skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also the the Gina Ford contented baby booked helped me a lot.
Microsoft apologizing for IE6
Markets come and go. Good businesses don’t.

- Fred Wilson (@fredwilson)

http://startupquote.com/post/11909434261
"Embarrassingly parallel floating point operations" "for the win". The things that GPUs are better at than CPUs are very poorly modeled by the words "dynamic" or "realtime". They are happy to do long-term batch computations (and getting happier about it), and there are plenty of dynamic real-time things they are bad at, because they involve lots of branching.
The only reason the idea of dropping out is getting so much traction is because of the debt that's now required to get a degree. I haven't seen anyone defending college reconcile this fact.

The point is that a degree is now extremely expensive and is getting more so all the time. Id like to make the point that holding all that debt is a lot scarier than the successful people with decent jobs trying to persuade us to start or stay in school think it is.
Or I can't do both because I am just lazy fool?.. I am really not a genius or something.
>man paint

Zillion lines of text scroll by

swear

>man paint | less

go through 10 pages of text before finding the /pickcolour command

>paint /pickcolor /x 123 /y 843

how the pixel position was found is left as an exercise for the reader

option pickcolor not found

curse and rerun the man and scroll through all the pages again

realize it's /pickcolour and not /pickcolor

>paint /pickcolor /x 123 /y 843

red gets selected

after more furious rtfm'ing and Bing'ing(on Lynx of course), realize pickcolor uses coordinate calculation from the bottom right and not top left

When you need to do this again in a month, forget the command and the spelling and repeat all of the above again.
I worry that that had such easy access to VC money that they decided to grow too soon. With the names of their roster, I assume people just showed up with wheel-barrels full of of money. With that many people you are already running into coordination and scaling problems. If you don't have a really clear product to focus on then you can have problems.
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Idiots.

"University of Illinois at Champagne Urbana"

Should be:

"University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"

Commonly referred to as UIUC.

They spelled the fucking city and university wrong.
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I reached a hypothesis in yesterday's discussion about college being a substitute upbringing for those who may not have had many opportunities growing up: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3150390

The dislike comes form it being pointless busywork. It may not have been pointless busywork to you, depending on your upbringing. And that is just fine. Everyone comes with different experiences. College is just not for everyone, plain and simple.
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When you start scripting with macros or automation tools, you've just left the limits the GUI imposes for a CLI environment, with all that entails. That's not a disagreement, that conceding the point.

Nothing stops a "GUI app" from having a CLI or vice versa, though I observe that generally an app can be fairly cleanly identified as considering one or the other the "primary" interface, with the other a clear afterthought/second priority.
Ha ha. That really depends on your Uni. I remember severe health problems due to the amount of study in my undergraduate.
Do you mean review your idea? Because this isn't a startup yet--the app hasn't even launched.

How does this differ from Olark? [0]

[0] http://www.olark.com/
You know what would be neat? When you click the "spam" button in Gmail (or other clients with similar functionality) and there's an "unsubscribe" link in the email then Gmail could suggest visiting the link with some kind of a notification and buttons labeled "unsubscribe" or "no, this is spam".

I suppose that could be abused however.
Just got rid of our Scope Creeper yesterday, it was getting ugly. Funny enough, this client was also our Buzzturd. Thanks for the fun read!
Alright then. Is it possible to be somewhat systematic about this?

Things that humans create with software:

– Text

– Images

– Sound

– Video

– Algorithms†

All those elements can be glued together in different ways. Images and text, for example, can be glued together to create a magazine or newspaper layout. Text, images, sound, video and algorithms can be glued together to create a video game. Separate software for gluing stuff together is quite common. (You don’t really write and edit texts or edit images with InDesign but you bring texts and images together.)

Maybe I’m wrong about this but it doesn’t seem to me as though GUIs are the exception or a special case. They seem to be quite common.

—

† I’m not sure about this one. I think it deserves an extra category even though most people use text to create them. It seems wrong to me to put novels and algorithms in one category, it would be a disservice to both.

There are different ways of looking at this. In some way video and images are one and the same – you get video from glueing images together. It seems, however different enough to deserve its own category. Algorithms seem similar to me.
They seem completely different to me. GWave is a collaboration/communication tool. Asana is a project management/planning tool. In theory you could do PM with GWave but it would be a bit of a stretch.
Related call where 2 sex line workers are let loose on each other: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoyDQ327mm8
oh, tharunka, the life saver in those boring lectures :)

I really miss Sydney (specifically UNSW and the eastern suburbs), but there is just no start up in Sydney. If you are a top CS grad from UNSW or USyd, there are only two options: Google or Macquarie bank (maybe three, but I heard that Canon research is not doing so well these days).
Probably a fake. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/loetb/i_am_lawrence_le...
A good bit of the discrepancy is that the calculator assumes that the DC to AC conversion is only 77% efficient (see "DC to AC Derate Factor" in the calculator), while the naive calculation assumes 100% efficiency of conversion, right?
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CLI is for noobs, Lisp macros and PERL programs are way more powerful than CLI.and can be exactly customized to your particular task that you're trying to accomplish rather than artificially limit you to a list of non-extensible options like CLIs tend to do.
"It's the only link that appears at the bottom of my emails."

Personally, I've noticed an increasing affinity for the 'tag as spam' button.

It takes a certain amount of effort to scroll down, and find the unsubscribe (I'm not even sure if it's there), vs. having my inbox cleaned up by just clicking the darn 'tag as spam' button -- dead easy. Also, there's the uncertainty about how daunting the unsubscribe experience might be. These days, quite many startups get their users to go through tedious surveys before they can unsubscribe completely. This results in a sticky association that's hard to undo: 'unsubscribe' is a hassle.

Are there ways around this?

How about a large button above the fold that says 'Don't mail me.', 'Junk!' or similar. Something that indicates they'll have their intended results: less of this sorta mail, and a cleaner inbox.
On the other hand, this might result in more unsubscribes.
This library is described as "Insanely Fast", and performance feats on various connection types are described.

Is the implication that it performs some optimization that regular sockets could not do? Or is it merely faster than some alternative? I don't know terribly much about the i* ecosystem, but it seems like speed should be the least distinctive attribute for networking libraries; providing a helpful abstraction is the real concern, and only by considerably folly or cleverness would performance differ noticeably.
How do you edit a text document using MS paint?

Anyone can pick examples that make the discussion go nowhere. That's why this discussion never feels like it makes any progress.
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Actually, cassette tapes did have obvious, specific problems. They degraded. The tape kept falling out. The quality wasn't very good. Fast-forwarding and rewinding wasn't great. CDs solved that. Then people wanted to take more of their music on the go, and MP3 players solved that.

Look at DVD -> Blu-Ray. Blu-Ray has not had a good adoption. For most people, they don't see the difference between digital and HD (see the number of people who incorrectly tune their TVs to not use the HD channels on their HD TV). All the pain points were solved by VHS -> DVD.
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Not that I have any experiences in this regard, but I hear that SkypeOut and the conferencing feature is ... convenient.
Although Eliza was coded for a less powerful machine, the most powerful mainframe in existence in 1964 was the CDC6600, which was able to put out about 1 MFLOPS. The iPhone 4S is apparently capable of 138 MFLOPS. ( http://www.phonearena.com/news/Apple-iPhone-4S-benchmark-tes... )

We've managed to put the equivalent of hundreds of room-sized mainframes from Eliza's time into something that can fit in your pocket but, in the last 47 years, A.I. has advanced so little that Siri is using the same bag of tricks as Eliza. All that distinguishes Siri from Eliza is some licensed speech recognition software, a nice collection of pre-programmed geeky easter-eggs, and the fact that Siri is plugged into a collection of apps and search engines that allow it to perform a few basic, but useful tasks beyond simply fooling around. However, those tasks do not really require, or make use of, A.I. at all. Google's voice interface for Android makes no pretensions towards sentience, but is capable of everything Siri is. Google just hasn't wrapped their voice interface software up in a cute anthropomorphized Eliza wrapper or taken the app integration as far yet. That, and perhaps a little interface work, is pretty much it.

It is simply astounding that, in spite of Siri having access to such vastly superior resources, Eliza still comes across as the smart one!
The cost thing is a fallacy. Companies just want to make more money by forcing you into paying for their other channels.

As a platform, TV is horrible. I can't get the content I want and the content that is available is sporadic and often unavailable because of having only two tuners and scheduling conflicts.

The real problem is that it's a cartel. Easy money for the big companies. Why the heck do I need 15 religious channels and 20 home shopping channels? Let alone sports etc etc.
Interesting. This reminds me of the stackoverflow podcast where Joel and Jeff argued about open sourcing the stackoverflow engine.

Joel was against it because they were building stackexchagne at the time and he didn't want to compete against competitors like this using their own engine.
Great.. Melbourne's my home-town. Been away since May'11 due to biz. Wish this started before we made certain wild decisions .. heh.

Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi
People that need training simply to do their job are operators, not creators. They don't need a CLI, nor should they use one. As the article states:

There is a time for operation, and a time for expression.
Most interface debates are misinformed because they are
about creators complaining about operation interfaces, or
operators complaining about creation interfaces. We need
both. But we also need to understand when.
Another point is that Online wins on Offline, definitely.
Offline events or press can lead to social proof, but they don't drive subscriptions.
"I would argue that mathematics can only give you false confidence if you fail to understand it completely."

Yes, that's the problem. In economics, it's difficult to know what all of the relevant variables are and the basic inputs are not well-understood (like the behavior of people).

Even if you did create a perfect model, most of the assumptions would have to be nearly wild guesses, and probably even small errors in the assumptions would lead to wild errors in the result. And the resulting model would be so complex that I'm not at all sure it would even be useful for crafting policy.

Then, let's say we had a perfect and simple model that anyone could understand. Everything would be wonderful, right? No, you still have to collect all the relevant data for inputs, run the simulation, and then distribute the results to all of the relevant parties -- all before the economy plays out in real time.

So what actually happens with mathematical models is that people oversimplify, but because it has the aura of formalism they become very confident. There are always so many wild variables like wars or drought that it's easy to later dismiss any deviation from their model as "a special event" (e.g. an earthquake).

And what's the optimization target, by the way? The total number of shoes produced? Using GDP as an optimization target has a lot of known problems and embeds a lot of assumptions itself. And some people simply prefer living under a certain kind of economic system.

So, trying to approach economics from a purely mathematical standpoint is useless, in my opinion.
"A FREE PHP StackOverflow Clone" - I think its title shows where it gets its inspiration from :)
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I'm also waiting for more details. I was thinking of building such a thermostat myself so ...
I wasted about 3 minutes of my life just now trying to work that out.

Apparently, lots of people are challenging preconceived ideas somehow. That's nice for them. Moving on...
I wrote a little about this here: http://peachshake.com/2011/01/02/engagement-secret-the-autom...

I do it fully automated, but take steps to make it look handmade. I've found it to be incredibly effective, with probably a 30% response rate.

Doing it by hand might be a little nicer, but everything is a balancing act. If I can get 80% of the benefit by automating it, I'm happy with that.
Anyone know how this library handles caching?
Very nice resource.

However, not sure if this is something on your end or something with the way I've done things, but when searching for the PostageApp Node.JS module I created, it had two entries despite only really having one.

http://toolbox.no.de/search?q=postageapp

Any idea what's going on?
At the state level, there are some states that have already implemented facial recognition. I can tell you that even at the state level, integration was not easy. At a federal level, IAFIS is not limited by capability, but by sheer size of the database and the number of requests -- this only for fingerprint packets (I don't remember if they process palm data, but palm data definitely increases packet size significantly).

The point is, sometimes we are mesmerized by prototypes and applications at a small scale, but when you increase the scale, development, integration, and deployment challenges (edit: and costs) increase exponentially.
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They do on CSI all the time!
No mention of Clojure?
A Google Interview Question
I recently interviewed with Google for a product manager position. I wasn’t really looking since I have been actively working on my startup. But since the Google recruiter found me on LinkedIn and reached out to me, I went ahead and gave the whole interview process a shot. Overall, the process was professional and well organized. I thought I answered most of the questions well except for this one:

For any given day, calculate the total number of miles traveled by all the passengers using the subway.

Just want to share this!
My brother in law is British, after five years I still laugh at the way he says 'aluminium' too.
Faking it on LinkedIn
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/color_mods/
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A few years ago I signed up for a NEXUS pass[1] and was background checked, fingerprinted, photographed, and had my iris scans taken. I can only assume that my information had to have been transferred to other databases such as this as well.

[1] http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/travel/trusted_traveler/nexus_pro...
"You can build an STM in pretty much any language."

Sure, but they don't work. STMs don't work because whenever a transaction is retried, anything that operated on "real state" gets redone, and attempts to deal with that with unrestricted side effects are generally agreed to have been a failure.

(Except Clojure, which built it in either from day 1 or at least very early, and in fact does manage effects.)

"Haskell's STM was not implemented in Haskell, and AFAIK cannot be implemented in type safe Haskell"

I just skimmed the entire STM library in Haskell and have no idea what you are talking about. I don't see anything terribly exotic in the LANGUAGE declarations: CPP, DeriveDataTypeable, FlexibleInstances, MultiParamTypeClasses, MagicHash. That may not be Haskell 98 but nobody cares, those are all either very standard at this point or completely boring (CPP ("use the C preprocessor"), MagicHash ("let me end variables with #")). unsafePerformIO doesn't even show up.

By the way, "skimming the entire library" is about a minute of your time. The whole thing's just shy of 16KB of source.
Tell people how much they are wasting per year in heating costs. Estimate perhaps what happens if you keep the heat on too high while you are gone. How much is that. Compare to something like 'a plane ticket for a vacation'. Mention continued rising costs of electricity + fuel.

Also tout the AI aspect of it. With Siri and Watson, people recently have started hearing more about interesting AI applications. Tell them this thing learns and adapts, has AI.

There is another aspect -- energy tax credits and other incentives. Unfortunately it would be hard to get your device rated & approved I would guess. Imagine if there was a state or federal rebate to pay for 25% of the cost, even 10% would get people excited.

Up until last year there was a $1500 tax rebate on upgrading to a high efficiency HVAC systems. Some states have their own rebates on top of that. That led to quite a few people I know to all of the sudden decide to 'upgrade' their heat pumps... go figure.
The sun is shining 24 hours a day ... it never stops shining. One could imagine big solar farms in space where there is no shadow or a global energy network if political issues are solved. The EU is already considering building huge solar farms in the Sahara desert, not exactly a stable region right now, but eventually just a tiny bit of desert will be enough for the whole continents energy needs.

Just saying ...
People didn't have obvious, specific problems with their CD players either.

I hated carrying around a clunky CD player plus a collection of CDs that I could lose at any moment. Fidgeting too much with the player would also, you know, scratch and destroy the physical media that stored my music.

There were a number of obvious problems with CD players. Thermostats...not so much.
Did anyone else pick up a strong Oatmeal influence here?
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People create in their jobs. They write texts, edit images, layout and so on. Do they need a CLI?
Clojure is a GSD Language
That is oversimplifying the issue. Are Photoshop users creators? Are Visual Studio users just operators of an IDE?

"Creators" don't use machine opcodes or punch cards anymore.

We already have Latex to substitute for Word and Lynx to substitute for Firefox.
Or you could just tell haproxy you're going to be low priority for a little bit and not worry about every single last request never being processed on GCing server.
Rather than building cacheing in, AFNetworking is designed to work with NSURLCache. I strongly recommend Peter Steinberger's [SDURLCache](https://github.com/steipete/SDURLCache) fork, which includes disk cacheing on iOS.
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Upvote, I posted an almost identical comment to your's a couple hours after your post. That will teach me to read through the comments before commenting:)
It would be great if this also supported Z-Wave, Insteon or ZigBee. Z-Wave would probably be more advisable since ADT and a few others are jumping on the Z-Wave protocol.
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Why should you be able to edit a text document with MS Paint? I don’t understand the point you are making.
To all those who have ever taken a look at Symfony: v1 was ugly but v2 is much more palatable to people with experience in Python/Ruby/Node, and the docs are pretty darn good, so have another look.

If I'd be forced to use PHP for my projects — which, luckily, I'm currently not — I'd pick Symfony2 over Yii, CodeIgniter and CakePHP any day.
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There's a difference between inspiration and copying. It is also bad marketing if you don't have enough personal image to be identifiable.
Skype can be used to observe the mobility and filesharing usage of users
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I agree. First couple of comments in my app's page are my replies to the users questions. Which look nonsense since the questions are in random order...
I came to know about it after 10 years because I went to a doctor in the US for some check up. Thanks for cross-checking though
I was just going to suggest a match with Parry myself! Parry was seriously better than Eliza and had a more natural tone. I'd love to see someone try this. I'd try it, but I don't have an iPhone 4s and don't have a running Parry engine.
I tried and compared Asana, Trello and a few other tools a couple months ago. I ended up feeling that Asana was geared more towards larger projects with multiple teams and organizations. Closer to MS Project and Merlin. Trello seems more like a lightweight, less structured tool that is good for individual/small/medium teams. Closer to Pivotal Tracker or RememberTheMilk.
You don't want to be overly cynical of any ideas, but this is a non-starter for consumers. Thermostats are fine as-is: they could use a new UX, but do you really want to pay $249 (plus a $120 install fee) for that touch-up?

Here's why this thing will sell like gangbusters, though: it's aesthetically appealing. Homebuilders put aesthetically-appealing items in their new homes.

When you're purchasing a house for six figures, are you really nitpicking a $375 item? No--you're too worried about the flooring or the insulation or the plumbing or ceiling support or any other number of things. You'll glance at the thermostat, smile, then remember that you need to pull out some code-violating wiring. Then you're off again.

I predict a hit, but not in the B2C way many people are thinking about. People will implicitly pay for this thermostat in new homes, but they won't explicitly go out of their way to upgrade old thermostats.
It's entertaining, but the thing that struck me most after reading that "conversation" is how far we still have to go in AI.

That can also be taken as good news, ie there is still a lot to be done/discovered in this interesting and very difficult field.
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IPad 2 security flaw: bypass the password in 5 seconds.
Yes, the unsubcribe link does work. I think the problem is that people are not interested in purchasing the product, so they mark the "your trial is ending" email as spam because it's easy to do. I don't think most people understand the negative impact of marking emails as spam. They simply want to take the path of least resistance.