skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough, but I would argue that just picking out clothes in the morning does not represent "total freedom". I see what you are trying to say though.
What is the value of not working with a designer whose recommendations can't be implemented due to your constraints? Did they pester you daily about their recommendations?
That reminds me a story which mr. Lukacovic (founder of czech search engine seznam.cz) told cs students several years ago. When he was dealing with investors, he tries to show himself in a "nerdy light" (wearing old t-shirt and jeans) to actually get a better deal. The reasoning behind this was that this would make his partners beleive that they have an advantage, while the opposite was actually true because he indeed has some good fried who advised him in this matter.

So the "phychology hack" can work in both cases. Dressing yourself properly is a good default though.
Can We Revive php.net User Notes Or Kill It?
Cool! I'm intrigued to see what happens with the Rack-mountable web service especially.
Even so it still seems apparent that modern Latin alphabets have been adapted for typesetting, whereas even contemporary written Arabic seems to remain optimized for handwriting. It seems reading Arabic is a lot more difficult than reading Latin based writing, language issues aside, simply becuase the letters are all joined together.
> It's running on windows, which makes the "real-time" argument void.

That is simply not true. You can set a windows process to use real-time priorities.
Its probably more about the huge dataset VirusTotal has gathered over time.
This is the one Kickstarter project that I was really interested in as to how it turned out.

Going from 1000 watches to 100,000 watches is a huge undertaking, and requires a lot of special skillsets. 1000 watches you could probably do by yourself with some friends that you hire, but 100,000 requires a factory, and a whole different set of skills.

Their product looks really cool and I hope that they succeed, but my speculation to my friends was that they might be the victim of their own success. It might be the case that maybe they should have capped their first set of orders at 1000, and then slowly build out their capacity while learning from their mistakes, but now with their high-profile Kickstarter campaign and $12M, people might not give them a second chance if they encounter big problems.
Has that been quantified? I suppose there are studies comparing forms of governments, it's just that I don't know them. Having grown up in a democracy, obviously I can not trust what I have been taught (ie people in communist countries are being taught that communism is the best form of government).

I could imagine that democracy provides a more steady form of mediocrity whereas for example kingdoms might have more ups and downs depending on the current rulers.
That's not a problem.

No one's complaining "too many usernames are taken"; people are complaining about the comment quality.

When you get a HN username to make a YC application, you're going to be hyperaware that you're here visiting pg's home turf. You'll either try really hard to post high-content, insightful comments, or you'll simply lurk. Either way, you're not likely to be wandering around urinating on the furniture.

tl;dr -- the requirement seems more likely to boost, rather than harm, comment quality - if it has any effect at all.
> I fail to see the relation, let alone the "utter incompatibility".

Well in the USA flag burning is considered a form of free speech. After reading parts of the linked document from Puerto Rico it seems like I would not have legally be able to burn/destroy/deconstruct art that I have bought from an artist under all circumstances with out the artists permission. From the USA legal perspective this seems to limit free speech.

> Not that it matters, as both are social constructs

Some constructs are more effective then others at achieve specific goals, in this sense it does matter.
It's pronounced "et cetera" because that's what it's an abbreviation of. Most abbreviations (unlike acronyms) aren't verbalized in their abbreviated form. You say "versus", not "vs" when you read it.

However, I do often hear Unix hackers say "et-sey" when referring to the "etc/" directory because precision is important there: the directory is not named "etcetera" so pronouncing it as such would confuse.
How many new Kindles will Amazon sell?
It's easy to worry about every details and learn every piece of tech yourself all at once, but it's a recipe for unstable foundations and disasters of distraction.

Creating small achievements by prototyping simple ideas in unfamiliar technologies gives me small, concrete rewards to celebrate the journey.
I absolutely agree with this sentiment. There's no reason to choose this theme unless you're trying to confuse people that you're a part of this network. Unfortunately, the userbase you're trying to impress is smart enough to know the difference and you just end up looking the fool.
And The Beach.

I'm a supporter, though. The difficulty of gathering like-minded people and starting a new sovereignty without having to modify entrenched, monolithic, slow-moving institutions is tragic.
Ok, so I watched them both, and clearly some of the same machines are still there, it looks like the only guy who lost his job to automation was the guy who took the molded crayons and put them into the labeler. All the other steps were pretty much identical.

Now personally I love manufacturing porn, I don't know why but I can watch an hour or two of 'How its Made' and just spin all these ideas about in my head. And what you see when you watch more than a bit of that show is that there are things that are designed to be built by automation, and things that aren't.

So on the one hand you look at things that aren't made to be automated and you think "Hmm, can I disrupt that market by designing an automated way to build that widget?" or as the OP wrote you might think "Hmm what pieces need to be assembled to make an arbitrary widget?"

One of the things that came up in an earlier thread was that you could go across the street in Shenzen(sp?) and have an arbitrary fastener made. Things take lots of fasteners, and they are essential to manufacturing, but making them requires specific tooling for each kind. Can that be automated? Can I make a factory that will make an arbitrary fastener in small quantities (say 1,000) efficiently or cost effectively? You know steel rod in one side of various diameters and fasteners out the other. And then what would the API be to that factory? Select Head, diameter, material, length, quantity? Maybe finish?

One of the things that mixing sizes on the assembly line would have is keeping them separate, but have you seen how fast a pick-n-place robot can sort things? Could you just have a tray full of random fasteners come out of the anodizing tank and have a robot sort them into types?

Very interesting times coming up.
This is big, it's another functionality that used to be server only moving to the clientside.
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up." — G. K. Chesterton

But once you understand the reason you may realize it's a bad one. Many countries seem to be getting crushed by cultural and political path dependence.
For all the bitching that goes on about parens, few people would want to work in a language without them :)

I guess you're not a fan of Forth?
That text in that image seems pretty clear to me.
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/schuyler/lockpicks-by-op...)

Successful in September 2010. Still no product shipped. Very unhappy backers, and actually a sad story for entrepreneur.
Ask a developer who is working in the area that you are interested in to give you some guidance. My girlfriend decided to become a web designer. Do she asked an experienced developer, me. I said HTML, CSS, JavaScript and JQuery. She added Photoshop and some image creation tools. She learned the parts I suggested and decided to go to a community college to get some focus. (Actually, she originally signed up to get the student discounts on the software.) In a few months she will get a job to get some practical experience. Then she will tackle her own projects.
The same technology could possibly identify weapons that people had. A side effect of that would be that we could make a very legitimate argument to demilitarize the police force, if a crowd is unarmed, the police should not need guns, tasers and pepper spray are adequate.

Likewise, we would have more recordings of police interactions and be able to lower those corruption rates, as it is now they are currently resisting allowing people to film them.

Socially, if you want anything remotely reasonable to happen here, and the technology is only going to progress and get better, I think we need need to counter weigh the benefits with costs to the police. Maybe they don't need guns any more, I know most of them will be against that, if they can tell who and how many people are in a given building at any time, maybe they don't need SWAT teams. Likewise, if they are looking for specific individuals they can identify more ideal times to apprehend that person with out violence.
Sorry, what obvious fraud?

And if the personal guarantees are going to go away once the business is a going concern, there's no problem with writing a shut-off date into the contract to make this explicit from the beginning, is there?
Show HN: Way we got 100K likes on our Facebook post
Ask HN: Why did Etherpad, Stypi & Simplenote give up on their original products?
Etherpad and Stypi got aquihired. Simplenote is pivoting to become a Parse-like PaaS platform. All these companies had enthusiastic users and good traction on their original products, what happened?
Like a startup, a charter city probably needs to "get big fast" so that it can convince or buy off the parent country before the novelty wears off.
They also say:

Kickstarter is under no obligation to become involved in disputes between any Users, or between Users and any third party. This includes, but is not limited to, delivery of goods and services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties, or representations associated with campaigns on the Site.
You also do not read magazines, newspapers or watch television?

You also do not use Google or Twitter (this isn't you? https://twitter.com/scott_to_s)?
Privacy restrictions on Facebook posts are visible to users
Show HN: Have to stay awake at night but sleep is just too tempting? [iOS App]
You have to tap the screen once in a while just to let the app know you're still awake. If you forget to tap it in time, the alarm will wake you up and you'll be sorry you fell asleep in the first place!

Here's the link to the app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sleepless/id555367754?mt=8
The City of London is also another example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc

Note: "City of London" is not the same as "London", where the Olympics were held.
Not to mention well over 100mil/yr in salaries alone (prob more like 150-170mil with benefits, taxes, and generally high salaries in SF, glassdoor shows avg salary 120-130k)
You're right and that wasn't my intent. Sorry. I was hoping it was clear I was more interested in the statement, but out of the context of the OP. Guess it was too far out of context...
Full Show 9/6/12: Progressives Vs. Obama
I guess I'm old school, but I've always been a bit taken back these days at how some people think it's okay to take phone calls during a meeting.

If you're being paid by your employer to attend meetings, what phone call could possibly be so important that you can't let it go to voicemail and you get to it after the meeting?

But I'm probably at least 10+ years older than the average person on HN, so maybe that's why. I still remember a time when people who took out a cell phone at a restaurant was considered rude and obnoxious, so I guess times do change.
It's the same algorithm.
Moreover, my understanding is that modern magnetic storage is, during normal operation, functioning very close to the limit of what the media can store, and what we have the technology to read; the concept that electron microscopes can recover overwritten data was only true decades ago. With this in mind, even a single-pass overwrite is likely to be sufficient for most purposes -- if we had the technology to recover data after it's been overwritten, we'd be using that technology to double hard disk capacities.
It's a radio signal. It's broadcast and if you are in range, you can tune in and listen. There's no possible way this can be construed as "wiretapping".
Are there any security concerns with this? Is the URL of a GET request over SSL encrypted as well as the payload? I assume it must be if they are sending credit card information that way?
Funny, my first thought was of German city-states as well, but not the ones that went well along the baltic.

Catherine the Great invited Germans to settle near the Black Sea when she won the territory from the Ottoman Empire. She gave them land in a similar way to the Oklahoma Land Rush: work it and it's yours. The problem came later when Russia changed its mind about being hands-off.

And that's my concern about this plan too. Honduras today is cooperative, but there is no guarantee it will remain that way. In fact, I'm sure it'll end poorly if poor Hondurans see wealthy "Americans" homesteading next door and not paying any taxes.
Dan was awesome. A few years ago, when I was an undergrad trying to raise money for my first startup in Boston, he was a huge help. Took the time to grab a couple meals with me and explain how things worked, introduced me to angels, and was really insightful. He had no expectation of anything in return - just gave freely of his time and experience.

I wish I had kept in better touch with him. He will be missed.
Thankfully, military governments have a near flawless record.
Update: Peteris asked me to repost. Done. Nice follow up.
Kevin Rose Interviews Elon Musk
His point there was that not all ads are evil. As someone who has purchased things based off of Facebook ads that I've seen, I share his "lack of hatred" for ads, provided they're not annoying or malicious. If they keep services I like free or cheaper as a result of their existence, then I'm not going to complain about them too much.
This is nothing. The Orbit reached its funding goal in October 2011. Still haven't received anything, and still no ship date.

Anyone who has worked in hardware knows how incredibly difficult it is. Your manufacturers will constantly make mistakes which cause unexpected delays. Give these guys a break.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/832784035/orbit-a-swivel...
It's like a rocket. Most of the fuel in a rocket goes towards lifting the rest of the fuel. Likewise, Twitter needs that level of investment to scale to the point where it can make a return on that level of investment.
_Why, Ruby Dramas, and Dynamiting Courtlandt
"curl http://url | sh" is not evil.
I'm half way through my Motorsport Design Engineering bachelor's degree course and while doing that I'm writing software for clients and for my own projects.

I'm hoping that I can use both my education and software skills after graduation. Preferably in my own business.
Even if the negotiating positions are "entirely one-sided" right now, that position leaves the door open for a competitor to capture market share by offering accounts without personal credit attachments. And yet nobody does that.

Are you sure about that?

That suggests one of two things:

No, there are other possibilities. One is that the merchants assume that you're right and everyone is going to screw them the same way. Another is that they simply don't understand the profound legal implications of a couple of lines of small print and one more signature because, like most start-ups, they're trying to build a company and not paying lawyers thousands to review dozens of pages of terms sent by every financial service provider they've contacted.
If you are in line with a telephone microwave tower and have the appropriate radio, you are able to tune in and listening. That does not make it not wiretapping.
AppSecDC Makes it to Prime Time … or at least Vimeo
Great effort, I'd love to see the finished product. I have been contemplating of migrating my own e-commerce platform (http://demo.embwebstores.com) to MongoDB and one of the new frameworks - Laravel.

I wonder if you found the lack of relational data an obstacle? Maybe not now but do you see it being a problem down the road?
If I remember correctly, most of the URL including the parameters are encrypted when you use SSL. I think the only part that isn't is the hostname
A related thought-provoking rant from Mencius Moldbug on charter cities and colonialism: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/08/from-cr...
I'm curious about how this change handles cross-domain security. Is there never any sensitive data in Stripe.js' JSONP responses? Or do y'all have a mechanism for preventing a malicious 3rd party site from loading a script pointing at one of your JSONP urls?
Wow, this is not a gif.

It takes a static image and rotates it with webkit animation. This is pretty awesome.
Thanks for the Bombfell link -- just signed up. I had been looking for an alternative to TrunkClub (seemed too expensive for my tastes) and this looks like it'll fit the bill.
Ewwww JSONP. Keep it RESTful with useful response codes. People accepting credit card payments online should have the ability to do things server-side instead of use JS.
Another proof we are approaching New Feudalism: city-states. Not saying it's a bad thing. City-states were the only places of freedom and progress in the Middle Ages (think Florence). Just pointing out that after socialism going bankrupt ideologically and the Western civilization with capitalism being on the edge of bankruptcy - the world will start moving into Feudal model. Which has been happening already for a while - think of 90% serfs (defined as born in debt and dying in debt) and 10% superclass (modern day aristocracy) living their lives above the law or changing the laws to suit them. Globalism, single global ideology ( instead of religion) which basically is liberal democracy, etc. are all characteristics of feudal society. And now city states. Google for "neofeudalism"... You will be shocked to see how many parallels between middle ages and current times there are...
If these people can bring wealth and prosperity to a place and succeed where their governments have failed them, why would you not support them?

They might fail miserably, but (as pointed out by others) this kind of thing has succeeded in the past.
Unfortunately single pass is usually the binding constraint eg real time data processing.
Okay, I'll be nice.

You're using the community guidelines as a shield to hide behind while you de-emphasize the fact that you were completely wrong and feigning to compensate for your total lack of experience in the relevant subject.

Stop using the community guidelines a shield. Own up to the fact that you were more than merely ignorant, you were aggressively promulgating and infecting others with falsehoods borne from your ignorance which is a kind of behavior I can't even begin to fathom the reasons for.

This is where it starts. This is how the incorrect campfire knowledge starts. CompSci and software engineering are rife with this plague and you are subject zero. CompSci is notorious for being, get this, unscientific because of the amount of false folk knowledge that gets bandied about.

Our lack of rigor, from the point of a view of an experimentalist and also an engineer, is dishonorable and unnecessary.

Your behavior shames all professional programmers.

So, lesson learned. I'll honey up my criticisms. I'll find ways to communicate that are pleasant and convincing.

That doesn't change that you'll never be free of my contempt, even if I'm being nice.

Keep the beer and coffee, you want to do me a favor? Don't ever do that again.
I did find it interesting that in 183 comments that were left on this article (not now, as this is a repost, but in the earlier discussion that was linked), there was scant mention of the property bubble, excepting one person who simply said "definitely"; I found the progression fascinating, and am going to now go back through and re-read some of the previous articles I had seen on Chinese property valuations again to learn more.
Where in the comments? Am I looking at the right ones?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper...

I can find some from like 3 weeks ago, mainly one guy 'Graeme' who seems to have changed his name to 'Grrr' while everyone else is saying, 'no, Graeme, they said it was best case'. All the other comments seem upbeat and excited.

Also it's not really comments in the article, it's a singular comment and a singular cherry-picked quote from the kickstarter comments, as in two. With no mention of the encouragement comments.

The quote is from one guy Joshua Hernandez who seems to have been featured in this author's articles before.

Seems it was a slow news day for the author and he picked a story out of his back pocket. I wouldn't call this a balanced piece. And no quote from the company.

Also check the recent AMA, is there major outrage there? Is perhaps the shipping date drama the most u/ved question?

http://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/comments/y7pki/august_ama_ask...

No.

I'm not a backer or affiliated in any way what so ever. But are lots of people blowing their lid over this as the article suggests?

No.

Are people upvoting this story out of some sort of weird Schadenfreude.

Probably.

This story kinda has a smell to it. It's a bit like code smell. One guy quoted over and over. Check. No company quote. Check. No real evidence. Check.

Stinky!
It Takes an Open Letter to Wikipedia for Philip Roth to Get a Correction
It's easy to read the url, first.

Do you read the source of all the apps you install?
Another idea: "helpIamInAMeeting.com" (or something, didn't check domain) where you can post a cry for help from within a meeting and other employers can hire you away on the spot by calling you.
Intercepting cellular signals, even before they've hit the tower and are being transmitted on actual wires is still wiretapping.
> Is the URL of a GET request over SSL encrypted as well as the payload?

Yes. Obviously, DNS resolution of the host happens in the clear, but SSL handshake takes place before the path is transmitted.
What about recording the police beating somebody on the sidewalk?
For more discussion, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4486835 which was posted previously.

Here is a td;lr of this particular take on the topic.

Google Ventures' low valuations are justifiable for the same reason that YCombinator's low valuations are justifiable - in addition to the money they are providing a tremendous amount of support to the companies that they invest in, and the value of that is bigger than the dollar amount invested. However Paul Graham may be biased because Google Ventures is a reasonably direct competitor.

Most of that is reasonable. But my personal guess is that the final point of the article is entirely wrong. My personal guess is that Paul Graham is behind the scenes dealing with an unfortunate startup that ran into trouble due to the issue he's talking about, and thought it wise to warn others. Of course it is in nobody's interest for him to reveal which startup or the nature of their trouble. So we (hopefully) will never get the real story.
Wow, the hate.

I don't know whether the author (or VB) has a beef with YC, but it sure looks so here. (I'm not running a startup nor am I especially into SV soap opera, but this piece speaks for itself).
Hebrew has upper and lower case.
Hyperloop solar-powered high-speed land travel project will help in expanding boundaries of Silicon Valley. I know it will take long time but will be a great thing for now-in-highschool kids.