skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it's sort of a "don't make me think" sort of thing. If I see a share button, I think "oh, I should share this!" or if I think "hey, I should share this" but don't see a share link, there's just a little more friction to actually sharing it (sounds super lazy, but it's true).

So, I might not think of sharing it without seeing a button, and if I do think of sharing something, but requires me to copy, go to Facebook, write a note, paste, go to Twitter and do the same thing, I'll just be like "oh, forget it." (unless I'm really excited... I shared the general link on Facebook, but not any individual song).

I would think of sharing as a feature, rather than clutter. Here's my user story - "As a user, I want to share this tasty jam with my bandmate so we can shred together" (decided to have fun with that one).

It may be going to far, but you might even want to make sharing a song a call to action ("Did you enjoy this song? Share it with friends!" [followed by big fat Facebook & Twitter buttons])
Shaggy Dog Story (not the TDD kind)
You might look into preprocessing tools like grunt, which are designed for precisely this
wow..it's looking really good now.
Beware of CSS3 filter effect rendering differences across browsers
What do you consider reasonable, though? In the US, many consider 10 work days reasonable, but elsewhere, anything less than 6 weeks is barbaric.
Here it is centered on shibuya station, zoomed out enough to include harajuku:

http://here.net/35.6573768,139.7077558,15,0,0,normal.day

That's one of the busiest and most important areas of Tokyo (one of the most important cities in the world) ... and it's pretty much completely blank on this map.

Amusingly, the one feature that shows up in that mostly blank view, what appears to be a rail line, seems to be completely wrong: there's no rail line (surface or subway) following such a route in real life.... [based on the shapes, it appears they are supposed to be JR east lines, but are mis-positioned by 1-2km!]
Pincus is getting excoriated in the trade press for his aggressive tactics, his Bagdad Bob enthusiasm, and his macho indifference to common sense and good taste.

What about Kleiner Perkins? What about Bing Gordon? Why, when a turd like Zynga goes up like a rocket and comes down as hard, don't the VCs encouraging a CEO like Pincus get hammered twice as hard? Aren't they supposed to function as gatekeepers, as elder statesmen of startups? Isn't it basically their job to sort the wheat from the chaff in exactly this situation?
Thanks for the link. I figured YC knew the risk if PG asked for more hardware people to apply. It's true that it's very hard to have the same type of growth in a hardware startup as software, but someone has to make the gadgets. Additionally, while Kickstarter gives you funding, they don't provide the same type of mentorship that YC may offer.
An increase in the volume of a helium-filled balloon is also "inflation." As an economist, I can assure you that I mean "price inflation" when I say "inflation" without a qualifier. So does everyone I talk to. It doesn't need to be confusing.
Nice. I have a sketch of an urine recycling toilet - my point was to use recycled urine for the first flush cycle of feces, but I never had time nor money to make a prototype. I hope someone makes one, it should save quite a lot of water.

I respect Bill Gates for working on those projects - it would be easier just to manage traditionally all that money.
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No it's not. Three points in under fifteen minutes on a late near weekend night is enough acceleration to make it to the front
I've never understood the allure of red-black trees. One of the things I have on my agenda is to compare their performance with other, cooler, data structures, to see if perhaps there's a practical reason to favor them.

If it's just the rotations you like, there are umpteen more intuitive tree structures that use them too, like AVL.
If you're genuinely considering closing the doors because you didn't get into YC, that's really good evidence that YC made a good choice in rejecting you.

Take it as a slap in the face if you want. Be pissed. Cry like a baby. Throw something at a wall. Those are all perfectly valid, but the best YC applicants are the ones that don't need YC at all, so if you want to better your chances for the next round, prove to them how stupid they were in passing you up.
While I agree with your analysis, I would add that the sheer entrepreneurial will and effort required to take Zynga from zero to IPO is incredible. Yes, a lot of stars had to line up in just the right way, but let's not discount the motivation of a person like Pincus, no matter how misdirected we think it is.

For that reason, I would not consider it a foregone conclusion that Zynga will disappear. To the extent that a rise-from-the-ashes is fueled by grit and determination, he has what it takes to do it. Despite the stock option clawback efforts, I don't buy the story that he's a soulless leech. He's still in it to win.
The initial mobius.io device has 16 general purpose I/O lines, several serial ports, and analog in, so it is much more flexible than Nest. As for Android@Home, mobius also has its own cloud service, so you don't need to worry about infrastructure. What we would like to do is to have the same functionality of something like NI USB-6009 (http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/201987) without the computer. And we also have LabVIEW drivers for our device. So you can automate things in your business/home from anywhere using JS/LabVIEW/HTTP GET if you wanted to.
Which podcast episode are you referring to? I am curious to listen to it.
In your first post, you say that github only deploy from one branch.

I can't find the post offhand, but they now deploy feature branches, and only merge to master after deploying it, at which point they release their "shipping lock"
Be sure to check out the middle "star" in Orion's sword.
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Wow, that is cool for sure. One comment: set the default scrolling behavior to "paged". I found that real-time movement was too blurry. Otherwise, great job!
This is the more familiar view (when the tide isn't out) :
http://qsview.com/89vp2zksffdz80tzoqz1ap
I would be interested in knowing if their tech could ever be phone-sized. It looks like focusing the light correctly on the sensor is more difficult than with a conventional camera ( their promo video looks to show about 8 lens elements). The entire design is basically a big lens with the sensor and screen on the back, that's why they adopted such a strange form factor. That said, there is significant variability in size with traditional camera lenses, so maybe once the market matures someone will figure out a way to produce cheap plastic light-field lenses.

As far as the high-fps goes, they use a standard sensor with custom microlenses. Procuring a new sensor, either for higher resolution or faster frame rates, is probably more expensive and less likely than continued software updates, and maybe even changes to the enclosure and lenses. I suspect sensor acquisition is a significant part of these cameras high price.
An overly simplistic analysis. To say that "Consumer gains from the new websites are not high" is simply an exaggeration. Talk to all the people who can now earn money off unused space through Airbnb. Talk to the people who shop through Amazon or online because they hate having to go to physical stores. Talk to kids and adults who can access university courses online. Try doing online research in 1990 without Google. Try organizing political dissent without a visible broadcasted online community. Try keeping in touch with all your old high school friends without social networking. The list goes on and on.
Positive but low inflation.
Sure I think you can make a strong argument either way.

But clearly Google thinks it's a net gain to be on iOS and they have a lot more insight into the details of this deal than we do.
Japanese sure are efficient with their use of space :) .
At Google, how large is the Go community compared to the C++ or Java community, or the community working on a shared application code base like the Search engine?
I studied software engineering in New Zealand, but the course is under the Electrical Engineering department so we also took a few courses on processor design, logic gates, assembly etc.

Is it actually common for CS grads in the states to not have covered that stuff?
What does Valve do?
Except that each iteration of the MB franchise actually added changes to gameplay.
Cool idea. Machine learning realty games
I don't know if we can shape the traffic on the RF side.
Here's a recent report by the ECB itself: http://www.ecb.int/pub/pdf/other/virtualcurrencyschemes20121...

Here's an analysis of that report by economic analyst Tuur Demeester: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-04/bitcoin-seen-throug...

Here's an interview of Tuur Demeester by Max Keiser about his report: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5vowdygIPU#t=12m42s

Long story short: The ECB is worried about Bitcoin because unlike e-gold and other centrally clearing solutions, the peer-to-peer bitcoin doesn't have a central guy doing all the transaction clearing so there is no-one to bully and arrest.
Did World of Fourcraft predate Shadow Cities? http://mashable.com/2011/06/29/world-of-fourcraft/
Basically the idea is to short the two sides of the electrical wires so that you end up breaking the transformers. This means that lots of things at the substation will have to be replaced before it can be put back into action. A few well placed attacks like that and you can easily take out an entire city's power or more.
I gave this some thought below, but unfortunately fitting a new, more expensive sensor is probably not going to happen soon. The current 1.8 megapixel is a cheap commodity sensor, and it's still probably costing them buckets to have them fabbed with their custom microlenses. Something like a Kodak 8MP sensor would probably be 20x as expensive, and talking them into making you a custom SKU would be much harder.

Edit: after a bit of digging, it looks like they make the micro lens array themselves and buy the sensors without one. This obviously makes acquisition easier, but as the pixel pitch decreases ( by an order of magnitude, to compete with a modern SLR ) the complexities of building and attaching that array increase significantly.
Mr. Pincus also filled his calendar with product meetings, something he had previously scaled back on. And he switched his main phone from a BlackBerry to iPhone, the device preferred by Zynga's users.

I don't think anyone was under the impression that Pincus was personally invested in any of his company's products, but I think this is still a telling anecdote, similar to cultural problems most recently corrected by Marissa Mayer at Yahoo, for example.
This is how the x264 developers do it IIRC, they offer x264 under GPL and if you want to use it in a proprietary manner you need to buy a licence from them in order to do so.
Being deflationary is a feature, not a bug. But I agree bitcoin needs to stabilize in its variance even more so than it already has.
I hear what you are saying. In my last job I worked on real-time signal processing code, and there was a definite lack of software engineers who understood the low-level code and the various target platforms. In fact, many of the software developers, myself included, were EEs.

Where I see a problem though, and this goes for my former employer, is that the requirements for the jobs often extend beyond just being proficient with low-level development. You say you would like to "find people who even know what a pointer is". However, I read job reqs like the ones from the company rayiner posted require "extensive" experience in some particular niche of low-level coding, in addition to low-level/real-time development in general. That makes me think its easy enough to find people that companies can afford to be picky, even if they have to wait a little while.

So, if it really is that hard to find people, why write reqs and recruit in such a way as to discourage or reject people who have some experience, but not the "right" experience?
I press the round play button, and nothing happens.

Chrome 23, Win7 here.

Here's the JS error:

Uncaught TypeError: Object #<V> has no method 'playVideo' soundslice.min-f58020e4af284a830f36ea5da581a066.js:73
I think the weight may vary depending on the cost of production/risk but it gets sold at the same price.

The idea of paying $10.50 for something like that due to inflation does seem a bit strange :)
Worth mentioning also is Ryan Alexander's excellent Streetview Stereographic: http://notlion.github.com/streetview-stereographic/

(Try hitting the plus to edit the shader on the left)
Would it not induce terror if Al Qaeda started interfering with vast swaths of people's daily lives?

Power keeps going out for a few hours, cell phones go down at the same time, water is shut down because of bacterial contamination.. People wouldn't directly die, but living in a less stable environment is going to worry people.
There is no reason not to be in control of your press. The last thing you want is a poor or misleading TechCrunch article announcing you.

It's not going to ruin anyone, but it's not optimal, and there's no reason to fill it out other than pride.
Looked flash-based to me; I had to click to allow Flash to play with their new filter effects anyhow.
i almost expected tags on those bottles onMouseOver.
You can zoom the map out to cover any area you like, including the whole world!
Really? What does 'IRL' mean? Because I find a slight friction between the statements 'you can work from anywhere, whatever hours you like' and 'disagreements are not considered real unless you've been in the same room'. Oh so I can work from home but you'll ignore anything I say if you don't like it, because I wasn't in the room with you. Got it. Sure you'll pay for my plane tickets, I don't want a plane ticket, I want to work from home and have you listen to me.
When trying to make my own version of coke it was interesting to learn that the real secret is the flavorings, which are then mixed with sugar and caffeine etc to form the syrup, which is finally mixed with carbonated water to produce the final product.

As the flavorings are such a minor portion of the actual drink (<0.1%) it's really hard to reverse engineer
wow! so now Romney's loss is all because of this one guy, and if he'd done his job they'd have won?
That's not true. Real Google Street View runs without Flash if you enable WebGL.
Yeah, I don't get the recent backlash with Kurzweil on HN. I understand being critical of some of his conclusions, but he's had a pretty impressive career before becoming an author, and quite frankly he has the best track record out there on predicting the future.

It's amazing how accurate his Age of Spiritual Machines predictions became, even if some of them were a year or two late. Google's self-driving car, ipads, Siri, Watson, Google Glass, etc. He seems to always get technological capability correct, but sometimes misses the mark on technological adoption.

Even if a few of his more outlandish predictions like immortality are a few decades - or even generations - off, I think the road map of technological progress he outlines seems pretty inevitable, yet still awe inspiring.
In other words, the consultants had their workers rebranded as unaffilated volunteers despite getting a pay day worthy of Ahab's undying devotion.
Should I be concerned that the person behind the "wingman app" is looking for a co-founder? I don't know whether that's a positive or a negative...
Ideas aren't that special.
How 3D printed cars were created to spare the original while filming Skyfall
Didn't anyone check the weird scss compiler comments yet? http://handbook.zaarly.com/stylesheets/style.css
Wax-Filled Nanotubes Flex Their Muscles
3 Pillars Of The New Business World: APIs, Identity, and Data
I do. I have a Nexus One, and I'm thinking about upgrading to a Nexus 4.

I have never worried about Android malware. I don't install apps from sketchy unknown sources, nor sketchy unknown developers on the Play Store.

But I am interested in seeing what Mozilla comes up with. It may not be what I'm looking for, but I think it's valuable for them to try.
The tour of the white house was pretty interesting. If you typed in "oval offi" it takes you to some gold room that I don't recognize, and if you step outside, there's a big portrait of Hillary Clinton. Do the first ladies all have their portraits?
Hey, thanks for subscribing, and for the kind words! I've transcribed a bunch of my own stuff and plan on doing more in the coming weeks (it's a win/win -- good marketing for Soundslice and people get to learn the arrangements).

And, yes, I need to get back on a regular YouTube posting schedule... :-)
Central Tokyo has about as much information as central Pyongyang.
>>What I don't understand is the need to persecute one already existing set of people to accommodate another set of people who just got persecuted.

But they weren't persecuted - they were paid off.

In 1917, at the end of WW1, Britain was given the mandate of administering Palestine - at the time a chunk of the recently-defeated-and-defunct Ottoman Empire. Part of this mandate was the Balfour Declaration, which basically said that Britain would work to build 'a national home for the Jewish people' in Palestine ("it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine").

They worked with the "Jewish Agency for Palestine" (these days the Jewish Agency for Israel), who had been buying the land in the area from the previous owners - mostly Arab clans and local sheiks and so on. Nothing was seized, nobody was driven out or persecuted.
My university required CS majors to take logic design and microprocessor architecture. Beyond that, it was up to the student to choose concentrations, of which computer architecture and systems programming were choices.
I have a preventDefault in there already, and it's still happening. :-/
I advocate a hipster approach to Facebook. Don't like anything unless it's so obscure no one has ever heard of it.

Then stop liking it once it becomes popular.
Because those engineer is doing their job and we need to let them have more power to do such a wonderful stuff.
bitcoin is just ledger entries that can be retitled by cryptographic signature. its protected free speech.
Sorry about that -- try changing "scrolling" from Autoscroll to Paged, and that should fix it.
It's not even a valid comparison to the Mexican-American war, that's the point. You can oversimplify vastly different issues down to the same narrative if you want to, which is why these simple narratives tell us nothing.
This is a brilliant move by Dropbox. It is now becoming part of the Internet fabric and, if the move is successful, it will likely remain dominant--at least essential--for a very long time.

Now if anyone knows how I can invest in it as soon as possible, I'd appreciate to know. (Email in profile.)
This is really awesome. It feels snappier then the Google maps interface for street view.
Curious about the street view API. Do you have to pay for it after a certain usage threshold ?
I guess I think of conversations as things that are to be done.
I find it hard to believe that 500.000 years ago humans were intelligent enough to craft a weapon and only about 6000 years ago things really took off for our civilization.

What happened to humans recently that changed things?
Of course not. The app doesn't really affect how people vote, it's just does some reporting and analytics.
True, it doesn't look like an Apple marketing photo; it looks like every iPhone I've ever seen in the real world.

Instead of using Apple PR imagery, they took a picture of an actual iPhone in its natural state.
> There isn't any ideology behind bitcoin. It's just a protocol.

I disagree. It was motivated by particular strains of cryptopunk thought, has features designed specifically for long-desired applications like multi-signing or a built-in programming language for stuff like Szabo's smart contracts, the original Satoshi whitepaper was explicit about goals, and multiple design choices were made for non-technical reasons (such as a hardwired limit to coin issuance). Finally, in the very first block in the official blockchain, Satoshi included a newspaper quote about bank bailouts! Not the most neutral non-ideologically-charged topic in the world, let us say.

Certainly serious Bitcoin users have a wide range of views, but to say 'there isn't any ideology behind Bitcoin' is to just plain ignore everything about its conception.
give it 20 years. bitcoin will be the worlds reserve currency.
It would seem so, but the limit is quite generous and you only have to pay if you exceed it for a prolonged period of time.
I hesitate to ask exactly which historians you recommend that would justify this selectivity.

The post-9/11 wars are not in (or near) the top 10 conflicts for the US. And, en-toto casualties are an order of magnitude lower than Iran-Iraq war, etc if you want to look at it that way.

Either way, you lose.
While Apple stock have definitely been falling for the last few months (and I know, I have stock), let's not forget that so has everything else lately. In particular, in the last week with focus moving away from the presidential election and back towards actual issues rather than trying to get votes, people are remembering that the so-called 'fiscal cliff' is just around the corner. Apple's fallen yes, but LinkedIn has also fallen, so has Google, so has Microsoft; all quite significantly I might add.

Sometimes things aren't as simple as "STEVE JOBS IS DEAD," a new Nexus handset or more lawsuits with Samsung. Sometimes it's just the market overall. Even earlier in the year I noticed it with the Greek bailout issues. Apple stock had been falling for weeks, then suddenly the pro-austerity party in Greece won the election, and stock prices started shooting up again as concerns over Europe collapsing were alleviated.
That is a very nice view.

I have always wanted to visit Japan, but haven't find the time and the money to do it, but I hope I'll someday.
Nexus 10 (and maybe 7) Question
I'm looking to get a tablet that I can write code with during my commute. This means I'll need a keyboard (potentially with track pad since not sure how accurate one can be with fingers highlight text... I suppose it's easy enough on my phone)

Does anyone have either combo with their Nexus? Just curious how well it works and what keyboard you have.

My concerns are:

1. any good apps? I know nothing will be as good as notepad++ or something, but hoping something nice out there? I see DroidEdit as a popular option? Assumably can open multiple files, syntax highlighting, code folding / collapsible, etc.

2. keyboard shortcuts - does android recognize any? i.e. undo, redo, copy, paste, find, replace etc. All basically necessary. If not shortcuts then easy to do quickly / easily through app.

I like the Nexus because, well, I love my Galaxy Nexus, and because they are inexpensive and good media devices as well.

If I can't satisfy this stuff though... I'm in a tough spot. The MS Surface Pro (my first choice) isn't out yet and RT has one notepad app that is not good enough yet. I don't want laptop / netbook because really want touch / media usage. Plus, if I were to get even Nexus 7, it's only $200 - 250. Won't feel bad if have that and get Surface Pro later. My other option would be Surface Pro alternatives that are out already...

But hoping Nexus might work.
Makes lots of money without HR.
I remember reading that Google wanted more Google branding. The way Apple wanted to go was make it an Apple product supported by Google. Google wanted it to be a Google product integrated into Apple. Apple wasn't having it and took this route.