skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but for very different kinds of startups.

Baltimore can be anything it wants to be, but what it's aiming at right now are a batch of far more conservative startups than you'd likely see in the valley.

B2B, marketing, government and fortune 500-based startups have every much the right to succeed in Baltimore as anywhere else, and with access to DC, certain markets are even better suited to Baltimore than to SF... but from everything I've seen, it would be a great deal harder to make something like Twitter work for a Baltimore-area VC, and where SF is killing it is in understanding the potential of network-effect startups that don't necessarily deliver immediate value, and to my eye, Baltimore VCs aren't remotely ready for that sort of gamble.

Shortmail and Sickweather are probably the closest I've seen to breaking that trend to date, but Shortmail's already shuttered, and I hope that doesn't sour the pool.
a genuinely bad thing to have unpatched OSes with known security holes

If the OS is popular enough, once they get known, they will be fixed by the community if not MS. Look up "Windows 98SE Unofficial Service Pack" and "KernelEx". In fact the 98SE community is still very much alive... and has added support for a lot of things that MS didn't.

Gradually, I predict the same will happen with XP, and possibly 7 when MS stops supporting it.
Computer Science 61A, Fall 2010 Taught by Brian Harvey at UC Berkeley
Flash was slow on mobile. Adobe Air is still slow on iOS compared to UIKit or OpenGL.
The OS update installs a new browser, which then sets itself as default.
Depends on the particular geographic area you're talking about. In the Northeast, for example, land rights were radically different from the Aztecs.

That said, it was never as simple as "everyone holds land in common and can do whatever they want with it individually."
Well, let's do some calculations...

Assume you're making 140k, after 10% retirement contribution and CA taxes leaves about $6400 per month net. With the average 1 bd apartment at $3200 now that's half your take home wage. Leaving $3200 per month is $800 / week. Or $20.00 an hour at 40 hours. Given typical start-up hours and not even counting the typical food/internet/car expenses. So, if you want to look at it as an all-in after expenses, yeah, even that kind of salary can feel like minimum wage. The economics of minimum wage here in SF are a LOT worse...
> I want to say that's really unlikely. That would mean that there's a database of credit card numbers associated with their owner's employer, which would be troubling on multiple levels.

Sounds like something Acxiom (http://www.acxiom.com/) would likely have.
It would seem this publication in Science pertains to the original science suite performed on Philae's landing:

http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/07/30/science-on-the-surfa...

Which is not to detract from the magnificence of the accomplishment, simply to note that this isn't from Philae's recent reawakening.
[GUIDE] How to disable data logging in Windows10
It's still relevant to founder who want to know what it takes to be in the top decile of their cohort.
Some additional context from wikipedia: the island was originally 100% uninhabited in the 19th century when the French brought slaves there. Over the course of the next century, it was mostly privately owned, and the majority of residents were employees of plantations who were under temporary contracts and would return to Mauritania or the Seychelles after the contract was over. Ever since the slave days, there was a creole population, and that's the relevant group -- they were not indigenous peoples, but rather freed slaves and their descendants living on private land. In the 1970s, about 1100 people were forcibly removed after the British government took control of the island for the US naval base. They were compensated in cash. I think it's absolutely reasonable to feel like this was a dirty land grab, but whether they were really permanent residents, and how many they were, is in dispute. This sort of falls in the category of eminent domain seizures. I generally have a problem with those, but I don't spend too much time dwelling on the displaced populations that resulted from other government land seizures. Should we all feel guilty when we visit national parks? Or when we drive on highways? Or for the many military bases throughout the US? Do you think they just happened to find land with exactly zero residents?
Facebook is pretty much identical to google in it's ship workers to HQ practices.
That'd be cool. But bringing limited network access to certain sites, such as Facebook, is less cool.
For me, that last line conjured memories of Blank Reg from Max Headroom when one of the episodes examined a possible futuristic court of law. No official identity, no justice.
Analyzing Landsat Data with Amazon S3
It's a good idea, and I know it's been done at least once before. For instance, the youweb incubator operates this way.
Planned Parenthood, planned “hacking”?
Starting with the body tag with a suspicious attribute: `data-page-category="Under Attack Campaigns"`

<body class="site_down_template no-write edit-disabled"
data-page-category="Under Attack Campaigns"
data-page-type="Site Down Template"
ontouchstart="">

The headline on the main page has since removed the text "Our site is down due to extremists", but the phrase still remains in some metadata in the head:

<meta name="title"
property="title"
content="Our site is down due to extremists :: Planned Parenthood"/>

An image has since been removed:

<meta name="og:image"
property="og:image"
content="/images/planned_parenthood_is_under_attack.png"/>

Reports that Planned Parenthood tweaked CSS and changed their story on Facebook multiple times:

http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/30/planned-parenthood-hacking-sure-looks-like-an-orchestrated-pr-stunt/
For simple stuff, yea, an attorney could create a decision tree. But:

1) The hard part is objective and accurately assessing the issues at hand.

I haven't done any legal work for startups, but I've done diligence on a few deals that involved a startup getting acquired or funded. I've seen several deals killed because some basic entrepreneurship issues were written off because the company thought it was no big deal.

Nobody thinks they ripped off IP from their old company. But it's done, often unintentionally, all the time.

So the decision tree would ask "Is your company using IP that you developed that is similar to your previous employer?" I can promise you that people who should answer yes, would be completely convinced that they should say no. Zuckerberg would have said no. And yet he had to pay HarvardConnect.

2) You are wasting the founders time thinking about this stuff.

But I get the impulse. Law firms take their pound of flesh. I like Sandworms comment down thread about "legal debt."
Why Can't the FBI Identify Serial Rapists?
If Amazon spent up to 250 million every time they competed in a new market, they'd run out of cash pretty fast. Big companies won't spend a lot of money unless they expect to make more than that from the purchase.
I thought classical java from 10+ years ago had immutable namespaces
Show HN: Add audio effects to YouTube videos
There are two useful things (IMHO) in magic-wormhole. The first is the PAKE-based security model, with the invitation codes. The second is the "try to find each other" STUN-fallback transit stuff. Transit is way less interesting than PAKE, but by combining the two, you get a tool that's about as simple as it could possibly get while still being secure.

magic-wormhole always uses a baked-in rendezvous server (which I run) for exchanging PAKE messages, and frequently uses a baked-in transit server (which I also run) for the bulk data of file transfer. If one of the two sides has a public IP address or they're both on the same subnet, the file transfer runs directly, without my transit server. My transit server is effectively a STUN server.

I have a list of alternative approaches to explore (use the BitTorrent DHT, use Tor hidden services, use IP multicast groups, local MDNS, IPFS), which may do one or more of the following:

* reduce the single-point-of-failure -ness
* reduce the exposure of IP addresses
* increase the exposure of IP addresses
* reduce the load on my server
* speed things up
* slow things down

Compared to scp: to get proper (i.e. non-password) security out of ssh/scp (and rsync on top of them), you must have previously copied a public key to the target machine, which requires e.g. reading the string to someone sitting next to you and having them type it in, or publishing the key somewhere that can be reached by something you read to them and then visually comparing what they got with what you meant to publish. (at least for the initial contact; once you've set up the keys, then future transfers are trivially easy). Plus the target must be reachable by TCP.

For magic-wormhole, you still have to read something to them, but it's really short and designed specifically to be transcribed aloud. And the two sides don't need TCP reachability.

I figured that almost every form of file transfer involves either the sender telling some reference string to the recipient (like a URL of some sort), or the recipient telling some destination reference string to the sender (an email address), followed by a bunch of other work that's annoying and reduces security. Magic-wormhole requires the same "read something to the recipient" part, but removes the setup phase, and removes all the security-losing middlemen.
The author of the article seems pretty clueless as to the need to pay attention at all times while driving - even when stopped at a light.

Besides being impolite and rude to other drivers by screwing around with their phones when the light turns green, they're engaged in a dangerous activity by not having situational awareness as to what's going on. I've seen several drivers look up from their phones and, startled to see a green light, gun the engine to get into the intersection. All this without looking to see if someone is coming through late or if an emergency vehicle is approaching or anything.

I'm glad these officers are handing out tickets.
What if it's the other way around? What if the smart and passionate folks at Facebook really do just want to get the internet to the rest of the world, and this is the way they can justify doing so?

They are a public company, after all. They have to fulfill their fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders, or at least appear to do so...
I'm guessing cause the 'overqualified' engineers are tied up with what they were hired to do.

Not to mention that the monumental risk that a company takes on when they do moonshot projects. There are very lax expectations of any profitability in the near term, so there seems to be large disincentives to invest heavily ... esp when the company is public and facing quarter by quarter scrutiny.
wikipedia is a supoorted website. thats really cool
I like my software knowing what I like and what I'm interested in. It makes my life easier, which is what computers were invented for.

Philosophical question: is it really your life, if your software may be subtly persuading you in a different direction than what you would've taken if it hadn't been making the suggestions to influence you?

There is no doubt it will make things easier for you if all you do is effectively accept and follow everything others want you to with no resistance. However, that's not what I'd consider "your life" anymore.
> I think your real issue is that regular "lower and middle class Americans" are also on your internet, and as such it reflects society, which you find conformist and boring.

That's exactly my point. I'm upset that the internet going mainstream meant that they're not on "my" internet. They're on the part of the internet accessible via facebook and maybe reddit if they're <25y/o males.
If you are interested in academics, you could go on the career path to being a business school professor. I know some people in your shoes who have done that.

But to be perfectly honest it seems like you are in the rat race. Check out the book Happier.
Argh. Privacy really is such a double-edged sword.

You could still keep those bits off of the WAN, though. In a "privacy mode" the gateway could coordinate and throw in an average delay.
Yes, I have often heard white Europeans making fun of other white Europeans. The idea that it's ok to tell racist jokes as long as you also poke fun at more privileged groups of people simply makes no sense. That being said, Clarkson's xenophobia is hardly any more defensible than his racism.
As someone who used to make a living trying to get Word Perfect to share documents with Word, I can tell you that it is a near impossible thing.

The main problem is that the file format relies on the behaviour of the Word formatter to work in a particular way. If you wrote a word processor and decided for yourself how it should format, then there is virtually no way you can figure out from the contents of a doc or docx file exactly how it should be formatted (and conversely no way to take what you have rendered and write a doc or docx file that will render it the same way). The only way to do it would be to write a complete clone of the Word formatter, which is essentially impossible because if you look at the docx spec you will realize that even MS don't know how it works.

Of course, this is a technical issue that compounds a political problem -- MS enjoy a monopoly on office products and those office products happen to be essentially impossible to clone because they are ancient, idiosyncratic, legacy monsters. The only way to fix the problem is to get people to stop using those legacy apps --- which is pretty much unlikely.

Linux is more than ready for the desktop. It is unlikely ever to interoperate seemlessly with MS Office, though. Still, the office in which I work has switched completely to Chrome OS and Google apps. The school I worked in before that has switched to Open Office and actually forbids the use of MS Office (because of interoperability issues). Who knows...
Autoprefix your react inline styles at compilation time through babel
Is it time we put more effort into Linux / OSS?
Microsoft has had some image problem. I thought with the new move they're making towards OSS, they are changing for good. However, reading
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9978039 and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9976298 It makes me feel sick.
Is it time that we put more effort into Linux to target general users ? It seems like Microsoft and Co. are on the way to be the dictators of the internet.
What about distributed metadata dictionaries/taxonomies describing the content and syncing via something like pubsubhubbub?
Baltimore is still relatively expensive and is (locally) still widely regarded as a dangerous city that most people don't want to go to, quirky or not. There's a reason that most of the tech jobs in the general area are around the DC suburbs (and pushing further out each year).

There's still incredible problems with getting good engineers to come to the general area as well: Baltimore/DC has SF-level cost of living but not nearly the amenities of the Bay Area. The weather here sucks most of the time, the general culture leans suit & tie, the traffic is just as bad if not worse, you don't have the redwoods/beaches/outdoor things nearby that many engineers tend to value. Moreover, there's still a major stigma against working remotely out here that hurts many East Coast businesses when looking for software folks.
Have anything specific except for
Flash or macros for Word? There
is the recent 15 or so year old
problem, so far never seen in practice,
having to do with fonts or some such.

Otherwise, what's insecure about XP?
Or more secure about 7, 8, 8.1, or 10?

Sure, using XP means I'm not cool, but
what about actual security?

Or are the crucial parts of XP really
much different than those of
7? I doubt it. Until the XP support
stopped, the same malware scanning and
repair software worked for XP and 7.
Sure thing. I just checked and we have multiple email ids with your first name. Can you send me a mail? Thanks!
How likely is a startup to trade points for office space? As in, a different class of VC which backs the company not with cash but with a location.
Internet.org isn't for only Facebook, right? So, the question is are you an idiot or a troll?
Right but 'they reached too far during Windows 8' isn't an argument for reaching too far on Windows 10 (plus, Windows 8 really wasn't that long ago so it's still a pretty new policy).
Wouldn't this distort the VC's portfolio? Institutional investors give VCs their money to put into high-risk, high-reward investments, not real estate leases. How would they justify this?
US taxes rates are much lower than Western Europe save for a few outliers.[1]

Note that this graph doesn't include VAT which can be 15%+ in the EU.

[1]http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/10/focus-4
>The entire point of a startup is to not stay its current size

Growth for the sake of growth?

I would actually think that this is pretty far away from what startups are about.
Google has the Dart VM running in Chrome and it's called Dartium. If Mozilla had not been so vigorously negative towards Dart the story of Dart and Blink may have turned out differently.
VirtualBox and Windows 10 breaks a lot of popular dev tools
Just a quick note after losing a lot of time today with this. VirtualBox (all versions) are having issues starting develop environments under Windows 10 RTM and this is affecting a lot of people who are upgrading to Windows 10.

List of relevant VirtualBox dependent projects affected:
- vagrant
- boot2docker
- docker machine
- xamarin android player
- probably more...

Details:
- https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/14040#comment:25
- https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker/issues/1015
- https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/6059
Everything.Me have been doing great open source work for a while now.

redash (https://github.com/EverythingMe/redash) is another great example.

I love seeing open source coming from companies under the company repo and not only from developers, this means a lot looking at a company, it means they actually care about the ecosystem and the community around the languages they use.

Kudos to the team there!
How is the world with no Facebook plane in any way better than the world with a Facebook plane that provides Facebook access? If you don't want Facebook access, or you already have it, the two worlds are indistinguishable.
The Woman Finding Tech Jobs for the World's Poorest People
Wage stagnation is only true if you ignore non-monetary compensation. Add that in and total compensation has grown.
That's correct. I am in the US but not from the US.
Like I mentioned in my response to karmajunkie's comment, that does make career changes slightly tricky for me.
No, that still looks pretty good, because some people want to buy Coca Cola.
Okay, now that is something I can get behind. If it's a unifying thing that brings humanity together, then I'm all for it. When it seems like petty, divisive nationalism and (no pun intended) digging up old dirt, that's when I become skeptical.
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Airborne lasercom isn't anything new. Hi-throughput lasercom to the moon is though:

https://www.ll.mit.edu/news/LLCDachievesrecorddatadownloadsp...
It looks like Windows users are
not welcome on HN.
Unfortunately, this kind of richness does not use to last really long.
Microsoft has a new browser they'd like people to load up and try out. I don't see the problem with making it the default browser in a free major upgrade of the OS. Small price to pay. I'm not suprised Microsoft ignored his complaints.
Good idea. I've done that above (hopefully icebraining won't mind) and will add it to our list of things to fix (edit: if there's a way to do so that doesn't break normal punctuation). Thanks to both of you!
> The assertion that they are free won't mean much to these users

Yes! Running a linux distro is NOT free. It's only free under the assumption that your time is worthless, which is true for precisely nobody.

The true cost is a function of how valuable your time is vs the fixed cost of windows / buying a mac, assuming a relatively small constant setup time cost for both of these. This makes linux desktop distros, with their typically long and painful setup process, actually more expensive than Windows / OSX for basically everyone.

The only case where it becomes worth it is when there's a return on your investment of that large initial cost, i.e. you'll either be taking advantage of linux a lot professionally or you just find playing with it very intellectually rewarding.

Ergo, linux only appeals to engineers, academics and hackers.

There's no solution to this per-se, it is what it is. Just a result of the economics of the current setup.
Re that, see: http://shetterly.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-conversation-with-sa...

An email conversation about NAMBLA and sexuality with Samuel Delaney.
I'm an Angie's List subscriber and signed no NDA agreement with them.
If it's not the "full internet" then it's not the internet. They shouldn't dress this up like a charitable project.
This is what happens when bicyclists obey traffic laws
The major lesson is ask why your business has not been done before. If your business could have been done before technology and it hasn’t, then just creating a app is not going to make it viable all on its own.

Also avoid businesses where your margins are wafer-thin and you are competing with undocumented labor.

This probably won’t be a popular opinion here, but think about how you are going to be able to scale early on. It is fine to start out doing things manually as a way to delay building infrastructure, but you really need to think right from the start about how you are going to be able to scale and make a profit.
"A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of "exit." The only essential thing is growth. Everything else we associate with startups follows from growth." - pg
> supported website

Think about how terrible that is.
Leaving aside the tangent in your comment (we were talking about governments having access to your encrypted data, not about Free Software)...

> Furthermore, if they did give your content to the Government because of a national security letter how is that abuse of power? Should they not comply with the law?

I fully expect that they would have little choice in doing so if they received a warrant from a government with jurisdiction over them. (Though I'd also be unsurprised if they did so even if asked without a warrant.) I don't want them to have anything to give if asked.

> I just think that the privacy absolutism that everyone keeps bringing up isn't reasonable.

Different people value their privacy differently. If you don't value it as much, feel free to trade it for things you consider more valuable. Don't assume everyone else wants to make the same trade you do, though.

I'm not advocating absolutism. You should be able to have as much or as little privacy as you want, which may even mean different amounts of privacy in different contexts.

> Power is a boot on your neck. This is more of an inconvenience.

The government having full access to the contents of your encrypted drive is an "inconvenience"? I'd hate to know what you consider an abuse of privacy, then.

The whole point of encryption is to keep unauthorized people from having access to your data.
Millenial Men Aren't the Dads They Thought They'd Be
Not quite, because there are trade publications, conventions, forums, linkedin groups, etc... You have the 1:1 but also the broadcast
Employee Fiduciary is at 8 bps: http://www.employeefiduciary.com/401k-plan-pricing/

Don't know if they would come out lower than Captain401 though (no mention of any cut of the overall assets on the Captain401 page, if that's correct, they're very likely lower priced).