skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry to get so late to this exchange, but that gets really interesting when put in perspective. I was reading this book that showed a correlation between:

a) Net free energy flux per volume, and

b) Complexity

a) Is basically the measure being discussed here (free energy flux = useful energy that crosses the boundary)

The author then listed a bunch of stuff in increasing order of a), and it roughly corresponds with our notions of complexity (or at least "interesting" or "directed" complexity, some similar concept). The list (smallest to largest) went about like this:

Stars

Planets (measured by change in energy of the light reaching vs leaving it)

Life-bearing planet (only one example, obviously)

Plants

Fish

Mammals (I'm skipping a few here)

Humans

Human brains

Human societies

Cars

Airplanes

Power plant turbines

Airplane engines

Computer chips

(Pretty neat correlation)
No question. I'd say the biggest issue there would be artifacts and frame rate. But jailbreaking is really the only other option, so I think it's not a bad plan.
Lesson about detachment
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Seems normal--whether it's a good deal or not depends on where that valuation comes from (in-house or pegged to a funding round), where you think the company will exit, if you think the company will exit, the salary they're offering, and the salary you could get elsewhere.

If they sell for a penny under $60 million, your options are underwater and worthless. If they double in value over the next 4 years (assuming standard vest), that's $450k to you if they sell for $120 million. If they never exit and you leave the company, you're basically screwed (unless you have $450k lying around and are certain it will be liquid again later).

You should make a projection of how you think the company's value will change and weigh that against the salary they're offering. Three-quarters of a percent sounds pretty generous for a startup that's already valued at $60mm, unless you're coming in at a pretty senior level, but without knowing where that valuation comes from it's hard to say for sure.
and it breaks the back button
How to Land More Clients With Persuasive Fees
Ditto. I would totally spend a few hours on this if I didn't have work to do :/

Maybe after you complete a level you could get the choice of "Pause the game" or "give me the next challenge" ?
Build your DREAM body with this 1 CRAZY tip
If the subject interests you, I'd recommend it since I've personally found it difficult to find detailed information about side projects. I purchased it partly for the information, but also to hopefully motivate myself to pursue some projects I've been thinking about. I do feel like $25 is a lot for any book, let alone a relatively short PDF file, but I understand there's a limited market.
Discussion on DNS security.
The electric company provides power to a myriad of streetlights, traffic lights, etc. Without handing the government the 1984th key to the kingdom (and the first amendment), if they want effective mobile Internet, they can either pay for Verizon/AT&T mifi like the rest of us, or install a network of city routers for their own "mesh network".
Write To Done (http://writetodone.com/) & Jeff Goins Writer (http://goinswriter.com/) come to mind.

Start offering something for FREE - a blog about how to write better for tech startups or ebook on the same topic, or better yet combination of those two.

Identify who you write for and have signup form on the blog. Offer free ebook for those who sign up. Build an email list.

Establish your authority on your niche.

This is not an overnight effort but this is one good way to get a headstart IMHO.
I honestly kind of like "tentd" as a server name.
TEDinator: Download TED Videos.
what about a file sync between the two services?
> Don't you think we might not stay on that curve forever?

Not forever, but the exponential growth is inevitable while the resources are available and are used more and more efficiently.
PageKite (pagekite.net) is another solution for self-hosted from a household. plug
Pair of Probes to Visit Van Allen Belts
"Ranch" isn't really what we're talking about here; cattle are sent from ranches to feed lots for fattening (which is what this guy is running, hence the ability to gin up new chemi-food on site.)

Feed lots are very highly concentrated populations of cattle that are fed a regulated diet of grain (corn) mixed with concentrated antibiotics and, in this case, rotten chocolate. Another commenter already referenced Pollan's work, which exposes the tradeoffs of this industrialized approach. Among these are increased e.coli outbreaks (as e.coli concentrate in the rumen of the cow when it tries to digest grain,) and the increased likelihood of antibiotic-resistent bacteria developing because of the tremendous amount of antibiotics used to keep animals living in these conditions from getting sick:

http://www.oklahomafarmreport.com/wire/news/2010/07/media/00...

(That ankle-deep black stuff is poo, which also runs and collects in giant sewer pools that generate toxic runoff.)
Slackware Philosophy
To be clear, I did not advocate learning only anything.

If you aren't interested in learning about MongoDB, MySQL, DB2, and stack of brittle punch cards, you're probably not cut out to be an IT professional in the first place.
I haven't read that book, but I get the point about the critique. I think it's important to acknowledge the many errors that have resulted from both ignorance and negligence, but also to consider how scientific rigor and engineering methodologies like redundancy and planning for failure mean that we don't have to fly blind; also, the more we postpone implementation of alternative designs (such as those for thorium reactors), the greater the risks from maintaining outdated reactors become. There are many reactors that I'd like to see shut down for either design or geographic reasons, and the best argument for decommissioning them is that we can produce the same amount of power at lower cost and risk.
Big Bang Theory Challenged by Big Chill
Time is very much a dimension: spacetime is well described as a 3+1 dimensional manifold.

Reading your link, I have no idea what those researchers are talking about (nor did it inspire me to look at their actual article). The "1 time + 3 space dimensions" structure of the universe is exceedingly well established experimentally by the essentially perfect verifications of the predictions of relativity that we use every day (in GPS, for instance). It's possible (though unlikely, from what I've seen here) that they have some deep new insight into the nature of time, sure. But any successful theory of time will have to be almost indistinguishable from standard 3+1 dimensional spacetime under "ordinary" conditions, or else it will contradict a huge body of experimental evidence. So even if what these folks are saying somehow makes sense, saying "time is not a dimension" would still be wrong in many important ways.
Cool? Still haven't decided if it's useful.

Anyway, the cursor occasionally obscures the character and slows you down. Might be worth testing out a fish-eye effect as the cursor scrolls so you clearly know what you need to type.
I don't mean this in a cruel way (I'd really like this to succeed), but that's a list of features, not a plan for getting adoption.

Figuring out how to bootstrap network effects is critical.
Thanks for your replies everyone !
One of my concerns was that CEO has been putting in all the money so far, so the valuation of the company is questionable.

Only comparison I could make was with another competitor in the same area, which is valued about twice of this company. So, the valuation doesn't look too arbitrary.

The good thing is that the CEO has been the CEO of another big company for >10 years. So he is capable of making this company a success. This company has been around for 5 years and has some physical products out there, so the chance of it going belly up over a short period is relatively low.

They are offering a salary that slightly exceeds that job current job including bonus/401K etc. and the vesting period for the options is 3 years with 1/3rd of the options vesting each year.

The CEO wants to make the company profitable and keep it private if possible. He said I could sell the options back to the company once they vest. He said he just converted somebody's options to company's stock once they vested. I am not sure if I can get real cash for the options though, if the company is still private and not seeking funding.

The offer letter says vesting period, but it doesn't give details regarding what happens if the company gets acquired before my options vest.

Is it okay to ask for the options agreement, before joining the company ?
Thanks guys. Not a moment too soon. Humbly quoting the motivation:

> What is wrong with other social services?
Centralized Social Service Providers limit what you can share and who you can share with. They only allow users to interact with other users on the same network. Because their products are centralized and maintained by a company, users are left in the cold when the company changes its products or shuts down. There's nothing wrong with a company offering users social services. But users shouldn't be limited by those companies. Imagine if you could only email other customers of your Internet Service Provider. Unfortunately Centralized Social Service Providers have done just that. You can only communicate directly with other users of their closed network.

> If you don't like a bank you can withdraw your money and deposit it somewhere else, including your own home. You could even start a new bank where you and your friends felt safe. You can still pay your bills and maintain your financial relationships, just tell them about your new account. We aren't talking about money. Your data is far more valuable– your family and friends' photos, locations, and private communications. You should be able to store them somewhere you trust, move them when you want, control who can and can't see them.
Shameless: Enjoying this challenge? You'd enjoy working with us. We're hiring in Chicago, in Mountain View, and in Manhattan. This stuff is our day-to-day, plus reversing, custom protocols, tool development, and exotic applications. If you've never done appsec work professionally, but find these challenges fun and straightforward, we'd love to talk to you:

We've hired more people off HN than from any other vector.

www.matasano.com/careers

(Or, you know, ask Stripe for a job. I'm sure they're hiring too!)
Don't worry -- even if you don't get to play this week, we'll be releasing the levels afterwards so you can run them yourself at home.
Interesting suggestion. Will explore and consider, thanks !
Only the site generator is in Ruby. While most of our core team are Rubyists, someone is working on a C++ implementation, too. It's a protocol which means you can write an implementation in any language you want. We hope to see many server implementations with different optimal use cases in different languages.

For libraries, Ruby and Javascript are our top priorities with Java and Obj-C/iOS to follow. We'd love help if there are other languages you'd like to write libs for.
It gets even better. My OS is in English. My browser is set to English and prefers English. My Android phone is in English. I have Google set to English. At all the 3 different places I could find.

Most of Google is in English. https://accounts.google.com/b/0/SmsAuthConfig is set to German with no possibility to change it (that I can see). The Android market shows me German movies, German books and German games.

I honestly believe the only way to have a decent, single-language experience is to live in a purely English speaking country, never move away, never use a device that was used in a non-English-speaking-country and of course speak English.

Seems to be really hard to save somewhere what someone wants -.-
Call me maybe a fluke
Nashville vs Memphis, Silicon Valley vs Anywhere
Author here, thanks for the feedback. Do you mean the backspace cursor that appears after the user typed a character incorrectly?
Andy has observed that people under the age of 40 don't talk about "Agile" as much as people over it. I have NOT made this same observation, but I have a theory about a possible reason that Andy has observed it.

People over 40 call it "agile development". People under 40 call it "programming". The people over 40 remember doing it differently -- we remember the nine month efforts to write requirements documents that then must not be deviated from even if it is necessary to save the project from failure.
Fun idea, but doesn't seem to recognize non-US keyboard layouts.
Thanks, that's a good note. We didn't want it to seem like we were attacking the other protocols (all of which have had success, have clear use cases, and we owe some debt to for paving the way), but we should make our reasoning clearer to the community. Will do.
A step further: you send 10 planes, only a single plane is loaded with drugs, the 9 other with stones. Now DEA has to track 10 planes doing multiple drops.
TNW debates Klout, Kred, social influence measurement
Touchdevelop [WP7] Code Synthesis from Natural Language
While .com doesn't define a single country, there was a huge development of US .com sites (and the internet in general) before there was much of an internet presence outside the English speaking world at all. In fact since most browsers (early and modern both) came out of the US, there wasn't even support for some non-roman character sets until later. That's how history went.

Furthermore, English is the single language widely use by travelers, heard in movies and even in local pop songs all over the world. English is the one language in which nearly anyone on the internet can recognize the name of their own language. Anyone in Russia could recognize that "Russian" refers to their own language, but how many Spaniards would realize that "スペイン語" was what they had to click on a Japanese site to find their own language?

Anything other than English would be a terrible default for a .com
I wish the window for fixing a comment was a bit longer...
Do you mean that 2% is not a clinically significant figure? Could you explain why? (I'm not familiar with clinical significance)
Software company status boards are not uncommon; here's another one from ~2010:

http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/
Mixergy interview with Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror)
Thanks for the bug report. The next update will fix international keyboard layouts once I figure out the mess that is cross-browser, cross-language javascript key event handling:)
FF 16/Win7, I don't seem to be able to type underscores '_' at all.

ETA: looks fine in Chrome though, and I really like this idea :)
Performance metrics for a social network
The talk focuses on how we use metrics to drive optimization at Fashiolista.

And narrows down on tools like:
NewRelic
Graphite
PgFouine
Area Startup Raises $2.1 Million For Some Damn Thing It Won’t Talk About
Looks like someone has found the egg.
My old account got banned from posting because of 3 straight comments that were downvoted, all of them misunderstood to be negative. So yeah it matters.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4418621
WebSockets also have the advantage that they pass through corporate firewalls and open wifi networks, as well as many proxies, as they masquerade as HTTP traffic. And a nicer frames mechanic than raw socket, something I love. (nowhere near as low-level, but for me it's essentially stateful UDP that's reliable, i.e. TCP except with datagrams)
Time is a dimension. Four-vectors, vectors with four elements, are used in special relativity.
This is the Twitter replacement gotham needs.

Repo starred, eagerly awaiting runnable stuff.
Thanks, will take a look into this
Are you kidding? I was trying to read Sam's Posterous, which is referenced in the original post! And it was password protected, and he commented in the thread! Jeez, how is that not relevant?
For me the interesting bit is that web 2.0 companies, unlike brick and mortar companies, have to some extent disassociated the manufacturing part from the service part. So you can take a month (unless you are in Ops :-)) and do something completely different and its not visible outside.

Now if a McDonalds franchise said our employees are going to spend this month figuring out ways to improve or innovate in the fast food space, nobody could buy food for a month.

Since this feature is relatively new, its not commonly thought of as an option. To be fair though in professional practices like Law Firms, this has been implemented in the more 'we are getting out of the office' kind of thing. In that case it seems to counteract burnout from the insane hours that people put in during litigation.
They even have a mobile phone network:

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/12/mexican-army-shuts-down-zet...
> I sincerely never would have guessed that from your landing page.

I've spent about 2 hours buying the domain, setting up email, Twitter, Launchrock, etc. So yes the pitch and landing page are very rough right now.

My goal is to do just enough marketing to get 100 good BETA testers. Ship to Testflight. Refine the App and the pitch. Rinse, repeat.

It'll get better every week but pardon the rough edges at the moment.
It's Not About the Nerds
Only if you're using C/C++ and only native OS libraries (or on windows, afraid to use WinHttp for fear of lack of SP1 support)
I was pretty surprised that Netflix's own algorithm apparently wasn't doing anything this simple

Netflix does have really interesting blind spots. They claim to take ratings seriously, to the point of offering a million dollars for the best rating algorithm. Then, as the GP says, they implement the rating algorithm in a way that renders it completely worthless to any household with more than one viewer.

Netflix does offer us a good demonstration of the failings of absolute technocracy, but it leaves the question of how best to rate movies wide open.
If anything, this site shows the importance of autocomplete
This exists,
The Discovery Protocol Stack http://hueniverse.com/2009/11/the-discovery-protocol-stack-r...
Hm, odd. I can't seem to find it. It used to be at duckduckgo.com/karma.html.

Additionally the widget doesn't seem to be current (my scores are all out of date). Aw, I sure hope it's still online, but I sure can't find it.
Nope, still don't see it. Women tend to go to the bathroom together far more frequently than men do in my neck of the woods. It's a stereotype, but I don't see how it's a harmful one to perpetuate, unlike your example. Would it bother you if people assumed you wanted to go to the bathroom in a group? If so, is this a common concern?
I get several pages printed per day, some with other sites listed. Very happy to be enlightened about the source!
Android powers new Nikon camera
Mercedes vs Bmw vs Audi: Which ads are more creative?
Thanks very much for the insight - what you are saying actually makes a lot of sense in the context of systems inside the AWS ecosystem. After all, they need to archive data as well. Also - my 140 container example w/Iron Mountain was Pre-versioning and always-online differential backups. We basically had a complex tower-of-hanoi that let us recover data from a week, a month, six months, and then every year (going back seven years) from all of our servers. (And, by Year seven, when we started rotating some of the old tapes back in - they were a generation older than any of our existing tape drives. :-)

Clearly, with on-line differential backups - you might be able to do things more intelligently.

I'm already looking forward to using Glacier, but, for the forseeable future, it looks like the "High End" archiving will be owned by Tape. And, just as Glacier will (eventually) make sense for >100 Terabyte Archives, I suspect Tape Density will increase, and then "High End" archiving will be measured in Petabytes.

Thanks again.
Ray Bradbury on Storytelling and Human Nature in 1963 Documentary
P|pes in OS X on Firefox, too.
The next obvious question is "what percent to other countries waste?". Not addressed in the story, other than an off the cuff "10 times as much as Southeast Asia".
The rate of those types of disease being higher are maybe also a consequence of a longer lifespan.
Rackspace ate my homework - a tale of comfy baskets | Gingerlime
I agree, it's obnoxious on every page.

On one page at the beginning or end would be fine, or better yet, non-visible metadata/stenography, but stamping my name on every page is like putting the FBI warning on movies. The only people who see the FBI warning are the legitimate purchasers. Stripping my name off each page of the PDF is a trivial technical challenge, something a dozen lines of Python could probably fix, but it's highly annoying that it's even necessary if I legitimately bought it.

It's also about how you apply it. PragProg is pretty subtle, Packt Publishing is (or was, it's been a while) was in your face about it.

I've been on the fence about buying this book for the last hour, and this is a factor that has me leaning towards not purchasing (besides there being few unbiased comments on the contents).
Middle class share of America's income shrinking
Autocompletion is an important tool along side typing proficiency. Most of the autocomplete I've used only covers alphanumericVariableNames, so you still have to type the hard-to-reach symbol keys.
Java reputation suffers because of the association of such language with
corporate drones.

We may say that with the current crop of languages running on the JVM, Java is a
low-level language. It is to the JVM what C is to hardware. You avoid coding
in both when you have higher-level languages available which will make you more
productive.

But when you want to optimize performance on the JVM for specific chunks of your
application - without resorting to JVM bytecode of course - Java is the right
choice.
I'm not sure I agree with this. I've seen enough personally that I believe there is such a thing as a tipping point. That doesn't mean wild success on the first try, and in fact many people never reach it, but it definitely exists. There's some combination of luck and trying enough different ideas that eventually you may "strike gold".
Actually, it's a problem for anyone who speaks a language that is different from the official language of the country they are in, and don't have a Google account (a lot of people.) In any case, a persistent language menu on all Google properties that has all languages available would solve either and all other problems associated with language choice.
How do you feel about alpha? please join the mailing list (on the bottom of http://tent.io) so we can let you know
Right - the point I was trying to make, is he was putting all his eggs in one basked. If anything catastrophic happened to S3, he might lose both his S3 as well as his Dropbox backups.

If you are going to the effort of having dual-backup systems, may as well try and find something that can't be impacted by a single disaster.
This is awesome. Finished the 1st Scala lesson and I really liked the end of the lesson summary. I got to make some improvements :)
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