skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the Foreign Minister of the French Republic Laurent Fabius their point is

“This is a terrorist group and not a state," Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told reporters last week, according to France 24. "I do not recommend using the term Islamic State..."

My point is that they are still, basically, calling it the Islamic State, but just in Arabic.
Because you can send a message to a /person/ (or multiple people) instead of a /phone number/. Depending on said service, said person can interact with the message independent of device or phone number. Useful for people who interact with people who change phone numbers/devices often and/or travel between countries. Just send the message, and you don't have to think.

But people will forever stick to their stock messaging application as much as possible, sticking to slower, more restrictive technologies. MMS is a dinosaur.
That reminds me, I really miss +1 Funny from Slashdot. :)
Tim Cook Interview: Remaking a Company's Culture
Open-source pharmaceuticals
Would be interested to hear from people who are burying my comment if they have any kind of explanation for why they are doing it, such as counterpoints to my statements. In case there is some insight that I might gain from them, since apparently there is a strong disagreement.
I understood you to mean that seniors don't pay taxes on it, which in my parents and in-laws case is true (since they don't go over income thresholds to pay income tax). For seniors that are most affected by this (the ones with lower incomes), they probably don't pay tax.
The TXT record isn't being sanitized so it just echos out the script tag which then loads the JS file.
This Tool Boosts Your Privacy by Opening Your Wi-Fi to Strangers
The dystopian-cyberpunk perspective would say that it'll be a new kind of sweatshop, with poorer people slowly burning out, selling their sleeping hours as the lowest form of labor.

Alternately, we might find that certain people are very good at certain tasks, and it'll be a more like trade guilds.
jamiehankins.co.uk.	33	IN	TXT	"<script src='//peniscorp.com/topkek.js'></script>"

jamiehankins.co.uk.	33	IN	TXT	"<iframe width='420' height='315' src='//www.youtube.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ?autoplay=0' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen></iframe>"
Exo had surprisingly good research done by Gould.
It's better for noteholders for the conversion price to be as low as possible. I'm sure this creates bad behavior. I've certainly felt badly about deals that went against me, though I haven't done anything.
Relevant story: http://www.wired.com/2014/09/apple-iphone-security/
As I've mentioned on HN before, I'd really like to see The Next Gmail. (I thought it would maybe occur as Google opened up on Gmail a bit this last June http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2014/06/introducing-...)

With time my experience with Gmail keeps degrading and I'm to the point where I notice myself browsing around the web for other options like FastMail and such. I haven't seen anything overwhelmingly better, at least not in the way that Gmail was when it first appeared.

The original Gmail, when it came out and you had to be invited in and such, was mind-blowing better than the competition. I've not seen any update to any Google service since that so clearly was above the competition. Recall that it was so good people thought it was one of their April Fool's Day hoaxes.

Since then, if anything, I've seen Gmail degrade with time. I get more spam now than ever. (And the spam comes in different forms such as via Gmail Chat/Hangouts), the interface is laggy to me on a MacBook Pro with 20mbit↓ connection, and new innovations like the Google Voice merging are always buggier than what they called "Beta" in Gmail circa 2005->2009.
Rails 4.2 Overview, Part 2 of 2
The benefit of convertible notes / SAFE's is that you get the invested cash IMMEDIATELY. This is a non-trivial benefit for most startups.

When raising a full round of capital, say 1M, you don't get any of it until you 'close', after everyone is committed.

Convertible notes allow entrepreneurs to build progressively towards a close, without waiting for all the cash to come in -- which might come too late. So, sure, if you're flush with cash, then convertible notes are a worse idea relative to a priced round. But when is that ever the case when fundraising?
That is the problem. No one knows what they can do. The conpany will certainly have no recourse.
Damn, I seriously expected something like a vote system
Perhaps that's because Dava Newman -- the PI on the work and a tenured prof in Aero at MIT -- is a woman.
>You could argue that Apple has more power than many governments.

You underestimate the power of governments.
I've done about 90 angel investments.

The average return for companies that start as a cap and not equity is < 1.

Companies that have sufficient success at the time of raise do not generally do debt. YC biases them more towards notes, though.
Use dig:

$ dig txt jamiehankins.co.uk

https://gist.github.com/440ef567e4bcc8f7ce34
Is there any evidence for Nacchio's claims other than his say-so?
Stuff like this is why NoScript and RequestPolicy were invented.
I, for one, can't wait. StartCom desperately needs some competition.

My money is on AOL as the CA[1].

[1] http://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000618.h...
Can it be done with CNAME and SRV records too?
Logentries Launches Automated Analytics for JSON Structured Log Data
Lost footage: Steve Jobs takes a jab at Michael Dell (1997) [video]
Synapse LLC-Providing Mobile and Web Solutions for Customers W Pivotal WebServices
Al-Qaeda will publicly try to justify their actions using religious beliefs, ISIS does not try nearly as hard. I do not know if other Muslims consider ISIS "Takfir"[0] though.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jama%27at_al-Muslimin
...in the Muslim world Takfir is "generally used as a derogatory description for extremists that kill Muslims without sufficient religious justification".
Professional Transitions (or: the shutting down of Mozilla Labs)
isn't this technically illegal to demonstrate haha?
Possible explanations:

1) It wasn't a canary to begin with, so its removal means nothing.

2) There's no legal precedent for disclosing a Section 215 order by killing the canary, so Apple removed it before they received a Section 215 order. That way it doesn't disclose anything and Apple avoids legal liability.

3) Apple really did receive a Section 215 order.
'Is only the gas', not, 'is the only gas'. Was talking about all gases, not specifically oxygen.
Indeed :) On a serious note, I'm waiting for a reviewal from OpenSSL team.
Seems independant, but thank you for pointing it out regardless!

https://mobile.twitter.com/jeffjohnroberts/status/5126419288...
The liquidation preference multiplier has to do with when noteholder gets preferred only instead of preferred + common on rounds that are a higher valuation than their cap.
Finding Dark Energy in the Details
But it's already fairly obvious how it works. They essentially MITM with the keyserver to receive the SSL nonce. Of course, it's pretty silly to expect cloudflare to have some special mathematical revolution to solve the stated problem. In fact I figure if you could terminate SSL without an online private key, the encryption scheme is simply broken.
http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2011/01/09/is-convertibl...
liquidation pref: a subtle property of conversion (if you buy preferred only at the cap price instead of effective price you are effectively getting >1x your preference by ending up with more shares.)

anti-dilution: only if negotiated
Behind Hall’s First Company Retreat
From any Linux (or probably OS X) workstation / server, you can run the command "host -t TXT jaimehankins.co.uk" ie:

$ host -t TXT jamiehankins.co.uk

;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.

jamiehankins.co.uk descriptive text "<iframe width='420' height='315' src='//www.youtube.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ?autoplay=0' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen></iframe>"

jamiehankins.co.uk descriptive text "v=spf1 include:spf.mandrillapp.com ?all"

jamiehankins.co.uk descriptive text "<script src='//peniscorp.com/topkek.js'></script>"

jamiehankins.co.uk descriptive text "google-site-verification=nZUP4BagJAjQZO6AImXyzJZBXBf9s1FbDZr8pzNLTCI"
Right, in general languages without any means of syntactic abstraction feel contrived to me now, and after working with several macro-enabled languages I really want to have support for them in more places. JS (Sweet.js), along with Dylan and Nimrod (and others) showed that it's possible to have real macros in non-prefix languages - I wonder how long it will take the "mainstream" to become comfortable with this feature. It looks like it takes anywhere between 20 to 40 years on average for concepts to "enter mainstream", so I think we're going to have to wait quite a long time yet.
CAN HE DANCE??
I think I heard that quote on XKCD once.
I've been suggesting for a while that what Django's admin needs is a completely barebones solution.

Something like

`django-admin startproject mysite --admin-theme=bare`

that gives you an admin with absolutely no JS/CSS and completely modular templates to simplify the making of custom admin backends.

I think I might make this my personal pet project to contribute to Django.
This is hilariousy, but could this potentially be a real threat to anything ?
I bought a Kindle for my uncle (who has bad eyesight), and he can't use it.

While the books themselves have adjustable font size, menus are way too small for him, and he'd like a much larger screen.

I wouldn't be surprised if he used a 10 inch iPad instead :)
Chelsea Manning: How to make Isis fall on its own sword
Congrats on 100,000 karma, btw. O_o
For what it's worth, Chrome tells you which tab audio is playing from, it's nice.
Nice downvotes. You guys might as well say "the iPhone 6 is the best iOS I've owned", "the Surface Pro is the best Windows I've owned", etc.

The level of shitty grammar/general incorrectness on tech sites for "savvy" individuals is quite embarrassing, IMO.
WE WILL SHOUT Your NAME IN PUBLIC
I'm sure they'd hate to be called "The Coalition of Sissy Bomb-bait Cowards", but that doesn't mean we should call them that.

The public is already aware of who "ISIS" is, and what they do. I see no reason to introduce confusion (particularly with a word whose pronunciation isn't even clear to all native English speakers (such as myself)).
What about just calling them Softcard?
Under this scheme, the DHE is between the client and CloudFlare, not the client and the true end-point. CloudFlare still sees the full plaintext of the HTTPS session (as it must in order to do it's magic). The encryption is not end-to-end.
Math as Myth
I hope my brain tells me about its decision after I awake.
As long as it's not opensource there is no reason to trust it.
Arabic by nature doesn't have many abbreviations like other languages because of it's lack of vowels, so abbreviations end up being a set a consonants that are hard to pronounce and don't sound "correct", so we don't use them often. The name "Daesh" is an exception, it's an abbreviation (although one letter gets changed a little bit) and it does sound "correct" but although it does contain the words Islamic and state, it doesn't have for an Arabic speaker like me the same effect as ISIS have for an English speaker
Note that this seems to be a grab-bag of papers/posters referencing "deep learning" from 2014. I'm not sure what this adds over the equivalent Google Scholar query.

If you're interested in very recent advances in machine learning (including deep learning), optimization, I'd suggest also looking at the papers accepted at top conferences in ML, e.g.

ICLR 2014 - http://openreview.net/venue/iclr2014

ECCV 2014 - http://eccv2014.org/

EMNLP 2014 - http://emnlp2014.org/papers.html

KDD 2014 - http://www.kdd.org/kdd2014/index.html (research track)

NIPS 2013 - http://nips.cc/Conferences/2013/Program/accepted-papers.php
Article does not mention capacitive touch screens. Apple basically build its own factories (and subsequently entire industry) to manufacture for iphone 1.
Langton's Ant Animation
How many of those 90 were convertible notes, to put this in perspective?
Salesforce $1M hackathon
They can absolutely fine them, and if Yahoo's experience is any indication, fines for this kind of stuff are beyond what billions will cover:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/09/15...

How can you hope to defeat stuff like this in court if you can't survive the fines building up while you're waiting to see the process through?
The article explains that, but in your defense, it takes quite a while to do that. It first mentions the word, and then doesn't explain its meaning or significance until another five paragraphs have gone by. This was a poor choice by the author, in my opinion.
Well, cloudfare can still read all the traffic. I thought that problem had been solved somehow.
And SMS is a dinosaur too (but it's still around and kicking) and it's still the best way to get mobile app installs.

Sorry, but the need to have the same app installed to send and receive an image significantly restricts the audience of a given product (and you're locked into someone else's app).

Current: Step 1 >> Get 100M users to install an app. Step 2 >> Get them to take pictures of stuff. Step 3 >> Get permissions all the people who took picture to upload the pictures or just replace their normal picture-taking behavior with your app. No biggie.
With universal MMS (via Twilio): Step 1 >> Get them to take pictures of stuff
On a slightly offtopic note, thanks for revealing the name in the (current) top comment so I don't need to click through the article just to get that. I'm almost certain that the lack of the new name in the title is completely intentional to gain more clicks.
Thanks. Man, inside Valley baseball, wouldn't have guessed that would be the cause 6 years ago.
Two answers, here's the first (it doesn't answer the question directly but I think it's so NB that it's worth mentioning nonetheless).

In 13 or so years of doing this I have found that that there's not a single interview question that can replace the value of chatting to references.

I tried for years to perfect our interview process with clever questions, and time and time again, if we had issues after hiring someone it's because we chose to turn a blind eye to something that came out in a call with a previous employer or colleague. I have had countless conversations with my partners that went something like "that's exactly what so and so said before we hired this guy". As if it were a surprise. Trust what the people who have worked with this person before say - there's no better way to assess fit.

So we changed our interview process, and now in interviews I focus much more on establishing cultural fit. How we do that is also very simple - we just talk to the person (kicking off the conversation with a question like "I've read your resume but please tell me your story briefly in your words" - and let the conversation flow naturally from there, asking follow-up questions out of genuine interest, making sure we are contributing to the conversation). It makes it comfortable for everyone and allows us to establish a rapport. Then, if I feel this is someone I would like to spend more time with I know they are a good cultural fit.

Skill is assessed in addition to this, but that's job dependent (short note on that - we ask people to do a practical in the final round because when it comes to skill you can't take their word for it).

More direct answer to follow...
> I've often the real smart person in my life was my subconscious.

I think you accidentally a word. Your subconscious must not have written that sentence... :-)
The article's discussion of 90 day "top up" terms seems to address that.
I counter that that simply doesn't matter.

Consider: if (1) ISIS doesn't like it, (2) Arab speakers use it derogatorily, and non-Arab-speakers either (3) don't know the etymology, or (4) understand the derogatory intent, I think Daesh achieves the goal of linguistically delegitimizing ISIS as a "state".
This is only too true! At work we do CRUD projects, which means user input gets stored in the database. I almost always break other people's work by adding HTML tags to the inputs, navigating back to the page, and seeing markup that shouldn't be there. Even database output needs to be sanitized
Well played sir, very well played
Am I missing something or is there not supposed to be a link here?
Amazing concept! But I have to ask, how come you chose Copenhagen, Denmark? Are you residing here? (Copenhagen citizen speaking)
I think you probably mean "pedalling"
Brain Monitoring Meditation Headband
Packet creation and manipulation library I hope to open up soon.
I just don't understand the justification for this.

> pre 2000

I'm pretty sure a lot of good technology is written pre-2000. Why you'd want to throw it away is beyond me. Just because something is old doesn't mean it's outdated.

> difficult to experiment or fundamentally change

Generally with mature products this is true, so the solution is to use an immature product? Why not just take the time to learn the existing products so that you can experiment or make your changes.

> security and performance are hard

It's always been that way, and it always will be. I doubt a new library/platform will change that. The only thing it will do is make the developer an expert on the system (since she designed it).

The diagrams don't make sense, and seem to miss the point. Not all scripts will cause the layout to change. Some may, but the renderer shouldn't be controlling the script, except in extreme or very specific cases.
This sounds smart. And I'm pretty pragmatic. I don't think Google and Apple and Microsoft are really trying to ruin my privacy.

But something about this makes me uncomfortable. The fact that when this appeared on the front page of HN it was with posts from Google and Dropbox about how they support this.

Google that Assange is releasing a book about, and Dropbox that went a day where it didn't matter what password you entered and has former Secretary Rice on their board.

I have a feeling this organization might help keep things like the recent celebrity iCloud break happening, but as someone else said, real security is not easy. And false security is worse than no security.
With the advent of 3D printers and such, materials science is going to increasingly be huge, and is changing both the future and the present.
A common refrain you read online lately is that ISIS is not Islamic, usually by moderate Muslim apologists. The awkward truth however is that actually moderate Muslims are really the unIslamic ones, and that ISIS is Islamic to a fault. ISIS follows a very literalist and precise interpretation of Islamic jurisprudence and tradition, whereas moderate Muslims trying to distance themselves from ISIS are much more lax in this regard.

So Obama or the French government saying ISIS is not Islamic sounds pretty silly and requires some serious cognitive dissonance on the part of all involved in this charade. The fact of the matter is the Islamic State is just that: Islamic. Muslims who play this doublethink game are finding it harder and harder to keep all the contradictions in what their religion teaches and the values they hold aligned.
I'd agree if US voters actually bothered to go voting, and participated in their own democracy instead of turning their brains off and watching TV. But seeing how they don't, the US really gets the government that the most active/noisy minory supports.

(The same is largely true in the EU, even though it's possibly more pronounced the US.)
Our dns lookup tool is safe from this: https://www.misk.com/tools/#dns/jamiehankins.co.uk
>Employers that do this are ridiculous.

Unless they are trying to hire a mentat.
Simple, safe, and fund anonymous chat
...and you won't believe what happens next!
Database output is application input. All forms of input need to be sanitized, period.
Hey! I'm in Europe, so really you should have asked for my consent before offering me cookies over the web.
Well, seeing as this is the French who are using the term, I don't think you have to worry about pronouncing it.
Good example in which direction?
Thanks, you're right, that's a really useful link.

(http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2012/09/05/the-truth-abou...)
As the nuclear option, the USG could simply force them to stop doing business in the US. That would effectively put them out of business and would never happen.
I don't think anyone should read this as, "Convertible notes/SAFEs are bad." I would bet that for every one entrepreneur that has been screwed by having too high of a cap there have been 9 who have benefited from being able to quickly raise money on convertible notes or SAFEs without pricing a round.

This article is simply a warning that using a convertible note without any consideration to potential consequences in future rounds is a bad idea. A convertible note isn't necessarily a free pass that lets you say, "I don't have time to figure this all out right now" -- if only anything were.

There are a few ways you can screw your company up raising convertible notes; there are a million ways you can screw your company up raising a priced round.

At the end of the day, you have to have good mentors and lawyers to make sure you're not doing something stupid while you worry about building your company. As Mark Zuckerberg said at Startup School, and I may be paraphrasing, "The biggest mistake a startup can make is worrying about all of the mistakes they could be making." There's no way to get through unscathed, so have people who understand it better than you to make sure you're killing the closest snakes, and keep building a great company.
Of course, Sweet.js provides means for breaking hygiene.

Also, Clojure macros are kind-of, a-little-bit hygienic, with their rules for identifiers resolution.

Anyway, I'd say they're rather similar in expressivity and capabilities, but I don't know both macro systems well enough to do detailed comparison.
And as some more anecdata when my second daughter was born my wife would get up for her, and I would get up for the eldest. Nearly immediately I would wake up when my eldest cried and she would wake up when the new baby cried, and we would both sleep right through the cries of the 'other' child. It was very weird at first, but when I went on a business trip and my wife was 'on call' for both of them she had not trouble waking up if either cried.

I used to joke that my ears were like a wake-on-packet NIC card :-)
I'm skeptical that Apple did anything to the price of CNC machining.
Additional backstory on Reddit, including commentary from Notch: http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2gp73j/clang_kickstar...
FTC Says Yelp Violated COPPA Child Privacy Rules, Fined $450K
Whenever you have credentials stored on the same host as the dns frontend. I imagine that a few domain-registrars will have similar tools available on their servers, so that users can check data on their own domains.

Imagine being logged in as your hostmaster account on http://your-registrar.com/, and having a malicious website redirect you to http://your-registrar.com/webtools/nslookup-tool.php?domain=....
You are sure it's not a play on the long established "Sozi" for Sozialdemokrat?

EDIT: I just checked. It's both. See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi#Begriffsgeschichte_und_-v...
I have had great luck hiring game devs and cross training into embedded.

"Oh I have to stream data into my processing routines with not nearly enough bandwidth? No problem."

I've also had smiles of delight when devs got 100% raw access to every little bit of hardware. Discovering DMA controllers is /fun/ for them. We came super close to getting a decompression routine running completely by our DMA controller!