skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quick Google+ comment - it crashes Mobile Safari like nothing else. I can't even get to the content here.
Looks like an awesome business. Glad you are successful and dedicated to your customers. The one thing I would ask then is what happens if something happens to you? Are there other people who can take over?
GPL was really just an attempt to use copyright against itself anyway.
The complete text:

Quick Nexus 7 comments..

So far: very positive.

Yes, the camera is front-facing only, and there's a good reason there's not even a camera app on the thing by default: it's pretty nasty. But does anybody really care? You'd look like a complete dork trying to take photos with a tablet anyway. It's probably fine enough for some video conferencing, but since that's not my thing let's just say "whatever".

Software: I prefer the plain android look, and dislike the various skins manufacturers have used (I really don't understand the "pee in the snow" model of skinning android to look and act horrible just so that the different manufacturers can make their mark on it - I'm pretty sure the majority of people tend to prefer plain android). So being a "Nexus" device I'm already fairly happy with it.

And yes, it's smoother, and "plain android" is picking up some of the best extensions (like app folder shortcuts). Yes, resizable widgets etc. And a lot of small improvement just in general.

The gmail app has "Mark unread" as a button (although the icon wasn't totally obvious to me), which I like. But the %^$ thing still cannot be set to send just plain-text emails. Why, google, why? Good technical mailing lists all know that html email is just spam or marketing people, and auto-delete html crap. Just give me the option to send text-only, ok? *

The size: I think the 10" tablets are too big. The 8.9" form factor is better. And I think the 7" one is better yet, although I wouldn't dismiss something in between those two (ie the rumored apple mini-tablet size of 7.85" doesn't sound bad either).

And it has enough pixels to make small text readable. I had to change the font-sizes to be smaller, but I can understand why the default would be the medium-sized text. I prefer my text small, so that I see more of it at a time.

That said, I've used it as a kindle replacement for a few evenings, and for pure reading, the kindle still beats it handily for that (although when I want a light, the Nexus 7 comes close). They are comparable in size, but e-Ink really is nicer for reading. And the kindle is lighter, which to me is a big deal while reading. I've got the Kindle Touch, but I think I'll switch to the even lighter Kindle 4 ("Kindle 5"?) if it gets a front-light.

But the Nexus 7 is a perfectly fine reader, and with color, magazines etc work. That's when you notice the smoothness, apparently. At least Tove says that the difference between the Nexus 7 and her Galaxy Tab 8.9 is quite noticeable. And quite frankly, I could never use the Motorola Xoom for reading - too big, too heavy, but the Nexus 7 I had no trouble with.

Verdict: it's solid. If you simply don't like tablets (or android), I doubt the Nexus 7 will really change your mind, but if you were borderline, the new price-point (for a quality device - there's been cheap tablets before, but they've really been pretty bad) and the incremental improvements might be enough to push people over the line.
Here is a use case.

Suppose that you have face recognition + AR. Then you can have an application that keeps track of notes and tags them to people and objects.

So you make a shopping list, walk into a store that it knows, and there are arrows pointing to everything you have to remember to get. Or you are in a meeting, make a note to ask John a follow-up question, then when you meet John again you have a glowing reminder to ask him.
The Wu-Tang Marketing Plan
Raleigh Bankruptcy Attorneys, Raleigh, NC Bankruptcy Attorney
Donald A. Davis is a Bankruptcy Attorney in Raleigh, NC providing debt consolidation services to help you erase your debt. Call us at (919) 561-6101.
I agree, and I think the author would too - the key phrase in the headline being "Anytime Soon". I think he expects a breakthrough to happen - but remember that there's generally quite a bit of time between the initial breakthrough and its feasability for large-scale consumer applications. The first LCD display was created in 1972, and the first patent of the underlying technology was issued in 1936 to the Marconi Wireless Telegraph company. I don't remember seeing them in Wal-Marts until the late 90's at least.
"spy CEO" wasn't my original intention. More like "figure-head whose intention is to benefit Google and whose loyalty is still with Google". Google's leadership is very shrewd and it would be foolish to blindly put this past them.

To be fair after reading a bit more and thinking about this it could be a vanity move motivated by the promo skip.
How do you know Sparrow made a "ton of money?". I haven't seen any references to that effect. Given that they aimed to get people to buy something given away by both Apple and Google, I'd expect the opposite.
If a friend came to you and said keep this on your property but don't look in it and the police came and searched your property and found that it was a nuclear missile, I don't think you could say oh but my friend wasn't planning on sharing it with anybody.
"In this series of images, all pulled from a single stone, Picasso visually dissects the image of a bull to discover its essential presence through a progressive analysis of its form."

http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/animals_in_art/p...
I will say that in my experience, depending on audience, I have found radio ads and general PR efforts to both be more effective at reaching consumers than I have found internet ads. Speaking strictly of ROI.

I am willing to say that the following forms of advertising are doomed:

* rotating banners

* rotating in-content image ads

* pop-up ads (whether div- or window-based)

* side-bar ads in content

The real challenge I think is to replicate the success at search engine advertisement (which seems to be good) elsewhere. For this reason I think that whatever ends up working will be very different than what we have now.

Yeah, I'd bet a dollar on that proposition.
Firebird Driver with Django 1.4 support ready for tests
> You'd look like a complete dork trying to take photos with a tablet anyway.

Wow, I just got called a dork by linus. This is going on my resume.
In other words, what if I get hit by a bus? Right now that is an issue, in that I'm the only person involved in running Tarsnap -- the only mitigating factor is that (AWS power outages notwithstanding) the service basically runs itself, so if I do get hit by a bus there would be plenty of time for people to retrieve their data before Tarsnap was shut down.
Damn it Firefox, you broke my pentadactyl!!
Yes, this has been going on for ages. I blame both Apple and Google.
It's not that internet advertising isn't effective. It's that all the content it's wrapped around is too engaging.

The reason ads in real-life are effective is that they traditionally haven't had to compete for your attention. Examples:

(1) Standing on a subway platform you are looking straight at a piece of advertising for minutes until your train arrives.
(2) Driving down the road, you're staring at a billboard for 1/4 of a mile (15 seconds at 50mph).
(3) On TV and on the radio, inertia to change the channel means you often listen to ads.

The problem for those media is that we are now reaching the point where content is portable enough that we now never have to be subject to ads in those public spaces because we can direct our attention to our mobile devices. Over the next for years you're going to see a massive drop in the effectiveness and reach of ads in real life because people will no longer be directing their surroundings.

The only one of the above examples that will survive a while are billboards and even they will only last until we have self-driving cars. Once we have self-driving cars, why even bother looking at the road instead of our iOS and Android devices?
Yes that would probably work. I think the pieces of the signal in decreasing importance are: you purchase from a business frequently, the current time is close to the average time at which you purchase from that business, you're physically close to the business.

I wonder if physical proximity really matters relative to the other two pieces? Pizza places can deliver so even if you're across town the ad could still have value. Corner case is when you're on travel and physical distance is very large.
Pyglet 1.2 alpha released with support for Python 3
> Advertising is a $600B a year business

The point is that, from an advertiser's point of view, most of that money is wasted. Insofar as they can target ads and pay less for them, they will.

That $600 billion is not going to transfer on a 1:1 basis into the internet advertising market.
Meh, all the whining about this is complete bullshit. If you didn't pay for the product, and instead downloaded the free version, and used it indefinitely, expecting the developer work on it, full time, without compensation, and didn't pay him for his hard work, then you got exactly what you payed for.
They're fairly high on the App Store top grossing chart.
It's happening already -- in Australia one television station (Ten) just sold its outdoor billboard subsidiary for what is, basically, a song.
Don't let your servers stay panicked.
10k+ users have the possibility to undelete questions. In order to do that they would have to be able to see them first.
In my experience, on an iPhone 4S HTML5 apps feel exactly as fast and responsive as native apps, and phones are only going to get faster.
Here's my very quick, nitpicking Nexus 7 review (had mine delivered last Wednesday):

- It's a tiny tiny bit too heavy to hold comfortably. It feels like just a few grams would make the difference.

- The battery life is fantastic. I've used it for hours and hours and it's still on 80-90%.

- Android 4.1 is fast and efficient. I don't notice any difference in speed or usability from an iPad 2.

- The screen has an incredible resolution. Some text is slightly too small to read comfortably.

- (Not that it matters at all but ...) the box it came in was as hard to open as many people have said.

- I bought GTA III with part of the "free" £15 credit and it's a piece of crap. I haven't even managed to play the game yet because it keeps crashing while downloading half a gig of data files. So I'll be finding out how well refunds work in the Google Play store.

Overall: well worth the money.
Copyright is most definitely not a good force. Whenever the government intervenes to prevent voluntary transactions among individuals, it destroys more value than it creates. Copyright falls under that category.
Best Running Shoes - Cheap Running Shoes, Nike Air Max Shoes Online Store
HN is very hostile to non-YC startups. Just avoid this site for promoting your non-YC startup.
I'm a long time Linux and Android fan, but had no interest in a tablet. I recently had not one, but two Android disliking friends buy a Nexus 7 and one even sold his iPad shortly thereafter. Needless to say, I wound up pulling the trigger.

It's really quite nice how well Android 4 and up work n multiple form factors. This just reconvinces me that there are a host of people that would adopt Android if they gave a more modern version a chance. I took the night off for some drinks and some TV shows and this has been nice to have over my Macbook Air for casual chatting.
I noticed the same thing and thought I was going crazy. It turns out that the blog link goes to a stripped-down alternate version of this page:

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/why-you-wont-see-hard-...
Facebook last in social media satisfaction survey
11 ways to solve what you're trying to do.

1. Direct optic nerve connection.
2. Optogenetics (hack the ganglion for blue/yellow on/off control)
3. Holographic displays for close focusable screens
4. Eye drops that can be stimulated to block or darken light
5. An AR that doesn't obsess over sight but uses soundscapes.
6. Invert/distort the image so the brain relearns what light v dark means.
7. High res lcd's that use hemispherical lenses over groups of pixels to produce defocused light.
8. Simplify the problem by making AR windows not goggles.
9. Embrace the imperfections, delays, tears, for artistic license.
10. Constrain the environment so hard AR arcades precede portable devices.
11. Sponsor an x prize

Ultimately feasibility and time-frame to market are questions of money, not a lack of ideas or technology. Given a billion dollars Abrash could have out a hard AR system in under 5 years.
Interesting fact about "rubberducking": orignally a Hollywood slang for explaining a character's psychological background as an alibi for everything it does ("Someone took his rubber duck when he was little, so now he kills people"). There's a good explanation in Sidney Lumet's Making Movies.
Usually it's double blinded ABX testing: A computer program gives you: Encoding A, encoding B, unknown encoding A or B. You have to choose if X is A, or X is B.

One of the encodings will be "uncompressed" when testing if the format in question is perceptually lossless.

Repeat that a couple hundred times with many different listeners using standardized samples and programs (doom9, an audiophile forum, does such runs every now and then), and you get a rather good idea on what's going on.

As for the 192kbps: It also depends on the algorithms used. bladeenc or 8Hz-mp3 back then created 320kbps files where you can easily hear the difference. Current lame builds at 192kbps? not so much.
Find a new way to search incense.
Our incense stays for many factors like to get excellent fragrance at your environment. Buy these days your preferred taste and carry pleasure in your way of life and also in the house. For more info visit http://www.incense1.com.au/
My recollection is that people considered the search engine market pretty much stable when Google was seeking funding. Your list certainly does nothing to prove otherwise. Also, suggesting that Google's origin is somehow like cancer research is laughable; they were two CS PhD students playing around with basic hardware. Their effort was well within a seed funding budget, never mind a series A.

My point wasn't that VCs should be investing in search. It's that they should be looking for big wins outside of the current hot thing. Which, yes, means not purely taking the path of least resistance.
Tell that to Red Hat, Alfresco, OpenNMS, etc.

That said, yes, I agree that some projects would be difficult (maybe even impossible) to monetize as F/OSS. We know the enterprise stuff works, consumer apps may or may not be a different story. I think that book still remains to be written.
i am not sure why everyone is feeling that it is hard to open the box. there were 2 tapes on the box, which I cut with my room keys and everything was fine, it wasn't hard. Is it just me that feels everyone is just too idiotic when it comes to opening boxes?
> I prefer the plain android look, and dislike the various skins manufacturers have used (I really don't understand the "pee in the snow" model of skinning android to look and act horrible just so that the different manufacturers can make their mark on it - I'm pretty sure the majority of people tend to prefer plain android).

Tablet and smartphone manufacturers are doing this because they are trying to differentiate their devices. With the Android OS (along with Android apps) and the hardware converging to a dominant design (ARM-based processors, similar form factor), tablets will become commodities (Armdroid). Competitors will be forced to compete on price. Their margins will collapse.

This is what happened in the PC market. With the Wintel standard, PC manufacturers had little opportunity to differentiate their products. The OS and CPU are identical, as are the internal components and peripherals. What's left? The color of the case? Fingerprint readers? Ultimately, PC manufacturers were all forced to compete on price. As a result, while Intel and Microsoft earned margins in the double digits, PC manufacturers' margins were squeezed to the low single digits.
Entando Open Services: beyond Open Data-Part 1
Seal Photobombs all night
Location Bateaux À Paris Est Simple Et Aussi Abordable
There was also a sleeve which I had to attack with scissors to get it off. As I said, it doesn't matter because you only open the box the one time. But there is a noticable difference between this and Apple hardware which really concentrates on the "[getting it] out of the box experience".
> No, one man can write something that resembles a social news site in a week, but building a good one that scales takes a bit longer. :)

That totally depends on your available toolset and experience.
Tried several samples on browsers and seems none of them support back button. Am I missing anything? This is a must to have for desktop apps.
Weight loss benefits of pure green coffee bean extract
The weight loss induced by the pure green coffee bean extract indicated a natural and 100% side effect free fat reduction – which merited additional studies. After a further series of experiments proved absolutely no side effects, the extract was ready to be tested on humans.
Backdoor jobs in india
Ballantine Technologies
What do you think of museum and art curators? Do you find it pretentious and some dangerous assertion against you that they have better taste than you? Do you think all 'designers' are pretentious?

I'm thankful that there are people making concerted effort to improve or at least find some of the better ones. Maybe the person does have better taste than you in some regards? What's so wrong with that?

Admittedly, I find the notion of someone having better taste than someone else somewhat amusing and it's not something I particularly concern myself with and this perhaps explains some of the amazement I have with the knees of people around here. :)
what? i pushed it from one side and the box slid from the other side. I have no idea why anyone would use a scissors to take off sleeve.

And no matter how you concentrate on getting out of box experience, people should really use common sense when it comes to opening boxes.
I was surprised about this too. I was expecting a fight after seeing countless unboxing videos featuring people that simply couldn't open it without shredding it with scissors. I cut the two pieces of tape with a knife, and then held the top part of the box and the bottom just slid out.
Napoleon Hill emerged out of a spiritual movement around the turn of the 20th century known as New Thought. There were a lot of books published in that tradition. Their core idea was that mental activity determines eventual physical reality. I find it interesting that this is a quintessentially American movement. There are traces of it all over the place to this day.

One of the great intellectual antecedents to such stuff is Emerson's Essays, which formulated an original modern American spirituality. Emerson is striking in how he seems to emerge out of nowhere. (Since nobody really does, I'd like to know more about his sources.) Anyone curious should read his essay "Self Reliance". It's a classic of entrepreneurial literature, though it doesn't talk about business. I hesitate to say this for fear of overselling it, but it's one of those rare pieces of writing that can change one's life (it changed mine).

As a surprising aside, Emerson was one of the biggest influences on Nietzsche.
I wonder if it would be possible (in the not so distant future) to simulate an entire human, but 'cache' the results of parts of the simulation. Let the program decide where a certain interaction has been calculated too much and create its own level of abstraction.

Sort of like how image compression algorithms store an abstraction of the image for large, uniform areas and get more granular for complexity, but applied to simulation instead
Yeah, I can go along with this. A long time ago I discovered I can spend some time looking at a problem then just drop it and answers or avenues of inquiry to try suddenly pop up at the weirdest of times over the next few days. I can't imagine it works for everyone but "sleeping on it" works like gangbusters for me.
I had to rip the sleeve cover to get it off as it wouldn't slide without ripping...
His comment about 10-inch tablets being too big got my attention.

I am in the market for a tablet that I am going to replace my dead Sony e-reader(6 inch I think). But i think the 7-inch ones are just too small for reading. Has anyone tried to compare both sizes?

I am mainly interested in using it for reading tech books and the occasional email. Currently leaning towards a transformer.
It's great stuff! Perhaps a tiny bit slow to load images - can you scale back the number per page or something to speed it up?
How to Deal with Marital Infidelity
Marital infidelity is a rude shock to the strongest of people. It makes one wonder what went wrong with the relationship. Every marriage is based on the foundation of trust and belief.
Ek Tha Tiger movie Reviews
Ek Tha Tiger is a upcoming Hindi movie starring Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif and is directed by Kabir Khan . The expected release date of Ek Tha Tiger movie is Wednesday 15th of August 2012.
The truth about sports drinks
Left it running for a while:
http://i.imgur.com/Nfn8P.png
New Firmware for Nitrogen Logic Automation and Depth Controllers
Is this a self-help parody of the Feynman Algorithm?
Claude Monet at Work in His Garden, 1915
Will IMAX Ever Completely Replace Traditional Movie Theaters?
Having a text editor does not mean that completion does not work. ctags etc. provide such features. It might not be as good as completion using a static type checker and might have false positives, but "uninformed" completion goes a long way.

Also, some of the higher level api look much more Ruby-like:
https://github.com/rubymotion/BubbleWrap
Why don't manufacturers compete on quality instead?

I can walk into a store and see the Apple computers on one side and the Windows computers on the other. All the Apple computers look and feel beautiful, but the Windows computers are plastered with stickers and 'Beats by Dr Dre' branding. They're made out of what looks like the cheapest plastic ever. I can understand why Apple is absolutely killing it at the moment - it's because everything else is shit.
Assembler is what translates assembly code into executables, a compiler for assembly if you so wish.

In many countries like mine, both terms tend to be used interchangeably.
Micron's Purchase of Elpida Gives It a Huge Boost in the Memory Chip Market
Experienced Divorce Attorneys Daytona Beach
Experienced divorce attorneys in Daytona Beach offering a wide range of professional law services including divorce, custody, child support & more. Call Today!
True, but you are proving the OPs point about having subscription-based pricing. I remember when I first bought Things when it cost $50 and they still haven't even shipped proper syncing. I felt like my money was stolen from me. If they had subscription pricing, they'd actually have to care about their customers post purchase. We'd have the power to stop their income stream much more directly.
Myself and my wife had absolutely no problem sliding it out of it's sleeve and then slicing the 2 tabs with a knife and lifting the top off.

Only thing i can think of, is maybe there was a defective batch of boxes that were slightly too tight? The complaints I had been reading for days definitely confused me once I got it and opened it with ease.
JSON Pretty Print and JSON Multi level Collapse Code in Javascript and Python
I'm not the OP, but I read those two statements something like this:

1. The minimum price to sustain development as standalone software is $50/seat.

2. Consumers will not pay $50/seat for this software.

3. Some businesses have been successful with cloud-based monetization.

4. Therefore, the best chance for success is to sell a cloud service, rather than standalone software.