skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All I'm saying is, Apple would have made a sale that day if they offered a slightly larger product in addition to their already popular one. They don't offer it, and they lost a customer. I'd imagine this same decision happens thousands of times a day and it's bizarre that they haven't identified that market segment as one to compete in.

Apple took it's sweet time to get into the small tablet market, and now is selling iPad minis like they're going out of style. Why not get into the slightly larger smartphone market which has already proven itself to be at least as popular a segment as the niche the iPhone is in.
so Clarkson hates EVs, hates Ford...

It's a love/hate relationship. He bought a GT40 (and then had many problems with it, but loved it, from what I remember). From what I can gather from the series, Ford is fairly popular in the UK (with the Mondeo?), so it's an easy target.
I think demonstrating a set of features like this between a large number of langauges: say 20 to 50 would be a grand demonstration.
You have heard of the Inuit right? Or the Massai people? How many vegetables do you think they ate?

Are you actually having health problems due to eating meat?

Edit: Another good thing to watch is the canadian documentary 'My Big Fat Diet' on youtube. Talks about the canadian indians (first nations) people having a ton of diabetes due to being on carbs and not their traditional fish based diet.
Your argument is "that would be obvious, so it must not be true"? Why are you letting a feeling outweigh actual evidence?

Why bother? Timing attacks on Tor are much harder (require sniffing & correlating large percentage of network) than direct de-anonymization (require injecting malware in some servers).
http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-4.3.19

As for why? I have no clue. It's specified in the specification. That's all. There are ToInteger(), ToInt32(), ToUint16(), ToUInt32 functions defined as well, but I think that's for the host to implement

EDIT: oops. there isn't a ToInt64() function defined.
Three-dimensional chess. (Not really disagreeing. Just couldn't turn down the challenge.)
Maybe not initially, but there are probably more (humane) opportunities to optimize a factory process than to do the same thing to animals.
Rep. Amash: Snowden is a whistle-blower, told us what we need to know
According to the time it took to my macbook air to calculate it in ruby, it would be pretty interesting to have someone generate benchmarks for different languages :)
The post is not speculation, it's actually pointing to those IP addresses. SAIC also openly does this type of offensive exploitation work for the government. There are many reasons why sniffing may not be sufficient, not least of which is that it's over Tor.
But what is the alternative... someone has pwnd an NSA box and is using it as a CC server for malware that they've injected into all sites hosted by some guy who was just arrested?
In What Year Did You Start Using Linux? (Survey)
WTF, That's all I can say.
Does anybody have an ETA on when Program Enrollment will be back up?
That is an absolutely awesome illustration.
Ask HN: Acquisitions Department?
We've been approached by a large player in our space who is interested in potentially acquiring our startup. We'd like to get in touch with other large players in the space to see if they're also interested in an acquisition. That said, we don't have connections to these companies and are a bootstrapped startup without VC connections. Who do we contact and how do we go about contacting them?

My idea is to contact an employee of the company in an unrelated function and see if they can do an intro to somebody in the M&A dept. Is that crazy?
Anonymity in Bitcoin
Canon Professional Services (and Nikon Professional Services) does a similar thing, however to get into CPS, it took me quit a bit of work back in the day (tearsheets, credential letters, etc.) However by looking at using this site as an analog for CPS, but for "normal" people, you might have a hit on your hands, especially with the serious amateurs who don't have the credits to get into CPS (or similar programs.)

Manufacturer partnerships would be the key to blowing this up. The straight peer-to-peer might work, but most pros with decent gear are going to take some serious convincing to loan their gear out. Things like lens alignment for example, are pretty hard to detect, so it isn't as easy as AirBnB to determine "damage." I also suspect the insurance requirements might be pretty difficult.

Good luck! Great idea.
But what happens if the $5000 you attempt to charge to their card is declined?
'cause, y'know, the more static the better.
We rightly vilify the Third Reich, but the lesson of history is not that the Nazis were intrinsically evil; it's that any culture has the capacity to normalize and systematize its own unique brand of evil, via a thousand baby steps.

Just because America is not and never will be Nazi Germany, that's no reason to accept or ignore the American flavor of fascism that has been quietly brewing for decades.
Free time :) Sorry if it was a misleading title.
People Are The Biggest Marketing Distribution Channel
At first I was like, this is cool... but there's not a whole lot of new value here that makes changing how I work worth it. Then it allowed me to switch between mobile platforms, and desktop, and I was like "oh, hey i would use that"

So nice work. The core still needs some work but there's a lot of potential.
Only Apple knows that.
I'm just looking for something to replace the daytime job where I don't have to be at an office 5 days a week

Wouldn't it be easier to simply find a job that lets you work remotely? Not every employer would allow that, but I have to think if you put a startup level of effort into such a job search you would find and land such a job in a month or two. I could be wrong (maybe you've already tried), but it from an outside perspective it seems to be the case.
Original headline mentioned the specific allegation that the DEA was using this warrantless information to springboard investigations into previously unsuspected persons.
I'll agree and raise another important point: With enough money, almost nothing is a barrier.

I wouldn't found a startup with no income and looking to leverage that success early or your family will starve. If you have an adequate enough padding though, and yes a supportive family, you can easily be solo.
Knowing how to use a language is critical to get expected results.

This gives the proper result in PHP by forcing the integer cast.

$sum = (int) $sum + $i;
The Woman Who Ate Cutlery
SAIC is a huge defense contractor with their fingers in a large number of pies.
Anything SAIC related is certainly government related, but not necessarily NSA.
Presumably because it allows you to do anything involving double precision or 32-bit integer arithmetic, and performance was not originally a major consideration. It's pretty rare to need more than 53 bits of precision (and was even rarer for JS's original intent), so it makes sense that the numeric type is kept simple. Edit: and to clarify, the advantage is that this makes basic implementation extremely simple. Only if you want to optimize your engine's performance do you have to worry about shuffling types around.

These days the solution for having more precision is to use an external library. I think that's generally fine, although I think performance is a concern. Financial applications aside, working with arbitrary precision is a good hint that you might be doing something processor intensive. It's certainly a case where I'd like the library to be compiled to target asm.js, and maybe optionally NaCL, once those have widespread adoption. Ideally, ECMAScript would also have a native implementation, but that won't eliminate the need for a library for shimming for years to come.
Lving in Boston has distorted my reality. Here, decent 1 BRs cost $1500 a month.
http://www.wbur.org/2013/01/30/boston-apartments-heat-map
It looks like they are working on their tools. I've came across this a few days ago

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-M-dRek8oKjCT0pq7fFlC7DfFGW...
> ©2013 Webflow, Inc. This page was built in Webflow (duh).

Yep.
On Geek Culture
An infallible quantum measurement
The myth of America's missing software engineers
Interesting to see some mainstream media finally picking up on this.
It is more often a matter of choice of the next tier in the "supply chain", i.e. my customers' choice, not my own.

I still love Apple's hardware, as well as their design decisions in a broad sense. Everything they do almost never disappoints in terms of novelty and coolness.

The only fundamental question in this context is, is developer lock-in part of what makes Apple Apple? I doubt so.
That's a lot of risk to carry as a lendee (lessee?). I'd probably want to insure against that risk if possible.

Also how are you checking that the lendee's CC can cover the amount of the current equipment value?
I loved what you were showing a while ago a lot, but I have my issues with the current iteration:

I envisioned it as a way to integrate it into my current workflow, instead of it being a completely seperate and independent webpublishing platform. As it currently stands, it feels like a slightly more design-ish squarespace with the kicker of responsive design. Nothing impossible to do with squarespace.

All you can do (at the moment) really is to set up some nice looking static sites, but the moment you want anything more interactive or custom features, you are out in the dark. Like I can't even enter the store on the second example on the landing page.

Just my two cents.
From the OpenBR website:

"Internally the code base uses the CMake build system and requires Qt and OpenCV."
I'm wondering: Could something like this work for musical instruments / recording equipment?
You should require users to generate their own API keys. Problem solved! http://i.qkme.me/3r6sxj.jpg
I had the exact immediate question from the other side - I'd be renting equipment, not renting it out. I looked at two cameras before I started freaking out about: What if I break a lens? What if I scratch it? What if I lose the charger? Does it come in the right bag to protect it?
I wonder what the average citizen can do about this? I feel awful for these folks, and wish more people could become educated about their civil rights when faced with the legal system.

EDIT: Sounds like the ACLU (+1) already followed through with the embarrassment that was Tenaha, Texas. But it makes you throw up a little to hear the Wash. D.C. attorney general try to justify the importance of ill-gotten funds to prop up corrupt police :(
Great write up, and an interesting use of existing libraries to transform tech into art.
This could be great for teaching how CSS works.
sum is fine in GHC. It is specialised for Integer. GHCi uses naive sum though.
Serious answer:

A) Apple may not have "unlimited" resources:

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/04/12/apple-announces-leopard-delay...

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/04/02/apple-scuttlebut...

B) Instead of just getting things up and running ASAP, Apple may be taking the longer, harder road by rebuilding a significant portion of their systems completely, in order to prevent this from happening again. Basically taking the long view:

http://www.cultofmac.com/236547/apple-confirms-that-dev-cent...

That is straight from the horse's mouth.

Do we know exactly why the timeline is what it is? No. But we do know that Apple has stated that they are completely overhauling the systems, and that they do not have unquestionably unlimited resources. Additionally, if it is true that they are pulling engineers from OSX to ship the latest version of iOS on time, then not only do they not have unlimited resources, but even fewer than they would otherwise have without a major code revision about to ship.
Gasbot Sniffs Out Climate Destruction With Lasers
Indeed, where I know SAIC from is when they leaked PII of DoD and VA records because they suck at information handling. :(
How so? Would there be no way to 'fight fire with fire' agains said malware, also, though?
Someone replied the following in there:

"The key in this case is using C99's long long data type. It provides the biggest primitive storage C can manage (128-bits on 32-bit machines and 256-bits on a 64-bit machine) and it runs really, really fast."

Isn't long long "typically" 64-bit? (I know the C standard doesn't actually specify any actual size).

What platform does this long long type really give you the full 128 or 256 bits on?

And do 64-bit CPU's indeed support 256 bit integer types? If so, what can I do to play with it!! C does not provide it for me on Linux!

Thanks :)
Introduction to Topcoat
I would have upvoted had there been a preview, quote, or something but for now you get my email address anyway.
"...the "nanny cam" robber in NJ had twelve prior convictions..."

That sounds like a person CREATED by prisons. Probably became MORE criminal after serving his first term. That much more criminal after the second. Etc.. etc.

We mightn't even need the non-prison punishments were it not for our ... prisons??? Which is ... weird to think about.

A lot of our crime may not even be committed if our prisons were not tantamount to "Crime College for Criminals"?
worked on this for my wife/newborn son. keeps track of when she fed on which boob last. also has an option if a bottle was used. background changes color depending on which one she should use first for the next feeding.
https://github.com/rustychicken/milkpunch
A simple concept of how programs run on your PC
Perhaps they wanted it to be noticed, to frighten people away from networks like Tor.

In this case it's a double-hit: compromise a large number of Tor users and discourage more people from using it.
Based on the discussion here, I would allow users to express interest in products you don't have available. "Get notified when X is available" and collect an email. This might help you understand 1) what users want 2) if others users may be willing to acquire the product if they know N others would rent it out (eg subsidize the cost). I'm unsure of the economics here, but I would acquire the product myself if I were you. Also, this will give you future access to these visitors who are currently being lost.

Insurance also may be a big issue for your users to list. If I were you I'd want my listers to know feel like there was zero downside and almost like they are wasting money by not listing their gear.
Top Gear drastically misrepresented the Tesla's range. It wasn't particularly funny, comedic, or for educational effect. It was simply misleading.

I own a Nissan Leaf and am well aware that range depends upon a series of conditions like weather, excessive acceleration and braking, and climate control. THIS IS TRUE OF ALL CARS, but matters more in EVs.

That does not mean that anyone would be well-served by an automotive review that lists towns and distances traveled, but which then misrepresents the car's state of charge to pretend its battery is completely discharged when it's actually over one-third full.
Where reality is defined as reality. Aversion to synthetic meat, as a concept, is irrational. There is no reason for it. If you disagree, explain your reason.
I used formmail.pl! Multiple times!

It cured me of any inclination I might have had to actually learn and use Perl.
Water can activate (much more so than you think in fact, though I can't discuss further maybe someone with a civilian background in nuclear physics can fill in).

Certainly the long-term danger is more from what the water will carry in solution than from the water itself though.
This article provides recommendations for improving communication between business planning and engineering. The authors claim that in many cases increased understanding on both sides can change the label on the IT department from 'cost center' to an investment, resulting in more more resources being placed at the disposal of engineering.
1. Doing everything yourself means knowing how everything works and being able to manage it all. No one knows enough or has enough time to do that properly. You've increased your attack surface all while giving yourself a false sense of security.

2. If you communicate with anyone that hasn't broken out of prism, you are still observed and recorded. Watchers may not know what you say, but they will know when and to whom. What was said isn't all that hard to obtain or infer if they own one side of the conversation.
> There aren’t many competitors for a service like this

Very false. This space has started to see a lot of action (Over 10 high quality products come to mind, one of them another YC company) and will only continue to. It's going to be interesting to see how it all plays out (disclaimer: my company has products somewhat in this space).

Congrats to Webflow though, it's a great product.
Instead of policing every line of code you can also mitigate SQL injection by restricting the access of the database handle the user-facing queries are using

* All read-only queries use a read-only (SELECT only) database account. Injecting; DROP TABLES or INSERT, UPDATE, etc (DML commands) just error out.

* User accounts and logins are stored in a different database, so only the code responsible for login and registration can access those tables/database.

* All queries should use prepared statements which effectively treats all injected text as just text rather than database commands.
right but the article goes on to say:

"Yet even a breast-fed baby is at risk. Studies show that vegan breast milk lacks enough docosahexaenoic acid, or DHA, the omega-3 fat found in fatty fish. It is difficult to overstate the importance of DHA, vital as it is for eye and brain development."
"The reason we raised 400M in capital, was thinking ahead. I mean we bought a website in the United States called VacationRentals.com for 35 million bucks. The only reason we bought it was so Expedia couldn't have that URL." -Brian Sharples, CEO of HomeAway
Your numbers don't quite work - Google has to pay taxes, benefits, office space, training, perks, equipment, recruitment costs, and so on. And then, have you tried to hire 18,000 people? Finally, Google's reported head count is around 40K - you are suggesting adding about 50% just for support. That's a tough sell to your investors. Where would all these people go. Mountain View is basically Google these days - the office I am sitting in will be razed for a Google parking lot (goodbye beautiful trees :( ). You have to factor in how many new buildings, how many new buses and bus drivers, city taxes, chefs, HR personnel - it goes on and on. The phrase "google scale" doesn't just apply to their apps.

I'm not disputing that they could improve their support, just the price tag and scale that you have placed on it.
It's currently estimated as '1 Apple', which is a bespoke time unit, roughly equivalent to any amount of time between 1 minute and 45 days.

EDIT

In case anyone is wondering, '2 Apples' is strangely equivalent to an infinite amount of time. It is for this reason that '3 Apples' has never been measured; it may be possible to record it with the new Mac Pro.
Mythical man month : 10 lines per developer day
1 second of the brain activity we know about.
They have $150 billion in the bank. If that's not "unlimited", what else is?
> There is a healthy level of meat intake and we far exceed it

Why do you think that? I definitely eat a lot of meat, but I've never really seen any reason to think it was an inherently bad thing.
I hear a lot of stories of people that have a tough time finding co-founders. My tip would be to not just find any random Joe Schmoe in a tech meetup, or even similarly minded people who want to be entrepreneurs. Rather I would find people who already have done a Show HN with a similar idea, or someone who launched a competitor product (by himself/herself), and ask if they want to partner with you.

You'd be surprised because most of those people themselves want a cofounder as well to take the product to the next level.
Kivo (YC S13) Uses Git to Make Collaborating on Documents Easier
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Black Hat: Moving Security Outside The Lines
Climate change pushing marine life towards the poles
This Week in the Boston Startup/Innovation Community
Why would you base your assumption on experience with laptops when you have access (through the magic of the Internet) to perfectly good data about the Tesla Roadster? They've been on the road for over four years now.

Here's the third link from a Google search for "tesla roadster battery degradation" (the first one not written by a "green car" website).
http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/tesla-low-balls-roadster-...

It says that the batteries have, on average, over 80 percent capacity remaining after 100,000 miles. 80% of the original 265 mile EPA range is still well over 210 miles of range.
Any other investors?

Any other options issued?

Any other un-vested participants?

It's the other participants that might make this challenging to be flexible, for future-oriented consequences.

If you become the sole owner, subsequent pricing is a bit more flexible, since you're king of the entity.

But also a price-setting event is "forever", in a historical sense, but that does not mean subsequent pricing events attend to the earlier price event. See also "down rounds" in venture investing.

You may want to explore the topic of IRS section 409A, if you're in the United States. This might have vesting tax consequences for you. Or maybe not. You might choose to disclaim the un-vested stock because of the future taxes (especially if you're sole-owner). Or maybe not.

Also read up on 83b elections. You might be paying tax on your own subsequently vested stock, after a pricing event has occurred.

Sort this out BEFORE your buy-out transaction.

See Fred Wilson, for a hint of the universe:

Employee Equity: Restricted Stock and RSUs

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/11/employee-equity-restricted-s...

and

Fairmark.com - Kaye A. Thomas

http://www.fairmark.com/execcomp/sec83b.htm

Also, again Fred Wilson:

Employee Equity: The Option Strike Price

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/11/employee-equity-the-option-s...

And, ah, what can you do for future options? One potential avenue, in exploring with a knowlegeable accountant + lawyer about merging your start up into another entity which has a new, "clean" and different capital and equity structure, that perhaps you're the sole owner of, that might (or might not) make pricing a whole new and different situation.

And...how about reporting back on what you ultimately did and why?
Dangers of computers in objects that did not have computers.[TXT]
Twitter should implement some filtering options on the homepage
Well the demo link is here

http://pebbleroad.github.io/jquery-taxonomy-browser/dist/

And yes, taxonomy facets are located at https://github.com/PebbleRoad/jquery-taxonomy-browser/blob/m...
B(eef)-Trees?
I searched briefly and found a response from The Body Shop:

> This is a wider beauty industry issue and we, like many other global beauty brands, have been forced to use synthetic scrub particles for face products in the last few years as safety restrictions in some markets around the world have become more stringent. These safety restrictions require us to ensure that all scrub particles used on the face are consistently rounded in shape, which is difficult to achieve with natural particles. In order to provide a global product formulation that is stable and safe for use we have, unfortunately, had to resort to synthetic materials such as polyethylene.

http://5gyres.org/posts/2013/04/26/get_plastic_off_my_face_a...

I agree that there may be other reasons to choose plastic over sugar - companies don't generally do things that are bad for them - I was only disputing the disparity in the raw cost of the ingredients. Personally I've noticed that sugar based scrubs don't hold up as well, they tend to either dry out in the jar or get too wet. Fussy consumers who want life to look like a TV commercial are part of the problem here.