skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I ask why? Is this intentional because you're busy doing other stuff, or because your efforts have yet to be successful?
>Piss poor excuse - think of all the users using a password now downgrading their security, but Apple advertising it as "high security".

If you're talking aggregate security, TouchID will still increase security (even with current PIN users moving to a FP Scan) as currently about 50% don't use any sort of pass code now.

If you're talking about the ability for current PIN users to maintain their level of security if they wish, -they can still use a PIN.

Bottom line is that there will be fewer successful unauthorized login attempts in the wild.
any idea what this program cost? Does the 350k fully cover the costs?
Used this. Love it. Brilliantly conceived.
We know that the circle represents the SteamOS. The brackets int the second announcement must represent SteamBox. The third announcement has two circles with a plus sign in between which has to do something with connectivity to other players. Probably an equivalent of Xbox Live. ( My bet for the name is SteamPipe :) )

If Half-Life 3 was represented it would have to be a sign inside the circle as it is mainly a singleplayer experience. Also a single game as a third announcement is way too narrow-minded as Valve already has the one of the most popular games (Dota 2).
AAPL is current up 5.1% on the news of their weekend sales figures... Which is about $21bn in market extra market cap.
I witnessed (not where I worked, but where my roommate and some very close friends worked, also I know the "culprits") a even worst case:

A a savant-snake that obeys someone else for non-professional reasons.

In that case, I saw a company start to make awesome game (they were not a game company), the CEO (that was a savant-snake) then got engaged to a woman that insisted in visiting their studios, and giving her "opinion" (it was no opinion, because then her future husband would quickly agree with it, and force the team to do whatever she wanted).

This very quickly derailed the project... In fact, it ended derailing the whole company, they went from absurd profitability (the MMO game idea was just to burn excessive amounts of money in a way that maybe gave profit to them) to bankruptcy, just because one new person (the CEO girlfriend, now wife)
It's not like they are going after these reviewers instead of people with drugs.
Payments is an extremely hard problem. Try picking up a NACHA rulebook. Makes a great doorstop, it's the size of an old-school phone book.

Don't know what NACHA is? Consider the possibility that you don't actually understand the problem space, then.
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Exclusive period for HL3 on SteamOS. Done.
I find this annoying too. Previously, it was one click to reveal a pop-up menu to change video quality, then another click to select a video setting. Essentially, two clicks.

Now it's one click to display the pop-up settings menu. Another click to reveal the video quality pop-up menu. Another click to select a video quality setting. And now that they've shoehorned all settings into one menu, you need another click to dismiss the entire settings menu. So they've gone from two clicks to four. Plus, there's the glaring inelegance of displaying a pop-up menu and then another pop-up menu within your pop-up menu.

I know Google have UX designers - I would love to know what their rationale is for their UX choices. I'm guessing, like Gmail, part of the design ethos was to "streamline" the interface or sweep away what they perceived as interface clutter. But all they've actually done is clumsily obscure features that were easier to access previously.
Though 1.8.7 was released more than 5 years ago (and the language has evolved a lot since then) and the RubySpec are usually not up to date, at least not documenting all the features as they come in (as Brian Ford and others have pointed out several times).

Not to be an ungrateful d*ck, I think the progress made is fantastic and supported by a bunch of extremely dedicated, talented and courageous people, but there is something of a void in terms of Ruby-as-formally-specified-language, hard to deny. But as usual, I guess it's hard to find the manpower, the time and the money to support such efforts.
Seems like you have an extra dot in your link. Should it be: http://grep101.com?
Buy and hold. I had been patient and bought after the market crashed. I bought it in another state and put 25% down on a 4-plex. Rent pays my mortgage and I have money in my account every month.
I would have tried to earn more money in order to purchase more.
For me, it's around $200 from Affiliate Marketing. My blog (http://ankitkumar.in) has couple of articles with affiliate links in them.
The word "open" (well, the derivative "openness") is only used once on the page, and the context is clear: It's not locked to any hardware (like Windows) but is freeware (like Android).
Pry is awesome. You can even navigate your source shell-style and do all sorts of fancy things with it. Great little gem.
We now know that the circle is SteamOS. Then, the second announcement would be "SteamOS in a box", and the iconography of the third announcement is "two SteamOS". This probably has something to do either with playing or sharing with friends, or more details on streaming games from another machine on the network.

Come to think of it, Dota2 just mentioned recently an update that either just came out or is coming out in a few days that would allow you to play a Dota2 LAN game. Perhaps the third announcement will be more along the lines of sharing a game only you own with friends on your LAN, for that sort of purpose?
For me it is passive, I have a property manager. I did all of my research online, met my agent over the phone after Googling. Did not visit the property before purchasing. I did a lot of research however...
Goodbye, Keyword Data: Google Moves Entirely to Secure Search
Yep, thank you. I'll get that fixed.
If you want to determine the cause behind that macro number, you control for it.

No bs.
I was lucky enough to get in during the beta and after one successful site migration, I moved all of my sites to Flywheel.

I was blown away by their customer support and lightning fast responses to my questions. That sells me more than anything else.
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Most off-the-shelf engine support Linux.

This include all Quake engine variations (including Source, and GoldSource) and Unreal variations.
I backed these kickstarter guys:
http://www.rfduino.com/
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1608192864/rfduino-iphon...

They're shipping now so preorders should ship soon though the femtoduino looks fun, think ill buy one.

I just like the builtin bluetooth le for the rfduino, means I can do some crazy fun stuff with it and still keep it accessible. Mines on its way.
Yup. I totally agree with you, a formal spec would be great. But it's not in the cards, so we do the best with what we've got.
If its so obvious, share with us.
Huh. Too bad they didn't test it even to this basic level.
Indeed.. assuming 60fps, that works out to around 1.8 Gbps. Well within the range of HDMI, but well out of the range of your off-the-shelf router on ethernet.

..though 802.11ad is supposed to be out early 2014, and that maxes out around 7 gig, and has cooperation from the HDMI consortium to use it for streaming. I wonder if some kind of some kind of ultra-high-speed wireless dongle is in Steambox's future..
Previous discussions:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2342677
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2342058
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2346331
When I did the "valuation" on my startup for crowd-funding (Seedrs), when it was nothing more than a wire-frame and an idea in my head (and an MBA research project, but you almost make me feel like I should be ashamed to admit that or something), I just did it based approximately on the valuations that various accelerator-type programmes (including YC) were giving. I came up with 14% for £30k, giving a valuation of £214k. Low enough to get investment fairly quickly - nobody complained. How on earth are you meant to do a books-based valuation of an early-stage pre-revenue company? You have to give a specific valuation so people know what they are getting.
Its a monthly recurring model. I actually partnered with a small company in NY that sells a tangential product to the same market. They do the marketing within the NYC market for me.

I can try to sell this more actively to other markets, SF being next since I live here, but with a full-time job and a baby, its hard! In terms of marketing, I think I could manage a small AdWords budget to run but it would initially be more just me cold calling and setting up demos - starting with smaller shops with a shorter sales cycle first.
Valve likes to escalate announcements. It would be very "Valve" to announce the OS, which can run anywhere, and then next announce the box they want you to run it on.
That's a false argument. These are separate points of discussion. You're arguing that they're right because they were first to market in a new space and have achieved significant momentum. Momentum is just that. They've been riding on it for a while. The last significant innovation was iPad, which was just an evolution of the one real innovation: iPhone. That's only going to carry them so far. Android is eating their market share while Apple is extracting what they can from this momentum and iterating on a theme.

I think Apple's products are great. Their ID is fantastic. Their developer ecosystem leaves much to be desired. The fact that I no longer buy their products due to their closed nature (and, by extension, their philosophy for the future: closed, controlled, and owned) does not take away from my admiration of the company from a product and engineering perspective.
Yup, fixed now. Thanks - maybe I need a coffee.
It'd depend on what the incentives are. If you're trying to lure a highly experienced person from a secure enterprise job to the uncertainties of a startup, what are you offering them? Money? They can make a lot more than a startup can offer by going into consulting, if they're good. Freedom? Maybe. A mission? Maybe. But you'd better have something.

For an example of other conditions... I have a friend I'd love to poach away to work for me. But he's the sole breadwinner with five young children. Besides money, I'd have to make sure I can provide good health benefits.
Nvidia's Linux drivers are at feature parity with their Windows drivers. And perform at least as well...
That's too bad. I'd much rather the NY AG spend my taxpayer dollars by prosecuting fraud instead of fighting the war on drugs.
Why would they put a data center in Manhattan? Don't these things usually go where the space is relatively cheap?
I'm trying to think how to explain it without using anecdotes, as I want to understand it myself without punting to simile. I know that I undervalue the importance of money in my own life (I have been poor to the point of homelessness once, poor the point of selling possessions to get rent/food money a few times). I also undervalue my worth, almost never charging an appropriate amount for my time.

I've cultivated a niche expertise that I translate well to a wide range of communities, but when asked politely I tend to give my time and even tangible goods away for free.

Now, I'm actively trying to change that. I'm getting married next year and am very excited to have a family in the relatively near future, so I'm paying off debts, I re-entered the workforce at a decent salary, and have been trying to train myself to be comfortable asking people for money in exchange for my time & expertise.

It has been harder than you might imagine, but I'm making progress. Being able to externalize the need to earn money via the idea of a future family has helped me, but I remain very uncomfortable asking and often find myself under-reporting hours spent, transportation costs, etc.

If I could just produce content, conduct research, give workshops & lectures & have someone else handle the money, I would be in heaven, but the few people I've spoken to about it, despite initial enthusiasm, have never followed through. Considering my own disposition, I obviously don't blame them at all :)
They've probably been doing it long before Docker, as most people who use LXC have been. Also, it makes sense to skip it because Docker adds relatively little for their use case.
"The average and median age of U.S.-born tech founders [of companies that have more than $1 million in sales, twenty or more employees, and company branches with fifty or more employees] was thirty-nine when they started their companies. Twice as many were older than fifty as were younger than twenty-five."

http://www.kauffman.org/research-and-policy/education-and-te...
111 8th Avenue is one of the main data center hubs in New York, but Google is interested in it primarily for office space rather than connectivity.
The point behind stock buyback is simply to assert some confidence in the stock. Which means the market does not have confidence in it in the first place and probably has negative momentum. Most cases I have seen the market is correct. So even if the stock is bought back the increase in the price will be temporary as the negative momentum will surely vaporize the stock increase. It does not help anybody but investors trying to make a profit in the short term. I have not seen a single stock buyback work. I would rather they throw money at anything but this.
Say, Where Did That 450-Meter Tower Go?
Haha good job! Interesting niche and decent site!
AMD had been releasing documentation for their Radeon GPUs, as well as supporting development of the open source radeon driver for linux (http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon/ and http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/). The open source driver just has nowhere near the resources devoted to it that the proprietary drivers have.
It's certainly used as a real google office, it has thousands of googlers in it.
You just have to click 'store page' on the right to see trailers and such for games you've bought and forgot.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Sec+form+d

But I suspect you'd get such a thing from a lawyer.
Actually, we care deeply about customer feedback and several of us on the product team read the threads on the product forums personally, especially when there is vocal feedback. We don't necessarily act on everything, of course. With a product that operates at global scale we have a huge responsibility to make sure we are making optimizations that improve Gmail for as many users as possible, and the only way to do that is to rely on metrics and surveys that capture the entire user base. Otherwise we would be, by definition, changing a UI used by hundreds of millions in response to a vocal, non-representative minority. Basically we use the product forums and social media to figure out of there are trends or issues that we should be concerned about, but then always validate those issues with real data before taking action.
Is the FT232R (an FTDI chip) the least expensive way to get USB to Arduino? I'm trying to hookup a wireless nrf24L01+ to USB (which talks to another nrf24l01+ and an atmega328p), and I'm looking at PIC chips which are around $2, whereas the FT232R is $4.
I do think that it has some sort of knurled ethical/moral center in the middle there. It's definitely an emotional response, but logic & emotion are at odds on this one for me.
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http://m.here.com does a great job in the BB10 browser, but I agree that Nokia maps in a native app would be a great addition.
I think the point is that AAA titles are at a low time low of market share. Indie titles could carry this platform by itself.
There is always a third alternative, one that would be a heckuva lot more humane than either of these options. The ability to buy or sell anything is not where respectability comes from (but it is where every ailment of the modern world comes from). Every farmer I know can at least provide food and shelter for their family without having to buy or sell anything, which is a lot more than any Capitalist is capable of. Resourcefulness is to be commended, not exploited.
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Great thoughts in this one, but missing what I think is the biggest key to hiring correctly in the startups I've been part of is what Paul DePodesta said in Moneyball - ""What gets me really excited about a guy is when he has warts... and the warts just don't matter."

I've always thought that hiring in a startup is really like what the A's had to do in Moneyball - you don't have the advantages in terms of money, facilities, and even equity value of some of your much better funded competition for talent.

In that situation, you have really only three levers to pull - 1) give up more than you want (which is what I've seen too many people do); 2) sell the benefits of the startup life and your mission; and 3) find talent that can perform at a similar level that's undervalued.

The place that I've seen startup hiring really add value is when someone can be incredibly effective at #2 (which the author talks about) and they can develop a process that effectively hires for #3.

I've built my last couple of companies in the information security space and #3 is especially important, because there's a significant premium paid for high-value talent in our space. So, finding talent who can perform at an extremely high level whose "warts" don't matter has been a life-or-death matter for creating a company that can compete with those in the space that have more money (either through funding or scale).
I would disagree here. Nobody likes fragmentation. If Valve can't deliver AAA on linux right away, then this will likely go the way of Ouya. The most interesting thing here is the streaming which could act as a bridge until we see native Linux AAA games.

Lastly, DirectX is so widely used in game engines. I haven't seen any hard evidence (not coming from Valve) that OpenGL can meet or exceed DirectX capabilities. I'd love to see real data on this.
For balance, my previous venture hosted (still does) on RS London and we had good experience with them. The few times where we needed support, they were excellent.
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Show HN: Redd for iOS
I'm a designer who wants to build a better Reddit iPhone app. I'm looking to work with an iOS developer to make this happen.

This is the design so far:
http://dribbble.s3.amazonaws.com/users/3605/screenshots/1244498/attachments/168851/Redd.jpg

If you're interested, or want to know more, I'd love to hear from you: m@moeedahmad.com
Is technology really that behind? I mean redtube/et al are some of the largest websites out there and the blog posts seem to show a pretty high level of technology behind them although with a larger focus on cost than most startups.
A coworker's wife has a Surface Pro, and the heat it generates is her #1 complaint.
I agree. This is an optimization. For many startups, it's not worth prematurely optimizing hosting costs, especially when figuring out the MVP/establishing market/growing customer base.
I am familiar(ish) with ipython. I think what Shiny seems to offer, that ipython doesn't, is a gui like interface to the data (whereas ipython provides the ability to interact directly with the code). I think shiny is a great idea when presenting to non-programmer types (whereas ipython seems to be designed as a presentation tool for more technical audiences).
> We've fixed this with WeFunds - our LLC fund that bundles many small investors into a single item on a cap table, relieving the logistical and legal downsides.

That may solve a few of the problems with having numerous small investors, but it doesn't solve them all. For instance, if I raise $25,000 each from 20 investors who are spraying and praying with a dozens or more other startups, I have to consider that potentially none of these investors will have the motivation or wherewithal to provide additional assistance (financially or otherwise) if and when I need it.
Hah. I'd wager that in real world installs Ubuntu has at least 20x-50x the installs (Wikimedia statistics support this assertion), never mind Ubuntu server installs.

How many people ever visit Distrowatch (the only statistic on the web that supports the idea that Mint > Ubuntu) once they settle on a distro?
So, if I run a car rental company, and people start stealing cars, is it my job to recover the cars or filter out the criminals?

After all, I could write algorithms that used more and more information to determine criminality.
MBA is a culture and a way of thinking as well.

What you enumerate are MBA specializations. The core of every MBA course is about optimization and modeling. There is no argument what to do when you can sell something at price P or 100*P, no matter what kind of MBA you have.

There is a mindset associated with it. It's a personal failure if you miss an opportunity to make more money as an MBA.
The Wii/smartphone demographic proved terrible for Nintendo and ouya. A dedicated box cannot compete with iPads and iPhones, no one wants to play Angry Birds on their 40"
Last year I made a decent DJ application for Android. I probably invested a few thousand hours into it & the framework I built it on that could compile to Android, Blackberry Playbook, and HP Touchpad. I grossed just under $10k between sales on the three platforms, and advertising on Android. That works out to a few dollars per hour, last year.

This year, I don't have time to work on it further but between advertising and sales I'm still making ~400-600 USD/month. For 0 hours investment. I love the long tail.
That was just the example used.
Just re-read and saw this: ".... if I were going to jump into....recruiting startups, I would try to make it look as much like personal network hiring as possible..."

Funny about that: I started exactly that with a friend at a Startup Weekend a while ago... we didn't go anywhere with it: http://www.findexpert.co/

We also found that these guys did the same thing: https://ooomf.com/
> which can not run each others' software?

Actually Windows 8 can run anything Windows RT can run. The opposite isn't true however, since there's no way to write a desktop (x86/Win32) application for Windows RT.
That's what I thought too, based on something I read recently, but check the source:

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/09/24iPhone-5-First-Wee...
Alright, so New York's relevant offices get a lot of complaints of false advertising in various online forums in the form of fake reviews. Obviously this is bad for legitimate businesses in the area, because their reputation could be negatively affected to a fairly significant degree, especially if the practice is allowed to continue.

So what should they do about it? It's a matter of fraud, it just happens to take place online, and probably in more places than just yelp.com. Since it's fraud, they have an obligation to investigate and prosecute it, and a sting operation like this is probably one of the most effective means of doing so.

This is New York saying they care about their businesses, and that they're willing to take action to protect them. I mean, would you want to open a yogurt shop in New York if you knew it'd have to shut down in less than a year because of a bunch of false negative reviews online? What would be the potential economic impact of that hostile sort of environment?