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This campaign is mostly technical (computer / data) hence the post on HN.

It was put online yesterday to create open data on development projects that have till today received more than $24 Billion tax funding with dozens of $Billions planned to follow in the next years.

Once the data is opened up with this campaign, it will also create a rare occasion that hackers working on their computers with the data, can actually contribute to save thousands of lives and get a lit on corruption. There will be many data challenges coming from finding patterns, identifying errors, graph / networks problems to name a few.

You might have followed the stories this month on Obama's executive order to open government data (e.g. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/0... ) - to make government spending more transparent and to save billions of dollars providing these services. Similar approaches are now being implemented with development aid, with the U.S. and the UK leading the way (e.g. in the UK you already have access on all government aid payments > £500, updated monthly).

The organisation (GFATM) that has received those $24 Billion is not a government agency, so these changes don't apply to them. They have, while lots of data has been published since its creation in 2002 (published !== open), seemingly taken the approach to hide important data in thousands of documents and obscuring it with special jargon.

This campaign is also an unique opportunity to have a complete dataset since the creation of such an organisation.

It would be appalling if it's possible to raise $200k to pay someone for a private video of an overweight Canadian smoking drugs, but there would be only little support for a project like this most likely saving thousands of lives (and putting scrutiny on $Billions of tax spending)
Interesting, thanks. I thought Max Levchin was trying to get you pregnant. Just announced yesterday at D11.

http://allthingsd.com/20130529/max-levchins-new-plan-to-get-...
When talking about nanotech it's important to distinguish between the politically conservative Engines of Creation nanotech and the engineeringly conservative Nanosystems nanotech. We seem more or less on track with the later.
"There's a problem with glass. As far as I can tell.
What Google is hoping for is to tease us into wanting something, that no one has asked for."

Uhh, what, huh?

You mean to tell me all those movies, cartoons, thousands of sci fi books where people explore a future with such objects, all these people exploring and creating, or describing what a future might be like...

... are not actually asking for it at all.

Instead, they're just waiting for what Apple will tell them they wanted all along?

Sorry, even as someone who has an MBP, iPhone, iPad, I find this perspective hilarious and borderline offensive.
Except they are feeding the electricity back into the grid, so I don't think it will cost them more than the installation and maintenance of the charger itself.
Are we speaking socially or economically?
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A month ago I was talking to another HNer about where to take a startup after launching in the valley.

There's a ton of great places: Seattle, Raleigh-Durham, Boston, L.A., DC beltway, etc. but I kept coming back to Austin. They've got so many things you would want: low cost of living, low regulatory burden, friendly community, lots of parks and open spaces, great nightlife, ease of travel, and so on.

When I look at the bay area, I wish them the best. They're still hands-down the best place to find money. But not so much in my mind of places to actually live. If I had a break-even startup and just wanted to live somewhere that I was surrounded by great talent doing cool things? I'd choose Austin in a heartbeat.

Although it's a close race, in my mind over the last few years Austin has moved to #2 in the startup world stateside. And it continues to improve.
This will be very interesting for those of us looking to learn more about building APIs. I for one am definitely looking forward to future posts on the subject!
Google Search Trends between Javascript MV* Frameworks: http://goo.gl/ONZwe
What will insurance companies do if people aren't crashing cars?
I took technical ability in a more general sense when I read that. I doubt he's saying that all of India's poverty issues can be solved by just throwing computers at them.
I'm sorry if I'm being a bit dense, but I don't understand your comment. :(

If I physically move my head, nothing I am looking at is moving with me, i.e. the computer screen does not move to where I look.

The point is that you look through glasses, yet the Google Glass screen makes you focus on it, not through it, and hence it moves with your general head movement.

Or have I misunderstood what you said?
Does the market need a cheaper printer, or a better one?

These are not mutually exclusive; and I'd go so far as to argue that they are necessarily linked. You will not get better printers (within reasonable price reach) without the market growing to increase scales of production, and you won't get that without bringing in more consumers -- which is precisely what the race for cheaper printers does.

This is not the better printer you are looking for, but it is helping to bring about that possibility.

And, minor nitpick:

All the printers had ugly, clunky software

A huge section of this kickstarter is devoted to showing off their user-friendly software.
Maybe one day we'll be talking about the "AdZerk Mafia" and they'll be seed funding the next generation of Triangle startups!

At any rate, I think very highly of James and the whole crew at AdZerk, and it's going to see them doing well and getting some recognition for it. They deserve it!

His formula, while not completely reproducible, is indicative of a new normal: that the little guy can reel in the big fish.

I sure hope so!
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There's also Derby, CanJS, Spine, Dart, Dojo, etc. and now Facebook's React library.

TodoMVC seems to have them all covered (except the latest one from Facebook): https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc
http://todomvc.com/
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I'm pretty sure that Maki is well-known in the 3D printing community for being a scammer. I'd stay away from the Makibox...
It's not that bad. I take weekend trips between NYC and [1 hour west of Chicago] multiple times a year. At around 870 miles, it's about a 13-14 hour drive with pit-stops. I usually split the trip into 2 days from NYC to Illinois, but only because I typically leave right after work, and I certainly wouldn't want to drive overnight.

The trip back is usually done in one day, ~10am to ~midnight. This usually includes 2-3 stops for gas and food. I wouldn't mind these stops being half an hour instead of their usual ~15 minutes, but it would mean that I would have to leave an hour earlier, or get home an hour later. since I'd have 50-100 miles less range per "fill-up" with the top-of-the-line Model S, I'd probably have to make an extra stop as well.

Ultimately, I look forward to none of this discussion mattering in 10 years, at which time I fully expect 400+ mile range in self-driving EV cars that charge in 10 minutes.

***fingers-crossed***
I saw that earlier today. I wonder how much of that just indicates how many developers are searching for help on the framework :)
As a Model S owner in Texas, I would think the easiest solution would be to record the mileage on the car at each annual state inspection and tax me on the net mileage driven between inspections.
"Life After Kickstarter: 5 Costly Lessons From A Kickstarter-Backed Designer"
The growth in Austin is pretty crazy. I was there a few months ago, about two years after my last visit, and things were markedly more crowded. I remember thinking "I can't wait to get back home to get away from all this traffic".

I live in Los Angeles.
It indeed can be, thanks.

Having to use a backup mode to print something without sending the file to the printer mfg. seems like needing to run a car in a backup mode to drive it without sending your location to the mfg.

I understand a few reasons for wanting to do this, but I don't think it likely to benefit the user.
If you'll allow me to be a bit rude, why do you care?

I mean, it's $20 dude.

I understand the anger and skepticism a person feels when they make $30k a year and back a project for $50 that fails. But I don't understand it on HN. We're programmers and entrepreneurs. We know that timelines and resources are difficult to forecast. We know that companies and projects fail, even when they have millions of dollars to spend. We also generally make enough that $20 lost is negligible.

Yet everytime I look at the comments section for a Kickstarter I see mostly permutations of this comment.
> So, you're saying that tenants breaking their lease agreements is a good thing

That is not what i was referring to, I was talking about the laws the city passes to prevent it and protect hotels.
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You make >$300k salary in IT? Please share your advice.
What are some good stats available to analyze Bitcoin market? I would like to ask to HNers what do you think about Bitcoin future.
Agreed ... the documentary has been absolutely fascinating. Both informative and entertaining. IMO, that documentary has more value to me than the game will when (if?) it comes out.
Yeah, it's practically the third world here in NYC.

Texas's top industry: Defense (100% government spending).

Texas's 2nd industry: Oil (government subsidized, and having oil is surprisingly not a function of income tax rates).

Texas's most exciting economic area: Liberal Austin.

I'm not going to rip on Texas but it's gotta be awfully hard for you to feel free-market-superior to the city that has Wall St in it and an entrepreneur on every single street corner.
In my case, I don't think the data would help. I'd like to drive from Houston to Dallas in my Tesla, but won't until they install the superchargers along the way.
I imagine that they would also have a connection to the grid, so that in the case that the solar capacity is insufficient to charge the cars, they could just switch over.

Also, with net metering becoming more wide spread, they could sell back any excess electricity produced from their solar installation back to the grid, which could possibly offset some of the costs of purchasing electricity during periods of high demand.
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Yes, I agree, knockoutJS is a brilliant piece of work.
John Papa has done what I would call a really decent series of blogs in composing a Single Page Application architecture, you should have a read here : http://www.johnpapa.net/spa
I think I am going to write a series also documenting the work I have been doing of late too...
You really need to back that up with some facts.
In California we don't have annual inspections. We have smog tests every 2 years.
On the usefulness of software metrics
I can't necessarily qualify the new arrivals as more liberal (though they probably are.) I don't care for urban folks moving to more rural areas and then complaining about the locals or trying to turn these areas into the same urban hell-holes they moved from.

If LA or NYC or SFC are so much better than here, move back.
I hope not. Supercharger stations don't exist everywhere, so people don't drive their Teslas freely right now. Choosing where to put them based on where drivers drive their Teslas right now would make the supercharger network have good coverage of where Teslas are today, not where they want Teslas to reach in the future!
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Yeah, and some of us left leaners know better than to move to a state where we can't even hold office: http://i.imgur.com/s8gUacT.jpg

Nice to hear there are good alternatives to the valley for startups, but personally, none of the reasons listed in the article resonate with me, and plenty of other good reasons for not moving to TX exist.
Cost of living has continued to skyrocket, and all the newly arrived are destroying the once great character of Austin. It's already too late.
I don't think they are exactly common, but they are not rare. I tend to see them at bigger companies.
Gone to the great Rumfuddle in the sky. RIP.

96 isn't a bad innings all told.
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mmm... Do most of those implants think the states the came from are ruined?
Some phantom traffic jams are actually caused by a moving wave caused by the inefficiencies in starting/stopping. If you have a whole set of linked self-driving cars, theoretically, you could prevent traffic waves from being sustained by moving at a slower constant rate.

The slower rate means you need less time to break reducing the distance you need between cars and increasing capacity of the road and the constant speed reduces the break/acceleration cycle that is needed to sustain the wave.

Then of course other jams are caused by inefficiencies in merging which ripple out to all the lanes as people try to get out of the lane that is going to merge. Self-driving cars of course would have the advantage here since they would no doubt be able to merge at higher speeds.

Traffic jams caused by accidents would hopefully be reduced if self-driving cars get into fewer accidents.

And finally, it is conceivable that if you are in a lane full of self-driving cars - especially ones that communicate between themselves - and if it is shown conclusively that they could cope faster in case of a catastrophic event, you could allow them to drive faster the speed limit.
I don't see why that's true. You could have removed the SSD and reformatted it outside the machine.
It's worth noting that building housing is cheap in Texas because it relies on illegal labor.

Ref. http://www.npr.org/2013/04/10/176677299/construction-booming... and http://www.npr.org/2013/04/11/176777498/texas-contractors-sa...
Despite the small detail that Ubuntu was not at all instrumental in the progression of Android, I think that this was a well written piece, and came at a time where Linux as a whole deserved it.
Authorship markup for sure, but the question was "Can I have my photo next to my search result if I don't have a Google account?". To put it another way: Are there author pages that google uses as source for an image in the SERP that are not G+ profile pages?
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It is not only housing, because on this basis alone, other states would win out. I'd say that it is a big factor though when the other items mentioned are in place.
Said just about everyone who's ever lived anywhere at any point in time.
About 6 months ago I left Dallas for San Francisco. While Austin is a bit different, the amount of start-up things going on Dallas isn't even close to what the Bay area has to offer.

I must admit that I did enjoy the living in Dallas more then SF, more space, less cost etc. The jobs in SF though prevailed and I left.

Maybe I'll return to Dallas or Austin when I get older.
You are allowed to use the iPhone in any manner you want, as long as you use your own photography (not from apple.com, or their PR images).

If you are talking about Apple's marketing partners' rules for using photography, then those do not apply to the rest of the world.
> Is there any value in diversity for its own sake?

I don't know. How would you test that hypothesis?

My unfounded speculation is that, like genetic diversity helps produce a healthy and robust organism, so does diversity of perspective make an organization more fit to respond to a variety of conditions.

That may or may not be of value, depending on the goals of the organization.
Valve seems to generally treat its customers decently and to describe that as some sort of sugar pill with which they cram a supposedly 'heavily DRM encumbered' Steam client down your throat is a little overwrought. I've been on Steam since the release of Half-Life 2 in late 2004. I own, according to the client, 118 titles. I've never had a Steam-related DRM problem. The client itself has occasionally had quality problems, so have some (mostly non-Valve) games but I've not once felt the 'negative value' of Steam's DRM itself.

It's getting close to a decade but I still have essentially unencumbered access to my copy of HL2 - I'd have surely lost the physical media by now. In 2007, I bought Portal which came in a bundle that included HL2 - I got an extra free HL2 license to give away. In 2010 I got a free copy of the HL2 OS X port and, were I the sort of person who enjoys the quixotic challenge of gaming on Linux, I could have grabbed my free Linux port just a few weeks ago. And that's just one game.

If that's poison, don't take me to the hospital, please.
I had not really explicitly considered that possibility in working on this. I suppose this is a step closer to that, but there are still some pieces that we would need to add. What kind of things did you have in mind?
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Still cheap when compared to San Francisco.
Pretty good points in this article. After moving from Germany to Dallas and then to San Francisco I can 100% agree with most of these reasons. California definitely feels more like a headache than Texas in terms of Rules, housing, general atmosphere. If I had kids I'd also pick Texas over California. Unless you know, I'd have several millions... then I'd buy a house in Atherton.
Isn't that what Google Authorship is supposed to help?
> maybe Gosling and Pike really do believe that generics and HOF are too difficult for the average programmer

I believe I heard that Gosling did want to have first-class functions initially in Java, but they just ran out of time.

Go, of course, does have closures like almost all modern languages. The lack of generics does stymy what you can express statically with higher-order functions, but it does have them.
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5792268

Looks like this item was actually posted before but the bulk of the upvotes and discussion are happening in the thread above.
HN seems to view Kickstarter mostly through the lens of hardware projects, which are incredibly risky and done with very thin margins.

Game development by an experienced team is not quite a guaranteed thing, but it is a much safer bet.
Great, do let me know if there are particular questions you have and we can be sure to cover them. Otherwise I hope to start covering the key things that I think are interesting or important in the not too distant future.
> We've changed the signature of most of the UI method calls. The build now has 5,000 errors. Please make changes to your code.

I feel a build should actually compile before committing changes. If you make a change that create 5000 build errors, you better get to fixing 'em or revert that change.
Another benefit to Austin: No state income tax.
Same here. I generally look at the 'ship dates' on Kickstarter as kind of a moving target with pretty much any project I have yet to encounter there. I have yet to actually NOT get what they promised (eventually).

I would also find it hard to accept paying more than a few hundred for a Kickstarter project. Anything more seems like asking for trouble.
10 pictures of a macbook air gets you front-page top placement on HN.

Now that I know...
If you want to look at your glasses themselves, bespectacled-people learn to flik their eyes, not their whole head.
> once they reach a certain age, still seem to derive more satisfaction from a stable, monogamous relationship than any other arrangement

Polygamous relationships are, roughly, O(n^2). You may not want to go there. ;-)
Minorities and artists, and the poor are getting priced out of the city and abandoning the "Live Music Capital of the World" for friendlier and cheaper climes. But don't let the facts get in the way of your snark.
how do I even find that setting in a normal images search?

I don't see it under search tools...
" I find it completely disingenuous that you denigrate an entire industry and portray a pittance of images as the salvation."

Isn't this a bit much? There's hardly any text on the site at all, much less enough to 'denigrate an entire industry'.

This is just a web page with 10 photos on it with a cc license. Don't know where you're getting the rest of that.
Thanks for sharing the link. There definitely can be a lot of gotchas and things that are easy to overlook until you see a good talk or are right in the middle of it.
I hope they don't invent a "smog test" for electric cars.
How does a city "own the right to pictures of the local bridge"?
> I think the developer took MVP to the extreme.

I don't know why. But I laughed so hard on this.
I wonder - why not to make an empty plastic shell similar to a human in form? Uncanny valley? Similarly, why now to make empty heads - possibly custom-made, for each person who's going to use the robot?
Where was that fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 and injured 200 because of poor regulation?

Oh right, Texas.
I compare Austin to little San Francisco. Texas is not the South. Wipe that stereotype from your mind.

I live in Waco, TX. Two hours from the hearts of Austin, Fort Worth and Dallas.

First: Internet. With Google Fiber and Grande Communications, internet speeds are insane. Datacenters are abundant and in every direction. I can drive to colos.

Second: Texas is multi-geographical. You can head south towards San Antonio/Austin for amazing caves and mountains. You can head west for a huge desert. You can head southwest for a near rain forest experience. You can head east for an experience more akin to LA/MS. Southeast gets you the beaches. I'm literally 2-4 hours in every direction from experiencing a different Texas. Memorial day weekend, we climbed and caved the Enchanted Rock near Austin. The drive through zoo in Glen Rose is amazing (giraffes eating from my hand through the sunroof!). Aquariums, museums, galleries, and exhibits passing through all the time.

Third: There is oil money here. Lots of 'old' money. If you know how to use that advice to your advantage, you'll win the Texas game.

Fourth: 2000 square foot home with a huge yard in the middle of the city cost me $75,000. Old buildings and banks from the 30s are getting auctioned off by the city for 5-25k on a monthly basis.

Fifth: Texans do not like leaving Texas. My university colleagues have settled for SQL CRUD jobs in Austin/Dallas. Data science and bioinformatics is a common degree around these parts. They would rather do CRUD than have to leave Texas.

I never thought I would settle here. In fact, I had the San Francisco dream. Yet, once I visited SF, I realized I would be a millionaire in Texas. With our 1700 sq foot 2 bedroom apartment, we easily lived off $950/mo. SF has opportunities, but to be honest, I'm just not the type to apply myself to utilize those opportunities.
From what I have read they are planning the locations based on car purchases, logistics and marketing. States with more cars get more stations, they put stations where people want to be able to go, and where they want people to buy cars.
Usually because either them or a high profile customer was hacked with it.
> If you want to look at your glasses themselves, bespectacled-people learn to flik their eyes

I still fail to see the point. Maybe because I never try to look at my own glasses...

edit: When I want to look over the rim of my glasses, I still move my head while looking up with my eyes, otherwise I wouldn't be able to look at what I was looking at before.
You say "most implants." I wonder if any survey has been done to determine whether this is actually so.

This seems to be a common perception among Texans I've talked to, but all of the folks I know who are moving there from CA tend to have more right leaning political views.
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