skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this article they also mention the GMailMan ad (to promote Office 365) I followed the link, and found that it was very interesting as a satyre of contextual/personalized advertising.
One of the spectators in that video talks about http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/Z.Kalal/tld.html which was discussed on HN before and a nice demo of what computer vision can do...
LAN is what made Diablo 1 and 2 great, not the "battle.net".

I have to disagree. Diablo 2's robust player economy was the driving force behind the game's lasting success (hence the advent of cash auctions in Diablo 3).
Apple's PE is only 17. ridiculously low considering Apple's revenue/profit/cash growth. Google's PE = 20. Amazon's PE = 134. Both not growing nearly as fast as Apple.

1. Apple's Last quarterly earnings DID NOT include China's iPhone 4S sales. Plenty of room for growth.

2. the iTV will be another billion dollar revenue stream for Apple.

3. NFC. Apple earning $$$ each time 100+ million people use their iPhone/iPod touch to pay for something? we're looking at a whole new ball game fellas.
Well, Traxo may bill themselves as "the Mint of travel", but I worked at banks in the early days of Mint and before, and I remember how hard banks worked to prevent aggregators like Yodlee from scraping their sites. At first, the banks tried everything: I remember being asked to put in random HTML element changes just in hopes of foiling the scraping. But eventually Yodlee "made peace" with most of the banks by selling them services. (Mint originally used Yodlee although today they have their own scraping technology.)

A little more than a decade later, it is a completely different world. Now banks like mine have projects to create servers JUST FOR MINT to scrape. And we do it because our customers are loudly clamoring for us to "work with Mint". The scrapers just had to hang on for a few years through strong resistance from the entrenched powers, and eventually they BECAME an entrenched power themselves.
Plenty. Protip from a sysadmin in the hosting industry: don't even try to run your own MTA unless you're just curious as to how hard reliable mail delivery is.

Use GMail or similar. Use iContact / StreamSend / MailChimp for newsletters. Use Google Apps for any business you start.
Eight Disruptive Startup Ideas That Will Change the World
Agreed, I was always under the impression that 'buy low, sell high' is stated somewhat tongue-in-cheek in the same way you could say 'the secret to winning football games is to score more points than the other team'
It's also much more accessible by the planetary disaster itself, be it some sort of pandemic or war.
Can someone please elaborate ? I very recently started an investigation (proof of concept) into zeromq for my team. What are the long term implications ?
Guido's Pycon 2012 talk
I can't wait until they're making fun of themselves for this fucking horrible ad. The people who hate IE, like koeselitz said, are the tech geeks who know what's wrong with it. I can't imagine a stupid ad like this that rests its merit on childish cat humor and will appeal to much of IE's hate-base. I don't think Microsoft will ever be able to come across as cute and playful no matter how hard they try at this point.
Please provided a picture when discussing google results. It's really difficult to know what your point is when I'm not sure what Google returns to you. The above links seems like a normal search result to me (without any factual google-provided results)
ChronoZoom - Visualization of History of Universe (from Microsoft Research)
I agree on people seen as successful based on one prior successful project. I have seen it playing out a few times before. It didn't matter what the circumstances were (e.g. mostly luck) or how the story was spinned, once you can place a successful exit under your name, VC's seem to fall head over heels for you.
Regarding your second point, I agree. But it must be balanced against the other tenets of medical ethics. At any rate, this seems to be an important study. I look forward to seeing the same study carried out across different EMR databases and then meta-analyzed. That will be extremely powerful.
Completely agree. Great move on their part. Capitalize on their network in every country before Square enters it. Square already proved there is a market for it.
>"Another option for bounce handling is to setup a client/server architecture."
funny because e-mail already /is/ client-server architecture, but also server<-> server architecture.

rube goldberg software design :\
What's the problem with bots? Don't they make the market more liquid?
I find this post strange: there is no demonstrated success aside from having the courage to quit a job to pursue a start-up (which is commendable but very different from achieving success), yet the author appears to be giving advice. This feels like a captain starting a voyage who, a few days after leaving shore, sets himself up as an experienced person. This seems more useful from a historical point of view than from a practical point of view.

Max Levchin compiled a very nice list of pointers here: http://www.quora.com/Max-Levchin/answers
Minor correction: Coda isn't our CEO.
IIRC the transistor on each pixel colour in the display blocks a fixed amount of light, so the increased pixel density means less area for light to pass through, so a brighter backlight is required to achieve the same light output.

(It's possible of course that these high-DPI displays use a process technology with smaller transistors, anyone know?)
another nice example: http://beetle.com/
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/public-rebuke-of-cult...

"Dear NYTimes, I am about to resign from GS. Can we coordinate, please?" "Sure. We kept mum when GS executives were running up and down the NYC-DC corridor 'transferring' Trillions of Dollars from public treasury, but now that the damage is done, let's get righteous. It is fit to print, now." /s - not real quotes.
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I'm sure a lot of people do say it that way.

But there is a very real phenomenon-- when the price is high, people want to buy, when the price is low, people want to sell.

I had a friend who was a gold dealer and I would talk to him periodically about his experiences. When gold prices are high, he'd be out of stock because everyone would turn up in his store wanting to buy gold. (often because the media was talking about record gold prices and people would say "damn, I should have bought when it was $300! I'm buying now!")

When the price is low-- gold dropped to $1,500 or so lately-- people sell because they think its a bad investment. A lot of those people selling at $1,500 bought at $2,000 and have watched it go down and are now swearing off of gold. (Without regard to the fundamentals that indicate gold will likely hit $5,000 in the next 5-6 years.)

Buy high, Sell low is the reason so many people think the stock market is a gamble. Their emotions got the better of them.
Well this is where I think the term of joker should be clarified. Jokes must not consume the public good, but they must destroy it. Lloyd certainly benefits and certainly destroys, but his benefits exclude him from being a joker. Defectors cause the tragedy of the commons by not paying a cost. Or maybe as steep of a cost as others because in the real world Lloyd definitely paid a cost, but it was a mere fraction of his wealth where others were wiped out.

It was hard to understand the role of the joker and how it creates an equilibrium, but if the joker is random destroyer then he destroys the cooperator AND the defector equally. If defectors out pace cooperators then the likelihood a defector will be wiped out is greater. By wiping out a defector that shifts the balance (ie the defector dies, or the defector turns to a cooperator from the joker's actions). That's the only way I can understand the joker as a force of "good". And jokers turn out to be a better solution to the problem of equilibrium.
PTR too. rDNS is important.
That's a given, will be more interesting to see how individuals make large amounts of cash.
I think it's fair to say that I'm biased against drugs, yes.

To your second set of questions, it totally depends on the situation (patient's willingness to change, type of disease, science of drug-based vs non-drug-based interventions, whether the illness is acute or chronic, etc). It's really impossible to make blanket statements about which interventions are most appropriate.
mmmhmm. SpamAssassin will get those on almost every MTA out there.
Football and whittling are sustainably self-funding.
PDF is actually serialized CG graphic calls. This app should produce PDF files rather than raw CG graphics code. Of course, there are lots of apps that can produce PDF.
Finally! They are a bit late to the gate and are doing this in reaction to Yahoo asserting themselves in the arena.
I agree, but that also requires a discipline/foresight not all of us have. :) I try to keep my feature branches as atomic as possible, but sometimes I get ahead of myself and work on multiple things that really shouldn't be in the same commit. I wouldn't use this model as my main workflow, but it's definitely useful in certain scenarios.
Some say the stock will go up to $1,000. Here are my doubts: there is not much more left for Apple to tap into. Most folks have iPads, iPods, etc. Android takes up some market as well. The ride from $200 to $550 was understandable -- I had people approaching me everyday that they haven't heard of Apple and now they love it. It didn't happen in a while. What else they can come up with? TV - that would be like "take #3" for them. One of the mistakes is that my 4th gen iPod still updates to the newest iOSes, 2 years later. Hence I don't have a reason to buy a new model. Also, 4th gen (other than FM radio) has built in everything one can dream of. And decompressing my music to 192kbit which I believe is reasonable for most music listeners, on my 64gb I fit 10,600 songs (or 530 albums) and still 2gb left. So no idea what would make me buy a new model...

While I see further growth to maybe $700 with the new iPad/iPhone hype, I fail to see that much of money, new products and momentum for the stock to get all the way to $1,000. But rest assured, I was wrong before.
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I couldn't have said this more perfectly myself. So tired of the B.S. around here with failure being rewarded. The golden parachutes have arrived from the finance and corp. exec. world for the chosen ones sprinkled with pixie dust. How about these "stars" step aside, go do something to make the world a better place now that they've made their money and let someone else succeed. (Looking at you Caterina Fake too)

We don't need more B.S. webapps that let people comment on food, people, or anything else. We're all stocked up.

/rant
Short version: You could do this, but don't because you really can't.
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Apparently a demo/trial is in the works https://twitter.com/#!/chockenberry/status/18033170184996045...
It's not entirely true that I don't play the stock game - half of my 401k is invested in the stock market, but I don't decide how. I just don't try to beat the market on any individual stocks. But, your detailed comment is still much appreciated.
Damn , why do Mac users get all the cool apps :(
Thank you! I had been looking for something like this... this will make a nice eastern egg on our site.

I think things like this are the ones that make technology fun.

I was looking to add eastern eggs to my site, so I got these two links that show interesting eastern eggs for ideas:

http://www.compukiss.com/tech-talk/easter-eggs-high-tech-sty...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/6201814/Google-...
Eventually Apple will run out of people who can afford to buy iPhones and iPads.
Any chance that it could hook into my local editor?
Is this for real? Why on Earth would ISPs put so much money and effort into doing something like this, when there's zero benefit for them? (Besides, perhaps, not getting sued by the RIAA... but then again I doubt companies like AT&T would be too worried about that.)

20 years from now we'll look wistfully back on the days of online anonymity and innovation and shake our heads at the fact that a few jerks who make movies and music systematically crushed one of man's greatest achievements.
An interesting approach to building scalable CSS layouts.
Had he communicated to her that he prefer his information not be published, I think it likely she would have acquiesced. Simply asking to "be left alone" does not imply not having anyone write about you, but rather that he didn't want to participate in the article. That's his prerogative, but I think people around here are holding Annie to a higher standard than they would for a journalist writing about a figure not so uniquely revered round these parts.
Water ice? No.

Water ice is much harder to find than rocks. It's more useful for drinking, and the binding energy of hydrogen is greater than the metal in rocks. (I.e. it takes more energy to get oxygen from water ice than from rocks.)

And how exactly do you plan to use the hydrogen for fuel? What's your oxidizer? Other than the very same oxygen you just worked so hard to make in the first place.

Also, although the most common metal from rocks is silicon, iron is not uncommon on mars, so if you pick your rocks properly you get iron as a waste product, which you can use for building.
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Works fine in Chrome for me. Firefox is broken, though, which is pretty lame, I agree.
It's absolutely classist. I saw the research when it came out and found it quite interesting.

Thing is, class divisions are a fact of life. If your goal is to pursue a more just society, it's worth trying to minimize them (though even then, you need to acknowledge them before you can do anything productive). But if your goal is to get maximal user uptake for your new social network, it's worth exploiting them. They aren't going away, and if you don't, someone else will.

A lot of Web startups have actually had the byproduct of significantly lowering class divisions, eg. Google gives important information to people who would not otherwise have had it, Twitter lets people organize who would otherwise have been divided & conquered by oppressive regimes. But to get there, they need users, and one powerful way to get users is to be seen as a status symbol that makes one cooler than their peers.
As the person who wrote the OpenCV Python bindings, this makes me inordinately happy.
Related: http://al3x.net/2012/02/29/how-not-to-sell-software-in-2012....

Wonder when companies will start to figure this out already?
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It's because they are all owned by the companies that hold the copyrights.
Harder, to be sure, but definitely possible.

See http://www.lps.umd.edu/MicroelectronicsIntegration/Microelec... and http://www.break-ic.com/topics/break-ic.asp for 2 overviews.

There is an entire industry built around decapping and reverse-engineering ICs, usually to make cheap clones in China or somewhere else that'll turn a blind eye to IP infringement.

There's also 'Dr. Decapitator' of ROM extraction fame: http://decap.mameworld.info/

Annoyingly, I can't find the article I remember reading, which was a look at the debugging / test labs at AMD or Intel. They had all manner of depackaging, imaging, probing, and even in-situ modification tools. They could cut traces with incredibly precise laser pulses, and use bond-wires or additional metal deposits to test faulty designs. Incredible stuff (and a nightmare for anyone who wants "tamper resistance")
"Merchants are also given a business debit card for quick access to their funds and 1% cash back on eligible purchases – which means if you use the debit card, your fees are actually just 1.7%!"

What a stupid marketing point. If I use any mobile payment processor and then spend the funds with any credit or debit card offering 1% cash back, I achieve exactly the same savings. Paypal hardly has a competitive advantage here.
You seem to be indicating that the stock market is worse than or equal to playing the lotto. This could be quite true for many people.

When I was a buy and hold investor, I'd calculate my expected return before buying the stock. You can actually calculate the percentage annual return you'll get from the stock before you buy it. Sure there's some risk, but you also can discount that risk. IF the risk discounted price you need to get the return you desire is higher than or equal to the current stock price, you buy the stock. My results from that were pretty eye opening-- every single stock where I followed that discipline, returned more than I expected over the period I held it (and I was holding them for the long term- 5 years or more.)

Of course I've also lost money by buying hot companies, or failing to exercise the discipline to limit what I was doing to mathematically rewarding choices.

I'll play poker, but never with more than $20 at risk. I've lost less than $5[1] my entire life in casinos because the games are not interesting because the returns are negative. I've never played the lotto.

I never take a position that does not have a risk adjusted positive return.

Maybe that takes more discipline than other people want to put into it... That's fine. I certainly can understand the difficulty of dealing with emotions... even if the numbers are right, how you feel about your position is often influenced by a variety of factors. Many people who go into the markets react based on how they feel, and so maybe it isn't a good choice to them.

But I'm not a gambler. (If I was, I'd play poker more for higher stakes-- I love it-- and even that's a game of skill... or I'd have at least gambled in some of my many trips to las vegas. I love las vegas, but have never gambled there[1].

I think common stock is one way for people to have a better life, with not that much effort, and not even that much discipline. I think the financial industry makes all its money by convincing people that its too difficult and that it would just be easier to hand it over to them....

[1] I have on several occasions fed $1-$2 into a slot machine, and gotten several alcoholic drinks from the cocktail waitresses, who I tend to tip well. I'm not counting theses in my losses because the value of the drinks exceeds what I "lost", and even if I did the total is probably around $20 or so. On another occasion my partner put $1 into a penny slot machine, but on the 20th pull, won $30 and immediately cashed out. That same occasion I spent a dollar on video poker, was up to $5, down to $0.50, got back up to exactly $1 and cashed out. Most of the $5 is the $0.25 I traditionally lose when traveling thru the Las Vegeas airport where I do a single slot pull each time.
It goes something like this--Samsung can't ship enough units by itself to justify setting up production, but Apple can. So Apple preorders an entire production run, and since Apple's already spoken for all the displays they can produce, Samsung doesn't get any.

Samsung could take the risk, but then they'd have an entire production run of Samsung tablets that no one wants to buy and they will have wasted their entire capital investment.
http://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/ has some interesting pages against statins. Personally I'd scrutinize things as best I could before considering following a doctor's recommendation for statins.

I'm pretty ignorant about the holistic health thing, but wouldn't a fairer question be what's the holistic treatment for a given person with HIV? I thought the whole point was to consider a whole person as a complex system, not a database record with the feature "HIV+".
Unabomber was also a victim of MK-ULTRA
Google Flight Search takes off around the world
Triangle man beats particle man.
I'm pretty sure there's no spying here.

http://www.copyrightinformation.org/sites/default/files/Momo... (sections 4.A and 4.C.)
Should funded Kickstarters remain open for funding?
Why do these people become stars? Economics suggests it's because they're already proven to some degree; eg. http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/04/why-not-superstar-slav... summarizes a Tervio article predicting superstardom when the following conditions are met:

Desired abilities are rare and lasting.
It is very expensive to try someone new.
Everyone can see which trials worked or not.
Winners are free to demand more money or walk.

#1 is arguable whether it's true, but people seem to think it's true - any endeavour by someone like Rose comes with built-in interest & buzz. Why? Personal affection? No, because people think it's better than a random newly launched project. #2 is fairly true - how do you test someone on whether they can build a successful Facebook clone or innovate on it with less than thousands of dollars of their time and other resources (at a minimum)? #3 is pretty true, especially for web communities. #4 is very true; as Hacker News people love pointing out, it's a free country.
> It's not about exchange rates and never ever will be. It's about purchasing power. It's just normal market segmentation, like how textbooks are cheaper in India/China than in the U.S.

A blanket statement like this is not correct. iPhones aren't cheaper in China. Louis Vuitton purses aren't cheaper in China.

Prices are what the market will bear in that country. $60 is what video games cost in America. More than that and Blizzard would see a dent in their sales that likely would not make up for any increase in price. Similarly, Blizzard probably isn't charging more (or much more) for Diablo in Australia because all other video games are that price.
I don't get the KR bashing. Kevin is both a product and content guy. From TechTV (where he went from a tech support guy to a TV show host) to revision3, Diggnation, Foundation, Random. This guy is always creating content, very much like a hacker. He built the first prototype for Digg. This is the type of guy HN/Startup school aspires to produce.
I second that.. Lynda has great tutorials for Photoshop
We're taking the same approach as ClojureCLR and ClojureScript in clojure-py. As much as possible implement things exactly the way Clojure does.
I really like the idea of charging for 1 or 2 weeks at a time. I'll have to try it.
$25k signing bonus for any Yahoo employee who joins Yammer in the next 60 days
The Internet never ceases to amaze me.
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In fact, I'd say you should do more. Stop being a programmer. It's hard to get a job as a developer these days, and it'll all be outsourced to India and China soon anyway. Instead, you should go into sales and marketing.
It's fantastic that he was able to make something so polished looking in his spare time. Gives me hope!
>"OP is indicating there is an underserved marketplace that may be ready for disruption by a low cost no frills service."

mmmhmm.

See also: Dwolla, PayPal Here, Square POS.

POS software sucks.
YBuy - Try products before buying them
I think that's a good strategy... but I wouldn't sell just because there's nothing but good news. If you're long something and its going up, just let it go up. When it stops going up, then maybe think about it. If its going up, there's nothing wrong with trimming a little off of it, especially if you think it has gotten ahead of itself.

The thing I strive for is to never need or want the market to do anything.... to always be positioned such that any way the market goes I'm happy. If the markets going my direction, I just let it. If it goes a different direction, I respond and then get to where I'm happy with it going that direction.

Of course the turns are the trickiest (but this is then also in the realm of trading and timing and most people don't need to do that... just buy a good company and hold it.)
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