skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I were CEO, I'd become the Linux Store to compete with the Apple Stores and the Windows Stores -- there are some of those aren't there? There is a market for main-stream Linux and there's no retail presence.

Going further Radio-Shack has a computer brand, "TRS". Get some low-end white-box laptops, slap Ubuntu on them and hire a few one-eyed-man-in-the-land-of-the-blind Linux "gurus" and have at it. It's the modern analogue of HeathKit but with a more fundamentally useful demographic.

Their real-estate holdings are a match for computer shops - second and third tier retail space with small footprints. Apple has validated the idea that computer shops are viable...it's not just the Apple branding that makes them work, it's also the fact that if you're looking for a computer, you're not in a place with most of its floor space devoted to televisions.

The other big change is that smartphones and tablets have proved that operating systems are not that important to users. A lot of people are fine with an old version of Android rather than something more polished...never mind the Kindle's success...or all the variation between website widgets and app interfaces . People have been exposed to a lot of variation, and have learned adaptation techniques. A computer doesn't need to look like Windows or OSX to keep people from freaking out.

RadioShack has the experience in high-touch sales and the infrastructure to pull it off. All that's needed is the will.
Agreed, government run funds tend to not work out so well. And as direct government investment goes--this isn't that huge.
Cars aren't required to look out for people? They don't have criminal or civil liability? That is not the world that I experience.

Go run over a pedestrian (even one who technically shouldn't have been there) and let us know how that works out.
This bookmarklet seems to work in the few cases I tested:
javascript:var as = document.getElementsByTagName("a");searchurl=as[12].protocol +"//"+ as[12].hostname + as[12].pathname;location.href='http://google.com/search?q='+searchurl

If you click it from a HN comments page, it will Google the story's url. For NYT and WSJ, clicking on the story from the Google results should get you in without the paywall. I have only tested this in Firefox. If anyone has improvements to the bookmarklet, please post it.
If you add DANE in the mix, they can set any certificate as trusted for your domain (if clients don't require it to be also signed by a trusted CA). So they can't just redirect your domain somewhere else, they can also feed clients "trustworthy" certs for the new target.
I agree with everything Thomas has said here, but I also think that it might be a good idea to explain why proponents believe DNSSEC is a good idea for those who don't have a good handle on it.

1. DNS is vulnerable to man in the middle attack. Any authority with access to a root server or another router in the DNS resolution chain can tell a computer that a web page goes anywhere they want. This actually happens - for example, Turkey tried to go this with Twitter, and redirected Twitter's domain name to a government IP address instead for anyone within the country.

2. There is a dangerous vulnerability called DNS cache poisoning where UDP packets can be used to manipulate DNS servers to incorrectly respond when queried for a domain's IP address until their cache expires. This attack was described in 2008 by Dan Kaminsky, and on the whole, a methodology of preventing this sort of vulnerability would be good enough motivation for repairing the failings of present-day DNS.

The motivation is great, but DNSSEC is largely the wrong tool for the job - it's a blunt instrument with no support for nuance and it will make DNS harder. What Thomas explains in greater technical detail is that DNSSEC is a move towards even further internet centralization that will make implementation more difficult without really solving the principal issues.
First of all, kudos to the OP for his work on Octopress...without it, I would've never gotten into Jekyll, and I would've never understood the joy and simplicity of static site development...trying out Octopress was one of the best things to happen to me as a (Rails) web developer.

The most surprising thing to me in the OP was seeing that Octopress users had been updating their sites all this time...I frequently checked back on the Octopress blog, and then the Git repo, to see how to go about doing that. I tinkered around playing with the dev branches but didn't know enough to get around their hiccups. Finally I gave up on it and just went to Jekyll, which was definitely a blessing in disguise, as it let me figure out more of the process of static site building, with fewer abstractions and conveniences in the way.

I don't know if I'll ever go back to Octopress -- I'm a devout Middleman user now -- but the direction it's taking seems to be the right one, and I'm amazed that the author, these past few years, is still cranking away at what could easily just be a legacy, soul-sucking project -- given the size of the userbase and the number of dependencies/upgrades involved in changing the code base.
Ask HN: Know any good resources/information on architecting an iOS app?
I spent a few months working on an app of mine before realizing it was really a bunch of MVCs (Massive View Controllers).

I want to start fresh and build something modular, scalable, and maintainable, but finding any clear information on good ways to do this is more difficult than I thought.

Does anyone know of any resources on how to create well designed apps in terms of code and architecture (not UI)?

(I may create a Github repo on this if it becomes popular...)
I doubt Musk will ever be "poor". And now he is assembling, running, and driving organizations (1) that appear to be "just fucking doing it". Bravo.

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1) And/or creating and enabling organizations with their own inherent drives.
Didn't see this yesterday, and I'm sorry we didn't, because we would have switched out the URL. HN prefers original sources, and it's always nicer to give credit (and traffic) to the original creator or researcher.

Unfortunately, it's too late to make a difference now, so we'll just leave things as they were. However: if you (or anyone) notice something like this in the future, the best way to alert us is to email hn@ycombinator.com. We can't read all the threads but we do see all those emails, and usually pretty quickly.
This would be an insane story if true but will wait for the facts to come out before jumping to conclusions
I thought the defense's case was that Ulbricht was the original, and then passed it on to someone else (now revealed to be Karpeles).
Yeah but they may never have had a business to begin with without the protectionism. Case in point; where is all the other search engines from other countries that have no protectionist schemes?
On that note, go to GitHub.com and hit the "?" key -- it will show you the full list of available shortcuts (there are a lot!).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8890170
Lend Your Eyes to the Blind
A slightly different take on the news from The Verge: http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/15/7553591/silk-road-trial-ro...
Actually the Microcenter near me (Chicago), has expanded their selection of electronic components significantly in the past couple of years. What once was one rack is now an entire wall, with Sparkfun, Adafruit, Parallax, and Seeedstudio stuff, Arduinos, Beaglebones, and Raspberry Pis, and plenty of resistors, transistors, and other individual parts.
> Cars are not required to look out for people, people have to look out for cars.

It's not always sufficient to just "look out for people". It is quite possible that the driver, at the speed they're driving at, does not have the reflexes or braking distance to safely stop when encountering a "jaywalker".

The alternative that many people propose is to reduce driving speed to "safe" values, which I always thought naive. Even if you make everyone drive at 20MPH inside cities, you'll still have people exceeding that limit and getting into accidents. IMHO, it's just safer to keep pedestrians away from cars.
Monument Valley Team Reveals the Cost and Reward of Making a Hit iOS Game
The Internet Is Not Stressing You Out
You should send the RS board a proposal. Maybe they'll hire you.
Bachar-Yerian and The Edge are very, very famous routes, though. These are not typical anonymous mid-grade local multipitches.
Looking for parking.

25-30% of commuters in the NYC metro area drive solo, the rest take subway/bus/commuter rail, walk, or some other form (ferry, carpool).
Added the 'antialias' option for you - check it out. There is a ton of knobs under the hood :)
This is the sort of thing that feels like work, but isn't. Work is harder because it requires making something of value and the risk of abject failure.

If you're really making a startup rather than a lifestyle or small business, you're tax liablity will be zero to a first approximation. And if the business is a successful startup, then you'll have fuck-you-money either way.

But tax strategies do not a successful startup make. You may not even need a corporation at this point.

Good luck.
IMHO the reason for such a compiler is sharing code between client and server. From that standpoint your advice is reasonable for C# programmers only if they are ready to abandon C# altogether and switch to node.js on server.
We have put (and are putting) a bunch of work into LX branded zones[1], and are at the point that they are working on an incredibly broad class of apps (64-bit and with on-the-metal performance). A concrete case in point: we recently ran the (amazing!) hundred language quine relay[2] in an LX branded 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04 zone on SmartOS.[3]

As for ZFS support and Docker, it will be via sdc-docker[4], our (emerging) end-point for the Docker Remote API. The progress there has been swift and everything is being done in the open; expect to see something in production from us in this first calendar quarter.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrfD3pC0VSs

[2] https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

[3] https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/554076708173643776

[4] https://github.com/joyent/sdc-docker
It is different because the focus is more on the events and the groups. The meetup app tries to sell you on other events and groups you might be interested in. If all I really want to do is RSVP for my events, manage my groups, this app gives you a perfect option
Have you tried any of the Who's Hiring HN threads? Command-F for "remote" once you're on the thread...
that blog is extremely quick to load.
It's good to point out that researchers are working to reduce this opacity, but this comment contains several unsupported assertions.

> the incomprehensibility of gods is generally considered a feature by religious people.

I'm not sure how you reach that conclusion. It's hard to generalize about "religious people" or even "religions" because they are so varied. I might point to the book of Job in the Christian Bible as evidence that the inscrutable nature of God (or the universe, if you prefer) is considered frustrating and tragic enough that scripture takes pains to attempt to explain it. In fact, there's an entire branch of theology [0] that tries to address this shortcoming.

> Most of the algorithms you use in everyday life are not machine learning algorithms

Is that true? My understanding is that almost all modern web services with vast data (Facebook, Google, Netflix) make at least some use of machine learning algorithms.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodicy
> What it has done though for AR is show people the idea of overlaying information on your environment which is a core tenet of AR.

There are plenty of applications for mobile phones that do a much better job of that.

Examples: the Layar offering and automatic translation of text by moving the phone over the text and reading 'through' the phone.
What scares me, in terms of technical competition, are things like Bunnie Huang's description of the differing and sometimes more flexible approaches to intellectual property, construction, and fulfillment.

Will the West end up fighting its own lawyers, while the East avoids such at times either through differing social structure or a top-down mandate to "get out of the way so it can get done"?

The flipside, perhaps: Your startup is yours, until the State decides it is important to the State. Thereafter, maybe not so much.

I'm no expert -- hardly. But these differences come to mind when I stew on the topic.
I drive about 25 miles each way, I don't really mind. I have a reverse commute so traffic isn't bad, and I listen to NPR on the drive.
> a moat that the unwashed masses can't cross

But this is in fact a good thing. Look at what happens when some uninformed people get together and start discussing "infinity" or some other misunderstood concept from math (which has been around long enough for the moat to disintegrate). If I was locked in a room with three tireless uninformed people discussing math and a gun with a single bullet...

Insofar as jargon makes people unable to spout off that kind of nonsense about computers, it's absolutely good, proper, and necessary. If you still doubt that, just look at what happens when the public got their hands on the word "algorithm", just like you see in the article. Not only is the article right insofar as the claim that people don't understand the term, it even provides an excellent example itself of an author completely misunderstanding and abusing the term to the point of nonsense.

The thing about the moat is, it takes a lot of climbing to get to the top of that tower, or to any useful height, and we shouldn't be ashamed of that necessary effort. If you get hoi polloi on the grounds below, they're just as happy to stay down there (instead of climbing, i.e., learning) and proceed to destroy the [perceived] value of the education and skills of the people inside.
This is slowly developing the patina of an academy award winning movie :-). Sad for the folks involved by interesting to watch.
He also claims they passed it back to him immediately before the bust. Only slightly more effective than the "I was holding it for a friend" legal defense.
Some more stuff at his website, incluging the grand prize of 500 Euros (which I hope someone will add to): https://highenergyastrobiology.wordpress.com/

We're going to feel awfully stupid if this hypothesis turns out to be correct and ETI was sitting out in plain view for decades.
Yeah, I was about to use the Be My Eyes app to help and as soon as I realized I'd have to actually have a video/audio chat with a person, I admittedly chickened-out.
Whatever one thinks about Silk Road, darknets or drug policy in general (I have issues with all of them) I would hope that Ulbricht could get a better defense than one that seems as farcical as this. I don't know what it would be.

Maybe they're hoping people will think it's too crazy not to be true? The only possible way it isn't a complete joke is if it's true.
Google recruits subjects who agree to report their information needs to Google on demand. Eight times a day Google randomly pings them, and they instantly respond with the questions they want answered at that moment.

It's pretty amazing how hard Google works at improving. I can't imagine any other search engine running a program like this for years, just to find questions that they aren't even asking a search engine for (yet).
100 years ago there were no commercial fixed wing aircraft, just a few zeppelins. Transportation hasn't really changed a whole lot in the last 50 years or so.
Great post. Why didn't you use JSX?
> * Seattle: Pedestrians don't even jaywalk on empty streets at 1AM

What? Yes I do.
ReSharper supports TypeScript. See http://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2014/03/17/more-typescript-...

Also TypeScript is supported by IntelliJ family of IDEs.
Thank You Readers
> With speech output instead of Braille devices? Interesting.

Both. The one doesn't exclude the other. I'm a heavy user of text-to-speech at high rates to digest content easily, but prefer braille when coding or doing some work on a shell/terminal.

You'll see much more braille displays in some European countries because they get subsidized by health insurance or a government entity that provides assistive technology for the workplace. This workstation has a 88 cell braille display, which means it can display 88 braille characters at a time. That unit costs $10k or so, depending on market and EUR/USD rate etc, but to give you an idea of the price tag. I also have a mobile unit with 40 cells, I guess that one is about $6k or so.
Degree of enforcement also seems to be very much subject to officer discretion. I've never met anyone ticketed for jaywalking an empty 2-lane street at night, but if you dash across a busy thoroughfare right in front of oncoming traffic you are much more liable to get ticketed.
Not really.

I'd love to know how a high traffic site is supposed to sustain itself with millions of hits every month without advertising if the site itself is free and the users would otherwise scoff at paying? If it were an easy fix it would be happening already.
All looks very interesting.

Am I right to assume then that there isn't going to be a SmartOS/SunOS 'docker' client which can understand zfs+zones / replace vmadm/zoneadm? I had planned on looking into writing this when they announced the 'new' pluggable architecture some while ago..

Because, that would freakin' rock...
That sounds pretty great, actually. Would love to see an example project that uses React without a DOM.
Amazon EC2 Container Service Documentation
It's reasonable, in the same way it's reasonable to have people sign a receipt saying they got the package, or that its reasonable to have people sign a ticket (saying I am not admitting guilt by signing this, only that I was in fact presented with this paper). If I refuse to do any of those things there is an escalation (in the last case it's arrest and the impounding of the car!).

CPS does need to document that they took certain steps with the parent, or it doesn't count in court... instead they get in trouble for not being able to prove the parent was there, and discussed the welfare of the child.
Thinking about it this morning while looking at some art I had made, I suppose you could think of the original in the case of a Photoshop document that had all the original layers, edit history and so on included in the file. But I'm not sure I see them selling for large sums.
On a tall climb, stretch and a bit of slack are enough to drop 5-6 feet if you fall on top rope.

And it's not very nice to say someone is exaggerating their emotional state. :-) It's certainly possible for people to get very scared the first time they climb 40 feet up, even on top rope.
Thanks for your story. I've heard that from so many people. That Octopress opened doors for them and exposed them to new interests. It's pretty much the best thing I could ask to hear. I love that I was able to be a part of that spark for people. So, thanks for sharing!

For what it's worth, I'm also a huge fan of Middleman. It's a great project and I use it for some things too. For a while, when Jekyll was in a dry spell, I considered building Octopress tools for Middleman as well, but in the end I prefer the simplicity of Jekyll.

Middleman is great, but it's too much like the view layer of Rails. To me, Jekyll feels more like the native web.
"It's strange to imagine now, but prior to the 1920s, city streets looked dramatically different than they do today. They were considered to be a public space: a place for pedestrians, pushcart vendors, horse-drawn vehicles, streetcars, and children at play."

I think this point is very important. After the automobiles took over, the street slowly ceased to be the #1 public space where people hangout, shop, play or shoot the bull. Fast forward to today's US, spending an extended time on the street is associated with being poor, homeless or conducting criminal activity. Streets' sole purpose is for travel and commute.

Countries with less developed economy still enjoys a vibrant street life much like the pre 1920 US (i.e. Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, China, Thailand etc). As they get richer and purchase more automobile though, the same street transformation is happening again. One can notice a big difference if one visited China in 2000 vs today. They are in some dire need for parking lots.

Of course, there are definitely developed wealthy countries in Europe that also enjoy vibrant street life. However car ownership there is not as widespread as in the US due to a number of economic constraints (space cost, gas price, taxes).
I know that some academics are critical of evolutionary approaches. Steven Skiena, for one, in his algorithms textbook, said something to the effect of never having encountered a problem in which an evolutionary approach was more effective than a more straightforward approach. However, this was before "big data" had become such a focus in computing, so this might have changed.

Hopefully some other HN readers can weigh in on this.
Interview with the entrepreneur bringing 911 service to the developing world
I don't know; a man was arrester in New Jersey for firing an airsoft gun in his backyard[1], since they're classified as regular firearms and require permit in that state.

[1] http://6abc.com/archive/9285909/
Predictions for the High-Tech Industry in 2015
Google Glass was an awesome idea, and the only reason it seems to have failed is because of that camera, or rather because what media and bloggers did with it. They took what was a perfectly good HUD prototype and turned it into a story about obnoxious stalker dorks and Google the evil Big Brother.

BTW. This situation is one of the many that make me more and more convinced that we can't have both privacy and continued technological progress; we need to pick one.
I personally found the mathematical section to be a little too easy if possible. Any of the students from the top 10% of my 8th grade class would see those questions and start knocking them off.

To be fair to Harvard, it's never prided itself of being an institution dedicated to the practical application of mathematics or engineering. I suppose it's why I turned down their offer to attend.
I look both ways before crossing a one-way street.

The cost is minimal and the benefit of not getting hit by a car whose driver didn't realize it was a one-way is pretty high.

Maybe it's an American thing, but I notice people completely flouting driving laws often enough that I don't trust anything but declared intentions when it comes to cars. Crossing at a crosswalk isn't even safe; many drivers seem to think speeding down the street and slamming on the brakes so that the car slides halfway into the designated pedestrian zone is okay.

I've been pretty regularly tempted to climb on top of car hoods on my way across the street without moving left or right.
In theory, jQuery can be brought in by reference from Google Hosted Libraries or cdnjs or whatnot, cached for a long time, and reused in any other website that uses the same external host and version. You can't say the same about your tree-shaken thingy... However, I'm not experienced enough to say how well that works in practice.
Crew Opens Dragon for Business
For those not reading the article, please note this isn't just a claim made by the defense. This came out of cross examination of a DHS agent.

"You thought you had probable cause that Mark Karpeles
was intimately involved, as the head of Silk
Road, correct?" Dratel asked Homeland Security agent
Jared Der-Yeghiayan.

"By the contents of that affidavit—yes," he answered.
Lol. When I was at school this tactic, creating doubt by blaming someone else, was called "Plan B" after a plot line from the TV series The Practice.
Real-time Face Tracking and Projection Mapping
...or a guy who's used the changing room in as store. What's so different about being a woman in that context?