skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that I agree or disagree, but the argument is similar to the Second Amendment argument that the framers of the Constitution couldn't imagine M-16s, let alone nuclear weapons.

I understand precedence, but I don't get blind adherence to it. It's a dangerous and - dare I say, lazy - to not revisit old laws and court decisions that could not imagine the present. It's odd to me for a judge not to assume (s)he has leverage to challenge old decisions - and when one does (like challenging government assertions of state secrets) they're derided as "activist."

If we find an old ruling or law still valid, then so be it. But bad (and good) precedents needs constant revisiting, or we'd still have prohibition, slavery, and so on.
one can send encrypted messages on a peer-to-peer basis by the simple expedient of running one's on mail server

...except that you rely on the rest of the internet to actually deliver the message. So in a sense, the argument is the same: you have a reasonable expectation of privacy on the contents but not the addressing information.

But I think this argument misses a big part of the EFF's point. The reason that Smith v Maryland is outdated is that the nature of surveillance analysis has changed. The legal standard should not be based on some technicalities of implementation, but rather on the actual real effects in terms of policy and expectations.

Yes, technically, the difference between looking at a handful of records manually pulled by a technician in response to a court order and examining the metadata of literally every phone call made using sophisticated machine learning algorithms is one of degree, not kind. However, the difference in result is one of kind, not degree, and it's facetious to argue otherwise.

Basing our legal standard on such a technicality simply encourages the government to find loopholes. Basing it on the effective results makes the standard relevant, meaningful and future-proof.
If you ever spent time around lead gen and marketing business for general contracting services like remodel, HVAC (AC or Heating) and the like, you'd know how many shady actors are out there.

I thought myself more or less immune to much of these schemes as I have been around that industry a number of years in the past, but recently feel for a company pretending to be a local locksmith on google maps, when they are actually a lead gen company that sold me on an unrealistically low quote. When the guy showed up at 11pm and told me it was 5x the quote and explained all the reasons why the person on the phone really did not "lie" to me, I suddenly remembered what lead gen is...
KamlKzed...brilliant! I already have a failed startup called CompassionateHogly. We built software for calculating optimal broom width for a given arm length.

Otherwise that's the best list I've seen yet!
> To be fair, udev communicates over netlink. :)

To be fair, udev communicates with the kernel via netlink. All the userspace notifications are done via dbus. So dbus was already part of the equation whether people realize it or not.

http://blogas.sysadmin.lt/?p=141
I believe the term you're looking for is 'precedent'.
I worked unskilled labor in NYC before and during college (and a short time after). I've seen attempts to scam jobseekers, I've been sexually harassed (I'm male) and I've worked for assholes but I have never seen a legitimate employer that was even remotely this bad.
Does that really illustrate 'hard to get along with'?
70-90K NZD
I'm using the same scheme for some time and it works nice. It started with
simple alias as well, but then it expanded into bigger wrapper script over
time. You can check it here

https://github.com/marbu/dogit/blob/master/README.md

That said, I'm not sure if it would be direclty usable for anyone other that me
in it's current state. It's tailored to my use case and there are few not so
well solved use cases.

Few additional advantages of this approach in general:

You can use local branch which is private to the machine and a public branch,
Whatewer you commit ends up in the local private branch and if you would like
to share it, you need to cherry pick particular commit and rebase (so that you
I don't end up sharing private ssh key on github).

You can use any git tool directly on your dotfiles.

One can directly add vim submodules into the dotfiles repo.
What jumps to mind, and what few people ever want to discuss, is that one of the possible differences between men and women - that women seek out highly social jobs / career paths at a higher rate than men - might be in play. That is, that women find it harder to suffer through the loneliness that can come with being a hacker.

I spent a lot of years working by myself, entirely alone. It never bothered me, all I wanted to do was learn and build. I've never met a woman in my entire life that would have been ok with that isolation.
Yes, if the spreadsheet is actually spreadsheet, that's one thing. (And perhaps that works better than CSVs...)

What being circulated around is those spreadsheets with 1x1 grids used to create a document. No document structures; even TOC would be handwritten instead of auto generated from the heading.
Where's the affordance in those? They don't look any different to badges.
Ask HN: VC-like jobs and opportunities?
I enjoy reading about startup and business strategies by the likes of Thiel, Andressen, etc. I like how its multi-disciplinary, covering economics, history, politics, statistics, etc.

They get to predict the future and make bets on it with capital.

What kinds of careers or opportunities lets you think about these strategies every day?

I'm already investing in public company stocks, but aside from angel investing, what things can you do that keep you in this world?
Coffee is an acquired taste, not sure anyone likes it at first. Diet soda is just as bad for you as regular soda and has also been linked to diabetes and obesity.
Increase security (or difficulty) with Yubikey
Quoting myself from the hovertext on the "Yahoo" scores:

> Yahoo is of course googlable today but from the perspective of choosing new names, anything that's a dictionary word isn't very unique
Is it simple to create the future? YES. (www.pendilly.com)
after you have potential names, here's my step-by-step walkthrough for the US trademark application process - http://adlervermillion.com/how-to-trademark-part-2-registrat...

The trademark application process, at its core, is simple data collection. Sadly, the TM Office website complicates this simple process with a set of baffling forms. Their design philosophy is “more but worse.” Only 40% of DIY apps are approved, so a TM lawyer is recommended. But if you're going to go DIY, just gird yourself for a miserable user experience.
> in Western Europe you basically trip over container loads of the stuff at every supermarket's entrance

And restaurants in Europe can't seem to give you just plain water unless you specify. I spent my entire vacation being surprised by bubbles before getting what I wanted.
After JPMorgan Breach, a Greater Push to Fortify Wall Street Banks
The project in which I implemented this toolset is working great and it only took me one weekend to implement too. I am not saying Firebase is inferior at all.

Just, for my situation, I am not sure why I need to pay for that functionality when I can literally set it up in one day vs reading the documentation on how to set it up on Firebase in the same time.

I also control all outcomes and avoid ones like this where Google could potentially take over control of a large portion of your app.

My server side code is about 100 lines. This controls a chat server, chat rooms, youtube video commands. And its currently working just fine with 4,000 visitors a day on a vps that cost $5 a month.

Why not learn how to do it yourself? Especially if you already have vps. I am using varnish with multiple sites and it took a couple hours to set up. I am really confused on this.
> What can I do instead?

It's simply a matter of following the three rules I mentioned: make clear what's changed, use an accurate and neutral title, and don't solicit upvotes.
May be a most informative digests about web development ever
I couldn't replicate the behavior he was talking about in Word for Mac 2011. Setting the style on a paragraph, regardless of how much text formatting you've done (I tried approx. 25%,50%, 75%, 90%+) doesn't touch any direct formatting.

If you want to clear the direct formatting, and revert to the paragraph style, you have to manually "Clear formatting" from that Paragraph - which is exactly the behavior I would expect.

The behavior he described is horrible, and I'm happy that it's not present in my version of Word. (Note, you can ask word to display the styles applied to paragraphs in the left side bar, and also ask it to highlight any place direct formatting has been applied. Very useful when doing style management).
ForkedCow.com is not available... because I just bought it :-) Thanks!
Ron Conway – An (almost) complete timeline
I've recently come to realize that I'm consistently terrible at recognizing faces.

Anecdotal of course, but at this point I've noticed and heard / seen it demonstrated by other people enough to give me pause.

When I think about describing someone, it's almost always in terms of what they've said - specific choices of words, tone or body language, certainly never about the face.

If true, I wonder if this would be any sort of advantage / disadvantage?
Well the memory leaks and approach to fallback connections led to it being more sensible to roll our own.

We've only needed to handle concurrent connections in the 1-10k range though.

There are really better c++ and erlang implementations we've investigated but won't pull those off the shelf till needed.

Obviously there's loads of great realtime-as-a-service offerings like Firebase and Pusher that make sense for a lot of use cases, just not ours.

We were always uncomfortable with relying on a third party for a core aspect of infrastructure, and this acquisition introduces uncertainty that we don't have to worry about.
Watching Virtual Creatures Learn How to Walk Is Surprisingly Hilarious
I'm building my product on top of Firebase using AngularFire and this news worries me so much. At first I thought it could be great but after reading all the comments here I'm not sure what to think anymore. The CEO is saying that they will continue developing the platform but apparently history shows that such promises are not always kept. Firebase is such an awesome product that it will be really terrible for Google to shut it down. I come from a Ruby On Rails and SQL background and as soon as I saw an app running with Angular and Firebase, I fell in love right away. I have already put too much time and effort into making my product with Angular and Firebase that it is too late to go back now, I will have to take the risk. Honestly if Google shuts it down, I'm sure they will release the source code at the very least. I think I'm going to be optimistic and hope that Google makes the right choice.
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# Web Design

http://getbootstrap.com/ - Robust and solid framework for responsive projects

http://fontawesome.io/ - Icons out of the box

https://www.google.com/fonts - Hundred of Fonts ready to use

http://theolabrothers.com/sip/ - Color picker for developers

# Collaboration

https://github.com - Code review, and code management

https://trello.com/ - Free web-based project management

https://www.wunderlist.com/ - ToDo list made easy

# Hosting

http://aws.amazon.com/ - Rock solid hosting

http://www.dreamhost.com/ - Easy Hosting

# Analytics

http://www.google.com/analytics/ - Detailed statistics for your website

https://mixpanel.com - Advanced analytics platform

# Mail

http://mailchimp.com/ - Mailing list done the cool way

# Blog

https://wordpress.org/ - Install your blog in minutes

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/ - Easy SEO for your blog

# Resources

http://www.feedthebot.com/ - Test and improve website for search engine

http://stackoverflow.com/ - Question and answer for your project

http://growthhackers.com/ - Unlock growth

http://www.producthunt.com/ - Ready to ship your product?

# Files

https://www.wetransfer.com/ - Send big or small files from A to B.

https://www.dropbox.com/ - Backup, sync and share files

# Focus

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# Bonus

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https://justgetflux.com/ - Don't get blinded by your computer screen
As long as you and everyone else pronounces it correctly as "veh-lawk-ays". Personally I'd go for "Velocitas" (swiftness).
Maybe Google could open source it themselves. A lot of us didn't want to risk much on Firebase, because who knew what might happen to a small company. With the acquisition, we are now in the position of not wanting to risk a significant part of our business on an insignificant part of Google's.

What to do?

Google could resolve that by both hosting Firebase and open sourcing it. That way, you could outsource the critical Firebase management to Google and not have to build it yourself, while still having the security of knowing that if Google ever made it unavailable (shutting it down, worsening service, raising the price, etc.), you wouldn't be wiped out.

They already offer hosted database service for other OS databases. I hope they'll do the same with Firebase.
You get the water, but you can't take the price of the soda off the menu item.

Say you get a "Big Kahuna Combo" at $4.95 from some joint. The combo comprises a hamburger, a bag of fries and medium soda. Let's say the supermarket price for the same amount of soda is $.95 and the water cost is $1.95 (yes, more.) You'd think the restaurant would be able to swap the soda for a bottle of water and charge you $5.95 for the combo. But the way their combos are created (there are many, many reasons why the combos include a soda, such as soda companies subsidizing the cost of the soda for having soda as the default drink in the menu) doesn't allow for customization. In that case you'll have to pay the full value of the combo + $1.95 for the bottled water. Or get the same combo, for $4.95, but replacing the soda for tap water.

That's what the parent meant.
AirTrain does not go to the parking garage. It was supposed to, but they ran out of money.
Delighted that this is one of the first comments! :)

Note the update on the "nominology" article: "As soon as this went to print, Rob Felty (a linguist) informed me that the established term for what I've called nominology is onomastics. Scooped by 295 years!"

And further discussion in the comments: http://messymatters.com/nominology/
I think the fact that this was as big of a story as it is shows us how poorly people understand how privacy and anonymity work online.

The closer the general response to this story is "Well, duh" I think the better.
Does every aspect of spontaneous human thought need to be given a -ism name and be tagged as a sin? "Face-ism" is essentially pattern-matching, which is the way cognition operates on a fundamental level.

Cognition is about finding statistical regularities in perception data, then using these regularities to make predictions about the future. So, on a completely unconscious level, you are using your memory of thousands of past experiences with people you know to predict a stranger's characteristics based on their appearance (among many other things).

Sometimes, the generalization does not work and your unconscious predictions turn out to be mistaken. The only way not to make mistakes is not to think. And for that, you would have to turn your brain off entirely, since these thoughts are not occurring at a conscious, rational level that you can deliberately police.
You can have multiple git repositories, each for different application. Or you can use git submodules when suitable (eg. vim plugins, directories in ~/.config).
You can't be serious about thinking there's little difference between what men and women are interested in.

I don't know very many men with a strong passion for clothing, fashion, shopping, etc. Maybe 5% of the guys I know are passionate about those things. About 95% of the women I know are.

Sports. I really don't need to explain this one. If you've dated more than a few women, you'd find most of them have a relatively low interest in watching sports on TV. They'd rather be watching True Blood, or Gossip Girl.

Babies. My Facebook feed is non-stop overwhelmed with women posting endless parades of baby related content. Babies, babies, babies, all the time. This is a 27 / 40 something female thing in my observation. None of the guys do this, ever, outside of occasionally posting family photos.

I guess that must just be the people I know, and it just happens to perfectly match up with the cultural stereotypes.
Eh... it depends.

You could have a question that can really only be solved optimally one way but that still provides adequate room to demonstrate problem-solving skills (even without knowing the "slick trick"). Such a question could still be a reasonable question.

Of course, many questions with slick tricks aren't like that. The interviewers who ask these questions also tend to be worse, which exasperates the problem.

In the situation you described - the candidate might still be considered a good candidate. It depends what the interviewer is looking for.
I agree and think don't understand why you'd want your dotfiles to depend on Make, Ruby/rake, etc. let alone something like Stow. Git and a shell are enough; you can eliminate the Git dependency by packaging from a post-receive hook too.
What is the problem with Pricing anyway?
I am sick and tired of all these new SaaS sites that either omit to put their pricing on their website, or hide it as much as they can. Is it that they want you to try the product without giving you any information on how much will it cost?

I never try anything unless I have first checked it is in my budget range. Otherwise is just wasting my time. Am I the only one like this?

Come on entrepreneurs and start-ups, don't be ashamed of your prices! It is frustrating to navigate all pages of a site looking for the pricing. You start to hate the site even before getting to know the product. Example: mint.com

I am not aware of any statistic that proves that this technique makes business sense. Is there any?
We handle this exact problem for lots of SaaS products, start-ups, and other companies at http://churnbuster.io/ . After a few failed re-attempts over a few days, we begin a drip campaign of notifications where we email them every few days with a sequence of different emails until they update their payment information or cancel their account. If the emails don't produce a response and we've got their phone number on file, we'll also try to ring them up on the phone (we have a real person to do this) and send them a follow-up email for whatever the outcome of the phone call was (e.g. customer wants to update online, we left a voicemail, it was the wrong number, etc. etc.) Some companies will have the majority of their success with just the emails, but we have customers where the success rate is split is 50/50 for emails and phone calls. Either way, everyone benefits from the phone calls enough to justify doing it (or in our case paying us to do it.)

As for the "not signed in for months" part, I recommend you not assume someone wants to cancel their account just because they haven't signed into the service in months and their payment information randomly goes bad. Let them tell you this. Depending on the service you provide, people may use it seasonally, but pay each month for you to keep their data on hand. (I've used Basecamp this way before, although now they let you pause your account for up to 6 months.) Sometimes people use services that are "set it and forget it" where the user doesn't actually need to sign into the service to receive value from it. The absolute worst would be for a customer of any type of service to have their account closed for non-payment with no notice whatsoever.

That's really just the tip of the iceberg for thoughts that we've got on this subject, so feel free to reply or email me at andrew@churnbuster.io if you've got any other questions.
If you're going to use a taxi, use the Flywheel app -- it gives you the hail-without-talking-to-someone, see-where-your-car-is-on-a-map, and pay-through-the-app features of Uber/Lyft without surge pricing. Availability is fairly dependent on what part of the city you're in, though.
"Even if they do get sued for sexual harassment or whatever much later down the line (ie. when they're worth suing), it'll still be peanuts compared to their total profit and thus no disincentive to their behaviour."

Interesting example you use there as some sort of proof against "strict capitalism". Indeed, you claim that the individuals can sue, yet then you attribute the lack of sufficient penalty as a failing of capitalism? And not of, say, the state that's failing to regulate it to a sufficient amount of your liking?

A capitalistic answer is this: leave it alone, and it'll correct itself. You can't create an imaginary problem and then blame an economic system for not fixing it to your liking. By imaginary, I mean to say arbitrary, imagined by each individual based on his views/limits/boundaries. Take your examples, you seem to think that "toxic culture", "abuse" and "sexual harassment" are problems, and not just inconvenient situations. Others, like Ashley from the article don't see them as problems enough to warrant her losing her job over. She has other values in mind.

If you want to call "strict capitalism" then you have to admit that people will value non-tangible things. Sexual harassment, toxic culture, weird work hours. They're all factored in by individuals based on the their situation. And the mere fact that they're in that situation means that the return they get from the job is valued higher than the negatives.

Does bad stuff happen? Sure, that happens all the time. Some do cross the really bad boundaries that the majority of individuals agree on. Those are the sorts of things that your state should be "regulating", and not the fluffy stuff below that people are willing to work-around. We suck up and ignore all sorts of stuff all the time, just look at the numerous examples in this discussion. And of course, they also stand up and complain/leave/quit if something crosses their boundary. The big difference is that a lot of people don't go crying to the state to make their special little boundary a legal binding, enforceable on every single employer and employee that may or may not be affected by it.
If you lay your laptop flat on your desk. If you're using a stand, take care with your cable such that there's not adverse strain pulling down on the adapter. I'm just thankful that only cost me 2 TB-GigE adapters when I was using a Rain Design mStand with the fully specced out 15" rMBP from work (rather than killing the port itself).
Apple's non-removable Health app is an issue for compulsive/eating disorders
Crazy thought: What if magnetic reversals drive punctuated-equilibrium evolution?
> I strongly agree with the author that "face-ism" is a highly overlooked issue that needs to be dealt with.

I don't disagree, but is this something we can deal with? It seems more biological and evolutionary than anything. We want to associate ourselves with people who appear happy and trust worthy, even for superficial reasons. It's quick (apparently effective) and it's in our best interest.

I'd love if someone could back me up on this because I have no evidence, but from what I've seen, society is becoming increasingly shallow. Men and women are held to such high standards of beauty, and I don't think this is merely the result of excellent marketing by fashion magazines and affluent lifestyles.

The images portrayed in pop-culture are a reflection of what we want to see - the free market has simply capitalized on it.