skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. Outside of the metro areas you start to lose service. Smaller towns sometimes lack service altogether on some providers. Anywhere bush/mountain you'd be very very lucky to get service (of which there is a lot).
Jack Ma speaks fluent English, Mark speaks 國語. I think it is all about business & $.
Blocking "foreignpolicy.com###TB_iframeContent" in ABP seems to take care of it.
Regarding your comment about floats in LaTeX, of course you don't tell LaTeX where they go. They float. That's why they are called floats. If you don't want them to float, don't use the float environment. ( Or use the float package and the [H] option, as explained on https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/8625/force-figure-pl... ).
True. As a fellow South Indian forced to learn languages that I never used, I can completely relate to this point.
The argument eats itself on its most substantive point: native advertising. The writer dismisses "youtube" as the exception to Google's supposed weakness in native advertising.

Personally, I'd much rather be Youtube than any of the other examples cited (facebook and so on). Not only is Youtube an absolute monster in video streaming, Youtube is going to be even more important as set top boxes take off. Plus there's a lot more social innovation left to tap in Youtube.
Disclaimer: I'm a student at MIT

Here's a company employment dataset from the University of Waterloo showing where students go from one internship to the next: https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~vlyubine/co-op

In this dataset, ELO is employed such that companies earn points if they "beat" another one, which loses points as a result. That is, if someone hops from Company A to Company B, Company A earns points and Company B loses some.

Among Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc., it was found that Palantir was the only company that never lost a student to another one. If you go to the companies dataset here and sort by ELO: https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~vlyubine/companies

You'll note that the rankings are:
1. Palantir Technologies
2. Twitter
3. Facebook
4. Google
5. A9.com

It appears that Palantir also beats out fellow big corps as well. I think the consensus among Ivy leaguers I know and Stanford/Waterloo is that Palantir's strict hiring criteria and unique culture make it the newer Google of today.
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Nice... I'll reiterate the same plea I have every time LastPass comes up (I'm a premium subscriber and have been for years) - Focus on UI and UX. I don't need any more features, I just want a much higher level of polish across the Chrome Extension and Android app.

It still pops up on the top of the screen, pushing down the webpage, and since it's slow it takes a few seconds to do it so it pushes down the content while you are reading it. I've tried disabling it but it still tends to pop up - there's much more usable + pretty ways of doing it, see Chrome's built-in password manager.
Intrested in the single founder theory, often creators have such strong visions on how something will work that it drives other co-founders away. Some call it stubbornness I guess.
Is there some reason Azul can't support regular OpenJDK?
In general Google tends to keep accounts siloed, if for no other reason than that different accounts is the solution recommended to people who want to silo things.
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> My example above may also be convoluted but I'm sure others could imagine a future where the majority of searches come from another mechanism besides typing words into a little box on a webpage.

Google is definitely aware of it. For example, see this article from 2011: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/eric-schmidt/8873664/G...
It's interesting that you're more eager to dispel the notion that you work for FTDI than that you support the crime of destruction of property. You need to think long and hard about the direction of your moral compass.
This has been true for a while though. Consumer behavior is clearly manipulated by advertising, and it's common that an inferior and more expensive product wins as the result of superior marketing.

I don't think it's something we're permanently tethered to though. As reviews are getting better, consumers are realizing more and more that knowing which product is best for them is a very valuable tool. We're seeing stuff like yelp, tripadvisor, healthgrades really take off. The idea of being an "informed" consumer is gaining a lot of traction and that's going to dilute the effectiveness of targeted advertisement.
You seriously underestimate the sheer number of people who use WhatsApp on a daily basis.
To state that "few are even bothering to challenge [Google] anymore is to misunderstand the nature of Google's competition. This competition isn't Bing, DuckDuckGo, or any other generalized search engine, it's search engines that focus on the most lucrative niches. It's Amazon -- it was fairly recently that Amazon moved ahead of Google in the number of product-related searches originating on its site. It's Yelp, TripAdvisor, and WebMD, and there will be others. You don't need all of Google's search traffic to beat it -- a large chunk of it doesn't make any money -- just the part that pays.
> many will find in 2-3 years that they have career opportunities at Google and companies of similar size but few opportunities at more interesting companies that are looking for someone with a few years experience with newer technologies.

What technologies would those be? I'm scratching my head trying to think of the latest, cool stuff that people want to work with.

On the language front, among the hottest right now are NodeJS and Go. Some might argue older languages like Erlang or Haskell are pretty trendy or perhaps Rust, but none of those have the current momentum of the first two and Google is behind the runtime for NodeJS and created Go.

On the data front, Hadoop is pretty trendy right now, but that's based almost entirely off stuff that Google pioneered. Other NoSQL databases are pretty popular and, again, Google has its fingerprints all over that. Hell, a bunch of the NoSQL technologies even use LevelDB as a storage backend.

Distributed systems? You'll learn more about them at Google than anywhere else. They were first with solutions to distributed consensus and they'll likely be first with whatever new need develops simply because their scale will ensure that they hit problems before almost anyone else.

DevOps technologies like Docker? Well, beyond the fact that Docker is implemented in Go, Google has long used internal technology like Docker and have supported Docker by releasing projects like Kubernetes.

Perhaps you mean cool hardware technology like self-driving cars, wearable technology, gigabit home internet, balloon-based internet or stuff like Chromecast?

So perhaps you can share with us what technology that they'd be exposed to elsewhere that they can't find within Google?
You can, but there are easier ways. A low mass resistance heater for example.
AdBlock is not going to kill Advertising, because most publishers have no better ways to monetize. If AdBlock continue to rise they will have to invest in detecting AdBlock and refuse to serve content when their ads are blocked.
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The amazing thing at UNC is that it was just a rogue low-level employee (who picked up a couple of minor co-conspirators on the way), NOT a coordinated effort from the top of the university down.

I would imagine at many or most big sports schools, it is the latter.

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if it's the latter at UNC too. If so, UNC has done a world-class cover up so far by making it look like the former.
This analysis is wrong for several reasons:

1. Android is no longer just a way for Google to protect its search engine - it is now a strong contender to become the biggest platform for watching TV and movies in the world.

2. Google knows more about me than anyone else. They know my age, sex, occupation, where I sleep, who I email, what supermarket I shop at, and a thousand other details. That's an enormous competitive advantage in the business of selling brand (or 'Native') advertising.

3. Unlike Facebook and Twitter, people who produce compelling TV and movies usually just auction off the advertising rights to the highest bidder. Google can simply buy the right to advertise in the next James Bond film or English Premier League final.
I still haven't shaken the image of Palantir as the outfit gunning for Wikileaks and building illegal surveillance equipment.
Look at the datasheet, it's got a usb DFU bootloader loaded by default. :) Biggest issue would just be making sure it can switch over to serial mode, but that's already done in arduino's, so should be pretty easy.
Maybe. But you'd have to convince the NFL that a minor league is something worth investing in. A longer pipeline of higher volume of play means that the risk of injury would be substantially higher. The NFL seems more interesting in making money that dealing with anything more complex than moving a team to London.
ProductHunt releases GameHunt. The catch? The games aren't new
http://www.producthunt.com/e/game-hunt

It's a great idea to have a "ProductHunt for games".

However, ProductHunt has implemented this such that the games aren't new, and there's nothing that ensures that the games ARE new. So instead of being an exciting list of the latest newly released games, it's just a spammy list of any game that the publisher wants to get promoted. Doesn't matter how old it is, they'll list . Probably you could put Zork on it if you want.

Apparently the folks at ProductHunt aren't connected to the core value of their service being newness and freshness.

Seems to make sense also that there should be AppHunt for iOS apps and DroidHunt for Android apps. Although they'd be most compelling if for example they only listed recently released titles. Otherwise it just turns into a spammy junkfest. The latest products in a range of categories ...... CameraHunt, MotorbikeHunt, CarHunt, GunHunt etc etc.
I'll agree to it being stupidly expensive, that's become pretty common for college textbooks. However, it's enough of a classic that finding a used copy, or an illegal pdf, shouldn't be too hard. The vast majority of the content is far from cutting edge too, so older editions are just as good. Juvinall's Fundamentals of Machine Component Design is similar in content and also a great book and somewhat less expensive.
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A few others have noted, but search ads are actually perfectly native ads. The form and function are identical to the rest of the stream they are shown in. Setting aside the term "native" then, as the point was much more about brand vs. direct response ad markets.

I'd reword the author's thesis (while keeping the intent) to look like this:

1) All mediums develop native advertising styles over time, which web & mobile are just in beginning stages

2) The market for brand advertising will continue to be larger than the market for direct response advertising

3) Google won't win the market for online brand advertising
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I always find early video like the first one kind of sad -- you know that everyone you see and most of their children are dead. It's doubly sad here in that most male children pictured here were of military age in 1914, and were likely cut down in the slaughter.
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Gonna be a bit of a douche, but...

Why do we go googoogaga over an English speaker learning a foreign language to a competent level, when this is something millions of people do regularly? Mark isn't the first person to learn a language in the middle of a busy job and life schedule.

Doucheness not quite over - it's a big achievement, yeah, but Chinese isn't actually that hard, it's a bit of a myth perpetuated because (a) there's not enough people learning it (b) a lot of teachers are quite shit in my experience (c) hand writing is difficult. in reality spoken Chinese is very simple, grammar is easy, common vocabulary is easily learnt and repeated frequently....
Consider the array of new tube combo guitar amps carried by Guitar Center right now:

http://www.guitarcenter.com/Tube-Combo-Guitar-Amplifiers-Com...
I agree with your sentiment that it's impressive of him to have learnt Mandarin while running a company like Facebook, at an age well beyond the optimal 'malleable' pre-teen/teen period. It's also brave of him to put himself in a position like this, where he will be judged by millions of people like me.

But, his pronunciation is not good and the flow of his speech is a bit too slow and stuttery in order for this to be interesting to listen to. He's made a lot of headway in the sense that he can piece together sentences that communicate what he wants to say, but I just didn't find it engaging enough to keep on listening. I think he's doing himself a disservice by speaking Mandarin, even though the audience finds it impressive. Educated Chinese usually like practicing their English. Either way -- bravo Mark. You're raising the bar.
This was a well written and inspiring article.

Reading this made me call the Red Cross and get back into giving blood.
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I got your point now. But then my comment was trying to point out that a "compatible chip" isn't really competing if its branding is deceitful. Whether it's possible for a driver to tell the difference between counterfeit and legitimate compatible chips isn't really relevant here.

Besides, any legitimate compatible chip vendor will need to have their own VID, which also means they need to develop their own compatible driver.
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yeah, I have an old French textbook from when I was a student, I'll stick with that. And we find a lot of stuff on wikipedia now.
To me this article suggests that the market is really looking for a viable cross-platform development environment. Clearly Xamarin isn't hitting ask the right notes or it would be exploding. I suspect that something like Meteor on mobile might just be what explodes. In fact Meteor on mobile could be even bigger than Meteor in the web space. Imagine how happy employers would be to simplify, and rather than hiring separate highly specialized developers, simply hire those with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Meteor skill sets. And theoretically they'd need less developers because the same code base would run on both iOS and Android. Personally I'd lay money this is where we'll see the market move in the next five years. Sure, graphics intensive games and such will continue to be native-only, but there's a huge swath of applications which could run exceptionally well on a platform like Meteor on mobile.
Listening to the Q&A, I am surprised that, despite how much computers have changed in the last 30 years, how little has changed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA&feature=youtu.be...
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If even 10% of developers actually gave me a choice, you'd have a much better argument. In fairness, indie games often do, and I often pay for them, and I have a much higher tolerance for ads when trying out the free game.

Other issues here are that I often turn off wifi for other games, then don't turn it back on until I've got a decent reason to do so. Today, iPads are more enjoyable with wifi off because of the ads that really push it.

I think it's also a function of the fact that free apps sell better, and that makes them more likely to get my attention in the first place. When I want to find an app, I want to find a "good" app, so I often use the top selling lists, which are much more likely to have ads.
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I'm curious why you think Inbox would result in your inbox getting cluttered. From how you describe your workflow, Inbox would work well for you.
Yes, the mismanagement is popular with the incumbent renters (and many property-owners). But people need to understand the potential fixes, even if the best fixes look politically impossible in the short term. As the pain of the current mismanagement increases, big changes will become thinkable. The current setup isn't even that good for all renters (and potential renters) – just a tenured subset.

Maybe absentee landlords (and businesses and holding companies) shouldn't get Prop 13 tax protection. Maybe when the effective tax basis (Prop-13-limited) is wildly out of whack, the yearly increase should be higher than 1%, as a catch-up. (Same with rent control.)

Maybe new tenants, in new construction, should be under a different regime (like how newer construction skips rent control), to enable healthier turnover while 'grandfathering' in the (dwindling) lower-income population.

Your writing has been excellent on causes, but fairly quick to cut short discussion of possible solutions because of current political taboos. But a deeper discussion of unpopular options – that would in fact work very well – is the only way to fix that unpopularity.
It is, and the fact that it's told in a medium like interactive fiction adds much to its greatness.
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And just in case you thought his day job was boring, go up a level on the URL: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/
Chinese people are amazed when they find a foreigner speaking their language. In part because they like to see themselves as speaking the world's hardest language. But also because there are not a lot of people who are able to learn and speak this, even though China is going to be the world's largest economy shortly.
Flir one is a proper uncooled microbolometer, Flir finally decided to innovate, use modern manufacturing processes/methods and build something cheap to make.

Btw their $4000 E8 thermal camera has VERY SAME components inside (from 320x240 bolometer down to firmware) as $950 E4, only difference is digitally signed config file (that used to be hackable)

Your platform might of been limited by motor speed, but once you reach 10-20 reads per second you will hit a brick wall of thermopile inertia and that will be the end.
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I did that. It was remembering to switch the account when composing new messages. I ended up sending work emails from my personal account on a few occasions.
> impossible

Not impossible. Hard, expensive, or currently not available but not impossible.
Thanks. That was a very handy feature. Alas, it was when composing new emails. I'm sure with more diligence it'll come as second nature. But when rapid firing through emails I'd sometimes send from the wrong account and end up in confusing and embarrassing situations.
Thank you so much for sharing this
There were a lot of drafting tables and tons of other stuff purchased totaling some unknown amount. But it was that drafting, in that place, with those cards which made a company.

It's easy to criticize it for being $280k because we don't know the scenario where they don't have a table. Maybe that scenario is, "fuck it I'm not working on the floor any more" and the whole company is worth zero.

Then there is the economics of it. Hindsight makes it all easy when you only question the costs of the winners.
When I was a mechanical engineer, 70% of the information I needed was in that book. I used it literally every day. It's no more expensive than IntelliJ, and 1/10th or less of the price of the software packages we were using. It's an absolute must have for a professional. Not to mention you use it in about a half dozen college classes.

Used copies are probably cheaper, and the information hasn't changed in any meangingful way in ages.
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You are assuming that the SMS is like a password and the phone number is like a user name, and that's all an attacker would need to log into the app. However, it doesn't have to be designed that way. There could be another value tying the phone number and SMS to the specific app login attempt, in which case intercepting just the SMS is not sufficient.
Fuck URL shorteners.

https://docs.python.org/3.3/library/turtle.html

You're welcome.
Those devices are NOT bricked/broken! They are ABSOLUTELY FINE. You just need to use proper driver straight from the _real_ manufacturer - Supereal Microelectronics (or whatever).

Feel free to ask "Suzhou Supereal Microelectronics" for a working driver for your counterfeit device.
I bet I could find plenty of people that would consider search to be broken if searching for vpn did return openvpn results. (Or the slightly less loaded example, if searching for 'man' returned results with 'almanac'.)
I'd love to see this done on a bigger scale. Even just this limited subset is fascinating - poor Blackberry... :-(
It really is funny... to them. They don't expect it to be funny to the target.
For the person in the OP who needed heart
surgery and, thus, needed compatible blood for
the surgical procedure, why didn't that person
just donate their own blood, say, one pint at at time, over some weeks, have
it frozen, and then have it thawed out for them
just before the surgery?
I loved that museum. Had a blast on my first visit in 2011. 2013 I went back - had some fun, but was by myself, and it wasn't quite as fun as having someone to play the race car games with :) And "sniper 2" is way better than "sniper". I wish I could've understand more Russian...
If WhatsApp can ultimately generate $1 billion per year in net income, it's worth ~$19 billion.

It's extremely likely they can do that, if they can hold their market position. The business itself is capable of being very profitable over time, and has an extraordinarily low per user cost to operate.

It's not likely WhatsApp will ever be a wildly profitable purchase for Facebook, but it doesn't need to be. Half the point was to eat a rival, the same reason they bought Instagram.

The likely worst case scenario right now, outside of WhatsApp imploding, is that Facebook overpaid by 1x. To grab a billion users, and fend off a huge potential threat, that's easily worth single digit billions of dollars to Facebook.
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And that's already happening. If you embed JS necessary to finish delivering the content (or make it visible) along with the Assets for an ad, then Adblock also blocks the content.
so it's a steady decline?
Line 6 does a pretty good job at it.
I think he is very sincere in his motivation to learn Chinese and its brave to get up there because to us he sounds pretty foreign. People laughed because it's endearing to listen to, not really funny. To me languages are a lot like programming in that if you can get enough to hack around the problem you are half way there. Honestly its not about the $, because if you speak Chinese it doesn't make you Chinese in a Chinese's eyes, just curious and disciplined.

Just want to add that when I started learning Chinese people made it out like some impossible dream, and when I started to learn to code it was the same (maybe because I have long blonde hair and look like I'm from Florida or something). Truth is its not as hard as you think to become ok, but very hard to master.
So if you are reading this and you ever thought seriously about studying Chinese but "don't have the time"... well, Mark makes time, and if you're reading HN regularly then you are definitely smart enough :)
Or, to take it step further: if you have a rare blood type, start banking your blood early. Makes sense to me.
Thanks for mentioning that. I use notmuch and the emacs mode for my email. It's absolutely the best email experience I've ever had.
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There are a lot of exemptions - for example rule 504 of reg d is pretty liberal regarding how you raise funds as long as you raise less than $1m in a given 12 month period...

I recall that if you raise money from people in only one state you may be able to rely on state level rules and registration requirements