skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BTW, I didn't say it before and feel like a heel. Thank you for all the work you do for iPhone users. I have nothing but immense respect for you, your time and your talent. Also, I did watch some of the video (like 10 minutes) but the audio was so echo-y that I couldn't really understand you.

This was never about arguing with your points and I know I didn't make mine with the most scientific of data. I worked for an ISP for 7 years and know first hand on the costs of licensing spectrum and what the 700 MHz sold for at auction. They are a wireless ISP and I was the purchasing manager,so I also know what it costs to put up a tower (actual costs as well as land use, leases, licenses, etc). I believe that if a small, regional ISP can do it and still offer affordable service to the customer, then it should be easier for a much larger company such as AT&T, Verizon, etc to do it.

I know I clumsily compared it to cable and satellite Internet service and made vague arguments about customer perception and price. I do feel that they are somewhat valid because I think customers focus on price first and QOS, data amounts and reliability second, third, never...

I think we're in agreement that if there was a model that was based on usage and actual costs (and not some arbitrary amount that they think they can squeeze a customer for) then we'd all be better off and have concrete numbers in hand. That would allow us to use our data however we feel like. Kinda the same as Nathan is arguing about his "unlocked" phone what what he should be able to do with it.

Lastly, have a Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy the time with your family. - burtrom
I think by showing the individual being tracked and their path it feels creepier than just aggregated data of all user paths but obviously this needs to be know to generate the aggregates and provide data to refine the site or application.

If you are really bothered browse with NoScript and don't allow MixPanel/Google Analytics etc. Check unknown domains to see if they are advertising or analytics services. This won't stop everything but will make it harder.

Note that anything you are doing server side can leave a trace in the logs if nothing else. Also phone apps can easily track this sort of thing too. I've made opting out of anonymous logging a (cheap) paid option in my app (http://itunes.com/apps/fastlists) because I think the data is valuable so I want to allow but discourage opt-out and it is also their to justify the full package price.
personal credit cards

All the business credit card applications I've seen have joint and several liability between the company and the individuals personally. Maybe there's a point at which a company can get credit cards that nobody is individually, personally responsible for, but AFAICT it's not at a startup.
I really, really wish TDD, or any concept of unit testing had been taught in my courses. Nothing has improved my ability to understand decoupling, orthogonality, and the importance of naming conventions than test writing. And on days when I can't muster the energy to write heavy code, I can at least write the tests that I know I'll need to pass...and the next day, that heavy code task is practically done.

TDD is both a good practice and a great psychological boost.
Sampling. You don't have to follow every individual path but if you look at a few you can draw out common themes that you can then potentially verify with a statistical analysis of all the users (or a bigger sample at least).
i stopped reading when they described a company bringing in some 'adult supervision'...
Hackers and Passion - what separates us
Beyond the question of how meaningful these metrics are, wouldn't it be a more useful metric to look at how complex the code you write when you use each framework is, rather than the code that implements each framework?

I suspect -- but don't know -- that these might even turn out to be inversely correlated for some types of frameworks. DSL-based frameworks often require some interesting tricks to get right.

So which is better? A complex framework that lets you write simple, concise code? Or a simple framework that requires a lot of boilerplate and complexity to use?
You are committing a crime right now
I agree that those monetization patterns aren't unique to them, but they are fairly recent trends in gaming, in general. Well, Valve innovated something with TF2 free-to-play model. And now, with IAPs and stuff, I think more game developers are consciously focusing on tricks in conversion optimization. Not just 'how to make a fun game that everyone will buy'.

Of course, that doesn't help if the actual game isn't good/addictive enough, which might be the case with Galaxy Life (or app market dynamics/luck/anything). However, Supercell probably 'recreated' it just because they saw a great monetization potential in that type of game.
The Nightmare of Android App Publishing
Brain uploads living in simulated universes are I think are our surest bet at immortality. @cstross has a highly entertaining book called Accelerando which deals with this. Check it out if you haven't yet already.

If you push is a bit, you can also branch the human brain at a certain point in your life and merge back to master whenever you see fit, and you can experience more than you ever could in a single life.

EDIT: I realize space is a big deal, but I only wish some organization working with the funds that NASA has that can explore the human brain and consciousness. This could initially lead to a variety of psychological hacks coming out which could be used by marketers and ultimately a deeper understanding of intelligence. Like OP said, if we could simulate a brain in a computer, there's no reason we couldn't make it better. If we could make it better, and this is pushing it even further, provide it with the right "memories" as a starting point, you could have the equivalent of the greatest minds of humanity living simultaneously. Think about what we could achieve then ?
Does the law make a distinction between:

(1) Servers I own that are physically located in my house.

(2) Servers I own that are co-located at a hosting facility.

(3) (physical) Servers that I am renting from a hosting facility.

(4) Virtual servers that I am renting from a hosting facility.

I assume that most law enforcement officials feel that 2-4 shouldn't need a warrant because they are not located in my house, so therefore I don't get protection from unreasonable search/seizure.

Also, at what point do #3 or #4 start to encroach onto Dropbox-esque territory where I own the data, but they are holding it for me under contract?
Only if the trajectory is almost vertical and the bullet is a small caliber. People get killed by celebratory gunfire all the time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire
If the goal is to learn about how thinking works, and maybe find ways to adapt specific methods to software problems, simulating brains makes a lot of sense, of course.

But it bewilders me how so many people see the "holy grail" in simulating whole human brains. Two things:

1. Human brains are extraordinarily power efficient - I don't think we can beat them anytime soon, as long as we are power constrained. I believe the difference in efficiency for tasks the human brain is good at (such as visual pattern recognition) is a significant number of orders of magnitude.

2. Computers are at their best when they complement us, when they solve tasks the human brain is NOT good at.
http://jqueryui.com/datepicker/
http://chipersoft.com/Kalendae/
http://www.eyecon.ro/bootstrap-datepicker/
https://github.com/dangrossman/bootstrap-daterangepicker
Well, here is one theory:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
Zynga went public with this mentality.
That's neat. We could use it for a bunch of visualizations at Torbit. Thanks for giving me my Thanksgiving break coding project.
This article, and the author's critique of Ray Kurzweil's latest book, which was also on HN last week, makes me think about a powerful point made by David Deutsch in his book "The Beginning of Infinity". He says (excuse the paraphrasing) that explanation-less theories are useless and bad science. Devoid of an explanation, data are meaningless and can be interpreted in countless nonsensical ways.

When it comes to consciousness the problem is not that we haven't built a big enough simulation with enough neurons, but rather that we lack an explanation for consciousness and its associated complex phenomena, like qualia. When we can explain consciousness, he suspects it will be easy to program. Conversely, if you can't program it, you don't understand it.
They'll just go mad faster. I'm a proponent of strong AI, but it ain't gonna be a cakewalk.
World’s oldest original digital computer is turned back on after 61 years
https://www.google.com/search?q=you%20forgot%20poland

Windows was a liberal conspiracy!
Can I ask what those issues are?
Google has Big Brains. It's expecting open source either the end of this year or early next year.
> `5.days.ago` is actually harmful IMO. You get used to stuff like that, and then (if you're me at least), you basically forget how to perform basic date/time operations without it.

that's not harmful - it's pretty useless to remember a worse way to do things, especially since you can always just pull in a dependency on activesupport or even paste in that piece of code into your own project and then continue using .days.ago.
The overclocked super-brains would camp at HN and always comment first. They'd hog all the karma!
Had the same experience. Feel the same way.

If it's not working but there's a chance you could make it something valuable, give it another go.

If it's not going to work and you know it's not going to work, it's time to shut it down and move on.

(edited for clarity)
An Ubuntu gaming laptop
So many questions about the future.

Will there be movements to give legal rights to our virtual creations based on the notion that they are conscious? Will this cause humans to lose control of things as the computer minds grow more powerful?

Will we have laws that force us to imbue emotions in them? So that they can only be created with empathy for human beings?

Will everyone obey these laws when creating computer minds? Will there be black markets of unempathic, cold-hearted superminds that blindly obey their self-serving owners?

Will we all be out of jobs? Will we even need or want money?
Great piece. What is important to know is that it is not over. I hope there will be a part 2 somewhere in the future - telling of the comeback!
Looking to Fund Startups
Hello,

I am interested in providing seed funding to early stage startups. Please email me if you are looking for such funding at startupseedfunding@gmail.com. Thanks.
Closed and ignored. Why? Because, Ecmascript-inspired, yet turns both null and undefined into...... nil. That.... is just plain a lack of thought. Is it null? Great, it's null. Not nil. null. Just like the language you're basing this on. Don't arbitrarily change constants for no reason.
In the first two cases, you are talking about your own property. Unless you have a contract with the colocation facility that says otherwise, the presence of your machine at such a facility shouldn't somehow make it searchable, just like if I put a closed briefcase full of papers down in a public library and walk away from it for 5 minutes, the police cannot suddenly search that.

As I understand it, things are shakier in case (3) and (4), because your provider absent a contract with you that says otherwise could choose to comply with subpoenas (providers commonly claim that they'll respond to LEOs only if they have a "subpoena or a warrant", as if that was a feature; you should assume that subpoenas are mere formalities and that any LEO can obtain one practically on demand). It's possible that your remedy in such a case would be civil, which would be cold comfort if your goal was to have evidence excluded from a trial.

There are a bunch of lawyers on HN now, and I'm sure one of them will jump in here to correct me.
Considering Sony has never (as far as I can remember) had a competing Android flagship, not to mention the financial state of Sony in general; I somewhat doubt Sony will pose any threat to HTC.
New Version of Mozilla Firefox Browser Integrates New Social Features
I agree. It makes for a lot more interesting story too.
2 kittens are still alive but for how long?
This reminds me strongly of the original dot-com boom/bust around 2000. Working at a venture-funded startup with flashy launch parties, huge payroll and sprawling office space on Park Avenue. We knew it wouldn't last, so we enjoyed the moment while we could.
I was using the "bc" command line calculator. Turns out it's rounding the exponent. The revised number is correct, though.
Indeed. In fact, I'd posture that the comments, after the first, are wrong; the lines' intents are to _set_!

// Set the element as readonly
element.readOnly = true

// Get the date today
DATE_TODAY = P.getDateToday()

// Get the date to select
DATE_SELECTED = P.getDateSelected()

// Get the month to focus
MONTH_FOCUSED = P.getMonthFocused()

// Get the date ranges
DATE_MIN = P.getDateRange( SETTINGS.date_min )
DATE_MAX = P.getDateRange( SETTINGS.date_max, 1 )
I think you are missing out on the furor over US police thinking they are a military organization operating in hostile territory.

Edit: this was hyperbole, but I think this is the slippery slope people are objecting to.
Why Successful Entrepreneurs Are Usually Liars
This is EXACTLY how I felt with my first start-up Free.TV It took me years to get over the failure and actually learn from it. But while I am more wise now in my new startups, it makes me realize maybe they may not be as a "big Idea" or that perhaps I am now too cautious and so may not be as successful. Thank you for putting my feelings in such a clear story.
Visicalc ... Lotus 1-2-3 ... Borland Quattro ... Microsoft Excel ... Google Spreadsheets
Lotus Notes is without question the single worst piece of software I have ever used. It needs to fucking die. It is a terrible client, backed by a pointlessly-expensive server, that's slower than the competition, while offering exactly zero benefit. It is shit. I absolutely refuse to work for another company that uses Lotus Notes. If they hire me, then I discover they use Notes, I will walk. Because... fuck everything about that. Never in my life have I used a piece of software that was so persistent about giving me reasons to despise it. Good lord.
Where does it say it was Anonymous? (You didn't say that, but the parent did).
Agreed! I had no idea how many bad ones there were until I needed one for a project.
Don't forget ease of finding and/or training other developers to work on a project
A simple node.js wrapper for AWS CloudSearch
Yes, Lotus even provides a KillNotes utility on their website.
>Whose thoughts were these, and why were they in my brain when I was falling asleep? Weird things happen when we sleep, but before all contact from the real world shuts off, the transition into sleep may be one of the most important for figuring out what is really happening in our brains.

Why do you immediately assume they aren't your own thoughts? Surely you have no problem simulating garbled language or your own garbled interpretation of other languages in your mind right now, why couldn't this have been the case when you were falling asleep? It seems strange to me to think that because of some bizarre or out of character thoughts that the only answer would be someone else's thoughts invading your mind.
John McAfee: The Government Wants to Kill Me
And, do we think that if we succeed in recreating the complexity and capability of the human brain with computers, that the computer brains won't be just as error-prone and individually unpredictable as the real thing?
This kind of work has applications in neuroscience to model specific parts of the brain. Blue Brain is just such an effort. I'd also be confident in saying this thing isn't going to become intelligent any time soon.

We also don't have any idea how the physical structure of the brain maps to its functional characteristics (pattern recognition, consciousness.) This work may help us explore that. It's a brain simulation, maybe, but it's definitely not a 'mind' simulation at all.
I'm interested to find out that this is where my 12 year old son sunk about $25 into in-app purchases ("bag of gems") over 2 days of playing this game (Clash of Clans) on his iPod Touch. He says its an awesome game, but this seems way too overpriced to me. All his friends from school are also playing it, and probably also sinking cash at a high rate into this company (and Apple).
I agree with this. I had an internship, and the mentor really made it what it was. Even if you can only end up at a mediocre company, if you have a good mentor it will be a success.
Why the gaming industry needs to pay attention to girls
Tokens makes promo codes actually-usable
Bands have a product "music" which they need to market. Much like any business. Some bands I have liked on Facebook, because they are friends, I don't necessarily want to hear every piece of information from them. You are asking Twitter to change its model to accomodate bands. Twitter seems to be doing OK. Bands should change their model and not rely on MySpace then Facebook then Twitter then ...
> how the stock market gets away with it I'll never know

Because a share represents part ownership of the company.
I'm enjoying the irony of you proposing we give our congress critters privacy so they don't have to hide from us.
How a toothbrush explains the power of one of Stockholm's hottest startups
Ex-Lotii here. I joined in '93 supporting 1-2-3 for Dos, 1-2-3 for Windows and Lotus Approach.

I also taught myself Notes while I was there.

Notes looks kind of weird now, but pre-internet days it was the only real way to create an "intranet", and it's workflow capabilities were pretty cool.
nice article. It would have been more effective for me without the superlatives and just in general shorter.
Digg’s New Business: Finding Apps You’ll Love
Why tiny Stockholm has the most stunning startup ecosystem since Tel Aviv
The classic counter-argument to this is that we do not need to understand the human brain fully to replicate human brain like behavior (just like we built panes before completely understanding how birds fly). Of course, brain emulation would be the easiest path towards AI if we only knew enough about the brain and had enough computational power.
Tango lets you put Instagram-like filters on your video chats
This. Designer access to your mailfile, and a full text index and it was a pretty good email client that you could tailor how you liked.
I'm sort of with you, though I've read quite a bit at this point and interacted with a number of APIs of varying degrees of "RESTfulness".

The biggest question I wish the various tutorials would address is: why is REST a good idea? Why is this particular way of doing things better than others?

And here's one thing I believe is true, that I have literally never seen in a REST tutorial: sometimes REST is not the best way to go. Sometimes an RPC architecture is better.
We asked them for any documents related to drone purchasing plans, drone guidance, internal reports on usage, etc. That they decided not to go through with a purchase is irrelevant in this case: They flatly stated they had nothing, which was, at best, inaccurate.

Public records laws are of little use if the government can lie or mislead without oversight or repercussion.

Hope that makes sense!
It was pretty cool, but could generate massive files depending how many dimensions your spreadsheet had.
The amount of privilege built into this "painful failure" is disquieting. Here's a person whose biggest problem in life appears to be that he's in debt and, for the moment, unemployed. But: he was the CEO of a company funded to the tune of 8xFTE, and can thus almost certainly walk into hundreds of VP/Product Management or Business Development roles immediately, all of which will pay him more than any of his technical employees. Employees who are also, let's please face it, immensely privileged.

I wouldn't care, except that towards the end someone texts him and he angrily pouts that nobody can know his pain. Well, it's not for me to judge, right. But as someone who does in fact believe that people have an immortal soul, I would say that that whatever the universal spirit or cosmic order or divine intent that unites our existance is, it should probably not be taunted with statements like "you cannot know the pain of someone who was the CEO of a tech company shutting down his office for the last time before hunting for a job in the hottest sector of the entire economy", because that universal whatever might take the time to show you what it's like to be the 48-year-old employee of a midwest factory being shut down.

I had a neighbor who's kid --- a great kid, from what I can tell --- brought a pocketknife to school to show other kids. He was zero-tolerance expelled. My neighbor was doing OK for himself, but not OK to the extent of "could swing private school". From what I understand, that event killed it for them: they had to move, the mom and kids to one state (where the extended family lived and the school district would admit the boy) and the dad to a neighboring state to work and commute back on weekends. Do you know a lot of tech people that have had to do that? Then I'd like to suggest those people have standing to at least commiserate with the founder of a failed startup. And this is just something I saw personally; my inclination is, shit like this happens. Shit that is too boring to be the topic of a news story at the top of HN. Shit that happens to people who aren't lucky enough to be in the middle of the startup economy, and that happens approximately all the time.

Grand projects fail all the time. Open source projects die. Web communities die. Clubs wind down. Sporting teams disband. I write this so you can angrily tell me that I'm wrong: tell me what's so bad about a tech startup failing in 2012? (Let me preempt one obvious angry barb by saying that was a cofounder and investor in a VC-funded startup that failed in 2001, the "nuclear winter").

Please: I'm not saying that startup people are so lucky that they're not allowed to be unhappy when their companies fail. I am saying something else that is more subtle than that.
It seems to be far faster than the rest of the datepickers people have linked to on this page, as well. Feels great to use.
Interesting argument towards the end, although my answer to about half the questions is caselaw.
I read all your post and still can not to get why you think that you hear real human thoughts. Dream is sort of hallucination, most of people have visual hallucinations before falling asleep, this hallucinations are usually based on experience during the day. In your case your new experience was probably sounds of people speaking Norwegian, your auditory hallucinations stopped as soon as you stopped to get such experience. Why you really suspect sharing thoughts with other people?
I like the design but that automatic slideshow changing every 2 seconds is annoying... That close to the text it disrupts reading, and I don't even have enough time to watch the image (I can pause with mouse but by the time I learn that I'm already annoyed).

Reminds me of this thread "Don’t Use Automatic Image Sliders or Carousels": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4595026