skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Yes, it does. Thanks. I do agree that privacy and user data is a big issue that is about to become a mainstream issue. But, how does putting my files in a private cloud fit into all of this?
We also were promised real-time raytracing if we ever got to that point. What's the hold-up?
I like open allocation in principle and I'l be happy to work that way when I get the chance.

It's still not going to stop the macroeconomic entropy that will eventually see Valve and Github die like every other company. Things fall apart.
You don't need a middle man for physical cash (let's use USD as the example), but services like credit cards and debit cards are extremely convenient. Middle men can certainly be of great value to the bitcoin economy, by providing similar services to the ones that already exist on top of government currencies.
Some of this could potentially be solved by having the crowdsourcing contributions filtered/moderated by the professionals (e.g. not getting posted publicly until a pro has read it, and "voting" done or at least swayed, by the pros).

The question is whether the time spent doing this moderation would be better spent actually doing the investigations themselves.
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I do not disagree about the neuroplasticity decrease, that is a fact. I guess I am saying that if you know the foundations (which we agree are pretty constant) which I will call the world model, any decrease in neuroplasticity is outweighed by the acquired skill of integrating new technologies into the programmers established world model.

In regards to the whole neuroplasticity/cognitive decline, I think this varies a lot by person and their environment. I know people in their 60s who are much more agile thinkers than other I know in their 40s.
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Updated the post by adding your comment above.
- The design and structure of the platform is different.
- There is a hackathon organization platform on Hacksy.
- Hacksy enables hackers to upvote hacks and get reputation.
- Hacksy has a front page that show the most popular hacks.

Do you think Hacksy too similar to Hackaday? How do you think I can do a better job at creating more value for hackers?
I haven't seen the B-unit before, but that is an interesting device.
"Why aren’t you offering a Digital Download or DVD reward?

I wish I could give you all everything you want. Unfortunately, giving away the movie could scare off the good distributors for movies like this, because the theater chains insist on having the “first run” of movies before they are available on DVD or digitally. I want all my fans to be able to see this movie in their hometown theaters on the big screen if they want to. I hope you like the rewards I am offering, and if there’s something you don’t see on the page, please comment and let me know."

It is pretty simple--why would someone buy the rights to his DVD to only find out that the top 20k fans of his who would be buying that DVD/Download already have it.
The amount of effort required to find gold has more or less increased over time, and barring an unpredictable discovery of a huge amount of gold somewhere, the mechanics of increasing the gold supply aren't all that different than bitcoin. Or, to put it another way, I don't think the steady but slow increase in the gold supply is a substantial contributor to the current gold market.
In Windows I cannot scroll with the keyboard or the mouse wheel. I have to grab the scroll bar and drag it down. Their layout is FUBAR.
Haxe did nothing you couldn't do with AS3 and Alchemy.

So, have they fixed this bug in Alchemy: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/487570

It's kind of hard to use C++ when you're not allowed to make a copy of std::string. Last I looked into this in May 2012 this was still not fixed (reported in 2009.) There is a page on stackoverflow where someone explains how to work around this problem by rebuilding a patched version of libstdc++. But after applying that fix you hit other similar problems.

Also, the sztrace() function exists and is documented, but they forgot to add it to the .h file, so if you want to log anything, you have to write:

extern "C" {
void sztrace(char*);
}
Great stunt to get on front page of HN. Keep on hustling!
I agree with you. Why would you want to put that much power over your life in some facebook attorney's hands. Even if nothing probably will come of it. What if they decided to put you in their crosshairs.
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I also think it can be job-specific. For example, I'm working on a website on the side which requires both more administrative work and more product/creative work than my day job. My day job is in marketing, and the more time I take off the more time I'm not running performance marketing campaigns that generate revenue every day. I think vacation is very specific to job function in many cases -- in one I would definitely reach burn out and in another I wouldn't. In creative work, like if you're a graphic designer, I can imagine not taking a break would have greater repercussions on the creative process than in my job.
So what is a person (or corporation) when they can clearly distinguish between right from wrong (has a conscience within their specific social context), but focuses on self gratification (or profit)?
This is excellent advice. This parallels with finding rocks once polished then putting them through the machine again during hiring.
> People can only reply to what you say, not what you might have meant or believed to be self-evident.

Well, it seems like at least some people understood what I meant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5599351

So maybe you just took it too literally at face value?

I wasn't writing a computer program, I was writing English, so let's try to understand what I was saying instead of attempting to interpret it like a computer.

My entire point was that "equal" isn't necessarily the correct ratio, so if you got that point you got my entire point; if not then you missed it.
Cool, I thought that might have been a mistake. I only asked because it changes the meaning entirely, like a foo without a bar is like a fish without {water, a bicycle}.
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As an effective manager you should make sure you're leaving your developers time to go do something. Makes them better developers and keeps burnout at bay.
Most financial advisers give "X months of buffer of bare minimum". 3 and 6 are both bandied about

10k isn't ENOUGH in the bank IMO for most people living in SF. It's probably closer to 20k, but 10k was just a random number I pulled out to demonstrate flexibility of cash on hand. Then again, CA has really tenant friendly eviction laws, so maybe not...

It doesn't have to be ACTUAL cash, just near cash holdings not strongly effected by volatile securities (such as the stock market)
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This idea is presumably based upon the notion that there is an even distribution of the relevant monopoly "tokens" across a given market.

Think about that a little - in terms of the potential prize liability for MacDs.

The normal way of controlling such (to all intents) lotteries is to have a few "golden tickets" capable of winning the more interesting prizes that are only dropped into the market in very small numbers - sufficient only to match the pool of prizes.

My experience of such marketing schemes (now rather historic I will admit) is that many prizes remain unclaimed - but giving them away was not the purpose of the exercise anyway.

Still the exercise was a worthy one - and it should be fun watching everyone looking for exactly the same missing tokens.
I took it to mean that he wouldn't get it done on his own b/c he would never be satisfied with the post. IOW, he was too shy.
To think we all laugh at the tulip mania Holland experienced in the 1600s...
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Ask HN: A contract project has exploded in size. What should I do?
I'm currently working on an application for a company, a project which involves interacting with their mid-sized API. The application is a port of their existing iOS application. When I gave them an initial estimate for this project, it was based on two assumptions:

1. The API would be documented.
2. The iOS source would be reasonably well constructed.

Having received access to both the API and the iOS source, neither of these assumptions have proved true.

The API is barely documented, there are redundant methods (with some deprecated or discontinued, but not mentioned), data is repeated across models without any reason, and worst of all most calls return silently without any indication of success or failure.

The iOS application is the result of several years of low-budget contractors throwing together code. None of it is commented, there is code duplication all over the place, and it aids very little in the construction of the Android application.

Because of this, it now looks like building an API client alone will take me almost as long as the original project estimate. Further complicating things is that I start a new job at the end of the month (the original project would have been finished much before my start date), but now there's no way I can get the whole application done before that date.

I'm not sure what to do. I don't want to simply throw away the weeks of work I've performed for nothing, but I also don't see a way to finish the entire application before my start date.

I'm sorry for the size of this. I'm just not sure what to do. Does anyone have any advice?
Everyone who has a startup should watch this at least once a day (me included). This is great stuff, Patrick.
Ask HN: Which design rights are enforceable in the United States?
Hey guys,

I created a puzzle game as a side project a few years back. It's similar to a Rubik's Cube, but in 2D instead of 3D. Here's the Google Play listing:

http://goo.gl/o7X6I

An identical listing also appears in Amazon's and Barnes and Noble's stores. Yesterday, I received a takedown notice from Amazon that advised me to contact Rubik's Cube's security team. Their representative sent me this note:

> (Y)our images of the cube is infringing our designrights. Please see attached certificate. You will have to change the design of your cube or get a license from Rubik's Cube.

> Attachment: http://goo.gl/08Cq6

I'm based in the US and they are based in Sweden. My understanding of US IP law is that puzzle design is not protectable, and I was very careful not to call my puzzle a Rubik's Cube in its description. I don't know what the rules are in Europe.

The name, design, and logo of Cognicube are distinctively mine. I don't believe the concept of sliding colored bricks to solve a puzzle is protectable in the US.

The only thing I can see in their application that is even remotely similar to Cognicube is their logo. It's is an isometric projection of a Rubik's Cube from the corner. In the tablet version of Cognicube, there's a view that shows all six faces of the cube displayed in quasi-3D. It's not my logo, and it's drawn from a different angle than the image in their trademark. (It also has six faces instead of three.)

Compare:

- Their logo: http://goo.gl/oZd0C

- My screenshot: http://goo.gl/3Stve

I know that Hacker News is not an outlet for legal advice, but I imagine you guys may have run into similar issues before. Are EU design rights enforcable in the US? Do you see anything I've done that infringes their rights in the US?

I've only made a couple hundred dollars over the last few years on this project, so it might not be worth contesting, but if I'm actually infringing something, I'd like to know for next time. =)

Thanks!
Oh, come on now. You can be honest here... you want $30M like Summly & Wavii :)

And maybe you should get it. The app looks very impressive. How does your program decide which snippets are the most important? Did you build that technology or license/ use somebody else's code? B/c from what I understand, both Summly and Wavii were primarily acquired for their proprietary Natural Language Processing (NLP) tech. If your app is capable of NLP- and you built it from scratch- you likely have something of real value -- and you're probably in demand as an NLP engineer too.

I do wonder, however, if those recent acquisitions had anything to do with a recent court ruling concerning "Fair Use"/ summarization/ news aggregators. You might wanna take a look & make sure your aggregation of others' content is acceptable + truly protected under "Fair Use" principles. Please note, I am not an attorney.

See here for the original link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5519622
Nope, we're disagreeing. This is nothing new. The recording device can already be in your eye-line when you're talking to someone.

And a lot cheaper than $1500, too.
Will no one rid us of these Steve Job's parables. Wisdom has no correlation to success.
I've noticed this about a lot of startups. Even more so than everyone thinks they're The Next Big Thing, everyone thinks their mission is Incredibly Important and whatever Capitalized Buzzword is in at the moment.

It's important to have passion, and to believe in your product. Your product doesn't need to feed the poor or clothe the needy for you to be passionate about it, but my word there is nothing revolutionary about commercial real estate (to use 42Floors as an (unfair?) example).
Another interesting question: at the end of the year, how much did you save?

Please also clarify whether you're a single or have a family.
"How should we make it attractive for them [young people] to spend 5,6,7 years in our field, be satisfied, learn about excitement, but finally be qualified to find other possibilities?" -- H. Schopper

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Spin_(public_...

And a warning besides PR spin to non-western members:

"The cost [...] has been evaluated, taking into account realistic labor prices in different countries. The total cost is X (with a western equivalent value of Y) [where Y>X]

source: LHCb calorimeters : Technical Design Report

ISBN: 9290831693 http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/494264
>In exchange for the risk of getting caught glad-handed during severe events the specialist was given the privilege of making a spread the rest of the time.

No, they had old fashioned ways of withdrawing their liquidity. Not answering the phone, or pretending they can't see you across the pit.

>We allow them to effectively front-run through physical location and latency advantages (that is, they see quotes and price before anyone else and thus can react faster than anyone else)

That isn't front-running. Front-running means seeing the order flow before it reaches the matching engine and stepping in front.

>You can see the size map essentially disappear as the market's depth

When depth levels are taken out you have a great big empty space between the bid and the ask. It may have been 20 ticks wide yesterday (it was about 8 on eurostoxx, and those are chunky ticks). It's empty because someone has traded through those levels and taken all of the liquidity, so naturally it takes time for new orders to replenish the market. It isn't only because participants are withdrawing liquidity. Also, greater volatility means a greater dispersal of opinions about the correct price - so even when orders are put back in following the shock they are likely to be spread over a wider range of ticks. If you're a market maker (algorithmic or otherwise) who has just been smashed on the bid and seen the market drop 30 ticks, where do you put your new bid in?

The disinformation campaign by Wall Street against the HFT bogeyman is impressive. It isn't much different to record labels against MP3s or any other industry that is being disrupted by technology, but it is surprising to see a lot of the HN crowd falling for it.
The $30 streaming screening a is pretty clever alternative. It gets around distributer restrictions and allows fans to interact with with the team.
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JEE. I don't even speak English well, but I have a lot of experience with Java Enterprise, something that is very useful for big companies in USA. I never worked for a company with less than a 1.000 employees tough. I think you will get a better salary working with Java if you can develop enough experience.
How is it unnecessary? Someone is using their female significant other's gender to promote their product.

Just having his girlfriend make a video explaining his startup wouldn't be an issue - but having her make that video, then submitting an article that "hey, here's my GIRLFRIEND explaining my startup" makes it off as sex appeal.

Since sexism in gaming is a hot thing topic right now, imagine if Spike TV was to advertise that a program that discussed videogames, and that they advertised as being hosted by a "woman", no names, just "hosted by a woman". That's pretty much what this submission is doing.
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> similar to the practice of shaking our right (weapon) hands as a greeting

Being a lefty makes that gesture very meaningless.
Frankly, I don't get your argument. You said that there was a problem because the critics of DRM and current business models were consuming the content while circumventing the economic framework, so the situation is unsustainable; now you said that the people who complain about DRM still buy the products anyway. That doesn't sound unsustainable to me.
I've never worked for a startup, but I've always had an aversion to vacation.

It's not that I don't like going places or enjoying myself, but I hate being away and I hate not being involved and getting things done.

A good vacation for me is a day off to relax here and there, or a weekend away. Taking more than 3 days at a time always seems like too much and I end up wanting to get back. I still need to take that week long vacation every year for the enjoyment of my wife and kids, but it seems too long.
Eveytime I open a website with absolute sizes I want to cry. Most of my monitors have either crappy or too big resolutions.
I agree with you! My guess was that there's probably a very small number of stickers with very high demand, too. But really, we wanted to create something that people could potentially be helpful to people while not feeling bad that we are not revising :)
For the umpteenth time, NAT is not a replacement for a firewall.

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/8772/how-importa...
I like to call the iPhone's "Easy Mode" - "You can't do that".
> you just get the feeling that it’ll work (not just run without error, but even logically be correct)

This is the feeling I get from good strongly/statically typed languages too. My best example is a ray tracer written from scratch in haskell. It took a good couple of hours, but then once it actually compiled it run the first time without error (but rendered everything behind the camera) and exactly as it was supposed to work on the second try.

I really like languages which give me that kind of feeling.
I don't think 5-8 fields is as huge a barrier to sign-up rates as you might have initially believed. I believe that friction starts to occur on somewhere around 10+ fields.

Here's a couple of other theories as to why your new approach works better:

Commitment: When you initially ask for JUST an email address from a prospect, it's kind of like starting a conversation with someone by saying "Hey what's your phone number" without even caring to ask for their name and a proper introduction. Basically their email is the most valuable piece of information they have to give you, and immediately going for it sends the wrong message. Presenting them with a full form (that includes their name, company, maybe a job function) conveys that you really care to know about them and sets the expectation that they will get something useful out of any interaction with you.

Convention: I've encountered more signup processes where the request for contact information is front-loaded. It's simply what internet citizens are more accustomed to. In fact some users may have thought that by giving you their email address, they were done, and didn't even carefully review the "verify your address to proceed" email. They probably just waited for something more and simply gave up when the next step didn't magically present itself.
"Whore" is inappropriate.
People who are successful like a little inspirational boost once in a while no?
Thanks, glad you liked it. What would you like to hear more about? (I'm shamelessly fishing for ideas for this year.)
I think of it like giving to public radio. Generally the gifts in return for a donation are of a lesser cash value than the donation you're making.

Also... smackfu? Like formerly st marks place brooklyn smackfu?
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These are hands-down the best AngularJS tutorials on the web. I've read and watched every AngularJS tutorial I can find on the web and nothing compares to the clarity and gentle introductions these videos provide.
Here's the video: http://abdophoto.tumblr.com/post/48782980706/steve-jobs-on-t...
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The number of rays needed to realistically model raytraced objects turned to be much higher than we ever expected, as far as I know.
"And what is the distant horizon he's working toward? From the 42 Floors home page, it's 'The best place to find office space.' That's the impossible he's making possible? That's why he's working 100% of the time? What a joke."

I respect all your prior annoyances, and don't care to comment on them, but this one pissed me off. 42Floors seems to be doing a fucking awesome job in helping startups, even well established companies, find office space. Pissing on their efforts by making some snide remark ('what a joke') is completely uncalled for. Finding office space IS a huge problem for companies, especially startups who don't have much money but still need some space...42Floors is making that process (which I'm sure can sometimes be seemingly impossible) far simpler by providing the service that they are.
Since he ran the company, he must have done something right. He wasn't always right but he did have repeatable success. When he took over Apple in the late 1990's, Apple was almost dead.

Btw, here's some of his advice that I alway try to remember:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2011/05/16/steve-jo...
> sudo apt-get install nginx

If you want the newest version, nginx has their own deb repository[1]. It seems to get security updates faster, too.

[1] http://wiki.nginx.org/Install#Official_Debian.2FUbuntu_packa...

EDIT: Not the PPA because it's "maintained by volunteers and is not distributed by nginx.org." Their repository:

deb http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ yourOScodename nginx
Real-time raytracing is easy, if you can live with one or maybe two bounces.
> but why not just have the client do the pinging?

That's exactly what i meant. Sorry if it was unclear. I accidentally switched proxy_send_timeout and proxy_read_timeout.
More relevantly, nothing stops you from creating a tradeable note that says "redeemable for 1 bitcoin from <trusted authority>" and then using those as currency.

This happened with gold, and also would happen if we saw a true bitcoin bank rather than bitcoin wallet -- they'd pay a bit of interest, and in return would pool their deposits and use some fraction of them to generate revenue through other channels.
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