skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another vote for FastMail calendar. Give it a shot.

I find that it integrates really well with Gmail. I've had experience before where invites from different email providers don't play well, but FastMail sending invite to Gmail works just fine.
First think is to go find the key users (start from the CEO and work down) and find out what is important that it does to them. Map that.

Find anyone technical who is still around and can talk sensibly about it and find out what they think is important. Map that.

Use anything automated to map what it's up too (calling...) and find out where the core of it is.

You may know what is important by this time, you will be able to make some sort of start...
Yeah, I guess the takeaway is that Wired and Techcrunch have been terrible for a long time ;)

I still find both of those archive grabs more interesting. They're certainly not all posts just for the neckbeards, that's not what ever drew me to HN, but they don't lean so heavy towards "Show HN: Please look at my startup".
more than the raspberry pi, i am optimistic about projects like jsfiddle, where kids can make cool things and show them off to their friends.
Also - what is the history of getting into this mess?
I have tested thread pooling with our workload and it didn't go so well. Also

> Note This feature implementation is considered BETA quality.
7 Ways Hormones Affect Your Brain
it may not be one currently, but if an entire population is forced to use an ID from a private company, and then that company provides incentive for other services formed around the ID (which was forced), it begins rapidly approaching monopoly status.
They've just validated your product. Congratulations!

You say they have a installed base of desktop users. Do they have a smooth transition path to their SaaS app? If not, then it's just as easy to move to your app as it is to stay with them.
How big is the market? How homogenous is the market? How likely is the market to automatically choose the competitor?

Don't underestimate the capability of an incumbent market leader to screw up a product relaunch and actually end up driving customers away from the service. Enforcing a potentially inconvenient switch to SaaS and/or putting the price up actually increases the temptation for an existing customer base to evaluate alternatives.

And even if the well funded competitor consolidates their domination of the space, many niches are big enough for limited products with limited marketing to consistently generate revenue for the small businesses that run them despite all the efforts of well funded, marketed and developed alternatives. Sometimes the smaller players are profitable because they only need to capture a small market share, and retain their customers because they're able to focus on pleasing a subset of the market all of the time rather than the whole market most of the time.
Interesting, love to see your results some day. How are you doing backups? I assume you are not just using mysqldump?
The hardest part is often figuring out what the inner loop actually looks like. The best way to find it is to hook up a profiler, and look at a bunch of stack traces. That'll let you find the most common entry points and calling patterns, which will go a long way towards understanding it.
Are you using Percona XtraDB Cluster?
One thing I've been looking to replace is Google News. Anyone know of another similar news aggregator? (Don't say "reddit".)
I updated the post to clarify I use OSM via DuckDuckGo for places. On mobile, I use iOS over Android and for turn-by-turn directions I've found Apple maps to be the best alternative to Google maps. That's the long and the short of it. No conspiracy.
Sounds like part of Agenda 21 of the New World Order
I'm sorry, but Apple was hacked. There are multiple layers to security. Even the physical security of the building counts. If you have a terrible, easy to crack security system like "What is your first pet's name?" and your customers lose their data because of it, your system was hacked. Plain and simple. Security isn't just blocking a port or an ip range, it's the entire, the entire, system. Those "security questions" are very easy to find out, therefor the system is insecure.
I remember the time when nobody would care about the pictures or the word choice. And boy, I miss it!
Why not make 2FA mandatory?
I spent some time (>18 months ago) testing PhoneGap for potential use with what would become http://recent.io/, but PhoneGap was too slow on actual devices to be usable. Launching a "Hello, world" app took something like 30 seconds on an iPhone 3GS. Maybe hardware speed increases have helped to fix that problem.

I haven't tested Ionic, though the Creator utility looks promising. Do you have any experience in how well Ionic interfaces with native APIs, like Twitter/Facebook on iOS and sharing on Android? And how do Ionic-built HTML apps perform in terms of speed?
As 7Figures2Commas says below (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8259046), this seems really tasteless, and possibly illegal.

((

EDIT: In light of gamblor956 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8259687)'s response, I should clarify that what I found tasteless and possibly illegal was the posting of this personal information, not the arrangement itself (about which I think it is wisest to offer no opinion).

))

I agree with bkeroack (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8259618) that Andreas's posting this rant publically may not have been desireable (although the poster says that your company was given some warning about the content appearing), but I think that does not give you the ethical right to compound the wrong by complaining about the poster ("he was a terrible fit"), or the ethical or legal right to post sensitive and private information about an employee.

Without commenting on the merits of the situation (I have no idea who is in the right, and think that this kind of unpleasantness should probably not have made the front page), I think that it would have sufficed to say that his allegations are demonstrably untrue, but that you cannot provide documentation due to privacy concerns, without giving personal information about his performance and salary details.
Dont forget that the first IBM PC (8086, 16 bit) also had rom basic, as well as a cassette port.
Both Xtrabackups and mysqldump for logical backups.
This is also why Neural Nets are susceptible to overfitting and fell out of vogue in the 90s :) They will merrily fit themselves, very precisely, to your noisy, wiggly data. Obviously there are ways to combat this, but it seems like an corollary to their 'universality'.
Its not hard, but it is rather verbose :(
Who are you going to write the negative review to if no driver decides to pick you up? All of them that didn't show up? On what grounds? No Uber driver is required to provide service to any area at any time, whereas at least under the current german regulation someone is, namely the owners of the taxi license(s) for that area.
until some point at which the auto-enrollment and e-ads with "Enroll Now" and "Ask Me Later" buttons only begin rolling out, like most credit institutions tend to do.
>> They seem to have specifically ruled it out later in the statement

>> > None of the cases we have investigated has resulted from any breach in any of Apple’s systems including iCloud® or Find my iPhone.

Have they ruled it out? When you factor that the statement's intended audience is the entire world, not just cyber security experts, the wording becomes muddy, as it depends on you how you interpret the word "breach".

If someone successfully uses a password attack, is it actually a 'breach' of Apple's systems? After all, the systems successfully prevented entry until a valid password was entered, which is exactly what the systems were designed to do.
SkimFeed[0] aggregates mostly tech news, but it's not nearly as feature-heavy as Google News. Maybe check it out?

0 - http://skimfeed.com/
I see your point, I guess there's probably a number of users that would need to be hit to become cost efficient. It just always seems like people say "Linux doesn't run X, so every user needs to run Windows/Mac", which may not necessarily be the best approach.
This also causes quite a bit of trouble with linting.
Here's a suggestion I haven't seen:
Unless you have full management support, a skilled team, valid business reasons for this conversion, and expectations of succeeding, consider moving to another company/job.

You've been given the task of digital archeology/septic cleanup. Unless you like the tedium and stank, it's not going to bode well...
Having done projects like this before as well, this is the best method. Knowing WHAT needs to be done today and tomorrow is far more important that knowing HOW it was done before. The how is only important once you know what you need to do.
> it starts to sound more like math and less like a miracle.

that applies to all of math. There are no miracles.
I'm curious what you base that on... that they own up to problems. I know it's certainly not true with hardware issues. They may eventually fix it, but it's rare that they'll comment on it.
Not necessarily. They could make an argument that the services themselves were not "breached", however the users weak passwords allowed them to be compromised.
>Phone OS: iOS

I guess there isn't much you can do with this, but is changing from Android to iOS really big enough difference?
2FA needs more traction.

Also, email/text alerts about new logins, login attempts, and changes to account settings.
I don't think you can just do a cold re-write of that size without domain knowledge. I would first try to refactor the existing system just to reduce the code size. That big a system probably has horrific code and you can easily shrink it quickly. Just finding duplicate code will have an impact. Pulling out to open source systems like file utilities based code.

Basically I would first try to reduce the size of the problem while trying to get domain expertise. I wouldn't consider a rewrite at this stage...
Sure; in R strings are copied way more frequently than created, so it pays off.
It's a good example because it could reduce drunk driving.
If you use Google maps on iOS, the location information can be used to track what stores you visit for ad tracking purposes. Does Apple Maps do anything like this? Apple makes most of its money from product sales rather than advertising.

http://digiday.com/platforms/google-tracking/

>But Google can also constantly track the location of iPhone users by way of Google apps for iOS, Apple’s mobile operating system. IOS is just behind Android in U.S. market share with 38.3 percent of users, per eMarketer. Nearly 17 percent of the American populace uses an iOS smartphone.

>When an iPhone user stops using an app, it continues running “in the background.” The user might not realize it, but the app continues working, much in the same way tabs function on a Web browser.

>Google’s namesake iOS app — commonly referred to as Google mobile search — continues collecting a user’s location information when it runs in the background. This information is then used to determine if that user visited a store and whether that store visit can be attributed to a search conducted in the app. Store visits can also be tracked via Google’s other iOS apps that use location services. If iOS users open their Chrome, Gmail or Google Maps app in a store, their location can be deemed a store visit
I don't know if you saw this MIPS-based dev board being announced
http://blog.imgtec.com/powervr-developers/new-mips-creator-c...
The difference between data privacy now, and data privacy 10 or 20 years ago has little to do with how many people have access to it, or how secure it is. It mostly has to do with who can analyze it.

An example: where you walk in public is public information, but for most of human history, no one has had the capability to keep a database of that information and query it retroactively. Your location information is therefore less private now than it was before, because that information used to be impossible to reference meaningfully.

The same concept goes for email, calendars, contact graphs, etc. Using providers that don't have, or consciously avoid the capability to aggregate, analyze, and query it improves your privacy. Google is not one of those providers.
Browser: Safari / ...

Maps: ... / Apple for directions on mobile

Phone OS: iOS

Calendar: iCloud

And then talks about data not given to one company.

Really, is it just a strange joke?
Personally, I have a VPS where I keep my own mail server, webmail, ownCloud instance (calendar, address book, file storage, etc), IRC bouncer... All courtesy of Sovereign (https://github.com/al3x/sovereign)
> kernels do this with one clever trick that allows them to avoid the computational cost of doing so explicitly

Minsky and Papert hate him! Use this one weird trick ….

(Sorry; I couldn't resist!)
A small number of reposts is fine if a story has not had significant attention in the last year, but please don't delete and repost. Use a slightly different URL instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Flux is that alternative.
Edit: Apple has confirmed that it was breached and celebrities were targeted. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/apple-confirms-c...

Some of the leaks do look like iCloud backups though. Videos don't get uploaded to Apple's "photo stream" so it would have to be an iCloud backup or, less likely, a local backup that was uploaded to Dropbox. Right now it "feels like" a lot of different leaks and leakers jumping on 4chan and demanding bitcoins for their own little dumps.
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First, money showed up on the Internet. Second, if you don't stand to make a ton of it, you can keep using email, IRC, DNS... No need to launch something else.

Although it's not like new IRC daemons are not written, or new irc networks are not started. It's not dead, it's slowly evolving.
"What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions" is out
Would be easier if I had this tool during the Fappening
I think a reasonable point at which to consider startups just normal companies is upon IPO or acquisition. That's certainly the end goal for most startups, and when the structure really changes.
https://www.npmjs.org/package/jsxhint is a drop-in replacement for jshint that supports jsx syntax.
They mentioned that their new config has a delayed replica. Can anyone comment on how useful this actually is?

I do snapshots + binlogs so I can do a point-in-time recovery to any time in the last month. So obviously a delayed replica would be a faster way to recover from human error at the MySQL prompt. But it would still require human intervention which is slow and can't really be automated. On the other hand, presumably a process already exists to bring a replica up from scratch, and that could be done and paused at a certain point. So it seems like a lot of extra effort and hardware for a really narrow and constrained benefit.

Anyone running a delayed replica -- is this wrong? Has it been used ever? often? Worth it?
> On top of the browser I use these add-ons to reduce tracking further; also, note that private browsing mode and the do not track setting will not stop you from being tracked.

(Almost) nobody can escape the tracking, as long as fingerprinting remains possible: https://panopticlick.eff.org/

Google's/Facebook's/Twitter's JS scripts are literally on every site. Fingerprinting allows them to increase their ROI since it builds more precise profiles on you. The advertising industry is happy and the government is happy. So forget about them not fingerprinting you.
The nicest feature to me is the serverless search. This week several torrent websites have been DDoSed and people doesn't know where to get their torrents from.
Maybe I can oblige here then :)

owncloud, owncloud, owncloud!

It has CalDAV, CardDAV, and files support. There's even a rudimentary (though scary) online editor with support for openoffice. I use two-factor with owncloud, and happily share files, too. And... it supports an encrypted backend!.

Now, if you're happy to host your own mail, you can also look at adding RoundCube.

This can solve the Calendar/Contacts/Email/Filesharing main case. Works across Windws/Mac/Linux, even mobile... which in my case is Android. It's not amazing, but it's pretty fantastic.
That sounds like a really cool idea. Have you submitted it here? Got me thinking of pluses and minuses, and ways to bootstrap. Probably somebody would have to put up a free email service that implemented these hidden auto-replies, and maybe submit some pull requests to open-source projects to use it. Maybe Android and iPhone apps for the service that handled the phone info side. Sounds a bit big for an individual side project to me, but maybe it's a startup. It would probably help to get input from a bunch of people/projects on what they'd want for specific use cases.
Circa News (mobile app only)

each story is an aggregation of multiple sources
Neurons in human skin perform advanced calculations
I can't comment about any specific code bases for obvious reasons but I'm more often than not positively surprised by the quality of the code at the start-ups that I look at. Of course there are corners being cut, but usually that's for very good reasons marked with copious 'todo's. Start-ups definitely aren't equal when it comes to this and in my experience there is a definite correlation between those that ride that fine line between being in a hurry and making a good product and those that create a mess and those that try to be perfect out of the gate.

The idea here is that you do the best you can within the constraints, not that you use your start-uppishness as an excuse to be sloppy or to produce crap.

In fact, the majority of the real messes I see are not in start-ups but in more established companies where the original developers have long since moved on. Large codebases where very few people (if any!) have an idea of what is really going on.
Not very. It's basically SpamAssassin [1].

I have trained it with tens of thousands of emails, but it keeps letting obvious stuff through. On the other hand, I have had zero problems with false positives, which used to be a huge problem back when I was using Gmail.

[1] https://www.fastmail.fm/help/technical/spamchecks.html
Whenever these types of questions are required for account recovery, I use a false set of answers as an additional security measure. Probably a good practice for a celebrity.
To follow up on your comment about the illegality of it...
The following source notes that while at will termination is no longer completely illegal in Portugal, probation periods must generally be at least 90 days in length for indefinite-term contracts:

http://www.portugalglobal.pt/EN/Biblioteca/Documents/Portuga...
Certainly, and I expect on the scale of Munich they'd have more than a couple users that could do Linux just fine. Still, their spreadsheets, not mine...
There's a difference between running a mail server for incoming mail, and one for outgoing mail. I use my local Comcast SMTP servers for outgoing on the (so far 100% correct) theory that nobody can afford to blanket blacklist those. Incoming you don't have to worry about getting blacklisted.

You have to worry about spam, but, well... that's sort of a constant nowadays. My current solution is to use Thunderbird to filter everything on my primary machine and it's Good Enough. If you want webmail YMMV, though.

Honestly, if you're just one or two mailboxes, it's not that big a deal to maintain. And I've been Joe-jobbed, so it's not like I haven't been exposed to some fury. Still not that big a deal.
> I like functional programming. I like how monads can simplify things. But I also have to write code that someone without a lot of Scala (or Haskell) experience can maintain.

I agree with this, but I think a same replacement for the type lambda syntax goes a long way towards making those scalaz solutions maintainable.
As he said, degrees matter. By which I guess he means differences of degree.

The two companies involved (Google, Apple) have a fundamental difference in their business model. One involves you and your private data as the product; the other does not.
MIT debates how best to accommodate and teach Data Science
Don't most companies use this very same "insecure" system? 99% of the population won't have this problem because not even some of your closest friends know what street you grew up on or your mother's maiden name. If you are going to use this information as part of your personal security, don't go telling people. Because, duh, you might as well tell them your password.
Do you know Big Data success stories for a general audience?
I'm trying to collect the most impressive stories of applications of Big Data for a presentation for non-geeks. I'm looking for something that people can relate to and that it's not impressive from the technical side. For example:
Target predicting pregnant women: - http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/

Facebook predicting your partner: - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/14/facebook-relationship-study_n_4784291.html

UPS predicting avoiding turning left will save time and money - http://www.businessinsider.com/save-money-gas-avoid-left-turns-2012-3

Do you have any other success stories? Maybe related to healthcare, finance, science?
I'm using Fruux for calendars, contacts and reminders. Very happy with it. Zero downtime since I started using it (at least one year ago, probably more).

Edit: Fruux implements CalDAV, but there are disappointingly few apps that support it. I'm stuck with Apple's Reminders. The only decent CalDAV client, 2Do, does not implement CalDAV/WebDAV correctly (they don't support "207 Multistatus"), and will not work with Fruux. When I contacted them, they expressed no interest in fixing the problem.
Zumper allows renters to apply for apartments in a Zapp
Apple confirms accounts compromised but denies security breach
> Apple's systems

Systems aren't just technical (software), they involve human beings, feedback loops, interactions, etc. Apple's security systems are in fact weak, just not weaker than the norm.

Actually I think the Apple press release was poorly worded. This in particular:

>None of the cases we have investigated has resulted from any breach in any of Apple’s systems

There was indeed a breach in Apple's system, there just wasn't a system wide breach that compromised all accounts, just a select few.
Here are some sources of potential clusterfucks I've seen firsthand:

* Paying a contact manufacturer to design and build electronic hardware, then not getting any sources for the software.

* Selling R&D prototypes.

* Mistaking being customer-driven for waiting for customer orders before developing a product.

* Promising customers 3 month lead times on products that exist only as R&D prototypes.

* Not documenting what was built until product is shipping.

* Not documenting design decisions.

These are all real things that happened at a 20 year old company that I used to work for. This is also a short list of the many reasons I left.
> generally considered highly offensive

It would be considered too boring for Titanic magazine. Good job holding up the stereotype of the humor-impaired German.
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[Author of the post here]

As a writer, what's really interesting about this post and the comments/ feedback it has gotten in the last few days is how much it resonates with engineers regardless of their discipline - from aerospace to software.

Particularly points 2 and 7 about not BSing engineers and giving them autonomy/ agency to create and self-direct. That last point, especially, is something employers would be well-served to pay attention to.

Thanks to OP bhaumik for posting the article to HN.