skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had my doubts too, until the minute I used one at the Apple store. I walked out with it, $599 poorer.
Is this only true for US visitors? It still doesn't work for me.
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The good thing about the recovery numbers is they are still no good without your password. So someone would have to both get your password and steal your wallet to gain access.
omar, it's my understanding that you can talk about the yc interview experience all you want afterwards. If you have a blog about your yc interview experience, please post a link so I can add it to the 30+ other blogs at http://ycuniverse.com/interviewees.php . thanks!
The idea is great, but just so you know... my experience in academia (anecdotal) suggests that Mendeley already has a pretty substantial lead: http://www.mendeley.com/
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It means comparing people in different jobs who have the same IQ.
I propose that the technical superiority of IT employees over the rest of the company induces an arrogance that makes many of them incredibly unpleasant to work with.

The one IT guy I met who wasn't a jerk was quickly promoted out of the department.
While I concur that objectivity is important, I would not completely discredit that there are severe economic concerns with cyber crime. I've seen first hand vast amounts of intellectual property being obtained illegally through coercion and manipulation of private and federal systems. Working in a position to detect and prevent you'll find often that the victims are not aware of their losses nor the secondary conditionals that drive associated costs. Most cyber crime in't as clearly defined as say a list of credit cards stolen from a services provider. These are the models you can somewhat quantify a worse case estimate for. All that's required is that you tally up the limits on all the cards and say the potential was for x amount of monetary loss. Is the number a realistic answer or projection? Not really, often it's way out of touch with reality, the question then becomes how do you define realistic loses?

It's true that there aren't models that can clearly and appropriately estimate losses for an entity. This is due in part to the large costs that aren't a known in that exposure of credit card numbers. Addressable's such as client confidence, the manpower and time to disseminate information to the victims, the time spent eradicating all flaws being levied by the actors which alone are not inclusive of your overall downtime and even public shame, all items hard to quantify a numerical value for. We can argue about models, but the truth is there is never a model for every scenario. You can only go by speculation and assumption. So it's with that understanding that I somewhat allow an inflated estimate of real damage. If at the end of the day, the horror stories read online push users and admins to educate themselves, even if out of fear of overly estimated loses, I see no harm.

Personally, I fell the more appropriate response is to give clear guidance as to how these incidents were born. It's only through proper education of users and admins alike, that we'll be able to stymy those attempting harm.

In concurrence with your comment, there is no doubt that there is sensationalization on the part of everyone at play. Antivirus and malware removal manufacturers want to project an image of fear. It's this sense of fear that drives their market. However inappropriate it may be, it at least drives discussion. It's only with proper education that users see the difference between realistic threats and the hollywood movie projections.
Interesting. This article is entirely derived from the one the WSJ just published. I feel like this is the limit (in the math sense) of paywalls.
what exactly is 'true price discovery' ?

can a price be false?
Awesome! It is great when something like this turns out to be for the local breaks and nothing else :) Data pulled from BoM / Swellnet / ... ?
I've also had issues with CF. Saying the site is down while I'm logged into the server. Does anybody have any solid alternatives to the bot blacklist? It gets hard to keep up with htaccess ip blocks, and it's more or less all I'm using it for now (apart from DNS which can be changed anyway).
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Yeah, but don't forget that emissions = emissions generated to produce the car (A) + ongoing emissions when using the car (B).

Since Toyota does not disclose the (A) part, just considering the (B) factor is pretty much pointless. (A) is supposed to be huge to begin with, and there's no way you can make up for the initial emissions produced to make the car in just a few years of driving.

Hybrid cars Manufacturers are not stupid. They don't want you to look at the (A).
True, but it seems to me that Mendeley and us are addressing different aspects of the same problem
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Google might compare browser/OS entropy as well as IPs.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/primer-information-the...
I think it means that if you created a model that used IQ, quantitative skills, and working hours as inputs and tried to predict pay across all jobs in the US, it would predict that science jobs should pay higher than they actually do. Which leaves open the question of whether those variables are actually the most predictive of pay levels in non-science jobs; I suspect not.
Sounds like an opportunity for somebody to come in and write a "click once share everywhere" button.
Surely visibility, not opacity. Has to be quicker.
I'd love to hear what you consider to be the significant difference between "bytecode" and "code". Compiling ASCII code down to bytecode or machine code doesn't change semantics (not often significantly, at least); code is code. The browser is downloading and running code, and is offering an increasingly robust and attractive platform from which to do so.

How's that different from Java or Flash or Silverlight or anything else that requires a "special plugin"?
That's really curious. The "lock-screen" app has a Rated 4+ indication, yet it's actual ratings are 1-star. There's something fishy here, how come this doesn't get the appstore lords' attention?
Yes, they are. They're in Chrome 19, if you're inclined to try them out, and the Chrome Web Store already has a bunch of extensions that use them. (Search for 'intents' or use the intent picker's suggestions)
You can also use profiles in Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...
"We are talking a service that could be duplicated with open source software and about $100K to $250K investment."

On the other hand, that is the baseline pitch that has been used by starry-eyed start-ups for ages now.
writing mobile game apps in C is totally cool and everything. but for small startups, surviving and quicker profit are way more important than adopting some aristocratic way of programming
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I can't think of any sector or business model where a P/S ratio of 4000 is anywhere close to sane.

Drug dealers, if you measured the P/S ratio right after they have given out that first, free hit :)

Seriously, though: that's how freemium business models work. They deliberately delay revenue to build adoption.
No. Twitter has every right to implement their Bootstrap code as they see fit.

But it is just common courtesy to make small accommodations for people who are having difficulty using the code that Twitter has so generously released as open source.
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Furthermore, Google+ can implement algorithms that affect the prominence of the content based on various quality factors. There's evidence that Facebook has such algorithms in place (1)

...which don't work in most cases that I've seen.

Second, the headwinds to gain share in a market with strong network effects outweighs the risk of a flood of content.

You're assuming that gaining share is more important than creating quality content. This is not an assumption shared by Vic Gundrota, nor I.

Honestly, and I don't mean to be rude, you sound a bit too much like some marketing wonk that someone who actually cares about the product. As many users at whatever the cost to the product quality is just not a winning long-term strategy, and Google always plays long-term.
Good, I'm glad they were rejected - If they weren't, I wouldn't have known about them, nor would I have purchased one.

This way they get their money in the form of guaranteed, up-front orders, and I get a cool new product "before" anyone else. I feel exclusive and I'll have the hot new gadget to show off.

It's a win-win, and I hope more companies opt for this route - it is true market validation.

(On a related topic, September can't come soon enough. I want mine now)
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This one hits all the bullet points for clueless Apple punditry, including calling Apple a cult and asserting that people will buy anything Apple makes, however stupid and useless. Nothing has really changed in this regard, there are still tons of bloggers and other assholes lazily tossing out the same old talking points about Apple selling overpriced toys to vain idiots.
This is where a service catalog becomes useful. A service catalog is a document that lays out all the services that IT agrees to undertake, and that the business needs to operate. It is backed by senior management, and it documents what the service is used for, the time frame for service, the availability guarantees in place, key contacts and how to use the service.

Through the service catalog, the business can get access to IT services, the IT dept gets a better overview of what they should be providing, and management gets to understand what areas of the business are performing/under performing and in what direction IT needs to be taking next.
Can you elaborate? The frontpage of PubUp seems strikingly similar to the "papers" page at Mendeley: http://www.mendeley.com/research-papers/

I'm completely open to an alternative service (or even a complementary one). So... I guess what I'm trying to say: Give me, one of your intended customers, a compelling use scenario or value-add proposition that might compel me to switch.
Do you have any info on that? Links, references, mailing list messages, anything? That's super interesting and honestly, the way it should be. HTTPS w/out certificate verification is STILL more secure than HTTP and it should be treated as such - not as the black sheep that it currently is.
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So, their pre-orders are the size of a modest A-round, and they have 30 days to go... impressive!
The problem with this logic is you're automatically assuming everyone who clocks in at 8:30 and out at 5:01 is doing the bare minimum and not pulling their own weight. What if a 5:01er pulled their weight & prioritized their time well enough to get the job done? I'm in the 9-5 because I have a family I'm starting; work should never be consume my life.

Pity? I pity you. Sad, Sad life when work is all you've got.
If you lower your CPC bid then the Traffic Estimator shows you the rates for lower positions. The ad on the top of the page always gets more click throughs than the ad that is shown 5th on the page. And thats what Traffic Estimator takes into consideration.

But you should know that the Traffic Estimator is just that - an estimator. Your real cost per click and ad positioning with Google depends on a lot of other factors. Including things like how good your landing page is. And how better your ad is than others.

So determine the CPC at the cliff on their graph. And then optimize your Google ads. (Also, a lot of ad networks are cheaper than Google Adwords. So use Google Traffic Estimator to find an optimal price point. But start advertising your product at other places.)
I use instapaper for this; it emails to my kindle and I am extremely satisified.
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http://fastly.com does that: Varnish on SSDs.

But Cloudflare isn't just a CDN, it has an application firewall/security thing built in too.

That's important because suddenly you can't get away with just Varnish, and rolling Apache+mod_security out to each node is probably insufficient as well.

Edit: fixed url, thanks.
His job is to write something that people will read. And here we are, five years later, reading what he wrote. It looks like he succeeded. :)
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One interesting fact about these drop in construction components is that some of them are actually being manufactured in China and shipped over here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8602786...

For it to be more economical to build a bridge over in China, stick it on a boat, and then drop it in place 1000 miles from where it was originally made is telling of where the construction industry is headed.
You're probably right: http://www.wfmj.com/story/15644204/theives-make-off-with-ent... seems to be the real source of the $100,000 number, an engineer estimating the likely replacement cost, not the value of the scrap.

Also this, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2050015/Brothers-cha...

> Two brothers have been charged with stealing a 'haunted' western Pennsylvania bridge and selling the 15.5 tons of scrap metal for £3,160.

(I assume being in Pennsylvania they actually got dollars for it)
Increased the value by $X? Oh heavens no, that's far too optimistic.

You see, one of the joys of being a homeowner is that you have the option of improving your house so it's better to live in...for you. That might mean granite countertops, or that shade of fuchsia you LOVE on the bathroom walls, or a hot and cold running Pepsi, or a built in movie theatre, or a library, or...well, whatever it is you, personally, like.

We can assume that - unless you screwed up or got ripped off - that you personally value whatever improvements you make at more than their cost. "Wow, the main hallway is a halfpipe so I can practice my skate moves! I'd have paid $50k for that, but it only cost me $30k to have it built! SCORE!"

But, human taste being what it is, the next guy probably doesn't value whatever you built as highly as you do. Pretty much everyone likes stuff like having a closet in every bedroom; that's why houses tend to have them. But not everyone really cares about having a mirrored ceiling in the kitchen (perfect for cake decoration!). The fact that every house doesn't have them is a good sign that most people value this "wonderful" feature as being less valuable than the cost to install it.

Which is why, as a general rule, and with a few very specific exceptions, any improvement you make will always add less than $X to the market value. There's a few areas where you might be able to break even or even gain on the deal. If there's a gaping hole in the lounge, fixing that is probably worth it. Sure the next owner could fix it too, but you're going to have a hard time selling it like that. If you have vintage 1970s shag carpets and avacado wallapper, this might also be a good candidate. (Although you might luck into finding a buyer who'll pay more for the nostalgia value, I guess...)

But everything else (and especially any remodelling of an otherwise perfectly functional kitchen or bathroom just to add nicer fittings, which is stupidly common mistake) is almost certainly going to lose you money if you're just looking to sell the house. If it costs $X, it will (almost) always add much less than $X to the market value.
He always knew that Wikileaks would do this kind of thing to his life but he is totally the man fOr the job. They'll never screen this in Australia but with the power of the internet it doesn't even matter.
If you can, don't choose. Get 2 degrees. I studied physics. I make a lousy physicist, but I learned a lot, got to play with some cool stuff and it gave me a whole new appreciation of the world and how it worked.

It is also the last time you get to play with lab equipment that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Absolutely no regrets.
Deal? Or is this an artifact that Google doesn't index content behind a paywall so WSJ has to display the whole article to the Google spider and anyone who's refer is Google. If WSJ (or anyone else) doesn't want to lose the search engine traffic they're force to do this.
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This is a fantastic list of great things to know. Right now.

However, I wouldn't consider this a "baseline" as A) all of it can be quickly learned by an experienced dev and B) not all environments are rails/node.

This industry changes languages/platforms/techniques like I change my socks. The key is not to memorize this list and use everything on it, it's to understand what's on this list, what else is out there, and use the right tool for the job.
This is no open source.

When I saw the Light Table demo, I wanted to build it for CoffeeScript, and I could do it.

This morning I found this, I got excited because I could use your interface and create a plugin for CoffeeScript. I was hoping I would be able to simply clone it and start working.

Instead I'm asked to pay X dollars to only get access to early beta?

> I'm a firm believer in open source

Yeah? Then make it open source. Develop it publicly on GitHub. Let people contribute. Don't make them pay.

> As such, I believe it only fair that the core of Light Table be open sourced once it is launched.

I believe I just gave you hundred dollars. Can I have the beta access now?
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Will you be interested in testing such a application framework and are you sure that this will be useful for a lot of people. I am not sure why this is difficult. There are already solutions like this. The only problem i see are they are not cross platform or made simpler to experiment

I visualized a service where I would like to upload my Web App (Html/Js/Css) and download a native apk/iap so that I can sign using my keys and submit to the App Store/App Market as My Native App. (First Version)

I am sure this is solvable by lot of people in Hacker News.

What I have working is just a cross platform micro web server embedded in exe, apk, iap, dmg* to run on Android/IOS/WP7*/Win/MacOsX/Linux which can host Html Applications (Html/Css/Javascript), but currently working on server side handlers to access native features.

I am not sure whether there is any market for this type of app framework. I am exploring this to reduce my own workload in developing apps as a Senior Project Manager(Cannot create Enterprise Apps in 3 different Architectures (Java/ObjectiveC+/C#) even though you can unify the syntax to C# using Unity3D/MonoTouch/Mono for Android. My personal goal was to iterate faster on development and use C# & Native Code where appropriate. I don't want to be locked into any one architecture.
>Double major with Japanese and Linguistics, with more of a focus on applied linguistics.

OK, that sounds qualified enought ;-)

>Aside from that, can you clarify more on: "Because the second implies an order or magnitude less insight on the language..."?

Oh, just asking about your involvement with Japanese, if it was just some foreign language class at uni (that almost everybody forgets much about later) or a major.
Good point, but they normally wouldn't cannibalize their existing markets (consumer) and their existing strategy by taking on a new market.
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On a related note, Gmail's mobile client uses "pull to refresh".
Love the quote:

“The difference between the best worker on computer hard-ware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you’re lucky. With automobiles, maybe 2 to 1. But in software, it’s at least 25 to 1. The difference between the average programmer and a great one is at least that. The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world. And when you’re in a field where the dynamic range is 25 to 1, boy, does it pay off.”
That's not a safe assumption to make of Kickstarter. If the intent is really to treat everything as donations then every tier should include "acknowledgment as a backer". As it stands today it's only stated for $1000+ level and that's not really acceptable if you consider everything a form of donation. I saw very little in the description or "rewards" that really treated backers as genuine donations rather than just simple pre-orders (that includes access to betas and/or user testing). It was rather confusing compared to nearly every other project I've contributed to on Kickstarter.

You're right that the tiers can't change much now, but the way it was structured and worded is indeed discouraging. I know I was certainly discouraged as a result, and I'm currently on the fence as to whether to contribute now or wait and see how it turns out. If this project doesn't succeed in making it's goal I would really recommend looking at the more successful software projects in detail and notice how they go out of their way to message and recognize backers in a way that makes them feel like their genuinely contributing, even if only in spirit, and orient their rewards accordingly. Adding buttons, logo stickers, t-shirts, posters, etc. are the kind of things that a community of supporters will desire and from what I've seen so far, go a long way in encouraging larger donations.

edit: removing suggestion to rollup rewards due to their potential for complicating things.
My point was that the colon infix syntax, which you seem to be claiming is awkward (but maybe I don't understand your sentence construction) is something a lot of people actually consider a feature.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/spdy-dev/R3Pt4NE2bjc http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.http-wg/9960/focus=10001

Like I said, they're just discussions and currently the tide is against us.
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When I'm travelling and expect to be using dodgy internet connections & cafes -- I set up a separate email account and forward my email to it. If that account gets hacked, I just turn off the forward.
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