skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I had no idea they were processing $10b/yr (I thought it was <$1b/yr).

That's getting to the point where they make real money (maybe $50mm/yr?) and have a serious shot at profitability.
I talk to other people and tell them about my problem. It doesn't matter if they're a domain expert. The act of explaining the problem frequently causes me to see it from another angle and sometimes that's all it takes to get things going. It's the "stuffed animal helpdesk" effect.

I've been on both sides of this. Sometimes people talk to me just to get another take on things and they wind up finding it just by explaining it. Once in a while, I end up making a guess based on general knowledge and wind up being helpful anyway.

I got this idea from reading Usenet way back, and wrote about it more recently: http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/06/14/crash/
I am only assuming that's what will happen. If you're innovating in the search space like Google have been doing so for a long time now and of late, Facebook then you're going to attract attention of the bigger players who are trying to gain bigger footholds in a particular niche.

Hopefully they don't get acquired and are super successful. Time will tell.
That is, in fact, almost exactly the model used for razors/razor blades.
Kinect Technology Shrinks to Smartphone & Tablet Sizes
My experience with Belking is: don't

Really, it's not "it's ok for your grandma", it's DON'T

Features not working, router freezing constantly, etc

So, too bad.
Zen is also shit sticks, rotten vegetables, and screaming. It's Ikkyu's poem about how he hates incense, it's Ryokan playing ball with the village kids, it's Pai-chang refusing to eat, it's arduous meditation retreats, it's Seung Sahn surviving on pine needles, it's Bernie Glassman founding a bakery to give work to the unemployable, it's seeing into your own self-nature, it's the Rinzai master hitting you with a stick, it's the Gateless Gate, it's a rhinoceros horn, it's the family of the Buddha, it's the vow to save all sentient beings from suffering, it's "vast emptiness, nothing holy," it's arousing the spirit of great doubt, it's drinking coffee out of a thermos in a beat-up old car, it's getting laid (that's wisdom!), it's Kanzeon's all-pervading gaze of compassion, it's drinking wine and eating fish, it's a blown-out candle, it's a pebble in a bucket -- in short, it's not just elegant stuff for refined aesthetes.

"Joshu Roshi: It is very hard for me to comment on things like Japanese culture. I am Japanese. So things like chado (tea ceremony) and so on, these are things I almost cannot speak about because they are so much a part of my culture. My feeling is so deep. I could try to show you though.

"If you brought me a tea bowl, one of those fine, very very expensive tea bowls... You know that most of them have names? Like people's children or pets, they have names... If you brought me one of those tea bowls then I could show you my feeling. I would first have to drink some water. Yes, very much water. And then I would pick up the tea bowl and look at it from every angle. I would sit in seiza before it and admire it, how much it cost. And then I would piss in it. And then I would drink more and more water and piss in it again and again. I would have to drink the Pacific ocean and the Atlantic ocean to be able to truly show you my feelings about Japanese culture and what it has to do with Zen. [...]

"These army people and rich people, lords and ladies and emperors wanted to play with Zen. Some lazy monks played with them and painted pictures for them, taught them how to eat and drink tea. But the army people and the lazy monks made a big game out of tasting tea. They sat around making moon faces and doe eyes about "simplicity" in little tea huts. These tea huts were built especially for them to sit around like that. This cost a lot of money, being "simple" like that. [...]

"Zen arts without Zen study is just cultural junk."
The layout might be familiar,

http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspiral/demo.html

The Internet Archive pegs that page to October 2001. That's like 4 or 5 Internets ago.
You meant to type http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-specialists, right?
Fast(er) tests in Ruby & Rails
Comprehensive my ass. Comprehensive reform is a point based system with no caps.

It is also what is required to end the current recession.
Greg McAdoo - whats the connection?
Apple Stock Plunges, May Lose 'Most Valuable' Status
Sounds like an interesting career! I'm working as a software engineer on a rail automation project at the moment, finishing my BEng in Mechatronics in mid 2013. May I ask what you work on at HP?
San Francisco's budget last year was $6.8 billion. Chicago's was $6.3 billion San Francisco has 800,000 people. Chicago has 2,700,000 people.

Oh, and this is a map of the Muni: http://0.tqn.com/d/sanfrancisco/1/0/U/N/-/-/sanfranciscomuni...

This is a map of the CTA elevated line: http://www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/maps/ctatrainmap.png

This is a map of Caltrain:
http://www.caltrain.com/Assets/maps/Caltrain+Zone+Map.jpg

This is a map of Metra:
http://www.mrl.ucsb.edu/~yopopov/rrt/us/chicago/rr_chicago_m...

I found this quote interesting: "For all its scotch-soaked flaws, the city of yore did not suffer from these problems. While archaic and stridently antidemocratic by today's standards, the system of government cobbled together by a citizens' commission in 1931 largely did what our forebears wanted it to do — mind the store and eliminate rampant corruption."

I think municipal governments should be run by benevolent dictators. If you leave everything up to the market, you get disasters like Northern Virginia. If you go to the ballot for everything, you end up with disasters like San Francisco. No, benevolent dictators are the way to go. I'm a huge fan of Guilliani and Bloomberg's work in NYC. Love them or hate them, you'd rather live in NYC circa 2013 than NYC circa 1993. I have high hopes for Rahm Emmanuel in Chicago. He apparently came up with his last budget using a process for soliciting input from others in the government that boiled down to "fuck you!"
Sort of. Remember that the US has options beyond your average chess piece, like nuclear weapons.
Well, MOST of the world has cheap (below $10 USD) prepaid plans like europe, I think japan is an exception where "cheap" calls using prepaid sim cards is very difficult (nearly impossible) to get because the three most popular providers docomo, au, Softbank all have very steep prices for just calls. The situation is even worse for prepaid data plans (~$25/mb using Softbank, insane. Texts were also $2.50/text, so that's not an option either). Their reasoning is to prevent criminals from buying burners. And if your phone is locked then you would have no choice but to rent their phones for about $50/week or $200/month, to put it into a monthly contract perspective.

There are a few exceptions such as buying from other networks besides the big three but those networks don't work in non-metropolitan areas (i.e. outside of tokyo, kyoto, or most major cities), and that's when you might need your phone the most, especially if you can't speak Japanese.

The loopholes: using wifi to gvoice call internationally at $0.11/min in Japan, or payphones, because receiving calls is free. I digress, but to explain the situation, I found a store (Mobal) at narita int'l airport that gave free SIM cards where you "pay as you go" at around $2.50/min (the other stores charge ~$1.50/min but you needed to pay $25 flat fee and then a rate of $1.50/min), but I also bought a portable wifi router so that I could make internet calls through gvoice for $0.11/min (or free calls back home in the U.S.) and you can avoid paying them as long as you can make wifi calls (free wifi isn't as common in japan as everyone thinks).
> I can't tell how cryonics preserving my body after I am _dead_, and then repairing my body, is different to cloning

I can't either, but it might be, we just don't know enough to say for sure. People whose hearts have stopped beating have still been brought back, at what point do you declare that when they're brought back they're a "clone" and not their original selves? Where's the line between physical death and "soul"-death?

The idea of there not being any "process continuity" when someone is frozen just seems to be speculation on your part.
Ford might be competition for BMW in Europe, but they certainly aren't in the US. The only Ford I could believe a BMW customer even considering is the Mustang. The base model 3-series coupe is significantly more expensive than all but the top three Mustangs available (GT Premium convertible, Shelby GT 500, GT 500 convertible). If one is in the market for a $40k coupe, they're not going to compare the BMW to the Ford, they'll compare the BMW to the Mercedes, Infinity, and Audi.
You guys should watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P-NMygTekQ

It really doesn't paint him in that bad of light. (I know nothing of the rest of his history, but I find the video pretty motivating)
With overhead meaning seven layers of management, their bonuses, company vehicles, and stock grants.
Ask PG: Did "Startup Ideas" lead to flooding the YC apps with these ideas?
That is, did the article directly lead to people applying with ideas for businesses off of the list?
Worst run transportation system in the country. But on the good side, it's what has enabled Uber and Sidecar to thrive.

In SF, even the disfunction is startup friendly.
I've never found a cheaper flight using Matrix. It must be heavily skewed with the US or missing a lot of European airlines.
This sums up the major differences between companies like Apple and Amazon in really good way.

I for myself thought about this a couple of days back. It was more like brain training in Supply Chain Management (the execution of the mentioned low and high margin strategies if you want). Now, Low vs. High margins looks more than just obvious.

What I came up with, and please feel free to give feed-back, as one big difference between Amazon and Apple is the product range. Amazon has orders of magnitude more products and commodities than Apple. What makes it eassier (not easy, mind you, just easier) for Apple to manage their supply chain. You can see this in their release schedule, everthing is planned according to that. Hard to do with thousands of product lines. In this area, Apple is really doing great in the planning part of supply chain management, from my outside perspective they are a benchmark here for everybody else. Plus, one could argue their supply chain strategy matches perfectl their business strategy.

Amazon on the other excels at the logistics part of supply chain management. As mentioned in the article, they have to in order to get their low margins and high customer satisfaction. Currently, I'd say Amazon is doing to logistics what Toyota did up to the lets say 80s and Wal-Mart did up to the early 2000s (no coincidence that Amazon hired Wal-Mart people back then).

What both companies have in comon is really good view of Point-of-Sales data. Big difference here to most other companies around.

How does all that match with high and low margins? In the place of Apple excellence in supply chain planning is used in combination with a narrow product range to allow for high margins and high inventory turn rates (again, a narrow product range is helping a lot here). Supplier management is critical point here, too.

In the place of Amazon logistic excellence is used to run an very efficient ditribution network. This efficiency allows them things like next-day delivery and their low margins. Think Toyota Production System and Lean and all the businesses that tried to copy that since the late ninties.

So, as long as both companies can keep their respective levels of operational performance up I don't think they are in trouble.

Back on the OP, the low margin-attack was what the whole Android industry did on Apple, Samsung in particular. But Samsung is different story all together.
They are often used together.
I tried this on OS X, but I get stuck running the thing

I get:

Error:dlopen(/Users/barbs/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Counter-Strike/hw.dylib, 2): Library not loaded: release/vgui.dylib
Referenced from: /Users/barbs/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Counter-Strike/hw.dylib
Reason: image not found
Could not load hw.dylib.

:(
It says in this article that they've already scheduled a launch abort test, which presumably involves a Dragon capsule with the SuperDraco escape thrusters. So things are going really fast.

http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/2013/01/22/nasa-passed-fa...

The Grasshopper experiments are also going along really well. I am shocked how quickly SpaceX is achieving milestones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F75JMmFoEcE
Google Conway's Game of Life
It seems as if they only search Expedia, judging by the graph's label at the top. Even still, it's missing many cheap and budget airlines.

Whilst I commend them for letting me search over a period of time using natural language, I'd rather spend the time searching individual days on a search engine that has more sources.
If none of the solutions work, then try taking a shower. Somehow magically this solves the problem for me most of the time.
"The CymaScope represents the first scientific instrument that can give us a visual image of sound and vibration - a cymatic image - helping us to understand our world and universe in ways previously hidden from view."
... you can graph change in pressure over time to get a visual image of sounds and vibrations. It is safe to say people have been doing this for a very long time. And what about the page on "sonic healing"... What a crazy site!
This is a misconception. Amazon aren't making any profits because they are pumping all of their margins into new facilities and other infrastructure investments. If they stopped expanding and just squeezed profit out of their existing business, then they would be very profitable.

After Walmart destroyed the mom and pop store they didn't incrase prices, and Amazon probably won't either. Particularly since Amazon are an online retailer, and it is very easy for customers to shop around.
That's just background-position: fixed; The background in this page scrolls but austin powers is position: fixed; bottom: 0; left: 0;
Blows my mind. Apple is very innovative when it comes to personal computers and mobile devices. Amazon cleans the floor with them on scaling infrastructure and making services huge. I wonder what would happen if apple bought amazon, hmm.. muhahahahahaha.
I just started one... not really the best at blogging but I'm trying, just decided tonight I'm going to focus more on like code snippets and such from my projects.

http://www.jimsider.com
If my math is correct: 2.75% of $10B/yr = $275M/yr. Although they may not be charging 2.75% across whole $10B. I don't think Starbucks would pay 2.75%.
Not quite an apples to apples comparison, though. Chicago is a prime example of purely flat, grid design; whereas SF has to contend with a geography of nightmares for public transit. It is tremendously easier to build transit systems in Chicago.
This is an awesome use of a Pi! I've been meaning to buy one specifically for this purpose. Especially for when I travel abroad. Being abroad and being able to use my home IP address is a huge plus when it comes to dealing with banks, paypal, media services and probably all kinds of other services. It really sucks getting locked out of your own accounts because the company thinks you're not the account owner because of your IP address.

GoDaddy wouldn't even allow me to renew my domain names when I was in Asia. Had to setup a US proxy just to keep some domains from expiring. Yes, I'm in the process of moving them to Namecheap. :-)
The url for all 6 pages of the article in one is:
http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-12-16/news/the-worst-run-big-ci...
Yes, I will implement that tomorrow, thank you
Advanced Open Graph Tags, how they help SEO
Kudos for determination!

http://tomhoward.co/part-1-reality-check

http://tomhoward.co/part-2-stunts
I get all my best ideas in the shower!! I like to think it's the hot water stimulating my brain.
Right now, it is easy to add support for indentation breaks, but it would function like braces or brackets. I'll look into this for parenthesis tomorrow, thanks!
Rabois seems moderately connected to Sequoia- they've shared in a ton of deals, given he's a prolific / selective angel & he and Sequoia partner Roelof Boetha both worked at PayPal.

Don't think there's a formal connection between him and McAdoo.
If it supports VLAN/802.1q then single ethernet port is enough to do routing on wired networks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-armed_router
The number of malware on Android to reach 1 million by the end of the year
wanting SF to be flat but to be able to have the view seems to be a dual view of residents of SF.
Ermm, doesn't both mariaDB and Percona use Percona's drop in replacement XtraDB to power innoDB instead by default? I think if you want to use innoDB (as in the original code) you have to explicitly enable it as a plugin.
I'm a big fan of the Adioso story, and have learnt so much from their experience (even though our Australian-based travel businesses are only superficially similar).

I think it will take some time for people to realise that the geography of their real world travel conversations ("ever done South-East Asia?", "I'd love to see Eastern Europe!") can be used in travel searches where traditionally we've had to restrict ourselves to countries, or even cities.

As that transition is made, it will open up a whole wonderful world of experiences for people - and hopefully with the corresponding business success for Adioso.
Since posting and receiving positive feedback, I have added support for unindentation, and multi-line indent/unindent. Will see about adding more features tomorrow! Want to keep this light, it's almost there though. Next is IE support.
The First Software Patent
It was January 24th when I posted, so an anniversary of sorts. A time to remember is all I suggested.
Prepare to get fucked!
So, this is like Chladni patterns, but in 3D and high definition? Or just Chladni patterns with high framerate? I'm having a hard time interpreting this from very vague and pretty uninformative descriptions.

Frank Zappa stated on multiple ocassions that he considered himself, in essence, an air sculptor. I'd love to see few of his "sculptures" animated in 3D.
Personal Clouds - Community Gathering - San Francisco
Yeah, but they also did it with 1920's technology...
As someone who ran a travel startup in mainland China for a few years, forgive me for being unimpressed. Here's what happened. I loaded the page and consistently expected to see something impressive to justify the title, but only got:
- Source/Destination detection
- (DateJS style...) natural language temporal specification

What is so impressive about that? It's not even multilingual. Does it do typo detection? Does it do non-airline routes? Does it do passport/visa law interpretation? Embassy/agent/border point locations, open times and fees/currencies for visa acquisition? Black market vs. theoretical currency conversions? Credit card acceptance? Processing times? Time-of-day detection and night-time travel warnings?

You could hire me as a once off or occasional consultant for some more cheap ideas and reality-checks (full stack engineer from AU, previously lived US, so not ignorant of performance issues or your team cultures, either) or you could continue retreading old ground. Either way, there's a lot of the latter left to do before impressive happens.

Oh yeah... and the slow thing really is a problem. All I can think is that you are scraping data from many sources, because for the query I ran, there is exactly 1 (one) carrier, and a fixed schedule, with exactly 1 (one) price per standard, linear fare-period. There is no excuse for a non-instant response, unless your architecture is somehow borked.
That's presumably why he/she is glad this adds a new way in C. Making c++ unreadble is child's play -- anyone can do it.
I find it hard to believe that any city could be run worse than Detroit.
Don't forget that the credit card companies get most of that.
They have to give most of that to the credit card companies. I am not sure how much of the 2.75% they get to keep but I would guess less then half, maybe even only a quarter?
For the first time in history individual piano notes have been made visible using the CymaScope instrument.

Except for all the times someone fed the output of a mic amplifier into a scope and watched a Lissajous figure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissajous_curve Not to mention Duddell's photo oscillograph over 100 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscilloscope_history#Photograph...
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This is great — SkyScanner (which I almost never hear about, even though it's fantastic) has similar functionality, but definitely not the ability to search for "somewhere warm". I like that.

But what's up with travel startups not allowing remote workers? I'm looking for work right now, including at a travel startup, and that's just baffling to me.

Some of them offer an enhanced vacation "perk", but that sort of misses the point — I (and probably a lot of people who are passionate about travel) am more put off by having to be in the same place 48-52 weeks out of the year than I would be having to carry a laptop to wheverer it is I feel like being in the world.
Well, this is Valve Time (c) we are dealing with here :)

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time
I am aware that you were making an like-to-like comparison with your selection of those Muni and CTA graphics. However, for those who don't know, Muni is more than just the light rail lines shown in that picture.

Here's a complete system map: http://transit.511.org/static/providers/maps/SF_122220102111...

The equivalent CTA system maps seem to show just as much bus coverage as Muni's bus coverage. (Now, how many of those bus lines keep running after 23:00 is another question, entirely.)
Buffalo makes decent hardware (don't count on the software though), so does TP-link. But in any case the OEM firmware is most probably horrible, so most important factor imho is OpenWRT (or some other distro) support.
You pause there in speaking, so you should put a comma there.
Won two games in a match against Pete Sampras

I think I can chime in on this one. While I've never faced the likes of Pete Sampras, I'd say it's not too far-fetched for an advanced amateur player to take a game from a world-class player.

After all, it takes just a few mishits to lose a game (four, to be exact) - and they can have a bad day, a momentary lapse of attention; and, just like that, the game's gone. Especially if the amateur has a decent serve.

Now, to win a match (or even a set) against Pete - that would be a life-time achievement worthy of putting on the resume :)
Half of our team members work remotely from home, in other parts of the world from our main base in Melbourne.

And we encourage our team members to travel as much as possible, working remotely from anywhere in the world.
No, he's not. He's addressing one of the premises commonly used when making the inequality argument, that middle class wages have stagnated since roughly the 70s. Nothing more, nothing less.
> You can't get San Francisco running efficiently, because that would require large numbers of unionized city workers to willingly admit their redundancy and wastefulness. Inefficiency pays their salaries.

I predict we will all have this problem before too long. Every time you hear a politician talk about "creating jobs", this is what they are talking about: work as welfare. Gotta right to live, gotta work to live, so you gotta right to work-- never mind if, by working, you're actually damaging the economy.

Right now it's only a few obsolete unions and they sound crazy, but the robots will come for all of us eventually. We need to start working yesterday on a society that can conceive of supporting even those who contribute nothing, or I fear that the era of free food will see us all starve to death.