skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The place is full of vibrant startups & new ideas.

Except that enormous numbers of these startup ideas are all about undercutting existing businesses and creating a race to the bottom rather than adding value.

WhatsApp removed any profit from SMS. Its revenue is a rounding error to Facebook. Facebook will start running ads on the service, they don't have any choice. Now, even if you want an ad-free SMS service, that won't be an option.

Lyft is directly competing against taxis. They do this by laying the liability for what they do at the feet of "contractors" who now bear the burden (and generally just ignore it) So, the legitimate services that have to pay tax, liability insurance, training, and licensing are now at a disadvantage relative to the newcomers. If Lyft wanted to actually add value, they could set up a taxi fleet and provide the kind of quick, GPS response that people want. But, you see, that's real work and won't have anywhere near the margin for a quick VC exit.

There is innovation in the valley. It's just not in the "social" companies.
I love this! Would've been nice to have something like this when I was learning assembly the first time. After learning to develop with eclipse, sublime text, chrome debugger, etc, using something like QTSpim for assembly just fired off signals in my brain saying 'this is outdated, assembly is probably not what you want to learn'. But of course assembly is important to anyone who wants intimate knowledge of what's going on inside of the CPU when you run your programs. Great idea to put a modern, beautiful interface on top of it!
I don't understand how he could be using so many resources unless he had access to the entire cluster.

Even then he is retarded for using the entire cluster. A single node is probably 10 of my desktops.

Or even better why not make it into a research project to see what Harvard could to with the coins?
Because setting up a shortcut once for many hundreds[1] of sites is more demanding work than typing ! each time.

There's a bang for almost every site I frequent, and when a site changes its domain or search URI the bang is updated to reflect it almost immediately with no work on my end.

After a few weeks of acquainting myself with the bang system, I started to see web search from a completely different perspective. I think of a search engine now as less of an "everything index" and more of an "index of contextual searches". My mind, instead of just thinking "I'll google it", thinks "I'll choose a context for it".

Google is like a system-wide grep whose output is altered by advertising, and DDG w/ bangs is like a vast collection of commands piped into a grep.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html
You can't possibly attribute the success of docker or Hemingway to their name alone. You can just as easily take any successful company and create a narrative about their name and how it somehow made them successful.
It's not really an either/or situation
When the mob are done with the bankers, techies are next.
That's simply not true. You are propagating falsehoods.
Definitely. Houdini is nodes everywhere. Nodes within nodes within nodes :-)

Could maybe add Softimage ICE to that list.

Also check out Grasshopper3D for procedural modelling.

Blender has a regular flowgraph for it's compositor and shading networks (and soon for particles, I think). Plus there's the logic bricks thing for it's game engine.
I think Alfred's Workflows would fit in here.

http://support.alfredapp.com/workflows/
I'm reminded of Shirley Hornstein: http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/28/talented-shirley-hornstein/

How do these people think they can get away with this sort of thing? Are they just completely delusional, or does this kind of outright fraud sometimes work out for them?
DNSMadeEasy, I just posted about them in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7275538
This is an example of responsive design gone horribly wrong. Try it at various different resolutions. I first experienced it at about 860px wide, and it is badly broken at that width. There's a range of widths of about 150px which are very difficult to use. (Then there's the contents of the BTC Builder's bubble, absolutely positioned in pixels although the image may shrink, but that's just ugly and not debilitating.)

Please, people: just because you're using a framework that does some responsive things doesn't mean it absolves you from the task of ensuring that it works properly at different resolutions. Responsive frameworks are deceptive.
This pairs very well with the cheap IKEA standing desks.

http://www.amazon.com/LifeSpan-Fitness-TR1200-DT-TR1200-DT5-...

Sitting while coding is very bad.
> lifting cars to save her child, etc.

Lifting cars is often an exaggeration in terms of wording, the reality is usually lifting up one side of the car, which is very different in terms of weight.
From http://jonmillsfraud.com/about/ :

tl;dr – Guy gets credit from private aircraft company because of his connection to super rich baller. Aircraft company boss feels stupid and angry so puts up a protest site.

Verdict:

Guy is guilty of fraud if he had zero intention to pay. Which seems a bit of a stupid move. Having said that he seemed in self destruction mode from what I’ve read.

The Aircraft leasing employee who gave him credit is incompetent for issuing credit to that degree on his say so. His greed overtook his commercial sense.

Opinion only.
Thanks a lot, the iOS version should be out sometime this spring.
I had really hard time understanding AVC's point so I searched for hypercard screenshots and found this screen tour:
http://www.loper-os.org/?p=568

It is an IDE to build small visual Mac apps. A card is basically an app.
> The solution is to stop centralized data collection.

The world would be a better place if there were no defined country names, zip codes. We should decentralize all our data to prevent evil.
Due to scale, it's really nice being able to get the "viral loop" from people backing your project on KS and other people on KS seeing that.
Well, I just checked and found information about Java being disabled by default in Firefox and Chrome.
The only resources I found on IE were about how it is difficult to disable.

Because of this, I am going to assume that it is enabled by default on IE. Correct me if I'm wrong.
IE has about an 18-20% share of the browser market [1]. A significant amount of targets by any measure!

So as long as it is true that a large percentage of the target market could benefit from "Don't visit/view!" security advice then it makes sense to include such advice.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#desktop-browser-ww-monthly-200807...
> Another piece of the puzzle is that a single new bank isn't going to have it a whole lot better when it comes to interbank stuff (probably they have it worse, having to build useful relationships).

Interbank transfers -- wire and ACH -- are processed through central clearinghouses. You just show up with a copy of your bank charter, pay the fees, and you're now on equal terms with any other bank when it comes to moving money around.

The hard part is getting that charter in the first place. Just two months ago, the Bank of Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania became the first new consumer bank to be chartered in the United States since 2010. One bank, in the past three years. It was huge news in the banking world, even made the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. It's an Amish bank -- they have a drive-through lane for horses and buggies.
Imagine sending money via What's App.
"Not hearing no"

I've never heard an investor actually say "no". They will hem, haw, delay, excuse, etc. and do everything except give a definitive "no". You just have to learn to treat "maybe" as "no" until you decide it's worth talking to them again.

I'd love to have an actual "no" from an investor.

It's like dating: "no" is no. "maybe" is no. "yes" is maybe until you've closed the deal.
This reminds me of the trade in Full Tilt Poker money while everyones money was locked for a year. I seen some sizeable accounts get sold around the table at 10 cents on the dollar.
"Bro, do you even lift?" just took on a whole new meaning. This is super cool though, as the article says, I cannot believe someone hasn't discovered this sooner. I wonder if we will be seeing military and or medical applications using similar materials and techniques soon? This could work wonders for rehabilitation.
App Inventor for Android looks a lot like the interface used in that "code for an hour" idea.
The Story of Sequoia Capital's $6.4 Billion "Revenge" on Mark Zuckerberg
All I can say about this is thank you.
Josh has been talking about this on Bitcoin forums, he started running a similar GoxBTC-RealBTC exchange MVP-style with emails and manual processing earlier.

And about looking legitimate: Very few cryptocurrency sites look professional. It's fascinating to note how much polish a typical iPhone app needs to succeed, compared how the total lack of polish of cryptocurrency sites doesn't seem to be an issue for users.
> You have a de facto monetary policy imposed on you whether you like it or not. It is "coercion" only in the sense that it is outside your personal control.

No, it's coercion because I'm forced to pay taxes in a fiat currency of the government's choosing, and alternative currencies are shut down (by force, of course): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Dollar

> This can be the blind "coercion" of a computer algorithm, the unintentional "coercion" of precious metals mining

See above. Not that you're being sincere.

> Removing people from the equation is an option, but it doesn't remove the market forces.

I haven't talked about removing people from the equation.

It wouldn't make sense either, because "market forces" consist of people's actions in the market. What else could it be? It's very simple once you grasp even the very basics of how money and economies work.
Yeah, justice is only for black people and scummy minorities. He broke the law and committed felonies. It's definitely for him.
Not so much. See "Time On the Cross". Very profitable, cotton slave plantationing was - it was the feedstock to the massive growth in British textiles, the Silicon Valley of its day.

What drove slavery into the ... juggernaut it became was more that financial panics in the US ( and also even more globally ) destroyed so much cash value that slaves were all that was left of value when the tide went out.

I recommend the horribly-titled "A Nation of Deadbeats". It's narrative history, but wow its a good story. And at the same time, I bet financialization is completely critical to having the sort of standard of living we have now.

Child labor only became an issue when adult labor began to be idled.
Bitcoin builder only pays out BTC once per 24 hours (apparently it's manual), it also doesn't have a lot of liquidity (e.g. selling 1000 GOX there would drop the price to half what it currently is).

People looking to make a profitable goxusd->goxbtc->btc->bitstamp usd chain of trades should probably do an OTC trade on IRC on freenode #mtgox-otc: http://webchat.freenode.net/?randomnick=1&channels=mtgox-otc
"Back to the voting booths, peasants! Wait patiently for your next illusory chance to affect how you're coerced!"
How about 'packjpg' for AUR, it's an open source lossless JPEG compressor which gives ~20-25% compression, the resulting compressed files are either stored as single (.pjg) files or as archives (.pja) which can then be decompressed back into the original jpeg files.

http://www.elektronik.htw-aalen.de/packjpg/
Having done a number of projects with responsive or adaptive design, most people really pick a series of widths to optimize to because that's the natural resolution of those devices.

For instance, you'd optimize from around 900px to 1050px to capture all modern smartphones. Then say optimize up to 1440px to capture mid-resolution desktops.

I'm not saying that's what they did here, but when you do this kind of optimization there's small windows where a desktop user can resize their browser to make the site appear broken. A little larger and it fits perfectly in the large screen model, a little smaller and it fits perfectly in the small screen model.
The problem is that "intuition, adaptability, and general experience" are difficult to test for in the limited time of a job interview.
We, collectively as a species, managed to find a path in which slavery was no longer necessary - for the first time in human history.

Yes, the cost was huge - that's why stupid things like the Fugitive Slave Law and the Dred Scott Decision happened, leading to the failure of Whiggish Moderation and, well, you know the rest...
price is what you pay, value is what you get. it cost 19b, doesn't mean it's worth 19b. intrinsic value is the amount of future cash flow the business will generate discounted to present value. projected earnings must be measured against the returns of the s&p 500 rate of return 6% per year adjusted for inflation. they would need to have profits in the range of 500M to 1B for that valuation compounding much higher than that. it is a totally bogus valuation based on new metrics a la zuckyberg
I thought shape memory wire was very expensive though - a few thousadn $/kg? Though checking nitinol.com, it's certainly cheap enough to experiment with - thanks for the tip.
I imagine the benefits are more along the lines of: More computing power (for reports of large data-sets), special API access, phone support, insurance, data security, etc.
I could be wrong but it is my understanding that:

- Dotcloud was around for 3 years and it did not become popular until the name change to docker. I personally couldnt make myself try a product with dotCloud name. So, it could be only me.

- Read Hemingway App coverage (I have never seen a release from a small company covered by so much media) they are all talking about Hemingway. It is an incredible name.
Googling for expertise is dangerous. One of my favorite pastimes lately is to watch amateurish "professional" youtube cooking videos and waiting for the inevitable moment when they will chop a finger into the stew. A lot of the highest ranking knife skills videos are ... dangerous if you practice them the way that are shown regularly.

So you need a more complex google search - you need to find a place where there are solid basics and from them to try to filter the bulshit from the real gems (yes there are a lot of them really)
no safety governor, just fine motor skills by addressing small specific muscle groups, hence unfortunate 'retard strength' myth (trading fine motor skills for blunt force)
or melt it
We're Moving Forward
2014 Global Windows Azure Bootcamp coming to Redmond, WA
We almost didn't make it, but we got it listed. Redmond will also be participating in the 2014 Global Windows Azure Bootcamp.

Register here: http://bit.ly/gwabredmond

Event Info:

On Saturday, March 29, 2014 we are out to make some records!

In April of 2013 we held the first Global Windows Azure Bootcamp at more than 90 locations around the globe! This year we want to again offer up a one day deep dive class to help thousands of people get up to speed on developing Cloud Computing Applications for Windows Azure. In addition to this great learning opportunity the hands on labs will feature pooling a huge global compute farm to perform diabetes research!

WHAT IS WINDOWS AZURE BOOTCAMP?
A one day deep dive class organized by the community to help thousands of people get up to speed on developing Cloud Computing Applications for Windows Azure.

AWESOME. HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?
This event is FREE to the attendees, this includes lunch, drinks and snacks throughout the day. Gratis! Gratuite! Libero!

WHAT DO I NEED TO BRING?
You will need to bring your own laptop and have it preloaded with the specified software listed here (http://bit.ly/1h3pchf). Please do the installation upfront as there will be no time to troubleshoot installations during the day.

IS THIS FOR BEGINNERS?
Yes and no. The local trainers will use the Windows Azure Training Kit to guide you through the basics. We’ll also be running a massive scalability experiment that may bring one of the Windows Azure datacenters down!
> Well, they added the nice "feature" of bugging you sign up for partner offers, whether loans, credit cards, or whatever.

That was the whole business model that Mint was based upon. They'd give you the service for free, and make money on lead-generation.

When they were a startup, they could afford not to be quite so annoying about it. Now that Intuit owns it, they can no longer keep burning cash. They have to show that they can make a profit. If lead-gen won't do it, then they'll have no choice but to start charging.
How To Be Human, Part III
In the UK it's common to use card readers which can use the chips in our cards to generate a response to challenges from online banking.

It also allows you to only authorise specific actions e.g. transferring a specific amount to a specific payee, so protects against replay attacks.
I've been using Name (http://name.com) for a few years now and I've been happy with their services. They also have two factor auth for accessing your account which is a huge plus.
But a programming languages goal is to make the Earth. Not to represent it.
2. Not sure there is a point to be had, then. Suburban places virtually always have ample parking (many claim there is too much parking!). It's not an inconvenience...

3. It's a great movie, you should see it! My point is simply that even living within NYC, you're not ensured to have social interaction. And likewise living in suburbia doesn't doom one to have little social interaction.
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This may be nice for certain niche users.

But the trend I see is companies telling us to regularly buy stuff we really don't need (and obviously throw away our "old" solutions). The world has way more pressing issues than yet-another-gadget. And the planet's resources are not unlimited.
its a fake fake digital money, as opposed to real fake digital money
As I already said in the very comment you're replying to, and as vertex-four pointed out again, it is cross-referenced.

And several CAs are known to have signed fraudulent SSL certificates. I suspect all of them actually have, but not all have been publicized. If you think this makes CloudFlare less trustworthy than them, I really don't know what to say other than you're crazy.
I've subscribed to some of the newsletters curated by Peter Cooper a few months ago. I find the articles to be much higher quality than the average blog post.

http://rubyweekly.com/
http://javascriptweekly.com/
http://html5weekly.com/
I'm lazy when it comes to these things, so I use FPM. It's great if you're dealing with RPM and .deb packages (and a few others). I saw someone else (vacri) mention it in this thread, but it definitely deserves consideration if you want to side-step setting up a packaging environment.

Link: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
This doesn't happen in a vaccuum. You need the law, too. The
Anarchist version of Libertarianism is mostly speculative fiction, although it can be good spec. fic. David Friedman's one of the best people I've ever read.

The "magic" is called "consumer surplus" and it's one of the few defensible things in macroeconomics. It's quite real.

The paradox is that explicitly trying to do things for the greater good very often backfires - although not always.

But as a "control law" - in the sense of running a distributed, massive system - self-interest produces measurably better results than Soviet-style central planning. This rests on information-theoretic foundations and it's early days yet. We're pathetic at macroeconomics, and it's a lot captured by both whim of the moment.

Of course, now we have a lot of hybrids, some that work much better than free markets, some that don't. That's quite new, assuming nothing bad happens to them.
>In an (economically) ideal world, we would properly tax all the negative environmental externalities, ban free parking, and charge a small fee for the use of public roads.

Totally on board with you!

Of course, there are supposedly large subsidies to public transport as well - and just think of the Muni busses, which would get the double whammy of having to internalize all of the costs you list PLUS the government subsidies!

Until the externalities are internalized, though, there's no need to go on an anti-suburbia anti-car crusade. Maybe suburbia would become more popular with all of the externalities fixed: Private busses could take much toil out of long distance car commutes.
>despite a seemingly endless stream of failures resulting in serious adverse consequences for individuals whose privacy wasn't adequately protected.

Such as? Typically it seems that things become a scandal based on hypothetical harm rather than actual harm.
AVs will detect ransomware approximately as easily as any other malware family. Ransomware shares plenty of traits with regular malware.

The problem is that there are so many cheap services out there for malware distributors to automatically "crypt" (pack) their payloads, that the chances of getting a completely fresh sample are pretty high.

AVs are also less effective against ransomware because they have to catch it before it first runs on the system, otherwise there's nothing it can do.
Is there a ddg cheat sheet? How can one make it the default search in Chrome's url field?
Uhm, it's Everything2.
Java's sandbox is no more secure than it was before, but because of Firefox and Chrome adding in a ton of mitigating features like requiring "click to play" by default, disabling it as soon as it goes out of date, and Oracle adding the same features internally, it's definitely way less of a threat right now.

Drive bys are still of course possible via Adobe Flash and Reader exploits, the occasional IE exploit, and the rare Firefox exploit.
Ah! The first world problems!
I am not saying it is hard, I just wanted to point out that CMake does not provide something like this out of the box. Quite the contrary, now every developer has to re-invent this tiny wheel, and I've seen this going wrong several times.
There is nothing new about the card metaphor in mobile.

The very earliest mobile web app standard, HDML (later WML), used a deck-of-cards metaphor. This was around the mid-90s.

"The fundamental building block of HDML content is the card. The user agent displays and allows the user to interact with cards of information. Logically, a user navigates through a series of HDML cards, reviews the contents of each, enters requested information, makes choices, and moves on to another or returns to a previously visited card." - HDML spec [1]

I'm not sure what Fred Wilson is getting at with "cards" today (he seems to be lamenting restricted APIs more than anything with the UI paradigm?). But in the HDML era they served a specific purpose: decks could be downloaded over high-latency networks in one shot and navigated offline, instead of waiting for each "page" to load.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handheld_Device_Markup_Language
A card is more like a screen, not necessarily an app unto itself. Each card can be linked to other cards; buttons can be used to perform transitions between them.
"The name "digit" comes from the fact that the 10 digits (ancient Latin digiti meaning fingers) of the hands correspond to the 10 symbols of the common base 10 number system, i.e. the decimal (ancient Latin adjective dec. meaning ten) digits."

Digit means base 10 numerals. It would have to be a string of 128 characters, not 128 digits.