skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eyeballs aren't necessary, if you accept that automated consultative selling is possible (unproven so far!). The model stops being advertisement-riding-on-content, and instead is a message sent directly to you (or that you request).

Well, I guess it must be somewhat possible, because overture/goto did it... (they aren't around any more because Yahoo acquired them, and their technique was adopted by Google - but no one else has done it, so maybe it's not workable any more. Perhaps because Google does it (i.e. it's a feature of Google search - just turn off adblock and ignore the search results - and Google has better access to users (eyeballs), so advertisers would prefer it.))

What I'm saying is that it doesn't really need eyeballs, but what eyeballs bring: access to you. There are other ways to gain that access (that aren't as good so far). It does need to know you intimately, so content probably helps (is crucial?). And you need to trust it. (Which you would do, if it turned out really to be fantastically helpful.) It also needs fantastic AI to predict your needs before you do...

My understanding is that getting info about users was the business model behind (the failed) Color. Maybe, in theory, content/eyeballs aren't strictly necessary for automated-consultative-selling, but perhaps it's the only effective way to get the information to model them, and to get access to them, in practice, at the moment.

This could change.

EDIT by coincidence, the frontpage has an example of non-content access to users: Curebit http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/27/yc-alum-curebit-raises-1-2-...

BTW: I agree eyeball-hours are a fixed-sum game. I wasn't contradicting that, but the assumption behind it.
What a waste of time. Where is the fucking space shuttle code.
So why couldn't I just use Quickbooks on my remote desktop. I am perfectly happy accessing it from my iPad using the latter method. What's the big difference?
As far as I am concerned it's a post dedicated to piss the audience on which he used to promote it. Thus creating debate. Nothing more, nothing less.

But I think you strike on the point that big problems are relative. To me a huge problem is the lack of tech scene in my new area I've moved to, yet only a few hours away is a bustling one. But to most people that's a tiny problem.

If you're talking about ones that affect everyone, there are at least a few startups that I can name off by head (though mostly stealth) that are tackling big problems. It's quite an over-arching statement to suggest he knows every startup's mission.
Yes. The "statistical murder" is a real phenomenon in ordinary life.

A decade or so ago Australia had a tightly regulated domestic air travel industry. Lobbyists successfully argued for deregulation so that air travel prices would come down, enabling more people to travel by the much-safer aeroplane than by risky road travel. It worked too.
Comments like this really undermine what it means when someone is good at something, be it coding, throwing a ball, writing, what have you.

It is not a matter of being born with it. It isn't a matter of being smart.

It is all fucking work. It is never being satisfied. Its trying so hard and getting so pissed off that you throw the ball in the dumpster, that you smash your fist into the keyboard and walk away, that you tear up the papers and throw them in trash. But you always come back, because you won't let it beat you. You have to know how it works. You have to know how they do that thing you saw them do. You want to do it like they do. You want to do it better.

So it isn't pixie dust, it isn't innate ability, it isn't being smart. It is all fucking work.
Just because you don't see startups tackling these things doesn't mean it's not happening. Maybe you just need to look harder...

For your point #1, it's called a PHR (personal health record) and it's been done by many players including many startups, plus Google (who gave up because no one used it) and Microsoft (which still has one).

The problem is NOT the government. (In fact, find podcasts or video of the CTO of HHS Todd Park or the CTO of the USA Aneesh Chopra, and then tell me that it's the government that's holding back health entrepreneurs. Seriously, go google these guys.) The problem in healthcare is the lack of engagement from many consumer/patients plus a private industry reluctant to standardize. The Feds are trying to lead the way. If you're a vet, you can get access your medical records from the VA via their Blue Button initiative, and the government is encouraging other systems to follow (and some have).

Yesterday 1200 people attended a free Health Care Innovation Summit in DC with the heads of HHS and CMS (including Todd and Aneesh) on stage actively supporting healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship. I know because I was there as the CEO of a small health IT company that's solving some of those "big problems." Check out hcidc.org in the coming days for a video archive of the event.

New companies ARE changing healthcare. (That's actually the point of Obamacare!) Check out the many health startups from Blueprint Health, RockHealth, and HealthBox.

In other words go look before you assume that none of us are solving big problems. Not all of us make gamified, location-based, social networking buzzword bingo solutions for mobile.

Edit: fixed Aneesha's title
Or Oracle who dropped support in 2011 (and were sued by HP): http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/hp-sues-oracle-over-itanium-su...
If you actually use Quickbooks on the go you would know how much of a pain in the ass it is to access it from remote desktop. For instance, on my iPad I have a hard time manipulating their terrible interface. Take a look at Levion and you will notice the difference as soon as you login.
You're mistaking big with technologically complex. The author of the article clearly states that there is no complex technology involved in solving these problems. Yet, they are big. They're big because solving these problems would make our everyday lives significantly easier (much more so than a photo-sharing app, for example). But unfortunately, as you correctly point out, regulations prevent people who would be willing to provide a solution from doing so.
A video could be nice either.
As long as there's anonimity there's no way they can censor

Once every single packet in the entire network requires authentication to move, and they outlaw any kind of network that doesn't require this authentication, then Pandora's box will be shut again

Was pretty happy with the outrage at SOPA, I just wish it was 'stop censorship' instead of stop SOPA because the buzz seems to have died off even with ACTA gettting signed left right and center
This is nothing more then trying to pay the interest on your technical debt instead of paying off the balance. The longer you wait the more it grows and the bigger the problem becomes down the road. Right now its 20K for a new system, And for your troubles you still get no redundancy. Yes ram is cheap and you can just buy a bigger system next year, but hopefully you will hit a limit (growth is like that) then you will need to scale your now large and complex system. Code will need to be reworked. Interfaces will need to be re architected. The guy who wrote that bit of code for you that runs your whole business he may not be with you any more, even if he is that hack he put in place because you had the horsepower to spare, he doesn't really remember why he did it at 3:00am that one morning when stuff got out of hand. Now you have downtime and huge development costs, because you ignored a problem and instead threw hardware at it.
i use a bandaid with one side of the sticky tab cut off. it allows the padded part to fall in front of the camera when i open the laptop and if placed carefully can be flipped up when the camera is needed.

i have an olpc and the camera and microphone on that cannot be activated without turning on the leds beside them. wish this idea was more prevalent.
But for people who are already on facebook its natural to just use the search box that's 5 inches away. For better or worse, facebook is the new homepage of the internet for a lot of people. There are endless ways they can monetize this.
Read on: https://github.com/reddit/reddit
Not as extreme as your, but it also has me 65+, when in fact I'm 51.
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Does that mean Apple has dropped the requirement that their products require a set off sales area with certain specs? It's been a very long time since I've been in a best buy, but Microcenter still has this configuration and I know it used to be non-negotiable.
Here. That is... I'm someone that bought an android tablet... though I don't really fit the hypothesis of this piece. I got an Asus Transformer Prime (so not the low end) at the end of last month and like it a great deal. Being able to "tear the screen off the laptop I'm using"... I didn't realize I've been wanting to do that for years now, until I could.

But I guess I could answer the questions posed by the piece nonetheless, who I, an android tablet buyer, am and what I use it for. I'm an average Ph.D. student in a technical discipline. So I've only very little disposable income for fun gadgets, which I can augment a bit when I have a belief that they will also be useful. Thus why I waited till android tablets got better enough and went for one designed to work very well with a keyboard.

What I use it for... well, what people I know seem to use their iPads for... email, light browsing online, and reading books/pdfs offline. Games... well, I'm hooked on Spirit right now, so maybe I should say playing one game over and over. :-) Other coffeehouse computing sort of stuff... drawing diagrams and typing up what I need to on the go. The touch-to-sound delay seems to preclude good musical instruments, but I've always been more of a drum machines, synths, and sequencers kind of guy, so I've been playing with those. I keep meaning to put a python interpreter on here, but that darn dissertation work and all.

I had kinda hoped to make this my main computing machine. But really, that was a silly hope given the various stuff I use/want. The full laptop still earns its place/weight in my backpack. I guess I'm just not a one OS kind of guy, and heck, no need to be limited to just one anyway, right tool for each job and all that.
No delivery business would post a blog with a picture of their new Ford Taurus delivery car as if it was something impressive. That's the difference.
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Yes; numexpr and weave are pretty reasonable solutions, although a little "weird" because they take opaque strings.

One bit of context that is missing from this discussion (although Travis did allude to it earlier) is that we are actively working on building robust deferred computation support into Numpy, and to make these run much faster than what hand-tuned C can provide, via a variety of mechanisms.

(Disclaimer: I also work with Travis at http://continuum.io, along with the author of Numexpr and PyTables. :-)
With public key only authentication, how does a user get their public key on to the server in the first place?

I ask because I have two servers, one I am a client at DreamHost and I can't configure their sshd daemon, the second is my own VPS where I am root.
Or:

dpkg -L package-name
It's up to each company's interview process to weed out the people who aren't likely to add value. Offering more would simply increase the company's available pool of employees. Put another way, the set of people who would work for you at $x is a subset (generally) of the set of people who would work for you at $y > $x
>it's a western myth that eating fat makes you fat. It's carbs.

A western myth? I've lived most my adult life in east Asia surrounded by people who eat rice or dumplings 2-3 meals a day. I have yet to see any Asian city with as fat of a populace as the high-protein, high-fat loving western cities.
I was going off of a quick Google search of Bashar al-Assad's personal wealth, which led to an MSN article putting it at $112 billion (http://money.ca.msn.com/savings-debt/gallery/dictators-and-t...). Since huge chunks of the economy are controlled by the Assad family and close associates, and have been for decades, I figured that it would be reasonable to assume they had accumulated hundreds of billions of dollars by now.
Super cool. I know a bunch of folks who could use this.
"...they just lack a reasonable replacement for C"

Actually, Fijal, I have a question - and this is related to our previous Skype discussion as well. I know that a lot of the work on PyPy has been on the JIT, but have you guys really ever pursued the idea of just building PyPy as a front end for LLVM? All your type inferencing logic would probably be a lot more code than what a traditional LLVM front-end normally consists of, but you'd get to leverage all of the massive community efforts on LLVM's optimized code generation and other backend optimizers.

Just a thought..
This may not be relevant, but what irks me in 2012 is how pathetic we are at transportation. You know, moving humans around. We fail it.

If you want to go from New York to Los Angeles, you have a sub-5% chance of paying a fair price. Most often, you'll find yourself paying a ridiculously high price because you booked your ticket to close to the date, too far away from it, on the wrong day of the week, or in the wrong season. Then you get shitty service the whole way, including 40-minute security lines and $25 baggage-check fees. If you spring for business class (domestic first) you get service that was almost as good as what coach offered 30 years ago, when flying wasn't horrible.

Trains aren't even an option for mid-distance travel, due to the infrequent schedules, equally absurd fares, and slow speeds (comparable to cars, except on Acela, a "high speed" service that goes 120 mph).

We have good highways in the U.S., and people drive a lot in this country because it's the only mode of transportation that actually works (for a family of four, it's cheaper than air and rail, which is just fucking absurd) but it's just not safe to drive them faster than 80-90 mph average speed, and legally you can't even go that fast.

New York is the only city with "decent" (by American standards) public transit, and that's still not enough to slash housing prices to where they'd be with an extensive transit network. (Note to all: if you pay urban rents, you'd benefit from a better public transit system even if you never used it, because it would de-crowd the city.)

We're amazingly good at shipping electrons, but we've given up entirely on moving humans.
I disagree that a citizen of one country cannot complain about the actions of another country if his/her own country has some (perhaps worse) violations as well.

Applying this logic would mean that no one, say, in the 1980s Soviet Union had anything insightful to say about political oppression in the UK.
I'd count Ubuntu's Me menu as integrating "the social web" into the desktop.

(Windows is probably a worse offender with its Windows Live integration, though.)
These issues are structural.

Its as if our institutions are just now upgrading to Dungeons and & Dragons Pathfinder edition while leading-edge companies are running the Skyrim engine.

We need common semantic data formats and automated systems based on them for processing data and enforcing regulations where necessary.

We also need these data formats and systems to be designed to ensure a certain level of distribution and guard against over-centralization, both on a corporate (antitrust) and personal (income inequality) level. Another key requirement is for the data formats and systems development to be continuous and agile.

Part of the problem is the belief in, and acceptance of, not only deadly force but a monopoly on force, in the form of centralized government. Common data formats are a critical missing component which should be agreed upon, but governments currently bear too much resemblance to large criminal organizations to expect them to really facilitate innovation.

I believe we need to iterate on the core of our social institutions, starting by reexamining basic premises. For example, if nearly every group is simply competing against all of the other groups for profit, how can an individual group come to the conclusion that completely revising their data systems to handle a new common format is a priority?

I'm not saying that we can't have competition, but I am saying that we need to look very closely at the fundamentals of the way the system works and try out some different frameworks.
Fun example I heard of basecamp recently: for "Internet Marketing Masterminds" as an alternative to setting up a forum --- http://www.freedomocean.com/internet-marketing-podcasts-jame...

And there was a great press quote for you in the comments: "$50 is peanuts for what you get in Basecamp. Any business doing $1000 a month should find huge leverage from it."
It's a common misconception that there are few overweight east Asians: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jobes/2010/868573/tab1/

Further, much of the population of east Asia lives in poverty or near-poverty conditions. Their portion sizes are small (i.e., total daily carbohydrate intake is nowhere even remotely close to that of developed nations). In fact, half a billion Chinese are living on less than $2 / day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_Peoples_Republic...

Also, east Asians eat whole grain brown rice, not the fried, bleached, processed, white rice that Americans typically eat, which is largely devoid of nutrients and fiber.

For far more detail, visit page 226 of Gary Taubes' 'Why we get fat' book.
Indeed, /usr was already in place in UNIX version 1, according to the 1971 UNIX Programmer's Manual.
What’s next for Apple? Gaming. An actual counsel called iGame.
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The first thing I recommend you do is increase your self esteem. Respect yourself and the hard work you've put into your craft a little more, and you will never ask this question again.
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The thing is, it's not just a grid with some cells that does some math. Excel is incredibly powerful and if you integrate it with the full Office Suite + Sharepoint, you can really start to do some amazing things. I'm constantly blown away with the tips and tricks I learn from people at work.

I recognize that most startups aren't going for the full MS package (esp. Sharepoint), but I look at these tools as a suite that grows in power as you need it. With the Ribbon, you get great discoverability of these advanced functions as your needs arise.
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Services I use on my own projects:
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Either that or that they wouldn't have to go through life burdened by the stigma of never having graduated college.
If you are going to measure genius as only pertaining to math, science and engineering, in the modern senses of the word, then sure. In addition to art you are now excluding music, literature, history, politics, warfare, philosophy, finance, economics, ethics, law, and many other important areas of thought that shape our world.

Da Vinci areas of interest and activity were broad and novel. He was part of the milieu that brought about the modern world.

If you insist on one magic achievement, which seems a bit childish and over simplistic to me, call him a visual synthesist. He worked in modeling and visualization. I'll leave pigeonholing him into a modern discipline up to you. He really predated those holes, which are fuzzy and overlapping at best.

He, along with the other artists and thinkers of his time, created the modern concept of a visual representation. Something so basic and fundamental, and so divergent from what went before, that many people today, totally immersed in it, simply can't see it. It's like the air to them. Any time you see a working drawing, a photographic composition, a narrative image, or a pictorial observation, you are looking at a direct descendant of his tradition.

(Caravaggio, by the way, was a direct stylistic descendant of Da Vinci, visually quoting him several times.)
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I was super excited to see the data presented and understand its implications for my business and then when I read the comments on YC and TC, all that washed away as I realized that the credibility of the data was probably about as good as the credibility of the designers...

Initially, I was excited to check them out because their referral rates look a lot better than mine. Then as I paused to consider what was really going on, brought on by the design controversy, I realize that there was a strong likelihood that these rates couldn't be all that solid because as an MVP, their sample size is probably immaterially small.

I wouldn't say that I'm writing Curebit off, but it will be a while before I'm excited about them again...
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Except that guy nir directly above you.
Have you found any good sequencers synths? I'd love to be able to track on the go.
Simple example using python's map() and reduce()
Hm. CDC says the number is 1 in 300:

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/us.htm
Automatic type coercion feels like a double-barreled shotgun, with one of the barrels pointed back at you:

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1. You have to be careful with what are you loading, and where
2. Will sooner or later blow up in your face
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Yeah, usually if you google the article's title and enter the site through a search engine then you can read the full article.
[citation needed] as for numexpr being simpler than PyPy. Using the dumbest measure of simplicity, total code size, it fails: PyPy's NumPy is 167KB of code, NumExpr is 181KB.