skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never really found it all that limiting, and I'd argue I prefer it that way.

The solution I've come up with is putting a symlink in the dropbox folder to the folder that needs to be synced. That way dropbox "sees" all your files, but your programs can just continue like normal. (I'm guessing you are on OSX/Linux).
>> That downloading and running unknown executables is borderline insane

That's what VMs are for :p
No censorship as in no moderation?

No thanks.

No censorship as in no punishing the stalking and threatening of others?

Also no thanks.

I want free speech where people are free with their speech, not unrestrained speech (specifically) where people feel free to hurt others.
From Full House to Facebook - congrats Alex!
All that means is that they started the steam integration two months ago. That isn't an unreasonable time frame.
Haters gonna hate, but eventually something like this will win. It's too obvious an idea and hard drives are getting too cheap.
"We don't need unit tests because we have integration tests. We don't need integration tests because we have QA acceptance tests. We don't need QA acceptance tests because end users will report any bugs to us. We don't listen to user feedback because declining sales will tip us off to the problems. We don't pay attention to sales numbers because creditors seizing our assets will alert us of the shortcoming."
I'm confused how the licensing of users' content is intended to work.

The site states that you own your content[1] but then on its manifesto page[2] states that all information is in the public domain. The license itself[3] is not particularly clear.

Putting information into the public domain does provide for maximum freedom in terms of how the information can be used, but that's because the copyright owner renounces their rights.

[1]: https://frizbee.co/#WhatMakesFrizbeeDifferent558b273db212a

[2]: https://frizbee.co/#OurManifesto5589a552786d5

[3]: https://frizbee.co/#LegalLicense5589af95a67c3
Who runs voat? How do I know it isn't run by Russian spies? or US spies?
This is truly the most misrepresentative conceptual scientific news article I've ever read!
I honestly hope one of these takes off. I don't want to ever go there, I don't take amusement in other people's suffering. But seeing so much outrage on reddit from assholes bitching that they can't be racist/bigoted/loathsome on a private forum screaming about freedom of speech which belies their own ignorance makes me long for the days of gopher. I find it repugnant, and I'm glad to live in a country where I'm free to say anything, but hate speech is prosecuted.
App connects users with charities based on the news they read
how can a website be decentralized...
>if smell_k has been introduced in the commit c_1 where
f_j has been added to the repository, then c_1 is the smell-introducing commit

LOL! I love it, they're trying to quantify this stuff.
Has anyone used a service like https://www.equidateinc.com. They help you "sell" the right to buy your stock options to a third party. From their site:

> Traditional stock sales are time consuming, expensive, and clutter a company's cap table. Now it's easier: the Equidate contract transfers the economic upside and downside of your shares without actually selling them. It honors all exisiting transfer restrictions on your stock, and your identity is kept private throughout the entire process.

> The contracts Equidate has designed have aspects similar to both a derivative contract and a asset-backed loan. The result allows an investor to purchase the rights now to the economic upside/downside of a share now, without going through the complications of adding additional shareholders to the company's cap table or the hassles of a secondary stock transaction, postponing any transfer of shares until the company is ready.
NeXT documentary in the works
Inside DataScale 2015
Hi,

Just to clarify, the owners of particular playlist servers can moderate them as they choose. The difference is that because of the decentralization aspect, it is not chosen by a central entity.
Runs great? It's hard capped at 30 FPS as far as I understand, and higher quality textures/effects were intentionally removed from the console versions.

Not everyone is used to the difference in appearance, but that's hardly what most people would call "great" for a $60 AAA title.
Why? Why do we, arguably the part of the startup that is responsible for the valuation, have to accept that?
Ok, that is helpful. How is the expectation being set? Do you feel like people are lying to prospective employees about the possible value or are the prospective employees lying to themselves?

Lets consider other scenarios, people buying a lottery ticket. They choose to believe that its possible it will be worth millions but the expectation is that it will be worthless. Do we put up a large explanation about how unlikely it is to win anything in the lottery so that people will stop buying them?

I get that especially young people with little experience will delude themselves into believing a big chunk of equity will mean a big payday later, and take a lower salary to secure a larger chunk. But it isn't that anyone has forced them, they are just inexperienced. They will likely not get any extra benefit and the next job they will negotiate harder on the salary and be less swayed by equity. At some point they might be "cash only" type of people, no equity required.

The biggest problem with stock in my mind is that the investors aren't aligned with the company. The investors want a payout, period. If they can fire everyone and sell off the two patents and get 2x their money back, fine, they will do that. They want the company to be successful so that their investment is worth more, but they don't really care how it is worth more really.

Equity "payouts" haven't changed a whole lot in 30 years. There are an extraordinary number of millionaires and billionaires in the tech industry (compared to other industries) because of the wide and generous distribution of shares. Not everyone is a winner, but nobody really works at only one company either. Five to ten companies is more like it, and often the equity grants from one or more of those companies provides additional financial liquidity to the employees.

I'd agree that first time startup employees are often way more optimistic about their stock than more seasoned employees are, but I have never met anyone who has been through 2 or 3 such companies to have unrealistic expectations any more. That is why I have a hard time seeing what we can do to change it, on the job training is on the job training.
Thanks for the shoutout cjjoseph. I'm a product manager here at Egnyte. The OP's use case is right in Egnyte's sweet spot. Our storage sync technology allows you to synchronize files among multiple on-premises storage servers and the Egnyte cloud. We support granular sub folder permissions and easy AD integration. Your Egnyte account will scale easily to thousands of users and many millions of files/folders.

If anyone on this thread has further questions about Egnyte I'd be more than happy to answer them here.
As far as I understand, the owners of the tryapl.org site also produced the linked YouTube video (the company is Dyalog LTD).

http://www.dyalog.com/

(The "Try APL on-line" http://tryapl.org/ is linked from the Quick Links there)

For anybody who didn't read any APL tutorial and who doesn't want to follow it step-by-step now, the video is a good introduction.

Even shorter introduction is the program that prints the multiplication table, the picture from their site:

http://www.dyalog.com/uploads/images/homepage/TimesTablesW.p...

The whole program is on the left, the output on the right.

Thanks jboggan.
Mario+Bross+game+online+–+Phoneia.com
Even though many playlist servers run on the frizbee.co server, some are community-owned.

Feel free to host a decentralized server here: https://github.com/Frizbeeco/Frizbee/blob/master/documentati...

You can also block users for spam.
Red Hat Summit and DevNation Conference Report: Day One
Apparently you can clear your cookie and up vote again. I can see the spambot coming already.
What about using bitcoin as a voting mechanism? That would get rid of trolls, or at least the poor ones.
Hi,

This is true, the only other decentralized aggregator, Aether, is not a website and rather requires download upon your computer.

Frizbee allows users to host their own decentralized playlist servers: https://github.com/Frizbeeco/Frizbee/blob/master/documentati...
same https://www.dropbox.com/s/ze9fhjs8y4miobo/Screenshot%202015-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dbDJzDV1CM
Privacy website tweets your IP after visit
Does this mean they eventually want to make a foray into Enterprise?
Does anyone remember what the X in Xbox stood for? =)
> When you are dealing with a highly technical field, such as software development or server/infrastructure administration, why on earth would you not value being technically correct above all else?

Bingo.
Tracking spammers on live map to find the real source of traffic spam
"you own the copyright to your content... all the content on Frizbee is in the public domain... you can use and redistribute [user content] in any way, completely free of charge."

Yeah, really really strange. That makes no sense. The whole thing in general seems to confuse copyright with responsibility of content. Of course I could have got the gist wrong because it was very confusing and contradicted itself.
Get your art featured on Google self-driving cars
Can anyone clarify what is decentralized about this? I clicked around a few threads on the site and they all appear to be hosted at frizbee.co.
> Lets reverse your example: If five people on your team think it's ok to accept logins via HTTPS and one person says "uh no, HTTP is enough, and also cheaper and faster" would you ignore what he or she says, because the other five disagree?

It's engineering. Hopefully, you make decisions base not on "How many people agree" but on "what is provably the most correct way of doing things".

It is easy to prove that for login screens, HTTPS is better than HTTP...
Probably both.. and what prevents either of those from running this?
I don't know if you're quoting or referencing something, but that's fantastic.
> In contrast, places where the norm is "You're an idiot, your code sucks, and that commit has the following enumerated list of bugs which I easily found in a mere 5 minutes..." are toxic and make you not want to come into work every day.

The only toxic part here is "you are an idiot". If code sucks, it sucks, and calling it out is healthy, if done constructively.
Don't worry about MD right now. Get your first version out there, asap first.

MD can be adopted later.
" I'm glad to live in a country where I'm free to say anything, but hate speech is prosecuted."

hmm...
Which free things alternatives are better suited for important things and why?
You balance the need for absolute security with the cost, risk and impact of failure, and go from there.
This doesn't add much to what earlier respondents have said, but it was five minutes of fun to do.

The mass of Earth's atmosphere is about 5e18kg. Specific heat of dry air is about 1kJ/kg-°K. Total human energy consumption in 1990 (just to pick a year) was about 102,000 TWhr (3.6e20 J/TWhr. Wikipedia for most of the numbers.

Assuming all the energy consumed resolved into heat and only heated the atmosphere, then I get the one-year temperature increase due to human energy use during 1990 as about 0.073°K.

Less than I would have guessed, and probably wrong by at least a couple orders of magnitude due to simplifying away 99% of what's really happening.
English translation: "I believe in freedom of speech. . . except for things that I find offensive"

There is no such thing as hate speech in a free speech environment. There is no guarantee you won't be offended.
If people are interested in P2P decentralized discussion systems, check out http://getaether.net made by @nehbit . Beautiful UX, wasn't released yesterday either.
How does login/registration work? Once I changed the moniker, added a password, how do I then log in?
If this website is another reaction to reddit, you're only going to attract the absolute dregs of that site — /r/fatpeoplehate, the pedophiles, the gamergaters, etc.

If someone creates a Frizbee server full of child abuse material, and it becomes popular, and is always on the front page, what would you do?

Also, I made a comment on Frizbee that consisted of `[wow](file:///etc/passwd)`, and it let me post it. You probably want to whitelist a few schemes.
Did I miss a post? SRD seems to say that Paypal terminated their account. I don't see involvement by law enforcement, unless I missed a post?

Or did they refuse to take it down? I thought the CDA protected hosts as long as they took it down when notified? But I also haven't been following this closely and I don't know where Voat is (was?) hosted.
I'm not sure what you're suggesting here.

The X in Xbox is a leftover from its early development when it was the DirectX Box.

The X in DirectX came about as shorthand for all the various DirectWhatever APIs that Microsoft was introducing in the late 90s.

EDIT:

If the suggestion is that the porting should be relatively easy because the Xbox runs DirectX, well, kind of. It's not a 1:1 mirror of the API available on Windows, and the actual hardware is fairly divergent from what you find in PCs, even if it is x86 again.
I woke up one night with the idea that if WhatsApp allowed API integration, it would so awesome : you could message DHL or UPS with your waybill tracking number, and they could push updates to you.

More interestingly, the WhatsApp text box then effectively becomes a REPL shell to a remote API : you could ask for stopping updates, updates only once a day, etc; If the remote server implements a DSL, you could do a LOT.

The possibilities were endless and exciting.

But I have a feeling WhatsApp / their new owner are going to just let the opportunity pass by. If anyone at FB is reading this : guys, Business integration with WhatsApp is where the next $250 billion is. That's how FB will get a permanent, maybe even irreversible, grip on mobile. Imagine every service business providing updates via WhatsApp by integrating with their backend.
I'm a weirdo that still uses windows (on my mac, of all things), because its graphics drivers are better for graphics programming and visual studio is way nicer than xcode. I use OSX too, but I can't really depend on symlinks existing across my machines.
He's talking about account in general, not the desktop app.

Google Drive's desktop doesn't support multiple accounts, but you can always visit web version of your other account and get files from there.
Yes, but the PlayStation 4, SteamOS, and OSX all use OpenGL instead.
An unadvertised feature.
Extending the metaphor, they ordered a burger that made no mention of liver and onions and got a burger that had liver and onions. We as consumers have every right to complain, such certified hardware should be optional and we can buy models without. Its software, this shouldn't be an issue we have to face.
Maybe if you spread it across 500 AWS instances
Thanks, targeting wildly different level of performance is another thing. Yes, there's not just one PC platform.
Election results graphed as if by Jackson Pollock
Why? When did simply having money become more valuable than actually doing the work?
The accuracy of GOCR is very high and it doesn't require any learning.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/dapper/man1/gocr.1.html
Right, but you should only give them money if the product that they have on Early Access is already fun, right?

Take Rust (the game, not the language) for instance. They cobbled together what is now known as "Rust Legacy" as a sort of demo of what they wanted the game to be. Thousands of people bought it. Now Facepunch is using the funds from all those sales to completely rework the game from the ground-up. Now it's better than Rust Legacy, and only going to get better and more interesting.

But if Rust Legacy wasn't fun, nobody would've bought it. TL;DR: don't preorder (including early access!) games purely on promise alone.
Also.. contrast.
Obviously shaky --> "Curveball," the informant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curveball_%28informant%29

> Despite warnings from the German Federal Intelligence Service and the British Secret Intelligence Service questioning the authenticity of the claims, the US Government and British government utilized them to build a rationale for military action in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq

Should she have known the cost (in $$$ and lives)? It was her job and that of every senior leader involved. They grossly underestimated the effort. Their colossal mistake wasn't just an oopsy-daisy to be waved away.

Incompetence at that scale should follow you around for your whole life.
Ah, forgot to include that Voat was earlier shut down by their hosting provider (hosted in Europe) due to the nature of their content: https://voat.co/v/announcements/comments/146757/

They switched to a cloud provider to fix it in the short term.
If you have no way of monetizing this, it would probably be a good idea to just open-source it.
"I'm glad to live in a country where I'm free to say anything, but hate speech is prosecuted."

I'm going to be optimistic for the future of humanity, and assume that was a (masterful) troll.
Posts without URLs are penalized so you'd be better off reposting this with a link to your project, and putting the above text as a first comment in the thread. Good luck!
The top post as I write this: "Delete your cookie and upvote forever".
Reposts in general are ok once or twice if a story hasn't had significant attention in the last year or so. But once a story has, we bury reposts as dupes.

If you read the Show HN rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) you'll see that to qualify as a new Show HN there needs to be some major new development, not just a new feature—but that only applies after the "significant attention" test has been passed. If any of that doesn't make sense you're welcome to ask us at hn@ycombinator.com.
You see, there is this: "Its total 2014 revenue was about 60 percent of Dropbox’s, according to IDC, but its market value is now only one-fifth of Dropbox’s private valuation."

So if you're measuring your net worth in Dropbox shares, be very very careful.

Now I happen to like Dropbox, but I'm not a business user, just a personal user. And having recently been exposed[1] to some of the sorts of things a large enterprise player wants in a shared storage solution I can see that there are a lot of missing pieces relative to that market.

[1] By virtue of being acquired by one.
Howto free inode usage on your Linux box when `df -h` shows available disk space
Dropbox does support a paid business account and a personal account. The paid business account just needs to be a Dropbox for Business account.
http://www.danvk.org/2015/01/11/training-an-ocropus-ocr-mode...
I've been contacted recently about a VC firm offering $350k+ for a frontend developer to own the frontend web app. I had to turn it down due to lack of flexible hours, but it otherwise intrigued me.

I also have been told by a friend that his brother ran a company that was acquired by Google for $100m, and suspects that his brother makes several million $ a year from Google (he wasn't ever told how much) - that is probably more of an outlier though.
Report Says Young People May Abandon Social Media If Privacy Breaches Continue
Neat project for a interesting programming language. I like it.
MD is not that hard to implement. And you can use Support Libraries to maintain the compatibility for older devices.
I used Tesseract and OpenCV to process Words With Friends tiles.
was there a confederate flag on it?!
What are you saying the comment parent should have bought? TextSecure is free-libre-open-source software, it isn't sold anywhere. It depends on the Google Play Services, and cannot be run effectively if the framework is not installed on the device.
With an online certificate issuance service like the one they describe, certificate expiration times can probably be in the 1-24 hour range, reducing the importance of revocation.
That is because voat.co has porn like Reddit does and most hosting providers do not allow that.
LSD Was Dissolving on His Tongue. Look at End [video]
But that's missing the broader point that it's not useful to try to define a category like "business file sharing" and then pigeon-hole a company like DropBox into it. It's like people wondering how Uber could be valued so much larger than the total taxi industry. Well, the opportunity is much, much larger even without moving into adjacencies.
All of the people doing the "10 foot challenge" are looking down at the ground. Looking down at the ground in front of your bicycle (or motorcycle, or any two wheel vehicle) results in a ton of shaking and instability in the handlebars. They're making the challenge about 100x harder for themselves.

I would have taken this guy's $200 by simply lining the bike up, keeping my eyes on the horizon, and giving the pedal one solid enough push. I would probably give it back too since I violated the spirit of the challenge. :-)

Interesting video. It's funny how countersteering is a seemingly innate ability, but if you explain it to people they will deny that is how a bicycle works.
A lot of game companies develop their AAAs with PS4/X1 in mind and the PC port is more of an afterthought. Though not the case here, it is usually released up to 6 months after the console version. I believe PC versions of games are often done by an external (or at least different) studio, and they are also assigned less Dev/QA resources. The responsibility for the quality of the PC port does not always fall on the management in charge of the console version, so a lot of faults can slip through the cracks.
> we just switched from gApps to Exchange (I know, don't even)

I don't know: Why not switch from Google Apps to Exchange?
And that provider is a tiny fraction the size of iMessage, GChat, WhatsApp, et al.
Or you can use binary search with slightly off-center binary or quaternary (four-way) searches to provide more consistent lookup times:

http://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2012/07/30/binary-search-is-a-patholo...
And sometimes a family needs to pay rent and buy food but doesn't have the money.
Diss Voat.co as much as you want, but so far Voat.co is actually a pretty huge success: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/voat.co
Sure, but if one doesn't have a grasp of the (admittedly user-hostile and obscure) underlying x509 structure you probably shouldn't be running a CA in the first place...
Ten Commandments for Egoless Programming (2006)
But it's only unlimited if you allow them to manage the compression; if you want to manage the files yourself ( the "originals" ) you're constrained as to storage on both Amazon and Google.
All the buttons get squished together on mobile too
Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
I'm starting to think the sufficiently complicated Lisp quote applies to USENET.
Actually, it is hard. Why are the employees the only ones that have to take it on the chin?
Did you just put gamer gaters in the same group as pedophiles?
Very interesting!

I assume that most of the smells that are introduced with new files is due to the experimentation that developers perform to solve the problem at hand. Then once a problem gets solved and the solution implemented, it's time for the next problem, and so on (so no time to "fix the hack", so to speak).

Unfortunately the study only considers the most obvious/high-level aspects for code smells (LOC, coupling). What about processes and tools utilized by developers?

For example, I did a study on the effects of test redundancy on software, and found that the average test suite has 25% redundancy. To me this is a smell and is as important as smells in production code: http://ortask.com/research-the-effects-of-test-redundancy-on...
Etsy explains why it banned magic spells