skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "successful exit" to me seems the antithesis of what the UK needs.

Instead of flushing money down the pan on non-sustainable startups, we need people to build viable long-term businesses. Too often we see a hype-cycle in action as people build something with a slight spin on existing tech and/or services, hype it until it seems like its worth something then cash out.

Half the time the acquiring company seems to immediately shelve the service, if not they spend a few years trying to monetise it then give up.

I'm sorry if the Shoreditch crowd aren't attracting as many 'angels' as they'd like. I can only think this is a sign of healthy scepticism on the part of UK investors.
Legal terms are not as arbitrary as variable names, but they are highly context-sensitive, which is the principle I was trying to illustrate. A well-written program will not use "num_files" to refer to a count of things that aren't files, but even in a well-written program, "num_files" could have a range of meanings depending on context. The word "relevant" has a broad range of meanings in English, and consequently in the law. The precise meaning must be evaluated in context.
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So, why is Apple TV on the github page? Left over from an earlier version?
Better Objective-C triggering support (the issue you linked to) is coming soon.
Some congressional representatives are working hard to put an end to mass-surveillance programs, however their options are limited to talking to the media. Their Senate votes have to follow the party line, otherwise they risk retaliation against their political careers.
The sppedometer+ app has a weird logo, it seems to show a weigh scale, like in the bathroom, which is not only skeuomorphic, but misleadingly skeuomorphic?
Ask HN: Review my app – Find Properly, an intelligent property search engine
Hi all,
I launched the beta of Find Properly last week, and would really value any feedback you might have.

Enter the places you work or visit regularly, and Find Properly will find properties with the shortest commute (by public transport). Share your shortlist of properties with your friends, and then arrange all your viewings with one click.

Target audience: people new to London, or looking for a place as a group

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Thanks!

Peter
dmor - nice work. Is it possible to backtest your algorithm? Would it be possible to use wayback or something similar, go back two years and see what the algorithm predicts, and compare to actual? I'm sure this has predictive abilities, but wondering how strong it is.
When crowdfunding reveals the realities of gamedev budgets
"Several people released from GTMO have later been killed or captured in armed conflict with NATO forces."

I think few things would want to make me take up arms more against an invader than the false imprisonment of myself or my family at GTMO for said act.
If you are selling a product that someone buys for themselves, not for their company, then it is a consumer application. However, since you are running a classified you are actually in the consumer-to-consumer model though some of its practitioners call this the "two-sided marketplace" which sounds snazzier. Admittedly, there are some differences from other kinds of advertising, but by and large advertising is mostly the same, so the same techniques used from other advertising cross over.

The first thing to remember is how you make money. You make money by getting together buyers and sellers. You are expected to get out of the way and let them get to their business. However, in order to have any hope of success you have to attract buyers and sellers, so they have to know your there. You must differentiate from your competition loud and clear. So how do you do this?

Research has shown that the most successful commodity products differentiate themselves in one of two ways. Either by low cost or by having the best reputation for quality or service. Advertising can help you spread the news about any price advantage you may have, and it can work wonders in creating a reputation for quality or service. And if it works for bolts, washing machines, and lawyers, why not for your classifieds? If your headline doesn't mention that you are cheaper, provide high quality or great service, then I advise you to change that. This will immediately work and create more traction, enough true data at least, so that you can start measuring it with your metrics tools and make it grow.

If you find yourself that you need a hand with your startup, you can send me an email at ulisesrmzroche@gmail.com or go to ulisesrmzroche.github.io to learn more about me.
League of Legends is an excellent example of a free-to-play game where purchases don't seem manipulative.

IIRC, they've said that they make most of their money out of the cosmetic aspect ("skins").

The other thing they do is to enable people to pay to get the new game characters ("champions") faster than the free players (who have to "grind" to get them, and carefully consider their purchases).
After a previous discussion on HN, I used it as an experiment to visualize the convergence of Fourier and Taylor series http://personnel.usainteanne.ca/aroberge/

I think it would be really neat to have an entire mathematical textbook interactive in this fashion.
+1 for spelling creativity.

Really, though, I agree. Is the fact that the chose to rewrite their (failing) browser engine the reason that the company failed? Sounds more like an attempt to plug the hole in the company.
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Glad to see some of the complaints about dead-end development have at least been partly addressed by the back porting of bug fixes.
A History of Film in Wikipedia
I agree. I don't see Nintendo still being a hardware company in 10 years. They are either liquidated, sold to someone else for IP's, or transform into a software game company. I hope it's the latter. There is no money in hardware, it has no future outside of ever-tinier margins.
And I meant to say nice job too... good post :-)
This is a great app, but FYI there are a very limited number of phones that record the line audio. Most require it to record through the mic while on speakerphone mode.

Not Supported:

http://www.grinzone-apps.com/1/post/2013/04/not-supported-de...

Tested (doesn't mean supported necessarily):

http://www.grinzone-apps.com/1/post/2013/04/welcome-to-our-b...
As I was typing that comment I was thinking someone is going to ask me for source :-) I dont have a citation, just the class notes from my wifes medical undergraduate classes. Im sure if I did the effort, I could google a study or two for you. Of course it's not just the genetics, but also a woman's ability to carry full term. Younger bodies are better at that. Nevertheless, for someone preoccupied with living life to the fullest, waiting till your older to have children, and increasing the chance for a down syndrome baby is a bit counter productive.
The U.S officially had no comment, last I checked.
SecureCRT isn't perfect, but does very well in balancing power with usability, for me.
exactly, you literally need 30 minutes to double your profile views.
> Several people released from GTMO have later been killed or captured in armed conflict with NATO forces.

So kidnapping people and torturing them makes you enemies? Who would have thought...
People have been saying they're good as dead since N64. It seems to me they are doing just fine.
> The N64 didn't sell that great either
32.93 million units sold.

> Fortunately for them the 3DS is doing great
31.09 million units sold.
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What's relevant is that we shouldn't have secret courts deciding on secret laws. Our legal system should be relevant to We The People and our needs.
So what you are saying, in effect, is that government organizations, which are governed by public law, should be able to decide for themselves what that law actually means, by instituting secret courts who are not answerable to the public?

Given that the activities of the DOJ and the NSA do in fact have a direct and immediate impact on individuals that the public law is written, ostensibly, to protect, how can it be argued that these organizations should be allowed to interpret the law in a secret manner?

My point is, that a law which as written to govern the activities of the DOJ and the NSA, does in fact apply to the public.

Consider: there are many laws which govern the activities of the police. These laws are public laws, and effect the public directly. When the police violate these laws (as they often do), a public court interprets the public law with which said police failed to comply, and thus violated your, the public's, rights. The secret FISC courts make it impossible for you to have any recourse in the manner in which your rights are being violated.

This is the stuff of communist China.
It should be available for everyone, go to Who viewed your profile and check the stats on the right
Link for the lazy: https://l3net.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/a-memory-comparison-o...

Also covers XFCE, awesome, *box, etc.
I did not listen to all of it, but one of his main arguments is that as soon as the amount you get is bigger then the amount you would earn you stop earning. He talked about this for a long time.

But the hole point of BI (as I understand the concept) that it does not matter how much you work, or how much you earn. You just get BI and from there on just let people work, its not BI or work, probebly both.
Encryption is worthwhile because even if the NSA has decryption capabilities that they have kept secret, the very secrecy of this ability is valuable enough to strongly discourage its use.

It is extremely unlikely that your email is important enough to the NSA for them to risk disclosing their ability and pushing everyone to different or stronger algorithms.
How long would you say it'll take for it to be implemented in AngularJS?
Are you kidding? This isn't reddit. This is SERIOUS.
> Denmark, Sweden, and Norway are genetically and ethnically homogeneous, making it easier and faster for the society to enforce social norms and standards.

I have absolutely no time for racism. BTW, I'm American, born and raised.
This could be another Sega situation here -- trouble financing hardware, but great at making games.
As someone mentioned below, Google Voice can do this natively if you press a button during a call. It alerts the person on the other end of the line and makes a recording available in your account following the call. Quite useful and works on any phone provided you're using GV.
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http://copsshootingpeople.wordpress.com/ was going for a while, seems dormant.
> it was nominally communist.

Not just nominally. It went down the list of the Communist Manifesto and implemented things, and it wound up with Stalin.
I've have to make a confession: Almost every time I use a pattern it makes my code more complex and harder to understand. I've used visitor, composite, singleton, all sorts of factories, decorator, proxy, state, strategy, etc.

You have a problem, then you realize, "I think this is what the x pattern is for. How does that pattern work, again?" You then google it and try to implement it correctly. Almost by definition, you're not implementing the most obvious solution. If you were, you probably wouldn't have to google it. It'd be better to implement the simplest solution that could possibly work.

I think design patterns may be good as a communication tool, and no more. It's faster to say, "factory" than to describe the pattern's implementation. But code maintainability is way higher priority than using a pattern and in my experience pattern implementation and code maintainability are mutually exclusive.
Well, today I learned that a google search for 'BUPF' is not equivalent to 'BÜPF'

(for your convenience: https://www.google.com/search?q=B%C3%9CPF&oq=B%C3%9CPF&aqs=c...)

According to this article:
http://netzpolitik.gruene.ch/nach-den-usa-nun-die-schweiz-gr...

The law in question has been updated to retain data for 12 months instead of 6 and authorizes the government to install Trojan type programs. Does anyone have more info on the Trojan type programs proposed?
The point of the SLA here isn't so much to save you the $2, but to make it cost them $2 * N accounts. This gives them an economic incentive to avoid problems.
So which one do you recommend for a first year CS student Mathematica or Tangle?
> Do you also blame Nietzsche for Nazism?

Of course not. Marx was directly responsible for Communism because he laid the blueprints, and the USSR implemented them. Therefore, Marx is responsible for the USSR.
I will, however, as I see it, the problem is no one seems to really care here.

Ask some random stranger here and pretty sure they have never even heard of BÜPF. So I try to educate as many people as possible but all I hear is that I should go wear my alu-hat and that we have good privacy protection laws and they don't have anything to hide anyways.

And by the way, to be even able to vote against this crap, you need something like 50'000 signatures (on paper!) within 100 days. Which might not be too easy considering that the petition website only has 8k-ish as of now and it's been on for quite a while. As I said, no one seems to care.
Shutterstock has a blogger program wherein blogs and news websites get free use of their catalog of stock photography in exchange for attribution.
You're right, this wouldn't make a lot of sense for most users.

But this would be useful in a corporation where it's possible to centrally manage CA lists for approved applications.
I'm looking at that page right now and don't see it. I see the chart of views, the text "How many times you appeared in LinkedIn Search", with the total number of hits displayed and the counter showing the weekly change next to (as I can see in your screenshot in the blog). But there is nothing below that.
Look at the top selling games on consoles. Grand Theft Auto, Mario games, Halo, Call of Duty, Madden. How many of those games can be done on a tablet or phone? Zero.

Home console gaming currently offers gaming experiences that cannot be done on mobile devices. Mobile devices are only a threat to mobile consoles.
This glib sentiment ignores the reality that there are in fact thousands of armed militants in Afghanistan who will happily kill tens of innocent Afghanis on spec just for the prospect of killing a single NATO soldier, and that the vast majority of those militants have not been captured.

One needn't support GTMO, or even tolerate it, to acknowledge the fact that our adversaries in this conflict are both real and despicable.
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They have a lot of RAM. Dang.
The English word "relevant" does not have a broad range of meanings. It does have a wide range of applicability (relevancies, if you will), like many adjectives.

In this context "relevant" preserves its meaning as an adjective describing a thing's bearing on another thing. It's the nouns connected to it that have changed. The nouns are what's at issue here: whether surveillance even needs to be connected to anything (the other thing that something has bearing on, connected by the word "relevant [to]").
So if someone predicts the actions of some other party, does that in itself make that other party's actions invalid?

I'll try, then: "The US government will conduct a census in 2020".

Or on a more humorous vein, the normal joke about the car driver who convinced the cop who pulled him over to call for backup, and later mentioned to the supervisor "I'll bet that asshole told you I was speeding, too".
Ask HN: Competition played questionable tactics. What to do?
I was due to organise an event in the area. I set the date for 26th June. Began my marketing, and then wondered why no sales were working, even though i've used similar techniques fine before.

I sought some additional specialist advice, implemented the advice and still had no luck.

Today I found out that the competition (I didn't even know they existed), setup an emergency event on my original event date, at 1/3rd the price, giving a lot more content and goodies away.

No wonder no one signed up for mine. I'm new to the area and trying to build up some recognition. I can't afford to do the event for free.

What would the people of HN do?
A visualization of Kickstarter using a video game engine (Unity 3D)
+1 for Console2, back when I had to use Windows at a previous job I used Console2 as it was the closest thing I could find to the linux terminal emulators I'm used to.
To a Very crude first approximation, you could expect KDE to be 201 times slower than ratpoison, or rephrased you could have 201 times less user latency using ratpoison than KDE. Or ratpoison gets out of the way of the user "two hundred times faster" than KDE so for the average user it would be about that much more productive, with a correction factor for whatever proportion of time users play with WMs/desktops vs doing actual work in an app.

Also there's a fair number of machines out there, used for non-web browsing purposes, yet might still have a use for a GUI.

Lets say you want a virtual cloud host, connected to via VNC to ... linode. The smallest linode is a gig, so you'll be using 1/5 of your total resources just for the window manager if you use KDE. Is that relevant, well only you can decide.

Finally the most interesting part of the graph was the exponential-ish nature of it. For some weird reason I was guessing WMs/Desktops grow vaguely linearily over time so a random sample from random aged WMs would be vaguely linear when graphed... that's not whats happening. Have not come up with an adequate mental model to explain the shape of the curve yet, assuming the data gathering wasn't manipulated to specifically generate it. Maybe its an attractor effect where one pole pulls to 0 or as close as you can get, and the other pole pulls to infinity, or as close as you can get (kde) and everything smoothly distributes in the middle ground.
Really great work, I'm all for it. I've been wanting terminals / shells to move forward with usability for decades now, but have never had time to do it myself. I'm 100% behind any effort in this regard at all. I'll be happy to contribute time an money to a project like this. Thanks for picking up the ball!
Patent Troll Threatens Small Game Developers Over Storing Character Attributes
There are plenty of people with Victoria Secret levels of body fat percentage walking around in Asia. They are the norm by far, probably over %80 of the under-35 population there are that skinny or even skinnier, and it's not because they are starving. It's not Adriana Lima's fault that we live in a food culture and industry that pushes toward obesity. You don't have to be anorexic or bulimic to be that skinny, but you'll have to be constantly telling no to almost everyone to trying to invite you to eat more and more crap.

A coworker in a previous job was asked by her Korean coworkers at LG to take pictures of how fat people got in new jersey because they, never, ever saw people get that fat in Korea.
> "life was brutal without civilization and a state to keep you safe and well"

It was. Children died in infancy, which is why the life expectancy was so low. If that isn't brutal, you need to redefine the term.
You're right that Wyden and Udall (and earlier Feingold) have been working hard on this, and have repeatedly expressed frustration about what they can't discuss. So it's good to see their offices now feel they can confirm that this is what they were getting at. But what I was calling attention to is the "current and former administration officials", similar to Eric Lichtblau's NY Times description of the people who had seen the FISA court orders. If they're talking with permission, it's a decision by the administration to have a little more transparency (either as spin or because they really believe their rhetoric that the American people will approve once they have the facts). If not, then it's new people taking whistleblower-like actions. Either way, interesting.

EDIT: Orin Kerr speculated about Lichtblau's story:

I would guess that this leak coming from “current and former officials” is an authorized leak designed to see if revealing some information will take the pressure off to reveal more. If I’m right, we’ll see if it works, or if this leak only creates more pressure to release the opinions or at least reveal more about them.

http://www.volokh.com/2013/07/07/hints-and-questions-about-t...