skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that marketing/sales are necessary to expose the product to target users, but a prototype allows founders to reiterate based on feedback to build what people want.

This is certainly true as it will help validate your idea/market, and it is a step toward traction. A common mistake though is to assess positive feedback to a prototype as traction. Your quote is also apt. Here is another from me, right now:

"Nothing matters except sales"
This could be avoided if encrypting files before uploading them to the web was the standard. Granted, the system wouldn't be as user friendly, but at least the chances of exposing your naked ass on the internet would decrease significantly.
Well I think for starters they haven't carved out a space for themselves. They were the first to a new space made possibly by recent advances in technology, but that's it. Furthermore as technology continues to march forward it's only going to become easier and easier for competitors to enter the same space.

So from that perspective yeah, yeah I guess they do have to be cut throat to survive. The service they provide is not far off from being commoditized. It's easy and cheap for competitors to step in and drive prices down. Will be very, very hard for Uber to secure their space. Honestly the only thing that will make it possible is the same time of legal protection that taxi companies have had.

Oops.
This is one of the reasons that decent sized startups should be giving important people a dedicated company-owned device if those people need access to sensitive company info from their phones.

In the recent past I've had to fight for this with a previous employer who thought it was acceptable to impose security restrictions on personal devices that are used to access company info. Many people just stopped accessing company info from their phones - they would prefer to be able to root / jailbreak their phones if they choose to.

Simple thought experiment: your competitor is caught red-handed doing the thing you are pondering, how do you think it will reflect on them?
I'm missing something here.

If you don't want naked pictures of yourself taken, then you don't undress in front of a running video camera, right? Seems kinda obvious.

This fellow put together a setup that automatically takes pix of whatever happens and uploads them to a company's server and ... he's shocked when it does what it's supposed to?

I don't get it.

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EDIT. Been pondering this. Perhaps he began with a misconception akin to that of a politician who wants a backdoor for the good guys to use, but who doesn't understand that if the good guys can use it, then so can the bad guys. Then the e-mail and his resulting thoughts showed him that he wasn't thinking about the world properly; thus his feeling of shock.
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The blog is currently the full extent of Asciilands' online presence. It won't be ready to play for a while yet.
Can you explain why you would suggest CouchDB? Of course, it seems to be a great project. Nevertheless, it has no built-in support for publishing and subscribing, and real-time notifications.

We would have to built this ourselves. However, CouchDB has a "_changes" API that can even be turned into "continuous" mode [1]. This is the perfect data source for pub/sub.

hood.ie, Meteor, etc. offer more features, but they are also more cluttered and not as clean as CouchDB.

[1] http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/api/database/changes.html
It would be good to have a section which compared this to other Clojure database libs. I've only used Korma but I would like to know what you're doing differently to them.
Another article from today might answer that question: http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2014/12/uber-travis-kalan...

In a nutshell, constant confrontation with politicians, taxi medallion owners, its own drivers, and competitors make this a fairly cut-throat industry. Uber took up this battle. Would a nicer, gentler company succeed in this space? Hard to say, so far the data says no.
This is great I wish more large corps were putting money into stuff like this. its a real problem and without realizing business and some awesome tech will come out of it.
They can also protect it through scale, since more drivers and users on the platform means better liquidity in the rider driver market, and a more pleasant seamless experience compared to a newcomer.

Hence the cutthroatness.
I'm sure they're accessible via a customer account. That's sort of the point of this system - you can be on vacation and peek into your home. Web accessible doesn't mean not password-protected.
What do you guys think about Dartlang?
Dartlang had a rough start, but during its new update during the summer, it opened my eyes, and apparently MANY others as well according to http://www.i-programmer.info/news/98-languages/7857-the-astonishing-rise-of-dart.html
it also broke into the top 20 languages of 2014 in this source: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
So what do you guys think of Dart? Im hoping mainly to use it for server-side scripting and rewrite some of my nodejs apps in Dart.
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Do programs with names matching that pattern automatically request UAC elevation? Because the author doesn't mention that he received a UAC warning. If you are able to name an executable that way, and not request UAC elevation, and therefore bypass the warning, it sounds like an issue.
Wouldn't the crooks now just snip that cable that's draped across your backyard to your roof?
I try to avoid both unethical people and people who are dumb as rocks. I think this guy qualifies as both, if he actually did corporate espionage unencrypted over the corporation's own network.
Is it just me, or does Uber's behavior seem a bit Microsoft-in-the-90's?
Sounds like a great company to work for. Everyone hopes that their employer logs in and reads their personal account on evernote and dropbox.
You're looking for an Errors and Omissions insurance policy, likely from an insurer who has a special product line for tech businesses. Word to the wise: many of these insurers, despite having that product line, are effing clueless about technical reality. The best reason to have an agent representing you is that you won't have to educate an underwriter on the difference between on-premises and off-premises SaaS. (I have someone I can recommend -- email me if you want her contact information. Her assistance was very sanity-saving during the process.)

Your E&O policy may be bundled with a General Liability policy. GL protects you if someone slips and falls at your office, E&O if your software breaks and causes damage to customers' businesses. The fact that GL involves vastly more work, exclusions, and cost should tell you something very instructive about the insurance industry's estimation of the likelihood of having to actually pay out on your E&O insurance. [+]

You're going to use the fact of this insurance policy to drum up additional business for yourself. Given that, it makes sense to pick a nice round number. I'd suggest $1 million, which you'll find is the practical minimum anyhow.

Kalzumeus Software and Appointment Reminder share an E&O/GL policy, with an extra (priced) endorsement for data breaches and regulatory defense (i.e. HIPAA). The policy was priced based on a combination of how we earned revenue (consulting vs product income vs training, etc), how large we were in employee count, what industries we worked in, and our gross revenues.

Our policy costs on the order of $2,000 a year. Speaking with business buddies of mine, you'll find that that is roughly ballpark for most firms with less than 10 or so employees engaged in, roughly, "our line of work."

You'll find that who actually insures you is treated as a boring implementation detail, particularly if you buy through an agent, since they'll come up with a few quotes and you get to pick on a price vs. features comparison. The name on our policy is Warren Buffet's professional liability company, US Liability Insurance.

[+] So I checked my policy. Although this was not how it was explained to me, the policy describes roughly 15% of premiums going to GL and 85% going to E&O. Assuming that is accurate, that means they -- sensibly -- think I'm more likely to be sued for nuking a server than for dropping a Macbook on someone's foot.
It would be pretty interesting to see one degree of abstraction up from this - what sets of lines are close enough to match a certain word?

If you averaged over all those sets, would the resulting blobby heatmap resemble the original word in a legible form? Or something else?
Well I mean if you just want to use replace Firebase you might as well use hood.ie directly, unless you want to build it yourself (in which case using just the database and layering functionality on top of that might be best). Hood.ie can be an out-of-the-box replacement for most of Firebase's functionality as it is.
Great story, and a neat device that, in my opinion, has a better consumer electronics future than Google Glass.
Android too, but android has mtm software like nine or touchdown that act as virtual devices for exchange access. If the exchange account is terminated, only the virtual device gets wiped.
i'm not posting this as an advocation of hoxhaism but the case of albania is an interesting one that most english speaking people don't seem to be familiar with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Socialist_Republic_...
Not if the arrests are thrown out more often for one group than another. The police can arrest anyone, but that doesn't make it a legal arrest.
They're not reversing anything... They're just providing a way for people who want to donate to Watsi, but don't care to spend the time to find a particular patient.

They aren't doing away with the old 'pick a patient' method, they're just adding another option.
This is correct; public release is a long way off and features are blogged about more or less as they are developed so the foundation level of the features described by the blog is indicative of the development progress.
Why do you do this to yourself?
This is currently implemented in Servo, but it is not a trivial problem. It was only added in the past several months, if I recall correctly (pcwalton will have to clarify). This is but a demonstration engine for educational purposes - kind of like Featherweight Java.
I don't have any dog in this fight, but why are you holding this against Uber? The idea that they put him up to this borders on absurdity.
how did they trace the searches back to his computer?
Did they have some key logging software?
or if he was using HTTP it was easy to trace back to his local IP?
if he was searching w/ HTTPS is it true they probably couldn't trace the searches back to his computer? (assuming he cleared his history+cache)
Perhaps you could add a footnote at the end regarding this?
Yeah, the irony that is for people with vision impairment and that site is hard to read and navigate is strong
I used to get this feeling at music festivals (just alcohol, if you're wondering). It's never quite been the same since I got a cell phone. It was very freeing to walk into the crowd and know that I was completely detached from everything except what was immediately around me.
Sony vs Geohot et al had John Doe 1-100.

http://ia700401.us.archive.org/35/items/gov.uscourts.cand.23...
But we have no evidence that this is the case. At first people kept saying "Foxconn employees kill themselves a lot, so they're depressed", and now they're saying "Foxconn employees don't kill themselves as much as we do, so they're depressed". It seems to me that people here are simply predisposed to believe that Foxconn employees are depressed, and are willing to take pretty much anything as evidence for that belief.
Disclaimer first: I'm one of the developers.

Yes, you can see the video from your phone. We don't do continuous live streaming due to long-life battery-centric design. You can, however, capture on-demand videos up to 30s. Main use case is the alarm system (videos + alerts triggered by motion).
My guess is that it was turned into a PDF directly from a TeX DVI file with bitmap fonts rather than compiled directly into a PDF using outline fonts with pdflatex.

Some people are just used to using their existing document processing pipelines rather than using more modern tools like pdflatex, I guess.

Edit: the file predates pdftex. Back then, the file would've just been sent to a printer rather than rendered on screen for anything other than a preview, and it looks fine when rendered. If it was passed through pdflatex these days, it'd look much better.
A lot of companies force you to sign an agreement that essentially hands over the rights to anything and everything you do while employed, even if you did it outside of work hours and on your own personal equipment. I'm not a lawyer so I don't know how enforceable this type of agreement is, but as far as I'm aware it has yet to be tested in court.

Your friends probably don't do games on the side because of such an agreement. I couldn't even imagine the issues that might arise from an employee working on mods for a competitor's game, especially since for some games modding isn't explicitly supported by the developer and modders are forced to break EULA's (by reverse engineering) in order to make the mods in the first place.
I think you might be misunderstanding why this was made, it wasn't made to be a good idea or even an actual engine that people use. The person made it because they could, because it's fun to do neat stuff for no other reason that to just do them.
My first instinct was that they wanted to avoid going head to head with Blizzard on this, at least initially.
This is all interesting, but it's also possible that Prop 19 failed because it was an extraordinarily overreaching measure. Here's the text:

http://ballotpedia.org/Text_of_Proposition_19,_the_%22Regula...

Note that Prop 19 in effect makes marijuana use a protected class, in much the same manner as race, gender, and religion are. Employers, under Prop 19, could make personnel decisions based on an employee or candidate's marijuana consumption only if they could demonstrate in court that marijuana "actually impaired" the employee's job performance.

It gets worse: California's largest employers include companies that for any number of reasons have drug-free workplace policies that Prop 19 would have made unlawful overnight. Some of those policies are contractually required by relationships with companies operating in states where cannabis is criminalized.

Maybe discrimination against cannabis users is as important a public policy issue as discrimination against African Americans or Muslims. But the smart political strategy probably would have been to make its use not a crime first.
There are browser extensions to automatically compare prices for you already, is there something insufficient about those extensions or is it just that they aren't widely known and used?
Not necessarily. The composition of this "congress" might vary depending on the topic under discussion. The group trusted on "trade with china" might differ from that trusted on "military action in Syria". And entry is derived from trust networks theoretically involving all people, not some electoral process where only career politicians are realistically candidates.
The blog's subtitle is "doing it wrong". Naked in front of a camera and pondering implications of Internet of Things backed by private corporations?

Yes, you are doing it wrong.
While I agree, Visual Studio doesn't lag when you're typing code or using IntelliSense.
Wow had no idea this was a studied phenomenon. I remember be g a preteen and this was a popular party trick to freak people out (effective too, so I heard).
I think I'll discuss some "advanced topics" like this in a separate post near the end of the series.
With all the special interests and the bullshit and the lobbying that goes into making laws in the US (and much of the western world), it's getting pretty tough to blame anyone for having no respect for the law or due process. If the ruling class doesn't like where that could lead (i.e. pitchforks), it's pretty easy to fix, but so far there doesn't seem to be much interest.
A post-auth MySQL bug sold for five figures?! Why? How does anyone make money with that bug?
I explain the difference between OJ and Korma here:

https://github.com/taylorlapeyre/oj/issues/4
Honestly, neither does IDEA, for me at least. I've heard it can be pokey on spinning disks, so maybe that's part of it.
Congrats on your revenue milestone! How did you come to think of this product?
I think implementation bugs are within the spirit of OP, especially provided the NSA claims to have provided an implementation fix for Heartbleed.

The sorts of bugs I'm talking about exist in client and popular software. As far as tempo is concerned this year alone has given us BERserk, gotofail, Android Master Key, OpenSSL fork(), Bitcoin's use of P256, GNUTLS X.509 parsing bug, the OpenSSL compiler optimization+processor family randomness bug, and others.

If we were to entertain OP's point maybe there would be a faster tempo if the NSA were helping out. :)
> I've never flooded mine

Neither had I...just never let a valet, mechanic, or relative try to start your old RX-7 ;)
If you're looking for a really light SQL library for Clojure, I recommend yesql: https://github.com/krisajenkins/yesql
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Ah, but that won't work for the requests to third-party services that are for the purpose of telling those services "the user identified by the cookie in this request just visited this site" rather than actually showing ads, will it?
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You haven't. Any undergrad philosophy class would have taught you debating the topic is fruitless.

Also, define machine.
Sure, if this is what we mean by the kinds of cryptography bugs NSA is a powerhouse at, I'm sure they could be leaking more of them to industry.
lmgtfy

https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/0/angularjs
Hmm. This is true for WoW if you don't have a full install.
My vision is fine and I still had trouble with that site, enough that I closed it early. Terrible scrolling and delayed loading ruined that experience.
Might be something so mundane as forgetting to clear his history on the company laptop (or they restored it - they mention computer forensics a few times).
For reference, here the starting point of the Servo implementation:

https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/3590
Send it to their Gmail account. Tell them to download the attached file, which will "come from google.com."
Developer here.

We are glad you like it. We'd also like to hear about rough edges, if possible.
I believe agora voting platform does this:
https://agoravoting.com/

They're focusing on getting the cryptographic underpinnings going correctly, whixh is awesome. They are also extremely interested in decentralizing the system via blockchain tech, which is a really good sign.

I try to follow their mailing lists, but unfortunately much of it is still in Spanish.
The site is unreadable.

Here is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEzncMLLOxE
I don't get any new information about Uber from this, but it's interesting to see Lyft pursue it. It's also interesting to see what appears to be several of the top people from Lyft choose to go over to Uber. This doesn't look good for Lyft.
You make a good point, but perhaps you're being slightly unfair to the author. My take on his piece wasn't that he was "shocked" when the camera did what it's supposed to do. Rather, he realized -- upon seeing a very jarring stimulus -- that he has no idea who else can see what he sees, or what they do with that information.

A general consumer assumption with devices like these is that only the end user sees the footage. That's a naive assumption. But psychologically, it's understandable. We believe that the walls of our homes are "privacy shields" -- Faraday cages, of a sort, that somehow prevent anyone outside from seeing in, or anything inside from leaking out. At the same time, we bring connected devices (including cameras) into those homes. Few of us consciously put two and two together.

Seeing himself naked was sort of a wake-up call for the author. He'd always known the camera was connected to the cloud. But then he became cognizant of who's on the other end of that cloud. I think it's fair to recoil upon coming to that realization, regardless of who the company might be (Google or otherwise). Consumers are embracing the "cloud," but they really have no idea what the "cloud" is, or what it can mean. Again: naive, certainly. But still an interesting thing to consider.
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The complaint alleges that a few days before resigning he made a to-do list (using his working computer naturally) that included "Backup Lyft Email and Contacts".

What a fool. Hubris.
there are no stores in the future, it's a dated model, that seems pretty obvious even in 2011
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I use it and love it. I mainly use it for frontend stuff to replace most of the javascript. Writing code in Dart is easy, fun and PREDICTABLE.

It also force me to write frontend code in a more engineered way because that's how it works, which benefits myself down the road for the millions of times I revisit and update the code.

My only problem for Dart is that its doc is not complete and dart:js is lacking comprehensive example for complex library.

But all in all I enjoy Dart a lot for my frontend development.
You just need to find someone who is drift compatible.
Thanks for taking the time to respond to the way it's currently done.

The diagrams can give a slightly wrong impression and it looks like I've communicated the actual behaviour poorly because it works very much like you've described; there are not several objects occupying separate tiles that move in a synchronised way (so the troubles described by zenojevski are not applicable here). The constituents have no self-awareness and store nothing but their own appearance. They come in and out of existence as the object moves and are mere "markers"; they can't be interacted with but instead refer interaction to the object itself.

In that sense, it very much does consist of an 'avatar' ai object with several plotable entities except that the avatar object itself acts as one of the entities while the rest are kinda 'hollow'.

The objects are stored in their locations so this method of spreading them across tiles makes the most sense and you're probably right to be critical of this approach however it reflects reality and part of my objective is to make a program that my friends can contribute to as they learn code themselves and the easiest concepts to grasp are those that reflect reality rather than more abstract ones.

Also it hasn't presented any problems so far so I'd rather work with it than around it.

I hope I've understood and addressed what you're saying. Thanks for checking it out.
Do you have a recommendation for which extension or extensions to use?
Not just VanderZanden - notice they're also suing 'Does 1-10' which is lgal biolerplate for 'defendants we can't identify by name yet.' Uber executives or the firm itself could easily be named as co-defendants. I don't know how to assess the scope of the potential damages - while I don't think it would be fiscally catastrophic for Uber, it could get very very nasty.
Oh wow, Safari has indeed mastered clipping. It looks fantastic in Safari with zero issues.

Also, if you thought Chrome did clipping badly, you should try Firefox!
They do provide an audio version.