skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nor should you. The game costs $18 brand new on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Darksiders-II-Playstation-3/dp/B0056WJ...
This is awesome. I can even see where I'm usually stuck in traffic jam and where my train to work stops every day!

I had 50MB of data, and it took at least one minute to process the JSON file.
Without knowing the details, would vanilla Tor suffice? The ISP (who is the one being mandated to retain the data) will only know that you are contacting the entry relay, and the rest of the communication should be encrypted between you and the entry relay. I would guess that then every log in the ISP's log would say "Visited random tor node in iceland".

As for circumventing location gathering, when your mobile phone connects to cell towers, I'd be keen to hear about proposals for getting around that.
"allows them to install surveillance on any of their computers"

I've never heard about this. Google makes employees install surveillance software on all computers, personal and work, for the duration of their employment contract?
I've come to understand "startup" to mean that the company is the product.
Hiker Discovers an Abandoned Town Inside Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains
Yes, this trader is single-handedly keeping the price from going above $300.
Hollywood 2.0: Jehane Noujaim TED Talk, “My wish: A global day of film”
Man Arrested After Allegedly Shooting Down Camera Drone with Shotgun
VR is no doubt very cool.

But I'm not sure this is taking advantage of the true benefits that a VR environment brings.

What are the major benefits that a VR environment brings?

Screen real estate would be 1 benefit but I would have to see an implementation where this was done well before I could believe it.

What other benefits does VR have?
Venmo is already owned by Braintree, which is owned by PayPal.
Are any of its businesses outside of the POS system successful? Where is it losing all the money?

Don't compare it to the competition. I live outside SF and have never run into any square POS till now and don't know anyone that uses square.
I wasn't aware of that actually. Seems like everyone I know is using Venmo already - including having it linked to their bank accounts. Not sure I would trust FB with my bank information.
Joyce from Stellar here. Prof. David Mazieres is creating a new provably-correct version of the consensus system and will be publishing a white paper that will be in line with his normal, rigorous academic standards.

In addition, Graydon Hoare (creator of Rust) has also joined the Stellar team from Mozilla. Now that Stellar supports over 2.3 million wallets, making it the largest implementation of this system, we have found certain scaling limitations of the core tech. Graydon is one of the developers spearheading efforts to make Stellar capable of scaling well beyond its current limitations.

Once these two efforts are complete in a few months, I think you will feel much more comfortable with the robustness of the Stellar protocol.
It seems to me that the author is conflating feminism with her helpful community of mailing lists, and further with good engineering practice.

I don't see anything particularly feminist about reporting bugs upstream.
You could use other definitions, such as picking an arbitrary number of years and call anything younger than that a startup. But maintaining a high growth explains so many aspects of a startup's life (why founders give up parts of their company to investors, why most are focused in technology etc) that it seems any other way of looking at it would be misleading at best. Why would a 6-month restaurant be called a startup if it's not designed ever to scale beyond its neighborhood, or why would you no longer call a startup something that keeps growing weekly at 5%?

>> If you want to understand startups, understand growth. Growth drives everything in this world. Growth is why startups usually work on technology—because ideas for fast growing companies are so rare that the best way to find new ones is to discover those recently made viable by change, and technology is the best source of rapid change. Growth is why it's a rational choice economically for so many founders to try starting a startup: growth makes the successful companies so valuable that the expected value is high even though the risk is too. Growth is why VCs want to invest in startups: not just because the returns are high but also because generating returns from capital gains is easier to manage than generating returns from dividends. Growth explains why the most successful startups take VC money even if they don't need to: it lets them choose their growth rate. And growth explains why successful startups almost invariably get acquisition offers. To acquirers a fast-growing company is not merely valuable but dangerous too. <<
That's a larger problem I have with the Mac (and Windows, although less so) platform as a developer environment: all the cool tools are closed-source and paid. That's a serious barrier to innovation.
> But I was part of a culture – a feminist culture – in which I respected people like my friend and programmers that attempted to use fully defined, useful features of UNIX in order to implement features efficiently.

That is one hell of a stretch of the definition of feminism.

This article seems like some weird interweaving of two unrelated stories about sexism in tech and relative atime. The stories independently seem reasonable, but this weird fusion does not really make sense to me other than as a promotional advantage.
No matter how many paragraphs one quotes from Paul Graham, it is very hard for an argument to evade the reality that the word "startup" was used in other ways before he wrote this essay.
> This breaks search engines, and this breaks HN.

Paywalls might arguably break Hacker News (although that's debatable) but they certainly do not break search engines. The job of a search engine is to index all content. It makes no guarantee that you will not have to pay for the content it indexes. It only claims that the content it finds is relevant to your search.
I don't really see how this is feminism. I do think that supporting women in tech is a noble goal, but "considering user needs in the design of a system" never struck me as a uniquely feminist concept.
The goal could still be to get as many Square POS systems onto the market so that a competitor (ie. Amazon) can't just waltz in and start expanding aggressively.
Ugg, mBTC quoting, took me a sec to realize
> Sorry if this came as too bold but I could not resist myself.

No need to apologize, and the problem isn't boldness but what I think is a lack of factual basis and a bit of a rant:

1) I haven't seen anyone, including feminists, claim that female CEOs are better and certainly not that they are necessarily good managers (I'm sure you can find someone to back any statement, but it's certainly a very small minority).

2) You imply Whitman was chosen to run HP because of her gender Do you have evidence? At least she has a very impressive resume and is fully qualified. EDIT: And you imply that people with the opinion in #1 caused that to happen; it's very hard to believe that is true or that they even have the influence to affect the choice of HP's CEO.

3) The necessary assumptions behind #1 and #2 make your statement read as if you believe there is some sort of conspiracy favoring women in tech and you are pushing against it. I'm not saying you believe that, but the argument looks that way.

If there is a conspiracy to promote women in tech, it is doing very poorly.

I agree with this statement: Cultural changes don't happen overnight.
She's saying that the creation of a "safe space" for women to discuss linux development without fear of dismissal was key to her being able to solve the atime issue.
It's common for people to have discovered a new concept intuitively without understanding all its implications. Like Newtonian physics. Aiming to redefine it properly is worthy.
I've come to understand a startup as a company that doesn't want to pay overtime.
> But being a woman had nothing to do with it

I don't know the facts of Fiorina's experience but from what I understand discrimination against women in tech is well-documented and very widespread today. It would be surprising if Fiorina were not subject to it back when she ran HP, from 1999 to 2005.
Big potential in the added services Square will provide to SMEs. On top of reporting, I think they've already floated the idea of feedback through digital receipts.

I'd definitely imagine that improved customer feedback mechanisms would impact SMEs in a positive way.
Who transmitted to Sidhatta Gotama?
Amazon, Google, etc. can afford to give away POS systems for longer than Square can stay solvent.
Well said. I would also add that mindfulness to me includes being intentional in your actions.

For example it's fine to watch TV if your intention is to relax and enjoy a show. But if you turn on the TV without intention and mindlessly channel surf with no set timeframe, that is not a very mindful practice.
Karpeles is liquidating.
just search the title on google and than read to avoid the login thing.
> But increased interest rates or a sudden stock-market chill could slam on the brakes.

ZIRP will end. The stock market will not continue to be an easy source of double-digit annual returns forever.

The question is always timing, but anybody who is following the Fed and looking at the action in the market can tell you that we're closer to the end of the current environment than we are to the beginning. That doesn't necessarily mean a meltdown is coming (it's of course a real possibility), but even modest changes that inflict minimal pain overall could have significant implications for the startup scene.

For all of the genuinely smart, successful people in the Bay Area, I'm constantly amazed at how few people here seem to be looking at how the broader environment has made the most recent boom possible. Mention ZIRP and the majority of people will ask "What do they do?" thinking ZIRP refers to a hot new startup.

> More worrisome, Mr. Moeller says, are startups with small teams looking for massive spaces and locking themselves in to long leases. Startups are signing five- to seven-year leases on spaces that used to require two, and more landlords are pushing for 10-year leases on new construction. Those could become a burden if financing tightens.

Generally speaking, the landlords are far savvier than the entrepreneurs they're leasing to. They're not pushing 10 year leases to help tenants lock in a good deal.

> Mr. Altman says he met a few months ago with an entrepreneur who drove up in a new Porsche sport-utility vehicle. The man’s startup had completed a $10 million early round of financing the previous week. Mr. Altman says he looked at him sternly, asking him, “What message do you think you’re sending to the rest of the company?”

The message the entrepreneur is sending to his employees is irrelevant. If there's anything of importance in this anecdote, it's what such behavior says about the mindset of some of the founders investors are lavishing with millions of dollars of investment.
University of Pennsylvania is often referred to as "penn", if you want to rerun that search (though make sure to avoid "penn state", a different school).
Zen concepts? That's missing the entire point of Zen.
Someone is selling more than $5 million in BTC at $300
I'm curious to see how this plays out when more people eat soylent for longer periods of time. I could see it as a great supplement to most meals to make sure you are getting most of the nutrients that you need while still eating a variety of foods.
On Weev, Fascism and the Free Internet
ASICs start to play a big role at scale. To me the phrase "big iron" signals towards them.
Startup need to spend so much on other things because employees are not working 100% on making company a long term success. They are just doing yet another job.

Reward employees with good amount of equity, so that everybody long term interests are aligned in success of the company.

I don't see most startup giving meaningful equity, so they have to compensate with all of these perks and high salaries.
To Reach China, LinkedIn Plays by Local Rules
310 Microsoft patents used in Android licensing agreements
I feel like I must be missing something. Listing such a massive block of bitcoin for sale ($9 million!) shouldn't cause the price to flatline, it should be dropping as more and more sellers realize the price is effectively capped at 300 for the time being.

I can't figure out why more people aren't rushing in to sell in front of the 30k shares. Conversely, why are people buying now when their would seem to be availability at 300 later if the price doesn't actually drop?

This sort of behavior makes it seem like the market isn't nearly as liquid as conventional exchanges.
> As recently as 2013, a leading file systems developer was still arguing that file systems didn’t have to save file data reliably by mocking users for playing computer games.

Tso neither mocks users for playing games, nor argues that filesystems should not be required to be reliable. He says:

"[Lortie, that filesystem operation that you said was guaranteed to be safe actually isn't safe. You mis-read the docs. It's racy, and here are the two races that you could lose. Losing both could lose your data. Here's an analogy to illustrate the races: ]

The failure scenario would probably be something like the user who plays tux racer all the time, and uses crappy proprietary drivers that crash the system every single time an OpenGL application exits. If they think that's normal, and are willing to live with the crap proprietary drivers, and they are also the sort of people who carefully position all of their windows to be precisely just so, and if the !@#!?! desktop libraries are still bogusly rewriting the entire contents of every single registry file, regardless of whether the application changed anything --- then eventually, said user will whine about how the hours she spent obsessively setting up their window layout got lost after Tux Racer creashed (sic) their system again."

Notice the carefully constructed persona used in the illustration:

* Tolerates terrible, crashy, OpenGL drivers.

* Makes use of the OpenGL drivers by playing a video game.

* Spends a lot of time meticulously positioning application windows.

* Uses a WM that stores application window position in a single file that gets updated all the damn time for no reason at all.

* Whines when the enormous amount of work put into positioning windows gets wasted when the poorly-designed software they're using crashes and takes some of their data with it.
If you have enough employees to need a full time HR person, you're not a startup anymore.
Filipino here. I used to live somewhat near that place, and we used to joke about going to Germany or Australia when what we really mean is going to one of those streets instead of the actual country. These are suburbs where the real estate developer would follow a certain theme for the nomenclature of the streets. We call these suburbs "villages". In my parent's village, the theme are bird names, and our street is called Sand Piper Drive.
It's possible to create hex shapes that flicker without power! Basically a stable loop that acts as a super-conducting loop.
Where's the SDK?
yep. there are pictures floating of the zee aero plane.

http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/6r363-on...

If your mission is 100miles radius electric is doable.

200kg payload, 200kg airframe and 200kg batteries (100kWh)

6minute hover at 200kW => 20kWh

30minute flight at 200mph (60kW) => 30kWh

1/2 hour margin for legal reasons.

low hover tip speed (200m/s) for low noise.
People can argue what makes a company a startup or not initially, but I think this is the more important part, because it gives you the most useful fact about a startup: how you can tell when it stops being one.

If you're doing customer discovery, throwing MVPs out to see what sticks, and pivoting constantly, you're a startup. If you've found product-market fit, are making quality products, and are entrenching yourself into the market and eliminating competitors, you're a business.

Or, to paraphrase Eric Ries: a business is a predictable engine for repeatable revenue generation. The process of groping around in the dark trying to create such an engine, is a startup.
OSM has the same data. http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/14.4876/121.0193

This is probably a new development, and they had to name the streets after something.
Apparently, a lot of people are happy to buy at $300, and think the price will go up or have some other use for that many BTC.

It'll be neat to see if another whale comes along and cleans it out at the fixed price.
Anyone use the SDK ?
I'm not sure if the landlords are as savvy as you think. If the startup runs out of money, landlords will be the last in line at bankruptcy proceedings. It's hard to claim losses for the next 6 years of lease income when they can turn around and rent the space to a new tenant.
Totally unrelated: $6B is Bitcoin's market cap times 15.
Stellar running on Rust soon?!
I would understand, if only I felt like there was depth to be cheapened in the first place. There is nothing deep and meaningful about drug culture that I'm aware of.

You make it sound like stoners were brave pioneers, facing risk and danger and suffering for a higher purpose. (Pun not intended?) But I never saw that.
They have the same thing in santiago del chile.

https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Comercial+Sct+Germany+L...
Here is my own take on the Lao Tzu quote: ‘Those who know don’t say, and those who say don’t know.’

The introverts, they are the ones that go within and cut themselves off from the world. They are the ones getting "enlightened".

The extroverts, talking all the time and sounding important, barely know what is what.

These are two remarkably different ways of coping with the same problem: fear.

Seriously, the introverts need to find a way to talk, and the extroverts need to calm down and feel more.
Seeing as the average life expectancy of a Fortune 500 company is 40-50 years[1], it's not unreasonable to consider a 6-year-old company to still be in the "starting up" phase of its existance.

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/chapter/degeus.htm
There's a fine line between significantly and marginally in the case of a massively well funded organization like the NSA. Unauthed HD is so damn trivial to MiTM that accepting it as the status quo might just as likely force our government to invest a couple extra billions in MiTM equipment next year as it would be likely to protect the masses from the over reaching hand of mass surveillance. Who's to say they don't already use this capability on a regular basis? As long as you're using an unauthenticated encryption scheme you will never know...
You can't just bag all reasonable behaviour and call it feminism. Feminism might be a broad church due to there being many historical revisions of it, but if you make it so wide as to just basically mean people being nice, then it loses all meaning.

Also, if you make the argument that a feminist environment was in some way necessary rather than merely conducive to the development of this particular solution, then were the experiences gained in a hyper-masculine and highly misogynistic organization based on the needs of state violence required for Grace Hopper to invent compilers, given that she was a Rear Admiral in the US Navy?

edit - I fully support the creation of comfortable safe spaces and organisations that bring more people into programming as society in general seems far too accepting of abusive bigots, so these places and organisations serve a good and useful purpose. I also think that the creation of spaces like this will in time help raise the quality of software by having a wider range of perspectives looking at the problems, so it isn't just a good idea because it is being nice. I just think that the author here is putting an undue amount of weight on feminism as a major cause of this particular solution to the atime problem. I can't see anything about it as a solution that couldn't have been worked out by, say for instance, a hermit who hates everyone.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again, it is impossible to tell how someone will react so a sudden change in their financial status, prior to that change happening. The interesting thing I learned in the dot com era though was that when people conflated their actual net worth with their paper net worth, it really screwed them up.

It works like this, you own 10% of the equity in a company that raises a round of funds which price that company at $1B. You are worth $100M right? Wrong. Your wealth hasn't changed until you convert that equity into cash and them something unrelated to the company. Further you probably can't sell it (the board won't let you). What I have watched happen though is that people think of themselves as being "worth" $100M and start spending like they have that sort of money in a checking account somewhere. And lots of people are more than willing to help them spend! And then things don't go quite as planned, the market changes, a competitor gets bought, the S-1 gets pulled at the last minute, what ever, and the company is sold at a firesale for not even the liquidation preference of the preferred shares. And our poor founder is living the $100M lifestyle with nothing in the bank. What follows is predictable, depression, bankruptcy, divorce, in some cases suicide.

It was, for me, the worst part of the dot com explosion. Watching people I knew and respected self destruct.
I've been using Mullvad for over a year now. I have no complaints. Feel free to ask questions. (I have no ties with them, just a happy customer.)
But why limit it to a safe space for women, why not a safe space for anyone who doesn't want to be insulted?

It seems sexist to me to assume men can't be in a non abusive community.
"Unfortunately, as a result of my work, several more Linux storage developers came out publicly in favor of harassment and assault."

I really would like links to these public statements. I'm not a fan of shaming, but if people are advocating violence, some finger-pointing would be entirely appropriate.
LPs and GPs
Square's POS is also free
Anyone want to discuss competitive sober strategies for startups?

I see four main issues that the money is being used for

1. Location

2. Business Scaling

3. Work-Place Incentives

4. Founders Optimistic Self Valuation

These issues are all necessary to a high degree but what viable options are there that give startups a competitive environment to offer and work with?
Stanislaw Lem’s futurism
Too bad there are no videos
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Also note that most uses of p2p are illegal. Then again, much of youtube use is just as illegal -- but people assume (correctly) that they won't be sued for watching or downloading something from youtube (youtube might, or uploaders might -- in theory).

So, users are stuck behind asymmetric dsl lines, behind poorly functioning NAT routers and couldn't use p2p for what they want to use p2p for ... legally.

There are exceptions of course, like this project:

http://vodo.net/pioneerone

or:

https://www.tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs

But after decades of stagnation, and even regression, in the ISP industry -- getting working p2p solutions to catch on is an uphill struggle. And when people don't have software they can, or want, to run as a service -- the demand doesn't exist either.

Contrast this with how people used to run their own BBS back in the day...
Considering the opposition ushered through the new ASIO legislation without so much as a peep, I'd say it's token resistance at this point.