skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The visual design here looks much better, BUT that page doesn't even say what your service does! That should be put in a prominent tagline, like "Skyul is <this useful thing>"... whatever it actually is.

The most prominent item on the page is a search box... but I don't even know what I'm supposed to search for – apparently search terms? Why? Your page doesn't tell me anything I need to know.

And the main call to action – "Start an account today" – is smaller than the search button... and even below the fold on my screen.

Bottom line – read up on building effective landing pages! Start here for a quick summary: https://www.formstack.com/the-anatomy-of-a-perfect-landing-p...

You'll need to know this kind of thing to build a successful project in any niche.
Another Marketing guy here. I hangout here (obviously) and mod over at /r/marketing & /r/askmarketing - you can post a product validation request at the latter.

Happy to have a quick look at your product if you PM me.
Thanks for your kind words. It took me a long while before hitting that submit button. It's that moment when you're unsure if what you've written is any good.
Just met him once or twice, but my impression is this is how he talks in real life as well.
Oculus Rift DK2 and Hydra Motion Controls in Action
Tempting... very tempting. And I see already 6 people couldn't resist the temptation ;-)
The concept of permissions (to contacts, etc) doesn't exist on Chrome OS and will likely never exist on Chrome OS. But both Chrome and Android apps can access the Internet where all this stuff is stored. But this has nothing to do with security of Chrome OS itself.
This. I'm no Prolog expert, but every time I come back to it I remember how elegant canonical problems are to solve with it. I absolutely love the declarative style. More languages need to have logic extensions a la core.logic for Clojure, various Kanrens for Scheme. I would love to see computer scientists make advancements in logic programming.
It's a good attempt at a Jobs-esque keynote, enjoyed that aspect, but on the product side the only criticisms can be boiled down to...

1. There's too much choice (option of a larger phone screen from the 6+, and a variety of watch options).
2. Because of this choice, you have to do more thinking for yourself.

I feel like it's sad that thinking for ourselves is seen as problematic. That diversity isn't something to be embraced. Though it just shows how much some value the status symbol aspect.
I wonder why their photo is subtitled like this: "Richard Loeb (right) and Nathan Leopold"

Why not just label it "Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb"? Why go out of order?
Internet Slowdown Day Generated 1,000 Calls per Minute to Congress
Brendan Gregg has written many articles and a few books about DTrace which is included in FreeBSD.
> Rose told TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington that the app is currently going through the iOS App Store approval process and should launch very soon.

What about Android? Another app that's releasing on iOS first? :(
Much do disagree about.

> [Hardware arguments]

The problem is not really RAM or disk consumption. The problem is that starting up my OS, or my Web browser, or my word processor, or even Emacs for that matter… is not instantaneous. Our computers are million times faster than 30 years ago, and they still lag. Bloat certainly bears some responsibility: if we had less, cleaner code, we could have more efficient programs:

> Efficiency comes from elegant solutions, not optimized programs. Optimization is just a few correctness-preserving transformations away.

Jonathan Sobel http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dfried/dfried/dfried/mex.pdf

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> If your software vendor stops, before shipping, and spends two months squeezing the code down to make it 50% smaller, the net benefit to you is going to be imperceptible

Short term benefit will certainly be imperceptible. But in the longer term, dividing the size of the code base by two will mean significantly easier maintenance, including the addition of features. Losing 2 months now may very well gain you 2 years down the road.

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> [Features]

The problem with too many features is not that software is capable of too much. The problem is the lack of orthogonality. The same level of capability could be achieved with less, simpler features. But I guess that would imply trusting the user to unprecedented level. Like, letting her program her damned computer, like any Excel idiot is perfectly capable of…
CommonMark only wants to help the Markdown cause
This is nothing compared to what allegedly happened to QWest. When the US Government was forcing telecom by telecom to install taps into their business's core routing hubs Joseph Nacchio, the CEO at the time, dug his heels in demanding legal avenues to avoid turning his back on QWest's customers. The US threatened to pull out large contracts that made up a large part of QWest's business.

Furthermore, having been served a National Security Letter, Nacchio was not able to speak to his company or shareholders about the situation.

Nacchio continued to insist on legal avenues and Uncle Sam did exactly what it threatened. Nacchio warned major stakeholders that all of the major QWest contracts were about to go belly up.

The US government threw Nacchio in prison for insider trading.

Oh and then QWest went bankrupt and was bought by competitor CenturyLink (who presumably had fewer difficulties complying).

Sometimes the market has more than one invisible hand.

Edit: A good point by a fellow commentor - no independent investigation has been performed into the QWest story. I looked but could not find FOIA information online.
How Instagram’s drug deals go undetected
Why not (other) researchers doing some (other) study on the efectiveness of such obvious attacks? You know, active study, instead of passive.
I hasn't look it much recently, but I remember that the only sources for this claim was from Nacchio himself. I wonder what Snowden actually thinks of this claim.
I have a question: Can the NSA/the coercing party be reverse fined at $500k/day by Yahoo (i.e by an organization) for some reasons in similar vein?
I blame Euathlus.
I really enjoyed this, especially the bit about the heartbeat feature.
You did a great job of taking the "feeling overwhelmed by possible choices" out and putting a lot of "Steve Jobs" in. Good work!
1. Plan9 has no hard links so if you copy unix dir. tree to a plan9 machine you'd lose all the hard link info.
2. Venti doesn't use fossil or inodes. Venti is just content addressable storage system; not a fileserver/system.
3. Fossil is a fileserver.
Thanks for posting this, it's for projects like this that I always look through the comments. :)
Yeah, this was a way better way to introduce it than how they did it in the video presentation
Fair enough. But it still stands, couldn't Yahoo ignore it?

What's the worst thing the government could do to Yahoo that would go unnoticed by the public, if Yahoo didn't comply?
Yes, this is a good caveat. This is what Nacchio claims. I do not have much in the way of a third party source.

It's likely that Snowden doesn't know anything about it.
Here's a serious question - is the fine secret too? If Yahoo didn't comply and were slapped with a fine, could Yahoo object and table the fine in a court?
I do think that Schiller would make for a much better presentation. Cook is ok, but that good.
I think this is an interesting proof of concept; it seems like the exact opposite of WhatsApp, which is based on the concept that data is cheaper than SMS.

I know that SMS plans are often "unlimited" in the US, which is why (at least from what I've seen) WhatsApp is far more popular in Europe.
Life is a Braid in Spacetime
http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm

>My answer to him was, "John, when people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."

>The basic trouble, you see, is that people think that "right" and "wrong" are absolute; that everything that isn't perfectly and completely right is totally and equally wrong.
It's not entirely clear that you can even claim copyright over trivial online comments.

Trivial or not, you have copyright in your own writings, online or off-line. Each participant on HN owns the copyright in the written expression of his or her comments. Similarly, a photographer has copyright in photographs taken by that photographer. See a user profile of a high-karma HN participant

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek

for an example of asserting copyright in HN comments, something that any of us could do, because the copyright is already there under modern copyright law, and asserting the copyright openly and publicly helps battle infringement.
Fred Destin: The Vexing Issue of the Bubble in Startup Land
Its not about not thinking for yourself, its about avoiding unnecessary choice. Our lives our filled with enough real decisions without the need for inane and subtle product ones. Most people do not need to be worrying about the voltage of their electric toothbrush. Its not because they're brainwashed and hate diversity.

With the iPhone I'm now forced to regret the decision either way. The iPhone 6+ is too big for my hands, but the smaller one doesn't support the special landscape mode stuff and has a worse camera. They haven't even provided a clear upgrade differentiation, I'm forced to consider tradeoffs, in a product that I used to not think about at all.

Similarly, I am incredibly skeptical that we really needed 2 different watch sizes (given that reviewers say both feel fine). I'm sure you'd agree we don't need 55 sizes in between the current two sizes, so its clear that its possible to have too much choice. Add to this three variations (hopefully there won't be different capacities like with iPhones too) and its just a fact that you created a necessity for me to try them on first before just buying them online.
"But today’s [document] release only underscores the need for basic structural reforms to bring transparency to the NSA’s surveillance activities"
and how would those reforms come when majority of population and hence politicians are okay with such surveillance? that's a dream. makes good hacker news debate and nothing beyond that.
A couple things I've learned so far
I found myself actually wanting the watch reading this, which caught me off guard. Really well done.
I think you know what you wrote was done well.

While I don't think so much should be viewed under the 'what would Jobs do' prism, I agreed with your points on product development, choice, and presentation. Brilliantly written.
But, can it handle the real stress test: filenames with colons?
Developer as a Service
Was he actually guilty of insider trading?
I think this is it, or at least part: https://chromium.googlesource.com/arc/arc
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> The reason is there's no repeatable, objective way to gather evidence.

Not even wrong.
Wirth is a true believer in strong typing: marrying strong types to inflexible compilers

If I understand that quote, he means that variant records are dangerous because they make it possible for programmers to interpret data in different ways, thus bypassing the type checks of the compiler and invalidating the whole concept of strong typing. He mentions a little more about this in his paper on The History of Modula 2 and Oberon: http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Articles/Modula-Oberon....
This seems to be a step in the wrong direction. The user's connectedness to their friends is now becoming even more superficial.

People already spend too much time consuming social content that doesn't enrich their lives, and this type of content is even more detached than anything on fb, twitter, or snapchat.
Open Source is driving disruption in technology
I'm not a lawyer so nothing I say below means anything.

From what I can tell - yes - he was guilty of insider trading by the letter of the law. Sharing insider information as CEO about the future of the company with shareholders is by definition insider trading. Despite circumstances, warning that contracts were being gutted is still illegal.
I wish Prolog got 1/10 the interest from people that Lisp gets.
My understanding is that since he told major stakeholders what was about to happen, he gave them inside information to trade on and went to jail for that instead of making trades himself.
> Presumably, if they didn't pay the huge bill for their fines, what would happen?

It's easy to think of shady secret things the government could do to coerce Yahoo! in to either complying or paying. But at the end of the day, there's always people with guns.
19-40% is pretty usurious. Alongside the requirement for operational control over payments makes this a bad idea. For small amounts (under $250k) you're better off even taking a personal unsecured term loan (8-15%) or remortgaging (4-6%). But there are still better business options provided by venture-aware banks and lenders like SVB, CNB, Square 1, WTI etc.
Like any specification there is a tolerance band on battery capacity specifications. One of the unique things about batteries is the tolerance band is often stated as being asymmetrical, since no one would reject a battery for having too high of a capacity (unless it's physically too large or something). So instead of a spec like "200 mAh +/- 10mAh" and the implied symmetrical distribution of real measured values, you get something like "200 mAh +20mAh -10mAh".
It is indeed simple, though the use of ``Data.Dynamic`` raises a few eyebrows.
ISIS as startup: Explosive growth, highly disruptive
Well if you end up doing it, please email me
these comparisons have become cliche. Android fans know well that iPhone doesn't sell for just it's capabilities. Apple has an aura. And actually Apple fans can't stop laughing over how Android fans are frustrated that Apple sells their under capable devices so well
Why is the size of the app so huge? I started the download until I saw it was 100mb. I'm fairly sure my Android Evernote app is half that size, and that's including data.
One of the authors here. In terms of expressiveness, Hakaru is much more in the mold of something like Church, Venture, or Anglican where we can more easily express nonparametric models. This means in the context of the model, once a random variable is generated from a prior distribution, it might be used as an ordinary Haskell value and be directly used to in the control-flow. When that happens you can write models where the number of parameters changes based on values of parameters generated earlier in the model. As a concrete example, imagine a Bayesian Neural Network where there was a prior on how many layers are in the neural network.

This is in contrast to something like PyMC where random variables are very much special objects that interacted with, and making nonparametric models is trickier.

Like PyMC, Figaro, Infer.NET and Factorie but unlike OpenBUGS this is a library so it is easier to use a larger prediction application. We don't support some of the optimizations that OpenBUGS can do when presented with a model.

As another note, this is a fairly new piece of code. Unlike PyMC, BLOG, Stan, and other probabilistic programming systems we only support Importance Sampling and a fairly naive version of Metropolis Hastings. This is in contrast to many of the existing solutions where you can do things like Particle MCMC and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo. We do intend to eventually support these inference techniques.
Yes, Anandtech covered it here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7235/moto-x-review/4

Running the 55x for voice detection/recognition consumes far less power than an OMAP core, since it has to be running all the time.
There's a fairly large part of the ex-Prolog community that decided to go all-in on the declarative part, partly in reaction to that, and partly in reaction to other warts in Prolog's semantics, like the fact that statement order is significant. There was a period when logic-programming theorists were trying to come up with what Prolog's semantics would be, if you assumed it was possible to give it a vaguely logic-style semantics versus defining its semantics as "whatever SLDNF gives you". One of the proposals that came out that was the "stable model semantics". And that gave rise to a purely declarative logic-programming paradigm, answer-set programming. That has then turned out to mesh well with modern developments in SAT/SMT/etc. solver-style systems, instead of Prolog's more classic backtracking search, so sits at some kind of intermediate space where it's about equally influenced by the logic-programming heritage and the "solver" heritage.

A well-maintained / open-source implementation: http://potassco.sourceforge.net

An introductory paper: http://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/2008/AAAI08-270.pdf
Megastartups Aren’t the Norm
In general people/entities with principles and morals have a higher price to pay. For them it's worth it.
The single version of the watch is spot on. As is the implicit point that maybe they could have hit this year's holiday season if they hadn't tried to make so many different versions.

The best part of what you wrote is the end, where Steve ties the watch to the human experience. I hadn't thought about his keynotes from that lens before -- you showed me something new.
The writer says a lot of things that are just silly. For instance:

It's hard enough to craft desire for a single identity. When asked to think of an Apple Watch, people don't know what to picture. Can you imagine if the original iPhone in 2007 came with sixty customizable skins?

Well, um, it did come with hundreds of customizable skins. They were called iPhone cases. They were, and still are, endemic.

Instead of a single, perfect product, we got a jumble of features and choices.

Actually, there is no functional difference between the various Apple Watch lines. It is a single product. It simply allows the user to customize the appearance of the product. This is necessitated by the fact that this device, unlike all Apple devices to date, is worn on your body.
Most of the complexity of needing Data.Dynamic has to do with the way we store the heterogeneous collection that is our observed data. There is a nicer way to do this which I hope lands in a future release.
Uber Drivers Strike, and switch to Lyft over fares and conditions
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Looks great!

Quick question, are there only 10 submissions or is the pagination broken?
I'm not sure you need an extension for that. I'm reading this on Safari/iOS (which has no plugins) and those usernames show up in green for me too.
I hate to see this happen. One of the first computers I touched was a TRS-80.
What I saw on 9/11. This is not a joke
On the morning of 9/11 I was heading to work at an office on 11th avenue in West Chelsea. I exited the 23rd ST C train station at about 9:00 AM. I immediately heard the incredibly loud sound of a jet plane directly overhead. This was not the sound of a jet plane passing overhead at cruising altitude. This was the sound you hear when driving into an airport terminal with planes taking off and landing right above your car. I turned and saw a twin-engine jet plane flying south over 8th avenue. It was so low that it was practically buzzing the two-story buildings on the east side of the block. The plane appeared to be descending slowly and smoothly. The first thought that went trough my mind was that it was going to land in the middle of the street. My next thought was "what the hell kind of plane is this?"It was roughly the same size and shape as a 747 but there were no windows along the fuselage. It was painted flat gray like a battle ship. There were no logos, no stripe across the fuselage, no writing, no bright splash of color on the tail. Just flat gray. The only discernible marking was a light blue "bulls eye" nose on the nose of the cockpit. When the plane flew beyond my field of vision I wanted to stick around but I was late for a staff meeting. I boarded the M23 bus hoping that it might be a few minutes faster than walking. A few minutes later I heard a smashing sound so loud that it nearly burst my ear drums. My brain knew it was the plane but my heart wanted to believe otherwise. I knew my worst fears were confirmed when I heard the bus driver's CB radio. The dispatcher was instructing the drivers to suspend service after dropping off their passengers. The voice on the CB tried to assure the drivers who were downtown. "we'll get you out of there as soon as possible!" As I exited the bus at the last stop the Driver said "Folks be careful, they just bombed the World Trade Center!" Here's my question, did you see what I saw? Can you explain what I saw?
Ask HN: Do you write your own content?
We have a small startup of ~10 people which are all tech savvy but none of us are amazing writers. Should we write our own content even if it's average? Is it worth hiring a content writer full time or just going freelance?

(Content includes blogs, website pages, newsletters etc)
That the iPhone is shown with Guardians of the Galaxy on the screen in his hypothetical is all wrong -- you can't get it in iTunes today. Apple would should a movie you can buy right now.
You're right that's not a real distinction.

I would say there's a spectrum though, even among JavaScript apps, of standards adherence. For example you could draw your own glyphs on a HTML canvas element. That would still be "the open web" in some literal sense, but it's less of a web app in that case and more of a JavaScript app that can run in the browser.

You're right that using the browser as the runtime is a key requirement for an open web app, but I would add a bunch more criteria:

- every user-relevant resource has a URL.

- content is rendered with the semantic tags HTML provides when possible

- the app is performant in common browsers

- you use HTML and CSS in a way that things degrade gracefully on older browsers

- you use standard interactions (hyperlinks, forms) wherever possible and implement your own widgets only when necessary.

By these criteria many pure HTML apps are not good open web apps. The old practice of rendering text in GIFs to get typefaces and anti-aliasing was a step away from "the open web".

I don't think it's strictly a technical line people are talking about. It's a set of conventions that let us write code that is cross platform and gets many benefits for free (sharability, printability, responsive design, etc)
Is it because it was made to the shareholders? If it had instead been announced publically would it have been considered insider trading?
Apple now accepts videos in the App Store
But at the end of the day, there's always people with guns.

I think the point of the OP is that "people with guns" get to be pretty hard to hide at larger scales.
Just asked Peter Thiel a question. I hope he responds.
Are there any advantages of using SailMail versus WinLink over HF? I can't say I'm significantly familiar with either system, but at first glance they appear to offer similar functionality, with of course the latter requiring an Amateur Radio license.
Down voted because you disagree? Or you don't know what cpio is? Either way please discuss instead of or in addition to voting.
5M Google usernames, passwords leaked online
[reason]

"...have a valuation."
That would be an awesome item in the quarterly SEC filing: REDACTED $23M
I use rsync to replicate 10TB+ volumes without any problems. It's also very fast to catch up on repeat runs, so you can ^C it without being too paranoid.
The important point is Apple did not sell those cases when the iPhone was first released. It didn't talk about the idea of customizing it. People will figure out how to own their phone and make it personal.

I think the author of this piece did a great job channeling a likely, and better, introduction.