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Ask HN: Is SXSW Startup Spotlight Worth It?
We were just "accepted" into SXSW's Startup Spotlight (different than the accelerator): http://sxsw.com/interactive/engage/startup-spotlight

It's a hefty cost to participate, and having never been to SXSW, I was wondering if anyone here familiar with the program (or SXSW's startup scene in general) could make a recommendation.

We're a niche product for musicians that wouldn't necessarily benefit from the large audience, but the notoriety of SXSW could make it worth the trip. Plus, the timing falls neatly into our fundraising schedule.

Is it worth incurring the cost, time, and effort for two hours at a table at SXSW Interactive?
Every single trade is market manipulation. Actions have effects, regardless of intent.
I also do this, but the right way to parse the output of ls would really be to remember the syntax of stat(1). That way you avoid any trouble with spaces and other such problems, and the command is not much longer:

$ find -print0 | xargs -0 stat -c "%U %G" | sort -u > user_group_list
Having used Google Glass in a racecar, I can say that it has no place in a race cockpit. The display is too far out of the line of sight and it is less ideal than the gauges already in the car.

It was able to capture neat videos, but I think a gopro stuck to the helmet would do a better job.
I think this is scary for Europeans and North Americans. We've had a free ride in the startup space, a real dearth of competition from China, even though China has exceptionally skilled people (most heavily talented in technology, although the marketing talent is obviously getting better with the home grown successes like Xiaomi.)

The one saving grace is that this is government run, which means it will likely be less efficient than privately run VCs. I've seen government run startup "accelerators" in action and it is usually pretty messy.
Literally every sentence of your post contains a verbatim copy of false FUD from CAHSR opponents. None of which is demonstrably true.
Personally, I think that most office designers take the concept of open offices too far. From what I've seen of several offices, as a Software Engineer, is that Open Office is meant to be entirely open. This means that the only dividers/partitions are for things like meeting rooms. The rest of the office is open, such as halls, cafeterias/break rooms, etc. This is what causes my hatred of open offices.

I am on the fence about cubicles/private offices, because I do like the fact that my team is close by and I can have a conversation by turning around and talking to them. The annoying noise for me is all the idle chatter from people in meeting rooms near by coming out of their meeting and deciding to carry on a conversation right outside the meeting room, or while walking back to their desk.

Ideally, I'd like an open office to mean that it's open for my team, where we are partition/sectioned together, but that there is a door or some way of keeping out all the ambient office noise/sights. I believe if I had this, I would be able to get a lot more work done as I'm not having to wear headphones to cut out the general clutter of distractions from my environment.
YMMV, but I find that exercise is essential for me to loose weight. If I get a lot of aerobic exercise, enough to tire myself out with out casing too much pain or damage, then I sleep much better. I'm clear minded, and able to make better decisions about what I eat. Also, exercise helps me to control stress, which is a major factor in overeating. Oh, and when I exercise I don't like to get so full, so it's easier to control my portion size.

I can loose weigh through diet alone, but it isn't consistent. Diet and exercise together work much better in the long run.
I guess it's a form of defense in depth. Hostnames often contain information about the role of a server that wouldn't be obvious from an IP scan.
In my experience, Books, Hangouts and Plus have all had some significant improvements made to them since they've been launched?
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In addition to the other replies you've got, this kind of judgement is, I think, beyond most people's capability to make. Should everyone who works at Turn be shunned, or just those who work on this project specifically? If a previously honourable company starts doing dishonourable work, how long a window does an engineer working there have to find another job before he or she is shunned? What does it mean to 'enable' Turn? That is, could a third-party indirectly enable them? How do we make the judgement when this has happened? For example, should W3C be shunned for making a standard that can be abused in this way?
It's my understanding that the hyperloop test track that's planned for Texas is going to be a small-scale version. This surely means it'll be a short distance but it also likely means that it will be a smaller diameter tube. I think most schools could come up with a 1:3 scale concept with a budget in the realm of 5-figures.
Could be a perfect use for Lojban.
Most of those applications were dreamt of, and to some degree implemented, long before google glass. The F-35 utilizes a "smart helmet" (or whatever the thing is called) that permits the pilot to look through the aircraft in any direction they can turn their head. Cars and aircraft have utilized HUDs for many years (not worn, but that's a limitation of technology at the time). Battlefield combat in Soldier 2.0 and similar initiatives long predates the Google Glass project.

These aren't applications discovered with it, these are applications potentially implemented with it or similar tech. I'd wager that video games (primarily the real-time sort) have given more inspiration for applications of AR and proper worn HUDs than Google Glass itself produced.
The article seems to paint the automakers as a cabal of villains for convincing people to not walk in front of a moving vehicle. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to make of it.
this is a really cool idea, however I can see how some people would try to abuse the app playing pranks on other people and the like.. I don't have an iphone so I can't check if there are some ways that the users are verified (basically a test to see if they are really blind) seems extreme but this might be better to help grow a more 'healthy' community
I don't know what places you are referring to as "much of Suburbia", but a large number of us who read HN live in Silicon Valley suburbs where you see people walking around all the time. Kids on skateboards, groups of young, Indian software developers, joggers, solo guys like me walking along listening to podcasts, old Chinese couples, parents walking over to a student-teacher conference, teens walking over to friends' houses to play video games, etc.

That's the way it was where I grew up on the East Coast (minus the Chinese and Indians), and the way it was around Harvard when I lived in Cambridge, and the way it is now here in Silicon Valley.

I'm not saying that no such places exist. You might be describing those few neighborhoods that are mostly populated by wealthy retirees whose kids have grown up and left, but this is hardly the general case in American suburbs.
> It isn't unreasonable for them to say "hey this takes a few days, we're not taking your kids, but you have to not do the same actions again, as they may be illegal".

That's the opposite of what they said, though. Here's the part that pisses people off:

> The Meitivs say that on Dec. 20, a CPS worker required Alexander to sign a safety plan pledging he would not leave his children unsupervised until the following Monday, when CPS would follow up. At first he refused, saying he needed to talk to a lawyer, his wife said, but changed his mind when he was told his children would be removed if he did not comply.

His children would be removed if he did not sign a piece of paper. That's totally disproportionate, and it's ridiculous that an investigator would have (or claim) the power to mete such an extreme punishment on their own judgment.

If a police officer came to your door, they would be absolutely prohibited from making a similar threat against, say, your computer or car. Apparently parents have more rights to inanimate objects than to their children.

This is why people get up in arms about CPS. The bar for removing kids from a home is way too low.
Again, any source for that? I get the feeling it's actually the folks speculating that it's about money who are hoping that to be true, cynically.

Cornell did a study that showed that people interact less when they have offices. Their definition of "frequent interaction" dropped from several times a day ad hoc (with open plan) to several times a week in a meeting. That's some data supporting that it does in fact improve collaboration.

Archive.org is down right now but I can supply a link to the study later if you want.
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DHS Fingered Mt. Gox's Mark Karpales as Original Silk Road Founder
GP said use of big-O where a short phrase ... would have sufficed. That's pretty common, with people throwing around O(1) and O(n).
> These taxes are non-voluntary and coerced from me under threat of force.

One could say equally well that, for many of the engineers working on them, these reprehensible projects are non-voluntary and coerced under threat of economic ruin.

(To "you can always quit"—well, you can always renounce your US citizenship, too. To "then I'll just wind up paying taxes to some other repressive government"—someone contemplating quitting his or her job could also despair that he or she will just have to take another morally questionable job.)

EDIT: Oops, dcole2929 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8895200) made many of these points before I did.
This opacity is a huge deficit in machine learning. A seriously vast amount of work has been done attempting to address it, and machine learning algorithms that are persistently uninterpretable (neural nets being the poster-child for this problem) will always have very limited use.

We understand in principle what any given neural net is doing, but our lack of understanding of the specifics makes it impossible to trust them for anything interesting. We can't tell when they might fail.

For this reason a lot of people are busy solving problems that "machine learning" might one day handle, but we are doing it with relatively conventional algorithms that fall outside the "machine learning" envelope because the areas we work in (computer assisted surgery, say) aren't amenable to the application of things we don't understand.

To go back to his comparison with god: the incomprehensibility of gods is generally considered a feature by religious people. The incomprehensibility of machine learning algorithms is unquestionably a bug to those of us who have hard problems that need to be solved reliably.

Most of the algorithms you use in everyday life are not machine learning algorithms (and certainly not neural nets) for precisely this reason.
I've done the same, it's very smooth.
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It's not the initial investment, it's the continued investment after it was obvious to most people that it was a bad idea. That's what wall street tends to have objections to.
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note that it is only available in 3 AWS regions for now
Ah! Thank you, you're absolutely right, I misremembered the character.
That would be appreciated for sure. Or even just a quick gist of the setup files. I can probably figure it out, just haven't had enough time to play around :(
There may be some ideas in Netobjects Fusion, http://netobjects.com
You are supposed to rage against corporate fascist America, duh. But still look both ways when you cross.
Google won’t fix bug hitting 60 percent of Android phones
They may have had other motives besides public safety.
In the example picture of the guy in white shirt with the blackboard, bicubic looks best.

DMND with subpixels off has weird aliasing on the blackboard drawins, and with subpixels on it's the same, plus zooming in makes the subpixel "trickery" visible as color artifacts.
"Imagine now that if a working drm solution existed for films, it would be ok to download the unprotected ones for free? Surely a technical solution is way of making a business profitable, but not an argument to justify a bad behavior."

Apples and Oranges.

If the movie studio offered an officially hosted version of the movie with advertisements for free online, and I watched without advertisements on their official site (similar to a news organization posting their news online for free, with ads), then yes it's ok. They can (and do! See: Crackle) block that particular behavior from working very simply.

But, to go pirate a movie from a third source? That's not only wrong it's actually illegal.

I don't go to "thenewsbay" and download illegal copies of the New York Times, so it's unfair to make a comparison to pirated movies.
I think the point is that perhaps we've swung too far to the extreme in favor of cars. We've lost a social gathering place. Not to mention, when other modes of transportation (i.e. bikes) share the road with cars, in cases of bike-car collisions, it is almost always assumed that the bicyclist is at fault.

Also, I think the tide is shifting. Many cities are moving towards more pedestrian friendly corridors, replacing some streets with parks etc.
This sounds almost identical to my last time in RadioShack, except instead of 20 people, there were two couples, each doing some contract change so onerous that I waited half an hour to buy the component in my hand -- and only got out then because one of the two clerks decided to put the cell phone contract bits on hold and let me buy my item.
| awk 'sub(/annoyingly clunky/, "pretty easy")'
In a sense, they were, if you consider "evil" to be doing whatever it takes to advance your agenda.

On a more on topic note, I'm trying to imagine a world where personal cars didn't take off. What would be the difference (at least in the US)? More cities, less suburbans comes to mind. Will it be better?
> Can someone please introduce Gerry Brown to Elon?

It's "Jerry" Brown, and they've met once or twice: http://imgur.com/MS9vVJT
Nice writeup, I always felt mongodb as a really fast product prototyping database . After you get to certain point you in web scale I would guess you would use one of these alternate solutions.
It's funny this is coming up today.

I was bored the other day and put up some old C++ code. [1]
Some years ago I was playing around with C++ templates (pre C++11) to see how far I can go and I came up with exactly that kind of unit checking and conversion. The trickiest part was eliminating common terms when dividing units but once you figure out how to approach it, it's not that hard.
Complete unit inference is definitely possible and maybe even worthwhile depending on your use case.

That said, it is still just some experimentation, but maybe someone feels inspired :)

[1] https://github.com/jpommerening/template-hell.git
(Note: don't expect proper documentation yet, I'm still figuring out how to structure namespaces there, etc.)

Edit: I remember the over-the-top template substitutions made XCode 3 crash back in the day. You have been warned.
Threading support in gwt is still just a glorified Timer. I haven't had the time / a reason to actually implement a multi-compile to web worker to make them function correctly. If you can think of a good test project, I'd be glad to add it to my backlog after the gwt.create conference, where I'll be speaking about web components, java 8 and JsInterop. Basically, in my latest projects, about 90% of the implementation is annotated interfaces and default methods that get stitched together into web components...

I'm not sure how the other transpilers expose native javascript, but in the future of Gwt, interacting with plain javascript is dead simple; you get the best of both worlds; typed java code, and low-level js performance. The JsInterop stuff makes wrapping native js super easy, just define an interface that matches the JS, and it "just works" (tm). Even web components, just create an annotated interface, define default methods, and the compiler attaches them to custom element definitions. I could go on and on, but I'll save it for the correct forum (i.e., the gwt.create conference). :D
I appreciate your comment.

For me, it's a matter of the degree to which the person sees the ramifications of what they are doing, and the degree to which they directly contribute to the bad actions.

For example, the management team that has built a business around tracking people who clearly do not wish to be tracked is highly suspect, in my view.

The sysadmin that runs the servers, less so. But if she/he knows what the company is all about, I'd urge him/her to either try to change the mindset within the company (likely, impossible) or start looking for another gig.

I would not ask anyone to sacrifice themselves, but neither should they be facilitating unhelpful behaviors.

Verizon, of course, is enabling Turn (as I understand the situation.) Companies that are customers of Turn are also enabling them, in my view.

How do you see it?
Well, I've no doubt about that, but should we care that people do the right thing for the wrong reason?

I suppose there's some room for debate about whether it's the "right" thing, as the goal of the article seems to be "hey, roads used to be for PEOPLE", apparently forgetting that there's people in the cars as well whose want and right to unobstructed travel is just as valid as those outside the car.
Between your Consulting Job and the Co-Founder roles-- which one represents the greater opportunity for intellectual challenge & professional growth?
Looks awesome. Now if there was a clean way to do incremental rebuilds and pushes, I would be very happy. Octopress is awesome until you start to accumulate hundreds or thousands of posts that must be regenerated and pushed to the target. The regeneration process is intrinsically serial at this point and does not take advantage of multiple threads or processes.
Silk Road Trial: Mt. Gox Founder Mark Karpeles Tied to Silk Road
I'll note they're closing one, and of the three, it was the one that still had electronic parts bins. (Admittedly, one of the two others stocks a number of computer parts one might be desperate for, notably replacement power supplies.)
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"Mithaldu and everyone in his cicles of friends, relatives and work acquaintances."

Maybe it's different where you are, but where i live the chromecast is literally useless due to the restriction and nobody has one.
BitSnoop has a db of 24m+ torrents available, though it's (i) badly categorised and (ii) offline atm.

http://bitsnoop.com/api.html

So if I installed this, I would (for the moment) currently need to grab the dump from KAT or Demonoid or wherever, extract it, and add it to the database...? How does it deal with duplicates from the same site - or the same infohash found on different sites?
There are at least two more arguments against DNSSEC:

1) DNSSEC does materially make DDOS reflection attacks worse. djb has gone on about this at length, so I won't.

2) DNSSEC also degrades a DNS server's ability to respond to requests. A regular non-DNSSEC DNS server can look up responses in O(1) time; see djb's TinyDNS for an example (it uses a CDB hash table to do it). A DNSSEC server must either use an ordered index to find "nearest match" for NSEC(3) ... and hence is O(log N), or it must sign the response on demand (which is against DNSSEC religion) and takes something like quadratic time.

It is a meaningful increase in both the computational and space complexities of serving a core infrastructural protocol - but for no meaningful benefit.
We're using Kerberos to authenticate the NFSv4 shares, which seems to work fine. The usernames of the clients need to exist on the server though (but doesn't have to have the same uid as on the client) - you can probably set up a centralized user database with ldap, sssd, ipa or something like that - we havn't done that yet though.
I think that, at least for "internet startups", the Great Firewall will be a Great Impediment to creating a healthy ecosystem.
I hope, however, that the author gives some thought to being able to freeze content, perhaps at the plugin level. I would hate to use a plugin, generate output, and find that at some point in the future, when the gem hasn't been maintained, the rest of my site suffers because I'm no longer able to mix current code with a plugin used at some point in the past. It would be great if I could have some sort of 'freeze' functionality that would take all the plugin level output as it exists today, lock it down, and update the rest of the site without having that plugin installed any more.
It's less stable, but crime rates have been on a decrease-a-palooza for decades.
"Had DNSSEC been deployed 5 years ago, Muammar Gaddafi would have controlled BIT.LY’s TLS keys."

No he would have had their TLS public key, assuming they were deploying DANE, which he could have got by going to their website.
It had some neat ideas with the glass api and card UX. Now that smart watches are here I'm sure everyone realized it works a lot better on your wrist than your face.
Motion within one's visual field, especially intermittent motion, deters concentration on things other than that motion. (Why do you think TVs cut scenes every few seconds?) The desks there do not obviously make it possible to face away from the corridor; plus people walking by cast shadows. Facing away does help, but it's inferior. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8895162 has someone else reporting the same complaints about motion; I guess it's not a coincidence this is someone else developing nontrivial algorithms.)

The feeling of being watched over your shoulder isn't something I'd dismiss either, though it's not a work-ruiner by itself for me. If you're actively anti-privacy, stop calling them private offices.
First: you might be surprised.

Second: Glass isn't just any GoogleX project. It's the most publicized and most heavily bought into except perhaps the automatic car. Large investors may well expect Google to chase some dead-ends, but to kill them before they get to the prominence and public stature of Glass.

There are plenty of other reasons why Google might save face on Glass -- there might be internal morale reasons or the pride of an executive or wanting to keep competitors guessing.
Why spend cycles doing work on the shared resource (the server), when you can leverage the (hopefully) millions of CPUs used by clients?

Smart clients reduce server load, and allow increased scale; why pay to make your server turn models into HTML when you can just send the model to the client and let it deal with it however it wishes.

For us at Appian, we use the same models and APIs for web, android and IOS; by having a smart client, the server only has to care about the shared model and executing requested instructions; it doesn't care how the client renders the result, nor should it.
This is very sad. Radio Shack was my toy store as a kid, and bears some of the blame for making me who/what I am today.
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It may be interesting to note that here in Sweden, "jaywalking" is not a crime, and we have what may be the lowest rate of driving-related deaths in the civilized world. People here do indeed jaywalk more than in many other countries, but we look both ways first.
Probably because people thought your comment didn't add anything constructive to the discussion