skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
good point! Or it could be a long i, as in Giza?

Gizable as in:

Gizz
Guys
Geez
Jizz
Jyes
Jeez

?

EDIT: coincidentally, not 5 minutes later I came across this: http://gizmodo.com/5749451/how-the-hell-do-you-pronounce-gif...
Maybe they'll cite Independence Day, when our own satellite communication network was used against us. If the bad guys are using "our" Internet to communicate we should shut it down and evacuate everyone to Area 51 with the help of Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum.
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That's a nice one!!! Over 1000 thousand!
i read it as "jizzable". at least now i won't forget the name...
Manage all my contacts CRM, usually connect this with my email management service: Zoho(free/paid), Sales(Force)

Project Management: dotProject(Free/PHP/install), basecamp(free/charge), or huddle(free/charge). I use these to manage the outsourced workers, because the intermediate sites like elance, and oDesk severely lack in providing that functionality.
This was actually a Family Guy episode. Brian wrote a million selling self help book that was 1/3 blank where you were supposed to list your hopes and dreams.
Agreed. What bugs me about Rosen's statement is that he seems to expect Apple to police this for him, and that's not something they can or should do. He's within his rights to send Apple a DMCA takedown and they'll respond to it, as they have done in the past (for example, in the case of VLC for iPad)
The intention of robots.txt is to tell search systems specifically "do not use information from the following pages in building a search index". The Bing toolbar's use of clickstream data from google, and no doubt many other sites, clearly violates that spirit.

This could easily be fixed, by checking the clickstream data against robots.txt files and discarding data that shouldn't be used. Microsoft apparently has decided not to take that step.
Ha: "[After all,] the modern petroleum industry is a direct outgrowth of the practice of going out in wooden, wind-driven ships to hunt sperm whales with hand-hurled spears and then boiling their heads to make lamp fuel."

God, that guy has a way with words.
4 Things Some VCs Do That I Don't Like
Indeed. Certainly it is technologically possible for clickstream based indexing to still abide by robots.txt rules. However, the Bing toolbar does not. That is the key issue here.
Hope you feel better soon Andrew. I was in hospital last year, and when you can't keep fluids down, its better to go to the hospital than wait it out at home.

I enjoy your interviews, and hope to put the knowledge into action when I launch my new company soon.
HD's starcraft videos are really enjoyable. His commentary seems pretty professional (don't watch sports so have no basis for comparison) and reveals elements of play I was totally unaware of before.

http://www.youtube.com/user/HDstarcraft
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Are there any companies who also turned down offers from Google? The three you mentioned are the only ones I can think of.
My apologies then, I had misunderstood.

Is that for business operating in California, or business that have incorporated California?
Yes please wait to post if you are in DC (but feel free to use any of the employer resources). We are growing regionally so that we can develop a traction at universities and guarentee a match. We can't do that yet in Washington DC.

The position you are describing sounds great -- its paid, offers professional experience for someone interested in the field of research, the only question I would ask is if there is much interaction with you and other employees. If you added to the program a once a week coffee, where you or other experts in the office talked to the candidate for 30 minutes and offered context on how their work fit into a broader policy and research framework it would take the position to the next level and help you get superior candidates.
What is vitiligo? 
Vitiligo is a pigmentation muddle in which the cells that endow the skin with the color are shattered which results in white patches that from time to time start appearing on the skin as well as in diverse parts of the body.
Getting Things Done is a permanent resident of my bookshelf (and OmniFocus is one of all of my devices). That's exactly the sort of guide I was looking for, but for a company instead of for an individual. So I am very eager to check out your other recommendations; thank you very much.
Looks like the rivalry between Google and Microsoft is ratcheting up. When was the last time Microsoft went out of their way to make the browser experience better on someone else's browser?
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What method are you using to determine he is the 'top' caster?

Of all popular casters out there, he is the least professional and least insightful.
It's more like a reverse proxy. [1] You point your domain to their DNS, and then they cache your site on their CDN, reducing loading times and CPU consumption.

It also uses data from Project Honeypot to serve captchas and links to popular virus scanners to people who are listed as having a blacklisted IP addresses in Project Honeypot, the idea being that they're probably using a zombie computer and launching attacks without them knowing it. By raising their awareness that they've been listed, they're more likely (hopefully) to remove their malware.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_proxy
This is a one written by a friend, on SitePoint:

The Principles Of Project Management
http://www.sitepoint.com/books/project1/

When you say development house, do you mean software house - as in doing development work for other companies? Or developing their own product? A very important distinction to make...
I thought it went without saying that the relevant coefficient should be taken from a unit normal vector or some other indication of relative magnitude should be given.
Usage-based Internet billing: a global comparison
I find it incredible someone with enough expertise to build the project and get it on the Mac Store can be so clueless with regard to licensing.

Not only are they using unlicensed game assets, but it seems they are violating the GPL as well.

I suspect iCoder knew what it was doing all along.
I'm not the parent, but lots of people complain that the SC2 maps are too small. You can quickly get to your opponents base on small maps which making early agression powerful, resulting in a lot of short games. If you've watched the last two GSLs, you probably noticed a lot of < 10 minute games (e.g lots of 2 rax all-in/pressure builds). By contrast, SC:BW games tend to be a lot longer and more exciting where you get to see many if not all expansions on the map taken, more strategy when it comes to unit composition besides just "well you weren't ready for my early game push so I just won easily", map control becomes essential, harassment, etc.
Sounds like a valuable perspective on the "team" part. Thanks very much.
Will the daily iPad app replace the newspaper subscription?
I enjoyed playing on the SC2 newbie maps for that reason, actually; the boulders placed in front of the bases changed macro-strategy drastically. I'm awful enough as a player that it didn't help me win at all, but it was an interesting variation nonetheless!
He doesn't advocate the real estate maneuvers particularly, he just uses it as an example of an asset that can be built using leverage. He gives MLM literally two sentences, as an example of something that can bring recurring income (however misguided he may be).

You have to admit the description of assets and liabilities (85% of the book) is spot on and excellent advice for many people. Look at any Indian immigrant with taxi medallions or franchises.
"No, it's fine, we're good guys, we won't abuse these powers."

Benevolent rule is still rule. And the risks of centralized power being wielded by a benevolent authority falling into the hands of a malicious authority is very real and should never be ignored.
The Disruption of Bronze
The internet is a global internetwork, a network of networks, as it were. That's where the name comes from.

Partitioning the internet is isomorphic to destroying the internet.
I loved Good to Great, especially the data-oriented nature of it. And, of course, Seven Habits is a classic. I look forward to checking out the others. Thank you
Nice PubMed link but where's the original article?

Oh, here it is, in its journal, for a mere $11.95. For one article!

http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=2...

And people wonder why nobody knows anything about science.</petpeeve>
As someone who once dabbled in coaching, allow me to say that I always noticed you as an example of a person doing it in a way that I found honorable and admirable. The integrity you mention here is certainly a large part of why.
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I've always said GIF wrong.

The name Gizmodo is pretty clear to me as the hybrid of gizmo and modo, planting it firmly in the "guh" G sound.

But Gizable.... not so clear!
Would that citation be fair use, or would the MPAA issue a DMCA notice?
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Sorry if it came off as me saying that people in poly relationships aren't at all welcome on OKC, just that it's not universally welcoming.

I'd imagine how welcoming people are to others in poly relationships largely depends on where you are. People in El Paso, TX (where my friend and I live) are likely less open to that sort of thing than people elsewhere.
shit. didn't realize this was registered in the US.
It requires more dexterity.

It's been around for much longer, so people have had a ton of time to optimize. Every really high level game feels balanced on a knife's edge. It's like chess, or a nadal-federer match. Clear openings, give and take, and you're waiting for the mistake or brilliant play that defines the match.

In SC2, we're seeing a huge variety of strategies still, and it's more common to win by choosing a strategy that just beats your opponent, a la paper rock sissors.
It looks like they've come up with a good compromise for the currency problem. Those who wish to will be able to set exact prices in the buyer's currency, while the '~' approximations will still be used for those who don't. From the email I just received from them:

We are introducing a new feature called Buyer’s Currency that lets you set prices for your apps separately in each of the currencies on Android Market. We are deploying this feature country-by-country over the next few months, starting with developers in the U.S. When the feature is available to you, we will notify you by email.
Actually, both; developing for other companies is a way to pay the bills and gain exposure to new things, but the ultimate goal is to make our own stuff.

So definitely, processes for communicating and dealing with clients are things we'd like to hear about.
Even better, in my mind, would have been for them to use this new conveniently found data to create a rebuttal post: "Why you should (sometimes) pay for online dating"
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Three searches is nothing.
Sounds good. I just requested it from my library.
I think the fastest route into project management can be had through the business analyst role. Basically if you're already on top of the requirements, work with the customers well, manage your own work well, report risky/unclear areas quickly and can manage the technical people to clear them up fast... you're practically project managing already.

I've rarely ran into good business analysts. They are often failed developers, because they lack the right mindset. But if you are smart and think technical, just don't enjoy the programming, you'll quickly become one of the best BA's around... and then you'll get promoted! And all will lament the loss :P
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Blizzard have rolled out a map pool with much bigger (tournament/ladder) maps, so there's definitely something for everyone.
There is also a fairness point: If more than one channel is available, which one to go is selected in a fair way. This is important so a channel at the top can not flood and monopolize the selective communication primitive.
Excellent, I was hoping that this article serves as a kind of precursor or preview of material that Neal is working on. Given that undersea cabling is discussed in some detail in Cryptonomicon (published three years later in 1999) then that means we can probably look forward to interesting space travel discussed in Neal's next tale. Anathem touched on a Project Orion type spacecraft, but this article is definitely covering a different slant.
Well first you have to scrape the information, you could use something like uBot, or some macro software out there.

Digesting the results, I'd just outsource that for someone to distinguish brand names from keywords.
Dr. Jordin Kare has an interesting proposal for cheap space launch. Use lasers to remotely energize (zap a heat exchanger on) lightweight craft carrying hydrogen. The hydrogen wouldn't burn. Instead, it would just act as a reaction mass of very low weight, thus producing very high exhaust velocities. Basically, this would give you the exhaust velocity (read: fuel efficiency) of the upper theoretical end of nuclear rockets, but without the heavy nuclear equipment onboard, making the craft even lighter and more efficient.

But that's not even the clever bit. The clever bit of Jordin's proposal is that the laser tracking/energizing system can be built modularly. You can build one prototype module that can launch one toy craft. Then you figure out how to mass produce it and build a whole bunch of these puppies that can lock onto and zap a much larger heat-exchanger carrying craft.

What you get is very cheap access to orbit without ungodly huge R&D and infrastructure costs up front.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

(In this case "ungodly huge" = price of a space elevator.)
Apple to Tighten Control of How Magazines, Content Are Sold for iPad
People complain about working for free all the time. I think they are pretty foolish. After all, historically people always paid for apprenticeships.
Is that Gizzable that's overlaying the annoying box of like/vote tools making it difficult to actually read the page? There's no drag capability so it doesn't mask the content??
> Get an iPhone subsidized, pick up this cheap Android device, and suddenly be able to develop on both platforms while paying <$65 a month for data

Why not get an Android on the same carrier as your existing phone? If it's for dev use then it doesn't need its own plan; just swap your existing SIM into it. Not like you're going to be developing for both phones at the same time.
This is an amazingly well-written article/blog post and I enjoyed reading it. I'd never really stopped to consider what went into the passing of an Age.
> Take Hacker News. I remember when it was like reading a programmer's mailing list.

Well, there's http://news.usethesource.com/news :)
A machine learning researcher's view on the Bing/Google debacle
No, because that's too simple. It only has two variables (money and dollars received). The real-life case has tens of important variables
Why Is The Web So Quiet?
Ahh. OK. Making your own stuff is easier in many ways.

However I'd suspect that with 3 - 4 years experience, with team and time management issues are far from the biggest problem. If they're going into a small development house, lacking in experience of external facing tasks, particularly "managing the customer" will be an even greater problem.

External issues such as:
* running a sales cycle (is there work here? how do we get the work? what type of tender are they putting out, if any? what response do they want? who are we competing against? how early can we get paid?)

* negotiating statements/scope of work, prior to even discussing high level requirements, and placing a realist budget for the scope

* getting sign-off from the customer on deliverables

* raising invoices, chasing invoices, getting PAID before the customer's budget dissapears when they flip into the next financial year

* getting paid before handing over the next deliverable

* having the cajones to threaten to pull out when you're 80% done, $100k down, and waiting for a month on a cheque for $50k (so you can pay your developers)

* managing expectations of post-handover support and bug-fix

* change requests

* managing internal client politics, where your main contact is for/against you, and their manager is the complete opposite, so that you can get sign off

All of that is harder than managing a few programmers! :P Sadly I don't know any book that describes that side of the business. It's one that often gets left to the project manager, and they all too often drop the ball.
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Reddit automated Voice Assistant.
The Chrome Web Store looks like the native iTunes store. That is not a compliment.

Despite that it is still better looking than the Android Market Web Store. The best thing I can say about the Android Market is that it is remarkably fast.
Sounds like a good documentary. Possible name: "Who Killed the Space Ventures?"
I'm not sure, SC2 doesn't have the same charm, too many flashy effects.

BTW, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktzWQlR8D6Y
Totally pointless, but a cool demonstration of something that you could do with twilio :)
Article appears to be down, fortunately you can still access it from Google's cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.bin...
Time to revisit the archive of interviews.
To be fair, I think that claim would be justified if they were "merely" grabbing the Google SERPs their users happen to receive, turning them into ranked lists of URLs, and using that data some way.

It would even be justified if they were harvesting click data only from Google (or explicitly treating that click data differently), because then they're just doing the last one, but obfuscating it: it would be like refusing to bribe a politician directly, but instead making a large "investment" in a corporation they own.

It's not a justified claim if they built a mechanism that genuinely gathers interesting data, and would continue to do so in Google's absence. I think Microsoft is claiming this, but their responses have been so murky that it's not 100% clear. Google certainly hasn't produced evidence that renders this version implausible.
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I enjoy using Instagram. It's not just the filters, it's the photo sharing too. It's all put together extremely well and it's clearly growing virally.

To me, it feels like a more personal photo club. I end up sharing photos that I wouldn't normally post to Facebook.

Plus, the filters make me feel like a skilled photographer. ;)
Australia's case has a simple cause: there are very few pipes that connect Australia with the world and currently, they controlled by just 2 providers. A third one is coming (PIPE networks), but right now the entire economics of internet traffic in Australia is driven by the duopolistic cost of transpacific connectivity.

In fact, traffic costs are why I host all my stuff in the USA. I can get price-comparable stuff here in Australia on everything except traffic -- often by a factor of 10:1.
Here's the problem I have with Google's claims about Bing: Google suggests that Bing is cheating but hasn't demonstrated that Bing's behavior somehow deviates from what is optimal in a machine-learning sense. Thus, the real question is whether Bing should cripple its machine-learning algorithms if they infer (correctly) that Google-suggested results are likely to be relevant.

That is, if any learning system is observing click-stream behavior from users and mining it for relevance evidence, I'd expect it to ultimately home in on the true weight of each piece of evidence in that click-stream data. Since Google's contributions to that data are likely to be highly relevant, any good machine learning system is going to learn that they are relevant and start recommending them.

In effect, then, what Google is arguing is that if Bing's machine-learning algorithms are correctly inferring that results that happen to come from Google are highly relevant, Bing should blind itself to that knowledge.

I'm not sure that's good for anyone except Google.

(For a completely uninformed guess about why Google might be interested in raising copycat claims about Bing, I go out on a limb here: http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2011/02/02/the-google-micro...)
Ask HN:Please review our Android app idea,DHA,Cell cam video surveillance
We have released a paid Android app,Digital Home Angel,http://market.android.com/details?id=com.altech.DHA

It would be great if you could suggest some ideas or feedback on the app. Specifically:

1.Do you think that there is space for apps like these?

2.Do you think the pricing is right or too high?

3.Could you suggest some features that could be added to this.

4.Any suggestions on how to market this.

Thanks for all your help.
I think you are missing the point of the book (not surprising since you did not read it).

The thesis of the 4-hour body is to understand as much of the science as meaningful, and then to do the absolute minimum in terms of diet and exercise in order to improve your body. As you know, the book is written for a general audience.

As an elite athlete, it may be easy for you to look at the situation and say 'you are seeing novice gains'. But thats not the point. The point is that the book is a knowledge repository for me to accomplish the goals the author has set forth.

Instead of just criticizing, perhaps you can offer a suggestion for a better alternative of a knowledge repository aimed at the goals and the audience Tim Ferriss is trying to impact?
When you earn enough to eat, let us know.
Doesn't appear to be active/available for everyone yet...
Amazon is sending me a copy.

I hope it's as helpful as the classic "If You Want to Write" by Brenda Euland -- which was written in 1938, but has aged very-very well. Originally found this book via Guy Kawasaki on his list of great books for entrepreneurs & creative types.
Hey, thanks! Last I checked, the beta was closed. I had to jump through some hoops to register, but now I'm good.
You're aware that MPlayer and VLC are both backed by libavcodec, right?

Jeez, it's kind of sad how little credit ffmpeg gets when they put in most of the work.
There are weekly seminars from researchers and daily interaction with supervisors. Projects have include math, physics, chemistry, biology, cs, and engineering...If you think you'll become operational in our area, I'll have one of our outreach people contact you.
I think we've encountered all of these issues already :) Definitely would appreciate any resources for them that people can suggest.
Is anyone else as speechless as me?
If this is (temporarily) limited to a handful of cities, I'd find it easier to use a drop-down menu than trying to guess which cities you currently cover, though anything that just shows the list of covered cities would be nice. Not specifying a desired city seems to automatically pick my current location, and I'm not looking to confine my search to this area.
Interesting article. Makes me wonder what people's overall experiences have been with VCs. We're on the verge of taking that step and I've only heard horror stories so far. Any positive stories out there?
Interesting that New Zealand does have some unlimited-traffic option, given that (AFAIK) all our global traffic flows through Australia anyway.
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