skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd play that game. /s

But seriously this is pretty cool, who new that a government agency had good programmers? I was very impressed with the polish of the tool while I was on the site, it felt very Hipster, could've been made by zynga or VLAMBEER or HalfBot.
IMPRESSED!
I agree with you pretty much on everything you're saying here. I haven't met Pincus, or spoken with him, so it's unclear to me whether he saw the intervening period of Zynga's "Let's get everyone hooked on addictive little feedback games, and let's speed up our product delivery (and justify our massive valuation) by rebranding other people's games" as anything more than a step to something truly great.

But, I can't judge Zynga on what, or who, Pincus might be, I can only judge them on their actions and behavior.

Who knows, maybe Zynga will go down in flames, but Pincus arises from the ashes to go off and do great things elsewewhere...
This project does something subtle, yet amazing with perception, including one's perception of technology. We've had Street View for half a decade now; the novelty of the fact that you can pull up an instant 360-degree panorama for a significant percentage of street addresses in the developed world has worn off.

Yet this makes it new again – I found myself laughing like a child as I slowed down my typing, watching my screen be transported to a completely new location with each keystroke. It made me appreciate anew the technology at work, while also appreciating the daftness of it all, jumping around the world en route to my destination as if propelled by some sort of Douglas Adams-style teleporter.

Fantastic work.
But you'll play call of duty and Battlefield 1942, or better yet mow down civilians in GTA?
These arguments make no zense. IExplorer was once the best browser, until Microsoft stopped developing it. Healthy competition is good.
This is a nitpick I have about economics - the language you use for this doesn't distinguish the causes of inflation, just lumps them all together.

Obviously it works well enough for mainstream economics, but why does no one explicitly qualify inflation as "price inflation", "demand inflation", or "monetary inflation"?
Those of us with a subscription to the WSJ can't always remember that not all of the articles are available to non-subscribers.
Better options would be "x - y times a week". I'd say may be 6-10 times a week.

Additionally, after a while you develop a rep or a friend develops a rep for saying he is somewhere but he isn't really there(yet)...how about a service that texts another friend "blah is really at 48th and 3rd as of 3:04pm". Basically a service that vouches for my location.
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Reddit next.
Better Dispute Management
This is great! If you zoom with the mouse wheel you can make a "tiny planet" type image. for ex: http://notlion.github.com/streetview-stereographic/#o=-.141,...
request you to please send me an invite..
raghav305@gmail.com

Thanks,
Flat structure. Everyone just works on whatever they think is important. http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/why-valve-or-what-d...
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I'd seriously find some new friends.
The way I wrap my head around it (and I may be wildly wrong), is that they were basically in the very long and shallow part of exponential growth in technology, similar to population growth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Population_curve.svg

Not that population size and technological achievement are related.
can anyone please invite me .. raghav305@gmail.com
Thanks,
That matches the numbers that Ballmer of about 1 million units per day [1] and keeps them on track for 400 million by EOY 2013 [2].

1: http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/steve-ballmer-f...
2: http://www.forbes.com/sites/benzingainsights/2012/09/07/how-...
will this work in India?
Scroll down on the home page. Talk about hidden below the fold...

// Edit: I wish they had more info. This looks like it could be REALLY slick for monitoring family computers health VS my current solution with LogMeIn.
for about 10 seconds I was thinking about restarting my Netflix sub. Then I read part of the article and found it wasn't a native solution or Netflix who was stepping up.
Angular is more of a framework than a library. You have to do everything the Angular way or things will become very difficult.

In trying to learn it, I found it quite complex (beyond the basic hello world examples).
Sure

Which one of you is the CEO?
How did the founders meet?
What's going to happen to (my previous company that laid me off) if we fund you?
Another cool one: Osaka aquarium. You go straight from the sky above the Osaka airport to staring at huge fish.
Hi ashray, I'm the owner of that site / author of the article.

I'd love to do more of this Adsense and affiliate marketing stuff in the non-November months. My day job keeps me pretty busy though.

Doing affiliate links did make some good $, but really, the revenue from Adsense is where I make most of it.
World GDP has grown at an average annual rate of 3.5% over the last 100 years.

That's not actually very relevant. According to DeLong[1], the rate of growth has been anything but constant over the last 100 years, nor has it always been positive. You may well expect the industrial revolution to carry us forward for another 150 years, but I'm not sure if I do.

[1] http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/1946/gwp.png

edit: corrected the 2000-2011 segment for inflation with CPI data (not int$).
I think you are in for a rude awakening. This is a whole different animal - alpaca perhaps! ?
I totally come to HN to click through advertisement and market research!
Yup, that is the inspiration for this question
So stop posting wsj articles full stop then.
This could come with the same concern. If a lot of these Windows 8 installs are new machines or clean installs there may not be as much third-party software installed so crashes that happen are more likely to occur in Windows components.

That said, the explorer crashes do worry me.
it definitely is a market research question, but it is not meant to advertise any product
Actually, an employee threw a stock option at his eye...
Besides what others pointed out, there's evidence that the proto-humans of 500 thousand years ago hadn't developed spoken language yet [1]. So it was hard to teach what you knew to people living next to you, let alone pass on knowledge to other generations.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_speech#When_did_speec...
I like the article both for its in-depth biographical content and also for its attempt to paint Musk in an other-than-glowing light.

Of course, I think the author fails; I sense the bias to portray Musk as unaware of the PR cost of astronauts dying – and I still can't help but see through that to the unbelievable achievements Musk has already completed and the amazing promise of what he's trying to do.
Amazon adds Adobe's Photoshop Touch to Kindle Fire Appstore
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Yes, you have seen a single example of such a person: me.
I'm curious, how are you dealing with cheaters via spoofed GPS locations?
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>Where did they get this data? How do they get this data?

As is says on that very page: "Statistics are based on anonymous data collected from the Soluto community."

>Prove to me that this sample is representative of the entire population?

Where do they claim it is?
Hmm, I think the question is why such growth was exponential.
my system for doing exactly this worked perfectly in Dallas county. Not sure why they had so many problems
PJ here, Soundslice designer. I'm pretty sure your issue is that to add a note, you have to hover over the particular string you want to add the note to while you have a selection. You can also press 'A' to add a note to the next available string. Does that help?
Unlimited Freedom Plan with Scrum Boards
Asynchronous messages can also return results instantly in the form of futures/promises, avoiding the need to program in a continuation passing style with "reply-to" addresses. Mark Miller's E language does this.
Thanks for the feedback. We tested the site across dozens of cities, but we clearly have some search issues in some parts of the country and will work on that.
No you didn't get it, I stopped being her friend not because of the like, but because I thought she was lying, as I had data that spoke exactly the opposite of what she said.
I have mixed feelings about open allocation. I think it's very dependent on the context and the company's vision. @ChuckMcM wrote something very interesting explaining two types of engineers, some who are self driven and have an agenda and the ones who don't. I don't think that as engineers we are particularly good at understanding the business value we can bring to a company and how to improve a product. I think that some engineers work better with a lot of freedom, but most don't. I think that actually a good solid layer of "proper" management is way more useful. A good manager is someone who doesn't get in your way but help you realize your full potential while following the company's vision.
Granted, that's not what most managers do, but I do think that most of us need some leadership, some directions to help us focus. To summarize, I think that we need strong leaders and some flexibility at the engineering level dependent on each individual temperament, the company culture and the team's objectives.
Although specs for the iPad 3 aren't on Apple's main site, they are on the support pages (as are those for any Apple device).[1]

Isn't "screwed" a strong word to use? Apple releasing a spec-bumped model isn't harming my ability to enjoy my current iPad at all.

[1] https://support.apple.com/kb/SP647
Hamas can only end 'the violence' [against Israel] by (a) violently suppressing competing militias[1] in Gaza (one wonders how many different ways that could play out), or (b) pointing to progress in peace talks to convince Gazans to hold the truce. Only Israel can end the occupation though.

So, far from being a 'useless statistic', the relative hardships and pressures faced by each side have a direct bearing on the longevity of the conflict.

BTW, it's not necessary to speculate about how little I know. Let's stick to the facts.

[1] http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2012/1114/Is-Ham... [as-responsible-for-Gaza-rocket-fire-Not-exactly]
Kind of makes you sad for the artists who could take the bits from 20 or 30 Marvell plastic models and turn them into an Imperial Star Destroyer.
Wat?

Firstly, everybody knows that Israel has vastly superior forces than palestine. This in itself refutes your logic.

However secondly, if your country was invaded or occupied, would you surrender and convert to the invaders way of life on the basis of them communicating well that they have superior military strength? I know I wouldn't. A lot of people will side with what is right not what is more powerful and some will do so at the cost of their life.

That also easily refuted you, but to add a third argument, this twitter thing means being judged morally by the world. On a moral level, showing strenght pretty much never justifies a violent act. It's quite the opposite. Does it make it okay for a thug or mobster to intimidate or tax people if they have better weapons and strength? Should a man raping a women be pardoned of his act if he showed enough strength that the woman should have complied to his desires in the first place?

The type of 'morality' you are advocating here is actually not moral at all. It's the way of thugs and rapists. People behaving this way clearly make the world dysfunctional and violent.

Both sides have faults in this conflict but not showing enough strength or employing enough violence is clearly not one for either sides.
Ok this is an awesome idea. I'm a student and really cheap and I don't really like using my credit card to buy things online but this is awesome. This is what I was searching for for about a week last year. Google docs/cloud based code editor. Great job.Does this support collaborative coding? Awesome man. I was looking for exactly the same thing wow.
We live in a data-driven age. When I had data that testified against her, I couldn't really do much. But, your point is valid.
It started out as targeted towards very tech savvy users (i.e. most HN users, including me), but recently they added a feature where you can manage the computers of your friends and family through their web site, which I am doing for my parents and brother. Just yesterday I got an email saying my mom installed the "AOL Toolbar" Firefox extension. I asked her if this was intentional, she said no, and with 1 click, I disabled it. I'm not affiliated with it in any way, just a happy user (although 90% of the time, I don't think about it)
In practice you also need to buy the .net and .org of any domain you really care about, because somebody will register the other two if any one of them becomes popular.
Next stop - Lovefilm (amazon) as they use silverlight based solution too.
There is absolutely zero concensus on these things, within and without the bitcoin community. So, you can chat with people about it, but there are no "canonical" answers to those questions, except to the degree that you can answer them yourself to your own satisfaction.

Intentional inflation and deflation of bitcoin is impossible, but one could imagine the creation of a digital currency where it would be possible.

You don't need to put bitcoins in a bank for "safe keeping," but in a mature bitcoin economy, you'd probably want to invest them in some form, so there would be banks that give out loans. They can't use fractional reserve banking unless they issue their own "notes" (digital or otherwise) that are redeemable for bitcoin. In such a case, there would be no required fractional reserve, unless one were to be instituted by law. Basically, in all these aspects, you can really think of bitcoin as a digital fom of gold. Banks used to hold gold in their vaults and give out redeemable bank notes, so this has happened before historically.
I find it really hard to believe average crashes is 7.1/month on Windows 7. I run Windows 24/7. It's never crashed. I have an overclocked 4.5Ghz i5 and have many VMware sessions running. Maybe it's because I have quality hardware? Same experience with OS X. Both are rock solid.
> I went looking for my 6-month old iPad’s specs on Apple’s site,
> only to discover that there’s simply no mention of it.

It must be tough being blind, or at least intentionally blind, or at least having never heard of google.

http://support.apple.com/specs/

> There’s the low-res iPad 2, mini, and the crown jewel:
> “iPad with Retina display” — y’know, because there’s only ever been one.

That is because the page you are talking about is the page for models they are currently selling in the store.

> I’m well accustomed to rapid releases, but
> obsolescence-by-pretending-it-never-existed tells me that
> the reality distortion field is alive and well.

That is so cute how you take some old press narrative from 20 years ago and try to make a whole post out of it. Could you not figure out how to fit in the words "beleaguered" and "mercurial" as well?
I find it more than a little scary that, coming from a company with as much influence as Google, the subliminal message here is that pro-technology people are "enlightened", and anyone else is "resistance".
Thanks for asking.

It was ok, but I made a couple of silly mistakes about CSS questions.

I'm a little worried about the outcome.
now this is sick.
I've broken and overheated countless SMDs with tweezers - I guess my hands are too shaky for this kind of work :-)
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Signed up for it. My first impression is positive.

One quirky bug though. Deleting task wasn't working well on Today board.
If you Google the title for the article and click through from Google, you see the entire article- no membership required.
So, it turns out that Orca was a skunkworks project by volunteers. It fails, and the person behind it gets blamed for losing the election.

I think the lesson to be learned here is, "Never volunteer for anything."
I mean, the definition of monetary policy given at the top of the Wikipedia page you linked to rules out there being such a thing as a "monetary policy" hardcoded into bitcoin.
This webpage breaks inertial scrolling on my iPad.
The feeling of seeing a sequence of random, unfamiliar locations, followed all of a sudden by a familiar street is really amazing. Especially if you type in the address of a street you haven't lived on for a long time.
Kixeye's Cross-Complaint Against Zynga
Their loss. There's certainly no dearth of torrent clients for Linux.
That endeavor may be "unknown" in general, but it is super well-known in the "Bitcoin community" and the subject of unending discussion/debate/conspiracy theories.
Seems pretty simple to me. Put one of those info banners at the top of everyone's Facebook feed (like they did to say "I voted" during the election) that gives you the option of either opting-in to ads (and ads to friends) or paying a fee to use Facebook.
"Zip files through email"?
Really, people still do that?
Lightspeed's Bipul Sinha on how he invests
Yea it was really great when we were all macho and didn't give a shit and millions of people died when white guys wanted them to. We should bring that back.

/sarcasm
Awesome product. I tried to play a little, but the things are moving way too fast even on half the speed (on AutoScroll). I suggest that besides tab numbers that are moving fast, you also make the last one sticky on the edge. PageScroll is OK. I hope you make 5 string version for Banjo soon :) Good luck.
There's nothing "thought-provoking" about assassination markets, especially in the context of bitcoins. Maybe that's just because it's 2012.

The guys at https://www.bitinstant.com/ are in the process of making a debit card backed by bitcoins, so when that's out, you will indeed be able to buy everything you currently buy with a card. However, at that point I still wouldn't agree with the assessment that the world is shifting to bitcoin. For that I'd need to see at least a few billion dollars market-cap, I'd be much more comfortable with a trillion dollar market-cap.
It's amazing how far humans have progressed in 150 years isn't it? A century ago you had a right to complain about working conditions if, for example, you lost a limb in a meat factory. In the 1880s 1 in 7 steel workers would die while at work each year. Industrialists were considered "exploiting" the workers when they paid them $1 a day, hardly a liveable wage, and young children worked for even less.

Contrast that with what we consider "unethical" today about a company that makes cartoon games on a computer screen, which the user can step away from at any time. The employees are top-notch talent that could easily find employment elsewhere if they get tired of their in-house chef's meals.
Indeed. More amusingly though (but still on the control channel), the open p25 group found that you could remotely brick responder radios, without authentication: http://risky.biz/RB178
I haven't used Marmalade, but after browsing through their site it looks like it's an SDK that you code against through Visual Studio or XCode.
Sure, if you're expecting the attack. But most areas aren't expecting such an attack, so when you do, then as long as they turn it off in time and run away, the authorities probably won't be able to mobilize in time in take the measures to find the source.

This would change if it started to become a common occurrence.
It would be interesting to see someone compare this with the Unity Game engine. Also I think there should be atleast a handful of screenshots on their website, to give their prospective users an idea of what it looks like, before downloading.
I thought the idea behind Netflix using Silverlight (instead of flash, which would presumably allow Netflix to normally work in Linux, like youtube or amazon instant video) was that Silverlight had super-duper DRM stuff that did nonsense with TPM.

If it works with WINE, I am guessing the situation is not quite that simple?
It's not entirely clear whether that statistic is referring to operating system crashes (i.e. BSOD) or third-party application crashes, especially since it's listed together with the "most common crashing apps".

Edit - Nevermind, blue screens are listed in a separate section below. So I'm going to conclude that these are application-level crashes.
I'm not sure about this, but I don't think that these are kernel-level crashes - just plain old user-mode application crashes (ie not something that crashes the whole computer).

It's interesting that windows explorer under windows 8 is crashing that much. I guess there's a lot of new code in it.
I'll take that bet.

I'll accept payment of US$250 or €250, whichever is the higher value.
I would never, in a million years, work for this guy. I just have to wonder, is it possible to short sell stock options?
Stats aside, that is a great looking and at the sametime readable site.
thank you! what browser are you using?
Ugh. So even if you don't Like anything, your shared links can become promotional stories. Terrible.
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Can someone give me more technical info instead of their propaganda video?
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It's very sloppy, but not unusual for Microsoft, and easily fixed.
No! Silverlight & WINE? Horrible! I would have preferred pure HTML5 solution. Btw. I just cancelled my Netflix account a few months ago and told them to have fun with their MS Silverlight.
U.S. lags behind other developed nations in adopting electronic health records
Can't read past the fold on mine
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Oh, I don't know. The impressive part of things like that I think (and by impressive, I mean the part that I can't see myself being capable of, no matter the training or practice), is the artistic design.

Instead of spending their time gluing small plastic things together those artists can now use CAD and have a 3d printer to do grunt work. Less glamorous I suppose, but I think that 3d printers represent a far more modest change to them than CGI (how many physical models were created for the 3 most recent Star Wars films?).
Considering Netflix works in Windows on machines without a TPM (it is a hardware device), not sure where you got that idea.
brilliant idea
The sample size is users of soluto, which appears to be a tool that analyzes your computer and makes automated 'tweaks' to make it faster and better. If it's like any similar program, that would explain the crashes.
The processes of evolution and modern science aren't especially different. In one a bunch of random changes are made, in another a bunch of intelligent changes. But both just build on the shoulders of giants and add to a body of knowledge piece by piece . Progress happens step-wise, and once you've made some progress it becomes easier to make more.

It kind of makes sense that both would experience accelerating returns.
Is anyone going long on Zynga and picking up some stock for $2 a share?
Scientists use MRI to communicate with a patient in coma
"Even though EA-18 crew probably wont shoot at the rouge transmitter"

Better red than dead...?
Blown away by the stat about 7% of all Chinese PC users on Windows 8 already. Wonder how many are purchased as opposed to trial/beta versions though.
Netflix didn't use Silverlight because it had extremely good DRM, but because nobody used it nobody had taken the time to reverse engineer it so getting the raw video files out of Netflix would be harder.

Most computers don't have TPMs but Netflix runs on any Windows OS that has Silverlight. In the end, it is still software using the Win32 API, it just required implementing some Microsoft-specific functionality they had going on.

I do wonder how the Netflix apps not on Microsoft platforms work though. The Android, iOS, and game console versions mainly.