skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish they'd do something to encourage the 'team' aspect. Too many people just rack up their own personal score or work on individual achievements. They could slightly increase drops for being on the winning team or open up some new team-based achievements like the Foundry ones.
I think where the uncanny valley falls is different for everyone.

Obviously many people enjoyed watching the Final Fantasy movies as well as the Polar Express movie, and many will enjoy watching Tintin. I can barely get through the ads for these movies. Even the short Tintin preview is cringe inducing to me.
If the $17 million previously raised bought half or less of the outstanding equity, then the VCs (depending also on other preferences) might only have a claim on about ((43.4 total - 9.8 retention pool)*50%=) $16.8 million of the deal proceeds. So this might be a largely-sideways exit for the venture investors.

Still, many think location services can only pay off via connections with payments/coupons/promotions so the tie-up does make sense as more than just a favor between investment buddies.
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I think the awkwardness was on the part of the actors themselves. The capture of the slight movement cues were incredible to witness.
Agreed. Torrents without some sort of user feedback mechanism is a disaster waiting to happen.
Same here! Combined with the keyboard dock, the Prime is really awesome. I totally replaced my laptop with that.
I'm not a fan of tablets at all but at least I can use my iPad with minimal frustration. I recently acquired a Samsung Tab 10.1 and its been a frustrating experience.

If I had to sum up my experiences with tablets:
iPads: reliable, albeit boring
Samsung Tab: kill it with fire.

The Samsung Tab just killed any enthusiasm I ever had for Android.
Apple has iTunes which gives it a distinct advantage over competing with hardware manufacturers. Users care about content. Why else would the top three tablets by sales be the iPad, the Fire and the Nook? Android still doesn't have a viable market there and no one has shown that they can step up to the plate with an integrated, viable marketplace. Once that happens then it's a new game. Until then, I don't see anyone unseating Apple. They can sell the things at a loss and still make money via the long tail if they wanted to.
The iPod (5gb) started at $399, had an added model the following year (10gb) at $499, then started a slow downward price with adding new model types at the low end.

The iPad just did its first $100 drop by using the previous model (per iPhone strategy). I would expect that next year we will see another $100 drop either through the old model approach or introduction of a new member of the line.

It is really going to be hard for companies without Apple's supply change to keep up.
Completely different market dynamics.

Consumers don't all want to own the same smart phone, in fact quite the opposite: consumers are completely unwilling to all own the same smart phone.

Then to top it off, the smart phone market is roughly 20 to 30 times larger than the iPod market. Which means a helluva lot more competition. There's also no simple blocking method available to Apple to own the smart phone market, unlike the iTunes + music licensing moat they had in music players.
"on Amazon for $7"

Or on Monoprice for $1 ;)
Good points. (I have not yet distributed significant amounts of Lisp code, and if I started, I'd probably stick to a conventional style or make it very clear that the distribution is just a dump of something coded just to scratch my own itch.)
It's only been tested on Plan 9, with an older version of Go, but you can check out the code at https://bitbucket.org/floren/goblog

It's not as nice as it could be, but I'm pretty happy with how it works.
Even if someone matches the quality, surpasses the features _and_ beats them on price, they also have to contend with a two year lead on the ecosystem (only Amazon has an advantage here). That's the biggest problem (and so far tablets makers haven't been able to beat the iPad on specs/price either, because of Apples huge cash advantage).

When there are so many options, which tablets do you really think will be lost in the noise?
What has been your biggest mistake(s) so far?
Oh great. Now half the links on Twitter and Facebook will be spam for useless digital crap.
Higher price performance ratios in things like CPU and RAM, are irrelevant without great software.

Really great software for tablets takes massive resources to develop - e.g. GarageBand or the new iPhoto.

At the moment, Android tablets are caught in a chicken and egg situation - there isn't enough penetration to justify massive development efforts, and this seems to be getting worse, not better.

How do you see them overcoming this?
It is very creepy to me and I happen to have a very hard time remember people's faces and recognizing them. I wonder if my brain is just worse than average at face processing, and that's why this becomes uncanny to me? Whereas to someone who has a better than average eye for faces, this is clearly a cartoon.
Because the traditional arguments, going back 30 years now, have strictly been in favor of Apple's design and product purity, not that they could get the most cash out of their customers with the highest prices.
What are the side effects of this? Has anyone here actually tried it?
Safari is the most used mobile browser, at 61% vs 18% for Android:

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qp...

This makes it pretty unlikely that your stat about data usage is right either.
While some of these examples are rather remarkable, like the ultramarathoner, it's kind of a reflection on the media's obsession with youth that this seems like an oddity now, and I say this as a young person. Probably most serious achievement in any field will be by older people, just because it takes time to gain experience, knowledge, and wisdom. What's unusual is people achieving very much in their 20's, unless they're professional athletes.
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I'm curious as to specific code examples where the author is having problems. I'm thinking about using Play! or Lift for a pet web app using Scala. Does anyone have experience using either?
Mark Andreessen should really wear a hat.
Wow, thanks for the link. That looks perfect for my writing habits.
VC isn't the answer. It's a different set of problems. Bootstrap, bootstrap, bootstrap!
From the Wikipedia article you linked: "Avoiding a photorealistic texture can permit more leeway."

For me, this goes nowhere near the uncanny valley, for the reason icebraining points out. The coloring and visual tone of the whole piece says "cartoon" to me. It's a different aesthetic than, say, Tangled, but the effect is the same for me. Perhaps this is partly because, as a frequent gamer, that aesthetic is very familiar to me.
There already are a few papers on Kinect-based 3D face reconstruction (most of them seem to be behind paywalls though). Here's a video:

http://youtu.be/nYsqNnDA1l4

The infrared makeup (pretty sure the only company that kinda pursued that path was Mova) was kind of unwieldy and it's kind of fallen out of use already. Most facial capture in the future will probably just utilize some kind of depth capture (light field, structured light) in concert with a normal witness camera to reconstruct facial features.
I can imagine a world in, say 10yrs time, where parents warn their kids of the risks of social networking the way I was once warned about 'talking to strangers' (or this generation about 'strangers on the Internet').

Perhaps in that world, families can simply plug a box in the wall at home and that's how they deal with email, photos, shared calendars, with different (private) profiles for each family member. Family members can 'graduate' to their own private box when they leave home (eg Uni) and simply take it all with them.

I can also imagine a world where people don't do any of the above. We won't really know until we get there, but I'm pleased that there people trying different things to find out.
I have to question the judgement of anyone that thinks you can pick some random quote from somewhere and then use it to discount an individual's entire body of work spanning decades.

Peretz is a secular Zionist and passionate advocate for Israel's right to defend itself who at the same time strongly opposes Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria.

This combination of views is increasingly rare and that's a real shame, because without prominent people advocating them, defending Israel and defending the settlers are going to reflexively come together as a package.
The statistics separated the iPod Touch from the iPhone and didn't seem to have any mention of the iPad either.
I think it will take a long time for normal AI to progress to the point of self-aware. The leap of progress in AI will probably via alternative route, such as cyborg tech.

It's too complicate to build an AI from scratch; however, human brain has evolved beautifully. It is not inconceivable to scan a brain's interconnectivity to "upload" its entirety into a vast computer. The circuitry of the brain (neural net) can be simulated and run the upload image. The "electronic brain" cyborgic AI can become self aware easily.

The basic mechanic of the circuitry of the brain is relatively easier to understand, neurons and synapses. It's the vast connectivity that's difficult to understand. Scanning a live brain short-circuits the problem.
When the hell am I gonna be able to buy an 8.5x11" e-paper device for reading conference papers and other full-sized PDFs? I know this isn't as sexy and glossy as the likes of tablets, but I can't be the only on who's been impatiently waiting for such as series of devices to crop up.

Tablets seem nice and all (I haven't been compelled to get one), but I want a really awesome good-sized reading device. The Kindle DX is so tempting, but it's too expensive (relative to tablets) and it's still just a wee bit too small.
Unless you use Dvorak. I know I'm in a super minority here. But shortcuts based on keyboard location rather than tied to some mnemonic are damn near impossible to get right. Doubly so when I have to switch to QWERTY to work with anyone else.
If you are making $300k/yr then I can say you are providing some real value to the company otherwise it wouldn't pay that obscene amount of money to an employee.
I will take cjbprime's suggestions.
1. Do you have a specific plan carved out what to do once you leave your job? If not then take some time to plan while in the job and see if you can start something in your niche expertise. Find out that if you have sufficient networking in place to hire few good people from your industry.
2. Have you found any pain point to solve? And how and where to attack? If not, then you can spend next 6 months to do and even if your 8 hr job is soul sucking you still have 16 hrs of your life to make something challenging and fun.

I'm not that experienced but that's what I would do.
"The way forward with this will be something like the Netflix model (IMHO) where these great data mining systems will attempt to find people who are like me and have similar tastes whose recommendations will likely coincide with mine."

My company Whit.li has built an api to do just that. We are launching this weekend at SXSW check it out at whit.li.
To me "the guy" was clearly another AI.
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Cheap tablets will dominate the market, Mr. Moore will make sure of it.

And much like in the music player market, I suspect the bulk of those cheap tablets will have an Apple logo on it. You do realize that Apple will also get to benefit from cheaper component prices? Only moreso than their competitors because they will be able to pre-order them in huge volumes.
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King Gillette is another patron saint of late bloomers.

While walking around the Boston harbor recently I read the bio of him on a plaque at the site of the first Gillette plant.

He was a middling salesman when he came up with the idea for disposable razors. When he was 48 years old he sold 51 razors and 168 blades, 12 years later he was selling 70 million per year:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Camp_Gillette
While your post was in jest, it is (somewhat) unfortunate that the NFL bans this sort of technology from the game. I wonder if the top quantitatively skilled talent would be more highly prized to NFL teams than a top-flight QB.
It is a very well written opinion piece that gives his ( valid ) reasons for not using play any more. That being said he doesn't say anything bad about the framework or the idealogy behind it and in fact laments having to move away from its ease of use.

He does bring up the point that Play 1.X is essentially out to pasture at this point. Thats not to say typesafe can't come back and once 2.0 is settled and fix the outstanding bugs , but as far as the community is concerned most have moved on to 2.0 or are aren't experiencing these issues.

For my part I have never ran into any serious bugs on my Play apps and services. I would note that I don't have any very large scale deployment, mostly just internal applications. I am however using Play 2.0 as the foundation for my next big project and so far even the RC have proven stable and functional.
The Kindle DX is really nice. I have one and prefer it to the regular size one quite a bit.
Agreed. I don't know why people run without Adblock.
Around here, pretentiousness is all the evidence you ever need.
I have the Asus Transformer 101, been using it since May 2011 and its been just great. Looking forward to eventually getting a Prime or one of its successors.
How much is my startup worth?
My co-founder and I have been working on this self-funded project for a while now (couple of years, 4 iterations etc) We're getting decent traction on our fourth iteration.

In order to get to the next level, i.e. scalable monetization, we will need to raise some money. Both of us want to eschew the traditional Silicon Valley VC/angel route.

I have non-Silicon Valley angels lined up, but was curious as to how to value our startup.

Do I go by # of registered users and assign a $ figure to them?

Number of blog/press articles published about us?

# of curious visitors?
He doesn't have the capital to bootstrap. He needs 500k in number crunching time. One of the main reasons he is staying in the school is he is billing all that out to them and using their servers
This is really dumb. If the CIA reads a newspaper, is that an invasion of the articles' authors' privacy?
Not really. Maybe you lived in the US, where they've never been popular, but back in the day people absolutely loved their Nokia and never wanted to change to another brand. Nokia was the cool kid at the time.

(myself I always thought they had the best hardware and craptastic software)
Android on the tablet will be doomed to the Zune fate.
Smart phone? I agree smart phones are different. My somewhat glib inference was that the iPad could maintain the same market dominance as the iPod Touch due to similar reasons.
Wordstar, Netscape, Myspace, Palm OS. These and many more were once considered "unbeatable".

Apple has great momentum right now. But if history teaches us anything, it's that nothing lasts for very long in tech, even if it feels like it will.
I've got one of those sitting in my spare room... I'd be using it right now were it not for a busted flyback, which emits a whine capable of giving me a headache within 15 minutes. It's really a rather nice terminal, with an oddly attractive screen font and a keyboard that is well-suited to UNIX.

The coolest part is that there is no microprocessor, just a bunch of 7400 series ICs and some DIP switches to configure things.
I looked into Lift. Steep learning curve. It would be ok for a single person, but a large team coming up to speed on Lift/Scala looks hard. Then I decided to stick with what I know best Ruby/Javascript/Node.
1979: The IBM 370 is unbeatable.

1982: The IBM PC is unbeatable.

1985: SONY is unbeatable.

1988: Microsoft DOS is unbeatable.

1990: Kodak is unbeatable.

1993: Windows is unbeatable.

1994: AOL is unbeatable

1996: Netscape is unbeatable.

1998: Internet Exlorer is unbeatable.

2002: Krispy Kream is unbeatable.

2004: MySpace is unbeatable.

2006: Real estate is unbeatable.

2008: Toyota is unbeatable.

2012: The Ipad is unbeatable.
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I think that any platform has some gotchas especially a 1.x version, however in my experiences with it it was fast and less boilerplate than a normal Java project and we didn't have any of these issues rolling out locally and to Google AppEngine.

I'd still only choose it if I had to use Java though.

If you can roll with Django you can roll with Play. Although, I always prefer a python microframework such as flask nowadays.

I also see how Play is now part of typesafe, so that could get better or worse, but it is the right direction for Java web apps to go.
"In reality, 2012 will be the year the iPad loses its market dominance in tablets. By the end of 2013, Apple will hold 1/4 to 1/3 of the market, which is exactly what their entire business model is designed around: lower market share, much higher margins."

People said this every year about the iPod, and they've been saying it every year since the iPad's introduction. Without carrier infrastructure to push budget Android smartphones, Android just doesn't appeal to most consumers.

If you actually believe that 2012 is the year the iPad stops being dominant, you are living in a total delusion. Maybe you hate Apple and are letting that cloud your analysis.

By the way, iOS surpassed Android's U.S. marketshare last quarter due to the iPhone 4S.
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As one of the people who intrinsically disagree with your stance and so skipped to the Closing section, it appears that your only argument for me is "Piracy is OK because these companies are still profitable"

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Smart with a good pedigree is a nice start. He'll also need some other source of social proof: people who are respected saying that they respect him, ideally enough to trust him with money. If he does not have the social connections to pull that off yet, he'd have high ROI on making those connections. One way to bootstrap those is by going to an incubator whose founding team everyone knows and trusts (hint hint).

somewhat fearful of making the leap

That's a red flag. Rightly or wrongly, VCs expect people likely to create $100M businesses in the next 3-4 years act like they're intending to create $100M businesses in the next 3-4 years. Your friend is acting like he is intending to have a secure academic job in 3-4 years. There's nothing wrong with that but it is not maximally compelling in terms of convincing people to give him money. (H'd ironically be better off poor because you were hustling in SV than poor because he was an academic. Poor hustlers can fairly easily create the illusion of forward progress. Poor academics suggest that forward progress will be deeper into academia and probably mostly lateral with respect to poverty.)

750k and two years; the vast majority of that going to processor time.

YMMV depending on who you talk to, but a software company which doesn't budget for any engineers is likely to be a hard sell.

Also: the most common outcome for commercialization of academic research is that the research has wonderful ideas with no commercial potential whatsoever. Investors are very aware of this. One sales challenge is convincing them that your friend is, unlike the other 100 PhDs with no real world experience they have talked to, actually on to something that can create money.
Right, but in both your examples there is still a physical good.

As your parent noted, digital goods are free to duplicate. If you want your argument to hold, you need to require that the film studios never allow their IP to end up digital.

(and that is quite backwards.)
You don't use your pinky for hjkl either, or use shift.
Since when did "come within a few percentage points of it" and "beating it" become the same thing?

If the other tablets want to win, they have to be better. Either cheaper or more functional or more novel or better styled.
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Modern C++11 might (I do not know enough; I'm waiting for examples to pop up), but it's only been finalized for 3 months and not yet implemented fully by any compiler.

I suspect it's "only" x2 longer. And about the 100x faster -- you might want to re-evaluate dynamic languages if that was the case last time you tried.

LuaJIT2 loses to C++ in most comparisons, but only by 20% or so, while being much more dynamic than Java.

V8 is about x3 slower than C++ in real life benchmarks. PyPy in my experience is about x5, Python x10. That's significant slowdown, but it is a far cry from x100, and they are a thousand times easier to develop in than C++.

My weapons of choice: Python when it doesn't need to be very fast, Cython when you need to speed that Python up, C [not ++] when you really want it to run quickly and have full control. And K when you want to have fun.
This party is a tool for applying pressure on other, more prominent parties. It is not about giving the PP a vote, it's about making a show of taking a vote away from other parties.
So what's the best alternative for a Java shop?
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It's not "some random quote". It's part of a larger pattern of extreme racism that Peretz has exhibited over the years.

One can defend Israel without resorting to barbarism. Peretz appears to have a difficult time doing so.

My overall point is if Mr. Hughes wants to engender good vibes about his new purchase, perhaps he should get rid of its biggest bad vibe generator.
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2002: The iPod killer is coming.

2003: The iPod killer is coming.

2004: The iPod killer is coming.

2005: The iPod killer is coming.

2006: The iPod killer is coming.

2007: The iPod killer is coming.

2008: The iPod killer is coming.

2009: The iPod killer is coming.

2010: We give up on iPod killers.

2011: The iPad killer is coming.

2012: The iPad killer is coming.
That's a fine argument, but it's an entirely different line of reasoning than this thread.
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These days I mostly use Ctrl-C instead of Esc, just because it's so much easier to type.

If you make a serious commitment to vi(m) though, binding your capslock to esc is probably the better way to go.
I disagree. He refuted the premise that breaking backward compatibility is OK under certain conditions, because "the only reason for an OS kernel existing in the first place is to serve user-space." That alone refutes the whole argument.
I really like your product, and I also like Trello, but unfortunately our corporate policy is to avoid hosting data on third party servers so I can't use either. These products would make a great tool for my small team.

This is not a suggestion just a comment/wish, I'd like to see some app like yours offer the ability to store/retrieve data from a web service that we can provide to you but written to your specification, not sure if something like that is possible, but it would be preferable to a packaged application my small team cannot afford. I haven't seen a SaaS app take this approach, but it is interesting to think how it might work. UI as a Service?
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