skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I would use it. I don't feel like shelling $600 for a Mac, I but I would shell $20/month for 6 months and get some work done. Time value of money is worth a lot.

The pricing turns me off however. Keep it simple with free month trial and simple monthly dues after that based off of hours/day. Why do I have to pick a specific time zone? Why do I have to pick a specific time to develop? I understand the need to scale I suppose but, really, forcing users into one time zone doesn't quite help scale if they all pick the same one.
"It’s 10%. You want a dollar, you ask ten people. You want ten dollars, you ask a hundred people. 10%"

Given the ten people are mostly independent events (unless they perceive the previous responses), this would fall under the Montecarlo fallacy.
The key is the difference between thinking it and saying it.
I disagree. You need to solve a problem you're passionate about. Not all problems are BIG problems that require massive scale or raising money.

Lifestyle startups aren't a myth. They're just working on a different scale of problem than the VC backed startup. I don't know that there's anything inherently better about either, but treating a lifestyle startup as a scalable startup, or vice versa is a mistake. They're separate entities, with different goals. Each has it's pros and cons.
I never said genetics as a whole is not credible, it's the random part that I think is off, just to clarify.

From our brief history of mankind, I don't think there's enough information and hard fact to either prove or refute the random factor, as far as I know it is just accepted. I could also be wrong since I'm not all that up to date in this matter.
I'm not saying that forced scarcity is a bad thing. What I'm trying to say is that, if you take a project/business open source, forced scarcity is no longer a viable strategy (you know, the whole free as in freedom not as in beer thing). There are other strategies, like dual licensing (Trolltech [before nokia]), or consulting (Red Hat), or even (yes) Mozilla with their cross agreements.
Oh come on! As if you would be handcuffed by using a iOS device. Think about all those viruses and all those people who are not IT-guys, they don't need this complicated "you can do everything but you need to read a bunch of books before"-thing.

It is simple: Just make it easy and iOS is easy. There is one AppStore not 7 like on the Android. There are iOS updates for the newest devices not like Android for those who are the chosen ones. I could go on and on.

If you want crappy software and hardware back then please go and support those crappy software and hardware makers. I will stick to simpleness and convenience.
For $50,000? Is that all this is worth to them?

I would say it is certainly technically possible with modern tech, but seriously...$50k?

Change the prize to a million dollars and you'd get a solution overnight.
Man, this is awful. And awesome. I like that their website is really ugly, it sort of makes it seem less evil.
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Multi-user dropbox sharing needs file-level access control. Otherwise, any user in a share can delete or change shared data.

Has Dropbox solved this yet?
I admire Steve more; I wish I had some of his talents. I respect Richard more; the degree to which he doesn't compromise takes more bravery than it looks, IMO. He could have taken the easy way out, and been handsomely rewarded for it, long ago.
That does not however mean that no one is having issues. This is a common fallacy repeated ad-infinitum on boards - if I can't detect or experience something it must not be happening. Google even auto completes ios 5 spr... to springboard crash. https://discussions.apple.com/message/16539394#16539394 has more than one person confirming this.

If you look at Settings->About->Diagnostics data (or something close) - you will see a sizable list of crashed programs and OS components.

Is that enough "evidence" for you? :) (I actually hated writing this to be honest - never understand what reason people have to doubt universally accepted things like crashing software!)
Ah, sorry. I see what you're saying now.
Scanners are great. Who has a scanner these days? I appreciate that there might be a better solution, but this seems pretty pragmatic. And looking at the results, it also is pretty damn good.
Does a BSD license "disrespects" freedom, for instance?

But this is all academic. RMS has shown that he will never allow compromises, no matter what.
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What bitcoin has shown to me, is how simple moving money around could (and should) be. Something similar could cause real distruption to the banking industry. The current system is pain in the ass.
When you can't innovate anymore, you increase your prices. After a few years, the company becomes a dinosaur loaded with cash... like Microsoft.
While a neat puzzle doesn't anyone else think that the NSA was able to do this decades ago?
Yeah, that sounds very awesome and like exactly what I want. Is this using the MLB streaming service?

I really wish I could do the same thing with hockey games. I just really despise the idea of either paying a chunk of money and not being guaranteed of watching every game, or paying way more for a bunch of stuff I don't want to get almost every game.

Out of curiosity, what sorts of options do you have in Europe?
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I'd like to express my interest in this as well if someone could please share. I keep seeing it mentioned passively.
Hmmm, i submitted this yesterday.
Can you bring cites to this claim? Not challenging you, just I've heard this before, but never anything specific for us who don't know the details.
Personally, I shred documents to make sure they're destroyed. Why would I ever want to help DARPA come up with a way to reconstruct them?
Is there any backstory on why this is only happening now? The address space situation is already borderline in some areas of ARM usage, and cell phones are about to break 1GB of physical RAM (if some haven't already?).

Seems like this is a couple years overdue to have anything close to a comfortable margin.
Some idols you just don't criticise right after they died. That is an insult to their memory, and to whatever makes them an idol in the first place.

Steve Jobs was such an idol. His media-foo was impressive, even after he passed away. Every soul in the western world old enough to talk knew about his death at most 30 hours after his last breath. Therefore, you just don't criticize Steve jobs until next spring.

I know of another way of being a tactless jerk: criticizing a religion. It won't change the fact that there is almost certainly no God, though.

Edit: I am being sarcastic here. Let me rephrase:

> Some idols you just can't criticise right after they died without causing serious backlash.

> I know of another way of being perceived as a tactless jerk.

To be clear, Steve Jobs was a champion of Treacherous Computing, and there is no God. I suggest those I have just offended to turn on their brains. (I said "those I have just offended", not "those who disagree with my statement".)
That's actually a very good point. If they presented their plan the way you just laid out, I wouldn't be so ill impressed with it. I still think this plan isn't for me, and I still think they should've been more flexible with the package and pricing, but it makes a bit more sense now that you put it this way!
Unrelated, but related: Wow, seems like half of the DB team hails from MIT.
I would like to point out, that regardless of your feelings for either person Jobs or Stallman, both is/was very smart people, and what they say/do we should pay attention to.

Stallman is right about Jobs' legacy. iOS devices prevent installation of any GPL software. This is blatantly wrong. Most innovations within the last 20 years came from OSS developers creating incredible techniques used by Apple/MS/etc, yet this is being attacked. The shoulders of giants analogy perfectly applies. Except OSS developers don't get patents, the thiefs of OSS do.

Unlike Jobs, Stallman's view of the world is towards freedom and I respect him for walking the walk, he is not filthy rich and that is because he does not exploit people. He definitely has views and attitudes that are unpopular, such as his views on reproduction BUT none of those ever take choice away from people, nor do they ever take any freedom away from people.

His prediction of the patent war is true. Look at patents today. MS is taking royalties from 50% of android sales. Apple is preventing sales of tablets because they have round corners and the approximate shape of an iPad, and Intellectual Ventures is getting ready to obliterate companies. The legacy of Steve Jobs is anti-freedom.
Your first two sentences are contradictory; if holding principles was easier than compromising and dealing with people, then that group would be the majority, and "tech people" would not be "in general outcast" (though I happen to think they aren't).

Either that, or you mean something different by "easy" than I think you do. I mean, peer pressure is substantial; it's much easier to stick with the crowd, not stick out, go with the flow, etc. Holding to principles and walking against this tide is hard, not easy. Such people are very much the exception, not the rule.
Depends who you're trying to sell to. It'd be incredibly difficult to sell non-free software to someone like me who values the ability to tweak things.
> Think of it as $13.25 per user per month.

They really should advertise it as such.
Very True. It's nice to think that we can't be all bad, and so, many men
make excuses to pretend we aren't part of the problem. The idea of "all
99% of guys need to ... help with this problem," is also true, but most
lack the fortitude to ever bother. When you add conflicting profit
motives into the mix, taking a stand can actually be bad business.

Personally, I've black listed companies for using booth babes at shows
in Vegas. I care more about how equally and fairly they present
themselves in public, than I care about the bottom line of my company or
if their products could benefit my company. --Some say that I "take
things too seriously," but of course, I disagree and I refuse to change.

Being "the dude" who takes a stand on such things has undesired side
effects, but sadly, there is even worse reputation damage of being known
as the female who "complains" about sexual harassment.

Also, your location is a bit notorious. Visiting Chicago from the Valley
in the late 80's was a shock for me, both the sexism and the racism.
It was my first trip east of the west coast.
I think your attitude highlights a big part of the problem nicely as well. Whether or not women are more, less, or as interested in tech on average than men due to biological predisposition should be treated as a scientific question, not outright rejected as absurd because it could hurt someone's feelings. Maybe it's not a worthwhile question to examine, but to say it's wrong because it's offensive is incredibly unscientific, and geeks often are more interested in truth than getting along.

This attitude is totally different than harassing people, being disrespectful towards people, or discriminating against an individual. But when advocates of women's rights or whatever cause group these two separate attitudes as the same, there will be backlash from would-be sympathizers.
$56 for leftover fast food?
am i missing something here?
I don't think I've ever wanted an In-N-Out burger for $50 ;) Interesting idea, though. I might pay for food that was way higher quality + not available in my area.

Dick's Drive-In offers the same style, is a block away, and $1.50 for a cheeseburger.
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I love an In-N-Out burger as much as anyone, and make a point to stop there every time I'm in Sunnyvale, but I have to really doubt a reheated In-N-Out burger sent through the mail retains the freshness that makes them better. If I'm paying $25 for a burger, I can get a pretty darn good burger in any city.
No, and I don't think they ever will - they took long enough to implement Selective Sync. They'd rather have a product that can be seen as 'simple', than one that could have users ask "why can't this person see my files?".
It seems to develop naturally in any industry/community with a strong gender imbalance (cf. the "elevatorgate" in the skeptic community.) The situation seems to improve as populations approach parity.
They probably don't want an expensive solution that takes ages to develop and implement. What they're looking for is a cheap, easy-to-deploy-in-the-field solution. The prize attracts a different type of applicant with different methods and tools.

Edit: To clarify: A prize of $1 million may result in everyone spending $100,000 to find the solution quickly, when in fact DARPA only wants solutions that can be developed at a price well under $50,000.
Well, assuming a sufficiently advanced society, our houses wouldn't even need keys. We wouldn't even have need for licenses to begin with.

Therefore, we are very backwards indeed. That's something we have to take into account.
One word, Impressed :)

Since it is about programming, I would love to have version control do that my kid starts using it as well.

How to share code ? Dropbox integration would be nice

Heroku style deploying the code in server would make it awesome
Of course, just like their SATAN project catalogs almost all US internet traffic.
Creating two Facebook accounts is an anomaly, not the norm. To use a personal G account & Google Apps, you MUST create two different accounts. Your example here comparing this to Facebook isn't valid, IMO.
The "non secret" offers (at least coffee and tea) seem to make a bit more sense (and are a little easier on the wallet).

http://www.midtownrow.com/product/verve-coffee-roasters-the-...

$13 for 12 ounces of beans isn't necessarily highway robbery. The $6 shipping fee makes it a bit tougher to swallow, but I suspect some coffee snobs (errr, drinkers) would purchase from them.
in my opinion, the issue is not at its root about being a good craftsman.

what ultimately matters to me is avoiding the painful/frustrating/stressful productivity crash that can occur when maintaining software.

software craftsmanship is a means to that end.

this is essentially in agreement with what the article said. i think its worth clarifying that there are things you are trying to avoid, and then certain practices are means to that end.
Netflix offers $1MM to improve their algorithm by 10% and $50,000 is all that DARPA can offer for a harder problem?
The problem with the assumption that muslims are not terrorists is that (as any terrorism investigator will tell you) fundamentalist islamic words are very often a precursor to violent physical action.

See the problem with this logic? You can't paint all people holding certain beliefs with the brush of the small subset who engage in violent acts.
The video game industry is twice the size of the film industry. Music is around 13 billion a year (record sales) and falling fast.
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that can't be right. the limits here get you 25k*365=9,125,000 views per year for free.
".. not realizing it's the same person."

He's talking about the difference between the response to a male and female, in other words highlighting sexism rather than transgenderphobia or whatever you call it. Thanks for putting yours on display though.
Yeah I've never understood the controversy here. He viewed Jobs as an enemy to the cause, why should he be pretend to be upset that he's no longer doing harm?
There are many many Android smartphones with many many different hardware stats. Even with low hardware stats to be cheap at the selling point. I can understand that this can lead to a lot of bug reports but if you have 5 devices and a handful of OS versions this is way better testable and fixable.
Kottke was one of Jobs' friends at Reed, then later traveled with him to India and also was one of Apple's first employees, helping to assemble computers in the garage. He stayed with Apple for eight years.

The story Winer is referring to is how Kottke never got any stock options. According to Isaacson's book, Jobs refused to even talk to him about the issue, instead brushing him off and steering him toward other execs who told him that as a technician he was ineligible for any options.

Eventually, Wozniak ended up giving Kottke some of his own options.
Yeah, that's with an MLB.tv Premium subscription - and same thing for NBA.

In Europe sports leagues (or at least the ones I've cared about) don't provide their own media options, it's all through TV networks. So you can subscribe to Sky Sports channels which are something like $50-$70/month, you can subscribe to ESPN which is something like $20/month (figures off the top of my head), etc. And then you can watch whatever games they chose to show.

And some games in some sports are shown on free to watch channels such as BBC and ITV, but these are highly limited. For example in football (sorry, soccer) you don't get any league games on BBC/ITV, but they will do the world cup (big international tournament every 4 years), and a few other things now and then.

I'd love to be able to pay for a digital service that gives me all Premier League (top level of soccer in the UK) matches - I tried, with a US proxy, Fox Sports' offering in this area, but the matches on offer were limited, and the video quality was truly terrible. It was painful to watch on my PC, yet alone TV.
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Should teams have secrets among themselves?
1. Anyone who cares about OS updates would only have ever owned three or four of the phones on the chart.

2. Anyone who cares about OS updates doesn't keep a phone for longer than 2 years. Most spring for an early upgrade after 1.5. Many (like me) finagle a new one every year or so.

3. My wife has never updated the OS of any of the 3 iPhones she's owned. I believe she is representative.
> but isn't there a point where--when you are proselytizing about the evil labors of the man who died 24 hours earlier--you're kind of just an asshole?

To Stallman and many Free Software supporters, the last five years of Apple's activities have done more to detract the state of Free Software than almost anything else. From that standpoint there's nothing that can be said about his criticism being unjust.
Is this speech available to watch online? I'm curious!
The author says: "There is a stigma against running a lifestyle startup (business)"

PG Says: "Please don't even use the word startup when describing what you do."
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I was always under impression that lifestyle business is a startup which cannot or is not willing raise money.

Meaning sometimes even if your business is profitable (like my little business), VC will not invest since it lacks growth potentials.

So business goes like this:

"find business model" -> "optimize business model" -> "scale your business"

Sometimes, in the first step you find a business model which is profitable but it can optimized only on small scale or it cannot scale.
I can see where you are coming from. Reading the recent biography indicates that Steve had similar bravery chops against compromise, his arena is different to RMS.. but functionally.. about the same ( if not more ).
I'm very happy with Android. But, I only recommend the Nexus line and this post seems to back that up (we'll see as things go forward).
> .. the other has become a very strange priest who keeps railing on against other churches that spawned from the original.

I couldn't agree more. I do think we need to stop the friendly fire, at least for a while. Then again, it would be a compromise...
The latest iOS 4 version (I think it's 4.2.1?) is better than iOS 4.0, but it's still slower than 3.1.3.

The only reason why I had iOS 4 on my 3G was app compatibility. I eventually was frustrated enough to go back to 3.1.3 and it was like having a new phone again.
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Except they do not know that she has had any surgery. As far as they know she's just a she, and that is the only reason she gets less respect.

(I'm trying to find the article, which is hard because there's many transgendered mathematicians.)
I'm curious what sort of situation you have where you trust a user enough to have a copy of a particular directory tree, with the ability to copy it elsewhere and edit it, but you're concerned about them being able to make changes to it.
You've missed my point. Why do you not consider sqrt(3!)? It's not integral, but if you multiply by sqrt(6), the result IS integral. I don't think an optimal solution will have non-integral subexpressions, but you need an argument to justify that. Or you need to include them in your brute force search.
So you prefer it that apple can reject any app at will?
Well, again being a bit biased, I'd say that I couldn't give that to a customer. It looks like there is significant flash reflection (or another light source) on the mid right and left. (Also, to note, my company focuses value over quality, so we're doing "consumer" level scans)

Don't get me wrong - I WANT this to work. I've spent hours trying to get the quality to an acceptable level. I love the concept and am 100% convinced that it will replace scanning in the near future.

I guess I should rephrase to explain that this is likely good enough to send a quick email to my mom, or post on my wall, but using this method as a substitute for a higher quality method is leaving a lot on the table.
You can create a Facebook account with two e-mails attached to it, though.
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It doesn't appear you even need to provide an algorithm. You can solve it manually and still win the money.
Today is a fail. First I got invited for a lunch at HUD HQ in DC for a meet and greet but instead of lunch they had cookies and water and now DARPA only offering $50,000 for document reconstruction?

I guess govt cuts really are strict.
Wait, what do you mean? Right now I have two Gmail tabs open at the same time, one personal, one work. I'm using the multiple accounts feature: https://accounts.google.com/b/0/MultipleSessions

You need to keep the accounts separate because enterprise apps have different privacy issues; your employer in enterprise settings is specifically given the ability to see all of your data. Would you really want them seeing your personal account the same way?
You have to be a CPA to sign certain kinds of reports that investors depend on and to do certain kinds of audits, but there is a lot of work in accounting without any profession-wide degree or certification requirements.
If asked, RMS might well point out that using other peoples' cell phones for his own calls not only makes him harder to track, but also adds just a little bit of noise to Big Brother's tracking data on them. (Not that I've asked him, but every so often, he tries to arrange swaps of Boston subway/bus pass cards ("Charlie Cards") around MIT for that exact reason --- to try to scramble tracking data.)
some businesses are just businesses, not startups, and thats ok.