skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its interesting and all, but compare it to a human baby. It takes them several months of data processing to learn things like object permanence. While 16 thousand processor cores may seem like a lot, I seriously doubt it even approached 1/10th of the power of a babies brain. Indeed, I doubt it was even 1/10th of the power of the region of the babies brain dedicated to recognizing objects.
This isn't using either Flash or WebGL, though. It's a pure JS tiling solution, similar to classic Google Maps, but with a Mercator-style 3D-to-2D projection.
> Siri's functionality has been in OS X for as long as I remember

I thought it was a recent acquisition?

Wikipedia claims April 2010: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siri_(software)
Their job is to get as high ROI as they can, everything else they might claim is hyperbole. Zynga, Groupon, Facebook - hype, pump, and dump.

Greater Fools[1] expect loftier ideals. Let us be the Jesters who dream of a better tomorrow. :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool
I'm not convinced this is that great. I'm happy for it, but it's something that's really only news for those who already use linux as their primary OS. If this was a native solution (a REAL native solution, not a patched, custom-compiled version of WINE), then I'd be converting my television box to ubuntu right now, but it's not. It's still just a hack. Netflix needs to be convinced to stop using windows/osx-only code in their player, so that everyone can use it.
Cost is nothing, but with a smaller portion size, demand can be forced up.
There are not many people in the world who can take an idea and generate $billions with it. Even if they crash, you don't just throw those people under the bus. You can debate whether or not they conform to some specific ideals of success, but I'd hardly call him "chaff."
If anyone wants to work in the health and fitness space then do drop me a line. My email is in my profile.
I'm having a great deal of difficulty trying to scrounge up a shred of sympathy for Mr. Pincus. A man who has made vast sums of money running an unethical company unethically, who has screwed over users and employees at every turn, is now suffering his comeuppance. Tragic.

His employees on the other hand, bound as they are by golden handcuffs and seeing their stocks plummet, are far more deserving of our sympathy and good will. I'm far more willing to extend my understanding to those caught in the machine than to he who operates it.

Hopefully, Zynga will soon be a footnote in history, Pincus will retire with whatever he stashed away from the IPO, and his employees will find gainful employment doing something less shady and banal.
And the appearance of "59oz" half-gallons of orange juice.

And the disappearance of "20% more free!" in your bag of chips, after 10 years of that "temporary" bonus.
Not true. This was supposed to be an automated strike list. You check off your voters as they come in to vote, and if they haven't, you give them a call (or even a personal visit) and say "hey, get your butt to the polls". Getting out your own vote seriously matters.

Whether this thing would have been enough to sway the election had it worked, I don't know, but it certainly didn't help the Romney campaign (and probably hurt some of the downticket races as well).
Yeah, I mentioned below reading his predictions for 2009 only a couple of years before they were supposed to come about (which he wrote in the late 90s), and many seemed kind of far fetched - and then all of a sudden the iPhone, iPad, Google self-driving car, Siri, Google Glass, and Watson come out, and he's pretty much batting a thousand.

Some of those predictions were a year or two late, in 2010 or 2011, but does a couple of years really matter in the grand scheme of things?

Predicting that self-driving cars would occur in ten years in the late 90s is pretty extraordinary, especially if you go to youtube and load up a commercial for Windows 98 and get a flashback of how primitive the tech environment actually was back then.

Kurzweil seems to always get technological capabilities right. Where he sometimes falls flat is in technological adoption - how actual consumers are willing to interact with technology, especially where bureaucracies are involved- see his predictions on the adoption of elearning in the classroom, or using speech recognition as an interface in an office environment.
Can you please remove #74 (educatme) already ? Thanks.
It's small, but quickly growing.
Egos like that, sadly, don't retire.
It's sad to see how the FUD around the GPL is widespread.

It remind me a few months ago the launch of meteor.js.
I heard so much people saying that it was "not usable commercially"...

And the worse is that the same people have MongoDB in production with it's AGPL license.
D'oh!

You're right, of course.
108 is the coolest diagram ever ( http://zeldawiki.org/Triforce )
haha true but I was thinking more in the line that it would back fire on the idea of not blurting out who some of the possible selected groups are... I thought they were supposed to be unknown until Demo Day...
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I've been using PHP Minify [1], a simple script to concatenate, minify, and send out my backbonejs project.

Works well.

[1] - https://github.com/mrclay/minify
My dream is a smooth FPS like street view. Right now it's so disjointed and lagged. Street view could be so much more. I know microsoft had some technology to put photos from different angles together..
This is truly a great day and age for hackers. You can't become president these days without 'em.

Politech (technology used by politicos) seems like a big untapped market to me, though I really know nothing about it.
Backbone.js is not going to solve your DOM spaghetti problems.

You will still bind to events, you will still manipulate the DOM, you will still do all the manual work.

I really recommend looking at Knockout.js instead.

It really gets rid of all the DOM manipulation code that tends to become so complex and spaghetti like.

How? It provides a declarative language for two-way binding between the UI and the data.

Check out this example: http://jsfiddle.net/FEVbz/

In the HMTL pane, edit the input boxes and watch as the other DOM elements update automagically.

Notice how simple and clean the Javascript code is. All it's doing is initialization and setup. Nothing else. No event binding. No dom manipulation. No spaghetti. No nothing.

Shameless plug:

Here's an article I wrote about why I think Knockout.js is so much better than Backbone.js

http://dev.hasenj.org/post/35572197519
here's a cool one: Wailing Wall
I notice the same thing with Rails vs Sinatra. People complain that Sinatra is problematic because it doesn't enforce a directory structure, but you can still make clean, organized code with it.
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Oh, well in that case, kudos to whoever did it!
Interesting, but I suspect that the reduction in crashes may simply be due to the fact that a majority of windows 8 installations are either on new computers or are clean installs. I will be curious to see how the "crashes/user" number trends over time.
is there any reason they haven't ditched facebook and focused on games for mobile phones?
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I used them until they stopped giving away the tins with the orders. They then promised me a few free tins with the next order, and never delivered, so I gave TeaVana a try.

Honestly I just think TeaVana has better tea, even though I prefer Adagio's website, and the fact that they have decaf green teas.
How long before we have a real time view of the world - with all the millions of smart phones, cameras, public security cameras all pushing data to the web? Kind of feel like those Circle/Social cam guys had something there - a real time distributed camera.

There's a startup up there - but maybe instagram has already done it :D
Sorry, what is /g/ ?
Indeed I can! Awesome!
The way/speed/reason/etc for a change in a price is certainly one of the most fundamental topics to economics. For one, it's a topic that grabs the mind share of both macroeconomists and microeconomists, and there aren't many of those!
I've certainly lost the thread of your argument since you've replaced the comment I replied to, about 'the cost of doing business', with statistics from the Iran-Iraq war.

I'm not really interested in whether certain wars are bigger than other wars. I am interested in how the trivialisation of ongoing conflicts tends to dovetail neatly with pro-war agendas ('cost of doing business').

[Unexplained downvotes, how novel.]
Cool but indexing is off and different fron Google results, strangely. In Seattle, where streets are mapped by compass rose I tyoed in # N. # St., which should mean North, got the results for NE. Great concept, just wish it mirrored Google's results.
I don't think that's a very fair assessment of Kurzweil's role in technology.

He was on the ground getting his hands dirty with the first commercial applications of AI. He made quite a bit of money selling his various companies and technologies, and was awarded the presidential Medal of Technology from Clinton.

As I was growing up, there was a series of "Oh wow!" moments I had, associated with computers and what they were now capable of.

"Oh wow, computers can read printed documents and recognize the characters!"

"Oh wow, computers can read written text aloud!"

"Oh wow, computers can recognize speech!"

"Oh wow, computer synthesizers can sound just like pianos now!"

I didn't realize until much later that Kurzweil was heavily involved with all of those breakthroughs.
Each file represents a module in our business management software (e.g. documents/contacts/memberships/events/etc). Historically, we have replace entire modules with ones that fulfill new/improved/different needs. For example, we have a module called "membership 3", because as we have obtained new clients, "membership" and "membership 2" just were not structured to do the things the new clients needed.

When the company started, we were full of inexperienced devs with no official programming education/experience. Now we have a team that is more aware of things like design patterns. As such, the newer modules are easier to extend and add new features to, so we anticipate that rewriting entire modules should not be necessary when the newer versions need new features.

So to answer your questions, we are just waiting for the old versions to die, and for somebody to pay enough for a job that we can rebuild the old module from scratch :)

Of course, contributing factors such as time, blah, blah, man power, etc. come into play also. Always things that need to be done, never the time to do them.
I think something got changed in the last 30 minutes or so. I had it loaded fine, let it run forever because Mario is hypnotic, then went to look at some of the others and got this.
download lightt: its like seeing through other peoples eyes.
Whatever it is that they do, they love it. The handbook is saying so.
Love the cool handbook. I would love to know what the hiring process is like. How does Zaarly protect itself from employees who'll leach company & team of valuable resources.
TapIn.tv?
How does it differ from Marmalade or any of the other Lua-based game engines?
You make fair points, but what I'm really questioning is why Pincus alone seems to bear the brunt of the backlash against him and Zynga, when he was enthusiastically enabled by a variety of investors. Why aren't they receiving the same criticism for failing to perform? Why aren't they receiving more, given that Pincus has only his own experience, while it's the basic job of the VCs to look at a hundred Pincus's and choose the three worth betting on?
Hi. You seem new here.

Here are the HN Guidelines. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Here's the relevant bit:

> If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)
I wanted to be all "yeah, whatever" about this, but it's fantastic. Seeing it load places from all over the world as you type in an address, and seeing how much the streets look exactly like what you might expect, is fascinating. Cool hack indeed!
If this is representative then sales of win8 are great.

About 700m units of win7 sold to date. From this win8 is a bit more than 1/25th the sales of win7
So about 28m units sold so far?
> I said the majority, I linked to something saying the majority.

You also implied they are not decent because of their voting preferences, completely ignoring the complex factors that may have led each to make that decision. There are so many ways you could have gotten the point across that the Palestinion public needs to make better choices in their elected officials, yet you decided to just call those people indecent.

> Your mistake is no random accident. You should go learn positive things about Israel until you wouldn't make such a mistake again.

Is your attitude regarding the people of Palestine no random accident? Should I advise you to learn more about individual Palestinions with the assumption that would change your mind?
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Not sure if 'pillars' is the right word. Dimensions and/or Vectors are perhaps words that comes to mind first. In any event: the promise of greater integration (productivity/growth) brings with it the potential for greater betrayal (potential for destructive use).
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Tears of joy...
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Elections spend a lot of cash, but governments spend more.

In the future, governments will be entirely run by automated systems. Many layers of bureaucracy will be consolidated in to machines that run themselves.
I've taken a look at both Backbone and Knockout over the past week or so, and I definitely prefer the Knockout approach.

Backbone... I just don't get it. It seems like there's too much complexity. I'm mainly a back-end developer, so perhaps it's just me.
Another related factor is the difference in user demographics -- the early adopters may be more tech savvy.
It's not soooo crazy. ARM had the Jazelle instructions for executing Java bytecodes in hardware:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle
Lately notebooks have been increasingly hard to get to work well with Linux. I would suspect that Surface will require some talented driver hacking to get to work properly.

A semi-related data point: Linus Torvald uses a MacBook Air and yet power management just doesn't work properly on a MacBook Pro (A1278) :-(
My experience is that about 90% of the time, the compatibility mode in IE9 or IE10 will give you an accurate prediction of behavior in IE7 or IE8. It's that last 10% of the time, generally related to JavaScript issues in the original browser engines or obscure CSS bugs. So it works for basic stuff, but if you have anything complex going on you should test in a VM running the actual browser version you want to test.
Many animals use and make tools. Modern humans (people like you and me) are biologically only 20,000 years old or so.

What happened? Enough technology and development compounded to make more modern civilization possible. Various technologies may have been developed/invented in the far distant past, but were lost for various reasons.
"...Zynga has consistently reported losses since going public, however; news of the CEO dumping his stock is a blow to the company's image. Of all the insiders involved in the deal, Pincus made the most money, netting around $200 million from the sale."

I don't see how he's suffering any kind of comeuppance.
This is true but a useless statistic. Israelis do kill many more Palestinians than vice versa, but Hamas could end the violence at any time, and Israel can't. If Hamas would simply hold all fire, and publicly announce it, Israel would be forced to stop, both by internal and external pressure. If you mistakenly believe otherwise, you really don't know much about Israelis.
[Edit: This is only true of the violence, not about the political dispute. But you don't really need to kill people to have a political dispute.]
I hate that someone linked this in an article in the hopes that we would pay for the whole thing, by the way thanks for linking the full article in the comments whoever did that.
We got rejected too but I have a great feeling about this. I'm really happy to know that my co-founder and me can do amazing things together, and how you can achieve a lot of cool stuff while you apply to YC. I see this as an incentive to keep working and focus on delivering a great product.
> “Money doesn’t buy happiness” and it shouldn’t be your primary reason to accept or leave a job.

Great phrase.
Blogspam.

Original english article with photos: http://www.3ders.org/articles/20121107-voxeljet-builds-aston...

Sourced from original german article:

http://www.voxeljet.de/news-und-events/news/james-bond-skyfa...
What happened to humans recently that changed things?

The submitted article was interesting to me for showing the inventive capacity of an ancestral hominin lineage, which was unknown until the studies reported in the article. Species Homo sapiens, according to the current view reported in the article, goes back the better part of 100,000 years. Most of your genes and mine have been fixed in the human lineage for at least that long.

With "recently" defined as about 6,000 years ago, by then there were several regions of the world with agriculture (different crops in different places) and there was about to be a place (Mesopotamia, specifically Sumer) with actual writing rather than just proto-writing. Both of those innovations made "civilization" (living in cities) much more feasible than before. And it does appear that living in cities prompts many other kinds of social changes. Human beings over the last several thousand years have progressed by acculturation and by writing down knowledge acquired by other individuals much more rapidly than any human lineage has ever progressed by shuffling genes.
Writing? The transient intelligence of human communities is negligible compared with the cumulative one enabled by this invention.
I am using Firefox 17 with webgl, when I am in google street view it gives me

To use street view, you need Adobe Flash Player version 10 or newer. Get the latest Flash Player.

When I try to go to http://maps.google.com/maps?vector=1 to enable webgl it goes into an endless loop.

This page might explain why: http://support.google.com/maps/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...

Some low-end integrated GPUs (like the Intel GMA 3100 and 3150) are not compatible
And also, a defense from such an overcomplicated hack could be as simple as a fall-back from 4G to 3G, or even 2.5G.
Could someone please give me an invite key? :)
If you don't understand that Triumph of the Will and the yellow bumper ribbons are the exact same thing, you're not understanding propaganda.

Uh huh. Glorifying Hitler and the Nazis in a government comissioned film is "the exact same thing" as privately expressing support for our volunteer military in a hard situation. They're "identical", even!

Do you ever stop and think about the claims you're making? Are pink ribbons propaganda? How about the Jesus fish? The Darwin fish? A "make love not war" bumper sticker? How is private viewpoint A propaganda, while private viewpoint !A isn't? If you want to call every politically clever expression of a viewpoint "propaganda", you've robbed the term of its important, useful meaning.
I'm confused, why is this relevant?

Where did they get this data? How do they get this data? How many people are they tracking? Who is Soluto? Their site doesn't make it clear at all. And I'm not going to watch a video to figure it out.

And clearly the only people using Soluto would be more tech-savvy users? Prove to me that this sample is representative of the entire population?
Nope. Reading the comments, anywhere BUT the United States you can get some form of water cleaning
- Southern Europeans and South Americans have Bidets
- Northern Europeans have Bidet Showers (well, Germans have the shelf thing)
- Asians have these toilets (saw posts claiming about Korea, India and Japan)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet_shower
>All any woman has to do for a harassment lawsuit is point to that phrase in a courtroom. "They will happily invade the place where women are exposed! and it's corporate policy!"

It's almost as if they didn't learn jack shit from the whole brogrammer brouhaha a while back.
This argument could have easily been applied to MSFT 10 years ago, yet thanks to solid revenues and profits they have continued to pay a healthy dividend while maintaining consistent and stable value for investors. This produces a fairly stable and predictable return.

Of course you won't see the type of returns APPL stock owners saw in that same period, but you really can't predict that sort of thing without inviting huge risk. Betting on individual companies because you think you know if they are going to win or lose is a solid recipe for failure as an investor.
That's what I did in my last job search. It's paid off wonderfully. The first three months weren't especially exciting, but now I'm working on very interesting problems, and growing a ton.
I'd be more worried about what's crashing - Windows 8's Explorer is at the top, which is not a good thing...
It's been shaky today for one of my apps (http://eventualtweet.com). Their status site doesn't show anything though (http://status.twitter.com/?b48b05d0).
How does that relate to governance? Depending on the laws of the nation, property ownership and residence may not imply voting rights (or any sort of say in governance, voting or otherwise). I truly have no idea of the laws regarding this in that part of the world, but a simple argument of land purchase without addressing those issues doesn't really sway me too far one way or the other.
He's had some amazing ones. Here's a good selection.

First, start out with Blue Ocean. If you are a geek, and you love hardware/video games/nintendo, this is a classic episode that speaks to you in so many ways. It's not so overly technical that our eyes glaze over, but it's narrated by someone who is one of us, and is entertaining, and deeply deeply loves his topic (and Nintendo).

Episodes:

Blue Ocean - http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/48

Bristling with Controls - http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/71

Pinching the Harmonica - http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/49

Maximum Deflection in all Directions - http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/50

I'm not a gamers as much as I used to be, but Siracusa brings back the wonder of it all. Seriously the one podcast I look eagerly forward to every week.
Really well executed. I was ready to be not impressed and was blown away.
I can't tell wtf that even means, but I'm pretty sure it's a prime example of the less said, the better.
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This is slightly inaccurate, for starters I don't know a single person with soluto nor have I ever heard of this before.

This is most likely geared towards a more tech savvy user, proving pretty much nothing as that is not the majority.
Guys Mixpanel is offering free analytics for rejectees http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4791944

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How often do you send a "Where are you?" SMS message to your friends
It's so great that this is available now. Reading the title I was hoping Netflix had stepped up and made this work, but no. It's frustrating that it needs to work this way, running through wine with multiple patches but at least it works.
This looks really interesting to me. Fascinating to see more augmented reality concepts being pushed out. I am interested to see if this will eventually be tied in with glass. Google really seems to be pushing towards ubiquitous computing lately.

Can't wait to try it out if I get an invite from them.
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