala". I presume the intent was "Even mediocre programmers can learn Scala", that is, you don't have to be a rock star.
If you like Intercom's knowledge base (docs.intercom.io), you should definitely check out Helpjuice.com (I'm the founder, ceo)
Taplytics (YC W14) is looking for ambitious mobile engineers in SF
"Apps must not have names or icons that appear confusingly similar to existing products"

Okay so then a single extra sentence stating "The icon and name you have chosen are unacceptable because you are not X, Y or Z and constitute impersonation in our opinion" would have cleared up all the problems.

But that didn't happen did it? Nope!
I guess I should link to the code : https://github.com/tburette/gameaboutsquaressolver

I did this more to play with chrome extension. It's a nice problem to write some AI code: deterministic, single agent, easy to solve some levels but takes some thinking to solve them all.
> It's more a question of do you want to spend engineering hours updating all your tools to the latest version, or do you want to spend engineering hours developing features.

How is this different from e. g. Java? Developers pick a version which works for them and stick with it until it makes business sense to upgrade.

> In most cases I'd rather not use technology that is continually breaking my code on every update, and instead focus on solving interesting domain specific problems.

How is this the case for Scala?
I know is stylized as "f.lux" but fuck man...

Why does big companies do that? Just recently Apple's Swift and now Facebook's Flux.
They started to do that recently.
It is worth noting that demand is highest during the day and higher still on bright sunny days. This means that solar can provide a significant portion of our power before intermittency becomes a problem. Your point is still correct that without massive grid storage we will still need some other (not solar or wind) power source.
Please don't ask for justifications for downvoting. It's a fire hose, not a paint brush.
Indeed, some things can't be done unless you use eval; but some of those things just need something much less than eval added to the language and then they can be done.

Case in point: if you don't have apply in Lisp, how do you take a list, and turn it into the arguments of a function call?

The ability to do this is actually represents a modicum of introspection, but far short of a full blown eval.
My brother just bought a house in the San Francisco Bay Area. Given that he was relocating from severe hundred miles away, his real estate agent was very helpful him shop from a distance. I helped out by doing a final walkthrough of the house with the agent, and saw the stack of paperwork the agent had to deal with. OMG, there were so many forms. A real estate agent who knows how to navigate all of that would be worth it to me.
Everyone needs to have an app because if you don't have an app today you are not a digital brand. I'm a web developer so I'd love for responsive design to be enough, but frankly it's not. Users demand apps, and the most passionate NPR fans will eat this thing up (it's actually looks like an interesting app that brings more to the table than 99% of apps so good on them).

Is this stopping you from getting NPR content in a regular podcatcher? Do they have an annoying "app-wall" forcing you to install the app when you visit npr.org on a mobile device? No? Then I don't see what the problem is.
Does it really provide most of the features? All I can find in it's documentation is using salt to creating and destroying instances and volumes on various cloud providers. That just scratches the surface of what Terraform does.
"Listen to your favorite bands' favorite songs"
A better rule is that these browser functions should do what the user expects. I don't think this page violates that rule (and it might not even violate yours: the scrollbar's movement has not been altered on this page like on Apple's product pages).
Darth Vader is polling higher than all potential 2016 presidential candidates
Very good point. In fact, I had to council one of my colleagues on this issue as she prepares for an overseas trip. She was asking about Tor, but I advised that our organization's VPN is the correct solution... especially since she wanted confidentiality rather than anonymity.
When I was still on OKCupid, I once wrote a Chrome extension to hide the pictures. I found that I had, in general, a much better experience with the site - I'd actually read people's profiles, I sent better messages, and I got more responses. I eventually gave up on it when a site redesign changed some of the #ids I was depending on and I didn't feel like revamping the code. But interestingly, my eventual girlfriend had terrible pictures - the grainy, multiple-people-in-the-background sort you're never supposed to put on a dating site. Setting up our first date, she was like "We don't need to exchange numbers, you know what I look like", and I was like "Actually, I'm not sure I do, here's mine." (Okay, I didn't actually tell her her pictures were terrible until we'd been dating for six months or so, but that was the general sentiment.)

I think it's one more example of when people's emotions and desires lead them to suboptimal outcomes. Most of the cues we associate with beauty and sexual desire evolved back in the savanna when health and fertility were very real risks; being able to pick up on which potential mates would be able to carry healthy offspring to term and nurture them until adulthood was very important then. Nowadays, the far greater risk is that you'll hate each other and fight all the time, but this has only been a concern since people started living long enough and in close enough proximity to care.
That's a good point.

Let's put it this way - if someone is really good at sales, I'd think they're more likely to be good at general management, given enough time to learn that skill.

In the cases of companies, since the founder's job is usually to learn whatever skills are relevant for the current state of the company, and then execute those reasonably well, I'd expect the founder to learn the currently relevant skill of fundraising, then later to learn the currently relevant skill of managing a small startup, then later to learn the currently relevant skill of managing a larger company, etc.
Do you think the exposure the Mac App Store offers is worth Apple's 30% cut along with the lack of upgrade options for customers? Why not also (or in place of) sell your software directly through your website?

I'm the author of the article in question, and with my current sales infrastructure, I'm able to spin up and sell a new product (SKU) in a matter of hours. Since I've been doing this for seven years, am I now overestimating the amount of work it takes to setup and sell your app independently?
You can put stuff in recycling and they will take it (where I live in Northern California) and then sort it out to landfill at the processing facility.

See for example the comments from the Recology Recycling Program Manager on this page:
http://vault.sierraclub.org/sierra/201209/letters-255.aspx
We did the opposite. We raised the price [$50] and will only provide a year of free updates. Extra years come at a comparatively small cost. People hated being asked to upgrade regularly and we obviously didn't want to go years between adding major features. It seemed like the only way.

One interesting thing we have done, is offer a "lifetime upgrade" option for both upgrades and new purchases. About 30% of our customers buy it. It costs 50% more on a new purchase or 100% more if you're upgrading, but you get all future upgrades. It's a win for customers who want that, and it's definitely a win for us.