skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clever name, but all it does is edit a hosts file. Not sure why this is so highly rated on HN.
16 lines, not really, 16 x 80 characters = 16 lines.

Otherwise, cool project.
I have no data or studies, but two people at work have Asus transformers and they use the touch screen all the time even when in laptop mode, and they don't seem to have any problems or complaints.
tromey started a project to port Emacs to pure CL (http://tromey.com/blog/?p=709). Why not help him out instead of dividing the effort?
Most books I own, I have never seen in any library near me. I'm sure this varies from region to region, but I stopped getting much value from the public library in high school, and started collecting my own. Even my university library where I went to school, with its plethora of fascinating books, has little overlap with the shelves in my house.
Clojure is on the opposite end of the spectrum from Perl.
But PayPal still refuses to be regulated like a bank, right? And how long will it be before "PayPal is holding my funds" stories go mainstream?
So, watch this if you’re in the mood for something really good.

Something I never see addressed: what you want to watch eventually rarely correlates with what you want to watch now. On the whole, you'll spend lots of time putting "good" movies on your queue, but when time comes to pick something and hit Play you'll pass over those and pick some recent release which engages your excitement now and will be long forgotten soon after.

The star rating system confuses this even more by relying entirely on people who will bother to rate something at all - a very different crowd than the "what's good?" and "thrill me now" mindsets.

Insofar as ratings exist, I focus on written 1-star reviews (movies, apps, products, whatever), looking for a subclass of "there really was a particular problem" comments.
NASA plans Mars Mission in 2016
I grew up a stone's throw away from Tesla's lab. (It's right on Tesla Street if I recall.)

I will definitely be making a donation.
Remains to be see whether any of them are decent. Cheap certainly, but they could be just as cheap running some random Linux build.

Don't most HDTVs these days have built in Linux-based computers? My new TV does (it shows ads on power-on, something not advertised on the box).
Look at it this way: A good "business guy" is going to be a shrewd negotiator, using every trick in the book to maximize the value of your company in every deal. S/he will go to great lengths to make your company look bigger, more capable, and like an excellent fit in every introduction, meeting, and potential sale.

However, every one of those negotiating skills is going to also be put to use when negotiating salary and equity split with your company. It's a double-edged sword.

I don't buy into the notion that business-minded people undervalue engineering talent in general. Sure, there are plenty of anecdotes otherwise, but the savvy business people know exactly what engineering talent is worth. However, that doesn't mean they won't still try to maximize their own share of the company's equity and payroll. Meanwhile, they have every incentive to minimize the amount of equity and salary handed out to engineering talent so they can hire as many people as possible without spending a dollar more than necessary.

It's not personal, it's just business. I'm not suggesting it's right, of course. Learning good negotiation skills and how to sell yourself well will go a long way to leveling the playing field.
In SGML land, you wouldn't have implemented SVG using tags, you would have created a NOTATION with syntax specific to the problem at hand. In XML land, everything is XML; for example, schemas are XML (in SGML they are DTDs, that are _not_ SGML), transforms are in XML (in SGML, they are DSSSL, a lisp variant). The XML approach is one-size-fits-all, not the use-the-best-tool/syntax for the job.
I literally have a basement full of paperbacks- I'd buy my college text books unbound to save money. I get the same words for ~$10 that I would for $28, I'm just missing the "show off" factor.
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As well they should, just having lots of users and no plan for monetization is a bad recipe most of them time.
The social button widget blocks me from reading any of the last 10 fonts on the lower left side of the page when browsing from a tablet.
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Looks like the path to code/data obscurity to me, why not have properly labeled fields for all the elements and save yourself the headache of remembering the fancy trick you implemented years ago.
Brainstorming Tool for Startups
It's the same in the UK. Although this time apparently it is truly "unlimited" according to No data caps, speed limits, or bill shock

I was on an "unlimited" plan here with a 3GB monthly limit... I could go over it but it was a 3 strike rule and then they would charge extra. I wish they'd do what Australia do and not let them false advertise. In Oz if it if 10GB then they must advertise as such.
Agreed. And the more layers of management and process a company puts in, the less likely they are to understand the benefit of just getting people to work through Product A from start to finish, without asking people to change context to Product B,C and D (which are lower priorities) and back again, losing track of the objective behind the product in the first place.

Context switching brings with it a loss of clarity in the purpose of each product you're working on. It drives an attitude of just working through a task list rather than driving towards the real goal of each product.
The interesting math behind selecting your A/B test sample size.
How is Makr.io even a real product concept? It appears to be a very limited version of the G+ image editor.. or any other meme maker in existence but with "SHARING" (remixing)

Am I missing something?
Choosing a broadband provider (UK)
Ruby On Rails Best Pratices - Big Controllers VS Small Controllers
Rest in peace Tony...
Agreed except for holidays. If you don't have a clear sharp line between work and life day-to-day, then you need those more than ever.
I was on T-Mobile for a few months this year. There are large swaths of metro Boston and Cambridge where they have no coverage -- most of the Esplanade, Harvard Square, every MIT building I've been in, Route 2 from Alewife through most of Arlington. All of these places are fully green on their coverage map. So I don't even want to know what they mean by yellow and white.
While I really hope Tromey's effort succeeds, I really think that this is probably a different effort with different goals. Porting Emacs to CL would greatly strengthen the platform Emacs is written on and would add a lot of features for free. Porting Emacs to the JVM, however, might also provide that, but would also provide simple access to the Java ecosystem, which would be a substantial boon.
How do they know? IMEI?
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well, at first i was excited because i would love an express like router/framework with a code base that i can grok in <15 minutes.

then i saw the code https://github.com/jcoglan/berliner/blob/coffee/berliner.cof... and think this is just lame.

would like to see the real code.
Scala's on top of Java and the JVM; not a reimplementation of it. Oracle appears to be okay with this, and sometimes encourages it.

(Not to imply I'm condoning Oracle's attempted legal smashing of Dalvik)
How is this different to mocking frameworks like RhinoMocks or the new Microsoft.Fakes?
Sure - I held off on sharing detail in the main post since valuation is more complex than revenue estimation.

Valuation calculated as multiple of monthly net profit

- was in the teens for most of the "casual" visitor sites

- dropped to the mid single digits for the higher value traffic sites

My Working Hypothesis:

- This is a "quality of sales issue"

- the revenue from the lower value sites was derived from traffic which was very likely to repeat (strong SEO position, repeat visit topics) and the higher value sites had more "one time" business.

I've got to do some additional work to prove this however, and may need to bulk up the dataset so I've got enough sites in this category. First step will be to sort out the product sites by recurring vs. non-recurring offerings.

Other stuff to watch out for with valuations:

- Market exhaustion or short product cycle (looking at SEO services and Info-products, these loose value quickly)

- Distressed Sales

- Trust/Data Sharing Issue (asymetric info hurts valuations)
The Leonar3do desktop VR kit
Three Years Of Computing: Final Report On The Palindrome Quest
Many reviewers are biased and judgemental. I prefer to look at the distribution of ratings that amazon shows. Good items have a distribution with one peak, even if it isn't at 5 stars. When ratings create a saddle the product is probably a fluke.
I don't understand why the idea that you should try and gain a competitive advantage by stretching yourself beyond limits is so popular in the startup community. Not resting properly (be it vacation or daily sleep) hurts your productivity and decision making ability badly. So overworking is simply not a rational thing to do.

Starting a new business is not a sprint, but a marathon. And all this romanticizing does a huge disservice to the people who buy the hype and end up burned out.
Two things immediately strike me about this:
1: Resistive Touchscreen? Really?
2: If the touchscreen is so great, then why does the device also have a trackpad? I would think a touchscreen should alleviate the need for a trackpad, freeing up space for a better keyboard.
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I still don't understand how is "rewatchability" different from "quality".

If the movie is good, I would like to watch it again. What is the difference?
I've used Opera as my primary browser and email client for years. I recommend Firefox to all my family and friends. I too often run into web sites that simply don't work right in Opera, and I don't think anyone else wants to put up with the hassle. (Heck, the site linked from the "CSS Font Stack" item on the front page of Hacker News right now doesn't work in Opera.)

One site, which I use to pay some medical bills, fails with Opera in such a way that the site appears to be down for maintenance. But opening it up in Firefox works fine. That issue had me confused for a while, and I like to think I'm savvier than the average bear, at least.

I understand the appeal of the vision of a truly standards-based web, but I'm beginning to suspect it's just not workable. The various APIs are just too complicated. Perfect compatibility would mean getting even the bugs working the same way. The organizations that create and maintain websites will always have to triage their testing resources, and the smallest browsers will always be left out of the testing, and the smallest browsers will consequently demonstrate problems that will in turn keep their market share small.

It's a situation that makes the success of Firefox and Chrome all the more astonishing, really.
Uber cool concept. Time limits + freebies = good bag of tricks and sorcery. +1 for your logo.
I agree, the good idea was to add more than one dimension to the rating. I suspect that it would be even more interesting if we had a couple more ratings to separate that one number into more precise groups.
If you're putting sshd on its standard port available to the Internet, why are you allowing password-based auth?
As a programmer, I've also dealt with the programmer ninja rockstar gurus who think anything less than 90% equity for building on top of someone else's platform is a personal insult to them.

There are just as many jerks with over-inflated egos on the programming side as there are on the business side.
You win nothing by minifying CoffeeScript. This "Framework" is more a few hundred than 18 lines.
You are not trying to gauge if you would want to re-watch the film. If other would re-watch the film, maybe, just maybe, you would enjoy watching it the first time.
On my Asus Transformer I find that touching the screen as opposed to a touchpad is the best mechanism.

The direct interaction it allows is very useful, and I would be fine with just a USB socket for plugging in a mouse for when precision is needed.
In the context of a website like Netflix, where your recommendations and ratings for movies are based off of your history of ratings, aren't you the one rating the raters?

However, the type of rating mentioned in the OP and the type of rating on Netflix only seem to work in specific niches. I can't imagine how a website like Amazon would implement anything even close to what Goodfilms is doing.
I can confirm this. I have a Transformer Infinity with the keyboard and have almost no problem going back and forth between keyboard and screen. I usually have the tablet/laptop sitting on my desk at a comfortable distance, so that I can keep my right thumb on the screen for scrolling.
I never pinch to zoom on my tablet/laptop. Its screen is plenty big.
First, I think that the idea that Microsoft is introducing 8 at the expense of desktop and enterprise users is a straw man argument. I have not heard any reasonable explanation as to why this is the case. All the apps used in 7 still work in 8, and the desktop remains largely unchanged in 8 from the previous version. In addition, the new app model works fine in the current security framework. So if anything, it gives enterprises (built on Windows technologies) a more secure way to deploy touch based apps.

And, by me saying the primary goal is to sell hardware, does not exclude upgrades being a secondary or tertiary goal. Microsoft wants the Windows 8 ecosystem to be as big as possible, hence the cheap price. They want to shift the conversation from devices sold (e.g. iPad, Nexus) to total ecosystem coverage. But, that number is less effective if everyone is just booting into the desktop.

I get what you are saying though, I was also disappointed by the desktop experience. But, in retrospect, I think the desktop was pretty good in 7, so I think the new visual options are a nice addition.
Can we see the real source please?
Cooling failure sets back Autism research 10 years
Clojure has the most liberal programmers
Funny that so many commenters don't recognize trolling of CoffeeScript developers/frameworks
Wonder if they will still use the Mono runtime instead of the built in .NET CLR?
Sony Closes Psygnosis Studio
Could compile it with ABCL and get the same thing from a single code-base.
Unprofessional is the New Unprofessional
Look at the "Cradlepoint" brand, such as:

http://www.cradlepoint.com/products/mbr1000

I'm sure you can then find some similar offerings.
Being constantly overworked is not sustainable.

However start-up life does include periods of overwork to get things done. Things that you could put off for a couple of days if you had a regular job.
Why Bash is like that: Subshells
Most folks this way is sold to haven't lived much and the marketing machine reaches them.

There's no question its more work than anyone expects. I just believe there's a better way than perpetually stumbling a startup
Proposal for "Cascading Attribute Sheets" - like CSS, but for attributes
Graphics cards are getting better, but not at the rate they did, say, a decade ago, and graphics cards are a small driver in the consumer computer market outside of games.
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If you look at it, it's quite sensitive enough to follow finger motions, not only whole hand motions. So it could even follow your fingers as your hands rest on a desk.

I agree, you don't need to use your whole arm. It's like playing tennis on the Wii. You don't have to flail your arms around. You just need enough motion for the accelerometers.
The videos of the lectures but the book authors (Gerald Sussman and Hal Abelson) are also available for free.

Pick the MPEG1 versions. They are much heavier than the MPEG4 versions, but the text on the projected computer screen is at readable. IIRC, the MPEG4 are re-encoded versions of the MPEG1, which themselves were ripped from VHS.

http://archive.org/details/mit_ocw_sicp
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I thought they would come up with a better system than stars. Like a "like/dislike" or "would watch it again". But no. They still use the same system.

They just made a nice blog post to buzz around.

But I went past through that and played a bit with their app, until I found out that everything you did was posted on your timeline by default.

I erased the application from my facebook.
In my experience the best films glue you to the seat. I'm fairly sure that's a universal phenomenon ;)

They are watched without pausing, skipping, rewinding, from beginning to end.

If it's not true in your case then you're not a reliable rating source.

A rating based on this can be fully automated.

No need to depend entirely on this one rating as it could be used for weighting a users subjective rating. E.g. if the film was watch over 3 evenings, then your 5 star rating is worth 1 star.
"original"
https://github.com/rkh/almost-sinatra/blob/master/almost_sin...
The way I see it, it's an innovative interface that has no drawbacks to us (users and companies) in testing it. If it's not intuitive or useful, people won't use it and either the company adapts to the users or will fold. Simple as that.
However, the question of the existence of Jesus as a historical figure should be distinguished from discussions about the historicity of specific episodes in the gospels, the chronology they present, or theological issues regarding his divinity.[360] A number of historical non-Christian documents, such as Jewish and Greco-Roman sources, have been used in historical analyses of the existence of Jesus.[357]

The large majority of modern historians agree that Jesus existed and regard events such as his baptism and his crucifixion as historical.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#Existence
There are many good reasons this is a useful product: demoing 3D models, education platforms, music performance.. I love my keyboard when working but aren't the wii and kinect one of the most successful gaming platforms? If this has a good API there's no reason it can't fill a niche need.
That made me smile - you really don't know a lot about drug manufacturing, do you?
A couple of points:
1. The war against drugs may not seem very effective to you, but it is in its own perverted way: punishment is harsh - add to that that the kind of people who would attempt something as complex as that (brainy people who often have sth. to lose) would get raped in prison on a daily basis. Just look at the Aryan Brotherhood - depending on the scale of your undertaking, they are the kind of people you would be in a cell with. Don't underestimate this as a strong deterring factor.
Another interesting article on the excesses of drug law enforcement and the history of drug prohibition:
http://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/opium-made-easy/
2. Who say there isn't such a movement? Somebody already mentioned marihuana growing, but there was at least one very high profile webforum that discussed these matters:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hive_%28website%29
3. Precursors and apparatus are expensive and hard to get (in Texas you can't even buy glassware without registration).
4. If you are making drugs for your own consumption, you want them to be safe (for example free of unhealthy precursors) - the analytics are even more complicated and expensive than the manufacturing.
5. Everybody can turn on you - hiding an undertaking of that scale would be nearly impossible if you have a social life (friends, family etc.). As I tried to point out above, you are literally taking your life in your hands when you are working with these things: whom would you trust with your life? One wrong word from a drunken friend and "the conseuquences will be never be the same". You are moving into a war zone and your loved ones with you.

I think the future lies in biotransformations - candian scientist apparently have alread done it for yeast:
www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/493629-Canadian-scientists-create-morphine-producing-yeast
Such a system will completely destroy both the drug market and prohibition. People will simply cultivate their drugs in yeast in the forseeable future.
I'm not sure I see the link between simplifying something so that a layman can understand it and appealing to magic or God to explain something away, or why having something simplified for you makes your acceptance of that fact an irrational act.
Will real, lasting apps be built in this?

I'm not sure why languages need to put on a programming pageant.

If it works for you, great, use it to build something cool. I've regularly used about a dozen languages in the last decade. End user Customers don't care what I code in as long as I make their life easier, not just my own.

By taking the time to learn what I'm using for yourself these kinds of comparisons would be a lot more productive than trying to build up the coolness factor. Many Languages were made in the 90's. Even more frameworks come and go, most aim to do similar things, over and over. Maybe it's just me, bulls something for the world.
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Ultimately no this will not replace the keyboard and mouse but these guys seem to think it will. Check out the headline on the about page:

> Say goodbye to your mouse and keyboard.
You're correct that almost no XML formats, with exception of XHTML, have an underlying text. This is the core problem, since the underlying information model inherited SGML presumes one. XML brings with it significant overhead for dealing with textual data, and most data isn't textual. Why is there an element vs tag debate? Wrong information model -- it's a difference without a distinction when you're doing data serialization. This is why XML was the shoe that never quite fit and why JSON will displace it so easily.

In 98/99, the XML bandwagon was something no one wanted to miss, it was the Web 2.0 and everyone knew it was the future. It was Java/WORA ("Write Once Run Anywhere") for data interchange and promised that you wouldn't be locked into a proprietary application. The marketing hype was simply outstanding. Even for technical people that hated XML itself, the promise of open formats was something you couldn't ignore and had to support even if you had to hold your nose. Open formats have since won -- holding your nose isn't needed anymore.

Now that the marketing hype of XML doesn't shut down the technical debate... JSON will soon dominate for data serialization tasks.
Proof point on my comment about SEO Services.

Think about how much SEO-Related Infrastructure / Services (link farms, article directories, spinners, cheap content writer services, link spam) were devalued by Penguin/Panda. Social media submission / follower spam is likely next.

From a business perspective, I'd value any pure-play SEO service using the assumption that the product offering would need to be totally replaced in under 18 months. Google changes that fast.

Now - granted a lot of this was spam and likely should not exist... but there were a lot of legitimate / semi-legit revenue streams for large sites derived off helping new sites navigate the Google Pagerank Algorithm...
Though a scatterplot conveys less information (e.g. the correlations between the two axes), I think it takes longer to process. It also takes more screen real estate than a pair of histograms.