skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for doing this, I've got much more appetite for reading about rust than can easily be sated, so it's very gratifying to have someone explain the key concepts so clearly and well.
I'm wondering if you expect him to design (Android) phones, where his talent would indeed be able to scale and justify the price — or do you see Google hiring him to lead a domotic division, and his price is based on Nest gorgeous, but not as-iconic products (yet)? Or is my distinction irrelevant in 2014, the year of wrist-servers?
I don't want to speak for YC or their intentions, so perhaps target is the wrong word here, since I doubt they have model that looks to offer to the needs of a particular subset of people and then "sell" to them. That would be the traditional definition of a "target market"

However, what YC presents is a series of preferences and options that everyone knows appeal much more to a certain personality and - in this case - stage of life, than others. Jumping across a country to live in temporary stasis for three months (or whatever) isn't something a 45 year old woman with two kids and a career is likely to do. It's something a lot of 20 something college kids will consider though. Are they targeting college kids with that stance? Not particularly. Does their offering appeal to one demographic much more than another? Most certainly.

Overall though it's irrelevant, as I said. YC can target or not target as they choose.

The bigger point is that it's pretty hard for that 45 year old woman to gain traction in the tech world right now, and there could be an opportunity cost there that may be pretty large, considering how the demographics of entrepreneurs spread out over other industries.
I think you're missing his/her point. The problem nostromo has is not proprietary formats but social networks. I think the worry is updates like "John Doe turned the temperature in his house to 75!" (and while that fear is overstated, it's not unreasonable to not want products that can detect the presence of humans in your bedroom connected to social networks).
Just to clarify, using a `unsafe` block in a function does NOT mean that you have to tag that function as unsafe.
Wait until the day that Google announces that they're opening up their entire database of search histories in the name of transparency. It will be an opt-out initiative where those wishing to keep their data out of the open will have to pay a monthly "processing and maintenance fee" to "manually" remove your entries from the database.
Staying within the story, the Chinese occupation of this island in the Philippines is not an act that could be solved with a show of force. That action is very much a boots on the ground end game.

To your other point: I have traveled to Taiwan 6 times in the last year (going again in Feb.) It is quite clear there is close to zero support in the population for reunification under current Chinese (mainland) system. This is not to say there is no support for being part of China again - just not as it is today. If the government of mainland China became an full Democracy however it is clear this would happen.
Alright, who in your company knows what hardware to buy at which datacenter for how much? What software is going to run on it? who picks that software? How do you get data onto it? How do you get data off of it? What happens when it goes down? How do you monitor it? How do you scale it to two servers? Or more? Who is going to do that? Who is going to know all that? Who else is going to know that so your company doesn't fail when the first person isn't around?
Maybe we'll finally see Android @ Home become a reality

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/24/what-happened-to-android-at...
I can only hope your posts are a joke but if not, why would someone acquihire you if you were only going to retire? An acquihire is about grabbing a ready-made team in a particular field.
I'm not convinced they're as much jokes as real concerns by people who have already been burned by this (see: YouTube -- I'm not going to argue about whether or not G+ integration has made these products better, but it's not unreasonable to not want your real-name associated with comments you made under a pseudonym, and to be so annoyingly pestered to do so!)
nslookup docker
127.0.0.1

localhost is but a name, which happens to be tied to ::1 or 127.0.0.1. I agree though that it should be outside of the default 127.0.0.1 instance, instead it can be anywhere on the 127.0.1.x network for example.

Or even better use an IPv6 ULA prefix instead.
A better question is "will all nest users have to get a google+ account?"

I'm betting they will.

I wonder if google will force-share your data there too in order to boost the interaction numbers.
Conversion Rates Don’t Really Matter: Here’s Why
My opinion of SnapChat is that it's not worth much because the founder lacks empathy — although the execution and success were (lucky and) impressive. Facebook on the other hand is a company I admire.

I see why you'd see one trying to control the other and being rejected as a failure, but I actually felt relieved that nastiness hasn't be rewarded now, hoping they'll pay soon (and not so surprised by SnapChat's arrogance).
$3.2M would be a truckload of money too, but on a Google scale, "This number is really enormous!" is a weak argument. $3.2B is less than 1% of their market cap. Relative terms are much more important than "how many zeros"; why, just recently, Google took a $150M loss in Q3'2012 on the Motorola division. They aren't afraid of 9-figure losses. Thus (IMO) $3.2B being a large number has little bearing on whether or not Google would be willing to take a writedown on Nest, for the right reasons.
Still, I think for 85 million I could figure out a way.
I'd probably resort to an iframe on the SSL site.
That seems sloppy when you could just stick to standard port assignments and use special use addresses. If you'd like help getting special use addresses, I'd be happy to help where I can.

At the minimum, hijack 255.255.255.255 instead.
I agree with vdaniuk, that it is a good point. It changed my mind a bit.

On consideration, I'm a big fan of Google, Apple and Amazon. The thing that makes me (and probably others) nervous about all three is that they are too big. For instance, a monopolist strategy (Microsoft style) might appear someday.
How a 600-year-old university became a tech leader
A few years ago, I was debugging a problem on a Wordpress.com hosted site and found that they put a job ad in their HTTP response headers, based on the notion that anyone looking at their HTTP headers would be the sort of person they would want to hire.
Patrick McKenzie AMA on BetaList
This is true if the application needs to talk to the slaves directly. If the application doesn't care, then you could do the smarts in the proxy layer underneath the application. I see three scenarios:

* Stateless or Transparent master/master backend

Example: Memcached cluster

Use load balancing in the proxy layer

* Failover backend with failover on server side

Examples: Mysql master/slave

Use failover logic in the proxy layer

* Failover backend with failover on the client side

Example: HA RabbitMQ cluster

Above suggestion from polvi is needed
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If so he convinced me with his final broadcasts.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2536683/Yahoo-hires-...
"Keep your startup culture inside of Facebook!"
Signs you have to revert to Emacs mode. Unless it's an assemblage, it's always a smell if you replace a unit of a body with that of a "competitor."
I would argue Hotmail — Microsoft brought scaling and maturity, and kept a stronghold on the net long enough to actually threaten and push Google further. I doubt Gmail would have appeared without that acquisition.

But then again: the dozen other examples cited above are certainly better.
Chrome rendering engine will get faster, lighter, and better offline in 2014
I've had three older folks just this week ask me how to permanently delete their Google+ profiles. One even insisted on deleting it even though he'd never actually gone past the initial sign-in page.
Ask HN - Emulators for legacy systems?
So, I was reading through some old papers on legacy systems as well as some documents and code samples from an assortment of older systems either I or a family member played with over the years. And I got to wondering, are there collected resources that cover emulators for legacy systems?

For instance, I know there used to be Baby/400 for AS/400 but that seems to have gone the the bit bucket in the sky. OpenVMS is still around for the VMS fans.

I'd be curious if collections exist out there? My searching so far for specific systems has been hampered by being a bit busy with other projects.
!$ runs the last command. it's bad if the last command is of the form command arg... because it'd run command without every other argument passed in the command line
Thus unsubstantiated. They hold no weight and should not be used to justify decisions, especially not political ones.
True. Of course one other advantage is that you can run a unikernel on a public cloud. You can of course run OS to serve as a host for containers on a public cloud, but then you have an additional layer of overhead.
You can sell a widget for $10 when it costs you $20 to make. Million of people will buy it because it's such a great value. You will have tens of million in revenue!
PSA: Back Up Your Shit
decimals doesn't have commas, if you want to add 12 digits of precision then you should have to write: $3,200,000,000.000000000000 , also when writing down a money amount, those two extra digits are for the cents(exactly 2 digits of precision), It would be ultra weird to write with 1 or 3 digits of precision, or zero for that matter.
Perhaps we'll see a return of Google Power Meter. That was an ambitious project to promote a data standard, towards the goal of better efficiency through consumers' close monitoring of their own power usage. But it failed to gain traction in the industry and Google did not double down. Until now. It seems they may now think that it is better to make transparent decisions automatically rather than by providing information for the consumer to take action on themselves. Power consumption is a large opportunity and one that Google understands from its data centre operations. Certainly it is hard to justify the cost of Nest on its current portfolio and acqui-hire alone.
I disagree, the luxury and grand tourer segments are much nicer to spend extended periods of time in than say, a sports car with a heavy clutch.
Anyone know what makes the "Mastercheck Keypad and Printer" so special? I can buy cheap magnetic toner and put it in my laser printer to get magnetic encoded checks, but my understanding is most banks don't rely on that much any more in favor of optical recognition. That was one bit that seemed a bit hyperbolic.
http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html

The way to win here is to build the search engine all the hackers use. A search engine whose users consisted of the top 10,000 hackers and no one else would be in a very powerful position despite its small size, just as Google was when it was that search engine. And for the first time in over a decade the idea of switching seems thinkable to me.

Since anyone capable of starting this company is one of those 10,000 hackers, the route is at least straightforward: make the search engine you yourself want. Feel free to make it excessively hackerish. Make it really good for code search, for example. Would you like search queries to be Turing complete? Anything that gets you those 10,000 users is ipso facto good.

That suddenly got a lot easier, when excessively hackerish just means "it's not Google and doesn't give a flying fuck about visitor stats". Imagine an artist writing their song without thinking about their audience - those are the best songs. Likewise, maybe surveying the market and doing what people want, instead of what you think they need, is a bit overrated, the road to mediocrity and ultimately failure. Well, I can hope ^^
Indeed. It also works in things like irb, for example.
Superlens Approach Allows For Longer-Distance Wireless Device Charging
I wish there was more experimentation on cloud architecture; VMs aren't the be-all and end-all of the cloud IMO.
It's not 'sort of irrelevant'. The entire thesis of many arguments against Google, and specifically the comment you made above, was that they distribute your personal information to advertisers and other corporate entities. That's just not true.

Frankly, if they did that, they wouldn't make very much money. They can demand money from advertisers because they have an information advantage over everyone else. That information advantage gives them an incentive to protect your personal information. After all, if they leaked the information a competitor could use it to formulate competitive advertising profiles, which would drive down earnings.

Edit:
I wanted to add a few more thoughts since I let it spin around in my mind a bit. I think if you followed the line of argument regarding Google's profit motive as a corporation, you could reach the conclusion that their users' privacy(that is, the distribution of their private information) is a prerogative of theirs to protect. Their viability as a corporation depends on their profiles being the most accurate, and on being under their sole ownership. As such, they are driven to protect them.

I would conjecture that the profit motive for their need to protect their information has led to their relatively robust consumer protection ratings by groups like the EFF[0].

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0: https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2013
> If socialized models provide more expensive and poorer quality healthcare than systems with market forces involved, then it should be directly reflected in the American system being at least marginally better than the socialist systems. It is not. It is demonstrably far, far worse. Therefore, your argument continues to be flawed, despite your attempt to dodge the reality of facts. (I suppose you could argue that the American system of private insurers and private providers is somehow more socialist than any of the European systems. Good luck with that.)

I'm not dodging anything, and you saying so doesn't make my argument flawed.

To make it more clear, it's about more government involvement vs less government involvement. The only way the government affects an economy is through coercion: taxes, laws, regulations, licences and so on. Without government involvement, people would just do business however they wanted, and the corporations bribing politicians would actually have to engage in honest competition.

The less government involvement there is in X, the better X will be. It's as simple as that. Obviously, the government is very much involved in the US healthcare system. There's Medicare, Medicaid, and yes, all those insurance companies between the health care providers and their customers. Providers can charge outrageous fees for procedures because their customer doesn't care - he's not the one paying, after all. Often the patients aren't even aware how much is being charged to their insurance companies, and if the patient himself is paying, the price is completely different. "Oh you're paying yourself?! Let me knock a zero off of that".

> As an aside, I reject your implicit assumption that "customer service" is the only thing that motivates good work.

You're free to reject an implicit assumption I didn't actually make, of course. The single biggest motivator for good work is self-interest, because your customer only pays you if he likes what he's getting in exchange.

The way business works is through benefiting its customers, because otherwise they wouldn't pay for its services. When exchanges are voluntary, both parties benefit. Your benefit is the profit you get from selling your services, and your customer's benefit is whatever you do for him. As long as you're doing business without any government involvement, you'll simply have to keep pleasing your customers, lowering your costs / improving your productivity, and just overall maintaining a good level of quality. But all of this is predicated on the existence of competitors, and buying your services being voluntary - otherwise these mechanics don't apply anymore, and then you get lower quality and higher costs. This was my argument, and it very much still stands. It's based on human nature, the way we actually work, here in the real world.
Face Recognition App For Glass Challenges Google
Good thing the Google founders have grown up and don't need adult supervision anymore.
Thank you, Google employee.

(No, not a guess. It's in their profile.)
This is a great example of challenging assumptions. One of the most valuable lessons I learned is to look at something in its existing, boring state and try to imagine what it's opposite would be like.

Looking for opposites seems to be a way of seeing things that are obvious and yet that you hadn't seen.
My CSS library uses bacteria names as release names, like Bored Bryocella and Alcoholic Aquifex. http://minfwk.com
Well, Google might very well change the price point.

I really agree with the premise of that article, with one major exception: when the real price is your attention. Internal combustion engines, iOS, can legitimately be seen as disruption: they were more expensive than their equivalent, but thosed need so much effort… Nest might be the same for domotic.
> Big Bang Theory is a depiction of what idiots think intelligent people are like. Those characters do not exist in real life.

I've known people in real life similar to all the main characters of BBT. The BBT characters are more concentrated, so I'd have to use maybe 7 or 8 people to span the characteristics of Sheldon, Leonard, Howard, and Raj, but I don't think that invalidates the point.

In fact, I knew such people at Caltech, which is where BBT is set.

As a Caltech graduate, I see no problem with their portrayal of Caltech people. It is the portrayal of the facilities that bugs me. They have geologists in the same building as theoretical physicists!

The "likes BBT" (x axis) vs "viewer intelligence" (y axis) curve seems to be, as far as I can see, convex.
Does anyone run a service that saves deleted articles? If not, should such a service be created?
Call me old school, but for me it's Suit and Tie.
Just to say it again, extreme cold is where a thermostat is of little help.

But imagine that there are 4 or 5 months a year where the outdoor temperature is 15 or 20 degrees colder than a comfortable indoor temperature. And imagine turning down the thermostat during the night in those periods, not just during unoccupied times.

(I realize that more energy is used during cold periods, but some huge portion of the country lives in areas that rarely see 20 for the several months they are below 60).
> just like all those ads from that mobile device that people carry with them everywhere, has a screen and speakers

Your sarcasm is lost because Google does plan on monetizing (adding ads) to Gmail for Android.

Or that they do track your location often for deals, google+, etc.
Paul's general workflow also works with just Grunt and one of its many S3 plugins. For example, you can clone the Bootstrap github repo (which comes with a nice Grunt build config), npm install an S3 plugin, add S3 deployment tasks to Gruntfile.js, and boom - static site generator and deployer.
Honeywell has not licensed any technology to Nest.

There's nothing really fancy about a thermometer, humidity sensor, IR motion sensor and a bit of software anyway. Which is why Nest had no trouble identifying prior art to each of the patents Honeywell tried to assert (and made no offer to license). They carved their niche by being the only company that cared to make the most of some simple inputs and packaged them up in a way that looked different from the rest of the market. It's somewhat similar to the iPod/iPhone story.
Slight? It would turn a 10-min run into over 2 hours.
Then I would say that your understanding of Australian medical system is somewhat idealized.
> If you want to do a crappy NSA troll, and personally attack the work I did, you'll need to do better than this.

Well, I haven't actually made any negative comments about your work, so I can't see where that's coming from.
You must now login with your G+ account to turn on your thermostat or smoke detector.
I'd love to read an article about that computer she was "forced" to build at age 10. Now that sounds fascinating.
How to create your own Tor hidden service on Debian/Ubuntu with nginx
There is no free software
Nice, never knew about this. Cheers
Boogie Board Sync: More than a Toy...but...
I think it is also important to keep in mind that they really did not have any legal authority to draft an entirely new constitution.
You are right.

The outside case for this is if you use your personal credit to secure an office building, car, or other loans (bank)
The Vicious Circle of Income Inequality
The NASA Studies on Napping
Guy lands on head trying backflip
Snowboarder trying a backflip fails. Head and shoulders straight into the pow!
Ayra, powerful small bluetooth speaker, size matters
Yes and no.

It depends on the business and product.

First, Everpix had revenue, yes, but they had negative marginal profit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_profit). Since their business is based around charging customers $X/month, their unit economics are incredibly important. If I buy candy bars for $3 and sell them for $2 I can also show "real revenue," but nevertheless this is still a terrible business.

Second, what's a better business, Google + Adwords or Google + charging $5/month/user. The latter puts a tight upper limit on the total size of your market. Google is unquestionably more profitable with the former business model rather than the latter, but it took Google years of not being profitable before they made it happen. If you look up articles about Google in the late 90s they were filled with hand-wringing about how they'll make money. The same goes for Facebook, which I think most HN users still dismiss as a fad. Nevertheless, they're very profitable and have been for many years.

VCs care mostly about the size limiting case and how likely we are to reach that limiting case. You can say this is stupid, counterproductive, etc., but for whatever reason that's the course Everpix decided to pursue. The logic of VC investing makes sense and it was Everpix's decision to take that route vs. remaining small-but-profitable, assuming the latter was actually an option.

Third, we can also contrast SnapChat and Everpix's situation from a game-theoretic perspective. Let's say SnapChat was charging, I dunno, $5 to download the app. Conservatively, let's assume that had no effect other than X% fewer people downloading the app. So, fewer people download the app, but we now have a very, very nice gross margin. In fact, let's say there were 5 similarly-sized SnapChat clones, each charging the same amount.

What would you do if you were one of those competitors? I can tell you what I'd do — I'd make my application free and build up the largest network I possibly could, knowing that the main value users get out of a communication app/network is the number of people on the network with whom they want to communicate (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe's_law).

Since a player in this hypothetical SnapChat space could improve their situation by changing their strategy unilaterally, we see that the "charge for SnapChat" situation is not in a Nash equilibrium and it'd be irrational for us not to adopt this new strategy ourselves.

Of course, this only works when the new strategy is viable — in this case, the "free for users" strategy. Because their marginal costs are much lower, it is significantly more viable for Snapchat than Everpix. Indeed, for Everpix it will just make their overall situation worse.
Ignoring all the claims here, can you explain the relevance to the current discussion?
As mentioned, we have refused any info that has PII in it, so what exactly is there that would be taken?

(This is even true in countries where it's publicly available info)