skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> my unsaved files

How would you feel if your unsaved files suddenly disappear? Would you blame apple for deleting files you explicitly chose to not save?

You were relying on a feature in an unusual and unintended way. Sooner or later, that may stop working.

The "unsaved files" being not synced to iCloud was never something that was meant to be guaranteed, it was just how it was.

What I'm suggesting is that by opting to explicitly save a file locally, you're giving more of a signal that you don't want it available remotely, compared to not saving a file at all.
Interesting that you were at Google. What did you do there?

I'm just finishing "I'm Feeling Lucky" about Google's early days.
One simple way of doing it is to get a web designer to build the main pages for your site in static html, including a working menu system. Then provide the developer of a description of how each page is supposed to work, and of how the back-end data is going to be organized. He should be able to take it from there.
Designing for Large Screen Smartphones
Bad example, because \emph means emphasis, not italics, and you can represent the emphasis in any way you want — the italics is just the default. So there is separation of format and content.

Though it's true that it's not enforced.
I agree. Starting a company isn't a glamorous lifestyle that mass media portray it to be. During startup, you spend a lot of time figuring out how to cut down food and housing costs, how we're gonna pay for salaries and office expenses 6 months later, etc.

You have to try EVERYTHING you can, and that's what makes / breaks a startup.

P.S. A lot of people on HN or even many people at Startup School seem to be interested in startups for the "lifestyle" that doesn't exist in real life. In the real world, your company is not Pied Piper.
Sounds like good advice. Thanks a lot.
hmm.....strange that firefox is being put up on a v6 arch. The current generation of boards (such as firefly) is based on ARMv7-A. a much more powerful and matured arch. Next, v8 is coming up with 64 bit support.
Notification Economy
Continuity data sync happens via iCloud. From the developer docs: "Handoff passes only enough information between the devices to describe the activity itself, while larger-scale data synchronization is handled through iCloud."

Can't say for sure whether a p2p wifi connection would really be an good substitute but I'm skeptical and I bet Apple's thought it through. I know AirDrop works that way but it seems to take a few seconds to set up the connection. Handoff is super fast, in my experience. So since AirDrop is designed to connect with unknown devices that p2p setup performance hit makes sense, but since handoff is for trusted devices, going through iCloud might be faster.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserEx...
Yep, see my comment above in reply to another comment. I hate using the title CEO, but I also knew that I needed to use it here in order to get published and then get some attention for the article. Frankly, I hoped people would see "CEO" as ironic.

As I wrote a moment ago, I just call myself "a co-founder" of a startup and, when pressed on title, will use "ceo" rather than the ALL CAPS version.

A friend put it well: "Until you I-P-O, you're just a c-e-o."

Cheers,
Dan
(author of the article & a reQwip co-founder)
This. Have been in almost all countries in Europe and nowhere portions seemed to be as big as in the US on average, let alone you'd ever get absurd portions like sometimes in the US. Don't really know where the joesmo went.
+1 to the exercise / walking. Has changed my mindset. Way fresher at complex problem solving. About 20min into a long walk and ideas are just popping!

Also, scale back your time. Communicate this to management: "I just can't do this anymore". Last time I did that (2005) they said they would start looking for my replacement. A few months later they were still looking and I had a new 30h/week job+3weeks+healthcare at a bank walking distance from my apt.

Treat yourself correctly and the world will do the same.
I thought people bought mechanical keyboards because they were easier on the fingers? The keys often require less activation and you can prevent the bottoming out you get with the cheap keyboards.
I've been thinking more like that lately, and came here to say pretty much that. School is an inherently coercive institution. I think it's designed to snuff out independence and creativity and churn out people who blindly follow orders, who will be good corporate peons, Army privates, or something similar for their masters, and outcomes other than that are achieved more in spite of it than because of any attempts at positive change in the system.

I don't know exactly what removing it would look like. I tend to think it needs to be less of a top-down organized system. More people doing whatever feels interesting to them at the time and getting as much help and support at it as we can practically provide, whether that's building cars, writing computer programs, reading about history, playing sports, or just screwing around for a while. I think that people inherently want to learn and do stuff, and you'll get much better results just letting them go do what they want to as great of an extent as possible than by ordering them around and restricting their options as much as possible.
I've seen Unicode characters for Facebook, Twitter, etc. icons. So far, they've been in user-defined fonts, in user-defined expansion space. But I suspect there will be pressure to put them in the standard.
There is a big difference between the web (HTML + CSS) and LaTeX (LaTex + styles) worlds in terms of culture, and that defeats the idea of "separating content from presentation".

On the web, that content and presentation are separate, that's a technically a possibility, and culturally an actuality. That is, while you have the technical tools to apply such a separation, the toolkit does not force it on you; you can choose to write html with in-place defined colors and font sizes and other style elements. That the standards are higher than that and one is expected to write clean structural HTML and specify style separately with CSS is just a cultural phenomenon.

In the LaTeX world (scientific community), separation of content and presentation is also technically feasible, but the culture that maintains it as standard is missing. Most LaTeX documents are written by scientists who just want the damn thing look as they prefer, and apply all nasty tricks that the system can offer to get at there. The more computer savvy ones engage macro writing to save them a few keystrokes, but that's far from a way of document authoring that keeps content and presentation separate.
Someone else posted this further down the thread:

> In the U.S.A. the FAA heavily regulates flying of such aircraft to only approved AMA Academy of Model Aeronautics sites, in where certified turbine pilots may fly. Also, the AMA requires model aviation enthusiasts who wish to operate miniature gas turbine powered RC model aircraft, to be certified in the operation of the type of gas turbine engine, and all aspects of safety in operating such a turbine-powered model aircraft, that they need to know in flying their model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-controlled_aircraft#Jets
I do have an Air (same model as OP), and found that WASD didn't work.
The Evils of Gamifying Git: Little green squares encourage bad behaviour
Yev from Backblaze here -> Glad you're enjoying the posts! We enjoy spreading that information, it's a rare thing, so we're pleased as punch that folks are reading them :)
Hi, I'm the author of the Knox article. I responded to the press release from Samsung and updated my blog article:

As Samsung responded with an official press release regarding my blog article (https://www.samsungknox.com/en/blog/response-blog-post-samsu...) I also want to response to their press release:

First of all as I mentioned in the paragraph below, I analysed the pre-installed Knox Container App which is known as Knox Personal and shipped with the Samsung S4 I bought and not Knox EMM. " Knox EMM is a enterprise cloud-based management solution for mobile devices which was not part of this analysis."

I investigated the following version (mentioned in the name of the apk files on the device): KNOX_com.sec.knox.app.container_2.0_2.apk, KNOX_com.sec.knox.containeragent_3.0_30.apk

A lot of comments and posts claimed that I have just investigated an early developer version. I don't think that version 2.0_2 seems to be an early developer version?!? Also Samsung why are you shipping early developer versions of a product on customer devices?

I did the analysis about one month ago with a new Samsung S4 and all updates installed. That doesn't seem to be an early developer version, right? Or did I bought a fake one ;)?

Samsung mentioned the following in their press release: "Concerning the second issue, KNOX does save the encryption key required to auto-mount the container’s file system in TrustZone. However, unlike what is implied in the blog, the access to this key is strongly controlled. Only trusted system processes can retrieve it, and KNOX Trusted Boot will lock down the container key store in the event of a system compromise."

I think Samsung speaks here about their Knox Agent. At the beginning of my analysis I used geohots towelroot to gain root access on the Samsung device. During the analysis the phone wanted to update some "Samsung Security Policies". After the update the Agent blocked the root access to the phone. So this agent seems to be working like a usual Anti-Virus tool. It can only detect attacks if it knows the attack. And as we all know, Anti-Viruses are useless against unknown attacks :). This is the same for their so called "TrustZone".

All other points the press release mentioned were just about a Knox 1.0 software, which now was replaced by MyKnox. I don't know what Knox 1.0 is and how to get it or on which devices this is installed. All I know is, the version of Knox Container 2.0_2, which was installed on my Samsung S4 is heavily unsecure.
Having tried Gregg and Pittman, I strongly prefer Gregg, in part because of the ease of finding instructional and reading material in the public domain, all the way to a complete transcription of Alice in Wonderland[1]. More importantly, though, is that Gregg is--in the terms used by the marketers of the system in the early 1900s--written and not drawn. It flows left-to-right at least as easily as the Latin alphabet, and can be adapted to suit whatever slant and curvature you typically write with in longhand. There was simply less of a barrier for entry as far as getting the shape down on paper for me.

Be advised, however, that learning shorthand can take a tremendous amount of time--at least to get "up to speed" at it. The system of strokes, hooks, and loops is not in and of itself difficult to master; it's the profusion of brief forms, detached endings, and so on that take a great deal of time to become fluent at. Having used Gregg every day for the past six months, I can say that I write and read with comfort, more or less--but I'm certainly not reading mine or others' shorthand at the speed at which I can read longhand. And I'm definitely not able to take dictation yet (not that I have need to), any more than I could do so typing on a QWERTY keyboard.

(As quick but hopefully instructive examples, the form "AL" can mean "I will," "allow," "ail," or "ale"; an attached "F" at the end of a form can mean "-ful", "-ify", or simply the sound "f"; there is nothing to distinguish the prefixes "es-" and "ex-" except by what follows them; "pend," "pent," "gend," and "gent" all look precisely the same; and so do "nt" and "nd," "det" and "ted," and "mem," "men," "min," "mim", and a handful of others.)

I've tried out Plover, and my experience with Gregg definitely made it more approachable than I think it would have been otherwise. One of the advantages it has over written shorthand, however, is that it is purely a writing, not a written, system. There is no need to learn to read it.

That said, I find shorthand a joy--and it is vastly more portable than a full QWERTY keyboard.

[1] http://gregg.angelfishy.net/ is a good compendium for English-language Gregg. The "Anniversary Edition" has the most texts. The "Simplified Edition" is a little more manageable in size, but is much more recent and still under copyright in most markets.
> and it just never ends

It ends at 5pm. Job searching starts at 5:30pm. Don't wait too long to find another job or else you'll be desperate and take another bad job or sacrifice negotiating power.
I hope that somebody steals your money, steals your identity, and completely fucks your life.

And then I hope that you see a bunch of so-called Libertarian assholes praising the people who helped make that happen.

Because maybe then your tiny little broken brain will see why the US government is completely irrelevant to the question of the morality of DPR.

Until then have fun thinking you're right, you utterly fucking wrong moron.
How Standing Desks Can Help Students Focus in the Classroom
>how well they follow instructions

It is possible to be intelligent and unwilling to follow instructions. In fact, I would not be surprised if there was an inverse correlation between the two in humans.
Yev from Backblaze here -> There are certainly items related to Backblaze that we need to back up. You can exclude pretty much everything inside of the C: drive, but we do require the drive itself to be selected. Also, we chose the "backup everything, and let the user exclude data" route because the other way seems like a gap. For example, a lot of backup solutions make you select what you want to back up, but what if you forget something? Or forget to add something later? That would leave a hole in the backup, so we go the reverse route!
Looks very similiar to https://followthatpage.com . Worked for me pretty well for non JS pages for last 3 years.
Ask HN: Visualizing your web service intereactions
I am often amazed at how teams use/misuse UML to explain to newer members how their web service interacts in an ecosystem with other services and shy away from maintaining a proper UML sequence diagram if the service is very complex. Sometimes, people end up using simpler abstractions and build diagrams using something like websequencediagrams.com but those can sometimes be a hit or a miss depending on the nature of what you're trying to express.

Culturally, every team ought to set the right documentation that is easily updatable in the face of an evolving architecture, so my question to the HN community is, what tools do you use in your team to document your service interactions? Has anyone here built any of their tools that help better "visualize" their web service interactions to help ramp new members? Bonus: Is there any known open source tool to build your diagrams with a baked-in "animation" (like a GIF'd version of the sequence diagram) that captures interactions (perhaps by annotating/scaling calls with SLAs) and other nuanced behavior (parallel calls, queueing, async responses).
Life is all about prioritizing the things that are important to you. If I have to work less to still work on projects and have a family life, I can do that.
>Human intelligence is heritable.

This is indisputable. Denying IQ and its heritability is equivalent to denying global warming. It’s settled science. Dysgenics is certainly possible. I think technology like iterated embryo selection and genetic engineering will come into common use before dysgenics kicks in. China is already investigating these possibilities, and their culture does not have the same memetic immune response to such ideas. After one country makes it legal, competitive pressures will force the rest of the world to do it, too. Iterated embryo selection could conservatively raise IQ by 60 points, likely much much more: http://www.nickbostrom.com/papers/embryo.pdf

A government would have to be supernaturally incompetent to allow such a gap to develop.
There are several other encodings of rdf. Ntriples, turtle
My MacBook Air can do 6 keys, but not any 6. They have to be horizontally disbursed. In particular tight triangles are impossible (AWS, WSE, etc.) and cannot be pressed at the same time. A fun site to use to see this for yourself is http://benzguo.com/bayan/ .
I find it to be the kind of response to be welcomed (from a product developer/manager viewpoint)
Better finally port FxOS to truly free mobile platforms, like GTA04!
22M horsepower
> But c? c is basically portable assembler.

I wouldn't call myself an expert, but I avoid calling C portable assembler. I tend to think of C as having low level data manipulation and high level flow.
So did he invest?
If you don't mind my asking, why do you dislike Bill Gates?
One can very easily check whether one's target customers are averse to dealing with a one-man shop. Ask them to buy your thing. If they don't ask "Are you a one-man shop?", they are not averse to dealing with one-man shops.

A surprising number of enterprise customers are not averse to dealing with one-man shops. It blows my mind at least once a week.

Supposing that a customer does give you the one-man shop objection, you don't say "Oh rats, well, good luck then." You summon your founder gumption and say "Sure thing, I understand that you want to buy this software but have understandable reservations about dealing with a one-man company. What can we do to fix this? Help me understand this a bit more -- is this coming from you? From other stakeholders? Corporate policy? You had a bad experience once?"

After probing for the nature of the objection, you can offer solutions to it.

You might go out of business: I've answered this before. "I've been in business since 2006 and profitable every year since then. Nobody knows what the future holds, but I'm cautiously optimistic. I'd hate to get a real job."

You might get hit by a bus: "I certainly hope I don't get hit by a bus but I'll be extra careful crossing streets, just for you! pause for laughter No, seriously speaking, I totally understand how you guys need business continuity for core services. What if we had a written business continuity plan? Would that help? I can have lawyers and a well-regarded tech firm get one together for us as soon as you get me a LOI."

We need code escrow: "Who is your preferred vendor for code escrow? Great, we'd be happy to work with them. Tabling that issue for a moment, is there anything else you need from me, or can we proceed to the next step?"

You could break stuff: "We carry an industry-standard Errors and Omissions insurance policy in the amount of $1 million. The insurance company was happy to write this policy because we take steps like X, Y, Z to make sure that we don't break stuff. Does $1 million sound adequate?" -> "Great then, we're covered." or "Interesting. Help me understand how you're arriving at your number for how much is at stake here. I'd be happy to quote you for services commensurate with the value you get out of our system, and we'll only move forward if I can get our insurance underwriter to approve that level of coverage."
Ask HN: Does two-factor auth cripple services like Mint and Personal Capital?
An unprecedented number of online services are adding two-factor authentication to their logins to help protect against compromised passwords. I've personally enabled this additional protection on every site where it is available, but I've noticed that in doing-so, I've crippled the ability of 3rd party services to access this information. Will the increased adoption of two-factor authentication kill services, like Mint and Personal Capital, that rely on the ability to retrieve sensitive information with just a static username and password, or are there ways for these services to continue to gain access to this information without necessitating a weakened point-of-access?
I was in Search from 2009-2014. Worked on a bunch of projects - 3 visual redesigns, the Authorship program, some miscellaneous infrastructure & internal research projects, 3 interactive homepage doodles, about 1/3 of the easter eggs you see on Wikipedia's list of Google easter eggs, loaned out to GFiber and G+ for their launches, a few other things. It was already a big company by the time I got there, but I had the pleasure of working with several folks who'd been there since it was just a couple hundred people. It was also a pretty interesting time in its history - the first half of my tenure was when Bing was still considered a scary competitor, so we pushed out a lot of innovations in a short time period - and I straddled the Eric Schmidt / Larry Page CEO turnover, so had experience under both CEOs.
> England, Netherlands, Romania, Italy, France

None of these places have anywhere near the same portion sizes.
Having been in a similar situation myself, it's obvious to me that you're working for a company that's circling the drain. Low employee retention is toxic even when management is actively recruiting to fill the gaps that are left, and the fact that they aren't suggests to me that either the company is in dire financial straits already, or else it is being so badly mismanaged that it soon will be.

In such a situation, the only thing I can recommend is: make it your top priority to find another job. The longer you stay, the worse it's going to get, and the greater share of the blame you will be lumped with when things go pear shaped.

If you can't find one quickly that matches your current seniority and salary, would you be prepared to consider something a bit lower down the scale as a stopgap? This wouldn't have to be long term -- just as an interim for a couple of months or so until you can find something closer to your expectations that you can make a bit more permanent.
One might posit that some traditions from other religions were also meant to avoid common problems without understanding the science behind why. Take not eating pork for example, to avoid trichinosis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichinosis
The original Medium article was submitted to HN a couple hours ago, which the OP wisely deleted after being called out. (and then he deleted the original Medium article shortly after)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8511547
You're right. I am just worried on how I explain that 3-4 month vacation
>How is this stuff still controversial?

Because people are scared to make claims about trait heritability in humans. The moment someone publicly says anything about e.g. genetics influencing human intelligence, someone flies out of left field and accuses them of being a racist.

The absolute inanity of political correctness has turned certain areas of scientific inquiry into political minefields.
I feel like every chatter about intelligence comes down to arguing over the operational definition of intelligence. Isn't it obvious that abilities such as simple arithmetics, memory, linguistic ability, recognizing patterns have at least something to do with intelligence?
Exactly. There's even another JSON encoding, RDF/JSON[1], but I don't think anybody uses it.

[1]: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/raw-file/default/rdf-json/index.h...