skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I down voted you because most people simply don't understand what's going on behind the scene. When you don't have knowledge to make a decision you cannot be expected to make the right decision.

Try explaining the gory details fiscal derivatives and risk to majority of the population and how the banking system collapse to majority of the population. Like me almost none of them will get it. You need a conceptual foundation to understand the black magic going on over here and most people simply don't have it.

This is one of the reasons why people don't vote with their dollars as they are expected to. Moreover, human emotions are overpowering. Give someone the bait of 15X returns in 1/15th of the time with a small paragraph of risk added to the red herring prospectus and watch them jump out of their seats.
wow, thanks for giving me a headache.
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This scheme makes patents part of adding to open-source, and also uses the comparative "allergy" that many commercial entities have to open source.

The folks seeking patents will have to decide if they want the patent enough to open-source their covered source code (later). Various firms certainly won't want that. Those that do go for the patents will then serve to produce open-source code.

But if you don't think it'll work or if you have a better idea, cool. Post away...
Can someone explain the Montreal craigslist apartment listings to me? What does the "4 1/2" in "2br - 4 1/2" mean?
Foursquare and Social CRM
Linode and Heroku here. I am still learning, but Heroku is awesome for quick little apps and Linode is awesomely fast with great support teams.
A poll on viewer reaction
It's a joke. If you're not using v4l, then you're rolling your own. So you either have to fix it yourself, or hold it upside down. :)
McAfee SiteAdvisor:

"www.richswebdesign.com/flashintro.htm may cause a breach of browser security.

Why were you redirected to this page?

When we tested www.richswebdesign.com/flashintro.htm, it attempted to make unauthorized changes to our test computer by exploiting a browser security vulnerability. This is a serious security threat which could lead to an infection of your computer."
When people write papers about New Media and The Web, they often cite Vannevar Bush's 1945 article in The Atlantic, “As We May Think”. We had a 65th anniversary panel about the paper at Hypertext 2010, at which I was the designated heretic. My position is that Bush’s paper is essentially a popular science article. It gets some things right, some wrong. It’s cavalier about its sources – especially the very important work of Emanuel Goldberg, which Bush knew and which was entirely forgotten by everyone in the field for fifty years before Michael Buckland rediscovered it.

We can point to other precursors, too. H. G. Wells, for example, wrote The World Brain before the War and tried hard to fund a foundation that would manage an open-source microfilm encyclopedia of the world’s knowledge. But the really astonishing prediction is not Bush’s but Murray Leinster’s 1946 short story, “A Logic Name Joe”…

http://www.markbernstein.org/Jul10/ALogicNamedJoe.html
A Blackberry addict discovers grassroots enterprise in India
Website feedback please - yoshopper.co.uk
How about this: All fucking patent tro, er non-practicing entities, must die.

Or more politely, patents should require that at least some of the 90% perspiration required for discovery/innovation be done by the entity requesting the patent.

Patenting pure knowledge with no attempt at implementation, or buying such patents and suing those who try to implement them, incentivizes the lazy, and hinders the kids in the garage/lab/hackerspace building the next HP, Apple, or Google.
The conclusions he draws are very much inline with the basic concepts you learn in marketing 101.
Yea… Those with epilepsy are advised NOT to click through the link.
Hi! My first post here. I was suggested posting my website here to get blunt and honest feedback. So, I've got the website up now and looking for feedback. My website is trying to help people find online shops. What do you think?
I don't think so. Either something is one of those categories or its not. The design patent part is pretty straight forward in its application (ornamental aspects of object) and can't be used as a back door to replace a utility patent. It doesn't generate the drama of any of the above categories.
Just think: Someday soon people will be doing all of that with glorious HTML5. Only then you won't have your precious FlashBlock to save you.

The one nice thing about Flash is that it might as well be an <annoyance> tag. Makes blocking annoying stuff easier.

That being said, I can't wait for Flash to die. If you have an Android device, do us all a favor and don't install Flash on it.
I visited 11 years ago and still remember it being one of the most vibrant energetic places I've been fortunate enough to goto.

another plus point - awesome beaches
Once the model is loaded, you can get around the ~200ms roundtrip latency that it takes to connect the server.
Obviously, there's lots of ways to hide these 200ms from the user.
When there's a listing that states "X 1/2", it means that there are X rooms in the apartment. A 4 1/2 is usually 2 bedrooms, a living room and a kitchen area - the ad will usually indicate if this is not the case.
You mean it allows people to anything they want, and people tend to then use it to do more than they should?

Are you really saying that offering people too much power is a bad thing?
and the current episode starts with a tech founder bit about the garage myth. see my first HN submission ever, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1566128
I followed your link to your previous site, Kroomsa, and it proceeded to repeatedly open the site in a new browser window. I was forced to kill Safari, at which point it had 129 windows open. Not cool.
http://iccmworldwide.org/index2.htm
Central banks do not control the entire economy. There is much more involved, and economics is so complex that even experts vigorously disagree much of the time. Presidents themselves do not usually possess a high degree of economic insight and understanding. This is why all types of presidents from different parties have presided over recessions, depressions, and bursting bubbles. This leads some, like Ron Paul, notably, to suggest the fundamental system is flawed, and therefore suggests tinkering will never fix it, so the Federal Reserve should be abolished. I'm not saying I think he has the right strategy, but I do think he is correct in his reasoning for why we often experience economic angst.
Maybe it is a bluff.
mice genetically engineered to produce 70 percent less kynurenic acid had markedly improved cognition... [and] were better able to... remember unpleasant experiences

Sadder but wiser?
Yeah well the point really is that there is no evidence that testing on end users before the product has launched is going to put you in better shape than not.

There are however almost infinite evidence that no product launches without a bunch of things that needs to be fixed.

But here is the trick. There are nothing that shows that there are more to be fixed if you don't do usability testing on end users.

So that way you have saved yourself both time and money for getting feedback where it matters. After product launch.

And that to me is the most important point.

And I am not saying, don't get external feedback. I am saying don't get external feedback form users on mockups, wireframes etc. They are in no way in better shape to give you proper feedback.

How could they be?
Is interim storage of electricity too costly? I never knew that power worked this way. So power has no storage, we run this fine line of balance where we hope supply and demand are within a few points of each other?

No wonder they like nuclear so much; not that I am against it, but we can generate as much or as little as needed on demand. Seems to me this is an issue of an antiquated grid system that needs an overhaul. We are still running a 10Mb/s network and needs to update to Fiber as an analogy.

I would think hat if there is excess, it would be stored to use when there is a demand for which we can't supply. Apparently that is not the case?
How to create a lightweight intranet search engine with Xapian on FreeBSD
The guy who gave this talk, Chris Paget, actually used OpenBTS in his demo.
Moral Greyzones
OP was inquiring about opportunities in Asian cities, so I just pitched the positive sides. Sure there are tons of negative sides (some of which I have to deal with as well) and isn't exceptionally friendly to non-locals. But if you're looking for requirements as "cheap place where you can find some degree of labor", I think Bangalore can match up to some degree, atleast.

Still, if you can infer from my post, I'm still fresh out of college (read: naive and somewhat ignorant), and you should really do your homework. While there's much more talk than work (that's a fundamental Indian trait, almost), there is some minor degree of work happening. Unfortunately the people who are doing some serious, innovative work (like our small team) are exceptionally quiet.

I got the chance to watch Bala Manian [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bala_S._Manian ] speak, and he's currently on his latest venture here as well. It's not impossible to make things work here, but it's certainly not easy. The frank opinion is the ends nowhere near justify the means unless you have a co founder who is Indian, or you're on a near zero budget (I met an American founder who travels with a Mac Mini and a keyboard in a suitcase).

tl;dr - Don't book your tickets yet, but it never hurts to keep your options open.
Only if and when a WYSIWYG tool becomes available to easily create these interfaces and animations in HTML5.

Most of the people making these hideous Flash sites can't code, which is demonstrated by the fact that often there's not even a fallback page -- the creators somehow assume that everyone in the world uses Flash Player.
just don't buy anything that says unlimited bandwidth or disk space.
You're right about the UK, England and the EU, of course. About London: while I don't have data, I think it's safe to say that outside the US, London is the largest concentration of English-speaking people in the World.
I have met a good number of people who have immigrated without any problem. The policies are sufficiently liberal last time I heard.
Agreed. It's not the technology that's the issue - it's the people using it. I hope there will be improvements in canvas rendering efficiencies, but in the meantime it's nothing more that a CPU stress tester on many systems.
That's exactly how software estimation works too. If you add something to the scope, it gets added to the budget. There's simply no room to do otherwise.

There's a difference between the two examples in your metaphor which is extremely important.

In the case of the sales guy in the kitchen shop, he already had a known set of things to arrange with a known set of prices and a known set of discounts that he could work against. This is a lot of knowns, and very little estimation.

Now imagine that instead of having a known set of things, he offered to have built for you a set of kitchen supplies to match what you thought you might be making in your kitchen in the foreseeable future. The supplies you need may or may not already exists in the market of kitchen supplies.

For the supplies that already exist, estimation is pretty easy and accurate. Look at the price tags, and sum them, possibly picking out subsets in the process.

For the supplies that don't yet exist, estimation is anywhere from difficult to impossible, depending on the accuracy demanded. There is the time and cost of building the finished product, but there is also the time spent researching what that finished product ought to be, while balancing between the cost of the finished product and its effectiveness.

Software development isn't a matter of taking a set of solutions and finding an optimal set of subset. Software development is determining what that initial set ought to contain; it might contain some already existing subsets, which makes that part of estimation easier. But other elements you will have to create, and estimating creation time of something that doesn't yet exist is often a case in futility. It often simply comes down to a gut feeling, or intuition, or whatever you want to call it.

This is why people get bullied. If someone's gut says something is a particular way, but they are feeling intense peer pressure to believe it isn't that way, they'll feel compelled to distrust their intuition. Imagine, if you will, someone who believes the universe is billions of years old in a community full of people who believe it is only 6000 years old, at a time when people were just starting to discover evidence for this longer period; he'll feel strongly compelled to keep his intuition to himself.

sigh Even this example isn't perfect, because there is still something tangible to it. It's hard to find metaphors that do the nebulous nature of software development justice. Maybe someone else has a better metaphor they've had success with?
Awesome article, I updated the photo-a-day entry with this work at http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/photo-a-day
Toronto does have a pretty active start-up community. You'd probably want to keep close to downtown.
Ah I was looking for that, to add as a runner-up but couldn't quite google my way there. It's extra-disturbing that it's some company that churns out these church sites along variations of the same lighting-and-lasers template.
If you end up with @usernames - consider linking to my site http://twitya.com/#username
Has nothing to do with hacking, code, politics, making yourself smarter etc, but is good for a laugh. Smodcast by Kevin Smith is pretty awesome.

http://www.smodcast.com/
Depends on the business. I wouldn't outsource, say, my bookkeeping to a startup web company whose servers I notice to be unreachable for a longer amount of time.
The costs if living in London are similar to those in New York City. Some things are more expensive, some things are cheaper but it's generally the same "ballpark".
At the current rate of wind development, says the BPA's Mainzer, the region's system of dams and power lines will start running into consistent operational problems around 2013, when wind in the agency's territory reaches total capacity of some 6,000 megawatts.

Ok, 6 gigawatts of capacity. Let's say you want to store 12 hours worth of wind capacity. 6GW * 12 hours is 260 terajoules, the equivalent of 61,000 tons of TNT. Not only do you have to build a system that can safely store and dischange that much energy, but it has to be cheaper than current power generation methods.
I work on these systems in mining.
With a human driver a mine car is limited to 12-20kmh with one vehicle in each 100m block for safety, on an automated level with no people present there are no limits. We can do 60km/h with vehicles only a couple of metres apart - shifting 10x as much material more cheaply and safely.

In australia there are mines with all the 300ton haul trucks completely automated - driving from the face to the crusher and back with no humans. Never speeding, never taking a corner too quickly, never over accelerating or over braking. The savings in tire wear alone are enormous.
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If Adobe really wanted to deliver 100% coverage they could compile for all the 64 bit architectures today. I can't imagine it is more than setting a switch or swapping a library, but I guess Adobe doesn't feel the need.
Aren't those are headings and block quotes? I didn't check, but the line spacing looks the same throughout of the body of the actual post.
Seriously? This is a problem? We have too much energy and we must tell people to stop producing it?

The absolute worst thing that can happen is that wind farm owners will have to scale production down because they can't sell it. Sure, we'll be wasting some energy but without storage, what can we do?

If this problem is so frequent, get more export lines and sell the excess elsewhere (and, conversely, import when you're running low). Why is this portrayed as a problem at all?
What happens in my web-browser should be subject to my control, not the hosting site. Power is weird that way.
"Are you really saying that offering people too much power is a bad thing?"

History has shown exactly that, again and again... most individuals don't know how to handle power -- especially in cases where it affects others. For instance, a poorly designed website for a realtor or restaurant can be an annoyance to thousands of visitors, but that's what you get when anyone can put a site together in Frontpage or Flash.
Schwarcz and other scientists have been studying the link for more than a decade

Ha, so another ten years before human testing? What if they used an experimental smart drug on themselves and speeded up research? :D
64-bit Flash Player needs an x86-64 JIT, which isn't just setting a switch.
Chromium has a red jollyroger for the certificate warning for www.banksimple.net, but firefox doesn't indicate an issue with the cert. Examining the cert's fields, I'm not sure what is causing Chromium to indicate it like that, especially since it says the certificate is verified/valid.
> Is interim storage of electricity too costly?

For most intents and purposes, interim storage of electricity is science fiction. Batteries are woefully inadequate, and the solutions that we do have, like pumped storage, have so long turn-on times that they might as well not exist for spikes that fast.

This is the biggest narrative about energy production that is left unsaid in the general discourse. There are two distinct markets for energy -- the baseline production, and peaker production. They are different enough to be thought of as entirely different industries. Wind has the misfortune of not belonging in either.
That is definitely a possibility, but I think that the details were leaked out or something.

Moreover, what was telling was the fact that there are now mandatory background checks before you can own a blackberry. On the other hand, I am pretty sure that they must have bought the technology by now.

What makes me doubt it even more is that this is a security establishment in which it's an open secret that people "accidently" burn files in order to prevent implication (I've seen the fires. One of the intelligence records buildings was next to my mother's office). The core intelligence group is quite lean and sophisticated, but a lot of the establishment is just corrupt bureaucrats on the take.
I don't doubt you (you surely know more about this than I do), but I would think that most of Flash's actual horsepower usage would go straight into the low level graphics engine - tweens, displaying sprites, boundary boxes. Is there really so much complex ActionScript out there that a JIT is needed on absolutely all platforms?
There is nothing right in what Apple has decided to do.

Apple has the right to do it but that's another thing.

Whether flash dies or not I don't really care about. I would though prefer to see it die out because developers and end users decided they should leave it rather than some industry king pin forces it out of his devices.

However great HTML5 is going to be it's not by any metrics close to something like http://audiotool.com/.

We can argue what is the future of the web, but this attempt to force Flash out of different platforms even before there is any real alternative is really sad.

Flash for better or worse is the de-facto best and most widespread technology we have for these kind of experiences. And there is much interesting experimentation being done with that platform just as with HTML5.

But the difference is that HTML5 is trying to do things that Flash did well 3-4 years ago if not more. And that to me at least shows that HTML5 isn't ready to take over anything neither from a consumer nor a developers perspective.
You know what's sad? That you can't save anything in Audio Tool! I spent at least 2-3 hours tinkering with it only to discover I can merely immortalize my efforts into an MP3.
Here's a similar link collecting service I've been developing,
e.g. for #nodejs http://tagwalk.com/tag/nodejs
This solution seems overcomplicated. It might work fine, I've never tried it, but I can't imagine databases (even postgres) being optimized for such things. The way we did it at http://historio.us was to just have a foreign key to each user (this can be easily extended to groups of users, i.e. companies) and just performed a lookup of the related fields depending on the domain.

This has worked very well so far, it's very fast, scalable and has given us zero problems. Since all the tables are the same, I imagine it should work very well for the poster, with an appropriate index, too...
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That said, are you sure that is realistic, and not just engineer-is-totally-terrified-of-confrontation talking?

I'd say it is more realistic in other places than it is in Japan and similar social cultures.

The limiting component is one's sense of honor and loyalty to one's company. In a culture where honor iand loyalty sn't so prized, a manager would have no problem firing an employee in an attempt to deceive people.

Sure, it might blow the deadline, and everyone will know that, but it will shelter the manager from responsibility. If the manager can intimidate the engineer into accepting the new feature on the old deadline, then the manager can claim it is the engineers fault for blowing the deadline. If the manager can't intimidate the engineer, and instead fires him, he can claim he would have hit the deadline if he didn't have such an incompetent staff underneath him. Either way, it's not his fault. Sure, it might screw the company, and it will definitely screw the engineer, but at least the manager is safe.

And yes, there are a lot of organizations like this where responsibility does not follow authority. But it requires a complete disregard for one's sense of honor.

From the conversations I've had with my dad regarding Japanese culture -- he was stationed there while serving in the military --, I get the impression this sort of dishonorable behavior is almost inconceivable over there. That might be why it seems so unrealistic to you. :-\
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> Why is this portrayed as a problem at all?

Many wind farms have serious problems being economically viable because their production is too unpredictable. Those export lines might never make back their initial investment, because the price you get for suddenly selling electricity to be provided tomorrow on the open market will be at least an order of magnitude less than what you get for stable contracts, and conversely, if you need some to be provided tomorrow, you might end up paying a lot more than you expected to.

The only solution that I have seen to work is to find some industry that can afford to let their equipment sit idle while they wait for cheaper electricity and make a contract with them.
One other small concern - are any of the programmers behind this from Rome?

Because if the AI on this system is designed by Roman drivers it might be safer for everyone to move out of Asia for the duration of the trip.
Thank you for the very extensive writeup! I've added Ottawa and Waterloo to the shortlist. I had never even heard of Waterloo before. I'm well familiar with Vancouver and agree with everything you say about it.

Thinking about Vancouver makes me question whether conserving burn rate and finding a cheaper city is a tradeoff I shouldn't make, as it would exclude cities like Vancouver which has probably everything one could ask for in a startup hub.
Apple did not kill Flash.

It was killing itself quite nicely before Apple didn't include the standalone limited-function mobile version of it in 2007.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could go about finding out about active startups in London?
He removed those boxes from his office in Toronto. Since when does US law have jurisdiction in Canada?
I like 'C.S.S' and 'Javascripts'.