skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many (most?) people believe in authority more than they believe in explanations. They watch TV everyday, and TV displays a tremendous amount of authority (all those expert guests in suits).

"Patents sucks" is a contrarian opinion in this environment. Without a proper-looking authority to back that up, no amount of explanation will ever convince those people. They will just assume there "must be a reason" for this, even if they don't understand it.

The alternative is to teach them how to think. This will take time.
Snowden has leaked more then just that. Thats the fundamental difference. Most of the revelations have nothing to do with constitutional vs unconstitutional activities of the NSA, they relate to capabilities that the NSA has.
As someone who daily drives a highway [1] that is marked 15 MPH below what it ought to be (as almost all highways are), I hope this system never comes to fruition.

Now, automated tagging of morons who stare at their phone while driving? Bring it on. Those fuckers are a plague.

[1] The Mass Pike (I-90); which is a toll highway that is marked 65 MPH, on which traffic averages 75 MPH, and 80 MPH is well under the speed the highway can safely support (given attentive drivers).
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Thanks for posting this, As an owner of a simple CMS (http://getsimplesite.com). I wanted to offer my customers the ability to buy domain names, and this makes it much simple. However, the pricing is a bit higher, the most registered domains for my customers '.com' ($12) '.in' ($15) are much higher than something that godaddy offers. I'd love to see them offer competitive prices.
Not really an 'evil' if you willingly consent to it.
Maybe not: http://awoko.org/2014/07/21/sierra-leone-news-bitter-kola-no...
Software Engineer at VaxTrac (http://vaxtrac.com) | Washington, D.C. | Full-time

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Job Description:
VaxTrac is looking for talented software engineers who share our passion for making a difference in the world. We build tools to improve the delivery of health care to those that need it most.

We are looking for those who:

+ are committed to using their skills to generate real social impact.

+ have an interest and passion for emerging technologies and novel use cases.

+ thrive in loosely structured environments.

+ share the conviction that we can make the world just a little bit better.

Roles and Responsibilities

+ Core design and development of applications for frontline immunization workers

+ Co-development of our core mobile application with partner organizations

+ Integration of custom applications with third-party frameworks

+ Basic quality assurance and documentation

+ Soliciting feedback and triaging bugs reported from the field

+ Secondary technical support of global program staff

Skills and Requirements

+ Unparalleled, demonstrable programming skills

+ Full stack experience with an eye for UI and UX design

+ Finds ways to proactively contribute to all phases of development with limited supervision
+ Willingness to travel and spend time in remote corners of the globe

Bonus Points

+ Demonstrable expertise in Android development

+ Experience with Django, Pyramid or other web-based framework

+ Experience building for limited resource environments

+ Familiarity with front-end web development and Javascript

+ Practical experience with a NoSQL database

+ Exposure to CommCare or MOTECH APIs

+ Love of travel

VaxTrac is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

To apply for this position, please email your updated resume and cover letter as attachments to careers@vaxtrac.com. Selected candidates will be contacted for an initial interview. Thank you for your interest!
As long as my "Hodor" app can stay around, I don't care.

Hodor
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Russian economy is not based on natural resources, actually. Russia was industrialized in 3 waves (development of mountain manufacturing civilization in Urals in XVII-XVIII, in 1870-1913 and finally by Stalin) long time ago and now has visible post-industrial sector (8.5% of GNP is generated by Internet and IT companies). The patterns that apply to dictatorships of banana republics here don't work: it will not be able to replace import of iPhones, but it is capable of replacing the western technologies that are blocked by sanctions. It can sustain any sanctions by manufacturing luxury goods for elites and providing food and fun for ordinary people. Upper middle class in Moscow will suffer, of course, from the lack of iPhones, but they are hated by the rest of the country, anyway, so who cares.

The only way to push democracy to such a big and advanced country is to increase cultural exchange, encouraging tourism and supporting Russian education system.
When we launched coffitivity.com (a silly but surprisingly popular website) we had about 100 clones come out, a few in the app store actually using our name. We had a little more pride than to try to get them taken down.
Do you believe that most Europeans won't know that their search results are being censored? Or that they won't care?
>In Bitcoin, you trust the way the network as defined by the code has been set up, not the miners specifically.

Wrong, you trust the miners not to collude and attack the network.

I know you've heard the claim over and over that Bitoin is trustless, but that doesn't make it true.
I think it is pretty obvious to most people that there is a difference between actions that terrorize someone and big 'T' Terrorism. If there wasn't, any act of violence can be seen as an act of Terrorism.

So while the US/NATO armed forces (who display uniforms, have a strict command structure, are bound by international law, etc.) might be seen as an occupation/invasion force, they cannot reasonably called a Terrorist organization.

Terrorist organizations systematically target non-combatants in order to achieve their goals, do not display uniforms or have a command structure that can be entreated with. You cannot make a peace treaty with Al Qaeda for instance, you can with NATO. To act as if both groups are equivalent makes it impossible to have useful discussions about the morality of violence.

There are many people that feel like there is no moral difference between the violence perpetrated by these groups, but that doesn't mean that they can be lumped together into the same sorts of violent activities.
Patent 53165464: Mechanism to send the word "Yo" to other users. On a computer.
Yo is just trying again to remain in the headlines. Spending their million wisely.
I remember in school, there were subjective subjects like literature where your grade is based on how someone else, ie the teacher, felt about your work, and there were objective subjects like maths where no matter if the teacher liked you or not, you got your right grade. Try focusing on the part of business that is objective.

What I am saying is that find businesses where the quality of the product is directly correlated with the success of the product. For instance, if you could create an exaflop computer, I don't care if you are bad at marketing you will be rich. Another example is AI, if you could get software to learn generally, you will be successful. Yet another example, being able to easily control an android(human size) remotely[this could be used in construction, farming, security, elderly care, site seeing etc.].

These are hard problems to solve, but you are trading easiness of producing a product for a guarantee on success.
>No, you don't have to trust the miners because there are no known collusive schemes that would make more money for that volume of miners than playing by the rules would.

Yes there is, coordinated conditional double spending on gambling websites.

There are also non pecuniary reasons to attack the network, such as vandalism (miners could be pressured into colluding by a government for instance)
The article addresses a real problem. Haskell is presented by its neophytes as some uber-arcane thing that cannot be understood by a mere average programmer, you have to learn algebra first!, and read all Martin-Lof, and whatever else. And it hampers adoption of the language by many other people who might be offended by such superiority attitudes.

However, it is much healthier to present Haskell as simply a tool for writing better and safer code, which is frequently easier to reason about than your conventional for-loops all the way down. So everyone should try it, and say for themselves.

I may be wrong and over-generalizing here, but Haskell is a very convenient vehicle for showing off and belittling others. And honestly, who does not want to stick Haskell somewhere in their CV just to look better nowdays? Being fancy has a cost for the language. This is not an intrinsic fault of Haskell. People just need such a thing. If there were no Haskell, we would have APL, Lisp, Erlang, C++, or something like this.
Totally agree. Desktop app is more fit place for HTML5 than mobile. node-webkit is awesome and it can also benefit from the improvement of node and chromium.
The motivation behind the attacks don't matter, the effect on the population being attacked does. The US is/was terrorised by Al-Qaeda and afghans and Pakistanis are being terrorised by the US (e.g drone warfare).

This is a site with predominantly US and Western users so Al-Qaeda will always be the terrorists and America the freedom fighters but change the geographic location of the people you are asking and you change the labels being applied.
I agree with Jonnie...what books did you read? Your comment does a great job presenting math in a way that I would like to experience. What books/videos/materials did you discover that enhanced this?
Or frequently by the email header of someone who sent mail from behind the router.
They are porting it now: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/vms-software-inc-named-excl...
Coffitivity is actually a pretty neat idea. If I had decent audio-recording gear, I'd probably ride the New York subway for a bit and record some night-time and day-time audio for y'all.
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Or maybe that they agree with the intentions of that law.
Of course! Because the market for yo-styled communication software and devices is worth around 7 trillions USD.

If twitter is valued around 50 billions USD with 140 char messages then it is only fair and sensible to value Yo at ((140 - strlen("yo")) * twitter_valuation) USD.
Ask HN: Maintenance/support heavy teams?
I manage a development team comprised of the following: 1 data arch/dev, 2 biz/front-end .NET devs, and two BAs. We use VSO for our SCM, product backlog, work items, etc. We have segregated environments that follow our SDLC: Dev, Test, UAT (staging), and Prod.

An understandable reaction might be that the team composition I describe is a bit atypical/not ideal. I'm working towards building the team to have clearer separation of concerns as well as bringing on a full-time Software Test Analyst.

Team responsibilities:
- Supporting over 200 customers: this ranges from various levels of data ETL complexity, to customized development change requests to our internal systems and/or integration projects between our systems and theirs. In many cases, we become an adopted dev team since a given customer may be so small that they have no dev resources. Or, some larger customers say they'll have to wait years to get X project done through their internal IT, so they turn to us to get it done in weeks or months.
- Supporting our internal departments: This is Help Desk tickets, internal Change Requests,CAPA responses, etc. 30% of my team's time is dedicated to this internal support on a weekly basis.
- New development: we have a large product backlog. Shiny object syndrome is real and something I continue to reduce through education, metrics, etc. Dev efforts that need to be dedicated to our internal operations department are neglected for months on end because of some new customer project, partner alliance, etc.
It's this last bit I struggle with finding ways to improve upon (deadlines, higher quality, clearer requirements). In Oct 2013 we moved away from a waterfall dev methodology to Agile. In a nutshell, I learned that Agile really doesn't fit well on teams that have a lot of maintenance/support. I've looked into Lean, Kanban, etc but am hesitant to switch to something else without hearing from the community about similar challenges and approaches.
Hilarious Youtube Channel
why did adwords object to the homepage?
To be specific, the IBM Future System project was a failure, but the System/38 was one of the outcomes. Later the S/38 was renamed AS/400.
So how much is a STR worth right now?

Based on the Stripe investment of 3 million for 3,002,289,306.81 Stellars (3% of 100,076,310,227) I am calculating 1 STR = $0.000999237 right now ... is that correct?
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Wasn't it settled as aluminium to be consistent with spelling of other elements (~80 end 'ium'); selenium, rhenium, rhodium, sodium, ...

In my perception, USA don't seem to care so much for consistency with others; cf use of imperial measures.
Was there actually any doubt about Linus's software engineering ability? He created and now manages the most successful kernel in the world.
I am actually working on a project that I started for personal use, it lets me define a bunch of ideas and some metrics about those ideas (like market size, revenue potential etc) and then weight and score each of those metrics. I can then share this list with friends and colleagues who can also score the metrics about each idea, without seeing mine or anyone else's score so there is no bias.

The gist is, finding an objective (or as close to it) way to evaluate ideas within a simple structure.

Anyone else interested? Anything better already exist?

Basically, I had too many ideas and could not decide what to work on.
The key is to find customers first. If you have a hunch that something should work, there is always a possibility that you can uncover some pain points that you can build a business around.

You need to speak to enough customers and iterate on what you offer to figure out the validity.

Coding stuff up is always a lot more comfortable, and a no-touch approach like adwords based validation is 'easy', but really, you need to be in front of people to understand if there is any validity to your thinking.

Open ended conversations around the problem area usually results in great insight and can lead to some valid ideas you can work off of. Also, speak to more than one person in a given problem area and it's not too hard to ask 'do you know anyone else that has this kind of problem?' to find a common theme and get an idea of a market size thats worth your time.
Correlation ≠ causation

"Whatever the reason, Schneier says, al-Qaida's new encryption program won't necessarily keep communications secret, and the only way to ensure that nothing gets picked up is to not send anything electronically. Osama bin Laden understood that. That's why he ended up resorting to couriers."

That basically admits the reality of the situation. They knew all along that the NSA and so on was watching/listening. It is why Osama used couriers.

I highly suspect that the answer is the obvious one:

Any idiot knows not to invent your own crypto algorithms in isolation. They moved from homebrew crypto to modern, widely used standards. This is correcting a technical error they made, nothing more.

To be honest, if anything, this proves how inept the NSA is that they couldn't even break the homebrew crypto in a meaningful way to provide useful intelligence.
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Thanks for commenting Ivan. I'm excited for the future and hope to see more material produced by you. The original belt video absolutely blew my mind and I feel that Mill has the opportunity to really revolutionise the entire industry.
The horror ...

Example:

Explaining why testing is necessary. Corollary: Explaining why despite having delivered the application once without testing once, it does not mean testing is useless.

Explaining that our testing is not useless because the client found a bug.

Explaining that it is normal that we get some specification wrong and need to change them after further discussion with the client. No we do not need to fire the BA.

Explaining why, despite coding our apps "by the spec" we still need to schedule some integration testing.

Explaining that public shaming of a developer that committed a bug is counterproductive.

Explaining that the priority on task to LOW allow us to know what task will not be done if running out of budget. Also explaining that setting all the task as HIGH is not a workaround for lack of budget.

Explaining that budget consumption is not a proper indicator of progress. Also 9 women cannot have a baby in 1 month.

Sometimes the client is wrong, it is ok to discuss with the client.

It is ok to be wrong. Yes developer are wrong all the time and that does not make them bad developers.

You cannot estimate with 100% certainty.

Analogies and high level description are not substitute for in depth knowledge.
I thought Yo was a parody app!
Definitely add your spiel to the listing on the pirate bay website... see 'Indie Game the Movie' there.

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7700740
A game that will take you back to the disco era [video]
> I hope you'd agree with me when I say that love is more natural to human beings than fear.

I wouldn't agree with that. Fear is one of the most basic instincts. A core emotion to most species along with joy, sadness, anxiety and anger.

Love, while most are certainly capable of it, isn't among those core emotions.
>Improving on our concept is welcome

Well shoot I better start on my "Dude" app that lets whoever you messaged respond with "Sweet".
Ill stay with sticky-notes and white-boards until I have a fully encrypted digital PA to record and manage this sort of thing for me.
30x500 is basically a sales course: https://30x500.com/
You forgot to include "an apparatus".
I don't want to pile on, but you're failing to see the implicit cultural bias in your argument. Primarily, that calendar was created and implemented by the Church, at a time when that Church dominated political and cultural life in the Western world. Of course they decided to divide the calendar there, they accepted Christianity as a first principle.

>How many of those tales give you a single point of failure, that if you can explain away one point then internally the whole belief system collapses?

All of them, if you don't believe in the existence of the supernatural. But this argument, in itself, reveals another fallacy, as it assumes the narrative consistency or cultural relevance of a religion has any bearing on its actual truth. Reality doesn't have to be logically consistent nor does it have to follow a narrative path - one only has to look at scientific progress over the last century to see that. And the argument that Christianity must be true because so many people believe in it is undermined by the fact that more people have consistently believed otherwise over time.

>Seems to me there might be more to the story than just a random dart throw at a wall of choices.

Thing is, that's what they all say.
Related, and worth reading:

http://www.moneyandbanking.com/commentary/2014/6/23/growth-a...

excerpt:

"Market economies are characterized by high turnover of both workers and firms. This “churning” is part of the process of “creative destruction” that shifts economic activity to more productive uses. The U.S. economy has typically stood out for its level of dynamism. But recent research has highlighted the long-term slowdown in the U.S. pace of gross job creation and job destruction (see top panel below), at least part of which has been associated with the decline in firm startups"

It's easy to get a rosy view of things, reading Hacker News, as Hacker News is attached to one of the few parts of the USA business community that remains dynamic. But it is important to take a wider view. The bulk of business activity in the USA has seen a decline in dynamic new formation. The decline started around 1980 and has gotten worse over the last 30 years.

Here is another one worth reading:

http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2014/05/declining-b...

That one looks at specific cities.

The news is troubling and grim. The trend is more than 30 years old, and appears to be accelerating.
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Show HN: Mailto.ninja turns mailto links into working contact forms
Or even more specifically, beef raised with intensive farming practises in dry regions is a massive drain. There are plenty of regions where cattle roam in a self sustaining manner with minimal environment drain.
HN actually has this feature! It seems to not be that widely known. From your profile page, click "saved stories". In your case that takes you to: https://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=pdonis (you can only view your own). This has a list of all stories you've upvoted.

Now you might ask: why can't I upvote a story but not bookmark it, or vice versa? I think merging these functions encourages desirable behavior (or would, if more people used it): it encourages thinking "is this story interesting enough to bookmark?" vs. "do I agree with / want to promote this story?" When I find myself wanting to upvote a story but not bookmark it, often I reconsider if I really want to upvote it. Many times those kinds of stories are of transient interest or political, and I really want to upvote as an "agree" but don't think the story is of significant enough long-term interest to clutter my HN "saved stories" bookmarks with it. In which case I then don't upvote it after all.

edit: Oops I see you're the person I replied to in the other thread as well. But leaving this comment here anyway so other people can find the functionality.
Snowden hasn't so far as I know. However, a number of security researchers have published articles analyzing Mujahideen Secrets and criticising its crypto based on publicly-available information. That probably has more to do with why they redesigned it than anything else.
We almost earned 12k per month from the appstore
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I've done a bit of node-webkit but I what I really didn't like was the speed at which a node-webkit app launches itself. It's pretty slow.
1. Build toy app in a weekend.

2. See it go viral.

3. Somehow raise money -- because crazy user 'growth' is the new 'eyeballs'.

4. Pay lawyers to take down similar apps -- also created in a weekend.

5. Users get bored and move on to the next thing.

Apps like this are no different to a short-lived meme. This is not value creation.
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OK, this may be a a little-known feature but HN has this built in. Go to https://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=cowbell and you can see all the stories that you've upvoted. That way you don't have to leave bookmark-comments.

Edit: P.S. Usernames here are small and grey. Probably no one looked at your username before downvoting that first comment. If I made comments like the ones you've made I'd get downvoted too, because no one knows or cares that I have 26k karma.
I think half of your advice is really good, and the other half not as much. We've all seen examples of seemingly useless things becoming very successful. Twitter, the Yo app, Let's Players, Beats by Dre, and so on. Your secondary advice of focusing on something and putting all your efforts into it is what separates toys from serious businesses. Most of our world runs on socially-fabricated needs and wants, so it's not surprising that things like yet-another-social-network or streaming yourself playing video games could be lucrative.