skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you have doubts about this guy being "genuine?" I've seen executives in similar positions (close to liquidation, or at liquidation) - and almost without exception, all they thought about was themselves. The one exception I know of was when Jim Barksdale reached into his own pockets to help out the employees who lost their jobs at Webvan.
Yup, that type of "social proof" is really off putting. If he started with an actual achievement like making an app that made a lot of money I would have kept on reading. After I read this I quickly scanned it and decided it's not worth my time. I don't always agree with this, but it seems to fit - people who know do, people who don't know teach.
He is being ironic, since anyone and everyone has ripped off pacman without pacman becoming less of an icon or the creator of pacman poorer.
Article was seemingly invalid in 2011. Not sure why it's on page one now.
RichRap: multicolor 3D printing with open hardware
This in reply to the 'essentially piracy' comment below, which for some reason I cannot reply to (too much nesting?)

What's next? Am I stealing music if I put it in a CD player and it makes a 25ms buffer copy while I'm playing?

Fair Use is an important principle. We can't structure our laws to work against Fair Use, or dig ourselves into the absolutely braindead position that exercising your fair use rights of software, music, etc - should be regarded as piracy.

To do that is to be a total shithead.
Neil Armstrong
Just because I acknowledge they are poor people doesn't mean I think Android targeting them is bad. Android is a net positive for the species.

Having said that, it would be even better if more companies were willing to take risks and innovate like Apple has. Instead, most corporations are pathetically conservative, unimaginative, and basically stupid.
Ants had millions of years to evolve the algorithms. And I don't think it qualifies as a collective intelligence, I prefer to view "hive mind" systems as multiple instances of the same object, so the beauty of the ant isn't that it has a massive collective intelligence, or self organizes, but rather that it has a protocol small enough to fit into their tiny brain, but elegant enough to make ants one of the largest bio-mass of all species.

It is a very similar situation to the inside of any organism. You have a bunch of cells, none of which has significant intelligence, but which follow a set of protocols that allows them to work together and form an organism capable of duplication. Or you can look at how a single cell is composed of molecules that follow a set of even simpler protocols that still causes self duplication. Or you can look at how a bunch of atoms came together in such a way that allowed self duplication, and error propagation, until the 'arms race' between these molecules led to the creation of a group of entities who cannot even comprehend how such a system can occur without thinking of the single molecules as being alive.

Personally, I appreciate the mathematical elegance that flowers use to optimize their leaf coverage. (They start with an even arrangement of growth hormone, and then the region that is over crowded has less hormone then the region that is under-crowded, so new leaves grow where they are most needed, resulting in Fibonacci spirals).

Sorry if this post came across as condescending, but I feel that blind awe at the intelligence of nature tends to diminish the mathematical elegance it exploits; I much prefer to view ants as an example of an extremely simple and elegant algorithm that can make use of many stupid entities, as apposed to a massive hive-mind, with access to the brain power of thousands of ants, that still can't do better then the simple algorithm.
Hi all - I'm a former Congressional staffer and a co-founder of POPVOX. We built POPVOX precisely because of the ineffectiveness of so many other methods.

Heritage Action is using a POPVOX widget -- any site can do the same. https://www.popvox.com/services/widgets

Yes, organizations that conduct grassroots campaigns are frequently partisan, but POPVOX is absolutely NOT. We are just a platform for getting messages to Congress and providing a transparent record of what Congress is hearing.

We work very closely with Congressional offices to make sure messages go in in the best way possible -- with a 100% delivery guarantee. If for any reason it doesn't go electronically (99.5 % do), we print it out and hand deliver. You can see when you message is delivered on your POPVOX home page.

In July, House Democrats announced that POPVOX info is now feeding directly into their internal staff intranet via APIs.
http://www.democraticwhip.gov/content/whip-hoyer-announces-h...
We're working to make that a bipartisan, bicameral thing.
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Good old Big Beaver Road, coincidently, Exit 69 off of I-75 :)
I don't have time to blog, unfortunately. The reason was simple, I wanted a development stack that includes as little natively installed software as possible. With just Chrome, I have everything I need. I connect via VPN to my office network. The Secure Shell extension lets me connect to my server via SSH, Cloud9 allows me to edit code, and I can see my work in the same browser. In the end, I can develop on any machine that has a modern browser installed.
An American success story of a company led by a recently deceased charismatic visionary entrepreneur vs a faceless Korean mega corporation. It sells itself.
So if it's economically unfeasible to let gamers play in the short term after the release why add connection-only single player and let customers down on day 1?

They want to fight pirates by demanding constant authorization in their games, but guess who wins with this.

(I understand these are not MMOs.)
See above. Heritage is using a POPVOX iFrame widget. They have no control over the messages. It all feeds into the POPVOX system and we deliver the messages to Congress.

If you would like to weigh in on any bill in Congress (or pick up a widget to use on your own site) you can do so on POPVOX: http://popvox.com
It's his own work. Of course he has the right to release it as open source. He should however have a nice good old fashioned disclaimer against liability.
Flagged. This is blog spam. The linked article [1] was posted to Hacker News [2] a month ago, when it was written.

[1]: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/dont-waste-yo...
[2]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4217471
Somewhat off topic, but do you mind if I drop a line to ask about the tech scene in Auckland? My wife and I are planning to emigrate to Auckland from the U.S. in the next few years and I'd love to hear your thoughts on the scene, whether a Yank like myself would be able to find a job, etc.
That's why we deliver messages via POPVOX electronically.
The game navigation is very different though. One uses a keyboard and the other tilting of the device.

Since the game itself is not original but rather simply leverages new functionality of a device to create a new game play I would say that their market is therefore limited to those categories of devices (ie. mobile with accelerometers of giros).
Given enough management overhead and investment capital to pay off, both can be true ;-).

Remember, an employee is focused on how much value/revenue they generate for the company when negotiating salary, which is similar to but not the same as whether the company is profitable at that productivity level. After all, given enough management overhead, operating expenses, and capital debts, any revenue level can be unprofitable!
I haven't said that it's ok, i just said it would be the better choice to use a nickname, because this would help you to protect against a lawsuit if they try to sue him for any reason. His best option would be to ask the producer if he is fine, when the guy release his open source version of doodle jump. I think they would agree, because he doesn't earn money and doesn't seems to do anything else with it. Also it's a good ad for the product doodle jump and he also recommend to buy a copy of it.
What about shirts?

I've been having a really hard time finding french cuffs on shirts locally. It would be nice to be able to find great shirts online.
Do you have any clue how much money the likes of the big tech companies spend on recruiting? I get the sense that you have no clue. Most acquihires are peanuts, compared to the aggregate cost of assembling a high caliber team by other means.

I have no clue but I'm quite interested to learn. How much do they spend?
The Stooges - 1969 ;-)
It's flawed though, which is why it doesn't make sense.

There are tons of doodle jump alikes. In fact doodle jump was a clone of an existing iOS game (papi jump). We aren't complaining about imitating gameplay. Can you show me a PAC man clone that's called "Pac-man" and uses the exact same artwork?

If if called this "HTML jump" and made original artwork, no one would be complaining. It's clear why he copied it exactly. He wants people to be confused or to recognize his work because it rides on the reputation of doodle jump.
Their Kickstarter offers fitted shirts. Worth looking at. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2067982551/fine-custom-s...
Even if the appearance of say... an iPad and a Galaxy tablet are very similar, I don't think it's fair to call the Galaxy a ripoff. That basic design is just where the industry was headed. Case in point: the Crunchpad was announced nearly two years before the iPad and has a nearly identical design.
So someone thought this wasn't going to be in the mainstream news and posted it here?
Self-fulfilling prophecies are a bitch.
Was that not the whole point of the patent-system? That there is an incentive in doing/thinking first?

I disagree that patenting was meant only for the small guys. Patenting was meant to make innovation happen and fast. Simple as that. Social welfare policies are designed for the small guy.

In any case how expensive is it to file a patent, or get a job with the company which has the patent and work with them.

The so called small guy you talk about does not give a damn about innovation. He wants to be the next Steve Jobs.

Let's admit it. Money is important for everyone. Apple, Samsung, Small guy, Big guy. Everyone.

What one can discuss is how to collect taxes from people and deploy that to support indie innovators(if may call them so) who want to fly solo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_movement#Philosop...
No, it would never have been true, the Moon is less that 1/4million miles away. If you choose a distance like 100 thousand miles then yes, at about the halfway mark it would be true for their flight.
That all depends on what's running on the screen. I find browsing on my iPhone much faster and more responsive on my iPhone vs my friends Android devices.

I browse the web on my phone constantly. I still wouldn't rather a bigger screen at the expense of all the other benefits of a compact phone like one handed usage.

I resent the implication that I'm not a power user or I don't really browse the web just because I prefer a smaller screen on my phone.
I did not get that impression. The article said said:

The flywheel gains more steam, the more acqui-hires there
are. [...] it sends the message to investors that there’s
no risk in backing them. It doesn’t matter that investors
rarely make anything from these deals, because frequently
they don’t lose anything either, or they lose very little.

Wouldn't a mouthpiece of the VC industry think it was good, not bad, that investors got their money back even after making bad investments?
An interesting thing to note: Some audiophiles enjoy features that stray from perfect reproduction of music. Music can feel/sound better on a sound-system that introduces slight overdrive, saturation, warmth. Audiophiles will go for tube amps and vinyls, because they subjectively sound better.

However, it is possible to get a more accurate reproduction of sound at a lower price with an external audio interface, a pair of studio monitors and a sub. Here's a bargain list:

2 x Yamaha HS50M Speaker (2 x $200)
1 x Yamaha HS10W Sub ($400)
1 x MOTU MicroBook II Audio Interface ($250)
4 x TRS/XLR Cable (4 x $20)

So to hear every detail in a track costs about $1200, less than the Sennheiser headphones on their own. A computer audio setup for $3000 could be way better.
hypothetically, if grinding babies was legal, would you also find no fault with those who chose to partake, after all its perfectly legal.

Hate the game, not the player, right?
So a while ago, I had this thought: "It's pretty obvious that the casual user will buy iPhones and not Galaxies. After all, Apple works very hard to make iPhones perfect for the casual user, and all of the goodiness that comes from having a more open phone is meaningless for the casual user".

A little later, as more and more people I knew gravitated towards the Galaxies, I realized the flaw in this thinking - the average user doesn't know that the iPhone is geared towards him/her, and is a much better fit for someone who doesn't want to tinker with their phone. Only techies know this.

The average user wants to buy a phone that they can put apps on. As far as they're concerned, the iPhone and the Galaxy is the same product, only with a vastly different price structure.
From what I've read so far, the very existence of a full display and a bezel surrounding the front of the phone may have been sufficient in this case for damages.

That's obviously crazy, but that appears to have been criteria used.
The request looks wrong. Normally you should see a host header of "news.ycombinator.com" and a URL of "/". I.e., it should read "GET / HTTP/1.1".
I always wonder if this is what they call the reality distortion effect. You get what you pay for?

Long time ago I had an ibook g4. Supposedly it was very nice back then, and very pricey too. However, after playing with it sometime, it just looked cute. Overpriced and cute. Apple products are a jail that looks very nice, but its a jail anyway.

Now I have an IPad (don't remember the generation) because my job. It is still overly priced and cute. Oh, and a jail. Is this what you are supposed to get for paying a high price?

Guess I'll never "get it". For me, it's just stylish and pricey stuff, that locks you in. Paying to give up your freedom... go figure.
Good one, nonsense.
We're launching shirts too. French cuffs and all. We can already take orders but they're not on the site yet.
More like a demonstration of just what kind of flawed mindset he may have on patents, given that he holds such a silly patent.

It appears to be, essentially, a DVR patent. I'm very concerned with his ability to handle a case like this since he thought something very similar to a TIVO (1999) was patentable when his patent was filed in 2002.
But that's not necessarily illegal. Only certain kinds of copying are disallowed by the law. And also, the patents that Samsung asserted in the countersuit were _quite_ technical.
Cool photo by Steve Jurvetson of DFJ.
cdir - Dump Interactive, Searchable Objects in Terminal (Node.js)
Yep, Hackernews effect. It's back up now but smoke's coming out of the servers.
Yes, I can make a pretty educated guess about what a company like Google spends on recruiting. But that recruiting machine is capable of finding and hiring 5k top quality engineers in a year. It's not reasonable to compare the cost of a single 20 person acquihire to that.

I'm sure that your team made what is the right choice for you (congratulations!). But dglassan was asking about why there is hate for acquihires. To understand it, you need to look at it from the point of view of the other stakeholders, not from the point of view of those who benefitted from it.

That said, I'm a bit puzzled by the sense of resentment, since by your own description everything was going well for your company, and you decided to be acquihired instead. On the surface it seems like you (plural) weren't all that committed to the business after all.
I think the focus on suits does a huge disservice to menswear and this is coming from someone who is something of a menswear fanatic. Suits are uncomfortable and expensive. They are difficult to size correctly. They have some weird connotations. Avoid them unless the dress code requires it. I moderated a men's fashion community for a while and a lot of men would approach the idea, get super psyched, go out and buy a suit (without bothering to size it correctly), wear it in an environment where it was entirely inappropriate, and burn out and go back to cargo shorts and never dress up again.

Men, you can be well dressed without wearing a suit. A nice pair of fitted dark jeans with a nice pair of brown dress shoes or loafers and an white or light blue dress shirt looks really good in a lot of situations, can be surprisingly comfortable, and can be dressed up with a jacket if necessary. You don't have to go full suit, you don't have to wear a tie, and you don't have to become an insufferable "sartorialist".

Its not hard either. Pile of white shirts and three pairs of jeans vs pile of t shirts and three pairs of cargo shorts. not much of a difference.
Sweet ironic justice.
Wanna Collaborate On A Song With Paul Oakenfold? Beatlab Is Making It Happen
Some of those improvements are live now.
I would've thought it was obvious that he was referring to the past-Apollo era. Did you really not think that? I'd've thought it obvious that Armstrong was aware of all the Apollo missions, so the comment could hardly have been taken as you imply.

And there weren't 13 moon walks after Apollo11, there were 26 in total. There were13 periods of EVA, each with two astronauts.
Actually the Windows RT apps (metro apps) are REQUIRED (if they want to be in the store) to support split screening and they change their orientation to do so as well.
It took me 5 minutes to "devise" a title for this submission... I hope it's not very vague, but it was the best I could do.

It's hard to describe what this amazing module does in 70 characters!
He could mean that the original recording used a higher frequency (44.1khz vs 96khz).

That said, 44.1khz puts the Nyquist frequency just above what most adults are capable of hearing. Unless you're young and have excellent hearing, it's unlikely that you'll perceive much difference for anything above 44.1khz.
I was actually thinking of the Nokia Lumia 900 with regard to low pixel density. It's a four and a half inch screen with only 800x480px. What a waste.
This man is clearly lying. So awkward and artificial that is clearly fabricated, like a geek joke prepared and rationalized but void and dead of humor.

Imagine a teenage that could not differentiate between and iPod and some other thing "that is the same".

Yeah, because normal people know how to install a VM, do a grep and an ssh....but they could not differentiate from a computer witch battery last 3 hours instead of 8, or weights double, or is made in real aluminum(and not plastic with metallic paint) or it is actually cheaper than the competence.

This man is wet dreaming.
Small hands?
I disagree with the Rand-ian outlook that some people should stick to working at McDonald's expressed by some other commenters. As humans living in the developed world, even the laziest person has enormous advantages. The real question is whether they are nurtured in an environment that tells a person that it's up to them if they are miserable, average or excellent humans.

http://www.humblepied.com/jessica-hische/

I really liked typographer Jessica Hische's outlook: "the thing that you do when you procrastinate is the thing that you should do for the rest of your life".

I don't have room in my world for people that would deny someone the shot at being happy doing what they do.
The iOS gold rush is long since over. Very few devs are making real money on apps now. The consulting market is pretty hot though.
Respect for the old man! R.I.P Sir.
"Makes it unreadable, to you"

It seems like a common handicap amongst otherwise smart and capable people, to possess the inability to ignore tone, style grammar etc, and just judge the message on the strength of it's argument alone.
Neil Armstrong:  "It's True Beauty however was that it Worked"
You might find this article interesting - "Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa." [1] (HN discussion [2]).

[1] http://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-a...

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4372563
"Apple products are a jail that looks very nice, but its a jail anyway."

Please clarify this. I don't feel more restricted with my MacBook Pro than I did with my old Lenovo-laptop. In what way was it a jail to you?
If that's what he meant, that's what he should have said. The rest is complete nonsense.
No, I definitely wasn't trying to imply anything like that about any iPhone user. I'm sure you are a power user and you regularly browse the web with your iPhone. But this doesn't mean you wouldn't have a better browsing experience with a 1280x720 resolution and a larger screen.

I don't want this to turn into a typical iPhone vs Android forum dicussion, so I'm not really going to say anything else. But browsing on a high-end Android phone (like Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy S3, One X, Xperia S) will be significantly faster than iPhone 4S. Your friend's Android device was probably pre-ICS and/or a low-end device.

From what I understand, most iPhone users here have not tried the recent high-end Android phones and are still thinking about the old days of Android, when it had choppy scrolling and a UI which kept stuttering.
Do use a computer that is free (as in freedom) all the way down to the BIOS?
They probably spend $4mil/month on advertising to drive new players to the game. That's how this all works.
Come on... You know what he's going to say. What's the point of asking? It just wastes yours and his/hers time.
How is this different from indochino.com ?
That depends on how you define progress. If you are talking about efficiency of getting things done, then I would say the move to GUI/mouse based interfaces as the standard is a step in the wrong direction. As is the to a composting window manager. I'm not saying there are not uses where these systems are more efficient, but for most cases they are less efficient.

However, these are examples of improved usability for inexperienced users. For example, typing "cp -r important /mnt/thumbdrive" is more efficient than opening the file explorer, copying 'important', navigating to 'thumbdrive' and pasting (especially with tab completion), however it is far easier for a new user.

In the same way, it looks like Microsoft is again trading productivity for usability. Unfourtuantly, it is very difficult to avoid the trade-off, because productivity comes from the interface making commands as short as possible, and making the feedback contain as little non-content information as possible. Where as usability comes from making the input verbose/forgiving (which requires repetition) and the output needs to provide information on how to use the interface, which takes away from the ability to output content.

For example, vim is a highly productive editor, there is 1 line at the bottom for non-content information, and the input is short and (necessarily) cryptic. You also have gedit, another plain-text editor, however, instead of the cryptic key bindings, it has a slow and easy interface. So "ESC /foo/bar/g" becomes "(hand to mouse) Search>>Replace (hand to keyboard) foo (hand to mouse) (mouse move, click)(hand to keyboard) bar (hand to mouse) (mouse move, click) (mouse move, click)"
Or, if you are good with key commands, geddit has "^H, foo TAB TAB bar TAB*7 enter ALT+F4", still slower then vim, and it takes up more precious space.
$400 for a set of cables???
My Tribute to Apollo 11
My tribute to the apollo 11 guidance computer implemented on an FPGA. The moon landing is the reason I became ane Engineer. But sadly, I am female which means that Hackernews shadow bans me so no one but me will see thing post :(
we landed on the moon but we have a long way to go to achieve equality...
No one will see this, but anyhow, I think it is cool:
https://github.com/donnaware/AGC