skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a student teacher I asked permission to do this and, without exception, was met with baffled looks. What specifically are you hoping find out? I was asked. Why would you want to that? my mentor teacher wanted to know. It's not that anyone had objections, they just couldn't fathom why an adult would want to do it.

My biggest take away was how out of control and unpleasant lunch period was. Also, how much the kids got yelled at during class transitions.
> Having said all that, I would encourage more people to talk to their representatives regarding these issues. It goes without saying that unless the people have a voice then their desires won't be heard.

I can't emphasis this enough. The trouble is, that far to many people stand by and are silent.
The even better part is when you make assumptions about what you know about your friends and it turns out one of them is celiac and just hasn't had a biopsy to confirm. Making medical decisions for your friends without their knowledge is always a great idea.
It is more to do with scale than the actual figures. In using sums like "million dollar", "10 million dollar" and then terms like "home run", "swing" etc. you're actually trying to define different scales of startup ideas that don't have a better terminology - but probably should.

There is a completely different risk profile in small businesses, then paid apps, then freemium products, then ad supported products. They are distinct, we just don't have a good way of communicating the differences.

One school of startup advice advises against raising money while another says to raise as much as you can. Rather than being in conflict, it is clear that they don't actually contradict each other but rather apply in different situations.

The don't-raise-money school that DHH et al preach is suitable for paid products and services, while an ad supported idea like a search engine or social network, or an idea with heavy R&D requirement requires that money is raised.

One million / 10 million / home run is a very imperfect way of classifying this distinction. The differences are all in the cashflow model - atm we refer to a flat cashflow model, a linearly increasing cashflow model, an exponentially increasing cashflow model and cashflow models that go negative for 2-3 years and then go either linear or exponential all as 'startups'.
It's all the same ;)
http://xkcd.com/435/
What is the "extraordinary threat" to his personal safety at this point? Any assassination attempt at this point would create such a political backlash in the US that he is essentially untouchable.
Having been through a deposition myself, one of the most useful and crucial phrases to remember is "I don't remember". It is human nature in such situations to try and present yourself authoritatively, and to answer questions in a positive and detailed way. However, the absolute worst thing that can and often does happen is for the interviewer/lawyer to get you to elaborate on something and say you remember x or y happening, then presenting evidence to the contrary. If you don't know, or you aren't sure, or prefer not to answer the question, just say "I don't know" or "I don't remember".
> "... they have decided that the benefits are greater than the risks ..."

My point is that they're not even aware of how things work and therefore are not at all in a position to comprehend what the risks really are, let alone make sensible decisions.

The flaw in your reasoning is linking behaviour to knowledge. Just because people are behaving in a certain way doesn't mean that they are fully aware of the consequences of those actions. When it's only a small part of your life, it has little impact but when you suddenly realise a large chunk of your life depends on those choices it can be a bit of a shock (consider all the celebrities who had private images leaked recently).
Indeed, the following factors below is what makes you a success...

1. Luck/Serendipity - Your startup launches for the first or fifth time & boom gets traction, which money/success immediately follows. Think Pinterest, Uber, Facebook, Youtube; basically it's like winning the lottery!

and

2. Network - You know the right people & or convinced them to give you their resources (their connections & money). With this you can do the hard work (have the runway) to make things happen, though maybe not.

Good luck everyone!
I've used salesforce as a development platform before, and still do not understand the hype that surrounds it within enterprise. I found that it actually slowed down development, costs where sky high and constantly worrying about rate limits and working around the system.

The only people who seemed happy was the salesforce sales guy and management who got the pitch from them.
Age of Mythology was my favorite among the whole series.
Hi there Yev,

I'm a long time crashplan user and the reason why is because they have a family plan ($15 for 10machines). I have multiple machines that I need backed up, so that's why I go with this. I wished i can use backblaze because it looks very good and have native apps. If you have a family plan, I'll switch in a heartbeat. :)
Huge Security Concern with Tsu (New Social Network 7MM Investment)
So you guys probably have heard something about Tsu.co by now, the social network that has recently received 7 million in funding, which pays it's users a portion of the ad money it receives based on independent viewership much like the revenue sharing model you see with Youtube. Anyway you can find out all about it at http://tsu.co/faq, since their main site is horrible at explaining anything about the actual project.

Anyway here's the fun part...

So I decided to try it out, feel free to register using the "invite link" below (it's invite only right now), just don't use a password you use for anything else...
http://tsu.co/dragmecom

Here's why...

Take a look when you're registering, notice how there's no SSL? Haha you guessed it, all of their information throughout the entire site is completely unencrypted. That means all passwords, emails, user addresses, etc. are unencrypted and visible to anyone and everyone.

You don't need to be a security expert to know this, it's almost text book knowledge for anyone who has ever interfaced with the web on a technical level. Soooooo my fellow hacker news friends, enjoy this new found information.

Maybe one of you might be so encouraged to post, "I love good security" via the founder's account. I tried to email the staff about the concern but still haven't received a response, maybe you all can "encourage" them to expedite patching this crucial security concern, and protect their users.

Happy cracking! :)
Once the number of people using these P2P economy services reaches a critical mass, shouldn't voting with their dollars by using these services be seen indirectly as a vote supporting these changes?

Furthermore, there is absolutely no indication that the status quo is the "majority's decision". These days, which regulatory capture, the revolving door and pork barreling, it's pretty much impossible to tell what laws were passed because it's the majority decision and which were favors traded among members congress to support the interests of their biggest donors.

We have at best a quasi-democratic system; i.e. just enough democracy to maintain an illusion of a functioning democracy.
"had" - I was referring to when he first blew the whistle, not conducting this interview.
This struck me as odd as well. I'm curious whether Rockefeller or someone close to him has been Whispering info they shouldn't have or would be embarrassed by. I haven't cared enough to look at the data stream between Whisper and its servers, but does anyone know if they send the GPS tag of each Whisper down to the app? You could build your own database this way. Even if they don't, with their "nearby" feature, you could make posts with fake locations and then look at what order they come up in the "nearby" results at different locations. You could then calculate a relatively precise fake GPS location necessary to feed to the nearby feature to pinpoint Whispers from a specific location.
Technology and the Humanities
So you lie to your friends and misrepresent what you're serving them, denying them control over what they put in their own body? It's one thing to not buy the whole gluten-free diet thing and say "I'm making good-tasting stuff that has gluten, take it or leave it," but what you describe here is pretty much just an asshole move.
Occulus Rift slaved to multiple camera's would make the entire plane "vanish" (much like current military systems allow pilots to look "through" the plane).

Now that I would pay for :)
Is food nonsense filling the vacuum left by the decline of religion?
The "processing" of wheat is simply grinding it, in a mill[0]. The ears are literally just physically broken down into small pieces. No chemicals are added, and ideally no chemical reactions happen within the wheat/flour. Certainly gluten is not a product of the milling process; it is a protein that exists in the original ears of wheat[1].

Also, the process of milling cannot be described as cooking by any reasonable defintion of the word, so I'm not sure what you mean by wheat being "raw" in a way that flour is not. Unless you count finely chopped ingredients as no longer being "raw".

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gristmill

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat
There is too much blowback and ignorance in regards to how memory and thinking works. We have been horribly brainwashed into thinking that all memorization is bad and that focusing on "critical thinking skills" is superior. In order to think any thought, memory is required. Rather than memorizing useless facts, schools should use spaced repetition from the first grade onwards to ensure long term retention over important ideas and concepts. This needs to be implemented on every level of our education system. Far too much ignorance and bureaucracy stands in the way of this ever happening, but at least those tools are in the hands of any autodidact that wants to use it.
We have, right now, short-term environmental influences that boost IQ, for example, nicotine.
I don't think you'd need to silence a whistle-blower. With Snowden we learned that most citizens and medias don't care.
I'm curious, have you ever thought about why building a startup with more revenues and more "impact" seems to matter more than building smaller companies? I know this is a bit philosophical, but I'd be interested in hearing how you think about this.
If the goal is getting to the moon, then proposing cars is a failure. A short thought experiment would reveal this. And it's not really useful to start co-opting rocketships and calling them "cars" and claiming that cars have been the path to the moon all along and amazing things are coming. This is a particularly pernicious habit I've noticed in the KM field.

The short thought experiment that would reveal that cars won't work simply hasn't been done as a field with the SW and it's usually not done in any kind of Semantic technology circles. You end up with "just tweak the model!" and "it'll start to work when there's sufficient data" and "we just need to build the reasoning engines" is what the field has been spinning on for more than a decade.

Even in SW circles, there's a general consensus that the SW has not arrived. In some more honest pieces it's recognized that it was a failure. But there's tremendous momentum behind the idea because of TBL and people aren't willing to give it up and jump ship onto what's actually working until it gets a big name and W3C (or some other notable committee) to back it.
I like the idea. I AM confused though.
Currently Fx OS doesn't provide a decent (imap) mail client and seems to have issues with services/background stuff (think.. IM client).

If things like the ones described in the post are the goal (media server, low level hardware access), does that mean modifications to the core system? Is - and that's my real question - the lack of the mentioned features merely "not yet written" vs "impossible to do right now and blocking on core/system changes"?
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What is your e-mail? Let's chat.
>So Microsoft wrote their own Java runtime called the MS JVM, and made it part of Windows, it extended Java to do Windows-only things, meaning there were now "Java" apps that could only run on Windows, destroying the whole point of Java.

The more important question is, was there anything that prevented Sun or anyone else from implementing those in the other OSes? Otherwise it looks like programs are limited to the most basic level everywhere. I do remember the MS JVM was significantly faster than Sun's. So the solution was to slow it down or for Sun to make it's own faster?

It's in Microsoft's interest to make things run faster on it's own OS. For example of a similar issue, see Flash on OS X and Jobs' memo regarding how it sucked and made OS X look bad and refusal to allow it in iOS. How is that a good thing and what MS did bad?

Instead of improving the JVM, Sun decided to make money by suing MS. No wonder that bloated piece of slow crap that looks like crap is dying a slow death and stopped being relevant.

I remember using a popular bittorrent client called Azureus that ran on the JVM. My laptop would get super hot and slow to a crawl. Also remember how J2ME made mobile Java development a complete hell before Windows Mobile and iPhone came on the scene?

http://www.zdnet.com/three-billion-devices-run-java-yeah-but...
Brian from Backblaze here.

The focus of our backup system is being "easy to use". We get a lot of advanced users who are computer savvy, but we also get some mom and pop novice who aren't very good with computers.

Ok, so we don't allow you to unselect your C:\ (main) drive. Here is the reason: when given that choice an alarmingly high number of novices accidentally unselected the drive. (sigh)

We don't charge customers any more or less on what they backup, so there are almost no legitimate reasons to UNSELECT a drive. What data do you have that you hate so much you MUST lose it when your computer is stolen? So we error on the side of helping these novice users and don't allow them to unselect their main laptop drive. The down side is it sometimes irritates the advanced customers who know what they are doing. :-)
I think that the first part of socceroos's comment is more or less the answer to why people stand by silently.
I don't think that's derailing it at all. It's at the very core of my ambivalent feelings about companies like Uber and AirBNB.

There aren't great social injustices at work here, overheated rhetoric aside.

At worst there's run of the mill corruption. The concepts of what these kinds of regulation do are well-founded and something society has clearly wanted. The exact implementations may well have been corrupted, but the stated intent of the laws and regulations are in the public interest, and the public has been happy-ish with them.

Does that then mean the fix is to throw out the whole regimen of rules? For example, someone mentioned Seattle hasn't issued new medallions in decades. So the solution is to do away with medallions? Why not just issue more?

What about county level food safety inspectors? Many of those regulatory agencies are also corrupt. And don't even start with alcohol licensing. But should we "disrupt" those too? Just ignore them because there's some corruption in the system?

When you get down to it, none of these companies want to increase consumer choice. In their perfect world, they'd be the only choice. So it's hard to accept they're really out for the public good.

And that makes it really difficult for me to cheer them on as they pick and choose which laws they accept as valid expressions of the people's will.

The people aren't really being given a vote here. Well, actually, they have been given a vote, and these companies are choosing to ignore it for their own benefit.

As I said, it's not some great social injustice at stake. Civil Rights leaders broke the law with greater purposes in mind than "So my company can be valued in the billions".
I guess he'll get the Groupon CEO treatment.

Oh, wait, he hadn't already raised millions and wasn't yet part of the untouchables? hum, I feel for him.
AngularJS: Creating an HTML table to display items from an array
Thanks for the heads up, it can't be something that big (at least based on funding) dedicates such poor attention to security... it's really a bit weird.
$500-$600 is actually cheap! I haven't been able to find a motorized sit stand desk for less than $1200.
At a minimum, Uber could have advised the drivers that they were engaging in civil disobedience. They appear to have resorted to conscripting protesters.
Agreed (haven't hit Italy yet, but the others ... 1 year, 2 months, 1 month, 3 months).
In the latter part of high school, I began standing in the classes where I both knew the teacher fairly well and didn't think I would bother anyone else by doing so. Since there weren't any standing desks, I would either stand myself near a wall or an unused desk I could lean on and carry a clipboard, or I would occasionally grab a music stand or an unused lectern. I had never felt particularly uncomfortable in a normal desk before, but for the first time I really felt unconstrained by my environment. I'm naturally somewhat fidgety, and gaining the ability to readjust my body comfortably without bothering anyone and to pace around the classroom (even in a very small area) really allowed me to get my blood flowing more easily and prevented me from being distracted from any discomfort I had in a desk built for people who were both smaller than I was at the time and who were not left-handed. Talking to the teacher (or even to other students) feels much more intimate, as your vision isn't obstructed by the back of someone's head. Something I didn't expect was that when participating in class discussions, I felt more expressive, as I tend to move my hands and arms when I speak, something I couldn't do easily in a sitting desk.

I wonder, though, whether or not some of both the student's and my improvements were caused by being on a different plane from the rest of the class. I also wonder what effect having some standing students in a classroom would have on the seated children. I was once told that I was somewhat intimidating when I was the only one standing in the classroom.

I don't know whether standing desks are the best option for everyone, but they're certainly a better option for some, and I'm glad to see standing desks being given greater consideration nowadays.
“We are summoning the demon with AI” Elon Musk
Could be, but these fads all roar through the facebook feeds of my college classmates. Though I will grant the possibility that even highly ranked institutions may not be leaving their graduates (i.e., me) "well educated".
Yes. But they won't upgrade anything.
Cool! Doesn't look much different from any state fairgrounds in the US; the bunnies and bulls, the monuments to workers and productivity.
Very typical for enterprise software. The managers who make the purchasing decisions are not the people who have to use or administer the software.
The Guardian may have shown up a whisper pretending to be pushing a "will no one think of the children?" Angle. Demanding how whisper will help when used as a tool of child abusers and so on. With that they got their info and decided which angle to actually pursue.

Reporting secret information that people don't want you to know that may affect decisions you might make that have a pretty strong affect on your life. That's really, really good reporting. If it really did turn out to be fabrication that would be awful, but it seems unlikely at this point. Time will tell.
Really?

Greenwald, Gellman, and Poitras were awarded the Pulitzer for their coverage, and my elderly parents now know who Edward Snowden is and what the NSA was up to (even though they vehemently label him a traitor).

The lack of an immediate change in government policy != people not caring.
portion size is the first sign of success

Or perhaps, people with childhood food insecurities and a habit of gorging what's available, when it's available, as quickly as possible will probably eat more of worse food when given the chance.

i didn't work my ass off to eat a fucking salad

... which is amusing, given that the extremely affluent classes consume well produced salads with quality ingredients as main meals, even in the face of significant choice.
> The My KNOX console provides password reset functionality, thus removing the need for password hints.

Wait, doesn't that mean Samsung has a way to decrypt your data without the original password then? (Though I'm not familiar with MyKNOX so I'm not sure if that's what they're promising at all)
Sorry, I mistook the issue number.

> plenty of other similar weekly collection type articles routinely get posted to HN

I haven't noticed the others - perhaps they get similarly ignored. One problem with Groovy's marketing over the years has been blitz campaigns, especially initiating weekly things when monthly would make more sense. I remember the Groovy Quiz launched around 2007 - it was weekly then fizzled out after a month, but if it had been monthly it might have had more interest and stuck around.

In the case of these newsletters, about half the links point to twitter tweets which makes them worthless. It was launched on Christmas Eve last year http://grails.1312388.n4.nabble.com/ANN-First-issue-of-the-q... in an apparent attempt to go unnoticed in nudging Groovy users away from the Codehaus mailing list and onto the project person's personal website, including soliticing for private mailouts. Groovy announcements also get made in this newsletter instead of the Codehaus mailing list, despite the assurances in the above link that that wouldn't happen.

By submitting these links to Hacker News you're assisting one of the Groovy despots to take over personal control of the Codehaus implementation of Groovy, which is why I'm suspicious. This despot has a long history of doing this, and it's only because of my intervention the 3 present developers are even mentioned on Groovy's wikipedia page, instead of the project person putting his own name there 3 times http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Groovy_%28programm...
This is a weak attempt at reverse psychology to promote your startup.
What about wheat would make it so that the FDA would so likely not approve it? I ask in earnest and I expect there are a few things I don't know on the subject.
Brian from Backblaze here.

CrashPlan is awesome, I have ALWAYS liked those guys.

Backblaze focuses on being really simple, we already have 3 different pricing choices which is probably two more than we should have: 1) $5/month, 2) $50/year, or 3) $95/two years. All are unlimited, none have throttles or caps, we don't even price businesses differently. Simple.

Our theory is (may not be correct) that if you offer customers too many complicated choices, they get stuck in the decision making process and don't buy any of the choices. If we offer a family plan that is MORE expensive for two computers but LESS expensive for three computers, blah blah, too much thought. It's $5/computer/month - done. You can get started IMMEDIATELY with one computer, and add them as you go, you don't have to decide to commit to 10 licenses to get the best price, etc, etc.

We don't have any magic knowledge more than anybody, so internally we sometimes angst over stuff like a family plan, but for now we just want it to be simple and straight-forward.
I didn't see where they separate 'nature vs nurture' in their twins study. Was that done? Is it hasty to label these correlations as 'genetic'?
Health care is the last field I'd be targeting for the next couple of years. There is going to be a lot of churn as the longer-tail provisions of obamacare take effect, and as they are changed and/or repealed by future administration(s).