skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He seems like one of these folks every generation produces who are wistful for things gone by.
Plus the sentiment isn't without its plugs, albeit subtle. "The new bike lanes are half-built then they disappear. Cars choke the city and cover buildings with soot."
Nice self-serving platitudes from a bicycle seller.
Arusha Travel Agency - Destinations - Nothern circuit - Serengeti National Park
*shrug

Welcome to every social interaction ever. You come up with an argument and you get people to agree with it.

Re: "socially correct", do you agree with anti-miscegenation laws? If not, why? The argument for gay people is virtually identical.
These posts are good once in a while to keep sycophancy and group-think in check.
>Users don't want a random playlist.

Really? Because I couldn't stand it if, after listening to my playlist several times, I could predict the exact order of the songs. That would be extremely boring, personally. In fact, that's the exact complaint of the user who asked the question:

>This frustrates me to no end because I like to listen to my music randomly, but I have a few favourite songs that I always start out with.
The syncing of documents, browser tabs, settings etc. has to be flawless to make the comparison valid. There is a definite advantage to not having separate devices.
NEJM editor: “No longer possible to believe much of clinical research published”
The roadblocks he faced in building the world’s biggest
social-networking company were tiny

Nathan Vardi is just completely ignorant. I'm surprised to see something so colossally stupid in Forbes. Say what you will about them, Zuckerberg fended off dozens of competitors (ranging from Myspace to Apple's Ping to now Google itself) to rise to world dominance. Facebook didn't just "happen".
GM Developing Wireless Pedestrian Detection Technology
The Forbes site now holds the title of "Most Annoying to Read on a Mobile Browser. "

Thank goodness for Pocket.

But then I find out article wasn't even worth the hassle.
Looks pretty.

I definitely want to support entrepreneurs and App.net. But, quite frankly I don't see how they are going to build a user base.
This is a weekend project of mine - looking for some feedback from the HN community.

Basically you upload your .SC2Replay files and I'll convert them into web replays. My twist is I make recordings from 2 players perspectives and show em both to you on the same page (sync'd of course).
I have some other options as well, but I'm really looking for feedback on what things people do not like and what things you think would be cool.

From a bootstrap/startup perspective, my goal for this was to produce something that would scale decently with almost no $ investment. Have this running on 1 ec2 micro, static pages and assets (js,css,img) being served up by github pages. Dynamic pages are being served directly from memcached via nginx module (pages are stored already gzipped). If anyone is interested in the implementation details I'd be willing to share cuz I think some of the techniques I used could help others looking to bootstrap their own webapp.

I also have a mobile version so you can watch em on your phone. http://m.ggreplayz.com
Westerners burn as many calories as hunter-gatherers
My experience in nReduce has been totally positive. I like that nReduce, itself, is a startup in its own incubator. It is accountable to its own system.
I should mention that I looked it up, and Australian dollars are almost 1:1 with US dollars. So, yeah, those numbers are high. Good for your nephew.
Right now you are using 32bpp images, and then falling back to 16bpp for slower devices. Because PNG uses zip-style compression, pictures of houses won't compress that well, so your size on disk and size in memory will be similar.

PVRTC allows you to save at 4bpp or 2bpp, so you'll get sizes 8x or even 16x SMALLER than a full color image, both on disk and while loaded into memory (loading images are a major source of lag on iPhone, so a smaller on-disk footprint is always welcome). You can even zip compress it for further on-disk savings, though YMMV.

The quality degradation is similar to what you'll get in JPEG, in that there will be some artifacting depending on the quality of the encoder and the source image (hard edges don't compress well, nor does text, but photorealistic images retain a lot of quality).

The power-of-2 restriction is the only real pain point of PVRTC. But if you're making sprite sheets, that's probably not going to be a big issue for you anyway. Once it's in memory it's just a texture like any other, and you can use it sprite sheet style like you're already doing, chopping up the contents any way you choose.

I suggest you try cropping one of your house images to a square sized power-of-2 as a quick test and convert it to PVRTC so you can see for yourself what the quality is like. It may yet be usable for your purposes, and the potential payoff is huge.
Requiring cable subscriptions to watch has only resulted in my not watching any of the last three or four Olympics.
I generally use Friday for all business related task. No programming allowed unless it's a critical bug.

I'd actually come to enjoy spending most of the day doing my finances, answering emails, cleaning out the inbox etc. All in a relaxed manner - and the weekend then takes of with a good conscience.

I highly recommend it.
The IPO has thus far been a disaster for overy eager investors and maybe that's where the hate from Forbes originates, but the notion that it changes much for Zuckerberg himself is laughable.

"[Facebook] still needed money", is just so wrong. The IPO was about Zuckerberg and close colleageaus being able to cash out a little bit and overcoming the shareholder limit.

I highly doubt it has any impact on his plans for facebook. A pretty poor assesment by a publication like "Forbes"
Bill Nye the Science Guy AMA on Reddit
I drink one cup of coffee each morning just because I like it. It doesn't do anything to me. It just tastes good.
this also is reminiscent of this nytimes op ed: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/opinion/the-trouble-with-o...

that conveniently forgets to mention all the collaborative/interactive components built into coursera - the community TA's, the forums, chatrooms, etc etc etc.

moral: don't criticize unless you've actually read the book/seen the movie/etc. or maybe beware of hidden agendas.
They have a finite attention span. This naturally leads to them encouraging companies to try the idea that is only 20% likely to work but takes 18 months over the idea that is 40% likely to work but takes 4 years to work.
Well executed. Needs solid testing though. Scrolling on larger pages doesn't seem to work for me.
Unity completely replaces the Gnome shell.

According the Gnome people, you're no longer using Gnome if you're not using the Gnome shell. Whether that's true is open to interpretation.
Thanks for mentioning the Klout API docs (http://developer.klout.com). They're a work in progress, but we lean heavily on Mashery's I/O Docs solution for self-documenting response and request formats. I continue to work on expanding out more detailed docs, but I generally feel strongly that API docs should be entertaining and tell a story. This aligns fairly well with how Dwolla (http://developers.dwolla.com/) aimed their portal at both business and developers.

As an aside, we use Swagger internally to manage and self-document here, and then I/O Docs on the third-party developer side. It's a nice separation of concerns.
Something that makes it easy to set up my own transforming proxies using a few simple rules. Like yahoo pipes, but more oriented towards manipulating websites rather than feeds.
My take on it, if the guy hiring you thinks about the vesting cliff as a big 'Undo' button, you don't want to work there.
There's more:
http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/x7wah/dae_just_tot...
http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/x7wah/dae_just_tot...
You can also check http://powtoon.com and make your own animated videos. Its not as flashy and cool as what you would get for 5K but they get the job done when you are just starting.

I used their service to make video for our startup http://jackpotbuddy.com
In the UK, you will generally avoid places that don't have a queue. They must be quiet for a reason, right?
This is now banned from HN front page, after being nº 1 for a while.

I might not agree with OP but this is more censorship of dissent. Very poor community management.
Dr. Andrew Weil says, "On the down side are coffee's well-documented side effects: anxiety, insomnia, tremor and irregular heartbeat. It can also irritate the digestive system, bladder and prostate."

http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QAA400146/Is-Coffee-Good-For-You...
That sort of depends.

As Ajax becomes more prevalent, some sites and their features/documents are only accessible by some click sequence, rather than via direct navigation.

Well-behaved sites tend to be structured better, and offer navigational clues (breadcrumbing), and the like.

Many sites really don't have much intrinsic structure and are little more than a large bag (or set of bags) of pages or other objects (Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia), though these may have linkages (perferably hypertextual) between objects (notably: Wikipedia and kin).

One of the things I'm liking about using an e-book reader (Moon+Reader on Android, Calibre on Debian/Linux) is that rather than scatter docs through the filesystem, they're organized through the reader interface itself. Not an entirely novel concept -- the man and info commands have used a similar concept for years, and are amenable to organization through tools such as Debian's dwww (online localhost Web interface to locally stored documentation, including manpages, info pages, package documentation, and installed documentation resources). Including search and indexing.

Pretty slick, that.
The only truly intuitive interface is the nipple.

Everything else sucks.
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They may have plans to do this once the revenue stream fades. As of now it's still a top 25 utility at $2.99.
Did you intend to use a technique?

That isn't the question I'm considering, which is where the apparent disagreement comes from. Someone can intend to use a technique, while not intending to infringe a patent. It is infringing the patent which brings legal problems.

You can be guilty of doing something with intent to do that thing even if you don't know which law is involved.

In that case, yes, you'd have intent to do that thing, but no, you would not have intent to break the law.

The extra penalty is being applied to intent to break the law, to do that you need to know about the law. From the perspective of the person breaking the law, they think they are innocent. They don't intend to be guilty. (Even if they actually are guilty.)
That's flattering, but not accurate. I am by no means the world's leading expert on email marketing, nor even lifecycle email marketing or drip marketing, both of which I am legitimately good at. (I have no results to write home about for sending newsletters, and sending newsletters is a multi-billion dollar industry.)

I do write about this a wee bit in a fashion which is easy for engineers/startup-ers to understand. I also do it for clients on a fairly consistent basis. I will be covering it in more detail in the future. (Sign up for my mailing list. I mean that in both the ironic and unironic senses.)
I actually meant "tangent of theta is the length of the opposite over the length of the adjacent".

A tangent line is ax + b.
You guys are all probably on adderall anyway :P
So your respect for someone's right to a differing opinion stops at the point you regard them as "bigoted." And any third party disagreeing with you about that person's right to their opinion, they're wrong too.

What could possibly go wrong?
Yeah and by their same dismissive attitude Google was just another search engine.
Agree. Good work. Let me add one more thing.

A Usually Persistent Truth: the farther you are from when you learned something, the worse you are at teaching it. Khan's ability to learn something and turn around and teach it is likely the reason it's accessible and enjoyable for students.
Blogspam.

OP is two years old: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/jan/15/drug-co...
I think you are absolutely right, and this brings us to a daunting challenge -- how to plan and implement the document of the future...
You should check out my chrome extension that lets you block web sites on HN. You could be viewing three fewer Forbes stories about Facebook or caffeine addiction on the front page of HN right now.

http://vlad.github.com/autobahn
A metaphor or concept is intuitive if it can be clearly understood once seen. "Without deduction or reasoning" as my dictionary puts it.

While I appreciate your comment, ThomPete's comment, perhaps better phrased as "Folders are intuitive once experienced" would generally be accepted to mean that the concept and behavior of files and folders, through a visual GUI metaphor, is generally grasped and understood (I'm not saying this is or isn't true, but it's a testable and reasonable proposition).

The visual metaphor isn't always manageable. It's not always appropriate. But for most people, the general idea of objects and containers is wired at a pretty low neural level. Enough so that I'm comfortable calling it "intuitive".

Socks and dressers are also intuitive. Doesn't mean my laundry doesn't find itself all over my room.
I'm confused by the 30-day free trial. Does that mean I have 30-days of unlimited agents?

If I create an account and only plan on having one agent for the foreseeable future, what happens at the end of those 30 days?
I am interested in this. Could you reference something specific to this video that speaks to the kind of guys they are and how these character traits relate to the decision to not embrace npm? (I just don't want to go digging in the video) Or are you just talking about general intelligence?
"the end user must be able to replace the LGPL component" seems to be too one-sided IMO.

The user must be able to get the source, modify it, and make his modified version work with any (proprietary) application that chose to use the LGPLed code as a component. For that to be possible the proprietary application's authors must distribute their software with clear documentation stating which LGPLed components were used and provide source code and build scripts to rebuild these parts and relink them with the rest of their application. They also have to give you all the rights under the LGPL to further distribute and use any of their modifications to the LGPLed code for any purpose (not limited to use with their application).
Given the audience here, I would imagine anyone writing about Cisco IOS would naturally write the title as "Cisco IOS Image Tricks", but as pointed out, hn would be better off not trying to secondguess and proper case titles.
That's not the distinction I'm making. But I see where we're talking past each other: you're primarily concerned with what the company or CEO has a right to do. I'm talking about how big a deal that action is (personal donation of CEO vs company policy statement from CEO). And it has nothing to do with private vs publicly held. Sure, I agree, they both have a right to do what they did. But, opinions on the key issue aside, those two actions had a different scale and connotation to them.

As for rights, try to keep in mind the key issue here is a debate on a specific right as well. What people are debating is changing the law, changing your rights. If local governments feel a certain right or something they desire to be considered a right is being infringed on or threatened by a company, then it's no longer so black and white.
I will at least look at Knuth's book, though I doubt I will be able to make it work!
Why doesn't the article talk to any of the startups in nReduce, let alone mention them by name? Lazy tech journalism?
Wow, never thought I'd come across a Ronnie Coleman quote on HN.
Did you try to compute (latest-round) valuations?
I know it is very, very early, but I would have expected more than slightly above Twitter Bootstrap...
Improve Performance and Reduce Memory with PVRTC Textures
It depends on the quantity too. We drink espresso, but only 1-2 oz of coffee per cup, which has less caffeine than one of the buckets of diluted coffee from e.g. Starbucks.
I realized as soon as I posted that I could just google it. But the guy did a good job explaining the underlying science between caffeine highs, I would have liked him to explain the negatives as well.
Maybe... Rasberry Pi has an older ARM core without the v7 instructions and a much simpler GPU than the Tegra 3 chip that's in the Ouya. I'd not expect it to work there.
How are you generating the video files then? Surely you cannot run a game of SC2 on an EC2 micro instance?
To avoid building in a dependency on DNS does not require that the identity system problem be fully solved, first. It only requires ensuring a good abstraction barrier before too much code propagates that depends directly on DNS. For example, perhaps, URIs.
Coincidentally, I just happened to stumble on this yesterday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHb6M03Ft84

Computer Chronicles, Battle of the Browsers, 1997.
Is this a screenshot of a Photoshop mockup, static HTML + CSS, or a live app running on a server somewhere?
Fred Wilson and Dave McClure Talk Apple, Google Tablet Battles
I agree that "emulate the user==feed simplicity of twitter" is the best counter-argument to "make the user name distinct from the feed name for greater flexibility" position.

But here:

In twitter APIs, can't you get something like, say, a user's avatar image by keying off the user name?

So, even on twitter, a user name maps to multiple different things -- not just a single feed.
Just a thought: Megaupload is a Hong Kong corporation. There's no way the White House didn't have a diplomatic chat with the Chinese before demolishing a Hong Kong business, is there?
Programmers calling themselves engineers reminds me of chiropractors who insist on having people address them as "Doctor".
Commando.io (http://commando.io) is doing nReduce in San Francisco.
It's worth recognizing that Lockhart didn't write that with the intention of producing change. It was meant as a rant.
I used to say the same thing. Then I had kids, and went from an irregular sleep schedule where at least twice a week I was getting 8+ hours to one where every night I get 6.5-7, with few excursions in either direction.

Coffee suddenly has a much more significant effect.
Well, the first patent most certainly does use GPS for location. The server is used to retrieve information about that location.

Claims
1. A method, using a personal computer device having a GPS receiver, of populating a database comprising:

determining, by the personal computer device using its GPS receiver, a location at which the personal computer device becomes relatively immobile;

(rest of claim 1 ommited)
I should have been clearer. I meant to say that it would integrate with something like the AD structure out of the box, GPOs and such. I know there are enterprise mgmt kits for ipads and so on. But if this integrated into an existing ecosystem, it'd make a good case for those extra hundred(s) of dollars (given it would also run the apps people are used to in the ent.)

In any event, I'm not saying that a Surface would be _the_ system in the ent. All I'm saying is that given its legacy and avant capabilities, the extra price is justifiable, to me. For you an ipad is the perfect solution, there is no problem with that.
I care - and Grive does look promising so thanks for the heads up. For some reason I do not like using a 3rd party for access - even though I do not understand where they fit in the data path - maybe I am just being overly paranoid. That said I will continue to explore Insynchq it may help me use Gdrive stored data more effectively on Linux.
Fred Wilson and Dave McClure talk tablets
Quite funny they write that they release to conform to LGPL 2.1 part 6.a. But by writing "You may download those files only for your own use. Customer may not redistribute any work based on those files." they are quite clearly in violation of at least LGPL 2.1. part 2.c "You must cause the whole of the work to be licensed at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License." and part 10 "[..] You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.[..]"

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1
That's a good point: you can buy Windows 7 tablets today and yet Apple owns the tablet market. We can only reasonably assume Microsoft considers their current tablet strategy a failure and are seeking to rectify the situation with Surface and Windows 8.
Same story here from Commando.io.

nReduce is quite active in San Francisco and we have been involved since the first meetup. Joe and Josh are doing an amazing job, essentially they built an entire social platform in a few weeks. We really love the ability to post weekly video updates, and get great feedback from other founders.
Nope, sorry, there is no such line to be drawn. The level of innovation of a company is a continuum. The height of the barrier to entry that they create is an orthogonal continuum.
Yep thanks, I was confusing features there.

This appears to be the article I was remembering (caveat: it's from way back in 2005):

http://www.omninerd.com/articles/How_Much_Does_iTunes_Like_M...
Playing with the dot operator
Most FB employees have RSUs, not options.
Isn't "Olympics" a trademark? I think the IOC is pretty litigious.

There's this: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120719/03392819758/olympi...
and this:
http://articles.philly.com/2012-07-12/news/32633390_1_usoc-l...
Actually here you go:

I took the first image from here: http://www.dwellable.com/h/8559/Cape-Cod/Upper-Cape-Cod/Falm...

Cropped it to 1024x1024 (you'd of course make a sprite sheet instead). Then shrank it to 512x512 just for demonstration purposes.

I then converted it using texturetool, also back-converting it to make a png with exactly the pixels produced in the PVRTC image:

$ texturetool -e PVRTC --channel-weighting-perceptual --bits-per-pixel-2 -p converted2.png -o converted2.pvrtc original.png
$ texturetool -e PVRTC --channel-weighting-perceptual --bits-per-pixel-4 -p converted4.png -o converted4.pvrtc original.png

The PVRTC images are significantly smaller, both on disk and in memory:

$ ls -l original.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 kstenerud staff 571225 Jul 27 15:10 original.png
$ ls -l converted*.pvrtc
-rw-r--r-- 1 kstenerud staff 65536 Jul 27 15:12 converted2.pvrtc
-rw-r--r-- 1 kstenerud staff 131072 Jul 27 15:12 converted4.pvrtc

Here's the quality:

Original image: http://i.imgur.com/flT7c.png

4bpp image (converted back to png): http://i.imgur.com/Itz4F.png

2bpp image (converted back to png): http://i.imgur.com/tzqlw.png
Beating them is not in the cards.

If you look at tech industry cycles the leaders don't get beat, they run out of room to grow, or evolve into something less monolithic.

Hegemony is always short lived. Once you get on top of the heap it's usually a short time before there's a new generation rising up.
No, you won't. You will be dramatically worse off. You have to go where your users are. And they are on Twitter, not your own hosted thing.

Twitter will not make or break most organizations. If it were to disappear tomorrow most any organization will have plenty of time to look for alternatives. In the meantime Twitter wins. Always. By a mile.
Sounds like something a king would do.
Scrabulous was two years before Farmville.
I would like to think so as I'm trying to do it just now!
"Truly random" is usually contrasted with "pseudorandom". In that sense almost all games are not "truly random". But you are right in that "truly random" also doesn't mean "uniform".
The screenshots are of a live app built on our API.
Well, he does imply that he'll neither leave the Clojure community nor stop blogging, so I'm keeping my hopes up. Besides, whether they are Clojure-related or not, his blog posts are almost always interesting.

Best of luck, Fogus!