skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, there is some fine print:

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How often do people need to write ad-hoc professional documents, specially online?

You don't create fancy professional documents without printing them... and if you need a printer, then you're probably at the office, so you probably already have all your regular tools.

If you are going to do anything on a regular basis (quote, contract, sales letter, etc) you already have a template of it in Word or whatever... and it's private.

You explained the features pretty well, but what's in it for me?
Web Font Combinator
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My phrasing was a bit harsh. I understand that Google (and others) are mainly out to make money. To do that they have to please users most. Anyway, they probably can't make the difference between "relevant" and "pleasant", because user's behaviour only grant them access to "pleasant".

As long as this is done in a neutral way (by delivering the same result to everyone), any confirmation bias will be averaged across entire populations, so this should be okay.

Personalized results however make the results noticeably more pleasant, and significantly more biased (this is probably unavoidable). Of course Google, Bing, and Co would shun that bias thing. Who can blame them?

I don't want blame Google specifically. I want to point out this old, common moral dilemma: make money, or don't hurt anyone? Google took the money. Many do. I'm not sure to what extent we should blame them, but clearly, the System™ has room for improvement.
Luckily Apple is patenting this technology, so folks with other makes of camera phones wont have these restrictions.
The poster did contact Dropbox and was told, essentially, "it's a glitch, don't worry about it."

The poster was not told any details about "the glitch" -- we don't know if it was a one-time issue, or if it represents a deeper architectural issue. In this case, full disclosure is absolutely warranted.

Applying the most optimistic reading, Dropbox fixed the problem, so disclosure is fine. The most pessimistic would say that the problem still exists, and that disclosure will cause exposure, but will also prompt further scrutiny to the issue.
https://www.dropbox.com/help/27

"Your files are backed-up, stored securely, and password-protected."

Except, apparently, you don't even need to know the password to get access to the unencrypted files.

I wish somebody would clone exactly what Dropbox does, but get the encryption/security right so that it is impossible for anyone other than the account owner to access their files. Dropbox will never get security right.
In the end (1) technical people will find a way around in when they need to, (2) The conspiracy-theory loving will use the "Filter bubble"as an argument for their own ends, and (3) The rest-most people will just not care... I think the more interesting question is whether this third group will veer off to become more biased to their own world-view as the article suggests.
Wow, famfamfam and fatcow are really nice sets!
DDG won't build a profile about you; it only returns the most relevant links to the keywords entered. The original Google search, only on today's web.
Does a Bit-pilferage mean we need BitBanks?
I agree. My small company has many 1-2 week dev efforts that we'd like to have on GitHub but simply can't afford it. I've tried creating a "small project" repository and using different branches to host the different projects but am definitely not satisified. GitHub NEEDS a size-limited hosting plan.
Maybe I'm not fully understanding this.. If I don't need the web interface and public code sharing, why would I use this verse getting a Linode instance and installing git there.
3b -- Is it actually guaranteed that the arrays will be cache block-aligned? That there will be no conflict misses? That an int is 4 bytes?
"Try: !github sphela (Searches GitHub.com using our !bang syntax"

!gh works too.
Is there a way to link this with a project management tool like basecamp?
So, I've always been frustrated by the inability for me to "push" addresses to my iPhone from my computer. Specifically, when I have to go somewhere new, like a Dr's office or co-working space.

Is this not already available for iPhone (honest question, I don't own one)? If I'm in Google Maps, I click the star next to an address, and I immediately have it available on my (Android) phone in both Maps and Navigation. I can't imagine not having that feature these days, having recently moved 2000 miles, it seems like a pretty big failing.
Dropbox owes their customers a public explanation.
I agree that it would be cool to expose the different criteria that Google (for instance) is using to help reorder your results, to the degree that those criteria can be discretely identified, but I'm not surprised that they don't; that's a pretty significant portion of their secret sauce they would be publicizing.

I also don't think that mere transparency would really help solve any search engine "filter bubble" problem, if such a thing is real. Nothing would make Joe Google User take five minutes off whatever he came to search for to fiddle with some tree full of sliders on his result page.
True geeks don't go around telling everyone they're a geek. That's all posers do. Geeks, it's just who they are. It's not a fad, or cool thing used get noticed. Geek is a personality type, you are born with it. It's not something you can buy at the store.
I always assumed they planned to create a commercial product. And maybe they do and we never hear of it.
Cool idea - but maybe you could incorporate type of station (urban, jazz, etc.), demo and maybe some other Datran data?
you've never heard of chromium?
From another perspective, Heroku has unlimited free git hosting that happens to optionally serve webapps.
Generally, the code is very hacky, and (for example) the user may need to do a lot of steps to run it, many counter intuitive.

In the Mythical Man-Month, Fred Brooks says that to go from a prototype that does everything you want, to one with nice packaging, takes 3x the effort. I'm not sure about the 3x number, but it does take a lot of effort.
Use http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm

If you are using firefox, right click into the input field and select add keyword search, and add a keyword. Now you can easily search via scroogle entering the keyword and then the searchterms in the address bar.
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=!github+sphela
Ha. I'm currently doing a (hypothetical) study on required revenues and profit margins required for a valuation of £xxx. Using a rev multiple of 4 and p/e of 17.5. Got to start somewhere...
GitHub is also a free hosting service for static websites, that happens to optionally host git projects :)
Farm-to-Plate infrastructure
This topic always reminds me of Siver's take on the subject:

[http://sivers.org/below-average]
Problem with OSM is that it's nowhere near as complete as Google Maps, and I don't see it growing the way Wikipedia did (contributing to Wikipedia is much easier than contributing to OSM)
I know I don't need a web interface, at the same time I know people that loves and only uses the UI. Why not solving this specific problem and still making all other users happy?

Makes sense?
So would you say this comment is an accurate description? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2603825

"It seems that the point is to introduce their special-sauce black box, with an argument to authority about its methodology. I think the correlations you ask for are where the problems will lie, in that there is a value judgement that is being hidden. If I can put myself out on a limb here, I'd say that that measurement is going to be fundamentally unscientific."

Also, this seems like an important question, if you claim to be based in science:

"How can we falsify your claims? That is, what is a test we can perform that if it went a certain way, would show that your claims are false?"

It occurs to me that human color perception is another "subjective but scientific" field. You might want to research the experiments they performed for e.g. color matching in varying illumination levels, then come up with an experiment with a similar structure.

Specifically, if EffectCheck is accurate, then it should correlate with how 100 average people would classify e.g. a sample of 1,000 twitter messages.
Agreed.

At the very least we should be demanding hardware that isn't tied to a particular OS. It's bad enough that we're often legally tied a specific wireless carrier. If Apple or Samsung releases an update for my phone that I don't like or doesn't work properly, I should be able to switch to different software. And I should be able to switch without scouring shady parts of the internet for jailbreaking tools.

With Macs or PCs you can install whatever OS you'd like without jumping through hacks. Apple even makes it user friendly to install alternate OSs with their Boot Camp software.
If I had to tackle the notion of over-personalization in ~5 minutes, I'd say:

- If someone prefers to search Google without personalization, add "&pws=0" (the "pws" stands for "personalized web search") to the end of the Google search url to turn it off, or use the incognito version of Chrome. Personalization tends to be a nice relevance improvement overall, but it doesn't trigger that much--when it launched, the impact was on the order of one search result above the fold for one in five search results.

- personalization has much less impact than localization, which takes things like your IP address into account when determining the best search results. You can change localization by going to country-specific versions of Google (e.g. search for [bank] on google.co.uk vs. google.co.nz), or on google.com you can click "change location" on the left sidebar to enter a different city or zip code in the U.S.

- We do have algorithms in place designed specifically to promote variety in the results page. For example, you can imagine limiting the number of results returned from one single site to allow other results to show up instead. That helps with the diversity of the search results. When trying to find the best search results, we look at relevance, diversity, personalization, localization, as well as serendipity and try to find the best balance we can.

I saw Eli Pariser's talk at TED and was skeptical, although I did enjoy his example of Facebook starting to return only his liberal friends because he only ever clicked on the links his liberal friends shared. I had a number of concerns browsing through Pariser's book, but I would encourage anyone interested in these issues to pick up a copy; it's a thoughtful read.
Your first customer should be someone you know
I just use bitbucket.org + Mercurial. More than enough for personal projects, or more, given that it's unlimited. The only limit is amount of users.

Switching to Hg was a bit of work, but I've actually learned to like it more than Git. Really though, it's the same kind of thing and I just use both. So I ended up at bitbucket for the same reasons OP built a new site.

My way was quicker though.
Probably talking about this: http://appshopper.com/utilities/are-you-hot

It is just a random number generator though.

Idea was that you could get an objective "hotness" or attractiveness rating based on how well your features fit the golden ratio / golden mask. It would also give users preferences when they first use the app (eg against 10-20 faces, which you can have precalculated all the points accurately), you can map each face against their preferred faces, giving the personalised rating system.

Use case at a pub/bar quick scan of the iphone would give a objective rating and your rating.

V2. could add location and start building real time tracking of where the hot women / men or those matching closer to your rating were going tonight :)
We are in the bubble, I am now 100% sure
Hi folks,

this is just a small post about my yesterday experience. On a flight between Boston and Denver (United airlines) there was a video running on the screens. Video was: "How to make a million dollars" And they showed a footage about footycs.com, a youtube-like service for skaters, snowboarders etc.

I mean, is this is not a real prove of being in the bubble: Ordinary people in the plane get entertained by two (very young) "web-entrepreneurs". Unfortunately I wasn't able to locate this video in the web. However, it is worth to look this video first, before deciding for going by your own business. You could learn a lesson from that: do not be so darn naive and work hard when starting your own company.

P.S. Just realized that this video is already pretty old (3 years or so), however still very interesting.

EDIT: Here a blog, I found about this video: http://www.ianfernando.com/2007/tlc-how-to-make-millions-internet-entrepreneurs/
The UI at Assembla is awkward to work with. I participated in a project that used Assembla, and I kept getting a flood of emails attached to tasks and revisions that I didn't want to follow.
I've had that happen before. I wrote a somewhat long piano piece that I was unusually impressed with myself for.

I later learned (luckily before I published it anywhere) that it was in fact a melody from a (somewhat well-known) friend's song I had heard some years before, perhaps only 2-3 times, but somehow it remained intact in my head.

It really messed with my mind for a while.
Do the little people pay that? Or do they take all revenue as salary and zero out the profit? Which is what I assume every small business does.
yes, they have no problem with giving out that info
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If they're not vested, they're not vested. Maybe developers should strive for their delivery schedule to tightly coincide with their vesting schedule.
Dropbox will never get security right

I fail to see how you conclude that. Yes, they did have several glitches in the past, and no, they did not always respond as they should have.

But there are some pretty smart people working at Dropbox. What makes you think they do not have the capacity to solve security issues?
5 Fake Sounds Designed to Help Humans
Japan supercomputer Kei is capable of 8 Petaflops/second. I wonder how if it could be used for mining Bitcoins... How much would it make in US$ per day...
Interesting idea. Seems to be what the OP has researched
It's Mercurial, not git, but bitbucket offers unlimited private repositories: https://bitbucket.org/plans
I was ready to softly defend Best Buy on this one until I saw the logo in question. It's just a poorly made logo that happens to use orange and black (because they're elsewhere on the site). This is clearly a case where the sharks are smelling blood.

Good thing PG used the word "Hacker" instead of "Geek", otherwise HN would have been on the chopping block, too :)
Yes. The basic idea is to integrate all sort of market information with the geographic radio stations data.
This mentality ("give people what they want") results in the empty, sensationalist journalism that most people dislike. When I read the news, I don't want to be entertained, I want to be informed. The same goes for Internet searches.
I've heard of Chromium, just as I have heard of Darwin.

Regardless, the proportion of users who use these technologies is a vanishingly small fraction of the Chrome and OS X marketshare.
Data driven using research like this:

http://www.mendeley.com/research/female-preference-for-male-...

http://journal.nida.ac.th/journal/attachments/8_Sunthorn%20K...

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/com/108/3/233/

Also would provide an option for you to rate 10-20 and give a personal rating.
Last time the Dropbox security thing was in the news, regardless of your personal preference on what encryption keys dropbox should have been using, the issue and more importantly the way they handled it made me question their abilities. Then they sent a DMCA takedown notification notification to someone they were just trying to censor, and now they temporarily set their auth method to "allow any password".

They are showing us that they are technologically incompetent at managing their own systems. I don't know why anyone continues to do buisness with them for files they want any sort of privacy over.

I've moved to rsync.net. Its uglier, but at least they know what the fuck they're doing.
Why KVM will surpass Xen
Sorry to be pedantic, "beg the question" is being used incorrectly. See http://begthequestion.info/ ("This begs the question: what are you missing?"). Doesn't detract from the overall post.
"there was a very brief glitch and this should never happen/be possible again. thanks for the email."

Yikes
You can find hours of lectures by Alan Watts about this sort of thing. I find his work to be a very approachable explanation of Buddhism, Zen, Hinduism and Taoism.
Someone decided to release these apps in that state, and it wasn't Adobe. Furthermore, it was Apple's vaunted review process that passed these badly working apps.
Where is the video link?
Wouldn't this be much harder if the background had more than one color as well? If that is the case, this new technique may not be applicable to emulators
You know I find that it is incredibly useful to use cross platform tools or something like Appcelerator to test a proof of concept in the marketplace, but in the long haul, it is a tradeoff and if you want certain features to work right, you have to either be content waiting for the 3rd party platform to support them, or you need to go native.

In general, there is nothing wrong with the strategy of build a basic v 1.0 proof of concept to see if it connects with a market and then rebuild it on a native codebase. On the other hand, if you are a good enough developer, you can probably skip this step and just start native, but that certainly isn't the case for everybody.

Looking at Flash in this prism of being a cheap prototyping tool is a reasonable way to look at things. Looking at it as a be-all-end-all platform is a bit foolish, but most reasonable people outside of Adobe aren't that foolish.
The PDF branches off of Active Shape Modeling (by Tim Cootes, https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Active_shape_...) with a style I'm not entirely familiar with, however basing off my background I think I can expain a little of what is going one.

Active Appearance Models are a extension of Active Shape Modeling, effectively taking a set of landmark points on a shape (in this case a face), and averaging them out to the 'average shape' of the face. AAMs take it to the next level by taking this average face and warping the original landmarked face to the average shape. From here it takes the average of the textures of the face, producing eigenvectors. These vectors would be used as a unique identifier if the program was running some form of face recognition.

In lieu of face recognition something you can use the averaged AAM face for it recreating a face BASED off the average (say for this paper's example: beauty). By generating an averaged AAM model off only those subjects that scored an 8 (out of 10) or above, you create the 'average attractive face'.

Now, if you take John Doe's face with a score 5, and generate the eigenvectors that would represent his face based on the 'Good-Looking People Only Scale', it would create a better looking version of him.

Another application of this technique is digital face aging (example here: http://www.intechopen.com/source/pdfs/14645/InTech-Implicati...) in which instead of 'morphing' the subject's face to look more attractive, you morph the subject's to look 'older' based on statistical averages based on age range, gender, and ethnicity.
Been using then to host my small personal projects for a year or two (using their SVN repo). So far, so good (so free too).
$9 vs $20?
That's true. But, if the medium is low to mid 40's (UI) and he starts them at mid 30's, a few raises in the first year would be a quick boost to the 'going rate'. I wouldn't stick around either without a yearly or even bi-yearly raise!
Google's "Chrome Frame" plugin for IE no longer requires admin rights
You might be able to do a quick happy medium by generating a "vanity url" such as bit.ly/sneaky-affiliate-link or something.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find the video on the web. If somebody could find this, please post it here and I will edit the post to include it.
If you went to a librarian and said "show me Egypt", she would have nowhere to start. A conversation would then ensue about what you are interested in.

Keep going to the library, keep having those conversations, and eventually, the librarian will take you straight to the books you want when you ask for Norway. If you want something different, you'll have to explicitly ask.

What Google is doing is no different. It just happens to have a lot more conversations with you.
add a mailing list so when you add this stuff people can get updated.
You might be in a better market for this, Tampa is pretty well influenced by tech... especially in recent years. His area is EMPTY. lol
Wow. An actual offer of payment and not simply an offer of 30% ownership of the company?
The purpose of search engines is filtering content to give you what you want

The purpose of search engines is filtering content to give us what we asked for. Unless they developed mind-reading technology, Google doesn't really know what I want and attempts at guessing it will lead to substandard results.

*-- Wikipedia, for example, is built around an ideal of giving people an objective survey of different things.

A website where any amount of divergent opinions get edited down to a single article on the subject (target of edit wars and well-known editorial biases) is hardly "an objective survey of different things."
As a business we regularly send documents to our client. Could be a report, or a letter, or anything else that requires a nice and polished document.

The problem with Word or Libre Office is that once you've fight several long ours to make you layout or template perfect, there is always something not quite right. And when you're writing, you have to select the text where you want to change the styles on.

Using Markdown or Textile (with an already made CSS) makes it really easy to just write, hit a button and BANG, document is there, ready to be emailed.

Plus I see this process (easy Markdown editor) to be very usable with tablet devices.

But maybe we are wrong, this is why we were asking here ;)

Did I answer your questions?
Not an exact clone, but have you tried Wuala? There are using client-side encryption - so even if they wanted to they cannot read the content of your files.
T-shirts != success for a startup
Most might not have the licensing issues. I'm not sure on the copyrights for things like Viola-Jones or Active Shape Modeling. I know Cootes has refused to release the source for his modeling software in case their financial incentive.

The software is out there, I'll link some if you want. What you are really looking for is the training data used to create the faces though. That is where the money is.
Personally, not convinced at all. Looks like saying "We are better because we cannot do it yet"
I didn't say it was a good visualization, just that its not hard to understand what they're trying to convey.
Hey,

This is "Anthony". Lesson learned absolutely. Not a whole lot to say except for gigantic mistake on my part. Let this be a lesson to all new webmasters. Shortcuts as JD has written are bad ideas. Respect is earned, and I in know way deserve it.

The article JD wrote was absolutely amazing. While reading I was just shaking my head at my self.
These days it seems to be Facebook keywords
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