skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of cases where a data type doesn't sufficiently capture semantics, and without static typing, Python isn't very well built for checking that values have the right semantic type. A float could mean money or time or a percentage; a string could be plain text or HTML or JavaScript or a filename.

The really really hard part is still checking that a given page "isn't broken"—something that's easy for a human to spot but hard for a computer—for all possible combinations of state. But very strict typing would at least make the output less likely to break.
Jony Ive should be in charge of ads.
I agree and recently started working on a peer-to-peer, audio/video chat client called twelephone - here's a demo of the WebRTC-based project as of this weekend. http://youtu.be/9GvBe0kCJGI
It's odd to me that your posts aren't more downvoted than they are.
Those reports could contain phrases like "we didn't see our target, so we dropped them on the city". Making them public could be painful for some people and might lead to litigation.

I also guess most of the time spent will be spent in interpretation (is this target code consistent with what we know happened from other sources?), not in data entry.
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Then lower your farking margins!
I suppose that statement is true iff you believe false flag terrorism is not uncommon.
Terrorism is about causing destruction against Goliaths of the world in order to increase recruiting and thus the power of the leaders of the terrorist movement.
> You, sir, greatly underestimate the efforts that distro package maintainers do.

Given that I've actually been paid to do exactly that professionally, I assure you that I'm not. But to be blunt: if you're not willing to ship usable software, don't claim to be shipping a "Platform". If you want to play in your unstable garden forever, that's great. The rest of us just won't care.
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Make apps for the body
If the average layperson can buy an SD card preloaded with Raspbian, the barrier to entry becomes again zero.
Isn't this why, oh, around 2005 CPA was the big thing instead of CPC? Personally, I think CPA is absolutely the right way to do internet advertising, and I wonder why FB doesn't do that.
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I'm surprised he included the app's resources (icon, etc.) under the BSD license -- rewriting the data store to use iCloud instead of his service (where Cheddar makes money, but also the source of many complaints in reviews) while keeping the UI would make a quick (though somewhat seedy) buck on the App Store.
Funny, that we have movements like Where's The Math lamenting that math education is collapsing because classes are doing "discovery math" (AKA goofing off and chit-chatting), instead learning fundamentals and practicing to memorize basic skills.
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I ordered it months ago, and received it a few weeks ago. I live in California.
Very cool! I geek out over SVM optimizations and tweaks--have you collected your work anywhere (post? HN comment?) by any chance?
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I did not expect to see such a cliched and stereotyped attempt at xenophobic humour being the top comment on HN. This is sad, really.
Hodgman was a great, likable character, and that was the brilliance of the ads...his likability made the commercials fun to watch and rather disarming. He was basically likably pathetic. In my opinion, the ads were passive-aggressive, but in a good way.
Couldn't they just make another page with the correct name?
Apparently you weren't paying attention. Go look at the list of highlights below the video. The point was to illustrate that while we're remembering the great ads, Apple has had plenty of "bad" ads in the past. We just have selective memories.
You can kind of see it live with the last shot. Here's the link: http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7s2vzagcl1qgtzil.jpg
Interestingly enough, 'thinnovation' was introduced back in 2008 with the MacBook Air.
So, this is a pretty decent advice. Basically, the author's idea is that if you:

- Treat finding a CTO like a full-time job,

- Learn to build some basic HTML,

- Read a book on Ruby / Git / Rails,

You should be able to find a good CTO for your company.

Unfortunately, while this is some pretty good starter advice, I doubt this would help you find a great CTO, first engineer, whatever.

Smart people typically want to be around other smart people, and the idea that building a simple HTML page and reading through a single book will let you find an amazing programmer to really build your product is, unfortunately, not realistic.

Great programmers look for:

- Interesting technical challenges,

- To be treated as equals, and have a large amount of influence over technologies, product decisions, etc.,

- Highly motivated, smart people they can learn from,

- Great compensation,

- A very strong sense of purpose and direction.

If you're a business person who can offer all of the above, you'll probably have a great chance of finding a really awesome tech person to work with.

Unless you plan on really getting great with HTML or something of the sort, it's probably a better idea to instead learn to use a tool like balsamiq (http://www.balsamiq.com/) and make some really amazing wireframes instead. At least doing things this way, you'll have a really clean skeleton to show off to people, and help them understand your vision.

If you're looking for a programmer out there--best of luck!
Cheddar's syncing is a bit hit-or-miss. On one hand you know that when you post a task it's synced instantly and you know when it's finished but on the other you have to have a constant internet connection.

I use these apps on the Underground to plan my day and always get errors when trying to do anything in app. It's also a huge battery drain, after each small change I see that my iPhone is connecting to the internet and using the app for a few minutes can drain a large percentage.

Forgetting about those problems, it's a beautiful app and is very functional although slightly limited. Which could be a selling point vs it's tedious competition.
A nice job could help, but I've never been really looking for a job, I tend to chase ideas.
Reading this just makes me want to have no part in mobile game development.
Thinnovation
Well, not with a direct telescope, but optical interferometry could achieve the milli-arcsecond resolution needed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_interferometer

I'm not sure if there exists a telescope that has the resolution, but it's within current technology.
I'm a little confused as to what is being targeted here. The title says "volunteers for nonprofits", which suggests a platform aimed at recruiting people to donate their labor to charitable causes (e.g. recruiting volunteer workers for the Red Cross or Habitat for Humanity or soup kitchens). But the article is entirely about increasing voter turnout in political campaigns, by having people canvass their like-minded acquaintances, thereby increasing their interest in elections. That seems quite a bit different as a use-case, though I could imagine similar technology aiming at both problems.

edit: Thanks for the reply; looks like TechCrunch just chose to take an election-year angle on the story.
"we took some pictures of the boxes and barely played with it"

if i was a journalist, i wouldn't even publish this. This is as informative as going to a verizon point of sale and taking pictures of a new phone case with the fake screen image sticker.

flagged since this is only a lame advertisement.
And what is the problem with subjective personal opinions?

If you disagree with them, feel free to speak up, with your own subjective personal opinion.

Those ads done under the careful eye of Steve may have brought criticism (as Apple in general did), but they were generally very effective. And they had a feel to them that was pure Steve Jobs....like them or not.
Thats probably part of it, I've always feared having to get a job at a big co. But at the same time, I'm not expecting to be a millionaire (although it would be nice), my basic goal is just to be able to work in a sustainable way, ie work for myself and be able to pay the bills.
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This comment shouldn't be in the gray. We, as hackers, shouldn't place as much importance as we do in our college diplomas. Very few of use are computer scientists. Very few of us learned as much in 4 years as you did at your first startup (or even hacking on the side, for that matter)
cool, so it’s sort of working now, but sporadically (some requests go through, others seemingly don’t).

however, of those that do, i’m experiencing a bit of a bug with foreign beers. if i enter the name of a lesser-known foreign beer with multiple variations i get a response requesting clarification/the specific type of that beer (as expected); but, it appears to be in the language of that country’s beer..

for example i entered erdinger (a german beer) and got the response: privatbraueri erdinger weissbr?u, erdinger weizen, (that’s the exact text, i think it was also cut-off for some reason). when i replied erdinger weizen i got a full reply with name/description/ABV in english.

tried the same with a belgian beer and it happened with that one as well.
I believe the one who is having difficulty understanding the question is you. To be clear, it's your lacking. If you asked me "What is the definition of Enlightenment?" I can answer you immediately and correctly. But instead you were determined to give me a question which itself deviates from what you really wanted to know. If you have anything to find out or any questions then I'll do my best to answer them on the condition that you ask sincerely.
Look at the ads in question though. G3? G4? Powerbook? Cube? Yes, these might be Steve era ads, but they're far from recent or relevant. It's perfectly valid to call them out on bad ads, regardless of if they've made bad ads before. Just like "it was better in the past" isn't an argument, "it was just as bad in the past" still does not follow. It may have been just as bad in the past, but it was also better in the past. The link between the two is, it's not good now.
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> One of the things that I think Rack got wrong and that J2EE, Node.js, etc got right is that the response bodys should be treated as IO objects. Whether the IO object streams, buffers, gzips, etc is up to the IO object.

I am rather surprised by this declaration, because Rack response bodies do indeed behave like "IO objects": they respond to `each`. That's the only requirement. Guess what responds to `each`? IO.

The problem seems entirely self-inflicted by Rails: if it builds an eager, non-streaming Response object, that means you can't stream with it. But it's got nothing whatsoever to do with Rack. By comparison, Rack's own Response helper object does provide easy streaming access: calls to `Response#write` within the `Response#finish` block are streamed directly. Your code would look roughly like this in e.g. Sinatra (note: entirely untested):

response.finish do
100.times {
response.write "hello, world\n"
}
end

Alternatively, you could implement your own #each:

class Stream
def each
100.times { yield "hello, world\n" }
end
end

get('/') { Stream.new }

this one is straight from the Sinatra docs[0], and aside from the `get` call it can trivially be converted to a raw Rack application:

lambda do |env|
[200, {'Content-Type' => 'application/octet-stream'}, Stream.new]
end

[0] Sinatra also provides a `stream` helper method which does most of the wrapping and tries to make non-streaming-aware middleware play nicely, that can be used in stead of these lower-level calls: http://www.sinatrarb.com/contrib/streaming.html
It would probably be helpful to have someone encouraging me to do what I want to do and not what they want me to do. I've been pretty successful at self-directly myself, I've for the most part had projects that have been driving me for most of the time since I was laid off.
What happened? Is reddit offline again or something?
I just tried it and it's pretty neat. How large is the database of beers?

Also, is it possible to do a character count on the message and insert page numbers on individual text messages? For instance, when I tried "Guinness", I received 9 text messages. I know there's no way to control in which order the recipient gets the messages, but sometimes there's a little bit of mental work scroll back & forth through various out-of-order texts and try to read them in the correct order. Something like (1/3), (2/3), (3/3). I realize that only adds to the payload, so maybe it should only be done for the really long ones?

Just my 2 cents. Very cool! I will definitely tell others about this.
No, the opposite. Before you condemn Apple, remember that bad ads are nothing new for them.

You should read these things before you comment on them.
>(thus making the page load slower)

The difference is tiny. If your images are on the same domain as the html, you'll have no extra overhead from the ssl handshake (thanks to http keepalive), and the symmetric encryption used in an existing ssl connection will have a negligible impact on performance.

I can think of two reasons you want https, even for just images:

1) Even though modifying an image in flight will probably not have major security implications, you can't be sure. Perhaps a carefully edited and resized image could alter the layout of a form, tricking the careless user into publishing information they didn't mean to.

2) Perhaps your adversary is just a teenager bothering people trying to be productive at a coffee shop. Including a 10000x10000 image that makes the page unusable, or replacing your logo with porn isn't exactly something you want, even if it doesn't compromise anybody's bank account.
if they can hire the people they need to by being that selective, why not? it's working.
It's not the same, but several Apollo missions left behind retroreflectors, tri-corner reflectors like in car taillights, which can bounce back laser probes:

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2004/21...

They are used to get precise earth-moon distances.
There is some truth to that, but I know of times when I could be doing more then I was doing. Its easy to do nothing one day, when doing 2 hours of work would have made the day feel at least a little more productive and thus more towards ones potential.
This is what I've heard. But I do know that battery life is shown on the desktop. Changing networks is done on the desktop. A lot of settings are changed from the desktop. Will these options disappear? Will there be Metro dialogs for them? The Windows 8 I have installed on my PC right now could never function in Metro-only. How is Windows RT different? I'm not getting that answer from any tech blog, and that's the problem.
9GAG is killing it! This is an extremely competitive and cluttered space on the web. They were able to carve out their own niche and build one of the largest websites in the world. This wasn't a 1 night trick or hack, it takes a lot of time and patience to build anything remotely close to what 9GAG has built.
I say give it a try. It will be an experience, even if it's not the same experience.

I'd say a large part of the difference is mental. With an implant, your body internalizes the sensations, they're part of your body, your "one"-ness. With external sources, you may still feel the sensations, but they're not yours. Your body doesn't feel the fields, it feels an object that feels the fields.

It's hard to explain, and that's the best I got.
Anyone else think of someone brutally, brutally hacking away at some obscenely large tumor or mole when they read the words "growth hacker?" Sorry if you didn't until now.
Nit: "marketing" is not a synonym for "advertising". Advertising is part of promotion, which is in turn part of marketing, but it is not the most important part of marketing (normally, that's pricing and market segmentation).

Steve Jobs was, by all appearances, a master marketer across the board. But Chiat\Day didn't do much of Apple's marketing work.
Nice, could be really useful for WYSIWYG web design in general. My first impulse was to try and resize the edges of the boxes, have you thought of implementing this?
Try to aim for your own goals, not the goals of others.
A growth hacker is also not someone who is able to increase sales from 10% of 100,000 to 20% of 100,000. He's someone who was able to get those 100,000 potential customers in the door in the first place. Anyone can be analytical, do A/B testing, and increase conversions.. when the hard part of getting prospects is done.
The funders of the 9/11 attacks were not poor. Don't lump the suicide volunteers in with the masterminds, whose victims they are as much as anyone.
Actually, the Zune was pretty damn cool, but it had serious trouble with people telling their friends that it was half baked.
I'm adding offline in the next update. The current stuff totally sucks. Shipping was more important than amazing tech.
The distinction between ignorance and intent does not compute.

Yes, we dont need a conspiracy to explain stupidity. The stupidity is the conspiracy.

People arent ignorant, because they are handcapped or something. They are ignorant, because thats the behaviour and excuse we reward. Just be an idiot, dont put in the intellectual effort, and you will be allowed to speak lies and screw every one and every thing.

From a corporate point of view, its the golden ticket. Plausible deniability. We didnt know that our insurance helped finance weapon exports to dictators. We didnt know. We didnt know. Sorry this, sorry that. We're keeping the money though.

I dont think that provable intent should have legal meaning. Because all neglect is intentional, as is ignorance in a world, where every one has the choice to be well informed.
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I hate domain hoggers with a passion. People that sit on domains just so that they can sell them to somebody who thinks it's an absolute necessity to hold a .com TLD, are morally corrupt.
I much rather go for one of the other, perfectly acceptable TLD's - .net, .org, .eu., .co.uk etc.
Life is a spiritual war, I've spent many hours and days studying / pursuing philosophy and trying to find answers that probably don't exist.
http://biolitestove.com/homestove comes to mind. Not a complete solution, of course, but any means of generating electricity is handy in such situations.
WinRT is technically a wrapper around Win32 that makes it easy for other languages (C#, javascript, etc) to gain access to a low level windows API.

Pretty confusing really, since it stands for "Windows Runtime", and with all the baggage the surrounds the "Runtime" term, you'd think it was a full blown runtime environment and competitor to their own CLR (it's not).

In addition to that, they're also using WinRT as a marketing term to segment their Surface product line (dividing it into a "Metro Only" configuration, or WinRT, and the version that can run regular windows apps). Very strange overall strategy on multiple levels. I'm a lifelong Microsoft developer and am having trouble wrapping my mind around it: I can only imagine the general public's reaction.
Sure, but we've also got anecdotes where he'd curmudgeonly agree with the collective after lots of pushback from them.

I'm of the opinion that people assign too much importance to Jobs' final decisions. He created a design-oriented culture at Apple and guided Apple to the Dieter Rams style. But do we really think that, after >10 years working together, Jony Ive would approve of something that Jobs would hate? Does anyone doubt Ive's design decisions at this point?
If you haven't had a transformative psychedelic experience yourself, it's understandably hard to imagine the benefits.

LSD's benefit as an anti-depressant is indirect - that is, it is used for ego separation through counseled meditation, not through regular dosage like typical anti-depressants.
Ego separation is a very strange and complex thing. The ability to disconnect from being a human with our social pretenses and look at the world from (essentially) an alien's perspective is incredibly powerful. Such an experience changes people forever, usually for the better(through good
counseling).

In addition, seeing as being deeply involved in ones work often leads to essentially mental tunnel vision, the same properties described above provide insight and inspiration that ones mind might otherwise occlude(whether we want it to or not).
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And to point out that not only do you need an Aperture that you can't currently get, you need to air to stop moving so that you can look through it. The heat in the atmosphere causes the gas molecules to bounce around and they tend to refract light so you end up with foggy vision.

Its also why you can't get a clear image of the ISS (which is in low earth orbit) or even geostationary satellites. This is something governments have taken advantage of. Once you launch a satellite its hard to 'view' it without actually being in space.
Is an impression from a mechanical turk not a true impression? Its a real person, after all. If the premise of marketing and advertising work due to mere exposure, then intent of the view shouldn't be measured.

What you are getting at however is very important to ad-driven internet business models. You make the empathetical deduction that if you are there for one purpose, you are impervious to advertising.

Now, if you are still with me after that statement, then there are larger impications of online advertising than are actually being measured. For instance, if the intent of the view mattered, would it be worth more? I think Google has answered that question rather clearly.

Measuring "why someone is visiting a URL" (and thus generating an ad-view) is a larger technical problem than could be accomplished with some fancy algorithms. That is, unless the service knew all of your browsing history...

In any case, you raise a good point about the intent of the page-view and how that should be "credited" as advertising. To do this however is to challenge existing 'fundamental' theories.
You think I make this shit up? There are some really naive and stupid people on HN that have zero grasp on the history of intelligence agencies.
Amicus helps all nonprofits turn supporters into fundraisers and advocates. The reporter chose to focus on only one use case -- political activism. This is only a small part of what Amicus does.
It looks like maybe the submission is just poorly titled? If you click through to the article, it has the following title:

>No More Calls From Strangers: Amicus Uses Facebook To Recruit Political Volunteers

And then, as you note, the article is about political campaigns. I'm not sure why the submitter felt the need to submit an article and then change the headline.

EDIT -- OP/founder clarified below.
OP here. FYI Amicus helps all nonprofits turn supporters into fundraisers and advocates. The reporter chose to focus on only one use case -- political activism. This is only a small part of what Amicus does.
this is a great use case for bayesean filtering, and I bet you could even hook up an existing bayes engine to this problem space, if not just write one up using common recipes - I've done great things with the one described in "Programming Collective Intelligence" (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596529321.do). Things like "googlebot", "certain IP range", "was observed clicking 100 links in < 1 minute", and "didn't have a referrer" all go into the hopper of observable "features", which are all aggregated to produce a corpus of bot/non bot server hits. run it over a gig of log files to train it and you'll have a decent system which you can tune to favor false negatives vs. false positives.

I'm sure facebook engineers could come up with something way more sophisticated.