skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am a ... left-brained neurosis (did you mean 'neurotic?' not sure what this means) diet regimented monk (did you mean 'diet regiment monk'? not sure what this means) zealous disruptive product fiend (did you mean 'zealous fiend for disruptive products'? not sure what this means).

> "All of the above is far too subjective to have any empirical value. So, here is a quick and porous synopsis of my "experience" over the years"

This would read better without the disclaimer, flowery words, and air quotes, e.g.: "Here is a summary of my limited experiences"

> "Age 11 (as far back as I can recall in my life)"

Really? Anyway, why is this important? This whole paragraph would be better if you left out the commentary: "Age 11 - Discovered that I could ping youtube.com and use the resulting IP to get around my school's DNS blocking. I didn't really know what I was doing, but I knew what I wanted to do with the rest of my life."

Also, phrases like "my technology inception" stick out like a sore thumb and will make you sound grandiose, regardless of how many disclaimers you include.

> Eight months later, my port-forwarded router became an LLC with 6 full-time employees.

I know what you are trying to do here, but unless you really mean that your router had business papers and employees better keep it simple, especially since this is a story about how you took money from people to run a business whose operations were highly dubious at best.

> Meanwhile, my grades in all but anything STEM were an abysmal.

This is the kind of error you'll catch if you read your prose aloud carefully. Also, "to the demise of the business and the other employees" makes it sound like your mother killed them. I think you meant 'dismay'. Normally I would not comment on these kinds of things, but since you asked...

Your surprise that your your style is attracting more attention than your ideas is another thing that you'll eventually grow out of as you age and learn more about human behavior. In part it's because people feel smart when they notice things; anything that is simply asserted by you will be immediately suspect and scrutinized against other information, namely your other works and overall tone.

This is not unfair, it's actually a big part of communication. You transmitted more information than you intended, and that has business implications.
Awesome!
Does this use openstreetmap data, or what data set?
The simple truth is you've put alot of time into thinking about how to look smart, and it shows. Just relax a bit and solve the problems in front of you and your natural intelligence will show, naturally.
YouTube keeps insisting I merge my legacy YouTube account with Google+. Then YouTube insisted I use two-factor authentication (to watch cat videos) and made me choose between giving them my phone number so they could send me a text message or giving them my phone number so they could robo-call me.
My point is that whatever challenges renewables offer, they're out only hope

Ok, we're on different pages then. I don't dislike renewables. I think at least one of them is probably the way of the future. I just dislike the black-and-white way renewables vs. nonrenewables are addressed.
The Volokh Conspiracy had some good posts today about how the Coase theorem doesn't ignore externalities and transaction costs: it demonstrates that externalities are a distraction (since they aren't, on their own, enough to explain why a laissez faire isn't perfectly efficient). Transaction costs combined with some arbitrary set of property rights are sufficient on their own to entirely capture the problems people use "externalities" to explain, but much more amenable to reasoning about and fixing.

To come back to the pollution example, it doesn't matter if the factory has the right to pollute or the people have the right to clean air: what matters is that transaction costs prevent them from working out their competing interests without intervention.

http://www.volokh.com/2013/09/02/coase-externalities/

http://www.volokh.com/2013/09/03/coase/
OK, ceteris paribus, how does higher density drive up prices?

It would seem to me that the arrow of causality points the other way. Higher prices --> higher buildings --> higher density.
I've had something similar delivered to me on a project I hired out. The most frustrating part was not the code but the developers reaction to why it was so bad. He had no idea what the big deal was and thought I was being nitpicky.

Worse yet, was an initial claim that it was more efficient to do it that way. That was followed up with a claim that doing it differently wasn't possible.

Needless to say, I stopped working with that team of "developers".
Thanks this is what I've been looking for.
In your first sentence you say "trust me - I deserve it".

I find it hard to trust you when you didn't even tell us the reason your parents kicked you out.

Care to tell us that?
I like how you both disregarded my sarcasm, yet simultaneously ignored the substance of the sarcastic question: is it more or less expensive to rent space in Mumbai than in rural India? By what factor?

I'm not an expert on India, but I'm guessing it's a tad more expensive.
It is possible, absolutely.

However, in effectively all my personal relationships, success correlates strongly with magnitude of desire.
Sleep 'boosts brain cell numbers'
I don't understand why Apple are still pursuing the Apple TV thing. I hardly watch TV and when I do I am watching content I've downloaded off of the Internet, not purchased. I know a lot of people who don't even own TV's and consume media on their laptops. Is TV really the future for entertainment and media consumption?

Not to mention the competition of Sony and Microsoft with the XBOX One and Playstation 4 due out in the coming months, seems like an uphill battle to me. The new XBOX and Playstation consoles will be further positioning themselves as more than gaming consoles but rather content consuming set-top boxes with recording capabilities, digital content streaming and whatnot.
So the fact that construction cost per square foot is ridiculously high in SF (as are planning expenses as a percentage of overall construction cost) has nothing to do it ?
The $900 for a desk that will let me work in a healthy way for a few decades (high quality, very robust), was the best investment I ever made.
It's called Nesquik.
The point isn't whether they are good ideas, but to illustrate that perception of risk really has changed. So much so that the anti-risk mentality has been codified. No kids wore helmets 30 years, now they have to by law. I'm just surprised that people would argue with the premise that people are more risk averse now.

With that said, while almost always ride with a bike helmet, when I was in NYC this summer, I joyously rode the Citibikes around without a helmet. I would have been a less happy, less human person if I took your advice and didn't ride around NYC just because I didn't have a helmet.
Hey pfisch, thanks for taking the time to read my letter.
Congratulations for the greenlit, that's quite a feat!

I'll get in touch shortly.
The official symbol for the cloud
https://github.com/bwalex/tc-play this guy probably knows a thing or two about if it's safe
It was always a single search box. And it always centered around results. Removing the side panel makes it so I now can't use a browser text search to find the results I want faster.

So, I disagree, and I think the old way was both easier (because I knew it) AND simpler (less complex). What now?

And here is the difference between Google employees and their users. Google believes, and has told their employees, that when they change something, users will always hate it because it's different, and that there is a gestation period during which the majority will "get used to it."

That "gestation period" now seems infinite, and any change is allowed to remain because real user feedback is ignored.
"It would seem to me that the arrow of causality points the other way. Higher prices --> higher buildings --> higher density."

Right. Land was just expensive here before all those people moved in and started competing for it.
[I'm linking to this debunking of your population density claim for the benefit of joshu, who might not be reading all of this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6325649 ]
"Kudos to you for not disappointing me. Now that you mention it, I'm sure that our real estate prices are indeed a byproduct of the evil, evil guv'ment, and have absolutely nothing to do with the fact that this is one of the most densely populated cities in the world."

I'm sorry, are you really so naive as to believe the reason construction costs (and resulting real estate costs) in SF being so high are not in part due to the egregious planning process and large number of zoning/etc regulations?

If so, talking to a commercial or residential builder should dispel that myth pretty quickly.
Great to see another swarm game!

Check out the one we're doing for ICRA this year:

http://swarmcontrol.herokuapp.com

(you don't even need to log in to play!)
Probably because your writing grates people the wrong way. It's almost cringe worthy because I'm sure lots of Hacker News readers were on forums at a young age and wanted to impress someone or sound clever by adding unnecessarily "big" words, who would look back and feel like slapping their past selves for doing that. At this point, you sound like ForTheWolfX, a self proclaimed child prodigy who once posted on reddit boasting a about his intelligence (not that I'm saying you are) and gave advice to people about things he had no experience in, such as long term relationships. the boy was like 16 years old and thought he was in the perfect relationship that was 100% going to last forever. It's childish.
I sometimes wonder whether Google developers only use giant screens and don't realize how much the "comfortable" whitespace on Gmail and Google+ layouts detracts from the product on smaller screens or laptops.
I hate that I can't simply place a pointer on the map and ask the GPS coordinates at that point. It's as if it is a walled product. On my Android - the same. Can't simply save a pointer on the map as GPS coordinates to a contact.
[Sony's just announced ] Phone attachable lens
"It's clearly a business device for office work, and doing office work in a cafe feels like an imposition."

Better tell my girlfriend. She's a nanny. I just knew she should have bought an iPad.
For the ambitious, some of the leading code for solving the TSP to optimality is Concorde (at best it has optimally solved an 85,900 "city" instance):
http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/concorde/downloads/download...

or solve/run Concorde on Argonne National Laboratory's server here:

http://neos.mcs.anl.gov/neos/solvers/co:concorde/TSP.html

Disclaimer: free for academic use
Don't upgrade! I just had this unpleasant experience and warned everyone about 15 minutes ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6325745
Interesting idea. However, my two year old machine that was top of the line in 2011 couldn't run the new maps.

This is not uncommon from what I've read.
From the article:

> [...] which is not actually called Hot4Learning, but the actual moniker is no less trite or gimmicky so I'll spare you
Use HDE OTP, its a better looking app anyway.
Exactly. That's why I said "in large part". Because I meant "entirely explained by".
All of them had things taking off before they decided to drop school.
>The most frustrating part was not the code but the developers reaction to why it was so bad. He had no idea what the big deal was and thought I was being nitpicky.

This is always the worst. I've had experiences like that on many an occasion, where the person is simply like "huh? what's wrong?"

You can't really fix that level of sheer incompetence, ignorance, and arrogance all wrapped into one.
"You can pull out a Thinkpad from 10 years ago in a full Starbucks if you like, but most people wouldn't enjoy doing it - and even apologize for it, if they got curious stares."

What on earth are you on about?

http://www.thinkwiki.org/w/images/8/8a/ThinkPadT30.jpg

Yes. I'm sure people would "apologize for [daring to] pull it out in a Starbucks".

Seriously - what are you on?

"Kudos to the author for even daring to mention it."

No. Nor to you.

-- signed, someone who owns an iPhone 5, an iPad 4 and a RMBP.
Many of those listed above SF on that list are tiny areas within a large continuous dense urban area. They don't really have much independent significance from the surrounding area economically. They are basically historical artifacts, from a time before they all grew and merged together in all but city government.
Twitter blamed Ruby for their mistakes
This just makes me feel inadequate...you wrote this in highschool? How old where you back then if I may ask and what made you take the challenge?

Also, how does one even start to write their own OS, I mean after you say "I'm going to write an OS form scratch", what's the first step, what's the first line of code and how do you figure out which components you need to implement and how? This is what really boggles me as a 30 year old crud guy, how do you design these sort of systems from scratch (OS's, emulators, compilers, etc)? It just makes me feel...completely useless compared to guys like you, you are so far ahead of the curve its not even funny, I could never reach your level.

Congratulations.
I never seen the point of growing additional muscle tissue. First you have to grow it which is tiring, then you have to feed it and lug it around. It's like getting fat on purpose.

What's more, if your lifestyle and diet doesn't match your newly grown muscle tissue the body will adjust and all your effort to grow it will be gone in few weeks/months.

Instead of downvoting, please enlighten me about the benefits of growing few pounds of muscle tissue in places you don't really use in your daily life.
> Lastly, to comment, I am very curious to know why I am receiving more feedback on my style of writing rather than the ideas I am attempting to communicate.

From your post: "Invest in me, not my ideas."

As it so happens, your writing style says a lot about you.
Well, look a ti this way... USA government has access to such nice data - Brazilian gov. wants that too. Maybe they'll exchange the mails. :)
To be fair, I'm not reading it either. This thread has descended into self-parody.
I use VLC and it plays anything. But its cross platform... I use PMS - playstation media server - to serve video and it works nicely too
Olympic drug testing could be a lot better, mostly because it is too infrequent.

The biological passport (used in pro cycling) is about as good as it gets at the moment. There are plenty of ways around that (eg, bloodbags & microdosing EPO) but it has been moderately successful in cleaning up the worst abuses in cycling.

The real story is the lack of drug testing in Soccer & Tennis.
Gradebusters / Making the Grade, or something with names like that, used to use a Java applet to "secure" the web site with student grades. You could just download the applet and decompile it to figure out their trivial encoding of the IDs and PINs (which were just params in the HTML).

Or you could figure out just an ID (typically a student ID number, although more than a few were social security numbers, apparently), and use "1066" since they had a backdoor PIN in quite a few releases. Battle of Hastings, eh?

Want to know how users did web security instead of asking their admins for a proper .htaccess/server-level config setup? That's how.
But when taken in normal, doctor-prescribed doses, these drugs will enhance mental function -- including the ability to learn -- in normal adult subjects

Modafinil is not to be toyed with. Far too powerful stuff. Common doses are 100mg or 200mg, far more than you can stomach without hitting the side effects rapidly and developing a dependence. A friend of mine takes it "about 4 days" a week because he's lost the ability to concentrate well for work otherwise; the long term effects remain unclear.

That said, I've tried it and at low doses it can certainly help with concentration and artificially prolonging your wakefulness/restfulness to the detriment of the next day. But there's clearly a detriment.
I like the M-x eshell function a lot, too. It supplies identical shell experience across every system which is capable to run emacs.
See also:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1007.blake.ht...
this should be submitted to thedailywtf.com...
Very cool idea! The name made me think this was something about text editors and documentation, but I doubt most people outside of this context will make that association.
Better summary: pay extortionists, but only if transaction costs are low!
McGill seems to use a LMS branded as "myCourses", apparently the newest label Blackboard is using for it's "Learn" line.
How did 3 minutes of dogfooding not catch this?
I Hate Tipping
Yup. I was actually really excited to try this, but was not okay with the permissions it requires for said social networks.
A timely reminder to everyone:

http://thedailywtf.com/ is still going strong! Be there or be ... competent?
if you haven't heard it, the Pal Erdős‎ story is interesting.

Not only he was a great mathematician, he was also an amphetamine user for most of his life.

In 1979, he accepted a bet from a friend about quitting drugs for a month (his friends _were_ worried about him being a druguser).

Erdös won the challenge, but felt very stupid for the duration of the thing, declared that mathematics had been set back by a month and happily went back to amphetamine use.
There is a difference between networking infrastructure and e-mail services. I wouldn't call it a precedent as it is not similar enough.
Sure. In respse to your general point about desire and success, I would advise you to read this: http://www.harvard.edu/president/2012-baccalaureate-service-...

Start at the paragraph that says, "Extraordinary, indeed."

You may not agree with her overall point, but your life will not be the worse for having considered it.
Would you please be more specific?
> Looks like Google just updated their Authenticator app. Works fine for me on iOS7

Be aware that it will drop all of your existing tokens, so make sure your backup phone number is set & verified across all services and/or your have your backup codes prepped.
In order to truly understand the madness at play here, we really need to know how the list of email addresses was generated.
UC Berkeley's biggest class is now CS61A, introductory computer science
Why Handheld Game Consoles Still Matter
Can we get a citation on this that looks more like a neutral third party?
I actually just switched to Duo Mobile earlier today because of iOS 7 issues with Authenticator; this just cements my decision to switch.

Edit: oddly iOS 7 hasn't autoinstalled this yet.
That was a good movie.
The verbiage is sometimes used to exaggerate the condition of being stupid. I tend to enjoy that sort of flamboyant post on occasion, but others don't have much tolerance for it. YMMV.

[EDIT] Original poster took the "drug usage" vernacular a bit too literally.
For those looking for Google Authenticator alternatives, I recommend either Duo Mobile from Duo Security or Authy. I ditched Google Authenticator a while ago and haven't missed it one bit -- having a single app manage my two-factor tokens / keys is much more convenient.
If you offer two-factor authentication for your website, be prepared for a surge in support requests today. When I talked to one of my providers on the phone, they stated they are already getting a surge in calls because of this app update.
Performance issues are valid, the Map obviously taxes machines more because it is using GPU rendering, but I would expect them to optimize it as time goes by.
Why Nokia didn't sell its patents to Microsoft
The Authy app is great and supports Google, Dropbox, CloudFlare, Amazon…
Given the mess long email conversations become, if as CTO you're sending that many short emails I'd say you're using the wrong medium.

A PM tool makes it much easier IME for the team to keep track of, and on top of, messages relevant to their projects, and reference them later.
McGill switched to 'Desire2Learn' last summer as Blackboard no longer supports 'webCT', I think (access to old courses hosted on webCT is now very limited). 'myCourses' was the branding chosen by McGill... I think now they just call it 'myCourses2', after the switch.
The hardware upgrade specifically mentioned processor speed. I would be mildly surprised to learn that Kindles are CPU-bound. I have always assumed the device was limited by the screen's refresh rate.
> I actually just switched to Duo Mobile earlier today because of iOS 7 issues with Authenticator; this just cements my decision to switch.

I moved all my non-critical stuff over (to test it out), saw the Google Authenticator update, and then had to go and reconfigure those accounts anyway.

I highly recommend making sure your backup phone number is updated and verified and/or you have backup codes prepped.
You reject reasonable, considered arguments from smart people who have been through what you've been through and advise you to go in a specific direction. So it looks like you've already made up your mind about what you want to do.
aws-cli/0.16.0 gripes:

• slow

• crap ton of dependencies, making it a pain to install on Arch https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aws-cli/ Hint: static build ffs

• broken help. `aws s3 help` instead of `aws help s3` which is more natural to git users

• no glacier support

• no s3 progress for downloads or uploads

• many jarring UX issues https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/305 https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/304
Soccer has drug testing, though obviously not very effective.

Plenty of careers have been damaged for people who have been found out.

But I'd argue doping is not as big in it as in cycling for example.
Edited: Authy requires a mobile number and a remote server to store your tokens though.
Here's wiki page with citations in it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabolic_steroid#United_States
If they had released this two weeks later, iOS 7's auto-update feature would have bricked everyone's accounts.

Google Auth 2.0 redefines two-factor auth: something you know + something you DON'T have. Their entire purpose in life is this second part and they completely and absolutely botched it. I can't believe this passed testing at both Google and Apple. There wasn't even a warning in the release notes.
Clearly they should have optimized this by stripping the @mail.mcgill.ca on the server side before serving the list.
I guess this is possible if you hit an artery. That's why you do a suction movement before injecting, because if you inject steroids there, you're dead.

Yeah, probably dramatic license
Thanks for the heads-up all! Looking forward to actually being able to distinguish Authenticator accounts on iOS 7.
Direct quote from a friend:

"First kid - food drops on the clean floor - burn the food sterilize the place. Second kid - food drops on the clean floor - wash it and give it back to him. Third kid - she ate the cat's dinner? It's the cat's problem, not mine."
If you read my comment, you will see that I was talking about Microsoft's failed spreadsheet, Multiplan. Not Microsoft's successful spreadsheet, Excel.
September 4,1998–Google is founded Today
This is not at all true. Both are generating your tokens clientside with no internet connection. Try disabling internet access, it should work.

As for the mobile number, I didn't have to type that into Duo Mobile when I installed?
Seriously. What's the difference between this and just setting up a webcam pointed at all your SecurID tokens?