skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, they are not the same thing but: the govt. did invest in creating the ARPANET, and the DOE still counts as one of the largest customers of supercomputers.
If the Govt. invests in new tech. areas that the private sector is unwilling/unsure of investing for the purpose of pushing the industry ahead, I don't really see anything wrong with that.
Why do so many people still pretend mobile and web are a binary choice? Web is a medium, mobile is a platform. Mobile devices can access the web. 90% of the apps people are making have no business being an app, and should just be a properly designed website that works on all devices. This is just like all those people selling "multimedia presentations" on cds in the late 90s instead of making it a web site.
You can do something comparable to this with just about any OS if you have physical access to the box (as booting into single user mode requires on OS X) and the BIOS has no password protection.

E.g., Boot from a flash drive that can mount NTFS. Now you have full access to your Windows file system.

Encryption is the only solution here (a BIOS password doesn't stop someone with physical access from removing your disk), and OS X supports that as well.
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It is important to remember that if you think that, your beef should be with the government not the company that accepted it. I think to many people have taken their own disapproval of such programs to be a legitimate criticism if Tesla.
Context: the stellaris launchpad is a Cortex-M4 based development board which TI were selling at 2 for $5. If you don't know what that means it's basically an ARM arduino.

Like everyone else I ordered the limit of 2 boards and six months later I received them, having forgotten the plans I originally had for their use, so this article is a welcome kick up the arse to actually use some of the toys in my drawer.
Haha, yeah. I find it hilarious when a startup founder is running around doing business meetings and asking for tech cofounders and all this stuff, and I go to his landing page, and it has no information whatsoever. Like a tag line and a picture.

In one case I met the guy and he actually had a decent demo, but there was no way for anyone to ever see it and get some interest in working with him unless you already knew him ahead of time and were willing to meet him to see it. People like this just don't get the power of the internet at all.

Later on I mentioned his idea to a VC who was very into that space, and the VC got interested and immediately tried to lookup the app on the app store while I was talking to him, then asked for a web page. So the guy even blew VC interest by hiding his demo in his pocket. A YouTube video would have taken him 5 minutes and at least gotten him to YC "ugly duckling" demo day status.
Microsoft opens its own social network
As much as I agree with the general message (nobody died, so it's not _that_ bad), and have employed that same technique over the years, the part about root cause is off point IMHO.

'Root cause' can absolutely refer to a collection of events. In the example given, clearly both things were causal, clearly you fix both - you don't pick one and label it 'THE root cause' and forget about the other (yes I know he talks about prioritisation, but again that's perfectly valid when addressing a root cause that happens to be a collection).
Companies compete, users win.

The press nearly always gets this wrong and the viewpoint has taken root in our collective thinking.

Competition is about customers, not competitors. With competition, customers should get better stuff, more stuff and cheaper stuff.

I've seen very little "users losing" in the past 10 years, despite continuous reporting to the contrary. Were this not the case, we wouldn't even have a twitter, facebook or instagram - we'd all be using the same thing provided by the same company and it would most definitely be outmoded and suck.

Competition works. Get used to it, change sucks.
Do you have any idea whatsoever how hard it is to have a successful venture in the automotive industry?

You really should watch the Bloomberg Risk Takers documentary on Elon. I'm against handouts as much as anyone (it's a loan though), but try making a comment like this afterward.

The difficulties he went thru to keep Tesla afloat were outrageous. By this time he been dumping his fortune into both this and SpaceX and was essentially at the point of personal bankruptcy (ie. was friends/associates time to keep moving, no one was willing to continue investing). Note in the article the sentence "Last month, Mercedes’ parent company Daimler also invested $50 million for a 10 percent stake in Tesla." Do yourself a favor and learn what Tesla actually did to make this happen. Yes, you may have heard they retrofitted Smart Cars with the Tesla power train, but how they did that is a breathtaking example of innovation and teamwork for a company at the brink of death.

In short, this loan saved the company. This article we're discussing right now would not exist. Tesla Motors would be another footnote in history that people could point to - "automotive startups are a losing proposition, do not invest". Would you rather the government bet on a guy like Elon who's actually putting his all into carrying out on a promise to change the game, or industry stalwarts who pissed away good will by incompetence and greed?
I stated it in another comment, but the mobile-first strategy is more about user interaction design than implementation technology choices. The decision between HTML5 or native app or HTML5 wrapped as an app will be different in a year, but the fact that users are using most services mainly from mobile or tablets won't.

If you start a new startup today and you have resources to design a single user experience, it's a choice of designing for mobile/tablets or for laptops. Responsive design is not a solution here, as you have to think full user flows.

It's questions like how much text a user is willing to input? How will they pay? How will they bring their own data to your service? If you are selling anything virtual, you should probably leverage native in-app payment methods instead of expecting user to input credit card details. If user needs to bring his data (photos, documents, Excel sheets) to your service, how he will do it? In the mobile-first world, things like smooth Dropbox integration mean much more than on a laptop/desktop world.
What is the difference between the two ? Don't you need to have a net positive flow in order to be profitable ?
Free services, weak businesses, revenue leaks, leaks plugged, addicts butthurt. SSDD.
Having somewhat biological background, I've wondered if it is about bees.
The page and slide title are correct though (APIs).
A useful feature of HN is that it will elide links if they get too long.
Looks great! Good job.
That's not the same thing, and just my point. The government didn't give Intel, Microsoft or Netscape $200M (or whatever the inflation-adjusted figure would be).
Verizon patents set-top box w/ camera for targeted ads
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NASA's Mars Reference Mission [1] calls for landing an un-fueled return vehicle on Mars and then manufacturing fuel.

In-situ production or not, any sane humans-to-Mars mission is going to involve landing a bunch of equipment at the landing site ahead of time. The marsnauts are going to have very complete maps of their new home before they even launch from Earth.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Design_Reference_Mission_3...
What I've settled on is sales letters:

http://www.instahero.com/
Yes, also in Windows. So it's another reason to have a swap partition, but not to actually swap to it in normal operation.
You might try a functional language such as Haskell. It allows you to feel denotational semantics (common in mathematics), rather than operational semantics (common in imperative programming).
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From another site reporting this news,

"Verizon gave a few examples of how the technology could be used: if a couple is arguing, an ad for marriage counseling would pop up while sounds of cuddling would prompt an ad for contraceptives."
Tiny, spherical LCD that can be embedded within contact lenses
To be fair, with all due respect, while I understand the concerns of Messrs. Berners-Lee and Cerf, I think they are also kind of missing the point. Unless newspapers are intentionally or not misleading us which is another possibility.

If you read what Russia is actually asking for, you will see that it has nothing to do with technologies and standardisation, everyone is pretty happy with that. No, what some governments start questioning is ICANN and especially IANA powers.

IANA is overseeing the whole IP allocations business and supervise root DNS management which give it a huge power over the network. However, while private, ICANN operates under a DOC contract and is headquartered in LA. I'm not overtly surprised it tickles some countries which are not too fond of the USA.

IHMO keeping ICANN but making it operate under a UN contract (maybe through ITU) would be a step in the right direction.
Where did the title The First Realistic Hacker Movie come from?

It gives of an unwelcome smell, it's impossible to state before the movie is finished, and its not stated anywhere on the project page...
This story is a few months old now. Back then, it was everywhere in the medias here in Switzerland. The huge issue if you ask me, is that the guy was able to exfiltrate hard drives for weeks, without beeing questioned.
The function of the rover isn't to drive around and map things. Its function to serve as a platform for a suite of scientific instruments to gather data. That suite of scientific instruments will be different for the next rover, adjusted based on what we now currently know (and didn't know the last time they chose instruments). So, yes, its "another" rover. But its what that rover is carrying that is different and interesting.

Having said that, I'm all for being a lot more ambitious, and sending people to Mars instead. But that's a different discussion.
Looks pretty cool, but why wouldn't I just post my idea to KickStarter?
well, they could email you :) hard to put screenshots etc in a form but its pretty easy from mail client. I would think adding a little footer with an email and phone number wouldn't hurt. Be nice for people who don't like the "contact us" forms (ie me, especially when they don't work).
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Limited budget is certainly a big reason, and another is the lack of a pipeline. When Apple releases a new iPhone every other year, it's not like they started development on the next model only after the current one is released. Development is staggered so that there is always something at each stage of development.

As it says in the article, they will be leveraging proven technologies, but have not yet solicited proposals for instruments. This means they are still at the very beginning of the development process, and more money would only help so much. That's why the planetary.org post says that a higher budget would only move the launch date up 2 years. If they had started on a new rover 6 years ago with adequate funding, then we could be looking at a new rover in a year.
FYI, I've learned a little trick that 1Password doesn't seem to share widely. Go into your Dropbox, and in the 1Password.agilekeychain folder there is a file named 1Password.html. It's a read-only instance of your 1Password keychain usable in anything with a browser.
This is one of the reason why patents are actually good, https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&hl=en... takes you to a list of stuff like this http://www.google.com/patents/US8286743 which happens to be my personal favorite, since it's this battery placement that gives Tesla cars an edge. (handling, acceleration and all that good stuff.)

It's one of the examples of patents being done right, to protect innovation.
Seems a lot like the HTML map tag. Expect you could have done this (-animations) in HTML <5
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Is there a service out there that includes the generation of vocab review sheets (many words, defined in one viewspace)? I find duolingo (and Anki, other web services) unsuitably slow for learning vocab.
Scientists Create Virtual Human Brain, Runs on Linux
The first large scale detailed virtual human brain, with functions limited to visual processing and writing on a virtual chalkboard, able to answer simple questions, was reported in this issue of Science Magazine. Known as Spaun, it was created using the Nengo simulation software package, and run on clusters Orca and Kraken of the SharcNet High Performance Computing Consortium. In other words, it is run on a Linux based supercomputer.

It takes up about 24GB of ram and takes about 2.5 hours of processing for one second of simulated time.
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This is likely going to hurt Instagram more than Twitter, but Instagram can now afford it.

Though some part of me can't help but to feel somewhat glad. Twitter has been treating developers like crap for the past year; is somewhat comforting to see them getting a taste of that.
Will the site be having Non-Disclosure Agreements?
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I have no idea where it is, so guess not Mat ;)
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I think your missing the point of the web site.

It could be used to find out if an idea is worth persuing and if it is, you could then go to kickstarter... that's how I see it.
My favorite hack: talk to kids. They will do two things that adults won't:

1. Laugh at you, so you know when you're wrong.
2. Patiently "teach" you things over and over and over again.
Well, that's an assumption we're testing: early adopters / curious viewers / other entrepreneurs, will be quicker to give their support (and their email, through a secured gateway to the original poster) than their money.

We'll be investing in the traffic/exposure of those visitors and entrepreneurs, and hope this launch page can help get the creators there.
Very good point! Just be careful...

- Google will take a lot longer to report your data if you do this.
- Google also has data limits. If you're experiencing 10k+ pageviews a day, you will probably run into the limit and it will stop reporting stuff.

http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
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http://www.investopedia.com/articles/01/110701.asp#axzz2EC5J...
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I learned a long time ago never to sell expensive goods through Ebay. It's a bad time waiting to happen.
Separate the marginal from the average.

Most people will not choose to go to Mars. This is not a problem for settling Mars. Settling always happens via a very small fraction of the originating population.

The people who will settle Mars will do it because they want to settle Mars.
That's how the story plays out for me on a desktop system if a single process starts running away with memory.

But on a production server this is guaranteed to happen at the worst possible time (i.e. at the peak of the daily load cycle). As soon as you start swapping, it starts slowing down and the outstanding transactions begin stacking up. The response time goes all hockey-stick shaped and it's a death spiral.
I think if you just discount all modern innovations then it's easy to say nothing has changed of note. My TV looks better than ever. Should I just discount that as progress because it's still a picture displayed in my living room? If you suggest the iPhone 5 which allows me to get anywhere without planning with turn by turn directions, communicate with family on the road, make dinner reservations, and answer a work related question via email is not advancing anything just because the science behind it was settled in the 1970s? The amount of wealth and coordination in society to make that happen at such a low price is difficult to get your head around. It wasn't innovation policy that lead to these things though it was the result of the market providing services to people who want thme and individuals working very hard to make it happen.

Regulation (another word for taxes) and taxes are much higher than in prior periods. It should surprise no one that these have negative effects on growth. Combine that with taking on a lot of debt that cannot be repaid and you have a recipe for low growth. I'm afraid that any innovation policy that isn't just will just end up as gifts to those who are well connected.

Part of the problem is that some of the things we have now are totally amazing and we just don't care to notice.
Usually there's a question of, "Is this a bug, or do we have an environment problem, or configuration problem, or is it really a feature?"

In a perfect world, environments would be exact, configs would never change, and features would be flawlessly documented, but such a world is not one I live in, nor do many other people.
I haven't been that impressed with Tutorial D. I spent some time thinking about better ways to query relational and graph data; http://canonical.org/~kragen/binary-relations.html are some unfinished notes from that time.

Datalog is an existing thing in that space that's pretty sane.
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It's funny. Without Twitter and Facebook to distribute Instagram's content they would have never been able to grow to such a size so quickly.

Now that they've reached this large critical mass of users they can afford to go back and pull their content from the networks that made it popular in the first place.
I understand why they're doing this. They need to control the medium where people consume their content, so they'll be able to sell some ads. By the way, Twitter are doing the same. Unfortunately this is one of the few options most social networks companies see to become profitable.

But it's kind of sad that almost nobody is trying to be profitable providing convenience and a smooth experience to their users.
No harm swapping to it if you have it, as far as I can tell.
Only the naive want to continue the drug war
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The Andromeda Project
I have loads of ideas, I have entered my e-mail and look foward to the launch :)
We're trying to be smart about this. LaunchSky is to test out what you should build and what you shouldn't.

We're currently gauging that interest with the HN community.

If the interest in this product is there, we'll of course invest in the right legal grounds to do what's possible to protect some of the ideas being posted. This can get pricy, but if the interest is there, it's definitely something we're willing to invest in.

If not, it'll simply be a tool for "build it or not" without the legal backbone (at least initially).
Unfortunately it's been a while since sellers have been protected on Ebay. A few years in fact. Live and learn.
Ask HN: What do you guys think about Nokia now?
Nokia has released few products recently and now its gaining momentum and its share price is seeing a steady increase. I was wondering if anyone has experienced Nokia Lumia series and what is the general feel.

You can also quickly submit the poll.
I like Nokia.
This was my instant feeling about this. Karma has a way of coming back to bite you in your ass, and the way twitter has been behaving lately...
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In 1971 we put wire taps on Soviet underwater communication lines within territorial waters despite sound detection devices placed along the seabed. I'm sure the country that had the ingenuity and balls to pull off Operation Ivy Bells (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells) when it faced the existential threat of Communism is perfectly capable of figuring out how to do the exact same thing to packet communication in the continental United States as it faces the threat of Terrorism.
I dislike Nokia
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How is this different from a LaunchRock in essence? I feel like for many consumers, it's very hard for them to imagine the product w/o seeing/touching/interacting with it no matter how great you pitch or describe it. If someone were to describe to me a blog of funny cats or what's essentially Instagram, I don't think I would have cared much and never really appreciate how much enjoyment I would derive from both just from the pitch or description.

On many occasions I've asked people if they wanted x or would it be cool if it did x and lukewarm would be the best description of their reaction. But seeing the live or real version of that x gave a totally different reaction.
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When mathematicians investigate new types of problems, they often develop new notation. Computer programming languages are an example of this in a very strong sense.

The proliferation of programming languages relative to other systems of mathematical notation may be due to programming being more frequently applied to new types of problems - including the problem of developing new types of notation using computers.
yes but they're still not profitable. big difference
There is no longer such a thing as "Instagram," they belong to Facebook now. It's normal they try to distance themselves from Twitter, a competitor. Also, to be fair, Twitter hasn't exactly been an example of openness lately, the way they're screwing the developers who've made them what they've become is an even more egregious example of platform lock-in.
love Nokia. best and reliable phone maker.
Every site wants to be the aggregator, no-one wants to be aggregated.

This is what we can't have good things.
Let's add Audi e-tron to the list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_e-tron).
So let me get this straight -- people are allowing their photos to be encoded with a proprietary encoding, even though any number of free, open-source encodings are readily available?

Follow-up question: Why?

After the noise dies down, I hope this issue will be seen as another argument against proprietary graphic encodings and software patents in general.
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Nokia Maps digitises streets to battle Google's threat
An explanation is given in the Operating Cash Flow vs. Net Income, EBIT, and EBITDA section of this Wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_cash_flow
War games?
Being operationally cash flow positive means that on a day to day basis your bank balance is increasing. Being profitable means that all of the money comes in in greater than your total costs.

So for example, if you look at HP's write down, they were operationally cash flow positive for the quarter but are 'writing off' 8+ billion dollars. So they "lost" over $8B this quarter. Aka not profitable during the quarter.

So the milestones you look for as a company are that you are cash flow positive for the day (all of todays costs covered by revenue), cash flow positive for the quarter (net increase in cash on and over the quarter) and cash flow positive for the year (net cash increase for the year), and finally profitable (total income exceeded all costs, both tangible and intangible (like depreciation)).
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I wonder who was deciding what to do at the bench and how those decision makers were spending their time. I would be willing to bet they spent a lot of work hours reading up on the latest developments.
How about a third option? The government doesn't bet on anybody and let's the market sort out the winners.
Hype may be in decline but only to rise again as modeled in the Hype Cycle. I think this "Mobile First" thing is a typical example of Amara's Law, overestimating the effect of a new technology in the short run and underestimating in the long run.