skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That assumes that the entrenched leader doesn't make mistakes. If the market leader does something outrageous, like violate privacy (or even if they're perceived as doing that), a "just as good as" alternative that doesn't do that, could "win".
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Hi everyone,

I'm William the developer at AussieStartups.com, a first year computer science major at RMIT and was hoping to enter a small team at this years startup Hackathon.

Here's the flyer: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Startup-Hackathon-Melbourne/242377535823744

Running from the 23rd to 25th of March and entries close on the 20th.

This would be my first time and any startup event and would love to get involved in the startup community so if you feel the same please reach out.

For those interested I have coding experience in PHP and MySQL with high front end development skills (CSS and HTML)

My email is william@aussiestartups.com or just leave a reply and I'll get back to you.
Today google is doing what MS did some years back. Google wants to be facebook and some years back MS wanted to be Google(when they started bing).

People at google say "don't be evil", you cant run business without being evil, google in its early days tried being the least possible evil, but as Shakespeare said: "lowliness is young ambitions ladder".

But the ambitions of MS were clear from start and they did not even care about what was evil, they wanted their supremacy all over. By joining MS you have come to a place that is more evil, more evil than putting ads or compromising slightly on privacy of users, look at the open source initiatives that Google takes, agreed google labs has been shut down, app engine prices have gone high they have dedicated some of their focus working on Social Networks, but which company would not want to have a chunk and share in what is hot.
By the way, what do you see on MS being done, even they are wannabe in their approach. free 90 days trial for azure and the sun will rise from west if they offer anything that is not free/freemium. The point i want to make here is

When you talk about privacy, i am sure you would curse facebook for privacy, won't you. The only reason that compelled you to leave google, was you did not get a project that you would like to work on, more geeky, irrespective of what the company gave you, you should have tried paying it back by being proactive in your efforts and pointing out the errors. I respect google for what it has built, i am sure the amount of effort it has put, the horizons that it has opened the initiatives it has brought remains unsurpassed, yes there is a tinge of evil air that currently surrounds it, but again as you mentioned Google learns from its mistakes, and rectifies them.

By joining MS you have done more bad than good, probably you will be given some hardcore engineering project, but you could have got them as google as well, with some efforts.
Maybe. Certainly if releasing without them means they're going to be stuck with a half-assed Javaesque implementation later. On the other hand, generics can complicate a language implementation considerably.
How does Anime make money from the US? It seems everyone I know in the US who watches it does so illegally.
It depends on your business, right?
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I agree.

I wonder how a Kickstarter campaign for a better styled version would go? You could probably get the internals for < $10 in bulk.
Or just skip it. If getting there requires manipulating cookies and incognito mode there had better be something special at the other end; in 99.99% of the links to G+ the payoff is not worth the bother.
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Or it might be just the thing you need to put a good lawyer on retainer and hire a decent accounting firm to set up the kind of production company your fans seem to want to exist. 58k is bread for a year, and at the end you muddle through your own taxes with that flunky from the H&R Block in the strip mall. 1.2M is a real company that has the chops to do it right. I'd say the audit causing personal ruin is more likely in the former scenario.
Redundancy is easier than ever. To use your example of Wikipedia, there are a few sites around the world that mirror the periodic data dumps from Wikipedia, and if you feel like donating about 7.7 GB to the preservation of history, there are torrents:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents

On that note, this is probably the best general discussion I've seen of archiving our digital data:

http://www.gwern.net/Archiving%20URLs
If you want to talk about anime, and the industry itself you can contact me via skype: soduxevil
> Python 3 is the future of the Python language

... and it always will be.
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The teams accepted would be under tremendous pressure to find an idea after being accepted. If they can resist the temptation to start working on an idea they are only moderately passionate about, just because the clock is ticking, this experiment should succeed. Folks at YC can help with this.
Nice. Definitely, an easy way to compare. But the yahoo column seems to be not working.
1) Merchandise
2) Popularity (how popular the anime is, can warrant sales in the US).
3) Licensing (check: Crunchyroll.com)
Surely there's a lot of money changing hands for the ones on Cartoon Network (not to mention the Studio Ghibli releases distributed by Disney).
You know, that is the number one comparison people make. I should probably work on incorporating into these blog posts a little sentence or two to address the question more when it comes up. PatientsLikeMe has done a great job at building comprehensive tools for symptom and lab value tracking. Where they fall short however is providing a real palatable and compelling reason why people should do this.

And that compelling reason--it is our hypothesis--comes from community, and knowing that what you do on the site can very directly help others. And PLM is a quantitative system, not a community place. It is our belief that instead of feeling like a hospital's electronic health record system, successful software would feel more like a Facebook -- where it is the real relationships, your real ability to help others, that compel you to share your knowledge and what treatments have worked for you.

And yes, while Crohn's & Colitis are our first network, you are on the right track knowing that our heads are churning on ways to make software that helps people with one or more of many other chronic conditions.

I hope that is helpful!
That "something about the product" was that cooler people were on it. Facebook started with the ideal situation of seeding its initial users with the most exclusive club at Harvard. From there, it spread to all of Harvard, then all of the Ivy League, then all elite colleges, then all colleges, then all college and high school students.
Well, they have that potential as long as the copyright holders won't go out of business, consumers stop viewing content as disposable goods and hence keep copies... and the FBI stops closing sharing sites. Now seriously, you're wrong. I've got a book from 1640 and looks fine: as long as they're printed on acid free paper they should last for centuries. Check your digital media after two decades... Hard drives/floppies from 1992 are mostly gone, CD/DVDs won't last that long because of decomposition of dye. Backup tapes, good luck with that. Now, go check which sites from the 90s keep their old files (thank God for the Internet Archive). People take for granted that every bit will stay forever, that's delusional. We have to keep moving them, if everybody stops copying a content it will be lost in less than 50 years. Now, if you think that every book with stereotypes should be discarded, that's sad. We have the responsibility to preserve history, and the moral duty to challenge what we consider wrong with our reason. To wipe it off, that's censorship and a recurrent disease of totalitarian mindsets.
That test only compares the result links. It's missing a significant chunk of the experience: autocomplete, instant results, highlighting, social results, best-guess results, calculator functions, etc. It would have been a decent blind test maybe ten years ago.
Anybody notice how the io machines are completely resolution based? i.e if you don't run it at the same resolution it was created, it won't work?
> We wouldn't have been hearing about this had AT&T not tried to shut him up.

We did year about it on the day the guy won his case. Yes, they are making more news out of a story they could have easily squashed, but it wasn't an unknown event that the guy won the initial case.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-01/at-and-t-los...

http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/24/2822384/att-loses-data-thr...

http://paidcontent.org/article/419-850-for-everyone-what-hap...

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/att-throttling-cust...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/mickeymeece/2012/02/25/throttle-...
Its a joke but I'm trying to root my Fiat500 right now in order to rid myself of the awful microsoft "Blue&Me" and get it to do something useful.

My car has usb ports. I should have root.
I find I tend to always select Bing based on that search. Perhaps the way I write search queries melds better with Bing.

Generally though I use more specialized search engines for my day to day work and with things like DDG and !bang syntax I can get to where I need more quickly.
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My first game for the Commodore 64, a port, sold 18,000 copies. It was considered a big hit at that time, 1983.
For obvious reasons I'm guessing Twitter or Square. Though I wouldn't be surprised by a Salesforce acquisition either.
I think a lot of people who are really interested in shifting to Python 3 for those experimental projects are just using different web frameworks.

The real problem is that Django isn't the only problem. I've started cataloging the packages that are supporting Python 3 in my project, and there are still several that are critical to it that haven't made the transition. My web framework is the least of my concerns in that regard (considering it already supports Python 3).
Right. If antibiotic use in animal farming is as high as indicated here, you can't just ban it without severely impacting the food supply. I'm afraid this problem probably won't get "solved" until lab-grown meat is feasible and cheap.
Happy to see they put some of the extra money to adding Mac support. I wish I saw that news before the window closed, since I ignored the project on first hearing about it because they were going windows-only.

Now I see that the Wasteland 2 project also says it is Windows only, but "Maybe" they will add mac compatibility if they get 1.5mil.

This suggests that Kickstarter needs a new feature: Pledges that are conditional not just on the project succeeding, but pledges that are conditional on the project exceeding successive tiers of ambition.
From an implementation perspective, generics aren't that bad. For an ahead-of-time-compiled language, you either need a uniform value representation (like ML/Java) or a monomorphization pass (like C++). The former corresponds to what Go has today if you simulate generics with interfaces. The latter corresponds to what Go has today if you simulate generics by duplicating your code (for example, if you wrote an IntTree to operate on ints, a StringTree to operate on strings, and so on).

They do complicate the typechecker a little bit, largely due to the interaction with subtyping (which Go has via interfaces, I believe). You probably want definition-site variance, not use-site variance like Java, to keep things simple. Also remember that parameterized types must be invariant, not covariant, in the presence of mutability. (Additionally, if you have subtyping for function types, remember that the arguments are contravariant -- Go probably doesn't care about this, though.)

None of this stuff is that complicated, though -- it's all pretty straightforward at this point. There's no reason to fear generics.

Moreover, as noted above, all of the workarounds end up duplicating effort that the compiler could have done for you. If you use interfaces, you pay the tax of boxing. If you use code duplication, you pay the cost of increased compile times and increased binary size. Nothing is gained from not having generics, except maybe a simpler type system.
I imagine you'd prefer a team that at least has some general market/problem/area in which they have a strong passion, yea?

I know there are some great entrepreneurs that can build great things, but I have a feeling that great entrepreneurs + passion would go a lot further due to their irrational optimism and tenacity in their market/problem/area.
Your argument is not clear to me. However allow me to share some of the Go authors' thoughts about generics:

http://research.swtch.com/generic

http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2011/12/esmereldas-imagina...

I am inclined to agree with them. I like writing Go programs quickly, but not at the expense of compilation speed† or execution speed. The point of Go is to be fast. If I valued programming speed for a particular program, then I would use the right tool for the job and choose a language other than Go.

† Though considering the speed of Plan 9-style compilers, I can't imagine at what scale this would begin to be a problem.
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Although I find this development far from unexpected, one cannot feel a pang of sadness to see an institution as celebrated the Encyclopedia Britannica going ever so gently into the good night.

Even today, I remember using the venerable (1911) eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica as a starting point for numerous research papers on topics as diverse as the r the history of classical mathematics to the repeal of the English Corn Laws. While the information was often far from definitive, it always provided an excellent starting point for subsequent research. An added pleasure of a well used set of those volumes was the traces of previous seekers of knowledge. A forgotten piece of pater here and a faint underlining there could be a great reassurance when you though your were off in the weeds alone.

While the physical print runs fo the Britannica have come to an end, happily several of the classic editions are now in the public domain and are thus accessible to a vastly greater portion of humanity than was every envisioned by the founders of this noble project.
We buy cars for the same reason rich people buy planes and don't use them. You don't pay to have the car, you pay to have the car on constant standby, ready for your use the moment you want it.

If you solve the standby problem with ubiquitously, instantly available zip cars without turning it into the fiasco that is trying to broad a commercial flight, or find a cab in the city, you win.
One of the very best people I've ever hired wore a dark navy 3-piece suit with pristine french cuffs and gold cufflinks, if I remember correctly. The team almost dinged him for that, if not for his amazing technical talent, problem solving skills and eidetic memory.
Won't people just start creating 2 accounts. One with only "approved" content, then a second account where all their real friends are also connected via their second account.

It will make it even harder to keep tabs on them.
Is it possible to create a business which can profit off of patent trolls? Like a patent troll bait company? I've read somewhere there is a lawyer who profits off spam using the small claim courts system, so maybe something along those lines is possible...
I always found Anime piracy kind of impressive since they not only have to rip the material, they have to provide English subtitles, too. Which requires special expertise and is extremely tedious. And people do this work for free.
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The implications of this experiment will be very fascinating. If successful, I wonder how this will change the investment patterns of other investors.
PIL isn’t ported yet, I don’t think.
I went to our regional Anime/Manga conference with my kids last month.

One of the more interesting panel discussions was with an American voice actress. The economics for such a profession are discouraging of course, and she couldn't hold back the opinion that watching anime from the net was "stealing".

But you look around the audience and clearly the great majority of the fans are too young to have real jobs. Still, many of these young people have put untold hours of work into making these incredible costumes.

Then you go to the vendors (or anywhere) to look at a licensed DVD for a season or two of a popular anime: $60 !

1. It's outrageously priced.

And the hardcore fans don't even like the product as much as the "fan subs" available online. E.g.:

2. It's usually overdubbed instead of subtitled.

3. Often it's edited down for more commercial slots for US cable TV.

4. Where there are subtitles for the opening and ending songs they don't have phonetic Japanese (romaji) or karaoke effects (words exploding into pink flowers are hugely important to a certain set of customers).

5. The translation is often not accurate, all the Japanese idiosyncracies are ironed out to make completely bland English. (Was said to be usually at the insistence of the Japanese studio).

EDIT: Of course I forgot the most important parts:

6. The video quality of the fansubs is often much better at 720p.

7. The fansubs are often more available, sometimes within hours of something appearing on TV in .jp. Official DVDs may drag out for years of on-again off-again rumors.

8. The fansubs of course have no DRM. They're just files that play on your computer and can be shared among fans. (Though sometimes they require codec downloads from sketchy looking sites).
There's a whole spectrum of clothing between "suit" and "ill-fitting jeans and an oversized stained t-shirt from a tech conference" that is tasteful, casual and professional.
Well, it could be an in-house attorney.
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I grew up in rural Australia. Owning a car was required if you wanted to hold down a job or have a social life. I've lived in cities as close as possible to where I work for the last few years and I'd never look back (from living close to work, shops, nightlife). Walking is now where I do a lot of my thinking and where most of my good ideas come from. I've had good ideas while driving but it was usually just aggravating.

It isn't possible for everyone but the less time you spend in moving metal boxes each day the better your life will be.
what a shame if anyone can walk out this failure with the illusion of success. The funny part is there is no failed founder, only successful or very successful founders, it also tells us how risky to join startup not as a founder...
Er, no, we're not "waiting for the community to shift".

When Django 1.0 was released, we supported minimum Python 2.3. Dropping 2.3 and then 2.4 were major logistical hurdles; they were incredibly widely deployed, and were the stock Python for many platforms with long-term support. So it was going to take a while, no matter what, for us to sensibly deprecate those Python versions without just throwing a bunch of our users under a bus. And, of course, deprecating everything older than 2.6 is a prerequisite for starting to actually adopt 3.x.

Meanwhile, the first few releases in the Python 3 series weren't really meant for widespread adoption, ever. They were there so people could start getting a taste of Python 3 and working out a migration process while shaking out remaining issues for Python itself.

We are now at a confluence of two very happy things:

1. We've dropped our support for the older Python 2.x releases, without just screwing over a bunch of people, and by year's end we'll be a minimum-2.6 project, and

2. Python 3.2 (the current 3.x) is really quite a nice release, and Python 3.3 (later this year) looks like it'll really put the spit and polish on the Python 3.x series, meaning it's a very attractive time to be targeting Python 3.

This is the first time we've realistically been in a position to actually make the jump, and we're taking that opportunity.
When I lived in Strasbourg I noticed the same thing. I lived just outside the Grand Île on a major road and was very surprised to see those when I got there.

Coming from Houston I wasn't used to something like parking being so well organized. ;)
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We've got all these smart people doing all these projects and not a single one even comes CLOSE to the income that search advertising does? Give me one good reason I shouldn't just fire all of them?

Because "we" (if I was a Googler) need to make the next big wave, or at least catch it. Search won't be the biggest thing forever.
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Knowing a little bit about the greed and stupidity of some big publishers; i think they will start panicking soon enough and they will try to do things against kickstarter like force a you-will-never-use-kickstarter-or-anything-like-it agreement to the artists.
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It's basically wrong for the same reasons not wearing a suit is wrong at a business meeting - it makes you stand out for something other than your accomplishments. A businessman's uniform is a suit, and a hacker's is a hoodie, and there's not much anyone can do about it in the short run.
This is the future. Very nice!

The only thing I was concerned about was the finger print scanner. Is it secure enough? I wonder if you can trick it with a picture of a finger print...
Hi there. The difference really comes down to whether you are building an API or not. For example, suppose you want to serve a live feed of data via long-polling as part of your public REST interface. This cannot be done with Pusher. If you don't have a public API, and your only consumer of live data is your own website, then this distinction is not very important.
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But remember, you are Microsoft's product, not their customer. When you demand to use Windows, it means that the OEMs have to negotiate Windows licenses for new computers, or you'll buy some other OEM's box. That means the OEM is the customer that Microsoft gets money from, meaning you are only tangentially important. (The Office market is the same way: Office is sold as being the "don't retrain your staff" solution. Companies then buy site licenses, leaving individual users relatively powerless. Microsoft sells to your IT department, not to you.)