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Hey. I built Cuvva. Exciting to see it posted on HN, causing a lot of traffic to our site!

Cuvva is currently UK-only. Here if you drive a friend's car, you're normally only covered for damage to third parties. With Cuvva, it's a full comprehensive policy.

This is not typically relevant for the US. However we are interested in the potential for other products which might work in the US.
Hi everyone! I'm one of the founders of Ironclad and would be happy to answer any questions you might have. Before starting Ironclad I was an attorney at Fenwick & West, and my co-founder was an engineer at Palantir. Let us know how we can help. We're excited to launch :)
MIT Start6 students expand innovation horizons in Silicon Valley
Hey, one of the authors of Convox here...

Convox is a private app deployment platform that runs in your own AWS account. Instead of paying to use a multi-tenant, black box PaaS, you can have your own for a fraction of the price.

Convox is all open source. Take a look at github.com/convox/kernel to see all the low level infrastructure work we are automating.

Running `convox install` is an easy way to get a stack of the best AWS services and configuration. VPC, ECS, Kinesis, Lambda and more are all there to support any Docker container you want to deploy.

Take a look at the docs here: https://docs.convox.com/

I'm happy to answer any questions...
I'm aware, but the line is becoming increasingly blurred, and there's enough power on even the average phone to do speech recognition.
I just gave my admin password to an Apple reseller
I just brought my early 2011 Macbook Pro to an Apple reseller to get a new GPU [0]. The lady asked for my user (admin) password. I had to type it into a box, as clear text. I said I didn't want to but the form/program required it... I'm now removing authorized ssh-keys from my servers. Had I known beforehand, I would have formatted the drive. Is this normal?

[0]http://9to5mac.com/2015/02/19/macbook-pro-repair/
Microsoft has Bing and their own advertising platform, with a tight partnership with Yahoo. Bing is now tightly integrated within Windows since version 8, ads and all. It's really irrelevant how much money Microsoft makes from this when they are in the same business.

Also, I interacted with Google's AdX and others and I must say that Google's AdX is much more restrictive in the user data exposed. The identifiers they give are completely unreliable for tracking users and they don't even give away the full IP. They are also doing a good job in reviewing the content being served on the client side, they detect if you're setting cookies or doing other things that are against their policy and their approval process is a pain in the ass. Other competing platforms, like MoPub (now owned by Twitter), are much more relaxed.

The general rule of thumb in the ads space - the bigger you are, the more eyes are watching you, this is why smaller players are breaking the rules with the purpose of grabbing as much land as possible before going public.
> Why do people seem to gloss over the fact that we can implement these technologies without losing privacy? e.g. voice recognition has been possible on home computers for decades now. You don't need the cloud for it.

The experience is not quite the same. We have voice recognition since at least late 90's but you have to spend long hours training (> 20 hrs) in order to have a decent result (not even comparable). The fact that is cloud based now enable the software to fit better to different accents and pronounciations.

Another thing is that personalization is not really possible in today devices if you want more than 3hrs battery.
Why use this site when HN will gladly tear apart your app/idea for free?
Yes, but when Mavericks launched the emphasis on power optimization features was new. There are also many performance compromises in Safari because of all the throttling.
Let's Build a Global Power Grid
Show HN: Modern Java Made Easy and How to Craft Interpreters
> “A stop sign—rather than a ‘yield’ sign—is there to make sure people have the opportunity to look both ways and see nobody is coming,” Kornhauser says. “But with 360-degree camera coverage, lidars and radars, those automated cars know in a 20th of a second whether something is coming. Why should we require them to come to a complete stop?”

I would make the same argument for a human with gamer-level twitch reflexes and high-level situation awareness. What sense does it make to completely stop your vehicle when you've been constantly monitoring oncoming traffic, cross traffic, and sidewalk traffic?

We have developed a set of rules (laws) for a rules-engine that will abandon rules when there's an situation that will optimize without those rules. AKA a human. And we've replaced that with a different rules-engine that's designed to absolutely obey rules. And so we're finding that our rules aren't working anymore.
Will running a relay decrease the chances of my guard nodes fingerprinting me (because of other people's injected traffic)? Or maybe the relay traffic is completely different and detectable from the the normal Tor usage traffic?
Yay, I got bad bad back and neck problems, I got an adjustable table at work; standing up now and then makes things better though it does require good footwear.
usman-m, the approach of PipelineDB seems really interesting. However, I'd like to understand how in your opinion it compares with processing the stream of data changes accessed over PostgreSQL's logical decoding (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/logicaldecoding.ht...) interface. Thank you
Being beaten down by a multitude of NIMBY forces, powered by perverse incentives.
Google getting dynamically generated content (ajax) is newish
(I don't think it's new enough to be "news").

They've been doing it for years.

More interesting is if Google can "parse" things like <noscript> or
if the CSS hides content, or if text is too small and decide to
rank based on that (contributing factors to a "quality" rating).

Signs point to Googlebot using a browser, so it doesn't need to "parse" things, per se. It just loads the page and checks what happens.

Google specifically fighting "black hat" SEO techniques is really,
extremely old news.

I have a slang dictionary website. It showed thousands of citations of slang use from major publications, TV shows, movies, etc. Google penalized the site because of that.[1]

I wanted to show the citations because they're a major way that I differentiate my site from other slang dictionaries like Urban Dictionary. So I used AJAX to load the citations, hoping that Google wouldn't index that and penalize the site.

I was wrong - but that doesn't mean what I was doing was black hat. It was the opposite.

[1] I'm fairly confident that Google penalized the site in part because of the citations, which was performed algorithmically. But it may also be the case that former Google employee, and head of the web spam team, Matt Cutts played a primary role in manually - and permanently - penalizing the site.
I think Bioinformatics is a challenging field because, as the residence alludes to, it is aiming to marry different fields that don't necessarily talk to each other. Lior Pachter has blogged about this [1]. Pachter's book, Algebraic Statistics For Computational Biology is fairly accessible.

[1] https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/the-two-culture...
health and dental match but I do not know about the nuances of RRSPS (Canada's 401k equivalent)
Getting Tech Women on Board (Boards of Directors, That Is)
SF has been like this for decades. There is a reason why the entire bay area has this anti-development problem.
Hi, I'm the author of the piece, and the release coordinator for Ethereum. If you have any questions about the launch, please ask me. You can watch the new network stats here https://stats.ethdev.com/ or download a client at https://ethereum.org/ and get involved!
I'm looking at actual data. You are speaking from hearsay and anecdotes. Here's a paper to get started with. It is a review of dozens of papers most of which have empirical results:

http://eml.berkeley.edu//~bhhall/papers/HallHarhoff12_NBER_w...

Your example is not concrete. What you think of as "radioactive" could simply be researchers concluding that specific area was not worth exploring anymore. Here's how you can give a concrete example: Those patents have expired. Can you point to any new fundamentally significant compression technology that has since emerged that could have been thought of as being previously held back by those patents?

Now I can give a concrete example of how those very same patents caused innovation: When they sued people over lzw in gifs, that prompted people to develop alternate methods like PNG. Sounds like progress to me. Was it forced innovation? Sure! But that's always been one of the rationalizations of patents. People often don't innovate unless forced to.

>My impression is based on decades of work in the industry.

So let's get even more anecdotal: how often have you been unable to "advance the arts" due to a patent?

> How many land mines ever explode?

How many good ideas get ripped off with their creator getting nothing in return? If we want to be hyperbolic, I could just say "anti-patent people are just intellectual thieves, nothing more, nothing less"?
Vanguard Founder John Bogle: Why 99% of trading is pointless
> YOU installed their software.

I did? I never said so. I'm just looking at their Privacy Statement and find questionable clauses there.

> Also, I'm not willing to grant that you are reading the TOS correctly

I did say that's a possibility from the start. But as long as nobody shows that it's not possible that my reading is not how a lawyer or judge would read it I remain deeply skeptical about it.
That is interesting. Yes, many states have a "schools and libraries" WAN which public and private EDU-related facilities participate in. Said network is surely monitored by commercial network appliances. (BlueCoat et al.)

I haven't heard of them being monitored in more competent ways, but the opportunity is surely there.
The paper: http://crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk/autotransplantation/downloads/auto...

Interesting, malloc() is an "organ" :-)
Package Delivery by Drone
They sound so ridiculously tone deaf like the idea of having people move into your neighbor and build houses from the ground up, unregulated, out of shipping containers shouldn't bother anyone in the slightest.
The author answered to you but for some reason his comment is marked as dead.

Here it is for those who have no idea how to enable dead comments:

"gpaumier 5 hours ago [dead]

(I'm the author.) You're right that there isn't (yet) a medical test like a blood test or an MRI to detect autism. In France, the official "diagnosis" is established by a psychiatrist based on interviews and questionnaires with the person, and some of their family members if possible.
That's how it happened for me, and at the end of the evaluation process, they said I met "the criteria (CIM 10 and DSM IV) for a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, and in particular for Asperger syndrome (CIM 10: Axis I, F84.5)". I haven't looked into what those numbers refer to exactly, and I don't like all the medical connotations, but that's how it's done in France.
There's a screenshot of the report in an post I published earlier this year (in the "self-discovery" section: https://guillaumepaumier.com/2015/02/22/2014-in-review/ )."
Thats really pretty amazing. Filtering out the 'echos' would clearly make the data more useful, but I can see how thats almost impossible without very clever engineering
Inflation? Spend X amount now and get 3 bricks or wait a year and only get 2?
i have a DX, its a wonderful device... except for PDFs. just to slow to flip back and forth. Especially for technical information.
I lost trust into Microsoft when they put an "Outlook" app into the Android app store, which when connected to an Exchange server downloads all the account messages and calendar data to a cloud server (probably in order to have push messages whithout changing Exchange itself).
Really Microsoft, why do you think I have an Exchange server. Because it is easy to set up, administer and costs nothing?
I'm thinking of switching to Safari for most browsing, not so much because of battery, since I'm usually plugged in, but because Chrome is painfully slow to scroll on complex sites, especially on the Retina display -- while Safari is as smooth as butter. I would guess these issues are related, since Chrome is presumably doing a lot of unnecessary things (reflows?) with the CPU that could better be handled by the graphics system.
The general lack of games for OS X and Linux these days is pretty much exclusive to the AAA games.

There has been some focus on porting older games to OS X and Linux in the past year or two, so the situation is constantly improving.

If you mainly play AAA games, then you're stuck with Windows, but there are definitely some good games out there right now for non-Windows users.
How to install Ruby on Rails with azk on your local machine (in minutes)
http://homment.com/atlantikbruecke

OK, it's not the CIA... And this is not about "evil Yankees" (because, a "Yankee" is not evil). It's about journalists who actually should put all organizations they are member of, just as F1 drivers do with their sponsors, on their suits so that the news consumer can know who's interests they represent: US, Russian, Chinese...
You are worried your data is sent to MS and sold to advertisers? All your personal data has already been stolen by foreign hackers so why worry? Privacy is already dead. We would need to rethink an awful lot of things to get it back.
http://sci-hub.org/10.1038/ncomms8719
Who wanted that for desktop computers or laptops? This is not going to fly with business customers.

...nor with some private customers. Microsoft seems to be overlooking that not all nations are so happy about "the cloud" as the average American seems to be. Germany for one, where I currently live, is much more sceptical of sharing personal data -- potentially motivated by some of its 20th century history.

But all that aside, a lot of people only used their computer occasionally, say to write a letter (again, Germany, a lot of bureaucracy still requires paper letters over here). Transparently syncing documents with an external server that you have absolutely no control over is really nothing such a user wants.
The difference, in essence, is that in the US, car insurance covers the vehicle, in the UK insurance covers the driver.
Important Security Announcement from PagerDuty
https://gfx.io/ will let you lock it in onboard gpu mode. I only use the discrete card for games and video editing.
*That must have been fun. From: Stewart Brand
In one of William Gibson's Bridge Trilogy novels one of the main characters lives in a shipping container in Southern California. It has come to pass.
Indeed I do. It'd of been kind of silly of me to post something about it if not. LOL

The goal is to get people thinking outside of the box. Especially those in leadership positions.
Assuming a different race/gender is under the bar or will under-perform seems discriminatory.
Building communications networks in the stratosphere
GTA San Andreas Highly Compressed Full Version Download
http://www.otpp.com/careers/career-opportunities
Lumafit – Interactive Fitness Coach and Heart Monitor – Just Launched
Right. The two things are different despite having the same ultimate effect, since (in the context of Common Lisp) one is a generic operation provided by the language, while the other is application-specific with no language support and would need a fragile bespoke implementation for every single use. If the discussion was about Smalltalk that provides become: but not CHANGE-CLASS, it'd be a different question.
Show HN: Identified – identity verification / ssn validation gem
I'm increasingly believing that for privacy to live, a necessary (but not sufficient) condition is for free to die.

By free I mean free as in beer, not free as in freedom. The problem is that if everything has to be free, there can never be any money in the actual maintenance and development of the product. User-centric and privacy-respecting business models are impossible if the product is free.

It's necessary but not sufficient because Windows isn't free (well 10 is quasi-free for some people), but it still does these things. So being non-free is no guarantee. But I believe it's a necessary condition since without some revenue stream independent from surveillance and other "indirect monetization" streams there is absolutely no hope of delivering a professional consumer-grade experience that could compete in the general market.
As much as I didn't like installing Adobe's plugin, I have to defend Flash. JavaScript is just recently getting to the speed Flash had years ago. Flash probably still does vector animations better [citation unavailable].

> and lo it came to pass.
Yes! Ha!
I've yet to hear an actual propf of him being openely racist. There was that outtake never shown on tv when he said thw n word as part of an old rymhe that was what it was.

Can't find much more beyond that. Some wanton racism on their trips, played on stereotipes and misunderstanding, but critiquing vietnamese cousine or italian way of driving doesn't sound openly racist.
Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Google’s Datacenter Network [pdf]
Facebook New Milestones in Connectivity Lab’s Aircraft and Laser Programs
Planes that fly for 3 months at a time on sunlight, bringing the Internet to people isn't cool?
What stops someone who is cheap to insure (like a retired person) taking out the insurance policy, then someone who is very expensive to insure (like someone with drink driving convictions) actually using the car all the time?
iTunes Is the Locus of Everything Apple Is Doing Wrong
Whether they don't right this second doesn't matter. Their terms of service say they can. If they decided it was unthinkable that they would ever do this, they could have written their TOS to be less overreaching. But they didn't do that. Therefore they think it's a possibility (if in fact they are not already doing it. Are you so sure? How do you know?)
If you have 9 men who apply and 1 woman and they're all of equal skill, chances are a man will get it purely on probability.
For a site whose chief technical accomplishment is to allow women to pin and share cutesy images, I'm not sure having top talent really matters that much.
Here's one link:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/apple-top-target-...

Mentions Google, Apple and Samsung (respectively 192, 191, 151 lawsuits over last 5 years). Microsoft has mentioned similar numbers, but I can't find a reference off hand. Google for "patent trolls target Microsoft"
Trump's campaign site has a hidden web developer link
This is a large part of the reason. Money that gets earned gets spent pretty quickly on one thing or another, and it would be next to impossible for a family to save up enough to buy all the materials to build a house in one go.

Another reason is that they don't have easy access to credit markets, so they can't just get a mortgage and move into a home and start paying it off.

One more part of the reason is that they usually build the homes themselves, and its rewarding to see the house go up brick by brick - visual progress is being made.

I'm not an expert, but these are my informed observations and learnings.
I live in New York, I've seen kids on our block, and their parents, playing with one of those - including a shower-head attachment! - pretty much every day this week. It looks great - it's hot and humid as hell right now, a lot of families don't have an air conditioner, and there's not exactly a lot of public pools around (and forget water parks, or swimming in the rivers.)

This seems like a pretty good way of making sure people are happy and healthy.
As someone who came from the Ruby/Rails stack to a C#/.NET MVC stack, I have to say it was eye opening. The stack has alot of bells and whistles and arguably benefits from the deep integration between the tools (Visual Studio) and the platform. I came in wanting to hate it and actively looking for things to bemoan but, it was rather a pleasant experience.

One last thing is the importance of writing code in a static/typed language. It allows you to write and build things in a different style. It changed how I looked at programming and once I had learned another paradigm, I became far more interested in others. It led me to functional programming which in turn led me back to Object Oriented Programming and reading a bit more deeply about the theory of architecture. It made realize that most of my career, I was either using someone else's architecture or just hacking together the bare minimum for the task at hand without any thought of how the system could change and grow over time.
The example doesn't quite make sense:

SELECT user_id IN (SELECT DISTINCT user_id FROM user_actions);

is not valid SQL. You may mean something like:

SELECT 123 IN (SELECT DISTINCT user_id FROM user_actions);

which is a strange query, as it's equivalent to:

SELECT 123 IN (SELECT user_id FROM user_actions);
Tools for designers – Color Palettes
Is there such thing as the beginning and end of time?
>For Centuries

Forgive me, pure pet peeve: it's a tiny bit more than one century - the 1st reported issue is from 1906.

Anyway, it's great to see an example of looking for a solution instead of penalizing people.
> You are never asked to enter a password, or type in "Remove Everything" as a fail-safe.

Some people will still do that and be surprised at the result.

My dad once reformatted his memory card on his camera, losing all his pictures from his vacation. He wanted to 'Change the Format' of the image (why? who knows), but instead he reformatted the card. "Are you Sure? Yes!"

I once copied an empty partition over a full partition instead of vice versa. I knew I only had one copy of this important data, and was trying to back it up. Are you sure? double-check.. YUP!
For a long time I have been trying to switch to Safari, but the UI just does not work for my use case. I really need tabs with site icons, and an address bar that goes side to side and does not auto center text.

Are there any good alternatives to Safari that also use WebKit? Something that would be more efficient, but with a more traditional interface. To each his own, of course, but it would kill apple to make some of the more recent changes to Safari optional.
Insurance (in NY and OH, at least, I can't speak for other states/countries) asks who the primary driver is. If they can demonstrate you lied about that, I'd imagine they could retroactively drop you.
Glad you brought up Snow Crash. I would have if not; it's all I could think about after reading it.
14 tools for copywriters and social media managers
"trusted partners" including every single American intelligence agency and whatever despotic and totalitarian regime we happen to be supporting at any given moment.

I guess that "free" upgrade business model includes harvesting data globally to sell to surveillance state agencies through round-about ways <cough> palantir <cough>
I never said that they will. I'm just wondering how are they gonna do things differently to meet those numbers. I'm sure their current hiring process isn't biased towards a particular race/gender. To make it more balanced, are they planning to have a different hiring bar?
Can you go into more detail on the differences between Cloudron and Sandstorm?
This isn't full-time — one of the goals is explicitly "to complement rather than conflict with the tenure of a full-time position elsewhere".
They've done a great job on the hardware and software. Having launched these kinds of products before, I appreciate the effort and care that they put into this product.