skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to think about it several ways. The more profit they rake in the easier it will be to stick around. Also, the more they'll be able to spend on R&D for manned spaceflight, reusable launchers, future redesigns, Mars missions, etc. Apparently they're working on a next gen rocket engine which will probably be much larger and powered by methane and oxygen, which they might use as the basis of a super heavy lift launcher which would make manned Mars missions almost easy.
Event Manager Tutorial by JumpstartLab for those learning Ruby
I think for almost all cases, there are simpler solutions:

* Use secure cookies (set the secure bit so these cookies are only sent over HTTPS) for authenticating on your HTTPS site

* Use a separate domain for embeds ("youtube-widgets.com" instead of "youtube.com" on third-party sites)
It's much easier to win "points" and requires no serious budget and planning concerns. It certainly doesn't require any new ideas.
Or as the famous quote goes:

> I recommend to you to take care of minutes: for hours will take care of themselves. ~ Lord Chesterfield
thanks antr, we feel the traditional crowdfunding model is broken. Taking funds upfront and leaving the backers to float delays isn't the right way to engage your consumer. At Lumawake we will not be processing pre-orders until the product ships.
Email is not a solved problem? How do I use it daily without thinking about it. Solved in my mind.
Can I construct a long list such that the index is long?
Put an email in your profile, so that people can reach out to you.
Market leader would mean number of users most likely. Otherwise it's an opinion on which is a better email client and service.
Thanks, it's a good idea. I will work for this functionality.
Maybe 2600k@5GHz is practical and theoretical limit for silicon based chips. Scientists were talking about this nearly two decades.

BTW: AMD makes low-end chips, maybe it is more perspective line for future development (power efficiency). Something like that happened with Pentium4 and Pentium3 Mobile.
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Your e-mail address isn't being shared via github auth
"I think in the corporate sector, it would be very hard to dislodge Outlook, which is a shame really."

I'm not sure how hard it would be to take some Outlook Web Access share away if targeting smaller companies since the cost could be potentially lower and licensing agreements potentially much easier to understand.
"We only expect one of the two groups of information to inform the life-altering (and potentially -ending) recommendations made by trusted physicians.

If we're in agreement about a general endemic of misinformation, though, that makes more sense."

Corruption and fraud are damaging in all aspects of society. Which occupation does more "damage" to a community/society/culture as a whole? A doctor? A banker? A programmer? A military leader? It depends on the situation.
Yes. I would surely love to use this as an email client if it works well with my Google Apps account.

And I would definitely be willing to pay a nominal amount for a year long license or a lifetime license.

What I like about your app -

* UI

* Well thought-out panels

* Utilization of white space

What you can possibly work on -

This is one feature that is not there on GMail and I really really crave for it. Sometime I feel the need to create a note for myself for a specific email I have received. But I can't do that. It would be a great addition to the Mail App.
> Bayesian methods are also inconsistent wrt infinitely small changes in priors. See Wasserman's blog for more details.

That looks like it would falsify the method instantly. Or are you talking about merely small changes in priors? Anyway, I can't find the details you speak of, do you have a link?

As for the likelihood principle, my math is rusty at the moment, I'll check. I expect however that I will just accept this principle as obvious. People don't believe it? They probably had the wrong teachings, just like most religious people. I'm not sure I know on a gut level how hopelessly wrong people often are. I'm not sure I properly feel the fear that should come with the possibility that I am hopelessly wrong. But I have an idea.
Funny, I feel the opposite. My email is way too important to be left to a free service. I pay for Fastmail, and they do a great job. If I were to have a problem, they provide support.

I greatly prefer that model to letting Google mine my email. As others have said, you are not Google's customers with email, their advertisers are.
Must be amazing with google glasses.
>History: We'll be better at this. Assuming historians haven't mysteriously vanished as a profession, I think we're going to know more about history in the future, and knowing more about the present in the future. As a collective, I mean, not every individual.

Pretty much a given.

>Screwing the world up: Will happen a lot less. We gained raw power in the last 500 years, we're going to learn wisdom now. Or die. That's a possibility, its been discussed. But I'm assuming we survive.

Not entirely convinced. Keeping the world a place humans can live in, sure, but maybe people will just get more comfortable with accelerating change. My perception is it's the older generation that cares more about preserving the environment, both natural and artificial. When you can synthesize any kind of organism you like, who cares if a bunch of existing species go extinct?

>Culture: Will have finally recovered from British expansionism. There will be lots of strong local cultures again.

Unlikely in this age of instant communication. I think we might see lots of subcultures, but globally distributed, in a way that's already happening to some extent with the likes of, well, HN.
Clickable: http://i.imgur.com/UDz2y.png

Also:
Turbolinks: https://github.com/rails/turbolinks
Amazon could sell kindle in starbucks stores?
random thought at this point, but I suspect would be a successful channel strategy. any thoughts?
your arguments don't make much sense to me, and i suspect everyone would be happier if we took this to email. so feel free to contact me at andrew@acooke.org if you think there's something worth rationally discussing here - all i am getting is that you disagree with my politics and that makes you mad.

(i don't blame you for being mad - i am angry too, but from a different viewpoint, obviously.)

[edit: ok, no problem.]
Motion is not Progress
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It's interesting, given the amount of rants on "sexist language" on HN, that people here are so accepting to usage of "bitch please"/"conference ho".
"friend", "person" (of any race), "black person who I look down on", for starters. The simple fact that the word is popular all over the Rap and Hip Hop scene suggests that its racial connotation is not the only meaning for it anymore.
While that seems obviously true, it may not always be e.g. Airbus vs Boeing[0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Airbus-boeing_deliverycomp...
Looks like Pencil, only web-based and less powerful.
Show HN: Our non-sexy start-up that's growing 10% a week
How to Manage Conflict in Virtual Teams
> Why is the 1978 law wrong? Why was it created in the first place? I don't know from this article.

It's not as wrong (i'm still against it) to extend copyright for new works, but this horrible law extended copyright retroactively for previously created works. There was no compelling reason for extending old works. It breaks all measures of fairness no matter how you approach it.

It's equivalent to having the banks extend your home loan by 30 years and saying you owe additional payments. You get nothing out of it. There is no trade. You get nothing and existing copyright owners get given additional years.
I do pay $40/year for Fastmail because I like having a service I pay for that is separate from anything Google offers. I still use Gmail day to day, but the new Fastmail interface is pretty damn good.

I would definitely pay for a premium email service, but design alone wouldn't be enough for me. The key factor in my decision was trust/reliability.
Like I said, I'm pretty sure that would rule out HPMoR (Harry might not explicitly join a rationality organization, but the story exists to promote them).
Google’s Internet Service Might Actually Bring the U.S. Up to Speed
Do you have any source that spells this out?

Reading wikipedia, I get a fairly different story. I did a short search for other versions, but mostly just found inaccurate yahoo-answer type sites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson_Space_Center#...
Under "About" on the tumblr blog, it states that "Occasionally we blog and add on location photography, but most content is not our own."
I'm with you.

I have had a few questions/issues during development and the live-support was simply brilliant. Meanwhile I switched 2 of my Rails apps from Sendgrid to MailGun.
> _if they want to indulge in 'worthless debates' they should be allowed to._

Calling a debate "worthless" is not the same as disallowing such debates.

Just like one has the right to engage in debates (worthless or not), one also has the right to call out such debates when they are deemed worthless.
Andrew, I decided to delete my rant because we are not understanding each other and you dont deserve to be ripped into publicly, no matter how stressed I am. I think my comment above is enough of a response.
...and even then, it's hard to know whether the CEO exercised brilliance, luck, or a combination thereof.
Github SSL cert not trusted?
Anyone else seeing SSL cert issues with https://github.com/

github.com uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is not trusted.

(Error code: sec_error_untrusted_issuer)
Oh thank you (and all). I just went straight into the competition links, and examples like this: https://gist.github.com/2625140
Actually, C++ is bad by definition. The C++ standard has some serious deficiencies that make it harder to write reliable code (and forget maintenance). Part of the problem is that the C++ standard is written with compiler writers in mind, rather than with C++ users in mind, and so some things (like not unwinding the stack until an exception is caught, thus avoiding the double exception fault) are not done, and new problems are simply layered on (like causing the default behavior for exceptions propagating out of destructors to be program termination).

At this point, C++ should be placed in the same category as COBOL: it is a language you learn because you need to maintain some old code that nobody has time to rewrite or replace.
Sorry for the late reply - You're most welcome, my girlfriend showed me this 6 months ago and I'm a convert now, to the point where I find it difficult to concentrate without it and I have to keep my window open at night or everything just feels wrong.

I hope you enjoy it, I know I for one find it hard to focus with music in my ears, I've even tried Beethoven at one point but nothing gave me the right vibe.
Right, they're playing the game and have competetive parts. What the ARM-is-the-future people fail to recognize is that the x86 world isn't remotely dead. Relative to consumer SoCs, Intel makes shockingly high margins on its desktop and server silicon. It simply doesn't make sense for them to be making high volume embedded chips unless they have excess fab capacity (which they don't).

The Medfield chips are performance-competetive with existing parts, though they aren't stand-outs. But even if, say, they had a mythical chip that would get lets-just-say-for-argument 2x the performance of Tegra 3 or A6 at 50% of the power draw, they would still not be manufacturing it in volume, for the simple reason that Ivy Bridge cores make a whole lot more money for them than a Tegra-killer would.

So from an investor's perspective, Intel is doing exactly the right thing. Stay in the game, don't cede the market. Make sure your products are competetive, but don't walk away from easy cash either.

Long term, their success will be driven by the value of their SoC products as the desktop world dissolves. But current market penetration isn't a good indicator of what the likelihood of that value will be.
Long copyright terms is different than retroactively applying copyright terms. How does extending the copyright of works created in the 1920s encourage production of new works?
On my mac my keyboard has an eject button right next to f12(volume up). If I press that then the primary disk drive ejects its disk.

If I had two disk drives, I'm not sure which it would eject. I suspect that this is what WayneDB was referring to.
It makes sense when you're working directly on a screen. I've had the opportunity to use the Wacom Cintiq in its various models over the years (and would love to actually afford one of my own), and for graphics and photo retouching, it's the most natural way to work. It's a lot like working at a drawing board or an easel (depending on the tilt angle you use). Not so much if what you're doing is keyboard-centric, though.
This sounds an awful lot like telling your customers they're wrong. And if you find yourself doing that, it's usually because you don't understand what your customer wants.
Calling printf(…) via the LLVM C++ API
It's already answered here:

http://www.quora.com/Which-companies-have-major-investments-...

In short avoid any PC with Intel and AMD CPUs.

You need to buy a laptop with ARM CPU ...

Shit! No luck! ARM also has office in Israel:

http://www.arm.com/about/offices/kfar-saba.php
Well no one on the ARM market other then AMD has the expertise in Server CPU. Nvidia may be able to do a very High Performance ARM CPU for HPC but it is completely different matter on Server. There will also be NAS, Small Server, etc and whole not of other market where a big name ARM player could help. Although most of that wont happen till 2015. I am not sure if there is enough time for AMD.

And given the recent sales figures that 70-80% of CPU sales are coming from APU, the APU is rasiing, CPU is a shrinking business, it makes sense for AMD to consolidate and make that 80% better and slightly more profitable rather then trying to complete with an aggressive Intel.
For those not in the know, semiaccurate is not exactly reliable. They post just about any rumor, and get things wrong as much as right.

Take this with a grain of salt, and file it into the "hrm, this might happen" category.
Good pull request art
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Time to put off Monday morning a little longer...
Do they think people are going to … look down on them?

Yes that's what happens now.

Dell conference: comeidan brought on by Dell "The IT business is one of the last frontiers that manages to keep women out." http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2174903/dell-issues...

CouchDB "Perform like a porn star" http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/CouchDB_talk

Tech company organises a code jam. "Perks: Women" http://readwrite.com/2012/03/20/how-casual-sexism-put-sqoot-...

More here: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Incidents
The reaction is far more swift and severe than it is for the word "bitch", however. Unless you can show me otherwise.
Launchpad is entirely optional, i personally hardly ever use it
It's true. Just look at the state of NASA's next generation space architecture. Instead of designing an architecture based on performance and economics, they are building a large rocket that will keep employees at Kennedy Space Center and Johnson Space Center working, even though there are neither the funds or demand for such a rocket. Space Agencies are less concerned about the market than they are satisfying the policymakers that fund them.
Google Strikes Licensing Deal With European Music Publishers
Since upvote counts are no longer shown, I want to say that I agree with this post. I'd keep using GMail even just for the two-factor auth and security. The stellar spam filtering is another big plus.

Your app does look great, though.
I don't think it's true that gamers will always drive an appetite for faster chips. At some point the real choke point will the content production which in turn will be choked by how much gamers will pay per game. Sure you can get intro procedural stuff, and faster chips allow lazier implementations and higher level programs... but at some point price, power and portability do win over speed.
Mine as well. I find the present startup culture to be extremely hostile to quietness, and I'm hoping I can lead a rebellion. Are there small still small tech companies that value deep, peaceful thought?
Is this not a full copy of MLK's speech?:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/17/i-have-a-dream-spee...
Ugh, they should put that at the top of the article. Not that it's a long read but that comment invalidates the entire thing!
We didn't get into YC, so we're going to DIYC
MySpace’s pitch deck shows how it plans to be the death of Spotify and Pandora
5 risks for entrepreneurship and VC funding in Europe (VC panel debate)
http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/4085

Headius technical comments on ruby tracker are a must-read.

As my personal take, I am appalled at refinements. I think this is a bad idea solving the wrong problem.
Done. I've only been lurking & upvoting until now, so thanks for the heads up.
Everyone keeps talking about the 'white guy' as if there's only one type of person who is white and male. This ignores cultural diversity that is not related to skin colour, but place of birth and nationality, and other forms of identity.

Because I don't know the exact line up for that conference, I can make the assumption that a line up of Spanish, South African, German, Icelandic and Russian speakers - who are all white - isn't diverse.

I find it quite offensive to base arguments on the assumption that the sum of any person is nothing but their gender and the colour of their skin.
Security companies are recommending you disable Java, or just uninstall it
Thanks for all the views. As I mention in the comments in this blog entry, I've got a better version of the engine hiding at the very bottom of http://cautery.blogspot.com/2012/06/four-ways-to-construct-p...
Yup, getting started with healthcare was stressful (so we used an agent) and hiring our first employees wasn't stressful but firing them both was. So was getting our (personal) mortgage — that tied my guts in knots for weeks.

But then, like the mortgage, the healthcare and hiring/firing was over and life went back to normal. We didn't have to keep up "a good front" so people wouldn't jump ship, or worry about whether we could make salary, or any of those things. Nobody was breathing down our neck to do any of this, either -- we did them because we chose to. And we were able to make decisions on our own, without having to consult or sell anybody, to change the way we did these things so it wouldn't be stressful next time. For example, shutting down a product which would require us to hire too many people to run effectively, rather than take that on.

That's the power of ownership -- the bad shit passes, and you have the power to avoid it altogether in the future.

Now if you're not making any money, that is another kind of stress, but because we served a hungry market with a product that delivers value (and did a good job of marketing it), we didn't have that problem.
I disagree. One of the most popular uses of any kind of artistic work, especially with widespread use of the Internet, is remixes. What you propose does not solve the absurd situation of The Beatles' works being older than the majority of people alive today[1], yet still (legally) unusable in remixes/mash ups/etc without permission.

[1] Assuming most people are < 40 years old, without anything to back me up.
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Hi, I am from another country. When you say that the average developer salaray is $92000 does that include all costs associated with that employment? Including insurance and possible taxes?
I am just trying to compare.
EDIT: I don't mean _all_ costs (not like desk and computer) but salary + benefits + insurance + pension + taxes.
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While he is probably not doing it for the money, he has to answer to investors and they are definitely in it to make a profit. Also he has repeatedly said (lacking source, can't remember) that SpaceX has to be, first and foremost, a profitable company focused on developing their business. If SpaceX is not around for the long haul, how is he going to execute all of his ideas?
Interesting take on it. One of the setups I use has a Mimo touch monitor [1] which is attached via USB. Putting the tool bar for my CAD program on that monitor sized up, gives me a screen with all of the tools available, and I can use the entire space on my 'main' screen for drawing. My version isn't multi-touch which would be useful for doing view projections.

I realized that sort of the 'ideal' setup here is a keyboard, and then behind the keyboard a really wide and not too tall multi-touch display, and then vertically in front of me 1, 2, or 3 IPS high density displays. That would move the richer expression of touch gestures to a place that was halfway between my keyboard and my screens.

Like Jeff that opened me up to the notion of a 'hybrid' interaction model. Prior to that experience with the 'all-in-one' style machines was just frustrating. The conflict between wanting the large monitor set back, and then having to reach out and touch it was a challenge.

Amazingly far from 25 x 80 characters on a green (or amber) screen :-)

[1] http://www.mimomonitors.com/
They are mostly fuel and wages of (frequently unionized) employees. For example, numbers for Southwest for the last quarter, of the total $4.2 bil expense:

Fuel: $1.5 bil

Salaries: $1.2 bil

Depreciation + Maintenance: $0.5 bil (basically all airplane related expenses)

So, maintenance expenses are only 12% of the total, while fuel is 35% and salaries 28%.

If the cost of fuel in orbit launches was indeed just 1% of the total cost, then compared to air travel those launches are very inefficient and there may be a huge room for improvement.
As a quick intermission:

This is a GREAT discussion regarding the state of webmail. Although my app clearly isn't "there yet" (regarding going public), I'm having a great time reading your comments.
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I don't think most people really want to stare at a console output all day long.
The article primed us for a bitch fest. I came to the comments expecting it. So in this one case, for the therapeutic effects that come from getting shit off your chest, I expected and overlooked the belittling and pretension; maybe others did too. I think that one's perception of quiet is affective --- quiet is relative, and at some point you'll just hear your heart beat, and so there is something else at play here to make everyone so angry about noise --- and these reactions to noise show a degree of misanthropy, which is confirmed by the comments.
Weird, such an irritating bug when your scroll-wheel is broken (like mine is!). I haven't checked out Blogger for ages though, so apologies, I thought it was a custom template!
You could always put in your terms and conditions that your application cannot be used inside the United States and then actively reject those users. It's an ugly way to go about doing business, though, kind of the opposite of Hulu.

The best plan is to retain a lawyer you trust who can help you deal with these things if and when they arise.
That is what I was thinking. It seems like maybe just finding someone from a site like dribbble would be the thing to do. Invest in doing it right the first time.
Missing the dazzling profit potential of free apps
The big picture for Musk and SpaceX is Mars. The more profitability yields more R&D. The more R&D yields more capable rockets. The more capable rockets yields a better pathway to Mars. It's pretty much spelled out at the SpaceX website.
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