skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Women are thought to have the ability to see a fourth primary colour "

I'm pretty sure this is an urban legend. If not, all color theory through the history of art would be male-only. Women should have different screens (RGB would not be enough to show a realistic picture), different films, printers and so on. How can anyone seriously believe that?

The wikipedia article says that tetrachromacy is theoretically possible in women, and that two persons in the world have been identified as possibly tetrachromatic. That is quite a different issue.
I hope so - sadly I fear a rise in 914-style fraud too.
Augmented Reality with Android prt 1
We built something akin to .Net web forms for jQuery. Works a treat.

Basically there is a chunk of HTML up front and a chunk of javascript behind each control.

The server composits all of these chunks onto the output stream and out comes an application.
Future of Google.org
I guess the point I was trying to make was that "photo booth" is far from the first word association that comes to mind when I hear "booth". The first would be a table at a restaurant; the second would be a phone booth.

Whenever I hear the name I am confused and have to remember what it is. The mental concept that springs to mind upon hearing the phrase "daily booth" is, maybe, someone who visits the same restaurant every day, and insists on sitting in the same spot. Or maybe it's the blog of someone who posts a picture of a different phone booth every day. The idea it has anything to do with photos is kind of this late "oh yeah" arrival.

Anyway, whatever, what do I know, I also think youtube is an utterly ridiculous name...
'Kind of Bloop' released: an 8-bit tribute to Miles Davis
They are a YC-Funded startup.
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spot on, very good points - at current stage we have discussions going on the exact topics you cover. Thanks for sharing your opinion.
This seems to be political opinion masquerading as analysis.
All photos from DailyBooth printed via Moo.com. One of the best ways to carry a pitch deck I've ever seen.
Why would I want to accelerate time? If anything, I feel like there is never enough time and would want to slow it down.
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What exactly is wrong with people sharing porn?
Does anyone have a working link to the second (prismatic lens) study?

Going by the description of the experiment on the New Scientist blog, it's not clear whether there was a control group. Also, it seems the experiment wasn't double-blind either. Nor does it say how many subjects were in the experiment, or whether a 113 millisecond difference in performance was statistically significant.

Also, I'm not quite convinced this has anything to do with time perception. It could just be that this kind of image processing or these kinds of hand-eye coordination tasks are more easily done when the visual stimulus is seen shifted to the left as opposed the right. But these possibilities are not even mentioned in the blog article.

Hopefully the actual research paper is more forthcoming.
Aren't those present in every relationship?
I was brainstorming a bit about this the other day as well, but I don't have the time/resources to do anything with it. Why can't we have a digital identity that isn't attached to a particular service? If I want to change cell providers I can take my phone number with me, but if I want to switch ISPs/Email providers I have to get a new email address. It would be useful (and in the interest of competition) to provide a way to contact your identity, and you can configure your identity to dispatch messages to whatever service you happen to use at that given time (somewhat ala Google Voice maybe?)
Is TC50 DemoPit Worth The $?
As TC50 is right around the corner, we have a fellow company in our group here who was turned down for TC50 but invited for TC50 Demo Pit... I thought the companies in the DemoPit last year were quite impressive but I am most curious about what you guys think? Is it worth $1000 ticket + Food + Flight + Etc?
Writing everything down started happening / was inspired by this long Ask HN thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=475736

TONS of good stuff in that thread. Still my favorite discussion here.
I signed, even though I have a relatively low hope that this will make that much difference. Amazon probably wants a DRM-free ebook world too, but they don't have the clout yet to make it happen. They need to do what Apple did and corner the market, then force publishers to ditch the DRM. We'll see.

Anyway, I really didn't care for this message that's displayed after the petition:

If you have an Amazon account, you can add a thoughtful one-star review highlighting the Kindle's DRM -- and one for the DX too.

While I think the DRM is a problem, I'm still getting a Kindle, and I think it's stupid for the FSF to encourage people to clog up the reviews with people who have a philosophical objection to the Kindle's DRM, but may have never even used one.
SourceForge are using it heavily in production: http://compoundthinking.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/16/turbog...
I absolutely love this site. 1000x thanks to the author. I've been toying with erlang for months; looks like the time has come to take the plunge!
that will break the TOS:

"4. Registration and Account Security

...You will not share your password, let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account..."
Google's Twitter/Facebook-esque functionality
The Amazon Associate web site said 24 hours of clicking through from your site, they buy something, or they click through from another site.
Find an idea that you are passionate about and ready to pour time and money into. I would bet that of those ideas maybe 1 or 2 are things you honestly want to do (and think you can do).
Upvoted because I think it's important in this case to read an opposing view. After all, predicting a crash is not in itself confirmation of insight - at any point in time there will be some people making the prediction, so when a crash inevitably happens some people come out looking like geniuses.

As for who is right, frankly that's going to take a lot more digestion...
Here's what I recently did with a <canvas> element. Has 3D and all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDRhyMLf4E8
I felt an honesty and openness in the article which your rewrite (which I'd probably have stopped reading right around "dreams of avarice") lacks. The article isn't a plea for funding but an attempt to start a dialog about how to solve the perceived problem.

It's not all about money, and "making very rich rich men out of everyone associated with the project" is antithetical to the motivations conveyed by the piece.
Sorry shard... didn't mean to strike a chord... it was a poor choice of title.

I am merely saying that we should bring the best parts of fiction and storytelling to academic writing as I believe more people would be read it and gain inspiration / insight from it.
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Great insight into the thought processes of aspiring start-up founder with track record. Not disimilar to pg/YC's RFS.

Key context for all of us with excellent ideas going nowhere:

"Ideas only get you so far, and getting true feedback is a lot more valuable to me than the rare off chance of someone 'stealing' 1 of 12 ideas that I may or may not ever pursue."
I had links to books on Amazon before I became an Associate because I discuss sources and references in many of my posts. Being an Associate hasn't made me any money yet though; too few readers, and I've been posting too infrequently to get more.
Thanks for the link, I just finished the arxiv paper and it refers to the ESPN article.
http://dailybooth.com/blog/?p=160

They feature their users' pics at the back of each business card.
I agree. This is the starting point you could say. From here, there are about 4 or 5 different pieces of criteria I'm prioritizing by. The biggest one with the most weight is passion.
What if there was a high karma threshold for viewing the apps? Like 1000 or something.
There I was thinking that obviously "jasonlbaptiste" and "markbao" were sock puppets but no, mark bao sounds Chinese. A few clicks confirms it.

So what the hell? Have you guys got an agreement to submit each other's stuff or something? Honestly I don't like that. If jasonlbaptiste writes something good on jasonlbaptiste.com, then just submit it yourself, jasonlbaptiste. You don't need a proxy.
Polyvore Raises Money for Do-It-Yourself Fashion Site
No need to apologize even if you did do it yourself. I checked your previous submissions and it is obvious you are not spamming HN. There is no shame in linking to a interesting product using an affiliate program. You are technically advertising for them after all and deserve a payment.

I do wonder how much you earned the Stumbleupon user though. A quick google search on the affiliate suffix shows he links to a few other DX products on SU and elsewhere. Today I'm sure he saw a boost in profits.
> You should not be using n for the number of bits and n for the size of the input.

I don't see that I ever did use it for a number of bits. I said, to have n numbers with distinct values, you need O(log n) bits in each number. n is not a number of bits.
Hmm then I probably got it mixed up. 1 day for Amazon, and 7 days for eBay.

This was a bit before my time, but apparently eBay used to have 30 day cookie tracking! Needless to say the temptation for planting cookies was pretty damn high and resulted in some clever tricks.

I think pop-unders are still used by some sites, but obviously are far less successful nowadays.
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SETI telescope array produces first science results
Hi
You might be somehow right in general sense, but this particular critique is uninformed. Darren is a well-known and successful blogger, and he also runs other blogs like Digital Photography School or Twitip. I think the reason he discloses the amount of money he makes is because it is relevant to do in Problogger. In his other blogs he doesn't do that.
If you have an Amazon account, you can add a thoughtful one-star review highlighting the Kindle's DRM -- and one for the DX too.

Yeah, this is highly questionable. I've always had a particular distaste for review-bombing. Find some other way to protest for your cause, reviews are for people who have used the product to some significant degree.

Not to mention this presents a less-than-desirable image of yourself and your cause. Now you end up looking like a bunch of vandalizing anarchists instead of, say, thoughtful protesters with a real issue.
I shared the post with Mark and he submitted. I was going to do it in a tiny bit, but it's silly to repost it under my name.
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I think that is the idea behind http://www.backtype.com/
Mark is partners with Jason on one of the startups Mark is involved with (it says that on his profile), so it stands to reason he reads Jason's blog a lot. Don't need to be a conspiracy.
OXFORD Collocations Dictionary

booth (noun)

ADJ. phone, photo, polling, ticket, voting

PREP. in a/the ~ She waited in the phone booth.
I didn't really like the interviewer too much, but she did get it right at the end when she brought up how the MythBusters do live lives of passion for what they do.
Each academic paper, thesis, dissertation etc. should be written in two parts: One formal and one informal.

This should serve as a reminder to all researchers and writers; write a good abstract

Abstracts not only help the informal reader understand the concept. They introduce the reader to the broad stroke of the research and greatly assist information workers in their discovery.
He/She spent 15 minutes to explain his thoughts. How's that insulting?

If he used that word alone then probably you could assume it's insulting.
Take this not as a criticism at all but as practical advice for the future.

The appropriate response to such a question is, "No. And it creeps me out that you would even ask." Arguments about having nothing to hide are countered with "You have no reason not to trust me. It seems like you might not. And if that's true we have a major problem." You know your own state. You know if you're being (or have been) a weasel. If your state is clean and someone acts like this consistently it is psychological projection (or some other show-stopping psychological issue). Beware of such people.
9 Reasons FlightCaster is the future of startups
1 month + Hadoop + Clojure + Cascading + Amazon = Predicts when your flight will be delayed before it happens
Uhm, the community votes on whether the submission is good or not. Who cares who submits it?
OK guys that's cool. Just you know, submit your own stuff. There is no point mixing it up.

Hope you didn't take offense, none intended! : D
The main problem I see is that there is so little detail that I'm not sure what's being proposed. Many of the commenters here also seem to have varying ideas about what's being suggested. To have a chance, you need a clear vision, clearly articulated. The hard part will be finding a realistic roadmap to where you want to end up from where the Web is now, but that can come later.

As an example of the vagueness I'm talking about, you write "We would have some kind of gateway that would act as an identity provider (think OpenID) and a system you would put your stuff on." This doesn't say how this system is run, who owns it, who pays for it, or what the difference is from similar proposals that have already been tried.

The passion for making things better comes through loud and clear but the solution conveyed isn't much more specific than "let's make things better".
Markbao did 9/11!

Hm. Too soon?

Anyway, I didn't mean to allege a conspiracy. Just saying that if people write something, and they have an account here, they should take ownership and submit it themselves.
Programming competitions aren't a great reflection of either real-world programming or real-world CS research, that's true. But that doesn't mean they're a bad thing.

Here's some pro-competition points.

1. Any way of making programming more fun will get more people into programming.

2. Competitions encourage you to learn the mathematical, algorithmic side of programming, which is another useful angle to attack problems from.

3. Competitions help people learn teamwork under pressure.

4. Competitions provide an incentive for people who are already acing their classes to learn more and improve themselves.

5. Practicing for competitions forces you to become broadly acquainted with standard algorithms.
Oh boy, Malcolm Gladwell must be 3,000 words into a new essay already. This is right in his wheelhouse.
Programming competitions are essentially a means for nerds to measure their dicks. Nothing wrong with that. Many competitions deal with idealized, stylized problems that aren't an accurate representation of reality.

That's ok. I don't think that it harms the rest of us, and if it makes some of the participants feel good about themselves, a contest has accomplished its goals.
http://www.twitip.com/the-proper-way-to-pitch-on-twitter/

"I don’t want to make 4,000 [dollars] per month with Twitter (I do this fine on my own thank you)"

These sorts of hucksters survive by selling you on an ideal that you reinforce by buying into it. Like any multi-level marketing scheme, you are the target market, not consumers.
I understand the first glance reaction. No offense taken at all :-).
You must be a lisper.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Common_Lisp/Cover

;)
I think it's valid to complain that programming competitions stress the less-important aspects of programming, and that through stressing this, perhaps perpetuate focusing on the less-important parts.

But the other side of that is I assume the people who compete in them think they're fun. And if people think it's fun, hey, why not?
the paper is here: http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/cpb.2008.02...

I'd like to see the Facebook Jealousy scale mentioned in the paper and possibly do a CFA on it ...
I'm hoping this will be a valid replacement for Berkeley DB - the 1.86 version I'm using is free (and old), but fails on >2GB databases.
I really like the #4 and #6 mainly because we are working on both. :) I totally believe that education industry needs a makeover because it is extremely fragmented and highly inefficient with very less innovation.
Nice sign-up form. Big fields, good contrast.
Your point is perfectly understandable and certainly represents a wide slice of the market - which happens not to be the slice of the market we are ideally targeting.

We don't want to steal customers from logoworks, 99designs or other similar (very useful & well thought) services; we are trying something new here, pursuing an experimental approach to logo design, limiting to an extreme the user input in order to force the customer to get creative with tags - which could open the door to hopefully surprising results from our designers. That's the deed - if you're not quite happy you roll the dice and go again if you want, it's free.

Along the lines of the stir-fried culinary metaphor, we'd like to offer quality stuff on-the-go. This comes from the need of a category of people (and you can pull myself in) who don't wanna bother going through revisions and all that jazz.

This might not be the right service for you, and we won't try to convince you otherwise. If you're craving for Chinese take-away you won't go to the French restaurant. If you need a twitter account you won't get yourself a blog. And so forth.

Said so, your feedback and ideas are certainly constructive and valuable - thanks!

P.S.
The video is known problem (thanks for pointing out). You not liking the logos in the slideshow ... given the subjectivity of the topic it's bound to be a discussion with no end! :-)
Cool site. The idea seems so simple (not a bad thing) and it looks like it's gaining lots of traction. I don't know that I'd become a part of the network, but I can see the appeal.

Does anyone know what idea this YC group started with? I get the feeling this startup is of the "bite off a small piece of a bigger problem" type and that it will grow into its original intention over time.
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The Minority Report display/control is never going to work. At least not in generic situations. Unless you are Mr. Bodybuilder, you are going to get tired of holding your arms out all day.
The metrics are crap. So are Joels. I've worked 4 different outfits that have those characteristics and the were all stinking turds.

Why? Four things (which I've seen in all 4 places):

1. Insane management. Yeah they can generate cash but the associated pain is unbearable (think all specs sold to customers up front without technical QA). How to spot - ask to use the application.

2. Legacy systems which are untouchable. One pixel will cause the largest clients to throw a wobbly, resulting in circa-1998 style web application that falls to bits if you dare use the back button. How to spot - ask to use the application.

3. Oh wait, the business model is actually selling the training (as the damn thing is so inconsistent and difficult to use) and slapping a huge exit fee on the product. How to spot - ask to see the revenue report (even if there is an associated NDA).

4. Quick burn. Good turnover to start with, rapidly declines when clients don't get what they want. Most people sold on a promise. Typical Harvard MBA up top usually causes that. Look up the directors.

I've quickly learned to avoid working for an IT company that specialises in a market and work for a specialist in the market that has an IT department or in house software team. IT-focused businesses are usually painful.
I'm all for the Home Shopping Network one... WOOT.com For Home Shopping Network... Make a home shopping network for people like us... get a prime time slot... make it huge.
I believe Jon & Co. were working on DailyBooth for some time before YC (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=479352). I'm not sure if/how YC changed their focus/strategy, though.
I believe you summarize perfectly the main differences.

I may add that as you correctly point out we don't wanna be better than the others or steal their customers, we're just different - since there's no service which does exactly what we do (good or bad, your pick).

We ideally offer a conceptually different service, covering needs (as said in some other comment around) of a category of people who are craving for results and don't wanna bother with revisions and complicated workflows.

Or at least that's the idea :-)
Love the bacon on the balance board idea. Nintendo should turn that idea into a hot dog eating contest and get Kobayashi to promote it.
My parents taught me to not disclose the amount of money I make,

Yet we spend hours bickering over the perceived value of facebook and twitter and how if we follow their examples, we
too can have success. That's why this industry exploded the first time - real value is only measured in real dollars.

A 'professional blogger' is blogging about how to make money blogging. What does that tell you?

What it tells me is that he's been able to monetize something that seems unmonitizable, and that regardless of how much he makes, he probably has a lot of insights regarding the motivation of his customers, and their behaviour.

In fact, he probably has better insights into what works and what doesn't that most VC's.

Thus, the blogger has every incentive to inflate the numbers, or simply lie outright about the expected return.

He has bigger incentive to describe methods that work for others, actually. As with any business, creating value for the customer is the main driver. This guy has been around for a while, and I'd like to think that's because some or all of the things he's done are working for others as well, and his reputation has grown because of that.
At 53:25 about Clojure: "I am very, very enthusiastic about this. I think that this will be the replacement for Common Lisp."
Unlike the Braess Effect for drivers, this is a phenomenon that a team can collectively understand and overcome. After all, if all the players pretended that the star was just an average player, the result would be better than if he really was an average player.

And that isn't even the optimum way to handle it. In the pathological case, a team is like a codependent spouse that obsesses over the star and contrives ways to be dependent on him even in situations where he shouldn't be involved. In the healthy case, a team collaborates to exploit their best player by not depending on him. When the defense adapts to shut down their best scorer, his teammates get more openings. Trivial example: when the defense double-teams the best offensive player, the remaining offensive players get to play 4-on-3. The presence of a stellar offensive player makes it easier for his teammates to score. The Chicago Bulls with Jordan were a great example. If it didn't work for the Knicks with Ewing, don't blame the presence of the star. Blame the coach and the players for not using him effectively.

Why a pro team would be unable to do this is perhaps a more interesting problem. Properly coached high school teams understand this and can execute it. Establish that Joe is an inside threat, then exploit the defensive adaptation by scoring from the outside. A pro team with a thoroughly scouted star gets to skip the "establish the threat" step and skip straight to exploitation. Why can't they do it? Maybe it has something to do with the Shane Battier article that appeared on HN several months ago -- if NBA teams and players are obsessed with individual statistics, perhaps they think like drivers in the Braess Paradox instead of thinking like a team.
and the strange thing with this is that everyone agrees education industry needs major innovation but not much VC funding is being poured into it in spite of huge (billions) opportunity.