skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Precedent is also a strong word. There are numerous people on the road who go over the speed limit. It's prominent and not going away anytime soon. This is not a cause for precedence.

Precedence implies that a legal case take place in order to dictate the law. AFAIK, between your unsubstantiated comment and my general knowledge of this area, the reason no one has provided a scraper service at scale isn't because the technology or execution wasn't right, but rather that it's simply illegal to do so.

> The general consensus is if the information is available to end users with a regular web browser, no logins or agreement checkboxes, then it's fair game for web scraping.

That's simply not true. Here's an example:

http://www.yelp.com/static?country_=US&p=tos

"By accessing or using the Site, you are agreeing to these Terms and concluding a legally binding contract with Yelp Inc., a Delaware corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California ("Yelp"). Do not access or use the Site if you are unwilling or unable to be bound by the Terms."

"Use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other automated device, process or means to access, retrieve, scrape, or index any portion of the Site or any Site Content;"

My overall point? Kimonolabs is slowly painting a target on their back and it's only a matter of time before they'll have to "lawyer up".
How do you list yourself on LinkedIn - as looking for a job?
For someone such as myself looking for a talented engineer, unless there is a strong indicator that someone is looking for a position, I've found LinkedIn has not provided too many responses.

I tried one of the more expensive LinkedIn accounts awhile back, contacted about 10 people that all had mobile experience (my company makes an iOS and Android app for higher education), and only got 1 response to my message.

I assume part of it is that my message was read by these people, but they looked at it as "spammy," even though I wrote it individually to each person and tailored the message for each person. I've gotten messages from random people on LinkedIn, and it's easy to feel messages on there to be spammy.

So having my time on LinkedIn essentially feel like a huge waste made me question LinkedIn. Is it that I used their email system, and I should have instead setup a phone call?

Perhaps I am communicating a job that is not particularly interesting? I think an iOS and Android app with web backend, using the tech we are using (native languages for the native apps, and NodeJS for web), would be fairly attractive to a variety of developers though.
To some degree it depends what you consider research. I agree startups and "the industry" are 1) not necessarily publishing, and 2) not doing work in a way that matches the procedural standards of traditional research, but a lot of new ideas are being experimented.

Does git count as important research? Does CoffeeScript?
I wonder if some companies are accidentally scaring away potential candidates even earlier in the process. I've personally shied away from many job postings that are asking for "rockstars" or "only the best", since they don't generally seem to be interested in "intelligent problem-solvers who don't know every intimate detail of the latest JavaScript framework or nosql database, but could learn quickly if needed".
This is great news for fans of Ken Levine.

I just finished Bioshock Infinite a couple weeks ago, and I was left feeling weirdly angry. It was a great story, shoehorned into a mediocre shooter. All of the problems with Bioshock were amplified. Which was necessary; in order to justify that kind of budget, they needed to make a game that would sell to the lowest-common-denominator.

Hating on Bioshock Infinite is a bit like criticizing a Hollywood blockbuster for being dumbed-down. What did dummies like me expect?

“To make narrative-driven games for the core gamer that are highly replayable.” This is what fans of System Shock and Bioshock have been clamoring for. Set free of Take Two's blockbuster expectations, Levin will be free to deliver it.
Interesting to see how this evolves in comparison to Apache Mesos/YARN. There are definitely similarities with etcd<->zookeeper, fleet<->mesos, docker<->cgroups...
His examples are unfortunately pretty terrible. Volume control and air-con are all settings that you frequently adjust. These are not the controls that should be hidden in a touchscreen.

It's the dynamic, changing display of touchscreens, where you can navigate through a menu (or other structure/organisation) of settings, are where the real benefits lie. If, like in the video, you don't make use of the screen, you're left with a tablet-sized void on your dashboard. Most people agree that the existing buttons and dials are far better, easier and intuitive to use, so your volume & fan speeds are going to be best served by physical controls.

The problem is with the less-used controls. Cars have lots of settings and if you add a button or dial for each of them, you'll end up with something looking like an audio mixing desk. This is where touchscreens and displays can improve the UI. A well thought-out system should let the driver find any setting they need and let them adjust it. Leave the common controls as-is, and work on how best to present the others on the screen.
As someone who has instructed parents and other non-techies on how the number of fingers and how to move those fingers on a multi-touch display, I don't consider it remotely trivial for 'most people'.
Methinks you are building a recipe-sharing website.

I thought Pinterest had that niche on lockdown.

Goodluck!
Frankly, Rothbard's book is not particularly likely to change the mind of anyone with a good grasp of economics or finance because it's basically an extended political pamphlet which doesn't actually address the arguments economists make against the gold standard.
Economists, for example, believe that hoarding is detrimental to investment because [some more] individuals will be rationally inclined to hoard rather than invest in a noninflationary environment, resulting in fewer real goods and services being produced. Rothbard manages to write an entire chapter claiming that "hoarding never brings any loss to society" without any reference to investment, or the effects of expected zero inflation (or deflation) on propensity to invest. He even describes the beginning of a credit crunch "suppose, for whatever reason--perhaps growing apprehension--people's demand for cash balances increases" as a good thing which it would be a "positive social benefit to satisfy"! Let them eat coins! What happens to the people who want to make stuff to sell at a profit and face both increasing borrowing costs and decreasing prices isn't discussed...
Everytime I've ever tried to play an mp4 video from the iPhone app it's never worked. Maybe it would be better to just simplify the setup.
I've lost days of my life to the Oracle expense processing "solution". This is no exaggeration either, and I would guess that most companies using it are losing a surprising amount of their employee's time and energy fighting it.

It's particularly inept at dealing with international situations like different currencies or compliance requirements, but the interface as a whole is an archaic mess.

The news that someone, anyone, wants to walk in and disrupt this nonsense is music to my ears.
That's a BIT of an overstatement depending upon the particulars. Outside sales for complex products can require a quarter or two ramp-up so you want to be somewhat selective. If you're hiring someone for that sort of position though they probably have some sort of track record.

For an inside sales position, you're not all that far off though.

As I've seen it put in another discussion, "sales managers don't have any trouble firing people."
I see this and think: "another from scratch distributed system without proven reliability/stability". Personally I use corosync/pacemaker for my container orchestration.
I have been using the tool 'vimv' for years now ... how is this different/worse/better ?

Perhaps the ability to define any editor ?
I think we read Altman two different ways. I read him as saying that engineers should be issued drastically more equity, and that firing before cliff should be used to ensure that middle-of-the-road developers don't end up eating too much of the equity.
There's so much to say about this video, but I'll summarize it by quoting one of my favourite articles: "Solving the wrong problem". [1]

(By the way, itt's funny how nowadays, hardware UI is immediately associated with "touch controls".)

[1] http://prog21.dadgum.com/130.html
Very interesting viewpoint. Yes, if Docker performs cluster management right then that would change a lot of things. I see that the CoreOS guys released Fleet today, possibly in response to this article. I'll have a look at this later. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7260596
Spain is probably the best place to party. I love their 10PM dinners and going out till morning, but probably I couldn't live with their schedule every day.
Only dozens? I've over 16000 files ending in rc, cnf, conf, cfg, ini, config,

With all due respect I have to say "bullshit." What command did you use to come up with that figure?

root@ronin:/tmp# tree -ifa / > /tmp/hn.bs
root@ronin:/tmp# cat hn.bs |grep -v src\$ |grep -v /bin/ |grep -v -- "-"\>|grep -vi backup | grep -v dfc/linux-kernel |grep -v /samurai | wc
2513 2540 128342

That is just a cursory attempt to eliminate false positives.
Plus a really bro-tastic atmosphere, and rampant jerks who are always trying to Disrupt The Very Concept Of Transport while quoting Ayn Rand.

Isn't culture fit great? I mean, if you're a social psychologist you won't have that problem, they have less than 1% Republicans.
I work in an industry in which it's extremely important to justify business expenses to regulators months or years after the transaction takes place. The ability to build a complete, real-time narrative around expenses, instead of jotting a few notes about a receipt two weeks later would be so helpful.

It seems that your focus is exclusively on small businesses. Is that the case?
Voice seems to be the best and safest user interaction for vehicles. If the voice software knew the car was in motion or at a difficult intersection perhaps it could change it's tone and sense of urgency. It does make me think if there will be VI(voice interaction) designers in the future.
Agh! Do we never learn?!

http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...
It's pretty funny to see this compared to the S&P 500. Liquidity premiums alone could easily account for the difference in returns. I'd take 20% cash gains over 40% utterly illiquid gains any day. Much more interesting statistics would be expected % value realization. Then multiply the 40% gains by that number. For example, if your gains are 40% multiplied by 20% of the startups ever making an exit, your actual returns are 8%.
As the comment below notes, even if you ignore capital expenditures, there are only 3 profitable trains in the world. It's operating costs that make it unprofitable. The increase in value on the land may cover your construction costs, but operating it is a recurring expense. You'd have to realize extreme gains on the land to fund that.
> HLS support on Android is incredibly spotty

I assume you mean spotty in Android pre-4.0? I'd worked on HLS streaming for Android recently and didn't have issues with ICS and later. But then again with Android you can't possibly test on all OS/device combinations, so would love to know if there are things I should be watching out for.

> Why offer the multiple bitrates on the HLS stream at all? You know what the client's bandwidth is

If you're watching video over a cellular network, it's very difficult to use a single bandwidth since it can fluctuate a lot. So the best practice (as dropbox is doing) is to offer multiple streams at different bandwidths to the client, and allow the client to pick the best one for the following segment based on current network conditions.
It's 2014. Does Dropbox still offer only 2 GB of storage?
Do you guys have any idea how to support docker containers that are going to use persistance (like database containers)? Or is fleet to low level for that and do you expect higher level tools to supply information like that in meta data?

Very interesting stuff!
Lovely, but one fairly critical problem - for the 88% of people who are right handed, driving in the 35% of the driving world that drives on the left, they'll need to operate the centre console with their non-dominant hand.﻿
But why does that matter, if it's not actually affecting anything? It's not like they printed 10 metre high adverts with their face on and put them up around town. All that happens is people you know on facebook see your photo next to an ad and think "ha, stupid facebook, that doesn't fool me"
Here's a brilliant completely new idea: what if you had big simple physical buttons and knobs?

Oh wait, that's how it actually worked before we've broken it…
I would build this switch with two IR sensors on each side of the console. If the arm and hand touching the screen is approaching from the passenger side, many things are possible. If the car is in motion and the arm is approaching from the driver's side, many things are locked out.
A company-specified text editor is a indicator of an unbearable degree of micromanagement.

Be happy you don't work there.
a touch screen is essentially one big button. It hides away all the complexities of a physical interface.

The problem with this is people tend to add a lot of extras. I wrote[0] that the internet radio thing cannot be done in the Tesla without a touchscreen.

FWIW, this idea is slightly better than the one in my Tesla screen complaint, but still not any better.

[0]http://blog.chewxy.com/2014/02/04/the-switchless-switch/
Same with Gentoo's homebrew init system OpenRC, which has had support for running in various kinds of containers for a while now.
Exactly. Read something awhile ago about NASA testing potential Mars rovers. They wrote off touch screens. They're cool and all but not ideal for situations in which you're being jostled about and you may be wearing gloves.
If you run a private index (ex. index.mycompany.com) docker will automatically fetch it just like the public index. Protecting this index/registry with authentication is an entirely different beast though...

In a unit file, you would substitute `docker run coreos/subgun` with docker run index.mycompany.com:1234/subgun`. Docker handles the rest as long it can communicate with that network address.
> Even if they don't happen to take place in the richest nations on earth.

Germany 1930s - hyperinflation; Argentina 1990s - hyperinflation; USA 2010s - quantitative easing.

These can also be real problems even for the richest nations.

As you correctly mention - Iraq [1] & Libya [2] were essentially currency invasions and NOT oil invasions. Millions of innocent lives lost to keep the USD propped up. Wars that would make no sense under BTC.

[1] http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,998512,...
[2] http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/markets/item/4630-gadh...
I'm one of the developers in charge of the Sauce Labs' backend and thought I should chime in and confirm with you that that's not the case with our cloud.
Our infrastructure is hosted in our own data center and we've gone to great lengths to never, ever reuse VMs. You can read more about our "security through purity" approach: http://sauceio.com/index.php/2011/09/security-through-purity...
It's not so much that the random startup person would be a Republican (I'm not sure they even are?) as that many seem to be buzzword-slinging airheads who've never read anything but YA novels and self-help blogs. There are plenty of conservatives (in CS academia and elsewhere) who've read Hayek and the Chicago school and can make an intelligent and informed argument for that side of economics & politics. They might be wrong (they are), but they at least have an argument. The disrupt/Rand people remind me more of Christian fundamentalists, in that they just have some slogans and faith.
I'll check that out when I can. Thanks!
You can't fault a relatively new cypto-currency for having limitations in terms of adoption rates. For now, it's still a proof of concept and improvements are constantly being made.

The article is not making fun of cash, but making fun of people who mock the concept of bitcoins.
Sliding is nice for analog input, for 'discrete' input it needs even more radical schemes, like fitz infinite-borders, NESW or 'hot corners'. And with slight visual cues like thresold lines too.

ps: funny to see videos about sensitive volume control when this was on front page https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650371 (gnome hardcoded volume steps)
Is a football team a kind of List? If not, then it's wrong to inherit from List.
Now mount the iPad in your car and try using it while going at 50 mpg over even slightly bumpy road. Physical controls give you tactile feedback, but more important, they give you something solid to hang on to while using the controls. Touch screen is good for GPS or settings screens. But often used knobs like heat settings, lights, and such, should be physical.
I'll also add that there are way too many ways of interactions that must necessarily be learned with a substantial time investment. Time might not seem a big deal when dealing with cars since you keep one at least for a couple years, but the mental effort required to learn all those gestures from scratch is so high that it'd definitely put off most users and result in a frustrating experience for a long stretch of time.
> I was under the impression that Dropbox can't "see" your files in the sense that they wouldn't be able to tell what was inside a document or photo; it's all supposed to be encrypted.

No, that was never true. In particular, that would break Dropbox's model for deduplication, as well as their web clients, and various other things. If you're looking for an end-to-end encrypted solution, Dropbox was never it.
Creative ideas. However, discoverability is poor. Can you imagine getting a rental car or borrowing a friend's car and getting this to work?

Also, this uses a whole iPad screen to control 8 settings-- eight knobs would take less space and maintain the benefits of a physical interface.

Personally I think commonly-used controls like volume, temperature, fan speed, and some music controls should have physical dials. You can then find them by feel, they're reliable and modeless, and they're much easier to understand. Then, leave the touch screen for navigation and more advanced features.
You're legally entitled to up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave through the FMLA. I'd take some. Maybe you can work out an arrangement where you spend an hour or two a day (or night) staying on top of issues and email.

The first month is insane, but you'll eventually nail down a routine. You'll make it work, whatever you choose. Just know that it's going to be nuts no matter how carefully you plan.
You heard it here, first, folks.

A citizen being asked to pay his legal due in taxes is exactly the same as being repeatedly robbed by thugs.
HVDC solves the line-loss issue with current technology. It's still expensive to install new transmission lines though.
There is no engineer crunch. Only wannabe founders who can't do anything but talk big.

"Hey do you want to join my startup? We are reinventing analytics....again."
It is true that QE has tremendously increased the money supply. Inflation remains around 1%. Inflation and money supply do not have a simple or linear relationship.

The oil thing is nonsense. All oil sales are enumerated in USD for historical reasons only. Dictators who face embargo by the U.S. would rather sell oil for other currencies in order to evade the embargoes.

Iran is trying to sell oil on their own private oil bourse right now. It is an operating concern, today, in 2014. They are perfectly free to sell oil for other currencies, but they are not finding a lot of buyers.
I disagree with the premise that using Docker to run individual processes is "wrong". Phusion is doing a disservice by suggesting as such.

This is not the premise of the article. The premise is that someone goes 'from ubuntu; apt-get install memcache; cmd ["memcached"]' and thinks everything is going to be alright, when in reality they've just set up a rather buggy system.

If you're absolutely certain your app is going to be fine running as the sole (PID1) process in the container, then this article has no problem with that. It just says that if you're going to run something you've got from apt-get, then chances are, your system is going to have to be a little more like a Debian system.
idrive is way better now than it was initially... they added some buttons. I use it every day and it's very easy. if bmw tried to replace it with some touch screen gizmo I would push the car off a cliff.
Valve does this very well using reddit. A bad bug goes for a whole year on Dota 2, and if someone complains on /r/Dota2 it gets fixed in two days.

It's great, users fells empowered, and you get the priority list for free with reddit upvote system.

As for discourse were planning to deploy it this year at our intranet, and we've got 130.000 employees.
Openstreetmap?

Not sure that is the sort of data you want. In the U.S., lots of states and the federal government also have extensive geographical data sets (so you mind find one with a theme you are more interested in).
I am not sure if I should feel happy or sad that we wrote internal javascript versions of these helper functions.
If you describe something as "a content site", then implementing it as "single-page app" is ridiculous by definition.

Content site is not app. Single-page app frameworks are for apps, not for content sites.
If you're storing sensitive files on Google Drive, it is a good idea to encrypt them:
http://www.syncdocs.com/how-to-set-up-google-drive-encryptio...
>You heard it here, first, folks.

Something something monopoly on violence.
Except without a rigid definition of security, or goals there's nothing to compare, analyze, hypothesize, or even observe.

And that question, everyone already has equal rights on the internet, that's why security software focuses mostly on identity verification.
off topic, but is it just me who cringes every time I see a google groups url? I know I am in for a 10 seconds wait to see any content.
Note that this is not the same fleet as (also a deployment tool):
https://github.com/substack/fleet
recently read about early life conditions on wiki [1], says pretty much the same thing. also relevant [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_catastrophe
So looking at this CVE, it probably won't affect many apps.

You have to be using number_to_currency (common), but also passing in user input to the parameters format, negative_format or units which would not be a good idea anyway and is unlikely to have been done. I can't think why you would do that without verifying the unit and matching against a small set of acceptable currency units.

You'd have to be doing this:

<%= number_to_currency(number, format: unknown_user_text) %>
Can someone here translate "core gamer" and "core gaming audience" for me? Those phrases mean nothing to me.
I was super stoked to read this, and went diving to borrow some of their work for my own Docker usage. However, I'm confused by their choice of Python for the my_init script. The site claims they chose runit because it is more lightweight than supervisord, a Python tool of similar merit. Making the init process depend on Python seems to negate that advantage.
Kind of odd that 4m units is considered a flop. Jim Sterling did a video on that idea of what AAA "success" in terms of sales is awhile ago:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimquisition/712...