skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, this is kind of DOA in my book.

The thing that none of the ambient-social apps (this, Highlight, etc.) get is that literally no amount of social data is going to make hangouts happen spontaneously.

Once you get the context right (networking events, dating) to motivate people, that's when the location-awareness and social data make a huge difference.

But when I'm at CVS buying toilet paper at 11pm, there's no amount of social data that could make me wanna hang out with a person, no matter how close we are.
Thanks for clarifying!

This is honestly what makes the Firefox warnings even more damaging than they already are.

If a brave user decides to click past the "DO NOT ENTER" sign on the Firefox warning, they are immediately presented with another worrying warning, popped up by the Java plugin. What kind of fool says "yes, please go ahead and do this dangerous thing" when two separate pieces of software have already told them not to? Not most, unfortunately.

At least I can make the Java plugin warning dialog be relatively calm by signing my JARs. The Firefox one is completely beyond my control.

I'd like to know if the Firefox developers have details on exploits that bypass the Java plugin dialogs. If they do, I'd like to know as well. If they don't, that means they're duplicating a security feature that's already in the plugin... what's the good of that? It just confuses and frightens the users of valid, secure Java applets.
Didn't come with it, or didn't install it by default?

In that the following commands have also been required after running pyvenv-3.3, no, python has not "come with" pip:

(venv) $ wget http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
(venv) $ python distribute_setup.py
(venv) $ easy_install pip

I believe it has been possible to configure pyvenv to do this automatically, but I've never done that.
Oficio looks fantastic. Those desks facing the window are just about the ideal spot for me.

Are there any coworking spaces like these around Palo Alto or Mountain View? Hacker Dojo has a great vibe but the lack of natural light is a bummer.
More precisely stated, a company that issues dividends decides when I'll be paying income taxes, whereas a company that grows share value/price lets me decide when I'd like to pay the income tax. Or another way to put it is the company decides when I pay dividend tax and how much, which kinda sucks, but I decide when I pay long term cap gains tax, which is pretty cool.
Why should the fiat system end? The US dollar's reign might end, but there are plenty of more reasonable fiat currencies. (Schweizer Franken, or the Singaporean Dollar for example.)
http://uproxy.org/

Can I look at the source code?

The source code will be released by the University of Washington under the Apache 2 license after the trusted tester phase is completed. If you would like to get involved sooner go to http://uproxy.org/#join
There was an interesting article on Seeking Alpha a few months ago comparing Wal-Mart with Amazon at the same stage of growth (i.e. comparable level of overall revenue and revenue growth). He compared Wal-Mart in 1990-92 and Amazon in 2010-12:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/1547622-is-amazon-com-the-ne...

He noted that Wal-Mart had about the same levels of CapEx spending (~4%), yet it was also highly profitable by that point. Amazon isn't spending any more on CapEx than Wal-Mart was at the same stage of growth.

So Amazon isn't on some unique path in the business world by choosing to divert its profits to CapEx spending. Its level of CapEx spending is comparable to Wal-Mart at the same stage of growth. It simply has such low margins that it has no profits leftover after its CapEx spending.
I presume they're using their HTTP Live Streaming (hack with chunked video for variable framerate). It's supported by VLC and a few other players, but not natively in browsers yet.
"Only a fool would trade stocks without inside information."
That works out well for people that are temporal-centric, and only for things related to personal events that happened in user's recent history which are easier to remember this way, otherwise ask yourself - what have you done two years, five months and two days back from now? How about adding ten or more years? How about other things, like accessing a musical piece or a user guide for something? I would probably know some information like the author or something about content's name, but not very likely the time of its date of publication. The same for a lot of other impersonal things. Chronology is not a strong point for that many people.
what do you mean with "If you build it, they won't necessarily come"?
I miss Loosecubes.
Congrats on relaunch! You mentioned, you had no real experience with Rails outside of tutorials. What kind of problems did you run into while creating your first production quality app? I'd love a post about how it was working with Rails.
What does YouTube activity tell us about a country’s productivity?
Dwolla launches Dwolla Credit, with ADS
Ive been ducking and diving to avoid my account being converted to BankId for years. My online bank prompts me to "upgrade" to it every month and wont let me say no. However if I abort the sign up wizard half way through it always defaults to the old 2 factor fob.
How Yahoo CEO Mayer fixed 1,000 problems
$2899, check it
Your Crack Is in the Mail — Inside Silk Road
I'm a PHP developer, just used this guide to get Django up and running on my MacBook.. so far so good for me.
A New Front Door For USV
> Legendarily it was HP (or was it sun?) who shipped a whole batch of ethernet cards accidentally in the 90s with the same MAC address, boy was that a nightmare to figure out the hard way.

Android has an API to query a unique device ID, which is generated from a field that's supposed to be populated with a serial number by the manufacturer. It is (or was previously) used to identify you as a particular user in some games, as well as for ad tracking and analytics.

One line of phones (I forget which manufacturer) managed to NOT update that serial number correctly, and as a result the entire model of phone came up with the same "unique ID". This was not fun to debug, as lots of users were ending up with other users' saved games, and one particular "user" was showing up in analytics as having used dozens of apps thousands of times a day...
Apple's October Event 2013 What to Expect and Predictions
Considering they do pretty much all the work for you, that doesn't sound too bad.
I think one of the key points about food science is that you should always be skeptical of it.

In general, it is very difficult to do controlled, large population studies over a human life span. Instead, lots of studies rely on self-reported surveys, measurements of various indicators that are believed to correlate with poor heath effects over a very short period, and so on.

Mapping from "we know that if you eat X, the Y level in your blood rises over the next 24 hours, and in a separate study we have shown that Y is correlated with chronic disease Z" is actually a pretty poor argument for "X causes Z", and even more of a poor argument for "thus, you should eliminate X from your diet", and telling people to eliminate "X" from their diet doesn't necessarily always lead to simply the desired effect of eliminating "X", but may lead to them replacing it with "W" which is even worse.

Human bodies and human behavior are quite complex. The actual effects of a particular recommendation are not well understood. By making recommendations and policy from science that was not well enough understood, we may have increased the rate of growth of the obesity epidemic over the past 30 years or so. This has happened, in part, by over-emphasizing "low fat" which encouraged people to replace fat with sugars.

So, food policy recommendation are not food science. They may be influenced by science, but they are different. And I generally take them with a very large grain of salt.

Instead, we can find strategies that, at least anecdotally, seem to work better than adhering to the latest fad diet or the government recommendations. Eat real food; plants and animals that have been minimally processed before getting to you. The more processing that has been done, the more the foods have likely been optimized for something other than nutritional value and flavor (shelf life, profits, etc). Don't eat too much; whatever you do, if you want to lose weight, eating less across the board will likely achieve that. Food that is decadent is likely good to have only in small quantities; if it's sweet or greasy, it's probably good to limit to lower quantities. Get exercise daily; walk, or bike somewhere, hit the gym, do an outdoor activity, or something, don't go from bed to car to chair to car to couch to bed.

Following these kinds of recommendations may not seem as official or authoritative as the government or some author selling a new diet book. But anecdotally, they work pretty well, and they aren't likely to be skewed by various parties monetary interests or simply bad interpretation and over-generalization of good scientific data.
The best IDE imo. The only extra thing I add is the Symfony2 skin. Here is a link to it: https://github.com/cordoval/Symfony2Colors/blob/master/READM...
EBay acquires UK startup Shutl
> If successful, on that day/year/eon dollar bills might as well be printed with Jeff Bezos' face on them.

I see this sentiment all the time--that Amazon is simply still in its growth phase, and once it's "big enough" it will pivot and reap huge profits. I don't see any reason to believe that is true. I can't remember Bezos every saying anything like that, for instance.
A Magical Time to Start a Movement
How is this new?
I can create a proxy server now, and I can share it with a friend and they can use my internet connection. They can do the same.

This is new because, It's likely easier to use, and it's all done in the browser.

The technology is certainly not new though...

Apache with mod_proxy,
nginx,
squid,
ssh,

just to name a few of the many ways to do this...

Further to this, one doesn't need a browser plugin to do this, firefox for example already has configurable options to connect to proxy servers.
Thanks Tehwebguy, I'd love to hear your feedback once you've had that 'reminder' ;)
Finally a free admin bootstrap theme! These are stinkin' hard to find, actually this is the first I've seen. Well done sir. Btw, were is the github link?
Thanks a lot for all the pointers. Really appreciate it.

BTW any plans to zero-in on the pricing anytime soon? I saw that for one app you will always keep it free, but it will be nice to know what happens beyond that..
Totally different. Google has mindshare and a seemingly-insurmountable lead, but they do not have a monopoly on internet search results. I could put up the worlds crappiest search engine next weekend and theoretically be 'competing' with them. Spider a few million websites and link to them in some order and you're in the same business.

Standard Oil, at its peak, had an actual near-monopoly on most discovered sources of oil. You can't even get into the oil business unless you discover more oil -- in theory, they could have used their resources to stay on top of each oil source as it was discovered. No amount of old-fashioned ingenuity can compete with that.
You should check out github.com/niemeyer/qml
Has anyone used a coworking space in NYC (Manhattan or Brooklyn) and a particularly good or bad experience?
Or you could just tag everything with RFID.
For most products there is a legal framework that forbids buying an insurance contract unless you have an insurable interest. However, under the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, designed by Summers, Greenspan, Levitt, and Rainer, state insurance regulators are forbidden from regulating OTC derivatives as insurance products. They were already forbidden from regulating exchange traded derivatives (e.g. options and futures).
That's what drove me away from the co-working space we have. It was such an open space that every little noise echoed. They also held presentations during the day too.
Well, Apple was perhaps a bad example since they tend to hold their value for a little longer than most brands, but iPhones weren't the same price for years. I really don't know where you got that from. An iPhone 4 is far cheaper now than it was on release 3 years ago.
A Scientific Guide to Writing Popular--and Shareable--Headlines
It all comes down to whether you think the market for unskilled labor is a buyer's market or a seller's market. What do you think?
Looks very nice, but it must be very hard to work there with all the noise, conversations and visual distractions.
Linus Torvalds on Fedora
EBay acquires same-day delivery service Shutl, plans to expand eBay Now
I've had many people coming from OpenX that found OpenX too cumbersome, slow, and/or confusing. So, it's a different customer base - they don't need the millions of bells and whistles, just want some quick and simple to use.

I chose it because people in a forum I was a member of were asking for such a thing and thus I was presented an opportunity.
Exactly! I am currently working on a machine learning task. Python is great for this, but most of the scripts that I am writing are run-once scripts. VirtualEnv would be overkill of this usecase.
It's 15-55 EUR for the theme

http://www.html5admin.com/download/
Dalvik's development has been stalled since Android 2.3, no new JIT or GC improvements since them.

No more talks about it at Google IO, either.

Of course, this is also related to the Oracle's suit against Google.

I wonder if this means Google will reinvest in Dalvik, as I am betting KitKat will again only bring more Google APIs and nothing else.
> in fact, I've heard that one of the criticisms of Django is that, in order to get to production quality, you essentially have to switch out every component of it with a third party.

This is not necessarily true. Everything in Django is production quality as you will see in several sites in the wild (including the very first Django sites).

No framework will give you the most optimal set of components for every possible scenario. In most cases Django components are swapped out for performance reasons, especially when they are high traffic sites. In other cases, it is due to the NIH syndrome where almost every component has been homegrown (perhaps trying to become more standalone).
Regardless of how the boom/bust cycle originates, an elastic money supply can accommodate those swings so that they do not cause harm to the overall economy.

Bitcoin is the opposite of an elastic money supply, and eventually it becomes a completely static money supply. This is a feature as far as a store of value goes, but a liability when it comes to medium of exchange.
-_- The search continues!
Anybody knows how much it was before?
I believe that American diet may have a hand in this. I don't know when it happened exactly, maybe it was when the new Coke formula came in, however, since then an increasing amount of Americans have been 'corn fed'. The meat is corn fed, the breakfast cereal is made of corn, the milk is from corn fed cows, the sugar is made from corn and everything else is made from corn give or take a soy bean here or there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

Robert Lustig is the man to explain all this. He blames fructose (i.e. corn stuff) and fully expects this generation of Americans to have a shorter lifespan than previous generations could expect.
Sure, look at how much assistance has increased, especially SSID payments. Plus throw in that getting back in the door post 50 is not so simple. Don't have anything to do all day? Eating is a refuge for many.
$25 USD
Doesn't this same story get posted every few months? Bezos stated that Amazon is re-investing revenue instead of trying to make profit.
about the "10 seconds thing" i guess it's a matter of taste.
but widgets are working.....you might have too many Chrome plugins installed...
http://www.ustream.tv/ltktv
I would love to chat with you (email in profile). We have 20,000 products in FBA right now and I've been selling on Amazon for years with separate companies. The only issue is that you can't ship international multichannel yet, even if you get your products approved for Global Export.
As a recent convert to Python (but only as an enthusiast... still doing C++ in my dayjob), I chose to go all in and start out with Python 3. I'm glad I did, but I do need to keep version 2 around.
In the UK, a lot of deliveries for Amazon is done by Amazon Logistics. They're not doing end-to-end deliveries, but have set up a bunch of "small" (50,000 square feet) warehouses to act as depots, and hired smaller local courier companies to do the final deliveries, apparently.

So their cozy relationship with the big shipping companies might not remain so cozy.
"We will be willing to settle the matter with a trial by combat."
You'll take BS1363 from our cold dead hands. Or we'll leave them upturned for you to step on.
thanks for explaining.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europlug
Dwolla Realtime: Instant payments, no credit card fees
Another, perhaps more effective way to phrase it, is the median income dude is always going to live in the median house and eat median food and send his kids to median school.

It is a controlled form of inflation however in that as a one time event, the median dude's fixed median debts are smaller as a fraction of his income and/or he can go deeper into debt in an absolute sense as a one time change.

"a lot more money to spend." Well thats relative because its a low fixed amount and personal incomes vary quite a bit. At my current income an extra 1000 would be nice but wouldn't really change anything at all in the short term. For a rich dude that's not even a rounding error. For a starving student it would be a huge amount of money. So I would expect no inflation in things appealing to the upper classes, minimal effect for the middle classes, but huge effect on the lower classes. Even on supposedly interchangeable things like food, this is going to have a huge effect on the price of hot pockets and malt liquor but not much change in the price of lobster tails and beef tenderloin.
Mainline Firefox is simply not intended for use within organizations that demand the kind of stability you want.

I'm not sure who mainline Firefox is intended for any more. That's part of the problem, I think.

It seems like Mozilla are chasing Google to the exclusion of almost anything else, and the main goal for both of them seems to be ticking boxes to say they have more bleeding edge features, even though hardly any real projects can actually use most of those features because they aren't stable and portable enough yet. Meanwhile, users get interfaces that subtly shift around every few days, developers are fighting a constant battle just to stand still, and as we've been discussing, organisations can't manage large-scale deployments robustly at all any more.
Libraries that are very build-finicky (like various image processing libs) I've had bad luck with virtualenv, or env pip. Usually end up building by hand.
Ok so it's that time of the year again. I am on windows and have chrome, firefox, ie 11, VLC, flash. Is there any way for me to watch this stream? Heck will this work even if I get quicktime?

Edit:

* So they updated the page to say it will work for quicktime if you are on windows.

* But I am on win 8 and they use js to hide that part. So for now I am assuming it's because quicktime on it's download page only says it is supported upto win 7. So they must be hiding it for people with windows 8.

* I am downloading quicktime anyways and if regular install doesn't work then compatibility mode will almost certainly work for people with windows 8.

* Apart from that you might also need to spoof your UA to safari's. They only allow safari to load the stream. And safari is officially discontinued for windows. WTF apple.

And even then it's not guaranteed to work.

Edit 2: They seem to be showing a html5 video element for a spoofed chrome on windows with quicktime disabled. So maybe they decided to give up after all.
Dwolla Storefront - featuring Humble Bundle, Tindie, Littlebits
Anyone have a link to the stream itself?

As a linux user, I get an empty div and told that Quicktime comes with OSX.
YouTube please fix your Design
What great timing considering the other post. AMZN "buys" growth with their shipping expenses, and if they want to become profitable something has to give, and this is it. Their attempts to become more profitable will come at the expense of revenue growth.
I'm not a web developer, but I do data analysis with Python, and I use virtualenv heavily. For one thing, it increases reproducibility to have a record (pip freeze) of which versions of each package I used.
Might not be more complex, but it'll be a long time before it's compliant with any building codes. You can't run LV anything in the same runs as your AC lines.
Well I read the pitch but...

Is there anything of substance there or is it just "hippy happy clappy"?

A lot of money for a T shirt and some opportunity
$1! (I <3 price is right)
With negative EPS and stratospheric market share, doesn't it stand to reason that everyone involved in AMZN believes it to be in a growth phase?
Before everyone goes on about American healthcare and obesity, consider what the numbers are actually measuring.

As far as I can tell from the article, these life expectancy numbers do not compensate for suicide, homicide, premature births (some countries don't count them as births), and accidental death (as in car accidents).

I would like to see more of the same charts, but instead of just graphing life expectancy at birth, graph life expectancy from ages 1, 11, 21, 31, 41, and so on. I would compare the "Life Expectancy from Age X" graph for the U.S. against the same graphs for other countries. Then I would look at leading causes of death for each age group in the U.S. Then I would have a much more quantifiable idea of why citizens in other countries tend to live longer than U.S. citizens.

Here's an interesting podcasts where a couple of economists discuss this kind of metric as a measure of longevity and health: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/07/scott_atlas_on.html

EDIT: This is important because counting thousands of premature births and having a much higher rate of death due to accidents and violence will really wreck the U.S. average. In that case, talking about how Americans eat too much red meat is mostly beside the point.
Gaining exposure is difficult and it's not guaranteed that people will flock to what you've built.
A Cheap, One-Armed Robot to Work with Humans
Because you didn't post them a month ago.
Without knowing what market you are targeting with the POS, that is an almost impossible question to answer. What types of customers will be using your system, what is the average charge, what countries will you be targeting are also a good starting point. Also, will you be selling to companies that have pre-established POS systems and credit card processing capabilities?

Your best bet may be to develop a processor-agnostic POS system, meaning that your system will work with most major processors. Otherwise you will be selling two solutions instead of one. The first solution will be the POS system itself, but the most difficult sale will be getting an established company to switch credit card processors to utilize your system. Unless you can offer them some financial incentive to switch you will be the underdog from the starting gate.

Also, since every business is different, having a one-size-fits-all credit card processor is impossible. Different volume levels, monthly charge volume, types of customers, types of business, and other risk factors will all directly influence the rates a processor will give your customer.
Thanks again. Got the part yesterday and installed it with ease. This chair has another 12 years in it for sure :)
> "these levels represent increases in average life spans of almost five months for women and four months for men compared to the previous year."

Let's get it up to twelve months per year!