skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue this way:

Search is not easily distributable and will remain silo'ed up for a long time.

GMail is huge. But SMTP is still a distributed protocol, you can switch providers in a blink and not lose anything other than a shiny interface.

NNTP was always run in a hierarchical fashion and more importantly is centered around discussion groups. People a) prefer more control over their publishing/group-comm (blogs, forums) and b) demand the "follow individual" pattern (RSS).

Consequently the Usenet-monolith shattered into said services, all of which you can either run on your own server, or rent from a service-provider.

Sharing always sucked and that is the niche (apart from the social graph) that made Facebook big. However, today we can build mashups that plug into all these services and present them under a unified interface - just as pretty as facebook.

The only missing bit to lace it all together is the social graph. Today our little mashup has to load the graph from either facebook, twitter or google.

In the future some smart kid will come up with a "DNS[1] for social relations" and everyone will start using that, just because it's the natural thing to do and because futzing with proprietary API-keys is so 2011.

[1] As in Domain Name System
This chart isn't suggesting that more people are clicking on Google ads.

Facebook is a direct competitor with Adwords. Besides, the more time you spend on Google sites, the more of Google's ads you're exposed to. The steepness of Facebook's curve is very likely to freak Google out.
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No one jumps into manufacturing in China as a 1st choice, especially not small time producers. Who would skip the convenience and assurance of having stuff domestically?

I'd wager they did their research and could not find any in-country manufacturers that would custom produce a design (along with creating any custom tooling required), in such small quantity, at economically viable pricing.

In the past, I've tried to get relatively "ordinary" products (e.g. luggage & cosmetic packaging) made within North America (had to expand local to regional) to almost no avail. I found many "manufacturers" here import their products from China. Only a handful businesses actually make stuff here and their minimum requirements often do not make sense for small/new businesses. And the differences in pricing between local & overseas producers far exceeded the examples discussed here.

That said, as that kickstarter post showed, nominal pricing is only part of the cost of overseas production (they underestimated foreign logistic issues, refinement costs, etc) and final cost may make it not worth making the leap. Many products are simply too expensive for small businesses to produce at home OR abroad. They would have stopped their experiment earlier but they do have 11,280% of requested capital to play with in this case.
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Direct link to slides:

http://www.slideshare.net/alexandre_morgaut/state-of-the-art...
Can anyone figure out where to delete their Spotify account in the web UI? I don't even think it's possible. This move to require Facebook is ridiculous IMHO and I want no part in the company's services anymore.
If this ever took off, we'll all end up having to pay $20 for a cup of coffee because the beans are all being used to power our cars.
Yes, people spend a lot of time on FB but how much of it converts to revenue? Google could be converting visitors to revenue faster than what FB could be. Say, I search for a .is domain registrar, I click on the ad which seems to be selling it the cheapest and I leave Google. My short visit was converted to revenue and converted quick. On the other hand, I go to FB not to look for anything specific but only checkout what other people are sharing or share something myself. I think the way I use FB, since I'm not looking for anything specific, I have a lesser inclination towards clicking on a link which is trying to sell me something. Google could show me links to stuff I was looking for making it more likely for me to click on them. (Yes, there are gamers who buy credit but I'm not one of them and not suitable to comment there. But from what I remember, it's not a significant share of FB revenue - but I may remember very old stuff and I would be wrong today.)
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I loved this -- and don't skip the video. British ingenuity. It reminded me of Orville and Wilbur making airplanes from bicycle parts. Sadly, we don't do this kind of stuff anymore in the U.S. The other thing it reminded me of is that British reality game show in the '90s -- Robot Wars or something. I used to love to watch that.
I think the huge problem is the tremendously high heat in a small footprint. It's similar to the issues of the early natural gas powered vehicles -- they are basically a terrorist's wet dream, an explosive on wheels. Mind your hands, dear. Make sure you put on your asbestos gloves before you go out for a spin. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, watch the video.) Pictures speak a thousand words and that dragon fire plume spewing from the fender definitely gave one pause. But all that said, I think this is something worth developing. The issue is how to generate a thousand-plus degrees of heat in a very small space in a safe and green way. The last time we went about this we came up with the atomic bomb. Hmmm. They make mini-reactors for the inter-planetary satellites -- perhaps you could adapt one of those?
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Not so much in stills, but in motion video it's pretty easy to discern between human and animal[1].

[1] Yeah, I've worked with this stuff, too.
> The truth is that UEFI secure boot is a valuable and worthwhile feature that Microsoft are misusing to gain tighter control over the market.

How could they use it then, without "misusing" it? Should they force the OEMs to also include certificates for Linux, Hackintosh, OpenSolaris, ...?
Is Reed Hastings on their board? Bad business decision!
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You can limit a search to a directory with AckMate. Just select the directory in the Project Drawer and press Command while searching. You should see the Search button text change to 'In Selection'.
"The fact that the department gave a useless reply is no surprise."

That's exactly why I asked why it was posted here. This just isn't noteworthy. It seems to me it's being upvoted because of the OP.
Spotify can do whatever it wants. It may seem a bit extreme to require a facebook account to use the service, but honestly - competing with a behemoth like Apple and iTunes, with it's inevitable rollout of a similar service at some point that - it's not an easy thing to do. For Spotify to succeed against its competitors, it's going to have to take drastic measures, and this is pretty drastic.
I've actually wanted more of my friends on facebook to get on the service so we could share music, but many don't even know what Spotify is.
In fact, on the flipside, there was an article on one of the Apple/Mac blogs suggesting that Apple desperately needs a social network.
Music is meant to be shared.
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It's worth mentioning that Sean Parker is involved with both Facebook and Spotify.
I agree with you, but my idea is that automation makes goods more consistent and readily available, lowering prices. If average human wages are dropping, along with prices of goods/services because of automation, then we are just as well off. If the price of consumption falls faster than human wages, we are better off (from a consumer prospective)
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IP addresses are a somewhat-reliable way for them to do this depending on the user, the device they connect through, and the timing of connectivity to services which could be correlated using this IP address.
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Would you say the same of social networks, where revenue is generated from ad views?
Programming is _also_ about logic, deducing things, figuring things out!
I wish the table would fit on my screen. And this is on a MBP, I'm sure it's worse on my macbook at home.
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Great! just around the corner :)
I´m in!
Quite a few do. Why do you think this wouldn't make sense?
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I think the biggest problem I made with this particular post was conflating it with a code sample.

Few people who probably argue that OOP is the only way to code. But when faced with an example of another way, people are focusing on that specific example as a way that "I don't understand OOP." I'm finding more and more that what I don't include in my writing makes a strong piece.
Seems to me, that if people would readily forgo consuming flavored food products in lieu of something with little taste, a correlation between salt and obesity might be less likely to begin with. In other words, one could promote carrots in lieu of French Fries and expect similar results.
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> But no one can make use of something whose existence they are unaware of.

Exactly. Like you mentioned about ratios or estimation, imagine someone who had no idea what algebra was. If society let them claim it was useless to them, even if they never sit down and solve equations as part of their job, having a slightly deeper understanding of mathematics would influence how they interact with the world.

Even just knowing that a computer can be programmed, understanding data structures when working with office programs, understanding security when using passwords, automating things like personal finance, or understanding what they're being sold, would be a big step up. Understanding more than just mystical flickering 1s and 0s from some Hollywood movie would enable so much.
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Well, this is one of my reasons for python over Java as a programming language. There are some procedures that don't fit naturally into a class or object and I should be allowed write functions for them. I was a OOP fan, when i learnt c++, but when i learnt java was put-off by its' requirement of needing a class.
I am learning Haskell now, and am a little infatuated with FP, but not sure will enjoy using it a couple of years down the line.
I understand the Manager class has some state and methods, but just can't digest the idea of a separate class. To overextend the metaphor, i guess, that's one of the reasons i have shied away in my career from becoming a manager.:-P
Do you REALLY believe that? Spotify is not a little tiny startup starting from zero. They already have a pwd mgmt system, captchas and so on. Given that they are not that small either, alienating just 0.5% of their user base may be enough to offset any "outsourcing gains"
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What about mounting infrared cameras to weather balloons?

He seems to have a problem "lingering" over the right area.
Love that you can speed up the videos to 1.5x (in the Flash version).

Don't love the Flash.

Like that an HTML5 alternative is offered for iPads, etc.
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The graph that would be more interesting is a graph of ad sales. Google and Facebook are both fighting for the same marketing budget dollars.
> "There's no reason to think Android tablets wont overtake the iPad in future."

Except that Android devices never went anywhere as media players. Nothing did, compared to the iPod. Even well after they were seen as a commodity and certainly not for lack of awareness of non-iPod competitors.

And the iPad is loved/used as much more of a big media player than a big phone.

So while Android devices certainly may overtake the iPad, the iPod market presents a great argument that they very well might not. At least not until an OEM puts some serious thought and consideration into the media experience.
Thanks for the support. I think GP is right to be cautious (and data is not necessarily equivalent to multiple anecdotes over more than a decade). However, I would assert that my experiences are not unique.

You are correct that the symptoms are different [1][2], and that first aid training (in my case, Red Cross) acknowledges the necessity of both fluids and electrolytes.

More broadly, the term "[D]ehydration, despite the name, does not simply mean loss of water, as water and solutes (mainly sodium) are usually lost in roughly equal quantities" [3], meaning that even if water is replenished, salt intake must also be increased.

It's been my experience (and we're back to anecdote, unsupported by my first aid training) that dehydration may occur quickly (especially in hot weather), but insufficient electrolytes occurs over a period of days of insufficient replenishment (e.g., training, sports tournaments, resident camps).

1: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001431/ 2: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001977/ 3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehydration
A nit, but this struck me as highly speculative. I, like the author, want to see the FGPA equipment analyzed further.

I kinda felt like I was led down the garden path a bit here. In the end, the entire essay (to me) boils down to "Stuff we don't know about could be stuff we should worry about" This is a true statement, but I'm not sure how useful it is to the reader.

Perhaps it would have been better to list all of the possible problems, then show why the FGPA was the biggest concern. That way I would be more informed about what the state of the discussion is. While it's really cool the author can outline the myriad ways an FPGA device reading can be misread, context here is more important than the ability to impress us with all the technical details (which are also important, no doubt, but only with context) Put another way, this was a bit of "nerd porn" -- lots of cool little technical details that need to be considered when dealing with FPGAs in places like this. For that, it's definitely great HN material.

Just a structural criticism of the essay, not the topic or author. The topic and writing quality were awesome.
As a mid 20 something in a major city without a facebook, I don't actually have any trouble finding info about events/parties/shows/gatherings. I have real life friends and they let me know the old fashioned way if something good is coming up.

I left Facebook a year ago and don't feel like I've missed a thing at all.
> I've yet to see a positive comment regarding this new feature

Spotify -> Facebook integration used to be optional. Now it's becoming mandatory. It's hard to find an upside of that for users.

The only upside that I can possibly think of is that some ... "non-technical" users won't get confused by choices. So now the choice has now been made for them to exchange their privacy for happy fun friend feeds. Simple!
This is amazing... this is exactly why I love Emacs....
And you may want to look at using Siege instead ;)
Nearly all of our clients called within minutes of SMTP being disrupted. So much for the email is dead meme.
Early adopters in any market are the people that have the most to gain and (more importantly) the least to lose by using your product.

For business-to-business products, the early adopters are often the underdogs (small or losing companies looking for any advantage against the market leaders).

For consumers, look for the hardcore fans of your market. The people that get an intellectual or emotional high from products in your space. Look for the crazy obsessed people.

Journalists are not early adopters (even ones that cover your market).
In my opinion I don't like to give out my email address without seeing some examples of the content I'll be receiving so my advice would be to perhaps add same sample content on the frontpage.
I don't think you really understand what VC funds do, VC funds invest in high-risk high-reward opportunities.

Let's assume that Tumblr is worth $400m today, given their current growth rate there's a reasonable chance they might be worth a few billion within the next couple of years.

The chances of Sears or Burger King increasing their value by 3-5x in the next couple of years are negligible.

VCs invest in companies which have the potential to grow rapidly and return 10x+ on their investment (less with later stage companies), these are high risk investments, but the investment is done as part of a portfolio on the assumption that that the return from the successful companies will far outweigh the return from the companies that fail.

Good VCs have over the last few decades had better returns than index trackers and the like using this approach, hence they attract investors who are happy with this higher risk investment approach.
100% agreed.
also fb has so many hits, they´re selling their ads for quite little money. the average amount of hits to get 1$ revenue would be more interesting
I am curious to know if you're able to get any traction with this. There are a ton of newsletters out there that are free. The value in newsletters, as I understand it, is in building a large list and then getting the advertising dollars. Very targeted marketing yields better revenue opportunities. Serious question for you to answer: Why would I pay for your newsletter over a free alternative?
It's less an emergent or mystical property of networks, and more a function of human psychology. The decision to keep using Facebook, or to abandon Facebook for alternatives, depends on each user's calculation of Upside vs. Downside. As soon as alternatives emerge that offer equal or greater upside with less downside, users leave for those alternatives.

The one thing keeping Facebook alive and well right now is that no alternatives yet exist whose upside outweighs the hassle of losing all of one's Facebook friends, data, etc. (In economic terms, this is known as a very high switching cost).

Sooner or later, though, it's possible that a) more alternatives will emerge; b) some of these alternatives will be massively more attractive than FB for one reason or another; or c) FB will become increasingly annoying via feature creep, privacy concerns, homogenization of experience due to lowest common denominators among users. I'm banking on "c." There are, and will be, viable competitors to Facebook. But these competitors won't get a lot of attention, relatively speaking, until Facebook becomes more annoying than it is convenient.
Might be interesting to some of you: http://diydrones.com/
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Took me an hour trying to figure out how to hide spotify feed from showing up on my fb's wall. I couldnt. After I uninstalled the app (on fb setting's page) Spotify logged out automatically. What a shame! I m using Pandora now.
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great point, will do that!

Edit: done. http://hackingfresh.com/?page_id=19
Math is much more pervasive than programming, but it is also true that people often do or could use the basic ideas of programming without realizing. For example: understanding data structures when using a word processor or spreadsheet, understanding security when using passwords, understanding data representation when using any kind of digital tool, etc.
Or it could also be that people that were eating less salt where the ones that had a history of heart problems (their own or their parents) so it had nothing to do with the sodium intake.
This is really cool. Your presentation source is a plain text file, very similar to markdown or restructured text. The presenter window monitors the text file, so you see changes live as you edit. The resulting presentation is very nice.
The friends and family beta was earlier in the year. This one is the real deal.
In the enterprise, there are no other languages that fit the bill besides Scala. You underestimate just how much java code exists out there in any commercial bank, IB, big corp., yada yada. Its an order of magnitude more than your wildest imagination. Sad, but true. Now, how are you going to migrate all of that to Scala ? Easy - just do nothing for the legacy non-buggy stuff, write any new functionality in scala, and continue bugfixing legacy buggy java code in java. That's the only alternative. Not migrating to scala is gradually becoming a non-option. Too many advantages over java to even begin listing at this point.

Now if you are an MS shop, its a different story. And ofcourse none of this applies to startups, who can use pretty much whatever they want.
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Sure, I was thinking primarily about software and web services.
because the newsletter isn't cluttered with ads or other stuff, doesn't have too much text (I'm not copy-pasting content) and has a 30 day trial period (you can find out for yourself whether you like it or not, without spending a dime).
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I have a cold but I could do a 5 minute reprap talk if I'm feeling better by then. Would that be a good idea?
George Orwell's five rules of effective writing come to mind: http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/george-orwells-5-rules-for-...

And people so often substitute longer words, (e.g. 'myself' instead of 'me') when they want to sound professional.

"I hit myself" => OK
"Please contact myself" => WRONG.
I'll believe it when I see it. In the meantime, as others have mentioned, Sublime Text 2 has won me over.
Interesting. Maybe Facebook is integrating a Mafia based business strategy:
Either you become an exclusive Facebook service or we just rip off your idea and offer it as our own.
Wasn't there some guy recently on HN who claimed that FB screwed him over with their music service?
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If you aren't paying for the product or service, you are the product or service.
They said that they measured the FPGA delay by shining a beam on it and seeing how long it took to register. It seems like there is a lot of room for variability in this practically un-analyzed system.
I wish I could put multiple elements on the page to bond them together. Cool design though!