skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Completely irrelevant, but 2 minutes ago I found out that 'gnuplot' has a 'canvas' terminal. Check the demoes here: http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_canvas_4.6 - Not as pretty as Richshaw or D3, but very helpful if you don't have time to convert your plots to the new syntax)
Truth, Frustration or Strategy?
Japanese bullet-proof iPhone
IIRC if you use the launch control that explicitly (as in documented in the manual) puts several hundred miles' worth of wear on it - and I'd guess anyone who takes it out in a car club like that will try it at least once (I know I would). Could it just be that?
The way you and the article describe it, it sounds a bit like the boo.com fiasco:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo.com
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Maybe having a board full of large company execs having their hands full off saving Nokia was not the best idea...
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Not for me. Personally I'll stick to ways of making decent PDFs that don't go via HTML.
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I went there for a job interview in 2008. They had a vague idea of what they should do, which was more or less "revolutionize global e-commerce by facilitating cross-border trade", I guess fueled by the realization that gee, stuff is cheaper in some countries than others. They had ideas of solutions for things like shipping, price consolidation, translation and customer relations. They were also planning to take what I thought to be an insane commission per trade. I'd worked with European SMEs a lot in the past with the world's biggest search ads product, so I thought I knew what they were ready for and what they needed, and the three chats I had at Fruugo didn't really reflect this at all.

Most alarmingly, while they were in really early startup mode, they had a very front-heavy team of 'top talent' and loads of telco-pedigreed 'old boys' in the helm. I dropped off the interview process when I was told that to continue, they'll do a psychological profiling by an external consultant and that they do that for all candidates. Really. First, wow, that's expensive. Second, in a startup, the recruiting process should be all about the team and the product, not a standardized test. I told them this.

Now, I almost regret not going in for a bit more, maybe even to work with them for a while, to have a better idea of what all went wrong and if there would've been a way to save the company. Will make for a great case study, no doubt.
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The article states at the end that the city has offered to help them test it. It is pure speculation but maybe they had already helped by giving permission to test on the potholes mentioned earlier in the article.
Try to get the product offerings straight, eject all contries I don't currently need, repair the homepage, check my legal obligations regarding negative equity.

After all, the market they are in doesn't seam to ba a bad one, and high-level connections almost never hurt (maybe here they do, who knows...). But without the right products and what you could sum up as good user experience it won't work.

I'm just not sure if it's possible to make enough money to offset almost 40 mio in losses...
Catchy name.
I guess you are implying that we don't all have the "smart" version of the gene for that reason.

But the brain accounts for about 25% of glucose consumption in your body. So for genes which enlarge the brain, evolution would have sought the optimal trade-off between increased intelligence vs increased metabolic cost. There may well be no "deficiency" other than that increased cost.
Well, it's a mirroring technique. Sure you're mirroring to an off-site location, but I'm assuming there is no versioning happening (i.e. snapshots). If a file becomes deleted or corrupted on the master, then that change will propagate to the slave, and you will no longer have the file.
I'm not sure you couldn't solve this as an optical character recognition problem, with something like Isomap, which is invariant under orientation and scale changes. Break your image up into patches, reduce dimensionality on all of them, and find the location that way. I would predict that this is faster, at some cost in accuracy.
What would really make an app like this awesome for the masses is the ability to alter things. Tweak the curves on orbits and see what would happen, alter the rotation of the planets, drop a new moon in, fire an asteroid at a planet, trigger a solar flare.

I would pay money for an app that lets me live out my devious plans of destroying the solar system.
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Nyah, I guess that the reason they went for tough kevlar bags is to be able to withstand the weight of the care. I think it would sink a bit but cause any damage or pose a hazard to the car.
Climate change boosts then quickly stunts plants
I’m with you. Every non-trivial failure looks like a Rorschach Blot. You see in it confirmation of whatever biased theories you already have about why companies fail.
Originally because I didn't find a free app which would do that. Then I decided to keep the PDF as it was quite useful. Unlike with the PNG, the HTML links were retained in the PDF. Ie, HTML anchor tags are still clickable in PDFs generated by wkhtmltopdf.

EDIT: A PDF will also let you select text, unlike an image. However, an image is nicer to embed in a webpage. So I utilised both in order to get the best of both worlds.
Charlie Brooker seems to be asking to be sued https://twitter.com/charltonbrooker
My quick answer? Reduce the team to the minimum needed to explore new business models, raise enough runway to keep that team going for 18 months, restructure the cap table to incentivise this core team, and treat it like any other startup. Perhaps change the name too to avoid continuity and too much press attention early on.

Of course, no one is ever given this much latitude. Existing shareholders would argue that diluting them down to almost nothing (90+% dilution) does not mean "saving the company" (they're wrong, IMHO. Shareholders and "the company" are two distinct entities). The amount of politics involved in pulling this off would be such a distraction that even if it succeeded, it would probably destroy the company's chances - and this is even before you consider the hangover from millions of euros of debts!).

So, in short, the only sensible way for people in that company is to shut it down and start another with a clean bill of health, and chalk this one up to experience.
Perhaps also interesting in this context is the fact that the human brain has been shrinking over the last 20,000 years: http://discovermagazine.com/2010/sep/25-modern-humans-smart-...
Mexico Passes Climate Law, Only 2nd in the World
The individual pieces may be hard, but the collection is not. Think about walking in the sand. Your feet sink down and the sand will flow up and over the sides of a container.
Gravel is the same way albeit to a lesser degree because the pieces are larger.

With a sheer-thickening fluid, when sheer force is exerted on it, the entire collection of fluid affected by that force hardens in reaction so it would be like running over the top of a bag of hardened concrete.
It does seem to be generally true that running a business has a worse payout than a normal job, but in this case, the OP says he's spending seven hours a week on the maid business: http://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/sblc6/from_an_...
This is way too idealistic for any adult to believe. Coops didn't even work in China[1]. In Brooklyn, NY there's a food coop [2](grocery store) run by people in the neighborhood. I believe the group has naturally separated in a minority of pushy organizers (i.e. managers) and the majority who put in their hours and go home. Coops could work if it didn't involve human beings.

[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/01/20/145360447/the-secr...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Slope_Food_Coop
Url is missing the : after the protocol.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/business/media/amazons-e-b...
Languages should either (1) treat newline as a statement delimiter (as in Python) or (2) not do so and instead treat some other character (e.g. ";") as a statement delimiter (as in C etc).

JavaScript falls between two stools and that's bound to cause problems.
This is going to be really hard to do browser based... Why not harness the power of native?
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I think this is a special case of a big fish in a really small pond (Finland) trying to make it out into the ocean. Having said that, it underlines how adding more dumb money doesn't make you any smarter and that just makes for an ever bigger non-trivial failure in Fruugo's environment (obviously that's my biased theory confirmed).
uninterpreted templating script?
It was refreshing to see how receptive he was to that feedback, though. Based on his responses, it seems like he is going to take an active look at how he handles employment status.

It by no means signifies a guaranteed success, but it is definitely a good sign when an entrepreneur recognizes legitimate criticism about issues that could make or break his business and actively seeks to address them.
Please, use OAuth for this type of stuff from now on. I don't care how great your app is, I'm not giving you my username and password. Beyond that, you probably don't deal with 2-factor authentication either, which I have enabled.
Fine, let's just erase the whole event from the internet, I don't think it would be a huge loss for mankind.
> My quick answer? Reduce the team to the minimum needed to explore new business models, raise enough runway to keep that team going for 18 months, restructure the cap table to incentivise this core team, and treat it like any other startup.

I think they already did this. Three times.
Am I missing something here? All the pontifications around threats to Internet Freedom and the oft-referenced perils of walled gardens aside, where is Google going here? Where's the revenue?

How is Google going to compete going forward, and with what? With Google+? Google Wallet? GMail? Google Play? Google Glasses? Are these offerings growing (fast) enough to support Google? How do they recoup their investments in these and other projects?

What will Google do as the search market becomes increasingly commoditized and specialized and, yes, fragmented? The ever-present walled gardens are just one part of this. It appears likely that the flagship Google apps and services will become increasing commoditized, and available from existing providers such as Rackspace and Amazon, or entrants such as HP Cloud and Microsoft Windows Azure? By providers that might choose to offer better customer support, for instance.

How is Google going to continue to provide a platform for their advertisements, when queries are being fed (from apps and tools and walled gardens) more directly to specific (and tailored) hosts and search engines; with queries directly connected into Yelp, LinkedIn, Wolfram Alpha?

How are they going to recoup their investments in the Android platform? Chrome? With their investments in browser search boxes?

Certainly this whole effort involves speeches and press releases and related marketing, but I don't see the platforms and the updates and the new sources of revenues that the Google folks need to be investing in; not at the scale that they need to maintain themselves. Walled gardens have and will continue to happen and tech markets can and will fragment, particularly if the results cater to the end-users and provide sufficient the revenues for the vendors.

TL;DR: What's Google doing about their risk for disintermediation?
Since everybody else is pointing out how poor his employee compliance is and that he's picked a freaking hard row to hoe, I'll praise the guy. Awesome job! This is the internet equivalent of going door-to-door. In fact, I bet you could combine this with going door to door and see sales really take off :)

The scaling thing Edw brings up doesn't concern me right now: you are in the throes of kicking ass. Later on reality will sink in. But he's right -- you have some major changes to make if you really want to go long-term with this.

Patio has a more legal concern: that your cleaners are really workers. I'm not so sure. I'd see a lawyer about this pronto. If these folks were already doing some cleaning before you met them, and if you make it clear that there is no office, there is no work hours, they are free to take or not take work, and that their only obligation to you is completing each job they sign up for? I think you might be fine. It's certainly a lot less control that software contractors have over them, and they're contractors.

Instead of growing, I'd concentrate on making this thing hands-off. Hire a temp to do the office work, etc. Even if it eats into most of your income, once you are freed up then you'll be in a position to really expand. This "make the business a machine" is your next step. At least according to everybody I read.

I liked the post. We need reminding that a little bit of hussle and not over-thinking things can take you a long ways.
One big difference is that Node.js had an easy way to share small libraries between projects almost right from the beginning. Something like NPM is only now starting to appear in PHP, and seems to be slowly breaking projects out of the reinventing-the-wheel mindset. A great example is Drupal using the Symfony2 HTTP foundation (request and response objects, etc)

http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/composer_solves_the_php_code-shari...
If you had to rank them, Google would be the lesser of the offenders.

Even more so, considering the vast amount of information they DO have.
It seems as though there's provision for satirical use of a mark to be allowed in the UK under some circumstances, so he might be ok: http://www.dyoung.com/trademarknewsletter-nov07#anchorlink2
I'd bet five (5) of your English pence that he's working on some articles/shows about the inanity of the games and the machinery surrounding it.

Getting a C&D or similar would be a good starting point for that.
"in my pretty ideal world the workers should have enough of those skills, or the ability to subcontract them."

They are subcontracting those skills out to the person who is marketing and getting them the jobs.
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Ask HN:retrieve emails using PHP IMAP
Hello, im using PHP'S IMAP functions to retrieve emails from my Gmail account. The following php code is working to retrieve the bodies of each E-mail in my inbox.

//PHP CODE
$mbox = imap_open("{imap.gmail.com:993/ssl/novalidate-cert}INBOX", "my_gmail_address@gmail.com", "my_gmail_password");

$no = imap_num_msg($mbox); /*Number OF EMAILS in the inbox*/

/I ONLY WANT A MAXIMUM OF 9 MESSAGES, SO IF THE INBOX HAS MORE GET ONLY THE FIRST 9 /
if($no<=9)
{ $max_no_msg = $no;
}
else
{$max_no_msg = 9;
}

/NOW LET'S SHOW THOSE EMAILS BODIES/
for($i=1; $i<=$max_no_msg; $i++)
{
$text = imap_fetchbody($mbox, $i, 1);
$text = imap_utf8($text);
$text = ReplaceImap($text);
$text = nl2br($text);
echo $text; echo"<br/>"; echo"<br/>";
}

Now the problem is,
How do I get a specific email body. For example if i want to echo the third email body, how do i do that?
I tried doing something like,

echo $text[2];

but that code does not seem to be working.

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I know you will tell me to go to stackoverflow, I did. But When i tried postings a question i got that notification that i need to indent my code. but How Do i do that on mobile?
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This is interesting and surprising to me. I wonder how, for example, Comcast manages this.

Comcast has a huge independent contractor network that they use to subsidize their full-time on-site tech support. All of those contractors wear Comcast shirts, have Comcast written on their trucks, must meet customers at the times that Comcast schedules, and do receive at least a portion of their supplies from Comcast.
I wish I had known about this earlier. In a recent project, I had to come up with a pretty ugly hack to make my script both Node.js and browser compatible: https://github.com/olalonde/kmeans.js/blob/master/lib/kmeans...
I switched job one year ago and thus switched from Posgres to MySQL and I still can't understand why PostgreSQL isn't a clear winner for hackers. MySQL's SQL is almost always wrong (implicit defaults, implicit grouping), the CLI is much worse, the introspection is not comparable, etc.
Jonah Lehrer, the man with the big ideas
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You're assuming there's a large surface of it. There's a rigid container for the little bit of sand (the pothole). Filling it with gravel works very well (we do it a lot in Greece as a temporary measure). The problem is that the gravel gets thrown out of the hole bit by bit by cars, but the solution in the article isn't meant to be permanent either.
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which native?
Would you be happy with the term minified, rather than obfuscated?

I agree there isn't one accepted definition for what obfuscated means wrt urls. I use the term to mean any link that is changed to be less readable.

There wasn't any harm or judgement intended:)
You want Universe Sandbox: http://store.steampowered.com/app/72200/
Is this really at all interesting? This is the same sort of thing that happens with the Super Bowl year after year.
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He has a "detaileddddddd" checklist of how he wants the work done and a training program. His lawyer is going to tell him that they're employees.

What's worse is, the better he does, the more clear-cut this issue gets. His key business metric is employee turnover, and anything he does to improve this increases the likelihood that his employees will be relying on him for most of their wages.

This is a "too good to be true" scenario. He's defined a fixed-price service with rigorous standards to be delivered across a major metro area with 8 known-good workers and is making $1000/month on it. To be compliant, some of that has to give: his business will have to look more like a placement or dispatch service, or he'll have to make way less money.

The IRS reclassification thing will be painful.
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The only problem for me as automated testing and in result I have written my tests in Python.

To a Ruby developer like myself, this seems like a pretty significant gap.

Have you looked at Jasmine or some of the other testing frameworks for Node? Or is there something inherent about writing async apps that makes them difficult to test?
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Lets Talk; An EventBus in Backbone.js
Gates initially wrote in his book "The Road Ahead" that the Internet was merely a pit-stop on the way to the 'real' information superhighway[1] (which I think he thought was their MSN product, though I'm not quite sure).

[1] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Bill_Gates#What_about_.22T...
> not giving Google to sell advertising against.

Fair enough - Google sells advertising against data which they search and index, which is publicly available.

As opposed to Apple and Facebook, where you have to join a system that holds your personal data under their lock and key, before getting to access data that they will sell advertising against.

And everything in their ecosystem is not publicly available.

EDIT: Reducing the data to "goog just wants to sell against FB and APP data", is to reduce many major issues into irrelevancies, which is incorrect. Its not about 'just selling ads'.
I can see the problem with people claiming to be or acting like sponsors of the event. If you pony up the money to sponsor the event you should see the benefit.

However, clamping down on someone saying. "London 2012 Parking".. what is wrong with that? Its fact. Person is providing parking for people attending the 2012 event..
Well-done! I was wondering when someone would do this. d3 is brilliant -- I use it and find it incredibly powerful -- but it's fairly low level (although Mike Bostock may disagree). I'm happy someone put together a higher-level interface.

My only suggestion would be to revisit some of the colors used in your visualizations. Obviously, we all have different opinions about color, and you may be perfectly content with your choices. But if you ever revisit your color schemes, some useful resources to consider are:

http://colorbrewer2.org/

http://www.colorsontheweb.com/colorwizard.asp
I've been using a very similar tool, browserify to do the same thing. The great thing about browserify is it already comes with core node.js library support, as well as an http module wrapper.

With tools like this, I love being able to modularize my client-side code using CommonJS modules and running JS test from the command line using tools like Vows and Buster.js. I also love being able to declare dependencies on npm modules. It's just as easy as testing and writing Ruby code with rubygems and rspec.

The only issue that still bothers me is that nearly every DOM querying/manipulating library out there assumes there's a global window or document object. This means I have to stub it out in any CLI tests I run and then make sure jquery or whatever is referencing a virtual window I create with jsdom instead of the global stub.

I have a few project using vows/npm/browserify for reference if anyone is interested.
A FF/Chrome/Safari plugin: https://github.com/brighterplanet/careplane
A simple SPI app: https://github.com/brighterplanet/hootroot1
I don't have any problem managing handles on the web without feeling like I am out of my depth.

Do you want an explanation of why this matters? https://github.com/blog/1103-ten-years-of-farbrausch-product... explains the farbrausch release. Mopi is another famous demogroup, and they have released one of their tools.

The demoscene is eurocentric, and a bunch of the naming reflects that. That may be the reason that things seem middle-earthy.
This looks very nice, but I have to say its a little bit slow here (last Chrome, low-end comupter but not worse than users computer).
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yea I'm not sure why they had to have the gap, but from the manual it looks like they used two halves for making the characters so they could reuse assets more and save a bit on ram to get it all working.
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The entire volume of the ship (ie, the hull, the compartments, containers, etc) must have an overall lesser density than salt water. Having a less-dense hull is not enough.
in fact, razor 1911 is still releasing both demos and warez. I don't know that they have any in the running for the scene awards, but they are getting ranked.
I'm not sure about America, but in most countries I'm familiar with, it is ultimately the decision of the tax authorities whether people who work for a company are employees or contractors. There's generally a well-specified test for this.

Certainly, in this country, the maids would be unambiguously employees.
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