skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I realized that my previous response didn't really convey what I wanted to, so I'll try again:

There is always a possibility that sensors will fail. Unless you have enough redundancy in your sensors to employ a voting system (not always practical, sometimes not even possible), computers are still no good at handling such failures. A properly trained human has a pretty good chance of maintaining SA when sensors fail. A computer, not so much. In fact, given the definition of SA, I'm not entirely convinced that any computer currently in existences is truly capable of having SA at all (which is what I was trying to get at in my previous reply).
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We are looking to get feedback for http://www.samefeather.com. We have tried this with friends and family but want to get some critical feedback (note to self: do this sooner next time).

SameFeather is a location based network of people with similar interests. Our emphasis is offline. We provide a way for people to find others in their vicinity that share their interests and meet them offline. We are trying to stay away from calling it a social network because that seems to scare away a lot of people. The differentiating factor from whats already out there is we focus on individuals and allow them to create personal groups around their interests.

We are thinking about a possible mobile app in the future based on some more real user testing/feedback.

Thanks!
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Far from it because right now this is only being discussed in Hacker News... not in USA Today or FarmVille. However one defines "fools", I don't see a shortage. That said, I'm not invested, only observing here.
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Most servers have little source of decent entropy. Virtualisation makes this worse. Intel has dropped the motherboard RNG support in their chipsets. The suggestion in the thread to use a few cheap VIA boxes which have CPU RNG is one idea. There are cheap USB rngs too like http://www.entropykey.co.uk/.
I support keeping the scores hidden, but using the scores to hide inappropriate, or spammy comments.

Of course, what seem to be missing is a way to highlight comments that have been consistently voted up within the thread.
You have to have the computing power to beat 50% of the network - given the current size of the bitcoin network that's certainly not trivial.
RIP 4chan?

4chan is not a startup. It does not need month-over-month growth to pay for massive venture funding. It can survive quite happily as a thorn in various entities' sides for the foreseeable future.
Short but nice blog post on M/R. One issue thou (for now, maybe something changes in the meantime): images don't show due to deep linking.
"[Pariser] went out of his way to “friend” people with conservative politics. When he didn’t click on their updates as often as those of his like-minded contacts, he says, the system dropped the outliers from his news feed."

There's the rub. The Internet, among other things, has created a flood of data into people's lives. Filtering is essential. Pariser's built-in mental filter took over. I understand the premise of what's being said here. But it's more complicated than this. If an article/story/data in general is uninteresting or repellent enough to someone that it's ignored, did it really help that it was on the page briefly as it's skimmed past?

I think the problem is that it _automatically_ dropped things from his feed. It might be good to offer a way to turn filtering off entirely and leave it up to the person. I can't imagine anyone would really want this for long, though.
How are ISPs the part of equation?

I mean, they would probably not okay with torrents and youtube, but it's not like anybody asked them for consent. They have to sell a service to clients, and clients want torrents and youtube and spotify, so they either deliver or get off market.

Of course, in areas where ISPs are either state-controlled or monopolistic, situation might be different. In this case, pity to the people stuck with monopolist.
I have a different take. Get professional marketing help.

This is not impossible. I - a professional marketing person - am your mirror. I have ideas, skills and the ability to get noticed but lack the ability to code. There are many like me and our talents and abilities are both real and valuable.

Find someone like me and partner with them. They can then do what you can't which is build an audience with very little budget.

In case you're wondering how, a lot of it is contacts. just like it is with code. For instance, I can get ads on networks at cost thanks to having friends that run them and owe me favors. I can also contact journalists who are friends directly. Finally, I already have the network and reach you don't.

Good luck. I think there's a huge gap for recognizing the value of non-tech skills in startups.
I didn't know it was a problem. I have a Viliv S7 (touchscreen, flip-to-tablet netbook) since maybe a couple of years, no issue with the hinge.
Tried it just now and it is merely a "technology demo" rather than a proper app. Having played with it for 20 minutes I wasn't able to make a single image that was worth saving, but still it was a buck well spent.
That's an interesting trick but not really representative of the problem. Reusing an RNG's entropy pool wholesale after restarting a snapshot is a mistake, not a design flaw.
I read somewhere it's a new fad among the super rich, it's ostensibly about self-sufficiency and the feeling of sheer power over life and death. This has historical precedent in the European feudal system where noblemen enjoyed going on regular "hunts"; those were staged events with huge entourages that had nothing to do with food procurement but everything with displays of power and prowess. However, those feudal hunts were in practice more a maneuver to dispel the tremendous sense of boredom and uselessness that comes from sitting around in a castle all day with nothing to do.
There are even bigger concerns with crypto on virtualized hardware: side channels. We probably don't even know all the microarchitectural pathways that crypto code can leave footprints on, let alone how to deploy efficient general-purpose crypto code to obscure those footprints.
What revamped notifications in iOS 5?
Toggl looks cool but it is a separate time tracking app. Think there is a real desire for an app that does both the todo management and time tracking in one.

Edit: seems that Taskwarrior does do time tracking after all. See my other comment for more on this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2597117
The issue is that the goal recommendation systems in commercial sites is [generally] profits. So, Netflix will not risk to recommend a film outside some confidence level

Sometimes it's actually irrational, though. On Pandora, for instance, I find my stations keep playing a relatively small set of songs over and over again (I believe a lot of other people have this problem). From a profit-motive point of view a better algorithm would be exploring the edges of my personally indicated taste space a bit more often but their algorithm is apparently a bit too dumb for this.

The bigger problem, I think, is not insularity caused by algorithms but insularity caused by personal choice. People with political ideology X don't miss out on reading stuff by people with political ideology Y because google doesn't suggest it for 'em, they miss out on reading stuff by people with political ideology Y because they don't want to read it. People live in information bubbles created by themselves, not by matching algorithms.

And the problem is not just that people refuse to step outside their own comfort zone. If I have ideology X and start reading political blogs by the opposing ideology, then I'll quickly get annoyed, because I'll find that these blogs largely consist not of "Here are some sensible arguments in favour of ideology Y" but rather of "hurr durrr people with ideology X are stoooopid and evil! Hey, did you know that people with ideology X say they believe X but in fact they really believe P, Q and R? What a bunch of disgusting freaks!" And so forth.
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Quants/traders make massive amounts. Own your own hedge fund and it can be like selling a startup every year.
In a previous job I worked for a company whose product needed some entropy on startup. It originally read from /dev/random. But then one of our customers reported that the product was hanging on startup, just after installation. It turned out that they had installed it into a freshly built VM (not a cloned one, I guess) and the read from /dev/random was waiting to accumulate enough entropy to return. (We changed it to use /dev/urandom instead, which is not entirely satisfactory, but at least prevents hanging in this situation.)

While this is not exactly the scenario the OP is describing, it's another thing that can go wrong with /dev/random and VMs.
On the contrary. My commute is 45 minutes of biking along a river, and I love it. My metabolism is way up, and because of showers at work I can change into something less sweaty when I get in.

(Employers: showers are a cheap perk that pay off bigtime in the long run.)
Linux founder? What is this garbage?
But that's not a problem with /dev/random and VMs, that's a problem everywhere.
Nice one, for more on this see the Active Tasks section in the tutorial:
http://taskwarrior.org/projects/taskwarrior/wiki/Tutorial
2a. If there's money involved, it's probably a scam.
My coworker went to GoogleI/O and got a Galaxy Tab 10.1. With an Android app that meets that description. I cannot take another loom or get it's name over the weekend, though.

It also had a feature that automatically saved the grams of a video that had a face wit a smile.
I think that Apple is going to move to a side-by-side x64/ARM model with the ARM chip running the full OSX kernel and the x64 chip being an on-demand auxiliary processor available for user-space applications that haven't or can't be recompiled for ARM (ie: VirtualBox) or need more horsepower.

The new interconnects on the Intel chip should ensure that both CPUs can access RAM and various peripherals without performance suffering. Apps can then choose whether to be run as native ARM or x64. The core apps will all run on ARM, allowing x64 chip to sleep and the new Macbook Airs to boast 20+ hour runtimes when performing core tasks only.

I haven't seen anyone else with this theory, but it makes a great deal of sense that Apple would push this. They have control over most of the stack: the ARM CPU, the kernel and the motherboard design. More details here - I'd be interested in hearing if others think this is feasible:

http://grack.com/blog/2011/05/07/how-apple-can-make-use-of-a...
It seems this nerve also controls breathing, so maybe we would be less susceptible to fractures and cuts rupturing it? Could be a tiny, but measurable increase in survival chance.

Edit
Apparently it's also a concern during invasive surgeries:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve#Clini...
However one defines "fools", I don't see a shortage.

In this particular case, foolishness is denoted merely by their willingness to pay high prices for bitcoins. While there may be out there in the general population plenty of people objectively more foolish than this guy, they're less likely to fall for this.

This is the other big problem I have with bitcoin: it seems to exist in a very insular, very geeky world filled with people who don't really understand the non-geek world out there. Bitcoin will never really jump from the geek world to the real world, because the general population won't even understand its supposed benefits, much less give a damn about them. A few geeks may be able to talk their poor grandmas into buying some, but that's about it for general market penetration.
again, drawing conclusions from alexa for traffic rankings is ridiculous.

See actual measured stats: http://www.quantcast.com/4chan.org

there may have been a slight dip at the end of may, but the year-long traffic stats are stable and the all time stats show general growth.
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The Berkshire Hathaway quote illustrates the diversity point here. Berkshire made a lot more than 10 investments, just those 10 returned most of the money. If they knew in advance what those 10 would be they would have only made those 10 investments, but they didn't so they diversified.
Unless you're a malicious entity who doesn't mind using a botnet.
> Because theft is bad.

Says the holder of a stolen TV.

> I didn't participate in any of the umpteen previous thefts.

Except to buy the stolen goods, thus making the thefts profitable. And to legitimize the thieves.

> I can't untangle them or reverse them, but I see no reason to add to the mess.

Strange, I see the TV as a reason to "add to the mess". My TV to be.

> If you want to transition to A', you're going to need force of arms sufficient to overcome those of us who'll shoot back in defense of A. Good luck with that.

Ahhh yes, legitimize the situation with force. That'll convince me of your rights.

> You mean everyone you didn't kill with force of arms when trying to transition to A', right?

I see. I'd be a dirty thief for trying to get me a piece of that stolen loot and you'd be heroic for defending it against me.

You'd shoot B and C too if they showed up and wanted their stuff back.

> If I use any "rivalrous" good, my use deprives someone else. [...] Even my labor is rivalrous and therefore falls under the same objection -- if I choose to use it for one purpose, I deprive you of the ability to use my labor for another purpose.

It could be seen that way. That's why we shoot slavers. They're insidious and dangerous.

> Whether it's land or food, if I'm using it you're not. If that's your criteria for determining that something belongs to the collective, then I can never acquire the means by which to pay rent to the collective.

No, you could use your labor. Or, if you were willing to farm the land (for instance) you could share a portion of the results.

If you picked an uncontested piece of land the 'rent' could be pretty low, just enough to ensure it could be cleaned up after you left.

> Why not actually include a true "everyone", by allowing people to voluntarily live under whatever system they choose?

The biggest factor in their decision would be if they owned a lot of resources from previous thefts. Of course they'd never be willing to give up their loot.

> It can be done without using force of arms offensively.

But why should it? I could work my whole life (in your salt mine) to afford a piece of what you lucked into, or I could "luck into it" myself...

> If you want to be a collectivist, go find or start a collective and donate all your stuff to it [...]

Or, I could donate all your stuff to it.

> Whatever force of arms was used to steal in the past, leave that in the past.

Says the guy left holding the TV...

You can't come up with anything that justifies the current distribution of stuff without justifying how we got here, and that justifies someone else coming and doing to you what you (collectively) did to others. This is how it is but it's not somehow 'right' despite having been grandfathered in.
The GUI doesn't support transactions of that size.
I want to mention, in case anyone is uninformed, that the giraffe is not endangered and in fact is in the Least Concern category according to the IUCN.
I thought so too. And I thought "Awesome!"

Then I got disappointed. Oh well, at least now I know to watch Rashomon before the 20th of June.
Here's a recently popular video of a man licking his shoe on the NY subway and nobody nearby reacting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-1lao5UUac

I don't think I could easily imagine a more categorical example of tolerance and diversity. Have you lived in a big city? New York is possibly among the most the most tolerant places on earth- virtually nobody cares how crazy you or what you're doing are as long as you're not invading their personal space. This type of behavior is the "norm."
Another example are the nerve fibers that dilate the eyes. They travel down the spinal cord, exit at the base of the neck into a ganglion, travel back up along the carotid artery into the brain, and finally connect to the eye.
Of course. It's not a hard problem to solve, but it is one to consider.
Actually, don't put any eggs in a basket you know nothing about.

Don't put all your eggs in any basket even if you think you have perfect knowledge of it.
no python or ruby book will ever go on that list
With regards to startups with tech cofounders having more change for success -

One thing I've been wondering lately is how a "technical cofounder" is defined?

I graduated from my college with a degree in economics. My career thus far (in Internet startups and companies) has mostly been on the biz dev and marketing side. However, I have always created and managed websites on the side. I have a deep passion for hacking (more than biz dev & marketing) and I'm pretty good at it.

So my question is - at what skill level can you be considered a technical cofounder? Do you have to be an expert-level coder on the cutting-edge of technology? Is there a cutoff point with skill level to where you would need a tech cofounder?

I know when I create my first startup I will want a technical cofounder. It's not so much that I don't think I could get good enough to code a large-scale website, it's more that the biz dev and marketing stuff comes easily to me so why would I need someone else to do that?
Part of the problem is the conflict of transparency and security here. Fixing the wholesale reuse of RNG state would most likely require modifying the guest so that it is aware of being restarted from a snapshot so it can react appropriately.

However, that might have consequences on what restoring from a snapshot means conceptually.
What if they just put iOS on it & have it run iPhone & iPad apps. Add some first party support from Apple where they develop some cloud based apps/services that take advantage of the extra hardware(e.g. keyboard) & differentiate it from the MacBook Air by naming it the "MacBook Cloud"?
What an odd question. ISPs sell a link to their customers, they don't need to be okay with it.
It is never wrong to refuse to attempt to have an insight.

It is not right either. It is just boring.

Correlation is a starting point, not an ending point.
This is shortsighted because if the leaders in Iran listen to Eli Pariser talk or read his book “The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You" they would learn that the Iranians are more likely to develop tendencies towards extremist Islam rather than away from it due to the "filter bubbles" created by the personalization features of sites like Facebook and Google.
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That flares up every few months. It's pseudo-intellectual herpes.
They may think so, but the gnome guys imo (no offense) are a bit too technical to really understand the needs of non-technical end users. From what I've seen so far of gnome3 it seems very confusing.
Another IE fail
You still need to switch some back to dollars, to pay sales taxes or VAT on the sales, and eventually to pay income taxes.
In my experience people who write blog posts like this don't have enough eggs to really worry what happens to the basket. It's either someone with very little life savings or a pump and dumper.
I disagree. I think focusing on only owning/investing in "All-Stars" is a non-diversified investing strategy

Only if you want to abuse the term "diversified investment strategy" to the point where it becomes meaningless.

When we say you should have a diverse portfolio it does not mean "diversely spread between good assets and crap assets". You should only buy good assets. But you should buy multiple good assets, largely to protect yourself from the fact that what you think is a good asset may in fact be crap.

Look, I understand you're trying to be contrarian here, but "diversify your assets" isn't a point that leaves a lot of room for contrarianism.
Could you elaborate on this? My interesting stuff detector is going crazy but I'm kinda out of my depth as to what exactly you're talking about. Are you referring to information leakage from the guest to the host operating system that might allow the host to sniff the inner workings of crypto algorithms running on the guest? Or perhaps guests sniffing other guests through timing attacks and suchlike?
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http://www.hn-books.com/ appears to be something of an attempt to capture the book fancies of the HN crowd.
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I've been using it for about two weeks now, and while I don't like to tweak my iPhone (4) too often, this is a really nice tweak. It's set to not show the annoying, interfering blue notification popups while my phone is unlocked/being used, and the "Recent notifications" list (which I have set to be pulled down from the status bar, like in Android) works really well.

I'm generally not a fan of Android's UI but I think it's one place where they've nailed it.
It is a tradeoff between traffic risk and cardio health, particularly if the commute is a nontrivial component of your excercise regimen.
Top 5 companies asserting IP against Android are collectively worth $734 billion
Ask HN: Would you build an Android app to min API 7 or 8?
I'm not familiar with all the capabilities made available by SDK version 8 (which corresponds to Android 2.2). Is it worth excluding 25% of your potential users to use the (almost) latest features available?
Supposedly, OS X ran on intel chips for years before Apple made the switch for their products. I've got to imagine that Apple has been running OS X on their own chips, even if they have no specific plans to make the switch.
Ask HN: Which web apps you pay for suck?
I'm talking about those web apps you are paying for yet not satisfied. May be you didn't like the UI or you think it is overpriced or you aren't getting enough out of it?
I'd buy this immediately. MBA has the perfect form factor, and I'd rather have great battery life than a fast processor.
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But surely the condition that it's hard to make more of something is necessary but not sufficient to make that something a good "money" candidate. People expect e.g. gold to continue to be money-like mostly because of its multi-thousand year history as money. So in that very large respect, gold is quite different from bitcoin.

I am interested in bitcoin, though, because of the obvious fact that it has something that neither gold nor dollars, euros, etc. have - it can be used anonymously over the internet. So it's possible to see it becoming popular enough to be "money", which is something important you can't say about something that is merely scarce. (I have to admit that I don't think it's likely, though, and I think investing all of your savings in it is a terrible idea.)
This app was inspired by some work I did for a non-profit conference that was looking to let its attendees add themselves to Twitter lists, rather than rely on them to remember to use the correct hashtag. It was a long weekend of work, but it's gotten some decent use.

The premise is simple: The app allows you to create a simple portal where users can add themselves to Twitter lists that you designate 'Open'.

So, for the account @Crowdlistr and the twitter list @sample, people can add themselves from here: http://crowdlistr.com/crowdlistr/sample

Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions (beyond telling me that the design sucks, because, well, the design sucks.)
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