skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it did, temporarily in the beta, however so much of google's own stuff had this issue (especially adwords), they scrapped the idea.
If that was the case, then the same can be said with an iPhone. How do you know if someone is secretly recording your conversation with the iPhone in their pocket?
I agree with everything you said except voting republican/democrat. They're both clowns of the same circus.

There needs to be a third option and we are not ready yet for that, but very close. No matter how many times dems and reps alternate, things won't get better. But the worse they get, the more people awake and take part in politics.

I'd like a third party, like the pirates in europe, unfortunately that won't fly far here, but something along the lines. Some new people with new ideas that can inject fresh blood to the already dying political class.

The more you fuck your own people, and push them to the bottom, the easier for a populist to come and wash the masses with romantic speeches about revolution.

There will be protests, stronger than 'occupy', there will be riots, there will be blood, and we have to avoid that at all cost.

We are in a perfect time to get together, using the tools no politician has used before to reach people with a real message of hope, to raise funds for our cause, to build a solid platform for change. It is in our own hands.

Corruption is killing corporatocracy, we saw it first with enron, worldcom, adelphia, and others. We saw it again with fanny mae, and all wall street gangs.

Nobody cares about "the people" anymore, only about their pockets. We have to change that, we need to stop that. We need to get back to our roots and dream again about being a great nation, land of prosperity, not about a predator that eats its own sons and daughters, somber land of corruption.

The time has come.
Do you believe that was a misleading statistic to use to give a general idea of the scale of the inaccuracy of the original comment? Sorry I'm being short in all these replies, I'm tired of and choosing to call people out on unconstructive snark and pedantry.
I'll keep my response brief, running out of time:

1) Income inequality isn't something that worries me personally, as long as all income levels are rising in quality of life. It's absolute, not relative poverty that concerns me - definitely it's fashionable to hate on billionaires at the moment and I understand that, but don't subscribe to it. It's true that the inventor/owner/beneficiary of newly-automated industries accrues a large amount of wealth, but generally this wealth is either put back through into new ventures through investment, higher purchases or even philanthropy. This is self-evident in Silicon Valley, which has been operating a virtuous cycle of the beneficiaries of breakthrough technologies both spending it on themselves, re-investing in new businesses and giving it away to charities.

2) I don't really put any credence in Malthusian scenarios where the long-term ability of humans to improve their lives suffers a sudden and irreversible decline, so I can't agree on that type of point. The reason I don't put any credence in these is because they've always been popular, but never have been true. Of course, there is the possibility that someday automation completely eliminates all workers leading to a destitute class, or overpopulation overtaxes the food supply, but all evidence points to supreme adaptability of people to overcome these problems, so on the balance of probabilities I take it as a given that the same progress will continue. Optimism, arrogance or idiocy - people would accuse this view of all three, depending on their viewpoint.

3) It often gets missed that when automation occurs, even the people who lose their jobs often get access to the product of that automation at a cheaper price than before, and in the long run are better off once re-employment is found. The classic case is the buggy whip maker, who, despite losing their livelihood, is eventually able to afford the Model T that put them out of business.
Ask HN: The best way to track performance?
Hey guys, I’d love your help to save me from re-inventing the wheel – what’s the easiest way to track and analyze all business metrics in one place?

Currently I use Google Analytics for web and Excel & Powerpoint for financials and marketing, with dashboards and a traffic light system for things like target vs actuals. Pretty standard stuff. I can manipulate Excel to analyze data…but I don’t enjoy it, it’s time consuming, prone to human and formulaic error, it’s not realtime, and I’d like a s*xy interface where I can ‘tick the box’ to produce results. Obviously every business has unique key metrics, but I’m looking for a system that has a large universe of formulae already built in, which can be applied to my own data at the click of a button.

For example, if I want to look at virality I choose the dates, click the ‘Virality’ button, and there it is. Then with a click I can overlay that with the activities I’ve done that week to induce virality (referral program, social media, advertising or whatever). Then I choose to overlay that with churn rates, and then finally I overlay it all with revenue for that period. What a nice little snapshot. Then I can choose to compare all that with, say, 4 months prior. Sweet. The results can be easily shared, and with a click I can choose to look at percentages/real figures/graphs. And I’m right-brained so would love it to have color and classy UX.

Suggestions would be awesome. Cheers!
I agree. Dan Shapiro detailed a little more the forces that affect VCs a few years ago: http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2010/08/vc-insanity-economics...
Lately its been all about PayPal horror stories...

Many merchants are just simply turning to the ACH Platform.
I'm not actually part of the hacker school batch (though I
wish I were). I might try my hand applying for the next semester.
Yeah, we all know that commercial nuclear fusion reactors are 50 years in the future.
They're hard to sell to. While this is a bit of a generalism, you need someone (or many people) full-time working on relationships and getting in the door with enterprises. (Not strictly true but a common experience.)
And what shows they were. When Schiller unveiled the iPhone 5, it rose from the stage floor on a smoothly-rising and rotating pedestal, pinpoint spotlights hitting the phone and only the phone. The rotation of the iPhone atop the pedestal was in perfect sync with the rotation of the iPhone projected on the big screen at the back of the stage. There’s no store where you buy such pedestals; Apple designed and engineered it specifically for this event. It was on stage for about a minute.

I think I may actually be physically sick from reading this. There's just no room to satirize something this ridiculous.

For Apple to maintain its market-leading brand prestige and profit margins it has to be hands-down better than the competition and no matter how much heavy breathing hype you want to shower on them the last two iPhones have been predictable, incremental upgrades that in some important ways are actually playing catch-up to the competition. Good, but not good enough.

Steve's most successful keynotes were noticeably devoid of this kind of Las Vegas showroom trickery.
Wow, there's actually an upfront cost in the US? I never paid a cent for mine - it was 100% subsidised (and you could have gotten the same plan for the same cost but without the phone, so this really was 100%).
What was your earlier account? I can check if the comments or submissions are viewable.
If you're constantly pulling content from 4-5 different domains, perhaps you should re-think your sites architecture to minimize that. Sometimes it's unavoidable, but a lot of the time it's simply due to laziness or because the web developers are practicing the cargo-cult method of development.

Yes, this means you probably need to re-evaluate whether your "like/share/connect/plusone this" really needs to be on every page, or even any page.

You also need to re-evaluate whether you really need statistics via third parties, or if you can track them yourselves. The answer is almost always that you can do it yourself, though it might not be as convenient as, say, copy/pasting google analytics code into your template.

If you're using a content engine, take a close look at it. Turn off and remove features you don't use, don't merely hide them. You might also be surprised which plugins may be phoning home in some form, or pulling content from places you didn't expect.
So far, this is great. Worried about winter, though.
New voltage controlled (analog) computer module
A Great Mobile App Crowdfunding Platform
>>If - clearly arguing by absurdity - there is so much machinery and automation that it takes 1% to feed, clothe and house the population - then one might ask - from where does the machinery and automation come from? It must be designed, created, maintained and operated. In order to be constructed, it has to be financed, the risk has to be taken, potential rewards have to be postponed.

Your entire argument is underpinned by two basic assumptions :

1. Human labor will always be required to develop goods and maintain infrastructure

2. The number of individuals required to fulfill #1 equals or exceeds the global pool of working age individuals

Neither of the above are certainties.

>>In short, what you're trying to describe is some type of utopia - a vision which has lead to the death and suffering of millions. It's dangerous thinking and I would urge you to become more educated in this area.

Your line of reasoning is reactionary. While I too am quite the fan of free market capitalism, this doesn't mean it is the only possible sustainable system of human growth & cooperation. It's a current economic reality, not a religion.
Probably an array of Nvidia Tesla processors. I like DSP. A lot.
Oh finally, now I can just say I'm 10 on the Yudkowsky Ambition scale. You've saved me much explaining.
I think the reason is Handlebars is supposed to look and act like Mustache and templates aren't named in Mustache, so they don't get named in "regular" Handlebars:

var getHtml = Handlebars.compile("<div>yad yada...</div>");

And then following the rule of least surprise, if templates aren't partials during normal usage, then they shouldn't be with precompilation.

At least that's my guess. I didn't figure out my trick until digging through the source to figure out what was different. (Not much - just how/where they're stored & referenced.)
Well for one thing less people would know about the flaw and potentially be able to take advantage of it.
Networking for Game Programmers
You're welcome.

Yeah, I struggled on D3B, like I did on D2B, D4B, D5B... It's really impressive how each level is a sudden massive jump in difficulty.
Does anyone going through all this this know how to manipulate the DOM directly? It's ridiculously simple.

The whole approach strikes me as odd, unless I'm missing something.
Yeah I used to live in NYC and if you don't know the subways by heart, you really don't live there or haven't for very long. Not to detract from the fact the app isn't ready yet, but you don't need an app to get where you're going if you can read a placard that's literally at every subway. Anyone with any visual sense and literacy can figure it out.
Interesting how little effect they describe it as having on teen pregnancy and dropout rates.
Building Office for Windows RT
Google Blocks Muhammad Video in Libya and Egypt
Er, any system that requires customers to have a particular brand of smartphone, with NFC capability, is never going to happen. Even if it were an option, basing security on this would mean that the 75% of their customers without the required model of smartphone would then be more likely to have their room broken into. Hotels may be kind of clueless, but they're not stupid enough to reject or screw over 75% of their potential customers...

[This is why the frequent suggestions you hear "oh, why can't we replace <system X> with a smartphone app!" are so stupid. Optional smartphone support for convenience features = nice plus; mandatory smartphone = idiotic.]
Have fun working with Vista 2.0.
IPhone 5 is Exactly what Apple Should Release
> the extremely precise control could allow researchers to inject electrons or probe chemical conditions at specific points in a single molecule.

Wow! I wish I had something better to add, but "wow" is all I can
manage at the moment.
What about future rent increases?

Why 5% state income tax instead of actual, as it varies widely across states.

Condos or houses? These two markets have different characteristics and can't be averaged together.

Margin of error? Comparing means in isolation is uninformative.
Am I the only one who read your post and said "huh"? Don't mean to have a naive reply, but this is new to me.
It's fairly old, but still a very great guide. I really suggest taking a look at it.
Teleporter.

NO FLIES!
But none of that stopped the iPhone 4S from setting new sales records . The competition has caught up , Apple definitely has interesting things in the pipeline . They only release them once they have been perfected . The masses don't mind anyway . So theyre just playing it safe.
Your comments on the most likely one time programmable ROM are exactly what I was thinking but didn't take the time to write with the clarity you did. We are on exactly the same page there. My train of thought was that if it was possible to patch the boards using only software that would be an awfully nice gesture to the hotel managers to send a technician out for a day and just fix everything at once [although, if you have to rip the lock apart to pull the board to reprogram it, you might as well just drop a new boad in]. My background is in board level manufacturing so the whole special test fixtures to interface and board probing was the easy part to me - solving the problem of hacking a jump instruction to jump to unused memory and then patching the problem there, then jumping back seemed like a really elegant and fun problem to work on.

I didn't look at the exploit in detail, but as daeken reminded us there are problems with more than just the program in the door lock - so even if a patch to the ROM chip could fix the problem, it probably doesn't fix all the problem so it isn't a real solution.

You are right, everything else 1-3 are really just obscurity solutions and not real solutions - thanks for calling me out on that.
It seems pretty consistent with anonymous's general behavior though, which is that of a moody 5-year-old...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Good_Life_%28The_Twili...
The carrier subsidy model is partly to blame for that mindset. I don't know how many people really understand the device they are tossing around actually costs $650 and not $199.
One-Page Profiles of 20,000 Corporations, Unions and Trade Groups
Hey, one my daughters is going to school in Michigan (Hope College) :-)

More seriously though, since daughter #3 is college shopping, we've been talking about various colleges. Michigan has a lot of great schools, for a variety of students and for a variety of majors. So it's not a 'limit' in any sense of the word.
With every added student, the school district gets another $7,250 from the state.

That's per year, right? That's very close to the $4,200/semester number. So the college payments are almost equivalent to extending education from K12 to K16. That means that this could be done, even without donations, across the country.
'The Spider' Silva Vs.'The American Psycho' Bonner
Apple could block Google from iOS in an instant. For example, Maps just got dropped. Most of the revenue is in the default installed apps not downloadable alternatives, the mass market won't seek alternatives.
Ahm... yea, I forgot that I put them into `Handlebars.templates` myself if they aren't there yet (i.e. during development).
Buzzinar
Put the bong down, and reread this tomorrow.It may not have occurred to you, but the norm in phalinthropy is to establish legal structures at the outset which prevent those sorts of outcomes. You appear to think the money has either been handed over as a lump sum or is being delivered on an ad-hoc basis. Neither is likely.
New monkey discovered
Sorry, but this is another ball that falls in the designer's court (yep, I'm a designer). You have to educate people on the value of these things. People, regardless of their proximity to the web, do not inherently understand what's listed here.

It's a waste of time to "call them out" when instead, you could write a friendly email sharing your knowledge or writing posts that speak in VC terms, but still articulate your points.

It's frustrating when people don't understand something, sure. But I bet you could get a lot of VCs inline with your vision if you taught them, not scolded them.
Also, considering all college students nationally, a minority of student loan recipients manage to graduate from college. Yet they are required to pay back the loans whether or not they graduated. Let's assume your value is correct, the NPV per graduate is $100k. Let's take a 50% graduation rate nationally for students admitted. Let's consider the college charges $99.9k over 4 years. We also know that students are taking 4-6 years to graduate and 4 year graduations are rare. If your chance of graduating in 4-6 years is 50%, it becomes not a $.1k average pay out, but on average, weighted for actual outcomes, an overall loss.
So, IntelliJ?
"MapReduce is Good Enough" by Twitter scientist
As long as the salts are relatively unique, the first two aren't an issue. I don't understand how salts could help against timing attacks, though.
How do you know that a duck is a duck? You have to have seen one at some point in your life.

Live in a country like Argentina for a few years. See, hear and feel how a country is destroyed, financially, culturally and morally raped by populist rulers. Then go live somewhere else and watch, in total disbelief, that same movie replayed for you in slow motion.

Then, and only then, will you be able to recognize the duck.

From the vantage point of the US, and without that external perspective it is easy to discount someone drawing a parallel between the events in Argentina and the US as a total lunatic. And that is your prerogative. Ask anyone living in Argentina if what is happening to them happened as a single large change or a series of small changes down the proverbial slippery slope. I know the answer to that question.

Regardless of what Paypal says publicly, I assure you that what they did was the result of someone in government threatening to shove a boot up someone's ass.

What, you don't think politicians can do stuff like that? Perhaps you also believe that voting can't be rigged or altered at will by politicians:

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=ST-eE4Ud7nw&desktop_uri=%...

If you are a tech entrepreneur, like it or not, politics can and does affect your life. From patent laws to taxes and beyond. It is important to at least have some perspective beyond that provided by the one-sided media so set on indoctrinating American voters (on both sides).
I acknowledged people will always want something more.

Although I would note Google still considers these perks worthwhile to free up folks to pursue useful work.

And I'm not talking about giving everyone the same thing.

I'm talking about basic survival needs being met at little to no cost and advancing from there. Nothing about uniform rewards, just a solid base from which to work.
Peter Thiel, in his Stanford class, referred to a "Manhattan Project for nutrition." He indicated that it was in the formative stages at that point. I wonder if this is what he was referring to.
Doesn't do HTTPS, also I am skeptical of cross-site javascript shenanigans happening on the server-end of silk.
> I'm an optimist. The problem will fix itself thanks to technology. Education in the future is going to be nearly free. I think it is going to happen a lot sooner than people realize. Runaway education inflation will make even the "expensive" solutions look dirt cheap.

You're presupposing that tuition has anything to do with the cost of providing education, and that tuition will go down if the costs go down. It doesn't. Skyrocketing tuition is the product of schools being non-fungible prestige goods. It's how the price of Prada handbags doesn't have anything to do with their manufacturing cost.

College in the US isn't about education. It's about signaling. And the price of desirable signals, like Stanford or U Michigan, isn't going to go down based on competition from cheaper online educational institutions.
Go also isn't described as a systems language anymore, but rather as a general-purpose language, although this article predates that change.
Sure, they might use HTTPS, but how often do they load arbitrary pages with uncontrolled javascript?
Do-Not-Track Feature Lands in Google Chrome
I'd say the kids of Kalamazoo could use a break given the kind of stuff they have to deal with.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/letters/Nose+Hill+Park+...

Note: The above Kalamazoo sheriff is probably not quite as paranoid as the story suggests since Kalamzoo has a murder rate almost 7 times higher than Calgary despite being roughtly 1/14'th the size. If Kalamazoo is that dangerous, it's natural to assume a much bigger city would be even more dangerous. Still, that's one sheriff I wouldn't want to run into in a Kalamazoo park, let alone a dark alley!
LARGE MARKETS
Address existing markets poised for rapid growth or change. A market on the path to a $1B potential allows for error and time for real margins to develop.

RICH CUSTOMERS
Target customers who will move fast and pay a premium for a unique offering.

Sure, I too would love to invest only on huge markets composed only by the world's 1%.
It doesn't guarantee admission, only funding.

As the article notes, most of the recipients use the grant at the community college, which is the least expensive possibility involving an accredited college and real degree.
Hey, that's a really good use case for multi-line cases. Not exactly the fallthrough behavior of the JavaScript example you posted ... but a good reason to want linebreaks in your list of values to match. You should open a ticket suggesting a syntax improvement for it.
... and they use it in NMR. I think the one at the local university takes several dewars of helium just to bring it online.
>From word processing to servers to compilers, no tech company eats their own dog food like Microsoft. They even have their own search engine.

Wouldn't Apple be in the same position ? (except for the search engine) They have the Hardware, the OS, the compiler, their own office suite, mail program, calendar and server versions etc. the phone hardware, the phone OS.
lets assume the cost of educating a student is going to cost X. The colledge is going to get some percentage of X as profit, no matter what policy the gov't decides.

Now, the question is, what party _should_ be covering for the cost X? In the grant scenario, it is society/tax payers who cover the cost of education. In the load scenario, it is the individual being educated that is covering the cost, deferred to the future.

Either way, it is not the case that the college recieves less profit for the service of educating. To me, incentive alignment is critical to the success of a policy, and i feel that a loan tends to incentivize those who works ultra hard to make it, whilst a grant will not. Now, i m not saying all grants are bad, but grants should be based on academic results, as a reward incentive, where as loans should be made available to all who wants an education.
Many people don't really read the articles, I'd guess. This article really is devoid of insight.
INFERNO
Start with only a little money. It forces discipline and focus. A huge market with customers yearning for a product developed by great engineers requires very little firepower.

So why does it require large vc firms?