skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the author in that many businesses don't see much RIO on their social media marketing efforts. However, I would tend to think that is more of a reflection of a poor social media strategy as opposed to social media being worthless. Additionally, the article mentioned a brand ran a huge social media campaign and accumulated massive increases in likes, but this did not translate to an increase in sales. Social media is about scaling relationships, not about accumulating likes. The brand may have increased their likes but may not have done an effective job of building meaningful relationships with their customers.
I did adopt the third question on your list!
There actually are 3d printed clock mechanism. Search 3D printed clock mechanism MIT media lab. I saw one there a couple of years ago while visiting a friend there.
Is Wagner bad for us?
INAL, but my understanding is that you can use a generic phrase like "cloud servers", where both "cloud" and "servers" have pre-established meanings in the space, as long as you don't use the name for a product competing in the same space. E.g., you could call a service providing base images for clouds "Image Marketplace," but not "AWS Marketplace".
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I am looking forward to being able to print cases for electronics. No, I don't mean phone cases. More like Raspberry Pu cases, but with custom features. It would be very nice to have an RPi, a powered USB hub, a power supply, and a set of disc spots all in one case. That would make a very nice media center box, as opposed to the current mess of wires, or cutting USB sized holes in project boxes from Radio Shack.

Aside from that, 3D printing holds no special interest for me. In fact, if on demand printing was cheap enough, I would probably just do that.
It's partly a fixed cost versus variable cost argument. Once you have access to a 3D printer and learn how to use it, you can make (some) things much better and faster than you could by hand.

Perhaps you get a lot of pleasure out of crafting stuff with your own hands. That's great. Some people may get a similar pleasure from designing stuff onscreen and seeing it take form in their printer.
CNBC likes to rub it in I see
While I think that pattern sucks, I'm not sure that "not supporting" a standard constitutes "sabotaging" it. There's a big gap between "promoting" and "destroying/undermining", it's not either-or. Saying Google "sabotaged" a standard implies that they somehow made it unusable for everyone.
> Conversely, if they spent $$$ on a bulletproof platform, they'd probably go bust (as seems to have happened to other more technically proficient exchanges)

If that's true, it would seem to indicate that no one with the resources to eat the cost of operating a reliable exchange through the expected growth period of bitcoin has sufficient long-term confidence in bitcoin to underwrite the growth-phase costs in order to reap the rewards once bitcoin is all grown up.

> The underlying problem is: people have too high expectations of what the bitcoin world can cobble together at this point. Its being built by hackers, not bankers.

Expecting the main exchange for something that is promoted as a currency to meet the reliability expectations of a currency exchange is not unreasonable.
6. All of the above?

Remember to click all that apply!
It was always my understanding that Pine, from the University of Washington, also home to the inventor of IMAP, was one of the most "correct" IMAP clients. It's pretty minimal feature-wise, though.
NM - I didn't see the link to the zip on the main git page... the link to the same page in the Youtube comments was broken...
I've been there. It's a tough call. Fire him.

"In well managed companies, Bad Attitude + Good Work = Your Fired" -- Dave Goldberg, Survey Monkey, http://firstround.com/article/How-Dave-Goldberg-of-SurveyMon...
BitCoin is currently capitalized like a mid-sized stock. 11m * 80 = 880 million company.
Good points. I appreciate taking the time to explain further. I did not see any trial plans in there, is there one available? I'd like to give it a try.
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You know, except on Nexus 4 and countless other Android devices. Good news if you're a FB user on a "HTC One X, HTC One X+, Samsung Galaxy S III and Samsung Galaxy Note II".
If something makes no sense to 90% of users it probably shouldn't be a default, it should be an option.
The web wasn't born with Google, and is not going to end if it goes away. I use the web everyday, I can't live without it. I learned half of everything I know thanks to it, and with that knowledge I'm now working from home, earning more than any of my friends. I recommend you to try to replace the services you use one by one, until there is only one big step left to make, and that's it. You can be free again after that (or for the first time, if you are very young and have always used google products).
It's the 2nd densest city in America. Even if it's not comparable to Hong Kong, that is why Americans might think it's dense.
I am only 47 (and, silly me, voted my actual age) but I got bifocals at age 30. At age 33, while being fitted for my second pair of bifocals, the fitter repeated over and over and over "God, you're YOUNG for having bifocals."

Those of us with 80 year old eyes look forward to the site tweak.
Well you need to ask why don't pension funds hire more talented people ?

It's because those people are expensive and that means having to charge a higher management fee.

And what do consumers tend to base investment choices on ? - management fees. High management fees mean that consumers won't pick that fund.

Consumers can't tell how sophisticated their pension fund managers are so they'll just pick a cheap upfront cost which (potentially) because of poor management will cost them a lot more in the long term.
ReelSurfer beefs up discovery + clipping tools, success among brands/publishers
Top China Website Taobao open sourced its internal monitoring tool Tsar
Thank you, sincerely. I just added the license:)
I, too, feel that perfectly uniform brace positioning is one of the critical technical challenges facing any new language today. There is no longer any excuse to get such an important and fundamental advance wrong.
Hi, ebbv! I do want to point out that those are questions, not answers. No one is telling you how to enjoy games--the fundamental question is, is there a way to enjoy games that accesses the deeper human levels of our existence? No where in this article does it say "DAMN YOU FOR NOT FINDING DEEP MEANING IN TETRIS YOU FOOL." That, I agree with you, would be a little over the top. = P

There's another, bigger question to consider: if video games affect your mind so profoundly, it's probably a good idea to think a little before playing. I don't want to rephrase the article to say "think before buying," because that's an obvious part of anything we do--but if your pre-motor cortex actually replicates and primes your motor cortex to perform the Scout's baseball-bashing of Team Fortress 2, don't you at least want to consciously decide on what level it affects you? If you make the conscious decision to transfer TF2 only to area MT--which is essentially what you're arguing--then that decision should be conscious. Rather than just experiencing, isn't it legitimate to consider what your pre-motor cortex is acting out? Is it unreasonable to ask that we be consciencious about the workings of our minds during games?

This isn't to say that EVERY SINGLE TIME you play a game you should write a paper and submit it to a game magazine. I would rather you didn't do that, because I would like to do that, and you would be competing, and, yannow, capitalism.

This is just to say that it's reasonable to become aware of WHICH areas of your brain are affected--because whether you like it or not, your brain ACTIVELY practices killing. I'm not putting a moral label on that. I personally believe that's a good thing sometimes. I'm saying "Know thyself, brain-flesh-meatbag, and have fun playing."

So have fun. BTW, who's your favorite TF2 character? I am pretty much in love with the Scout.
I'm glad to see commenters generally disagree. If you can't tell the difference between polite and rude maybe you need some disruption.
How can I add a clickable link? Markdown?
You can download products and print it without any experience. Quite powerful.
Hit Vegas and clean up at blackjack? Aren't these folks meant to have superhuman math skills?
Firstly, your numbers are off. If the hash rate grew by 50x, we would be at 3.5 Phash/s, so the attacker would need to deploy another 3.5 Phash/s to attack the network. And Butterfly Labs's ASIC price is $50 per Ghash/s. So it would cost $175M.

Secondly, you cannot buy $175M of ASICs from BFL; they are too small of a company.

Thirdly, by the time you design, build, and deploy ASICs yourself (12 months+[1]), the network would have grown again, maybe by another 2x/5x/10x, who knows... you would have needed to account for this by spending respectively $350M/$875M/$1.75B !

So effectively by the time the network reach 3.5 Phash/s, it will be too late.

[1] For comparison it took more than a year for the DOE to deploy the #1 supercomputer, Titan, out of commodity hardware.
You could say exactly this set of things about any bill ever. Not one phrase in this comment binds in any way onto CISPA. You literally could have written it 8 years ago, saved it in a tfile in your home directory, and just copy/pasted it into this thread no matter what the bill said.

If you think the real meaning of the bill has nothing to do with the text of the bill, that the text of the bill doesn't matter, just give up. CISPA is tiny compared to ECPA; if you think CISPA has holes a truck could drive through, give a close read to SCA. If you believe the government is going to use milk safety regulations to prosecute movie pirates, just let them pass whatever, and skip the arguments.
Or your incredibly successful and an awesome person all together, because you're learning to program and thinking of starting your own business --- or HAVE been programming and still are, at 90
Some people suggested I should not included some of the options. But your questions are one of the reason why I chose to include options such as over 90. It would be really interesting to know the age of the oldest reader.
This is awesome. I love that there is a new one push deploy in town other than Heroku. Will you guys ever support a Rails stack?
Does anyone know if type parameters in Rust can be integers so that you could write vec<3> and get an optimized unrolled implementation of three dimensional vectors without having to hard-code as in vec2, vec3 and vec4, etc?

[1] http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/rust.html#type-parameters

[2] https://github.com/Jeaye/q3/blob/master/src/math/vec2.rs

[3] https://github.com/Jeaye/q3/blob/master/src/math/vec3.rs

[4] https://github.com/Jeaye/q3/blob/master/src/math/vec4.rs
Bought,

will read it on the train on Monday. Excellent timing since I just finished reading all the interviews in "Founders at Work" that were on my most interesting list.

I saw that I used Gumroad to pay for it and Sahil is interviewed in the book. I think I'll read that one first :D

Edit:
Small piece of advice: Imo it looks better and is easier to scan if single points actually have some sort of bullet or similar. This goes for the landing page (you'll learn X,Y,Z) as well as for the table of contents of the actual book :D
Do you have a citation on that? That you cannot print metal? What about all the mentions of being able to print metals using various techniques on Wikipedia [1]?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_printing#Additive_processes
Is having superior information and data not consistent with a level playing field? What about hiring up a significant portion of all the top college graduates and having them work around the clock to give you every possible advantage? Is that consistent with a level playing field?

My point is that there are a lot of things short of fraud that we consider "meritocracy" (and having superior information and superior analysis usually falls into that category), but those things systematically stack transactions in favor of the parties that can afford to buy them. Even if you have zero fraud, zero lobbying, etc, you'd still see wealth flowing to Wall Street from Main Street.
Sarcasm?

It may not be a "critical technical challenge" but if you are writing a new language there is really no excuse to not cement things like that down before it is too late.
Is my experience growing up really that uncommon? Or is having a 3D printer just an expensive substitute for having friends that are in to making and fixing stuff?

In the same way that C++ is just a verbose substitute for having friends that are in to writing assembly.
I hope I am detecting sarcasm. I say use whatever the consensus is, but TCO is a much bigger issue IMHO.
yet another article with a "<number> [best|top]" kind of title :)
> You could say exactly this set of things about any bill ever.

No, I couldn't. There are unfortunately a lot of bills I could have said that about (and I mentioned some of them), but not literally any bill ever.

In fact, most bills are not about granting more power to intelligence agencies at the cost of privacy protections.

But thanks for sticking to your role as mindless CISPA defender. You play it well.

EDIT:

> If you think the real meaning of the bill has nothing to do with the text of the bill, that the text of the bill doesn't matter, just give up.

I didn't say that and obviously didn't mean that.

I also couldn't give a shit about movie pirates. I buy my entertainment. That's the bonus of being a full grown adult with a career.

But I do care about the erosion of privacy law for no benefit whatsoever, and in fact, what I see as a detriment; continuing to grow the intelligence industry which has no public oversight. That's a Bad Idea(tm).
Wealth is not fixed. Both parties can benefit from a trade, and often do. A party that wants cash now and another who wants more cash in the future both benefit from a trade (e.g. buying and selling a bond).
That is a very elegant way to describe one of my most non-human features. I have huge issues with saying "I'm sorry." My brain does not allow me to even consider it as an option. If I am truly sorry, I will masochistically introspect, learn, reiterate, and adjust the scenario until the feeling of saying, "I'm sorry", becomes a moot point due to my effort to correct the situation. Words are quite meaningless without action, but action does not seem meaningless without language.

I think 'normal' people do this too. They just have an easier time of convincing themselves of abstract concepts like love, remorse, etc. Looking at myself, I have very primal emotions and filters. There is much self-interest, but I through repetition I have learned to take others into account. This is due to 'others' being a crucial part of what I consider my identity. Without their language (body, verbal), which I cannot fully utilize/process, I could not exist.

I call it my absurd void philosophy. Given that I was placed in a void, stripped of light, sound, floating around aimlessly... I would lose my identity. Without others, there is no me. If I do not take others into consideration, they will not take me into consideration and I would lose my identity. This is the root cause of my social interactions other than habit.

How does this play in the workplace? I make mistakes, and I bust my arse to not let the behavior happen again. I utilize the experience to warn others of my shortcomings.

As a generous Southern man once said to me, "Jonathan, some people just want a Thank You letter as gratitude instead of an email or phone call." To which I replied, "gratitude, on any medium, is still gratitude, this is a difference of culture, but to disregard my sentiment is to deny my humanity, not just my culture."

I strive to be concrete and universal, because no one does it for me.
Has anyone ever used an ORM and at some point just "swapped out" their db?
No, you just have to add it as a comment.
Appreciate this perspective. Not hard to imagine why working with friends would be fun. I have many friends who still work on Wall Street or in the financial industry. I don't disrespect them for it, although I do wish more young smart people were focused on making things rather than transacting. I tried to write this post specifically about MY experience and stay away from generalizations as much as possible.
Can we stop quoting the underlying notional size when comparing size to equity markets? If you know how a derivative works, it's well understood that quoting the notional to represent size just doesn't make sense.

To put it simpler, a terminated CDS contract does not mean there is a loss of wealth equal to its notional, whereas a stock price going to zero in the equities market literally means you just lost the complete amount you invested.

Not to sound offensive, but I've heard this comparison way to many times and it just doesn't add up in terms of prices - most swaps, for instance, have their fixed leg in the single digits in relation to their notional.
There's a whole lot we don't discuss on the website, which is focused towards current target customers of the tool we've built vs. our broader goals to bring transparency to the financial world.

First we've built a (we've been told) very powerful tool to quickly group, filter, sort, and compute standard financial metrics on a portfolio. Importantly, we don't care where you own your securities. It can be holdings from financial accounts, operating companies, homes, art, private options, manually brokered CDSs, whatever. Shockingly, our customers like to pay us a fair amount of money for this tool alone!

On the back end this wasn't easy. We have to normalize the incredibly varied (and often inaccurate) information from banks, third party data providers, excel spreadsheets and other systems. Reconciliation, all day.

Second, if facebook has a friend graph, we're creating the financial graph by aggregating ownership across all sources for our customers to analyze and report on.

At a high level, the financial world (shockingly) lacks a standardized way of communicating information about ownership and transactions. There are complex and specific protocols like SWIFT and FIX, but no standard way of saying "this is what I own, this is what I used to own, this is how it's changed, etc." Banks each make them up with hundreds of unique data formats, often sent with COBOL-style headers. It's 30 year old technology.

Long term, we'd like to open this open both as a data format for representing financial data and as a set of APIs for building tools to interact with financial data.

To use another analogy, if you wanted to make a phone game in 2004, you had to build a phone. Then the iPhone came out. If you want to make a program to analyze portfolio risk in 2013, you need to build out relationships with an entire network of banks, data providers, and customers. We want to be the "app store" for those tools.

There are a million other ways to make a platform like this valuable, but I'll save some of the juicier (and more strategic) ones for personal conversations if you're interested :)
Thought the exact same thing when the article didn't give the overall market growth number for the same time frame. It also didn't give the growth rate of the generic store brand cola products, which could have easily been replacing brand-name colas for budget-conscious buyers.
The sad part is it's worth it. The app gratis users are crap, but charting gets you lots of highly qualified users, and if your app is decent you will make that money back. This is no different than botting was last year, except the people are presumably real.
You lost me at "to do X in browser Y". One of the main reasons to adopt an experimented and highly used library such a jQuery is that it already deals with the complication of multiple HTML engines. They already solved that problem. Their code is tested and less likely to have bugs than my code.
Hi guys, co-founder of ReelSurfer here. Would love to hear your feedback on our new design and tools!

I'm especially excited that you can clip ESPN now (among a ton of other providers). For example, ever wanted to know what Dennis Rodman thinks about... Kim Jong Un? Well now you can! http://reelsurfer.com/watch/share/29794
I just read the 4 hour work week book. He actually talks about the 80-20 rule. 80% of returns come from 20% of work emphasising on the effectiveness of your actions not efficiency.

Applied to this, they could have enjoyed the initial success and moved onto better things. The later effort seems like beating a dead horse.

or maybe this is just my hindsight bias.
Welcome to modern day capitalism in America.
Aside from all the things you couldn't make with that approach, 3d printing enables something like the classical lazy programmer.

You can take an open source part, and print it (like using an open source project or library instead of reinventing the wheel). Also, you essentially need only 1 tool to make this, and one material. The effort and time is much smaller, so you can make many more things. You can iterate and improve.

For a rough parallel, you're guy who wants to write a new web app in C. Nothing wrong with C, and without it, there would be no web apps, but the guy with the scripting language and framework will probably smoke you in getting it out the door.
Hacker 'boot camp' helps launch tech careers
I find that if you ignore the white space and numerals, it reads pretty well.
Your comment has a couple constructive points. Why the vitriol? It doesn't help the discussion, and it's really not appropriate on HN.
If you want One True Indentation Style for a language, then make it a part of the language, instead of leaving it to a style guide or an external program.
I wish I'd grown up with a machine shop, that sounds fantastic. I really like making stuff, but I'm a horrible handyman. I'm much more comfortable making (or just copying) a model on a computer and then printing it out. I think the interesting part of the technology is that it makes what you take for granted accessible to someone like me.
Premise here is pure madness - I'm sure I could ask a random security researcher to hack Chrome and he would surely fail. But at the next Hack-a-day or similar, Chrome WILL be cracked wide open when the whole world gets a shot. So no - your inability to hack Bitcoin is not some grand statement of security on Bitcoin, only a statement that you didn't manage to hack it. I'm sure you didn't manage to hack thousands of other things that other did manage to hack, too (unless you've somehow hacked just about everything else including Ruby - not RoR?).

His point about how easy it is to monitor Bitcoin is unfortunately turning out to be true, which is incredibly unfortunate as Bitcoin is currently being used to purchase illegal drugs and similar. Once the FBI/NSA gets in on it, we're probably going to see a bunch of pointless arrests.
Does anyone know the story behind those new TV Ads and the new jingle? I recently saw the Ad where the "protagonist" is always being showered on and soapy fresh throughout the day, and thought, "wow, what happened to these guys that turned a pretty boring product/campaign to one of the most memorable ones over the last 3-4 years?"
One more point regarding the bonus question. I don't believe that Wall Street properly accounts for the amount of risk traders take. Should that trader receive 10% of the money he made for the bank that year? No, absolutely not. Because he or she could lose just as much or more the next year. The time horizons are skewed and people on Wall Street are compensated based on short time horizons when the risk in fact is spread over many years. Unfortunately, when things go sour, the general public pays disproportionately.
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Thanks! Yes, we will definitely support Rails soon (several weeks). We are working hard to make all major stacks available.