skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See, the key is mediation. You meet people in a Counter-Strike match, you know what the parameters are. Either they are in your team, or they are trying to shoot your avatar. If someone from your job adds you in Linkedin, it isn't creepy; they are just trying to get some recommendations and move on to another job. :)

Facebook has zero context. Why is that guy trying to be my friend? I don't know. How do I approach him? What are we supposed to talk about? It's all incredibly awkward. If Facebook did the equivalent of putting a chessboard between us, everything would flow much easier.
Let me backtrack a bit and say, more accurately that "the ejecta aren't just tossed about due to recoil", both effects play a role. My point was that the flash is caused by superheated/vaporized rock, which you will pretty much always get at such speeds due to the amount of energy released.
Great resource. For anybody struggling with ANY formula... or even maths class. I'd encourage you to learn how Wolfram Alpha works:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

I used it extensively for the development of different trading bots and algorithms. They say you need to be a real hotshot at maths to make it in that field. Little do they know that this world will soon belong to script-kiddies and hackers! Here's one of my favorites from them, this will rearrange any complex equation and make anything you like the subject:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/widgets/view.jsp?id=4be4308d0f9d...

The one thing you will have to learn is how to represent an equation in text based form, ie to use ^ to signify a power etc...
It's good practice though!
> If you can get enough farms/factories producing the widgets of everyday life essentially for the sum of the input commodity costs, energy costs, and some small overhead (and the free market/technology relentlessly drives overhead towards 0), you wind up being able to take care of everyone-- but you don't take care of everyone with jobs.

Congratulations, you're a communist! (This is basically the communist manifesto, if you squint.)

(So am I, this is not sarcastic. Always good to find more here on HN.)
Yeah I've definitely seen that as well, get a couple of days in the studio to get a great drum sound then beg, borrow enough gear to get passable synth, gats etc. It makes sense, I just hope more models emerge to recoup some of the lost CD earnings, but they don't really seem to be.

It's quite sad actually, the number of my friends who are now considering retraining as developers because the state of the music industry is so shitty.
Glad you see the potential! :)

I have only done a few tests yet with multiplayer, but as long as WebRTC doesn't stumble on any security hiccups (like Websockets did in its infancy), it will most likely be p2p multiplayer with a framework called peer.js (http://peerjs.com/), which uses WebRTC.

So for the actual multiplayer-part, there isn't really any reason to have servers, other than to negotiate the WebRTC connection. But blocks have to be saved somewhere, and thus, at least one (possibly all) of the players have to be connected to a server to send block changes. And of course you need a server to actually load the html, javascript and original blocks from.

So you need some kind of server for each world, as a place to save blocks. Initially, these servers will be on skycraft.io, where you can play with a certain number of friends for free. But in the future it would be really, really cool to allow players to mod the game, and let them host their servers on their own domains as well, to allow for modding. I haven't really thought through how to do this the best way though, there are many, many details that have to done correctly for it to work.

Customization/modding is still a bit into the future though, I have to make more of the actual game first! :) All I can really say is that it's definitely in the back of my head, even though I can't promise anything at this point.
This is the old guard problem. You need a new company to come along once in a while and push through a new industry or new industry focus with real effort.

Current car companies, to protect their current products, they didn't put the full force behind electric, that is why they saw less demand and their looks and cars weren't pretty. Audi could benefit if they would have had the same focus and get news that tips in their favor like Tesla, people rooting for them. It costs money to start new product lines, eventually they won't be as expensive when the technology is refined and then other car companies will be behind. It wouldn't be surprising to me if Tesla was later the tech that helps other car companies succeed. If Tesla does succeed the others will be caught on their heels.

This is why older companies can't innovate as much, protecting the main source/bottom line. The only company that has really attacked their own product lines with new innovative products is Apple with the iPad (which directly hit their other models, but also hit their competitors bottom line harder). Other companies follow or start too late when they are comfy on their big bottom line cushion.

All that money Audi has and they are essentially losing the PR battle. Maybe make an investment in Tesla or compete with it then, stop crying that they'll get more focus. People want electric cars to succeed and will be more forgiving when it is done right. Audi your PR just backfired, you look threatened.
Worth noting: Yahoo's share price on June 8, 1998 (date of the acquisition article) closed at $6.84. The stock closed at $35.83 just one year later on June 9, 1999. Then again, one year later, the stock closed at $72.00. The peak was $108.17 on December 31, 1999.

Ignoring how much of the deal was in cash vs. stock, if they held on for just a year or two more, their payout must have grown considerably.
Brand new accounts can't. You need a couple of karma points. Asking for upvotes or upvoting a certain person isn't really fair.
"Personally, I think the problem will be solved by a new conceptual approach,"

As a computer scientist, I have to admit to being partial to more discrete theories like loop quantum gravity. But whereas I'm willing to stick my nose into some science's business and declare they're all Doing It Wrong, this is not one of them. String theory is often criticized for having a lot of predictions and not much evidence, but I think that to be fair, that's true of all the competition, too. There just isn't enough evidence right now.
(I work at Stripe.)

Sorry you haven't gotten one yet! I just sent an invite your way.
Glad I'm not the only one who thought this way. I always wanted to do that with Dropbox or Drive, but the free 1TB is making this a lot more attractive of a prospect. Still, it might be a bit obvious one were abusing it.
Can I just say wow this is awesome? Wow - this is awesome.
While making money on doing podcasts and a blog on the side.
It's more fun than building the product.
We've probably brought in 20-30 candidates for interviews, none of them brought that up as a concern (though maybe it was for the people who half assed it). Realistically, the chance of them coming up with a brilliant product idea in a few days that the full time teams on the products hasn't considered is pretty small -- in fact I don't think I've ever heard a materially unique idea. Granted the game/product I use for the case is a pretty mature one that has been actively worked on since 2011, so a lot of the solution space has been covered.

We often discuss competitor products in the interviews as well -- I consider it a strong positive signal if they can already meaningfully benchmark against competitors. But the reason I don't make that the core case is because we have so much more insight into how our product works and why it is the way it is, so it's easier to validate their instincts/thought processes against reality.
Ask HN: Twitter marks my link as suspicious - can't figure out why...
My website is a sweepstakes/giveaway platform. We don't do anything fishy. I read through Twitter's terms and rules and don't see why our links are being blocked as spam and suspicious. Google says our site is safe and there is no malware. Really would like to understand the issue so we can resolve it. I have submitted the link for review via Twitter's form several times with no feedback at all.

Appreciate any one's help since I haven't had much luck figuring this out myself.

Please email me at support@myfreebeez.com. Thanks so much, means a lot to me
It's still a file (how do you think it gets into the environment?). Whether it's a ruby file or a .env file or a yaml file, it's still equally at risk of being checked in.
Actually, the ability to make drugs or biologicals is quickly dropping in complexity. Right now, one can design drugs and biologicals on one's workstation. There are production agencies that can make one's design real. The only reason this is not as accessible and known as 3D printing is that the design phase requires much more specialized knowledge. It's not unlike designing one's own circuit board and getting one of the shops to print it for you.
I'll take the opposite tack. If you're just starting out or hiring your core team, having people who empathize with your vision is much more valuable.

This is the stage where if you're following "lean" principles, you're listening to customers. Strictly from a cost perspective, having customers in the house (as part of your team) is cheaper and you can iterate faster.

Constituting your team this way will lead to a much bigger interest in dogfooding your app once you've built a prototype. And your team will deeply and personally care about the product it is building.

But what I'll point out is that your culture will grow organically based on your team - you can't impose a culture, even if it's something as benign as "family first" - in a company of your size, anything imposed is a (forced) process and not a culture.
Is it possible to use it as general file storage for backups?
This is a real shame. My business was one of the very first to integrate Google Checkout into a website shopping cart after the general release. I did a marathon coding session the first week it came out because I knew that it would be worth some free publicity if I got it working.

All of our payments come through either Google Checkout or PayPal. And some people really hate PayPal, so we will be looking for alternatives (Amazon Payments springs to mind).

I could see the writing on the wall for Google Checkout a couple years back, though. They failed to add any new features in recent times in order to try to match PayPal. The reporting was weak. E-mail notifications didn't always work right. Declined charges were a hassle. E-mail payment requests couldn't be formatted and were too short. Those were my main complaints, I'm sure there were many more problems faced by people who had different requirements.

Checkout had huge potential to integrate into Google's other services. For example, it let Google see directly who the best and most reliable merchants were. In fact, I believe you can still have Adwords show stars on your text ad based upon Checkout customer feedback.

Another useful integration is with Analytics. They did attempt some information sharing there. Tying Analytics directly to sales information is fantastic, and I wish they had made them work together better.
Make your product people parents. For engineers (backend and such), it will matter less.
Open-sourced our rails code for building a google glass app
I hope they update the limits in the Flickr Uploader application.

At least in OSX, I recently downloaded it and it shows me the old 300MB limit (left this month.)
This seems to be completely wrong for me. It describes me as a "high caliber Javascripter" when my only projects are in Objective-c. I'm guessing it's picking up JS from the GitHub pages I have setup for one of my projects.
Pro since 2007, so deeply relieved at this update. Many people will complain about any change since it requires them to learn something new, even if the new way is an improvement.
me too. I was actually hoping they'd "do it again" at the end of the video, and then they did.
"From an electrical engineering standpoint, that makes no sense. Thermal runaway starts when too much power is being drawn from the batteries and they begin to overheat until exploding or melting, their promixity to each other may limit the damage of an overloaded or malfunctioning cell, however the core problem remains, why are 787 electronic systems overloading the batteries?"

"If one cell explodes or melts, you still essentially have a fire in progress. Protecting the other cells buys you time, but how much time do you have when there is fire on a plane?"

"Obviously its a design issue, probably very complex that Boeing simply doesnt have the time and money to investigate thoroughly."

"So this is a patch. Nothing I have read indicates an engineering approach was taken to prevent the previous result."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5740563
I initially liked the new photostream layout, but after using the site for a little while, I think I prefer the old layout.

The new site definitely looks more modern and glossy, but there's a reason museums don't display photos in a huge mosaic -- it makes it very hard to focus on and consider one image at a time. Now to browse someone's photos I need to go into the "one image at a time" viewer, which takes longer and leaves a long browser history.
Dock fees, fuel repair costs, insurance, and the salary for a licensed captain if your Yacht is over a certain size add up. Boats are not cheap. Even "small" (anyone with a automobile license can drive it) 40ft ones. My buddy's family owns a 45 ft Yacht and the joke at the harbor is BOAT = Break Out Another Thousand. Where they dock it they pay $10 per foot per month in dock fees which is cheap for the area. 5 miles down the coast it's $30/foot/month.
There is linux client here https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx
The supercharger network doesn't really help all that much if you don't have ranges like the S. Let's suppose you only have 100 mi range. If so, you have to stop for fairly long time (on the order of a lunch break) in order to recharge. And the numbers I've seen say 30 minutes for a "half charge". If that was also true of a 100 mile range car (or even 160), then 300 mile trips in one day become a huge hassle.

And 200 miles trips also become very difficult if you can't be sure of a charger at your destination. So I think a 200 mile range is pretty important.
With the abundance of other video calling solutions on Linux that are cross platform is this just dead on arrival with Microsoft being able to read all of your messages?
Installing Git from GitHub for Mac
Chinese hackers who breached Google gained access to sensitive data
Yahoo buys Pinterest for $3B.
A sweepstakes/giveaway platform is almost always inherently spam. The name itself also is not good (never use a domain with "free" in it) and likely set off a few Bayesian red flags.
Who benefits when you 'like' things?
I think people who earn their fortunes through hard work are less likely to blow it like a lottery winner.
Or because it allows them to have a disconnected SMTP server that receives mail. It would be the solution that I would use if I had a multi-user mail server on a network that only occasionally dialed up to the Internet to send/receive mail but was otherwise disconnected.
> Wait, so what's the difference between this and Google Wallet?

With Checkout, Google is a credit card processor.

With Wallet, Google isn't a credit card processor, they are partnered with Bankcorp Bank who is issuing virtual cards which are funded either by transferring funds from the users bank account or by charging credit cards.
BMW bets heavily on electric cars and plans to launch their first production car, the i3 in a few months.
scriptrock.com - FD: I'm one of the founders, we think of it as a executable documentation tool.
This was a system that let online shops take payments. Confusingly, at one point they renamed the service to "Google Wallet".
It would be really funny if the large automakers can comfortably compete with Tesla lower priced electric cars and a significant chunk of Tesla's revenues come from licensing the supercharger network out to said large automakers.
Thanks! We thought since it was a hit in person we should share it a bit broader.

You mention scale - do know that what you're seeing in the video is probably the weakest FoundationDB cluster ever assembled :) Our in-house testing cluster is a 48 machine, 192 core setup, and it works great and scales almost linearly. You can see our performance numbers at www.foundationdb.com/performance (though those results are outdated now, the tests were on a cluster half the size and several versions ago).

If you'd like to chat about your particular use case, send me an email at nick at our domain.
Incorrect assumptions for my github..says I'm a "top-notch perl expert" yet I have 0 perl projects to my name..
"Although Google disclosed an intrusion by Chinese hackers in 2010, it made no reference to the breach of the database with information on court orders. That breach prompted deep concerns in Washington and led to a heated, months-long dispute between Google and the FBI and Justice Department over whether the FBI could access technical logs and other information about the breach, according to the officials.

Google declined to comment for this article, as did the FBI."
Probably not based on their numbers. VCs wanted an exited. They are on the board. People don't consider how little control the founders of this company had post-rounds. It was the VC's play.
An Apology to Quora
I guess you could try encoding your files as images.
Yes. While I really hate the ignore/laugh/fight/win trope, this was Audi putting Tesla firmly in the fight slot, rather ahead of schedule.
Google Books is another thing that they seem to have gotten in just because they were big, and then didn't do much else. They've barely moved the needle with that service. They seem a lot more serious about music and video. I still hope they will take books more seriously soon. It's like they are not even on the map for most people right now in books.
What about words that have free in them by definition, e.g. freedom?
You seem to have missed the part where they were successfully running a web development business from 1997 to about 2008, when things started to change.

The point about choosing your customers wisely is certainly true, and I'd expect the OP would agree with you on that, but it doesn't invalidate the rest of what he's saying.
This story was recounted in a yesterday article on the topic:

"I sat down in Palo Alto with Elon Musk, hat in hand, and said we want to partner with you, you can have it exactly as you want it — 'Tesla of Austin,' " said Wolters of the Texas dealers association. "You can do it just as you want to, within our law, you just can't own the showroom."

Musk, Wolters recalled, didn't cotton to the suggestion, leaving the room quickly, but not before pledging to spend an inordinate amount of money to battle automobile franchise laws.
Wow. Already 3/4 of the way down the "first they ignore you..." continuum. Go Tesla.
And yet, you can't always swap a startup built with one's own hands with a bunch of others, just as one's child is not tradable for a bunch of other kids. Some founders might view their startups as pure investments, but I'd wager that more often than not, they view it as their child.
There are people who do buy $60k cars. It's a market that actually exists, just as there was a market for $500+ phones before the iPhone, which at it's introduction actually wasn't the most expensive phone on the market. Just because you're not part of the market for a car in that range is no more relevant than the fact there are plenty of people who would, or could never pay $500+ for a phone is to the success of Apple.
Interesting design choices - the photos are highlighted front and center but all the social aspects of Flickr have been shoved downward into have-to-scroll territory. Contrast this to Facebook and Instagram, which both use a right sidebar layout for profile and comments, which ensures everything's easily visible above the fold.

If you've been using Flickr as a social tool, making and getting lots of comments, I could see you being a bit upset with the decreased emphasis on social features in the new layout. I wonder what effect these changes will have on the level of social interaction on the site. I also wonder if it was a planned deemphasis, or just an inadvertent consequence of expanding the space given over to the picture.
Pixel art for your Github contribution calendar
Network Congestion and Web Browsing
there's tons of domains with the word free in it, i don't think thats an issue. and while there are many sweepstakes sites that are spam, we are not. i doubt twitter would block all sweepstakes sites, i see tons of links every day about sweepstakes. there's something else going on here that i can't figure out
Beats me. Maybe someone misclicked; it happens. I've upvoted you, FWIW.
Chinese hackers who breached Google gained access to surveillance data
Hiring the right people is really hard, especially when it comes to universal roles like Product Management.

If you've enjoyed Ken's post on hiring you might also like Chamath Palihapitiya's list of skills he is looking for when hiring Growth Hackers:

https://www.blossom.io/blog/2012/11/01/growth-hackers-confer...
Senate investigators: Apple sheltered $44 billion from taxes
But I really don't want to spend any time today on using medical devices (that's the acquired company does, right?)

The probability of me having a genetic mutation is low given no family history.

I don't see the point of being old for so long it takes half of your life. I want to live my life and then be done with it at the age of 70, perhaps? Unless they find a way to make youth longer. Not even middle age - youth.
With the mess this thing has been for so many years, there is no way I'm getting on one.
While I understand it technically I feel like the video is incredibly misleading. It's demonstrating time-to-share a link which (at some point) will contain a file. It's not demonstrating time-to-upload a file like the video suggests by comparing directly against dropbox.
What is the point of these "valuations?" It's credible to say that YouTube might be a relic in 2020. How many web companies have a lifespan of 14 years?
I thought it was implied in the original article that Tesla was beating the other car makers for their specific high-end models only.

It's pretty obvious that Tesla cannot beat Mercedes, BMW, and Audi in ALL models.

Still, its funny to see a car company write a blog post like this. They are all scurrying about trying to make sure Tesla can't operate in all states because they want to sell directly instead of through dealerships.

The car industry is being disrupted.
I was talking about drive not having a linux client (not an official one at least).
But they called it "Square Cash" -- "Square Up" would actually be a terrific name.
As I mentioned below Google Drive loses data and is unacceptably buggy. Just see the product forums for the countless examples of it happening.

I see no reason why you wouldn't go with Dropbox. Even just for the fact that you shouldn't rely on anything from Google that doesn't have or is related to advertising.
Apple Pays No Tax on Much of Its Overseas Income, Senate Panel Finds
Sentors Want Mandatory Fingerprinting at 30 Airports
"When you buy enough hard drives to fill a data center I am sure you get better prices too!"

I wonder how significant that'd be?

I've got nothing except "gut feel" to back this up, but I can't help but think there's very little margin available in hard drives for even semitrailers sized orders to get significant volume discounting.

Anyone got any numbers for where the volume breaks are and what sort of discounts are available for very large hard drive orders? (I'm sort of expecting something no better than 10 or 15% in volumes up in the 10,000s...)