skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
each driver decides whether or not to increase the distance to the next car. there are many such decisions that result in the total distance to the next car: i think it's a constant adjustment rather than just one decision.

another view might be that an exponential distribution on distances would lend (a lot of) support to zero distance: hopefully that's pretty rare.
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I would guess that 8GB is maximum bonus space, which adds up to 10GB when you count the two gigs you started with.
If solo developers can get into the App Store directly, why not the iBookstore? Having all these middlemen is crazy.

I bet a lot of independents will continue to roll out books through the App Store.. not least because you can make richer experiences that way.
Can't find it on a quick look at searchyc, do you remember any more details?
The main problem seems to be that it is probably hard to make a living as a personal assistant at the prices you and I are willing to pay.

I'm not sure it's the actual rate of pay. I'd pay $20 an hour for these services no problem, and that's far above minimum wage. The problem is I'd ultimately be paying far more to do all the paperwork, have this person treated as an "employee", taxes, and red tape. If it was just handing cash to someone "under the table" the rate isn't too prohibitive.

Labor laws hurt employees as much as they protect them.
The most annoying part is that their functionality is tightly woven in with the rest of their application. Why would we need separate Word/Excel parsers? Couldn't you just separate common functionality to a shared library...

It's the GIMP problem all over again. If they would just separate each functionality into components, it would make it easier for others to create "shells".

I see potential for a lot of improvement in the GIMP and Photoshop interfaces, and someone with better design skills than me could potentially make a Photoshop-killer.
I still disagree @bigot though. People should toughen up a bit and chill out. "Women read trash" is just like a woman saying men are obsessed with cars... who cares.

My main point here though is, that I have absolutely no idea what my ideal woman would like reading. But it sure as hell wouldn't be anything like what I like reading.

What next? Dating based on what clothes you like wearing?
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My experience is that most iPhone users still (after a few years) look at their fingers as they type. The promotional iPad videos show slow, deliberate, two finger hunt and peck typing.

If the average touch-typist gets to even 40WPM on the iPad I'd be amazed.
Awesome to have your readership!

On the "Django" point: I know the difference between a web framework and a programming language and a scripting language. I use them. But most of our readers don't, and the paragraph it would take to explain just didn't serve the story or our readers - who are decidedly non-programmers.

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I would like a linux distro which runs photoshop, as good as windows with equal performance, out of the box
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The headline on this HN submission is a bit ambiguous: are the face-detection systems using the Viola-Jones method, or the the face-hiding technique a Viola-Jones method?

Turns out, it's the former - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola-Jones_object_detection_fr...
If I pick up any more side projects my wife will kill me :-) With that being said, I bet someone could do something pretty cool and unique with some of those.
We currently live somewhere where my work is a 20 minute walk away, my wife's work is 15 minutes walk away and our son's school is 10 minutes walk away.

That has made a huge difference to what we can both get done in a day - no need for long commutes (previous role had a commute of 2.5 hours a day) or school drop off and pick ups.
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You laugh, but we as humans have no problem identifying the faces with odd makeup as faces.
What about BSD? There are alternatives out there that doesn't require GNU.
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http://crossbrowsertesting.com is also a good choice (I am biased), we have live testing (VNC) and screenshots. we are working on video.
> And you're basing this on what data?

Steve Jobs fumbling his way through a single sentence during the original iPad launch, and the hunt-and-peck typing used in the promotional videos.

> It's not as if college is devoid of consuming content.

Agreed, but if you need a real laptop anyway (Mathematica, writing essays, etc, etc), is it really worth it to carry both?
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Sounds like a paid for marketing stint for the reader service he pitches at the end.

Don't fall for the submarine...
Not if you fill thousands of other profiles with the same rubbish too. Then it's a level playing field.
Your post got me interested: Do you think that HN could pull of another thread like this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=652952
I suppose the problem is that paying users are subsidising free users. I know our company has about four paid accounts but we tell all our clients to get free accounts so that we can easily share files.

It means that there must be a 10:1 ish ratio of free to paid accounts which probably prevents them from dropping the price.

Arguably though, the service would be less valuable if everyone had to have a paid account before you could share files with them.
Basically it comes down to the following:

1) If you're low risk then stick it in a stable government bond.

2)If you're medium risk stick it in an low-fee index tracker

Most funds under-perform the market. There's no statistically sound way you can differentiate successful funds from lucky funds.

Trying to beat the market is a suckers game. There's no way you can out-analyze an analyst who spends 100 hours/week understanding a sector unless you have inside information or unique expertise. The first is illegal, the second is unlikely.
Well I can imagine the weirdest thing ever: just because you are giving away the domains for free, some cool kid will get an idea for a startup.
I had one when I lived in Melbourne recently. Its a company called "The Lifestylers Group"

http://www.thelifestylersgroup.com.au/

So, they already exist, you just have to find them. They call themselves a "Personal Concierge Service" so perhaps you could do a search for that in your local area.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find something similar when I moved back to Perth.
i'm not sure what you're asking, but generally it's illegal to print you own money.
I own wantrepreneur.net and I can't think of anything to do with it. If anyone wants to use it, let me know and I can transfer it over to you (just need an account at namecheap)

comment if you have any ideas for it, or shoot me an email m[]mikeyur[]com
I found this to be very crushing. If school really was invented for the sole purpose of creating a generation of unthinking worker drones, then this means that everything that we believe in - capitalism, the economies of scale, marketing - hinges on the creation of a dumb populace. We have no alternative to school, and John Gatto doesn't offer any other apart from the Amish and the Mondragon Cooperatives (and perhaps homeschooling) - both of them far cries from the economies of scale afforded to the capitalistic society.

http://www.cantrip.org/againstschool.html
http://www.wtp.org/archive/transcripts/john_taylor_gatto.htm...

On a related note, I find his description of an early America very interesting. He observes that you couldn't get many employees back in the day, before the Civil War - because they were all equally entrepreneurial - meaning that they'll only stick with you for a year or two before striking it out on their own. (Granted, they had slaves, but let's not go there).

It makes sense, really - and so I find it mildly ironic that things are coming full circle, what with today's growing trend in startups.
That chart looks at all countries in the OECD (not just the US) and also looks at the 60's and 70's (not the 50's).
Right question, wrong place.

Ask teachers, dentists, gardeners, councillors, vets (both the animal-doctor and the ex-military kind), fish owners, fish eaters, mechanics, little old ladies who don't know whether to trust their mechanic, landlords, concierges...

You're more likely to get responses you would never even have considered.

Look at it this way. It is often said that the best teams / startups are formed of people with different backgrounds, different thinking styles, different worldviews. So you're not going to add much to yourself by asking people (broadly speaking) similar to yourself. Find people totally unlike you. Think of a business you've never even encountered. Does it suck to own a fast food franchise and be totally at the mercy of the brand? Who knows? Maybe it does. Maybe you can help a little. Is it tough to be a guitar teacher nowadays when I can sort-of learn from youtube? I bet it does. Can you help them stand out?

Ask your friends about their friends. Who do they know who is in a weird business or industry you're unlikely to know anything about? Maybe they do something hardly anyone knows anything about? I met someone who told me about a friend of theirs who works as a food arranger. For photographing food for cookbooks. She's not the photographer. Or the cook. She's just really good at arranging the food. I had no idea that even existed as a job.

So step outside HN and the other places you might frequent online. You might just be able to fix a problem no-one capable of fixing has ever even heard of.
I can say with pretty strong confidence that its due to 1. On long trips this situation can get pretty interesting if you end up finding groups of other cars that are on the highway for similar amounts of time. You could say that the group takes on a dynamic similar to a herd hiding from a predator.

The riskiest position for a car is the leader position and the last position, as these are the easiest positions to get picked off by the police. Most people want to go faster, but don't want to get caught. Often times you'll see people alternate the leader position as a way to share the risk and acknowledge that the other driver is taking greater risks by taking the leader position.
This is great! Thanks!
I gave away a bunch of domains a few months back (I posted about them here). Of what I gave away, I don't think any has been put to good use, and one of them has been used to spam my own damn site.. Sorta lost the will to give on that one anymore.

(Update: Of course, if someone came to me and begged me for a domain I was just sitting on.. I'd probably be OK with giving it up!)
well, no; the GP was suggesting the college is charging more in tuition to cover the iPad costs. I couldn't see where they got that info from was all :)
Every time someone asks for a search function here, someone answers with http://searchyc.com. This is a perfectly valid answer, but you should rather ask yourselves, why are people constantly asking for that? Because you don't have a "search" link in the HN header, e.g. right next to "new". It'd be fine if it'd just point to searchyc.com.
I don't think this will happen, because of :
1) create user X
2) sux X
3) Install PhotoShop Trial
4) In 30 days, GoTo 1

Yes, I learned programming with GoTo. I am old.
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http://academicearth.org/courses/machine-learning ?
Why is this on Hacker News? Just seems to be an ad.

If they had written a blog or an article explaining the resons behind this, it would be different. But this adds no value to HN. Would this have been acceptable if it had been a link to a site other than dropbox?
Putting it in a sandbox is more likely to hurt performance.
This task is on my TODO list. Why does http://calibre-ebook.com/ fail?
I half-agree.

Clearly the people you describe often have problems for which they would appreciate solutions for which they would be willing to exchange money.

On the other hand, news.yc users ALSO tend to have both money and problems, and the best tools are generally ones where the creator had the problems themselves.

I guess my point is we could possibly have an interesting conversation about which market is most profitable, but you can't deny the people here are a market you might want to target.
Why isn't "I'm worried my documents won't look right" a legitimate concern? You're talking about something that has a very real effect on people's lives and you're trying to dismiss it because Microsoft Office exists.

Word definitely has problems of its own, but dismissing concerns about how a document will look to the other 90% of people out there is missing the point.
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Have you looked at varicad ?
I think the same is true of all martial arts, based on my experience with traditional karate (I trained with a man who received his black belt from Funakoshi)
Everything you describe sounds fine, but in the aggregate it privileges the hypothesis.

When data supports the model, it is accepted. When it contradicts the model, extra scrutiny is applied. In short, a higher standard of evidence is required when you disagree with the hypothesis. It's kind of like accepting p-values of 0.05 when you agree with the model, but 0.01 when you disagree. It creates a bias in favor of the model.

When huge arbitrary amounts of new evidence are available (e.g., an experimental field), this won't matter. In fields without experiments (climate science, oceanography, economics), this effect can protect a bad hypothesis.
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Total nonsense. I don't care about sports, I find the exercise banal, so I'm not going to be invested in it. It's even easier to determine someone's passion by talking with them than it is their coding ability.
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Another problem I'd be very tempted to pay money to solve right now:

I'm taking lessons in French. It's pretty cool. I'd like to find ways to improve my French at home. I'd love a site that would make it easy to find someone to video chat with eg skype with some (possibly minimal) teaching skills so I could practice conversation.
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You're better off with EC2+EBS because EBS allows you to attach permanent storage to your device just as you are accustomed to. S3 is more for backups etc.
You can do CAD in blender.

http://www.blender3darchitect.com/2009/07/blender-3d-as-a-ca...
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I wonder if other people from Munich hanging around on HN, too.

Interested in a user meeting and some beer?
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One note is shockingly good. The easiness with which you make items "doable" is awesome. You then move them around as you like.
I was going to respond to your post anyway, but given that my mom was a food arranger [at least it was a common task at her marketing firm] for some years now I really had to throw that in there...

Definitely right question, wrong place. It's kind of like asking your competition, this belongs in a bizdev forum. I think hacker news is going to be the last place I announce my site or hint at the idea. I mean there's only a few thousand devs that are really competent enough to be trouble and I really want to avoid them seeing my ideas before the bakers, photogs and food arrangers.
That's a very American centric way of looking at it, the world is a lot larger and there are plenty of ways this could be done by incorporating abroad.

The SEC regulates the American markets, but worldwide you've got plenty of options. One way would be to incorporate in Panama, Curacao or Cyprus, where there are not such limitations.

In fact, the whole 'accredited investor' concept is as far as I know limited to the US.
My domain onyourcell.com is expiring soon and I do not plan on renewing it. Let me know if anyone wants it before it expires.
I'm surprised I can't use my developer account to upload a book to iBookStore directly (or some song on iTunes for the matter).

After all I could just put an app that shows the book via iTunes connect, or even put a generic book-reader and sell the books as items in an internal "shop" (via Storekit).

So it doesn't make sense that you need a separate track to put a book.

But if you aren't making $100/year to cover the fees it might be a better test to use a 3rd party to get on the *-Store.

Then again, this is Apple, they probably want separate yearly fees for each of these "stores". So scratch that, I'm not that surprised, it makes total sense now :-)
Learn spanish and find a mexican. I'm only half joking if you live in CA.
Yes, you're absolutely right. It's good if you have some experience of your market.

But it is a bit of a problem when your market (say, HNers / web/tech types) are the obvious market for anyone in that market seeking to start a business. Hence the incredible variety of programming text editors, for example.

My point is that the intersection of sets of problems had by HNers could be a set of problems that has already been explored, or is at least targeted, by huge numbers of people, simply because it is their first imagined market (i.e. themselves). And in quite a few cases you will be going up against incredibly talented people (or teams) willing to give away their work for free because they believe in free/open source software. Which is a great thing, obviously, but it makes it hard to compete.

So yes, you are right. But sometimes it can be good to look outside.
This is neat. I'd only recommend that you add a few more genres. In non-fiction, your list could be longer (e.g. no "History" in there).
Now that is actually one of the first real uses for the ipad that I've seen come up. Excellent idea!
Plus the medical bills from the beating you give them afterwards.
Déjà vu (quite recently): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=719408
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it doesn't have to be a choice.. but for most startup oriented people it will probably become one. also probably unintentionally. they end up ignoring their kids etc...

i love my job and even though it gives me a lot of freedom to spend time with my family i still sometimes get so caught up i have to remind myself to focus on the family.
Given that its probably a piece of python or java code spitting that out, it shouldn't be too surprising really. If it is C++, hmmm ... maybe they need a better compiler.
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I agree hugely.

I mainly react to the way that people seem to suggest not that targeting tech types is perhaps unwise due to it being a fairly saturated market, but that it's almost morally wrong in some way.

Personally my area of focus is on areas where I think my personal interests overlap with a significant potential userbase, and I'm slowly trying to convince myself I can do mySekritProject better than google, or at least, find a niche they're not going for.
With the speed at which technology is advancing, there's really no excuse for this attitude. It's also a common, general personality failure. If a person has no love of knowledge by nature and the fear of competition cannot engender it, then what use is such a person?
this is one more reason to love google. they don't take themselves too seriously to allow stuff like that.
I use it for my business too. We have 4 different accounts and I am the only one connecting all accounts. If dropbox would offer an option to get 50 GB and create 10 accounts who can access different folders I would gladly pay 100-150 USD a year.
You can try to use http://www.language-exchanges.org/
This is what you're talking about.
Maybe. But don't forget that Hacker News types have problems that need solving too.

Indeed if you solve one of our problems then you have two big advantages:

a) a huge pool of tech-savvy seed users

b) A much higher likelihood of useful feedback

c) I would suggest, also, much better chance of revenue generation
Max 8GB for free users and 10GB for pro users?
Thanks, that looks worth a closer look.
I need a way to add a simple white label site search feature for my customers. We run a service that hosts thousands of websites. We would like a service with an api that allows to have a site indexed and add a search box. Sort of like a google custom search engine but all with api access for each site. We looked a Lijit, but they don't allow searches without advertising (our customers don't want that). And with all that my team has their plate we really don't want to try to run our own search (ala Solr) ourselves.
Why does this exist? I can't tell if I love the retro less-than-MIDI or hate it :-)

I think I might be pining for the Moog Cookbook: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJwKaGaSAjE

Edit: How could I forget, The Dub Side of the Moon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaR4fsUeTVY
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"After you've purchased your own domain, we also make it super easy to set up your own personalized email boxes, calendars, and wikis using Google Apps."

They make it super easy by setting the dns settings to Google apps, or is there anything else involved? (Setting the dns records is already well documented on the Google apps site and not hard at all).
In the U.S. But then this will happen outside of the US.

It makes me mad that in a country that has nearly zero financial regulations from fleecing the poor, there are regulations from keeping the poor from investing in seed stage ventures. The rich can invest in Twitter and the poor are stuck with the lottery (i.e. mathematically constrained odds of 'impossible'). Fuck the rich.
Falls in line with the my colleague's "Fire 'em" rhetoric which prompted this thread in the first place. What kinds of things can a company do to encourage learning? Certificates don't count ;-)
I ran this same image through our face detector, with results I could easily predict: http://demo.pittpatt.com/detection_demo/view.php?id=JSCV5AH9... We don't find any of them (blue and yellow are low confidence faces). We do "well" by our definition, terrible by the writer's.

So, problem #1: using hand-drawn faces (these are fairly stylized) is a really bad way to test a face detector. No one "in the real world" wants to detect or recognize hand-drawn faces, and so no one trains with hand-drawn faces. We, specifically, err on the side of choosing to exclude stylized faces from the faces category (though most frequently these would be "don't-cares").

Problem #2: Using a single image is actually a bit misleading, because if you really want to "test" methods for thwarting detection, you need to use a video. Those slight variations in pose and lighting are going to make it much easier to pick up the face and filter out the misses.

Lastly, if you wanted to "defeat" a dystopian mass surveillance system, you don't want to prevent detection, but recognition. It's far easier. And to prevent good recognition over a huge dataset (ie, the population of the world), you just need to "remove" information from your face. Wear big ol' sunglasses and a hat. Far more effective, far less conspicuous.

(edit to add: if you click 'thesis' at the top, and read the top few entries, he shows alot more about how viola-jones and the haar wavelets are used to find face regions. It's an interesting visualization. It also does a great job explaining why the makeup trick works)
Anssi Vanjoki (EVP Nokia), pretty much offered a mea culpa on N97 not meeting consumer expectations - "it has been a tremendous disappointment in terms of the experience quality for the consumers". Have a look at the video http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/11183_Video_Anssi_V...