skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a cool idea but I don't think it works quite right, matching RGB color is a perceptual thing, there's no absolute "starbucks green" that you could display on a monitor. Even a calibrated monitor in controlled lighting conditions is still calibrated to something (like a film stock or a certain printer profile).

I think a better way to present this would be to show a photograph which incorporated the logo (e.g. a Coca-Cola billboard in a city on a sunny day) with the grey logo, and then have the user color-correct the logo until it matched the perceptual reference of the context that it was in. The "coca cola red" in RGB values would not be pure red but I think the user would probably have a better chance of making it "look correct" in the photo (thus matching the color values in the original photograph) than trying to match it without any context. Would make a neat experiment, too.
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They're usually pretty good about their own estimates, but they don't manage "expectations" very well. By way of contrast, Microsoft seems to do this much better, leading to fewer surprises.

These analysts have their heads up their asses, though, as that's the only place you could get numbers like this.
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Circle tells you who is around you, anywhere in the world including people you know and people you should know. We launched our iPhone app 3 months ago and Alpha Android app within the last week, have hundreds of thousands of users, great press (http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/11/circle-if-highlight-and-pat...) and are growing fast with big things coming in the pipeline.

Work with multiple ACM-ICPC World Finalists, Google Code Jam World Finalists, TopCoder champions, the designer with the best design campaign in Russia last year. The team is world class and expects every employee to want to be one of the best in the world. We believe in a 100% meritocracy (think early PayPal days) and love healthy debates where the best ideas win.

Email me at evan.reas@gmail.com if you want to learn more and I will give you a sample algorithm problem to try out.
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Well yes, I thought the article captured a lot of interesting numbers. Much more useful if you skip the ad hominems (I don't care what you think of the author) and focus on critiquing the substance. What's wrong with the data? Happy to hear.

Scientific consensus - no one asserted that it represents proof. You are wrong to say that scientifically it means nothing. I think you mean to say what Wikipedia says: "Scientific consensus is not by itself a scientific argument, and it is not part of the scientific method."

However from a societal point of view it is important, which is clearly highlighted by the attempts of the energy industry to promote the idea that there isn't a scientific consensus when there is one.

Obviously I take issue with the bits where you go on to talk about disproven theories and unreliability of models. You're veering off into that industry messaging which aims to convince a reader that the science we have is not solid enough to decide whether to act on emissions, which is completely false.

It's a recipe I hereby label the "global warming denialist's unscientific method":

1. Construct your own notion of how science works.

2. Dismiss climate science based on 1.

3. Convince yourself (and others) you hold a scientific position.
The more important question is could multiple smaller labs have come up with something more valuable (to science or society) than weighing the Higgs Boson (the discovery was expected, the weight was an unknown)?
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Another example is stock ownership, i.e. partial, tradeable ownership of a venture. No, you can't hold it in your hands[1], but people understand that it's property in all the relevant senses and can be meaningfully said to be "stolen" (e.g., if the votes you make with your shares are ignored).

[1] The stock certificate doesn't count; that's a representation of the property, not the property itself.
That's my point. It doesn't say how they are going to get paid. While it certainly is an example of caveat emptor (or should that be caveat vendItor? The lines blur...), misleading someone via omission is in my opinion just as bad as not telling the truth, if you have an impression via the sales process that payment would be prompt.

Before you object, consider the reaction of the waffle shop owner if he had been told that it would take 3 months to pay for his services, but he still had to outlay capital to provide that service. Does it seem likely he would have gone ahead with the Groupon campaign? One cannot say with absolutely certainty, but I think it likely he would not have proceeded!
Hardly the 'mystery of number theory' the poster was talking about. There was no 'mod 8' syntax expressed in the example.
Doesn't seem to work in Mountain Lion. I launched the app, added my google account, then went to add my Instagram account, however I had to do a password reset, when I switched back to collections it was unresponsive. Re-launching the app shows me the chrome of your main window and then it goes unresponsive again.

If I can be of any help with your testing, let me know!
Hi jc4p, the product is still in beta. (If you go to the about page for the product you'll see that it says Beta2) The reason we removed Beta from the name of the app itself is that we started using Sparkle for auto updating the app, which seems to break if the app name changes. If we keep Beta in the name of the app, we won't be able to automatically update you to a full version later. That's why we removed it.

About spreadsheet, we know the experience is still not great and could use a lot of work. Stay tuned and we hope to have something for you in the next couple of days. As for security, since last launch we've consulted with Heroku security team, implemented password policy and done a great deal of other things to keep infrastructure secure. We have an upcoming blog post dedicated to security planned which will give you more details about how we keep your data safe. We'll let you know.
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Imagine that Padmapper were released as an alternative web browser. As an end user, I have the right to consume CL's content. Do they have a right to tell me which web browser I can and cannot use?

Since CL offers their data freely to "the public", by what theory can they prevent the public from using their own chosen client browser to view it? Why should there be a distinction between software installed in my computer and a cloud-hosted application like Padmapper?

I believe that Padmapper, as an agent acting on behalf of its users, has every right to reformat the information originating on CL as long as it does not purposefully seek to cause confusion about the origin of the data (which they do not as they link to the source).
Liouville numbers have approximations of unbounded quality and thus cannot be algebraic. "Most" transcendental numbers only have finitely many approximations of quality higher than 2 + epsilon for any epsilon.
I said that in the context of the previous post, you can't read it in isolation.

The design decision are irrelevant, since Padmapper isn't copying those.
Read item #5 in http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html and you'll find out that the best inside information that Paul Graham could get says that Apple has what Steve Jobs left in its pipeline, and nothing else big coming.

This tells me that the trend you are hoping for in Apple's product line should not be counted on.
I took CS188 (the AI course) recently and it was really great. Dan Klein is easily one of the favorite CS professors among the students--everyone really loves his class. He is, critically, a great educator. And, naturally, great fun. The lectures were certainly fun to attend even when the material was relatively easy.

The online version only has half the material. However, this makes sense; the class is naturally divided into two parts. The first half was focused more on AI and search problems and the second part was more about machine learning. I suspect the only reason it is one class is because it has to fit in the semester system. Online, naturally, it's liberated from this constraint.

Anyhow, I definitely recommend this for anyone interested in AI. And even if you're not interested in the field as much, it's a fun course and only lasts three months.
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Hi jameswyse, thanks a lot for offering to help. We have yet to test our app on the latest Mountain Lion. We will install Mountain Lion tomorrow and test the app. Feel free to email us at support@collections.me and we'll drop you a note once we finish testing the product on mountain lion.
Hey, Dashboard still exists.

I'm wondering why I never use it anymore. It was fun to play around with and design for, but nowadays I... well, I actually forgot the shortcut to open it.

Am I the only one?
>With number theory, progress is much harder, things work in a completely different logic (think for example that 5+3 can be 0 for example)

I wasn't aware that the modulo operation had been raised to a field of mathematics.
> However, back in the way back times, if you programmed the seeks on a large disk drive you could get it to play 'music' of a sort from the resonance of the stepper motors.

I would love to see the entire facility spontaneously erupt into a symphony like this: http://vimeo.com/1109226
I installed the GM build on my MacBook Pro, not sure if it's just psychological but apps definitely feel snappier than in Lion.

Got caught out with one old app that didn't have a developer id (for a 3g dongle) so had to disable the gatekeeper install it then I could reapply gatekeeper.

Otherwise it's been running great for the past few days.
Hi drobati, I'm not quite sure what you mean. Could you give us a bit more detail?
I have had 3 accounts hell banned. Each time was slightly mysterious to me, but let me relate the context and maybe someone can enlighten me.
- The first ban was after I posted a comment that suggested that some venture capitalists that fund start ups may be exploiting young naive technologists. My guess was that saying anything bad about VCs or the startup culture merits a ban.
- The second ban was after a post where I said that Flouride is rat poison. I understand this is controversial, but it is also an indisputable fact. Flouride is used in rat poison. I assumed that mentioning any inconvenient/controversial fact merits a ban.
- The third ban was after I disagreed with someone on how the brain learns. There was nothing particularly controversial about it at all. I assumed that I had angered someone with moderation powers and was rewarded with a ban.

My conclusion is that developing a moderation system that rewards people who agree with your world view tends to be self-selecting towards that world view. Down voting or banning anyone who disagrees with you rapidly develops group think, regardless of how 'intelligent' that particular world view is. I assume that any criticism of HN or the moderation system also merits a ban, so I expect this post will not be visible for very long.
I actually use it a few times a day to do simple things like calculations, conversion, weather forecast... then again I'm on a laptop with F4 as the Apple-set shortcut.
It's relevant because it requires creativity; it's not automatically ruled out, but it makes it harder to claim.

In any case, Craigslist is completely unoriginal in its selection and arrangement of the data; the selection is "whatever people submit" and the arrangement is LIFO. I find it very hard to believe they'll be awarded copyright over it.
Some of the profs around here quote bits from the show !!!

The show is a hoot. But as with all good TV shows, the characters are composites and exaggeration of what you find in real life.
Also, I'm not a lawyer, so correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it also patent infringement if the following happens:

A patent is filed for technique X by company A,

Company B use technique X having created it independently,

The patent is issued to Company A,

Company B is now infringing upon Company A's patent.

Company B could not possibly have committed patent infringement intentionally, because the patent they infringed didn't even exist when they went about implementing their product.
How did you solve the problem in your matrix libraries of overloading a single operator multiple times? I was trying to make rudimentary, game-oriented linear algebra library in rust along the lines of glm. I immediately ran into the problem of not being able to implement "mat4 * float->mat4", "mat4 * vec4->vec4" and "mat4 * mat4->mat4" overloads at once. The alternative was only to go with "mult_float", "mult_vec4" and "mult_mat4", but as you say this leads to "nigh-unreadable" code.

It might seem petty, but whilst I understand rust avoiding overloading functions entirely (due to type problems and code obfuscation), it was enough to turn me off entirely, in this case sending back to D.

Bear in mind this is not to say Rust is a bad language - there's plenty to like about it. ;)
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I still use it, mainly because it's very easy to hit the F4 key to pull it up. I only use it for quick look ups - I have a conversion widget, exchange rate widget & the odd time I need to use the calculator.
The "features" in that video are a joke.

Does anybody know if there are under the hood improvements in this version that would make upgrading worth the money?
The reason for the fast hiring is to get ready for peak times. They hire tons of temporary workers from local agencies, and when there is no more work, they are let go. That's what temporary agencies are for. The only difference between Amazon and others who use temp agencies, is that Amazon hires 10s of thousands of employees to work in response to seasonal work. I don't really see your point here.

The whole program is not bullshit, and let me tell you why. Once upon a time during my early years of college, I held a full-time job for a logistics company doing work in a warehouse. I worked at night and went to school during the day. I took every opportunity of overtime I could take and still managed to do well in school. Keep in mind that my tuition was not that much, but I saved every dollar so it would go towards schooling. You know how much misery $2,000 grand would have saved me? There are much worser places to work and I am not saying that Amazon is setting the bar, but they are improving quite a bit.

Also, your sources don't work.
Control-clicking an app and choosing "Open" whitelists it even when Gatekeeper is enabled.
This is probably US Law 101 but it doesn't jive with my UK knowledge.. if verbal contracts aren't enforceable in that state and the claimant is making the point that there was "no contract", what is the basis to sue a photographer for services made under a "contract" the claimant doesn't even acknowledge?

Separate to that, the photographer's professional liability insurance would help here if the claimant won, wouldn't it?
To deconstruct the SourceForge decline, which felt as painfully slow as the glacially slow erosion of IE 6 market share, it's important to recognize it in context.

SourceForge and its related properties were the backbone of the early web, supporting a number of important efforts to which people felt a strong allegiance. It was like a benevolent force at the time.

SourceForge had, at the time, a fairly formal process for registration. They considered themselves more like a library where getting shelf space was a privilege not doled out lightly. This is not unlike how getting into the Yahoo! directory required a lot of begging and pleading.

While this meant that most of the projects hosted by it had a lot of merit, those lesser efforts were left out in the cold. They failed to switch to a more casual model as the "Web 2.0" philosophy started being the dominant mind-set, where expectations shifted dramatically from carefully curated content to emergent user-driven communities.

Also worth noting, GitHub's pace of innovation is so far beyond nearly anything else in the industry that it was only a matter of time before they became the superior platform in terms of technology.

Additionally they were able to ride the surge of popularity that git was gaining, something that SourceForge didn't support at the time, and persuaded a number of high-profile projects to move to them. The real coup was Ruby on Rails, which once hosted there, solidified their position.

Any Craiglist displacer would need to swing a few important, strategic deals to cement it in the minds of people as a reasonable alternative. The rest would be a case of just driving harder than Craiglist is willing to keep up with.
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"... audiophiles ..."

I'm not sure audiophiles are the market. Consider the source, "powerful radio and wireless speaker for iPhone + iPad". Having a 1/4 decent sound for say .mp4 would be nice.
I use it all the time for various widgets - weather, calendar, network usage etc. It is just as easy to swipe horizontally with four fingers.
Why are cleartext password fields bad practice? How many accounts are actually compromised via shoulder surfing? They're especially annoying on mobile phones.

edit: Since there are password fields, I guess the question should have been "How many accounts _would_ be compromised by shoulder surfing?" I bet it's a truly insignificant number.
That's disturbing since a hellbanning is a much more vile punishment than a simple ban. Why is it doled out so casually?
1) You need to sign up before you can add the apps that you are interested in tracking

2) We are considering an mobile app version of the the product. We wanted to gauge user interest before expanding even further

I like the last suggestion. We are looking to add extra features in the future but we are concentrating on getting the MPV off the ground first
Not allowed and possible are not mutually exclusive events.
I played with it for 10 minutes when it first came out and since then have either disabled or hidden it. It just seems to do stuff that most people I know leave browser tabs open for instead nowadays. The calculator is rubbish (and Cmd+Space, c, enter isn't hard), Google does better work at conversions and weather, etc..
Been using it on a fully loaded macbook air. Completely anecdotal but I think my boot times are faster. But my encryption seems slower. Safari is wayyy more stable and faster. Messages is integrated better and love Notifications!

Launchpad is way smoother imho.
Most features don't seem to be core OS features except maybe this one:

"You can use Airplay as a sound output device".

Which, I am looking forward to.
Keep it up Roundabout! :)
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Yeah, a list of bug fixes would be great. I'm still having issues with reconnecting (after sleep, on startup, ...) to wifi on my air. Also the problem with fans (who apparently think they are propellers on a WW2 bomber) remains to be solved. If this update fixes this I'll upgrade just for that (since apparently Apple can't be bothered to fix this issues via regular free updates).
Thanks for all the responses. A common theme in the responses seems to be 1) design of the site/homepage, images, videos; 2) landing page copy / unclear proposition.

I'm not sure how critical 1) is and am hesitant to invest more resources into it having not gotten any traction so far.

I'm struggling with 2) and not quite sure how to better pitch the service and its benefits... needs a lot more thought on my part perhaps. I'm currently thinking if I can create some sort of flowchart graphics that shows at a glance what it does...
I have only used european wheelbarrows, but I find them deceptively unstable at high loads. You might bee able to push 100 kg of dirt since you only have to lifthalf of the weight, but as soon as you get just slightly off ballance, the full weight will push the wheelbarrow over. There is just no way you can keep it from falling once that happens.

The problem would seem to be Much worse with the chineese design, since the load is much higher (and the center of gravity higher ?).
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(Just as an FYI, as I was amazed to find out recently, this is available in PulseAudio as well, though it uses the old TCP protocol instead of UDP as most things tend to support).
In my very quick review of these companies, it seems most have already been or are currently part of an incubator program Pollenizer[Flikgift,WooBoard], StartMate[ YoungRepublic], AngelCube - Lexim.

I don't know if this is a good sign for the Australian ecosystem or not. It would seem the goal of most incubators is to have companies funded after the program ends, not to enter another seed stage program.
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Assuming that the photographer is carrying insurance. It did sound like this was someone that was a true professional though, as opposed to someone that does photography on the side so I would hope they carry insurance. In fact, if they do have insurance, it's very likely that the insurance company would provide a lawyer in the case of the lawsuit as winning the suit would save them more money that having to pay out a claim.
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