skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it is worth, I had a neighbor who was so exhausted he retired. THEN he got a CPAP machine and felt so amazing he'd wished he'd kept working.
definitely should resize the thumbnails... instead of using for example an image that is 2640x1854 being displayed at 345x242
The racial breakdown of police involved shootings in Dallas, TX
Current mobile processors are fairly powerful; some of them are faster than low end notebooks. I'd love to be able to test apps on the tablet and plug the tablet/phone to a monitor and keyboard to write code. Given that I write a lot of server-side JS code, iojs working on ARM64 is exciting to me.
Why do you need a VPS? Can you start with shared hosting? I've used https://www.softsyshosting.com/windows-vps/ for VPS before with good results.
Acuman doesn't work on Firefox. :(

ReferenceError: event is not defined. acuman.us:77:4
Now, there's no limit to how much memory the browser can consume.

I hope this doesn't turn into a license to bloat.
Companies build the type of products people want. Right now people want cheap products for the most part. For those that don't certain brands exist that have very long or lifetime warranties.
That's quite true. To me the important thing to note is that while people in SF or Portland can feel smug about sourcing locally --I mean, it's great, it's nice to have fresh fruit and vegetables, I enjoy them myself living in this fecund area, the implicit bias or even superiority, is that they are better for having natural resources nearby than are people who live in metropolises which are far from the fruit of the earth.

It's at time a kind of virulent elitist bias in that they feel that they are naturally better --they are better for the fate of the planet than are people who rely on long distance transportation for their foodstuffs. to be clear, it's not many people who feel that way, but you can feel the vibe in the way they talk about it. It's very latent, but the feeling is there.

Afterall, few people can be like René Redzepi and source locally in areas not known for a cornucopia of harvests.

[edited out 'a kind of racism' for virulent elitist bias, at another poster's suggestion --I still think it's racism just not based on 'race']
If you're referring to what Einstein referred to as the "finite, unbounded" universe, i.e. a spherical topology of the universe, measurements from the last decade and a half have shown that to be most probably (if not completely) wrong[1], and that our universe is in fact "flat".

[1] http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_shape.html
Ironic, http://blackboxvoting.org/

No electronic voting machine is that secure.
> but are you sure this is an actual policy somewhere you've signed, or just what you've heard?

This is an actual policy - apparently only applies to those who have static IPs (how convenient for them...)

> I just call the 1-800-comcast number and connect to their internet reps

I wish it was this simple. Apparently I have an account that is neither business or residential. I have business services (due to the static IPs) but whenever I call the system goes "oh you have a residential account let me connect you".

Till the day I die I refuse to believe that they don't have a master database that they could not have just punched in the MAC address. There is no way a multi-billion dollar company can't figure that out. I get that broadband is complex - but there has to be a way for me to use my own modem.

Don't even get me started on my modem upgrade and their "SLA".
It's far from a secret. Lack of discussions means the compensation package isn't negotiated first.
An azure small VM is $55/month. the same 2gig dedicated host at godaddy is $200/month. Although azure doesn't include as much space or bandwidth, but cost is negligible.

I hate devops with a passion. I don't want to deal service packs and patches, nor dealing with load balancers for the big sites, etc. I deploy everything to Azure Websites. It is so so cheap. Your app needs to be xcopy deployable (i.e. you can't rely on any installed components), but that is so rare anymore, I haven't run into any issues.

See Hanselman's excellent post: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PennyPinchingInTheCloudWhenDoA...
>BNSF is, by far, Berkshire’s most important non-insurance subsidiary and, to improve its performance, we
will spend $6 billion on plant and equipment in 2015.

That's an incredible amount of capex.
I think you're largely right in that optimism led to a bunch of unforced errors. Evidence: They thought that they'd get 20% conversion on preorders (probably because it made their numbers line up), when those interested had their expectations set at ~$99 and instead got $350.

But specifically about not rolling in the fixed costs, it's much larger than that. Their BOM alone blew up 3x. Even if you planned poorly up to that point, what you then do is cut. You find the biggest cost drivers and get them down. Find a cheaper way to make a less-polished case. Ship with 40 hours of battery life instead of spending developer-months getting to 400.

Anyway, I really appreciate that he posted this post-mortem. There are too few of these for others to learn from. I hate when someone who obviously loves Kickstarter (and has successfully used it before) is called a scam artist. It may be all the same to a backer, but he's only guilty of mismanagement.
Entrepreneurship 4.0

Maybe founders don't want to be rich inventing the next FB, maybe they are looking for quasi-passive income that is good enough to live a good life. If this is the case, maybe they do not need millions of users, maybe a handful of local paying users will do.

This is my gamble lately: the infra service providers (PAAS, BAAS) must be huge corporations (AWS, Google, etc) in order to offer high quality yet cheap/free services, but entrepreneurs can be small and local. Using the same analogy as the article, new IT entrepreneurs can be the real estate agent of the 90's: working a small local market while making a decent living.

I have been testing my gamble for a year now, I have 3 products already bringing income, all 3 were developed very fast as side projects using all the BAAS/PAAS services out there; most of such services are free or very cheap, so the only capital expense was my time and a domain name, so every dollar that comes in is net profit.

The sad news is that there won't be Entrepreneurship 5.0 :( Bots will be doing free and perfect software in a few years...
First it was "secure boot", now it's "boot guard"? It seems that the PC, which was once a very open platform (IBM published schematics and the source code of the BIOS up to the PC/AT), is gradually becoming another locked-down walled-garden ecosystem.

The worst part is that the masses are going to think these anti-user measures are helping them, "because security". They'll see only the "prevents hackers" part being advertised and agree wholeheartedly, or even if they realise that it means they won't be able to choose the firmware they run, they'll shrug it off as "I'm basically never going to do that, so why should it matter to me?" The majority have spoken for security over freedom, and lead us down this path, where eventually almost no one will own the computers they use, or be allowed to do anything with them (including write software) except as permitted by the organisations that control them.

This is really, really scary. It's quite reminiscent of the dystopia in Stallman's "The Right to Read":

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

It won't be easy to turn the situation around, but if anything I believe it will have to start with education - to reverse the brainwashing that companies and governments have propagated, and show people the power they can have when they control their computing devices. It is particularly hard when the majority are barely computer-literate, and there is vested interest in keeping them that way.

I don't think the situation has gotten to the point where it's necessary to stockpile older and freer computers, but that could be an option in the future. However, I'm certainly not going to be replacing my Thinkpad X60 with anything else for as long as possible.

I think this famous quote really needs to be made more aware of among those preparing to fight against the war on general-purpose computing: "Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."
Still confused! With a balloon surface if you travel in one direction long enough you will end up back where you started. Does this analogy apply to the universe.

If there is no centre then either the universe is infinite, or it wraps around on itself like a balloon?
> How do I decide which features to include in my product and which ones to leave out? How do I know if one of the new features I’ve come up with is a good idea?

Here's a key difference between software engineering, and well, engineering. Engineers, in 2015, don't come up with an idea and start pounding on sheet metal. The 787 flew in simulation thousands of times before one existed in real life. Every significant feature was measured and justified with a trade-off analysis, backed up with simulations. When they built on, they had a very good idea of what they were going to get.
money can't fix stupid.
Check out the work being done by John Wilbanks and sagebase. Also, myire is an early stage startup with this goal in mind.

Check out my talks at gravesmedical.com and let me know if you are interested
Kickstarter is a great social experiment.I wouldn't give a cent to any project. But if people looking for some thrill or some desire to make something happen give money,they are free to do so.

Yet I find pathetic people then complaining on kickstarter forums after a scam,what did they expect? there is nothing to expect.Because these consumers are not really protected,and kickstarter itself doesn't give a fuck about them.

On the other hand sooner or later, "backers" need to have a legal status.Donators,investors,consumers whatever, it needs to be regulated, like any other industry. Right now it isn't,but it will, mark my words.
I'm hiring a technical Product Manager to work with the Unreal Engine. E-mail me if you're interested in the space, toufique at Google's e-mail service.com
If you're just looking for something to get started and get it out there I have used kickassvps.com for some sites. Pretty good and starts at $29/month with full remote desktop access.
I understand what you are trying to say, but classifying it as a type of racism is just incorrect.
> What speed are you getting for ~$100?

Only 16Mbps down/3Mbps up - which is kind of funny because they have a "speed test challenge" where if they can't offer you fastest speeds then they are supposed to give you $150...

I do have a block of 5 static IPs (well...technically 6) for an extra $20. However, the increase in modem rental fee making me rethink using Comcast (that and I get faster speeds off my phone...).
a) It seems to me that a big part of the value offer is this restriction. It may or not be elitist, but the hypothesis is that it's Something People Want.

b) "Given the decision to be restrictive, why not include schools like Stanford?" Because then you play that whole "you included them so why not us?" game. Personally I'd include Stanford, MIT and a few others, but I could understand the decision.
I know for a fact that at least 7 of the top AI people that I listed above think intelligence explosion / superintelligence is plausible and that it's not at all clear that will go well for humans. I'm pretty sure all of them think AGI will be feasible one day and will be fairly hard to make reliably safe, at the very least to the degree that current safety-critical systems require a bunch of extra work to make safe (beyond what you'd do if your AI system has no safety implications, e.g. detecting cats on YouTube).

I can't say which people believe which things, because most of them communicated with me in confidence, except for Stuart Russell and Shane Legg because they've made public comments about it about their worries about intelligence explosion:

http://futureoflife.org/PDF/stuart_russell.pdf

http://lesswrong.com/lw/691/qa_with_shane_legg_on_risks_from...
OrderedMap in golang
Javascript disabled by default on Chrome and I have no such problems.
A better mentor manifesto?
Hopefully this is a rare occurrence.
Perhaps he should put his vendor quotations online, along with his BOM choices?

I design products for a living and I'm finding it hard to believe that the component BOM for this would be anything over $15.

Additionally, their case is a pretty simple two half-shell design. I can think of 5 vendors off the top of my head who would make the mold for about 5-8K.

I want to take his word about mismanagement but the disclosed details don't add up, unless he really has no product knowledge and is being taken for a ride by his supplier.
You're the only one blaming Yahoo. If Yahoo didn't pay, then the problem would still exist. So why do you blame Yahoo?
"“I wait every year for the real Jersey tomatoes. You can't get that country flavor in the city!” They couldn't get it here, either: These were New Mexican beefsteaks."

I used to work on a tomato farm (Florida) and I live in New Mexico. I've been all over the state. They grow lots of chilies here. And some corn, onions melons. They don't grow tomatoes on any scale that I've ever seen in New Mexico.

It was an entertaining article but I think some "artistic license" was taken.
Surprised to see Terms of Service and a Privacy Policy for a project so (seemingly) early and small.
You can see this anywhere. My mom discovered I like expensive third-wave coffee...and shelled out for a box of Starbucks Via instant for Christmas (thanks, Mom). It all tastes the same to her. Meanwhile I'm sure someone is scoffing at my plebian mainstream Blue Bottle preferences... and the farmer who grew the beans has never had coffee at all but is happy to grow it and sell it to the weird foreigners...

I believe authenticity, like confidence, winds up being something you have rather than attain. My Chinese-from-China family and I will happily eat Panda Express orange chicken...because it tastes good.

In the end, if people are happy, why not let them be? They're only being douches if you believe authenticity itself has any value.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/nMWoEAG55...
Use an FPGA and much larger eeprom to implement CoW, writes succeed, but the user can switch back to an earlier version. Pair it with a Nordic chip, https://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Products and get your own short range OtA update/diff.
They've started to think about it: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/nMWoEAG55...
I Spent $500 Trying to Stump the Magic Delivery Service
Well, sort of. I disagree. I think if the planned lifetime of a product was on a specially formatted government mandated sticker, like how the power usage / cost of air conditioners or lightbulbs are displayed, then I think a lot of people would be inclined to make a proper calculation and buy the best cost to lifetime ratio.

Right now there is information asymmetry - we don't know the expected lifetime so we have to choose by other factors. Brand reputation, amazon reviews, relative cost signaling, what the box looks like, etc. If we did know this info, it'd weigh in very heavily.

Then of course there's the problem of how to incentivize companies to not lie about that number ...
What’s Really at Stake in Ellen Pao’s Kleiner Perkins Lawsuit
I think food's different. The idea is that transporting food is a waste of energy and thus that local food will be more environmentally friendly. Doesn't seem to hold up, generally, but naïvely, it's a reasonable heuristic. It's usually not a nationalistic thing, but a distance thing.

With manufacturing, however, it is usually nationalistic. There's also a strong protectionalism behind "made in America" movements. To me, those seem to essentially be equivalent to snitching in the prisoner's dilemma: we're better of iff we favor our own products and foreigners don't favor their own.

But nationalism aside, it could definitely be that due to the idea that American-made (or first-world-made) products are better, the target audience is people who value quality over price, and thus quality will be chosen for in manufacturing and the business can still thriv. If you manufacture in newly-industrialized nations, you're doing it to cut price as much as possible, often sacrificing skill/experience=quality.

I should also add a third consideration: a lot of chocolate is produced by slave labor. A lot of t-shirts are made in abusive conditions. A lot of toys are made in emission-unrestricted factories. Choosing an industrialized country means choosing relatively stringent and enforced workers' rights and environmental protections.

This may even hold true with food, despite the way we treat migrant farm workers in the US. Avocados producers in Mexico are often under the thumb of by drug cartels. Those produced in California--probably not so much.

I've always assumed it's more beneficial to buy the cheapest and donate the money you saved to an effective charity. But how many people calculate and apportion out their savings that way? Sounds nice, but if it's not feasible to get people to do it, the rational decision is to advocate for an achievable alternative. Maybe local is that, at least with some goods.
Hillary Clinton used a personal email address while Secretary of State
OrderedMap is a Python port of OrderedDict implemented in golang. Fist library/project in go. Feedback welcomed. Settled for the iffy `interface{}` to handle Golang's generics quirks. Makes me uncomfortable with, being that a value of any `type` can be passed in. But yeah, WIP.
> provided you supply the labor

That's the #1 lesson. You can't consult away all the challenges, especially not the core of your product. As he found out, no one else is going to give a crap like you will, and if you don't have expertise in that area yourself, you're going to pick the wrong people.

I'm still trying to figure out how the BOM got so high without alarms going off.
Moving Against the Crowd
I tried to start a startup in a similar-ish space (more detailed student reviews of colleges). This is what I learned - https://medium.com/@adamzerner/case-study-of-a-failed-startu.... I'd be happy to chat/brain storm - azerner3@gmail.com
Normaizing video into a logical grid is a very simple preliminary task in machine vision. It's not a challenge for state of the art systems.
Perhaps its incorrect thinking, but I trust that Moxie and the gang aren't going to screw me over.

But, yeah, in theory, you can download it and compile it. The fact that you would have to also buy a certificate from Apple to do it is just a detail. You _can_ do it.
Regarding your first paragraph, that is as likely to be a justification, as people's concern for nutrition and the environment in food exporting countries. Poor countries' net food consumption has been losing its locality since the Green Revolution. It is not hard to imagine that farmers in such countries would benefit from a (local) move towards eating local.
Thanks. I don't know why, but I annualized for 65 years, instead of the correct 50.
Really nice (and a fantastic JavaScript overview in general), though the MUST and SHOULD's get a bit wearing on the eyes after some time; perhaps a simple bold would suffice?
Apples Broken Promises
There is a big difference in acknowledging the potential of a threat which I agree that everyone does, and advocating for an intentional slowing (or rather preventing accelerating) development or alternatively advocacy of regulation until we get "Friendly AI" figured out like MIRI does.

A world of difference actually.
I don't think education is the answer. There is no great conspiracy to keep people computer-illiterate. Most people follow the path of least resistance.
We just have to make sure that path involves open technologies. This can be done either through other technologies or through laws.
Interesting interpretation!
Perhaps an issue is that people have expected that products will last beyond their warranties. The French proposal would seem to clarify the difference between a warranty and an expected lifetime, if there is indeed such a difference.

My family lives in a house that was pretty much empty of appliances when we bought it, ~ 12 years ago. I'm extremely lucky to be handy at repairing things (thanks to my parents), but appalled that I've had to repair virtually every appliance...

Clothes dryer, three times (heat sensor, timer switch, motor)

Deep freeze (starter circuit assembly)

Microwave (replaced)

Toaster (replaced)

Fridge (repaired once, then replaced)

Cooking range (repaired one of the stove burners)

Dishwasher (repaired twice, then replaced due to rusted racks)

On the bright side, I've been able to find extensive repair info and spare parts online.
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eh... I'll be impressed when he writes the same article at age 74.
Trove fun game play
A Startup That Wants to Build Cities
> Then of course there's the problem of how to incentivize companies to not lie about that number ...

In New Zealand we don't have the published information, but consumer law has been applied such that if things don't last a "reasonable" length of time (e.g. 5 years for a TV) the retailer has a responsibility to repair or replace[1]. In the same vein I imagine that, if manufacturers were forced to replace anything that didn't meet the claimed lifespan at the time of sale then manufacturers would quickly become very good at providing numbers that aligned with real-world failure rates and lifespans.

[1] "We don't have those any more" is not an excuse - if you sell a TV that breaks after a year and can't repair it, you'll be replacing it with the closest current equivalent model.
Kickstarter did their middle-man job in good faith; why should they be liable?
Heat from natural gas is typically cheaper than heat from electricity, so unless you can get away with heating a much smaller area, the gas will win.
White House warns Netanyahu not to reveal Iran details
Even if you happen to not need much sleep, you ought to at least consider that it may have adverse long term effects to your brain and body.

This Quora answer [1] summarizes it well.

[1] http://www.quora.com/How-do-CEOs-who-sleep-for-only-4-5-hour...
They say "we'll pair you with another Ivy League student", but I wonder what they do to prevent alumni, professors, and staff from joining? Would people be as willing to use this if they knew that it didn't solely consist of students?
John Draper once asked a friend of mine if he wanted to go into the back of a van and execute an 1802 instruction. Can you guess which one?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_1802#Addressing_modes

Because of the 16-bit address bus, and the 8-bit data bus, the sixteen general purpose registers are 16 bits wide, but the accumulator (the so-called data register, or D-register) is only 8 bits wide. The accumulator, therefore, tends to be a bottleneck. Transferring the contents of one register to another involves four instructions (one Get and one Put on the HI byte of the register, and a similar pair for the LO byte: GHI R1; PHI R2; GLO R1; PLO R2). Similarly, loading a new constant into a register (such as a new address for a subroutine jump, or the address of a data variable) also involves four instructions (two load immediate, LDI, instructions, one for each half of the constant, each one followed by a Put instruction to the register, PHI and PLO).