skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is bad enough that pick pocketers know the place where 90% of males keep their cash and credit cards...what happens when identity thieves know the exact place people keep their entire digital persona?
How about Comodo Dragon[1], a free and stable Chromium based browser, with 'auto updates' ;)

[1] http://bit.ly/cjbh1z
That's true, makes sense. At first, I just felt like this guy was rebutting based on the common belief that life evolved on its own on earth. In the past I've seen evidence discounted and honest theories rejected simply because they contradict the norm, and what everyone is taught. I don't believe this is one of those situations now, but that's just how it felt to me at first.
A local creative director in town gave me my first break. I was slated to work as a designer at coupon company making classified ads until he decided to give me a chance and hire me at his company. I think my career would've taken a much different path if he didn't give me that chance.

Granted, he was in a different type of design discipline. Learning fundamentals and how to think was more valuable to me at that time than just learning software.
Not knowing anymore about you than you wrote, my gut is that your problem is one of 2 things:

1) You lack a compelling value proposition for your clients. Something like, I'm really good at X, better than anyone, hire me.
2) You don't follow through with clients, finish the job etc. so you don't get referred business.

I seem to notice that the HN crowd, and even finance crowd completely ignore marketing. This is a huge oversight that is likely to cost you a ton of money.

I'd read this: How to Close Every Sale (Joe Girard)

The guy is a used car salesman that looks ridiculous, but the book is actually good and there are several big lessons to learn in a very small paperback for less than $10.

I applied the concepts to selling $10m+ apartment buildings with 3 to 6 month sales cycles. The big lesson is that you must always assume you will get the sale. If you are doing things like writing emails in a timid way, no one respects it. You must assume your interactions with others will result in results.
C'mon world, enough with the fossil fuels.

Easier said than done. Meanwhile Japan wants to power its factories, heat its homes and we want to pay 0.10 cents /KWh
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Its fanny that nobody mention there the TabsOutliner
People like to talk (tweet). People like others to listen to them talk (follow). People like validation (retweets, followers). People have short attention spans (140 chars). People like to be "in the know" (alternative to news source rss feed). People like to feel important (verified).

People will always be people. Twitter isn't a new idea. It just lets people be people.
A screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/o8ZvIDH.jpg
>... he was given an impossibly powerful position -- a military force with the sole objective of military victory without any underlying political objective.

If we're going to spend resources the way that we do, our .mil ought to be able win against exactly such a case. In fact, I think the scenario could go worse for our .mil. Consider the case that we simply misjudge the political objective, which arguably could lead to more dire tactical mistakes. I've seen no reason to think that our .mil are immune from such a prospect. Nor do I think a prudent military planner would fail to consider it.

>If this were a real war, with an underlying political simulation, and Red sank an Blue aircraft carrier and killed 20,000 sailors in a day in a preemptive strike, Blue would respond with rules of engagement that would redefine the term "atrocity".

I keep hearing that argument about our military's capabilities, with specific respect paid to the technological capabilities. Yet, I observe results that suggest very strongly the notion that we have placed unwarranted faith in our ability to make effective use of tech. Unfortunately for us, such faith can serve no useful purpose and has no place in the mind of one making battle plans.

I think they were right to restart the war game, let them evolve their tactics; but, not to hobble Van Riper and turn the exercise into a quarter-billion dollar (false) confidence building exercise. You'd also have to think that troops are incredibly stupid if you expect them to fall for it.
I haven't read up on the whole story but I did not see anywhere that Blue was limited in their rules of engagement. In my point of view Red showed a severe weakness in Blue's supposed superior electronic warfare capability.
They keyfob isn't tied to a unique identity, the goal is to actually prevent websites from correlating account. From the IEEE article:

> One device should be sufficient with a reasonable number of websites for which users have accounts. But, for privacy preservation, the websites mustn’t be able to correlate users based on the device.
Valve just stated that they "began some exploratory work with Xi3 last year, but currently has no involvement in any product of theirs."

And by "just stated", I mean they just stated it today. I thought they were still associated as well:

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/03/12/valve-disassociates-itself...
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> The post is spot on. Firefox is a great browser, but reading the OP's last paragraphs, users rarely choose software for quality alone.

Quality is not the same for everyone. I have switched to Chrome, and it feels like it's build much better than Firefox. Maybe Firefox is actually built better, but as an user, I perceive Chrome to be better, starting with rare crashes instead of Firefox's frequent ones. Yes, Firefox's crashes may be because of its plugins, but that's a moot point, because without any plugins, Firefox is too basic a browser.
Ask HN: Why don't "geeks" use Geeklist?
I have been trying to use Geeklist for a while. It's a great tool for geeks to connect and share stuff with each other but the only problem is there are no real geeks using it. Or the one's who do have accounts are not very active. Its kinda sad since it would be cool to have a more "social" place to connect with hackers (especially for newbies like myself).

Is it because hackers/geeks are inherently unsocial?
Yea, this is the type of criticism I expect, but it's pretty useless so long as the source is "another reddit thread I read and can only partially remember".
I have no clues what this guy is trying to implies or explain in six short paragraphs.

The only thing I get is 'Middlemen are bad!" and "This will cause hoarding!".
>The way this economy should have shaped up is this: Where it is difficult to put a dollar value, transactions should happen in Bitcoins. Like in the early barter days.

Is that how it works for new currencies, though? I mean, the barter days are gone and done, and in the modern world, if it exists and is desired, people will agree on a dollar value. I find it hard to believe that any new currency could arise without the market immediately assigning it a dollar value.

It sounds like the author is trying to compare BitCoin's initial progress with the initial progress of currency itself, which would be very silly.
What if Red weren't a country, but a widely dispersed group of people? Or, even a faction within a country?
Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/955/
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The software is the central authority. As far as I have been able to tell there is no decent specification, like an RFC, that you could use to build other client implementations from so you are all at the mercy of the bugs in a single piece of software.
You cannot possibly call this 'wrong' based on how things went in the past. The current bitcoin economy is shaping up naturally, it's the way people are making money from bitcoin. This post just seems like the author is trying to put bitcoin in a little box and then gets confused when it doesn't behave the way he thinks it should.
If I am a self-obsessed evil dictator who is threatened with certain defeat, you think I am going to hold off on that master plan to take out a Blue carrier on the basis that Blue might nuke me?
I guess what confuses me with this stuff is that while we consider throwing out all claims of life on Mars due to a possible rover equipment exposure to non-sterile air, it's okay to assume that a meteorite laying around in the dirt is a safe source of extraterrestrial life.
Meanwhile it's rumored apple may add a fingerprint scanner to iphones. Wouldn't this be at least as effective without requiring additional jewelry?

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2013/03/report-the-iphone-5s-will...
Currently, it has no pagination and the posts will just list out one after another. The title is permalink to an individual blog post for sharing etc.

I thought that was the simplest route to go down.
No difference beyond prepackaged software. It's just a PC in a small box, nothing special.
What is real and what is simulated in war games such as this? It apparently cost US$250m, so you'd think some of it would be real but for example were real motorcycle messengers used to transmit messages to real front-line troops? Were ships actually moved? Were cruise missiles actually fired?
It doesn't seem easy to me to steal a ring from someone's finger. Since the key is never transmitted, copying it without having access to the hardware also seems impossible. Proper implementations would also have the user remember a PIN or the like, so that losing the key doesn't exponse your whole identity.
I think I've read ZatAoMM 3 times, admittedly the last time was >8 years ago. I didn't even remember "Gumption", it certainly did not seem to be a major theme of the book. It is very interesting to see other people's insights into a book especially when they're so divergent from your own. I guess I should read ZatAoMM and Lila again. :)
> we'll use the knowledge in automation we've gained to dramatically downsize civilization,

I'm pretty sure that's where the kill-bots come in. And we can always make more kill-bots.
So it removes the danger of reusing passwords, but doesn't it introduce the danger of having a lost/stolen ring giving away your logins to every protected site?
There's not a lot in the way of new ideas here, but it's a nice distillation of bits and pieces that I've seen incorporated into other games.

The web-based half RTS/half TBS genre has incorporated the idea of X command points per Y time period as part of the norm for a long while (Travian, et. al.) Turns in such games are generally not immediately exposed as mechanics (if they, in fact, exist at all). I recall an old space based RTS (the name escapes me, sorry) which exposed the amount of time left until the next tick, at which point all players would get more command points, while Travian appears to have a tick per second, with long waiting periods (relative to tick length) between updating command resources.

One thing which might be useful as a thought experiment to further this article is to look at TBS games which aren't dying--why is Civ V still popular? Or, to get even more basic, why is baduk still widely popular? Some thoughts regarding the latter: each move is very granular, which keeps the game moving foreward. Each move has an immediate impact on the game state (this relates to your point that "nothing happens in the first move.") There is a deep element of strategy, which is augmented by a need for strict time management. It's easy to review games and find mistakes, as well as to review games of higher level players to find new ideas and strategies.
Thing is, this is a book about NLP, not a book about web scraping, so while what you say may be true (although personally I find more value learning about NLP than WS) it seems a little misplaced.

But there is value in both, depending on your objectives. I find web scraping trivial, and mining the text hard, hence my interest in NLP and machine learning.
Yes, it very likely that the regulations have worked great so far and that the customers have gotten used to its benefits and accept the status quo as a given natural state of nature.

Its very unlikely that customers will complain if a law isn't framed and they are enjoying a benefit. Customers will complain later though, once something goes wrong.
Great post! Guess I'll have to include a section on Gumption in my book. Thanks for the idea.

Anyway, I have now heard about the zen of motorcycle maintenance so often, I'm starting to think I should read it even though I have no motorcycle, no workshop and as much practical skills as Clarkson.

But I did once sew on a button. I was very proud.
I'm guessing that alot of it was real, but stuff like cruise missile strikes would just be simulated due to the cost/risk.
2nd world was a political term, not economical. it disappeared with the fall of the soviet union.
Lesson learned: before buying any "AIDS cured" or "New DNA found on earth" we need to chill and wait for the hype to settle.
Nice. Please make the Escape key work to close the pattern popup!
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LOL! My `history` says I use only `cd`, `ls` and `git`.

Shame for me ...

http://imgur.com/CBTrdJw [server linux box]
http://imgur.com/tEjBtNY [development os x box]
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The flaw in your thought process, I think, is this: "in the modern world, if it exists and is desired, people will agree on a dollar value" - applies only to currencies where 'Trust' is a given. Or, it should be a limited domain (e.g. gaming currencies).
The "iPhone 5S" problem
Got a source? I'd love to read more about it.
I agree those colours don't work the best together, but I chose them to demonstrate the parts of the design that are easily updatable. I think the worst crime I committed was having the orange links on the green background, but again, that was to keep it as simple as possible.
I'm not sure if English is your first language or not, but you seem to take a negative tone that may burn some bridges for you. You don't want to burn those people still working at the startup you left or your friend who tried to give you some freelance work but his pipeline dried up.
This site completely borked by firefox. Had to close and restart my browser to get out of it.
This isn't an answer to the question though, if anything its a gross over simplification of the role of government.

Incidentally, iirc the mafia used to be interested in cab companies, since it gave them access to controlling unions and a lucrative cash based economic niche.
I just checked out codecanyon.net for iOS apps: apparently they're selling for as low as $12 for a whole app.

I'd recommend taking a look at Apptopia.com, deals are exclusive but the prices seem much better. (I have no affiliation with them)
Your example ignores the market (i.e. assumes that you are creating a new market, of which you will have 100%).

That is not the typical case, as most products enter existing markets and estimating market share is key.
Then I doubt they'd be able to launch enough cruise missiles to sink 10 cruises and 5 amphibious ships.
Some countries still have a mandatory army service
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I like the little box analogy. Maybe that is exactly what is happening - I am confused, that it does not behave the way I think it should.
He should have said "probability 0", which translates as "almost impossible". The word chance is the tricky one, here.
Buying off politicians who make rules is about as far from "laissez-faire" as you can get. Lobbying regulators and politicians who make big Federal-sized rules just the same thing, but at scale. But with regards to market segmentation, economies of scale may make it easier (and presumably more efficient) to run several large, rather than dozens of small organizations.
It's mostly simulated. The cost is in the simulation plus the tons of people it takes to create and run a game of this massive scale.
100% wrong. Most products are launched into existing markets and estimating a likely market share is essential.
There are too many if's. If you're threatened by certain defeat, I think your immediate concern is saving your own skin or avoid being back-stabbed. But this is a thought experiment. You could come up with a scenario where it's untrue, but that would only be a scenario.

Additionally, if you're faced with certain defeat, this means you've lost significant deterrence. If not, it would be more intelligent to exhibit your capabilities to negotiate a truce.

War is a power struggle.
It's (meant to be) a humour column as any attempt to read TFA would reveal. Anyone taking it seriously, or worse taking offence, is either illiterate or an idiot.
I agree with this. I have upvoted stories that were factually inaccurate because of the resulting discussion here.

Crazy claims tend to produce some really interesting stuff.
That's the point - we don't think it's okay to assume that.
Makes you wonder if the iPhone 5 isn't the last device Apple ships under that name.
How the Serbs shot down a stealth fighter - http://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/041199kosov... . Apparently their radars were too low-tech to NOT detect it :)
thanks, that was interesting and it's obvious how it can be useful. but for some reason it still feels dirty.
Yes, perhaps a just a poor choice of words.
Thanks for this recommendation; it looks really interesting.
All it'd take to make most of these usable is finessing the colors a bit so they don't jump off the page like they do here. It's definitely possible to make the patterns more subtle while retaining the shape effects. I viewed the page as a nifty demonstration of CSS-based patterns. Actually implementing the appropriate colors with these is left as an exercise for the reader.
I'm pretty sure the linked site is using code inside ng-click directives for illustrative purposes. It makes documenting and demonstrating the project much easier.
It isn't really about motorcycle maintenance. Pirsig uses that as a common example in various places throughout the book. Its actually a philosophical novel, the subtitle is "An Inquiry into Values"

His later work Lila - is similarly subtitled "An Inquiry into Morals"

I highly recommend them both.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lila:_An_Inquiry_into_Morals
Capitalism and interventionism are orthogonal in purpose, although interventionism discriminates against some capital enterprises and for other capital enterprises.
But if everyone else tells Google the same information equally well, then you're all back where you started. Except you spent a lot of money on some consultant who cannot realistically make any guarantees about what they deliver.
Some coffee shops still have manual espresso machines, which require training, skill and finesse to operate.

I worked at two different Starbucks a decade ago and have used the manual machines. They require a tiny bit of manual labor and attention but not really an special amount of skill and finesse. Anyone that can learn to make a scrambled egg can do it. I was in high school at the time.

Let's not romanticize this crap. Most of these jobs we are destroying aren't that special. And people will be forced to focus on learning more useful skills.

I think there needs to be a revolution on training people for work and careers. There are a lot of jobs in the US currently that cannot be filled, we don't have enough skilled workers. It seems like displaced workers should have the option of getting into some kind of fast-track training to enter these roles, at no cost to them and while keeping their family fed.

The countries that figure out how to do this fairly, effectively, and without crazy costs will be unstoppable.

Also I think moderate mental health issues are a massive economic problem that nobody seems to notice but I don't know how to fix that.
Ask someone you know how comfortable they are writing/reading an article(blog entry). Then ask them how comfortable they are writing/reading a sentence(Tweet).

Twitter helped deal with the problem of many people being uncomfortable with expressing themselves in longer forms of the written word. It also works for those with short attention spans. Combined with a following mechanism, that has proven very effective.
How so? The iPod touch is the iPhone without the phone. I think the branding would be a nightmare if they changed it now.
I wonder if people still read it or if it's mostly something for people who were alive in the 70s?
No. You exhibit a severe misunderstanding of evolution.

Imagine panspermia is true. Some kind of life exists in space. and some of it fell down to earth. Then life on earth would evolve down here, adapting to the particular circumstances of our planet, and the species in space would evolve, separately, to adapt to living in space. The result is that both strands would inevitably become very different.

If you brought down life from space, compared it to actual life on earth, and found they turned out to be the same, then necessarily it would mean that both strands, in completely different environments, evolved to become the same. This is not only improbable, but emphatically impossible.
I'm making some assumptions about the compiler optimization: If T is something like "int", then passing by reference can be more costly, because a value that was once stored in a register now needs a real memory address and must be deferenced to read.
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Ok, (s)he lists four reasons why Android beats iPhone, my reactions to the four were:

1. Meh

2. Meh

3. Holy shit, they are going to take over! Hail our new overlords.

4. Meh

The Android is aware of it's environment and consequently can take personalised action, and is allowed to by product makers.

I swear undying loyalty oh masters
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Looking for a designer co-founder
Hi, my name is Jared. I am 21 and just finishing up my junior year as a CS major. For the past 1.5 years I have been working on a side project called Idealist, a collaboration tool. My time has been spent doing market research, building, and pivoting. I have learned some cool things along the way. I am confident that I have found a market to compete in full of paying customers. Idealist is definitely not the first product to the online collaboration space. However, many people are still using e-mail to collaborate because they are unaware of better solutions. I would like to take Idealist to the next step with the help of a co-founder.

So, Idealist is a real-time collaboration platform. Initially, I started out building a list-making tool. After some market research and talking with potential customers I learned that distance collaboration is a very common problem. In fact, many people are willing to pay a lot of money to improve their ability to communicate online. (see pg's Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas)

So far I have built a web app that is somewhere in between launching and the prototype phase. You can actually sign up for it and take it for a spin at goidealist.com. Currently the focus is on making lists, which I hope to downplay in future iterations. I have also developed an iPhone and iPad app. The iOS apps are unpublished for now because I am still tweaking the core of the service.

I am looking for a design-savvy co-founder who wants to try a startup. If distance collaboration is an interesting problem to you then drop me a line at cofounder at goidealist.com.
Just reading the title I thought the guy created his own C3PO.