skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Pic-Mapper
Hi HN, long time no post! Recently, I wowed a few guys on a local fishing forum when I showed them how their iPhone's geotagging feature was giving away the GPS location of their "secret" fishing spots! (See http://www.sanjosebass.com/forums/marina-beach-stripers-128-780.html)

I couldn't find a web based tool to do this, so I created one. Not sure if anyone else out there will ever have the need, but if you do http://pic-mapper.com is the answer!
Get people excited about it; start with what you actually can accomplish, show it off and then ask for help.
I've always heard the rule of 1000 when comparing hourly rates to salaries, to take into account taxes and buying your own healthcare and such. 200,000 a year is a much less stratospheric salary for a programmer than 600,000, in my view at least.

Good point regarding team-based acquisitions though.
Clickable: http://pic-mapper.com
Nike Air Force 1 Shoes For Sale
Mermaid body - sports
Mermaid body - sports
What if theres a kernel of truth behind the legend of this mythic creature a course description reads Is the idea of mermaids really so far fetched.
I didn't really like this one. Oh and hey, don't do anything different. You might as well say "Don't create products that behave significantly different than your competition."

They ought to look at some open source projects and find ways to improve and monetize them. Lucene (bah to solr) might be interesting.
Ask HN: What cool stuff can I do with math?
I saw a guy walking with a book under his arm titled "Differential Equations and Linear Algebra". I thought, "I liked math until that semester in college when I played too many video games and dropped differential equations". So I decided I might study math again and in 10-20 years maybe I'll be an amateur expert on math. That's cool. But what can I do as an amateur expert in math? Maybe that time is better spent becoming an expert programmer, getting a CCIE, or any number of other practical endeavors. So what cool things can I do with math that might warrant a long term study? The best I can come up with is, it might be cool to know how to use statistics properly. The rest seems like mind candy, only interesting because I want to know how it works.
So, ... why the downvotes?
Maybe you could get lost ;)
You're giving up too easily.

If someone has already implemented your idea and built a business around it, analyze their business and see if you can provide something even better (it's also a good learning process anyway).

There's no rule stating you can't challenge them for a share of the market (or is there?).
This kind of mental framework is very key for analytic decision making. At a decision crossroads, having this sort of thought process has often helped me make the right choices. That being said, if I'm not careful, this kind of non-stop analysis of my productivity makes me pretty stressed out. Yes, I value my time a lot - but I've also had to learn to let go sometimes and let life happen. The more I continue to ruminate on thoughts like, "Am I creating $100 worth of value right now?", the more my ability to relax deteriorates. I don't want to be in constant productivity maximization mode.
The actual scan technology is very specific and hard if not impossible (with current tech) to implement on things like a photocopied card. A real card needs to be used.
Electronic Pool Water Tester
Because the pirate that's selling the MP3 didn't go through any of the effort to make it. They are benefiting from the work of others, without giving them any credit.

When the copy is free, there's a non-zero cost associated with making that copy. 20 years ago, it was the cost of a cassette tape. Even now, there is a bandwidth cost associated with giving away a copy.
What's the difference between this site and freelance websites besides the limit? I had many tweaks done through freelancer.com and the responses are almost instant.
This is an excellent thought process, and it's good to know about opportunity cost.

Once you do, internalize it, and pack it away so it can never see the light.

As soon as you start treating people as the equivalent of the monetary value of their time, you're lost. You've gone too far.

This way of thinking is powerful and dark. Please—use in moderation.
Your first point would only elucidate a common misconception that IQ tests adequately measure intelligence. As to your second point, what studies are these? (I'd actually be interested)
I'm pretty sure there was a vesting period - it wasn't for one year.
This is cool, nice job. I'm currently working on something similar: a Chrome extension to gamify internet self-control with a configurable mana bar. Tools that allow people to give themselves "bright lines" to guide their own behavior are a good thing.
Light commercial for sale
Light commercials cars – Find thousands of new and used Light commercials cars from private sellers as well as from car dealers in Australia. Automarket.com.au is an automotive portal for car sales which connects sellers and buyers online.
A "Bat Signal" for the Internet
Australian Government Moves to Expand Surveillance Powers
MP3s of web articles
The browser adds a bunch of constraints. Forget the browser and those constraints go away. Problems solved.

If you really must offer something in the browser, use something like OnLive to give people a taste, but then offer a download for the best experience.
I'm in Taiwan and I sometimes see ads like "Follow your favorite pop stars on Google+!"
True, but even so, it's good to see Google patenting crazy things like this to protect themselves a little more against the "patent everything" Apple machine.
医療保険相談口コミランキング
Sorry Sriram, I was going to let this whole point slide, but I just can't. I think your advice on the architect issue is out-of-whack.

When I hear the phrase 'fire anyone who has architect in their title', here's what I hear in my internal monologue: Yes! Fire all the architects! Front line engineers know what every other development group is doing and can integrate their systems in a pinch! They are also across the application security requirements recently mandated in government regulation and can implement that too! No-one needs company-wide frameworks, because each development unit's home-grown libraries are good enough. Systems design? Pfft, overrated. Just check it in and break things, it's called 'agile'.

I apologise if my internal monologue sounds shrill, but your advice to 'fire all the architects' sounds similar to advice from developers to 'fire all the marketing department'.

edit: I am not an architect, this is not a defensive rant.
I also thought the site would be a great name for a startup vc firm. If I had the funds though, I wouldn't be posting here.
Hahaha! Epic!! Its one of the shittiest apps I've ever used. Oh wait, I never used it at all - It used my account by itself! (Of course I did authorize it by mistake, ONCE!!)
Cheap Adidas Tennis Shoes On Sale
Cheap Adidas Tennis Shoes On Sale, Adidas adidas barricade 7.0 White/Black Men's Shoe, Cheap Adidas Roger Federer Tennis Shoes Outlet!
Hmm, you sound like you've got yourself upset by reading all the Marissa Mayer news, then trying to compare yourself to her and falling short. Am I right?

Anyway, here is the "secret": Find an opportunity that seems interesting to you and has a decent potential payoff (money, or not, whatever motivates you), then jump into it and work your ass off for a few years until you get to a point where you really aren't going to advance any further, then use that experience that you have earned to hop to the next opportunity that interests you.

Also, be very wary of comparing yourself to people based on what you hear about them in the news or what they say about themselves on blogs or on Hacker News. There's a lot of bullshitting in business. It sounds like you want to turn yourself into some kind of hyper-efficient generalist that can get hired anywhere -- in fact, no such person exists.
I suspect people will disagree but my top two would be: 1. Yahoo is not Google and that's o.k 2. Take the time to understand Yahoo before doing anything drastic.
WebKit does not a great web browser make. It's an excellent foundation, but needs a great platform around it to amount to much.
Previously Skype was registered in Luxembourg, maybe it is because they are now under US ownership.
For people interested, I made a Spotify playlist with as much of these songs as I could find (only 17 out of 34): http://open.spotify.com/user/timotheeb/playlist/05rxkOr1UWrP...

Admittedly, I might not have always picked the exact version but it's sometimes hard to tell. Also, it's for the 4 different sessions as linked by jeroen: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4258777
<sorry, meta>
Is there a way to perhaps add revision history to mod-altered post titles?

It's confusing and maybe even counter-productive in some cases when these ninja-edits happen.

If there is a reason to change the title, let people know why. This adds to the available collective information as to what's acceptable or expected.

Example: user w submits post with good intentions and unintentionally uses an x title which is not appropriate. Title is changed by mod and user checks history. User sees title wasn't appropriate because y. Next time, user thinks about it and tries harder to be more concise/accurate. Progress.
This kind of thing is getting old and boring.

(1) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840233
(2) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2843530
This one is really just ridiculous. Can't wait for the next nexus phone to be blocked because Android has lists... I can't believe this went through. I had a crappy touchscreen LG phone that had lists like this way before the iphone was released.
Thanks for checking out the site and your feedback! This experiment has been extremely rewarding.
New DVD Releases July 17 2012
Hey,

I am one of the people behind SoundGecko, and we've recently launched in Sydney last week at a conference, and have received some coverage today by The Verge at http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/17/3164861/soundgecko-convert...

We use a mixture of API services, Windows Azure for hosting, native iOS development for the mobile app, and e-mail gateways such as Postmarkapp.com for e-mail routing.
What the hell? You're comparing a Blackberry to something that hasn't been in production for what...decades? Blackberry 9900 came out fairly recently and has a pretty damn good browser experience. I'm not sure why there's so much anti Blackberry sentiment here.

I agree that that it probably shouldn't be official policy to have Blackberries for employees, but if you're going to allow Android and iPhone, you might as well allow Blackberry for those who still want to keep it. It's not like we're talking about an IE6 type of burden here. The BB9900 browser is not crusty at all.
Thanks for the support. Means a lot.
If that helps, I made a Spotify playlist for some of songs of the 4 different sessions (17 out of 34) that were linked by jeroen: http://open.spotify.com/user/timotheeb/playlist/05rxkOr1UWrP...
Autonomous robot maps ship hulls for mines
Thanks so much for checking out the site. And for you feedback.
I read more Encyclopedia Brown books than I can count. One at a time just wasn't enough. This reminds me that I need to see if my daughter is interested in reading them...

Sorry to see you go Mr. Sobol, but thank you for the wonderful books!
Glad you like it. Thanks for checking it out.
Ths is one of the beautiful things about eval in a browser/node.js combo. You can give each client a unique implementation of the communication api. so trivially, you can rename and reorder functions. more significantly, if you have an orthogonal set of operations, each client can can have a unique set of functions that are compositions of those operations.

And if you're nervous about a specific client, you can just re-eval your communication api.

Unhackable? no. but you have some options about what to do to a client you're not finding very trustworthy.
If you really want to validate your market, you should remove the Developer and Pro Tier commitments. Stick to your original blog post of securing 10,000 backers like you noted in your original proposal. Right now, your Kickstarter campaign is designed in a way that may lead to false positives.

The barriers to entry as a messaging infrastructure service play are low. Even if your platform is reliable and stable, you will be quickly commoditized to competing on price which is not a sustainable business model.
Well played, EMC
I find it frustrating that many tech people (sorry for being general, but I see it a lot on this site and other communities) have a general sense of disdain for MBA/BBA-educated individuals, and then write multi-paragraph blog posts about opportunity cost, which is a 101 concept in any economics or business curriculum.

I'm not trying to derisive of Jack -- it's a good post -- but this is not some grand insight. This is why educational and personal diversity is a good thing: reinventing the wheel doesn't just apply to code, it applies to business.
I agree with this.

The implementation of Google+ Platform on websites seems to have plateaued recently, meaning, if these stats are correct, the visitors are probably not coming in from the web, they may be being coerced in from other Google products.

http://trends.builtwith.com/widgets/Google-Plus-One-Platform

Disclaimer I run BuiltWith.
Germans do that - we even call IEEE floats "floating comma numbers".
Now the fun part is that your time has different value to different people.

For instance for yourself, your time may be worth what you are being paid. Suppose that you get $120k/year. You work 8 hours per day, 5 days per week, 50 weeks per year, so you're being paid $60/hour. So if money for something comes out of you, $60/hour is a cap on what you're willing to pay - and actually it is less than that because you have little direct ability to change how much you're being paid.

Now let's look at that same employee from the point of view of the employer. If you've got an employee, after benefits, office space, training, etc, on average you're paying 2x salary for that person. (This figure varies by organization, but 2x is a typical figure.) That person works for you 50 weeks per year, 5 days/week, 6 hours per day. (Why 6 hours? Well they are present for 8, but take lunch, do personal emails, etc. So they only really work for perhaps 6 of those hours.) Do the math - that employee is costing $160/hour.

$60 vs $160 for the same person is pretty bad, but it does not end here. In order for it to make sense to hire an employee, you want that employee to be earning you more than they cost. So $160/hour is a floor for the value you hope they are providing - hopefully that figure is more like $200/hour or more.

The moral is that an employee's time is worth massively more for an employer than an employee. And therefore a wise employer should be willing to pay several times more than the employee to make improvements in how efficiently that time gets used.

(That said, there is a breed of employee who, faced with an employer who is willing to be generous, will try to figure out how much they can ask for. There is a balance to be found...)
Yes, i think that the site pick just the first result of image of the search engines
Google Quietly Acq-hires Part Of Design Firm Cuban Council For Google+
I love my 9900, but I have to admit there's no way I'm getting even a single full day out of it with a medium (in my opinion) level of usage.
Raleigh Startup: Sprout Scores $20M Round For Female Viagra
And for god's sake kill Connected Life. The fact that product teams aren't allowed to own the mobile app that goes with their products was just Marco's bullshit empire building, not a good organizational idea.
They will want "unnatural movement" to be hard to closely define so the patent covers as much territory as possible. The specific detection will be work in progress.
Very few authors start out that good at writing: they almost all have a million words of bullshit they have to weed through before they start to find enough good stuff.
If you really want to learn, don't follow the book
Nope I'm perfectly in the right to insult these companies. They are idiots and need to be slapped in the face with the reality that the genius coders they're looking for will laugh in their face.
Show HN: PodPlayer+ Free - 4th generation iPod clone for Android
The simplest answer: see work on abductive reasoning and hypothesis building.

But, more fully, anecdotes aren't speculation. They're individual experience. They are not, of course, a statistically representative sample. That doesn't mean it's worthless – it's just not authoritative, but it is still some person's real experience (internet truthiness aside). The all-or nothing view of validity and knowledge is problematic – and likely not reflective of how you or anyone else actually deals with reasoning.

Beyond that if it sparked discussion that either spurred the uncovering of real data or identified the requirement of further considerations, it's still of value.
I hope most people want to identify the influences on IQ so they can try to change them, not so they can vindicate their preferred school of thought.
Indeed. I know a company that made the mistake of putting an MBA type in charge of advertising, and therefore in charge of their affiliate program. She pushed always trying to figure out how much an affiliate was worth, before deciding if their stupid questions were worth the time that it took to answer them.

She made two fundamental mistakes. The first is that the time it takes to figure out up front whether someone is worth her time leads to a bad interaction surprisingly often (so even the "worthwhile" ones get a worse experience than otherwise). The second is that she valued an affiliate at the profit on the business they brought in minus the amount they got paid, completely missing the fact that having them out there linking to you improves SEO, which helps bring additional free traffic.

The result of her being penny-wise and pound-foolish, and that company's rapid growth trajectory turned flat and stagnated.
This reminds me of the movie In Time[1]. The movie itself isn't particularly amazing, but I definitely resonated with it's underlying themes around the value of both time and money, and how they are inextricably linked.

It's a hard idea to communicate across to your average layperson though, that their half hour of diligently shopping around for the best deal actually cost them more than they saved. It's all conjecture though until you're actually using your time to earn money, or you are being paid for your time. But even if you aren't directly making money from your time, you can argue that the time spent will still offset/reduce the amount of time you do earn money from.

There are definitely limits on this type of thinking, and how seriously you should take it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Time
I was wondering about both things. Sorry for the implied criticism - what you built was obviously a very important turning point, and I was an avid user for years.
Hey, guys -

This is ridiculously cool. It hits something I've toyed around with doing myself for a few years, and I will definitely give you a try tomorrow. The fact that you're from Sydney and I'm aiming to move down under makes things that much sweeter.

That said, I'm curious: I'd love to see a service that turns larger blobs of text into audio format (e.g. audiobooks). Do you have any plans for doing that?
Footprints to Cognitive Decline and Alzheimer’s Are Seen in Gait
AFAIK, the primary reasons are the ones that I gave. Synchronization of client and server can be achieved at scale -- just look at every multiplayer RTS -- it's just expensive to do on top of an FPS client-server architecture because you have to simulate every client on the server.
With reference to a near-quote from Mao Zedong (http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works...):

"We have an expression, millet plus rifles. In the case of the United States, it is planes plus the A-bomb. However, if the United States with its planes plus the A-bomb is to launch a war of aggression against China, then China with its millet plus rifles is sure to emerge the victor."

You pay for the phone, but you get the juvenile nationalist reference for free.
Would you be so kind as to explain why it is important for us at this stage?
Of course they should prove it. This don't mean the same kind of questions is always appropriate for every role. A web developer using JavaScript is very different from a C++ programmer.
We've discussed Miles Davis on a number of occasions here at HN. It's exactly up our alley...or, at least, the upvotes seem to indicate it is, and I agree that it is.

Here's why I think he's interesting:

1. He was an astonishingly good businessman in a time when black men were rarely given opportunities in business, even in the music industry. He is nearly unique even in the jazz world (which was better for black folks than most other industries of the time) for the level of his business success.

2. He was a great leader. He's regarded as one of the best jazz band leaders ever. He helped nurture multiple generations of jazz greats. If you can name a jazz legend from any time until his death, they probably played with Miles before they were a legend. An executive at a startup would do well to learn from him how to pass on skills and help develop even greater talents than their own (many people who played with Miles ended up being better musicians than Miles, and pretty much all became better than they were before they played with Miles).

3. He's interesting. Which could be enough. Nerds like interesting people and things.
You might also enjoy The Wire's ongoing feature "Invisible Jukebox." Amazon carries the anthology, featuring Steve Albini, Philip Glass, Sonic Youth, et al.:

http://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Jukebox-Tony-Herrington/dp/0...
What Would Happen If Every Ad Looked Like an Apple Ad?
The name screams "Kickstarter alternative" to me. Maybe you need to find out what keeps people from using Kickstarter (or others in that "crowdfunding" space) and fix that. Find a niche market that needs funding for projects. Or take a different approach to the Project <=> Backer relationship. Find a void in that space and fill it.
Leap Motion - Say goodbye to your mouse and keyboard
Even before building the product, I would suggest you validate that the idea is good in the first place. You can do that without creating any product at all and without depending on anyone else. It takes nothing more than creating a signup page and setting up adwords & analytics account. Look into this HN post - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3167676 and many other blog posts out there. Once you have validated that the idea is good, you might have an easier time convincing people to work with you.
One of the biggest wins of Google+ is its mobile app. Light years ahead of Facebook - which is slow and a power hog (without focusing on their recent bugs)

For the HN crowd, several influential releases/announcements are now using Google+ exclusively: Linus Torvalds, lennart poettering, Cyanogenmod, Ingo Molnar.

They still havent gotten the public/private interaction model right yet. For example, Linus went on an extended rant complaining about Google Events being used by uninvited spammers (which then got fixed when Vic Gundotra took it up)