skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When we built twitter we had also hacked up various forms of RSS readers. At the time nobody on the team really thought they were going after rss, news reading, or discovery. But it turns out that trying to solve that problem in parallel to the status update system. Twitter was for a long time very much built upon the RSS stack of technologies. It was a semi-open platform which worked better, unfortunately, than the fully open world of RSS & ATOM.

In the end, now 8 years later, it's clear that twitter DID kill rss as a dominate category of apps & services. We went from being overwhelmed by unread counts on the 'readers' to having flow. I'm not sure it's better, but it did solve the problem of feeling like you needed to keep up.

I think there's still more interesting work to be done in this space. Open social networks (that's what blogs are folks) plus users being able to control visibility of posts and frequency and open api's could do something which could unseat twitter/facebooks.
Thanks, I hadn't heard of Lightning Source.
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The Responsive Enterprise: Embracing the Hacker Way
tl;dr: lawyers and money.

(The article is a good read though.)
And Dropbox receives Microsoft Office integration....
It's actually somewhat unclear. They say that they support ".raw" files, but that suffix is only used for raw files from Kyocera Contax and Panasonic cameras. They specifically don't list .NEF (Nikon), .CR2 / .CRW (Canon), or .DNG (the "standardized" raw file format).

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
Beyond filetype, they limit videos to under 20 minutes, so probably won't be replacing Plex anytime soon.
Meteor is based on Node, and is reactive with sweet plugins for accounts and database stuff.
I can imagine the default templating engine would be helpful for your task too.
They charge you for the cloud storage?
I would've also had a silly grin on my face due to the epiphany I would've experienced.
While it doesn't appear to be easily done through the UI, I'm sure contacting Amazon support will get you all of your files back.
>versus floating in interstellar space

Versus being inside that an elevator that is being accelerated in interstellar space

This seems like a pretty good explanation: http://www.astronomynotes.com/relativity/s3.htm
Are we so used to praising Apple for design that we haven't noticed that their last two releases of iOS have been a disaster from both an aesthetic and usability point of view? They certainly haven't "nailed" much of anything in UI design lately.

Personally I find Material much more thoughtful, rational and functional and that's the same take I've heard coming from just about every professional designer I've heard take the time to voice an opinion.
So they are just using the Dropbox API like anyone else can do?
iPlant Collaborative - http://www.iplantcollaborative.org
Back in 2005, I was accepted into Portland State for a grad CS programme, and I recall a large chunk of the accompanying leaflets read like a giant recruiting advert for Intel. I never gave it much thought back then because I wasn't going there anyway, but your point sort of explains it!
> If you believe in democracy, you know your vote makes a difference every time.

I think that belief has become tempered with a healthy dose of skepticism.

If you live in a community that has an overwhelming number of people who hold a belief that you oppose, there is little purpose in voting.

The sensible thing to do would be to leave and find another community. Unfortunately, that itself is not always possible.
This approach is still actually suboptimal from a spatial efficiency standpoint, wasting half or a third, depending on your chosen factor, of memory whenever you push that key Nth element on to the back.

The real question is, why do people use completely contiguous memory so much when they really don't need to? For I/O we have nice APIs like readv()/writev() which deal with segmented buffers just fine... and you really don't need humongous contiguous vectors to get all of the benefits out of your CPU cache...

This paper details another approach that has much of the same benefits if you don't need completely contiguous storage, and only wastes O(sqrt(N)) memory at a time, resulting in much smoother allocation while still maintaining O(1) append operations.

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/research/tr/1999/09/CS-99-09.pdf
Me too. But they do not state that video storage is free, only photo storage.
You don't need slippery slope arguments to disagree with these policies though.

You just need to believe that the line you should not cross is "activities that violate our constitutional rights, no matter what the threat to our personal safety might be". and "Changes to those constitutional rights should only happen in the open under a vote by the nation not in secret."
I love it also, but as someone who has owned a Nexus 10 for almost two years, I really don't think I can justify another Android tablet. From an app perspective, unlike the android phone experience, you feel second class all the time. From Facebook to Twitter, the Android tablet version of those apps are just terrible.

Amazon apparently has some war with google over its Fire line and making Fire more attractive than Google products, so we'll never get Prime Video on the Android tablet. Little things like the in-flight video on Southwest doesn't work with android (although they give you hilariously outdated instructions to use an android device with flash installed). I have a little remote control Romo robot I use to videochat with my infant son when I'm at work, and they gave up on their android app. Every startup launches an iOS app that's solid and good looking with a "coming soon" Android app that either never gets here or is a goddamn mess.

That's on top of the other tomfoolery with the N10 like the random battery drains and random reboots, although this might just be old age. I just don't feel the Android tablet experience is there yet and considering Apple's dominance in this area, it may never be there. Developers just aren't making it a priority and often we just get a stretched out phone app, if we get anything. Its shameful how little this has changed in the past couple years.
That should be quite simple to test. Just generate a bunch of random images and start uploading. Let us know when they ban you, and declare you the enemy of the state.
It might make more sense to open an issue on the projects issue tracker and ping the maintainers there.
Judging by the activity on the tracker I doesn't seem that the project was abandoned: https://github.com/keithw/mosh/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclos...
The Basic Stamp is still a rock solid platform. I know of places using it in production systems without any issues. The problem is how its been replaced in the mind of the hobbyist (at least the younger ones). Before the arduino, you basically went with a PIC16F84 or a Basic Stamp. The Atmels were available, but IMO, they weren't as popular.

Plus BASIC feels "old" these days. People get introduced to programming trough the web (which uses C-style syntax languages like Javascript), scripting with Pyton/Ruby, or mobile development which follows the same pattern. Even though BASIC is a fine language (it was my first) people can't relate to it anymore.
Maybe restating the obvious, but why don't they pay out the 300k to some professional pen testers or cryptography auditors and publish the results. At least then they would have a shot at validity in this area.
Copy has a command line client, and it's available for both Intel and ARM.
I wonder if this is an exclusive deal (no Google Apps).
Part of this may be due to the fact that they are not trying to attract businesses with this change. In fact, the terms of service say that you cannot use this offer if it's for commercial purposes. I agree that an API would be very nice though.
"Offload is a toolkit: a set of APIs and libraries for developers to add multi-screen functionality to their apps. It enables seamless communication between apps running on smartphones, tablets and PCs using wi-fi or bluetooth connections depending on the capabilities of the devices."

I feel like this paragraph, currently buried at the bottom of the page, should be right up near the top. It's a more clear description than the current top matter.

Seems like a fun project. I wonder if it'd make sense to not only support multiple screens, but also other physical knob/button input devices. I often find myself controlling software via various sensors hooked up to a microcontroller. I use the rather popular firmata library:

http://www.firmata.org/

It is embeddable on microcontrollers (mostly arduinos), and has many libraries in a variety of languages to easily interface with said hardware from a host "real" computer.
Your sample size is too small to judge all Stanford MBAs. This is Hacker News. Please bring more substance to the table.
no need for a switch, you can get 5$ injection power supplies. https://www.roc-noc.com/mikrotik/routerboard/power/rb-p54.ht...

BTW, mikrotik is a very nice platform for geeks, en attendant Godot (a high load open source linux based router distro. Yes I know of openwrt, but that's kind of limited hw, hackish and prosumer? )
WeaveDNS – A distributed DNS service for a weave network
I interview some college kids and that is sometimes the case.

"I don't know technology but I want to manage people".

Or some stay in the CS degree but switch focus to "UI design" or "HCI" and so on. It is ok to switch, but after a talking to a many it seem the reason is that a few core CS classes were getting too hard to they switched.
I give them, or anyone, credit for trying to create a secure messenger. It is not easy. However, I just wish they would release the source code to their clients and server. They have not. That would go a long way.
But without the PR stunt there wouldn't be PR?
They have a multiplatform client (including headless *nix) with a sync that actually works. Somehow no one else does.
Unfortunately this was written by a science reporter, and so, it was written with an angle by someone who doesn't know what he is talking about. Their dismissiveness is well justified.

I was a big fan of exploring the alternative ideas in quantum mechanics, and I tried to like Bohmian pilot waves. They are very philosophically appealing. Then I saw some results in quantum optics which pretty much convinced me it was a silly idea. Walther's ideas on Surrealistic Bohm trajectories should have been enough. I'd be curious if these oil droplets exhibit the surrealistic trajectory behavior. It would be neat if they did, but I doubt it.

While the fluid mechanical experiments are pretty damn neat, the modern revival of Bohmian mechanics is a symptom of the disease that afflicts today's physics community: there are many people who call themselves physicists who insist on working on things which have no physical consequences. If you can't do an experiment, you're a philosopher, armed with math. People who claim they might be able to make an experiment in 20-40 years (after they have tenure and have retired) are arguably worse: yes, I am looking at you, entire field of quantum information snake oil salesman: build something or shut up. All this is a sign of decadence and decay, and it is extremely sad to see so many clever people being so stupid.

FWIIW, I was exposed to Bohm mechanics in my junior year QM course; it's not like nobody has heard of it. It is actually quite ubiquitous in certain kinds of gutter popular literature; the kinds of popular QM books people who believe in psychic powers read. I've met strippers in gothic nightclubs who knew who David Bohm is. As in, more than one.
Consumer reports managed to get 175 miles out of a 85 kWh model on a brisk (30-45 F) day, with an overnight stay unplugged at 30F. I think they had about 180 miles total on that one.

http://consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/02/winter-chills-li...

We have another one of a guy in Norway driving 233 miles on a single charge.

http://www.treehugger.com/cars/can-electric-car-handle-cold-...

And for extremes, a guy on the Tesla forums that drove around 163 miles on a 175 mile charge in -31 to -40F weather, including a cold soak for several hours.

http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/35144-Extreme-...

This is consistent with most reports about cold weather - you'll get around 200 miles on a charge, with much depending on whether your car is plugged in when idle (it needs to keep the battery pack warm, which uses up juice).
Free PR
What would Microsoft want Dropbox for? They don't have any infrastructure Microsoft would want (MS runs Azure, while Dropbox just rents off AWS), Microsoft has OneDrive clients for most of the platforms Dropbox is on... it doesn't seem to me that Dropbox has anything Microsoft can't just add to their own service.
Just a guess: did your brain think "someone with expertise in the mass market" and then shorten "someone with experience" to "specialist"?
But you risk your manager (if you have one) telling you you are "sandbagging." And you might see others on your team tell your manager "it's no big deal - an hour or so of work". And they slap some crap in there that whacks the mole down long enough for the manager to make a mental note to give your team mate a bigger raise than you.
I think this is wonderful news.

I'm really tired of having multiple cloud accounts for different types of media. Getting files between the different versions requires me stopping at a desktop to move to the desktop and then back up.

At least this gets rid of one of those steps. Now I just wish there were a way to take xlsx's from dropbox on the iphone and send it to my work email without it coming as a shared link. I work in a locked down, regulated environment that can't open dropbox links. (finance)
I've seen this in action a couple of times and it is awesome. This is a fantastic way to demo the heap to people who have had some experience in Ruby, but only a touch of compsci fundamentals.
In the EULA, they note: "The Service is offered in the United States. We may restrict access from other locations."
Good move. Will we see Dropbox part of MS soon?
You can also click-and-drag within the small calendar to select date range - two and three weeks also work.
>without is sufficiently small (and with a sufficiently large number of ignorable fringe elements) not to have any real effect.

I agree actually.

The current system is broken and there is no way I can personally change it with my limited resources or with my limited single vote. Voting single issue on candidates who support change can result in supporting unseemly candidates not a comprise I'll make. And functionally is the same as not voting, since we are such a small minority.

Therefore what motivation do I have to vote? Other then civic virtue.
There are S3 and Swift (OpenStack storage) which can be used through standardized APIs. Storage in both standards is offered by many independent providers.
Both OTR (ChatSecure on your phone) and TextSecure are good options. Telegram is not a good option.
This only seems to be integration with Office web and mobile apps. I don't see integration with Office desktop apps.
Users and paying customers?
PR stunt has side benefits besides pure security even though the method has shortcomings. Namely, the PR part, which may play a significant role in its actual success.

We know for a fact that most people aim for better known than just better.
To estimate the time required to design your system you need to estimate the variance of the time required. A well known result is that the variance of a sum of independent variables associated to independent problems is the sum of the variances of the subproblems.

What this mean in practice? It means that you should try to decompose your problem in independent and dependent subproblems (perhaps associated to features). Independent subproblems their variance, the formula for dependent problems depends of the correlation between them.

What I am trying to say is that if you know a little math and have an intuitive knowledge of the structure of the problem divided in sub-problems you could make a much better estimate of the variance (and this mean there is much less uncertainty in the delivery time). One could design a program that constructs a graph and a knowledge base of previous programs that you have designed. The graph edges should be weighted in accordance with the correlation factor of dependency of those components.

Now that I am writing this, it seems very likely that someone has implemented such a scheme to estimate time delivery. Perhaps there are start-ups using this system to estimate delivery time, since all this is basic math.

Edited: Mostly grammar.
I wonder how this impacts SmugMug that is hosted on AWS.
I'm surprised that this didn't get an HN attention...
Sadly none of these free/open projects can do gender, age, pose
1. Market reach, it's where the customers are. Compare the sheer number of apps that have native Dropbox integration, with those that have OneDrive. While it's far from scientific, nearly everyone I know has a Dropbox account - very few have a OneDrive account.

2. It makes their own OneDrive service seem even more competitive. Why pay for Dropbox when you can buy Office365 for about the same price and get unlimited storage?
"... And with the accelerating pace of technological change, it wouldn’t be long before the capabilities – and goals – of the computers would far surpass human understanding."

"...In their single-mindedness, they would view their biological creators as mere collections of matter..."

These two sentences are contradictory.
I'm wearing mine to Interstellar tonight!
My favorite quote from Woz's reply is this:

"I awoke one night in Quito, Ecuador, this year and came up with a way to save a chip or two from the Apple II, and a trivial way to have the 2 grays of the Apple II be different (light gray and dark gray) but it’s 38 years too late."

This is how you know you love your work. When you're still thinking of new things you can optimize, even four decades later.
Writing in for a non-registered write in candidate in Michigan (I live in Michigan, you need to petition to be a write in candidate) results in your vote being thrown out.

So there is no difference between not voting, and writing in "NOBODY". The only difference is the civic duty circlejerk.
Ask a non-developer to just update the configuration file with the API keys received from whatever service and you'll get a confused look as an reply in most cases.
OpenSUSE 13.2 is out
This is great news! Although I imagine this will complicate things for those organisations that block access to Dropbox :)
Dart Using Managed VMs on Google Cloud
Well, I certainly appreciate it, but like a lot of people dismiss it, at least currently, as toys for rich people. I can't afford a 90k car, no matter how awesome it is. All these breathless Tesla testimonials are great, but in my head its like listening to some guy talk about how wonderful the leather is in his Maserati. It is so far outside my economic world that it might as well not exist.

I know there's this mythology that Elon will magically deliver a 25k electric that changes the world, but if anything, they've double-downed on the luxury market with that giant non-city friendly SUV and, more complexity and cost, with their driver assist stuff.

Meanwhile, the Leaf and Volt keep dropping in price. VW has moved into the market, as well as BMW. Oh, low price leaders like Kia haved move in as well. 2015 EVs are still pricey, but no where in the same league as Tesla.

At this point I'm finding it very hard to believe Musk will ever leave the profitable premium car market. A 25-30k Tesla would hurt the brand and he'd be competing with larger companies with the scale and know-how to get Joe Everyman on-board, and worse, coming to the low-end game very late.
Context: this is the `pub` package that just got released.
There's the "well known" you get after holding a big contest, and the even better known you get after you're prominently featured in indictments, the way Hushmail and Lavabit were.

Not so many news stories about simple OTR.
Yeah, one can imagine various piggybacking effects or other tradeoffs by which luxury space travel might be more feasible. But what got me was the the opinion piece didn't consider environmental impact at all. It was just "C'mon, it's the human spirit! Ya gotta believe!"
Part of the point of boards like this is to be able to share anecdotes from the field. That's why I come here. While your point about sample size is true please don't discourage this.
Venture capitalists writing their own law in Germany [german]
Thanks for the support, and congratuations to yourself on publishing. It looks like you've done a really great job and totally nailed the process and the print version!

> How did it end up working out? I assume it's process, not spot color. Is the colored text still sharp enough to be read easily?

Yeah it isn't spot color and the text looks really great and easy to read. The print quality of the interiour seems very high quality and it really makes it seem alive with the images and colored sections. I think it keeps it fun to read, which was always one of my intentions. I was totally over the moon with the interiour when the first proof copy arrived.

But as you mention financially it isn't going to make much sense. I don't make much more off the print book than the ebook sale, and yet it costs the consumer ten times as much! So in some sense it was kind of vanity project - but I still enjoyed it a lot, and wanted to prove I could do it additionally.

> It worked out well for me -- the time I spent in InDesign was really enjoyable -- but I can definitely see how it wouldn't be the right choice for others.

Actually if someone had mentioned InDesign to me I might have given it a try. I mainly picked Latex because I knew the font rendering and formatting would be awesome and it was something I knew already so I could get started. As you say, InDesign is fun, while working on a complex project in Latex isn't exactly a joy. But I think the end product was still sufficiently professional :)

> I've done some print work before, so I was fully expecting some variance here. Unless you have a carefully calibrated display and keep track of color profiles through the whole pipeline (and they do too), there's always some difference.

Yeah I probably should have been prepared for this. And additionally there was some error in how they were cutting the bleed which looked poor with my cover design. If I did it again I would definintely try to find a professional to consult before tacking the cover for any friendly advice he/she had to offer.

> For what it's worth, I'm really glad you made it, and I'll be buying a copy.

Thanks! I feel bad ending on a downer because I really have gotten a lot of pleasure out of it, so I don't want to paint the process in a negative light. As a learning experience it was really unique and great. There are just too many fun, great and unique areas of computer science to play around with as well!
“No I Will Not Code Your Shit for Free” T-Shirt
Does this increase the chances that Microsoft will try to buy Dropbox in the future?
Writing in the Dark: Confessions of a literary night owl (2012)
The Flickr Developer Guide API
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Flickr – 1TB Free photo storage
That's great news, though a little late. The new iOS 8 document picker allows this in a transparent manner for any storage provider supporting it.

Edit: here's the documentation: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/FileMa...
Depends who your audience is. Personally I'm much more interested in a service with a successful professional audit than a gimmicky prize.
OctoBat: Automatic invoicing solution for Stripe
$300,000 is nothing to sneeze at. I imagine someone could hack chat clients, extract private keys and claim the price.
Moxie's blogpost about it
http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/telegram-crypto-challenge/