skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I don't wholeheartedly disagree, I also have trouble envisaging a world where cocaine is legally available.

If the actual barbarism of these people was on the regular news ore, I think that would make an impact.

People managed to make a difference through boycotting many products because of industrial practices. [1]

Maybe it's time to organise a cocaine boycott.

[1] http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/boycotts/successfulboycotts.a...
What you're missing is that early stage growth is completely different from late stage growth.

It might help to think of it in absolute numbers. A company going from 1bn revenue to 8bn in a year is rare, a company going from 100k to 800k in a year is fairly common.
I personally just marvel at the implications of opening up an API for it.
Imagine playing Youtube workout playlists, or powering up other devices through it, it could certainly be the voice hub of the house.
It's one giant step towards the enablement of the "internet of things" for the household.
Also, current Flash memories do not allow single address writes. At least the write endurance problem could be addressed by adding write leveling to an address translation layer. The single address thing could be addressed by a caching/grouping layer that could interact with the leveling mechanisms. Add to that an all-core state dump to a block write and you can recover to an internally consistent state after a power failure.
> They’ve revolutionized headphones.

How exactly running a huge marketing campaign is revolution? There were always designer headphones. Their headphones also do not bring anything on the technicalities (40$ headphones, as mentioned before, "beats" them on every category).

Disclaimer: I'm known as a headphone geek.
It would be asome if you were able to connect this to sensors and actuators around your home :D
Anecdotally and from the traffic numbers we've been able to get from top listings sites, people are shopping for houses on their phones. We saw that other listings products weren't doing a good job of transitioning to mobile and we had an idea for an instagram-like feed of new properties as they come on market. Our product/company has since evolved from a mobile listings app to a digital brokerage.

We agree that large and serious transactions can be handled more comfortably in your browser, so the closing process happens in our web app.
This is a great move. I recently spent months getting a services architecture spun up around Kafka, but had to switch to RabbitMQ at the last minute. Loved the ideas of Kafka from a developer standpoint, but just too many gotchas and surprises still, as well as immature libraries on the Ruby side.
More than likely the noise cancelling is also cancelling out the music it's playing, so I think it wouldn't matter.

Several years ago I was playing with a USB speakerphone module from Yamaha that had hardware noise cancelling. It was so good that even with loud music playing via the device the party on the other end only heard my voice and it was crystal clear. It was cancelling out the music totally.
I think you're (either willfully or out of ignorance) ignoring the most imporant aspect of privacy: it's about CHOOSING what to share.

I CHOOSE what to share on a social network. Devices spying on me rob me of that choice and my ability of filtering what public knows about me.
An adult trying to disappear would not have a very hard time saying, "Hey, everybody! I'm going to take some time away from social media and go on a trip. I'll be back on-line in a couple months. I look forward to reading all your posts when I'm back." In some ways, I think social media makes it easier to disappear, as you can give everybody a plausible explanation at once, rather than trying to talk individually to the many people who might be plausibly concerned by a sudden disappearance.
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Quick and simple meaning... are you checking for every feature back to ES3?

The point of this service is that its not requiring the user to know what feature to look for. They'll polyfill anything thats needed. To do feature detection to the level they're trying to serve you'd have to check EVERY API that needs polyfilled on an in-use browser. Full feature detection also involves looking for apis that exist but don't follow the spec. Checking every single API possible on every browser would not be quick and simple. User agents allow them to settle on a list of known needed polyfills without any code needed for the user beyond a simple script tag.

There are definitely tradeoffs to their approach but I can't say "I don't see any reason" why you wouldn't feature detect for this.
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The NSA could also do the same thing to a phone.
Most of the TV stuff is not the same thing though. I know people who have had paid work as 'audience' for those. You put a trained actor in normal clothes and people watching on TV will swear blind that they could not have faked their reaction.
Yes, this is the slippery slope to 1984. Do you carry a cell phone? Do you use a computer? Do you have windows? Do you ever leave your bunker with 4 foot concrete and steel walls? Yeah, your privacy is compromised already.

No, we won't stop talking about privacy because I said I can unplug this thing. Yes, I am excited about a new type of device coming out that is actually as cool as an iPad, or the Nest.
At a macro vantage point, this is cool and great. On a micro-economic standpoint I don't need the convenience and I don't want the privacy risk. I would rather download all of wikipedia weekly and pay $500 for the voice recognition software under my control. I think there is some great first world problem potential, but it auto updates and I have little control. If something went screwy on Windows, people would notice it very quickly - there are suits in corporations watching and reviewing these things. On consumer grade electronics only enthusiasts and security researchers would know if something went funny.
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Don't forget core memory existed before rotating disks. The first internet routers were shipped with their program already loaded.
Bing (and Yahoo) does, too.

http://blogs.bing.com/search/2014/10/27/do-you-speak-emoji-b...
Don't worry, I'll be conducting interviews on the StartupBus. http://www.wired.com/2013/03/a-long-fast-road-to-the-next-bi... (check photo credits)
Part of your nick is similar to the word "turma" which means "gang" in Portuguese and "Gang" is part of the phrase "Gang Bang" which is a subject that is very taboo. I am offended.
My point isn't that not knowing what this does makes you a lowest common denominator. It's that most stuff that is shared on this site at least borders on being what I'd call esoteric, and if making each individual submission more approachable or catering to a larger general audience is a goal of this community, it isn't really going that way. If it was going that way, I doubt the community would be particularly interested in this site.

This submission in particular has dubious practical use, and the description, "an exercise in minimalism", is telling of a sort of artistic intent. If you don't understand what it does, how it does it, or if you don't like it, it won't lower my opinion of you in any way, but its inclusion on this site is part of why I like to come here every now and then. I get to discuss subjects that relate to my work and hobbies, but I also get to look at weird alien code and think hard in unfamiliar terms. From what you are saying, I think you can relate.

Personally, I could glance over it and get the idea that it is a C compiler, but if you were to show me some code in written with the latest JS MVC or FRP framework, don't hold your breath for me to tell you what it does. I can't say that I fully understand this, and that's why I enjoy the rich discussion the submission spawned here.
>> made a down payment of approximately $70,000 in Bitcoins towards the purchase of a Tesla Model S

Way to lay low.
I think what we are really seeing here is that different municipalities have different degrees of success... In mine, no one even thinks about power/water/sewage/roads (except during road repair), but the poor quality of internet service is a weekly subject.
Ouch, that's bad. Also, plagiarizing luu doesn't sit well around these parts. That's the home team!
Agreed, feature detecting afterwards makes sense. Others seem to be suggesting feature detecting before requesting the polyfill script.
Must see an share this
I really enjoy using ggplot2, but the basic "theme" is terrible.

- They tried too hard to do a Tuft* - but it's actually way too flashy.

- Basically the issue is that it's not generic enough. Whenever you see a ggplot2 plot it's always screaming at you "I WAS MADE IN ggplot2!!" Just KISS...

- The grey background is completely unusable if you want to print out your charts!

- The default pastel colors (ie. PowerPoint 2012) are always a disaster for readability. In meetings people constantly can't tell them apart and they are definitely not colorblind friendly.

It' a shame b/c each script I write ends up having to have an obnoxiously long theme declaration to make it look "normal"

* I think most people miss the Tuft's point. He presents a way about thinking about data presentation. Instead people just look at it and think "oooo! That looks pretty. Let me copy what he did". The guy has his own personal style - it's definitely nice, but the point isn't to copy it.

EDIT: For those thinking about learning ggplot2.. maybe wait off for a bit. It seems like it'll be deprecated soon and replaces with ggvis.
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The servers may also be located somewhere that is less friendly and will not image the server for them?
I'm not concerned about it being used against me. Like most people, I'm not going around committing crimes on a daily basis or trying to hide nuclear launch codes. I just like to have a right to some privacy in my daily life, and I don't think every detail needs to be logged and available to the world.
So I suppose I'll have to be the one to ask what the privacy implications of an always on microphone designed to sell Amazon products will be. NSA or no NSA, it looks about as welcome in my house as a dog turd.
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If you’re not pissing someone off, you probably aren’t doing anything important
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You're not seeing the investor perspective here.

> Not all "growth" is desirable.

Generally is, if you're an investor confident in not being the last fool holding the bag. If you're in this game you presumably have that confidence.

> So why isn't there any attention given to companies that ... could reliably and sustainably deliver 20-40% growth over the next couple of decades?

Because those companies don't have huge PR budgets or ridiculous numbers that facilitate hyperbolic news articles.

> Meaningful technological growth rarely comes out of get-big-or-die gambits.

You're probably right, and meaningful technological growth isn't the investment thesis applied here. Get big or die is the order of the day and (at least the investors believe) it works. If you have a better thesis, you're welcome to try your hand and show them they're wrong.

> The moon landing wasn't powered by a "move fast and break things" attitude.

No, it was powered by patriotic sentiment and an unlimited budget sucked from the pockets of the public. It's nothing at all like a startup.

> It comes from the humbler 30% annual growth, one year after another after another.

What, specifically, is this "technological growth" that is created when your company grows slowly? I would expect technological growth to generally scale along with users/revenue.
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We released a similar open source tool for visual scraping, earlier this year, called Portia: https://github.com/scrapinghub/portia

It's been getting quite a bit of traction and we're currently working on the integration with Scrapinghub platform (disclaimer: I work there) for those who prefer a hosted version.
You are talking around each other because there isn't one "the government", but rather a bunch of different levels constantly pushing and pulling against one another. It's very reasonable to be a small government ideologue while simultaneously wanting a more powerful city government. Many people who want "small government" simply want a less powerful federal government. A few states are playing with this balance (Colorado certainly among them) at all levels. Should the federal government control the state's drug policy? Should the state control the county's or municipality's infrastructure or natural resources? What about schools, who should control those?

These sorts of questions are where you see major differences between lots of different people who would all identify themselves as "conservatives" and agreement with many people would would identify themselves as "liberals". It isn't a simple system!
Well, the state is the one who started the whole ordeal by making drugs illegal. So I would argue that in a real free-market no engineer would have been kidnapped in the first place.
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thanks! thats a good point. I thought that the subdomain on my personal page was enough.
I've heard over and over that Boulder (county, which is around 300,000 people) is #1 in the country for software jobs per capita - but unfortunately I don't have a tangible source for that.
The solution is simple and obvious. You need a new girlfriend. (Hint: You can actually change the wake word to whatever you like.)
"Alexa, start my car"

"Alexa, close the garage door."

"Alexa, good bye."
This is the first time I'm seeing a strong foray into the home where information technology becomes usable in a communal environment. Other products from Kickstarter [1][2] have been picking away at this but not with the elegance or backing from a big player like Amazon. Privacy issues aside I think this is where most people want to see technology moving toward. It's aspirational and aligns incentives among developers, technologists, and futurists. Although this may not be perfect the first time around, I am happy we are moving in this direction.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keecker/keecker-the-wor...
[2] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/athom/homey-the-living-...
Just buy three and give them all different names!
Url changed from https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/11/how_the_inter..., which points to this.
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Can you explain why /r/blog is treated differently in multireddits?

Back when there were only 25 default subreddits and multireddits had just been launched, I tried to create a default multireddit. If I just included the top 25, the rankings would match the logged out view perfectly. But if I added /r/blog and /r/announcements they would appear in different places. I think they usually ended up at a slightly lower rank, but they also stuck around in the top 50 much longer, with week old posts often being inserted into the middle of the rankings.
good point! What i'm thinking of doing is add a link to colourco.de so you can see the palettes there.
You will miss those silly little moments with your daughter, don't give them up.
NB: Here is a paper the derivation of the ggplot styles: http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/layered-grammar.pdf

I would recommend using theme_bw(), which helps solve some of the problem with the gray background.

EDIT: This is ggvis: http://blog.rstudio.org/2014/06/23/introducing-ggvis/

This is news to me, so I'll look into it to see how it differs from ggplot2.

EDIT 2: It seems more like that the difference is that ggvis is more for interactive charts, but then it requires a dependency on Shiny, which is not optimal for blog posts.
Not in the least, but thanks for trying to make it personal.

I'm just pointing out that you saying that because someone is from the majority then their opinion counts less is flawed.
Just looked at the Jasper project. The voice synthesizer sounds like crap compared to a product like Siri, and I suspect the voice recognition is worse too. I've coded on some the stuff using voice synthesis and recognition for fun, and it seems that the open source options haven't gotten any better for the past 15 years.
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oh, didnt think about it, that seems like a very very easy implementation actually.
Are you referring to the adjustable reset counter in the bottom right (which by default resets every 32 steps)? I wish the option were available to disable it and simply have the rhythm reset at its natural period. Alas...
Sometimes the stupidity of people makes me believe they deserve what is coming to get them.
> Quality has gone out the window and it's all about blowing up bullshit metrics because that's all these short-attention-span man-child types can deal with.

Not for everyone. Some people spend a lot of time building really high quality things and gradually work their way up to the point where they are ready for a seed round. Investors who are substance-oriented and long term focused do sometimes notice that kind of thing, especially if you have both substance and growth.

Basically it's:

Substance + Metrics >> Metrics > Substance Only

An example of the first would be something like Docker or Digital Ocean. The second would be SnapChat in its early days. The third would be any geeky hacker project on GitHub like CJDNS that has some loyal and excited users but is very niche and doesn't have growth that any investor would look at (or a viable revenue model, etc.). Such things are cool but generally aren't fundable. But sometimes such projects can learn business and pivot a little or build a secondary product around themselves and turn into the first category of thing.

I would add one more criteria that separates a geek project from a fundable venture: some prospect of a revenue model some day. It's best to book revenue ASAP, but even if you don't there needs to be some prospect that you could do it at some point. This is why "cloud" based ventures that hold the promise of future... ahem... monetizable surveillance... are getting funded over distributed and decentralized things where there isn't such a possibility -- even if they are initially "free." (My hope is that public reaction against snooping plus a saturation of the secondary market for snarfed user data might eventually put an end to this pathological trend.)
That's a good reminder to turn off your user-agent spoofing. ;-)
> I don't think a desire for privacy is paranoid; it is normal, healthy behavior.

I think it's healthy to choose how private you keep each aspect of your personal life. I make tradeoffs all the time. When I think that sharing some aspect of my personal life (whether with an individual or an organization) will give me more benefit than the cost of losing that privacy, I'll do it.
>I also have trouble envisaging a world where cocaine is legally available.

Why? You don't have to use it.
Meh.. it looks like he was only there for 5 months and that he quit in March (presumably to work on SR2.0 full time).
You are assuming too much here. The ads I am talking about are on display network and not the search page ads. People actually make money through it. And I am not saying that Google scammed us, it's just that if you look at the data you are bound to get a feeling that something wrong is going on here.

And I clearly stated that we made a mistake. So please consider reading something properly before hitting reply.
While not exactly a chip (it never reached board stage) I designed a processor in college where the register file was keyed to a task-id register. This way, context switches could take no longer than an unconditional jump.

I dropped this feature when I switched to a single-task stack-based machine (inspired by my adventures with GraFORTH - thank you, Paul Lutus). This ended up being my graduation project.
Ask HN: Resources for learning and tracking business side of startup?
Everyone now and then I find non-technical founder asking whether they can do a startup. My case is 180 degree opposite. I am highly technical resource working on an idea.
Can you point out resources for learning business side of startup ? What I mean by that is specific metrics I should look out ( revenue, MoM growth, users etc. etc.) ?

What resources you are using or have used if you exited a start-up for tracking such metrics. Heck, I don't know which metrics I should look at. I don't want to end up concentrating on wrong side.

Any resources you could point out will be helpful.
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@nepstein Great library!
The thread is about the _free_ MS Office apps being released today. I'm not paying for the $10/mo versions, but heck yeah I'll download the "loss leader" free versions, however crippled they may be.
The privacy problem is much deeper than this device. The reason we have to scream privacy for every new product is that the cloud services providing the functionality for all these devices have been shown over and over to disregard and actively abuse our privacy. Until our networks and ISPs and cloud data companies support anonymous encrypted data and services, we simply cannot trust these types of devices.
I've requested an invite.

I see it as a replacement for the ditigal photoframe pc I built a few years back out of an old laptop and have in my kitchen. Its running XP with a heap of autoIT scripts I hacked together, controlled by an MCE remote. I use it every day to listen to news headlines and check the weather while making my morning coffee and for streaming jazz while cooking dinner.

I think I'd prefer asking Echo to play these things than going through the hassle of upgrading the photoframe pc from XP.

I'd gain some functions such as easier music streaming, shopping list stuff, etc. I'd lose a few functions; I occassionally use VNC on the photoframe pc to display a recipe or twitch stream. I can do the recipe on my phone and put the twitch stream on my TV and turn it so I can see it from the kitchen.
Well they already go to my suppliers they know about and try to buy from them? So what do you think I'm worried about?
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VisaDoor is a great resource, and we recommend it pretty heavily at http://OfferLetter.io .

There's something very visceral about being able to look at someone's specific offer, knowing that there is a person out there

I also wrote a bit about salary research in general, on our blog:

http://offerletter.io/blog/201410-research.html

And yes, to your point - absolutely more accurate than Glassdoor.
For those who don't know, raldi is a former reddit admin as well.
Reminds me of Blinky: http://vimeo.com/21216091

"Will you be my frieeend?"
Virtually everyone commenting here is at work and IMHO it is a lot more work to be a criminal.
Ex MSFT employee here. Product cycles may or may not be longer, but red tape was the biggest issue when Ballmer was running the ship. There have always been many awesome teams working on cool stuff at MSFT, they were just never allowed to launch anything.
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I'm a private citizen. Spying on me is only productive for corporations and its the content, not the list of contacts, that would be useful.

Knowing I talk to Vendor X is worthless because soooooooooo many people talk to Vendor X. Knowing I'm buying 1000Y from X is more useful, eh?
> Once they track it, they will get your hosting provider to cooperate and before you know it,

This is the whackamole I was talking about. The time between when they identify the server and getting the provider to comply is enough in certain countries to set up an alternative location. Hosting companies aren't gonna want to play this game forever, ESPECIALLY if they're getting good money out of it.