skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only that, but you could replace 'Glass' with any mobile technology over the last decade (many of which are wildly successful consumer devices), and the 'review' still makes perfect sense (albeit, with the same, incorrect, conclusions). Maybe that should have been a signal to the author...
If there is a streak, a good reason for it might just be because when you start making 1 or two in a row you stop worrying about the mecahnics of making the third. There's a great bit in the book Bounce about the concept of The Yips.

> Yips or the yips is the apparent loss of fine motor skills without apparent explanation, in one of a number of different sports

It seems to occur when we start worry about our mechanics again and begin over thinking our work, rather than letting our more smoothly acting muscle memory do the task.

I always wonder if this isn't also really applicable to startups. Do we over think these rather than practice a set of skills that we can later rely on in almost a muscle memory like way? Do we have yips when trying to run our businesses?
The gov't lists medicare reimbursement which is basically the insurance price maximum. Some insurers get better than medicare pricing.

You know what is wild though? Federal employees aren't insured by medicare but instead the federal govt pays private insurers to insure them!

If the Feds went to single payer for its employees, things would change quickly.
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>> I'm aware of all that, but of course you DO want to show things to the outside, all the time.

Well, there's a solid argument to be made in favor of limiting how much internals are exposed to other objects. I personally like keeping my headers as minimal as possible.
"Cool," perhaps, but not even vaguely innovative. It doesn't change any business models, it doesn't bypass anything or make any real changes, it's just a big iPhone (or, really, an iPod Touch). It hasn't "changed the computing industry." It's introduced a new line of the same products we had before.

"Let's make a bigger one" was a really great idea, but it's not really in the same league.
Then specify that because otherwise you're attacking all unions. There are no perfect unions. There never have been but they still play an important part in the labor force.
A really good new site about "p-hacking" and how to detect it

http://www.p-curve.com/

is by Uri Simonsohn, a professor of psychology with a better than average understanding of statistics, and colleagues who are concerned about making scientific papers more reliable. You can use the p-curve software on that site for your own investigations into p values found in published research.

Many of the issues brought up by the blog post kindly submitted here and the comments that were submitted here before this comment become much more clear after reading Simonsohn's various articles

http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~uws/

about p values and what they mean, and other aspects of interpreting published scientific research.
Sounds like a bumblebee completing digestion of a large burrito.
Ah, the web. Repeating the issues from 2000 over and over again.
"It’s robbing you of the joy of actually experiencing your life. You’ll realize it the first time you step in dog shit or have your girlfriend get mad at you for not listening to her or lose your kid in a store."

Last two things there? Both of them of them? It's you being a terrible person. Stop blaming technology for letting you be awful and blame yourself for being awful.
> Its amazing the amount of work today done by scientist at universities writing code without very basic software development tools.

I agree 100%. I recently quit my PhD so I still know a lot of people on the frontlines of science. One of these friends recently asked me to help them with a coding issue so they gave me an ssh login to group's server. I login and start reading the source.

It was all Fortran, with comments throughout like "C A major bug was present in all versions of this program dated prior to 1993." What bug, and of what significance for past results? Unknowable. As far as I can tell from the comments, the software has been hacked on intermittently by various people of various skill since at least 1985 without ever using source control or even starting a basic CHANGELOG describing the program's evolution. The README is a copy/paste of some old emails about the project. There are no tests.

So even though computer modeling projects should, in theory, be highly reproducible... it often seems like researchers are not taking the necessary steps to know what state their codebase was in at the time certain results were obtained.
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i think there has been some confusion in links and titles: btcd is a full-node alternative implementation of the bitcoin protocol. this was not meant to be misleading and you are right to point out that the btcwire package is far from the entire piece of software.

in another few weeks all the pieces will be public and it will be closer to a full implementation, per my interpretation of your use of the word full.
Hey, Daniele (FileRock CEO) here.

Just a clarification about the (seemingly high) price: the idea is to offer a limited space where users can put their critical files (business and sensitive personal stuff, not downloaded PDFs or DivX movies).

Something like your own private safe on the cloud, which is really really secure because we do:

- client-side encryption (we're not able to look at your files even if we wanted to);

- integrity check (you can verify that your files have not been tampered. This is our proprietary technology, I daresay nobody else does that as efficiently as we do);

- transparency (our client is open-source, so you can actually verify our claim that the software is secure. This is also something that few others do).
anything you didn't like about it?
Well, they certainly are going to try it again before 2023. I can't imagine Disney has stopped caring about Steamboat Willie between now and the late 90s.
Yeah - it's really the first widely available wearable computing platform!
How differents is a B.S. from an M.S. when it comes to recruiting?
Amazon Developing Smartphone With 3-D Screen
Wrong. By that logic, you wouldn't have considered cell phones as disruptive because they initially cost around $9,000 (inflation adjusted). The same for PCs, and pretty much any disruptive technology.

That's one of the central points in the aforementioned book Innovator's Dilemma. Disruptive technologies often start out as expensive products that only attract a small segment of early adopters. This leads established players to ignore them. But new technology often holds greater potential for improvement (easy gains in existing technology have already been tapped). With time, cost is reduced while performance is increased, and it wins over the market.

Tesla may or may not end up being disruptive. But price certainly doesn't rule it out.
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I love how can argue that APIs are protected by copyright law but claim that that is not a "state-granted artificial legal monopoly".
I'm not saying that I agree with bailing out car companies, nor the 1980 bailout particularly, but the notion of "setting free" talented labor pool is a little absurd in the case of the 2008 financial meltdown. It wasn't GMs fault that the entire financial sector that customers require to purchase their products was detonated by AAA rated products that were not at all safe. It was the government's fault for not regulating the banks, as well as the rating firms for not evaluating them.

The engineers would have been let go into a horrifically bad labor market where demand for mechanical engineers is zero due to expensive and unavailable credit.
reduction implies elimination of something. the argument was never that a program could become incomputable, but that it is much more than merely what happens when it is run
Pretty much exactly what I was thinking.

The points about charging apply to any electric vehicle, though, and that's where I have trouble seeing electric cars really taking off. The Tesla approach seems great if your only use case is up to 100 mile drives from home to somewhere else and back again the same day to a home where you can easily plug the car in (essentially the typical car commuter). That's got to be a reasonable market now, but I remember seeing a recent article about a strong trend (in younger generations) towards living close to work and not driving or at least driving much less. I definitely fall into that category, and while I do have a car, I only use it on weekends to take trips out of town -- generally to places out in the woods where there will never be charging stations and often far enough that I wouldn't trust a 200 mile range. Unless battery technology gets way better, I just don't see electric-only working for that kind of use case. The Volt makes a lot more sense to me since you always have a backup plan.

Regarding charging stations for urban dwellers, my building (like many new projects in the Seattle area, as I understand it) has a few parking spots that are with charging stations. I don't see them in use now, but if electric cars actually do take off, people are going to be fighting over those few spots.
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>I do this because of shoulder pains caused by the mouse on the right.

As much as a I love a good keyboard, you need to fix this.

For keyboard reviews, see http://deskthority.net/ and http://geekhack.org/
"Most of its components come from the auto industry" is incorrect. Tesla makes most of its components from scratch.
I actually avoid being in photos at parties and events these days thanks to this risk. Facial recognition creeps me the hell out, and no one can seem to stop putting squares and names around everyone's faces when they upload photos (what are you gaining by this????).

Gonna be fun times when everyone has Google Glass and that data leaks or, more likely, continues to be volunteered by others without my consent.
Now we need to work on getting all 50 States, and the various county/municipal governments to do likewise...
Yeah, it's not at all foolproof or even great. I don't think there's really a good solution that still provides true anonymity, since the only way to prevent box-stuffing is to actually restrict people to one entry per real person (and that generally requires a more involved real-world authentication process).
True. Building cars isn't rocket science : D
The Model S is "Cool", perhaps, but not even vaguely innovative. It doesn't change any business models, it doesn't bypass anything or make any real changes, it's just a new kind of car that doesn't use gas (really, a big golf cart). It won't "change the automotive industry." It's introducing a new line of the same products we had before.

With the Model S you still have roads, parking, large upfront costs, a driver, and traffic. The only difference is fuel. Minor.

(I'm all for the Model S, but I think you're putting much too high a standard on "innovative".)
Ask HN: Need your opinion on a name...
We have a client who is launching a product under the name "Koondo" .. they have asked us to provide some feedback on the name so I thought I would ask the HN crowd for some feedback.
One of the main issues I see with this is that people lie.

They lie so much, that almost everyone in HR completely discounts employee based salary data. Instead, if they need to understand what a market rate is for a salary, they ask employers what they are paying, since to them it is just another expense.

Talk to anyone worth anything in HR and they will echo exactly what I said. You may as well guess what your buddy is being paid, because whatever they tell you is never going to be accurate enough to provide you with an informed opinion.
Hey bro your red warning is blue, just sayin.
Tx for the hint. The homepage definitely needs some design. As far as the app goes, I purposely want it clutter free so that all the focus is on notes and it's easier to focus on the information in hand (at least as far as I am concerned). What do you think?
It was definitely mentioned there, and that was what I was expecting.

That method requires that there's no collaboration to remain secure.
It's amusing to see this back and forth of tech community where one side thinks it's the next big thing, the other thinks that because these "nerdy" tech journalists like Google Glass it won't be popular, and then the rebuttal that the critics are either jealous or just naysayers.

Honestly, it's all fun and games till the average consumer has the ability to buy it. The rest is just speculation.
I know, I know. I don't care who's right or wrong here, colinta.
It's only that I thought "hey, maybe venus doesn't know that mattetti is one of the guys that worked on MacRuby, I'll point that out".
Congratulations to all, but especially to Diwank!
has anybody tried Vagabond (https://github.com/chrisroberts/vagabond) to do the same thing without a VM ?
Thanks for the suggestion, but I still need to be able to see them in the sidebar :(
Very solid quick read. Gets straight to the point. Thanks for dropping the knowledge wbelk.
I have one of these and it's not a bad keyboard ... except the space bar ... it's hart do press 90% of the time or you have to press it twice. but i would recommend the MS Wireless Comfort Desktop 5000. i use one at work and at home and i'm in love with it.
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Yeah, the $100k is a red herring. The issue is not how much it costs, but what it does, and I don't see the Model S as doing anything that incumbents already don't.
Did anyone actually read “The Great Gatsby”?
I love reading stories like this, especially with hyper-revolutionary products like Google Glass.

Because the more people say "it will never succeed with consumers", the fewer people will go into Gold Rush mentality (at least for now), and the more opportunity there will be for folks like me (and, I hope, other HN types).

I couldn't be more confident that some variation of this -- whether it's Google Glass or Apple Eyeball or whatever -- is going to really, seriously, emphatically, be a multi-billion-dollar market.

So keep going VentureBeat and others. Keep telling the world it's just a nerd toy or a fad or whatever. More time and more opportunity for the rest of us ;)

"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
I use waze daily for my commute and it's saved me tons of time. If FB buys it that's the last I'll use it.

(and in response to the "why all the FB hate" comment: I don't hate FB. I used it rather a lot. However, I try to limit the amount of information FB knows about me as much as reasonably possible. Where I am nearly up-to-the-minute, and not only current and historical location data as well as a decent ability to predict where I'm going on most given days, that's too much information for me to willingly hand over to FB. Or anyone.

Waze knows where I am, but not necessarily who I am.
FB knows who I am, but not necessarily where I am.

I don't trust either company with both data sets.
In the UK the word 'coon' (which I assume is how Koon is pronounced here) is an offensive term for a black person (although I must admit to not having heard anyone say it for many years).
People think "HN is too negative", but can you believe the goddamn journalists fretting over this, despite 1) never having used it and 2) this was clearly presented as an early-adopter developer version?

Still mad about not having Reader available to do their work.
They have the official power to back that up, since the Ford family holds stock with a 10x voting preference. It looks like they had about half of the votes at the shareholder meeting this year. There was a shareholder resolution to abolish that this year that failed with something like 66% of the voting shares against it.
Specialized networks have two paths. One is offer value even if you are the only user. Instagram and Pinterest do this. The other is making sure people join in groups, which is close to what Yammer does.

(There is the dark path of spamming your users' contacts from another network, but we know where it leads.)
Epona.js makes url-hash handling easy
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You can't do cost/benefit on subjective things which is not rally an issue for computers but how do you compare a 50$ toaster vs a 200$ toaster.
I don't think it's a "generational" thing. I'd be more inclined to call it an upbringing/environment difference, in addition to a preference based on how you actually want a car to drive (which is very different than just "how powerful is it").

The "out-of-touch boomer" judgment is just petty. credibility--;
I've been losing respect for HipByte. Laurent is making tough calls, I'll bide my time.
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> If you've ever tried to get data from a public entity and had to argue about the particulars of PDF over Excel ...

Or my favorite, the entities that send a PDF export of an Excel spreadsheet.
I've been worried about this, ever since their acquisition. However, if they shutdown FeedBurner, there would be a LOT of broken links suddenly left on the web. Kind of like bit.ly or tinyurl suddenly disappearing. I imagine the public backlash from this makes it a bit more tricky for Google to drop FeedBurner, than it was to drop Reader.
MultiPLX now supports Google Reader style list-view.
If the size of the group is known, just generate one-time use codes equal to the number of people in the group and have the survey creator distribute them. If any code is attempted twice (such as if the survey creator uses your code before you can), trash the whole survey. Then, only display the results when all codes are used.

This doesn't prevent several people from colluding, but it does seem to prevent anyone from acting alone to mess with the results of the survey.
Amazon developing smartphone with a 3D display
Donations, subscriptions, and endowments. There's frequently an ad in Consumer Reports that you can get an annuity through them, so I'm sure some people take them up on that offer.

I'm also assuming they sell the cars after they buy them and test them.
But this would miss the "main topics," since when you have both the vp's and the np's you have everything :/ Here is the resulting tree (it's unformatted, sorry, I tweaked an old Prolog grammar I had for analysing search keywords and tweets):

[[[[Swayy,snp],np],[is,[a,[[beautiful,new,dashboard,snp],np],np_],vp],simple_s],for,[[discovering,simple_s],and,[[curating,[[online,content,snp],np],vp],simple_s],s],s]
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That's not true. Tesla is significantly disrupting the archaic dealership model. They sell their cars directly, over the internet, and from corporate-owned showrooms.
Apple iBall
I almost get hit by hybrids when not paying attention. Cars need to make noise like natural gas needs to have a scent added. Safety.
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Wooden Records, Laser Cut.
Every year the Thiel Foundation filters in 20+ amazing individuals. This year is no exception. Congratulations to the fellows that made it, I'm excited to see what they build.
By what legal standard should Google be held, then? Are you really advocating the multinational/Internet companies pick and choose what laws they follow according to their own needs and whims?
The Stanford parser is particularly slow --- it's in java, and it's written for research more than anything.

The choice of language is not what causes the slowness of the Stanford parser. It's the choice of search strategy, which trades-off speed for accuracy.

Shift-reduce dependency parsers are linear time, and are giving state-of-the-art results.

No, this is incorrect.

The choice of parsing logic (shift-reduce, dependency) and the search strategy (greedy, sometimes erroneously called "deterministic") are orthogonal. It's the greedy search strategy that leads to linear time performance.

The choice of logic determines the lower-bound (best-case) on parsing complexity. If you do exhaustive search for the exact solution of a shift-reduce dependency parser, it is worst-case exponential. In practice, you don't do exact search, and by using a beam search approximation you can get observed linear-time performance.

[edit: You can read my thesis if you are not familiar with what a parsing logic is.]

I am not aware of state-of-the-art results from greedy shift-reduce parsers. Do you mind sharing?
Yep. 3 days before Perfect Audience.
http://blog.adroll.com/retargeting-facebook-news-feed
Because it's much cheaper to have computers do this than actual people which is what we used to have.
This article seems to piggyback on the recent meme of 'technology can be useful but also asocial and isolating/Why I deactivated my Facebook/Twitter/Google+', which I agree with, but she is a bit too preachy; please tell me why exactly Glass is bad, not just some general appeals to the bad side-effects of modern consumer gadgets.

> On the other hand, for myriad kinds of workers, I can see Glass being an extraordinarily helpful, hands-free tool. Imagine working on an airplane engine and having the manual right in front of you or using it to photograph and catalog new species during a deep-sea diving expedition.

Imagine being someone who has to fix his sink, so he has to bust out a manual and figure out the sink at the same time... oh wait, turns out this nugget doesn't only apply to professional contexts.

Consumer-applications ← not just playing casual games and updating social media about what you had for dinner.

I can see Glass being excellent for some things, while maybe not being ideal for most of the things that you do. Imagine that you are in a foreign country and don't speak the language and you want to talk to someone; do you bust out your smart phone and let the other person spell out the words, then have them played back to you or you read it yourself? Or do you simply talk to that person and see the subtitles pop up as you go? The latter one is clearly superior, IMO.

This is like a review of cellphones from the 80's, "Stuff like this will never be used by anyone else than really busy professionals. It doesn't even fit in your pocket!"

EDIT: A lot of the time I really only need my smart phone for special purposes. Things like finding my way around places I haven't been is much easier with google maps than with a physical map and/or asking directions. Other than that? Well, surfing the web and listening to music, the former being a way to kill time and the latter something that my iPod Nano does better. Yet, smart phones are here to stay for most people.
https://github.com/filerock/FileRock-Client
How is this a snarky comment? Properties were introduced in Objective-C 2.0 which is relatively new, thus, I'm asking why he chose not to use them when they're standard practice now.

And prefixing classes is not for "clean code", it's to avoid namespace collisions which is a valid and common issue in Objective-C development.
They announced their beta recently, too. You should sign up with us though!

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Oh, I get it, you're one of those guys that thinks all roads should be toll roads and you should only be protected by the police and the military if you can personally pay for that protection and all schools should be private -- wanna learn? gotta pay.

Yuck. Never mind I'd rather not debate this with you.
They definitely did when they were new. Hell, when cell phones were new they made people think you were a drug dealer.
oh I see, so long as people are killed by private money it's cool.
Yup. In fact, it's only being rolled out to Qualified Buyers: http://www.facebook-pmdcenter.com/fbx

PerfectAudience is taking signups, but doesn't have access.
It appears their client is open source, but I agree that they are not open source in the expected way (i.e., can't self-host): http://blog.filerock.com/2012/12/were-going-open-source/