skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why Exchange support on iOS (not sure about Android) allows remote wipes, and you better remove the account before you quit
Stories of immigrants' first days in the United States
I don't use PH, but use HN in the following way: Subscribe to HN Digest [0] so I'm not checking it all day long, just once a day. And the search feature to check on issues that I'm looking for info on: employee compensation, tech x y or z, etc.

0 - http://www.hndigest.com/
My browser URL bar has received a few passwords, usually just a local computer password but occasionally something more sensitive. Makes me wonder about the permissions my collection of browser addons has.

I've also chucked a few passwords into IRC in times past. Fortunately non-essential stuff but really motivated me to sort out some better solutions (SSH keypairs, etc).
Kyle (lambdaops) did the architecture: http://lambdaops.com/ipythonjupyter-tmpnb-debuts

It's a pretty amazing story about brining full instant on scientific notebooks to everyone.

It's running on the High Memory OnMetal instances here at Rackspace. Each container gets 512mb of ram.
A lot of people complain about Angular's digest cycle and hold up React as the way forward. My understanding, and I could be wrong, is that both frameworks do work for every "binding" to the data in every update cycle - for React, you need to create short-lived objects for a component and its children AND evaluate every dependency on external objects, whereas for Angular it's a few function wrappers and iterations on top of evaluating every dependency on external objects. Seems like modern JS JITs should optimize both of these cases so it's just the evaluations. And both frameworks have facilities for limiting the scope at which the update cycle needs to run. Am I wrong in saying, then, that React isn't inherently more performant?
Probably because that one is far more full-featured and easy to use than a simple IP camera.
There will, however, be more pot smoking parents / grandparents / aunts and uncles / older siblings / etc.
Xamarin Now Free for Students
Huh, I never noticed the very thin outline around Terminal windows in Yosemite. Neat. I've been using a slightly-transparent dark background with blur for years (which gets slightly more transparent for background windows). That always made it really easy to visually distinguish overlapping windows. But I can see the border being useful for people who have completely opaque windows (with black backgrounds).
Since traversing forward is always cheaper than backwards, we subtract our reverse numbers by a magic number for things we want to access in reverse order. Or in this case, dates where the most recent is first.
Bound for Pluto, Carrying Memories of Triton
Net neutrality advocates to protest against 'hybrid' FCC solution
Non-competes (including out-of-state non-competes) are automatically void in California except in very specific circumstances.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#California
Free download pangu8 1.2 to jailbreak iOS 8.0.2 to iOS 8.1 jailbreak
How about mcfly? :D
A communication vault, built much like a burial vault (seriously, it's usually one company that casts both). It is made of thick concrete, buried underground, and (with a water intrusion alarm) fairly well protected from above-ground ills.
Conclusion is not supported by what came before:

> If someone had designed a work regime perfectly suited to maintaining the power of finance capital, it’s hard to see how they could have done a better job. Real, productive workers are relentlessly squeezed and exploited. The remainder are divided between a terrorised stratum of the, universally reviled, unemployed and a larger stratum who are basically paid to do nothing, in positions designed to make them identify with the perspectives and sensibilities of the ruling class (managers, administrators, etc) – and particularly its financial avatars – but, at the same time, foster a simmering resentment against anyone whose work has clear and undeniable social value.
Particularly if you are an inexperienced founder, there comes a point where you and everyone else is better off with some checks and balances on your judgement. Having to hold yourself accounting to some other parties, assuming they the best interests of the company at heart, is a good thing.
I think most people would continue to work and the people who are currently unemployed would largely remain unemployed.

I don't think the unemployment we have is economically efficient, though. Our neo-command economy run by wall street selfishly demanded high unemployment despite the need for currently unemployed people to work and desire for those same people to work.
Privacidad en la Nube: la próxima frontera
It's easy to believe there are situations you notice.

It's also easy to believe there are students where you don't notice.
Are you claiming that, when Dropcam says it erased your video, it's lying? That they're secretly keeping a copy around?

If so, come out and make that accusation explicitly. It would be quite a story, especially if you had a reference to cite.
Just a continuation of the uber-lyft saga of ethics and fair business practices ... ahahaah, sorry, I can't type that with a straight face. Seeing these crowd-sharing services eat each-other is both hilarious and sad. The underhanded tactics, the smearing, etc., just sad this is the state of affairs for companies that receive millions and millions in funding. I guess it'll be good for their legal department's bank statements, so that's somethin.
When it is done server side, any tracking cookie work has to be done ahead of time. So you have a single trip from the browser to get the ad, and maybe a second trip to confirm it was successfully shown. That's it.
It sounds like you're asking whether "minds" are communicating or whether one mind is simply controlling the motor parts of another body.

The latter makes me uncomfortable, but this is just another reminder that we are probably[1] machines after all.

[1] I don't want to start a determinism/free will debate. I don't think I've actually seen any sort of debates on HN, but just in case.
There was a moderate amount of speculation in mid-century SF on the possible psychological effects of space travel, the most extreme being "the Great Pain of Space" that figured in an early Cordwainer Smith story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanners_Live_in_Vain

When it turned out nothing quite so dramatic happened to the first space travelers, the idea was dropped, but it's certainly worth considering that less dramatic effects might yet have practical import in the future of human space travel.
Having a large chance to have your kid land in a poor quality school is reason enough not to live someplace. (Unless you can afford private)
If anyone intends to try mirror gazing to induce a dissociative state, please be aware that it can also produce disturbing visual apparitions, particularly in low lighting: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20866001
If you read the details of the complaint, it gets interesting.

They claim he failed to return his computer, but if you read points 42 and 43, they first asked him on Aug 18th (6 calls and emails went unanswered) then actually retrieved it the next day. Really? If the guy is busy he may not have made it a priority.
5 People Fighting for the Future of the Sharing Economy
Complaint paragraph 47 alleges that use of Evernote constitutes a breach of confidentiality and fiduciary duty, which is one of those things that strikes me as "legally pretty defensible" and "totally disastrous when juxtaposed with how knowledge workers actually work."

Edit: Actually, on re-reading, they appear to mean not "Evernote constitutes a breach" but "We accessed his Evernote and his state of mind, as recorded in it, constitutes a breach." (Eek.)
> I know a lot of people in the games industry who aren't allowed to work on mods for another company's game and are terrified to even do a little bit, so I always thought they were enforceable.

This wouldn't toggle a non-compete action. The primary company might come after you for beach of confidentiality or for conflict of interest, but not non-compete.

Non-competes in California have to be VERY constrained to be enforceable. Generally they are very time limited (12 months at the longest). The biggest arenas where they do get enforced is for people who are involved at strategic planning levels (like this CTO). The non-compete timeframe allows their knowledge to decay/stagnate/become less relevant/become less damaging.
I almost didn't downvote because of "ass-Snowden".

Consider a variety of legal things someone might do in their home that could be useful to a government looking to discredit that person.

And there are real cases through history of government agencies trying to discredit someone, or worse.
Like a data safe of some sort?
As a native Chinese speaker, I would contend "conflict" is a more suitable word choice.

In Chinese, he doesn't qualify the final three sentences as his own feeling. The phrase "I feel" in English is usually used to indicate uncertainty/lack of objectivity. Instead, he uses "都会", whose strength, certainty and sense of inevitability are better represented by "I will" or "I'll" in English. In Chinese, the final line is a verb. By using the verb form of "conflict" as the last word in English as is done in the Chinese, the correct emphasis is placed on "conflict" as it is done on "冲突".
They have a duty to their shareholders to grow revenue and stay in business. If something threatens that, they will fight it. Like many other commercial enterprise they will spend money on lobbying to protect profits, in this case it is just particularly sickening how big the problem has become.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBDvxy5qQY
Ask HN: Business Insurance for an Enterprise Software Co.
My startup is starting to take off enough for me to start thinking about business insurance.

We sell software for SaaS and e-tailers to measure in-product/on-site customer satisfaction in a unique way and then provide this information back to our customers in the form of reports/dashboards.

We collect end-customer data: You're a SaaS app using our product and your users interact with our software, where they provide experiential feedback. The data is stored on a 3rd-party/cloud provider and we use the data for our analysis, and also keep anonomyzed data.

I'm not sure where to start with regards to business insurance: How much coverage? What kind? Who from? How much to expect to pay?

Thanks in advance for the help.
CouchDB could be the starting point that we can build on top of.
I think you misread the complaint. Evernote is only mentioned as evidence of planning. The dude wrote down his todo list of copying on Evernote...
I just think it's unlikely this comes to trial simply because of the evidence. And if it doesn't go to trial, that means a settlement and I think these sorts of things are customarily confidential. IANAL.
Very cool read!but i dont seem to understand how the algorithm behind the whole phrase/paragraph tracking is supposed to work, anyone can enlighten me?
> That's obviously an extreme example.

No, I think that's missing the point. Sure it could be larger, but presuming you are trying to optimize the experience, there is nothing that would require doing it server side.

Why would the total payload needed to render the page client side _have to be larger_ than if it were client side? Unless you are talking about rendering an image with client side logic instead of sending a PNG/JPEG (in which case, sure, but that isn't what most people are talking about), I can't quite see it.
Afternoon Technologies – Netflix Governator
I found it to be horribly slow and really weird in Firefox (sometimes see-through walls, z-sorting somehow flipping with barrels behind columns being drawn in front).

In Chrome, though, it's buttery-smooth with only small glitching.

Still, both are glitchy. I'm glad I went with THREE.js and not CSS 3D transforms for my latest 3D web project. THREE.js just works.
There's now a steel-reinforced bullet for 3D-printed guns
I have a Dropcam in my garage for miscellaneous reasons. I, too, have wondered the implications of providing the Google/NSA complex video evidence of my comings and goings...

It'd be nice if Dropcams were more hacker friendly, and allowed recording to personally-owned devices, instead of forcing you to use their (fairly expensive) cloud recording service.

(Not to mention the ~100ish GB/mo bandwidth savings to stream this video, which is a fairly nontrivial requirement.)
> It’s at this point you ask yourself if having a net-connected camera for monitoring your house was a good idea after all.

It's a good idea but you probably shouldn't buy the fancy "cloud" version. Just set up your own FTP server ...
You and I mean different things by "crypto vulnerabilities". I took the parent comment to mean things like the RC4 biases; like I said, things for which the "fix" would involve entirely new algorithms or constructions. An example of this kind of NSA disclosure would be the DES s-boxes.

Crypto software implementation vulnerabilities are very common, but the kinds of things you're talking about are most often found in obscure and/or serverside software. Look at the tempo at which bugs like the NSS e=3 bug are released; it's like once or twice a year.
I love internet nostalgia. What's the URL for the site from Dec. 7, 1995?
I like the idea, but why start with a mobile app? I could be in the minority, but I don't feel the home buying experience is something I want to do on my phone.
pg: http://paulgraham.com/stypi.html
Wow. Just looked at the fish docs and it takes the two reasons I almost started using zsh/omz for, syntax highlighting and completion, and by the looks of it blows the zsh versions out of the water.
wow this is ugly heavy duty stuff. I bet that data is more valuable then the settlement. Data like that on your competitor is priceless specially at this level of competition.
That's a pretty poor paraphrase. He has realized some troubling implications of using this type of device and wrote about it.
A possible alternative to antibiotics
Migrating from a fatally flawed PKI to a PKI that is fundamentally flawed practically by design is a big problem.
A Brief History of the Hamburger Icon
Can you see the video from your phone, or check in live? Can you elaborate on the rough edges?
> Also, I find it interesting that the complaint is also against one to ten "unnamed defendants". I didn't know you could do that.

MPAA/RIAA did this a lot when suing downloaders. They'd sue based on IP addresses, so the complaint would be against 50 John Does.
Zack Shapiro (@zackshapiro) built StopCoin as part of his Built in Public project (http://builtinpublic.com). Here's more of the story about it: https://medium.com/built-in-public/the-story-of-stopcoin-644...
They were expanding on preliminary research they did a year ago. The accuracy problem was on the 'visualization' end apparently, not the transfer/reproduction end. It's really not spun beyond recognition, just early days for this type of research.
Really cool, although it seems to break a bit in my browser(s). Chrome ran it fast with some flickering, but in firefox it was a mess -- really slow and a lot of artifacts. Anyone else see that?
I'm rather annoyed with mozilla/firefox pushing for ubiquitous usage of their authentication platforms. I prefer my decentralized, modular, and personally controllable account information. The reason I don't "Sign in with Google" or "Login with Facebok" is the same reason I don't want a Firefox Persona or Account.
Also, let me sign up without a damn e-mail.
No reference, absolutely, I don't want to accuse anyone of anything but as his(or anyone's) video/image/anything is now "in the cloud" I feel like there really very little control over what we have there and what is not. Sure, they might be telling the truth that they deleted it, but can you be 100% sure that there have been no copies made? backups? OP mentions that he received an email, what about that? will it be deleted too? Any cached copies somewhere?
One thing I think that Metafilter does really well is, moderators are visible but inconspicuous. For example, comments are deleted, but there is a minimized moderator comment reminding people to not flame, telling someone to chill out, etc. I realized I liked this the best. Similar to what dang brought to HN, just a minor comment here or there saying what he's doing behind the scenes. On the other hand, I can't stand how moderation has always been done on BoingBoing, where the moderator is extremely conspicuous, and actively participates in conversations. It is still done in good faith, but it is really uncomfortable and the moderator basically acts like a regular participant who benefits from lighter scrutiny because they hold a banhammer.
> Are you claiming that, when Dropcam says it erased your video, it's lying? That they're secretly keeping a copy around?

Why should you trust them? Because they say so?

And even if they intend to really delete the data instead of just setting the hidden flag - how do you know that one of their employees isn't a "bad seed" and has some weird hobbies like scanning through the Dropcam servers for nudes?

A little paranoia and mistrust isn't a bad thing when it comes to personal data. You can't really control the whole chain so your only option to keep data private that should be kept private is not to hand it out in the first place.
After seeing a lot of negative press on Uber and its questionable tactics, I'm wondering the following:

Is it necessary for Uber to be so cutthroat, sneaky, and brutal to survive in the space they've carved out for themselves, or is this just a reflection of the poor character of the management team?
WhatsApp finally tells you when your messages have been read
And I thought that the only totalitarian things about my macbook were its aesthetics and operating system.
What are the security implications of running native code on a public facing service? How many RCEs has Proxygen had? Has it been audited for security? What is the testing procedure?
I always find it interesting that when hp/l stats are quoted they often neglect to include motorcycle engines... which have been in the 180-210 hp/l realm for about 5 years now.

And a high hp/l isn't necessarily the best piston engine as it's often at the cost of massive valve train losses resulting in poor fuel efficiency.
Jay-Z, cute cats and the Jamaican bobsled team – def the best charity video ever
I had exactly the same issue.
Here's what i say: Good. Bring it. I want our collective ignorance to shine, so we can confront it head-on as the destructive force that it is.

Representative democracy was put in place when regular people were presumably MUCH more ignorant. And giving citizens power through proxy likely spurred us to become more aware as citizenry. But I imagine it was pretty jarring at first.

Delegative democracy puts us in uncomfortable territory yet again, and I think that's a good thing.
Terrible web design for those of us with a vision impairment.
I plan to try this or build something similar.
Welcome to Chicago! There's a ton of events always happening, meetups, etc. Lots of co working spaces full of entrepreneur communities.

Definitely subscribe to the Startup Digest. Feel free to shoot me any email with any questions. Tim at matchist dot com
There is a huge difference in taxes, WA has some ridiculously expensive recreational pot (http://www.leafly.com/stateoftheleaf). Oregon's medical prices are the lowest in the country right now, retail will be more but not that much more.

Right now rec shops in Vancouver, WA are benefiting from their proximity to Portland, but that's going to flip around once Oregon is up and running.
I think OP dismissed his own privacy concerns when he walked bare-assed in front of the camera he set up to email him pictures of whatever moves in front of it.

This is not an issue of privacy, it's just an absence of common sense.
Creator of Asciilands here.

First off, I'm aware of HN but I've never browsed or used HN before. This is my first post and I've had a quick look over the guidelines but I apologise in advance if I violate any established decorum.

The blog linked here by a friend of mine is indeed the full extend of Asciilands' current online presence. The game still has a long way to go as you might be able to tell by the fact that I'm blogging about fairly foundation features like the combat system etc. The first post on the blog talks about why I'm making it; basically to give back to the freeware community and to "make the game you want to play but can't because it doesn't exist".

The blog itself is something I do to keep a log of the development for historical interest once its finished and also to build something of a port-folio piece; code samples are great but a dev blog goes so much deeper. I also just enjoy doing it.

The blog, so far, has really only been read by a few of my friends, some people I studied with a few co-workers so I'm glad to see it has some appeal to people outside of those circles.

I'm happy to answer any questions and accept any feedback you might have on the blog or the project.
Thanks for your interest!
This is one of the few times they would be enforcable though. They work when you can bring the client list or future of the company with you to your new job.
Sure. As you note, an apple would leap into the trees if the ground under it conspired to push it upwards. That the ground rarely does so (but the reverse, an apple falling and dispersing energy into the ground, happens frequently) is certainly an observation which merits explanation, but the explanation doesn't come from an asymmetry in the laws of gravity, as such. It's often said the explanation is found in something like the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which in turn is explained by the fact that at some moment, there was a state of extremely low entropy (the Big Bang); the "arrow of time" is then a manifestation of being to one or the other side of this particular low entropy moment. And the work discussed in the link (which I have no direct knowledge of) purports to show why some such low entropy moment should be expected to exist at all given the action of gravity over history.

But my point was simply to note that you don't have to pre-incorporate an arrow of time to make sense of the laws of gravity, in response to the poster who found this a sticking point and expressed confusion over it.
I immediately thought about this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQenNw2s1cA

(continued here)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIJRoj2qwsc

When James May returns to the Earth it's obvious that he's had a very special experience.

"If everybody could do that once, it would completely change the face of global politics, religion, education, everything."
It could easily be done, but that's how they make money, so it won't.
Dumb apps explained
Ah cool, thanks for the writeup.
Thanks fenomas.

I make the PSDs and (along with my employee) cut them to HTML/CSS so it sounds like this could be helpful. I'll give it a shot.
Visual Studio is a lot more important to Microsoft than Android Studio is to Google.
Talk to a therapist  in public and in the middle of Fifth Avenue
Police Investigating Possible 4Chan Link in Murder of Washington Woman
New iOS malware targets devices through Chinese app stores
And when Rob Pike decided to create Go from that compiler, he just got rid of headers.
I think the point of this exploit is that the download does not need to feel random from the user perspective.

A user can be prompted to update flash or chrome itself and then be served a (somewhat) legitimate looking file from the respective website.
How is this different from the typical charity/NGO donation drives of "donate 39 cents a day" ad? I saw how introducing personal connections to individual medical treatments was different from the norm, however this now seems to reverse that by going right back to the old school, typical, individual international aid style of monthly monetary donations.