skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beyond music, videos, and books, how many people actually purchase products from their mobile devices? I know I don't, and have never seen my spouse or any friends do so, though I realize that's not a scientific survey.

Also, if they've only sold 10's of thousands of units as has been claimed recently, that doesn't seem like it translates into many additional sales, even if users are buying additional things on them. At least not compared with iOS or other Android platforms.
Exploding offers make perfect sense in situations like this. Especially if you're given 48 hours, that's plenty of time to accept/decline. And if it's not enough time then you weren't ready to play ball yet anyway. If I'm making someone an offer, I'm not giving them weeks to decide so that they can go shop around for something better.
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> But you have to trust YC knows what they are doing, and the A+++ companies will be picked over before they hit second or third tier.

If this were true, YC would be the size of Exxon. Picking A+++ companies is a heuristic.
Yep, he was notorious for ignoring any change to make things work for non x86 platforms with responses akin to "only x86 matters".
You might find Yii useful. It's a PHP framework that behaves a lot like RoR in terms of generators and site function (MVC)
RaiseYourIQ.com (braintraining) on Glipho
I am a developer, I haven't dug into how he was processing the audio. I was simply asking a question. I don't use Dropbox so I was simply asking if it was on the roadmap so I could try it in the future.
Just to be clear, since I often end up confused on this point — is the use of SHA-1 with HMAC, outside of the context of SSL, still acceptable?
When resume appearance isn't important or applying for jobs is done primarily through online networking, Creddle isn't a good solution.

For the people for whom resumes are still an important part of the job application process, this aims to make it easier to transform your LinkedIn profile page into an appropriate looking resume, improve the design of your resume, or both.

It depends on how you go about your own job application process, and what role your resume has in that.
Did they really? I bet that's fun as a B cam. Hook it up to a remote viewfinder and it could pretty useful.
> And in that seclusion they missed out on the most important development in human history - The Enlightenment.

Two wrong conclusions in one sentence. Neither were the islamic world secluded (they were expanding beyond spain even after the crusades) nor did they 'miss' the so called enlightenment. In fact it can be argued that the european enlightenment was a result of the interaction of the dark age europeans with golden age of islamic spain (and other centers of learning during this time in the islamic world).

So instead of religion being a hindrance to the "light of enlightenment" to the human race, religion had everything to do with it. Especially if enlightenment is given a broader meaning than just ways of acquiring material capabilities and means of pleasure.
I'm kind of disappointed. This article discussed almost none of the dozen small-scale fusion projects out there today. Coverage of them along with the fission companies that were covered would have made for an excellent article. Especially as some of them are running experiments now.
From charred death to deep filthstep: the genres that make modern music
The $1 Millon Beyond the Box Digitization Competition
> And if you read the entire comment thread, you'll see that they removed the article precisely because they were unable to come to any real conclusions.

The thing is, access to private data didn't change the fact that they were using a self-reported stat to begin with. Given that OKC's data was self-reported to a significant degree, it's hard to see why this wasn't taken into account.

And then they go on to cite how they already knew it could be 10x higher (or more) by citing OKC data. This leads to the (paraphrased) conclusion that they can't be total frauds because they're still in business.
On the Scottish independence referendum and the post-Westphalian settlement
I have a feeling you will enjoy this boat building documentary:

http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/charlotte_a_wooden_boat...
Whenever I've offered an exploding offer in the past, it's because I had several candidates: an extremely strong candidate and several strong but somewhat weaker candidates. In general, all of the candidates have a limited timeframe to make a decision, and there's a risk of losing all candidates if I waited for an indefinite time on the strongest candidate.

In other words, candidates sometimes also need an answer within a certain timeframe (often for very legitimate reasons; a job change can often be a life-changing event) and that means that there are some real time-limits across all of the candidates (in both directions).
Lily Pod (lilypodlane.com) - Palo Alto, CA, INTERN or REMOTE OK
Family wellness is our play. We a building a context-aware sleep tracker for children and parents and a beautiful dashboard to track developmental milestones.

We seek smart developers and designers that want to build a beautiful and intuitive platform for parents and caregivers. We provide parents an easy way to log developmental events. The central feature is an image processing engine that automatically quantifies many elements of a child’s life.
We are a small team now, and a lot of fun to be around.

Open Roles/Opportunities:

-- SW Developer - Backend Engineer/Architect. Can you fling media around the globe and not break a sweat?

-- Computer Vision Architect. Open CV a plus.

-- SW Developer – iOS

-- SW Developer - Frontend/Web

In all roles, video experience is a plus.

Talk to me if you have questions: g@lilypodlane.com .
OMFG is not a standard abbreviation. If you are making a tool that can be used worldwide, best to stick with words and slangs that are universally known.

Moreso, best to stick with terms that are acceptable to people of all cultures and backgrounds. The word 'fucking' may be a light-hearted slang to a 20 year old american, but it may just be offensive to someone older living in the UAE.

Professionalism, though not perfect, does in fact help in making people from various background agree and understand good ideas by being austere, simple and well-defined.
I agree. Your themes are very nice (and there are an impressive number of them), but they're missing that last bit of polish a designer could bring. For example, in Chelsea and Marianas, the big text is too big and needs a bit more breathing room.

But I also want to stress that I think this is really great.
Email and Oral acceptance of terms can be legally binding in contractual agreements.

You don't need to dig up a civil court case to know that verbally accepting a contract without intending to fulfill it is naive and potentially dangerous.
Looks nice, but I'll stick with "M-x irc".
Chicago startup Interior Define raises $1M for made-to-order furniture
Redis Developer Meeting Oct 2, 2014 (London)
You can! Creddle can import some of your information from your LinkedIn profile if you sign up with your LinkedIn account. A few users reported a 500 error on importing which I'm looking into now, so let me know if you also have trouble.
I'm in the exact same situation. I wasn't selected for the H1-B lottery twice in a row, and have to leave after seven years in the US.
Oh well, I hear Vancouver is nice :)
> The second is because there isn't any way I know of to have Chrome start in clean mode (with no bookmarks, etc. from personal use).

Chrome has user profiles [1], which are even easier to use than what Firefox uses.

[1]: chrome://settings/createProfile
Self-signed and no encryption are one in the same.

If an attacker is in a position to read unencrypted traffic, they MIGHT be in a position to inject DNS responses, or otherwise intercept traffic. If they can do that, they can generate a new self-signed certificate, MITM, which effectively disabled encryption (without making the user aware).

I will say, I feel like it is "unfair" that browsers give you an error page for self-signed but don't for regular HTTP. Why not just show a self-signed HTTPS page identically to how you would show a HTTP page (insecure, no padlock, etc). Also do mixed content warnings as if self-signed is insecure/HTTP.

An alternative which exists, which a lot of people ignore, is instead of doing self-signed generate your own CA and then sign your own certificate. You can install the CA in the root CA store on the OS and then you won't be using a "self-signed" certificate, you will be using a fully signed certificate with all of the security that that comes with (assuming you keep your root CA offline/safe).

PS - It took me many years to come to the realisation that self-signed encryption is effectively no encryption. You just really have to come at it from the "Starbucks insecure WiFi" perspective. Once you think of it like that, self-signed is too trivial to MITM and thus the encryption can be undetectably circumvented.
Chick-Fil-A Founder S. Truett Cathy Dies at 93
Starting life in poverty, Cathy opened a tiny diner on the outskirts of Atlanta and built it into a corporation with more than 1,800 restaurants. He was inspired as a teen by Napoleon Hill's motivational tome Think and Grow Rich, whose mantra was — you can achieve whatever your mind can conceive.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/09/08/346788443/chick-fil-a-founder-s-truett-cathy-dies-at-93
Ask HN: Teach me market research. What do you use for market research?
I would like to be able to evaluate size of market and find out number of people who have the problem I wish to solve. How would you go about finding this information? For example, I want to write better mortgage calculators and make a webapp around lies real estate agents tell. It will be similar to bankrate.com. How do I go about finding how many people will click on my links and how much I will earn?

More generally, How do you decide what idea to pursue? I understand the "scratch your own itch" heuristic. But in my case, I have a few itches and I would like to go after them based on market potential.
Is this the Apple iWatch?
Because HN has a built-in balance of "more upvotes than downvotes," it shouldn't be difficult to get upvotes.
I personally can't stand the UI let alone the features of the ff dev tools.
It depends on the process. Some of the plasma focus devices being experimented with create electricity directly from the ionization process.
The reviews on this phone are very bad- frequent freezes, slow UI, randomly calling people, extremely limited number of apps, and lacking in basic functionality. I can understand the $0.99 price tag.
I got an exploding offer for employment and came to the same conclusion. The company is called Loyal3: https://www.loyal3.com/

Steer clear of them.

"Senator? You can have my answer now, if you like."
Guys, don't go private. Do request and share in the comments please :)
>> Switzerland now has grudges against the US for destroying their bank secrecy.

That's not the way Switerland's politicians think. Swiss politics is dominated by lawyers, farmers and other lobbyists.
Short version: Free one-day developer conference in London on Thursday, October 2.

Sign up if you're interested in Redis architecture from a code/deployment/design perspective! We have plenty of open slots remaining (50 open slots as of this post). Everybody is welcome.

If you can't make it on Thursday but still want to meet in London or say hi, we can work something out a few days before or after.
Are there any inertial navigation systems that work at all in ground vehicles? I'd expect otherwise due to e.g. vibration.
What do you mean about giving up democracy? It's unclear what you're referring to.
Swift – Why Annoying Is Good
CSS Glitch Effect on Text / Images / SVG
I'm working on this problem: https://sslmate.com/

Right now it's just a command line client, but a public API is in the works. And this week we'll be announcing a solution to the cert rotation problem (basically, you'll be able to drive your renewals from cron - it's going to be really cool). You might want to follow @sslmate on Twitter - this is just the beginning of some very exciting stuff for automating SSL cert deployment. Also feel free to email me (address is in my profile).

Sadly, we're still SHA-1 only, because that's all that our certificate authority (RapidSSL) supports at the moment. On the other hand, once we make renewals dead simple, you can just buy 1 year certs and it won't be a big deal upgrading to SHA-2 in a year's time. (After all, even Google is still using SHA-1, but they can easily switch thanks to their 3 month certs and well-oiled cert deployment machinery.)
Are H-1B extensions also subject to lottery?
He turned things upside down. It isn't that fusion power has no risk of proliferation, it is just being developed only in the ways that have no (or extremely low) weaponization potential - limiting development this way significantly slows down overall progress on reaching efficient power production. Add to that the policies (at least in the US) established almost 20 years ago when it was decided that fusion generated energy can't be cheaper than coal (yep, because most of the cost is actual turbines/generators and distribution) and thus no point in pursuing in the foreseeable future.
Ex-Googler Shares His Big-Data Secrets with the Masses
more ram (and make sure the jvm is allowed to use it)

Deep inside I wonder if the ram usage isn't wasteful, but then I use "find usages" in a medium sized python codebase and I'm just happy pycharms saved me 30+ minutes of poking through code. I found it a big productivity boost.
But you have to trust YC knows what they are doing, and the A+++ companies will be picked over before they hit second or third tier.

IMO, there is still too much luck involved to make this true to the extent it matters in this case. YC has picked several things that didn't pan out, and of course several that did. There have also been multiple follow ups from YC rejects that went on to be much more successful than some companies that WERE picked
You can also start Chrome with command line options[1], like "--bswi", which is the clean slate.

[1]: http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/#...
Apache Hadoop Transitions to Git
As someone who follows various fusion efforts I expect the answer to the headline is 'yes' (in opposition to Betteridge's law). The trick of course is 'when'.

But like the article, I also find it sad that we've not been able to build more Gen IV projects. You want to fix climate change? Build nuclear plants. Unfortunately not a message that resonates well, although the Chinese seem to be thinking that way. Hard not too with all that coal soot in the air.

A more interesting question will be the cost of fusion energy (or even Gen IV fission) versus existing fuels. It's one thing to be "able" to make a net positive fusion generator, and something else again to make it profitable.
I wish that you could change the section headings and add more sections. More flexibility and I would definitely use it.
Unfortunately the C11 safe string functions are part of an optional annex to the standard, not the standard per se, so are only quasi-standard. Afaik only Microsoft's standard library supports them, and other vendors have some skepticism about the design.
Social networks are already messy. I'd stop short of calling them cesspools, however. Software makes content better. Better software makes content I don't know I want more available to me.

If something isn't interesting, or doesn't earn anyone money, people won't retweet it.
This won't work in production on iOS because it's against Apple's rules. They still have to review the app once to publish it at first. I know people who do have A/B scenarios and kill switches on features in apps that are deployed, but it's on the downlow. You don't want Apple knowing about it. Having a website that says "Skip the app store review line" isn't the best way to go about it.
Understanding that this is a naive outsider perspective, I find it strange that it's any sort of emergency when a single collision has yet to be produced. And then, does the latest hash collision attack allow you to make a collision with a _specific_ target or just make a collision in general? Finally, even if you hit the target with some junk that happens to hash to the same thing, is it going to be in correct file format, and within an acceptable size? It seems like there are a handful of hurdles for the bad guys to go over before we're in danger.

I know crypto is not to be taken lightly, and I'm glad people would rather be safe than sorry, and I'll avoid SHA-1 in my own personal security use (`sha256sum` is sha-2 right?). I'm just curious.
In some cases it's not to spy on clicks but to hide data in the URL by obscuring the HTTP referer header, eg. DuckDuckGo does this so sites can't see your search terms.
But recalls happen already, for all sorts of reasons. They're expensive, and they can have a big impact on a manufacturer's reputation, but they don't mean that nobody can sell a car in the first place.
Stories from our first two years
Most of the bad parts come from Lisp being so old and the standard being written at a time when nobody knew what was going to win out.

Look at "make-pathname" [1], for example. It was made as general as possible as a compromise between all the different filesystem path representations used at the time. On modern systems, several of the parameters, like the host, device, and version don't really make sense any more, but they're still there for backwards compatibility.

Another thing that bothers some people (not me) are function names like "car" and "cdr", which come from the assembly language instructions of the 1950s era computer where the first Lisp was implemented. I think most people use "first" and "rest" these days, but car, cdr, cadr, etc. are still used all over the place.

Somewhat related, there's more inconsistent naming than in most languages. The destructive form of concatenate is nconc, but the destructive form of reverse is nreverse, etc.. Most built-in predicates end with "p", but some of the older ones don't. These days there's pretty solid consensus on how things should have been done, and how they should be done in the future, but we're still stuck with the old stuff.

It's basically 60 years of backwards compatibility concessions.

You're right, removing the bad parts of Common Lisp would technically require coming out with a new version of the standard, "Common Lisp 2015" or something, but I don't think anybody has proposed doing that. My guess is it's easier to just come out with a new Lisp dialect and hope people start using it, like Clojure has done, than the massive resource sink of coming up with a revised standard.

[1] http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_mk_p...
Not an expert in biology here , can someone elaborate what the problem statement is ? What does it mean to "create a technology that increases the speed and accuracy of digitization of a drawer of insect specimens and their associated data."
Security regulatory control is… appropriate?
JOB:  Ruby on Rails Developer – Merrimack, NH
Maybe Servo will be their clean slate. I know it's an experimental browser created to help test a language and parallelism in web APIs, but if it does well, it could come to replace Firefox. This is unlikely and years away at best but it's possible.
Just from the context of term sheets, exploding offers are usually because the firm wants the deal to close before other people are able to negotiate.
Bit scanning equivalencies
I agree. Also, it is not like they house the people, which is more complicated that office hours. In this case, they are talking a negative about YC and spinning it into a positive.
Losing Religion
Insightful Error Tracking for Meteor
Ask HN: Run-away or fight? The team sucks
Hi all!

I am having several problems with my team, especially for the last year. I am the youngest one (26 years old with 3 years experience) in a mid thirties team. I will expose some situations that I think are really attacks to my person.

I am having conversations in the meetings like:

- (I make a proposal)
- NO
- Why?
- I don't know, but I will tell you. (The answer never comes)

We are using Go as CI server and we are having several problems with it. I always propose to change it to Jenkins (duh!) and I receive answers like "It's prettier Go" or "If Martin Fowler did it, it must be good". Technical and professional reasons.

We are a test driven team and we have the worst tests ever. Tests passing that they really don't, commented tests and so on. Even deployments with red pipelines but only when those pipelines are mine. This was finally considered my fault because I don't check de CI environment frequently so I don't know if my code works properly when someones change it. Do you really think that I have to check every commit and see if it breaks my code? We are seated next to each other... A little tap on my shoulder would be enough. The funny thing was that my code was not even running because the new aspects were stopping any method execution. Very hard to notice. OMFG.

We have a modular design but It's creating what I call the "my precious" effect. "The code is of everyone but if you touch my module, you will die". And worst, If your code fails I will stfu.

I have a very bad memory for bullshit so I am going to stop here but trust me, there are more.

On the other hand I work really close to my home and I have flexible schedule with a good salary. I have other options not that close with better salary.

Should I fight for good practices, new methodologies and getting a better system? Or just give up?

Ask whatever you want and say whatever you think!

Thanks in advance.
Why Druva Is a Sponsor of a Hackathon – Again
Netflix and Reddit Join the 'Internet Slowdown' Protest to Save Net Neutrality
Would be interesting to see how these things develop -- fulfillment and payment processing are double-edged swords.

Bolting on fulfillment to a twitter-purchase seems like a lot of work, but as another commentator said, I'm cautiously optimistic.
> Two wrong conclusions in one sentence. Neither were the islamic world secluded (they were expanding beyond spain even after the crusades) nor did they 'miss' the so called enlightenment. In fact it can be argued that the european enlightenment was a result of the interaction of the dark age europeans with golden age of islamic spain (and other centers of learning during this time in the islamic world).

I think you are confusing the Renaissance (for which that is a fair description) with the Enlightment (which was several centuries later, and for which that is not a really a fair description, except insofar as the Renaissance laid critical groundwork for the Enlightment, and the Renaissance was, as you say, largely a result of interaction with the Islamic world.)
There's a balance between "exploding" offers and hang-around-forever offers. You don't want someone to come back 6 months later and say they're finally ready to accept your offer.

Its not difficult to balance these factors. Just ask,
"how long do you need to consider this deal?"
"Two weeks? Four weeks?"
"If you need more time, just give me a call."
Elon Musk: Will you keynote PyCon 2015?
The Python community asks Elon Musk to keynote the largest Python conference.

Please help by retweeting the following tweet!

https://twitter.com/diana_clarke/status/509016705084178432
> Going for a green card is a no-brainer for everyone who is going for US citizenship. Everyone else, take a better look on it, before you go for it.

So what's the alternative? I'm asking out of honest curiosity, because H-1B seems to have at least two serious drawbacks: 1) if you want to switch jobs, you have to go through the lottery again (as far as I understand), and 2) your dependents are on H-4 visa, which means that they aren't allowed to get a job (except as a volunteer).