skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> Technology is changing what is public by changing what is observable, and that's what I'm getting at.

"While, for instance, the state of the photographic art was such that one's picture could seldom be taken without his consciously "sitting" for the purpose, the law of contract or of trust might afford the prudent man sufficient safeguards against the improper circulation of his portrait; but since the latest advances in photographic art have rendered it possible to take pictures surreptitiously, the doctrines of contract and of trust are inadequate to support the required protection, and the law of tort must be resorted to. The right of property in its widest sense, including all possession, including all rights and privileges, and hence embracing the right to an inviolate personality, affords alone that broad basis upon which the protection which the individual demands can be rested."

-- "The Right to Privacy", Warren and Brandeis, 1890

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/priva...

(I know I keep posting a link to Warren and Brandeis in all these discussions, but I find it a very interesting read, with a lot of great ideas that I think could and should be brought forward to this day, and applied to evolving technology)
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Stainless can leach too. Magnetic stainless steel is fine, though.
> You can often walk the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges anytime, 24 hours a day and never see a cop.

This is how it should be, but that is hardly the reaction of the media and security agencies.

The suitable reaction should be that it was an anomaly, a harmless prank. Not something society condones - since it was not done in a sanctioned park - but not something that should cause a hysteria because every public space doesn't have 100% security.

Paranoia feeds into paranoia. These security systems are never minimizing in size, only expanding due to reactionary policy.

This is the type of thing that squeezes both freedom and creativity from society, two things that are heavily intertwined and interdependent.
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"Back in May 2010, as the emerging alliance took shape, Palo Alto, California-based Tesla’s chairman, who’s also CEO, called the partnership “historic” and said Toyota was a company he long admired."

This sentence, hurts, my brain.
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The helium in a balloon/dirigible is under pressure, so its density would be somewhat greater than 15% that of air. But point taken.
or glass?
Screw the chicken hawks. They only have power because we agree to pretend that they do.
> with no facts in the case.

afaik testimony matters in a case, no?
Maybe it was hard to see with all the grey text, but I couldn't find a specific line where you supported the idea, but rather, you just wanted to discuss and dissect the merits of such an idea through breaking it down to promote discussion and to specifically call out pitfalls in taking things to an absurd degree. Shame people here have problems separating discussion and refutation of toxic ideas from the active support for toxic ideas.
Hydrogen is not as major of a hazard as it looks.

It's lighter than air, and will rapidly leave if it escapes. The real trick is making sure no oxygen gets in. In contrast a leak is not super dangerous.

It will still burn of course, but if the skin is flameproof it won't do much harm to the ship as a whole. So what you do is make sure it's enclosed in cells of a flameresistant material. That way a fire won't spread and will rapidly rise away and put itself out.
Functionally thinking
[Larry Summers' head explodes.]
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"We tested two adult samples using two different sequence learning tasks."

Two? Nothing to see here.
typically the infrastructure which is supposed to be "uber sekure" has been well vetted, and is relatively secure.

The problem is, there is almost always some "trivial" system (public web site, severely outdated wordpress blog, or worse) that some poor fool in marketing/product "HAD TO HAVE YESTERDAY". The admins knew it wasn't mission critical, and would only be "temporary". So they spent minimal effort to set it up, skipped over all of the process and security hardening they would do for a proper release, and left it.

Of course, we know what happens: some hacker finds the exploits, then pivots to explore the internal network.

You will find most big enterprise-y shops build networks with hard exteriors, and soft interiors. Very few of their security plans are capable of a threat from inside the network.
Hi,

In order to improve your pitch deck you need to evaluate your business from the standpoint of an investor.

If you were investing into a company and handing over money what are the things you would want to see?

A passionate team with a track record of executing. An innovative solution which solves a real pain point for customers in a way which is differentiated from competitors. This competitive advantage would preferably be defensible. Hopefully it is in a large market which has capacity for exponential growth. A detailed go to market and customer acquisition strategy is also vitally important, cash is king in startups so traction with paying customers not only buys you time, but also demonstrates to the investor you have somewhat validated and tested the idea you're pitching.

It's also important to convey all this in your deck in a manner which is compelling and concise. Clarity is vital when pitching investors so be specific and don't fill your slides up with a bunch of boring text. Use visuals to convey concepts where you can. Here's a template you can use to help with the structure of your deck. It's based on the recommendations of Sequoia Capital http://deckworks.co/investor-pitch-deck-template/

Hope this helps.
That could just mean Google's algorithm isn't perfect. And Google only needs to ensure that the disclaimer appears often enough so that people won't assume its presence means results were removed.

I definite recall it being stated that the disclaimers would be shown for name searches in Europe, not just name searches with results removed.
not an adage, but here's an analogy (correct me if i'm wrong):

if you worry too much about the mechanics of shooting free throws, you're not likely to learn to shoot them as well/quickly as someone who just shoots over and over (and thereby letting their subconscious make the adjustments for them).

basketball analogies are my favorite =)
I can incorporate tomorrow and call myself an IT security company.

Also, there's the distinction between security software (an app that accomplishes a security-related goal) and software security (an app that is resistant to malicious tampering). Coders for security software can often suck at software security (openssl, e.g.).
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Most glass bottles (Lifefactory, AVENT, Boobunny) use borosilicate glass which is what they use for laboratory glassware partly because it is stronger than normal glass. Many of these brands also sell a silicone sleeve that protects the bottle from being dropped.
Isn't selling tickets inside a native app going to require giving Apple/Google their 30% cut? I don't see how they can possibly remain profitable selling concert tickets with such an enormous slice taken out.
It's amazing to me to see the evolution of art and how so much of it has morphed into self-mockery.

I've seen enough things both wonderful and banal that I've adopted the rule that if something's only virtue is that it's "art," it's not worth my time.
No. Should we repeal the 14th?

And, just to make it clear to everyone else, slavery isn't the only problem the Feds had to step in to solve. The KKK, Jim Crow, company stores, and pretty much every other type of institutionalized bigotry had to be handled at the Federal level because the local governments weren't even trying.
I'm willing to bet that compared to the first vehicles ever built by Lexus (Toyota), Jeep or VW it's head and shoulders better and more reliable.

If you're not interested in being an early adopter of new tech from a relatively new/young company, no problems, just wait.

Plenty of people obviously are adopting, despite your personal reservations.
No offense to you but that article is very poorly written. It seems like someone abducted the author mid-article and pressed the publish button :)
Not true. #thirdworldproblems
As I attempt to interpret my parent comment using the framework you provide, I get this:

- The particles making up the universe are deterministic, unless free will is exercised.

This would amount to a concession that while free will is possible, it has never been used. I don't think that's what parent had in mind.
I disagree; C# is bad by comparison. I cannot think of a single reason to use C# over F#, can you? F# is essentially C# but with better defaults and much more easily extensible.
To hear an idea, no.

Though I do sign them when working with a client if it makes them feel more comfortable while we work with each other (which is understandable since I often need to do thorough research and gain access to source code to do my work). Other than losing a potential piece in my portfolio I feel I don’t lose much in signing an NDA in many of those cases.
How come there isn't yet??? Out of all the stuff that makes my blood boil the most... this is it. So basically the troll gets off for free and just does it again? What in the actual fuck.......
Interestingly, in my first job all of the code I worked on my first 3 years was all "in-house" code (because from the bootloader to my code was all proprietary). I think places like Microsoft also have groups that have the same phenomenon. However - the people who initially wrote or worked on that code were long gone.

I've gone on to work other places where I had to do more of this archeology.. and I have to say it actually felt similar.

In summary - I think there is actually a new, more combinatorially complex amount of archeology occurring now. Where the microsoft, apple, netapp, linux, emc, vxworks, etc OS people have been dealing with some of this for a while with one OS... people who rely on services, on many processes, on an internet of things or whatever..

It feels like we'll never have a POSIX of the internet. HTTP is as close as we've gotten, and it's too small to be read/write/exec. We'll never have anything you can "trust" and more and more developers need the patience to wade through everyone else's code as well.
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Stainless steel has manganese in it, which is a problem according to this (rather poor admittedly) article: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/03/the-toxi... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8158510

(I don't plan to worry much, the article was pretty bad.)
I like to think I'm fairly learned in math and science, and i don't know what any of those words mean.
Export compliance.
I wasn't aware we've had a trial?

Yes, testimony matters, it absolutely does. But not the testimony the media shows us. Ascribing legitimacy to The Court of Public Opinion is dangerous.
> Stainless can leach too.

Leach what, though? If it leaches iron, it might be more of a benefit than a problem, or at least neutral. (You can overdose on iron, but it's uncommon.)
How does this compare at all to the Hyperloop?
Nah, shouldn't do as they're a physical good and apple don't require a cut of such things, only digital goods. That's how stripe etc still exist on the store.
I always see the argument of "free speech in the US" but there are plenty of speeches forbidden in the US. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_United...
That's what I thought, but then I read somewhere that BPA has been found leaching from HDPE also, as well as PET. (Perhaps in much smaller quantities; it didn't say.)

In brief poking around the Web I find a couple of sites that say that not only are H/LDPE and PP okay, so is PET.

The only thing everyone agrees on is that polycarbonate has BPA (or an equally bad replacement).

As far as the others go, I'm not really sure what to think at this point.
Saying it just tries to flag all names, but just doesn't spot "John Smith" or "Alison Smith" as names, while managing ones such as "James Smith" and "Bob Smith", isn't very plausible.
> "Trayvon, who was killed by George Zimmerman, was depicted as a gold-grill-wearing, weed-smoking teenager in the photos used by the media," she continued,...

For the entire 6 months the media (CNN, MSNBC, etc) played the story, this pic pretty much sums their representation of Trayvon Martin and Zimmerman -

http://artandresponse.com/paintings/a-tale-of-two-hoodies.ht...

( the site seems a bit slow, if it goes down, here is another hoster - http://www.artslant.com/ew/works/show/571032 )

So I have no idea what the person is talking about.

As far as the other mentioned stories, the real person is not represented by a standardized graduation picture with a dress code, but by their personal life and character.
I just saw that. That's like history being made. Incredible.
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News is not like movies, video games or books which enter the creative domain. News should be objective and factual since it presents real thing.

Also regulation already exist where it's relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_United...
The lightning connector is pretty cool isn't it?

No. It's not. I haven't plugged my phone in since I originally bought it and I don't understand thinking that a connector is cool.

For charging, every major mobile phone company except Apple supports Qi wireless charging. Source: http://www.qinside.biz/en/support/qi-enabled-phones

For connectivity, every major mobile phone company supports wireless connectivity via Bluetooth or WiFi.

I had an iPhone for 6 years (3g, 4, 4s) and saw all the competition fly ahead of Apple in terms of real features and screen size. My next phone may be an iPhone 6, but really Apple has a ton of catching up to do.
The higher productivity started before the industrial revolution.
Manganese.
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Technically true, but then that weights more. So you change the mass to mass to lift ratio.
So even if it was more natural, why is it better (and for whom)?
Founder here: Chris' comment is correct. Since we're selling something physical (an (e)-ticket to a real life show) and we don't use IAP, we don't have to give Apple a cut. We're happily using Stripe to process payments.

Here's one of our iOS apps in the wild for reference:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/technocolour-dreams/id885360...
OK, I can see now that I misread the comment I was responding to. I would have deleted my comment if I still could.
In case of AES I guess US crypto export regulations running amok...
This was far more than a brute force search. Thomas Hales did a talk about the proof and during the QA he mentioned that the proof was improved a lot as part of formalizing it into HOL. The process even lead to solutions of other problems [1].

1: http://youtu.be/DJx8bFQbHsA?t=40m57s
Pay them in equity?
Built to be acquired. Unfortunately whatever they implement Twitter could do the same in half the time.
I find it odd that Wolfram talks about all the thousands of things that will need to be 'built in' to Mathematica for this project to work -- shouldn't you be able to implement these things in the language itself?
No. It's always the same pressure as air. That's the point. It'll always be ~15%.
For me, writing procedural OO code in F# always felt awkward and inconvenient. This is a problem because most of the .NET runtime was designed with procedural OO code in mind.
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Ask HN: What are your feelings on affirmative action in open source?
It is not uncommon for an open source project to be lead by a central team, responsible for guiding its direction and choices over time. In any company, the strategy of affirmative action would be considered (or required) to aid in the construction of a diverse workplace or community. It is common for open source project leadership to be unimpressive in its diversity, and we need a strategy that allows us to do better.

What is the role of affirmative action in open source, or what is the responsibility of open source project leadership to manage diversity? How can they do better at this?
>Furthermore, this particular piece of rhetoric:
>> An expert lock smith might be able to pick it in his career, once.

Easy getting down off your high horse. It might blow your socks off, but I've read that Wikipedia article before. I've actually gone through the whole DEFCON presentation and paper too, where you'll see which locks have the bump mod since 2008. ;) Yet, given that I'm not concerned about the CIA or NSA sneaking in to spike my cookie jar with LSD, I'll stick with my Medeco lock, including the bump mod, to make it a little more difficult to waltz into my warehouse. If you want in, you'll have to take the door or wall down, which is the point of a quality lock.
I think a more interesting culture clash is the one between Toyota and GM. There was an episode of This American Life dedicated to the story[1], and it was eye opening (to someone not versed in the ways of car production). Interestingly, the plant that Toyota sold to Tesla (mentioned in the article) is the Nummi plant, around which the GM/Toyota partnership was centered.

[1] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/403/n...
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Look. In 1970, over 75% of kids in the US were never breastfed, which means they drank milk from BPA containing bottles from day 1. And they turned out fine. Don't get unreasonably worried about it. That white collar job with a lot of sitting that you're hoping he or she will get will do much worse things to the body. And if you're driving your kid around in the burbs, well BPA is in the noise compared to that staggering risk. Leading cause of death for kids 2-25. I have a two year old daughter who drinks out of clear plastic bottles and sleeps on a mattress containing fire retardant chemicals, and at the end of the day by far the biggest risk I expose her to is driving down to her grandparents' on the weekend.
Ditto (except a different brand than Kleen Kanteen). Duralex makes a full line of dinnerware, too, btw. Besides Picardie tumblers (in three different sizes), we also have bowls, plates and salad plates. :) Highly recommended and also inexpensive!!
I trialed F# a while back. Something I certainly noticed was not having as much help from the IDE (no resharper). The lambda notation also annoyed me (by comparison to C#). Yeah, I know it's no big deal and I understand the trade-offs being made.. but it still annoyed me. Pattern matching is one of the draw cards - but I see that is coming in C# soon.
I made a conclusion. Make things simple and beautiful
My Landing Page conversion rate since yesterday was of 42%!!!

My startup http://WeeW.ee is on Betali.st and ErliBird.com since yesterday. In a day we reach 250 new subscriptions of a total of more than 1000 without wasting a cent.

Found lot of new tweets referring to WeeW.ee or our twitter @weew_ee.

I take as a very good start, taking into account that few things were promoted and reaching it without spending money.

My opinion is that design triumphed, make things simple, well developed, trying to minimize it. One of the tweets says "This @weew_ee site is lovely and simple, good work".

My next challenges before launching...

* Change the mindset of the name, WeeWee.

* Make a good newsletter.

* Make a video.

* Try to improve the amount of shares and tweets.

I want to hear some advices!
I thought flame retardants still had to be added to wool mattresses.

This source seems to back that up, but the information may be biased or out of date. http://www.strobel.com/wool_burns.htm
If there was a certificate that could be verified faster, then that would be used as the proof instead. For now we're stuck with the ~900K lines of code and 5K cpu hours. I wouldn't be surprised if there's probably a lot of room for improvement, though.

A possible exception would be if the certificate was a probabilistic proof of some kind (someone mentioned the PCP theorem, which is an example of that), but I don't think mathematicians would be satisfied by that.
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For Americans: mason jars come in a plethora of shapes and sizes, and are dirt cheap. :) I use a quart size as my water glass and we bought Cuppow sippy lids in both diameters to make them easier/safer/neater to use in challenging situations (cars, kids).

Cuppow: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=bl_sr_kitchen?ie=UTF8&field-bran...
Eh, I cut my teeth on old Apple serial ports. Same mini-DIN8 cable. Feel for the flat part and jam it in. I've lost surprisingly few pins with that strategy.
I note that it was dismissed without prejudice (i.e. the troll can refile). This is somewhat disappointing, but I believe they only get to withdraw a lawsuit voluntarily once and I don't really expect them to come back and sue this particular defendant again (i.e. they'll probably go after softer targets).

One thing I wonder is if patent defendants in a situation like this might win from publishing all of their legal research on the patent online? It seems like this might help future defendants if there was anything interesting and I believe a tactic like that was used with some success against Microsoft in some of the state antitrust lawsuits long ago.
It exists only on the paper.
This. F# is superior in every way. The constant stream of articles about C# 6.0 are getting ridiculous when .NET already has a language that is a natural successor.

C# is for legacy and large corporate red-tape-encumbered enterprise projects only, as far as I'm concerned.
That's fine with me as long as it stays in the steel and isn't dissolving into the contents.
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I see the Uber people have gotten to this post. I guess I don't understand how Uber/Lyft is any different from a standard Taxi company. Me, I'll stick with the bus or Car2Go if this is the way they act.