skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this disturbing. I realize that startups are usually associated with non-linear returns but assuming the burn rate in the OP is about gross expenses, not just net burndown of the funding, I think that there's a huge problem with hiring the cheapest engineers hoping to make big bucks from the IPO rather than the best engineers who can solve the problem in a reasonable manner.

This speaks to the problem with demand for entry level (meaning cheap) folks in the tech sector as well as the disruption culture over delivering long term customer value.
>The citizens of Europe barely take the European Parliament seriously

Mainly because all the real power rests in the (unelected) European commission.
A monopoly should be defined by barriers to entry, not just market share. There's nothing preventing other large companies from entering the search space, and in fact many of them have (yahoo, microsoft, etc).

There are true monopolistic firms like Comcast or Time Warner, where there are serious logistic/economic barriers preventing other firms from entering the market. This doesn't seem like one of them to me.
Fairly broken in Opera 12.

Edit: And in other browsers where it shows stuff, it's a visual clusterfuck. I wonder if the "heatmap" on that globe is based off any real data, or just a plasma function with a curve.
$110,000 USD stolen from Bitcoin web wallet users, TOR exit MiTM suspected
For me it's my family, a good job, and to be alive in an exciting golden age of technology.
Your examples are all massive companies—for a Series A startup, the fully-loaded "cost" of an employee is probably closer to $200K per year. For a startup that's just raised seed capital, it's probably around $10K per month.
Sounds awesome. Let's do that for everyone. We can put my NSA affiliation in there too.

In the history of this site nobody has ever made themselves look smarter or been more persuasive by accusing another HN commenter of being a shill.
If it's again law to use domains with trademarks in name - then why do domain registrators allow their registering?
Nope, they don't release energy as such, just "resell" it. They buy and consume energy when it's cheap, then they sell it at higher price by not using it.

That's why they call it "virtual".
I do work for Google, but i explicitly don't speak for them on HN. I also don't work for Google Legal, and don't work on issues related to this stuff. I have opined on this stuff long before i worked for Google, and will long after.

Google literally does not pay me for my views on this.

Ben is literally paid for his anti-google views on this stuff.

You are of course, welcome to discount whatever you like. You should always read and judge everything critically :)
Ask HN: Why is our new (IoT) website not translating into more conversions?
We've designed a whole new website, with a experience kind of different to what we believe most people are accustomed too (the interactions part).

But so far, this hasn't translated into more contacts from clients.

Is it because of the copy? Is it because people stop at the interactions page and don't check the rest of the website? It's our portfolio?

I'm interested in knowing the point of view from HN people.

URL: http://whitesmith.co
The goal of the exercise is to use the stripped text to check for spam. That doesn't mean that the stripped text is what ends up in the user's inbox. The idea is to see if the text contains things like ＶᎥÄｇԻａ, not whether a given word means "country" or "father". This would only be a problem if some set of characters that looked like "viagra" was actually a valid non-spammy word in some language.

There was also an article here a few weeks back about Russian government officials securing fat contracts for their friends in private industry by intentionally replacing one or two letters in the common search terms of their bid requests with Latin lookalike characters. This was impossible to detect while reading the bid request, but also made it impossible for other contractors to find the bid request through the website. As a result only their buddy would submit a bid, and at much higher than market rate. Something similar to this, but converting down to Cyrillic characters instead of ASCII, could be used to check for hinky bid requests on upload.
Startup Discounts for Cyber Monday
Pretty cool, looking for more discounts from startups, post yours and share.
Link: https://www.tailorbrands.com/mini/cybermonday/
Plenty of people wear glasses for fashion.
Product Photography Using Your Smartphone: The Lighting Matters, Camera Does Not
Possibly to demonstrate that they have the political capital to levy a very large fine.
I'm just speculating here, but Cortex-M series are known for their DSP capabilities.

DSP is used in hard drive control. From wikipedia [1],

"Typically a DSP in the electronics inside the hard drive takes the raw analog voltages from the read head and uses PRML and Reed–Solomon error correction to decode the sector boundaries and sector data, then sends that data out the standard interface.

That DSP also watches the error rate detected by error detection and correction, and performs bad sector remapping, data collection for Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology, and other internal tasks."

And one of the comments on the blog[2] mentions "...whereas the Cortex's ID turns up relevant boundary scan file..."

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive_interface
[2]: http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=8&showall=true
A little tangent, but gratitude will always be a sign for good manners.

Nothing pisses me off more than people who are rude with other people serving them (bartenders, waiters, stylists, maids, ...); whenever I spot that kind of behavior on people who are close to me (coworkers, acquaintances, even dates, ...) they go straight to a bucket of people who I maintain the minimal necessary contact with.
We use slack at work and we still have plenty boring and useless meetings!
It's like old Perl idiom where Python's 'ab cd ef'.split(), would be written as qw(ab cd ef), which probably looks nicer --'qw' stands for 'quote words', I think.
They are also at the heart of the SPICE circuit simulator[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICE#Introduction
Great article. I love this style of free flowing retrospective with pictures of old technology. The Radio Shack 160-in-one electronics kit was awesome.
I think they are two different things.

Having a friend filming your conversations feels a lot more personal and tangible in my mind. A dumb example, but let's say you talk to your friend about how you hate your boss or how you cheat on your partner. Your friend can very easily cause you a lot of problems by just emailing that conversation to someone else.

While CCTV and the NSA are terrible in their own right the damage that they can do is at a whole different level. (Except on particular cases) they don't care too much about the specifics of your personal life.
Looks really great. If you've tried to make a responsive chart in D3 then you know why this is useful.
I'm not sure a 'readable' preemptive micro optimization is any more sensible. I think we should limit 'sensible' to preemptive macro and architectural optimization. A programmer should examine what their compiler is spitting out before they decide they can do better.
Breaking up a company is a violent action.
No one forced you to use their service, and they do not use violence or any kind of illegal actions to kill those who try to compete with them.
Google simply are the biggest due to being the best. It's that simple.
If you'll break up everyone who is too good, then what is the society we are walking toward in this situation?
Mobile showers for San Francisco's homeless
My first thought when I read the headline was that a German firm had gone through to find a new substance for use in molten salt storage [1]. Reading through it, I was a bit disappointed that there doesn't seem to be any sort of waste heat recovery in place here, which is making me curious. Given that the molten aluminum needs cooled and shaped into ingots to be distributed to manufacturers, I'm curious if there is any sort of waste heat recovery system in place, and/or a system to pump that heat into any sort of a District Heating [2] sort of system. All that heating in the system has to go somewhere, and given the sizes of the smelting halls, it seems like it would be profitable to set some sort of system up.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_energy_storage#Molten_s...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating
But, could molten aluminum or other metal
be used for energy storage?

So, when the sun is shining and/or the
wind is blowing, use the resulting electric
power to heat the metal by, say, just simple
resistance heating.

Then when want to draw energy from the molten
metal, just have some tubes made of metal with
a higher melting temperature carry water to
be converted to steam to turn steam turbines
and generate power.

Since I doubt I'm nearly the first to think of
such a thing, I have to guess that the detailed
engineering and costing makes it not worthwhile.
How TiSP Works
Conflict of interest is very real and full disclosure should be a norm in the community powered media with so much influence on tech industry.
In the US "natural" monopolies are allowed to exist, the best example of this being Microsoft with their Windows operating system. What isn't permissible, is using that monopoly to advantage your other products, and possibly more importantly disadvantage products of your competitors.
Click-able: https://www.tailorbrands.com/mini/cybermonday/
An Android phone with a system health display (CPU, Ram, etc.) installed by default? I wish they'd be more forthcoming with the details of what's on there software-wise. If this is a phone that is built to not treat the user like a child (as is the norm for all other android phones) i'd actually be interested.
Honestly I find the whole experience super unintuitive and would have bounced in a heartbeat usually. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news because I have no doubt that a lot of time and effort went into it and I don't mean it in a disrespectful way at all.

Here are my recommendations:

1. You need to spend a lot of time in your Google Analytics to see where things are going wrong.

2. You should use something like Sessioncam to let you view real people coming to your website.

3. Take something like the service at usertesting.com and have people try and complete various tasks on your website.

Those three things alone will make it extremely clear as to where the problems are for you better than comments on here ever will I suspect.
Dude, never date single mothers.
You are 100% correct, and I've thought so since the day it was announced. I believe this extends to all wearables, such as watches. Apple intelligently chose to leave the camera off, which might be the most distinguishing feature, from a potential for success angle. I love the idea of both watch and glass, but would never wear glass purely due to the awkwardness it would cause to those around me. I can deal with a little nerdy. Afterall what's nerdy today can be fully acceptable in no time.
How often does this come up in consumer environments? 6 gpbs could be faster than the NAND flash, for both read and write. 4K video is only going to be 100mbps or maybe double that, for consumers.

I guess what I'm asking is what use cases do people see for this? The only time I can think of that it'd be convenient is backing up a device, but that also can be run overnight when the device is charging and bandwidth is plentiful.
The thing is; Rust could have been implemented long ago. It was triggered by Mozillas need for a parallell browser engine that is safe and doesn't crash all the time. One would have thought the same need would have existed for other code such as kernels and drivers for many years.
With D-T the neutrons do heat a fluid, so it's not like the energy is wasted. For example, General Fusion would use them to heat a mixture of molten lead and lithium (the latter for breeding more tritium), which would heat water for a steam turbine. But aneutronic fuels put most of their energy into fast-moving charged particles, which lets you extract electric power without using a turbine.
There are serious logistic/economic barriers to enter the search space. Building a competitive search engine is very expensive. Ask the Bing people.

Yahoo Search is actually powered by Bing since 2009 according to Wikipedia. Their own search engine was not competitive enough. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search
> Ben does have a JD from Harvard law that I forgot about

A major omission when attacking someone's legal qualifications.

> When he's not writing antitrust papers, he's busy writing scare papers about click fraud, or online ad deals

Yes, and they're scary because they are true. The insidious thing about click fraud is that consumers are the mules who do the work but generally are only indirectly harmed. Advertisers and merchants really get screwed. Ben has been exposing those situations for a decade.

> You only have to look at his testimony list to see where his views lie, and have since 2006.

Actually I worked with him in 2005 and his views were consistent then as well. If he works on behalf of people who share his views, that's not a bad thing is it? It's fully disclosed, which is more than I can say for many of his attackers.
5% x $15/hr = <$1/hr savings.

$1500 + software + support = >1 year payback. And if they break, you lose entirely.

In my warehouse, chromebooks and used Dells run the show.
The part that's likely not to be unencumbered is the CO2 extraction itself. But otherwise, yes, much of this is public-domain tech.

I'm on the fence regarding nuclear for at least two main reasons: safety (particularly the hard-to-quantify-of-guarantee long-term safety), and fuel availability. The picture on both strikes me as less than clear. Near term, perhaps useful as a bridge fuel.

Geothermal is actually pretty awesome, but much more profoundly limited than most people suspect (tide and wave power are also overestimated -- the San Francisco Bay, for example, represents less total tidal power than the bay region uses in electricity, and only a small fraction of that potential could be extracted). Enhanced geothermal (basically, injection wells) have proven expensive and low-benefit, see Australia's Habanero project and its challenges.

Hot, wet-field geo though is proven, and a high-yield resource in Iceland, Japan, the Philippines, Kenya, New Zealand, the US, and a few other regions. In developing regions (particularly Kenya) it could dramatically increase total electrical generation capacity.

Hydro is largely built out and has environmental issues, though it also works quite well.

It's a sticky problem.
Ok Mhoad. Thanks for your points. It's not disrespectful at all!
I think he or she meant a specialized set data structure that stores sets of numbers which can be written as finite unions of interval. Typically besides set operations you'd also want (1) that only endpoints of the intervals are stored, so that the structure is compactly represented in memory, (2) to be able to recover the canonical representation of the set as a sorted union of disjoint intervals.
What?

Everyone on HN works for someone.
I am not my company. Google has plenty of views i don't agree with, and I have plenty of views they don't agree with.

If you believe comments on HN (or almost anywhere else) should have conflict of interest disclosures, you may as well shut it all down.

Everything here is opinions of people, presented as opinions of people.
Sorry. It should work in the latest Opera.
The heatmap on the globe are actual data stored in PNG-files. If you want to read more about how we did it, you can read more about the project on http://bengler.no/global_weirding
The only real customer service Google has is for active AdWords advertisers, if you are on the AdSense side or an end-user of any of its other services then good luck getting any real assistance from them. Microsoft has amazing customer service in comparison for its Live services, which is saying a LOT.
Chromixium – A Chrome OS Clone Based on Ubuntu
Under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticybersquatting_Consumer_Pro...

"The ACPA does not prevent the fair use of trademarks or any use protected by the First Amendment, which includes gripe sites"
Congratulations to the ReactOS team, awesome work! :)
>Is Google Maps really that better than OpenStreetMap or Apple Maps or Bing Maps, or do people just use it because it's a default result in Google?

I think its more nuanced: In-line maps are a better search result to location queries than a plain blue link, but to some degree the only way to offer that UX is to control that functionality from the ground up. Explicit integration comes with reliability/speed/technical costs while implicit integration comes with fair use/scraping costs.

While search boosts the integrated properties (Maps, News, Finance etc) much of the value to Google may actually be the reverse: integrated verticals give people less reason to switch away from Google's generalized Search to more specialized, domain-specific search engine.

There's an argument to be made that there's utility in a Jack-of-all trades engine.
Just because it is expensive and technically hard doesn't mean Google is preventing them in any way.

What would be worrisome is if they abuse their market position. Is there strong evidence they do this in search? It'd be more concerning if they did to promote their other products.
it might of been a breakthough technology-wise, but it hit a massive horrible wall social-wise. I'd say that the social barrier is probably the more important breakthough at the current moment than the tech one, and it does seem google is falling a bit short on that.

It doesn't help that google is a data company as well, probably not the most pleasant brand-name to stick on such a device
Technically I think Google claims their search technology is invented and produced in their Ireland version of the company and just licensed to the US one or something like that to defraud the US from taxes. So it is actually more UK/Europe than it is US since they just kind of steal from the US.
A small slice of the value chain, but quite valuable indeed ! Congrats :-)
Logistic/economic and most importantly, legal. ISP have deals with local governments to have monopolies.
Deities forbid...
I don't think they have the power, but they can impose regulations and fines Google would have to pay to do business in their area. I think it would be great for the ecosystem if Google was no longer allowed to put their own products at the top of search results. Google Finance ahead of Yahoo Stocks, etc..

Right now Google uses their power to direct traffic to unfairly compete in a lot of areas, so consumers don't get the best product. Looking at web metrics, often 90% of the traffic to a web site is from Google, and companies live or die based on that traffic. So unfairly placing your own products above others kills them.
Don't recall off hand.
Or from the other view, reduce entering the market from an extremely lengthy and risk R&D venture into a known fee. Which you can account for and drastically lowers risk.
They don't seem to specify what the processor is. Maybe a variant of the MT6752 or the MT6595?

"Octa-core processor, 8 x 2.1 GHz
- Eight cores with power-saving technology and a fully customizable overclocking feature."
Well, they are the only 'convicted patent troll' in the right definition of the term: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/09/06/apple-google-motorol...

Using SEPs for suing others is wrong.
Google has learning marketing ploys from IBM, place ads in influential tech blogs, get lots of good PR, the same blogs will call anyone a patent troll but Google.

And because I know this will come up- Patents are not evil- the system is broken sure, people misuse trivial patents, but at the same time, people who put hard work in their work need to be rewarded (for meaningful patents). If I'm an academician and I've spent 5 years coming up in my life with something innovative that would otherwise have taken a lot of time, then I should have the option to sell it to someone who is better equipped to monetize it. It's like an author hiring a publisher. So patent consortiums are not trolls, they are like publishers. Google is because they misused SEPs.

Sidenote: I'm against those kiddish patents that are just about 'describing at technique in which x y z'. I feel the patent overhaul should involve the FTC creating a team that would decide the 'year' validity of a patent, and companies having to pay for it.
That notwithstanding, Google is a troll. And just because it gives out free stuff, you guys like it.
ad1. I'm implying it's much easier with VC. But you surely cannot beat Google trying to do exactly what they are doing. With enough innovation, yes I think you can. Google used to be a small company too. As long as there is a freedom of choice for customer all giants fall once they are bad enough.

Of course there is advantage in being big, apart from the technology. But that advantage comes from many many people choosing this technology over other options.

ad2. No other platform comes close so let's make it worse so that other ones are closer? I know you think you don't want to make it worse but to improve it. But that's your, or some government opinion. And these opinions are not what led to this dominance. It's quite possible that being led by those opinions it would never succeed, and some other, worse platform would be dominant.
Especially one that currently has a boyfriend and just wants to get away...
So, if they had invented something completely different instead of the thing that was possible to invent, it would have been a better product?

Maybe. Do you think they said "we have some great ideas for a head-mounted camera, that have nothing to do with vision, but we put on your eyes anyway (because....?), but let's do a silly camera thing instead?
That's also a pet peeve of mine: the amalgamation of OS and compiler/language still feels like an odd design (of course, for me who arrived with time machine in the 2000's, so does teletypes and tape archives).