skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some nice ideas in there, but I have a few objections: On a practical level, this would be more better described as a prototype for the iPhone 8 + iOS X ... or something a bit further out than next year. Is that too nit-picky? Probably. As far as the aesthetics go - it looks almost exactly like the HTC One, albeit without a bezel. For a product designer with imaginative ideas about nearly everything else, I would have hoped for a more interesting enclosure design.
Possibly he got this article from the Economist. http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21572914-...
Wait time for an MRI can be months (at least that was the case back in 2008 when they compared Medicare/Medicaid to Canada's system).
Its common to back to school in your late 20s for business school.
I don't know what the big deal is scaling up. I have worked in a couple of "big scale" apps and it's really simple principles. At the end of the day, it's all about caching, powerful machines, caching, normal coding skillz, caching. And oh did I mention caching?

I honestly don't think it's that big a deal to 'scale'. Programs like early wolf3d impress me more, much much more. And of course, things like the recent quine relay leave me demoralized.
ubuntuforums.org, presumably.
Have you considered traveling abroad to get your surgery? For that kind of money, it seems it would have been cheaper to get the surgery in another country even after factoring in the cost of the trip.
How a secretive panel uses data that distorts doctors' pay
I had a near miss with MS 8 years ago. Several MRIs, spinal taps, blood work, etc. Before insurance: about $25k. After insurance: $3k.

Double hernia surgery was a couple grand out of pocket.

Not all insurance is the same.$34k is robbery.
Can someone tell me who operates the root servers? Organizations? Companies? Governments?

I was just thinking that aren't these prime targets for hackers? I mean if one root server is compromised, that would be a royal breach.
I disagree completely, I fit that demographic that you say is "computer illeterate" (I'm 19) and I have been interested in programming since 12 years old. Microsoft wasn't the only influence during that time. Valve was too.

I learned most of my programming through the wonderful tools that Valve gave its users for the Source engine. If it weren't for Valve, I probably wouldn't be interested programming today. My family has no computer background at all. I learned this all on my own. My dad didn't even know what Windows was until I explained it to him.

The point I'm trying to make here is that sure, Microsoft sucks, but you can't blame a single corporation for a trend so massive. There are other platforms. There WAS a good terminal. The in-game Counter Strike: Source console. And Valve's hammer editing is and was incredible for level editing. And have you seen Garry's Mod modding infrastructure? It's all open source (using Lua), and the community is super supportive and helpful. You're just looking in the wrong places.
Wait, is any portion of the device 3D printed?
And then the day the webcam broke, customers fled in droves.

Or, the government simply says, "You have to say that the new server is a web server".

This is why I'm always skeptical of things like "warrant canaries" and the like. If the government can require you lie to your customers about whether they're being monitored, surely they can control the terms of disclosure about what's going on?
One of the points of the article was that storing data completely on the net, instead of synchronising local and remote versions, is not in their vision of the future because "users shouldn't have to worry whether they're online or not", so what you proposed is specifically what they're avoiding.
Can Your Start-Up Make You a Better Parent?
Atwood's law keeps on showing itself to be more and more prescient.
Loaded it in Firefox and was told I needed to download Chrome.

Loaded it in Chrome and was told I needed to download... Chrome.

Guess my Chrome isn't bling enough.
I really like the UI, beautiful design.

Interesting concept
Think twice about 'the Internet'
http://www.root-servers.org

The organizations across the top of that page run the root servers. As you can see on the map, there are quite a few physical servers for those 13 separate root domains, 359 to be exact.

The root servers don't actually replicate amongst themselves and they don't actually hold all that much data. They all serve the same set of zones, all from one text file that is updated infrequently, specifically the DNS Root Zone file on this page: http://www.iana.org/about/popular-links
For most users, their network speed is way way less than multi-gigabit. May or may not change soon.
Am I the only one that finds the site slow in the scrolling and effects? I'm using Firefox 22 on a Macbook Air from 2012.
Err, no. The SATA 3.0 spec is 6.0 Gb/s. Most NIC's might run 1Gb/s locally, but once you hit the WAN you're probably talking about 10 or 100Mbit.

Network storage has always been slower than local, and until we get 10Gb to the home, will continue to be so.
Yes. Color me skeptical. Groupon seems like a mediocre idea in practice (certainly not worth its original market cap) but for the others? We have these services which reduce transaction costs and barriers to entry into the marketplace. Those are the textbook preconditions of an efficient market. These service help deploy capital more efficiently... and then people take advantage of that, instead of lavishing their money on the ever-so-noble "9% / Jeffersonian middle class", and we're going to say that they have the morality of locusts?

Gee, I really like comparing people to insects, because insects have no brains, then I can pretend that I know better than everyone else out there how their money ought to be spent for their own good! Which I guess involves spending extra to support unnecessary capital investments, like hotel-oriented real estate (AirBnB) or cars or what-have-you?

"To the extent that your belongings are a logical expression of your genes and memes sharing them amounts to allowing others to eat them." WHOA DUDE!!! Renting out my house is like HAVING SOMEONE EAT MY SOUL??!? Give me a break. I won't even get into the rest of the tendentious assumptions; that one's enough.
Yeah, I was wondering why they kept repeating that.
It is obvious that this is not an attempt at trying to design a plausible iPhone. It is an attempt to show case his design chops. Unfortunately, I can't give him full marks on his design, I was put off by his "Accidental Gesture Recognition" paragraph. It is a short paragraph of 7 lines, 3 of which are hyphenated.

Pedantry aside, I think the mockups look great.
Just in the interest of sharing more on IDs, I found this an interesting read:

http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/10853187575/sha...
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>" in fact they're just being diagnosed ealier and dying at the same time as similar patients in other countries."

That's hard to tell, you can also say that because those patient were treated earlier they have a longer life expectancy. But I am agreed, those stats have to be looked very carefully.
Very impressive - I'd love to have something that looked that damn cool. The wrap around screen kept making me think of infinity pools.
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I've been recommended to take these three (D3, Omega 3, Iodine) by my own GP, but I'd still be really interested in being able to read some of your mentioned sources. Any chance you could make a list?
I think something that a lot of people overlook in the rush to create the next silicon valley is the role the cities in/around these potential tech hubs play in their rise to prominence.

B2C tech startups cannot takeoff in places that don't have really high densities of people because places like that wind up having the people with the mentality to use technology to get ahead/make their lives simpler. Because of the high demand for access to pretty much everything in these kinds of cities, people there will be more likely to try new things to get an edge. Is it an accident that the big consumer startups tend to come from SF, NY, and Boston?

This doesn't seem to be a big deal, but as an example you can probably see how it helped foursquare(SF) pull ahead of Gowalla (Austin) in the location app shootout of a few years ago. Its the reason why Austin will probably not become a real startup powerhouse for another couple of years (as more and more people stream in here).

B2B is a little easier because businesses have more uniform needs that aren't usually dependent on city characteristics. But then again, a place with a higher concentration of businesses per capita will usually have that edge.

I think this is why you see smaller cities having startups that are more successful at B2B (Austin for example) but not so much in the B2C scene ... in fact the exact thing that the writer mentions in his article happens here where startups get bought out by their competition in Silicon Valley or other places.

I guess the point I'm making is for Canada to get a successful tech startup scene going, concentrate on high density cities (Toronto?) otherwise see what edge you can give companies that do B2B startups.
Don't get me wrong. Vancouver is a much better city to live in. I love it here, and it's where I will eventually settle down.

My point is on the investors' side. Investors play a big role in the tech startup ecosystem.

When you have investors who don't get tech and who just want to get rich quickly, you run into serious problems on the road to build the next billion dollar company.
those numbers are pretty low. to be considered moderately successful it would probably need to be at least an order of magnitude higher. that being said, it was still early. you never know what could happen. it was reviewed favorably.
That's not accurate.

[edit] I know I should link studies and such but even on the face of it you can see inaccuracy; where are people more impoverished: rural Alabama, or San Francisco? There are larger populations of homeless in cities, but you can get a roof over your head for less money outside. That said, why would it be easier to be poor in a city?
Dropbox does about 1 billion file updates pr. day across millions and millions of active users, petabytes of data and millions of devices. I think it's very ignorant to think that their problem is just solved by using powerful machines and caching...
Test after test proves there is consistency to how people respond to color in advertising. As a professional marketer, every time I stray I'm often corrected by later optimization efforts.
But less crucial than a normal diet. I mean a diet consisting of a little piece of meat with fat bought on the market, cooked at home with some fresh vegetables, etc. Etc.
You could buy Borland Turbo Pascal or Turbo C and hack away. They weren't free but were pretty affordable in the context of software of the time.
I'm originally from Vamcouver and spent the majority of my 20s there working in the Games Industry before switching more to web and mobile and then moving to the US for last 5 years. So I've obsessed and tracked this topic. I've lived in many States in the US as well as Montreal in Candada.

I think reading Steve Blank's Secret History of Silicon Valley gave me the best break through in understanding of why Silicon Valley is so dominant in tech.
http://steveblank.com/secret-history/

There's just been decades and decades and billions of even World War and Cold War money poured into into it's infrastructure. The shear amount of money and momentum of peak US effort seems nearly impossible to catch up to.

My best advice to other locations is to tie into SV as best as you can and of course focus on getting to scale by bringing in external to your local economy revenue and partnerships to bootstrap, but regardless it's gonna be a long haul. SV is the Holliwood of programmers and its best to acknowledge that. If you are an actor in Canada you know you are likely going to stay small time unless you go down North West for example and break out or stick to a niche.
The entire discussion about MagSafe Lightning is pointless. A truly innovative iPhone 6 would use wireless charging.
"If I write their comments, they will come."

EDIT: I want to downvote you for your name dropping, but I want to upvote you in the hope that you are a kindred nihilist.
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> Today’s color dictate wasn’t established until the 1940s, as a result of Americans’ preferences as interpreted by manufacturers and retailers.

That is the bit of history I'd like to read far more about, from primary sources. Specifically to suss out whether manufacturers and retailers interpreted these color preferences or manufactured them.

Also, it's annoying when sites inject links and other shit into copying and pasting a sentence from the article to quote it elsewhere.
Holy shit WTF is going on here? This was a terribly annoying presentation in pretty much every way. The most annoying thing for me was that navigation was haphazard and proceeded in unpredictable directions.

Also, why do the soundtracks for these type of things sound like crappy indie movies from 2006? Fuck my life this shit makes me want to die.
Honestly, that's the most realistic aspect of the whole concept.
why does chrome think the page is in Russian?
After all, aircraft are basically just sealed rooms with the fans on the outside.
When I first started taking vitamin D (I was deficient), I noticed sleeping better immediately, and I'm not normally the type to notice this kind of thing. After googling it, I've seen a lot of people reporting the same. That's interesting about magnesium though, I'll have to look into that.

Your site is amazing by the way.
Bill Gates Q&A at Microsoft Research Summit [video]
gender is enforced through culture

No. Gender/sex is a result of objective biological differences.
openculture.com also has a huge list (725 courses according to their title) of free online courses in a variety of subjects.

http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
I believe the way it works, at least with eBay, is you file a dispute on an item, eBay investigates, and then if you meet all the criteria as a buyer and provide everything to them, assuming they find in your favor as a buyer, they will refund the money themselves, then go after the seller for the amount on a individual basis.

As a buyer you also have options of filing a dispute with PayPal or your credit card company and having them handle. These two options tend to be a little quicker to return money to you as a buyer. But by doing so you are not eligible for any protection from eBay.

For more info:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/buyer-protection.html
The iPhone, as boring as it is, at least has a distinct look. This is a rectangle with beveled corners.
Not just social sharing, I am amazed how many regulations there are that protect businesses from disruption by other businesses. For example, Tesla cannot sell cars in Arizona, because it is against the law for a manufacturer to sell a car directly to a consumer:

http://bit.ly/143Zvqt
Oh wow! This looks awesome. It's basically a collaboration/connection platform for developers, designers and businessmen. I've seen a lot of other sites attempt to do this, but they fall short of their goal and ends up being incredibly complex (Example: Hit Record by the actor Joseph Gordon Levitt). Based on what I can see (great use of the animated example BTW) thinkerus has a clearer vision and better execution to maybe make this work.

Good luck! I've signed up and look forward to using it.
>manufacturers and retailers interpreted these color preferences or manufactured them.

Interpreted. There isn't a monopoly on clothes manufacturing so if a trend emerges it was likely organic and driven by the consumer.
http://marketingland.com/google-hits-135-million-users-27904

"According to new Google figures, Google+ now has 135 million active users, with 235 million active users when counting Google properties with Google+ features, and 500 million with Google+ enabled accounts."
As someone who knows them well, I can tell you that you're so mistaken that it makes me wince. The Airbnbs are among the most earnest and dedicated founders we've funded.
And yeah, by the way, who the fuck thought that a 1+ minute wait for this thing was acceptable? As soon as I saw that Canon-like font and the really slow progress (20Mbit FIOS over here, ppl) I was already set to hate. Unreal. And then, per my other comment, what I got was truly hateworthy.

Why is this even on the first page of HN? Who are you people who voted this up? Am I missing the point of the word "craziness"—like, was this supposed to suck really hard? I wish that was made clearer if that's the case. I hope more things like this aren't made.
Yet his site doesn't allow pinchzoom on mobile devices
That's an interesting link. Reading it improved my opinion of Malcolm Gladwell (not easy - I've generally held him in low regard).

Could you point to anything specific in his disclosure that would cast significant doubts on his ability to be objective?
They were thinking it.
"why do I need a G+ account?"
"Because it's better for them."

You've answered your own question. I also believe that the customer vs product issue is much more nuanced than most people portray it to be.
The article makes clear that large technology companies currently outsource moderation to companies that use human employees to detect porn and other inappropriate content. This is basically similar to your idea, regardless of the fact that the article does not go into detail about how the outsourced employees get access to content that needs to be moderated.

When I wrote my comment, the other comments suggested that having humans review content would be unworkable. They did not suggest that creating or providing an API for moderation would be the hard part of the business.
MIT Delays Release of Aaron Swartz's Secret Service Files
If you think about the technology adoption lifecycle, you not only need a concentration of people, but more importantly a concentration of early adopters. So, from that perspective, you can see why a lot of B2C apps come out of Silicon Valley. People live and breath new things there.
But that's just one aspect of what makes Silicon Valley unique.

When it comes to B2B, you don't really need a concentration of early adopters to make this work. You need to solve problems for businesses (doesn't really matter where they are). More importantly, you can see revenue right away if you ARE solving a real problem. I think that's why it's relatively easier to build a B2B startup outside of the valley.
The issue as I see it is that there's a certain non-zero chance of getting your account suspended from service x or y, sometimes for reasons that are not common sense or self-evident. Considering how integral Google Drive and Gmail are to many people's workflow, it isn't good that you are forced, in effect to take on more risk by having so many services linked to it.

As an example, there were cases of people losing access to Gmail after signing up for Google+ with a birthday that was too young to comply with the G+ TOS. Another example - it is fairly trivial to get an Adsense account suspended by using a script to commit click fraud against the target account. Similar things can be done to an ad-enabled Youtube channel. It's not outside the realm of possibility at all that a third party could cause you to lose access to your email account through one of these methods if your accounts are linked.
Same here. Amazed this made it to HN front page.
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Completely agreed! Thanks for sharing the insight.
Yeah, I tried something similar a couple years back. Could not get anyone to help on the website design. I think I went too much with the "social" aspect(buddypress) when I really wanted an engineering collaboration website. All ready signed up and submitted an idea :)
> Those sentences sound completely normal and grammatical to me.

Only if you are talking about more than one person. If you are talking about a single person those sentences sound bizarre.
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I'm having trouble replying to this comment, having met Brian in 2009 and later interviewing him for a book. I am wondering if you are confusing them with some other founders.
Additionally, it is almost impossible to verify the security of a system that uses encryption via javascript in the browser. The algorithms aren't that hard to verify, but making sure that keys are handled securely, and that you don't open yourself to timing and side channel attacks is really hard with such a big stack of things competing for scheduling, managing memory etc.

So there are two problems:

1) You get code from the server and execute it -- it might not be the code you think it -- it might not be the code you got yesterday (and there might be third party code injected, if there is an XSS vector -- or you know, your browser doesn't check to see if the servers ssl certificate has been revoked...).

2) Even if you run the code locally (say distribute it as html+js+css "app" in a zip file signed with gpg) -- it is still running on top of a pretty rickity rack of technologies, your javascript vm, the browser dom, a mess of ui toolkits and c/c++ routines that manage memory -- and has been seen again, and again -- it is really hard to actually implement crypto in such a way that there are no side channel attacks, no timing attacks and no information leaks.

Essentially 1) running random code isn't secure, and 2) implementing good crypto is hard. Really hard.

The only real solution is to get a good crypto-api into html5/browsers, but even then things aren't "safe". Say you could:

plaintext = api.crypto.decrypt(AES-256-CBC, \
ciphertext, key)

Now, what happens with plaintext? Is it written to swap? Cahces? If you use that to show an image in the browser, is the image cached along with other files?
Serialization/deserialization logic that automatically will instantiate objects that require dynamic initialization, without making it clear to the programmers that this happened.

That's both unnecessary, and extremely pertinent in the case of Rails this year.
Just start a nonprofit in Vietnam! Surely this kind of opportunity is available to a construction worker who attended Kennesaw State. And if you do spend your years of unemployment working for free - assuming you're not done in by the many physical and psychological stresses of long-term unemployment - you too can snag a coveted $35,000/year call center job, just like the other kid in the article.

Look, this article is about basically unskilled workers with degrees from bottom-tier universities in useless subjects. That's their problem - they have little to no economic value to anyone. All the volunteering and hustle in the world is not going to turn them into anything other than exploitable labor to be had at bargain-basement wages.
Depends how you answered the questions and what type of border services agent you got.

A former employer of mine had U.S. based employees that were subject experts / trainers on proprietary systems - Written internally, used internally. We had to do training sessions via teleconference after the border services turned our trainer back. Our Legal followed up with border services and was given the requirement that we advertise nationally for someone to fill the training role for a period of i-can't-recall how many weeks then re-apply if not able to fill the role from a hardworking but unemployed fellow Canadian.

It was utter crap. Time we didn't have to look for a person who didn't ( couldn't ) exist seeing as it was a new system, written outside Canada. Trainers had crossed previously to fill similar roles without issue. go figure. We ended up doing it over the phone..