skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moral Panic?
Fun?

This guy was a C-level exec for a financial journal making rape jokes and using racial slurs without even the pretense of "my opinions do not represent my employer".

Sorry, to ruin your "fun", bro. The "misfits and troublemakers" quote you're building this on refers to people innovating and working against the system to make something new, not insulated fratboys making rape jokes on twitter.

You can have your free speech, but no one has to pay you to keep a prominent position while making it clear that you are espousing illegal hiring practices and being an otherwise narrow-minded dipshit. You are not a rabble-rouser or mischief maker, just a retrenchment of the same bullshit most everyone else in the world is sick of.

You drew the target on your back and are whining that people pulled the trigger.

Thanks for playing, though!
No data caps, 100mbps in network, 30mbps upload speed to the internet at large.
A "new way" to push a "sponsored content" to me, like FB's feed does?)
Thing we have learned:

— For each insight from the class, on average 75% people get it right, 25% get it wrong.

— The questions you get wrong are the most valuable. You don’t need a class, if your intuition can replace it.

— People hate making mistakes. It’s a big UX challenge to make mistakes natural and non-hurting.

— It’s fun to invite few specific people to compare scores. Hope, more educational apps will support competitive learning.
Show HN: Point – a Chrome plugin for private sharing and discussion on any website
So i was working on a small decision support system for a hospital. Some designer recommended their chart control and i used it in project.

In final stage, client asked for empty values support, i check and found that in next release they have this feature. So i said yes and gave them 1 week estimate. Assuming all i have to do is replace radchart dll.

But, I was wrong. I upgraded the Radchart and found 70% code is not working. Forget working, it's not even compiling anymore. Insted of deprecating the method, they remove it right away in next minor release.

I don't think there was any architect or senior programmers in their team.

In my previous company designers or managers fell for their shiny features and got trapped. Crappy product!

Another HP+Autonomy kinda scam.
Inbox works on two of my Apps accounts. What are you actually asking?
Agreed. My first reaction to seeing this site was, "why on earth would I want this over something like Nest Protect?".

Then I realized it's a stopgap provision for people who don't want to replace all their smoke detectors with new devices.

An optional webhook is a great idea. All notification mechanisms should support it.
Pretty much the best GTD web app around!
He is allowed his own stash.

Source? The article seemed to indicate that he must permit any blood he donates to be used for other people, thereby implying he may not reserve any of it for himself.
Persistent containers is the wrong term. "On-host storage" might be a better one. I don't store anything on my compute nodes. Everything is in a HA datastore or in S3. I kind of feel like architectures that rely on storing any data you can't immediately blow away without shedding a tear are, in modern environments, dangerous, and volumes seem (to me) to lead to the kind of non-fault-tolerant statelessness that'll bite you in the end.

I respect GlusterFS, so it sounds reasonable in your own use case, but it still makes me intensely uncomfortable to have apps managing their own data. I try to build systems where each component does one thing well, and for the components that I think work well in a Docker container, data storage is then kind of out-of-scope. YMMV.
Yeah, that's the main PTB-style tagset resource for tweets (that I know of). Our tool can also be run to produce tags in their form (we just retrained our software on their annotated data). See further down the webpage for information on how to get this.
I also use inbox zero, but it took me 15 years to get to that point. That's quite a learning curve, and not built into email at all--it's something you have to discover outside of Gmail or any other email client. Combine that with the fact that the most recent generation is using email less and less, and products built around email are bound to evolve in order to remain relevant.
I do the same thing, only in Thunderbird over IMAP with around 27,000 messages. TB search is fast and accurate, and I keep track of emails that need immediate action by starring them and then un-starring them after the action is taken. Pretty straightforward.
That actually sounds interesting, so I looked it up. I'm guessing this is it, yea?

http://www.hipsterceo.com/
Not exactly what you want, but there is at least this: https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/saferemail/
Yes, indeed. Marlow's book is really good one.
They misspelled "ISS" as "Space Shuttle".

Because editors.
It's mostly just a hypothetical, I don't expect anyone to have the answer (Google won't even officially acknowledge that Now integration is broken in GApps).

It is mostly annoying that Google introduces new features that they apparently don't care about making work for their paying customers.
Windows 0-day exploited in ongoing attacks, temporary workarounds offered
Does anybody know how to make the server execute "git pull" once I push the code from my local machine?

I see some convoluted tutorials that involve setting up certificates and such, I wonder if there's an easier way.
Show HN: Interpreter – Translating keyboard for iOS8
Hey HN, my friends and I have been working on this extension for the past year. For the curious, we were frustrated with using email and chat for sharing & discussing links, so we built Point.

We've seen various iterations of this over the years, but we'd love to hear what the HN community thinks about our take on it. @shwinnabego, @wannatouchmyfro, and I are here to field your comments, and questions, and feedback!
Read this: http://www.fastcompany.com/1841389/how-reddit-built-its-empi...
http://blogs.wsj.com/personal-technology/2014/10/22/new-gmai...
Heh! Thanks for the clarification. I read Graham/Buffet to mean Ben Graham (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Graham), not PG so I was a bit confused.
How do you patent clipping a connector to a device?
How to Go from Zero to 30,000 Page Views in 11 Weeks (With No Budget)
I'm not sure what you mean by "evil". If you mean "corrupt", sure. But it has never been a reason to forcefully evict a government, as long as they behave. I'm not sure Orban is more corrupt than, say, Berlusconi was, your average Romanian official, or the Turkish government. He'll do some damage, his friends will get rich, and at some point he'll be be out of office. Unless he starts taking himself a bit too seriously and attempts to turn Hungary into a dictatorship. Then that's a whole different ball game, and the EU would most certainly not stand for it.
A list of fascinating predictions from Longbets.org
Somewhere there is no progress. Stagnation.
so, will this be the mobile equivalent to bootstrap?
MIT can't be thrilled with the name being taken (albeit it Inbox is so generic I dont see this brand becoming worth much)[1][2]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7999814

[2]http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/07/mit-and-dropbox-alums-launc...
The irony is that Symbian + Series60 did utterly dominate in many important markets [1]. This gave Nokia a false hubris and made them blind to the deep flaws of their UI framework and their software design process in general.

[1] In 2007, Symbian had 80%+ marketshare in smartphones in all markets other than USA, China and Japan.
The number of shares should be figured into the estimated price. If they figure the company is valued at $100, and a share at $0.50, then they should be issuing 200 shares.

You should be completely mistrustful of anyone who offers you shares and doesn't tell you the # of shares outstanding. Alternately, if they tell you the value of a share, they should tell you the estimated value of the company.

The alternative is presented in Mel Brooks' The Producers.
And how exactly is 263M for 10 years "going downhill"?
That's much clearer to me. I think we probably agree more than we disagree.

My point, as you've acknowledged, is simple. I think, for a bunch of reasons which are more and less easy to mitigate depending, it's a good rule of thumb to just avoid key-dependent side channels altogether. If you know what you're doing, you can shrink the risks. I'm dubious about whether they can be eliminated.

But even if one is the kind of person who can argue eloquently and accurately about those risks on a mailing list (nb: not alluding to you here), one is unlikely in my experience to be the kind of person who can actually implement countermeasures to these problems reliably. I've reviewed lots of expertly developed cryptosystems and found exploitable problems. My experience suggests that even good implementors do not tend to design systems from the vantage point of attackers, which squares with my experience of every other kind of software security as well.

A caveat to all of this is that it's easy for me to opine about what I think good conservative rules of thumb are because my technical depth doesn't extend to safely implementing variably-timed crypto operations. A subject matter expert might be able to refute a lot of what I think.

Because this is a fluffy comment, a quick shotgun blast of technical responses, none of which beg for rebuttals (but feel free):

* I can think of cases where randomized delays on one code path failed to eliminate timing leaks on other code paths that turned out to be relevant to attackers.

* I'm skeptical about exploitation of microscopic timing leaks; I don't even worry about memcmp timing, really. Other people are less skeptical, and there's a line of research pursuing statistical filtering and heuristics to bring those timing channels into reach. Also, there are some secrets that are attackable essentially indefinitely.

* My thoughts about worst-case timing are probably poisoned by client reactions to the idea of slowing down crypto operations at all.
Ouch, something tells me the Arduino, Raspberry Pi, etc. forums are going to be full of people that are confused why they can't talk to their device anymore. IMHO it's pretty bad to target the consumers who probably don't even know or care that there's an FTDI chip in their device. Certainly am not condoning piracy of the chips, but wonder if there's a better way of handling the situation than breaking everyone.
Great product idea! Is the aim to focus on individual pages, or will there be a seamless way to integrate your Broadsheets?
This is a lot like what @paulg was talking about on his "Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas" essay when he talks about replacing email: http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
I'll assume you haven't paid much attention to the content of Snowden & Binney's leaks, and/or don't particularly care.
Take a 10-min App Dev Survey and Win Oculus Rift Dev Kit, Samsung Gear or iPhone 6
If you are using Google Apps Free edition, you're good to go.

If you pay for Google Apps, you get shafted. Nice.
I just wanted you to know that I can't try out your game since it doesn't seem to support Android 2.3.
Power has been little endian for a while. No one bothered to tell the software guys to write a little endian OS and tools for it....
When I got the demo on Monday, I was struck most by how Google Now technology was integrated. That's why I called my piece (on Medium/Backchannel) "Inbox, the app child of Gmail and Google Now." Now that I have the app, I'm enjoying it. Very clean.
Show HN: Simple hint – a new and improved CSS-only tooltip
I'd love to see the data behind why this justified a team of 100+ people making more than 100,000 per year to re-invent email.

Does the typical email user have an inbox which is half empty? Do users just read email that seems exciting? Do users want to just glance at their email periodically?
Couldn't have said it better myself. Love that he framed Gamergate as a rebellion against the "PC" media.
I'm 52. I still play football. But now I cover the slowest opposing player, not the fastest.

My approach has been that I'll keep doing things until my body proves to me that I can't. It has started doing so. You can ignore age longer than many people think, but not forever...
I think you have to really consciously process your email though, in order for your system to work. I have gotten really bad at email lately and it's because of this: I leave my emails in my inbox like you. Except I archive something that I'm really, truly done with (never wanna see it again, not even for reference; archive = trash). But now my inbox is a mix of things I haven't yet read, I've read but haven't acted on, things I've read and keep in my inbox for reference, and things that I'm done with but I'm ignoring them so hard that they never actually get archived like they should. "Mark as unread" is used at a whim, usually when I read something on my phone and think "I should read this on my computer" so I flag it unread to make sure it stands out. Nothing is starred, except I have colored stars and mark a bill with a green star before I archive it (this is a remnant of a system I tried in the past but didn't fully stick).

As a result, I end up missing or not doing things, and re-reading emails I've already done, and my inbox is just a big chronologically-ordered mess.

This is my personal email anyway. My work email I'm a little more careful with, but it also piles up over time and rarely something will slip through the cracks. Outlook's flag/reminder system is decent at least, so it's manageable, but it still at times feels disorganized and just not quite how I want it to be.
Indeed, the video got me thinking that they've probably done a lot of user testing already and they're confident to market it past the HN-type of people.

It also looks so confident that I thought I (31 years old) wasn't in their demographics anymore, and given I'm used to a Gmail interface which was invented in 2006, it may soon be going out of the door, but that's an inner fear of me which is talking.
EWS (Exchange Web Services) is actually a very good and well-documented protocol built on top of HTTP/HTTPS. Unfortunately, it's Microsoft only, but it's the closest anyone's really come to a "modern" e-mail protocol.
I wonder if it's possible to create a blood-producing machine (with bone marrow culture and whatnot).

And then by manipulating its genetic code slightly make it produce whatever blood we want. Better yet, take a sample from one perfect donor and make golden blood at a scale.
it's surprising how much cheaper these Power8 boxes are compared to the Power7 boxes. You can get a tyan 2U, 1 socket system for $2800 FOB HK: http://www.tyan.com/campaign/openpower/
While I don't think there is a good time to be released, it does seem that the timing here is particularly hard on folks who want to do only research. That said, these people are about 1600 yards away from Google who seems to suck the valley dry of folks with Phds, so how many of them really haven't found work there?
> Death of Fun

When your fun is directly at the expense of people who don't share your gender, skin color, class, or orientation, maybe it should die.

> this was speech on the internet. No one was physically harmed by my tweets. Relief was never more than a Block button away.

When you are a public figure of any kind, your personal values will either be exposed as soon as you are given a microphone or they will be unearthed later. The fact that he crafted these unfunny and tasteless jokes and is now pulling the "free speech" card while blaming others for not blocking his account sooner.
That "mind-meld" must the be canonical pair-programming session.
Disclaimer: Googler

In what way do you think Now is broken with GApps accounts? I use Now with GApps, and don't know what you're referring to.
So I started reading with an open mind, but then made the mistake of clicking on a link to his tweets[1].

At that point I stopped reading because I really don't care what he has to say unless it's remorse and repentance. Those aren't off-color jokes, those are hateful screeds that reflect a real lack of character. I not only would have fired you, I would have reviewed our hiring process to make sure we didn't get anyone like that again.

Pax, if you can't own your mistakes and recognize that hateful awfulness isn't funny then I don't think you should be writing stuff on the internet.

[1] http://unvis.it/valleywag.gawker.com/business-insider-ctos-i...
I've been curious if there has been examples of psychopaths working together, presumably because it would be more optimal. Also, I'm pretty curious if/how they can identify each other.
AFAIK, this is just an attempt to put Twitter products in mobile apps. Nothing revolutionary here
Yes.
http://www.google.com/inbox/ shows it

But i'll shortcut it and just offer an existence proof, since you can find all three pieces with creative searching:

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id905060486?mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

https://inbox.google.com

:)
Exactly. These weren't "dissenting & unpopular opinions in technology" (as he frames them), but hateful, ignorant, and even regressive opinions.
It depends on what you mean by "demanding". I think that single threaded applications on x86 (with nothing else running) will smoke the Power8 system. But if you have lots of threads and high levels of concurrency going on, i think that the results will be very much workload dependent.
Kind of underwhelmed after reading the Wired article:

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/twitter-fabric-sdk/

It's... fine. But given Twitter's history of dev antagonism I am not about to create apps that rely on them as a backend. Sorry.
That's a pretty narrow view of things IMHO. Smartphones are much more usable than they were 2-3 years ago and lightyears beyond what they were 7-8 years ago. Phone web browsers are just as fast as real computers, and fast LTE connections keep things moving quickly. I remember the early days of the first iPhone era smartphones and would never want to go back to them. The web browsers sucked and overall the phones were too slow to do anything beyond check a simple web page. Now a big smartphone or phablet could easily replace a laptop for most people's needs.
Twitter’s Audacious Plan to Infiltrate All Your Apps
Yeah, I have a 10 year old GMail account with hundreds of thousands of messages. I'm simply not organized enough to stay on top of sorting things into folders on the off chance I might need to search for it one day. Search is the easiest way to find anything anyway; but people developed sorting techniques because e-mail search is awful on local clients.
Off-topic: Pain in searching with ease, possibly a start up idea.
Your point is moot. The whole point of Microsoft running Android is because of the ecosystem and ability to appease to the greater market who already use and are familiar with Android, love its selection of applications and games. It is all about the market share and awareness.

A Chromebook running Windows would be pointless because the point of a Chromebook is to not compete with Microsoft or even the laptop market, Chromebooks are going for a subset of the market that a lot of manufacturers and companies like Microsoft are not interested in targeting: the low income earner, the student, the user who only surfs the internet and watches Youtube videos.

You are comparing a laptop running a desktop operating system with a phone running a mobile operating system. Two completely different things and markets.
From reading the front page, I have absolutely no idea what this is. A cross-compiler? A build tool? Some pre-package presets?

In what language will I code? Can I reuse code across platforms? Is all this trouble Solved. when I use Fabric?
Yeah, it's not exactly clear what it does.
My point is that little-endian Ubuntu is now available.
So my question is this an App only or will it be part of the Gmail interface?
Yeah, I don't get it, my gapps account works great with now?
I'd argue the project has already succeeded. Of course this requires understanding success - how much profit does 3% of the US market, and just under 10% internationally amount to? Is more sales than Blackberry success? How about a comparison with Sailfish? It's all relative.

Microsoft's problems are more subtle. Writing universal apps makes little sense, as neat as the tech is, because you can only ever target many PCs and tablets, and a tiny share of phones -- or you could write an HTML/CSS/JS app, target all PCs and all phones. Their stack is solid, and their tooling arguably best in class. Selling it is not so easy.
And there was no vesting
> And really, I can't remember any feature that pulled me to gmail other than a) free, b) lots of space, and c) google's name

Originally? Lots of space, yes, but search and speed were big ones, as were threaded conversations, labels instead of folders, built-in gchat (that might have been later), amazing spam filtering, POP3 and eventually IMAP access.

Since then, priority inbox has been a huge win for me, and I don't use the tabbed inbox, but some people seem to like it. I'm sure there are a bunch of little things I don't notice as well that would make the 2004 interface feel ancient.
Marketing like this is supposed to form a link between the context (Brooklyn hipster lifestyle) and the product. So next time you hear about Inbox you'll think of the lifestyle and subconsciously go "maybe if I have inbox my life will be more like those cool happy good looking rich Brooklyn hipsters on the ad". Their target market with this ad is people that want to be like or have this (or a subset of this).

Apple is a more inherently hipster company that (I'm guessing here) has a large hipster marketshare. It's known for being hipster, so the link is already there. No need for ads like this to form that link to try and capture the twenty something crowd that wants this lifestyle.

Hacker news is full of people that value function, results and optimised workflow, which are essentially all that matters with an email app. So this form of marketing is lost on them :)
People who pull the "free speech" card always seem to forget that while the government cannot infringe in this inalienable right, it does not insulate you from the social consequences of that speech.
Improving Battery Life on Smartphones
Agreed. Its realistic, and something that can be achieved in that time frame. People who claim to build applications in 3 days, I'm wary of them. Sure you can hack your way to an application in a couple of days, but I think it will be bug prone and not fully optimized.

Congrats to the developer and his friend. I'm inspired to create my own applications one day.
Also I don't think he was fired for his tweets, but for his opinions.

Put another way, he wasn't fired for tweeting hateful things, but for having those opinions. All his tweets did was show the world that he was this hateful person, one who shouldn't be in a position of power.
Yeah I don't get the point of inbox zero either. I don't see any functional improvement so really it's just wasting time so you can pat yourself on the back.
If you think about it, if you want to do a startup, you basically have to become a psychopath, because you constantly have to tell yourself that everyone who is getting a job is doing it wrong, which is 99% of people, you have to be willing to lose everything, not be afraid of anything and you have to push yourself out of the comfort zone all the time.

But I think it boils down to what the core of a person is. If you are just a normal person that can emulate the behavioural patters of a psychopath, then you are a normal person.

If you are a psychopath at your core, because that's how you were born and you can emulate the behavioural patterns of a normal person, you are a psychopath.

While I can imagine that there are some of the latter category that start a startup,I think you need to be of the first category to make it through the entire startup grind.