skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Photoshop is an example of software that must also remain backward compat with the human systems that use it. There are lots of professions that are essentially "Photoshop Expert". If features are removed, altered, or even if keyboard shortcuts are changes, it has a very real effect on these peoples' livelihoods. There are few novice Photoshop users compared to other software.
Canadian here.

Pandora and Hulu flag me as a non-US resident, Rdio worked although I didn't proceed with signup. Netflix I already get but very limited compared to the US.

edit: nevermind I'm a dumbass. It's like unblockus I understand now.
You need to pay for a consultation with a patent attorney. If you can't afford to pay even a few hundred dollars for this you are doomed and you might as well shut down your company now.
Isn't "advice" code for "money" these days?

Did he invest?
Vague to say the least given the counting process. Obama has clearly won already by taking Florida.
I'm so very glad, in a selfish way,that there is so much pessimism toward 3D printing. More money for the cunning.
Press refresh several times. It will cycle between the presidents, even though the number of electoral votes do not change.
This is not a scientific research, so I didn't compute std, t-stats, etc. But I did pull a few hundred tweets from our database and counted how many wrong ones we had. That's where the number comes from. The filtering scheme is very simple: classify only if we're confident. There are many tweets containing "voted", but we only took ones we have a strong confidence and throw away the rest. For a complete set of keywords used for filtering, please feel free to email.
The response was that he generally advises startups in our situation to "dog food it" (i.e. build a solution on it first). That was the main feedback and it has worked out great for us. We have a high-value offering based on the platform as a result...and a long feature and product roadmap ahead of us.

On the topic of location-based services being over/underestimated there wasn't a clear reply from David. Our experience has been that there are great opportunities in solving problems for enterprise customers using mobile and location-based services. I can't really speak for the B2C opportunity.
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I am not an attorney, but my understanding is that you do not have to respond to the letter in any way unless they have filed a complaint. You might want to respond in a way to try to prevent them from filing a complaint (possibly provide them with conclusive prior art examples and threaten to respond by trying to invalidate their patent (expensive)). Letting them know you have no money to defend yourself is probably not a good strategic move.

Be aware that if they file a complaint you will have to have a lawyer licensed to practice in the state where the complaint is filed (PITA).
EC2 is blocked by Hulu and, I think, Netflix. I know I tried that here in Vietnam with no success and went with VyprVPN instead.
How do you use Wordpress for this? Do you use any particular theme that suits your requirement?
Start building your next app around their undocumented API: http://www.whoisthepresidentrightnow.com/election-data
Then try a different browser. Tried it in 3 and got nothing like that.
The key to getting attention is to talk to someone about something they are interested in -- and everyone is interested in themselves.

Reading the email, it really felt as if it was from someone who already knew the OP well. If I'd read something like that about myself I would have question my first impression that this was a stranger -- surely we'd had coffee or something at some point? Met at a conference?

In the same way that mimicking body language influences someone, the email was couched in all kinds of casual point about "this is how we are alike".

Hit them right in the tribal monkey brain.
Only on mobile. On the desktop it includes the current results but is still basically the decision tree. However, it doesn't let you choose the states that are already decided. (New Hampshire at the moment).
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I know Geoff Anders, who is teaching a few of the sessions, and he is awesome. I live in NY and don't have time to fly out for this, but would be very interested if I lived out there.
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No huge change. We decided to aim at a higher quality, product with more vertical integration/custom engineering which is somewhat more expensive from a development cost perspective but less from a unit cost perspective. When you can raise money from amazing investors like this, take a little extra. We were oversubscribed.
Wow, surprisingly Google appear to be quite behind in terms of tallying up the votes. The Huffington Post amongst others appear to have way more up-to-date information: http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2012/results, disappointing on Google's part.
Thanks for the reply demian. Did you or someone you know make this type of career switch?
Our fingers would be crossed too, were we not using them for engineering ;-)
Depends on Iowa and Nevada, but yes it's unlikely that Obama loses.
It appears that elections.nytimes.com is actually hosted on AWS (in multiple regions using Route 53 latency based routing), so I imagine they have the ability to keep up with the load.
This is an awesome product!
I wonder how much the "Home Stove" version costs?
I looked on the "Shop" page, but only saw the "Camp Stove" listed at $129.
I wonder if the Home Stove can power a netbook?
That's why you include a URL. Otherwise, maybe put 3 lines up top, and more info below which could stand on its own.

I don't get anywhere near as much email as a professional investor, but unless it's from someone I know and actually want to hear from, or someone paying me, if it goes on for more than 3 lines without being compelling, I just hit delete.
Script kiddies generally do not have access to edge routers though...
My personal opinion is that if you can prove that your product was released before they filed the patent, you should not have a problem.

But still talking to a lawyer would be best I think.

If you can't afford that maybe the eff (eff.org) could help you.
All the best, martin
Maybe they fixed the bug in between the time you posted this and when I tried it. It never changed for me, even after numerous refreshes (refreshi?).
Interestingly enough, it doesn't appear that Kim owns me.ga anyway - it redirects to a twitter profile[1] which claims:

"To our gabonese friends: have no fear, me.ga is in safe hands, the megaman @KimDotcom has no control over the me.ga domain name. We do."

Also interesting:

"@KimDotcom offered us 1% of Megabox in exchange of http://me.ga that is 1% of nothing in exchange of the almighty Me!"

[1] https://twitter.com/o
If you have no money, ignore them and keep building your product. You could be profitable by the time anything comes of it. The court system is notoriously slow.

In my experience, most lawyers are sloppy. You can make their life difficult— Unlisted number, separate Google Analytics accounts, PO Box, private registration, call forwarding, redirect their corporate subnet to Google, etc. It should keep them busy enough to at least mess up the paperwork, they always do.
"Groupon clones"... lol, this definitely is so 2011.
For what it's worth, Eversion wasn't available on Linux either. (Very fun platformer, albeit quite short.)
Most HFT firms simply do arbitrage. They don't do actual price predictions.
Yes, nice post. There is some neat stuff in Heroku like buildpacks, but they are also very specific to Heroku, which is a big downside. I really think it is a shame they didn't just use a standard packaging system like .deb to handle things. The server instances are already Ubuntu... it seems like a natural extension to just support setting up a list of .deb files to load into an instance and have it 'just work'.

I needed recent ImageMagick/Ghostscript binaries and I spent many hours trying to get Vulcan to work and finally gave up. It is a mess and not documented very well. Someone commented on your blog that they've moved to another system (anvil) to deal with compiling binaries. I can see why they did this... so much unplanned stuff was bolted onto Vulcan it finally just stopped working entirely. It ended up being easier to just write a shell script, but this certainly isn't as sexy as using Vulcan or just installing a source .deb. https://github.com/lookfirst/convert/wiki/Compile

ddollar seems like a very smart, but very busy guy. Relatively simple issues are getting dropped on the floor. https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs/issues/20 It would be nice if he got some more help from within Heroku.

Anyway, thanks for writing your tutorial... more documentation is always good.
Well, that opportunity closed up fast. Contract now trading at 9.49.
Maybe someone here will know this - is there anything out there that lets one run a Heroku buildpack on a server you control? They seem like really elegant solutions to the problem of shipping around dependencies, and I'd like to be able to use them on my own hardware...
Well, if you just reject his conclusions without refuting any of his methods, you haven't really made any argument against him. Those rejections are pretty much all rejections of math in favor of wishful thinking. Mere intuition can never be an effective argument against quantitative analysis.
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>>You can lose everything in a second by not looking left and right while crossing the road. Or even by looking left and right while crossing the road, when someone else is driving recklessly.

The point is you are lured into crossing the road, when you absolutely didn't have to.
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You should look at the last video I posted :P
My name is Jared Null, and I first reported this as a vulnerability back in March to the bug bounty program. I've posted one conversation here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57544933-93/facebook-passwo.... I'm confused, you say that its not a vulnerability, yet Facebook had to take action. I guess seeing is believing and it only took a public disclosure to see the light. The sad thing is I reported both the recover password link and the checkpoint link "https://www.facebook.com/checkpoint/checkpointme?u= (which by the way is still vulnerable), the checkpoint links are reusable but the recover password links were one time use.

Jared Null
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Why does an otherwise fairly extraordinary country (space missions, amazing inventions, lots of creativity) manage to get basic stuff so completely wrong (bad toilet plumbing, units of measurement, paper currency, health care, dodgy voting). You need a proportional system. On paper. With hand counting by volunteers overseen by party reps. Stop with all the private enterprise technology stuff. Democracy is too precious to contract out to some lowest bidder. The Australian Electoral Commission runs all our ballots here and I have absolute confidence in them. Have a look at how other places run elections.
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Should really quote a source? or sources?
Sidenote: In the comments I saw a reply about nanog.com being a great plce to meet other networking peeps.

http://www.nanog.com/ is currently showing a "Welcome to nginx" message
Could you please elaborate what that contribution is?
Every point he makes is absolutely correct, and I think comparing them to computers as a rising technology is apples to oranges. For one computers made most of its improvements exponentially because the number of transistors doubled every 18 months. 3D printers don't have an equivalent part, like the transistor, that just simply scaling up makes things perform better. The things holding back are outlined in his article: limited choice of materials, lower quality of the part, slow print times, high cost for mass producing, inability to mass produce, etc. All of this will improve with time, but it won't be on the same time scale as computers.

Now there are somethings I don't think he discussed that change manufacturing because it requires imagining a different way of working. These are the more transformative changes that might have no previous equivalent to compare them to.

For example, the ability to have a de-centralized, agile work force. My wife worked for a company where the M.E. were in the states, but software teams were in Europe. They were constantly sending manufactured parts with people as they physically traveled between offices. It was far cheaper to do this than ship the boards and cases of manufactured products to the team. However, with a 3D printer they could email the CAD drawing to the other office and in a day they could print it out. This is a big change in how fast things could be turned around, and save $1000's of dollars, allowing them to iterate faster.

Another change is 3D printing molds for doing injection molding. Some rapid prototyping shops already do this today. Creating the molds is time consuming, but 3D printing gives you faster turn around. And also more complex molds. This plays to 3D printings strengths low cost for low volume one offs. The quality of the part could be a problem, but hopefully that will improve with time.

I agree with what the author said, but I see the real limit right now is our own imagination for how 3D printers enable us to do new things we can't do now. This is where I see 3D printers are like computers as making something that was impossible before possible. These are much harder to predict. In a way it wasn't just computers that transformed us as much as the internet. Maybe there a companion technology that changes much of these assumptions made.

If we find a problem that 3D printers do better than anything else some of his assumptions could really change. For example, his assessment of 3D printers in homes right now is 100% accurate, but there might be some application we didn't see today for which 3D printers push into the home without significant changes to technology.
I haven't been able to dig up specifics, so hopefully someone with more knowledge can add to this, but the CNN "Magic Wall" is an 82" LCD Multi-Touch Display made by Perceptive Pixel — originally a privately owned company founded by Jeff Han that was acquired by Microsoft in July this year.

As far as I can tell, it's powered by an NVIDIA Quadro 6000 workstation. Not sure about the software, but it's likely custom-tweaked.

Perceptive Pixel's tech was originally developed for military applications (and the military does use their displays), but you can see why newsrooms would swoon over tech like this — especially for election coverage.

Here are a few links to related articles that might provide you with more information:

Wikipedia article on Multi-Touch Collaboration Wall:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Touch_Collaboration_Wall

Perceptive Pixel's page on their 82" display:
http://perceptivepixel.brandgreenhouse.com/products/82-lcd-m...

NVIDIA's Quadro 6000 page:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-quadro-6000-us.html

2008 WaPo article on CNN's Magic Wall:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02...

Jeff Han TED Talk from 2006:
http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_tou...
Agreed, just updated it. Thank you!
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People will tell you that you were just a lucky monkey. But you could have run your algorithm on past data, for hundreds or thousands of fake portfolios, to tell, statistically, what the odds of your algorithm being simply lucky are.

In early 2000s I wrote a machine learning algorithm that beat the S&P 100 with over 1 trillion to 1 odds against it being luck. It predicted a full trading day in advance. But that was all on paper at trading firms' puny costs; unlike you I couldn't beat retail costs. It's amazing that you could do that. For that reason alone I think it's highly likely that you were a skilled monkey.

Also like you, nobody in the industry was interested in my code, even after an industry magazine watched it for 3 months and found it gave "stellar" performance. The few people I was able to discuss it with told me point blank that it was impossible to do it skillfully (efficient market theory), so they assumed it was a hoax or the algorithm was just lucky.
It does solve the issue of being strictly against a policy of one candidate and having no consolidated view for others.
This means something like 'reasoning'.

Eg, you ask the virtual brain 'why is the sky blue?' 'why is the sky sometimes grey?', and it may not tell you why.

Google's virtual brain can 'recognize' things from the images, but it cannot handle the logic problems or something like that.
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I reverted to using Panasonic Toughbooks exclusively after buying, and subsequently returning a Lenovo W520 at $200 out of pocket, and I'm prepared to defend the following Toughbook rave in a verbal deathmatch if need be. Every other laptop I've encountered feels like cheap plastic. Apple, Lenovo, Toshiba, Asus, Dell, HP - literally every other laptop on the market today is poor in comparison. The hinges are weak, the design isn't sturdy, the little things aren't done right, and mostly they feel like uninspired works of crap designed to make a buck off of consumers.

The fact that Lenovo advertises some of their products as rugged is simply laughable.
FYI, the 512 paths D3.js feature has the poll results feeding into it, albeit on a slight delay from the main map

http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/scenario...

I've seen a lot of election maps but I can't think of another informational graphic that so clearly explained what was at stake (the near live vote results are icing on the cake)...in fact it completely sucked the suspense out of watching the election results coming in...which would piss me off if I were a network tv pundit who makes money keeping people in needless suspense.
Suspect it's http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2012/results

edit: or the same source as huffpost at least
I wrote a system called Dokuen[1] that uses heroku-style buildpacks in a git-based workflow. It's unfortunately difficult to install. That said, buildpacks are just three shell scripts run in a certain order. I've actually written three quarters of a Capistrano recipe that deploys using a buildpack, but it's not at all publishable code.

[1]: https://github.com/peterkeen/dokuen
I don't "mind" getting recruiter mail either...In fact, I do a lot of sales/outbound myself, so I can appreciate their job. However, recruiters that blanket everyone on LinkedIn (without even looking at their profile) are a different story.
I don't think that's what's going on. Once polls close, early vote totals are available. Those aren't counted in the percent of precincts reporting. That means there can be zero percent of precincts reporting, but 25% of the vote counted already.
So far it looks pretty accurate.
I'd be wary of ignoring a C&D. There may be legal ramifications if you end up getting punished for infringement. I am not a lawyer.

Please talk to a lawyer. Anyone on this board who is not a patent lawyer is talking out of their rear (including myself). Hopefully a real lawyer can comment soon.
Ok, at $0.5/future, the fees are

$500 - 2,000 per day

$2,500 - 10,000 per week

$130,000 - $520,000 per year

That's just the fees. He must make that much just to break even. If you can make that much starting with $30K, you're a supermotherfucking genius.
NBC calls it for Barack Obama
Link to tweet:

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/266030826305765378
We have WordPress (PHP) deployed on Heroku...
Remember, we're supposedly entering the "post-PC" world. How do you intend to open a WordStar document or Quattro in 2040, after 30 years of app stores and sandboxed apps?

The presentation of documents are critical as well. Will complex documents created in Word 95 render properly on the iPad XXXVI in 2040?

Archival file formats like PDF/A, open specification formats like OOXML and open source formats like ODF will help with this issue, but I'm sure there will be many audio and video files that will be unintelligible in 30 years.
Florida Division of Elections: Presidential Race Results in Excel Spreadsheet.
Ever heard how they do it in Switzerland? They have several national referenda each year, directly voting on issues of federal importance.

I'm afraid this works well only due to the small size of the country. OTOH their democracy is 800+ years old. Modern technology could scale popular voting to larger populations.
The Daily Show: Election Coverage
They're using AP's numbers. I dodn't know why they don't just scrape the state govt websites, which are where all the news orgs are getting their data anyway.
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Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States
There is an interesting tidbit in the article about the other vendor doing a proof of concept. I work for a large enterprise and I’m working with a company that has gone to great lengths to facilitate a proof of concept. We're using ~$250K worth of their equipment and weeks of their time, not to mention travel and all the expenses that entails. As far I know, we haven't given them a dime yet.

I don't know how a smaller company would be able to do this.
Hang on to your wallet.
This reminds me of a quip in a New York Times article about Amazon's exclusive book, Timothy Ferriss’s “The 4-Hour Chef:"

Those books about finding success without trying too hard were a particular hit with young men, who identified with their quasi-scientific entrepreneurial spirit.

The schedule reads like a table of contents from a self-help book. That could be a good thing.

I'm just surprised how much traction lifestyle instruction gets with an unlikely demographic: 18-24 year old men with access to unlimited concrete learning materials online.
NY Times ajax polling is crashing, site must be overloaded.
Obama ReElected
Well, you got your wish. We'll have to compare notes in four years. Or maybe sooner.
Word cloud made from the last 1500 tweets containing "nbc":

http://i.imgur.com/l36S9.png
Obama wins reelection
CNN has called it as well.
Those states probably have a much higher educational attainment level, civic engagement/consciousness and intelligence level than the rest of the United States.
Regarding Google News real-time coverage, they should call it near-real-time coverage.
Now let's not sit on our hands.

1. undo citizens united entirely, we wasted $1 Billion on this nonsense and media corporations are going to fight to keep all those $$$

2. fix voting irregularities, allow voting registration 48 hours before election, and give ample resources for voting to make the wait time 1 hour or less
This is especially apparent on pages with fixed background images. See https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=155313
Obama has won with over 274
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

From: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
hi danhoc01,

am the developer of HashPlug. I received couple of other reports on the same issue. Seems like Linux only issue. Will look into it today and get back.

thanks for reporting.
Why? It would be perfectly natural to write a tweet like "Wow, NBC and Fox differ on their election call."
Yeah, the site was so great in the way it presented data, but it didn’t hold up. That’s really a pity.

I guess now I know what the map Google offers (with worse presentation and interaction) is good for: It survived the onslaught.

Here’s the link: http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results