skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The irony is that HN upvotes light commentary with blanket generalizations to the front page and also upvotes cruel dismissive comments criticizing that sort of light commentary to the top comment.
They will only send you a box if they think your product is worth enough. They also greatly reduced the number of products they buy recently. It used to be virtually any gadget, now it is mostly limited to recent smartphones and Apple devices.
Now if only they would lower the price; the issue that I had with Route 53 was that you pay not only for successful queries, but also for failed lookups (NXDOMAIN). So if someone does a lookup for "nonexistantsubdomain.yourdomain.com", you pay for the query - even though Amazon didn't serve anything.

Not a huge deal, but we had a few domains that were getting hammered with spam/bruteforcing, and with Route 53 there is no way to find or block them - you just gotta keep paying for the queries.
Entrepreneur designs 3D printing business with low costs in mind
This may be a bit of a privacy issue to publish, but an interesting dataset is that of https://openpaths.cc/ ... keep the app running on your phone and it will keep track of your location. This data is then available to you over an API, or to researchers that you approve to get access to your anonymized data.
Whoever down-voted you is a hater of the first degree. I would love less wide monitors as well.
Leaving for where? Departure posts without "what's next" feel like a cliffhanger.

Edit: I was able to find https://twitter.com/hirodusk/status/340573647813083136 which says "My near future involves a lot of r&r, but I'm definitely not done building things. :)"
I'm still trying to wrap my head around how this works, I guess. If I am viewing a JPEG that is only 8 bit color (per channel), how does a 10 bit monitor make that any better without having a 10 bits per channel image source?

Or what if I'm in Photoshop in 32 bits per channel mode, doing some HDR work... does this 10 bit monitor mean I'm seeing slightly better colors (more dynamic range) than my old 8 bit monitor?
The quality of the comments is probably related to the quality of the content. Startup truisms and anecdotes-as-advertisements rarely stimulate interesting conversation.
Elon Musk at D11: Full Session Video
Fall out from the Rap Genius/routing debacle?
you can create wealth
Send me an empty box ? Why not send me a Google Glass. I'll put on the glass, look at the object I want to sell, and say "Glass, Sell!". It will then take a picture of the object, upload to cloud, run a few ML algos to figure out a competitive price point & vendor site ( ebay, amazon, niche ) & list my item on vendor with a auto-generated description ( standard summarization algos ). If it were smart enough, it would run a second price auction of the item on my behalf, perhaps flag bidder bots as well, and auto-tweet me when the item was sold. I'd walk out the door with the object & an unmanned Google Car would be waiting outside. Toss the object into the car & the amount gets credited to my Google Wallet. Fun times...
You can't compare recidivism rates between a 300M nation of immigrants a 5M nation with an extremely homogenous culture. The US has social problems that are worse than Norway's worst nightmares. Prisons are just the tip of the iceberg.
Reminds me of 2net by Qualcomm, except that has a lot of features and uptake already:
http://www.qualcommlife.com/

At CES, Qualcomm had a bunch of devices working with it through a plugin wall unit. They offer free data APIs for storage, etc..
You should watch Eric's intro about himself (about a minute in) [1] before filtering advice and opinion based on someone's success.

[http://vimeo.com/m/9964506]
Isn't that just the way the cookie crumbles, though? Route 53 still has to look at a DNS query to decide what to do next, and some of them will be bad lookups.
For me, the worst part about using ebay is the stench.

Ebay has done so much to build ill-will with sellers over the years, and with the recent fee increases it was almost too much for me to continue. I decide to hold my nose and list a couple of items anyway this past week, but the listing page is now broken in both Firefox and Chrome on linux!

Enough is enough.

It is a shame, though. The users generally seem to be pretty good, and I almost always enjoy dealing with them.
I think meta-conversations can quickly go downhill, but that they can also be constructive. I'll just say that there's always room for doubt, including in our presumptions about the intent of others, and that linking to an article about a particular cognitive bias doesn't necessarily strengthen an argument, nor does it put someone above that bias. For whatever it's worth, I've found that when I encounter apparent (possibly offensive) disagreement, I'm less constructive when I act on presumptions, and more constructive when I engage a Socractic dialog.
Grumpy Cat Has an Agent, and Now a Movie Deal
The main one that I'm aware of is Glyde (http://glyde.com/), but they only handle video games and Apple mobile devices.
You seem to use a very loose definition of "moral." I don't see any morality inherent in logical statements of the form A->B, B is widely undesirable, therefore A is widely undesirable. If that's a moral argument, then by your definition, there's no such thing as pragmatism or logic.
Now if someone would find an Amiga dump to excavate. Just sayin'.
~Attempted inclusion of software patents at the request of MS + IBM
~3 Strikes law prototyped by US for their consumption
~Royal Dutch Shell's anti-sea protest law
~Skycity's law change (and block) for convention centre

These have all been in the last National Governments term yet you insist on using an example from the 70's that shows how we stuck it to the man...
Polya's Induction and Analogy in Mathematics
Glyde sends you a box. It comes with a shipping label that goes directly to the buyer. http://glyde.com/sell?via=welcome_page
The quantified self people all claim if you can't measure something, you can't improve it. It is very popular with runners. If you don't track your time or run competitively, you tend not to improve your times. Runners are willing to put a lot of data in, even like how they felt after each run, which has good uses for planning work outs, etc.. But the same concept applies to anything - eating healthy/less, walking more, smoking less, etc.. Like good old Ben Franklin used to track virtues until he mastered them.
Ah; FYI the API now supports Intraday Time Series fetching.

See https://wiki.fitbit.com/display/API/API-Get-Intraday-Time-Se... for more information. You can retrieve data in 1 min or 15 min increments.
Now this is something I want.

Assuming the price I get is over half of what I'd expect to be able to get for it myself if I put in a lot of time, effort, and luck.
Things like this make me happy I'm not a woman (although the free food would be nice).

Rather than acknowledge that society places too much emphasis on looks (especially for women), we continue to focus on appearance but pretend everyone is "beautiful". But its not true. Not everyone is beautiful.

This ad just reinforces the problem, look good = you are special (have some freebies!). And by targeting women, they target the biggest victims of this falsehood.
Agreed...I'm a bit disappointed that my 4.7" smartphone screen is 1080p but "that's all" they can squeeze into a full sized, full powered 31.5" display? zzz
Yeah, that's what I was trying to say as well, that seems to be the biggest advantage. It would take the hassle out of setting up and selling. Now if they just pass along those disputes to you, you're not really that much better off :\. I don't know their policy however.
Yeah, I haven't sold anything on eBay in a while. The fees I could maybe deal with. But the fraud was what really drove me away.
i wonder what happened to real programmers working on real problems...

like programming embedded systems in C++

like writing enterprise software in Java

I agree those are less sexy than RoR + HTML5 + CSS3, but still commercial software is a huge market.
The Alot is Better Than You at Everything (2010)
I've been playing with aeson and http-streams lately too. You might find some of the debugging stuff useful.

Here's some code that extracts json from a web page (I hope to be generating haskell modules from API docs eventually.)

https://github.com/perurbis/hfreeagent/blob/master/fa-gen-ty...
Median housing prices in my area (palo alto) have already been well above $1M for a long, long time. Doomsday prophets: nothing new here, really - just continuation of a well established trend.
Irrelevant nitpick, but including punctuation in their trademark makes their marketing materials pretty hard to read: "Not only are Sold. boxes free, but they come pre-paid, pre-labeled, pre-insured, tracked, and filled with bubble wrap"

Reading this stuff requires two passes for me.

Anyway, neat company. Unfortunately I don't think I have anything they would be willing to sell. This is something I would be interested in trying if I did.
Well, some might be cranks and also be successful. ;-)
There is a test to see if something is a business or a "hobby", it isn't a revenue cut odd, its more about the nature of the operation.

The 50k cutoff used to be the threshold for GsT registration, which is now 75k
It's not spamming if it's relevant.
I've had several Fitbit's and own the Withings scale; love them to pieces. My early Fitbit's broke when I sat down and caught them on the arms of a chair (once at a beer garden, natch) but the new Flex bracelet is incredibly nice.
Predicting the future is great and all. But in my experience, the best founders are the ones who execute in the present.
There is a lot more to QA than just execution. On any normal team I'd expect them to spend considerable time creating a test plan and start figuring out the ways to test specific things, well before the game is in a playable state.
I'm attempting to create a podspec, but the script/bootstrap part stuck me. Not sure if Cocoapods has capabilities to do that. Would be nice to just strip out all of the submodule parts and include the dependencies.
Hmm, valid points. I guess I'm not trying to say that the box isn't useful, it is easier undoubtedly (if you have an item that fits), I just feel like the rest of the service seems like it could be the better aspect. And actually after watching their promo video they seem to emphasize the service a lot more than the box, which the article seems more focused on.
‘This is a massive effort to attract cheap labor.’
Outside of celebrities I don't hear of many folks who move to California to buy million-dollar homes. The handful of people I know who made it big in business have moved out.

California's a big place. You can get an awesome house on some property for $150k in many many places in CA. The million-dollar homes are concentrated mostly in SF (+Napa/etc) & LA (+Santa Barbara/etc). IMO a lot of it is the tradeup nature of housing - buy a $300k house, sell it 10 years later for $700k, buy another at $800k, sell 5 years later for $900k, buy at $1MM, on and on. And since SF/LA are centers of business, that's where the people earning that kind of dough live. The $500-700k inventory in the Bay is fiercely competitive, and what do you know, that's the price range two young married techies are looking in. Not a coincidence. I agree with the poster upthread who predicts that once the new generation realizes they're basically permanently priced out the whole area will collapse.

> We've been hearing about the decline of liberal CA and the northeast for so long now, and it hasn't happened yet.

It's been in progress for a long time and shows no sign of slowing. We've got big swaths of folks who are protected in the armored bubble of technology, but for the average folks things are worse than ever. I could go on and on about business owners I know making plans to evacuate, or the scores of friends rich and poor who have fled, or the stories of the behind-the-scenes trouble from friends and family in the CA government, or just plain looking around up and down the state, but the bottom line is that only time is going to tell. Eventually, one of us will be proven right and I sincerely hope it's you.
We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future.

Ha ha. I'm part of the problem.

But yeah, I think it's probably a good idea to have a vision of the future and strive to work towards building that, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do anything about it, and hopefully your vision of a glorious posthuman utopia isn't my vision of a dehumanizing nightmare.
Route 53 is in 28 cities, however we have several datacenters in some cities (for example we have 3 in New York). Today there are 35 independent (own network, power, etc) Route 53 anycast endpoints.
> If Sold decides my product would work best on eBay, then is there the appropriate configuration options so that I can define minimum bid and user reputation?

I don't know if this is the case, but I'd hope they would completely abstract away the particulars of eBay vs Craigslist vs anything else. I.e. you wouldn't have to know or care about minimum bids or buyer reputation. Sold just tells you the price, you accept it, and they pay you. Problems with the eBay buyer? Sold absorbs that time and money cost. At least that's how I would want it to work.

> And if so, how much convenience does Sold's wrapper over this process give me over just directly using the service itself?

If all the effort and risk of selling an item is abstracted away as I suggested above, then that would be a great deal of value added, at least for me.

> Now if I were selling lots of things in a fairly regular interval...how does Sold scale?

I don't know the numbers yet, but I'd have to guess you'd be better off managing your own sales and shipping at that point. You could still use a marketplace site like Etsy or eBay. But I don't think you'd want a second layer of middlemen, which Sold is. It sounds like Sold is for one-off, consumer-to-consumer transactions.
It seems like this is targeted more at people who have a handful of smaller items that they'd like to get some cash for. If you're a power seller or running your own crafts store you'd probably not want to use Sold since they're going to take a cut anyway, and I would assume that their pricing models are designed for things like iPhones and don't work well for unique or handmade items.

If this works as described I see it as a simple way of getting some money for things you no longer need. You know that you could probably get more cash if you did all of the legwork yourself, but if you just want something gone in exchange for a few bucks then this seems like a fairly painless way to accomplish that.
mckilljoy said:

> it was actually rewarding self-confidence

> rather than perceived physical beauty.

ok, i can see that angle of thinking.

but then the problem is that you've confounded
self-confidence with beauty, _outside_ beauty.

self-confidence cannot be very real, or lasting,
when it is being defined in such a shallow way.

unattractive people can have self-confidence too.
i know i do. and really, i'm hardly a pretty face.

but i didn't come here for any philosophical talk.

i came here to say that i absolutely _adore_ the
sound-track for this video. can't stop playing it!

seriously, i'm beginning to think i have a problem.

don't go there and play it. and if you _do_, then
don't blame me, because i warn you, it's addicting! :+)

-bowerbird
wow the octocats are amazing. I was to see a colour version!
Social travel service Trippy shutting down for "significant evolution"
A Multi-Disciplinary Reading List
I've looked at a lot of options for accepting USD from Australia and 4% is pretty standard for retail exchange rate.

I ended up going with a US entity + bank account, which is the best option of a bunch of crappy options.

Pin looks good for small volumes
(cough Nikola Tesla cough)
Or.. you can just order free boxes at USPS:
https://store.usps.com/store/browse/subcategory.jsp?category...
Simplistic moralizing is problematic whether it's pro/anti government, corporation, or anything else. I don't know if Ayn Rand's writing is like that since I can't stay awake through all the exposition, but it seems like a lot of simple-minded people love her books.

The "you didn't build it" thing kind of makes my point for me, but I don't want to just call you an idiot and move on since I might be misunderstanding your intent. The speaker had a long, well-presented message with that one line that became a slogan for the more idiotic of anti-government talking heads and their followers, and it's a gross mis-representation of the truth to present it without context [1]:

"There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me – because they want to give something back. They know they didn't – look, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. You didn't get there on your own. I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something – there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. (Applause.)"

"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business – you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet."

"The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don't do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires."

You are of course free to disagree, but at least show the basic respect of not misrepresenting the statement or the people who agree with the overall message. Yes, it sounds a lot like he meant it as he worded it in the heat of the moment--by many accounts, he often goes off-script--but you can't possibly believe he meant it the way it's been taken given the speech that surrounded it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_didn%27t_build_that
I imagine F.T. Marinetti dressed in business casual, standing at a whiteboard and talking with his team.
Great, thanks for the link. I'll dig through that, looks like I can learn a lot from it.
Super Speed Travel in Tubes
This is a great article, particularly because it's easy to follow. It shows that Haskell is much more accessible to beginners than some people make it out to be!

If you've been considering trying Haskell, you should go for it. Perhaps even start with a REST API project like this. You can learn the basics from "Learn You a Haskell"[1], which is a great book available free online, and you can install Haskell with the Haskell Platform[2], which has gotten a new release fairly recently.

[1]: http://learnyouahaskell.com/

[2]: http://haskell.org/platform
Shorai, a slightly more interesting Rustboot
Thank you!
On a side note I'm a physics major, haha.
That's a good point. Maybe we should take an aggressive stance and file a pre-emptive lawsuit!
Just to throw in, my synology purpose-built nas is virtually silent. The drives chatter a bit now because I turned off their automatic acoustic management (AAM), but other than that I cannot hear it unless I am right by it.
It's pretty easy to see that if there's not acceptance, there's at least almost complete apathy. There hasn't exactly been many widespread calls for better conditions in our prisons, and in day to day life, I've never heard anyone suggest it.
Toward efficient Ruby 2.1
I suppose some very cheap, very easily understandable gadgets (such as pink usb cable) could be purchased via mobile. But in my opinion every "serious" purchases are not something you would buy via a phone.
Also, my app was sold in Europe, so maybe the US market is more mature...
Those seem like the three laws of everything.
It looks a bit better locally I'll try and push something a bit more coherent tomorrow. Great article by the way!
Well no - the metric you have given is people/seconds/people which is people/(seconds*people) which gives 1/s which is frequency and not time.

But anyway I have found that data based decisions and policies tend to produce better outcomes than emotional based ones.

I do find my theory sound - that currently in the world there is no terrorist organization (or even state actor outside of Russia/China) that is capable to deliver enough pain to convert the US to failed state.

The Russians were hammered terribly in WWI and WWII and survived - 20-40 million lives lost. Germany was razed and survived. Poland was decimated and survived. Japan got direct nuclear hits and survived as a state. Israel is under constant real treat for a tiny country and is doing fine.

9/11 was a black swan - a lot of systems already in place failed. The subsequent plots were all incompetent and much smaller in scale (which we are thankful for).

So the statehood of the US is in no danger. And there is tiny danger for the civil populace.

There may be a lot of factors that could turn the US into the Mad Max world - economic collapse, ecologic one, meteorites, IP laws gone berserk.

But the idea that terrorist could cause the fall of the US don't hold to basic napkin math.
Here's a transcript

http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/f/food-inc-script...

Several people in the farm industry are interviewed. Their statements are not questioned or further investigated by the filmmakers.
He just got the form factor wrong. Go to China and everyone rides electric scooterbikes for short trips (with payloads too).

America is so car-dominated that it's hard for this to catch on. If our cities had 10x the population and fewer parking spots (because space is at a premium), we would be doing the same.

In fact, we probably will get there within 20 years. I can't wait for a Tesla ultralight EV or motorcycle. But you'll see this first in Chungking or Mumbai.
Anybody else want to downvote this? Please feel free. Lulz
SHOWHN: Isometric tile worlds in vanilla JS
Yeah, the GitHub folks don't use Cocoapods internally.
I dislike the lack of documentation for the Objc version.

Edit/addendum: The Ruby version is fine and I'm glad they've made it the official library.
Jaron Lanier looks and behaves like a total eccentric, and his ideas can seem pretty out there, but I found his latest book to be a really interesting read. This idea is not the same thing though, because the data ends up being more or less public and demonetized. Companies are already collecting lots of data about you. This, in theory, just gives them even more of it, free of charge.
If you grok the lambda calculus, this is indeed a simple explanation. In my experience, most people who don't know what functional programming is also don't understand what lambda calculus is. In that case, all you've done is substituted one unknown bit of vocabulary for another.

I've also noticed that when I use unknown vocabulary in my explanations, it sometimes intimidates people away from asking more questions. E.g. "What is <some term I really don't understand>?" "Oh, it's just <another term, that the person you're asking seems to expect you to understand, but you really don't>". So I would avoid the term "lambda calculus" for the uninitiated.

I seem to have pretty good luck explaining what a pure function is (no side effects, same input always produces same output, referential transparency[1]) and going from there.

[1] Which, in turn, requires its own mini-explanation.
you know there's more to the bay area than just sf, right? it's been beautiful where i am in san jose/cupertino for the past month or so.