skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iirc "upstream" refers to collection out on the Internet - the "fuck those guys" program is MUSCULAR, which is the tapping of private interdatacenter links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstream_collection
vs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR
Someone needs to show that you can actually make money with something like this. The problem with these sorts of ventures is that besides being capital-intensive and risky, it can be quite hard to capture the economic benefits of the development in a way that justifies the investment.

There's also the issue of whether Silicon Valley has the requisite infrastructure to facilitate these sorts of projects. If you want to do projects in robotics, DARPA has both money to give you, deep connections with the universities developing the basic science, and a program manager to manage the project that typically has a PhD in the field. There's a lot of downsides to DARPA, namely that everything has to have some sort of military angle, but there's a wealth of technical expertise sloshing around there.
You didn't have to board the return flight and you don't have to board the last companies' arrival flight. There, problem solved :-).
The "fuck you"s were directed at interceptions under executive order 12333 which as the second to last paragraph makes clear was not a subject of discussion.

PRISM and UPSTREAM featured in the same slide which would explain them being discussed together, but UPSTREAM isn't subject to tech firms' whims so the discussion might have been concerning telecom firms as well.

The reporting isn't clear, best read the transcript when available.
these charts are exceedingly pretty- i couldn't tell from the examples if there are things included to make them more interactive or not (hover info, zoom in and out etc)
I think there are a lot of services that are trying to put their own unique spin on how to teach code. My problem is that a lot of them seem to miss the point. What this is teaching is basic syntax and how to understand sequential execution. But being able to write code is not the same thing as being able to program, in much that same way that being able to write English is not the same thing as storytelling.

The game looks like fun and I'm sure it'll be able to spark the interest of a bunch of young people. Once they get out of this, hopefully they'll look to other sources to learn more in-depth skills. But IMHO services like this need to stop advertising themselves as "Learn to code", and instead admit what they are, which is something to pique the curiosity of a newbie and get them started on their own path. That's a noble goal in itself, but passing off the absolute basics as knowing how to "program" could be dangerous.
Homejoy is pretty solid - and they're away cheaper.
Make an album where every track is only a couple of seconds of music, but you can play the tracks randomly to generate an infinitely long ever-changing song.

You get the hype, the tracks are short, so you get more plays/hour and you can pass it off as an artistic endeavor.
I might be off base here but I think this idea "what we would we do if money wasn't an issue” is subconsciously the reason why shows like the walking dead and to a lesser degree falling skies have become so popular with our generation. The theme of a post apocalyptic world where zombies and aliens are trying to kill off the human race are the obvious draw at its core these shows illustrate what a moneyless world would look like in the sense that survival and relationships with those in close proximity to you would be the only thing that mattered. I also think a moneyless world would be complete chaos but that just me.
"It used to be the case that governments funded a lot of development of breakthrough technologies. The bad news is that they have mostly stopped"

That statement is very passive. There has been a shift in the past 30-35 years in public perception as to whether or not government is an agent of good (with noted problems) or if it is unfortunately necessary but the smaller it is the better we are all off. Unfortunately, in my view, those who believe in investing in basic research are losing out to those who believe the existing market structure is always superior.

I'm highly doubtful that YC or other similar groups really have the stomach for the long term investment that is necessary to make up for that loss of government backing. If your model is that waving a couple hundred million dollars around will induce a eureka moment in somebody smart, it is bound to be a failure. Real breakthroughs typically seem like breakthroughs but actually were the result of spending decades and a lot of money searching dead ends and making incremental progress.

At best it seems like YC can pick some slightly higher hanging fruit than the current model allows, but they can't afford to reach very high.
"It would take immense amounts of venture capital money to build a direct competitor across all those niches."

Wait. You don't need to. Niches actually make it easy to take apart. Concentrate on one niche and do it better, faster, and cheaper than Bloomberg.

Having been in finance, there is a lot of unhappy Bloomberg users. The organization itself, however, is pretty top-notch. They have some really brilliant people working there and the customer service is quite good.

That said, I think in a classic innovator's dilemma scenario, one could build a company that has very few features but does it well and don't actually need to provide support. More importantly, do it for cheap.

Then again, "cheap" isn't usually what finance companies look for. The inefficiencies of that industry is staggering. So long as they come out ahead, it might not be worth it for them to save some money but have to live with limitations.

So maybe the right approach is to target some segment of the finance industry that cares only about a niche and has to really watch their bottom lines.
If I didn't need money or attention I would do roughly what I do now. I consider that a great blessing.

Find a job you love and keep enough distance to not grow to hate it, and that's half a recipe for happiness right there.
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They are easy to understand and provide a venue to use the cryoptographic terms that the students should learn to use.

Having to understand a complicated bit of cryptography while at the same time coming to terms with a big batch of nomenclature you haven't committed to memory is hard. Harder than I can handle anyway.
If you're "playing the tracks while snoozing", then having your sound on means the next song to come on will be making noise.
An impending black swan for electric cars
For a bond trader who does billions of dollars in trade per year, $20K/year doesn't even show up in the roundoff errors. Maybe a $2K/year service could find its way into the world of people who do day trading from their homes. On the other hand, those people are probably already using a lot of the information that's available free on the internet or from their brokerages, so it could be an uphill battle convincing them to shell out $2K for proprietary financial data.
Any luck on delivering a feature to prevent exchanges like Coinbase from stealing my money, or ability to retrieve my money once it's been stolen? There seems to be no way not to use exchanges when using Bitcoin, so this is a real problem.

Or I suppose it could be that Mt. Gox was the problem, and now the problem has gone away.

Still, I predict that when the economy crashes again as it did in 2008, we will see many more exchanges die off, and they'll take everyone's money with them. This may harm mass adoption of Bitcoin by reducing confidence.

This seems a step in the right direction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7277865 Anyone know if any exchanges have started doing this yet?
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I stand corrected. Thank you for clarifying.
Which generation is "our" generation?
The only way to topple bloomberg would be to provide a service that they can't match and that most financial participants want desperately, then build out the capabilities bloomberg already does later. What is that service? I have no idea.

There is at most a very small chance you can beat them with the same product at a lower price.
Yes, I am aware of that. Hence the brackets.
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You're taking it too literally, I wasn't referring to anyone. I explained the point in my previous post.

If your comment reflects sincerely held beliefs that accurately represent the scene as it was, I think it's safe to say you were not a part of it. Your derision of that culture is either out of dishonesty or ignorance.
You really nailed it with #5.
Ugh, games are over in seconds. Without communication, the tragedy of the commons dominates decisions. And now heroku stopped the DDoS.

Perhaps if it chose the most popular of the last x inputs.
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They already leaked the first behind the scene image: http://imgur.com/xYZwMfl

(sorry, i could not resist)
I think most great hackers (and hacks) are driven by curiosity. Things that have the highest expected value for returning money/attention are usually boring.
NoScript is configured by default to only allow scripts and "active content" to run from domains you allow. You can temporarily allow certain domains, or permanently allow them. So yes, it does address the CDN issue. If someone includes a script from apis.google.com, that script won't run until I permit content from that domain to run (and I only ever do that temporarily, and only if the site needs it). Likewise for any other domain: CDN, analytics, whatever.

I don't know much about Ghostery - NoScript addresses most of my privacy concerns around web browsing.
Need to bring it up to a OLED touch screen and improve non button functionality.
Also, Snowden has a Tor sticker on his laptop.
Just my 2¢.

I personally don't need piles of money. I could make 20% of what I'm making now, do what I love to do, and not feel strained. (Actually, I lived on much-much less.)

But I have a family to support, children to educate, etc, and this requires a lot of money. So yes, I'm looking for ways to make more money, like 10x, or even 100x of what I'm making now.

Also, unlike food, money does not cease to be useful in quantities you yourself cannot consume. I bet Bill Gates does not spend a million of his riches a day. The Gates Foundation possibly spends more, though—hopefully in a way Mr. Gates finds personally satisfying.
Could anyone with more background elaborate on what you think Carmack means with the second tweet? The PS4 already outputs 1080p with (varying algorithms of) antialiasing for several of its launch titles. I'd expect some rendering pipeline shortcuts to cut down on the latency that some operations incur and to achieve a constant 60 FPS, but a generational drop in graphical fidelity seems steep.
Umm, we're actually in Melbourne, Australia (I work for FastMail).
Some ideas around transportation:

- smart pothole patches. Currently patches barely make the road any more driveable and uneven road surfaces result in billions in economic loss due to accidents, repairs, and traffic.

- drone machine equipment. Employ operators in the midwest in trailers while they control equipment all over the world. You'll get few accidents and utilize resources more efficiently. Put the operators in geographically advantageous locations and you can run the equipment 24/7.

- Volunteer traffic shaping network. I figure all you need is 15-20 volunteer drivers to effectively eliminate rush hour stop and go traffic on one side of a highway by throttling throughput. Create an app to help coordinate and reward them.
use blockchain.info

They create an individual wallet file for each user AES encrypted with your password. They also support 2-factor auth and auto-backups to 3rd party services like Dropbox.
I consider myself both an expat and an immigrant, as a U.S./Canada dual citizen (I immigrated to Canada from the U.S.). Until I give up my U.S. citizenship, I am an expatriate from the U.S. I am also an immigrant to Canada.

Other immigrants I know do not to have a problem with me calling myself an immigrant. I don't try to equate my experience with theirs—I had it easy.

I am disgusted with what the federal conservative government has been doing to immigration and citizenship in the decade since I got my Canadian citizenship, because it makes it harder for people different than me to immigrate and become productive citizens.

I'm disappointed that there has been no substantial effort made to unify certifications for doctors, engineers, teachers, etc. across the provinces and territories because we have too many doctors, engineers, teachers, etc. (usually from non-European countries) driving taxis or performing janitorial work. It's a horrific waste of human talent.
6 things you're doing that demotivate your staff
I'm really glad to read such comment. You do a service to other HN fellas mentioning stoicism as a way to "solve" this kind of problem. After a few years reading and studying stoic works (such as Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, already mentioned in this thread) I can say I'm finally good with myself and I could not recommend it enough for other geeks and nerds who eventually find themselves in such negative mindset. Hackers: read the old philosophers, you'll do yourself a favor, your mind will thank you. Modern life is nearly unbearable when you don't have the tools to fix it.
... dont keep your money at exchanges?
DNSMadeEasy comes out with a new network monitoring service
Of course they did (do). Just like telcos.

What is amazing is the carelessness that the government shows w.r.t. protecting the interests of American tech firms. NSA could hardly have done more to destroy worldwide trust and credibility in our tech industry.
The "call to action" button "get the prerelease now" redirs me to https://www.crypto101.io/testfile ... obviously b0rken.
Correct. Companies are not monolithic. How many people do you need to know about it, in order to hide something from the monitoring systems and management alike? 10? 2?
Fast and easy way to trade your stuff locally
Wrong. Your biggest problem is believing you have to improve yourself.
> Throughout history, when the cost of energy has come down a lot (for example, with the steam engine)

I'm going to have to review my physics textbook, but I could swear that steam engine consumes energy.

edit: Can't believe I'm getting downvoted. I thought this place was full of pedantic engineers, like me?

The steam engine turns energy into work. If anything, it probably increased the price of energy (at least temporarily, until the steam engine was put to work in the fossil fuels mining business).
Hard to do until gas and apartments can be paid for with BTC in most cities.
From what I've heard, at least a higher resolution, 90 Hz display.
I think it jumped the shark 3 frontpage-making clones ago.
Kids are gr8 I think: attending good public schools with favorable demographics and good influences, lots of extracurricular activities in the community, tons of outdoorsy excursions such as hiking, camping, nature. Great museums and exposure to diverse culture. Skiing in winter. Problem is cost of living. Reasonable sized housing for a family of 4 and a dog IMO is 3/2 1800 sqft with yard and garage on 5000sqft lot. Thats hitting 1.5M+ in my hood right now. So buying is out of the question. Right now I'm renting a 3/2 condo for 3650, so, as a lifetime renter, over next 10 years were are talking about 500-600K in rent alone if you factor in increases. How does one save for retirement? college for kids?

Problem with most of south america is infrastructure and security. These are things that here in the states we take for granted.
Pretty sure everyone here knows how Mark Cuban became a billionaire. Who better to speak on the topic accordingly?
Amen, I have personally experience how much better I enjoy working on something when I don't necessarily need to worry about monetizing it. In my mind, my non-profit work is immensely more successful and rewarding because everyone involved are doing it because they just really want to.

It requires a very different way of thinking and looking at things. Money is a metric often used to measure success. Even in non-profits people start to get "metric driven", but I feel that somehow belittles my efforts.

Truth be told, money is work + luck. The only metric that I like to look at is, am I doing what I can. Random dehumanizing metrics be damned, you can't measure everything!
I think you're overstating this, any number of simple games have been reproduced and virally spread. Tetris comes to mind. When that came out in the 80s, I was one of many who quickly produced a playable version and posted it to local bulletin boards. Similarly, many of the games discussed in Martin Gardner's and A.K. Dewdney's columns in Scientific American got pretty wide play (Conway's Life and CoreWar come to mind).

The scale and spread of these particular memes is larger and faster due to easier-to-use tools for cloning previous efforts (such as git/github), and more pervasive social media.
I majored in humanities and I'm not unemployed nor in misery. I don't feel cheated at all (never did), because society does not owe me anything since I made all the calls myself.
And a dupe from about 2-3 hours ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7430306
Looks great. The landing page reminds me of the cover of Tufte's "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" (http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/graphics/vdqi_bookcover.gif).
I also think that an individual employee needs to put a discount on options because you don't have the ability to diversify, your risk profile is vastly different than the investors, and the founders presumably have effective veto over exits which allows them to capture more of the value in a middle of the road outcome like a acquihire.

I personally think that options should just be used to mitigate the career "risk" of the instability of the company and maybe having to move down-market into some less valuable skills if that's what the company needs.
> I have to disagree: however humble they might be, someone on the projects I mentioned has to have a deep enough understanding to know how to handle the cornucopia of problems that can derail it

I agree with what you said, which is why I have a hard time understanding what exactly you disagree with. Are you saying that more experienced people tend to be less aware of their shortcomings? Or maybe we're taking humble to mean two different things? I'm using "humble" in the "not arrogant" sense, not the "feeling inferior" sense.

I think you can be confident in your abilities while still being humble about them, and that's really what I meant by it when referring to the more experienced peer group. In fact, the most experienced people usually have an innate sense of confidence that allows them to avoid having to constantly tell people "I know what I'm doing". They don't have to tell people, because they can show it. That's the level of humbleness (or modesty may be a better word) that I was referring to.

> Then I don't understand how this was supposed to reassure her; if I offered an explanation, I would test its implications against the rest of the scenario:

That is generally the next step. You make observations, develop theories to explain the observations in a consistent manner, and then devise new tests to test those theories. This post was simply at the "developing a theory" step.

> (I note with some irony that, for you claim to know general competence levels just after college is itself seemingly outside your knowns!)

The irony is not lost on me. To be fair though, I didn't and still don't claim to "know" general competence levels, I just blogged my thoughts. Of course I could have littered my post with all sorts of qualifiers like "maybe", "perhaps", "sometimes", and "I think", but that doesn't make for effective writing. The post was not written or meant to be read in a vacuum. Context is important.
"Reputation. Even if you create a perfect replica of Bloomberg, would I stake my clients money on your track record?"

It's not just your clients' money, but your own safety. If you lose money for your client while using an unproven technology, the client might try to sue you for negligence. Using the system that's "industry standard" would be a defense against that.
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How are you going to push twice as many pixels without some quality tradeoff?
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In my house the toaster would get toasted on firewall.

I am paranoid enough to disconnect regular toaster from plug when not used. This 'intelligent' toaster would get lobotomy. I do not want some hacker to burn down my house.
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How can they support 2-factor auth without also having the ability to spend the bitcoin in the wallets? What's needed is a way to keep bitcoin on remote servers without them having the ability to spend it, but to grant access with 2FA. This prevents password phishing attacks and keylogger attacks, without the user having to worry about their harddrive crashing and losing their wallet. But I'm not sure whether that's possible short of making them keep an encrypted wallet, which negates all of the user convenience of using an exchange.
Ask HN: Is there any reason I'm unable to submit stories?
When I tried to make a link submission (first in 21 days), I received the following message:

Stop spamming us. You're wasting your time.

Any ideas?
Carmack has written a lot detailed information about the latency problem, which is much more demanding for VR, and about how to mitigate it:
http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2013/02/22/latency-mitigation-...
Great thoughts here, and funny story on Cap IQ. Speaking of which, Cap IQ is exactly an example of positioning away from the Bloomberg terminal (with a core initial focus on investment banking as opposed to trading). Unclear whether there's a big juicy opportunity out there like this, like there was when Neal Goldman and his co-founders started Cap IQ in 1999. And great points on #4 and #5, although there's a whole subsegment (underbelly?) of financial services companies which are more cost conscious and where $20k per year for one user is a real investment. Bloomberg is not going after those as aggressively as far as I know.
The "stereo" part likely adds significant work (up to 2x), since you're rendering from two points of view.
Stereo rendering requires rendering the scene twice, once for each eye. Off the bat, this is almost twice as computationally intensive as rendering it once.
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As well whatever solution you come up with must pass muster with the compliance officer.
None of those other forms of power are as efficient or effective as money (in fact, money evolved from bartering as it was more efficient) except for violence. However, we have (or at least are trying) to move away from violence as a society.