skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but apparently a lot of people here (or maybe a lot of people in US, I wouldn't know) believe that if you assume that [person who works at male-dominated field] is a man, then you're being sexist, even when the assumption about the gender is totally unrelated to the topic in question.
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Yes we are..
Reputation, in this specific case, refers to fame within a small and socially closed set of people who care more about contacts and image than accomplishments.

How long have you been running this conservative/troll schtick? It's entertaining and I commend you for your excellent execution of it. Let me guess, you also post on Autoadmit pretending to be a biglaw partner, right?
I've been a developer for iPhone/Android for a couple years now. Making livable money on iPhone, just barely breaking even, if not losing money, on Android.

- Your best shot at Android is to make an app that doesn't push the hardware. We built a high-end game, but we couldn't afford to keep supporting the latest devices. In fact, our game crashes hard on the Xoom/Gingerbread, but it's not making enough money to justify a fix. Fragmentation is a huge problem on Android, so for indie devs, staying low-end is the only real alternative.

- Our games have been featured by both Apple and Android, and been in both top selling lists. Our Apple revenue was easily 50x our Android revenue.

- I think you'll have better luck from a free, ad-supported app instead of a paid app on Android.

- If you want to make livable money, then your options are: (1) get as iOS app featured by Apple, or in the top 200 apps for a long time, or (2) create a stable of smaller apps that work well on all iOS/Android and don't need to be ported/tested on each individual device.
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I guess nobody knows better than them the state of the IPv6 implementation on the world's most common desktop operating system.

Doesn't exactly inspire trust, does it?
Accept sponsorships from people who target that audience.
Once a week, send a mail about the sponsors (or put it into one of the daily mails) and explain what they do and why they might interest the audience.
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Quote from the scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2bLNkCqpuY

An example of perfect marketing.
The british arrested scholars for acquiring al qaeda literature. Cutting a phone call is quite child play in comparison but there's no sense of western ethical superiority mocking the british so it's less fun.
From a security perspective, won't it be a worry?
People seem to be putting so much data online without worrying about its implication --- FB, Google Docs, etc.
Toolbars, plug-ins, etc., are installed without a second thought, giving them access to your 'personal' data/habits, etc., that is not online but in your system.
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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.

Americans, a self-governed people, have established a proven system of rights and freedoms in our Constitution, and that sovereignty should not be transferred to international bodies -- particularly when those bodies are controlled by groups that plan to use the courts against U.S. and Israeli soldiers.
My theory as to why so many photo sharing apps:

(2007-2008 CS193P)
Stanford Apple iPhone app project involves twitter api -> many twitter clients created.

(2009-2010 CS193P)
Stanford Apple iPhone app project involves flickr api -> many photo sharing apps created.

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/drupal/system/f...

"By this point, your Paparazzi app looks up real users on Flickr, finds and lists their photos and lets you view them up close by zooming and panning. It also plots these photos on a map and lets you browser photos by location."
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Poll: How fast do you type?
There's a poll going around to see how many people can touch-type. I figured this would also be interesting to know
Less than 60 wpm
60-70 wpm
70-80 wpm
80-90 wpm
90-100 wpm
100-120 wpm
More than 120 wpm
Why do reporters constantly feel compelled to use the words "green" and "eco" in every situation they can? This has absolutely nothing to do with ecology, it's simply about optimizing space usage in a city where space is extremely expensive. I guess talking about green stuff sells more.
You're welcome to check out Sparkmuse and steal any ideas on how we work. I can send you an invite if youd like, just shoot me an email.
High school typing class. Most useful class I ever took for my chosen career.
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I don't disagree with you in that entrepreneurs choose software because it's cheaper.

My question was: what's inherently derivative about software startups? Why is everyone making photo-sharing software and not software to solve other (unaddressed) problems?
Actually the judge is looking to help them by suggesting that their estimate is bullsh*t, since they are very unlikely to get $75 Trillion.
Just because the author is Knuth doesn't make it on-topic.
I personally do not really care. Faith is a personal matter. As long as we are not discussing it directly, why should it factor into a political conversation? Einstein was deeply religious, down to refusing to accept quantum theory because "god does not play with dice", but he also had things to say. Would it have made his discoveries more wonderful if he was an atheist? I believe that question is devoid of meaning.
There have been many entrants to Darpa's Grand Challenge over the years, and that's unlikely to be the only development in the area: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge
Reading about Color while watching news about Middle Eastern protests was an interesting juxtaposition. Having a surge of people using this during a major news event could prove interesting - to the degree of being "disruptive tech" having consequences and uses we can't imagine yet.

At the other extreme, even being far away from others could prove useful, if only to have a starting point for finding others and bootstrapping social interaction. Someone has to be first to turn it on in an otherwise isolated area.
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Of course, Klabnik was one of the main dudes who brought this to the community's attention. Not that this would be well known, exactly, but it was enough for this mention:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/09/22/security-lessons-learned...
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The question is how can you get UberMedia on board.
Great project. And great writting.
I type with 6 fingers (thumbs, middle and index fingers) and my average typing speed is 262 characters per minute with an error rate of 5% (as measured by a web based type speed test a couple of years ago, I don't remember the URL). It works for me. I do try to learn 10 finger typing every couple of years but I usually give up pretty quickly. Since I type so fast even with just 6 fingers, there just isn't enough incentive for me to learn 10 finger typing.
Why not just convert the binary into an array literal in a C source file and compile that?
Just a tiny, trivial, aesthetic/grammar change: on http://captainobvio.us/auth/login you say "Login to Captain Obvious". I'd change that to "Log in …".
While I don't disagree, I did notice that the author works for a company that develops a mobile news reader app. Not exactly breaking new ground there either.
I honestly have no idea how fast I type these days. And it varies by domain, what device I'm typing on, etc.

But, FWIW, when I was taking "keyboarding" in college back in the early 90's, I was somewhere in the 80-90wpm range.
Pick your favorite ancient European or Middle Eastern religious or philosophical writing and look at the actual usage of the word "faith" (or the word translated as "faith"). You'll find that its definition is something along the lines of "reasonable acceptance of a proposition based on evidence" with the followup of "acting upon that proposition in the face of emotional uncertainty". Or, more simply, classical faith is the triumph of reason and experience over emotion and fickleness.

It's only been about the last 140 years (with the rise of Christian Fundamentalism and the associated mysticism and anti-intellectualism) that "faith" has been used to refer to belief without reason or evidence. The parent poster is moving the goalposts, but he's moving them back toward where they actually belong.
Flying to Thailand and spending an entire week taking $18 flights back and forth between two cities seems like a pretty incredible cost to pay for First Class seats for a year.

I suppose if I was a consultant and flew every week, I might feel differently, but I was pretty surprised at how much (in non monetary units) you have to pay to get "cheap" upgrades.
Took me a bit to recognize it was satire, well played.
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Your analogy doesn't hold, because the first two are debts and the third is compensation for damages. You owe $75 trillion in illusory damages to a party, it's still you who has the problem. If we were talking real damages it might hold, but we're not talking real damages. And of course you can't pay $75 trillion, but you sure can be driven bankrupt.
this is a great inspirational hack because:

1.) it scratches an important personal itch (having to live his whole life in a crowded urban apartment)

2.) it demonstrates resourcefulness and ingenuity given the (literal!) constraints

3.) the lessons he learned from hacking his own apartment could be used to improve urban living spaces in general

this is a reminder that hacks don't necessarily need to be hosted on github ;)
Same with the hunt and peck. With the hand angles too. I usually anchor my left pinkie on the ctrl key (which is why laptops that switch fn and ctrl annoy the crap out of me) but I find that sometimes that left hand drifts off of the ctrl but I keep typing fine. And then it sits back on there when I'm done.

Touch typing doesn't really take into account key-modifiers like shift / alt / ctrl, tab, f-keys, insert / delete or even home / end / pageup / pagedown which all come up very often during coding or doing stuff in the commandline or in your favourite editor.
In your mid 20s, made $1M.. Think you probably can take time out to write a book. And figure out what you want to do next. i.e. Build something interesting? Or invest in a startup?
Well many atheists claim that being an atheist is a qualification for being a serious scientist. Sam Harris wrote a pretty poorly thought out piece in the NYT about how a person who is otherwise qualified was not a good candidate because of their faith.
Or they are people who just happened to be in the same neighborhood. I don't really get how that creates a social graph that's any more valuable than people you've explicitly added. Just because I'm in a neighborhood today doesn't mean that I'll want to connect with (or even be in the same place at the same time) the other folks whose pictures I can see in the app.

It's a fun concept, but after using it for a bit, I'm still trying to think of why I would care. If I can only see pictures from the neighborhood, I'm unlikely to see anything that I can't already see with my naked eyes.
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Why was this removed earlier?
Aim Higher: Stop Building Group Buying Services

Aim Higher: Stop Building Location Based Services

Aim Higher: Stop Building Social Networks

Aim Higher: Stop Building Search Engines

Aim Higher: Stop Building Online Retailers

If its a big space with lots of potential people will try to fill it. Remember, people build the future, it doesn't just "happen." All these services and large funding rounds are just proving that photosharing is a big unsolved space (just like group buying, LBS, social networks, search engines, online retailers, computer manufacturers, operating systems...). Relax and let the market do its thing. Or jump into the market. But please don't complain about the way innovation works.
There's a lot that does, though, and it's a huge set of functionality that windows doesn't provide natively. Even something as simple as:

ipconfig | grep IP

Not possible in windows. Then there's the rest of the userland tools unix people take for granted like rsync, screen, diff, tr, wget, etc. The standard shells and scripting languages all work. Plus I always set up an ssh server to run on localhost, so that I can use putty as my terminal rather than the windows' crummy cmd.exe.

Yes, ultimately it's still a windows box and cygwin's distribution definitely isn't on par with ubuntu or fedora. It's not going to be cutting edge and there will be difficulties integrating with hardware and the windows environment. It's generally not a good choice for running desktop apps or servers, and will probably require some extra work to set up a serious development environment.

But if you have other reasons to use windows (Outlook calendar, games, etc.), cygwin makes it a LOT more tolerable.
Your words give lie to that - in order to "experience our perceptions" there has to be a 'me' in there. You know what I'm talking about - the guy in your head that you are aware of at all times.

Behavior is observed from the outside. But what about that 'feeling' you get inside your own head, that you are really there? The act of observing it means you are something else than the behavior.
Des Moines is a great example of where that article makes sense.

But there's no sense in leaving once reaching success. Reinvest it in the community that helps bring you up. Build something bigger. Repeat.
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This is pretty amazing & clever.

I wish the font file was available just to play with, even if it was a crippled version. Even though it's not a "full" typeface, I'm surprised he's not charging more. If it works as advertised, I'd gladly pay more than $15 for that bit of cleverness.
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Do the drug laws in this country need reform? Yes. Are the penalties for non-violent drug crimes particularly harsh? Sure. Is the entire system of law so contorted and corrupt that it's completely the control of "those in power" as you call them? I rather doubt it. Such an extraordinarily claim requires extraordinary evidence and you've provided none. You've simply waved your hands around and grumbled about how judges "routinely" hand out multiple life sentences, without including any proof, context, or analysis how this alleged fact supports your argument.

Clearly the angle you're approaching this issue from is that of marijuana legalization. Consider this: the fact that you are unable to have a rational view of our justice system is one reason why decriminalization/legalization is taking so damn long. Remember Prop 19? It is one of the most incompetent pieces of legislation I've ever read, mostly in part because of attitudes like yours that the justice system is completely broken and out to ruin the lives of every pot smoker in the US. A good summery of some of the more fundamental issues with Prop 19 here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1864578 and here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1865987. Point is that the justice system isn't the boogie man, and the thought that it was is what caused Prop 19 to be such garbage. I honestly have no idea where the idea comes from. Last time I checked weed was decriminalized in 12 states and many townships in the US. I'm not trying to convolute the main line of discussion here, but the subtext beneath your post needs to be addressed.

Finally, if you actually believe the rather macabre view of the justice system you're espousing, you should pack up and move out of the country. I for one couldn't live in a country with a justice system like the one you describe. There's a world of difference in believing the justice system in imperfect and in need of reform (my personal view) and your view which seems to be that it's completely broken.
Hey, thanks for all the great links.
He is being irrational. Happens to all people, really, including atheists.

Regarding you last sentence, I don’t think religion is the most interesting subject to bring up when you have the chance to talk to Donald Knuth.
P2P twitter is absolutely necessary but it has to be done right.

First of all, ensure privacy with public key cryptography. Sign tweets for authenticity.
Retweets can just be additional signatures.

If a distributed microblogging protocol was interoperable with twitter and user friendly, it would probably be able to siphon people off of twitter proper. Certainly it would be an attractive alternative to anyone who NEEDED the service, and that's the important thing, right?
Hopefully work out a way so that tweets on twitter.com can be captured and distributed in this P2P network. These tweets could be unsigned since if you include a link to the original tweet they can be verified.

Defining protocols instead of providing services democratizes a layer of the OSI model. We need to think deeper than that, though. We need to democratize the physical layer as well. Luckily we've proven that you don't need a high bandwidth link to be useful in a crisis situation. Twitter will do. To that end, I suggest that this project make an even more lofty goal:

Create a small embedded device interoperable with this P2P microblogging network. The device can communicate with peers over a Software Defined Radio. The device should be capable of bridging to a wi-fi or 3g network. This would accomplish the democratization of the physical layer which is so important to combat censorship and oppression.

You can't monetize democracy. This is why these projects will only happen on a volunteer/charity basis.
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From the screenshots, the quality looks incredible. How long have you been developing the site?

A couple additions that I think would improve the site:

* A "coming soon" section

* A link to the artist's web site

* Artist bio

The design of the site itself was very nice, too.

Good luck!
This is something like 2-3 years old.
There's also a subreddit you may be interested in http://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis/
My first thought when I read about the funding was that they would need a pretty robust back-end. Not only are they storing pictures to relay to other people in an area, but Color also has to catalog them several ways: geographically, by privacy settings, by groups, by time, etc.

Being able to do all of that with a minimum of fuss and delay all over the world will probably take a lot of stuff behind the scenes that I can't imagine. On top of that, staff to support it.

But yeah, 41 million seems a bit excessive.
I was planning on experimenting with a similar thing for a university assignment. Though my main focus was going to be indexing links that are posted. Ie, on twitter if someone links to an article on continuous integration with teamcity, but just says 'great CI server' in their tweet, my search engine would still return resutls for 'teamcity' or 'continuous integration' as its indexing the actual links as well.

Perhaps Greplin could consider adding similar functionality?
Well for one, you shouldn't have issues like the app crashing when someone tries to take a photo. 27 employees means you have plenty of QA and a testing environment. Two guys in a house means you maybe have one iPhone version to test on and no time to do thorough QA.
Or the Miami Heat of Web 2.0...
This is a very good example of "eco-friendly", and the word "green" was never used.

It is eco-friendly for various reasons. Two major ones are:

- The lighting is mostly natural, so there is less energy use
- The space required per person, and thus the associated materials, is significantly less than a typical US living space. Further, less space means less heating/cooling requirements.
"(I am also fairly convinced that there was price-fixing and monopolistic behaviour then)"

There was a class action lawsuit in the US covering exactly that back in 2004 or so. I think I got about $7 from the settlement.
Groupon and Livingsocial always have muffins in their ads. You click on them but you never get a deal for muffins! It's outrageous.
But Iraq is? :)
BTW, it shows "435 supporters so far" and supporter accounts cost $9/month.
This photo sharing phenomenon reminds me of PG's ideas. http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html [9]
As you said, with Android the market basically dictates a free, ad-supported version coupled with a paid, ad-free version. Trying to go paid-only in a climate of apps running on an OS that both place emphasis on "open" and "free" is suicide.
I have experienced this and it's really, really annoying. A solution is to put the word in quotation marks.
Really? Not once have I had an application take down GNU/Linux. Sure an application takes down X once in a blue moon, but never the whole Os. And I've been using it for about 15 years now. The few full scale crashes I've experienced were due to hardware errors.

Only once have I experienced a full crash on android. The phone simply rebooted. No idea why.

I have never used OSX or windows after XP, so I can't say anything about them.
For what it's worth, Color (the company) does not see itself as just another photo sharing app.

When I was in their office, the executives kept making vague references to how they would be doing some heavy data crunching and creating recommendation algorithms. They really didn't elaborate, but it sounded like the photo-taking was very much just a Step 1. Almost like an excuse to get people to pull out their phones so that Color could collect a bunch of data beyond just the photo itself (the implicit social graph, location, time, audio, etc).

Maybe they were just saying this stuff so that I wouldn't put them in the same bucket as Instagram and the rest, but this is a really smart team, so I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt for now.

Also, I don't think Sequoia would have poured this much money into just another photo sharing app.
I'm not sure of my WPM, but I'm fairly certain my brain is the bottleneck. I am still a bit slow on my special characters though.
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More than a few lottery winners rake in millions of dollars every week.
I watched a documentary about this, and the guy that discovered this deal employed 8 or 10 locals to fly this route for 8-10 hours a day. He then got a call from the ATO, or some department similar because that was a common drug route, and the agent interrogating him asked him to set him up with it too!