skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Video:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2336889538700185341
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I agree that the technology behind it [1] is quite interesting. However, the linked article talks about a specific application which I find not that novel.

[1] http://lightblueoptics.com/technology/holographic-laser-proj...
Another core insight is to differentiate your "users" into specific user types, or personas.

To really drive value, it helps to identify a specific user-type or persona that drive a lot of value for your site. For Dropbox, one persona might be a photographer who is using Dropbox to share huge photos with clients. To better serve that persona, maybe Dropbox could create a Gallery feature so that images in a Photos folder are automatically turned into a gallery that anyone can view without having to log into Dropbox. This is actually something that they did:
http://www.dropbox.com/help/18

By differentiating from general discussions of "users" into specific personas, you can really focus your customer development on superserving a specific user focus. That's a huge element of driving value creation through the lean methdology.
You can actually build a bomb out of thorium.
@JoshTriplett

About the "I want to pay but I don't have any kind of credit card at all" - that's where Noca's "Check" system comes in. It allows payments using bank account without having to type in the cumbersome Routing # and Account #
+100 to Monoprice. Someone needs to either clone Monoprice's business model in Europe or they need to expand. If you can do that you will own my credit card for the next 10 years.
The effects of this accounting practice looks a lot like the claimed effect of piracy...
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The DreamBox 500s is the smallest digital Linux SetTopBox receiver with a card reader. Dreambox HD is the first Linux receiver to have High definition and a PVR capability. Now you can access advanced features of the DreamBox in HD.
Well, controls are some of the things you shouldn't compromise on. If it takes you more time to get them done right then take that time and skip some fancy graphic effects.
As an example of how early, the SF story "Rocket Ship Galileo", published in 1947, is based around a rocket ship powered by "a thorium nuclear pile which boils zinc as a propellant." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Ship_Galileo
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Never ignore the meta-features, the basic characteristics of your product. Performance, usability, robustness, security, etc. Consider how many real-world products are differentiated entirely on such features, the same is true in every domain, including software. An Audi does not typically have any stand out special gimmick at getting from point-A to point-B better than a Kia, but it differentiates itself through performance, luxury, reliability, image, etc.

Or consider an even simpler product: chef's knives. Does a higher end chef's knife have more features? Does it have a bottle opener, a pair of scissors, a little pocket for a foldable cutting board to fit in, or a tiny countdown clock to tell you when you should get your knife resharpened? No, it's just a hunk of metal attached to a handle and shaped correctly. And yet there is still such an enormous variety of designs, styles, and methods of construction as knife makers pursue perfection and try to compete against each other.
The learning is incredible - esp. if you've never been in a startup before and you don't have a business background.

Just go in with your eyes wide open, and don't expect to make any money off the stock options. Figure out what you need to do to get your startup off the ground better. Be flexible in doing whatever necessary as Employee #1.

Had huge learning in 6 years. So although I took a pay cut, and I made 0 on stock - I would recommend it to others.
It makes you happy for a while, but also overall. When I think back, the happiest moments have been those spent with good friends, not those hacking away all night.
Yeah, if you can't beat them, join them ... and give your stuff away for free. And get thrown of your apartment. And starve.
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@gst

We may. I hate to use the phrase "it depends" but unless we know more I cannot give you a conclusive answer. If the TPPA is doing "low risk" transactions e.g. utility billing with a service charge lets say, it should be ok. Higher risk items will be tougher. Send an email to "support@noca.com"
I didn't see any engineers, mathematicians, or scientists in that list...
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Convenient you mention that, given another box set of the original trilogy is coming out... today!
Indie games itself are a lottery. Either you get on HIB, Steam, Xbox Arcade, get featured by Apple or you die silently.

Gaming is a market where you as an indie have to hit the jackpot or you have to somehow face your competition, which are multi billion corporations like EA and Activison, and beat them at their game.

From all the indie gamedevs I only know 2 that really made it (in the sense that they created a sustainable business): Jeff Vogel with his RPGs and the guy from "Gratuitous Space Battles". (I'm not yet sure about the Minecraft guy.)

All the other success stories are like a burning sheet of paper. They burn bright but they burn fast. And then there are the other 99.99% of indie gamedevs who will never succeed in any sense with their games. Not because their games are bad - but because the market they compete in is a slaughterhouse.
Yep, that's what I've been using for years.... and years. The kerning information is SO important to making your text more readable.
True. Easy problem to fix. Modern man isn't grateful; it's not difficult to become grateful.
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I'd be happy if tis succeeded, as it would tend to vindicate my view that social networks will be connected toeqch other but fragmented by localization.
In the FAQ is says 'Is this legal is all 50 states' so I'm guessing its USA only.

They need to add this answer to the FAQ
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Actually Emacs has fantastic mode for such todo lists called org-mode. You can read more about it on http://orgmode.org/
Minor point, but tidal sources are also not solar-derived.

And an advantage of tidal compared to most (all?) other renewables is that it is completely predictable.

There are downsides, especially to do with ecological effects/damage during construction and operation.
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I agree with the app quality (or at least polish) - that's the most noticeable difference. As for other points, I really haven't noticed enough a drop in quality sufficient for me to have any problems with it (I've never used AirPlay so have no comment on that one).
In Puppet you can specify dependencies between Services and Files, so that a service is automatically restarted when a file changes.

The only trick is that Puppet must be aware of the file change. This happens automatically when the file is modified by Puppet. But if it's modified externally by a shell script or a git pull, you need to have Puppet copy that file to another "dummy" file, so it can detect that it changed from the previous version and trigger the restart.

What a "service restart" means can also be configured if you want a SIGHUP or something else. The default is the equivalent of "/etc/init.d/nginx restart".
Interesting, nice foresight. Remind me of my college days when I could design stuff like DDoS resilient distributed voting systems without the burden of having to build and test it (although I would not have gotten away with that in my MSc thesis), truly understanding the issues, or being in a constant inner-struggle over the purpose of computer science.
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My only complaint about this phone is that it is so thin and lightweight that it's difficult to believe it'll survive being sat on without snapping in half. And yet it has survived being landed on quite a few times when I've forgotten it's in my pocket before flomping onto the sofa.
Not all monopolies rely on government entry or barriers. Something like economies of scale can be a natural barrier to entry and prevent competition.
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I stopped reading major media for this very reason: I was 22 and felt dejected because, unlike the latest crop of amazings in Newsweek, I had not cured cancer by the age of 19.

Second best decision I ever made.
"Uh, no" is not a start that puts the receiver in a mood to respond constructively. If he's caught unawares, is in a bad mood or just plain tired, you will reap what you've sown. If you want to be sure you receive constructive responses, you have give constructive responses.
Thanks for the post! To clarify, we built the entire stack with node.js including our crawling framework and real-time recommender. Blog post will be up on http://blog.cull.tv/ in a day or two covering the libraries we've open sourced so far.
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You need to be something your friend will find worth mentioning. You can get people to drop your name but if you want them to do so positively it needs to be something they can get behind. Your pitch needs to sounds good, from them, or it won't be worth much.

Also, your company needs to be something the investors will believe your friend has an ability to judge or they'll discount the recommendation.
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I hate how people have latched onto using the term "entitlements" to discuss Social Security and Medicare and always say/write it as if it's a bad thing.

Social Security and Medicare are earned benefits. People pay into the system through payroll taxes so that they receive a benefit based on the length of time they paid into the system and their salary. Much like a 401k or an IRA, the money is invested (albeit in government debt at low interest rates), and even now (well, maybe not with that idiotic payroll tax break they enacted) more money is going in than coming out.
Ask HN: Marketing benefits not features, is it really the right way?
I am rewriting the copy of our startup's front page and going by the now de facto advice of marketing the benefit not features, I found myself reading the following on our homepage >

1. Makes you happier! (new commenting features)

2. Saves you time! (fast, easy, cross-posting)

3. Show more meaning! (annotate photos, read+show EXIF, big pictures).

My gut keeps sounding its alarm over me touting benefits vs features. Do visitors really convert better if the headlines are benefits vs features?

NOTE: i know i can A/B test this but i am curious to what HN folks think...
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These articles are depressing to me but for entirely different reasons from those listed in this and the thread on the previous article. They show a severe case of entitlement and a large disconnect between what the writers want and what they're worth.

Common complaints amongst these letters fall into three categories:

1. "I was tricked into going to an expensive college"

2. "Other people screwed around but happened to network while I was busy studying all the time"

3. "I've been screwed over by the previous generation for reasons x, y, and z (usually debt, taxes, and the rich getting richer)"

All of these complaints are rather childish and point towards other people being the problem. Out of all of the letters, very few accept any blame and those that do are quick to deflect it with a "yes, but" type statement that leads into argument 1, 2, or 3.

You are not entitled to a job. A degree no longer sets you apart and the cost of college is the price of doing business in the world today in most large industries. You need to differentiate yourself in today's world and, more importantly, you need to be adaptable. Learning doesn't stop when you get your degree.
Revealed preference generally agrees with the author's point. If we regard the degree to which people value their lives in terms of how much money they'll pay to avoid an x% risk of their life ending the numbers are, in general, shockingly low.

Of course we can talk about how inconsistent people's preferences are all night.

My hypothesis is that people are unhappy mainly when they have few allies (people with similar values). I believe that there are certain physiological reactions that take place when you are among those you identify strongly with and that if this never or almost never happens a general malaise is the result.
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The Mormon church is hardly a laudable "non-profit" charity.
During the windows rule, hardware specs went up but not much happened otherwise. Hard drives and RAM became 100 times bigger, but there was the same Start button, the same IE5 that became IE6 (sigh), the same games and videos on CDs. The only big innovative thing born in those years was 3D acceleration.

In the last few years we've seen a tremendous explosion of modern web, content streaming services; in the same time, rich mobile devices caught traction. They failed to do so for the whole 00s despite everyone predicting them to each year.

Basically, that's what having a platform monopoly or having no platform at all gets you.
Except the audio quality - which they made worse...
The answer to your question is: no, it's not possible. I was rather thinking about dropbox implementing the same feature directly to dropbox. If they do, there would be no point in using denishennessy's product.
It seems that the contest was already started some days ago, but there is still some time left.

I found this link in this article, which is also interesting:
http://www.kahusecurity.com/2011/brilliant-javascript-obfusc...

Have fun!
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My brother is a scientist - a damned good one at that. He's scraping by in an academic research position making well below the poverty line.

He's unmarried, frugal and has few expectations (well, years as a student in the sciences prepares you for that), so he's managing well under the circumstances. I do know though that it bothers him that his parents are paying for his $500 flight back to visit during Christmas. He's nearly 30.

Engineers are doing alright - but scientists have not done well for a long, long time. It's cut-throat, employment is anything but sure, and even if you have a job, good salaries are few and far between. And every year the output from colleges continues to far outstrip positions available.
I use these:

[alias]
l = log --oneline --decorate --graph
co = checkout
ci = commit
man = help
h = help
a = add
f = fetch
d = diff
dc = diff --cached
dt = difftool
dtc = difftool --cached
ds = diff --stat
dsc = diff --stat --cached
s = status --short --branch
b = branch
The comment in question, if anybody is interested:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2946828
Like Synergy[0] with file copy support (dragging across screens), but non-free and Windows only? I advise everyone to try synergy, it's a great experience to have the mouse leave one screen and enter another (even if it sounds kind of trivial).

[0] http://synergy-foss.org/
> Consistently high-quality food, available that conveniently, is a primal attraction.

It also ensures that the employees won't leave the office premises for the lunch break. That could be a good thing (for the employer) or a bad thing (for some of the employees).
Yes, killing the most lucrative market by making Windows "consumer brand only" would probably the silliest idea ever. Targeting enterprises and server market is what makes Windows DIFFERENT from Apple and thus giving Microsoft a market without serious competition. For MS to limit themselves only on Apple's market would probably be the stupidest idea in history of business decisions.

Not are companies are supposed to be Apple. Get over yourselves already please.
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I take the view of differentiating life from life situation (from the Power of Now.) There is a fight for survival, and the threats to life to me are not so much a bad job, but the putrid environment we live in, from food, to air to water and a body full of heavy metals and past traumas, to which none realizes they have and to which none can do anything about - they then blame their job.

At the same time, I am super grateful I can function as a typical human can, and not bound up with some terrible disease or insurmountable physical challenge, and not living in the third world. The grass is always greener until you have none.
Naming Product X Pro is the de facto for a version that requires payment...
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> well-documented racial differences in cognitive ability

The what??
"...you are going to get a pretty extreme bias when you let people self-report on this."

How else are you going to find out if someone's happy with their job?
Yes and it's definitely not that straightforward. "Digital cables" are actually "analogue cables" with two discrete voltage levels or a modulated signal carried upon them. They vary in reliability quite considerably due to transmission line characteristics and distortion related to that.

If they were boolean with respect to working, they wouldn't need filters and amplifiers on each end or checksums sent over them.
> Paypal (the "Paypal competitor headline came from Techcrunch - not from Noca )

So then why is Paypal part of the side-by-side comparison in the linked page?
Progress is: a greater conversion of people who hear about your product to people paying you money for your product. Note the present tense in "paying": retention is the root of success. So, measure your sales funnels and measure your retention.

Why are you adding features if they aren't increasing sales?

Why are you adding features if they aren't increasing retention?

How do you establish causality?
Another (unrelated) point: I just looked at the nbonvin benchmark, and it has some serious issues.

First, he misconfigured Apache for this environment: by having StartServers lower than the expected minimal process concurrency, they are goading Apache into constantly spawning and shutting down backends (I had similarly spiky performance until I realized this a while back).

However, the setting that simply damns this benchmark is that he has MaxClients set to 150... nginx's equivalent setting (worker_processes) is set to 1024. In essence, he needlessly hobbled Apache, and if Apache does well at all in comparison to nginx, it is probably because the benchmark is flawed. Seriously: this setup is so bad that Apache was returning 503 errors (this is mentioned in the conclusion area) because its configuration told it to stop responding to these incoming requests (and yet, he didn't bother considering that worth examining: he just tossed the detail out there as if it was Apache's fault).

And, given that Apache was less than half as bad (and depending on whether he counted 503 responses in his numbers, possibly "almost as good"), we then do go ahead and question the benchmark itself, just to find that the guy is using Apache bench... Apache bench doesn't actually claim to be very good at highly concurrent testing... specifically, it isn't actually good at swamping remote servers as it isn't itself very efficient. As one random backed-up example, from the BUGS section of the ab man page:

"""The rather heavy use of strstr(3) shows up top in profile, which might indicate a performance problem; i.e., you would measure the ab performance rather than the server's."""

Really, this website's results are based on a kind of "toy" benchmark, and should not really be trusted: the guy (as mentioned in his comments on his post), was trying to go for "the default setup" on these systems, but the default setup is not tuned for performance (this is especially the case with Apache, where distributions expect people to install it on almost everything, including your calculator). I mean, even the nginx settings should be tweaked: in a high-concurrency environment, 64/10096 (where I will admit I haven't spent much time tuning the ratio) would be a much better choice than 1/1024 (the Ubuntu default).

(Reading more of the comments on the benchmark, you can see that other people commented on some of these problems and more, and even wrote entire blog posts responses ;P.)
... and that electron is God? Now all suddenly fits into places :)
NOTE: i know i can A/B test this but i am curious to what HN folks think

What are you waiting for? This is a perfect opportunity to A/B test.

I understand the marketing perspective but I don't see why you can't strike a fine balance of both.
Presumably he could use a science degree and mathematical mind to get a higher paying job in industry, tech, etc. If he values research more than money, that makes sense too, but I would think he has more options than these people.