skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, they can still ban it. If you want subtitles, you'll use a pre-approved device. http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/08/regal-outfits-almost-6000...
What do you think of your competition, which I imagine are ZeroCater and Cater2Me?
The middle of Australia is, technically speaking, "a hellish wasteland devoid of life". Meanwhile here in the Bay Area I'm lucky to get gsm on my phone when at home.
I think the point is that you generally have very little to lose by talking to a lawyer before talking to the police, even if you haven't done anything wrong.

The sad reality is that "looking guilty" by not talking is usually a lot better than genuinely trying to cooperate and saying something that can be used against you in court.
Because Google can easily tell that one is paid for, but not easily tell with the other. The method of ranking by incoming links is very flawed and prone to abuse.
Relocating to reduce financial pressure seems to be a good idea. We live in Paris and we need ~6k€/month to sustain current (frugal) lifestyle. This is mainly due to our monthly mortage payment (2k/month).

So at 500$ MRR I would most likely go from 5 days per week job to 4 days per week job in order to invest more in bootstrapping my business.

At 5k$ MRR I would quit my job.

At 50k$ MRR I would pay off the mortage earlier and start investing in order to increase passive earnings.
Logical response from theater-goers:

_Never_ go to the theater.
Dumb isn't used to denote what its original meaning is (a person unable to speak - we would use the word "mute" today). Dumb just means stupid, as if one is culpable for their own stupidity.

Retard in its noun form literally means a mentally handicapped person. So by using it to offend a non-mentally handicapped person (albeit, a stupid one), you are concurrently levelling an offence against the mentally handicapped in general and since the mentally handicapped are not deemed culpable for their situation, this is deemed socially unacceptable.
I use to be huge into listening to music in the 90s. Gradually at the turn of the century, I practically stopped and almost never listen to music these days.

I can't speak for others but for me it was a couple of things... When working, I zone out quite a bit to the point that it's like not hearing music anyway so what's the point. If anything music can be distracting. Unfortunately unlike others, I prefer absence of sound aside from stuff like keyboard typing when I'm working.

Outside of work related stuff, I gradually faded out listening to music altogether in the car or while running as well. I generally prefer instead to ride in silence thinking (zoning out again) or if I listen to stuff, stand up comedy somehow became a thing to replace music

Edit: It is worth noting most of my music exposure these days if at all (and if you can call it that) is coming across stuff on YouTube or while watching a movie and music enhances the film lol. It did a major 180 in my life.
The more general advice would be to test your backups, whether they're online or offline (ideally both). Now I should go and practice what I praise ...
How candy-crush uses human behavior to make it an addictive game?

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1050994
What is the proper procedure to interact with law enforcement personnel?

- Get their identity? Their business cards? Copy down their name, ID, position, and contact info?

- Get their organization info? Local cop? FBI? Homeland Security officers? Contact info?

- Get their supervisor info?

- Check their jurisdiction? Their rights to detain you or interrogate you? Call the police to check?

- Ask for which laws are broken?

- Are you being detained? Are you free to go?

- Not consenting to search.

- Anything else?

I think this guy got tricked into thinking those people are FBI. "Bob Hope" is a dead giveaway BS. Impersonating FBI is a serious crime. This is same as the Apple case of recovering the iphone prototype, where the Apple people pretended to be cops when they invited the police along in the home intrusion.
Ignore SEO beyond the basics, and focus your efforts on other things. If you're in travel/accommodation, go all out to get the best ratings on TripAdvisor as an example - competing on Google is an arms race that wastes time. If you lose on TripAdvisor, at least you'll do so trying to provide superior service.

If you're a plumber, encourage word of mouth and other viral methods (discount vouchers for referrals, etc).

For almost any business in a competitive field, throwing money at SEO will only escalate. Win a different way.
Russian Teen Suspected as Author of Target Hacking Code
I'm curious, are you stating this based on your experience, or you just think it's unlikely?
Ukrainian protesters set up catapult to fire at police
*shrugs

That's my personal experience. If you want to call me a shill, then say it, rather than insinuate it.

Edit: Apologies, that was antagonistic. I was a professional salesperson for 7 years - I sometimes lapse into sales talk when discussing any product. Usually it's things other than Microsoft, and I'm not joking when I say that the last version I used was Vista, but I honestly think 8 is interesting, if unpolished. My family isn't adept other than my mother (she's 41).
Grad students lack market power, and it shows: Or, the UC-Riverside non-scandal
Apple supposedly actually has a license deal with Cisco over that.
Well... my point was a bit different. WA state grants tribal casinos better licensing for gambling as well as other breaks, but X% of the profits must be "re-invested" into the tribe by law.

Although the tribes by and large fund education, medical expenses, and other stuff rather well, it still leaves a huge surplus of money they are forced to spend on community "reinvestment." And that's how you get the ridiculous Tulalip hotel, and there's tons of outrage at the tribe for this - when in reality the law is forcing them to spend it.
None of them got lucky...
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Good point. I guess all one can do is realize what you just wrote and go along with them...
You know how to avoid situations like this? Have the theatre tell their customers that google glasses aren't allowed.
So what is the performance benchmark for Clojure / ClojureScript? I've seen a lot of buzz for Clojure as of late, but given how bloated the web is at the moment, until I see Clojure (or Haskell) make leaps-and-bounds better performance in return for the pain of learning the language (and the barrier to functional programming), how can we hope to mass-adopt this technology?
As a contrived example to my thinking: If it had taken us another 100 years to figure out combustion engines would we all be riding in steam cars? Would the industry focusing on building better and better steam cars have been a waste? Would investing millions in developing an engine that was light enough to allow flight in heavier than air vehicles when we already have a dirigible/train/ship network that is perfectly adequate for passenger and good transport.
Personally I see this kind of work as needing to find 'new' solutions to realise these kind of blue sky projects. Meanwhile applying ourselves to even quite meaningful works does not give us a new solution to apply to other problems it just fits an existing solution to an unsolved problem. It may benefit us more in the short term to apply the solutions we already have (some times in very novel ways) to solve existing problems but coming up with new ways to apply the same old solution to different areas becomes harder and harder as there are less problems it could apply to and the blue sky research may very much make those solutions, if not obsolete, an inefficient use of effort.
Hey People Food, some feedback on your post:

- 300 heads? the word "people" is in your startup name and you just called people "heads". Not nice.

- "Catering" probably kills this for most readers. Catering is used with "events". I'm sure you would deliver as long as a company orders what 2 or more? 3 or more? Just phrase it like that so that anyone in a startup feels empowered to submit their company.

- Your ask is weak. I'd filter for the ideal customer of yours: startups with 5+ (whatever) people and also what the limit is - will you give meals for free to every single company that emails you? or just 5-7? and that's how many free lunches? and per company? I'd be specific. First come first serve? etc.

- Send you (the founder) an email at support @ ?? not personal

Please don't misunderstand me, this sounds awesome. It's just that how it's written right now it seems a bit rushed and prone for disappointed HN readers :)
But the sample of people that your friend saw is biased. She only saw the people who talked to the police and ended up in prison, but doesn't know about the people who showed to the police that they are innocent, and who then left, without the interaction being recorded anywhere.

The same is true for lawyers who tell you to never talk to the police. They only see the cases that get to a court, and don't see the cases that never make it that far.

I'm not saying that you should always talk to the police, but it very much depends on the situation. In that particular case I'd have probably talked with them and insisted that they look at the actual data on the glass, if the alternative is to spend the night in jail, waiting for someone to look at the evidence.
Thanks, and I hope you enjoy the latest release.
Aereo - fighting against monopoly of large media companies
Meanwhile everyone who obtained the movie illegally could watch it at home without being harassed by anyone. At times where less and less people actually go to movie theaters, harassing the people who do so, doesn't look like the best strategy.
I've met FBI agents in person in a professional context if that's what you mean. I obviously don't have any first hand knowledge of this scenario but the connection to the FBI seemed rather tenuous in the story.
Whether wearing a camera to the movies is non-consequential. Only if one is actively taping that one is breaking the law.

Possessing the potential doesn't break the law. Otherwise, the theater male management should be charged with rape since they are well equipped with the potential to rape.
They certainly weren't, there is no way you can call and have a federal agent show up to a movie theatre in the space of a couple of minutes.

They are almost certainly former federal or other agents who now work for private security firms that contract to AMC / MPAA.

It wouldn't take much detective work to figure out which firm it is and who the people are.

It sounds like they broke the 'impersonating a federal officer' law, but a lot of private detectives do that in the USA and nobody ever does anything about it.
I got that reference!

I am old. :(
Emoticons Deceiving Mobile Users
I believe the speed increases are due to better beamforming algorithms, which use multiple fixed antennas to behave like one or more directional antennas at the same time. The idea being that the antenna only sends power in a small cone to your device and only hears responses from inside that small cone. This lets you fit many users onto the same frequency space, since they can't hear each other and each have the full slice of spectrum and time to themselves. It's space multiplexing, as opposed to time and code multiplexing that's currently widely used.

(The problem is that this requires really good digital signal processing. Normally we make directional antennas by putting bits of metal around the driven element that pick up the signal and re-radiate it out of phase. These work really well, and you probably have on on your roof to receive TV signals. But beamforming does this all in software, using a number of actual antennas to radiate out-of-phase to increase power in a certain direction. The reverse is true for receive; correlating phase information to "hear" a signal only from a certain direction. One direction is easy, but 100 directions is hard. That's where better DSP equates to more "bandwidth" for mobile phones.)

802.11n contains rudimentary beamforming, but the state of the art for software signal processing on $5 commodity chips is not amazing, and of course, the 2.4GHz ISM band is basically unusable because there is so much interference from non-beamforming (etc.) devices. 802.11ac improves this incrementally with better hardware. So it makes sense that at carrier grade budgets and with dedicated spectrum, good beamforming is possible. If so, and that's what this is, I totally believe 300MBps.

802.11ac has a 256QAM mode that can do almost 1Gbps. Of course, on the 2.4GHz band, you'll never hear 16 levels of signal over all the noise. But with dedicated spectrum, things change.

(This is mostly secondhand knowledge, so take it with a grain of salt. My cubemate at work is a WiFi expert :) I'm just a ham who is happy making QSOs at 31.25baud with PSK31.
The precision and reliability of embedded system those guys designed always amazes me
Calling all Computer Scientist: FlyBase.Org
Never talk to the cops. Period. You can't help yourself by proving you have "nothing to hide." The only word emanating from your vocal cords should be "lawyer."
I'm not the one who voted you down, although "I just. Wow." isn't what I'd call a thoughtful response.

To reiterate: visualize a computing world where Jobs managed to make his peace with Sculley and the board and used all the resources of Apple to make the NeXT technology happen a lot more swiftly and completely. He might then have brought Mach kernel people into Apple and high-end workstation tech might have began being commoditized and non-suckified and merged with the PC space in the late eighties.

If you don't see how that might have made him quite a bit more successful (and changed the shape of the world to come pretty drastically) I'm not sure what else to say about it.
> Grabbing expensive hardware off someone's face? Grabbing glasses off someone who's paying attention to you is hard. They instinctively lean back and put their hands up to block.

A crazy street dude once snatched my glasses off my face on a street corner. I had been firmly ignoring his ranting and personal space invasion, so I wasn't prepared to take action. It's not that improbable if the victim isn't expecting it and doesn't have excellent reflexes.

I told him very loudly to give them back, and he suddenly noticed that I had about 8 inches and 150 pounds on him and handed them back without a word.
> No, I don't think that stepping back and saying "this allocation of resources stinks" is myopic. Not unless you have so much faith in our resource allocation system that you excuse it from the need to justify itself.

While I would not excuse our resource allocation system from the list of things that should be justified... and notwithstanding that a key resource allocation component, the Government, is subject to a wild variety of inefficiencies...

I think that it ALSO takes a lot of hubris to tell the nation's 300 million people or so+ that you know better than they do, and that they should be sacrificing for the Noble Cause of putting people in space, instead of spending it on the things they feel like make their life better, even if it DOES happen to be the brand that spends more money on advertising instead of a similar-quality generic. (Also, for what it's worth, you should be aware that your interpretation of advertising is a pretty tendentious one.)

So there's that.

(+ I say the Nation to avoid extreme comparisons in living standards which may occur with a more global view, to say nothing of the diversity of economic systems.)
Yup. There's a great misconception by naive people that believe candor begets innocence. Unfortunately, an adversarial legal system instead looks at volunteered information as ammunition.
So what you're saying is... he got your glasses because you weren't paying attention to him? :)

You could be right. Maybe he had poor reflexes or was startled by the badge or something. No single detail damns the story, but enough rub me the wrong way to make me suspicious.
Windows 8 suffers from the problem of not knowing what it wants to be. I like the Apple approach of having a hard division between OSX and iOS, because touch interface is inherently different from one that’s keyboard and mouse driven.

Someone once described Windows 8 as a large estate house, with many rooms and corridors. For the most part, all the rooms look great. You have the west wing (old windows) and the east wing addition (the new metro UI side). But as you wonder around the building, you on occasion stumble into a room that has no paint, the walls are ripped up, and there is an under construction sign.

Now that I think about it, maybe Windows 9 has a chance after all though. Think about it:

Windows 3.0 - bad - quite terrible
Windows 3.1 - good - worked ok
Windows 95 - bad
Windows 97 - good
Windows Me - terrible
Windows XP - very good
Windows Vista - bad, basically Win 7 Alpha
Windows 7 - good, stable and get’s out of your way
Windows 8 - bad, has no idea who it’s target market is
Windows 9 - ????

Above is just my opinions, of course, but notice the pattern. Maybe there is a hope for Windows 9 yet.
It always seems so obvious in retrospect but it's hard to think clearly when you're in the gist of doing it and you have a mountain on your shoulders.

Something - how so stupid, I'll admit - that I realized is that even if smart people tell you something, you often need to fail it first to really get it.

Pick the right co-founders? It's one of the most basic rules.. but how many entrepreneurs do you know didn't listen to that.. you?

Focus on product-market fit and only a handful of few features that customers really love..
He was asking for it, look how he was dressed.
> Note that the authorities did tell him they were going to cause him more problems if he didn't cooperate.

"I would be happy to cooperate fully in the presence of my legal counsel."
I agree about the iPod, before that Apple was a sad story. They just rebranded the Diamond PMP for the Napster crowd, which was pretty smart. Nobody knew what an MP3 player was till Napster came along:

Diamond Rio MP3 player - 1998

Napster - 1999

iPod - 2001

After that, everything they made was a minimal white box with rounded corners and the rest is history. LOL.
It literally means delayed in time, we use it in physics a lot, in the context of people and development it applies to those whose education (or cognitive ability) is delayed in time.
Is this a creative fiction short-story?
> I kept telling them that Glass has a USB port and not only did I allow them, I actually insist they connect to it and see that there was nothing but personal photos with my wife and my dog on it. I also insisted they look at my phone too and clear things out, but they wanted to talk first.

The problem is, even if these are very technical people, they not experts in all technology, and there are 100s of ways of hiding this stuff. They can never be 100% sure that you weren't recording it, maybe someone else nearby had the hdd that everything was being sent to. So as much as you might like to try to prove your innocence, it is impossible to do so.

Even in court they will have expert witnesses try to explain to the layman what is going on, what is possible.

He was lucky they took this as evidence.

> I asked if they thought my Google Glass was such a big piracy machine, why didn’t they ask me not to wear them in the theater?

They weren't there at the beginning of the film.

Anyway, what an awful experience for this guy and his wife. I guess the solution is to wear a different pair of glasses next time.
Laboratory starts 27th and the kit arrived in 1 week, so there is a good chance. The videos were posted just today, I haven't started either. The kit costs more if you are from EU. If you start this week you should be alright. I don't plan to do anything until Friday anyway. Also laboratory is not required for first course so you can just jump in.
This is a pretty suspicious story, but if true:

I would have called 911 and gotten "real" police there, and ask for charges for false imprisonment, battery, assault. These were pretty clearly not real police. If they were representing themselves as police officers ("federal service" is pretty questionable), that's something local police would take very seriously, too.

Lucky they didn't encounter one of the presumably-reasonably-large cross section of tech people who are also libertarians and likely to be armed.
Most def not the MPAA.
Shameless proxy brag:

I volunteer for the Long Now Foundation. [1] One of their amazing efforts is the Rosetta Project [2], a set of parallel texts and linguistic resources so that future civilizations will be able to decode anything written today.

The ESA put one of the Rosetta Project disks on the space probe [3], so a bunch of information about our languages is now way the hell out there. You can think of it as very long term backup. [4] I'm really happy for the Long Now folks today.

As an aside, I strongly recommend their series of talks. It's one of my favorite nerd events in SF, and members can stream them live. The old talks are also available via podcast.

[1] http://longnow.org/
[2] http://rosettaproject.org/
[3] http://blog.longnow.org/02013/12/16/wake-up-rosetta/
[4] http://blog.longnow.org/02008/08/20/very-long-term-backup/
Oh wow, I didn't even know about that word! Now I wish I could edit that old comment.
Please, god, hackers, watch that video.

Without saying too much here, let's just say I wish I'd seen this video in, say, 2002 (well before it was made).
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China Exports Pollution to U.S., Study Finds
Spent time reading it only to find it to be a recruitment fluff piece devoid of any useful information at all. Angry at myself for even bothering to finish it...
In the present day war on boys and brains, our institutions would have had Feynman locked up and medicated at age 5.
You should post your email address so people can contact you.
I can see this scenario becoming the plot of a feel-good comedy movie
I am from Brazil and read a lot. But had never heard of you.

I've just added "The Laundry Files series" to my reading list... The description of the series on your site is great!

I just finished "Do androids dream of eletric sheep?" so I am in the right mood I guess.

Cheers
http://www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/books/hackers

Not sure how much it has changed (revisions) but my old copy has a few chapters on Woz.
See also http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/04/jeremy-irons-woul...
Every single person should watch this immediately.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

It is a brilliant talk about your rights.
What I Want From Rapportive 2.0
Absolutely right:
It is witty and extremely compelling viewing.
EVERY citizen should watch it.
One of the Windows 8 improvements is with the default file copy/move, and I no longer use TerraCopy. There are a bunch of under-the-hood/utility improvements outside the aesthetic.
I think it's important to note that neither Einstein, Newton nor Galileo were geniuses in a vacuum. They all stood on the shoulders of prior discoveries, and were well educated by the standards of their time.

In general, I think we tend to be a little quick to hero worship. Either way, there's certainly enough room in the scientific community for researchers who are diligent, meticulous and contribute to small measurable improvements in the state of the art.

Moreover, given the increased complexity involved in actually pushing the state of the art in just about any field - I'm not exactly sure what an alternative higher-educational model would or should look like.
Startups are hard, and failure is really hard, no matter how much you try or how strong you try to be.

I wrote one of the articles on this list. If your startup is going badly, feel free to reach out: paul [at] circleci.com.
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CCTV Guy Who Threw Grenade During Bangkok Protest Footage.Man Caught On CCTV Camera Footage.