skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"And how far along are you in building OUYA?

Very. We expect to have a finished product ready to ship to you in March. (With the very first boxes – bugs and all – ready a few months earlier.)

We have a functional prototype, and we have almost completed our industrial design (the shape and materials of the product you see here)...."

That said any Tegra 3 device with 1 GB ram and a bluetooth game controller could qualify as a prototype.

I'm going to agree with mattmanser's skepticism. Ouya is exciting and I suppose I'm rooting for it but I'm 80% sure the last station for this train is CrunchPad-ville.

Ultimately Tegra 3 delivers a level of console graphics that's 8 years old. I may be wrong but it looks like no motion gaming is mentioned nor a big content solution, and those are literally they biggest console advances over the last 8 years.
Interesting, and I'm not sure. I just googled my username and "ISEF", knowing it would probably come up. The hackerne.ws link was first that I found...and then I just assumed the permalinks didn't work.
No, but if you'd like to make a bet on it, and are happy to lose money, I'm probably happy to put $500 on the line, winnings to charity (mine's Partners In Health).

What would you like the terms to be?
But NH has other methods of querying that are readily available. EF doesn't make those as accessible.

I was able to put in full text function support in NH HQL rather easily in an app and I don't see that ability in EF. I'm working on a desktop application and the ability to precompile the dynamic proxies would help the startup time of the application. I would love if I could do that in EF, I've done it before in NHibernate.
What are your qualifications to be giving 'protips'?
It's really hard to understand what this comment means, as it boils down to "it's really hard to tell if they want to be the worst of online journalism or a rival for the best of it".

Is there some cue in the writing on this page that suggests that they're hoping to suck?
This is a little different. For every person who felt they contributed to defeating SOPA, that's a person that politicians have to consider when enacting legislation. That's called paticipatory democracy, and it's pretty awesome!
Did nokia absorb troll tech outright or are they an owning company?
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Take responsibility for your own society's trolls, and for our gullibility to them.

It would be easy to point the finger at outsiders hating us for our freedom. In order to defeat the troll, we must recognize him in ourselves, however.
I don't think this is like Active Desktop. It's not about rendering the desktop with a browser engine, but allowing the desktop apps to interact more completely with thin envelopes around browser engines that run HTML-based applications.
They learned it from the chinese. In china,this trolling scheme has been employed for years. There is even a name given (five cents) - meaning they are hired for cheap to praise everything the government does and demonize the activists.
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It is not far fetched given that "big boobs" is interpreted in a societal context which is dominated by male gaze. That is, big boobs is "artsy" and "funny" for a man, since he is the target audience of the joke. Someone at the other end of the joke might take offense. Especially if you experience similar events on a daily basis within your professional environment. Just because something could qualify as art, doesn't mean that you are not allowed to scrutinize it.

I suggest that you employ a bit of empathy instead of drawing assumptions about the persona of the other party.

Putting up twenty links to Wulff & Morgenthaler (epic comics) and using it as an educational/critical source without context only dilutes what you are trying to say, i.e. people should more relaxed.

That being said, being able to figure out how to spell anything sensible using 8 sixteen-digit letters is an accomplishment.
The one has a clear focus on tech and startups, the other has a broad network of correspondents spanning the world.

In retrospect, PandoDaily would probably make me jump to "terrible journalism", too.
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Do they actually have a working prototype? It's very unclear in their messaging, and they show no pictures of even semi-complete devices.

I could attach a ps3 controller to an omap4 evaluation board running Android tomorrow, but that wouldn't make it a proper prototype.
This used to be true, not thing have changed since then.
Chrome didn't have any WebRequest api, so Adblock Plus for Chrome loaded some JS/CSS in the page and tried to hide/block as much ads as possible. [1]

Since Chrome 14 (i'm not totally sure about this version) WebRequest api where implemented, but only as experimental api (you would have to enable them from chrome://flags), and Chrome >17 enable them by default.

So Adblock Plus >1.2 beta [2] and Chrome >17 should block ads just like Firefox. It's possible that there are some small difference, but that's likely a bug and should be reported.

[1] http://adblockplus.org/development-builds/experimental-adblo...

[2] http://adblockplus.org/releases/adblock-plus-12-beta-for-goo...

I'm not sure what's the situation with other adblocker for chrome.
There's the old saying, "If Apple did not exist, Microsoft would have had to invent it." The same is true of AMD, from Intel's perspective.
I see the conclusion I jumped to. You were just saying, "tough to see whether they're launching a tech news site or a global news site".

I hope it's more like the latter!

I think sites like PandoDaily have a problem similar to the one CNN has: they have a mandate to produce more news content than there is to report. In CNN's case it's because they've commandeered a 24/7 cable channel and entered into a ridiculous competition; in the tech/trade press, it's because they've got such a narrow scope --- and again, because they're in what they perceive as a winner-take-all competition with each other.
Not only that, but think of those WHO DON'T HAVE PHONES.

I now have a cell phone that I use around 10 min per month. I could easily do without it... but everywhere they expect you to have one. I could understand an email address, but a phone number? Why?
You have to change how you read code. Stop worrying about implementation details and see the objects API, and stop digging into every method, you don't need to see the implementation all the time. Step back, look at the classes and the messages between them and ignore the implementation whenever possible. When you understand how the parts work together, then you tend to know which part is broken for any given bug, and you know you can ignore most of the other parts entirely.

Yes it's a good thing, because such programs are simple and pluggable allowing you to add features by adding new classes rather than modifying and potentially breaking existing ones.
config.force_ssl = true

Feels good, man. If only it were that easy to enable HSTS in all web frameworks.
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A bit sensationalist but it's also pretty darn remarkable. It's never happened before
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I have to admit my enthusiasm is near nil. It sounds like not only the trite reinforcement of the "user as marketable commodity audience" but it just smacks of mild desperation to monetize anything it can to support its now publicly tradable status.

Maybe that is horribly cynical, but for some reason it leaves a very sour taste.
As a long time PostgrSQL fan and user, it's nice to see it get well-deserved attention. It's kept our company of 3000 employees going strong for nearly a decade and has NEVER failed us or lost any of our data. (Knock on wood ;-) )
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The Dreamcast was only a failure compared to Sony and Nintendo. If Ouya sells 10 million consoles and has hundreds of games I think it would qualify as a success by their non-AAA goals.
I see anything aside from images and text on the web as a kludge. But it turns out ubiquity and connectivity is so powerful that it trumps almost everything else.
I assume they're expecting to get free content creation from their curated selection of blog posters, and part of to keep 'quality' up offer editorial services. I see some flaws in what they're doing so far. Will have to see how they navigate it all. Certainly be interesting is right.
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I absolutely disagree. Drop-in portability between databases is an operational myth for any production application anyway. Whether you're using Postgres, Riak, Mongo or Oracle, you're going to have to do a lot of work to change your database infrastructure.

Further, every database, noSQL or otherwise, offers a different set of features and functionality. Why the heck wouldn't you take advantage of k-nearest-neighbors indices? Why would you want to roll your own full text search functionality? The alternative is to introduce whole other services to your infrastructure!

In closing: if you've got 'em, smoke 'em.
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If you have a years worth of runway (ramen budget), you are way ahead of where a lot of entrepreneurs start out.

Do you have any ideas? What are you passionate about, or what do you have a lot of insider knowledge about?
From what I've recently learned, isn't this what killed Digg?
Sure! 36 months to deadpool. I'd do $200 to NGLTF.
You're on. My contact info is in my profile. When I inevitably win, I'll match your dollars, because PIH is awesome. :)
Dustin designed PandoDaily's website.

(just kidding)
I know it doesn't feel like it now, but I promise it will wear off. Next time don't take so much.
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Qt will remain. Nokia don't want much to do with it now. That project might be better off without Nokia!
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exactly
https://twitter.com/fredwilson/status/226047103867170816
So the answer is "he did a ton of work for free and without authorization or permission to speak on behalf of the company"?

Come on. I know we worship technologists and hate businesspeople here, but that's not an answer for anybody. Business people provide value and you can find out how much by asking them the right questions. If you don't even know the right questions to ask, then that speaks volumes more about the relative worth of a "business guy" to your latest social-mobile-local-cat-pic-pinning-geofenced network.
The engine that powers it is exactly the same, the difference is additional APIs (that add functionality, not performance). Everyone already agrees that HTML/JS needs more APIs.
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If it makes the goal amount (it is currently $4M above it), the money is charged from people and is then in Robotoki's hands.

Whether those people still care about the game in 2015 is irrelevant - as a money making venture, it's quite clever (and clearly successful).

EDIT: Never mind - I got confused thinking the game had raised $5M on Kickstarter, not the Ouya. My bad.
I would hire 61 awesome engineers with that kind of money.
Managers are "meta-employees". Their job is not to do any particular work exactly, but to coordinate the work of others and to get the actual employees focused on doing the boring dreck work that nobody really would do by choice.

Think about it this way, there are long standing issues in many leaderless Open Source projects because people more or less just work on what they want and boring crap like writing drivers, or making button graphics or whatever. That's why the ones that tend to be successful tend to be the ones that have strong leadership structures.

Problems crop up in a couple different cases:

1) The size of the group the manager has to coordinate is larger than the manager can actually handle. This results in all kinds of obvious problems I don't think I need to get into.

2) More subtly, and this is where large corporations end up stagnating and dying. It's when the "meta" aspect gets out of control and there are managers of managers of managers.

In this case what happens is that in order to communicate information up the managerial structure, the data necessarily has to become more and more abstract until it often loses so much meaning as to be almost entirely divorced from reality. The side effect of this is that somebody has to produce the abstractions which ends up being the lower levels of the management hierarchy...which of course means that they're no longer functioning in a coordination role as their data reporting role ends up consuming more and more of their time.

3) In large management chains, decision and vision authority tends to move up the hierarchy towards the top, which of course is the part of the hierarchy operating with the least amount (most abstract) of data...and the issues highly abstract "vision statements" that then must be resolved down through the management chain and end up turning in unmotivated "orders" that the lower level coordinators have no real buy in on -- ending up with unmotivated and uncreative solutions to ensure that the "boxes are checked" and satisfy their fraction of the "vision statement". Success in this area is then reported back up the chain as more and more abstract data.

#3 is why large companies usually end up stagnating and ending up uncreative.
For those Rails users amongst us, many of these cool data types (I am particularly hanging out for Arrays) are available in the fast-improving postgres_ext gemⁱ, and (even more exciting) there's an effort to get it merged into Rails 4.

ⁱ https://github.com/dockyard/postgres_ext
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yea. From further down the page on HN: "Microsoft expected to post first quarterly loss".
is this going to use the native iOS email client? are you going to be sending the content of the emails to your own servers, or is everything going to be done on the device?
The slope flows the other way IMHO, most of the time most programs I've seen arent abstracting enough and the code is far to sequential and unnecessarily complicated because of it. Excessive if and switches seem far more common to me than excessive use of polymorphism.
Does taste mean not being able to understand what the aQuantive writedown is about?

Excellent point...

Also, a mass produced phone built in China and sold in Walmart is a lot of things, but tasteful it is not.

... terrible point!
EF is horrible. I've every version since V1. Every system I've worked on that used EF needed major code tuning under production work loads. Before compiled queries (4.1? 5?) supporting more than a handfull of users concurrently was hard. Plus it is just a leaky abstraction over SQL. Many hours spent running stuff through EF, looking at the reams of SQL produced, and trying to tweak the EF query to produce the desired SQL. NHibernate or Dapper or even plain ole' stored procs are preferable to me.
Has Ouya actually gotten any other games promised for their platform yet? I don't care about exclusivity. I just want to know that there will actually be stuff to play when it comes out. I pledged originally, but cancelled after Ben Kuchera's skeptical article. I'd love to be given a reason to reinstate my pledge.
Thanks for your input. Yes, this is always one of the hardest things in UI design: Do I optimize for the "power user" (yes that dreaded word again) or the common user? Can I do both without any compromises? Besides possible monetary benefits it would immensely calm my ego as a developer having made something both easy and powerful.

A good example of this principle IMO is Apple Pages and Numbers. They are both succeeding at being powerful/expressive when you need it (Cmd-alt-i) and easy for the other times. It's just a shame that they haven't been updated and still lack some important features like plugins and bibliography.
Until I read this article, I didn't even know Facebook _had_ a search. Why would I possible search for anything on Facebook? I know who my friends are, and for everything else, there's Google.
No the Facebook equivalent is the eventually pollution of the newsfeed. Although you can say that that is already happening.
That's what I meant by tautologically useless. You might be able to test it for commodities like bread or crude oil, but you cannot for anything remotely differentiable. A recent example:

Apple supplies tablets. There is great demand. Market participants conclude: "If we supply tablets, we can profit of some of that demand". Market is filled with tablets at various price ranges ($50-$700) with various capabilities. Almost none of them sells.

Conclusion: there is demand for ipad, no demand for tablets.

Any theory that requires you to retroactively define your terms is "not even theory" in my book.
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His billion dollar marker is drastically high. He has been living in dotcom fantasy land for far too long.

There's no reason you can't raise $250k for 25% from an angel investor, to build a $10 or $20 million business. That's a helluva result to put it mildly. You know, building an actual business that produces actual profits, not vaporware built-to-flip companies that produce nothing and only exist in a tiny corner of the economy.

The stock market hasn't moved in real terms in 13 years or so. Interest rates are on the floor. Any investor outside the big VC game would kill for a 10 or 20 fold return over 10 or 20 years. There's a beautiful thing called dividends, which a successful business can pay to its owners. Dixon doesn't seem to know anything about that however, as his assumed scenarios require the big exit and ignore any other possibilities.

If you take $250k, and you build a $10 or $20 million valuation business, it's not difficult to kick off a very nice dividend to the investor that provides a stellar return on their capital. AND if you ever choose to sell, said investor also gets their big exit as well. You can also buy their stock back at the higher valuation and they get their exit that way. These types of results are common in the real economy, but not so common in the fantasy dotcom economy.
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You don't think that when they say they're looking for people to write long-form journalism, they expect to pay people to write long-form journalism?
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Ask HN: I don't get Riak - why would I build a web app with it?
Can someone please make sense of Riak for me please? Why would I use it as the datastore for my webapp?

Say for example I have a blogging application that stores blog posts and comments in a JSON document plus some other "typical" application functionality, I can't see how Riak can do that? It seems to be missing basic functionality to query within those JSON documents, to do ordinary selection of data.

Am I missing something? How do people use Riak if it's not really possible to do field level search and selection and ranges queries and page through results?
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Journalism is historically a career were people are very unhappy. This is due to many many facts, which are hinted in the post. I bet theres a lot of great journalist that will read this and would want to jump into such opportunity.
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Don't think so. The liberty cap has been a symbol of emancipation from slavery in Western culture since ancient times. There's a statue of Columbia, goddess of liberty, atop the dome of Congress. She was designed with a liberty cap, but was created too close to the American civil war for the south to accept the symbolism.
If you think he is trolling the left, your the one being trolled.
MSM is great.
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Have a look at Google+, I think unless people have a decent set of their friends on the service as soon as they join they are going to quickly lose interest.

Facebook has set a high bar as for lots of people they can find everyone they know. Any competing service will need to match this as well as possible with crazy early growth.
Two sides of the same coin. Your example is newbie programmers, mine is the same newbies on their second project. ;)

As usual it's all about striking the balance. I wonder if one day we'll come up with a programming language that can enforce these things in a meaningful way.
I completely agree with you. I actually find the 'cleaner version' much much harder to read.

Every time I look at the code I have to 'recompile' it in my brain, just because it's doing such a simple thing in such a darn complex way.
Speaking for the blind.. Microsoft's interpretation is much more helpful when viewing text.
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