skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A t-shirt printing company. I had one for a while in my basement before I moved to CA. Hand screen-printed thousands of shirts before it was over. I did take payment and orders over the internet, so I guess I would have to change that aspect.
Finally someone targeting the markets where bit coin is most likely to succeed.

TBH, I'd love to see all the bit coin startups band together and focus on Africa. It's 1/6 of the world's population without a legit banking infrastructure. In fact, the less traditional banking a country has, the better a target market they are. Bitcoin solves a problem they have, whereas in places like the US and Europe it is merely a better mousetrap and only in the long term. Short term it is worse.

Besides countries in Africa, I would target countries based on inflation and currency volatility. The greater the inflation, the more demand there will be among regular people for for a currency free of inflation.
Very cool - bookmarking your blog and looking forward to the retrospective. While I'm focused on building some real web / desktop apps, I want some tiny short-term income to cover bills, and recently got nexuscasefinder & galaxycasefinder (after reading about the ipadcasefinder dude) for a referral site.

EDIT: spoke too soon, realized you don't have a blog. oh wait, you do, it's just super sublty linked.
MacOS KenDensed: Samsung Isn’t Cool & Everyone Wants a Little iPad
It's true when it comes to image search. Bing has found images that the same Google search didn't for me.
The small link "About SSL Certificates" points to Symantecs sale page for certs. Definitely know what SSL certificates are after reading that... /s
A self-driving car would be handy in situations where you are alone and injured, with the capacity to get to your car but not to drive safely. Severe illness, power tool accident, bear attack on a camping trip. You just get in your car and say, "Take me to the emergency room." It would actually be faster than an ambulance that had to make a round trip.

Also, pretty much the last person we (as a society) want speeding is a tired, stressed, freaking-out, distracted, soon-to-be-husband.
Social Networking Takes a Strange (Graveyard) Turn
IANAL, so I'm not arguing from legal principles, but from moral ones. If you want to sell something, you should sell something that is yours, not someone else's. Apple's design belongs to Apple, not to Samsung, and consequently, Samsung should not be allowed to sell it.

People who disagree with this, I guess, must somehow feel that design is a much easier task than writing software, and therefore design should be free. (Either that or you think that all software should be free too, but then we'll have to agree to disagree.) The reality of the matter is that good design is very difficult and very expensive. Why should Apple go to all the expense of developing a great design, just to have it stolen?

Re legal principles, there are such a thing as design patents, in addition to look-and-feel copyrights, though I have no opinion on their legal merits in general. As to how Apple will progress with this legal battle, I'm sure they will use any and all legal tactics that they believe will be effective. If one asserts that they might set some bad precedent in doing so, for all I know that may very well be the case. If it turns out this way, then Samsung is equally to blame for stealing Apple's design work.

Regarding the Nexus, I can't say. The Samsung phone I saw in a TV show that clearly IS a slavish copy is this one, or one very similar.

http://goo.gl/dJazg

Clearly the "Samsung" logo gives it away, but that was covered up in the TV show. In any case, even if a logo allows you to quickly distinquish a product, I believe that Apple is certainly justified in defending against such slavish copies. In fact, any company would defend its design as Apple is doing, even if it were moral to make such slavish copies as Samsung is doing, so railing against Apple here is just railing against what any company would do.
There was an interesting post by a blogger from the MRA/PUA scene. His take is that women can't have it both ways. On the one hand, she invites approaches by dressing in revealing outfits, on the other hand, she complains if the "wrong" guys hits on her.

The blog post is here:http://aaronsleazy.blogspot.com/2012/07/note-to-women-if-you...

I've also submitted this story to HN, hoping it would yield some interesting comments. [1]

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4243501
I'm sorry, but "major" is seriously jumping the gun. The GP32 sold ~60k units in its lifetime, and came nowhere near disrupting the handheld gaming world.

The Ouya is at 30k backers, by comparison.
What a ridiculous country. It is OK to lend them $1M but illegal to offer them a cocktail?
Another interesting tidbit is that Brazilian clothing and swimwear tend to be more revealing than Euro-American clothing, because the medieval Brazilian man was a sparsely dressed native, whereas the medievel European man was outfitted in heavy armor.

At least, according to this:
http://www.coolhunting.com/style/cool-hunting-vi-36.php
(nsfw? Girls in bikinis)
Relevant Dinosaur Comics: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1908

It seems like this "treating history as a science" movement that started with Jared Diamond has really caught on...and I love it! Evolution is such a hugely important field for the future, and looking to the past is turning out to be a really fruitful way of learning more about it.

Another example I like: how do you determine when humans first started wearing clothing? Trace the timing of the genetic divergence of human hair lice and human body lice (lice require a hairy/furry material, so body lice can't thrive until humans wear clothes). More details: http://news.ufl.edu/2011/01/06/clothing-lice/
I actually believe the mindset this author has (along with many university professors) makes learning far more difficult for students and discourages them from staying in STEM (math and science) degrees.

I have consistently found that for me to tackle difficult concepts I need multiple points of view, specifically views that simplify the topic tremendously. My professors never encouraged me to seek multiple sources and usually pushed overly complex, decades-old textbooks on my peers and I. The "masters" typically write to a niche, university-based audience and do not tailor their original works for the masses.

I certainly agree that if one wants a complete understanding of a field or subject they should eventually study original works, however to encourage them as a starting or leverage point for understanding difficult subjects is poor advice in my opinion.
Actually I like it :-) I like the UI and the results are pretty good. Thanks for posting this. I added it to my bookmarks.
The first paragraph shows we're not talking real world here: Obama a "left-wing president"?
Wow, lots of memories there (1984-ish, anyway).

You'll notice a bunch of people leaving after July 84, which is when the Tramiels took over. Coin-op remained with Warner. About a week into the split, there was an email sent out with the subject "Look! Two companies joined by a single computer network!" which caused the Tramiel Atari to be dropped from the net within a couple of hours.
There is a bit of that, but at least in my circles I more often run across people aiming derision at C++ the language, and the people who are most vituperative are people who have years of C++ dev experience. People who don't program C++ often have mildly negative opinions about it, but something about the language seems to inspire bitter hatred in some percentage of the people who actually have experience in it, in the way one can only hate something you've been intimately familiar with and once may have loved. Yossi Kreinin's scarily thorough "C++ FQA" (http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/), where he goes through the entire C++ FAQ and criticizes every single point based on years of C++ programming experience, is sort of a paradigmatic example. It reads a little bit like the Unix-Haters Handbook in its depths of familiarity/dislike.
Here's one of the quotes from the video (Marc):
"We tried really hard not to invent anything new. And we also tried not to solve any hard problems. Which makes it a lot easier to actually get something done"
So what you're saying is that the differences in these sample images: http://file.chosunonline.com/article/2004/08/13/888798282884... http://file.chosunonline.com/article/2004/12/12/455470214619... are easier to spot than the difference between one centred physical menu button and three software menu buttons? Which car brand is this one? http://i.imgur.com/bPhHK.jpg

I'm not interested in defending Samsung here, but I do agree with the posters upthread that Apple's actions do show a certain amount of insecurity. Again - did Mercedes-Benz or Jaguar say anything about the Amanti?
1. Could that be because disposable income is going down?

and

2. Mass paying down of debt may not be the best thing to generate demand during a demand crisis.
If they don't deliver hopefully it will just open up new ways of vetting projects that raise six-figures or more.

If they do deliver will that finally be enough to silence the crowdfunding naysayers?
Fine, then make a difference. "Fund research more to study the problem more" is NOT a solution. Give me solutions. Don't say "Big hairy problem, no solutions, but fund me to keep looking at it."

If more people had my attitude then maybe we'd not only get to see the pile of shit (the disappearing reef problem) but also some shovels (real ways we can help fix the problem). I'm not interested in getting all into the details of the pile of shit, I just want a shovel, so give me one.

Edit: actually a kickstarter page for science is a great idea. Even better would be a kickstarter page for making chemicals that can be dropped into the ocean to safeguard reefs. Or a kickstarter page for lobbying government to tighten regulations on run-off or global warming. Or a kickstarter page for stimulating reef growth with low-level electric impulses (which is a real thing). What about a solar powered bouy that stimulates reef growth?

There's a ton of stuff to do other than "study it more".
Kickstarter is perfect for products that fall into the "disposable income" budget.

They're perfecting the definition of "disposable", with products that fall into a range of "If this turns out, I'll be in on it, if it doesn't, I'm out x-hundred bucks, so what?".
So you're telling me that articles like the one on High Scalability on how Instagram builds a product and scales with 13 employees is not valuable knowledge to all other startups?

Making a network for sharing something trivial among millions upon millions of people is still valuable.

The pyramids were friggin' tombs satisfying the superstitions of a few powerful individuals. I'd say that that is far far more trivial than a social network that provides connection and satisfaction for millions.
SARA TOMMASI ECCO IL FILM hard ( vietato ai minori di 18 anni)
Yes, I understand that. But there's something to be said for tackling the easiest problem first. If a relatively straightforward geoengineering solution is available, I think we should go ahead and apply it, and then turn our attentions to the more politically and economically difficult problems of overfishing and pollution.
Here’s what’s happening with natural gas vs coal, I assume at least partly attributable to fracking: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/the-hu...
Bustr Bensn • A duck bears no grudges
Didn't click on any of the links. It's creepy to read other people's emails
They might be doing A/B testing and SEO optimization as described for HuffPo here:

http://www.mondaynote.com/2012/07/08/transfer-of-value/
> Are you easily able to connect your mobile phone to your TV?

Yes, Google Galaxy Nexus HDMI Dock.

https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/HDMI_Portrait_...
On one hand, you should use the tool that you know best.

On the other hand, putting the language itself aside, dev-tools and existing libraries are few-and-far in between (and they usually suck). And when I say libraries, I don't mean snippets on the internet.. true libraries with tests, etc. Besides the frameworks and a handful of active packages on PEAR- good luck.

There is a reason why Ruby and Node have awesome tools (gem, npm, webrick, jasmine, cucumber, etc. etc.) and a very active library sharing mentality.
I'm sure looking taller, with longer legs and defined calf muscles has nothing to do with it. ;)
This looks a dump of some internal mailing lists. I didn't see any "private" email. You'll see that a bunch of phone numbers and addresses had been scrubbed, too.

I'd agree that it's probably more creepy if you never worked there.
How do you propose to solve it then? The point of the further study is to work out what solutions are going to be the most effective. Saying "give me solutions" will likely result in a second rate solution that is optimal for neither humans nor the reef.
It's common for what appears as the NYT article title to differ from what appears in the title element.

I use a bookmarklet to submit articles and it automagically grabs the title element content. I leave it as-is if it's close enough.
Unfortunately, Plex is very slow - it requires much more powerful hardware than XBMC does (the PC version, that is - haven't tried the iOS version, and I couldn't get the Android version to work)
Big Data Startup StatAd Aims To Change Analytics, Engagement and Marketing
StatAd has launched this week (out of private beta) and already hitting current capacity limits. In direct competition with companies like Gigya, Janrain, Radian6 and offering tons of features for a fraction of the cost with awesome performance. The team have bootstrapped it themselves as not found an investor "with the right vision".

Team is here: http://www.statad.com/about

Watch this _______
Yes, I'm grateful to Walmart for keeping the great unwashed from cluttering the isles of whole foods :)
Why non-US citizens can not raise from Kickstarter?
I wonder if google plus shows that a 10-50k person developer, non google employee early adopter market exists for this product.
> Perhaps they didn't do a good-enough job of selling the benefits of the course to you? And so you weren't dedicated enough. Is this possible?

Not for me. In fact, the classes I took, I would have never taken years ago (free or not). I didn't have the professional context nor the organic curiosity to see the value. I have this context now; this is what motivated me to enroll and ultimately, what motivates me to continue even though making time for the lessons is tough.
Putting this in a more positive light. Why not take this new project as an opportunity to learn a new stack ?
Kickstarter for science: http://www.petridish.org/

How do you propose we know what actions to take without first studying the problem? If your car breaks down, you don't immediately start disassembling the car, you troubleshoot (study the problem, if you will), then apply a reasonable solution.
I think proving the sqrt(2) is irrational is great. That was the very first question on my first college math homework assignment. It's a great way to weed out people aren't even close to the level they should be at math-wise. Don't worry that others can do it. FizzBuzz can also be cargo-culted. FizzBuzz tells you nothing about how good someone is, but can tell you a lot about how bad they are.

I would also suggest this: Prove exp(pi*i)+1=0.
Will anybody even agree on what successful delivery looks like?
The cold tap is generally on the right side of a sink.
This is because cold taps were around long before hot taps and as most people are right-handed they were put on that side.
At least that's what I was told (OK trivial example)
The notion that 'treating history as a science' originated with Jared Diamond is plain wrong, unless perhaps you wanted to build a case for it in a modern American pop-psychological sense. For example, take historical linguistics or the archaeo* disciplines.
So people should never be allowed to advocate societal changes in which they have a personal interest?

I think this is unnecessarily rigid. All we really need is full disclosure of the nature of the personal interest, which appears in this case to have been provided.

I don't know how the author is supposed to complete this research, or even continue it, without funding. To bar him from advocating for such funding risks the loss of important advocacy from those who are in the best position to know what is going on.

I guess you have half a point in that there is some risk of research scientists just collecting a salary and never producing much of value, even though they claim loudly that their research is important; such things have happened. But I think it's a chance we have to take. Anyway, the best protection against it is not to tell people like the OP to shut up, but to look closely at their work and decide on our own how valuable we think it is.
Don’t Root for Aereo, the World’s Most Ridiculous Start-up
Okay, that's fair enough.

One thing that is really good is the much better way that WP tries to engage with college projects.

Sometimes a lecturer will have an idea to get students to edit WP. This used to end badly for all concerned. WP now has much nicer ways to meet new editors, and encourage them into better ways of editing.
It's not really limited to code sharing - any version of a text file can be versioned in the same way (e.g. the raw LaTeX code of revisions of a book or other document).

Granted, this is still largely of interest to STEM geeks, so extending its capabilities to binary format versioning might lead in very interesting directions, as you point out.
This archive has been a personal reminder to watch what I say in all digital communication. Even if I think that my post is "internal only" or "private", it can still end up online.

I say this because one of these files has an email that my dad wrote nearly 30 years ago. I'm willing to bet that my dad had no idea that the email he was writing would be read by his son, who would be slightly embarrassed at the fact he was writing in ALL CAPS, and wishing that his dad had used a little more tact in what he was saying.

(The email I'm referring to is in "vax84.txt" search for "THE FUTURE AT ATARI")
How did they spread?
The Search for Antimatter: The Next Holy Grail in Physics
That's good to know then - people have less of an expectation of privacy I'd guess when writing to a mailing list.
My impression of Digg power users at the time was that many of them were participating in voting rings to promote each other's sites and a few were even making money pushing links to the home page. Not all of them of course, but the few that did were ruining it for everyone. So I question the conclusions that the article makes based on asking these power users.

I think that power users (the bad ones) were the root cause of Digg's demise as they pushed bad content to the home page and forced the company to impose more restrictions and limit communication (collaboration) channels.

On the other hand, Reddit reduced the potential reward for gaming the system by 1. dividing the community into smaller subreddits, 2. Allowing down votes, and 3. varying the time a link stays on the home page based on user feedback. They did many other things better as well, but these stand out as important differences that allowed reddit to control the spam problem better and keeping the communities interesting.
Dotcom pioneer who blew it all: Woman who lost her $70m fortune arrested
There's an extra angle that could be played here. Doing drills is great, even as a way to learn the commands from scratch, but coupled with spaced repetition - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition - it'd be a powerful way to memorize everything too.
This startup app stores your encrypted passwords on DropBox: http://passboxapp.com/
This gives me an all-new appreciation for Lisp. It's nice to use standard list operations in a macro instead of needing to learn AST magic.
Wow, thanks for saying this. Geez, I thought I was the only luddite that didn't have a smartphone. That's a very interesting observation about "techies" being more adverse to smartphones.

I wonder where all this technology is going to lead. Connectedness should increase our humanity, not harm it.
RIM loses $147,200,000 in patent verdict
I propose to solve the problem by putting pressure on researchers. Researchers are all about looking at things, and they get all excited about something, but their only response is to look more at those things. It's time to motivate researchers to encourage behavior other than looking more at stuff when you see a problem.

If you can't even begin to identify possible corrective actions, then you have no basis in which to claim there is a possible problem in the first place. Whatever the problem is, poverty, health, environmental destruction - if the problem cannot be addressed than why even bring it up?

Cancer is a good example. It's a problem, it doesn't have a good solution, but we talk about it anyway. Does this explode my theory? No. Because there is no cancer research that is trying to prove that cancer is a problem. We already know that. The only cancer research that goes on is the kind designed to stop cancer. Needless to say, I would not support any research into how cancer is bad, but would support research into how to stop cancer.

In the same way, I would not support research into looking further into how coral reef destruction is real and it's bad, but I would support research into how to slow, stop, and reverse coral reef destruction (without causing lots of other problems, of course).

Downvote me, I don't care.
That Glorious Fireworks Fail Last Week? Imagine That's Your Data
An oversimplified view of human history from a commentator who has too little acquaintance with non-Western cultures. (Well, all right, I've long accepted the point, which I read somewhere else long before the Internet existed, that European dress shifted from robes to trousers in large part to accommodate horse riding.) But with cross-cultural perspective, we would consider the trousers (often in the form of "pajamas") worn by women in China and southeast Asia developed in cultures where peasant women certainly did not have opportunity to ride horses. Rather, in those places agricultural work in paddy fields made clothing that allowed a wide range of movement with modesty very helpful. There isn't one single human story about how trousers developed as a form of dress.

For those of you who like to learn about how study of human cultural behavior goes awry from too little exposure to non-Western cultures, see

Henrich, Heine, Norenzayan (2010). "The weirdest people in the world?" Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33, 61–135

doi:10.1017/S0140525X0999152X

http://humancond.org/_media/papers/weirdest_people.pdf
Awesome, I've been thinking about building an HTPC, but beginning to balk at the power cost compared to some sort of streaming device and low power storage unit connected over N wifi. If there's box that has spdif out I'll buy it straight away (for high quality DA audio conversion).
If the FDA has "confidential agency information", they are doing it wrong.
Seems to work for stack exchange sites.
Thanks. Hoping to incorporate some of this in the near future :).
I prefer linear comments. I have four open tabs with Mefi posts in them right now. Every once in a while I will reload the tabs and I can easily see what was added since the last time I refreshed.

With nested comments I have to go back and dig for new stuff. This is why I read the comments on HN, Reddit, and slashdot exactly once unless I added a comment and want to see if there was a reply.

And I don't comment much.
ResponCSS a uniquely dynamic responsive CSS grid
Cheap space launch, using a cannon (Gerald Bull style). Basically being able to put a 100kg payload into LEO every hour for $50mm capex and $10-20k per launch.
floppy disks