skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still mad? Seriously? Wow.

Sometimes I compare laptops to milling machines, its fun since a used milling machine that can make a new crankshaft for a 77 GTO goes for less than a high end Macbook Retina. Money enables different things (making crankshafts for example) comparing the enablers is fun but not really something to get bent out of shape about.
The voice recognition is outstanding but every query I'm trying (sports, news, weather) is returning text results.

In a situation where I'm using voice recognition I need it to read the response back to me, without that it's next to useless.

Am I missing something? Or is it the things I'm asking?
Heh, fun times. I had a book [1] out on how to use all these different services around 1995, and it was obsolete within a year of publication. I thought the web was the hot new thing too, but I didn't expect it to so thoroughly destroy most of the other vectors.

1. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1898275351?SubscriptionId=0... ...obscure enough that it's priced like a a rare book, ha ha.
My point is that those metrics are not always valuable to rely on. Unlike hard science, you don't have to prove their significance through statistical analysis, but you should be able to state why market cap/employee is a reasonable valuation tool.

IMO, Facebook would not have paid less for 15 employees or more for 100 employees so it seems like a poor metric.
Apple Stores Will Sell Lightbulbs You Can Control With Your iPad
This would be interesting, considering that there is often a window before disgruntled lovers/partners are actually out of the target's life.

How long does DNA "last" on something like a toothbrush?
I think you missed the point. The author is not trying to make a point about sex, but rather uses that as an example of something he thinks is currently out of scope for social networking fads.
Well it's hard to say how close the relationship is. Google changed algorithm to target content farms a while ago, caused a stir.

They definitely see the problem. The current ad/SEO setup incentives all sites to behave like content farms, duplicating content, quantity over quality, short articles, etc.
"Instead of"? People still chat on IRC. I'm on IRC right now.
I recently discovered REST framework for Python and... Twisted! It's so cute, I couldn't resist and actually used it to write a proxy for Google Refine reconciliation and url fetching functionality (for speedup and easier data manipulation) and it worked. Worked very well! Here it is for those interested: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/CorePost/0.0.16
You just made Zuck sound like Gargamel and the users like Smurfs.

Facebook said it themselves, it's less about '$1bn' and more about '1%'.
At the moment, Microsoft Surface is hot
I found another way to search for a similar status page when trolling for network traffic.

Some sample Google queries for the curious:

intitle:"apache status" inurl:server-status
inurl:web-console/ "jboss Management Console"

Edited to add more:

inurl:"/status?full=true"
Even Reddit can be difficult for daily news.

You have to finely tune your subreddit subscriptions otherwise you get a meme whiteout from some of the other subs.

Crafted news content matching what I want, with little overhead, is an area I think you could see some disruption.
Cool idea. I tried it just now, I searched "how to make rocket", thought I'd get some cool old style pages on people launching rockets in their spare time. I did.

However the top result when I removed top 10k sites was the second result when I did it without removing anything. That was kind of disappointing.
Sencha Touch with Windows Phone 8
Thanks. More exceedingly obtuse Google UI. There were a couple apps I could remove with access to Gmail, but doubtful that is the issue.
What is with this bias against bootstrapped startups?

"We will be selecting from companies who:

Have raised Seed or Series A funding from a VC or established Angel Investors"
Someone from tweetdeek frequents this site, because it is fixed there. I am just interested in how busy this sites are. From my quick views Ford and Staples were the busiest.
I think that the bigger problem is when people begin using "social networking" while they are actually doing the intimate, stimulating, exciting things in real life - either looking for validation or because its easier to bury your head in your phone than it is to participate in social interactions.

For example, checking Facebook while out at dinner with friends, or uploading photos of a party while you are at the party. What could possibly be happening on the internet that is more important than being out with friends?

Fair enough if you want to check facebook while you are waiting on a train killing time, but when you are actually doing the things you hope to be reading about on Facebook/Twitter/Intagram, something seems very wrong.
Just a few thoughts:

- Certainly easier to use than https://script.google.com

- How about a UI for inspecting the storage object? And why is "storage" _not_ JSON serializable?

- The whole thing gives the impression of "for disposable, not-very-important stuff". Is that deliberate?

- Specifying all the API keys and passwords for each call to an external service by hand seems a bit tedious. Automate all the things! (Maybe with a "secure" credentials object that can be filled with a separate UI?)

- Creating a new script under an existing domain deserves a dedicated UI element, it was not obvious to me that it is possible at all, at first.
What are those sites repeatedly appearing on HN if not content farms? What do you want to call them? They game news aggregation sites and search engines. They push out so much content many users think farm content is normal and upvote it.
George Lucas Just Made $4 Billion Without Any VC Money
The gameification angle is a fad though. checking in and leaderboards for everyday bullshit will get old.
Google's Star Trek Computer Now Available To iPhone & iPad Users
The degree to which this is possible has been hugely exaggerated. Yes, you can have DNA mailed to you, but not DNA as its packaged in the human genome.

When you order from NEB or Sigma-Aldritch, what you get is a short DNA sequence (usually on the order of hundreds to thousands of basepairs) in a buffer solution. When forensic scientists do DNA preps of cellular samples from a crime scene or for a paternity test, they purify genomic DNA. This is millions of basepairs coiled around storage proteins to form a densely packed material called chromatin. The procedures used to purify chromosomal DNA would wash away any of the much smaller, synthesized fragments of the sort that you can order from a company, meaning that faking a paternity test in this manner is impossible.

Biotechnology is exciting, but not so exciting as University press offices might have us believe :(

Putting your genome online in this manner is more of a concern for insurance than anything else, I think— although as others have pointed out, discriminatory insurance practices based on preexisting conditions will soon be illegal in the U.S. . . . still, better not to take any chances.
Nice thoughts in there. But who have they defined as successful?

8 and 2 seem to contradict each other though.
Google’s “enhanced” voice search lands in iOS App Store
Impressively fast. Is the voice recognition being done exclusively on Google's servers or is there a local component?
Any developer that has concerns about upgrading their Bare OS should install Windows 8 into VMware Workstation 9. It's fully supported - http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/new.html.
I guess it's a nice thing about the internet that people can be disgusted by casual sex like the author and not realize there's a vibrant set of sites and people who are totally into it. He can have his own set of internet sites he visits, etc.. The various sex social networks are pretty damn useful if you want to help sort out who on the internet will actually meetup and who is just an online scammer, which are endless on less complex sites like craigslist, so they really have a powerful utility for people looking to get laid casually.
How many people, right now, are

A) using Instagram?

B) watching a Lucasarts film?

Edit: The point is value isn't always generated from a price tag. User timeshare has it's own value for advertising companies.
I did a lot of consulting / contract work at AAA companies between 2000-2005. "Parachute in and make the E3 demo work / implement some tough feature / etc". Sometimes it was less well-defined than that.
I'm pissed off at Microsoft for how they're treating Win Phone developers
I knew they would not let me publish and distribute Windows Phone 8 apps through ANY other distribution channel other than their store, but I thought to myself "okay, I can at least build some concept apps and see if I want to publish them later" ... but now, it turns out you have to pay for a developer account, just to register your phone to be able to test your software on it.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windowsphone/develop/ff769508(v=vs.105).aspx

That's right. You need to register your device with an active developer account, (and for no reason other than being evil and greedy, they limit the number of devices to three. So expect to pay double if you want to test on a variety of devices and form factors).

Are people just OK with this? Am I crazy for thinking this is crazy? How many hobbyists are going to pay for the privilege of developing for Microsoft's new walled garden Shouldn't it be the other way round, or at least they provide you with a development toolchain for free, since they seem so desperate to get apps for the platform?

I know $99 isn't a lot of money, but it's not the sum that bothers me, it's the fact that there IS a sum. Also, it's annual, so stop paying, and your app vanishes forever. I'm a hobbyist and I mostly develop for Windows desktop, where I provide all my software free of charge and open source.

HackerNews, what's your opinion on this? Will you be pouring your own money into Microsoft's pockets for the privilege of supporting their product?

PS: I know they have a super-special deal on developer accounts this week, but I won't even pay the $8 they're asking.

http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2012/10/30/announcing-the-new-windows-phone-8-developer-platform.aspx
Some people learn from the Bible and associated interpretations that if they pray hard enough, dead people can walk again, but more people learn that gays are evil. People are able to analogize from fiction, or did you think the moral of the Sour Grapes fable was not to taunt foxes?
"Most top blogs don’t deserve the top slot anymore."

What "top slot?" Blogs aren't ranked by a committee. I can only assume OP means traffic. The blogs with the most traffic have the most for a reason, and OP still doesn't realize why after many years in the industry.

I'm sure the author thinks the things he wants to have the "top slot" deserve the "top slot." The naivety.

"If I ran a search engine, I would ban these sites from the index."

I wish someone like you was around to curate the Internet for me.
It actually does use it's own heap allocator, with some additional allocators built on top of it. I don't know if it also uses the system / libc allocator for anything, but I'd be surprised if it did.

Aside from glQuake (which used a custom allocator for most of the game, but used malloc quite often in the GL renderer), all of id's other engines used custom allocators for everything.

Edit: just skimmed the white paper. They were talking about the custom allocator which was, of course, not thread safe, because it was designed for a single threaded game engine. Replacing that with an allocator designed for parallel usage (tcmalloc for example) would have helped, but so would having separate allocation pools for different threads (which you might do for a game engine designed for multithreading). Instead, they made the allocator thread safe, using their tool to analyze it, and then sprinkling it with mutexes. That would probably be why it was a bottleneck.
It's different in that it's not a social network: I don't want friending, I don't want engagement, Facebook also does personal communication in a great way. I just want it to be a good source of basic information on who someone is; answer their question and get them on their way. Another difference is that (partially due to optimizing for engagement) elsewhere it is easy to find someone's most recent actions, but it's also easy to miss out on bigger long term things. I dont want it to be chronologically sorted in such an extreme way. As I say: find out who someone is, and not just what they had for lunch.
How many people this year will pay to use Instagram?

How many people this year will pay to see or use something that Lucasarts made?
Google’s Gmail Launches New Compose Email Will Save You Time
Weren't most of these users on Facebook to begin with?
ok,fuck you clear and loud.
WOW. Great article...NOT. All of those "Growth hackers" indicators are just normal activity indicator.

"Someone sign up on my service and does something on my service that's expected of them to do?" BOOM! Leading indicator... No shit Sherlock...

As a marketer I'm getting tired to this buzz word shit around growth hacker...
This is interesting, not sure that I'd pay $200 for a lightbulb and $60 for every additional bulb, which is actually worse. I estimate that it'd cost about $1500 to light my house. It might be something someone would buy for just their bedroom or office. The app doesn't look very intuitive, the woman in the video tapped on five icons to change the brightness of the bulb.

I think a startup will eventually launch something similar on Kickstarter but more like the nest. I don't want to touch the controls, want to have the ability to but I shouldn't have to press about fifteen buttons to switch off each bulb in my house.

Also Original Source: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/48235/philips-demos-hue-led-...
There are many complex issues here, but here's a simple strategy:

Don't accept less money for the next job than you accepted for the last one.

If you keep doing this, you will find that progress occurs naturally, or you reach a point where your earnings potential hits some kind of maximum.
It's an interesting concept and I like where you're headed w/ the design. This could be interesting if you could build it out in a highly concentrated area such as NYC. Can you add Google Maps and make it location based?

Another thing you can work on is pictures. If someone is "Selling a Wacom Bamboo usb tablet for 40 bucks", I'd like to see what it looks like beforehand. Once you have traction, maybe you could create a partnership w/ Bit.ly. How about seller ratings and history?

Interesting concept and with the right execution, I think you can make it work.
Is it a Samsung smarttv by any chance?
A picture says a thousand words and I have found it useful to model pictures for different audiences. The most important method I found was to do a video - take your idea and convert it into a video. This will come in handy for most of your audiences, team, recruits etc. if you make it emotional, you quadruple your audience esp if your product is likely to be a consumer , education or other retail type of product. We made a video of our beta users (classroom of kids & teachers) and had many requests to put it on our website (its unlisted at the moment) or copy to Cd, by parents and other schools. The video gives you a means to tell your story in ways that a mere product demo can never do. Hope that helps. Marissa. Check us out: www.cashtivity.com
Maybe. The problem is that Disney has so many parts of the company that are highly profitable (Marvel cinematic, Pixar, Disney proper, their many other movie studios, and now Lucasfilm) that it can be comparatively difficult to direct resources at smaller efforts. This is a problem at big companies like Microsoft and Google as well. Something that might flourish if it were let loose as an independent startup can easily languish at a company that has bigger fish to fry.
Diplomas are already degraded and degrading.

Schools are worried about reputation and their profit. My point is they should be worried about teaching.
This now means that Princess Leia is a Disney Princess.
What's even worse is that they announced their new SDK in June and haven't given it to developers until today, they have devices releasing in days.
The Windows Phone SDK 8.0 is now available
I agree completely. Social media is what you make of it. If you don't like it just unplug.
I think they're just trying to walk a line.

Sort of like how radio stations make a bunch of hubbub about doing blocks of X minutes with no advertisements. It's not because they don't like ads, it's because they've also got to deliver enough of what their audience is looking for to keep them coming back.
Yes, predictions can greatly improve recognition performance. Not only can you focus the bulk of your computations on the expected region of interest, but you can also potentially reason about appearance (e.g., if you know the frame-rate/integration time of the camera and expected speed of the ball, you could get estimates about how much blur to expect). You could also better handle difficult cases, such as when balls strike each other (e.g., simple conservation of momentum estimates should greatly constraint possible hypotheses for ball positions).
It's 7:30pm in NYC and after a few persistent support requests, we're back up.

Thanks to Michael and Joel for sharing their information and assessments with all of us.

And now that we're up, thanks to Peer 1 for doing their best in a trying situation.
They're missing the point, and reso hit the nail on the head.

It's analagous to someone saying, "Academic researchers should be paid more because of what they're progressing mankind". But they're typically not paid more than those working in a for-profit organization who is also doing research.

Instagram was worth that sum to Facebook, just as Lucasarts is worth that sum to Disney. Neither are worth that much for society, though Lucasarts happen to contribute more to society over it's 40 years of existence.
It's hard to understand body language without knowing the person well but on all pictures I've seen it looks like Lucas's left hand is trying to stop his right hand from signing the contract. It would seem he might have been hesitant about the deal.
Also happens to be one of the only apps in the store that's only available on x86.
It's probably harder to verify whether a bootstrapped startup is "legit".
Could you link to Bret Victor's generator, please?
Thanks. A perfect example of the outright weirdness of quantum phenomena.

I read the first section of that paper ("Why quantum chaos?"), and its proposition makes no sense to me. None other than Poincare PROVED (proved!) ages ago that the motion and position of just three little points attracted to each other according to Newton's formulas are extremely sensitive to infinitesimal changes in their initial motions and positions (i.e., the system is chaotic in the classical sense). And as you point out, the world is full of cases that demonstrate such hyper-sensitivity. Yet, according to this paper, such a system is impossible in nature. I don't get it.

Instinctively, I have to believe there must be a more fundamental underlying explanation for this and other apparent contradictions... it's just that at the moment no one knows what this explanation might be.
Did you know that Erlenmeyer Flasks are illegal to own in Texas?
Without a response, people are going to assume come kind of deception.
I understand. As an engineer it is easy to focus on things that are completely irrelevant to end-users. I get it. I've done it and will probably do it again. However...

The commercial in question has a bunch of college-age folks dancing around a table while flipping the stand open and closed. I can't, for the life of me, imagine any consumer understanding what they are being sold. If the MS name or logo wasn't in the ad one could very well think that it is a cool iPad case.

I happen to think that it is completely ineffective. I've done lots of marketing for my own products, both hardware and software. Rattling off (or showing off) features is a loosing proposition. Techies might get off on that at some level, but Grandma does not.

What does Grandma or Uncle Fester want to know?

Can I surf the Internet with it?
Can I take pictures?
Can I look at my pictures?
Can I email?
Can I watch movies?
Can I connect it to my PC?
Can I connect it to my TV?
Will it break if it falls?
How long does the battery last?
Does it run standard PC software?
How much does it cost?
Can I expand it?
Can I connect a standard keyboard to it?
Can I connect a standard mouse to it?
Can I connect my photo or video camera to it?
Can I print from it?
Can I have multiple user accounts?
Can I make it safe for my kids?
Can I secure my personal data?
How do I back it up?
Can I share my apps with other devices/computers I own?
Does it become a hot-spot?
What built-in apps does it have?
How good are the maps?
Can my kid use it for school work?
Will it blend?
and more...

I have yet to see a commercial that answers any of these questions. Instead, we see a magnetically attached keyboard and a desktop stand. Really? I wonder how much that creative effort cost. I still hold the position that MS hires morons for marketing. The local butcher could do a better job with a little training.

It's almost like the brilliant scene from "My Cousin Vinny":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBL0q707fAg
This is just one data point: I was planning to use a .io domain for an online fashion store. I talked to several customers and asked how they felt about a domain ending in .io. ~30% of them thought it looked weird or plain "fishy".

If you're trying to sell something directly to people (especially physical good or stuff where you don't get a trial) I'd try to stay away from them. They seem handy for URL shorteners and techie stuff.
"Ah-hyuck!"
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Attacking a system is not just guessing passwords. You need to gather as much information as you can about your target and devise an attack using what you know.

Maybe it's a DNS entry or network addresses that would have been secret if not for it appearing in server-status (there's a reason AXFR from random internet clients is a bad idea). Maybe it's a client IP that accesses an admin panel, and attacking that client machine will give you the keys to the kingdom. Maybe it's a PID that's guessable and gives an insight to what a new temporary file or directory will be called, exposing a race condition. Maybe it's the very precise time information to be used for making timing attacks easier. Maybe it's the number of workers configured that lets them tune an attack to fill up resources. Maybe it's the system utilization to help them figure out if they should attack CPU, memory or i/o. Perhaps it's the server version and OS telling them what software is running and thus what exploits they should pick first.

Or maybe it's the fact that the requests can be linked to client IPs to build a profile on specific users, violating their privacy.

Whatever the reason, it's stupid to keep this information public.
> no focus on quality and working with the assumption that software will be late, buggy, etc.

That does not describe me, software engineers I know, most places I've worked (any in last 12years), nor the industry I work in.

People claiming that is how the software industry is are usually trying to sell you a service, tool, or ideology.
For an alternative supporting javascript look at deployd.com
You gave yourself a 5 star rating? Not cool, man