skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ah, you won't be getting an invite to the "hackers & hustlers" group out there anytime soon.
Can't a generalized line/grid detection algorithm be used to correct the skew from photos of any lined or squared note paper?

$25/notepad is way of the charts for the types of notes and sketches that I actually need a notepad for.
In my opinion that was a really ignorant and degrading comment, as opposed to others who tried to offer real feedback.
As someone who runs a search engine (Blekko.com) I can tell you that Google and their AdSense program has created way more than 100,000 jobs. I see their web sites all the time, a small bit of cruft or copied content and eleventy-billion ads.

That is a way of saying what economists have said for years, which is that advancements and disruptions create a net pool of more opportunities rather than reduce the total. The proof of that is that the number of jobs that are available in the country continues to rise even as its population goes up.

"I think there's reason to be concerned about how non-information folks are going to be making money in the next fifty years. After all, how much of the economy can be producing hamburgers, entertainment and technology?"

They will become literate, or become supported by someone who is. One of the interesting things you notice reading about the transition to the 'manufacturing age' between the 19th and 20th century was that working people who were thrown out of work by technology their kids had grown up with, and their kids began supporting them with their employable skills. Its worthwhile to look at how the world reacted to those, just as sweeping in their own way, changes.

Elsewhere on HN this week the quote "Humans are a bottomless pit of wants" was shared, that is so true. As long as people want something, there will be a job which involves getting that for them.
Did you know that almost all vaccines contain aluminum as it makes the vax more effective through an as yet unknow means? Did you know that aluminum is a neurotoxin? Did you know the there are ZERO studies on acceptable levels of aluminum exposures to new borns and infants?

Edit: f'd by autocorrect
Been using a unicomp (buckling spring) keyboard with trackpoint for a while... Sadly (and obviously) the bs keys outlast the trackpoint keys...
Rien ne tient en place
Very cool. What are you doing there work wise? I've wanted to move west for a while and a few months ago I took a work vacation in Prescott, Arizona for a month and a half.
#175739 got mine from moleskin, evernote's store really sucks, couldn't purchase it there ;/ Why they felt the need to setup a crappy store instead of just letting other retailers sell it is beyond me.
Yes, and no.

As OP points out, in order to optimize, there must be something to measure. This is Google saying the benchmark is what they'll be using as a measuring stick internally (and likely, in their marketing against competing browsers).

Does all of this make the benchmark a useful tool for Google? Yes.

Is it the best benchmark for cross-browser comparison? Probably not.
Don't understand the downvotes - thought that the quotes around "cause it" would make it clear that I am not subscribing to any theory. That autism has increased is not questioned, what causes the increase is still unknown...
Would it be possible to make a nicotine patch for Starcraft 2? How about a less addictive version to wean yourself off it. Maybe, you switch to Starcraft I, and then Warcraft. How about messing up the resolution, or having a slow internet connection with lag? What if you have a computer that cheats for you?

What would it take to make such a thing? Is it possible? Exactly what elements of Starcraft make it addictive? Would it be possible to make a similar but less addictive version?
Moleskine notebooks are mediocre in paper quality, though, and not very consistent. You'll see variations based on which of their Chinese suppliers manufactured a particular notebook, but bleed through and feathering are generally sub par for the price.

They're nice and easy to find though, and the form factor's lovely.
Just to add a little bit of color, the water and gasses trapped in the lava do come out as it cools and form pockets and foamy holes, but definitely nothing as dramatic as shown in the tape.
The relationships on Facebook appear boolean, but they are hardly treated as such by Facebook. They have many ways of determining how "close" I am with any one of my friends by looking at the number of times I interact with them, view their pictures, etc. They also let you explicitly mark how much of each friend you want to see in your news feed. Then it is only a matter of weighting their updates accordingly. So I would argue that Facebook knows about this and does the right thing (or at least tries to).
Cowen is talking about major/radical innovation, not iterative/incremental change. Yes, a microwave is significant if you have only ever used a stove. But going from a live fireplace to the other technology he mentions is a major change.
You could just disable it.

Interestingly though, on some thinkpads you have the option to pay less and only have the trackpoint. I've seen a few cheaper R-model thinkpads without trackpads. You are right though, the opposite doesn't seem to be an option. My guess is they think it is too much of a signature touch to be excluded.

Edit: Apparently the reason is that they don't want to alienate all the thinkpad users who have been using it for years: http://www.techradar.com/us/news/mobile-computing/laptops/th...

Honestly I think it is exactly that sort of attitude that has secured their place as a corporate laptop supplier.
Sounds right. Note: caffeine physical addiction lasts only a day or so. Similar with nicotine. The psychological addiction is far stronger and longer-lasting.
I think it would be fair to say that the characteristics of the code you write could change depending on whether you use an editor or an IDE though.

If emacs + slime is to lisp what eclipse is to java, then I think that is what the GP was alluding to.
There are a few big downsides to using Gandi as a registrar:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3405177

In addition to the problems outlined in that post, you're additionally subject to the laws of France and must pursue any relief in Paris [0]:

You agree that You have been informed and expressly accept
that if no amicable solution is found, in accordance with current
French law, and unless there exists a clause to the contrary, any
dispute concerning the validity, interpretation or execution of this
Contract shall be referred exclusively to the competent jurisdiction
in the region where Gandi is registered for the providing of the
service concerned, and therefore at location of Gandi SAS
(Paris).

I'm surprised more Y Combinator companies don't use EasyDNS: http://blog2.easydns.org/2008/07/08/5-questions-for-ycombina...

[0] http://www.gandi.net/static/contracts/en/g1/pdf/domain_name_...
I didn't even look through all the functionality before I made my purchase (#182).

I use Evernote for nearly everything I do. Task lists, projects, ideas, goals. Evernote saves me one of my most precious resources: time. I've worked Evernote into my daily workflow for getting things done.

And I have a stack of Moleskines I've used for reminders, sketches, random thoughts that I scratch down in a hurry throughout my day.

This is the perfect product for my everyday use. Looking forward to when they arrive (they will ship in October). I just wonder if I bought enough of them.
What Ben Alpert did at Khan Academy
Automatic color and contrast correction, handwriting recognition, automatic ordering of pages, and tagging/searching capabilities once they're in the app.
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Udacity Proctored Exam in Python/HTML
Each time menial jobs are removed via automation, in theory all of those now jobless people are freed to work better jobs. In reality, better jobs need more training and technical skills.

It may be due to education or just human nature, but most are unwilling or unable to adapt and learn.

If we are not careful we will end up with a techno-illiterate underclass that are unable to find any work due to not having skills beyond what was required in the jobs that are now replaced by automation.
Sigh. Looks like Big Commerce (the store Evernote is using) stores passwords in plain-text or at least a reversible hash. They emailed me my password. :\
As a developer in the same boat, I can say I'd love to give users the ability to migrate licenses, even if it means losing a little bit of money for their happiness. Unfortunately Apple only provides 50 promo codes per version, and they aren't intended to be used for this purpose. I'd send feedback to Apple asking that they change their App Store/policies to support this.
This reminds me a lot of the observation that the double-slit experiment still produces interference patterns when you send particles instead of waves, and them even when you send those particles one-by-one in order to exclude the possibility of inter-particle interference.
I've never gotten into Evernote, but have wanted to for a long time. I've bought these as a way of forcing myself to finally sit down and learn how to use it.

Does anyone know of a good intro guide to Evernote?
A Harrowing Pre-DMCA Story From Wayne Green
Indeed. Being in a nice campus can make a huge difference for morale. In some corporations the engineering offices look like crap while the executive offices are beautiful. Based just on that you can tell that the corporation doesn't really give a crap about its engineers. I'd rather not work in a corporation who thinks that their engineers are not important enough to give them a beautiful working environment.
"pen testing" is not the act of checking to see if pens work, as google has just informed me, though the story would be hilarious if it was. It's short for penetration testing, which is checking for vulnerabilities in a security system.
Hey Jonathon,

What kind of projects are you looking to have people work on? And/or what skill sets of are looking for?
Dalton Caldwell at Startup School 2010
A Linux dev who helped thousands needs help to fight cancer
Those examples were deviations of reality from prediction/model. This is sort of the opposite -- the model predicts negative frequency light but we ignore this because it doesn't match what we thought reality was doing. Now we see that there is some tangible real-ness to these solutions. It may have interesting applications, but it wouldn't require us to change the theory (since the theory already predicts it correctly).
> Why isn't all of the repeatable stuff outsourced in bulk, while still enabling the founders to develop the product and own equity?

Because then it would be painfully clear how little value the products bring.
Stay where you are! Don't come here! My rent's already too high! ;)
It's true you can't offer things called "paid upgrades" or "demo versions", but with In-App Purchases, you can mostly get around this. For example, make your app free, and make some key feature an IAP -- that's basically a demo version. Or when you make a big new version, make the key new feature of the upgrade an IAP, so new users have to pay base+feature, while existing users only have to pay for that feature.

I happen to like these: I love being able to try something out before I buy, so "free + IAP" looks great to me. But there are a lot of people who must think that "free" means "everything free, for all time", and when they discover a core feature costs 99c, they go and leave a 1-star review. So you have to tread carefully.

Another option is to make a free demo version, and just dump it on your own webpage. It's not as discoverable as the App Store, but if people learn about your app and go looking, it's not too hard to find. A demo probably has minimal needs for the things the App Store provides (like licensing, purchasing, and updating), anyway.
I thought Facebook was mostly just for those people who you don't interact with a bunch.

David, the use cases of Facebook vary quite a bit. I have had a lot of fun over the last few years talking in person with friends at regular meet-ups about things we each saw on Facebook pertaining to other friends of ours. I think whenever there is a group of friends who have local meet-ups frequently, but also connections with people in far-away places (which might happen for the mutual friends who are all members of some national organization, the case I have observed), then there is a chance for Facebook to ENHANCE in-person interaction with people you see regularly. As I recall, you are an American currently living overseas (a situation I have been in twice in my life), and it may be that for you the local versus distant distinction among people in your circle of friends is more salient. I think one of the geniuses of Facebook's "friend" model is that everyone constructs a different network of Facebook friends, and enjoys it in a different manner. I STILL can't figure out how Facebook will monetize, but I've been pleasantly surprised by how much Facebook has added to rather than subtracted from my in-person social relationships.
As startups become more common, we will be getting closer to this ideal. There's a company that basically allows you to outsource your COO function. I forget their name, but apparently Uber has used them and many other startups do as well.

Startup entrepreneurs are not compensated because of technical genius, they're compensated because they accomplished the very difficult task of combining some domain expertise (often software engineering in Silicon Valley style startups) with business acumen, including executing all the boring stuff you outlined (and executing often can mean just coordinating vendor services).
just got the UX32-DB71. Took out the HD, put in a 256GB SSD, and 10 GB RAM (CL-11).

Discrete graphics. 1080p screen.

In my opinion, this is the best ultrabook on the market right now.
To some people, it's not much better than "pen and paper", but I find org-mode in Emacs very handy. And yes, I've got it on my smartphone. I've not played with the Android or iPhone org-mode apps, but org-mode keeps everything in plain text, the tables export to CSV and TSV, plus there is already quick and dirty graphing built-in (org-plot/gnuplot).

As for more advanced stuff, I've started looking into statistically analyzing the data, also in org: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html
I remember sitting down on a plane once and striking up a conversation with the passenger next to me. They were visiting their grand parent and thought it was amazing that their grand parent had been alive both when people thought it was impossible to fly (1900) and when we had a plane that could fly into space (the Space Shuttle). They said this wistfully like they would never see that kind of change in their life.

I asked them about their laptop. It was a Sony Vaio, they were going to watch a movie later on it. I pointed out that when they were born the thought of an individual owning a computer all to themselves was absurd, that their laptop had more compute power and storage than all the computers at NASA had when they sent a man to the Moon, and that their computer would do more calculations in the two hours of showing a movie than were done during the Manhattan project to design the A-bomb.

The difference was that you only see the change in the rear view mirror and even then only if you know what you are looking for. Sailors think they are holding a straight course but when you look back at the wake you see if its really straight or not.

The article's cites Tyler Cowen who suffers from this same blind spot. There are literally thousands of things that have changed in a kitchen, from Microwaves to the Silicone cooking mats which keep your cookies from sticking to the layered composites that do heat spreading on ceramic cook tops. But you don't "see" those as a casual user (and I'm guessing Tyler only casually uses his kitchen) just like my seat mate as a casual user of their laptop didn't "see" the change it represented. There must be a name for that.
I did a quick bit of checking and couldn't find anyone (like you).

My gut is telling me that few will open data centers in Canada when NJ/NY and Washington State are right there across the border. Latency won't be a big driver for that.

Would a EU/Australian data center do?

Ninefold has one for Aussies, and I bet if you looked there's competition available in the EU.

Also, see if you can't get Amazon S3 to store only in their Ireland data center.
If you had $164k (plus $1-2mm more usually), why would you use a lousy (but free) CA or a mediocre (paid product) CA? I mean, I use them for some specific non-web URLs, but the $99-499 to get a real (shorter/smaller file size, EV, wildcard, multi-cn, more widely present in browsers, or less broken intermediate certs, or at least business-verified cert), is totally worth it.

For DNS, I'd just use OpenSRS through a friendly registry reseller; I'm sure at least one YC company is an OpenSRS reseller.
Kasparov not guilty
I just tried ImageOptim on some PNG:s. I think it performs poorly :S
Anti-Abortion - Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice
I understand the ecosystem and work in the design industry. I am not downplaying the value of startups or saying investing in them are bad things at all. I say in the essay that some great thinking/innovation is coming from startups and will continue to. However, people that make a living in the technology and design industry will sooner or later have to consider what we are building. Unfortunately, this is only an excerpt and doesn't allow for the complete context. I go into some products/startups that are solving some interesting problems.

Thanks for the feedback.
Since they are doing recognition of stickers, isn't it also possible for you to invent your own 'tag' and train Evernote to recognise it? Then they could charge for the app and you won't be stuck with recurring sticker purchases.
And more specifically: if the payee doesn't accept legal tender, then the legal obligation to pay the debt is removed -- you cannot seek legal redress for payment.
Hipset (YC S12) Shows You The Music Content Facebook's Been Hiding
The End Is Nigh For The Apple v. Samsung Trial
Hah! Your pull request actually introduces subtle bugs into the diff view. I had already submitted _exactly_ the same change some months ago, and after having it enabled for some time in our gitlab installation at work, I ran into some issues.

I can't remember the exact preconditions, but there were cases where this change would start showing changes that were not even part of the merge request at all, which was extremely confusing.

In the end, I went ahead and did some more low-level changes to gitlab, so it would not only save the branch for a merge request, but it would save the actual commit shas of the source revision. That was much more accurate and reflects the way pull requests work on Github.
It's surprising a former digg developer describes pagination as hard. Really?
Also, didn't twitter release as OSS some sort of piping mechanism for exactly this?
For me, this is easiest to see through the equation Velocity = Frequency x Wavelength. Negative frequency is algebraically equivalent to negative wave velocity (which already means opposite direction), or negative wavelength (which already means opposite direction). There are several different ways that you could try to interpret "negative frequency," but by shuffling the negative sign around it becomes clear it must be equivalent to a wave of the same absolute frequency, where the wavelengths point the other way.
It makes just as much sense as racial profiling.
The Key to Windows 8 Success: It’s the Apps
In contrast with what most believed to be a long journey, the jury is said to have reached a verdict.
I don't think you must necessarily "solve problems that people already have", nor that startups don't do that. I think the article is just a call for startup founders and investors to think first about how meaningful their product is.

But it's not that they don't do that already. Many know damn well that their product, though very cool, has little "true" significance, and they do it anyways. Why? Some of the reasons are mentioned in the article. The startup economy pushes founders towards products that could reap quick exits, so many startups just try to solve smaller and smaller problems. It's not that they're not real – they're just very small. Also, in most cases, these are the only problems a small company has the resources to tackle. This economy, in turn, makes it socially acceptable, and even respectable, to address all of those minor, "meaningless", issues.

There's no one to blame – it's just the market (said with some irony). If we must blame someone, though, I think it's the big companies. Instead of putting a lot of money into research (and only they have the resources to solve the big problems), they prefer – because it's much cheaper – to wait for a startup to successfully solve a minor problem, and then acquire it. Those acquisitions make the prospects of founding a startup to solves a minor pain-point less risky, and so more people do it.
> Vaccines should be mandatory

I think everyone should vaccinate, but I don't agree they should be mandatory because they would set a horrible precedent.

Do you really want to allow the government to force people take medication? Even criminals with psychiatric problems are rarely forcibly medicated.
This has been a recurring accusation, and it's pretty much 100% BS. Sorry that we can't be enemies, though.

But you should read the article :-)
Well Meaning Isn’t Enough
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY. Oh wait, IOS Only? Never mind.
it would be very interesting to know how is he doing now (since a year has passed, as you can see the post linked is from 2011) and why he didn't try to teach martial arts professionally
Only time will prove how easily you can hear through your headphones...I only wish you the best, which is why I recommend you take them out.
I do like the nipple mouse, but on the other hand, I do my work in a keyboard-centric linux environment (tiling window manager, vim, keyboard-centric browser).
Same here - seems like just another Social Media analysis tool. What's so special about that one?
Upgraded to OS X 10.8. I'm not sure what's been destroyed about it?
Yes, it's even advertised in the Evernote desktop application. "Evernote for Dummies".
I think the idea was to put the unvaccinated children into their own ghetto so those with selfish parents don't infect the rest of us.
Is battery life still shit pure shit?
i found their tweet scheduling to be dead accurate, and it was really helpful since most of the most valuable tweets would've happened on the east coast in the morning (or late at night) when I am asleep in CA.

I like crowdbooster because it's simple.
Assuming the study is correct, then you should really say: "1 in ~300 Amish are diagnosed with autism."

Amish are far less likely to take their kids to the Dr. and the Amish family life is quite different from the rest of America. So behaviors that cause problems in public schools are not a concern there.
does this open the door to possibly traveling back in time?
Mandreel is produced by a third party with no ties to any particular browser. Emscripten is mozilla's own project. So rather than google's benchmark being biased in favour of chrome, it seems more likely the ones he compares to are biased in favour of firefox.
Yep. Edge detection + affine transform. No need for any fancy dots.