skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. At the moment, I'm frequently seeing ads for Chargify (already a customer) and Indochino (I buy suits infrequently and have in fact just bought from them).

My main issue with Amazon is it recommending items connected to presents I bought for other people. My brother is a keen photographer so I have purchased memory cards etc. from Amazon but I now keep receiving recommendations for lenses/cases.
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For "hacker short-term bedroom rentals", I wonder how much of a premium the market puts on transit access (or being in downtown PA/MV).

I've been looking in Menlo Park (North Fair Oaks), and assuming buying a 2/1 with 1/1 detached studio could get $50/night or so for the 1/1, if set up properly. But NFO doesn't have great transit.
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Some stuff, especially stuff connected to performance or memory usage, is very tricky to write tests for. Doubly so if it is only a problem on certain hardware.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again - if your business exists primarily to help users get a task completed and move on, then you absofrigginglutely should not be running A/B tests the way content sites run them. If you can achieve greater click per user or time on site metrics by making your product worse at its core function, then you need to have analysts that know what they're doing in those situations, and they need to be able to win in fights with the business types that don't understand this stuff and assume higher traffic or CTRs are automatically a win. You're not playing the same split testing game as everyone else, and you have to have people with both the expertise and (equally important) the authority to handle this special situation properly.
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I did QA on the E398 ROKR. It was indeed designed to fail. Apple had a bunch of very limiting requirements. Most notable was the 100 song limit.
Apart from the fairly wonderful applications in computing, it will be interesting to see what it does for the enhancement of synthetic diamond technology. I am not going to invest my pension in De Beers, unless they're going large in the synthetic diamond business.
Ummm... when you goto the website in the top right corner it has what I think might be a chinese flag and says 'hacked'
http://www.javelinjs.com/

But otherwise looks like a good effort.
Are people really vain enough to not wear these kind of things because it makes them look geeky/bad? Maybe you remember how you all looked to 'normal' people sitting with laptops or even mobile phones (I remember the time when it was very geeky to have one). Wall street guys with this brick-with-antenna looking busy and such?

How does it look better for a group of teenage girls with parents sitting around the dinner table in a high class, $200/person meal restaurant all staring in their SIII's, glow of Facebook on their faces than them wearing these classes and having at least the appearance of them caring about the food/ambiance?

How does it look worse for the suave business guy with the chiseled cheekbones, reeking of male oils, lotions and other useless crap crashing with his iPad HARD into a lamppost (it moved!)? (saw this a number of times; I bet if you live in a big city you see this daily)

Let's not talk about the, normally vain people, who want to 'experience their music' and thus wear HUGE headphones on the street for high-end sound on their Dark Side of the Moon.

I don't see how these glasses make you look worse than that? Newsflash; you already look like a moron anyway with the electronics you use NOW! What does this do to make it worse? If anything it improves (a few) of the above use cases if executes well (which does not seem to be the idea Google has with it, but luckily we have hackers and I guess they trust them to make it work).
True enough. I just love genetic algorithms so much <weeps in to YouTube>
Think of a qbit as a 2D vector. You can express it as a(1,0)+b(0,1), where (1,0) is the "1" state and (0,1) is the "0" state. In quantum mechanics a and b are complex numbers. When you measure the qbit the quantum state by magic collapses to (1,0) with probability a^2 or to (0,1) with probability b^2. The power of quantum computers come from the fact that transformations or your qbits act on the superpositioned state, not the collapsed state.

So in principle you operate on all possible classical states of your qbits simultaneously when operating on the superposition. This magic doesn't grant you unlimited powers however, since you need to look at the state to get an answer and there you only measure one definite state. The trick to quantum algorithms is then to make the "right" answer as probable as possible.
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Weehee, immutability is great at some things.
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Is this not too insular?

I get & agree with some of the arguments in favour of surrounding yourself with other innovators. In the same way that the Pixar building is designed to foster these interactions.

But if you surround yourself with hackers all the time, there is the risk of losing track of the problems outside your circle. You need to talk to your customers. In the same way that people who work at Pixar go home to their kids and discover what their customers want.
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I have the feeling stackexchange-ux isn't the best place to ask this question. There would be a use for a stackexchange-behaviourial/psychology site.

How many psychologists (or marketers with valid psychology knowledge) are going to explore stackexchange-ui ? Not everything that happens on a screen can be explained by a computer engineer, a computer scientist or a coder :)
"Users don't spend all their time purchasing goods on the internet - often they are doing different and completely unrelated tasks, sometimes at the same time."

Its got to make you ask why the only people who purchase space on a screen are people who are selling goods. How much is a reader worth to someone like NYT? How valuable is a poll answer? I can think of plenty of valuable things people would pay to display there that aren't "ads".
https://github.com/facebook/javelin/issues/9

https://github.com/facebook/javelin/issues/10
> Why don't users want to see adverts they might be interested in?

Obviously, because they actually are not interested in them.
Too many negative experiences with overeager matching algorithms. Yes, it's helpful to show me ads for spades if I'm searching on Google for "buy spade", but Amazon will not stop suggesting things to me that it thinks I "might" be interested in. They seem surprisingly bad at it too; I looked at a TV costing around £500, and subsequently got an e-mail every few days containing a list of their entire stock of TVs, without any consideration of price. If I'm looking at one worth £500, I'm probably not interested in a TV that costs £150 or one that costs £1500. They do badly on ebooks too, where the recommendations just seem to be "other books by the same authors you've already bought from", which I barely need; what I'd like are suggestions of similar books from other authors that I don't know about yet.

I feel like I don't mind seeing ads that I'm interested in, but there is a difference between that and being shown hundreds of ads that I might be interested in. I guess a sufficiently smart recommendation algorithm could theoretically overcome that eventually, but it seems to be a pretty hard problem since it's apparently not been well solved yet.
Personally, I'd just be happy to see adverts in the right language.

Every major online advertising engine appears to assume that my geolocation equates to my preferred language.

My browser passes the Accept-Language request header of en-GB, but they all ignore it and give me adverts in German or Spanish (or where ever I happen to be visiting or living) based on an IP-to-geolocation lookup.

What I find interesting is that it firstly makes me actively aggressive towards the brands, as well as the site. Secondly, it increases my advertising blindness.

I see this on Google Adsense and Facebook ads.

I assume that in the United States, Spanish speakers are equally ignored? Any Spanish speakers in the US that can confirm this?
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If you have no prior lisp experience then I would recommend Clojure Programming as the starting point - http://www.clojurebook.com/

I found it to be the best beginner book on Clojure and one of the best written programming language books I've come across in a while.

Programming Clojure would be a good followup. I found that Clojure Programming gives the "how" of the language and Progamming Clojure gives the "why", if that makes sense.

Clojure in Action is good, but it is definitely an "In Action" book. Depends on your learning style. I've only skimmed the Joy Of Clojure. It looks really good too but I don't think it's targeted at beginners. Could be wrong.
It's been many years since I took an introductory class in quantum computing, but basically the way computation works with quantum computers is fundamentally different. I would require me relearning a lot to explain how it makes computation faster, but basically it's possible to devise algorithms where multiple solutions are returned as a superposition of states, which when observed will usually collapse to the most probable answer, which is the correct one.

The algorithm I studied was for prime factorisation. Basically it lets you calculate prime factors of a number in polynomial time which ultimately breaks the security of things that depend on prime factorisation being hard (slow), namely all public key encryption.

Shor's Algorithm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shors_algorithm
That's certainly true. I'd argue though, that most code is in a position where good naming and tests provide sufficient clarity, without requiring free-text comments.
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The odds of getting VC are low -- only 1 in 400 pitches result in funding. [1] Of course, this number doesn't include the number of people who were rejected before they even had a chance to pitch a VC.

I'm not sure why charging people is considered to be a shocking idea. A business is supposed to charge people, or find another way to make money, such as smothering eyeballs with advertising. I'd rather have a profitable company that has positive cash flow and a sustainable growth rate than a "big" company with a ton of freeloaders and external investment.

If you're going to cite Twitter and Facebook as an example, the odds of you creating a similar company are akin to finding Willy Wonka's golden ticket.

VC just isn't available or necessary in the vast majority of cases, negating the need to be in the Bay Area. Bear in mind that VCs are all over the place, from Boston to New York to London. The benefit you cited elsewhere that it's fun to be in the Bay Area is, however, the most compelling.

The only true blue benefit I can see to even being in the US is access to better payment solutions, and possibly a culture that better supports brazen entrepreneurialism.

[1] http://www.quora.com/Venture-Capital/What-are-the-odds-of-ge...
Depends what business you're in.
It's always a bit creepy to see this. I mean, if one is really close to this it could mean NSA or DARPA could have the know how and especially the money to already have one.

Well it's actually just the money. Money to buy knowhow, researchers, facilities and what else they'd need. It's not only about such things, but if you see how EFF built the DES cracker with donations or a group of security researchers breaks stuff with playstations and then see how much money and power government organizations without any transparency have then it's really creepy.

It's also a bit creepy how much power the bosses of such institutions potentially have when compared to something like a president. No wonder there are so many conspiracy theories.
Yeah, they are: I'm still amazed how people comment on the ugliness of my smartphone (the first Droid) - yeah, it's bulky, get over it.
Some take a look at my laptop (Elitebook 8530, quad core) and ask if it's from like, "1999 LOL".
Not to mention the looks I get while walking around with my Bluetooth headphones (over-the-ear Nokia BH503) - I'm almost embarrased... almost.
But they can all fk off altogether, because at the end of the day, I care about function, not style...

Google's Glass looks GREAT - I hope it doesn't go the way of Bluetooth headsets (which are for douchebags, you see) for the general populace...
I think one of the main reasons is that targeted ads tend to show products you already know (whether you already own them, researched them, or just because you are interested in the subject). Then visual recognition (picture or name of the product) occurs and your focus shifts to the ad for a moment --- when you can just unconsciously ignore just 97-98% of the ads you see on the Internet or on the street. And we all know how annoying commercial crap can be when you are not looking to buy anything

Another thing that applies to older generations and educated people among younger ones (I don't think the young masses understand this or care about it) is the privacy invasion argument.

I'll add that, since most people hate ads altogether, adding just a little annoyance to them can seem like just pushing it too far. I think the only places where ads are not hated are subway stations, since waiting in gloomy underground tunnels (most of those in Paris are, anyway) can be a bit depressing
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I plan on using this, the site was part of the deciding factor.
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>an option for "OK, I bought it already. Please stop now." //

That would be incredibly useful info for the advertising network - you'd be able to chose to advertise to people who already own a particular product. That must be high value (for sellers, advert networks) and probably provides good targetting for those who find that a benefit.
I couldn't care less what you look like or what other people think of you or me.

What I care about is you not recording me without my permission. And that's what these glasses represent to a lot of people. One selfish person invading the privacy of a lot of other people.
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I think not. The TARGET case in Forbes ("How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did") suggests it is best if targeted ads are surrounded by random ones to stop people from creeping out. More here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...
Things cut both ways though.

On one hand transmission of ideas etc. in real time is important. On the other, face time means lots of additional distractions, so many employees may be more productive working from home.

Culture is important too but I don't see why that can't be done over remote aspects as well. Certainly the Linux project has a different culture than the PostgreSQL project, and these have different cultures than the LedgerSMB project, and in all of these you are dealing with geographically dispersed teams.

So the question is, how do people interact? How can you help them interact? How can you limit their interactions to productive ones? I think that remote and face-to-face environments just pose different challenges in these areas.
I think you're seriously underestimating the productivity impact of rest. I'll take a good night's sleep over a retina display any time.
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Because they want to get laid?
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Can someone maybe describe the details of "could propel" and what exactly "reality" mean?

I've always been told "when quantum computers become reality you can forget about everything you learned on computer science".

For me reality would be that one can use it in production, even if it's a complete niche.

In other words is it "we got a step closer" or "we potentially solved our only (major) problem"?
Very good points.

So far we haven't found something promising in the meetup space. We'll probably pivot somewhere else.
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You missed "clear property boundaries" as a difference. It's very easy to tell if a chemical compound is being used by two different firms, it's the equivalent of the source code being identical. But for software patents, there's much more subjectivity involved, e.g. does your patent cover this type of swiping, even if it doesn't in reality could you possibly convince a jury of ordinary people of that fact?.

This ambiguity is bad in itself. You might not like the chemical patent, but at least you'll know for certain whether you infringe it or not, which saves a lot of court battles.
I think this is better served by saying that culture transmits by communication, in all it's forms, which include body language, physicality, etc.
https://github.com/facebook/javelin/issues/9
This book says that location is very important for 'innovation industries':

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008035HQQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
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Indeed. In fact I would say "management usually gets in the way more than it helps."

However, this isn't the only issue and it's not the only reason to work face-to-face. There are many cases where face-to-face communications are just better. These include design sessions and the like where more and better real time feedback can be given by a group than in any other approach. For this reason I think periodic get-togethers are important even for teams which work remotely.
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Maybe it's just me, but if I wanted someone to use my software I wouldn't have 'lulz' on the main page that could scare people off.

The tests link doesn't work either so I thought it was somehow related.
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The society needs to find a new way to give incentives for drug development. Patents may seem to solve the problem from the drug company's point of view, but it keeps the price of drugs prohibitively high for the less fortunate of us.

So there are billions of people in the world who are left without medication or use wrong medication because of intellectual property licensing and pricing issues. This leads to unnecessary suffering and other bad things like antibiotics overuse (particularly in India) and drug-resistant strains of deceases.
Bluetooth headsets used outside of the office/car says to people that my phone calls are so important that at any time I am likely to ignore any social protocol (train, toilet, bank, whatever) and take this call.

Google glasses say to people that at any time I am recording every move that person makes and potentially (a) putting it on Youtube, (b) laughing about it with my friends, (c) handing it over to the police etc.

It is unquestionably for douchebags.
Tests can only tell you what some piece code is supposed to do, not why its doing it the way its doing. Why do you choose to define this particular constant to this particular value, why are you using that particular data structure, why are you rolling your own version of a certain function rather than using the one supplied in the library you are using, why are you using that seemingly round about way to get to that particular result?

There are lots and lots of ways to write a function that passes a test, I want to know if there is a reason why you chose the approach you used.
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What part of

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didn't your browser display?

It's mostly designed for performance anyway.
2-way consent is easy. Get a bumper sticker which says "I record police stops." The police officer comes up you say "Hello officer. I trust you have seen my bumper sticker. What seems to be the problem?"

I think Billy Murphy (a high profile Baltimore defence attorney) suggested something like that with a sign in the cab one could motion to.
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I developed the system years ago that De Beers used to track the recipes for all of their synthetic diamonds. Small world.
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From the summary, it doesn't seem to imply geographic location is necessary for founders of start-ups, but more employees. It may even be becoming less necessary as companies are increasingly able to have a distributed, virtual workforce. Some of the most interesting businesses have employees that have never met -- Automattic is one that readily comes to mind.

It does look like an interesting book though and I'll grab a copy.
Here is a sample recording of Delight in action:
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Exactly, you can't patent 'the cure for cancer' without describing the cure, but somehow you can patent 'swipe to unlock'. If it didn't take serious research and give the reader a decent insight that they wouldn't have had just by reading the title of the patent then it shouldn't be patentable.

The equivalent of describing the molecule for a drug patent is providing the source code, which is already covered under copyright protection. Sounds like a good case to make software patents redundant
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We always hear about the ramifications a quantum computer would have if used to crack enterprise level security. Does there exist encryption that would be troublesome even for a quantum computer to crack or are we just SOL if one of these falls into the wrong hands?