skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Personally I think saying most web apps are a waste is like saying the space program is a waste.

While I think you have a point, I think this line is taking it a step too far.

If a successful space program completely failed to actually produce any side effect innovation, at the end of the day, we still go to space.

If a successful web app fails to produce side effects, you have a web app. Depending on the app, this might be a good thing, but it's hard to reliably say that a web app is comparable to going to space.

In my mind, the advantage of having so many smart people working on trivial applications is that the risk of failure is low. If they were developing these technologies in the medical world, the risk of failure is debilitation and death. Comparatively, a giant privacy intrusion or not being able to play League of Legends for a day is something I can, literally, live with.
Hackers took over social media accounts of Iranian state Al Alam TV
That's extraordinarily strange - in general, the founders will always get a bonus when a company is acquired. The only scenario in which I've not seen that happen, is when they've left the company - in which they are treated like any common shareholder - they are wiped out if the preferred liquidation preference isn't covered - but, of course, that's precisely why the common is valued at 1/10th of the preferred early on - because it really is worth much less.

The one scenario I've seen where founders who have left the company still get a "consulting" fee during a liquidation, is where they held enough common shares to cause issues during a lawsuit over minority shareholder rights - but typically the employees/founders still with the company being acquired have enough shares to not make it an issue - and, as I noted earlier, it's almost always the case that founders still with a company being acquired get some type of bonus, even if it's a retention fee.
Nicely done.

One problem that arises with the bootstrap-off-revenue model (assuming of course you are lucky enough to find product/market fit quickly, before you run through your seed money) is that you become vulnerable to company B that was willing to take crappy VC $$$ and is now able to kick your ass on price, right down to the freemium, eyeballs-are-value goose-egg giveaway.

Free markets are always prone to a race to the bottom. Just because you insist on reading the fine print and haggling over the downside scenarios, doesn't mean the 23 yr old recent grad no expenses (family fallback) guy won't take that deal. He damn well will.

serious 1st world problems, eh?
Indeed. I think it's actually a double whammy.

Businesses in the US have cheap access to capital, and the diplomatic might - not to mention "bankruptcy protection" - of the USG behind them, while the common folk not. I wonder if there is a postive feedback here; unless the US invests great deal outside the state, it'd never enjoy the power it does in the world, which it seems very desperate to hang on to.
PKIjs now have CMS Enveloped support
PKIjs (https://github.com/GlobalSign/PKI.js) now has full support for CMS Enveloped data, with ECC, RSA and password-based CMS.
aren't these opportunities still in a 'market' of their own? If someone else thinks that what you are doing has value (even in the long range), there is a market for that to be done and you will get paid. If you are only doing it for yourself, it is just a solipsistic exercise, and it won't get done unless you're mega-rich, so you better get cracking on the marketing of your opportunity to people who 1) will agree with you and 2) are willing to pay you for the effort.
Incidentally, unaligned data accesses on x86 CPUs have been basically as fast as aligned ones in most cases for the past few years:

http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2012/05/31/data-alignment-for...
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The Gigafactory is intended to end up producing as many batteries as the rest of the world does, when it was announced. That's what "economy of scale" means. It's fair to say that no one knows what cost savings that might produce, but it's silly to say that you can't see how that might possibly have cost savings.
This post: http://np.reddit.com/r/thebutton/comments/31ltqd/read_this_b... is a good primer.
Reddit would do well on the island of Lost
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It's a joke, right? I'm guessing that the timer resets itself with a "fake press" if it reaches a certain threshold.
There's even malware going around, causing people to push the button at early numbers.
"Leaders are obligated to respectfully challenge decisions when they disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. Leaders have conviction and are tenacious. They do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, they commit wholly."

It's essentially saying fight for what you believe is right, but if the group decides an alternative approach don't sabotage the project from the inside because your ideas were not chosen just so you can say "A ha! Told you!"

I don't buy into most of the Amazon dogma (I currently work at Amazon). But I don't think the lesson behind this leadership principle is idiotic.
Something I'm thinking is unrelated to preventing riots, is forbidding people to take pictures of or record the police. Why will that be forbidden? ("Photographing or recording police – 600 to 30.000€ fine")

I'm thinking that when one isn't allowed to take pictures of or record the police, then badly behaving policemen can beat up anyone and everyone, and do anything they want, with impunity, since it will be hard to show that the police did anything wrong or who did it.
As of April 2015:

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0421/5993/t/14/assets/files...
I like cooking too. But a lot of the times for lunch I don't feel like making something. Then I have to bring it with me to class and that means there's an extra container to clean at the end of the day. Also, I don't usually have time to make much in the mornings.

Soylent works as a perfect meal substitute for when I'm lazy or short on time, and that means I have more time and money for when I want to have a nice meal.
It only resets when someone pushes it. It's been getting closer and closer to 0 as the days go by since it started. There are also bots waiting for it to get low so they can snag a low number.
While you're right about Amazon's bundling advantages (with both Audible and MatchBook), there are other audiobook alternatives (e.g. Downpour, which sells many DRM-free audiobooks).
I'm a former Get Sat employee (I left about two months ago). While the company may have done that early on, we definitely did NOT continue that at any point when I was there. There were a few communities like that we still kept up because there was some activity, but we certainly weren't adding new ones. In fact, we were actively pruning communities that had no activity and were on the old, free accounts when I left.

In the 2.5 years I was there, the only communities we launched were ones we were paid to launch.
I didn't think children inherited their parents' debt ?
> It is great if it works, but I think colorblindness isn't a first category Medical issue to be solved now.

That's not how innovation works. It's not a tech tree in which you choose what advance you discover next. You reflect on what you already know, intuit hypotheses from this, and then test those hypotheses to figure out how false they are.

Research isn't about solutions. It's about understanding.
They use a (imo silly) scrollless, etc setup to move through frames. Hit up and down to see the other pages.
Household income vs Personal income, probably. From wikipedia, 48% of Americans who had any income in 2010 earned less than $25k: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_S...
A synchronicity, a synchronization, a sync. A simultaneity. An overlap. A meeting. A touch. A carom.
That is so amazingly high that I think something isn't right - I wonder what's consuming so much power. 100W+ is like a whole CPU at full load.

Then again, servers are not usually turned off so perhaps they just kept all the CPUs powered up but in a halted state...
They don't. He could be saying that his parents fraudulently opened credit cards in his name, or that their lack of support contributed to his running up credit card debt during school.
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Superb article!

Holacracy is clearly yet another in the very long list of attempts to synthesize a lot of great ideas into some ultimate solution which is then prescribed, trademarked, marketed, and proprietary so that the company can authorize "official" trained people who take their official training courses etc. The list of organizations like this is vast, and most of them offer some value and yet create fragmented and confusing overly-branded markets. For just one random set of examples: Alexander Technique vs Feldenkrais etc. etc.

Holacracy has some good ideas, but it is not a final end-point. It is just yet another place in the long history of organizational ideas. See the complex history of cooperative businesses for example.

Holacracy must become entirely Open Source, i.e. the software and the writings are all freely-licensed. The developers need to stop trying to control ideas that are 95% not original anyway, just a branded spin on existing ideas.

Anyway, this article at Medium does great job of dealing with things, and the comments there are great too. Thanks
You are making extremely strong assumptions about their motivations. Simulations are cool, but it's not the same as observing the real thing. Maybe they want to keep track of what's going on on our planet, and sending a few probes would cost almost nothing for an advanced civilization.

Sending back messages isn't very difficult, especially if they only need to travel a few light years, or at least to the nearest outpost they have. Regardless, they could easily construct whatever equipment they need in our solar system. Even if they did build a giant laser, we probably wouldn't even be aware of it. We've only recently begun to track all the various asteroids in our vicinity, let alone investigate them in detail. There are entire moons and planets we haven't mapped in great resolution, if at all.
Google won..this was google's plan all along.... pose as a threat to the major teleco's, and force them to either get w/ the program and improve broadband speeds or don't and let them take of the broadband business. Though I still think comcast is evil, it will definitely move us towards an America where every home can receive Fiber if they desire.
>It only resets when someone pushes it.

Is there any code available to prove that?
Here you go:

http://diy.soylent.me/recipes?tags=Ketogenic
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Yeah, I've never once wanted more options/features/modes for my Kindle. I honestly think any additional complication would make it worse.
Or poorly in the Cold War.
What’s Holding Tech M&A Back?
note all the ones with offices in the United States. Be sure to avoid those if you don't want to deal with the risk of NSL's being fired at your VPN provider.
The global economy’s problem: Too much money
I hated the switch to touch from physical buttons, but maybe it's gotten better (more responsive) since the first version.
It's far more likely that it'll be the "intellectual" jobs that'll be automated away.
What does it taste like to you?
I've tried a variety of dressings but have found that simply ground up seeds satisfy me the most.

I had only tried Solent version 1.1, the vegan version that came with no oil packets. I can see how v1.4, with added fats and no artificial flavoring, would be superior. I found that if I added plenty of (unrefined) salt to either brand of meal replacement, that also significantly helped the flavor. I suspect that extra salt is more healthy and important than either of these brands give credit for
http://www.amazon.com/Salt-Your-Way-Health-Edition/dp/B000R8...
Toronto is probably much better than Harvard (atleast in Engr/CS).
Let's give reputable companies the benefit of the doubt.
There's no way to really prove it without heavily examining the server in person. But I don't see any reason to doubt it.
Say what to a community of hackers? :D

setInterval(function(){
var seconds = parseInt($("#thebutton-s-10s").html()) * 10
+ parseInt($("#thebutton-s-1s").html());
if (seconds > 15 && seconds < 20) {
$("#thebutton").click();
}
}, 100);
While there are plenty of mediocre aspects of the Kindle ecosystem, there are plenty of excellent ones as well. For example:

1. Return policy. Amazon has the best ebook return policy in the business. It seems essentially the same as their physical book policy. The last time I checked, Google Play was next-best (7 days no-questions-asked, regardless of jurisdiction) and everyone else grudgingly had a return policy where it was required by law (i.e. Europe) and none otherwise.

2. Sideloaded books. AFAIK, of the major ebook retailers, only Amazon and Google will let you sync books you didn't purchase from them to your cloud library. Other retailers might let you read sideloaded books in their clients, but you have to use Dropbox or an equivalent for backup and syncing across devices.

3. Client support. If it supports third-party applications, Amazon makes a Kindle client for almost anything you might want to read an ebook on, plus they have a web-based reader. Meanwhile, Google and Apple are busy paying "strategy taxes" for platforms it isn't in their interest to support, and B&N and Kobo don't quite have the resources to keep up.
Samsung is making 14nm chips in volume and has licensed that tech to Globalfoundries, and has demoed 10nm. TSMC's got 16nm, and is planning on starting low scale production of 10nm later this year. So yeah, process tech is pretty similar between the various big chip makers.
Do people use MacPorts any more? Everyone I know migrated to Homebrew long ago.
I absolutely hated my Kindle Touch (1st gen), so I sold it and bought a used 3G. Since then, I've cracked two screens, but fortunately, they're very easy to get parts for and repair (http://www.powerbookmedic.com/Amazon-Kindle-Parts-for-Repair...).

Amazon still sells used Kindle Keyboard 3Gs for reasonable prices, if you're ever tempted to go back.
How did the admin add interactive HTML to a subreddit? Is this possible for any subreddit, or was this something special organized by the company? The intro post doesn't seem to delve into those details.
Building websites that work on an e-ink Kindle
Yeah, I had a little JS bookmarklet watching it for me for a few days, tracking the lowest number, ready to click when it got to 1 second. Of course, the websocket encountered an error at somepoint mistakenly registering an incorrect timer value and causing my script to click at 50-something seconds :(
I bet Apple's PR factory isn't very happy about this article.

I personally found it to be the best article on the device thus far.
Yes, but it's a reputable company playing an April Fools' joke.
People had that running within an hour. The problem is temporary connectivity issues and so which makes you think its hit that low. There were efforts to track the lowest number seen so far but a common problem was getting artificially low just due to lag.

quick edit: Another top level reply to this post is saying something similar.
Agreed. However, once again, we should not compare directly solutions of Iceland (banks) and Greece (government), because the problems are quite different.

Iceland (the country, the government) was not in much debt and did not default. Icelandic banks did default and went bankrupt. The banks (Kaupthing, Glitnir and Landsbank) were split so that Icelandic debts and assets were moved into new surviving publicly owned domestic versions of the banks, and the foreign remnants of the banks were placed into receivership and liquidation.

Russia, the country, actually defaulted. Russia is today not known as a safe place for investments (though the history of a default is just a small part there; in Russia's assets, it has huge energy reserves, and in its liabilities, it has kleptocracy, corruption and an arbitrary justice system).
Number one preference is the tax man isn't it? At least in the UK, he always gets paid first.
Careful, if you lose the connection to the websocket you'll click inadvertently! Also, there's a global variable called "r.thebutton" which has info about the timer already - no need to parse out html elements :)
This was the company. It was for April 1st. There is more stuff added for this than meets the eye too, like automatic flair assignment.
Put yourself in the shoes of an investor. Someone asks you for money after their company hasn't been doing that great. You think here is potential, but you think there's a chance you'll lose some/all your money. So you provide the cash with the stipulation that any sale means your cash comes back first.

The alternative is for the company to tank and the founders - who tanked the company - walk away with your money. That is completely wrong.

Founders don't accept deals for money which are bad for them if they don't need it. You need money, you get the terms.

Same goes if you lose a house by default and then go and ask for money for another house. The subsequent mortgage is going to be at terms significantly less desirable than you may have got on your first try.

Failing companies create no winners.
(The following advice is US-centric because that's where I live.)

Get really, really good at networking. That is absolutely the #1 most important thing you can do to succeed at any type of career. Meet everyone you can and ask them lots of questions. Do what you can to help other people without expecting anything in return.

Go to a great school because that's where you'll meet likely-to-succeed co-founders. Join a social fraternity because that will teach you how to get along in the culture of a lot of companies and businesspeople (although it's not a culture you should seek out or try to replicate).

Major in a STEM field, but make sure you hang out with people in lots of different programs. If you have the opportunity to do joint projects with the business school, try to do them.

Don't just work at startups. Working in industry is a great way to meet prospective customers, which is the "unfair advantage" that investors want you to have for a B2B business.

Read a lot, but don't be obsessive about reading the "startup tips" genre of blog posts and books. One of the most common distractions I've encountered among "wantrepreneurs" is obsessively reading that stuff and never actually doing something.

Unfortunately, starting a company often costs a lot of money. Starting now, save as much money as you can. Startups are unfortunately insanely risky, and they are a terrible way to make money. Most people lose tens of thousands on them and never successfully make anything back.

Live like a monk. If you can save up about 1.5 years worth of living expenses, you can jump on a great opportunity when you see it.

Don't be arrogant. Don't think that you'll be the exception to everything. You're not the next Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs, and the things they did probably won't work for you.

And, finally, don't be afraid of failure. If you really want to be an entrepreneur, you're going to fail, and it's going to be embarrassing, expensive, scary, and painful.
"But wait! Nethack's medallion begins to glow..."
Yeah, so I created a reddit post --- to persuade Newbs to NOT press the button until < 25 to maybe give some of us a shot at a good number...and see what's out there! https://www.reddit.com/r/thebutton/comments/32eue3/hey_idiot... If you feel inclined vote it up, so it becomes #1 on the thread and first thing people read.
What part of "morality doesn't apply to businesses" don't you understand? Do you blame a cat for catching a mouse? Do you blame a cruise missile for destroying a target? Do you blame a tornado for eviscerating a house? There are things to which the lens of morality offers very little.

What you want to claim is that corporations should view their actions morally, and what everyone is telling you is that no they shouldn't. You present (as a sibling comment) the notion that a company given a choice between the "wrong but profitable" and the "right but less profitable" should choose the "right" thing.

And we're telling you, we're all telling you, that you cannot evaluate a corporation through such a calculus!

Is the corporation going to Heaven or Hell because of how it's lived its "life"? No. Is the corporation going to have more friends because it's been "nice"? No. Is the corporation going to have better credit because, goshdarnit, it really tried to "help"? No. Are consumers going to change their buying habits because of what the company has done to its workers? Probably not--just look at Nike.

Look, I dig the whole rage against the machine thing you're going for--I've been there myself. "There's morality in the world, goddamnit, there's right and wrong! We can't let the corporations run amok and ruin our nation and communities! This is a democracy! This is America!" you cry.

There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only Facebook and Google and Apple and IBM, Haliburton, GE, Tata Group, Phillip Morris, Alibaba, Mitsubishi. Those are the nations of the world today--or at least as far back as Network!

Is it monstrous? Absolutely. Is it something we should find an alternative to? Certainly. But is it something to which it is useful to apply human morality to? No, and it never will be--you must engage the beast where it lives, on its terms.
I've heard the opposite for vegetables; that steaming/sautéing spinach and other such veggies will break down some of the nutritional value.
You're assuming that combining whatever has been labelled as good for you and whipping it up in a bottle is a perfect replacement for all/most meals. If I'm going to drastically change my diet to something processed like that I'd better know for sure whats in it, how its made and its long term effects. I'm not willing to be a guinea pig with my food intake.

Also things like the numerous shipping delays, recipe changes and some other complaints[1] [2] make me cautious about Soylent.

[1]: http://pando.com/2013/11/12/vice-investigates-soylent-finds-...

[2]: http://www.meghantelpner.com/blog/the-soylent-killer/
They detect 'cheaters' and flair people as such.
Some code you can write in the console to click the button at a certain time:

sec10s = document.getElementById("thebutton-s-10s");
sec1s = document.getElementById("thebutton-s-1s");
sec10ms = document.getElementById("thebutton-s-10ms");
sec100ms = document.getElementById("thebutton-s-100ms");
button = document.getElementById("thebutton");
time = function() {
return sec10s.innerHTML +
sec1s.innerHTML; // +
//sec10ms.innerHTML +
//sec100ms.innerHTML;
};

pressAt = function(timeStr) {
return function() {
if (time() == timeStr) {
button.click();
}
};
};

setInterval(pressAt("00"), 100);

But even with setInterval set to 1, this won't get called every millisecond, so you can't get accuracy to the second decimal point, not that there's really any need to. (It turns out setInterval has a minimum delay. setTimeout's minimum delay is 4ms and likely setInterval's minimum delay is the same.) Just set this up and leave your computer running for the next few months and you ought to get it eventually.
The OTOY AMIs do something similar to this. They use the GPU's onboard encoding as far as I know, but they don't stream through Steam - it goes through some custom HTML client.

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile?id=795808b...

(Disclosure: AWS employee)
Very neat :) I've built some small projects using a Raspberry Pi, so always looking forward to learning more. PS, I just put in my email.