skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully you will see this. I went and looked at your site: http://www.applieddatalabs.com/ and tried to understand what you do.

It looks like you have a bunch of stuff going on all at once which is hard for investors to analyze and understand. It is important to break each invention/IP/idea in to separate concepts and analyze the market size of a niche market of each.

For your "cognitive data visualization and comprehension" IP you are working on, the key would be understanding a business type it could be sold to, then figuring out how much you would get.

Lets say you looked at the xBox One and Connect along with the PS4. Is there a way to license your technology to those two companies or maybe even game developers? If so, what do you think the licensing would get you per Xbox, PS4 or game?

You need to estimate two numbers: (# of units) and ($ per unit). Where the unit could be consoles or titles etc.

Anyway, hope that helps a little. Feel free to email me, same name at gmail.
It has to be more than just "worth solving". I can think in a few ideas "worth solving" just like that. It has to be good enough so people pay for it.

A lot of people would like to have X feature, X website, X software. Would they pay for it? Ask that question. For what would you pay for right now?

For example: I am starting to selling goods. I'd like a place where I put all my good purchases from ebay, alliexpress or wherever, and I can track it, see when it will arrive, how much stock I have left, etc.
> idea of the rule of law?

The idea that you think Russia's actions have to do only with the rule of law, but that the U.S.'s actions have nothing to do with the rule of law, is kind of surprising in my view.

Russia could have legally opted to decline the asylum request without extraditing Snowden. I.e. "We won't arrest him but he has no permission to leave the transit zone. Good luck convincing him to fly home".

In the same vein, even if you agree that all of Snowden's disclosures are in the public interest he still broke the law, and knew he broke it.

If I were to take it upon myself to have shot Ariel Castro, for instance, I would likely still be charged with murder or manslaughter, even if I had known he was kidnapping women.

But let's say that Snowden should be completely pardoned for leaking PRISM. The U.S. government would still have grounds to charge him for leaking details about hacking in China, which certainly did not benefit the American public.

And that, at this point, is all we're talking about. Charges to be sorted out, and if some of those stick, sentences to be determined by factoring in mitigating circumstances. That is hardly evidence of a government rampaging through the international scene, as that is all quite standard material for extradition negotiations. Things like grounding Bolivia's jet are examples of roughshodding! But not this here.

But that's the thing. This isn't strictly about rule of law. This is about Putin using the club of anti-Americanism to improve his stature at home. If Putin really cared about "human rights" then why is Pussy Riot still in prison? Why is it illegal to mention the idea of homosexuality to those poor impressionable Russian youths?

It's not about human rights. It's about politics, just as much as Republicans used to beat the drum of the "welfare queen" to advance their own position.

Accordingly, American papers are not very happy to see America used as a convenient punching bag to advance Russian interests, even where they support Snowden's overall point about surveillance, because they realize that the world is not binary.
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The Leaf had been in development over the same period of time as the S, if not before. The difference is that Nissan was trying to hit a harder goal, selling to the everyday driver, selling a car most buyers could afford. Similar to the requirements of the Volt and other electrics.

The i3 is a special vehicle which has too many compromises to meet stupid laws in place by various governments, the worst being a requirement to qualify as an EV its range extender cannot provide more range than its batteries. The real eye opener from BMW is the i8. The i3 is more mass market than the S, its in the range of affordability of most car drivers.

The key difference in the markets between the S and the rest is, the S targeted consumers whose income levels usually results in large amounts of disposable income. Levels where having an extra car or two isn't unusual.

So, until they deliver on their 35k 200 mile range car, I am not going to go as far as you did in claims they are changing the game, they simply went for a more sure market.
or talk to us at Velocis (http://velocis.us). We like to consider ourselves a sort of plug-n-play co-founder to help new ideas succeed. In many cases, we take equity rather than charging like a normal dev shop or consultants.
If you found this story amusing, you should consider watching the Japanese drama 絶対彼氏 (Zettai Kareshi, 2008).
I lost 70lbs smoking pot. Health is better than it has been in years. Munchies go both ways, you just have to learn to "flip the switch".

I'm a filthy criminal.
Very cool. The full context really takes the metaphor further.
1) Solve a problem that YOU face or someone you know faces/has
2) Start small and think big
3) Saw this list - https://medium.com/design-startups/49acac7c3405 lots of stuff popped up but saw "A bookmarklet to help people manage their job search — the job search process sucks. Let people use a bookmarklet to track jobs they like, which they’ve applied to, and the rest" and was like.. WOW - NO one does this. It's super simple and the process sucks for all of us, but could be a simple way to build out a MVP and generate $

Just a thought - Good Luck!
I'm not increadibly fammilar with current agriculturual laws in the US, but my understanding is that we are still artificially limiting crop production (a temporary measure from the great depression). Given that, it is not clear to me what the actual cost to farmers of replacing corn with weed is.
And you would win that bet.

http://www.kauffman.org/research-and-policy/kiea-interactive...

Edit: I found it interesting that the state of Utah has one of the worst bankruptcy rates in the nation, while Vermont has one of the lowest...despite being the second highest in entrepreneurship activity, and being the least religious to boot.
How do you differentiate yourself from flippa?
It's not about the flatness or the distances or the weather, it's about the culture.

I can't count how many times I have been called a fag, or a loser, or have been engulfed in a cloud of black smoke from a diesel pick up truck, or have been physically threatened by the driver to make a point that I don't belong on the road. I live in Colorado, but it could be a lot worse.

See http://www.reddit.com/r/lowcar/comments/1i0dzx/the_sacred_ra...
Pusher.com isn't even listed. I sent a request.
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I think the biggest reason is the lack of good safe bike paths and infrastructure most places. As someone (in the US) who bikes nearly every day as my primary form of transportation I'm quick to admit that bike commuting is dangerous. I love it, but it requires constant vigilance and careful attention not to get hit by a car or a door (and I live in Portland which is much more bike friendly than most US cities). Bikers frequently share lanes with fast moving cars and it's very common for bike lanes to end unexpectedly, leaving the cyclist in a dangerous spot.

I'm willing to accept these risks, but for most people it's not worth it. My wife also enjoys biking, but hates to ride on busy streets for fear of ending up on the wrong end of a distracted motorist. This limits her options to weekend pleasure rides on dedicated bike paths.

The trick to getting more people to cycle is to invest heavily in bike path infrastructure so that more people will feel safe using it as a primary form of transportation.
1. Pick a niche or industry you want to work with.

2. Get in touch with owners/managers in your chosen area.

3. Take them to lunch and discuss their business. Watch their face and when they show you a pain point, try to pinpoint the cause.

4. You should discover more than a few problems they would spend money to have solved if you talk to enough of them.

5. Follow up with an email thanking them for their time and mention again how you have been giving some thought to a particular pain point. Try to find an article, software package, etc that attempts to solve their pain point and send them the link.

6. Build a true MVP (should be embarrassing, yet offer value to them), and follow-up with an email. Tell them you have been thinking more about their problem and wrote up a quick dirty app that might help them. Offer to demo it for them. While demoing discuss how much their pain costs their business.

7. Iterate based on their collective feedback.

8. Based on the discussion about pain costs, come up with a value-based price for your solution.

9. Refine your MVP, follow-up with another demo. Sell them a subscription to your solution. It may still be rough, but you should be able to demonstrate value and savings compared to their pain costs. CLOSE THE DEAL.

10. Follow-up

11. Iterate

12. Follow-up

13. Iterate

14. Follow-up

15. Iterate

16...Rinse... Repeat.
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Here is a pastebin of the link: http://pastebin.com/8pPedkx2
Microsoft shipped 'My Font Tool for Tablet PC' sometime around 2006. Good luck finding it now though -- the official download link is broken.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote-help/powertoys-for...

> This PowerToy for Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition converts your
> own handwriting into a TrueType font.
I have definitely been a UX PM, even having a former VP of Engineering saying that the 3 "UX people" in the company were the only people providing the "tactical PM role" since PM's were stuck writing PRD's (waterfall product requirement documents). Maybe that's part of my skew as well is that I've always been a primary (diluted, overextended) stakeholder in design, PM, research, and development.
IOctocat v2 - GitHub for iPhone is here
Don't get me wrong, it's good to be able to run your own software and have more than one option out there.

I just think that it's unfair to call it decentralized if each instance of it is out there on its own.

Perhaps once federation is working it'd be a more fair comparison, because at least then all the servers can communicate and share with each other.

Don't take this as an attack on your software. It looks nice and I'm sure it works well (I haven't had a chance to use it).
The classified documents being hosted on AWS were in fact illegal to do so, and thus against the AUP of AWS so it was perfectly reasonable and appropriate to pull the plug.

If they were illegal, then what law was broken in hosting them?

Remember, newspapers are in the business of getting information sent to them by people who broke rules in doing so, and then hosting/publishing/otherwise distributing said information to the public. Despite the fact that there are powerful people who do not want that to happen. And said powerful people are quick to claim that the law is on their side, whether or not it is.

Examples include Watergate, The Pentagon Papers, Snowden's revelations, and (of course) Wikileaks. In every case newspapers were threatened.

The wikileaks data dump is in no way comparable to Watergate and singular reporting and investigation of specfic illegal acts.

So exposing one crime is OK, but exposing 1000 is not?

With EVERY case there are people telling us that this case is different, and not like famous cases of the past. They are wrong. We have amnesia about how similar they, in fact, are.

Take Watergate since you brought it up. The burglars were arrested June 17, 1972. Bob Woodward reported that they had connections to Howard Hunt on June 20, 1972. This began a continuous series of reporting that the country as a whole did not care about. Were you alive back then, I would be willing to bet that, like the majority that re-elected Nixon in a landslide on November 7, 1972, you would have thought that this was not an important story, and would have objected to the witchhunt.

Public opinion did not begin its slide until January, 1973. (http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/wait-about-two-month... has a graph showing the shifts in approval.)
Trawl Firespotting. There's a lot of crazy on there, but in amongst it all are some really good ideas: http://firespotting.com/news
Government-issed currencies offer far, far more utility for criminals than Bitcoin does.

Every Bitcoin transaction is a matter of public record. There's no anonymity - everything you do with Bitcoin leaves a paper trail. Criminals using Bitcoin expose themselves to a much greater risk of detection than they'd face by using a briefcase full of dollars. There are ways to mitigate the traceability of Bitcoin transactions, but these typically involve trusting middlemen, and so come with their own set of risks.

The value of Bitcoin originates in the inability of the government to manipulate the money supply, but I suspect that criminals are probably less impacted by inflation than the typical non-criminal is.

It's honest businesspeople and not criminals who stand to benefit from Bitcoin.
And this is why I typically upvote your remarks even outside of security expertise.
Where is everyone else's "Samantha" in the movie? If we had such AI, let alone "interface," I doubt that it would be his mere secret.

That said, I think these kinds of movies are good to help connect regular people with computing, or at least help people think about where computing could go.
Other commenters are already demonstrating that the error rate is way too high to be useful. If you need a user's gender (and you probably don't), just ask them.
I'll go one further--it's clearly safer (in all respects) than either alcohol or tobacco.

My only fear with legalization is that it will get pulled from the grassroots production into industrial methods, and that in turn will lower its safety (as was the case, for example, with cigarettes and the additives in the paper for them).
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Outside of places like HN, most people don't. I am trying to think of a hacker analogy, but can't.
Huh, this is an extremely interesting concept. I will be reaching out!

Edit: So you already have to have a startup profile? https://angel.co/velocis-winter-2013/apply

Edit edit: Nope, you can contact them straight from their online form!
With all this focus on cities I'd like to give some perspective for people in the countryside. Simply put: within towns it's similar to cities but even easier (because there's less traffic to worry about), but outside of town the longer distances make it more convenient to go by car, unless you have a lot of time to spare.

That said, it's different if you're a teenager. You can't get a drivers license until you are 18 (16 for scooters though). We don't have school buses here. Regular public transport usually comes by once an hour at inconvenient times (for example, you arrive either 50 minutes early of 10 minutes late for class), take the long way round to pick up as many people as possible because otherwise it wouldn't even be profitable, and still manage to have the closest bus stop a few kilometers out of town. As a result, if you don't have a car and need to go to the city, going by bike is often just as fast if not faster, and of course cheaper. So going to secondary school by bike is extremely common - me and my sisters used to bike 18 km to and from school every day, and while few in my school lived that far away, based on my school I estimate 10 km to be the average distance for countryside kids biking to school.

I still roll my eyes when my friends say I live "far out of town" because it's a ten to fifteen minute bike ride.
An Action's Tale
Your not being cynical at all, its pretty much right on the money. Its pretty cut and dry either:

LAST TIME, he didnt really look at the evidence and was just regurgitating the standard line without really doing scientific analysis

OR

THIS TIME, this time he is just trying to jump on the bandwagon and get out in front of this controversal topic...

either way he doesn't hold to much weight with me, i am all for smoking ganja but the whole medical marijuana being pushed by recreational smokers thing is kinda perturbing to me
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HFCS reacts badly with the majority of the population, inducing adiposis. So does MSG. Don't forget about the pesticides you chow down on with every meal, or the chloride in your water, or the phthalates in your soda, or the BPA in your nalgene, or...

The US is terrible for substance safety. Dire. Awful. Hell, on the note of colouring, you still use bloody anthracine red, which has been banned for decades in the rest of the planet, as its carcinogenic.
ashley: male
Wow, it's the Xbox... all over again. Talk about deja vu.
Shellfish, tree nuts, pumpkin, soy, and lots of other things very clearly react very badly -- indeed, fatally -- with a small subset of the population.

To the extent that we let this affect policy at all, its not to ban the products, its to make sure that (1) they are clearly identified when present in a composite product, (2) we very narrowly (usually as a matter of policy of particular facilities, which may be public policy to the extent that those are public facilities) restrict their use in circumstances where there is particularly high risk that extremely sensitive people might be subject to dangerous passive exposure.
The retirement timeline for most people falls into that 'very long term' time frame.
Who are you to say he is mediocre? Can you back this up with any evidence, perhaps with some neuroscience studies you have published?

Plus you would be the idiot if you believed everything you read on the internet over the last 15 years.
Fair enough, but is currying "better" than partial function creation in some way?
Not surprising at all. A sinking ship and rats come to mind. The ship is the one of profitability of the PC.

While I think that PC is fine as a platform, the slow refresh rate will begin to hurt a lot. And MS is hardly winning friends with its latest endeavors.
Bebo is back (video)
Also helpful is:

https://github.com/bmuller/sexmachine

which uses a multilingual dictionary, that accounts for names that cross gender in different countries.
Pro tip: Don't try to be "too smart" or clever when talking to your users.

Being wrong here is so much more tacky than either asking for gender if you need it, or just writing in a gender neutral way.

"I'm sorry we were wrong, but our computer determined you have a girl's name. If you change your name, it'll work now."
Well said, it's difficult to describe the uk vs london feeling their is right now (in most secotrs, not just start ups) but this does a good job at getting the sentiment across.

I think the reason comments like this (and mine in a lower down thread) are made is because, unlike SV, London doesn't have a 50 year history of producing tech and innovation en masse yet seems to grab a huge portion of the start up attention and energies.
I don't know, I have two old dip pens (as well as ink for them) and yet whenever I use them it seems I just smear ink everywhere and make huge blubs on the paper.

Anyway LaTeX has beautiful fonts, so I wouldn't worry too much about it yet.
http://api.genderize.io/?name=pat
Hello Lance,

I am interested to work with you, will get in touch over email. Thanks
Mah, my time has value, so I will just type it.
New scikit-learn 0.14 is out. (Python machine learning) )
I couldn't find an API, but some might be interested in GenderChecker [0].

[0] http://www.genderchecker.com
My biggest issue with corporate layoffs is that not that they happen-- they're inevitable and necessary-- but that they're often done in an incompetent way that fails to account for the real problems. Everything that grows will eventually experience contraction; the problem is that companies don't know how to contract in a decent way. If you do a layoff wrong, the company ends up more fucked-up and future layoffs are inevitable.

1. Reducing headcount without reducing complexity will fail. Reducing operational complexity is hard because it requires that the top executives get access to information that the mere process of looking for will tip people off, and because it gets political rapidly. Layoffs need to happen quickly, the theory goes, so it's easier and better to just cut away 10% of the people in one fell swoop and, later on, reduce complexity. However, the complexity reduction often never occurs. According to typical executive thinking, it can't happen before the layoff-- it'd tip people that something's going on-- but after the layoff, people tend to see the first-order immediate problem (high costs) as solved and therefore don't handle the deeper issue (high complexity) that got the company in trouble in the first place. Thus, fewer people have to do more work; they do a worse job of it, and the higher defect rate leads to even more complexity, and everything goes to hell.

2. Plenty of companies are dishonest about layoffs and dress them up as aggressive "performance" reviews. I won't list names, but there are plenty of dishonest technology companies that claim to have never had a layoff because what the psychopaths in charge actually did was dress one up as performance-based firings, with kangaroo courts ("performance improvement plans") and all. At least banks are honest; they say, "business was shitty this year and we let people go". But there are so many tech companies that don't want the press of an honest layoff (they even pretend to be constantly hiring, to present an image of unyielding growth) so they lie and call it "performance". An existing stack-ranking regime helps. What these companies are really doing is throwing their own people under the bus to preserve their own reputations, and they shouldn't be surprised when people fuck them right back for it.
> Obama can be branded a petulant, entitled, pampered, sulky, embarrassed, teen-aged child

Entitled? What's he entitled to?
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Oh no, one more of those stupid discussions. I wonder why it gets upvoted.
> The Indian Wars were a real thing, after all, and ended long after the abolition of slavery.

Absolutely, but none of us can go back in time and undo the bad things that America has done, or that Britain has done, or that Germany has done, or that Russia has done, or what anyone has done.

But people do not apply the same standard to, say, Germany or Russia, that they apply to the USA.

You can bring up slavery every day, and America will have been wrong every time. Does that, itself, taint the blood of 2013 Americans?

Certainly American can and should make corrections and pay penance how they can, and at least partially they do (e.g. affirmative action programs, equal opportunity laws), just as Germany atones for the actions of the Nazis, and just as Japan still maintains only a "self-defense force" in consequence of wars from decades ago.

Certainly we can compare America of today with other countries of today. America won't always win that comparison (e.g. Germany has much better laws regarding data privacy and data protection) but nor will America be the worst nation on the Earth. Certainly they look OK as compared to Russia.

But if one's argument against the USA will inevitably come back to what a bunch of assholes were doing back in 1790-1920 then it's not unfair to also widen the scope of comparison for those nations that are being compared against the USA.