skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In all honesty, despite the scary-voice narrative, I think this is a boon for urban war scenarios like Iraq. If I was a soldier, I would much rather see this vision be realized, than be the person to conduct night raids or go door-to-door to try to track someone.

Of course, this leads into being used in non-war scenarios (Minority Report style), which is where I suspect most of the discussion will center around.
I'd love to see it actually. Tried to contact you via your website form, but it wasn't working. I'll just send a tweet instead.
no at home in my house useing my computer
'Bad guys' is very subjective. I would argue that anyone who wants a flying death machine capable of killing people with a button-push from thousands of miles away is a 'bad guy'.
This seems to be extracting a lot of inference from not a lot of evidence. The difference in confidence could simply arise from the fact that the "2 dollars more" question sounds harder than the control question. It's a more complicated question, so it stands to reason that people would be less confident about it.

What I really want to know is this: how confident were the people who got the harder question right?
Because when you get the bill, it's reduced from the retail price. People tend to tip on the price in the final bill. That final bill is discounted and they base their tip calculations on the discounted price, not the retail price. Even if they mean to tip %20, that %20 is based off a reduced number so the waiter is not getting tipped on the full meal price.

When I tip on a discounted meal, I calculate based on the retail price. My original comment suggested that many people might be tipping on the discounted price and that could be why waiters don't like daily deal customers.
You assume you were the soldier in Iraq controlling the drone, not the one that got shot.
Are 64-core and 100-core models discontinued?
I've got a term for what you just experienced: psychological arbitrage.
"Inexcusable"? "Apologists"? "Forgive"? Did you pick those words with consideration?

Obviously you seem to target me (as part of a group you don't agree with) here. Those words make no sense in this context?

I'm a Linux guy at home/at night, but work as a C# developer in a "We love Microsoft" (tm) company where everything MS is hyped. I'm not part of that though..

Windows 8 (or 2012) works for me _exactly_ as Windows 7 did (Windows 7 workflow for launching stuff? Hit 'Windows' key, start typing. Windows 8 workflow for launching stuff? Hit 'Windows' key (or Win+W or Win+F), start typing.

I certainly hate some of the design decisions, all of them related to Metro-only applications. Typing 'optional' (leading to 'Install optional updates', the ~sane~ version of Windows Update) annoys me. There are quite some cases like that, but really: That's minor.

The start menu was useless on every machine I've ever seen. It got cluttered quickly with a mixture of documents, programs, shortcuts to websites or crazy 'uninstall' tools, became a messy hierarchy after 15min of using a machine and don't get me started on the sorting or auto-hiding features previous versions of Windows 'improved' the situation with.

Worse, the _very specific_ complaint about ways to shut down the machine makes no sense at all (see my previous post. The change is that you have to add a 'i' key to the first press of the Windows button - yeah and the button to power down the machine is now on the right side of the screen).

I don't claim that Windows 8 is perfect or anything close to that, but it is not that bad. People just like to complain. A lot. KDE 4 is crap. Gnome 3 is crap. Unity is stupidity cast into UX. Ah - and OS X removes really, really vital things on every release, it seems. Right..

What I'm asking for is some perspective and some nuanced criticism. That isn't happening so far and your 'easily the worst GUI shell' is exactly that broad stroke that I consider flat out wrong. We can argue about details, specific issues, but the way you state it you're just appearing as angry and ranting. Using superlatives and general criticism serves no point.

On a slightly related side note: I have the feeling that IT professionals are the worst crowd to handle changes, actually. Where a user might accept a change and honestly give it a try, a more experienced so-called power-user might feel offended much more easily in my opinion.
My thoughts exactly! ...and Paul Graham's too as it seems, as it must be also the thoughts of every realistic investitor. This is a high bet and if that failed antrepreneur is sincere and acted in good faith, it still stays as a candidate future investment in my book (considering also the fact that he must have some experience after his first enterprise).
The world's most advanced form builder goes into Beta
or, you know, just have some common sense, perhaps particularly on United and American Airlines flights.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to rape you" is not something you suddenly exclaim for no reason while walking behind someone in a dark alley who's nervously looking back over their shoulder.
They could easily verify him. He "accrued nearly 950,000 lifetime flight miles with United" and had been upgraded to business class. You normally don't kick customers out because they take pictures of the seats, this is BS, staff could invent lots of ways to ease this situation if they wanted to, but post 9/11 defacto standard for flight personnel is they can do this kind of silly things and get away with it in the name of security.
I think you're reading too much into it, I'm sure he didn't mean to offend high school dropouts specifically, and that he means that too much discretionary power is put into the hands of a random person that happens to be employed by homeland security. Which is indeed a scary thought. Some people will always have reasons to dislike you, whatever you do.
meh. "Most Terrifying" is a bit of hyperbole I suppose. I was expecting to see actual Assassination By Drone footage or a drone "liquidation" on US soil or something.

Did anyone really not see this coming? Pervasive, ubiquitous surveillance(+) is fairly obviously in our current-to-near-future. The fact that others will be able to build similar technology (aside from the US military/government), while scary, might be better than the alternative (one power having a monopoly on ubiquitous surveillance).
Claiming property of whatever they find up there?
This is interesting: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Aparad...

> We are pleased to announce that we have ported Paradox Engine and Yebis Post-Processing Middleware on PS4 last year. In order to successfully achieve this, we have managed to develop a full compatible Direct3D11/DXGI/D3DCompiler API on top of PS4 existing graphics API. We plan to use also this layer to port other middleware developed at our company.
"If I had failed using my own money, I could live with it. But having a team of investors believe in you, only to let them down is an incredibly difficult thing to deal with."

While I understand this completely, they also realize the same. Investments are always risky. Especially in the startup world. They know what can happen. Don't worry, it's just money, and money isn't the most important thing in life.

You haven't failed. You have learned something out from this experience. This isn't the end of the line. Last but not least, don't give up. Unless you want to work full time for an employer. Failure is something that everyone runs against in their life and it shouldn't stop you from doing other things.

For all you know, this time next year, you could be booming with some other amazing idea you get.
LOL @ Flippa.com

Seriously that site has been going downhill ever since they rebranded from SitePoint Marketplace several years back.

I remember when they first launched, they used a screenshot of one of my sites on their homepage for at least a year without permission, and this site was listed on SitePoint before they deleted it and refused to say why.

Pretty much ever since the whole site is full of scammers. People just put up bogus sites claiming to sell Facebook fans, Youtube views and Twitter followers, that somehow make $5k a month and the domains are barely 30 days old.

Then they upload 'legitimate' Google Analytics screenshots, which Flippa never check and then someone stupid enough to buy the site pretty much gets a $10 domain in return for $10k (they take a greedy chunk off every sale of course so they couldn't care less about anyone else)

I would guess that a good percentage of the data they use is complete bogus so I wouldn't take those stats seriously.

Anyway here's a nice Google search if you want to look into this further: http://goo.gl/qfVAW
Are you interesting enough for me to comply or will I just walk over to somebody else.
If you go to their home page and look at the "Other Stories" section, it appears to be a standard way to attribute the phrase. Think of it as Reverse Indian Notation; in North America we'd say "President: India to launch Mars mission this year".
I know it might sound a little bit unethical, but I find this coming revolution (+ I really think it is a coming revolution) incredibly exciting.

Though there are endless evil creepy uses, there are also many very, very nice ones too - finding (+ even rescuing in awful weather with a big UAV) missing people is an obvious one, courier delivery is another (not with micro uavs though!)

Having said that, I can't help but find the evil uses incredibly exciting too. Like military weapons that are deadly and awful in practice, there is some engineering loveliness there too (just look at an F22 for an e.g.). Sue me.
I also get my information in German from an Offline newspaper or the German websites.

Or to back my claims up, let's take some per-capita numbers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Incarceration_rates_worldw...

Sorry if this comes across as arrogant.
Cheap 3D renderings of hypothetical uses of not-so-technically-feasible dronish things. Nothing to see here.
Maybe if fewer people were "humble" and stopped "swallowing their pride" in this ridiculous climate of fear we've established at airports and on planes, we could make some headway in getting rid of it. Expecting people to be polite is fine (and as far as we know, the author was polite). Expecting them to surrender their dignity is not.
Agreed, he's basically demonstrated (as there were any doubt by now) that he's unfit for his position as minister.
I find this post extremely interesting. Are you saying spoken language plays no role in your thoughts at all, ever?

From various sources I've read over the years has always suggested to me that what one can think is constrained by what one can say (e.g. Pirahã). If you truly don't do any language conversion at all when not actually speaking to other humans that would mean my pseudo theory is completely invalid.

Personally, all my thought process is certainly not "inner monologue" based (and note this isn't something I "hear"). In fact, from what I can tell the "inner monologue" is the slowest form but it's also the most concrete. The faster forms of thinking slip away quickly, like a dream [1].

[1] This was described in an article some time back. A deaf sign language teacher met a man who was in his 20's and had no language at all. She gradually taught him sign language but after he become proficient and she tried to question him on his thoughts before he had language he resisted describing it. Then later he actually couldn't remember anymore. He claimed it all went away (over 20 years of living!) like a dream.
Never seen anything like this... super awesome ! Want the beta nooow !!
Most advanced form builder evar but their email input isn't input type email for my iPhone to pick email keyboard :/
The Multiple ‘Me’s On The Internet
If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling
I have updated the article to reflect that this was not a very recent addition.

Wikipedia may say 2005 but it did not make the draft status that the article refers to until June 2009, which we can all agree is a lot more recent.
Conseguir dinero ya
I've been using it for while (it shipped before but wasn't enabled by default; which I did). It works great most of the time, and is hassle-free. It's also likely safer to use.

Now, if only Gmail would let me preview attachments in it. They do it for Chrome's plugin. I tried messing with the URL arguments, but it seems the Gmail server won't even give you the inline (ie not a download) version of the PDF if your browser doesn't pretent to be Chrome.
As a currency people trade, you can always make money. Short it when you think it'll go down, buy when you think it'll go up. If you're right, you win.
I tried it (at http://www.typeform.com/try) and have to say the mix between enter / continue / scrolling and the arrows made it a pretty confusing experience. The partial washout helps a bit though. I wonder how intuitive filling out a form is for the 'non-tech-savy', often an important target audience.
I didn't include a link as the existing site is almost irrelevant and the vast majority needs to be scrapped. I'm more interested in how people would approach this from scratch with no preconceived notions. Like I said, I'm looking to approach this as carte Blanche to build a 21st century city guide/site/whatever and I'm having a brain freeze in that regard.
That's a valid point to challenge my thinking about some hs dropouts.

But if you feel there are any TSA workers who are thoughtful, intelligent beings, you are way off. It has massive turnover for darn good reason. Think about the lack of thought and care that has to go into taking a job like that. I mean you would have to really enjoy people hating you, enjoy violating people, or just not caring, and any of that make for a really horrible personality.
>The author's disappointment aside, it sounds like a success to me.

I can't imagine any criteria under which the handling of this situation could be considered a "success" and it scares me that individuals, not directly involved, could see it as such.
Nicely picked up! We'll go fix that asap.
You will generally speaking always need a Mac for building.. but I could see a time where they have a Mac build farm and it is just part of the service offered.
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The point about “using microprocessor technology” sure makes is sound like real technology!
And your chance of survival in case of an accident:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/safety/4...

Which is funny, really, because it makes you think people would pay extra to sit in the back...
I don't get this sort of comments, I find it immensely cool-looking. Granted, geek speaking here. But still....
Why is arguing politely such a bad thing? How do you see society evolving if everyone just does what someone else tells them to?

> There was a very simple solution to this situation; Suck it up, swallow your pride and apologise, whether you were in the wrong or not.

And watch your self esteem plummet. Do that repeatedly and your self esteem would be in the negatives :)
Zalando and the horrifying work environment
> So be careful when you say "[reading these books will give you] more intellectual freedom afterwards than any PhD graduate." That's simply not true.

You do have a point, but the way I see true "intellectual freedom" (lolcraft may have meant somth similar) is that let's say you spend your late 20s-early 30s slaving away at a post-doc only to have a chance to access a "petaflop supercomputer" and then you suddenly decide that you actually are really interested in classical Persian poetry and you'd like to devote some time to learning Persian, only to realize you do not have time for that because hey, somebody needs to write those papers for the grant money to come in and your chances for tenure to remain intact.

Replace "Persian poetry" with the study of Mathematical logic, the reading of the pre-Socratics or trying to make sense of the early-medieval migration patterns, as things stand right now both the people following PhDs and those too immersed in industry are not "intellectual free" because they have no time for these sorts of intellectual pursuits. We do need to find that middle-ground between extreme-science and industry again, we do need universal people like Leonardo and Democritus back.
Maybe you should calm down and stop reading so deeply into comments on the internet.

People are so quick to get upset these days. Chill.
I agree. That's just backwards. But I've seen it in the Australian press too.
Nice forms!!! go for it!! <o/
Should I be credulous about this? I've seen Indian newspapers report some pretty odd things.
I'm doing a PhD in NZ (also 3-4y). It's nice to hear someone who has similar reasons to mine for doing a PhD. Like you, I'm hoping to get the best of both worlds.

For me, my (engineering) PhD is a chance to take on an entire project. I get to do system-level design, hardware, software, signal processing, user interface, the lot. The thought of spending four years in a job at the bottom of the ladder doing small, well-defined tasks that my manager told me to do didn't really appeal. Instead I get to manage a project, make real decisions, and learn to deal with the consequences of those decisions. I'm not doing it for the sake of any opportunities that having a PhD might bring so much as the opportunities presented by actually doing the PhD.
The article in question was submitted by "pg". Wow!

Confidence of having all this stuff available, because someone running the service really cares, is part of HNs charm. Discussion and people are main reasons, of course.

HB HN! Happy 6th Birthday!
It lists only websites in English, and the ranking is US-centric.
Access denied | Rik van Riel's home page
balm ?
Stanford Scientists Fit Light-Emitting Bioprobe in a Single Cell
Sticking a flag on a rock in space has the side-effect of changing how the the world perceives you...
"fix all your problems before anything else" Will come as a byproduct of their Space program. It's true as you say, some people have a knee-jerk reaction to this, but more level-headed people can see the enormous benefit in not just science, technology and medicine that will surely come as a result of this, but also the jobs it will create and the inertia to succeed. That's gotta pump some money back into the economy.

There are several generations of scientists, mathematicians engineers, doctors, you name it... that have been inspired by the U.S. space program, so I can completely view this as the best idea they've had in a long time.
Ah, I stand corrected. I thought this was to be a manned mission. It is late in my neck of the woods.
ISRO has a pretty decent success rate, there is no reason to be skeptical about this.

Also we already have a mission to moon(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-1). There is no reason why this won't be successful.
Poll - product ideas - vote and submit
I have some products that I need and would like done either by me or someone else.

Since many of us have needs and limited time, why not list our needs and business ideas, and vote.
This can be used both ways: to say 'I need this', or to ask 'How many people need this?'.

One vote should mean: I need this.

I'll start with a couple of things I have been looking for since a while.
I agree with both of you. I've been working for an incubator for the past 2 years building more than 6 startups and tried KISSmetrics on all them. In the end we would code our own analytics into the app or keep a text file of SQL queries we'd run once a week to get some real insights/learnings.

That's what led me to create [redacted]. I don't want this to be a plug, but one idea we're playing with is Release Cohorts. Instead of just looking at new users in cohorts, I believe we should also look at existing active users and existing inactive users, and group them based on your release cycle (given the users are experiencing a common feature set).

This comes from the idea that features are released for one of three reasons: 1) Improve new user activation, 2) Continue to engage existing users and 3) Reactive existing inactive users.
If you think India's odd, I've got one word for you: "Florida"
Product: CRUD web application "in a box"

Input: a SQL database structure (.sql file)

Output: a complete web app with CRUD interface, admin interface, and user authentication

(something like this -> http://phreeze.com/cargo/customers with user authentication)

Use cases: any team of people who need to work on a common database.
(I am looking for this since years)
And some more info: http://translate.google.nl/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=...
I'm surprised you have that opinion on VS.. the addition of easy add-on installs and nuget packages in 2010-2012 are pretty nice. I found the VS6 UI's decent, but since I do most of my work in web based apps, it never cut it there. These days about half my time is in VS/C# and the other half in WebStorm/NodeJS. I also think web apps have a lot of milage and in some cases more to offer depending on what you are wanting to accomplish.
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I am glad that Xamarin has a viable business model, and wish them all the success in the world.
Product: lead generation market place "in a box" (or SAAS)

Input: domain name, and some texts

Output: a complete web app "ala redbeacon" for any niche

Use cases: RedBeacon for any niche, any language or location.
I've applied to Y Combinator S13 - and we may need a 3rd developer, let me know if this would interest you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangalyaan

The project cost is around 454 crore or what you could save by preventing a minor scam in our country.

The way I see, this is chicken feed for a project of this importance.
Quantitative vs. Qualitative
I still can't get over that perching bird drone which seems to have been designed without any concept of basic physics. It takes off via a single rotor, has no means of anti-torque, yet doesn't spin around uncontrollably during take off. It's like they asked an eight-year-old to design a drone, and then just prettied-up his drawings in 3D without talking to any engineers.
Failing that check out:

http://workinstartups.com
http://www.ukstartupjobs.com/