skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but (so the argument goes) they were a legal violation, sanctioned by the U.N. or whatever prototype of the U.N. existed at the time.
How do the artists make money? I hope you are part of the solution, too many operators think they can get art for free by throwing the lable "emergent" in front of "artist".
I have used the app. I saw pictures from ~6-7 of my friends at a happy hour party I was at. Then, just now, I reopened the app and saw some funny yet interesting pictures of neighbors cooking.

Maybe it's just cause I live in SF.
By the way, Knuth was at Google today. He started his presentation by saying "I don't think I can top Lady Gaga".
It's hard not to love Marco. He's a one man band that manages to keep up a killer product, maintain an active presence in the community and he's innovated on Instapaper in a good way. I use it every day.
I bought a Mac. So sue me.
That is a good method to make personal choices. But in the 'startup ecosystem' (pardon me) or the 'free market' the cost is privatized and the benefit of success is socialized.

The overall equation looks like this: success = (team1_success or team2_success or ... or teamn_success)
While it is somewhat descriptive, I'm not a fan of the name.
WebEx hates their customers
1. According to that line of thought, every problem has been solved already. Are we really at that point? There are hundreds of problems that are more relevant than "how do I share images of my location with people in my same location".

2. ^What real problem does a company like Color solve? Is there one?

3. Maybe the problem is that startups are targeting consumers? B2B has a way of culling the herd: if you don't solve a problem, no one buys your product.
Am I the only one who thinks that contrary to the claims made by Color's CEO in the article, GPS does work?
The usual distribution package of scheme is the source package. The usual distribution of JDK is the installable bundle. If the argument for scheme is that it's already installed and set up by the admin, then the same thing can be said about JDK. In term of ease of setup or installation to the end users, it's about the same.

Once the JDK and environment have been set up by the sys admin, the tools are just available to the end users.
Not as fast as I think unfortunately
I still see the quotes.
I think the worst thing they can do is come out and try to defend it. Instead, they should probably internalize the feedback and keep working on the product, so they can come back in a few months and say "See? THIS is why."

I don't think I ever heard any Twitter execs defending their product when everyone was saying it was just for posting about your egg sandwich from the toilet.
I have a very unique typing style I've developed based on my experiences with thumb typing on my iPhone and the fact that my old job required me to dial phone numbers all day. I've never seen it before but I can get(and maintian) typing speeds in excess of 100WPM with no training so I must be doing something right. This will be a bit difficult to explain but try to visualize. I adapt where my fingers are based on what word I'm typing. So when I type something like "something" I'll use my left hand's middle finger to type "s" then my right hand will type "om" with my ring and index finger respectively, then my left hand types "eth" with my ring, middle and index finger then my right hand types "in" with my middle and index fingers, then my left index finger types "g". That was a terrible run-on sentence and I apologize for that but that's basically how I type. As a disclaimer for this method, I have devolped the ability to use both hands independently so your milage may vary.
"Network effects" cut both ways. I am interested in participating in the network that most of my peers are on, but I don't give a shit which network Ashton Kutcher, some C-list blogger or a random hashtag spammer is on. A non-twitter microblogging network could actually gain a lot of early momentum just by giving some thought to what it would take to make twitter suck less and then letting people know that this is not the service that Oprah or their mom will be on.
I really like the idea, but it seems from the video that the cursor is really quite a distance from the users finger.

I agree that we may want a small degree of improvement, but I think it is important to keep the simplicity of touch.

Can you maybe give some insight into why you decided to have such a large distance from the users finger to the cursor? as opposed to just having a cursor be an pointy extension to our fingers?
The people you asked aren't the skeptics. I'm sure almost everyone that commented here is aware that RIM is Canadian. (It's HN after all...) But yeah I get your point.
Not only have they alienated their customers the listeners, they have also taken the shift to digital as an opportunity to alienate their other customers--the artists. They somehow managed to work it so (unless they renegotiate contracts) digital downloads and streaming are an even WORSE deal for artists than CDs were (abysmal).
I still think it's a bit pricey..but cool idea nonetheless
I agree with you in principle, but I don't ever see something like this becoming mainstream, even if it does interoperate with Twitter and is as easy to use as Twitter. Simply put, there will be no selling point. Switching would give the user the same capability of subscribing to short messages from other people as they already have on Twitter. So, why switch? Even if they can continue to follow everyone they already follow, what's the incentive aside from technology they don't understand anyway?
Its great to see the article on the future touch interface maerek.

As leader of RoamTouch and creator of its vision I can tell that we did not decide to simulate a mouse at all. We saw the picture of the future (five coming years) in 2006, the household and we are not improvising. Today PadKite is a mouse and playful kite, its also the hook for a new type of integration that aims to run on top of other applications and video, grow not only on the tablet and smart phone but also to grow to be remote controlled in a living room scenario (coming decade arena). PadKite is the proxy or bridge between today and the future.

In my opinion the future of computer is tactile. It is the most effective way to interact with a computer with the less energy consumption. The future is not in voice and body movement recognition technology. I do not imagine a working day (6-8 hs non stop) jumping or speaking, even moving arms to do 3D stuff. Its all about energy consumption and the most effective way to use our brains are with out hands, and millions of years have passed for that to be in such way.

PadKite and the GestureKit are an approach to start thinking about the big picture to come. It will be fun!.
The typeracer test linked to elsewhere says I type around 70 wpm. I never learned the 'proper' way to type, though. I do some weird homebrew typing method that primarily involves my pointer and index finer on my right hand and my pointer finger on my left hand, as well as my ring finger on my right hand for the occasional comma or backspace. It's almost like hunt and peck except I don't have to look at the keyboard, not sure how else to describe it. Seems to work well for me though, been typing a lot every day for years and no signs of carpal-tunnel yet!
I believe his intent is to experiment and try out different setup and tech for his business. He's just eating his own dog food.
Ask HN: "Gk;a;mapp,sophaykdoappe" DVORAK as password, Good or bad?
Typing in DVORAK on a regular keyboard yield some amazing looking passwords. Do you think it's a bad idea?
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Hi Tekahera, how would you explain that to your grandma?. We decided to go colloquial and massive. Its a bet but certainly has arguments to say its a multitouch mouse.

Cool comment, appreciate much.
but you can certainly show how dumb the concept of organized religion is

Really? It seems to me that the concept of organized religion seems very useful even if there is no god. It actually might be most useful if there is no god.
Would be interesting to see what percentage of users have updated to version 3.0. Eg, 100,000 clients have hit the server in the last two weeks and 65,000 had 3.0

Love the product though and enjoy these kinds of tidbits of info.
There's an email issue we're aware of. Twitter and Facebook logins are working correctly.
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Phone GPS, in my experience, really doesn't. It is inaccurate, oftentimes 100ft off, and certainly drains battery faster than just about anything else.

What part of it works, on a phone, for applications such as these? Or were you just saying, in general, GPS technology does work?
It is ironic that Knuth fumes about his personal lack of consent for the Iraq War (which was authorized and funded by dozens of votes in Congress) and in the same breath calls for imposing the legal rule of an unelected international criminal court on his fellow Americans.

Actually read it again. He says no such thing. He says those are questions and then explicitly says he has no good answers for any of the questions, except maybe one of them (not one that you mention). Saying that this is a question that we should have a real discussion over is neither calling nor fuming.
the first thing they teach you in speedreading is that sounding words aloud is actually holding you back, you can actually parse the words faster than you can pronounce them. plus you can parse groups of words...
Oh that is nice. You know I thought the name cuase its playful and in a way you are controlling something that is flying. But the most important thing is that when you dont use it you leave it aside flying like a kite while you continue working.

When you leave it aside you can do stuff as you already know, click, pan zoom. But when you bring it in you fly.

BTW, the kite concept will be enhanced when you control it remotely in the near future.
Switched to dvorak in my early twenties. Not really faster, but much more comfortable.
Only with line of site of the sky, often a large part of it. (So works less well in cities, even outside.)
For others having trouble getting a timely response: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Z6x04wg...
This kind of latent variable model is not only highly unstable but also tends to tell you more about the person interpreting the results than the data itself, e.g.: Chang et al., Reading Tea Leaves: How Humans Interpret Topic Models, http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/docs/nips2009-rtl.pdf
$41M, and they still misspelled "colour".
I'm not sure what Tom was referring to, but for example, SoundExchange (an RIAA spinoff) "is designated by the Librarian of Congress as the sole organization authorized to collect royalties paid by services making ephemeral phonorecords or digital audio transmissions of sound recordings, or both, under the statutory licenses set forth in 17 U.S.C. § 112 and 17 U.S.C. § 114"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundExchange
I'm clearly in the minority here, but damn if some of this doesn't seem very cool. Especially for the middle/high-school crowd, and college kids, who are friends, generally, with people geographically close to one another.

If they sort out the issues plaguing 1.0 (and I think is clear they will), this seems like something that would a least catch on with that younger crowd.

Plus, cool tech from what they said here. I'm glad to learn a little about it.
QE2 did push US mortgage rates up.

It's unclear why/how though, as the vast majority of new US mortgages end up with a GSE that is heavily dependent on govt support, so the increase was a political decision.
Ask: The hunt for good domain names
Anyone got some good domain names to sell? I am tearing my hair out to get something I really like.
Home page copy needs serious rework; it's impossible for a first time visitor to figure out what they do or what the product does. Is it a project management tool? CRM?
I think GPS inaccuracy was the #1 reason Foursquare beat Gowalla. Gowalla used to enforce strict accuracy on check-ins and it rarely registered you in the place you were at.
Just got 108 (due to the stress of competition) but when I had to type the CAPTCHA I scored 133 because I wasn't worried about opponents. Edit: certified 155! woot. I need a new hobby.
$41 million might justify the tech, but they better blow a large chunk of that on some people with a clue on how to launch a product.

Just saying you'll have tens of millions of users in 3 months doesn't make it so.
This sounds a lot more like a chemist than an engineer. (OK, maybe a chemical engineer.)
I was hoping for a screenshot with what you designed.
Sometimes when I see these investments I wonder if there's just a different opinion about what a lot of money is. To me, $3 million dollars is a lot of money and I'd have trouble spending it. But maybe to a VC, that's barely anything and an investment of $41M to people they've worked with before, trust, and who have a pretty good prototype/story is perfectly reasonable. That's why I haven't paid much attention to the griping other than to see the headlines.
I think the point he's making is that they are going to try to figure out your actual real-world social graph based on who you associate with and where. I'm sure that was the killer part of the pitch.

If you forget about the photo sharing app for now, and imagine they do manage to create such a graph - it seems to me that it would be a lot more valuable than what Facebook calls a social graph - which is really more like a social game.

Imagine being being able to identify the people who are 'hubs' and 'influencers' in real life as opposed to online. Now imagine you can predict where they are going to be hanging out so that you can promote things to them, and then track the fanout as they meet people in real life. That is what Sequoia think their $41M might get them.
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What are you getting at with that link? That Apple didn't come up with the idea of a 4-segment folding cover? I certainly wasn't implying that - I was speaking out against hyperbolic praise or bashing of products based on pro-/anti-Apple biases.

If you took the case you linked to and added magnets so it could function like Apple's Smart cover, it would be quite a bit bulkier. I think it's fair to say that Apple's integrating the magnets in to the tablet is a more significant improvement than Miniot's is over Apple's.

By trying to lump me in with the people/strawmen who say that Apple invented smartphones or MP3 players, you do no credit to yourself and you make it look like you're trying to distract from my assertion that it does matter somewhat who the tablet manufacturer is because no other tablet maker would put the magnets inside their tablet.
Huh. Bill credits DJ Patil with creating this patent-pending technology that checks locale, but DJ just joined Color and LinkedIn, his previous company, definitely has an invention assignment agreement...
I think it's mostly inertia and culture. Inline functions weren't in the standard till C99.
I agree with this 100%. I'm really, really not sure I want anybody to have that kind of data about me - but I'm equally sure that most people are going to love it.

All the bang of Facebook, without any of the drag of data entry? And it's always freaking right, assuming all the people on your morning train into the city don't get added.

They are so right to pump money into this. Although I have to admit that the decision to spend $350K of it on an entirely unremarkable and unGoogleable domain name sort of leaves me wondering.
This article seems very timely, considering how Color just came out and is seemingly doing exactly what this article describes--taking the data hidden in phones and other devices and processing/analyzing it. Nice timing.

I guess this article is the argument countering all of the 'How did Color ever raise that much money?' articles.
You're not alone yet. I get my daily dose of lolcats via rss.
This is the batman sonar tech becoming a reality. Yessss.
I'm not sure if this is meant to be a serious comment, but not only is it misleading, it's also naive. As you try to lead the conversation into talking about an actual kernel halt or panic as opposed to what the OP actually said.

This was the original claim that you responded to. "by making the phone so unresponsive that a watchdog kicks in, or by using so much RAM that the OOM killer goes to town."

Crashes obviously happen on linux systems all the time. That's why this exists http://linux.die.net/man/8/watchdog and why we have reports like this http://www.unix.com/aix/106921-process-crashing-aix-due-memo... and this http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6059 etc.
Are you claiming that such a situation can't arise on linux.

The same is obviously true on Windows and OSX.

Pivoting the conversation isn't the best way to make your point.

edit - Not to mention you attempt to use anecdotal evidence to support a general claim. Such has no place here.
That sounds really cool. You should take a video of yourself typing since I think I'm probably not the only one interested to see this in action.
The company ... sees itself as "much more of a research company and a data mining company than a photo sharing site."

Wow - I bet users will gladly line up to upload photo and video to a data mining company. From the start they plan on mining their users rather than serving them. It really feels like all marketing BS when the core of the business is to track, record and mine their users.

It may be good tech, but that's a horrible user proposition and it certainly begs for a line-by-line analysis of their EULA since everything you do with the app is public.
good to see. i'm working on a project that involves video transcoding and something like this could be useful.
This page seems rather silly. He isn't actually espousing any views; he's saying he doesn't have any answers. You may read the questions as implying his views, but he doesn't explicitly state any opinions on the matter.

I'm not sure why this is even on HN, even given its author.
I said it was dumb, not useless.

I understand the need that people feel to be part of communities, that's perfectly normal. It doesn't mean you need to adhere to a book that was written by goat herders a few thousands of years ago.
Random "hello" on this page:

https://company.podio.com/product-two

Great site design at least. Not sure if the product is sold that clearly though - can't immediately tell what it is. Like Basecamp?
I never said to quit making apps and do something else. There are many, many apps that solve big problems. I love apps and work at a company that makes apps for mobile devices. I just don't happen to find photo sharing to be a big problem requiring $41M to solve at the moment.
To what extent does Knuth believe in God? For all I know, he might be a Christian atheist. Such people do exist, at the extreme Spongian end of the church.
What's fascinating about this is how much Nguyen feels he has to say. In a way, this is a serious blow to their plans; they have to reveal their world domination plans early so that bloggers won't keep dumping on them.

That said, their world domination plans are pretty awesome. I bet they come up with other ways to get you to 'soft checkin' on their platform. Just betcha. Wouldn't you like to just open an app that lets you, say, ask for contact info of people in a room with you? Like bump, but working, and low hassle? You could use it at parties, at networking events..

I'm guessing the application thoughts just keep coming for the color team.

Unfortunately, what they really can't afford is to dig into a hole based on bad PR right now; they need people out and using their app, and talking about it, hence the opening up a little bit.
"The science is pretty clear on how insulin works, for instance."

Is it? This is actually one of my core problems with Taubes. The science on insulin is nowhere near clear from what I can tell. Insulin can regulate hunger, may trigger storage of energy (or may not, depending on many confounding factors), and may be helpful in weight loss (or may not be). Taubes' assertion that insulin is well-understood, and his cherry-picking of studies to "prove" his assertion, is one of my problems with his work.

Again, I'm not saying he's wrong. I'm just saying his assertions about what we know and don't know about diet are not as well-supported as his books and articles claim. It's easy to find conflicting studies of nearly every point he considers "proven". This is problematic, if I'm going to change the way I live and eat in dramatic ways. I'm not going to do that just because some guy recommends it, when there are many more qualified people recommending other practices.

He is, in short, a popular science writer, doing what popular science writers do. He might be a good popular science writer. He might even have the right idea about many things, but you don't get to pick and choose which studies you use to come to your conclusions based on how much they agree with your position.

"The logic seems to be: Atkins is icky, Taubes promotes restricting carbs like Atkins, he must be icky too, the science be damned."

And your logic seems to be: Taubes is awesome and I agree with him, so he must be right, science be damned.

Here's my point, which I think you've missed along the way: Science doesn't yet know all the answers. Taubes definitely doesn't know all the answers. I don't know all the answers. And you don't know all the answers. But, there are a large number of scientists who disagree strongly with Taubes, making me think I should take his advice with a grain of salt.
Oh really. Which views exactly do you find naïve? His views evolved considerably over time.
It looks fiddly for constant use, but if it were toggleable, provided it's quick to invoke (and difficult to accidentally invoke) it'd be great for the situations where small links are a pain. Note that in this case it has to be less effort to invoke than a zoom action.

I'm not sure how much people hate animated gifs but you might want to consider adding a larger one, because I didn't get how the basic operation of the mouse cursor worked until I watched the video (the descriptions and static graphics didn't really explain much to me).

Also maybe make it a bit more obvious that it's android-only on the front page.
Uh... can you be any more specific, or does the meaning not matter at all?
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Instead of focusing on the "loneliness" issue, how about you focus on the "crash every 5 seconds" issue?
Why isn't photo sharing a real problem? Why isn't it hard? I think it's easy to be dismissive of things like this, especially from a purely technical viewpoint.

I'd like to see the other pics people take at get-togethers or on camping trips, but the effort of uploading them to something like facebook doesn't seem worth the effort for many (most?) people (that i know, at least), and there's no way easy way to collate the pics taken by diff people.
http://d.pr/IH8J

Like a few on here, I never learned the proper way to type although I use all 10 digits. My typing were from countless hours coding or chatting.
[Show HN] iPad2 Availability Checker At Target Stores
I was bored and inspired by a post I read somewhere to check iPad Availability For Target Stores. So I took today and made this..I learned some good stuff.

http://www.6colors.net/ipad_check/
Oh wow, these look lovely. I will try out with my kids tomorrow, and report back.

p.s. First Chile startup post I've seen on HN, did you take some of the government money that's been much in the press?