skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UPDATE i'm using this now this script is amazeballs!!
Hypocrisy doesn't invalidate an opinion automatically.
I did not mean it this way.
Wikipedia doesn't agree with you (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American)

American also means

> Something of, from, or related to the Americas
> Indigenous peoples of the Americas

If you had lived in a Latin american country and spoken enough with the locals, you would know that many refer to themselves as "Americans".
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To be honest, he's not looking for privacy for this statement. He's looking for exactly the opposite, so using the thing that doesn't care for privacy doesn't matter for this instance.
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This is good advice except focus on parenting communities, not startup websites. Parenting communities are almost entirely your ideal customer vs. just a subset of startup communities.

http://mashable.com/2011/01/21/parenting-social-networks/

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/237922
I suspect that unfortunately, the sport is always going to carry with it a not insignificant risk of brain injury. Technology and policy can help a lot, no doubt, but the fundamentals of the game sort of preclude it ever becoming truly safe.
Am I the only person who has no idea what's going on here? I'm just walking around picking up stuff and sometimes changing into something else. What else is there to do in this world? Besides building more stuff to wear or throw around that is...
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http://owncloud.org/

You don't have to write your own Dropbox. You just have to host one.

And even beside the question of government surveillance there is the advantage that it is under your control, not somebody else's. File sharing is so generic that the lockin opportunity is less than it is in other domains (like social networking) but there still can be advantage to being the owner and not merely a renter.
What should we use then? If someone tells me to change X program, please, give me alternatives, otherwise, I'll stick with that.

PS: Quite ironic to see him saying "get rid of Google", through an Hangouts session.
I see it as the same reason chefs don't like cutting carrots with table knives. It's a lot cheaper than a nice knife, and the carrots get all mushed up in the stew either way. But a nice knife is just a joy to use, and when you cut carrots all day, you want something that is a joy to use.
There were a lot of early fax machines. If you want one, a Western Union DeskFax is available on eBay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vtg-WESTERN-UNION-Fax-Machine-Box-of...

That device is well understood, and interfaces to modern equipment have been built. You might have to replace some tubes and capacitors.

Anyone know how Jenkins handled sync? That was a huge problem with early systems.
Yeah, I've come to the same conclusions. And I get mad at myself because surely this means I'm not thinking creative enough. But then the ideas I've seen on the web so far are pretty much trivial -- connected kitchen appliances and changing the colour of your living room lighting from your phone, and "wearable tech" that tells you how many steps you've taken that day.

The IoT has huge potential, but when a company with the resources of Samsung is making Instagram connected fridges, maybe it needs to be rethought. Similar to how the web was rethought circa 2000-2001.
The number I gave was Samsung and Apple US spend for promotions on mobile. The Asymco link you gave is for Samsung Electronics, which is the whole that makes televisions, cameras, printers, semiconductors, and so on. That number is a garbage comparison, but somehow, and conveniently, it is the one that is always referenced when pushing the "Samsung advertises so much more" angle.
There is an interesting branding question here. Imagine an alternate history where all our historical footage of Stalin or Hitler all had Google watermarks.
Apple stopped selling it on their website.

Most competitive makes don't sell their devices on their website at all. That really doesn't demonstrate anything.

Not only does Apple still manufacture the 4S, they recently restarted production of the iPhone 4 (sans S) for the developing world. I would cite this, but you can find references everywhere and with ease, so that hardly seems necessary.
Way back when, I used a spreadsheet to implement some digital signal processing algorithms for a class I was taking. It found it significantly aided in understanding.
That's an "industrial" application. Manufacturing plants have been heavily networked for decades. Hospitals are going that way, but security is a problem.
it's sort of like trying to argue that "Whose Line" is not a game without points. There are types there, but they don't matter at all. You can cast anything to anything and it will never fail.
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Not being a drink or erratic driver, I was thinking more of driving when I'm tired. It is possible to be a little too tired to drive safely without realising it, but I imagine the extra small adjustments you make when this happens - because you drift and correct - would be recognisable by the car.

It would be a huge pain if you are on a long drive and your car decides you need a nap! But it would save lives, possibly mine. Personal transport is a convenience. Personal safety is paramount.
Divide things very clearly between public and private. If you need to publicly share documents, then use Dropbox. This is a lesson a lot of people who used SnapChat are learning or are about to learn.
As a Greek I can only say that Greek Youtube comments is same story different package. Welcome to the human condition baby :D

To be fair though loads of people with very good sense of humour in youtube. I love to read comments on funny videos because the comments are even funnier than the video itself.

Also plenty of intelligent and well informed discussion if you have the patience to search for it. Usually its on technical videos, for example I never had a problem on the comments of my youtube videos (which tend to be technical and technology driven) and I think I deleted comments only once or twice . To give you an idea my most popular video has 400k views.Spam has been more of a problem for me.
It looks like this was fixed on October 7.
I'm far more interested in the intranet of things, then the internet of things.
Do people seriously think that an adversary with a virtually limitless budget like the NSA can be "defeated"? You can make their life a lot harder. You can slow them down with good passwords and excellent crypto, assuming your hardware or software crypto isn't backdoored, but unless you have infinite sums of cash to spend on defense, you can't beat them if you in specific are targeted.

Using tor and lots more crypto is solid advice, but don't pretend you can "beat them".
In case you may be unaware, the Economist has a tradition of not ascribing authorship to any of its writers.
Public office hours at startup school are unprofessional?
After today's startup school public office hours, I had the chance to talk to Qasar Younis and expressed to him that I thought the way he conducted public office hours was unprofessional. (to be clear, this specifically involves public office hours in front of thousands of people, not private and group office hours)

What we agree on:

- The partners genuinely want to help startups to succeed

- It's best to be completely honest and never sugar-coat things

- Public office hours was designed to be helpful to both attendees and the startup on stage

- The content of the office hours feedback was productive

What we disagree on:

- Qasar claims that if you can't handle public office hours onstage, you wouldn't cut it with a VC and you probably aren't the founder type. I disagree. Example: Mark Zuckerberg probably would have fumbled over a public office hours appearance early in his facebook days (he's since become a much better communicator).

- Qasar was not open to considering changing the public-only office hours format, even when I asked if I could send him a few ideas in an e-mail. He said YC has been doing this for 10 years and it won't change. Why refuse to even look at possible suggestions?

There are more professional ways to criticize a founder's idea or UI in front of thousands of people other than embarrassing them rapid-fire ambush style, regardless of whether or not the founders know exactly what they're getting into. For example, what about a public office hours that shows and explains the improvement from a previous office hours? This seems much more of a realistic scenario, given that YC office hours are periodic.
Sounds awesome, thanks for the tip. The comments on the HN thread have been far more fruitful than the original article, in my opinion.
When a nude man living in a glass house tells me he has nothing to hide, I will believe him.
Because the modifications are slight and still within the normal range of variation in the uninfected population.
To be clear, you don't need to "eat" the cat's feces. Tons of human infections spread by the same route (feco-oral), almost none of which are caused by humans literally eating other humans' feces.

For example, have you ever seen a cat lick its paws? And then lick it's fur (that you pet)? Well, those same paws have been in the cat's litter box (as pointed out by another comment).

Also, if you empty out the litter box and the feces are dried, they can create dust which a human might breath in (and swallow).

So just as with humans, infections spread from cat to human by feco-oral route are not literally from "eating feces".
SDF has had one or two incidents with malicious people recently, but there was no damage. Low-quality hard disks have been causing bigger problems.
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If you viewed this on a phone, you'd see that the table based layout is not up for the task either.
Wan to borrow my laptop for a while to post the written notes? ;) I'm in the back.
I don't want my commute distance to limit my employment opportunities.

I can't envision a day where I personally would be capable of lugging my day's supplies on a bike 20+ miles (each way!), nor where it's practical to take public transit. Nor do I want to only be limited to working in areas my local public transit serves.

This ideal you have just isn't realistic for an awful lot of people. Especially those not living in the large metropolitan areas.
Blood in your stool in tiny amounts is a indicator of colon cancer.
It's always hard to be absolutely certain about what goes on at a company, but I'm pretty confident about Dropbox not participating in PRISM (defined as a government system that automatically collects considerable data from within a company's private systems).

I haven't been at Dropbox for a year now, but for most of the time I was there I was one of only two SREs that ran the production infrastructure. I knew every piece of server hardware in every datacenter, and what services ran on them. It was my job to qualify and deploy hardware, do the systems level automation, and run the user facing frontends. There is literally no way that something like PRISM could be put in place without my knowledge except by what would amount to sabotage.

Keep in mind that while Dropbox is large for a startup, it only recently surpassed 1,000 employees (150 when I joined). The vast majority of those people are in customer service, and the number of people with access to production is likely still well under 100. For the first five years of the company's life there was one datacenter manager and network engineer (the same person), one SRE up until I was hired, and so on. In operations, we did more with less.

However, this shouldn't make you feel like your data in Dropbox is guaranteed to be safe from prying government eyes. Dropbox can and does comply with government requests -- every company operating in the US does so, or they would not be operating anymore.

I agree with your distaste towards Condoleezza Rice joining the board. It doesn't look good, but I also doubt that she has any day-to-day authority or responsibilities whatsoever.
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Director James Clapper of the NSA testified before congress that the NSA was not collecting any information on American Citizen.

He was outright lying when he said that. [1] I would be interesting in how you know PRISM does not "collect" information for further "review" later?

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/01/27...
One theoretical problem with this is that it's impossible to know for sure that a packet has been lost and there's no one-size-fits-all timeout to use. On most links it doesn't matter too much, but that may be the reasoning. I've seen ping times spike in excess of two minutes on real-world internet connections (abusing 1xRTT data through a RAZR back when those were still cool) and it was... if not useful, at least interesting, to know that the data wasn't actually being dropped but was just taking a really long time.
My first thought is that if you had to do that these days, you'd just run a terminal app on your phone over WiFi or something of the sort. My second thought is that the vocoder solution is basically setting up a one-way human-compatible wireless network over sonar.
Marijuana isn't a performance enhancer. What interest does the NFL have in whether a player is using it?
Well, that was a silly ending but always fun to team up with some random anon.

Have you looked into implementing some form of AI/bot API or the like? With the major workload being done on the creator/owner side.
The problem with your solution is that you have the closed source drop box app on your machine, and it could be reading anything, including the contents of those files before they are encrypted.
With owncloud if there's a fire in your house, or your cat knocks over a pitcher of water over your server, you lose your stuff. Plus it would be slow as dirt, since upload is limited by your ISP, and especially slow if you're traveling to some other continent. If you use a third party host you're basically as vulnerable as you would be on Dropbox, plus you have to maintain the thing and it's only a subset of the features. Again actual inconvenience for something (NSA snooping) you can't be sure affects you even in the least.

And beyond just being a subset of the features, it doesn't have Dropbox's ecosystem. Can you auto-sync your Oreilly Media books automatically with own cloud right from the Oreilly website? Does 1Password automatically sync with it? Is there a screen sharing app that automatically pushes to owncloud? Does it have a push API? IFTTT support? I, and others, use all these with Dropbox and it probably doesn't make sense to give them up because the NSA is the boogeyman FUD.
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Looks like Firefox 32 does not have the Resource Timing API on by default. They have a note in the readme to check caniuse.com and then caniuse.com mentions you have to turn on the API in 32 in about:config.
So people should just upload unencrypted data willy nilly to 3rd party servers because they aren't mentioned in a leaked document? Sounds like a terrible security plan.
I find the framing of this nytimes article to be rather condescending, as if a reasonable person should have a problem with taking such a pill, if it is actually effective.

(though the science behind it, in itself, also still seems shaky at this point)
I would love to have intelligent outlets (tied to an intelligent circuit breaker box) so I could monitor electrical consumption at home. I'm sure knowing how much our appliances pull when "off" so we could intelligently unplug them when leaving for vacation, or at least know what's causing the high electric bill for the month.

But I would want to have something completely under my control, where the information doesn't leave the house.
Oh, I am not by any means trying to turn the news into something. I am merely expressing my distaste with nationalism and what it can do to people.
The subtitle of the article is a bit more descriptive: "Laura Poitras’s Closeup View of Edward Snowden" vs the current HN (and article) title of "The Holder of Secrets".
Children already have some regenerative abilities, a lost finger tip in a child of only a few years will usually grow back if the wound is not sutured close by surgeons. Extending that to all humans might not be all that impossible.

Wikipedia has more information in the mammalian and human sections in the article on regeneration.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regeneration_(biology)
Howdy, I'm the CTO of UtilityAPI (one of the on-stage office hours companies). Before we went on, they made it clear that these office hours were not similar to or substitutes for the YC interview. These were intended to be more examples of typical office hour interactions in the program.
> I am surprised at how many companies seem to keep their software in private repositories on github and bitbucket. That seems like a security hole, if software if the core of your business.

More secure than open source projects. Many of them use public repositories on GitHub and Bitbucket!
Are you talking about motorcycle helmets?
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Win8 does implement fuzzy touch targeting (looking at the geometry of your entire finger contact region instead of a single point, and picking a best-match UI element) on the desktop. Office 2013 (desktop) also invested in a bunch of touch improvements. It hasn't been enough. (plus, they already tried this approach with touch on win7 and it didn't seem to be working - which, among other reasons, was why they changed tack for win8 in the first place.)
As a Macedonian (the Greek kind), your father isn't that wrong. The government is already trying to use the tomb of Amphipolis for that, even contrary to scientific evidence.

I don't think anyone will even dispute that ancient Macedonia was this entire region, it stands to reason that tombs would be found all over the place. The claims over heritage/language/etc are rather different from that.
It's thoughtfully done, but it is also useless as a dashboard, providing too little to do.

I personally prefer Rubber New Tab because it is minimal in design, not content.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rubber-new-tab/dcc...
Your home must not have any windows -- or at least, any windows that receive direct sunlight.

During the summer, we manually maintain the indoor temperature by following a simple -- but very manual -- formulaic process:

- When it gets cooler outside than it is inside (evening, night), open the windows.
- If it gets too cold outside, close the windows in rooms we're occupying.
- When it gets warmer outside than it is inside (mid-day on), close the windows.
- When the sun hits the windows directly, close the blinds.
- When the sun stops hitting the windows, open them again.

Rinse, repeat.

If we follow these steps, we can keep the house a very comfortable temperature with zero energy costs.

If we don't, it invariably gets too hot AND/OR too cold over a 24 hour period.

"Add more insulation" doesn't help much, unless you're suggesting we use insulation as a window covering.
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EncFS isn't supposed to be used against people who have access to the ciphertext at different times. Consider any file you've changed at least once as compromised.
I've always been suspicious of cats.
The code can be simplified, removing all stuff related to null. Initialise the transducer field of reducibles with the identity transformation !
Interesting. A very different kind of tool than doc-view.
The big win is having sensors for outside conditions, with fans and vents the system can operate. Then the system knows when to use outside air.
That's quite common for commercial HVAC gear. There are lots of commercial HVAC units regularly sending pager-type messages to a maintenance service. Again, that's been around for years.
I'm still not confident. Don't actually answer these questions (NDA and all), but how much traffic do you guys get? Could you possibly inspect it all? Have you inspected the hardware itself? Can you trust the switching equipment?It's reasonable to think that collection happens at the pipes between data centers (like some of the Google collections - which didn't involve any of the hardware present although that collection program wasn't a cooperative one).

Some of the lengths they go for these programs are really impressive. It was revealed that AT&T had secret rooms built that blend into the building infrastructure but MITM every packet that gets sent through (what looks like) normal infrastructure lines.

At some point it feels like you're being asked to prove a negative. That's the thing about discussing secret operations. And it is why the documents are so important.

I wonder now that the Snowden leaks are getting dated about a year old (and it being a few since you've left Dropbox) how much has changed.

Finally, the other companies on Snowden's list are certifiably on the list of already onboarded products, so it's hard to trust them.

> I also doubt that she has any day-to-day authority or responsibilities whatsoever

For example she assigned a new CFO for Dropbox. I doubt she has day-to-day authority (she's a busy woman), but being on the board and selecting upper management is a lot of power.
How about a more mundane example?

A friend who worked for an analytics agency once told me that insurance companies are very interested in having access to the purchasing histories of their subscribers.

We speculated why, and among several possibilities, we figured the most likely and obvious is this: what happens when you get cancer or have a heart attack at 72 and your insurance company denies all your medical claims citing the entire volume of ice cream, pork, beer, coffee and diet coke you've consumed in your life? Or cite all your family and friends that smoke, even though you don't?

I make what I think are quite responsible choices with my health, but that conversation has stuck with me as an example of how information about me, information I'm not trying to 'hide', information that I didn't consider especially 'private', might be used against me at some point in the future.
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Depends. Species might come and go, depending on how dynamic the evolutionary environment is there.
Tech companies can't give up what they've never had, and tech companies choose whether or not they'll store user data centrally.

Here's one for your list: http://syncthing.net/
You drive your car to the outskirts of the city, and use public transportation inside.
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Microsoft's first open source project, Wix, is 10 years old.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiX
I read the title and immediately thought twice about clicking the link.