skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More like he may have stole the BTCs him self. A lot of his security claims where false and he failed to disclose the hack after it happened for almost a week but during this week he still allowed people to transfer BTCs into inputs.io.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1q3rpp/tradefortres...
Around the tenth time you re-run configure and hope that app picks up those dev libraries you installed for it, you'll get a wee bit jaded.

I'd rather recommend a weekend spent with Linux From Scratch in a VM.
I've been working remotely since approx 3 years as an individual contributor (programmer). Here's my take from an individual's perspective-

There have been rare times, when I have "felt" the need to work from office to be able to collaborate better. Faster and better collaboration: I think that is the only advantage work-from-office has to offer.

BUT, the office distractions in the name of collaboration, far outweigh the advantages of being in office.

Low-latency high bandwidth networks at remote work place tend to remove the pains in online collaboration. It feels just like being there.

"In person meetups" - I am not too sure if short meetups really help team cohesion. I believe it takes at least 2 work-weeks in office to improve team cohesion that way. I've also found online meets towards common goals (like new product idea brainstorming) - pretty effective in improving team cohesion (or sometimes leads to groupism).

Personally, I find switching work space for a week or couple of days, from my regular (remote) work space - makes me feel better.
Why can't employees give feedback directly to each other instead of having to go through the manager? Direct feedback might save quite some time. Thoughts?
I think this is regulatory lag. Most peak power is provided by NatGas these day, and NatGas is cheap. If Lithium-ion made sense at the wholesale level, then power companies would do it. I'd bet this is because some regulatory commission decided on rates for peak/non-peak based on information that is no longer relevant.
Age isn't the only factor in experience, though. Reputation and relevant experience is the key. There are people I would trust at 35 (for 15 years of experience) where I wouldn't trust someone at 45 (for 3 years of experience).

And then remember, John McAfee started McAfee in 1987 and left in 1994. He's 68 years old and I wouldn't trust him to tie my shoes.
"The wealth event for a lot of employees unlocks a pool of talented employees who are flush with experience, ready to take on new challenges, and armed with a network."

So essentially the "good" people leave and you end up with a gutted company lacking the most important people that made it special in the first place.
This machine is interesting. It does not look periodic, fractal-like patterns are slowly changing with time:
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#5,4,1,2,2,2,2,1,1,3,3...

A related machine, but eventually diverge to static:
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#5,4,3,2,0,2,2,1,2,1,2...

Update. One more: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#5,4,3,2,0,1,1,2,2,1,2...
>>There's no point in having all the IIT's, if people have to leave the country to use their abilities.

Bulk of the IITians are busy preparing for interviews(stuffing algorithm books in their brains) at big web companies to ultimately write HTML pages. The ones left are preparing to do their MBA's at IIM's or at some foreign university. IIT's are all about brands stamps, and access to a world wide network of alumni that ensures you get fat paychecks.

Guy's at ISRO. Most of them are from small time colleges, and many with average marks and grades. Many probably don't even have an engineering degree, and probably have a diploma.

IIT's have contributed very little or almost nothing to India. Bulk of their students don't even work here. Modern India is the pretty the result of the sweat and blood of the ordinary college educated student.

>>Space, rocketry, satellites, etc are upmarket skills.

I hope more people realize this hard fact.
I told my wife about this article expecting her to be very impressed and she said "so does that mean you have to take your pants off every time you change the panties?"

I wonder if they've solved for this already? There's only one photo of panties on the site that I can find and the style suggests they would require removal of pants. Not exactly fast, and potentially awkward in public restrooms.
I love reading stories like this. If I see assholes like these being founders, and I'm not that asshole, it makes me feel every bit capable of being a founder one day. Sorry you had a bad experience OP, but you sound like a good guy and I'm sure you'll have loads of awesome gigs await you in the future.

Personally I would have snapped and handled that situation extremely poorly haha.
That isn't the direction I was going with it.

I think there's a big opportunity for twitter to be middleman allowing authors to charge for their services. Twitter influencers might get articles for free publicity. But most people would pay to twitter to pay authors proportionately; and if you logged in with twitter on any news site; it's covered.

If I could pay 1 outfit and have it distributed fairly to everyone whose stuff I read... So that I don't have to get a subscription to all of [ nytimes, latimes, chronicle, guardian, bloomberg, j.random.techblogger etc. ] But never got paywalled and knew the authors were getting paid; I would find that a compelling offering. Now Amazon could probably make a play for that position, but they have some structural issues that limit them and twitter has a better story for independents.
Same with Bitcoin.

When Bitcoin exchange MtGox was hacked on June 19, 2011, the attacker stole 2000 coins (worth $0.6 million today), but MtGox covered the losses with their own funds. Customers lost nothing.

Large, reputable, mature businesses will cover losses for you, no matter if it is USD or BTC.
It would be nice if they allowed the community to form a foundation and transferred the trademark to the foundation that way they don't give the entire community and project a bad name.
I want to be your friend/coworker so badly. I hate management praying on the modest and kind. At my old job we had a really shy intern and he took all the shit that came his way and it was really sad to see.
My question then is: How difficult would it be to dissolve the core components of Airbnb vs IHG?

I think the answer is trivial, and as a result they should not be considered equivalent.

Can you perfectly substitute the holdings of IHG with the software of Airbnb over the long term? Could Airbnb create a market equilibrium point for non-resident housing in absence of brick and mortar hotels?
Based on this account of the story the PM sounds like a typical middle-manager with a big chip on his shoulder to prove how alpha-dog he really is and rule over his petty little fiefdom. The author wasn't fired, although I'm sure the PM would disagree, for much the same reasons you listed. That kind of childish passive-aggressive horse shit isn't something anybody should take.
Does anybody get why they're going with lithium ion batteries over lead acid?

Looking at a comparison [1], the cost and lifetime look substantially better. And the technology has been proven out over decades by, e.g., telcos. I'm not getting why they'd use fancy laptop-style batteries when weight isn't an issue.

[1] http://www.altenergymag.com/emagazine/2012/04/a-comparison-o...
interesting older guy in the youtube video
If "critical decision points" are seriously that critical, they would occur lesser and you don't need to balance that. Since its critical, you must attend it.

But if "critical decision points" are coming in very frequently - you are probably not delegating work or you have a team that doesn't raise issues in daily meetings, or that simply "can't decide" or "doesn't have the freedom to decide independently" or "do not want to take responsibility to decide for some reason".
Well, Airmail can only get better. Sparrow hasn't been updated in over a year (and never will be again), and seems to have periodic CPU hog issues for me (with a relatively small mailbox).
I agree that valuations are too high for companies with low or nonexistent revenues. However, this analysis ignores a) startup ideas and their opportunities are unique and b) markets are winner take all.

You lost me with the trickle-down argument, “So if Twitter is worth $25 billion and its size is X,” thinks the VC to himself smugly, “this other startup must be worth $250 million because its size is 0.01X.”

Is the other startup doing something as unique and compelling? And does that startup have the opportunity to own that equally unique and compelling space outright?

Twitter's valuation is born from its opportunity to be THE real-time information platform for the web. I would argue that Snapchat's opportunity (to be yet another photo social network) is nowhere near as compelling.

Sure, valuations are too high across the board, but I do not see Twitter's IPO as bad for startups. If anything, it shows that unique concepts with the opportunity to own their market globally are highly rewarded by the public markets.

As is often the case, I agree with much of your content, but take issue with your sensational headline :)
The difficulty of this is higher if you're working across timezones. You need to plan a bit further ahead if you need a technical conversation with someone who's in say, Australia (like me).

That said, I don't mind occasionally* getting up at 6am for this.

*This means occasionally, not frequently.
Here are few good ones:

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,2,1,1,1,1,1...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,2,2,2,2,2,0...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,2,1,2,1,1,3...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,2,2,3,1,3,1...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,2,2,2,2,3,2...
Honestly, you'd spend $600-$650 to build a comparable computer. And that's not counting the fact that the PS4's software, both OS and games, are built for a single target. And that's assuming you'll get cheap peripherals and cheap case and stuff. And probably doesn't include the cost of a Windows license either.

Specifically video cards don't start passing the PS4 until the $200 range, at least when comparing via synthetic benchmarks.

I'm also unaware of how to get memory like GDDR5 for PC RAM.
Submitting the canonical URL prevents duplicate submissions to some degree. The earlier submission

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6694186

is caught in the fratricide of other submissions of the same story.
If only I had a map at 1:1 scale...!

Never get lost =s
Microsoft Makes Five Times More Out Of Android Than It Does Windows Phone
Natgas may be cheap but utilities are not in a particularly competitive market. So it's possible this saves money basically by directly taking a chunk out of utility profits which are pushed highest during peak demand.
there isn't anything special about twitter. It's the people that use it that give it value. your average programmer could build twitter. obviously there are some scale issues, but the value of twitter has more to do with the users than the tech behind it.
I love these posts, ones that deal with understanding the investment side of startups. With that said, I hope you could reply because I'm an amateur in this field compared to you [quick google search] and would like to learn from this discussion.

- who are you going after here? In your post the people I see are the unsophisticated investors who go for emotion/speculation rather than business perspective. Those that say with their gut "I love this product, it's so influential, therefore it's worth $50/share" and do off-the-cuff calculations "Facebook is priced at X so Twitter is around X, too" instead of doing hard research. One can see how it's bad to have these kinds of people involved in a relatively small field (ie VC), but again, your headline is towards startups and not the investors just noted.

- don't startups stand to profit most from these valuations? The problem I see is in having the aforementioned investors. If we have people running around trying to get a slice of the pie, it looks like they'll pump-and-dump. They'll pump their cash into whatever startup seems to have a chance of opportunity and then walk out when it's profitable enough. Win/win, except that means the investors don't really care what the company is doing or up to, they just want to profit.

- with what I just mentioned, startups stand to profit because more opportunity is available. The downside I see is there being a higher chance of shallow investments. When investing in a company, you want to really understand it and know it, but with these valuations and profits, it seems the headline shouldn't be "Why Twitter's IPO is Bad for Startups" but "Why Twitter's IPO is Bad for Sophisticated Investments."

note: It's pretty difficult trying to write out thoughts on here, so hopefully I made some sense. If not, just ignore it as beginner's mind.
> not actually true. The final text would most certainly be public; you're probably referring to...

Yes, the final text, if it becomes law, will be public. The leaked texts show how dedicated the negotiators are to weakening sovereignty and empowering vested interests.

This is the issue. Lobbying groups have worked out how to hack sovereignty (with those pesky democratic processes and a desire to consider the public interest) by negotiating 'trade agreements' which are a bulk insert of desired laws around patent, copyright, and DRM into the legislative frameworks of multiple countries at the same time, without consultation or input by the citizens of each negotiating country.

These efforts are serious attacks on fundamental ideas we hold around self-determination, consent of the governed, transparent democratic processes.

So when you continue to try to focus the discussion on trade agreements, historical negotiations, 'trade liberalisation' you're plainly engaging in continued artful misdirection.
Please check this, and adjust your title:
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Spotify's dangerous game
Imagine we were in 1890's

- There is biggest horse carriage company

- And a dominant railway company

Here comes { Ford, GM, Cadillac........}

Every investor at that time can make a case that how could a transnational railway/carriage company is worth less than any motor company.
At my very first programming job a long time ago, I was criticized for not putting in enough overtime leading up to a milestone. When the next milestone was near, I worked back to back all-nighters, careful to leave copious documentation of everything I'd done and when. When the boss who had criticized me finally rolled in, I just said "where the hell were you?" and went home to get some sleep. I didn't hear any crap about not working hard enough after that.
Show HN: SaaS for sharing/embedding Google Analytics data on a website
Phone and Tablet Combo: What Do You Like Best?
My phone contract is up soon and getting a new phone. Along with that, I have been contemplating replacing my tablet (Nexus 10) or getting a phone that complements my tablet usage. I'm curious what others think and devices they themselves have and find useful.

I currently have the Galaxy Nexus which has a 4.65 inch screen. It's definitely the smallest I would go with a screen. To me, the size is great for a phone and borderline too small for web browsing and what not. It works but not ideal at all. For that reason, I have been considering the Note 3.

Although I love stock Android, the size and feel of Note 3 is great. However, having never really USED it, I wonder if not being able to utilize it one handed (small hands) would be detrimental. However, it's "phablet" size would make it more usable for web browsing, emails, media, and so on. Perhaps replacing the need for a smaller tablet?

If it does indeed replace the need for a smaller tablet, then maybe I keep my Nexus 10? However, I do find it cumbersome. I never really bring it anywhere since if I'm bring my bag I have my laptop anyway. It is bigger for watching movies and such, but is something the Nexus 7 so bad? I've used them for web browsing and the size is nice to hold one handed and two handed I can actually reach all over the screen with thumbs (need to move entire arm for Nexus 10).

If the Nexus 7 is in fact a more enjoyable experience... then I have to reconsider the phablet (Note 3) since do I really want to devices close in size (if only the leaked Nexus 8 was real and being sold... that might work!)? So, if I decide on a Nexus 7 then maybe I get a smaller phone like my Galaxy Nexus (i.e. Moto X, Nexus 4, or Nexus 5).

Anyway, I just don't know, lol. Curious as to what others think and what device combinations they currently have.

Thanks!
It sounds like they are trying to game the system by lowering their Peak Load Contribution (PLC.) Good article explaining Capacity charges in PJM http://energysmart.enernoc.com/bid/188545/Deconstructing-You...
They only have to use these batteries for a few hours a year to save money all year round.

But, the capacity charge for PJM for 6/1/2013 - 5/31/2014 is $27.73 MW / day.
So if you can drop your PLC by 54kW, you would save $27.73 * 0.054 * 30 = $44.91 a month.
Hardly enough to make the $100k 54 kW system worth it.

Disclaimer: I know enough about the energy markets to be dangerous. I mostly know about PJM, so YMMV in CAISO.
Trying Airmail as well, the blocker for me at the moment is porting an exported .mbox file from Mail.app to Airmail.

I'm using gMail/IMAP, but for some reason the Sent box goes about a week back and nothing further.
This just goes to show how much the electric utilities are profiteering (more than the 20%).
100% agree, but I think that shows how not all tech valuations are created equal.

Airbnb and Evernote, for example, both make sense of me. They provide immense value to people (with obvious cash streams) and are not immediately replaceable.

Meanwhile, I'd put Twitter and Path in with the Pets.com crew.
It's great for kids. I usually tell my 10 yr old sister to use it (English is her second language but she's pretty good at it)
Yes, they're pretty unhappy. They've been lobbying all around the world for cuts to the feed in tariff.
How to Connect to MySQL from Perl and Select Records with Example
We recommend using vagrant as a simple vm management tool, to quickly get a simple VM on your machine.

If your host can already run docker containers, you don't need vagrant.
How are the risks any different than with cash? Leave your cash in an unsecure location and it will be stolen as well. I would argue that the risk of government legislation is greater with fiat currencies (capital controls) than with Bitcoin, because regulations are inherently more difficult to actually enforce.

Currencies also have fluctuations in value (which central banks try to manage as best they can).
I agree with most of your points, but one thing airbnb does have going for it is a network effect. They have both the supply, and the demand and that makes it difficult for other people to break into the space. If I'm looking for a place to stay, my default option will be the place with the most inventory. If I've got a place to rent out, I want to list it where most people are looking and where I can get the highest occupancy.

Since airbnb is effectively an exchange, how would another exchange move in to replace it? Marketing and branding is one way, particularly since airbnb hasn't fully saturated the market. One strategy might be to include hotel rooms in listings since airbnb is unlikely to do that given their niche. Another way might be a series of negative events (eg. a serial stalker or rampant bed bugs) which could really tarnish their brand.
Nexus 5 complete tear down
Do you like the language?
Natural gas may be currently cheap, but power plants are still pretty expensive. Peaker plants amortize their construction and maintenance costs across much a smaller amount of time, so peak pricing will never go away.

Also, I'm not sure natural gas is all that cheap from a power generation perspective. Combining page one of this: http://www.eia.gov/naturalgas/monthly/pdf/table_03.pdf and page 25 of this: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL34746.pdf suggest that natural gas is still 2x more expensive than coal per BTU.
What is the Disposable Employee Model?
I suppose you could get away with refusing to sign anything should you ever be terminated, but I doubt you'd be able to get many jobs without signing the initial hiring paperwork.

At least in my experience.
This looks like a good place to start. I dont have much information about any of these but some of these look interesting (like the Hunter-gatherer Algorithm)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles/A...
This one produces a Sierpinski gasket PDQ:

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#5,5,3,3,3,0,3,3,2...

Nifty!
This is a university press office press release, just a depressing example of the science news cycle

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174

and not enough yet to comment on here. There has been no uptake of this yet by professional news organizations, and no link to a published article appears in the press release.
> “So if Twitter is worth $25 billion and its size is X,” thinks the VC to himself smugly, “this other startup must be worth $250 million because its size is 0.01X.”

Isn't the main justification for these valuations growth and potential maximum size? Surely an investor can't extrapolate a $250MM valuation based on relative size with a straight face, especially as their metrics will also look quite different.
I think the difference is that in your case tangible commodity assets are being compared to tangible commodity assets. Those machines can be re-sold, melted for scrap, re-purposed etc...

Software has a much harder time in the secondary market.
Just looking at table 2 from the article you link, it looks like lithium ion has the following advantages over lead acid for this application:

* Greater energy density, which means you need to carve less space out of your existing floor plan to make room for batteries.

* About twice the cycle life, so batteries need replacement less often.

* Can discharge more deeply without harming cycle life, so for applications where discharging happens frequently that means either the effective energy density or the effective cycle life is even greater.

* Better efficiency for <24h charge-discharge cycles.

These are all things that are more advantageous in this kind of application, where you can expect to see a lot of repeated cycling during hot summer months. For a telco application, where you're presumably only expecting infrequent use during occasional power outages, they'd be of negligible value.

Keep on reading to figures 5 and 6, where they look in more detail at cycle life, and the lead acid batteries start to look like a straight-up bad choice for this kind of application.
Given an interview with the guy elsewhere, I suspect it's a 54 kWh battery pack: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506776/a-startups-smart...
It's when you aren't the boss.
Google must DELETE Mosley's FIVE-HOOKER ORGY. Now everyone will view it AGAIN
Excellent study! I know it's not exactly easy to do with their analysis framework but I'd be interested to know how many apps just ignore certificate errors. It's a depressingly common "solution" on Stack Overflow..
I liked that other one better.

http://kenkeiter.com/skeuocard/
Boring Boring WordPress
Secret Service Report Noted Aaron Swartz's 'Depression Problems'
Yeah, this is not true at all. You can get video cards that are better than the PS4's (by enough to counter any initial optimization, if not end-of-life optimization) for $150. Specifically, 7870 GHz editions.
What you are supposed to see there is not "value" but "profit and potential".

If a utility company which provides basic necessities were to make a lot of profit, wouldn't it be sort of a bad outcome for humanity? Isn't it better if basic necessities are provided to us at the most affordable prices?