skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Samsung wants their Billion Dollars Back (ROFL)

This reminds me off the time when IBM got all the money they lost in a case against their union, by reducing the salary of all the employees involved in the case.

Well played samsung
No need to conflate spending with savings/investment. Just keep some USD in an exchange and convert it to spend it.
Yes. We're veterans of previous video startups. This is video meeting done right. It's not a big part of the product but it is important coz it means you don't need skype or hangout or whatever in addition to this.
Yes, I would be happy with the traffic from SO though the SEO benefit from a "follow" link may not hurt. I have seen the tricks that spammers do to get follow links and am sure SO will be spammed crazy if it allowed them.
Free ride: students crack ticket algorithm
just go here: https://skydrive.live.com/ and login. it's the first page after you login.
Not buying/installing shitty apps by low rent developers or companys that have poor reputations?
I used to text and drive all the time, and scorned the laws that said I mustn't. I've never caused an accident, never strayed out of my lane, or even close to the edge, never slowed way down, never changed lanes nor turned without appropriate safety precautions first... but I've stopped. Not because of the law, or my wife's pleading, not even because I want to set a good example to my kids. But because a) I realized I was, in fact, subdividing my attention and giving too little to the more complex activity, b) I'm not nearly important enough that anyone needs an instant response to a text to me, and c) it gives me a built-in excuse to enjoy alone-time while I'm driving.

Now I do occasionally sneak a look at my incoming texts or emails when I'm waiting at a red light. That's illegal too, and I don't really understand why. Maybe because it's too tempting to continue the activity after the light turns green.

What really chaps my hide though, are the cops who will write you a ticket for sneaking a glance at your phone, while they have a freakin' laptop on a shelf right there in the front seat, for looking up hot women's license plates while they're tailing them.
This topic is discussed quite frequently in the meta pages on StackOverflow. For example, http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/111279/remove-nofoll... covers exactly this subject.

SO gets lots of googlejuice, and because it's gameable, they appear to want to give some of that googlejuice only to "reputable" links (which they do for links in high-rep users' profiles). That's a really hard thing to judge, but the fact that they're thinking about it, talking about it, and soliciting feedback on it means that they're trying to do the right thing, even if the article's author doesn't think their "right thing" is good enough for him.
You need a good amount of karma to edit someone else's posts, so that's a non-issue. If it was an issue, the rel=nofollow should be based on the rep of the user creating the link, whether that was the poster or the editor.
I believe you are mistaken. The LEP and the SSC started early construction at about the same time, and the SSC was cancelled in the early 90s while the LEP started operations in '89. Construction of the LHC did not begin until the late 90s, well after the SSC had been cancelled and operations began about a decade after construction started. Even taking into account thee advantage the LHC had in being able to reuse the LEP tunnels and some of the existing infrastructure the likelihood of the SSC being able to become operational in the early 2000s is fairly high.
Or,rather...

"History of the World According to Western Civilization-centric Source Documentation."

Still, pretty cool.
Number Board Puzzle: Sum of Colours
For file names, URLs, domain names, etc. it's usually the safe thing to do.
> Cool idea. However, after reading the website, I realized I don't get why this is limited to wallets. Think about other things people lose on a regular basis. For example, why not make this thing key-chain friendly? Should be pretty easy to do by adding a hole on the device.

I think this is more of a branding/marketing issue. In the video they make note that you could use it for more than just wallets. And there's a hole on there for keys...
How Vidyard (YC S11) grew from 4K to 1M views a day and achieved negative churn
I hate all notifications except my morning alarm clock. I don't want to be interrupted.
Yes, I agree. StackOverflow is harming the quality of results in Google because they want people to filter through them for the information. Anyone that's used SO knows that answers can be misleading, incomplete or straight up misinformed. At the very least they're generally less comprehensive and less keyword-full than source material that would appear as links.

I suppose it's selfish of me to want SO to share them and selfish of SO to mark them as nofollow and not allow the source articles to rise in ranking.
Did ducttape stop being sticky?
Why use Market Cap, which is affected by arbitrary earning multiples that are swayed by forces outside of the company's control? An analysis based on revenue or profits seems much more reliable.
Math Puzzle: Derangement - Complete Fail
In all honesty, I get just as many push notification spam message on my android phone. It's an instant uninstall trigger for me. I see it more of a push notification problem rather than an apple/ios problem. It reminds me of how popups were really useful when they first came out, until they started being used as a marketing tool.
I wonder how much it costed for the developers to make this video? It's pretty well done. Looks more like a startup marketing video rather than a Kickstarter project.
I rarely allow apps to send me push notifications. Only very selectively do I allow it and even then my patience is short. For the average user this may be an issue but I've found my approach handles the situation very nicely.
While maybe more expensive then US locations, it is still very competitive compared to other (few) Australian options - http://www.cloudorado.com/#;(r:(r:5)))
Sometimes the law covers something, but only thinly. The law in most states in the USA(1) surely states that any damage you cause should be paid in recompense. So technically "distracted driving" is "covered by existing law". In practice this does not work out. Its easy to be in an accident that causes more damage than an individual's net worth and insurance coverage combined. If the only people allowed to drive cars were the ones able to afford enough insurance to guarantee recompense(2) in any situation, there would be very few cars on the road indeed. So sometimes existing laws need "helping", as imperfect as that may be. Society subsidizes the risk in exchange for a little cooperation to reduce that risk.

(1) Excepting all of that "no fault" nonsense that a few try to monkey-patch into working.

(2) It gets even more complicated when people die.
Since you can check what user added what link (using diff), you can still use the reputation threshold. If that does not scale, just use the minimum reputation of the editors' reputations.
If that were the case you'd accept $10 million. The thing is you don't need it, but your VCs do. And if your startup is worth $6 billion, you've probably taken enough off the table that you don't even need that. So at that point why not just maximize?
I hadn't bothered watching the video until I read these comments. I only made it 2 minutes in and thought it was pretty hilarious, but my attention span didn't hold any longer .
Preparing a winning CV for any IT position (book excerpt)
BRB... Waiting for an African Hackathon where I can get an elephant or zebra.
"A history of the half of the world with recorded events in 100 seconds."
The author doesn't address this response by Jeff Atwood:

URGENT UPDATE
We were seeing a significant drop in Google (organic) traffic for Server Fault after instituting this "follow links if enough upvotes post-edit or post-create" policy.

We traced it back to what we currently think are a string of posts on Server Fault that got nofollow removed through "trust", but were being interpreted by Google as link farms or spammy pages.

[....]

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/51156
> "Also the notion of a country being energy independent when relying upon oil is a silly one."

Sure. But there's no path to energy independence that doesn't include either: A.) huge economic shocks or B.) extending use of fossil fuels during the transition.
ok, thanks. so i had tried that. at least on chrome/linux, for me, it's not showing the nulls. at least, i can't see them in view source and saving to a file gives:

> wc /tmp/skydrive.html
310 4068 128404 /tmp/skydrive.html

similarly with firefox.
>It doesn't strike me as a very difficult task to create a few thousand profiles and have them vote for each other (and also give you a ton of votes to random people to hide better), and then use the collected power for SEO spam.

I have to disagree. I bet this kind of abuse is well studied by any major site relying on a reputation system/user content. I can't point to anything specific, but off the top of my head discovering that kind of abuse seems exactly like finding strongly connected components: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongly_connected_component

So you could probably prevent this algorithmically, but even if you couldn't... the site is heavily moderated. Bad questions and answers are down voted or closed. In my experience, getting lots of reputation on SO actually requires a lot of persistent effort. I have just over 1000 rep myself and it felt like it took forever to get there. Even if you could get lots of upvotes, you'd still be looking at daily reputation limits. And finally, you'd waste all that on one or two spam links only to get perma-banned and have all your links deleted?

A combination of high reputation + an initial nofollow time period (to allow spam links to be discovered) seems like it would be pretty effective.

There's really only one route to taking advantage of the google juice: http://xkcd.com/810/
Had the same thought. It's an annoying additional piece of information on each notification, but considerably less annoying than them being abused.

Also the risk of false positives. It'd be possible for an app to have a high rate of disabling push notifications, but not be genuinely spammy.

Edit:
not be genuinely spammy
Interestingly they already remove nofollow from links in your profile after you reach a certain karma threshold
Good, they fixed it then.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/1690...
Congrats to Jameson & team!
It most certainly isn't treated like an object, but as an animal. Probably better than most animals.
Even more so, over the years I've seen in the wild and had cause to roll similar multiple entry points to functions, so standard practice predates both those dates by a decade or two. It is always good to see it written down to share the idea to the next generation.

CPC is something I've longed for in the past. I've always thought C could do with just a couple more features related to function call and frame management to make it the ideal portable low level language.
Actually gmail was competing with HotMail/AOLMail and the biggest single thing that would get people to switch was 'better spam control.'

All you need to do is to tell a bunch of really smart engineers, "Here is this hugely important problem to solve, you probably aren't smart enough to solve it but we'll listen to what you have to say." And you get every engineer spending their 20% time burning first through the 'easy' fixes which don't actually work and then on to more 'interesting' fixes that kinda do, and finally some real puzzle masters doing things you would not expect but actually nail a lot of spam. And after you've done that then you have a number of people who really get a kick out of this sort of intellectual battle of wits, and you pull them together and make them the 'spam team'. Voila' achievement unlocked.
Wallets definitely will exist for awhile, unfortunately, because businesses are slow to adopt new terminals that use NFC or the like. I think their collapse will come very quickly though. You'll go from not needing your wallet half the time to not needing it ever in under a year. I'm not sure when that will happen, but I'd take the under on 10 years.

Once I can pay for things with my phone at most places, I'll simply not go anywhere where I can't, or if I do, I'll plan in advance and toss some coinage in my pocket.
Doesn't this absolutely freak out X11?
So sometimes existing laws need "helping", as imperfect as that may be.

Sounds like you've been indoctrinated good and proper. I'll write this one off as job creation.

If the only people who were allowed to drive cars were the ones able to afford enough insurance to guarantee recompense(2) in any situation, there would be very few cars on the road indeed.

I fear you've severely underestimated the nanny-ness of the state I'm referring to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_insurance#Australia

Nevertheless, the "helping" you refer to isn't helping in reality. The first layer making it illegal doesn't work. Neither do the others layered over that.
Search "[ -~]" (with or without quotes) to see how good Google's comment is.
Are you saying people should google regular expressions? in my experience (correct me if I'm wrong) that doesn't work, I've never been able to get google to return relevant results even with quotation marks.
The Instacart notifications are just insane. I got into the early beta and never used the app a single time because of the sheer volume of annoying pushes I'd get.
Not as often as often as handling all characters.
Mistakes when Applying Computational Intelligence & ML to Stock Market Modeling
Oh, I do remember seeing that. Ahh, just fou
On not being boring: A dramatic reading of Apple’s share price
this is his may 2012 bust, it's not current in that regard. he's now wanted for murder, evidently.

worth reading:

http://gizmodo.com/5958877/secrets-schemes-and-lots-of-guns-...
I needed reminding of this, hence the tattoo I got: This Too Shall Pass.
Hey folks,

This is part of a series of posts we're doing on our company blog about HOW early stage startups boosted key metrics. The tech press mostly just reports that company X reached some key milestone. We thought it'd be interesting to ask some of these folks how they did it.

We posted the first one to HN a few weeks ago and got a lot of great feedback.
http://blog.perfectaudience.com/2012/11/01/manpacks-grow-cus...

The most common request was for more detail so we tried to make with the goods this time around. All feedback welcome on the piece.

And go check out Vidyard if you're doing video stuff.
I haven't followed the lawsuits at all, but thought Apple won some of them. Surely you can't win a frivolous lawsuit?
Just a brief pointer that we are heading at 8,50$ per gallon in Germany right now.
Marketing service uses facial recognition to estimate gender,age and vis. freq
Hmm, didn't even realize that was a hole. And there's a diagram that specifically points it out. facepalm
There's a follow-up to the URGENT UPDATE on SO: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/111279/remove-nofoll...

So it appears that they do remove rel=nofollow from reputable links, although their threshold for reputable appears to be very high.
WRT the thickness, I wonder how many mWh 2 button cells hold compared to these 0.5-1.2 mm lithium-polymers http://www.powerstream.com/thin-lithium-ion.htm and if the self discharge rate is low enough for year+ use
It's harder to make it look like the same content, though.

http://rachelbythebay.com/fun/hrand/
I actually mention this at the bottom of the post - i.e. "Also, MSFT is a bit ambiguous as it has both consumer and enterprise revenue."

I think in the end it makes sense to classify Microsoft as B2B as:
a. For much of its history it has been predominantly a B2B company for its products that got traction (O/S, Windows, Office are used by consumers, but the big $ customers of these products have traditionally been IT companies). With the exception of XBOX, most of its consumer products have been big money losers.

b. Even today, the majority of Microsoft profits are from enterprise or SMB sales of its O/S, Windows, and Office products. Its core consumer products (MSN etc.) are largely money losers. So if you think of MSFT as a business, it mainly makes money off of other businesses.
Every regex seems like a clever trick.
> "If you don't have an iPhone ... too bad"

Is this for real or is it a parody of the douchey vacuity iPhone apps for people with too much money?

Also, how much do you think they paid for the rights to use "Tarzan boy" by Baltimora? It was released on EMI. They're now part of Universal.
and an iPhone
The picture clearly shows a keychain hole, and one of the prominent suggested uses is for (amongst others) tracking keys.
Recent versions of Ubuntu don't have aptitude installed out of the box, not sure if 12.10 brought it back
I definitely agree that markets are in-efficient in how they price companies at a given moment. I also think it would be interesting to do the same analysis with e.g. cash flow the core metric.

However, I do think market cap is a reasonable proxy as factors like growth (which can strongly impact market cap) have interesting implications for where an entrepreneur should or should not build a business.
How is that not the expected result?

When the sites that informed various well regarded answers on the sites get their due, their search engine rank rises. With such a well ranked site now pointing towards them, they rise in the results, often higher than the SO answer referencing it.

As a secondary issue, there's a relatively common black-hat-seo practice of buying a well regarded domain, and soaking that links for all they're worth to promote something. Their switch-flipping may have run afoul of systems designed to mitigate that.
Right there with you, I think about this everyday I drive to and from work. It is absolutely insane to have millions of people "in control" of their cars. Where do I sign up?
Yes, but they've been saying 'soon' for most of this year. I've asked them directly and they have absolutely no idea when they will launch
It sounds like Randall got bitten by some variant of Poe's law.
Concur forms $150 million fund to bankroll travel-oriented startups
When will Android get a working Bluetooth 4.0 stack? It is a shame they don't even mention Android
Note that this was a legal decision made in the UK. Your local laws may vary.
I agree with this argument. Yea, pulling oil out of sand is not as easy and needs the financials for R&D.
Aptitude is no longer pre-installed in current versions of Ubuntu (and Debian). Also, aptitude used to be recommended over apt-get because its handling of dependencies was superior and because it made it easier to find "orphan" packages. As I understand it, apt-get has since caught up with aptitude and is nowadays the preferred command-line tool.
I'm curious how karma on SO is valuable. Not in the "you seem smart i'll give you a job" sense of value, but in the actual converted into dollars value that spammers go after.
Yeah I don't think the interface requires a touch screen at all, or is even beneficial for it, at least on a desktop. I spent maybe 1 or 2 seconds combined in the 'start screen' simply cause its easy to use it to launch random stuff by hitting Windows key then typing a few letters then hit enter.

It's definitely worth upgrading since task manager stuff and a lot of the file system things were dramatically improved. Quite a good experience once I learned the Windows+X key combination.
Those notifications are the "fucking horror". I uninstall any app (on Android, mind you) that does that.

heck, i even dislike the notifications when the app is on the foreground (specially the apps begging for rating on the market: when i get one, i just go put one star). but the background ones are TRUE EVIL. :P
heh. well not totally you fault. IMO, there should be a huge pic of the product closer to that (great, albeit long) video of theirs. as well, calling it "wallet tracker" pigeonholes its potential uses.
Hmm, I got one of these: http://www.loc8tor.com/ about 8 years ago? Granted it doesn't have the iPhone app but at the time I thought they had patented the 'find your stuff with RFID' concept. The 'tags' last about 4 years and then you need to replace the batteries in them.

The most useful thing was that you could go through the house and eliminate rooms where the thing you were looking for wasn't. As my kitchen is centrally located I could stand in it hold up the loc8tor unit like a tri-corder, and ascertain both which direction and which floor (we've got two) that the item is.
I sought council from a professional years ago for something I was going through. Their advice was to leave my wife and two kids. I got out of there office. Fast.

I got through that valley in my life, and I've been happily married over 12 years.

There are some people in this world you simply must avoid. There is also advice out there that's pure poison. I don't think taking marriage advice from a cynical, divorced comedian is a great idea.
I love how it lists that a lunch with pg has an estimated value of $500. I'm sure that many in our community would gladly pay 10x+ for an hour of his advice.
Spare capacity is important, but overlooked.

Opportunities come our way all the time. If you have some slack in your system, you can take advantage of them.

The mental benefits of pruning identified in this blog post are real. It's often hard to even see opportunities if things are too cluttered.
I suggest rereading the page. The app alerts you when your phone has separated from the tracking device. The device is not a GPS device. From the site's copy:

"When the Wallet TrackR gets separated from your iPhone or iPad, the Wallet TrackR app gently alerts you that you may be leaving your wallet behind.

The app also takes a GPS snapshot of where your wallet was at the moment of separation in case you didn't hear the alert."

In answer to your question about the bus, I assume the idea is that your phone will alert you before you get too far (i.e., before you leave the bus). If you managed to leave the bus without catching the alert, the app could tell you where you left the wallet, but not where it's been since then. At least you will know to contact the bus company to see if anything was turned into their lost-and-found.
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As mentioned before, Local Notifications can be equally spammy, are impossible to turn off, and are visually indistinguishable from push notifications.

The are also not subject to a strict interpretation of the app review guidelines.

The only limitation is that they need to be set ahead of time when the app is active, or triggered by one of the background modes (geofencing, significant location change, task completion, Bluetooth LE, etc.)
I'm not entirely closed to your point of view. I admit to playing a bit of devil's advocate in the above but, dude:

Sounds like you've been indoctrinated good and proper.

That kind of thing just shuts debate off cold.
I don't understand why this is "completely unreadable".

What else could this have been besides match the character range from space to tilde?
LuaJit 2.0 is out
Will High Frequency Trading be possible with Bitcoin?
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This. Another misleading "generic title" for a case that just happens to be his laptop/setup.

i've a similar experience with my ivy bridge laptop. I also check with powertop whenever something looks odd, but by default, all the things were rather fine (i run Arch)
For what it's worth, Coinbase has no reported cases of fraud. We are tracking these kinds of things here:

http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/

For example, Bitfloor (which had 250K USD stolen):
http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/bitfloor/

Verses Coinbase, which has no such history:
http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/coinbase/