skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There's a big strategic risk in you guys offering web hooks: it facilitates competitors piggybacking on your event detection and building high value response services that compete directly with your own. In other words, you become a piece of costly-to-maintain middleware and others capture the real consumer value." -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4344335

In other words, something like webhooks hurts the bottom line of this "open platform" (quote from OP.) Maybe IFTTT is only useful because a lot of the services it consumes don't make it easy to do these things, because it would diminish their own value. It's greedy walled gardens all the way down.
I can touch type, just not on a touch screen :)
Right, but to be clear: I don't believe that only masculine men deserve authority. I think our species' slow evolution from violence as the single source of authority is possibly the most hopeful development in our history.
This reminds me even more than Amazon's program of vernor vinge's prediction of rock deliveries from fedex in his short story "Fast Times at Fairmont High." There's something about a package being lowered onto my doorstep by a VTOL drone...
Thank you for this explanation! I was not aware.
Most of them these days appear to be accomplished by corrupting the call data going to the 911 center and then the caller tells the operator whatever fake address they want.

Spoofing caller id does not often work because 911 centers use a more powerful system for identifying calls that is like ANI.

There was a presentation at DEFCON this year on this very subject.
> so from the fact life exists you deduce that we'll be able to replicate it with "nanotech"?

No. I asssert that life is nanotech. We've seen those things down to atomic level and we know from observation that every living thing is entirely made from machines pushing around molecules. The required technology is there, we don't even have to develop our own, we just need to get better at controlling the 'natural' one. There's some good progress in reprogramming bacteria and viruses to do our bidding, and there are no clear obstacles why we shouldn't be able to develop this further.
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I know right. These are the kinds of sites I remember scouring the internet for before the boom.

Note: Not suggesting we need to take things back to the 90's. It was a time, it passed.
I'm pretty strongly against how heavily armed and often used SWAT teams and general police forces have become (such as against barbershops for licensing checks [1]) but I pretty much agree.

In these cases you have someone trying to convince the cops that something dangerous is really happening, and I'm not sure I can think of a practical method for them to figure out are real and which aren't.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/12/09/us-florida-barbers...
Like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrafugia_Transition

So people were off by a few decades on timescales and on social/political uptake. Big deal.

Life exists, it's physical. Our control of physical processes has consistently improved. There isn't any issue in revival that has shown to be totally intractable, in a way that violates any key physical assumptions we have.
When was the last time Detriot was a leading city? Early 90s to late 80s? I'm surprised most people on here are old enough to remember that.
Correct, tinc is another example of a mesh overlay network. However tinc requires configuration files to be created on each host and then distributed to others. If machines are part of an etcd cluster, you can use Rudder to create a mesh without the need to create and distribute configuration files.
Why Sociomantic uses D [video]
Bear in mind which countries were surveyed. You might not be surprised if you lived there, or knew people who had.
Not necessarily directed at you, but one big frustration of mine while leading a project team was when someone would list off 'potential issues'. If the concept is compelling and the quick estimates look like positive ROI, go get the lawyers/marketers/buyers/executive team to do their job and push forward or come back with logical and specific reasons!
Fairly long profile of Hal on Forbes:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/03/25/satoshi...
When is Google going to start innovating again instead of just copying other big tech companies? They are the new Microsoft it seems like, cash cow being spent on also-rans.
> Certainly everyone will die, no matter what. There is no materialist vision of immortality that can work in a universe with a finite life span.

Unless of course, we'll figure out the answer to the Last Question ;).

( http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html )
Probably depends where you live. Google isn't as popular as in the US everywhere so in countries where they lack this user provided traffic data the differences aren't as big.
I've never heard this but the idea seems compelling!

Another way to describe it might be as a mismatch between the pecking order according to our simian brains and what's on the org chart. I.e. we don't resent bossy behavior by someone we perceive as a dominant alpha, but bristle when it's someone we see as below us in the "pack".
In addition to what others are saying (location spoofing, etc) another factor to consider is this was in Littleton, CO. Specifically, about 5 miles away from Columbine.
> There's a huge qualitative difference between this and believing in God.

Don't confuse God with religion. A lack of deities does not make this not a religion (see nontheistic religions[1]). Also, why are you discounting what you call "supernatural" beliefs? Even physics is based on some assumptions (laws of symmetry) and ends at the big bang. If you look at the past 50 years of medicine and biology -- especially human biology -- you'll find many wrong conclusions (see Ioannidis's "why most published medical research is false"). You're exaggerating our scientific capabilities while discounting the limits to our understanding. In fact, you're turning science and technology into your religion. Don't overestimate human capacity and don't underestimate our stupidity (but don't do the opposite either).

BTW, I'm not even sure cryonics falls under the category of nontheistic religions, as "humans" with the power to resurrect the dead (and by extension eliminate natural death) are no different from a deity. Your religion is justified by what we know, as were others. The only qualitative mistake here, I think, is yours: as people who know (some) and love science, we know that it has limits. We have limits to observation, and, most pertinently, we have limits of tractability and understanding of complex systems. I don't think scientists assume we'll one day know something, and they certainly don't assume we'll have a specific far-fetched technology.

> Still, cryonics does not depend on any super-human entity or its values

I wasn't talking about AI, I was talking about future "humans" (is that what they would be in a world without death?) with technology we do not possess, hence super-compared-to-us-humans.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontheistic_religions
What was the last Google product that was successful without heavy bundling? In this case, bundling couldn't overcome Facebook's network effects.
we prototyped our app using html5 & jquery pep - http://pep.briangonzalez.org (among other things) and were surprised and how well it worked on tablets. so for now we're planning to use cordova/phonegap rather than going full native =)
No, contradicting evidence would be quite admissible. For instance, showing that some major part of the structure of the brain decays immediately into noise would kill the idea of revival. As I understand, there's a bit of uncertainty, but generally, so far, it seems like it is in theory possible.

>not modern variations on Pascal's wager.

Pascal's wager is bad because it takes the current universe, then lets you pick from only 2 choices, and the god choice isn't free (as belief in something you know to be wrong is detrimental). If a superintelligence offered the wager with the condition that every other religion/afterlife was wrong, and the only two possibilities were god or no god, and that there was no cost (just have to say "I believe"), then Pascal's wager wouldn't be a joke.

I agree though that of course this is ripe for commercial exploitation. Just like an insurance fund that promised to try to get involved/fund every AI research initiative, in exchange for somehow giving you preferential treatment in case of a not-so-friendly singularity.
Have you tried 'paradoxical intention'? It's basically convincing yourself that the goal is to stay awake, instead of falling asleep. It gets rid of some of the performance anxiety surrounding falling asleep, and tends to force you to focus on something else (keeping awake). It has helped me in the past!
Maybe it already has...
This was in development long before Amazon announced their drones 9 months ago.
It's good you're raising this point. There's the concept of information-theoretic death [0] that is the "0" extreme you mentioned.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information-theoretic_death
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Great questions Austin. We've spent the last 6 months "exploring" the data supply chain and have learned first hand how fragmented and closed the system really is.

National coverage is nearly impossible unless you go through an aggregator like ListHub or Point2, but this doesn't work for real buyers because of delayed, inaccurate and incomplete information. The only reliable way to get listing data in most regions is by opening an office and joining the local MLS.

Our non-answer is that we plan to focus on our clients in California for the time being while we nail the customer experience before thinking about expansion.
> lots of publications based on ethnographic methods, qualitative approaches and the like. HCI (as in "HCI academic research") is, nowadays, much closer (methodologically) to design thinking than to experimental psychology.

Just because HCI researchers are trying to do design doesn't mean they have mastered it yet. CHI also doesn't yet know how to handle work from real designers (vs. HCI researchers talking about what they think those designers should be doing). It is more of an aspiration for the community at this point; they haven't asserted much leadership in the field yet (in terms of practice).

> I do both. I work in the industry (UI design, front-end dev, evaluation) and I'm a PhD student.

Did you go to design school? Can you sketch? How about your storyboarding skills? What is your experience with color? Do you have a portfolio ready to show off at any moment? I know I sound harsh, and I'm not trying to say you aren't a real designer, but CS people who say they practice design rarely cross those lines above. I'm a CS researcher, not a designer, and my wife (visual/interaction designer, design school background) calls out my BS all the time.

> I guess you're right on this, at least in the academia. I do have the impression that most HCI researchers have a CS background. But, at least in my country, this is mostly because CS departments have much more funding to hire researchers than the others.

As far as I can tell, there is very little HCI content that is geared toward designers. Those HCI courses that pre-exist are all aimed at computer scientists; the designers in the meantime have their own programs (e.g. interaction design departments) that are quite separated from what the engineers are doing.
I've read this before too, I cant remember where. Basically your 25-50 year old typically sleeps from about midnight to 8am. Teens and young adults typically sleep much later, with the "crack of dawn" not being uncommon and the elderly typically awake at the "crack of dawn".

Basically most preditors are active either just after dark, or in the late morning.

Teens are typically strong (a 13 year old male is as strong as your average adult female), alert and they have the best vision, and noise making in the night would keep predators and scavengers away. Evening predators likely weren't a great risk, but scavengers definitely would be an issue.

Adults are obviously the strongest and most alert, and are awake when the most dangerous animals are also awake: lions, tigers, hippos, etc.

The elderly are our weakest, their vision is poor and their alertness becomes questionable. However, there's theories we live so long after infertility sets in specifically for the reason they care for the young. Both infants and the elderly have surprisingly similar sleeping patterns. Predators are least active in the early mornings and so are most dangers. Insects and reptiles (venomous things) are least active in the coldest hours of the day, which is right around dawn.
Would be true yet there is this thing called insomnia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insomnia
> 'manageable with technology we do not have' -> magic.

Christ, are you for real? Was landing on the moon 'magic' up until the moment we did it? Why are people like you even on this website?
Exactly. The reason we don't have flying cars is not lack of technology, it is the economics. For the very same reason we don't have Moon bases yet. We could do this if we wanted, but there's not enough demand right now for it to happen.
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I wonder why he says it's a difficult decision? What was the upside to users or authors? If the data shows this is an improved experience for users it should be a given and not difficult or something to apologize for.
> Why are you so adamant to dismiss cryogenics and call it a religion?

Cryonics as practiced by people requesting to be frozen is a religion, but I'm not dismissing it, because I don't dismiss religion. Unlike Richard Dawkins, I don't see humanity thriving without religion, and I think the debate is theoretical, because I don't think humans can exist without creating religion.

> Should we just throw in the towel and stop researching it?

Of course not! We didn't stop studying the stars, and we ended up learning a lot from doing so -- but that doesn't make astrology not a religion. There's science and there's religion. Studying cryogenics is science; freezing yourself in the hope of being resurrected is religion. BTW, while we learned a lot from studying the stars while abandoning the religion surrounding them, we're still not much closer to reaching them than we were 200 years ago.

> Do you claim that everyone betting on new technologies are religious?

No. I might buy stocks in a company making a more efficient microwave oven (shit, I'm betting on my own actual startup). But when the matter at hand is our existential dread, and people change their behavior based on what is currently classified as bona-fide science fiction, become emotionally involved, and preach the great rewards to be bestowed on the faithful -- imagining, all the while a bright future while completely disregarding other possibilities -- then, yeah, you're looking at a religion.
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We have real-time listing data in LA and SF at the moment as broker members of a local MLS. The only real way to get quality data for a listing product is to connect to every realtor database.
The founder of the startup I'm at now, imgix, had this to say about it:

http://blog.chriszacharias.com/cruise-ships

Google is a cruise ship. You're young and agile in a way that you'll likely never be again. As a result, you're more risk-tolerant as well.

Risk accordingly.

Despite that, don't confuse commitment and risk. The bay is a big place. It's expensive to live in, and full of unlikely opportunities in equally unlikely places.

Find a month to month lease if you can, or crash with somebody you know. Don't lock yourself down with a long lease, the environment moves too fast and your priorities will evolve even faster once you hit the ground here. I think you'll appreciate the agility. It's a mistake I made, and would probably change given a do-over.

Another miscellaneous thought: there are so many startups and things like this going on in the bay that it's actually a bit of a blur, and while it's easy to meet many people doing what you describe, they're all very much wrapped up in their own version of the story. A job at google actually gives you proximity to bigger names, for longer, and with more purpose. From a networking standpoint, that has value. I don't think it negates the sole-suckingness of a giant org for someone with your personality, but it's at least worth noting.
Ask HN: Any Services for HTML/CSS Code Editing with GUI?
I've just run into Webflow[1] here on HN and started mucking around with the site builder.

Their pitch: make beautiful sites with a simple interface that doesn't require code - and export it to HTML/CSS when you're done.

What I'd like to do is IMPORT code - and tweak the design from the interface.

Any web services offering this type of interaction?

My specific intent is to throw up a BlackTie Boostrap Theme[2] and edit it to suit the project.

[1] http://webflow.com
[2] http://www.blacktie.co/2014/05/studio-one-page-theme/
Both Fitt's and Hicks' law were found in the 50s by experimental psychologists. They are hardly exclusive to HCI.

BTW, a good application of Hicks' law is in a book called "The psychology of menu selection: Designing cognitive control at the human/computer interface" (POMS) by Kent Norman. There is an online version:

http://lap.umd.edu/POMS/
You can also encode "version" information (e.g. $2a$ vs $2y$ for bcrypt) so that, if a vulnerability is discovered in a prior implementation, you can re-hash with a safe algorithm transparently without having to go "everyone, reset your passwords!"
Thanks for the thorough comment and links. While blogposts are often interesting/thought-provoking, it's great to be able to read a response by a professional.
No, he is suggesting you jacked up your settings and offered a solution for you. Tested on a half dozen different combos of Chrome/Windows here and no issues.
Can you comment on its support for add-ins (specifically tree-style tabs, the indispensable add-in that keeps me bound to Firefox)?
You are mistakenly reading 'technology we do not have' as 'things we have not done with technology we do have'.

Going to the moon was the application of a whole pile of existing technology and marginally expanding some of that technology in the process.

As for why 'people like me are even on this website', that's a good question, maybe I should not be here.
The Jawbone up is the BOMB of all bombs for taking naps. Put it in nap mode and it waits for you to fall asleep before setting the alarm. So you can get a proper nap without wondering whether you're taking too long to fall asleep, etc.

It can also attempt to time your nap based on your latest sleep patterns. No idea how effective this is.

I love this thing just for it's nap mode.
This make me wonder what the functional layers of abstraction IN synthetic biology are. Currently we think of intra-species gene sequence swapping as an applicable layer. But It seems the truly functional bits are when we can biologically encode and express control over organ development. Something like building a spider with X*N body mass to support Y clusters of silk glands.
Yep. http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2014/03/why-i-dont-recommend-scryp...
Can you please try to control the weather first? Because we know from observation that that's just molecules pushing each other around, and it's a lot less complicated then life, so it should be easier to control, right? (only -- intractability)
1. She states very clearly in the last line: this is a call to action to review the language in reviews for for bias, not just the scores.

Right, and I'm taking that as saying "HR should look for bias in the language used in reviews because I think they will find it".

2. I can see you and others here very willing to accept the possibility that women just are more aggressive and that worries me about potential bias far more than this study does. Do you see that in yourself?

Do I think that women in general are more aggressive than men? No. Do I think that women in tech fields are more aggressive than men? I don't have enough evidence to form an opinion about this, but given the challenges which women must overcome in order to succeed in tech fields, I think it's entirely possible that the less-aggressive women tend to get filtered out.

3. As you state above, non aggressive women never getting hired--one possible reason could be, as others have stated is that non aggressive women do not have the emotional or financial resources to withstand the cultural assault of doing something outside of gender norms. Do you see why that's a problem? Why the stereotypes of behavior in tech/business that are predominantly male are so damaging? And why it would be so important to look at the language used here?

Absolutely. I'm not willing to jump to the conclusion that the reviews are wrong, though.

are you not struck by the difference in tone in those reviews? Or do you truly believe the women's words were "deserved?"

Given that I do not know the men or women in question, I am unable to form an opinion about whether the adjectives used to describe members of either gender were accurate.
>4th dimension is still time. 'The button' takes you to your character's view of moving across a 3rd dimensional plane. I'm assuming the two different textures on the ground represent the change in the 4th dimension (time).

No, time is actually a 5th dimension in this 4D game projection.

The developer has actually done the proper 4 to 3D projections, like he has done for the 2/3D that he shows in the beginning.

In the 2D to 3D you can definitely see that he's not moving through "time", because you can see the 3rd dimension.

The problem is just that we can't intuitively visualize a 4th spatial dimension that makes this difficult.

But he's definitely not moving through "time" or in some "past" when the "wall wasn't there". And of course moving through time has different properties than moving through a 4th spatial dimension, so it's not really comparable.

E.g if we had a gradual rise in temperature from 0oF to 100oF in the time-dimension, then if you could move through the time-axis you'd experienced different temperature at will, whereas moving through any spatial axis would you'd only feel a partial rise in temperature.
Only recently did I realize what a power house the team at CoreOS is. They're building some really cool shit. I can spend hours on their blog just right-clicking and searching on Google. Definitely a good way to learn tons about distributed computing and that whole subject area.
Predicting climate and predicting weather are two totally different games. I can't predict who is going to win and lose in a given night at the roulette table, but I can tell you with absolute certainty who wins in the long run.
AFAIK, PCI is an unfunny joke. This is why my pentester friends have told me about it:

> Release v1.0 of super cool app.

> v1.0 gets PCI certified

> Someone discloses a vuln in v1.0

> Release v1.1

> Companies are stuck with v1.0 for at least 90 days until v1.1 can be certified
I don't live in SF but I think this would be viable. I'd even use it when I was in town.

I think you'd also get customers from people who bike to work or workout at lunch but don't have access to a shower (assuming the location was good).
See also: http://www.cs286.net/home/reading-list - Joe Hellerstein's graduate database class.
I think a lot of people on this website always try to avoid such logins. Google already has enough of my data and I don't want to lock myself into a system if I don't have to.

And do you really need a 25+ char password for every blog you comment on?
Yes, they are used a lot. Sometimes a whole station will be empty, but they have staff who help replenish bikes in those cases. Hangzhou is a heavily touristed city and there are a lot more tourists using the bikes around the scenic spots. But I live far away from tourist spots and there are plenty of bike stations around and plenty of people using them.