skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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How is this going to interact with the open source version, going forward?
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You're assuming that they take him down at all. He had body armor and the element of surprise.
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> Sometimes I wonder if MS would have been better served offering two version

No, they want to leverage the power of the desktop Windows to get a foothold in mobile, which they werent able to achieve on their own.

Now everybody who develops for desktop windows also kinda develops for mobile windows and strenghtens the weak windows mobile ecosystem. That was the goal. One step back in the desktop, two steps forward in mobile.

Thios force-bundling of ecosystems will work out if developers arent so disgusted by Metro to decide to leave the Microsoftian ecosystem alltogether.
I read it as this posting is exclusive. I can make a similar posting somewhere else. Sure, I can't copy-pasta, but if CraigsList thinks that because I post on their site that I can't post it on other sites as well I would LOVE to see them try to sue me.
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As you phrase it here, I'll buy your response.

But let me note that we're not just passengers on the probability bus. All those possibilities of accidents or otherwise being harmed by your own weapon are avoidable. I can mitigate all of those dangers by taking responsibility for myself (and imposing the same on my family) to be properly trained and practiced.

On the other hand, there isn't so much that I can do to mitigate the danger I'm in should I or my family find ourselves in the (admittedly very unlikely) situation of being attacked (yes, I can try to avoid some situations to begin with, but I claim that ordinary prudent behavior is the most that can be expected here without getting to diminishing returns).

If I'm under attack, there's little else I can do to protect myself. But ahead of time, I can prepare myself and family to defend ourselves, and at the same time ensure that we won't get ourselves into trouble. I much prefer being the one driving the outcome, rather than the bad guy.
if you're not breaking the law you have nothing to fear.
Surprisingly diverse interests, considering the huge bias in the dataset (public quora profiles). Well worth reading, though I was left wondering about the inverse probabilities.
I agree that the large displays are suboptimal for metro but the problem is not that you have a high resolution screen but the 30" size of it. I am going to bet that you are in a very small percentage of users who have such a large screen desktop. If you see the kind of devices people are picking up, a laptop is preferred over desktop and those rarely go above 17" and that size itself is too big for a portable device.
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"You may apply once per email address"

1. Write script to register for email addresses

2. Hook up to application for 11k

3. ???

4. Profit?

Seriously though, I'm guessing this is either a cheap way to farm some emails or the benefit will include some MLM crap.
Despite the reigning opinion on HN, adding this legalese to postings does not hinder CL's ability to serve its users.
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Well there does seem to be a sort of a "tragedy of the commons" effect at play here. CL is sitting on a natural monopoly, and not only doesn't seem to quite know what do with it, but let's face it, has also become something of a slumlord (in certain segments).

So people feel understandably cheesed and disappointed. But to say that they feel "entitled" to the spoils of another entrepreneur is a bit of a stretch.
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is this really what kurzweil meant by "fully immersive virtual reality," though? only involves the senses of sight and hearing...
start reading at section 701
This sounds like another person who is pissed off he can't have a piece of the CL pie (read: money).

> I figured the reasonable response from Craig would have been to hire Romy and his partner or buy their technology. It’s literally what every reasonable company in the world does when innovative young people come along and make something your users want.

Why should I as a CEO be expected to cater to your whims of how you think I should run my company? I hear about people complaining all the time about how ugly and cluttered Amazons website is. Would we all be hating Jeff Bezos as much as we do Craig if someone started scraping all of the Amazon.com product reviews and organizing them in a web2.0-html5-ajax-startup-cool manner and Jeff sued their pants off?
Thanks for sharing, that's a good view into some of the hustle it takes to get good traction. Congrats on the raise too!
It doesn't release today it releases on October 26, 2012.
"because people who aren't already on your side assume that if you had valid reasons, you wouldn't be resorting to manipulative exaggerations for shock value."

Related is the idea of building a case by throwing in the entire kitchen sink in order to make your point with both strong and weak points. I've found it's best to try and stick the the basic strongest points. If you put weak points in your argument and people think "that's no big deal" it will detract from your main point and make people think "oh is that all they've got?"

An fictional example to try and illustrate:

"Bill Jeffrey the CEO of XYZ flies in a corporate jet and has a $10 million salary. He also gets free lunch in the cafeteria as well a laptop computer for his house in addition to a company car". (Now add on 10 other mundane things that many execs get)
Have the foreign operations of the US government in the last ten years saved or ended a larger number of lives?
Except people transitioned to GUI interfaces because they added additional utility: program functions became discoverable within the interface; multitasking became easy and uncomplicated; integration of workflow among multiple applications became more intuitive and easier.

Metro is a step backward in all of these areas: it makes functions less discoverable, it makes multitasking more cumbersome, and it makes workflow more difficult. Full-screen applications with inconsistent UIs and limited integration with other programs make me feel like I'm using DOS.

What are the benefits to ease of use, productivity, and functional sophistication offered by a desktop touch UI? I can't think of any, just more limitations: in addition to the retrograde utility specific to Metro, with any touch UI you've got the problem of slower, more burdensome text entry, and having your hands obscure the stuff you're looking at and leaving smudges on the screen.

I still don't understand what problem desktop touch is meant to solve.
-how to exit Metro apps

-how to shut down the computer
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Reposting an insightful dead comment:

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stevejabs 44 minutes ago | link | parent [dead] | on: Oculus Rift: Step Into the Game

Well:
A) These are all software companies. The hardware that they would ever make is few and far between.

B) There is no saying that they DON'T already have an investment in this company. Obviously this kid has enough capital to demo at E3, have office space and prototypes already made. At the very least, these companies may have deals made where they won't have to pay exorbitant licensing fees to put their games on this platform.

C) Perhaps this is the ultimate give back to the community from these companies. They all create tools now to extend their games to the next level. Perhaps they want to see how people will use their tools at a hardware level.

D) I feel like a $300 investment here will go a lot longer than OUYA. There is a prototype already built. They aren't trying to sell a end-user, consumer-level product. At the end of the day, you're getting a likely shitty looking developer kit. For $300, they are probably taking a significant loss just on the technology going into the kit.

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The article links the wikipedia page on stereotype threat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat , which has plenty of references to studies demonstrating how this differs from other types of anxiety.
Craigslist now requires an exclusive license to submissions. The rhetoric is what it is because Craigslist's behavior is appalling.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/craigslist-tighte...

EDIT: This article is better: http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/01/craigslist-now-wants-your-p...
Imagine this as a future game system package: an OUYA console library with graphics tailor-made for the Oculus and CLANG integration- brought to you by Kickstarter.
I disagree, unless he meant "you, you specifically". An employee's departure can act as a wake-up call for a company's leadership and subsequently lead to changes at the company.
If CraigsList ever went after a poster who also posted their classified on another site, that would probably be the day they begin to unravel.

You don't want to instill fear into posters (IE, their product) that they could get sued by posting even a similar ad on a competing site. Then you enter the territory "I only have access to people who check craigslist" instead of an array of additional, complementary options. That doesn't sound very attractive.
This is no different than say cable tv franchise monopolies.
A case can be made that that happened in the 80s (Lisp & AI Winter being the headline acts), and what we're actually seeing today is the climb up the (ahem, Gartner's term, not mine) "Slope of Enlightenment".
No, but the content is hosted on their servers. Services scraping this content will hit CL's infrastructure hard. It's actually in the interest of their users to minimize server load, so they can browse listings more quickly.

And no, people don't appear to be legally free to use other sites as well as Craigslist with the same content they've created.

If you're not a lawyer, this is conjecture. We don't know how this will be enforced in the future.
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Doesn't come near unfair practices though - nobody is being muscled out. They aren't using their market position to force anyone out - unless you want to pretend that deciding who can and can't use their services for whatever purpose is something they shouldn't be allowed to do, ethically or legally.
Personally I found zsh worth switching to even without spending any meaningful amount of time learning to use it. The better tab completion alone is enough to make up for the setup time and the occasional bashisms I try that don't work.
Many of the leaders of DEFCON work for the government

I can confirm this. Though, to be realistic, I haven't encountered any conference or local 2600-type meeting that hadn't been pwned by government representatives. What I haven't seen is the active promotion of the very agencies that are working hard to put meeting attendees in jail.
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Thanks! It was a lot of fun to put together :)
Are you a lawyer?

EDIT: Okay, let me be less flippant. I ask about you being a lawyer because we don't know how Craigslist will enforce this policy. Everyone is assuming the worst -- CL will not let you post anywhere else! -- when, in practice, such a policy is probably not enforceable in court.

You have a well-reasoned comment, sure, but someone can't really speak to the enforceability of this without practicing law.
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"An employee's departure can act as a wake-up call for a company's leadership"

I highly doubt it unless the employee was a C level. Even then, people come and go at companies. I have quit enough times to know that truth. Just as an example, I call up my old bosses or colleagues and I hear "Its all the same here. same shit different day"

The point is that if you do want to bring change which is extremely tough (even for obama :),you need to stick around and be the champion of change.
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First let me say that yet again, another blog post that
contains little to no science to back up claims; instead,
personal feelings and an individual's experience become
the standard by which apparently all people experience
working in STEM.

"Stereotype Threat and Women’s Math Performance" by Spencer, Steele and Quinn [1] contains an interesting series of experiments.

In the first experiment, test subjects are given two math exams, an easier one (from the GRE general exam) and a harder one (from the advanced GRE mathematics exam). All test subjects had 1 semester to 1 year of calculus with at least a B grade. They observed something that has been seen in the literature before - that both genders perform equally on the easier exam, but women underperform on the harder exam.

In the second experiment, a different set of test subjects were given the harder exam. Half the subjects were told the test had been shown to produce gender differences, half that it had been shown not to produce gender differences.

Characterizing the test as insensitive to gender differences was enough to totally eliminate women's underperformance. When the same test was characterized as sensitive to gender differences, women significantly underperformed in relation to equally qualified men. (results are fig. 2 on page 13 of the PDF)

The third experiment repeats the second experiment under different conditions and gets a similar result.

The "stereotype threat" article is not a compelling
enough argument to me that there is some gender
stereotype conspiracy only found in STEM

No stereotype conspiracy is required - the threat is from the stereotype /held by the test subject/ that they will/are expected to underperform.

[1] http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/carnegie/learning_resources/LAW_PG...
Please make a single post of a couple paragraphs.
I'm approaching this project with the same mindset...

For $300, even if it just turns into a toy to develop with I will still be happy about funding it (assuming, of course, it reaches its funding goal and is delivered - still big "ifs" with Kickstarter campaigns).
Wow.

So the guy goes out and gets endorsements, on video, from the biggest names in the field. The absolute biggest. And they are unreservedly enthusiastic.

And to you, that's a negative sign.

Wow.

I'm seriously starting to wonder about the HN culture that produces such conclusions at the top comment.

First of all, how do you know they didn't front money? Answer- you don't know that. It's likely some or all them have done so.

There are very good reasons not to make this a Valve product or an id product or what have you. Can you think of them?

The conclusion that something is wrong here may well be a jump-the-shark moment for HN comments.
Yeah, I'm not sure why neither of them have been willing to talk, I think a lot of this could be sorted out really quickly without the lawyers.