skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually Michigan tax free areas are already there in a small scale for both business and people. They are called Michigan renaissance zones -http://www.michiganadvantage.org/Renaissance-Zones

In my opinion MI income tax is low a tax holiday will not move the needle for most people but if Federal taxes are eliminated that may be effective. Also i am not sure its constitutionally legal for our federal govt to give tax preference to some states/cities.
Thanks for your input! Here's the link to the actual HTML5 App: https://moqups.com/
I would suggest using a sans-serif font for the quotables while also tightening the width a little bit so you can increase impact and readability. Also, you might also want to put a light border around the quotes...perhaps with a drop shadow (much like embedded Tweets).
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In my opinion, being "up" is just a prerequisite. If your aaS business is technically not viable you'll just not make it. Support and client account management is really important to succeed. aaS is "self-service" - so when a client or prospect has a question about the product, an answer must be provided efficiently, and that is a differentiating criteria...
Ask HN: What factors determine app store success?
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Thanks!
A new way of communication on photos about fashion
What isn't good for you is getting sucked into the manufactured drama and drawn out 24 hour news cycle.

So how about most news is bad for you? ;)

I mean, you're right that news qua news isn't terrible. But very little of what's branded as news is actually news; you said it yourself that it's entertainment.

And while news can be entertaining (e.g. Daily Show), news which exists solely to perpetuate itself and garner more eyeballs is bad. I agree with the author that it's depressing and it's a waste of time.

I'm not actually disagreeing with your practical suggestion; I think the right idea is to find out the facts and move on. But I absolutely think that it's a mistake to "feed the beast," so to speak, any more than is necessary.

(Edit: fixed formatting.)
I also do this, it's a great workflow I think.

There are occasionally conflicts, but I've never actually gotten a corrupted repository. All I ever do is go with the latest version of things using 'find' to delete the conflicts.
I'm not so annoyed with the "no-advertising" rule as much as I am the lack of a paid-app ecosystem. As a Glass user, I'd be just as happy to shell out that $1.99 for an app I can use ad-free as I am on my phone.

I don't think sure Google will advertise on Glass in the way people predict. Maybe they'll do some kind of suggested-search stuff, but nothing like some random banner ad bouncing around in the corner of your eye.
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Sure thing - we're looking to integrate Twitter log in (we think that the QuoteRed userbase would somewhat overlap with Twitter's), and of course a plain login with a vanilla email/password combo. To come!
If you are on a mac, I'd suggest checking out http://keynotekungfu.com/
I'm so stoked about this board! I've been really wanting to have a board to try out hybrid computing/HPC with for a long time now, but everything has been a bit beyond my reach/justification pricewise. I got so excited about this board reading about it. The sky is the limit with this hardware, and now it'll that much more available to everybody.

Thinking about everything I can do with this board is making my head explode!
I personally don't see that as NSFW. Well, it is not safe for WORK, but not in the sense you're saying it is : I'd have no problem showing that to my mother or younger people. What part is NSFM (not safe for mum) for you?
Yes, it does.

Now, if you meant negative feedback, then you'd be correct.
"I fundamentally disagree that SoCs are different than desktop technology. They're just smaller. High-end architectures are already driven to be as power-efficient as possible, so when you cut them down they're still efficient. For example, Kabini is an "SoC" that has the same GCN CU as a "desktop" Kaveri or a discrete Radeon."

You didn't really read what I said did you. A key factor for embedded electronics is power draw. Based on a quick Google, AMD Kabini is using approximately 15W of power:
http://techreport.com/news/24186/new-details-early-benchmark...

On the other hand, the 64-core Parallella is using approximately 2W:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-su...

Hope you can start to see the difference now.
Think there is any accuracy to this? Many people have already been notified of their acceptance to YC. Is it a fair assumption to assume those who have not heard prior to 8:00 tonight will also receive the same rejection email? If not, why have some heard earlier than others (Besides submitting applications earlier)?
This looks excellent and well executed.

It's disappointing that the only login option is via Facebook, but it's cool that one can also try the service without login in at all.

Although after one adds the bookmarklet to one's bookmark bar and comes back to the site, we are caught in an endless loop of step-1-2-3 where we are indefinitely asked to add the bookmarklet again...?
What a shame people think this, wanting to spend all your time making an app better requires you make money off of it
James Strachan: Scala as the long term replacement for java/javac?
So, my work for today is done.
> The brain is certainly wired for language, but not for a specific language.

Can you explain how the brain is "wired for language?" Naively, I would imagine language is just one instance of the general pattern "things Hierarchical Temporal Memory models (e.g. the neocortex) get for free given a large-enough training corpus." Is that what you meant, or is there actually some part of our brains that is specifically "language" and couldn't be repurposed for something else?
Keynote and keynotopia is a winning combination. It's super quick and can output to a vast number of formats.
#1 Would suggest to me a lawyer who is Chinese and specialises in vegetarians someone while #2 would suggest a layer who is Chinese (or who deals in Chinese laws) and is a vegetarian.

Maybe just me?
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Amazing 3D animation by Activision R&D
New work from the Activision R&D team... coming to a start up near you soon?
Just so it's clear, Miguel de Icaza confirmed via Twitter that this will work with applications built outside of the Xamarin toolchain.

https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/324188860449968128

Xamarin Test Cloud is not limited to c#. Will work with Objective-C, RubyMotion, Java apps too.
Great idea! How did you make the website? Ie, did you contract out or make it yourself? And if so, how were you able to do it? Thanks.
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Basically you don't have to pull anymore. An example of what happens to me every day:
My laptop is connected to Internet all day long, and I work on my computer iMac. I keep pushing about every hour, and when the day is over, I just close my laptop and can go on working in the train (no Internet there).

If I hadn't been using Dropbox, before leaving work, I would have to pull, and sometimes I just don't have time.

(This is one example out of many)
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Quora? I always avoid Quora links for that reason. Worthless compared with SO.
No, you can't do general recursion on the evaluator alone. But it would be possible to run any general recursive function across both parts, for example if you wanted to run software not designed for this architecture. The problem with this is that optimizations would only happen on per expression basis, so it wouldn't make very good use of the architecture.
No, I wrote my own debugger.

https://github.com/zv/zdb

For "serious" stuff, I have a .gdbinit file that makes GDB much more usuable, check it out if you have time.

https://raw.github.com/zv/dotfilez/master/gdbinit
Hmm, this is a really great product and I've loved using it, but 2 projects? That's so ridiculously low that 'free forever' seems a bit hollow and vacuous now. It would be better if you just came out and said it. Are you just supposed to go one humungo project now?

I'm certainly not paying a monthly recurring fee for a mock up tool to play with side projects! I could see upgrading it for the collaboration aspect for clients, but for toy and hobby projects you've seemingly just killed the tool.

Calling it 'using in a casual manner' is bad, how is having a project per idea and being limited to 2 ideas 'casual'? A helpful compromise?!?

Personally I think you've focused on completely the wrong thing to go premium for. I'm surprised you didn't go private projects & apps/dropbox integration (standard) > revision control & master pages (pro) > collaboration (ultimate) or something like that. But that's just the programmer in me I guess, we all know that multiple projects won't add to your costs, just massive inconvenience to the free users.

Still, it's your product so do what you want and you're allowed to change your mind, just don't expect a lot of people cheering you on. I'm just personally sad I probably won't use it any more as I'm not going to faff around trying to organise multiple thoughts into one humongous project.

As a reminder of what you originally said when you introduced it to HN:

We'll keep the main functionality free (with some reasonable limitations). We plan on adding some really cool collaboration and annotation/feedback features soon that we'll probably ask a buck or two for.

I just don't see 2 projects as reasonable at all but I always suspected something like this would happen as the tool was just too well done. Note that I would probably buy it for a reasonable fixed price (like $50-70) but obviously the storage, etc. will constantly be a drain on you. It is better than balsamiq, but not better enough to be dipping into my pocket every month for the rest of my life. The problem with saas I guess.

EDIT: I guess this is the problem with an online tool being useful to both individuals and corporations. I can see real value from a recurring fee from dropbox as an individual, but a mock up tool? For what (should) be a desktop app that's gone to a sass model, are individuals really going to pay a recurring fee for this? On the other hand, it's a perfectly reasonable price for businesses, even small and micro ones if you use it regularly. I would definitely sign up if I do more consultancy again. Perhaps I'm cheap as an individual, but to me it's just far too expensive for my personal use case.
> I like the term "minimum desirable product". Minimum viable product suggests something that barely works, while minimum desirable product alludes to something people actually want.

I think "minimum viable product" works, and is better than "minimum desirable product" at describing the goal, since to be viable as a product something must not only be desired, but be desired by customers willing to pay for it sufficiently to meet the marginal costs of delivering it.

Of course, an MVP can fail to be viable as a product and still deliver validated learning (as I understand, the original definition of the purpose an MVP) that progresses you toward something viable as a product, but the goal at each iteration should be to have something valuable as a product (and this is consistent with the more general lean methods which lean startup draws on, where each iteration aims to do the minimum work that will produce independent business value.)
I have for a couple of projects. Overall, I loved it. It allowed us to share code on iOS, Android and Windows Phone (though we wrote native UIs separately, in C#). Plus C# is a great language, and Visual Studio is a great IDE.

It's not perfect though:

- On Android, there's a limit to how many Java Native Interface objects you can have (40000 I believe). This sets a hard limit to how many object you can have that wrap Java objects, so for instance you can't have 40000 UI objects at the same time. It's possible to run into this problem, but you can work around it by working in Java for those parts.

- On iOS there are ways in which the Mono GC can free objects that are referenced by the native objects, but not by the C# code. For instance, you could pass a lambda to be called when a button gets clicked. This lambda (or something it references) gets freed, and when the button is clicked it tries to call C# code that's gone. This causes some really nasty bugs, and should IMO be considered a bug as it really breaks the expectations one has when coding in a managed language.
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> Why are credit card systems not secured with a password that the merchant never gets to see?

My bank in Sweden requires MasterCard SecureCode for all online transactions on their debit cards. Stores that don't support it simply won't work with the card.

So, it's up to the bank how secure they want it to be. The technology is there.
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What is 18+ in this video? I honestly can't see anything that would shock anyone underage.
Only with Pro + Packrat:

Packrat is a Dropbox Pro add-on feature that saves your file history indefinitely.

Dropbox saves a history of all deleted and earlier versions of files for 30 days for all Dropbox accounts by default. If you have the Packrat add-on, Dropbox saves those files for as long as you have the Packrat add-on. With Packrat, you never have to worry about losing an old version of a file.

https://www.dropbox.com/help/113/en
I can't find how to link tasks to other tasks. Can you tell me which features make this better than Basecamp?
They know it is, they either don't care, or their client doesn't care.
sabat: You are hellbanned, FYI.
"Early adopters” and “earlyvangelists” are certainly not fictional characters. They exist, but are rarely found working in government ministries.
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I like the idea but I dislike the design of the quotes themselves. All the same type and all the same size, the only differentiation being color. Even the format seems "weak" in that there are no lines or anchors for my eye to follow and every "quote" appears slightly differently.

The design turned me off, and I think you can accomplish a much better looking and easily digestible product from text!
You are confused.
Most likely, EBay will just file a motion to get themselves dismissed from the lawsuit.
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Google scraping local webpages viewed in Chrome?
I've been developing a Javascript table component[1] for a little while, and a few weeks ago I was working on a demo page to show some examples. I picked a few stocks off the top of my head (AAPL, MSFT, GOOG, FB, JPM, C, VZ), and created a page that included a table with dummy data that changed every few seconds. The page is now viewable at http://jwoah12.github.io/aTable/demo.html#dynamicDataWorker, but at the time was only on my local machine. I was predominantly using Chrome to test the page. Later that day I happened to open up Google Now on my Galaxy Nexus, and noticed that there was a new card showing stock quotes.[2] Creepily, the stocks were all exactly the same as the ones I chose for my test page. I figure Chrome must have scraped the data and used it to show me the quotes in Google Now. Has anyone else seen behavior like this? I have to admit I don't like the idea of Google scraping local files I'm viewing.

[1] ATable - http://jwoah12.github.io/aTable

[2] http://jwoah12.github.io/aTable/gnow_stocks.jpg
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you seem to assume that mass media news consumption can (or should) be an entirely rational process, in which a person should be able to exert enough willpower to ignore the emotional content of news stories.

It doesn't work that way.

Our cognitive threat detection systems create very real biological responses to the information we receive from the news, prompting shifts in cortisol, adrenaline, and other stress hormones. That automatic threat response has very real effects on your short and long-term health and mental/emotional well-being. [1]

The potential for sudden, dramatic, unexpected loss of life or property (called Loss Aversion) is one of the most attention-pulling things in the world. Once you start paying attention, it's extremely difficult to stop, even if you can't do anything with the information.

It's easy to be sucked in by modern news media, and spend way too much time and energy ruminating on situations you can't influence or control. You're burning the limited amount of attention, focus, and energy you have each day on something that ultimately provides zero value.

I'm all for being informed about what's happening in the world at a baseline level, provided you focus on information you're in a position to act upon - by avoiding a local threat (weather/earthquake/wildfire/etc), donating to a non-profit in the event of a disaster/tragedy, educating yourself before an impending election, etc.

Otherwise, the best way to handle most news media is not to pay attention to it at all. Treat it as a tabloid: best to be avoided if you want to preserve your focus for more important matters.

[1] See "The Science of Fear" by Dan Gardner, http://www.amazon.com/dp/0452295467/
You make some good points. Especially that a GR function may be able to work more efficiently than a PR function; do you have an example or can you cite a reference for this?

As for optimization, I believe that it may be possible to more effectively automatically parallelize a PR function than a GR one.
I'm not familiar with this so I have a question: Can you interconnect a few of these boards to create a more powerful unit? I notice they have "expansion connectors"...
> Palo Alto/University Ave is no more the place to be. You have to be in San Franciso. Caltrain/BART rides are perceived too long.

Is this true? If so why is PA real estate still so sky high? I understand if your startup culture is based on youthful hipness, but that is orthogonal to the viability of a startup.
"...I'll use OpenCL so I can be hardware agnostic..."

Woah now...

Using OpenCL is imminently sensible for a large swath of applications. And "Hardware Agnosticism" is beneficial for a large number of reasons. This is only the first "accessible" platform that has been released... we can expect many, many more. DSL -> asm on each can get a bit tiresome.

Many apps can benefit from running in more than one place. For instance, I scaled out an authoritative game server using OpenCL recently. Because I used OpenCL, I could run it on Amazon GPGPU instances as well as locally on the server here. Two different sets of cards... same codebase... only difference was instead of 100's of thousands of users on the local server, you can support millions on Amazon. There is something to be said for that sort of flexibility.

Couple that with a clustered vert.x event bus, and you begin to see the power such a system might bring... and that's just for a trivial application like gaming!!!

Imagine the benefits accrued to other, more complex, applications!

You should think carefully prior to being dismissive of hardware agnosticism. If you want to tinker and determine what is possible with this particular platform, by all means, use platform specific tools. However, if you want to bring the power of parallel processing to bear in solving problems wherever you find them... thinking about hardware agnosticism really is a "must-do" as my daughter would say.
because, they did:) Don't think too much into this.
If you find out now, or in a few hours that you did/didn't get in, nothing is really going to change.
(now, let me get back to refreshing my email every 5 seconds) :)
best of luck to everyone!
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Price compared to testdroid?
khan academy does so but with a definite focus on children, this feels a little more grown up.

Besides, just because khan does similar things does not reduce the value potential this has.

There is a lot more of a social SO type feel with Function Space whereby a user can ask questions and receive answers in an open forum. That is more hidden on khan.

For those of you complaining about the login. Give it a shot, there is a fairly well thought out site behind that login and the dev has expressed his intent to make things more open. With a site like this being able to ask and comment is kinda key to it working anyways.

Use your spam address on the site until you feel it's worthy of your "personal" one. But do check it out.

Free and open access to knowledge and knowledgeable people needs to be done in as many places and formats as possible. I hope this goes far.

O.
One of my favourite sales gimmicks is the wooden butt at Ikea - the testing machine, displayed alongside the Poang chairs, endlessly "sitting" and "standing".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s_gyzshNPQ
I signed up to try it out. For the lazy: http://collaborade.com

The UI needs a ton of work.

* Don't launch an alert() when I submit a comment. Same for completing a task. Remove all alerts. They suck.

* The search/filter box is a mess.

* When I click on a task, a modal box pops up (why?? get rid of it. Modals are just disguised alerts). At the bottom-left, there is a checkbox for "Follow/unfollow this task". That doesn't make sense. It should just be: [ ] Follow this task. (In its current form, it's like having a voting ballot say "[ ] Vote / don't vote for Barack Obama")

* In the Edit Profile settings it says "Ask your administrators if you also want to change your name or email address." I am the only user. I AM the administrator.

* Your pricing isn't good. I can get basecamp for $30/mo, unlimited users, 15 projects. Your least expensive plan is $29/mo and only allows 4 users.

Otherwise, it's looking good and something that the company I work for could actually use. Basecamp is apparently too confusing for the sales guys, so keeping collaborade simple might be your target. Good work so far, keep it up!
Thanks! It took me about 2 weeks to design and a month to develop. I left my full-time job for Function Space. My wife also helped me out with some ideas. The biggest motivating factor was my love for these 3 subjects. :)
Right off the bat, it looks like the problem lies in 'we built a software product that simplified how nonprofits plan and measure their social and environmental impact.'. It just seems nothing was built that people wanted to pay for. The product wasn't marketed to people that have the money to pay for it and see the value in doing so. Also they got confused by thinking 'viable' is different to 'desirable'. It's the exact same thing. MVP doesn't mean what's the smallest piece of junk you can throw together and call it software. It means if you strip everything out of your idea and product, what is the one feature that customers would find useful and pay for.
When the Octocat Mark is rendered at any size less than 75x75 pixels, it's pretty much impossible to tell that the "tail" of the cat is actually a tentacle.

That's unfortunate, because on https://github.com/logos the only recommended use for the mark is in social buttons, which are going to be relatively small.

Even at larger sizes, the tentacle just seems tacked on.