skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Chicagoan trying to build a social network, I can say that this article hits a little too close to home; our ecosystem is completely dysfunctional. Go to a start-up event, and you'll see mostly service providers and FTEs that aren't willing to get engaged in anything new unless there's an income attached to it. Talk to investors, and they're mostly looking for traditional income streams or cashflowing properties. Any tech talent is either still in college (not terribly useful), or happily employed at corporations and NOT looking to change their disposition. It's been an ongoing struggle.

I worked in Santa Clara for 1.5 years and I love the Nor-cal energy, and while I there are plenty of pluses to Chicago (and the Midwest) in general, I must agree that a Twitter or FB would probably never have been successful here. For any Midwesterners reading this that disagree, I would ask if they've ever tried to rally Midwest resources around a project that isn't creating revenue within 90 days of launch.

Btw, if your an HNer in Chicago, or a tech/design resource interested in chatting let me know :)
...and that's what I get for trying to cram in too many topics into a single sentence.

You are of course correct. By "park" I wasn't intending to imply true geo-stationary orbit, rather "object not moving in relation to the ground", which would need to be done with self propulsion.

Bad (and incorrect) use of the term on my part. Cheers for pointing it out.
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Also, this suffers from the same issue as many (all?) biometric authentication systems: revocation support.

Say someone hacks the db where my particular typing style signature is stored. Now they can skip the typing and send the signal my keyboard would have sent and authenticate as me to whatever service was using that db.

You can push the problem into hardware (authenticate the keyboard as well) but that's just making the same mistake twice (once the keyboard gets hacked...).

Part of a good authentication system is being able to change the locks on the door when someone loses a key, which is why biometric data is particularly unsuited for the purpose.
There already exists a $1500 barrier to entry: the cost of a Mac.

Thanks though, if I want to load programs on my iPhone, I'll do so through Cydia.
That clears it up -- it must have been Linus.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=687587
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I agree with you. I think people are overreacting.

With that said, I don't find the question any better than how it's currently done.

I think companies would be a lot better if they administered the a Myers-Briggs personality test (or something along those lines). Having people choose and prioritize options that have no clear right or wrong answer speak better to their value system.

For example, a question could ask:

What do you value when it comes to coding (priorize)?

a) Quickness of delivery
b) Stability, solid code
c) Building for the future
d) Efficiency (code execution)

There is no right or wrong answer. Some may say, "well it depends on the situation!" But picking a priority order will speak to the default way in which people think.
If I had bought one share in Apple six years ago then they would have paid for five years of developer membership fees.
If you want to try Go, now is a great time. We just announced Go 1 release candidate 1, which you can try here: http://weekly.golang.org/
Actually, that's a rather severe simplification of "what taxes are," but for the sake of discussion, let's roll with it. (or roll it out..and shape it in a pan, and fill it with apples, and bake it..yum!)

Do I personally want free pie, which my neighbor baked? No, I don't think so, and I think that very few people engaged in our ongoing policy debates want that--just like I'd guess that very few people engaged in policy debates are actually advocating a zero-tax policy.

But.. that's not really what taxation is (taking your neighbor's pie for free, outside the confines of the larger social contract, for no purpose but your own greed and with no recompense). What I would propose for the pie-taking exercise, and what has generally been considered ethical, and within the confines of social contracts that do uphold human rights and dignity, takes on, I'd say, a different character:

I have a pie. My neighbor has a pie. There's about five or six more houses all around us, all with a pie. We need a road in front of our houses, so we can go visit the internet cafe, but none of us has the road-making expertise. So let's all take a slice of our pies and give them to the guy with the paving machine.

We also need to make sure the roads stay in good shape, so we've got to give him another slice of pie every year.

We also (and this, I think, is where it gets uncomfortable for some people) need a way to make sure we all always give up a slice of our pie, so we all give another small slice to the guy who's going to go around and make sure we all give some pie.

We saw what happened that one year when it was entirely voluntary, how everyone figured the others would chip in, and no one did, and the road fell into disrepair.

So we not only need to pay for things collectively that none of us could realistically pay for on our own (one big part of the social contract), we also need to account for human nature and hire an enforcer (another big part of the social contract, and the one that makes people uncomfortable) to keep everyone accountable to that same social contract.

Do I want your pie? No. Do I want us all to chip in and pay with our pies for necessary services? Yes.

Very few people, I think, would argue with the need to pay for necessary services collectively. What constitutes a necessary service changes over time, though, and that's why we have an ongoing political dialogue. If these problems were so simple to solve that the answers could fit on bumper stickers, we'd have solved them long ago. But they're not, and that's why we'll never stop having these discussions, and rolling these ideas around in our heads.

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There are already tons of alternate markets, including one run by Amazon...
The BeOS (and therefore Haiku) window managers were well beyond their time. The tab style is still my favourite windowing paradigm.
Google removes "reddit is fun" from Play store for NSFW content
It sure won't be a microUSB port. To charge a middle-of-the-road 2500mAh capacity battery in, say, 10 seconds, you must flow something like 70A @ 5V, and that's ignoring the fact that capacitor charge curves are of the exponential decay variety (i.e. drastically higher initial power draw).

(A real-world application would probably kick up the voltage and lower the current, but USB is always 5V)
Upvoted for no trackers. A sign they are serious.
Unless you are a significant shareholder, your "fundamental value" is lost in the noise.
This is only a problem for people who plan to make <$100 from their app
This completely misses the point (or rather: completely confirms what I'm saying). The question at hand is "What should Apple do with $100e9US". What relevance does an investment of 0.01% of that total have, even if they could get that RoI on demand. With (pinky to mouth) One Hundred Billion Dollars you need to be aiming much, much higher. And they aren't. And even if they could they're just a bunch of Jobs-less yahoos playing with cash that landed in their laps. Be honest: they aren't going to create ten thousand Pixars with that money, they'll be lucky to get five. And they can fund five (or fifty) on existing revenue without the cash reserves.

Give it back.
Do languages eventually get better over time? If that's true, I would be expecting some fossil languages to become less attractive over time as living languages like python and ruby become "better" for your given needs.
Pixel-pumping prowess: Ars reviews the third-generation iPad
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Yes, at a premium. For example Alibaba announced last month it would buy back its shares at a 46% premium.
From Homeless World Traveling Programmer to Funded Startup Owner
You can jailbreak an iOS device and install whatever you want as well, that doesn't change the fact that Apple makes ridiculous decisions about what can and can't appear on the app store.

My problem with this decision isn't that it makes it impossible for me to install this one app, but rather that it looks very much like the path towards where Apple is, where maybe I have to install a custom Cyanogenmod build on my Android phone just to have the option to install non-'Play' APKs (this isn't the situation now, but I can much more easily see this happening today than I could a year ago).
TBH my criticism was mostly related to the original article and the suggested kind of interviewing, from my experience they don't go in to details, it's a jumping off in to more useless buzzword questions and pseudo psychoanalysis (does money matter to you, what are your goals, what are your motivations, etc.) without touching on the important stuff (like can you code, did you work as a part of a team environment, what did you accomplish) I'm a fan of "describe a project you were involved in and feel is representative of your skill" as a jumping off point.
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More than anything, I think the intention behind the developer fee is to act as an additional buffer against low-quality developers. Personally, I have no objection to it. If you're serious about putting time into developing for Apple, $100 bucks isn't really all that big a deal. Furthermore, 30% isn't a bad deal either considering that Apple is providing you with a large platform for distribution as well as potential exposure.
As I understand it this approach is currently illegal in the US.

I think they could shake up startup funding in the UK even more than YC and Kickstarter have in the US.
Based on my own sales history (I've made 5 figures in one day on the app store before), I can guarantee you that based on their top grossing rankings, they are making much more than $100K. They are sandbagging when they say "more than 100K"
That happened, but it doesn't actually seem to accept the info from the iphone. I see the accelerometer readings on the iphone, but it doesn't seem to do anything with the page. I tried reloading the page on my laptop and on my phone. Best I could do was get it to move all the way to the left once and then just hang there. Neat idea, hopefully you can fix it.
Some info on reddit and alleged CP content: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=346...
Since Lisp is one off the oldest and arguably (one of) the best, it's true that languages get better over time.
Amazon buys Kiva Systems (Robotics)
I thought the definition of "better" in this case is that it requires less work to get the same computational strength with scrypt. Are you saying that the memory locality issues that scrypt causes more than cancel out the computational win?
Mac mini starts at $599. And no need to be hostile--he's making a legitimate point. By charging a relatively modest fee to use the store--the tools themselves are free, unlike things like VS--Apple is making sure people have minute skin in the game.
St. Patrick's Day: Peaceful protesters violently choked, stomped on, and beaten.
Just discovered a week or so ago and have been using on a little side project. So far nothing but good things to say about JPlayer. Skins are easy to create, it loads well, looks nice enough. Great for prototyping with if nothing else.

Though with all the good things about JPlayer, the codec issues and incompatibilities amongst browsers, I cannot say the same for HTML5 video in general.
Languages only get better if language designers learn from previous attempts.
Yeah, give me all the information I need to take all of the advantage.
What is "growth"? "Association?"
Well, the reason is probably that some people are just dipshits when it comes to hiring. Or managing.
I think payments in Europe are beginning to catch up with the US services of stripe and square.

iZettle are running a beta test and you can request an invite on Twitter. However, no stripe equivalent yet.....
Although I do not completely disagree with you, Apple's leadership team has reliably produced hit after hit in the last 10 years: iPods, iTunes, Macbooks, iPhones, iPads, app store, etc. That doesn't mean this success will go on forever, but right now, Apple is batting pretty well.
Very cool. Tools like this are unbelievably useful for self-study, as they allow for quick experimentation. Which (at least in my case) helps cement new concepts.

Another, similar tool is jsFiddle (http://jsfiddle.net/).

Anyone know of any others like this?
There isn't a really strong comparison though. I think it would be quite rare for you to find a farmer that raised capital and just struck out on their own without knowing _exactly_ what they needed to do to reach profitability - nor would they pivot away from the act of farming. To try and apply the 'startup' concept talked about in the article, to farming would be something more along the lines of buying land and beginning to plow - then 'pivoting' and using the land to house private jets. Yes that is a strong example of pivoting, but I think that is the focus of the article (Wasn't the Reddit team originally working on mobile food ordering?).

Traditionally (this has certainly changed with corporate farms) farming has been strong family history and bootstrapping (likely via loans for land/equipment purchase) rather than investors.
Amazon.com to Acquire Kiva Systems
PHP source code now hosted on Github
I have never used Haiku myself, but that is exactly what I was thinking while playing with this example. Did Haiku 'remember' the original size so that it bounced back as you dragged it away from the edge?
Board members and executives have a fiduciary duty. Executives and board members who knowingly and willfully undertake actions that decrease the value of the company can be held personally (financially) responsible for those actions. (That's why you purchase director's and officer's liability insurance.)
metrics:
position, notes on boss, code love, product social good, location, $, required hours, good coworkers,

Operationalizing good coworkers:
while evaluating "good" I try to take notes about skills, morality, humor and pre-existing relationships. Skills are the easiest and I like to get a sense of their skill level relative to mine for overlapping skills and also the breadth of skills that they have that I do not. I have found that morality is binary: are there any red flags? Humor is trickier. I like to work with people that enjoy themselves but not at the expense of others. About the last point; there has only been one group that can have gentle ribbing between coworkers that wasn't an excuse to be mean, and it was a lot of fun, but ultimately I know that I changed the list of people that I would want to invite into that environment because it can be off-putting for people and other people would be tempted to shift the dynamic for the worst. Self-deprecation, puns, deriding microsoft and your own old code:yes. Fat jokes: no.

I don't gather info about every metric for every company, as red flags short-circuit the process.
Woz supports Mike Daisey's message and says you should too
Some debate exists over the correct default to switch to ("current" or "upstream"), but nobody seems to argue for today's behavior ("matching").
I think the argument about dreams feeding the pipeline of scientists and technologists of the future is a sound one and speaks to the hearts of scientists and technologists everywhere.

I know a robot is cheaper and safer than a manned spacecraft, but are we really willing to make our robots live our adventures while we sit on our couches watching TV?

Space travel has to be profitable, of course. It also has to be cheap. Now think of the price tag of a single F-22. Or the colossal clusterfuck that the F-35 project became. Couldn't we persuade just a couple nations to dedicate the budget of a single aircraft carrier or nuclear submarine to help fund the dreams of the next generation instead?
Today would be a good day to own stock in AAPL, methinks.
I'd argue however that at the present moment, some people in the private sector have just as big of a chance, if not greater to be credited with taking the US(world) to Mars.

Elon Musk's SpaceX is in my opinion just as close as NASA is in sending humanity to Mars if not slightly closer.
>But that doesn't make it a "porn site" either. Lots of folks like me go there to read stuff like /r/askscience, which is about as good a pop science hub as any in print or web form anywhere in the world. You're saying you'd want to be censoring that forum because of stuff people do elsewhere on the site? //

Nice and strawy. I never said that reddit was a "porn site"; probably because it isn't primarily (though there's observer bias, that's not how I use it shall we say). However subreddits do promote hardcore porn.

I didn't at any time say I was going to deny anyone access to, nor label as adult material, /r/askscience.

>And I think your information might be a little spun. //

I visited a "bestof" thread that linked to what is almost certainly categorised as child pornography in my jurisdiction (and in the US AFAICT under the Dost test) and FWIW reported the content of that subreddit to the IWF based on the thumbnails+titles (IWF is a UK watchdog, see https://www.iwf.org.uk/hotline/assessment-levels). There was a previous incident involving subreddits created by violentcrez (sp?) where the subreddit was closed by reddit as users were making offers and requests explicitly for images of an under-age girl.

See http://i.imgur.com/mWqlJ.png (NSFW, images there may be illegal in your country - they're copies of reddit thumbnails) for example and the thread I found that in http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/pj804/are_you_fucking_k... which started as a rather forceful apologia for paedophilic imagery.
Nothing in either the SpaceX or ISS projects is classified. Export-controlled, yes, but nothing that requires a security clearance.
You can't. This page would count as prior art.
Of course it is. I was lucky to have several managers that I would call "good", and even a couple of "great" ones, so that before I jumped into the startup world I got to see what a "good" manager does for a project. Those were sometimes Accenture people, sometimes people who worked to the client. The fact that they worked for a consultancy was irrelevant, but the fact that they were managers was obviously relevant.

How could my background not be "interwoven" in the article content and recommendations? Are you suggesting I should make things up instead of basing them on experience?
It's amazing how fast Google has gone from having arguably the most respected brand in America to having a brand that stands for almost nothing. However, this has been something that's been at least five years coming so I don't think it's necessarily fair to blame it on Page taking over.
If what you claim is true, and drug companies only get things approved by brute force, then we'd expect just 5% (for p-value of 0.05, as is commonly used) of trials to succeed at every level. But that's not the case.
And that's one of the reasons politics are so messed up.

I wouldn't envy him if he ever decided to enter this shark tank, but I would support him with all my energy. Which isn't much - I don't even live in the US.

But the world could use one or two ethical politicians for a change.
CEO puts social security number on billboard as challenge
what's the asp on ipad2s?

$750 per?

$2.25B in revenue in a weekend. not bad.
A Bayesian Approach to Reasoning Fallacies
Overall, I dig the site and like the map-centric interface. I like the sqft cost per year, and recognize that an awesome thing to calculate and filter on.

I'd really like to be able to "click into" the actual Streetview to be able to rotate around on a listing page. It looks like the auto-grabbed images aren't always the most useful representation. Also -- I immediately found the two Google Maps images on the listing page to be kind of an eye sore with each having the Google logo and trademark.

Best of luck to ya'll, the site is off to a pretty awesome start.
Humanity doesn't really need war heroes.

Edit: or the robots will be programmed with markov generators to tweet some stirring last words.
"Octachoron" would work just as well (progression from "tetragon" and "hexahedron").
Show HN: AppSling - Effective App Store Links
Problem:
App Store links suck, you click them and end up no closer to having the app on your device.

Opening up the app store, searching for the app etc etc is a pain.
How many app downloads are lost to users who can't be bothered?

Solution:
Have the app store link quickly sent to your device via SMS, tap the link and download.

http://appsling.io/
We all know the reality of the situation. This idea that the word "imagine" somehow frames the question in a different light is nonsense.

My first response would be "Ok, so you're asking me what my job priorities are" and go from there. Let's bring things back to reality, and be honest about what each other is doing.

Also, the question is a classic rehearsal question and its use may be limited. There may be a lack of honesty and even with an honest answer a person's priorities are subject to change.
Don't connect to untrusted machines? As in, never connect to anything? What the point in having a smart phone then? (debatable why anyone needs one, I'm personally considering going to a dumb prepaid for cost/lack of need reasons)

I appreciate the paranoia, but it doesn't scale for normal users. With every page the users browses/app they install/etc there is a chance of the device executing code that's going to do something naughty. Operating under that assumption, one would hope that things like password managers would mitigate some of the long term effects of that, but as we see from this report that is not typically the case.
It depends what level you are using it on.
If you are writing crypto libraries on your own then sure you are at significant risk of screwing it up, but a good crypto library should have good defaults that will provide proper security.

Expecting every programmer who needs to build an application that stores passwords or personal information etc to have a rigorous mathematical understanding of crypto (this probably means having a PhD or similar in the subject) is just plain unrealistic.

It's sort of akin to suggesting you shouldn't allow a mechanic to change the brakes on your car without them having a detailed understanding physics.
I'm a bit wary about this.

They don't claim to be crypto experts, and the website is a bit thin on details.

I'm also worried about how they'll handle validly formed law-enforcement requests. See, for example, Hushmail creating a compromised version of their Java app and surreptitiously serving that to a criminal gang so that the email could be decrypted.

But it's an interesting idea, and I'm keen to see how they go.
No you were not wrong. That is the correct, conservative attitude to take in most instances.
Very nice! And very happy people are finding sql.js useful. Let me know if there are any improvements that would be useful for this project (or others).
This is a naive question but if you've got a funded startup, you're not the owner are you?
Not working for me either, but my desktop browser has to go through a proxy at work. I suspect that's what's wrong here. I will try it again at home later.