skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except for one thing. GPS computation is one of the few things we deal with in daily life that actually requires relativistic compensation to be accurate. The satellites are moving so quickly (relative to the receiver) and experience such less gravity, that the rate of time passing for them is measurably different than the rate of time passing for the receiver. Enough so that if you did not compensate for the difference in the rate of time-passage you'd actually be quite off in your location measurement.

Some back-of-the-envelope numbers (and precision calculation) here: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/1061/why-does-gps...
If they're doing it wrong, let them fail.
I suspect that they also troll as follows. Friend a business person with a professional looking profile with a picture. Interact a bit. Then go for the sale.

I guess that seems like to much work but in a sense it might yield a completely virgin market (business people traveling who would never think to read an ad or make pro active contact.) Almost like the bar honeypot.

Add: And be able to charge a premium rate because those contacted don't have any clue of the going rate and they have been enticed before they are able to pull back (not having any viable alternatives).
It has nothing to do with the amount of work you do, or your value as an employee in the market. If you're one of the founders, it's your business to make or break. Particularly early in the game, you're going to need to maximize your runway. So if you take typical first seed round, and then pay yourself $150k of that because "that's market rate", you're significantly impairing your business' potential for success. You should be able to go at least a year on your first seed funding, which for argument's sake let's peg at the $100k you get from YC. Presuming you have 2-3 founders, and a number of expenses, you can see that your own take is minimal. It's conceivable that in the first few years even, some employees may have higher salaries than the founders. But the founders should have enough equity that the payoff at the end is worth it.

If you're not going to operate that way, don't try and run your business as a startup that takes funding. You'll be doing everyone involved a disservice, including yourself.
Rated R (A Teaser)
Freelance web dev, JVM/Scala.
Few things adhere to the Unix philosophies anymore, and really, why should they?
Since you're in Europe, check out http://www.seedcamp.com/ if you haven't already.

Realistically, you're unlikely to get an investment on this trip (if you do, hi5s all around...just don't expect it). The thing you can do is start building a relationship with smart people.

There's a lot of work if you want to do this right.

Find VCs (or people who publicize themselves as angel investors). Read their LinkedIn pages, blog posts, etc. The first 10-20 may take an hour each. Eventually you'll be able to get this down to 15 minutes each.

There are two goals here, one more important than the other.

Most importantly, find out which VCs have something really fucking smart to say about what you're doing. This almost always comes from a specific background in an area. Ideally, if they personally ran a company in that particular industry.

Secondarily, LinkedIn (and sometimes other methods) will tell you who you might know in common. Good VCs are really overwhelmed by the number of people that want to talk to them. Their schedules can be busy beyond anything you typically see in business. It's hard to explain the value of a mutual friend who says to the VC "you should really talk to Kamil, he's onto something here..."

And really, you don't need to physically be here to start those relationships. You can get a message to basically any professional investor. The trick is making the most of it.

Use what you learned from researching the investor to write an email that they'll reply to. One way is to make it a deep question, and not "what should a pitch deck contain?" or "how much do you normally invest?". These are superficial questions that will get ignored. A better question is something that undeniably proves you know about your industry.

<blockquote>Hi Investor Person. I saw that you have a background in the business-travel booking space, and I'd like your opinion on something.

There's been a rise of booking sites that are able to offer hotel and airline reservations at below-market rates thanks to the loophole that's in typical contracts allowing unrestricted pricing of bundled vacation deals.

Large businesses aren't taking advantage of these savings. They could easily buy these package deals and throw away the parts they don't want while still saving money 25% on their total travel costs.

Other than cost, what are the unspoken motivation of the people working in travel departments at Fortune 500 companies?
</blockquote>

Those first two points are basically true (ignoring the fact that I'm just making up questions here). But I obviously know something about the industry, I'm not someone that used to be a dentist, and decided to quit and work on a business travel company (or if I am, I'm knowledgable about it). This type of question is good, because even if you're not a suitable investment, you might at least be able to tell the VC information they don't know, and that's valuable to them.

BTW I'm in SF, and I love meeting international visitors. Hit me up before you get into the city. tim at cloudspace. com
This is a good summary of a sad trend at Google. They fall from high, so we feel it unusually strongly. I still hope these are defensive moves as Google reacts to perceived threats from Facebook and others. I still hope they will eventually open up Google+ for interoperability.

It is good that people keep the pressure on Google regarding openness, it gives weight to the voice of the many employees there who want to do the right thing.
That one looks neat - it has some interesting NLP features like Wordnet integration and bayes classification.
Topless Woman? Move On, (NYPD) Police Are Told
I'm using freshbooks and really like it. Can someone give more insights about the other tools?
There's an analog in music to the notion of concurrency, which is the polyphonic melody -- a single melodic line that, by jumping between disparate registers, expresses the simultaneous sounding of two (abstract) voices moving against each other. Of course, this depends on the assumption that pitches can be implied even at times when they're not sounding, which intuitively seems to hold: see Bach's Cello Suites for a canonical example of this practice in action.
I wonder what they call themselves, and what they would be comfortable with if it wasn't used in a derogatory way.

I can imagine if I a few co-workers worked at a horrible oppressing conglomerate, perhaps Veridian Dynamics, and we referred to ourselves as "drones" to denote our feelings, if management said we were no longer allowed to use this term, it would not be uplifting, it would be yet another instance of management oppression by taking away another form of expression.

This example is, of course, extremely contrived, and I can see positives in removing a term from popular use as it may shift attitudes, but I wonder how that compares with the negatives to the group itself.
I'm curious whether you could use the 3D vertex coordinates and use principal component analysis to find an appropriate viewing angle. Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfTMmoDFXyE

PCA is often overused but for this specific use case it seems very well suited.
That looks pretty slick. There was a static HTML version I could host on my site, do you know if this does that? I don't want my files going through any third parties.
This really struck the perfect HN balance between arrogance and whining with a sales pitch thrown in. If I were writing an HNbot this post is what I would aspire to.
As one final thing: there are a lot of things you can do while here. My suggestion is one of many good ones.

(Ignoring my previous advice somewhat) I'd start by figuring out what types of things you could do, and then decide which you'd likely be good at. Then do that.

Hope to meet you in SF/SV.
I would recommend leo: http://leoeditor.com/
From an effort/reward perspective, this is the correct answer.

That or Super Duper. ;)
A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. I blame the confusion around the word fascism on polarizing concepts from movies like "Freedom to Fascism" by Aaron Russo.

The forces in this world to mis-inform the general population on these very important subjects is so strong, that I would say most people fail to truly understand what is reality and what is fantasy.
Because the only way to do that is put yourself in the crosshairs. If 3 of the 20 companies are being sued, the other 17 could ask for a summary judgement and allow everyone to pool resources, but then 17 companies had to put the result of the lawsuit on their own heads too.

You are correct that it would be better for the system as a whole, but each individual is better off not participating.
What a worthless article. Better read the original research here: http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/05/13/the-new-sick-man-of-euro...

On page 6 they detail the sample sizes (around 600 people from each country).
Well, don't get too happy:

http://techliberty.org.nz/govt-proposes-gcsb-control-over-nz...
Huge population of YouTube copyright owners denied class action status
Great tools , great list , Thanks
As a US citizen, it makes me very happy that someone has stood up to the bullshit my government tries to pull.
You'd need some pretty hefty antennas to trigger NFC tags at the range of watch-to-phone or watch-to-computer (say 1 to 2 metres max). Most NFC readers operate around a couple cm, maybe 10cm max. Your computer would lock every time you sipped your coffee :-(

The general idea is great though. I'm not sure what the right proximity tech would be. Someone else can no doubt chime in. Bluetooth would be overkill, NFC not enough.
I think this will be rant about the list/scalar context or scalar/array/hash context. Like a pointers in C that are extremely useful features and at the same time are surprisingly hard to understand for many people.
'Google DO do evil': Unethical ways of avoiding tax in britain
They raised from CRV. George Zachary is one of the best VC guys in the valley. No matter what, he always replies to your email. You'll get a reply from him which might come 1-2 weeks later on Sunday midnight. Which means he is working all the time and tries to respond to everyone!
Big congrats to the Pebble team from starting a whole new market segment with their vision starting from the kickstarter till the closing the round to all the stuff that they'll be doing in the future!
Sure, it takes work. But we expect children to be able to do it and they do.
I like his idea for a co-working space but ultimately it will not bring the fulfillment he needs.

Your work is not your life. It's difficult to realize this when you're young and hacking seems like the greatest and most important thing in the world. As you get older, you gain perspective.
Pitfalls & Triumphs of the Cross-Screen Experience
I wish someone would fix SublimeClang
No, but they monetize that data in other ways. Some say it's not the same thing, I disagree. Ultimately, it's at your discretion, but they could very easily change that policy.
This HN submission is getting heavily flagged. Stay classy HN, 12 of the top 32 links were Google related yesterday, must you flag articles that are critical Google?

http://hnrankings.info/5717995/
I like the simplicity of the big operators and the ideas on parallelism they were considering. What a huge disappointment that they aren't going to continue work on it.
Reactor.js: simple reactive programming for Javascript
I check this every couple of weeks, hoping to see SublimeCodeIntel appear as working: https://github.com/wbond/sublime_package_control/wiki/Sublim...

https://github.com/Kronuz/SublimeCodeIntel
I really don't have anything special installed for Java. I code Java much like I code C, and don't have the advantage of IntelliSense or similar.

Android makes this sort of coding easy, because it supports a relatively "small and focused classes" coding style -- much like Java in the 1.0.x days. Compare to, say, J2EE, where you HAVE to have an elaborate IDE just to wrangle the complex classes and all their interrelationships.
Why don't you read their site? There's a lot of material explaining how it works.
That's a common way to resubmit. It's apparently a feature of HN (as in pg obviously knows about it and chooses to keep it the way it is).
I've been using GoSublime under ST3 without any issues. Maybe I'm not making full use of it's functionality, but I haven't had any problems with it yet.
If volunteering feels like work, than you are doing it wrong. I remember the day I volunteer for a local video game convention. That week-end I did more hours than I would be ready to do for work. I also meet great people. You could argue that I liked it because it was a video game convention... but it's my point. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if you volunteer but you don't like what you do, then maybe you shouldn't be doing it (except if your goal was to do a good deed, but in this conversation, it's not the goal).

However I don't think this is actually a solution for anyone. It worked well for me because these people were like me... and this is exactly why I think his idea of open co-working space is amazing. I hope to see more co-working space like that.
It is an adiabatic quantum computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabatic_quantum_computation
Forty years of living in outer space
The tools that Bret talks about are insanely awesome and innovative. However, I don't think they are the holy grail of development. I think they will have a significant impact in a few specific fields, but will not apply to overall design and development as well. Thanks to dom for bringing this to my attention.
Raspberry Pi gets camera add-on
There's something wrong with the model where you can give something away for free so you can learn more about them to serve ads

There's nothing wrong with the model while Google or another corp do it for their own money (unlike gov.).

People are freely and willingly agree to see the ads in exchange to using free services. If you think they all wrong, that's just your personal opinion.
And where are those corrections taken into account in this page?
Not likely. Through you are welcome to fork and hack it all you want. :)
Just like reader, right ?
Visual Studio hands down.
I'm on the fence about this and RubyMotion in general. By far the most time consuming part of app development is getting the visuals and animations looking right, and I don't see how this helps. The basic scaffolding (setting up view controllers, transitions and talking to the backend) is the easy bit.

On the other hand, I'm a Python guy and I've never fallen for Objective-C (although recent sugary additions have made it far more pleasant).

Can anyone who has made the jump enlighten me?
INTERACT WITH OTHER HUMAN BEINGS [in a setting outside of "lol tech startups" once in a while].

This is the most important thing anyone on HN has said in a long time. You must surround yourself with people and subjects that are completely different from your usual pursuits. It will help your work, it will help reduce your stress levels, and it will give you new ways to think about the world. Pivoting is not just for startups.
I was curious why you would attempt this since PT/HM already dominate the market (for a reason) but that's a solid way to differentiate yourself.

I would check it out if I could actually play online anymore.
Wow... That's a tremendous response. Thank you.

Could you please send me links to everything you have ever written? Please. My email is in my profile.
I'm starting to think that they don't kill it, just because they can't . But if they had the chance ... :/
Microsoft suggests flip side to Chrome Everywhere coin
When people talk about travel in this sense, it's not about schlepping your bag from point A to B. I like this quote:

"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." ~ Henry Miller
I completely agree with this. Perhaps expanding the idea further however, it makes sense IMHO to see a multi-staff score (this could mean either a score written for multiple parts, or as something like piano scores which typically have a staff for each hand) as parallelism.
I have a Core i5 MBP and ST3 takes 1 second or less to start.
Travelling really opens your eyes to the way the rest of the world works. You will find that your little bubble is such a tiny part of things and that's a GOOD thing.
You will make friends, meet people with completely different mindsets, see amazing places and experience totally random (good and bad) things.
And if all you care about is business, I can tell you that after a year travelling I had a notebook stuffed full of start-up ideas I didn't even know where to begin.
Travelling is AWESOME.
RethinkDB 1.5 released: secondary indexes, soft durability, perf improvements
This approach is using the bounding box size and longest dimension to choose a camera distance and angle. It works better than static pose and it's computationally cheap.

However, it can oversimplify for objects which are significantly asymmetrical. A good place to go from here is statistical measures of object recognizability:

Betke & Makris, Information-Conserving Object Recognition.

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.44.4...

For 3D models, you can use hierarchical space carving to simplify the mesh first. You don't need great resolution, you just need better resolution than a rectangular bounding box.

(Note: PCA can be used for recognizability, but is not ideal. Highish complexity & overly general.)
All that it takes is one person to complain that they were offended, irregardless of the work environment, and a company with "zero tolerancy" towards sexual harassment will toss you out on your ass.

Frankly, it would have been easy to remedy - I was browsing a game forum with image signatures, which is where this image appeared.

Of course, at the time, the HR person didn't like me (I mistook her for my bosses personal assistant when I was hired), so that didn't help. Learned a lot of lessons from that situation - the biggest being "make the HR employees like you".
Volunteering and traveling both put you in a position you are not normally in. They will give you new ways to look at things, from how you might be acting as a customer (volunteering) to how much work goes on behind the scenes (volunteering) and how different people live, work, and play (travel). It's mind-expansion. It's fun. It's rewarding. You make new friends. You find new things to love. Your perceptions change. You become a different person.

Of course, you can also volunteer and travel and get absolutely nothing out of it. Depends.
If so, that would be a shame. There's already far to much "Hey, that's not how C behaves! [insert lang here] is stupid because it doesn't do what I expect, and I expect it to be C."
Mozilla's WebFWD program now accepting applications
I cycle and rock-climb and lift weights and play pick-up sports. I played piano when I was a kid.

I don't play video games and never watch TV by myself.

To be honest all that stuff is kind of a chore to me. I just do it so women won't think I'm boring.
He should really open a consultancy/firm to specialize in this.
Haha je connais bien "la ligne de Bordeaux"... My partner is Catalan and we lived near Perpignan for 3 years before moving here - she thinks of the Limousin as another country!

Would be great to meet up for a beer/wine/ricard and talk startups the next time I'm in the South. I can't see your email but mine is in my profile.
Using Solr With TYPO3 On Debian Squeeze
I'm not following this at all. Justify the cost of what? There's no cost to learn Ruby.
The Fuel Band is the worst watch I've ever owned. It drives me mad how many times I have to hit the button, and how long I have to wait, just to find out the time.
High-tech headband supercharges brain's focus [article & video]
Chrome’s requestAutocomplete()
Indoor bouldering is cool.

There's a definite video-game-type dynamic about trying to send gradually more difficult routes.
Thanks! I hadn't thought to use PCA, but I'll try it out, and report back, along with other peoples' suggestions!
This guy is right on the ball.

I've spent most of my career doing customer care, and to put it bluntly, real companies have some kind of support, even if it costs money.
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> Google has deeply neglected Apps users.

That's a funny way of looking at it. I pay Google money for my account so that I have, above all, a reliable system to use for my business.

No beta bullshit. And with Google Apps, that's what I get.

Regular users are the guinea pigs and once a feature has proven itself year(s) later, it's added to Apps. As someone who runs a business, I'm quite happy with that approach.

I get all the latest and greatest on my personal GMail account, I don't need it on my business account.
The music analogy is tempting, but has a serious problem. The same music when interpreted by different people, results in a different sounding piece. There is some level of control on this, but not as much as I think would be necessary for most programs.
Has there been any effort to create a standard subset of HTML that is safe for email? Seems like a problem worth solving once for everybody.
> One possible opportunity is to get the legal system and governments involved in this so as to require an adequate level of merchant support.

I wince every time someone proclaims the government should step in to regulate something that is obviously none of their business. That's the easy way out, and it hurts everyone in the long run.
Where does architecture end and design start?
Introducing Photailor: A marketplace for mobile photos
Nintendo NES console in CSS
Hopefully this will provide some motivation to other companies that have been faced with similar threats by trolls and have caved. It doesn't take a lot of wins to start turning the tide in our favor.

The trolls will certainly be back after they regroup - and their tactic may shift to coming after increasingly smaller companies that can't afford to go to court in the first place, much less actually stand up a fight. Nonetheless, any movement in the right direction is a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

Way to go Newegg!
Bret has been a huge inspiration for my work and life.

I think the main takeaway message from the last two talks is to show how by creating tools, one can enable working in fundamentally different ways, and the creation of fundamentally different things that wouldn't have been practical to create otherwise.
Alcatel sure has fallen. My father worked for them in France in the mid-90s. He said at the time, they were one of the best run and most exciting companies in the world. They had research labs in all sorts of things all over the place. Eventually, new management was established and Alcatel began falling apart, and then they merged to form Alcatel-Lucent in 2006. I don't think anyone even knows who they are anymore.
Fun fact, the Boeing 747 features a sextant port for convenient celestial navigation in flight.
There is a lot of academic work in this area that's relevant, dating back at least 10 years. I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned.

Maximizing the entropy of projected normals works well, for example, like this paper by Polonsky et al.: http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gotsman/AmendedPubl/Oleg/Polon...

A related problem is automatically figuring out the "natural orientation" of a mesh, so your automatic renderings don't look upside down by accident. Fu et al. use pretty simple machine learning tools: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/nest/imager/tr/2008/upright_orientation...