skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'd be worth nothing in your article that you can easily get that master password functionality under OSX - namely by locking the keychain.

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10698

No idea how does it look like in other operating systems - especially under Linux which doesn't have THE keychain, it has keychains (ie. there's no common api to access a particular KDE/Gnome/etc implementation of it).

With keychain locked, Chrome asks for its password every time it needs to fetch a password - be it showing a list of them or pulling a password for particular site. It's done in a proper manner, and if you hand the keys to your house to that guy... well, you better trust them :)
Without that initial step, it's hard to see any practical path to AR actually becoming a reality.

Only if you consider AR to be something that is 'always on'. There are a ton of applications that do not require that.
Anyone who has implemented a memory allocator knows how expensive it can be. If you have a simpler algorithm that works with your data, allocate a huge chunk and manage it yourself.

EDIT: Looks like the author of the native benchmarks needs to learn this lesson: https://github.com/kannanvijayan/benchdalvik/blob/master/nsi...
Suffers from the classic "clicking big `statuspage.io` logo takes you to `blog.statuspage.io`" problem.
There's an RSS feed, so rss2email or anything like it should be fine.
I was paraphrasing. Apple stopped doing giving carriers access with iOS 5.

http://theweek.com/article/index/222053/the-carrier-iq-cellp...

Right now it just collects the data for traffic estimates.
http://allthingsd.com/20110427/apple-breaks-its-silence-on-l...
They are "sadly" forced to find other unskilled labor based jobs, many of which are being replaced by automation or process improvements... Or they need to find a way to learn a skill that can provide a stable income for them. I'm not saying it is always easy to just pick up a skill like that, but that's the more job-security-based route to go...
Basically, it boils down to discipline. Discipline allows you to do whatever you want. If you think "This sounds silly, I live in a free world, I can do what I want", think again: All of us had a day during which we went "Meh, I can't do sports/write in my book/practice/work on my toy project, it's way too warm/cold/early/late". That's an instance where you can't do what you want, because you lack discipline.

Once you acquire a strong discipline, you just need to go the right path even in the small things and you are very, very integer.

It won't be easy, because if you are integer, you will just go your path and collide with stuff and it will hurt and discomfort everyone involved. But then again, that's the point of discipline: You can do what you want, even if it's hard.
nice. Learning something new every day :)
He didn't buy the actual company, only some of the newspapers: the Post itself, and a number of local papers. The Washington Post Co. itself will remain independent, but will have to change its name, and will retain Kaplan, WaPo Labs, Slate, about 10 local TV stations, SocialCode, and some other things.
"I dislike being limited to only 140 characters when trying to convey my thoughts and ideas, so I've never really been a fan of Twitter." <-135 characters (+conveys the same info)
I use Stylish and Grease Monkey to "fix" my favorite sites. Sometimes I find browser extensions that do that. I don't need to settle for less when I can make it how I like it.
Did the author write the C++ code? This is all pretty useless without being able to reproduce it.

EDIT: I'll eat my hat, the code looks great.

EDIT2: Looks like he allocates memory in an inner loop, no wonder native is so slow... I wouldn't take the native benchmarks seriously at all. https://github.com/kannanvijayan/benchdalvik/blob/master/nsi...
Fundamental does not mean old, it means essential. Age has very little to do with it. Never leaving Earth is a part of human life as old as humanity itself, and yet we have proven that it is not an essential one.
It sounds like they treat people the same way all of us treat EC2 instances.
:( This is no longer on the front page... anyway, here is a simple viewer of this gallery: http://jsfiddle.net/qgbE2/5/embedded/result/
In the US Amazon is already using robotics and recently purchased the company that supplied them. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-19/amazon-acquires-kiv...
You would be impressed how many people does impulses buys of $40k cars.
Amazon: Building better robots with human flesh.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if Amazon suddenly announces a secret R&D project involving a floor of robots pretty soon. In fact, the type of monotonous line-following, retrieval and packing fits well within the line of past factory workers who've been all but replaced with robots.

I'd even cheer them on if they did that instead of dehumanizing those workers.
This is pretty cool, but honestly, what Tesla has already achieved with 300+ mile range is perfectly sufficient for day to day driving.

My last 3 cars had ranges of between 350-400 miles on normal gas. What made them better for long trips is the number of refueling stations available. As the number of EV stations with rapid charging systems increases, 300 mile range will be plenty.
I'm glad this worked, so congrats on that. However, I don't agree that this is good, actionable advice.

1. Find a problem.

2. Get to hacking.

3. Soft launch.

4. Synthesize feedback, build more.

5. Expand the funnel (user acquisition).

6. Aha/Win/Rich/Yay

...That's the formula for any startup/technology service. It's literally those steps, a little individual secret sauce, and you win or you die (figuratively speaking). I know it worked for you, but things like

>"In our minds, there is no better way to build a product that people want than to be the customer you plan to sell to."

...aren't very helpful. It's a broad characterization of how to put yourself in that mindset.

But in any case, good explanation of what you did for your own project :)
I think the value of stealth mode really depends on context. E.g. I think GroupOn's series A created a lot of competition, as VCs all told their portfolio companies to pivot in that direction. http://blog.eladgil.com/2011/04/is-stealth-mode-stupid.html
correct. I should probably add "git push" to the instructions.
> You can't use mouse/keyboard well if you can't see the mouse/keyboard.

Uh, what? Even if you don't touch-type, you shouldn't need to look at the keyboard and mouse to play a game. All the keys you need should be under your fingers or in easy reach, and a mouse especially should be easy to use without watching your hand and fingers.

I do agree with your comments about HUDs; VR games lose a lot of immersion if you have UI elements present (unless your character is supposed to have a HUD in-game). However, many games do fix that, by eliminating the HUD entirely.
> What is anything but an "idea in our heads?" Even physical sensations are just ideas of tactility.

Perceptions (I see an elephant) are different than ideas or thoughts (I think there are pink elephants in parallel universe).

> It's interesting to think about, and there actually are consequences to this even if they aren't immediately discoverable.

What consequences? If there are consequences than yes, we can add "we're in a simulation" to our model of the world. But there can be much simpler explanation of the phenomena. Models of the world should be as simple as possible. See Occams razor.

> For a guy with a username like RiveriaKid..you sure have a closed mind unlike a child.

I have a very open mind but I'm also very rational. The username is a reference to one great sci-fi sitcom by the way.
Not if you use the "reset" option. Which... you have their email account. So...
There's the people aspect in all of this. What's reasonable pay for a good sysadmin/programmer hybrid? 70k - 100k/yr? How many do you need to keep things running smoothly and build new tools? How many do you need full time for remote hands and provisioning?

Hardware prices don't drop so much at this scale unless you're buying in extremely large quantities. Even then and they don't drop as much as bandwidth (except for out of lease equipment and I doubt DO does this).
Thanks! These look very helpful! I'm currently doing quite some Scala and the problems are very similar, so I bet that these will help me a lot.
The type of work that is being described is very typical of best of breed warehouse management systems. I agree that Amazon is a prop in this story as there a tons of other large scale companies that have the same types of systems. Maybe they don't all use temp workers, but labor management systems are not rare.
Nothing makes the economy "boom" more than focusing productivity on single-use weapons and other commodities of war. The industrial production of WWII is what kicked off the boom that followed. If some is good, then more must be better - perpetual war must be the best stimulus we could give our economy!
You're quite right. You can also use 2.0
There is a difference between "motive" and "justification".

The government's motive is oil, money, growth in scope, etc.

The government's justification is terrorism. So this conversation is absolutely related to terrorism.

Awareness of that difference is important. Articles like this are key to promoting awareness.
Screw going to amazon et al to buy anything that changes as constantly as a car. or a cellphone.

I just ordered 3 kindles. I'm pretty sure i will go trhu the hassle of returning 2. but i couldn't see them in person anywhere!

the amazon model is perfect for 'permanent' items. such as book and commodity electronics.

I bet my right arm that you wouldn't ever buy a car from amazon if you couldn't test drive it at the local shoddy dealer.
Nice, but I still prefer libgit2, which has bindings for numerous languages including Python.
They bought Kiva, which is exactly that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KRjuuEVEZs&feature=youtu.be&...
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/amazon-com-buys-kiva-...
As I understand things, Kaplan was the big money spinner that subsidized the newspapers. It is interesting they kept that part.
It is the consumer tho'. I can't count the number of people I know who are very vocal about workers rights, human rights, living wage etc but happily wear clothes and carry personal electronics made in sweatshops. Ironically, it's the rabid capitalist types who are willing to pay for locally produced items made by skilled workers.
I agree with you about the decline of Slashdot. I'm sure moderating Slashdot frontpage is no small task, but it did start to seem pretty lazy. Stories with obvious typos in the title, stories that linked to terrible blogspam instead of the original source, etc.

Contrast with Metafilter which has fairly aggressive top-down moderation and, IMHO, still has a pretty strong community. I'm not a heavy user but it looks from the outside pretty similar to how it looked years ago.
I think portability is the reason why I opted for the 15-inch model originally, but in the end it seems that I don't carry it outside that much. However, I can assure you that you made the right decision if you're using it for work/programming, it was a bit difficult at first to get used to such a high resolution on a 15-inch screen.
You need to use military grade GPS. It's much more accurate.
You are definitely right and there are technology limitation just to stick 3 sensors and triangulate the signal.

We believe the whole indoor-navigation idea is wrong. There is no need to map every inch of the physical world and get X,Y coordinates.

It's all about the context and placing tiny beacons in the doors, next to check-out, next to GoPro camera in the Best Buy.

They you detect the proximity and the context and trigger an action.

Of course if you would like to navigate down to inches and get X,Y you could just narrow the range of beacons and stick as many as possible - you will be very accurate and the multipath propagation is not an issue.
This is a welcome change. I'm interested to see if storyboards are now team-friendly too.
Not sure. As an artist (graphic design, composer, audio engineer), I see no use in it at all. I understand I'm not the user they're going for, but I still have a hard time seeing how this device would appeal to anyone who already owns both a laptop and a cell phone.

I try to get out of my office and studio as often as possible, in order to help the creative juices continue to flow by experiencing new things. If I were using this phone and wanted to go to Starbucks to work for a day, I'd be required to bring a monitor, keyboard, and mouse with me. If that was the case, why wouldn't I just bring my laptop instead?

I'm not trying to piss anyone off or anything, I just find it genuinely funny how terrible of an idea this phone was. If you're going to be spending $750 on a cell phone, why not just spend a little more and buy a MacBook Air and dual boot?
The same adversarial system that would be used for Snowden, and was used for Swartz, Ellsberg, Drake, and even DJB?

Admittedly that's kind of a strawman as you're not claiming here anything to do with those one way or another. But many who don't trust the government to put people on trial do point to cases exactly like those.

On the other hand if you're simply saying that we shouldn't trust government to prosecute cases, operate surveillance without oversight, etc. just because they're the government I would agree with you 100%.

But on the other hand by the definition I wouldn't even trust the government to deliver clean water or build roads without oversight. As an example of where even the latter could go wrong I'll point to a book that HN pointed out to me, "Fatal Purity" about the French Revolution... one of the many examples of then-current corruption by the nobles was of road-building. The specific example was of a new provincial road that was argued necessary for the people to build despite there being an existing road... it was built right up to a nobleman's estate and then the rest was canceled, leaving the lord with a gratis road built straight to his property.

Or for a modern example, the famed "Bridge to Nowhere".

So there is no part of government which is inherently trustworthy and worthy of operating without oversight. But once you've established good oversight (such as you'd definitely want over criminal prosecutors!), that leaves the possibility of other government-provided functions open again.

There may certainly still be reasons that government should not perform those functions, but it wouldn't be about the impossibility of providing oversight.
He is not.

"Although Carmack will take on a new role with Oculus, the game designer will remain with id. "John has long been interested in the work at Oculus VR and wishes to spend time on that project," reads a statement from video game publisher Bethesda Softworks, whose parent company ZeniMax acquired id Software in 2009. "The technical leadership he provides for games in development at id Software is unaffected." [1]

1. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/gaming/2013/08/07/john-ca...
Emacs has actually had that feature for awhile. It's a bit of a mixed blessing, to be honest; while it's great that you don't have to remember to close files when you're done with them, the asymmetry of the feature (files don't magically open when you want to go back to them after they've been reaped) tends to make it a bit more frustrating than useful to me. It'd be interesting to see a more user-friendly implementation.
Man, fuck this world.

Go into a STEM job? Well, maybe you'll get hired, maybe you won't, you have to hope that you picked an area that was hot 4 years ahead of time and that the people managing recruitment don't have their heads up their asses. Also you need to hope that any company isn't already in the process of globalizing or outsourcing said STEM jobs because they can do those cheaper elsewhere (see IBM story yesterday).

And if you didn't go into STEM, well, fuck you because STEM is the only college that's any good by 95% of all accounts.

And if you didn't go into college, then fuck you because you're going to do back-breaking labor with no guarantee of financial security.

Something's gotta change or things are going to be grim. They're already getting grim.
and for Usenet users - there's a group gwene.net.daemonology.hn-daily
#1255 on my top list:
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The first time they voted for Gore. Perhaps you are too young to remember though.

The second time there were rather virulent protests, celebrity protest (including an Eminem music video) right up to one of the narrowest election victories in some time. I remember it vividly because it was my first election I could vote in. :P
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The top 10 places Google glass has already been banned
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>Conversely I'd happily install an app that put art over billboards. It would be nice to go to Times Square and feel like you're in the Louvre.

That's not going to happen for the foreseeable future. See http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/why-you-wont-see-hard-...
> From the initial connections and users we picked up from the post, we were able to convert 20 users into $50/month paying customers.

On first take, I was surprised you were able to pick up 20 paying users just from an HN post.

But then I went back and read the first part:

> First, being in the community, we had a bunch of friends that were great customer candidates.

It would be interesting to know the breakdown for those first 20 customers: how many came from personal connections?
People want too much from this site: startup news, code, politics, self help, tech gossip. This was fine with fewer users because all this could coexist on the front page, but now a lot of quality content just flies under the radar in lieu of linkbait stories. Unfortunately this is the way the internet works.
This is a valid point, but I think it misses the reasoning slightly.

Much of markets are perceptions, and as everyone knows if you are a 'hot' startup there has been a tradition of the entrenched folks seeding fear, uncertainty, and doubt into the market to slow down your growth. If you are too open with what you are doing you give those who would have you not be successful time to construct a story about why you are a risk or shouldn't be trusted. Further, you get 'pre-announcements' which can make you feel like a 'me too' company rather than 'we're the first to be doing this.'

A recent example was that Apple Maps was launching with some new 3D features, word got out that this was part of the announcement and Google apparently rushed their map announcement ahead of Apple's to capture that aura of 'first mover.' (Clearly Google was already working on similar features but they moved their announcement to change the message that people heard in the media)

So if you are a startup working on "X" and BigCo could do X if they were investing time and money into it, and your 'buzz' was high and a lot of people were starting to like what they saw as you got closer to launch. It is very possible for BigCo to hold a press conference on the "future of X" with their vision of how it will work, and when you launch all the questions are "well how does that compare to BigCo's vision of X?" and the answer "Well they aren't even working on it while we are here delivering it so I can't really say" doesn't come across as 'leadership' so much as 'sour grapes.'

The OP focusses on the technology aspects of Stealth, which is to say that if you can't say what you are working on because the barriers to entry are so low as to make anyone a potential competitor, that is not a business. But the marketing message risk, regardless of technology, is very high. So stealth is definitely warranted if you are at risk of being marginalized quickly by the players you are choosing to disrupt.
They have their own via Cloudhopper:
https://blog.twitter.com/2010/cloudhopping
I don't even think I know 2,000 people enough to recognize their face let alone name.
right but many companies try to take a shortcut - they think the best measure of skill is github.

To be fair, it's hard to qualify "skill", so shortcuts are very tempting.
Here's an online Datalog IDE and evaluator, running wholly client-side. Made with Emscripten.

http://ysangkok.github.io/mitre-datalog.js/wrapper.html
>>"It matters even when no one can see"

This reminded me of Steve Jobs's father, who was a carpenter I believe. Steve shared an anecdote where his father would refuse to use cheap wood for the backs of cabinets, even though they wouldn't be visible.
Well, they're either worse off without the option of working at Amazon, or they're better off. It can't be both.
It gets worse. What if skilled workers are skill in a field that becomes suddenly redundant? Think about payroll clerks who typed out checks every two weeks; now it's all done by computers, databases and spreadsheets. Even skilled workers are not necessarily immune.

Of course that merely shows that there is a problem, it doesn't show what to blame or how to fix it in general.
There is discussion in twitter but not if you follow Scoble you need to follow people who interact and roughly follow and are followed by similar numbers of people. Its a very social medium if done right...
Ask HN: Which is your recommended domain registrar for .it/.ly domains?
I use namecheap these days but it seems they do not have option to register .it/.ly domains. Correct me if this is not the case!
Obama cancels Putin meeting because of Snowden
I won't deny many such examples exist, but you can't deny that the MSM is nevertheless an influence on large swaths of Americans. Even those that are not so gullible as to accept what they hear on the news as fact unquestioningly, may be influenced more subtly by the range of opinions presented and how they are portrayed.

So maybe they invite three guests on to discuss a topic like privacy: one a DoD official, one from a conservative think tank and a centrist writer. Suddenly the range of "acceptable" viewpoints is conveniently narrowed and the remainder is implied to be "fringe".

Or maybe they massively inflate the actual threat of things like terrorist attacks (because fear and xenophobia get ratings too) and give it a disproportionate amount of coverage. Now everyone who watches or even flicks by that channel is maybe more likely to talk about it at the water cooler or whatever.

This can affect the broader culture, which can in turn influence people who don't even watch the news on TV*

So how do we get people to place a higher value on, say, their liberties and human rights instead of fear of the spectre of terrorism? Is it possible? Can we get people to understand and care about relevant historical examples?

* Not to imply this is the case with your Mom!
Every online banking site I've used had a UI that could be entirely recreated without using JS, with literally no perceivable difference to the user. I have never once said "Man, I sure wish I could get to my balance without a new page loading when I clicked the link."