skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, be careful because probably all of the developers of popular extensions are regularly getting offers to share their users' browsing data or to insert/replace ads on websites.
In Seattle, they probably have to field far stranger requests every day. Cost of doing business in super progressive towns.
When the article chose to put quotes around "touched", my thought was that Snowden was being clever and running a script that ran 'touch $file' for everything he had stolen. That's what I'm going to choose to believe, anyways. :)
I think the advantage of the "We don't have to share any infrastructure" mindset is that standardization is a process, not a destination. A living system will always have some diversity of libraries, versions, languages, etc. While it's important to keep it under control, a system that is robust to being half written in PHP and half in $goodlanguage is much more consistent with the messy reality than a plan of "Step 1, port everything to Ruby, Step 2, write a single set of SOA tools, Step 3, profit"
Definitely an interesting move, since Docker recently released their own private repositories with their 1.0
We can receive SMS replies at the virtual Twilio number we use for automated notifications. We have an amazing virtual team of volunteers and interns who reply to those messages in various languages - we actually end up doing more support for borrowers via SMS than email.

Most Zidisha borrowers own feature phones, but not computers. When lenders post comments on their profiles, we send the comments as an SMS text to the borrowers' phones. The borrowers can then opt to visit a cybercafe to post a response.
Learning iOS vs. Learning Web Development: My Choice
Can you provide evidence for your final sentence?
While Flynn is capable of a lot more, as evidenced by its architecture, leading up to the first production release we're focused on solving some of the simpler use cases really well.

A solid "private Heroku" was the primary desire of a lot of our early sponsors, and we want to make sure we deliver on that promise.

Once Flynn is stable, we can focus on the more complex use cases which, frankly, are what really excites our team.
Things like mason jars are pretty damn sturdy, and unless you have stairs your foot-tall six-month-old is going to be hard-pressed to drop that jar very far.
Ask HN: How do you sell things that you don't have?
Inspired by Microsoft early strategy, they sold their product before they have build/have it? Interested in knowing how you guys do & did it?
Vagrant: VMware vCenter Simulator
Yeah, I was agreeing with you that $300 is pretty fine.
I don't use it for this, but the Vigil App (iOS) will monitor and report SSL errors. It's a pretty basic app, but it is also set-it-and-forget-it easy.

http://vigil-app.com/support/#ignore_ssl
I Want To Live
I agree with the JS critique. I actually thought something was wrong when it didn't load. I'm not sure the loading time is worth it for those pop-in effects as they aren't really necessary. Also I'm 28 with pretty good vision but I'm having a hard time with that lime green on white.
Because obviously Adblock Plus sold out and is untrustworthy now. /s I use Adblock Plus, and I have the acceptable ads enabled and have no complaints.
>Consistency within a specific project is clearly necessary

I'll concede that it only matters within a project...but projects invariably consist of many people and each of them "think" in their unit of measure. Sure you can mix them and hope they remember to "think" in metric at 1AM when pushing for a deadline, but really...

>Is there ever an advantage to only being familiar with a single set of tools

Thats the thing. These are not tools. They are units of measure. Aside from the odd instance where its easier to divide by X all you're gaining from using many units of measure is chaos.

>Most people are eyeballing most things in the modern world.

Definitely. Eyeballing happens regardless of unit of measure. And usually when someone is eyeballing it its not life/death.

>It'd be a bit absurd to suggest that the measuring units selected for high-precision work by the small set of people currently working on microprocessor design are necessarily the optimal ones for

Absurd indeed, but not what I was getting at. Units of measure is something thats internalized from a high-school age. So unless you have a way of splitting the kids between space engineers and carpenters at that age then why tech imperial? And even if you could split them, the mix of units of measures employed nationally would be much worse than randomly picking one.

I get that Americans are attached to imperial...its just very difficult for everyone else to under why given this: http://i.imgur.com/YJzhkZl.jpg
Some services, particularly those that have to perform complex operations (usually SQL services), have greater resource requirements than others. So the "homogeneous servers" requirement seems practically implausible to me, at least from a cost-optimization standpoint.

It doesn't seem reasonable to me that we should allocate Big Hardware to, say, an nginx HTTP proxy, just to make it possible (no matter how unlikely) to also host a MySQL container on it at some point in the future.

Or am I misunderstanding you?
Please don't forget to include text/plain multipart/alternative while you are at it.
Mayday Machine
> As a substantive comment on the article, let me say that I find it interesting that Snowden himself thinks it is appalling that NSA's internal security auditing is so poor that NSA can't even tell which documents Snowden disclosed to journalists, nor can it tell how many other leakers may still be on its staff. This seems to be a completely plausible claim, and that would be a reason why many American voters or leaders of countries allied to the United States might desire the current leadership of NSA to resign and be replaced with more competent leaders.

There is a troubling problem with any increase in government firepower: be it heavy weaponry in our police stations, advanced monitoring capabilities that can be used on the entire populace at once, or drones that can hit targets on the other side of the planet.

What happens when these weapons are used against us?

Let's just assume for a minute that our government has our best interests in mind and is basically benevolent. With a database of potential intelligence against every person in the US, you create a dangerous situation: what happens if the Chinese or Russian government has covert access to this system and strategically leaks information with the purpose of influencing US elections? This feels completely plausible in my mind: there are real risks to having so much information available in one place. The fact that the controls were so weak to begin with makes me almost certain that foreign intelligence has continued access to these databases.

Every weapon we develop can potentially be used against us. In the case of cyberwarfare, those weapons can be used against us without our knowledge. The scariest part of Snowden's leaks is how awful the government is at technology: most people on the Internet were pretty sure the government was spying on everyone anyway. Geopolitics gets messy, so that stuff is forgivable. But when a single government contractor is able to walk away with so much information and they don't even know what he has?
Are there any ways to access Google Play rentals via LGTV Smart TV interface?
The article specifies where they think the organism lived.

> Data from the study strongly suggest that LUCA lived in the area where ancient seawater, dense with positively charged particles called protons, mixed with warm alkaline vent fluid, which contained few protons. The difference in the concentration of protons across these two environments enabled protons to flow into the cell, driving the production of a molecule called adenosine triphosphate (ATP) which powered the growth of cells, just as it does today.
Probably just the NSA upgrading some software.
As a Canadian, this doesn't surprise too much: People complain about wait times all the time, but the only wait times I've ever seen are for relatively stable situations that do not put the person at increased risk, e.g., corrective surgeries for non-threatening conditions, etc. (We can - and should - debate whether surgeries to correct intense chronic pain should be delayed as much as they often are, but current medico-political thinking appears to be that pain ain't so bad, contrary to current psychological thinking).

I've had a couple of exposures to emergency rooms and clinics over the last few years. The most telling was when I sliced open the back of my hand with an industrial fan. We cleaned and bandaged it, then applied ice, and I sat until the pain subsided and felt good enough to go the nearest clinic.

By the time I arrived, the pain and nausea had returned, but no biggie. I presented my healthcard and described the situation, which caused the three people behind the counter to pause and eye me as one asked "But you didn't break the skin, right?"

I did not get a chance to complete my reply, which started with "Yes, of course...". "Drop your card, come with me now".

The waiting room was more than half full, but I was priority number 1 for the next 15 minutes. A nurse carefully, delicately removed the dressing, then used a thin metal instrument to ever so carefully widen the cut and examine the tissue underneath. When satisfied, she sent me back to the waiting room where I sat for an hour and half.

I learned the full story when I returned for an x-ray the next day (I hurt myself on a Sunday, the basement x-ray lab was closed): Had I severed - or even cut - any of the tendons leading to my fingers, I would have rushed to the hospital to save my hand before the tendons shrank and dried into uselessness.

I didn't mind the 1.5 hour wait on the Sunday, or the combined 1.5 hours on the Monday, because when it came to what really mattered, there was no wait at all.

They only took my healthcard once the initial careful inspection was over. Billing and bean counting were irrelevant.

Note: I expect that billing for treatment of visiting foreign nationals will vary widely by province (anyone in the know care to chime in?), but that the overall triage process will be similar.
Also also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8170640
Lots of insurance has a deductible. Doesn't stop it from being galling... I've made two trips to urgent care this year and just hit my deductible, but those will probably be the only healthcare costs I incur this year meaning United collects yet another year of my premiums in return for nothing.
Technopropriation: Turning Old Tech Into New Ideas
Dart has the restriction of "must be compilable to Javascript".

I guess the majority of existing mainstream languages have aspects that would make meeting this requirement difficult, without breaking the language.

It's also about control. Once they implemented say, Python, there isn't then much room for improvement/change without it becoming a different language anyway.
I like this tag line! Maybe Flynn guys should use this.
We're not discussing espionage here. We're discussing the bricking of routers - destruction, or at least disruption, of core national infrastructure. It's like the difference between spying at a power station, and taking it offline for 5 hours.
It’s not you, Adware, It’s me
Very unfortunate, he was previous state governor with a 76% approval rate and a depolarizing force in this year's presidential elections.
Getting intelligence out of a country in the middle of a civil war, in a powderkeg of a region, seems pretty critical to me. We also have spies and malware installed all over the world, and the world is doing its best to spy on and infiltrate us. This is the reality of espionage, intelligence, and counter-intelligence.
Yeah I don't disagree with you here, just pointing out that a small business owner who does compete with Amazon should maybe think twice before being attracted to the competitive rate compared to Square.
I've seen posters up in the local A&E that say something like "If you're a foreigner please be aware that we'll send you an invoice". And there's certainly been statements recently from politicians talking about doing this for the dreaded "immigrants".

I suspect that the total income from this would be tiny though, and perhaps not even enough to justify the administration costs. And my impression from staff at NHS hospitals is that they're just interested in helping you and really don't care if you didn't pay.
I realize that money isn't everything. And developing for iOS means more than that. I do think, however, that it's weighing on the minds of a lot of people picking a career path.

Building for iOS gives you the ability to reach millions of people that care about design, and experience. I feel like a mobile gives you the opportunity to reach people in a more personal and intimate way than a web app.

The fact is, there are as many reasons for choosing a platform (web, iOS, or Android) as there are developers. I'm actually very interested in hearing other developers reasons.
I have seen products created on crowdfunding website that actually showed how-many customers have paid for the item. This in turns allow you time to manufacture the product knowing each item is not a sunk cost.
I think microservices is a new evolution of an old idea, that is growing to term in an environment that could allow it to blossom.

As I posted elsewhere here, microservices are also explicit about being remote calls, and are built with the idea of assuming all your calls are always remote.

For instance, Docker is already built using a microservice architecture, and they are standardising that as a project called LibChan : https://github.com/docker/libchan

It's basically msgpack over SPDY+TLS, all the way down the stack.

disclaimer: I am one of the co-founders of jsChan, the node.js/javascript port of libchan.

https://github.com/GraftJS/jschan
Building a Social Network for Hamsters
It is claimed that "all cells use the same bizarre, complex mechanism to harvest energy".

Could we in principle use some genetic engineering to make this process more efficient?
The `genrsa` command is generating 2048 bit keys already. I added `-sha256` and `-utf8` based on some other feedback, though. Thanks!
Stop advertising your links.
I've always wondered what kind of deal Costco did with American Express to make it the only accepted credit card. It's probably membership + exclusivity that allows AMEX to have much lower fraud and therefore pass on the savings to Costco.
Is it more than nothing, where nothing == taxes? I'm guessing that the amount of your annual taxes that goes toward health care is > ($300 * chance of you incurring $300 in health care costs).
Yes. Write web apps instead.
You might also want to block some automatic connections in Firefox http://www.ghacks.net/2014/06/02/block-automatic-connections...
Whoooa and it even runs on a macbook. sorry but I can't help but feeling screenshots inside "macs" look cheesy.
Why engineers hate your shitty job specs
Arduino kits available for checkout at FDL library
You can also configure alerts to be sent when domains and SSL certificates expire using Expiration Reminder. We already have customers using it specifically for SSLs:

http://www.expirationreminder.net
The reason they didn't bill is that it would cost far more to set up a billing system than the revenue it would generate.
You can also send your GPS location through the API.
I'm sure they love the perception they were caught off guard. A critical piece of espionage is to keep the capabilities you do have secret. At the risk of sound conspiracy/fanatical, all this sigint stuff is a red herring, they're just glad the REAL capabilities haven't been revealed.
Also, the elephant in the room that the linked discussion has also avoided (just like every other container-based platform discussion, sigh) is service performance. How do you propose to optimize I/O latency in particular?
Cloud-based secure device-to-device network service sharing
Shelloid User-Defined Extranet (UDX) cloud platform enables users to securely open their service ports to other devices across the Internet at the click of a button. The platform is ideally suited for ad hoc, flexible, and selective sharing of networked software services for which the traditional VPN solutions are too rigid and desktop sharing is too intrusive. The platform is now open for beta at: https://shelloid.com.

Full beta launch news is available at: http://blog.shelloid.com/2014/08/device-to-device-service-sharing-at.html
Ask HN: How do I fund an open source project management app?
I am part of a open source project which has an interesting way to get things done from the network you are part of. We are hoping to crowdfund it via IndieGogo.
Where I can find backers for such project.
Any open-source communities you recommend?
Most of those methods are in dart:html where the library is generated from web IDL. We should be pulling in more documentation from MDN, so I'm not sure what's happening there.
I said "don't pick on Michael O. Church" (something I've observed you do repeatedly). I didn't say "Michael O. Church's factual claims are correct." I get the impression that I'm discussing testable hypothesis about the world, whereas you are attempting to signal empathy and kindness.

My very specific claim: if you postulate a theory why tech lacks women, your theory must distinguish between technology and medicine/law/catholicism (catholicism has lots of gender bias and lots of women). "People ask other people out" does not make this distinction.

Incidentally, there is a third possibility which you seem to be glossing over. I believe gender bias exists but is not the cause of women being underrepresented in tech.
It's not just the medical infrastructure. Most of the locals don't have even the most basic understanding of disease. They don't understand not touching ebola victims. They don't understand not removing infectious ebola victims from treatment/containment and taking them to local healers.

Even the foreign aid medical infrastructure is inadequate, not enough resources and too overworked to maintain proper isolation protocol, hence all the foreign aid workers getting infected.
Internet is no longer just a public service, it's a Human Right http://www.wired.com/2011/06/internet-a-human-right/
I've always assumed that app development was harder to monetize than typical paths to profit using standard web development + product/affiliate marketing.
To follow up on this, it actually turns out the configuration for backblaze on OS X is in XML and tweakable. It can be found in /Library/Backblaze.bzpkg/bzdata/bzinfo.xml
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For the same reasons that you might donate time or money to anything. Why should you tutor some disadvantaged kid for free without having an agreement that you get a percentage of future earnings? Why pay taxes or vote for the continued existence of taxes?

Because donors turning a profit isn't the point. Most startups fail. Getting a percentage of something which is probably going to turn out worthless is less important than shifting the ecosystem away from one in which promising startups are destroyed by trolls.
The strangest thing to me when I (an American) visited a Canadian hospital was that my "room" was just a curtain around a bed in the hallway. All the usual hospital room connections came out of holes in the wall, just like in a room, but it was in the hall. The curtain was just big enough to fit around the bed, so the doctor had to lean on my bed every time she entered.
Thanks for this. I do need to remind myself about victories, even small ones. Especially when it comes time for annual performance reviews. :D
$150B market cap. 800%+ cumulative gain over last ten years. I think the market is liking Amazon's strategy thus far.
It matters because discriminating on the basis of gender is illegal. Period.

Not saying that's what happened (highly doubt it). But a pissing contest about who is discriminated against the most is not going to move the conversation forward or improve anything. There are, in fact, white cisgendered males who lack for job opportunities. Such people exist, and their problems matter to them, whether they do to you or not.
Your methodology will depend on the product or service you plan to offer. If it's software you could build an interactive mockup. If it's a physical product you could hire a 3D artist to create some photo-realistic renders based on your product specs. The rest really comes down to having a strong knowledge of your market and your offer. Like Elyrly said, you could go the crowdfunding route. You could also set up your own landing page and accept email addresses or pre-orders. The key is to make sure you have a strategy and system in place to actually fulfill your promise. That might mean lining up manufacturers or other vendors ahead of time, creating a budget, and working out a timeline for fulfillment.
If you reread my comment, you'll see I didn't employ that logic at all. I asked a simple question. Should we declare war on France, China, and Israel?
How did the "bizarre, complex mechanism to harvest energy" evolve? Is there any evidence of simpler ones that failed?
Docker is currently switching to their own microservices library called libchan - https://github.com/docker/libchan

It is msgpack over SPDY+TLS. Every language that will want to talk to docker will need a libchan implementation eventually.

disclaimer: I'm the co-founder of the project to build the node.js version: https://github.com/graftjs/jschan

My actual goal is to pull this into the browser though, and figure out what we can do with that : https://github.com/GraftJS/graft

Until that is ready though, we have already built out our own microservices 'toolset' that does the [1] docker based deployment,

and a small library that handles the [2] REST API, and that handles the [3] logging to logstash/kibana

1. http://longshoreman.io

2. https://github.com/wayfin/waif

3. https://github.com/wayfin/dockstash
I just made the distinction. Being asked out when you're the one woman among ten men is a different and more alienating experience than being asked out when you're one of four women along with six men.
amazon just released one today !
I wouldn't call it highly contagious. That should be reserved for things that can spread through the air not things like Ebola which require contact with bodily fluids to transmit.
Hi! @YevP from Backblaze here -> Have you tried to write in to support? They can take a look at the account and see if they can figure out why that oddness is occurring? https://www.backblaze.com/help.html.
Take a look at Fedora's atomic host. Heck, if all you need is orchestration of multiple hosts with docker containers, you only need a single bit from project atomic, geard[1].

[1] http://openshift.github.io/geard/
SpaceX Gets Hyperloop.com Domain Name
I don't really understand this:

"Non-cooperating services often use service discovery information in configuration, such as the backends for a load balancer defined in an HAproxy configuration. A generalized configuration rendering system is used to tie service discovery into most non-cooperating services."

The problem is to generate the config file, which etcd doesn't help.
Wow putting IFTTT capabilities into Ad marketing is huge.
My responses to those concerns are a better coffee conversation than message board conversation. :)
Fail and disaster blooper
Opinionated Rundown of JS Frameworks for Single Page Apps
I'm a current Duke student and took multivariable calculus taught by none other than Lenny Ng a year ago. I had no idea who he really was until about halfway through, though we all knew he was brilliant. One of the nicest professors I've ever had, exceptional at explaining concepts too. He also draws pictures like a god, something that's obviously really beneficial in that sort of class. He used to say his drawings were a bit off while we would just sit there astonished. Such an amazing guy.
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