skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience in software is similar. While companies go out of their way to hire smart people who regularly come up with improvements to how things are done, their efforts are easily thwarted by the marching morons of the status quo (which is obviously working so what's the problem?). Those who luck out and break out from the herd to implement those improvements end up getting promoted.

But in the employer's defense, once these guys are in the driver's seat, it can frequently be hard to distinguish the signal from the smart guys from the rantings of particularly vocal morons.

I think the take home lesson is to be very careful choosing your co-workers and manager.

As for the subject of this thread, there are no magic bullets, right? Sometimes a plan is awesome when the target is clear. Other times it only gets in the way when one is doing a significant amount of research in parallel with the development. And everything in between...
I've been doing it this way for over a year and it's been nearly perfect. It looks and feels like a native app like he says in the article.

However, I've noticed issues with USB peripherals / Virtualbox that make Photoshop nearly impossible to use with a tablet for me.
Another issue cropping up is eyeballs moving from desktops to mobile devices. The CPM for mobile is significantly lower than desktop which puts more financial constraints on a company that is only ad powered. These are real pressures affecting $FB and $GOOG right now. Based on KPCB (1) research, CPM for desktop is $3.50 and for mobile it's $0.75.

[1] - http://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/kpcb-internet-trend...
Google hints at possible “X Phone” with long battery life, wireless charging
Boston, DC area, Atlanta, to name a few
But what about free ponies?
Seriously.

Its like a startup circle jerk around here with everybody trying to sell their lean social media analytics project management ab test tracker to each other.
Not using a VM on my desktop often, I read is list of requirements and assumed it was impossible. "Seamless mode" in particular I was not aware of.
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Agree, broken Re-targeting really annoys and it happens even with Facebook, personally have experienced repeated ads coming up even after the product was bought, mostly this happens when we use Facebook as the login option to get into these online Mega Stores.
Offer HN: Free SEO For Your Startup/Company (SF bay area)
The deal:

I will do SEO for your startup and/or company for free. The number of hours? As many as it takes, whilst it's still fun to do. It usually takes 5-10 hours to do the basic stuff (strategy and on-site optimization), and then another 10-50 to initiate the harder stuff (developing content and building backlinks).

I will examine your site or product, develop a complete SEO strategy, give you tips and clues on what needs to be corrected on your site, do keyword research and develop content for your site - eventually starting the grind job of building backlinks.

Who am I?

I'm a SEO professional making $170K a year doing project lead and SEO work. I really, really love SEO. SEO is one of my main passions in life. I love logical link hierarchies, finding new sources of backlinks, explaining the importance of digital distribution of content to newbies, doing technical SEO and seeing Google gradually index a site. I love Penguin and Panda - and I love the sheer amount of intelligence that goes ranking in Google. I also own 10-20 sites with Pagerank ranging from 4 to 6. My own sites attract 150-200.000 visitors per week, largely because of SEO.

Why the deal?

Together with a few friends, I'm moving to the SF Bay area in august/september of 2013. I don't know too many people there yet, but I think I'm pretty aligned with most of the guys here on Hacker News. This is a nice way to (possibly) get some new friends whilst doing something I love. (friendship is non-mandatory) ;-)

Who are you?

You're someone in tech, leading a startup or a company. You're great at what you do and you understand the importance of SEO; but you're no master at it - and you understand that your time and talents are better used on other tasks. You live or operate out of the SF Bay Area, and you have a really great product (I can't work on stuff I don't like).

If you are interested, please email me at eric@listnerd.com introducing yourself. Thanks, and good luck to all fellow entrepreneurs.
EZange - Global Sin Analytics & Aggregator
I am part of a small student team that is soon launching a site and am interested to get the HN community input.

The Japanese word zange means "Repentance, Confession, Penitence"

eZange is a new website that allows people of all religions around the world to confess their sins and improprieties publicly.

The site will be a global showcase of people's missteps - from racism to fraud to infidelities to cheating on taxes.

What is unique about this website is that it gives individuals an opportunity to publicly relieve themselves of their mental burden, and allow other users and web site visitors to see where issues of injustice are happening throughout the world.

There will also be an option for nonprofits, NGOs, and appropriate advocacy groups to weigh in on these injustices and give users more information about them as well as offering an outlet for making donations to their causes.

http://ezange.com/
Well... The nature of the crime is unrelated, perhaps. But the measuring scale, so to speak, is the same: length of incarceration. So from the point of view of the measuring instrument, it is comparable, and the comparison makes sense.
The book "Powering the Future" also argues fuel will always outperform batteries, pointing out that both fuel and batteries store chemical energy, and that chemical energy density is fundamentally contrained by physics:

Since all atoms are approximately the same size there is a limit to how many bonds/volume you can have, and since all chemical bonds are roughly the same amount of energy there's a limit on how much energy/volume you can store with chemical energy.

The book then argues that hydrocarbon fuels come very close to the ideal energy density, and have many other advantages over batteries (weight (they're formed with light elements), extremely safe byproducts CO2 H2O, simple ingredients).
"sometimes seemingly apropos of nothing."

Most panic attacks are that way.
So, only if you buy a phone from Verizon.
Don't stick with a job that bores you. It's soul destroying. My site might have a few bits and pieces that may interest you: http://hackerjobs.co.uk/jobs
Coeffecients of (s+1)^n

Did you say you're in MATLAB?

I am toying with doing a circuit simulator. I did a general purpose numeric integrator for mass-springs. Circuits are about the same. As I think about it, Laplace is not relevant because I want nonlinear circuit elements. I am curious to try solving circuits with Laplace, though. This is all for fun.

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If you do eigenvalues/vectors, it requires factoring polynomials. Factoring polynomials is a black art, I'm pretty sure. Scientific numeric computing is not for amateurs. MATLAB used a fortran LINPACK for a long time, just because that shit's hard.
I don't want anything posted on my behalf unless I say so

Maybe they know that. Maybe it turns them on? Just consider people who grope, or even rapists. They know their victims don't want it, and in presence of physically fit people who pay attention they hold their feet quite still; but as soon as the attention or the ability for self-defense wanes, they come a-creeping again.

Sure I could have used a less loaded comparison, but for me that's what is going on here and elsewhere. Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft to name just those who certainly will not stop unless they've been disabled.

But of course, it's really hard to knock someone out for good when for anyone adding 2 and 2, there are ten people with Stockholm Syndrome doing their best to stop them; so that's why we're still here, instead of, say, the information age. Bill Hicks kindly asked advertisers to kill themselves; they didn't. So can we at least fucking stop putting food on their table? I'd like to know how an information age, as opposed to a naked emperor advertisement age, would actually look like. Since they won't do the decent thing, let's do it for them.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me a hundred times, and people get confused and think that's just how it is. Well no, and it isn't over until the heat death of the universe, either.
10 things Julius Caesar could have taught us about business, and etc
Cornell Tech Students Start Class In Their Temporary, Google-Owned Home
A 4 years old article on the front page of HN, with an attention-grabbing headline and no sign of serious research into the topic? Come on HN!
I run a similar semi-pornographic site. The problem is payment gateways like Paypal do not like sites with adult content, and traffic typically isn't high enough to justify splurging on a merchant account.
Interesting I suppose a "resonable person" would think suppressing the wage bill counted but as ever one rune for you and me one for the employer.

Though this does reduce the state tax take which I know that individual states can get quite litigious over this issue
In terms of 'good / bad', it's basically a trade-off between bandwidth and distance the signal can travel. A high carrier frequency allows a higher bandwidth[1], but it doesn't travel far/well. A low frequency can travel far, but doesn't support high bandwidth. So there is a sweet-spot (which is currently considered 'good') that achieves a balance of BW and distance. There's a great guide here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/spectrum/bbc-the-spectrum-and-i... (see page 5)

1] the carrier frequency doesn't itself determine the bandwidth, it's the frequency range that does. For example, if someone says "a 100 Mhz signal", that doesn't tell you what the bandwidth is. You need to also know that the signal is actually allowed to cover 99.9 Mhz to 100.1 Mhz, so it's bandwidth is 0.2 Mhz (which could transfer ~0.2Mbps (order of magnitude accurate), depending on the encoding system used[2]). But if someone says "a 100 Mhz signal" you can guess that they don't mean the signal is allowed to cover 70 Mhz to 130 Mhz (60 Mhz of bandwidth), because: a) that's a ~2x range in frequency, which make it hard to design appropriate aerials, filters, modulators, etc; b) that isn't how spectrum is actually allocated anywhere I know of. So in practice you can normally deduce the approximate bandwidth by knowing the carrier frequency. Apologies for the long explanation - I've been nitpicked before on this..

2] see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_rate, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_rate
Hams solved all the issues I saw mentioned in the article 100 years ago.

In the USA, it will be easy to break laws with this device. However, since the 1980s there has not been field enforcement by uncle Charlie (the FCC). Licensed users must complain a lot to get a response.\

For example, several times in CA police radio repeaters have been cross patched into HAM radio bands. No prosecution.

Now, all that being said, jamming is the worst sin a radio operator can commit. Please be careful if you start transmitting. Not out of fear, but out of being a good operator.
"You're ruining all my fun with your calm debating."

That's the nicest thing someone's ever said to me on HN :)

"Well, we're simply going to have to disagree."

Yes, we will. Not that I've signed up to cryonics or anything yet (still checking how it works from outside the US), but I'm almost convinced that it's worth it. Thanks for another interesting viewpoint on the topic.
Three buckets
It's not that you said it in a positive light. It's that you used it as a common noun. The term "free market" is only useful as a comparative, like so: "America has freer markets than India". This lets people know and contextualize what you're saying.

Otherwise, using the term just turns into a competition of politics between Republican shills (ie: you), minarcho-capitalist ("libertarian") ideologues, mutualist anarchists, and socialists on what it means to be a "free market", how "free" a market has to be to qualify for the term, and whether the relative "freedom" or lack thereof of a market matters at all.

I fall into that last camp. There are actually reputable studies showing that given 100% Free markets never occur in reality (perfect competition, perfect information, zero transaction costs were the definition they used), most not-completely-retarded allocation mechanisms other than those are more-or-less as decent as each other; there was basically a 3% allocative-efficiency advantage to the realistically imperfect market over the tested form of central planning.

A mathematician also showed that even perfect theoretical markets can oscillate neverendingly between multiple general equilibriums rather than ever converging to one efficient equilibrium.

In conclusion, stop using the term "free market" outside of meaningful context.
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Maybe, but the point is the constraint was never "use the phone system", only to use the cable.
He's right. I just got through the battery course at Stanford Online and batteries suck. Downer.
> I'd say fuel cells aren't batteries since they basically just oxidize

Many batteries also use oxidation reactions. That's not how you define a battery. I think the main difference is batteries release all the energy as electricity without associated heat, but fuel cells are partially electricity, partially heat.
The success of advertising in your app depends on how valuable a service you provide. As value increases, so does the viability of an ad based revenue model.
A Conspiracy of Optimism
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lol what the fuck are you even talking about? this has NOTHING to do with the article.
The History of the Scroll Wheel
Thanks - love the technical legal terms "epic shitstorm" and "throw them a sack of peppercorns"

:-)

cheers
But ADSL only goes as far as the exchange before being routed onto an IP backbone network. With modem signals the same signal goes over a voice circuit (albeit a virtual one) all the way to the receiving modem. They're not at all the same thing.
True, but genius is not enough. Jobs seemed to have a quality that acted as a catalyst for genius to do 'great' stuff (where 'great' is debatable, of course).

Based on my personal experience with 'Jobsian' types, I have found this to be true as well. I've met many people who were brilliant at things, but under these types, even those with less brilliance often performed better. Anecdotal evidence, true, but still. My point is that it is fine to acknowledge their genius AND that he might have played a more important role than just money/power.
$80k in Boston is definitely closer to mid/senior starting salaries.
http://psiram.com/en/index.php/Cold_Fusion

LENR is a fundamental shift from science to pseudo-science
David Attenborough is correct. The big question is what to do about it. Human institutions do not seem to be able to cope with multiple global crises (global warming, resource depletion, water, food, population, and so forth) on a time scale where change will make a difference.
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I was rather disappointed too. Maybe his approach was the only one that would provide a good story for non-techies, but I didn't like it. But then I'm a geek.
Startup using a custom Portal 2 level to recruit engineers
I dunno. The book had a bunch of stuff that was interesting enough that I was happy to have bought it. But it was still disappointing.
So, a bit offtopic, but other than the hype and the encryption discussions, is anyone actually using the service?
I would have thought that by now every HN'er has at least one account strictly for signups and a separate account/s for personal/business.

Lets stop pretending there's some kind of cost in signing up for something like this.
I did something similar using Now.js that allowed me to write the actual unit tests on the server, but run them in browser-based clients whenever they loaded. Made testing really easy on a multitude of browsers and OSes.
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Well, on OSX, there's a much easier approach: just.... run the native version of Photoshop.
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ESTail: tail or pipe anything over HTTP
I think the author is explicitly NOT stating that battery technology has reached it's peak, but rather the safe bet isn't on huge changes in a decade time frame.

He's not commenting on the tech so much as the wisdom of ASSUMING it will be better in a certain time frame.

He's saying, it's not wise to build a business on top of the idea that battery tech will progress predictably or at all.

I disagree, because any business built on that will be the first to exploit it properly when it comes out, as a competitive advantage. But if they're wrong, they'll deal with the downside risk of, you know, being wrong.
I suppose I wrote this blog entry as much for myself as for other nascent entrepreneurs. If you've been in the business for awhile, and your successful, the content shouldn't be new to you.
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It may be worth reiterating that I (or anyone) can open my (or anyone's) mailbox with a pair of bobby pins. This "authentication protocol" may not be worth making too much hay over.
Mark Chmarny joins Cloudability to help with "rogue" IT.
I don't mean to self-promote, but I spent an hour over the weekend making my latest side project. If you have time, check it out at:

http://le.an-social-media-analytics-project-management-ab-te...

Feedback welcome! I spent the most time on the domain name.

Svtble writeup coming soon...there really is an art to coming up with ideas like this, which I learned by choosing the best toenail clippers last summer over a two week long deliberative process. I know most people wouldn't spend that long on toenail clippers, but I had to have the best. It's who I am. Deal with it.

Anyone want me to open source the code? All I did was add my copyright to the Bootstrap CSS, but maybe someone wants that? Just let me know.

Also, I've made $0 in the 10 minutes I've had it online, without any marketing or awareness other than this post on HN. What am I doing wrong? Is it too early to monetize? Would Stripe integration help?

UPDATE: Sorry, my WP installation couldn't handle the load! I'll see if I can get a cache up somewhere. Ironic that my first post was on "How I used a free EC2 microserver to achieve 100% uptime with a million simultaneous connections -- and you can too." I guess I should have tested it first.

UPDATE 2: Help!1! I'm being downvoted, but those cowards won't say why! What could I do better with my comment?
If anything, libraries will stick around as public places where people can sit freely and do something in silence. In the US, especially in suburbia, it's almost impossible to find a space where you can sit and do whatever you please without having to buy something or feel guilty for taking up a table. (Yes parks, but in many places that's only feasible for half the year.)

Libraries are one of the last places where you can just sit and work or study or read in a public space, and whenever I go to my local ones the tables are always filled with people of all ages doing just that.
Is it just me or are the "sign" links broken and just point to the home page?
Don't be put off by the "Coming Soon", scroll down for the content!
random wiki website vs. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?resId=5&material...

And that's just for a quick bite.

See the slideshare for more relavant info.
A license holder would have to complain to the FCC. If you jammed a commercial station they would try to track you down and seize your gear.
For the top 1000 or so it's probably pretty accurate.
My only cautionary advice is that it is becoming more common to see the UI/UX role to encompass design, HCI, and front-end development. You might be limiting yourself by having a narrow focus.
> Until the "magic" ships.

So, there is a better battery. And it's inevitable.
Thanks, we'll definitely investigate adding support for this.
(Obvious suggestion) look at how similar content sites are being monetized. A lot of ad networks advertise on PirateBay. Maybe you can contact them and include similar ad units.
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That is not the only relevant FCC rule. There are several swaths of public use spectrum in the USA.

Private Land Mobile Radio Service
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_band#Low-band_frequenc...
Are you a hipster or a nerd? (video)
Ooh, that's a wonderful observation. I've known a number of people that I would call 'Jobsian', based on my limited knowledge of him, of course. And in all cases they were really good at making me feel just that way.
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That makes his use of the term "solidus" a bit baffling (maybe it's referred to as such somewhere in the HTML5 specs?). I actually assumed he must mean both the characters in "/>" -- glad you mentioned it before I made a fool of myself somewhere.
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IRB - International Ruby Band
After the Palm CEO refused to collude: "This is not satisfactory to Apple...My advice is to take a look at our patent portfolio before you make a final decision here. Steve"

Wow.
You only need a battery to support you while you are off-grid.

Electric trains don't run on batteries.

Wireless charging is getting better.

Electricity which is "too cheap to meter" would mean we didn't need 'great' battery tech, current tech would be ok.

The other way to solve this problem is to say "burning hydrocarbons have great energy density, and the global transport industry is already tooled up to use them, so lets use those as our 'battery' tech", and just find:

- a good way to turn our global energy output into stored chemical energy in hydrocarbons

- a good way to use hydrocarbons in small-scale non-transport devices (phones?)
There are some things we can download from our local library without travelling there.

http://www.dclibrary.org/downloads

And, with a library card, we can download 3 songs a week.
Well that was a pleasant surprise. I submitted the link thinking no one would have shared this yet. But instead Scott Gu himself is now on HN! :) Welcome.
I have searched for LENR and what I get is this wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion

"By late 1989, most scientists considered cold fusion claims dead,[6][7] and cold fusion subsequently gained a reputation as pathological science.[8]"

"A small community of researchers continues to investigate cold fusion,[6][11] now often preferring the designation low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR).[12][13] Some have reported that, "under certain extreme conditions", they observe excess heat effects by interaction of hydrogen or deuterium with palladium, nickel or platinum.[14] Since cold fusion articles are rarely published in refereed scientific journals, the results do not receive as much scrutiny as more mainstream topics.[15]"