skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far "release a crappy version", it's just a blunter way of saying release early, release often

And the following part "No response, abandon. Complaints, improve" is just the concept of the minimal prototype; also used in "Discovery-driven planning". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_driven_planning

You seem to be speaking from a professional mind-set, which is perfectionistic. An entrepreneurial mind-set is a little different: why perfect something if no one wants it? Or, as pg says "build something people want". Find out what they want first, then perfect it.
I've seen very few unarmed fights on the street that didn't end up as a ground fight in the first 30 seconds. This is the specific criticism of styles like Brazilian Jiu-jitsu that emphasize grappling and holds over striking: real-world street fights rarely employ strikes refined in sparring sessions or exotic weapons.
Worst. Puzzle. Ever.
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> there is a relatively low barrier to entry for new search engines

WTF??
PCA is used a lot in the financial industry. You can guess how it might be useful there...
Sure, except that "green" is something many people are interested in, whereas copyright law is a narrow issue that only artists, distributers and nerds care about.
In that post, I was just talking of one particular income source, which is the main one I am doing now. I'll write another post in a few days breaking down exactly where I make the money from. It's not standard landing page crap - it's actually a bit more unexpected (for standard web ppl) than that.
Nocturnal hunting animals have much more reflections in their eyes than humans. Try photographing cats, they can produce the same kind of luminance in the eyes.
Yeah, that's just it. The Droid is pretty much a stock Android device if I'm understanding correctly. HTC has actually created a slick, usable, and fast interface for the phone, and that's a key feature in my mind.
I don't think Google would disagree. Usually, when there's a "penalty" to a site's ranking, it's because the site is doing something that harms users, eg. malware, adspam. Google (and other search engines) has a vested interest in making sure that users find relevant, helpful results, because that's the only way they can keep them coming back.
Besides the very interesting analysis, is anyone besides me disturbed by her face in the various analysis images? It looks really, really disturbing in some pictures.
People learn by analogy.

"I just don't understand why we can't be happy with being Computer Programmers."

Because if you ask 5 people you'll get 8 different descriptions of what "Computer Programmer" means.

Which is fine, because it leads to discussion, and that's where analogy and metaphor come in handy to explain a point of view.
"I've seen very few unarmed fights on the street that didn't end up as a ground fight in the first 30 seconds"

you are talking about one on one fights? The few (street) fights I've seen were gang on gang or gang on one Any one grapplng on the ground in those situations would probably have their heads kicked in in the first minute (This isn't to vilify acquiring skills in groundfighting/grappling. Both are useful skills to have in a well rounded fighter. I would be wary of a style with zero striking however).

The best strategy might be(as with programming) learn many styles (languages), one per important paradigm, and mix and match as the situation (project) warrants)
~/Projects/ for important projects (i.e. not git clones of random GitHub projects, but major personal/work projects)

I don't have many other random code snippet things, but they generally go into Dropbox for easy storage.
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I wrote a Twitter client in Emacs Lisp
I have seen geek radio pairs. The quality wasn't great and they came with many ifs and else. Then there are legal restrictions, atleast here in India. Checkout ThinkGeek.

As for the successful commercialization, I think it involves too many components for ordinary people to be able to use it and customer support would be a nightmare.
That would suck for people like me who love going to a country to visit without making plans whatsoever :-)
You're missing something basic. In any particular environment, some techniques will be more effective than others. Different martial arts are good for different situations. What works in MMA won't work in other environments, and vice versa. (Not to mention the martial arts that exist for other reasons like meditation and sport.)

For example in the MMA environment, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is very effective with its emphasis on taking the fight to the ground, then choking people out. That works one on one. However in a bar fight with 2 guys, taking one to the ground leaves you totally vulnerable to the other. Bad idea.

In that situation you'd be much better off with something like Krav Maga with its focus on quick disabling moves, defense and escape. However Krav Maga uses a lot of dangerous moves that are either not allowed in MMA, or won't work against an experienced opponent, so it will never succeed in MMA.

Therefore nobody in MMA will use Krav Maga. Conversely no police department is going to be in a hurry to switch from training in Krav Maga to training in BJJ. The fights happen in different situations with different rules and different techniques are optimal.
I worry that any scenes that didn't make the final cut would have never even been fully rendered, given the CGI-centric nature of the film.
Disinfectants 'train' superbugs to resist antibiotics
Jamie Zawinski. Jeff Dean and a lot of the other early Google employees, many of whom aren't well known outside the company. Dave Cutler, Steve Wozniak, Doug Cutting, John Carmack.
Virgin America only flies domestic. Most of these restrictions will apply to the international flights to the US. (I guess the US doesn't really care about what happens outside, as long as everything coming in is checked)
Why should the Goldbach Conjecture be included? Just because a problem's formation is easy for many people to understand doesn't mean it is an easy problem that should have been solved. The Goldbach Conjecture would be better classified as what that blog calls a 'mathematical disease', a legitimately difficult problem that infects the attentions of many mathematicians. I'm not sure the Goldbach would even qualify for this because I feel like it's famous more for attracting the attention of pseudomatheticians than genuine ones.
What makes this story even cooler is that Cody was probably 19 when it happened. Thanks for sharing!
I agree 'search neutrality' is an absurd thing to try to have regulators enforce, but I'd put it in the "just as absurd as 'net neutrality'" bucket.

After all, Google has more of the search market than Time Warner or AT&T have of the home broadband markets -- and higher margins, and a greater market-cap.

There aren't many web-scale search engines, and the 'barrier' isn't you typing in a different URL, it's running the giant cluster, with proprietary algorithms, to offer acceptable results, and reach an economical scale (on the ad side, as well), against now-ingrained customer habits.

It would take years and lots of money, innovation, and luck to dislodge Google -- just the same as it would take to offer a new set of wires or wireless links to home users.
I didn't find the linked article remotely critical or insightful. The author accuses Cameron of hypocrisy simply for having an environmental agenda. Why it is wrong for a successful entrepreneur to have an ecological agenda. I use money and care about the environment. Am I a hypocrite too?

The most interesting thing as far as I'm concerned is the evolution we can see in Cameron's approach to the military industrial complex. In Aliens it is the corporation that is the malevolent organization. It manipulates the military to do its will, and while the military is dehumanizing and anti-feminist, at least the individual soldiers are morally neutral and somewhat sympathetic characters.

In Avatar we see a much more coercive and malevolent military organization which is inseparable from the corporation itself. Cameron has become much more cynical in his view of politics. And that is interesting on its own, even without going into all of the strange parallels the script draws between the two sides which imo undermine the claims that this is an unthinking film.
In the world of both software and entrepreneurship, people recommend starting with a basic vision and relentlessly and incrementally improving it. So whats wrong with that approach applied to science.
Entrepreneurs have deadlines too.

I interpreted that sentence to mean "If you don't have real-world constraints on your system, you aren't a real programmer." Which I think is true. It's easy to build the "perfect" academic system, exploring every detail until you've got things just right. Problem is, reality tends to bite you in areas that you don't expect (as in, real programmers have real performance/deadline/usability constraints), and those often aren't exposed in an academic paper.
The article states that Lisp has "not been thought suitable for mass-market applications due to difficulties in packaging the executable bits and running them on end-user hardware." I'm not sure this is really what has prevented Lisp from being used for "mass-market" purposes. I think it has more to do with the fact that (despite some notable exceptions) it's not what's typically taught to most programmers in school.
Genera was Symbolics' marketing name for their proprietary fork of the Lisp Machine OS.

TECO was THE editor for years - on PDPs. Its macros look like line noise (if you know what I mean). Emacs was 'invented' as a bunch of Editor MACroS for TECO. Now comes a new generation of machines (personal workstations). Kent was young and tried to show them that with software written TECO could do stuff like Zmacs (the first Emacs written in Lisp) or Zmail (a Zmacs-based mail-reader). TECO died anyway. The Emacs for Multics was also written in Lisp and got popular among Multics users.

TECO was available for everyone who had access to a terminal that had some connection to a PDP (or similar). The Lisp Machine OS had this $100000 hardware dongle - the Lisp Machine.
As terse as downloadsquad.com articles are, it seemed unfair to include this domain in your submission filter (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044). Unless of course they were doing the spamming, which it appears they were not, but given how interesting the article's outbound links are and the fact that this article could server as an interesting entry-point for discussion, I submitted a cached copy.
I like the lectures on philosophy. Most of the computer science talks are too basic.
This guy is clearly not a Simpsons fan.
This is not the problem described by the post you are responding to. Search for "chromatic number of the plane" or "Hadwiger-Nelson problem" to find clarification.
Agreed, the movie makes more sense now. I guess the original script was... unobtanium.
There's all kinds of client side uses for APIs. Facebook Connect logins for instance, which can't be initiated server side.

Sending application/json to older versions of IE can cause it to pop up Save As dialogs, even in AJAX requests.

They did the same thing with application/xml+xhtml.
No, I don't think I missed that point at all. Both the post that you are responding to and another one I wrote below indicate that the proliferation of rules in MMA designed to protect the safety of the fighters and to allow the sport to remain legal in the US have harmed its previous status as a perfect laboratory for unarmed combat, though it remains the best we have. Also, MMA is unarmed and one-on-one, which does not accurately depict all combat settings.

However, old school MMA and Brazilian Vale Tudo had/have very few rules. It would be easy for a master of a useful art to make his name in such arenas. Even today, I see no obvious reason why martial arts such as Karate, Kung Fu, and Capoeira couldn't be applied under modern MMA rules except for the fact that they are not effective.

It is hard for me to imagine that a truly superior unarmed martial art could exist without having some influence on MMA. No art relies so completely on groin strikes and eye gouging that its central lessons could not be adopted under the rules of the sport.

Arts that claim to be too deadly or too dirty to use in competition (such as Krav Maga) may well be useful. However because they are too dangerous or dirty, they can't show us any evidence of their usefulness. The burden ought to be on the teachers who sell expensive gym memberships to make the case that their art is useful. But there appears to be an audience for martial arts that favors them in inverse proportion to the extent that they have demonstrated their usefulness in actual combat. It is as if some people value the mystique of martial arts above all and are afraid of mixing it up with a real opponent. They want the self-esteem and ceremony of wearing a colored belt and looking good in the mirror, but not the pain and sacrifice of getting actually punched in the face.

Krav Maga suffers from the additional drawback of being a popular fad martial art, so the average quality of a gym varies very widely. Otherwise, I see nothing obviously wrong with the philosophy of the system. At least they put on padding and hit each other at full speed, which is essential to any martial art worth the name.

There is certainly room for martial arts designed to be taught to little old ladies or used under unfair situations. However, the proof of their effectiveness will always be skanty, limited to hypothesized bar situations and anecdotes. Meanwhile, Jiu Jitsu fighters prove the effectiveness of their art by choking people unconscious in a cage fight. Muay Thai fighters prove it with the blood of their opponents. The strength of the evidence in favor of arts used in MMA is much higher than evidence for arts that claim to be useful outside of an MMA setting.

On a somewhat related note - Alistair Overeem and his brother got into a scuffle with six security guards in a Dutch nightclub. They won.
Now let me put on my troll face for a minute.

My Sharp SH001 has an autofocus 8.0MP camera, GPS, TV receiver, microSD card port, flashlight, bluetooth, infrared emitter/receiver, internet & emails (via cellphone network), built-in japanese & english OCR and QR code reader and misc apps (GPS maps, train planner, dictionary, banking, alarm, calendar, etc). Of course it can play music/videos, install apps and do what a phone does. All that for a flexible contract (costs me 15$-20$ per month, I email a lot, do a little internet, but almost never call) for 2 years and the phone itself is free.

Sure, there's no WiFi and the user interface is sometimes frustrating. But I'm not impressed by the iPhone. What makes it so great? The usable interface and the app market?

Sorry for the trollish post. I have a hard time understanding the hype for some american phones when a generic, free phone in Asia has better specs and decent design. Why don't they import them back home? :/
Thanks, I picked the unobtainium issue: the tree is supposed to be above the largest deposit, but it doesn't float.

The movie could have been longer: afterwards, I misread the time, and literally thought it was only 1:42 long (not 2:42). I'd see a longer version, that setup motivations properly.

A conflict for me was that destroying the tree was a terrible act, but looked really cool.

Maybe it's because I was reading Xenocide (3rd in the Ender trilogy), but many of the ideas in the film seem to be in that book.
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because your comment is not thought out thoroughly at all.
I'm not a great coder by any standards, but with a couple simple command lines, you can build an index quite easily.
Then there's 80legs.com, and well...

your comment was not thought out thoroughly all all.
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Why do you care what I do during the movie? There were multiple people in my aisle who were discreetly tapping on their phones.
I guess the other part of this is also that on Twitter I mostly only follow... well, my actual friends. The whole "follow 10,000 people and get a client app to sort what they're saying" workflow just doesn't appeal to me, and it seems that in order to do what you're doing you'd have to follow a huge number of people.
Wow,

It takes quite a bit of energy to turn an ordinary object into a serious scam. Yet seems this kind of thing appears more and more. It seems that ordinary manufacturers have taken a clue from Nigerian scam artists.
Wow, that does seem to be it (e.g. it has the scalping bit). But what does your last line mean?
Love the jq comment!:) +1
Solving and Assembling the Isis Puzzle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7NPiyyfDXA
only one line in the article is about the title. and the line is a throwaway: "I don't think consumers can tell the difference".

post something about it when someone does an actual analysis. this crap is useless.
That's the beauty of TweetDeck. I only follow about 20 people. In TweetDeck you can set up additional search columns and it will show you tweets across all of Twitter (updated in real time) that match your search. IMO TweetDeck takes Twitter to another level (and actually makes Twitter useful :) )
Poor guy, but I like his section on "4 key elements of a good puzzle." As I was reading it, I recalled the era of awful job interview brainteaser questions that were so ubiquitous until most HR departments started to ban them.
Do you make many international calls when on the go?

I can see this being useful if you don't currently have a cell phone. If you did, outside of cheaper international calls, it seems really redundant.

Plus if you ever traveled outside the signal radius you'll effectively have a big lump of plastic wasting space in your pockets (on top of everything else you carry).

All that said I think this would be a fun side-project and really with the rise of municipal broadband and services like Fon, I can see this being somewhat viable in the long-term.
It is best to have the 2 options available. Monthly a bit more ex. so that users can use and terminate anytime they want. The yearly option for your hardcore fans, of course, it should be a bit cheaper. So far this work really well for me.
The latest reports I've seen indicate that the bomb was not fake:

"A preliminary FBI analysis indicates the device contained PETN, also known as Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate, a highly explosive chemical."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/12/27/airline.attack.qanda/ind...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETN
It's certainly an interesting read although it's hard to see what is 'cool' about the outright unethical bits and the author's curious belief that if you don't personally gain (much) from taking someone's money for things you don't deliver, you're not actually ripping them off. Perhaps a framing more towards apology rather than 'useful advice for you!' might have been better, in places.
Anecdote: The Polarized 3d glasses make me feel somewhat nauseous for the first half hour; I haven't tried the other types.
eh incentives. we all do this to some degree on a daily basis. e.g. downloading your favorite song for free instead of paying .99 for it on itunes, etc.
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Mostly the UI and App Store but more importantly Apple has done a huge amount of advertising which serves to educate consumers on why they might want a SmartPhone. They show really compelling & practical uses for the iPhone. They show off impressive games. They show how easy it is to use. I kind of feel like the average consumer may not even be aware other phones offer similar features at this point. Apple just leaped out ahead on marketing SmartPhones to a wider market. Meanwhile their competition is spending their money on weird ads like the Palm Pre & Droid marketing campaign that don't bother showing off the device/software much at all.
Huh? Why not?
The issue with net neutrality is not to do with market share but to do with the fact that many of the telecommunication companies have exclusive monopolies in their areas often with government mandates.

In addition they were given large sums of money by the government to implement certain styles of networks that were never implemented.

Then they also have alternative revenue streams (e.g. comcast provides television, qwest phone). These alternative revenue streams are often in competition with services that are on the internet (e.g. hulu, and skype).

So they are guaranteed their places by government assistance and they have conflicts of interest. This is why we need net neutrality.
The only webservice I pay for is DabbleDB. Dropbox I can live with the restriction, but you absolutely need a database when you need to track a large amount of items.

I'm REALLY suprised that there are not cheaper alternatives to DabbleDB - if there had been anything a bit cheaper or a bit more ajaxified, I'd have gone for it.

Also, the main reason I don't pay for dropbox is that you need to pay for EACH user! So at just 5 users I'm paying $50 a month. That's crazy wasted money!
I would argue that security at the gadgetry level still has its place. Millimeter-wave imaging and consistent explosive-detection swabbing, when combined with x-raying bags, would provide rather good protection.
Yeah, it's a terrible puzzle. That must be an awkward situation, opening a present like that, knowing someone spent a couple hundred dollars on something so silly and then having to thank them.

However, the whole part of this post about extortion is kind of silly. How many of these have been sold? A thousand or so? Yeah, that must be a very valuable database of information they're keeping. Any company looking to target a rich demographic could advertise at a country club. Why cook up a hairbrained scheme surrounding a puzzle?

I doubt their business model is based on selling personal information. If I had to guess, I'd say it's based on huge profit margins from selling a silly aluminum sphere.
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On the upper east side, living here for 1 yr, I've never seen anyone talk (on their phones) on the subway.
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Maybe true for newer software... older software might be harder to patch (but not necessarily hard).

Can anyone think of any physical devices that depend on magnetic north = geographic north in a mechanical (i.e. not software) way other than a compass?
Friction feedback loop
Are you thinking of Native Client?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Our_Lisa

The "solution" to the puzzle is basically the way Lisa and Homer accidentally discover the secret of the Orb of Isis in this episode.

It's basically a crap puzzle based on an in-joke that only people who had seen this particular episode would be aware of. The conspiracy theory stuff seems unwarranted. For example:

> [U]nsurprisingly, it would not let me register twice, saying "That serial number is already registered under a different email address." If there's a benign explanation for that, I can't think what it could be.

Crippling the product for customers who bought it second hand is really annoying, but it's not proof of a criminal conspiracy to harvest registration data and sell it. It's standard business practice in many otherwise legitimate industries (e.g. computer games).
Hmm, I wonder to what degree the military relies on old school compasses...?