skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or "Arrays have disadvantages in .NET."

Arrays are useful in many languages. I like C arrays quite a bit and will return a huge amount of data with a single allocation. Allocations are expensive.
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I meant on this site. People coming to it from a different direction might have more context or be less geographically distributed.
"But in this case it's the site choosing to share the search term with the ad network"

in the same way that most users probably aren't aware of this, most publishers probably aren't aware as well. i, for one, never considered that the referrer might be passed along to the ad networks i use on my sites. it simply never occurred to me. i definitely didn't choose to share that information with them.
> Angry Birds (either version), Plants vs Zombies, Bejeweled 2

All of these are examples of "shallow" or puzzle games. That's not to say that they're bad games, but it's simply not in the same market as DS games.

> I now I've sat there and played Angry Birds for an hour.

And that's an outlier. I was a kid of the Pokemon generation. I'd sit and play those games (and similar) all night, only stopping to do homework.

For a good example of what the DS market is, I'll look at the top games under "DS" on Gamefaqs. This isn't a perfect representation (represents activity on the site vs sales), but it'll do. 1 to 3 are all Pokemon. 4 is a Kingdom Hearts game, a series known for it's story more than anything. 5th is Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, a traditional RPG. 6th is more Pokemon. 7th is Dragon Quest IX, another installment in the classic RPG series. I can't speak for the rest of the list because I don't know the games mentioned, but by now you should have noticed a trend: RPGs and story. These are games that (as a kid) I'd play for an hour at a minimum. You can easily get 20 or 30 hours out of these and that's before replay value (which absolutely ridiculous when you're talking about Pokemon).

That $30 isn't just something to keep you distracted on the bus; it's something you'll put some time into playing. I don't mean to sound rude, but it seems like something you just aren't getting as a "non-gamer". I don't mean that in a bad way, but to me there's a massive difference between Angry Birds: February Edition! and the next installment in an RPG series I know and love. One will give me quick diversion while I wait in line, but the other one will offer me hours upon hours of entertainment and story.

Edit: Apologies for the tone of this post. I love Angry Birds and similar for what they are, but I have a pet peeve about people conflating casual/social games with video games as a whole.
We already add affiliate links for Amazon (and other stores). That's the primary business model. Thanks for the feedback though!
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This same page for the largest 50 cities in the world would be useless. Unless you're very rich or European, it's very likely that the only comparisons that matter are domestic.
Interesting how DC and LA seem to have similar numbers and yet DC is affordable to buy (because rents are slightly higher?) while LA is more affordable to rent and a much larger bubble indicating some dramatic difference that I don't see.
I hope people aren't buying at 30x rental. The current US interest rates are at historic lows, so unless you get a fixed-rate mortgage you're going to be struggling when the interest rate goes up again.
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That doesn't make any sense. The primary benefit of referring your friend is to help your friend get a job. I would do it even for free. Someday your friend will return the favor.
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Because everything about C++ is bad. Didn't you get the memo?
Yeah, I'm not saying it as judgmentally, just that it is what it is. It's similar to Hollywood, in a sense - an industry where a product can earn you a lot of money or nothing at all, and it's hard to predict which is which.
You can probably start here:
http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/01/how-to-steal-and-get-ri...
I wasn't suggesting you were saying that, I was only making a point related to your two criticisms:

Wikipedia is not very consumer friendly. It's dull looking and the entries are usually filled with a lot of text.

That you read the abstract at the top of the article suggests to me that the article structure is very efficient (and arguably consumer friendly) in that they provide the TLDR summary above the fold, which nullifies the problem that the full article may have too much text.

By the way, my use case for Wikipedia tends to have me reading the complete article more than just the abstract, because I'm usually in research mode when I use Wikipedia. Of course, everyone has a different use case, and I suspect your use case is more common than mine.
It's a good start. If you want to grow, I'd hire a UX/UI designer to tweak the layout.
It looks like it does not attempt to preserve geographic location exactly.

It seems to load them in alphabetical order and fits the next one as best it can given the already plotted bubbles.
The top cities for buy/rent ratios are not necessarily the largest. And I know quite a few people who own properties in other countries who are neither rich nor European. One was an English IT contractor living in Australia who bought a small property in Auckland.

Your "domestic" is not the same as everyone else's.
(usually a studio or 1BR, or outside Manhattan)

I think this is the main qualifier. As I understand it, the data is comparing prices to rent vs buy on similar 2 bedrooms.
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99designs might be good if you want a choice of cheap logos but it's the very last place I'd go for UI design, which is all about understanding who the users are, what they're looking to get from the site/app and what you're looking for them to do with the site/app. Chances are that people that care about that sort of thing aren't entering competitions for less than their usual project rates...

On the other hand, I totally agree that it's important to start off with some basic assumptions about what you'd like to see and what you definitely don't want to see. Once you've reached this stage you're in a position to start talking to freelancers and sending them briefs, and judging them as much by whether their responses show an understanding of (and interest in) what you're looking to achieve as well as the prettiness of their portfolio.

If you're building something non-trivial, UI design is an ongoing process as you adapt to feedback and statistics on how users use your site/app, so chances are you're going to send some more work their way at some stage in future.
I use Papers with Dropbox for syncing my library. Works pretty well as long as you don't try to run it from several computers simultaneously.

I'm pretty happy with Papers, too, though I must second the other post about the Mac app being related to second class status. There has been basically no feature improvements (highlighting, for crying out loud) since 2008 when I started using it. Now I use Skim for annotating instead, which is a bit lame since you can't see the annotations within Papers, but the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
I believe that they're basing this data on stats collected by the census, so you have take the city as defined by the census bounds, which aren't necessarily similar to common conceptions of what area is 'in' a city.
Reminds me of "FoodTubes"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1975152
Pretty much.

The author's identified 'problem' is: I can't find a subway map when I need it because it's too difficult to find and install 'an app for that'.

My reply was working from the assumption that the author was proposing a solution that was designed to address that.

If the context-sensitive search site is merely identifying that I'm looking for a subway map, and then forwarding me on to one of 10,000 disparate subway map web services as erikpukinskis seems to be suggesting, users will inevitably bookmark the web service interface they like best and query it directly in the future. Leading to the same use scenario as with apps. The only differences being trivial technical ones (from the standpoint of the user).
Telling other people how to parent is the #1 source of neverending flamewars on the internet.
Good starting point. Not perfect, nor would I use it in place of other wireframing tools yet, but getting there.
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I've found opera-mini to be faster and just as good/better

albeit without gestures
I think the best way to pick, is to choose the one that gets you excited and keeps you up at night.
(I made this)

Sorry if this is confusing! This visualization is a Dorling Cartogram, which sacrifices geographic location accuracy in order to not have overlapping points (the East Coast would be a tight unreadable bundle otherwise, as well as the Bay Area). The basemap is intentionally left as just an outline to provide some visual context.

A great example of this in action is the Olympic Medal count visualization by the NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/04/sports/olympic...
If you asked me, "Why is Wikipedia Better than the Encyclopedia Brittanica?" my answer would be, "Because it lets people make things like Qwiki."

No, Qwiki isn't the be-all and end-all in this space, but it's an example of the kind of thing that's possible when people re-mix wikipedia content and respin it for different purposes and audiences.

That said, $7M gives them a lot of rope to hang themselves, in particular, a lot of time to hire people and make commitments without the need to focus on something that's profitable.

My guess is that there are quite a few people working on things in their garages without an early round of funding who are going to produce things that are more interesting and make more money in the end.
For me, 3D in Tron was either very subtle, or when noticeable was a little jarring. Not sure it was worth the hassle of wearing glasses over the tops of my glasses, to be honest. By contrast, the 3D in Avatar was noticeable and well executed.
In Qwiki's defense, perhaps what they have been demonstrating is only one manifestation of the technology behind the scenes. The stated mission is to improve the way people experience information, with an emphasis on valuable information -- that is, information that, when consumed, could result in a transaction like "planning a vacation on the web" and "evaluating restaurants on your phone".

Currently they are mining wikipedia because (I'm guessing) it's a convenient source for a massive amount of data to feed into an automated system. No one really cares about turning wikipedia entries into slideshows, but I know from experience that car dealers and real estate agents pay real money to have their pictures and data converted into videos.
Aaron does a great job at organizing the tech community in Philly. He's very passionate and knowledgeable which makes him a great community leader
yeah, borders suck.
Does anyone know the story behind the two "Co-Founder Emeritus" titles on their team page?

http://www.qwiki.com/team
I agree. I just ran the numbers for SF. Based on mid-point of Trulia's buying and renting price ranges ($750K to buy, $3.25K monthly rent), I get the following annual real costs:

buying: ~$24K
renting: ~$36K

That is based on the following assumptions: 40% margin tax rate, principal repayment is not a real cost (it's a saving account...) 15% down payment (renters invest the equivalent amount in a 3% annual return fund), 30 year ammortization of loan with a 4% rate (available now on 5 year ARMs -- you can always go back to renting in 5 years, and if rates soar then that means the economy has recovered, which means your house is worth more..), property tax of 1.16%, closing costs of $10K (that's high), spread over 5 years, home-owner insurance of $600 per year (that's what I pay), no insurance for renters

EDIT:

less risky buying option : ~$30K

(now assuming a 5% loan (30-yr fixed), and PMI insurance of 0.5% of loan value, per year - require for less than 20% down)

There are many good replies to this thread, that essentially point out that buying a house is risky, and that my assumptions do not deal with any 'bad case' scenarios. But nor do my assumptions deal with any 'good case' scenarios (house prices being higher in 5 years time in San Francisco - it might just happen..) But the topic of the original article is about costs, not risk, so I kept the topic at parity, and only dealt with costs. If I were advising anyone for real on rent-vs-buy I would strongly encourage them to consider the risk and reward element of the rent-vs-buy decision, in the context the general financial situation.

Summary: buying is riskier than renting, and it can also be substantially cheaper. Right now, with a 30-yr fixed mortgage, it's cheaper. You have to take on the 'house price risk', but that also carries a potential reward, as this is San Francisco..
There are many cities in the county of San Diego. The city of San Diego (where you are suggesting that the 200k number came from) is about 10-20% of the size of the county of San Diego.

They should make the size of the bubble smaller to only cover the area of the city like you are saying.
I can only think of a weird elementary school analogy to this whole Wikipedia/Qwiki thing.

Back in the days when I was a student, there were two easy (read lazy) ways out of reading a book/play: Cliff's Notes (in Canada, they were called Cole's Notes) or watching the movie version.

Neither was really a good substitute for the original, although the Cliff's Notes were invariably better than watching a movie.

If you were to see Wikipedia as the "Cliff's Notes" of a particular subject area, then isn't Qwiki just the "movie version" of the Cliff's Notes?
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Thanks for the feedback. I think several of your feedback points are things that we need to clarify to users, because we feel like there is definitely a significant value proposition to users. For example:

-Managing multiple registries at multiple stores is a pain. Automatic sync helps alleviate that headache.

-We allow people to add any item on the web or with a barcode. Now you can register for a random item at a random store without having to set up a whole registry there (if they even offer the option).

-We do price comparisons on each product. Other players just aggregate your registries, but don't detect that you might have the same exact mixer at Target and Bed Bath & Beyond. This way, we can show guests where the mixer is the cheapest -- you don't care where it comes from.

As far as making money, we use affiliate links for any product at stores with affiliate programs. Fortunately, Amazon tends to be cheapest for most products and has a good affiliate program.

Thanks again for the feedback.
And that's the problem. Being good at "raising money and spinning businesses around" doesn't mean these guys are good at making new technologies or constructing profitable businesses in the long term.
Could be but I'm not sure how hard it'd be to remove the existing lens to be able to replace it... might be worth a shot.
On a related note,I hosted glype (a free proxy script) on a server in the US to help people from Vietnam access facebook. But javascript is disabled and I m having trouble enabling it. If you are interested in helping me, pm me please. My php/proxy skills are pretty limited
And copy & paste and undo/redo.
Neither do I, but I wouldn't assume that either. What about all the small fleet truckers that you never hear about? Everyone needs software, but not everyone needs Enterprise Level Software.
There is no such thing as Security - only the illusion, that too of Selective, Government Controlled Security :)
You can already publicly share files in Dropbox, even with those who don’t have a Dropbox account. They have to be in your “Public” folder (if you don’t have one you can create one).

Here is a link to a file in my public Dropbox folder: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4073000/Dropbox.txt

I have never actually seen anyone share Dropbox links to pirated content. I don’t know why that is (pirates seem to use all other services which allow you to upload files) but as far as I can see, Dropbox has no big problems with piracy.
I noticed they are using "listing prices" instead of sale prices or any kind of constant quality index to calculate their ratios. That's probably not ideal, but since price series are hard to find for homes it's at least understandable (that and it's their business model to collect listings).

I do a lot of work in this domain and the price-to-rent and price-to-income ratios for California look higher by my calculations. Using median sales prices for the broader metro area and income and rent data from the Census, I'm finding California is still quite expensive.

http://www.deptofnumbers.com/affordability/metros

Click on the table heading columns to sort and you see some pretty unaffordable stuff in California. For San Jose the rent ratio is ~35.

Note: In case it wasn't obvious, I'm linking to a site I maintain above.
I've found some of the busier people I've met with use http://www.tungle.me/ to good effect.
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Which concept for collaborative search results do you think is most promising?
You still need to be a sufficiently proficient speaker of Russian to get to a point where a slight mistake of inflection is so easily forgiven.

Similarily, once you are well versed in a programming language the compiler really stops bugging you about trivial errors in syntax and grammar.

However, it still won't forgive you if you make them. Just as I won't forgive people when they make glaring mistakes in their use of English. Yes I can still understand them, but I have the advantage over a computer -- there are probably half a dozen non-verbal cues that I can use to decipher your intended meaning (and is probably why online discussions are so prone to turning into flame wars).
Yeah. Making general stuff is easy. Making your app break for special cases is hard.
Google doesn't track you.

I'm having a hard time coming up with a reasonable context in which this statement is true.

I think you're going to lose a lot of goodwill Gabriel.

FWIW, I switched my default search in Firefox to DDG last week, partially as a result of the recent "FUD". It's working well and I've already used it for queries that I would prefer Google didn't associate with my IP address. (I'm not logged in to any Google accounts in Firefox, but I am in Chrome, and I'd expect Google to be able to correlate them).
I agree that the pro's trading ARM will have already figured out its significance ... however (based on no evidence what-so-ever) there is surely many more people that haven't figured this link out. When/If ARM hits the spotlight in years to come, multitudes of people will be there to bull rush the price. And the people who figured the link out early will benefit.

Knowing that an iPhone has an ARM chip does constitute an edge. Not an edge against everybody, but an edge against most.
It is not very costly if you compare it with the likes of http://unbounce.com (they charge 25/month, they have lot of other features , but still this is less expensive).
Addition of a free plan with cap on number of monthly visits could be a nice option and might increase signups and later conversion to paid plans.
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Brilliant tool!
Funny as I have also considered to tackle both of these problems.

Translation is a big problem where I work, we waste lots of time going back and forth between developers and copywriters. This should really be streamlined.

Hiring is painful now. I'm also thinking of making something in that area. I actually wrote a blog post: Things to fix: hiring software developers. http://sparklewise.com/?p=462

Out of the two, I agree with other commenters that the hiring app seems more promising.
It depends. Sometimes the goal of raising money is to give yourself enough time to tackle a really hard problem. QWiki's got huge upside so if they've got an innovative approach and a credible plan, $9.5M isn't an obscene amount to spend on the early stages.
while I agree that like many I don't see the point in having wikipedia read to me, in their favor they do have pretty design. This looks more like a visual communications senior year project than a company, but maybe they have something else up their sleeve.

Then again I thought the same about dropbox, its just rsync, some server managed storage and a webapp on top. But they seem to be well liked. It's hard to predict what will stick and what won't.
The decision to buy is prone to two major risks:

1. That the value of the property will fall.

2. That you will be offered a better job in another town and it's too expensive to move
Just thought I'd show you how identifiable you really are, without your knowledge or consent or even knowing who the companies tracking you are.

And it's exactly the same as what we're discussing - Rapleaf was even one of the companies I specifically mentioned earlier. These companies don't look at any single piece of data individually, they collate as much as they can and the result is ... what I linked to.

Referrers and search terms are just two easily ended streams of data.
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If you know the article you want to read and immediacy isn't a concern you can probably look the authors up and send them an email. Many would be happy to send you a pdf.
You're right. It's not just a still image that needs to be corrected - it's the whole volume of light that needs to be distorted (the eye is not a pinhole camera). But I still think it's doable - isn't that what corrective lenses do?
I like the idea, but working with Sass and the 1140px cssgrid.net (cssgrid because it degrades so nicely on mobile phones) I don't see much pain taken away there.
You have copy&paste via Ctl-C & Ctl-V

Undo-redo is on the list

-- dev team :)
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No way. You can't use when as a direct contraction or substitute for "what time" when it's the indirect object of a sentence.

Look, I'm all for efficiency in communications. It's a hackish thing to do. But this is just plain silly. If you're so convinced this is a real and usable form of English, call 10 customers or clients and try to use it.
Dropbox is one of those companies I gladly hand over $10/month to.

Invaluable for backup, let alone for storage.
I use BibDesk to search for and organize research papers and Skim to read them (both Mac OS).

I like to write company-confidential notes on the papers, so I don't sync them anywhere external, so as to comply with security guidelines.

That ends up meaning that 'sharing' papers means just emailing the PDFs around.