skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, people who are emotionally invested in their work tend to do much better work, and are worth proportionally more because of it. So whether this is correlation or causation, you are indirectly being paid to care as much as you do.

If you're not being paid enough to care that much, or you don't want to care that much, then it is what it is. From the hiring perspective, we should have negotiated a price that works for me and is enough for you to feel that you are fairly compensated for your ownership of the feature. It's a two-sided relationship where you have the ability to just back out of the deal if it isn't working for you.
The Fast Fourier Transform absolutely deserves to be on the list.

All of signal processing went from, "We'd like to do a Fourier Transform but can't afford O(n^2) so here is a faster alternative that kind of does something useful" to, "We start with a FFT."
You should probably back up your extraordinary claims with evidence, if you want to be believed (by anybody who isn't already anti-regulation/government).
I checked out your site. The product looks very promising.
I took the front-end and Python courses. These guys delivered a lot of value for me with those. Not only that, but I'm also interested in Angular. I'd likely be all over this if not for personal economic scarcity. ;-)
So then anyone with tainted coins can completely lock down arbitrary wallets?
Even during the disasters there's gas pressure and radiation shielding at least.
No problem with Intuit's payroll system. How does this compare?
We use ZenPayroll (at Sourcegraph) and love it. It has been super easy. Congrats!
Who says we need to move off of this planet and on to another? See the Stanford Torus[1].

We could live in stations such as that and hop down to planets to mine new materials (or from asteroid mining) when we had to. The entire world's population could fit in about 30,000 of those stations (assuming it's designed for 140,000 people). Having the human race distributed across 30,000 stations scattered around the solar system / galaxy would certainly make the race more robust to mass extinction events.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_torus
Well said! If this doesn't convey the message I don't know what will.

Most of the "Founders" are nothing but facades that just want to make money in the Tech world. They don't give a damn about technology or improving the world.
> If Google Fiber wants to prove that their model is replicable they need to deploy it at a profit in a politically hostile environment.

Sun Tsu would flunk you out of strategy class. Why should Google engage with an evil, bribery-based, rent-seeking competitor, and their bought politicians, until they run out of relatively easier conquests, and have the revenue from those conquests funding further expansion, and their relationships with independent content creators at a much higher value from a larger customer base?

Particularly when those competitors are not seeking to confront Google, and are preferring to play rent-seeking games with anti-neutrality in their networks, thus making their end game even more brittle?
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The witty saying is not so much an attempt to prove but a useful summary of one man's experience. In other words, be optimistic, but not delusional. Stay grounded in reality.

I imagine that if you interviewed the survivors you speak of, they would agree.
Just curious, would SSL have helped in this situation?
Once you need to run a global payroll to employees around the world, you have very few options. I'd love to see ZenPayroll scale to that level.
Interesting that you would call that out. Yes, it so happens that as an approach to problem solving, that seems like one of the simplest to me. It's also a significant feature of my approach to programming - I've written code with minimal error checking for a long time, and it's never been a problem. Specifically, I avoid writing error checks motivated by an abstract worry that ill-formed inputs 'might' get into the system.
That's totally a legitimate criticism, and one that I hadn't heard before. Complaining about your phone's battery life when you can just as easily not visit the site has a lot less weight to it.
Here's a few lists with a huge price range.

http://postscapes.com/wireless-key-locators

http://mashable.com/2013/07/18/find-keys-apps

Almost all are iOS compatible. Many are Android compatible. Cobra Tag is BlackBerry compatible. None are Windows compatible.
How I broke the Ethiopian Airlines #ET702 hijacking on Twitter
No kidding. God damn.
Learning through documentation
It would "discover" every curiosity that we have yet to find, but it would be useless.

Consider the universe. It is essentially a giant mechanical construct which works within the confines of every mathematical, physical, and even metaphysical truth.

Imagine that you don't exist. Then what can you learn from the universe? The universe itself might "discover" everything. But that is meaningless to you. Now assume you do exist in the universe. What truths does the universe teach you? Only the ones that you witness and understand.

If I come up with an incredible proof and write it down on paper and put it in my shirt pocket. Then I don't tell anyone until I die, and I'm cremated in the same shirt with the same proof, and my ashes are scattered across the ocean, what have I discovered? I only discovered something that was already true, I didn't bring the truth into existence, and while I didn't do anything with it nor share it with anyone it doesn't mean that it became any less true. But then what was the purpose?

The purpose of a proof is to take a truth and to distill it into an idea that can be shared. A truth on its own is meaningless. If I say a^2+b^2=c^2, a lot of context is required, what do a, b, c mean? What sort of geometry does this work in? Why is this the case? Is it ever not the case? When every question is answered, and you are certain of that, then you have a proof. Just knowing that a^2+b^2=c^2 is meaningless. Even if I could prove that the sum of the squares of two sides of a right angle triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse, that's still not completely meaningful, because it's not true in elliptic or hyperbolic geometries.

But the abstract idea, that the sum of the squares of two sides of a right angle triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse is Euclidean space is meaningful, because it leads to questions like "What would that mean about space if the sum of the squares of the lengths of sides of a right angle triangle were greater or smaller than the square of the hypotenuse?" and you start to consider alternative geometries.

If a computer were to definitively prove that a^2+b^2=c^2 what does that mean if you can not really understand the implications of the proof. Yes it's true, but what does it mean? And why?
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No, of course not, but the example suggests you could put your key in and pull down your invoices from stripe to do data mining on them.
And there's even another one: http://www.chipolo.net/
I think that people building end-user software are less culpable in some regard. My comment is aimed more at people producing gems and libraries and frameworks that then propagate through the Rails community. When they are slow, they cause a compounding effect that ripples down to the developer building end-user applications, who just assume that 400ms for a page is "normal", because that's how it's always been.

Ideally, in the Rails world, the people building client apps would only have to worry about the algorithmic complexity of their code, and the libraries should be operating efficiently under the covers. To that end, you're completely right in that you shouldn't have to worry about performance - the people writing the software you build on should have already have done that. But when they don't, that costs you time and money, and I think that's a shame.
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One way to deal with anxiety is to flood your system with it.. habituate to it.. and you will stop caring and harden your shell. We are way to soft these days.
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Can Mt.Gox buy at $260 at home and cash at $650 elsewhere and laugh all the way to the bankster?
Type commands into Twitch to edit levels in my game – suggestions welcome
Eyes feel blurry after playing this game. Uncomfortable. Want to go to bed.
Yeah, I love SaaStr and read it regularly! And I'd love to see a SaaStr post on directly addressing customer objections about buying from startups, for startups trying to sell to cautious SMBs and especially enterprise.

I've certainly rolled this concern right into my own startup. It is more or less a monitoring tool, and provided as SaaS, so if the startup should go out of business for some reason, the customers would no longer have service, but they'd no longer be paying for it either - they'd be no worse off than they were before they started using my product.
I came across this hackathon starter project a few weeks ago: https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter

Have not used it yet, but the stack (node.js, mongodb with mongoose, express) is similar to what I use in my day job so planning to start my next weekend project with it.
I love that they published a "Vulnerability Disclosure Timeline" and waited for the company to patch the vulnerability before publishing this blog post.
The problem with drilling deeper is that America is organized quite differently than European countries. It is typical for a European city like Stockholm or London for 40-60% of the people in a metro area to live in the denser, core city. In the U.S., that number is more typically 10-20%. Moreover, because of historical reasons, the dense inner cities in the U.S. that are most geographically amenable to building out fiber have huge proportions of poor people who couldn't afford it. Middle class people who might buy fiber are disproportionately more likely to live out in suburban areas less suitable for building such infrastructure.

Very concrete example: Delaware is one of the fastest states in the U.S., with average connection speeds in Akamai's study comparable to the top 5 countries in the global list. I live in the largest city in the state, a major rail hub, in the heart of downtown, and can't get fast internet because the area is so poor. But the suburbs right around us have fiber.

Per-city breakouts aren't in Akamai's most recent report, but here's one for Q4 '11: http://tumblr.thefjp.org/post/22270191498/the-worlds-fastest.... The fastest city in Sweden at 11.3 mbps wasn't that dramatically faster than the fastest in the U.S. at 8.4 mbps. Asia of course dominates, but that's because Japan and Korea have tons of very densely-built cities.
From TFA: "There will also be third-party applications for Treasure Tag to support Android and iOS devices."

It is interesting to see alternatives, though.
FTA: "There will also be third-party applications for Treasure Tag to support Android and iOS devices."
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It takes a human to look at the certificate, to understand WTF was just solved by this program, and then demonstrate that the certificate actually lines up with the math problem.
Well, it's RF between the cell phone and the cell tower. Between the switches, it's most likely land based circuits, but really, they could be anything.
Absolutely - caching is a staple of performant code. I agree with you that caching can mask other more fundamental problems, but it's a critical component of any performant codebase. "Don't duplicate unnecessary work" is rule #1. The Rails community has that mantra as its foundation in regards to programmer work (DRY is a wonderful principle), but seems to be content to not expect that same principle to apply to libraries.
The noise is the signal.

Mind. Blown.
Unfortunately, this admission of incompetence carries a nasty subtext which is "because the task in question is beneath me."

Funny how their idea is so valuable and would make so much money if implemented, but it's still "beneath" them. If it ain't worth them "lowering themselves to that level", it ain't worth my time to consider implementing it, much less signing something like an NDA or agreement where I do most of the work and they keep most of the profits.
Dangerous to compare these by just looking at features or pricing. Based on my limited experience from these kind of shared services I would say the devil is in the details and in performance.

In shared services one interesting topic is how the various limits are implemented. Is there some hard timeouts that prevent complex queries? Is there throttling? Do you get some kind of penalties for running queries that are not optimal? Do you need to implement some specific retry-logic?
I wonder if the existance of "dark fiber" is a factor. In the late 1990s a half dozen fiber companies tore up our industrial park street laying new fiber. I doubt if much of it is used. One new fiber was laid last year since then.
I am skeptical as to whether the calls speeded up by this optimization form a sufficient portion of the actual call time of any actual real world apps actions, such that this optimization will have any non-trivial effect on a real world app.

It might. But I definitely wouldn't assume it does. Micro-optimization.

Of course, it doesn't hurt either way, unless it does in code complexity, or opportunity cost.
> For instance, your proposed solution of just rounding the distance to the tenth of a mile is scarcely better.

I didn't propose rounding the distance as a solution--I mentioned it as an example of the kind of thought that should have started taking place in the mind of someone who was looking to fix the real location issue rather than making a quick change to stop complaints.

> but it's not always easy to see every possible security issue

The quality level of the original fix, in which they sent extremely precise distances, indicates that they put approximately 0 thought into analyzing the issue. It may not be easy to see /every/ possible security issue. But seeing many of them at all requires looking, and it appears they weren't doing much of that. They were getting some serious bad press in July, and their solution was a band-aid rather than an examination of their practices.

The solution may not be obvious, but the problem, especially once brought to one's attention, should have been. It's built into the nature of what they're doing, which makes it especially disturbing that they didn't care enough to put some more thought into it. Their response to the person who reported the problem reflects that as well.
Hash tables were highly praised by Knuth as "the invention of the year". If we have binary search in the list, we should have hashes.
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Shameless plug.

We developed a smartphone app at http://positivethinking.net to solve this problem.

I don't doubt ideology like The Secret does more harm than good, that's why our tagline is YOUR SUCCESS STARTS WITH A POSITIVE MINDSET.

Because being optimistic and hopeful is only a small part to being successful, it's only the start, actually practicing and working towards your goals is the other 90-95%.

The way we try to help is by motivating and inspiring you consistently to reach your goals. For example if you want to be successful at business we will send you insightful quotes from the likes of Richard Branson and Steve jobs daily.

If you want to be fit and healthy we have things like "success trains, failure complains" and "to cold, to busy, to tired. NO EXCUSES, TRAIN EVERYDAY".

Being reminded daily of these things has helped changed my thoughts.

Ps, I'm not sure if calling my app "positive thinking" was a great idea because it often gets lumped with the lazy wish-and-the-universe-will-provide ideology but it was purely a SEO move.

I would love peoples thoughts on all of this!
That statement conflates several things and is hyperbolic.

The "computer industry" isn't some amorphous industry that has been going strong since the days of semiconductors.

There have been many iterations of technology-- mobile, web, PC, etc-- and while it turned out that way, it should not have be a forgone conclusion that all would have been essentially centered in Silicon Valley. Other areas trying to be the "next Silicon Valley" had many opportunities to unseat it, especially during the busts that have occured in the Valley's boom-bust history.

Even his numbers are incorrect. There are not "hundreds of billionares" in Silicon Valley even today. There are not even 100 in the entire state of California. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_the_numb...
6 Things to Know About Light Field Communication vs. Beacons
With Phillips announcing this week that it’s getting into the light field communication space (also refereed to as li-fi or visible light communication) as well for indoor location, it’s a good time to revisit some important things to know when it comes to using light field communication.
Nashville is a great city...I was totally unaware of the tech scene. Startups, big companies? I have no idea if I'll ever move away from the west coast, but Nashville is one of the few places in the eastern US that I could imagine living.
That story reminds me of this Robert Louis Stevenson fable:

http://www.authorama.com/fables-16.html
So I guess the market estimates a 50% chance that they disappear with the coins. 50% arbitrage upside if you can get money in and buy bitcoins at half price, 50% loss chance if they vanish.
these particular optimizations aren't caching any data from the database.

They are only caching calculations internal to AR. So you don't need to worry about using cached data when the actual external data has changed, is one thing.

The caching here is only of things that can't possibly change, essentially the output of a function for a given input.

Your memcache suggestions are a different sort of thing entirely, which certainly may be helpful for some apps in some circumstances.
Tinder should never known the users exact location anyway. They should be asking the device for a far less accurate coordinate.
Yes, plus more bandwidth.

Typical beamforming just boosts the signal quality, on a slice of the available spectrum. But it would be faster if you used the whole bandwidth. But then no one else would be able to use that bandwidth. But if you used a parabolic antenna pointed at each receiver, then each phone would get the full bandwidth. But if the phone is moving, you can use (tracking antennas or...) deliberate interference within a "mesh" of antennas.
Doesn't have to be every day. Doesn't have to be SF. And $500 makes $500 difference* no matter where you are.

Edit:

(* ok, maybe $300 difference after taxes.)
Dropshipping is great if it doesn't eat your margins too much. Some business models work around having a solid income from shipping margins. We do both dropshipping and have our own warehouses where I work. Basically we adjust and stay flexible depending on the prices / areas we're shipping to. Dropshipping is a huge part of our business now, it is very nice for scaling flexibility / rush periods.

One tip, sometimes you can do a mix, one of our suppliers will dropship fully to an entire country, but for another country they pack and ship directly to our warehouse where we slap a new label on and forward through that countries courier. (we got a stupidly good deal from that courier to the point it made economic sense)
With $4.1M In The Bank, Transcriptic Wants To Reinvent Scientific Research
Does this represent an arbitrage opportunity? (it appears not, since MtGox is limiting transactions due to a bug in their implementation of the protocol.) Also, I wonder if anyone has used bots to perform HFT using bitcoin in the same manner that was used on traditional stock exchanges.
The level of awesome is through the roof on this one. Well done.
> although I expect he would be more successful selling this technology initially to crowded venues

I would expect he would be more successful patenting the hell out of it and licensing it to Ericsson, NSN, Qualcomm, Cisco, etc than trying to sell it to individual venues and customers.
Thanks for this reference. The 'Statue of Responsibility' strikes me as a useful monument to build in many countries of the first world.
The lack of BIOS upgrades is very rarely what kills a box. I have seen many boxes still in production that are more than a decade old. a good friend has a 10 CPU sun enterprise server from the first dot-com; He conned some poor ISP in davis into hosting it for him for $50/month. I'm certain that he is causing their power bill to go up more than $50 every month.

That's the thing, though, today, I could give him 1/10th of a server that uses 1/10th the power, and he'd have more compute resources.

That's the primary thing that kills old servers; It's not that they die (They become less reliable, but if it's good stuff and it's treated well, it's still 'good enough' for people willing to use "the cloud") What kills old servers is that newer servers use dramatically less power per unit of work done.
[video] California State Assembly passes law making cryptocurrencies legal
This entire article is based on a flawed premise:

> Net Neutrality turns the question of do senders or receivers pay telecommunications providers for the traffic on the Internet into a simple answer, the receivers pay the telecom companies.

Actually customers (whether it's you, me, or Netflix) pay for both sending and receiving. A service provider is just sending more and a local Telecom customer is just receiving more.

The issue is of Net Neutrality isn't whether the sender or receivers pays. Netflix plays for it's bandwidth and you pay for yours. It's whether Telecoms can degrade or add a surcharge on top of what is already paid only for certain companies or applications.

> But video is growing and the networks underlying the Internet need major upgrades to keep up.

The Telecom providers don't want to pay for upgrades so you use their cheap dumb pipe to get content from their competitors. They want video on the Internet to be terrible so they can sell you expensive cable packages or they want to tax it so either way they make more money.
I live in DC and I'd love to have Google fiber. We supposedly have a municipal fiber network here, but as far as I can tell it's doing diddly squat and I'm stuck with Comcast.
Or you could give each client C/N connections.
Will I be able to run python 3.3 on it?
See AB 129: Lawful money: alternative currency.

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?...

Assembly Committee on Banking and Finance analysis of AB 129:
There are some complications to the implementation of this system. If you choose to incentivize the Realtor to stay below a specific budget, the Realtor might start steering you to cheaper units (re: smaller, shabbier, poor neighborhoods) in order to get a bigger commission. If you base the commission on the discount negotiated off the list price of a home, you may push the Realtor into low balling offers and not closing deals (not to mention, in many markets, homes sell for over list price).

Probably the best method would be too use a flat fee, or a percentage of list, and then add bonus commissions for performance in negotiations, using the average 'over/under asking price' in the local market as an index. But this is probably too complicated for most people, and at the end of the day, the Realtor is more concerned about the volume of deals they can close rather than the individual deals, so performance based commissions will still probably have minimal impact on behavior.
Check out the Amazon reviews of StickNFind: http://www.amazon.com/STICK-N-FIND-StickNFind-Bluetooth-Loca...

(Summary: 14 out of 16 reviews are 1-star)