skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. It would be best if they just eased back on the implementation. I don't care if it's the TSA or the airports doing it really. If things get better that be good, if things get worse that would be bad in terms of my perspective on travelling to the US.

As things stand now, the only way I'm going into the US is from Montreal down into Vermont. Any other way seems to sketchy to me.

In my country of Canada, flying from place to place within the country only requires walking past guards that don't do anything to you at the gate, and metal detectors. I haven't flown to different countries, so I'm sure I'm being too idealistic and naive on this subject, especially in terms of actual policy.
As a 19 year old, I will say that from my perspective, this "coolness" factor is seriously overblown and misunderstood. Facebook was never "cool," even when I first got Facebook back in 9th grade, when I was around 14 years old. Facebook was always a highly addictive and vital necessity - a social utility, the lack of which meant losing touch with friends, not being invited to events, and generally missing out on a large amount of social interaction. It was never cool and I never saw how coolness or differentiation had anything to do with it.

Likewise, Snapchat is not "cool." Snapchat is pretty maisntream now (among my peers). It's popular because it's fun. All my peers use Snapchat as picture messaging for frivolous photos you wouldn't put on Facebook/Instagram.
Isn't this basically what a relocation specialist does? Other than the startup focus, I've lived through pretty much this exact deal in several relocations with the oil industry (I spent my childhood bopping around the country courtesy of Big Oil).

- Temporary furnished corporate housing and vehicles
- Expertise on the local area (shopping, restaurants, schools)
- One signature for all of this, paid by the employer

Surely those firms could offer similar services for startups? That said, service providers in this area seriously pad their margins. You wouldn't believe what I've seen some apartment complexes bill a basic 1-bedroom unit out at as part of a corporate relo deal. $3000+ for suburban Houston. The family doesn't care, they aren't picking up the tab.
The only way that valuation made sense is if facebook managed to capture an enormous fraction of all worldwide ad revenue. That always seemed extremely unlikely to me.
A Crash Course In Awk
Teens are attracted to Twitter, Instagram and Vine. They like these mini social network where they could gain followers by posing interesting tweets or photos or videos.

Youtube's top celerity usually started their channels when they were teen (high school, freshman). Certainly getting your channel popular now is harder, so the best way to get attention is either by posting photos or posting a 6-second videos.

Vine and Instavideos took the spike. Kids are spending more time watching videos and looking at photos than reading statuses.

Ironically, IMO, Vine and instavideos took off partly because people could publish to FB and Twitter. I spend most of my FB time either reading memes or vine videos. i don't pay much attention to status anymore.
Please don't take this as dismissive or overly negative but please consider putting together a proper page for this project. As soon as I clicked on the link and found a slideshow I left. I even went to the project's repo and the README is just a link to this slidedeck.

Slides just aren't the right format for this sort of information IMO.
At that time (okay, a little later, but there was some overlap), I was using RISC OS. Its disk format allowed for each disk to have a name, which would be used in fully qualified filenames (e.g. ADFS::MyData.$.Docs.Resume). The OS could then ask for the disk by name (MyData).
I doubt they don't have assigned roles. It would be a chaos when everyone just write 100 lines for every project. Nothing will get done.

I am sure people work on specific tasks every day but they are free and welcome to contribute.
Link for convenience:

http://www.dosarrest.com/

BTW, does anyone know how what their prices are like?

(Their site doesn't have seem to have pricing info, just "Get a Free Quote" forms.)
Review my startup, Midzy LLC
Just looking for any advice you could give for me, I recently launched the latest update.

Current high-schooler, so please be constructive!
Actually I waited until we pushed Pyxio website on-line.
Since I am not native English speaker, what would be best replacement for current title?
This would make sense if they actually offered much utility. Even Google+ has them beat when it comes to compelling features.
Isn't this already achieved with a REPL? I mean other than GUI programming, which something like this would be useful in the same spirit as a REPL.
Technically, "from outside of the game" just refers to your sideboard, and cards that have been removed from the game. But in a casual setting it's usually used for anything.
take a look to ddos-guard prices (https://ddos-guard.net/en/retail/#protected-webservices)
The point of this is that these things are entirely not intended to be computational systems, yet just through their complexity they ended up being Turing Complete unintentionally.
Facebook was very cool ~2006-2007, when I was a teen.

I think, like anything popular with teens, these services lose novelty fast.
I spend 4-5 hours a week hunting for bugs.

The "session" I found this bug in was around 2 hours long.
It would be awesome if someone could take these notes and pair them with the videos when they post the videos.
Very simply, the odds of a drone falling out of nowhere and beaning me on the head are quite small, even if once they become popular.

Now, banning drones above a few hundred feet in a landing path for an airport, sure, but let's not kid ourselves that we're significantly helping anyone else.

Regulating urban drone usage by hobbyists doesn't do anything significant to help, and just dissuades people from having fun and learning.

Besides, you're not going to stop the cops or people with enough money/pull from doing it anyways. I'd rather not let the .gov cite FAA regs when nailing protesters, for example.
A REPL provides no code editing experience, you can at best just add code progressively one line at time and advance (never rewind) execution.
It also seems like there's a rivalry between psychiatrists and the psychologists. I wonder if the latter have their own equivalent text to the DSM.
It's disconcerting how fast the state has gone downhill. I went to high school there 1996-2000, and it was a reasonably sane place. George W. Bush was governor, but in his pre-presidency years, he was basically a moderate conservative. The school I went to was pretty reasonable, and apart from the somewhat eyebrow-raising exception of Ayn Rand being required reading in English class, and the generic patriotic skew in the U.S. History curriculum that you'd get anywhere in the U.S., the curriculum seemed pretty middle-of-the-road.

At some point in the early 2000s, though, the place got taken over by some kind of hodge-podge of far-right nutjobs. I don't think I would send my kids to school in Texas, nowadays.
You're not quantifying correctly. Car accidents and bicycle accidents are currently more common than RC aircraft accidents partly because RC use is so uncommon. If you throw in a denominator of operator-hours, the picture likely changes. You should also account for the foresight and preventability afforded to potential victims. From the perspective of a pedestrian or property owner on the ground, it is a lot easier to anticipate and avoid an accident with something moving horizontally than something falling out of the sky. I can avoid stepping into a crosswalk if I anticipate a taxi will run the red light. I can't anticipate something falling on my head.

There are many reasons you might want to ban RC in an urban area besides safety. There's reasonable expectations of privacy for example; I don't think residents of apartment buildings would be amused by drones with cameras tapping on their windows. There's noise considerations. If there are drones flying unexpectedly between buildings and down streets, it's unsightly and distracting. Let's keep them in the suburbs or rural areas where less people will be affected by these externalities.
Yeah, gonna have to disagree with you here.

You know how you get training? By doing, by practicing.

There's no need to nanny people--if they're not careful and if they end up causing damage, deal with it then; otherwise just be cool.
Is the government not willing to change the way they operate on technology? Why does everything the government do get contracted out? Is there a possibility of the tech for all government systems be supplied in house and operated as such?

Who is in charge of technology contracts and why are they still around?

When does this sort of bullshit stop? MILLIONS are being wasted on something that hasn't lasted a few weeks

ARE THEY SERIOUSLY EXPECTING THESE SYSTEMS TO LAST YEARS?
Jack Dorsey: Two-hit wonder?
There's an image of "Carrera", the Microsoft Mouse 2.0 with an interview of (one of?) its designer(s) at http://www.affectivedesign.org/archives/151 .
"Post-mortem" is usually appended to titles for solved vulnerabilities, although this was 2 months ago. Maybe just timestamp it? e.g. "Facebook CSRF leading to full account takeover (Post-mortem, August 2013)"
Ask HN: After NSA fiasco I don't trust Google. Where should I look forward?
What could be a complete migration guide off Google services ?
It's not just young adults; it's starting earlier than that. I see parents happily wheeling their 7-year-olds around in strollers all the time because it's easier than having to keep up with them. Everyone's just lazy as hell these days.
Yes, but go outside of the city to practice where you don't risk hurting other people.

Handguns are also illegal in NYC- if you want to get handgun training you need to go outside of the city where people won't get hurt.
I wasn't trying to be negative about FPGAs. I was just pointing out that there are good reasons to use GPUs in some scenarios. If your company can put FPGAs within reach of more people, that would be awesome.

I used to work at a startup company that had a plan to reduce power consumption in data centers by spinning down hard drives when they weren't in use. Too late, we learned that there isn't a lot of money in saving power. The average data center in the US might spend $500k/year on electricity. That sounds like a lot, until you consider that the fully loaded cost of a good engineer will be around $200k/year. Power becomes a factor only when you hit a wall in terms of how much can be delivered to the data center.

I was an electrical engineer in college, and I learned how to write Verilog and do register-transfer-level design. It's something that I don't think most software engineers have the background to do. Currently, I work in the area of big data, on Hadoop.

I cannot deny that Hadoop is not very power-efficient. But it offers some things that are more important to customers: infinite scalability, the ability to run on commodity hardware, and the ability to interface with the system via normal-looking software.

Actually, even writing Java code is too difficult for many Hadoop users now. They prefer to write SQL. (Even SQL is too hard for some, and they use automated tools to generate the SQL and produce charts.)
That sounds really interesting. I will send you an email.
A personal touchstone for discussions of pervasive passive monitoring
One question I always struggle with is why don't I have more friends among my neighbors?
How do you anticipate a bicycle hitting you from behind?

> There's reasonable expectations of privacy for example

There is nothing reasonable about an expectation of privacy when your curtains are open.

> There's noise considerations.

More ignorance, more overreaction. Many RC aircraft are nearly silent, and we have noise ordinances for the rest. But I promise, you won't hear most RC aircraft over the din in Manhattan anyway.

> unsightly

According to whom?

> distracting

Oh look, an actual problem to be addressed. Why not talk about that? Oh, right, because it's just a post-hoc rationalization for an initial knee-jerk reaction.

> Let's keep them in the suburbs or rural areas where less people will be affected by these externalities.

You mean where the majority of people, especially children, will have no opportunity to play, experiment, and learn.

We already have laws to control the externalities. The NYPD is investigating this guy for reckless endangerment. That should be more than enough.
Its not bad. And very specific

The specificity of your app makes it that much easier to "reach out" to your demographic.

You need to be on the social networks as much as possible.

for example http://www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks

Also go to those cos play conventions and advertise on the floor. Get a stall

Maybe you already thought of all this but the biggest thing to remember is that it will take time because of how specific your app is.

If you want more and more people to use the app start selling action figures/ toys/ other comic book relevant stuff

I don't know anything about that stuff good luck
Right, in most cases though those holes are easily plugged. When switching over to CF don't use an IP that was ever public-facing for your site, use distributed systems like Amazon SES for sending email, etc. I imagine the things you mentioned do go overlooked by some when fighting off an attack, though.
FML I'm old
Thank You, Edward Snowden
Web app to filter & edit Startup School notes
I'll be honest, I'll be surprised if Google Voice is alive in a couple of years. I've been an avid Google Voice user since before it was even owned by Google (back when it was GrandCentral), and Google have showed it little love, made virtually no new features or improvements in the past four years, and now buried it into Google Hangouts. Which is a shame, because I use it regularly and find it really useful.
Nice work!

Just for fun, I forked this git repo and pushed it to Penflip (github for non-developers). Might be useful if anybody is looking for a more consumable format (PDF, ePub, etc):

http://www.penflip.com/loren/startup-school-2013
He'd probably be better off staying where he is and courting customers in the US and UK. The combination of a low cost of living and a metropolitan income (or as close as possible) is a splendid combination.
You can unlock a IP address over the admin panel to get access to your server.
Web browsers will try the other A records if one of them fails, though it could potentially take them a while before they realize the host is offline. If the client receives an immediate error when trying to connect (such as connection refused or ICMP destination unreachable) the failover will be instantaneous. However, if packets to the downed host are just being dropped, the browser might sit there for 30 seconds waiting for a timeout before failing over. It's therefore best that you remove the downed host from the DNS as soon as possible (ideally from an automated monitoring process) and that the A records have reasonably short TTLs so the bad record doesn't remain cached for too long.
I don't think so. Counter-Example: Steve Jobs.

The problem is that most technical people are also bad prioritizing things: making wrong assumptions about how the product is going to used, assuming that if it is technically difficult it must be valuable, wanting to rewrite things when that is too expensive, wanting to use the latest shinny technologies.
Thanks for this.
I made a quick and dirty web app with the notes where any one can edit/filter by speaker. source is here:https://github.com/nicktesla/startup-school live version is here: http://startupschoolnotes.meteor.com
Mundell-Lemming Conditions
I don't know Facebook's details, but in theory another possibility to lower P/E: "Stop pouring money into expansion, to lower expenses and increase bottom-line earnings."

For example, Amazon could certainly do that, since they spend heavily on expansion
The official stance is that in sanctioned tournaments you only own the cards in your registered decklist (or put another way, only the cards in your registered decklist exist). And outside of sanctioned tournaments, you own all the cards you own.
Facebook was very cool, right before it was open to the public.
I don't like this kind of nonsense arrogance: "In a period when eugenic theories still circulated, Molaison’s doctors reportedly told him that he shouldn’t have sex, since he would likely reproduce children who were similarly damaged." We're still in that period and it's probably a good thing. In America you can still go to prison for having sex when there's a high risk of passing on genetic problems to your possible children, specifically by both partners being close relatives.
I graduated from a Texas high school in 2008 (brain fart, original said 2012). We didn't read Ayn Rand or anything right-wing, no one pushed evolution and the education I received was 100x better than that of the high school I first attended in California (a school which just cancelled all AP classes).

Of the students from my CA high school, only a few went on to college from what I've gleaned off Facebook. Almost everyone from my graduating class in Texas did so. Education was actually valued (and funded!) in stark contrast to the first school.

I, for one, am incredibly glad I switched to that Texas school.
I think it really would have taken off if the MMS deals went through with the big carriers. But, alas, that never happened. :/
I can't help it, I have to answer this.

It was maybe ten years ago. My boss was selling his company. He described to me that it was a multi step sale.

Now, I had read a blog post by Robert Cringely that talked about how companies steal corporations by devaluing stock after the initial sale so that sellers miss out on most of the money they were planning on getting. I had read it maybe a few months prior and was sketchy on the details but bells and whistles were going off in my head.

I told him he should read this blog post, I'd go find it and send it right over. Then the most amazing thing happened.

I want to point out, this was the best job I'd ever had. He was, by far, the best boss I'd ever had. Unlike any other person I had ever worked for he gave me a lot of autonomy and I made him a lot of money in a very short time.

So I was kind of surprised. Rather than say, "hey, send it over", he instead began to explain to me that there was a contract, that they couldn't change the contract after the fact, etc. I said ok, that I didn't really recall the details in the article, maybe he should read it.

That's when he said no. I was very surprised and disappointed but it only lasted a minute. I'm a type A personality so I sent it to him anyway.

Much later I learned that they had agreed on three equal payments in the millions. The first payment was paid as agreed. The next was a couple hundred thousand. The last was zero.

The formula was in the contract and couldn't be changed. In fact, the purchasers only had control over one number in the formula. If you aren't strong in algebra let me just tell you outright what that means.

The purchasers had total control over the formula.

My boss had a great lawyer that didn't realize this or tell him. Maybe because he only gets paid if the deal happens.

They had a highly paid business broker who surely knew this but didn't say anything because he only gets paid if the deal happens.

Anyway, probably my worst business day ever since I obviously caused my boss to lose way more than I ever benefitted him. And unfortunately, I still have credibility problems. I would love some good advise on that!
"Coolness" can be handled by branding/skinning and merge/acquisition. When Instagram was cooler than Facebook Photos, Facebook merged/acquired.
Touch ID possibly coming to the new iPads
A much better article is "The Brain That Changed Everything" [1], by the grandson of the surgeon who erased H.M.'s memory. It has lots of details that I've never seen anywhere else.

There was one TV series he loved to watch, too. A sitcom. All in the Family.
It is a show, essentially, about a man who is mystified by a world and culture
and family that change all around him while he remains the same, a man who
digs in his heels, who holds on to the past, refusing to be dragged into the
present.

The part that gets me the most is when they wake H.M. up and ask him what he was dreaming about (at this point no one even knew if he DID dream), and he says "what I could have been ..."

[1] http://www.esquire.com/print-this/henry-molaison-brain-1110?...
Solving it would mean solving AI.
On Lists and Networks: An Archaeology of Form
Because we don't reach out to our neighbors the same way anymore, because they already have lives as do we. It's a self-reinforcing trend.

I suspect the origin of the trend was, once we had the freedom to select friends out of a greater geographic region we happily did so, because there really is no guarantee the ten people living nearest to you are into the same things you are.
I only used 40fps as an example. I know you'd probably want 60fps, 30fps or 20fps
(or possibly 50 or 25 if your refresh rate has more of a PAL bent)

Here's an idea I am curious about now. If you can almost but not quite reliably generate full res images at 60 FPS, can you generate quarter resolution (that is, half the pixels on each dimension for a quarter of the pixels) at 240 fps, or does the overhead for each render outstrip the efficiency from generating fewer pixels? That is, how much of a fixed overhead for a frame is there, and can it be spread over 4 frames, with slightly offset camera?
As you talk about your background more I'm getting where you're coming from. GPUs are obviously more powerful and capable for high-end graphics disregarding power efficiency. And if you're doing Hadoop big data your perspective makes more sense to me, because storage-centric applications really have no use for FPGAs. Maybe they'll be useful for querying one day, but they sure can't store large datasets. I get your point that FPGAs are not a universal panacea, but in the case of GPUs for supercomputing, and not graphics tasks, I think they are.
Predominant solid-fuel users had an increased risk of lung cancer compared with nonsolid-fuel users (Figure 1). We saw this increased risk among both men and women, in ever- and never-smokers, among whites and Asians, and among studies carried out in Asian and in North American and European countries.
Computer nerds showing off. The question asker's concern is valid. It's a very difficult process to become properly speedy at using vi. There's a huge cognitive cost involved in memorizing all those keyboard commands.
The brave new world of biohacking
WebRTC data black magic [video]
Cellular Automata Fiddler
This has been available in the form of Talkatone (on the App Store) for at least 3 years. This is nothing new.
That's absurd. What about the friend who always makes you laugh but happens to be a bit of a slacker? Dispose of him? Let's all be miserable and uptight then.
I continue to be annoyed by the growing popularity of the word "grok". It is synonymous with well understood (ha.) words, but for some reasons, techies and sci-fi junkies seem to prefer a word only they know.
No, Facebook, Instagram, and Shapchat all do the same thing: photo & videos sharing.

So do Twitter, Tumblr, reddit, MySpace, Google+, blogs, etc.
I suppose I don't use enough of Vim's namesake improvements; I don't know if I have ever found myself using anything outside of standard vi functionality.

That being said, I do feel gimped in other editors without vi(m) commands. Most editors do have vim modes, but it doesn't quite feel the same.
That was a much more powerful helicopter, not a simple consumer quadrocopter. The blades on my ar.drone spin just fast enough to sting a bit when it catches a finger.
Its interesting that at least one other team (friends of mine) applied previously with a somewhat similar that didn't get in. PG apparently selects teams more than ideas.

Congrats guys.