skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is scientific evidence: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Free_will_the...
Screenshot. The Maverick theme and new Font are available in PPAs now. The radial gradient looks great in the menus but is slow to render in practice.
Yeano. Because a 6% affiliate revenue from Amazon will not provide an eCPM of > $6. Really. Better of with iAds.
How do I find a technical cofounder?
Is there any interest in a superstar programmer to co-found a company (BuriedLink.com) focused with pictures and providing users a way to modify those pictures? I’m fairly certain what I want to do can be patented. I’m working on the submission now. The final product will not compete with Flickr, but could capture the interest of social networks.

I’m somewhat technical, creating websites and writing small applications; but I need a hardcore coder who can build the backend and set up the architecture. My strength is in graphic design, front ends and marketing.

I’ve started a company before, Railgun Golf, but it was a sole proprietorship that sold a patented product. This would be a 50/50 partnership.
As impressive as the story is - it sounds very typically American. A boring American has the normal story you know. An interesting American has this story or some variation of it - maybe immigrant parents, maybe poor childhood, maybe doing something social, maybe struggling to get into college, maybe rich friends one is jealous of. Lots of American movies I'm watched have this story.

Everyones story has a narrative that is a lot more interesting, but all the magazine reading and the movie watching you do forces your narrative into a typical down-up-down-up scheme, because it seems like that's the right story to tell.

There is that story of those African boys who ran across the savannah and some of their friends were eaten by lions. that is a non-traditional and interesting narrative. Being top in Columbia is just about standard for an american narrative.

I'm not hating on the story - but I just think that it's not that different from many stories I've read.
From the patent ("Detailed Description of the Preferred Embodiments"):

"The electrical pulses as shown in FIG. 3 have varied pulse widths because of the operation of PWM, and their actual pulse widths depend on the associated sinusoidal duty cycle function. The PWM frequency used in this embodiment is 125 Hz. In fact, preferred frequencies include any frequency sufficiently greater than that can be effectively distinguished by the human eye. However, power consideration for portable devices further prefer PWM frequencies to range within, for example, 100-200 Hz. ... It was determined through experiment that increasing the duty cycle according to a non-linear function gives the most pleasing visual effect while a simple linear ramp does not seem as natural."
Yeah, well - you started it. yummyfajitas and I were having a nice off-topic exchange when you decided to barge in without reading the point properly.
Ha! I had the exact same experience, although I don't remember how many shares I bought. Buying those shares turned out to be a great idea, too.
Really nice, congratz.

Instead of using images, the square and slider markers could be drawed on an extra canvas on top.
You can't see the undercarriage of somebody's car in their driveway from the street nor can you see it flying over in a airplane and there is little doubt that the police would have placed the device in a well hidden place on the car's undercarriage so that it would not be noticed by the owner of the vehicle. So, what they did fails the test you cite. Ergo, an expectation of privacy exists.
Great. So, as an attorney, you're saying that I won't be charged with anything at all, if caught planting tracking devices on police vehicles....? There is definitely a new business opportunity there.
You will not believe how many bad employees a large organization can carry and still grow and prosper.

I mean, ever talked to an AT&T call center? Do you see them going out of business any time soon?

There was this guy I worked with on a previous job. He was simply unqualified to do his job, and displayed no interest in becoming more qualified. He did the bare minimum to survive, and very often others had to do his work for him so they can make progress in their own job. For various reasons his managers preferred to keep him even though he knew of his low performance. He was there for 3 years when I left.
The organization is in no danger of dying, even though around 30% of the employees were of similar quality.
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That Apple patent the article is about is probably why Dell didn't copy the feature exactly.
Ditto. I really wanna dig into the source. This is a perfect widget for people to learn some canvas basics from.
I definitely wish the strategy scaled better...
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Nothing is easier to find than a gift shop in Washington, DC...

You're right, but I'm trying to illustrate that this irrationality exists, to some degree, in most countries (and it's depressing).
Well, if you have something like $80-$10,000 per year, there are lots of places to find a super-star programmer. Try posting a job to StackOverflow, Craigslist, Hacker News, and other places.

If you are offering a low starting salary, no starting salary, or "a large equity position," then it will be impossible for you to find a superstar programmer, unless you are a superstar programmer yourself. Even your friends won't work for you for equity, if they are indeed superstar programmers.

Unless you are bringing money to the table, or unless you sold a start-up people have heard of (which should also mean you have money), then you are basically worthless to a technical person at the beginning of a start-up. No one, on this forum particularly, believes a business guy is worth 50% of a boot-strapped start-up.

FYI, I have a business degree, and I have held marketing jobs. But when I started a company, I started coding, because that was the only thing worth doing most of the time.
The thing I like the most of that 10.10 screenshot is the selection of fonts. The text in 8.04 looks amateurish in comparison.
I agree that this is area of concern for privacy. Right now the general standard on what police can use for technology is that they can use the same technology that is readily available to the general public. It isn't an unlimited-means standard.

Thermo-imaging equipment to detect marijuana growers is not readily available, so it cannot be used.

Telephoto lenses can be bought by anyone, so they can be used.

GPS is readily available, so it can be used.

The standard certainly is a moving target. I don't agree with its wisdom, but that is the law as it stands.
I assume you're still in school or just left?

If you've had an internship involving programming or a side project, put it on your resume and be prepared to talk about it

If you don't, then pick the most (and perhaps least) interesting class and be prepared to talk about it
One of the biggest problems I have with interviewees is dragging out of them what they did on their last project. I don't care what the project achieved, I don't care how cool the people were, I don't care how amazing the UI that Jim built looked. I care what YOU did

You'd think this would be easy, it sure ain't. I love interviewees who are cocky and confident: they are easy to talk to and I don't spend an hour gently teasing information out of them. Know what excites you and talk about it! HR can deal with "where you want to be in 5 years" and all that crap. We the techies just want to know if you can code, if we can get along with you, and if you'll be productive in our environment. Make it easy for us to tell that and you're ahead of the pack!

Oh, and please be capable of writing a for..next loop! Seriously!
The problem isn't necessarily that other companies can't make great things. Many of them just don't think it would be as profitable.
I guess I'll go straight for the old fart corner and ask:

Ok. But why would you want to?"
Because "support that behavior" is undermining true social interaction. Just because we technologically can doesn't mean we technologically should. But that is a matter of opinion.

As people with strong technology backgrounds we are usually the first to say that it is the answer to some daily pain or a solution to a problem. But technology can't replace everything - and true face-to-face interpersonal relationships I believe is one of them.

"Moving into devices" is a real-world cop-out. We tune into Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and HN to a degree more than we should and that becomes our reality more than the real world. If we started i-chatting with people we could, with less mental effort, talk to like humans have been for thousands of years we may actually learn something we didn't search for.
I suspect it was probably more like Skype rushing to get the IPO done after Google bought Gizmo5. They had to know it was coming pretty quick.
Apple is the best exmaple of a company that is lead by design. Their products aren't a confusing maze of options and complexity where anything goes, but instead holistic human-friendly devices that are a perfect balance between form and function. Not everyone will be happy with the compromise of "configurability" in favor of "usability" - but the incredible success of Apple products can not be argued with, society at large agrees with simple humanized technology, and will increasingly demand products and services that display good design traits.
I was afraid of that. I could probably do it myself, but it will take a long, long time.
Actually I thought that this would be very useful for Medical diagnosis, and I vaguely recall a similar app being used thusly...
Another error I've seen: I had a Dell that had a pulsing indicator, and it had an acceptable frequency, but the LED behind it only had 8 levels, linearly powered. You could very clearly see the transition from levels 0-1, 1-2, and 2-3, after which (due to the linear driving) the transitions became very unclear, simultaneously making the transition annoyingly sharp and "pulling back the curtain" and letting you too-easily see the implementation details. Apple (and my current Sony VAIO) gets this right; I can't perceive the transition points between levels, and somebody properly accounted for the way we see brightness nonlinearly.
The standard for what can be lawfully seen is not written assuming the view of a 6' tall male. A person can lay down on the sidewalk, an area he can freely occupy, and gain a whole new vision of a person's property, including under a vehicle.

I can lay down on a sidewalk so as to achieve a better viewing angle through someone's window to see a poster on a ceiling inside of a house and still not fail the cases that I cited.

As I said in my other posts, I don't agree with the law, but that is the law.
I like the concept a lot. Here's what I see as it's advantages over striking up face-to-face conversation:

1. the other people actually want to chat -- If the other people are signed on, then they're looking to chat and you're not interrupting the guy trying to read the paper.

1.5. the other people are also on messageparty -- which is a filter in itself, especially at this point. like begets like, and the chance of engaging conversation multiplies.

2. it's mass broadcast -- you're talking with everyone, not just one person, so you're more likely to find one person interesting among everyone at your location. I find this a much better than the "live" alternative of "speed dating" everyone at certain location just to engage in conversation that both parties actually care about.

3. people are uninterruptible -- just try getting 20 people talking in a room at the same time in the same place and still understand what's going on. with text chat, everyone's writing is on the screen and you don't miss a thing.

4. distance is relative -- sure, the hot chick 2 seats away from you in class is literally only 3 feet away, but the douchebag stranger between you two obviously won't appreciate being bothered.

5. as a student, i would totally use this in class -- sometimes you miss what the prof said, sometimes you just don't care what the prof says, or you want to find some tech-loving geeks to be in your study group

PS: for the founders -- please release for ipod touch and ipad wifi! we have (approximate) location abilities too!
Different marketing for different audiences. I don't think the Droid is going to be sold much as an enterprise device, so why advertise to those users? Apple advertising is almost always androgynous, agnostic, and basically smooth and clean. I think mainly Apple wants the user to decide how to define the product, not predefine it and then hope to attract users who fit into that category.
The facts of the matter at that time were different from the facts of the matter when Scott Brown eventually won. When you come out and say it's only 20% probable for a given outcome to happen, and that outcome happens, it doesn't mean you were wrong, it just means a long shot happened. In fact, you would expect just about exactly 1 out of every 5 20% longshots to end up happening.
After I started working on my idea, I found a firefox plugin with over 1 million downloads doing something extremely similar. And they had 12 guys with angel investment working on it too. Yesterday I found Google has a plugin to do it as well, with over 60k users who love it, and another startup apparently has 4.5 million downloads of their plugin, also in the same space (partially at least).

And yet, all it does is motivates me to "kick ass", as you put it so well. Let it motivate you as well. Having competitors:

1. Validates the market for you

2. Makes you work harder and faster than you otherwise might have

3. Let's you see where they went wrong and avoid their mistakes and do what they did right, but better
The fact that they _patented_ light-pretends-to-breathe annoys me to the point of not really being able to bask in the genius of the idea.
You're missing a category. Lots of big, non-IT-centric enterprises SHOULD contribute to OSS projects because they're already using and extending them (whether it violates the license or not) and it really, really pisses off corporate developers when they're told they can't release internal code into the wild. Totally demotivating.
Thank you. Here it is:
http://teabuzzed.com/2009/08/the-number-one-reason-my-startu...
I had never before felt bounded by social class, by economics, by mother fucking money.

I remember when it hit home: I was taking a graduate seminar on Afghan Politics. After class one day, I struck up conversation with a girl sitting next to me. She asked about my background. “I used to fight forest fires,” I explained, thinking I was so cool.

Her forehead crinkled. She stopped for a second, then responded: “Oh. I didn’t know they let people like that, you know, in here.”

Wonderful. And Columbia has a $6 billion endowment[1] on which they pay absolutely NO TAX. They also recently used eminent domain to seize a portion of Harlem.[2] Columbia, Harvard, and every other elitist, non-profit-for-tax-purposes-only private university should have its tax exempt status revoked.

1) http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/...

2) http://news.google.com/news/search?q=columbia+eminent+domain
Top Client-Side Performance Problems in Web 2.0
Doesn't duck duck go just use the yahoo api's anyway? You mean like the look and feel trade secrets?
mass market book by one of his colleagues: http://www.amazon.com/Thinkers-Toolkit-Powerful-Techniques-P...
This actually filled a need I have for showing someone who is only mildly technical how to pick colors for a feature we're testing.

Thanks! It looks great!
I'd love the same thing. An API would be sweet! I think the problem with offering the data is the licensing fees. If I'm nit mistaken the nfl/pa has ownership of the data and any distribution has to be licensed by them? Anyone know if that's actual true?
Doesn't it make it difficult to sell homes in high cost-of-living areas? Seems like you'd be taking a hit in the sale price to reflect the increased property tax burden on the new owner. I don't know whether you come out ahead, but it's probably more likely the longer you live there.
He's obviously never sold PCs to regular people. They care about features as much as techies, maybe more. I did this in the late 90s. People were asking how much RAM a computer had, how many megahertz the processors were, etc. who didn't have the slightest clue what they meant.

The laundry list of tech specs works even on people who don't have the slightest clue what they mean.
don't give up on journalism, it's only dead to those who aren't great writers, and this guy is a great writer.
"Based on your post, it appears that you don't understand how things like statistical significance work. If there is not enough data to make a prediction, you simply should not make a prediction and wait."

Silver doesn't make "predictions", he gives odds. Giving odds implicitly admits that there exists a chance of beating those odds, and attempts to quantify how big or small that chance is. Sure, improbable things happen. That does not make them not improbable. Really, if someone is giving probabilities, you don't just count how many times the lower-probability events happened against him, you take all of his 20% probabilities and look to see whether about 20% of them ended up happening.

Look at it the other way--if all of Nate Silver's "predictions" came true, he'd be way more wrong than if some of them didn't come true, because he's not predicting things with 100% probability! Of all the things he thinks are 70% likely to happen, he's just as wrong if 100% of them happen as if 40% of them happen--he's only right if 70% of his 70% shots happen!
Also, believe it or not I once wrote the CIA asking where I could find a paper copy of this book and they were nice enough to send me a copy free of charge
The recession wiped out real estate, wall street and Detroit, but one can still have a nice, well-compensated life being a lawyer, cop, politician, public school teacher, and almost any type of government employee. Why bother with all that Calculus?
No, and this is important.

1. I am not an attorney. I am not your attorney.

2. I am not giving out legal advice, and nothing that I have said is even considered legal advice.

3. I have no idea what the law is in your jurisdiction because I do not know what jurisdiction you live in, and I most likely do not even know the law in your jurisdiction. There may be statutes specifically proscribing the conduct you describe. You need to research that yourself.

4. Nothing I wrote implies a person won't be charged with placing devices on police vehicles. I only commented on laws pertaining to police placing GPS devices on cars in open driveways in California through August 25, 2010.
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I use dashes a lot when I write - it tells a person, keep going, the thought you're about to read is still part of one thought, but separate slightly from the first part of the sentence.

While it looks ugly under analysis and would get you marked down by an English teacher, I find it pretty good at communicating quickly and getting points across.
The keyword being non-IT-centric. IT projects, OSS or not, should not be a business focus in that case. Best Buy's IdeaX (http://bbyidx.com/) would be one of the first things that comes to mind as an example in this category.
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As a non-technical person with two technical co-founders, I found this to be a great list. Here are a few more from my experience as the non-technical founder:

1. The ability to explain things in simple, non-technical terms, even though the issues are usually neither of that. My company builds really cool things -- I need to sell those things to keep it alive. Without co-founders who can help me understand the details and speak at intelligently about our technology, I couldn't do half the pitches I do.

2. The willingness to do technical work "beneath them.". It's grand if your partner is a super talented developer, however, in a startup, they won't be able to always work on the exciting stuff due to bandwidth, and you'll need someone who is willing to deign to do some of the not so fun stuff. For example, the more technical of my partners will still pitch in with simple CSS and HTML tweaks when the rest of the team is stretched thin. His willingness to occasionally do BS that he did in his early teens allows us to keep moving forward with happy clients.

3. Patience and politeness! Your technical co-founder needs to have an attitude that makes them approachable and not intimidating. Staff and yourself need to feel comfortable asking them questions, even dumb ones.
"Marx, at about the same time, puts the point a little differently in his Eighteenth Brumaire, suggesting that it is only if you think like a newspaper that you will take the events of 1848 (or 1830) as front-page history; they belong on the theater page, or in the obituaries."

- Stanley Cavell, The Senses of Walden
Companies like Demand Media might be interested...they'd need to know what people are talking about right now so they can create content for it.
Dropbox's job page seemed popular around here recently: http://www.dropbox.com/jobs
Welll... yeah, that's why good stories are good stories; they're structured in a way that keeps you guessing. Best part about this story is that it's true, unlike the other places where I've seen this "model" used (hollywood)
Software aside, wouldn't the output of the software simply stand on its own as particularly insightful reasoning? What's to prevent a juror from using it privately and then mentioning the output to the rest of the jurors, who, if rational, would be hard pressed not to agree.
Mobile apps killed the web
this is why i asked a few example - you just gave 1 example

from your example what i understand is that

description is a statement about qualities of something - you give measurements in standard units - color - and its temperature

explanation is a description of a process - because then you describe the order of how a combustion engine works

because you said -heat- in your description - you think you said something other than -temperature- you talked about in your description - but temperature of something was part of its quality - that is - description according to you

so you are not at all clear what type of answer you need for gravity

dont forget that you asked -what is gravity- so you can only expect an answer which says -gravity is x- then you will have to ask what is x
Who knows, but your question doesn't seem too far-fetched to me. I could see this speech being given on the House floor...

"Terrorists are known to use surveillance-detection devices. As a result the Department of Homeland Security's efforts to monitor and intercept terrorist activity is obstructed and the American people are in imminent danger.

To protect Americans from terrorism, this new bill would require all vehicles, cell phones, computers, and appliances to contain various types of monitoring devices. These devices will be remotely turned on for monitoring when police believe terrorist activity is taking place.

The benefit of this law is that every device will have the monitoring equipment, thereby rendering detection equipment useless. The terrorists will not know if it is on, and therefore will not know to alter their activities when they are being monitored.

Law abiding Americans have nothing to worry about with this new law. The monitoring equipment will only be turned on with proper government safeguards.

As we all know, if you are not breaking the law you have nothing to worry about.

I am pleased to cast my vote for the "Saving America for Our Children Act" and urge my colleagues to do the same."