skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Travis Kalanick's Guide to Startup Seed Raising Skilzzz (2009)
Sadly it seems that the time of day, and similar things, have more effect on the submission than anythign else.

Even posts that garner many response of "No demo?", "No screenshots?" frequently gain responses than the few things I've posted. (e.g. Console mail client with lua scripting, sysadmin tools, or my updated blog-spam detection service.)
Why can't we make an identical argument against all forms of medical research? Should we also stop cancer research?
I can't find answers to these questions in the docs, had to stumble around with the library first:

- be sure to set an empty object on your scope before setting up implicit binding on that object. If you don't, the error will be cryptic.

- add the property "authRequired: true" to your routes when setting up your $routeProvider to get AngularFire to block access to that route when not authenticated.

- be careful about using $scope.apply with AngularFire since you're often already in the apply cycle in its callbacks (would be nice if that were explicit).
I just went back to visit S.F. yesterday after being away for a few years. It took 30 minutes to get through the Bay Bridge toll plaza, at 11am. For a brand-new bridge you'd like they'd use some sophisticated traffic simulations to help them develop a smoother way to get cars onto the bridge.

When we got to the Exploratorium on Embarcadero, I found several open street parking spaces in a row. I spent a few minutes looking all over to check for no parking signs or something to tell me I couldn't park there. I literally couldn't believe that there would be 6 open parking spaces in a row in S.F.

As I was there I was thinking... what in S.F. just banned cars all together? Instead, you could have tons of rental motorcycles and lots of trolley-type cars all over. S.F. just does not have space for hundreds of thousands of cars
Jeff says in the very article you linked to from your blog:

"I have absolutely nothing against Experts-Exchange. Realize that I've been a fan of the smackdown learning model for a long time; it's like kayfabe in professional wrestling. There are no hard feelings; this 'rivalry' is mostly useful as a way to explain what it is we do. This internet is certainly big enough for the both of us -- big enough, in fact, for hundreds of Q&A websites."

There's no conspiracy here. If you're an asshole to everyone and they hate you, it's not because you have powerful enemies engaging in some kind of evil marketing agenda. It's just what happens when you're an asshole to everyone.
If forced to make a choice, I would trade minimum mandatory sentencing for an adversarial process that permits dangerous offender status in the US. Every year that the person is reviewed, the people on the committee overseeing the review are randomly assigned at the last possible moment so that there can be no outside tampering with the judgement.
Serious question from a non-telecom nerd:

Who benefits from designing a protocol and network for exchanging multimedia messages that makes it "politically difficult" for new entities to participate, and requires years of work plus owning an "MMSC," which you make sound difficult?

From an Internet point of view, it seems obvious that the value of this protocol and network grows with the number of participating entities. We've understood this since the days of fax machines and Metcalf's law.

I assume the competition here is MIME e-mail with picture/video attachments, which is implemented most places and works pretty well and doesn't take years of work.

If you make your own protocol hard for others to join, you're more likely to lose. (Just as the Information Superhighway and OSI protocols lost in the 1990s to the underdog Internet.)

What are the upsides to doing it this way?
Bill Gates should come back.
it looks the same because Yahoo built both.
To start, there are two different api methods for setting up data binding between angular and firebase. Where is a good semantic/conceptual explanation of the difference?
Add me up.

Also, we are nowhere near being immortal and in many developed countries people already have stopped reproducing (Germany, Japan, Spain, etc)
Healthcare is based on science, and science requires data processing to see the correlations. We'd probably be able to spot a lot more common causes of diseases if people weren't so guarded with their medical history. This doesn't really have anything to do with government, it has to do with solving problems.

The US already has HIPAA, so I don't get the point. This just seems like a weak attempt to say something negative about Google's announcement.
The web is with us all the time. It’s already moving into our cars, into our clothes, into the things we own, into monitoring our health.

Is he using the word 'web' instead of 'Internet'? Does anyone know of the web moving into our clothes?
How many times have you had a game-breaking bug? Why are a good amount of folks still on .NET then? That last point is just hollow. Freedom from what? Oppression?
> You just (unintentionally) said that capitalism is the problem.

That's a strawman fallacy [1].

> If people were willing to pay for antibiotic-free meat, then farmers would produce it.

Seeing as most farming in the United States is done on megafarms owned by large corporations [2] that have historically shown to be (to put it mildly) lax on their focus on serving healthy and nutritious products to their customers [3], and that "farmers" in the traditional colloquial sense are now only 2% of the population [4], you'll hopefully understand if I say that your statement has little relevance in the United States in 2013.

[1] https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman

[2] http://thecabin.net/stories/091001/wor_0910010048.shtml

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithfield_Foods#Environmental_...

[4] http://www.epa.gov/agriculture/ag101/demographics.html
And every college bro says "dude, if that's being sick, I don't want to be well!"
Bulgaria in the 80s sounds about like suburban Wisconsin in the 80s.

One interesting observation is that many women (such as my mom) were stay at home moms or part timers at most. Despite Mom being around all the time, we roamed pretty wild. Modern standard is to have both parents work AKA latchkey kids, etc. First guess would be without Mom (and neighbor Moms) around, kids would go totally wild compared to old days. The opposite has happened, which is interesting. I know when we drove our mom nuts, we would be deported to the park, and we were hardly the only kids to drive our moms nuts and end up playing in the park.
Howabout Airbnb for driveways -- an app that lets people rent their driveway for parking when they know they don't need to get in or out?
I was really into it, back when System Oberon was being actively developed.

My experience with it, made me a supporter of GC enabled systems programming languages and OS made with them.

The other one I also played with was Modula-3.

Nowadays it seems even at ETHZ, Oberon does not get used that much, if at all and they switched their focus to research based on .NET.

> I would love to see some form of Oberon gain more nerd traction.

I doubt it will ever get one, due to its Pascal syntax heritage, which many don't like, specially the all caps for keywords.

Oh well, at least Go got some influence from it.
Yeah, the free software movement has never been against for-profit and commercial use.
Akamai: Global Internet Traffic 114% Above Normal Right Now
I think it's even simpler than that - if you are a billionaire life is pretty good, and the only thing that can get in your way is death so it's a natural place to want to invest - it's basically one of the only problems you have left!
Haha, IE11 won't install on Windows 8. It requires Win7 only it says...
I wonder if inertia would mean so much in a world of such grotesque abundance.
Yup! Should have included a link but I thought people will think it's my site, spam etc.
Cool! I'll be staring at this all night :) Countdown until it hits 45%...

<HN overly negative nitpicky mode>

Times with no timezones are really useless. I'm not quite sure if this graph has been broken for the past 8 hours or if if the 0% areas are time that hasn't passed. Logic says the former, but in that case, I can't even figure out what timezone this is supposed to be. Hawaii?

</nitpick>
Intel: The year of the Linux desktop is here
Of course. After all, it is simply a stripped down version of the parent comment that I responded to. He polarized the scenario such that it was a false dichotomy, but even then it was flawed.
"And certainly I'll grant you that people have been
wrongly convicted -- but that is a very small part of the
prison population."

Given the perverse incentive for prosecutors interested in pursuing a political career and plea bargains, I would hardly be surprised if a greater percentage of people in prison have been wrongly imprisoned than you might expect.
I use Muji notebooks. They're cheap and the perfect size for me. They have a store in SoMa SF.

http://www.muji.us/store/stationery/notebooks/recycled-paper...
Typed Racket definitely doesn't add a "Java-style static typing" system at all. Its type system is quite specifically designed to accommodate the kinds of programming idioms you find in Racket programs (via occurrence typing, function intersection types, and so on), and comes with local type inference.
45,000 people die each year in the USA for lack of medical insurance, and these guys want to offer radical anti-aging treatments to those who can afford it.

And you say they're the ones serving Life?
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It's a very, very common synonym, short for world-wide web.
It is. I'm still excited for the details on Calico. It was just a thought that crossed my mind.
I see nothing on Rhodecode's website indicating it is open source, by any definition of the term.
That would just make the problem worse. XP is EoL, and propping it up only makes it harder when the day comes.

The problem is not that XP can't run IE11. The problem is people are still running XP.
Simpson's Paradox is scary if you've not seen it before, but you should not stop here and instead proceed immediately on to omitted variable bias and the conversation here (http://normaldeviate.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/simpsons-parad...).

In short, Simpson's paradox occurs because probability distributions and causal claims are distinct things which behave differently. It's nothing more than a particular, insidious example of correlation not implying causation. It's perfectly possible for a probability distribution to have a "contradictory" shape, but perfectly impossible for logical statements about the world to be contradictory.

The resolution is that you shouldn't let your probability distributions turn into logical statements without analyzing your causal assumptions. This will lead you to whether or not excluding a variable is omitted variable bias (and whether including an improper one will lead to included variable bias, which is rarely recognized).
I agree 100% with you. Not to go off-topic too much, and I am no doctor but I wonder if this is a reason for a stunning increase in autism cases. Maybe sitting alone, in front of the TV, game console does a trick on you when very young?
Sorry; that was a bit of teasing.

Real question: I have experimented with RTC using TMUX and VIM; and it seems like an essential meh factor was the single cursor; sure any of us could take the "driver seat." But a rogue mode with multiple cursors on the screen would be more like the google docs implementation; and this does not seem like a problem you have solved??
why would you not allow your kids to play organized sports?
I'm aware. They shouldn't be used interchangeably.
Sorry, we raced to get this out (decided to today) and don't usually report hourly numbers. The timezone is UTC.
Guilty-by-association and paranoia. Check. (23andme is not owned by Google and I'm pretty sure their T&S/privacy policy and HIPAA cover what can be done with your personal records)

Obligatory and irrelevant Google Reader reference. Check. Right, the world would be better off if Google spent more time investing in yet more social sharing web app features, and not on reducing high way fatalities or increasing health.

Missing. No mention of PRISM.
If it's unavoidable, then acceptance is the right path.

If it's avoidable, then all else being equal acceptance of death strikes me as incredibly foolish. I want to live until tomorrow, and I imagine that tomorrow I'll say the same.
It wouldn't scale without a significant amount of synergies.
Those things are available to the vast majority of the planet. Clean water, for example, is available to seven of every eight humans[1]. In the places those things aren't available, you'll usually find a corrupt government getting in the way. As you said, these aren't expensive problems to solve, so there's no intrinsic reason they should be limited to the elite.

[1] http://thewaterproject.org/water_stats.php
The way I see it, locality in every Lorentz frame = causality.

What Bell experiments disprove is local realism. In the conventional formulation of quantum physics (quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, etc.) it's realism that takes the fall. Locality is still crucial in the conventional perspective.
I wouldn't call it "by far" the best. TechReport IMO has taken a similar style of super-duper in-depth reviews. Phoronix is the only review site that does this kind of in-depth review... except from a Linux-slant. (how good are the drivers for various graphics cards. Which CPU offers the best compile times, etc. etc.)

What CNet lacks in depth, it gains in breadth. CNet has far far more reviews of decent quality than any other site I know. In comparison, the few reviews that Anandtech / TechReport do are far far deeper than anything from CNet.

I think overall, I prefer TechReport over Anandtech.
Residents are allowed to park in front of their driveways. The spaces identified in the blog post are already in use.
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The new logo's not bad, but having to explain why a logo is cool is kind of like explaining why a joke is funny...just doesn't work.
I was gonna say that kids have it easy - adults are the ones that are seriously suffering from a deficit of play.
The nutjobs who have to sully each and every Google related piece of news on HN are becoming tiresome.
Not my children.

Thanks to parental controls, they have two hours of access to the flickering rectangle during week-end days, and 1 hour Mon-Fri. Even that seems like a lot. But anyway, that's it.

Once the OS kicks them out of the session, I "kick" them out of the house (metaphorically, but on a jocular/stern tone). Go and do some mischief outside.
I think you are mistaking psychopathy with how obsession and ambition can lead people morally astray.

One can't be fixed, the other sometimes can be.
If a large number of people were using a given note system (eg bullet notes), there might be a good business idea there:

- You mail us your full notebook

- We digitize it

- It's available in a searchable web interface that understands the semantics of your note-taking system.
If Group B is 99x the size of Group A, then I vote no.
I remember discussing this in both of my philosophy courses, Intro and MetaEthics. In the intro course, the question was "Why should you fear death? When you're dead, by definition, you're not around to fear it, so why should you care?"

In meta-ethics, the question was "What does it mean for something to be horrible in the first place? How do you decide something is good or bad in the first place? If you fear your own nonexistence, why do you not fear the nonexistence of, say, unicorns?"

I never took an evolutionary psych course, but I read a bunch of their textbooks. I'd imagine the answer they'd give is "Of course you believe death is horrible. If your ancestors didn't, they wouldn't have an aversion to death, and so they would never have been around to reproduce, and so you wouldn't have been born. Therefore, we select for animals that fear death, because all animals that do not fear death never come into existence." There's something comforting about that perspective, knowing that our fears are nothing but evolutionary chance at work, but it's interesting to think that our fear of nonexistence is a consequence of our existence.
although, an argument could be made for using the optical drive in the HTPC itself to do the ripping right to its own storage.
God damn it. I didn't know Disqus picks up your gravatar like that. That was a highly unexpected outcome. Now I need an anonymous email address to use.
I agree in as much as the small component I use is quite well supported and popular. Its a sort of insurance that I don't have to worry about bugs and it running stale. A lot of components in component seem to be written by a single person, and don't get much attention, which to me, is a liability.
What happened to Teletext (2010)
Exactly. Granted I don't live in SF, but I feel like this is a simple case of supply & demand. There is so much demand that a 33% increase in supply won't solve anything. Cars will fill those spots, the streets will be worse, and you'll be right back to square one. On top of that 33% increase, perhaps you throw some serious investment into parking garages and you might make a dent in the parking problem, but then suddenly traffic would make things just insane (I imagine).
I should have qualified that statement more. What I meant was I am against rigging the system and cronyism. "Free market" was the wrong term. I prefer a market that is overlooked by society, with the authority given to government. It's a balance that is still unfair in a lot of aspects of course, because with a winner there is a loser. But the fairness comes in the fact that anyone can be a winner. We're still working on that obviously.
Most people in history have lived under various degrees of oppression, and most have found it preferable to not living at all.
It is a strange premise that all unused space in i city should be made available to store unused cars.
I'm an Eastern Bloc kid too, I can relate to a lot of what you said.
Something weird I have seen with all medium pages is the images get rendered first and then after a few seconds of waiting the text shows up. The wait for the text is always a few seconds (4-5 seconds). Not sure why.
is there a website for this?
NBC To Run Live Comedy Routines In Ads For Lexus During ‘Fallon’
Not to sideline the topic at hand but have you ever heard of anyone doing an analysis of time submitted vs. number of hits?
These arguments make no sense. Poor / lower class people become wealthy all the time, disruption happens. The wealthy / immortal class will grow, maybe slowly maybe quickly. But it will grow. That means the poor / short lived class will shrink by necessity (or the red herring overpopulation argument). Over time, more and more of the population will become well off and/or immortal, and the great thing is they won't die.

If you think we'll get to a point where nobody can disrupt the anti-aging industry ever, and nobody will be able to make it cheaper, well, you're pretty pessimistic. Because the one constant we seem to see is (immortal) corporations being disrupted by little startups. Corporations right now live forever and yet they don't stay in power forever. The same will go with this.
a place where you get no exercise, are surrounded by testosterone, and get no Vitamin D doesn't sound like much of a playground :(
The Omitted Variable Problem is part of my mental framework that causes me to not believe most epidemiological studies, especially ones that confirm a popular belief.

The almost universally omitted variable is health-consciousness. Some people are health-conscious and some aren't. People who are health-conscious do a whole bunch of things, some of which help (like exercise, sleep well, eat moderately). They also do things that are widely believed to be good for you, like eating broccoli.

So if you do a study, you'll find that people who eat lots of broccoli are healthier. You'll be able to confirm pretty much any widely believed health folk wisdom, unless it's something quite harmful, as long as you omit health-consciousness as a variable.
Well, there's just the general lack luster performance: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_311...

I've also seen particularly bad pain points when doing things like using it with an NFS server.
Know one in the Redwood City area? I'm here for another couple of weeks.
The "major signal" is that you take your writing serious enough to invest in proper tools. Not a big deal in itself, but every subtle signal tells others that you are solid, and down to business. If you are worried about seeming too pretentious, if someone makes a comment about your pen, just casually mention that they are making a comeback, or something about it not being expensive. For example, some of the lower end Parker ones (Jotter, Frontier, Urban) are around the $20 mark.

Other things that send signals, include the way you dress (don't have to wear a tux everywhere you go, but wear clothes that fit, and have a sturdy look to them). Also it is helpful to work on your speaking skills, so that you speak with inflection and purpose. For example, listen to the difference between a radio host, and call in listeners.
Jesus. Every now and then Google trots out some hair brained bullshit that everyone just eats up with a spoon. They throw some money at some crazy idea that makes everyone giggle and goes back to tracking your web searches.

THEY SELL ADVERTISING. This is a type of advertising where they convince people they are some benevolent company that's really looking out for you.

Jesus.
> Google does everything in a very orchestrated campaign. Bash Adwords or Search here and you will see "them" show up to defend it.

I would assume this is because a lot of Google engineers read Hacker News and they want to defend their work, rather than because of an orchestrated PR campaign.
So they made an exact copy of Google's results? [1]

Also, isn't the new logo too similar to g drive?

[1] http://i.imgur.com/g2SOVCm.png
Yes I agree, and the patrons of those ventures, perhaps all of society, could reap rewards in ways that go beyond a stock portfolio. It's funny that in the press release they mention "moonshot", because that's what we need. All of society puts in and all of society benefits. With measures and controls it could work, just like the moonshot did.
I generally agree with people who want more infrastructure to reduce car traffic in SF.

However, if you're forced to drive and park in SF, what's extra frustrating about the wasteful driveway situation is that a good percentage of the garages are not even being used for cars. Many have been converted into bedrooms or storage. I wish there someway to identify such conversions and allow parking in their driveways.
This was posted a couple weeks ago from the founder of a failed parking startup in Boston: http://chrishoog.com/from-beginning-to-end-the-story-of-a-fa...

tl;dr - The demand for this far outstrips the supply of people willing to rent their spots to strangers for a few bucks.
Cyanogen could potentially sell this to device manufacturers if they can make it truly Android-compatible (including Google Play compatibility) without requiring license fees paid to Google, and that would reduce cost per device, thus give a competitive edge on device price.
People are and always will be free to die whenever they want. If you live a longer youth and then face a longer low quality life, either you want that longer low quality life more than you let on, or you cut it short.