skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a textbook case of regulatory capture.

Still, abolishing patents would go a long way to allowing real competition and progress in healthcare.
It was once being ridiculed in Big Bang Theory (I think Season two, Episode 8-12 somewhere I'd wager)
> Space colonies would be a colossal engineering effort, but don't require any fundamentally new science.

I totally disagree. Science is science, fundamentally new science is not needed for massive engineering or artificial brain, they both require fundamentally new technologies. When you say "new science", it implies new methods of scientific inquiry or new way of looking at the world (for example Wolfram's New Kind of Science). Although it might use new facts about nature not discovered yet.
Massive Scale does not mean just a magnification of dimensions.

What will power these artificial "planets" ?
What will shield it from space debris ?
How will you reuse resources at a massive scale ?
Today I'm launching a little side project of mine. I'm striving for a sublimely simple user experience with this one: log in with your GitHub account and with one click you can launch a terminal window and instantly get matched up with another hacker for a head-to-head game. Thanks to the magic of SSH, you don't have to install a thing. It's pretty fun and feels social like IRC, not social like a Facebook Timeline-enabled Flash game.

I hope you have as much fun using Gitris as I did developing it, and I'd love your feedback.
That's because you probably are not used to having attention placed on you, so all attention is "wanted." If you are a male, you almost never have had to deal with unwanted, persistent, obsessive attention, and so you are unaware of early cues that can indicate the person you're speaking with is a creep. Things like, "this person extensively investigates my background before having met me," "this person obsesses over me," etc.
For those without Flash Players -

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%27s_up-arrow_notation
I don't think he is actually breaking into mailboxes/cracking passwords. That seems really beyond the scope of what bank marketing would do.
Hey Scoot, sorry the emails didn't grab you. I want to echo Erica's comments below. She and Patrick laid an amazing groundwork for transparent and human communication that Trafton, and when I joined the company during SXSW this year, I was able to build upon and make it easy to communicate with our customers when they have questions or just way to say hey.

It's been working so far :-)

If you have more thoughts about the email, I'd love to read them and learn from your perspective. There may be a perspective here that I am blind to, and you could teach me something.
New Myspace Parodies
This is the first one I have seen thus far. Pretty much sums up what we are all thinking about this whole "new myspace" thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-rCBZ_huWo&feature=plcp
Tea Lounge is fantastic. Just moved out of that neighborhood, but would go back to work.
There is really no need for the equipment that these guys use (or seem to be using). A simple name search at pipl.com yields quite impressive results.
Most medical research already happens in publicly-funded bodies, bit it is then spun-off and captured by big pharma.

Not to mention that as many have pointed out over and over again, the main expenses of drug companies are not research, but drug approval bureaucracy and marketing.
Find a friend who has his brains tuned for systems architecture & design :)
Overall you do not need that much reviewing. The biggest issues appears IMO when there are mistakes in high level architecture and those can be spoted by someone with right experiene really fast and while refactoring and restructuring code you will become way better developer.
The space colonies in Gundam are immensely cool. I was actually surprised how similar they are to the 1970's art.
Just a heads up, most of the Starbucks in Manhattan have removed all their power outlets (last month, or the month before) to prevent people from spending time there working.

I guess having people say "my company started from humble beginning in the local Starbucks" is no longer valuable to them.
Modern airliners have better than 20:1 L/D, so it's not only achievable, but standard. Top of the line gliders today are around 70:1.
It can come off as creepy if you know a lot about a person, but that doesn't necessarily just come from FB stalking.

For example I have a friend who has an extremely good long term memory , he can recall the smallest details about the most insignificant events and conversations that happened many many years ago. He also basically carries an encyclopaedia of trivia around in his brain.

He eventually learned that he had to pretend to be dumber and more forgetful to avoid being thought of as creepy and pedantic.
Well all their copy tells me that they're a personalized "boutique" aka personal shopper who chooses items for you based on your style.

I'd expect that to be a re-occurring cost.

I suppose it may be out of the norm of some people, especially the HN crowd, but this kind of thing isn't really unusual.

Brick and mortar stores have VIP programs all the time.
Assuming for the sake of discussion that there are unlawful deceptive practices going on, either this company isn't getting the right legal counsel or is choosing to ignore it. Either way that sounds like bad news.

There are plenty of legitimate businesses operating on continuity models (monthly charge, keep sending you stuff until you cancel), but they are regulated at both state and federal levels, and many states have laws with very specific requirements about what must be disclosed and how (e.g., CLEAR AND CONSPICUOUS disclosure on the checkout page, not buried in the site TOS, confirmation by e-mail, easy-to-find link to cancel, etc.). I'm not going to give an opinion on this particular site, but we did a meticulous 50-state review at eHarmony for just this reason, to head off any claims that consumers were somehow being misled about recurring charges. It has to be updated as states change or adopt new laws. The FTC also has jurisdiction but it's much easier to get the attention of state regulators and especially class action plaintiffs' lawyers.
Replacing physical keys. You could use NFC to start your car or open your home's front door without a key.
Phone automation: http://launcher.tagstand.com/
Soaring flight seems pretty easy to evolve to me. Any soaring ability will be an advantage to a bird, who can use less energy to fly. This just takes it to an extreme. Each little step along the way provides an advantage, which is exactly the kind of situation that evolution is able to take advantage of.
If you weight companies by their market value, rather than a binary successful vs. unsuccessful[1] outcome, you'll come to a different conclusion. This is just a rationalization to avoid working hard.

[1] What's a "successful" company, by the standards of this and similar article? I don't want to inform my decisions with a study that considers Dropbox, on the one hand, and any sustainable small business, on the other, to be equally successful. There'll always be more of the latter.
While I can appreciate the difference in definition between a made-to-scale startup and a more traditional business, I disagree that the former is "an entrepreneur" and the latter isn't. In fact, I'd argue that, if anything, it's the opposite. An entrepreneur builds a sustainable business. A "startup founder" is trying to strike oil.

These are very different things with different skills required, but, as the startup founder is the new thing here, it should get a new word instead of trying to force an existing, understood term to have a new meaning and just causing a lot of confusion as a result.
Learn both. I did. Just build a freakin' website and don't stop learning.
Could you ask your girlfriend how she didn't notice a large recurring charge for 8 months? I would like to know because that is a puzzle I deal with it work.

We sell a software product and service on a subscription basis (not hidden like justfab...it is clear to the customer that they are buying a subscription--the product is kind of pointless without the subscription).

Occasionally I find someone who bought years ago, and apparently stopped using the product. At least, I can tell that they have not obtained updates through our update servers for a long time. Yet they do not cancel the service. It just goes on re-billing them a few bucks a month, every month.

I'm reluctant to cancel their accounts, because maybe they are obtaining updates some other way, such as downloading the latest version and installing it periodically, and their firewall is blocking the update checks. But I am always conflicted, because it could actually be someone that really just doesn't look at their credit card statement, and has no idea he is still paying us years after they stopped using our product.
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This is awesome!

I am jes, just played a game against you.

Very cool, but unfortunately very laggy for me.

It would be cool if it were possible to copy and paste the username rather than having to type it out.
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I have been behind my home-made standing desk for over 2 years now; I almost never stand still though; I walk in-place. I feel so much more healthy than I ever felt that I will definitely never stop doing that. It just feels better. In the summer I move everything outside and then it feels even better and very natural somehow. I feel less stressed as well, especially in the summer months.
Narrow the field.

Don't just say "salespeople," define what they're selling. Car salesmen? Go to a dealership and talk to the sales manager, or get him on the phone; Real Estate? Call the local offices, go to real estate seminars, etc. You get the picture; if you focus on a subgroup, it's easier to target who you want.
Note that regardless of what the screen shot looks like today, it's very possible the site already improved its disclosure in response to complaints/threats. It would be interesting to go back in time and compare the disclosure at launch to what's on the site today.
There are some arcade games in Japan that use an NFC card to keep track of player data. For example, Mahjong Fight Club uses one to allow for elaborate player rankings and detailed stat tracking.
One piece of advice to all using standing desk setups. Make sure your display is at or slightly below eye level and keyboard/mouse at elbow level. This makes a huge difference - particularly not having to stare down at a screen which puts undue strain on the neck.

And while you're at it - get rid of that useless caps lock key and remap it to a control key - lot more ergonomically friendly.
You spent 30 seconds of your life for this - a pointless comment?
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Apaprently the URL adds http:// even though I already added http://. Please visit www.fifthshift.com. Too bad I can't edit that URL.
You're certainly correct. I was getting L/D and glide ratio mixed up. Further I was thinking about the state of the art in small aircraft - the Cessna 172 or Cirrus SR22. Neither particularly good in this respect.

Rutan easily beat them all out in the 1970's.
We use the lockitron app to let houseguests in (and we have many cause of AirBNB). Since you can give a key to someone with a simple email, it eliminates the hassle of arranging a time to meet for key exchange. https://lockitron.com/
I second this. Ace Hotel is rad.
Whenever I read articles like this, I try to remind myself that there's an entrepreneurial component to finance as well. One of my friends from school was a trader for several years at a major bank. In 2012, his MD slashed his comp and the theme communicated to him was, like in the article, if you aren't happy with it, then "Just Go". He left. He took a handful of his smartest peers with him, and started a hedge fund where he now runs 500 million dollars and is up 15% on the year. If you lower compensation across the board, you provide more incentive for the rock stars like this to leave and create value elsewhere instead of for your firm. In this case, my friend took risk, and earned a reward, and I don't think anyone begrudges him the many millions of dollars more he will now earn in his new position.

It's not too different in tech. I have developers who work for me who I have to pay $250k/year + serious benefits, because if I didn't, I know they'd either start their own company or be poached by an early stage team. For me the challenge is figuring out who the real rock stars are from amidst the vast sea of wannabes.
Have you looked into any coworking spaces? They might be able to accommodate you for a few weeks. NYU Poly has incubators on Varick St. in Manhattan, and an office in DUMBO (which I've been working out of for several months). Good luck!

P.S. I know NYU Poly DUMBO has open space, it's in an awesome area, and the management there is friendly.
>it will be reversed //

I don't doubt it could be reversed relatively easily. It doesn't appear to be in the online rainbow tables I tried. But having to look something up, have domain knowledge, making multiple computations, program a parallelised attack using GPUs or however one approaches such a problem I still contend it's significantly (though not greatly) better than plaintext.
Here's a story from earlier this year http://www.pcworld.com/article/249138/rfid_credit_cards_are_... And as other commenters have noted, you only need to "succeed" with a few people to put together this video, so even if only a small portion of the population has a vulnerable card it can be enough. But even a vulnerable CC might not have enough info, so we can consider an even more classic magician's/pickpocketer's trick of swiping the person's wallet off them without them noticing and getting a password reset on their online transaction history page using the physical card and info gathered from social networks to pull off the simple social engineering. Not very likely, but if we're trying to come up with ways to get at a person's transaction history...
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Thanks! The server is in EC2's Oregon region, so it'll be laggy if you're very far from there. Didn't stop you from beating me though...

And you don't have to type in the username, you can click the button and it should open a new SSH session for you.
Both Google and Nokia have demoed using NFC to switch audio being played on a mobile device to audio being played over another device. Setting up simple transfers like that makes sense, although it obviously requires another smart device or dumb device + alt streaming protocol.
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Find a conference near your area. Pay for an exhibitor hall only pass. Then walk around the exhibit hall talking to the vendors. They are all sales people. IRCE in Chicago last year was $175 and access to endless sales people. :)
Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GnmCTua2-k
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He seems to work in cycles of lots-of-releases/no releases. I take that as a good sign that he knows how to pace work and won't burnout.
We are now getting misleading Techdirt stories secondhand through Slashdot. It's interesting to see how far this game of telephone might go.

The "former copyright boss" is saying nothing of the sort. Here's what's actually happening:

Aereo is a company that streams NY broadcast TV over the Internet, capturing the broadcast signals and proxying them over IP to users. They are, unsurprisingly, being sued by every NYC television company, including PBS, because their product repackages broadcast TV in a product that lets users skip ads by default.

As I understand it, the suit is early days. But as is typical in cases like this, the content producers moved for a preliminary injunction to shut Aereo down while the case runs. The trial court refused, and so the content producers appealed.

Ralph Oman, who stopped working for the government before the dawn of the commercial Internet, filed an amicus in the content industry's appeals request to impose an injunction on Aereo.

Techdirt read Oman's amicus and reported sentences in the brief taken out of context. Techdirt's reading of Oman's amicus doesn't even make sense; the courts dealing with this case have no ability to create a "guilty until proven innocent" standard, nor can they require that technology produces consult Congress before launching products.

Oman was making an inside baseball argument to the court hearing the case. One element that recurs in all complex policy cases: how do judges resolve the (often contrary) forces of precedent, Constitutional principle, and the statutes enacted by legislatures. What Oman is arguing is not that the judge should apply some new restrictive rule on technology; rather, he's arguing that should the judge refuse an injunction on such a clear-cut case (his sentiment, not mine), that judge would in effect be creating a new policy of exempting technology companies from vicarious liability out of whole cloth, ignoring both precedent (thus his citation to a case where copy shop owners had been held liable for misuse of their property) and statute.

Obviously, Oman is a copyright hawk. I'm "conservative" as copyright goes, and even I don't think Oman is making a strong argument. This is obviously a very "leftist" forum, but that doesn't free you to make up entirely new and ridiculous arguments and stuff them into some random guy's mouth to create a straw man.

Finally, as straw men go, this is a pretty feeble one. This guy doesn't matter at all. He stopped managing copyright policy before the advent of CU-SeeMe.
Wow at last we can have our flying cars that don't need fuel... Just kidding.

Can a minimally powered aircraft on mars or venus do this without spending a dime on fuel or panels for flight? That would be a cool technology demonstration getting the whole world shocked. And we could throw all kinds of exotic material like carbon fiber and thin strong foils and kites coz getting these beasts there would be way more costlier than building them. I see very interesting short term future possibilities for this. Maybe even an X-Prize for this would help.
Real (ok, "real") mindreaders also have some tricks up their sleeves, low-tech but still useful. Some of the tricks work so well that the "mindreaders" unconsciously trick themselves into believing in their own powers.

The art of "cold reading" is a fascinating read:

http://www.randi.org/library/coldreading/

Btw, I see your facebook profile in my crystal ball: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?=7432645066541
Seems to me that you don't fully understand the point of this article. The author is suggesting that taking some time for yourself personally will make you more productive, not less. Pushing yourself to the breaking point just so you can say that you worked as hard as you could is a losing strategy. Let's not look to give ourselves a convenient excuse for when things don't work out. Instead, let's try to make it work out :)
Hah, gratuitous negativity, doesn't it make the world a better place?? :D
Long hours != Productivity

There's a huge myth about Japan in that many people believe that salary men work insane hours out of dedication to their jobs. In reality, there is very little productivity in Japanese corporate offices. While the salaryman might stay for 12 to 13 hours a day, only 4 or 5 is spent actually working -- the other half is spent dicking around. They stay out of a social contract, a culture of not being the first to leave.

I think the kind of startups that we talk about here have a lot in common with the traditional Japanese corporate office culture.
I work out of General Assembly (a co-working space between Union and Madison Squares). You're welcome to work from there for a day as my guest if you like.
The main point of PageKite is converting a networking/sysadmin problem, into a software problem. This has fundamental implications for scaling it out (software copying scales infinitely, sysadmins don't).

I ended up with the weird merged python file (see: http://pagekite.net/wiki/Floss/PyBreeder/) because I wanted the continued perceived simplicity of a single .py, but I ended up wanting to refactor my code into submodules. So I made PyBreeder to reverse the refactoring, basically. It is a little silly and will probably go away over time. Regarding the bash installer, I don't see much of a difference between trusting my installer or trusting pagekite itself. Both came from the network. The bash installer is at least easier to review than "install.exe" or the shell scripts embedded in an RPM or .deb. My goal was to get people up and running in literally two commands, this was the only cross-distro/cross-OS way to accomplish that.

Dalpay are OK, but they have their warts. I'd rather deal with a small local company than a monster like PayPal, and being in Iceland my options for actually receiving funds from PayPal and the likes were actually rather limited.
Rumor has it the guy is broke---his house in Hawaii is for rent and he rushed out of his house in Palo Alto like it was being foreclosed on---
So he is likely using the "vacation" time to return to his roots---the trailer parks of Houston. You BS and lie your way thru Silicon Valley until eventually you end up right back where you came from---someone should do a "rags to riches to rags" story
Yeah I agree, there are stagnant tech shops just like stagnant finance firms.
Manhattan:

- Kaffe 1668 in Tribeca - great atmosphere, great coffee & tea

- Cafe Mercato on Broadway at Bleecker St. - open 24h, it's a sizeable deli, has tap beer, and work space in the back

- Ace Hotel lobby on W. 29 st - classy but gets very crowded

Brooklyn:

- Vineapple in Brooklyn Heights - coffee & grilled cheese

- Tea Lounge in Park Slope - coffee & beer & many couches
You could use NFC to exchange data. You could, for example, perform a hip bump to add somebody to your Tweetface circle; or grind on somebody to trade phone numbers; or leave a tip by rubbing somebody's pants pocket... all without directly manipulating phones!

(I imagine this'd be increasingly relevant as the screens on these things get bigger and bigger and it becomes difficult even to remove your phone from your pocket.)
There are plenty of men and women who are dumb and/or easy to please. Though I would agree with your parent comment that given a woman doesn't like "facebook stalkers" and is alert for their presence, she probably also won't like PUAs and is alert for their presence.
My firm uses a crappy software for frequent task. Others use Excel. I can code.
So i work at a professional service firm (non-programming job) and we use a software with a really crappy interface to do a specific project management task, other firms are even using Excel. What should i know/read before launching a product for this market and how do i approach it?
First: You're in court. That's a whole lot more than you bargained for.

Second: Are you a lawyer? Is that the guaranteed outcome of such cases? Will it really carry no weight that they can (probably) substantiate their claim that you checked the box with a technically sound argument that their website actually works? A manual release test plan, unit tests, cucumber scripts?

That one, single checkbox, and the fact that you have to manually check it, is the legality upon which the entire business hinges. Especially if they're a little shady, they'd be sure to have their stuff in order around this.