skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, two dollars, when compared with the value I get out of a decent FPS.

The key word in that sentence is "decent", and I don't think it's the word you wanted.

Games like Far Cry, TF2, etc., are outliers, they're not "a decent FPS". I doubt you'd be willing to pay full price for a "decent" FPS, if you value World of Goo at $2.

It's interesting how skewed the perception of value can become due to AAA titles with huge budgets. Yes, in some ways these games ARE underpriced, and forcing a race to the bottom. You get silly situations like people paying $40 for L4D and playing it for hundreds of hours, while still complaining about the lack of content. The only conceivable scenario under which L4D is bad value is if you compare it to, say, TF2 - which is receiving ridiculous amounts of free content upgrades, in my opinion.

If you set your "baseline" for value to something like TF2 or Starcraft, then work downwards from there for all other games, then where does that leave the rest of the industry?

If you use that baseline, is WoW worth the $15 a month that millions of people happily pay?

Or, if you work the other way - if WoW IS worth $15 a month, which many people obviously agree - then doesn't that bring Far Cry closer to hundreds of dollars of "value"?

I'm not talking about what specific games you or I enjoy - I'm trying to play along with extracting some abstract "value", regardless of genre. My only conclusion is that you can't really do that - bad games are vastly overpriced, good games are vastly underpriced, and the only ones that get the pricing right are MMOs.

In my opinion, $20 for World of Goo is about right, assuming you enjoy that kind of game. It's short, but intensely enjoyable. I'd rather have 6 hours of excellent, memorable gameplay than dozens of hours of mediocre gameplay.
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This is why you teach yourself to have a distinct writing style. It gives you the personality and the privacy.

When I launched a site in February with a friend, we got a lot of email feedback complimenting us directly for our About page, which had snippets like "Rory is pretty much certainly a douche" strewn about it. We also asked for feedback haiku, and received so much we couldn't post all of it online. All that without a single personal tidbit about either of us.
Enterprise wiki, sharing, and collaboration. From Microsoft, which the buying of never got anyone fired for.
I myself am in India, and I've bought from them.
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Yes, the chip has 16 not quite independent cores. However every instruction executed by those cores is executed on 32 parallel threads. That "32 parallel threads" bit looks like a vector processor to me.

See http://techreport.com/articles.x/17670/2 for a more detailed explanation of this.
We've had the benefit of live communication before, in face to face communication and over the phone, and it has many benefits, but it is not an unalloyed good by any means.

Live communication is full of repetition, verbal tics, and inexactness. Necessary mechanisms as one thinks out loud and mentally edits their own words until they circle in on the best expression of their idea. There are many downsides to this. For example, it's much easier to get into a meaningless argument as people stumble or become fixated on conversational detritus (the words and thoughts that would have been edited out of conversation in the final draft), either because people are needlessly confused by awkward wording or use of an inapt metaphor, or because they are being intentionally confrontational. Anyone who has ever read a transcript of a live interview has almost certainly been struck by the degree to which live speech seems convoluted, distracted, and poorly structured when compared to typical written communication.

I can see why google thought it was "neat" to put live chat into wave, it makes for a slick demo. But if their goal is to build a communication medium that is superior to existing technologies (phone, IM, email), then relying on live chat is a step in the wrong direction.
This highlights why I'm no good at billiards.
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2.5" SSDs work fine in desktops; the benefit is just as large.
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Every time I go to use awk for something I always think, 'I feel like I would be able to do this with cut so much more easily, but I also know that I always feel like that, but am never able to get cut to actually do what I want.' Despite feeling that way, I usually optimistically go spend 30 minutes trying to get cut to do something simple like give me a specific column from the output of ps aux. But it's just 30 minutes of banging my head against the keyboard, and it always reinforces my original strategy, which is to use awk for everything and never, ever use cut.
While it's not a perfect solution, the Unix command apropos (a program that searches the summaries of the man pages for utilities) can help immensely:

$ apropos pipe
IO::Pipe (3p) - supply object methods for pipes
perlipc (1) - Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes, safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores)
pipe (2) - create descriptor pair for interprocess communication
***tee (1) - pipe fitting***
funzip (1) - filter for extracting from a ZIP archive in a pipe
pv (1) - monitor the progress of data through a pipe

I find it helpful to run the following once in a while:

$ for f in $(ls $BINPATH); do whatis $f >> funs; done

(where BINPATH is /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, etc.), skim through the list of utilities, and look at the man pages for anything unfamiliar.

As with Emacs, the tool you want probably already exists, and you may already have it installed, you just need to search with the right keyword. (Learning the terminology takes some time, though.) Any system with that many features is difficult to completely remember, but remembering the details can also get pushed onto the system.
Yeah, this is why I can't be bothered with Wave at all. Add to that the "presence" aspects where people know whether you're on and reading the Wave and.. it adds up to a pile of anxiety if you're an asynchronous communicator.
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I really like the clean cuts and color scheme of the design, the sign up process could be better as @ashleyw states, I am currently testing 2 other wirefreaming web apps, and let me tell you, I have needed this (and no OmniGraffle Pro does not solve everything) for a while.

Looks promising but I did not receive confirmation e-mail :(
A lot of the Mackay book is on information/coding theory and while it will deepen an existing understanding of ML, its probably a roundabout introduction. ESL is a much better intro, especially for someone looking to apply ML.

That said, it is meant for people who are comfortable with math/stats; its much more statistics oriented than, say, Mitchell's book. But they do a good job of explaining things in non-math language. This book does a good job of exposing high level ML concepts (e.g. bias-variance tradeoff) but still teaches a lot of the standard methods & tools.

These are actually two of my favorite books on the subject and I can't recommend them both enough.
Ask HN: How to find the right developer for the job?
Hey,
I am a graphic designer and front end developer. I've tossed around some php and rails - enough to know that I should let other people do that. I often find myself in the unenviable position of having to hire programmers for contract based projects, and it feels like a shot in the dark as to whether or not I find a good one for the job when the time comes.

At the moment I am looking for a collaborator on a project that I am working on. The first stage is to design and develop a system for uploading photos of garments against a white wall that can remove the background from the image. We're trying to avoid flash, so I'm looking for someone who can chop out some crazy amazing java / javascript solution and integrate it into a php based cms. (Probably SilverStripe.)

I've been posting on twitter, but I haven't had a ton of luck luring in anything but agencies and outsourcers. And I've had bad luck in the past with formal job posts.

Anyone have any advice? I hate the idea of crowdsourcing sites like elance...
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i tried to read this, since so many of you seem to like it. i couldn't make myself read more than two or three paragraphs before i had to give up.

i am really surprised this is popular amongst this particular group of entrepreneurs. i think if you have to put this level of thought into how crappy your workplace is, you should have quit years ago.
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Have you tried Craig’s List? I used to get good applicants in the Bay Area from there, but it’s been awhile. The last time I hired the economy was better and it was darned hard to find anyone I even wanted to interview. My best results have always been to entice someone I know away from their current position. The best people are already employed.
I believe there are laws enforced today around air travel that are not public. I believe the law that says you need ID to travel is not public.
Here u go: http://imgur.com/PnJVJ.jpg

no charge.
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Agreed. Gimp plugins shouldn't be used for logos.
Doing that well is difficult, and (worse still) when it breaks down, it's typically very irritating. There is a sort of uncanny valley of automated helpfulness, where sincere attempts to assist common interactions just end up feeling like Clippy to end users.
Yah, I've tried cl. Not too enthusiastic, for exactly the reason you mentioned.
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I don't think RSS is a niche. What major email client does not have RSS integration? What major websites do not offer RSS feeds?
or really big oxygen molecules o_O
I think its a bit interesting that everyone is criticizing the "instant typing" when in the original presentation they almost immediately said that they were going to have the option to turn it off. It seems a neat feature but its not exactly deal breaking to just remove it.
I've had success using Spring's JDBCTemplate http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.6/api/org/spr... and their various RowMappers http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.6/api/org/spr...
I do not have experience in this exact market. My b2b sales have been made mainly through networking at events and conferences. Maybe someone with some experience could chime in with some help?
Vdash executes math using the open source proof theorem prover Isabelle :

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/hvg/Isabelle/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_%28theorem_prover%29
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Let me rephrase the question:

What is the benefit/value prop to a normal everyday person and why would they use it/love it?
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I haven't used Wave yet. My good friend nominated me (or whatever they are calling it) and I'm just waiting. But, I can't help but feel the backlash at the instant typing is just the anti-Google backlash that happens with their new releases and dies back down after a bit.

The complaints, starting with Farhad Manjoo from Slate all boil down to this sentence, "I don't like instant type because it makes me feel like / shows that I am not as witty or well spoken if I can't carefully craft a message before sending, this makes me self conscious".

I think, perhaps, people just need to adjust to this new, old, form of communication. I suspect that this can deliver a similar experience to speech if users put in the time to develop new habits. In speech most languages / cultures have developed ways to show they are thinking mid sentence... This may be in the form of a sound "uhhhh" or a facial expression (furrowed brow). We just need an acceptable way to do this as we type.
No problem glad it may be what you needed.
"One possibility is choosing your own noise,” said Nathalie Bauters, a spokeswoman for BMW’s Mini division.

I sooo look forward to hearing hybrids rolling down the street broadcasting horrible pop tunes in the form of simulated engine noise.

And of course I also await with bated breath the automobile version of the Camera Phone Predator Act:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HR00414:@@@L...;
Agreed. It is currently there in Preview, but they stated immediately they'd offer a method to disable it.
How was this recorded?

Were those "native" members of the cultures in question doing the counting, or was it the author of the video imitating?

Interesting video in any case.
On my machine (debian lenny) it's listed as:

tee (2) - duplicating pipe content

tee (1) does not show up in the search for pipe, but it's description is:

tee (1) - read from standard input and write to standard output and files
I use to hate the "presence" aspect too about chat in gmail so I would always leave it logged off. Then I came up with a better solution. I leave myself logged in to gtalk on my phone 24/7 and now people don't know whether I'm really there or not. Best of both worlds!
Perhaps it does. But if it did, I think we'd be seeing articles like "How I used Google Wave to get laid and make money", not speculative "What could Wave be possibly useful for?" articles like this one.

Wave is more confusing than it is inspirational. My first thought upon opening the invite was "wtf?", and after a few minutes of staring at it, "wtf?!?". Then I closed the window.

Maybe wave will become useful after a few iterations, but in its current incarnation it's in the same category as Yahoo Pipes. I.e., technically interesting/dazzling, but of little practical use.
So are you actively using it? If so, what for?
PLONE?? I don't know what that is, but that sounds like the next big thing in communications.
The main point of the live typing, I'm guessing, is not for back and forth IM but for active document collaboration & editing. I'm betting in the final version of Wave it will be a lot smarter about when and where to enable live typing.
That's cool, but it goes inside the blip instead of under it.
Yep I'm doing hourly backups, plus weekly backups stored offsite.
I don't know about you, but the only people I know who actually use RSS are more technically advanced than 90% of the internet users I meet.
By the way, we were doing this in ytalk 20 years ago and nobody was complaining about self consciousness, maybe people need to toughen up a bit, too.
Search for online communities for, or even web 1.0 news sites specifically targeted at, people within your target market. Doing a search for "insurance agent forum" instantly yields good results. Try similar searches with keywords like 'community', 'news', 'social network', 'blog'(s), etc. instead of 'forum'.

Use Google Adwords Keyword Tool ( https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal ) to research both keywords that would lead to your product, and keywords for searches members of your target market would be making. Find out which terms are most popular (and most competed for). Then use Compete.com's Keyword Destination tool ( http://searchanalytics.compete.com/ ) both to find additional communities of your target market, and to evaluate the actual relevancy of the keywords.

E-mail me if you'd like some detailed help; I'm happy to provide advice on any more specific questions you might have.
It's basically groupware: document sharing, content management and messaging, ideal for those already working in a MS environment.

I was just mentioning to someone that over the last couple of years a lot of the government sector jobs that used to read "ASP.NET/C#" now say "SharePoint." I'm assuming COTS is being mandated as a cost-saving measure.
It seems to me (and I am a laymen to the whole hiking thing) that hiking and camping has to have some intersect. If it does and your interest is in generating more revenue then maybe a camping booking engine as well as planner may be a good way to generate additional revenue. As well maybe a guide referral service. Park admittance ticket sales?
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Modern man a wimp says anthropologist
Or, for that matter, using beyond it's stated or intended capabilities.
Fair enough. In hindsight:
- I'm at the point where my brain mostly parses out all the speculation crap, I come across it so often. There was good tidbits in there covering some of the contract issues, etc.
- I think the "Good article" was almost a (can't think of the word[s] I'm looking for, but something you say out of habit/reflex without thinking). It kind of came out without actually considering other than "I found interesting things in it". I apologize, you are in fact correct that it was incredibly speculative.
why has no one just made a really easy alternative to this? sure there's things like huddle and google sites, but they're still way too difficult. I have shit to share with people in my company and i want to do it simply without tons of bloat or difficulty. In essence:

posterous:blogging :: ???:sharepoint
Sounds like a job for google wave.
Although they deliberately choose to remain at the 'loser' level in terms of the org chart, they have a 'sociopathic' level of awareness of how the business operates (maybe from being an early employee or founder of previous startups). They're never truly comfortable at the 'loser' level, but maybe not willing or capable of making a move to the 'sociopath' level...

The Steves, Wozniak and Jobs spring instantly to mind.

Did the Woz have fun during his career. Absolutely. Did Jobs? Well, that depends...
Hey there! That is so easy and free that it might be just what I was looking for. The quality isn't that important since it'll be uploaded to youtube or vimeo. SWEET!
http://www.officemedium.com

But I might be biased...
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One-pager.
http://www.itworld.com/print/81060
Is there some kind of duality relationship between "proper point/small smear particles", and "emergent particle-like thingies dependent on the whole material's state"?

I.e. if we look at things one way, we get a set F of fundamental particles, and a set E of emergent particles.

But maybe there's some kind of transformation of the theory that takes E <-> F' and F <-> E'.

Can we "flip" the theory into another theory that reverses the notions "fundamental", and "emergent"?
It's meaningless because if you're the only provider your price is by definition the market price. Market price means the price on the market, not the price in a hypothetical fair competitive market.
If you work in an environment that makes heavy use of Microsoft technologies (specifically, Office features), then it makes doing collaborative stuff with them easier. Its value depends on how much you buy into that.
very cool. i do like it. reminds me of what we wanted to do with Publictivity. Sadly both have way too many features.
It should be considered a resource shared by every being on the planet. It's impractical to consider polluting water an act that requires the consent of everyone whose "right" would be infringed, which is why I don't think it's meaningful to call it a right. Pollution must happen. Societies should determine the extent to which it should be allowed and who should have a say.
Because being ungreen hurts everyone. Giving customers a choice on how safe they are, however, is a completely different issue.
AS one of the few people that will admit to using VRML, I was with a start-up that did just that web 3D back in 99. Anyway we where rather successful and where bought out by a larger company. Our bread and butter was simulation but we started doing collaborative battlefield orchestration with VRML, HTML, JavaScript, Java and on and on. Anyway, I was a doubting Thomas about web 3D until I saw this stuff. it was amazing. Being able to have executive command distribute command to the (non web) simulators nd visualize the troops (tanks, planes) through a feed back to VRML was amazing. Anyway, I see some key areas where web 3D would obviosly be very useful. One is obviously military simulation the second is just as obvious games. But I also see some verticals tht could use it. Take car repair manuals (I have wanted to do a start-up doing just this, but it takes an angel just to finance the prototype). I think a web 3d app that could show disassemble and assembly of automotive repairs would be a great use of web 3D. A user could watch it from any angle. As well, integrating it into a parts ordering system would create one of the most interactive purchasing systems for this vertical. As a user goes through the process of watching a repair, they could identify the part needed, right click on it and order it. Needless to sy I see a lot of potential for web 3D.
Still not infringing on a right, but it's something I think should be against the rules of any society. Rights are fairly black and white. "Close proximity" is gray.
I think it is for PHBs.
Why would WSJ care? Either way, the readers pay.

I'm not a huge fan of Murdoch, but I respect him for insisting on the simple principle of charging money for his product, while the hyposphere keeps twitting on how he "just doesn't get it".
The article reminded me of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science
Too many? I don't like to sound like I'm "spamming" out my product, but I believe it's designed in such a simple manner than anything included that you aren't interested in using, sits quietly in the background.
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As designers a lot of times we stay motivated through finding inspiration however there is more to staying motivated than simply finding inspiration. Staying motivated is a practice and requires a good amount of effort.
The problem is, when you make a large purchase it's risky to deviate too far from an average choice. That's why all subdivisions (and most cars) are so conservative and uninspired.
I don't understand why instant-typing-display was implemented in the first place. Or rather, I understand that it's supposed to speed up communication, but the drawbacks to it seem so huge in comparison to the tiny benefit that it really just feels like engineering-porn; i.e. a "cool" feature that does more to showcase technical brilliance than to serve any real need.
In addition to the good comments here, it seems that this is a way to do collaboration within an enterprise without having to deal with DBAs and other highly managed federations. It is an end-around to a lot of those.

As to why they don't look to free alternatives, in MS enterprise shops, that question never comes up.

Finally, it makes it pretty hard to move away from MS if you have your whole corporate consciousness embedded in sharepoint.
Yeah,

After a reading this article,

http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/forever-young/eldorado-des...

I could see calorie restriction really had little basis and moreover, little logic, to it.

But also, I'm 40+, 6', 135 pounds and I eat as much as I possibly can. I'm probably on the high of high metabolism. Losing 15% of body weight for me would, uh, really bad. And that's the thing, there's lot of genetic variation concerning gain weight propensity and a lot environmental variation concerning diet and level of activity. NONE of this is apparent in lab-animal studies. Lab animals are genetically uniform creatures who just sit around and eat dull food, even for a mouse (or monkey or whatever). If you've lived like a lab animal so-far, time to get out a bit but otherwise, the conclusions might not be warranted.
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