skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
THe reason you want it on the cloud is maintenance/setup... But with a purpose-built device you could have Jobsian control over the experience and make it really delightful.

To imagine the Cadillac product: double as a WiFi router and put a small cellphone screen on the thing. The screen gets rid of the admin setup bootstrapping pain - the screen is default admin user. Making it a wifi router lets you consolidate your initial configuration into just two questions: a name for the network and a password. Name becomes ssid, shared login, dyndns name, etc. Password becomes remote shared login password, WiFi password, etc. Admin panel can create other admin or regular users, also having a screen right on the device would be convenient for backups - just plug in the detachable storage and the backup wizard begins.

I've given this way too much thought. I just want a zero-config device.
I agree and disagree. I agree that there's something out of kilter here: Items 2 and 3 are possible breaches of the employee's non disclosure agreement with Google. And "poaching" is the widely used term for this kind of activity.

On the other hand I see nothing fundamentally wrong with getting a job and a salary bump without an interview, based on a personal recommendation, if it's information that can be freely disclosed. I got my first job out of school with only a cursory interview.
Android user here - anyone else having a difficult time using this app? So much of it feels like a hackathon hack. It's shoddy, unresponsive, and overcomplicated.

Take pinging for example, when I added a new friend (and she accepted) I couldn't ping her. The orange circle never showed up. I had to navigate to several different views for it to activate. Also, commenting on a photo opens a.... popupbox? What?

I think the idea is kinda fun and I hope these guys succeed, but I also think they need to rethink their UI.
How to handle a Service Outage.
How to thwart gunmen at 29,000 feet, by the only pilot who ever did
I think this is exactly how the NSA works:)

More on topic this is pretty cool use of limited data to solve a problem - now lets hope they can find the black box.
I can totally relate to this! I noticed this exact same phenomenon when I visited Seattle from Bangalore, India. Even today whenever I have to visit a new place I make sure to get the general direction right and then just ask people.

I wouldn't put it down to bad city planning though. From my limited experience of visiting Seattle (about 3 weeks) I sensed that it's got more to do with people don't want to be bothered and left alone. Where as in India if I ask one person for direction I get at least half a dozen people telling me how to get there, which bus to take and what not!
Apparently Apple already has it. Read the section titled "your new notebook"
http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
Try all we want, we can't get back from this one. Once freedoms are gone, they are gone until revolution. That is why freedom/privacy issues you need to be overly cautious about and side with non-authority always to keep it in check.
There's Vendor Relationship Management, which appears to be a group of fellow-travellers promoting technologies with a first-person first perspective. A recent blog post by Doc Searls mentions some existing technologies that are somehow affiliated to ProjectVRM.
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm/2014/03/19/why-we-need-firs...
Oh, sorry, didn't mean to break your reply. I felt my remarks got a bit emotional but I suppose that's par for the course when it's your own family that's being attacked.

Regarding Thiel: I'm not defending the guy. I simply didn't realize how big a GOP supporter he really was. But now that I know, yeah, he can go die in a fire.

Political differences I can accept. Debates about the basic legal equality of one's fellow citizens are beyond the pale.
Here's some intuition about how the Doppler effect can be used to find location of a transmitter given a single receiver: objects (transmitters) moving in a straight line that are far away from the receiver will have less of a shift in frequency when they "pass" the receiver than objects that are close to the receiver.

What's more, you don't actually have to wait for the transmitter to pass the receiver: the radial velocity is what's important, and if you measure that at several points, you can fit a curve. That will tell you how far the transmitter is from the receiver.

Do this several times, and you can make a constellation of possible locations, and then fit those points to a line.

Globalstar does this with its satellite phones. Their situation is easier than with Inmarsat, because Globalstar uses fast-moving (relative to points on Earth) LEO satellites rather than geostationary satellites. Given a single LEO satellite on a known orbit and assuming that the phone on the ground is stationary, a fix on position can be made relatively quickly using the Doppler effect.

Here's a paper about how Globalstar does it: http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~nadav/pdf-files/Instant_active_pos...
The metrology folks at NIST are top notch. I think they have been awarded four Nobels in physics in the last twenty years.
60 Minutes – Manhunt: Inside the Boston Marathon bombing investigation
Great review of the issues here.

When you talk about options trading, you need market makers. A key attribute of a market maker is that they have the ability to absorb huge losses through other investments by creating synthetic counterparts to their options to hedge risk through their HFT platforms. Without that, you're a sitting duck.

This is what Goldman or other large investment firms provide. Derivabit might work as an OTC options exchange, but the minute a large market maker arrives and provides liquidity, the OTC market will move to them.

Basically, it's really hard to displace traditional market makers because you need a bigger pile of money than them. You can't do that as a startup. You basically have to be a bank to start an options trading desk because otherwise they can (legally) run you out of the market.
Interesting. I was going to be skeptical and say that even a single 25 gbps fiber would spew data too fast for memory / bus to keep up, but I looked up some specs and apparently it's possible on cutting-edge hardware.

And if you're dividing a single fiber's bandwidth among multiple machines, presumably each machine's network interface would be able to filter packets it doesn't care about, so this objection wouldn't apply.
Like most initial S-1s, there's a lot of information left out (the number of shares being offered, the price, etc). You can get alerts on the updated filing at http://www.wellreadinvestor.com/companies/105975

</shameless-self-promotion>
The upbeat animations were the highlight for me. Without them I think it would have felt more an exercise than game-like. Kept the positive vibe throughout.
This isn't an apples to apples comparison. Law school can require as much as $200k and 3 years of opportunity cost on top of whatever was spent on undergrad.

Additionally, it's my understanding that getting a shot [1] at the big leagues in law requires a top-12 school. Are mid-tier law schools pumping out lawyers who make $150k as first year associates? I'd be surprised, but I don't have the data.

[1] Even attending a top school is no guarantee. Law school is fiercely competitive, and only top-scoring students from top schools get the really lucrative & prestigious positions.
I guess to me economic equality of citizens is also part of basic equality. I can quibble on how exact the equality needs to be, but people should be qualitatively equal, and as a very loose lower bound should at least being able to live. The idea that people should monopolize all resources needed to live, to the extent of having 1000x or 10,000x what some of their fellow citizens have, with some of their fellow citizens having no food or shelter, is beyond the pale from my perspective, a weird American aberration. From a Scandinavian perspective, the libertarians and the conservative Christians are equally stone-age American sicknesses, and I perceive both of them as basically enemies. If anything, the libertarians have less excuse for not learning from their defeat, because they were defeated >100 years ago, while the Christians were only defeated ~50 years ago.

I agree that political differences are tolerable, but we must be speaking of political differences that respect the opponents' basic right to live. Neither libertarians nor fundamentalist Christians meet that standard. And to the extent that I have American friends who are denied healthcare because of these libertarian fucks, something that doesn't happen in civilized countries, I blame the startup scene for their tolerance of the antisocial libertarian assholes in their midst.
Citations please. Slavery is only mentioned twice in the Constitution, and then, it's Amendments 13 and 14 (passed after the end of the Civil War). Restrictions of power towards the several states is spelled out in Article I, section 10 (three paragraphs) and Article IV, with a clarification in Amendment X ("The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.").

There is nothing in the Constitution about secession (including the Amendments).
Nice, I've been doing CSS for years but never knew about the "+" or "~" selectors until now.

Anyone have any examples of how they have or would use these in real-life?
Google Now comes toChrome for Windows andMac
Here's data on equity ownership at the time of IPO for 258 companies:
http://www.slideshare.net/lebret/equity-in-258-high-tech-sta...

The average overall was 7.6%, but it varies a lot, from close to 0% (Zipcar) up to 28% (Amazon).
thanks to GSM they still know where you are (within several hundred feet); However you are right, no internet usage means that there is a smaller footprint, less information they can track.
Wow. Thank you for this. I'm just starting out in web development and this makes learning CSS a lot easier.
Obama can ask to curb or limit the NSA. But the NSA will tell him 'no'.
Quora launches verified profiles, starting With President Obama
Ask HN: Why is YC's website almost exactly the same as it was 9 years ago?
The Y Combinator website is almost exactly the same as it was nine years ago (see: http://web.archive.org/web/20051124005340/http://ycombinator.com/). I remember reading awhile back that Weebly was accepted into the first YC class after redesign YC's website in five minutes during their interview. Between the companies in YC's portfolio that specialize in web design and the technical expertise of probably every YC partner, a more modern redesign would be trivial. So that leads me to my question: Why had YC decided to keep its early design? Is it just because it's not necessary? Is there a specific reason why the current design is optimal? Is a redesign planned but just extremely low priority?

Edit: This is referring to www.ycombinator.com NOT Hacker News
Construction on the World's tallest building will start on April 27
That actually does sound pretty awesome. :) Will have to think more about this.
Unfortunately, that attests greatly to their credentials and precisely nil to their trustworthiness. For all we know there are NSL gag orders in effect.
I find the author's claim that most smartphones lack USB interfaces quite surprising. You'd think, since USB devices are incredibly common, smartphone manufacturers would include at least one USB port.
You probably shouldn't use it for crypto, but this would be a big help in scientific and industrial contexts where you can just point to NIST instead of having to come up with answers about the quality of your random data source. Say for example you want to showcase some algorithm that you say performs 10% better than chance (in some field where that confers a significant time/$ advantage), this gives you a meaningful benchmark to measure against. And since all the random data is stored, it makes certification of scientific papers much more repeatable since they can just show longs of when the NIST server was accessed in the materials & methods section of a paper. There are many applications of a good random beacon besides crypto.
Redmond reveals Google cloud KILLER: Rename Windows Azure to MICROSOFT Azure
Prototype – Everything you need to hit the ground running
This is a bit pedantic, but this might be better as an Ask PG.
FTE = Full Time Equivalent = "a unit that indicates the workload of an employed person" (Wikipedia). Perhaps you were thinking E = employee?
For 2) and 3), I think "headhunt" is more flattering term.
>>Use of this word suggests that we (technology workers) are the property of our employer, and that other employers are "stealing" that property away

Free will averages out at a bigger scale. Employees are resources and with more capital you can secure more resources. period.
Obama is a two faced back stabbing bus tosser. He had full knowledge of the program from the beginning. Stop falling for this crap, he is the one that commissioned the original program, and he is sending his own men to slaughter to protect his own hindquarters. He is the worst kind of sleezebag that exists...

Stop accepting these excuses from the leader of 'the most powerful nation on earth' and HOLD OBAMA ACCOUNTABLE.
"All of these people rarely, if ever, interact with people outside the tech world.”

I think we have to interact with people outside the tech world to build really good products?
Why do so many websites feel a need to redesign the site every 2-3 years to keep up with the latest design fads? Do old sites regularly break on new devices / browsers? Or is it all a scheme to generate employment for web developers and demand for the increased hardware resources that are provided by ever-advancing technology?

I find it hard to buy the claim that users really care that much whether your website uses the latest fads in infinite-scrolling responsive AJAX design as opposed to an old-school server-generated paginated display. As a user I care about content more than presentation, and usually interface "innovations" just end up breaking and making me unhappy. [1]

[1] http://xkcd.com/1309/
Sure, and that's a rational, coherent viewpoint that doesn't require you to want to keep gays as lesser citizens. The viewpoint espoused by burntsushi requires it. I don't care if you think the state institution of marriage should be abolished--I even kind of agree--but if your idea of "holding the line" is "nah, fuck those people", you have jank in your worldview and I suspect very much I can identify it.
I'm glad to see the resurgence in make's popularity among front-end developers. It really is a great tool for not just building apps, but generating files that depend on other files in a declarative way. I manage my website with just make, pandoc, and rsync; and I manage my various ssh configurations with make and m4 (ssh config doesn't have an include directive!). A while ago I wrote an article to help out some front-end dev friends get acquainted with make, maybe someone else will find it useful: http://justinpoliey.com/articles/make-for-front-end-developm...
Looked at it a bit more, I think this story could be a good illustration of confirmation bias in research [1].

They've probably tried their best, but it is really really really easy to make a mistake when you are designing an experiment. Or post-processing your experimental data. Or plotting the results. Or doing your math.

As it was noticed in the comments below, it looks like in that particular case an outcome of an experiment was decided using insufficient (n = 1) number of samples [ http://www.getbatterybox.com/bos.html#highexpl ]. Also there is at least one mistake in the math, a 50Wh battery can not be charged from a discharged state to 80% by 5 Volt 1 Amp power source in 4.5 hours [ http://www.getbatterybox.com/index.html#faq ]. The math is wrong.

[1] As per Wikipedia article: confirmation bias (also called confirmatory bias or myside bias) is the tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses. People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs. People also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position.
This looks pretty interesting (I just saw a demo); the old facebook strategy of winning a specific college campus, then replicating to other campuses, seems to work well.

(It's also interesting how a world-class athlete has gone into startups; there are definitely a bunch on wall street and in sales, but doing a startup, outside sports, isn't as common I think. Pretty awesome.)
First game running in the xenia Xbox 360 emulator
He was too chicken to open his own mouth. Instead, he paid others $1000 to get the state of California to call my friends f----ts for him. That's enough of a public position for me.
> The concept of nation usually revolves around having a common cultural background.

Sure but the idea that "nations" ought to be coterminous with sovereign governments ("states") is a fairly novel one that's never been all that well followed (except that since it became popular, states have tried really hard to create the idea of a coterminous nation as a means of inspiring loyalty.)

How new a state is has no relation to whether the state corresponds to a nation; there's plenty of nations that have never had a state, and states that have been around a long time that don't correspond particularly well with a single nation.
Datomic Adaptive Indexing
This is a bit off the beaten track for HN, but thanks for posting it. It's rare to see this sort of in-depth policy analysis in the click-driven daily news media. This is a very interesting time historically, but also a dangerous one. The Economist has also had some excellent coverage of these issues recently, not least a lengthy essay on democracy: http://www.economist.com/news/essays/21596796-democracy-was-... and this editorial: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21591853-century-there...
The problem I seem to be having with various dotfiles tools is they seem to be doing too much, where a script with a bunch of calls to ln -s would do.
This is really interesting and I appreciate knowing the technique that went into coming up with this conclusion, but I find it kind of weird to see the article mention that the plane crashed and killed all passengers so factually. People need closure on this, but it seems kind of cold to speak this way about the fate of the passengers considering we have no physical proof.
By your definition and not being allowed to use "ancient prior art" then yes it is a clone but so is Sonic the Hedgehog. I felt it plays much different.
You might be surprised at just how little I care that there is some "logical" reason that preventing me from marrying whomever I love is worth $1000 to Brendan Eich.
Another Kickstarter wallet reaches over 200% goal
I found it to be simple & quick to use, while providing great results.
I was just thinking today about how cool it would be if I could easily deploy an email service that was entirely under my control. I've allowed MS and Google full access to my email only because I don't know how to setup an email server with appropriate spam filtering and reliable security. I have my own RSS aggregation server and I don't ever have to worry about it going away as a service.

Brian K. Vaughan's The Private Eye [1] was on my mind when I was thinking about an individual being entirely in control of all their data without compromising on functionality or usability.

[1] http://panelsyndicate.com/
We need leaders, not figureheads.
> (4) Counterparty risk. U.S. exchange-traded equity options are centrally cleared through the Options Clearing Corporation (the "OCC"). Whether the writer of a contact pays up is irrelevant to the buyer - the OCC always pays everyone.

I've always thought this is a pretty clever way of structuring a market.

You have some entity at the top, who's responsible for making good on a certain type of contract. Since it has this responsibility, it will want to make sure that the companies that mediate the selling and buying of these contracts (brokers) are able to pay them, so they put whichever requirements in place needed to make sure that they are able to pay.

Now these companies allow their customers to trade these contracts, and you can be sure that these companies will make sure that their customers can cover their obligations, cause if not, the company is forced to pay for the customer. This incentivizes the companies to make sure that their customers can pay.

We could even imagine a fourth level, where customers sell contracts onto other people, and the customers would want to make sure that these other people are able to pay, or else it's the customers that risk losing money (not whoever buys the contract in the end).

It just seems to me to be a nice way to build a well-functioning market: the incentives are in place for each participant to make sure they aren't exposed to excessive risk, or else their investors will lose their money and their employees their jobs.
I own a lift kit company www.traxda.com
I want to build self driving trucks.

We are currently making 800-1000 lift kits per month. Lift kits are sold to people who spend a lot of money to have the coolest truck on the block. They would pay $5000 I am sure for self driving. We have manufacturing capacity and distribution.

I want to make the hardware, the actual retrofit kits. I have no skills at software, but my company is very good at making parts to fit truck suspensions.

Please put me in contact with anyone that you know interested in the same field.
Simulation crédit : bien choisir son prêt-auto
Préférez-vous souscrire un emprunt avec un organisme financier en agence, ou le crédit en ligne vous séduit-il davantage par sa simplicité et sa rapidité ?
> Ubuntu does not require a root password, because there isn't one.

That's true, but creating a root password in Ubuntu is child's play:

$ sudo passwd

(enter user password for sudo access to root privilege level)

(enter new password for root)

(re-enter new password for root)

Done.

> The default setup is to always require sudo to access root.

Yes, but this is a cosmetic distinction, not a basic one. Setting up a root password is always a few keystrokes away.

My point? Ubuntu isn't really different from other distros in this respect, it only appears to be.
> We also won’t know for a while how Disney really intends to use Maker: Will they get hands on and start directly managing a company that by all accounts could use some more management help? Or keep the property at arm’s length? Somewhere in between?

The standard story I've heard about Disney is that projects will proceed, maybe even speed up and seem to be on cruise control and then one day you hear the project is done - everyone has been laid-off. A couple years later, a new exec in the same division calls you up and wants you to come in and work on the same exact project you were working on...
Personally, I like the simplicity. The site is always fast to load, has zero bloat, and works on any device and any browser. It does not have any crazy frameworks or things to break.

If I could make a suggestion though, I would love a responsive design that scaled for smaller screens.
I agree, headhunt is nicer. I find both equally flattering. Being targeted for you brain, or being targeted as a special rhino are both nice terms.

In this specific context, no-headhunting would be ambiguous.
there's a bug in level 9 - you're enforcing an order on the tags

overall this is great
"Six Californias" isn't scheduled for any election, its approved to begin gathering signatures for a petition to put it on the ballot -- and it would be on the ballot the election after next if it gets enough signatures.