skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So it's sort of a chicken-and-egg situation then, huh? "It's not secure" => "Can't make security mandatory" => "It's not secure".

Off topic: Another thing I don't get is how do the relays validate each others' certs? You can get a postfix box up and running with a single command, no CA's involved. How does Mailgun know that it's talking to my mail server at mail.example.com? Or is that what DKIM doing? If so, then aren't we just relying on DNS to distribute public key info, which is not secure? Also, what if I don't publish DKIM?
I think it's just piping it to another program. It's still giving you the same output, but sending you to a program meant for humans to be able to read text in a console, instead of just printing it all out.

That said, I'm not entirely sure which git pipes to.
Dang, that post was back when I only had a proof of concept. I've made a ton of progress since then and actually have a working usable MVP now.

It is an open source Firebase or DynamoDB. It does realtime push notifications of all updates to the data, and handles conflict resolution for you (even in a decentralized setting).

Personally, I feel like your comment here is trying to say "this is old news", when it isn't. This is a new release, with hundreds of hours of work, achieving a new milestone. So having a bit more support would be nice (and reverting the title to the original one I posted?). Thanks for all your hard work though!
As of a few days ago they claim to have hit $1M a week in bookings:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/14/handy-hits-1-million-a-week...

I've encountered a couple of startups and founders like this and as much as it pains me to defend Handy, t does seem unlikely that they could have accomplished this if they were actually as dysfunctional as this story makes them seem. I'm skeptical of the author's claims.
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Live memory 25Mb in my case, sorry, kinda important number to mention :P
I started to research what you said and it seems your mistaken (not sure since I don't know much about the topic).

From what I found, HFCS 55 which is used in soda is 55% fructose and 42% glucose. I haven't found the percentage of fructose and glucose in juices but apparently in a navel orange, there's an average of 8.5 of total sugars comprised of 2.25g fructose, 2.0g fructose and 4.3g of sucrose.

It seems that the ratio is the same as HFCS 55 for navel oranges but the difference is the presence of sucrose which seems not to be present in Soda. I'll have to read more to see if sucrose is more important...
Would you disqualify a candidate based on that one data point? If so, I think you're missing good hires, and not in some false-negative preferred to false-positive way.
Thanks for the article. I think I'll be using Notepad and emacs a little more.
Thanks for the clarification. I've met Aral and consider him a very smart guy, I was just commenting about my gut feeling in situations similar to this. I'm happy to learn I'm wrong in this case. :)
I use Slack as well and I find it very effective.
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Really? Where in America?

In New York I've never had any problem finding seltzer. My parents buy it every time they go to the supermarket in upstate New York.

I'm trying to think of how common it is in corner stores. I can't say I've ever looked particularly hard for it. I used to keep my refrigerator in Buffalo stocked with the stuff though. It sure is refreshing.

Thankfully my work provides free cans of seltzer which I drink like water (heh heh!). Although I occasionally wish they would get the kind with a citrus fruit flavoring instead of just plain.
I must be old...

I feel like I read stories about horrible jobs and tough times finding work from young college grads regularly and the news would seem to corroborate them [1].

Apparently, these people end up serving coffee or answering phones for clown shop start-ups.

Meanwhile, I know people trying to hire for what I'd consider traditional entry level jobs (clerks, reception, no-risk security, no-experience necessary apprenticeships) offering full benefits plus 35-45k+ salaries who would be overjoyed to see a single college-educated applicant.

What's going on here? Do people believe in this Amway-esque pitch for a "world of opportunities"? Do traditional jobs feel like giving up? Are they too restricting?

1: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/0...
If I was the guy being interviewed, I would have punched that "Ajay" in the fucking neck halfway through the interview...but looks like the company is punching itself in the neck anyway. Good riddance.
Oh this thread is going to pull out all the fun ones. Can they program anything to penalize any diet / food topics? Nothing smart is ever said and all the studies are always inconclusive and at best hint at new directions for additional research.

Anyhow, to the above comment:
http://nutritiondata.self.com/foods-000011000000000000000.ht...

Nutritional studies are worse than physiological studies. It's impossible to control for everything and just gets picked up but one side of the crazies or the other and like they will here just lead to a bunch of speculative anecdotal arguments.
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Hello HN,

We've recently allowed a public access to our product https://staply.co/

Is it clear what Staply is from our landing page?
The problem is, if you try too hard to mimic the real world example (typewriter in this case), you will end up with some constraints or weird bugs. For example, if the indentation were to be applied on per-line basis, what would happen if you later added some text in the previous line? would just the same amount of words be indented, or would the indented line not change at all, and the excess words pushed to a new line? This is exactly why some things in Word (and other word processors for that matter) are done the way they are done.
IF the ones who are popular 50 cents etc gets majority of the money, what is the incentive for the lay person. The average Joe. I mean the work involved is time consuming. Take for example i spent alot of my time hiting likes, and posting random stuff on line. Some good quotes some good poems, and a few pictures. However, 5 hrs have gone by and i don't even see a penny generated. Google has the browser market and i don't get paid from them but i get excellent service and find what i need. So i asked again for the little man why switch over to tsu?
Agreed. Here's a starting point if they decide to change the name: http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/swift
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I have figured out what you say redis, but has changed a lot since 2009.

Basically I'm a rails developer so my I usually prefer ActiveRecord.. Mysql or Postgres. However I have noticed that redis is becoming a very good alternative to the persistent storage in term of hot cache(like twitter) when you have heavy writes not only for cache the data after the first read(like rails in memcache).

Another interesting feature, in the next release, is the support for geospatial
I do both, like a maniac.

I'd say coke (I drink exclusively diet coke) is equally as addictive as cigarettes.

But the physical dependency is a bit more "dangerous" on coke, with cigarettes there's options to beat that (either have a puff of pot or your e-cig).

I don't think there's anything that can kill my craving of diet coke as much as diet coke.
I recently worked for a very cutting edge bioinformatics company, and I particularly agree with his segment about data sizes growing.

What I would say though, is that I think it is less an issue of the statistical strength of the data, and has more to do with the methods used to turn data itself into the statistics. For example, I was working with what by now (size projections are paramount in sysadmin planning for stuff like this) should be close to a Petabytes worth of genetic data. The real issue we were running into was that the traditional tools tend to fall apart on data of this size.

What we ended up doing was writing a distribution protocol for a certain application that worked well but wasn't very concurrent, and then every machine on the network besides the storage/sequencers/backup would crunch the data, helping even the big servers out. A big server would get 10-30 workers and a workstation would get 1-4. We turned 2 day analysis into 4 hour analysis.

And once we did the analysis, only one person, the company owner/genius, could decipher it.

I have to say, as a sysadmin, it was probably one of the most challenging and most educational positions I ever had. I actually enjoyed always being the only person in the room without a Phd.
Don't be a dick. I was asking a legitimate question because I was curious about the research methodology and, while the study linked in the article had a price tag of $22, the person I replied to seemed to have access to it. Thanks for finding the full text, I will read it when I get home from work (which is why I didn't have time to search for the full text).
clickable link: https://staply.co/
Yeah :) It is really interesting because everything was there already somehow. But the combination and execution is just great and unique.
With the avalanche of evidence showing negative health impacts from sugar, it's surprising to see someone defending its use.

http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=263708

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/11128706/Fruit-...

There was another recent story showing cultures that had no access to sugar and had a negligible amount of tooth decay; but I can't find the link just now.
I feel like I have seen the comment on singularity somewhere else (by MJ himself). Does anyone remember?
1) Ah okay, that makes a lot of sense. I find their automated recommendations to be pretty abysmal too. I guess the idea for those without a network on the site is to find similar users or something.

2) I'm not sure how much injection of discovery into the network graph in the first place is a concern. There's always people who like trying random new books that they see, or who read something about an author and decide to try them out, or pick up a random book in a bookstore because it looks cool, etc etc etc. I agree that it'll be a much slower process than in the publisher-gated case, but I don't see why you wouldn't see the same sort of ecosystems arise as did for indie music with independent review sites.
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How about switching over to tea or coffee? Both lack sugar and are full of anti-oxidants.
I'm fairly sure in the UK you can't legally call fruit juice with added sugar/sweeteners "juice" - it would have to be fruit drink or something
Does this really surprise anybody? Remember which state Detroit is in?
no, not really. file sharing and group chat, i suppose, but it's not clear what makes it special.
Clickable link: https://staply.co/

So, it's like chatrooms where you can upload files?
There just isn't enough surface area. A Model S has a roof area of around 9m^2. The sun provides about 1000W/m^2 on a clear day at high noon when directly overhead, so with 100% efficient solar cells on a perfect day, you'd get around 9kW of electricity. A Model S goes about 4 miles per kWh when it's doing well, so in this ideal situation you'd top out at around 36MPH. In the real world, the sun isn't directly overhead, and real solar cells have more like 20% efficiency, so cut that number down by a factor of ten or more.

The best way to build a solar-powered car would be to have a battery-powered car that gets recharged from solar energy. Basically, a Model S and a home solar generating system.
We can call it (Tesla) incremental departure from oil. Down the line, we might be able to charge tesla under lot lesser time than what it takes today. May be we will have solar tesla or self charging tesla.

At least, these constant rip-offs of every n month this fluid change will go away.
You contradict yourself, saying that Firefox is open source but Android is only "free" since it has trademark restrictions, when Firefox also has trademark restrictions (which is why Debian renamed it Iceweasel).

Android doesn't just have the source available; it fulfills the criteria set both by the OSI and the FSF. That you can't make a derivative and pass it off as the original doesn't change that.
No significant associations were observed between
consumption of diet sodas or noncarbonated SSBs and
telomere length.

I don't understand how the carbonation can have an effect.
It's just CO2 and a little bit of H2CO3, neither of which is metabolized.
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> The author of this piece made the classic, and often unavoidable mistake of being between a rock and a hard place and not vetting the company she interviewed at

> Even if you're not an engineer/designer/data scientist (or one of the typically highly desired people for a startup), you should be working at places you love and believe in

Look.

The job market most people participate in is very, very different than the job market for Silicon Valley engineers. In the job market most people participate in, there aren't a whole lot of jobs to go around, at the moment. This means that participants don't have the luxury of having so many opportunities thrown at them that they can afford to pick and choose between them, or to walk away from one just because a place they "love and believe in" more might come along tomorrow. Walking away from a paying job could mean weeks or months or even years of unemployment. Not "funemployment," but the real kind, where you lose sleep at night wondering how you're going to make next month's rent.

In that kind of environment, you can't blame people for taking a paying job when one is offered to them. If you were in their position, I guaran-dang-tee that you would do the exact same thing. When you have few options, you take the least bad one that's on offer, not the perfect golden unicorn of your dreams.

> If you don't believe in your leaders, and don't trust them, you are in a lot of trouble.

You know what real leaders do? Real leaders lead. They don't let an office full of people they are paying run around saying and doing potentially legally actionable things on the company's dime instead of getting work done, for instance. They organize those people into functional teams, and keep those teams so busy working on things that create value for the business that they don't have time to pretend they're back playing Ultimate Frisbee on the quad.

> 12 hour days is insane, and wrong

And also potentially, um, illegal. You know?

> The constant 'want to hear a joke' and racist/sexist tone at the company is also not acceptable, but clearly was supported by the people working there at the time

Again, real leaders lead. If there's an environment in a workplace where behavior like this flourishes, it's because the managers are OK with it flourishing. If they weren't, they would put a stop to it. They don't, so they are.

One of the subjects HN is obsessed with is "culture," but many HNers seem to not understand that culture is not just a synonym for "dumb rules we force underlings to follow." If you're in management, culture is the tone you set through the decisions you make. And if the story is anything close to accurate, at Handy those decisions resulted in a culture where playing with toy helicopters and telling "ching-chong-Chinaman" jokes are a higher priority than making sure their products and services are excellent, obeying the law, or even just being a decent human being.

If I were an investor in that company, I'd be pretty furious about that.
"privileged userland process" is a circular way of saying administrator. They claim administrator is "ring 3" or "admin ring 3" which is super-confusing...

Essentially what this is is a way of installing malware into the kernel bypassing the driver signing requirements. You need admin access already.

It might be useful, but they're clearly trying to make it appear more significant than it is by their technically inaccurate word choices.
> done at 5:00pm

I really don't like this euphemism. When I read this I know what you mean[0] but I wish this meaning wasn't tied to leaving the office at 5pm. If someone's effective in their role, why should they be judged on what time they leave? This mentality doesn't encourage people to work harder or be better employees, it only encourages them to stay later. That eats into their free time every day, giving them less opportunity to relax and recharge and probably causing them to become less productive and more prone to burnout in the long run.

If I can get my job done by 4pm every day then don't force me to sit at my desk until 6pm to keep up appearances. Either let me go home or help me fill my time by offering me more work (and if I'm highly productive, more compensation).

[0] The person is only putting in the bare minimum effort, has no interest in personal development, is more interested in the paycheck than craftsmanship and professionalism, etc.
> From the anecdote, it doesn't sound like she interviewed with anyone from the support team, that is a big problem and something she could have asked about. You're right, it's easy to hide, but since she only worked there one day and ran into this, it seems likely it would have been a red flag in the interview process.

Nobody should ever have to vet a workplace to see if it has a hostile work environment!

And how would you vet for that anyways? If the candidate were to ask "do you tolerate/encourage racist/sexist/homophobic jokes?", would the interviewer ever respond in the affirmative?
I was addicted to Diet Coke in the US (it was the only soft drink i enjoyed). Recently I moved to Thailand, and they do not carry Diet Coke but it turns out the satisfying feeling i was having was directly related to the high level of carbonation. I now have switched to drinking carbonated water.
I've always thought of there being 5 different levels of lossiness:

* Understandable
* Not noticeably worse "casually" (i.e. unable to distinguish which version it is without having heard both versions first)
* Not noticeably worse
* Not noticeably different
* Exact

This applies to video encoding also: for example, I start being able to pick up on mpeg artifacts well before I actually start being annoyed by them.

They each have their roles. The question is: what encodings are most suited for what domains out of the above?
> ALL the evidence we have, as far as swift goes, is that they haven't decided yet, according to Chris' email quote.

Yes, precisely. Apple currently has no intention of open-sourcing Swift. All of the evidence supports precisely what I've been saying. This is why I think it is good to remind them that we want them to decide in the affirmative.
Thanks a lot for replying! That did it! Although I haven't tried the latest version, I know for a fact this wasn't necessary with version 23, which is puzzling.
The Earth's magnetic field and poles do change slightly, but it's not the end of the world as those guys would suggest. It's quite interesting really purely from a science and navigation point of view.

So far the only thing I've heard is that they had to rename a runway from 09/27 to 08/26 in Jersey: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-29603156
You are proposing an experiment that would be almost impossible to run.

Little if any nutrition research is actually run like a traditional science experiment (i.e. do something specific and observe results). Unfortunately outside of the prison camps on North Korea it is impossible to control the diet (or behaviors) of enough people for long enough to get useful results.

Instead we observe people uncontrolled behavior (almost never directly but through questionnaires) then observe health outcomes (usually not directly) or in this case something (telomere length) believed to be associated with health outcomes. Attempts are then made to adjust for all these potential problems using additional data (usually questionnaires) - usually difficult to say how effective.

These neccesary compromises introduces a whole host of potential problems that have contributed to all the confusion over what is good/bad nutrition. I've given up on having much confidence in medical research until it is repeatedly confirmed in additional studies - which may never happen.
Next time, don't hit reply.
I think there may be some flags in pagers to do this for you, but I can't remember for sure.
Well, given its - at the moment - the absolute last survivor of its species, were a suitable mate to be discovered I think I'd be happy thinking of the result as a flourish upon the Earth.. but I'm willing to admit that's just me. ;)
> The commerce clause just says that the federal government has the authority to regulate interstate commerce.

This is not completely correct. Let me expand a little bit even though it is not applicable here. There is something called the "dormant" commerce clause (also referred to as the "negative" commerce clause) doctrine. This doctrine basically prohibits states from favoring in state commercial actors at the expense of out of state actors. Think protectionist legislation. Therefore, there is a lot more to the commerce clause than simply allowing the federal government to regulate interstate commerce.
It could certainly mean that people both conform to, and are blind to, prevailing stereotypes. This, however, is not a good enough reason to perpetuate them.
A pompous piece by an author who appears to know little of Plato, and less of software design, but nevertheless enjoys concocting absurd analogies like these:

"Word’s 50-percent rule for applying styles is a descendent of the Demiurge, and just as much of a kludge."
I thought this article was written about a fictitious company as a satire, but after couple of search it turns out that Handy actually exists and has raised quite a lot - as a competitor of HomeJoy?

I don't know if everything there is true, but this article has the indirect effect of making my opinion of michaelochurch going up.
Many fruit juices have potassium, which should help with heart health by counteracting the too much sodium we eat. Not sure why it would have any effect on telomeres though.
Still wishing fuckedcompany.com was still around to start collecting stories like this as the bubble starts to pop...
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Isn't the same true of firebase as a company as well? Even pre-acquisition, all you need is for them to bring in an outside CEO who wants to monetize their userbase to screw things up.
Please don't anthropomorphize plants...they really hate that.
Thanks for a clickable link ;)
We see Staply as something like a shared folder with annotations. It is made specifically for file-sharing and it gives you a possibility to add context to the files you share.

Later it is possible to filter out just files and in one click get to the place where they was discussed.
Unfortunately that was only science fiction. I don't think the sunlight that lands on a car would be sufficient by itself to charge the system to any acceptable level.
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Not only is this employer acting like an asshole, they're doing it stupidly. They let candidates for employment bring in their own computer and plug it into their internal network. Someone is going to drain out all their internal records.

You can see their web site at "http://www.handy.com/". The page source is amusing. They seem to be more interested in ad networks than booking actual business.
IIRC windows only has two permission levels anyway, user and admin.
Pole reversal estimate, less than 100 years
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I just ran apt-get install emacs24, which has given me so far version 24.3.1. Cheers.
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