skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you didn't use the feature, you might have missed it, but we talked about its removal publicly for over a year. We also made many incremental changes over that year in order to phase it out so that it wasn't a sudden removal. We did all of that, despite the fact that it was used by an incredibly tiny fraction of our total install base. The people who used encrypted SMS are very vocal, but the users we're really targeting never even knew it existed.

I think projects like this one are great. I have no idea if the people behind it know what they're doing or can write secure software, but we've always wanted some place where the people who want to import their GPG key, manually select their underlying block cipher, or support WoT style key signatures can go. Projects like these might be a better fit for those users.
After spending a decade working with Lotus Domino, I think all of these people who are willingly going back to document style databases are insane.

Being able to fiddle with your schema on the fly isn't necessarily a good thing. Brainstorm, plan, execute. Or just slap another field on the end of the document. Whichever sounds better for the long term health of your data!
The UK [politically] thinks many things are not an invasion of privacy, including requiring people to submit their names to the pervert list for access to porn.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/22/war_on_erupts_in_bri...
Why do they hate IE, but they still use it?
Going through this now after a few false starts. I initially picked a problem that everyone's been complaining about forever --HR/Recruiting/Resumes. Seems riped for solving but...

1) Getting engagement is tough in any idea. Extra tough here b/c writing/submitting resumes is not an everyday thing and really a pain point!

2) I knew very few people in the Recruiting industry (see #1) which made getting spun up that much harder.

3) While I agree HR/Recruiting has lots of problems, I really wasn't passionate about the space. What this means is that during the down times, and you'll have plenty of those when you think to yourself if all this work is really worth it, you really need to draw deep. And if you can't convince yourself to keep moving forward, it eventually spirals from there.

I'm now playing in the local space and much happier (even though getting engagement is still a btch!) :-)

I do have a question to the community

1) When is it time to "start the company"? (eg through IRS)

2) If you have an existing company entity (from another failed startup attempt) that didn't have a lot of entanglements, is it better to change the name of that company to your new startup (after passing #1 test) or better to shutdown and restart? Just trying to understand if there are any (longterm) downside to a simple rename.
Nothing to do with bleaching, but have you ever bothered to look up the actual ingredients of table salt? Morton's, for instance, is >99% NaCl, yet also contains dextrose and calcium silicate.

http://www.mortonsalt.com/faqs/food-salt-faqs
You may not have but I've upgraded my computer several times in the past year. I've added more ram, different video card.
My latest gentoo discovery: sys-fs/static, took me some time though to setup the system. Server runs for couple of months now without any problems. And completely free of systemd, pulseaudio, and udevd.
>This was an engineering leadership class at MIT. The advise specifically was first an anecdote about working in Japan and going out to get piss-drunk on sale after work and then a generalization of that to drinking as a means to networking in general. My generalization to other drugs is my own. Since there is no moral difference between alcohol and marijuana and there soon won't be a legal one.

Interestingly I read an article (perhaps it was posted here?) in recent days about westerners struggling in Japan and one key point was the expectation to go out drinking heavily after work every night.

I can see the merit in holding networking events surrounding drinking as alcohol will (perhaps) get people to put their guard down, relax and socialise more than if everyone were stone cold sober.

I will be interested to see what happens with regards to marijuana and networking events. Though the moral argument against marijuana is gone, there is still a stigma associated with the drug. In many professional circles cocaine is currently more likely to be the accepted drug of choice than marijuana (going by personal experience).

Marijuana is also different to alcohol in that one can have a few drinks over a reasonable amount of time and be more relaxed without getting intoxicated, however a few drags on a pipe with reasonable marijuana in it will cause rapid intoxication. How well that bears for networking events is something I'll certainly be interested to see!
I can play six with my keyboard too!

USB keyboards are limited to 6-key rollover. Using a PS/2 connector will fix that.

http://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/nydvp/why_does_usb...
GPS trackers were only a form of search [and a violation of the 4th amendment] because they were placed by Government agents if I recall correctly.

The collection of GPS records from your phone is still quite legal and this would be the license plate scanning equivalent.
His younger self doesn't know any real investors. He needs to get more connections. (My interpretation)
Nice try, but it won't work.

https://xkcd.com/1105/
Hanno (the blog author) uses american fuzzer lop (AFL) and other fuzzers and has discovered (and reported with test cases) an extraordinary number of bugs: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/#bugs

He is doing great work to make the Internet safer.
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I'm not affiliated with Wearality, beyond being friends with one of the founders. I've gotten to use demo units over the past year as they've iterated on designs. It's an amazing little device! The huge FOV and the light-weight design make a huge difference.

Also, something that was really surprising, given the "ridged" appearance of the lenses, was the image was crystal clear.

This will definitely be a game changer.

I saw that Joi Ito invested as well: https://twitter.com/Joi/status/585077510196613121
I can only find jokes about Dell, so perhaps an erroneous find and replace.
True... but when searching the database for plate numbers, the system already treats O and 0, I and 1, etc as interchangeable. #notahack
So.....what happens if you don't need heat anymore(in the summer and such)? I always imagined solutions like this as installing a server in a basement and only using the hot air to heat up the house through air ducts - and if not needed just venting the air outside. In the pictures the server looks like a wall-hanging radiator - surely you can't just switch it off if you don't need it?
Current Status of IA.BAK – A backup of the Internet Archive
Je suis Charlie: pianist fired for political speech in Toronto
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The Problem of Publication-Pollution Denialism
Consensus view doesn't need to be presented with condescension.
Well, if you hide Karma but still use it in the ordering of the thread then Karma could be derivated.
In a day you could extract the data from the posts and build a kind of karma-book with top users etc etc...
Everything You Need to Know About HIPAA Compliance for Building Health Apps
Not at all. The only reason things are as they are today is for the lusting of dollars. Force people to use toilets that die inside a few years, with the cover being environmental concerns, meanwhile companies sell sell sell. Is the concept of politicians only working FOR companies alien to you?
This is a great article.

Here is my experience with startups:

-1 co-founder was a designer and after I finished the product (I'm a developer), took 6 months to make changes that could have taken a week or two. Without a boss telling him what to do, he had no motivation to finish anything in a timely fashion. This failed before it got off the ground, but I built lots of nice libraries that I still use today.

-1 co-founder (a developer) gave up after he had to work on the boring parts. A few years later I gave him another chance. We were going to start a consulting business together and I figured, because he already had clients, that things would be different from our previous experience. Well, he took me to his lawyer and wanted me to sign these completely 1-sided contracts where everything I built in my off-time was owned by both of us (he knows I had other companies). He also wouldn't take any risk and give me ownership in his current contracts, but I had to give up mine. Before I even had a chance to tell him no, he changed his mind once again and wanted to "wait a month". 3 months later, I politely told him I wasn't interested and he now works a 9-5.

-The last time in my poor decision making was partnering up with someone that had no tech (besides checking email, etc) or business experience. I was to do all of the development and I figured he could learn the business and marketing skills along the way. His job in the beginning was to do all of the content-creation (which is not easy).

Well, after alpha 1 I built the entire site and he created 5 articles (which was enough to get some people testing it). He was unwilling to learn anything about marketing (because I was better at it as he said) and wanted to farm out all of the content creation to other people (which is a good idea, but not at this stage in the business..especially when we are strapped for cash).

So now we are in a situation where he has nothing to do and my job is to: get customers, design the website, fix bugs, and make business decisions. I'm basically running the entire business myself and he, as an equal partner, is sitting around waiting for things to happen.

So what does he decide to do? Comes up with un-realistic ideas for future business plans that of course only involve things that I will be working on and not him (since he has no tech experience). I also had to fight against his ideas and continue to convince him that we shouldn't be working on the next "Facebook for X" and on the task at hand that had a real chance at making money. This involved hours and hours of phone calls and meetings that took me away from the site that was in alpha. That was another issue: nothing could be explained by email to him, only by phone or in-person.

Everything eventually fell apart and it was a very frustrating experience. He was also a good friend, which made it even more difficult.

I feel like some people like the idea of running a business, but have these un-realistic expectations when it actually comes down to doing the work. I've learned some hard lessons, but I think it will help me in the future when it comes time to find another co-founder.
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Putting 40hrs/week into a stable, increasingly-profitable business is hardly a slow death, though.
Ask HN: What are your unused domain names?
As mentioned in the "What I'd tell myself about startups..." post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9333330), everyone has a set of unused domain names. What are yours, and what did you plan to do with them?

Here are mine.

translateteam.com - javascript based copy/translation editor
forhipsters.com - news site for trendy things
bootstrapcms.com - drag n drop cms based on bootstrap
10printhello.com - for my programming blog
globaldrugwar.com - Stringer Bell simulator
apinest.com - programmable http proxy a la cloudflare
questiondash.com / surveydash.com - a surveymokeylike
dropify.net - a dropbox PAAS

Interested if you have any better ideas for any of them!
That's precisely my point, although reading back I did a terrible job at making my point. I'm not a quick awesome rockstar or w.e. - I just know the value of getting something into users hands fast and finding out what my users think is important. With that motivation you don't sit around all day theorizing and rewriting your perfect little flawless gem and you get something out there that is always a little dirty, but continually meeting a need rather than sitting around fluffing someones ego.

Their end product took quite a few iterations because they saw things they thought were better and started over so many times. You don't do that when you are solving problems for people, you can't just throw something away so you get dirty and you solve real problems. Sure, you're not going to win internet points on hacker news for the most pornographic code base, but you're actually helping someone with your code.
1) Explore NYC... I'm constantly surprised by Native New Yorkers that know very little about their home town. Jump on the subway, ride to the last stop. Get out, walk around. http://www.nycgo.com/

2) Read a Book a Day... Use this time to feed your brain on a variety of worthy subjects. http://www.tailopez.com/blog/book-of-the-day
I couldn't help but think "Bitcoin mining!" Back in 2011 I remember discussions on bitcointalk.org about giving away Bitcoin miners disguised as "heaters" which would, of course, mine for the manufacturer. So the manufacturer gets all the bitcoins without paying for electricity.

Unfortunately this will never work. Space heaters are cheap enough that their price is a non-issue. Plus they are smaller and hotter. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004AQLUHC is $15, the size of a bread toaster, and 1500W. You can't have this thermal density from a computing device.
I wish I could see the actual features and UI before signing up.
Good idea, I think that it already might be. They just had that highly commented post about avoiding "gratuitous negativity"
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Deep linking between apps on Android almost works for the kind of apps that are really just specialized browsers. For example if I am in a Reddit app and click a link to an HN comment thread, it can open the thread in the HN app. In practice it may fail for various reasons:

* The HN app has no registered to be opened for HN URLs.

* The HN app opens, but ignores the URL and just shows the front page.

* The Reddit app is using a built-in browser that does not (or cannot) check URL hooks for other apps.
> Why would you pick something nobody on the team is good at?

This is more likely than you may think...

"I want to learn Ember.js, so even though I'm proficient at using Angular.js let's write everything in Ember.js instead. Then we can spend months chasing our tail learning all of the 'Gotchas' of Ember.js. Also, just to make things interesting, let's use a bleeding-edge version of Ember.js. Also let's do this at a time when articles on Ember.js that are just 4 months old are already out-dated and no longer apply to the current codebase."

Though I doubt that a warning on HN will deter such people.
All the comments along the lines of "if a person looking at a license plate and remembering it isn't an invasion of my rights, why is a government database so bad?" make me wonder why my classmates had such a hard time grasping induction. Perhaps the concept is only intuitive when convenient to the user.

As other commentors pointed out, the government is not a private citizen, and the world is not made of math.
Your ability to train an employee is going to be hampered by the size of your company. You need someone with both the experience and the time to already be on payroll.
Or you could participate in democracy and get policy changed?
RethinkDB and Hadoop solve fundamentally different use cases.

RethinkDB is designed for building scalable, realtime apps -- the query language, realtime push features (e.g. subscribing to queries), and clustering are purpose-built to help developers build and scale realtime apps.

Hadoop is designed for distributed processing of large data sets, and is generally used for analytics workloads and data processing.

NoSQL really just means "not using SQL". A lot of projects fit under that umbrella, including graph databases, key-value stores, document databases, and analytics databases, and they all address very different use cases.
(I didn't downvote you and don't think anything you wrote deserves a downvote, for what it's worth).
worst investment i made was "riendfeed.com", because back then I believed what I read in TechCrunch.
The data in the database must largely be collected by public entities though, municipal and state street/traffic cameras, police cameras, etc.

Vigilant are not setting up their own cameras to collect this.
People are downvoting you because they think that they know that salt is only NaCl.

They refuse to understand that nature does not provide NaCl. Chemistry made people think they could purify non-edible salt. They removed all trace elements and people got diseases caused by a lack of those elements. So companies readded iodine to cure the obvious problems.

I agree completely with you, I will only take proper natural salt, not bogus purified chemical salt.
No, "Section 1(ii)(B)" does not work that way.
It will be an interesting future when the average person can anonymously set up a device to do these things without further human intervention at low cost.
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Nothing to do with the OP, but where did you come up with this? Table salt is NOT composed of exactly two elements. NaCl is. The two are not the same. Table salt often contains additional anti-caking agents (e.g. calcium silicate) and stabilizers such a dextrose. Iodized table salt doesn't contain elemental iodine, which is lethal at 30mg/kg, but some salt such as potassium iodide.
Just to be clear; everything except the first word you said is true.

It's just not mutually exclusive.
None of that makes it less of an invasion of privacy. Taking a picture of a car in public is probably fine, but intentionally building a database of my movements over time just in case I do something bad is stalkerish and creepy.
> A simple transparent GIF should be enough to send the UA to an analytics server (or use Google Analytics)

That's a hell of a scope creep.
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I've known a few great starters, a few great finishers and a lot of neithers.

The starters could rapidly invent brilliant tech and get it to a prototype phase that looks beautiful on the surface, but is unshippable under the hood. When it came time to clean, polish and fill out all the annoying details, the starters got bored and distracted. They either slowed to a crawl or convinced themselves that some new invention is necessary to ship what they are supposed to be finishing.

Good finishers are actually more rare than good starters in my experience. The finishers I've known are terriblely uncomfortable at the start. Everything is too vague and open ended. They weren't terribly imaginative or inventive. But, when it came time to ship they got in gear. Here's the burn-down list. Fill in the details. Check the schedule. Get it wrapped up, put a bow on it and shove it out the door!
Because companies realized they could purify and sell non-edible salt. Then people got sick so they readded iodine.

Traditional salt was not purified or bleached much and left in trace elements.
I agree with this conceptually.

Unfortunately mobile web pages can't run background processes, can't launch AJAX requests to arbitrary domains, speak UDP, do file I/O, and numerous other things, which is why people end up writing apps.

Also mobile web browsers still suck, unfortunately. Safari still hasn't gotten its act together with simple stings like scrolling, and is riddled with CSS bugs of sorts if you try to do anything advanced with HTML5 (e.g. pull to refresh, swipe gestures). It's almost like Apple is deliberately refusing.
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Why would waste so much gad-dam money? If you really have to track us all (which obviously is a very dubious proposition to begin with) then just require the car makers to put RFIDs in the cars. They cost like a whole $1. While you're at it please require them to print serial numbers on the back of the cars too so we no longer have to pay the State extortion fees for license plates.
We are going after almost everyone and of course, if we can disrupt the hardest one 'Google' then the rest should be a lot easier.
As an addendum:

I checked Wikipedia and saw that the sunnier parts of the US will have grid parity in 2015.

If the prices keep falling a few years after that, then energy is a solved problem for consumers (in sunny areas not too far north). Without assuming technological breakthroughs.

The next phase will be when transport get electrified.
> I like to think of Xcode's syntax checking and highlighting as "eventually consistent".

This made me laugh, but I suppose I've been spoiled by the responsiveness of text editors. Honestly I wish there were a way to turn off the error checking without losing autocomplete as well.

> switching to vi for code editing while still using Xcode for the rest doesn't seem like it would be an improvement

Agreed - I tried both Sublime and vi alongside Xcode, it's just as (if not more) cumbersome than Xcode alone. I wouldn't even really mind the sluggishness of Xcode if it offered the same text editing capabilities (multi-cursor support, etc) as Sublime. At least then the problem can be reduced to buying a beefier machine.
Love these radio segments. I listen all the time on Houston's NPR station

Mod, please change the link to http://uh.edu/engines/. HTTPS does not work for that page
I was having a lot of trouble with some simple chord shapes but then I remembered the concept of "keyboard ghosting" and it all made sense.

http://www.microsoft.com/appliedsciences/antighostingexplain...
You didn't tell us why this isn't an invasion of privacy. You simply referred us to another government that does similar things.
Yea, the stats say that women are about 5% of the work force. When I go to conferences, there are maybe 10% women who attend. When you then take out all the project managers, graphic artists and business analysts, and just count those who are developers, it's probably around 5%. I've been a developer for about 20 years, and I can count on one hand the number of really good female developers I have known. I love what I do, and I don't think my gender plays a role in the slightest. Women are about the same as men when it comes to logic and math skills. So why are so few women entering this field? It's a great career. So ladies, come on in, the water's fine!
Why does stubbing your toe hurt so much?
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Thanks! I don't think we have specific iOS features in the app. There is a search algorithm, geo-tagging and contacts sync.
No multitouch 8(
So let me get this straight - what you do in public eye is, by legal and common definition, not private, unless the collection of that information is efficient, in which case it's a violation of privacy?!

The words "reasonable expectation" come to mind, and in my mind, it's not "reasonable" to expect that anything you do in public remains private just because someone never bothered to connect the dots.

That seems a mighty arbitrary line to draw in the sand, in other words. We already have laws against stalking and the like - how about we enforce those instead of creation of new, conflicting laws?

There's also the problem of any laws conceived to address this problem have free speech concerns.
Because online businesses simply can't.

It's the only fastest and easiest way to get targeted customers.

Other marketing platform simply can't match it's efficacy.
That would be a great business to go into if someone is shady.

Look, pay us $1000 to hide from police.

What are they going to do, call the police next time they are caught running a red light -- "please arrest this company they promised I could run red lights without being caught".

It would be kind of like people calling the police complaining their illegal drug stash was stolen.