skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was looking into this, I found two schools of thought, some people think the best thing is to have a unique name and logo, which gives no clue but is unique and rememberable.

Others think it's better to have a descriptive name and logo.

The first approach has the disadvantage of requiring more branding, while the second has the disadvantage of being less distinctive.

I think that the first approach works best if you have a marketing budget and plan to grow, while the second is much better for local businesses or lifestyle or niche businesses where organic search matters more.

VC-backed startups will probably do better with the first route, while bootstrapped side projects might work better with the second approach?
aaaand, after a late night coding session, this turned into a 2000 word tirade which might be of interest:
http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2014/07/22/neglected-machi...
Presumably they might be able to find the IP address he is using. It's very likely that he's running it through a few layers of VPN/proxy/Tor though.
There are quite a lot of these contests, namely the various X PRIZE competitions: http://www.xprize.org/

They aren't taking the IP and are also giving the cash as a pure incentive, meant to inspire new innovations in a certain sector.
It's not usual, but they seem like smart guys and they both went to a great school. Some of their ideas are pretty good and I guess they really resonated with investors.

FWIW, their advisors are from a relatively famous California combinator.
I have trouble comprehending the ideas behind DACs and find myself perplexed whenever I read about them. How exactly are they different than a regular corporation (except the whole it's completely automated thing)? I don't know why, but for some reason, DACs make me of 19th century banks issuing their own own notes.
It shouldn't. Nor should it affect SPF records and the like.
Um, talks are frequently canceled at hacker cons
Hacker News is a link-sharing website. You should post the link.
Omigosh I remember this. This is ooolddd but so cool. I used to mess with the creatures by dragging around the joints and such and then get freaked out when their movements changed from being lovely and life-like to being grotesque and unnerving.
The Toilet Bowl. An tutorial on performing an oddly named but easy to do dance
High score is currently 64843. Best use of time-spent-in-line ever!
It says the following from a post on the Chromium blog from January 2012

"After two weeks, any associated information, such as your IP address, is stripped, and only the URL itself is retained." ( From: http://blog.chromium.org/2012/01/all-about-safe-browsing.htm... )

As a Firefox user, I really think it's poor form on the part of Mozilla to not provide any additional information or re-assurances on their website about the data captured and recorded by Google. Mozilla's slogan on their homepage is "Commited to your privacy and an open web". Being committed to privacy means being open and explicit about the data captured through their browser services, no matter how innocuous the data might seem. It also means presenting that information clearly and making it easy to find. People can then make informed choices about whether they want to use such services.

This is the sort of thing I would have expected them to have said:

"When you download a file from a web page, Firefox checks that the file does not contain a virus or malware before you save it. To check the file is safe to download, Firefox contacts Google to use a service they provide called Safe Browsing. Google checks if the file is harmful or safe, and sends this information back to Firefox (this normally happens in a few seconds). If the file is safe, Firefox will start the download. If the file is harmful, Firefox will block the download and display a warning message.

When Firefox uses the Safe Browsing feature, it needs to send Google information about your download. Google records the following information from Firefox: your IP address, the name of the file you are downloading, the address of the website, and [insert any other data recorded here]. [Also insert a re-assurance that Google does not keep a record of all your downloads against your Google account or against your IP address - assuming this is the case. Also explain how Google uses that info. and how long it's kept for etc.]

[Then finally explain how to switch off this feature if you don't want to use Google's Safe Browsing feature.]"
Isn’t there an irony at the use of the Nuremburg defense here?
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Asking me to enter my Amazon username and password makes this a complete non-starter. Might be the best idea in the world, but I'm not going to risk handing over my credentials for something as sensitive as my Amazon account to make a few extra bucks on some old stuff. There's just not enough risk-reward there for me (though with all due respect and in all honesty, it's unlikely there would ever be enough reason for me to hand over my credentials to some random startup)
The Google BigQuery implementation of the archive can do such a query across all the data in seconds.

I wasn't aware until today that you could use BigQuery on a recently-updated data set, though.
SPF only protects your domain from being spoofed by others, and DMARC helps you get reports about who might be doing that. You have a different problem here in that you are somehow being identified as spammy by this big organization's filters. The only way to combat that is to discover why. It could simply be that you are co-located with spammers: your outgoing SMTP is emanating from a spammy IP block, and you are collateral damage.

One important consideration for "deliverability" is who you choose for passing on your SMTP.
Apple's fiscal Q4 is from July - September, not the holiday quarter.
I saw where it was going right at the start, I've seen it a lot in various startups I've worked with. Growing a company past certain sizes often winds up failing due to unbridled optimism. Reason goes out the window as growth seems it will never end; people buy into it and want to expand their role for when it hits the big time. The end is often a mess. Eventually either sanity prevails or it goes bust.
> IIRC, Java String are immutable to allow creating substrings as views on the same char array, ...

If you point to substring() as a view of a string, nope, that behaviour has changed for quite some time already. Surprisingly for me as well, back then.
This could be useful, but I only imagine spreadsheet-people using this kind of canvas, people who would enjoy your app, but would never find it in the internet.

This is a problem many things face.
Alternate character interpretation: you wildly overvalue your individual privacy. You, and I, are just not that important.
Feedback Please (New GUI for building responsive CSS)
I think people just want enough computing power(not tablets or desktops) to plug in and join in on the internet fun. They also want a screen just large enough(not too large, no ipads) to properly enjoy media content.

Thus I think a slightly larger iPhone screen(given their higher resolutions compared to competitors) will be the sweet spot. It'll likely dominate older iPhone models pretty quickly and cannibalize iPad sales.

It will likely be cheaper but still retain it's appeal to the upper class as a status symbol(people can trot around with their new larger iPhone).
Yeah, but for a lot (perhaps most?) businesses, their offerings are somewhat nebulous and their logos can't rely on well-tread iconography. How do you represent legal services in a logo? How about high-end Asian Fusion food? Medical certification services?
Did you try Amethyst(http://ianyh.com/amethyst/)? So far I was happy with it.
Introduction to a Functional Programming Language OCaml
"Now, the voter makes his vote. He generate a nonce (unique number used once), makes his vote, signs it with his keypair, and encrypts this with the public SMPC key. ... Since the vote wasn't encrypted with the voter's key, he can't decrypt it which means that nobody can prove what he voted for using the encrypted message."

Eh, he didn't encrypt it, but he signed it. How can people not prove that he created it? Whoever holds the SMPC key knows everybody's votes.
Well, you're trusting your nameserver anyway.
I scratch your back you scratch mine
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There's the slight problem of there not being a conservative 4% annual return and inflation. How about marrying a spouse during that period who is raising your children and not working? Also that 1M is basically your house (or a portion thereof).

I think the reality of our generation is that the middle class (and yes, these guys are all middle class) has faced erosion of its standard of living. Salaries for engineers have barely kept up with inflation (in some case simply not) coupled with higher risks. Just as you say, being a millionaire ain't what it used to be and a lot of these middle class families are far from being millionaires. MS like many other companies is hoarding it's cash and helping increase the class gap.

That said it's still better to be an engineer in MS with a good salary than a homeless drug addict. Clever/frugal/single/some people can save money but it's not as easy as you make it sound.
Telecoms and the market for satellites has only recently boomed. You cannot compare the two programs in such a way.
Courses that Google and Udacity are developing together
The SDET role varied a lot by team, but in my experience it dealt a lot with building automated test tools and not manual testing or other rote tasks. The skills are definitely applicable elsewhere.
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Dwarf fortress is amazing, the algorithms it must use must be pretty interesting, it would be interesting to piece it out and open source it.

Dwarf fortress also benefits from completely simplified UI. Meaning it can go really deep without worrying about how the rocks are generated. Does magnetite look like pyrite?

It already looks like the scope of No Man's Land has gotten out of hand, maybe it will offer some of the joys of dwarf fortress, but not if it's purely visual.
One 72 character column. Why make it complicated!
I should have clarified. The examples were Facebook open sourcing Cassandra or Google open sourcing Android. So really the examples were Cassandra and Android.

I don't agree that closed sourced software are difficult to promote or as you say "few people share them." When people share something on Twitter or Facebook, do they ask "is this open source? then I will share" or do they say simply say "this is an awesome piece of software. let me share it"?
Wide bandgap transistors have two relevant advantages: they work at higher temperatures, so you need less cooling; and they can switch higher voltages, so you don't need a bulky transformer. The only downside is, they are more expensive.
I'd trade responsive logos for responsive customer service.
I bought a Kindle Paperwhite recently and realized I enjoy reading on my phone almost as much. Made me kind of want a tablet, actually.

I remember getting a tablet a while ago with a Pixel Qi screen that essentially doubled as an e-reader... wonder where that technology (and the Qualcomm Mirasol etc) all went.
Reminded me of this:

http://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt-...
I said "sufficiently frugal" for a reason. You can't do this if you want to buy the big house in the big city and a fancy car right off the bat.

The way you do this is fairly simple: don't buy the house. Rent an apartment (not a luxury one), possibly even share it with a roommate.

I recognize that not everybody will be willing to do this. But owning a home in a major city is a luxury these days IMHO.

Besides, this is assuming you're doing this all on your own -- no income from a spouse. Why do you need a house by yourself?

(By the way, the income figure I cited was $8.8k/month in WA after taxes, not $6-7k.)
SPF could backfire if it is incorrectly configured. If your SPF record authorizes domain X to deliver mail on your behalf, but the actual path is so that it's coming from domain Y, then your genuine mails will fail SPF checks. When I rolled out SPF, I checked that things are working by sending mails to an account with a mail provider which checks SPF.
Your response is the kind that has given the Firefox community a rather bad reputation when it comes to addressing problems reported by users.

Instead of accepting that Firefox may indeed have performance problem, you immediately discount this possibility, instead blaming it on mr_november's computer.

It's irrelevant that it isn't happening on your laptop that's over 2 years newer than his is. It's irrelevant that it isn't happening on your Ubuntu system. None of that matters.

I don't doubt for a second that he is in fact running into performance problems with Firefox. He isn't alone. Many people report Firefox having worse performance than Chrome does on the same system. I've experienced this, too.

Yet instead of addressing and fixing these very real performance problems that have been brought up time and time again by many users, the Firefox community and developers seem content to deny that they exist, or refuse to consider that it may be a problem with Firefox (like you've done), or point to useless and totally unrealistic benchmarks to suggest it isn't a problem.

But worst of all is how mr_november's comment has been voted down. It's one thing to deny that the problem exists, but it's much worse to try to actively censor those who have merely pointed out a very legitimate and troubling issue.

Firefox has been losing market share for some time now, and this trend will only continue as long as Firefox's performance problems go unaddressed, and the Firefox community mistreats anyone who dares mention that such problems still exist.
Also there is an absence of beauty in the generative/algorithmic-art scene. Much neato, interesting and colorful - which equates to weak.

It's HARD to make beauty happen algorithmically. Nigh impossible. Frankenstein hard. Also, the intersection between people who code and people who possess a sharp aesthetic sense is minescule.
I think he is at minimum at least 25% accurate on that count.

This isn't ideology... it's pretty blatant fact.
Actually, the quantity could be one or it could be a trillion. When the price is zero, the demand schedule is pretty meaningless. I just used one as the quantity in my example because I was assuming that a single person would only download a single copy of a given good.

I didn't say that the effect of zero-price downloads is trivial. I said that you cannot conclude anything about the quantity of a good that would be demanded at, say $10, by observing that there is some quantity demanded at a price of zero. This was a direct response to your sentence "And yet, demand for that media was nevertheless satisfied."

> Moreover, the producer typically cares about the price point at which the number of sales and the value of each sale combine to produce the greatest possible revenue.

Greatest profit, actually, but you're pretty close. But I don't see your point. I'm not suggesting that all media creators should price their content at zero (although that certainly is a valid strategy that can and has worked).

> Moreover, all demand satisfied at the zero point is removed from the pool in which the ideal price / volume relation can be found, given that volume is a function of demand.

Not exactly. I have purchased media legally after having downloaded the very same media illegally, and it wasn't because I lost my downloaded copy. But anyway, this claim still ignores my point, which is that the fact that there is nonzero quantity demanded at zero price tells you very little about how much is being removed from the pool at non-zero prices. To use an obvious example, a person with zero disposable income can download an album for free despite it being impossible for him to purchase it at any non-zero price. Or to use another obvious example, I can download music at least 50 times faster than I can listen to it, and certainly faster than I could afford to pay for it. If I were to download a terabyte of music this week, that tells you essentially nothing about how much music I would be capable or willing to buy legally if I were unable to pirate music.
if i remember it is explained by the move against and along the dark matter "wind" in our galaxy. Personally i think there are a lot of "wind" to be accounted for - out galaxy moves, our Sun moves inside galaxy and the Earth moves around Sun. So Earth definitely hits some "wind". Is it dark matter "wind"?
Since it's a DosBox game, why can't you take the GOG installer for Windows, unpack it and run the game in your DosBox on OS X? Some minor .conf modifications which are needed aren't hard to figure out.
Trying Chrome Dev Editor I'm impressed - but generally, I don't think new languages should require new editors - better plugins for existing popular ones. I use Sublime, it's configured how I like, they can add the Dart AST for autocomplete etc to provide tab completion, renames, method lookups etc. if they want to.
Which is why you should just pick a font and write out the name of your company. Most of the rest of logo "design" is just cruft.
only reference articles with one side of story does not seem problematic to you?
Also, I would create an account with "major email provider" and send test mails to that account. Then go into that account's spam folder and see if any headers have been added to these mails that might hold clues to why they were classified that way.
Most are 85.60 × 53.98 mm (ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_7810

I guess they make you select the type of card you're using, which gives them the known standard dimensions.

You could still trick the system into thinking you have a tiny head by using a tablet sized rectangular object.
Yes, actually they do - but the thing is, they don't replace them as often as phones.

iPad 2 is still a good device for reading and browsing the internet - hence people just don't throw it in the trash after 2 years and buy a new one like phones.
I'd be careful about conflating "a good logo" with "good design". Design will make or break plenty of companies. Logos don't really matter; as long as it a) fits the brand, b) doesn't offend anyone, and c) won't get you sued, your logo is doing its job. Way too much importance is placed on logos, in my opinion.
Profitability is a very interesting calculation. Apple has made statements recently (this week) that have caused investors to be rather concerned because they are showing large dips in gross profit margin. So, really, while we all love to look at the number of devises a company like Apple sells, the margins are what really matters. Over all, if their profit margins on their Mac products are more stable (which they are) and are high enough (also, which they are), the number of units sold becomes less interesting as long as total sales do not drop below a certain amount.

Also, as a side note, Apple has an ecosystem that involves all of their devises. They double dip from Mac's with their app store and their digital content even on their PC machines.
You can publish mutable stuff at the same identifier using IPNS. (the talk or paper describe it in depth), so you can publish entire websites that way, signed by your public key.

Logic in webapps are not covered here; logic is totally dynamic. that's not what IPFS is for-- HTTP works well, and there's other things in mind for the future. Some attempts to look at are ethereum, go-circuit. I've ideas around an erlang-inspired global vm, but that's a whole can of worms I'm not ready to open yet :)

IPFS says: do your logic however you want, return IPFS links, and fetch data from IPFS directly.
I would be interested in seeing your benchmarks.

The author of LMDB doesn't really make bold claims, he actually just included LMDB (and the venerable Berkeley DB) in LevelDB's published benchmarks. The benchmarks were developed by the LevelDB team.

http://symas.com/mdb/microbench/

http://symas.com/mdb/inmem/
Then what, may I ask, do you think people use their iPads for? Because last I checked they were content consumption devices (books, apps, movies, etc). However a lot of that content doesn't directly translate to the iPhone (e.g. books, movies, and some larger games/app which won't work on smaller screens).
I think people vastly overestimated the growth trajectory of the iPad, and tablets in general. Taking off from zero, it's very easy to see very exciting growth trends and just assume they'll continue.

But any ecologist will tell you that exponential and logistic growth look very similar...until all of a sudden they don't.
This is only tangentially related to the topic, but I noticed the following note on the first page:

> Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee.

Is sharing to HN considered in the same vein as redistributing to a list?
Why is there any need to make it much smaller than the solar panels that will be providing the power?

I can see where ultra-thin (and flexible) would be a benefit, but why not allow the electronics to spread out over the entire area of the solar panels? The space is being used up already.

That gets rid of the super high power density problem.

The sun delivers about 1KW per square meter, so even if the solar panels were 100% efficient, you'd have an entire square meter of room for a 1KW inverter.