skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they will start selling CM phones at one point, or partner with a phone manufacturer/OEM
They get about $0.45 per call connection completed, by posing their lines as pay phones, which you as the toll-free line owner has to pay. This is the "dial around compensation fee". It is wire fraud for you set up a false pay phone, but very few people have been caught and indicted, much less convicted. There are a lot of toll-free numbers, so they war dial every line through their virtual phone bank multiple times per day so it is just enough to be super annoying but not enough to put them on the radar. You can easily bleed out $5-10 on many days, and I expect this to not only become consistent, but increase rapidly as others figure out how to implement this scam.
The most powerful stuff revolves around the Dynamic symbol[1]. If you use this, for example:

Dynamic[Graphics[Disk[p]]]

And then somewhere else, either manually or programmatically, you change the value of p, you will see the disk move around. (In link [1], open up the "Neat Examples" dropdown).

Basically, with Dynamic you are saying "I want this updated as soon as any of its components are updated." And the system takes care of the rest. Furthermore, the dynamic content can be completely arbitrary. Mathematica's Manipulate symbol[2] is essentially a wrapper around Dynamic. See [3] for countless examples built using Manipulate.

To be clear, these aren't "generated programs." All this dynamism resides comfortably and natively inside notebooks. (Mathematica also allows data that persists across sessions, through DynamicModule).

See the last example in [4], combine that with the fact that you can have arbitrary expressions anywhere, and you can start to get a sense of the power the system gives you. For example, you can create an ad-hoc tool for making diagrams or whatever, and then plop that tool right in the middle of a piece of source code, inline.

As another example of the power of Mathematica's notebooks, links [1] [2] and [4] are HTML exports of Mathematica notebooks. Note all of the fancy formatting.

But wait, there's more, as Mathematica notebooks are themselves fundamentally Mathematica expressions (essentially M-expressions. Mathematica is in part a Lisp on top of symbolic semantics). Thus you can construct/alter them programmatically, etc. In other words, Mathematica is a ridiculously homoiconic system, not only in the language sense but also in the broader systemic sense. As an example, [5] is the Mathematica expression behind the notebook of [4].

[1] http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/Dynamic.html

[2] http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/Manipulate.html

[3] http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/

[4] http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/DynamicSetting....

[5] http://pastebin.com/58GYSCFy
It's not working. I just heard about the job cuts on NPR, but I didn't hear anything about BlackBerry messenger app.
Offtopic: the feature I lack is to permanently add some info (like tags) so that email is searchable by some keywords, but I guess that's harder to make (and should be done on gmail side).
Exit size doesn't matter on its own - you have to take into account how much equity you own. 40% of $100 million exit is better than 10% of $300 million - as an example. I would describe the first scenario as more successful than the second.
i click that link, see the image above the article showing an iphone running ios7 and i immediately have to vomit.

(nb: i love apple. used an iphone for 4 years. use only macs.)
We don't have any kind of version control, but we do allow you to flip back and forth between the original and edited emails.

We never delete the original copy of the email so you'll never have to worry about accidentally deleting important content.
I could duplicate this system in Microsoft Word and save tremendous time typing. If I'm emailing in your meeting, then most likely the meeting or my full attention is not needed.
I'm surprised by this article since I have not found the "Fake It Until You Make It" strategy to be very effective, especially with regards to faking courage. If it works for the author, great, but I wouldn't recommend this and here's why: False confidence might make you seem brave in the short-term, but long-term it's not going to fool most people and will make you look like even more of a weakling.

"Exaggerating Courage" usually works much better than faking it, at least for me, because it's based on a kernel of truth instead of a lie. For example I've never had a tennis lesson but I used to be good at basketball and other sports. So when I'm on the tennis court, even though my technique is poor, I remind myself that I have good hand-eye coordination and agility. So I focus on the fact that "I'm quick!" instead of "My backhand is lame!"

Focus on your strengths, not your perceived weaknesses. Of course when I'm really "in the zone" I'm in a state of Relaxed Confidence where I'm not talking to myself, either positive or negative, and I'm merely reacting to what's required at the moment. It's the ideal mind-body-state to be in when you're trying to return a serve, sink a free throw, hit a fast ball, or in many other non-sports situations. For more on this, check out...

The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by Timothy Gallwey.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Inner-Game-Tennis-Performance/dp/0...
True.

Apple didn't always offer the stream the updates over the air, and they've always been good about getting the new OS pushed out. I think another part of it is that iPhone users are more likely (or at least were) to plug their phones into their computers, use iTunes, and be prompted to update their phones. That part didn't deal with the carriers at all.
So this implies that the emails would look unedited when accessed over IMAP?
That's sort of how the SomethingAwful forums work. You spend 5 bucks to buy someone an insulting avatar, they pay 5 bucks to remove it.
Add MapBox to iOS 7 with One Line of Code
Stanford to Offer Joint Computer Science MS/MBA Degree Program
Even considering human innovation, the laws of thermodynamics will eventually limit growth, not to mention the sheer lack of space.
setting it up as a charity causes trouble if they want to start collecting profits down the road. non-profits don't get to become for-profit as soon as they build something profitable.
> Actually, I have no fucking clue what kind of mindset wants to live forever.

The kind of mindset capable of performing induction over the positive integers. For me, today was a good day. I want to live until tomorrow, at least, and I want tomorrow to be at least as good.

Therefore, I want to live forever, or at least as long as reasonably possible.
I wonder if they could use carbon fiber?
It has near zero thermal expansion.

I have this awesome vision of some big machine sitting at both ends where they knit fibres together, cure it then just basically extrude the thing the whole way and meet in the middle.

Yes it's expensive but with the magic of science and a bit of hand waving surely our processes have advanced to the point where this is becoming feasible?

Unfortunately I have no idea if a carbon fibre tube is suitable to operating at sub atmospheric pressures...
A restaurant can kick you out for whatever. You only have free speech rights against the government.

As to "substantive speech," the bar is low. Substantive in this case means just that it communicates a meaning. The meaning doesn't have to be important. Physical expression, like wearing shoes, involves a higher bar.
This is the naturalistic fallacy. Just because something is that way does not mean that it should be that way.
Interesting! So why are rents on HUD a lot lower?
e.g., the rent for 1 BR in SF is $1579 according to http://www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/50per.html
Los Altos and Los Altos Hills are two different cities. In some places you treat them separately, in other places you appear to be lumping them together, possibly because they share zip codes. Rents in Los Altos Hills are in the stratosphere, probably because of the minimum 1 acre lot size.
Hmmm, perhaps "instinctively gravitated toward the opinion that Aubrey de Grey was correct". That's more accurate; my "knowledge" does not, of course, imply proof of correctness.
I thought it was 9.
> Incredibly powerful stuff that would be a PITA to write in Javascript

...care to elaborate on that? Javascript is a pretty versatile and expressive language imho and if you stay away from its dark corners and "anti-features" it's just as good as any other dynamic language (except languages with real metaprogramming facilities like lisps, but this is no the point), so I'd really like an example of a kind of problem/solution/pattern that is easy to express in Ruby code and hard in Javascript code.
There's no such thing as a "full vacuum". 100 Pascals is 0.1% of atmospheric pressure at sea level. It's pretty frickin' close to a "full vacuum". If there's a leak anywhere in the tube you're boned.
It is good to look at the data, but Fred Wilson's assertion is not necessarily wrong. Data notwithstanding.

There are a large number of reasons why getting too much money is bad for a company. See the "Don't raise too much" section of http://www.paulgraham.com/fr.html for some of it. If you want a much more thorough analysis (albeit in a different context), the negative dynamics of too much money are studied in detail in The Innovator's Solution.

That said, investors like Fred Wilson are aware of this risk. Therefore they will attempt to avoid investing too much in companies that can't handle it. Thus the fact that a company received more money means that, in the judgement of investors, it was a company that could absorb more money. If the investors do their job well, you would therefore expect to see little to no correlation between the amount invested in a startup and the subsequent success of said startup.

The right analysis is impossible to do. But it is to compare what a competent investor (eg Fred Wilson) thought a company could handle, compared to what it got, and see if there are correlations there.
The Missing IT Puzzle Piece for BYOD Mobility
My company just had to block the apple servers because so many people were trying to update it hosed our network.
The recognition of involuntary death as a terrible tragedy does not require the slightest fear of it.

I am also not afraid of illiteracy or racism though I also consider them terrible. If your ability to not fear death requires that you trivialize it, to pretend its something wholesome, then I regard that with the same kind of mild contempt that I hold for people justify their bigotry by convincing themselves that people of other creeds are inferior and so its /natural/ to discriminate against them.

I hardly think that a fictional child's excuses for committing genocide, themselves constituting a bit of an Author Tract by a writer with well known outspoken religious views on the proper nature of human interactions, is really much of a contribution here.

The suggested vague possibility of living forever doesn't force it on anyone, I wouldn't agree with that either. I think you should be free to stop existing on your own schedule.

With involuntary death removed, I think and hope that instead people would "die" a different way— by becoming different people over time, ending a chapter in their lives and adopting a new one, being reborn without ever dying, and hopefully conserving most of the best about themselves in the process.
A lot of people use their inbox as their todo list, but there's a lot of noise in their emails that they have to parse through every time they check their inbox.

Signal currently allows you to edit the emails in your inbox so you can get rid of irrelevant info (or even add info) as you see fit. We're experimenting with auto summarization (check out the website for an example).

The goal is to make the inbox a better to-do list.
This release fixes a problem with saving both tags, and comments.

For any of you who haven't seen Neddick before, it's something like "Reddit for the Enterprise", but not exactly. If you want to check out a demo, just visit http://demo.fogbeam.org:8080/neddick/ and login as:

testuser1 / secret

Some useful things you can do with Neddick: Link a "channel" (more or less analogous to a sub-reddit) to 0 or more RSS feeds, and let it populate itself from those feeds over time. Set filters on the channel so you will only see content which matches your criteria (body keyword, title keyword, tag, etc.). Set "triggers" on channels (or globally) so that matching content can invoke actions like: Email the content to somebody, IM it via XMPP, do an HTTP POST in ActivityStrea.ms format, etc.

You can also explicitly "share" content with other users by email or XMPP or via HTTP POST using ActivityStrea.ms format.

Neddick also has free-form tagging, and the ability "save" (bookmark) entries, as well as hide entries you don't want to see.

Of course, that's just the tip of the iceberg and we have a ton of other great stuff coming up...
That sounds awesome. I need to check with corporate IT to see if they'll provision that with the BYOD Android program.
Inocente infidencia.
How could they admit this publicly?
I think this is a smart move. When BB was on top, letting other devices on to their messaging platform would have been a mistake (which is, incidentally why iMessage is single-platform). Now that they're trailing hard in market share, making BBM cross platform means blackberry users are less isolated.

They have had to switch strategies, but that they are actively adapting to their new reality is a good sign. They should have done this a year ago at least.
It'd be helpful to see this study normalized for ROI over time, which is arguably a better measure of VC success than exit size.

Doing so might very well make Fred's contention hold up.
Mechanically, yes. Linguistically, no.

Despite "Like" only subscribing you, Facebook has given that action a connotation of endorsement by naming the action "Like" which suggests agreeableness, enjoyment, or satisfaction.
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Poking Fun At Game Pricing By Charging $50 For Patent Blaster For A Week
Brewing Beer In Your Own Stomach & Getting Drunk Is A Real Medical Condition
I'm not a fan of the lab books — they don't lie flat enough for me — but I do like my gridded notebook (high-quality company swag notebook courtesy of ipHouse). When that notebook fills, I'm not sure what I'll use to replace it.

I also really like Zebra F-301 (and compatible) pens. Inexpensive enough to justify easily buying (and buying again when I lose them), good enough to be worth buying refills for. I keep at least a black one, and often blue, everywhere I am likely to need a pen (home desk, work desk, bag). And the F-301 Compact is often in my pocket when I don't have my bag with me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-brewery_syndrome
The Terrible Truth: Quickly making money online is a pipe dream
Well, these days the reasons for staying with Blackberry are getting slimmer and slimmer. In corporate situations forwarding around documents in emails does tend to be a pretty big use case. We really need "pass by reference" in emails but no one has really cracked the "dropbox for enterprises" use case. Nomadesk is supposed to be that and so far seems pretty buggy (the "lose your files" kind of buggy). Maybe the aerofs guys will fix that.
That's one way to do it (the best way). You can still draw "causal" conclusion on observational studies (where you don't get to explicitly assign people to group A and B, but where those assignment are given to you), but it is much harder and you have to be very careful with what you are doing. If you are interested in that topic I suggest you google "Rubin Causal Framework", or check out some of the papers by Donald Rubin (arguably the pioneer of the field of Causal Inference).
Starship Enterprise clone/Information Dominance Center
> Oh please. It was not "unrestrained", it was restrained by the limited resources.

Make sure to also point out that it was also "restrained" by gravity, conservation of energy, and limited access to high explosives...

Of course with imagination none of these things are actually restraints to children, and with imagination on your part you should be able to figure out that the restraint I am talking about is helicopter parents jumping in every time little Jimmy throws his water balloon at somebody instead of just playing catch with it like a "good boy" should.

I am talking about freedom from restrictive overly protective rules, not freedom from limitations of reality or the environment.
Yes, the edits are only going to be visible on chrome for now but we are slowing progressing towards mobile.
'Ansys...has fed the Hyperloop specifications into a computer..'

I love technical explanations like this. I think the specifications could have used more salt.
The thing is if you quit before you have something else you have no leverage with your new employer, they can get you for whatever salary they offer?
Start with lean UX I guess...
Unless you want your app on iOS at all. Or unless you want your app to work out of the box on any user's machine without scary security warnings.

Please. The wheretos and the whyfors of the negatives of Apple's particular flavor of walled garden have been discussed ad nauseum. You know damn well the problem here isn't that they don't have an upgrade pricing option, the problem is that they came down like a ton of bricks on someone for sidestepping the problem.

That very much is abusive, and "blah blah you have a choice" does not absolve Apple of criticism of this weak policy.
Radioactive RAM chips, costing Sun billions, played a part.

"When Sun folks get together and bullshit about their theories of why Sun died, the one that comes up most often is another one of these supplier disasters. Towards the end of the DotCom bubble, we introduced the UltraSPARC-II. Total killer product for large datacenters. We sold lots. But then reports started coming in of odd failures."

http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/at_the_mercy_of_suppl...

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I hated Novell with the passion of a billion burning novas. As only a NetWare admin could. So I was happy to see them tank.

I vaguely recall that Ray Noorda wanted to take on Microsoft, so went on a spending spree to acquire an Office competitor, completely ignoring their NetWare and GroupWise (?) offerings, allowing Microsoft to get traction in both applications servers and directory services.
Diablo III Auction House Closing
Could be that the active user base of mixpanel has dropped slightly while people are offline to upgrade. Would depend on exactly how their metrics are being gathered.

None-the-less I find it amazing that ~20% of their sample base is already upgraded.
There's a really interesting counter piece to that

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/07/27/samsung-has-not-de...
I don't think that's bad news. But the markets disagreed and the price took a hit. It's been awesome to see the new management's discipline, should have cut earlier but they got the major planks laid out, new os, android run time, backend services, browser. Just refinements left. Employee count to revenue is getting good. 6 devices a year. Simple. And the new phone has the paratek antenna, this is going to be close.
Oh no! I didn't mean to imply a good living, just that those numbers make sense. But as has been pointed out, the school she was at was likely charging a lot more than $200/student.
If we do this we'll have to move the Restore functionality outside of a button ui. Thanks for the suggestion.
Great! Will test it this week.

When I was trying to compile GnuRadio for the BeagleBone, I ran into problems just at the SIMD functions for the ARM processor. If it works there, I'll finally have my chance to give back to GnuRadio.
I wrote it in 2010 after the wired article about Sergey's gene issue came out... it was a stream of conscious post, and I hadn't edited it since...

I predicted that given his resources and being found to have a genetic predisposition to a disease with later-in-life onset, he would focus on health/longevity.

With the article that came out at the same time about cryonic (thanks) surgery, I was thinking that he would be more likely to be able to freeze himself later in life than to cure his genetic disorder.
The impression that I at least have got of Julia is that it's designed specifically for technical computing (mathematics, science, etc.) rather than general purpose programming as Rust is. I think that would be likely to influence what people use it for significantly? That could be a pity, because Julia does look like quite an interesting language.

Rust's REPL, rusti, is presently broken, but it will be being fixed up later.

I presume Rust's safety will also go beyond Julia's, with its algebraic data types and lack of such things as null, and its rigidly checked type system.
Funny that, eh?

Though I understand the sentiment, and agree massively, I am clearly am somewhat of anomaly, I can still, though, see the benefit of broad statistical analysis. Sure, I'm doing okay, however, if I'm not a fit for the data, and most people are going downhill after 18, perhaps that is a reason not for sweeping judgements but at least a degree of concern, and an avenue of understanding?
When I see numbers like that, I really have to question how they are calculated, as that's less that $1k/month.

While it is possible to live on that, it is also possible to endure many things people in developed countries really should not have to endure...
You're making strong assumptions about his methodology vs a guy that is only looking at public ally available exits. I would be remiss to say that his data most definitely supports his position.
Verizon executive says tech firms 'grandstanding' over NSA: report
Clicking "Like" on a Fluffy Bunnies fan page isn't merely a subscription. It also broadcasts to everyone "chrismcb liked Fluffy Bunnies". I'm guessing that most people consider the subscription nature of liking an item secondary to the statement of support of that item.

Further to that, in Facebook you can click the down-arrow next to a post and select "Follow Post". This is the pure subscription act minus the protected speech.
Epidemiologist here. Many studies account for it and we are acutely aware of this problem and have some sophisticated methods for dealing with unmeasured propensities. And randomized trial are "epidemiologic" studies too. Not everything in epidemiology is observational. Simpson's paradox is taught in 1st year intro to epi courses. There is also a lesser known "reverse-simpson" which comes from overgeneralizing specific results.
Right, what you are looking for is advanced filtering options. Definitely something thats desirable, albeit hard to pull off for a side project ;)
Dead snake comes back to life
Have you thought this through? Doctors have to be compensated, unless you want to enslave them. Even a single-payer system has prices.

On a side note, healthcare costs are high in the US due to artificially limited supply and failed central planning of future demand: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-03-02-doctor...
When Apple’s iOS7 update servers shit their pants
>I'm still hung up on what happens if there's an emergency on board? Yes, bathroom related would be one, but what about something like a heart attack? Are there any other forms of mass transit that don't allow for an emergency stop or at least the possibility of gaining reasonable assistance from another person on board?

Well, how it's different from a regular high speed train? (Besides reaching it's destination much much faster?) Where would a regular high speed train do an emegergency stop?

Other methods could be even worse, despite far more popular. A taxi in a traffic jam for one. You'd probably need more than 15 minutes to get to a hospital.
Ugh. You have my sympathy. For one who "put up" with similar circumstances for far too long, I hope you won't mind my sincere advice: Get out! Staying is a downward spiral -- I know.