skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for a company that did this. As an employee, it was pure hell.

We charged a flat-rate per company and as a result, people would call us every day for problems like "please move my icons from X to Y".

To make things worse, my boss never scaled the company properly so we had 5 employees managing 50+ companies, which resulted in hellish work conditions.
May I ask what whiteboards are you hanging?
It would be instructional to understand what the actual difference in cold startup times are between Chrome and Firefox on your machine. Would you take some wall-clock measurements of cold startup and post a comparison for the HN community (and FF developers)? Chrome uses tricks that create the perception of speed; please measure how long it takes for the browser to be "usable", which is defined by when you start typing in the address bar and auto-complete results appear.

Just a prediction, but you will realize that the difference in startup performance is but a perception.

Thanks!
It makes sense that large-scale operations are common in locations with a big bike scene. These will likely require a distribution network, so fighting bike theft might benefit from focusing on infiltrating those networks.

I had a friend who bought a bike lock that was insured against any thefts (whether they were quick with the insurance, I don't know). When he went to register it, he saw that there were two exceptions, one of which was the city in which he lived: Eugene Oregon, a town with tens of thousands of students. After asking around, he was told bike thieves there loaded entire bike racks onto trucks in a couple minutes, then removed each lock at their leisure in a storage facility.

I find it hard to imagine that they sold them off individually: it's too suspicious to have a few people selling hundreds of bikes. Likewise, delegating to underlings to sell the bikes also seems too risky, as several people now know about the enterprise. I suppose they sell wholesale to used bike shops in other towns who are in the know.

The solution in this case would seem to be turning criminals into witnesses, a la drug enforcement. Enforcement on an individual-basis wouldn't work: mere possession of a single stolen bicycle is unlikely to prove criminality. I doubt penalizing individuals for owning a bike (as with counterfeit money) would work either: if I go to a used bike shop to buy a bike, they're not going to give me the "stolen discount" - the shop is going to mark it up to the same price as legitimate used bikes.
I've gone from small places to large places and back, and I can see the appeal of both. One thing that's nice about a bigger house is that you can have special purpose rooms. If you have only a living room but would love to have a pool table, you're either out of luck or need to convince whoever you're living with (sometimes yourself!) that it's ok to stick a pool table in the middle of the living room. Or you have to compromise and get one of those "pool table slash foosball table slash pingpong table" things that are pretty much worthless.

Another example is home theatre. It's true that you can just put a big tv and surround sound in your living room, but that more often than not screws up the decor and larger purpose of the living room as a family gathering spot. When you have a dedicated room, you can go nuts with the stadium seating and all of that.

That said, I've downsized in the past two years from a two story four bedroom house with a yard to a one bedroom apartment. I'm now preparing to spend the next several months in an RV. I'm actually much, much happier with this arrangement.

For some, space is a true necessity (large families that wish to keep their sanity). For others, space is a luxury that they can afford and that truly makes them happy. For people like myself, though, I've found that I only wanted what I thought space could get me... "breathing room". Turns out I needed psychological and intellectual breathing room more than I need more physical space. Perhaps that will change as I get older, but right now I'm glad I learned that I can be happier in far less space. The freedom, flexibility, and lower financial burdens this affords are well worth the cost of having to move a table every now and then.
The video shows two options for this situation. Either allow access despite the outage, or deny access due to the outage.
A lot of the traffic google gets is people looking to buy e.g.: "refrigerator reviews". Everyone going to google is looking for something, even if a lot of them aren't looking for a product, when they are looking for a product it is to buy it.

Facebook and Twitter, however, are sites people use for socializing, and if they're looking for something, its usually links to news.

Thus, google's traffic is more monetizable. This is not to say that Facebook and Twitter won't grow up to be big businesses with really lucerative monetization... its just that it isn't as clear. I think google found its strategy in adwords a lot faster (2000 is when it was launched) as a result, while facebook ads are there, they've not been as successful and facebook has been around a lot longer than google had when adwords came out.
Using ZeroMQ devices to support complex network topologies
Not to mention you can write down the seed itself and simply type it into another phone.
This is of course true. But it will ensure every Retina MBP owner is not using Firefox.
We've invited companies to Open Angel Forum from all over, but I'm sure they'd open a chapter there if someone wanted to step up and organize it.

I've visited a bunch of east coast cities, and they are in different stages for sure. Right now I'd say DC is a bit farther behind than Philly, yes.

Philly has a lot going on: http://redeye.firstround.com/2012/08/hello-philly.html
http://www.fastcompany.com/1835775/philadelphia-sets-sights-...
Yes, good point. We're very experienced in app valuations and I agree with you 100% that asking is not getting. But this app has millions of users, which is a huge deal because so many people can be reached through the app! In addition, they are only available to 25% of people with iPhones since the app only works for the iPhone 4 & 4s.. think about how crazy their user base will be once the iPhone 5 comes out next month! This is a huge asset you can not overlook during the valuation process.
Part of what (made|makes) Apple great is the willingness to say no to sub-standard solutions. I think they would be better off not selling content at all that doesn't live up to the standards of the ecosystem. Growing their content library more quickly doesn't help Apple or the content industry if it creates bad blood with purchasers.
Is the "official Chrome PPA" the same thing as the APT repository that the Chrome .deb (downloaded from google.com/chrome) adds to your sources.list?
It's probably some measure of both, but from my experience there are some people you can't afford to give autonomy.
My guess is that the pros are throwing them into a van or pick-up rather than riding away on the bike.
Minimum Viable Team
I am interested in the .NET version. If you can please post the info of the contest. Thanks!
danielpal: google-authenticator prints out emergency scratch codes you can use if you lose your cellphone :-)
It is 2012. Please install Adblock Plus, and add a subscription to one of the many Annoyance blocking filter lists.
You are not the first to point out this perceived problem:
http://wiki.nasa.gov/cm/blog/nasadotgov/posts/post_130686081...

Short version: They have decided the cost of doing so is not worth it. I could not agree more - sure, redirecting example.com -> www.example.com is technically straightforward, but setting up a highly-available cluster (which NASA would certainly require) is not free.
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O co tu chodzi?
Actually, it's even worse than that - with a rateless code like Fountain codes, you can generate an effectively unlimited number of encoded blocks, making pregeneration of hashes for them all completely impractical.

In all other particulars you're dead right.
IBM Introduces Cloud-Friendly Mainframe
"Not in the Bay Area" strongly implies "low valuation" for a variety of reasons. #1 on the list is the lack of competition by overfunded VCs throwing cash at startups, driving up valuations. Since an investor's returns are strongly influenced by entry price, investing in the Bay Area raises a higher hurdle for exits than similar deals elsehwere.

Outside the Bay Area, since it's harder to get VC funding for even good companies, fundable ideas are more likely to be "real" companies. Outside the Bay network it's going to be impossible to flip a photo site for 9 or 10 figures, but there are always buyers for profitable & growing tech businesses.

It's likely that investing outside the Bay Area is a competitive advantage for investors of all sizes.
The network card sees all packets that go through the air but discards the ones not meant for your computer. Unless you tell the card not to which is called promiscuous mode, then all the packets are available to the OS.
Separate Your Eggs with Suction
The difference with Amazon Instant Video is that it's trivial to find a plain-old TV-connected device that supports it. My year old Blu-ray player handles it just fine. It's not that different from NetFlix in that regard, except I suppose it's not available for Apple TV yet.

The only device designed to put HBO Go on your TV screen is, I believe, the XBox 360 when connected to particular cable networks.
Let's hope that the revelations around these abuses can motivate the higher corporate structure. It seemed to light a fire under Apple when the FoxConn, etc. labor practice were revealed. If noisy enough, bad PR can motivate change.
I just want to say how much I love this blog. I'm a self-taught programmer, which means that I tend to learn algorithms as I feel I need them (a big problem given that I have to know what I don't know before I can know it!). I've recently gotten more into computer science for its own sake, but books and papers about algorithms are often dry and unmotivating.

The pieces on this blog are always entertaining and clearly justify the excitement and purpose of the algorithm under discussion.

Computer science and the STEM world in general needs more stuff like this, and I'm happy that we are in fact seeing more and more of it. Well done.
Love the idea of a paper reading group. In case anyone missed the link in the article, they've put a bunch of the recently read papers up at https://github.com/gdb/stripe-prg/wiki/Papers
A few months ago I saw a tweaked-out guy at 6th & Howard in San Francisco (just outside the Techshop) literally trying to saw-off a U-lock in broad daylight. A bunch of other homeless guys were lazily watching with amusement.

I really would love to build a pepperspray-bomb-in-a-U-lock, if only I could do so without being instantly sued by a litigious thief.
Be it as it may, magic number or not, that line should not need a comment. My principle above still holds: needing comments tends to hint that your design could be better and/or your code could be cleaner.

Maybe your library is flawed. Maybe JS is fundamentally flawed. I'm not making any comments one way or another about what's flawed in this picture or how to fix it, just that seeing this comment indicates room for improvement.

Imagine the ideal design/architecture for a given application on all levels. Does it involve the users of this code or API explaining everything in lengthy comments? Or does it involve a clean, beautiful, and elegant set of interactions that is both transparent and intuitive as to what is going on? The latter, I argue, needs no comments. The former, I argue, is indicative of design flaws or inadequate function names.

So why do we see necessary comments in real life, then? Because real life system designs are rarely ideal. I still like to try to get as close as I can, though.
I was living in a very, very small apartment until I got a partner. Now we are married, we have a small house with very little storage room for stuff. A slightly larger house would be nice, not for stuff, but so we could work from home without interruptions, entertain our large family and have a bit more room for tools and pets.
Organized criminal groups are more scrupulous. They just want your money, or to be information brokers. They won't publish your name, address, phone, social and god knows what else to the world.

I could give an extreme example and say that this kind of information disclosure puts stalking victims at risk, but there's a million more reasons we protect the privacy of individuals. Criminals simply have no reason to do this kind of thing, but the script kiddies think it's hilarious.
Fetchnotes Adds 25GB of Free Storage From Box
Single family homes may be a declining fraction of housing, and the lower end may be getting replaced by townhomes or condos.
Fun with the Intigi Recommendations API
Winter Is Coming: The Great iPhone Cable Shortage Of 2012
I’m curious. More details?
How to hack a multi-year holiday with your kids
A team of seven is making a game that "shouldn't be possible."
Knowingly purchasing stolen goods is already illegal in most places. The key is the "knowingly" part.

You would have to have a ubiquitous BikeID system in a central registry of stolen bikes. It would have to be incredibly easy to check the status of a BikeID (web/email/phone/sms). It would have to have incredible traction.

At that point if someone bought a bike which was tagged in the system as stolen, and didn't check/report it within 48 hours, they could be considered complicit in the theft.

We're getting pretty close to this with cars. I'm pretty libertarian in my ideology, but at some point the barrier is so low to running a CarFax-esque check that even I wouldn't mind penalizing buyers who don't do due diligence. It is, of course, easier to justify with higher ticket items than with bikes or phones...
I guess my concern is that you end up coupling components with marketing rules where there would otherwise be little or no connection.
Bike theft seems like one of those quality-of-life crimes (like graffiti and coercive squeegee-monkeys) that's begging for some kind of creative enforcement strategy.

- If there's an open-air bike market at 7th and Market, it seems like you could use some of the same strategies that have been used to shut down open-air drug markets.

- Police in the greater Vancouver area have had a lot of success with bait cars, but I'm not aware of bait bikes being used more than experimentally (cf. tocatchabiketheif.com)

- If one could devise a concentrated enforcement strategy, one might not need to "take six guys off a murder" for very long. Basically the idea would be to tip a high-crime-low-probability-of-punishment equilibrium and into a low-crime-high-probability-of-punishment equilibrium that should presumably remain equally stable. One approach would be to target a geographic area and communicate (and follow through on) a threat to throw the book at anyone caught stealing a bike.

(pretty much all of these are stolen from the book When Brute Force Fails).
Hans device is light based and makes use of frustrated total internal reflection of infra-red light being shone into the edge of the touch surface that is then picked up by an infra-red camera that is sitting next to a projector underneath the table.
I have long thought that there was a potential insurgent business model here: sell a lifetime license to a particular piece of content, which the user is now allowed to acquire by whatever means they choose. In essence, you pay for the content holder to waive their right to sue, and nothing more.

It'd be a tough sell for Big Content, but once it generated sufficient revenue for indie and niche stuff to prove the model, eventually they would come around if it meant an excuse to charge you for the White Album yet again. You could also collect pledges or pre-payments from users so that they could put a dollar value on how much revenue they're missing out on.
Can't seem to get it to load in FF 15, it's stuck on the "downloading" screen but no progress seems to be happening in the downloading bar.
I'm pretty sure that when Palahniuk wrote that, his identification for 'stuff' included digital content and other non-tangibles. Great, you don't have a lot of stuff. how would you feel if your gmail went away tomorrow? bad? looks like stuff still owns you!
This is just more of the same old Cali Startup Culture. Requiring you to eat lunch together, have meetings every week. No email retention policies, no expectation of privacy. I bet they are working 60 hour weeks and are salaried employees as well.
Yeah but in reality no-one writes it down. I actually use Google-Auth for my Gmail, but I forgot were I wrote this number down(it was a couple of years ago).
Keeping a scratch code for each new server is a pain.
What do you do when you have a lady friend over?
Interesting that you name them 'together'. On the surface, they are doing quite different things. On a deeper level, it seems to me, they approaching things in a very similar manner. I think what they share is a style of work very detached from the hectic, local improvement approach, which is usually forced upon us in industry for efficiency reasons. They inspiringly take their time to dig deep to identify hidden assumptions to get to the root causes of problems. Quite in the sense of the artist or scientist Bertrand Russell thought of. http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/radio4/transcripts/1948_re...
Not to mention the irony of multinational corporations running a show of mock national pride, the very same national pride their business helps to undermine (both financially and morally).
I wonder how close this is to the 'ebay' effect, basically before ebay existed there were garage sales and flea markets that people would go to in order to buy junk. Something I was familiar with was old computers, they were just fun to buy for a few bucks and get them running again. Something cool about getting a machine for $5 that you knew sold new for $100,000 up an running 'like new.' (albeit it could be emulated by a modern PC at a much faster rate, that wasn't the point :-)

Then Ebay came along and opened up the market to a lot more people, and the people in that market actually had a sense of what some of this stuff was worth (primarily to folks keeping legacy systems alive) and prices shot up.

What was worse was that at the flea markets now vendors wanted 10x what they wanted before for their junk. And if you offered them a more typical amount they would say "Nah, I'll just go sell it on Ebay rather than take that offer." So you could get a discount (sort of a real world buy it now) but your leverage was greatly diminished.

In the world of investing, and Venture Capital specifically, I think Andreessen Horowitz brought a better understanding of value to the table. That meant that VCs that used to be able to get away with underpaying were forced to stump up closer to market value and that makes them grumpy. Just like I was paying $50 for a DEC VAX that I knew I could have had for $5 before Ebay ruined things.
I imagine it wouldn't be done on the spot - pedal to where you parked your theftomatic van, which comes with a nice, big battery pre-installed.
Very impressive!

Was playable in low-ress mode, though sometimes laggy, on my 2010 MacBook Air with Chrome.
May I ask what whiteboards are you hanging?

Just generic ones from Office Depot. I have four big ones (3x6 or so?) and one smaller one hanging in my living room (which is more of an office for the startup right now, than it is a "living room").
Didn't know Vimp was the common ancestor. Copied my .pentadactylrc into .vimperatorrc and most of it works.
"sit down with your own personal Watson"... "I think that's the power of lecture"

This does not follow. The virtue of a lecture can not be that you are getting personalized optimal Socratic dialog. Only a couple of people in the audience can be getting that at a time.

Optimal Socratic teaching will probably never disappear, but I'm still not hearing a lot of defenses of lectures qua lectures that still don't generally boil down to "It was good enough for me, it's good enough for them".
If you like watching about this, I recommend ``When we left the Earth'' miniseries by Discovery Channel.

Focuses on people of the early space era, with narratives provided by several known and unknown participants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_We_Left_Earth:_The_NASA_Mi...
A physical assault carries a high chance of being noticed, and unless carried out by law enforcement, a significant chance of being punished with jail time. So it's not something that has a high chance of happening. Additionally, it's hard to defend against, and you definitely don't want to defend against a SWAT team.

Whereas a bored teenage neighbor could attack your wireless network with a very small chance of being detected. Or with a sensitive directional antenna it doesn't even have to be your neighbor if the goal is just to sniff traffic. Plus, the only cost to you in defending against this attack is entering a more complex password on new devices. Stick a note on the fridge or choose a phrase.
With recent circuit sizes we could all turn our bikes into wheel powered google cars.

distance sensors
front,back,driver cameras
automatic brakes
gyroscope balancer
whatever ...
A couple years ago I moved, and I rented a bike while mine was in transit. I wish I never rented it, because riding it was glorious, and it cost $1500 retail. (It was a Kona bike, called "Rage" or "Fire" or something like that.)

It's like retina displays -- you don't know what you're missing until you use it, and then after that, you always know what you're missing.
My friend who was transferred out of the holding tank into jail actually said it was much nicer once he was processed, and assigned a cell.
> I can't understand people who shell out thousands of dollars for a bike, are these so much better than a $500 one?

Sure, if you want a MTB for blazing offroad trails or a road bike for touring. For your regular 20 minute commute, a sub-$1000 city bike is pretty much the sweet spot (depending on your available disposable income of course).
I used Chrome for quite a while because Firefox's interface felt unresponsive, as you echoed. However, starting with version 14, I have been finding it snappier than Chrome. Just my 2 cents.
A bike doesn't generate it's own power. An in-hub generator is rather expensive and thus rare, so might serve as a hint to the sophisticated thieves to check the bike for the phone-home device.
"But Millennials may approach the decision about how many children to have, and how to educate them, with more of a business approach. Will this cause the number of children to rise or to fall? Children are a heavy investment, especially given the cost of college these days..."

Children...an investment? Oh, I lol'd. Children aren't an investment, unless by investment you mean 'cash bonfire.'
And all the rooms are the wrong size.

(That's a joke.)

I suspect that the size of each kind of average apartment has not changed much over the last few decades. One bedrooms are still about 650 sq ft, two bedrooms about 780. Big buildings are designed for efficiency over the long term, and don't partake in fads so much.

When you go out and buy a house, there's an inclination to buy as much house as you think you can afford. More space is more flexibility, after all, and after years living in not-quite-enough space, you want all that you can get.
> In some sense Gutenberg ought to have obviated the need for the lecture format in college but it didn't. Radio didn't, television didn't and I suspect the internet won't either. At least not for the majority of students.

Ultimately, I think you hit the nail on the head.

This isn't a problem that can be solved with technology alone. It's a social issue, and one that technology can certainly assist in solving.