skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With my conscious perception being on the 'processed' side of my neocortex, I used to think that the human eye was basically a hi-res camera .. until I read Jeff Hawkins 'On Intelligence'

In the book he explains how our brain gets a crappy, distorted image from our eyes, and manages to assemble it using a hierarchy of cells [regions] in the neocortex. It's really interesting, I would recommend getting this book, it's only a couple of hundred pages long, and really opened my eyes (ha!) to how the human brain learns.
I have to disagree with you. "Publicly-held companies" don't encourage immoral behavior. People encourage immoral behavior. I know that some folks like to think of people as "basically good", but I don't think history has held that out. Humanity has proven time after time that regardless of the social structure or organization, their tendency for immoral behavior pervades each one.

"We did it for the shareholders" may be a unique excuse in the realm of organizations, but governments, churches, companies, school boards, communes, etc all suffer from problems like these. The difference with public companies is that folks can vote with their dollars, or in an adequately free economy, can band together and compete.
Google+ link attributes hints at services future value for SEO campaigns
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It sounds like someone thinks your internet connection has been used for "mass bittorrent activity".... aka piracy.
Is pg going to be there?
Space shuttle era ends with Atlantis (Photos)
Interesting statement! What would you suggest as a replacment for long option lists? Autocomplete?
Exactly. Al qaeda is not some freedom fighter movement, they are fighting to create a new world order. An order where western powers no longer interact with the islamic world, and are also ideally disempowered and lowered in stature. An order where the islamic world is united under theocratic control (a new caliphate) and ideally is the dominant power on Earth with all other races, religions, and cultures their inferiors.
This is one of the least interesting comments I have ever read. Please explain your thought process for future generations.
I have long assumed that it will eventually be unethical to turn off dwarf fortress.
"White people" is a perfectly reasonable term; you don't need to dress it up if that's what you mean. Genetically, it's not totally accurate ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_people#21st_century ) but socially, it's a thing.
I'm living in Oslo.

With my friends here there is already a Facebook worm going on which is supposed to show some video footage about the explosion but when you click it you're just spreading/liking the video.

Shocking to see how fast spammers are.
For a minute there I though this was going to be a real attempt at challenging amazon's 1-click buying patent by patenting the non-1-click approach. This was funnier though.
Part time startups don't work? I strongly disagree and I would ask for a citation as evidence of this claim.

Seems to have worked reasonably well for my company, at least.
Yep. Assuming (I'm not) I was a psychopathic killer, that's what I'd do... for function and for lulz.
A free 3-hour conference at YC headquarters? How many microseconds after this was announced did it take to fill up?
(I posted this as a comment on the TechCrunch article, but not everyone would see that and it might be useful for people here too:)

If you want Lion's "full-screen" mode in Chrome (and other apps, TextMate, Firefox, etc), I made an extension that adds it in: http://chpwn.com/apps/maximizer.html
> Java has a lot of issues, but in the grand scheme of things, it's a pretty good language.

Definitely not. Especially not in this day and age. Java has a pretty good language, java has a good ecosystem, java has a passable standard library, but in 2011 java is a crummy language.
Not even that - the conference material itself sounds pretty awesome.
Good luck with that. :-)
I believe that on iOS5, the 2 finger scroll has been removed and replaced with a 1 finger one.
"Fiduciary duty" is not a good excuse to be unethical.
He's suggesting that if your account is shut down for some reason then your email address still works.
Well, if it was on HN, then it must be true :)

But LA is where media is, tons of opportunities are here.
There's something unquantifiable about the shuttle, though.

Downvote me for this, because it's offtopic, and silly, but seeing the shuttle perched up there with those huge tanks of fuel strapped to it's chest reminds me of my dog when I come home from work.

She just looks excited. The rockets don't. They don't have as much personality.

Every time I see the shuttle, it looks like it's happy, and it's excited to be going to space. The rockets just look like hammers.

Actually, it kindof does look like a dog's nose: http://www.enstoneflyingclubblog.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/20...
The key question wasn't whether or not push-ups will develop significant muscle mass. It's whether or not they're going to compound a very likely existing syndrome (upper cross syndrome / kyphosis) in a team of programmers / tech geeks.

Push-ups are sufficiently effective that they'll at best make the problem worse. Any untrained individual doing any resistance movement consistently will make gains in strength and muscle size (Google Mark Rippetoe's "The Novice Effect" or discussions of training complexity vs. training age). Sure, you'll plateau after a few months, but you're still going to be ahead of a very large share of the sedentary population. And you're doing nothing to address the intrinsic imbalance between anterior and dorsal and muscular development and overall tension.
I didn't know there was an eu. version of techcrunch.com. Looks like fr and jp sub-domains are also in use.
It would be an improvement if the source code could be disclosed during the court case...but not mandatory tattoos a la nazi germany.
Yes, but "bring your own" solves a lot of Apple's support problems related to sole exclusivity on old and insecure JVMs.
Agreed. A quick check of NANPA (North American Numbering Plan Administration) shows an in service data of 06/01/1997

http://www.nanpa.com/nas/public/npa_query_step2.do;nanpaid=r...
Lodsys - Piling It On, But to What Purpose
All MacBook batteries can be hacked, fix coming August
On all available tlds? Really?
---A Few Questions---

Are the hacker or the hustler?

Any co-founders? If so, what's their role?

Do you have a built MVP? Any beta testers? Any paying customers?

If no built MVP, how much longer before it's built?

How long is your runway (in months)?

---General Advice (without answers to the above questions)---

I'm a technical single founder building a B2B SaaS product.

My advice doesn't apply to anything B2C because I'm an introverted computer geek (i.e. I know nothing about inter-personal communication!!).

Assuming, you are a technical single founder, building a B2B product with a built MVP, here's my advice...

Don't waste time raising outside money. Go get friends & family money.

If you need more than $50k (the F&F limit) to get you ramen profitable, then your business model or product is wrong. By wrong, I mean, not efficient enough. You need to keep working the value proposition.

Raising money takes time. If you are a single technical founder, that time is MUCH BETTER SPENT BUILDING A PRODUCT.

If it's your idea, YOU HAVE TO SELL IT. You are the face of the company. If you can't sell it, go get a day job or work for another startup. Nobody understands your vision. Part of the sales process is to get customer feedback. Only you will be able to properly interpret that feedback within the context of you vision.

This above point is based on the theory that ideas are noting, implementation is everything. The most important component to successful implementation is you (the idea person) understanding the customer need. You have to have direct face-time with the customer. Anything else is like playing the telephone game...stuff gets lost in the translation.

---End Brain Dump---

If you can answer the questions above, I can give you some more specific advice.

Keep us posted on your progress.
Cool. My dad is a big crossword puzzler. When I was a kid I asked him if he thought it was possible to start with a wrong word and then finish the whole puzzle. We both thought the odds would be tiny but then he decided to design a puzzle that could be done two ways consistently.

He worked on it like a maniac for a few weeks and then came up with two puzzles, one with North/South (or maybe East/West) themes, one with Goethe/Schiller themes (this is all in Germany.)

The clues were a bit contrived and I don't remember how big the puzzles were but he submitted them to the weekly "Zeit Magazin" which runs a popular puzzle and published it in the New Years issue.
Interesting, if you did the search on blekko.com (and disclosure here, I work for Blekko) we pick up the Reuters story (we've got a onebox if your search is showing up in the news).

I think what The Atlantic is complaining about here is more that without the Twitter stream, Google has lost access to a signal that they may want to start crawling around looking for stuff.

Given the alleged amounts of robot traffic on Twitter I wonder if they dealt with robo-tweeting trying to drive them to put particular sites up in their news page.
The keystrokes are user-configurable. Both in-game and in a human-readable text format.
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Why willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research
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https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-developers/O...

It looks like android.permission.BRICK and a number of other permissions are restricted to applications that are signed by the same certificate as your firmware. Thus, such an application would only actually brick your phone it was created by the same organization who developed the phone's firmware (in most cases, your mobile phone carrier, or the phone's manfacturer). In either case, you would never get the opportunity to be prompted to accept this permissions dialog (because the application would either be pre-installed on the device, or arrive in a firmware update).

The only real danger would be installing third-party firrmware on your device that contained such an application. However, since the third-party developer would already have the ability to modify every single application on the phone, this is not really that big of a deal.
These crosswords are called "schizophrenic", and there are more examples here: http://www.xwordinfo.com/Schizo

Truly brilliant.
Agree 100%. You tell me what your service is and how much it costs. Leave the projections about my business to me.
I'm sure you feel very strongly that you're correct and that the systems were incorrect. And that's fine. But the fact that you disable the TCS in your BMW indicates that it's the technology you dislike and not the Mercedes implementation.

I'm happy for you that you've found a car you like. For me, I don't feel BMW has the same track record of safety innovation, but even before I grew to value that, what disuaded me most from owning a BMW is the fact that they use runflats only. And even if you've got a salesman willing to swap them out with conventional tires, there is no place in the trunk for a spare without it just sitting in there rolling around, taking up space. But I respect that BMW makes some fine cars and they feel very different on the road than does a Mercedes.

The criticisms you have about making drivers "lazy" is the same thing some people said about antilock brakes. And in fact, I have an uncle who swears as you do that if he had full control over the brakes, he'd have avoided an accident.

For me, knowing that these safety systems -- able to react in fractions of a second -- are there to help save my life and keep safe the woman I love, is invaluable. And I believe that for every one of your stories, there's dozens or hundreds of stories where these things led to a person walking away from an accident than they may not otherwise have survived.

I think the average person would agree. A system that beeps if you fall asleep at the wheel? Yes. A system that nudges your steering wheel fi you drift over the centerline? Yes. None of these things even augment your driving, they just direct yoru attention to the road.

In fact, the only thing I mentioned that does intervene in your driving is the blind spot intervention.

Anyhow, glad you didn't have any serious issues. And I hope we both know how fortunate we are to be able to sit here and debate the relative merits of one German sports sedan vs another.
I'm interested in your preference for HTML in JavaScript, what is your rationale?
CEO/CTO Dashboard
Is there a startup (or tool/site) that provides a CEO/CTO Dashboard - a consolidation of vital info in one screen. Here's what I mean:

1. Displays a calendar of important events: Board meetings, Engineering milestones, Conferences, etc.

2. Latest revenue metrics: internal revenue/sales spreadsheets, Admob/Adsense stats, etc.

3. Latest customer metrics: Google analytics, Helpdesk ticket counts, etc.)

4. Latest marketing metrics: In-bound marketing metrics, +1/tweets/facebook mentions, etc.

5. Alerts/Notifications: Less than X runway left, X% drop in customer retention, X% increase in helpdesk tickets, X # of days past due on engineering milestone, etc.
anyone interested in this topic should check out Visual Intelligence, by Don Hoffman:

http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Intelligence-How-Create-What/dp...

The book deduces a set of rules that your brain must follow in order to construct a (mostly) correct interpretation of the limited data that it gets. It does this with a series of experiments that the reader can test. While possibly no longer up to date on the latest research, it's simply a delight to read.
> FWIW

Not much. They're only doing damage control. I wonder whether Matt Cutts is on holiday or something, by the way..
Oh. Hadn't thought of that. It makes sense.
We need to partition HN. I love your input, but "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
I could live without human readable code, that was more about bypassing the need for an intermediate debugger; and readable code is a good proof that the language doesn't try to do too much.

Shedskin looks like a very cool project, and it's quite fast [1], thanks for the tip. Alas, it depends on a garbage collector (not to mention a substantial library), which reduces flexibility and portability - you can't for example build a portable C++ library with it.

[1] although not as fast as C, or even V8 js: http://attractivechaos.github.com/plb
I didn't say the passwords would actually log you in, just that they can be used across all services, they cannot be for example limited to mail as the person I was responding to stated. So you could use an app specific password across Google's various APIs and app accessible content - Talk/Gchat/Jabber, Blogger, YouTube, Picasa, Reader, and so forth, there's a fuller list in the docs for two-factor auth. (I have personally made app specific passwords for IMAP, Jabber and Reader, and I used to use a third party client to post to Blogger - the passwords are interchangable.)

(I'm not the one who downvoted you, by the way, so I can only guess at why.)
Those particular behaviors were not OK to her in that situation.

Had the situation been framed differently, she might not have even mentioned them at all. What if she was in a bar when it happened? What if it wasn't 4 am? The fact of the matter was she may have felt like she couldn't say no to the guy.
A slect few have been been given access to its Beta and are coming up with statements like "strangely addictive", at least according to the startups itself.

No description of what Amen actually do, but they themselves think they're pretty great.

And ... that's it?
Depends on what you want to do. Want to hack together a low-traffic website quickly? Java's a pretty poor choice. Want to build large-scale systems that are reliable and fast? Java might fit the bill pretty well. It's no coincidence that Google builds much of their infrastructure on Java. It's no coincidence that Hadoop is written in Java. And it's no coincidence that Twitter is rewriting much of their infrastructure in Java. Java is a good language for building Big Stuff.
Does anyone know where I can get more in-depth analysis of the debt soverign crisis ?
I am quite interested in the topic but most articles are just fluff in terms of deep economic analysis
---Preface---

I have no experience (or advice) on the immigration piece.

I have no experience with LLCs or any other non-corporation entity. I have formed and have been using Corporations for many years with a lot of success.

---Ownership Advice---

Do not try to get you ownership in your name. Get your ownership in the name of another company that you own.

Here's the structure:

1. You own a Nevada or Florida Sub-Chapter S Corporation 100% (called Aniketm Corp).

2. Aniketm Corp owns X% of Company Y (the startup).

The legal structure of Company Y is irrelevant, but I would recommend a Sub-Chapter S Corp (most legal protection for the owners, most favorable tax treatment, very low IRS audit rate).

It costs $100 to form a corporation (http://www.amerilawyer.com) and about $100 per year to maintain.

Anybody (including foreigners) can own a corporation.

This ownership structure gives you an extra layer of protection because you have an additional corporate veil between yourself personally and the startup company.

Don't let forming a corporation scare you. It's pretty simple and low-risk.
no

sounds like you want a mashup of a lot of different tools- analytics with your issue tracker plus collaboration tool.
there's an ncurses mode in the linux version. i use it to play over ssh, as my laptop is weak. the opengl is mainly for tileset support.
That's absolutely right. The problem is just that not everything that makes sense for Apple's bottom line makes sense for mine.

For instance, deleting everything from my iPod without warning probably made sense for Apple's copyright negatiations with media companies. It didn't make much sense to me. Censoring dictonaries and banning everything sexual, satirical, political or otherwise "unclean" from the app store probably makes sense for Apple. Makes no sense to me.

So, I guess, the issue I have with the phrase "making sense" is that it obfiuscates the fact that everyone has their own vested interests and the vested interests of a particular large corporation are sometimes very different from mine.
The fact that humans like to look at faces and are pretty good at identifying differences between them has been exploited in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face.
it's huge stretch. using two separate patterns in the same cipher doesn't seem very probable.

knowing nothing about this particular one, it'd seem more likely that it's been encrypted with and then that was encrypted.
Sure. That's one of the best ways to visualize what Moore's law actually means in concrete terms. What used to take a room is now in the palm of your hand.

http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?category=cmptr
well having me@lastname.ly would require you to explain "that's a .ly not .com" and therefore not solve this particular problem
CCP has two in-house economists.

Source: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/07/monocles.ars
"persist" looks like easy to modify, i'll re-built it for my needs.

One suggestion : maybe not perfect but, for html templates you can do what jQuery does: templates/html in <script> tag, user just gives the tag's id. this way, one can store all templates in one file.
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If you're ever worried that a feature will be too complex to implement, take a look at the ridiculous number of things Dwarf Fortress keeps track of and simulates some time. The article briefly touches on it, but like any look at Dwarf Fortress, it bared dips its toes in the water. Just a quick list off the top of my head...

In world gen, it simulates geology and erosion, climate/biomes, growing civilizations, politics, war, trade, attacks by various "megabeast" creatures and their battles (in which injuries down to losing a tooth will be kept track of), migration and refuges as a result of war, (I believe) deforestation as a result of logging, and probably a lot more that I'm forgetting. That's just in world generation, before you're actually playing it.

Remember, what one person can program when they're truly dedicated is a pretty incredible feat.
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Leaving Google for Typesafe
Actually that works quite well. If your photo accounts, your whatever accounts etc are all tied to a non-google login, then it won't matter that your google account is gone.

THE PROBLEM is that many places only accept google/facebook if not facebook alone. Although I have no freaken' idea why, it took a minute after adding google login to my site to add facebook, openid, etc..
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Disney Buys HTML5 Gamers Rocketpack, Enhances Web Future for Casual Games
How did you find a business mentoring program in your city?
Are there any resources that you are aware of?
I am in the US and would love to be part of such a program.
Only as a storytelling device. And in Deep Space 9, the Ferengi Nog was willing to spend his entire life savings of Latinum at the request of his friend Jake, just to buy Jake's dad a baseball card, simply to make him happy.

I hope one day I do something like that for someone. Maybe on my deathbed or something.

I don't know; I just wish people were... better people. To each other. I know they never will be, but I'd rather hope for this fantasy than accept grim reality.
There is a good solution, namely this, transparency. Just like the law requires manufacturers of food to label what goes into the box, so sellers of aggregated derivatives should label what goes into their CDOs, CDSs, etc. This would enable to buyer to have half a chance at assessing the risk attached. Seller won't do this however until they are forced to do it because they don't want to say what is in the secret sauce. The only reason I can fathom that someone would want to buy a "mystery gift" derivative is greed.

As Warren Buffet says, "I hold my nose and point towards Wall Street."
Yeah, like Toady said, not quite. Simply saying you don't think Wave got to that many numbers is by no means proving me wrong. Besides, Wave and Buzz came out at a different time, when everyone was still in love with FB. Now, users are clamoring for another option besides FB, and Google's simply giving it to them. The timing is much, much better than before.
"The purpose of a corporation by definition is to maximize the bottom line for the shareholder."

No, the purpose of a corporation is to efficiently organize work.

Fundamentally, corporations, and the entire economic system, exist for only one purpose: to create a better human society. Profit is the incentive to get them to work for the greater good, but it's not the end-goal. We've temporarily lost sight of that, but sooner or later we're going to have to redefine corporations so we can keep the good (competitive drive), and discard the bad (profit at the expense of humanity).

Personally, I would be very interested to see minimum holding times for shares (incentivizing long-term behavior), and maximum lifetimes for corporate personhood (corporations should all die at some point, just like other people).
"However, the Constellation program, including Ares V was canceled in October 2010 by the passage of the 2010 NASA authorization bill."