skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading his books, my overwhelming impression is that it's unclear if there's any predictive power. I'm unsure how you'd go about demonstrating it one way or the other - but that's Christensen's job. That he hasn't done it is telling. [ He does seem to be trying to push it as an all-encompassing theory, to be "people buy what they want" (and redefining "technology" more abstractly in subsequent editions, to include any way of doing any thing). And he's got that consultancy going... always good for "truth"... ]

However, I'm not sure how you see Google as not disruptive...? By revenue, it's an advertising company, and a different ballgame from print media etc. (advertisers get live feedback on performance - focus groups can't match that). The bidding idea is also brillant (from goto/overture) - google gets the highest possible price, but your competitor is the bad guy. Though I guess you might say it's the internet that's disruptive, and google's just along for the ride.
I don't know. The top two most frustrating things I encounter on modern web sites are: "infinite" scrolling effects & badly done responsive designs.

While adaptive UI can be done right (and yes, that's the correct name for it, "responsive" typically refers to reaction lag, not screen size), and is definitely a nice tool in the designer's toolbox, it's very telling that various "responsive evangelists" keep popping out of everywhere talking about the virtues of "responsive" where no one asked them. Say like the poster I was replying to here.

This behavior is typical for something at peak hype. They're just so excited about it, they can't comprehend why everyone isn't getting a boner about "responsive" so they have to talk about it non-stop to clue us in on the awesomeness we're allegedly missing. It's like Ruby on Rails all over again.

Which is to say the "responsive" movement right now is 80% bullshit and 20% useful technique (when used in moderation). And I have examples to support that.

Part of "responsive" is the horrible practice of rolling menus into obscure hamburger buttons, outright hiding panels with useful content and functionality, or presenting bizarre interaction patterns that some harebrained designer thought are more smartphone-ey.

This is not helping your users, it's pissing them off and making them spend a lot of time hunting for the "desktop version" link on your site.
We've used the same number for those different rotations. That does not do anything directly about irrational power p.

If p is a rational number represented by m/n, then

360 / (m/n) * m = 360n

So there are multiples of 360 that are divisible by m/n, and we can get a unique complex number from z^p.

Now p is irrational, what happens? According to what you said, there are so many different graphs that can not be merged into just one.
What is the plan for your project?
I agree that lining up the incentives right is very important. But from a business perspective making a commissions based strategy work is tricky. Especially if you can get rid of the bottom feeders. Then there'll be a good incentive for both the employee and employer to grab that $1500 (a 10% commission on a 15k job).

Then comes ridiculous measures like the screen grabbers and the 3rd party holding your onto your payment etc.
tl;dr: Yes

I've used the Xilinx toolchain as well as the Lattice toolchain. The Lattice toolchain isn't as polished as Xilinx' but I find it simpler and less intimidating than Vivado & ISE. Sure, some things could be more streamlined (i.e. the transition from Diamond to Active HDL for simulation) but it's free and gets the job done.

I find a lot of the design resources (Reference designs, user guides, tool chain, etc.) for Xilinx very ambiguous and confusing. Not to mention that certain devices aren't covered by the free ISE WebPack and require a paid license to design around some of their FPGAs. I never understood this. I think, like Altium, they do this just because they can and because people using higher end FPGAs tend to have bigger design budgets and..well...they can get away with charging for the design tools.

Lattice has positioned itself to be an IoT FPGA company whereas Xilinx seems to keep developing FPGAs that have incredible computing power / bandwidth / logic capacity / etc. I think the complexity of the toolchain scales with at least the square of the capability of the FPGA.

If you are looking for a super-capable starter FPGA/CPLD, take a look at the Lattice MachXO2. It has embedded flash so you simply program the device and it comes up that way the next time you apply power. No external serial flash to worry about. There's even a breakout board for the MachXO2[0] that makes prototyping and adding capabilities via "shields" very straightforward.

I have no experience with Altera so I can't comment there.

[0] http://www.latticesemi.com/Products/DevelopmentBoardsAndKits...
But the idea with the vtable is that many instances of the same "table" (record) would share a vtable. So the vtable would presumably never appear inside the table instance, I think.
Original author here. I COMPLETELY agree. Anybody who defends their little one-platform-world as "special" should run their code through several compilers. It's like running a spell checker on your essay for the first time - the spelling errors jump out at you. Different compilers seem to be amazingly different in catching really obvious bugs. When I get something fully working on Windows and Linux, then the Macintosh XCode points out a problem I think to myself "WHAT THE HECK, HOW DID WINDOWS ALLOW THIS?!" It is worth doing cross platform development simply to raise the quality of the software you are working on, even if you never ship on the other platforms.
Docker 1.0 released to Alpha
Detroit has a myriad of problems, but I think this could be great for the city. A big problem with Detroit is that it's a huge city, but a lot of people have left, so there are whole neighborhoods with only a few residents. This makes it hard common government services such as garbage pick up and police force to cover the whole city. The government could provide incentives for any entrepreneurs willing to come to Detroit and help solve these problems using drones and/or autonomous cars. The pay off would be huge on both sides. Autonomous cars would especially click with the culture in Detroit too, being that it is the motor city.
Not to take anything away from this young man (and Maker Studios) success here, but I thought it might be a good time to point out how YouTube math works. If his channel generates $4 million in ad revenue, Google/YouTube keeps about 45% and issues a check to Maker for the remaining $2.2m. Maker then takes another 10-30%.

Still a substantial sum in the end, but I felt the title may potentially be misleading.
Went to order one, but they want $20 for regular ground shipping.

May as well sell it for $45 and ship it for free. At least then I'd be less likely to whine about it.
Fantastic. Keeping the tutorial up-to-date with the language and of high quality is just about the best possible thing you can do for documentation.

Nothing puts me off from a language or system quicker than clicking through to a tutorial that is either (a) extensive but 2-3 versions out of date or (b) hopelessly cursory ("here's 2 pages of neat stuff, see you later").
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TL;DR

> Internet is no longer a technology. The Internet is a psychology experiment.
Where can I find a mobile app developer for an MVP
weather out of high school, college, or currently enrolled in school - where is the best place to look for developers who want to be paid on a contract basis for an MVP of an idea. Everyone seems to go to developers abroad because it's cheaper, but I'd rather work with someone in the US who I can talk to. Desperate for any suggestions!
yes, but by "Moderators".
I guess my question is if there's a disagreement between user testing results and the product development team's own choices, who wins?
Instead of drones and cars, perhaps it would be simpler to just relocate individuals and businesses toward downtown.
Excellent book. I didn't, and couldn't put it down since I downloaded it today noon. Almost done reading it. I plan to finish this part of the book before I go to sleep!
Looking forward to the next batch of chapters.
God sent.
"if we think of airspace as the next Internet-like platform.."

What? Did I read the correctly? No offense but this piece seems a bit off kilter. It's one thing to make money investing in things like social network websites, yet another to demand some kind of government sanctioned libertarian utopia and expect all kinds of foolish (and sometimes outright anti-social) schemes will bear fruit or even ever be permitted to grow beyond a certain socially tolerable size... Galt's Gulch was a fictional place and likely always will be. As long as the current system (on which the "innovators" rely) is in place anyway.
That's not our exit strategy. We're building a long term business here.
I think what's more likely is that processing will move into the memory itself. We already see this somewhat with manycore shared-cache architectures like Tilera, which effectively provide one core per ¼ MiB of L3 cache. (Though unfortunately L3 cache latency is only ~twice as fast as RAM, but at least the bandwidth is much better.)
The article is nearly a year old.
I have a 7 year old son who loves nothing more than youtube videos of a guy playing Zombies vs. Plants and commenting on it.

Of course being a kid his video time is strictly limited.

But the fact that he would choose that activity on his iPad vs. playing all sorts of games makes me think there is something huge there. Huge as in the future of mass entertainment.

You know all those cheesy Sci-Fi books and movies where new sports are invented and masses of people cheering them?

This is the future. PewDiePie is competing with Formula 1 racing, World Cup Football, and prime time TV. He's got more people watching than most TV shows.

In some ways this this is just classic entertainment - good looking guy being funny, doing funny stuff. Take out YouTube and video games and it's the same formula for entertainment we've seen in the last 100 years.

PS: And yes you should stick with your promise.
I love the idea.

A couple of things hurt the credibility IMO:

* "Client has $300+ budget" < This gives a very bad impression. I wouldn't want to hear from any client who has a budget in the vicinity of $300.

* Wordpress, PHP, Website Dev (?) but no Clojure, Scala, Haskell. < There might not be many jobs, but I think adding (and catering to) these groups will make your brand a better one.

* 60+ leads a month for less than $1 a day < I don't get the math here, you can send 99999+ leads and none of them would make sense to me. I would instead highlight the 100% satisfaction guarantee. And while you are at it, why don't you make it a 3 months money-back guarantee. If people get some good leads, even if none them turns into a job, I don't think many of them will ask their money back. Provided that you move away from the bottom-feeder market of course.

Best of luck!
Here's a video with some interesting theories about how PewDiePie, and other gaming channels, are so popular because they're effectively hyper-tuned for Youtube's promotion algorithms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgMqhEMhVV8
"The Future has a Silver Lining" :)
I'd like to see a FOI request for information on their process for creating such low quality PDF documents responsive to FOI requests.
I work for a fulfillment house, we do tens of thousands of orders a month. Despite this, we're still what would be considered a "small business". Forecasting has been a really big pain point so far so we're watching AzureML closely. If they can make this as low-configuration as they promise I think it'll be killer for us, along with many other small businesses with big logistics components that have a LOT of data they wish they could act on.
By the way did they actually build that Robocop statue in Detroit ?
There's an argument that autonomous vehicles will cannibalize vehicle sales overall, or at least destroy the existing investments of automakers, so it's in Detroit's interest to delay them as long as possible.
Order from DigiKey[0] and shipping is more reasonable (A few bucks for ground).

[0] http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/ICE40HX1K-STICK-EVN...
A quick check with wireshark reveals the use of a VBR codec for audio, so there's another probable side channel besides the Javascript related issues already discussed.

I don't know much about WebRTC, but I think it's something you can set and Subrosa should be doing so in app-webrtc.js.
I'd be really tempted to sign up for this but at the moment the languages available aren't what I'm skilled in. I can understand omitting languages less popular than Ruby because it will be harder to hit the 3 leads / day, and the limited number of memberships prompt me to sign up now, but it's hard to justify it when it's currently not relevant to me.

Also, a slight nitpick, the audio bell on the "Contact Us" is a little bit annoying.
OK good to know. :) Would you be writing another blog post on what features you use for fraudulent activity, or do you consider this a business secret?
Reddit setup fake accounts/content.

RapGenius seems to have had a guy doing some underhanded promotion.

LinkedIn still does this stuff (or maybe it just started).

Safe to assume there are others.
Here you go: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/spew-the-ui-l...
> They are very good at committing to a project, and being in it for the long haul.

Nobody has yet mentioned Microsoft PlaysForSure. Those clowns really screwed the pooch on that one. They got their "partners" to commit to a form of DRM that the Zune (brown bar of turd) didn't support and that Microsoft then abandoned.

How's the "long haul" working out for that particular fiasco?

Sorry if this sounds like a rant (which it is). But I don't understand how Microsoft's numerous mistakes keep getting erased into the mists of time. This wasn't something that happened eons ago. PlaysForSure was introduced a mere ten years ago.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PlaysForSure
Thanks a lot for the feedback: Download links are right under the thumbnails of the respective file, but I'll work to add them in the main document view, too:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/62n8umb9jcaqfv4/Screenshot%202014-...

We are definitely working on a better viewer, with a mobile redesign due in a few months, but we don't have any full time developers on staff: My cofounder and I both have day jobs, and our main focus is making sure we continue to get and publish government records as efficiently and openly as possible.

The reality is also just that there aren't really any great PDF viewers we've found on the web, though we're definitely open to suggestions/inspiration if you have one you think works really well.
5 leads per week is an interesting way to package it.

Why not 10 (or so) leads a month? It would take time to work on those leads, no?

Not that the frequency is too important or that fewer leads mean higher quality leads. I'm just playing with the idea from a client's perspective. Wouldn't it be less disruptive if you got the leads emailed you less frequently?
I don't watch that channel obviously but he's having fun and entertaining lots of people.

I can't find anything wrong with that to be honest. It's not about making money for me, it's about how you make money. He's not scamming anyone, he's just providing content and people choose to watch it. And it's probably still better than most of what's on TV.
Part of being an intelligent person is the ability to make the best call based on all available information.

There's no general rule.

I'll just say that fast iteration is key. You iterate quickly and show users prototypes, and incorporate their feedback (or not), depending on the case.

You can see the "Fake it till you make it" WWDC session on Apple's site, it speaks exactly about how Apple does prototyping and user testing.
Why is this downvoted to zero? Doesn't anyone else find the whole thing creepy?
Since we have a lot of "longtail" documents, torrents aren't a great solution for reaching a mass audience + making sure we can reliably offer access to 339,957 pages of various government documents in tens of thousands of PDFs.

We are actively looking at doing monthly dumps, a la StackOverflow, of all our documents and data, and we'd like to do that via Torrent. As soon as I get a few day to hack on it ...
In my experience, in everything from going out to lunch to planning a camping trip to having a party to asking someone out to doing any work-- you have to do it, and yes let other people know you're doing it, but you have to be doing it regardless.

Things generally don't work if you say "I'll do it if you agree to do it too."
I will assume that your question refers to damages caused to a "small property owner" by a multinational corporation.

There are a few alternatives:

1) When large corporations do anything, it is usually on a grand scale, so it is likely that the "small property owner" can find a number of neighbours similarly affected, and join in a class-action lawsuit, to defray the costs.

2) If the "small property owner" is very sure of victory in the courts, they can take out a loan, to finance their legal costs, which they may be able to recover from the respondent at a later date.

3) The "small property owner" may find a lawyer willing to do the work pro-bono, or on a contingency basis.

4) Some "small property owner[s]" may represent themselves in court; this is not as uncommon as some think, and many people present their case well without a credential-ed lawyer.

The most likely outcome is a settlement in any case, as no corporation wishes to gain a reputation that it is unwilling to clean up its own mess, and a drawn-out court battle would not be very productive.
That's what I was guessing. Some sort of military requirement that they could trigger if needed.
It is a fact that both Wacom and N-Trig digitizers have different sets of advantages and disadvantages. It is a fact that the Surface Pro 3 can't completely eliminate its chosen technology's disadvantages. I never claimed that the entire Surface product line was doomed to failure, after all, the world doesn't revolve around digital artists.

As a couple of people pointed out, Wacom has a major disadvantage as well. It really sucks that it loses its accuracy at the edges of the screen, but in spite of that I still find the experience far superior to using an N-Trig stylus. I have come to this conclusion after using many different devices with different kinds of digitizers over the last decade. I also frequent a few of the major online digital art communities, and they all seem to agree with me. Perhaps the N-Trig fans are just quiet, but I'm inclined to think the lack of representation is due to the fact that artists enjoy using Wacom products.

I'm not sure why you feel the need to be so childishly hostile. I wasn't aware that expressing an opinion in an anonymous online community where people gather to have casual conversations was frowned upon.
As of a few years ago, 36% of poor adults work at least half the year and 25% work full time. Original sources cited here:

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2011/why_the_poor_dont_wor...

You could be right that transit takes up a lot of time, but why rely on anecdote? Stats are available. I linked to them. And if it wasn't 1:30AM (in India) when I posted that, I'd probably have munged them myself.
The patent language is not too bad. Defeating a patent is not too hard. There are specific terms and patterns to the language, just like a programming language. It's often quite logical. It's just like reading another programming language.

A claim is just a list of "AND" conditions, i.e. all the conditions must be met for the claim to be asserted. To defeat a patent claim, it's a matter of adding enough variance in your code to defeat ONE of the conditions.

I will demonstrate the decrypting of claim 1. The other claims are just dependent claims of 1 to make the whole thing looks meatier. If claim 1 is defeated, all other claims are irrelevant.

Claim 1 basically saying a user issues a query with two parameters on two tables to do search in a program in the local machine, with the following conditions:

1a. the query runs against two data sets, Table1 and Table2.

1b. Table1 has one type of data, e.g. Food. Table2 has another type of data, e.g. Drink.

1c. the query has two parameters: param1, param2. E.g. FoodEaten and DrinkConsumed

1d. parse the query to use Param1 against Table1, and to use Param2 against Table2. E.g. select * from Food where food_type=:FoodEaten union select * from Drink where drink_type=:DrinkConsumed

1e. the query result should based on the parsing of the query and the mapping of parameters to the tables. The result should relate to the parameters in the query.

1f. the whole procedure is run by a process in a computer.

See, it's not too bad once you break it down. The claim conditions are kind of BS individually. The basic idea of the patenting process is to string together a number of day-to-day common items and make the whole thing as patentable.

To defeat claim 1, just make one of the conditions false. The easiest is to attack 1c, which uses the phrase "comprises a first token and a second token," which means the query contains exactly two tokens as parameters. Just add a dummy parameter to all 2-parameter query to fail that condition.

Attacking 1a with more than 2 tables query also works.

Also breaking a 2-table query into two separate queries works, too.

Since claim 1 is gone, all other dependent claims are irrelevant.

Disclaimer: the above are purely for educational purpose only and are not considered as legal advice. Consult a lawyer for real legal advice.
pretty much this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK8ednS0skQ
A note of clarification, but there's actually no reason to patent something if you're going to release it into the public domain. Patents are an incentive for disclosure, so if you write a paper on the subject and never patent it, no one else can patent it later.
On the other hand, what better way to say it's not a police state than allow requests to go through and redact info they don't want leaking?

Sort of how people take White House petitions as meaningful in any way.
> The typical hacker shouldn't be testing this device, then.

Like, say, Gabe? :)