skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're looking for engineers who have experience in some of the following skills:

* Frontend UI (javascript/html/etc)
* Rapid Prototyping (python and related web dev frameworks)
* Information Retrieval and Big Data (Hadoop and suchlike)
* Distributed Systems and Storage (NoSQL and suchlike)
* Mobile (iPhone/Android/etc)

We're also looking for one UX designer.

We're founded by folks who have experience at Mozilla, Google and Yahoo, including myself. This is my second startup after Delicious. We're already funded and are able to pay appropriately, both in salary and equity.
it'll get better and better, meaning it'll squeeze those SLR and dedicated GPS from the bottom, and you'd only use them in extreme and specialized cases.

So for all intents and purposes, I think it'll replace cameras and GPSes for the mainstream consumer, and you'd only use dedicated hardware in specialized cases.
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Check out gitosis. It's a little bit of a pain to get set up correctly, but once you've done that, adding new repositories is a breeze.

School projects tend to be proliferous and need to be private, which doesn't mesh well with GitHub. I'm mostly just paying them for a micro plan because I think the service is cool.
Worth noting here that most analysts feel that the reason the original iPod was successful was that it only did one thing in an extremely friendly format.

I think the key question here is whether or not the app-universe grows in size until consumers desire separation of widgets again.

I know from my own experience that I found I maximize productivity by having separate devices responsible for separate things. For instance, when I pick up my blue iPod it's for education -- I keep books and lectures on there. But when I pick up my black iTouch it's for fun -- I keep only tunes there. My phone -- although it has all kinds of neat wizardry in it -- I use solely for talking to other people.

Perhaps both trends are true. Perhaps we end up individually separating our apps into physical devices based on preference instead of tradition. Neat stuff.
The vast majority of people have a casual interest in photography or GPS devices.
A country that encourages entrepreneurship? Free access to high school education? Genes that drive you forward instead of slouching on the couch? A home? Food on the table?
Apple's tablets are just one aspect of this etherealization. The real hero here is software. From the ability to create a physical three dimensional object to the manipulation of DNA - software makes it possible.

What's reassuring is that Apple doesn't have control over all the hardware interfaces that make (and will make) this possible.
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I recently ported my Qt desktop app to use QML, where possible (I still use C++ and QWidgets for some things, or to extend QML, eg drag and drop support) and I think it was a very worthwhile task. QML is really pleasant to work with and much more productive than C++/Qt or HTML+CSS+JS.

Actually, IMHO, QML is what HTML should have been - easy and clear, yet also flexible and powerful.
Google says it's on this page: http://opencrack.hashkiller.com/20101120-19.html (which is blocked at work)
It's going to take some major technology leaps for cell phone cameras to replace SLR's,but I do think they're already cannibalizing the point-and-shoot market, which was a pretty big part of the camera market (certainly by volume at least).

I think if phones started coming with a better flash, it be very hard to justify bothering with a separate point-and-shoot camera. Although, to be fair, most point-and-shoots have a pretty crappy flash as well.
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I don't remember pressing an 'Add Complaint' button. It's my opinion and we can agree to disagree.
The super great service airlines all seem to have much higher average ticket prices (not saying they aren't worth it) and maybe even less labor restrictions...
I don't know. I've always gotten the feeling that Jobs is a perfectionist to the point of it almost being a pathology. I doubt his motivations are primarily focused on money, especially at this point.
I think you are spot on in the SLR department (point-and-shoots are another story), but I do believe the dedicated GPS dies via the tablet. I used and iPad 3G recently as one and it worked great, much better than the generic GPS I was given. I figure with tablets and car manufacture solutions then dedicated GPS will go to a niche market for specialized tasks.
This isn't that surprising or revolutionary, it's all just part of the inevitable movement towards ubiquitous computing. It's obvious that we won't always be reliant upon one device's built-in sensors to constantly gather and supply relevant data in real-time, and inevitably we'll have an incredibly integrated network of real-time, physically collocated devices.

For now, tablets are great. And Apple is great at supplying them. But by no means does this mean anyone will be enslaved to Apple in the long term – someone else has the opportunity to create an open platform that enables any and all technologies to communicate with each other. Someone else will have to sell this platform to businesses, governments and, most importantly, consumers. And someone else will have to create the other, new interfaces by which we access and derive meaning from this data collection. And the challenge of preventing this from being too closed, too proprietary, is what will distinguish the best approach from the most profitable approach, and where we as users can choose to avoid a "client monoculture."

The tablet approach is just a step in an ongoing direction. It's way bigger than this.
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> It's standard knowledge that your second leg will be canceled if you miss your first leg. It's been that way for 30 years.

I guess I don't fly enough, because I had no idea. I haven't tried to game their pricing model, either, for that matter.

That said, he and several others here have convinced me to avoid United if at all possible.
If you don't train your employees, they will learn on their own and they will make mistakes... at your expense.
It was already happening then. It's older than computers. In his day it meant e.g. replacing cams with variable speed motors.
"For historical reasons, the device in your pocket or purse - the one that you use to browse the Internet and send email, is called a "phone." We need a new name for that thing." Scott Adams. He suggests calling them "head". http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/phone/

On a side note, I really need an innovation for keys, they scratch my iPhone! So, go, that new yc company, go!
They'll take the bottom out today; but see The Innovator's Dilemma for where that will lead tomorrow.
I think this is actually part of Apple's strategy. People have collections of used iOS device gathering dust or going on eBay. Now they can hook the old iPhone up as a GPS or alarm clock, or whatever and buy the newest model guilt free.
> "perhaps iPad-like devices will replace traditional dials in cars in the near future."

The dashboards of the near future are going to start piping a lot of control over to paired devices, but I think they'll maintain their current level of sophistication in and of themselves. But those paired devices will be a huge opportunity.

And in the same arena: automotive diagnostic machines are going to be replaced. (e.g. OBD tools becoming an OBD->bluetooth adapter + software) As well as repair and service manuals. (Who needs a book to tell them when to rotate the tires if the car tells your phone?)
The SLR option depends on the future of imaging hardware in the near term, but what does dedicated GPS have that's so great?

Another generation or two to sort out the always-on/background bugs of current iOS GPS apps and the battery life bit, and tablets will take over - fast processors, big screens, easily available hardware already present to develop on (sound, internet access, etc). Why not?
that kind of phrase is called a "but-head" http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/11/14/...
its more of a commentary on the account plans that github has. compare it to pretty much every other github competitor, and they almost unilaterally provide at least one free private repo.
FTC wants "Do Not Track" feature among wide-ranging online privacy changes
I think MS could have delivered on the prediction if they had changed their software to match the form factor. All Windows tablets run a (basically) stock Windows XP / Windows 7. If the iPad used a (basically) stock OS X, it would not have sold! Too many small buttons, mouse-centered experience, etc.

Apple's key was realizing that the software had to change, too.
I usually take a few minutes and scan 2-3 pages, but I do this a couple times during the day. It's a nice break from work.
Thanks for the feedback, folks. I'm actually a bit surprised this hit hacker news without any of us authors posting it, but heck, I'll jump in.

Think of this as an experiment in exploring a document collection at a higher level than search. Specifically, what you're seeing is Stanford's dissertations through the lens of a text model that tries to distill high-level patterns in the data. It doesn't always succeed, but it often hits the mark. There are plenty of ways that the visualization and the underlying text model could be improved.

For the curious, I'll tell you a bit more on how the numbers are computed: we build a unigram language model of the contents of every Stanford department based on their dissertations. Then, we posit that every dissertation comes from a mixture of those department models (using a supervised topic model, Labeled LDA). This lets us infer, for every dissertation, a weighted mixture of departments that best characterizes that abstract. So, say, dissertation X is 60% computer science, 20% physics, and so on. These scores are aggregated to compute the average similarities between departments, and are sliced to give the view over time.

So what you're looking at is, essentially, a visualization of word overlap between departments measured by letting the dissertations in one department borrow from words from another department. Which departments borrow the most words from which others?

When you zoom in two-levels (click on a department twice), individual dissertations are plotted on a line between each dissertation's home department and it's next highest scoring department. So the relative position of two dissertations near each other is not meaningful unless they are on the same radial line. Dissertations from other departments that have a high score for the central, focused department, are also shown.

For instance, take a look at Computer Science in 2005. You'll see three dissertations along the radial line to Linguistics - those are the three students that graduated from the Stanford NLP group that year. There are plenty of other places you find similar things that work, and also places where things don't work as nicely as you'd expect.

The visualization Jason built was really interesting from the text modeling perspective, because it let us experiment with many model variations (lda, tf-idf, etc etc) to see how well each matched our intuitions. This model, though still wanting, was by far the best. Good enough, even, for us to put online for the world to play with, and for hacker news to pick apart ;)
IMHO, for the "average" consumer, there's very little difference between the either the capabilities or the ease of use of either and Android phone or an iPhone. It's almost Pepsi vs. Coke.

Hackability is completely off the average consumer's radar.
wepay primarily caters to college students and roommates

Now.

This is a great idea that, if executed properly, can be so much more. I guess that's why I was so concerned with what I saw as negative corporate blog energy.
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also: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-largest-single-loan-given...

filter by "Barclays" to confirm the number. Note the amount is in millions.

the data is downloadable on scribd in pdf here: http://www.businessinsider.com/check-out-which-banks-receive...
A tablet will do most things well enough for most people but are always niche markets. Look at how music is stored. There is still a market for records. :)
CX and SQ are a bit pricey (although SQ is pricey in retail with lots of 30-50% corporate discounts, their main market).

QR, EY, EK are actually VERY price competitive on their routes. They're mainly transit airlines, but to fly from e.g. random US to Australia, it's probably cheaper to go via the middle east on one of those carriers vs. over the Pacific. There are a lot of political concerns in places like Canada that the middle eastern airlines are dropping prices so low on profitable long-haul routes that the national flag carriers can't compete.

As to why they are better, it's probably that they focus on the inherently profitable long haul high capacity high frequency market, have little or no "legacy" costs (US carriers paying pensions and healthcare for retirees), supportive governments (for things like expanding their hub/transit airports to accommodate more flights). Allegedly they are not massively subsidized by the foreign governments.
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My university has free, online access to all Master's thesis and PhD dissertations: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/
Ask HN: Best practices for "reminding" clients they have an unpaid invoice?
You're right but contacting everyone like that is not very practical, in most cases you're nor event aware that a dissertation for the topic you're interested exists.

IDEA BOLT: What if one creates a central website that offers free storage and search capabilities and ask people to upload their dissertations and theses?

What do you think about that idea?
I look forward to the day when fat people everywhere will pulverize their iPads using them as bathroom scales.
Ask HN: How do startups attract graphic designers?
Like many developers, I suck at graphics and visual design.

How do I make my project / startup attractive to a designer, other than just the paycheck? How can I make it stand out as something that will really engage a designer and get them interested?
I see. Specifically targeting content with embed codes seems like it would leave you in the clear.
The problem here is that your opinions are meaningless unless you support them.

I think that was axod's main problem with the article.
Doing raytracing in javascript is a bad idea. Period. There are many ways to do 3d on the web with greater flexibility and WAY more performance. WebGL is one, CUDA support in javascript is another: http://mozillalabs.com/jetpack/2010/01/25/elevating-javascri.... There is no reason to do that type of computation in the interpretation layer of javascript. (This is akin to saying you would prefer a pure python implementation of disk io, as opposed to the built in method which is implemented in C.)
I guess that Google has paid and will continue to pay back its investment many, many times over.
This post is a great rebuttal to those who think that Google is becoming a lumbering giant. I wonder how long it would have taken Microsoft to respond to a similar situation.
It's like you are saying though tools are good but because ignorant people use it, tools must be bad.

This is the classic example of 'fools blame their tools'. AES/SHA/RSA are really good tools and great asset for crypto community.
Before making a non-trivial purchase online, I typically do a search for "$vendorname sucks" and/or "$productname sucks", and this has saved me headaches on more than one occasion.

I hope that Google's solution won't interfere with finding bad reviews in this case.
It looks like there wasn't much of an article to begin with. Here's a mirror:

http://en.wikivisual.com/index.php/Etherealization

Edit: Someone has already undeleted it.
Really? This is the first time I've ever heard this.

Really. It also ties in to why the airlines want you to show proof of who you are.

Back before they did both of these it was common for people to buy round trips and sell the legs individually for well below what the airline was willing to sell them for.

Why, you ask? The fundamental problem is that airline pricing is insanely complicated. The principle is simple, put a plane in the air, fill it with passengers, try to make a profit. The problem is that there are huge fixed costs to having the flight (time on airplane, fuel, employees, airport fees) and much lower variable costs (incremental cost of baggage, incremental fuel). Only a small fraction of people are willing to pay their share of the true cost of the flight. Some of those are willing to pay much more. Most are willing to pay less than their share of the total costs (not worth having the flight for them) but more than the marginal cost (worth letting them on the flight).

The result is that airline pricing becomes all about pushing people who are able to pay more into actually paying more, while allowing people who are not willing to pay more to get on cheaply. For instance if someone does a round trip and has a layover that includes a weekend, that's probably not a business trip and so they can pay less. Someone who flies somewhere then flies back the next day is probably on a business trip and can be charged more.

One way trips are generally bought by someone who is going A to B to C ... because those are business stops. People flying on business are generally willing to charge more, so airlines happily charge them more.
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I saw the trollface in the sprite and went sourcedigging :)
I'm fond of putting a horse head in their bed.
We don't need another name for it. Everyone knows what it is. Some people understand why it's called what it's called, the others can either read up on it, or never consider it.

What we now call a phone is developing so quickly now that calling it anything related to what it does now will mean we have to give it another new name in a few years.
Senators calling hosting companies to have websites shut down? Um, wasn't there something called the rule of law?
This is not at all correct because passing by reference and value have defined and distinct meanings. Consider the difference between C++, which has actual pass by reference:
void swap(int& x, int& y) { int t = x; x = y; y = t; }, and Java: void swap(Integer x, Integer y) { Integer t = x, x = y; y = t; }. The C++ version will result in changes to the variables in the calling function and the Java version will not.

The real problem is that Java created needless confusion by calling its pointers references for purely marketing reasons.
Looks like these are the 3 patents in question:

http://brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/patent/235...

http://brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/patent/248...

http://brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/patent/247...
Ask HN: What are you fellow geeks using for blogging?
I would like to know what platform are you using for blogging at this moment. I'm trying to decide which one to use! At the moment I can't afford to host my own blog.
Clint's content is generally really good - Channel 9 is the geek equivalent of porn.
I did too, but everyone knows that horses are more expensive in the Fall.
One of the search terms mentioned in the NY Times articles was "Christian Audigier glasses". On Bing, the questionable www.decormyeyes.com site is still the 5th listing.

http://www.bing.com/search?q=Christian+Audigier+glasses&...
I use my iphone to replace reading glasses all the time.

Snap a photo, two finger zoom of the photo and you are done
Or maybe an app that will immediately redisplay what the camera views in a larger format on the screen. Probably be a bit clunky, but might not be too bad. Might even help more for people who need high magnification for reading but whose distance vision is still good.
not at all. I'm simply giving credit where it's due.
So I tried signing this up and throwing it up on my site, and I got some reward for a free coupon to UserTesting.com. I am mostly confident my customers will have zero interest in this reward. The $5 gift card at Amazon though would be great.

I was wondering if it was possible to configure the rewards offered. I actually tried playing around with the snippet of code you give your publishers:

<iframe src="https://www.rewardlevel.com/plugin/index?plugin=XXX width="100%" height="60" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" allowtransparency="true"></iframe>

XXX is an integer, and I was able to get different rewards to show up by changing its value.

I assume this isn't intended and my value for XXX is supposed to be static indicator of my account ID. But how do you plan on configuring the rewards offered by the publisher?

Shoot me an e-mail if you want talk to more. My site gets quite a bit of traffic and I'd love to offer some easy incentives and this is way more streamlined to use than anything I've tried with TrialPay et al.
Do you also have a plan for after the go-live day? I think most of the work will lie in the marketing after you've launched. writing potential, posting to new blogs, refining your product and business plan, etc.

BTW. Thanks for the guide, I believe it will help a lot of people here getting the word out.
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BlogEngine.NET running on DiscountASP.NET - I had used WordPress for three years and wanted to try something else.

WordPress is still the best platform all-around, but I think it's easier to extend BlogEngine.NET.
In the comments on the blog they noted that they will lock the repositories when the trial expires.
Perhaps they thought you were insinuating that it's more difficult/impossible for people that aren't white and male to become millionaires. Given their age, however, perhaps it was more that, when they were growing up, it was easier to become great, as societal pressures, presumptions and restrictions were very different. I would hope that in another 70 years, the collection of previously less-privileged trillion/quadrillionaires (read: inflation) is more representative of society as a whole.
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Really cool app. I've been trying it out today. (I had been using the Keep Focused utility previously.)

The difficulty I'm having with your app is after my pomodoro finishes, you have the clock ticking upward and it doesn't stop. I need it to either stop counting up after 5 minutes and/or turn red, otherwise I totally forget to start another pomodoro, since I'm not always that good at taking breaks or I want to finish up one line of code before going on break and am liable to forget. But maybe I'm just a Pomodoro noob. =)
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If you want to add "color" to a company blog, you talk about positive things of a somewhat personal or offbeat nature. If he wanted to describe how the WePay team went on a road trip to a conference and stopped at some amazing place where the customer service was hands-on and handled exceptions well, that would be great. Or just about some board game which they really enjoy playing at the office.

Whining about vendors, especially when you are partially or technically somewhat at fault, is something you do on "friends-only" posts, personal facebook, etc.
Presumably there is an app for this. If not, there will be in 10...9...8...