skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like a lot of passive aggression on both sides.

Here's your problem - he thinks he's the boss, and you think you are the boss.

He asks you to implement a feature. You don't think it's a good idea. You both give each other a bunch of reasons why. He ends the conversation with "OK, it's sounds like it's a bad idea then". He retreats for a while, then decides to go another three rounds.

My S.O. and I have similar conversations, though it's usually about tech vs. clothing purchases. Who wants to spend 1000 on a sweater? A DSLR lens is a much better purchase. Anyway ...

The point is, you have unaligned goals or unaligned strategies for reaching those goals. As you've said, you aren't on the same wavelength. That's not really unhealthy - sometimes other people are right when they disagree with you. Sometimes not.

You have two options (IMO):

* You both have to agree that you trust each-other, but you are aware that you disagree at times (due to your separate skill sets, expectations, etc). You both have to work to minimize the impact of the quibbling, and you need mechanisms to help you here - most companies have minute books to record decisions for this very reason.

* Split.
It's about time. Because of browsers, jdk 6+ (which comes with rhino, the javascript runtime) and v8 (specially on nodejs), javascript is one of the most widely deployed languages/platforms. It is on desktops, mobile phones and servers.
The concept of sign-up forms are fine. The problem is every web developer wants to write his own. Even if some rudimentary "simple sign-up" REST API started to catch on, then browser plug-ins could be written handle all the in-between steps in signing up, checking your email, and confirming identity.
Given the framing of the question, I suspect they mean movies about office-based work and "workplaces"?
NASA caught Photoshopping an image of Saturn's moons. What were they hiding?
Same, unless there is just something I really really want or need in the current version.
I guess my point is that you want to avoid a situation where your cofounder is an "adversary".
freebase is structured wikipedia (concepts) this thingd looks more like structured ebay (objects)
is this something one would use to play with API requests?
I have used dozens over the last few years and none of them have failed. Granted some of the cheapo 512 MB ones I got for free at work I only used a dozen or so times before I lost them, so I don't know how long they would have held up if I used them over and over again over a long period of time. But I had a Lacie XTreme Key I used for everything daily from work, school, library and it never failed. I lost it before it failed, so I guess I am more of a threat to my data than the memory stick.
Pirates of Silicon Valley is set in offices and workplaces to a great extent and covers the early life of Apple and Microsoft. I've watched it a few times and always enjoyed it.

I also thought Boiler Room was pretty good. Some interesting work pep talks (one potentially being Ben Affleck's best scene ever), office scenes, sales calls, and insights into how empty the lives of the traders/scammers were outside of work.
That's not a problem with the efficiency of the engines or other parts. That's a social issue of people who drive with no passengers.
freebase and dbpedia are tied to wikipedia wiki articles about concepts and they seem to be trying to do products.. different data domain I don't know which one is "better" but this seems to have commercial tie-ins where wikipedia might not.
http://markup.io/v/j0b9dta6v2cp
"Even though they can do that now, people still decide to pull over. They are not forced to."

If you decide not to, then you are forced to. Unless you have Jason Bourne-esque driving abilities.
Off topic, not relevant to the question (which presumes you're already running a prior version of Ubuntu which can be upgraded to 10.10).
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Reality isn't really the issue. People's perception of reality is what will determine whether this system is accepted.
What is your idea?
Yes absolutely. Solve the problem by anticipating it and completely avoiding it > all. Unfortunately the OP appears past that point.
I've always imagined that there would surely be a way to optimize traffic to the extreme if it was completely automated. For instance, in many circumstances I could see that instead of a set of traffic lights, instead of slowing down, cars could communicate with each-other and adjust their speed accordingly, so that they criss cross each-other perfectly. (think Traffic Rush on iphone/android)

That sort of precision would require a ton of computing power, but Moores Law, the cloud and wireless internet are making that all possible. Exciting stuff!
I've had one failure on an old 256MB Sandisk--after a few years it would corrupt files. Probably just worn out, as it got used quite a bit.

We buy really cheap 1 and 2GB flash drives at work for promotional handouts. I'd say maybe 4-8 out of every 100 are DOA and need to be returned. Don't know if the good ones are holding up a year or two later.

I recently received a new (Lexar?) drive and it would work fine until I got a few hundred MB on it, and then I started seeing corrupt files and other weird errors. I should try and RMA it.
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Holy crap, yes please! I literally need an interactive HTTP client like this RIGHT NOW. Thanks!

I've been dealing with a really hairy, picky quasi-RESTful API in Objective C, and it can be extremely hard to differentiate between a bug in my code and a bug in the API at times. Having an interactive console like this is going to save me a huge amount of time and hassle. Thank you so much for writing this!
If you liked the recruiter's scenes from BR (as did I), be sure and watch Glengarry Glen Ross.
"hg push -r ." is new to me, though it makes some sense. How did you find that one out? "." is hardly a revision; it's a repository in every other command, from what I can remember (haven't used it since I initially learned mercurial).

And I'll have to see how well bookmarks function - not sure what my work repo runs.
Like I said, you'd have to do the math.

Uh, maybe you'd have to look at the history of urban planning for the past 50 years? In densely populated urban areas, just about every time people add more roads, the capacity gets used up by increased development in the outlying areas served by those roads.

Network bandwidth and CPU capacity are subject to the same phenomenon. Do end-user desktops really have more functionality than 10 years ago? Besides things like increased 3D graphics capability and more things to do with a web browser and an internet connection, not so much. As bandwidth has increased, the amount of data in a webpage has increased, and it becomes practical to use a web browser for more.

But don't take my word for it:

http://www.assmotax.org/Releases/AMCT%20release:%20building%...

http://www.walkablestreets.com/widen2.htm

http://bicycleuniverse.info/transpo/roadbuilding-futility.ht...

Basically, there can be a certain amount of pent-up "latent demand" which is there but which can't manifest until the roads are built and such travel becomes practical.
I think there are security issues, as it "works" by copying the HTML of the page and overlaying a canvas on top. So, for e.g., if you post a HN page, I could copy the URL for upvoting, trick you into clicking it and get an upvote automatically. The auth token in the upvote URL is supposed to prevent CSRF attacks, so it's dangerous to give it away!

It's also a problem with websites that store temporary auth tokens on the webpage, though I don't know any.
Cancel the bullet train, and instead plow all that money into rapidly deploying this.

There was a period before cars where trains were the most efficient form of long distance travel, so cities were built around this fact. Then cars got popular, so we built cities for those. Then they pushed light rail to combat suburban sprawl. It would be funny if automation made cars the ideal mode of travel again.
Instant parody apps have a great potential to go viral. A few months ago I launched an even more trivial website about a local Polish event (too complicated to explain to non-Poles), it went 4k uu, 15k, 36k in the first 3 days, then it went down as it obviously only made sense when the topic was hot.

Congrats, coding for fun is great.
This reminds me of Bruce Sterling's "Internet of Things."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3857739359956666768...
Packet-switched? Hmm. A Mini Cooper weighs about 2500 pounds, so with four people per Mini Cooper your packet header is still going to put at least twice as much load on the network as the packet data.
It's kind of depressing to see a blithe assumption that the police will be given that kind of power, and that if they are, nobody will hack their own cars. Granted the first assumption is plausible.
true there are far better places than Palo Alto, but comparitively, if you want to get outside of the tech community, it is still better than here.
Previous discussion (started by the developer): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1768345
I don't know how many episodes of World's Wildest Police Videos you've seen, but police can already force you to pull over anywhere, at any time, and for any or no reason. Spike strips, PIT maneuvers, etc. Letting them pull you over with a remote command would be a huge improvement--high speed chases are unsafe for all involved and (due to frustration and adrenalin) increase the risk of police brutality.

Of course, with computer-controlled cars, you can eliminate traffic infractions and hence most if any need for police to pull you over anyway.
hack a day was bleeding cash so owner made it more mainstream
Joel Spolsky predicted this project 10 years ago :)

"When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all."

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
Looking for a designer cofounder
I've been working for while on an augmented reality iphone game. It launched about a year ago and has seen steady organic use with good monetization. I've decided the time is right to blow things up, and have a ton of ideas in the space (both for the current game, and for future games). I'm a programmer, and doing good iphone games really needs a talented graphic and ux designer. This isn't my strong suit, I'm best at programing and game mechanics. So I'm looking to team up with a graphically inclined cofounder to build out some of my ideas with high polish and good production values.

I'm posting anon as I currently have a day job. It's ok if you do too as long as you can put in solid work. I'm based in mt view. If you're interested, drop me a line hyperiongames@gmail.com
Hey guys, lets put together a launch site where with everyone's products on it - and maybe we can get some publicity on it. Also maybe some kind of co-working arrangement even if just online chat where we can support and encourage each other if not help each other using our individual expertise.
That is a great quote that pretty much sums it up. If people are intelligent enough and have the drive to do a start-up it is usually due to passion. Guess what, passionate people think their idea is better than yours and a guy with no vision and a pocket full of money is not going to go through the trouble of stealing a product idea, assembling a team, and building a product. There is plenty of low hanging fruit out there that makes money with little involvement required and those are the opportunities a guy with cash and no vision is going to be looking at.

You run a far larger risk of developing a product, getting good traction and then someone emulating your idea after you have proved the market exists for a product, but when it is an idea on a napkin, it is an idea on a napkin and that's all it is worth. Isolating yourself from early feedback due to fear is the worst thing you can do.

I had an idea for an electromagnetic weight bench once and I have some pretty good connections in the industry. I discussed the idea with the executive group at EAS and Weider, hoping one of them would use the idea as I never had intentions of designing and building it, I just want an electromagnetic weight bench that I can dynamically adjust the weight, with an accelerometer that kills the weight if the bar is dropped to prevent injury.

They all though it was an amazing idea, I even got promises of financial backing if I wanted to pursue it. To this day, I don't have my electromagnetic weight bench because I was too busy at the time to do it myself and my passion lies elsewhere.

My point is, I put a good idea in front of industry leader, they though it was an amazing idea and they still told me, if you want to see it happen then you build it. They where more than willing to put up the money to a person with the vision, but they where not going to pursue assembling the people to make it happen.
Nintendo President: Piracy not behind poor sales
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it's actually 8/mo (or 4.5/mo + $?.?? '1gb nfs' that i haven't find the price for yet.)

useful for that hack-y site that you currently host on your home connection.

*edit. found on the order page only. it's $22/mo for "raid 6 NFS mount"
And stole an employee.
offtopic: why H.P. instead of HP?
This is true, but the fear that could prevent implementation is that you want that fear in your own hands, not the hands of something else. It's like trusting someone to catch you when you fall - statistically you know it's pretty likely, but there's something unsettling knowing you're relying on an extraneous factor, not YOU, to prevent harm.
You mean thinking it, right? ;~)
Depends on the idea and product.
I encourage you to write this up, as it is a fairly novel take on potentially quantitatively testing evolutionary psychology theories one way or the other. Do you have an email or contact info? If you write me at the email in my profile I could put you in touch with some senior population geneticists who I'm sure would be interested.
> China is increasingly a heavily industrialised society yet still maintains an autocratic system of government with no democracy.

So? The Chinese government is arguably more responsible than many democratic countries (as far as foreign policy is concerned). It is not involved with any foreign wars (whilst democratic countries such as the USA are involved in 2).

China (as an autocratic country) is arguably better governed than democratic countries in the same position (e.g. India). So I don’t really get the point of what you are trying to say.

PS: Note that Britain tried to destroy the very fabric of Chinese society by flooding the country with Opium (see for example the Opium Wars). Trying to create a captive market by flooding a country with drugs (enforced by a navy) is pretty evil, IMHO.

> but the brutal effects of Colonialism are taught throughout the British national school curriculum and in various British museums.

Yet the symbolism remains. A good example is Cecil John Rhodes who basically raped the 3rd world (he owned the country of Zimbabwe). Yet a lot of things are still proudly named after him. Another example is the continued British reverence of the Royal Family (which was basically a hereditary dictatorship). So, the German equivalent would be naming things after Himmler and revering the Nazi Party.
I wonder how it would look like if they hired Apple to redesign it.
Agreed. Let me clarify: hover can help, but it's not a solution.
Computer Security Precautions
I have to vociferously disagree here.

In the real world, in order for a friend to add me to a group, they have to initiate it through some action: call, write, speak directly to, etc. It requires some sort of action on my part. If I don't wish to join an evangelical Christian group, I do not have to.

On Facebook, I can be added to a group I object to without my approval or knowledge. Removing myself from the group requires the action. I frequently go 4 or 5 weeks without checking Facebook and it's entirely possible that one of my friends (whom are friends, but not close friends) could have added me to some aforementioned group.

Facebook seems to want to model real-world relationships, but they don't allow for the way real-world relationships form and act. They want to cut out the inconvenience of us having to approve everything and just have it done automatically for us, which just doesn't work for me.
Can you find a reference to the case you mention? Sounds worth reading.
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you can check out as they will assign DNS "plugXXX.pluggr.info, where XXX is the plug's numerical ID."

couldn't find none so far.
Had two fail. And also have broken two. Use Dropbox instead where possible.
>[signing in]: It's easy: just connect your Facebook or Twitter account [and no other means]

So "easy" is not allowing me to make a login not tied to everything else.

Anyone with an account care to inform me / us what you can do with an account? Just like / want it, or add thingds, or...? I'm interested, but the site contains no info about the site aside from the TOS and privacy policy.

I should really make a throw-away set of accounts on a handful of social sites, just to get around crap like this. If they allowed straight OAuth or OpenID instead of Twitter-hosted OAuth, maybe I'd use it. But nobody does that.
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Because it's how we find out about stuff we want. Most people at least tolerate, if not enjoy, that. Ad's aren't evil - they're just not relevant -- until they are, and that's when they pay for themselves.
At the very heart of it, it could map every object to its BOM including carbon based lifeforms. Imagine if every object were a class, including humans. The atom could be a basic super class, and you could map out various dependencies and object superclasses (e.g, Oxygen < Atom < Base). And it might even work with non physical things (Capitalism < EconomicTheories).
Hardness testing
"Extract" is a great manufacturing/blue collar work movie. It's also a Mike Judge (Office Space) movie, so it is quite hilarious.
removing lens glare. nothing to see here.

it's probably the work of the guy that updates the website.
Isn't this what semantic web is about?
So, why is google driving cars?

what about if GM announced a search engine? Everyone would have their opinion then.
um yeah - what's wrong with plan ole http? curl has never come up short.
I know a medical doctor who had 14 kids (oh, those catholics). And she still managed to practise medicine when she was not spreading her legs to launch another baby in this world. Sounds much more impressive than managing a baseball team, imho. The OP wants the HN crowd to assure him of what a special and unique snowflake his sister is, when she's merely doing something that is the norm in some parts of the world.
I have a 4GB Sony (I think) that I bought a few years ago. It has always corrupted bits of data here and there (think a few dozen lines of random noise in the middle of some code) so I pretty quickly learned not to use it for most things. It now holds mp3s for my car, which fails much more gracefully with garbled input than a compiler does.

But it was cheap and relatively high capacity for its time, so I wouldn't take much from that other than "you get what you pay for".
What about telnet? (I did not downvote you, BTW.)
If Google sees the cost as a problem they'll buy Velodyne and sell the LIDAR for $500 so that adoption leaps forward (just like the Nexus One).

Or they'll develop their own and sell it through a third party.
general ease of use, including highlighting, simple management of GET/POST/PUT/DELETE, cookies, etc.
I already upgraded to beta last month. Have been running solid on my home laptop. I don't use any close sourced drivers though.

So far the best feature I like is the new fonts. It really makes a difference in the overall user experience.
The British did a lot to modernise he primitive cultures of the world. Even the nobel peace prize winner this year claims that another 200 years of British colonialism is what china needs to uplift itself out of totalitarianism. Sadly, we will never know. Instead we just get dumbfucks like you equivocating Nazis with the british, when they really have more in common with the current Chinese administration.
Endoplasm -> Cytoplasm -> Mitoochondrion -> Cyanide -> Adolf Hitler
Couldn't agree more. We went to Techcrunch Disrupt and got a table in the startup alley for http://webpop.com even though we are not seeking investors and the typical guy there is not really our target.

We were wondering if it was crazy or not, but after a day of spending 9 hours showing our product, explaining what is was all about and pitching the ideas to people we got an amount of information that no doubt made it worth it to us.

As many other say, I don't think exposing your idea or talking to strangers comes with any risk worth planing around, but whether what you did was worth it: I'm pretty sure you already know it yourself by now.
Asking people whether they'll use your product or not will not help because people don't know what they want.

Create your product and only then you'll know.
"Once I had a cop have a chat to me about jaywalking but I've never been fined. I would be pissed if I ever was. In a fight between a car and a pedestrian the pedestrian loses (big time) so pedestrians have a higher vested interest in their own safety"

Look at how many people drive off cliffs, into trees, or into other cars when a deer runs across the road. Vested interests in safety aside, it's always dangerous to do something unexpected in traffic.
You're a better man than I. The first thing that popped into my mine was a room full of daisy-chained power strips.

I wonder what people are going to do with this. Reminds me a bit of the day when the Mac Mini was coming out, and immediately a lot of colocation offers were coming up.

Well, according to some RiscOS programmers I once knew, ARM assembly is quite pleasant, one of them even preferred it to 68k. So let's see what people can eke out of a system like this.
Does it support multiple inheritance? For example, water is made up of two elements.
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A few months ago, one of my friends who works for Google told me, "In the next year, Google is going to announce something that will change the world." Is this it?
It sounds like you need more in terms of actual application architecture & design - whether or not to offsite some of that capacity to AWS is purely a cost measure in the end.

You will still ned to deal with systems and sysadmin tasks - and those can always be contracted out. AWS does NOT save you from that.
I've been playing with the python dict output by http://feedparser.org/, which converts to JSON really nice (once you wrap the time object output). Admittedly schemaless, but it seems to normalize a bunch of different feed formats really well and predictably.
There's an instant demo link in the top left corner.
Water is composed of two elements, nature, like good programmers, prefers composition to inheritance.
Fair point. I guess the population in the US is far more spread out than it is here in Australia (largely based around the capitals and coast).

Wouldn't people do well to just hold a larger stock of tinned food (for example)? Would dehydrated food require clean water to become edible?

Only time in my 30+ years that I've heard of any even remote survivalist/prepare-for-the-worst stuff in Australia was my parents filling the bath on NYE 1999 just in case utilities failed due to Y2k!
As a data point, I've participated in Topix forums for many years and have never seen a single spam post despite the lack of required registration. But I have seen a lot of really dumb and contentious discussions.