skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the "LinkedIn for fashion" was a retarded move on bloomberg's part. I was there when Melanie was contemplating that pivot. It was more like salesforce for fashion aka a SaaS tool to help the fashion world.
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Just in case you miss it, I made a comment parallel to yours to the parent. (POV of an Australian on the N9 and Nokia)
Some of the best music that came out of the 50s was recorded on tape, then overdubbed, then overdubbed again. Creativity shouldn't be judged based on the medium.
Every company was required to participate: the choice was (1) do the show or (2) drop out of TechStars. Bloomberg followed all 11 (not 10) companies throughout the entire program, but focused only on 6 companies because it was impossible to follow 11 different story lines in 6, 22-minute episodes.
If there was a service that was comparable to the Google collection, I would have switched long ago for this reason alone.

Switching accounts and partial Gapps integration is a huge negative for me in regards to Google.
Google is a false prophet hiding behind the veil of their "don't be evil" mantra. Google is the real evil corporation but these geeks are too blind to see it. Now they know what these guys at Google are up to.
Android Chief Says Your Phone Should Not Be Your Assistant
I was told that Bloomberg filmed all of the teams and then chose whom they wanted to include.

Could someone from TechStars clarify if teams were given a chance to opt out?

EDIT: Just saw below that it was required for all teams to participate or drop out of TechStars. Wow.
No, I actually don't blame TechStars. We were ALL told the same thing - it was constantly referred to as a documentary while filming. Go look at TS post and mine when the show was announced.

Trust me, Bloomberg wanted to do far worse, but TS fought hard to make sure they didn't. We're all fairly upset at how it was cut.
I agree with you totally. The focus should be on increasing wealth through more production of everything.

Somehow we've ended up in a situation where everyone focuses on job creation at the expense of everything else.

Right now most families need two parents working in order to provide. I think many would be happier with one less parent working if they could maintain the same standard of living. That would be possible if one of the parents doubled their productivity. Yes, it's a crude example but shows that focusing on jobs, and jobs only is looking at the wrong metric.

Counting jobs is as foolish as counting lines of code developed rather than the output of the code. But because each job is attached to a person, we've all become blinkered to it, like a PHB counting lines of code and assuming progress is being made.

Wealth creation is simply the process of creating a better life through a combination of hard work and technology. When you live better you're more wealthy.

Unfortunately, just about every initiative I have seen from any government for the last 10 years has been about job creation, when wealth creation isn't even considered, or, if it is, in a distasteful manner, usually coupled with some reference to greed and profit. But the only way to create real jobs is to create wealth that people will willingly exchange their own labor for.
Humans are great at adapting to their surroundings. If you give them fancy gadgets, or a new way of doing something that is innovative, they'll forget how they did "x" before they had the new fancy "widget".
The article's picture is very well picked. It's as if they're talking to each other while covering their mouths.
Chrome Gets Text-to-Speech APIs
I think it would be awesome if there was a "Google Voice" for Snail Mail. You would give out one address and it would follow you everywhere. This would be especially great for those 18 - 25 that are going off to college and will end up living in multiple places over a short period of time before settling down.
Seems to be a lot of assumptions going around. Let me clarify anything you want to know. AMA.
I thought Google will verify the identity to prevent false claim of an identity, right? Without verification, what good is "Real Name"?
Proofs of Ownership In Remote Storage Systems (like Dropbox)
Well for one, in the context of developing and managing a business, secrecy is often of paramount importance. Why does Apple go apeshit every time an engineer of theirs leaves a prototype phone in a bar? Shouldn't they just relax and enjoy the free publicity?

There might be times when you want to communicate with people on a topic, without their being aware of who you are and what you do for a living, which could color the conversation or potentially even jeopardize your business.

Maybe you need to maintain contacts and industry awareness without alerting your competitors to your every move or to who your clients are. Maybe you are a victim of corporate espionage. Maybe you find yourself in the unenviable position of needing to both develop and manage a business and be a whistle-blower at the same time. There are any number of potential reasons.
Attention Humor-Impaired Downvoters:

This is a sarcastic reference to anti-measles vaccine activists.

That is all.
To pimp my own startup - take a look at Adzerk (http://adzerk.com). We are getting lots of ex-OpenX users who want something faster and more reliable.
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However, once you start writing ERB or HAML, or whatever, you're greatly reducing the involvement that designers can have in the process. If you're working on a traditional web site, that's potentially a bad thing. However, if you're making a richer web app, it might actually be a good thing to preclude non-programmers from interfering.

This is why I'm digging slim (http://slim-lang.com). It's pretty much html w/o the closing tags and brackets, and also like haml but cleaner looking.
The content was still served by the CBC and accessed only after the end user activated one of the hyperlinks. He was only charging money for his web browser and home page that hosted those hyperlinks.
Bud, Chrome has speech to text apis.
You need to talk to your manager and bring up your concerns, there's no reason to continue being "on separate pages", you need to both get on the same page. If they are telling you to do one thing, you do another, and then get praised for it, and this is happening consistently you need to bring it up to understand exactly whats going on, either they really don't care that much and are leaving it to your discretion or there could be friction developing behind the scenes. At my current job we have weekly one on one meetings with the manager to bring any issues up and something like this would be a good topic for a one on one discussion. You don't want to get in the habit of doing more work than is needed, also, if you want to pursue UI development then consider finding a job that wants and appreciates that. The more complex the server-side coding becomes the less room there is for a "jack of all trades" so it really just depends on where you want your focus to go in your career. That said, a UI guy who has programming experience and understanding of server-side development, in my opinion, is always going to have a leg up on someone who doesn't
What is the proper name for the bit of code that's currently being executed?

I would have used 'Cursor' or 'Program Cursor'. But I'm now convincing myself that that a database term.
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Wow, that's... interesting. When I hear an ex-employee talk about why the company is laying people off I always take it with a grain of salt-- but still interesting none the less.
Yours is a common misconception of the Broken Window Fallacy.

Most people think the fallacy is just a statement about destroying things in order to create jobs.

While this is true, the deeper meaning of the fallacy is that every action has a consequence, both negative and positive. But the problem most economists and politicians have is that they only look upon the easily measured and obvious outcome (the work for the glazier). They fail to consider the non-obvious outcome, which is the tailor who sells one suit less, because the bakers money was diverted to the glazier instead.

The broken window fallacy is a tool to help us analyse all of the consequences of an action, rather than just the obvious ones. So, whenever a make-work government program is announced, all we hear about is the x,000 jobs it will create. What we don't hear about is the x,000 jobs that must not be created in order for those to happen. We don't hear about it because it's likely to be 1 job across x,000 industries, rather than x,000 jobs in 1 industry. The money for make-work programs must come from taxes, or from borrowings, which is just future taxes brought forwards. Thus, when people pay more tax, they must therefore spend less elsewhere.

This is not a request for a zero-tax environment, it is just a call to recognise the entirety of economic actions, not just the obvious ones. That is the broken window fallacy.
JWZ: "EFF declares premature victory in Nymwars"

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I agree with joe_the_user. I found the article snide and condescending. I suggest alternative careers for the author:

- Leader of a high school clique
- Movie reviewer who concentrates on who's "in"
- Coiner of demeaning nicknames

I wouldn't want to work with this person.
Can a billion-dollar tech company be built in D.C. alone?
I've been playing around with OSX Lion Server installed on my home fios connection on a mac mini server. Apple built a webmail interface that's not as good as gmail, but works if you primarily use a client and just need webmail sometimes.

I'm not ready to switch to it full time, but have been curiously looking around for alternatives to gmail. In general, running an email server yourself is a bit of a pain.
I don't think they've started that yet except with celebrities... and I'm still unsure how that will take place, when or if ever.

Also I'm just suggesting he keep that firstname.lastname@gmail.com account... just to have it. But not necessarily use it for anything personally identifiable.
SIRI TALKS BACK - iPhone 4S Giveaway
I'm not arguing about bloomberg the terminal. I and many of my other friends in trading have had conversations with really chatty Bloomberg reps who wantonly leak information. In particular one rep mentioned by name that I was a customer when discussing smaller firms using Bloomberg :/
What techniques can they use to truly verify identity? When I set up my G+ account, they didn't ask for a credit card, or a copy of my drivers license. I'm pretty sure I could have put in Peter Parker if I wanted.
The responsiveness of Android has been a thorn in its side since day one - personally I'm going to withhold judgment until I can play with one in person. ICS is supposed to bring to bear a large amount of hardware acceleration for the UI that will make 99% of these UI lag issues disappear entirely.

If it doesn't, that'd be supremely disappointing, since it's truly one of the things that has been plaguing Android since it first launched.

> "Android supports just about all possible hardware configurations from low end to high end."

All the more reason the UI stack needs to be optimized from end to end. Apple can pretty much just assume you have a 800MHz dual-core under the hood, Google cannot. It's taken some serious firepower to get Android's UI to be suitably responsive (we're talking dual-core, 1+ GHz beasts)... what hope does the developing world have trying to run that kind of software on little 400MHz ARM chips?

We know from the development of OSX (or iOS, depending on where you want to look) that even a minimal amount of hardware acceleration from low-end GPUs can do wonders for overall UI performance. A reasonably low-end GPU will lay waste to a large number of problems that even mid-high-end CPUs are poorly equipped to solve.

If anything, if Google wants to make a difference in the developing world this needs to be a top priority - after all, this is the market that is least able to brute force their way past performance problems with raw hardware.

> "As the parent comment was pointing out, people are willing to pay for the luxury of animations, or polish. For most people just getting calls, text, email and mobile web, at affordable prices is all we really want."

I think it's short-sighted to call responsive, rich UI a "luxury". Before Android phones hit the developing world, the status quo was candy bar phones. I'm sure there were enough people back then proclaiming they couldn't imagine needing anything more - it places calls and gets texts, what else could someone reasonably wish for?

But then Android brought smartphones to these parts of the world and the goalpost moved. Now expecting mobile web and email on your phone is entirely reasonable, thanks to what used to be the sole territory of luxury devices. Software is something that has literally no marginal cost - once produced, it can be shipped on ten million phones for negligible cost, and in this sense is pretty much the cheapest way you can improve your products. IMO saying that good UI is exclusively the territory of luxury devices is doing a great disservice to the developing world.

Google ought to be doing better, considering the sheer force they have thrown behind Android, and if these long-awaited hardware acceleration features fail to significantly tame the UI performance beast, it is in every way appropriate to call them to task on it.
I don't hate mine. I just see very little point to it ever since I got iPad (which I use for everything except talking on the phone). I've been seriously considering getting smaller / cheaper basic flipphone if I ever need to replace it. Phone is just tween size I find useless. laptop too big / heavy, 7" tablet too small. iPad just right. The next smallest form factor I want is thing that wraps around ear (or in ear) that makes phone calls and whispers reminders and the like.
Testing Treatments: Best Popular Book on Evidence-Based Medicine
Google News is getting in on badges
On the amd64/i386 platforms, the Instruction Pointer CPU register points to the executed instruction. Its name is IP for 16-bit code, EIP (extended) for 32-bit code, or RIP (register) for 64-bit code.
Well, a maybe better comparison would be some sound effects heavily used in the eighties. I don't know nothing about photo, that's why I ask, but about sound I know a bit more, and there you have two kinds of effects:

1- The normal enhancements you are not supposed to hear. Maybe a bit of reverb or compression. For these effects, in my experience, the proper way to tune it is to turn the knob until you hear it, and then turn it back half ways.

2- The exceptional strong effect that is part of the sound. Here, you should turn knobs to their max, it will make a different sound.

The "instagram" plague looks to me like if everyone in every music would suddenly add 150% of one type of reverb, and everyone would blindly think it is great, and in two years none of these will be heard (seen) without laughing.
Groupon can't get it to work with unlimited $ - how can a 3rd rate clone make it work?
I am trying to figure out how it went from decent looking typeface that kind of steals from Helvetica (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/10/18/robotica) to a Helvetica ripoff (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/10/19/roboto-v-helveti...) to a ripoff of four different fonts (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/10/19/roboto-typograph...) [1] to an "ungainly, homely, unharmonious" system font that makes Daring Fireball look bad on Android (original article). I know Gruber claims he wants Android to have an attractive font, but it certainly doesn't feel like he does.

1: Once you are apparently incorporating four difference fonts as influences, aren't we in the realm of originality?
Don't miss this in the footnotes:

Hilariously, Microsoft's signing tool gets this wrong by also adding the contents of gaps between sections in direct contravention of their own specification. This is fine for binaries generated by Microsoft's toolchain because they don't have any gaps, but since our binaries do contain gaps[2] and since the standard firmware implementation[3] does implement the specification correctly, any Linux-generated binaries signed with the Microsoft tool fail validation. Go team.
[2] Something that is, as far as we can tell, permitted by the PE-COFF specification
[3] Written by Intel, not Microsoft
Hiding one's deeper insights into a market's dynamics is frequently a competitive advantage.
The death of American democracy: not dying, but already dead
The original videos were really interesting. The original url is out[1], but google is your friend[2], so you can find them out[3], and even a few ones on youtube[4].

It even got an Emmy[5]!

Edit: Vimeo still got them all: http://vimeo.com/13484895

[1] http://www.techstars.com/thefounders

[2] http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.techstars.com%20thef...

[3] http://www.techstars.com/the-founders-episode-5-and-6/

[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsKKNYAQpnQ

[5] http://www.techstars.com/the-founders-wins-a-heartland-emmy/
Pimp my scooter chair
Same here.

Just set the background image to all white, touch any button and it will light up. Not too bright but usable in most cases.

The extended battery life is what clinched it for me. The funniest thing is that for years I would be way ahead of the curve and now I'm walking around with something that is probably more of a conversation piece than anything made by apple or htc.

"You use that?"
> what an IQ test does is merely measure answered questions and not intelligence.

I get your point, but I think it is still not quite a cut and dry as you are making it. The issue is not that intelligence is something quantifiable for which they haven't been able to map IQ on to; intelligence is just an ill-defined concept. Absolutely nothing can possibly measure or map onto intelligence because there just is no real definition of the word.

Saying that IQ measures intelligence is the same as saying that answering questions on a standardized test requires intelligence, which seems like a perfectly reasonable and valid definition to me.

Would you bring up this argument someone said "He solved that math problem that has been open for hundreds of years, he is intelligent". Would you jump in and say "actually, solving math problems isn't necessarily a measure of intelligence, which is what you are implying".

All that solving famous unsolved math proofs shows is that you are better at solving math proofs that a bunch of other people who try to solve math proofs, what does that have to do with intelligence!
> I've seen inboxes with THOUSANDS of unread email

Is(n't) this 'bad'?

I avoid email in some circumstances because people don't seem to use it well (Admittedly what is meant by 'well' can be subjective). Most of them have hundreds/thousands of unread emails.
That's why it's called Text-to-Speech. It's the opposite of the Speech-to-Text that they've had since Chrome 10.
That describes pretty much every other for-profit corporation that we all do business with on a daily basis as consumers.

I don't think they're any more or any less evil than other large company. But this is just about keeping them honest on an issue that is a very big deal with most of their customers.

Also I think most of these geeks are pretty smart and aware of what's going on around them.
Imagine if you could just resume your browsing session on your laptop or desktop from your phone.

You can. Firefox Sync will sync almost everything in your browsing session (including tabs, if you want). I've had no trouble moving browsing sessions from my phone to one (or more) of my laptops or to my Android tablet and back again. You do have to explicitly choose to open tabs from another Firefox, but I think that's necessary. You don't always want to pick up everything in another browsing session.
I saw at least a half-dozen habits that have cost me I-don't-want-to-think-how-much time. And at least a half dozen I'm still doing. I was dimly aware of them as repeated frustrations, but identifying them makes it a lot easier to target them for deletion.

I'm going to mark this thing up, add "haven't crossed any of these off in the past year", and postpone my judgment until next fall.
Well, the product assumes Jill is really hot. And she gets lots of email from not only Jack, but Tom, Dick & Harry as well.

We think Jill would want to use it to decrease the number of cock pics in her inbox.
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Yes, money is a validation if your goal is to make money. If I am a for-profit company and I show you millions of visitors for my website but no real revenues, I would agree that it's not impressive.

As the other commentator pointed out, their goal is not to make money. And this is impressive because it's a huge progress towards their stated goal.
CE-Oh no he didn't: Steve Ballmer lays into Android
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I randomly saw that feature on Elon and was blown away by both his story and the piece. I thought it was great.
I suppose the author has an interesting point at the core, but the article is way too prejudiced to be taken seriously.
If you define originality as a clumsy patchwork of existing pieces.
> eg: the "Delete Database" button is next to "Save", just as big, has no confirmation step and no undo

That was common practice all over the Web for over a decade, it only stopped recently (on most sites). [Submit] [Reset] Argh!
Great tool! Great for daily practice while learning Rails on another tutorial.
Can someone please explain daring fireball to me? Every single post appears to be about how great Apple is. That can't seriously be the blog, can it? Why would people read this?
> calling things "wars" seems to suggest one should pick a side and stick with it.

Italy during World War II?
If they are targeting those interested in startups and not just the lastest trashy reality show they would be much better served doing it documentary style. It's something I would gladly pay a fair amount to watch, following the ups and downs on young startups in a level headed and unbiased way.

I think another good setting for this would be a coworking space, I know techstars is essentially that but at a regular coworking space you get a heap of diversity in what people are doing which adds interest.
Samsung Has Some Relief In Apple Lawsuit
One has to wonder just how much Apple stock Gruber owns.
I believe one can achieve quite strong anonymity given sufficient effort. The effort is probably more trouble than most people are willing to make in most circumstances. Often people want precisely to engage in social activities on line with their primary identities visible.

A lot of smart people have put a lot of effort behind projects like Tor and Torbutton. https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/ Having some expectation that they can be effective when used properly does not make one a fool.