skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One potentially but as of yet unmentioned aspect is the "game thing" itself. The fact that he refers to this as a "game," indicates that by means of some conspiracy theory site or other, he was more or less interacting with others in competitive harassment.

Take the following potential scenario:

Impressionable youth joins conspiracy site, finds lots of anti-semitic information.
The youths of the forum are encourage to pick a Jew and harass them, recording both their creations (i.e. a plastic container filled with ashes), and the responses of the person they are harassing.
Within the context of a game this harassment can immediately seem quite harmless. I am actually not thinking much about the person who is on the receiving end of my "prank" anymore, I am simply thinking of the optimal reaction I can get from my "innovative" creation in the harassment sector.

Anyways, easy to see how something like this could get out of hand. Very out of hand in this case.
I've often wondered why more buildings aren't made this way.

There'll always be a place for one-offs, of course; and in prestige markets like NYC it'll almost always be so.

But a lot of the world's construction is really quite simple in requirements, and centralising manufacturing must surely make it more efficient overall.

This already happens somewhat for "big box" stores and warehouses, with some adjustment it just seems like an obvious step to me.

I'd be interested in hearing from construction industry experts as to why this isn't already the norm.
For the love of God... please put your video on Dropbox or S3. I don't think your site can handle it. At least I'm having issues with it.
High density has advantages of scale, i.e efficiency. On the other hand, when things break, they break massively I.e. a power outage, a garbage strike, etc. Also, infectious diseases propagate faster.

Still, I would take density over sprawl, if push came to shove. I wish San Fracisco would adopt some of the Chinese practicality when it comes to urbanism --not the ugliness of the uniform apartment block buildings, but the allowing of change and growth.
Also checkout the flexie shim and flexbox playground:

https://github.com/doctyper/flexie

http://flexiejs.com/playground/
Did I mention Objectivism? No. If you would like me to put words in your mouth let me know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia

Estonia (relatively) recently adopted policies supported by Milton Friedman. Along with that and being freed from the USSR, Estonia's economy is growing rapidly. Estonia adopted a flat tax rate that has been decreasing steadily over time. Estonia has extremely low public debt, free trade, a budget surplus, and had, in 2011, 5x the GDP growth of other EU countries (although they recently adopted the euro :( ). Estonia is doing quite well compared to the rest of the EU, despite all their damn economic freedom.

Regardless, how is "not many have tried it, therefore it doesn't work" an argument? On the other hand, one doesn't have to look very far back in history to see where too much government involvement into the economy (and therefore every day life) leads.
For sure - I wasn't advocating that Apple devote most resources to space travel, science and exploration. Just that they could afford to buy a launch or two from SpaceX like NASA does. It may even be in their financial interest to put up their own satellites with high-res cameras and telescopes. Mac desktop background images are celestial objects already. "Our latest innovation. Our best work. From Space."

Plus we know that Apple Maps could use a little help.
If you're a Sass/Compass user, I implemented a similar effect as a mixin last year: http://nathos.github.com/flippy/
It's dutch.

"23 years old. Liege / Luik Zeer slim build. black hair. dark eyes. beauty mark on the forehead."
High density buildings are much more environmentally friendly than suburban sprawl. People need to travel less to work, shopping, seeing friends, thus less cars, less oil used, less roads needed to be built. Mass transit actually is profitable and sustainable. It's easier to build out network type of infrastructure. Broadband is easier to build and cell towers covers more. Services are centralized to cover more people, less fire house, less hospital, less police.
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What algorithm are you using to make recommendations? I've been looking around in the recommendable source but can't seem to find it.
Hitachi announces quartz-based data storage
You suck at life
I added a screenshot to the blog. Thanks for pointing this out.

regarding waybackmachine...are u referring to the robots file blocking access?
what the fack !!!?
people of Brazil, you are very smart please do not permit this to happen on your own country.

Internet gives you power, dont let these fu*rs
do whatever they want.
The design is based on a terribly unergonomic position, it's ugly, and it looks perfectly possibly to suffocate yourself with it.
There are nicer ways to make recommendations/requests than "for the love of god...do X."
Researchers and scientists could have asymmetric keys and peer review in that fashion. The authors could append cryptographic signatures to the article. Then we don't need centralized journals, just a list of academics whose scientific rigor is trusted.
Cool site! I would suggest trying to scrape taphunter.com to find beers to add to your system. Doing that weekly for some of the bigger beer towns in the country would add a bunch of brews to your list.
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Google unveils first-ever underwater “street-view”
But at that point, do you need to own the car? Basically you just described a taxi service without human drivers.

Perhaps a taxi service based around self driving cars could drive costs below the cost of ownership. My guess is that the limiting factor is rush-hour.
Then don't use the $10 a month service and go pirate music by all means. That gives signals to the actors, which they will take into consideration when figuring out what their business model should look like.

The fact that services like Spotify have caught on as of late are proof that many people like the business model. Let musicians see how much more money they make by delaying the release of their albums in these services.

They will figure it out eventually, I hope. It's all about finding the distribution of that arbitrary "fair" price in order to maximize earnings.
Traditional VCs and first-time entrepreneurs are not aligned
Here's one for you: City real estate dips in price. Suburb real estate rises, especially at the fringe of the suburbs. A self-driving car with a LTE wireless hotspot would make a previously absurd commute manageable.

Heck, you could sleep during your drive in to work.
I don't really understand the cult connection, even after Googling Heaven's Gate (I am too young to remember much about them directly).

But on the topic at hand, I would buy one of these, or at least, I definitely would if I were still in High School. On state standardized test days (normally a half-week occurring a few times per year), I (and many peers) would inevitably finish in about 2 of 4 hours. Of course we were obligated to stay in the room and remain completely silent for the entire 4, so I would fold a jacket such that it fashioned a very poorly-functioning version of this.

The main issue while using a jacket was having proper respiration between my face-down head and the desk. If this product solves this when it comes out (maybe I can try it out somewhere? Brookstone or some such?), I can see myself considering it.
Unfortunate name in that wearing it in public will definitely get you ostracized - I have almost no doubt about that.

I think Id be genuinely afraid to wear this thing out in that it probably suffers from the same thing mascots suffer from - there is an urge to tackle you or bop you as if your a stuffed animal. I just feel like inevitably you'd be awoken by a whap to the back of the head by some teenager on a dare.
I too wondered about the heat. That is usually the first thing that affects my ability to sleep.
I wonder if it includes flame retardant chemicals like other pillows do in some countries...
DARPA's cheetah robot is now faster than Usain Bolt
One big problem with this approach: what happens when your email is down? Does a website really want to tie its availability to that of Gmail / other web mail services?
I liked three beers about an hour ago and my recommendation page is empty. Is the queue backed up due to an HN traffic spike?
"Web page not available" using Browser on SK17i running CM9.1.0
Thanks, works as intended on my S3. Any chance of releasing the source code though?
I'm not sure I "hate" it. But every project I've used MongoDB on that grew the least bit of data complexity left me wishing for (and often converting to) Postgres. I'll still like MongoDB if I'm doing something very simple or rapid prototyping, etc. But for real work, forget it.
"BaaCamp" excellent name. Can't beat kiwi humor, without a shepherd's staff.
This is $16k vs Double Robotics' $2k sleeker system. Why such a huge difference?
The large media company you worked for is not in the same position as Apple. Apple has right now one of the most popular platforms ever created and the default search engine on their browser is Google Search, an engine that does serve ads and that I'm sure it brings a lot of revenue to Google. And it's not like there aren't alternatives to Google available. They could go with Bing, at least for devices activated in the US (Bing is pretty shitty internationally). I'm sure Google doesn't want that.

You cannot compare the leverage that Apple has over Google with any other company (although this works both ways, because Google's services are the best in their domain and any switch is likely to piss people off).

And really, I'm not blaming Apple for trying to set themselves free from third-party dependencies. I wouldn't blame them if they created their own search engine either - however considering their leverage and their resources, they should have waited until their Maps app was good enough.

GMaps on iOS was already far behind the Android version and they released a replacement that's worse than GMaps on iOS. At least if it offered something worthwhile over GMaps, like being capable of working offline. But alas, it is worse in every possible way, with some exceptions like some places in China where Google had difficulty acquiring data.

And I'm sure it will improve and be better in some ways than GMaps. But this version deployed right now is worse and they could have delayed it. It's not a strategy that can be said to be in the user's interests, which is a pity because that's one thing I always loved about Apple - the ability to say no to crap because user experience is more important than other gains they might have.
I'm guessing this would get used in very loud public places, like airports or train stations. I'm also guessing that muggings would be rare because of all the bystanders.

However, wearing one of these in public is an invitation to get your picture taken and posted on twitter.
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$80 for something that is "Best for casual (...) users" is not really the price I'd pay for a program I'd use from time to time to casually crunch numbers in.

And not like there's a free alternative out there that just blows Wizard out of the water, right?
Well if you looked at the schematics for the sections it is conceivable that it is habitable. There is a company in the US doing homes somewhat like this [1] where the market is for building a house in a place with a limited building cycle (think mountain cabins). I've walked through the BluHome factory and met with their engineers, they pre-fab everything, when they 'build' it on site its basically an unfolding operation.

That said, the Broad building looks to have the necessary systems (perhaps not fire suppression) and it looks in the video like they build the crane into the building (which is sort of a waste of a crane) but it is "space." Now if he wanted to impress folks he could build two of those in Haiti for the folks who are still living in tents because their shacks did not survive an earthquake.

[1] http://www.bluhomes.com/
"Tent" is an awfully generic name. I wish you'd call it tent.io. It's easier for people who haven't yet heard of it to understand and less pretentious.
Also in the UX department, some search suggestions as you type could be nice, if that wouldn't add too much cost. Not a deal-breaker by any means but I found myself expecting it.
That's under `lib/recommendable/acts_as_recommended_to.rb` towards the bottom. It's a combination of the `similarity_with(rater)` and `predict(object)` methods. Additionally, I detail the algorithm here: http://davidcelis.com/blog/2012/02/07/collaborative-filterin...
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Seems fair to me. I mean, it also photographed the users not having sex, but that's really not much comfort.
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I'm surprised by all the negativity here; this seems like a fairly practical version of Buckminster Fuller's ideas around prefabricated buildings - achieving significant savings in materials, labour and time.

This is a practical demonstration of a streamlined factory-based building construction system. The general idea has been around as long as the industrial revolution, but it seems to me that their impressive execution of it really marks the start of a major technological shift.
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Rent-seeking: When did Washington change?
The construction industry suffers from the same problem that most ERP Java shops and aerospace contractors do - the only way they can stay in business using their business model is to use cost-plus contracting (software/buildings/military jets) and customize the hell out of their products to rack up the largest bill/longest hours/institutional knowledge (it's their incentives - hence most software projects fail/military jet fiascos/building overruns).

This could also be because some of these programs are actually hard to make (and some are) but it's also due to the fact that they have to keep reinventing the wheel and don't transfer institutional knowledge/expertise across projects or scale out their time.

They'll pursue this through "lowest" bid contracts, sales teams, obscure knowledge (APIs/systems/building codes), "personal networks" and other inefficient and economically wasteful mechanisms to maximise their take.

Product companies don't have this problem.

Prices are non-negotiable, things must meet exacting standards, things must be standardized, their is no institutional knowledge and there isn't any customization.

You get what you pay for - and that's it.

Java shops and aerospace contractors are starting to meet their reckoning with the rise of SAAS apps and vertically integrated companies like Tesla/SpaceX/Solar city. Who wants a customized rocket when I can get an off the shelf fully tested and consistent Falcon 9 for ~$60 million (even less than what China charges)?

Construction is the next industry.

Products > services for the simple reason that they are more cheaply produced, easily sold, iterated upon and created.
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I don't care how ridiculous it looks. If it solves the red-eye and airport sleeping problem for the rest of us, its worth it.
You are correct, I just got a bit excited about the product and really wanted to watch the video. I'm sorry if I came off a bit too aggressive.
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Why isn't there a social network for hackers?
Where is the "social" network for hackers?

For Developers, engineers, inventors, innovators, visionaries, bright, intelligent, passion about technology people?

It's not FB, G+, Reddit (as much as I love you reddit), HN, GitHub, Quora (getting closer), etc.

Who wants to build it? Let's build it together.

Imagine a place where you can share ideas, follow what others are doing, encourage interest, relationships to benefit products and initiatives, build technology, share code, share the now and the future of software, hardware, networking, all while creating and inventing cool shit.

There are so many brilliant people out there who are confined to their day-to-day world, without a place to develop ideas, personal relationships and products online.

What do you guys think
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So if he cries, it's because he's a witch trying to trick us?
Sorry for the poor audio quality in the video. Some random thoughts that may be of interest:

1. I've been in grad school for economics the last four years. The program basically embodies all the things I've learned about econometrics, i.e. applied statistics. Wizard does about 1% of the things that R does, but it does them very, very well.

2. Wizard is fast. All the tight loops are written in C. Wizard will use all the cores on your Mac as well as the CPU's vector capabilities. This was achieved with a combination of Grand Central Dispatch and OpenCL. I highly recommend both technologies. For my research I am using Wizard on data sets with ~3 million rows, and it works like a champ.

3. The main weaknesses of the program is that it does not deal with time-series data particularly well, and you can't manually enter data. These shortcomings will be addressed in future releases.

4. The program is closed-source. I might make some of the libraries open-source. Or I might not. I haven't decided.

5. The non-Pro version will be released sometime next week.

6. I have absolutely no regrets about not writing Wizard using JavaScript and HTML5.

7. [Edit] You can read a review of the pre-release version of the program here: http://www.macstats.org/reviews/wizard.html
I just watched the video, nice work! I regularly deal with files that have 10,000,000+ records. How well does Wizard scale with large data sets?
You're already sleeping so mugging must be out before, pillow or no pillow.
Cool! It maybe nice to rotate l2r or r2l wether you enter left or right. I did it once with 2 back divs and js, but perhaps there is a cleaner (pure css?) solution.

Moreover, on touch event, the rotation effect is the opposite one would expect, meaning that if you touch/press (in the left most part) the card "comes up".
https://www.startssl.com/ There you get free certificates, along with other instructions given, you're free to go.
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Or you know, not writing shit you don't want out over Facebook, Email, IM, Twitter, HN, Reddit PM..........
It's not too bad. There are a couple of pipes and routes, not all go through Telstra. I usually get about 225 ms pings between west coast Aust to west coast US (~9,500 miles). It's fine for regular internet including downloads, but gamers don't like it (I guess much of that latency is just down to plain old distance rather than bandwidth).

We also have good pipes to the main POPs in Asia.
I had a similar idea, using missing kids and their names on CAPTCHAs. Won the inaugural Hack for Good award at one of Yahoo's internal hack days in 2007 ... sadly, it never shipped:

http://kentbrewster.com/captcha-for-good/
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Sorry about that. The HN traffic was unexpected. I will upload to Dropbox ASAP.
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I might be missing something, but why is everyone so excited about this? If you want a great experience of the oceans and reefs out there, you could load up an HD video on YouTube of the Great Barrier Reef, and view something much more immersive.

I'm a huge fan of street view, and I love being able to virtually drive to where I'm going, and find landmarks to help along the way, like for example, a large orange building next to the shop I'm planning to visit. How is ocean street view practical in anyway though? If it's for the user experiencing the ocean or planning their trip, they could upload a quick video of common snorkelling and diving points around coastlines and islands. It would give the user much more information. As of now, it's like flicking through a slideshow, and the navigation is brutal. I'm scratching my head here trying to come up with one thing this does well. As someone else said, I'd like to see more trails added to street view, or even more streets.

Google, since you have free time, here are a couple of ideas...

1. Street view for different seasons. In certain countries, towns and streets look completely different depending on the month. I frequently use street view to browse areas I'm looking to live, or travelling. It would be useful if I could switch the images to summer, winter, etc.

2. Video street view. Much more time consuming to create, since the camera would need to stay in a single spot for a minute at a time, and blurring sensitive information would be more challenging. However, imagine choosing a location on the map, and feeling like you're in that area of the city, or on that quiet road in the middle of the forest where you rotate the camera and follow a bird flying by.
We invented RDMS databases to store large amounts of important data safely on extremely constrained storage hardware (kilobytes were expensive in the 1970s) where you could not economically store redundant copies due to astronomical cost.

Append only immutable DBs are inherently better just because they essentially add a 4th dimension to your data (all history, all data, all the time), and hook up to the fact that Von Neuman machines love splitting things up into constrained sub-streams/problems and crunching through the entire data set in memory across clusters using discrete memory frames/units of work (think Google search index/GPU framebuffers/Integer arithmetic).

Storage is now unlimited and random seeks are very expensive. The more you serialize your processing and split them into in memory units that utilize cache locality - the faster you'll perform. You'll turn performance problems into throughput problems - all you have to do is to keep the data flowing.

RDMS databases are dead for the same reason I don't manage my YouTube bandwith use or bother managing files or bother managing RAM - I have cable now with terabyte hard disks and 32-64 GBs of RAM.

The future is immutable with periodic/continuous historical stream compaction (pre-computation) with queries running across hundreds of clusters and reducing all searches to essentially linear map-reduce (sometimes with b-trees/other speed ups) + a real time dumb/inaccurate stream layer.

1 machine cannot store the Internet - a million machines can. 1 machine cannot process the Internet - but a million machines operating on one 64GB slice of it located in RAM and operating with cache friendly memory-local discrete operations can run through the Internet millions of times a second.
Does this really belong on Hacker News? This is the stuff of your standard infomercial or Sharper Image catalog. Kind of gimmicky concept that tries to convince you that really, it's cooler and more useful than it looks. Not sure why this is on HN.

Also, doesn't this violate Kickstarter's new "Kickstarter is not a store" rules, such as no having the rewards simply be "1 of x, 2 of x, 5 of x, 10 of x"? And $75 plus $15 shipping? That seems pretty steep for... a pillow, even a fancy one.