skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft is boring. Even to read about. Moving on.
Tycoon Warning
ummm didn't they abandon that and moved back to Windows finally? http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/german-open-source-exper...

Don't know about Amazon but its just a small software company that is known to be stingy to its own people
Kickstarer campaign?
Go Dwolla, go!
Musk didn't start Tesla.
Resistance is futile you will be assimilated.

Google glass is not a moonshot. Google brain implant will be - just think about the SAT scores and all your collect test scores difference for those with brain implant and those without.
Sony Z1f
Nothing, and that's why I won't use either.
Adware goes to where there are a lot of non tech savvy users. If desktop Linux gets more traction, you'll see such search hijacking on there too. Note that this story is about search hijacking on OS X, not Windows.
Possibly poor wording, my intent was to say that you cannot dismiss or underestimate statistics in modeling the mind because the damn thing is a sophisticated statistical information retrieval system (with some higher-level structure on top for doing things like debating mind modeling on HN).
I recently bought a new PC, after 6 years. Not because my old PC is unusable but I rather need a new one as HTPC with very low power consumption.
This is exactly why I have such a love/hate relationship with BitTorrent Sync. I use it a lot, and it works so great, but I so wish it were open source.
Patent troll asks judge for gag order to silence opponent
Elevate – Simple lead tracking for modern business owners
What makes it right is purely pragmatic and a function of our abilities and limitations, scientific and computational resources, time constraints, etc. We could in theory run quantum simulations for everything, given the resources, but we don't have them.
You're right about discrete log and factoring; in fact it is possible to factor any number given a discrete log oracle which accepts composite moduli. http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/802/would-the-abil...
From Exponential Technologies to Exponential Innovation
Ask HN: How do I turn my side project into something profitable?
Hi!

I have a side project (a SaaS like project, description: http://i.imgur.com/ibCbwYD.png) that I have worked on for sometime now. I'm nearing the stage of an MVP and after making the landing pages and some simple discussions with some of my friends, I think it is possible to turn this into something that can generate some revenue.

The problem here is that I designed this system for me and some of my friends and didn't really think of monetization or finding a potentially customers. In fact, the reason I created this is because there's nothing out there that's good and free and I fully intend to open source this.

That being said, if I want to, how should I go approach trying to find potential customers? My primary audience are teams who are not programmers and I really do not know of anyone I can talk to in that sector. I also cannot pursuit this full time as I do have other responsibilities.

I was just wondering if other people have experiences that they like to share.
The revolution will be containerized
Average consumers like us can't buy stock right?
"why we weren't allowed to use Gmail for legal clinic work."

Since that time (I assume this was a while ago, i can't imagine it was recent since most of these schools now use hosted email providers), almost every single state has issued opinions stating that storing email with a cloud provider does not break privilege.

AFAIK nobody has cared much since New York's ethics opinion in 2008.
Aussie govt passwords stolen by Chinese hacker group
FB's high valuation looks negative to most people and that hurts FB's public image and FB is constantly under financial pressure to produce better result. Starting low is a good thing.
Why the Government Never Gets Tech Right
Ghost blog hosting
What is BBEdit doing?
As an extended state machine, it's certainly an interesting concept. I also love that you describe the components of your workflow in JSON, but the logical pieces are I think where this approach struggles.

I mean I get what's going on here, but the syntax clutter drives me nuts.

[["if", "eq", "decline"], "Pending Response"]
Physicists Euphoric but Confused about Black Hole Paradox
Thanks for the link! (founder of CircleCI here)

Before Circle, I led multiple engineering teams, building multiple products from "nothing" to "shipping, and making lots of money". I set up buildbot, hudson, bamboo, jenkins, and some other things I don't even remember the name of. I was always the build guy, I was always the one that said "yes, we will be testing, yes, the build will be green." Those were controversial statements back then.

I've been there, done that, and I didn't want to set up Bamboo again. I didn't want to debug why the tests failed. That's why I built Circle.

Our customers, most of whom switched from Jenkins, will tell you we are a steal.

Maybe your project is still simple. Maybe your platform is fairly stable. But for most professional developers, keeping CI running and green is a challenge. Even at Circle, I spend more time than I'd like debugging the test suite. But we're fixing that. Every day is spent making devs lives easier.

Jenkins costs you nothing per month, but your developers cost money, and Circle's hardware is faster than digital ocean, and the cost of keeping the build green on Circle is lower than the cost of keeping it green on Jenkins anywhere else. If you're running a startup, or a tech company, odds are very good that salary is the number one cost center. Optimizing your Digital Ocean bill is penny wise, pound foolish.
And what about the massive enterprises running exchange?
Like others have noted, if you were happy with uTorrent in 2009, just use an older version.

There's really not much different with torrents in the last few years.

Magnet link support is the only thin I can think of.
Deluge is great.
> Do they not have a single person on staff capable of looking at the current environment regarding internet privacy and say, "Uh, guys...maybe put this one on ice for a year..?"

They probably do. And that guy probably got overruled by another guy who said, "Forget that naysayer and instead think about how much more aggressively we can market ourselves and how much more money we can make..."
I've been kind of struggling lately with this sort of inspirational attitude. It seems like a good attitude, but it also comes with this hidden assumption: if you try hard and keep at it, there's a good chance you'll succeed. Is this actually true?

I mean I want it to be true. I'd like to live in a world where it's true. But I don't actually have any hard evidence besides the testimonials of people who have found success, and I'm not sure if it's survivorship bias or an accurate picture of how one can become successful.

My theory is that chances of success are incredibly variable, and trying hard and putting yourself out there will increase that chance, but I can't figure out a ballpark for the baseline.

Is it even possible to crunch the numbers on something like this? I feel like we'll never know.

Knowing you gave it a shot is the important part, I suppose.
Devdocs now on Github
Self-driving cars can reduce injuries by 90%, saving save $450bn annually
But on the downside, their every waking thought will be uploaded to Google++ and YouBrain, and every now and then some part of their knowledge base will be 'discontinued'
Self-driving cars projected to reduce injuries by 90%, save $450B annually
I agree completely. DEFINITELY something I'm working on; the syntax is not ideal. That's not even quite how it looks anymore (and even that isn't where I want it to be yet), though I didn't have time to switch it out for the post. Additionally, a lot of that will be abstracted away by the GUI (which should actually be a nice way to build these things; stay tuned).
Re-Imagining Work [video]
I've read sourceforge is pretty sketchy these days too bundling "helper" applications to any downloads.
These stories are everywhere, is like the one about the guy who bought a porsche for spare change because the seller was the owner's ex-wife and wanted to piss her ex off.

You do know that was a coincidence right? or even a miracle given how well things ended up. Has the uber guy been a little pissed or in a bad mood the results could have been drastically different, and yet your blog-worthy suggestion is to take a leap of faith and see if it works.

Who cares, we are telling unexperienced, unprepared and even untalented kids to quit school and launch a "startup", whatever that means now.
Great story. Uber got shutdown here in Vancouver last November, but I was curious what it looked like.
To save you a few clicks:
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/uber/id368677368?mt=8
Love this idea. Of course it assumes one finds the right software quickly without too much time and hassle.
Maybe you can scan email coming into your corporate accounts, looking for LinkedIn SMTP servers in the headers? It may then be straightforward to find out (after the fact) if your users are using this service.

Aside: as Raymond Chen often asks, "What if two companies did this?" Can you layer this service with a hypothetical similar one from Facebook? If not, it seems like a huge first-mover advantage.
Her use of the word "liminal" in Elle's profile he links to reminded me of the most culturally unifying thing I ever read - http://www2.fiu.edu/~ereserve/010010095-1.pdf

Amazing how societies all have this same period, whether it's college or 3 years in the woods. The rules are weirdly the same - "there's a time for everything, and it's college" translates to a random tribe in Africa almost literally.
Liquid confidence is not special. This was a case of good luck and little motivation.
Damn! This sounds just like my situation! It is fairly chaotic here, no specifications or documentation for work I must do, and no one understands what I do. So I use this to my advantage by learning new skills. Because no one asks me what tools I use (they all think I use C#, I think), I find tools that interest me and learn them by using them in my work. So far I have learned R and Pandas for data, although I am lucky to get a 10M file to use. I have built a desktop app with Ada. I am trying to created LaTeX files from a script. I want to improve my Racket/F#/GIMP/Scribus/Inkscape/Blender/Node.js skills and knowledge, but cannot yet come up with appropriate tasks. But I keep looking! So basically I keep motivated by learning new stuff all the time at their expense.
That's actually not the point at all.

The point is to take the risk. Sometimes you'll find the person in the bad mood, but sometimes, just sometimes, it works, and when it does, it works great. And you don't need to share w/ the world the 5 other people you tried it on who weren't feeling serendipitous that day.

History is told by the victors, after all.
No, that's just the excuse linux fans use.

Linux failed in the desktop market thus far, and probably will until someone comes up with an OS that is at least as user friendly as OS X and then actually has the ability to get it into users hands.
It is, it has been done, statistically when it comes to financial success America is fast becoming one of the countries where its most unlikely to go from rags to riches.

Its not a lie, its big data crunching the numbers that are out there, and those numbers say if you are poor you are most likely going to end poor, or perhaps dirt poor.
Why a Latte Costs $3.75. It’s Business Time
What is the product line you have?
I'm glad to see more JavaScript libraries embracing promises!
You're right, and flipping through my copy of I Am a Strange Loop for the first time in a while I find some things that are reminiscent of non-computational theories. I guess I was/am caught up on the computationalism vs. non-computationalism debate and am conflating GOFAI with everyone working in a computationalist framework. Hofstadter pushes the boundaries, but he's still a computationalist.

For someone who takes the idea of a system that's impossible to model further, IMO, check out the biologist Robert Rosen's Life Itself and Essays on Life Itself. He pushes more in the direction of complex systems theory than self-reference (maybe a physics version of the same idea?) but his writings are brilliant. Less fun than Hofstadter's, but more rigorous and with a necessary appreciation of the biological and physical sciences. Anyways, I'm rambling.
Gzip + poetry = awesome
Interesting article but it doesn't really address the key issue. The reason government IT doesn't get tech right is not because they don't use Agile. The problem is much bigger than just switching to user stories.
The failure rate for those who don't try is 100%.
> I have a side project (a SaaS like project)

Well that first sentence you identified what you think it is... so turn it into a SasS Product. Without more detail I don't think you will get much more information.
Right and when it does not which is going to be most of the time you end up ruining your reputation in the extremely tightly-knit gossipy startup community, and become ostracized for being a "bad culture fit" in short the only guy in the room who is neither high or a brown noser.
Mathematical relationship between pizza size and its ratio of topping to base
The NIST document was a backdoor, there's no question about it.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/nsa-backdoor/all/
How are chargebacks handled in this system?
I will listen with great interest if you then care to explain to me what is the great discovery Hofstadter made in the field of AI.

I believe he is rooted in the GOFAI tradition, because he tries to understand intelligence by introspection, and I happen to believe this is impossible, since what we are aware of consciously is just a surface level result of processes in the brain we are completely unconscious of. Whatever descriptions of his work I can find, sound pretty much like GOFAI too - you just come up with a program that does something supposedly intelligent:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_Concepts_and_Creative_Ana...

I am also not attacking him, I am just sceptical, as I would be if someone who is not working in mainstream physics and is ignored by it claimed a breakthrough in understanding matter or whatever.
Steve Jobs started a personal story with [1]: "Most people don't get those experiences because they never ask..."

And he ends with "you gotta be willing to fail ... if you are afraid of failing, you won't get very far"

Which seems to be a surprisingly common theme among successful people:

Mark Suster has a famous mantra: "You don't ask, you don't get"[2]

Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote, told a story of how he got Steve Balmer advise him once[3]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkTf0LmDqKI

[2] http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2013/05/15/the-one-word-t...

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqm9NXug6WE
Trying is a way to create and execute on opportunities.

You could think about it as creating your own luck.

The only problem is that at the end of the day it's still luck.
For fuck sakes man, if you have any insight, share it instead of just pointing out that others are wrong in some obscure and nonspecific way. I bet you are full of shit and have no clue what you are talking about because you are yet to say anything intelligent. All you did is claimed all kinds of credentials without adding anything, at all, to the conversation.
<blockquote>The statement of the Shimura-Taniyama-Weil conjecture must have sounded crazy to its creators. . . . the idea that this was true. . . must have sounded totally outrageous at the time. This was a leap of faith, in the form of a question that [Taniyama] posed at the International Symposium on Algebraic Number Theory held in Tokyo in September 1955.

I've always wondered: what did it take for him to come to <em>believe</em> that this wasn't crazy, but real? To have the courage to say it publicly?

We'll never know. Unfortunately, not long after his great discovery, in November 1958, Taniyama committed suicide. He was only thirty-one. To add to the tragedy, shortly afterward the woman whom he was planning to marry also took her life, leaving the following note:

<blockquote>We promised each other that no matter where we went, we would never be separated. Now that he is gone, I must go too in order to join him.</blockquote>

. . . In his thoughtful essay about Tayniyama, Shimura made this striking comment:

<blockquote>Though he was by no means a sloppy type, he was gifted with the special capability of making many mistakes, mostly in the right direction. I envied him for this, and tried in vain to imitate him, but found it quite difficult to make good mistakes. (94) </blockquote></blockquote>

—Edward Frenkel, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Love-Math-Heart-Hidden-Reality/dp/0465... and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality</em></a>, which is recommended.

What mistakes have you made lately?
But what if the failure rate for those who do try is 99%? Trying isn't always zero-risk... I wonder if ambition could be subject to a cost/benefit analysis, haha. At some point I suppose you just have to let go of the numbers.
For a lot of those who try its also 100%.

The question is should you be trying this in the first place?

Did you know its actually more likely you will survive a plane crash than have a successful startup exit? Now, would you still hop in a plane you know its going to crash?

With that logic you should, chances are you will survive, maybe.
EFF Has Lavabit’s Back in Contempt of Court Appeal
The facts in this article are somewhat incongruous:

Radiation levels due to nuclear testing were elevated 7% over normal

The major source of radioactivity in steel is cobalt 60, which has a half life of 5.27 years

In which case one could just wait a year and the radioactivity of your steel would drop by 7%, making up for the effects of nuclear testing contamination. Put another way, steel from 1944 has been around for some 10 half-lifes of cobalt-60, meaning it has 1/2^10th as much 60Co radiation as when it was made. Why would it matter if the radioactivity was 1/2^10th or 1.07/2^10th as much as the background radiation?

I'm sure there are other isotopes which make this more of a problem, but the facts as presented in this article don't make much sense.
Debian Packaging and Distribution at Ninja Blocks
Right, first mover. I'm afraid LinkedIn has selfishly crossed a line that we will all suffer for. Other companies will no doubt try to do similarly idiotic things in the name of "convenience", "features", etc.
Everybody so far is commenting on the woman who approached the CEO.

Let's not forget the CEO, who committed and risked resources on a hunch or instinct or who-knows-what.

If I had to pick one of the two to ask how they had the nerve to act and to learn from, I'd pick him. (Of course I'd prefer both and not to belittle her gumption and skills to back it up).

- What did he see to suggest risking those resources? ... To create a team of outsiders to work on the core app?

- How likely did he expect things to work out?

- How did he explain the expenditure of flying the others in to the CFO or whomever?

- Or did he make a unilateral decision without asking others?

- Did he just get lucky?

- Had he done things like this before and succeeded? Failed?

- Was he worried about making waves in his organization? Did he?

Plenty more questions pop up...
The same thing can be done in bash:

## arrow up

"\e[A":history-search-backward

## arrow down

"\e[B":history-search-forward

(in .inputrc)
It installs whether you pick yes or no.

edit: "Do you want to install chrome? yes/no", no -> "you'll now install toolbar with utorrent. Next >", no yes/no

else:

"Do you want to install chrome? yes/no", yes -> utorrent + chrome

What you're offered is based on a number of things like IP location and computer versions
It is not important how unlikely are the odds. What's important is to be prepared when the chance does present itself and that requires talent and years of training.

So I think you misread the narrative, it's not about striking gold.
I once heard the phrase, "Don't be a pussy and quit fucking around". It has become a phrase I live by.
I know quite a number of people who were hesitant to dump Windows completely because they couldn't run some games on Linux. Surely that's not the vast majority of Windows users probably, but it's a significant amount still. Lately, with all these new Linux releases and Wine improving greatly, many of them dumped Windows for good.
'tis but a scratch
What's the cost/benefit breakdown of not taking the risk?
But as a metric for actual popularity, that is a completely useless stat. Microsoft also used to crow about how many tens of millions of people had Windows Media Center, but most of them were just people who bought a "premium" version of windows with their pc and didn't even know what Windows Media Center was. If gazillions of people are technically users of skydrive simply by virtue of having windows, that really says nothing about skydrive's actual popularity. It's like claiming solitaire is the world's top-selling game.
Nothing against you or the person who did that research, but: fuck statistics. Eventually one gets to defy them!
I am undergoing a somewhat similar experience, although my products is much less developed than yours. I am going to do a survey for my target market, and at the end of the survey I am going to put some messages like this:
"When the product launches, you will get free blah blah blah", and "Please forward this link to someone you think may benefit from this service". So I have some sort of market out there already, I hope.
Light shed on how genes shape face
Editted. Here's a link to the description again: http://i.imgur.com/ibCbwYD.png
I am not a mathematician, but I don't think this is actually begging the question.

> you can't just take an arbitrary function and use this method

Actually, you can, AFAIK. The relation f(x + E) = f(x) + f'(x)E still holds.

If we try this method with a rational function:

f(x) = (x - 1)/(x - 2)

f(x + E)
= (x + E - 1) / (x + E - 2)
= (x + E - 1)(x - E - 2) / ((x + E - 2)(x - E - 2))
= (x^2 - x E - 2 x + x E - E^2 - 2 E - x + E + 2) / (x^2 - x E - 2 x + x E - E^2 - 2 E - 2 x + 2 E + 4)
= (x^2 - 3 x + 2 - E) / (x^2 - 4 x + 4)
= (x^2 - 3 x + 2) / (x^2 - 4 x + 4) - (1 / (x^2 - 4 x + 4)) E
= (x - 1) / (x - 2) - (1 / (x - 2)^2) E

so

f'(x) = -1 / (x - 2)^2

since

f(x + E) = f(x) + f'(x) E

Edit to add: the key idea here being that no knowledge of differentiation is needed, just tricks for manipulating expressions involving x and E until they are in normal form.
The narrative didn't even once elaborate on the qualifications of the designer, her story or the long path that brought her the experience to improve the app.
This course doesn't have the direct matching that the in person courses do. It's mostly on you. They do encourage you to attend local meetups to network.

I live in the same city as one of the instructors and he offered to connect me with local people for a job, but I ended up not needing it as I got a job with the person who ran my local meetup.

You can read other people's stories at: http://community.gotealeaf.com/t/share-your-experience-of-le...
Of course it's true. I'm a terrible bowler, I could roll the ball in the gutter a million fucking times but if I keep TRYING to get a strike, EVENTUALLY i'll get one.

That's different from just rolling the ball down the lane. If I don't change something up and learn from my mistakes and learn how to angle the ball and learn how much force to give it then i'll keep rolling the ball in the gutter, sure i can shrug to my friends and tell them I "tried" but i'd know deep down that I didn't... Don't fall into the fallacy of staying in your comfort zone and trying just for the sake of trying.. You'll never grow. You have to be willing to challenge yourself and do things just a little different next time to really become better and finally get that strike.

And when all is said and done you'll probably be a pretty good bowler..

then you can blog about it.