skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Market opportunity for you, then.
And another exchange dried up in China in recent days taking the bitcoins with them.
In addition to being instructions for the compiler, source is also a text designed to be read. Specifying and universally enforcing too rigid a rule-set is a bad idea. Good authors sometimes need to break rules in order to make a text better.

Imagine if novels were put through Microsoft Word spelling and grammar check just prior to publication and automatically had all the changes accepted.

The python style guide gets this right, quoting Emerson's famous maxim that "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
Snapchat could flash advertisements before and/or after 'snaps'. How big that ad market is would just be a guess with little data to back it up.

The big risk for Twitter, Snapchat, and some degree Facebook is the more money they attempt to make off of users, from advertising, the easier it is for someone else to start a less intrusive competitor. The cost of creating, launching, and maintaining a service like this will keep dropping.

Facebook purchasing Snapchat is just creepy. They think delete=hide.
Does anyone have a link to download the slides? Slideshare apparently doesn't believe people can exist without either a Facebook or LinkedIn account or both.
A proposal in the US similar to this is the FairTax.
They really seem to be pushing the corporate compliance / data security aspect of this, but it feels like a roundabout way of solving that problem, and in some cases, may even make it worse. Which is more dangerous? Having corporate data on a thoroughly locked down laptop, or having corporate data on a miserable cloud desktop which makes the user desperate to move the data local (dropbox, email, etc.)

This is a very cool service, I just don't think the data security and compliance argument is a very good one. Unless they have some way of making sure that data can not possibly leave the virtual environment.
I see your point, but I see a world of difference between "good at math" as you've used it here and as it's used in the article.

When you (or I) hear "I'm not good at math", you presumably take that to mean "it doesn't come easily, and I certainly wouldn't want to study it full time". But I think that when a lot of people hear the words "good at math", they take it as a statement about just basic competence. People saying "I'm not good at math" all too often mean "numbers scare me" or "I would never be capable of understanding that at all". And I think that's what this article is responding to.
So its like instapaper or Apple's reading list with a timer?
Yes, proposal (A) in the article suggests this.
I can imagine some clients would find it disingenuous to have a company name when it's just you, yeah.

This post was interesting because my current boss had the exact opposite experience. He said when he dropped the "company/we" terminology he had been using and was upfront about how it's just him, his relationship with clients improved greatly. It probably all depends on the types of clients you have.
I know it is not designed for people like me, else I'd be asking where the Linux options are ;)

I don't work with a company that has a large IT deployment anymore but when I did their processes was not that different. They had a single image that was on every single PC and contained "standard" software. If there was any kind of problem with the machine, they'd just reimage it remotely (PXE) and if it still had problems they'd just send the machine back to Dell and get a replacement.

Although management/maintenance was not really my point. Rather, if you already have functional working machines with Windows / OS X (or have to purchase them) then Amazon WorkSpaces seems expensive. If it was accessible via some cheap thin client that did not require a separate client OS license (+ the hardware that comes with machines ables to run Windows / OS X) then it would seem more appropriate.
Startup Idea: 3 Compelling Photo Experiences
I'm hoping to do this by the end of the year or soon thereafter, just so I can start working on being an employee (W-2) of my own company.

My motivation was listening to Gina Trapani (of Lifehacker, etc.) talk on the In Beta podcast (http://5by5.tv/inbeta/73) about how she and her partner in applying for a mortgage basically were having to leave out Gina's income because as a self-employed and 1099 contractor with multiple revenue streams her "career" is too complicated in ways that banks are just going to ignore/reject anyway.

I consider myself lucky in that I bought my home (and signed my mortgage) in the waning days of my time at a midsize company, but I don't expect to live here forever and with the way banking changed after 2008 I'm sure I'd have a very hard time getting a mortgage now even if I was putting down 50% of the purchase price up front.
Stop Solving For Retention
Hate to be negative, but this could be their "Groupon Moment". When Google offered Groupon $6bn for the company, they said no because they thought the hockey stick would never end.

While that was part of the reason, there were other reasons as well. They were concerned that regulators would block the sale, so they were seeking a bigger "breakup fee" than the $800 million Google offered.

http://www.businessinsider.com/groupon-google-deal-turn-down...
Good stuff Steli!
Btw - Close.io is an awesome product with even better service.
Breaking Moore's Law
Thanks. That's the path I want to take soon, running my own little agency. Do you know of anyone in the same position that runs a blog? Or any tips? Readings on starting something like this?
I don't trust you. Please make this open source so I can host it myself. (or even better, a desktop application for other people as well).

If you don't, pretty sure somebody will do.
I would just like to say that Xelom & j03w make the best argumets in this entire thread...
I have a ZTE Open and a Geeksphone.

The 1.1 release was a huge upgrade, but they still have some ways to go. There are problems with the HTML5 Canvas element and positioning DOM nodes/scrolling.
The big question is how many people paid.. not enrolled.
I can't figure it out from their website, what is the price? Looks like a good concept.
Google Play Store Whitelisted In New OS 10.2.1 Leak as BlackBerry Denies Plans
Fuck you.

...Was that emotional enough? Or not emotional enough? It's so hard to tell.
Don't play coy. "McRibs taste great", "Axe make supermodels hang off you", and all variations on these are textbook puffery, and you know it.
Have been through more or less the same process as you stated. Its really tough to define what value as you pointed out at the end.

Faking the full-time bit is completely true, does not make sense ... but then seems to be a necessity.
OS is Windows 7 (only). Prices can come down if they choose to go with Open Source OS (any Linux Flavor).
MakerBot Academy aims to put 3D printer in every U.S. school
If you come at the AWS booth, the Appstream team will show you a few cool things, such as the character creator for the MMORPG Eve Online: http://t.co/22FpUB1ot6 (screenshot)
FUCK. Is all I have to say. When it was $200, I said "Fuck, I should probably wait". Same thing when it was $300. I'm so on the fence in investing in bitcoin. I feel like it's going to reach $10k/btc and I'll be living in a lifelong depression of "what could have been".

Tempted to drop like 5k into it...

I truly don't know what to do at this point. I could wait and see a drop that may or may not come, and I'll constantly be in the state of indecision that I feel ultimately will cripple me in the future.

I think I'll buy 1BTC/mo and see where it goes from there.
This website doesn't even pretend to have a privacy policy.
For what it's worth, if you do decide on a company, call it something modest - and don't try to pretend that you're something that you're not or pretend that you're bigger than you are. Seeing a business card that reads:

John Smith
CEO and President
John Smith Global Design Enterprises

just does not cut it.
What if we tied a basic income to accepting 24x7 monitoring of the body and all communications from the body's point of view in space... i.e., a monitoring band that tracks health biometrics, as well as audio and video, ambient temp, humidity, etc. - full instrumentation of each individual who opts in.

The monitoring band would also act as the recipient's communicator (smartphone) - so - they can freely use it to call, text, email, get apps, etc., it's just that all the data they generate - each individual participant's trace - is recorded.

The massive amount of data collected from people willing to trade a homeless lifestyle for one with a steady income would have tremendous value in aggregate, and be unavailable to anyone for nefarious purposes. The only thing you have to do to get the basic income is be willing to have all your data recorded (but not shared publicly!)

Your anonymized data will then be made available (along with everyone else's) via an API to developers of apps, and, assuming you give them permission, they will be able to access your sensitive / personal / private data as well.
I think you are perhaps conflating returns on the fund as a whole vis-a-vis returns on an investment by investment basis. The goal of a VC, as I understand it, is to only invest in companies that can provide 10x returns, providing that one of those investments does return 10x, one returns 2x, three break-even, and five are outright failures. If a VC owns 10% of a company that exits for $3B, then the VC gets $300M, which returns 75% of the total fund. I very seriously doubt any VC firm would have stopped this transaction.
Europe Eventually Wants To Let People Make In-Flight Phone Calls
I'm sorry, what does 'cos' mean there?
Genetics was most certainly known before Crick. Indeed, the terms "genetics" and "gene" were coined over a decade before Crick was born, and the first research was by Mendel about 50 years before Crick's birth.

I have not heard of a specifically Swedish addict gene, and I've lived in Sweden for over 6 years. Searching now, I found no mention of that concept, including searching for "missbrukare gen". Surely some may have said it, but it's not a widely held belief that's part of the debate on substance abuse.

And of course this part of the thread started because you made a statement about puritanical Swedish religious beliefs of the 1800s, when it appears that religious beliefs in Sweden during that time were decidedly anti-pietism/anti-puritanical.

What I conclude from all this is that you feel that your generalizations are correct, even though your details are not, and you make statements without worrying about checking those facts, or feeling that you need to explain the reasoning behind your generalizations.

Perfectly fine for you do to that, but it's not the conversation I wanted, or want, to have.
> cellular automata-based PRNGs for stream ciphers

This is something that kind of died in the late 80s. One of the most noteworthy cases was Damgard's CA-based hash function in the paper that proved collision-resistance of the Merkle-Damgard mode [1]. It was quickly broken [2]. The SHA-3 winner, Keccak, has roots in CA-based designs [3], but at this point it's little more than an historical footnote.

[1] http://www.inf.usi.ch/faculty/shrimpton/spring09/damgard89.p...

[2] http://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/publications/article-132.p...

[3] http://ice.mat.dtu.dk/slides/KeccakIcebreak-slides.pdf
What are you using on the back-end to perform the queries? Are you using MapReduce? What is the average latency expectations when using the application?
There are many people who bought real estate in 2006 with this same mindset.
The blog post was wrong. Fixed, and thanks!
LinkedIn tightens the API noose once again and backlash ensues
You could pay for your $5 million estate in cash with the dividends from a 'boring' investment in AT&T's stock (5.1% dividend) after six years, while never touching the principle.
Health Law Enrollment Figures Far Lower Than Initial Estimates
Read on the web. Completely perception based. Was hoping someone might have some data to share.
Python Bluetooth
It also protects your personal assets...
Translation: @robertfw, no, that is not an intended use of this product.

I understand the reason for the marketing speak, but vague non-answers like that really turn me off.
The more speculation changes, the more it stays the same...
As always don't invest more than you are willing to lose. There are a million ways that bitcoins could drop to nothing.
Yeah... well I somehow managed to sell a couple days ago at 275.... right at the bottom of the quirky crash - and I feel ... depressed.
"Free at the point of need", as it were.
I'm dedicating my next year to instrumenting my infrastructure. Who's with me?
Yes, that can happen--it's intuitive that that is what happens. But that doesn't mean that it's what does happen, even in a majority of cases. To guess at the result without doing the experiment is to rationalize the result you want to be true. You have to follow the numbers.
Yes, the Bart+Caltrain connection is insane. Are there any other popular public transit routes that take an hour or more plus a transfer to go like a mile?

I came somewhat close to missing an international flight when I waited 30 minutes at Millbrae and then for 45 minutes at San Bruno. Never again. I'll take a cab from Millbrae to SFO from here on out. Damn do I miss the Caltrain shuttle.

Bart is fine, Caltrain is OK, but the Bart+Caltrain+Millbrae connection is putrid. They should have just run the AirTrain out there.
And this is why:

* It's referred to as "speculation".

* You don't "invest" more than you can afford to lose.
If it could be explained the world would be a far better place.

Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. So we have to rely on empathy when we hear people different than ourselves say something makes them uncomfortable.
Hey Airbrite folks, it's a blog post, it shouldn't be a blank page with NoScript in effect. That is a failure on your part.

Regarding the substance of the article: I'd argue that you're introducing a bias towards the outlier projects and ignoring projects (like Egypt Urnash's upthread) that don't need huge budgets. Tabletop gaming and comics have both set up thriving Kickstarter communities. Videogames make a big splash on Kickstarter because their fixed costs are so high (which is its own separate problem - they need to invest heavily in art assets which, as patio11 put it, depreciate straight off a cliff).
- Im interested. What skills are you particular looking for? Also what is your startup about?
Creating a File Encryption App with JavaScript
If you were to wake up tomorrow and realize all the money you put into Bitcoin vanished into thin air, how much would that amount be that it wouldn't ruin your life? $100? $1,000? That's a good way to figure out how much you should invest. But with Bitcoin, think long-term.
Ummmm...doesn't Excel have a row limit of somewhere around 1 million?
We are using MapReduce. Latency will depend on your cluster and the query; it's just a regular MapReduce operation from Hadoop's point of view.
The point is with component you have a choice of how granular you want your components depending on the project, and there is very low cost to breaking things down and having a bunch of dependencies. Whereas the tendency almost everywhere else is to either use monoliths and toolbelts with a bunch of stuff you don't need, or on the other hand to "cut & paste the wheel" on the other.

There are some components that bundle several components together, e.g. component/dom or component/enumerable. And there are certainly more general components for key handlers. But if you need just one piece of it, you don't have to install the whole bundle. And if you use it just once or a few times or in limited contexts, you're right, you can inline it and skip the dependency altogether. But the point is you have a choice depending on your needs.
> At any rate, I don't think it's super coherent to argue that all the things must be fixed at once in order to justify improving one of the things.

I don't disagree with anything you said here, especially this statement above, but it seriously undermines the blog post and makes it sound more like "PostgreSQL is the latest hawtness, so we're going with that and grandstand about it for publicity".

I guess that's my real problem. It makes the whole thing sound like rearchitecting for the sake of publicity, instead of to address an actual issue.
Did you sell for personal reasons, or because the drop scared you off, or what?
I think you can mitigate this by having a company name that doesn't imply size ("Newtech Associates"), avoiding cliche marketing copy and clip art photos (generic hand shake, "We are committed to quality and teamwork"), and putting your photo and info on your "About" page (and don't call it "About Us" of course)
Between writing and formally verifying HDL, logic synthesis (often using third-party or vendor-provided blocks or soft IP, mind you), behavioral and logic simulation (software!), layout, MDP, and building test harnesses that actually test the final hardware, I would actually trust a lower-level language compiled using a well-known compiler and running on a small RTOS on a proven CPU more than I'd trust a new design synthesized into FPGA or especially ASIC form.
I sold my remaining BTC when it was 140.. I thought that was high...
Rule of thumb: Don't make speculative investments unless you know something that everyone else doesn't know.

How many other people are thinking the _exact same thing_ right now?
>Faking the full-time bit is completely true, does not make sense ... but then seems to be a necessity.

It's weird, 'cause I do think I'm unusually good as a temporary worker; I'm willing to tailor the time when I leave to something comfortable for the employer (whereas someone wanting a full-time job is going to jump at the request of a company that is willing to hire them full-time)

And because I'm looking at it as a temporary gig, Not only am I going to feel okay with it when you do let me go, I'm trying to set things up so that the person you get to replace me has an easier time of it; I pride myself on the ability to do things like train replacements. Hell, often I'll help you /find/ the replacement. (another thing that I can do well, but that so far I've failed to figure out how to monetize.)
All of these things are simply gated on browser vendors. That's the overhead. Why would you push for a new UI for insecure connections when you could instead lobby for TACK?
>The only thing a thumping CPU gives you is the ability to ignore what your bad apps and OEM bloatware are doing to performance longer than otherwise. Disable the boatware and clear out the sketchy apps you don't use and that Tegra 3 is just fine.

didn't work during previous 20+ years of PC era.
Yeah I totally agree. I took one of the car programming classes online and found that while the instructor was (obviously) really smart, he sucked at programming. He tried to write out mathematical equations in python rather than structure the code in a way that simply described what was going on. At the end of each mini lesson I'd refactor his code so that it made sense (mostly doing small stuff like changing variable names from their corresponding mathematical symbols to the word of what they actually were, or factoring blocks into methods). Eventually I gave up not because I couldn't understand the domain of self driving cars (he was great at explaining that stuff), but because I couldn't keep up with the mathematical syntax (and the online course kept wiping my code and resetting with his, which was extremely frustrating).
Companies.
The best funded mobile startup in Boston's history.
New York's Enormous Cigarette Smuggling Trade
I think you mean the Nexus 5.
It would be an extremely risky bet which I would never make. There's no guarantee that the grad wouldn't take your money and live the rest of his life as a heroin addict -- lots of smart people don't live up to their potential. Also, he might get hit by a bus tomorrow.

Similarly, lots of companies run by smart people don't live up to their potentials, or are not lucky enough to be popular long enough to make billions of dollars.
UK does have LTE or 4G as some call it. Not that it is priced attractivly enough for anybody to use it compared to the lovely 3G deals out there. That and some of the 3G services are more than fast enough and I even used 3G for a game tornament few years back and won.

But it is out there and more than one network now - but I live in London so kind of spoilt compared to parts of highland Scotland still to see a mobile signal (lucky peeps).

But as said it is not priced well IMHO and if anything America may well have better price bundles with regards to 4G. Now 3G I think the UK is around 3x cheaper. Heck I get unlimited 3G and SMS and plenty of minutes for £15 a month, never seen anything as close for America. But that is a less dense area and later in the day to get 3G compared to the UK. So maybe they invested into kit that is more cheaply upgraded to 4G basestation wise compared to earlier models. But the UK is after all the size of a whole state in America and with that easier population density wise to cost justify rollouts. Albiet UK goverment flaffing about of spectrum sales and the UK mobile market getting burned by paying over the price for the 3G spectrum many years back (rare rare cose of a goverment selling something of not underpriced, indeed only case I can think of).

EE (aka was T-Mobile until they merged with Orange) https://explore.ee.co.uk/coverage-checker/?wt.mc_id=ON_EE_V_...

O2 http://www.o2.co.uk/4g/coverage-and-cities

Vodaphone http://www.vodafone.co.uk/our-network-and-coverage/uk-covera...

So 4G is out there, but price wise - naaa. That said it is not covering the entire UK, though I can find places in the UK which get no mobile signal 2G onwards. Have to love the highlands in Scotland.
Hence the normalization of "one income families" where mothers could stay home with babies and kids could focus on school. Now taxation has grown enough to create great pressure for both parents to work, with consequences leading to calls for "mincome" precisely so pressures to earn can be relieved - without realizing that relentless demands for government spending (ever demanding more revenue from taxpayers) will just exhaust that source as well and result in even more cries for financial assistance. Cut government spending, stop demanding ever more revenue from citizens.
“Significantly Hotter”
I decided to sell at 350. I sat down on my computer, and put in my sell order at 352.Then it started to drop. Then suddenly, it crashed, 2 dollars a second. I watched it get down to 275, and then I just lost my nerve.

Basically, it was incredible, incredible bad luck. As I havent really "watched" the price, for about 2 years.

tl;dr; Bad luck can actually happen to you
Report: Snapchat Turns Down $3 Billion Offer From Facebook
Does anyone have an explanation for why the price is going up so high so fast? Is there something legitimately pushing the price up or is it pure speculation?
What my view is of what he is trying to explain:

You can do awesome stuff with their mathematical based tools. There are tools for statistics, conversions between units, calculation with dates & times, and a lot more. Look for yourself at http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/

Now, they also have the data. Like weather data, about media(movies/music), about languages, about media, about stock and also a lot more.

But for developers there is a problem, you can't build apps with their platform. For example you can't really store or receive data, and there are more practical problems.

So I think that they already solved the practical problems. Because they are developing software themselves this way. So for making it friendly for developers they only have to build some frontend for it.
Thoughts on creativity
In most cases, a business license != corporation or other veiled corporate entity. It's merely the first step. It typically is just a piece of paper you get from the municipality.