skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not cost per kilo, price. These numbers aren't comparable as-is, you have to look at the cost structure.
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Which purchased startups has Facebook actually integrated into their product? I can't think of any. Friendfeed and Instagram have kept running as standalone projects. The rest have been shut down without any Facebook features that are clear successors.
Low five figure investments ? You seem pretty angelic to me. Us mere mortals don't have that kind of ca$h bro!
Assumption: when you need to increase monetization you should hire MBAs.

Is that because MBAs are uniquely good at monetization, or because we lack a better certification for someone's monetization ability and creativity?
Tablets shouldn't be discounted, but I can't see how they'll change more peoples' lives more than automated driving.

In terms of your points. (I'm assuming tablet = pad type of computer such as ipad, kindle, etc.):

1. Cheaper: Is this true compared to an ultra-low cost laptop, such as the OLPC X 1.75? They might have less components (no keyboard/mouse/touchpad), but capacitive touch screens aren't cheap (I believe $40 in the ipad2). So unless pricing closes in on keyboards (which go for around $10?), I see tablets as being pricier than laptops.

2/3. Agreed

4. Again, see #1. power consumption for low-end laptops is on-par with a tablet if not below. (XO 1.75 is 2W. XO-3 claims 1W).

5. Why is this so much different than a windows program?

So yes, I agree that tablets change things, but how much do they fundamentally improve a person's life? I agree some percentage of people will be taken from "not having a computer" to "having a computer/using it better", but in the end the tablet is just a lighter laptop you can use standing up and with friends easier. So ya, there's benefit, but world changing? I'd argue the laptop was just as, if not more, revolutionary than pad-formatted computers.

On the other hand, I feel automated cars are truly revolutionary. From the point of view of America:

1. 1% of Americans will die in a car crash and countless more will be injured. Automated systems will be an order of magnitude better than human drivers, so we'll see thousands of lives saved a year.

2. Without having to pay for a taxi driver or for expensive liability insurance, the price of a taxi will at least halve. At this point, there is less incentive to own cars and car ownership rate plummets, resulting in far fewer cars being produced (and cars being utilized at much higher rates). (I'm summarizing this famous post: https://plus.google.com/103583939320326217147/posts/TpN1g1oS...)

2a. Americans spend something like $300billion a year on new cars. Automated driving will save >$100B (1% of economy) annually.

3. Again, automated cars drive much better and can operate in situations too dangerous for humans (extremely close driving). With a good communication network, congestion operation will be much more efficient, leading to far less traffic and a reduced need to build more roads.

3a. Auto insurance industry a fraction of its original size. $150B+ savings

4. Driving jobs (taxi, truck) eliminated. That's over 4 million jobs. (2% of the workforce). Incredibly significant and another $100B in economic savings (of course assuming successful redirection to other economically productive activities).

Bottom line: In addition to regaining substantial time lost driving, America alone will save at least $350B a year. That's 2.5% of US GDP (and 25% of transportation gdp).
Yeah, but FB is not making good money even after they started posting ads.
People could do everything an Apple II or IBM PC could do fifteen years before those machines came out. But most people didn't, because it was extremely expensive and cumbersome.
The disruption in mobile & social already happened, the iPhone, iPad and Facebook are just indicators that the industry has moved in to a very mature stage.

What did mobile and social disrupt?

-Authoritarian governments.
-Print media
-Broadcast and cable TV
-Anything people occupied their time with before it

What will/has the iPad disrupt/disrupted?

-Microsoft
-Desktop & Laptop hardware manufacturers
-Print books (asta la vista Borders)
-Television sets

Steve Blank's complaint is basically that the margins are so good in this "new" market that all the money is being invested here and the next big disruptors are getting ignored.

I think as processing power continues to drop in price and mass market access to gigantic data sets grows, this will become a non-issue. The question is, will those disruptions come from somewhere outside of Silicon Valley?
The fact that you're not using it yet is almost a necessary condition for it being groundbreaking. The basic technology for the iPad has been around for ages, but the real innovation of the iPad is getting everything working smoothly and cohesively in a way that previous devices didn't. You may well be using AR of some variety at some point in the future but it will be some refined version with the kinks ironed out.
When we discuss solving whether P=NP, are we talking about a theoretical shortcut that allows us to not have to calculate everything? Or is it quantum computing that simply allows us to efficiently just compute everything because no shortcut is likely to be discovered?
That's a meaningless statement. What you "think will happen in the future" is based on what you know about the company. And what we know now, doesn't look so good.
Try to understand what triggered the spam detection bot.
Maybe it's the interval between two mentions that was too short? A solution would be to never do a tweet/mention more than every 10s or so.
Maybe it's a matter of ratio, normal tweets vs mentions?

Your user acquisition rates are great, persevere.
An interesting point, but I'm not sure it applies. Microsoft knew they could never really commoditize computing with a command-line OS, so Windows was an absolute necessity. It was demanded by literally billions of customers, most of whom didn't even know they needed it. Even then, Windows took several years and three major versions before it really caught on.

These days, desktop computers are as ubiquitous as they are ever going to get, and few people are demanding a replacement for the traditional Windows UI on the desktop. Unlike DOS, what Microsoft has is good enough for the mass desktop/laptop market. The fact that it's not good enough for mobile does not in any way justify tinkering with their successful desktop strategy. IMO, what we're seeing is yet another panicked, reactionary twitch from the Ballmer executive suite.
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You should go through the whole history and downvote, if you've got the time - it will reduce my overall karma.
iPhone and iPad are not innovations, they're just very very good iteration of existing tech.
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Honestly, I prefer Google's implementation of site specific search better. I'd rather search with DuckDuckGo/Google's engine, because its better, rather than be redirected to a usually bad site search.
well actually those people are not paid to spy on us its explicitly gross misconduct in the civil service just as it is in any the company that deals with peoples data.

its Tabloid Hacks and dodgy PI's that are paid to spy on us that are more worrying for civil society
Humm the icon thing: not an MBA thing

I guess a group of engineers could do the same

That's called Design by Committee. See also: Windows Vista
I tried it out but the core library functions seem to reject all arguments. I can't decide if this is a bug or a feature.
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Volume and longevity do count for something. That said, modern day PayPal is nothing like what Max founded.
I really loved the line "It’s like I’m waiting for the movie of my life to begin instead of realizing that I’m already living it." I feel like that a lot. I have to remind myself to focus on now.
Thanks for your response, but I'm having trouble making out what your actual question might be. Let me set the scene:

The class P is those problems that can be solved in polynomial time.

The class NP is those problems such that an alleged solution can be checked in polynomial time.

Every problem in P is also in NP.

We don't know if there are any problems in NP that are not also in P. That's what we want to know.

So given that, what was your question?
What makes a timeframe meaningful? Many of the settlers of the American West (including Portland and Seattle) walked there from Missouri alongside their wagons.
They had to do SOMETHING with that $16B
True, but if the company is not really growing, how can you expect the future figures to go up?

FB is really stuck, they have no fucking idea what to do with all the users. FB ads don't work.

The only way FB will survive is if they start selling shit directly on their pages, highly targeted, Amazon-level goods and prices.
Yes, he is a coder (Ruby on Rails), has had talks on Ruby, is familiar with iOS development, Perl, PHP (he said PHP was the language he used daily for a couple years) and is not clueless at all. He has also done a few PeepCode screencasts (Ruby, Sinatra, jQuery, Mercurial, Command Line, vi, ...).

The problem is John Siracusa, who basically knows too much.
I imagine that this is money related. The Talk Show was one of the original shows. 5by5 has grown a lot since then. Dan has put ton of work in to his company. And it shows. Perhaps as a business 5by5 is doing much better now then it was when it started out. Perhaps gruber was still operating under the original agreement him and dan had when they first teamed up. Maybe gruber is no longer satisfied with their agreement seeing how well the talk show franchisee is doing.

This seemed more apparent when Dan teased him a bit for not wearing the 5by5 shirt. Seemed like a sore point.
Dan left me with a small impression that gruber what "phoning it in" by commenting on the fact that gruber didn't dress up for the show. Dan, it's a radio show. Good luck guys.

It's fun to guess at these things.
Functions take in 0 arguments and generate one argument. Arguments are created out of ontological necessity.
Related: LinkedIn has a P/E of over 600 today. It makes Facebook's 100 seem almost conservative.
It's cool because in a small but poignant way it represents how Zuck was able to build his company w/o kissing Wall street's ass. So many CEO's tactics are driven by quarterly earnings. By keeping his hoodie on and not flying out to New York to ring the bell, Zuck kinda saying fu off to all that.

If that blue Nasdaq button embodies short term, profit driven thinking, it's neat that the engineers were able to hack it and bend it toward their will. It's a poetic hack.
By giving you a crippled, nerfed WinRT API to develop to instead of Win32. Apple's iOS APIs are crippled, too, but the iPad is so much cheaper, niftier, and more pleasant to develop for (seriously, Cocoa APIs are pretty awesome). The key advantage of Windows -- backwards compatibility with prior versions of Windows -- is going to be to some significant degree, lost with WinRT. In short, Microsoft is going to have a hard time attracting a critical mass of developers to this new platform without... incentives[0].

[0] http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/10/23/
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Knowing computer science stuff like regular languages is really not required to understand the incompleteness theorems; grasping first order logic, a little arithmetic and some elementary recursion theory is sufficient.

I repeat my objection to the Goldstein book raised elsewhere in this discussion.
"In the last bubble there were no customers. Facebook makes $4 per user. The users are customers."

Nope. The users are the product, not the customers.
Sunny Leone in two piece for MISS INDIA BIKINI 2012?
Convenient timing: 38 Studio just revealed their first video of Project Copernicus content:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9nvnrP0j8U
If you're going to restrict it to specifically the investment business, then yeah, typically. But pretty much anyone who purchases for a living is awash in kickbacks, the kind of stuff you'd be fired from a government for.

FWIW I agree that the government shouldn't be in the investment game except for strategic investments by the federal government (ball bearings, green tech, DARPA, stuff like that). Certainly not video game companies.

There is still a role for development agencies, doing stuff like helping streamline paperwork, advocating for sewer hookups, stuff like that. They shouldn't be investors.
They shouldn't be expected to take any actions to use the new Internet we're building for them, but they should know that it exists.

If they don't need to take any action regarding low-level networking infrastructure, why should they have to concern themselves with it?

Why can't engineers, writers, teachers, workers, bureaucrats, manual laborers, poets, bus drivers, carers for children, and on and on just use this utility? It's not treating them like idiots to not tell them exactly what sort of pipes their water goes through to get to them. These infrastructure concerns are just millions of details about their everyday existence that they don't need to know. What makes our particular utility special that they should have to be told about it?

They should be able to find out if they care or are just interested for curiosity's sake. But otherwise it's just bothersome clutter to them.
ITC bans all Motorola phones in the US for infringing Microsoft patent
I guess it's similar in idea to something like the Cell[1] processor with 'processing elements'/cores sitting on a blob of local memory/cache, with very NUMA-like access to everything else. Scaling the ram per unit / # units is probably where the complicated lies. What sort of cluster sizes were you thinking of?

I dunno what the current capabilities are of compilers for these cell-like architectures, but I recall that there were (still?) serious problems getting good performance out of the PS3 due to the difficulty of it's programming model. I'd hope they've advanced the state of the art some though.

My (entirely naive) brain screams MPI, but I don't know how well that would work in practice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_%28microprocessor%29
Your generalizations are incorrect. While a lot of people were very vocal on their opposition to Gnome shell and Unity, I wouldn't say "everyone" opposed them. In fact, I didn't. I considered the move risky, of course.

I think Metro for desktops and notebooks makes very little sense unless you use a multi-touch pointing device like Apple's trackpad. With a mouse, it's painful.
maybe they are planning ahead. tastes change. they are simply aiming for where you will be, not where you are.
I did a tweet every 10 min in average.. The ratio were not so bad... (thanks for your support! ;-)
Minimum wage is (in theory) 485€ month (around 20€/day) for a full time job.. but there is a work around where you get a job as an external employee and there is no minimal wage.

I also believe in Milton Friedman but not in a globalised world, unless we lower wages till meet India market to be able to compete. I can tell you where are US jobs nowadays. My girlfriend, in Poland works for HP for less then 8K dollars year. Master degree job, not as a cleaning lady..
Nope, reasonable suggestion though. What OS and version of Chrome are you using? It's sporadic for me in OSX on Chrome 19.0. (Also, wtf is up with their ridiculously high versioning? The new browser wars seem to be based on version number.)
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+duckdu...
Still works, it's just harder to type and less reliable.
It's funny how so people always assume there has to be horrible personal conflicts behind these things. In my experience people mostly move on because they think they have found a better opportunity for themselves. Hard to second guess people's career moves.
There's a big difference between reducing memory pressure/performance (which kind of solved itself once applications stopped increasing memory usage faster than the price/Mb dropped, and the move from 32-bit to 64-bit helped a bit too; handling stupid things like XP swapping everything out to disk overnight were easy wins as well) and improving power efficiency (requires application and OS redesign, which Microsoft have done and judging by the moaning about WinRT in this thread by developers the uptake will be a challenge; even then if you improve efficiency people just keep using the damn devices even more so it's really difficult to win whereas with memory there's a typical usage value that changes safely relative to RAM increases as applications grow over the years, whereas battery capacity isn't improving as rapidly).

I'm throwing another 12GB of RAM (making 24GB total) into my system tomorrow when I install Windows 8. Together with my new SSD it'll help crunching through some large data sets so that I can hit 100% CPU utilization. It cost me $100 USD to do so in a country where we often pay double for electronics. Few "normal" people can utilize all of that during the normal course of using a PC. Memory pressure is an easy problem to solve.
In Perl 6 - is the infix minus operator and a valid delimiter.
Isn't this just a book about lies?

I'd like to read things that our startup could benefit from. We definitely don't want to lie.
I was planning to contribute towards the end of the campaign, but now that the kickstarter is successful AND YC is taking it under it's wings, I'm going to wait to be a retail customer.

Wish you the best of luck, this project is very interesting.
Ditto. There was a concrete floor at $38 today.
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i have to say that i liked the idea. i'm not a fan of any of those people but i'm working for a media company which means our editors get access to all those pictures of famous people instead of diving into google hell. they are making them happily available for everyone.

congrats! :)

i believe i can suggest one thing. when we see the bigger version of the picture, let us like or dislike to photo and maybe share the action in twitter.
Anyway I submitted an inquiry to Twitter, but I don't think they will reply... They told too many mentions.. but I don't think that 300 mentions in 2 days with other tweets in the between are too much.. really... (I don't think I'm the top mentioner guy...)
It needs an short attack ramp, to eliminate the clicking. Or it can ensure that the waveform always start at the zero crossing.
> One may argue that Europe went too far with their "social" expenses (hence, the current financial meltdown)

One may argue that if she has no understanding of the European financial meltdown, and just wants to find evidence for the failure of the welfare state where there is none. The crisis happened primarily because of the Spanish real estate crisis, and it became exacerbated because of (1) structural flaws in the monetary union and (2) imposition of rapid austerity.

As for the rest, I agree.
Nice! This was my first suggestion when DDH was announced. Thanks "Adman".
When I've raised funding I didn't see angel investors as "angels." I wasn't asking for favors. My company wasn't a charity. I wanted investors who believed in what we were doing, not some uncle with money who might think he was being magnanimous.
And yet we still have people learn basic math, to read and write, etc. Like doing math with roman numerals, there are many ways the programming can be improved. We do need better notation, but that doesn't mean there is no part of the process that doesn't require the effort of the human.

Programming is about describing how to solve problems. Maybe we call a plumber, but we don't call a math professor to figure out how many plates we need on the table when people are coming to dinner.

By you logic, people don't need to be able to read because we have street signs. The ipad is easy to use because it's designed to be tightly constrained. You can only do things that people prepared for you. But solving tightly constrained problems is what computers are good for; if you can't do anymore than that, why are you needed?

Throughout history, it was believed that most people didn't need to read and write, or know math, etc. But the core of that argument is anti-humanist.

And no, "computer literacy" isn't the answer, (and is a ridiculous term anyway; literacy requires that you be able to express yourself), anymore than "calculator literacy" is the answer to solving math problems. Knowing how to use a tool isn't enough, you have to understand something about what you're trying to accomplish. A calculator isn't going to help you if you don't know what basic math is, and how it applies to the problem you're trying to solve.
Elsevier squirms to the tune of €80bn
Looks like your sample rate is 2048Hz. Shannon-Nyquist says that should be plenty to represent the fundamental of your highest note (C5 at 523Hz). Even if you're getting aliasing on some of the higher harmonics, I'd think the tuning would still sound okay.

Any acoustics nerds that can help me understand this?
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Nick Bradbury: Android Apps Shouldn't Be Crappy Clones of iPhone Apps
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>Who cares what this guy thinks?

"This guy" is Steve Blank[1]. He's kind of a big deal in SV and the startup scene in general. Whether or not you agree with his assessment of Valley culture, his personal cachet is such that it behooves you to take notice.

[]1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Blank
No.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
Looking at the page source, all I see is Javascript. Google Analytics and Facebook junk.

Try visiting this site with Javascript disabled and you get nothing.

Hopefully all websites will follow this brilliant design.

Great job!
While centralization has its risks, the benefits of an entire industry being in close proximity to helping good ideas spread cannot be understated.
Most people who work in Silicon Valley for a while can afford to make a few small investments like that if they choose. Others buy a nice car, or whatever. It can be seen as an expensive hobby. Many angel investors are regular working guys/gals.
You havent got the options this website provides you though. Reading your news, taking notes, accessing your email, or searching so many websites with just a click (mouse or keyboard shortkey), there is nothing better
This 5by5 drawing sums it up, http://goo.gl/6kXwj
It's a good network overall, Merlin's show is mostly funny, he can touch on interesting topics about productivity, but mostly his character is very peculiar.
Dumping requires lots of money. Dumping on the backyard of large defense contractors is suicidal.
I see. Can you read your news? Check the weather? Translate a page? Keep your notes? Your schedule for tomorrow? or maybe access your favourite social network site/email or just exchange currency for the sake of it.
Smoother?

Try adding keyboard shortcuts too. Open your browser, press F... Tata! Your in your profile already. There as so many features frenchlab is missing. I cant even compare them.

And I have nothing to do with this app by the way. I just love it
There's been a lot of stories lately about these financial platforms falling apart.
This is cost in terms of "how much will it cost me to hire SpaceX or the Soyuz to take my tourist self / science experiment / mining robot to LEO." If you want to call that price, go for it.

Obviously this is pure theorycraft for the Space Shuttle. But if anyone has a better number please share!

$/kg is the crucial number that has to fall to bring about a new era in space exploration.

Except for SpaceX, space launch companies don't publish their prices straight up on the website. But about $5,000 per kg ballpark figure for Soyuz seems widely to be accepted by credible sources on the internet and books. See:

http://books.google.com/books?id=kN9Szy-fJVIC&pg=PA69...

If someone has harder numbers for the Soyuz, please share!