skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A breaker bar is actually a non-ratcheting socket driver. Not something you fit over a wrench (for that you could use any chunk of pipe). Since a breaker bar (or actually the torque measuring version of it) is what is usually used to tighten such nuts I'd imagine it could be used to loosen them as well.
So it's a TWO-trick pony. I was going to order one. Severely underwhelmed after seeing the first images. The flash player requirement to view the multifocal pictures makes them next to useless (can't share on social networks, can't view on iPad, etc.).

The focus shift feature is nice, but after seeing 50, it seems nothing more than a gimmick, and one that gets darn boring darn fast. This latest feature is cute as well, perhaps more useful even, but again not earth-shattering.

It's just a matter of time before a Samsung simulates the same thing via 'focus bracketing' and storing lots of smaller pictures (they'd probably still be bigger than the Lytro "resolution"), apply a little "focus stacking" algorithm like Photoshop to determine "focal plane" hotspots, and load the focal plane based on the selected hotspot. This little video shows a "fake lytro" image created by taking 10 DSLR pix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KozKofC01_Q

This latest feature could possibly be "simulated" (equalled?) by slight physical movement (circular/conical?) of the sensor in the focal plane.

The light field technology is rather ancient by Internet standards, e.g. see this lovely video on the Stanford Light camera, from 2006 (!) which also explains both features rather well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=9H7yx31yslM

Finally, if you're still interested in experimenting with this, check out a $10 solution: http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar//Mask/

So, where does this leave Lytro?
Oh, definitely easier. But everyone links to the official client / a site which describes BitCoin and links to the official client. It's still a horrible experience for would-be users.
I think the answer is embedded in your question - Braintree is a full-stack payments provider, so you don't have to go to three different vendors to get everything you need.

In fact this is one of keys to how we provide great service to our clients. We are a single source for any payments help you need, from signup to integration to processing. If you ever have an issue, our team will navigate the byzantine banking system so you don't have to.

BTW - check out my response about pricing in the thread above (tl;dr we're adding pricing to our Australian website)
Elon himself has contemplated this apparently. In this interview below, he admits he is a bit crazy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uegOUmgKB4E#t=1m47s

Elon: "I think I probably am a bit crazy. But I think maybe that’s sort of a healthy sign. Because there’s a point at which you can conclude that you're not crazy at all, then you probably are. It's sort of a recursive thing."

At the risk of invading Elon's personal life, one could go further and investigate his father Errol Musk, who was an electrical & mechanical engineer back in South Africa, to see if there is a biological explanation for any potential personality disorders.

Elon said this about his father: "Quite an astute engineer, although he's gone a little crazy later in life. I don't think he has all his cookies in the jar." Source: http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/200901/elon-musk-...

Does this mean that Elon is crazy? I have no idea, but I think that he's a very logical person with life experiences that makes him a huge risk taker. For example, he tweeted briefly about the benefits of near death here: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/152394000857448448 On his google plus about page, he wrote "Not dead yet" on his bragging rights section.
So really, his worst case scenario is dying. That's his mental trick of making so many crazy risky decisions, as long as they are based on logic. That mindset cannot simply be attained by anyone, you have to experience near-death to truly get it. Mike Lazerow is another good example of such an entrepreneur. Background Story: http://www.lazerow.com/2012/06/a-new-beginning.html#tpe-acti...

Also he thinks that people should be less risk averse (8m10s) because even if they fail, it's not like they're going to starve. Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nMQ0-1jqFs#t=5m55s This is probably based on his college experiment of eating for just $1 a day without getting scurvy, or perhaps his direct observations of starvation in South Africa. I honestly have no idea, just pure speculations.

So yeah, I hope that helps enlighten a little bit of how Elon can be such a risk-taker.
Attaching your personality identity and happiness to external entities isn't very healthy.
I do not even how you can call paper dollar a currency.
You cannot use something as a currency if:
- it can be manufactured easily
- it can change value from one day to another
- it is not dense in physical space (i.e. you do not need to carry buckets of it to buy something).

The paper money clearly does not respect ANY of these principles nowadays. The FED can print (and does) as much as they want to buy back toxic assets (remember the Krugman clown advising after the Net bubble in 2001 that we should create a housing bubble to stimulate the economy ? That really worked well for everyone, did it not?). The US Dollar is constantly losing value versus Gold since its parity was dropped for good in the 70s, and now you have such a galoping inflation than looking at movies 30 years ago make you feel old: then the bad guys were asking for "a million dollars" as something highly valuable/desirable, while nowadays if you do not cross the billion mark it is not considered as much anymore (Austin Powers made this very good point in a clever way).

Why do you think China is buying all the Gold it can currently to replace its stinky dollars?
Thanks! I haven't seen these before.

Electrum looks interesting, due to simplicity. What does it mean by using a remote server though? Do they just use a single block chain remotely and tell you what your balance is for keys <a-z> ?
Fantastic post. I think you succinctly sum up what is worst about HN. Lots of people here like FP. Great! Use it, but spare us the interminable circle jerks.
I'd love to read on thoughts about how a digital currency will change economic policies, the market, and just things in general. If its decentralized (i.e. the currency is not distributed from a central bank), then presumably you can't deflate or inflate the value of the currency in order to encourage economic growth (am I getting this right?). Also I'm wondering what Bitcoin means in terms of banks. If I don't need a physical safe to hold my money anymore, then obviously banks will be forced to go digital as well right? And what does that mean for financial instruments? How does a digital currency play in with high-frequency trading?

So many questions. Bitcoin is really making re-evaluate a lot of things. I think I've given you a sense of what I'm looking for.
You could probably get funding for that next round.
What is the worth of Silicon Valley?
When I received my rejection email I wanted to throw a huge 6yr old kid temper tantrum and go around the room fucking sht up tornado style lmao! But I'll just frame my rejection email and use it as motivation for my next big obstacles in life. When I do finally become successful I'll put "Y Combinator Reject" in all my about me sections! YC alumni would've sounded better though :(
What is the difference between minimum and maximum? What is the required number of pieces of flair?
Isn't this same as http://gym-pact.com ? Gym-pact started at the beginning of this year.
Can't you do this already? Maybe you just need to update your dropbox client.
Does facebook really provide that much value add over a simple email invite? Every response you get can go into a special folder for that party. When the party is over, you delete the folder - or leave it - maybe even put it in an "old parties" folder.
That's strange as the generated links are only designed to contain alphanumeric characters - the link didn't work because the regex rejected the hyphen.

I've changed it now - does the link correspond to the correct location? If not, please can you let me know the address which generated this link?

Thanks
1. Make it up as we go.

2. Expect to be bankrupt before any serious disputes appear.
I know, we are looking to create something similar, we need to find a good creator of websites
I knew what this was coming in and still I was impressed. Nice job.

It's been awhile since I've actually used GSV...the images seem much higher-res than I remember.
I think what TechCrunch does is unimportant to people who give money to people who receive money. Someone's spreadsheet isn't going to ruin a good idea or a good team.
Well this is freaky, I typed in "white house" and I got an INTERNAL tour of the white house. Awesome.

Also try "google campus".

What's interesting is the real google streetview needs adobe flash to run, this works with flash disabled.
There's some nice discussion about Google's possible motivations for doing this here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/138res/google_launc...

Granted, speculation, but rather convincing.

>TL;DR: Whatever the plot's about, the point of it is to quickly and cheaply build an unrivaled corpus of pedestrian-accessible routes, locations and journey-times for the next generation of foot-enabled Google Maps and Navigation apps

Edit seems that user 'rescripting' somewhere above has already made a reference to that discussion.
As someone who works with robotics, I can imagine the applications of a real-time, video version of this. Stereovision would become much simpler and more reliable.
> She naturally was shocked+agitated and defended herself after which I thought she was lying and deleted her from my list.

at this point, i don't think the problem was "all thanks to facebook"!
Same thing happened to me. I didn't comment nor vote in ~200 days and I recently found my account had been hell banned (and it wasn't at the time I had submitted my last comment), so I opened another one. Pretty annoying though.
How is AngularJS compared to Knockout?
If your company description is, "we're the (insert startup name one) for (insert startup name two)", please please reconsider. There are sooo many cool business ideas that don't involve Facebook, twitter, or (inset startup name three's idea here) ideas.
I don't think it's obvious whether or not having Google apps on iOS helps or hurts Android market share overall.

On the one hand, you have people who might otherwise switch to Android to get particular features of the Google ecosystem they want. On the other, you have iOS users who gradually become more invested in the Google ecosystem over time and eventually decide to switch to Android to get "the real thing".
Guideacity hasn't been selected, but we are keeping our work going and see how far we can get. Also if there is someone in New York who can create a website like Airbnb please let me know!
Hackvids - a list of documentaries about hackers
the whole rapture of the nerds thing is more driven by a fear of death

"Being scared of death is like being scared of a great big monster with poisonous fangs. It actually makes a great deal of sense, and does not, in fact, indicate that you have a psychological problem."
- Harry Potter (the version from http://hpmor.com)

The various religious have been selling that particular snake oil for thousands of years

True. The difference is that science might actually work.

I think it is a fairly safe bet to say that you'll die a regular death.

Most likely. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to do something about the annihilation of billions of sentient beings.
$5 worth of powered aluminum and rust will do quite a fine job of taking off a foundation nut.
Amazon sells a lot of Kindle books that are read with the iOS application. Amazon hasn't sold any books on the iOS application for over a year (and, arguably, never has because even before the IAP controversy the Kindle app buy button sent you to Amazon's website in Safari).
Let's talk about SpaceX for a moment.

Of all the launcher designs I've seen over the years, the Falcon / Dragon program is one of the most sensible ever. Every aspect of the design that I've seen fulfills the twin goals of reliability and low operational cost. They didn't try to create an awesome/cool system with unproven concepts (space plane, scramjet, rotors for re-entry, etc.). Instead, they took the best exisiting and well proven concepts, wrapped them in a nice package, tested it well, and made it work.

The existing large players like LockMart optimize for performance and their own profit; the small players all seem to be trying unproven (and in most cases rather dubious) concepts. Compared to how the orbital launch industry normally works, SpaceX is a refreshing dose of sanity. I salute their hard work and engineering prowess, and I wish them much success and profits.
Support the troops is hawk politician speak for... "Continue to vote for war funding, so we don't leave our soldiers in the desert."
Can I also upgrade an existing account ? I took the 200k datapoint appsumo offer a while back.
Thanks. I thought about the ability to select the element. I've got an idea for how to implement it and that's the first update I plan on making. Also I plan on having a github page up for this soon.
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Amazon doesn't sell Kindles in their iOS app to avoid the in-app purchase cut to Apple. The app doesn't even have a link to Amazon's site since that's forbidden by Apple's terms.

But yes, they make money indirectly from customers like me who visit their website to buy books so we can read on our iOS devices.
'Never ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.'
I think Lytro lost some of the magic for me when I realized it was just utilizing a depth map to generate an iris blur. Looks like the same deal for the 3d effect, around edges you can see reconstruction artifacts. I'm impressed by the fact one lens can capture depth, but with two lenses at a narrow aperture they could create the same effect in higher resolution and quality.
Funny thing is a lot of the baby boomers said the same thing about Mario Brothers.
Feeling pain can't be explained as an interaction of physical particles.

Because no such explanation can exist, or because we don't have a sufficient understanding yet? See "God of the gaps".
When it comes to failing remember one thing...
> To show a little Ruby coding style. The convention in Ruby is to favour lots of concise little routines over big-ass ones.

Writing small, concise components(classes, methods, functions, modules...) is a generally a good practice in any language. However, moving i % 3 in a separate method is not a good practice. As another commenter pointed out, your names are hardly apt. It would better serve to name them fizz?(multiple_of_3) and buzz?(multiple_of_5). But even then, if all fizz? is doing is i % 3, let it be inline. True that in the future you might need additional processing for fizz?(not for this particular eg; I am talking real world), but re-factor it when you need it. It's not like if you have i%3 inline, it makes it harder to re-factor it into a fizz? method later.

Also, since you are talking ruby conventions, shouldn't your predicates be named multiple_of_3? instead of multiple_of_3?
I would guess they're not completely out of money. Probably just out of ideas for how to turn the metrics around.
Is it possible to install Linux on Microsoft Surface tablets?
I'd like to try one of those tablets with a rotating screen and a keyboard, but I don't like the MS system. Will there be hackers working on this direction? Porting any linux distro to the Surface tablets?
Probably a better strategy. If you take a look at Jessica Livingston's talk from Startup School (http://startupschool.org/2012/livingston/) she notes that YC gets nervous about hardware--but nerds (like me) on Kickstarter love it. That's how the pebble watch came to grow successfully. Kickstarter is once of the few places you can find and fund really innovative hardware products. Best of luck
Obviously if you are against the IDF actions, you are moatly against promotional tools, and if you are for the IDF actions, you are mostly for the promotional tools.

Mock outrage over the promotion doesn't make any sense. They are simply an extension of the underlying actions. Be outraged by those, if you will.
They did this at exactly the wrong time. The industry is shifting to high DPI screens; the old logo works well on an iPad 4 or Nexus device.
Thanks for your answer, its given me something to think about.

A few things immediately come to mind though:

A sentence is just letters, but that doesn't mean that thorough examination of each letter provides you with the knowledge necessary to understand the sentence

I see what you're saying here, but consider this example:

Give someone a box of clock components and a clock from which to draw inspiration, and without any understanding of how a clock works or how the cogs and springs are manufactured etc, they will, given enough perseverance build a working clock.

This simple analogy illustrates that understanding exactly the functioning of each sub-component of a system is not necessary to be able to exploit its usefulness.
The geek queen: Marissa's on a mission to save Yahoo
Predictable, Reusable, Maintainable and Scalable CSS
Haven't worked with Knockout extensively, but I know their change listeners have cascade issues, and I'll grant this is a preference thing, but compared to Angular, their binding syntax is ass.

Also, Angular is the only framework where the DOM itself is your template. This cannot be explained, only experienced. :-)
We all make mistakes, but not all of us use those mistakes to promote something. It's an annoying and overused software evangelism trick. You start by decrying your past ignorance, and continue by saying that you were enlightened and started using X. This dramatizes the improvement and subtly implies that everyone who doesn't yet use X are simply not yet as enlightened as you. There is nothing genuinely humble about doing this.
Amazing for what it allows and also for what it illustrates.

In Yesterday [1], shouldn't the song structure appear at the bottom instead of at the top? The layers correspond to decreasing levels of granularity, and I cannot thing of any good reason why they should not be in that order.

[1] http://www.soundslice.com/yt/lBWra6snX-g/
To all those rejected, keep building for the love. That's all that matters.
I know this always comes up, but jailbreak your phone!

It lets you set different defaults and do so much more (not piracy!) that I couldn't possibly mention it all.
Haha I just did the same thing except I typed 1600 Pennsylvania ave then I was taken inside the lobby looking at a picture of Bill Clinton.
Are these the two most important rules for entrepreneurs?
Heard about the Asus Transformer?
I'm going to have to try AngularJS. One of the things that put me off is how much it looks like ASP or JSP with the angular tags. Obviously it must be good as many people rave about it.

We're using Backbone for a large project and yes we have to track and dispose of everything manually but it's so small that we can make it do what we want. I will say this, Backbone has made our team better JavaScript developers because it didn't throw the kitchen sink at us. I just hope AngularJS is not Struts on the client side.
anthonys - thanks for your good suggestions on improving Briantree's signup process. We rolled out a new version of our signup form today, and we are now using the BSB number to determine the type of bank account. We also eliminated a few other fields from the form and are working to simplify it further, by removing the ACN field (which it turns out is embedded in the ABN/ARBN number headslap) and a few others.

I looked into your suggestion about using the ABN number to look up information about a merchant and found http://abr.business.gov.au/. It looks like that will provide the merchant's name along with the city, state, and postcode of their location. Are you aware of any other services that would provide more information?
Right Click on the Dropbox Icon in your system tray -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Selective Sync Settings. Works for me on mac, pc and linux. Haven't tried in on my mobile devices.

EDIT: You can only choose which folders to sync, not specific files so that may or may not be what you were looking for.
Certainly it is for the people that own it.
Historically, however, these conflicts pale in comparison to the 'normal' wars of the 20th century. Read some history if you doubt this. [1]

_________

Iran-Iraq War [2]

Casualties and losses

320,000–720,000 soldiers and militia killed (Iran)

150,000–375,000 soldiers and militia killed (Iraq)

Economic loss of more than $500 billion (per side)

100,000+ civilians killed on both sides

______________

World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. Over 60 million people were killed, which was over 2.5% of the world population. [3]

_________________

[1] This is also clearly visible in the citation of the GP comment, but i provide more examples.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
It's also about spotting the beautiful in your surroundings; rather than just interestingness in the mundane, Ingress draws attention to art that you may not ever have looked at before despite walking past it every day. I've discovered a number of statues and sculptures while beta testing it that I genuinely had never noticed before.
Daniel, can you remove my entry from the list? It is #73 (educat.me )
> What's interesting is the real google streetview needs adobe flash to run, this works with flash disabled.

Since they've started targeting mobile browsers, they've switched in some places to the projection here (which uses a flat projection that is just translated), which is implemented in straight HTML + JS. In other words, this is official Google StreetView too, just their new embeddable viewer.
On first glance my thought was "How did something like that end up on SciAm?" (do we care quite so much about HN's editorial standards, really?)

But when you read the thing, that seems kind of unfair. A headline similar to "Earliest Manufactured Weapons 200,000 years Older Than Previously Thought" would capture why this is actually interesting.
I looked at the site as well. I'm curious how you plan to differentiate from say Nest or Android@Home.
Works in iPhone , I am impressed
I don't put failing and rejection in the same category. Failing means you couldn't accomplish what you set out to do. Rejection means that someone else doesn't believe enough in what you're doing to bet on you. It could be a failure to communicate on your part, but it could also just be something else completely random, especially when you're talking about a highly selective accelerator like YC.

To me, rejection is almost a non-event. If you're doing something worthwhile, you're going to see a lot of rejection. Not everyone can get on board with what you're doing. That's okay. Other people will get what you're doing and believe in you (unless you haven't shown anything... gotta give folks a reason to believe in you, after all).

That said, I understand your point (learn. move forward.) That much I agree with.
Feeling pain can't be explained as an interaction of physical particles

Do you mean physical or emotional pain? I imagine that physical pain is very well understood and can be explained in (maybe) all of its entirety as a purely material (as in atoms) phenomenon.

I personally don't see any reason why emotional pain can't be explained in the same way i.e. without requiring a metaphysical component.
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