skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, you think that, because the major record labels have stepped up their game and started exploiting musicians further and through different channels, the right thing to do is keep feeding them cash? Give me a break. Your critique is targeted only at the issue as it pertains to artists working for major record labels. My whole point is that the recording industry was controlled an unstable monopoly based on price-fixing and exploitative contracts from the beginning, and supporting them does not, in any way, equal helping artists.

Although I'd prefer not to dredge this into a petty back-and-forth ad hominem contest, it may be your sense of the industry that is incomplete. Many smaller labels are turning to free digital releases, treating these as a form of cheap and highly effective advertising, and still selling enough physical recordings and merchandise to make a profit, all while giving a larger portion of the revenues to artists. By presenting the situation as false dichotomy between "stealing from artists" or not, you ignore the fact that there may be a better model for the industry as a whole, with more equitable sharing of profits, and you also ignore the incalculable social benefits of free and open access to information and artistic works. In the real world, moral choices are complex, and often you are presented with the choice between two bad things, supporting a fundamentally corrupt and exploitative recording industry that is expropriating profits through collusion and unethical business practices or possibly taking some money away from some people.
The title is somewhat misleading (it's catchy, though), but I agree with your points and think that while email is still a great catch-all communication tool, there are better ones when you're actually trying to work in a team on many projects.
This thread has some great 'Shit HN says' lines. We are truly a tiny little bubble.
It wasn't clear from reading the homepage, but I was hoping this only sent data OUT via HTTP and didn't require giving access to the system at all. If they actually require access to my system, that's a little disappointing.
Yeah. It is indeed possible, just painful. I am thinking of wrapping json or even go-simplejson to add support for attempting to coerce strings to ints, where the target is an int and you happen to get a string(int) via json. Haven't gotten around to it yet though.
Post-Snowden, the burden of proof is on the government.
As others have pointed out, || is short circuit.

I'm chiming in not to pile on, but to point out this is a canonical code pattern in C and C++. Check the pointer, then deference it, all in the same if expression.

if (ptr && ptr->foo...

or

if (!ptr || !ptr->foo...
I'm guessing nobody else noticed the Rick Roll in there too?
Only morons start a business on a loan - Mark Cuban
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYneLGRTgy8
I am talking about a REST API that hooks into your AnkiWeb infrastructure. I believe I asked about this in one of the google groups and was told you aren't interested in doing that because of the additional load it could put on the service. I would love to put together something like the Evernote webclipper for creating cards right here in the browser without doing this awkward alt+tab+click+click+click+etc dance to create cards on the desktop client. I admire the work you and others have done on Anki and its extensions, but if I'm going to use Anki as my primary learning tool it needs to be delightful and effortless to create/delete cards as needed.
I didn't find it terrible until I got to the end I kept scrolling and ended up back at the beginning. That was a pretty terrible experience.
Was it that bad on the Paperwhite?
The verification server won’t know what e-mail address or credit card statement you used in order to get the badge, only that it was created by a particular issuer.

That's pretty clever but in case of serious leaks, and they do suggest it could be used by government employees, it doesn't provide much additional protection. Investigators will need two subpoenas/warrants instead of one.

Some verification services could simply not keep logs of what they verified, and documents they used. The problem here is that there is no way for the issuer to prove they really don't.

Heard is starting out by running one that verifies whether you’re a “tech industry insider” by checking to see if you have an email address from one of about 20 major technology companies.

Another problem is that your employer will know that you signed up for an anonymous gossip/leak site.
I'm all for the right to protest (online or otherwise), but noone wins with linkbaiting.
I can recommend Seafile as self-hosted FOSS file/dir sync tool. Been using it for a year now and I am really happy[1].

[1] Except for the ridiculous decision of not syncing any files with names that are not Windows-compatible anywhere.
Do you know anyone there or anything about the process of getting something hosted there? I can burn the data to a DVD and snail mail it to them (or even drop it off in SF).
>You can send to any number, with just the phone number.

I don't think that works in practice, some / many people can't receive MMS. I don't even know if I can, think it has to be set up on the phone to match the carrier.. or something =/

Maybe it's different in the U.S.?
Yitang Zhang is an outlier in that sense, like Alexander Grothendick and Grigori Perelman. Many other great mathematicians, like Terence Tao, Timothy Gowers, etc. and even some working on 'big problems' like Andrew Wiles are in stable academic jobs. If his own words [1] are anything to go by, Zhang's situation is probably due to his adviser's unwillingness or inability to recommend him for good academic positions.

[1] http://nautil.us/issue/5/fame/the-twin-prime-hero
Maybe it's the Magarathean equivalent of the EURion constellation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
Any relation with "The Yes Men" movement?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men
Perhaps this is the reason for all of the security updates in iOS 8.
"The public is already aware of who "ISIS" is, and what they do."

The majority of people do, yes. However, you have to consider how powerful language is. Calling something by it's literal, and true meaning strips it of a lot of power to maneuver itself and what it means/stands for.
I was trying to decide whether to add, "and you won't believe what happens next!!?!" to the end. But, I decided to keep it simple.

I certainly don't mean to be misleading. But, it definitely feels as extreme as completely banning email. At least for our team, all our past experience with hating email at a company was tied to internal email culture and the inability to actually do work.
Not sure how Trulia handles input for its usernames, but at one point I was able to do this http://www.trulia.com/profile/-iframe--home-buyer-loleta-ca-...
Instead of "no, we can't do that" give them the appropriate quote.
Nobody deserves it 'more' but another person who has been doing similarly groundbreaking stuff is Sanjam Garg.
You mean something like this?

http://www.appneta.com/images/graphics/slides/traceview/trac...

:)

Our languages support is on-par with NewRelic. We just recently release NodeJS instrumentation.

Disclaimer: I work for AppNeta. Our TraceView product does what you want and more (across servers, SOA).
As explained by Apple:

In the first six months of 2014, we received 250 or fewer of these requests. Though we would like to be more specific, by law this is the most precise information we are currently allowed to disclose.

http://www.apple.com/privacy/government-information-requests...
Hats off to you guys as well. That's a TON of work. :)

What % of Dart's development is sponsored by Google? Not trying to get a dig in at you guys, but it's also interesting to note that Elixir has come this far without the financial backing of one of the wealthiest tech companies in the world.
Isn't it called the Kindle Voyage? Everyone says Voyager.
This is the band with the most sociopathhic manager since Peter Grant, who has been trying to push DRM before: http://devrandom.net/~zeruch/wordpress/?page_id=507 (disclosure, the link is my own write up of a speech by Paul McGuinness at a Medem conf)
"Fyi, I'm more interested in the marketing, than the politics."

Well, depending on who you ask, those two are the same. Politicians market themselves, their ideas, and their favoritism to their audience. They want you to "buy" more of what they have to offer, as opposed to you "buying" their competitors.

Now, whether they do it for a noble or greedy cause is open to debate. However, not one either side is likely to win in any sort of reasonable time frame.
GP comment is too generalized to be constructive. That is especially so in this discussion of a specific network security platform, which presumably has specific faults that may be discussed instead of generalities like "belief systems" and "human lives".
Interesting thought. I have been working on teams for years and there are so many personalities involved when making decisions. I think there is a ton of room for improvement when it comes to finding a way work together and allow for everyone to contribute as opposed to taking the easy way out and going with the first idea made.

Curious if other people ignore/have this problem as well especially in startups with different personalities.
1Password for iOS needs an extra security layer
Agile rejects to implement, the following extra security layer (to make 1Password for iOS intuitive and as secure as a password store deserves

The masterpassword is stored in the cloud-hosted 1Password Keychain btw. (another issue)

Please support and comment in the following discussion, thank you!

https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/comment/142867
Ask HN: One man bootstrapped SAAS business, do you disclose that to clients?
If you are the only one primarily running your SAAS business, do you disclose that information to your clients ? Do Clients care ? Would love to hear from single person bootstrappers.
Not sure why all the negative reactions here... Was anyone else doing or providing this type of "Keyless SSL" setup?

You'd think if this was a known technique, the mentioned banks would already have been asking for it, implementing it, or doing it.

Personally, I think CloudFlare is one of the few companies on here doing innovating stuff, and solving real issues.

And if not - if they've pulled the wool over my eyes - then at least I can respect their marketing.
Yeah I am working on a product that will solve this issue and allow anyone on the team to have an impactful idea. Already know it is a problem in Corporate America but just wondering if it is an issue within the startup community as well. Thanks!
Just yesterday I was investigating music/production startups, and one of the few ideas I came across that seemed halfway-interesting was Splice[0]. On the producer side they have plugins for a few DAWs that enable easier collaboration and version tracking and so forth. But what comes of that (and why it's relevant to your comment) is a Soundcloud-ish embeddable web player that breaks out all the tracks/stems into a timeline beneath the main player interface.

It's pretty interesting, although I don't know how much of an opportunity is there, for some of the same reasons mentioned in the other replies. Musicians and producers can be incredibly reticent about this stuff.

[0]http://splice.com
+1 - we used this when prepping for our YC interview (Aptible, S14)
Thanks for the feedback. We're working hard and will let hosts know as improvements are made.
Yes but you gain a lot of interesting information about what's going on, plus you are back in control.

Whitelist places you trust. Keep things blocked that you don't like. If that breaks the experience, walk.
Erotic Poetry Constructed Exclusively from iPhone 6 Reviews
Linux-based pedalboard features 100+ virtual effects
My question was more to the point of: will Keyless SSL work with Free SSL? :)
https://archive.org/create/

Only takes 5 minutes to create an account.
This is why -- for example -- Flextronics opened their Lab IX [1] in SV last year. In cases where hardware ideas are good ones, it makes a lot of sense for the guys with the manufacturing expertise to get in the loop early on. They can incubate, invest, and indulge in some of the wild stuff innovators want but can only be executed with $mm of equipment.

[1] http://www.labix.io/
If anyone wants to jump on the band wagon for this new name, here is a start:

https://www.google.com/search?q=isis+daesh

or

https://www.google.com/search?q=isis+new+name+daesh

And perhaps the french could convince anonymous or 4chan to help out.
Don't forget Republic Wireless as well.
Ever hear of port forwarding?
Show HN: Pixite Photo Kit (our first app bundle)
A Survey of NP-Complete Puzzles (2008) [pdf]
Maybe that's the part I was missing. There was no link to more information in his (her?) HN profile.
>I don’t want to comment this in any other way but to notice that it’s quite amazing that Djangoproject.com still looks so good and I actually like using it every single day — it works really well. Way better than most newer homepages of other open source projects.

Not really sure how the author is making the point that it's dated. Did you read the article? It's probably less text than your comment.
The double-wall material seems to be the primary driver of that price, and also not necessary for most products.

I've designed and purchased a lot of retail boxes for my needs. If you can get away with a heavy-duty paperboard (which will suit most non-luxury products), the combination of full-color box and custom foam can be had as low as $5/unit, or less, in quantities starting at 500 units. Once you start getting into custom multi-wall product, you're often having to pay die costs which greatly drive up the per-unit price.
good hack but really stupid of me to click it directly :\
A New-Fashioned Programming Throwdown
Responsive photo grid template
That's a legitimate record, not related to the XSS.
Exposing Ferguson PD lie about distance from SUV
OpenVBX (http://www.openvbx.org/) does exactly this and runs on twilio however it's a bit of a chore to setup on EC2 and unfortunately development isn't that active so I wouldn't expect to see MMS anytime soon. A real shame.

I used it to setup a menu with recordings and things like'press 1 for support' to route calls for our sales and support teams.
Microsoft to Close Microsoft Research Lab in Silicon Valley
Show HN: Socialight.io, Google Analytics for social media
>I wonder how HN takes Black Mirror.

Black Mirror is more of modern Twilight Zone. Really tight stories exploring a narrow ideas quite well. The only exception is probably "White Bear".

Zero Theorem is kind of the opposite: it felt completely unfocused until the end. I usually hate characters that only exist to deliver exposition but I was thankful for Management's monologues and the dialog with Leth's supervisor. The story felt frozen in place whenever they weren't on-screen.
I used debouncing inside a watch expression. Really useful.

Another performance trick.

If you use ng-hide/show to hide a long list, then make a dummy function that takes the list and the variable for the ng-hide/show and only returns the list when the ng-show is true. This way you don't spend valuable time rendering something that will have css hidden.
I'm curious... Do the Scottish have a book that states whether or not a Scotsman should eat porridge? Because if it does, and it's a book they follow for their Scottish belief system, then that throws a spanner in the whole comparison.
iPhone 6 Plus Camera Review: Iceland
A Clippy feature is heading to Office. Will it be a winner this time?
FTC case against Yelp shows that COPPA isn’t just for kids’ sites
All editors should, upon save, put up the following prompt:

"I acknowledge the code just written does not trust its input, under penalty of being whipped by a wet noodle."

But I guess folks would just click through.

Sigh.
He's also changed his tune some over time. Now it's all about users rights and privacy, but way back when the big concern was that the FCC might drop a giant fine on them. Less about protecting customers, more about protecting the bottom line by not getting caught.
Can you elaborate on the relationship between Twilio and Bandwidth.com? I actually have very little understanding of what happens once Twilio receives an API request.
Way to go!!!
Best platform to issue a cryptosecurity
You're not alone.

They've lost a lot of trust and respect from people who haven't forgotten the nightmare Rice helped bring to America and the world that continues to ruin, compromise and endanger lives to this day.

Bringing someone like her on board who also championed warrantless wiretapping and suspicionless spying on all Americans had to be one of the most bizarre moves possible for a cloud hosting company like Dropbox. It makes me wonder what other moves this company has made in the background regarding privacy that we still don't know about.
I was going to say the same thing; this actually works really well. "But Amazon does it!" becomes a less compelling argument to people when they see how much they'd have to spend to be like Amazon.
Well, the US has a dual system; in the US everything eventually ends up being evaluated against a written Constitution (something the UK never had).

And if you look at SCOTUS, many Justices are essentialists (the most famous of which is Antonin Scalia); legal essentialism means sticking to the letter of the law.

So I think what I described is a reasonable explanation of the legal canary, at least from a philosophical point of view.
> Of course, yes, there are amazing things you can do with software that weren't remotely feasible even just 5 years ago

Can you provide an example to back up your claim?
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=pi^pi*%28exp%28-x^100%2...
I don't like to sound hateful, but this is an obvious solution that any competent person knowing how TLS works would find. If someone tried to patent it, I suppose every smart card would be considered prior art. The only "novelty" is that the connection to the "smart card" is the network.

Not to say that it's not useful, but the article describes it as some grand invention.
This is an awful idea. Having a mobile phone power desktop applications with its current specs is a no go.
Working from Home: A Retrospective
> To Bono's point, Cole Porter could tour and make lots of money doing it today. He may not have wanted to, but it'd be possible

Was Cole Porter a performer? What I see after a bit of searching indicates he was a songwriter/composer, so what would be the attraction of a Cole Porter tour?
Applying that to the individual user level is probably too specific to slip past gag orders like this more general language is.
Marks and Spencer Mobile App A/B Test
That link is dead; can you paste it in a comment?
VCs are not the driving force behind convertible notes, entrepreneurs usually are (and for good reasons).

Yes, VCs like to make money, they'd even like to make it of your work/startup/company but the odds are such that they likely will not.

So they will invest in a company for equity rather than as a loan that carries interest and that you can pay back at your leisure, unless it is really early days and so very hard to assign a value to the company (not that that is much easier later on). I Really do agree that we probably need a finance 101 for entrepreneurs, and you probably should enroll. Debt is not necessarily bad, giving out a chunk of equity in return for funds is not necessarily bad. No more than a hammer or an axe are bad.
Wow! I had the same idea not so long ago. Are you by any chance targetting Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity? If so, can you share a bit on how are you going to interface BLE with Elixir? If not, what kind of IoT connectivity are you targetting ?
man...I woke up and got a dose of surprise....love this song.
I think Chrome is able to do this because it separates tabs into processes, but I don't think there's a good way for Firefox to do it since everything is in a single process.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486262
Software defined radio[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_radio
The decimal key (code 110) is supposed to load a Nyan cat video, but it doesn't work for me.
"Again, I am only half serious" (said two times...)

Why say that at all? Is it a way to fend off ridicule? Or does this show a lack of confidence in the idea and what you are saying?

Reminds me of comments that start "Am I the only one who thinks that..."

I've gotten out of the habit of apologizing for things that I say or prefacing them with phrases such as that. The reason is that I found that it was a lazy way to not give as much thought to what I was saying and whether I needed to vet my thoughts more.
Here's your warning: if you ever click on an HN link titled "<something> XSS", prepare for something annoying to happen.
That might be true of computers, but how true is it of mobile devices? A handheld mobile device isn't even conceptually a single computer; it's a small network of computers.
After seeing the cat in the picture playing with the object, I'd like to see a printing material that'd be safe to use as chew toys that pets could eat! :D
Though we haven't banned email at the startup I work for, we have a very similar communication process (Slack, Trello and Pivotal Tracker). Makes things feel a lot more productive and personable with one another.
I see that this is being spun as part of the larger layoffs at Microsoft in general, but make no mistake, this is highly unusual for an institution as distinguished and well respected as Microsoft Research (both internally at Microsoft, and externally amongst academia in general)

I think there is much more under the surface than is visible here. We'll have to wait for the official PR story from Microsoft (which I'm sure will clarify nothing at all). But for now I remain puzzled at this move.
Very insightful comment, thank you lkrubner.

It feels to me that capitalism has successfully created abundance of capital, so we need something else to now to allow longer-term projects to run.
Sounds like a pretty interesting service, good luck !
I don't think they should care.

Would you care if the owner of a restaurant showed you to your table, took your order, cooked the meal and then cleaned the table after you left? Probably not.....as long as the quality is high.
I would personally point to a framework like Meteor as my example. Having a framework handle all of the reactive parts of your code with no additional work, and giving the end user a way to simulate database updates on the client side while it's being processed server side is a huge win for performance.

Now of course none of this was impossible to do before, but the advent of all major browsers now supporting web sockets, and the existence of this framework and community which has already solved all of the hard parts of the implementation makes it actually feasible.
What reservations do you have about it? What is your current workflow?
As mentioned in the article:

The group’s next challenge is finding a way to keep the suit tight. To do this, Holschuh says there are only two options: either maintaining a constant, toasty temperature, or incorporating a locking mechanism to keep the coils from loosening. The first option would overheat an astronaut and require heavy battery packs — a design that would significantly impede mobility, and is likely infeasible given the limited power resources available to astronauts in space. Holschuh and Newman are currently exploring the second option, looking into potential mechanisms to lock or clip the coils in place.