skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no experience with this, but a few of my current colleagues have similar experience with their former manager.

He didn't fake it, but had unrealistic vision of how things are working irl, thus were hyping them constantly. Millions, correction, billions were just behind that corner.

At the end they faced disappointed and lack of congruency.
I've written about this here: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/how-the-other....

That was awesome. I think I'll start reading your blog from the beginning now ...
Fantastic video, thanks. Is there a link somewhere to the checklist he passed around to the audience, or is that private?
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I have equal distaste for Obama and Putin and I have no idea if it's the Russians or Ukranians that are right / wrong (whatever that means). They can all burn in hell.

It's not cause the West "hundreds of innocent civilians dying because …" that you need to drag hundreds of OTHER innocent people into your conflict conflict.
You can't just release a 64 bit chip and expect a full stack of 64-bit clean software to be available on day 1. Indeed, last time I checked Dalvik wasn't fully 64-bit clean. Releasing earlier than you need it ensures that by the time you do need it, the software is ready to go.

Also, besides the correct points made in sister comments, there is the issue that virtual address space is used for things other than simply mapping physical memory. There was a time, for example, when Linux mapped all of physical memory into the kernel's virtual address space. This was simple. These days, on 32-bit systems, it splits the 4GB address space into 3GB for the user and 1GB for the kernel, and maps physical memory in and out of a 128MB window in kernel space, as needed. This is obviously more complicated.
In these cases, I think its less about the cost of the initial design but the hundreds of billions of dollars in marketing and advertising spent since building the value of the mark in our collective conscience.
When is paid advertising worth it for SaaS?
We've been talking a lot about this in our team so decided to make (and then share) a simple calculator to help you decide what you can afford to pay for advertising, based on the economics of your SaaS business.

http://ad-spend-calculator.qwilr.com/
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Oh, I didn't realise it was temporary, thanks. (I walked past Celsiushuset many time but never noticed the moon. :( )
"There are no rules for good photographs, there are just good photographs". I disagree with this and think that it is a self-defeating, irrational attitude.

Sure, validation is not a silver bullet. However, lots of startups make it or break due to luck and no-one(yet) can't eliminate randomness in a stochastic(debatable) system like technology entrepreneurship ecosystem. Validation helps to decrease the chance of failing, though. The famous quote by George Box reads "Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful."

Also validation is not listening to what people tell, it's also observing actions of users when they interact with the MVP.
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Yes, when you've built several products, you definitely start to see things that work and things that do not work and you gain experience. Again, I am not against validation, it just should be used moderately and not exclusively as a key indicator if you should build something or not. Products like justyo.co popup once in a while and due to some pretty random events at some point they become a hype. I tend to think the creators are having a lot of fun as well, without really thinking for monetization that much.
Eve Online, I'd say - it doesn't allow you to get your space money out, but you can pay for your subscription with it and its marketplace and economy is second to none. Oh and it has APIs and third-party APIs to get market data - although I don't think you can actually trade via an API, which is probably a good thing because high-volume automated traders would probably break the server / economy.
I'm aware that GCHQ has a geolocation project for pagers, specifically, so... yeah.
Fair point, but usually this "future Sociopath" is not perceived as a low performer, at least not in the sense the article describes. He's seen as an inconsistent but capable person, and while he may not be liked, he has a certain status that keeps him from falling to the bottom. He shows early on that he can be a high performer, but he's not going to give that away lightly. The organization has to earn his respect.

The article describes people being sorted into a high and low status group, from which performance variations follow. It covers the majority of cases where performance follows directly from status.

The MacLeod-model Sociopath is someone who shows the capacity to perform at high levels, quite early, but also an unusual willingness to reduce his performance to zero if accorded low status. It's a "Go ahead, try to fire me" move. Sometimes (if done diplomatically) it gives him high status, begrudgingly. After all, a truly high-status person will ignore disrespectful leadership and underperform if given low status (but so will a low-status person; hence, there's a way of doing it.) More often, it leaves him ignored (rather than micromanaged) because the boss just doesn't want to deal with him, and this gives him the freedom to do whatever he wants with his time, as long as he stays out of the boss's way. Then he can usually bounce up-and-diagonal, given time.
I didn't notice a mat with a picture of Saturn (and I walked past the place many times); but, ivh notes it was just temporary.
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>"There are no rules for good photographs, there are just good photographs".

There are also lots and lots (and more lots) of bad photographs. There might not be specific rules for taking really stand-out pictures, but there sure are good rules for what not to do.
Offshoot comment: I'm not sure what that style of writing is called, but I hate filtering through all the backstory, and human interest stuff to find out what the technological advance is.
> Intel 3D hardware is crappy anyway.

Good enough goes a long way when the competition is made of high-performance temperamental sports cars that tend to catch fire when you least want them to. Sometimes, all you need is a Honda Accord.

And eventually "good enough" will catch up.
> All of the ISA's from the 70's and early 80's HAD an overflow feature.

All? The C was developed for the PDP11 which doesn't seem to have 'trap on overflow integer operations' like the MIPS has.
The circle is almost complete...
it's called "office politics" in a nutshell, and its constantly hovering around all workplaces.

i don't think it's possible to eliminate these sort of biases from group interactions...i personally think there will always be a bell curve of dislikes/likes among managers who see over a large group of individuals.

that's why it often pays, esp. in this day and age, to keep your employment options open.
It's funny that I mentioned randomness in my second comment as well :)

I tend to agree with you to some extent, even about the quote for the comment. But, startups as an example fails to me, because as we all know, most of the startups fail anyway.

p.s. there are rules for good photographs but following the rules can only put you on bar with other people. Learns the rules so that you can break them. Learn to validate so that you know when NOT to validate.
It's more like ebay sellers accidentally mistyping their initial price / buyout value and still be required to send their item for that price. Actually that happens from time to time in for example webshops, accidentally listing items for $1 instead of $300.
Every time I find or see an SQL injection issue I get angry. It's 2014, why are web developers still making the same basic mistakes? SQL injection is a fixed issue. There is no excuse.

Same with XSS, although not as serious it's staggeringly common.
We have embedded system with 128MB which has problem with 32bit addressing limit as well. You can not mmap files...
Agreed; I guess my complaint could be best phrased as "the paper does not sufficiently address the complexities of determining whether you are in such a cycle, and the fact that many people that struggle actively search for more concrete guidance". This doesn't detract from the fact that it was a good read.
point sphere radiating a point at distance r. I'm not doing the calculation the way a physicist would, or rather, I'm calculating the amount of EMF falling on a point, not the energy of the full surface. The reason being, a person standing and looking at something cares how much illumination falls on the destination point, not the total illumination of the scene.
Although I know what you mean, Bulgaria is not a Third World Country. I think a better term would be Developing Country [0]. Third world means that it wasn't allied with either the USA/UK (First World) or Russia/China (Second World) during the Cold War [1]. Bulgaria was part of the Eastern Bloc [2].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Bloc#Bulgaria
How to Draft a Landing Page that Converts All 3 of Your Audiences
Making all three reader types (the Reader, the Scanner and the Bottom-Liner) happy with the same landing page doesn't have to be complex.

How do you design your landing pages for all 3 audiences?
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Perhaps triggers, but I wouldn't say that persistent depression has a source that is consistently present.

Unless you refer to the source being chemically.
Anemic competition in the '90s (Nintendo and Sega's failed Dreamcast) made Sony dominant, and the PS2 kept them there. Microsoft then spent quite a bit of money taking them on throughout the 2000's, and eventually won (in the US, at least).

Also, consumers don't care about how difficult a console is to code for, they only care about the games. Game publishers don't really care either, they only care about the potential market (which was massive).
Analyzing enterprise mobility service providers in the market
AirTasker Looks To Adopt Disgruntled Rabbits from TaskRabbit
Convert 2D camera to 3D depth camera with machine learning [pdf]
How would you know for sure that it didn't dump the database to somewhere in Asia once "they" have your server under control? Serious question, because how can you trust the logs? (Mind you, I'm not that technical)
Mike Munger suggests that (http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/07/michael_munger.html) by allowing Uber/Lyft the local government is committing a regulatory takings by devalueing the existing medallions. So not stealing, but not straight forward competition either.
Just to have an idea how sparse space is, the closest star at this scale would be about 5x the (actual) distance to the moon.
Everything done in space is extremely slow.
I believe it is essentially a function of the skill distribution and price of developers.

There will always be a spectrum of skill level; there will always be very inexperienced, low-skilled developers just about able to knock together something that works, but is susceptible to SQL injection. These inexperienced developers will charge less, and will get work, so there will always be an endless supply of new developers making new sites that are susceptible.

I can think of three ways (and various combinations/subsets of them) it would ever stop:

1) The tools themselves to somehow fall out of favour and be replaced with tools that make it harder to make this kind of mistake

2) Developers become compelled to undergo regulation and trade guilds or related, such that their skill level just to do business exceeds the aforementioned minimum

3) Websites (or a subset thereof) become regulated such that they are inspected/audited for this kind of thing, which would compel businesses to pay more to hire competent developers.

I don't see any of this happening any time soon, so there will be a perpetual supply of new websites containing well-known vulnerabilities. Forever. This will never, ever stop.
Interesting, if we consider building AI as a startup, what would be the answer to standard investors question - what problem does it solve?
To summarize:
Viv is a smarter Siri, that could be implemented in various devices and applications, in different contexts.

However, “Viv is potentially very big, but it’s all still potential”.

The article also, is nothing but hype.
We got our first Delaware tax bill: $74,018.74
We are Imaginary Number, a small educational games startup with 3 founders, zero employees, and a handful of paying customers. I finally opened the letter from CSC, the Delaware agent responsible for collecting taxes. Here's what they sent:

https://mathbreakers.com/static/img/csc_delaware_tax.jpg

After 10 minutes of mounting panic, I came across some information which relieved me. Apparently Delaware likes to use the maximum method for calculating taxes for startups, when we actually only owe a tiny fraction of the amount they claim we owe (and they offer a hefty interest of $525.56 on this supposed balance as well!)

Here's the article, if you're a C-Corp in Delaware and at the seed stage, you'll need to see this.
http://capgenius.com/2011/03/02/de-franchise-tax/

Any other startups here gotten a nice "tax surprise"? Would love to hear about it!
Boston has one as well: http://www.tripadvisor.com/Guide-g60745-i3496-Boston_Massach...

not to scale :)
You are being downvoted by the big government fans who believe that one size fits all health care policy is going to solve all our problems just like the one size fits all education policies have.

They proclaim to treat science with the utmost reverence, but rather than conduct and analyze not even just a few experiments at the state level, they decide to slam together massive programs in a few short years and experiment on 310 million Americans all at once. As if they have all the information and the wisest and most experienced people running things. Things evolve kinda funny in the public sector when you get a new boss every few years with new campaign backers to repay. I'm not sure if there's a single government program that if cut or changed, wouldn't cause some politician to lose an election.

In the private sector, we don't have to worry about that kind of thing. Millions of concurrent experiments take place and thousands of people get fired and get hired everyday, satisfying some need that a government bureaucrat could never predict. Sounds inefficient, but so was the absolute miracle of Evolution. There's always a better way, but to think that your better way is right for everyone? Well that's just plain ol' hubris.

I don't know how many more healthcare.gov's or NSA scandals or failed foreign interventions we need before we say you know what, perhaps we should abandon the "go big or go home" strategy or false dichotomy that our politicians present to us. That mindset is far too rampant in big government without any kind of scientific underpinning.
I usually skip the start-up advice posts on HN but this was worth reading for the first point along "focus on the problem not the solution". Good advice for hackers as well as entrepreneurs.
https://github.com/glyptodon/guacamole-client/search?q=video...
By looking in the code I think they use Canvas, streaming video would be interesting.
Looking at guacamole-common-js/src/main/webapp/modules/Tunnel.js I think they use WebSockets with a XMLHttpRequest fallback?
It allows complete confidentiality and 100% presence for your personal assistants. It also brings down personal assistants to the price that everyman can afford... and that's where marketers show why you could never live without one.
Increasing voter turnout with compulsory voting and (gasp) electronic voting
I’m eight months in on my Mozilla adventure
When you buy a home, you're mostly paying for location, barring outliers like huge mansions. But that's not just the physical geography. On the whole, homeowners take better care of their properties than tenants do. They also have an incentive to be better neighbours than short-term tenants.

So, by introducing short-term tenants into an area, you are adding risk and loss of stability to the other homeowners. Go to an area that has a lot of rooming houses. It's not as nice as a purely residential area. That will eventually be reflected in resale values. So, the slumlord is externalizing the downsides and draining equity from the neighbours.
This title could have been written by buzzfeed. I am interested in information and not hype (unless of course it really does read your mind!).
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A tool taught in Journalism 101 is the "inverted pyramid": the idea is to structure your article so that the biggest details (5 W's) are at the top, and move down the information gradient with the smaller details ("human interest stuff") at the bottom. The writer may have skipped class that day.
spending more time on control activities with the goal of getting back to not doing so

The latter half of this is the real big deal. Relaxed control as a reward for doing the "right" thing. Too often, especially in the public sector, the control measures are ever-tightening.
Thanks a lot for sharing this. I wasn't aware of it, and really enjoyed it.
All pure speculation. They haven't even excavated yet, only outlined the walls.

They write so much in 3 different places, including literally admitting hype in the write-up: "There has been speculation that the tomb could contain the remains of Alexander the Great..."

Worse yet, this is old speculation news. Last year, nearly to the day, they (the Culture Ministry) made a similar announcement: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2401057/Have-...

This area is home to many excavation projects; google "site:.edu Amphipolis" and you'll see quite a lot of them.
>>There has been speculation that the tomb could contain the remains of Alexander the Great or his wife, Roxana, and their son, Alexander IV.

TLDR
It's also worth pointing out that Red Bull is a privately held company... Essentially they can do whatever they want in a way that public companies can not, should they choose to.
Photographers take many more bad photos than good ones. Entrepreneurs fail more often than they succeed. We just tend to avoid showing bad photos and talking about failed businesses in public.
Not always. The problem is that if you get something wrong, the chances of dying are extremely high.

I work in marine radar, and I see this a lot as people manoeuvre tankers and other vessels weighing 100s of thousands of tonnes. They take things extremely slowly, knowing that time saved by doing things more quickly is as nothing compared with potential losses of getting something wrong. At least in dock there will be people and services that can spring into action and help.

In space, that won't happen.
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I think this is a bogus argument. Maybe it somewhat works for this particular case, I does not work in general for such activities. Also what's he gonna do with the money? Probably buy something on Amazon or Steam or go on vacation to the Caribbean or something like that.
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Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyCkmbqB7ko
There have been a couple of companies that have tried this, mainly Numenta (Jeff Hawkins) and now Vicarious (Dileep George). The latter it's had a successful funding round, getting millions from big-name investors and entrepreneurs.

The value proposition for both of them was creating biologically inspired AI, and Numenta eventually came out with an anomaly detection program, Grok. I think it was largely bankrolled by its founder (he was also the inventor of the palm pilot), though I'm not entirely sure. The value proposition for Vicarious is that it has a secretive, general-purpose AI (not to be confused with Artificial General Intelligence, aka Strong AI), but save a few videos of their program solving CAPTCHA's, nobody knows too much about their offerings yet.
Fowlers view: http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html#Microser...
I recently was showing an acquaintance of mine a demo of something I was playing around with and a potential business model. He responded with "I wouldn't be that interested but if you could use those same capabilities to deliver X, now that is something I would pay for."

When I went and looked at your demo I thought here could be someone who is already walking down the road toward being able to deliver a critical component of X.

If you want more details lets switch over to email. You can find one of my contact emails in my HN profile.
Data is hardly ever reliable/reproducible anyway

I think it's more useful to look at this like a potential pattern that one could identify in practice (and act upon) rather than an objective truth or untruth.
Destroyed 27 times in 48 years. That makes the recreation seem like a bad idea.
China to send orbiter to moon and back
worse yet, the excavation began in the 1960s.
Tell HN: Quora politically biased admins ban users unfairly
Marc Bodnick, a Quora admin who has certain political views, follows people of the opposing view to ban them. He also responds to them in a very aggressive manner to try and get them to violate a policy and justify a ban.

In the past two days, he has banned three active people of the "opposite" view.
I remember having quite a long argument with a non-technical manager who insisted on hiring developers who “Who can hit the ground running.” who always also severely puzzled as to why the developers on the team (who were all pretty good*) were completely reluctant to work on any technology that wasn't easy transferable (i.e. so that they could "hit the ground running" somewhere else).

[UK - "pretty good" is high praise]
I've been coding since the mid/late 80s and whilst I do sometimes look back fondly on how much we managed to wring out of the underpowered tech we had then, I don't miss the amount of time and effort it took us to achieve it.

Back in the day, I spent weeks writing a basic DOS-based windowing framework for one of my applications. Today, an equivalent (well, vastly more powerful) framework comes out of the box with 3 clicks of the "create a new app" wizard on just about every platform out there.

I also spent weeks, if not months, fine-tuning my apps so that they would run at a sensible speed on the hardware we had, would fit into the 500K or so of RAM that was available, and would pretty much never crash as issuing a patch involved me manually copying hundreds of floppy disks and posting them to clients.

Modern hardware/OSs/languages may be far less efficient in their use of CPU/memory etc, but they allow me to be far more efficient in the use of my time to deliver actual functionality to users.
Unfortunately I was one of those bosses. I was not trained in the art of managing a team with asymmetric talents, so this paper read exactly how my team and I were acting. Eventually I figured out that each person on the team can shine if they're given independent projects that they themselves had spec'd out rather than having everyone tugging on the same rope and fighting over who is pulling the most. This is one of the unfortunate fallacies of the scrum teams that everyone is equally capable to take any story and the point size will be the for everyone, that just sets up the false expectation of everyone can do every story just as fast. I essentially dropped the everyone is a talented clone aspect of scrum and just let some people drive hard on their own project, and they delivered good stuff.

The manager also has to stop and applaud each accomplishment, make sure everyone's effort is recognized, it's easy to forget that in a busy environment.
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