skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
look at wordpress, magento or ubuntu they take consulting and hosting payments but their main product are open source.

It seems ghost blogging platform will use the same business model.
That would solve the indexing problem, but is there any point in encrypting your mailbox when Google's SMTP servers see the plain text of every email that you send or receive anyway? With mail, it is currently not possible to prevent the service provider from seeing the plain text unless you always use PGP or you run your own mail server.
Wasn't groupon just a straight equity cash out by the founders and some of the early investors? I don't remember hearing about a dividend.
But this standard - EME - isn't for CDMs, it's for the interface between CDMs and Javascript. So yes, your Linux-based browser might well have EME support. But if the company who makes the DRM CDM doesn't support Linux, you're out of luck.

The existence of the EME standard does not in any way increase the likelihood of DRM vendors supporting any more platforms than they do now.
I've driven straight across the country (2700 miles per trip) several times in the past 5 years, and stopping 30 minutes every few hours is not a big deal.

Unless you are into amphetamines or falling asleep at the wheel, it is the only way to do it for any extended amount of time.
Generally, I feel people are too cynical. And writing-off the Facebook and LinkedIn integration as merely a ploy for access to your social graph at first made my eyes roll.

But the truth is, there are a lot of things we do online that require real, meaningful identity verification. You put your SSN and DOB in and the computer gives you a series of multiple-choice questions from items on your credit report. People are used to them. They work.

And at the least, why not offer the credit report ID verification as the backup, perhaps alongside this video? Seems to me it would really cover their bases: The free spirits who would sooner die than submit to a credit check can produce a video. The professional, 2-million-miler, harvard-law types wouldn't flinch at an identity check that they've done every time they opened a credit card or bank account or many investment accounts or used the US Treasury or IRS systems or a credit monitoring product or, the list goes on. There's just a nominal cost associated with these, and unlike applications for credit they do not impact a persons credit score.

I'm not sold, but maybe there's something to the reliance on Facebook and LinkedIn afterall?
Good on ya. But it should be an option, not forced. If you only want to host people with "Verified ID", then just reject anybody who doesn't have it.
Inevitable as a company get bigger it likes bureaucracy more and wants to cover its ass over being sued for bad experiences.

We all hate Paypal for its overofficcious moneylaundering ID requests which, should its dBs be compromised could easily screw the finances of millions. Do we really want to give these people IDs?
My company was accepted as well. Looking forward to seeing you there! Before I applied, I read Nate Lustig's book [1] and found it helpful.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Startup-Chile-101-Everything-Business/...
The Democrats are doing quite well politically at the moment, regardless of the quality of the governance they offer. They feel little pressure to change a winning formula.
Real immigration reform would be adopting a point system like Australia or New Zealand. Various criteria are assigned a point value (which can be changed as needs change) and if the points threshold is met, the candidate is admitted.

But that takes away the power from the big FWD.us donors and puts it directly in the hands of the skilled individuals we're supposedly trying to attract.

We can't have that, can we?
Great article, but I really don't think that 3D printers will be very ubiquitous in the future. They are a manufacturing tool, just like laser cutters and CNC machines. Inventors and DIY enthusiasts will keep buying and building them, but most people just don't need them.
Most of the bad press seems to be FUD against Keystone XL which works because of the rich California liberals who don't care much about energy prices. Is the lesson that no Silicon Valley PAC can ever come close to a conservative cause?
I guess you could make the million monkeys argument, but that's just playing with the law of large numbers. The original statement was intended to apply to a single person or at most a small number of individuals.

Even beyond that though, I'm not sure that "ask for ideas" (which is all the RFS is) could really be construed as a formula for creativity. It's a mechanism for surfacing creativity that springs from elsewhere.

You'd have to ask PG whether or not the RFS stuff has really been that helpful. From my experience in YC, the most "successful" companies had nothing to do with the RFSs.
Unilateral website blocking spreads in Australian Government
Angular is much much more than React, so no apples to apples, it is a complete kick ass awesome framework. I have used it in banking applications, mobile app and working on a startup which employs angular. I looked at backbone and angular is pure productivity, nothing else. I am not trying to learn the javascript nitty gritty and angular gets a whole lot more done in a lot less time and effort. React seems similar to EXT-JS widget toolkit and though seems similar to angular is more verbose. I admire the work Misko and team has done on angular and I am hoping it cleanly rolls and provides a abstraction or path forward when web components go mainstream. All in all i am not going to try any other lib unless Angular is not solving my problem. To hell with the purists.
Thx for the correction :)

Did not know that they arranged to give employees liquidity after the initial news.

>Brian and I have spoken at length and based on our discussions, I’ve learned some new items that have proven to me that everyone is paying serious and thoughtful attention to the needs of all shareholders including employees. Specifically, the company has developed a strategy about their next financing round where all employees who have been with the company for some length of time will participate in a structured liquidity program. While the details haven’t been finalized, I know Brian and completely trust that he will execute on his commitment.

http://allthingsd.com/20111002/airbnb-investor-chamath-palih...
How about switching out those batteries

Batteries in most electric cars are squeezed in every possible location. It's not just a cube you can slide out the side of the car.

If it was a cube, you'd either have to make the car really big or cut the range in half.

Maybe they've found some way around it with the Tesla, but it isn't usually just that they don't like the idea of battery-swap stations.
For anyone looking at this and using it to choose where to start next for a javascript framework, I want to recommend KnockoutJS, it's quick to start up, has an awesome do-stuff tutorial, and it is minimal.

I also love that it doesn't tie you in to MVC. Though it is a MVVM(*) model, it is unlike other frameworks in that I don't have to do routing/explicitly create controllers/apps/models what-have-you (though you could say they exist in a way) in HTML.

To put it simply (and hopefully correctly) -- it doesn't tie you in to anything other than creating some classes in your javascript, and gives you some pretty awesome databinding and templating features
Pune, India: The World's Next Great Tech City?
Even the premise of the high-skilled laborers is flawed.. It would be great if small NextBigThing Co. could hire the talent, but more likely, there will be thousands of dubiously skilled 'coders' working at one of the many H1B factories. Look at the list[1] of where the Visas end up. The vast majority are at code-farms specializing in overcharging small businesses for poorly implemented frameworks. The rules and regulations around hiring are onerous and slanted toward established companies who can both pay 'market rate' (often based on misreported job titles) and who can navigate the paperwork. I seriously doubt that expanding these programs will have a positive impact on the ecosystem.

Now on hopefully a more productive note, if they revamped how the Visas are allocated to provide each company who applies with 1 H1B before offering 18,000 more to Infosys, there's a good chance of actual net benefit.

[1] http://www.visasquare.com/top-h1b-visa-sponsors-2012/compani...
>These are the only proven solutions to population control.

NOT true. Statistically the more educated a group becomes + the higher the standard of living the lower the groups birth rate. Jews and Japanese are the prime example. Higher educatation alone correlates with lower birth rates. The birth rate for African American's alone has fallen 60% in 10 years. Much in part due to increased education in the form of college scholarships and grants.

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

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/97facts/edu2birt.htm

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2011/pop994.doc.htm

http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/correlation-b...

Simply put. Educating humanity allows it to naturally direct itself back towards sustainable levels without drastic and extreme eugenics or one child policies.
I've found I can organize my thoughts better when I talk out loud; I have more than once wished I were wearing a Bluetooth headset, so it would be more socially acceptable for me to appear to be talking to myself.
Nonlinearities like this are pretty interesting. You can see similar effects in systems like traffic grids (where the addition of a small number of vehicles can make congestion much, much worse) and commodity prices (e.g. small shortage of oil causing incredible price shocks), among others.
The premise of the issue isn't that they are 'proactively preventing scammers', more to the joke that apparently Facebook and LinkedIn offer any level of verification other than enabling potential tunnels to data mine a users social connects. As mentioned towards the bottom of the article, there are plenty of eVerification services avail that minimize the potential for data about an account holder.

To note, the way airbnb has rolled this out is quite surprising (mandatory sampling of users, disrupting active reservations, etc). Starting to wonder if there are any decent competitors out there.
I felt the same way, reminded deeply of ASP.NET

I've also used Ext and FB React certainly reminds me of it. The biggest problem with ExtJS is that it wanted to be my class system, my service layer, my UI, my CSS, my everything. The APIs were convoluted. Then they switched to MVC when that was cool, but it was kind of a kludge.

Surprisingly, Angular seems to get functional modularity. Directives and filters are easily sharable, very good examples of modular components that can just be simple functions. The other part I really like in Angular is that a model is just data. Got an array? Sure, that can be a model.

I keep waiting for the point where I feel like those dirty Angular devs tricked me into using their framework, but it hasn't happened.
India's problem is well - Indians. The country needs to be broken up into ethnic republics with people getting real control to take decisions for themselves. Today India is an unjust empire perpetrated from Delhi.
Engineers are seriously underpaid in todays economy. From a business perspective, quality engineers are dirt cheap (relative to the value they create) so there's no reason not to hire as many as you can as long as you have can keep the project pipeline full.

A few months ago I read that the average google engineer creates something like $50k/month in value for the company. He might get paid $150k/year if he's lucky, that's insane.
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Man Sticks His Camera Out Storm Shelter Hole, Captures View of Tornado [video]
That's a classic article . I'm glad you're citing your posts now. That ones a really good one.
It's actually not super easy to fake a Facebook or LinkedIn presence. Most services that use social media presence as an identity check ask questions like:

1. How long has your account been active?

2. Does your account have a human-like pattern of activity?

3. Do your social graphs overlap realistically? Are you Facebook friends with your LinkedIn connections?

Etc. It'd take an extremely patient scammer to fake that sort of data. It can be done, of course, it's not trivial.
For $7,000 you can have an attorney do the paperwork for you. It's not chump change, but it's well within the reach of a funded startup.
If anything, this post shows that Medium needs a good way to display code snippets–having to resort to screenshots is pretty gross.
Given the same amount of time spent on TC, you'd definitely have the expected correlation (with the usual IQ common cause if nothing else). But I agree that once someone gets reasonably competitive in an area (esp. one w/ game-like mechanics and public recognition), they're at risk for overspecialization.
Some of this article definitely implies the use of a flow state (Csikszentmihalyi) to get things done well. This doesn't always require addiction, that's for sure.

The addiction comes when you don't have any other fun games to play where you get into flow. For example: sex, reading, outdoor activities, building art cars...
Same in South Africa. BSc honours is required if you want to do a masters or anything further. In the sciences, a BSc on its own only qualifies you to be a lab tech.
I find the programming has made my writing more structured and precise. It has also made me less forgiving of writing which is disorganized and imprecise. (This week, that was technical information on the PayPal developer site.)
That's not an effect of programming, per se.

I've been at it for ~30 years now, and I notice the same effect - iff I spend too much time reading short-form content. Being able to deal with long-form content requires practicing interaction with long-form content. As it turns out (lately), I more and more often deliberately turn off network connectivity, having pulled major references I need offline. For exactly that reason - the scanning through garbage is disruptive to my ability to focus.

Otherwise, I seem to have survived programming fine ;)
India would prosper if it is not governed like an empire from Delhi. Each ethnic state must form a republic with full autonomy and power should reach into the hands of citizenry.
oh yes, I'm not au fait with the details of higher finance, so I'm sure you're right, but it still looked really dodgy to many given other aspects of the business
Imagine a higher rez kinect and holographic display for CAD.

CAD will always take a long time though due to our limited input abilities (we can only really do one thing at a time) for highly detailed things. The real magic comes in assisting people to remix existing designs and components with built in engineering rules. Imagine being able to tell a schematic of an arm to hold weight and lift it to X. No calculations, no placing actuators, no wiring, just an arm that does what you wanted it to do. Software like that isn't impossible it just takes a lot of work to get there.

These threads always disappoint me because I see so many smart people struggling to think about what is possible instead of what currently is.
If you haven't already I urge you to watch the BBC Documentary on India:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpdoRUMeshw

This is the first part, there are 2 more. It's an incredible journey that helps you understand better the problems they're facing.
Freelance designers get paid to design, so money talks. What would you be surveying them about?
I don't think I would trust reviews from a "mutual admiration society."
I have always wanted to do this, but my group is in open plan space and I think the noise would be a bit much. Maybe one day I can find some more people who'd like this and we can snag an office.
I like the tone of Doc's post. Very positive and solution focused.

As for #2, it remains to be seen I guess how much % drop in AirBNB bookings are caused by this. It will be some number, but obviously I think they're prepared for it. I don't think this has anything to do with "unregistered hotels".
Yes of course I meant per user salt. And if I store a 64 char string it will be very difficult for an attacker to figure out MD5 was used.

And since the string that I MD5ed is 64 chars in length (32 of original MD5 + 32 of salt) it should make it near impossible to crack.
The Soundtribe process specifically was using 38.4% of CPU time on the app.

I'm still not very good at improving performance, but if you do any work on it I would highly recommend WWDC 2012 session 238. It's the only WWDC talk that's high level enough to point you in the right direction -- most talks (and alot of blogposts) are focused on specific areas to improve performance that may not apply to you.
I've been using Angular recently and love it. But this example is not matched evenly with the modular component demonstration of the React tutorial.

The equivalent in Angular would be to use directives (http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/directive) for the comment list, each comment, and each part of a comment.

Passing data between parent and child components (via scope) becomes a little tricky.
That would be pretty smart in my book. Our position isn't very popular among DC politicos though. Their calculus is based more on reelection than good governance for people already living here.
Can you say something about what you found useful in he articles? I've never seen the mag and the website says subscription, and no obvious "read example articles here", but I'd like an idea of the kind of stuff it does before buying.
The one disadvantage of such P2P networks is if law enforcement ever cracks down on it.

Not saying they necessarily will, but if the US outlaws Bitcoin at any point, then it will be extremely easy for them (or anyone; hypothetical anti-Bitcoin couch-vigilantes perhaps) to see the IP addresses of American users of the network, and then serve warrants and take action against them.

Same if Tor ever gets outlawed; Tor relays in the US can be identified and taken down with ease.
Maybe you're just talking about the JSX component? React uses JSX (optionally, they say) but they serve different purposes.
> Seriously??? How is any different than people in any country in the world. Do you think voting matters or is significant even in a country like the US. How many times were the US citizens able to prevent their country from going to war? Or how many times have they been able to change their unemployment problem themselves?

They managed to stop an ongoing war once (Vietnam). Other than that, how can you tell when a decision to go to war has been overturned because of civilian activity. It seems that at one point, the US was quite bent on attacking Iran, but that never happened.

>You seem to have a seriously problem with India, no idea why that is so.

This is just conjecture, but seeing as this is Hacker News, perhaps he had to work with Indian IT subcontractors at some point in his life. Without having a grander vision of the world that may easily lead to some practical racism.
Almost everyone asks "Boy, I wish I could have a house like I want". You are thinking too small, imagine a 3D printer that makes houses at a 10th of the current costs. Just looking at what they do now is not enough. Techniques are improving, technologies are changing, materials are being discovered. What is today is not the limit of what is possible.
With a $1 million "burn your home down" guarantee, and future bad press on the line, AirBNB doesn't want to take the risk that you want to take.
You mean like the company that just went bankrupt? (Better Place)
>render the page server side

Curious about this one (coming from mobile web perspective crappy cpu, high latency).

Render the page with node / serve html / React calls its render functions? / something else ? How does it bind to the already existing dom without building it? do all the render()s have to be called twice (once on server, once on client)?

Any info would be appreciated.
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The industrial design is solid, and though it is being manufactured in small batches, it has the build quality you might expect from something being mass-produced.

Not sure what to make of this statement. The design is beautiful, but I don't see why that would be an artifact of mass-production. The early prototypes for Glass were much sexier in terms of build integrity (optics, for example) than the current mass-produced models. One of the big challenges, in fact, was lowering expenses for mass-producibility. However, yes, the design is wonderfully intelligent. You'll notice some optical tricks when you look at Glass. For example, you'll see as if the frame takes up a portion of the sides, but in reality, there is circuitry hidden behind it--by looking at it you'd never know :)

The interface is not intuitive. It is actually very difficult to use the first time, for seemingly no reason. ... I would have expected more design attention to have been spent on interacting with the software.

I really feel this is a non-issue. Yes, you don't know how to use it when you first get it, but after a few instructions from a friend, I navigated the entire interface just fine for about an hour without needing additional help. Mostly, I just had to learn about the well-disguised touchpad. I've used a lot of silly software and hardware, and Glass is not one of them. It's a new product class, and it's going to have a new interface.

Glass doesn't communicate with you very much, and when it does, it doesn't use audio. It makes heavy use of the screen when possible. When navigating Glass, you can rarely speak selections. The only way to fully navigate the interface is to use the touchpad by holding your hand up near your face.

Navigation is definitely an issue. However, the Glass team planned on external devices being used to navigate Glass. Once Thalmic's MYO is fully operational, I don't think navigation will be much of a problem.

The battery life is dreadful. After ten minutes of use, the battery level reported went down by at least 8%. The owner told me that it would probably last about two hours with constant use. (This is hopefully a temporary handicap that will be improved in the future, but I find it hard to consider even this level of battery life good enough for a device that is sold.)

This is supposed to be fixed. Especially if you use video recording, the battery will drain really quickly. The idea by final product, is to have it last about 12 hours with passive use (kind of like a cell phone).
If i drive like i do in the city in a suburb, everyone thinks i'm cutting them off.
> Fascinating. I wonder if the same tendency ruins online dating?

Yes.

Luckily, most men never really try that hard on dating websites.
As long as people link to things that work on their browser, you are wrong.
Great share. Thanks!
There was an interesting article in the WSJ that talks about "contingency anxiety," and explains why car manufacturers like Land Rover add ridiculous capabilities, like fording waters 35.4" inches deep, in their Range Rover.

Car makers call it "contingency anxiety," the urge to buy a mechanically
overqualified vehicle because maybe, once in a blue moon—or a
hurricane on a high tide—the car buyer might need the extra functionality.

I think this is tapping into the same psychology. I've seen people insist on buying AWD in the Bay Area "just in case" they go skiing to Lake Tahoe, but never do.

The reality is that most Tesla owners will simply commute well within the regular range. Telsa is reducing the, "but how will we do the 4 hour drive to grandma's house for Thanksgiving" argument by providing an inconvenient -- but workable -- solution. They're betting that's enough to get a meaningful number of people over the hump.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732443980457810...
Nobody can agree on the definition of a functional language. AFAIK, so-called "functional" languages like F# or O-Camel allow arbitrary side effects, unlike Haskell.