skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? Guys, no..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/apr/04/japan-quantit...

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/japan-has-finall...

etc. This is just part of the effect of dumping a trillion into the market.

EDIT: Not to say the xbox event is completely unrelated, but the real reason behind the gains is big money being pushed into the market. More than likely money earmarked for Sony was held off a day or two for news of MS releasing a flying console that could brush your teeth - but barring anything truly radical, the money was always going to go into Sony's stocks.
Hey, it works, you shipped a working product and that's all that really counts.
I wonder, if all the endless man (and woman) hours spent on this site, masturbating over whether people should use Go, or why Go is the new hotness, or why don't people grok Haskell, or the latest Rails security fails, if instead people actually, you know, built stuff, even with PHP, then the conversation could be a bit more stimulating.
It's possible you're in the minority.
is it people?
This only goes to show how influenced I am by brands; as soon as I clicked the link my reaction was "this isn't google, what's the point in reading this!" and went back...
One of my first thoughts when he mentioned housing as well.
Would that be the opt-in mailing list?

The one that he got off of HN publicity, by posting useful information on his site to share with other people?
Thanks. I do think this is outdated... the video mentions "nootropics" for instance.
I think he's referring to Liberty Reserve.

Before there were USD/BTC exchanges you had to use someone like LR to get Liberty Dollars and then exchange them for bitcoins or vice versa. I may be remembering incorrectly. I looked into back in 2010.
Neither Sony or Microsoft have told me why I need to buy one of their next-gen consoles.

I own a PS3, Xbox 360 and a gaming PC. The 360 came first and combined with Xbox Live it became my default gaming device. Probably 60% of my games are for my Xbox 360. After a few years with my 360 I bought a PS3 because there were some exclusive games I wanted to play. In 2010 Battlefield 3 came out and I built a gaming PC for it because in my opinion the Battlefield series excels when played with a keyboard, mouse and servers that can accommodate large scale battles.

A strange side affect of building that gaming PC was that I started buying games for my PC instead of my consoles because the games looked and played better on my PC then my consoles.

This next console generation is going to be the most homogenous yet. Developers will be able to make a game that works on PC, Xbox One and PS4 so easily that brand loyalty will mean a lot less.

Unless Microsoft actually releases some TV features that actually work outside of the United States I don't know if I'll be buying one of these new consoles. I'll probably continue buying games for my PC until a platform exclusive game (which are becoming increasingly rare) comes out.
Writing sci-fi, fantasy, and horror novels with a lot more focus.
An additional constraint is that you don't want any moisture from your breath to get inside an exped down pad as it will reduce the insulation ... their system works really well but it is targeted at winter/high mountain use.
Heh, sorry. Perhaps I should have used a ':P' emoticon. I didn't intend on being mean.

It's a dick move because it takes advantage of their systems to do things they clearly don't want you doing.
Yes, but do you really believe it has a long lifespan? They've already started replacing Google Talk on Android Phones and it's being slowly replaced in Gmail as well. That relegates it to the same sort of niche status that Google Reader occupied.
Here's an interesting thing: If the spread of equity and the wealth that has led to has resulted in the rising cost of real estate, then, that same spread has resulted in a greater visibility of the wealth disparity in the US as a whole.
Or you can take a different tack, like this guy:

http://arttrezzo.com/ebook_pricing.html
I truly hope this is successful, not in the sense that these guys monetize it and become millionaires, but that the world in general does need a way to supplement our diets in a more sustainable way.

What irks me though, is the lack of a true clinical trial.

This fundraising effort is for the supplement itself when it really should be for clinical trials to prove the stuff is safe and works.

Perhaps they are scared of the results, or perhaps they really believe in their product, either way this is in the wrong direction and people COULD get hurt.
> How do you tell the difference between someone who is legitimately experienced and someone who's skill is putting on appearances?

Those who have legitimate experience can detect their peers. Unfortunately, this is highly contextual. You can be a competent Ruby on Rails guy, but still suffer from Dunning-Krueger when trying to evaluate an iOS developer.

You can also go back to first principles. Do people live their lives and engage in conversations in a way that indicates they understand the epistemological stance of scientists? I have a super power in this regard. I exude a field that makes undesirable people prejudge me, to the point where they make factual mistakes.
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>Maybe you just got old?

Oh, I definitely did, in a way that's the point.

The product appears to be aimed at my changed tastes, it's just arriving late.
> But they're all billionaires, so issues that don't affect billionaires personally... just don't get included in the debate.

I recently came across this fascinating statistical study[1] of U.S. Senators responsiveness to the political positions of their constituents, which found that both Republicans and (to a slightly lesser extent) Democrats were overwhelmingly responsive to the positions of the wealthiest 1/3 of their constituents, and entirely unresponsive to the positions of the lowest 1/3. Well worth a read.

[1] http://www.princeton.edu/~bartels/economic.pdf
> So in that way it is simply another "look, eating this probably won't kill you, at least not quickly." product.

If that's how it was marketed most people would have much less problem with it.

But when it's claiming to regulate cholesterol and etc, well, that's just sleazy.
By "does the website" you mean cloned https://github.com/lockitron/selfstarter and modified the copy?
> I am concerned though about the lack of any new info on the steambox in the last, what, year?

Everything I saw about the "Steam Box" suggested to me that it would be an underpowered machine for more casual games.

But the great part about Steam is that I could build my own damn hardware and use Steam and Big Picture Mode on it. So now I have a legitimate mid-range gaming PC hooked up to my TV and launching Big Picture on startup.

As a Linux user and lover, the idea of an eventual Steam box running on Linux is an exciting idea, but in the meantime, I'm running my own box on Windows.
Some people don't mind being tracked, and some people prefer it (because it can increase the quality and relevance of services offered to them). I can't think of a reason we should outright deny such services from existing. Additionally, such regulations would probably end up applying only to corporations (who are usually not malicious, and only want my money) but not applying to governments, who can cite "national security" concerns to justify tracking people anyway.

As for mandating government transparency and protecting encryption, I think those could have a lot of potential to help without unfairly limiting any person or group. And I agree, we should make fewer things illegal, which is another reason it might not be smart to make collecting consumer data illegal.
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Nope, one of the blog posts mentioned actual nootropics. They're playing pretty fast and loose with the ingredients. If they're still experimenting (as it seems they are), they should say so.
The response (That will be reported to AppleCare Services. Good luck getting help from an authorised Apple service provider, you'll need it.) reminds me of this blast from the past:

Berkeley laptop thief is scared out of his wits by professor http://boingboing.net/2005/04/20/berkeley-laptop-thie.html
Nowhere do they recommend that you replace every single meal with Soylent and the creator stated many times throughout his many blog posts that he continued to eat normal meals whenever he felt like eating normal meals. This is in contrast to something like the movie Fat Sick and Nearly Dead (http://www.fatsickandnearlydead.com/) which actually does recommend drinking veggie shakes exclusively for every meal for 90 days.
I believe that Soylent uses Whey protein, because of common allergies to Soy protein... which is amusing, since an intolerance to milk protein runs in my family, and appears to be quite common too.

In fact, an extremely common request of clinical nutritionists is for a non-diary product, especially for ones aimed at children.

I strongly urge Soylent to try and gain the help of someone with experience within the established industry and get their assistance. Whilst us hackers might be happy to take the risk at this stage, someone with industry experience and knowledge of product development and production would bring invaluable skill. Plus, they'd be best placed to answer any questions about FDA issues, etc

Disclaimer: I have a family member who works in this field
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Box type consoles have always been iconic.
Not too late to join a six week Coursera class on Developing New Companies
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Idea to fruition = half a century.

So Popular Mechanics amazed me as a kid. They often speculated what the future held, but if I was to look back at their predictions and the current year, I'd probably be disappointed.

I realize tech (specifically mobile) is the fastest evolving industry right now, but am I the only who feels that we're still behind on ideas coming to reality? It's what compelled me to get into coding.

I didn't want to be one of the people that expresses an idea and say "they should make an app, that blah blah blah." I'm not waiting, I'll learn to code, and smash a keyboard...but I'll do it my self!
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As a pretty big console and PC gamer, the best thing that came out of this presentation was that Steven Spielberg will be working on a live action Halo TV series.

That should say a lot.
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This is pretty bad ass idea, home sec drone that can track, monitor, capture images of intruders.
thnk its in beta - Japanese company SECOM
Not a big deal at all. Schematics only show how to connect the various bits and pieces. Maybe there is one or two things that were secret before, but anyone with a little time, a scope, a voltage meter and some time could have figured out how most of it connected anyway.
Just auto-updated on my SGS+. First impression; almost unusable, although it used to be OK before. Got up to my desktop to write this comment, because Opera Mobile just became unresponsive and I didn't expect it to ever make it here (though it was on WLAN). After a reboot, went to m.slashdot.org and it took >5 seconds to respond to swipes even after loading, then got stuck for 15 secs when trying to type a new url.
The event's games presentations were oriented to what is usually called the "Bro gamer" demographic (e.g. Madden/FIFA/CoD) ... It focused on TV, for which many of the core gamers don't care. Contrast this to the PS4 announcement, which had many developers and a lot of talk about how the platform is going to be more "open" for the small guys, and it felt really passionate about the "for-gamers" features. As a gamer, I feel like the PS4 is where the real passion for games is, where someone actually cared to provide tools for the "indie" crowd (who, arguably, are doing the good games these days) ... Meanwhile, microsoft is showing a TV machine, has forgotten the indie channel and has killed XNA. If you don't understand why this was dissapointing for gamers, it's most probably because you are not a gamer yourself I guess. Honestly it felt passionless, pointless and underwhelming. It wasn't a blunder or anything, of course. It was just meh.
This is a blog post by the creator that has a little detail on it: http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424
Yeah. As soon as I saw CBS (which weirdly, was first presented in the context of the voice-activated command feature), I knew it had a pretty good chance of taking over the "input A".
Doesn't whey protein contain lactose?
What?? Some people have been negative about soylent from the very first posts.
In a world where tracking is the norm, we need to be reminded when places /aren't/ tracking
Perhaps I shouldn't have said "duh"

That's almost always correct :)
Is this any different to purchasing a program but not getting the source code?
Why would Y-combinator alumni have to comply with any government imposed rules? I hate to sound like a broken record but check my comments or history of PG companies he founded. AirBnB co-founders were or still are on FBI top spammer list that used tax money to spam people to high heaven.

As of the product, I join vast majority that says stay away. My personal thing is that after reading one of their interview where they were inviting people to clinical study, I send them long detailed email covering my willingness to participate and even pay all the cost from my own pocket. My email got ignored and I never got response. For that reason alone, I would stay away from something you have to pay for, because their customer support sucks from the get go.
"Google Experience" means that the device is running regular Android, without some weird TouchWiz or Sense skin. I'm certain the new services will be available for non-GE devices because those are the ones that are "fragmented".

It seems doubtful that they'll be available on devices that don't have Google Play installed, because Play Services is part of Google Play. Apps that require Google Play (e.g. for in-app purchases or license validation) already need to find some other option if they want to run on devices running stripped-down Android distributions.

I don't think it's fair to characterize this as lock-in, because apps are free to use some other mechanism to implement provided features (or just disable them if not available).
Oh good, it has antioxidants! Which have been shown to actually increase mortality slightly when given to healthy people[1].

I really like the idea, but until they apply some real science to it, I'll pass.

[1] http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD007176/antioxidant-supplemen...
The way I see it is that every new gaming console is going to do gaming better than the generation before it. Shouldn't that be a given?

Microsoft's job, as far as the Xbox, is the following...
1) Go lobby for components from various manufactures to meet the next-gen specs (whatever that may be)
2) Create tools and APIs for developers to understand the platform for which they are building
3) Improve existing services so that gamers have a consistent and enhanced experience

Its a lot of work, but its no rocket science either. Every console does this. Which goes to my point...
When it comes to the games, these consoles are basically the same thing (especially the ps4 and xboxOne). Sure, some platforms may have an exclusive here and a different game there. Overall, the ps4 and the xboxOne will be matching one-for-one the basic gameplay mechanics.

What Microsoft did was say "alright, lets not focus on the redundant, but lets take a look at what separates this console from the other one (ps4)".

This is just an unveiling of what the console is. Don't worry, the games are still here. They will always be here. They could've made a presentation with nothing but demos. Sure, gamers would be delighted. But, if you think of it, it doesn't make sense to do so. Especially that E3 will be coming in only a couple of weeks. There will be plenty of games there.
> vegan

I don't even really believe soylent is legit, but it's interesting enough to plunk down money for. However, this is kinda a deal-breaker.

How exactly is Soylent currently not vegan?

EDIT: Re-reading http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424 , it's implied that this uses whey protein. I've used hemp protein rather than whey before.

Also, it'd be green then. ;)
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So because it's hard to be ethical we shouldn't try? Because it is hard to quantify greed it is no longer a bad thing?

Because other people are doing it too is a good justification?

I recently watched the movie "Django Rising" and the character of Leonardi diCaprio troubled me greatly. Not because I thought he was really evil but because I thought he really wasn't. Had I been born in that time, son of a slave owner who was son of a slave owner, brought up surrounded by the values of that time, would I have been able to recognize that slavery was evil, would I have had the courage to do anything about it? Would I have behaved any differently from how Leo's character behaved?
The thing about Xbox 360 not having Blu-ray just made streaming/renting/buying a lot better. Why go to a store when you can just turn the Xbox on and do the same thing. I do want to say that it is a great option for the people who buy Blu-ray discs, but I like the convenience of not being attached to huge, physical disc libraries.
The quickest will be to copy from a real estate or a used car web site.
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It's a Freenode channel, unsurprisingly. Try IRCing elsewhere.
Samsung's dominance is a good thing for Google's "Play Services" strategy to reduce fragmentation if Samsung continues to ship "Google Experience" devices that include Google's Play Store. AFAIK, Samsung would not be able to block apps from pulling down the Play Store library dependency to older devices.
If they're honest, probably something akin to, "solidified lava is hard to chisel up and replace with pavement".
What's the best way to ensure faster turnaround when a new OS X version comes out? Is the constraint money, or is it more that they need more developers?
I wrote a very similar chat application using google translation, tech demo here: http://speak.ly
Was a brilliant presentation IMO. Maybe Sony's extremely disappointing PS4 event set the bar too low, but anyway this Xbox One announcement gave me goosebumps. The possibilities are endless. Let's see what they have saved for E3.
But here's the thing, my feedback reads: "As your target market[1], I don't like what you're selling me". [1] assuming the target market are people in the process of writing and publishing a self-published (e)book

No. The target market is "people in the process of writing and publishing a self-published (e)book - who are willing to buy a ebook at price point $X".

The market of folk who would buy the book at $10 is probably larger - but I guarantee it's not 10 x larger.

And if you're not going to get at least $30 value from the book - it doesn't sound like you're the market.

(Also - as an aside - I get the impression that you think that paper is the largest cost of a paper book. That for $30 price point paper would be expected... The thing is that the paper bit is the cheapest part of a book. On a normal bookshop book it's about 10% of the money you pay.)
I agree that I was not quite precise and I really don't have solid sources (not sure if there are standards/rules for this).

However, Wikipedia° suggests that conversion might refer to conversion rate. That's so far the only thing that I found from a few minutes search.

° http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion#Marketing
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Thief didn't hand over the laptop ... not sure he was scared out of his wits.
Should've read your post before I wrote mine. You wrote it better.
I have had a similar experience with the Hulu and Netflix apps. The killer feature for me (that would let me get rid of the small pc I have connected to my HDTV) would be a good web browsing experience. I haven't seen today's demo yet so I can't speak to that, but I can say that trying to use the xbox 360 Internet Explorer app with a game controller didn't cut it for me.
No kidding. The "family environmental portrait" photographer we've been using the last few years charges $275 for a 1.5hr session (including a CD of all the "keeper" files) and even if we only get 10 decent shots I consider it a worthwhile investment. Sometimes we get 40-50 and I'm elated! The fact is, even if I can shoot decently myself, I can't shoot myself decently and if I want to actually be in photos with my kids & wife I need to pay someone for the work. The lighting, posing & post-processing is where the big bucks are, for sure.
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Well their "Rewards" section is slightly misleading then. For $230, you can get

"One Month's Supply of Soylent
We'll ship enough Soylent to fully replace one month's worth of meals. Shipping included."
My friends and I used to joke that Amazon is like a travel agency for developers after we saw so many people move to Seattle to work there and then change jobs after a year or two. I would start there.
How do you recommend pricing a product?
Great tool but who wants to way months after each major OS X release to use it (again)?

GPGTools is not alone with this problem. LibreOffice for example can't probably be installed by many users because the binary isn't signed Apple-style. Many users will get an error message by OS X and just forget about LibreOffice …
But it still exists? It even says © 1999 in the footer.
The crux right now is that it's pretty expensive to control things in the real world. One thing, fine. A couple things in close proximity, also ok. Many things, distributed over the house? Expensive.

Lets think of one device, a relay (or solidstate relay) that controls an outlet.

You need:

A radio, or a powerline networking unit ($10). Some sort of processor ($45 for a Pi w/ps and sd card). Some low level logic to connect to the relay ($.25), the relay ($2), and the power socket ($2).

If you want to control two outlets at one place, you're only duplicating from the low level stuff to the power socket. That's another $5.

If you want to do this at a location that's more than a usb cable away from site #1, you're in for another $50.

The holy grail here is a wifi enabled power socket. All it needs is a small api: status and on/off. Bonus points if there's a current sensor. This could be done with the processor from Bunny's $12 phone and the power relay bits.

But, it's got to be priced in the $10/socket range.
"Acquisitions on this scale usually work well." I don't know what planet Marco's on -- despite his citation of Youtube, acquisitions hardly ever work well, let alone on this scale.

But he does have a habit of writing things with a straight face that other people never would.
A lot of those plugins are written in client-side Javascript, so the bot can't (easily) work with those.
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Apple is the culprit in this case. DLNA is the airplay standard for Everything Else(tm)
If I had to guess, I'd guess the writer's appreciation of alliteration. 'Learning from Sunnyvale' doesn't roll off the tongue as nicely.
Someone has to ask: Is there any chance of turning feces into food with this thing? Obviously it can't supply all our needs, there's a reason we got rid of it. But for actually helping people with low resources eat, it might cut down on trips to that "corner grocery store".
Not right now, but I can tell you that we plan on offering both a REST and a websocket API.
Allegedly this was a reason that BBC's iPlayer took so long to arrive on the 360. The BBC's charter was somehow contrary to MSFT's insistence that iPlayer was available only to XBL Gold members, so the release of iPlayer on 360 was delayed by years.

http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/consoles/bbc-we-d-still...