skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally think this thing will be misused to the hilt, but there are ways they can add real value to a brick and mortar shopping experience.

Imagine you walked into a larger store, for example Walmart. As you walk in, the estimote app loads the wallmart app temporarily over the instore wifi. The app shows you a map of the store, which shows what products can be bought in which aisle, making your shopping experience much faster. As you approach the cash register, it acts like a concierge and tells you which register is the fastest one (some airports do this with a dedicated person, which directs people to different lines. It yields considerable speed ups). As you leave the store, the walmart app is removed from your phone. Estimote now shows you the nearest estimote enabled stores.

That's the good scenario. Now to the bad.

You go to the mall. As you approach it, you phone starts buzzing like it's mad. You think it's a call, so you pick up your phone. Nope, its Footlocker trying to sell you their new line of shoes at a 10% discount. Fine, but you're not looking for shoes. As you walk through the mall, your phone goes of wantonly, displaying ads for stores that are on the other side of the mall. Obviously, they don't know how to configure their estimotes. You can't walk for 5 meters without an estimote alert going off, logging itself to your allready estimote infested task list. Completely pissed off, you turn off your phone in order to leave the mall at peace. You're not buying stuff here. As you get home, you get an important call, but your phone is off, and you miss it. Resignated, you trash your iphone and get yourself a single purpose nokia. Serves you right estimote, serves your right.

I think there's certainly potential behind these, but their "sell the dev packs" approach to it doesn't seem to be very promising. Most small retailers will struggle with the setup and SDK. Hell, the local supermarkets cash registers here have SQL injection vunerabilities. One bar code that includes ;DROP TABLE * in it and they're closed for a week.

There seem to be several steps in setting these up.
1. Buying them.
2. Setting them up physically.
3. ? Linking them to a central system ?
4. Writing an app.

Out of these points, it seems they are only covering 1, even though there's certainly work involved (and money to be made) in steps 2 - 4 . Dumping these on the buyer leads to friction in the buying process which will cost them sales. They need to sort that out.
Ah yes, that is interesting! And very wordy. I was thinking of creating something more visual.
C'mon -- flyover not that bad. Irksome perhaps, but not offensive.
Thanks. Still think this ruling is weird, but it sure is interesting.
There's a significant difference in the intent required between browsing someone's password settings and actually attacking their computer. This is important.

I'm not discussing malicious attackers, I'm not even discussing someone who is out to get your password. Chrome makes it possible, in seconds, for someone to reveal your passwords as a crime of opportunity.
Github's 404 has a nice parallax effect now
"This will reform the investor climate over the long-term if the best startups consistently use it, and after all, these best startups are the target of your essay."

Seems that the target of PG's advice is a particular individual and what benefits them. Not what benefits all startups. If he were writing to investors he might write differently.
> I've seen some credit card and bank card forms that include language which make the agreement void if its terms are altered in any way.

How's that supposed to work? Bank offers agreement. You offer totally different agreement although superficially similar. It's not altered. It's new. If bank agrees then I don't see how it could get away. After all they are big supporters of the rule that if you signed something you declared that you agree with it and if you actually don't it's your loss.
That’s just Google emulating the real Android experience.
I still don't know why storyboards (all views and segues) are implemented in a single file. I talked to some Apple developers at WWDC last year and this year about the issue. I explained the possibility of actually saving controller/view bindings in separate files (umm, xibs) so you wouldn't get all these conflicts. The storyboard itself would only be a graph of the xibs and their segues to other xibs and whatnot (position on screen in the editor or whatever). A lot less of a chance of a conflict. I'm just giving a high level overview of what we had discussed. I still think it could be implemented better. Break that bad boy up! It should be in a bundle.
But what if you erase the part that makes "the agreement void if its terms are altered in any way"?
You have completely missed the point. This issue does not relate malicious attacks. It is about the intent required for a friend or co-worker to breach your trust.

Chrome lowers the barrier and makes access casual where other systems require a stronger level of intent. That's the problem. I have no idea why you are defending this behaviour.
True, one does not imply the other. But if you've read Rob's blog and other material you see that his process was identify "the ingredients your body requires" and then "find those ingredients in safe to eat form." So in this case the list of ingredients is a dependent variable on what your body requires.
I suspect it's a combination of support, documentation, and trade secrets. I've worked with numerous vendors over the last decade and the support strategies vary dramatically. Some vendors put up very nice datasheets, manuals, source code, etc, while some give you almost nothing at all, and instead ship an engineer with the product to help you design it in. The rationale is that these chips are very complicated, applications vary dramatically, and it's sometimes better to increase the quantity of manpower (in engineer form) for your favorite 5 customers (that make up most of your market anyway) rather than to increase the quantity of documentation so that you can also sell to Joe & Jane Hobbyist.
Mozilla Personna also uses pub/private key pairs, btw. And it seems just fine.

OTPs are great and all but in the end you keep the damn unhashed secret on all machines that have to accept the OTP.
> No other browser makes it this easy to get at passwords in plaintext.

In Firefox you can go to preferences, security, and saved passwords. And News Flash: If you leave your wallet unattended for 30 seconds, someone could take your money. I guess wallet makers should include a warning too?
All of my Instacart orders have cost $3.99 in shipping -- and that's for a shopper living alone whose office provides meals on weekdays.
The idea that everyone fully reads every EULA is completely unfeasible.

This means that ignorance isn't bliss, so much as a natural state in order to function. To me, that implies something is wrong.
O.P. here. The Kelly criterion is a product of the logic outlined in the section about utility being the log of wealth. In short, assuming a jackpot of under $1 trillion, you'd need to have a bankroll on the order of eight digits to justify spending $2 on a ticket under the Kelly criterion.

Also, the Kelly criterion doesn't exactly apply here because this is more like a one-off event than a repeated game. But a lot of the same principles apply.
Note that Auhty has the exact same issue.
AIUI sometimes the workers physically producing the chips will sneak in at night and do an extra run. Or sell chips that failed quality control.
A lot of people keep asking/questioning what makes Digital Ocean special. I can't speak for other people, but I do track what other people say. I've collected ~1,300 opinions on them and people like them more than any other major hosting provider I track (80% positive).

Feel free to read the comments for yourselves: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/101/digitalocean

They are obviously doing something right and a huge congratulations for their fund raise.
Yeah, 'cause ARPA was definitely a capitalist agency.
Is this similar in any respects to Speek (http://www.speek.com)? That company is killing it right now with a totally awesome product.
Ok, I'll give you this. I think you're entirely correct and I realize I'm not seeing the forest for the trees.
I doubt this is really true.
It was a publicly traded company. Was it really the case that nobody else owned shares?

It also has a board of directors and a chairman of the board/CEO (which is who the "Don" guy he talks about is).
How comforting it is to be only subject to French surveillance: http://gigaom.com/2013/07/04/france-has-its-own-prism-like-s...
Fundraising climates cycle from optimistic to pessimistic. If you take a ten year view, this would be an average to above average time to raise money in my view.

In the difficult environments, everyone has their wallets stashed in their pockets and it's hard for even good startups to raise money. In that environment I think engaging in "permissible levels of salesmanship" is probably rational.

But in an average to strong market, I agree, why compromise even at the margin? If it's a good idea you'll get funded.
Control your laptop via SMS and Python
"omitting the right keyword from your CV "

Agree.

Even omitting the right word from you web page if you are a freelancer will cost you business. Outsourcer looks at qualifications and if, say, they are looking for php and the page doesn't list php the freelancer might not get a call for the particular project even if it seems reasonable that they do know php.

Similarly if you are looking for a plumber and you need a water heater put in having "we install water heaters" is much better than "we do all sorts of plumbing". People key into specifics and hot buttons.
Thats like 1.5M page views per month. Assuming eCPM of 0.5, it would fetch 7500$/pm. This is a rough calculation.
Round here (ZA) its fairly common to see a party having a copy of the contract signed only by the counterparty. i.e. Each party ends up with a contract signed by the counter party. Technically that makes neither copy a valid contract, but - close enough I guess.
what, how is this fair? housing lease agreements have initials on each section and page for this reason, so on big long contracts you can't change a small part. if you lose a copy of a contract, and the other party has a copy that is signed and dated by you (in all locations required), isn't that case closed?
"The only thing you need is traction. Anything else doesn't matter.
It seems insane, but investors are blinded by traction."

Very true, but why is this insane? Investors see tons of people with great big ideas who talk about passion. Since you have to winnow the field, why not do it on something that matters (traction) versus something that doesn't (the alma mater of the founder, or how they dressed).
Other people can see and work with a remote development server. If you're pair programming or having a consultant or friend help you debug something tricky, you can set up screen sessions with just an ssh login instead of having to set up and configure another tool that the other person might not be familiar with. If you're working from home, or with a distributed team that can't all be on the same network, with a remote server you don't have to monkey with letting someone else into your network.

Droplets only cost money when they're instantiated/on. At the end of the day, you nuke the server and can deploy it again in the morning if you need to.
In my opinion, using expected value to evaluate lotteries is not correct. Realistically, there are only two outcomes. Either you win millions, or you lose a few thousand over several years. The future where your outcome matches the expected value never actually occurs.

This is unlike games like blackjack, poker, or roulette, where the expected value does match the eventual outcome.

So if you can live with the second outcome, playing the lottery is fine. But using expected value does not seem appropriate to me.
Leaving your machine unlocked for 30 seconds versus 5 minutes is a big difference to some people. Chrome makes password access within the former time limit a more distinct possibility.

Having someone able to casually browse your passwords versus intending to attack your system and breach your trust to get them is a big difference.

Can you not see that Chrome lowers social and emotional barriers to password access by presenting them in this form? That is the concern here.
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Cloud-crawler, a distributed Ruby DSL for crawling the web via Amazon ec2
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This is the message I got from the author:

Don't trust Google, trust me instead!
How about Google actually sells Nexus devices in my country and then I'll recommend them to people.

As it is, a few places sell the old Nexus 7, and that's it. The only Nexus phone ever to get sold here was the Nexus One, and there's no Nexus 10 either, no new Nexus 7.
How did you draw the conclusion that the "law doesn't apply to the same extent" as the USA?
It works like that. You print an empty contract from internet in two copies. Then you sign both copies, and you send it via mail to the bank. Bank signs both copies as well and sends one back to you. Then it provides the service.

Bank just offers you agreement to sign. Guy just offered the bank different agreement and the bank accepted it by signing.

Probably that's why in my country banks rather sends you already signed two copies of the agreement and you are supposed to sign both of them and send one back.
So do it on the ones that have this feature. Try to find equivalents on others.
Google killed some of its best ideas because of Google+
They have ignored a security issue from January to July: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6124306
This clearly pop-psych piece references a study (without any citation, thanks) that uses college students, presumably all from the same country. Even if we accept that this is an adequate sample at all, have the results been replicated? The article doesn't let us know.

I also tend to be skeptical on the amount of consequence a single study of one indigenous community can have on behavioral psychology and philosophy as a whole.

Ian Leslie is borderline pop psych imo, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eNxxoLByS4

I'd also like to start a running collection of "mainstream news media featuring pictures of stereotypically 'Millennial' women doing stereotypically female and 'Millennial' things"
As a big fan of the movie Strange Days, the effectiveness of plain-old-mpegs to deliver recorded first-person experiences that are replayable through the Rift was a wonderful surprise for me.

Here's my list of favorites so far:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eByvt8he58U&t=1m10s

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8zaYrd0LvI

http://vimeo.com/64769947 NSFW
Maybe the market is predicated on imperfect/occluded information. Therefore, ripe for disruption and collapse.
Yeah they do. In Firefox go to preferences, security, and saved passwords. I don't know about Safari or Internet Explorer because they're shit and I don't use them.
Yes, when you're younger you (general you) typically are less risk-averse, so you can invest in these high risk high reward stocks.

That being said, whether it's TSLA or AAPL or some other "sure thing," exposing yourself to such a large amount of unsystematic risk isn't really wise. What if Elon Musk dies tomorrow? What if a plant catches on fire? Then your $4,000 could be decimated. Yes $4,000 will not mean much to you in 15 years, but compound interest average returns for 15 years hopefully should.

I love TSLA and I have money invested, but I don't think it's wise to be 100% in anything, no matter what it is.
And you have completely missed the point here.

It requires a stronger level of intent for someone to dump my Keychain passwords than it does for someone to browse my Chrome passwords.

This concerns me. I have friends that I would not trust around my computer now because I know that going to chrome://settings/passwords is too tempting for them. But I trust them not to maliciously or actively attempt to subvert the security on my computer.
I shouldn't need to to explain this to you, but there's a vast difference between what you choose for lunch and how a government exercises arbitrary power.
asm.js is a way to write javascript to help the JIT. It's intended to be autogenerated by tools. It has nothing to do with GC. asm.js will accumulate garbage just like normal javascript.
Google is still able to release updates to the affected Nexus devices, and they have a good track record of doing so; they just can't put those blobs into AOSP.
Well for new applications, at the start I can access a market of 100k (tokens) from Twitter or I can acccess a market of 140k+ and growing from App.net. I think a lot of developers/businesses will do the math.

One could also argue that less data means less noise and more signal. Also the data on app.net is more structured (see their annotation implementation).
MyUSACorporation.com now accepts bitcoins
Some people aren't as good as some other people at picking their battles, was my takeaway.
They were pushing a loyalty card, I added the clause that they couldn't collect or use any behavioural data collected from this card in any marketing, coupon, or other research program, nor could they share that information with with anyone not employed as a full time employee of Safeway Inc.

They didn't go for it :-)

Back when my kids were young and we had a neighborhood baby sitting co-op, all the Mom's met once a week. We set up a program where we got 15 different cards, every week we put all the cards in a basket at the beginning of the get together, then everyone took a card when they left (the basket was shaken up to randomize cards). That gave everyone a card to use but only aggregate statistics on the whole group rather than individual statistics.

The name was always Jane Smith.

These days Safeway has "fixed" that practice by tying gas rewards to a particular card number. That forces people to use the same card if they want to get gas rewards. I don't know but I suspect it was in response to activities like ours which mitigated their efforts to collect data.
"But while Microsoft did really well and there is thus a temptation to think they would have seemed a great bet a few months in, they probably didn't. Good, but not great. No company, however successful, ever looks more than a pretty good bet a few months in."

As an example, Bessemer Venture Partners passed on investing in Apple, Google, Intel, eBay, FedEx, and many other big companies. Their "anti-portfolio" makes amazing reading, and vividly demonstrates how hard it is to pick winners:

http://www.bvp.com/portfolio/antiportfolio
This photographer used a drone to shoot amazing video of Dallas
Dolphins remember each other for decades
I do. One presumes that Microsoft, Apple and other major OS developers did exhaustive UX studies, and that this - "determine my location and set the timezone representation of the clock to that local time, rather than the original" - wasn't something that a significant portion of people felt.

Why do I say this? There are very few use cases I can think of - though I'm happy to be educated otherwise - for doing this differently. In addition, Outlook and Calendar on my Mac both pick up TZ changes and automatically re-render my calendar appropriately.

I really struggle to picture a use case of "I fly from my home in Seattle back to Australia, and yet I want the clock on my menu bar to display a wall-time 18 hours behind my current location, rather than displaying the current time where my eyeballs are at, and changing back upon return".

Actually, I can think of one - the fear that poorly programmed or tested applications may handle this incorrectly. In which case I can understand this desire, even as a facet of "solving the wrong problem"/shooting the messenger.
I think it's a great idea. /r/fitness would probably be engrossed in this.
I can't see a bank in the US accepting (and signing) an altered contract. It would have to happen by an accident.

They would then find it worthwhile to spend $7 million in legal fees to avoid the $700K cost, just to have precedent for the next person that tried it.
And the contract change is not considered valid unless it was overtly accepted by an employee with appropriate authority. A random low wage employee processing these kinds of forms would be presumed to not have that authority with the business.
Well, profit was not expected last quarter either, and analysts are generally pretty slow to act. Also there may be various cyclical or one-time charges involved; a negative income isn't necessarily a sign of being down on a stock. Especially comparing this quarter to last year's same.
You would think that pinless debit card transactions would carry higher fees since there is a higher risk of fraud. Any thoughts as to why it's the opposite?
I seem to recall the US Air Force did a study that indicated that 20% of their pilots suffered from motion sickness, and that the level in the general population is higher... has anything changed, that would let the Rift have higher acceptance than the old VR stuff from the 90s?
You can always do text selection in a terminal by holding shift while selecting the text, no matter if the program running in the terminal supports mouse or not. I think on some terminals it's alt instead of shift.
Hi pg,

I admire the clarity of your thoughts.

This is a really fine and insightful article. Thank you for sharing this.
Perhaps you're in the express beta the article mentioned? I used Instacart a few times, and always had to pay the delivery fee unless they sent out a newsletter offering free delivery for one day for orders over ~$80 (which seems to happen a lot).
I figuratively snorked at that.

(Did I do it right? We're switching literal/figurative, right?)
Searchable Ember Doc
First of all, it doesn't have it "now" since it's been this way for about a year.

Second, you also have these:
https://github.com/500.html
https://github.com/502.html
https://github.com/503.html

And maybe some more.
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I can't think the user base are going to click on any ads.
I'm sure that's the idea. I was just pointing out the first thing that came to mind when I read the name.
Well, it depends on what you mean by "Haskell's" type system. The standard Haskell type system, as defined by the Haskell 98 spec, is decidable (and hence not Turing complete).

Thus Typo uses a number of GHC-specific type system extensions, one of which has "Undecidable" in its name. They're hidden in Prelude.hs.

{-# LANGUAGE NoImplicitPrelude #-}
{-# LANGUAGE MultiParamTypeClasses, FunctionalDependencies #-}
{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleInstances, UndecidableInstances #-}
{-# LANGUAGE OverlappingInstances #-}

It's very common to use some extensions, but AFAIK pretty rare to use UndecidableInstances. I'm not actually sure what it does.
A $1.45 million Monet is for sale on Amazon - with only 3 stars from reviewers
The flash memory issue should be gone even in your old nexus 7 after upgrading to 4.3 (and waiting a few days).
It's insane, because if you invest in a startup with decent traction you don't have your 100x big hit anymore, because you invest in a valuation at say $4M.

Instead, if you had spotted the startup's potential pre-traction, maybe just 1 or 2 months before it gained traction, you could have invested half the amount at a $2M val.

And this ability,ladies and gentlemen, to spot a startup 1-2 months pre-traction, makes the difference between a 25x and a 100x.