skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. Is that why BBC and Channel 4 stuff seems to live on YouTube much longer than you would think? Because it's blocked in the UK?
I don't really understand your defensiveness, I didn't get that vibe from the article. Good on you for trying.
I think you're reading something into the article that isn't there. I saw no vitriol aimed at picplz.
Low earth orbit might be where the investors are interested in. If so, it has been proposed for decades that an electric mass driver be constructed on the Moon for delivery of lunar ores to Earth orbit - or to a nearby Lagrange point.

A lunar base would be very expensive in terms of initial construction because it costs so much to climb from the Earth's surface through the Earth's gravity well, and then to descend safely on to the Moon's surface.

An interesting solution that I've followed has been the proposal to send tiny self-replicating robots to the Moon and have them construct everything else from Lunar materials. See for example: http://www.islandone.org/MMSG/aasm/

This good idea was most recently promoted by Newt Gingrich during his US presidential primary campaign. My own opinion is that private investment, not government money, should be used for space-based economic projects.
Dotcom judge: "I frankly don't know that we are ever going to have a trial..."
I remember staying in a friend's basement flat in South London, and taking baths with HSoE. The book was largely destroyed by the time I got on the plane home, but I was entranced.
Marc ensured the market expanded with his wise bet. I doubt he has any regrets. Who knows whether Instagram would have expanded unless they were motivated to get to a point of turning their backs on A16Z. $ talks.
I was one of the guests as well and everything went amazingly smooth and took almost no time at all outside of the time talking.
They block stuff within the UK because it's available on 4OD, iPlayer etc and then leave it for people outside the UK.
That might be because people were making fun of companies looking for ninja rockstars who wanted to change the world one todo list app at a time. Even after comments got removed some were tragic enough to spawn separate, parallel discussions heh.
It's hard to come up with a counterexample when you're looking at outliers. A successful startup is already statistically improbable, so I don't think you can easily say that if Paypal had hired more jocks instead of nerds, it would have done even better.

So we have to look at this from first principles. When you have a less diverse team, you don't just have short-term communications latency. You also have the advantage that really similar people can push each other more, because it's easier to tell if you're doing 1% better than someone else if you're both doing the same thing.

I don't know how valuable "tolerance" is. That depends on what you're tolerating. If diversity trains your ability to "tolerate," it sounds like a bad thing, the way having a broken air conditioner teaches you to tolerate heat. The belief that it creates broader understanding is also up for debate--in my experience, people express a wider range of thoughts in a more homogeneous environment, because they're less worried about offending people.

One last thing: "its arrogance is not excused by success." That's not very Bayesian. If someone has an unusual opinion, puts it into practice, and beats the competition, shouldn't you lower your estimate of their arrogance, and raise your estimate of your own arrogance?
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Chicken and egg problem - answered.
This technique may be relevant to your interests.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=hXYEAgAAEBAJ
I think that is valuable feedback to the advertiser. :)
That's not entirely accurate. Google adds tons of value post-sale to Android devices. Most of that value just happens to be through app updates and new apps, not OS updates.

To muddy the waters even further, some of the apps that Google updates (e.g. Market/Play Store, Music, Maps, etc.) are treated as part of the OS on the iOS side of the fence. Moreover, Google, quite understandably, is moving even further in that direction (e.g. Chrome Beta shows even browser updates moving outside of the core OS).

I'll separately add that once you go outside of what Apple considers the OS, they actually do a relatively poor job of supporting older devices with their new apps (e.g. Siri, iPhoto, iMovie, etc.) compared to Google. Often, the iOS hacking community even demonstrates that the barriers involved aren't technical.
This is why you don't use faddish hiring methods
Ask HN: What skills should we teach our kids to prepare them for the future?
I mean, specifically, what useful skills should our kids acquire that are above and beyond what they're likely to be taught in public school (before college). I don't want to hear about teaching them values, character traits, or philosophies. I am really just interested in hearing your suggestions for hard, tangible skills that will give kids a better opportunity to succeed. I'll start with a few...

- fundamentals of programming
- understanding/calculating risk
- important words to understand
- media literacy
- budgeting
- investing
- business start-up
- small business economics
- real-estate economics
- fundamental of robotics
- creative/lateral thinking
- critical/rational thinking
- system thinking
- study hacks
- memory hacks
- and...
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Brilliant. Just brilliant. Felt like I just found a webpage I searched for in Magellan.
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And more importantly, by what theory is Linux being held responsible for it? I'm not genuinely curious, I'm just being facetious.
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I just tried registering my own nameservers on my NameCheap-hosted domain and it does appear to work even with a plain domain subscription.
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This would be mind blowing but did they in fact create such a battery as the title suggests? The video talks about year 2030. If they had created working prototypes already I would expect that commercialization would be years away, not decades.
true experience is knowing at exactly what time and date you would go back in time to kick your own butt

Experience tends to pre-empt innovation: I really don't think this is caused by experience, I think it is caused by habit. I know a lot of people who have experience who have said to me "We did X, Y, and Z at my previous gigs, but I've been thinking...." Don't fall into habits and keep the sense of what if and experience provide a heck of a platform for innovation.

Experience takes time to get: yep - especially if you don't listen closely to the people who have already taken the hit.

You know some things to be impossible: more along the path of habits overshadowing experience. I had a huge amount of experience with Sybase databases. I knew some things were impossible given how they worked, but it didn't stop me from exploring when the next version showed up. Don't allow yourself to build a set of superstitions that overshadow changing conditions.
Take a look at dwarf fortress and the map generator it contains.
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First off, people like you are my heroes. Please keep on keeping on.

As to what the article said, I think you may be taking this too personally (although it sounds like you're referencing the media in general, and I don't know how much vitriol you may have had to absorb).

"Picplz has languished. After shopping the product around for possible cash deals last year, its founders finally ditched Picplz in July, choosing instead to spin it off to Sporcle, a maker of online trivia quizzes."

To me it sounds like basically saying "they did a pivot", but in language that an average reader can digest. Probably using a word other than 'ditched' would be more tactful though. I guess when one aims high taking punches now and then is part of the game, but in the end it doesn't mean a whole lot; other than well, you aimed high :) Haters gonna hate and all that jazz.
This is interesting on first glance. It does look similar to knockout.js, with a little Reactive Extensions behaviour also thrown in for good measure!

I have done alot of knockout.js work recently and I love it. Also really like sammy.js and amplify.js.

What advantage would anyone say AngularJS has over KnockoutJS ?
Looks like the Chinese are there too ...

"Perhaps more significantly, low-energy pathways lead away from L1 and L2, which can be exploited to send spacecraft to Jupiter, Mars, asteroids, for less fuel. They make an excellent staging point," Belbruno said. "Placing spacecraft at these points gives one a high ground, so to speak." Not only would they be interesting places to position a space station, but from there China could perform planetary exploration, both in piloted and automated mode.

from: http://www.space.com/13375-china-moon-probe-deep-space-missi...
And also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point
It got ignored for a year. That's an argument for Full Disclosure, at least to me.
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It really depends on what latest-and-greatest features you want for your app. Google (and a few others) have invested a lot of effort in porting back new Android features with compatibility libraries (e.g. Fragments) so what you want is covered by them, there's little or no compromise. On the other side, Google has also developed a careful reflection / late-binding framework that often makes it straightforward for apps to gracefully degrade their uses of new APIs. That gives developers another way to take advantage of new features while retaining broad compatibility.
Ideas and execution are not independent. For example, it is easier to execute an idea that you believe in rather than one you don't. (In a vacuum it may seem strange to think that someone would execute an idea that they don't believe in, but realize that this happens all the time, perhaps the majority of time). Another example, it is easier to execute an idea which actually has a market - the enthusiasm of customers is infectious and highly motivating. Final example, execution is better when the idea 'goes with the grain' of available technology (if it's a technology idea, of course).
hi, please chill, and ask marc to toss you a $3mm "attaboy" because you earned it.
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Cool. that would actually be a useful UI feedback property: to check if your phone needs recharging, just pick it up. If it feels heavy it needs to be charged.
Thinkpad x120e here, the touchpad is centered if that helps at all.
I believe he cashed out quickly (before the stock tanked during the crash) unlike ESR who just wrote articles about how awesome it felt to be a millionaire and then watched his money disappear.

I remember at the time on Slashdot the comment du jour was that Torvalds dumping his RHT did not reflect well on the future of Linux as a product. Not a popular view, although obviously RedHat eventually came back with a vengeance. The problem was that the stock was incredibly inflated, so I was always of the opinion that it was the right thing to do for him.
Frontend engineers execute beautiful designs. It's a team effort.

Edit: Also, Grubwithus is looking for frontend engineers w/ strong design sense. We're a small team and wear many hats.
oh yeah i'm sure that marc andreesen is in cahoots with paul graham and has the extension to see your downvote..... way to curry favor there champ
I got it.

So the investors chose that asteroid diameter so as to minimize potential damage due to an impact on Earth.
Well, it's a well-known fact that "hiring is broken".
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Skeumorphism has its place, for sure. The drawing apps (particularly Paper) are excellent examples: they dictate their function in an elegant and subtle way. Paper is clearly for jotting down and collecting your thoughts. Brushes is clearly for more intense, focused illustration/mind mapping sessions.

The example that wanders into dangerous territory, though, is the desktop version of Photo Booth. While all the others I've mentioned serve to suggest what the app can do, Photo Booth's gaudy curtains-and-wood-paneling design dictates what you should do. It limits the range of the software's potential uses; the old grey photo booth was clearly a program for taking photos of anything you wanted with your front camera, while the new version is more apparently only for dicking around with your friends and taking silly distorted pictures. The skeumorphism of Paper serves to make the app more intuitive; the skeumorphism of Photo Booth serves only to constrict.
I think that's sort of ironic given that git is written in C.
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Technically the Fed hasn't actually doubled the money in circulation, it has mostly just printed dollars to prop up bad assets. So the bubble there already inflated, and now the Fed is just refusing to let it pop and deflate (which it should).

Hello, zombie economy.
You really find Chick-fil-a appetizing and support gay rights at the same time? I'm jealous of you - I once loved it, and now the idea of eating there makes me slightly ill.

It's your own personal decision about what you want to support in this world, but everybody gets to have an opinion about it esp. if you announce it on the internet.

Inertia because inertia is not an argument, it's just what inertia is. When you shop at companies that do things that are morally reprehensible to you, while avoiding a million other options, that just sounds like apathy.
i guess i should've said "plz chill". anyway, keep downvoting me, i can take it all day.... and you know i have a point

there's a rapper in the bay who's blowing up and he hasn't gotten a deal yet. are there any investment vehicles i can use, some kind of option contract i can offer him? the artist is HBK btw, heartbreak gang, iamsu! and loverance, etc., from the hits "swaggin" and "up!" (i beat the pussy up, up, up, up...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quYupMeXEJM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsnP8FDdVOo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tllWt1tibbQ
If we're to assume their paranoia about piracy is because they've done the math, then clearly HBO considers it significant.

I don't think they've done the math, because I think "market research" into the underground world of private torrent trackers is, uhh, a lot harder than you seem to think it is, trust me. If HBO were running ads on a site like TorrentFreak to take a survey, then perhaps I'd think they're actually doing their due diligence in this area, but they're not.

I'll offer an alternative hypothesis (blowhard: I worked in digital video distribution for a paytv software company for 4 years)

HBO is clinging to their legacy business model. The direct Internet streaming market is untrusted and scary. They're afraid to even attempt to cross the bridge.
The article was spinning a story, the story is that a VC passed on a big win. It's about Andreessen-Horowitz, not PicPlz. They didn't even try to explain why Instagram took off and PicPlz didn't.
Of course not. Apple shipped the first ultrathin laptop. And that kind of product turned out a few years later to be really attractive to Intel, who put their own branding and initiative on what was essentially the same idea.

I'm not crediting Apple with anything breathtaking, I'm doing the opposite: pointing out that the "Ultrabook" is really just a clone of the Macbook Air.
I wonder how relevant this really is? Although the IBM of 2012 shares the same name of the IBM of the 1940s, I can't help but wonder if that's the only quality the two companies share. It's not as though employees of that era are still employed there today.
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I don't know Nicole, nor do I work for or with the NYT, but attacking her parenting because you disagree with the article does not seem reasonable.

By all means, make your point about the headline and story. Nicole is, presumably, an adult. But so are Andreessen Horowitz, and comparing them to a vulnerable child is not particularly convincing.
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Bootstrap? Seriously?
Just because Amazon is big doesn't mean that everything they do has to be big and full-featured right from the beginning. That's how big companies ossify.
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Because it would dilute the trust relationship between the investor and the companies involved. ... "never discussed strategy again" ... That is not a good vantage point to be in if you are investing in a company. How do you make effective decisions if you are not privy to the entire picture?

"moral reasons" ... Give me a break.
We always had an "unlimited food from Costco" benefit, and now Camille's taking it one step farther by actually making home-cooked dinners. It's been an awesome experiment!
Everyone has some bad stuff in their history.

And while it's very important to remember that this happened! It's time to disconnect this event from the company as it exists today.

You are only responsible for the sins of your parents if you keep doing those sins.
I actually hope that you don't find an engineer/designer. This website is awesome, brought back many memories :)
Quick reference to Thiel's Qs:

1. What is something you believe that nearly no one agrees with you on?

2. What is a great company no one has started?

3. Why will the 20th talented person to join your company join your company? They'll make more money at Google, Google will look better on their resume -- why would they join?
I would love to hear both of your estimates of the costs.
As an example in the US, we had a co-worker who was from Cyprus but lived in the US for 5 years to get a BS and MS degree. He knew English before coming to the US and spoke fluent English, but would be lost when we talked about US popular culture. Before then I hadn't really realized how often people made allusion to old TV shows, 15 year old politics, childhood books, etc.
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Because we have certain organisations protected by the state (they're like early-retirement homes for political friends).

The organisation in question here, the GEMA, "protects" artists (in a similar way the music industry protects them) and they have special legal privileges (like that they can assume that every music record is protected by them and the other party has to prove otherwise).

We have a public broadcasting service that enchroaches with (redundant) channels (annual budget of 7 bn EUR). You have to pay a monthly fee once you have a TV or radio or computer, next year it's mandatory for every househeld (240 EUR annually). Good place for political friends.

We have chambers of commerce that you're required to "join" once you start a business. They waste money all the time and are unaccountable. Also for good political friends.

I guess you see the pattern... :(
I won't go so far to call it a managed democracy or a crony cleptocracy, but often I get this impression.
The fact that it was Notch gave it visibility, but I think the following is more than just design or cult-of-personality.

Simplicity is extremely important. A lot of emulators appeared the same day that the spec was released. That not only needed people who wanted to implement the CPU, but also a spec that could be implemented in under a day.

There's a bit of Benevolent Dictator effect here as well. It's not that the system is the absolute best, but it's something that people can target for interoperability. Someone can write a compiler and someone else can write the emulator.
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I'm a little lost. Is there anyway to get some of those features onto my (new) obtvse blog?

EDIT: Wow I never realized Obtvse came AFTER Svbtle. Controversial indeed. This is damn interesting.
@developer9 -> Your comments seem to be dead on arrival, although I cannot figure out why - your comments and submissions look ok to me. Not sure if HN has a silent ban, but just thought you should know.
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Why are their visual angles measured in millimeters?
I couldn't find your email address in your profile. Would be interested in talking, though.
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If there were some way to change this... the world would be a far better place.
In your example you have:

alert = UIAlertView._alloc \
._initWithTitle _S("Hello"),
:message, _S("I'm MobiRuby"),
:delegate, nil,
:cancelButtonTitle, _S("I know!"),
:otherButtonTitles, nil
alert._show

Presumably you don't want to stray from UIKit method names in order to make translation automatic, which is understandable, however translation could be automatic couldn't it - is all that _S necessary? Did you consider a chained, hash syntax something like this:

alert = UIAlertView.alloc().initWithTitle(:title => 'Hello',
:message => "I'm MobiRuby",
:delegate => nil,
:cancelButtonTitle => "I know!",
:otherButtonTitles => nil).show()

With the syntax above someone could omit nil arguments and still get the right result, if you fill in missing arguments for them.

Or would that not work for some reason? I understand why you need to keep the method names (for automatic translation), but perhaps the syntax could be a little friendlier and more in line with expectation for Ruby code? I would love to write code for iOS in Ruby (have already written some, but it wouldn't get on the app store due to restrictions), but interfacing with views etc is not too painful in ObjC currently, so if it was more painful in something like this it would put me off.

Having looked at your pages further, I see the possibilities of a cross-platform Ruby framework for iOS and Android or WinMo, but if you tie it so tightly to UIKit, how did you plan handling cross-platform issues elegantly? Would that be down to the developers (it is a huge task of course)?
I'm really not sure I get her beef.

If I bought $1MM worth of AAPL in 2003 at $10/share, I'd have $57MM. But if I bought it in December 97, at $3.30/share, I could have $150MM! What an idiot am I!

AH made out like bandits here; I'm sure they feel just fine about it.
Thanks Alex. I guess you're planning on uploading it as 3x 10min clips on YouTube?
Had a fuzzy feeling when I started playing it and Orbital is playing as the intro for the podcast.

And suddenly I was in the 90's, seeing Angelina Jolie during the movie Hackers.

Subtle touch at least on the nostalgic side.
I've heard people deriding notch's coding style, skill, or flair, but the power of fame is really amazing and he has used it very well here. He has put the word out and there is significant adoption before the game is even close to being finished (I'm guessing). And similar to Minecraft, he has found a way to brilliantly leverage other people's creativity and use that to amplify the popularity of the system.
I also have the x61s, there is no touchpad on that model, just the trackpoint. Which, by the way, is centered.

My dream laptop would be a macbook air with a trackpoint and top notch linux support... I am curious to see what x230 will look like.