skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a feeling you will be remembered as that guy who wore his own name on his shirt. You will stand out, but I don't think people will have an easy time remembering what specifically that information was.

I think the idea of the article is to create the associative memory anchoring that comes naturally when you get in a good conversation with somebody. Names, features, mannerisms, and ideas become easier to recall. While being 'nameless' might be a bit extreme, nobody really needs to know your job or your title.
Yeah I actually didn't voice my opinion in my parent comment but I agree, this doesn't feel uncanny to me either. Whether something is uncanny or not is probably a subjective assessment.
Take it a step further - whether people data-mine and generalize the human motions and expressions or, just cleverly used fixed 'patches' of behavior, well, imagine now using them in live robots. /That/ will be an Uncanny Valley :)
I agree with everything you said. Yet, I don't think that's where Mr. Graham was taking this (though I haven't heard the actual speech, but, for the purpose of this discussion, let's assume that the summary has, indeed, captured its spirit). I think that his advice focused on how to build a successful business - important, sound, advice for any professional, but hardly a source of inspiration, which, I guess, was his intention.

Anyway, as I said, I don't really have a problem with anything he said in particular. Some of the things actually made me think. My only issue is the premise that engineers should be inspired by business. Case in point: "it would be great if a startup could make a lot of cpus look to the developer like 1 cpu... the expected value of working on it might be really high. why high: web services. programmers like convenience." I would have said that with a compiler like that, scientists would be able to design new drugs more quickly, or that a manned mission to mars could be done more easily, or... I don't know. But his example (at least as it appears in the notes) is web services.

Again, he was talking about how to come up with ideas for a start-up, which is a business, I guess, so the talk was very much to the point. But even if Mr. Graham believes that start-ups are where smart engineers should spend their best years and bright minds because start-ups are what makes the world better - and he does indeed seem to believe that - I think he should have at least discussed why it is that bright young people should strive to build high-risk fast-growing businesses, rather than, I don't know, go work for the government or an NGO. It is as if many engineers just assume that the best path for an accomplished engineers is in the fast-money business. Engineers should be agents of freedom, of equality, of innovation and even social justice. I just don't like it that nowadays engineers in certain fields are automatically associated first with money, as if they were stock brokers or something. This is important because history has shown that smart as they are, scientists and engineers were often very easily manipulated into serving some terrible causes. They are easily manipulated because they are drawn to solving problems rather than thinking about whether they should be solved in the first place.

For example, an easier delivery of entertainment "content" is a problem for an engineer. But is it a problem worth solving? From a business perspective - certainly. From a human perspective - possibly. I don't know. But young engineers eager to learn from an experienced colleague are already trained to think about how to solve problems. They're even trained to find problems to solve. But they should be inspired to think about why it is that a problem requires solving, and to consider whether there are other, more worthy, undertakings. Again - in the end they'll do whatever it is that they're doing now. Only that shouldn't be their inspiration.

Also, big things don't have to be well defined. They should just hang up there as a source of inspiration. Big things, not rich people.
But whatever they used to find him may be discoverable. Even if they had such tech, they might still have foregone it here to keep it out of discovery.

They might have other teams using it for intelligence rather than case-building. If they sequestered those from the teams building evidence that usage might not be discoverable.
C/C++ low level curriculum: Conditionals
What I really like about Play is the reverse routing feature. Do you know of any other Java web framework with it?

http://www.playframework.org/documentation/1.0/templates#Act...
and
http://www.playframework.org/documentation/1.0/routes#revers...
Yeah there aren't many stories about the first self-aware robots. Robopocalypse and Short-Circuit but, to me it's surprisingly un-explored. Maybe because it's hard.
I don't know that your first point is necessarily the case, though. I would argue that Metro works well on both small screen touch interfaces and larger screen point and click interfaces. The Metro buttons or boxes or whatever are actually very click friendly, and I think keyboard/touchpad/camera/mouse gestures will make it extremely usable. I might go as far to say that the Metro interface seems to transcend interaction type.

I do understand the 2 OS's concern. I do imagine that after a few years and maybe another iteration or two, people will move on from the need for the traditional windows desktop experience and appreciate the same look and feel across phone, tablet, laptop, and desktop. People will be initially frustrated, but even Facebook can't roll out a minor redesign without millions of people freaking out like FB stabbed them in the back.
My point is that what the extension requests access to is necessary for it to work, which you were disputing in your earlier message.

Sure you have to trust it, and you are generally right to be paranoid about Chrome extensions, but on the positive side, the extensions are somewhat more limited in the bad things they can do compared to non-sandboxed native desktop apps, and the source code is always available (although at times obfuscated and can be updated automatically) since they are written in JavaScript.
In the video, the guy shows that, by tethering, he can access Hulu even though he's not in the US. So, yeah, it seems they proxy everything through their servers.
You're right, I stated the claim wrong. The correct claim is "None of Apple’s rivals has managed to even match the iPad’s battery life." On that count, they are, for practical purposes, incorrect. Additionally, Engadget's test have shown The Galaxy Tab 7.7 significantly besting the iPad 2 in battery life (http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/07/samsung-galaxy-tab-7-7-re...).
Really I was expecting more from a tech demo. The quality felt about the same but a little better than Mass Effect or the last Deus Ex.
Thanks for posting! (...though haven't been getting much work done now.)
Reddit PAC aims to kick SOPA's daddy Lamar Smith out of Congress
As I'm developing my first iPad app right now, I've been reading up on all the tips I can find. As thanks for the blog post, and to support someone else trying to break into the market, I bought your app too; good luck!
SXSW 2012 Local, Mobile, Social: Glancee
As a matter of fact this causes google.com to take me to google.no, contrary to what my settings say (that are active when I'm not in an incognito window). This is also independent of what my browser language preferences are.

I'm not exactly sure if this poisons my search results or not, and I am too tired to look into it right now. But it still makes me worry that I'm seeing skewed search results.

Additionally, it is of couse extra work to open an incognito window for every search, so this still means Google's attempt at tailoring the results for me causes me bother.
This is so cool! Like to see that even though they were rejected from the app store they still went ahead and found a way to make their idea a reality.
No problem. The Tourist visa is B-1/B-2 I enter with B-1 that is for Business, I state clearly that my visit is for Business, and when they ask me in customs I always say the truth, that I have a SW dev company and I'm visiting clients and looking for more. Never had a problem with that.

I think that if you get too complicated with your stories that's when you can get into troubles in customs.

EDIT:

I never stayed longer than stated on the I-95 btw
Show HN TinySXSW - a mobile meme generator for Austin
I think I'll have to surrender my lisp noob badge forever after such an omission.
Animals are conscious. A subset of those are self-aware. A subset of those have so far been identified by us as being self-aware. I was discounting a lot of things when I made my "vast majority" claim. Including plants and bacteria etc. I don't know why we're having this argument over semantics.

The point of my statement was that humans don't have a monopoly on being "conscious", so the fact that a new life form (an android) becomes conscious, doesn't mean we suddenly have an entirely new situation with regards to consciousness and rights. We already have lots of conscious life forms with absolutely no rights.
LiberationTech - VERY active Twitter account focused on online rights
Heh, Google really is making a big mistake here. People search for weird shit on Google and don't want anyone else finding out. I mean all it takes is a few people accidentally 1+'ing a "weird" page, their friends ridiculing them, and the person whining on the internet.

Seriously, all the search people are screwing this up. Once Bing integrates with Facebook as well, people are going to start freaking out. Nobody cares if advertisers track them looking at stupid shit. It's only when parents/coworkers/friends see that stuff when it matters.

"Personal" social search is a fake problem domain. The real one is creating anonymous searching, and grouping people into anonymous artificial circles.

"Here is what other people looking at anal beads liked" is what we need, not "Mom, Dad liked this (Anal Beads) search". I know this may be factually wrong, but it doesn't matter. People are going to start thinking it does/will happen. Fear propagates faster than facts. Once people start getting privacy phobic they WILL lash out. It just hasn't reached the tipping point.

It's sad when Moot knows more about the fate of the internet than the people putting the $$$ into it.
Yes, that's what they told me, you must meet certain requirements and also the officer has to be convinced that your visa will bring something good to the US.

So it's the requirements + strong proof that you will create jobs in the US or your are a great scientist, artist, etc... or you have a lot of money to invest.
Bug Report: The Mac app apparently keeps readding pads that have been unfollowed/removed.
Cool. Want a job at craigslist? (I work on search there.)
The Turing test is a thought experiment. You are expected to think about it.
It is somehow connected with Stanford, though I am not sure how exactly
The logo is virtually irrelevant, pour your time into the product instead. Speaking as a potential customer, nobody will notice or care what font you used to create your logo. Of all the things that factor into the decision process of me using (or purchasing) your product, logo font choice is nowhere to be seen.
Amazon hints at original-content strategy
A TED speaker's worst nightmare
ConcurrentHashMap is not lock free, it uses lock striping across multiple buckets.
If you're using something like a transformer prime or any tablet with a keyboard I can see it being useful.
Let progress proceed - gene therapy over-regulated
You're making the assumption that being able to perform well in tougher classes at school means that you are smart.

People drop out from technical studies into humanities because they did not perform well academically in their technical studies. Just because a group of people can perform better at school than another group of people are not smarter. One group is better at school. And school is not an indicator as smartness. Just because a class is harder does not mean that the people who do well in it are smarter. Performance at school is not a direct indicator of smartness.
Granted, Jobs was not always a nice person behind closed doors. However, at least during his Apple 2.0 days, he did NOT trash the people working for him in public the way Linus habitually does.

Another difference is that a lot of people working for Jobs (again, at least during the Apple 2.0 days) made f* you money for their efforts. There are engineers making a living working on Linux, but not on that scale, I think.
Why Time Isn't Linear on Facebook
> You would feel equally bad if you only heard this clip.

Not true. I watched this clip at work... with my sound off.
Just curious - what's your privacy policy? Are you storing any of the messages that get pushed through this service?
I don't refer to grades anywhere, that's a projection.

I'm addressing the day to day experience of most students. Most students spend very little time actively learning, and the work they do is diluted by technology.

Large universities aren't treating students like adults- they aren't engaging them at all.

I'm not recommending a high school format curriculum, but the trope that students spend two hours reading/working for each hour in lecture is used as a de facto standard explaining why students are receiving a full-time education. In practice this premise is false.
Great point mechanical_fish, that really sums up the reality of Bootstrap I think.
Wishful thinking, but I would love to see scientists like these searching for computational solutions to either stabilizing the financial system, or robustifying it and its essential ecosystem (government, banking, lending) against inevitable, reflexive instability.

I wish they'd take a step up the hierarchy of needs from simply trying to find ways to make more money by predicting the future, to instantiating a safer, more robust, more resilient global economic system.

If their funding and earnings need to be guaranteed by governments instead of offered by industry in order to incent and achieve that shift, then so be it. When the entire world and the lives of everyone in it is your lab because it's too complex for isolated simulation and testing, then re-evaluation of your priorities and conflicts of interest is in order.
OP went to the correct site; you posted the URL containing the same bad meme about Ruby.
Somewhat curiously (since they're a company full of engineers) I don't think Google ever really understood what Code Search was about, or loved it as a project.

It was neat that such a thing existed, but every time I used it, I really had to get creative about getting it to cough up useful results for me. It certainly wasn't in the same league as Google.com search, or Gmail or Google Maps.

Whenever I tried using it, I could think of a million ways to make it better, easier, more effective, and so on, but they never seemed to do anything with it. I don't know how you'd monetize it, but I think it wouldn't be too hard to make something far more usable than GCS.
When I tutor beginners in Rails, I always make them walk through this tutorial first. Step by step. Without using copy & paste.

I really like tutoring and I am more than happy to help folks who want to build the next big thing.

However, first I make people write down their idea, set it aside, and forget about it. I tell them not to try to adapt this tutorial to their own idea, but just follow it to the letter and build the example application. It doesn't take that long.

Before anything, you need to know what you need to know. This tutorial has been and continues to be a great way to learn much of what you need to know... then you can go build the next big thing.
Yeah, it looks like they use WebSockets, and the iPhone webpage just pipes data from the Mac/PC app to their servers.
Go to Market -- sorry, Play -- and get "Hacker Keyboard". It's free and offers a more sensible layout to your Android device's onscreen keyboard.
Interview with independent videogame developer, Tristan Trabilsie
Actually, take away the loaded words ("pimping"?) and what are you saying? People have interests so one shouldn't believe everything? That's pretty thin.

It's clear what Paul's values are - he's been writing about them since long before YC. I wish someone like him had been saying such things back when I was a "young, impressionable developer".
The article was very interesting, with the exception of the occasional technical non-sense that made it suspect. I'm talking about things like:
“Personally,” he replied, “I would run the connectors outside the cloud machine.”
"her boss mentioned that he could never work out the simultaneous price and position of a trade" - price and position ? - this sounds like something written by someone who heard about Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Then "a cosine formula from physics useful for measuring electromagnetic waves", yup, sure sounds smart.
It would be awesome, but I live in Seattle and don't want to move :(
Dorm life is (or at least was) nothing like reality or adult life. You may become friends with the people you meet in the dorms but I made more meaningful connections with the people who shared the same interests as I did. I met those people mostly in classes we shared. Dorm relationships were more random.
Very cool, but I can't pipe commands together because the shell doesn't recognize the pipe character on my phone (htc evo)
Markets aren't ok. "What’s really going on is something akin to an evenly matched tug of war that fails to move the ribbon tied around the center of the rope, giving the impression of harmony while powerful forces do silent battle until someone slips." [1]

1. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a...
dave@mailbolt.com
HN meetup at sxsw?
Since there's probably a significant mass of us in austin this week, it would be great to get together with fellow hn'ers and meet the faces behind the aliases.

Anyone else interested?
Google Maps, GMail, Calendar, YouTube, Google+, and a bunch more. Why do you rule out "stock" apps?
I'd say your circle of friends and programming languages researchers are the best part of universities. The fun part of exploring new ideas happens far more often at a university then at say, Accenture.

But the paper chase is utter horror. Crap papers and crap results are trotted-out as productivity in some sort of bibliometrics hell-scape.

Quantity rather than quality is part of the wrong path academia took. PG is right to focus on universities as ripe for a shake-up.
Just curious...who funded Columbus? It's a dream of lot of people to sail in some interesting direction hoping to hit it big. I think it's important to have a vision (however approximate that might be). But not a lot of people can afford to sail towards that vision without caring to achieve shorter-term milestones. In the process though, you may learn something more about the reality that changes/influences your vision...
Wish more apps would support an Html5 experience, but the functionality isn't there yet. Is this just for SXSW or a supported product?
You see daily deals as a consumer product, it's not, it's a product for solve a business problem, the problem of yield management. Hundreds of billions of dollars are lost every year by wastage (everything from empty theatre seats to hairdressers sitting around waiting for customers on quiet days).

Pretty much anyone who raises more than a couple of VC rounds is working on a billion+ dollar market. It might not be your favourite problem, but it's a problem the free market has attached a high value to.
It comes with telnetd and sshd so you can connect to it using a regular PC, if you feel like it. I also wonder, can you plug a USB keyboard into an android device and have it recognized (using a full size to mini USB adapter)?
I don't think it should be necessary to be right about a lot of aspects. Going out and discovering how thoroughly wrong you are is a huge achievement.
Hey guys. I'm the developer behind this tech.

Glad to see it's got you thinking :). It took a lot of brainstorming and testing/debugging to get this up and running.

Hope you enjoy it!
Using shared libraries also decreases application startup time, because applications don't need to read as much code from disk.

Even using an SSD I suspect the difference would be noticable for most applications.
Is craigslist officially okay with this kind of app? Prior attempts to automate, with varying degrees of aggregation/automation, have been shut down (see: http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/17-09/ff_...). The "SMS coming soon for $3.99" seems like it would not fly.
How the iPad Retina Display Went From No-Go to Sure Thing
The idea of forcing everyone to march to the same beat is going to end. Personalized education and self-paced study are eventually going to win because it's better for everyone. Slower students aren't forced to "keep up" with the pack and better students aren't held back. The real questions are (1) How to standrdize evaluations to see who has learned what and to what degree they understand the material. (2) How to reallocate funds from traditionl education (teachers and classrooms) to a new model. Solve those problems and you've got something.
What most people don't realize about gene therapy is that it is not a scary technology. Gene therapy essentially happens to us all the time when our bodies are invaded by viruses. In fact, our bodies respond to gene therapies in much the same way it responds to a viral infection. That is to say, our bodies will mount an immune response to any foreign DNA being introduced. So gene therapy is not really that different from catching a viral infection.

Gene therapy is also not as permanent as some people might believe. Gene therapy will not be passed down to someones offspring - not unless it were deliberately targeted to their gamete (sex) cells. Furthermore, a typical gene therapy will wear off in a few years, as the foreign DNA becomes removed/lost in our bodies over time.

In short, Gene therapy is not really as scary as it sounds. It is far less effective then the public at large might believe. Yet, it promises to offer treatments to a myriad of human ailments. It is time for the public to become more accepting of the technology. It is not something to fear. We are not going to be seeing mutant, super humans walking the earth in the next hundred years with our current level of technology.
Any ideas for setting up a package manager?