skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Panopticon fog generator onto a mass -NOT denial of `service' -but to make their revenue model dysfunctional with noise?

chaff noise `advert sense'...

If not too much bandwidth, ... resources,
just shooting off the cuff here,

take the extent cookies, or a recent collective hosted history, net-wide or on your device, a background bot follows/generates false click bread-crumbs to foul their net-wide pattern/action?

falsify by padding certain advert eyeball counts to skew their billing?

etc?

Check out Collusion, others? -a firefox add-on listing who follows you.
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We can stop using RC4

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24257718/cipher_chart.png

Virtually all server side hardware can do AES-NI instructions in hardware now (unless you are using ATOM cpu for ssl connections?) and most non-mobile hardware clients can do AESNI too for AES-128
I was debugging some code I had written once. It was leaking 1M of memory per call (C/C++). Stepping through the code revealed nothing. Leak detectors told me that everything was fine. In desperation, I changed a function name to "potato." The leak stopped. I nearly fell out of my chair. It turned out that I was using exactly the same method signature as a function in a library I was linking against. This was over ten years ago so I do not remember the details, but I will never forget the potato function.
Welcome to the world of web journalism. Outfits like PandoDaily are funded by organisations that back the very startups PandoDaily writes about. Conflict? Psh!
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It's a convenient way to loan a car to someone; just lock a key inside and give him the code. I did this in the middle east often, but the car itself was either in a place where it was guarded by someone with an AK or M4, or was in a country where they'd cut your hands off for theft (and was a Lincoln LS parked next to a bunch of Cayennes and Lambos), so I considered it a fair security trade.
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Granted, this type of journalism is shady, but this certainly doesn't meet the definition of a "pump and dump" scheme.
That's awesome! Always chuffed to hear about people benefiting from the book.

And likewise, sounds like you're working on cool things too ;)
One day I found I couldn't log in typing one-handed, holding the keyboard in the other. I finally realised that my password of some years wasn't what I thought it was, I just typed it consistently incorrectly when touch-typing. Quite a secure password when even I didn't know what it was. :-)
It maybe isn't simple enough for Joe Blow to use (yet?), but I started working on Serif[1] specifically to get away from having to manage the filesystem, without losing the simplicity of everything just being files. Having a web interface to edit content makes a big difference. (It still supports ignoring the interface entirely, while keeping certain things automatic like fine-grained timestamps.)

Jekyll, which it is similar to, had stagnated by the time I'd first put it up on GitHub, but it's probably closer in "philosophy" to Statamic[2].

[1]: https://github.com/aprescott/serif

[2]: http://statamic.com/
Yes, this is how it works in terms of startups trying to gain traction. I imagine it's not just techcrunch that works this way. The startup I worked for got immediate coverage and 60% of the article wasn't even true. Inflating traffic numbers to the nearest million seems like a common practice.

If you know someone, then there is a 100% chance of getting coverage. For everyone else its a crapshoot and certainly not in your favor.

Here is my example:

I tried to get coverage for a fantasy sports startup that solves real problems surrounding player news and getting lineup advice. It even tells you who to pick up on the waiver wire. Got no coverage. Had no exciting investors. It was boring to them.

However, once I launched a side project that enhances the readability of reddit iama's, then I got immediate coverage without even asking for it.
This isn't the first time and it won't be the last. They do this constantly.
> There is nothing unethical in not opening your competitive advantages. Besides that, you don't have a hundred thousand machines to run it on.

You are quoting me out of context. My whole point was about the idea of Google being more benign than Microsoft in the 90s.
Absolutely. If anyone wants to read previous HN comments on that one, here's the search for you:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3A(5...
I'm aware of this but gave him the benefit of the doubt. I want to respect one republican president (post Teddy Roosevelt) so I can think of myself as open-minded.
Then you can buy a laptop from a manufacturer that does not put windows on their products - it's like saying: I don't like Michelin and I don't want to pay a penny towards them, so it's unfair that car manufacturers put these tires on their cars. Even though the deal is probably exactly the same as with Windows and laptop manufacturers - car makers probably buy tires of a specific brand a large discount, so a car with tires and without them would cost roughly the same. Yet I don't see people complaining that when buying a car they don't get to choose the brand of the tires,of the wipers or of the stereo. A car is sold as a complete package. How come that people treat laptops differently?
Again. Downvoters must lose some of its karma like in SO.
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Excellent! Love the blog post. And ViziCities already looks beautiful. I can only imagine how wonderful it's going to be once a lot more vectors (population, vehicles, weather, energy, etc) are added in.

Would a simulation component be added in? Cause if it is, It'll be nothing short of awesome.

All the best!
I think the OP is giving Tech Crunch a wee bit more credit for king making than they deserve.

Mailbox is a great case of playing the hype game to perfection. Massive hype, perfect fit for a larger "startup" playing with house monopoly money - it all adds up to a huge win.

Just be happy for the guys. They haven't even gotten started yet- let them give it a go.
Potentially, but if you're dismissing free markets on account of manipulative, deceitful or otherwise fraudulent behaviour, you ought to at least hope that fraudulent behaviour never occurs or occurs less frequently in the centrally planned economy alternative. There seems to be a surfeit of evidence contrary to this statement throughout the world at the moment, so you'll excuse me if I take that idea with several solar masses of sodium chloride.

I still maintain the only alternative to giving people what they want is forcing them to follow your plan. Historically people who take this path frequently turned out to be wrong, and all the people who they dragged kicking and screaming with them down the path end up bearing the brunt of the negative externalities for their poor decisions.

At least if you give people the absolute freedom to make their own choices when or if they end making bad ones they have only themselves to hold responsible. This is what annoys me most about this whole central economic planning groupthink people are prone to indulging in. The constant pretense that it's some well known scientific fact that only ignorant hicks aren't aware of on a level similar to evolution vs creationism with their ensuing, tired middle-brow dismissals.
I don't think these people fancy themselves as journalists.
Someone with more experience writing browser extensions than I shouldn't have too hard a time using the CrunchBase database to automatically include a "CONFLICT OF INTEREST" warning in TechCrunch posts:

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/orchestra
Possibly, but the market amongst people with a lot of money to spend on frivolities is quite saturated, and by nature any entry you make into that market is easily ignored by your target audience.

Contrast it with say an aeroponic backpack which would harvest moisture from the air and cultivate a personal crop of an edible tuber root for aforementioned meeting thirst and hunger needs.

Totally speculative of course, but anything of that magnitude which could be pulled off would be an absolutely wild profit maker and would not be prone to being ignored by the just plain old hungry and thirsty target market.
case in point: http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/14/with-20-of-reservations-fil...

I'm not sure if I've ever read such fawning about a service going down.
Exactly, I've been 15 times for this very reason and still can't figure it out.
Next you'll tell me that a startup incubator has their own news + commenting site. (Though I personally don't see the conflict.)
TC has always been a big scam under the guise of journalism. And the mailbox example is not even a very good one. I still remember, when I used to frequent TC, they had glowing reviews for startups they were directly involved with. Most of the time they didn't even bother to mention the conflict of interest.

Not to mention Arrington and his monthly quota of manufactured drama.

Worst part, TC always did and still does (though not as much), quite frequently cover most of the frontpage of HN with regurgitated 1 paragraph "news" that has been already discussed to death on other frontpage submission.

How the hell and why the fuck, I have no idea...
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I don't know the Dropbox guys but I doubt they take investment advice from Techcrunch. It also doesn't seem likely that Dropbox with its 100 million users bought Mailbox for their 750,000 users.

Why is it so hard for some people to stomach that maybe Dropbox bought Mailbox for the tech or the talent?
Thanks!

We've been thinking a little about simulation and, although not likely for the first release, it's something we'd love to explore in the future. It's not a huge step to go from our basic AI to a full-on simulated game-type world.

We're not ruling anything out.
You should try using this definition:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump
Bittorrent is more anarchist. This seem lawless. Unless I'm missing some sort of peer validation in the code
There is an outside possibility that pg has rigged HN to give more upvotes to YC-funded companies. It just seems a little unlikely.
a great view inside of bell labs in its heyday is the book "three degrees above zero".

http://books.google.com/books/about/Three_Degrees_Above_Zero...

it sounds like the kind of place i would have liked to have worked. not sure if any place with that magic (or PARC's magic) still exist in the corporate world.
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I've dropped two interesting online courses because I can't devote the time. The maddening thing is they're canned videos that have already been produced, and quizzes and tests are graded automatically, so the only thing that requires real time is interaction with official course assistants.
> Unfortunately, in our efforts for global domination we quickly discovered the performance limitations of the project as it stood, as well as my personal knowledge with Three.js and WebGL. In short, the expanded version of London ran at a horrible 20–40fps depending on the system you viewed it on.

You got a lot farther than me when I tried Three.js before hitting performance problems. I was trying to make a WebGL 3d warehouse visualization app: http://chir.ag/projects/wh/ and stopped because it was too slow once I loaded 1000 bins. I also never quite figured how to handle rotation/panning nicely (src: http://chir.ag/projects/wh/main.js). I came up with a shorthand http://chir.ag/projects/wh/bins/wh.txt that expands to http://chir.ag/projects/wh/bins/bins.php - I was going to make it an easy to use app where you could describe how the warehouse was organized with 20-30 lines of bin#s and positions and let the system generate the rest. Then it could parse APIs containing various properties per bin (full/empty, inventory amount, frequency of usage, days-since-last-used etc.) Clicking on any bin would open up a panel with more information and you'd have filtering/highlighting capability for the whole warehouse.

I made good progress initially but got busy with life and never got around to solving the too-many-bins problem. I still don't know how to improve the performance. Even when entire objects are outside the view, they still take up resources and time. I see you mentioned LOD support in Three.js - no idea if it would help me or not because each object is already as simple as it can be - just a box.

If someone wants to hack on this and make it functional, I'll help however I can.
Right. I'm saying that choosing not to reply is a form of response and that should be sufficient to prevent future communications in this context.

That, rather than me exercising my right and preference to not spend my time trying to determine who is CANSPAM compliant, replying, etc. devolving into harrassment.
When is this cycle going to end?

It seems like every time a high profile acquisition takes place there’s a vocal group of people blogging about how the company in question isn’t really “world-disrupting shit Silicon Valley does”.

Have you seen Silicon Valley recently? This is exactly what it does. There’s still a group of companies out there who are taking big chances and trying amazing things, but by and large the ecosystem is full of stuff like Mailbox. Well-made, highly polished software that caters to a specific problem that people with money complain about. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that business model, but don’t kid yourself into thinking that this is some huge affront to the innovation engine that is Silicon Valley.
The number of companies that TC hypes that go nowhere far outnumber those few that succeed. Those that do succeed seem like they would have done so even if TC hated them.

I strongly doubt they play much of a role in the success of a company.
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This would require oversight, else they'll lie and not publish.
Are you one of those folks who thinks that all taxation is theft?
This would require oversight, else they'll lie and not publish to save money.
I was taking a Coursera course (game theory), and found my work load in university was just too great to continue it. As far as I know, if I go back all the lectures and such are available still, and I can submit assignments for instant feedback. In general, after a timed course the content stays available so you can go back to it.
No company is legally allowed to compete for business with the USPS. In order to deliver letters, other companies must by law be providing premium services that the USPS either doesn't provide or aren't it's core business. UPS must charge you significantly more to deliver your letter in order to stay out of the USPS' market.
Although I appreciate the effort that went into developing Blockly Maze, I am unclear as to why it was developed, rather than suggesting that Scratch be used to teach elementary school children in Vietnam. The Scratch development environment is available in 44 different languages, including Vietnamese. It is free to download from the MIT website. It's a fantastic tool for teaching programming concepts to children. Both of my children, ages 5 and 9, have been busily creating their own games and animation using this tool. Are there restrictions that would prevent the export of Scratch to Vietnam?
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I can't. This is a PC that is too slow for SP3 now. I tried it when SP3 was released and it just made it slower. I had to roll back. I use defensive measures and have been able to ward off bots and virii so far (not that they didn't get through a few years ago...).
I loved this story. Written back in 1989 I am impressed with the authors imagination. A digital headband is not far from google glasses.

Reminds me of the old Marshall Brain Mana stories. They were unfinished years ago bit maybe done now. http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
I agree with this, but I think it's worth pointing out that while working by your schedule and working with fellow students aren't mutually exclusive, they don't really contribute to each other. If everybody works on the same schedule, there can be more working together.
Yes, I've since let go of the thought of leaving Gmail. Pretty fun read too http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/08/07/1533224/ask-slashdot-... "The thing is, unlike a lot of other parts of life, mail hosting is basically a sewer of pain."
Actually he walked a semantic tightrope in which he chose to define "sexual relations" as sexual intercourse and the public and congress disagreed. The larger point was that he was pursued over a personal matter by a special prosecutor who had spent tens of millions on one or another fishing expedition and turned up nothing of consequence.
Who's being scammed here? I don't get his point.
Do you have numbers / proof of that claim?
Doesn't a company like Dropbox have the ability to judge for themselves whether or not a startup boosted by TC is actually worthy of buying? It's insane to think that they would drop $100M on a company based on TC promotion alone.
It seems this could be automated to be done a lot faster than twenty minutes, even just mechanically.

I'm somewhat curious if it would be possible to push a kind of needle/wire through the buttons and automate key presses via electronic signals instead of a physical push.
Great book! been years since I've read it.
You would hope so :(
Just finished reading John Varley's latest: Slow Apocalypse detailing what would happen if petroleum went away...
Any chance you could put that up / a version of it up on jsFiddle or something so I can edit it online and see how I can help? There's a few techniques that I could play with. 1000 objects should be silky smooth…
I have two observations -

1)Our society is structured in pyramids across multiple dimensions. On top of the these pyramids are powerful cliques. The pyramids that are predominantly influenced by the business world have even stronger cliques at the top. People at the top try to optimize for their success, and its only human. So ya, this who pump and dump is not surprising, happens everywhere.

2) Mailbox is a super-sexy acquisition for Dropbox. Because of my work, I am in this unique position to look deeply at around 70 online backup and cloud vendors, their features, their social signal, their pricing etc, their usage scenarios, their usage feedback and I think, given the uber-competitiveness of the space, most of these vendors will either a) move upstream and try to increase the real estate of their clients (Box trying to get into document editing suite is a prime example) or b) have a differentiated offering like egnyte. With this context, I think, the mailbox acquisition is an absolute bomb. I am doing further research on this topic and will hopefully publish it soon.

So yes, the hype-cycle was at work, but its normal and dropbox founders and executive team were pretty much certain they needed to this.
Failure is not the reason of blow up.
Fragility is. That is pretty simple for those who are familiar:

Mathematical Definition, Mapping, and Detection of (Anti)Fragility
Nassim N. Taleb, Raphael Douady

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.1189v1.pdf
You went far enough to post this to everyone here, and follow up on it with comment(s). Most everything here is contacting human beings we/you don't know. It's OK. Don't feel so bad about it!

If he lists it on his homepage, an email concerning a project of interest is certainly not overly intrusive. Worst case it gets ignored, better case you go back and forth about your implementation.
How short is our memory? To paraphrase Slashdot comment#43193173

His fisrt term he put $80 Billion towards this. You won't remember great hits like Solendra, A123, and Fisker. The list of companies getting the money from that original program read like a whos-who of campaign donors. Many of the companies went bankrupt quickly after getting the federal money and none of them produced anything usable.

The track record is this will be a slush fund to reward his friends and accomplish nothing useful. Corrupt politics and corporate cronyism at its finest.
Are you using OS X?

You need GNU Sed for this to work.
It won't end, because even those who claim to dislike the practice still wish to be part of it.

"the innovation engine that is Silicon Valley"

Maybe I'm too young, but was there ever a time where Silicon Valley was innovating in the way we wish SV was innovating? It seems like the landscape was like this for a very long time
i agree with you about how nice it is to have targeted ads (although Google still hasn't gotten good enough that I have ever clicked on anything).

The dangers for the government are when it uses its powers to stay elected (Nixon), or spy on activists (Nixon, Bush), or pilfer the IP of other countries (Airbus). And of course these dangers also apply to commercial enterprises - if I were a MS competitor, I sure as heck wouldn't allow Skype in the office.
On the other hand how long can the other android guys keep losing money hand over fist and will samsung keep using android when tizen or whatever else they've got becomes mature?

Didn't samsung try to distance themselves and their galaxy name from android in their recent S4 presentation?
Nice little hack.

I assume he means port 8000 in the part that reads:

From your iPad, open safari and go to

http://192.168.1.2:8080

to access and download the files to your iPad.

Otherwise, you are browsing on a different port and it probably won't work.

(edit: Also, you need to know your computer's IP address ... mine happened to be the default one, but YMMV)
Looks awesome.

The Kinect could be a fun way to explore your visualizations -- seen here hooked up to Google Earth: https://github.com/jawj/pigeonsim

Also, I'm sure http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/casa would love to hear from you.
When is it ok to bash a founder?
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Nixon pushed for escalation constantly while simultaneously working hard to suppress domestic dissent from his pulpit in the House Unamerican Activities Committee. (He had previously been the puppetmaster behind Joe McCarthy's witch hunts, but neatly avoided being damaged by his fall.)
> it's supposed to interoperate with JS

Definitely the crux of the issue, as languages/ecosystems where "callables always return a value" tend not to have that issue even when dynamically typed (Ruby, Erlang). And it's not just JS interop, but gateless interop: calling JS from CS or CS from JS is supposed to be "invisible" as opposed to e.g. ClojureScript which also has excellent JS interop but where the interop is done through special forms (e.g. the `js/` namespace calls into JS-global objects), managing developer expectations about the seamlessness of the boundary.
I wonder if there's a good IDE or linter to pick up on these issues while you code. It would be difficult to farm out to the compiler on every character change, but I suspect something like that is needed
Programming Pearls (which this story came from) is an excellent book, I recommend it!
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Unfortunately moving money from banks to jars can't stop TPTB from making it worthless by inflating the $hit out of it overnight.
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>I don't see how Glass is even close to DOA.

Yes, it's more of it was never alive to begin to with.

Vapourware we used to call it.
Yeah, it seems like Mailbox is pretty much a clone of GMail for Android, only for the iPhone.
I'd never heard of "Unreasonable at Sea" -- this seems like a really interesting concept.

Another thing I've been thinking about is renting some houses in Hawaii, Thailand, etc., where teams could work for ~3-4 weeks on a new project (1983-Apple-Mac-team style), and then bring their friends/families for a week or so at the end.