skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In order to make something people want, being brilliant and determined is not enough. You have to be able to talk to your users and adjust your idea accordingly. Ordinarily you have to change your idea quite a lot even if you start out with a reasonably good one.

-- This is a great point. Even outside of startups.
Yeah, the Cor looks more like German Oboe.
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re: 1. I work at Public Knowledge, the group that requested the general DVD ripping exception. We did organize a campaign around our exemption request and included the response in our reply comments. Going forward, our plan is to push Congress to pass laws that make it explicitly clear that "space shifting" is fair use. Of course, for that we will need the help of a broad coalition of people, including here at HN.
Diversification does reduce the risk of losing it all, as it changes the probability distribution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_distribution). It also reduces the probability of winning a lot, but people like stability.
It's powered by 4x AA batteries, claimed to be good for a year. If that's true it's unbelievably efficient considering the hardware store models also run on 4x AA batteries but don't have a Wi-Fi + Bluetooth radio running all the time.

https://lockitron.com/pdf/lockitron_manual_knob.pdf page 5
Lanyrd should do it.
I also have never used any social services such as Facebook/Google+/Twitter because I consider my privacy important and it's tempting to just sit back and say "I told you so" smugly. That isn't really going to accomplish much though. People really should be pushing for stronger privacy laws and companies that choose to base their business around collecting personal data should be held responsible for protecting it.
Thanks, I just picked up a copy.
How the device fits over the lock handle reminds me of another device I made to unlock a door. I had to get into a room to reset a router, however the lock was a deadbolt, and I didn't know how to pick it. Using a (heavily bent) coat hanger, I squeezed it through a crack in the top of the door, lowered it with twine until it grasped the lock handle, and then turned the device with some more twine (from under the door) and I was in.

Locks that open when the door handle (not a knob) is turned can also be opened relatively easily with coathangers from under the door. Make sure to consider all aspects when making secure systems!
Not all of my friends are terrible, though - so I'm somewhat conflicted.
Get over yourself. The guy wrote something that suited his own needs and released it so that others could use it too if they wanted. Programmers ported it to other languages because they liked the idea and wanted to see it thrive -- I've used the PHP port in many homespun web apps over the years. Is it perfect? No, and no software is. But when I've needed a script that easily converts line breaks and hyphens into paragraphs and unordered lists (the normal use case I've taken advantage of), it's done the job every time.
Apple is hardly the norm
I certainly don't; I haven't given them anything. Google on the other hand...
Well considering they're doing that verification via image/document files, why not allow applicants to also submit tax returns? Seems like that would quickly show whether or not a business has been active.
I guess there is a distinction between

* people typing markdown in text files, where you want to split paragraphs into word-wrapped lines of a sensible length, and consecutive non-blank lines form paragraphs just as they always have in text files;

* and people typing markdown into text entry boxes on web pages, where you would like pressing the <enter> key to actually mean something.

These two situations probably prefer a different default.
What non-open source ones do you like, then?
I love this! It's one of the best pieces of startup advice I've read in a long while; I've sent it to my startup friends. New fave quote: "Determination is really two separate things: resilience and drive. Resilience keeps you from being pushed backwards. Drive moves you forwards".
I cannot second this enough. Pandoc Markdown has some nice little tidbits, oddly contrasting to the above, the table syntaxes(yes there are more than one) are pretty darn useful.
I have not ordered one, but here is how I see it:

It is a step towards what the world will be like at some future point, when everything about your home (and life) is managed from your phone (or some kind of device).

I'm not trying to sound futuristic and sci-fi, but I'm sure we will reach a point where there are no keys, just doors that unlock automatically and open for you based on proximity and identity verification.

Does a Lockitron make total sense for everyone to buy today? Probably not. There are obviously some use cases that do justify the expense, however, I see it as an intermediary step on the path to totally rethinking doors and physical access in general. And if you can afford it, and think it is neat and at least somewhat useful, then why not?
You're comparing Apples and Amazons here. The two things have similarities but are not alike.
Christ, maybe I should pull all my open source projects that I no longer work on down from github for fear of people actually using it and then complaining when I don't maintain it indefinitely.

The dude released a script to the public under a free software license and people used it. If you think it's bad, fork it and fix it, otherwise don't use it, that's how the open source ecosystem works.
This is an interesting point, at least the initial first premise. The conclusion seems off though. In order to leverage your own assets, you need to be able to size up not only your own strengths and weakenesses, but also those of others. PA, like social status, and others of the same ilk is a real (if not always 'earned' asset). As such, you should never ignore it or be oblivious too it. It falls in a spectrum of intermediary assets -- like connections -- that you just cannot be aloof to. Understanding the odds matters -- This is just "Luck" considered as an proxy for stochastic variation. Understanding the odds is critical to strategy/rational decisionmaking under uncertainty (such as making an NPV>0 wager). There are few examples where the ability to make rational decisions under pervasive uncertainty is more important than in a startup. This (just throwing it out there) might be one reason startups fail. Or it might be one reason that contrubutes to something that was in fact mentioned (founder breakups, having a deal blow up, etc).
This is really popular in China ;-)
I think they're doing the right thing. The OEMs are too lazy and slow, VARs are becoming less and less important. Intel for instance had to shove the Ultrabook down the OEMs throats, basically paying them to do it, and still only Lenovo has done a decent job so far. Intel had Ultrabook prototypes ready before the Macbook Air was conceived.

With a competitor like Apple, there's no way you can win this game without the vertical integration advantage they have.
What is the canonical implementation of markdown?

> The problem with writing my own Markdown parser in Clojure is that Markdown is not a well-specified language. There is no "official" grammar, just an informal "Here's how it works" description and a really ugly reference implementation in Perl. http://briancarper.net/blog/415/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7307480/what-is-the-canon...
I practice (though uncomfortably) I am able to extend at least two fingers, enough to enter a 4 digit code and turn the knob. Unlocking vie the phone with two grocery bags is not so easy.
The punchlines were this:

unfortunately many of the other implementations out there are direct transliterations that replicate all of its absurd errors

he outright refuses to either disclaim or fix his implementation

This is important to know if you are interested in Markdown.

Personally, I encountered edge cases almost as soon as I started using it.
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Hidden Fortunes of Chinese Leaders
Anyone have the terms of the deal?
I'm sorry but that really comes off as racist. You saying I can't trust Russian or Chinese VPS providers because "they don't follow US laws".

For the record I don't live in the US, does that make my business untrustworthy too??
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4695275

but let's see - maybe this time people will be interested :)

I think it's very interesting, since it's not only theoretical, it already works.

This could be one of the key technologies used by the US military in the next war they'll fight in.
My experiences with online reviews have been great, especially compared to anything a big box store can offer. With the help of websites explaining the technical details, forums discussing the product, and reviews at places like Newegg and Amazon, I am armed with much better information that I would have been had I gone to Best Buy to look at something and asked an employee there.

I can even look at manufacturer responses to reviews on Newegg, and ask other customers about specific issues I might have with a product. Of course, there is a possibility of the system being gamed, but I've had nothing but great experiences, although I am still vigilant for manipulated reviews.

Edit: I also don't have to choose from substandard consumer products sold at most stores, with high markups on trivial things like wires. With monoprice, Amazon, newegg, and others I can get reliable, quality products for what they're actually worth.
If Github is willing to give away hardware or Apple Store cash, then I would hope they can be flexible with another form of payment. They're only dealing with five winners, after all.
I wasn't sure if it can be configured to prohibit key access. How strong is it? If it can, it's unauthorized. If it can't, it's not keeping your landlord out.
because there are motives & affliations: "Stripe's investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk"

i'd rather have honesty and not ignorance

*source: https://stripe.com/jobs
It is far easier to destroy than create. Or to put it in the vernacular of the times: haters gonna hate.
Show HN: Martin Luther King Jr. quote search engine
It just so happens that we had a Martin Luther King Jr. project at my high school. The options were an essay, poem, multimedia, or web project. Me being a person who hates writing, decided to do something more web based.

Check it out and give me feedback. It's due tomorrow LOL.

(It's supposed to be a search engine that indexes most if not all of Martin Luther King Jr's famous quotes from all around the internet. It works. Sorta. Best part is that the entire search engine's data is local, and all the indexing is done by my server. Does not use google and is not affiliated in any way, shape or form. :D)

here's the site!
http://freedom.ashbhat.com/
Your Mom should listen to the right Nobel Prizes (Hayek) and not the phony ones like Krugman (in the same league as Stiglitz).

Krugman said after the Internet Crash of 2000s: "To fight this recession the Fed needs . . . soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment . . . Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble."

Creating a new housing bubble was certainly GENIUS, and he got a Nobel prize in Economy in 2008 following what happened, while he was at the root of this model of thinking. Nobel Prize in Economy means nothing nowadays. My dog knows more than Krugman.
No, this is not what I meant. I pointed out that even if you are a security expect, technology stacks (HTML/HTTP in this case) are not designed well enough to make security easy. IOW my anecdote confirms the paper's conclusion.
Actually, it's the basis of every just legal system in the world. You don't try a man on his past convictions, you try him on the evidence.
He said he wanted to know when the landlord came, not keep him out. As far as I know, it won't even attempt to stop the key from opening the lock, but it will detect it.
>I'm not buying the "we'll grow really fast and then profit later" - didn't we learn about how that worked out already with the dotbomb?

Actually, Amazon did spectacularly well during the internet bubble with just that strategy. This is a return to the company's roots, in a way.
Yes, but it doesnt go anywhere except a blank page with my name on it.
Wow, I wasn't expecting my email to Jeff to end up as a front-page blog post!

The point here is that Markdown doesn't have a spec, nor do any of its variants to my knowledge, so I was proposing to come up with some Markdown-like language that does have a spec. Under discussion here is the more ambitious (but also appealing) plan of writing an official spec for Markdown, the same way JavaScript got a spec in the form of ECMAScript that we now identify with JavaScript itself.

A spec is a long, tedious, human-readable document that explains the behavior of a system in unambiguous terms. Specs are important because they allow us to reason about a language like Markdown without reference to any particular implementation, and they allow people to write implementations (Markdown processors) independently that behave identically. The Markdown Syntax Documentation is not a spec (it's highly ambiguous), nor is any implementation (not human-readable; some behaviors are probably accidental or incidental and difficult to port perfectly). The hard part of writing a spec is codifying the details in English, and secondarily making decisions about what should happen in otherwise ambiguous or undefined cases.

My motivation for working on a Markdown spec is first and foremost avoiding "bit rot" of content, which happens when we write content against one Markdown implementation and then later process it with another. We don't have this concern with HTML, JSON, or JavaScript, or at least we know what bounds to stay within to write code that will work on any implementation. This is achieved through specs, even if only implementers ever read them.

I would love pointers to Markdown processors that are implemented in a more principled way than the original code, for example using standard-looking lexing and parsing passes, but that still handle nested blockquotes and bullet lists together with hard-wrapped paragraphs.
His quine relay is impressive:

http://asiajin.com/blog/2009/09/22/uroboros-programming-with...
When I was typing out 1. I was thinking of the response that SOPA got. It seemed like it mobilised people to make phone calls and send emails. I think that had an impact. I'm just guessing here. In any case, it would be very interesting to see how LOC would respond to a surge in constituent participation in the DMCA exception process.
My reading is that Isaacson cared more about Steve Jobs as a human being than as a living case study for entrepreneurs and wantrepreneurs. Steve Jobs commissioned the biography so his kids would have a better idea of who he was as a human being, not so you and I could learn his secrets for building a startup and being a CEO. (That project was internal to Apple: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/06/business/la-fi-apple...)
Because I don't enjoy looking upon the love of my life while disgorging some fiery, hot aftermath from last night's thai takeout?
> He's entitled to his opinion and has the right to criticize whatever he wants, however he wants. If you don't like it, why not just move on.

Why does that attitude not equally apply to critiques of this guy's comment? Why don't you just move on?
Gruber's Law: the highest upvoted comment for any Daring Fireball link or Markdown discussion on HN will tend to be a repulsive ad hominem whinge.
Never use the company's name in your naming convention
>I think Amazon's profit per employee is around $6K. Compare to Apple at $600K.

Amazon lost money, so what does it mean to say its profit per employee is $6k?

Anyway, a company that plows all its extra cash into growth doesn't make any profit in the short term, but if they're doing it right they'll make more money in the end. They went for a lot of years without making anything - now they're in a growth phase again.
Ars Technica’s five-page review of Windows 8: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/window...
Wait, so you want to block the response until a cross database RPC completes? That sounds like it would not be very performant and possibly introduce some other problems. I'm guessing this is best used sparingly with specific transactional queries.
SDSS raw data is available online: http://www.sdss.org/dr7/algorithms/dataProcessing.html
Founder-types don't tend to be 'good' employees at established companies. I think it's unlikely HR did anything wrong in the Lotus example.
Apple Forecasts Profit Shy of Estimates as Costs Rise
This is what I've been saying lately. I wouldn't mind Romney himself: I think he'd be a mediocre President, but Obama hasn't blown me away either and probably wouldn't dazzle much as second terms aren't great usually. The problem is handing over the entire Executive branch over to the GOP, whom I despise. Romney is a delegator first and foremost - he will delegate away most of his responsibilities to people who simply can't be trusted.
Might be nice if there were some shapes available either on the menu or on the tool bar to the left. Arc, circle, box, rectangle, all come to mind. Then the ability to scale and instance of same would be quite handy. First thoughts...
Thanks for the link to Calagator. I have been looking for any sort of open source alternative to meetup and had not found anything. I really don't understand why there isn't anything comparable that is open source already. I've seen a few other software as a service companies that basically just mimic meetup's business model, but I am especially interested in seeing an open source alternative to meetup.

Installing software on a VPS is close enough to "putting a little skin in the game" and having any sort of social marketing strategy of your own takes real effort even if someone is not getting paid for doing it. The only compelling reasons for using meetup seem to be the marketing association to the meetup name and that there isn't any other comparable software that is primarily focused on face to face meetings.

It seems to me like meetup has its hands full with the magnitude of hosting so many organizations and having a smaller install base from an open source project would eliminate the scaling complexity and allow an open source project to not only compete as a cheaper alternative, but also innovate in ways meetup can't. There are so many features that I don't understand why meetup hasn't built into their site, especially since they are making money from every organization that is hosted on their site.

There are so many other methods of advertizing outside of Meetup that I don't think that using Meetup is the greatest marketing tool ever. If I were trying to organize a group of people, I don't know that I would especially want to target other people who already use meetup for other meetings. I would rather recruit on the basis of whatever the focus of the organization is. There is a lot of scarcity of meetups outside of major cities too. It is sort of like Craigslist in that regard. I think it would be especially compelling to launch a site around a given community and use that brand to promote meetings, sort of like how people use ravelry to communicate with fellow knitters.
Diversification reduces risk, it does not eliminate it.

Concentrating wealth in stock is a particularly dumb idea, because even public companies are relatively opaque. Enron looked like a pretty good deal to an outsider, right?

Using things like citizenship, cars, households and families is a straw man and not related to financial investment at all.
I really like the Mou text editor for Markdown: http://mouapp.com/

Mou + the (built in) Github theme = best Markdown editing experience.
A little tiny camera on the inside that can take still pictures would be a dandy v2 feature.
Amazon does not breakout revenue for AWS -- it's grouped into the "Other" category. Analysts estimate it could be nearing a $1B business, but Amazon has a yearly revenue exceeding $48B. I don't think the stock market places much value on AWS today, so a slowdown should not greatly impact the stock (if the market did, we would have seen the stock decline during AWS outages).
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Sharing is Caring (About Yourself)
https://github.com/jgm/peg-markdown and https://github.com/fletcher/peg-multimarkdown

I haven't looked at the implementations of these, but they are most certainly grammar-based, not regex-based.
It is frustrating and at the same time one of the reasons why the traditional PC as we know it has a special position.

If you think about it, the traditional PC is one of the - and it's sad to say so - few devices where the hardware really is yours (one could argue that firmware is locked down etc, but i guess everybody knows what i mean).

There are not so many devices left that you can:

-) install custom software on

-) root without great efforts

Game consoles, Tablets, ebook Readers, and Smartphones (no matter if it's legal - still great effort to jailbreak it) - you are locked in everywhere...

Sad future ahead
I find it interesting from a UK perspective as over the last say 20 years the lines that divide a parties policeys have blured. We have 3 main parties labour, liberal and concervatives. Over the last 50 years or so the lines have started to become less clear and over the last 20 those lines have blured to the stage that it is not as easy to identify a policey to a party as it was in years gone by.

This seems to be a factor in USA parties and whilst I feel those lines are not as blured as they are in the UK, they are certainly not as clear cut as they were in years past.

Common sence prevails in many forms, nobody is ever going to argue against that.

It's far from perfect but it slowly and at times painfuly goes in the right directions.

Nomatter who you cide with the most important thing in any election is to excercise your rights too vote. It is when you get your say, albiet small in the future that effects you, so vote for who will serve you best as others have the right to think for themselves and show there feelings in there vote. Be selfish, but do vote.
I use Ubuntu on all my machines and use the standard kernel that comes with it. For a brief while I used kernel 3.4 on my laptop due to Ivy Bridge issues but could also boot into the Ubuntu 3.2 kernel just fine. (And on the laptop I'm also using encryption.)

Note that the kernel has updates of the code, not updates of the filesystem format. Supposedly the last filesystem format change was in 2.6.31 (from 2009).

Compression is a format "difference". For example lzo was added about 18 months ago, so in theory an older kernel won't understand your filesystem that is using it. There was some talk about snappy being added earlier this year, but I don't know if it ever was.

I haven't encountered any compatibility issues at all with btrfs. In various places I am using compression, RAID 0, RAID 1, ext4 to btrfs conversion, encryption (dmcrypt/LUKS), SATA, USB and who knows what I have forgotten. Except for one system all are on UPS and in general do not experience unclean shutdowns or similar adversity.

The only trouble I have ever had is when a filesystem filled up. It gets quite challenging freeing up disk space because deleting a file requires an append to the btree which needs space.

btrfs has been an absolute joy for me. I can just throw devices at it. I can do scrubbing without taking systems offline. I could convert existing filesystems. I don't have to perform system administration with it. And I know it will tell me about bitrot. And worst case I have backups, and backups of backups, on and offsite.