skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of these are painfully obvious, but number 7 really rings true. I don't think any media in any other country is as hysterical and quick to judge as the media is in the United States, which results in a mass wave of delusion and fear.

It's the reason we have the TSA. It's the reason people think that .22 caliber AR-15s are designed for use in war theaters (if they were, Iraq would have obliterated the United States). It's the reason people think that 3D printers are going to be legislated to death (they're not, chill out people.)

The same goes for 8, 9, and 10, but I would argue that 10 applies to many other countries besides the United States, even if the U.S. is the biggest offender.

Look at Japan. The home of zen, origami, bonsai, meditation, and a host of martial arts, now being abstracted from that culture due to complacency.

The same is happening in Europe, although on a smaller scale.
A bitcoin node tries to determine what the consensus is about the bitcoin ledger by looking for the longest block chain.

However, in order to do that it must first collect blocks from other nodes and reject any invalid ones. If a certain implementation disagrees with the rest of the network about the validity of a block, then it will disagree with the rest of the network about the state of the ledger. This can then be exploited by an attacker, e.g. by paying a merchant with a transaction that seems to OK to him but is not accepted by the rest of the network.

I don't think that this is a big problem though. A node knows that it is no longer in agreement with the majority of the network when it sees an "invalid" block chain that has the most proof of work done on it. In this case it should shut itself down.
Agreed. I would actually argue that measuring business people is about 100x easier: revenue, margin and profit are very clear metrics.
"broken way of doing things. Resumes. Titles and dates of employment. Recommendations. Recruiter spam"

How would you do it differently ? Genuinely interested in your opinion on this.
Thanks again, I just ran a across this, none is very convincing: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/17417
I think the usual rebuttal by analogy is that the 1st amendment was written before the internet and most other electronic means of communication and therefore, analogically, should not be applicable there.

(A better rebuttal, from the substance, has already been offered in the rest of the thread.)
The author is is almost exactly the exact opposite of the ideal customer for any startup. He is a venture capitalist and an ad man. He is in the business of buying the startup instead of buying from the startup. He sees orders of magnitudes more startup websites in a month than a customer ever will in their lifetime. He will be looking far more closely at the advertising side of things than a customer and will probably over apply his expertise. Therefore, I don't think his advice will probably be all that useful to founders. Ad hominem is a logical fallacy, but a bayesian's crutch. You can logic it out for yourself, but I don't think this guy knows what he is talking about.
It seems like a big win for science could be had by centralizing some aspects of research within academic and research institutions. There should be well-funded software czars and statistics czars at each university that facilitate the efforts of the individual researchers to try to reduce the amount of shoddy science that gets published. Researchers are really terrible at this, and presumably slower than dedicated people even who are working on many different projects, so the division of labor should make the whole apparatus vastly more efficient, able to write and win more grants, etc. Of course, many researchers would fight against this because if you can't publish shoddy research, you can't publish as much research, but I would think there should be some way to get there from here.
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Tenacity implies honest attempts to succeed. Aaron Greenspan reads as someone who sets himself up to fail in order to reinforce his own persecution complex. Tenacious people adapt and go around obstacles, they don't run straight into them and waste their time whining about it to everyone who will listen.
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Will we as a community fail to innovate then?

Yes, because there was no innovation until patent protection came to be. Do you seriously think we would have invented and shared the secret of making fire over 10,000 years ago without patents to protect the original inventors? Or the wheel or the steam engine or telescopes? LOL
Nooooooooooooo! I love Waze. I don't want Facebook to screw it all up.
If the other manufacturers opened a plant in california, or bought an existing one like Tesla, wouldn't they also get the same ZEV credits which they could sell or use for themselves?

> To date Tesla has lost more than billion dollars

Are you including liquid assets, like the California plant, as losses? (not accusing you, I haven't looked at their numbers)
I just drove a Tesla Model S last weekend. Here are my perceptions, as I was SUPER curious about the car before I drove it:

Pros:
1) The drive is AMAZING. The car is quiet, it accelerates amazingly, and the regenerative braking is really cool.
2) It feels like the future. The huge computer screen is cool (but distracting, you can go on the internet at anytime).
3) The ability to get software updates all the time is cool when thinking about cars.

Cons:
1) It is impractical for an urban dweller in a condo building: you have to pay for an electrician to come install a special outlet, then pay for the electricity (which is fine if you own a house, getting this through a condo association is a nightmare).
2) The whole time you are thinking about the battery charge. What if you forget to plug in your car at night?
3) For the cost, it lacks feature a luxury car should have: park assist is one feature. The model i drove was around 90k and the more "luxury" features felt like a standard sedan (the leather, the wood, etc). You are definitely paying for the tech.
4) What if someone hits you? How much compared to other cars does it cost to get repaired? The salesperson couldn't answer this.
5) The car is connected to 3G for maps (unless you upgrade) and at some point, you will be paying for this service.
6) You have to plan out where you power up for a trip longer than 200 miles...so annoying.

If you have the capacity or need for a fun, toy car at this price point...check out the Model S. I don't find it practical as a main car in the city.
Delivery. The trailer lost me when the characters were just actors delivering lines; characters in Primer came across as speaking for real. Such a little difference, but one that makes it work.
I saw this film at the premiere in Philadelphia about a year ago... I was prepared for it to be awful, but I thought it was actually pretty good, albeit a) a bit more like a filmed play in structure than a film (largely takes place in one room with 4 or 5 actors), and b) comically low budget means you have to excuse a few places it's... lacking production value. But I think if you enjoyed, say, Primer and/or Twelve Angry Men, than you're likely to enjoy the film overall, or at least not think it's nearly as bad as the trailer may have made you fear!
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Agree re: Apple + Jobs

It's interesting that you bring up Ford. Of the big American auto companies, the only ones who have been putting out product I'm not just remotely interested in, but actually interested in, is Ford.

IMHO, decent looking product, good value, mileage ratings look good, interior design is decent, etc.
Greece never had an economy to begin with. It's got a free ride with the Euro cheap interest rates and now a brutal reality check when they had to pay back.
Amen. The new endorsement feature is typically a sign of "how hard is this person looking for another job" which as a quality signal, may be inversely correlated with their capabilities.

LinkedIn seems to be expanding as a magnet for scummy and crappy recruiters. Awesome strategy guys. I love getting unsolicited phone calls from clueless strangers. At least I can ignore emails.

I think the business model for LinkedIn is to try and replace salesforce.com. Eg, maintain customer contacts on an interactive database.

The job search aspect is useful, but it needs work. targeted postings seems a lot less intrusive. the recruiter angle, selling premium access to my contact details is just obnoxious. gives us a good reason to shut down the profile.
I wouldn't take this personally, it is just a smart business decision. It makes sense that once you buy a RubyMotion license to be able to use the same toolchain on OS X.

Also, I wouldn't mind paying for RubyMotion as long as I'm assured the project will go forward.

Unfortunately MacRuby lost momentum when Apple decided to not support the project anymore.
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My biggest pet peeve is the interpretation of p-values absent the context of effect sizes. If you have a huge sample size you're quite frequently going to find statistically significant differences between groups, but often those differences aren't that meaningful.

If you assessed differences in average human height between two cities based on a million datapoints, you're pretty darn likely to find a difference that's statistically significant but not really important or meaningful (like a .1mm difference in average height).

The above is why the American Psychological Association says "reporting and interpreting effect sizes in the context of [p-values] is essential to good research".[1] It's also why Statwing always report effect sizes along with p-values for hypothesis tests.[2]

(For clarity: effect size is best presented in readily interpretable, concrete terms like height or whatever unit you're using. If that's not possible because you're comparing ratings on a 1 to 7 scale or something, or if you want to compare effect sizes across different types of analyses, there are specific metrics of effect size).

[1] http://people.cehd.tamu.edu/~bthompson/apaeffec.htm

[2] https://www.statwing.com/demo
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Almost 50. I laugh through the tears at fart sounds.
That sucks that your publicity was co-opted. On the other hand, you got publicity I guess :) Reading more of that thread I definitely think you had a deeper drive (if that's even a good phrase to use) for salaryshare.me. I definitely have no desire to do anything with it, really, other than learning those random bits of technology. And maybe giving my mates an easier way to discuss their income.

On the flip side, congratulations on actually going up against those guys. When I mentioned this site to my wife she asked "so, kinda like salary.com?" I laughed and just said "God, I hope not". I don't have the time nor inclination right now for something so heavy :)
I'm not taking it personally, it was a good comment, but i think you could be off slightly. It really depends how you're finding jobs, where you're working and how many companies you've worked for, your personality, etc.

You're from a different generation from me and you have much more experience, so hopefully you're right. On the other hand, I think it's possible that things have changed and the people out there who'll attempt to exploit youth could be more common.

Personally I've been offered jobs by people I know who'll treat me right, that's an option I didn't have when I was 20, but it's a different story now I'm _almost_ 30. It's probably a bit of both either way though. :)
There are a lot of reasons, as other commenters have pointed out, including all the existing capital that would have to be retooled or scraped.

However, I don't think you can overlook the damage the bailouts did. The Chrystler bailout in 1980 and the more recent GM bailout preserved the existing Detroit power structure. All of that talented labor pool and capital that would have been set free via liquidation instead was allowed to stay together. These companies didn't innovate because they didn't have to.
Well, let's look at the alternatives. If we don't want people to have to pay for the services they use, we can let people enslave doctors. Or, we can steal from every citizen in the whole country and use the resulting money to pay the doctor. This second option would be called "single payer," and it is my preferred policy, but it does not seem to be obviously morally different from enslaving doctors or obviously morally preferable to requiring people to pay for the services they use.
Discuss the topic please.
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It's not the creepiness that's relevant here. That's rather subjective, and as others have pointed out, all social networks do the same.

What's most relevant here is that it's downright illegal in most Western countries LinkedIn e.a. operate in. Both collecting this information and sharing it without explicit (as in: not just default checked boxes) informed (as in: information about why, what and shared with whom) consent is not just unethical, it's a violation of most known privacy laws.

The widespread practice of blatantly unethical business practices in our industry by both high profile companies and small start-ups alike is something we as professionals should take more seriously.

If we don't, it doesn't only harm the image of our industry, but we'll be faced with ever more regulatory hurdles. The infamous EU cookie law is just the beginning if we don't act to clean up our own industry.

Every second web company seems to have a business model that directly or indirectly generates revenue through stalking people on a massive scale. This cannot possible be sustainable without a huge backlash.
Consumers Union was founded in 1936, when Ralph Nader was not yet two years old. Ralph Nader was on the board for a while but resigned in 1975 because it focused on product testing rather than advocacy.

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A07E6DC1F3C...
> Why can't the existing industry do this

They are, but at a snail's pace. The Mercedes SLS Electric Drive came out a few months ago, I believe, and it's a work of engineering and art.

But Ford isn't Mercedes, and they can't afford to switch up their assembly processes because then it would drive up the prices of the cars they sell, which defeats the point of Ford -- affordable, reliable transportation. Remove the affordable, because the cost of manufacture goes up immensely, and the reliability goes down. Electric automobiles are still experimental technology, albeit very mature experimental technology. Imagine them as Debian testing installs that are very stable, but still aren't as stable as Debian stable installs (the gasoline-powered vehicles).

It will take time, but it will also take game-changers like Tesla for electric cars to go mainstream.
Somebody PLEASE do an app with this data. If I have to schedule <expensive-medical-treatment>, I would love to know which of the dozen odd regional medical centers has the lowest price. Or at least which ones have excessively large prices.
It's a long term challenge I think. If the most valuable people on the network find value elsewhere....
99% of vim scripts still use VimScript.

I think this happens for a few reasons:

- First, as you pointed out, not every user is guaranteed
to have your favorite language installed. But they will
have VimScript whenever they use vim.

- Second, even if a user has your favorite language
installed, the version of vim they have might not be
compiled with bindings for that language. Only VimScript
is guarateed to be compiled in.

- Third, VimScript is the only language in vim that's not
crippled in some way in respect to functionality. All
the other languages it supports have to rely on
VimScript itself in order to perform some vim-related
functions. In some languages, this makes it so that you
might as well be using VimScript to begin with.
> That means, no writing everything twice (header files,
> type declarations)

Your header files can be practically empty if you don't need to show something to outside. Just put your @property'ies into class extension. Even @synthesize no longer needed (most of the time, there are exceptions).

> Working with collections like arrays and hashes is MUCH
> more convenient. You can spend a good part of your time
> doing just that.

With latest versions of XCode it is possible to use foo[5] instead of [foo objectAtIndex:5] and foo[@"bar"] instead of [foo objectForKey:@"bar"];
There are also array and dictionary literals @[…], @{…} and you can also just type @1 to get NSNumber from primitive.
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Yes, agreed. Whenever there is a general platform of large scale, an opportunity exists to unbundle and take the most valuable contributors elsewhere.
Looking forward to having a proper look at this.

I mostly use Starkers as a totally bare bones template starting point. If anyone is interested: http://viewportindustries.com/products/starkers/
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You can display the # of items already entered and the timestamps they were entered at (but not the values). It's not perfect, but it would help eliminate the "pre-loading" attack. However, that still leaves the "post-loading" attack, where you send someone a blank link, and then afterwards, fill in the other entries with known values.
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Yes, the problem is it's hard to scale that while keeping focus on the core.
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A social networking site is only valuable to a user once it reaches a critical mass of connections.

Maintaining these connections across multiple accounts is a huge pain. None of the existing social networks have any incentive to make this process easier, whether by providing an export tool or conforming to an open "friends list" standard.

Specialized Craigslist clones can exist because no one wants to sell apartment space to the same people they buy used furniture from. Friends are friends, though; if you want to share videos with them, there's a good chance you want to see what the tweet, too.
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I like this idea the best, but I think revision numbers are conventionally prefixed with a dash;

13.01-24

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Pac...

(i can never quite distinguish between revisions and releases... when is each used?)
Apple does this extremely well. Let's examine some of their current main headlines:
iPod: "Engineered for maximum funness."
iPhone: "Loving it is easy. That's why so many people do!"
iTunes: "You have never been so easily entertained."

Startup headlines usually talk about themselves. For example, we call ourselves Easiest Form Builder here at JotForm. Apple seems to be talking about the user and the emotional benefit they promise: "It is fun", "it is lovable", "it is entertaining".
My dad (working in automative industry) told me that tire pressure sensors were invented solely for the US market, because people in every other nation manage to check their tires every once in a while, while Americans drive until their tires "implode".
Hmmm... could the ISP be exposing your MAC address in some weird way?

Or maybe Facebook is using a real-life https://panopticlick.eff.org/
The "who has viewed your profile" feature leads to epic lulz. There is this forum on the internet that is full or racists, misogynists, and homophobes (and is tangentially useful for getting legal industry gossip). A major troll posted a link to a fake Linked-In page (under his control) with a comment along the lines of: "how did this person get this job with such a shitty resume" (or something like that). When people clicked on the link, if they had been logged onto their Linked-In, their real identity was revealed to the troll, who proceeded to out everyone on the forum. Hilarity ensued.
If that were an actual possibility in other fields everyone would be delighted. Sadly, biology (human minds and societies as well) are much too complicated for this to work.

This is an actually challenging problem. I don’t think running away from it and resorting to cheap tribalism is a great idea.
Cool, reminds me of that google keywords finder.

But how can we be sure about your numbers? From where do you get those?
You could still be fairly unique. It's not a guarantee, but within some range of certainty.

https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Overtesting is more or less a thing in the U.S. Many tests are not harmless, so even a person who carries an infinite amount of money around would do well to question the necessity of tests.
My guess is that the same machine is a big giveaway. There's a difference between leaving a trace of your presence on a shared computer accessed by many people and a computer accessed by one or two.

However, if people you know found the account, then that's also something that Facebook uses - I've had "do you know X?" suggestions from people with whom I have no traceable connections (not in my address book, don't even know their email addresses) - turns out (when I asked one of them) that he had been looking at my profile (without friend-requesting me) a few days before.
There has to be a market for a company to add a V12 sound to the Tesla S.
A small part of it is right place at the right time. (California, 21st century, oligopoly in auto industry, government loans)

Part of it is being a well-known billionaire and engineer who partners with the right people to get the job done.

Part of it was determination and long-nights in the office.

Part of it was being able to avoid the red-tape (and stakeholder interests) that the market leaders have in their companies.

Tesla, SpaceX and SolarCity would make good case studies about how to take a finite (but large) amount of capital and develop it into companies that can change the world.
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True. It had occurred to me, but I thought it might gum up the readability quite a bit with URLs in the comments. Probably a good idea, though.
Because too much money makes a company stupid. Look at Paul Graham's essay about what went wrong at Yahoo ( http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html). Same thing happened at GM, too much money for too long turned the culture from creating the future to protecting sacred cows.

What's worse is these big stagnant companies often have access to very large pools of money from the public markets to buy up scrappy competitors and sap their innovativeness.
I don't know, I've been working from home primarily for the last 3 years. We use IRC, XMPP, e-mail, version control systems, project managment software, etc.

With all this tech, it's pretty simple for me to do something and leave it for someone else to pickup while I sleep, as long as we both go to the effort to do our parts properly in the first place.

Even in an office, working on a startup, I would often find myself working on my code, while other people are working on theirs with the expectation I'll do mine correct.

It just seems to work from my experience, though I'd still much rather prefer to live close to work to pop in and attend meetings without it being a plane flight away.