skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Nexus 5 started at $780 in Norway. I'm pretty envious of the US prices.
Collaborative eval with the world, I'm glad I wasn't logged into jsfiddle when I opened that.
Such hax.

I wonder if a collaborative drawing app could be made with this, using canvas.. I keep trying to figure out exactly how it works but then sparkleponies and alerts everywhere...
this makes Series F. never a letter you want to get to :)

also interesting seeing the spin on Series E:
http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2011/10/when_rabid_squirrels_att...
That's quite true. During past couple of months I have seen real talent is not sitting in front of your desk and do coding. This way you can walk but can't run. Everything depends how well you sell yourself and make good picture in others mind. Ultimately your goal is presence outside your desk / room. I will say what you have experienced is ground reality about how business works.
For people who are saying "how could economists be so stupid" here is some background:

First, economics as a field has somewhat fallen into a trap where people are overly focused on models that are analytically tractable. This leads them to use unrealistic models that can be solved with infinite horizons, rather than realistic models with finite horizons.

Second, there is always a limit to how realistic your model can be, so unless there is a strong reason to think that heterogeneity is important in your model, you probably won't include it. In this case it may not have been completely obvious that heterogeneity was really important in analyzing the effects of stimulus.

Finally, most people with economics degrees are about as privileged as people with the same degree level in other fields. So being privileged really cannot explain disagreements between economists and other educated people.
In high school some teams will always go for a 2 point conversion after a touchdown. Not because they will make it a large percentage of the time but because they will be lucky if their kicker will make the extra point 20 percent of the time.

Indeed, when my son played football in Jr. High the kick was worth 2 points because so few kids could actually do it, and the run or pass play conversion was only worth 1 extra point.
Oh, god, they finally discovered that people live possessed by emotions, are ignorant, and that the model of a rational agent optimizing its payoff is just disconnected from reality nonsense?)

There are huge cultural differences also. Russians are spending enormous amount of money on their mistresses using easy bank credit they barely able to pay back, while Cambodians are buying Lexus cars while living in wooden shacks, etc.

While so-called poor people (read proles - ignorant working class with very restricted, repetitive behavior) are much more prone to the peer and the bandwagon effects and much more concerned about "equality" and conformity, no oversimplified economic model could capture a complex and volatile behavior even of a primitive drunk.

My guess is that so-called "behavioral economics" and "behavior finance" are attempts to make more realistic and useful models, together with an important notion that the whole system is extremely dynamic, volatile and constantly changing/evolving. Equilibriums are moving.
This has gotten the least attention of the announcements today, but it is by far the most important for our organization.

Right now we have a tool that polls the aws APIs and tracks changes. Mostly we care about vcp firewall, security group and IAM policy changes. It will alert for changes to any critical system. While it gets the job done, it can't track who made the changes.

CloudTrail solves this problem in a much nicer way.

Thanks for getting this out to your customers!
Brings up the interesting question -- I wonder what turing-complete DSLs have drop-in JS libraries you could use to replace the call to "eval" here.
Try clearing your local storage: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7667958/clear-localstorag...
Since jsFiddles run user-generated code by design, I hope that they correctly sandbox and use HTTP-only cookies anyway.
I guess goals matter. What is "reputation" and what does it mean, except for your future goal execution. If you want to start more companies, meeet more people, retire, etc.

I don't understand "legacy" or "legendary" status at all. Bill Gates may get a footnote in history, but what are you really chasing after for "legendary"? Do most people even know the YouTube founders? Does being a dead artist with legions of fans mean anything?

Now I'm getting existential, but I don't understand your comment on "fame." They should break into movies with their $20MM or so, or music if they so desire "fame."
There are lots of great engineers who don't have a strong network. YC invest early so they care more about your ability to code. They'll happily hook you up with their network if you impress them. It's easier to teach an engineer business skills than teaching a business guy to code.
Kudos on not giving up. I've had our co-founder/CTO quit on us t the day we were expecting term sheets. Pretty bad timing and I was freaking out a little bit.

Investors have seen it all. While I expected this setback to screw up our funding, it didn't make a difference in the end.

When this kind of shit happens, just carry on.
Automatically extracting Git workflows from shell history
It's not what you know, but how you think
It's not: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2011/04/secret-fea...
Graphene Supercapacitors Ready For Electric Vehicle Energy Storage
No. The situation of any phone support professional who is under management pressure to both provide quality service and filter out "unimportant" requests is untenable. The quality of support will end up sucking.

The "serious problem phone support only" thing is a nice, MBAish compromise idea that won't work well. Everyone thinks their problems are serious. The way to make this work is to provide a phone support number AND to make the web- and app-based support tools work so well customers won't feel a need to call it very often.
True enough. I just pointed to the K&R on his bookcase and said "Look it up".
>>while actual useful products by comparison are worth exactly nothing?

You already see the results of this don't you. If people were half serious about something like medical electronics the way they are about Facebook. The cost of diagnosis and testing etc would be way lesser.

Ultimately we only get what we want.
Relevant to the conversation, but these were very recently released:

http://www.beatsbydre.com/headphones/studio-wireless/beats-s...

I don't generally endorse products that I consider to be overpriced, but 1) I have no experience with them, so I can't say that they are or aren't, and 2) the list of features is quite impressive (12 hours battery, bluetooth, headset controls, and supposedly fantastic quality sound).
It's not very accurate to say they have "no customer service" when actually they just have slow customer service.
24 hrs even over the weekend and major holidays? Most things I've charged on weekends don't even post to my account until at least a business day has past. Can you even start the chargeback process on an authorization?
No sour grapes here!

Being courted by one of the biggest tech firms two months into developing our technology was and always be a huge win for my team and I!
Heh. Bring out the leather helmets.

But, that may be the reason it could work.
What was the upside for men?
And last season, Gregg Easterbook included weekly updates on PA's "no punt" strategy.

http://espn.go.com/espn/playbook/story/_/id/8333797/annual-t...

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbrook/...
Re-engineering headphones
I'm not sure whether this is a valid topic, or if it resonates with millions of others. In listening to a few online talks, I realize again my headphones have lost hearing in the right ear.

It's generally kicking the cord I think when I get up for a coffee. That's my working theory anyway. Sometimes seems to break.

But my question is, would it be worth a kickstarter to re-engineer headphones? Every pair I've bought seem to self-destruct within 1-6 months, and that strikes me as a bit fragile.

Are there more durable headsets out there? Is it an engineering flaw? I'll chip in my over 5 seconds of engineering experience with: "The wire needs to be more robust in the face of aggressive, beer-driven behaviour".

Typing this with my left hand holding an important bend in the wire of my headphones, listening to the Portal 2 finale song. Yes, I just beat it. Yes, I'm behind the times :)
Too many comments to read. They are idiots.
IBM to Announce More Powerful Watson via the Internet
Come on, big screen with low resolution, weak CPU/GPU, reduced RAM - Samsung's approach to sell cheap phones which look like Galaxy S III/IV.

Is this what is called innovations nowadays?)
That's a great point. A restricted iframe on a separate domain + httpOnly session cookies just to be safe would do it.
Just a question, what bearing does a custom kegerator have on their business?
But the M:N system is already written, and it seems as though it works extremely well. In fact, it is one of the things I like most about the language, and one of the reasons why I prefer it over C++ (as well as D and Nimrod for that matter).

This decision probably puts it closer to C++, but I can't see how that is a good thing.
I can't imagine writing code without pushing to a remote git repo. Bitbucket is free!
Didn't FreeBSD also implement their own?
This is the sort of broken thinking that prevents NFL coaches from trying this.

AFAIK the main reason NFL coaches don't try stuff that's too unusual is that although it makes a good trick a time or two, this is... well, professional football. Defenses will adjust.

Right now I'd suspect a lot of the success of going for it on 4th down, or going for two-point conversions, comes from the fact that opposing defenses aren't expecting it. But the minute you become known as "the coach who always goes for it", well, they're going to defend it (and in fact they'll have an easier time defending it since they know you're not going to try anything else).
There are headphones out there that sell you the wires, so you replace the wire instead of replacing the whole cans. I have a pair of sony mdr-v6 and have had them for about 2 years, they still work perfectly fine.
Upcoming ebook: Mapping with leaflet.js
I don't think it's fair to lump all taxi regulations together and then say Uber is decrying regulation. I doubt Uber cares about transparent pricing regulation. They've always shown the fare breakdown on the website and in the app. You can also estimate the fare for locations in the app and website: https://www.uber.com/cities/san-francisco There was some initial complaining about using a phone with GPS to meter the ride, but I think that was just chaff from entrenched interests.

If the initial cost to start a taxi was low enough (i.e. medallions were used to vet the driver and not to protect existing taxi companies [0]), competition might arrive at transparent pricing anyway. Especially with e-hailing where you can be more selective about the cab you choose.

[0] http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/47636506327/the-tyranny-of...
> Sure I freely admit that life in a 3rd world country isn't necessarily so horrible that its not worth living. Of course, I'm a bit puzzled where you derived that implication from any of my statements.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6719288
"Personally I'd rather not be born than be born in a place where I have a high change of dying of malaria, or dysentery."

Maybe it's a nuance of the language, but "rather not be born" and "not worth living" are roughly equivalent in my interpretation.

While life in the 3rd world, or places where you have a high change of dying of malaria, dysentery, etc is not a walk in the park, except for the very worst places people are probably far happier than you imagine. The human spirit is really quite resilient.

At the end of the day, I think we'll both decide to believe what we want on the matter. :)
If they don't know your real IMEI, how can they permanently ban you? They don't ask for a copy of your social security card or anything.

I can see why you might want to permanently ban them, though. Blaming you for a bug in their software.
I can't remember what it was, but someone posted here before with a library to help build clean, easy to use API Docs.
The one that looks like a split-pane with examples on one side and details on the other.
Yeah, well, and quick outs, slants, short passes underneath, etc.

Actually, now that I think of it, maybe the playbook wouldn't have to change too dramatically. You may run the ball a bit more, but you'd still run pass plays that spread the field out. If the defense just gives you the deep play, you take it. But, you're content to go with the first play that nets you 2.5, so you make that the goal and always have a couple of short options. The QB then prioritizes those in his progression.
It's easy to see the pricing breakdown and to estimate the fare in the Uber app. Tap the "type" of Uber (Taxi, uberX, etc) to see the breakdown.
Is "four years ago" a typo? Huy Fong Foods, maker of the most popular brand of Sriracha in the US has been in business since the eighties.
I love hearing Wolfram give talks (I went to his Elements intro at the SF Maker's Fair, right after the iPad came out), and his blog posts; I get sucked in, thinking--- this genius, he thinks of everything!

Then I try to find the "Redo" button in Mathematica and I reconsider.
The other problem I've had is around the joints or the volume control, very fine wires that seem to snap easily.

I wasn't sure if its just a matter of them being made with an expiry date or if there's better ones out there, but I'll check those out, cheers.
A Search Engine For Image Text
It gives me hope that large and significant countries like India and China are not (yet) part of the TPP, and thus this isn't applicable to the entire world.

I'm sure the US realizes this, which is why there's been some talk to bring in India, South Korea, Thailand and even China (I say "even" because China apparently feels that the TPP is an "anti-China club") into the TPP fold.

>> Bring India into the TPP [Politico], http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/bring-india-into-the-t...

Given India's long-standing objections towards strict copyright and patent laws, and as an Indian, I hope we stay clear of the TPP.
The code runs on the fiddle.jshell.net domain.
> I wouldn't recommend Revel to many (it's Play heritage isn't well suited to Go, IMO)

Can you elaborate on the issues you've had? I've used Revel on one project and it was totally adequate. The automatic reloading works well, and I built a reasonably complex data warehousing app in a few days with it. Other than some awkwardness in deployment and lack of built-in CSRF filter it seems great!
> Please consider these notes as food for thought only

Understood.

Also, thank you very much.
The other option is to grid-tie, but agree not to sell any power back to them (which can be configured in the inverter). You would then use utility power when you don't have enough solar output to meet your needs.

Disclaimer: I have read WAY too much Home Power magazine over the last decade. I could design said system in about 20 minutes, part numbers and all. [http://www.homepower.com/]
I really enjoyed the startup engineering course pretty beginner- gets into node. https://www.coursera.org/course/startup
Nope: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/10/sys/contrib/dev/acp...
I've seen demos of a tool called Datameer which seems to offer very similar functionality (an Excel-like interface for configuring a job on a small set of data, followed by submission of that job to a Hadoop cluster as a MapReduce job). How does DataNitro compare to that?
Almost certainly someone is stealing cookies and this should be taken down soon. However, I actually enjoyed this post and was really informative all around.
I pretty much owe my career in tech to those programs. We were too poor for internet, but dad had a work computer at home. Fake CCs kept me online and let me upload the HTML pages I'd made offline, and chat to people who taught me everything.
Maybe it's time to kill Copyright for good (in both possible meanings of good):

http://praxeology.net/anticopyright.htm

Edited: and by "maybe it's" I mean "It's about damn time".

Edited again: this quote from Jefferson is highlighted on that Anti Copyright Resources page, and nicely captures the spirit of why we might choose to kill Copyright:

... He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.

Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.
lol, I think I just got hacked from that
I am in Cambodia, which is even better.)
If the spreadsheet doesn't load you can watch the chaos unfold in real time by visiting the datastore's page directly: https://spreadsheet.firebaseio-demo.com/sy85U
In my spare time I like to generate some organic search traffic for "lung cancer" and "asbestos" and "mesothelioma" and click the AdWords. My Google stock has been going up as long as I've been doing this. /s
I don't mean to speak for the person you're addressing, but I suspect this was the part that was surprising: "some form of safety valve that allowed class conflict to be mediated and ameliorated was better than the alternatives as far as the interests of the upper classes".

That's not an obvious truth, and doesn't deserve self-important snark.

I've also read 'Propaganda', and would also recommend it despite its age.
Tim Roughgarden's Algorithms is highly recommended!
Looks like coursebuffet.com is going for something different with accounts and learning path planning, but class central [0] has a very functional listing of MOOCs. Filter by initiative or subject, and sort rows by start date or course length. Introductory youtube video are also easily available, so you can get a better idea of the various courses quickly.

[0] https://www.class-central.com/

Edit: digging a bit further, course buffet has a good writeup of what they are trying to do differently on their about page:

> We know there are other sites listing MOOC courses but they still leave it up to you figure out which courses are similar. That is time consuming and frustrating. Remember we want to make it easy to compare. That is why we have a CourseBuffet Classification System which we use to classify every course.

> No more needing to figure out which specific courses from Coursera is a near equivalent to a specific Udacity, Saylor, edX, etc course. One click and you see all your choices next to each other. We also list if a course has video, audio, or a textbook so you can choice based on your learning style.

I like their idea. Will be happy to see them be successful at it.
But this is a brilliant publicity and, perhaps, together with the principle of delaying gratification, will pretty soon bring them $5B offer.. Money are printed nowadays.)

It is a lousy investment, btw. Teens will quickly migrate to some new cool similar service as long as they will see FB logo, so they will end up with another dead Yahoo Messenger.)

Snapchat is great because they found such an exclusive niche - the sexting service for teens, so they could easily wait for a better offer.
Batteries are very expensive.

It costs $10,000 to buy a battery system large enough to carry your whole house. And you're cycling the batteries every day, so you'd be lucky to get 10 years use out of them.

Even with the higher fixed charges mentioned in the article, it is still cheaper to connect to the grid than to buy the batteries.
Software as a Service (cs169.1x and cs169.2x) from edX is not exactly the same but fills the Ruby void.
It is absolutely NOT a bug in their code. The relevant API is here: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/Te...

If that firewall app is making those methods return anything other than null or a truly unique ID, then they are not a compatible android device, and someone using such a device is not in any position to complain when apps behave incorrectly.

It's worth mentioning that it's not required for the return value of those methods to be the IMEI, but it is required to be either unique or null.
Of course. The US is becoming a service/IP economy. It is no longer producing many physical goods. So pushing these laws worldwide is essential for economic success.
Fiddles run unsecure code by design, so they do in a separate domain.
Seriously, whats has happened here, i see this over and over on HN, the top 12 comments are about Costa Rica! A few yrs ago we would be talking about the market, statistics, strategy etc but now its like reading TMZ. Where has the substance gone guys?
It's not what you know, but how who you know, know, know how you think.
did someone just execute remote javascript`?
This is a silly and useless comment. "Why did Facebook offer $3 billion for Snapchat?" "Because Facebook offered $3 billion for Snapchat." Thanks.
Although being Sweden, there's a quick and efficient train from the airport to downtown.
links: https://www.edx.org/course/berkeley/cs169-1x/software-servic...
https://www.edx.org/course/berkeley/cs169-2x/software-servic...
> Rust's tasks are often called lightweight but at least on Linux the only optimization is the lack of preemption.

I'm surprised by this, I would have expected that voluntary preemption saves you from having to save the FP registers as well.
Is the absence of the optimization a non-x86 thing?
Scott McNealy: sold Sun to Oracle for $7bn

Steve Case: sold AOL to Time Warner for $164bn

Ev Williams: sold Blogger to Google for an undisclosed sum

John Sidgmore: sold UUNet to MFS Communications for $2bn

Ross Perot: sold EDS to General Motors for $2.5bn (in 1984 dollars!)

Just sayin'.
What's the name of the firewall app you use? It sounds like it's returning a noop string ("000000000000000" or something) from getDeviceId(), which is not what that method is allowed to return. If you actually read the docs: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/Te...

"Returns the unique device ID, for example, the IMEI for GSM and the MEID or ESN for CDMA phones. Return null if device ID is not available."

If it's returning a non unique string, it's breaking that contract, and it's the firewall app's fault, not Uber's.
that's good :) did not realize
> In terms of funding science, both of us agree that we need to do more. [...] The US should do more, but relative to others we’ve done more in the basic sciences [...] The US pays more for drugs, and therefore funds more R&D, than any other country.

I'm of mixed minds about anything Bill Gates says. I applaud the fact he's putting 40b+ or whatever it is to charity, but I can't help but think "Did the ends justify the means?" I guess that's my personal opinion of Microsoft's track record. If I'd made X billion, to the point I couldn't possibly spend or splurge any more, I'd give the rest away too. After all, it means nothing at that point.

Is it OK to have huge pharma companies pushing up prices and manipulating prices? Is 'paying more for drugs, and therefore fund[ing] more R&D' sensible, in that light? Maybe I'm just bitter that he tried to charge a learning student $2k for Visual Studio back when I wanted to learn :)

I hope quelling malaria and other initiatives goes well though.
Yes, I get a few year's worth of kilocalories (1 kcal = 4180 Joules, and assuming a 2,000 kcal per day diet) for a 100 kg human.