skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's be honest - a Tag Heuer is the Macaulay Culkin of watches and not everyone can afford a Patek. Omega is ok. ;)
I agree with you completely. I was attempting to point out that author of the article wasn't exactly beating around the bush and basically said Dorian admitted to being involved.
Kickstarter takes a lot of money for basically delivering hype. I think KS really should have rules/terms that prevent you from canceling after certain things happen.

Press like covering KickStarter. It is a validation that the product is "obtainable" as opposed to a pie in the sky press release from a company that something might come out someday. KS takes a big cut for what they deliver, but they do deliver it, so they should protect that model more fiercely than they do.

That said... If I were shipping a physical thing I would just use Amazon and do Pre-orders instead. Doing a KickStarter can preclude you from many retail stores, and Home Shopping. If your product is awesome you'd likely be better to be in those places instead. If your product kind of sucks, making a splash on KS can get you easy money early. I can think of several products that this has happened with (a talking bear, a video game console...)

But what it all boils down to is you have to decide if hype is what you need, or distribution. If you have a solid product you don't need hype.
Sure, but a major product release tied to the Google brand like this seems to be coming at an odd time.

This watch, for better or worse, is now going to be seen as the Google watch.
In this context, the troubles with that statement are "your" and "this program".

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130729/12223823986/senat...
Everyone Should Get an A [2005]
Did you examine Ceylon? It seems to avoid the problem you describe with Kotlin and ClojureScript by explicitly abandoning the Java native library.
I agree, but lots of people trust github with their proprietary code. Indeed, when I do use nitrous.io, it is with github repos.
Ractive is my favorite. The community is not there though.
You know, I've been messing around with Java little lately. Nothing too fancy. It's actually not a bad language -- with a modern IDE it's actually pretty quick and breezy to work with.

If the standard library was cleaned up and the warts were all removed and filled in, even if it broke compatibility (call it Java X or the Latte language or something) I'd be okay with that. There's too much old 90's cruft hanging around making usage of different pieces non-standard and lots of over-objectizing everything so you end up having to assemble lots of things out of little pieces, boilerplate-like, that should just be a single import and instantiation.

The modern JVM is surprisingly quick and robust technology and I've been pretty happy with it in my limited tests. I ported some old Perl algorithms to it and got some really good speed out of it once I benchmarked some of the collections a little.

Some things should just be outright fixed, like a proper regex literal so I don\\'t have to \\e\\s\\ca\\\p\\\\e everything so much\\\\\//\/\\.

It's "got good bones" and a refurb of the entire thing to bring it focus could breath a lot of long-term life into it.

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I guess what I'm trying to say is it would be great if the language was informed a bit more with what's going on in the dynamic languages space like Go has been. I like how Python is about as clear as Java code is, but it's always seemed a little more quick and breezy to work with. This is something I think Go got right and it'd be great if Java sort of caught onto this.
I'm excited about this, and disappointed in Pebble. They were first to market but totally squandered their opportunity. I got my Pebble last year, and stopped wearing it after a week because all the promised apps were still a work-in-progress. One year later, not much has changed :/
This is awesome. I worked in educational technology building virtual humans (http://alelo.com/), and have experience with a variety of game engines. Unity is far and away the most pleasant developer experience, despite being 1/100th the cost of some of the other commercial engines.

Pre-Unity, game engines were truly stuck in the dark ages.
As a Keynesian I love that Dogecoin is the first (that I know of) crypto currency that isn't deflationary. I do wish there was a way to make the things other than mining though. I hate "mining". Such a waste of resources.
At a minimum Icahn is playing far outside of his scale. Trying to force Apple's hand - he might as well be trying to dictate terms to Exxon or Walmart, it's comical.

Icahn can bring a modest fraction of his $22 billion to bear on any given situation. That might work against financially weak companies, or companies he dwarfs (like if he picked a fight with Groupon's leadership).

Financial power players like Icahn will never go away so long as there is wealth and capital. Mostly I think he's guilty, in the Apple and eBay situations, of thinking he is much more powerful than he is (and that's saying something given his history), as he has lately been starting fights with very healthy companies far larger than he is.
It's probably pretty difficult to do OCR/digitization for a bunch of different types of notebooks efficiently, but I totally agree. I personally use Field Notes because of their soft backs and small form factor, but I would love to get them digitized and put in my Dropbox.

Instead they're just sitting in a drawer. I don't want to have to use Mod Notebooks just to keep paper notes forever.
Ask sama: E2 Visa?
Regarding the Founder Visa blog post. Please consider discussing the E2 Visa with an immigration attorney. http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/About%20Us/Electronic%20Reading%20Room/Customer%20Service%20Reference%20Guide/TradersInvestors.pdf

As an attorney I have practiced immigration law, though mostly limited to cancellation of removal and asylum. However, based on your blog post, the E2 Visa can and should meet most of your requested requirements. The E2 Visa is a non-immigrant 5 year Visa with unlimited extensions.

In short if YC were to create a funding entity in the home country of a foreign national, and meet the "capital requirements" on a case by case basis (note there is no capital minimum, just vague criteria that must be proven, which YC would be in an ideal position to prove simply based on the nature of YC's experience and existing data), there is no reason this Visa should not suffice and give you supporting data of your claims while you continue to lobby for legislative change.

If you have already discussed the E2 with counsel and been dissuaded I am curious as to why E2 would not meet the needs of YC, because believe that this model in and of itself is a potential startup that solves the problems of other startups, namely YC and other incubators looking to fund more foreign nationals.
JDK 8: General Availability
>There's no way an out of work computer engineer could not have heard of bitcoin until so recently unless he was living in a cave. The hype of bitcoin was quite large and pretty much anyone computer literate would have heard of it, especially a guy who's name is Satoshi Nakamoto.

Oh come on, that is just silly. I am positive there is computer literate people who haven't heard of bitcoin. Not everyone checks Hacker News, or news at all. I know I never watch/check the regular news, its extremely possible he never heard of it.

>Dorian was first informed of bitcoin through email, which means he likely could not have confused that word with anything else.

And not everyone has a good memory. The author could have asked him about bitcoin without explaining to him what it was which is why he didn't answer her questions, then he forgot what she was asking about, since it wasn't notable. Nobody is going to remember everything.

>Finally, his claim of the "accusation" hurting his job prospects are quite silly, since he's been out of work for more than a decade.

He has also had health problems in that decade which could have prevented him from seeking employment.

>Plus, it's pretty rare to be this vehement in your denials unless there actually is some truth to the accusation

Oh come on. He wants to be left alone! Of course he is going to be vehement in his denials so people will leave him the hell alone.

>Finally, his claim of the "accusation" hurting his job prospects are quite silly.

He is an immigrant. He might have a different cultural view than you over what hurts a job prospect. For example, I once visited a country where cheating in school was rampant. It was not only the norm, but completely socially acceptable, and it was though by the teachers that every student would cheat given the chance. Someone from that culture may not believe getting caught cheating would hurt their job prospects, for example. Stop looking at everything from your point of view. Furthermore, what's with the scare quotes in accusation? Even if the accusation is true, he was still publicly accused of being the bitcoin founder. It is irrelevant if the accusation is true or false, it is still an accusation.
I would suggest you look at how an NTSB or EASA investigation is conducted and compare it to the pageant of incompetence displayed by everyone involved in the MH370 investigation and get back to us on that "couldn't do better" thought.
'Star Wars: Episode VII' will take place 30 years after 'Return of the Jedi'
If you watch people interact with their phones for a few minutes you realize it is a good idea. Take any average person and you'd see them constantly checking their phone for time(!!), messages, emails, weather, missed calls, current calls (i.e. who is calling me right now), change playing song etc. All those functions could be easily handled by a companion watch device.
We can also make it bash compatible, and have all the GNU tools available at the address bar... (find www.wikipedia.com --title GNU)... But I don't think most people will be able to use it.
Except graphics have improved leaps and bounds in the last decade, even if they do not live up to the expectations of you or the OP.
In my first startup in the mid-80's there was no email support obviously; it was all phone. We made it a point to always invite anyone who complained to help us beta test the next version so we could incorporate their suggestions. It usually took people who were unhappy and made them champions of the product.
what sort of breakfasts did they have?
For clarity, expiration date[0] is just means the JRE will not be considered "up-to-date" anymore. At that point, the JRE will check for updates and ask the user to upgrade.

[0] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/c...
Globevestor Helps Startups In Emerging Markets Get Funded Online
What puts you in a position to be an objective judge of the dealings of billionaires?
Apparently the most common approach is to trade for Bitcoin on an exchange and then exchange that for dollars.
I asked a friend, he says they can be using Adobe After Effects (his preference) or Final Cut Pro. I was surprised, but apparently these tools are fit to do this kind of animation.

The narrative can be a more difficult part, unless the video involves much custom graphics (this one appears to do a decent job reusing a few primitives). By narrative I mean not just the voice, which I was told is often done by outsourcing to studios out there, but the script in general.

Just my 2 cents, maybe someone can give more info.
Did you watch the video? Looks like they have real prototypes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xQ3y902DEQ&noredirect=1#t=6...
Yeah, something like that.

I actually wonder if Apple will ever manage to come out with a wearable, because honestly they are in a can't win situation: everyone else is iterating through technologies and designs, and while these aren't for everyone (though everyone who it isn't for is sure that means it is for no one), they're getting better and more reasonable, while Apple needs to come out with some sort of God watch that will completely upend technology.

They can't win. They are absolutely bound to disappoint.

Nonetheless, though, I'm sure six months after they come out with something, you'll be on here proclaiming that everyone else is copying Apple.
He has been living in US for more than 50 years; longer than I've been alive. He is also a Libertarian, a political position extremely rare in Japan. He appears to be totally Americanized with little trace of his former culture. His behavior is extremely similar to other people who turned out to have something to hide.
Personally I think it would be awesome to have a radial based layout system. But recognize that probably won't happen. Probably do a square layout with a circular clipping mask. Still rect(3, -45, 3, -45, 3, 130, 3, 130) assuming a [radius,angle] co-ordinate system would be fun to play with.
If two people develop something at the same time then a patent on that thing probably wasn't needed to promote progress. There will be individual cases where it's not true but an overall rule of 'no' is probably going to work better than a rule of 'yes', especially since a 'yes' can only go to one of those inventors.
> I'd love that. task warrior is nice to track my tasks, but to track what I'm doing/what I've done? So far it's not a good match.

Try adding annotations to your tasks.

$ task <id> annotate "text"

This adds a timestamp and a note for that particular task.
Somewhat OT, but I've actually had really fantastic luck running older Windows titles under Wine, even when those same titles won't work under Windows Vista or later. I've actually found it substantially more work to get the Linux port of Tribes 2 (from Loki) working under a modern distro than to simply run the Windows version under Wine. Gosh I wish the Tribes franchise got more attention in those days, but I think the learning curve didn't exactly help.

I really like what Loki did. It's a shame they were too early to market.
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Facebook started asking for your phone number a few years ago. It's required for all new signups and existing users are asked to provide one (to continue) as well, afaik. And then there's the Facebook app on mobile phones that reads everyones phone number out of their address book.
No, they're saying it gives special privilege to YC.
This guy likely overestimates how important his app is. Usually, I don't want to have a conversation when I try something out. Now he's gone and sent me a huge email expecting me to read it right after I tell him to stop sending me stuff.

I'd be annoyed. I wouldn't respond harshly, but I'd be annoyed.

It probably works to 'convert' people, though, so more power to them.
>Also how can you load say models but not textures? All files are just binary data.

CORS and the Same Origin Policy.
I was under the impression that it was wild speculation week. At least that's what Newsweek and CNN have left me thinking
What is the performance like for asm.js and WebGL compared to a native app for PC or Mac? What do you lose?
I submitted this under the permalink URL earlier in the day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7421591

Can any mods delete my submission and update this URL to that URL? It seems illadvised to have this item pointed at pmarca's blog homepage vs. the item we're discussing.
Marc has already pointed out that he removed himself from the decision making process regarding the divestiture of Skype and fully disclosed his conflict. ebay held 30% to his 3% during all of this so Icahn's claims seem pretty baseless and should be easily confirmed or denied by another member of the ebay board with knowledge of the proceedings.
100% agreed. I work at a "startup" who has bought into the open office concept because 1) it's cheap, 2) it "fosters creativity and problem solving in a team".

Point 2 is complete and utter bullshit, especially when the company also fosters a culture of interruption. If client services has an emergency, it is now everyone in developement's problem. They have 3-4 emergencies a day...

A lack of walls, or ability to control interruption seriously degrades the working environment and makes the actual development work extremely frustrating and often not full-filling.

One day, in 50 years, people will look back at the current crop of MBA inspired management theories and will just shake their heads that we were trying to run software businesses like this.
Is Your Team Really Engaged?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UnrealIRCd
Google Will Eat Itself is part of a trilogy:
http://paolocirio.net/work/hacking-monopolism-trilogy/hackin...

Those guys hacked also Amazon and Facebook, actually there is much more behind that. Those Italians are crazy and geniuses.
>"We’d kill the subscription model..."

I tend to be wary of any service with ongoing running costs sold as a one-time fee.

As long as new sales exceed the cost of servicing the existing population everything is fine. Once that relationship reverses all bets are off.

That said, I like this idea and $25 is a better price point that I would have expected.
The first thing I look for in a browser is a way to switch through tabs in last-used order. If doesn't work out of the box, then I personally don't have a reason to investigate further. If this was a checkbox feature in Chrome (or Firefox, whichever's first), I'd probably never try anything else.
I am pretty sure he was joking. But there are cases though where the speed does matter. Cool d3 animations for example.
Well, depends on the language

It could be funny to test with a trinary or quaternary tree,(then you have 3 or 4 - or n - children) based on a different processing of the value

For example, storing complex numbers and the child corresponds to the angle relative to the parent
Right, so my point stands that it is interesting that current stable browsers don't support current stable web servers. So unless someone has the resources to test and deploy unstable web servers, it effectively means you shouldn't bother with spdy at this point.
You can't compare Googles infrastructure to an average start-up without security team or proper procedures that protect company data.

Not to mention most of the start-ups have shitty uplink with no redundancy.
One of the forms of wealth accumulation that's taken off in the Dogecoin community is tipping - it's been pretty successful on Reddit, 4Chan, and Twitter as a means of rewarding people who create useful / insightful things. The YouTube tipbot is starting to get some traction now too.

Here's a post from yesterday that includes some statistics about how much volume in USD is actually distributed on Reddit via the Dogecoin vs. Bitcoin tipbots respectively: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/20ms1i/if_we_want_a...
The author's point is more abstract.

Yes, you can certainly work out a few problems, scaling up the computations in some way.

Some problems though, are inherently hard (eg. animations), and it's hard to imagine some breakthrough even in the next decade.
That's my usual way, or the class-based way for older IE.
Because we can't be geeks who like to wear beautiful things? Maybe you are not the target market - and that's fine. But I'm willing to bet there's a fairly large group of people who combine geekdom and fashion. (Viz. the amount of fashion startups)
I've been thinking of this for a while my self. Would it be wrong to assume that git hub would be a suitable platform to start something like this? A lot of thought needs to be put into it by a lot of people and I don't think it necessarily needs any support from any particular government or organization. It needs to be a straight forward document that outlines the rights of people in the digital age, and if it does this in a well written, understandable way, it will gain support from the right people and something will come of it.

This is a (very) short story I wrote a while ago that is semi related: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=eRNQYx21
Ask HN: Should everyone speak English at a company?
I want to ask what other peoples opinions on this are before I talk to someone.

I am working in a tiny conference room. There are 8 of us in here. 5 Indian that speak Hindi with each other 24/7, 2 Chinese that speak Chinese 99% of the time between each other, and then there's me. I feel so awkward just being here, everyone talking with each other like they're best friends.

Monday. Elevator. I ask my coworker how her weekend was. "Oh it was alright, just watched some TV, you?" I already know this is a bullshit response.

Her Indian coworker asks her how her weekend was, and then they just go off for like 2 hours between each other in full on Hindi.
> So, seems like the technical challenge is to take a small portal, say 64x64 pixels, and then create a procedurally-based photorealistic (including damage, real-world illumination, and a damage model) engine to power it, right?

You may be interested in .kkrieger as a proof of concept for this type of engine. The most incredible part is the whole game is less than 100 KiB in size, but then we're talking about coders who are used to working with in 4KiB limits:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger

Talking of the demo scene, you may be interested in this 4K demo, another great demonstration of what procedurally generated content can do: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=52938
Can confirm.

Kraken is eventually going to enable me to convert it directly into USD, but it still has some regulatory hoops to go through in California at least.
So is the "massive custom data store" using Postgres or is it something totally different? Dan's answer sounds like Postgres + Citus DB is the current setup.
>If the standard library was cleaned up and the warts were all removed and filled in, even if it broke compatibility (call it Java X or the Latte language or something) I'd be okay with that

this is what groovy and kotlin attempt to do. groovy is backwards compatible with java as well, in most cases java code is valid groovy code.
Google introduces Webmaster Academy
Your wrist lies to the left / right of the track pad area. When you wear a watch or a fitness band, you are constantly rubbing those areas as you type.
Well, that's a good start, but I was referring to a 'utility' in the sense of a utility method that does it at runtime, as you say.
He means that it may be a real device prototype, but the video is added in post.
Should you be migrating your business processes to the cloud?
What apps do you miss?
Agreed. I will happily get rid of my Pebble once one of these devices becomes available.
Doge and bitcoin are very easily divisible, so that's not why they're more or less valuable. Bitcoins are rewarded at 250,000,000 satoshis/block!
I mostly remember the v70 http://www.mobilegazette.com/motorola-v70.htm (2002) and was waiting for Motorola to pitch in the watch game.
I am wondering what the 5 lines for MVP were. Anyone mind taking a shot?
MongoDB and Scale Out? No, says MongoHQ
Pretty much the same thing that spending a few hundred will get you. Upwards of ~$500, watches are jewelry. You might as well be buying diamonds. The value is 100% in the eye of the beholder (e.g. mechanical movements that are beautiful, but no more accurate than quartz, rarer materials, name brand, etc...)
Deis PaaS – Docker containers all the way down
Hopefully they'll just sell it for a regular price and people will put I Am Rich[0] on there to distinguish themselves.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich