skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking about these too. I did not came up with an idea what it could be. Maybe just noise and we interpret something into it?
My Synology NAS has been hacked by ransomware calling itself Synolocker
I remember reading a long time ago that many people in our government have duel Israeli/USA citizenship. I just did a google search for "USA cabinet members Israeli citizens" and there seem to be a lot of results; one of the first is https://www.facebook.com/notes/we-are-all-vittorio-arrigoni/... - about 1/3 of the way down the page is a long list of people in power who likely have dual citizenship.

I am not sure why this would even be legal. How can one person be loyal to two countries?
Yeah, that was a really bad analogy.
I'm in Barcelona as well, and it's pretty safe, but I heard some bad rumors about the cops, even though I never had to deal with them.
If you look at per capita, then Canada is 16 and Australia is 18. If you look at it overall, then China is largest producer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dio...

If look at it as a percentage of world emissions, it's not even close - China has 26% with the US way back in 2nd with 14%:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dio...

Also, if you look at your home country of Sweden, your overall population is much smaller, you have a much smaller land mass and I would expect your carbon emissions to much lower.

Also, your country was smart to start phasing out fossil fuels, and has a ton of very environmentally friendly laws which are doing a lot of positive things for your country.

If we in the US actually adapted some of your laws and thinking, we'd probably be a lot further along in reducing our country's impact on the rest of the world.
Tried to install with Homebrew, got a 500 error. Tried again, got a 503. Third time, got "Empty reply from server".

Bummer, this looked cool.
Decoy wallet or a few bills in a separate pocket "guys, here's $20, it's all I have on me". Unless they're drunk or crazy, they'll take it. But they'll also want your phone these days.
> Fortunately for businesses that existed those last 5000 - 15 years, copying a document wasn't free. Information couldn't be mass produced at a scale that renders the notion of supply meaningless.

Google and Facebook are not in the document copying business. They index, curate, store and generally make information easy to access. That's a real service which costs real money to offer, and is not going to be just spontaneously overtaken by some FOSS equivalent (whatever that even means). And they could charge real money for it, if they wanted. Personally I would welcome that opportunity if it meant they would treat me more like a customer and less like an ad demographic.
> In a short essay outlining the vision behind Internet.org, Mr. Zuckerberg says one of its goals is to offer credit and identity infrastructure “that is still nascent in many developing countries.” Such services might be of some help in developing countries. But is Facebook the best entity to provide them?

"Best" among what alternatives? If nobody else is providing these services, then Facebook may necessarily be the best by default. Of course we can imagine better ways. But those ways are imaginary until somebody actually shows they can do it.

And I have a hard time getting upset that Facebook might beat out Experian and friends to become the credit bureau of choice in some developing countries. Why should I have a dog in that fight?
This could be because Github's having issues with serving archives. See https://status.github.com/

EDIT: Should be working now
There are so many! Most of them are actually very unsexy too in industries most people don't think about. I think one of the best product development strategies for technologists and founders is to get jobs in companies that have little to do with programming and see what kind of fundamental problems there are that could be solved with technology.
I mostly fear the resentful attitude and poor treatment I receive from employees there.

I'm rarely treated like a person, and I'm not sure I've ever seen a DMV employee smile.

The DMV where I currently live, however, has eliminated wait times to basically nil, and that's the complaint I hear most often.
Having to connect to Facebook to get the user relationships. I would love something like Mozilla Persona but where you specify what connections to share.
I don't have any knowledge of the inner-workings of either company you listed, but I can tell you from experience its highly unlikely they're running an EC2 instance per customer. That would be very expensive and very weird.
anything 'eavesdropping' is relevant here, I'd say
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The cheapest ec2 instance is around $15/mo

The on-demand t2.micro is $0.013 per hour, so in a 31 day month, you would spend $9.69. The t1.micro is available as spot instances, and currently the price is $0.0061 per hour (fluctuates with demand), so if you were able to get it at that price for a whole month, you could pay $4.53.

I doubt they are spinning up an instance for each trial, but let's say they are. If you get 100 free trials and it costs $500 to $1000, if you can get 10% to sign up for your cheapest plan ($19/mo) and the average customer stays with you for 3 years, you'd have $6840 of revenue after 3 years.
Skype. Everyone has it and it's so bad. Random freezes of the conversation or the window, call drops (Teamspeak has almost none), can't disable alerts for file transfers in a group chat, the search doesn't work properly (can't find words that are there) in a long chat log. I could go on.
I have used many chat clients in my life, but I have never seen such a bad implementation before. It is a mystery to me why everyone uses it, thus forcing me to use it too.
Dear NSA, I've never really been into privacy...
its highly unlikely they're running an EC2 instance per customer. That would be very expensive and very weird.

Not so weird:
https://www.mongohq.com/pricing/dedicated
Permanently deleted my Facebook account a couple weeks back. I hadn't seriously used Facebook since high school, but had held back from deleting the account, because I didn't want to lose the data.

Of course, the older you get, the less of a good idea it seems to preserve all the dumb shit you said in high school for perpetuity.
Most bootstrapped SaaS I know (including mine) do not, indeed, run a dedicated EC2 instance per customer. Some I know do, but it is in the "dedicated / contact us for pricing" option, and the price of the plan makes the EC2 price a detail.
I recently moved to a new state for the first time, and I have a complaint about the DMV here: they move too quick. Well, actually the real complaint is the amount of paperwork. It was about five minutes from the time I got the paperwork to get a new driver's license to the time I was called up. I just didn't have the paperwork done. So I was standing at the counter filling it out, slowing down those behind me.

The biggest thing that would help, in my experience, is designing a DMV website that accurately points you to the right paperwork and lets you at least fill it out online or print it out at home to fill out on your own time. Having to go there and do paperwork just takes too much time.

The wait is bad. But even if there's no wait, the paperwork makes sure there will be some delay.
That would be awesome! I filed a bug to ask how plausible it is: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1048033

Perhaps they could make it ignore blackboxed scripts by emitting a fake event and waiting until a non-blackboxed call is made, then intercepting that call and showing that function as the actual listener? That idea falls apart of the blackboxed listener changes the state of the program, though.

Or maybe an extra argument to addEventListener that takes a reference to a function that is the "real" listener? Then libraries like jQuery would just pass the user-provided function along in their own code.
Driving. I want to be able to look out the windows or work or whatever I want to do.

Power. I'm so tired of my devices running out of juice. Road trips and festivals etc become much less fun when I have to continually worry about how to charge my phone or laptop.

Craigslist: They shut down services like padmapper but continue to give us a totally shit interface to work with. Finding a place to live, in particular, is a horrific experience.

Vehicle maintenance: I don't want to think about when to change my oil, or when I can take it to the shop, or anything. I'd like to just pay someone who comes to my house and deals with it as-needed.
In Chrome Devtools debugger, you can click on the Async checkbox next to where the call stack is. So, when paused, you can see the full stack. (If you are not on the latest chrome, this might need to be enabled in experiments).

And this show why it is a bit difficult to choose what to show, among all the things from the call stack (including async stuff) that triggered something. For one thing you could possibly ignore libary code (e.g. http://www.divshot.com/blog/tips-and-tricks/ignoring-library... ) but if you have a medium to big SPA with many backbone/wreqr events, let's say, you would still need to look in the stack manually.
One forum post mentions this too:
http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=88716
The availability of the substitute "last year" for "2013"?
I've never had a problem at the DMV in CA when I lived there. It was one of my better experiences with the government. The USPS is great too. Even my experience with the IRS has been great - they saved me many thousands of dollars by pointing out that I put some income under the wrong category.

My current frustration is cablecom.ch here where I live in Switzerland. They have two completely different billing systems for their cable tv and for their internet. I didn't realize it but you have to pay for cable tv even if you don't have a television in order to get internet (125 mbit down, 10mbit up). Because I thought that they were billing me incorrectly I fought with them until it almost went to collections before someone explained the situation.

I'm about to move to Zurich where I'll have gigabit internet through swisscom (telecom), so screw cablecom and their screwy billing system.
I'd be interested in additional info about statistical chance of diseases like Malaria, Dengue or other most common diseases in area
This is one of those "How long is a piece of string?" questions. It depends on each individual business' circumstances. The vast majority of SaaS businesses run in a multitenant fashion and don't have meaningful hosting-based COGS for a marginal trial. (I know those two examples you picked are not representative of the typical SaaS, but I'm going to take this in another direction anyhow.)

This might be news to much of the peanut gallery, so here we go: COGS (cost-of-goods-sold: servers, etc) is not nearly the dominant hard cost associated with free trials. It is, overwhelmingly, cost of customer acquisition -- i.e. the marketing spend required to attract one customer at the margin. B2B SaaS companies routinely pay hundreds of dollars to get one new account at the typical $29 to $249 monthly price points.

Why do we do this? Because of the SaaS LTV formula: monthly price / churn rate. If you have a mediocre-ish 5% churn, then a $30 a month account is worth $600. If you can buy them for $200 apiece, why not do so? ("Massive stress-inducing cashflow crunches!" Good answer, and that's the classic reason why SaaS companies raise money despite having near-zero COGS and products which can be bootstrapped to market.)

$200 per new account businesses might imply, in a card-not-required-upfront model, 2% conversion rates on $4 trials which have converted at 25% from $1 clicks. Or, in a card-required-upfront-model, 25% conversion rate from trial, $10+ clicks.
e-Readers - Kindle DX too awkward, old-tech; other readers can't handle PDFs worth a damn.
I like the look of it. Will definitely try for a couple of days next week. No reason not to. ☺
Bypassing the question about costs, even if they would be "likely losing a lot of $15's here and there" then such costs are often considered acceptable for customer acquisition.

For example, back when Paypal was getting started, it simply gifted $10 to every new user, and in B2B sales you can expect to spend thousands on every prospective customer, even if no sale happens in the end.
Prithly – App store of models for 3D printers
Matching people to jobs. The current way we do this definitely sucks, but nobody seems to be able to fix it.
Your hopes shan't be dashed! Destructuring assignment is part of the ES6 specification now: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:destructuring
You're asking a loaded question. Companies spend money on acquisition strategies. Free trials are only a loss if they don't result in the acquisition of customers that justify the expense.

As to your question, at IndexTank we had a free trial plan that allowed us to host hundreds of customers on a single AWS instance. Why would you imagine that any company operating at scale would have to dedicate a whole instance to a nonpaying customer? It's the same as assuming that AWS would give a free user a whole physical server.

BTW, CircleCI is not bootstrapped.

http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/circle-ci
People use it because it's still a lot more well known, convenient, and ubiquitous than the alternatives (although that isn't saying much). I prefer Google Hangouts myself, but a lot of people I deal with are familiar with Skype, and don't seem to want to switch over.
1. HTML (no fashionable crap like Bootstrap or flexbox is capable of giving me somethong as simple as XAML's grid, also dozens of quirks - http://wtfhtmlcss.com).

2. JavaScript (not just dynamic but weak as well + dozens of quirks - http://wtfjs.com).

3. Node.js and its hype, but at least I can avoid it.
Overloaded Record Fields for Haskell
Paywalls across apps. I've got a subscription to the Economist, but I'm not logged in on Facebook, Twitter, whatever HN client I'm using, etc, so it's like I don't.
The vehicle maintenance one would be great - have an odb device that connects via bluetooth to your device, and knows when to schedule oil changes, or handle more complex issues.
The topic is developer-oriented specialized fonts - so there is no such thing as 'outside of code', and in a monospaced font no space can be added since the width is fixed - so my question was about shifting the parenthesis towards the 'inside' within that width.
Looks like hostedgraphite is on Hetzner, while circleci is ec2:

[localhost Downloads]$ whois `dig +short hostedgraphite.com | head -1` | grep -i netname

netname: HETZNER-RZ13

[localhost Downloads]$ whois `dig +short circleci.com | head -1` | grep -i netname

NetName: AMAZON-EC2-8
"Apps" - Nowadays every site I load asks me to INSTALL OUR APP! "Skip this page ?" "Are you sure you don't want the app?" Yes, I am fucking sure. My iPad has a fully capable web browser that displays graphic data 100% perfectly. Unless your app has a purpose other than being a native website, stop making your website an app. It's not an app, it's a fucking website in a wrapper and It ends up on the fourth or fifth page of my home screen.

A bookmark 99% of the time serves the purpose of these "apps" I am bombarded with. I don't want apps. This is just like the desktop in the early 90s. Make your website work in my browser, and bonus points if I can remember your web address without needing a bookmark.

When will people learn to stop blindly following trends that offer no benefit to the business or consumer??
Having a physical card[1] with challenge & response codes for when using my bank and all pulic services in Denmark. I actually thought about making a simple CLI program that can OCR the card using tesseract[2], convert the output to a simple sqlite database and use GnuPG[3] to encrypt the database. The user feeds the application (probably just a simple bash script) the given challenge code, decrypts the database and is given the response code (probably just copied to the clipboard).

[1]http://i.imgur.com/2XGei96.jpg
[2]https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
[3]https://www.gnupg.org/
I'd extend this to videoconferencing and remote meeting solutions in general. I've never found anything that works reliable, across platforms, with a simple interface, can scale to larger events, and so on. You'd think it would be a solved problem by now.
Typically startups just rent one or two instances big enough to handle the first set of users/customers then expand as needed. So the cost per free user depends greatly on the product. I think it is unusual to give one instance per free user.
What would a "fix" look like?
Fair enough; a confusion of terms. But isn't it still true that Freud was the first, or among the first, to propose that the unconscious mind influences the conscious one? And also that one can learn of someone's unconscious processes by conversing with them?
> I quite loaded the end of my description so that you have an overview of how the conflict in Israel can spread to other cities in Europa.

Wow. How do you manage to bring Israel into this is beyond my comprehension.
1. can you please describe the mechanism by which the Israeli conflict "spreads" ?
2. Gaza is not a ghetto of Israel, and Gazans are not Israeli citizens.
3. Israel has people of all colors and even though there are poor cities and rich cities, but nothing like what you have in Paris.
This isn't a "thing that sucks" so much as a thing that will suck, but California needs to gets its act together with water supply and use. Smarter use is one thing, but it's abundantly clear that we'll also need more of it.

Desalinization technology exists, but is considered to be prohibitively expensive relative to the benefits -- or at least that's the received wisdom we always hear whenever the subject comes up. Would love to know more about this, and whether anyone is working on a more cost-effective and sustainable solution.

On a more day-to-day note, to no one's great surprise, ISPs suck. So do power grids, especially in CA.
One quick follow-up... Despite good experiences with the IRS I have to say that the u.s. tax code is majorly fucked up. We spend $3K - $7K/year to have our taxes done by a competent accounting company and they usually end up around 20+ pages in length, and because taxes are lower in Switzerland than in the u.s. we end up paying u.s. taxes despite not living there for 6 years.

US citizenship is like a virus - it infects people that aren't even american if you, for example, marry an american or have a child in the u.s. you have to start reporting your bank account information to the u.s.

I really wish someone would look out for us expats in congress, but of course there's no incentive to do so. We're just normal people, not fabulously wealthy. We live in the most expensive country in the world and still end up sending money to the u.s.
The way the internet is addictive. I still haven't found the discipline to stop wasting time.
Cancelling services (phone, internet, etc.) It took me 40 minutes (mostly on hold) to cancel my internet the other day, a problem I wish I could pay someone else to take care of.
I really wish Google would update that page with Android Wear (square and round) renders. I know they've got them, because they used them on their promotional image for the I/O 2014 app: https://github.com/google/iosched/blob/master/art/hero.png
They do different crimes, but not all crimes are not sanctionned the same.

For all day life crime, if you are kid from a «famous person» you can try to get off the hook by invoking your relationships. (Jean Pierre Pernaud's kid (a famous TV anchor) tried it while speeding on an highway at 190km/h where it was limited at 90km/h. (that was what a local police guy said while sharing a beer. He may have lied, but this story even if it false is so close to what people feel that I can accept it as true enough)).

For free loading in transport you can get annoyed (a 5$ crime). For forgetting to pay wages or bills, not enforcing the basics of security in your activity or even forgetting to pay social charges(count in k$), even if you are caught on the spots you will be hardly annoyed and humilated.

They are poor's crimes and rich's crimes (that cost more to the collectivity).

A white business man not respecting the law using like being a proven spammer (artprice) and exploiting his salarymen is an exemple to the society. An arab business man providing good weed and exploiting his «cousins» is a criminal.
Drug dealers at the bottom of the hierarchy are paid like at the minimum rate regarding the risks taken.

Since the pushers are coloured and there is quite a discrimination, thus the society makes it easier for the kingpin to have cheap dedicated workforce. Business is business, not a charitative association. And the rules of business applies all alike. You cant get rich without capital and Income < outcome.

And fiscal evasion is not sanctionned on the long run if you accept to finally pay your due: fiscal administration will consent to close their eyes on some points.

Fiscal inequality is at its top. VAT makes it hard for people not to be taxed, and this is the biggest origin of taxes. On the other hand fiscal laws makes it easier for the richer to evade the taxes on income and patrimonial.

The poor get poorer and more subject to social violence, while rich get richer and more subject to physical violence. In a closed system if you compress a part, the compression has to propagate somewhere.

Btw, the system is truly meritocratic. To get to be a journalist you have very fair selection after highschool.

But oddly enough «sectorisation of the school maps» make it harder for poor kids to reach the good high schools that are statistically bound to be able to reach the «entry level» of the honestly fairly selective meritocratic system.
I don't say you can't be successful. I just say a system is unfair when some kids begins life with a 10 kg loaded bag, and others none and you are being required to first do 42km under a chrono before beginning to compete a fair competition.

That may explain why the journalists that are scared of going beyond the «périphérique» (the border of Paris) often (not always) makes it look like this place is another planet when they write articles. It is quite tragically comic to read their papers.
I don't really agree with any of these. JS and HTML are both pretty quirky - it's partially a legacy of their success and origins. But so are most languages - I don't really think that HTML, CSS or Javascript are particularly sucky.
I happen to have a solution for this problem that this margin is too narrow to contain.
Javascript. It's possibly the worst language I've ever had the misfortune of coming across, and it's gained this cult-like devoted fan base amongst the startup crowd. Everyone tries to cram Javascript into applications it's completely unsuitable for like desktop non-browser 3D gaming or encryption. It is an enabler of pervasive surveillance by marketers and a huge security risk for the privacy-conscious. Not to mention every web developer thinks the pinnacle of web design involves a megabyte of jquery or whatever is fashionable these days, reinventing parts of the browser's functionality like fading content in instead of just letting me scroll the fucking page.

I wish javascript would just die already. I greatly prefer static or server-side dynamic sites. I miss the days when you just had a PHP session, and when you posted your message it didn't show up until a refresh.

My animosity towards javascript and javascript developers simply cannot be overstated.