skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember that you can arbitrarily tweak contrast with monitor and ambient light -- I'm reading tons of science papers which are always black-on-white and few minutes spent on setup made reading a pleasure. IMO the real problem is that the default setting in most devices is a mixture of inhumane brightness and grotesque oversaturation -- thus designers try to fix a virtual problem hurting people with a proper setup.
Beautiful UI and a great opportunity. The iPad demands to be taken everywhere, and Apple has proven with iWork - Keynote especially - that office apps can be awesome on a tablet. Google's Spreadsheet webapp, on the other hand, is completely unusable on touch devices.
Is the funding goal about the financial significance? I'd argue it's more about the significance of proving there are 10,000 paid members as the foundation for the community (a notion of PG's that Dalton has referenced).

I'm a backer, and I'd argue the brilliance of this is two-fold: Dalton gets to spend a month to see if there is enough demand to build this out for an initial community (instead of 8 months finding out the hard way), and us as backers will only be charged if there is a critical mass of interesting folks to launch the community.

Neither of these are about the financial significance of $500,000 or $200,000 for that matter.
You are paying for the product though... You're paying for an account and alpha access to the product.
If they start stocking Mac software, I will be very grateful. An alternative (especially one as established as Steam) to the Mac App Store is sorely needed on OS X..
Amen. Someone at my workplace has it--you can tell if they spoke in a room up to twenty minutes after they leave just by the smell.
I lost respect for valve after they slam windows 8 as garbage without merit and then open a direct competitor to microsoft's app store.
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I think this is a very under talked-about topic in Silicon Valley. I'm on my third startup after two successful exits and still deal with the "roller coaster" of emotions related to work in this field. I don't think it ever really subsides, at least not for certain people.

Like others mentioned I found meditation very useful. Also, I watch Stephen Hawking's documentary called something like "A Brief History of Everything" and this provides me relief as I'm reminded that eventually the sun will cool, the earth will implode, and all living beings who ever existed will return to the atomic ether.
That's a very good parallel, and it might give a glimpse into Valve's future.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219668/In_fortified_...

This would suggest that the NYSE datacenter is not in the same building as the trading floor. And, I would assume that there are more than one of these such datacenters.
The more paid users there are, the more money Google makes. I'm not seeing your point. Unless a single free user is worth more than $50 yearly, paid users are worth more.
I have aging eyes and find it harder to focus on white on black, also screen glare is more noticeable against a black background. It may be that because white on black is unnatural our eyes/brains have to do more work to interpret what they see.
I like the idea of a strong platform independent player. I like being in a position where I can switch between Mac and PC fairly painlessly - I like OSX, but sometimes I want the price/performance of a PC tower. The number of critical platform exclusive apps continues to dwindle for me, so a centralized market that minimizes lock-in sounds fantastic.
How would that be any different than Java?! Of course, except from the fact that Java lacked the distribution channel.

IMO, That's horrible - nightmare scenario. As a Mac user, I hate nothing more than cross-platform apps. They're ugly and lack almost all the features that makes OS X a great user operating system.
I'm a beginner in logic, but I understand that the beauty of a deductive system is that you can reduce a proof to just symbol manipulation. Logic is "establishing truth by calculation" !

You can assume that given so-and-so deduction rules, whatever I can derive from a set of axioms by applying them "makes sense" .. pretty cool !
They already have done this, though. They have had PC Gamer Magazine and a making-of Portal interactive on the Steam Store for months.
Hahah I never thought how weird this was. I live in a city, split the car with some loved ones, and almost resent the cost.

I can't pay enough to upgrade my instant effortless global communicator and sudoku machine though.
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I agree that xfce is a natural choice for Debian.
I suppose that most computers have DVD players, but DVD discs are more expensive than CDs. Even if the difference is rather small it feels unnecessary to waste a DVD when I CD could do the trick. Especially since you only use the installation disc a few times. Having a physical disc has a advantage over USB drives namely that it can be used as a rescue disc later on. Data on a USB drive tends to be overwritten and you might not always have another computer available.
Don't know if you are already aware of http://usesthis.com. Some of the developers they interview get pretty in depth with their setups.
"They do this because you can't make money selling a $1 peace of salt-rock that lasts the customer a life-time."

Your preferred brand can't either, they sell it for $7.
I think it's a great idea, startups can spend less time and energy to stay "on trend" and focus more on creating new trends.
The PR team at Apple must be high-fiving each other over the mud they threw at this guy.
As I said in my post, 80% of the big VFX studios like DD, Weta, SPI, ILM, Dreamworks, DNeg, Framestore, MPC, FuelFX, RSP are using Linux for everything. Not just renderfarms - everything - creating the original content, modelling, texturing, lookdev, etc, etc.

So I don't know where you're getting the "Also Linux tends to be used almost purely for the processing side" from.
I didn't see any mention of how you share with people - do they have to have the app as well? Can you just send them a link and let them view in a browser?
NASA video captured from a low-resolution camera on the underside of curiosity.
Seeing a pull request like this might be fun once in a while but it gets old very quickly when you deal with it somewhat frequently.
Of the people I've met that claim to have sensitive noses, they seem to usually complain about artificial scents, like too much cologne, "deodorant" or after shave.

The only times I've heard them complain about smelly BO was when everyone else could too and the person in question should have had wiggly smell lines draw around them if they were in a comic.
Why is this information put in the HTTP headers rather than the HTML for the page in question? It just seems like a relatively obscure place to hide what's bound to be a common bit of functionality; not the most noob-friendly solution.

I submitted a different potential solution to whatwg forums and a few relevant mailing lists, without much significant feedback, using meta tags to indicate availability of 2x image assets. It does seem more practical to me from the point of view of an author, but maybe I'm missing something important:

http://forums.whatwg.org/bb3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4998
It didn't used to be like that.
I'm interested in talking about macro variable prediction.

[edit: A colleague of mine has a model that predicts macro variables, and wants beta users.]

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After hearing the US abandoned chemical weapons based on the odor of feces and rot because 'not all cultures share the same aversion to those smells" I was surprised to read the following quote in Marcus Aurelius's Meditations:

Art thou angry with him whose armpits
stink ? art thou angry with him whose mouth
smells foul ? What good will this anger do
thee ? He has such a mouth, he has such arm-
pits: it is necessary that such an emanation
must come from such things: but the man has
reason, it will be said, and he is able, if he
takes pains, to discover wherein he offends; I
wish thee well of thy discovery. Well then,
and thou hast reason: by thy rational faculty
stir up his rational faculty; show him his error,
admonish him. For if he listens, thou wilt
cure him, and there is no need of anger.
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People didn't have access to convenient running warm water and soap as much back then either.
I agree. Dalton came off as extremely antagonistic and negative in his Kickstarter video as well. I could feel the anger in his voice.

There has to be a more positive, uplifting way to communicate the reason app.net exists. You catch more flies with honey, etc.
FreeBSD can use GPL code, legally. They just can't release the combined work under anything but the GPL, so they choose not to.

I think the distinction is academic. In practice FreeBSD can use CDDL code, but not GPL.

And frankly I don't see the Linux people complaining about anything.

Every time some piece of Sun tech comes up on a nerd site or aggregator, a licensing flamewar erupts. No matter how cool or useful that piece of tech is, some twit beats the CDDL vs GPL horse once again. Typically this argument then dominates the discussion. Sometimes it's the only comment. Every time.

It's the ultimate manifestation self-entitled bike shedding, because the doers have more interesting things to do. What I find repulsive is that the doers have made cool blue Ferraris for free, and we have giftzwergs complaining that they aren't cool red Ferraris, which is demotivating for the people creating all this. How would you feel if you created something neat, gave it away for free, and were thanked with a wall of people complaining about your choice of OSS license?

I apologize if I come off unfriendly. It's just that I'm interested in the actual tech, and this noise is really growing old.
> as Steve Jobs has proven, tight integration between components results in better user experience.

A note to the younger readers out there. Talking about "tight integration" like this is fine, but some people who have heard the term "tightly coupled" apply it to the same thing. It's not the same thing. Apple's APIs and SDK are very good because they are generally NOT "tightly coupled." "Tightly coupled" generally means that it's not so great about respecting encapsulation. (Sometimes the letter of the law is upheld, but the spirit is violated.)

(I like the term "tight integration" as it's the same general meaning of "tight" when people talk about bands.)
Anyone using Trello for GTD. What's your workflow?
Very smart move. Windows store will be locked to the OS and Microsoft ecosystem. Mac App Store / iTunes is locked to OSX/iOS. Valve will be cross platform and Linux and more independent. For pricing competition and developer support this is a good competitive future. It is the cross platform angle that Microsoft and Apple can't and won't match.
You forgot parsing the formulae. You forgot having to decide which functions to include and implementing them. You forgot testing. Sure those aren't super hard, but minutes add up to hours and hours add up to days which turn into weeks. Most importantly, you forgot the UI. Building the UI for entering formulae - one that makes sense on the iPad and not just a copy of the one from Excel or Numbers (those suck) - would take a while.
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The issue was not coping. The issue is that it's poorly written.
> I remember reading something about X. Was it on Google+? Was it a blog post?

I would absolutely love it if they also included Reader feeds.
While we're at it, why don't we first not make a giant mess of the habitable and productive parts of the earth that we depend on?
While sweat itself doesn't have much smell, stale sweat will smell due to bacteria. What you eat won't be able to change this.
There's a certain elitist tone in your comment which I found unwarranted: RealHardComputerScience can happen in JavaScript or Ruby just as easily as C - often easier as you can focus on the computer science rather than memory management.

I'd also second the other comments that this wasn't a great example of it: profiling and swapping hash functions is classic software engineering.
I have thought about doing that but I would like to setup a media player which automatically generate playlist based on my listening habits like most played, recently played, etc. And it to work two ways.

Playlists can be very useful.

iSyncr and iTunes can do that but I haven't found a seamless solution for Linux yet.
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For your sake, do not base any investment decisions off of this model. Historical correlation != future correlation. You are MUCH better off using the Fama-French three factor model as a starting point.

An example of historical correlation severely understating risk was the 2008 financial crisis. Default rates of mortgages in, say, Florida that historically had little correlation with default rates of mortgages in Nevada suddenly became very correlated. Measuring risk in this fashion is not robust enough for investment decisions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fama%E2%80%93French_three-facto...
I tried it once. It gave me a rash.
Sorry, but: 1. That would still be ungrammatical, 2. The parent was a simple correction, and 3. There was absolutely nothing malicious about it.
Sorry I might just be missing something but is there a way to create a new board from the app?

Or is it only to continue working on boards you've started already?
It doesn't look like there are any limits on the weighting, even on the high end.

Furthermore, he's using closing price, not adjusted closing price. So splits and dividends aren't included. (which is most of the return in MSFT for the last 8 years or so).
I'm fully aware it was a mistake. That's why I pointed it out.
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What exactly are you assuming are the costs when calculating the marginal cost of that cup of coffee?

The rise in the total cost of producing another cup of coffee is not that much -- not anywhere close to the total price, or else nobody would be making any money and Starbucks wouldn't be on every corner! The supplies are cheap and the cost of employment and business expenses fluctuate depending on how well the coffee shop is run.

Apps will still likely have a lower marginal cost, depending on the distribution model, but I think to say that it is zero is false.
...wow, I cannot wait to be there one day.
The problem for me isn't the package manager, ports is great in FreeBSD.

The problem is FreeBSD doesn't keep up with modern hardware and you have to work very hard to get a laptop that works specifically with it.
what exactly constitutes 'noise' in a social network? if you're talking about the issue of having lots of stuff in your feed from people who you are not interested in, there is an easy solution: unfollow or unsubscribe from them! if your concern is more about having specific posts surfaced from people, but not all of them ("I'm interested in Bob's tech posts, but not his cat posts") then this has nothing to do with paid vs free and is a filtering/algorithm problem.
> the YouTube auto login

Simply disabling third party cookies seems to solve this (and many other) problem.
I was complaining a couple weeks ago about how someone needed to open an alternative to the Mac App Store for legit apps that don't work with sandboxing, desire demos or paid upgrades, etc. Never thought of Steam as a possibility, even though I use it weekly for gaming. I have high hopes; if anyone can pull it off, it's Valve.
No this a huge plot point plastered on the frontpage. Not cool.

I guess Bain hijacks the stock market or something. Thanks for ruining that.

I've also learned some other points from irresponsible headlines.
When I initially saw this posted here, I was irritated. The tone grates with me, and yes - I would prefer a much drier, concise explanation if I were to receive such a pull request for my projects. I kept this to myself though, and had a look at the comments here, and I've had time to mull on why I think this is potentially dangerous behaviour.

The tone and humour in that post requires a large amount of confidence in the changes being made, in order to write about the humorously, but also in the author themselves to actually present their work in such a tone. vmg is perfectly entitled to do both of these; the pull request is detailed, shows clear motivation and research, and vmg seems to know his stuff. The problem is that GitHub encourages networking. The damage comes when other people who are less experienced, or frankly, less knowledgeable, copy his style and do produce noise.

I worry about a risk of imitation of this culture, but missing the crucial underlying detail and explanation that's hidden in vmg's writing. I worry reasoning with this people will be difficult because they have trained themselves to have such arrogance in their work.

I prefer a dry report not only because it is succinct, not only because it makes my life easier to understand, but also because it encourages a disciplined state of mind. If you aren't able to write about something in a mature dry tone and back it up (that is, not cover up with humour), then you should doubt your work until you can amply support it. Yes, life is short, but it's also so short that I would like to get things done; rather than have to potentially argue past people to get important points across. Lets put this creativity into making great stuff, not making great pull request comments, eh?

Finally, all of this stuff builds a record for the project. A succinct, yet detailed, pull request is much more accessible a year down the line to understand the changes in more detail. Of course, this detail should be in the commit messages (and I do criticise vmg on poor commit messages here), but every bit of writing contributes towards project documentation, at some level. The more we can create a habit to create mature, if somewhat monotonous, technical writing, I do think the better.

So no, it's not just a "I HATE HIS FUN" argument; there are more reaching concerns, no matter how exaggerated you might think they are.
"And if Google's business model is to violate people's privacy; that's an invalid business model."

I don't think internet advertising violates users' privacy to a significant degree. If there was (or when there is) an easy way to price bits of personal information and accept payment for web products via cash or information, most people would give up the information required to keep the site free. Being able to control one's personal information in a manner that makes the side-effects clear is the ideal situation. The IE 10 situation will lead to fewer free products, which isn't a trade-off that most people would consciously make.
All 40 million gamers do things on occasion that are not video games... If, as a gamer, you already frequent Steam for your games and they also happen to sell non-games that you want.... why not buy from Steam?
Think of it like mouse-look in a FPS.
Oh boy, that almost sounds like a real-life Futurama episode in the making.
Users are fickle, but this play was tried by EA with Origin. You can get them onboard with the big titles like Battlefield 3, but they've been less successful at getting users to buy titles from smaller publishers. Steam offers a better deal to small publishers, and is actively engaged in the community in a way that I doubt Microsoft can replicate.

As for Xbox-PC game interoperability, that would be interesting. I know multiplayer between the two platforms has been ruled out, but transferring from one to another might be attractive. It also makes you wonder why they haven't done it. Games built for the XBLA are written in XNA and can be played with minimal adjustment on Windows. But practically every XBLA-PC success I can think of (Bastion, Orcs Must Die, Limbo, etc.) has been put onto Steam. Makes you wonder why Microsoft isn't already mandating XBLA games be ported into Games for Windows Live if they go to PC.
They've been improving lately.

Use to drive me nuts when I want a quick game of Bit Trip Runner, the loading time to start up and login then go to the library might take longer than one quick stage.
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That's a good point. I just assumed that because Gabe decried the windows app store lockin for ARM he would play nice on his own platform. I'm not sure if this would be true or not.
When, as a writer for Wired, you re-write a company's press release into a news story, sometimes stuff like this slips in (second paragraph):

"His company’s software designed Curiosity."

When that happens, it reveals you for the hack you are.

If the writer had taken the time to get an independent perspective, maybe the story would have been better.
Seriously, stop the negativity.

HN is for community of people who build. He built something that he thinks will be useful to other people.

If you want to criticize, do it constructively.

What have you built lately?
> As someone especially sensitive to smell I applaude your decision to not wear smelly deodorant.

One of the problems I noticed when I decided to start using scent free products is that it is extraordinarily difficult to find deodorants or products that are truly scent free. I have found that even most of the ones marked as "scent free" or sensitive have a slight odor to them.
Honest question: what stops you from simply browsing a twitter list of those twelve people?

Or, more pragmatically: what incentive do I, a person who doesn't really care about 'openness' and uses Twitter for a billion other reasons anyway, have to pay $50 and subscribe to app.net instead of just following the twitter list of those twelve people?
Your hypothetical is excellent. I think most people would choose the relevant ads because there are more factors at play. Consider television. If people could give networks information about themselves in exchange for only having to watch one well-targeted, high revenue ad, most people would give their information.
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Don't forget the only thing that would really change is that there would be non-games on the Steam store.

The entire "product" already exists, they just need to bring non-game titles to Steam. (and from the sound of that announcement it seems they already have something lines up)