skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. No need to go hyperbolic.

First off, SpaceX had little/nothing to do with any of the stuff you mentioned.

Second, I am not devaluing what SpaceX has done or is trying to do. I am a big fan actually of such ventures which strive to find new frontiers.

My reply was in the context of this thread where lot of people are dissing Uber saying they are not a real technology company, and people lamenting the fact that a taxi company raised more money than a space faring company.

I was pointing out the close-mindedness (if you will) of those people. Uber is having tremendous impact in the here and now across the world, and touching the lives of millions of people. What they have done is nothing to dismiss. Also the vision of the future they are working towards could be even more transformative (possibly save hundreds of thousands of lives a year).

What SpaceX is trying is far more riskier and ambitious and its rewards for humanity (if it succeeds) lay further into the future and may end up having greater impact on the future of humanity (or it may not). In the interim its impact is limited (because it is a long-term project).

It makes no sense to compare the two ventures as some competition. The worlds needs both. There is nothing wrong with the fact that Uber has a greater valuation than SpaceX. Uber provides greater value to their customers right now. And they could provide greater returns to their investors sooner (if they chose to ). SpaceX as of now is much more riskier investment and its real returns lay farther in the future.
I know they're slightly different, but this reminds me of Workflowy[1] which pretty much runs my entire life right now (todo, projects, journaling, brainstorming, informal databases, bookmarks). In looking at tools like this, it's hard to know where the line is between simple functions that you then use to create abstract features, and more complicated interfaces that define features explicitly. It's a nuanced thing. With Workflowy, the simple list and tag interface can do much of what Notion does (of course, minus the great design and multimedia support), but you really need a formal workflow and need to stick to it to make it function well. Whereas Notion kind of designs those patterns for you, but at the expense of some interface simplicity. I feel like Workflowy demands more of a unix philosophy to achieve Notions features. You'll need to chain web apps together. For example, you can use hyper links in Workflowy to link to files in dropbox, or host images on some other site and audio/video on another, where Notion puts in all in one spot. Very cool.

I can definitely see this as a great tool in the classroom for creating interactive discussions. Copy a template for each class and you can have everyone collaborate and focus on the discussion, not taking notes (or better still, take notes in the collaborative page itself, things that aren't originally there), and then after you have a record of everything which you can share across all students and with different classes.

[1] https://workflowy.com/
There's no requirement in the spec for using "reputable" CA's for certificates.
That didn't stop them with e-books.
There's basically two competing interpretations of the Western US drought:
1. It's a storage problem (i.e., most farmers): those damn environmentalists blocked us from building more dams so we lost the ability to store more water when wetter years happened in the past, and now we've got almost nothing left to draw water from.
2. It's a throughput problem (i.e., most environmentalists): those damn farmers are using more water per annum than nature is providing on average. They desperately need to cut their water.

When major constituencies can't agree on the problem, how do you get them to agree on a solution?
I do miss the days when this sort of thing was a user choice, configured through the OS, and honoured by all polite applications.
I am constantly affected with this on mobile devices (no ad blocker). It is so intrusive. But its laughable at the same time, because those ad serving engines try to predict me, but show me utter bullshit ads for things I accidently viewed before.

So, I really look forward to iOS 9. And whoever provides a proper blocking app will get my money!
> And there is no way to block the ads shown to you
by Facebook or Google or Twitter in their own apps, especially not on mobile.

This is not entirely true. AdBlock Plus for Android works at the system level.
Also the slide animations when I push the back button feels sluggish in my phone
That's awesome - I had no idea you could get them on Youtube! Thank you so much - I love this video, and refer anybody interested in Solar energy to it - not just for the content (which is fantastic) - but the references in it - such as http://science.energy.gov/~/media/bes/pdf/reports/files/seu_...

Nate Lewis is also a great speaker, and he makes such a convincing argument that Solar is the only possible future source of energy. (Nuclear doesn't even come close)

He also shows that putting solar panels on roofs doesn't even come close to what we need to do.

Worth watching every 3-4 months just to get your head around the scale of the problem.
When I was little, I remember this racing game and this block building game. You did multiplications (like 6x7) and if you got it correctly you would get another block in your wall. It was really addicting to be faster than you little friends.
Probably not for the majority, but for the people who want to learn new stuff the internet is invaluable. I learned programming as a kid in the 80's, and the amount of time I spent only with finding and obtaining information is mind-boggling. Even in the early 90's if you wanted to get the official OS documentation for e.g. the Amiga you had to order them as several kilograms of dead tree from the States.
Last time I tried OneNote, its text editor allows click and type anywhere. I found this behavior is weird and there is no option to turn it off. I know it makes sense if we use touch pen, but not for typing with keyboard.
Thanks, indeed I didn't make any efforts to make it faster, but this seems fair... I honestly didn't know DataView was that slow, it got fibonacci(40) down to 1m53s. Faster than PERL according to http://fengmk2.com/blog/2011/fibonacci/nodejs-python-php-rub...
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Hey, author here. You're right, there's some question about Fab, and I could have added that to the post.

I tend to believe the later story, which was that they didn't get there, but didn't mind all the press thinking they did and it was just never corrected (i.e. this story(1) in Fortune cites a valuation that happens to be under $900M).

Either way, there's definitely no way to know for sure, and I've seen it left off of plenty of 'unicorn' lists.

(1) http://fortune.com/2015/01/22/fab-billion-dollar-valuation/
We are actually using pascal for a very large project in healthcare (journal management). There is nothing wrong with the language, per se even though it is not the fanciest one.

Our codebase is one of the cleanest I have worked with, and it compiles very fast. We are using freepascal, and even though I would not use it for my hobby projects (which I try to do mostly in scheme or factor) I would say it is one of the more pleasant languages I have worked in.
Also on Ubuntu. I (only) have 671 fonts, no delay at all for me.
Hi,

Sure i might be interested in doing something time allowing. I also could potentially introduce you to some people in the startup community if you want.

If you are free also join us at Tech Crawl Tokyo event - https://techcrawl.doorkeeper.jp/events/31206?locale=en
Ever click the little X or > in the corner of an add? Google has a bunch of settings you can set.

As for creepy ads following you around though I haven't personally found that to be a google thing.
Thanks for reading my post and taking time to write about it.

As the title of post which emphasizes on "WHY GC matters", I tried to reason why we should understand the underlying of a system, say Erlang, Go, Java or whatever else. But unfortunately always there are few documentation around about them and sometimes it is advised not to read them.

I do agree with you that comparing languages with very different goals is totally wrong, but what I did was comparing the Go's documentation author advice with mine, which is about being clever enough to understand your system.
So, exactly this:

https://contributor.google.com/u/0/

You even have control over who gets your money:

http://i.imgur.com/4Vuuefm.png
Could you provide a few examples of reputable and not so reputable CAs?
The advertising market have been inflating for ten years now. Ten years ago one user would earn you an average of one usd per month, while you only get around 1 cent per user now. The same goes for advertisers, if your ad gets shown for ten thousand people, you can expect one lead. While ten years ago that would have been a hundred leads.
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You are right - it's all gut feeling, but one that's educated based on experience. I've been in Singapore since 2013. I carry my smartphone, visibly, in all sorts of social, work, and other scenarios - and not a single time in 2 years, has anyone even looked twice at it - even when new. Also, people aren't really into iPhones here - this is really a Samsung City.

Smartphones are so saturated in this city, with close to 90%+ of people glued to them on the MRT, that absolutely nobody pays any attention to what model somebody is using.

This is totally unlike what my experience was like in the Bay Area, 2009-2011, in which every time I picked up a new iPhone, everyone (Restaurants, work, friends) was all over the new phone, asking to check it out, see how light it was, etc, etc...

Now it's just a rectangular hunk of glass.

Your basic question, though, is a good one - how the iPhone / Galaxy / etc.. is seen as a status symbol, and how that might have changed over time.
"This comment is the exact perception about HTTPS that we need to change. It's not the job of HTTPS to say whether a website is safe or unsafe."

Too late. The web industry has spent about 20 years training regular people to look for that green lock sign in the address bar and feel all warm and fuzzy about how safe the site is. You can post on hacker news all you want about what perceptions need to be changed. It's not going to change the ground reality. SSL, as practiced in the industry today with all it's historical baggage is fundamentally broken. There's no fixing it.
I agree that its not a forgone conclusion that kickstarter traction == product market fit....but if your KS campaign is well executed, it could be.
Essentially, i see KS as much more of a community builder and low cost testing grounds for market development.
A really great KS campaign can tell a great story of audience discovery through advertising purchases. For example, when we launch Spark (now Particle), we thought it would be hardware hobbyists. After looking through the list of backers, we found out that it was actually professional engineers, looking for a good wifi solution for prototyping. Had we focused on shipping before talking with our audience, we would have put our energy into the wrong place.
With Prynt for example, we found a specific demographic (young female) was the best click thru we had...this changed our collateral and retail conversations.

Then there is the question of what qualifies as a "successful campaign"? If you sell your product at a loss (I can point to some examples) and sell over a million, i dont know if i consider that a success. Whereas, Particle has done multiple 600k plus campaigns. For a consumer product that might be OK, but for a developer kit, that represents a massive amount of LTV.

All in all, i would say that I dont invest entirely based on a kickstarter campaign (and most often commit before the campaign happens) but the more data the better, and the more action the team has done, the better to learn their behaviors.
Hollywood is your source for how men have acted throughout history?

Also, when Turkish and American cultures differ, surely the americans must be homophobes?
This is an easy problem to solve with our friend, data.

Just run some models and simulations and calculate where water usage is heaviest.
Yes, you can.

You can also do the same at every existing CA that provides domain verified certificates. From personal experience neither StartSSL nor Comodo have a human in the look – until you want more than domain verification (e.g., "green bar" EV certificates).
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EDIT: Changed title to include "Show HN." Was just fooling around with the Google Charts API and wanted to share. These pie charts represent the top tags in each class of tag that news stories can be tagged with on techwatching. The charts visually show which tags dominate in their class - i.e.: as of the writing of this comment, POTUS is dominating the "People" class.
So by that definition, SpaceX is truly going "full Uber".
"(So you can't get a certificate for "login-facebook.com" or whatnot, for instance.)"

You mean not from one of those "reputable" CAs. But really, why would I go to a "reputable" CA for my deceptive certificate if my intent is not so reputable?
If you are going to ask for an explanation, and then deny what people is trying to tell you and twist their words, you might as well take the down votes with a measure of dignity.
Hey, author here. You're right, this could be more clear. The takeaway is supposed to be that it's not as though HQ is in Cleveland or Cincinnati where there's a lot less competition for tech jobs - but I can see how the wording is weird!
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2014 Berkshire Hathaway Letter to Shareholders [pdf]
Sharing here more as a discussion piece, not necessarily due to its relevance in the market for M&A's etc. I thought this was an excellent example of a "letter from the CEO or Chairman" and love the transparency even on such a high level.

I came across this letter from Warren Buffet while doing some research, and I ended up reading through Shareholder Letters all the way back to the 70's:

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html
TL;DR; The novelty of plants grown underground, plus the appearance of extra freshness = $ from an entertainment point of view.

Which is cool, people love the idea of doing things underground. It unfortunately almost never makes practical sense but neither does most entertaining things.
The App Engine sandbox is not a good feature of app engine and is removed in the new Managed VM version (naturally in perpetual beta).

I've seen people spend a lot of time trying to avoid "using the cloud" and end up wasting a lot of money and time when they could have just used some AWS services and been done with it.
I haven't used Numba -- looks fast and easy!

But am I missing something? Numpy has everything you need already, natively, no? Some slicing or a dot product should get you there... no need for ufuncs or einsum, I think...

avg = (rgb[...,0]+rgb[...,1]+rgb[...,2]) * (1.0 / 3.0)

or better yet,

gray = np.dot(rgb, [0.299, 0.587, 0.114])
Saving the journalism. With Bitcoin
Down To Hack, I'm assuming.

I've frequently been asked if I'm DTF by nearly-strangers on local chatrooms. :(
The money was not raised to build a note taking app, they had already done that (in the US at least). Much of it was for international expansion (which they've done, particularly in China) and new things. Some of those new things (like Work Chat) were built and haven't seem to have gone anywhere. But just because a product seems DOA doesn't mean it was dumb to try. Slack raised $250mm and locked it away for a rainy day, I'm sure Evernote did much of the same.
"Who Do You Think You Are" had an episode with Cindy Crawford where she found out she was a direct descendant of Charlemagne, and they made a big deal out of it (https://youtu.be/iA_UYcGDhYw?t=307).
It does have tons of new features. That's the problem for me. They keep adding chat and sharing and geotagging and collaboration and all kinds of crap that is completely unrelated to actually storing notes.
Google expressly does not do that kind of retargeting. Its policies prohibit retargeting based on "health or medical information": https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/143465?hl=en

I know that the previous post didn't mention Google, but people might leap to the wrong conclusion. I don't know what Yahoo and Microsoft's policies are.
Ok. I think I understand.
I'm gonna step right out there and show my bias. I absolutely HATE the iLok. I bought myself a laser cutter for my wedding (she got a ring, i got a 90watt), and it came with an iLok for the horrible software that the chinese company built. It just takes up a USB port i could otherwise use.

That being said, its a great tool for very big, old software companies that have to protect from pirating.

I think that you have an entirely different play at hand. Because you are building a platform, you dont care if people pirate. What you just want to be sure of is that people aren't sharing logins. Soooo....just make the logins tie to personal info. Back in the day, when I used to send sensitive PDFs, I would just make the password on the PDF the recipients last 4 of their SSN. I could basically guarantee they wouldnt send the PDF around. The equivalent in your situation is to use Oauth with something like LinkedIn or Google. For the users to share your account, they would need to create an fake LinkedIn or Google account...and if you system is all about lead generation, that becomes crippling.

Overall, i dont care about iLok vs another form of protection. For me, the most important thing you are thinking about is can you create an amazing amount of value for your customer. Can you get them hooked, and improve their (business) life. If you can, then you can put a dollar amount on that improvement. I used Bloomberg terminals many moons ago, and it was not the best software in the world, but the data was immensely valuable. So we paid.

Good luck!
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Yes, thank you! I can't try this yet since I only have Firefox at this machine, but alternative note-taking and rethinking computer documents is something I've long waited for.

If anyone knows of any similarly "different" projects, please tell me!
”without any problem”

Are you sure about that?
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I remember this from Gentoo's April 1st joke, nice theme!
> If everyone called a tail a leg, it would be a leg.

You are sorely confused. When mixing different languages, you need to keep track of which is which, otherwise you just end up making a pun. In this case, "if everyone called a tail a leg" hypothesizes an alternate English where the distal portion of a dog's spine is called "leg" instead of "tail". We'll call this English Prime, and denote English prime words with a hash sign, to distinguish them from ordinary English words: #leg.

Obviously, the sentence itself is still written in English, not in English Prime. Otherwise it would be impossible to ascribe any meaning to it, since we have not defined the meaning of any English Prime words besides #leg - and we could not even define that one without using English.
The only words that are to be interpreted as English Prime are the ones that are explicitly quoted from the hypothetical scenario. Therefore, "if everyone called a tail a leg" can be written as "if everyone called a tail a #leg".

Now we have the following:

- If everyone called a tail a #leg, it would be called a #leg. Clearly true.

- If everyone called a tail a #leg, it would be called a #tail. Clearly false.

- If everyone called a tail a #leg, it would be a tail. Clearly true.

- If everyone called a tail a #leg, it would be a leg. Clearly false.
because then readership will go down, with less chances of link sharing, positive word of mouth.

see your readers as hostile and well, you get what you deserve.

daringfireball, kottke, reddit - all fine with ads. other sites are completely unusable, especially on mobile. good riddance.
Genuinely wondering, which part of 1Password's encryption don't you trust? Or is it about metadata leakage?
Yeah, weird wording - apologies. I'm trying to make the exact opposite point, in that you can go 10 mins in any direction and be at another large tech co.

If you check Glassdoor, though, you actually will see people complaining about the commute to Redwood City! (Though this is not factored into my post at all, I just find it an amusing anecdote as someone who has never had a < 60 min commute)
I typed this comment up as a quick break from work, and rereading my comment I can say I did not have enough editing. I didn't mean to come across so critical. It's just so close to being a great idea that can solve what I see as a huge problem-- why are people taking out loans for a bullshit University of Phoenix degree? Because they don't know what their options are, and they don't know what it's going to cost, and they have some feeling in the back of their head that college is always a worthwhile investment. That's how we nationally end up with more student debt loan than credit card debt.

With a little more data and a bit more prodding, this could genuinely fix that. No longer will people be getting their primary source of information from 2:00AM University of Phoenix commercials.

When I said the execution was poor it was not to say that this is somehow botched, it's just that it's so damn close. I think 18F is really cool, and I hope it continues to have cool projects.

At the same time, the tool genuinely wouldn't have helped me, and on HN I feel like that type of criticism is useful. Not just for the poster, but for people who are interested in solving problems in this realm and want to get in the head of someone who would use it.

PS: I signed up for an API key. Thanks for the comment. I'll poke around this weekend.
That's a slick idea and one you could actually execute with some amount of success today. The basic idea would be that you could sign up for an advertiser account on a DSP (Demand Side Platform), create a retargeting audience, cookie your own web browser cache to place yourself in your retargeting audience, and then buy ads against that audience - ie yourself.

That would be essentially the same thing this guy did to his roommate:
http://mysocialsherpa.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-...
This reminds me a little of pattern matching (in my case in Elixir) - I specify an (arbitrarily nested) structure with the keys I want, and the variables I want those values unpacked into the pattern match the data into that. Graphql feels almost like letting me do that from the outside to the inside of my service(s)
I kind of find it funny that CloudFlare who occasionally protects their customers from getting DDOS'ed by probable Chinese state actors, now gets behind the curtain and will now have to find new ways to protect their customers getting DDOS'ed from inside if they publish content which the Chinese authorities don't like. I guess it's easier now for them to take it down without resorting to warfare.
But then again, this content will not be permitted inside. So it will stay the same. Maybe it will change now from ICMP over clever javascript bombs to DNS attacks. Which is how CloudFlare protects their domains.
There's an even earlier record of a man named John le Fucker from 1278. It's unclear whether this is an instance of the word "fuck", or whether it's just a variation of some other surname like Fulcher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_le_Fucker
Actually what's really broken is the way we've approached implementations. Recently I was trying to get a self-signed certificate for myself trusted by Python urllib3...I still don't know how to do it. It uses a completely separate trust-store. As does half a dozen other things on my system.
I agree, that sounds like a loss of focus and annoying. I usually ignore such things as chats, etc.