skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you make a good point. I've always thought in such situation law enforcement should be responsible for some damages if the verdict is innocence to disincentivize overly aggressive tactics. If you're taken off the road for drunk driving, but are found innocent and missed work, I believe the police should be responsible for lost wages. At least within reasonable limits. In this case, I think it would be good for law enforcement to be willing to put up restitution to legitimate business that are hurt by these tactics.

edit: Sadly, I fear the costs would merely get passed on to tax payers eventually anyway, and would perhaps not actually promote more prudent and judicial use of powers.
It's interesting where they took that -- brutal on new contributors trying to get a foothold in a project. When I saw the title I thought it was going to be about the brutality of uses and random passers-by who critize, demand, complain, and harass developers who put code out there.
A big honeypot is what the government should put in place before the bust, if it is really on the ball. I'm sure the probability of that is far from 1.
Rally cry for sinking companies: "All hands on deck"
16GB HD + Browser-is-the-OS-thingy = forever locked in a google cloudtrap!
On the subject of "Trying this at home", it turns out you can approximate this type of manufacturing process at home with under $500 worth of tools!

The uncommon things you need are:

1. Custom PCB (http://oshpark.com/ $1.66/sq. in., min. only 3 copies of board)

2. Stencil for your custom PCB (http://www.oshstencils.com/ $.60/sq. in.)

3. Solder paste [different than regular solder, it's glue-like at room temperature rather than solid] (http://www.smtsolderpaste.com/ there may be better vendors for paste, I've used these guys. Anyone have suggestions?)

4. Heat Source, for on-the-cheap use either a high-wattage toaster oven or hot plate (never to be used with food again!) See Sparkfun's writeup on it here:https://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/59

As you can see, as pg said the hardware renaissance is coming (http://www.paulgraham.com/hw.html). As an example oshstencils.com just launched a few months ago and before that it was a minimum of $30+ for even the cheapest mylar stencil vendors. Things are moving fast!
Is it more effort than buying a lottery ticket ? ;)
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.00006% chance but 100% experience worth having .
I really want to see the evidence they have against the alleged drug sellers. If they used a good VPN, I don't see how they could've been traced.

I bet every single one of the arrested guys really fucked up (assuming they are guilty).
So if you found 10 companies, then you've got a ~0.0006% chance of one of them becoming a billion dollar company. Not exactly a quantum leap.
Google has come very far making webapps more and more like desktop applications.

http://www.google.com/intl/fr/chrome/webstore/apps-gtd.html
I think Apple could continue to lose a pretty good amount of iOS share still and remain profitable, as the margin on their products is pretty crazy. Windows, on the other hand, is hugely important to Microsoft's bottom line.
Had to use the good old "Wayback machine" to see what was originally on that site that warranted some citing in court case. Looks like it was all about the school shootings. here's the link: http://bit.ly/1bF1kB4
There was at least one (probably more) paltry DOOM map mods depicting Columbine High School. Not finished products, very poorly done, but enough to fulfill Alito's claim.

In the spirit of the reference, there was a high-quality simulation of the JFK assassination, with the user acting as Oswald. Made a big splash of outrage in the news and was soon pulled (the contest to reenact "the shot" didn't help). It's still available if you look.

BUT...keep in mind endless movies & books depicting gratuitous violence. Alito hasn't articulated a difference on "freedom of speech" grounds.
Well, if the hallowed FBI et al had actually taken the reasonable offers of access to one user and not escalated it into full access to the entire service's and customer's content/traffic, there might be a lot less to be outraged about, hmm?
There is a good analysis of this in Felix Dennis' book (How to Grow Rich). I don't remember what number he came up with, but after narrowing things down he clearly showed that the chances of success are actually far higher than the prior distribution.
(Sorry for ranting instead of explaining, but I do not have much time at the moment.)

I really hate this molasses explanation of the Higgs field. The problem is, it is wrong, suggests a wrong intuition and obstructs actually interesting physics. It is wrong, because the mass is something very different from friction. It suggests a wrong intuition, because the snow field, or the molasses, generates a force when something is moving through the medium. But there is no medium to move through. ( And mass acts, when there is a change of velocity, friction if there is velocity.) And the last point, the Higgs mechanism is a mathematical manipulation, which gets a term into the equations, that looks exactly like a mass term would. ( But without breaking electro weak symmetry.) There is really a lot of interesting physics going on here. The most fundamental question is probably, what is the relation between reality and physical models. If in one model the Z boson is massive, and in a equivalent model the Z boson is massless, but both models agree on every quantitative prediction. In which sense can we say that the Z boson is massive?
> Adii isn't forcing anyone to pay

Everyone who did not opt-out was billed (eg. if anyone missed, misread, or otherwised ignored the email explaining the pivot).

I'm more discouraged this guy was given a platform to promote this approach at MicroConf Europe. How sad to 'hear directly from his customer' that he only discovered how he was being scammed when he attended the presentation! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6515095
Not really, assuming your opertunity cost runs around 40k then spending 40k on MegaMillions gives you about 0.02% chance of hitting the jackpot.
This might be practical, but it does not make for a proven profitable use of the "fact". Currently it is way easier to test children/students/workers for intelligence or academic achievement rather than subject them to a genetic test or pedigree inspection.

Pedigrees and genetic testing in animal breeding are way more useful. But there you have completely different structures and goals. And some of them, particularly diseases with high heritability like canine hip displasia, can't be solved by current genetics yet.
It's unclear to me why this is "by Facebook." Nice concept, though.
You only have to slip up once to get caught
Not for nothing, the thing has an 800Mhz dual core processor, which is half as fast as the Nexus 4 phone. Meh.
On the Android Mobile client? I never experienced that. Where can I see this behavior?
and you have Yahoo 'reading your mail'. So?
I would assume this headline is "of all companies for which founding papers are filed in America". That seems a poor statistic to use when 65% of Americans try to start a business at some point.

A more meaningful number might be % chance among companies who received venture funding. A funding event represents a concrete shift in probability of success.

Does anyone commenting here know the probability of, say, a $10M, $100M, and $1B exit after a Silicon Valley funding event (funding from recognized VC)?
FWIW - You can get safety razors from DSC's supplier - http://www.dorcousa.com/

I was looking at DSC for a long time and ended up trying Harry's. Was very disappointed with Harry's blades. Next time I order anything it will be from Dorco.
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The ones I've had, even when you hit the "hush" button, it still makes a loud chirp every 60 seconds to let you know that it's hushed, but still detects smoke. This chirp scares the crap out of my dog.
My understanding is that this is mostly correct. Money held by the company probably isn't considered his and probably isn't taxed; money he pays himself certainly is (whether it goes to an account nominally in the US or not, and whether it is denominated in bitcoins or not). Obviously he should be talking to an accountant and/or tax attorney and making sure that's all straight.
You could just bottle water and add some government subsidized corn syrup to it.

Buy a billion bottles of water for a penny a bottle and sell it for $1.

Then instead of paying taxes, get checks from the government for pretending to hire people for decent jobs while keeping their wages so low that they have to use taxpayer funded food and medical assistance.

Tada. The "American Way" to become a billionaire.
In other news, meaningless statistics are up 17% in the past 24 hours...

A completely irrelevant headlines for such a nice article. Sad.

You lumped all start-ups together and struck a percentage. Did you consider that there are 1000s of people who are doing what they do not because they want a chance to build a billion-dollar company but rather a chance to providing real solutions to real problems?

People do what they do because they love what they do and as long as it is sustainable they want to be working on it without thinking about some mythical billion-dollar mark.
only if success (here defined as creating what becomes a billion dollar company) is iid. its probably not. if you've failed at starting 5 companies, the probability of succeeding at the next one is probably less than 0.00006%
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I've noticed this issue with quite a few mobile games as well.

After the loading screen has ended and the "Tap anywhere to play" screen appears, right as you get ready to tap the screen, an ad will slide in covering the screen and handle the tap. Scummy indeed.
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What's more, this 404 page (real or feigned) requires jQuery. Now that's penetration.
It's still not clear. The services and the products seem to overlap, especially as it is all software (the smoke alarm certainly has firmware/software on it to make it operate more intelligenttly)

As the ToS also states:

"AS DESCRIBED BELOW, YOU ARE CONSENTING TO AUTOMATIC SOFTWARE UPDATE OF THE SERVICES AND OF THE PRODUCTS CONNECTED TO THE SERVICES. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, YOU SHOULD NOT USE THE SERVICES."

The software, hardware and services are all closely tied together. The ToS has links to them all, and a failure in one part could easily be blamed upon the services and hence Nest could claim no responsibility.

Again, I am not seeking to blame Nest here, I think they just need to update the ToS to make it crystal clear that they do think their new smoke alarm is a safety system and can be relied upon as such. Terms Of Service are often horrendously written and users should complain about such things to fix them.
Notice how the light is a different color for different intensities of heat? I'm sure wave to disable won't work when there is a lot of smoke.
As a homeowner, it's way in the other direction for me. The thermostat does an excellent job of saving us money through our heating bills. And compared to other thermostats that can talk to a phone app or web app, it's cheap.

This however, will cost more than a comparable sensor for our simplisafe security system. It doesn't call into a central monitoring station, so I can't get the same insurance discount I do now. Nightlights are, imo, more or less of a solved problem, so I don't see that as really adding value.
Are "safety" razors as safe as the fancier stuff when you're barely awake and in a hurry?
Where do you get the information about aiming for release in a couple of years?

I gave up trying to find out a while ago.
Because it's not about the blades, it's about the stream of blades.

Consider the same question for basically every nonperishable you purchase - why are you not buying in large bulk and saving? I can think of a dozen items I could buy in bulk and save money on that I currently don't.

Actually, now that I think about it, why don't I buy in bulk? I totally could. Why don't people in general buy in bulk?

Anyway, it's the same answer for your toilet paper as it is for your razors, or your shampoo, or your paper towels. I don't apparently know that answer, but I assume that's why people don't do what you're saying.
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People are imprisoned on mere suspicion.

One is put in jail after an arrest before trial. They require a fee to be released before trial. Even if one is acquitted of charges, they do not receive refund.
Do those take a lot of practice to use? Do they take more time? Convenience is worth a lot and I'd be scared (scarred) using those I think.
> we have only ever invested money in fusion (risk) and have never received any useful power for it (payoff)

Now you're just being silly. You can say this about ANY research project. Better scrap the Manhattan Project before it finishes, we haven't seen any results. You're saying it's impossible to build a fusion power plant because we don't have one now?

Nevermind the fact that magnetic fusion research has been grossly underfunded for over 30 years.
So,

I love the writeup and the product but I am surprised that you didn't run into draft when doing your research:

https://draftin.com/

It's exactly the competitor you were looking for and Nate is a totally awesome guy who I am sure you could even ask for advice while building your product!

Doing some research on my own, you focused on "GitHub for writers" which uses a very specific player in the version control space. Seems that being more generic in your search terminology with "version control for writers" leads directly to what you were searching for.
>Also Acer has already said 10% of their shipments are Chromebooks.

This is where that quote is from.

http://www.informationweek.com/hardware/desktop/chromebooks-...

It's actually 5 to 10% and the report says the following:

>>So that 5-10% figure falls into the range of 26,900 Chromebooks on the low end to 92,314 Chromebooks on the high end, assuming we equate PC shipments to PC sales. In reality, some of those shipments remain on retailers' shelves unsold. All told, these are not massive numbers, but they're a bit better than the 5,000-unit Acer Cromia 700 sales figure reported by Taiwan-based Digitimes in November 2011.

Are there any more recent numbers?

>Who is "they"? Chromebooks are released by several manufacturers, some of which have released numbers.

They = Google. Are you telling me that Google does not or cannot know the total number of Chromebooks being sold?

Again, any references of links will be appreciated, especially to hard numbers.

>And if Chromebook sales are bad why do more of them keep coming out, with more manufacturers joining in?

This is a good point, but there can be a lot of reasons. Google might be subsidizing costs to the OEMs to a large extent, like Microsoft may be doing with Windows Phones.

However, all the numbers coming out so far have been nebulous, like "double the previous years sales" etc.

The web usage metrics are important though since you cannot have something that runs only web sites selling well but not showing up in web usage logs, so hopefully there will be some better metrics available there.

Maybe people can contribute their own numbers. I looked up a site's metrics that I have access to. It's a large healthcare related US centric site, and Chrome OS is currently ranking far below Linux, Blackberry, Series40 and Windows Phone. It's above SymbianOS, Nokia, PS3, Wii, Xbox.

Another similar 100K visitors/month site shows ChromeOS at 70% of Windows Phone's hits and 1/4th of Linux's with 0.17%.

Interesting factoid, desktop Linux unique hits are double that of Windows Phone on that site.
Great mentality.
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Why though? You can already buy sampler packs of DE blades online. If you know which blade you want to stick with, you can but 100 packs of blades which range in price from about $0.10 to $0.50 per blade.
my problem is still that (absent paying exorbanent fees for 3G/LTE data), I still can't guarantee that I will be able to get online every time I want to use my computer.
How can an email be considered legally binding? This would go straight into my spam folder.
Posting such an ode vim is quite dangerous around here. Personnally I love vim and quite agree with your point.
Most of your chance at success was already determined by your genes and the way you've lived your childhood. Ideas aren't successful, people are.
This integration posts a whole bunch of stuff to HipChat. The code can be cloned from https://bitbucket.org/tsudot/wrench/ happy to help with any questions.
Setting aside the politics, I really don't think it could have been prevented.

The specs were not exactly realistic on number of users at a time. Heck, even Apple still gets slammed and they know its coming.

Plus, the experience just isn't in the DC contracting community. They can do websites, but not high availability transactional. If we were talking back-ends, then yes they have high transaction experience, but not with websites.

I will be expecting second (third?) day stories about bad data problems and failed transactions. This won't be a simple thing.
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I'm mad as hell about this because I want the ACA to succeed. I don't think its ideal, but its vastly better than the existing system of hospitals as clinics for the uninsured hordes.

I couldn't agree more. You only get one chance to make a first impression and they blew it. (sigh)
It's only racist if you think the value of a person is tied to his intelligence. Achievement is definitely related to intelligence, but I don't think achievement makes one better than another.
> You don't have a say on what goes in

Generally, you remove a washer and you get developer mode. From that point you can change anything.

> (albeit arguyably, Apple also open sources it's kernel)

When was the last time someone managed to build a binary identical kernel to Apple's from the supplied sources?
What's not appealing about no longer having to think about purchasing any of these things? When you're low, new items appear magically on your doorstep.

Frankly, I wish most of my replenishables were like this.
This is awesome. How long did it take?
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The key thing to note is how much of the manufacturing process is completely automated. Due to the huge volumes of the rPi it is cost-effective to automate almost the entire process.

On the other hand, for products expected to sell only in the thousands or tens of thousands it turns out human labor is cheaper. In the rPi's case, notice that it got soldered twice. Once for SMD (surface mount device) parts and once for the larger through-hole parts. In general, if there aren't going to be huge volumes humans will hand solder the through hole parts since a separate wave-soldering machine is needed to do this automatically. As another example take a look at the custom testing jig they shelled out for. That is easily thousands of dollars if not even north of 10K. Again in small volumes it would make more sense for humans to spend the extra effort setting up the board for testing.
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I totally agree. I own a Samsung Chromebook and even if i'm able to get a lot of work done with it and that it's absolutely a blessing to carry around (i'm a CS student) the screen isn't suited for long work session unless you want to go blind...
"Tapered edges to help keep your wrists comfortable" ---> seems like a specific shot at the Macbooks Air
I think realistically Twitter needed a good crash reporting service for their own applications. They didn't want to build it themselves, so they bought Crashlytics. They get the best crash reporting utility completely tailored to their needs and keeping the service up and running for others is just an added benefit. Maybe they'll be able to monetize it down the road, but for now they get crash reporting on the cheap.
great link, neat to read the various approaches.
Also notable that 57% of US businesses are freelance/consulting. (Aka one owner and no employees)
On the same note I would like to add another related and a great article:
The Quality of life
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/07/31/the-quality-of-life/
Couldn't agree more. Another factor that popped into my head: how many people start businesses with billion dollar aspirations? If you open a bike store, restaurant or mom-and0pop shop, chances are you aren't even trying to turn them into billion dollar companies.
I wonder how many WebSocket connections one dyno can take?

Also seems like this would make heroku's routing problems[1] even worse.

[1] http://news.rapgenius.com/Jesper-joergensen-routing-performa... et al.
Razor blades are very compact, though, not like a year's worth of paper towels.
It requires a period of waving, so neither of _those_ examples would/should stop it.
Are we violating any HN policies by posting new issues of objc.io here? It's not the first time that our link drops down 30 spots or so from one second to the next.

I am genuinely curious. If somebody has any insights, I appreciate a comment.
You can try this. I hope this help you.

http://www.wikihow.com/Remember-Something-That-You-Forgot

http://www.wikihow.com/Remember-a-Forgotten-Password
Why wouldn't someone be empathetic towards smokers? They got hooked on an addictive substance at some point in their life and are now stuck with an unhealthy compulsion.
...in the context of fusion power...which is big science and R&D. So you're making an implied judgement there.
Fair enough.

Offtopic, but I used to rent a room in a huge old row house here in DC with a fancy "networked" fire alarm system. When one goes off, they all go off. You could turn it off by holding a button on the alarm... but it had to be the alarm that went off first. Makes sense from a design standpoint, but as far as I know there was no immediate way to determine which alarm that was, so there was a lot of running around with a broomstick (tall ceilings) pushing buttons.
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If this was desktop Linux, I would agree, but Chromebooks are even more locked down and more painful to install other OSes than even Win8 PCs with Secure Boot. Having to type Ctrl-L on every boot sucks.

The default OS ties everything to Google's cloud including even the login. There can be no native apps that modify the system except for Google's own. Can there be a Firefox for ChromeOS that runs on a non-dev mode ChromeOS like there is for OS X or Windows?

Not sure what there is to cheer about people replacing their Macs and PCs with a dumb terminal to Google's cloud.

As usual, RMS says it the best:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/15/stallman_on_chrome_o...

>"In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications," he told The Guardian. "I'd say the problem is in the nature of the job ChromeOS is designed to do. Namely, encourage you to keep your data elsewhere, and do your computing elsewhere, instead of doing it in your own computer."
I think you might've read too quickly.. this is almost exactly what I wrote:

In my case, the ‘GitHub for writers’ concept is really just a specific solution to umbrella categories of ‘collaboration for writers’ and ‘version control for writers’, so I found competitors under those terms. Draft, Editorially, and Authorea are some of them (now part of a huge list of competitors in my folder, too).
Good father? &%#@ you! Go home play with your kids. You wanna work here? Close.
I'm racking my brain trying to see the 8 directions. I only see 4: up, down, left & right. Care to explain the other 4?