skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree that there has yet to be a film which uses 3D properly (that is to say, a story that could be told no other way) I don't see how "tricking the brain" using stereoscopic images is any different than tricking the brain using other photographic techniques (shallow depth-of-field, exaggerated perspective, etc.)?
that looks interesting. thanks for the tip :)
Js-signals: Custom Event/Messaging system for JavaScript
Sniptwit's source on bitbucket
MS doesn't have portable gaming. Sony's PSP is pretty much dead from a lot of their stupid choices. The NDS has a huge foothold and is an overall _better_ gaming option, and the 3DS looks promising.

Apple will get the market of $3 casual games, but that market does not have a huge overlap with the DS demographic, and where it does, there is less barrier for an iPhone owner to get a DS than there is for a DS owner to get an iPhone -- you can get a used DS for less than a monthly AT&T iphone bill.

Not to mention that the DS is much cheaper than an iPhone, and has multiplayer/networking built in.

Apple is doing fine, and will continue to do so, but they are absolutely not going to unseat the DS any time soon.

[ As a comparison, there have been ~60 million iphones sold, and about 135 million NDS, while iPhone adoption is strong, it has a way to go to just bowl over nintendos foothold. ]
Malkiel says that picking a few stocks is fine as long as the core of your portfolio is indexed. The majority of your exposure to equities is in a single stock, and it's an extremely-hyped tech stock.
> Google never took the low road in order to gain market share

Excuse me? You forgot the unwanted automatic opt-in for Google Buzz? Or doing a u-turn on net-neutrality in cahoots with Verizon? Or "accidentally" collecting wifi data?

This particular issue may not fall into that category, but the days of "don't be evil" are behind us. Like most major corporations, Google puts profit before ethics.
Not just iPhone/iPad - my broadband's not so very fast when the kids are watching something on NetFlix, and it's dismaying to have that large a file to wait for.

(I bought the book anyway - you should probably give Daniel a kickback, actually.)
Also, if ad networks are so noble, why do they go to such effort to make their tracking so difficult to remove?
So I did!
Problem is, most papers aren't that good or are not relevant to what you're doing, but it's usually hard to tell based on the abstract. When I do research in a subject, I find ~10 papers out of which I'll read (parts of) maybe one. If I were to buy each of them for $15, I'd end up paying $150, and only get a few pages of read useful material out of it.
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The culprit is apparently FlashHeed, an otherwise helpful script which helps lightboxes show above Flash content. Are you using something to suppress Flash? I attempted a fix, which may require a cache clear (haven't put in static file versioning yet).
Too late to edit but I should point out that this also handily prevents governments or ISPs from viewing your queries, or anyone else for that matter. Except in cases of MITM attacks obviously.
The whole internet works on free-because-of-advertising, aside from Hacker News I guess which is just an advertisement for Ycombinator.

Sure we want to pull the rug out from under that one? What's so bad about content creators getting maximum value from the eyeballs they attract?
A Russian won't throw an error (or anything else) at you if you conjugate a verb slightly wrong in a sentence where the meaning is otherwise clear, but a programming language will error out if you accidentally type two periods instead of one. Even the pickiest of human languages will generally be heard by listeners far more forgiving than a compiler.
An advertising model isn't interchangeable with a subscription one, besides the fact that people won't pay for everything because not everything is worth paying for.

Ads help a thousand flowers bloom, startups can experiment and throw ideas out there to see what sticks without requiring the user to pay to discover and interact with their creations, the ad model is very much an innovation model.

Many of the services available today won’t exist unless they are free, and are used by many users which and the usage patterns are collected as feedback to improve and evolve said services.
It's a little bit confusing---I think the article's author is a non-technical writer rather than someone involved with the project---but it sounds like this is more about holographic capture rather than holographic display. (Which makes the kinect connection make a bit more sense.)
FWIW here is my list:

Business & Industrial - Business Finance - Venture Capital

Business & Industrial - Manufacturing

Business & Industrial - Retail Trade - Retail Equipment & Technology

Computers & Electronics - Computer Security

Computers & Electronics - Programming

Computers & Electronics - Software

Proxying & Filtering

Internet & Telecom - Email & Messaging

News

Online Communities - Social Networks

Online Communities - Virtual Worlds

Real Estate

It's pretty accurate but there are quite a few omissions and at least one weird false positive (real estate).
You can opt-out of all of the preference tracking ad networks from this site http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
Tell you what, you start cutting checks for 5 bucks whenever you visit a new blog, and I bet they'll start switching to that business model immediately :)
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Those two points I give are meant to show the inconsistency in his arguments. One showing how he side steps free markets to argue against even a whiff of intellectualism.

Yet at the same time isn't willing to ask businesses to step up to the plate.

In other words, he's all about the subtext. He doesn't really believe that traditional measures of achievement are coginitively less demanding than 14 year old sleepovers, but he'll say that so that you value it less.

He doesn't actually believe in self-selected socialism (he loves free markets), but he'll attack Harvard grads so you value them less.
I guess the idea is that if FB has your card details it'll be a bit like Facebook Connect and will lower transaction friction. Which is exactly what Paypal does. Except - and it's quite incredible really - as a purchaser I'd trust Paypal much more than I trust Facebook, I don't want my purchase history being sold along with all my other personal data thankyou.

The idea of trusting something less than Paypal is amazing, go Facebook!
You can advertise stuff without having to know everything about your visitors, standard demographics kept newspapers supplied with ink and papers for well over a century.
Failing that, you should know what others have done before you lest you repeat the same mistakes.

After fifty startups find out something doesn't work, should the fiftyfirst really try doing it?
http://calibre-ebook.com/
Here's the portfolio:

55% Bonds (BND)
15% ARM (ARMH)
15% Oil 2X (UCO)
15% Small-Cap Stocks (VB)
To me the main benefit would be that it allows you to plugin other technologies: caching via varnish, proxying va HAProxy, authentication for APIs, etc. because HTTP is well supported.

Also, you can access redis via javascript---client or serverside.
One benefit is that Javascript can interface with Redis directly through AJAX requests.
Effectively ads are a bad substitute for a micro payment system. If there were such a thing I think that ad free content would rule.

Imagine paying $20 on top of your current internet bill to never ever see another ad on all the sites you visit and have that $20 distributed to those sites proportional to how much time you spend there.

The reason that such schemes have not found much in terms of adoption are chicken-and-the-egg related.

People that would not want to get on board with this could stick to the current ad based solutions.
SuperHappyDevHouse 42 to be hosted at The Tech Museum
Building a Sustainable Side Project
Taleb also advocates increasing leveraged position through the use of options.
I think you're talking about different things-- there's the monthly CACM magazine, and then there are the huge books of conference proceedings and journals.
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Puppy cams threaten internet
Redis doesn't have a native http interface. Having this kind of interface open all kinds of possibilities for working with Redis. For example, I've been doing some work with Node.js and Redis and one side project I worked on for a while was an http interface. One of the awesome things about CouchDB is its http interface.
So ad-personalization is bad because?

I would much rather see personalized and relevant advertising then random garbage.
So, some disclaimers: I sit on the ACM's Professions Board, and am a member of the CACM Editorial Board, where I sit on the board for the Practice section of CACM, also known as ACM Queue. That said, I speak only for myself here, not for ACM or the Professions Board or Queue Board.

Disclaimers dispensed with, let me say that I personally sympathize with the complaints, especially with respect to the practitioner. The Digital Library (DL) is, in a word, overpriced with respect to the practitioner, and I believe that the ACM can both increase its membership base and better (and more broadly) monetize the DL by using it as more of a loss-leader with the practitioner. The good news is that the ACM is quite receptive to this at its highest levels, and I believe that the chances for reform (at least with respect to the practitioner) are very good.

And indeed, this is the good news about ACM more broadly: the organization wants to change, especially with respect to the practitioner. One would be right to question this, but trust that I came to this conclusion only reluctantly and in the presence of overwhelming evidence -- a path that I outlined here:

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2009/05/15/queue-cacm-and-the-re...

I would repeat here my plea from that blog entry: the ACM has given practitioners a new voice, but we must engage with the ACM to use it. We must move beyond merely "considering the ACM harmful" and point to new models that work for our profession and its society. In short, the ACM is willing to follow, but we practitioners must light the way!
I'd love to hear more stories like this one - except from successful tech startup founder/CEOs :) Not that this one wasn't interesting; it was.
HubSpot Fires First Shot in Boston Battle For Talent: $10,000 Bounty
(Just an FYI.. it doesn't seem to work on Ruby 1.9.2, though 1.8.7 was OK.)
Why are you comparing the DS to the iPhone when the elephant in the room is the iPod Touch?

An 8GB iPod Touch is cheaper than the pricing of the 3DS. For completeness we're looking at $249 for a 3DS and $170 for a DSi [1].

What's more a typical new release 3DS game will sell for $30+. Compare that to the typically <$5 for an iOS game. Now you describe those iOS games as "casual" but I see games like Angry Birds that can hold the attention for a long period of time. What's more, you can afford 10-20 of those games per DS game!

Honestly I've never played a DS so I really don't know but are the games really that much better to not feel the heat from Apple? We're talking an order of magnitude difference in game costs and not too dissimilar hardware costs.

[1]: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Nintendo-DS/Nintendo-DS-Hardware...
Well, turning "ip:25.43.251.5, user-agent:firefox" into "male, 18-19" actually requires a fair bit of that tracking stuff.

Also, classifieds are what kept newspapers supplied with ink and papers. Branding-targeted advertising was a side revenue, and mass conversion-targeted advertising as we know it now didn't really exist yet (although you can call classifieds a small-scale conversion targetted ad, I suppose).
It looks like their coworking space is by invite only and is currently full. Anyone know of any other good coworking/hackspaces in the NYC area that have space available?
Papers is quite nice (http://mekentosj.com/papers/). Caveats: Mac/iOS only, not free.
Why the wacky SET/GET?
Why not being restful and using HTTP verbs?
Memcache, for example, is explicitly not meant to be run with "public access", as it is not secured against attacks. I am pretty sure the same applies to redis.

If my assumption is correct, i wonder why one should use a (potentially slower) http client or protocol in favor of the "native" protocol.
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This is also called "CouchDB."
Google always have made their practices transparent and controable, if the FTC were to recommend something why not recommend more transparency and control rather that mandating what goes in the browser.
I posted some advice in the replies on his wordpress. I'll repost it here as I think it applies to anyone in the making/programming/mathematics venn.

Although I think you could conquer art as a lasting business it's difficult to simply pick up as a stopgap measure. It takes time to build up an audience, figure out promotions, weigh out the cost of merchandise, and tour the right conferences. However, once all the proper mechanisms are in place it can develop into a really rewarding career.

You might consider joining the http://100kgarages.com/ 100k Garages Network to contract out some time on your equipment as a short term solution. I've been selling through Etsy and producing work on commission for a few years. It takes time to ramp up, but promoting through MAKE magazine, BoingBoing, and various geek and maker magazines is easy if you make things that capture geek imaginations. Writing Instructables and giving talks at Makter Faire and Hack Labs are both ways of giving your work a long tail that brings in a steady stream of visitors.

http://www.pacificpuzzleworks.com/ Lee Krasnow is an inspiring example of a successful home maker. He produces intensely mathematically driven complex wooden puzzles. He makes them with such precision and skill that he can charge a fairly high price on each and make a decent living out of the affair. I feel the same about http://www.taomc.com/ Bruce Shapiro, http://www.arthurganson.com/ Arthur Ganson, and http://oilpunk.com/ John Saurriuguarte. http://sternlab.org/ Becky Stern makes her living through a combo of writing for MAKE and beautiful crafty projects. http://adafruit.com Limor Fried, better known as Lady Ada, spun out her hacker electronics kits into a thriving business.

With your skills a career in interaction design (at a place like http://tellart.com/ Tellart, http://www.wetdesign.com/ Wet, http://tangibleinteraction.com/ Tangible Interaction, etc.) might be a solid fit. Doing a combo of engineering, fabricating, and design is a mighty force for companies that produce one-offs like conference booths, promotional sculptures, art installations, lobby displays, signs, and interactive advertisements. I've done little jobs for Tellart for years and it's always rewarding.

Your work is impressive and I'd like to see more, bigger, and more impossible varieties of it. Please get in touch if you'd like to chat about more possibilities, places, and art.

-M@
If/when they do launch a "Pay with Facebook" feature, I'm sure they're aware that they'll have to come up with a fee schedule that's competitive with existing vendors like Paypal. I wonder if that would force them to lower their take on Facebook apps as well, or if they could finagle a way around that...
Maybe I am missing the point.

But I think it is my opinion that is relevant. And yours. And your moms. Why talk about inherent problems in the general case at all, no matter if it is kid's drawings or 3D movies. There is a market for both of them.

He's making a case for the objective value of something where I believe only subjective values matter. To each his own.
UberMedia Buys Mixx
Brown Out: Incautious Letter Exchange Between Law Firm and Cleveland Browns
American Nerd (what chess stats say about American society)
What do you think about micropayment systems like Flattr?

http://flattr.com/
I'm not sure that's racist - presumably you wouldn't feel the same way about something developed in Taiwan, or by ethnic Chinese living in California.
Facebook Sets July, 1, 2011 Deadline to Make Facebook Credits Sole Game Payment
You're betting on oil going up two days after Argentina announced that it has certified 100 billion more barrels of oil as proven reserves, giving them more reserves than Saudi Arabia. And Brazil is getting ready to announce that they also have more reserves than Saudi Arabia. In other words, they've pushed the "run out of oil" date out by 10 years, and they're not the only ones certifying new reserves.

I think you've got "Black Swan" backwards. Everybody believes we're running out of oil, and it is priced accordingly. But there are lots of "black swan" type events that can come out of left field to either massively increase the supply of oil or decrease the demand.

You say that alternatives are "unlikely", but that's the whole point of the Black Swan book -- "unlikely" is much more likely than most people think it is.

IMO, the real "black swan" bet is against oil, not on it.
TiVo refocusing on Web video and on-demand services
Indeed, classifieds are simply ads targeted at a local audience.

As for the male 18-19 bit, that is something that a site would deduce from a typical sample or survey, not from invasive tracking.

btw, how did you get my IP address? You got the age wrong ;)
Airbnb to Become eBay For Shared Goods [video]
I work with Dharmesh at HubSpot. We're curious and hopeful about this.
I would rather not be stalked and have all my personal and private information available to people trying to sell me crap I don't want or need.

I'd rather see no advertisements.
Mendeley integrates with zotero, fwiw.
100% agreed, with the caveat that they're way more workable than any micropayment system. Who's the broker? How do we decide how much "traffic" your site got and how much revenue it's entitled to? How do you join? Do you need to join to make money off of eyeballs?

Plus, the chicken egg issues, as you cite.
Exactly, without a strong reference from someone you trust who also knows the subject, you have no idea if the article is worth $15. And then you could probably just make a copy of their copy.
"elegantly" - def: pleasingly graceful and stylish in appearance or manner

I certainly find most of the Perl I write to be pleasing and stylish!

"troll" - def: a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community

Considering your account was created just seconds before you left your comment then i can claim at least this to be true :)
> Always be looking for reasons why you are wrong, not reasons why you are right.

Though it seems to work better for internal thought processes than in collaboration unless you are seriously tactful.
As others have pointed out, the term "must read" is often times thrown around very loosely. I'd probably be more satisfied with this if it were labeled "256 Articles for Starting Entrepreneurs That Might Help You Out" but that just isn't as catchy. The 'summary' part also threw me for a loop, as there aren't any summaries.

That being said, it's a fairly comprehensive list that does hold a lot of merit.
Arrays considered somewhat harmful
Unfortunately, transfer of copyright seems more the norm than the exception in the world of journals. The open access movement seems to have eroded this somewhat.
> also noticed that horizontal movement will strobe much sooner in 3D than it does in 2D.

Can we please ditch 24 fps for the movies? It's not 3d that strobes. It's crappy fps. 3D just makes it noticeable because we never learned to ignore it like in normal movies.

I know it gives you that popcorn old school real movie theater feeling, but it just sucks for anyone who had experience with higher FPS (which slowly becomes almost everybody).

When I first watched 3d movie few years ago I was strongly annoyed about how my experience was ruined by poor technical quality. When I watched Avatar the IMAX got upgraded so it was much better and because I was immersed in the movie I didn't mind, but low frame-rate was still noticeable.

Can movie directors finally decide to shoot movies in higher FPS or they are still afraid that higher frame-rate will make their move have VHS feel not cinema theater feel?
Don't confuse a great company with a great investment. The crux of the matter is to find stocks that are priced below their value. Which he argues professional analysts can't do. But somehow amateurs are supposed to be able to do this.
It may be worth taking a quick trip into why the math of leveraged ETFs doesn't work. The fundamental problem is that they lose more on losses by the underlying investment than they gain on gains by the underlying investment.

Suppose that the underlying investment starts priced at 100, jumps 25% on Monday to 125, then on Tuesday drops 20% back to 100.00. It ended as it began with no gain or loss.

What did our 2x ETF do? It began at 100, ended Monday at 100 + 50% = 150.00, then ended Tuesday at 150.00 - 40% = 90. It lost a big chunk of value relative to its completely unchanged underlying investment.
Steve did much more than just sitting on a calligraphy class, from the moulded plastic design used in the Apple II through to significant inputs in the original Macintosh. All that happened much before Ive was at Apple, though I agree that Steve does not have the same formal background in design as Ive.
I don't know much about finance, but this article seems to beg an obvious question -

Sure, Wall Street emulates a random walk. Savvy investors will not try to pick stocks, but recognize the random nature of the market and invest accordingly. Fine.

But then he puts down the "self-proclaimed experts" who believe the market is not random, behave as if it is not, and would have you believe the same.

Isn't it only because of those experts in competition with eachother that the market can be seemingly random? The market approximates a perfect market only because of all the people/algorithms constantly eagle-eyed for an over or under-valued stock. Ironically, if everyone acted as if the market were random, the market would become less perfect, and it would then become stupid not to look at the real factors behind stock prices.

Or am I missing something?
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Modus tollens at its best.

'"For example", does not a proof make.'
- sorry, can't recall the author
No offense, but without advertisement, then how does Google pay the bills? It's one thing to not want to be stalked, it's another thing to use a free product and complain about the company making money from even showing adds on the side of the page....
Google's content farm problem turns into Chinese/old media conspiracy
"More money" for them doesn't make it necessary for any of us.
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None of the specific theories you mentioned were on the first page of that list (there are many more pages than the first).

The page seems to be working at a much higher level of abstraction than your suggested contributions. Most of the suggestions on the page focus on scientific methodology (falsifiability, probability distributions), not specific theories (gravitation) or particular schools of political advocacy (Oppression Theory).
Awesome, I would LOVE to work there. Bummer it's all full.