skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love to see an AmA with a Color employee to get the inside scoop on what's going on there. It must be devastating for morale for a rumor to spread that everybody assumed was going to happen at some point anyway (was anybody surprised when their shutdown was announced? I didn't even bat an eye) and then have to come out and vehemently deny the rumor. And all the while the absentee CEO is galavanting around the world on some exotic "sabbatical" as his company burns to the ground. Only a matter of time until this news resurfaces again, only next time it will be for real.
There's no markup, just a $1 'booking fee' (and a 20% auto-grat).
What the post doesn't mention: how many taxis they have signed up. This is important. Their launch of UberTAXI in New York was a failure for many reasons, but one was that no-one could ever get a ride, because it turned out they had barely any cab drivers signed up to use the system.

If they aren't mentioning numbers out of the gate then I'm skeptical. Also amused that this story is currently 3rd from top on the home page, but numerous stories about their utter failure in New York were nowhere to be seen on HN.
>It's kind of like how every new version of Android promises that they've "solved" smooth scrolling. I'll believe it when I see it.

Have you tried an Android phone at any point in the last 12 months? I absolutely do not believe that you have tried an Android device that ships with ICS or JB.
The problem is, anyone who is serious about security is going to need to read the source and compile the binary they load onto their phone. Nontechnical people aren't going to be able to do that.
Over annotations that quote extensively from the source text

The page they have up with the Topic Blog post, however, is just a 100% reproduction with flyover notes. If You were to reprint the entire Harry Potter series, and add notes to the margins, it might seem similar. I believe that was already a subject of legal debate, though. Which might be precedent [see notes 1,2].

That being said, I don't per-se disagree with any of the issues being raised in your post. Also, I wouldn't rule out they will find a way to license content. The issue is just at what price? That's the spotify connundrum, IMHO.

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._and_J._K._Rowling_...

Judge Patterson said that reference materials were generally useful to the public but that in this case, Vander Ark went too far. He said that "while the Lexicon, in its current state, is not a fair use of the Harry Potter works, reference works that share the Lexicon's purpose of aiding readers of literature generally should be encouraged rather than stifled." He said he ruled in Ms. Rowling's favor because the "Lexicon appropriates too much of Rowling's creative work for its purposes as a reference guide."

[2] Another example, might be you-tube. Who has its "annotations" listed below each work of art. These are commonly referred to as "Comments". Some of the comments can now even be time-inserted into flyovers, more similar to the "flyover" type annotations currently up on the linked article. This is an example where there is both licensing and unlicensed content as a hybrid model.
That may be, but most of NYC is devoid of hailable medallion cabs. Manhattan, where an overwhelming majority of cabs are to be found, has a population only 2x that of SF.

That said, there are parts of SF without hailable medallion cabs too, so... :)
There goes the student loan bubble (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/inside-student-loan-debt-bubbl...). So is real estate the next bubble? Or will it be web 3.0?
Grid Layout, the propreitary CSS feature that has a working draft with one author (guess the company). It is very nice, but there are other tools and box-models that work well and/or are in development with more parties.

I'm surprised to hear that IE10 has IndexedDB and that support for it is so poor. That's useful information to know and I feel like I just found a blind-spot that I didn't previously. Thanks.
A bicycle made almost entirely of cardboard
Thanks, just sent you an email with more detail.
'Practical Vim' Book, from Vimcast creator Drew Neil, 40% off
Apple Said to Acquire Color
Seems complicated. Lots of bubbles yelling at me.

What are the benefits of using this over doodle.com?
Teaching Without Words
I've been following this guy for a while. He did that editor a while back too. The polish on his stuff is excellent.

How does he have time for this stuff?

I would like to work on foundational projects too, but there are too many practical things that need go get done.

It is good to see that somebody has time for this.
> Also amused that this story is currently 3rd from top on the home page, but numerous stories about their utter failure in New York were nowhere to be seen on HN.

At least one hit the #1 spot, if I'm remembering correctly.
OK, admittedly a little dramatic to make the point that one thing that can slow down a startup (which should be fast by definition) from their real goal is involving everyone in every decision. It was in response to a board meeting, not quite in isolation as was stated.
Lua. Checkout the source code - it's gorgeous.
I think the conclusion is that you need to provision a lot of machines, and benchmark your own workload thoroughly to assess any cloud provider. That way you'll have solid performance numbers that are relevant to your case. They (rightly, in my mind), don't come down one way or the other on particular instances or options, because the cost/value analysis depends so specifically on your workload. If you know your workload very well already, they give enough detail that you could reuse some of their data.
Hm, if so, I take back my criticism. But HNSearch isn't returning much:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=ube...
God says...

28:23 Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning,
which is for a continual burnt offering.

28:24 After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven
days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto
the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and
his drink offering.

28:25 And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye
shall do no servile work.

28:26 Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat
offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy
convocation; ye shall do no servile work: 28:27 But ye shall offer the
burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; two young bullocks,
one ram, seven lambs of the first year; 28:28 And their meat offering
of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto one bullock, two
tenth deals unto one ram, 28:29 A several tenth deal unto one lamb,
throughout the seven lambs; 28:30 And one kid of the goats, to make an
atonement for you.

----

It's obvious animal sacrifices are silly, but it's the thought that counts. IT'S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS!!! You fucken morons, do something!

http://www.sparrowos.com/Wb/Apps/AfterEgypt/Comics/

http://www.sparrowos.com/Wb/Accts/TS/Wb2/Hymns.html

God says...
taste repay wrinkle plan Righteousness forgetfulness Courage
appointments forgivest commandment Sometimes mortality
congregations commander pleased sumptuously Who periods
commendeth let's infants force seat perils indulgent stories
hay torture blesses wert praise esteeming umm exclude
prey Themselves Love glances malice prisoner recited begin
habit A act reproved sick lattice founded illusion walking
dispel conceived wonderful depressing obscure fiercest
Brazil students do_not_disturb chastely stones bond need
estimate enlisted fairly transgression preferable mutually
fore-perceiving glass fly pains son's beyond exult PUBLIC
shops MEDIUM faultfinders blew fuller for define *This
alluring
Sad if true, for all the hardworking companies out there that are working very hard to make a difference in customer's lives. Only overpriced products with no product/market fit can be acquired for "high double digit" millions.
That wasn't the droid he was looking for.
Sorry, I saw that and meant it to read as "as well as X, which you've already done".
I heard secondhand that this is even the case in Chicago in the winter. (In my apartment in a highrise there, I never ran my heat. The building was naturally 75 degrees. On some days, I even turned on the AC to get it down to a more comfortable 72!)
the transfer goes through our server(s), kind of. all of the bytes do pass through our servers, but they are not stored at all. we are simply a gateway between the uploader and downloader. what you're describing is pure peer-to-peer. the transfer is not encrypted at the moment. we do support encrypted transfers, but we have not turned that on yet
Surely it's "know where you're presenting".
I'm glad to see such tremendous growth for such a tremendous service. Twilio enabled us to get our VoIP functionality up and running quickly and we're certainly grateful for it.
Wide MTB Rims
Well with those two sentences you've pretty much ensured that this is never, ever possible. You'd have to have a trust system from the silicon up, signed bootloader, hypervisor, no exploits, etc to guarantee that the system you're booting is executing the binaries you think it is.

At some point "good enough" has to be enough. Okay, you built the APK, how do you know I don't control the VM and just swap out that JIT'd method with one that I've altered? (Repeat this until you get all the way back to the initial power-up)
no, we don't have a changelog. with the new version comes a new redesign, much better browser support, a new back-end architecture that is not visible to the users but makes for improved experience, progress updates for both ends of the transfer, better notifications during the transfer, and the most important feature... multiple file transfer
Show HN: A system to track time spent in different branches of your git repo
I came here to say just this. Anyone who wants to do real socket programming should learn some of the low level reasons for how sockets work behind the scenes. Plus, it's a great read! (I especially like his story about IPv6)
The shit sandwich is a tool used because you feel the person isn't capable of handling direct criticism.

When using the shit sandwich on a senior report, you are implicitly stating that you don't believe they can handle direct criticism.
Weatherman Display weather information from the command line.
Fine, but don't call it a gratuity. Call it a service fee. "Mandatory gratuities" make me look for another service provider.
This is an anecdote from me, but that's all most people in this thread have, so... One day I was sitting in an empty parking lot with my girlfriend eating pizza on the tailgate and watching traffic go by. A cop came along and ticketed a driver for rolling through the stop sign. As soon as the cop turned off her lights, another car rolled through the stop sign, and she lit that driver up as well. This continued for probably 5-10 drivers before the officer came up to us and asked if we were enjoying the show. She said she hopes everyone involved learned a lesson about stopping completely at stop signs. I offered her a slice of pizza, she declined, and we drove off.

I guess my take-away from that was, cops can give out tickets in short order if people are consistently breaking the law right in front of them. I wouldn't necessarily punish an officer for giving out many tickets in a high-offending area, just based on what I saw that day. Sometimes people in an area need to have the rules reinforced. For every driver that got pulled over, 20 other drivers were witness.
Please provide an example of such a tool for PHP.
Also provide a working example of PHP code where removing all annotations causes working code to fail silently.
In my experience with using annotations in PHP if the annotations are missing/invalid the compiling code throws very descriptive error messages.

Your good, valid, technical reasons are anything but.
If it is in fact what you'd normally tip, why would you let this prevent you from using the service? Unless you have an extremely bad experience (which I'm pretty sure you can report) - why let it be the one thing to stop you?
I think its probably more to do with large number of patents they claimed to have for localization and sharing. At least that was the hype at the time of their funding.
Great to see someone dig into this and provide some science behind it all (and perhaps others have done the same, I just haven't made it a point to look around). And timely, too, I've made important changes in my diet recently and the productivity payoff is huge. In particular, I discovered green smoothies about 2 months ago, and man the change those things have made! I rarely go a day w/out one, and they provide hours of increased focus and energy.

I believe in them so much I put up a quick article about them. For those that may be interested (one my recipes is included):

http://freelancefactor.net/index.php?/page/articles.html/_/a...
I've seen plenty of business people try to hand-wave away or cover up their ignorance with bullshit instead of saying they don't know something. Is that cheating, in a business setting? I think it might be a stretch that not saying "I don't know" leads to cheating directly as she suggests but the urge to cover up ignorance could lead to both.
Just curious, since you're handy to ask: How do the judges view code that depends on external (but cross-platform and FOSS) libraries? Only Xlib is specifically mentioned in the rules.

I'm specifically thinking of libpng, but I'm sure one could think of other meaningful examples.
Just got out of an Uber cab in Boston (due to the free cab promotion for this week). So far so good. The driver did get yelled at by another driver because he was a Boston cab picking up in Cambridge, but I'll bet people will get over that.
Michael Alley describes an "Assertion-Evidence" structure for slides, in which the heading becomes something more like a sentence that states the point, and the rest of the slide presents evidence in support of that.
http://www.writing.engr.psu.edu/slides.html

This approach tends to do away with traditional headings altogether, so it tends to push you in the same direction as, or even a step beyond, the production-oriented advice given here.
I wonder how the folks at Polaris feel about this:

http://www.polaris.com/en-us/home.aspx

The logo is also pretty similar... Not the same market at all, but it's a pretty popular company, so I'm sure they have that name trademarked or something.
I don't think Apple buys up companies due to "hype", and considering the amount of negative press Color has been receiving as of late, that seems especially unlikely here. More likely it is a talent acquisition, or as greendestiny suggests, patents.
I've been a quiet fan of Color since the beginning, from a technology/team standpoint, not a product standpoint. I think its smart for Apple.

We can all agree that the product launch and the product itself was terribly implemented, but that doesn't mean the technology behind it can't be impressive. It also doesn't have to mean that Apple can't make good use of the technology and talent at Color by embedding them into existing teams and apps.
This worked for me in the main page of hacker news, but I could not get it to work for moving between comments.
If you didn't think the patent system was fucked up before, you sure as fuck should know now.
When has there ever been a wild (non-obvious) Apple acquisition rumor that was substantiated?
If people are interested in this type of thing for Android, I recommend checking out the RedPhone and TextSecure apps.

They're free to use, all the source code is GPLv3 on GitHub, and RedPhone already has global calling coverage. The apps have been translated into 15 languages, and in my experience they're really dead simple to use.
It seems to me the way to get around this (for the nervous government) is to attack the iphone itself and capture keystrokes, nay?
My HN timeline for today:

(morning) "Color to be shutting down"
(afternoon) "Color IS NOT shutting down"
(evening) "Color is acquired by Apple"

wtf just happened.
Really wish I could sign up and then hold my free month until after the Android app comes out. Guess I'll just keep checking back (or assume that when it happens, it will be mentioned here)
What technology exactly? Their initial tech claims (which were never verified or detectable in real world usage) were impressive. Their pivot made little mention of using that tech. What tech of Color's can we conclusively say actually works in the real world?
Really? Can you expand on that?
Thanks for your response. The issue isn't so much for how often they post, it's more for how often they receive communiques. Being a small-timer, I'm trying to figure out the most resourceful way of accomplishing this.
if you don't mind may you please elaborate on the above post in the context of this headline ? thank you !
As a San Francisco resident, I don't really see any reason to use this. I have Lyft for when I just need to get somewhere, and it's cheaper and more desirable than riding a taxi (yes, even after the improvements "uber-izing" a taxi makes), and I have Uber for when a black car is more appropriate, and Uber SUV for when I need to transport more than just myself or myself and another person.

It seems like those three services fit the full spectrum of use cases. Maybe this is just a way to appease the taxi cartel temporarily, while they don't realize their service is becoming obsolete.
With apartment highrises it is possible that other people in the building had their heat on.
I wish you tested with larger numbers of EBS volumes. I've just started researching EC2 and EBS, and the links I saw seemed to indicate that large numbers of EBS volumes with raid0 smooths out the performance (8,16,24 volumes). http://orion.heroku.com/past/2009/7/29/io_performance_on_ebs...

The graphs are very well done. That amount of data would have been incomprehensible if not for your carefully thought out charts.
"Turned?"
I love Twilio, but every time I get a robocall to my cell phone selling me cheap insurance, I cringe a little, and wonder if Twilio is enabling this. I wish Twilio had a "is this a Twilio phone number" lookup so that I can report such activity.
Thats a 20% markup.
Whether the company is dissolving or not is only tangentially related to whether they say they are dissolving or not.
Not that it invalidates the article, but it's worth noting that, no matter how many times it's said, you do not replace everything every 7 years. Not by any available definition of 'everything': cells, atoms, limbs, tastes.

http://askanaturalist.com/do-we-replace-our-cells-every-7-or...
I must've spent 30 seconds trying to parse the title.

The science behind how (your productivity is chosen by what you eat)

not

(The science behind how your productivity) is (chosen by what you eat)
These are excellent visualizations, I'm glad they put this together, showed it to the hn community while also demonstrating one of rj metrics use cases.

A note about the product. How do they differentiate themselves from other DW analytics companies like datameer? (http://www.datameer.com/) I can tell they specialize in e-commerce, but couldn't any DW analytics service give you that AND more?
I still can't parse it.
Fix Unable To Print Multiple Set Of Copies On HP LaserJet 1200.
So is this Color, soon to be seen in the iPhone 5s?
I for one am shocked that The Next Web seems to have done some original reporting here, and not just copying someone else's blog post word for word.[1]

Unless of course the original source blog post for this can be found somewhere...

[1]http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/05/14/next-web-dirtbag...
Someone on the board of Apple is a limited partner of investors in Color?
Because the report says Apple's interest may be in Color's patents.
Siri and Chomp both come to mind. So does LaLa.
The fix as described seems to just check the Host header for suspiciously-formatted information. Is that also enough to prevent other wrong (but well-formatted) Host values from being used?

It seems to me that the deeper risk is composing emails based on a passed Host value, rather than any sort of canonical name the site has for itself. Does the warning about avoiding domain-wildcard setups mean this is still a risk, even after the latest fix?
One of the interesting reasons comes back to accounting.

Toyota's approach focuses on value from the customer perspective. So all defects are seen as waste, and are targeted for elimination.

The MBA approach just looks at P&L. Which is why they concealed the Pinto's tendency to explode; it was cheaper to pay the lawsuits than to fix people's tanks. Nevermind that many more people would die without the recall; that wasn't relevant to increasing shareholder value.

Another good example comes at the beginning of Bob Lutz's "Car Guys vs Bean Counters". Lutz, a car lover and an automotive exec for decades, once fixed a problem with transmission manufacturing. The problem was causing a lot of people's cars to die right after the warranty expired. He got yelled at because it blew a hole in their revenue projections; they were looking forward to a lot of highly profitable transmission repairs.

Toyota can make those reliable cars because they see every worker not just as a meat robot, but as a brain that should be engaged in eliminating waste. MBA thinking looks at slow order periods as a time to cut labor costs. Toyota, cognizant of how much they have invested in their workers, looks it as a time for training, plant improvement, and other value-creating activities.
At both Everlane (http://everlane.com) and Dev Bootcamp (http://devbootcamp.com) we made a conscious decision early on not to call our customers "users."

It's a surprisingly hard habit to break, but it's important. Being specific clarifies your priorities and adds a level of responsibility.

At DBC, our students are our customers, for example. Treating them like customers acknowledges that they're paying us a lot of money to change their lives. When you're saying "student" and "customer" all day it's easier to focus on what the real problems are.
Ask HN: Why do companies not pay market when promoting from within?
I work at a large (Fortune 100) company, and I'm interviewing for an architect position, and from what I'm hearing, the company simply does not provide raises that would take employees to the market rate for their position. Instead, the company wants to pay some percentage of an employee's current salary.

As someone who has certain entrepreneurial aspirations, I sort of understand where they're coming from. But on the other hand, I wouldn't want to run a company that ultimately forces people to leave to get what they're worth.

Is there a strategy that I'm missing? Because as I see it, this has to cause attrition of good people.
For posterity, here is an article discussing one such study. (They use both words.)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07...
That timeline actually gives you a really good description of "what just happened", and for several values of "just." :D
In Praise of the BlackBerry
Easily, the annotation parser ignores all comments that it doesn't recognise.

/**
* @var integer $id
*
* @ORM\Column(name="id", type="integer")
* @ORM\Id
* @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
* some comment that the doctrine parser will ignore completely
*/
private $id;
(midnight) "Color to acquire Apple"
It is likely that you will waste more time worrying about your diet than you gain in productive activity.

You should probably still do it, since it has long term health consequences, but the rules are really easy:

1. Eat something

2. Not too much

3. Mostly plants
What exactly are they crushing? Is something here being physically compacted?

If not, can we crush the use of "crushing it?" It's 2012. "Crushing it" isn't any better now than "killing it" was in 2011.