skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My girlfriend (who is responsible for most of the art in the examples) and I pretty much reacted the same way when we first got the algorithm working. It was one of those things that went from 'not working at all' to 'suddenly working perfectly when you fix one broken thing'. Good times.

Oh and thanks for the offer of thrown money!
you realise that if someone is buying real estate, someone needs to be selling it, right?
I think it's unfair to lump the faster-than-light-neutrino experiment in as bad science. They pretty much said "this is really odd, please suggest your explanations".
You have impressed me and shown me the error of my ways at the same time.
Yes, but then we are arguing about truisms, so what's the point the naysayers want to make? I don't mean you specifically, but on several threads on this page there are people arguing that: "oh, this is so much money wasted, other things could be done with it, but oh, I'm not saying we should take away from the space program, but, oh, this is so much money wasted..." ad nauseam. I mean what exactly is the point in pointing out that yes, obviously, other good things can be done with 72 million, and then disclaiming that it's an argument against India launching a Mars probe? Why point out such a trivial truth unless arguing against India doing this? If it's just about 72 million not being small change in general, why aren't people making such trivially true statements in discussions about other things?

Again, I am not singling you out, I get what you're saying, but I just have to ask: why aren't we having people pointing out how many schools can be built out of a budget for, for example as kamaal wrote, an Olympic opening ceremony? I don't think it's even some kind of closet racism, as some have argued, in general (though in this case there is also that, in this story's coverage by the Western media), because people go nuts over the US space program also. Even outside the US. :) It's a clear pattern of pushing the waste argument over just about any kind of space exploration anyone does, and it's not done just by "unwashed masses" but also by very educated people (e.g. here, I had a colleague, a theoretical physicist of all people, telling me how space programs are such a waste when there are people starving etc...). What the hell?
Abaddon's Gate (Expanse, #3) - James S.A. Corey - Its a pretty amazing series.
Thanks! HA is the first airline that works as a platform. Users create and explore flights. Users book seats and charter the airplane if they cover the costs.
Then it would have been clever and borderline perverse to use a Japanese disguise for the creation of bitcoin.

Anyway, I think the mystery around bitcoin I'd very captivating a story but probably the answer is more simple than these conspiracy theories, and I was surprised the day I read pg himself give credit to them.
Those figures don't mean those companies have half a billion dollars to spend on sapphire.

Edit: and that is just the prepayment.
Have you evern been on the other side of this equation Chris? I have, having had my credit card number stolen and used by the thief to make a bunch of purchases. In times like that, it is nice to know that the credit card companies have your back.

At the same time, I suspect the credit card companies do track the chargebacks. But how many is a lot? 3 in a year sounds like it would likely slip through the cracks.

It's a tough thing to manage.
ZeroCater is one of those companies that’s quietly growing like crazy. They provide something people love and they generate real revenue. I think YC has a few companies that are under the radar until something big happens, like Weebly or Twitch TV, with a large financing round. Then, people realize how significant of a company they’ve become. Arram wrote a great post about the early days of ZeroCater that's worth a read:

From Selling Scoops Of Ice Cream To Founding ZeroCater
http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/06/how-i-started-zerocater/
"In this implementation, to maximise performance, we consider each individual byte of the file separately, and look it up in π."...love it!
so what the point of introducing a "private" access modifier that doesnt exist in javascript since one can still access privates? looks like pure politics within google.

A breaking change like that shoved at the latest minute? you bet it is.
Hidden menus that pointlessly jump out into the oceans of unused space. Half-hidden photo and a hidden search box that bobs pointlessly up and down. Clunkily-unusable Circles. Endless pages that make it impossible to access old content (Facebook does this much better). Porthole icons. Pointlessly disappearing notification system. Mouseover popups that sometimes pop up (but don't contain any useful information) and sometimes don't pop up (compare "Community invitations" with "You may know").

The whole thing is full of utterly useless bits of "design". Some of these may contribute to making it horribly slow, though I'm sure there are other reasons why it's so bloated....
“The fracture toughness of sapphire should be around 4 times greater than Gorilla Glass – about 3 MPa-m0.5 versus 0.7 MPa-m0.5, respectively.”
The page keeps redirecting me to the spanish language version.

I would like to know more before connecting to Twitter too.
as a data point, to me it simply proposed +GabrieleRenzi, which may be unique in g+ but is certainly not unique worldwide (heck, there are at least 4 people named like me on facebook).

So maybe they just decided that something like "€∂gàr sm0ll" should be considered the same as "edgar small" ?
I can only see the Spanish-language page for some reason. Safari on OS X 10.9. Changing the user agent doesn't fix it.
Engineering Cultures
convergence of three things really.

When I heard the iPhone 5 was going to use a sapphire lens cover I decided to lookup more on the technology and found that GTAT had what looked like the best know-how in its manufacture.

I had also previously seen a story on some tech being created by a company called Twin Creeks that looked pretty cool, and was surprised to see that GTAT had acquired it's assets. That made me think the company was being aggressive in it's pursuit of acquiring/developing cutting-edge manufacturing processes.

Plus, I think solar power is a major part of the future and things will be pretty bleak if it can't deliver long-term, but I like to be an optimist, so why not put my money there?
I dunno, unless The Onion has an incredibly forward-thinking managerial class, then this cutback -- as well as the previous ones (including in its own hometown in Madison, WI) -- are reluctant measures taken in the face of budget shortfalls, i.e. these are cuts to the bone, rather than trimming the fat. And while fat organizations aren't exactly ideal, I think the expectation that the Onion maintains its finest group of writers while going through this kind of restructuring is unrealistic.

But to go back to the nostalgia thing, I'll miss a world in which you could carry around a newspaper made up of completely fake news.
Wait, you read the T&C's?
E192 is highly necessary when designing analogue filters
I thought the whole Ice-Nine thing in Cat's Cradle was pretty famous by this point. It's like Janet Leigh dying in the shower in Psycho — everyone knows about the twist, but they like it anyway.
It means that unstable isn't specifically tested for security, but security fixes will go to unstable first, before they propagate to testing.
Completely off-topic, so first off: Sprite Lamp looks really awesome, great job and fingers crossed for a successful Kickstarter!

But, does anybody else use "upvotes vs # of comments" as a useful metric around here? I'm not actually running a tally but I believe this story takes the cake, at least over the last few weeks (months?) with currently 750 upvotes vs only 70 comments.

In short, I find the number of upvotes divided by the number of comments (or perhaps minus the number of comments) a better metric to determine the "interestingness" of a story compared to the number of upvotes alone. It's not a hard-and-fast rule, but I've noticed myself paying more attention to this dividend/sum recently than to the points alone.

I've pondered the thought a little bit over the past few months and of course there are several factors at play here, so there's not one single explanation for the phenomenon. But here is one shot:

When somebody comments on a story, there's an incentive to also upvote it because of the karma system: the more upvotes a story gets that you've commented on, the higher the likelihood that your comment gets upvoted. Perhaps not everybody thinks like that, but I think it's fair to say that a good percentage of commenters might upvote a story for their comment's sake and not necessarily for the story's sake. (Of course that's simplifying things: when you comment on a story, you probably also find the story interesting so you might have upvoted it anyway, karma or not.)

Anyway, from that perspective, the difference between number of upvotes and number of comments could be termed "genuine upvotes": people who really just thought it was a cool story, without any second thoughts regarding their karma balance and without necessarily having a strong opinion on the subject matter.

There are of course other, and perhaps simpler, factors/explanations: the less comments a story gets, the less controversial it is so if a story gets many upvotes and few comments, then perhaps it simply is uncontroversially good.

I've played with the idea of writing an alternate HN interface that uses this metric to weigh stories, but it never got anywhere. And there certainly isn't a simple solution: how to combine age, upvotes and number of comments into a useful ranking is black magic at best.

Again sorry for this offtopic blurb. It's just something I found myself thinking about a bit, and this story seems like a particularly good example.

And now back to 3d-inspired 2d awesomeness. How come I've never thought of this!
Thank you! I worked on making it highly targeted so people knew exactly what it does as quickly as possible, so I'm glad that it got across.
Knowing the ending does not ruin the book. Even if you hadn't heard anything about the plot, it becomes clear very quickly how it is going to end. The suspense comes from how it all goes down. Classic Chekhov's gun.

It's an excellent book and I highly recommend it. Very short too, so it's not much of a time commitment.
I love it how everyone is extrapolating their personal cruise ship experiences -> every cruise ship in the world ever.
Thanks! Totally agreed, I think that psychologically, 'free for a limited time' makes people have to make a decision on whether they want it now or not, which is an interesting behavior.
Fixed! we only tweet the message above and you will start following @hackerairlines. Nothing more
Getting sick is a big one.
Good call, I'll try to work on adding a replay button to the page—though since there's so few elements already and one more may break the balance of it. Thanks for the feedback!
Well if the fallback is ng-cloak with the css I guess he got it :)
Ubuntu Edge was vaporware, and it was never going to be the first phone to anything.

The gulf between "oh yeah, it's going to have a sapphire screen and the best processor ever and photon torpedoes" and actually doing the necessary engineering before ramping up to hundreds of millions of dollars in production is enormous. Companies that ship real products aren't just now "picking up the ideas as well" -- any technology that you see getting significant investment has clearly already been in development for years.

Vertu has offered sapphire screens for a while now.
Does this mean I can upload all my photos to Apple could for free? Wow!
Thank you! This is amazing to hear—those qualities of the app (simple, intuitive, gets out of the way) are exactly the points that I want to target, so I'm really glad that it's hitting on those. Cheers for the feedback.
solved, thanks!
You can never mention Carl Sagan too much, only too little.
> In practice, would Google ever dare invoke this on a large scale?

Twitter has already done that on a number of primary usernames, rather than just vanity urls. Did you expect them to do that? Do you think Google is better?
Bitcoin. It might work, as long as no large government in the world decides to make it stop working.
The gambling machines helping drug dealers 'turn dirty money clean'
Microsoft has $77 billion in cash reserves[0]. I assume this is pre-Nokia purchase but that doesn't change the fact that they could have done the same thing if they wanted to - they just didn't. It wouldn't make sense either as they don't manufacture to my knowledge.

[0] http://www.geekwire.com/2013/apple-controls-10-percent-corpo...
Tipping and basic etiquette (particularly involving dining) is one of the fundamental bits of culture everyone should research when traveling to another country.

If you are in the US and received good service, but left crappy or zero tips then yes, you definitely leave a negative impression of yourself. Nobody will understand why you left a bad tip or just think "oh, he's a foreigner, he doesn't understand." They will just think you stiffed them. Or they will perhaps think - "oh he's from country X - they must all be cheap assholes there. I hope I don't get any more tables with people from that country."

Would it not be the same if I visited your country and was rude or insulting regarding some very basic and obvious part of your culture?
i found a lot of interessting papers about crowdsourcing in academia.edu
One reason for Chinese government to dislike bitcoin, and it is probably the same reason for Chinese individuals to be interested in it: bitcoins make it very easy to hide cash in your pocket at the customs.

People may not realise it but the big issue for many Chinese or foreigner earning money in China is to get it out of the country. The contemporary art market is in fact fueled by this escaping money, because it is easy to under evaluate a piece of paper with two strikes on it, but recently there is a crackdown against that and experts are checking luggages. Bitcoin might be a much better alternative.
I agree with you 100%. My initial goal was to represent a perspective on the relative pros/cons to both and point out that for most companies, there is a time to consider either approach. Regardless of the ultimate direction, bootstrapping teaches you invaluable lessons that will make you a stronger entrepreneur if/when you decide to raise. Our personal experience was that after bootstrapping for a while, we encountered several obstacles based on our product vision, skill set and market that raising helped us overcome. I wouldn't suggest that this is the case for everyone: different calibrations of founders/products/verticals might have very different equations for success.
From my personal experience:

- I pay more fees to Amazon to sell a product and take on more losses than other online marketplaces.

- I had to quit Amazon S3 due to glitches hosting and streaming simple mp3 files. After days of troubleshooting, I just moved my files over to another service and all my problems went away.

- Crappy video streaming. I stopped buying episodes and movies from them and just bought them on YouTube where the streaming and quality was much better, at the same price.

- "AWS is arguably the best overall cloud service." Absolute Nonsense. But it's good to see their marketing efforts paid off. They offered good deals to startups which made them popular with Silicon Valley / Tech Crunch types. Every few months here on HN we get an "AWS vs Rackspace vs Other competitor" article. Amazon is NOT the best when it comes to price nor value.

- The user experience is terrible, the control panel even worse. The Seller Control Panel behaves like it's from 1997.

Not to mention:

- The slave-like conditions in their warehouses that keeps those prices low which so many people have blogged about.

Bezos is smart. But calling Amazon a master of something just because of their throughput quanity seems uncalled for. They're a giant company that was the first to make such a giant land grab in marketplaces & they use their weight to get to high places, not their "mastery".
No doubt, but my point is that no matter the quality or validity of the change, some will always oppose it.
Water is pretty weird without going too far out of your way to come up with new weirdnesses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice#Phases
Media overhypes a cautious plea for assistance made by scientists. Scientists receive their assistance, and announce that the discrepancy has been resolved. Media looks foolish, and claims the entire incident is indicative of flaws in the current state of science.

Good times.
At the end, the Titanic sinks.
Introducing a new multi-tasking experience for Yahoo Mail
Nice. I open sourced something similar a little while back https://github.com/joshduck/PixelStir/ (demo at pixelstir.com).
It would probably be more amusing for you to watch the movie where a guy gets handed a 190 degree cup of coffee (30 more than normal) in a flimsy paper cup.

The part where the cup disintegrates and leaves the person with 3rd degree burns on their crotch would be the highlight. The punch line would be the owner of the store saving $10 on coffee costs per month because he keeps the coffee too hot.
I think the OP was less about the team getting praise and more about the team being expected to solve hard problems with silly constraints. Why can't we be experts without the need for mythical estimations or our abilities?

But how about "Our team is competent?" "Our team are subject specialists." "Our team are pretty good." ?

...

And then I find myself wondering, how much domain knowledge do you need to identify a hard problem. Are founders just bad at estimating difficulty?
How is this bold in comparison to Google buying Motorola for $12B on the premise that it afforded patent protection?

Apple's move here is a solid move to secure supply of a key material/component for their devices.

Meanwhile Moto has yet to produce a profit, much less meaningful patent protection for Google.
I wrote that comment before it became widely known that NSA's access to data center traffic had been laundered through other foreign intelligence services. My opinion of the activities themselves is unchanged (I am not militant about the FISA process, but have a real problem with extrajudicial surveillance), but I would now be surprised if those actions were formally disavowed by the administration; the narrative is too complex.
Dropbox pretty much uses librsync and, I believe, inotify on Linux. With Amazon S3. That is Dropbox. Literally.

Polishing any product takes time. But that's universal and has nothing to do with engineering. What exactly is non-trivial about Dropbox?
Thanks a ton! I tried to make the intro video simple yet deliver the message effectively, and it's good to hear that folks get it.
Furthermore, my name is very hard to remember the spelling of in English. This is why I go of a shortened version of my fullname, but Google isn't okay with this <_<
Give me any prp stack ranking system and I can twist your apr's to get you in the bottom slot if your really good it might take a year or 18 months.
Just finished http://www.josh.is/rood-a-cyberpunk-novel/

I actually read it a few years back, but came across it the other day, and decided to read it again.
When you don't have a way of making an impression by talking to someone or meeting them face to face, your resume becomes critically important.

What I would like to say is that you do not know the audience that you are presenting this to and sometimes your name will make a bigger impression than anything on your resume.

It's unfortunate that these things still make a difference but it is what it is.

Looking at a resume such as your's and being somewhat jaded, I might think the following:

- This is likely an immigrant.
- They may not speak English well and may have had their resume written for them.
- I'd rather hire someone who I can identify with rather this person who could be from a foreign culture.

Now, I do not know if you are an immigrant or whether you speak or write English well. The point is that with your name and without explicitly giving the opposite impression, this is what a reviewer of your resume may think. Choosing you versus someone named "John Smith" becomes much more simpler (ie. you don't get chosen).

So how do you counteract some of this? Well, for starters, you could use a nickname for your first name. Remember this is to just get you through the door. Secondly, if you did go to school here before University, you could list your high school. Basically, anything you could put that would let someone know that your verbal and written English is great would be good.

I am not saying that this is what is stopping you from getting an interview, but there are many employers who have become very jaded by having someone come in for an interview who was the perfect candidate on paper but couldn't sling a complete sentence together due to language issues. These types of employers would rather just not take the risk, especially for an internship type position when they could just as easily pick someone else that looks more safe.
Thanks! Haha, the Reddit bit was just to put in a gag that I feel like a lot of programmers will recognize, nothing more.
The Unofficial Guide to Rich Hickey's Brain (2012)
I "created" a flight but nothing happened - only a tweet and nothing else.
Prediksi skor Manchester Utd vs Arsenal
Prediksi skor Manchester Utd vs Arsenal 10 november 2013 – Laga big match didalam ajang Liga Primer Inggris akan kembali berlangsung, dan kali ini akan mempertemukan jawara Liga Primer Inggris Manchester United dengan tim yang tengah naik daun Arsenal yang saat ini sedang menghuni posisi puncak klasemen yang berlangsung di Old trafford pada tanggal 10 November 2013.
(1) I have personally met Tynan, and he's not an asshole. In fact, he's quite sweet in person. Even if you read his blog, there's nothing assholish about it. He doesn't lie. He does his own thing.

(2) People who generalize about an entire class of people being "assholes" ... maybe should look in the mirror.
Sure, here's the input I supplied:

http://bp.io/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Img_Diffuse.png
http://bp.io/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Img_Left.png
http://bp.io/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Img_Right.png
http://bp.io/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Img_Top.png
http://bp.io/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Img_Silhouette.pn...

After manipulating some parameters, the software can then spit out a variety of maps, like these:

http://bp.io/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/img_AO.png
http://bp.io/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/img_Depth.png
http://bp.io/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/img_Normal.png