skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly? Your reply is what's FUD. I clicked on that link ready to be outraged, until I saw this:

Topsy belonged to the Forepaugh Circus and spent the last years of her life at Coney Island's Luna Park. Because she had killed three men in as many years (including a severely abusive trainer who attempted to feed her a lit cigarette),[1] Topsy was deemed a threat to people by her owners and killed by electrocution on January 4, 1903, at the age of 28.[2] Inventor Thomas Edison captured the event on film. He would release it later that year under the title Electrocuting an Elephant.

He didn't electrocute an elephant just to prove the unsafety of AC, he filmed an electrocution of a previously (even wrongly) condemned elephant. Yes, he may have been a heartless bastard to take advantage of the death sentence of a beautiful (innocent?) animal to further his own goals, but it wasn't as senseless a killing as your reply would suggest, and certainly not him that did it. He was the guy behind the camera.
Wealthfront's Appeal For A Designer
Tesla: do as much cool stuff as you can, no matter what kinds of trolls get in your way.
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Getting an android phone was what finally convinced me that Google is a brilliant marketing company.

Before getting one I was convinced that Google were able to write software.

[edit] I want text messaging to work properly. Without doing a system upgrade. Text messaging should not be a hard problem. :(
I use ClockSync too. But the problem is with my mobile phone network, not the handset. The network doesn't support NITZ (or does, but in some broken/incompatible way):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NITZ
Been doing Personal Setup in Apple stores for a year now and I can assure you that all new macs come out-of-the-box with secondary click enabled for Trackpads, Magic Trackpads and Magic Mice.
"maximizing shareholder value" is the purpose of a public traded company, including Apple.

Jobs did it by out-innovating, out-marketing and other stuff. RIM CEO is trying to do it his way. (which may or may not be successful.)
Ask HN:How can a startup gain users' confidence in handling private data?
A recent submission on HN related to an Address Book manager application cause someone to mention that these startups are just selling data.

I am working on an application that manages personal data too (and I have applied to YC). Now, while talking about our own application to friends, I have faced that question: "Your product's growth will also depend on how users trust you".

My question to HN users is: How can we, a startup, gain users' confidence?

I am not asking for only technical measures of data protection. I am asking for steps we can take to make sure the user understands we are not going to steal data and run away.

Thanks for your help.
Really helpful slideshow for understanding Three.js basics
Okay, I can get behind that. I feel a certain amount of government is necessary to stop big business, big gangs (mafia & the like), or whatever from getting out of hand -- but too much government has its own problems. As you say, corruption, whoever gets too big.

Similarly, a certain amount of unionisation helps keep big business under control, but too much leads to the workers holding the populace hostage.

And so on -- balance in all things, really. Although what constitutes "balance" will vary considerably depending on what you're looking at. (Law enforcement needs more regulation than most industries, for instance.)
James Dempsey and the Breakpoints are making a Record
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

Show people the flash and the substance will follow. As I've said previously, if seeing that demo pushes me to try and implement it because it's painful to code after having seen it; then theres certainly many able individuals working on it right now. (I am a novice programmer in most respects, I couldn't do it. But damn if I didn't try.)

EDIT: Push does not mean I actually tried. But I'm getting there. Every time I sit down to code it nags at me that I can't see the code the way I always wish I could see it when I'm debugging.
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I am surprised to see this question resurfacing last half year because I think that the answer to this question was pretty much nailed down by Vinicius Vacanti in his blog post in Sep 2010 http://viniciusvacanti.com/2010/09/27/should-you-hire-a-prog...

In short - it depends on the nature of your start-up and the challenges your start-up is tackling. Depending on those you 3 options:

1. Find tech co-founder (and don't do start-up w/o such person).

2. Learn to code.

3. Outsource the programming.

If your case is #2, then read the guy's post http://viniciusvacanti.com/2010/09/13/cant-find-a-technical-... and some other posts in his blog.
I have a Galaxy S (the first one) and it's only 0.9 seconds off.
Tell HN: Google Plus doesn't like my name
I just got an email from Google Plus telling me that I'm in violation of their Naming Policy.

Apparently, Google thinks my real name (transliterated from Hebrew) is a nickname. That's also the name, by the way, that appears on my passport.

I have no idea why Google thinks 'Or' is that odd of a name (I can't imagine that they took exception to my last name).

I've been warned that if I don't appeal the decision within 4 days, my Google Plus account will be suspended. Other than pressing an 'appeal' button of Google Plus, I couldn't find any way to provide 'further information', as requested in their email.

Comments:
1. Good work scaring your users, Google.
2. Facebook never had a problem with my name.
3. People at Google really needs to read this : http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
4. On a further note on 3, Part of my day job is writing software for name identification. Trust me, My name is not all that odd.

Or

Notes:
* Naming policy: http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1228271

* Google email:

Hello,

After reviewing your profile, it appears that the name you entered does not comply with the Google+ Names Policy. Please log in to Google+ and visit your profile to learn more and take action.

The Names Policy requires that you use the name you are commonly referred to in real life in your profile. Nicknames, previous names, and so on should be entered in the Other Names section of the profile. Profiles are limited to individuals; use Google+ Pages for businesses and other entities.

If you do not edit your name to comply with our Names policy or appeal with additional information within four days of receiving this message, your profile will be suspended. While suspended, you will not be able to make full use of Google services that require an active profile, such as Google+, Buzz, Reader and Picasa. This will not prevent you from using other Google services, like Gmail.

The Google+ team.
It's more about using DNA/RNA nanostructures. Imagine a 3d tetrahedron with toehold overhangs made entirely of one strand of DNA/RNA that unravel to deliver the payload. From what I remember, they are soluble through lipid bilayers, making them very effective for delivery.

Imagine a very small 3d hotpocket that can deliver small siRNA or miRNA. Even better, you can program a signal amplification or another message into the structure itself, e.g. joining other structures to form lock-key mechanisms like legos.
If I remeber well the funding principles of YC, if you can call them like that, that's exactly the reason why they don't fund biotech start-ups for example. "Those are still ridicolously exapnsive" I think were the exact words used. The real value I see YC is providing to founders, no matter of the age, is access to a incredible network and contacts, funding that gets you over the three months of the programm plus the 150k $ you get without a lot of trouble. This way they take away a lot of pain in ther initial funding process. Combine with the access to top tier VCs and your money problem should become considerably smaller.

That said, it's true thats it's way easier if you are young with out a family, but still not impossible. The best scenario I could dream of is a year long payed sabatical while you are in YC. If you have an employer who's offering you that...
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From the language FAQ: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Doc-language-FAQ

Go adopted semantics (safety and memory model) that are quite unsatisfactory.

Shared mutable state.
Global GC.
Null pointers.
No RAII or destructors.
No type-parametric user code.
Edison: Never invent anything if you can fuck over Tesla to get it for free.
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I don't know how the US-designed versions of NFC work, but the NFC (mobile suica train pass/7-11 nanaco/yodobashi point card) on my Japanese phone works even if the battery is removed completely.
A freelancer capable of "CMS and some elbow grease" has a few attractive options right now, including building "CMS and some elbow grease" for clueful clients who will compare his invoices to the change in the bottom line and pay accordingly, or taking "CMS and some elbow grease" and getting seed funding for it, or going to one of the numerous companies selling "CMS and some elbow grease" who are desperate for engineers and saying "I have two years of PHP experience and have shipped products. You are looking for an intermediate engineer. How much do you offer?" and then getting offered $120k plus benefits on the spot.

Periodically, I get a cold lead asking for work. A half dozen recently have been for Twilio development. The projects are typically not terribly technically challenging: solving real business problems for money, good ideas, probably 6 man-weeks on average. I quote my usual weekly rates (in preference to saying "I know where this conversation is going. The answer is no.") and regularly get told that a) I'm out of the budget and b) 5~10% of this deal would make me rich.

I am polite in the emails but, just between us geeks: that's cute.

P.S. Do you do Twilio development? Need work? Find my email, I'll filter out the jokers and pass you anyone who sounds serious. Do you do "CMS and elbow grease"? Pick up Twilio and double your bill rates. Or just double your bill rates.
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The site says "Tyson talks about the issue at the 15m 20s mark" but it's actually at 56m 20s.
Should You Get a Vasectomy?
Yes, disks fail. See "Floppy Disks: It's Already Too Late", by one of the most prominent digital archivists: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3191
When It’s Time to Fire an Employee
Jon Steinberg » The Art of Cold Emailing is Core to Revenue Development
For a few years during the transition to decimalisation, the UK had a half penny also.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfpenny_(British_decimal_coin...
The Tesla vs Edison personality duel is equivalent to Knowledge vs Brute-force, Science vs Business, etc.
At the end, Edison may be more known for the general population, but the standard unit of magnetism is named after Tesla.
continuing this tangent, I'm not a fan of closing blocks either; I much prefer indentation http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/18319031919/progr...
You know that a vasectomy is at least two weeks of hell, right? Of course, in the long run it may worth it.

Should You Get a Vasectomy?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3775066
I learned my lesson about trying to be too cute with my interface, for sure. I guess it's never too late to go back and change Beat Boxes in addition to ensuring my next game adheres to the de facto standards set by games like Angry Birds.
With no experience at all, I'd like to add a marketing lesson: if you write a blog post concerning your project, make sure it features an easy link to that project.
Not necessarily a direct port, but a clone written in C/SDL with the original artwork is doable.
Even Bulgaria!
Thanks for the confirmation. Would a visual signal that you have tapped and that the ball is "primed" for a high bounce be helpful? Or is that still not really enough?
Interesting. Only if Justice Burger's son was name Hammond, in short Ham.
Why shouldn't we respect each other's work simply because we're people, and we suffer when we try to cooperate with those who don't respect us?

Doesn't this go both ways?
tens of minutes for .mpg conversion
Data revolution for Wikipedia
I meant that I'm all for Rust providing the mailboxes abstraction too but not for channels to go away.
I'm not sure you're being down-voted either. I agree with you.
Will this be released as open source?

Can wait to see it and may be hack on it.
>This is why I charge by the hour and refer clients who don't like it to India.

Why don't you refer them to people in your own country? Why India?
My GS2 is also 0.9 of accurate time according to time.is, I wonder if it's just a coincidence or something common... (UK network time being off slightly?)
HDMI cable query, first search result:

$13 - Best Buy

$6 - Amazon

HDMI cable query, most expensive on first page:

$696 - Best Buy

$14 - Amazon

That's why Best Buy is dying. If the meaning is unclear here, my comparison represents how distorted and convoluted Best Buy is as a company.
Yeah, Significant whitespace is why I won't code in Python anymore. Also, the linked article's comparison of Haskell and Python on readability is an awfully poor comparison, Haskell has notoriously terse syntax, In comparison to Python, which is nearly designed with the sole purpose of having good looking syntax.
If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis
So there's a 6 year old post about selling a Bulldozer through Amazon here: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/12/12/whats-the-weir...

(And it's obviously stuck with me -- because I posted a link to it on HN 3.7 years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=237779 )
don't hate the player, try to love it.
Bruce Schneier debates former TSA boss
Are you confusing concurrency with parallelism?

> Erlang's primary goal has always been reliability. Not concurrency

Wrong. Concurrency is not some accidental bolt-on in Erlang: http://www.erlang.org/course/history.html

Now I picked out Erlang because it has ... garbage collection. I was replying to the parent saying that GC is utterly incompatible with a systems language.

Go and Rust are the new Erlangs in that they are the go-to language for system services above kernel level.
This story about a guy who was denied employment as a police offer because he scored too high on an IQ test is a sufficient counterexample to disprove the assertion that IQ tests are strictly illegal (the decision was upheld in court): http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95836#.T3V6K3lRyxN
Is this info about prints still valid now that a number of theaters use digital projectors?
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I'd just compared my Android galaxy S2 to NTP synchronized clock and they change minuter indicator about the same time. So this is not a bug in all devices...
Welcome to Nymwars. There's a reason Google+ has earned itself nothing but contempt from many quarters. Come back to Facebook; as long as you keep clicking their ads, they don't care what you call yourself.
Vision? For a third generation social network?

I certainly wouldn't use that word. You wouldn't say a dating site had vision. Facebook falls in that category. Awesome achievement, but no real vision and it's going into no other fields, like google did for example.
A film in Hollywood made "for everyone" is a four-quadrant film with a PG-13 rating.

Less than 30 films a year released by the studios (out of the 120 they release) fit that description – i.e. 80% of the films the major Hollywood studios release each year are explicitly not made for everyone.

What they are all made for is a mass audience, where "mass" is essentially: enough to make their money back.
Sadly, there's not much hope. I hear it hasn't improved since my case:

https://plus.google.com/115896012705745653160/posts/Kdg2nPzM...
Why did Objective-C never catch on? (Ask Slashdot, Aug 2000)
If I'm getting set up, I really don't distinguish between Rails itself being irritating and one of its dependencies being a PITA. Those dependencies are part of the architecture of Rails, so it gets the blame. It's not like I need foo version of ruby if I'm just doing some quick scripting.
I think that your assertion that "unfounded prejudice is unstable in a competitive market for labor" has a tacit assumption that Gwen faced a competitive market for labor. For example, suppose other businesses will not work with you if you hire someone who is not "acceptable"? Suppose there are legal penalties (supported by members of the powerful group)? Suppose there is a union? My point is that that there are non-market forces which can strongly effect job selection.
A 5 days HTML5 Game Jam. Here are the games (40+)
I guess John Doe would work just fine though.

Google is very "Anglo-centric" in many of its products.
If you're a GlimmerBlocker user there's a filter you can install which redirects safari searches to DDG...

http://glimmerblocker.org/wiki/Filters
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Breathing new life into History.js
We'll always be able to find ways to use extra CPU cycles to make things more pleasant to use.

That kind of thinking gave us Eclipse.
I think this also has applicability to other domains where quick iterations can be extremely useful--for example, testing data modelling--unfortunately, a lot of codes are too computationally expensive to run in such an interactive fashion...
Which is weird - the whole strength of RECAPTCHA comes the examples being ones that computers have specifically failed to solve...
I've had a friend banned from facebook for using a nickname, instead of a real name. Facebook may not do it as often, or it may not be as publicized, but they do also have a real name policy in place.
This would be awesome!

How can old floppies be read without destroying them? Somehow I don't feel comfortable with inserting them into a modern machine...
The fact that you use automation to produce your responses doesn't make you any less responsible for them.
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I see things have improved little since the days when I couldn't have a Hotmail account with my real name (because "Cumming" is an offensive term) but I was able to register using the name Ivana Watch-Teenz-Screwing.

PS Went into my archives to check on this and discovered two things:

1. It was actually Ivana Watch-Teens-Give-Head and here are two screen shots that date back to April 2003 showing the denial of my real name and the acceptance of Ivana.

http://i.imgur.com/2bX2o.png

http://i.imgur.com/rO8Jp.png

2. In the same period Google used to serve pornographic ads against my name.

http://i.imgur.com/Z21O3.png
Darn, I just read the article below :)
The Ground Beneath Apple’s Walled Garden
> Google still has a lot of explaining to do as to why the N1 doesn't get Android 4

No, they really don't. Google has been clear that, in their opinion, the Nexus One hardware doesn't support ICS. And while we all know someone will shoehorn a version of ICS on there somehow (after all, someone did it for the G1), there's plenty of evidence that Google's opinion is reasonable:

- the limited internal storage (512 MB) [ICS distributions are substantially bigger than Gingerbread ones and there were plenty of Nexus One users pinched for space on Gingerbread]

- the relatively weak GPU [less ability to support and probably less benefit from the new rendering architecture]

- no front-facing camera [i.e. no Face Unlock]

- no NFC [i.e. no Android Beam]

- ...

Feel free to complain that Google and HTC made bad choices when designing the Nexus One, if you want. In retrospect, they clearly did. But it isn't at all hard to explain why the Nexus One isn't getting ICS.
It can't be that low...

How do men (heterosexuals) get infected then?
I been through this, how I did was I told Google that I am sensitive to being found for fraud and phishing, then they allow me to use single letter as my last name. LoL
no no no - what we want is SPDY without encryption/signing.

http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/20125275380/why-p...
I have to correct myself. You do not want a 50% chance, because the answer does not provide 1Bit of information. If we get it right, we also know the position(s) of the letter.

More precisely: Given a dictionary of all possible words and a letter to guess, we can split the dictionary into k parts. One sub-dictionary contains all words for which the answer is negative. Additionally, we have k-1 sub-dictionaries for each equivalence class of letter positions.

For each letter, we can compute the partition. Now we need to choose the strategically best partition. I believe it should be the one with "the lowest average sub-dictionary size".
The bottom end is Best Buy's biggest problem--mainly that this is how Best Buy makes money. Much of what Best Buy sells requires no physical interaction with consumers. This is as much about experience goods as it is about Best Buy's market. There are a variety of experience goods sold online--headphones, iPods, laptops, TVs, musical equipment--and its probable that a large number of these sales are not decided because a consumer walked into a physical store and experienced the product beforehand.

For instance, the first headphones I spent more than $30 on where a pair of Audio-Technica M-30s. I could not find these headphones in a physical retailer. I found them online, and I bought them purely based on the recommendations of others. I now own a pair of Audio Technica M-50s, which I bought based on the experience of the first pair of Audio-Technicas and the recommendations of others.

The element not explored in the article is authority. Authority plays a big role in how we buy things. Best Buy is perceived to have little authority; they hold little regard for consumers and have questionable customer service. Newegg, on the other hand, treats consumers well, and consumers come back to the site. Apple stores have authority, because Apple has created the impression in people's minds that you can go to the store to get your electronics needs fulfilled.

The other variable is price. jrockway commented here that he wouldn't buy a $60 USB cable from Best Buy. Why? Because he knows USB cables are much cheaper online, new or used. The problem here is price and authority. Best Buy reduces their perceived authority when they sell generic goods obviously overpriced. Best Buy is selling cheap goods as expensive goods; their biggest obstacle to success is people's knowledge that Best Buy is overcharging you. That is the symptom (not the cause) of their issues; knowledge for most people is irreversible.

What does Best Buy actually need to do? Get their authority back. Give people a reason to come back to Best Buy. Actual customer service goes a long way.
I don't hate the players. These particular players just do not come off as candid, is all.
I had the exact same problem when I opened my Facebook account. The appeal worked smoothly though. I guess if there is any kind of name checking going on (which I find useless) these things are bound to happen.