skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The monopolies create regulations through lobbying (aka bribery).

You anti-regulation people have it nearly right but stop short of the deeper truth. The problem is not the concept of regulations, the problem is a corrupt-by-design government that accepts cash payments to create unfair regulations.
4G data: The USA is second-slowest while Australia is fastest
I did change that to do-not-populate, so you might what to have that not hold up the whole process. Also there should be a way to ignore or delete the autodetected BOM items (which were extracted from the Eagle schematic). The fiducials were detected, and I think I made them "cosmetic" to continue the process. It's not 100% clear what "cosmetic" vs "normal" vs. "accessories". A similar thing happened for a couple of other items, which I simply placed 0-ohm jumpers to short-circuit the process so-to-speak. Also, is there a way to tell circuit-hub what attribute the manufacturer's part numbers is? That wasn't obvious. And you should think about adding the reference designators to the BOM display.
Correcting reverse error entries:

As an example, some idiot (it's easily done) posts a credit entry as debit. All error corrections are posted to the Journal A/C, usually situated in the General Ledger, with the corresponding double entry in the A/Cs which contain the errors.

To correct the error without taking the Journal into account, one post restores the A/C to its original balance prior to the error, then another entry is required to kick the balance into its correct value. If the error originally occurred in a memorandum account, the error will trickle down to the General Ledger, so another couple of entries are required.

I think that a reverse error entry in the Sales or Purchase Ledgers that is discovered after the end of the financial period requires eight entries to correct it.

In theory some compound errors may require dozens of entries to correct.
Ionic Security raises 25.5M from Google Ventures, Kleiner
In the 1950s, test pilots were dying approximately once per week [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_pilot
Just because it is not 100% accurate doesn't mean it is security theory. Security is about taking many measures to help mitigate threat. There is never a pragmatic, completely effective safe guard.

That being said, keep everything up to date and don't reuse passwords or use guessable ones :)
Interestingly, if you worked a lot with NoSQL systems, you could get 5/5 on that score.

Although I worked a lot with SQL in past, I think good knowledge of only a NoSQL system (e.g. GAE Datastore) would give you enough understanding of how simple indexes are, and how to deal with them to pass this pure SQL test.

Would like to hear a feedback from someone with only NoSQL experience after taking that test.
Kit Kat Conspiracy (2002)
Many couples would find it just as annoying as having separate refrigerators and simply transferring food between the two before withdrawing and eating it.
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I think it's important, regardless of this blogger's slant, that we see in international news outlets the fact that the national guard is shooting civilians. Even if you dismiss his claims of paramilitary action as being partisan exaggeration, surely you can see why it's important to note that the government is deploying the actual military -- something you can see plainly in those videos -- against its own people? Our own President (US) just recently warned Ukraine not to go down this exact same path.
Founders have to have enough credibility to find customers and a business model to seek out profit, or it seems like a risky proposition no amount of selling can overcome.
Could be. I haven't been in Germany for 4 years now.
Winklevoss Twins, With Identical Bios, Launch Bitcoin 'Winkdex'
The solution is to stop centralized data collection.

Centralized data collection gives me good auto-complete in search. It means when I start sending an email to John Smith and Jane Doe it can ask me if I might have meant Jane Roe instead. It means when I lose my phone I don't lose any of my data.
That would highly depend on what career you're choosing. I graduated 8 years ago, and since then freelanced full-time for countless individuals, businesses, and fortune 100 companies. I haven't once been asked where I studied.
Hmm. The founder lies to investors while trying to raise money, and the investors check his story to see if it's true. This makes the investors scumbags?
Congrats guys, looks great!
I'll throw my scraper creator in the ring too: http://exfiltrate.org/
That is how science works - you have to prove each axiom or your theorem doesn't hold together. The CAGW claim is that warming exists AND is human caused AND is going to continue AND is something we can do something about AND the cost of action is less than dealing with the consequences of inaction.

A skeptic could quite reasonably have been skeptical about any or all of those assertions at various points in time. If you manage to establish some of them to a satisfactory degree, that doesn't give you a free pass to assume away all the others.
Your description of the problem and solution is too verbose. I need bullet points describing 1) my problems, 2) how my problems are solved by this. I'm not going to read a full-on blog post to figure out if this is relevant to me.
Yeah, but that was sort of my point of the hedge in my original comment. Linux wasn't always clearly superior. It took the dedication of early adopters to improve it so that we have a thing today that is great. I think Postgres could be that for relational databases, given time.
It's push vs pull. If you build value, investors will beat down your door.
Where does it end though? At some point (god damn it) someone has to innovate and give us flying cars!
Facebook coughs $19bn for WhatsApp: Why did it pay $45 for your phone book?
Paracosm as partner? Isnt this exactly what the paracosm startup was doing? Does anyone know the story?
Snap webcam photos whenever your iOS app crashes
Only B-players of second string shops investors and founders behave in such a manner. The valley is too small for such to be sustainable. The top people aren't stupid and are hemmed in by social and reputation considerations. The B-string shops will only fuck with you if they assume you don't have powerful enough friends.
> Some founders try things like carefully timing news articles, casually mentioning to one investor that they'll be having dinner with another investor, claiming their schedule is really packed except for one specific hour, and other tricks - but if you just build a good company, you generally won’t need to.

(Non-italics mine) This is such wonderfully simple advice. Investors, by definition, want to make money. Build something that can, show them it will, and they will give you an investment. If you can't raise money, you're doing something wrong with the first two -- so that should show you where to focus on instead of using poorly thought out social engineering tricks.
Linux was the same way. At least from my perspective, Red Hat put Linux on the map for me. For a lot more people, that was Canonical. Given the right sort of organizations, having a lack of a single, explicit owner isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Because I want to see what I am missing.
I don't think you're a luddite. With any technology like this, it's important to ask: what applications does this really enable and will those applications simply be a waste of time.

This is an unveiling of a technology but the "applications" they show in this video are probably a waste of time to most users. Google have not shown a killer app that uses this tech. Maybe they're working on something (they hint that they may be planning to integrate indoor mapping into Google Maps which might be interesting) but they're not showing it in this video.

That doesn't mean the tech is bad. But we haven't seen enough to judge it as useful to end users.
That's why I said "approximately". :)

By the binomial series [1], the true value is 1-(1-p)^n = np - n(n-1)/2! p^2 + n(n-1)(n-2)/3! p^3 + ...

So approximating it to just np corresponds to taking just the leading term of the series. Of course, this is only valid when p is small enough. To see how good the approximation is, we can compare it to the two first terms of the series, which is np - n(n-1)/2 p^2, or approximately np - (np)^2 /2.

So the approximation np is about twice the percentage difference between the approximation and the true value. In this case, the approximation np is about 2%, and that guess is itself about 1% wrong.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_series
Yes, it flows back again, so the founders of Whatsapp can go fund another photo sharing or messaging app with another twist.
Dogs brain scans reveal vocal responses
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Another way for the top 0.01% of the top 1% to spend their money. Wikipedia claims 12 to 18 passengers, target cost of $60 to $80 million.

Wiki also claims: "If produced, it would allow long flights for business and private travelers, such as from New York City to London, to take only three to four hours instead of six to seven."

All that expense just so the mega-rich can save 3 hours traveling from NYC to London. They wouldn't want to be caught dead in a Gulfstream G650, which fast cruises at a mere Mach 0.90.

Nothing to see here for most people. And, IMO, it shouldn't be an "aspirational" goal for anyone. This is an obscene waste of resources and is nothing more than willy-waving for oligarchs and sociopaths.
How about simply adding an additional certificate - e.g. random string of specified length - held by your webapp in closure? And then configure your server to only respond to requests that have the "secure" httpOnly cookies and the certificate included using the POST method. The certificate was originally sent by the server using https protocol during document load, is stored in closure, and can be dynamically updated asynchronously over https connection.

This limits all requests to ajax requests since inclusion of this additional certificate is needed from javascript memory, but it does side-step the problem.

Ps: I know this is a dated article, I'm just curious what you guys think of this work-around. I think it's more secure and flexible than the work-arounds suggested in the article, since this does allow you to use the array notation.
Can't wait until his prison stint where his cherry anus gets "disrupted".
If the product wasn't in beta, why shouldn't you expect reliable service?
God Bless Longecity
Sure. You essentially can't rely on a particular wallet sending from an address they know about, or even from an address they can control.

The classic example is of a service using a shared wallet like Coinbase does. Coinbase maintains control of the keys of every piece of Bitcoin their clients own, and they have an external database that contains a record of how much Bitcoin they are holding on behalf of their clients. This allows them to keep the vast majority of the funds offline where they are invulnerable to attack. This system means that the "from" address is likely never correlated to the sender, and they have no control of where they send "from". Relying on a client to provide this information usually ends in disaster, as does sending refunds to an address you were sent "from".

Even for the reference client Bitcoin-QT addresses are disposable and almost never linked. Change from one transaction is sent to an entirely new address which done invisibly from the users perspective. There's more information about that on the wiki, change addresses in themselves are quite confusing.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Change
hah! That's the word I was looking for.
OK, I believe that you understand the difference, it just didn't seem that way in your original post.

I didn't remember that photo from the 08 election (or even see it in the first place). It makes the skull duggery of House of Cards seem every so slightly less fictional!
The only strawman here is the one you just created to shoot down. I'm not claiming to know what happened. I'm just pointing out a potentially suspicious aspect of this otherwise incredibly mundane story.
10% of the top 150 free App Store apps are Flappy bird clones
A couple that I did not see on the list but also come to mind:

- Windows Workflow Foundation (used for building .Net based service flows) [1]

- ArcGIS Model Builder (used for geospatial processing automation) [2]

- Sextante (open source geospatial processing that plugs into QGIS) [3]

- GRASS GIS Modeler (open source geospatial processing that plugs into GRASS GIS) [4]

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/jj684582.aspx

[2] http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//0...

[3] http://sextantegis.com/

[4] http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/wxGUI.Modeler.html
> Barclays isn’t convinced. “We believe the valuation argument is becoming less and less helpful,” the firm said. “Furthermore, we look at a valuation analogy vs. Microsoft from 2000 to about 2010 and see no precedent that large-size tech companies simply start to broadly outperform again after a tough year or two if the law of large numbers is catching up to them and margins have peaked.”

In my fantasy world, said analyst would be facing a massive fine for mistaking "Same % growth is harder the bigger you get" and "The Law of Large Numbers".
Worse Than Hugo Chavez
That’s Not How the “Law of Large Numbers” Works
Github account linking would be fantastic!
It's worth noting that Mt Gox's new offices as listed on their support website appear to be in a hotel. Hmmm.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.656428,139.698518,3a,75y,117...
Just an example: The tabs with Images, Videos etc. to the right of Web seem to be randomized. Sometimes Shopping comes before Images even. And then ofcourse the minor detail that the search results do not contain the actual fucking links of the results! I'm now using a greasemonkey script that fixes that. And thats not all I could go on and on, and don't even ask me about Youtube, Google sites have become just godawful.
Be that as it may, why is this true just for founders? Ie, we sometimes forget the echo chamber we live in around here - ie, no one owes anyone a "fundraising" opportunity. Early stage investment is absolutely about validation, but does that mean anyone who's interested should be able to raise money for it? If it was your own money, wouldn't you do everything you could to minimize the risk for a given upside profile?
What keeps me off Postgres is hopefully something they just fixed today: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1506/

Binary replications to slave had a very nasty bug that would make your replica data corrupt at random moments of time. Apparently I was one of the unlucky few that encountered this issue time after time.
You're absolutely right, but in the same way that the financial industry spends its resources coming up with ever more exotic financial derivatives from which it can skim rent, the VC industry spends its resources comes up with ever more exotic ways to scale free userbases to extract money from IAP, ads, or data mining. That only gets called "innovation" in press releases because the word doesn't sound completely cynical yet.
This is my experience as well, and the person who maintains "ghc/cabal-install/and the other haskell packages in [extra]" had a similar sentiment in a reddit thread[1] eight months ago.

Cabal is able to give you enough headaches on its own. :-)

I do love pacman and the Arch package database in most other regards, however.

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1f26hg/why_does_haskell_suck_on_arch/ca6wt0c
My carrier pigeon just arrived with some TCP/IP/pigeon protocol packets, and I see I've caused someone's head to explode on the Internet.

I'll put down my vegetable hoe and ask you this. Given that these are my friends, neighbors, and former coworkers I'm talking about at Google, is there any information about you that you would be uncomfortable having your friends collect and store in a database for unknown parties to eventually analyze? If there's some limit beyond which you might say, "Well, that's going a bit too far," and that caused someone else to fulminate over your backwardness, what would you say to them?

Oh, well, gotta send this pigeon off and get back to my bunker before the drones catch me out in the open....
I think you're over analyzing the example. The point is that a cold water on a hot day is worth more.

A pure commodity like gravel or dirt is different, the price of a particular grade of the commodity is purely based on demand and shipping.
Disruption Is About Your Business Model, Not Your Technology
Only in the USA. One of the fundamental differences between Canada and the US is that ethnic diversity and immigration do not immediately imply poverty.

Visit Toronto sometime. Tons of ethnic enclaves that are legitimately interesting, and not in the "look at how the poor people live!" way - solidly middle class and not at all run-down.

In my experience in the US "ethnic enclave", "culturally interesting", "racially vibrant" more often than not really is code for dirty and run down.
Online Shopping Just Got Better.
I'd argue Linux was superior almost from the start. As of around maybe ~1996 it became a viable alternative to Solaris AND it was entirely free and open source.
The day-to-day value of Bitcoin, and therefore its utility as a proper currency, certainly isn't reliable.

For me personally, the time when people can (and do) reliably list prices in BTC (which do not float with BTC/USD exchange rate) is the time when I take Bitcoin's use as a currency seriously.
I agree. I scored 5 out of 5 (Oracle flavour), and didn't have to think too hard about any of the questions. The review article specifically mentions that he has no data about the kinds of people answering the test though. A lot of people just don't do raw SQL that often.
True, but Dropbox started from winning geeky hearts - and there are far more geeks than gainfully employed biologists.

I am open to sharing ideas offline - and rich experiences on why the ones that tried have not succeeded so far.

Good comment anyway.
UChicago's Django-powered Humans vs Zombies site + full results from Fall 2013
Great work! +1 for including minecraft :)
In my opinion, it's usually a sign of decline when a company has to purchase added value where it failed to gather or create it herself. Forty-two dollars for your phone book!?

I think it's really neat how the author conjectured what this means for other kinds of big data and industries, like medical records and the pharmaceutical industry.

Good read, thanks for the post (^-^)
That plural/singular makes a difference there is something that I would consider to be a fault. "Llamas" gives me the page for "llama". Why should "flower" and "flowers" give me radically different results?

If I wanted to buy flowers I'd search "florist" or "online florist". The wiki page for florists is surely of far less interest than the page for flowers.

I suspect the google/ddg results for "flowers" are a result of florists SEO'ing out the ass, not a reflection on what people are actually looking for when they search for things.
San Francisco housing crisis: tech companies held to blame
The think I hate most about the UI is URL hijack, URL hijack everywhere!

The second most stupid thing is if you are behind or corporate LAN/VPN you have to type CAPTICHA to search.

The last stupid thing is its UI design, where's the page cache link? how to limit search time range and order results by time?
hey hey hey ain't nobody deserves that.
John Carmack on Sleep and Productivity
Ah. I interpreted your statement as "we had 4.1% inflation in the last decade". Your intent was "it's as if we 'd had 4.1% inflation, not much more than actual inflation".

I completely agree that nominal gas rates aren't the right measure, and the real price increase has indeed been tiny.
I have an idea to discourage deletion and resubmission. Apply a -1 penalty to the deletion of a story. It's small enough to not penalize too much honest mistakes, and it's a signal that deletions are bad. (If the user still continues to delete and resubmit, use the current method.)
This would require keeping logs of searches. You could anonymize the logs, but a lot of people like that DDG keeps as little as possible.
Can anyone shed some light, I've never heard of Geeksphone.

Can you use Android, and iOS and Windows 8 on it? If so I can see why people would want to buy one.
I've just made a "Feature Request": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7274891

> I have an idea to discourage deletion and resubmission. Apply a -1 penalty to the deletion of a story. It's small enough to not penalize too much honest mistakes, and it's a signal that deletions are bad. (If the user still continues to delete and resubmit, use the current method.)
There's a world of difference between the flying done by a test pilot, who's intentionally pushing the plane to its limits, and your average recreational pilot.
Project Tango in action [video]
I'd like to know which markets are worth translating to. I've done Chinese and Russian and they've done well.
It's interesting that there appear to be two main ideas: text coding but with less typing and more syntax highlighting (Squeak), and "draw a network" (LabView, Pure Data).
Show HN: jQuery Plugin for displaying report card from Coding Schools
That might be so, but the court still had the option of narrowly allowing the items you point out without opening the floodgates. They went for floodgates.
Not specifically a startup but there is also the recent example of television show 'The Mindy Show'. The shows producers/team created fake Tinder accounts for Mindy to create buzz and help the show go viral.
I was wondering where "RSA-464" in the article came from.. and found calculation formula, which makes this number to seem incorrect?

bmax - a maximum number of bits required for a decimal number is calculated by this formula:
bmax = ceil(d(log(10)/log(2)))
(where d - number of digits).

log(10)/log(2) = 3.3219280948873623

approximately:
bmax = ceil(d3.3219)

comes to 425 bits key.
How does this case sound any different than, say, Bernie Madoff?

On the face of it, it sounds like a much more blatant fraud than Dennis Kozlowski, the former Tyco CEO who served about 8 years in prison, or Bernie Ebbers (what is it with guys named "Bernie"?), who is still serving a 25 year sentence for defrauding WorldCom investors.

People stealing money and behaving erratically when it collapses around them isn't evidence of mental illness. Maybe he's nuttier than a squirrel hole, but right now, I don't see any reason to assume he's not just a criminal.
Yup followed by destroying the SAM radar at Bandar Abbas, and shooting up a terrorist camp outside Baghdad. Hopefully not running out of fuel :-)
The most dystopic uses of data are the ones where you'll never really know it was sold on. Get turned down for a job in five years because the owner paid to run a search in a private database that has something about your illicit past? How will you know?

(Note: I'm not actually that worried about this -- I think society will adjust -- but I think collecting anecdotes only shames the people using your data in ways that are trying to be helpful to you.)
I can't comment on "HN's reaction" because I don't tend to put much stock in trying to draw a consensus from HN.

However, my recollection is that there was a reasonably vocal reaction to the privacy implications of Xbox One / Kinect 2 in gaming and tech media, although they mostly related to the timing of the first Snowden leaks. This article is a pretty good example of the media hype around it: http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/16/4526770/will-the-nsa-use-t... .

I think the "always-on" nature was more criticized than the point-cloud/time-of-flight abilities of the camera, but pushback against more and more ways to collect data attached to equipment made by big tech corporations isn't exclusive to Google.
I have. And my chexsystems report shows that it's been paid off. The negative info is still there.