skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems that even though kickstarter will not fund companies (only "projects") this is an example of how a company could spin off a stealth division to organize around a project to get it funded and to prove the market and pre-sell.

The video done here is very professional and the whole thing just has to much shine on it.

I'm wondering if projects like this will end up clouding out the original intention of kickstarter.

The founder (Julie Uhrman) has nice credentials but is described as a "digital media executive":

http://www.linkedin.com/in/julieuhrman

Added: And at least on linkedin ouya is presented as a company and it appears from here background that that is what she is building.
The article points points out that DOM traversal is annoying, but jQuery-like apis are available for most languages.
As far as startups go, I'd imagine that it's more a function of available capital--and even then I've heard good things about startups out of places like Berlin or London.

As far as innovations go, you should go look at the demoscene and a lot of the goofy but useful JS libraries to come out (say, three.js which I believe is Spanish in origin). So, again, I'm not sure where you get that from.

That sense of entitlement and cushy job seems to prevent
people from taking risks. They'd rather just coast.

As opposed to all the hardworking American office drones that only take ~2 weeks a year? Also, what's this business about a "cushy job"? Wouldn't you want workers to be happier and thus more productive?

Why do you seem to be implying that there is a moral highground to more strenuous and miserable work?
Not really, just first hand experience having her remove my post. You could consider the fact that there are no polite yet critical comments to her as evidence, but that could also be explained by there being absolutely no people who disagree with her and are polite.
I think the interesting thing is that you can now raise large sums while still having an exit condition that isn't "IPO" or "buyout." To me, anything that brings the focus of the CEO back to "create cool thing" is a good move for capitalism and the world in general.
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Am I the only one seeing the "e" cut off of "you've" on the site? : https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1634015/photos/tapfame.png
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Me too. Though it's more expensive than flash memory, it can support a much higher number of erase cycles.
"i probably shouldn't talk for that team too much, but generally we think of ads the same way we think of other communication on fb. if it's starbucks talking to their fans it's not fundamentally different than me talking to my friends. so we're not trying to shove ads on the side and pray people click on them - we're trying to integrate them more with the other naturally social stuff on the site. I think sponsored stories are going to be huge, for instance"

Looks like some kool-aid over there about advertising. A brand advertising to its customers is the same thing as someone talking to their friend? Since when? They are not trying to shove ads on the side and pray people click on them because they know people increasingly will ignore them. Instead, they've opted for tricking you into clicking them by putting them in your feed with your friends' avatars slapped on top.
The software is a "steaming pile of shit"? Of course, it was built by IBM Federal. Building software for U.S. gov't contractors is an awful, awful experience. The end result is the talented leave as soon as they can, because working in a red tape environment with ridiculous Information Assurance (that's gov't speak for their own ludicrous security theater that is their IT security process) policies makes you want to kill yourself.

My wife has a friend who barely made it out of high school, believes in psychics, believes that the U.S. gives an annual payment to England for our freedom (this was revealed on the 4th. I spit out my beer laughing, but then I realized she was serious). This person works as an Information Assurance person in charge of making sure software is "secure." She knows nothing about software, but she has passed a few tests, courtesy of prep courses which guarantee you can get the cert. Because she was in the Air Force for 6 months (she got pregnant and was honorably discharged a couple of months after her first duty), she is a veteran and is therefore fully qualified to classify software as secure. Or in reality, defense contractors have to meet quotas for hiring veterans, and they put her in the easiest butts in seats job they could find, IT security.

This, my friends, is the system you have to deal with in the federal fucking government.
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Of course, "annointed" is unjustifiable by either standard and is Simply Wrong. :P

Firefox shows "cancelation" as a typo in both their UK and US dictionaries, although it appears in /usr/share/dict for both american-english and british-english on Ubuntu. Curious. I would have indeed natively spelled it with two L's.
> Be a grown up and deal with it

Physician, heal thyself.

> you don't get to ban what you don't like.

How is this relevant? No one brought up banning free speech.
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Well I was only using art to explain why it might be bought, not why it is possible to sell. Toxic waste is only restricted because it can leak out and harm the area. A bad bond is merely useless. You could sell broken blenders for scrap, for example.

Edit: wait, how is wealth destroyed? I don't see how selling bad bonds would inherently destroy wealth, such as if they cost a fair price of pennies, nor do I understand how overcharging would destroy wealth as opposed to taking wealth. Am I missing something?
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On the other hand, we're doing some public-sector development, and it's fixed-cost and the end result will be public domain.
The search results page, in particular, but overall the centered, narrow-width layout really doesn't do it for me.
mathijs, you might want to look into remoteStorage. It’s an open protocol for per-user data storage. As it also has identification & authorization, the log in is inherent. It’s kind of like OpenID + Storage, except that we don’t use OpenID (but rather Webfinger, OAuth, CORS and Get put delete on a key value store).
For a developer, you just put in the remoteStorage.js client-side library and that enables everyone to log in to your app with their remoteStorage.

Check it out at http://unhosted.org and http://www.w3.org/community/unhosted/wiki/RemoteStorage
There is also an IRC channel, #unhosted on freenode.
Does it do multiple columns, too? With TweetDeck I tend to have lots of columns - all tweets, only best friends, dms, facebook and a running search. Would like to get rid of TweetDeck because it is the only Air application I still have.
Case mold for iPad Mini revealed showing a smaller dock connector
Interesting comparison. Lost me at wanting to rather develop for Blackberry though. It's fragmented really badly too!
It will probably just end up like her last Tropes vs Women series where she banned all movies and television and forcibly castrated every male director and screenwriter. How do we keep letting her get away with this stuff? /s
That figure is clearly not for an Android app, that is a clear misrepresentation.

Who knows how it breaks down. This exposes a vast amount of queryable census data to the public (something which would normally be regarded as a good thing, particularly if you are a startup which uses data).

But, to be sure, we can just punish the government for ever releasing any data unless it had such a high fee attached that only huge corporations could afford to pay it.

You should FOIA some kind of itemization of how that huge number breaks down, rather than running to the press with a sensationalized version tailored more to partisan politics than to informing the public
On the other hand they were very lucky.

Foreign "crank" defending himself - VS - one of the oldest and most prestigous science journals now owned by a huge publishing company.

Now imagine the next case is a multinational drug company suing an individual researcher or grad student because their published results don't fit with what the drug company would like to see.
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That's not evidence. For all I know you posted a hateful screed and it deserved to be deleted.
Well the similarities between the two are sufficient for a caveat emptor argument.

But the distinctions are also important.
With a CDO, you have the ability to stuff it with bad debt, which is what banks did.

When bankers are intentionally creating debt instruments which are going to explode, then it's different from just calling a bank to get their quote.

And at that juncture we can also ask, if a situation where mortgage payout =x, but banks are aiming for 30x by betting that the owner defaults - aren't the incentives off?

Also, when the bank is shorting the instrument and doesn't disclose it... Well generally that at the very least sounds like something most people here would want to disrupt, because it's well, not what regular people consider to be fair business.

The standard cabeat emptor defense also stands because we believe in the qualified investor aspect of the equation. And right now, not most investors are qualified for it. As svdad said - most investors aren't doing their diligence, and couldn't do it even if they tried. So perhaps that needs to be fixed, or we need a stronger regulator to gate entry.

(And reaching a situation where our regulators are not powered enough to grok the derivative, is just something we want the system to move away from over time.)

Edit: above is opinion, I'm open to listening, I do have a pretty firm idea, but work actively to dislodge it. Standard boiler plate. As I said before, I'm not the most eloquent.
noted. thanks!
You must not have heard of patents.
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Sorry for a dumb question, in the article we see one large main picture and several smaller ones at the bottom.

Are all of those moving video, or just the large main one?

And, if all video, is it possible to split 2 windows into equal size, side by side?
This is disgusting. I've had to use it extensively for research, and while it 'gets the job done', its such a pain to use. I've asked myself who put this together, and I always assumed it was a team of interns working across a decade for each version.

I can't believe this is the best they could do for $33 million. I just can't. They better have some slick stuff under the hood.
I think the point came across pretty clear. Thanks for the great analogy to think about these things.
belief? I mean ... Ok, what is your belief?
That may depend on whether that large private corporation is already running the US Census.

Hopefully that day will never come, it is enough that corporations are running the prisons.

I would also like to know how much said private corporation would charge. (But I don't have to wonder very much, because companies like Elsevier and Lexis/Nexis give a pretty good idea)
The software keyboard is hidden, the hardware keyboard is covering the screen area that belonged to that.
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I got the impression that they already know what it's going to cost for the first production run. They showed the parts they're using, they obviously know what their costs are. They'd have to be complete morons to price it at $99 if it might cost more. And I'm sure the retail price would be higher, maybe $150 or more.
Ouya = Indrema 2012?
I didn't say it was a non-issue because it is commonplace. I simply pointed out that it is commonplace, and a non-issue. If it were not a non-issue, then there would be a shitstorm for the hundreds of other such games. Given that all the others are completely ignored, that by definition means it is a non-issue.

The target of the abusive game is making every effort to drum up more media attention and thus more money using this game. I have a hard time believing that she is asking people not to abuse him out of kindness, when the obvious ulterior motive ($$$) is present, given that she has demonstrated she is very willing to be deceptive to try to cash in.
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'1' === 1 is false, because === is strict.

But there's no strict equivalent of + or -, so '1' + 1 is '11', but '1' - 1 is 0.

The same holds for parseInt('Ambulance', 16) and parseInt('A', 16), which are both 10.
I really don't have Linux at the moment... but i just tested it on Windows 7 using Chrome 22 and it seems to be working fine... are you sure that aren't any plugins that cause the problem?

edit: could you give it another shot and tell me if its fixed now?
They are doing the real deal thing - for each problem, designing a language in which to express the solution, and then writing the solution. Part of the point is that the building such solutions isn't really teachable in the context of a tutorial. If a tutorial can teach it, then it's probably a pretty shallow skill, and shallow skills should get designed away into a solution-oriented programming language, and any tutorials for THAT language, etc etc...

The language they use to do that (O-Meta) is then a language-defining language, and designing THAT means balancing on a level of abstractions that is at least three levels deep, and each of those abstraction levels is hard and necessary. They achieve great simplicity by thinking damn hard.

On the other hand, the mailing list (as noted by the other respondent) is a pretty interesting place with few flamewars.
People often pay you to learn, but that's not the point. To answer the question you posed in the earlier post about domain knowledge: you focus smaller and smaller until you find something where you can become an expert in a reasonable time.

e.g., "agriculture" is not a niche. Breeding management software for Silver-laced Wyandottes is a niche. You reduce the huge term "agriculture" by going agriculture->poultry->poultry husbandry->poultry breeding->breeding-chickens->breeding-Silvery-laced-Wyandottes.

Now, is there a market for that product I picked out of the air? I don't know, but I suspect, based on my knowledge of the field, that there could very well be. And you could own it if you wanted to.
I, for one, was surprised by the lack of PHP related vitriol.
I do not consider this a definitive guide on Facebook. Maybe for musicians but certainly not for hackers. You only talk about how to engage your current fans but there is no mention of how to get new fans, build an audience or market your page.

Off topic suggestion: go easy on the ads on your website, I got irritated by all the movement in the sidebar.
> One person.

Did you see the other stuff on that page? There are a lot of violent and nasty things being directed at her, by (very likely) more than just one person.

> A game allowing you to beat up a woman is, I hope, repulsive to any HN reader. But its existence, especially when it's so easy these days, means nothing in and of itself.

I think it means a whole hell of a lot to a person who was targeted by it.

The purpose of the discussion, in my view, is not to pass judgement on whether the gaming community is good or bad, but to highlight the way that women are actually being treated, so that anyone with a sense of decency can be very clear that this behavior is not tolerated and shun/shame anyone who acts in this way. But I think that explaining it away as just the actions of one troubled person runs counter to this goal. Condemning it doesn't mean you're condemning yourself or your community, just the people who act in this way.
This is a fascinating perspective - I never considered 'freedom' in the context of work and its obligations. Thanks.
The legal system should probably get involved when there is an imbalance of power.

Yes if an anon user on HN says another anon user on HN is a vi user instead of an emacs user - so what?

But if the NYT runs a front cover accusing me of some terrible crime, do I have to prove that I lost financialy because of it eg. I didn't get a new job, in order to get more than a retraction at the bottom of page 9?
Maybe you're just not very good at negotiating?
Who said the Android app cost $33M?
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This is incredibly unreadable: http://o7.no/NhoH2P

Also, just curious, what is stopping Olark from doing this? I see you already use Olark on your website. Would you eventually want to do web also?
Is there a photo demo of it working?
You misread the post. He didn't query data about an Android app.

You really think $33 million is a reasonable number for building a web interface to existing data? Please, hire me for your next job.

And I'll just leave this here: https://github.com/ireapps/census
He was calling the OSHA heat app "a steamy pile of shit".
TweetDeck is now a Chrome-hosted app. I haven't missed any feature changes between it and the old AIR app.
That's a great question. If you look at the set of classes that enable you to build an observer pattern on top of databases in Android - Cursor, Adapter, and View, you see that you can skip the ORM and POJOS in most cases where you are simply displaying data, with some minor processing that can happen in the Adapter.

This works well in Android where each process's maximum heap is something between 16 and 48MB, and keeping your data model in a database is a way of continuously persisting it.

There are exceptions. You probably would not want to build a CAD program this way. Instead you would take the performance hit to rebuild your POJOs after the component they are contained in gets reaped.
Art colors how we see the world and ourselves. The video game industry is bigger than the motion picture industry. I don't see how it's at all trivial.
I will say this: I consider myself to be a Tweetbot user, not necessarily a Twitter user. If Twitter cuts Tweetbot off, and Tweetbot integrates with some other Twitter-like service, I will go there. Of course, this is exactly the scenario Twitter fears, but I with this increasing saber-rattling over cracking down on third-party clients I wonder if Twitter is going to cause the thing that they're trying to prevent.
I am shocked and offended that you seem to believe that all men are trolls.

Shame on you, sir. Shame on you.
Thanks for the response. Would licensing play out like the "lease" (maybe that's poor wording) I describe? We do have attorneys that would look over any agreements, but we need to know what option we're pursuing first.

As far as our business plan, we've been successfully growing in ecommerce for years, and our retail staff outnumber our IT staff by a large margin. It's funny that you mention pivoting though - we've also been in talks with other small business about providing tech support or web design services. While I don't see us intentionally pivoting, we possibly could continue to organically grow out IT services.
I'm a man and somehow I manage not to send women photographs of my member. So no, it is not like calling for an end to men. If all the men you know are like that, you need to meet some better men.
Ah thanks for the memories (I was at Intel when they rolled up the bubble memory team). But if the Wikipedia page can be trusted, its a good example of the timeline of a disruptive technology. So 10 years from first devices to a chance to really disrupt everything. That would make 2018 the year to watch for memristor memory.
I know it is not evidence. Which is why I said "not really". You are welcome to believe that there are no people in the world who disagree with her and are polite if you think that is a more likely explanation for the complete lack of polite criticism on channels she controls even though such polite criticism clearly does exist on channels she doesn't control. You are also welcome to believe that I posted a "hateful screed" and it was deleted, despite the obvious fact that she doesn't delete those, they are all still there to view right now, and she revels in them and uses them for publicity and sympathy.
Nope.

I have a lawn sprayer. Like most of them, it's manually controlled. Big agricultural sprayers have a huge range of automation. I want automatic control of my sprayer, so in the process of building one for myself, I'm becoming knowledgeable in the field: it just takes a few weeks. Eventually, I'll have something that scratched my itch and I can look around and see how many people have the same itch and sell it to them if it's worthwhile.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're either in school or haven't been out very long. It's truly amazing how little research goes into most products put on the market.
I don't think tiffchow said she expects to get the change she wants and I don't think Sarkeesian is presuming to tell game developers what they can or can't do. In both cases, I think these women are expressing their particular point of view in a responsible way (one by thoughtfully commenting on HN; the other by creating a series of videos analyzing the issue). In other words, they are both "being grown ups" and "dealing with it." The fact that Sarkeesian is being attacked for pointing a spotlight on what she perceives to be misogyny in the industry is both telling and hypocritical.

I am a male gamer who has been playing games for over two decades and even I feel estranged by a majority of the "AAA games" the industry is pumping out these days. My solution is simple: I don't buy them. That said, I admire those that are taking it even further and trying to start an intelligent conversation about how the gaming medium can mature. To try and stop that discussion and, by extension, stunt the growth of such an expressive medium is absurd to me.
the video is private
I think dmix's point was just that it would be a mistake to assume that the root cause of the problem is rampant misogyny, because it's not. That's probably an issue as well, but it's not really fundamental to this attack - the real problem here is the general antisocial culture of some parts of the internet.

These people find pleasure in harassing people, pure and simple. The fact she's a woman doesn't matter much - it's just the particular flavor of the attack. They'd be just as happy to go after any other obviously sensitive group of people (race, religion, gender, sexuality, emotional teens on youtube, etc). Ultimately, if we want to address these attacks, then that's the problem that needs to be fixed.
Happens to me a lot, especially now. All I can provide is anecdote, though I like dholowiski’s explanation of this and it’s likely the same case for me.

I’m a designer/developer, but lately I’ve wanted to focus more on the former. When I used to run into a backend problem that’s blocking me from finishing my interface work I would just fix it myself. This has now changed, where I now attempt a problem for a while then inevitably ask a developer for help when things don’t look favourable. ~Half of the time I figure out the solution while waiting for the engineer’s help.
I'd love to hear from others who have had items hit the frontpage for an extended period regarding traffic stats and exposure. This post got as high as #14 and was on the front page for 4 to 5 hours. Overall, it received 4,000+ visits which is just crazy.

Great job WPEngine for keeping everything running smoothly!
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"You are welcome to believe that there are no people in the world who disagree with her and are polite"

I did not say this.

"You are also welcome to believe that I posted a "hateful screed" and it was deleted"

I did not say this.

I asked for evidence. You're trying to divert attention from your failure to back a claim up.
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