skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really cool post, I think I'm in a somewhat similar boat as you are albeit on a smaller scale.

Except for this:
> I now have a network of entrepreneurs and investors that I talk to on a regular basis for advice. And I’ve done it all with no prior connections to anyone, while still in school.

I keep forgetting to "keep in touch". I know I shouldn't, but I do anyway. Was this something that came natural to you, or did you have to work on it?
The problem isn't storing -- remember that we don't know how they store it, we only know how the password is generated. IMEI is intended to be unique and private -- e.g. knowing your IMEI might be enough to report the phone as stolen. If someone knows your IMEI they most likely have enough control over the phone to either completely spoof it or put malicious software on it. This makes it a reasonable tradeoff against implementing "proper" passwords, with their own ton of problems.
I think the SC already has a tough enough workload as it is. If we made them review every single law, then they would just do a half-assed job in both their traditional role and their new role.
This is what regulatory capture looks like
Doximity is on track to revolutionize medical communication
> over-use of irradiation

Just curious, what are the downsides of over-use of irradiation? Be as specific as you can, please.
You can't be sued for abusing monopoly power without first having a monopoly in the relevant market, keeping in mind that 'monopoly' and 'relevant market' have specific legal definitions.

At the time of those sanctions, Microsoft was deemed to have a monopoly in the "Intel-compatible PC operating system market". AFAIK, there is no market in which Apple is considered to have monopoly power.
If so, that would be incredible. More than once I've found myself wanting to search a repository for a specific word or variable without downloading it and acking through it.
Agreed. My personal experience at a dealer for both buying a car and a servicing it are horrible. Hopefully more manufacturers start shifting to this model.
What would be the link between suspecting a child died of abuse and applying for a warrant to read text messages?
I see your point. But, if you don't care about what you are doing it will show. If you care and allow your developers to care about what they are doing, you will breed a culture that people want to be a part of. Sure it's lost money in the short term but that's short term thinking. It's better to let developers be happy and passionate about their work than to complain about the bottom line. In the long run you will extract far more value from a passionate dev over a burned out one.
Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing. - Joseph Heller
No app store? No problem: Grooveshark rolls out full HTML5 site for all devices
I think the idea behind this particular ruling was setting a precident of "it's not okay to do this", so that later on when a police officer or whatever does use this information in an improper way, it is clear that, sorry, this isn't allowed. Remember, the law is a big stick, not a fine-tuned scalpel, and you have to use it/decree upon it as such.

IANAL
You're fired too.
From the Atlantic article:

There are the more immediate health benefits of buying organic: you'll avoid the chemicals, preservatives, and hormones that conventional farms often use to treat their foods. In the Stanford study, just 7 percent of organic foods were found to have traces of pesticides, compared to 38 percent of conventionally-farmed produce. Again, that doesn't mean organic foods will supercharge your health -- you'll just be at less risk of exposure to potentially harmful substances, for whatever that's worth to you. Quantifying that benefit is a contentious area and certainly worthy of more research.

Listen to what Bruce Ames (professor emeritus of biochemistry at UC Berkeley and senior scientist at Children's Hospital of Oakland Research Institute) had to say on this mornings Forum: http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201209051000

Basically, don't worry about those traces of pesticides. He explains it better than me. Listen.
Especially since pusher is a third party service and it's probably using
(or is able to use) websockets as a transport for that push anyway?

Pusher.com's page title is "HTML5 WebSocket Powered Realtime Messaging Service", no less.
> Also, citing to Natural News is bad. They're the ones who [...]

That's a fallacy. A very classic ad hominem - pointing out something entirely unrelated that they believe, to discredit their statements on other matters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
Actually the Allwinner A10 is pretty well documented by the vendor and by the community, has a bunch of standard linux distributions running already. Much better than most ARM SoCs in the cheap Android tablet market.

AFAIK the one exception is the video decoding hardware, where the Linux libraries are apparently sub-par.

Some jumping off points for resources:
http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/
https://www.miniand.com/forums
Only if purchased > 1 year from registration (or first use in California). If purchased within the last year you pay the tax difference between the states. You can work it out in the online calculator.
"I believe web is the ideal platform for MVP, it's open to everyone, you can release at will and you can measure analytics easily."

Really heartening to hear someone who has taken an idea and made it a reality say this. As someone who is just embarking on attempting to convert an idea that moves me into a real, usable thing, this is invaluable advice.

Initially I was hell-bent on trying to make a mobile-first — perhaps mobile-only — version, but in researching lean startup methodologies with my teammates (as well as noting our own inexperience in what we were doing), we came to the conclusion that it might be easier to test our idea and iterate it more rapidly on the web. This was initially a somewhat unsettling conclusion for me, but your experiences are reassuring.

Thanks again for sharing. Really great advice.
Small Business Forms & Contracts
Well no, it's not a matter of size nationally. It's a matter of the size of the business or business activity within that state giving rise to an economic "nexus" with that state.

Transit through a state is not considered a business or a business activity, hence the trucking company could not be regulated. It could be different for a travel company, but in such case that would be services income which is not subject to a sales tax.
I've never had a problem with the distinction between 2ch and 2chan.
yea, i like your idea of keeping it way way shorter.

and yea, we should talk about how we grew our site DenimBlog.com to 4million visitors a bit more probably.

thanks for the feedback!
Promote transparency with "Against All Enemies" book of ex-spy
"In the face of growing disilliusionment with the dangerous and often
illegal intelligence activities I supported, I took the drastic step
of defecting to East Germany in 1983. It was a naive attempt to escape
my previous life - and my own responsibility. Quickly convinced by the
East Germans to continue fighting the wrongs I was fleeing, I soon
found myself working for one of the most effective intelligence
agencies in world history, the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of
the German Democratic Republic"
The blog to the kickstarter project seems also interesting. http://against-all-enemies.net/blog/
Haven't tried the latest nginx install, but according to the wiki, ssl_session_cache controls this, and is set to 'none' by default.

http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpSslModule

As for Github, could just be a misconfiguration, or perhaps they had some more deliberate reason in mind.

Good news is I just received confirmation from one of the ops guys. He says they know about it, and are working on a fix. :)
Infographics and Visualizations as Tools For the Mind
Let me clarify, you can use pusher, or something like firehose.io.

Pusher uses a web socket. Pusher is cheaper when comparing against running our own dumb pub/sub server.

Rails 4 will support SSE, however we're not riding that edge as there were existing solutions to the problem.

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I think this covers most realtime problems without having to code that much, let alone a secondary server/service to handle the problem, we outsourced it, were happy.
I was suffering from RSI for a few months, and nothing seemed to work. I tried rest, physical therapy, anti-inflammatory drugs, and acupuncture.

Then I read http://www.amazon.com/Its-Carpal-Tunnel-Syndrome-Professiona..., which led me to trigger point massage therapy.

And that worked. YMMV :)
Logically, you are correct, and if that's what you originally meant than I misunderstood you.

Legally, that's not how the law works.

And in all fairness, when dealing with the law, what is "legal" trumps what is "logical."
oh sorry, Mike our Dev was working on making that email box not accept fake emails (check it out, try fake@mail and it will turn red)

if you don't mind, please try again. I think we got it working!

(thanks for the patience!)
yea sorry about that. our dev Mike was still tinkering with that.

yup, we are working on getting those calls to action a bit better. Here is what they are supposed to look like:
http://cl.ly/image/403B152u2K3m

Yea, I should probably include some more screengrabs and stuff. good call.

Thanks for checking it out!
> entirely unrelated

It is completely related. In fact, it goes to the very heart of the matter: They publish nonsense about health issues, and we're discussing a health issue!
Easier Than Taking Vitamins
Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook by Richard Banks
`head -n 99999` seems like a weird way to do it anyway. Wouldn't it make more sense to do `tail -n +1`? The output is the same from both commands, but `tail` doesn't require you to assume arbitrary limits.

Honest question, btw. I'm relatively inexperienced with Linux, and I certainly haven't used BSD. I'd appreciate any critiques you may have to offer.
My boss always tells me "Perfect is the enemy of good enough", I didn't know it came from Voltaire, but it's useful to remember a lot of the time.
Not trying to be rude but this is just one of those dumb self-help posts regurgitating the same boring "make a habit","work hard","learn from your mistakes", stuff that is prevalent in the startup scene these days.

I bet everyone here loves what he does and has a pretty good ethic.What makes people successful in the startup world is not discipline but clever insights.Please guys spend time into coming up with great insights and experiments and not reading about "how to make habits" or the "seven habits of highly effective people"
Useless use of cat award! http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html
I didn't know about the bike lane situation until I read this article and read into it further.

Near as I can tell there is a possible solution to the SF bike lane situation that could satisfy an environmental study and that is to add bike lines specifically in places that will cause people to stop driving entirely and adopt alternate modes of transportation besides cars. If you add bike lanes to your typical road, that diverts/detours traffic to adjacent roads and both the road with the bike lane and the adjacent roads get a worse traffic congestion rating. If however you add bike lanes to unique paths like the East Bay bridge, for which there is no other car route alternative, you would be driving commuters to choose other modes of transportation. The traffic rating of the East Bay bridge would worsen, possibly dramatically, but temporarily, but the traffic rating of all other roads on both sides of the bay fed by the bridge would improve dramatically.
In not at all surprising news yet another anti-malware vendor is trying to scare up business. And yet when we look at their data what has increased? Not detected installs of malware, but malware samples in their database.

And when we look at what sort of malware they are finding? A website prompting you to download an apk. Which you would then need to choose to install, after manually switching off the check that only Market apps can be installed and then clicking through the the permissions required.

So rather than an explosion of malware what we actually have is "person writes android program". I am so scared.
There's very little logic evidenced in human intelligence. What's there is a tangled web of heuristics that gets us to a good enough approximation of a reasonable action to keep us from killing ourselves (usually), but also brings calculation time way down compared to if we had to explicitly determine the rational action.

Irrational behavior is the norm. It's explicitly rational behavior that is artificial, and we choose when to mentally crunch the numbers of rationality based on our good-enough old heuristics.
Perhaps, but isn't the current workload in some cases the result of not reviewing new laws. So with a system of reviewing new laws before their passage it seems likely that what makes up the court's current workload would decrease over time.
Awesome, GitHub ops on it. :) Curious if there will be a speed improvement once they enable session resumption.

Any idea why the default in nginx is: none. Soft off: nginx says to a client that session can be resued, but nginx actually never reuses them. Seems like a bad default to not cache.
I'm a new graduate student in an American university. As part of my Data Mining/NLP project, I'm wondering if I can do something cool with this fresh API. Any ideas?
> Legally, that's not how the law works.

Actually, it is. Contrary to your claim, a statistical outlier, a false positive, is not called a "mistake" and no one is brought up on charges. The legal term is typically "Act of God" or another similar term.

> And in all fairness, when dealing with the law, what is "legal" trumps what is "logical."

Sometimes. Not this time.
When will we see Obama's college records offered under the same deal?
Stripe Web CTF 2.0 Walkthrough (video)
Watch the real iPhone 5 boot up with iOS 6 in this leaked Foxconn Video
What To Expect When You Are Founding
A woman's perspective on motherhood and entrepreneurship. (Submitter's conflict of interest declaration: This was written by my wife.)
> Isn't this how it works with the National Security letters as well? You can't even tell a lawyer if the Government is coming after you.

In 2006, the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act rewrote the disclosure rules for NSLs. You can both consult an attorney and challenge the NSL in court.

Consequently, the number of NSLs issued declined and the number of FISA surveillance requests increased after that change.
Taxes included in Australian price (using 109k USD base):
- Impport Duty @ 5% : $5.5k
- GST @ 10% (on dutied price) : $11.5k
- Luxury car tax (any vehicle over $59,000, on pre-GST price) @ 33% : $15k
Total Tax, Dutied Price : $141k

That leaves 54k unaccounted for. This is cash straight into the back pocket of Tesla. Shipping might be around $2000 per vehicle - assuming they pay 'full freight'.

Similar figures apply to any premium brand - a $55k BMW will set you back about $110k in Australia. It gets worse as you go up the scale - a Lamborghini Avantador costs $379k in the USA, but $745k in Australia.

The reason this price gouging goes on is because there is a further regulation that prevents parallell imports - you cannot import a vehicle (personally) unless you have lived in the country of purchase for 12 months, and used the vehicle for that entire period. It is also impossible in most states to register a LHD vehicle under 30 years old.

These regulations prevent people from flying to SF (or London), ordering a new RHD Tesla from the dealer there, and shipping it home on a boat. Thus they hand Tesla (and other makers) the ability to gouge Australian buyers by 40, 50, 100k - whatever they think they can get away with.

All these regulations and taxes are created with the idea of protecting the tiny local car industry - 224k cars made last year - but, to add insult to injury, the government regularly gives the foreign-owned car makers (Toyota, GM and Ford) cash payments to stay and keep producing.

So Australians get more expensive cars, and pay higher taxes so that global car companies don't close the unprofitable operations.

The entire thing is a poster child for the damage bad regulations and policies can cause.

EDIT : I also forgot about 'ADR' - which is Austalian design rules. These force a manufacturer to re-do compliance testing for local rules, which, although very similar to EU standards (and in some cases less stringent) - require a manufacturer like Tesla to re-crash a vehicle and modify it in insignificant ways. This raises the costs of bringing low-volume vehicles even higher. There has been talk of adopting EU standards, but it has never gotten anywhere.
Cell Phones Hurt Relationships Just By Being In The Room, Study Says
"In addition, this Court finds that the Defendant made a preliminary showing that numerous sworn statements made by police officers in a dozen warrant affidavits were either deliberately false or made in reckless disregard of the truth..."

A pattern of abuse, seems to be part of the issue here.
Apache Wicket v6.0.0 released
edit2: yeouch, I should have just stuck with my complaint that the page is still using Flash and canned the semantic whine. My bad.

What's "full" HTML5?

What's all devices?

Is it this?

<div id="homeFooter" class="container_footer main_background">

That's not an HTML5 footer tag.

Oh what's this video front and center in the middle of the page?

Flash. I click on the link to the website that's gone full HTML5 on all devices and am staring Flash in the face.

I feel like I've been had. Much more so for the Flash video than the nit on semantic tags.

Edit:

Ah ha! By rolled out they meant sequestered away at http://html5.grooveshark.com, not http://grooveshark.com. They should really be linking to the HTML5 version of the site from the article. It's also the page I get when I use my phone to access the site.

There we have an audio tag, though <div id="page-header" ...> exists instead of a header tag.

Ah well, these are super minor nits at the end of the day. I'm glad for any site that is trying to get away from app stores and go native. I still feel like the term "full HTML5" is a tad vague (and not yet true).
If you want something that approximates iTunes itself (desktop app for managing your library) then checkout Songbird.
I actually sleep with wrist braces precisely for this reason. If I go on vacation and forget them, I always end up with some wrist pain.
That plus the percentage of iOS users actually buying apps is much higher than on Android. Apple's Appstore, as far as I understand, has still the biggest market volume for developers by a good margin.
1) Generally speaking, a dead kid gives the police a LOT of leeway.

2) If they suspected somebody at the scene of having knowledge as to the culprit, I think most judges would have allowed them access to phone records for everyone at the scene during the time period in question.

Basically, this wasn't a stoner crossing the border that might have had photos of himself smoking something illegal, this is a dead kid, and I'm pretty sure the cops would have asked for those records in due course. And I'm pretty sure a judge would have said yes.
Worked. Thank you.
Boston Dynamics' Cheetah Robot Now Faster Than Fastest Human
Ethiopian Multiplication
Should probably be "head -n-0".

The '-' between -n and 0 means "all but the last 0 lines".
It's funny how most of this advice is about "controlling" employees and making them perform. I wonder what happened if Github was interviewed for the same article.
> Currently if I understand correctly, the traditional approach is to define a bunch of actions and figure out a realistic way to choose what action to perform, tuning a state machine carefully to make sure the character is realistic as well as beatable. I can imagine this takes a lot of work.

The aim is not to produce a realistic response, but fun. It's much, much easier to produce a response that isn't fun than to produce one that is, and this is the problem. Often a complex, systemic AI needs much more tuning to be fun than a simpler, more authored AI. Fun is an emotional response so it's hard to define systemically.

> In other words, the designer can now treat the character states as a black-box model, and instead worry directly about its input-output behavioural relationship, something I think an artist might have better intuition for compared to dealing with explicit state machines.

Game designers are not the same as graphic designers or artists, they work exclusively in logic. Flow charts, decision trees and giant spreadsheets are standard tools of the trade.

However, there's certainly scope for being able to take the game designer's logic to a higher, more abstract level. Being able to remove some of the micro-management would be useful. I'm not sure that machine learning helps there though, it seems more of a planning problem.
The doc recommended surgery for my RSI, but I managed to get myself out of it with a few months of very careful changes to my work environment.

1) Pay attention. Frequent stretches. Frequent breaks. I highly recommend this "Hand stretches for guitarists" vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSrfB7JIzxY Once you learn the routine, it's fast, easy and feels noticably better.

3) I was 1-finger hunt-n-peck typing the whole time. Hands pretty much hovering and lax for minimal tension. Careful about not touching the desk with my arms.

2) 2 keyboards and 2 mice. One keyboard on my desk and one on my lap. One mouse on my desk on the right. Other mouse under my desk on a platform on my left. Changing postures very frequently.

It was a pain in the ass. But the random, shooting pain in my hands eventually went away. Totally worth the hassle to avoid cutting my wrists.
You're not the only one who's been had: much of the music on Grooveshark is shared against artists' wishes.
I hate going to the bank and filling out the international wire transfer form and having them manually input everything from the form into the computer. Going to the bank and everything kills about an hour of my time.
The giant-sized phones have some appeal to some of the market, it's true, but for most buyers bigger is not better.

We're not talking about a wall-mounted display here. We're talking about something you hold in your hand, carry with you all the time, and hold to your face to talk. Bigger can be an issue for those one-hand-thumbing the device as well where they simply can't reach.
It's pretty universal.

We have some amazing antique Persian and Korean chests in the house. Hand carved and split grain matched fronts and maybe sides, but the backs are plain and/or rough hewn. These pre-date plywood, but the same goes - don't waste effort on parts that will never be seen, just build them to do their job.
Spherical Drive System - spheres for wheels.
Here's an excellent example of what you can get by jumping through a few more hoops:

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=31592
I take "full HTML 5" to mean that it doesn't use any technologies outside of the HTML 5 umbrella (which includes CSS, JavaScript, etc.), like Flash, not that it necessarily uses every HTML 5 feature to its full potential.
It would explain why Jim Cramer is so consistently wrong.
http://i.imgur.com/NpdpJ.jpg

Good pic of the progress there...
It isn't yours if you don't control it. Period. You can use it only by the grace of Apple. If Apple decides you shouldn't use it anymore, it's bricked. If Apple goes out of business, your iphone is worthless. That isn't ownership. Not in my book, at least. Maybe your definition is different.
AngelList Docs user here.

The docs make it pretty much a tabular affair. Choose the cap, the money, the discount, acquisition multiples, etc and you are done.

This makes for easy work, both with your lawyer and the investors.
Ask HN: Marketing person with programming background?
How valuable would it be to have a marketing director with extensive technical (programming) background?

What do you think?