skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I'm confused here, you're saying that the products are still ordered through Amazon? Where are the promo codes from?
>announcement is interesting, but not nearly the scale of WhatsApp/FB.

Wait, what? Why would Google view the WhatsApp news as competitive? Other than it setting an insane price and inflating bubbles more, how is the FB acquisition really useful news to anyone?

This tech will have far more impact on the world. Apart from the few people doing startups, FB buying WhatsApp will have almost zero impact in day-to-day lives.
> 3) There is real value in the app. No one needs to question this. There's no big pitch deck's, presentations, etc.The app was allowed to grow organically due to its network affect. The business can scale into the millions and billions of users.

Can you explain this one? Something that seems to have been lost in all the hype is how yet another messaging app is somehow novel, innovative, or exciting. Is this somehow a major technological leap from other instant messengers (which we've had for nearly 2 decades now).
> All your doing is slippery sloping your way into a cynical Utopian future which exists only within your own psyche. Your comment reeks of paranoia and baseless conspiratorial fear. If all you can think of in relation to the uses of cool and new technology is someone taking advantage of you than this is most likely the wrong industry to be participating in.

What you label as "paranoia" and "baseless conspiratorial fear" is better described as "examining the potential consequences of the things we build". You are advocating that we examine only the positive potential uses of the technology we develop and that we ignore the potential consequences, because "we'll work it out and everything will be awesome!", or something.

Perhaps the potential consequences will never come to fruition--but it's still very important that we examine them. There's a real shortage of that going on, which is why some people post negative reactions to these developments rather than something more balanced. Stop trying to dismiss those concerns and that conversation--if you're not interested in hearing it or taking part in it, this is likely the wrong discussion forum for you to be participating in.
I'm interested because they vary hugely. 'Sprawl' (I don't like the term because it implies it is bad) can be very nice to live in and some of the biggest public transport cities (like London) getting to work can be awful. But the devil is in the detail as they say. There are wider economic questions to be asked too - use of arable land? are restrictive planning laws directing worse economic outcomes? are 'local communities' of social and economic benefit? should we be building housing which isn't the most high-profit kind? IMO careful consideration of these should drive development but it's never done.
I feel like it would be foolish to pass up the opportunity to be studied by algorithms. I hope that the rich data about me one day becomes useful in even more fantastic ways than simply marketing advertisements to me.
Except Google sold SketchUp back in 2012: http://techland.time.com/2012/04/26/google-sells-sketchup-wa...
> The whole point of a source control system is to tell you the history of how code got to be the way it was.

No, the point of source control is to record incremental improvements in a codebase. This is a subtle difference, but critical: the history of how codebase got from point A to point B isn't valuable in itself - the logical changes that altered the behavior of the project are.

A series of broken commits might show the developer's journey from zero to 100%, but the idea that each commit is a non-broken incremental addition enables powerful automated workflows for regression testing.
Me too; .format() is too verbose.
Kirkpatrick: $19 Billion WhatsApp Deal Keeps Facebook on Cutting Edge
Hey I found an article about you. http://www.theonion.com/articles/911-truther-vows-not-to-res...
And for all of that, the things that are most financially
lucrative these days don't require anything other than the
ability to read the fucking manual and bolt together your
favorite ruby gems or node packages and then apply a pretty
design to it.

This is simply untrue... financially lucrative things almost always have to be highly scalable, very robust, and implement functionality that is not "in the manual". Making a trivial webapp is easy; making one that implements useful functionality and scales to millions of users is not so easy.
"Finance will always rule"

That was not nearly as true today as it was before 1980. Things don't have to be this way.
What's the disconnect between Google's value and the information they gather. Obviously that's intentional most of the time, but it doesn't seem like a bad deal to me.
Yes, our API (more info at zinc.io) places the order on the user's behalf, applying any promo codes, using the best rewards offers, etc. We guarantee the savings.
Boy, that 2 in J2ME (and J2EE for that matter) just never goes away.
Combined with the nonaggression principle and property rights what is wrong with companies doing anything they can to make money? Their pursuit of money in a perfect market situation is just the pursuit of whatever is in most demand.

The only other two ingredients are an informed intellectual populace that can properly interpret with complete information whatever businesses propose, and some kind of democratic justice system that can call bullshit when someones being a dick to avoid the exploitation of anyone who doesn't have complete information.

The reason we have all these businesses using a corrupting influence on politicians to bias is because governments have a monopoly on violence that corporate interests would love a piece of.
Grepping the PKGBUILDs on Arch looks quite a bit different

Official: 547 out of 5115 use cmake.

Unofficial: 5167 out of 47069 use cmake.

A lot of these offer plain Makefiles too, but cmake is decently popular and hard to dismiss.
The "market" isn't just the stock market. Plenty of people and companies are able to earn very high returns on investments. Anywhere there is information asymmetry or control of who can sell what is an opportunity to make lots of money.

People can and do beat markets by all sorts of means. People earn 40% annual returns by operating laundromats!

The market is only smart when you're selling goods that have well-defined characteristics and retain value irregardless of time and place. Cold water is worth about $0.003 a cup from my tap, but $5 in a bottle at a major league baseball game.
Is it the gluten or is it the glyphosate?
Sad to see such a low-quality article being upvoted on Hacker News. Kinda like that other massively upvoted low-quality article on AI. Anyway, it's a strange article. It says the problem is rent-extraction, which seems to be a nother name for rent seeking. Rent seeking is these days defined to mean corrupting regulators, yet the article claims that the solution is even more regulation.

In an efficient market without monopolies there's no such thing as rent seeking. Anyway, the biggest problem with this article is it's naievity and blaming rich people in a populistic fashion. Advocating for nationalization of banking? Come on.
Sylpheed: lightweight and user-friendly e-mail client
That's a wild overstatement. There have certainly been massive socialist famines, but there's also been massive capitalist ones (see: colonies of the UK in the 19th century). And socialist famines don't happen everywhere socialism is instituted (people did not starve en masse in East Germany), and in many of the places where famine actually did occur, it's probably better to view it as a success of central planning (in the limited sense that mass death was a purposeful, desired outcome, not something coming about because of economic incompetence).

Amartya Sen has done a lot of research on this: the big factor that determines whether famines happen or not is less planning than it is democratic political structure.
If there is no higher power, if the physical universe is all there is, and if our current understanding of the physical universe is correct, there is some randomness - quantum uncertainty. But that's not the same as my free will or ability to choose, because my choice does not determine the results of the quantum uncertainty.

That leaves me essentially as a deterministic machine with some noise at the lowest levels. It doesn't leave me as what was classically considered human...
On the public markets, using social sway or inside connections to intentionally up- or downregulate the reputation or market price of another company for personal profit (say, a pump-and-dump scheme) will put you in prison. No question about it; it's unambiguously illegal to do that. You don't get to, for example, spread negative rumors about a company and ruin its reputation because you think you should be able to buy it at a discount.

Investors do the same thing, and it wrecks peoples' careers and makes it hard as hell for people to get started amid that feudalistic reputation economy. The excuse is "well, investors talk".

I say: fuck that and fuck them. If Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are really going to tolerate that shit-- which only hurts them-- instead of agitating for proper laws to be written, then they're a pack of self-hating losers for not knowing how to fight for themselves.
Thanks for the encouragement Josh!

We raised a round post-YC. Oh, and we have revenue too. We're up to eight people and have a long runway.

Buying a bank would take a different sort of capital though. One has to think about working with PE/hedge funds (some of whom have already bought banks) or even sovereign wealth.
Not really offensive but definitely screaming "American!" We would more likely cross our legs in "feminine" way.
How to deal with conflicting advice from investors
Yes, I agree with you there, the page does not do a very good job of explaining exactly what is being demonstrated. If you start on the site's landing page [0], it makes it a lot clearer.

[0]: https://www.vessel.io/
I was Google when they were trying to hire him, he turned them down to go work at Microsoft. Its interesting to see him at Google these days. I was really inspired by his projector/Wii hacks. I even built a couple with some of those pico projector units that Woot gets now and then for $100. My interest was building a simpler structured scanner for doing 3D printing.
I would second webright's comment about raising too early. One other mistake we made was underestimating the number of investors we needed to speak with in order to create momentum and a competitive environment. You definitely do want to raise in parallel, and in order to truly do so you should overshoot the number of people you plan to talk to so that you don't find yourself done with all of your leads and not with the full amount raised. Chase more leads than you think you'll need to.
Yeah, I would say that the problem is the "little phone" hardware moreso than the web tech. I wouldn't be surprised if a "native" (ie. Dalvik) Android app had similar issues on the same hardware.
Not to mention there's a dark mode. My eyes thank them for that piece of CSS.
I might wonder which of my personal details they don't like on this cozy level.
"We use a number of strategies to maximize savings, including discount codes, optimized credit card rewards, and strategic order timing. You can expect to save between $1 and $5 on most orders, and even more for large orders!" [1]

[1] https://www.zincsave.com/faq
I'm shocked by the distinct focus on fear and doubt about Google's intentions with this technology -- does it really matter that much?

The rising tide lifts us all, and this technology can be ubiquitous within twenty years. Isn't that worth it?
What? Whatsapp is not secure by any means, I don't think it's even encrypted. NSA could easily monitor it using existing infrastructure. And how exactly do you propose NSA "funnel" money to FB to make this acquisition -- never mind that most of it was in newly issued stock (how does NSA compensate FB shareholders for this? how does it appear on balance sheet / income statement / cash flow?). Have you thought this through at all?
There's no such data, because the zombie problem is complete nonsense. Well, actually, it is complete nonsense precisely because empirical data can't say anything about it.
There was a short movie made on exactly this concept... I

SIGHT: http://vimeo.com/46304267
I only use black because that's the only diversity one was likely to find in Indianapolis when I lived there. I'd believe the Bellevue stats, given the population around Crossroads Mall if nothing else. As for Redmond, maybe I need to get out more. Mentally touring my street and thinking of the race of the residents I know of, I'm coming up with only the Chinese family that lives across the street from us. I think the Indian family on the corner moved out a while ago. Granted, an anecdotal survey of my neighborhood and my general impression does not hard data make. But that's where I'm coming from.
Minn. Parody Artists Wins Case Against NSA, Homeland Security
Something like that on Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ghostExter...
I tried this and now for some reason my apache server is returning the default page. also I think it wiped out my mailserver settings -- my mail is hosted on namecheap. i guess i gotta wait till everything is fixed.
Buy index funds. You're effectively piggybacking on the "advice" of the whole financial system, and not getting charged to do it. Expense ratios are way lower, and your performance will be precisely average.
Amiko: iOS app to keep track of when you need to get together with your friends
Ask HN: Did anyone manage to unsubscribe from Windows Azure marketing emails?
No 1. by miles and miles is fundraising at all.

Just saying, but nobody successful I know spends or spent any time raising funds for their company that wasn't just saving their wages.

The one case I know of where they tried (after already being successful I would add) they were already doomed before going down that path ... it just took a while for it to come to fruition. Given that the only people I know who thought this was a good idea lost their business from right under their nose anyway I'm not inclined to think that in general it is a good idea.

The small number of spectacular successes that came from VC capital make it seem more reasonable as a choice than it is... they also make it easier for VCs to invest and see a return because some of those spectacular success are worth a lot and more than make up for the fact that without them its just a game of losing money constantly...
How exactly do you think Google's amazing query suggestions work? Hint: it's that data that you tried so hard to make sound creepy.
> So don’t do obviously dumb things like talk about potential acquirers in a seed round pitch - that will suggest you’re not trying to build a really big company.

Question, should one talk about potential acquirers - specifically, those you have offers from - at any point during fundraising?
The incentives for the financial sector are broken

"Bloated and inefficient, the financial sector is focused on hooking up bankers with large bonuses rather than matching savings with investment."
NSA Code Word Generator
Second sentence "does has". I don't get the feeling this is going to be a great read.
The most beautiful and Meaningful UNICODE
I don't understand the application beyond gaming. The other applications discussed are basically shopping.

Essentially this would make it much easier to represent the physical world digitally. But what use cases does a consumer or the average phone user have for digital representations of the physical space around them, particularly given that the user is already aware of the the physical space around them? How can this sort of digital device extend our ability to interact with physical space?
No one's arguing that people should be forced to not work. Basic Income advocates think that if you're already stuck not having a job, you shouldn't also be stuck with as many of the other things that not having a job currently implies. And if you have something important to do that's not "a job" that brings you satisfaction, we don't need you taking a job away from someone who wants one.
tl;dr:

"Something odd happened. The paragraph I had just written began to self-delete. The cursor moved rapidly from the left, gobbling text. I watched my words vanish. When I tried to close my OpenOffice file the keyboard began flashing and bleeping."

I call stuck backspace key.
I’m not against reducing calories. But if that’s all you’re
doing, it can’t work. It depends what those calories are.

I've heard this argument so many times before but it always rings hollow. If you actually reduce your calorie intake enough, you must lose weight.
Finding useful metrics for your business
Does Zinc simply kickback some affiliate revenue earned?
Interesting, any insight into how cost effective this is for small volume runs? Say several hundred to 1k. I've got a simple design I'm going to build and I'm currently weighing just ordering all the boards and components and doing the assembly myself vs outsourcing all the manufacturing not having built physical hardware before it's been really hard for me to get a sense of what the costs will be.
Previously on the front page earlier today (with a broken link) and lots of comments from users and Namecheap staff:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7271602
For a number of use-cases Linux is technically and practically superior to Windows and OSX. For servers there is essentially no viable competition. Postgres by comparison has a hundred viable competitors and very few exclusive killer features. It's a free Oracle alternative in an age where people don't even want Oracle.
His 3rd point was regarding the value of the app.

I think we can agree on it's usefulness, but your concern was Whatsapp's novelty.

The part that's indisputable is the massive and active user base.

The real question is whether Whatsapp can retain their users, due to it's novelty or despite the lack thereof.
the blind. that use case is even demonstrated in the video.
so you're like a combination of honey + intercepting and storing my order information on your servers to wrap around canceling and returning?
What's the solution? Stop innovating because there's a slight chance of said innovation being used for evil? I'm all for being wary of what's going on, so that you don't get caught with your pants down, but what's the absolute worse that can happen? Every single tech that you can think of that has changed the world in some form, had it's own set of doomsayers, but as a whole I think we've progressed in the right direction. You can spend your days fretting about every single tech that comes out, or you can except that the world is changing and make the most out of it. Frankly, I don't mind living in the world we live in today, I'm excited to see what comes out next.
If you believe the financial sector is a thief, why do you pay a financial advisor?
I used namecheap and buy SSL certs, including wildcarded SSL certs.

I think they have the best prices for that.

SSL certificate cost is a scam anyways - so you better off with whoever is the cheapest.
s/updating it’s position/updating its position/
I've no objection to having that discussion, but it's pretty well orthogonal to "should we split CA?"
DDG gives me freedom to better craft my queries, and it's won my browser's default search engine for years because of the bang syntax. I can !anything and it almost always gets me what I need. I still !g and !b quite a bit, but I do so deliberately based on what I'm looking for (and I do think about whether I want the search affecting my Google Now results).
Synopsys buys Coverity for $375M
Sci-fi explode-a-rama sprung from Jerry Bruckheimer's middle school diary
And now they sold themselves to a company that sells ads.
Huh.
This is great news; in yesterday's broadband story I left this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7271044 , which is about how the cable lobby has worked hard to prevent municipal broadband.
If you have Android Chrome, open this. Super smooth on Nexus 5 and Chrome... http://helloracer.com/racer-s/
This should be interesting to the guys who made Minecraft Reality.

http://13thlab.com/
http://minecraftreality.com/
It is very rare that an aircraft falls out of the sky for any reason other than human stupidity. For decades, aircraft engineering has been well understood: the conditions for safe flight are known, staying in them is straightforward, and only very rarely does following the rules end badly. New technology has very little to do with this.

The thing is that it's easy to make stupid mistakes operating and maintaining an aircraft, and unlike many other areas of modern life, there aren't training wheels to make it idiot proof.
Be aware, though, to back up your dns records BEFORE you switch. I just lost all records for a domain of mine.
Thank you for posting this!

This was very quick and worked for me.
I started with PDP-11 (MACRO-11), then MIPS, and that was a great way to start for me. Both easy, one CISC, one RISC.
Does it matter?

Simply put, I parse that as a creepy attempt of simulating a personal relationship that just isn't there.
Please don't be a dick on HN. There are other places for that.
True... found a good FAQ here: http://www.robinsonaviation.com/flight_faq.htm
A significant private finance sector present in the 1920s in the US did nothing to prevent the great depression, where millions of people starved.
It's a path to huds, in the Deepness in the Sky sense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky

You need situational awareness in a device to start using it to paint data onto the surroundings. Once you can do that, a whole world of applications unlocks.
One example would be better versions of the iRobot cleaners. Currently they rely on a series of semi random movements and aren't particularly smart, which contributes to not being very efficient, and rarely getting into the edges of spaces. If you own one you've probably moved your furniture to accommodate their strange behaviour.
Heavy Amazon user here (for 99% of my non-fresh food purchases, I order it on Amazon). This looks neat at first glance, because I order things on Amazon all the time, and I like saving money. A few things that prevent me from using it right now:

- Trust. Is this service legal? Will Amazon get upset at me for using it? Maybe I'm worrying for nothing, but addressing those questions directly on your website would be worthy.

- Order history. Using Zinc means orders won't show up in my Amazon order history, right? I like having all my Amazon orders tied to my Amazon account.

- No one click purchase integration. I haven't used Amazon's "shopping cart" flow in forever.
>They need to build their own crawlers like gigablast.

Unfortunately the opportunity for that is pretty meek. Many webmasters block crawlers that aren't the top search engines. :-(
This is very cool but forking your open source project like this strikes me as very poor open source behavior. Now there's Thrift and FBThrift. It would have been much better to have integrated improvements back into the open source Thrift project incrementally.
Ocular implants are not the newest technology. The argument I think would be that a phone would be a cheaper alternative/more accessible. But I'm interested if the 'audio cues' that they mention in the video would be any better than the audio cues already present in most environments.
I have had Simple for a couple years now and really love it. This makes me sad. BBVA and other international and even national banks like them are the scum of the earth. Already in the process of closing my account.

So. Sad.
Interesting to see that this is coming from ATAP - the one part of Motorola that Google kept in the sale to Lenovo[1]. I was curious to see if they would merge the ATAP group into Google X, but I guess they're going to keep it separate and just rebrand it as Google ATAP.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/29/5359068/google-keeping-mot...