skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just out of intereste, what kind of digital product are you selling? I never thought fraud was a problem with digital products, because it is very easy to just go to the torrent sites and download it there...

Edit: to mean, who would bother to do payment fraud, when you can just download torrents.
Rap Genius Cofounder Is Soliciting Diss Tracks About Warren Buffett
Gamasutra: Jon Shafer's Blog - Revisiting the Design of Civ 5
If you dual boot with Linux, the Windows partition will not be writable when it's in hibernated state.
Of course, every other person who bought stock in a company after bad news where the company ended up going on to fail had the same reasoning:

- critics don't understand the master plan

- I'm betting on CEO X, and the market just doesn't understand him/her
Yeah--so much worse than selling their personal info and preferences to advertisers on a dating website or social network. They should feel ashamed. :|
The page refreshes itself continuously. How did you even manage that?

(I block 3rd party cookies)
What makes americans go to American hospitals unless they have insurance?
If I was this guy, I'll bolt to, I don't know, Thailand or Hong Kong or maybe even Switzerland.

You'll get all the examinations and all the treatment for a fraction of the cost (in case of Switz, all of it), tickets and living included.
Amazingly candid admissions by the designer of the fifth entry in the Sid Meier franchise, by far the worst and least playable. At least now we know how this train wreck happened. Among other things, Shafer did the AI programming himself despite a lack of previous experience, leading him to make the computer Civs far too random. He also didn't think through his many efforts to simplify gameplay such as by removing a player's ability to allocate resources among research, spending and culture, which was a key component of tactical strategy. Switching from a stacking units model to a one-square-per-unit model also made no sense without radically changing the game's maps, which he failed to anticipate. And on it goes.
No sane exchange accepts credit cards...
What reason did your wife give you for getting a divorce? Did she realize you weren't going to strike it rich and bailed? Now's the time to get out there and bang as many 21 year old chicks as you can.
My wife and I are on the hook for the first $5,000 per year, and the insurance will pick up 100% of the costs after that.

Sounds like you have a near-identical plan to the one my wife and I have. Don't bank on the insurance company doing what they say they will, at least not without a fight. Just to throw out a random example, in the few weeks after our daughter was born we received a dozen or so letters from the insurance company all telling us the company didn't think some aspect of the childbirth care was "necessary", and that they didn't want to pay for it. Quite a shocker for us, as the birth was relatively routine, and every intervention was something the medical staff thought was necessary. In the end, after hours of phone calls, we got them to pay for most of it, but definitely not 100% of the after-deductible amount.
Addressing this was W Bush's solution to the healthcare cost problem. But payouts due to malpractice suits are around 1% of medical expenditures and not all of those payouts are bogus.
Not on MagSafe, no. Apple doesn't license that to anyone. Microsoft got their own patent for a different design.
I'm hedging my bets in that way; should I be diagnosed with something serious like cancer, I'll probably just fly to be treated with first-world health care at a reasonable price and in a tropical setting, in the country where my family lives.

Unrelatedly, I was recently in Monterrey, Mexico, where there's a huge industry around medical tourism; get treated with class just a few hours south of the border.

Despite what many Americans believe, hospitals outside the US are not candlelit caves staffed with black-toothed surgeons holding meat cleavers.
I always phrase it to the client as 'building a mental picture of the problem'. Then I can ask questions that some people might otherwise take offense to.
I really like the way you break everything down, will check your site often :)
But if you also have ~20 tabs open in your browser, and are streaming music etc... I am doing a thin client setup of sorts, and by the end of the day things start slowing down quite a bit.

I do agree that $1300 is too much, at that price range you might as well get a mac. If it was 600-800 i'd probably jump on it. However, I think the curve ball here is the touch screen. I'd be willing to bet that Google's strategy for this laptop is to do a smaller production run, and get these in the hands of tech/programmer types, and then use the lessons learned to develop a model targeted toward a wider audience.
> Tesla is a company that is trying to make AMERICAN electric cars, he should encouraged and cheered ... science and technology can actually have a good impact on climate and consumer practices vis à vis greenhouse gases and the approach to modernity.

A vastly more effective approach would be to encourage and cheer those trying to wean America from its addiction to automobiles....

Elon does cool things, but it's not clear Tesla really represents a desirable future.
I'd bet they do. and they probably have some hedge fund backer thats specifically creating these shorts.
What does the Relevance Paradox mean for Big Data?
The most appealing and inviting thing about Vine for me is its flat pixel design. There was a great article and debate about flat pixels / skeuomorphism a couple weeks back --> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5204380
Airbnb. Keep a room in your house open, if you live in a desirable neighborhood, and have people rotating through. If you charge high enough you could at least make up your rent and on good months make more. Keep a look out for big events like Outside Lands where there are hundreds of people coming through the city and up your prices.

The easiest way to make extra money is to use the assets you already have, like your house. Even if you don't have a spare room, keep a look out for those weekends and sleep on a friends couch or something. Look into your car and GetAround etc.
>>It’s also a sign of male loneliness or romance: men seeking to find a possible love-mate outnumber women 86 – 14.

>How is this not sad?

That's probably more a side effect of socialization that teaches men to take the active role.
It appears to have a Google key[1], where you'd normally find Caps Lock.

[1]http://cdn2.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/7734569/2013-02-...
> What about people that prefer trading some battery life for some performance?

Question being, performances for doing what? What are you going to do with a chromebook to need the extra oomph?
harlem shake man, come on.
In a year or two a part of Obamacare phases in that changes reimbursement structure from per-procedure payments to payments for overall effectiveness, whether it actually works is up in the air:

2015: "A new provision will tie physician payments to the quality of care they provide. Physicians will see their payments modified so that those who provide higher value care will receive higher payments than those who provide lower quality care. "

http://www.healthcare.gov/law/timeline/
Business development isn't the same as marketing or sales, you should step back and hammer out a list of skills you're looking for. Is it primarily sales that you need, is it product management, is it performance marketing, etc. You might be looking for someone who can do all of these roles but they'll naturally have their focus on one of these areas and you should decide what that should be.

What are the main difficulties you face now and need this person to come and deal with ? - is it sourcing warm leads, is it managing the sales process the the client firm, is it figuring out what you need to build to get the most customers ?
No you won't. You would be taxed for a fraction of this. See the explanation at the top.
I keep trying to think of practical implications for this technology, but every time I do, I just end up daydreaming about robot circuses.
ColumbiaMakeOut Tweets Creepy Pics of Columbia Students Making Out
Dropping Out of Stanford
Here's the thoughts i had while reading the article, or after.

A static idea of self, vs fake self. This is all wrong. Your mind / "you" isn't unchanging and properly definable, you can work your mind to do anything. You in 5 years could be the 'fake you' that you can be now. What's "fake" anway, it's still you who's acting, thinking and feeling. I wish i could explain this better, since it comes up all the time.

I think you could benefit from reading some philosophy, a bunch of history, and lots of other people's experiences, and maybe even some pua stuff could be insightful. There's "how to live" "things i learned from xy" posts on HN every week, i don't understand how come everyone isn't a zen master yet?

All your experiences are from while you were growing up. I consider people adults about halfway their 20's, thats when their brain is "complete". It also means your experiences of the social world are almost worthless, since everything changes as you and the people you interact with grow up. You're still young.

Why are you so certain of everything? You said you were interested in science, didn't science teach you to be sceptical? It seems you leave no room for uncertainty, or accepting that some things can't be known, in your thoughts about yourself, about others, about everything.

i tried visiting wrongplanet some years ago, but it seemed full of whiny oversensitive circlejerky hivemind full of people who only want to read what makes them feel nice and as such get stuck.

You wrote "too" 2 times where you meant "to"
Mostly keys for games, Xbox live points, stuff like that. Very attractive products, both for legitimate customers, but sadly also for criminals.

Torrents are useless for games that require constant network access, which is most new games. You can have the "stolen" keys blocked, but you still lose money.
Exploring the Blackhole exploit kit
For Chicago, I'd expect "at the crime scene" to be more common.
1 in 3 people saying they want to get a new device is an extremely good result. IMO the ipad 1 wasn't that great either.
Submission of SQL for ANSI standardization could trigger promissory estoppel.
I'm not referring to the high level conversations that occur between company and employee. I'm more referring to the "nuts and bolts" process of doing fizzbuzz and writing out binary tree parsers and things like that.
Really? Last time the subject was mentioned, the StackOverflow people basically said "if you don't buy your own servers then you don't love computers and we love computers so..." - there wasn't an actual cost comparison, maybe I missed it. It seemed to be more just giddiness at buying servers and wiring stuff up. Which seemed odd, seeing as last I heard, SO doesn't even run their own routing.

That said, buying servers, especially a gen or two older and refurb, can be a major cost win, so it wouldn't surprise me. Running the actual racks, meh, I'd rather have the colo people handle that unless there's so many racks that it's simply not feasible. For a couple dozen servers, I can't see the point in running it all yourself; it's pretty straightforward plugging stuff in, ain't it?
> Using that logic I don't know how Apple sells so many of its MacBooks. They're all expensive and have "specs like this", but the vast majority are not used for development, design or gaming.

A macbook is more than a thin client running SSH and a browser.
I don't work with MySQL or Rails, but I read this all the way through, mostly because the story was well told.

Strikes me as a perfect example of a culture that works hard and enjoys the hell out of it too.
Elon isn't competing against Ford. He's competing against Exxon.

EDIT mkt cap: Ford 47.24B https://www.google.com/search?q=f Exxon 398.83B https://www.google.com/search?q=xom
How is that not worth it?
Peer review without journals or conferences
That is insanely cool. Quit your job and play with quadrocopters cool.

I'm surprised we've not seen larger versions of this platform for civilian use.
It's also very likely that they weren't very competent. If I recall correctly, they wanted this for a Christmas sale, and they contacted me about it in late November.
Second, however you cut it, the fundamental chemical reaction is going to be CxHxOx + O2 => CO2.

I thought most fuels were hydrocarbons (CxHx - e.g. propane is C3H8, methane is CH4, benzene is C6H6), not carbohydrates (CxHxOx).

There is no way to avoid producing carbon dioxide if you want [an] exothermic reaction.

I'm not a chemist, so forgive this question if it is naive: is there no catalyst or chemical process that can completely strip the carbon from the hydrogen, oxidize the hydrogen, and leave only carbon and water?
I don't expect desktops to disappear in at least 10 or 15 years.

But sure as hell I expect them to become more expensive over time, to a point where to have a desktop means paying a premium price over an equivalent laptop.

In fact, I'm just making plans to buy a new Desktop. On the other hand, I don't have any plans to purchase any mobile device, at least until I can install Ubuntu on it and expect it to work just as well as my Ubuntu 12.04 install.
I couldn't figure out how the quadrocopters were coordinated. Turns out it's a high-speed motion capture. More here: http://www.flyingmachinearena.org/
Fortune just reported that insider's confirm LivingSocial was down to JUST $28M IN CASH in February right before taking yesterday's financing? If my math is right, looking at their 2012 financials on PrivCo:
http://www.privco.com/livingsocial-receives-emergency-110m-c...

Their operating expenses are about $1.4 Billion/year (Revenue + Operating loss = about $1.4 Billion they spend a year). That's $120 Million a month. $4 million a day. THEY WERE DOWN TO JUST 7 DAYS OF CASH! How is that NOT the very definition of a "distressed financing" situation? T

hey were down to a dangerously low level of cash and regardless of the financing terms or structured as technically debt or technically equity, that yes this was a distressed financing situation.
I could see ChromeOS converging w/ Android into a single platform that allowed for android app emulation while running x86_64 apps natively.

I realize they're completely separate teams, but at what point do they converge to provide a greater value-add to the product?

What user is going to drop $1200 on a machine that only lets you browse the web? Unless GOOG plans on providing some large backend for virtualization or offloading CPU processing what's in it for the "power" user.

There's more to this than we're privy to. I don't see a user needing this kind of horse power for just cloud-based applications. That doesn't make sense.
This is horrible. Also this is an opportunity for countries like India.
For example for $83k they would have got VIP treatment in India. Yes, India may not have the high-tech stuff in there but for that kind of money you can easily get more value for your money.

I have worked in a cancer hospital in India and I know for sure that Indian doctors are way too experienced than their American counterparts. I have seen doctors working 15 hours a day conduction 5-6 surgeries as day and seeing upto 70 patients per day.
The sad part is that they usually truly don't.

Because not only do hospitals have largely-fictional rates they try to pass to insurers, there are also the medicare rates, the medicaid rates, the rates they pass to those trying to pay out-of-pocket, the rates for the generic equivalent they'll switch to after you agree to a drug/procedure due to your coverage, the discounted rates they pass to people who will almost certainly let the bill go to collections if it isn't heavily discounted, etc.
What exactly about the BSD sockets API makes it a source of TCP's many woes? What woes are you talking about?

Also, why do we want to re-implement TCP in user space, when it still needs to traverse the kernel as a UDP packet, this doesn't have any of the benefits that netmap or PF_RING for example bring to the table where the software is doing the full stack and thus there is less latency involved.

QUIC as it currently stands will be sitting on top of UDP, so all packets traverse the kernel, get dumped to user space, user space parses it, and sends packets back, as UDP. All that extra copying, when with TCP in the kernel the kernel would be responsible for reassembling packets, would be responsible for ACK'ing packets, and stuff like that.

Also, mmap'd files as buffer for file transfers ... you are going to have to explain that one. There are already various zero copy mechanisms for sending files, such as sendfile().

As for new congestion control algorithms, great, sounds fantastic, but how much more of a nightmare is it going to be to get the parties to agree on a congestion control mechanism? We already have that problem now ...

Sorry, but I see a whole lot of complaining without any real data or information to back it up. [[citation needed]].
That's practical enough for me.
That's super weird- I had my first chargeback today, from a customer who didn't even attempt to get in touch and ask for a refund... apparently this is quite common!
Or, the result of Feminism, which teaches women to take the active role.
"Storing nuclear waste is a very technically solvable problem. Politically, it is difficult to solve because most people are terrified of it and have "not in my backyard" syndrome."

There are very good reasons why people don't want nuclear waste in their back yard: 1) lack of trust in the people who build and maintain the containment units, 2) evidence of massive screwups at nuclear facilities that led to the likes of Chernobyl and Fukushima, not to mention smaller screwups, lies, and coverups of shoddy maintenance and safety issues at other nuclear facilities.

The technical issues of nuclear waste containment might be solved, but the social issues related to who stores the waste have not. There are no guarantees that the waste will in fact be stored properly, and that the people who store the waste will be competent enough to do so, nor that they will refrain from cutting corners on safety so they can make a quick buck, earn some kickbacks, or score some political points.
Thin client, thick client, cloud, local, etc, these are all only relevant to technical people. Focus on use-cases. What does the Pixel let you do that a Macbook Pro does not? Have access to all your documents from anywhere (over internet connections of various levels of unreliability?) No, because you can do all that on a Macbook Pro. Does taking away the ability to do things locally improve the user experience in some other way? Arguably, it improves maintainability and makes the UI easier to use.

Is that the target market for the Pixel? People whose main concern is reducing maintenance burden and having an easier to use interface? Okay, now how many of those people are better served by an iPad?
Phone verification will not stop the worst of the fraud. Do not underestimate how well some people lie. It will deter the small time criminals, but not professional.
Startup idea:

blades that self-interconnect wirelessly at short distances

Why are we still cabling (it's def. cheap, but man-hour time to cable is expensive)?
Nice! I did the same thing for my homepage: http://www.matthewratzloff.com

I created a soundless MIDI file just so it would load the control. :-)
What makes you think that being short on a stock is the same as hoping for failure? I hope Tesla is fantastically successful, but I would consider shorting it if I were doing such things these days. They're two totally separate things.
> I'd be willing to bet that Google's strategy for this laptop is to do a smaller production run, and get these in the hands of tech/programmer types

If that's the case, pull an Apple and ship great dev tools on the installation disk. As far as I can tell, there are no top-notch Chrome OS development tools, just various ways to remote into a real machine to do that work.
And yet, they wouldn't have been able to use it if Apple didn't let them, because it does power - and that's covered by Apple's patent.

Luckily (for them) most of the incumbents have patent cross-licensing deals, so MS doesn't worry about Apple suing them for patent infringement, and vice versa.
Ehh that ranking should have included IPO exits, which LP's do care about, but then again, it did expressively state that it was based on their annual M&A report.....which, given the topic, could not include ipo exits....but then again, this data is so shady, a list is better than no list.
Is your 2560x1440 screen only 13" though?

I don't see the point of having a pixel density that high; almost no one has sharp enough eyesight to distinguish individual pixels at even lower densities than that, and enough people have poor enough eyesight that they won't be able to read text on software that doesn't scale its fonts properly.

That resolution is appropriate for a monitor with twice the diagonal size.

Also, what's up with the 3:2 aspect ratio? That seems awfully odd.
I am not sure what would theoretically prevent each web page and each application from running on a separate core (or two). Considering the number of people who love multiple tabs, I can't see how that wouldn't seem like a win for even thirty or more cores.
A minor correction to this article, to the best of my knowledge Mercedes-Benz uses batteries produced by Deutsche Accumotive (a joint-venture of Daimler and Evonik) both in the smart electric drive and the forthcoming B-Class E-Cell. The Tesla batteries were only used in pre-production smart electric drives, as a replacement for the old ZEBRA NaNiCl batteries.
>They got stronger with time

Stronger how? It is just a pseudo-html document tree being manipulated in scala. I'm not sure how it can become stronger or weaker.

>For the TAL stuff, it looks like logic is directly placed in an attribute.

It is placed wherever you want it. Using a TAL loop attribute is no different than doing the same thing in lift. The only difference is that lift doesn't show doing that in the docs, so people tend not to do it.

>Again, the difference comes in how the templates are "split" and placed in the app

I still don't understand what you mean. We literally took our lift templates and used them in heist just doing a search and replace s/lift://g. We just had to change the scala code "snippets" to be haskell code "splices".

>I'm still interested to hear an analysis if you are up for giving it

Lift assumes too much, and if you go outside those assumptions you are basically stranded. Combined with just being an immature framework where there's things missing/incomplete, and an outright hostile community, it makes things pretty difficult. Form handling was the biggest sticking point, especially when you want to have forms that aren't protected by their CSRF tokens and need to work with cookies disabled. It becomes a case of "well, we don't want to support that so just do it yourself from scratch".

Play we had tons of issues with the weird scala templates they use. It would barf frequently on what appeared to be perfectly valid syntax. Combined with the "developing with play is super fast!" sales pitch, while being slower to recompile than lift was, we didn't bother spending much more time on it.
Chromebook Pixel: Brilliant touch screen, hefty price (hands-on)
Entering a market with entrenched players is hard. Your competitors have economies of scale and you dont.