skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard two lines of reasoning used to justify those and similar expenses:

1. The government, which can be considered as a sovereign corporation, has a moral obligation to run at a loss because certain ventures are "inherently unprofitable"

2. If Tesla is a big success, the tax revenues from the increased capital in the market (directly from Tesla itself but also all the things it influences) will pay for the losses in the loans to other companies.

I don't particularly fancy Argument 1, but do you think Argument 2 holds any water? If Tesla pays back their loan and the others you mentioned are total washes, it's "only" about $1bn, what do you think about how hard is it realistically to make that back? Tesla already has a multi-billion dollar market cap and is looking to grow.
Backing up King Tut's tomb
people have been using Jobs as an example since before 1984 – http://folklore.org/
I'm not sure what you're getting at, but network operators have been doing this for years.

Even the ones that say they don't do it, I will bet you can go and find a box somewhere on their network running Snort that does DPI.
They could try contoso.com :D
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I used Launchrock the very first time I tried to "bring an idea to the world" and had maybe 40 signups. Mostly friends. If you're just starting out, you have no idea how to bring traffic to your site, create buzz, or do any kind of online marketing at all, so I definitely see value in being able to submit an idea to a community of early adopters and get at least an inkling if this is something worth pursuing.
Yes, it is certainly cheaper.

You're paying [a very small amount] to IRCRelay for convenience and not having to worry about it. At least for my close friends, they'd rather pay $5 a month than deal with setting up an EC2 instance or VPS to do this for them.
Has anyone used this tool yet? Wondering how it works.
> "I don't trust those numbers" can mean any or all of the above including more, the replies have to guess what you meant.

No, you [they] do not have to guess; one could inquire for clarification, or simply ignore the comment.

To make a gross logical fallacy -- such as Untog did -- is not my fault nor is it my problem. Untog drew a conclusion where data was nonexistant, and then extrapolated his conclusion to draw an even more unsubstantiated conclusion.

What is so hard about not putting words in someone's mouth?
Doing Online the Offline way
Funny - the way I look at it, the question is, why aren't people worried about Google, et. al. monitoring you the same way the NSA does?
I was with a company that executed a variation of this. It sort of marked the moment of their decline into serious stupid.
Getting user perceived page load time down is vital for most sites. You'll see your bounce rate drop, pages per visit rise, and conversion rates go up. A better experience for your users is always better for you.

You can do something to make like better for those on mobile and dialup with server settings, image compression, and the like. You can't change their connection speed, but you can focus on their experience.
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I'll personally take that bet with you.

Vlad (at) DarwinApps.com for details.
A few years back I started doing work for a company where Eclipse was the standard (familiar huh!). I spent six weeks feeling like I was an unproductive failure until I gave up and unilaterally decided that I had to go back to Intellij otherwise I'd go insane. I really tried. It didn't seem to be built to work in the same way my brain did.

I bet it has improved loads since I last used it, and hopefully my brain would deal with it better, but I live in fear of ending up in a situation where it is mandatory to use it and I had to take the job for financial reasons. Well, living in fear is an overstatement. I'm sure I'd learn, with a kind of weary resignation and resentment.

Has anyone been put in such a position? The only times I've since been put in a place with loads of Eclipse where you have to use locked down client machines such as financial institutions, I've just said, I need Intellij, and it has been fine, thankfully.
Use SVN. There's lack of "svn for people who have no idea how to use svn" tutorials, and when they're published, they tend to be single-paragraph.

I'm not sure git is a perfect solution for any project. Unless you intend to pull each other's modifications, the idea of a central "trunk" and custom "branches" is easy to explain to anybody in 5 minutes.
Well, I think the number one thing that would correct the balance between academia and industry is if people could freely go from one to the other. Someone could take insights from one arena to the other, enriching both.

There are many reasons why this is difficult, but the primary obstacle is the tenure system.
Except there's nothing Eclipse offers that anyone could become zealous about.
I know that the price is already much lower than most conferences, but are you planning on having any student discounts? I'd love to go, and this is actually within driving distance!
You should consider including a userid of some sort with the error reporting. It can let you debug down esoteric, hard to reproduce errors reported by users, which are otherwise almost impossible.
Thanks for taking the time to share your wisdom. These are great slides.
I've used it and couldn't figure out the allegedly big advantage.
I'd highly recommend checking out http://www.irccloud.com/

I've started using it as my full time IRC client with Nimbus https://github.com/jnordberg/irccloudapp
Thanks for sharing this. Outta the box thinking FTW!
Is it possible to avoid customers having to pay for the sms? A toll free sms number maybe?
I want to avoid my customers having to shell out for the sms, however small the number.

In fact in cases of international customers it could be a large amount.
Sure, but we've got a pretty spiffy legal system that protects you from that, and in any case the NSA has no incentive to arrest me. I have no real protection from Google or its employees selling my information, using it against me, etc, and as a practical matter they have a lot more incentive to do that than the government does to arrest me.
I do find that description a bit odd, since all the early ITU specifications were made mostly by Europeean vendors, and were incompatible with the American versions of protocols, etc.

Anyway - a lot of these specs are made by the very researchers of the various vendors that you talk about - ITU is just a forum they use to collaborate.
Great article, and agreed on most everything you said. Regarding Prismatic itself, some constructive feedback (feel free to ignore).

My immediate first impression was that this was another app that would waste my time. I want less of those, not more. The absolute best news feed app I've used is Flipboard for the iPad, and even then I don't use it too much as I feel too much like I'm wasting time with it (like HN!).

Secondarily, the homepage doesn't grab you enough. The text in the graphics is too blurry and the pictures are generic. The homepage below the icons doesn't have the production values to explain why it's cool.

I'm not trying to be negative here. Some of the points in your article really hit home (email summarization would be awesome and paradigm shifting). So I wonder if you might focus more on making something that will save people time and solve a pain point vs. "another web-based time-wasting thing" (that may not be fair, but that was a first impression).

For example, can you scrape an inbox and list of Facebook/Github/Tumblr/RSS/Twitter feeds to get a single high-sensitivity greatest hits from all monitored news feeds? This way you can check a single page in five minutes on your phone and feel reasonably content that you saw the top headlines for that week. Kind of like news.ycombinator.com/best.

Just some thoughts, FWIW.
Exactly. And the problem with #4 is that in trying to round up people the community trusts/knows by name, you're also going to end up bringing in people that have personal and professional connections that could also game the system.
What is this "Fiscal Cliff"
Some of the plugins I would need (e.g. Haxe support) require the premium version.
It's not impossible to learn a language in your home country, but it's damn difficult. Most English learners reach a pretty good level even in their home country, but English is unprecedented in it's universality, usefulness, availability of TV, movies, books, everything.

For example, living in Sweden I was fairly fluent by the time I was 18 without ever having had a single conversation with an English speaker. I did what most people do, watch a lot of TV, then TV without subtitles, play games, write posts on online forums etc. The first time I had to actually speak it, I was 21 and taking care of an exchange student from the US. That year was what made me truly comfortable speaking English for days, without having to struggle for words and expressions.

It's that experience, and also spending 2 years at a US university and then working here, that made me a 98% native speaker. It's to a point where people can't tell that I'm not native now unless they spend a day with me. Some people sense that there's something a little off perhaps, still. I think the last 10-15% is extremely difficult to get for most people, without living in the country. A lot of that last 10% is cultural as well, there are still many cultural references that fly past me.
What about the Shim to get around secure boot?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4868856
Twitter has an existing standard that allows them to easily discover what image to embed. It's called Twitter Cards and Instagram had the markup for it but apparently removed it.

It's unfortunate because any site can use Twitter Cards to have their content displayed well in Tweets. So in my mind it's the right approach for a network as large as Twitter. Facebook has similar tags.

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards
> if you haven't used Eclipse 4.x series yet, you don't understand how much pain there is waiting for you

Wow. I thought Eclipse would have gotten better along the years. Back when I switched to IDEA at version 4.x, the difference between them was like night and day - IDEA was so much better.

Could you tell me a bit about the pain of Eclipse? It's quite surprising if they haven't managed to produce a solid IDE yet.

I agree that IDEA's way of organizing things is kind of clunky. In a way, a "project" can be thought of as "metadata about stuff I'm working on", instead of the more intuitive "a project is a directory on my hard drive".

Once you set up a project, you can then bring stuff into it with "modules". For example, you may want to include source code trees and/or JARs from multiple locations.
Let me rephrase that. We both agree that it's fine in the case of great entrepreneurs, so let's subtract those out from your statement:

> So suggesting to bad entrepreneurs that their product is possibly failing because they haven't convinced people why they want it yet, is a bad idea.

When said this way, I don't see why it would be true. You don't give illiterate people different advice if they want to write a book: you tell them to read lots and lots of books. The fact that they can't, simply means that they can't, if-and-until they change themselves so they can.

Similarly, the fact that bad entrepreneurs can't convince people to want something, simply means they fail as entrepreneurs. They don't get a handicap lane to execute in; there's only one market. If they want to succeed, they don't need a crutch; they need to become better entrepreneurs.
This is good news, but being cash flow positive over a week is not really an impressive achievement. It's easy enough to game this milestone by rescheduling payments, if they chose to do that.

Even if they didn't, it's such a short time frame it's hard to measure anything because there's so much noise. Will they announce full profitability over a 24 hour period in Elon's next tweet? One hour?

That said, I'm impressed with the early reviews of the car, if not by the massive amount of cash that Tesla lost in the past year.
It doesn't need to. It's enough to be open source.
See @graue's post above :)
Tried it, but the prices were no better than what I currently pay. Also the UI is horrible.
Indeed as the author rightfully mentioned in his article this method is not designed for crypto purpose. One can use the following Python method instead random.SystemRandom().randint(...)
Congratulations! Latent Dirichlet Allocation brings in the bacon.
I'm also updating my CV now to say I've had over 15 years experience with NOSQL databases.
If you're an Android user, also check out my app TapChat: http://tapchatapp.com/
Is anybody seriously running linux on their desktop anymore outside of hobbyism?

Okay, I joke, I know several people who run linux on their desktop.

It seems like something that you grow out of, though. I use a mac, and most of the people I know who /really/ know [1]linux do too. In fact, the person I know who "knows linux" the most inside and out runs an ancient PPC macbook. I think he said he installed Ubuntu on his machine at work, though.

The reason for this is that we all run linux* on our servers. My primary machine is a VPS from linode which runs gentoo linux, and has for a very long time. The aforementioned PPC macbook guy doesn't really have a primary machine anymore. He is getting into power electronics, and is more likely to be sitting at an oscilloscope than a laptop.

Lately, my hobby box has been a raspberry pi which I'm looking to make it into a telepresence robot for our lab. Interestingly, live streaming video from a linux machine doesn't quite seem like a "solved" problem yet. It's lots of twiddling ffmpeg to make things work; things still aren't "plug and play".

This is cool, by the way, it feels like the first time I stayed up all night installing gentoo.

--

I guess that for my peer group, linux was something that felt really revolutionary and new and important 10 years ago. We were battling against the big bad microsoft, THIS was going to be the year of the linux desktop! (No, MOM! You have to install Suse! It's totally easy let me show you!).

Then...we won.

Linux is just a tool for me. Like a hammer. When I want to use it, I pick it up and use it. It doesn't feel revolutionary and important anymore because it just feels /obvious/.

[1]: It's a bit silly to say "linux". I'm generally not specifically using any of the features of the linux kernel. Most of what I'm doing could easily be replicated on a *BSD system. Although this whole "gnu plus linux" debate thing is a bit silly. When I say "linux" people know what I mean. Sorry, Stallman :(
True, but is that necessarily a problem?

We definitely don't have the product figured out to 100% just yet, but the assumption is that people are quicker to support (and give their email if it's secured) than to pay (a la kickstarter).

The rest of the details, we surely have to figure out. That's why I've got the link here, for amazing feedback like the original comment we're both replying to :)
Why aren't green or blue naturally occurring human hair colors?
You know the funny thing is I bet somebody said something along the lines of "I doubt a $LAPTOP will ever be able to do $THING." not too long ago. Yet here we are.
Stop building movies NO ONE wants to see, books NO ONE wants to read, etc, etc.

Nothing will stop this from happening ... especially when the cost of build/deploy <= cost of comprehensive research

In regards to the site ...

Asking someone "yeah, I'd use that", vs getting them to download and use (ignoring pay, but that's also key :)) is totally different
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This is an interesting idea. However, for a noise box to be effective requires that a significant number of people are also using a noise box, which assures plausible deniability the same way TOR and shared-IP VPNs do.

If you're the only one using a noise box, or are part of a very small minority of users that do, the random noise you generate is just increasing your attack surface through which the government can more easily target and identify you.
Good numbers industry-wide are difficult to come by (but getting better), but according to the latest DBIR‡ (which, full disclosure, is put out by my former employer) breaks it down as 98% external, and 4% internal (why that adds up to greater than 100% is a mystery to me).

‡ http://www.verizonbusiness.com/resources/reports/rp_data-bre...
Not to mention that you can also get push notifications from ZNC to various services with my plugin/module: https://github.com/jreese/znc-push
Hey! you can buy a toll free number, or a number in different countries for your users.
Take that, hippie environmentalists concerned about "second hand smoke"! YOU'RE KILLING THE BIRDS!
In my university, the compilers class was (and is) known as PLT - Programming Languages & Translators. I sort of always assumed that was the meaning, since it feels natural - you have one half side of the coin (the languages) and then the other (the interpreters, compilers, and other forms of code translation).
Hi. I'm trying use natural language generation (NLG) software, and found lots of long dead projects, two large lisp-based packages (FUF/SURGE, KMPL) that are not updated in years and not user friendly at all and a simple java package (SimpleNLG) that is indeed simple but not very sophisticated. Is this representative of the NLP/NLG software?
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Series A crunch: By the numbers
Uh, yeah. My whole family runs linux on the desktop almost exclusively. I'm the only one who ever boots into Windows and it's only because that's the only way I can get into my company's system when working from home.
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I've seen a belief that because IDEA isn't permissively licensed it has ideological impurity and shouldn't be used. Perhaps people take that to the point of zealotry.
Tell that to everyone storing their emails and music in the cloud.
Can we all agree that Republicans are crazy?
You are kinda right. But this application just asking are you going click download or not
Those interested in this should look at a paper from Vern Paxon and Nicholas Weaver:

http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/witty-imc05.pdf

A summary of it: A worm used a linear congenital generator to generate its randomness. It used this generator to pick which IPs to try to infect, which hard drives to write data to, and what to write. These researchers used a /8, and were able to use that to count, exactly, the bandwith of all infected machines, how many hard drives machines each had, the time they started up, and locate the exact machine which initially spread the worm. It's really quite amazing that you can get all of this from just packet captures, before you think about it.
This was in response to the feedback we've received and requests to open source the project. The original post was here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4812222

Happy to field any questions :)
I suggest that you start a car company, invent the whole stack, build out a giant factory in Fremont, and a nationwide network of retail outlets.

If you're profitable during any part of that exercise, you can then start to talk about it not being an impressive achievement.
Having spent several years doing academic research before finally leaving to work on real-world problems in machine learning and NLP, I can relate to this article.

If any of you have problems in this domain, I am interested to chat.
Considering how quickly e-mail privacy is starting to get into lawmakers agenda after Patreus' fiasco I think this would have great consequences. Of course this implies nsa being open in return - that won't happen.

Somewhere I read a quote: People under surveillance, are already imprisoned.

The first step is to understand that one is under surveillance.
I've tried IDEA briefly a few times but what gets me is the lack of an error pane that's as compact and descriptive as the one in Eclipse - the pain of using Eclipse 4.x is tempting me to ignore that limitation, however.

Does anyone know if it's possible to get this in IDEA? http://i.stack.imgur.com/1kTPd.png

I know it's possible to get some of it with inspections but what I really want is something that combines errors+warnings together and gives me instant feedback. Am I just missing something that's really there?
Assuming your modal is an element lacking native focus (eg a div) and you're using jQuery:

modal.attr('tabindex','1').style('outline','0');
modal.focus();

That:
1 - enables focus on the modal div
2 - hides focus visual indicator on the modal (because it's not an interactive element, just a wrapper)
3 - sets focus on the modal

The user's next tab keypress will select the first focusable element inside the modal.

Restricting tab keypress to just elements inside the modal (ie cycling through only modal content) doesn't return significant benefit and it's a whole lot more work. It's easy for a user to error-correct by simply clicking back inside the modal, but it's hard for a developer to manage enabled/disabled states for native behavior.
Wouldn't it make sense that the NSA owns a few Certificate Authorities and gets access that way? They try to have backdoors installed for them everywhere according to that whistleblower.
Look into research of danah boyd who does this sort of research at MSR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danah_boyd)

Here are the names of her last 4 papers:

- "Networked Trafficking: Reflections on Technology and the Anti-Trafficking Movement."

- "Making Sense of Teen Life: Strategies for Capturing Ethnographic Data in a Networked Era."

- "The New War Correspondents: The Rise of Civic Media Curation in Urban Warfare."

- "Sociality through Social Network Sites."
2012 KPCB Internet Trends by Mary Meeker
very cool tech behind this--html5 fragments, websockets.
I think the author was alluding to the following: http://www.cigital.com/papers/download/developer_gambling.ph...
Bauhaus Ideology and the Future of Web Design
You are correct. On x86 you can put UEFI in "Custom Mode," which allows you to add keys which were not signed by the platform key.
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I've been in exactly your position. I was a huge fan of IntelliJ IDEA, to the point that I raved about it in the (very informal) interview. They were using Eclipse. Adapting wasn't all that difficult for me, much more stuff is similar than different between the two.

I think Eclipse is fantastic these days, enabling rapid navigation of huge codebases and helping me to understand unfamiliar code. The refactoring tools are also fantastic and I use them constantly, ie. regular development includes frequent refactoring.

But I'm sure I'd be really happy with IntelliJ, too. I still think it looks a lot better, Eclipse could really do with a drastic facelift; the most recent release just makes things worse.
Where do you send the notifications from irssi?

I run irssi in tmux on EC2 with a Colloquy push script (http://static.ssji.net/colloquy_push.pl.txt). Spent time trying to get it right, but Colloquy is flaky at best.
Is a web browser an app which streams apps?
showed me quotes of 1200 to 1600 when i'm paying 600 :(

edit: that was the minimum. now with "custom" to reflect what i have it jumped to 1340 to 4800!
BigML's Tom Dietterich to give Posner Lecture at NIPS 2012
Way too expensive. It's a damn bouncer heh.
Organizer here: we offer 25% discount to students. Just email me a picture of your student ID and I will send you a discount code.
Just tried out Prismatic and it seems to give suggestions much better than my current favorite - Flipboard; on the other hand, Flipboard's UI is way way better.

Something like Flipboard's UI + Prismatic's content would be a super awesome product.