skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough. It's possible for you to experience these things with a skilled teacher. If you're interested in it, I'm sure you can find such a trainer. These are very useful skills.
There's very little processing power needed for that demo, outside access to the GPU via WebGL for rendering. It's a completely different model from HTML/CSS. And WebGL will not be available for Android WebViews (or iOS ones for that matter) for quite a while yet.
A good argument can be made that it's the 1914 takeover of money creation by the government that led do the financial collapse in 1930.
My submission:

3D Printing is a big data problem where the data is not being collected. Sensors in desktop 3D printers are usually restricted to simple limit switches on the axes.

We would use Project Tango for a real-time feedback system for 3D Printing. Initially, we would demonstrate a simple functionality: recognizing when a print is failing and instructing the machine to stop, rather than waste more material. Next, with the help of the open-source community, we would expand functionality to dynamically adjust machine instructions to compensate/fix problems observed during the print. Here are a few examples:

- adjust bed height for different layer heights via software rather than manual hardware tinkering

- dynamically change extrusion rate if underextrusion/overextrusion is observed

- detect if belts are slipping & correct extruder positioning

- pause print is no filament is extruding

- intelligently resume print if stopped (e.g. power failure)

- inform slicing software if/where/why a print fails so the software can reslice and repeat properly

For users, no new hardware will be needed besides Project Tango - a computer will stream GCODE instructions via USB to a RepRap-like 3D printer (e.g. Makerbot, Ultimaker, etc.). Project Tango is precisely the breakthrough we have been waiting for to make 3D printing more user friendly.
I'm just as guilty of it as the next web guy, so I hope you didn't think it was a dis.

I love the new site.
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Gotta love that 'startup culture'
So it sounds like Google will soon be able to pop up a warning saying I should go for a medical checkup because they've detected an increase in left-hand errors that often occurs prior to a stroke. And this is without Tango - that will yield far more data about our physical well-being.

Every advance humanity makes can be used for good or evil. On the whole, we tend to find more good than evil in most of them, and maybe global data capture will be the same.
Some may say that. I couldn't comment.

While I'm here I used to work for an electronic engineering sub-contractors.

They had an excellent paperwork system to run production, with Sage Line 50 (when it was Sage Sovereign) doing accounts and payroll. It was great. Everyone knew exactly what was happening with any component - it was in a kit; it was in stock; it was in goods-in; it was on order; or none of those. We could tell when it had been ordered and what for and when it was due in and etc etc. then we "upgraded" to Sage Line 100 and rolled it out to include the whole company - stores, production, ordering, goods in, etc etc. it sucked. We lost all that tracability we had.
Or perhaps gets the help and guidance and mentors he needs now that he's no longer able to get away with that behaviour?
That's not really the meaning of innovation, though.
Just because it's unreported doesn't mean there's a conspiracy. The media acts in their own interests. If they can't tell this story in a compelling way that sells ads then they won't. No conspiracy to suppress.

But if police are roaming around the city on motorcycles, shooting protestors then this is world news.
Renaming them al "wazaa" should be fine too.
Please name a natural* monopoly or cartel?

*not created by the government or by government regulations.

The most monopolistic sectors of the economy (FIRE, healthcare, energy, defense) are also the most regulated.
That person was at least 30% right about the dot-com boom afaict... plenty of people whose skills were precisely self-confidence and throwing parties made big profits, simply by not holding the bag when the music stopped playing. I'd hesitate to say it was the majority, but there are a lot! And many of them are today's VCs. :)
Interesting, so what would happen if I were to upload a copy of these repos under a new name? (not that I was going to)
I love ING direct. Even after converting to 360 they've still been pretty good.
Can you explain your policy on using and sharing aggregate statistics? Your privacy policy allows you to collect them but from my quick glance I hadn't realised you didn't share them.
Note this article is from 2010.
Part of me wonders whether https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6967516 was related. This is all very sobering.
The "graph moving in the right direction" doesn't have to be impressive in absolute terms. If I can prove that I have 100 paying, engaged customers this week, 50 last week, 25 the week before, etc. I've proved that the idea resonates with a market, and its growing. Note that this is still early stage. You have to be able to prove some indication of longterm value though.
Anti-virus programs detect many kinds of trojans and malware. Why could ransomware not be detected by anti-virus?

Those points are there because they make sense. While having an up-to-date system and anti-virus software isn't a silvet bullet, it's certainly better than nothing.
If it keeps history, it's not just redundancy.

And if it can not in any way overwrite history, it's as good as an offline backup. But now we are talking about custom kernels and maybe hardware.
While I disagree with the first part of what you say, I sympathize with the second part. By paying a financial advisor, you're giving him money basically to do the work/research for you so you don't have to (that's a totally worthwhile service for a lot of people).

If you don't want to do the work of researching this yourself (and I don't want to sound judgmental, it's absolutely hard and overwhelming to start with), put money in a set date retirement fund. Basically, pick the year closest to when you want to retire, dump money in the fund, and it will diversify your assets for you, becoming more conservative as you get older.

https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/target-retirement...
Creative/Creepy way to find out a girl's name
I'm still blown away that they don't/can't offer joint accounts. I mean, I'm fairly sure that's not a limitation of Bancorp, so ...
Except that carbocation didn't point out anything. Carbocation tried to expand the scope of the original statement, which itself is wrong.
Looks like the virus writer did live it to the experts. But then, he entered the wrong number at a function call.
> Good god I am so sick of reading comments like this. This view of the world is just lazy.

I think your view of the world is the lazier of the two--you're basically saying "let's not worry about the negative implications of the things we create as long as our intentions are good".

> Who cares? If you don't like these services, don't use them. Nobody is forcing you to use this device . . . If you don't like modernity, stop using modernity. Move to a homestead in the pacific northwest, never use a telephone, never use grid power, grow your own vegetables, grow your own cattle, and keep away from the evil, scary spies at gooooogggllleeee who are trying to...uh...give you better targeted advertisements? Or provide you with better search results?

Here's how your entire comment reads to me: "If you're interested in thinking about the future implications of the new things we're creating, please shut up and go live in the woods, because you obviously hate modernity. I'm really sick of people thinking about the future and how we might be creating things that will eventually hurt us. The market comes before foresight, and commentary isn't welcome; when you have potential concerns for the future, the only acceptable response is voting with your feet. Please do that and don't ruin our fun."

What you miss is that one can object to a single, potentially dangerous aspect of recent developments (personal information collection and exploitation) while embracing technology in general at the same time.

In creating new technology, it's essential that we examine the paradigms we're creating. If no one's doing that, we're almost sure to run ourselves into serious trouble sooner or later. There's a reason you look before you leap.

Which is lazy: choosing not to use awesome new technology because it has some potentially dangerous implications, or just using any new and seemingly convenient thing that people come up with and assuming it's got to be okay?
It always seems a little odd to me that bitcoin is associated with criminal enterprise. Surely with the transaction record public, it's rather easier for the police to "follow the money" than with cash etc?
Protests on that scale only happen when the economy goes downhill like it did in Venezuela, because the igniter of those kind of protests is, usually, the middle class.

Last year's protests didn't escalated into impeachment because despite blatant corruption and bad government spending, the current government represents the left and that means any movement against it doesn't have the support from the intellectual elite or the media. In fact, the protests started largely as a left movement, asking for more government (lower/free bus fares means more taxation elsewhere), and gathered more support after the clashes with the military police (which is still seen as a product of the authoritarian conservative right of the 60's).

Unless the economy in Brazil tanks and the insatisfaction increases massively, protests against the government will be limited to anarcho-extremists. Until then this incompetent bolivarian left will keep brainwashing the population, invoking the shadow of the authoritarian right to stay in power.
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Venezuela has one of the most notoriously corrupt and likely rigged election systems out there. No sane person thinks the election results were accurate.
Any mechanical engineer who's had to take a 3D object and model it in CAD will love this.

I've been toying with the idea of such software in a phone for a while but never bothered exploring it because I lack the technical chops. There's a piece of software I've previously used called PhotoModeller [1] that allows you to calibrate a standard digital P&S camera then use a bunch of shots of the scene from various angles to build a 3D point cloud of it. Given that you can know the lens of an iPhone to a pretty close accuracy, I was thinking that you could build a similar application straight into the phone that then could upload 3d scans to dropbox. It'd be invaluable to field work.

This takes the above idea and loads it with steroids. I'm really excited!

[1] http://www.photomodeler.com/index.html
Really? We have enough smart minded people that are responsible and willing to work hard. Why worry about rehabilitation for him? He doesn't deserve another shot at earning an investors trust... You must be kidding.
I think a better business model would be creating a service that identifies scrapers, and then blocks them. I think one might already exist, though I can't remember its name.
One institution I am forced to deal with regularly has this horrific phone intro (from a live person):

"Thank you for calling XXX where it's always a great day, my name is XXX and how about you tell me what I can help you bring home today?"
Two Tap is different than PayPal because:

* publishers/app devs can sell products from retailers inside their apps (users don't have to hit the merchant website). this is incredibly valuable, especially on mobile.

* merchants don't have to do anything to integrate us, and all the hard work is in on our end.

* TwoTap is a replacement for the whole checkout process, not only the billing part.

This means we can provide a unified buying experience on all platforms, at all points of sale, and provide a truly universal wallet.
You could have said all these things about Dropbox.

"The crowded market of backup software has many viable open source alternatives. Besides, many tools have been developed or are being developed by established companies."
Your argument is that it's cheaper than solar, wind, and nuclear, and that makes it better?

Isn't that the opposite of things that are best for society making the most money, which was your original point? Wouldn't society be benefited almost infinitely more if it could harness an almost infinite supply of energy?
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Wait, you'd be fine with it if someone else called them in? Or you don't think the FBI should be available to anyone to report people like this? Just because someone is rich doesn't mean they lose police protection.
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Don't know about that. It is really not in Mark Cuban's interest for this to be in the news. At best it makes him look gullible.
This is the fourth time you've submitted this URL.

1) Deleting then resubmitting links is a bannable offense on HN.

2) Medium.com links are penalized so there's little benefit in attempting to maximize votes, as it's incredibly unlikely that it will hit the front page.

3) Seriously, this article is the one you want to promote so badly?!
To clarify, two SQL questions were asked during an interview round for a job description that specifically required the ability to write ANSI SQL against databases for reporting/analytics purposes. Opposed to bringing candidates in for a job description requiring Java experience and then dropping a couple of SQL "gotcha" questions on a surprised candidate.

I think at this point, most HN'ers would accept that a work sample test (of some limited scope and effort) is a better test than any interview question or whiteboard coding process. From that perspective, no question is really a good one. Unfortunately, at my workplace, there are strict rules in place specifically prohibiting this type of applicant process.
Honesty and candidness is refreshing, I think.
This is a very poor conclusion, but arguably will sit very well with the audience of the general populace who will feel smug that "they had the idea of whatsapp and facebook first":

> But any new products he launches will be shaped by Zuckerberg's vision for the web, not his own. And that's a shame.

Innovation is a vehicle for the creation of wealth. Innovation is in and of itself fairly worthless. The only reason the concept of innovation is so popular is because of the value (and the valuations) we put on companies who are seen to be innovating. I don't think it's in question that a lot of wealth is being created right now. Where's the shame in that?
Yep, SMS push. I did some prototyping using this tech for a telco company here in Sydney back in, like, 2005 (9 years ago!). It actually worked quite well.
I wish all tools were presented with this level of clarity and depth. Really great introduction ion contrast to the usual technobabble.
If you're a software engineer, you really ought to be living in the Bay Area. There's no other place like it.

I agree there's no other place like it, but that's not necessarily a good thing. I've been there, done that and won't go back. Then again, I prefer blunt honesty to polite lies and I need my space. Just saying, it's not for everybody, even if you're a software engineer.
Most common question I got when I flew: "What do you do if the engine stops?"

My answer: "Turn around go home and land"

It does help that I started out on gliders (sailplanes) first, of course... but losing the engine really isn't that big a deal in level flight in many small aircraft (or even big ones actually - a 747 has a surprisingly decent glide ratio (not actually surprising if you think about it, tbh)).

I've never flown twin engine, but as others have mentioned, losing one engine in a twin can be catastrophic - unless it's the Boomerang of course ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Boomerang

In summary: I would choose zero engines, one engine, or four engines - but not two.
I'll have my phone soon, the thing just left spain last night.

I'm very excited to have it in my hands and helping me hack on FoxOS after what feels like a year of delays since the peak+
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When I search google for "flower" the first result is the wikipedia page for flower.

While you might want the wiki page for flower when you search "flowers" I think most people might actually want to order flowers.
"social proof arbitrage."

There is a lot of win in that phrase.
I find it very strange that hospitality is such a big part of the financial industry.

Bank / broker employees take clients (who are senior employees of pension funds for instance) out for food and drinks. Maintaining the relationship by going out drinking on the company credit card many nights a week is an important part of the job.

My company mostly deals with governments. Bribery legislation says that every time we provide a cup of coffee to them at a meeting, that has to be declared. It is weird that this hospitality game isn't regarded as cooperate corruption (i.e. the clients agent gets fired for making investment decisions based on who bought him the most expensive dinner).

Anyone with experience of this care to correct my understanding of what is happening here?
It would be interesting to create some sort of crowdsourced database for these types of anecdotes that could then be sifted through and corroborated. Something like that might bring a bit more transparency to the "deal" we all make with these types of services. I get the whole argument of "well you wanted to use the free service, so now they get to monetize your data", but what services collect and how the data is used is extremely opaque.
Jim was a great guy and an awesome contributor to the Ruby community. He will be missed indeed. RIP.
> I feel like Google is only doing these things to collect data about me.

They are. Selling ads is basically the only way Google makes money.

It'd be nice if they at least offered the option to pay $X/year to use Google services without tracking. But I think that would be unlikely, because it would highlight the value of the data many people give away freely.
A lot of people think Rand defended capitalism as we know it, which is quite untrue. Her conception of it was something very different. She referred to the present finance industry types as the "aristocracy of pull."

Not that I'm a Rand fanatic per se, but she is often misquoted and completely misunderstood. Some of her supposed fans misunderstand her as much as her opponents.
Jim was a great guy and an awesome contributor to the Ruby community. He will be missed indeed. RIP
why don't you set your default search engine to wikipedia?
Great tips, everything makes sense logically. Would be interesting to crunch the data and see if everything plays out as described.
Except unlike PG, he hasn't really established authority on what he is writing about (other than perhaps a confusing endorsement from PG). What are Sam's big hits?

Edit: That sounds meaner than intended, but it's actually an honest question. How does this guy share a top 5 list spot with Jobs, Larry, and Sergey? How do we know we should take him at his word when he didn't learn these things be being successful doing them? I feel like I'm missing something.
Can you show me any success stories of absolute capitalist states with no market regulation? Just one, maybe?
If you have paying customers with consistent growth then you are well past idea stage.

I think DenisM's point is that founders often need to be somewhat wealthy on their own in order to create a product in the first place. This doesn't seem like an optimal division of responsibilities.
I wasn't sure if it was Xamarin or another framework that was ultimately using Cordova underneath. After reviewing their docs a bit more, it appears Xamarin was not the framework where this was the case.
Google used to have a "discussions" results option I used heavily for the same reason. But they inexplicably killed it: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-filters-gone-17993...
Is that like "Hey I got the 'Professional' model of this camera because I want my pictures to be professional." :-)
Not to nitpick, but a string of 128 digits is technically still 128 bytes long, assuming ASCII/Latin digits!

I guess, the parent of this comment meant that the "address space" of 1e128 is much smaller than that of >702e300.

I just wanted to clarify, because it made me pause and wtf for a second.
Jail's not for dudes like that.
Is it really sad though? Seems to me like he got his just deserts.
We're experiencing this quite a bit, and have only been in development several weeks. After writing native for so long, I just feel so dirty having to create a plugin for every little thing I need, and the code becomes callback hell since plugin execution is asynchronous...
Examples of unconventional growth strategies by popular startups
I'm just going to support this opinion as I felt in a fairly similar way to the parent comment and I'm a little disappointed to see you down voted.

I don't see what benefit sending this guy to jail provides other than a simple avenue for enacting vengeance on someone who behaved poorly. Worst case, he should have to repay all of his debts and money he swindled. He'll take whatever lessons from his mistakes that he may.
Now if the culture ever changes and people start hording their money, then I'll agree we have problems.

They're hoarding it within their own closed social network. The new purpose of VC is to make trust-fund kids look legitimate (see: Snapchat, Summly, Clinkle). It's the same effect: the ecosystem doesn't die, but gradually becomes uninspiring.
Are you an accelerator addict?
I always wondered how Simple would acquire non early-adoptor customers. It seems with BBVA there is a natural channel to international markets and millenials.
Nice try, author. We know you're trying to save your skin now.

Just kidding! :P
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We've been in fundraising mode for the last 6 months and some of Sam's points really shine through.

In particular the valuation bit strikes close to home.
I'm interested, what kind of stuff are they doing in their backend that you guys aren't going to attempt to do yet?
You raise interesting and valid points. Notably, there is naturally a rather ubiquitous route around getting blocked: use Tor (it will work in many cases, though not all).

The most intriguing thing about this Gargl thing imo is that it is a free version of for-profit SaaS website-to-api offerings such as kimonolabs[0]. I love the nobleness of taking something which is only available as a paid service and creating a free open-source form of it. These kinds of projects help reveal SaaS services which don't actually have strong value-adds despite vendors' claims to the contrary.

[0] hxxp://www.kimonolabs.com/
Thanks for the link. The evidence on that page paints a pretty grim picture for him.
What if PayPal hadn't been bought out. YouTube might not have existed. Nor LinkedIn. Nor Palantir. SpaceX. Yelp. Yammer.

They'd still be founded, but by other people. The connections game is zero-sum. If those people didn't have the connections the Paypal Mafia bought them, someone else would.
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The FBI should not give special treatment to the rich or powerful. If you or I had called the FBI I suspect we'd have been told to file a civil action or contact the local police.
Don't forget Thailand.

What we are seeing in all those countries is representation crisis.
It is difficult to get a person to understand something, when their ideology depends upon their not understanding it!

(With apologies to Upton Sinclair)
It has never polluted the water table? Oh really?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/01/05/some...

That's the first hit on a google search.