skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually think 1/3 of respondents being religious is "more 'religious' people on HN than you'd think" considering the demographic of people here.

I think if you asked people familiar with HN to guess what percentage of folks here were religious, you'd get a much lower response (personally, I'd have guessed maybe 10%, which is obviously incorrect).
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Fraud is a difficult problem to deal with -- the more open you are about what you're doing to prevent it, the more you speed up the "evolution" of better (aka. worse) fraud.

Whether that effect is large enough to justify the lack of transparency in this case, I don't know; but I'm sure there are some cases where it is appropriate.

(Marginally related: This is why I have some sympathy for Paypal when they say "this payment is suspect" and refuse to provide any more information -- they can't tell me why a particular payment set off alarms without also telling the bad guys how to evade their alarms.)
I think what the article is pointing out is that:

1) People who have never tried to scan a brain say "oh it's totally doable, why haven't we done this with simple organisms?"

2) People who are actually trying to scan brains say "Um, have you even read any of our papers, we know it would be useful, but it's hard"
I don't think there's a necessary correlation between focusing on a narrow customer segment and only being a "feature" startup. Stormpulse has never been a "feature" startup but we absolutely embraced a niche to get started.
I agree with Volpe. It should also be noted that siodine has been a member longer so if anything, he's teaching you "the ropes".
> There are plenty of dangerous lifeforms we could realistically stamp out -- grizzly bears, for example.

Your facetious comment aside, it really depends on what we consider a "lifeform". A number of viruses and bacteria can be wiped out without affecting other species ... largely, because we are their entire ecosystem, almost like this worm.

Are most potent weapons are vaccines, antibiotics, and proper hygiene. With a combination of those, we can eliminate much of what currently ails us.
And yet, very few people would have thought this possible 30 years ago: http://singularityhub.com/2010/06/12/monkey-controls-robot-a...
Unfortunately, the manufacturing of paper pollutes the environment, so increasing use of paper will increase the level of pollution. For example, the nice white paper that's used by your printer requires chlorine compounds to bleach it, and these get discharged into the environment. See, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_pollution

Also, transporting trees to mills and operating the mills requires energy, whose use and production also causes pollution (e.g., waste products from large trucks and oil refineries that end up in the atmosphere).
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they won't be billion dollar companies

Huh, what? You can't be a billion dollar company by focusing on a niche? Is transporting crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the Americas a niche?

They're not exciting

I guess it depends if you can get excited about being massively profitable and making your customers really happy by delivering shoes or lightbulbs, or if it always has to be a shiny photo app.
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Both cheaper than Ivy League, both are as good a signal in my book:

University of Illinois

Carnegie Mellon
Well, to me it seems that fine grained brain scanning would need something like Laplace's demon:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_demon
This is a strong reason why manufacturers have been increasingly removing microSD slots from mobile devices. No microSD on Nexus devices since 2010, can't get an HTC One model with both microSD and NFC...
Would have started a nightclub or something like that
Would be interested if its worthwhile/possible using shaders as a wrapper for three.js. All I got when I was searching was there was a mozilla bug report and a hacked patch to expose SIMD through js[1], and a project to add SIMD support to vectors in Dart[2].

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644389

[2] http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/06/18/bringing-simd-accel...
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Oh! He meant, "no, even fewer people than you'd think on HN are religious". He overestimated how many people I think you think are... ahh, forget it.
Essentially ...

"Modern buildings with reinforced concrete and steel structures produce have unique, spatially-varying ambient magnetic fields that can be used for positioning, in much the same way (albeit on a much smaller spatial scale) as animals use the Earth's magnetic field," the paper's authors say. "In principle, a non-uniform ambient magnetic field produces different magnetic observations, depending on the path taken through it."
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That was a great conceipt for the TV series "Caprica". In reality, it's completely nonsensical!
I think the passenger pigeon just got surprised by a new threat to which it couldn't adapt fast enough. It happens.

Their breeding strategy required massive colonies to fill the local predators' bellies and still have survivors. They didn't really count on a predator that would take entire colonies. Nets, alcohol soaked grain, fire arms, explosives, coupled with a huge national demand coupled with a vast transportation network were nothing like foxes, snakes, and birds of prey.

Musk oxen have the same problem. "Back into a mass protecting the young with your heads facing outward" doesn't work well against rifles. They don't have much of a plan B. Being dark on a barren, white landscape much of the year also sucks.

Many of the pelagic fish also fall into this category. They aren't built for a predator that will scoop up an entire 4000kg school of fish in one swipe.
The landing page looks nice and you could have something here, but you're going to need to do a better job on the marketing.

The alternative to your product is using something like Gumroad (https://gumroad.com/) or building against the Stripe API directly, which is well-known for being gloriously simple. Your job is to show developers that using your micro-framework is significantly better than doing a simple integration of the Stripe gem into a framework they already use.

My advice would be to show all of the screens that Moola autogenerates to really demonstrate the added value you're providing. Better yet, create a screencast going from download to deploy in 60 seconds.

From a technical perspective, I'd also recommend using a YAML file to store the configuration settings in one place, making the process even easier. Good luck.
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Good, the people willing to pay through the nose for the premium model can fund research into more products, heck, they can even make or break the success of the product as a whole. Meanwhile, if the lower spec options works for you, you are getting a deal.
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...on steroids...

meaning artificially inflated, short-tempered, aggressive and ultimately impotent?

Got it.
>I read that a NASA subcontrator wanted someone to design high-efficiency power supplies for the Space Shuttle. So I wrote up a decent design and showed up. There were maybe 20 candidates at the office, all equipped with advanced degrees. But I didn't have a degree, I had a design. They hired me on the spot and sent all the degree holders away. True story.

http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/comments/qaqr3/table_iama_for...
I use Toodledo.com and give my tasks tags and priorities so that I can sort and filter them. It works really well for me.
Procmail hasn't updated in over ten years. Maybe it's done.

The BSDs are always dying. They do seem to be less influential than they were ten or fifteen years ago.

Enlightenment was popular before Gnome and KDE got better but it relied too much on one programmer and stopped updating.

Amaya was supposed to be the web's standard browser. It's still being produced, but last I checked it was a decade behind anything else in features.

I don't know how big the developer communities for any of them got.
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> Until you can do matrix/vector math using hardware, webGL is pretty much useless.

Modern matrix libraries like glMatrix

https://github.com/toji/gl-matrix

use typed arrays effectively to do very fast matrix and vector math in JS. A modern JS engine can transform such code into something very efficient, more than fast enough to do things like even first person shooters.
say is pretty useful and fun. When I'm compiling or just telling the Terminal to do something tedious, I add a say command at the end and it will notify me when it's done.

For example, if I want to install mercurial and git with homebrew:

brew install git mercurial; say "The task is finished, Master."
If you can point me to a site that sells the MK802 for $30, that'd be great. Because on eBay and other sites, I'm seeing closer to $80..
Cool! I'll have to remember this when we can't pick a name for our next baby. A little hit or miss, but for a geeky name it is better than little Bobby tables...
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just search play for ubuntu installer, its a way to chroot and boot an xserver and then you vnc into it... kind of hack, sure, but there are also xservers and busybox, depends on your needs if these options will work for you. i haven't heard much about people using an arm build of ubuntu on droid devices, though, although it seems i remember something about it being worked on
If you use the "always turn right" rule then mazes are just tedious no matter how many dead-ends there are.

Still, awesome little game considering it's platform.
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It was 15 years ago:)
Making compelling mazes is an interesting problem, and doing that automatically is a topic I watched a talk on a few years ago.

While I can't seem to find a video of that talk right now, the presenter's homepage on mazes has a number of interesting things and some links: http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/projects/mazes/. I'll update this post if/when I find the video.
_plus, thank you for your advice! I've considered doing a screencast and will create one as soon as I'm back from my travels. I built the tool mainly for dogfooding my own products and figured I'd build a marketing site to see whether there's any interest.

Re: YAML configuration, that's a good suggestion. I wanted to keep the footprint lean and uncomplicated, so I figured swaying away from config files in favor of Sinatra settings was consistent with that philosophy. YAML would be effective for environment-based configuration.

Thanks again!
That seems like an excellent trade-off to me, a prime example of how Apple is great at picking the right trade-offs.

All what you said is completely irrelevant for the vast majority of people. So Apple doesn’t trade it off against the increased convenience both Spotlight and Versions give you.
I had a similar idea for generating test data for a relational databases.
It seems that for test data the boundary conditions and exceptional cases are sort of easy but it is the common stuff that is harder to fake.
My ides is to create test data for numeric columns by estimating statistical parameters and use those in conjunction with a random number generator to make 100-500 rows of fake data.
But for the first and last names (and other textual columns) I've been thinking about modeling the data using Markov processes to be able to come up with fake names and addresses that are somewhat close to the real data.
I think that once you have a good statistical model you could export that and outsource testing more easily without compromising confidential information. If things like average salary were considered confidential then that could be skewed as a kind of obfuscation step.
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I'm not arguing that providing options (done the right way) is a bad way to do it. I'm just disagreeing with someone who says the Paul Rand way of doing things is arrogant. Some people are extremely good at what they do. They have have tons of experience. They do extensive research. And in the end they're able to produce a single solution that endures for decades.

This should be celebrated.
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First off, don't think that your name needs to define you. Your company, it's dealings, and it's founders will define it, so open yourself to more possibilities.

Regardless of the cause or core values of your incubator, putting too much weight behind that can make it sound like a gimmick, and take focus away from the hard work and successes of your founders.

I do like Transformer, however, so anigbrowl gets a ^

Best of luck.
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MaysonL, I believe the US position is to prevent patent violation in underdeveloped economies regardless of where the research was done or who owns the patent - this makes sense from an economic perspective given that the same could happen to a patent owned by an American firm.

However, I agree with you if you are suggesting that the US should not be strong-arming poorer countries into raising prices just to maintain the profits made by pharmaceutical companies.
I wonder how this was created? (tools, libraries) Been thinking about learning WebGL for a while now.
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This just gave me a big blast of nostalgia. Great work! Does it also support colour?
Someone who goes out of their way to learn other keyboard layouts should probably go the extra step in having a way to map keys for stuff like this.
And you can't coordinate your message with him. In other words he can't tell you what to say and you can't run your message by him.
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The argument is that DDT causes at least as many deaths as malaria and loads of collateral damage in the ecosystem. There are significant advances on the horizon that look to be the solution to malaria.
An anecdote from the article ...

On Friday, in the Microsoft store there was a small crowd checking out ultrabooks (on display were half a dozen new Vizio ultrabooks -- and note that a couple of the ultrabooks were plagued by a freezing mouse cursor). A few "customers" were using available PCs to play games.
Around the corner, the Apple store was packed -- many huddled at the front of the store around the Retina MacBook Pros (the store had just sold the last one in stock when I walked in) and iPads."
Death threats aren't the only thing a government can do to reduce the reliability of the press. Whistle blower prosecutions, contempt of court charges for journalists protecting sources, NYT shelving articles until after elections, the tiptoeing the white house press corps does as to not lose access, etc. All of these indicate reduced reputation of the press in the USA.

The US of Murdoch comment was a brash characterization, but how does rehashing the state of Russian press address the idea that US news sources lack reliability? All news sources should be treated with skepticism, Russian or not.
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I think you meant trawling ("Trawling is a method of fishing that involves pulling a fishing net through the water behind one or more boats.")

Trolling would be quite a different thing ;)
This is a terribly ignorant statement. Plenty of people live outside of English-speaking countries where different keyboard layouts are used.
We don't cope with Antarctica all that well. Otherwise there would be a permanent population down there.
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I apologize, the context made me think along the lines of Dvorak.

EDIT: Even so, most OSes now make it relatively easy to switch layouts based on country, so I feel as though my point still stands.
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It sounds decent (but would still like more detail about how it content filters with DNS). But my concern would be that the average potential customer isn't willing or able to go change their DNS settings. A lot of parents we know don't even know their router password anymore.

I think there's an untapped gold mine there for the first company that comes out with an idiot-proof content filtering system for parents and gets in into Walmart, Staples, Best Buy, etc. I'm thinking either a replacement wireless router or a wired filter that goes between their current wifi router and broadband modem. It's got to do as much auto configuration as possible. Or if Verizon or other broadband providers would just offer it as part of their service package. For another $19.95 a month they'll proxy filter your internet content.
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I concur - the different levels (as well as the option of sitting) make for a very comfortable setup.

FYI, my relatively cheap solution was to get an ikea fredrick "computer workstation" off craigslist. The item is discontinued, but they're still floating around, sometimes in the as-is section of an ikea.

many people don't bother to look up the canonical name for their desk when posting a listing so they're a little tricky to find.
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They are ...

"First, for not much more money, AT&T customers can buy a new Android phone with the latest hardware and software"

“What do my friends use?” is reason number two."

"Also hurting is the fact — reason number three — that the Lumia 900 won’t see Windows Phone 8 when it debuts later this year"
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but...but...I had to do math to figure out that number. No fun.
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Essentially,

"the company is developing an iPhone attachment that turns the smartphone into an otoscope, providing a magnified view of the middle ear."
> We were well on our way to wiping out malaria until DDT was banned.

Wrong:

1. Mosquitoes were becoming DDT-resistant. A lot of them still are.

2. DDT is still used in some places, most notably the ones where malaria is still a problem.

3. Mosquito netting is still a big lifesaver in the regions DDT is still used. Why, if DDT works so well, would we need the massive mosquito netting drives?

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3186

http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2005/01/24/ddt/

> DDT is banned from agricultural use (and rightly so because of environmental damage) but can still be used for disease prevention. JTFCSS pretends that there is a ban so they can hang malaria deaths around the neck of environmentalists.

[snip]

> Yes, the mosquitoes in Sri Lanka have evolved resistance to DDT. It doesn’t work any more. In fact, that is the reason why they stopped using DDT in Sri Lanka. It wasn’t because of any ban—it was because it stopped being effective.
I am sorry, I mean it's around 300 RMB. It's about $50

http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?SearchText=android+4.0+m...

Actually you can get one of the cheap tablets for like 350RMB. the same spec, plus a subpar 7 inch touch screen, battery and a camera. Like "Gemei G3"
It's to bad that this doesn't run as a daemon that can simply be queried through an API. Back in the day I remember a linux project called ... dashboard? (found it! http://nat.org/dashboard/) That seemed like a great tool. For whatever it got scrapped and it's guts turned into Beagle. Since I no longer use linux on the desktop it's hard for me to evaluate, but it looks like it's now a tool similar to OSX's Spotlight.
Don't worry about the Ivy League stuff, and just keep working on your projects and learning. Most of the comments here about "signalling" are true but largely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. Sure, if you have your sights set on a job at one specific company (say, Google) then it's probably true that you're more likely to get in with a degree from an Ivy League school. But if you just want to have a great career, work on cool stuff, do well for yourself and maybe even be an entrepreneur one day, you can do all of that without ever sniffing an Ivy League campus.

The tech industry is, despite what some people may say, still fairly meritorious. If you have talent, and you work hard, your ability will - over time - dominate the signalling effect of your degree and what-not. OK, maybe it means your first job is writing CRUD applications in the IT department for a shoe manufacturing company in Bumfuckville, GA, and not doing machine learning stuff at Google. Big deal. Take the shoe manufacturing job, keep learning on your own time (don't get married or have kids too young though, if you have high aspirations career wise), start an open-source project and/or contribute to some well known projects. Blog, write a book, do screencasts, whatever you can do to demonstrate your ability. If you are truly talented, and have indomitable spirit, you'll make your way where you want to go.
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I have to give Siegler credit for actually posting an objective review of an Android device.

No matter which side you favor in the tablet wars I think you have to agree that we're better off as hackers and consumers in a market with real competition. Rather than picking sides we should be happy that Apple and Google are pushing each other to improve their hardware and software at a rate we rarely see in consumer electronics.
That's a completely different font.
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I mean for a deal like that, the immediate question is "why no cash?" Cash is operating capital and it requires business commitment to pay for it. Equity is an accounting entry, limited only by laws and bylaws of the organizations.

The only reasons I can think of are:

1) The stock of the purchaser is overvalued and the purchaser knows it,

2) The purchaser doesn't want to spend operating capital on the acquisition...., or

3) The purchaser doesn't have the operating capital to spend on the acquisition.....

1 and 3 seem likely in this case.
Things sublime text lacks that bug me: drag and drop of selections. It would be even better if it could do what nedit can do with drag and drop, or drag and clone of both normal and block selections.