skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The nice part is that we don't have to share our dropbox folder with other users, so we don't. to utilize copy_ref we just need separate access to each of the accounts to do the API call. We have special dropbox accounts that are only used by the servers. Like anything, we take serious effort to ensure that this information isn't compromised.

As Eric mentioned, we have an email to Dropbox to see if we can permanently delete through the API. Until then, we will have to rely on keeping the login information to these accounts safe, which is saved in the same high level of encryption as our user account information.

I am not sure that I follow how a small bug could cause your files to be accessed. All access to the user accounts are kept completely separate. We take all concerns with user data and security very seriously.
Everything old is new again. I wonder how many folks reading this article even know how UUCP email worked. Or traditionally decentralized SMTP, for that matter.
What I meant by #3 was you only have a finite amount of relatively pricey space on your DropBox account(s).
This comes up pretty often, but it's worth noting that it's built-in scarcity. Deflation in the sense of increasing purchasing power will only happen if it is more widely adopted as a medium of exchange (which is definitely possible.) It its use as a medium of exchange diminishes, it could actually see inflation in the sense of decreasing purchasing power.
I was curious too, and tracked it down to this. Only slightly more verbose than the quote!

But what experience and history teach is this, - that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hi/his...
I said (or tried to say) above that I was strictly talking about Firefox and Safari on OS X, not on Windows. Upon re-reading, it came out a little funny.
It only has to be unique within the article, since it's added to the article path, and there would likely be some kind of provision to add or swap out for a unique character in case of conflict. It's also case-preserving, so that implies likely case-sensitivity as well. I guess we'll have to find an instance of two - probably single-sentence - paragraphs with the same characters and same capitalization in the same story to be certain.

Not it!
fuck the new google.

seriously.

i am not an android user. google, you know that. why, oh why, do i suddenly have a google play link in my now even more so useless google menu/top bar?! why are my picasa albums suddenly less relevant than circle's photos? the fukc do i need circles for? to be reminded why i went off facebook?!

pushing google services at every turn is really, really annoying. i like search, gmail, maps and docs to some extent - can i PLEASE disable the fucking rest, once and for all?

i grew up, internet wise, with google search. as it came out, it rocked my world. a super simple search box, with perfect results. my god, was it glorious. now it is turning into yahoo.
I'm curious... what's the point of democracy in a social network?
Eh, can't edit, he's name is Piotr Waglowski of course, I always mix it with his nick.
I did apply, but I think my chances are slim. I did not want to apply this cycle (have applied 2 times before) because I'm far from finishing my project, but did it anyway.

Feel free to contact me! I'd love to bounce of some ideas!
Maybe these?
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/07/aerospace-giants-design...

This has a small image of a test vehicle:
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/research/sonic_booms.html
I guess I don't see the point. The data is stored on their servers where they offer the same "promise" that they won't sell your data either.

The only benefit I see is a central location of all data.
Unlike cash and gold, Bitcoin can be divided down to 8 decimals. So it doesn't really matter how many millions of bitcoins there are. The important thing is that bitcoin can't be printed by central banks.
Looking at this C code; it could be made more self documenting with a few constants (in enum if you want) for the values rather than just putting them in. Comments are fine but it seems like most of the values are used twice.
Why would it? The capacity to manipulate the national currency is a major source of government power. Plugging into bitcoin would only dilute that power.
Does it matter if gas-electric hybrid car maker Fisker Fails?
The orange juice test
Amazon was unprofitable for years after IPO.

If your argument that profits right now are the only thing that matter, then you'd be hating on amazon for the same reason you're hating on groupon. And if Amazon listened to folks like you and went for immediate profitability, they'd likely not have the growth they did.

The real argument anti-groupon folks should be making is that in the long term, they don't see profitability. Too much emphasis is being put on their present unprofitability.
Groupon’s restatement doesn’t add up
My impression from working in their building (at a different company) is that they really don't have that many tech people. From what little one can divine from elevator conversations, it seems like far less than 1/10 have anything even remotely technical in their conversations.

Those that are sent packing when Groupon shuffles off this mortal coil will get snapped up in a hurry. The other 5k+ twenty-something sales force will be much more problematic. If you're under 35, you know at least one person who works there, so it's going to be a real horror show when all those people get tossed out on their collective asses.
No kidding!

On a related note, it's always fun to demonstrate code's sensitivity to minor alterations to a non-technical person and see their reactions.

For example, just remove a semi-colon from a random PHP file that gets included in your web app and watch it completely die.

It's a decent way to impress upon people with little technical knowledge the importance of debugging.

(bonus points if you can create an impressive runtime bug that mangles the code's functionality in a flashy way, think mis-spelled variables in PHP)
Last year I finished driving from Alaska to Argentina in a Jeep...

If you are seriously interested in this kind of Overland travel, checkout http://wikioverland.org The Encyclopedia of Overland Travel which contains pretty much everything you need to know.
That's something we're well aware of. Current average usage doesn't indicate it'll be a big problem. Otherwise, it's a good problem to have :)
Equity for a sales executive
I was ith a start software company some years ago and as a senior sales executive received 1% in stock equity and a lesser salary than I normally received. This was in 1999. I am in a new opportunity at with less traction in the marketplace but in the cloud market. Should I still expect 1%? Is there research that I can get on the subject to help negotiate?
http://www.doorstepdelivery.com/ does it here in Florida, use them quite regularly.

That this seems to exist in a number of areas suggests that it's hard to scale outside of a certain geographic area.
Startup BackBid Gets You Amazing Deals but Will it Destroy the Hotel Industry?
Notch could write some very basic software that everybody can buy or upgrade to. So players will have basic firewalls to start with, and can upgrade to better (but standard) firewalls.

So not everybody needs to actually know how to program, they can just buy stuff from NPCs or from the market off other players. But obviously, the ones who do know the system inside out will have an advantage.
I really want planes to look like the ones in the Wired article.
Would they have sued if they stock had gone up?
If you really want to make a difference in "road fatalities, domestic violence and assaults" you ought to legalize marijuana and ban alcohol.
The Mystery of the Flying Laptop
I added 6 bands, got a very small number of matches (in NYC!), and most of the matches are in the <20% range.

Is there any way to feed my Pandora or Spotify data into this? Seems like that would help produce better recommendations.

Edit: I do have to say, the design is very well done-easy to add bands, search, and the integration with Google Maps is very nice. The fact that I didn't even think about it is a great sign.
Royal Canadian Mint Launches Developer Challenge, Offers Real Gold as Prize
There are plenty of Wall Street types at Google, the last thing they need is to have them in control of innovation. The scientists won't be in charge of sales or licensing, I think it's great that the MBAs aren't in charge of product development.

Maybe Google won't license it, maybe Google will give it away like they do Android. Since I don't see them manufacturing cars, those are about the only options other than canceling the effort.
Largely depends on what you want to do with it, no? Android is rougher around the edges, but lets you do more. It's matter of personal choice.
The ancient Irish used slave girls

http://books.google.com/books?id=GYhajCQU8XIC&lpg=PT345&...
A first look at Amazon's robots (video)
Why People Expect Good UX
Making a modern semi-automatic requires some expertise, but making a zipgun that can shoot a bullet or two and is accurate enough to hit someone in the same room as you isn't that hard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_firearm
But designing a good, minimalist one is reasonably hard.
What's your citation?
Thanks to Hibernate's second level caching, Kink.com's entire user-facing website traffic could be served by a single appserver and single MySQL instance.* Try that with Ruby.

* Not including NATS, which is an abomination.
You are correct that "The CEO's job is to allocate resources to initiatives that will make the company money" and with driverless cars and google glasses the CEO is doing exactly that.

Also people working on these projects are scientists at googleX they are completely different from the Android team ... Google has enough resources (people and money) to pursue these long term research project without hurting their short term business too much.
Dangerous Prototypes
it's a land rover advert though, isn't it. they also sponsor the video.
The discussion about Amazon's robots starts at 3:16.
A service that suggests, schedules and plans things to do for the entire week for a couple to do after work.\

Things to do can be events happening in the city or restaurants they should try and eat at. It can apply the $10 fee towards any event ticket/restaurant purchased by the couple.
Best book on the topic: http://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Rich-Greatest-Entrepreneurs/dp...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dennis
It's not a ponzi scheme.

Groupon only pays out about 45% of gross bookings. Ponzis generally pay out closer to 100%. Once it brings sales and marketing to a reasonable level it should be wildly profitable.
Generally agree with the sentiment, though that guy seems to have deleted his account because (apparently) his post is a big lie.
Given the bugginess, performance issues, and flat-out incompleteness of Minecraft 1.0, I'm more hesitant than you when it comes to purchasing pre-1.0 anything from Notch.
You're unlikely to get professional investors interested, so your other options are:

1) Bank loan - unlikely because you're too high risk unless you're willing to personally guarantee it.

2) Strategic investment - get an investment from someone who cares about things other than about the financial return. This could be other complementary industry players or an angel who really cares about your space.

3) Investment from your customers, if your startup solves an important problem for your customers they may well be willing to invest in your startup because they need a solution rather than for direct financial returns.
leasing costs way more.

cars lose the most value in the first 3 years. So in those 3 years, you'll lose 50% of the car's value. Since leasing is basically just covering the cost of depreciation...you end up on the hook for the biggest loss in the car's life.

when you buy used and sell in the next 2 years, you only lose ~20%.

+ with leasing you are limited to 10-12K miles per year.

remember, for this thing we are talking about getting the best bang for your buck, while still getting something decent.

i.e. I'm leasing a CRV for my mom(don't want her to deal with repairs etc). It costs me $262/mo...so over 3 years it will cost me $9,432.

At a 20% loss...that same $9,432 loss...would have been the same as if I've gotten a used $47,160 3 year old car, then sold it 2 years later at a 20% loss.

A $47,160 3 year old used car would have been a $70-90K new car.

Some alternatives(used eBay with the buy it now and low miles):

Original MSRP is inside the ()...but with most of these cars you can add another 10-20% for options.

2009 BMW M5($83,000)
2009 Audi S5($60,000)
2009 MB CLS550($71,000)
2008 MB SL550($105,000)
2008 MB CLS65 AMG($94,900)
2008 Audi RS4($70,000)
2008 Porsche 911($82,000)

Now which would you rather drive...a CRV...or any of those.

Yes your time is important, and you have to add that into the calculation.
I expect that there will be some kind of default OS released with the game, and that many alternatives will pop up very quickly.

It will not run Linux, because Linux requires a 32-bit CPU with megabytes of RAM. Someone might write a Linux-like system for it though.
Coca-Cola caves in face of Democratic boycott threat
I might have skipped that question too, but I would guess it's because frames and underline typically denote instructions on a test rather than an actual question.
>Oh sorry. It's a somewhat strange concept I admit, but it's served me well...(What follows is a brilliant analogy where I was expecting total insanity.)

You know. I think I'm going to use that in the future. Thanks.
I think people who don't have the extension/plugin installed would be able to click the link to view the content from Privly's servers
Yes, it kind of goes against the idea of sharing when you are limiting your post visibility to only a handful of people in your network. Not all of your friends are going to install addons to every browser they use and maintain yet another network of trust.

Reminds me of http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
Right. What Groupon did is as if PayPal recorded the entire amount of each transaction as revenue, rather than just PayPal's fee slice. It's kind of technically true since Groupon/PayPal does take possession of the money, but it's not revenue in any meaningful sense.
Just like all the ads you get when installing Chrome or browsing Google Code?

Google does make a lot of money on advertising, but that's because it's impossible to not make money on advertising. Google could literally fire 99% of its employees and we would still make money on ads because it's that easy. You could probably start an ad company today and have a steady income next week. (You need a web server, someone with content to "monetize", and someone with an ad. Pretty simple.)

What's hard is figuring out how to make money once the easiest source of money dries up. (It's sort of like why we don't have solar-powered cars yet: because burning decomposed dinosaurs is so easy that any attempt to do something else seems impossible.) Future products you see from Google will be less about advertising and more about something else. That's why we have web browsers and open source projects and self-driving cars and space elevators. Try everything, see what makes us more money than advertising, then do more stuff like that.
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what's the benefit in not paying it off quickly if you can?

That monthly payment is extra cash you could put away into savings or other investments, presumably at a positive interest rate. Even if the market sucks and interest rates on most banks are terrible right now, at the very least, it's still money you could have invested in yourself with some positive return.
Thanks to a number of wars and billions being pumped into the UAV market, the likes of Raytheon, Thales Optronics, FLIR Systems, ITT, BAE, IAI, and probably a hundred other companies have made self driving cars possible. Not Google.

Even when I was working on autonomous vehicles 10+ years ago, the entire setup was basically a "solved problem" minus environmental sensing accurate and reliable enough to be put in the critical path of human life. The state machine for how to behave on paved roads has existed in various forms for a long time.

They have however put money and legal weight behind the problem. If Google deserves credit for anything, it would be getting them allowed on public streets.
Ask HN: how can I improve my interviewing skills?
I interviewed at a few top notch start up the past couple of weeks and was unable to secure an offer.

Usually, there are 3-4 interviewers. I was able to solve the technical problem presented, but there is always one guy that is very sharp and will make a comment on a minor mistake or inefficiency I made. I dont know what part of the interview went wrong, or whether if I did ok at all since I was able to solve all the problems. My gut feeling is that the guy that's very sharp will instinctively know I'm not as good as him, and recommend no hire.

My question is how can I improve to be better at this? I worked on some topcoder questions but most of the questions asked during interviews are just not that complicated algorithm wise. I have yet to see anything that requires DP.

Any ideas on how can I improve my interviewing skills?
You are correct, it's not meaningless, I should have said: Simply having revenue isn't a defense for a company if they are spending more money than they are bringing in.
Unfortunately using pry-nav with pry has some limitations that ruby-debug doesn't:
1. It doesn't seem to work in some cases (like putting binding.pry in a Proc.new { ... }
2. On Windows, binding.pry works when directly embedded in a ruby script, but when put into code such as a Rails controller or model then several things don't work properly ('whereami' will show it doesn't have context.. though this works fine on Linux)

For these reasons, I still find ruby-debug better for actual debugging (when step/next are necessary) and pry better for inspecting state at a particular moment in time (but I can just call pry from the ruby-debug in that case)
I call bs. Everything I've seen about the link structure of the Internet indicates that this is false.
Scroll down to pmcjones for example:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3789788
Jeff Bezos's Top Leadership Lessons
One thing I would like to see is speculative execution. I have an 8 core machine. When the JIT compiler runs there is no reason why it can't generate 7 alternatives to any particular code sequence, run them all in parallel and keep whichever was the fastest. Or run both sides of an if statement simultaneously.

This helps solve the problem that compiler writers often have multiple alternatives they can generate, but have to make hard decisions as to which to pick.

I'm not saying that implementing this will be easy, but then again all of the easy things have already been done.
It seems like imagination is about all they are running on. I would accept the idea that growth could be more important for some companies at an early stage. However, I don't think it's applicable to groupon's situation.
I expect that inter-computer communication will be more like it was in the 80s, with swapping floppies and dial-up BBSs being the norm. It's still possible to get viruses that way, but there won't be worms spreading autonomously through the entire system.

I can imagine how an economy of reputation could arise where some people are trusted to distribute malware-free code.
If an article seems uninformed, inaccurate or no better than spam, just flag it. That's what the button is for, right?
very innovative :)
I assume that market values in Germany don't differ too wildly from where I'm based (The Netherlands). The 3500 - 4500 Euros for the first year is OK I guess for a startup, albeit somewhat on the lower side. US salaries (especially Silicon Valley) are higher, but so is the cost of living.

What does raise a red flag for me is what happens after a year. 'Market value', how much is that? It seems they assume that business is going to grow fast, but there's no sure way to tell. Remeber: they're in stealth mode so they probably have no revenue to speak of at this point. If business isn't going well in the future you're likely stuck with the same salary and 4% of nothing, at best.

As for the net salary, you can use www.nettolohn.de (in German). I took the liberty to calculate the net wage from EUR3500,-, it will be somewhere around EUR 2100,- monthly.

Having said that, Berlin is a great city, amazing atmosphere and a nice startup culture. If I had to choose any European city to build a startup from, Berlin would be my first choice. With 3500 euros monthly, you should be able to rent a decent place, buy food, go out and save for the occasional trip to Romania.
Car that flies (video)
My guess is that this one came from a post a while ago where someone at Youporn wrote about how they used Redis. Obviously not for the videos - the article writer clearly didn't read that part very thoroughly, or didn't understand it.
I was wrong about Amazon not discounting below published volume discounts, apparently. It's still pretty rare, but obviously happens for their larger customers.
DCPU-16 = CLR

DCPU-16 machine code = MSIL

The framework is the machine. Free your mind.
You're free to choose or write software for it that encodes three 5-bit characters in a 16-bit byte if you like.
Nice for them, but you can't live in an advert. You don't buy a land rover to go exploring (there was this case when it proved suboptimal), you get it to commute - sadly.
Porting “Me & My Shadow” to the Web – C++ to JavaScript/Canvas via Emscripten
Pinterest like UI component for iOS - Masonry View
Just created an iOS component to easily create layouts similar to Pinterest's.
I see the value. For example, I like to monitor my heart rate and speed while running. To do that, I have to move my hand out of ideal running form and look at my watch. With a wearable display, I can continue looking straight ahead to check on my information. Same goes for maps while driving or walking around.

I think a wearable computer that seamless integrates with me will be like having a friend that's always around. If you've ever asked someone, "oh, do we turn left here", then you have a use for a computer that can answer the same question.
Check out https://github.com/dbloete/masquerade

I haven't used it.
s/pissed away/lived/

Just beceause it's not a constant adrenaline high doesn't make it wasted.
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Jaxn's data isn't anecdotal -- those numbers were reported in the WSJ earlier this year in an article on franchising.
Yes, it reloads the whole page and the dozen or so social widgets all while constantly moving the slideshow image further down the screen. I need to install one of those widget blocker addons again...
7 Deadly Sins of Startups
RPython, perhaps?
It will probably be a 'dumb' accessory - using bluetooth to offload most of the processing to an android device - at least, in the first version.
It's best to deliver later a better written application than deliver something fast but full of bugs.
Quality brings more clients than it loses.
Smart move Venturebeat. Posting a troll commentary on a troll law. But obvious trolling is obvious. But the condescending "let me school the interwebs" tone in the footnotes somewhat gave it away.
It isn't the tech industry's view I'd be worried about. It would just get tiresome having to explain that while I work at a porn site doesn't mean I watch porn all day when telling others what I do.