skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems exactly what I need. I wanted to buy a camera for my snowboarding ventures as long as my track days. The GoPro was kinda expensive, so much that I came close to buy the cheap model three times but never did. But 100€ is a price that I can accept without thinking twice. :-)
As many people have already said, the article seems to jump to a conclusion rather quickly.

What the author might not have taken into account is cultural changes in living habits. With that I mean how we are increasingly moving away from our parents home, and into our own little cell/room/apartment, instead of living with the parents in the house or in an attached building.
And when people did move out, it would more than often be either because you moved into a dormitory (which previously were more communal) or together with a SO. That means more time spent in the neighbourhood, and more time with the middle ring as it's called in the article.

It could be interesting to compare the situation in america with for example the situation in Italy, where it's more common to stay at the parents for longer.
Give me the Polaroids any day. The RPi stuff wouldn't survive a day in the field unless you put every one of them in an expensive enclosure, and it's just a ton of extra work that has been done for you in this case. You don't need sync, a regular slate will do that job and the rest can be done in software.
So sex work is more debasing than cleaning toilets for a wage that wouldn't feed a 5 year old? I think we should draw a line at making arguments with scare quotes.
The Photographs of Frank Hurley: Shackleton's Antarctic expedition (2012)
What happened to the cuddle mattress?
Piketty’s Capital: Wrong Theory/Destructive Program
People are having fun and enjoying the game != massive waste of time.
Social Taste
I suppose you could say it is a waste, but this entire story essentially started out as a fun side project. It would also "be a waste" to sit at your computer for 12 hours a day playing D3 and flipping items on the Auction House, but that's just the way some people play the game. Do all of your side projects really add that much value to society?
Why do you hate chatting? I can understand if one of your neighbors is annoying, but my point is that if you weren't driving, you'd certainly know more than just the annoying one next door, and you almost certainly get a kick out of dogging him with the person on the other side of his house.

If not, hey, there's always one or two annoying neighbors, and if you can't find them, it's probably you.
I still want to know why we did not have this "All-Star American Tech Dream-Team" build the damn thing in the first place.

Talk about missed opportunity for the Administration to rally citizens around their landmark legislation. "Built By America's Best for America's Best" sort of thing. Instead, it was built by a no-bid process outsourced to a Canadian firm. The rest is history.
> ditched word processors forever after seeing a presentation lecture about LaTeX.

ITYM "ditched non-Latex word processors"? It's not as though Latex creators don't use software that in many ways resembles conventional word processors.
Funnily enough that site looks terrible on an iPhone...!
Absolutely working for me. Not trying to put work on your team's plate, but if there were enough positive feedback like mine, an article about the discovery process and implementation of the changes would be an interesting read in and of itself. :)
Mobile App Creation with APEX
Miles Davis and the nature of true genius
The key thing is, there are 3 bazillion developers and techies sprinkled all throughout the US Govt. This playbook provides all of them a common base form which to start. For that reason, it's really valuable.
I was into warfare history recently and read, among others, The Guns of August, The Rise & Fall of the Third Reich, and biographies of FDR and Truman. A thought that emerged from that reading was... should we ever again have an all-encompassing war effort, if that should come to pass, what would be the role of the San Francisco Bay Area and of the tech community nationwide?

There will certainly be an insatiable need for applied engineering skills as Machinists, CNC fabricators, and process engineers of all sorts. So certainly many software engineers could gravitate towards that sort of work. But in what ways would and could software systems contribute, how would that happen, and how could it be organized and scaled-up. What, for example, would 10,000 engineers at Google be working on? Because in a WWII-mobilization-style event, it wouldn't be business as usual.

These are hypothetical issues and there isn't an answer, but I think answering the question "what can we do today" is a great start and I'm cautiously optimistic.
"I thought the video quality was extremely high"

Actually the video quality looks terrible. Compare the bits actually shot with the Cube (most of the promo video isn't... you can clearly see when they switch to the shots the Cube itself took at ~0:22-0:26 and ~0:42-0:44, notice how they switch away from the Cube video pretty damn quickly, probably because it is so terrible... doesn't even look actually 1080p as a source, looks like they are interpolating it up from something lower, frame rate looks bad, massive chromatic aberration).

Compare Cube (switch YouTube player to 1080p if it doesn't auto select that, note that most of the promo video is not Cube footage, pay specific attention to ~0:22-0:26 and ~0:42-0:44):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePO6OKYyOec

To, say, the Mobius (switch YouTube player to 1080p if it doesn't auto select that):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlSvoKlIaPk

Mobius costs less than the Cube ($80 vs $99), video quality is miles better even when capturing a much faster-moving scene.

I can see reasons why people might buy the Cube... it is cute, the monkey stand is pretty cool; but in terms of price vs image quality it is a clear loser, IMO.
I would hazard a guess that its more common in apartments to be socially distant. Because you are far more likely to get annoyed by the neighbour being noisy, you don't have any windows to interact through with them (eg. waving) and most important (imo) of all: you can't just talk in the hallway/stairway the same way you do in a garden or across a fence. And actually entering someones quarters is probably a lot more socially taxing than just stading in their garden.

What do you reckon?
Great concept, looking forward to checking it out. Just curious, is this the same team that did Cloud9IDE? (c9.io) or just a naming coincidence?
You can screen scrape the screen and do some rudimentary image parsing for OCR.
What I mean is some question whether hedge funds and the like add value to the economy - botting in MMO has the added characteristic of the economy not even being real (I know it involves real money but you know what I mean).

I'm all up for reading books, playing games, watching films etc.. I question the need for high frequency trading in those leisure pursuits ;)
As far as the energy argument is concerned, wouldn't starch be a better source, since it's all glucose? Sugar is not only an inferior source of energy (since it's only half glucose), the fructose wreaks havoc on your liver.

As for the obesity argument, I think there are two things to consider here:
1. sweet foods are calorie dense. Hence, it's easy to consume too many calories until you feel full.
2. they also have a high reward factor, so it's likely that you would keep eating even after you're full - there's always room for dessert!

Though, these problems not limited to sugar/hfcs. Fructose-free sweeteners suffer from them as well.
Yes, you can. If everyone is walking to a centralized transit location, then those that would like to know each other will easily identify themselves. Catch the bus at 8AM? You'll soon learn who else is walking that route. Headphones or not, human interaction isn't that awkward. Even if you never talk in that context, it only takes one out-of-context interaction to end that. At a coffee shop: "hey, don't we walk the same route from the metro every day?" or "Didn't i see you at the farmers market on Thursday?"

To know people locally, you need to live locally. If getting dinner involves a commute, then you're never going to meet people. It takes more than one or two instances to get past the earbuds. Remove the automobile and immediately you're seeing the same people dozens of times a week.
Not sure if he meant "job interviews" -- that would be awesomely weird.

But if it's just documentary-style interviews, seems like a cheap approximation of this, the gold standard: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663105/errol-morriss-secret-wea...
A $1.5m duplex is still very expensive for the majority of people. Surely they could build some luxury townhouses or something along those lines?
I think it's going to be amazingly difficult for Polaroid, or anyone for that matter, to take on GoPro. For whatever reason, GoPro has captured the imagination of the video/photo creating public in a way that few brands have. For several years after the iPhone came out, competing phones could match or exceed its specs, but were largely viewed as toys by comparison. In the same way, GoPro will enjoy a near monopoly on this market segment until their competitors have outmatched them technologically for enough years that the media catches up and makes it socially acceptable to buy an alternative to GoPro.
Suppose I set up a coin called "FunCoin" and issue 1 million FunCoins. I store the FunCoin ledger in a MySQL database, and provide an API for transfering FunCoins using private key cryptography. I am the only one in control of the FunCoins ledger. This system is completely centralized, and so is fragile. The FBI/NSA/etc. could shut me down easily, or I cloud disappear tomorrow with the entire database.

The Stellar/Ripple approach to this problem is to replace the single person with multiple people who vote on the ledger. The hope is that while a single person can be easily corrupted, it is much more difficult to corrupt multiple people.

At present, if you pull the code from github.com/stellar/stellard, it will by default install the following "validators". "validators" correspond to pub/priv keys, and under the default config, if 3 of 5 of them "approve" a ledger, then the client considers that ledger valid:

# The latest validators can be obtained from
# https://gostellar.org/stellar.txt
#
[validators]
nakuKsirzNq66iejBfxKxt8Rw4t7kP5ZWSrvWzVKEVSHSkJKYd1 SDF1
n3gVwaSDBtVi4Xd2XBh7rvcwis4uBabu5aNn7WKtEqazJbLHR9n SDF2
nfozTPzMytTKuuHBJrPB9DVxPccKeNVh8vsEomUAwNWuWrNxwDB SDF3
naSBAykwFkmw6JLKqPG7HPFMK1GZqu1rdnwbhtTxyTmVX1b6b8z SDF4
nf3yCmpieMFvAbv5r5jBhGeXheuhc3boAkdmBbpXb6HC7HDkf13 SDF5

# Ditto.
[validation_quorum]
3

I'm not sure what "SDF1", "SDF2", etc. are, but I'm guessing they stand for stellar foundation 1, 2, etc.
(FYI, I believe encryption is forbidden, but digital signatures are ok)
But Baldur's Gate or xcom aren't ipad games. They're a port, presumably with a complete codebase + assets already made. That must be substantially less expensive than building. So realizing accretive revenue from a port, sure. As a game target, I dunno.
Why only 6 strands? Doesn't it make more sense to put more fiber in there?
Why surveillance companies hate the iPhone
I'm not a consumerist. Nor do I suffer from social anxiety. Who are you talking to, and giving advice to? Nothing in your comment addresses any of my points. Why not engage -- otherwise you remain 'isolated', surely?
It's the amount that matters. HFCS is cheaper to produce thanks to corn subsidies and cane sugar tariffs, therefore more of it goes into food, and it goes into more types of food. The tax I proposed above is a way to offset this effect.
To be fair, three Canadians were part of the tech surge to fix healthcare.gov:
http://business.financialpost.com/2014/06/21/the-president-n...

I don't think the nationality of the developers was a factor in healthcare.gov's disaster launch. The problems were related to systematic disorganization, and the heart of darkness was inside the government itself and its IT procurement system.
Does the expression "sugar Daddy" came from that?
Really, this is an incredible assertion that goes against all recent research results, and therefore requires sunbstantial evidence or citation thereof. I believe his source would be the author John McDougall, who is pretty much the only person you can find pushing this... 'Hypothesis' might be a strong word. McDougall goes as far as to say Sugar is less fattening thank Olive oil. The reason he is so anti-fat looks to be a strong support for movement toward a Vegan diet. Spreading misinformation such as this is a huge diservice to vegans though, and would likely only lead to higher instances of obesity and metabolic diseases for anyone unfortunate enough to buy into it.
Jobs endangered by technology
completely agreed.

in fact, i kind of cheated and skirted this issue with the flexible definition of "quality". for example, the difference between comparing your (not yours personally, but the royal "your") game with last year hits papers please vs. next year's presumed hit ori. quality in that case is relevant to the competition at the time a game is published.

moving goal posts ftw!

however, i believe this still holds up: make a quality game where quality is present-competition quality, not last-year-competition quality. but that bar just gets higher and higher every year that goes by.

in other words, it's pretty obvious this guy shouldn't be spending $100k making hobby games and then blaming their failure on the terribleness of the app store. that's just silly.
Monkeys, Copyright and Clojure
Wow, I didn't expect that comment from you, someone who clearly remembers the Good Old Days, when the Internet was actually readable.

Yes, the page isn't very beautiful, but it's still better than 90% of the Internet nowdays. It adheres to the right web design patterns [0] and it actually delivers some useful content without distracting.

[0] http://motherfuckingwebsite.com
> The day healthcare.gov launched, six people total got through. Six. Nobody even knew when the site was down, except by checking CNN. Two months later, Mikey had rallied the 20-something contractors into punching through dozens of problems, and had recruited a team of (now-) 30-something engineers from Google, Facebook, YC startups, and other fine places to come in on rotations to keep the momentum going. As a result, 8 million people got health insurance.

Out of curiosity, how much of the site's problems at the start were due to high load and how much would have been there even if it had seen much lower traffic? In particular, how would it have fared with the original design and code if only a handful of states had refused to implement their own exchanges, instead of 27 states refusing?
Right, but a good first order estimate woudl be to take the brighest bioluminenscent molecule, pack it in a sphere with volume = your plant, and compute lux at 3 meters. Or something like that. Without growing lensing structures or other ways to focus/point light, the r3 falloff is gonna kill you.
Recommended reading for those interested in this story: REAMDE by Neal Stephenson. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reamde
Are you building on D-Wave Systems computers, or building your own?

If your own, what architecture?
> AFAIK, that question is still ultimately unanswerable beyond what would be just semantics.

Out of my range of expertise but I think this could be said about all knowledge. For instance, about elementary particles, You can always say, "What if there is one lower level that we can't detect?" And the right take-away is not: "Therefore, we never know the cause of anything." The right take-away is that "causation" has to take into account contextuality. You can make lots of X causes Y statements that are valid, as long as you specify the context.

The second example is relevant because it's another illustration that knowledge is contextual. Though it's not about causation. The connection is that I'm trying to use the contextuality of knowledge to defend causation. So I was giving a "pure" example of the contextuality of knowledge that doesn't also involve the complexity of causation.
Ask HN: What's the best way to improve pitch deck?
Any tips for improving investor pitch deck?
I really don't know! I just get this deeply uncomfortable feeling when I see that I'm going to have to have some kind of unplanned interaction with them. I'm not a terribly shy person, there's just something about the neighbor encounter.
100.000,00 €/year trading things that do not exist.

Why am I even working?
I agree with most of this, except for this part:

> if your game is legit, you'll do just fine.

Even if your game is legit, nobody will buy it if they don't know it exists. IMO, marketing is just as important.

BTW, are you speaking from personal experience? Have you made a financially successful indie game?
True - my comment was more along the lines of spending the project funds with a US based company instead of sending it outside. Like, have American companies build the American healthcare system. Especially for a no-bid contract...
Yes, I still have some but they don't work any more alas.
Black Hat 2014: How to Hack the Cloud to Mine Crypto Currency
It's quite the paradox that humans are incredibly dependent on social interaction, but we would rather avoid contact because we are afraid of the what consequences it might have on our life.
Lego Academics
Get involved in other people's ideas, start off as support and help collaborate. Creativity breeds creativity!
Agreed, there seem to be a lot of scapegoats for the SF housing problems and AirBnB is just the latest one to be pilloried.
Indeed, I found this bizarre as well. How did he get into this multi-platform quagmire? The #1 thing that makes you successful in software consulting is limiting and predicting scope. By far. 2 months into that multi-platform hell, at the very very most, the other platforms should have been shelved and the iOS version released. iOS is obviously going to be 50%+ of revenue anyway. At 3 months of burn you need to now figure out if anyone would even play the thing. Even if you just release a "preview" release called "Catch the Monkey: Golden Banana Edition" with 3 levels and enough altered art to make it feel like the next version is the super awesome special 2000 edition.

Honestly, I feel like he had a consulting firm. He managed to keep it above water for a couple years working insane hours, partly because he had this initial lead client which probably gave him a decent lead funnel by referral. Then a larger investor saw his client funnel came in and gave him X for 51% and the position of President, but took over running much of the operation. Finally that funnel started drying up like most enterprise services funnels do without lock-in and the free money for games dried up. Hence why he came back not as President but Programmer.
>Suppose he gave the task 60 hours a week during those two months.

Over 8 hours a day? Seems like a bit of an over-estimate to me. I think 20 hours a week is probably a lot more reasonable, unless the guy had absolutely no life.
Secret to a successful job interview
Congratulations: you've discovered what everyone in the music industry knew decades ago! Success in the market is independent of quality!

Seriously, sucess is how well you promote what you do. Being a good programmer will have as much to do with your sucess as being a virtuoso guitar player has to do with the likelihood of making a living as a musician.
The spouse is free to find a job that sponsors their H1B...absolutely no restrictions on that.
You can get semi decent USB webcams for $3 US shipped. Get a box load and some USB hubs. Done.
One of the coolest things about APRS is the ISS has a beacon on it, so you can bounce messages to and from space using not much more than a handheld and a yagi.

The more extreme space bouncing is "moonbounce" where the moon is used as a communications satellite, but that's not APRS, and certainly not doable with small equipment.
I was commenting more on the way that the journalist portrayed the research than the research itself.

Another example:
"But, however powerful the economic and social forces behind the disappearing neighbour—and however positive many of its results—according to reams of new research, the transformation is also poisoning our politics and, quite literally, killing us."

These are the kinds of articles that cause people to have an anti-science attitude. "One week coffee is good for me and the next week it causes cancer". It also makes it very difficult to address these kinds of problems because you have one side where people are running around like chicken little and another side that may actually agree that the issues is a problem but they have much more moderate solutions than the majority.
This sounds like its own startup idea waiting to happen.
I mostly built it as an exercise in curiosity, but I'm certainly open to letting the universe decide what's next...
Don't worry, the auction house no longer exists. :)
This blog is a commentary on contemporary business, politics, economics, society, and culture, based on the values of Reason, Rational Self-Interest, and Laissez-Faire Capitalism. Its intellectual foundations are Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism...

There are seriously that many Objectivists here?
Yeah your probably right, the halo effect probably plays a roll as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect.
The problem lies with the hardware, I think. Truly, there's never a smooth moment with my phone. Sometimes it hangs for a minute. Random shutdowns and similar bugs in software as well.
Ask HN: Where is the big Google spreadsheet of developers?
I remember there being a great resource of developers and designers, worldwide, on a public google spreadsheet. Anyone have any ideas on where it is?

Many thanks!
Walmart has a GoPro kit right now for $50.

Vivitar DVR 787HD 12.1MP Action Full HD Camcorder with Universal Car Kit, Surf Kit and Waterproof Kit.

The Polaroid Cube is more compact which might make it much more useful -- but just so you know there are options under $99, even.
Items mentioned in the article exist, even though you cannot touch them.

Did you mean to use the term intangible or incorporeal? In that case you can sell insurance. :)
What experiments are you talking about? It is very well established that human lipogenesis from sugar is rare. You have to eat a totally fat free diet and push the sugar intake to hundreds of grams to make it happen at all. A human's adipose fat is simply stored dietary fat. Plentiful sugar intake will suppress fat burning and cause all dietary fat to be stored, so obviously loading up on sugar will usually make you a lard-ass. Just somewhat less so than gorging on fat. It should be noted that this state of affairs is not true in animal models. Rats very efficiently form body fat from sugar, for example.