skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously? You've heard of engineers being hired for 2M? I want that job! This is a serious question. 2M is just unthinkable for me.
David Wheeler (British computer scientist)
>Judging by some screenshots and appstore comments I assume its only roughly accurate, and requires you to move your phone slowly between walls in straight lines (not via your pocket or around furniture for example).

The site claims it's accurate to within 6 inches which, based on a quick trial, seems about right.

You don't have to move it in a straight line as far as I can tell. I just moved it around the room and pressed it against the walls.

Like you, I wouldn't have expected this to work. But it pretty much does. I didn't experiment with what radio signals it needs to work. (Though for most uses I'm not sure it's easier than a laser distance meter and some graph paper.)
It's entirely possible to run Linux/Windows on Mac hardware.
Chicagoan here. Everytime I fly into O'Hare at night, its light being on the set of Tron; not that Tron actually had lit up sets of course. The city becomes a huge lit up grid. Unlike NYC, Chicago is fairly contiguous with no bodies of water breaking up the metro area. So you get views like these for as far as you can see:

http://blogs.voanews.com/tedlandphairsamerica/files/2010/07/...
Marko and the thousand paper cranes
> If you recall, here is the point you were challenging:

Yes, and I didn't receive any information that would lead me to believe that applying his/her suggestions would substantially tackle the root problem. All process isolation does is push the problem out further into the application side of things. Now the user has to micromanage the data flow in between applications. The root problem has very little to do with OS architecture, and I'm happy to be convinced otherwise.

>Would you now concede this point?

Okay. If you insist. I have no desire to "win" the argument. It's merely idle chit chat for me. My code's compiling ;)
Let me clarify.
People make a choice to buy marijuana or not to buy it. If a person decides to buy it and at the same time accepts the possible negative consequences that might arise from such activity, are free to do so. Assuming that those individuals do so in a manner that does not endanger others, there is no ethical issue at hand, that is there is no moral responsibility on the investors nor on the producers purely in the economic sense. Of course there are other venues where an "ethical" issue might arise stemming from addiction or else. But asuming rational people made the initial decision to engage in such activity there is no ethical issue as both parties agreed to a "moral contract" just as people do when they buy alcohol or tobacco. Do smokers not know the dangers their acitivty when they first decided to do so? To that I have a real life example: my biology teacher a few years back who thoroughly described the effects that smoking has (along with other drugs) and yet he admitted to smoking and he had absolutely no issue with slowly killing himself, he also paid higher insurance costs for the same reasons and once again had no issue with that because he made a rational decision. I have no desire to smoke but I recognize that others have the right to do so as long as it has no effect on myself nor the society (through higher insurance costs etc.).
Google: please provide free and easy to setup SSL with every domain. :)
Also knowing that they are managing their nameserver the google way.
Well yes, it can be that simple, if you have no ethics yourself.

Or it can be that simple if you believe ethics are a personal choice. It was ethics and morality that got us the War on Drugs, prohibition and a ban on gay marriage.

You can't say "those ethics don't matter, but my ethics do".
I was at a tiki bar last week that served drinks with dry ice in it, with a straw! So, so bad. I don't think you should ever give people dry ice, especially when they've been drinking. But if you did, the theory behind its safety is that it sinks to the bottom, so the drinker couldn't really consume it. But with a straw, if it got to a small enough size you could easily suck a pebble in, and the results would be at best very painful.

Maybe I'm wrong and it's not that dangerous, but I don't think I'd do it if I owned a bar.
App Annie Raises $55M Series D, Launches New Product for Tracking App Usage
I've always been very frustrated with .co domains, since they are so close to .com and often get confused with one another. How does .CO handle this?
It's not doing that for me -- at least, it isn't right now, anyway. You might want to check your computer for malware.
Most C++ RTOSs I'd call unikernels, just generally targeted to a custom board rather than a VM. But the targeting is a driver issue, not something intrinsic to the architecture.
I think most of the responses are pretty self-explanatory.

For every position where it wasn't remote, did their job ads say remote? If not, there's nothing you can do about it.

The competition for remote positions is fierce, which is something I've mentioned before.

You seem like a talented guy if they got to the point of offering you relocation and you've also been offered senior positions, so perhaps your initial remote-work should be freelancing for mid-level projects at a decent rate (how about starting at $25-$30 dollars or something along those lines?).

If I had to run a survey asking remote applicants how many times they've applied for multiple positions, the answer (on average) will be like +10.

Take up freelancing or start your own remote agency. If you can't be the worker, be the boss.
> One of the many libertarian lies is that all uncoerced transactions are somehow value-neutral.

Its not so much a lie as true-by-definition that all uncoerced transactions are, at worst, value-neutral if you make:

(1) the assumptions of the rational actor model,
(2) the definition that "uncoerced" means "no person not actively consenting experiences any negative utility as a result of the transaction".

OTOH, what is debatable is how much relevance this has to real world transactions wherein actors do not adhere to the assumptions about them in the rational actor model, and, even when they do, real transactions very often do have negative externalities somewhere, so few completely meet the definition of "uncoerced".
Registration without revealing your private information in the whois database. Providers usually put their own details there and forward emails to the end user.

Depending on the registry, it's unavailable or at least against the rules for some tlds.
Show HN: I built an iOS remake of that old windows game SkiFree
It's an add-on service that domain registrars offer which hides your personal information from the public.

When you register a domain, it's a requirements that you list contact information publicly. Companies usually don't mind doing this but many people don't want to list their home address and phone number for the world to see. Private registration lists a proxy company's information as the contact for the domain and they forward the information to you.
Have you played any of the similar pre-Minecraft games? They are all almost universally completely different from Minecraft - interacting with the voxel environment is not the main point of the game.

Minecraft drew heavily from other games, yes, but it was also revolutionary and one of the first games to have such an open development cycle. There is a reason that such a poorly designed and buggy game is arguably the biggest indie franchise of all time.
There are multiple layers at play. For example someone looking a file selection dialog in a gui has at least these layers, lowest level first:

- Filesystem implementation (actual on disk bytes)

- Filesystem compatibility (adjustments to OS semantics)

- Generic filesystem layer in the kernel

- System call interface (between userland and kernel)

- Userland low level library (eg system call wrappers)

- Higher level libraries (eg libc)

- User interface libraries

- App level modules & libraries

The problem with the filesystem being case insensitive is that is the first level above, where there is virtually no context or user information. That is the hardest place to work out if the user considers Résumé and RESUME to be the same. The lower down the list the easier it gets. The important point is that how you store things and how you present does not need to be the same.

Command line tools typically use the libc level of things. It is perfectly possible to make that level so the system appears case insensitive (another poster mentioned Windows doing that).

Your Unix command line experience is very much affected by your locale. For example the ls command does the following:

- Sorts filenames

- Displays sizes (different locales have different conventions for floating point representation, digit grouping etc)

- Displays times

Environment variables like $LANG, $LC_*, $TZ etc control this in Unix.

Individual programs can also alter behaviour. For example bash can be configured to do case insensitive filename completion.

TLDR: while case insensitivity is a nice user experience for humans, it is awful for the lower layers including filesystems. The closer a program is to a human, the easier it is to give that nice user experience. There is no requirement for a case insensitive user experience to then make filesystems also implement that. And as my examples show, they couldn't do it correctly anyway.
The rub with startups is that leadership may not have experience with developing careers.

From what you've written, it seems like you really don't have a lot of experience developing careers either, which is one reason to bring in an experienced engineering manager. It's not a knock on your skillset managing a 10 person team and delivering. Just a realization that management isn't something you can just quickly learn on the job.

My advice: have a discussion with whomever the new engineering manager is, and explain your career aspirations and the current dilemma you have.
Ask HN: How to validate an idea? What to include in the email?
I have an idea about a very simple (de-bloated, nothing to install) booking reservation system for small hotels and guest houses

There are people who manage these businesses with crappy sites and I want to offer them a cloud solution with almost zero modifications to their website (just a js tag or a subdomain).

The price? just a few bucks per month.

But, how to aproach them? At first I thought I should send them a personalized/friendly email, 1-to-1. But: should I include a quick demo, flow, screenshots...what?

Thank you.
Interesting fact about liquid nitrogen (that I learned from Dave Arnold's book, which is fantastic): liquid nitrogen is ~700x denser than gaseous nitrogen.

So, if you vaporize a moderate amount of liquid in a contained space (e.g. spilling a dewar in a car or elevator): even if you manage to avoid touching the nitrogen itself, the gas can crowd out the oxygen and you can asphyxiate yourself. Since it's odorless and colorless, you probably wouldn't even notice.

So ... if you do try this at home, be especially careful when transporting nitrogen!!
They're clearly heading for worldDOMAINation.
Why do you post these companies emails to you like this?

That's probably a surefire way to get people to stop mailing you completely.
I was hoping to see more of the electro-mechanical ideas behind the device. Did you ever complete it?
They don't need to hold the pictures anywhere to use the hash. 1. Police somehow finds child porn. 2. They generate the hash[1]. 3. They distribute the hash to large storage providers. 4. Storage providers compare the hash with the data they store. 5. Profit.

[1]:hash might not necessarily be something like MD5, it might be a more sophisticated photo fingerprint.

Edit:
Anyway, I have no idea why is this on HN again, nth time. It's old news and also automated photo fingerprinting is not exactly a huge issue for cloud storages where you store unencrypted data on the first place. It's just another machine reading the bytes of your data, and those bytes have been read by many other machines as well. They don't even use this for advertising or something that could make you a product. They don't even check for pirated software or stuff like this, so this is not exactly groundbreaking news.
Leave.

Be pragmatic: there will be other opportunities which are equally interesting and staying isn't helping. You could be CTO at a different startup. Further, you should be approximately at your zenith at the company and they should be able to provide a strong reference, if you stay dissatisfied your performance and appearance will suffer - along with your potential for future employment.

Also happiness is about the journey (career, parenting, etc). If you're not on a journey you won't be happy!
sounds like you're in a great position to craft the position you want, and then shop around your experience to other startups

if you get a bite, go back to your startup, say you have another opportunity, see how much they want you
What other browsers auto-install from other software and automatically change your default?
> Coming from wealthier background, you're more likely to be well educated.

So, by your admission, education is not meritocratic.

I claim that employment is non-meritocratic first by your measure: if access to a better education is not merited, then employers concentrating on qualifications alone are not hiring according to merit.

I claim also that employment is non-meritocratic independently. The most obvious example is that wealth similarly gives you exclusive access to low-paying but prestigious jobs.

I suspect overall that background wealth is still a better marker for job status than education.
I hadn't considered Google's lack of commitment to their non-core services, but that's a good point. Over the years I've consolidated at Namecheap while several other providers shut down. For me, domains are a long-term service.
I have seen stands at local fairs that make LN ice cream to order. It's pretty neat. I haven't done it, but they have 16 year olds doing it presumably without incident.
You know, if the devil says "I don't do evil", I wouldn't believe him for a second.
We have some ferns in our yard that have similar curves. Curious to know what other nature forms take this on.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/9d/0a/36/9d0a365fd...
With our (semi) benevolent corporate overlords in mind, are there any safe and cross platform ways to keep an encrypted container on these services?

I remember (but can't find for the life of me) an article somewhere that stated you don't want to put something like a Truecrypt volume on a service that does versioning, since the changes in the encrypted data each time you change something can be used to leak data.
More proof that today the patent system is here to serve large corporations.
I'm posting this because I tried to find out who invented the 'subroutine'.

"Along with Maurice Wilkes and Stanley Gill he is credited with the invention of the subroutine (which they referred to as the closed subroutine), and gave the first explanation of how to design software libraries;[5] as a result, the jump to subroutine instruction is often called Wheeler Jump."
I don't think I would ever rely on Google to host an application critical to my business.
As a separate, off topic note, I'm looking to move to Germany from the states (CTO of two prior 'smaller' startups). Where would you look for positions? I'm a damn good engineer - but I can't NOT lead - and all I'm seeing thus far are junior/senior dev positions.
US healthcare: Big data diagnoses fraud
....in before "Google has decided to end support for this product; your 10-year-registered domains that last longer than next month will be moved to GoDaddy."

(edit: actually, they'd never voluntarily transfer your domain; they'd force you to transfer it, at some kind of discount. suffice to say i am less than confident)
haha of course it's "in beta testing" grow some balls Google
> resold on a market of small service providers a la the UK's internet and American power

And American wired telephone service (infrastructure owners must allow competitors to lease that infrastructure).
I like everything about namecheap, except the name. I hate having to mention their company name to a customer who I'm managing the domain for. It sounds like I'm using a discount service from the bottom of the barrel when that's really not how the company operates.

It would be nice if I could refer to a parent company with a more appealing name.
What tools would you use to build physical infrastructure from scratch?
Curious for people that still have a need for physical infrastructure what software you'd be using for

* dhcp/dns

* provisioning (os and apps)

* config management

* virtualization

* workstations (and management)

* licensing

* lots of other stuff

There's so many options, just trying to see what has and hasn't worked for others. I know every network is different, but some services and infrastructure needs are universal.
I disagree. There are no "minimum production values" if your game is good enough. A ton of popular indie games today (Hotline Miami, Risk of Rain, Gunpoint, Valdis Story, Terraria, many of Vlambeer's games...) are still made with pixel art using GameMaker, for example.

Minecraft succeeded not because it was one out of a hundred block-based games that got lucky, but because it had a perfect mix of simplicity (slick interface and controls), immediacy (play in your browser), wonder (explore forever in any direction), and persistance. I guess you could point to Infiniminer before it, but if you've ever played it, you'll know that it was slow and clunky in a 90's sim-game kind of way.
I think it's time to recognize that we have taken the entire biosphere under our management, and adjust our mindset accordingly.

Up to this point we've been shopping in the great store that is the Earth's biosphere. As of about now, we've bought the store. We have the power to change or destroy almost any piece of inventory. We could wipe out the bees in a few years if we wanted to. Or, if we want them to survive, we'll need to consciously protect them. The point is, either way it takes a choice now. The great forces of nature can no longer overpower us.

We're used to the world being a certain way: certain species, ecosystems, weather and climate patterns, etc. But from this point forward, those will only persist if we consciously choose them to.
Effects Produced By Substitution of a Tap Water Placebo for LSD (1955) [pdf]
That leaves a question of collisions open. The chances are really low, but not zero - does a hash match automatically generate events that lead to your front door being kicked open and your pets shot, or is there an actual human that needs to open the file and verify that yeah, it is a child abuse image?
What Went Wrong? Reflections on Science by Observation (1998) [pdf]
Political Diversity Will Improve Social Psychological Science [pdf]
I prefer Gandi.net No bullshit.
Very easy to say, but if you have significant equity (which, as employee #2, you really should) it's a lot more difficult to just step away.

"The journey" is all very well, but if that journey involves checking out for a year while you wait for a payout then so be it.
What would you suggest the workers do? Striking collectively until all business owners agree to pay more wage? How much more? What is fair?

I would think a federal law is the best way to solve the problem while avoiding repeating the messy negotiations.

Many workers depend on their paycheck to survive day to day precisely because of the meager amount. In today's USA there is very few union who can back workers up while on a strike.

Edit: Part of what I meant by the third paragraph is that someone else will take the job at low pay if you work away. Thus the fact you are saying no individually has little effect on wages when the market (currently) is filled with job seekers. It takes a whole bunch of us saying no together to have an effect.
This also:

http://founderdating.com/

Whenever this gets asked, someone always mentions the YC concept of how to find a co-founder.

It should really be:

- Someone you know
- Someone you've possibly worked with
- Someone you may even consider a friend

Check more on the PG/YC blogs for more info on this.
Is there any particular reason you don't just backup all of the user's personal files/configurations, note what programs they have installed and then reformat/reinstall?

Doing this you would be 100% adware free and the client might even notice/appreciate the speed boost of a fresh install.
The last thing I trust Google with is my domains. They can outright ban or disable you just like with any of their products and not offer support or explanation.
>Borland started out with Pascal, but went to 'C'.

As someone that used all their products before they became Imprise or how it was called, I never saw this happening.

Even nowadays C++ Builder actually uses the Delphi framework.

EDIT: Just wanted to add that in my part of the planet, it was all about Assembly for systems programming, games and real applications. Turbo Pascal for general purpose applications without much performace issues and CLIPPER for the typical CRUD applications.
Funny, at the bottom of this article there's a Google Adsense Ad for a "Free Malware Removal installer". Even their own site needs monetization and is part of the problem.

This article shows pretty well how polluted the Windows software ecosystem has become, it is a huge problem for Microsoft. I hope the Windows Store situation will improve with the next version of Windows.
I think you're right. I know I've lost faith in mobile gaming because for every fun game I've played I've deleted 20. I'm sure there are good games out there, but how can you find them in a sea of garbage and flappy clones? On the other hand, Steam has plenty of great Indie games (selling for more than one dollar!) with plenty of reviews around so you know what's good.
When they were hiring all these people... how did you react? did you express interest in these roles?
See the UK "Internet Watch Foundation" which gives recommendations about Usenet news groups or websites which are used to distribute images of child sexual abuse. Most UK ISPs use those lists to not carry some content. Andrews and Arnold is, I think, the only UK ISP that ignores IWF recommendations.

https://www.iwf.org.uk/
> "...real satire of Islam can't be done without significant risk of violent reprisal..."

Thought experiment: Can the same really be done for (say) Judaism without fear of being labelled anti-semite, losing your job, or worse? Could they have done it for Christianity and shown it in Bible-belt? (Maybe they already have and I don't know about it).

Also, there's a sense of 'no true scotsman' about your comment where you state no 'real' satire is possible. As though it only counts if there's 'significant risk of violent reprisal'.

from: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/09/solidarity-cha...

"When we originally discussed publishing this article to make these points, our intention was to commission two or three cartoonists to create cartoons that mock Judaism and malign sacred figures to Jews the way Charlie Hebdo did to Muslims. But that idea was thwarted by the fact that no mainstream western cartoonist would dare put their name on an anti-Jewish cartoon, even if done for satire purposes, because doing so would instantly and permanently destroy their career, at least. Anti-Islam and anti-Muslim commentary (and cartoons) are a dime a dozen in western media outlets; the taboo that is at least as strong, if not more so, are anti-Jewish images and words."

This would suggest that there is plenty of commentary that does not result in reprisals.