skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Office is a good start, but to be really useful it needs to have more modes. Maybe you should have a simple shortcut editor that anybody can use to produce schemes which can then be uploaded to some common repository.
Maybe there's some limit on the size we can grow to, but so far we haven't hit a bottleneck we couldn't overcome.

Advising startups turns out to be pretty parallelizable. We can easily handle 20 startups per partner, so with 6 partners working full time advising startups, we currently have 50% more capacity than we need.

If I had to guess where we'll hit a limit that's hard to beat, it might be when the number of partners gets too large to communicate easily. E.g. with 20 partners things might get unwieldy.
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You can make a problem harder than it looks if you want to :)
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Ah, so they are getting ready for World IPv6 Launch, but not entirely there yet. I didn't flip to my IPv6-only network to check it. Thanks for noting this!
By the way, toilet is just another euphemism.
I didn't say it was caused by the electronics, but it was probably caused by pilot inexperience in manual flying at high altitude (among other things).

There have been other cases, for instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72 where the autopilot put the plane in a dive because of a malfunctioning sensor and a software bug.

If the pilots on that plane had done nothing like like you suggested the AF447 pilots should have done, what do you think would have happened then?

Which is my entire point, until you have situationally aware computers, you need situationally aware human pilots.
My question is: Why didn't Intel already know about this? They have more real and theoretical knowledge of the behavior of silicon and various silicon-based materials than anyone else.
The article changes tenses a lot, which makes it almost impossible to tell if this has been created already, or is waiting to be created. Dr Kenyon's site doesn't really help in that matter.
It is positively shameful how many communities are filled with insults, trolls, snark, and incivility.

The net is full of people who subscribe to ideologies that hold:

1) It's always ok to f^ck with people
2) If they're not cool with it, they are wrong/evil/inferior

Actually, I hold that not being f^cked with non-consensually is actually a human right. It should fit into the Maslow need hierarchy. Rejection by a group is a terrible experience for a social animal like a human being, and being emotionally abused while others in the group stand by is tantamount to this.

After reading Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism[1], I am convinced that banning is vastly underused.

I think the "blue pill" tactic is more economical. It is often possible to put the trollers with the trollers and make the trollers effectively invisible to the civil members. In the long run, I think that is cheaper than playing whack-a-mole with banned trolls coming back.
Here's a beta version of my new book, on Effect Mapping - a simple yet incredibly powerful planning method that fits in nicely with lean startup ideas, iterative/agile delivery and design thinking.
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Light Table is a rapid tool prototyping platform :)
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I just noticed yesterday that nmap does the same with their website, that's why I thought to check. http://[2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fe96:967c]/ is web.insecure.org but it just redirects to the IPv4 version.
Well, yeah, infinite in an engineering sense. Since YC applications are international, you can have tens of thousands of team applying. Based on the acceptance rate this time they had ~4250 teams, which should already strain the screening process. This could easily go up to 10K.
This works on google.com.au as well. Really cool!

The synthesizer uses the Audio API on Chrome and Flash on all other browsers.
Oh, that's lovely. I'm sure Professor Skrbina is also pen pals with Eric Rudolph, the abortion bomber:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Rudolph

Every other week, he teaches his adoring young undergrads to understand Rudolph's subtle, nuanced position on the sanctity of human life... not.

FWIW, both Kaczynski's and Rudolph's philosophical opinions are worthy of debate. Their persons, however, are icky. Icky rubs off - even if you're a professor.
> not in the way people are fans of their iPhones

I think this whole Apple Cult thing is pretty overblown. Sure there may be a noisy minority who give that impression but I sure don't know any. I have an iPhone because I considered it the best choice but I'm hardly a raving iPhone zealot. I hate the closed ecosystem too, and resent that I have to chose between a high quality user experience (by my taste) and a more free environment.

I don't really know anyone who fits into the stereotype of an unconditional raving iPhone fan, and this amongst a social circle which is basically exclusively iPhone.
"Is it even morally or ethically right," he asks, "to be studying the works of a societal criminal."

Clearly this student didn't learn anything from their earlier reading of Phaedrus.
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Standardize interface for all OAuth providers. Extensible.
Nice, is there a Wordpress plugin in the works? I'm sure that a lot of people would be interested in this.
Here you ask for five minutes of learning, later in this thread you seem to (correct me) expect people to get a good grasp on ssh and key management to avoid being 'dangerous'.

Is both correct? Or would you agree that 5min to learn how ssh works, even for a broad overview, is not exactly helping / changing anything.
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"It’s expensive getting hardware to test on, taking time to test it, making sure you have a windows installation"

I infer two inferences from the above quote:

Inference 1. The individual is either a non paid, or poorly paid developer,

Inference 2.That developing on a mac is not as financially rewarding as developing on a PC.

Why else would it be to costly to purchase an off the shelf PC from Walmart for $500.00 for the purpose of testing IE 9?
You may be missing a reference or two : http://www.zedshaw.com.sharedcopy.com/rants/51489cec9386f7c1... and http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2009/04/25/why-rails-is-still-a...
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Yes, I am using amazon affiliates, which pays me a 4% on all the purchases we refer.

Thx for the info on other shopping affiliate platforms (I didn't know them), but right now my focus is on trying to get traction and traffic to the site. After that we'll see the best way to monetize it
different use cases. Leap motion is for (extreme) short distance manipulation, which probably gives it the higher resolution, while Kinect is for mid-distance manipulation, which works well for games.
I wonder though why would one opt for Leap motion and not buy a real touch screen if he needs to be that close to the screen anyway.
you can do the same in JS if you have such simple particles as well (ie rendering by just writing a few bytes). http://mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/strangeattractor/ does 300k as well (though it's borked right now since he has to update his stats code).

here's another fast one in webgl: http://iacopoapps.appspot.com/hopalongwebgl/
reading the source, it has 280000 particles.
No reason to stress if you're already settled in the Bay Area -- you've got a natural launching pad for the apartment search, which makes it so much easier. Rely heavily on contacts in the city to get the inside track on an apartment, and it shouldn't be too tough.
As he mentioned, it may be overblown unless you're in video. The streaming protocols don't get a lot of love (every 2.x.x version broke different bits of streaming in novel ways) and codecs don't work across devices either.

(Also note other comments here about Color and Netflix apps.)
As long as the distro has drivers for VIA WonderMedia WM8750, it will be fine. Honestly I have no idea if any distros do.
Not really just OAuth but it should work with even proprietary authentication providers as long as there is a compatible Opauth strategy for it.
Do carriers? The contract I signed with AT&T was pretty onerous.

For you. For AT&T, it says they can come into your house and take any and all children of yours whenever they want. They wrote the contract and you have no choice but to agree, so they're certainly not going to go out of their way to be nice to you. (Their logo is the frickin' Death Star, after all!)
In case anyone is wondering:

"Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII)
Yup spent a solid 45 minutes not doing work.
I think the Anti-Lean term here means big capital investment and long development cycle to build the product vs. the typical small amount of investment and short development cycle in the Lean shops.

It doesn't invalidate the Lean development approach, just describing the opposite of it. It's like matter vs anti-matter, which doesn't state anything negative about matter, just having the opposite property.
Thank you for taking time to put it on Youtube also! I really liked the website example. Reaching to the right code in the right file gets cumbersome pretty quickly in a project of even medium size!
I face similar issues at work but I don't think Eclipse's issue is Java, else you're saying that anything developed in Java will face a "boated" fate. Eclipse's problem is exactly what Chris mentioned in the article, ok on most things and awesome at none.

Edit: Typos.
The agencies who investigate what you describe are understaffed and underfunded, many say intentionally.
Wow, only 3,000 cycles. I haven't heard about this property of memristors before. I guess they still have a long time to go before becoming production-ready. On the good side, they look very, very dense, so maybe some kind of ECC would help?http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~tkenyon/Photonic_Materials/Silicon_...
Android fragmentation is worse than web fragmentation. On the web one only has to test on 4 browsers x two operating systems, as opposed to dozens of phones x several os versions x several carriers.
Except the recirculation systems started well before the smoking ban...
With a bluetooth keyboard, this is a killer app.

It's not the screen resolution of a dual-screen desktop, but a new iPad is almost as good as a 27" iMac !!

new iPad: 2048x1536 = 3.14 million pixels
27" iMac: 2560x1440 = 3.69 million pixels

I don't have a new iPad yet, though, so I don't know if the quality or the experience is comparable.

The killer feature for mobile coding is a keyboard and screen that are separable. Put the screen wherever is most convenient and the keyboard wherever is most convenient.

You could even code on an airplane. Even the smallest MBP is uncomfortable in coach, for me anyway.
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But, instead compare that to Emacs, these are exactly the sorts of things people can and do do in emacs in reasonable amounts of time. And exactly why emacs has many great tools, from paredit-mode to SLIME.

The comparison to emacs isn't meant as a slight to LightTable either, but please, let's not forgot the past when creating the future.
So, today, I could run mission control out of any office park in the world with sufficient space and quality IP connectivity to either my own antenna farm or the Deep Space Network.

This is indeed the future I was promised as a child.
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Seems like Windows should just include both. The flat look as a default if the prefer, and an option to change to the aero look.
That's definitely one of the top frameworks/CMS to support. I'll get on with it if no one has started when I'm done with CakePHP-Opauth and Opauth's documentations.
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Thanks for your feedback. Yes, I have been trying with the bank for the past 2 months. Apparently it takes a while.

The intuit here is not only to try to receive the U$ 300 back but also to let Yahoo! and others here on HN know that this shouldn't be happening.
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The genius of google's ads is that they can be so much different. When you search for something targeted ads are far more common to be relevant and useful. Facebook is still struggling with its ad technology and paradigm, and right now they have a very clunky, old fashioned system. Throw ads in the user's face, collect money. The principle being that a well made ad can get someone to buy something they didn't want to buy before. But that's the old and busted way of doing things. It's the way that shows adult diaper ads to 20 year olds, and baby diaper ads to 60 year olds.

It's based on the premise that you can auction off people's attention to the highest bidder. And to some degree yes, that still does work, a little. In the 21st century there are better ways. The best "advertising" is not recognizable as advertising at all. It's greasing the wheels of people buying something they already want. If you look at amazon, for example, they have the recommendations system, an extensive product review system, and a referral system. All of these are there to help guide people into buying something. Amazon is best served when a customer buys something they actually want, as is google. It strengthens their brand and deepens user engagement. This is precisely what facebook needs to be doing but haven't, partly because unlike with google, any degree of advertising is intrusive on the experience of using facebook. And if they get into the cycle of just dumping more and more generic, "attention auction" ads on their users then they will have failed. People will merely ignore the ads or they will spend their time elsewhere if the site becomes too obnoxious to use.
Apple Wireless
Totally do-able, but it's probably better to use such talk to leverage the current carriers. There biggest issue would be buying spectrum. There mere presence would drive up the value of new spectrums up for auction to obscene levels. Tower space is predominately run by ATC and Crown. Apple would more likely build out DAS networks in the major cities. More expensive, but a very scalable network to easily handle data consumption. They could also jump on existing neutral hosting DAS networks. They could put up a solid nationwide network in 10 years. The approach and thinking would have to be long term in terms of ROI. I am just playing with numbers on a spreadsheet, but if Apple did invest $100B in spectrum, network deployment and building a new company. Then with an ARPU of $100/month and 80M plus users, they might possibly make their money back in ten years. Wireless is a legit mature proven industry with talent and expertise in rapid deployments, marketing/sales and technology with each carrier having their own competitive advantages. If Apple can leverage their $ and exploit their own competive advantages(brand name & technology) to tap into that good talent for a competive build out, then it's totally do-able.
It's not just video. It's any time you step out of the sandbox of "simple native UI app" that you start running into these differences.
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This discussion raised an interesting thought in my mind: what if CounterStrike was seen as a worthwhile sport by society? If the annual CounterStrike champion was seen as on a par with top sportspeople? If people like muraiki could say "yeah, I trained pretty hard for CounterStrike in my college days. Almost went pro but decided I wanted to focus on other things. Got fond memories of it though".

That is, is the difference between "good" and "bad" obsessions purely subjective and cultural? (Example of a good obsession: recently I read the book "Mastery", where the author describes his years of practicing Aikido almost nightly. Aikido is probably close to useless in real life but the author was greatly enriched by his training. And the enrichment wasn't despite the fact his training was often repetitive, it was because it was so repetitive and "dull").

Or is there an objective criteria for distinguishing between good an bad obsessions? Here's my criteria, good obsessions are good for at least one of:

- your health
- your wealth
- your social circle
- etc

And bad obsessions are bad for at least one of those. So if you're an avid gamer, but you don't let it go so far as to effect your health, and you actively go to LAN parties or gaming expos and make real friends through that, then that's a healthy obsession.

Or if you're an online poker player or day trader that loses significant money, that's an unhealthy obsession (because it would be rational to stop). If you make money, then it's a healthy obsession. If you only lose insignificant amounts of money, then it's just a hobby and isn't really good or bad.

I actually only admitted to myself this year that I'm actually obsessed with startups. I realised that most close friends I made over the last few years had ever a strong interest or active involvement in entrepreneurship and instead of trying to fight it (eg, like thinking it was kind of lame that I've been to more tech conferences than music concerts), I should just double down on that and build a social circle out of my startup obsession.
Apple wireless
Totally do-able, but it's probably better to use such talk to leverage the current carriers. There biggest issue would be buying spectrum. There mere presence would drive up the value of new spectrums up for auction to obscene levels. Tower space is predominately run by ATC and Crown. Apple would more likely build out DAS networks in the major cities. More expensive, but a very scalable network to easily handle data consumption. They could also jump on existing neutral hosting DAS networks. They could put up a solid nationwide network in 10 years. The approach and thinking would have to be long term in terms of ROI. I am just playing with numbers on a spreadsheet, but if Apple did invest $100B in spectrum, network deployment and building a new company. Then with an ARPU of $100/month and 80M plus users, they might possibly make their money back in ten years. Wireless is a legit mature proven industry with talent and expertise in rapid deployments, marketing/sales and technology with each carrier having their own competitive advantages. If Apple can leverage their $ and exploit their own competive advantages(brand name & technology) to tap into that good talent for a competive build out, then it's totally do-able.
You can get 100 times as many particles by doing a pure shader based solution. Still, very impressed by the speed of JS.
Interesting timing in light of the recent discussion (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3982114 - Google's Code Editor) which included a number of anecdotes [including yours] regarding this issue.
It's really too bad that Kaczynski was trying to publish his work back in the 1970s and 1980s. These days, he could have just published it on the internet, and that way plenty of people would have been able to read it.
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On Tue May 22 20:03:29 EEST 2012, all I get is a page with navigation and a greyish pattern background. Could not figure out what to do with it. This is with Chrome and FF on a Mac.
The build, check, tweak, rebuild is certainly the most time consuming part of any iOS development. This is a really great enhancement.
Watch it again. It's not so much the LOC per file that matters, it's the size of your functions / methods. Notice when light table pulls up the relevant code being used by a call it's method specific and not file specific.

Isn't that the whole point? To me this looks pretty amazing.
"is there really tangible, hard evidence that online ads lead to actual sales? and if so, who the heck are the people actually clicking on them?"

Yes, 20 and 30 somethings click on ads all the time, but they tend not to look like ads. Ads that come up in google searches are typically highly relevant, so plenty of people click on them. And various forms of advertisement such as amazon referral links and such-like which represent buying suggestions from trusted friends.
For anyone who's curious like I was, just go to http://minimal.be/lab/ for a full listing of other cool stuff he's worked on.
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We've spent 10+ years on the web trying to educate end users that things will not be pixel perfect across webtv, ie3/4/5/6/7/8/9, netscape 2/3/4, firefox1-12, opera, chrome, safari on linux, mac, windows, on 10"-30" screens. Slowly, over time, it seemed to work.

"This rounded corner on ie7/winxp doesn't look exactly the same as the rounded corner on my iphone4!" isn't the type of complaint I hear from clients any more, but font renderings, aliasing, shape of rounded corners, etc are all things I've had to deal with in the past.

We're now entering mobile devices/tablets, which will bring with it its own version of the same stuff. It was easier to tell someone "that's netscape, this is opera - they're different, and will look a little different*" than it will be to say "this is android, and that's android, but they don't work the same".
It's a pretty impressive demo. It looks like it could be the mother of all scratchpads. It looks like it might have a bit of a scary learning curve though.

I can certainly think of a lot of ideas of what I might try to implement with such an approach. Really any existing code inspection/analysis approach.

I'm thinking some sort of view onto Powershell providers could be interesting.

Maybe exception lookups in the code as your browse through an error log.

Definitely a regex tester utility: does your string match the regex? Do parts of it match part of the regex? What's an example string that would match? Can we display all of this dynamically in real time?
More of a meta comment on the future being specific and how it is all about creating more domain-specific tools vs generalized tools... I think that's really a common property in any complex, highly powerful system. Think about the brain, the economy, DNA, a corporation even... etc. Domain specificity is the past and the present, too!
vims extensibility is a commonly cited positive, but I totally do not understand it, since pretty much every editor imaginable is extensible in similar fashion, and pretty much all of the use better languages then vim.

By contrast, emacs is basically an application platform that ships with an editor implementation, and eclipse is a platform for building editors.

It's not that vim isn't extensible, it is, just not as much as other alternatives, and nowhere near as easily as most of its competition.

IMO the real advantage of vim is that it is a highly efficient and productive tool that works great without any customization, and is available everywhere without installation. Which is pretty much the opposite of the above opinion.
Their research labs have quantum computers, I'm sure they are well aware. As for pushing this to market, no hurry, they're in the business of selling silicone 8086 based processors, they'll probably keep doing that for as long as possible.
What I worry about Light Table is what it won't be from Emacs. At the end of the day, Emacs is still a text editor, and still edits files. This means that I really can use it for anything, doesn't matter if I have a mode for it, or an embedded compiler/REPL. It still just works, and we can't forget this if we want a modern Emacs.

Emacs was born in a world of textfiles, Light Table shows us a post-textfile world, but before we can get to the future, it needs to be able to survive in the world we live in today, which is one where textfiles are king.
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