skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is no single company can survive forever. Soon or later big companies have to be broken up to survive. I'd imagine in the future Google and Apple will face the same problem that MS and Blackberry are facing. Their products are now commonly seen and used don't really mean their business can go well forever. Without attractions (from both users and news reporters), new competitors can sell similar products in more compelling ways and then steal the market.
> How do you choose a name for anything anyway?

You find something that people can search for, and that isn't already being used by other companies in the same space. You also check it's not wang in Vietnamese.

The traditional tricks are much harder to do nowadays. (Kodak using K - "it seems a strong, incisive sort of letter."; Pyrex being a mashup of the Latin words Pyro (fire) and Rex (king)).
Why you’re not making sales
Overtraining is a phenomenon that is universally recognized from from football to marathon running to bodybuilding to gymnastics. Crossfit's stated philosophy is about developing fitness to support one's enjoyment of life, but like competitive sports, they fetishize results. Everything is measured and counted, and they encourage people to record and track their progress. Some people miss the point and end up fetishizing pain and effort instead, but to do that they have to overlook both the stated philosophy and the day-to-day focus on improvement.
When I was 19, I tried to open a checking account. Amazingly, I was declined. For a bank account. I didn't ask for credit, in fact I had no credit history at all. I was apparently so unworthy that they didn't trust me to give them my own money. I never understood that, as I figured they'd just bounce a check anyway if I lacked sufficient funds.

I'm much older now, and have a bank account, mortgage, credit cards, and all that jazz. Just a silly anecdote that it's actually possible to be too poor to be allowed to have a bank account.
Github Hover Scope Chrome Extension
Can someone please explain how we're able to know the temperature in 4,000 BC with an accuracy of +/- .2° C?
Silly Kenyans. Don't they know terrorism is just an excuse for the US government to infringe civil liberties?
Here is an introduction. They are not SVG specific but you can build SVG elements in a document fragment, which is a lot faster than appending to the DOM, then append the fragment to the DOM all in one go.

See http://ejohn.org/blog/dom-documentfragments/ or google for an introduction.

Building strings and using innerHTML is a very ugly way to get performance, you should definitely try to using the document fragment approach as it has similar performance characteristics.
This article is quite sensationalist and doesn't seem to consider the fact that every company today is in a different stage of its life cycle.

FB was founded in 2004, while Google was founded in 1998, so it's appropriate to compare today's Facebook with 2007's Google, pre-android and all.

Box was founded in 2005, salesforce: 1999, linkedin: 2001, jawbone: 1999, workday: 2005, amazon: 1994.

Note that the two oldest companies in this list are Amazon and Google, so it's no wonder that they are the ones who have expanded the most beyond their initial markets.

It's always taken a while to build a great company that competes in 2+ markets, and that hasn't changed.
Google's future is markedly better than Facebook's ? No way.

Facebook has stickiness and the network effects to keep people on it. Google has none of that. If a better search engine appeared overnight everyone would switch to it and that would be the end of Google. If a better social network appeared very few people would switch. In fact I would postulate that if Microsoft managed to convince Mozilla and Apple to change the default search engines to Bing that it could be almost enough to send Google into a death spiral.
US has set interest rates at basically zero for awhile now, so banks can borrow from the government more or less for free. They can then take the money and engage in various profitable activities other than lending to individuals who wish to borrow money (which is what the money is supposed to be for).
Competing is one thing - in that kind of game, winning is often more important than health. But if you just want to get fit, an unfaltering belief in no pain no gain seems to be less than beneficial.

> Every exercise/activity has some risks. If anything, I'd say crossfit puts you at risk for other injuries (back, joints, heat exhaustion at competitions, etc.).

One of the benefits of team sports (the few that I like to play, anyway) to me is that they are fun. One of the downsides is that, since you're engaging in a dynamic environment with other people, injury is more likely. What's great about lifting weights is that, with proper precautions, the chance of injury is very small. It's just you and the weights. Just your own form. The most advanced and ballistic move might be an olympic lift, but you don't need to get involved with those. Personally, I'm not willing to take up a solo exercise routine where the culture is so hardcore/idiotic that I am at risk of permanently damaging myself through sheer force of will, without even having any playing objects or tackling opponents involved.
I've never investigated it, and a google search turns up questionable results, but would Linux be compatible with kernel modules compiled to .so's that have C ABIs? IE, C++ with extern "C". D and Rust have a similar export scheme available I think.

I'd get a lot more involved in the kernel proper if I wasn't stuck in 1999 =\ (I think the kernel allows C99). I use classes and templates too much in C++ to go back.
Bingo. Someone like that simply couldn't be taken seriously.
I mean, points on Google being a broader, more innovative company with a larger vision are well taken. And Facebook is still the college dorm room social network. But it's hard to see how a site with 1.1 billion global users will shrink to irrelevance any time soon. Even if it loses 600 million of those users, 500 million people are still using it. Facebook is not doomed by any stretch of the imagination, unless I'm not seeing your definition of 'doom.'
I have never heard of it either, nor could I imagine anyone I know doing it. I have heard of people doing it with their first rental, never a job though.
Those galvos don't look very accurate (at least not without a lot of calibration and low-tolerance manufacturing). But who cares... its a $100 3D printer! I'll buy one -- but only once it's ready to ship.
Yeah. It's definitely rare, but companies are starting to trend towards a more parent centered workplace. I think most companies doing these types of things now are early adopters of an upcoming trend.
That might well be the case, but then, the claim that PhDs are not hired because they're "too specialized" is duplicitous.
Re: Quality assurance, this was on reddit couple days ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8up6A4QesU
I've never seen or heard of this 1st or 2nd hand. I've heard of hearing about it, but only in blog posts. I'm sure it's been done, but I doubt if it's a thing.

If it happened to me ... I don't know. I guess I'd let it play out, out of fascination and curiosity. You never know when you might learn something.
No matter how many times 'tis deleted or hidden, syntax error does not equate to inadequate robustness. Syntax errors have nothing to do with unexpected variations in experience, and everything to do with coding errors.
The vast majority of Crossfitters are not at a level of physical fitness and mental toughness that would put them at risk of rhabdo after a WOD. They'd throw in the towel long before "meeting Uncle Rhabdo" under most normal circumstances.

However, certain external factors can affect the risk - high humidity, heat, improper hydration, and poor nutrition can significantly increase the chance of catching rhabdo from a workout. It sounds like the subject of this post got caught up in the competitiveness of the workout, turned a deaf ear to what her body was telling her that day, and paid the price for it. It's a mistake that many inexperienced athletes make when thrust into a competitive setting, and most of the time only ends with "meeting Pukey" or some really bad DOMS the next morning, but the specifics of this circumstance (pushup-overhead couplet sounds like a stupidly dangerous WOD, plus a "warm Texas evening") lead to a significantly worse outcome.
This guy seriously thinks that people don't hate Google?

Has he not been paying attention to all of the hate been directed at them at this year alone? After Reader? After the NSA leaks?
Unless there is a good reason I am not aware of (please tell me), if something can be done cheaper, better, etc, at home, then why would you want to stop that process and import, and still pay double (for import and for do-not-product).

I agree with OP, regardless the reason, it sounds like huge scam.
You didn't ask for credit. They make money by giving people credit. You wouldn't have made them any money.

You also didn't have any credit history. That's something that young people could be taught: "How to get a good credit rating, without being stupid and getting into tens of thousands of dollars of unpayable debt".

The UK has the concept of "basic bank accounts" which are needed so people can have state benefits paid to them. These accounts don't allow debt; don't have credit or debit cards. (Except HSBC I think does issue a debit card with its basic account and other banks probably do to?).
Buffett has made a killing owning businesses that print money, invest on float, and whose risk is backstopped by the federal government. Businesses like insurance, finance, and so forth. The Fed is his bread and butter. It's his risk absorber.

It makes total sense for him to keep playing this game, because he benefits so fantastically from it. Everyone else should take what he says for what it is. The agenda is pretty loud and clear.
parent centered workplace? Surely, you jest.
The NYT and other major US media are pretty regularly reporting on the ongoing revelations from the Snowden whistle-blowing. I believe HN has instituted a "no NSA spying" story policy in general due to political arguments rather than discussions of the technical aspects involved. I could be wrong though.
In the tech industry, primarily the West Coast tech industry, it's a sign of being a "business guy" or worse, a "financial guy". Tech guys wear black T-shirts or turtlenecks, hoodies, and sweater-vests.

(That was intended to be a joke, but it's also a surprisingly accurate description ;-).)
This is a thoughtful discussion. But it doesn't really address those of us that have kinda "graduated" from digital nomad hood.

By that I mean, for some of us, you get to the point where yes, you want the advantage of multiple locations - but you also want routine.

The problem is when you start traveling around enough, it gets harder and harder to "get it all" in one place.

For me the solution is, as one person mentioned (or rather, several)
1. establish a home base(s)
2. get second homes or rentals you've been to before in familiar places (you can get to know AirBnB landlords many of the have multiple homes)
3. coworking spots around the world
4. start connecting with nomad communities - like a diplomat, you'll start running into the same people over and over again - forums, private/paid communities
5. tap into your alumni abroad community (if you have one)
6. establish daily routines (for me, it's a morning call with several other location independent founders)
7. meet ups

Eventually you'll have a set up where you have say "home bases" in 2-3 countries/continents....places you can go back to sleep in your own bed, say Hi to the local butcher, grocer etc, read your own books.....

...then you can travel several times a year (conferences, random hot spots, etc) - for the excitement, because one starts to miss the thrill of traveling.

I definitely think though that multiple home bases + coworking spots + connecting with the location independent community + a codified daily routine is the way to go!

Anyone who can enjoy this life should be totally grateful for the options it affords one.

The biggest challenge I've found (someone tell me if you can relate) is that often I find myself hanging out with:
1. trust fund babies (born into having the time, income, location freedom)
2. retirees (have the time, income, location freedom but had to work for it)
3. people on welfare (have the time and often times the money too, lol)
4. location independent professionals/entrepreneurs (perfect match but still quite niche)
...in my age group. Man when you walk around during the day, outside of the traditional corporate/9-to-5 set up, that's rarefied air.

Someone who really establishes his/her community as the penultimate resource for connecting location independent founders and professionals with homes, coworking sports almost like a done-for-you social network, will be solving a huge problem.
In college (1991 +/- 2), garage parking in Harvard Square was $15 for an evening. Resident parking violations were $10.

I regularly parked in resident parking areas, getting tickets perhaps half the time, rather than the certainty of a higher price in a garage.

As an engineer, that seemed perfectly reasonable to me. (Resident parking violations are now much more expensive, so this loophole is largely fixed.)
The number of people who've actually stopped using Google is probably tiny.

People have been complaining about FB for years, and yet they're still huge.
I'm thinking you would throw in a cheap microcontroller and basically use it as a modem to control the printer. If the carrier signal is lost, then it stops printing. This would retain most of the benefits of using the audio jack, including being able to re-compute prints and play them back with something like an mp3 player instead of a proper computer.
> What we haven't learned of, at least yet, is rampant industrial espionage by NSA to steal R&D and a pipeline for dealing with the stolen results. China, at least according to US allegations, has precisely that.

China would still be late to that game.

France and Israel were famous for doing government-sponsored industrial espionage in the 1980s-1990s. Again, according to US allegations.
Key quote: "Any one of us would be lying if we said we didn't learn plenty of web development from that site when we were getting started."

I've found w3schools to be a fanastic resource for my students. I've used it myself to learn the basics of the SVG format and as a quick way to look the syntax for arcane things I've forgotten.

If w3schools didn't exist, we would have to invent it.

The OP seems hell-bent on destroying a popular web resource. He would be better served to generate improvements rather than trying to raise an army to kill it (see the "I'm In") button at the bottom of the page (without an "I'm Out" button for those who dissent).

If you need to direct your hate somewhere (his words from the article, not mine), there are plenty of better targets (for example, MSDN could stand a few improvements).
Yes; the state failed to tax at high enough rates, and had to tax after the fact to pay of the debt they accumulated.

I guess if you want your money safe, store it somewhere that can do their finances properly?
Interestingly enough this video was posted to the FB group of the CrossFit gym I go to... a gym I chose because of the quality of programming and emphasis on technique and mobility. There's no bravado there.

Here was one coach's response:

"Haha, this video is infamous! It's the "proof" that critics of CrossFit use to try and show that the entire sport is dangerous and that we don't know what we're doing.
There are definitely examples in the video of athletes losing their midline, and going heavier than they safely should, but the point that is completely overlooked is that these athletes are trying classic strongman lifts for probably the very first time. The lift they're practicing is called the continental clean and, believe it or not, they're doing it more right than wrong. It's an awkward lift that's used for cleaning axle bars that are too fat to grip and clean conventionally. Anyone trying that for the first time will look similarly awkward. It's part of learning something new. Whoever originally shot and posted this video never meant for it to be taken as a typical crossfit class full of elite athletes. It's just a video of a group of people who aren't afraid to try something new, regardless of where are on the learning curve they had to start."
I misread the title and was opening that article expecting to read about dung beetles in space.
Didn't Mypace also enjoy a network effect?
People making hardware focused on audio typically use real-time operating system versions, because of the schedule requirements imposed by the audio sampling.
I understand all that. Eventually companies like Samsung will be forced to abandon ARM because they'll get a better power/performance ratio from Intel than they can produce in house.
Ask HN: What are some current moonshot projects?
I am trying to collate a list of google-type moonshot projects that are currently ongoing.

I have:

--self driving cars

--google glass

--wireless with baloons

--colonizing mars

-- calico

Do you know of others?
Ekranoplans: History of Russian ground effect vehicles
If Ann believes something strongly she is likely to cherry pick sources to support her view.

If Bob wants to check her information it's useful if he does his own searching, because he might find (very quickly) a bunch of sites carefully debunking some nonsense, while Ann could have posted a credible sounding link.
To look smart: The Tao of Physics

Ashamed of the title: Yoga, Inc

Tech book: CSS and HTML Web Design (because I've been faking it all along)
To look smart (I think): Gödel, Escher, Bach or anything by Ayn Rand
So is he India's equivalent to Thomas Friedman? Truly we are living in one hot flat crowded world.
So you (or parent comment) is saying somebody with limited resources can't effectively compete with huge corporation with resources several orders of magnitude bigger - and somehow this is unfair?

I imagine anybody owning a bike should be able to compete with UPS in delivering packages, and the fact that UPS owns a fleet of trucks, planes, warehouses and complicated logistics software just makes it all unfair. If only one would be allowed fairly competing with UPS by having them deliver packages as slowly as single guy on a bike, or alternatively if the government would create a bike that could fly like a jet plane - that would be fair.

I imagine one guy with a saw should be able to fairly compete with a logging company, and one guy with a bucket and trowel should be able to compete with construction corporation, and one guy with a screwdriver should be competing with Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

When that happens, I think we could take comparing a guy using etrade.com from his macbook with trading division of JPMorgan Chase. Until then - yes, they're playing in different leagues, as it always is in the world. There's nothing unfair about it.
Let's be clear here: This is a list of product that NIST considers "validated" by an accredited lab for one or more of their SP800-09 DRBGs.

Only the "Dual EC" DRBG is known to be weak/backdoored.

We know that some of them do, but just because a product contains a validated Dual EC DRBG doesn't mean it's on by default.

Basically, the only reason to use such a DRBG is FIPS compliance, and since FIPS mandates so many other odd things most product has a special "FIPS mode" switch which is off by default.
I don't think that just because they were wearing bulletproof vests you can reasonably infer "SWAT". Many law enforcement agencies have written or unwritten requirements to wear bulletproof vests when in the field.

http://www.bja.gov/Publications/PERF_BodyArmor.pdf

"Our first main finding was that almost
all law enforcement agencies (99.4 per-
cent) from across the country report that
their officers wear body armor when on
duty." - BJA/PERF Body Armor National Survey - page 36
Have there been any black hat/white hat discussions of these sorts of techniques? I.e., how to detect intentional biases introduced into a dataset, faked lab data?

Most of what I remember about this is from the book "Bad Science" by Ben Goldacre. Comparing different studies against one another is the gold standard for determining a study's reliability, but of course there isn't always the luxury of having an independent dataset for comparison.

Assuming the data-faking party hasn't been completely stupid and has produced fake data following the expected distribution around each data point, the only thing that comes to mind off hand is Benford's Law:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford's_law
One of your biggest issues to iron out is who qualifies for access to the scheme (anyone poor enough to consider renting a donated car for a very low fee? That's probably a lot of people, even in the US). Then you've got to figure out how much you want to spend promoting the scheme to those people - assuming the economics of the scheme are such that marketing doesn't generate a positive ROI.

Another issue might be that the genuine poor who most need cars are those that use them - all day every day - to go to and from their low paid jobs. If you intend the cars to actually be shared you'll have to choose a way of addressing that.
Well the whole problem with "knowing what you'll do with a PhD" is, if we knew how research was going to turn out, we wouldn't have to do it. A PhD is training to probe into the unknown, which means that the economic yields of research are, by definition, unknown, which means finding jobs for researchers at for-profit businesses is hard.
So 80Bil on 1 Trillion, ie 8% yearly return. Thats a shitty hedge fund
> Note the flat panel primary displays (color LCDs), that is the tip-off that this is pretty new.

Glass cockpits have been around for some time now. Also many older 737s (at least with US-based airlines) have been retrofitted with newer equipment. For example, all of SWA's 737-300 series aircraft (the oldest in their fleet) have been upgraded to glass cockpit controls.
In fact, using a document fragment is actually faster at least in some cases: http://jsperf.com/svg-fragment-test
> If a better social network appeared very few people would switch.

As evidenced by MySpace? With social networks you can split your time between many, the worse ones' usage gradually decaying. The network effect is there but it's not like everybody has to switch at the same time.
This does make it a bit more complex though, because the microcontroller, though simple, still needs a board and some kind of power supply, and a reasonably accurate DAC for controlling the galvanometers. The microcontroller would have to spend the time in between DAC timer interrupts to perform the "modem" function. Not too bad since for this project the DAC only needs a frequency of 8kHz or less, but still mildly challenging. You could just use an RS-232 or USB interface instead of trying to create a modem since that would be easier and perhaps more reliable.
Yeah, having a healthy back is so overrated anyway.
Perhaps because a compromised box is useless for running Tor? The goal here is anonimity. A box that is compromised is one more chink in that anonymity.
How many people do you know who use gmail? Every time they go on the webmail client they are pretty much back on Google's homepage.

Between all the people who use Android, Chrome, gmail etc, Google would be just fine if Apple and Mozilla changed default search engines.

At the moment, Facebook are a one trick pony that many people can easily live without.
I SAW THAT TPTACEK SAYS CTR MODE IS NOT A SCARY CONSTRUCTION!

Oh you are never going to live that down brother :-)
W3Schools is popular, but also note that it engages in SEO chicanery to rank highly and bypass the "block this domain" option in Google.

http://www.impressivewebs.com/web-development-search-results...
The number of people who've stopped using Facebook is pretty tiny when you consider their usercount as well.