skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outside of sci-fi novels, he is known for his insights into tech/Internet propagation, particularly during the 90s/00s.

I'd recommend his "Mother Earth Mother Board" article (more like a small book, be warned) as the definitive tome on the physical reality of how the Internet is held together across the world: http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html
Tautologies aren't false.
I don't think they owe us anything, I'm just saying the website is badly designed. They have a lot of content, but none of it says anything.

If you're going to be stealthy, be stealthy (e.g. http://quanttus.com/). If you're going to attempt to market your company, then market it properly. This does neither.
There have been head-mounted "virtual retinal displays" that focus a laser onto the retina.

I think they're mostly in patent hell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_retinal_display
How to make cold brew coffee
The inside story of how the Uber-Portland negotiations broke down
I don't think "restricted from meddling in party politics" means anything unless you want to establish another political body with the power to overrule the Senate if they think they are "meddling".

Also, it is the Supreme Court that has the job of determining the constitutionality of laws.
Can't cage human mind. Never could, never will.
I've found this to be consistent behaviour with Google. The number of search results tend to be totally unreliable. I don't know if they use the same search algorithm for gmail, but the same problem occurs there as well. Initially it might say 1-50 of 100 results, go to the second page and suddenly it's 50-100 of 2000. And on the next page 100-150 of "many".

Google search-hit count has never been fully accurate - I say this empirically from use over the years, and having tried to use the number of hits in some random experiment I can no longer remember.
Hey, it also serves to employ aerospace engineers! Keeping them off the streets and out of trouble is worth a bit.
dang, have you considered aggregating these kinds of notifications onto a separate page, or maybe using a specific account for administrator action? It would be helpful for those of us who value transparency (and thank you for your continued transparency - it has been great).
Google Display Network Ad Planner rates Yahoo 3rd [1] (but does not count itself but does include YouTube so ...)

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[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_websites
WeWork did a great job of capitalizing on the move to smaller more agile companies. I don't think that "startup hype" is going to die. It's cheaper than ever to start a company and the market for tech companies is excellent right now. It's not easy to do, but getting $1-3MM in funding is accessible to talented people and once they get that in the bank, they're not going to open an office-- they're going to WeWork. This is huge for their business and it also enables the creation and maintenance of small companies who want to do things lean until the build a market and revenue stream (or maybe in some cases, adoption to drive further venture investment).

I've seen WeWork do great things for companies in NYC by just giving them a place to work and a community to work with.

Still, WeWork is not just another. They are actually a next-generation Real-Estate company! WeWork makes it clear that working is not just about your desk. It's also about your environment, the other people you interact with, the events that come to your space, the coffee you have (and in the case of WeWork, the architecture and design of your floor!). This is very cool for the future of company/working culture.
Here's a per domain comparison:

http://www.similarweb.com/global

For the click lazy:

1) Facebook.com

2) Google.com

3) Youtube.com

4) Yahoo.com

5) Live.com
How State Attorneys General May Help Hollywood Revive SOPA Anti-Piracy Efforts
Right, except that this doesn't tease or build interest... at least for me.

...not that it matters, seeing as they seem to have already built interest with the people that matter, investors.
Thanks for letting me now. I appreciate it.
While most printed materials are "black" on "white," when the range is compared to a light-emitting screen that's more like "dark gray" on "light gray." Looking at something with too much contrast for a long time can cause eyestrain.
It's not really about traffic, it's more about the quality of the audience. People posting job listings (really just a special type of ad, BTW..) at a premium cost are very keen to know demographic information about who's looking at those listings. Are they in the right regions/locations? Are they the right level? Are they a group that even engages with job ads? That audience could be as small as 1000 or as large as a million to be worthwhile paying for.

Your best bet if you don't have a strong feel for things is to allow free listings initially and then offer upsells (for example, a fee to have the listing mentioned on the site's Twitter account or in a single, tasteful link on the homepage).
There are more possible effects than the 2 you include. Another would be the police violates your rights, plants evidence, and you are unable to prove your innocence... off to jail you go. Another would be the police violate your rights and coerce a false confession out of you... off you go to jail.

And your example of "breaking down a door without a warrant and taking some documents" doesn't help an innocent person who's being framed. Further, a possible trial is something of a deterrent... but not much (see Eric Garner and grand juries).
I think many people might not realize how much education has changed since they were in school (K-12) - there are now hundreds of educational apps specializing in all parts of the curriculum.

It's crazy to organize (hence why Clever is loved by schools) but the proliferation of apps is very useful for teachers to find the right tools for them.
Android: I don't need your permission
7 Predictions for 2015: How Design Will Impact Your Life and Business
I can't seem to find it right now but there is a development journal somewhere of the reverse-engineering and porting of Prince of Persia to the C64 that was done before the game was open-sourced.

Edit: Here it is (in 10 parts): http://popc64.blogspot.fr/2011/10/part-one-why-hell-would-an...
The site tells you nothing but I think that's the purpose. They really couldn't care less if you or anyone else knows what they do from the site. They have $542 million dollars in funding. Once they actually build something ready for the public I'm sure they'll put together a proper marketing site.
Give the guide away for free and try to monetize around it.

No doubt that you may get a couple 50-100 buyers over a period of time, but the whole concept of "free" is what all the beginners have been induced into and you could likely monetize a lot more around a free guide.

Maybe some side-project you have in mind can get big traffic from your guide.

This is just a suggestion, if you want to charge, by all means...
Isn't it recommended that users turn off JavaScript when trying to anonymize?
And they're thankful.
"NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample collected by the robotic laboratory's drill."
Yes, even I thought the same. I hate that the home page has a lot of content that I have to scroll down to view (at 1440x900 resolution).

http://ibin.co/1kret3oW7caZ illustrates whitespace wastage in the blog

Edit: Added an illustration
I've a hunch that the speed of those flavors of Lisp is coming from a bunch of really smart people basically spending their entire careers optimizing it. Which gives me hope that Ruby can get there too.

> ecosystem and network effects.

Which is a really important consideration. Technologies are a dime a dozen, community is rare and ephemeral. If you can build a solid, robust community around your tech, it doesn't matter what the limitations are.
Backblaze employee here. We have about 900+ pods, each with 45 drives, so that makes a little less than 45,000 drives. We publish our annual failure rates, but let's say blended between drive types it's like 2-3 percent. Think we replace 4-6 drives every day?

But the main reason we buy drives is we deploy 30 new pods a month right now, and it's increasing. So we deploy 1,400 drives a month or so in new pods. Sometimes we buy in 3 month batches (to get a break on price) so then you start talking about a 5,000 hard drive purchase in one shot.

At $260/drive, you can see how we care deeply about EXACT failure rates. Why isn't Google and Amazon publishing failure rates also? Why only Backblaze?!
ComScore's numbers reflect unique visitors and not visits.
Vibration only becomes a problem when the scales of the drag/lag and rotational frequency are similar. My gut feeling is that this will only happen when your lift-to-drag ratio is close to 1, so not in any meaningful case.
What? `http://quanttus.com/` literally tells me nothing. Even less than Magic Leap. At least with ML I know they are working on VR.
Email Controlled Christmas Tree
Selbe the Explorer goes to the African wilderness
This is where dependent types come in. They allow you to write an implementation of append that is correct by construction. Your algorithm is in essence a formal proof of the proposition that `append foo bar = foobar`.

A simpler example is that of lists and the head operation. In most languages, if you try to take the head of an empty list you get a runtime exception. In a language with dependent types you are able to express the length of the list in its type and thus it becomes a type error (caught at compile time) to take the head of an empty list.
The title seems to apply to Apple, too (see iOS and Yosemite WiFi bugs), and could probably be applied to Google, too (Hangouts bugs, Lollipop problems, etc). But mistakes happen and many bugs are less obvious to reproduce than others, so I wouldn't point fingers too hard, personally.
Well, I was expecting something about the "Google projection" for maps, unofficially noted as the slightly different EPSG:900913 [1] until finally standardized as EPSG:3857 [2].

[1] http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/243/google-projection-900...

[2] http://www.epsg-registry.org/report.htm?type=selection&entit...
CBS, Turner, Weather Co, Comcast NBC, and Gannett are all solidly old media. NBC and CBS got started with radio broadcasts in the 20s! Who says old media can't adapt?
Backblaze employee here: we will run our first experiment with SMR soon! We're SUPER curious about whether they will work in our application.
If you were going to go that route, it would make far more sense to play with the block reward amounts (because they're kept too low to do anything).

But, the bitcoin people have philosophical reasons to avoid that.
This is exactly what I thought would happen when they gutted their QA staff and reassigned the surviving testers as developers. Your employees act in accordance with their incentives, and the incentives aren't there for QA. Microsoft made it clear that they only value feature development and shipping, and their employees now associate "doing QA" with "being fired en masse".

To corrupt a phrase, they've crapped their bed and now they have to lie in it.

Edited to add: I'm not some hardcore "M$FT SUXXXX" guy. I like and use their products, but I'm deeply concerned about the direction the company seems to be heading.
In addition to what everyone else said, Stephenson's really long essay In the Beginning was the Command Line is worth a read, if one has the time:

http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html

Warning: written fifteen years ago, also really long.
The Psychology of Increasing User Engagement
you mean a movie called blue harvest ;)
SIGUSR1 is often caught by applications for their own IPC. SIGQUIT would probably be a safer one to send, but that can also be caught and repurposed. Sending other signal types would definitely have to be opt-in to prevent unintended side effects.
(also I should probably mention that I work for Clever!)
First, congrats on the raising of funds!

Last time I spoke with higher ups at Clever, it was mentioned that deep integrations were not on the roadmap (e.g. pushing into SISes like Infinite Campus for things like health, attendance, grades, etc). Some of that has to do with how the problem is being approached technically at Clever, IMO. While tackling student logins and thin system integrations is cool, are there yet plans to go deeper?

For a time, I had very seriously considered entering this particular space as a competitor, as I am referred to do integrations, where Clever falls short, for districts on an almost weekly basis (which I decline these days). As a competitor, it was my intention to include extremely deep/bi-directional integrations with all systems (including SISes, like Infinite Campus), purely horizontally scaling infrastructure, process/data isolation (security and privacy is a huge concern for districts), distributed processing so that data never need to leave local district data centers, taking functional/stream programming concepts to allow for fully customized integrations per-district built on the same base for each directional system integration, mock integrations for staff members to play with their rules, etc. It can all be done on a technical front (I did on a per-district basis, many times), but I eventually decided it wasn't a great fit for where I wanted to go in business.

I mention all this because I hope someone, perhaps you Clever (knowing you are HNers), addresses this huge need by the districts. So much energy is being spent on things that shouldn't be issues at all... It's a horrible joke that districts have to spend energy on unified login systems, but it is also a joke that moving grades/attendance back and forth between systems for state reporting, for instance. It is not something teachers should have to spend time on. Syncing of student accounts, teacher accounts, admin accounts, enrollments for each, courses, sections, permissions, grades, attendance, health, ILPs, RtI, etc.. it goes on and on. You have the funding and man-power to pull it off, I'd love to see it.
The MSM creates a false world view by creating an impression that rare, exciting events are the norm. Stratfor creates a false world view by "contextualizing" current events and making predictions, thus creating a false impression that the future is knowable.

Pick the fantasy you're most comfortable with.
Nice! I hope the linux release don't take so long.
You can use a bitcoin-like system to build an agent that holds money in escrow and then automatically delivers it when a condition is met[1]. This is the simplest form of a "Smart Contract."

Most contracts are credible because their terms can be enforced by sanctioned violence. "Smart Contracts" are credible because they are enforced by distributed verifiable cryptographically-secure automation.

[1] For example, when the DMV database confirms that a certain car is now registered in my name, you automatically get 4 bitcoin.
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This strategy may have sustained them a little bit longer, at best. They would still have faced a constant erosion of their loyal customer base, sales, and revenue because physical keyboards on phones are simply obsolete, etc.
That is a question that should be asked directly to those that will be providing the money to be spent.

But luckily we live in a democracy and those who don't contribute a dime get to choose how much I should contribute to this. Less work for me. Less money too. But at least government employees get a nice pension so it's all worth it. Plus if we didn't do it this way then there's no other way at all - it's the government's way or the highway.

God bless democracy.
I hadn't noticed before but holding down the shift key at that zoom level gives you the same rotate and tilt controls which Google Earth offered:

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.8143794,-140.0068556,4793697...
TLDR; Optional type systems are the future

I hear a lot about Haskell but I don't see a lot about Haskell...

Clojure has two optional type systems known as the core.typed library, and Prismatic's schema library. I don't think it's an all or nothing situation. Use types when you need them and don't when you don't.
Thanks for trying PolyBrowser. We were shooting to make PolyBrowser work even on setups like yours (trackpad, no mouse). You can still use Ctrl +/- to zoom in and out, and Control Tab to switch tabs, plus drag with the right mouse button. Thanks so much for the screenshots of those issues!
Suggestion: Create a Twitter account to follow the updates!
Awesome, glad I could help some, good luck!
Backblaze employ here. We don't back up NAS, but if you direct attach a Drobo we include that in "unlimited" for $5/month.

FYI - our largest customer backs up about 60 TBytes for $5/month. So is it "unlimited"? If you have less than that it will work, we have proof! :-) But we lose money on that customer, we survive on the "average" amount of data people have, and on average a laptop of your average home user has only a few hundred GBytes.
I don't get the feeling that they require traction in the sense of pure # of users, but rather they want to see high engagement among the users you do have. Goes back to what PG says in his essays, better to have 100 people love your product, than 1 million who sort of like it.
Do you foresee substantial electricity cost savings moving to Seagate's new 8TB archive drives that spin at a lower RPM constantly for energy savings?

Any thoughts to building Backblaze 20' or 40' cargo containers preloaded with rack-mounted pods and dropping them in locations with cheaper power?
Stand-alone goggles make more sense than a table, because they're closer to the eye and can more directly manipulate what the user sees.

If you read through the depths of Magic Leap's site combined with their patent applications, it becomes clear that they are trying to develop a set of goggles which combines some form of projection onto the retina [0] with some form of selective blocking [1] (to give contrast, and prevent the projected images from appearing as hazy mirages over the light otherwise reaching the retina).

Especially the blocking would be impossible to achieve with anything but goggles.

[0]: https://www.google.com/patents/US20140071539
[1]: https://www.google.com/patents/US20130128230
T-Mobile ‘Data Stash’ Lets You Roll Over Your Unused Data
Volatility: an advanced memory forensics framework
Actually most of these compilers have pretty small teams, and in some cases part time volunteer effort has done a lot of the optimizer

But language design really matters, for example one guy put together a JIT for lua that is roughly as fast as the JVM. He's good at it, but he wouldn't have been able to do the same thing with Java (or, I expect ruby) on his own....
The about "number" results should give an idea but it might not be accurate, tells google.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ix3mHeL7hg

Anyway you only get the first 1000 results of your googling.
Unless I'm missing something, this article really seems unreasonably harsh. He cites two bad updates within the past months (one for Windows 7, one for Exchange) that have had to be pulled due to issues, but it seems like well over half the article is devoted to complaints about patches for Windows 10 - an (officially) unreleased product.
Sorry about that, I found it on FB and it wasn't paywalled when I clicked it there.

HN mods - feel free to change to another article if necessary.
The point of a teaser site is to tease, not tell.

My point was that magic leap uses a lot more words to tease, and as a result, the site borders on nonsensical.

And if the point of a site is to tell you what a company does or is working on, then that information shouldn't be buried in a random section.

But ultimately, it's not a big deal. Just the first thing that I thought of when I clicked on their site.
It's very difficult to replace an obsolete business model that was widely successful with a new one that is equally successful. Such success is rare enough that achieving it twice in a row requires a lot of luck or really incompetent competitors (which Android & iOS were certainly not!)
That 1mm single fiber endoscope is just amazing, out of a spy/scifi novel.
Railo installer by Bitnami
We live in a democratic republic, you elect the folks who make those decisions. If you lived in a pure democracy, you'd get a say in every decision.
When employee count is small enough you can make just about anything work. That's the key ingrediant here, not any particular management paradigm.

For example, right now, I run an organization of precisely 1 employee and 1 leader type, both residing in the same body, and you'd be surprised at the exotic, hyper-efficient, dare I say sometimes quasi-communist-libertarian-artistic-entrepeneurial-self-empowered management techniques I/we use. :-)
They were shedding marketshare long before they tried to do touch-screens. I think the reality of the situation was that there was only ever room for 1 luxury brand and 1 open alternative and that Palm was much closer to surviving than Blackberry ever was, despite how long Blackberry has stuck around.
Internet Monitor 2014: Reflections on the Digital World
My $1500 home CNC will give .001" of an inch of accuracy. You'd be amazed how much errors in the .01s of inches stack up into unusable parts (try doing inlays with wood).

You are quite right that the cost of operation is quite a bit higher though. Bits, collets, spindles, etc really add up. Even with wood, all the tooling is made of solid carbide.

subtractive machining has its benefits though. While printing can make some unattainable shapes, subtractive machining gives a nicer variety of materials, and can be faster.

as to the more mature technology now, CNC definitely has 3D printing beaten, at both scale and precision. Hopefully soon, we'll be able to 3D print carbon fiber parts and then we'll have a real 3d printing boom.
Yeah, no.

Smaller browser widths I agree

But using a phone/tablet to navigate the docs? Might as well use notepad for coding too, since the objective is to suffer.
Vim-Gutentags: automatic management of tags files
Stop making all your classes public
Their WebGL globe is kind of nice for some purposes.

here's an example: http://wesawit.com/globe/
> That an obscure email service used by one of my clients doesn’t whitelist only major email providers? Can I be sure that things fail loudly when they don’t work?

These are simply symptoms of FUD. Using that line of argument, you'll always end up with the biggest players, even though there is no technical reason to do so.

> to implement some kind of monitoring that tests my self-hosted setup and alerts me by SMS

On the other hand, how would you check that $BIGPLAYER's mail setup works with any other email service? You can't. Could you blame anybody at $BIGPLAYER? In a free service: No.

So why would you want do put so much higher standard on your own setup than on $BIGPLAYER's setup? Just to be able to say: "Oh no, available technology is not good enough, I'm staying with $BIGPLAYER."

This doesn't make any sense to me.
So it is open-source, but the poly-specific source can't be modified, just reviewed?

Interesting concept.
Thanks, I was not aware.

So yes, as you put it so eloquently, this system is set in stone and it's pointless to think of better ways to manage these problems.

So indeed, we should spend not only billions, but trillions. And if it doesn't work then we should up the ante and go to quadrillions. Then I think it will work.
What's your opinion on Infobitt? http://www.infobitt.com/
I like the concept
Hustle hard – get your startup sales game to the next level
You can look through the author's blog history. One in three is an anti-Microsoft diatribe.