skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Answers to this could go on forever but...

I think the more important part is to build a subtractive methodology, a way of editing out and whittling down ideas that won't work.

Use the James Altucher idea machine strategy and go sit in a coffee shop with a pen and paper and almost anyone entrepreneurial can come up with 50 ideas for possible businesses.

Then you need to go work editing those ideas and brutally crossing them off the list. And don't get attached to those ideas. Be comfortable having 50 ideas and crossing all 50 off the list. But having the mode, of taking every idea that comes to you and then really thoroughly scrutinize it, can help you know when you've hit on something really good.

Odds are, that really good idea originates from some random source, not necessarily a system for finding a good idea, but because you're already in the mode of evaluating them properly you'll be ready to pounce on it.
Did anyone notice that the photo that accompanies the piece is by Stanley Kubrick from a publicly available Library of Congress photo.

That's a nice touch.
Possible, perhaps, "not a problem", seems pretty untrue. How exactly would someone go about cashing out $200k worth of bitcoin?
Akrasia is an unique human trait that is acting against one's better judgment.

Of course theoretically it would benefit me to know my neighbors, I don't. And I won't, I'm reluctant talking to people when it's possible to avoid.

And given that none of my neighbors ever wanted to know anything about me - it seems they don't want it too.
The idea was to say "burn more calories than you ingest", but that was poorly said indeed. It is now corrected, thanks for pointing this out!
You can stretch this quite far, but that's besides the point. Just because it's hard to draw a line doesn't mean that we can't recognize particularly debasing forms of "voluntary" labor.
The limit is being addressed, though not fully in L. It's discussed in the podcast at http://androidbackstage.blogspot.com/2014/08/android-develop...

Basically they're aware it's an issue and they're working on it both for the future of the platform but also in a backwards compatible way (using multi-dex and reflection).
Interesting. Thanks. From some brief reading on wikipedia, I wonder if they chose SDHC to avoid any (patent) issues with the exFAT file system.

Kinda seems like a shame. 32 GB is quite a lot, but for HD video, it seems like it could fill up quickly.
It is psychologically advantegous for bourgeois bohemians (rich people who profess liberal or leftist political views) to find a way to magnanimously allow a few poor people to live nearby, so they can disingenuously convince themselves that they are part of the solution rather than part of the problem. Voting for housing subsidies is an easy moral balm with no downside; it lets them not feel like total hypocrites for living a high income lifestyle despite professing a profound sympathy for the poor and disadvantaged. Otherwise, they might have to give up their biannual $3,000 laptop upgrades and join the Peace Corps.

In that regard, it should be noted that San Francisco's much lauded Below Market Rate (BMR) housing program actually accepts only a tiny fraction of the many eligible applicants, by lottery.[1] The actual impact on the poor at large, or on the social composition of the city, are both marginal. It's a lottery. Running a lottery undoubtedly helps the few winners, but it's not a strategy for helping any significant number of people; it's a strategy for making people feel good about themselves for seeming to help people.

[1] For example, the recent Natoma Family Apartments had 60 units available, and 2,800 eligible applicants. If anything, this is an unusually high ratio for San Francisco BMR projects. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Affordable-housing-in-...
Often they advertise 32GB but they're compatible with larger, just not officially supported. For example http://www.motorola.com/us/moto-g-pdp-1/Moto-G/moto-g-pdp.ht... only advertises 32GB but I put a 64GB in it out of the box and it works.
Communities, rife as they were with gossip, ostracism and superstitious cruelty, were always based on mutual need, not on acting out some supposedly gene-based pantomime. I daresay when the next drought or plague comes along I will get to know my neighbours and we'll pull together for mutual support.
Can you expand on potential future medical disciplines and what specialties you think are going to be replaced?
What people don't want is the inconvenience of dealing with people who don't operate exactly like they do. As far as I'm concerned, this is a feature of living in community, not a bug.

I realize there are differences between living next to a drug dealer and living next to a person who likes to put 50 plastic pink flamingos in their front yard, but I suspect most of the "HOA hell" stories involve the latter circumstance rather than the former.
The competition isn't going to happen at the end-developer level. Few game developers are actually going to be touching Metal directly.

The competition is going to exist in middleware. Unreal, Unity, etc, will have Metal-optimized implementations on iOS, because they're still a big market.

The real threat to OpenGL is if the Metal implementation on these engines is so substantially more powerful than the OpenGL implementation, and results in better-looking games or games running on cheaper/slower hardware.
I don't think HFCS gets any subsidies. Corn gets subsidized and there are very high tariffs on imported cane sugar.

HFCS is metabolically identical to white sugar and bobos singling it out are misguided.
Can I suggest that "service" might not be as sustainable as "SME" for breaking down the government / mega-corp lockstep.

I have not followed the USDS but the UK version has gone from nothing to world class in four years and is trying to fix the badly broken procurement process as much as setting good project guidelines - for example all IT purchases are supposed to go through two gateway frameworks - the theory is to pre-quality as many SMEs as possible - then a department can buy a service (saas or development) from that SME with a single purchase order / credit card.

It's not perfect, getting on the frameworks is crazy hard and there are still tenders like "run our back office services please" but there is at least light in the tunnel for fools like me.

I even spoke to an agent today who bemoaned these frameworks - having to work trough small companies was painful - so it is having an effect.
It's not, and it does not on the fastest chips around.

But you'll be in quite a bad situation if it does not propagate through at least an entire ALU and register file within less than a cycle. Not an impossible situation, but a bad one.
GoPro is pretty small but I wonder what new opportunities this may open up being even smaller
I don't think the point of the article is to go and become "pinky swear" friends of your neighbors (which seems to me that most comments here are alluding to). I just don't get the aversion of neighbors in the Western world. Sure there are annoying neighbors, but if everyone claims that their neighbor is annoying (with whatever criteria that may be) isn't there something wrong with you?
Having an active social life is not the same as having meaningful relationships with people (NOT activity partners: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7632094).
My First Hack. What's yours?
I agree, the infrastructure isn't there.

The problem is that they do want high density offices, but not high density residences. That just shifts the problem of housing all the workers elsewhere.

There needs to be a regional agency to take charge of zoning. Without that, we just get every city trying to shift the housing elsewhere.
You know what does not involve any gender stereotypes? One partner working and the other staying home with the kids. You don't need to flip it around and default to the male staying home. Many couples choose this for perfectly good reasons.

Like I said before, I agree with you general sentiment that the couple should be able to make that decision.
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In all fairness, the GoPro is optimized around being rugged and waterproof and it can probably get along in some environments its cheaper competitors can't. That said, the GoPro interface is awful and I have no doubt that a lot of people for whom the GoPro is overkill spend the money anyway because of the brand.
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thanks! keep at it.
We use a broad range of technologies:
1. We start with protein engineering to improve the function of the enzymes which make the glowing reaction. We are using a process called directed evolution to achieve this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_evolution
2. Then we recode the genes coding for our enzymes so that they can be read by plants - here we test a large number of combinations. This uses a whole suite of technologies: Genome Compiler software to design the sequence, DNA synthesis of the parts, DNA assembly using transcriptics and then transient experiments to test the DNA sequence in plants as described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agroinfiltration
3. Finally when we have a DNA sequence which is working well we insert that into the plant germline (so that it's inheritable) using a gene gun:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_gun
While it's in the same consumer market as GoPro, remember that GoPro is more than a camera company in the same way that Red Bull is more than just an energy drink.

GoPro is headed in the direction of lifestyle branding. Original content, sponsored professional sports, brand collaboration, etc.

So while Polaroid and Sony are welcoming competition in the space, GoPro's market IMO seems more focused elsewhere.
What's different / better about this than a GoPro?
Legalize and regulate, like cigarettes, alcohol, and cars.

The article talked about lax regulation in wrestling, which seems to have contributed to the industry's condition.
Why TCP/IP is on the way out
Honest question - why would you wait until the next draught or plague to get to know your neighbors well? Why not start getting to know them today, before you "need" them?
Quite interesting. What's to stop the bitcoin pool from consolidating into a few key players as difficulty to mine progresses? There's no way that the miners are spending >250k/mo and pushing bitcoins back into the system. Wouldn't this hypothetically consolidate wealth in the hands of those with enough capital to create monstrous factories like this?
Very cool! I remember reading about this before. It seems like a weird concept and makes some people mad, but it's real.

If you like reading and have ever spent more than an hour or two thinking about traffic and American car culture, consider reading this http://www.amazon.com/Traffic-Drive-What-Says-About/dp/03072...
> factories like this would WANT to disrupt the Bitcoin network

You're assuming the people disrupting the network for short term gain are the same as those who made the up front investment into the operation.

This is not true. GHash's past double-spend attack was carried out by a rogue employee. The BGP-hijacking attack which was in the news a few days ago shows another route to a 51% attack. An attacker who can trick a bunch of big miners to mine for him instead of themselves could just as easily have tricked them into performing a doublespend attack.
I want to believe, but I don't. I've seen too many instances in recent history where administrations have sold a perceived solution to one problem as a secret sauce to be slathered over everything else. This administration has been absolutely abysmal at operations. I'd have been much more impressed if this new group had launched quietly and we heard about it after it had been functioning with positive results.

I'm not doubting the people named in this announcement. What I'm saying is that they can only succeed if there is ongoing support from the top. This feels much more like after the launch they will be left to fend for themselves in fighting to change a monstrous bureaucracy.

Well at least they didn't use the word "surge" to sell it. I guess that's a positive thing.
You need a small amount of sugar for the yeast.

Does US bread have more than that?
There's a small but growing number of "premium priced" iPad games like Baldur's Gate or XCOM which have apparently been successful enough.

I don't think mobile phone games will ever be a serious thing. The small screen combined with no hardware controls is too limiting. But a tablet can excel in certain areas, particularly anything turn-based.

For example, I'm convinced that a full version of Football Manager for tablets would be massive at $15-20. They've actually done most of the necessary UI work for a touch interface with the "Classic" mode, but apparently mobile CPUs are still a limiting factor.
Brutally honest, great read, great article.

The site for Archmage Rises (the upcoming PC game) makes me a little nervous. This is a very ambitious project for a small dev group.
Way to bring the mood down.

I think this is good. Looks like a genuine competitor to GoPro Hero!
Thanks for that perspective. Do they ever find time to do side-projects? It sounds like these people work 24/7.
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Microsoft's First-person Hyperlapse Videos
I believe that if we start helping each other in close proximity, we increase our self-confidence and neighborhood security all while building social capital.

I am working on an open-source hyperlocal Craigslist-style solution to the neighborhood dilemma with JoatU : http://github.com/joatuapp
Fisher-Yates is only unbiased in the event of a "true" RNG as opposed to a PRNG with a less than absurd seed length.

In practice, say you're shuffling a 52-card deck - that's 52! orderings. Even if you have a 128-bit random seed, that's still nowhere near enough. You need at least a log2(52!) = 226 bit seed to cover all orderings, even assuming every seed produces a unique sequence of numbers, by the pigeonhole principle.

And it's even worse than that. Say you have a 226 bit seed. Well, you still won't have a uniform distribution. Why? Because 52! does not evenly divide 2^226. Even assuming a "perfect" PRNG (again: where every seed produces a unique sequence of numbers), you'll end up hitting some deck orderings less than others. In this case, it's a difference between some deck orderings being hit once and others being hit twice - which can make a big difference! You can mitigate this by either discarding and reinitializing your PRNG if the initial seed is >= 52!, or just choosing a bit length long enough that the effect becomes minimal.

It's like trying to pick a number between 0 and 45 with a 100 sided die - if you just take the number rolled mod 45, you'll end up with 0 through 9 picked more often than they should be. Instead, you have to roll until you get a number between 0 and 89, inclusive, then take mod 45.

(Oh, and as for the response of "just pick a larger seed", say you have a card game played with 4 decks (for example Shanghai rum with a bunch of players). Then you need a seed length of >=1307 bits. I cannot think of any PRNGs with a seed that large.)
since its obvious i care some, i suppose i could care 1/64th less
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Disclaimer: I work for Hitachi-ID, although my comment is my own and I am not speaking on behalf of them.

I work for a company that does this, [Hitachi-ID](http://hitachi-id.com/), on a corporate level. We have a piece of software called Password Manager that captures end-user password changes and synchronizes it between all their different accounts. Alternatively, we have another tool called Privileged Access Manager that randomizes all your server passwords on a schedule, and allows people to check them out to allow for better auditing and security (through manual checkout authorization).

The problem with doing this on such a large scale is that everyone has a different way to do password resets. We integrate with a zillion different target systems to perform password resets, but those are primarily corporate applications. Doing this for websites would be near impossible because there are so many different ways to do password resets and many are "home rolled", so you'd have to find a way to reliably capture and perform those password resets, which isn't trivial.

The web has so much freedom, but it makes stuff like password security harder because that much freedom exists.
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That doesn't mean no one proofread it. These days I think it's more common to have the apostrophe in the possessive pronoun can to omit it. I've even seen people defend their usage as deliberate. I suspect we're near the end of it even being considered a "rule."
It's a great point. I struggled with how explicit to be about this. E.g. - do you email all the early adopters and tell them how lucky they are they are on a lower plan? Does that comes across as too sleezy? How do you translate this into NEW users? Do you put above the "sign up" button "Buy now before prices increase!"?

Maybe it could be added to the monthly receipts, showing the current price for new users minus their "discount"...

But yea, raise prices.
Deep Neural Network in the Cloud
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We're planning on releasing support for jobs, companies, and people later.

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There are no singular reasons for obesity. Certainly the reason is not sugar or fat. The reasoning here seems to be a basic misunderstanding of logic. Just because "no carbs => lean" doesn't mean "lean iff no carbs".

I would hate for ignorance to turn the essential sugar fuel I need to ride 100 miles on my bike (no, it turns out, you don't want to do that on fat metabolism alone!) into some unobtainable luxury.
Don't overlook the fact that the system was actually built by private contractors. A small in-house team of developers (like they've got now) probably would have done a better job.
An Objective-C periodical! I had no idea this was a thing, nice one! Looks really useful :)
It would be cool to mark segments for different speeds of hyperlapse, or normal input. Thinking about that I see what you are saying about a casual product. Anything beyond a uniform render becomes complicated. People would want to tweak the knobs and see the results, so possibly a faster "preview" algo that allows you to see the timings. Or a feature to quickly render just the (t-N, t+N) around the borders.
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This seems a bit gimmicky, how does Glowing Plant thnk it's business will fare compared to Glofish?

http://www.glofish.com/
> This is a potentially world-changing development.

... potentially negative?

It seems cheap, abundant nitrogen fertilizers is an environmental disaster waiting to happen.

Saves energy and increases other problems by an order of magnitude: water poisoning, algae blooms, impact on the fishing industry, acid rain and other problems by caused by NO2, nutrient depletion (by soil acidification), intoxication by metals (Al, Cu)...
When WordPerfect built their first Windows version back in the early 1990s they didn't even try to make it look like other Windows applications. While the UI might have been fine on it's own it looked bizarre next to every other Windows app (not just other word processors). Some existing customers who were used to the DOS version were willing to make the transition but they hardly attracted any new customers.

The fact that Microsoft's Word developers were able to take advantage of undocumented Windows APIs was also a factor, but a much smaller one. If WordPerfect hadn't completely failed on the UI they might have at least had a chance.
How would a switchover actually be implemented? Wouldn't this require being built into every consumer OS device?

I'm not a network engineer, so if you are, please fill me in. I don't get the sense that this could be just swapped out at the data center level.
This appears to be physically smaller. And cute. Polaroid may just have my business if it has standard mounting and the waterproof case works.
This is cool. Ive been using my v1 contour roam every day for about a year and the battery life is starting to suck.

I went on amazon to buy a new contour roam but it has actually gone UP in price from $120 to 200+ :P
Yeah; I like the idea of it, and certainly concessions have to be made for the size, but it really does look jarringly bad when they switch from the high quality shots (using something else to record), to the footage presumably taken by the Cube itself.

Not only does it look kinda fuzzy and janky (like the actual recording frames per second is quite low), but the shot where they show a loop under the bottom of a bike (at ~0:25) has probably the worst chromatic aberrations I've ever seen and I've handled some old lenses with bad chromatic aberration. It is like they made an instagram filter for adding CA to videos and someone went crazy with it and applied it 10 times.

If this quality is the best they've got to put in a promo video, it is no wonder they barely show footage from the cam at all and intermix it with high quality footage (especially as seen in the skateboard section) in a borderline deceptive manner.
Almost equivalently, a Muni subway along Geary that wasn't slow, overcrowded, and prone to breakdowns would be transformative. The N-Judah should also become a subway for most of its aboveground route; there's too much traffic now for it to run at street level.

There used to be Muni streetcar tracks along Geary, but they became buses long ago. Both are subject to sitting in traffic for long periods.

They have been talking about a Geary Bus Rapid Transit line -- a dedicated bus-only lane. If it works, it'll be better. I am at a loss to explain how the city requires 8 years (and counting) to debate whether to paint "BUS ONLY" on a street.
I think this approach might work better for something who's been around the block a few times than for someone who recently graduated college. I mean, life and business experience is kinda important in this context.
That was actually why I clicked on the link. I wondered what they could possibly be talking about and was pleasantly surprised.
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There are several solid action cams out there now. A quick search of YouTube shows countless reviews and comparisons. In my hobby of RC aircraft, the ~$80 Mobius cam is a very popular alternative to the GoPro. Most reviewers compare its video quality to that of the previous generation GoPro Hero 2, but it's smaller and much cheaper. Its firmware also supports it being used as a dashcam.

http://buymobius.com/collections/mobius-cameras/products/108...

http://www.amazon.com/Mobius-Action-Camera-1080P-Sports/dp/B...
My guess would be that the GoPro has vastly superior video quality.
Well, I'm doing it. It hasn't been all that easy but nobody said immigration would be.
Agreed. While the battery life isn't quite as good as a GoPro, this is also half the price.

I'd be willing to buy one to play with, and the built in magnet to make it easy to stick on things is a great idea.
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