skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My son studying "Media Effects" and will also get a minor in IST. My daughter is pre-med with an emphasis on medical research (as opposed to eventually having a practice).

It sounds like you're in pretty good shape financially as well as being in a field you love. I suspect you'll gradually learn to share the "distain" of management and business folk (I've been both) because you'll have plenty of "Dilbert moments". The good news is that there are plenty of good managers and business folk too, but they don't create funny comments. Just reserve your distain for people that earn it, keep that distain to yourself and you'll do fine.
Thanks - I wonder if this was cleverly misleading marketing or accidental, whether many people thought the same as you or just a small minority, and if many whether that will help / has helped or hinder/ed Ouya sales...

Food for thought, anyway.
For Firefox on OS X, at least, it seems to be reporting the resolution of the display which the window is mostly on.

I think this corresponds to the display which holds the backing store for the window, but I'm not sure -- if you drag a window between a HiDPI display and a normal display, for example, it's rendered as a HiDPI window if it's mostly on the HiDPI display, and vice versa.

I agree that I don't know if it's possible to do the "right" thing, or even exactly what the "right" thing would be.
This reminds me of a mechanical-modeling "computer" that Lee Iacocca described in his autobiography. Resistors were used as struts, capacitors as springs, etc. The magnetic force of the electricity represented the force of gravity as the modelled car traveled along the simulated road.
It wouldn't be an electromagnet. It would be some strong permanent magnets with an attachment/detachment mechanism, like an inflatable interstitial bladder or spacer jacks. The key would be to let the magnet connect and disconnect slowly, controllably and quietly. It's quite doable, AFAIK (not a magnetic limpet engineer!).

As for power, why not a turbine powered generator? The host ship won't miss the few tens of watts extra drag.
>Well, she looks silly, we thought to ourselves.

Can someone please look through that slideshow and explain to me how anyone could single out Google Glass as "silly" with a straight face? I mean, look at these earrings:

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/fashion/shows/2013/spring/new-yo...

Look at them.
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No one can predict the future - so my advice would be to not go about limiting your future options. You may be one pivot off from being the next big thing and YC could help find that. At the very least, YC will help you be a better entrepreneur.
Please respond to the point of my post, if you are going to respond. "I'm not confused, you are" adds nothing to the discussion - obviously, we both think that. And yes, confusing correlation with causation is a common logical error - one that, I believe, you have become oversensitive to such that you are spotting it where it doesn't exist. This, I thought, was already established before your post here.
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A quote: "Mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki of Kyoto University in Japan has released a 500-page proof of the abc conjecture, which proposes a relationship between whole numbers ..."

Imagine being in Mochizuki's position. Imagine being someone whose mathematical results are so complex that no one on earth is qualified to referee your work except you.

Now imagine where we go from here -- someone will endeavor to understand the 500 pages of proofs, and if they succeed, there will be two people who understand the result. That's barely an improvement.

Immediately after its publication, someone said that Einstein's theory of general relativity was so complex than only a handful of people understood it. That was an exaggeration, but this time, such a claim seems correct -- at the moment there's only one person who understands Mochizuki's work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abc_conjecture
Turning the research into a product is the problem. But I admire what Lytro has done. His dissertation turned into a real product.

Hmmm. But what do you think about those apps that I mentioned? They have pretty good algorithm inside, but are they great products?
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As someone who has been tempted to move from the United States to...somewhere else for political reasons, I see where you're coming from.

Maybe in the future, the barriers to entry and switching costs will be lower, and people will be able to move as freely around the globe as money does now.
I used to use[1] vim with gpg and a plugin[2] to achieve something similar.

[1]: Switched to 1password a while back oddly enough, to achieve some simplicity.

[2]: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=661
Just posting my experience, like others here do all the time. Another example is instructive.

My problem is, Dropbox scales the cost as the number of people looking at a folder increases. As an Engineer I see that as marketing, their cost doesn't increase incrementally in this case. It seems unnecessary and blocks me.

Btw you would only have to keep 1 synced computer on, some of the time. Not a big deal actually. And why keep my data around on their server after we're synced? Simpler for them I suppose, but insecure for me.

I could try and get everybody in the club to install another tool; might look into that, thx.
Maybe I'm not remembering correctly but wasn't the iPod the first MP3 player to combine a disk harddrive with flash memory? Thereby allowing it to store gigs of music when the rest were touting 64 - 128 MBs of storage?

Seems like a pretty big deal to me.
How is it better? Rizzoma (wave) is so incredibly complicated I feel very overwhelmed when I visit the site. It's like stepping into a fighter jet cockpit.
How are you getting the location data? Are you just scraping Kickstarter's site? Can't find any docs on their API...
MPI? I thought that went the way of CORBA. Is there any reason to use MPI over, say, ZeroMQ and Thrift/ProtoBuf/JSON/Whatever?
Debian Iceweasel 15: https://aboutmybrowser.com/3221535922

Epiphany 3.4 (GNOME's browser): https://aboutmybrowser.com/3704839315
Find a BCM56534-based switch and put Indigo on it. Unfortunately my company only makes 10G OpenFlow switches which is probably overkill for FTTH.
What's the maximum number of named ranges you've used in a spreadsheet? Don't you find the interface for defining names, or viewing them, inconvenient? It's completely divorced from the rest of the program IIRC.
Oh, it's quite true we can tolerate it when more than likely your setup involves your speakers being closer to your ear than the fans in your box. I'd have to imagine most PC gamer's setups are like this. But for a PC hooked up to a TV is not the same unless you are using a surround sound system of some type.

Plus, depending on the games, many PC gamers use headphones.

But that's PC gamers though, I see your point about your 360. Your example is basically what I'm saying, I don't think many people would care for that very much. When it comes to electronics connected to the TV the most common experience is that they produce no noise.

Most HTPCs are built to perform their duty with little to no fan noise but putting in a proper discrete video card can ruin that. You can get accustomed to it over time but you have to get over that initial unfamiliar white noise coming from the general direction of your TV.

The reason I feel that this is important is that if Steam were to start being used on a typical TV environment it will expand beyond games. They've already tested the waters with one movie, granted it was very relevant to their market. Steam is already well suited to be an iTunes and/or Netflix type service.
Just as an FYI (in case it's useful), I recently had to register 20+ country level tld variants of our .com address and after a lot of research the best outfit I found in terms of price, range of country level tlds offered, modern admin console etc. was http://www.gandi.net
Ask HN: Micro-consulting - is there a market?
TL;DR - Is there are market for sharing skills e.g on a 1 day or half day basis. Shorter than an ODesk or Elance project, somewhere between a paid tutor, mentor or pair programming platform?
Like a mini startup weekend for your own idea?

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This follows on from this post..

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4499615

which is discussing keeping seeds of ideas in a spark file, to be revisited at a later date.

I've been keeping an ideas list of my own for a while now. Every time I revisit it, I re-order it, starting from the ideas I'm most excited about.

Having looked at it today, I've not completed any of my top 5 ideas. The 5 ideas I have executed on were further down the list but were only started because I had the skills needed to see them through to completion.

For example, for some projects I'd need to work with an iOS developer and UI/UX designers initially to share wireframes, learn limitations and get feedback & improve in an area outside of my current skills.

Ideally it would be a collaborative effort with a target or deliverable produced at the end of each paired-building day.

I've used Elance and ODesk quite a bit and they seem to fall short. They work well when you can deliver very specific instructions and have relevant area knowledge, but what about creative discussion? Improving upon an idea needs to come before the execution! It seems counter intuitive to direct a project in an area you have little knowledge of. I know from both sides how frustrating it can be.

As developers or designers, would you offer your services (on a daily rate) to work with people that wanted more than just a freelancer to do it for them? So advice and execution combined?

I have a feeling that if this kind of platform was available - a lot of projects would get built!
So by retirement a 20 year old starter on $50k (a little low) should expect to be on $200k by age 30 (which I accept isn't at all impossible for a smart kid), and retire on around $12.8 million a year....

I'm clearly doing something wrong, or the job market here in the UK is a lot more different than in the US than I assumed.
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Why Microsoft has to stop teasing and tell us what's coming for Windows Phone 8.
Open source the vote
I like it. One comment though, I thought the "Type to edit your text" is a textbox. It's because I clicked somewhere in the website and the cursor focus is not in the shirt. :)
NSF says $600 billion industry by 2020? Wow, I'd really like to see the details of how that projection was made.
No kidding, VentureBeat should just change their tag to YBHT HAND.

Don't feed the trolls!
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I remember a time when meta-discussion on HN was looked down upon and never voted to the top of the comments section. I realize the irony of my comment.
They don't need to convince nerds. They need to convince the general public that Glass is cool, fashionable, and not a reason to shun someone. If Glass is treated as weird and undesirable even the nerds will eventually fall victim to the peer pressure and stop wearing them.
But I think it's clear he didn't feel that an external group, period, would give him (extra) happiness.

I am not really sure that this is very clear from the quote, nor do I see what it has to do with religion. I have not read the book so I might be missing some info, but from this quote alone it's really hard to make those assumptions. For all you know one of the things he already has in his life that makes him happy might actually be a religion of some sorts.
Can you add the info about Flash Player too? Like this: http://playerversion.com/
Maybe this question has already been answered, but are Google Glasses designed to be compatible with individuals whom wear prescription glasses? At a first glance, it looks like they currently aren't.
I second that! I thought it was a text box too,
There are literally dozens of "make your own t-shirt" offerings online, most with a wider array of shirt colors and the ability to include your own graphics in addition to text, at a price comparable or cheaper than you are offering (cafepress.com, inktastic.com, etc). I've used these services myself and found them easy, not at all "cumbersome" as you state on helvetitee.com.

What value does your offering have in comparison to your competition?
I don't know if there's a name for this, but a company can be in the position of clinging to the past to its detriment (as many U.S. car companies are famous for doing), or be so far ahead of the technology curve that they have a hard time building and selling what in 20 years will be commonplace, to its detriment (in the present).

Electric cars are an obvious evolutionary step in car design -- I think there's general agreement about that. But they won't seriously eat into the market for internal combustion cars until a handful of problems is solved -- battery performance and lifetime, charging issues, infrastructure.

For those ahead of the technology curve, the advice is to be patient -- technology will catch up. For those behind, the advice is to rely on a shrinking pool of loyalists for your outdated technology. Only one of these actually makes sense.
Same here. Maybe you can have the text mirror the text on the tshirt and have both editable?
Good effort for making a bootstrap site not too bootstrappy. Also, how many people pronounce it Helv-Titty?
Yeah that could be made clearer. Thanks. Glad to hear you liked the rest.
Super gorgeous...love being able to visit communities and get a pulse of the World of Kickstarter. Congrats!
I think he's also referring to website hosting, issues, wiki, etc.
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Yet a fighter jet gives you so much power.
While it definitely resembles an iMac, HP has been exploring the post-mouse era a bit with their Touchsmart series, and this could be seen as a cousin to that brand.
My life after Anonymous: 'I feel more fulfilled without the internet'
From what I understand, there will be a separate product designed for this purpose.

See: https://plus.google.com/110625673290805573805/posts/Nmc8LuwF...
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Can I integrate Rizzoma in my web app? Or is it just a standalone web app?
Clarity over brevity in variable and method names
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hstore is much more limited, it's a flat mapping of strings to strings (so a single level of JSON object). And as I noted, there does not seem to be any convenience method for converting between hstore and JSON data (or the other way around)
Imagine that, another developer community monetizing with jobs (Geeklist)
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I agree with this too. I, too, am looking for a non-conventional forum that I can integrate into a webapp I am building.

I would love for someone to port this into a Rails engine or a Ruby gem or something.
Ignorant in what sense?
But requires 20 years of learning to understand how to operate.
How are the bindings for Thrift/ProtoBuf/JSON in FORTRAN 77, which still runs the good majority of scientific applications that require large-scale clusters?
While I don't disagree that C# is good, I don't see how you could say that Java is in any way behind. At least in concurrency, I would argue that it's somewhat ahead. Threading in Java was more intuitive to me than threading in C#.
So you want to be an artist...
"The article is simply reporting a correlation, which is not good science" is a separate objection from "predicts implies causation, and none exists here." The latter was what I was objecting to; specifically the first part.

If you want to separately discuss the former, I don't have a strong opinion about it any which way. We do need to document correlations somewhere, because 1) they are a useful starting point when looking for causal relationships, and 2) we might be able to make use of them before we understand why they work. We do need some quality controls to ensure that we are finding correlations that really exist, and I don't see a problem with using the infrastructure around "properly" scientific experiment to this end, but if you propose we move it somewhere else or simply call it something else I don't see any big problems with that.
Could you talk about them further and explain why they're your favorite new features?
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Aerodynamics are good. Hydrodynamics are more appropriate.
I think this is the most relevant advice here. I've been buying/selling domains for about a decade now. Leaving it up for sale on sedo and also listing the domain for sale on the site itself are two ways people generally sell names. There are a lot of other marketplaces (GoDaddy, Afternic being the biggest after Sedo) to list on as well. Most aren't worth a damn (other than those 3 I have heard almost no success stories).

If you think there is real end demand or really want to liquidate you can consider some of the newsletters that go out daily to thousands of buyers(toby clements, eric rice). Or post them on domain forums (dnforum, namepros) or webmaster forums that have a domain section (digitalpoint, webhostingtalk).
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I think the challenge I see is "wife" when really you're talking about general services. TaskRabbit already address the service sector and you can hire someone to perform a number of tasks to help you manage your life.

On the upside, prostitution is a huge industry which equates to a large total addressable market.
We view our simplicity as a benefit. Sure SpreadShirt and their ilk offer thousands of options, but when you just want a message printed clearly on a tshirt, we provide a solution that you can take advantage of in seconds. It's very easy to make a pig's ear of your shirt with those other services. With Helvetitee, it's actually hard to make something ugly.

Your point on the pricing is fair, it's something we'll have to monitor and find out what people are comfortable with.

Thanks for the feedback.
I think your definition of "gamer" is different from mine. We don't all play the AAA titles.

I write 3D code for mobile devices, and I'm continually astonished by what these things are capable of, i.e. your comment about poker and Farmville is a bit too much snark. Besides, it seems you're equating game quality with poly count. There are a lot of visually stunning, intelligent games that run great on phones that would be perfect on a larger screen.
Brutal honesty can be powerful when used correctly, but too often it becomes a cover for an influential person who enjoys being a jerk to others.
Thx, appreciated your long reply.
> No, this new "Steam TV" isn't going to make our video game consoles go away. It's not going to turn your Xbox into a doorstop or obviate your PS3

Not by itself, but summed with mobile it will: http://www.slideshare.net/bcousins/when-the-consoles-die-wha...
I used to run the social media strategy at Atari, and I can certainly relate to this. We chose to focus our future in casual gaming, specifically iOS devices
I recently built a few living-room/gaming PCs which was pretty cheap, and a great learning experience for my 10-year-old son, who is delighted to talk about building his own computer. Most gaming graphics cards these days have HDMI out, which is all you really need.

The folks at Dell/Alienware have made a small box to fit exactly the need you're thinking about, I decided not to go with it because it wasn't available with an SSD, but it's an impressive little bundle. http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-x51/pd.aspx
As a researcher in Wen-Mei's group at UIUC and having taken this class, I can say this is one of the best classes for gaining practical knowledge of exactly how to parallelize and distribute massive computational problems across GPUs and multiple nodes. The knowledge is very applicable, and the machine problems are well thought out to introduce the common parallel operations and optimizations.

For the final project I replaced the NPC AI in Half-Life 2 so that the optimal position calculations ran on the GPU and took into account many more parameters than the CPU version.
Thank you for your feedback.

You're right, the one card at the beginning is confusing; I plan on showing more at the onset to counter that.

I was hoping users would click the "show more cards" button when they got to the waiting screen, not actually wait 10 seconds. I should probably add some help text to encourage clicking this button.

The reason I'm experimenting with multiple choice over just asking "Did you get it right or wrong" is to make for a more casual learning experience. After a few days a card turns into typed answer so the user can prove to themselves that they still know it. I am considering adding a traditional flip and self score mode to accommodate users who want that.

My plan is to make a native app with Notifications; the SMS thing is just a temporary way to get the deck onto the phone since there's no login system yet.

If you have time, I'd love to pick your brain as to how you learn. If you do, shoot me an email: c@mrflashcard.com . Thanks again!
It can also be:

1. Lease the domain with a small cash outlay per month

2. Prove your business model

3. Make money

4. Make a balloon payment for an agreed-upon purchase price (prior to the contract signing) at the end of, say, 3 years term.

This gives the buyer a way to walk away if the business doesn't work out, but lock up the domain from others buying it out from under you in case your business is getting traction.
Ha. Maybe too many. We're not closed to the idea of changing the name if we think of a good one. Suggestions?

Thanks re: bootstrap.
Interesting choice of words - 'held hostage' - as if you have some prior right to it and it was taken from you. That's a pretty self centered world you're living in.
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I don't necessarily agree with your Crysis evaluation but I agree with your point.

It's interesting to see people who think their phone somehow equals the abilities of a console or PC. I can see comparing gameplay experiences but not hardware capabilities.

If he had only stated "let me play games on it" then it wouldn't matter. At the same time I don't see what's stopping him from doing that today, assuming his phone has some sort of video out support.

Maybe one day we'll have that super computer in our pockets we all dream of but then our birth rates will likely decline.
Can't help but call out that the homepage uses a image ripped off America Apparel (http://store.americanapparel.net/bb401.html?cid=198-313&...) and they sell Gildan shirts.
Still, more of a side project than I've ever done.
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> "I'm not confused, you are" adds nothing to the discussion

That might be true if anyone had said it (avoid rhetorical escalation).

> And yes, confusing correlation with causation is a common logical error - one that, I believe, you have become oversensitive to such that you are spotting it where it doesn't exist.

The post that started this thread correctly identifies a case of touting a correlation as though it represents a cause-effect relationship. This is very common in popular science journalism, where data sets that barely represent a correlation are described as though they were cause-effect relationships, and begin to shape public policy well in advance of, and sometimes in the perpetual absence of, any effort to establish a cause-effect link between some A and some B.