skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only a severely paranoid person would take the time to write a year's worth of blog entries on the off chance he became a fugitive. Even then, what advantage does it give him? Some misdirection, certainly, but simply disappearing would be just as effective.

Occam suggests he IS writing the blog entries, and I'd say the GPS coords are accurate via the same reasoning.

And looking at the bigger picture, his behaviour suggests he was intimately involved in the murder. I don't know much about Belize's police force, but I would be surprised if he was at a greater risk of death by cooperating with them than by going on the run - particularly with his fame.

In fact his behaviour reminds me most of Charlie Sheen's drug-addled antics last year. Sad to see someone fall so far.
Exactly. What the heck is anyone going to do with a tablet that is (over)priced like an ultrabook and has only 4 hours of battery life? It would be especially useless for students since it wouldn't last till the end of a school-day.
He seems to suffer from interactions with corrupt police. They could certainly beat the shit out of him after arrest with very few consequences. That's true even in the US.

As an example of special circumstances: how's Bradley Manning's trial coming along?
"held by the authorities and executed, that blood is on the original poster's hands."

This is hyperbole. There's nothing to suggest that he would not receive a fair trial other than the paranoid ramblings from McAfee himself.

He quite possibly killed his neighbour. Why shouldn't the authorities get hold of this guy?
Then you place a time limit on submitting feedback. Say you have 1 week-1 month. Still not perfect since it sounds like in the posted scam he didn't find out for over a month, but it might help in many cases.

E: Also just had another idea. You could have a way to edit your feedback after the original deadline in case of fraud. If you open up a dispute like the one posted then Ebay could review the edit's on a case-by-case basis.
of course?
This looks fantastic. Nothing will play for me, but that's not too surprising since I have neither Flash nor support for MP3s in <audio>. Just curious, which of the two does it use?
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We've shifted to orbiters instead of one-shot flybys. Galileo at Jupiter, Cassini at Saturn, Messenger at Mercury, Juno on the way to Jupiter now. A ten year spacecraft mission can deliver a lot more science when it's orbiting a planet (or driving around on it) rather than cruising through endless void.

(New Horizons is set to flyby Pluto, because orbiting it wasn't feasible as the dwarf planet doesn't have nearly enough mass to capture a fast incoming spacecraft. New Horizons would have had to fly to Pluto much slower if it wanted to orbit it.)
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>>*Apple, Lotus, Word Perfect, Novell, the list is long.

Heck, Microsoft came to prominence only due to a huge misstep on the part of the IBM. Bill Gates simply exploited the opportunity like anyone with half a brain would in that situation.
John McAfee did not sell MCAF (previously NETA, previously McAfee Associates) to Intel. He was long gone by the time I got there in 1998. The company uses his name as marketing, but he hasn't influenced it since before Windows 98.
- When hovering over the left side menu items, I would highlight the text into a much lighter font color--I was already expecting it to happen (and anticipating the eye candy) from all the other apps I've used that do that.
Donations does not automatically mean a for-profit venture, nor does it has any affect on the legality of the use of the work in regard to fair use. Fair use in the US, as any legal interpenetration can only be made in a local sense, the fair use in the US has some prior cases where the affect on the market is used to determine if a fair use case is valid or not, but that doesn't require money to change hand.
My inlaws got an iPad last christmas. They've always had windows machines of one form or another, and hated them.

They liked the iPad experience so much that three of their friends have bought iPads. There's a big market there, and it's hardly been touched.

There are a couple places where they need a bit more than an iPad. The big one is photo management, with a library that's bigger than can fit on the ipad. iCloud isn't there yet. They want to be able to print, write cds/dvds, email them and show them off. There's an opportunity there somewhere.
I don't know of any evidence to indicate that your top x friends are ordered by how often they view your profile.
Every year I submit a handful of proposals, every year they all get rejected :( Someday...
it's more of a copy of ex.fm (http://ex.fm) than a slicker hype machine. ex.fm has been around a few years now too.
This is what stands out for me:

"Live listening. While I decided to hide most of the UX I had worked on for launch due to it not being fully baked, if you're friends with someone and you see them "online" in your friends list, you can tune into what they are listening to in real time, and listen to music fully synced together. If they change a song, you change too! This is certainly alpha at this point though, but it generally works."

For those who are into 'social' listening, it's worth having a play around with.
And from the video in the post:

"The iPhone business is now bigger and more profitable than all of Microsoft"

I still remember the interview in which Balmer outrighted laughed at the iPhone.
Hometown bias against a weird foreign service contrary to local norms is a pretty reasonable explanation. Sometimes I forget what the NY in NYT stands for :)
> get a better gravity assist from a single pass of the sun

No. The gravity assist is because of the motion of the planets around the sun. The sun isn't moving relative to itself. There are some other things you can do where the sun can help, but not a slingshot.
Why Kickstarter Sucks For Large Hardware Projects
It would be nice if you could have a cryptographic hash on img and other tags, so that when the main page is in https, CDN content could be loaded iff it matches the hash.
TechCrunch is like People Magazine. Old Arrington was entertaining, but let's be real about it -- it's just a regular news site that hit on some key points for a niche market.
That's a Logical fallacy. This has nothing to do with Bradley Manning.

As far as you and I know Mcafee quite possibly killed his neighbour. Why shouldn't the authorities in the country where the crime was committed get hold of him?

If the dead neighbour had been an American celebrity, this argument would sound very different.
I once had a VPS provider lose everything. And shame on me for not having current backups.

And that was when I switched to blogger. While I have yet to do it for myself, I've setup some sorta automated backup of the text from blogger for my wife. I should look at doing that for myself b
One of the things i've recently built has an infinite scrolly feed of items, and http://airbnb.github.com/infinity/ is what I ended up using after using Masonry for a long time.

Edit: along with Scroll Events http://james.padolsey.com/demos/scrollevents/
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Lazy Loading With The LazyList
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Upvoted because I get your point, but it depends how you measure "95%." I've not met anybody who enjoys typing on them. Perhaps for the few who will also add a bluetooth keyboard it will replace, but I think those are fairly tech-savvy (where do you save your docs? etc.).

It may be coming...But they've got to get a lot better first.
I would make that trade if necessary. Alternatively, the search could happen client side (which I understand is more difficult, which is why I'm willing to have no search)
This sounds like time for a small-claims court case. Take Paypal to court. Given the evidence of fraudulent transactions, I would say there is a chance they could lose. And, if nothing else, it will cost them at least the $600 to pay for it.
Funds from bad checks can be pulled from your account even after the check has 'cleared'.

cf. 419 scams.
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Not to sidetrack things, but Manning was not a civilian, and thus does not enjoy the same freedoms under the law as a civilian.
So comparing a civilian's (Mcafee's) fate with that of a non-civilian is apples and oranges.
It's a cool site, and an amazing accomplishment for a side project, but I really, really have to ask: why did you spend your time building something to add to the hyper-saturated, money black hole that is the music listening/discovery app market? I mean, there are, and have been so many sites like this that have either survived on the border of illegality or have been shut down. And we've got a whole host of above-board legal streaming sites now that are dirt cheap and have a wide variety of music to listen to. What's new here and why should I consider using it? Why will this be around in 6 months and not just die after you run out of money to keep it up or get sued? I'm not asking this to be a dick but I really don't understand why I see a new one of these sites get released every few months that seems to do the same thing as all the others except is free (and probably illegal) or thinks that slightly better music recommendations or "social listening" is a sustainable competitive advantage.

edit: Ok, read your blog post, but I guess my question still stands. The improvements you list are fairly marginal improvements over existing stuff IMHO and it seems mildly crazy to put in so much effort to replicate existing sites but add things like responsive design or slightly better Facebook integration. Good luck and I hope you end up turning this into an amazing success so if you can turn me into a believer I am listening :)
Very good. Found some Led Zeppelin I hadn't listened to for a while.
You expected more due diligence from TorrentFreak?

If so, that's a game you just can't win.
Nice work, nice layout and UI/UX ... Very impressive for a side project.
I'm a little confused on your use of both genres and tags. For the former, how are they determined? Just in a database, pre-decided by you?
It seems to me that XA transactions one of those patterns that need to be rediscovered every generation. I see folks start with 0mq or Redis and hit edge cases where messages get lost.

I'd love to see a somewhat simple distributed transaction standard for http api's emerge.

There has to be a middle ground between the fiddly bits of soap's ws-reliable or full on JMS broker and ad-hoc Redis queues.
JSON, Markdown and OPML are like RSS
This is cool.

I think people are missing the idea of what this is so I'll clarify my assumption...

It's a discovery tool for consumers to help them find hardware that's smart-device enabled like Nest, Lockitron, M-Audio, etc.
For a while I was using my own custom written job distribution system built on the database but then I discovered Gearman and since I implemented it I have seen increased reliability and productivity with creating new jobs.

I do not recommend rolling your own system. Use something that is already built as a server to accomplish the task. Amazon SQS is also a good solution.
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again, ex.fm has had this for some time:
http://blog.ex.fm/post/24082043603/featured-feature-listenin...
>> Perhaps I'm naive, but I would have thought that start-ups, being as they are overly-concerned with "getting sht done", would be the last to discriminate on irrelevancies.

Exactly! What I was trying to say was: because it's common practice, I don't think they are making a special case* of asking for a picture in the CV. Rather, they are just using what's considered the norm over there.
A very good list. One minor quibble -- I've never worked for a company other than my own where the lead dev had any say over when products are launched, shipped or sold. And the more complex the organizational structure, the less likely developers were to have input.

Maybe replace with "who is doing what work, and how do we know when it is done. And what if the work doesn't get done?"
We could but it wouldn't be easy. Likely what we'd do is use a really big rocket like the Delta IV Heavy or the upcoming Falcon Heavy to give the spacecraft a lot of extra speed. Then we'd use electric propulsion on the craft itself to continue to build up speed over its life. Ultimately, even with today's technology, we could catch up to these probes but it would take decades to do so.
I feel that these recurring analysis of the OS wars are always ignoring the main factor influencing the markets for these software which is that closed ecosystems are getting less and less competitive with open ones as core OS functionality is maturing and being commoditized.

When you buy into a closed ecosystem, you buy a product that comes with a leash attached to your neck. Because of compatibility issues, you pay now and set yourself up to also pay more later. You agree to give a vendor near monopolistic powers over you in the future. You will have to continue buying from their ecosystem unless you are willing to lose access to all your apps and a lot of your media or buy them all again.

Microsoft does this, RIM does this and of course Apple is the worst offender. A lot of consumers do not want OSs that tie a leash around their necks.

Apple being first to achieve wide success in the market of phones with near desktop level computing power are able to maintain a big share of the market because of a large population already locked in its platform.

RIM and Microsoft's mobile OSs, judged on technical merits, are probably as good as Android and iOS. However, Android has the huge benefit of not locking users and developers with a particular hardware or software vendor.

I'm pretty sure that if Android was not a mostly open OS it would not have gained more traction than the others. I'm also pretty sure that if iOS was released as an open platform, there would be no significant competitors other than iOS forks. Google and its Android partners know this as does Amazon to a lesser extent (although they force DRM on a lot of their content including apps).

In the long run, the only conclusion to this war that makes sense is convergence toward competing Android forks that allow people to change vendors or coalitions of vendors without losing all compatibility with their accumulated apps and media. That is unless the others are willing to open their OSs and allow competing forks like Android does.
Last time i checked Belize and Guatemala have very poor justice systems.. It's better than Afghanistan but still not first world.

http://www.heritage.org/index/country/guatemala
>the mind blowing obvious software patents //

Poor implementation in your jurisdiction doesn't make the idea of patents wrong.
We are talking about a country here where money is king. If you have money, you have clout and influence. There's nothing stopping anyone taking assets and offing him in some remote desolate field where nobody would find him. Considering the amount of attention McAfee has received, if he were to disappear there would be some serious questions so I doubt they'd kill him.
My understanding (though I'm no astrophysicist) is that gravity boost from a planet works because of the relative velocities between the planet and the sun, whereas trying to use the sun's gravity to boost your solar system escape velocity would fail since gravity would be fighting you on the way out just as much as it was helping you on the way in.

Yes, this is basically correct. What a gravity boost from a planet does is transfer a very small amount of the planet's orbital kinetic energy to the spacecraft; it puts the planet into a slightly smaller orbit, and boosts the spacecraft to a higher speed on its way out. Since the Sun is what the planets are orbiting, this trick obviously won't work the same way with the Sun.

(Technically, the Sun itself, or more precisely the center of mass of the Solar System, is orbiting the center of the galaxy; so I suppose it would be theoretically possible to fly a spacecraft by the Sun in such a way as to transfer a very small amount of its orbital kinetic energy with respect to the center of the galaxy to the spacecraft, so it would fly outward faster than it went in, even after taking into account the slowdown climbing out of the Sun's gravity well. But I doubt we're going to be in any practical position to try this any time soon.)
jcampbell: You are certainly right and I humbly admit we could have spent more time polishing the copy. My English teacher would be heartbroken to hear a direct comparison to The Decider, though that was fair play. I do think a solid editor is a phenomenal resource and an important part of the preflight checklist. I love the essays that thank a handful of people for reading prior drafts.
I can't run anyone over :(

And my dude walked across water.

But it was awesome!
This was one of the main reasons explained to me on why db based queues are a code smell.

The other was that insert/select pattern of a queue hammers a db's index and data page fragmentation algorithms. Anyone know if this is still the case or am I repeating a wives-tale?
My thoughts exactly -- they probably didn't bother putting a whopping big 100-year RTG on there because they didn't figure the electronics would last long enough, or they figured they'd run out of attitude propellant long before then.

You could look up the planned mission duration, but all this would tell you would be the duration that they were absolutely designed to work for -- kind of like how the Mars rover missions were 90 sols, but in actuality they've gone over 2,000 (albeit with solar panel dust issues, busted wheel motors, etc).
Meaningless without performance data.
It sucks to be among the most gullible 1% of buyers or sellers in a marketplace, weighted by sales volume.

In first-world markets, overall fraud is around 1%. But since experienced buyers and sellers learn to avoid it, the least experienced ones absorb most of the losses.

Whether you're in the most gullible 1% depends on who else you're competing with. For example, if you're selling a used car, you have to be fairly dumb to be in the most gullible 1% since lots of regular people do the same.

But the vast majority of iPhones on eBay are sold by sophisticated, professional, full-time merchants. So unless you have inside knowledge, you probably are in the most gullible 1% of iPhone sellers on eBay.
> "there is no way that pg can respond to this."

Of course he could.

He could point out that the meta-comment-game wherein any response whatsoever is considered to "lend credibility" is a silly game, and that in reality, whether or not he chooses to respond to you says nothing about your credibility. Then he could agree or disagree with your actual point, and either confirm or challenge your credibility with facts, instead of engaging in the silly distraction of a side-game.

Your arguments must stand or fall on their own merit.

On their own merit, I find your arguments lacking. In particular, you are lacking concrete examples. The list of YC companies is known (http://yclist.com/ and http://ycuniverse.com/ycombinator-companies). Surely if pg was getting "ridiculous prices for things with little to not actual value" you could identify some specific companies the market overpaid for, and the effect that overpayment had on overall yc returns.
My wife has used a Galaxy Tab exclusively for the last year, despite her laptop being an arm's length away the whole time. Tablets cater for her browsing and light email use with no problem at all, and that laptop will never get replaced.
Manning is still supposed to have the right to due process (a speedy trial rather than indefinite detention) and freedom from torture.
THIS.

Except, I suppose, how do you validate THAT?

If I'm the seller, and you send me back an empty box or an old iPhone 3GS, what do I do then?
I get what you're saying but I don't feel like there are a lot of websites to discover music.

Besides hypem, pitchfork and sixtyone do you anymore? And I think they could greatly be improved. Music Discovery is a new thing, before we just had the radio, and it's still not as good as it could be.
Your analyses are very good and your posts pedagogical.

I'd like to add that, just as you have the company presenting this in a certain light, the engineer needs to look at this investment of $60,000 a year of his personal money as cash salary to buy stock in a startup the same as a $150,000 a year earning person would view any other $60,000 a year stock investment in an extremely high risk unproven early startup. As a point of comparison, we know that Y Combinator gets significant equity for one time investments of only $10,000 in early stage startups. An investment of $60,000 a year should be valued similarly. Clearly the employee is directly contributing more than six times as much as Y Combinator does and should receive six times the equity for that first year.
That doesn't give you privacy though because the content can still be intercepted and spied on.
This is correct. Planetary gravitational slingshots work with respect to Sun-relative velocities. Trying to use the Sun to slingshot out of the solar system is like trying to use Earth's gravity to sling into Earth orbit. Being at the bottom of a gravity well cannot help you to leave it. It's like riding a bike down a hill; you can't then use the kinetic energy to roll up a bigger hill than you started from.

A gravity assist works by robbing orbital momentum from the planet, transferring it to the spacecraft. (I once saw a calculation that Voyager's slingshot slowed Jupiter's motion by one foot per trillion years.) Jupiter has orbital momentum around the Sun, but the Sun has no orbital momentum around itself.

Flying past the Sun could give you velocity relative to the galactic center, making use of the Sun's orbit around that. But that velocity doesn't help you leave the Sun's neighborhood or travel within the Solar System, because the gained velocity is in the same direction as the Sun and Solar System are already moving.
What's to stop buyer from claiming the box contained a pair of old headphones ('significantly not as described')? The problem is the buyer is being taken at their word; forcing a return of bogus items won't help.
Great list of talks but with our lack of concurrency picking the right talk is going to difficult or I should say a GILemma :)
This is cool.

Here's an idea for a better way to frame this, similar to your current splash screen: "You already have a smart phone. But what about a smart XXXX?" where XXXX rotates between a bunch of things that you link to on the site.

Also you need to make a better connection between the XXXX and a product. You say "Packs change every golf swing", that should show a picture of the smart golf swing glove and let me click to see it.
Can't say too much about the business side of it, but technically the servers are no more complicated to run then any other game server.
Oh my. You are correct. Long day.
I'm not going to defend the Belize justice system. But I wouldn't depend on the Heritage Foundation for any objective information. It's a right wing think tank.
According to the article, "it does have one disadvantage though for some Linux distributors. Since the shim is a pre-compiled binary, distributions such as Debian, which insist on having full source code availability, may choose not to use it."

Does anyone know why the source is not available?

Is there a chance that an open-source alternative will become available in the future?
I just tried it and it's awesome!

But I can see something more awesome, what if Steam would sell hardware? Like a new steambox every year like Apple does with the iPhone.

They have an incredible catalog of games, a new steam box would just be more powerful but would still be able to play all the old games.
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