skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a clever way to get liquidity out of Facebook w/o having to pull any money out of Facebook itself (hence never showing any sort of pessimism).
Paintballers would take care of that! (I can see insurance being a problem though.)
...and a healthy dose of luck!
The problem with functionalism is the difficulty of unambiguously determining whether a given system implements a given calculation. This is inconsistent with the need to say that a given system definitely either is or is not conscious.
Good point. I think it has to tie into your social network. Maybe you can adjust the degree of freedom -- more depth = more risk.

But the concept that people could do nude pictures and then be around the corner to actually see your reaction in real life is kind of creepy.
I honestly don't think this works for everybody, as long as my mind is clear on what I have to do, it doesn't matter how messy my desk is. I used to be obsessed with everything being "minimalistic" clean and I figured it was because I wasn't working on the right jobs. As soon as I found my place, it didn't matter how my desk was.
I'll add my 2 cents to the idea of using a pre-existent solution for the main community site.

And my vote goes for using buddy press and extend from it.

As others have said, it would be great to start this community opening up the space to code, design and ideas contributors from the very beginning.
Is your project up online somewhere?
I can't remember the last time Maddox was relevant.
Cool but take a look at the links that I posted which are years old. The fact is that there are amazing technologies employed in certain military and defense research projects that when coupled with todays consumer internet applications have unbelievable capabilities... As a former employee of Lockheed - I can assure you I am not the only person who believes this...
It's hard to do an accounting, because virtually everything at Google is a team effort. There've been projects I've worked on that have generated hundreds of millions in additional revenue. However, there was a group downstream of us in Ads doing the actual sales. And we had groups upstream that we rely upon for data. And those groups had groups upstream of them that managed the infrastructure. Who earned the money? If you take out any one component of the pipeline, it never happened.
Wait, I'm confused. They quoted figures of 8000 boxes at $4 each, but on Fred Wilson's blog post the quote indicates it was 500 boxes at $40 each. Which one was it?
Poor title on the part of TC, but I think it is important to remember that when Sequoia invested in Google, everybody thought search was dead, tech had just taken a bath, and the founders were an unknown.

This group is at the very popular intersection of photo-sharing, social network, real-time, local/location and I'm sure more. They have a rock-star proven team, and tech is a popular investment now.
"In the city proper, I don't know that the 'old folks' thing will work well. The old folks still in Detroit in decent neighborhoods will not be areas with the cheap houses you are looking for (yes, there are some really nice areas in the city)."

I don't mean "old, rich folks". East Austin was poor, mostly black and hispanic, and crime-ridden for decades before a resurgence began in the early 00s. But, a lot of the residents are still old folks who've lived through the whole process of decline and rebirth. Houston experienced white flight, and then began to recover in some of the older neighborhoods surrounding downtown (as far as I know downtown Houston is still a graveyard at night, and may not be fixable because there is no housing, the ground level streets are non-porous and have no shopping or nightlife). Same story, lots of older home owners that never left; their kids were grown when white flight happened, so they didn't feel as compelled to follow the good schools or were too poor to move or just didn't want to leave their home and stubbornly stuck around.

But, the rest of your answer is awesome, and is exactly what I was looking for. I don't actually need a house to cost $1 to consider it a good deal. But, it would take a really good price to get me to buy property in a place with weather as bad as Detroit. Hell, the place is unlivably cold six months out of the year, as far as this Texan is concerned. But, I'd consider buying to have a cheap summer parking place in a cool and interesting town, and if it happens to come with a house built in the 40s or 50s that I could renovate a bit, that's gravy.
This is a private business, not government. It isn't a lynch mob when someone decides not to do business with you. This isn't censorship.

When the government prohibits you from speaking, that's censorship.

When the New York Times decides to deliver some ideas over others, its not censorship. They own the printing press, they can use it for whatever they like.

The iOS platform has ads, crossword puzzles and a set of ideas. It has the same rights as anyone else to decide what its going to disseminate.

Freedom of the press rests on property rights, in this case the right to use your property to promote the values you choose.
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Would you be able to make that $120K (which seems low to me, actually) elsewhere?

That's the important comparison - it's quite possible for you to keep 100% of the value you create, but only create $60-70K/year of value. Several of my college friends (not in the valley) are in that position.
I'm not mad at their strategy. It seemed to have worked for Experts Exchange who I would guess has a more tech savvy user base. Just pointing out that you can't hide your content from users while getting it indexed by google at the same time.
same here, did my best searching and still can't test it.
"Opportunities are harder to seize as well - living paycheque to paycheque would make it hard to pick up and move to SF to found a startup for example."

There are always many different types of opportunities around. If someone can't pick up and move to SF, they can run their startup from anywhere. The great part about right now is that you can start up a business with pretty much nothing.

"From a statistical point of view, however, poverty will beget more poverty because the average poor person will not have enough second chances to make it out."

Some decisions in life have long-lasting consequences. The poor should be concentrating on not making those bad decisions in the first place. Another problem is environmental. Parents pass their bad habits and decision making onto their kids. Wealthy parents most likely already have good habits and pass those good habits onto their kids.

"If we want society to improve, we MUST provide a way for the average poor person to get past some of their mistakes. Yes, it looks like undeserved handouts, but I think it's the right thing to do."

I don't think I can agree with you here. If we allow people to easily get past their mistakes, they will continue to make them (and society won't improve) If you know that a mistake can cost you pain and suffering in the future, you will most likely think twice before making it. Some people will never learn, but I don't feel that I should have to continue to pay for those people until they finally do.
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quora appears broken at the moment . . . I was going to suggest:

in many shells (bash, tcsh, etc), !foo will execute the most recent command from your history that matches foo, for example:

> grep -lots -of -options /complicated_regex/ ./some/path/* | /pipe/filter
# realize you are in the wrong directory
> cd /the/right/directory
> !g

and similarly, !! is the most recent command, which comes in handy for "sudo !!"[1]

[1] http://xkcd.com/149/
Wait, what? ifconfig is deprecated? Now I need to start typing ip on Linux , yet another variation from my BSD machines where ifconfig is definitely still in use, and Windows where I have to use ipconfig.
So, I wonder how long until someone is going to use this to create a real-time location based hot or not?:P
Yeah, this (-> http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html) popped into my head when I read that too.

Red Hat has made some cool stuff though. Not sure if it would be my first choice if I had to choose a distro to deploy, however.
Another trick that I don't see people mention(excuse me if somebody here already did) is the bash history completion:

\esc \tab

This will complete based on your history, argument wise. Very useful when tab completion itself doesn't satisfy you.
Side note: If you go back to the Bill and Steve interview from D5, listen to Mr. Gates mention the tech of kinect years before the product. It is interesting how much MSR jives with that talk.
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I used cygwin for several years and always felt like a leper - nothing ever works right out of the box.
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I think it might be out later tonight or tomorrow morning. I have been looking for it also.
This is rather odd. Not sure what I think about it. I've never seen anything like it. What do you guys think? Maybe useful in apps made for techies?
No. What I think everyone is saying is that we find it surprising that the thief recording a video and putting it on the victims computer (essentially giving it to him) would have any rights to sue for at all in Germany or anywhere else for that matter.

The fact that the thief knows that the computer is stolen property and is not rightfully his makes a big difference. For example, if he bought the computer for $250 he might be suspicious that it was stolen (otherwise why such a good deal?), but it is theoretically possible in that situation to give him the benefit of the doubt. Of course, that's not the case here.
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"Many of them emerge talking about bureaucracy, politics, 'big company attitude', projects that got killed, and how things 'aren't like they used to be.'".

There's a great book called "Watership Down". In it, a band of ragtag rabbits whose home was destroyed come across a warren where all rabbits are well-fed and seemingly happy, and yet, something is wrong, every so often one of them disappears. Except no one talks about it, because that would mean admitting that they live on a rabbit farm.

Draw your own conclusion.
I found myself using Emacs keybinding for line wise operation and movement in both vim and shell. It is just verbose to switch between editing modes sometimes.
You can also do this:

$ man man
I like the landing page, it is very clean and easy to understand what you're doing.

Was the slightly religious 'cheesus' (Chesus) url intentional?

It's a good idea, and smart that the wedding hosts pay for the app for their entire party.

I'd get rid of the 'I've been waiting for an app like this' bit until you have more feedback.

Your 'how it works' section could be made simpler, and you have a spelling error 'camersa'.

All you need is

Congratulations! you're getting married.

To use cheese.us at your wedding

1) Tell us your name, the date and location of your wedding

2) Get your friends to 'check-in' with the chees.us app at the wedding. If they don't already have Chees.us, they can download it free.

3) your guests use the chees.us app to take photos at your wedding

All the photos are gathered in real-time, and can always be viewed after the event!

Photos not taken with the cheesus app can always be added to the cheesus gallery later.

something along those lines. You seem very concerned with how long it would take, but really you just want to make it sound easy and fun.

Don't forget, you are talking/selling to people who are about to get married and are really excited about it. You should build on their excitement and anticipation.

You've got a great idea, best of luck with it.
Ask HN: What is the market price of an experienced iPhone dev in SV?
Recently since the start of this year I've been getting offers left and right from startups and companies for my iPhone development experience. They all offer around the same amount +/- $10'000 but I don't know if that is just estimates based on my current wage or position or what they are offering typically. What is the real market price?
That's ridiculous. Unless we are in a private place (like your own home, a private club, etc..)

For example, if we are in a public park, and I take your picture even against your explicit wishes, as long as I do not make any commercial profit off of it, I am pretty much free to publish it in any way I want (flicr, etc.).

If I want to sell it or profit from it in some way, you certainly have some rights. But, basically, if you are in a public place you have no privacy rights against someone taking a picture of you and publishing it.
It seems to me that there is a fundamental difference. Reddit and HN are good for dropping the user into a giant bin of information, but this seems to be focusing on things we can actually categorise as knowledge and, hopefully, would include ways of actually encouraging and reinforcing that knowledge. The idea's very rough, but I can see a place for it that HN/reddit/what have you just doesn't fill.
Having been a hi-tech quota exceeding :-) sales rep for a number years, here is what I advise:

1. Hire two reps: one for each coast. Even two part-time reps at each coast I say is better than one rep running around from coast to coast. Time wasting and regionally differences do crop up.

2. Read the the book, Selling to Big Companies.

3. Yes sell yourself so you understand the issues involved.

4. "Salespeople are notorious for giving excuses when they don't meet the sales targets they agreed to."

This is usually when the owner does not understand the market or misestimates the market. Any good sales person will leave and stop wasting time with people that will not work with them to make sales happen. It takes a company to sell. Especially if you want the easy and lucrative referrals.

What is the price point for this product?
Who at the customer site will ultimately say yes?

At one company, it was easy to sell since the network engineer was the main guy/gal that had to approve the technical aspects. I just made sure they understood the personal utility of our product as well so they had a personal stake on how their life would with us or a competitor's product.

read the book, it is totally awesome. Having done the job for a number of years, I still learned lots of usually things that I was able to use immediately.

In terms of what to offer, I guess it really depends. Realize in the beginning you are really doing business development not just sales. So there needs to be more of a salary cushion. A low end salesperson is usually 40/40. 40k salary and 40k commission. Realize that the you are hiring a profession and not asking them to necessarily do charity work. However, together estimate the metrics of sales and the where the number of sales at each level in the sales pipeline. Also come up with remediation plans. Say in 2 months, you expect the rep will have made 5 sales. What happens if they have only made 2 sales. Have everything spelled out so everyone knows the ramifications and there are fewer surprises.
There is no such thing as free speech (1998)
This is how ridiculous the open source model is. They bust their asses working and reach a billion after so many years, building on top of so much work and complexity.

Come on, Angry Birds can beat that in 2-3 years.
There's no place like home
probably more unpleasant for the people w/in 100 feet of me as I accidentally snapped a quick photo of my coin purse... (hopefully it doesn't get mistaken for an ariel photo of Iraq again)
Thanks for posting. I got some great feedback on that one (my first) and I'll do my best to keep the camera rolling for future art.
You need a copywriter my friend. What the site does isn't very clear from first reading it; only after parsing what WE ALL was supposed to reference. You don't want so many long obtuse words to describe what it is.

Say it plainly in and in as few words as possible. Less text == better.

The wedding must be after July 1st 2011 bit is a little unnecessary and gives off bad vibes; just say you're launching in July and start collecting emails like a mofo now. I should be staring at a small input form that is begging to convert me and all the other smart-phone touting friends and relatives of mine I'll share this with soon.

I get that you have a Google Form/Spreadsheets via the golden button, but the deeper the target, the higher the attrition rate from first time visitors who don't bother to wait along, especially after getting confused by all the text on the sidebar and top.

With your idea executed well, you should have a nice MVP rolling along soon. Keep hustling and the initiative.
Consider a synthesis of the two -- and then perhaps this is the wrong question to be asking. The mind may appear physical in the ways we can observe it, even if we were to record and analyze every single neuron and synapse and draw accurate conclusions on thought. This is the same as if you were to write a 3D game called 'medschool' and have doctors in training, who are also programs inside that program, dissect brains to see how they operate -- yet the code is running elsewhere. Is that mind, which is just a rendering, considered physical?

The dualist argument appears akin to the Bergsonian Élan vital. It seems to imply there is a hypostasis where physical matter meets this otherness matter. Consider that, according to that theory, if the brain were to be fully observed in the manner stated above, there would be no conclusions able to be drawn from its actions. What a flaw in the universe! I do not believe this system which has been so elegantly designed would have such a gaping hole. Physicalism++
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My thoughts exactly.

Sure you could bitch and moan about her portfolio, the grammar used, etc... But this still stands out and her passion is there. These kinds of people soak up whatever you give them.

Plus it takes balls to do something like this, and that's a good trait.
That's odd, I'm always disappointed when hackers or scientists lean towards an esoteric view of consciousness, mainly because we should be supremely well suited to realize that the mind is not a concept that somehow requires supernatural augmentation to be feasible. Dealing with both information processing and the nature of reality every day, I feel there is really no excuse for hackers and scientists to evoke the metaphysical. I also think postulating a supernatural component to consciousness prevents an observer from really noticing the phenomenal beauty of the natural processes involved.
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Because people like me, when they enter a message, will sit here and click over and over until they see their own message. And with the number of flood posts etc. you never get to see your message because it's buried in the crap, which is frustrating.

You can get around it by firstly removing any message that isn't unique, and it might also be a good idea to have a timeout where you don't accept another submission.

Clearing the input box between submissions would stop people from just clicking the share button multiple times too, then they'd at least have to paste the text in before clicking submit again.

Also consider this scenario:

javascript:for(var i=0;i<10;i++){$("#thought_message").val("spammy message");$( "#new_thought" ).submit();};void(0);
I personally think they just solved a huge problem. Oh wait..what problem were they solving again?
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I think maybe I'm missing something obvious, but why does the chart jump from Chrome 6 to Chrome 10?
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If you want a good understanding of the Detroit neighborhoods read Model D http://www.modeldmedia.com/ In Detroit I'd look to the twenty somethings as they're the ones that are the urban pioneers. Where you see a lot of young people like Corktown or near Wayne State are worth investigating.

In contrast to downtown NW Detroit near Southfield and Grand River where I grew up houses are still in low six figures though half what they were a few years ago.. This is where you find the older folks. But you will also find the streets are a bit narrow for an SUV ;<).

Good luck and happy hunting!
I will definitely keep this in mind the next time I want to digitally insult someone on HN.
Ok, correct me if I am totally mark on this one but here are my takeaways:

1) The idea of creating groups on the fly to take photographs from a shared location is what got the funding.

But using a tighter geofencing (remember how in Gowalla one had to stand at a point to check in) the same can be brought in Instagram which already has a million or so members.

2)The photo is public for anyone in the vicinity of 100 feet or perhaps everybody (sorry for missing that) but one does realise that it limits my ability to share things with the world. I mean only in case when something is cool would I want to share it with the world and other times stop short of making myself look not so cool.

3) Local+Social+Mobile is great on paper but these are not the dimensions that make a great app. It is the underlying mechanics. For a $41 million investment and a overpriced domain name, they sure did not blow my mind off.

4) As far as the white noise of social apps is concerned it was the same problem with all apps, facebook included if you were in the party early! Can't hang them for that.

5)For the latent interest in finding photos around an area or location, there always are foursquare/gowalla (sitting on huge data) and instagram with the tags lately (remember #sxsw ?). You really think one would use them?

5) I remember Chris Dizon lately writing about investing in people over ideas and it looks like with 7 rockstar cofounders, thatis what happened here. But hey, who said anything about turning a blind eye to the idea?

6) Last, people around me wanting to see photos around them :) can just turn around or shoot foursquare to find a lot more info over a longer period of time than using the app, right?

Of course I am saying this all since I am a hater for seeing them receive such a huge funding for no apparent (to me) reason!
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> That's odd, I'm always disappointed when hackers or scientists lean towards an esoteric view of consciousness, mainly because we should be supremely well suited to realize that the mind is not a concept that somehow requires supernatural augmentation to be feasible

See, that right there betrays a misunderstanding of my entire point.

Why must we be only focused on what is required for something to exist? Why the obsession with cause and effect at all levels? I agree this stuff is fascinating, fun, and an epic quest unto itself. But if you try to invoke Occam's Razor after your girlfriend dumps you, you're going to be as clueless Eisenberg's fictional Zuckerberg was in that situation.

To distill all the nuance, joy and sorrow of the human experience into that which can be analyzed, measured, quantified and recorded in a canonical model is a sad existence. It is as if you are content to never taste fresh fruit because frozen fruit contains all the same constituents.