skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
only the top 14% !

Well, Fuck me.
To bad we already managed to overload the site.
That looks like an interesting (if long) read, thank you.
Anybody else uncomfortable putting an always-on, always listening for a command, internet-connected device with a camera and 3D mapping device with this sensitivity in your living room? It's literally beyond the telescreen technology described in 1984. Cool - sure ... but jeez, it requires an awful lot of trust with whoever is on the receiving end of all of that data.
This seems incorrect. The xbox has more than enough processing power to handle the tasks locally.
Just checked a USAian dictionary - as usual you chaps are using well defined words with a clear etymology in as barbarous a manner as possible.

My statement still stands. People who are scared of words need to be shocked into engaging their brain.
Primer - Arguably the best time travel movie ever made. I've watched it about four times now and I still can't quite wrap my head around it.
Either way this definitely returned the fund for USV. If this was out of their 2004 fund ($125m) and the follow-ons came from reserves from that fund, getting $281m back on say $30m of paid in capital (upping ispivey's estimate and from his comments assuming Fred took more than pro-rata later) is a smashing success for a VC even if the deal was "just" ~9x overall for all capital. Congrats.
It means shareholders may earn a lots from Sony. It does not mean gamers can get more enjoyment from Playstation.
Yes, but not in the hands of a single company. What happens if Twitter goes bankrupt? Does whoever acquire the assets then hold the portfolio? Do the terms of the agreement bind them? I like the idea, but having Twitter play that role is too fragile.
there are at least a couple companies doing variations on this, if you look around on https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace you can browse through some.

..

TurnKey Linux: https://hub.turnkeylinux.org/tour/cloud/ | https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile/?id=a05a35...

BitNami: http://bitnami.com/stacks | https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile/?id=dbe648...
Android to WCF: Streaming multi part binary images
In case of go fix `-r` does something absolutely unrelated.

To be honest, I was just lazy inventing a command line key and it's recursive by design, so it happened this way. Plus, as you say, it's easy to remember because of mnemonics.

I haven't touched svn repos in years, but yeah, that could be added. I know they exist, it just that I haven't felt the need to support them.
Yeah, I also noticed that POP doesn't work with Zoho on my Nexus. I switched to IMAP and it works fine.
this is the second game with some help from the road signs :P http://www.geoguessr.com?v=eyJ0b3RhbFBvaW50cyI6MjA1NjksInZlc...
I've seen quite a few sites which prevent zooming on mobile browsers. I think it's to do with:

"Mobile Safari often just zooms the page when changing from portrait to landscape, instead of laying out the page as it would if originally loaded in landscape. If web developers want their scale settings to remain consistent when switching orientations on the iPhone, they must add a maximum-scale value to prevent this zooming, which has the sometimes-unwanted side effect of preventing users from zooming in." https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Mobile/View...

Whatever the reason, it's pretty annoying.
Listerine.

As in :

I'm not Listerine but GitMo horrifies me.

Listerine is a anti-septic mouthwash in UK, where we have a definite Establishment streak of undeserved superiority re: our American cousins

Listerine -> Anti-Septic -> Septic-tank -> Yank -> Yankee -> American

Translation:

I'm not anti-american but GitMo horrifies me.

c.f. QI Xl episode
Yeah, the scoring should be made flatter between 50km and 500km and steeper above. Now there's bigger point difference between lucky shot in the right country and unlucky one than between unlucky shot in roughly right place and choosing wrong continent.
Why not moving is a silly rule? I think that moving doesn't make sense in challenge mode. On exploration mode it would be fine, I think.
Hey what are the kids doing there in first pic? :P
>the Finnish language does not have an equivalent for the word "please"

My first thought was "Don't be silly, of course it does!" but then I realized that it's actually true - we don't have a direct equivalent to "please". Funny how that goes (and I certainly don't use "please" any less than a native speaker would). But we do have plenty of ways to express politeness in its place, so I have to disagree with the "it's sometimes really hard to be courteous and polite for a Finn." There are certainly some Finnish manners, like the tendency to get straight to the point, which one could intepret as rude at times but that obviously wouldn't be the case with Finns communicating with Finns.
UK net firms block pirate websites (test - submitted using new YC Bookmarklet)
Just by change I had to contact Google Support for a Gmail problem in Google Apps for Business. The initial time to response was more than 24 hours. But after that the support was super proactive and helpful. The agent even phoned me after I emailed to say the ticket could be closed. He explained that the initial 24 hour delay was not normal, and he would flag that.

Overall it seems they are really taking some concrete steps to improve things. It seems from the thread to be patchy depending on what business unit. For example Google Apps has more competition so they cannot afford to be slack.
The chilly conditions that quantum computers need to run
I really enjoy reading hardware write ups, because it's such a completely different set of skills and seems fascinating. Plus look at how awesome the finished product is, it's a clever combination of components and I'm not surprised his fiance said to just make it more polished.
Technology Radar May 2013
Making quantum encryption practical
Music label+Distribution keep 87% of what music artist sell
CSS3 beer donation button for your profile or website
Tasks should be SMART too
Android: Getting Started with Databases and ContentProviders (Part 1)
No, according to an interview with the president of Xbox Live only internet specific features like smartGlass will need a connection, some games that use such features may optionally require a connection[1]

[1] http://www.wpcentral.com/xbox-one-no-bc-not-always-online
Riots grip Stockholm suburbs after police shooting
Hmmm. Maybe I would try to gather some money for creating a music instrument shop/service. I like music and technology (behind music) as well - that would be fun!
It should help to know that streetview is only available in North America, Brazil, Europe, South Africa, Japan, Thailand, and Australia.
I love this little gem. I can do in seconds what takes my colleagues an hour (they generally don't know about macros, extending their editors, regexes, etc). It showed me that solving text problems outside your text editor ends up benefiting more people.

Its a little bit different from Go Replace, giving the option to drop on your editor if the current replacement can't be appied directly (this is the great feature).
This chart reminded me when PG spoke about "Killing Hollywood", at the time it seemed a bit harsh, but when you look closely - Hollywood and the music industry is mainly a bunch of loan sharks "servicing" artists.
He didn't "take" their car and do anything with it. He made a lower cost version of one of the systems, but not a fully functioning car. This is hugely impressive, but that doesn't mean the title isn't misleading.
I agree with you but I doubt very much that Microsoft does. Requiring it to have a persistent connection and offloading core parts of the game to the cloud is going to be delightful for their DRM team.
Fred,
I can definitely say that you and several others in the VC world deeply care about your teams and your vision for the world. I have been a part of your community @ avc.com for awhile, I started following you and Brad Feld after I met Brad when he came to Oklahoma City. Both you and he are super genuine, open, and I see time and time again how you go to bat for your entrepreneurs. I think what makes a good investor is someone who takes true ownership of an investment, and does what they can to help it succeed. You definitely fit that bill, but there are plenty of others out there as well.

My advice to everyone looking for people like Fred is to reach out to other entrepreneur's and see who has really been helpful, follow them on their blogs or twitter, and try and figure out what they are about. If you like what you see, engage them and the community of people around them. Maybe you will never get to work with them directly, but in the process most likely you will connect with other like minded individuals and will find people who are either in the same position as you or sages who have done it multiple times before. Maybe you will get lucky and find a few life long friends. And that is what makes it all worth it, isn't it?
Watchmen is a favourite of mine also - it has a very exceptional role cast with very unique personalities. I would give an advice to whom have not seen it yet: watch the directors cut.
Creating Vanity URLs in Rails
Luck: Success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions.

The most important thing you can know about startups is that it's a game of luck. You can control certain aspects of luck by being at the right spot at the right time, knowing the right people and keeping your startup alive. But in the end it's largely luck and contrary to popular belief it can't be reverse engineered.

Basically: location, connections and timing.

What's better than reading blog posts about start up advice is finding some founders that have been successful and others that are in the same boat as you and talking with them regularly.

You can be lacking in all 3 categories and still be successful. But it's going to be much harder and the odds are stacked against you even more.

You can be proficient in all 3 categories and still fail.
Cloud doing any of these things is bonkers. The cloud is good at things like running Xbox live, making my profile available anywhere, saving my games. Using the internet, let me emphasis this, the transient, unreliable communication system that is the internet to deliver pivotal game deterministic results in nano seconds is unfeasible and unworkable.
This isn't working for me. I get:

C:\Users\swah\docs>gr TEST
panic: Given path should be anchored at /

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.NewIgnorer(0xc08005bcf0, 0x29, 0x0, 0x0, 0x140110, ...)
/Users/piranha/dev/go/src/goreplace/ignore.go:32 +0xa4
main.main()
/Users/piranha/dev/go/src/goreplace/goreplace.go:62 +0x1b7

goroutine 2 [runnable]:

[edit] New version is working!
Do they? I've heard (I must confess it was years ago) that google paid less. People went there because it was cool and all that hype.
True, but sometimes you do come across some interesting ideas.
Apache Httpd
The GM issue is a whole other discussion. I prefer to focus on the insanity of privatizing water. He claims that water is "just another foodstuff". But it's not. There is no alternative to water (or air). We can't just switch to juice or milk. We would literally die.

Monsanto's view of the world is crooked and greedy (to the point of evil), though I think Peter Brabeck-Letmathe's takes the cake for now. If Letmathe's expressing Nestle's views as well then I'm never (willingly) buying any of their products again.
So it seems as though there is basically a Hypervisor OS and two Virtual Machines. One for TV and one for Gaming. Given that TV and Gaming have vastly different resource requirements and use cases it isn't surprising that you would optimise for each use case.

Also it wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft in the future releases a cheap AppleTV competitor with just the TV VM and a cheap gaming only XBox with just the Gaming VM.
I don't have time for a complete post (and I don't have permission to publish examples from the datasets), but here is some "quick" reply.

Once you see examples from the datasets, lots of problems come to mind (and to todo list a bit later). This is a quite expensive problem to tackle with.

Some requirements:
(1) you need datasets from various places, various weather conditions and various situations,
(2) everything must work in realtime,
(3) equipment is expensive (cameras, cars, gas, ...),
(4) error has to be minimal (we are talking about human lifes).
(and this is just part of requirements)

Student labs fail at money part, companies fail at lack of time (again, money; you need lots of time to deal with extreme number of situations and produce error prune product -- and nobody guarantees that you'll manage to do that).

And now, some problems:
- Everything has to work in realtime which means more than 30 FPS in average (you need to aim for higher average speed so you don't get lags in complex scenes). Computer vision algorithms aren't usually realtime, for example, for simple task as object detection one of the best realtime algorithms is Viola-Jones which is more than 10 years old and patented. In newer days there are some breakthroughs in this area, but quite small if you take ten-year gap (and we are talking about quite simple problem -- object detection).
- Then, the datasets. You need a lot of them. Different places, different times. All you can do is to beg someone for it, pay a lot for it or make an contract with traffic companies (for the product that you don't know will it work well; and good luck if you represent a student lab).
- Now, the data. Take a ride during the different weather conditions and times of day or year. You'll be ok, but from CV point of view, you'll meet hundreds different problems. Disorted view during the rain, big balls of light during the night, different types of cars (cars with trailers, bikes at the back, motorbikes, ...), damaged road, damaged traffic control, traffic accidents, ... you get the point.
- Then, think of number of things that you need to take care of -- traffic signs (very hard problem! specialy if you want to ride on local roads where some of signs are only partially visible), traffic fixes, etc.

Some of solutions are taking only some of the problems and tacking with them (more in way of alerting the driver). I'm not familiar with different sensors that deal with some of these problems, but maybe some of them aren't so expensive (today you can buy a car which can park itself (or that was just R&D showcase)).

Anyway, this is extremely interesting problem and it deserves us to fight with it. Unfortunately, from business side it looks like a big gamble.
Well, if you have X units of effort (dollars, man-years, whatever) you can choose to allocate some of it to creating a mechanism for tolerating buggy drivers, and some to debugging the drivers. Micro- vs monolithic- in the real world is an argument over this exact allocation.
what's the rationale behind 'gr foo -r bar' instead of simply 'gr foo bar'?
Ask HN: Have you settled on a Google Reader replacement?
Feedly keeps popping up as a winner; some love Newsblur, some say The Old Reader or Tiny RSS. Just asking: have you settled on a winner? What were pros and cons? Do you read on both desktop and mobile, and did that play into your choice?
TFA is an ideological rant. Which is not to say that the Nestle CEO was not also on an ideological rant, or hypocritical, or whatever. But I don't want to see this sort of propaganda on HN. It is unbecoming of us.
Examples of Pseudo-Elements Animations and Transitions
Argh! I see, I think I can solve this. Give me a bit of time please. :)
The overlooked issue of Windows 8
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into the community at avc.com.
Guantanamo wi-fi shut down after Anonymous threat
I don't know yet. Neither of those companies, (I believe? - might be wrong), has active social strategies. So, they're unlikely to use my data in ways that would increase my public risk by much. Either of them would be an improvement from that perspective. Neither are they likely to be particularly pushy when it comes to other services simply because I don't use much else that's made by them.

In terms of private risk - well, bam. They're OS manufacturers. If they want to screw you, you're screwed. Do either of them seem to be in the habit of screwing their customers? I don't think so. Again, I might be wrong.

I think, in terms of private vulnerability, if you're seriously concerned with that, then you have to start off with the assumption that your device is a traitor. I remember back when we were playing around with using phones microphones to eavesdrop on people even when the phone was turned off. You've got a snitch in your pocket - if you want to do something private from the people who made it, leave it at home.

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All that being, from my point of view, more or less equal then - (and I'm open to feedback on any of this since I'm not religiously tied to either option.) I'm currently leaning towards Windows Phone. It looks like it has a really nicely thought out interface.

A lot of it will depend on which keyboard is better. That was the reason I opted for an android for my first phone - that it had the ability to change keyboard if I didn't like it.

Windows Phone's weakest points are probably the designs of its handsets and the app availability. But I don't use many apps anyway, and the hardware, IMO, isn't worse than iphone, it's just not as good as the best of android.

The things that might lean me more towards iphone is that I want to get a tablet at some point - and I've not seen any good Windows 8 Tablets. If I'm going to be curling up in bed for some reading, I don't really want something that's heavy and hot. It's gonna be easier if my tablet and my phone are both on the same system.

:/

It's far from a perfect solution, whatever I choose. Android has, it seems to me, the best overall experience across tablets and phones, but the pushiness of Google's a deal killer. Windows has the best phone of the two remaining (and according to some of my girlfriends the best phone experience overall anyway) and Apple seem to have the best tablet of the remaining two.

I'm not strongly tied to any option at the moment though. I might even end up getting a Linux device - though the fact that they run on Android hardware which ties back to google is troubling.

Anything that you'd recommend?
This is a really interesting product - I can see how it would be useful to a wide audience. However IMO I think you may be pricing a lot of customers out of using your product. I developed a scheduling / booking app (http://www.meetingshed.com), and I found I had to offer a free tier to drive users to actually register and try out it out. Hope it works out for you though. I'm sure HN folks would be interested in learning about the user demographic and how the business develops.
Looking at other people's code (and I mean more experienced programmers of course) always helped me to learn best-practices, patterns, etc. Also if you does not understand something (why is it there? why is it written that way?) it is very good to ask the guy who wrote it down about his purpose - maybe both of you can learn from these situations.

Also this kind of "learning" is very useful in the future - you can understand other people's code faster or recognize problems by looking at the code.

I think your idea is worth doing and I would encourage you to keep working on it; I am sure I will recommend it to my friends too.
I just started with commafeed.com The good is that it's simple, looks like google reader, and had a 1-click import from google reader.

The bad is that it seems slow to update and it's almost unusable on the iPhone.
Acetrax movie customers must redownload all DRM'd films to retain usage
At $300 The Xbox One Will Win
A Google engineer and his thoughts about Australia's new Fibre network
I'm always worried that my competition will be able to see and roughly gauge how profitable I am.
Not a chance (or, specifically, not a chance likely enough to concern you). They're focused on their baby, not yours, and 'profitability' as a meaningful factor depends on variables including overheads, business owner salaries, and vision which are next to impossible to guess with any clarity.

I'm worried that this will give them an incentive [to] offer products that overlap what I offer and undercut me.
This is more likely, but is the very definition of competition. If you want to compete solely on price then you (and your competitors) are signing up for a never-ending arms race. Find other ways to compete, and know that success breeds imitators so you must always be a step ahead in regards product or service innovation, or market penetration.

Many price-sensitive customers will just leave at that point.
Yes. That's usually a good thing. Moreover, you will lose far fewer than you expect - switching services requires an investment in research, deliberation, time to change, time to re-learn, and risk of something new. The cost-savings need to fund all of that as well, and often don't.
Sure. But if XBox Live machines are in the same datacentre as the Azure ones then you would be crazy not to use Azure as the platform for your apps.
"Scrum is not always Scrum." - Big point, haha - I see hundreds of people using "Scrum" and not Scrum.
Gilliam: private PaaS
What I find funny is that now, when we finally have a proper CSS support for gradients, shadows, rounded edges and so on, we're going into design style that could be easily achieved in the '90s :)
I think the language used to push these needs to be centered around protecting good drivers from all the other bad drivers. "You aren't the problem, they are the problem and these cars are simply able to better anticipate the mistakes others will make."
Philosophically this is utter hyperbole. Not being able to watch Arrested Development, or any content, under whatever circumstances you prefer does _not_ infringe on your freedom.

A content creator has the right to stipulate whatever contractual conditions she prefers in order for you to partake of the content she's produced. If you don't like it, don't watch it.

That being said, it's another matter of what actually constitutes good business, likely there are not really any business advantages to DRM. You could also definitely make a case for this idea as a good method of consumer empowerment. I'd just prefer if they didn't pretend that this has anything to do with "freedom" or liberty.

Bad idea != attack on freedom
Last line is the Best Example Ever of median and mean not agreeing. Did you come up with it yourself?
I kind of wonder at the need for this. NoSQL's main advantage is its performance at the cost of a no joins limitation and no ACID.

An embedded database is unlikely to have much in the way of performance requirements, otherwise you would use a full database on a dedicated server.

Seems a bit like NoSQL, just for the sake of it.
Ask HN: Crawling historic HN - a project proposal/request
I've been attempting to check on some older items on HN in order to do some text analysis, and I want to be fair and play by the rules. PG has said that the "official" way to do this is now via the HN Search API, but in using that I've found (a) significant gaps, and (b) it doesn't go back beyond January 2010.

So I can use that to get some data, and then attempt to fill in the gaps.

However, I'm sure other people have done this before now, and are probably sitting on previous crawls and/or downloads. So the question is, can we create a project to make all historic HN data available via an easy-to-use interface.

Thoughts, suggestions and comments invited.
Figure 37 at the bottom reminds me of Iron Man :)
I think its well known that Microsoft are working on the former, a non-gaming Xbox (save for casual games perhaps), primarily designed for films, TV and music. Unfortunately I can't go digging for sources now, and a cursory search is swamped by results of this new announcement