skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I do product at CropUp.)

It's for anyone who wants to sell a product on a social network like Facebook, Twitter, etc., whether you have an online store already or not. It's not great to share a link to your online store on social networks because then your customers have to go through the entire checkout flow incl. putting the item into the shopping cart, going to the shopping cart, clicking on checkout, creating an account or not, ... even though all they want to do is buy one specific item quickly and easily. With CropUp you can sell individual products via a very streamlined checkout flow, that works great regardless of the social network or the customer's device (mobile, tablet, desktop).
Interpretation is an indefinite field - statisticians and econometricians will be highly valued.
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Firefly and why I will always be a Browncoat
Telephone laws are completely irrelevant to this.
With LayerVault I saw similarities to Always With Honor, Bobby McKenna, or hundreds of other artists doing the exact same visual style with UI design. All artists and designers copy, distort, rehash, re-contextualize. We have championed this process and those artists for hundreds of years.
Someone's using a hash function where a MAC belongs..
I'm not a security expert, but I wonder how will it help if passwords will be stored encrypted? I mean if someone steals my phone, he'll be able to decrypt it anyway, right? Since physical device is his hands with keys and everything and not just some database dump.

This also reminds me about pidgin, which does the same thing... just saying.
10 yeas on, I have never finished waiting for Spotlight to index my drive and serve a query.
This is definitely a problem, but I think it's an easier one to solve than the unknown effects of radiation (assuming some version of Glass has a 3G/4G antenna built in). If holding a cellphone to my ear makes me nervous, what makes you think I'm going to wear Glass around all day?
I don't think I will be comfortable having a conversation with anyone wearing GG. I don't want to constantly wonder whether or not I'm being recorded, or information about me is being sent to a business or a government. I want to know whether or not the person I am talking to is reading/seeing/hearing something else at the moment as well. As much as I would love to work on GG, I don't think I can ever accept people using it around me. It should never be a "social" gadget. Use it on your own all you want though.
That's a distinct possibility, though I'm not sure that walking around talking to yourself will ever be cool.
"The resistance to change is driven by the fact that the majority of lawyers make a lot of money being inefficient."

Your comments refuting this are well taken and in hindsight my comment above was cynical and lazy...probably somewhat due to recently paying an enormous legal bill.
Your rate looks arbitrary enough that it flipped my "this must be algorithmic!" flag. But, its probably not.

Even if its not, it would be cool to hang a shingle as a consultant and have a variable rate based on how much work is in the pipeline. This would be an awesome visual and may actually help choose the optimum hourly rate over the long term.

Edit: hah, just saw the pattern. Still, interesting idea you piqued there. Surely it must have been done somewhere.
A less sleazy way to do this is to offer players something ("unlock the secret panda level") in return for giving you a five star review. You can't verify that they actually do, but if you give them the item and then send them to the app store, some of them will. Then, set this up as a timed promotion along with a push notification so you can get a bunch of players to hopefully respond at the same day. It's not as effective as buying rank, but it's less sleazy, and it can have some effect.
I mean something like PayPal IPN or another system which notifies my server about a purchase so I can send digital good to buyer e-mail for example.
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We hope as more data becomes available, the field will become more and more definite. We will use indefinite mathematics in genomic interpretation until we have near perfect information.
* Buys more than $10,000 worth of press.
I have for years. Believe me, the idea that the app store is a positive feedback loop and you have to clear the inital hurdle to get anywhere is not news to me.

But the advice you're giving here is roughly equivalent to telling a young cyclist in their first pro race, "hey, listen buddy. If you want to succeed, you've got to dope. Everybody's doing it. There's no other way."
And LV isn't going after them for turquoise, but for specific illustrations, which are copyrightable.

You're jumbling what LV actually did with the simplification of what they did.
It's interesting to hear about the historical facts (thanks for sharing) but I have to disagree with your position.

The quotation is a concise and eloquent means of making a point about consumer opinion that is true in some cases, even if not in the historical case being exemplified. The historical accuracy is not important when it isn't integral to the argument being made.

I could make a similarly weak argument about your word choice: "quote" is a verb, "quotation" is a noun, but the use of "quote" as a noun is concise and communicates the intended meaning without causing any problems.
You may see the device as "nothing more than a featureless MacBook with a fixed web browser", but I see a future of computing -- a thin client with an ultra-crisp display and great industrial design.

Like it or not, the cloud is the future. The Pixel is a glimpse of that.
13 $/hr + 0.5$ raise every 300 hours worked up to about 18$.
> And LV isn't going after them for turquoise, but for specific illustrations, which are copyrightable.

No. The illustrations were not direct copies.
Great maps. I'm curious if anyone has information about the tax plan in question. It seems decidedly regressive. For instance, the taxes on this dump (http://goo.gl/maps/Fm3sT) are going up to $1230, while the taxes on this place (http://goo.gl/maps/ubtzA) will be $10743, even though the latter place's assessed value is 50x higher.
I think you are right, it's harder than I thought.

The problem can in fact be modeled with a graph in which you need to find vertex-disjoint paths between pairs of vertices (s1,t1), (s2,t2), and so on, but this problem seems not to be reducible to max-flow, instead it is NP-hard.
Last year StartNorfolk (A startup weekend in Norfolk VA) had cash prizes of 15, 10 and 5 thousand dollas for the first through third place winners.
No, he specifically states that even at $500 his opinion still applies.
> The Newton wasn't like this -- PDAs were already being developed at the time.

That'd be a hard argument to make, given that the term "PDA" was coined to specifically describe the Newton.

The only tablet-style computer of consequence prior to the Newton was the DOS-based GRiDPad (1989). Before that it was all "palmtops", that is, crummy keyboard devices, mostly running DOS.

> It's not going to be an ephemeral flop like the Newton was; I foresee it being a major influence on other devices.

I think the Newton had a enormous influence on other mobile devices, but not really because it was a tablet, nor because it had a stylus and handwriting recognition. Rather, the Newton's influence came first from its dedicated operating system and graphical interface custom designed around its usage model, rather than cobbled together on DOS. The Newton devised a number of UI concepts in use on smartphones today. Second, the Newton featured a nice application development environment which sat on top of a dynamically-bound programming language running on a portable virtual machine (NewtonScript), which was pretty much a first for devices of this kind. NewtonScript had a major influence on the development of Java, while Naughton and Gosling were mulling over Oak. Third, the Newton was promoted as being a wireless communications device and its OS was developed to be easy for mobile communication to get baked in. Unfortunately, that didn't pan out so well for Apple.
Here's a link to why Pidgin chose to do this.

https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords
The first half of those points is the same fuzzy horseshit rolled out to defend unpaid internships.

That new ideas, informed feedback, and talent are valuable assets is obvious, so why should you hand them over for (virtually) free? That only devalues the value of the skills, training, and experience required to arrive at those insights.
Depends on their target market. B2B tends to be less influenced by pricing gimmiks and more on straight-up cost/benefit analysis. In which case, the numbers can be completely arbitrary so long as the analysis comes out in their favor.
1. How so? I participated and won this hackathon is a resume booster? How does that compare with actual paid work from a client?

2. Getting a client and working on a paid project gives me plenty of direction as to what to build in my spare time.

3. What?

4. You're only getting money if they think your idea is best. One person/group wins, not everyone. You could have been doing something with guaranteed pay, not spec work.

5. Sure, you get new ideas on the table, but that doesn't mean they're good ideas. Not to mention you're giving away free ideas.

6. You're not really getting feedback from the community. You're getting it from the corporate sponsor.

7. No. They'll simply award the winner(s) $10k for IP and off they go. A win for the company.
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On the contrary http://www.securitycameraking.com/securityinfo/2009/08/legal...

In both one party and all party consent situations, audio can still be recorded. The governing law with regards to recording audio is Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 119 of the US Code. As with most laws, trying to read and understand it is a daunting task. But it all comes down to one definition in this code. Section 2510 Paragraph 2 states:

“oral communication” means any oral communication uttered by a person exhibiting an expectation that such communication is not subject to interception under circumstances justifying such expectation, but such term does not include any electronic communication.

So, this essentially means that, if a person expects their conversation to be private, then it is illegal to record it. So, it is up to you to ensure that they don’t have any expectation of privacy
That is some ... facile ... logic.

If you murdered someone in 1995, would you be a murderer?
Does this mean I will be able to buy a macbook with BTC some day soon? Something tells me Amazon will put a stop to this but it is an awesome feature
Inspired by last year's Balsamiq + UX.StackExchange integration http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3639047 we were happy to put this together for the electronics community! Thanks to the StackExchange team and community for being so helpful in accomplishing this integration.
I really liked this post not because they waste so much in the process, but because this is a great insight into just how much waste must be going on in large manufacturing processes. Granted, scalable processes could be optimized on the waste side, but non-the-less, it must be colossal.
you are basing your 'token' on md5(data+secret), however md5 (and other hash functions) are easily extended when data and token are known, even without knowing secret. Basically, given data and token, I can produce a different token, that matches a (somewhat) different data, without knowing secret.
If Ford had a $2.5billion[1] advertising program encouraging people to take part in street racing then yes, I might well hold them partly responsible for street racing deaths.

Especially if the budget for public health education is tiny.

[1] 2007, according to this source (http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/10/what-top-brands-spen...)
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I agree completely.

90% of the games that are currently on my iPhone were a) made by dev teams with 1-3 people, b) provide a unique and polished experience, and c) became known mainly based on community outreach. None of them are currently in the top rankings, but as far as I can tell they make enough money for the teams to get by. People keep talking about "hidden gems" on the App Store that failed to succeed despite having an excellent product, but so far, the only ones I've seen were either outright clones, failed to do any outreach at all, or had a poor business model. (Freemium with very little incentive to upgrade, for instance.)

Sure, if you're a hundred-person company, you might need to resort to shady means to be profitable. But I don't think that's at all necessary to make money on the App Store.
I'm outside as well, but I'll share some aswell. There's been some beer keg development using elastic bags and paper cartons to create throaway kegs which eliminate the overhead of sending the kegs back for refilling. Esentially the liquid isn't squirted forth using a pump, but the elasticity of the container. This could be useful because it would get rid of that pesky pump. It'd also save space. When it comes to cooling the beverage, I'd go with either thermoelectric elements (convert electrical potention into thermal potential - Peltier element), or Thermoacoustic elements, which use precisely generated sonic waves to cool liquids. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoacoustic_heat_engine) Plus? You'll get the cool where you want the cool, and you'll save the whole compressor, evaporator, pump system that regular fridges are. Another thing that's cool, but entirely off topic is acoustic levitation, but it'd neither add to smallness nor convenience of the tap.
You have a 3d printer at the hackerspace, so use it, but remember that if coca cola uses the design, they'll want to injection mold it. If a part can't be injection molded or stamped from sheet metal, think of some other way to do it. After all, consider that one of the engineers judging it might as well be the engineer who has to make it mass producable.
You might also, before the competition, go to a local fast food joint and snoop around their machine, ask what problems crop up most with it, etc. The machines coke will provide you will most likely be factory condition, and you won't be able to tell where there's wear, where liquid dries and where dust settles.
Right now I'm imagining a unibody, 25x15x20 quader which takes collapsible pouches of drink concentrate along with CO² pressure cartridges and a water line/water tank (could you use the CO² pressure to further compress the water whilst simultaneously cooling it using a thermoacoustic element, thus leading to carbonation? I'm thinking of a CO² jet compressor kind of setup) that is easy to fill, easy to clean and hard to break. Use capacive touch on the panel by the way, you gotta have a microcontroller in there anyways, so those couple of pins won't hurt too much. You can use a ir diode couple in the base to detect a glass.
Rob has done knockout, and that's pretty unrelated I feel. I've spent a lot of time doing Knockout and a fair amount of time in Angular and Backbone, and personally I sort of agree with what rob is saying. I feel like they have taken MVC and just loosely applied it in Ember, because they have Models Views and Controllers. I see and understand where his confusion is coming from. I probably also haven't spent enough time with Ember to get it, but I also don't feel like I want to.
My cofounder made most of the button badges for the UI at his last job (as well as doing some of the product testing). He kept telling me he was working on awesome at coke, but he couldn't tell me what it was until they publicly announced it..
As a person in an office where gotomeeting is the norm, none of the executives ever come into the office and on a daily basis projects are given to programmers or graphic designers that are ill-concieved, needed immediately, without copy or specifications other than a 3-4 hour conference call on what they think they want.

In-person communication is valuable. I feel like we're missing something here. Sometimes telepresence is impersonal and disrespectful. The CIO continually butchers a few people's names. You'd think that after 3 months of talking to these people on a daily basis he'd pick up on his incorrect pronunciations.
Is it intended that any solution will have all squares coloured? I like that property, and I think most of the online levels have it, but I solved level eight with some blanks.

If I had an iDevice I would pay for this. Good luck.
His lucky play was PayPal's acquisition by eBay (and Zip2's by AltaVista prior to that). Getting that cash infusion enabled his subsequent ventures. There were many ventures competing with both.

That's not to say that Musk wasn't directed and didn't capitalize exceptionally well on his successes. But luck most definitely played a role.
Thanks! It's a very fun game; it really gets me hooked in terms of difficulty around level 12-14.
Paul, just sent you an email about Balanced Payouts (https://www.balancedpayments.com/#payouts)

Nice job with Cropup!
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It shouldn't really matter to Amazon. Their fulfillment service is just an API for saying "take this item from your warehouse and ship it to this address". Amazon doesn't know that you're shipping things in response to a BitCoin payment, versus goodies for KickStarter backers, versus holiday gifts for customers. All BitPay is doing is integrating their API with Amazon's API for you so that receiving a payment can kick off a shipment. It doesn't create any new potential liability for Amazon; they're not touching bitcoins and their payment for the fulfillment service is separate from what they're fulfilling.
You know, if I was at Pepsi-Cola right now I'd be assembling a team of interns (or multiple teams) to join the competition and participate. Not for the purpose of winning, but watching all the other entries and taking notes.

Is there some cross-team protection or NDA taking place for all the contestants?
It doesn't make a whole lot of difference at the moment; at present the main utility is related to genealogy rather than health, which the current genotyping chips are adequate for. Until our ability to interpret whole genomes progresses beyond its current rudimentary level, there isn't much more for you to get excited about.

In any case, you just have to wait a few more years and you'll be able to get (the non-junk bits of) your genome sequenced for close to $50 anyway.
The HTTP/2.0 WG is rethinking every little part of SPDY, so I expect it to take several years.
CrowdEyes (or alternative, EyeBay or GlassBay). Crowd-sourced public surveillance auction platform. It's legal to take pictures in public, right?

After installing CrowdEyes on your Google Glass, your Glass will automatically take pictures every so often, or whenever you think you saw something interesting. Those get aggregated and categorized.

As a client of CrowdEyes you can then say: I'd like to be 25 cents to see pictures people have taken of the sky today in my town. Or, I'll pay 50 cents to see what the lines are outside some hip new restaurant right now.

Or as a jealous wife, I'll pay $15 to run facial recognition on pictures taken with Glass in a 3-block area around the house of a suspected mistress.

As a law enforcement officer, I'll request (for free) all pictures taken of of my suspect. Or maybe multiple vantage points of some crime that was committed. Or if someone is out there and running, maybe I can request all Glass within the suspect area to be on real-time lookout for the suspect. Think about that "Ambert Alert" system times 1000.

As a marketing manager at some Big Brand , I can find some perhaps anonymized informationa bout who's using my products (easiest with things that have logos, can you make a watermark in clothes that would not be noticable but visible when analysing a high resolution photo?)

As a reporter, I can get hundreds of shots of some event and pick the best.

As the TV report on the new Glass-24 channel, I can get multiple real-time streams from some disaster happening.
I find this incredibly interesting, but I am a bit intimidated by my lack of hardware hacking experience. What would you recommend as a good way to get into these sorts of hackathons?
(I do product at CropUp.)

We have some interesting ideas for what we can do with pricing in the future, like based on volume or product price or maybe we introduce a premium account that comes with a monthly fee, but lower fees per transaction. Still thinking about these.

For now we think 10% is a fair price given the value and the functionalities our product provides, e.g. calculating taxes based on the seller's nexus states and the buyer's shipping address. Also, the seller is only charged a fee in case of a successful order, but not e.g. in case of a refund, which is different from other services like e.g. PayPal. (And different means better here, we think.)
I'm pretty sure that increasing the cost of labor will drive the prices of labor dependent goods and services up, while also probably flattening growth or decreasing employment numbers when employers try to maximize the margins on the labor they already employ.
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Android SDK was announced November 2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FJHYqE0RDg
I don't think Glass itself will be widely adopted, but it will get the ball rolling towards full-on, externally invisible, computer implants.

These implants will not wait for your input to feed you information (although they will certainly have that ability too). Instead they will serve information as your environment and conversations demand. Having a conversation where someone asks "So how did WWI start anyways?", the answer will appear in front of you. Upon arriving at your local ski hill and telling your friends "Ok let me to take a leak first and then we'll hit the slopes" your invisible assistant would instantly give you directions to the bathroom and queue up he directions to the ski-lifts. This will be cool on an individual basis, but imagine if everyone had their "invisi-Glass". While having a conversation with someone your implants would sync up, showing both of you information as it relates to your dialogue. While basically eliminating awkward pauses, it will also act as a kind of NFT (Near Field Telepathy)
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Yes, a bad one by professional standards, but yes.
Incidentally, anyone who wants to play with some genome processing is encouraged to download pygr[1]. You can connect to worldbase[2] and explore all the different genomes they have on their server using Python.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/pygr/
[2] http://code.google.com/p/pygr/wiki/ServingDataUsingWorldbase
+1 for remembering Las Vegas (and Seattle) go first.