skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few points of feedback:

A) I would absolutely limit comments and votes based on geography. The last thing you want is a popular event being loaded down with "Wish I was there!" comments.

B) Internal ranking of users based on votes, propensity to contribute quality content, and activity is certainly useful. You can use this to highlight things that are sure to be high-quality events, or even give extra spotlight to users who post quality events without a lot of traction. Exposing it leads to folks attempting to game the system. Not that they won't, anyway, but it makes it a bit more opaque as to what they can and can't get rewarded for if it's obfuscated.

C) The ability to use this on the web, without having to go to my phone to check the app. I want to be able to take a quick look, send a link via IM to a friend, and meet them some place there's an event going on. If I have to do it all within the app, then I have to hope that said friend (a) has the app and (b) has it set to allow notifications. I already have set communication paths for my friends--let me use those.

To the point of using it via web and locking down the distance, you should have to either (a) allow your location to be used or (b) be able to set a home city that you can use over the web. I'm not sure what the balance of restrictions is right on the posting only locally and allowing users to set their location, but say, limit them to posting/voting on only 2 locations per session on the web or something.
Matt links to a paper on forward-secure public key encryption in the notes. While this shows it is possible in principle, the actual procedure is pretty awkward, and probably not usable in this current state.
Rapist Sloth
Just a random thought - maybe there is a way to nail hard the point that "you cannot have security if you're lazy"? The society expects people to do driving licenses before getting behind the wheel. Why not expect people to put some amount of effort to be able to get mortgage or interact with court, etc.? Sure, many people will screw this up, but maybe this will be enough to secure majority.

</dream>

(confession: I myself am too lazy to use PGP)
Show HN: Startuplister – A startup directory listing service
While some people will seemingly climb over their own mother in their rush to hand over their personal and business data to every man and his dog, some of us still have our sanity.

Having it available as self hosted doesn't exclude the possibility that the author or another company will offer it as a service. The reverse is often not true.
In the vein of all the meta threads about directories and places to submit your startup, (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7525584, https://github.com/mmccaff/PlacesToPostYourStartup, etc) i've compiled all of the directory submission forms into one form, and will submit your startup to the directories for a small fee.

30% discount code for HN crowd: HN2014
That's what ROT-13 and secret decoder rings are for.
Is the data old? Lexicon by Max Barry is missing and its hardly an unknown novel:

A New York Times Summer Beach Read
An Amazon Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Pick June 2013
A Best of June iBookstore Pick
A Time Magazine "What to Read Now" Pick
A Huffington Post Best Book of Summer 2013
A Salon "Summer's Best Reads"
A Hollywood Reporter "Buzzy Books for Hollywood's Reading List"
A Pittsburgh Post Gazette Beach Read
A Kirkus Ten Best Novels for Summer Reading 2013

I imagine it should make it onto a list of scifi books.
Or you know, move to a country functioning under the rule of law. I don't get this mentality, but regardless, if you're paranoid then encrypt/decrypt your messages on a computer that's never connected to the Internet. There, problem solved.
15 years of legacy crap :)

I need a full data volume available as a lot of the stuff requires heavy performance testing.
KernelCare: Patching the Kernel On-the-Fly
$150/year is not a sustainable price for the market you're operating in. You could and should quintuple your price. This looks like an excellent product and would basically be a core component of any business that chooses to use it.

You should want the kind of customers who don't blink at $750/year, because those are the customers that are going to be ravenous about your product and will continue to pay year after year.
NSA was responsible for 2012 Syrian Internet blackout, says Snowden
In the US, universities were far more affordable when Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, etc were that age. Harvard like other Ivy League schools was probably still expensive, but many were not. My father (slightly older than them) was able to pay tuition by working in a factory during the summer. He didn't need any loans. Unfortunately that isn't possible anymore. There was a time when you could be blue collar and still get a great education if you were willing to work hard while not being burdened with massive debt after graduation.
Remember the Small Moments
Yes, you should attend if you get accepted. Sure you can watch it online, but there's nothing like sitting in the audience, actually experiencing the talks, and meeting really smart people. During my first Startup School in 2009, I stayed with the founders of no-name startup (at that time) called Airbnb. It was super early days, and I remember walking into a loft where about 10-18 people were working. I met some really awesome friends during that trip. It turned out to be one of the best decisions I have made to this day.

I highly recommend attending if you get the chance. I've been twice and both times have been well worth it (I traveled from Texas both times).
I look for two basic things:

1. Where did people come from and how did I convert them?

2. What is my conversion/impression/sales, etc. for the month/quarter and how does that compare to previous month/quarter or a specific date?

So, what I mean is if I have an event coming up and I am marketing to that event - I have email lists, twitter accounts, FaceBoook, a popular blog, co-op email partners, and I buy ads on multiple platforms...I want to know how many people came from each source, what the conversion rate was, how far they got in the process, and I want to see how this year's event is comparing to last years'. Or last months'. Or last weeks'. Or an event I had three quarters ago.

I need the data to be as accurate as I can get, because if people are coming into the site, and all of the ones coming from, say, Twitter, are not buying and don't even read anything, then I need to know that.

As an example, for a sports event I run in the summer, two years ago I dropped PayPal as an option entirely. I had so many complaints from consumers about PayPal in general I just decided to implement Stripe. A lot of people told me that since PayPal is so ubiquitous, I would be cutting out an ease-of-payment option and I would lose sales.

But my data showed two things: a lot of people DID use PayPal but I lost a ton of conversions when people hit the PayPal page AND my #1 complaint topic was PayPal related. About 60% of the people who signed up used PayPal.

Both of the last two years after implementing Stripe my conversion rate increased dramatically and I have ZERO complaints about the payment process. Literally, zero.

So that's what I'm always looking for. How do I optimize and track turning people who are searching into customers without wasting their time or my time? How do I remove frustration for users? Where do they navigate to? If they hit a specific page and then suddenly jump around looking for a 'contact us' page, I need to figure out what those people are looking for and fix it for them.

With Google analytics or adwords, I get some data but a lot of it other than a few pieces is superficial or the data doesn't match my server logs.

Sorry for the digression.
Are there other networking events happening during the same weekend? If not, maybe some locals could make them happen?
Well, if we have access to his posts (which we do) couldn't someone run it through a program that attempts to find consistencies in an author's writing style? I know there are several such. Of course this would only prove if there was either on 'PR' person for the group or not, but it's a start for testing this hypothesis.
Many Women Leave Engineering, Blame The Work Culture
45 seconds? That sounds like a huge overestimate, especially after you've cached the assets. A reasonable internet connection should shift 1.9MB in 2-3 seconds.
There's more. On the marketing page:

"developers need ot <-- eat too"

"API's" should not have an apostrophe.
No linux support. A big disappointment.
> A 10 minute internet outage is an awful lot less bad than what happens when a human intelligence asset gets caught by the kind of actors involved in Syria.

Is it? First of all, the 10 minute internet outage is real, while the asset capture is completely theoretical. Second of all, a 10 minute internet outage can and does kill people. ESPECIALLY in a country like Syria which is in the midst of a civil war; and I haven't even mentioned the much more concrete outcome of this being perceived as a terrorist attack, putting both sides of the conflict on guard etc.
Show HN: BTCDLC – sell digital goods for Bitcoins
As someone who has never lived there but has probably spent close to a year of his life collectively visiting there, I'd say it's a mixed bag--even though it's clearly on my list of favorite cities. Pretty good climate (though not as much so as the South Bay), great recreational opportunities in the area, great food, pretty walkable although public transportation is a mixed bag, and certainly some areas are nicer than others (I'll leave the last point at that). As an urban experience (as opposed to the Bay area more broadly, there are probably other cities I prefer. But I definitely see the attraction even if I've never succumbed to it, or indeed living in a city, myself.
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> "When cordons are imposed, “human rights have to be respected,” said Gregory Hartl, a spokesman for the World Health Organization,"

Glib words there, Mr. WHO Spokesman!

How do you restrict people to a cordoned area, while respecting their rights?

"Please don't cross this barricade, because I can't do anything to stop you. This gun is a plastic prop issued by the WHO because of your human rights."

Come on, this is purely about sacrificing the few to protect the many. These is no "human rights" about it. It's about the lottery of life handing some people the short straw, and tough luck.
Self hosted software generally tends to play better with others in my experience.

SaaS apps seem to be about lock in wherever possible with just the barest lip service given to standards and true interoperability.
> If you read that post again you'll see that Fowler's admonition about "not distributing objects" is really about "not distributing method calls", and method calls aren't that different from function calls so far as his argument is concerned in that (1) the latency of distributed function calls is 10^3-10^6 greater than local function calls, and (2) distributed function calls often fail for reasons inherit to the network and not the application itself.

The expense of distributed method calls comes from the fact that you are dealing with objects -- that is, containers of mutable state -- where you either need to synchronize copies across the network (expensive in terms of traffic/latency) or run all method calls on the place where the object lives (likewise expensive in terms of latency).

Pure function calls don't depend on mutable state, and so don't have those issues (further, to the extent that you do set up a system that requires a remote call to execute them, once you've executed a given pure function with a given set of arguments, you don't need to do it again, as the result is cacheable and guaranteed good forever.) You still have to distribute the calls that actually depend on mutable state, but if your language starts out with a clean distinction between pure functions and operations whose result might depend on mutable state, you start out miles ahead when it comes to dealing with distribution compared to working with a language which provides no language level distinction between pure and impure code, requiring either manual segregation or treat-everything-as-state-dependent-and-pay-the-cost approaches.
Will SDN fix such issues?
Why not just have a remote desktop session and see everything someone does? Someone might code best in eclipse. And interviewer might even allow the interviewee use the internet to search. You get to see the entire workflow.
mirror it quick!
Excelent app +1 for one android version.
Hi, let me know if you still wanted to chat about your legal start up. I answered your comment a few days after you posted, not sure if you saw it.
One argument against the consortium of people is that the more people you add, the more likely someone leaks. There have been no leaks and as far as I aware those early mined Satoshi blocks haven't been moved.

That being said, rather than a group of friends, a government agency or a highly secretive group of cyberpunks, I could imagine two or more family members keeping such a secret. However it would still be hard to resist the urge to cash in on even some of those mined coins, unless you were already stinking rich.

I know that many have theorised that Satoshi could have simply lost the coins, but as the author states in his article, it seems like Satoshi went out of his way to back up his clients on a regular basis. That isn't the action of someone who loses things so easily, especially if they both believed in, and could appreciate the impact of the project.

Just my two cents.
More info on the source of this is a good thing, IMHO
Regarding the article 'Let Users Explore Before They Commit' -

This is much easier said than done, and the effort and complexity will vary greatly depending on your site/app. The example used (nondescript clothing app) is one of the simpler cases, whereby the cross-session and device user-state need not be maintained, or is at least pretty minimal.

For many app developers, though, the richness of their feature-set doesn't come across until the user has a detailed state, such as level achieved, past activity, preferences, etc. Without asking users to "commit", sites/apps need to associate state with an anonymous user.

Unfortunately, it's not quite trivial to maintain the concept of an anonymous user. For one, the lengths the mobile industry is going to restrict the use of unique device identifiers poses a complexity to identify the same device across sessions. Moreover, anonymous users pose an issue for services with a value proposition behind their cross-device/platform support. Also, for small sites, it may not be trivial to introduce a data-model that supports anonymous data, which either needs to be thrown out or eventually merged with account-linked data. Similarly, 3rd-party engagement and funnel analysis of anonymous users is also a hard problem, as when the user does eventually identify themselves with an account, you need to merge their previously anonymous data into their account. Some services call this Aliasing.

I'll echo other comments that the content is sparse - this section specifically speaks as if registration count is the sole goal of the target audience. A comprehensive document would account other conversion-like goals that site/app makers might have, and the weigh the cost-benefit analysis of requiring registration.
Show HN: Panjury – Review everything, softwares, websites, video games, people
I have to correct a misstatement :( Turns out Artur Avila is now a Brazilian-French dual citizen and spends 6 months a year as a research director of CNRS. So... France wins again!
I've heard that the caretaking of victims and handling of the dead is entirely responsible for all of the cases. I'm not sure that there's evidence of any casual transmission.
I'd be in Palo Alto
Good points. Home equity is a big deal changer. I am so remote from even thinking about buying a home that I can't estimate the utility difference equity would make.

Having lots of space is obviously a major difference, but is very subjective. Many people who live in a city probably wouldn't want to maintain a yard or a larger house or need to drive everywhere. I definitely prefer the space.
Vetsin tech event
I still occasionally double click where the [-] used to be, which still works. Even longtime Windows users have given me weird looks at this. They are surprised it does something.
Facebook Now Tells Advertisers When Ads Lead To Purchases Across Devices
>one of the criteria for being a BSL4 pathogen is [...] not having a readily available treatment.
How is mongodb "light" compared to mysql/percona/compatible ?
Comment was simply meant as idea validation.
Regarding, the formatting, editing the style of `p` elements with the dev tools makes it much more readable.

16/24 or 14/21 combos for the font-size and line height work well for me, depending on widow width.

Right click a paragraph other than the intro -> "inspect element". In the right column, you can untick the "font-size: 21px;" and "line-height: 37px;" rules, to get 16/24 or set them to whatever you like.
Can someone quantify what exactly are the "life skills" these summer jobs teach? How do they "make it easier to get a job and get promoted more quickly"?
Harassment in Science, Replicated
The data here would be very useful for performance reviews for employees. For HR, it would also be helpful for looking at morale at a high level.
The Early History of the Fields Medal [pdf]
Amazon.com takes on PayPal, Square with credit card reader
Do these lists create accounts, and do you pass those credentials along?
I automatically check who I'm buying a product from on Amazon, and look at their ratings. It started for me years ago when I noticed it becoming ever more common that products were coming from other parties than Amazon, and also for Prime purposes. I'll often balance price against rating; if something costs $X, I'll pay $X more to buy from a very highly regarded supplier vs. one that isn't.

That said, I'm not sure I was aware there are actual reviews. I just check the scorecard.
> Update: Google had given us early access to its blog post about today’s announcement. In it, the company specifically referenced that anybody with a “Google account” could now use Hangouts with needing a Google+ profile. The final copy of the blog post changed that language to “any Google Apps customer account.” We regret the error.
Here's a tiny tool I like: https://gist.github.com/isomorphisms/9537586

It just prints the first `head` line and then random few rows instead of the top few. For me this is nicer than looking at the top 5 lines every time. I'm peeping at different parts of the table and thus gradually getting acquainted with it.
But not a bunch of friends that can keep such a huge secret and resist touching those (very valuable) early mined coins.

With multiple people in a consortium, I cannot believe that one of them can resist appearing on the front page of Time magazine. Loners are much better at staying hidden. E.g. the Unibomber or any number of serial killers who worked alone.
Yeah, weird. I remembered it being just an X but it had lines in all directions.
I use Oh Life for daily email journaling. One feature I really like is the "Oh snap, remember this? X days ago you wrote..." prompt, where X doesn't always equal 365. The random retrospective glances are great. For example, when it's Christmas, I don't necessarily want to be prompted to compare it to the last one...
You are right. The way I read it, the article clearly means "unseen in a century" in certain implicit parts of the world, not absolutely anywhere.

There are all kinds of things done in some places that have not been seen for centuries in other places.
Why are we building this?

We think that technology has helped us communicate better with groups of people we select, but as an unintended effect we get pretty disconnected from the world and people physically around us. We want to bring back the "town square" to our communities in a modern way.

Our inspiration was going to Coachella and other music festivals, and wanting to capture the spirit of community there and extend it to our day to day. Even if we're not Facebook friends, we're connected to the people around us.
I'm working on a platform which does just that. Don't really want to detract from the thread (as I appreciate the simplicity of this app in just focusing on one aspect), but the link is in my profile if you're interested.
A Jobs quote, hmm... A Dostoevsky quote... That's impressive... Nice idea, be strong!
Nice idea. I'm going to try it out over the next few days. One critique: you've used some non-retina graphics for bar button items.
A Vital Point You May Be Overlooking When Preparing for a Load Test
Sublime Vs. Atom
'any cordon must let food, water and medical care reach those inside.' This should be obvious, even to someone with your boolean approach to these issues. I don't think your snark advances the discussion.
https://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/satoshi-nakam...

After this article came out Szabo denied that he is Satoshi.
Airware (YC W13) is building web apps for commercial drones in SF
Airware's next-generation commercial (non-military) drone platform extends beyond flight-related hardware and software. Giving drone operators online access to data, video, and images is a critical element of transforming drones from flying robots into viable business tools.

We have multiple opportunities to play a leading role in architecting, implementing, and deploying an innovative web-based management system that is tightly integrated with sophisticated autonomous aerial technology.

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Seems people tend to conflate the price of admission with desirability. There are plenty of reasons why rents can rise much faster than inflation, other than desirability increasing.
Counter example: I'm not too lazy to use HTTPS.

Maybe if email encryption was more like HTTPS more people would use it? Just transparent and easy.
Solid advice. There's an argument for going after large customers and in this market that seems to be the way things have gone. Everything is big enterprise, if not now it is somewhere we are looking to enter once we are ready.
I use them to keep my system uncluttered and for using different OSes... nothing to do with security for me...
I'm all for that, but realistically how will you verify identity? If there is no identity verification what is stopping me from going out and registering for "google.com" and then using it in my MITM attack?
Maybe

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/24/health/24ebola.html

"In the first known case of what may be transmission of the Ebola virus from a pig to a human, a pig handler in the Philippines has tested positive for a strain of the virus, world health officials and the Philippine government announced Friday."

"But the strain — Ebola Reston — is not known to be dangerous to humans, and the worker, who was infected at least six months ago, is healthy, officials said."
Well, then make sure you sign the petition. Apple says, that it's seeing "about 10 cases a week".. Not enough to take action. Imagine, apart from those who signed the petition, how many others there have to be.