skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do also agree with a lot of what the Mozio blogger mentioned, especially in regards to using a sledgehammer when a chisel would do just fine. I do however, especially given my position at a travel focused startup, think it's good that there is so much support and funding given to try and make the travel search space better. I know people from all three of the startups mentioned and they are each trying to tackle what they see as shortcomings in the current state of travel.

Social introduced a new opportunity to tap your friends for travel recommendations and tips but there lacked that follow up (hence Trippy which allows those who suggest places for you to visit to get updates when you check into those locations) that is so satisfying. It answers the question "so did you go to that place ..." when the trip is happening and not after.

Hipmunk is doing a lot of interesting things like integrating AirBnB listings and also revealing heatmaps for which areas of cities have the things people like to do like eat, party, vice, etc. so they know where they should be looking for a convenient hotel.

Gogobot, in my opinion, is better just layered on Facebook but they probably have the best chance of doing a better social recommendation algorithm given their leadership position in the space so I'm looking forward to seeing what comes out of that.

Since the Kayak launch waaaaay back, there really hasn't been that much travel startup innovation. If anything, the landscape has gotten more confusing and worst for consumers in my opinion. The average user checks over 3+ sites before booking because they just don't know where they can find the best prices. There's so much focus on monetization that everywhere you turn, you get pop-ups and more pop-ups and by the time you're done, you're not even sure how you ended up on the site you are on to buy your ticket, book your hotel, etc.

Over at our startup, Room 77, we are focused on a real travel search problem specifically in the hotel space. There's too much price fragmentation and the current solutions today aren't satisfying to us. For example, everyone offers a "best price guarantee" but everyone has a different price, so who's lying and who's telling the truth? Sites that claim to search all the other hotel sites show you 3 prices and then a bunch of links that open pop-ups to other sites. How is that a great user experience? We see a lot of opportunity to provide true price transparency in hotel search w/o compromising the user experience. Would love to get your feedback on our site, we've recently focused more on pricing transparency and less on our unique hotel layout and rooms database information.

I'm excited there's so much discussion on this travel related thread and happy to respond more when I get home later. Although I'm immersed in the hotel space now, I was part of the team at Farecast that became Bing Travel (fare predictions) so I can provide some insight there as well.
I'm surprised you expect clean stuff from reddit.
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Yes, I meant the Chinese Room. I couldn't remember the exact term. Thank you for that!

One test I heard of that sounded pretty promising is the ability of the computer to discover new patterns in existing data. Not just pattern matching, because that's possible without intelligence, but to discover new patterns from the existing data and use those new patterns to correctly predict the future. Now that's incredibly hard to do!!
This has been done a very long time ago when the demo group Spaceballs released "9 fingers" on Amiga, where a number of video sequences were reproduced entirely in polygons. There were artifacts but the effect was impressive at that time, when MPEG-1 decompression was impossible on such low-power machines. You can check the effect on youtube. I do not know what tools they used to compress the video into polygons, though.
>Why is the offensive part the only part that matters?

How do you think the other women now feel? The ones who didn't get a generous helping of compliments? Women in that professional setting also have to consider if they fall in this sexy category which only applies to them. And for what? Some pointless filler? His intent is completely irrelevant.

You seem to be under the impression that the compliment offsets the objectification, as if it's some balance sheet.

When you start talking about women's bodies in a public setting you've now made their bodies part of the dialogue. This is something men can be completely blind to. It doesn't make those men bad people, but it does mean they should expend some more energy on empathy for others in the environment.
The Virtues of Being Ridiculous
How to get good Korean wholesale jewelry from online stores
low cut shirts, mini-skirts, hose, lipstick, eye-liner, perfume...

seems like being sexy matters a lot to women. you just better not acknowledge it out loud.
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> We haven't made much progress in building intelligent machines since the late AI winter.

We haven't?

We got the AI winter because DARPA was for a while willing to fund projects that made outrageous promises, so they got outrageous promises that nobody could possibly deliver on and eventually gave up.

I mean, they were funding people who wanted to do things like build semi-autonomous robots that could drive a car to deliver supplies or fly a plane to do air reconnoissance or wheel around to sweep a field for mines. They funded claims that computers would be able to do speaker-independent voice recognition. Computer programs could beat the best human players at a game of chess. Or imagine a computer program that had enough common knowledge indexed and accessible that it could win contests that involve wordplay and trivia questions.

Wait, all that stuff has happened already, much of it just in the last few years.

The real problem with AI is it's defined to be "stuff we can't do yet". As soon as we manage to do one of those things, it stops being called "AI".

In short, I like Kurzweil's odds on this one. 2029 is a long time away in computer years and we've made a heck of a lot of progress. And he's right that humans think linearly. Exponential growth curves just aren't intuitive to us, so we underestimate what a reasonable amount of progress on a long-term goal looks like. (IBM's win at Jeopardy, Apple's Siri launch, and Google's self-driving cars are all things that happened since Ray made his prediction. Are these not AI progress?)
Sass's Compass' CSS3 module "Provides cross browser CSS3 mixins that take advantage of available pre-spec vendor prefixes."

http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/css3/
These tools are just the "compiler" in our analogy. You still need the "libc", which in this case would be something like Compass: http://compass-style.org/
Wow, I just needed something just about like this. If there will be an option to drag and drop full Picasa albums (I see them in the frame) into Flickr and they appear as Flickr Sets, I'm in. Good work there, keep up.

The UI needs some work IMO, feels a bit oldschool.

Tell me one more thing: are visibility settings compatible? If an album is private on Picasa, will it be private on Flickr?
That is referring to the “jump to error line” functionality, which is editor-specific. I should make that more clear.
disclosure: i'm currently selling a printed map (kickstarter.com/projects/1147214836/toc-guide-to-sf)

I think social data is much more useful as a filter for a curated list than it is when used on the set of ALL establishments in a city.

If the list is prefiltered to only include establishments that are at least excellent examples of whatever they are trying to be, social data is a useful way to figure out what to show the user.

Seeing what places my friends have been going to is much much less useful to me than a carefully assembled list of excellent places. For a great example of this, see "Tokyo by Tokyo." _much_ better than any social algorithmic solution can currently do.
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Your parents' argument is that coming right out of the gate publicly putting down your competitors may not be the best way to enter the race.
Apparently Hipmunk is a soft spot here . . . it is definitely curious that no one has vehemently defended any of the other startups. I wonder if it would have elicited the same response if I had criticized Expedia or some company that wasn't so dear to the YC community.

I'm also a bit surprised at all the presumably "startup" people who feel the need to lecture me on being a young upstart who doesn't know what he's talking about, with an unlaunched product, who supposedly knows better. Oh the irony of a bunch of people who rock the boat for a living jumping down the throat of a kid who has the audacity to criticize. It seems that criticism of the big bad companies is ok, criticism of one of our own, not so much.

Again, the article is from my perspective, on why I don't use it. You can say what you please about how intuitive it is and all the reasons why, but I don't use it, and I was trying to give some insight as to why. And I don't appreciate you making it seem like I don't respect Hipmunk, i made it abundantly clear I thought they had a wonderful product, I merely described why I didn't use it, and it seems like I'm not the only one who feels that way.

I'll ignore the quip about my own project haha.
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With projects like Compass (http://compass-style.org) for SASS/SCSS, those abstraction layers are there. When we made WebPutty (http://webputty.net) with SCSS support, one of the first and most common questions we got was "can I use Compass", so we added it. It's pretty much the standard for abstractions.

Less is not quite there yet, but things like Twitter Bootstrap are well on their way to becoming similar standard abstractions.
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I just moved from a self-hosted WP blog to a free one at WordPress.com. Much happier now :)
I'm curious how many other startups she sent basically the same template to...
I have a T-Mobile phone (HTC Sensation) and I love wifi calling. It works beautifully where my cell coverage is bad and there's a good internet connection (home, work, a ski lodge I was at recently).

I'm on T-Mobile more or less accidentally, and before I got my smartphone, had absolutely no loyalty to them. I didn't even realize the phone had the feature until I got home and started playing with it -- they didn't play it up at all in the store. It would be hard to pull me away from T-Mobile. A competitor would have to offer a huge price break, or wifi calling.

Really puzzling that they don't make a bigger deal of this feature.
I don't know that it's common in the USA, but it seems to be well understood in these parts at least. It's used to describe anyone unable to accurately gauge the mood of the people they're addressing and who thereby offends them with their remarks.
I've never heard of this guy though I played full throttle back in the day.
What were his channels for making this known?
Was it only on http://www.doublefine.com/?
Well there are two sides to that coin, if you are good with technology you are going to become a senior much more rapidly in an environment like the valley. Because you are working in an area that attracts top talent as such you are going to get the benefit of learning under people that can advance and improve you. If you can try to find a company out there that will entertain a remote developer employee arrangement, it is the best of both worlds, you get to work with a team that is pushing technical innovation but you get the financial benefit of not living in such an expensive market.
Dead in the water? I sure wish we could make a bet on that.
You're an ass. No, it's not FREE to duplicate. It costs money to duplicate and distribute licensed copies of other people's work. And it's not information, it's art. The massive headache you feel is called honor. You're from a culture that now calls stealing liberty. Brave new world, indeed.

Dude, sell tickets to shows, sell merch at shows, don't perform unless paid before hand.

You're an ass.

If all else fails, consider that maybe you don't have a product worth buying, and then improve or leave.

You're an ass.
A lot of things reverses shit in mice. They do nothing for humans though.
TL;DR: Take it easy, it could be something, this is a good first step. But thats just that.
You are wrong and I am 'insulted.' My name is C3pio- the
descendant of the famous - infamous Chinese poet. My model
is chinese-american, duty lifetime 55+, similar environment.

Of course, I have worked for wall street, nuke plants and
dot com or dot boombs, but aint rich.

1.on the final rocketship ride the robot sacrifices himself
in the position of 'rear gunner.' The death star is stopped.

2.diverse, strange discussion is helpful.
3.Confucious saying I meet three class of persons:
one I learn from as role model
one I learn as ANTI-model, to avoid his bad character
one I learn from to be amused and just happy - that is C3Pio

4.of course, my character is resurrected in the MATRIX

5.unlike the droids that lack COURAGE, COURAGE is the universal PROTOCOL. Call it faith, hope, being a small
bit player on the SHAKESPEAREAN stage of life.

Shame on you! Without your early pathetic experiences
with phone MODEMS and secretly reading '2600' and MEETING
CAPTAIN CRUNCH at the germany rave you would not be the
DROID...errror MAN or human that you are.

My the BUDDHA be with you! and may you be re-incarnated
as a small insect flying droid. One that takes down the
preadator drones. The battle of empire continues.

afterword: thats to my Czech cousins. RUR - Rossum's Universal Robots. Many think C3pio is talking in modem.
WRONG again. He talks in protocol-hybrid-neo-Czech.
It's going to be low, because of the app itself. Seriously, if you've never used the app you might want to educate yourself before making such statements.

Limiting the number of possible friends means a smaller network, and a smaller user base.

That you "personally" don't use it means nothing.
"Never attribute to malice..."

Webkit Dev (speaking to Webkit Program Manager) -- Hey! I've figured out a way we can give divs rounded corners.

Webkit PM -- That's cool, what do you call it?

Webkit Dev -- Well, for the bottom right it's "border-bottom-right-radius"

Webkit PM -- Cool.

<some time later...>

Webkit PM (to Webkit Dev) -- Hey! I just got off the phone with Firefox PM. He says they've also developed a way to give divs rounded corners.

Webkit Dev -- That's cool! I guess it was a needed feature.

Webkit PM -- Yeah...only problem is the name. They decided to call theirs "border-radius-bottomright".

Webkit Dev -- Oh.

Webkit PM -- Sooo, yeah. If you could just change that name.

Webkit Dev -- But we already GM'd the build with that name in it. To change it we'll have to back out of the GM, requalify the build, change the documentation, send out new seeds, redo internationalization, send it back to QA, and declare a new GM. That will push out the release by 3 weeks, and besides, I have 20 bugs in my current backlog that are completely unrelated to border radii. How important is this?

Webkit PM -- Oh...not that important I guess...
It's still not a great idea in public scenarios like introducing a speaker at a conference. Completely fine for private scenarios like introducing them to a friend.
I don't agree with the idea that because one group deals with it, everyone should. This also discards context -- if something is systemic and happens all the time, it has a different impact than something exceptional.
I think these socially sponsored ads are going to be money-making and also insidious if done right. It's a nuanced, strange mix of social content and advertising. They're trying to make all ads social or all their open graph actions into ads. If you play this out to its logical conclusion, that's kinda scary.

Imagine a world where a large chunk of your online interactions are actually being used as content/ads targeted at your friends.
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For a fun and gratifying first programming experience consider the visual programming environment Scratch: http://scratch.mit.edu/

I haven't found a more vibrant and impressive code-sharing community and it's a simple install.

Python would be a great first language, possibly using pygame for some early game-making gratification.

Etoys is also an impressively flexible visual programming environment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etoys_(programming_language) but its visual interface has a much higher learning curve than Scratch. Kids can explore the examples and figure it out, though, and it seems to have a higher ceiling.
But you still keep the cat, huh? That must be the parasite at work. Actually, now I have a whole new perspective on cat owners in general, and why they put up with their pets..
Lets assume that humans are complex molecular machines. That is our bodies obey the laws of physics and are made of atoms that behave in predictable ways.

If we know what we are made of (the molecules and how they are arranged) and how these molecules can be modeled (i.e. quantum mechanics) then it is only a matter of time until an entire human can be modeled on a computer. Once you can model the entire body, then you can have a computer that can pass the Turing test, because it more or less is human.

If humans can be modeled as deterministic systems that follow physical laws, then computers will simulate them at some point in the future.
It sounds like you're arguing that men have to "earn" not having their genitalia discussed or being mocked for their loneliness. Am I reading you right?

Fuck this. This situation is not a license to lash out at an entire group and say things that in any other circumstance would be offensive and inappropriate.

I would answer your question about objecting to those comments, but it seems pretty clear that there's an impossibly high standard for what a guy has to do to not be "guilty" for this crowd. Not even the guy who posted this blog entry objected "out loud, audibly" to this introduction at the time.
Let me put in a plug for the toc-guide-to-sf. It's a really smart, useful project.

Here's that link again: kickstarter.com/projects/1147214836/toc-guide-to-sf
I am really excited. Thank you for all your hard work. Can't wait for it to break Canadian ground. I waited 1.5 years for Twilio.... please say its sooner then that.
Again. Great job.
It's about time they did this but I don't know why they don't do it for all regular status updates, given that they already do entity extraction.

I suspect this is forthcoming.
> I really, really dislike the idea of non-webkit vendors implementing support for webkit prefixes. Stick to your own prefixes. Don't break the rules to make up for lazy or bad developers.

I sympathize with the sentiment. But you are asking all the non-WebKit browsers to not render the mobile web properly.

Like it or not, WebKit won on mobile. People wrote tons of websites that only render correctly on the iOS and Android browsers.

Other browsers can't change that by not implementing the WebKit prefixes. In fact without implementing them, they make it harder for themselves to gain market share - the only thing that can prevent a single implementation like IE or WebKit from becoming a de-facto standard.

Other browsers can evangelize - go around and ask website makers to write to standards, not to what currently works in WebKit. They are already doing that as much as they can. It isn't making much of a difference.
Pinterest & LinkedIn: Identity of Taste vs. Expertise
The occult has real spirituality. Did it ever occur to you that God talked to all the people in the Bible?

God says...
ceased nets expression pray uttered unfair

Use a ouija board--just crack open a book randomly.
How do they know you're not a flake?
Isn't the Turing Test strictly more powerful than the test you describe, because it can be administered as part of a Turing Test? It seems like humans find new patterns all the time.
The Hipmunk write up is more or less what I think of it.

The data it presents is great. It looks great, nice bells and whistles.

But it doesn't really improve over kayak. In fact it is slower and in some ways less useful. There is still a lot of room for improvement in the flight booking space.
and my argument silverstorm is that I didn't insult them:
"Hipmunk. Don't get me wrong, the interface is beautiful. However, I don't use it.
This is pretty cool, I won't deny, and it looks gorgeous."
Apparently not being completely 100% head over heels for a YC company is interpreted as 'insulting' them.
Five years isn't all that much time as far as bio-med research is concerned. I would expect to start seeing definite results in maybe a few years.

As for detection and treatment, the subject being discussed in the Wiki article is the effect of initial infection. The parasite sticks around in a latent form after being "fought off" and is being hypothesized to have additional long-term effects.
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"tone deaf" is common, but it is being replaced by "clueless" over the last 10-20 years:

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=tone+deaf%2Cclu...

burgeoning, is, compared to erstwhile:

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=erstwhile%2Cbur...

erstwhile replaced quondam in about 1910:

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=erstwhile%2Cquo...
Nokia had 13% of the smartphone market last quarter, putting it third behind Apple and Samsung.
All of which started out as tiny businesses. And it's true most businesses that are successful are NOT internationally renowned. There are hundreds of millions of small businesses worldwide that keep it turning, friend.

The supply chain is much more diverse and interesting than you think, and most growth comes from new starts that will become <250K a year top line revenue corporations. These are the kinds of businesses who buy licensed copies of Office for instance, adwords, and adsense ads as well...
Well, the cost of the original ShenMue was huge because there were a number of R&D efforts going into it. There were no middleware engines at that time, everything had to be created from scratch (remember that development started on the Saturn, not the Dreamcast) so I would not take the first figure as a reliable benchmark for a production of this magnitude in 2010s. There are many complex games being made those days with much lower budgets (rather in the 10-20 millions range), a testament to productivity increase over time. 3D asset creation has gone a long way since 1997-1998.

I doubt a Kickstarter effort would be a silver bullet to get the game funded in its entirety, but it could well be a good place to start from and then have other partners (publishers or other investors) jump in to help fund the rest later on while work goes on.

I believe the goal of such a crowdsourcing effort for ShenMue 3 would also be to assess the market size for such a sequel. Honestly, no big publisher is going to bet on ShenMue and pour money in it. They are too risk-adverse. If it were the happen, the community, the fans would have to lead the way.
[tinfoil-hat on]

Who says they do nothing?

Big Pharma doesn't earn money on curing people, ya know.

[/tinfoil-hat off]
The reply. Not exactly the answers I expected...

[Q: How do you stop a download link from being shared?]
A: We don't. We bet on the god will of mankind.

[Q: Are links screened for copyrights, fakes, etc?]
A: No. Gumroad isn't a marketplace so we don't need to do this as much as others do.

[Q: How are disconnected downloads handled?]
A: Working on improving this. We do OK.