skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you make it big enough to have to buy the .com from the current owner, then you are probably going to be able to buy it. "

Let me address that specifically. First, you get people who are unreasonable and perhaps would think that because you are valued at a billion you will pay them 500 million or something stupid like that. They are wrong but their irrationality is not going to make it easy for you to get the domain when you want it.

I have a case right now where a startup is willing to pay, say, $100,000 for a domain. But the domain (not being used) is owned by a company in Europe. And they aren't interested in selling at any price near that. And the domain is not worth $100,000.

Second, your thoughts assume either "make it or don't".

There is an in between state. Where you appear successful and profitable but you don't have unlimited google resources. And actually I think it's quite obvious that there are a few companies that fall into this category. Since of course most people are not going to be "big enough" to buy what they want "at any price".
Update: Just came back from Muji with quite a bit of stationery!
I've edited the article to point to some great stuff Mozilla are doing with the Cordova community, that work might lead to some possibilities on iOS.
Broken film industry = profit opportunity
> [3 years is] an eternity in the computer game.

Microsoft didn’t release a new OS for 6 years (between XP and Vista) and even when it did, Vista flopped miserably. Yet, Microsoft is still around.
I agree that diversity of implementations is vital. However, Microsoft has continuously proven its inability to provide an implementation that can even remotely compete. I don't care if its WebKit, Blink, or Servo. But any one of those is better than what Microsoft has insisted on plaguing us with in Internet Explorer.

Now, with regards to IE11, you may be right. And I hope you are. I SINCERELY hope you are!

But with every subsequent release since IE7 I've heard people say something to the effect of, "Its so much better than [insert previous version of IE]" and they were right. Except that; a) the previous version was so beyond bad that fixing one bug would've been a marked improvement and b) the new version STILL paled in comparison to all the other browsers out there.

So if history is any indication, IE11 will be incrementally better but it will still make my job unnecessarily hard and it will still prove itself to be hostile to the web.
"I don't know any experienced market participant who invests or trades off of fundamentals who would argue absolutely that price-to-sales is the most meaningful ratio off of which to determine whether a company is undervalued, overvalued or fairly valued."

Despite the fact that the most knowledgeable people in finance and business management widely agree that the most rapid growth cannot take place in a company also turning out maximum profit, HN participants still continually demand profit be the most important metric.

Profit is not the most important metric, and never will be for growth companies. In fact, if you use profit ratios as your metric for growth companies, you will be wrong 100% of the time. Not just sometimes, 100% of the time.

Price/Sales is a great ratio to use and in most cases probably is the most meaningful ratio.

Additionally, the medium price/sales ratio for the entire market has little to do with an ultra small subset of technology companies IPOing. That US Price/Sales ratio you quoted also includes highly profitable, but non-growth companies like utilities and other old businesses.

Just consider the BCG growth matrix for a few hours, think about how companies work, then come back and suggest a better metric than price/sales. If you come up with something smarter than that, I will be really, really impressed.
Sorry, but that's ridiculous. You can't know in that situation what inventory anyone will have at the time you actually make the trade!

I don't think you quite understand that these trades aren't simply converting money to something else. They are actually buying and selling things, abstract things to be sure, but things that your counterparty will either already own or be able to acquire on your behalf. You might as well say Amazon should send things to random addresses and everyone has an equal chance of getting what they ordered.
Sounds similar to http://www.openwlanmap.org. While OWM only collects WiFi APs, Mozilla also collects cell towers. Still, I couldn't find anything about whether Mozilla collaborated with these guys or not.
You can use one of the WiFi SD cards for something like this. They're completely hackable, and run busybox linux.

This is an early article, an other people have gone so far as to add displays and other devices to them.

http://haxit.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/hacking-transcend-wifi-...
I finally moved y family to somewhere that I can go snowboarding in the winter without making it a week long event!
To be fair, in retrospect everything seems obvious.

At the time I'm sure the Dropbox team had to make a bunch of hard decisions. For example, without knowing the success they would later have, it doesn't seem super obvious to have "one master sync folder" as opposed to being able to sync various folders around your computer (a la not-so-successful Live Mesh and perhaps other sync solutions)
import sys
n = 1000
modthree = 0
modfive = 0

for i in range(n):
if modthree == 3:
modthree = 0; sys.stdout.write("fizz")
if modfive == 5:
modfive = 0; sys.stdout.write("buzz")
if modthree and modfive:
sys.stdout.write(i)
sys.stdout.write("\n")
modthree += 1; modfive += 1
A little dramatic. These are also known as buildings where you have to keep track of peeps...
One night in Paris
Obviously take this with a grain of salt since I didn't publish anything, but When I did some analysis on battery life impact of HTTP polling vs websockets two years ago, the difference was completely negligible compared to keeping the screen on (which I had to do for the analysis) on the iPhone 4. This makes sense in retrospect, but it appears as if websockets don't have a huge impact.
Hacking trial begins at Old Bailey
Are SoC's getting so cheap that this kind of scatter shot approach is cost effective ?

In all honesty I believe this is a fabricated story.
Mainly
1) its not cheap
2) Irons are hot and can have water in them for steam. Not ideal for electronics
3) Irons aren't in use all day. Hardly a great attack vector, a mobile phone charger would be much better
Interesting post. If he's that affected, he should move to Los Angeles, where he'll get ~11.5 months of happiness and productivity per year.
Because those cures are quite expensive, and because they are prescribed by doctors who have no real feeling about what that cost does to a family.

Perhaps most importantly, because the war on cancer has sidetracked the development of utilitarian things like anti-biotics, of which we are about to run out (depending on what you read, we've already run out).

The folks that manufacture Lexus SUVs have saved and improved the lives of quite a few people, but one does wonder just how much good that has done everyone else who can't afford it.
> it took me a while to know who to listen to

Perhaps this was your problem. Who is not important, what they are saying is.

You're being told you're wrong? Why? Do they have a point or does their argument break down to simply 'because' or 'because no one has done it that way before'?

If they have a point, at the very least, they probably just pointed out a problem you need to over come in the future and you can thank them for expanding your understanding of the situation.

The 'because' people though, just ignore them.
What I sometimes suggest to people is to get an option on a name before they become so successful that the prices increases. So you hedge. That way they pay an amount of money to be able to buy the domain later at a reasonable price from the owner. Other variations of this are renting the domain and likewise which has it's advantages and disadvantages.

What is that amount? All depends on the domain, the owner of the domain and a host of other factors.
I think the code behind this is ichnaea[1]. I've been reading the code in past few days and learning some stuff. (OK I learn a lot of things reading other's code on github.)

Off topic: I found ichnaea while looking for circusd[2] configuration for celery. Mozilla circus is a nice process (& socket) management tool.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea

[2] http://circus.readthedocs.org/en/0.9.2/
All of the suggestions in this thread are too expensive. A ski trip for me would require a car rental, lodging, ski rental, lift fees and such, easily over $1,000 for a couple over a weekend. The light products, too, seem too expensive. Are there not 10,000 lux bulbs I can buy and stick into a socket? I don't need a "device."
You are conflating market risk with counterparty/exchange risk there. Wikipaedia is your friend...
10 old letter-writing tips that work for emails
We'll still have those things either way.
To check if a number is divisible by 3, you can sum the digits of your number. If the sum of the digits is divisible by 3, then so was the original number. (e.g. 5832 -> 5+8+3+2=18) Therefore, if you recursively sum the digits of your number until you get a single-digit number and that digit is 3, 6, or 9, then the original number was divisible by 3. (e.g. 5832 -> 18 -> 9 so 5832 is divisible by 3)

To check if a number is divisible by 5, just check if the last digit is 0 or 5.
Why software patents should be banned
To all those who thought that this was about latitude, read the above post again. ... long, grey and dark weeks...

The experience of people living in coastal cities is often a lot worse than the experience of lucky northerners living in Calgary, Edmonton or Fort McMurray. Those northerners can put on their parkas and go outside at lunchtime to enjoy the glorious sunshine even though it is 35 below zero. And I didn't mention Celsius or Fahrenheit because at those low temperatures it makes little difference.

I know of what I speak, having lived in Calgary where I followed a daily lunchtime ritual of going outside, starting the car engine and driving around for 30 minutes to warm it up. If I had not done that, I would have been unable to start the engine at the end of the workday. Not everyone has the luxury of an electric outlet in the parking lot at their workplace.

And I have also worked in London England, not that far from the same North Sea that is next to Hamburg. And there I experienced the endless weeks of overcast skies with no sunshine whatsoever and a succession of rain and drizzle. While I haven't lived in SF, I have been there several times in the winter and noticed that every day seems to start out overcast with thick fog and cloud overhead. That would shorten the day enough to give anyone S.A.D.
Yes, there will be a transformer on a pole (or in a box) outside your house somewhere, which means your coffee put is only inductively coupled to my coffee pot, unless you happen to be my neighbor.
Automatic is now available in the Apple Stores and we're hiring iOS engineers
Nice writeup. There's a good source already though: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~avrim/451f11/lectures/lect0908.pdf
1) Would be clever but from the design it does not look likely.

2) Definitely possible although it would have to be pretty frequent to be useful in practice.

3) Unless your bike happens to be the most attractive target around.
How to Become a Must Have (2011)
Success is classical, not quantum
> I also don't see how I can make a landing page without screenshots.

Use thumbnails with copy about benefits. That's what we did.

> How do you flesh out a landing page when you just have an idea?

We talked to customers about their problems - we reached out to people through our networks and cold emailed them. We understood their problems first, then were able to create a landing page with fake thumbnails of the interface. We wrote copy detailing benefits (save time / save money / make money) of the product. The goal of the landing page was to get more people who we could talk to to validate our idea.

It didn't matter that the product didn't look anything like the thumbnails.

The only code we wrote was to hook up the landing page to Mailchimp.
Forums are tough. I can see why Apple opts not to participate, although I disagree with their decision. It also seems to be consistent with the Apple ethos to remove overly negative posts and calls to action from the apple.com domain. Again, I don't like this, but I'm not surprised.

At Microsoft (at least on my team) we are encouraged to be active in our forums. We use them to keep a pulse on the issues we are having, identify bugs out in the wild, and get feedback on our products. We may sometimes sound a little robotic, since we're not going to divulge insider info or participate in arguments, but we are listening and trying to help (and attempting to figure out what is actually happening on peoples machine's, which is tough). We also provide feedback to our customer service folks in the forums, giving them answers to common problems we do know about and identifying when they provide misinformation and correct that.

I suspect that Apple reads their own forums but doesn't respond. The optimist in me says they're investigating this Wi-Fi issue due to the noise in the forums. They may not have or know a good workaround or at-home fix at this point. And frankly, it's really difficult to get any useful diagnostic information from folks in the forums (especially angry ones who turn to personal attacks on engineers - been there, done that for me on answers.microsoft.com).
This is a great point, it would definitely reshape society as we know it, and maybe for the worse. We can only speculate, but I sure hope that if there'll be a way to pick the healthiest embryo and have a child that will live longer than otherwise possible, we won't let some prejudices and morality issues stand in our way to a better, healthier society.
I like "Quake done 100 quickest" much more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhzXKMqZBBc

In most speedruns, player runs away like a sissy little girl. In this speedrun, players aim for 100% kills and 100% secrets. Secrets actually make it more interesting to watch, as they often store the Quad Damage powerup.
I'm coding it in Ruby. Check back tomorrow and I should have it finished. https://gist.github.com/chadbrewbaker/7202412#file-median-rb
" /* Remap Home / End keys to be correct */"

only when correct == "Windows Convention"

Home and End keys on the Mac (on applications which don't override default behaviour for these keys) are conventionally the same as old UNIX - they take you to the beginning and end of the document and not the beginning and end of the line (as on Windows).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_key
However much fun it is to beat an unwilling commercial OS into submission, this is 2013. No need to mess around with homebrew and MAMP.

Your new Mac is powerful enough to run multiple Vagrant boxes simultaneously, with all the tools you need and a near perfect simulation of your target platform.

Use some good provisioning software (Ansible is awesome) to manage them, and you're set. All you have to do for OSX is pick your favorite IDE.

Or alternatively, don't use OSX (or Windows), and get a machine that runs Linux so you can have everything just the way you want/need it.

Everything else is just hobbyism, and as fun and educational as it may be, I'm wary of developers that waste time on their primary development tools. Sooner or later it becomes a horrible mess.

I've always been in favor of letting devs use any tool they like, but developers wasting days on getting version X of package Y to run on their Windows / OSX box when everyone else just does "apt-get upgrade" on their (virtual) machine doesn't fill me with confidence in their ability to solve problems effectively.
Generally speaking, no matter how civilly you phrase things, if you question something people feel strongly about, you will draw strong responses. If you must ask said questions, get used to the idea that people will get at least a bit emotional.
According to the man himself, this algorithm was found by Manuel Blum when trying to prove that it was impossible to do k selection in linear time deterministically
It's not really scientific to suggest that complex social skills should develop first or should be the primary focus of parents.
Heavy? A lot of room in the handle? Nope... I'm stumped too, because I can't imagine there would already be a transformer in there for easy 5 - 12v power.
Kinda of scary that people are collecting X founder's profile. Although these data are publicly available, this is still kind of scary.
If you like this, go look into the suffix array construction algorithm, called DC3 ("difference cover, modulo 3"). It's even more mindblowing.
There are lots of attempts at humor in the comments. So far, the BBC reporting just says, "State-owned channel Rossiya 24" reported something, without any BBC reporter claiming to have independently verified the reports from Russia. Maybe this isn't a true fact about the world. It might be Russian official media paranoia, or some kind of hoax, or some kind of misunderstanding of a legitimate product feature. Until this story is better verified, I will go right on ironing my clothes. Are there specific brand names or lot numbers of the products available to reporters in other places who could verify (or disconfirm) this story?
> Culture and life (what you eat, how you exercise, how you live) weights more than genetics, ...

To what extent you have been outsmarted by robots is determined mostly by genetics. But if slum-dwellers were given basic income and a negative income tax, it would be impossible to farm them for votes, so they have been indoctrinated to believe that they are smarter than robots and have been cheated out of jobs. This keeps them voting for the next handout, keeping the welfare bureaucracy and its "leaders" in power.

We are living in a vicious genetic dystopia today.

Naturally you will read not a word of this in Scientific American. They are hyper-leftist and cannot imagine a future of automated prosperity without their kind to centrally plan it. (One of the reasons they continue to moonbat against Reagan to this day was his vast expansion of the negative income tax.)
Not exactly, i'm working with a employer - employee relationship.

Followupthen seems to be personal

Edit: Grmbl, you're right :(
I was just going to mention that: given economies of scale custom babies will probably share a lot of identical prefab genetic blocks for every specification since it would be far cheaper than engineering every trait from scratch.

At that point there would be enough GM humans walking around that a virus might evolve to attack only them, and it would spread like wildfire among the population given the lack of genetic variation, the only exception being old regular humans and maybe a few of those with parents wealthy enough to get them tailor-made without any of the preexisting "parts" that the majority uses.
Not sure how they measure the lines of code. Are comments, headers, etc included or is it just the the code flow?
I'm not aware of any volume snapshot system that presents the history as a plain directory tree. At best, you can use some special mount options to mount a snapshot, but you generally have to use a special tool particular to that filesystem in order to access a snapshot, and creating the snapshot always requires such a tool. There's no standard Unix way to create or access volume snapshots. Time Machine histories can be created, accessed, and analyzed entirely with standard tools except for the modified `ln`.
I thought about this, but there isn't a super efficient way to extract the individual digits without modulus or division or casting to a string, unless I am missing something obvious.
... Soon to be followed by the children for robots program.
This is one of my favorite algorithms. I use it frequently in my code (example: filtering noise in a real time system) and get giddy when I talk to others about it. One of the contributors to this algorithm was Manuel Blum [0], whose contributions (and his students') touch pretty much every corner of Computer Science.

His lecture notes from his course at Carnegie Mellon describe this algorithm quite clearly [1].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Blum

[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15451-s07/www/le...
Good science fiction is almost always about the present, not the future. As Ursula Le Guin put in the introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness[1] "Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive. (...)Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist’s business is lying."

[1]Full text here: http://somethingcompletelydifferent.wordpress.com/2011/02/15...
McDonald's has become so expensive here in the last months that it's sometimes cheaper to eat in a relatively decent restaurant.
I don't eat in McD but a friend recently had a chicken sandwich, fries, coke and a sundae for close to Bs. 180. It's rid.iculous.
At the official rate that's around $30. But at the black market rate that's under $4.
Same goes for clothing, electronics, etc.

It seems argentina didn't learn from their past hyper inflation or from Venezuela's economic problems...
During my short time in Russia, the "unprotected wifi network" did not appear to exist. Wherever I went, they seemed pretty paranoid (probably justifiably) about keeping wifi locked down.

Hotels went so far as to give you a custom per-device one-day-only password.
If were that simple then why wouldn't we just type it into our programming environment instead?
Pang Ko's is cooler IMHO but then we are old lab mates.
That's 160 new long-lived connections per second, which will presumably stay open for the entire duration the user is on a webpage.

If you're getting 160 users connecting per second the 6000 concurrent connection limit will be hit in less than a minute, assuming most users stay on the page for longer than a minute.
AIRO bracelet tracks your nutrition, exercise, sleep and stress levels
Not too be too PC, but OCD != anal. If someone is really OCD about being tidy it's because they think if they're not something horrible will happen.
Yeah, I'm not really buying this either, Russian state media isn't exactly the high-water mark of journalism. The idea is entertaining though.
Can you elaborate?

I can imagine the class system argument (though I'd like to hear it, because it is interesting and not that straightforward), but what about the others?

The race of the child is alredy determined by my choice - if I marry a person of my race, then our kid will be the same; and if I desire a child of race X, then I can go and have lots of kids with someone of that race.

And what is the cruelty difference between not making a frozen egg into a baby because of its genes, and not making a frozen egg into a baby because you decided you don't want more kids?
I wasn't putting him down. Just noting that his use of the word 'hacker' is not correct. There's a minimum bar to clear to call one's self a hacker and understanding how to substitute part of a software stack with another one is above that bar (in my opinion).

See:
http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html
I think part of the lesson is to start smaller.
> This woman

Minor child, actually.

> The police do a look-up and determine that the woman with this name is not a US citizen and is actually a citizen of Colombia. Therefore, they decide to deport this woman who decided to use the name of a person from Colombia.

Sounds like the problem here is treating name as if they are unique identifiers. Having a name, true or false, that happens to match the name of a citizen of a particular foreign country does not even come close to meeting any reasonable standard of proof that a person is not a US citizen, much less that they are, in fact, a citizen of the particular foreign country.