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In any real world analysis, you are completely right. However in the tech hype center, it is a troublesome sign. Most people would be happy to even get a quarter of that number.

A significant portion of Silicon Valley has gone all in on the social web. With Facebook smarting from their IPO debacle, and Zynga slowly marching toward penny stock status, Twitter is their last great "social" hope. And this is not just VC's either, as the entire Valley has built a massive ecosystem about everything social web. Should Twitter falter, it will wash out a massive portion of capital on the scale not seen since the first dot com bust.

In this context, 170MM active users is not so great. The bar has been set at 1 billion real, active users. This is especially when one looks at visits and engagement, where Facebook is still very much dominant.

With Instagram out of the picture, Foursquare stalling, Path seen as small potatoes and Pinterest's potential questionable, Twitter is really the last massive, independent social tech play left.
Innoblue, a student-run entrepreneurial group at Penn State has a list of startups founded by PSU students and alumni. It's not restricted to those still in the area though.

http://innoblue.org/pages/psu-startups
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that books, articles and conferences are totally insufficient to become a good (UI/UX/User centred/etc) designer.

Here's an analogy with physical fitness. If you want to reach "competition level" fitness you don't just watch youtube videos and read books. You have to practice. And if you practice alone, you'll never hit competition level. You need formal TRAINING. You need an experienced professional giving you advice, critiquing your performance and stretching your abilities. You need them to help you track your own performance, to become acutely aware of your weaknesses and focus on them relentlessly.

A lot of organisations don't get this. A few books, a conference and a spot of mentoring doesn't turn a team of front end developers into UX designers.
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There were lot of startups who attended the latest phg tech meetup. I added mine(from pittsburgh) to the map but if you want a full picture I would recommend adding them yourself or let others add them. What harm does it do to the startup by listing here. I guess you can have a disclaimer at the bottom saying if you want to remove your startup from the list..do it here.. or email ..
Let's say someone posted a negative tweet about you, and included your contact information.

Would you want Twitter to notify you about it and see if you wanted to file a complaint, or would you rather just sit in a deluge of hatemail with no idea of where it's coming from?
Yes, it's a common flaw among those who don't have any experience with this kind of business software to think that anything "purely technical" (like an operating system) must be more complex. I work on a piece of business software and the database layer, interprocess communications layer, etc all pale in comparison to the code dealing with such mundane items as orders and invoices.
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the underground dubstep scene is still cool.... digital mystikz, joker, mala, coki, kode9, and skream. I see what you are saying though.
You can't build a bridge to the moon because it orbits the earth once every 2 weeks or so, and the earth goes around in 24 hours. Either it would only sync up every 2 weeks, or the moon would be tethered to the earth's rotation :)
Awesome thanks, also you might want to start not zoomed in on the Philly area so you don't offend us westerners ;) Just noticed there actually are some other locations outside of Philly on the map already. Cool idea!
More likely they went with it because an Android port already exists.
I'm not saying I won't do that. I've got lots of ideas on the table right now, but I don't want to change much right in the middle of this HN spurt- I need to collect what I can with this rush.
This is probably xulrunner's fault though, I suspect.

Do you have any actual data to support that claim (or suspicion, as you want)?
Codecademy has far more links than code academy (.org) so that's not surprising - also, redirecting CodeAcademy.com may be helping them out.
Semi-related: What's preventing FB from artificially creating users themselves - to make their network look gigantic. I feel like FB would not be able to continue the growth it has - which begs the question, if they faked it internally, would we know? /tinfoil.
I've seen some terrible things on 4chan posted by trolls or spammers. Sparing my morbid curiosity, how much worse does it get? Are any lines drawn?
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Yeah. You'd have to be more clever than that. There's a lot of interesting work on meaning extraction and text analysis. I wonder if you could have some kind of information density threshold.

It would be possible to encrypt text in such a way that things could be said about its information density but not about its meaning, too, though that would permit steganography to be used. But it would raise the technical bar for using the system for this purpose so high that it would probably drive away all the chickenboners.

There's also a dumb way: length limits. That would force binary data to be divided up into a huge number of posts, making it an annoying medium for file trading. Plotting the Iranian revolution would not require >1mb posts to a forum.
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They got aerial firemen right, too - it's routine to use helicopters and planes to fight large fires now. And the idea of automated electric mopping is so close to the Roomba I'll give it a pass.
The fact that you think it's being ruled out makes it testable. I'm not sure how many people would agree with your assessment, however. There's so much SUSY parameter space that's still not accessible that it's pretty early to declare the nail in the coffin. In Witten's case, it probably wouldn't affect the case for his award anyway.

From the AdS/CFT correspondence (Maldacena), it's possible to calculate the ratio of viscosity to entropy in the quark-gluon plasma. This ratio has been measured at heavy ion colliders (well at least one heavy ion collider).
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I've been fortunate enough to attend talks given by both Luke Wroblewski (LUKEW, http://www.lukew.com/) and Joshua Clarke (Global Moxie, http://globalmoxie.com). Both have written excellent books on design principles and UX/UI implementation (Luke on web form design, Joshua on app interfaces and design).

If you're interested in web standards and design, http://www.alistapart.com/ is also a great site to follow.
Absolutely they have to take a loss to fix it, but they are already suffering from a massive lose to software engineering productivity and are unlikely to retain any talent. This is technical debt at it worst.
Highly unlikely the performance reqs between the two (specifically the DS/iOS/Android remake of FFIII vs. the PS1 FFVII) is that wide; Tegra 3 and similar chipsets are definitely capable of eclipsing both. But they already have a FFIII port mostly ready to go; FFVII has yet to be ported to anything besides PS1 and Win9x. And in true Sq fashion, they seem to be saving a FFVII remake for whenever they think they can extract the most cash from it.
I've thought about this many times. How can you create a system that preserves the anonymity of publishers in persecution situations but excludes the child pornographers? The difficulty comes down to the fact that there is no technical difference between the two classes of publisher, just a moral one. Suppose the persecuted wants to share pictures of children being abused by government forces?

One idea I had was for the system to be semi-anonymous. Publishers would form public groups and the publication of content comes from the group as a collective. The members of each group are known, but the specific originator of the content within the group is not. This is the spartacus model of anonymity :)
There isn't exactly a dearth of charlatans in the world. What is striking about this guy is he seems to be completely unaware of being one.
That's true. But, it's also completely possible to make a machine learning algorithms to separate "real text" (text meant for human to human communication) from text encoded images since they differ in significant ways. Granted, you could always try to make a text encoding format which resembles real text, but I'm fairly sure the machine learning algorithm could be constructed in such a way to make its usage unfeasible.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. This big educational startup land grab is futile until someone can address these two problems meaningfully. The first one isn't going to come down on its own in less than a couple generations--we're talking 20-40 years.

Whoever solves these problems first stands to reap the biggest rewards.
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Preaching to the choir, I know, but every time a story like this comes along I'm hopeful that people will recognise that relying on biometric identifiers is a really bad idea. This one's worse than usual: people thought iris scanning was more secure (than, say, fingerprints), but it turns out to be less secure as it's probably not all that difficult to use contact lenses to fool a scanner.
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This has 2 problems:

* You can base64 encode any file, so it'll look like text. Limitations on message size might solve that.

* Sometimes, photos and videos are important. Think of the Abu Ghraib torture pictures, the Tianamen Square Tank Man. Sometimes photos & videos are censored and should be shared with the world.
I would argue that Adam Curtis is not widely respected (or known for that matter) in the area of academic discourse and that if he could back some of the big claims made in his movies with solid arguments and evidence, he would have made more of a difference in the world of political thought.
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It's an important result for post-quantum cryptography. If (when?) quantum computers are ever generally deployable, existing ZK protocols with multiple provers will need to be modified using this result. Besides, a theoretical result doesn't need immediate applicability to be important to humanity. The study of quadratic residues in Euler's time was a sort of mathematical recreation, but 300 years later it gave us the QR hardness assumption and the Goldwasser-Micali scheme and its derivatives.
Well if they "raised money" then when Investors asked them the question along the lines of "Who are your competitors, and who might become competitors? Who do you fear most?" StockTwits should have clearly seen this coming.

I wrote a similar app called TwitSkills which used Twitter to post and search job skills and even I knew that Twitter could steal my idea in the blink of an eye.
I always wondered how Yahoo has managed to stay around for so long, but when I read about them owning things like 40% of Alibaba, it starts to make sense.
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SquareEnix already has remakes of I-IV on DS which are probably reasonably readily portable to iOS/Android; they've already released III and I on Android.

You can probably expect to see II and IV on Android within a year if they continue to sell well, but probably not V or later until they're ported to a portable game system first. I know there were reports of preliminary work on V/VI for DS but nothing beyond that.
That's fine for justifying the ability to view and modify source code for your own use, but his definition of free extends to being able to freely redistribute it.

What's the difference between that and being allowed to sample or re-edit music and video and redistribute it?
Something I knew would eventually happen! What do you think of it now? It shows the whole state.
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No one in 19C France could possibly imagine huge numbers of French soldiers dying on the march back from defeat in a war across Europe?

I suspect that what no one in 1900 could imagine was that we HAVEN'T had a war in europe for the last 75 years
Ask HN: What are some non-CRUD/non-UI/UX problems that you'd like to see solved?
I've been suffering from a problem that I'd like to discuss with you.

At the moment I'm not ready to commit to a real full-time business. So I try to build some simple web products that are useful but don't need full-time commitment or actual business/legal work. Mostly single function websites.

The problem is I repeatedly find myself with a typical CRUD application. They are useful to build but they don't satisfy me as I just end up dealing with UI over simple CRUD problems. Examples are to-do apps, expense tracking and bookmarking apps.

These are great applications but since they are highly consumer facing, the challenge mainly boils down to decent UI/UX and support for multiple devices, etc... makes sense if you are a real business but not very enjoyable to deal with browser issues and web forms as side projects.

On the other hand I see people building great libraries for developers. This allows them to focus on a bigger challenge and build something a little more useful/meaningful. I've programmed for years but still I don't think I'm at the level to write libraries for other developers either.

So my question to you is what are some relatively easy, non-CRUD or non-UI/UX oriented problems do you think I could tackle?

Perhaps a small library that you think would be nice to have? Or a single function website that does a fair bit of stuff at the back but doesn't need a complicated web UI?

I hope I could get the meaning across. I'm sure I'm not the only one feeling this way.
The web has gotten so big and expectations so high that if you launch without supporting web, Android and iPhone no one cares. Makes it harder and harder for a side-project to gain any traction.

Ask questions if there's anything unclear.
This makes sense to me, I delete all my cookies and sessions frequently in my browser and usually browse the internet logged out.

At least 50% of adverts I see are for either weight loss products or anti-ageing products.

Personally, on the rare occasion that I do see an ad that I find interesting I won't click it (due to an ingrained fear of losing the page that I am on) and will simply open a new tab and google search for the product name. Not sure if most "internet savvy" people do the same?

I also wonder how well your average holds across websites. If you are selective on the websites you advertise on, say advertising a programming product on Stack Overflow then I wonder if the majority of your clicks still come mainly from the midwest moms who ended up on SO by mistake?
I'd venture to make a broader claim. It's not so much that relaxation affords for higher incidence of creative breakthroughs as it is that relaxation is a type of activity that supplies the human brain with a steady, stable flow of blood, and hence, oxygen. Essentially, it's good circulation that gets those creative juices flowing.

I think if we look at this physiologically, we begin to see a connection between seemingly incongruous activities that we could all attest to being potential hotbeds for insight.

Relaxation and meditation are certainly activities that predispose us to steady breathing, but they are not the only ones. Consider strenuous activities like exercise and sex. Oftentimes, the breakthroughs here follow directly after the activity while falling back to a rest state.

Finally, consider periods of sustained intense activity like marathon running. I have a close friend who runs them regularly who has remarked that she gets some of her best ideas during her runs. I'd speculate this happens when the runner's body has adjusted to a certain pace and breathing and blood flow has stabilized.

Just another angle to look at this, I guess.
That's obviously a criticism, but it's currently a big story here in the UK. There's been a lot of vile twitter traffic around this, and someone has been arrested because of it.

This actually tracks into all sorts of privacy issues, and legal issues, and questions of what you can and can't say in media such as twitter (and facebook, etc.)

Do the racist, homophobic rantings of an individual enjoy the protection of "free speech"? When do taunts turn into outright bullying?

These issues have been around for ages, but with Twitter there is the "opportunity" for the pitchfork-toting mobs to get out after people. Where does the right of the individual to speak his/her mind end and the protection of those against whom vitriol is directed begin?
The remake on the DS was interesting for the fact that they actually put quite a bit of work into it. I was happy to buy it because it looked and felt like a native DS game (full 3D graphics, new audio, etc). The Final Fantasy on my phone however, doesn't feel native. And they want $10 for it. No thanks.
So what qualifies an active user ? I have a twitter account and even though I have never tweeted (yet) I do follow a bunch of people and regularly read up on what they have to say. I am sure there are several more like me.
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Faking it internally would probably stray too close to fraud for comfort. They don't want that liability.

Not doing anything against users creating duplicate accounts can be gotten away with easier: Just blame it on negligence, or incompetence.
Continuing on this off-topic, this construct is not optimal and can possibly break if one of the filenames has some funky characters (spaces, line breaks, carriage returns, unprintable characters, ...). This happens (unfortunately) more often than you think, and it's a very good idea to learn how to used these commands defensively.

Basically you have two choices, depending on the Unix you're using:

- find ... -print0 | xargs -0 wc -l

- find ... -exec wc -l {} +

The second one is defined by POSIX and, as far as I know, works on every Unix except for OpenBSD (who only implemented this feature starting version 5.1 in 2012).

The first one is non-POSIX so several Unices do not implement -print0.

To the best of my knowledge, GNU find should work fine with both.

More info: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/41745/4098
These pictures weren't really meant as strict engineering predictions - so much as a commentary on life and the uses of new technology of the time.

It's as if theOnion or Mad magazine in 2000 did a look at the world in 2100 and assumed we would all have giant thumbs from texting.
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Back to the Future 2 was made in 1989 and hit on several things. Most predictions seem to think we'd all be in flying cars by now.

http://gawker.com/5667202/11-things-from-back-to-the-future-...
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Could simply be that they are less familiar with the internet, people who have been using it for a while learn to filter out the banner ads to a certain extent.
If you are less familiar with using search engines etc, clicking big obvious links on pages might seem like the easiest way to "surf".

I imagine if you looked at one of these people's PCs you'd find at least 6 toolbars installed in their browser.
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It would be interesting to read French "alternative history" science fiction about the France that could have been, rather than the France that is.
To be honest I couldn't care less about Onlive nor FF, I would like them to focus more on either hardware such as Wifi, more Ram or an SD card port or on useful software: Mame port or some useful license like GGPO (that could really enable an xbox live like experience on arcade games). I'm a backer but probably not their main usual target I guess, I'm more looking at it like a Rasberry Pi alternative than a real gaming console.
Why can't there be a text only system for people that don't want to look at images? You would think that would be possible.
This looks like the perfect platform for feminist activists to name and shame rapists. Great!
With the recent talk of Gabe and Valve being disheartened by Windows 8 and looking to move to a new platform, I found myself wondering why they don't just buy ReactOS and hire the developers to work on it full time. That way the games wouldn't need to be ported to a new system, possibly just altered slightly.

It certainly would draw attention to the OS and provide a good legal challenge to the team when Microsoft decides enough is enough.
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I hope not, FF7 ran on a PS1
Looks like Philly is missing a lot still, DreamIt Ventures and Independents Hall come to mind
Now that I'm more awake and reread the Ouya post, it goes to great effort to mislead which is pretty par for them. It really tries to imply that it's being released specifically for Ouya with "partnering with Square Enix to bring you", " first time gamers outside of Japan can play FFIII", "Previously unreleased in the U.S.", etc.
By far the best way to fight piracy: Supply high quality content that is easily viewed. Now what about view-as-you-go instead of subscription-based?
Isn't QuickBooks limited to sales tax/VAT? Intuit sells other products to deal with taxes (Lacerte, TurboTax, QB Payroll).
A lot of resources mentioned here are great and a really good starting point. If you decide that you want to get serious about UI/UX, I would highly recommend looking into a graduate or certification program. I have heard good things about Human Factors (humanfactors.com) and a number of universities offer HCI certificates. I am currently working toward one at Missouri S&T.
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