skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're a fan of websites that mess around with scrolling functionality you're in for a treat!

Holy damn that site is all over the place if you try to scroll a bit too fast

as someone working on a video-based site I am interested in this concept but I just cannot use this website without irritation. Also there's barely any "Now you've seen that it's pretty, this is what it does" information.

Document! document! document!
Holy crap, now it's a multi-person conversation? I would say let's meet for drinks... How about Hangouts or what ever one uses on iPhones? Maybe this is more for the under 25 crowd who like to do things the hard way on 5" screens with no keyboards. Not me...
Nexmo Announces Verify API
Of course there are exceptions to this. Yours may very well be one. If there is very little or no text in it that does not matter for using the software, a bad translation would be nothing worse than a nuisance to the user.
Show HN: Bouncing Ball, most uncontrollable ball you have ever played with
so everyone should have to choose between having their home router's info added to large, aggregated databases and reconfiguring/not operating a router?

i know plenty of people for whom that's not a choice they're likely to know about. perhaps mozilla/google shouldn't be able to dictate my SSID or its visibility just because they don't want to incur the cost/complexity of obtaining affirmative, informed consent.
Word. I'm working on a SQL Server -> DB2 migration, which I expect to finish sometime in the next decade.
Google monetizes the product by the fact that:

(1) Part of the infrastructure is tied to Android, so it promotes Android and their many ways of monetizing the Android ecosystem,
(2) Its grows the market for cloud services, for which Google is an infrastructure provider.

Both of these are fairly indirect, but that's not uncommon for Google. Google has lots of projects that aren't directly monetized, but support products that are.
Ask HN: How to land the first ERP client?
You need the first client to build an erp software and then replicate that across other clients in the same niche or industry. the question is, how can you achieve this without first spending lot of time building the tool and getting paid to solve their enterprise problem?

Here's how I envision creating a custom ERP tool.

1) Find a business with ERP needs.
2) Propose a solution.
3) Get paid
4) Deliver
5) Productize
6) Sell to other similar businesses
7) Hire
8) Grow

I'm also curious to know in what industries are real-time collaborative feature are a major selling point.
Really cool. Spent ages building a glider gun and then pointed it in the wrong direction...

I think there are probably a few too many civilians in there as well, messed up any cool formations I had far too early for them to be effective.
David Orban Explains the Bitcoin Singularity
I find it far more frustrating on Android, though, as with Windows I get root so I can remove them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_%28cellular_automaton%29
Help us visit LONDON :)
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A simple traveller
You don't have to justify them, but the actual privacy-violating mechanism is worth explaining, no?

What is it about SSID-based geolocation that compromises the AP owner’s privacy?
A complete re-working - as OpenStack is too big if you're not a corporation with a very big infrastructure.
Yup. Total disasters. Higher standard of living than any humans in history, but Japan, Europe and the USA are somehow failed economies and total disaster zones.

What colour is the sky on your planet?
He is not to blame at all. He made a good faith effort to communicate which did not work and openly reasoned about the challenges of a relatively new platform that many people are still trying to make the best use of. I'm glad he posted.
The opposite is also true. In college most people got their music from places like audiogalaxy because that was really the only good option. Now most people I know just use the iTunes store because it is so simple.
The effect's subtle. I read Wycoff's Mindmapping in high school, and have tried the techniques off and on. One interesting idea is that you're constantly making background connections, and these can play a small but non-negligible association in the mind. So if you always chew a minty gum when doing your math work, it helps a bit in bootstrapping you back into that frame of mind later, like smelling bacon sizzling and feeling restful from associating it with family breakfasts.

Whether it works or not, well, I think it does, but it's no panacea. I prefer to think of it as a hint to start preloading a frame of mind (like the Jargon File's second use of 'swap' [0]). When I sit with a second hand book that's got that mild musty wood and glue smell, it gets me in the frame of mind to read. YMMV.

[0] https://www.catb.com/jargon/html/S/swap.html
My game for WinPhone
Isn't that essentially the entire internet?

I absolutely think that you should only use twitter to post links to blog posts and mailing lists emails. That way, people who really care will read, others will not, and they likely won't comment without reading.

Complex thoughts don't often fit in a tweet.
MailChimp taps Unbabel to offer translations in more than 20 languages
Poynt – Smart payment terminal
>Perfect information is just a theoretical benchmark used by economists

It's not used as a benchmark. It's used as an assumption when building (largely wrong) neoclassical mathematical models of the economy.
But SSIDs are not private. At all. Should what the outside of your house look like be private information? How would that work? What about when I appear in the background of a photo someone took on the street?
The guy behind Google Wallet is back to change payments all over again
Uber Kittens is back
For me it's a matter of quickly referencing material. For whatever reason, I seem to recall where things are roughly by the thickness of the stack of pages. The percentage bar on the Kindle doesn't replicate that. And flipping between pages on a device just takes too long. So, I have a hard time reading any sort of reference material on a Kindle.
https://www.virtkick.io/ works OK, but it seems you killed https://alpha.virtkick.io/ (our 128 GB hypervisor wasn't enough to handle load). https://demo.virtkick.io/ is a static HTML prototype to get familiar with planned features.
This is an awesome project! Thanks for choosing the AGPLv3!

I tried to create a VM on the demo site, and got a nice Ruby error message next to the VM's name on the 'Machines' page: undefined method `+' for nil:NilClass

Still, I'm very excited about this!

If anyone from the project reads this: Where is the appropriate place to request support for an additional GNU/Linux distribution? I would love to get GNU Guix running on this.

Edit: It seems that I have jumped the gun with my enthusiasm for this project. They will be selling proprietary re-licensed versions as a reward and require copyright assignment for contributions.

VirtKick, please reconsider your decision to require copyright assignment. I want my contributions to the free software community to remain free.
Yes, the RS-25/SSMEs aren't "easily the most efficient rocket engines ever built". As noted below, there's NERVA.
> an iPhone is primarily a communications device

That's why I've started calling them 'personal communicators' instead of 'phones'. Sounds a bit more Star Treky as well :)
We don't correlate your location data to ads. As a Canadian, that would actually be illegal and a violation of the Privacy Act.

We never got authorization from individuals to do that correlation.

We aren't perfect, but I think we do a pretty good job of respecting and protecting your privacy at Mozilla.
This is exactly why I think Talko is so cool. Not quite a replacement for email, but has some good ideas.
Here's an analogy:

Everyone who travels past your home can see if the lights are on in the evening. They can also see which lights are on in the front of the house.

So I'm going to give you three scenarios and I want you to tell me when exactly it becomes a privacy issue:

1) A single person travels past your house and happens to notice which lights are on.

2) Someone travels past your house and records, on a piece of paper, which lights are on.

3) A Google car travels past your house and records, electronically, which lights are on.

Same thing with WiFi SSIDs here. It is like you standing on the roof of your home and shouting your ATM pin using a bullhorn, then complaining when someone else hears or records the information.

You want people to stop "monitoring" your SSID? Stop freaking broadcasting it at all.
"the mall doesn't want my type there"

What happens when you go to the mall? What type are you? I sometimes visited malls while under 40 and I never got hassled, so I'm curious.
Here is how we tested them:

Language skills:
I made an Odesk job for each language and got quite a few applications. THe first filering process consists of deleting those who have below 4,5 stars, and thos who have't worked at Odesk for quite a while. Ideally 1000+ hours.

The I sent a sample to the most promising candidates. These samples were all sent to professional translator, who picked their winners.

Marketing skills:
I asked every single translator how they would research keywords in their local language. Their answers will easily give you an overview of how reflected they are in this field. Plus, I only chose people who had done similar tasks before. Not everybody had done app localisations, but at least localisations for web marketing purposes.

I can't be 100% sure that there are NO errors in the translations. But I can be 100% sure that this localisation will benefit my business, as it will increase downloads and revenue significantly. I know this from previous experience.
Brilliant idea. I'll defiantly be trying this out. It might not change the world but it's great to see fun things like this on HN from time to time. Nice work.
While it probably wouldn't need to be destroyed, the last thing you want is for part of it to lay down on the ground still producing thrust. Better to be certain.
.@untog Hey, don't you feel shame at being connected with this stigma?

(Whoops, accidentally put a dot in front of your name! So sorry.)
My another game for WinPhone
Sorry for that. The hypervisor died, which results in errors like this. We use Bugsnag so we've got all the stacktraces - we'll handle distasters. :)
you are being downvoted for picking a number out of context and unnecessarily provocative language.
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Monitoring server logs is how we detected and implemented protection from a botnet scouring the database for SSID information.
Really how so?
My 16 yr. old daughter explained to me two days ago why Twitter conversations are broken, how to fix them and that maybe we should design products together since we can do it better than Twitter or that maybe she should send them her idea.

My response was, if you want to develop products together, let's do that. Second, Twitter probably has 50 product people who have all sat around and discussed her solution in detail and come to the conclusion that, for some reason we won't understand but that is probably better for Twitter, they shouldn't implement it. Most likely it has something to do with more views.

Then I welcomed her to the shitty reality that once a company gets the market share, they stop caring about a better experience for users and more about the bottom line OR maybe they're just stupid. After all, Twitter didn't have a single backup for something like the first year or two of existence.
Interesting Good or Interesting Bad?
"Of everyone, Google should know how hard it is to maintain large web apps"

They do.

Google doesn't use Angular for Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Calendar, Maps, or Google+. They use Closure Tools (https://developers.google.com/closure/), which has a much longer history, and is geared towards truly large web apps.

As far as I know, only DoubleClick uses Angular.
Reddit's new crowdfunding site draws on your fellow fans for help
Humans make the decisions, but they make them in advance. Machines are programmed to parse the feeds and trade based on their content. This has almost nothing to do with retail investing. It has to do with big players paying for the privilege to front-run the rest of the market.
Grocery UPC Database
How to monetize a site with variable user content?
I have a website http://www.aggreddit.com/ which allows users to select and quickly view the popular links from reddit subreddits. I was originally using AdSense, but serving was disabled due to the links (content from reddit which I have no control over).

Is there any way around this? People are after all only getting the content they request! Or can anyone suggest alternative advertisers?

I'm not looking to make big money from this, but visitors are growing and I'd like to be able to work on more ideas I have for the site.
I'm in the same boat, or perhaps more extreme (I have about 2000 physical books). One of the things I don't like about ebooks is just plain usability. Almost everything I read is technical in nature, and I like to take margin notes, cross reference things within and between books, and generally add to the content and organization of the book as I read it. I rarely have a need to search for text, and if I do I can generally find it quickly because of my notes and just the memory of where it was in the book.

I've only tried a small number of ebook readers, but nothing has even come close to the usability of paper books for me doing that kind of stuff. A book that I'm going to study has to be paper, for now.
If you worked trading earnings it would not be news to you. Computers are also polling other places (like company websites) to see if the content is just hidden but still available or gets accidentally posted early.
Please stop elaborating on the definition of terse. It wasn't the correct term to use, please just accept that without additional exposition.
I ported one of Shopify's open source projects (their dashboard tool) to Golang a while back, and in the process I also managed to wrangle the Batman.js frontend portion into a Grunt pipeline. It was a challenge, to say the least :p

https://github.com/gigablah/generator-dashing-go/blob/master...

I've been toying with the idea of replacing the whole frontend with something much more lightweight. Perhaps a good time for me to play with Mithril or React...
As a programmer, I can completely believe I'd write a system for capturing and process beacons packets - to store the MAC and transmission power - that would also inadvertently capture and store data packets. In fact, using some off-the-shelve open source tools like Kismet, capturing data packets is the default - you need to manually disable it. That alone makes for an easy way to mess it up.

What I can't find is a "motive for the crime". What possible reason would they have to capture small samples of random data packets from random unencrypted APs?
Interestingly, the exchanges have been under fire from the SEC in regards to the dissemination of marketdata. Are the exchanges sending out data from their prop feeds at the same time it is submitted to the SIP?

Well if it is measured at the 1-second or 1-millisecond level, yes the exchanges are in compliance. At the 100-microsecond, 10-microsecond and nanosecond level, perhaps the exchange is in compliance at the 50th percentile.

It will be interesting to see if the pressure on the exchanges changes course as they empathize with the same type of dissemination problem.
To play devil's advocate, I can't think of a single mainstream distro that doesn't fork and patch the kernel as well.

And one of Android's original use models was a non touch screen connected to a keyboard (mainly for Blackberry style smartphones before they were sure that slates would take off, but still...).
see my other comment for a hypothetical: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8527229

through no fault of mozilla's, most home routers are ridiculously, pathetically insecure. this is not a situation that would be improved by making it easier to geolocate routers from specific vendors. if vulnerable routers become easier to find, my communications passing through that router could quickly become a lot less private. would mozilla be responsible? no. but that doesn't mean mozilla sharing my probably-vulnerable router's location wouldn't play a role in compromising my privacy.
Analogies are analogies because they're similar, not identical.

> You want people to stop "monitoring" your SSID? Stop freaking broadcasting it at all.

This is technocentrical BS, washing the hands to justify doing what you want.

1) Most people don't know that their SSIDs are being recorded (with position), so how do you expect them to make an informed decision? It's not like the information is readily available (I work in IT and I did not know about appending "no_map" to the SSID).

2) Everyone has a router, broadcasting the SSID. Do you really and honestly expect everyone to know how to disable it?
It's much more likely that I am misquoting what Bjarne Stroustrup said than that Bjarne Stroustrup doesn't know what is or isn't valid C++. Anyway I found the slide deck from the talk. He was making this point while discussing the slide on page 7.

http://files.meetup.com/1455470/C%2B%2B14%20and%20Concepts.p...
Do you read Grantland? If not, check it out - they have great stuff at the intersection of nerds + sports on a regular basis.
The nice phrase for tl;dr is "executive summary" because big wigs don't need to bother with ill-written text.
It can be. This conversation is a multi-person one too. That's still different than, say, hangouts because everybody is free to reply, not just people you invited. Maybe somebody neither of us know will read this next month and come up with an interesting counterpoint.

In any case, using some form of video calling is too intrusive. I can type this reply, do something else for 10 minutes, then check back. But then I was always one for text mediums rather than video or audio calls :)
So just for clarity. I'll be able to download your source/package, install, go to the web interface and start spinning up VM instances on the same machine?

Are the extras like monitoring 3rd party integrations that I'll have to pay for, or actual features of VirtKick?
I didn't spot your question. The best way would be to contribute. :) We currently have virtkick-starter, a bunch of scripts that set everything up. You could try it out on Guix and improve if needed. https://github.com/virtkick/virtkick-starter
Don't just leave us hanging. What's the problem and how would she fix it?
If only he'd called it 'the 1%' instead of the 99th percentile, he could have founded the 'Occupy EC2 movement'. #lostopportunity
Very sad to hear that. Really hoping for the best possible outcomes.
Not sure they are not caring or stupid. Perhaps they decided that Twitter is NOT a platform for conversations. I use Twitter as a real time platform for announcements, status updates, and just general sentiment. I do not really want to read debate there or conversations. If someone wants to discuss things there are other places to do that.

As for their engineering problems at the beginning yes it was bad but then again they grew massively very quickly and they needed to come up with novel solutions at huge scale.
For those downmodding the parent post: the author is being sarcastic, but the commands are entirely accurate - due to Firefox's trademark, Debian does not ship Firefox or include it in their repositories. Adding a new repo, and the keys required to sign that repo are entirely necessary to install Firefox on Debian.
And yesterday's launch illustrates why people are kind of nervous about using them as a way to take off from the planet's surface.
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Windows locks executable files and dells while they are being used, so it's not possible for an installer to overwrite them

Exactly, and Linux doesn't do that, hence my comment. The Windows model is flawed--why do you need to lock a binary on disk when a copy of it is running in main memory? Linux just lets the installer overwrite the files on disk, so there's no need to restart the whole OS, just the program whose files were updated.

I assume Windows 10 will not change this behavior? A command-line package manager on Windows would be cool, but its utility will be limited if you still need to restart the whole OS just to upgrade a program that's currently running.
Show HN: Asm.js/PNaCl accelerated file hasher webapp
there are indeed many useful ways that server logs can positively contribute to improving user privacy; i just thought the attitude of "well of course...that's what everyone else does" (even though that's true!) was dismissive of good-faith privacy concerns.
Answers to Your [MCX] Questions
Hrm, what you are suggesting sounds like some kind of conversation back and forth between 2 people. Like a chat system or something. Issue is, you are talking in an environment where everyone can interject, and everyone has a strongly felt opinion. Just look at any news show "interview" between 2 sides of an argument. They tend to devolve into shouting matches of who can drown out the other side without getting smacked down by the host.
> Should what the outside of your house look like be private information?

Everyone knows that someone can record the outside of your house; not everyone knows that SSIDs with location can (and actually are!) registered. Do you notice the difference? You can't assume that WLAN specifics are as tacit as knowing that people can look at my house!
If you write code in Angular 1.3 today, I really see no reason why it wouldn't still run in ten years. As for the lack of bug fixes, if a front end bug doesn't break your app within the first three years, I don't see how it's going to suddenly become a show stopper.
Misplaced Outrage at the FBI Over AP-SeattleTimes Impersonation
That solution is suboptimal. If you don't broadcast it, then properly provisioned clients have to probe for it. Which they do, on every channel. So you go from one device beaconing the SSID (your AP) to all client devices
advertising it, on every channel.
If you click the exit beta button there is a form.
Thank you for putting this out there.

I opened the nook app after reading this and promptly downloaded some old books, I then came back and read the comments to understand what the story was actually about. I had never actually used the website to download the ebooks so I was unaware that feature existed.

If you download nook for PC/mac, the .epub files are readily accessible after you use the in-app download feature, and considering the author is already using Adobe Digital Editions under WINE, I'd assume the author can just as easily download use the nook pc app. The complaint seems valid to me, I just don't think it's worth leaving $500+ of books (assuming the author is stating they can no longer access books due to the removal of downloading via the web).
Actually, I started something a while ago. Maybe I'll pick it up again.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArVkFagUZg7bdHB...

If anyone would like to contribute, let me know.
Yes, everyone should have to chose that. This should be a choice to make when you are broadcasting a signal out beyond your property. This would be like arguing that your wireless network shouldn't show up in the dropdown list you see when trying to connect to a wifi network. If it's a major concern, then you always have the possibility of using ethernet, but this information is publicly available.