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Ask HN: Help me find the name of a chrome extension / Side Project
I remember seeing a chrome extension that let you comment on any websites. Other users could see the comments /review of that website/page in a vertical sidebar.

This is not WOT btw :)

Thanks
Burning coal / electricity / oil to explore, drill, transport, refine, and re-transport oil ... Then using that to fill your car, so you can blow it up inside an engine.

Sounds a little less efficient than the electricity thing when you look at the full sequence. And this is even in the case where electricity comes from dirty sources; some states, like California, have an energy mix where electricity comes mostly from renewables. (And this is something that can be improved as time goes on).
Interesting - when does the exhaustion function reaches a maximum ? I thought it was the hardest in the first 4 years.

(regarding the difficulties of adoption, they could be compared to the outsourcing cost :-/ foster care is a great idea, but may not work for people who want to have "their" kids)
Is there an ebook version coming? I don't really need/want a hardcover copy.
For a n00b like me this looks interesting. Wouldn't mind taking a test drive to see if it's something that could work long term. I agree with @josegonzalez. Seems like a leap of faith and you lose a bit of control. However, if in the long run it's a stable environment and everything works as promised could be a solid solution.
Better questions:

What services do successful SAS companies charge at least $50 per month for?

What makes their value proposition work at that price point?

What opportunities are there to offer competing services?

What opportunities are there to offer services with a similar value proposition?
That is EXACTLY the stance that Chomsky is challenging here. Don't get me wrong, I think the probabilistic view has truth value and is a powerful predictive tool. However, I don't think it captures the phenomenological properties of the act of language based cognition. See my cousin reply referencing Heidegger.
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The print publishing process gives you chances to find and correct errors (typos, etc.) before people get their copy of the book. Of course, if you don't mind publishing with errors initially you can update an eBook in ways you can't really update a printed paper copy of the book.

Just a thought.
Is that an employee trying to sell? Or a dealer trying to get employees to buy? Because that would be an ingeniously evil strategy, had it been timed close to IPO.
the tool is a bit of a pain, but they have an autogen now. It really doesn't take me long, but it is a might bit confusing for new people.
FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly and OpenBSD do not share the same kernel...
I think you could probably do this as long as the IDE understood an external project file format like maven — getting rid of IDE specific configuration files is a big win. Otherwise it is hard to know what the dependencies are in order to allow for intellisense and refactoring.

As soon as you do that though people will ask for plugins and then people will make plugins and then you'll be back where you started. IntelliJ isn't much more than a project file format, an editor and a plugin API.
My mom and dad’s house might explode, but Comcast wants its cable box back
Yeah, what the hell? I don't get why people beg for followers at the end of their blog posts. It just leaves a sour taste in my mouth after what would have been a great reading experience.
Why we got an email instead of a call from YCombinator after our interview
why we got an email instead of a call from the @ycombinator partners after our interview. thoughts, advice, and tips.
There are some good points here, but my advice is that you should take your teens seriously.

It seems like the prevailing advice today for anyone in their teens is to live their lives free of any commitments and as independent and undirected as possible. But lately I realized the importance of my teens to a degree I never had and it has changed how I plan to approach the last few years of my teens.

I'm not going to wait until my twenties to move into my parent's house and work on my startup. I already live in their house, so why wait?

Also, since everybody peaks in their twenties, why waste our best years making mistakes? By starting early, I'm getting lots of mistakes out of the way. By the time I hit my twenties, I'll be at peak performance and have tons of experience under my belt.

But sometimes I wish I'd started as a tween.
It is definitely less convenient if you don't have a garage. But as mentioned, this is starting to be addressed. Also, the Supercharger-style charging station becomes a lot like a gas station would be for a normal car.

I do think that "I don't have a garage / dedicated place to park my car" is in fact the only current anti-EV argument that has any basis in reality. But it's addressable.
By real world problems you're talking about engineering and not science. Chomsky says Norvig's position is great for engineering, just not science.

The whole disagreement stems from the idea that this will help us with a scientific understanding of language or not. The burden is on Norvig's side to prove it, and it hasn't.
This is good news considering I've been hearing Tesla as a company has been having trouble.

Besides it being an EV, what really appeals to me is the maintenance plan. 600$/year covers everything. Having a car hit the 100k mark and having everything break down unless you replace it entirely is such a pain and is expensive.
Laws in any given system are a process of Spontaneous order (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_order).

The performance of every given actor in the system is inhanced by everybody else adopting the system. Its absolutly normual and good. Thats how our social liver works in general, the state mostly only comes in later and writes stuff down.
Where are you based? I picked up climbing in May 2012, and can offer you some advice based on what I've been through. Email's in my profile to continue the chat if you want.
> those who have worked in the outside world ... and know how lucky they are and how different this is. And those that haven't and think this is just how the world is.

As a mid-30s guy at Google for 2 years, I'm never sure whether fresh grads getting their first job at Google will ever know (or need to know) how lucky they are.
not if they are showing contempt of court they don't
Difference is though, with an internal combustion engine, the "turning fuel into power" happens inside the car.

Whereas with electric cars, it happens at a power plant... then gets sent to the car via electricity, with lots of it wasted along the way.

Personally, I don't see electric cars as solving anything. We should be looking at generating the power in the car, from things that are plentiful - water, dirt, garbage, sewage etc.
Comparison of Android keyboard apps’ popularity
The 5 companies being sued are:

1. Treasure Your Success

2. Ambrosia Web Design

3. A+ Financial Center, LLC

4. The Green Savers

5. Key One Solutions, LLC.
Ouch, that can't be fun :/ I haven't heard any solutions to that one in particular, but I can't say I've looked. Hopefully, though.
I like it.

Now obviously there are tons of other applications playing with the social graph, and it's about filtering the noise, but visually it's nicely presented, and makes a nice digital calling card.

Are there plans to develop this further?
I happened to have looked into your service in regards to tracking word count, but had some trouble figuring it out and making it fit into my workflow.

I'll check it out again, though, as I want to get back into exercising this month. Thanks for the reminder!
I had the same notion from the first part of the interview - wondering whether Chomsky would actually bring something to the table to "unriddle" this mystical machine in our head. Leaving his aversion to computational systems aside, I believe he makes a good point about our language being computationally inefficient (at least externally). maybe his insight [that our language is computationally inefficient] can be explained by molecular mechanisms that are efficient in terms of energy consumption (rather than on a computational level). looking which neural systems are most likely to evolve given a simple genetic code and reengineering (computationally inefficient and obscure) algorithms based on that might provide some valuable insight into the human brain - whereas probability measures alone might fail to explain underlying mechanisms.
Facebook to enter marketplace again...
what do you guys think? rumour is they will used that sponsored feed system but wouldn't that annoy/desensitize people as well as inevitably have real estate constraints v. supply of products. also the real question comes down to how many people want their friends to know they bought some used stuff from another friend or friend of friend and whether or not facebook provide any clear help to reputability v. a slight proxy but not really... why would you use it or not? also, oodle is already there and not really working. is facebook just getting desperate to monetize? thoughts? comments? opinions?
Interesting. Unfortunately the paper is behind a paywall. According to Wikipedia lithium reserves are 13 million tonnes [1], but of course their 39 million could be due to a different interpretation of "reserve". I based my calculation on a Chevy Volt, which uses 1.4kg lithium per kwh for a total of 60kg per 40kwh, perhaps other cars are more efficient in their lithium use.

If we use those figures, 39 million tonnes / 1 billion cars comes down to 39kg per car; not too far off. According to this [2], there were around 60 million cars produced in 2011. Conservatively assuming that that grows to 100 million in 2025, that's 50 million electric cars per year according to Musks prediction. At 39kg per car that is around 2 million tonnes of lithium per year. Not too far off my 2.5 million tonnes. So my point still stands that we have to increase lithium production around 70x just for cars (and consider trucks, cargo ships, motorcycles, farming vehicles etc). Perhaps we will be able to do that without increasing prices significantly, perhaps not.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium

[2] http://www.worldometers.info/cars/
To put it simply: exhaustion becomes superseded, or exchanged in kind, by fun as kids gain more ability to communicate and comprehend the world around them. It's up to you as the parent to decide what is fun and what's not: an engaged parent is going find almost anything fun when their kids are involved and equally engaged, tantrums aside!
I like that you can use their API keys for low volume/one-off queries, then add your own on an as needed basis as your volume increases
That's a little harsh. BSD competes against other open source operating systems, i.e. Linux.

The point is that this was long overdue. That still stands…
from: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#LargeDrive

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FFS vs. FFS2

Using FFS, OpenBSD supports an individual file system of up to 231-1, or 2,147,483,647 blocks, and as each block is 512 bytes, that's a tiny amount less than 1T. FFS2 is capable of much larger file systems, though other limits will be reached long before the file system limits will be reached.
The boot/installation kernels only support FFS, not FFS2, so key system partitions (/, /usr, /var, /tmp) should not be FFS2, or severe maintenance problems can arise (there should be no reason for those partitions to be that large, anyway). For this reason, very large partitions should only be used for "non-system" partitions, for example, /home, /var/www/, /bigarray, etc.

Note that not all controllers and drivers support large disks. For example, ami(4) has a limit of 2TB per logical volume. Always be aware of what was available when a controler or interface was manufactured, and don't just rely on "the connectors fit".

Larger than 2TB disks

The MBR system used on PCs only directly understands disks up to 2TB in size. fdisk(8) will typically report a disk size of the real size modulo 2TB, so your 2.7TB disk (sold as 3TB) will show as around 700GB in fdisk(8). This does not in any way hinder OpenBSD's ability to utilize larger disks, as the MBR is used only to bootstrap the OS, once the OS is running, the file systems are defined by the disklabel, which does not have a 2TB limit.

To use a larger than 2TB disk, create an OpenBSD partition on the disk using fdisk, whatever size fdisk will let you. When you label the disk with disklabel(8), use the "b" option to set the OpenBSD boundaries (which defaulted to the size of the OpenBSD fdisk partition) to cover the entire disk. Now you can create your partitions as you wish. You must still respect the abilities of your BIOS, which will have the limitation of only understanding fdisk partitions, so your 'a' partition should be entirely within the fdisk-managed part of the disk, in addition to any BIOS limitations.

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ZFS on FreeBSD was just a bit easier (for me) for our Samba PDC. Otherwise, I use OpenBSD.
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After signing in, it offered some interesting people for me to follow.

I tried clicking on Romney's link, which led me to http://knowitapp.com/start/mittromney - but then I got a 404: "The requested URL /start/mittromney.php was not found on this server."

Looks like you guys are just linking to an outdated URL scheme, should be /mittromney
Technically Amazon didn't have a Beauty site that was in competition to BirchBox until Quidsi launched Beautybar.com

Both companies leverage sampling in "boxes" to acquire new customers and hopefully they will order full sized products in their respective stores.

"Opening box" videos are a popular practice in retail (ecommerce) especially in the beauty industry.
:) well flights and ads are planned!
But, your car can take so many commands that one cannot make a physical knob for everything.
There's more to lifting than counting while sitting down! Strength training that has a focus on powerlifting and Olympic lifting are very different than the bodybuilding focus that tends to pervade most gyms. CrossFit is something to check out if you want more fun strength training.
The title of this submission is misleading because when you say "Car of the Year" you think either Motor Trend or Car & Driver. Automobile Magazine is a distant, distant third place in prestige and respect; I didn't even know that they did an annual award.
Like many things, Chomsky is both right and wrong. He's right in that if we studied the structure and functioning of the brain we could built more accurate AI. He's terribly wrong because the structures of the brain are fuzzy and give rise to probabilistic and 'statistical' functioning that is itself based on training (much like the models he derides).
But they share a common, non-restrictive source license. OpenBSD could have imported 1:1 threading from FreeBSD, which added it earlier.
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Advice on how to live is simple:
1) Learn (travel, fail at something, shadow someone)
2) Prune (decide what is worth learning (e.g does learning another programming language add much value compared to learning about the behaviors of a market or larger ones like learning about a girl))

I'm definitely going to look into this book because it seems like it helps people work on pruning which I believe is the hardest part of life.

However I feel that you (Jason) may have taken away some wrong things from the book because: "This is how most successful people I know have built their careers, and it always starts small." While this may be one of the largest pipes that create your definition of success, it is not the only one. People may need the life experience of working as a barista before starting their career for several reasons; or they may want to work at a hostel while traveling for several years to learn more about the world. The rate in which careers develop vary greatly from person to person and at what point; why base it on the average successful individual?
Side project - Antivirus price comparison website
About a year and a half ago I created a price-comparison website focused on Anti-virus software.
In this blog post I analyze the results of this (somewhat failed) project.
What it strongly suggests is that in the evolution of language, a computational
system developed, and later on it was externalized.

So, the beginning of human language was not communication, but a computational system. Interesting stuff starting at that quote. NB: lots of mistakes in the transcript, sometimes rendering it unintelligible.
The slides can be directly downloaded here:

http://s.omniti.net/surge/i/content/slides/Surge2012-GregL_b...
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Language is a set of behaviors
Behavior for humans and other animals requires a brain and body (almost always)
The organisation, growth, and function of the brain and body are influenced by genetics.

So we can say first and formost that language is influenced by genetics. Having a tongue, vocal chords, hands, ears. These all help to acquire language.

So now the question is to what degree does genetics influence language and language acquisition?

Is it fully governed by genetics? We know that removing a child from the company of others during development eliminates complex language and severely stunts their ability to acquire language. So, in a single individual, language has never been observed to arise spontaneously and the facility to acquire language is something you can lose.

If you damage certain portions of the brain aspects of language can be removed. See Fluent Aphasia for a particularly odd example. However, these aphasias are known to remit and studies show that other portions of the brain have taken over from the damaged portion. So we know that the capacity for language is not entirely localized to a genetically determined location.

We also know there was a time when there wasn't language and now there is, so at least once in human history language did arise spontaneously. The article you mention is evidence that language can evolve spontaneously in groups of humans. In fact there is evidence that the rudiments of language arise in groups of many animal species including apes, whales, and dolphins. Many animals communicate, but with insufficient sophistication as to be described as a language.

So it is safe to say that there are genetic factors in producing communicative behavior. Sounds, postures, marking etc. I feel it is also safe to say that there are genetic factors that predispose groups of some species to develop more complex systems of communication (but these are not limited to humans) and that groups of humans are particularly good at complex communication.

Unfortunately for Chomsky there is little to no evidence that any one type of language is more likely than another. Grammars, phonemes, words, abstract concepts ... all of these have huge between language variation. The similarities between languages are well explained by either physical characteristics of speech production or regularities in the environment of the languages origin.

So yes, language is both learned, and cultural, even if it isn't purely so.
Reminds me Einstein arguing God doesn't play dice.

(Not claiming Chomsky is wrong,just a similar figure making a similar claim.)
In case you're interested in the another climber's answers:

1. Yes. Bouldering is one type of rock climbing.

2. Very occasionally. It does limit flexibility somewhat, but I wouldn't skip climbing because I forgot my shorts.

3. Both.

4. They're great. Just make sure to get outside eventually!

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Love this, sorry about the hate brigade from HN. Anecdotally, it seems to be getting worse lately...

To start, at Zapier, we and our customers have a huge need for something like this for any install of open source software with no API or crazy REST APIs. You should get in contact with us. Being the REST API for standard OS packages is something you should do yesterday. :-)

The credential thing is something we fight as well, but people in pain of a solution won't freak out too much, especially since they can just modify the access control to only expose the critical bits.

All-in-all, big fan. I like it.
Agreed. I say "gas money" above so people envision the poor being able to pay for the gas at high prices, but the whole point of keeping it based on taxes and currency is so that the market can balance between alternatives besides buying gas as well.
Find your closest climbing gym and show up. I have very limited climbing experience, and only in gyms, but it's one of those things that it's just easier to show up.
It depends on what I am working on. If I am writing some stupid GUI in VB, or something in matlab, etc. - well yeah, may as well use the IDE.
For my projects at home (and when I was in school) I tend to use gedit with a couple of plugins (nothing lang. specific though) - typically working in c, c++, python, bash. Sometimes I use vim and for a while I was using emacs for the gdb integration. I think if I did more remote work I would probably just live in vim.
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Agreed, though 802.15.4 (mesh) would probably be even better for an "army" of nanobots.
Vidyard (YC S11) serves 1 million videos/day
I've seen Austin, TX companies offer between 19 and 23 depending on your academic standing.

I've also seen 22 in Cambridge.
When you write "yet there it sits in exactly the space of glibness approaching charlatanry that (a lot of people argue) he inhabits", my inner Wikipedian says "WP:WEASEL". I get the sense that you think he occupies that space, too, and it'd be interesting to know why.

I don't intend to win a debate here. :)
Fortunately for men, there is no age limit

Maybe. Some newer evidence shows older fathers are more likely to pass on genetic mutations.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044481270457760...
fixed. thanks! sorry about that.
It's the combination of the three factors causing the issue.
No, Gasoline is highly refined compared to oil. Diesel isn't as much. So "Turning fuel into energy" is really "Turning Oil into Fuel using chemicals and energy which in turn can be turned into energy" You still need a refinery and a very large distribution network consisting or trains, trucks, and pipelines. Your assumption of transmission energy loss is silly when you compare the required energy of transporting things like oil and water around.
You have literally no idea what you are talking about but that's OK because technology doesn't care about what you think - it just happens (cf. computer adoption, robotic automation, AI automation, cars, trains, trucks, looms, engines, planes, ships).

ICE vehicles are relatively complex and not actually cheap going forwards. We're past peak oil and emissions are now being priced (CO2 pollution is no longer free). That means the only way prices are going for ICE vehicles is up.

Electric cars on the other hand don't care what fuel source powers them, are riding the battery-cost curve down, are highly efficient, are relatively simple in operation/maintenance, cheap to run and have no emissions that need to be priced.

Hydrogen vehicles are just plain stupid from an efficiency stand point - where are you going to get the hydrogen exactly? Purifying it is too expensive - and since it's lighter than air - there is no economical source of hydrogen on earth. It'd be cheaper to fuel your car with coal.

Warren Buffett has a famous saying: Don't make statements outside your field of competence - lest you look accidentally foolish.
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