skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed that the comparisons are excellent. To this question:

> How do you self proclaim yourself that you are a
> UX/UI expert?

The answer is you just state it, the client will either believe you or not but you can't control that. Some folks will argue that only a PhD in HCI can make you a UX/UI expert but generally the people who say that are the ones with the PhD :-)
Ah interesting

Yes I absolutely agree with that. Maybe the 7 "lessons" in the article are not the real lessons--the real lesson is, as you said, focusing on the right/important items.

Also, I think point (3) in the article qualifies as something that would have been difficult for the writer to learn without going through a startup.

I would say, though, advice like "not choosing a confusing name for your startup", seems, well, obvious, no? I definitely respect the guy for starting his own company, but not sure how I should feel about someone who can't even choose a non-confusing name for it...
Ask HN: Karma-points-based politics? (disc: wild idea)
One starts by doing community work/social work. 1hr = 1 karma point. Reach certain points, join a committee. Keep working, keep adding points, keep joining higher level committees and acquiring new 'powers', like say remove points from corrupt ones. After many years one eventually reaches congress and then the oval office. No elections, no campaigns, no personal/private interests, proven experience and public service vocation. No?
I did some free lance interviewing for one of these types of companies a few years ago. The theory is, get a bunch of well qualified senior technical types to conduct anonymous phone interviews and do a general technical screening.

In practice... it was very low paying, boring, and often irritating. There were some really unqualified people I had to interview and it was agonizing.

I don't see this model as working very well. I didn't work for the employer, so I couldn't really represent them or cut the applicant any slack. I could only ask them canned questions. I tried my best, but I have no idea whether the results were usable.

I wonder what kind of people these employers ended up getting, when they outsourced their interviewing process like this.
DoS attacks also generate huge amounts of traffic, and so they are also detected through the normal, high-level monitoring activity that ISPs conduct.
I find the more difficult issue to be rewriting bulk "insert ignore" and "on duplicate key" queries.
Scared Straight – An Infosec story
I for one would prefer a more democratic digital currency.

Should Bitcoin become more widely adopted, I don't like how I would have no say in its operation or design decisions.

Paper currency, I get to vote on the people who appoint those decision-makers every couple of years. Bitcoin? Not so much.

(edited to fix a typo)
Wow, this article is far off base. While Notch certainly marketed himself a bit, his success really took off when Penny Arcade posted the iconic comic.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/09/17
http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2010/09/17/mine-all-mi...

And, let's not forget part two:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/09/20/mine-all-mine-p...
http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2010/09/20/mine-all-mi...
The FiltaQuilla add-on supports regular expressions.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/filtaquil...

If you look on the authors web page it describes how to use either JavaScript or regular expressions in the search field.

http://mesquilla.com/extensions/filtaquilla/

Here is a related, tutorial-type blog post with screenshots:

http://www.digiblog.de/2010/11/regular-expression-mail-filte...
All these microwaves just need a more complex 'plate spinner' that actually translates the rotating plate across field lines. Kind of like a spirograph... http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd371/benice_chen/hypo_h...

edit: nevermind, didn't realize they kept the 'plate spinners' on during the experiment. The rings in the appalam are artifacts from rotating an anti-node through the food. would have to do something different to get equal heating using ~two points vs. a line
There might have been usages for a common word like canon.While there might not be a use for canon.com there are sites with canon in their name. ex canonshot.com

Going forward, just like it happened with .com domain names, there will be rise of variations. Like .blogs or .blogg etc
So you are saying that an article written by a person that ran an unsuccessful startup for 1 year contains wisdom so deep the original commenter can't possibly understand?

Don't canonize startup founders. Many of them have no idea what they are talking about, even the successful ones. I'm not saying the OP falls into that bucket, but there is certainly no reason to dismiss that notion outright. Your description of startup life also is just your own experience, it doesn't apply to everybody and you have no reason to believe it does.
Looks like they are using CBC block cipher mode. Guess they updated the site since then.

This appears to be the source code: https://instantcryptor.com/js/main.js
Yeah, search is a huge mess. For example, I'm out looking for houses and I've gotten a bunch of notices in the past couple weeks for open houses. I search for "open house" and not a single result it presented was for any of the emails I've previously received. In fact none of the emails it returned seemed to have either "open" or "house" in them, I have no idea why it selected the emails it did.

Actually, I've developed a theory that the search actually uses a stochastic method that randomly samples emails from my mailboxes in the hopes that some of them will match my search result.
recently, attacks against home routers were mounted via malicious iframes pushed to a PC in the LAN. That vector neither requires physical presence nor wifi password cracking, merely CSRF.

edit: known since 2008, http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/data-center/csrf-attacks-ho...
Hm, I guess clock doesn't support forth? I just ran `cloc .` from the root directory.
Hehe. You'd be surprised. :-) Many of the entrepreneurs I interact with are, sadly, in a situation that is very close to that of OP:

1. Little to no customer development

2. Lots of over-engineering

3. No co-founder when they'd actually need one
I will be interested to watch how the hUMA stuff works out. Having 100% overlap in memory space between the GPU and the CPU can be useful. Intel tried to go there with Larrabee. Having a collection of specialized processors in the same cache coherent space allows for some interesting data flow architectures to be tried out.
Kitchen Rhythm: A Year in a Parisian Pâtisserie
Really, discussions about surveillance and privacy in Germany are one of the few places where nobody ever makes a comparison to the nazi's? That seems surprising.
I think any freelancer can whip up a page like nngroup.com and present themselves as a consultant, or is there more to it than just the surface?

In a practical sense, that is true. Any half-decent web hacker could produce the sites these consultancies use.

However, the point is that it would never occur to most of them to do so, any more than for example they would think to hire someone who speaks the language of their prospective client base to do their copywriting.

There are two distinct skill sets in play here. A technical freelancer might have better technical skills than a consultant when it comes to, say, designing a web site or unit testing a module in a software project. But the consultant understands how to speak the client's language, understand the client's needs, and translate that into technical work that will solve that client's problem. This skill set is much more about various types of management and marketing activities, and it's a world that most geeks never think to enter, and where there's no guarantee that just because you're good at technical work you'll also be good at the other side.

This is why I sometimes disagree with HN posters who advocate becoming more of a consultant to boost your income if you're an independent developer: most geeks don't have the skill set to do that, and plenty won't want to learn the rest and change the type of work they do, or they simply don't have the aptitude for it anyway. However, those other posters are right that the consulting side can command much higher rates for those willing and able to make the jump, simply because it's a more valuable proposition from the client's perspective.
Claws, formerly Sylpheed - comes standard on lightweight distros like Puppy Linux.

There's also Geary by Yorba, which has a similar look and feel to the mail client on OSX but for Ubuntu-based distros. It is standard on ElementaryOS.
That is with gcc -O2 (version 4.8) on an i7-4771 CPU

With -O3 the speedup is even more: 7.2x

on a Xeon E5-2690 (Sandy Bridge) with gcc 4.6.3 (same code generated) it was "only" 3x
As far as I can tell, that's exactly what TFA proposes (while also trying to be user-friendly).

> You don't need completely new protocol for that.

You need a protocol because protocols can be audited and built upon. User-interaction protocols are very much a part of crypto and, IMHO, trying to minimize the user-error surface is critical for cryptography's development.

This is about bringing crypto to the average Joe. You think they're going to download several heterogeneous tools, learn to use them, devise their own security protocol... and also not mess anywhere in the process? I don't think so!

If a protocol+app saves them the hassle and lowers the chance of mistakes, why not?

Also, as they point in the article:

> One could simply throw out the last 30 years of protocols like SMTP, IMAP and PGP and reinvent the wheel like DarkMail, but we at Whiteout believe in building on existing standards, since they aren't going away any time soon.

This would merely be another layer at the stack.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7593242
Yes, true. Here are the technical details: http://pivotal.io/big-data/case-study/distributed-in-memory-... - a worthy HN submission by itself
1 hour for one person does not equal 1 hour for another

Time spent on certain activities is more beneficial than time spent on others. The best example is the difference between a proactive team/committee member versus a lazy one who is there to, well, put in their time.

Some people are more inept, less intellectual and emotionally equipped than others.

Basically, there is a problem of equivalence in your proposed system that I don't think is possible to resolve. But of course, there's also the inevitable advantages offered by such concrete rules for ascension. There are no shortcuts...at the minimum you need to "show up" for, most probably, an inordinate amount of time to be any one of importance in the political sphere.

The ramifications of that might be numerous and worth examining from a theoretical standpoint. Money is stripped of its influence in such a concrete system. That's the biggest positive I can pin down... perhaps your point in the OP?

It seems as if you are inspired by grinding a la video games, which is such a simplistic system compared to leveling up in "life."
Work pressure increases stress not productivity. Anyone surprised?
This will probably get voted into oblivion. I think it's great that people like Thunderbird. I use it to back up my email once in a while.

But, I do find it interesting that anyone would chose an app mail reader over an online mail reader, one that I can access all my mail from any device anywhere in the world. (should I choose to trust that device).

Yes, I get that maybe you don't trust gmail/hotmail/yahoo but I guess I just wonder if maybe the time and effort making Thunderbird would be better spent on an open source email server that's as easy to install as something like wordpress but more secure.

Of course maybe it's just me. I haven't used an email app since about 2003. First it was oddmail, then yahoo mail, then gmail. There's no way I could go back to having access to my mail stuck on one machine. If you like your setup good for you.

I guess I'd be curious what you get out of it though. Do you run Thunderbird on all your devices? Does each device have access to all your email? Can you search it quickly? If you don't have thunderbird everywhere do you find yourself waiting until you get back to device that does have it to use email?
Do you have a link? I have not heard of this, but I'd be curious to see. If I knew about a ST3-related Kickstarter, there's a good chance I'd give it money (depending on the details).
? are you talking about central banks? Because I have no idea what you are saying, and I believe you also do not understand yourself.
These apps have long supported IMAP, your email won't be stuck to your machine.
With any IMAP client your mail will not be stuck on one machine, you can maintain a copy on the server as well, and access it from any other IMAP client.
This reads like clickbait for smart people.

At least it doesn't contain the word "quantum".
It may be important to note that "dummy" foals display those symptoms at birth. It's my understanding that autism typically does not become apparent until months later. If birth conditions are to blame, it may be difficult to counteract their effects when those are hidden for so long.
If only AMD was at least on the most cutting edge non-Intel process. But they can't even seem to be able to do that.

Imagine what they could do with Samsung's money and process (Samsung's 10nm process is almost ready - http://www.tweaktown.com/news/43761/samsung-stuns-world-show...) if they were acquired.
FTA:

> While all instance types need to be updated, we have developed the capability to live-update instances running on newer hardware. The vast majority of the EC2 fleet will be live-updated, but a portion of instances (less than 10% of customer EC2 instances) running on older hardware will require a reboot to complete the update process.
Yep, that's the app I was using before I figured out that it doesn't encrypt my entries. Also it doesn't have a web-view, right?

I thought it might be great if I would build a great-looking web-application which also has a well-documented API (you can't say that of any great journaling app out there).

I think especially for people who are traveling 'round the world - and don't keep devices like an iPhone, an MacBook, etc. with them - it would be perfect (many of them are still using Internet Cafés).

But of course, the most people are writing on their own devices. For them, we could write some native apps later.

Another tiny question: Would you pay for a service like that? I mean a few dollars /month. In my opinion, there's currently no complete service out there, which focusses only on journaling.

Okay, maybe a few poor-designed and -developed ones.
If C++ will exist in 10 years from now

Apart from it being quite an interesting do-it-all type of language, solely seeing the huge amounts of existing codebases in 'slow' fields like production/manufacturing industries I am pretty sure it will.
As you said, one could twist a little bit of ~meaning around DNA, but only around, because to ~understand any of it, you would have to add the interpreters but I'll add your parents gametes, and your mother womb, how it emerged and evolved into the discussion.

This is a simple and direct analogy / thought experiment about trying to make sense to computers. 0x0392048 0x0982308 means nothing, even mov $ax, $cx:$dx (an implementation detail retrofitted to encode higher level desire). It only gets meaning when you look at the complete set of dimensions: use-cases, available technology, constraints, etc etc
600-900mg of caffeine is the equivalent of 6-9 cups of coffee or 7-11 red bull energy drinks.

Like you said that is way too much.
Having made many of the same mistakes he made, I suspect you're not in the target audience.

He's speaking to engineers who want to start a business. They frequently start by focusing on the engineering things and not on the things that matter to validating their idea is buildable and scalable in a business sense. It's easy to think "we're going to be in a world of hurt if we don't (have automated testing, pick the right framework, design for scalability, handle complicated edge cases, get the design right, etc)."

Engineers will often focus on these aspects while missing the bigger problems like "will the people telling me this is a good idea write a check right now to get it?" and "what non-technical roadblocks have I completely missed and won't be aware of until I'm iterating with customers?" These don't seem obvious to people who haven't been in the business of selling something before. And launching with half-baked crappy hacked software goes against every instinct of a good engineer who has worked at more mature companies.

Starting a business is about finding out, as quickly as possible, if anyone actually gives a shit and then building a business after you have determined that, yes, they actually might. The actual act of making the product feels like building a business but it is not.
Actually, it’s a great solution. Because, as soon as you download the extension, or load the website once, from that moment on everything will be encrypted client side, to make sure MEGA will never be able to spy on their users.
Intel is not exactly lacking in competition these days, either. The ARM/mobile threat is pushing really hard against Atom.
I thought this might have been posted a while ago, but also thought it was interesting enough to post again after a year. Are there any rules on dupes?
Which email client do you use and think is better?
That's still around, you know, as a separate application. Opera.com/mail
Telnet wouldn't help if they forgot the password and it wasn't hard-coded as a back door. Also, the support tech wouldn't be able to access it remotely unless some of the things I mentioned in the original comment were true.

Wouldn't it be easier to just say, "hold down the reset button on the back for 30 seconds"?
We spend billions (tens of billions?) on cancer research in the US every year. Unfortunately, it seems that not all of the money is spent effectively:

http://www.businessinsider.com/small-amount-of-money-from-pi...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-stordahl/breast-cancer-p...

Does anyone know the best places to donate?
I don't get this. I can use Mega in exactly the same way as Dropbox. Why does Mega exist to supposedly facilitate copyright infringement?

The content lobby paper you are referencing claims that the differences between a legitimate service and an illegitimate "cyberlocker" are the following:

* Bandwith for sharing is limited.

* User accounts are terminated for copyright infringement.

* Infringing material cannot be searched and found.

* Users are not paid for sharing material.

As far as I know most of those apply to Mega as well as to Dropbox. (Mega pays users that recruit new premium users, this can be seen as encouraging infringement, if you think that this gives incentive to host content in hope of users downloading the content and becoming premium users.)

That it is about infringing copyright is what the content lobby would want us to believe. I don't see how the material you are referencing is less biased than Mega's blog post. You just replaced one biased opinion with another.
Yes, but that is now a worker function that handles every if(n == x) case explicitly in the body, not something you need the preprocessor for anymore. Nothing against it, but it is a different design.
From the links, it seems like consulting is primarily focused on UX, and agencies are responsible for the implementation. As a developer, I'm really hoping this isn't the case.

Edit: another thing I notices is that consultant firms seem to deliver intangibles like teaching clients best practices or ideas gleaned from cutting-edge research, while agencies are just focused on delivering the tangible product.
The usual theory I've heard isn't so much that fancy starchitect headquarters cause the companies to fail. Rather, it's more of a signaling story. To wit: new headquarters say something about the kind of company you have, and what it says is usually a bad sign.

When companies are doing really well the corporate offices are too busy doing stuff to hire a starchitect and the company is growing too fast for it to make sense to literally set in stone how it should henceforth be arranged.

You tend to build a fancy new building when the company has stopped growing (so you know how big to make the building and how to lay out the various departments) and when the management staff is to some extent twiddling their thumbs looking for something useful to do rather than starting bold new projects. That sort of building signals the company is coasting rather than being dynamic. They are investing time and money and effort in a building because (unlike when they were growing) they currently can't think of anything better to invest that time and money in.

However, both Apple and Google are arguably exceptions to this rule.

In Apple's case, mitigating circumstances include that they've
already survived building and moving into the "Infinite Loop" campus and a vast flood of architecturally-interesting Apple Stores. Their new campus - while impressive - is essentially iterative; it's doing something they've done before using skills they've successfully used before, merely on a larger scale.

In Google's case, their (goofy) design explicitly seems to anticipate LOTS of change and potential further growth and reorganization. They are not "setting in stone" the shape of the company.

And in both Google AND Apple's case, the companies have so much money and so many employees that it'd be stupid NOT to try to consolidate a bit at this point.
... with older compilers, without -fdevirtualize.
none other than Sergey Brin & Larry Page
Mozilla Teams Up with Combain to Improve Geolocation
Agree. My strategy is to be able to support myself for at least 6 months if I'm out of job. Currently I'm unemployed, after leaving my last job to look for better opportunities. Turned down 2 offers last month, one from world-renowned university, because taking a job one doesn't think will keep for more than few months, will worsen one's job perspectives.
I was going to recommend TransferWise too, more of a second hand recommendation since I haven't used it but I've had several friends praise it.