skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want really open and still want to get some money, you could consider an advertising clause like the old 4-clause BSD license: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#4-clause_license_....

Note, however, that people installing stuff on microcontrollers are much more competent than the average consumer.
Since SHRDLU's world is so limited, Winograd was able to explicitly program every facet of its language understanding. Unsurprisingly, this approach is totally not scalable and this reveals a little about why we don't have fully human-like language programs.

That's a good point. It does lead one to wonder, however, if techniques inspired to SHRDLU could (or do) have application in domain-specific applications where the world is likewise restricted. Given the increases in raw horsepower available since SHURDLU was first developed, I find myself wondering if we couldn't do some pretty useful things today, using this approach.
> Moreover, it's every geek's dream. You can remotely control the car with a smartphone app, monitor the car's efficiency and performance via beautiful graphs, and even have presets for charging cycles.

Yuck. If that's a geek dream, I'll take the nightmare. Smartphone app? Beautiful graphs? I want raw data over RS-232, csv, text/plain, not opaque layers of App Stores and flashy (unreusable) charts.
Online collaborative WYSIWYG LaTeX editor
There has been some discussion about making a server-side webbased implementation of Lyx in the past, and also the subject of making LyX more user-friendly to non-techs has come up. Now me and some friends have set out to create something like that: http://www.fiduswriter.com . We just launched the beta, and it will all be open source (AGPL) when we finally launch the 1.0 version it in 3-4 months. It's based on Biblatex rather than Natbib though. Anyways, just thought this may interest some people here.
Parallax your URL
Hmm not knowing the product or anything, to me it sounds African in nature, or maybe tropic... Koon makes me think of raccoon (though it can also have some bad connotations in the South US too).

Like most non-native language names you will have differing interpretations on who you ask.

Reading the name, and then thinking bout hearing it, I would think of it as being spelled kundo more then koondo. Beyond that I can't really associate it with anything.
Thanks. I can feel my English teacher's stares from here. It'll be fixed in the next push :) Now I just have to wait to see what the grammatical error in this post is...
Related: http://ryanhoover.me/post/43986871442/email-first-startups
Adobe's Creative Cloud scheme is anti-consumer and anti-competitive. Adobe is essentially attempting to leverage the monopoly that Photoshop has in the professional market to lock customers into the whole suite of Adobe products. A lot of people who have to use Photoshop are going to use the rest of the CC products because they are bundled not because they want to. It's quite a burden to thing of 600.00 in adobe charges and then piling on a Media Composer purchase or upgrade. The move to CC calls into question the long term viability of the DNG format and leaves photographers with few good choices for archival storage of RAW files.

Oh well, New Coke was a big hit so why not Creative Cloud.
And so what if it did? Would her article be any more or less true if she dictated it as opposed to writing it? Is a movie watched on a private screen close to our eyeballs any less entertaining than one viewed on a mobile phone or television?

If the only real argument against Google Glass, as a product or as a concept, is that it offers too much, then I'm not sure I see what the problem is.
The 14 characters you meet as a coder
I guess they forget a lot about immigrant entrepreneurs. I am currently trying to immigrate in the US, I have a working business in my home country with a few employees and I am applying to an entrepreneur Visa. But, OMG, the paperwork is so boring and huge, I don't understand why I have to go through this. It's already hard to create your business and to change your home country but to also have to be dealt like a * criminal or something, that's unfair.
How I wish something like this exist for python..
Plants Can Hear Each Other, Research Suggests
The Facebook app is a tricky example, as it's the only piece of software capable of generating two-step authentication tokens for Facebook.

I've wondered for a while whether that was done as a strategic move specifically to pressure the "clued up" demographic into installing the app. It certainly worked on me.
While I love typematrix keyboards, and I also have to say that their tech support is really outstanding, the build quality is pretty weak and my experience with those keyboards is that they are not very robust. Still, the typing experience is awesome and they map particularly well on Linux.

tip: while they can be expensive, a coupon search on google will relax the price a little bit.
Got it, thanks. Do brokerages charge interest rates for allowing shorts to borrow the stock?
Ubalo joins Twitter
Building efficient apps and extensions with push messaging
I have not met anyone in tech or not who is excited about google glass. I think many of us have gadget fatigue after so long and so much new stuff all the time. As an early adopter for so long, it means nothing I have ever really works because I'm on to the next thing. It may be a billion dollar market, but I don't want to participate.
I understand where you are coming from but I think you are overly dismissive of her claims.
Apple will not change anything about iOS simply for change’s sake
The opportunity with Glass is to develop mid-range domain-specific business applications. Don't waste your time with consumer trash.
Le me first say that I don't work for LinkedIn :).

However, it has been quite helpful for me. A year ago, I was not happy with my job. I worked hard and long hours and felt like I was going nowhere. At the same time I didn't try looking for a new one because I didn't have enough confidence in my work experience.

All that changed when a HR manager from a different company found me through LinkedIn. We clicked really well. I am getting paid more than what I used to and I love my job. I also got promoted a few months ago.

Since that experience, I have changed my attitude about job hunting. Now, I am always on the look out for the next big opportunity. LinkedIn helps with that without me putting in too much work.

FYI, I have no endorsements on my profile. Just my basic resume.
Also see: https://blog.conformal.com/btcd-a-bitcoind-alternative-writt... Btw, this original link was posted here full week ago.
I feel like Tarsnap offers all that a fraction of the price.
How does this compete with something like Arq (http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq)?

1. client-side encryption: it's all getting stored totally encrypted on amazon
2. integrity check: md5 check
3. transparency: I'll say you are more transparent, but your server-side code isn't open source so this isn't a huge win for me.

Arq is also a $29 one-time fee + the cost of S3, which is $.075/GB vs $13.

In what use case would I choose FileRock?
I'm curious. My understanding of anything-first startups is that you do everything manually to test a market, grow your clientele, and turn a profit. In your post, you mention not being profitable yet, even with the injection of around 7.5 million dollars. As someone who is now used to building businesses that turn a profit before they launch, your situation is interesting. Note that I'm not looking to start a flame war, just genuinely interested.
Sure, but there's a huge difference between a coding test and writing a CRUD app that's 99% chore, 1% knowledge. The interviewee can demonstrate their knowledge by writing a few simple views of a few lines each, for example.
Sometimes I am embarrassed to be from North Carolina. sigh

For the record, not all of North Carolina is so backwards.
The problem with that is that buying health care is far more complex than many other purchases. Now doctors simply will not provide an estimate for their services, and when you visit the doctor you don't know what kind of procedure they will have to perform on you at the visit.

In my view the system is so screwed up that will end up socialized pretty soon.
Oh, it's you.

I was going to go to Minicon in Minneapolis just to meet you, but you didn't make it shakes fist in impotent rage. I still recommend "Halting State" to all my programmer friends, and "Accelerando" to the paranoids.

Thanks for the laughs. :)
They specifically state that their love of the vehicle is because it's an electric car -- that side effects of being an electric car yield a result that they enjoy (e.g. low battery packs helping weight distribution, etc). Does that really make every other car "mediocre"?
We are attempting to solve this by identifying and rewarding reproducible research (www.reproducibilityinitiative.org). However, it has been incredibly difficult to get funding to conduct the validation studies due to the obsession of funding "novel" results, rather than funding the replication studies required to identify reproducible research. Funders need to step up to solve this problem.
Java’s insane new versioning scheme
At first I thought this was going to be like "write the manual first" a la Fred Brooks. But it actually made a great point. Yesterday for the first time I read pg's outstanding growth essay http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html which confirms many of these same excellent ideas.
Wuala has no API that I can tell, which I think LaCie is missing out on for reselling packages.
Cybercriminals Stole $45 Million in Multi-National Bank Heist
[Mother Theresa] felt that suffering would bring people closer to Jesus. Sanal Edamaruku, President of Rationalist International, criticised the failure to give painkillers, writing that in her Homes for the Dying, one could "hear the screams of people having maggots tweezered from their open wounds without pain relief. On principle, strong painkillers were not administered even in severe cases. According to Mother Teresa's philosophy, it is 'the most beautiful gift for a person that he can participate in the sufferings of Christ'."

The quality of care offered to terminally ill patients in the Homes for the Dying has been criticised in the medical press. The Lancet and the British Medical Journal reported the reuse of hypodermic needles, poor living conditions, including the use of cold baths for all patients, and an approach to illness and suffering that precluded the use of many elements of modern medical care, such as systematic diagnosis. Dr. Robin Fox, editor of The Lancet, described the medical care as "haphazard", as volunteers without medical knowledge had to make decisions about patient care, because of the lack of doctors. He observed that her order did not distinguish between curable and incurable patients, so that people who could otherwise survive would be at risk of dying from infections and lack of treatment. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa)

As a Canadian, I think I strongly prefer our government-provided healthcare to the Mother Theresa version.
How did they convert the mp3/ogg into strings?
That's something I've often puzzled over as well. I've came to the conclusion that a business is made up of individuals, and individuals like to live in nice places.

Nice places are often kept that way by means of regulation - Regulation of both the 'no strip malls' type and the 'no strip mining that mountain' type. Plus maybe they inspect fertilizer plants regularly so they don't explode.

Therefore, I'd posit that strong regulation can actually attract business simply by attracting the right types of people. http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog/2013/03/republican-messag... expands on this idea further
My Problem is with your pricing is this:
For the amount you charge for 16GB, I could probably rent a dedicated server that had 200GB+ in harddrive storage.
A cross-platform, scriptable speech recognizer.
I guess I could see that being a demanding and time consuming task if I had no arms.
Facebook Graph Search and Nearby: Why they Matter for Local Businesses
A Facebook ad retargeting platform gets to the front page of HN?
An Angst-Free Workplace Is No Place For Me
They have built ten thousand of them, what are you talking about?
I don't know... this line towards the end suggests you're anti-testing:

"It is for this reason that I’m trying desperately to get quantitative humanists using non-parametric and Bayesian methods from the very beginning, before our methodology becomes canonized and set."

:)

The "the design of the experiment shouldn't matter so much" assertion is usually followed by an appeal to the likelihood principle and a claim that frequentist estimation is misguided. If that's not what you had in mind, apologies. I've never seen it coupled with a claim that the frequentist would then misrepresent their experiment...

If the quoted statement is your goal, I think a more convincing argument is, "we often want a more nuanced way to express uncertainty than classical tests/confidence intervals give us, and... LOOK! We get that for free using Bayesian principles."

As an aside, running out of funding seems like it should give you the same results as a predetermined sample size, as long as the funding isn't conditional on getting interesting (i.e. statistically significant) results, but I'd need to actually do the math to be certain.
Lucky. PennDOT sent me screenshots of a spreadsheet, pasted into a doc.
Did you install a mobile version?
Take it a step further:

How do you get from

A) At least one person, somewhere in history, has been falsely accused of being crazy because he was inconvenient to authorities.

To:

B) Johnny over here is telling me that the illuminati are conspiring to destroy the world through mind-control agents in flouridated water and he needs to take violent action to protect our vital essences. He should have the right to buy a gun.

I think you're operating under the assumption that actual mental illness doesn't exist.
http://www.salarysecret.com/continue/214-petatu96
Now we only need Google Nose to become real.
It'll be a "killer".
Online to offline conversions from restaurant websites vs Facebook pages
(I wrote this last blog post)

In general, we're looking for results that will get people excited, and in some communities, we can get fairly silly speedups over native Python, so we are still picking that low-hanging fruit.

However, it's also important to be tied in to real applications. I'd be happy to take a crack at applying numba to your code. Do you have a reasonably small example we could take a look at?
Aside from the many vendors that Tesla engages, do you really thing the in-house components were invented "from scratch"? Of course they weren't. Like every other automaker, they look at what everyone else is doing and individualize. Outside of being electric, there is nothing about the Tesla that is truly revolutionary -- most of its components are minor variations on what everyone else is doing.
Perfect Audience has access through a qualified partner and is running campaigns right now.

Your post is pure FUD.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt
I'm excited to see what these people come up with.
Apple i
Virgin America is certainly not having great success.
What are you talking about?

http://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html
Everything related to medical devices is very capital intensive. From regulation compliance, to quality procedures, to patents and licensing, you need a lot of specialized people working for years to bring a product to market.
Very good blog post, if there was a startup manual, this should be in it. :)
Anyone had experience incrementally adopting rubymotion in a larger objective-c project? The languages obviously match up pretty well, I'm thinking more about toolchains, etc.

Would love to play with this but am fairly invested in a big obj-c thing right now.
SuperBenchmarker (ab.exe on steroids) for generating load on your API/Site
>If you’re using it recreationally, not professionally to complete a task, don’t kid yourself — it’s not enhancing your life. It’s robbing you of the joy of actually experiencing your life.

Same with cell phones. And computers. And books. And your car. And Legos. And art. And music.

Wait. But we like books and creative things, right?

This is the sort of vacuous statement that irks me. "Well duh" is an obvious response, but it goes deeper. This can be applied to doing anything you enjoy, but it's wielded most frequently against new things, in a "get off my lawn" / rose-tinted glasses way.

Sure. New things get used for things you don't approve of. Easy art reproduction brought about the proliferation of porn and the commoditization of art in general. The printing press brought about the end of scribes, and is used to spread Christian, Buddhist, atheist, communist, anarchist, and democratic propaganda.

But new things also get used for things you do approve of. Like porn, art in every room, and spreading propaganda for your latest cause.

Can we please get an ounce of information, instead of vague new-thing-hate?
It might seem odd, yes. But after hackers build great products, they face the same difficulties everyone else does in terms of getting users/customers.

Facebook Retargeting in the News Feed is a pretty awesome opportunity for HNers to get customers for the cool apps they're building. We work hard to have the most hacker-friendly retargeting tools out there.
The announcement at http://gopollgo.com/ hits all the acquisition bingo spots:

* "We are excited"

* "It has been so rewarding

* "We're so excited"

* "we couldn’t be happier"

* "thanks to all our users,"

* "As of today, we'll no longer be supporting [GoPollGo]"
| Also, Google has been actively lobbying
| against privacy protection laws in the EU
| for several years now.

Don't some of those same laws have data retention requirements[1] or are those separate laws?

[1] Could be a requirement or a limitation. If your company keeps data indefinitely, then maybe a law saying, "everyone keeps records 2 years, then destroys them" is a limitation. On the other hand, if you retain no information, then it's an extra burden, and an erosion of privacy.
I think you are on to something. When science became so big that it first needed then eventually was run by "managers" I bet it lost much of its effectiveness. But how do we change this? For starters there is a lot of money involved for the institutions conducting this (apparently shoddy) research.
I don't understand what you mean by "proprietary" "integrity check". I looked at your code (only the client is open-source) and I see something about skip-lists, "proofs", and MD5.

File integrity is a solved problem, so I'm not clear on why you'd want to have a proprietary solution here.
Awesome code, a very well thought out idea.
It's not common to see C/Fortran comparisons because they can be a pain to write. I'm implementing a serial C version for next week's blog post, though.
I really hate when people say you can't do something. It usually boils down to a lack of imagination on the part of the author.

* Hook document.onmousemove and track the number and location of movement events. If the mouse suddenly jumps around, you most likely have a touch event.

* Check the value of navigator.msMaxTouchPoints

* Pop a 0day on the client to get remote code execution, interrogate the devices attached to the USB bus looking for touch controllers.

etc.
Assuming you don't get too many 'bad actors' showing the mean and the median would help.
Eh, LinkedIn says that there are other people that work for my company that I might know. The only problem is, I'm an officer of my company, I know everyone who works there and they're all on my Linkedin. The people its suggesting, work for a similarly named company, about 1000 miles away... Score 1 for accuracy...
Writing a Cover Letter
You know what? You're right. Fuck it. People die. Let's not even bother. Let's cut out the police department, the military...even if you did have the money, why bother? You're just going to die.

Why bother eating right or exercising? Fuck, why not just off ourselves and save all the hassle.

There's absolutely no difference amongst the different kinds of things people can die from, especially ones that are easy to fix and ones that we can't do anything about.
Considering that, for years, Facebook had a universal password that would log you into anyone's account, I'd say that Google's standards are significantly higher than other players in the social sphere.

http://therumpus.net/2010/01/conversations-about-the-interne...
Yes. For example, consider interlingual machine translation. Most systems today (like Google) use statistical MT that learns patterns from millions of examples. In interlingua, by contrast, you analyze the input sentence to form a language-independent representation of the sentence's meaning. Then you use that representation to generate a sentence in a new language.

As you might expect, this is basically impossible for wide-domain MT because we don't have unambiguous representations of the meaning of every sentence, and we don't necessarily know how to combine them, and there's a lot of non-compositional phrases, and on and on.

However, if we restrict ourselves to one small domain, interlingua can work. For example, the KANT system [1] is an interlingua that is built for translating technical manuals for Caterpillar products (bulldozers and so on). The input has to be written in a restricted subset of English (Caterpillar Technical English), but then you can analyze it exactly with hand-written rules, and produce exact output in the target language.

[1] http://www2.lti.cs.cmu.edu/Research/Kant/
I believe the raw data can be exported as well - the graphs are just nice to be able to glance through and quickly digest
>That's got to be a reasonable market now

According to NHTS data, the mean Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) per day for Americans is 33 miles. The median is 22 miles. With numbers this low, and steadily decreasing, electric vehicles are viable for nearly all drivers. When small electric cars are comparable priced (taking into account lower cost of ownership) to their gas-burning competitors, things will really start to change.
Base64 encoded. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme
No, to be fair, it's also a bunch of people filling out profile information and then wondering what the heck to even do with it.
I disagree. Dashboards curate by definition. Some car dashboards display have a tachometer, some don't it depends on the car's focus. Google Analytics similarly doesn't display all available information, just that which will be useful. Dashboards always display a limited subset of available information that makes sense to the current context aka curated.

Discovering is also vacuous. The whole point of a dashboard is to convey information. Do I discover how fast I am going by looking at my car's dashboard? Do I discover my website's traffic by going to Google analytics? Sure, I wouldn't use them if I didn't get the information I need from them. So using an online content dashboard that doesn't deliver online content of some sort would be a waste of time.

Beautiful adds something because not all dashboards are beautiful.
More people, applications, services and sites are getting online without significant underlying infrastructure upgrades.
The thing about Great Gatsby is that, aside from the smart phones, it was just like today. The 1920's and 1930's were modern times. Manhattan was a place of 2.3 million people (substantially bigger than today), and was heavily built up: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=34300&pag.... The electrical grid, subway systems, roads, etc, were all mostly in place by then.

We have pervasive digital technology today, and there are more cars and bigger high-rises in Manhattan, but you can picture a fancy dinner party today on Park Avenue in a building that was built in the 1920's and 1930's (like many luxury buildings in New York), with people who took a train in from Long Island on a line that was already old in 1920, etc.
yet. :)