skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- there is a hardware requirement

- there is stalking potential

- people don't yet know that they exist

It's very early days, expect this to explode somewhere in the next two years. The people that are using this now are the early adopters. It's like in-car navigation, or CD players, a mobile phone or a facebook account.

Like that you have a 'novelty' and people argue if it is even useful and like that everybody has one.
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Why the thing that keeps them from occupying the same quantum mechanical state by holding them apart (like in neutron stars) is not called force (the fifth one)?

That's actually quite funny that we call 'fundamental forces' only the forces that we can't explain the source of.
man I wish a red bull worked, I can drink 4 and the only thing I feel is my heart hurting (I don't drink Red Bull any more btw, that heart thing freaks me out)
Most open source software is created with the purpose of making grandiose amounts of money, but rather for fun or for showing off.

But it's still business and lots people make a lot of money out of it.
It will work, and cost several times more than other things that also work. Take your pick.
I'm getting really tired of your using the Socratic method to get me to explain the obvious. But last round.

You say electromagnetic interactions dissapear at any significant distance, yet they are responsible for holding materials together?

There is essentially no direct attraction between distant atoms, but nothing stops you from having a line of atoms, each of which attracts the next.

Consider the case of a piece of glass. I am saying that electromagnetic forces hold the glass together. But those forces only exist between atoms that are in close proximity. However one atom holds on to the next holds on to the next through the whole glass, and it acts like a single rigid object.

However if you take that piece of glass and shatter it, you've separated the atoms along the cracks and they do not attract each other. In theory you should be able to put the pieces together and the crack will mend. In practice you simply can't put the pieces of glass closely enough together. (But The Feynman Lectures on Physics explains how sliding a piece of wet glass past a piece of wet glass does result in small portions mending then breaking, resulting in scratches on the glass. The water is necessary to lift surface impurities to allow pure connections to form.)

The necessary condition for rigidity (disregarding amorphous solids) is crystalline microstructure.

And what causes that crystalline microstructure other than the pattern of positive and negative charges on the atoms involved, resulting in adjacent atoms being attracted to each other?

Anyways as I've said, I've had enough of your drawing out rounds with asking questions that I am sure you know the answer to. Therefore if your next response isn't rather extraordinary, I'll be leaving this conversation.
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The ones who whine, smirk, or the least bit annoyed or confused should be dropped like dead weight.

There is a good chance you'll end up dropping the likes of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. In fact, the only kinds that might be able to make past your test may be emotionless robotic types.

Anyone who is not at least a bit annoyed in those circumstances is not human.
This:

I installed Loopt on my iPhone when it was launched more than a year ago. I stopped using it soon after, since none of my Facebook friends or Gmail contacts were on it. Now it has more than a million users, so last week I installed it again — along with several other apps — but I didn’t have much luck this time either.

...illustrates why we need to open up the social graph. It's stupid that every new social feature or business has to build its own registration, friending mechanics, etc., or consent to live in a walled garden of one proprietary social network. Brad Fitzpatrick (of LiveJournal fame, now at Google) has long promoted this idea, e.g. see http://bradfitz.com/social-graph-problem/ . Unfortunately it's still very much an open problem. OpenID is one piece of the puzzle, but the rest is still missing.

I'm kinda sorta looking into writing Facebook apps right now, and can vouch that I'd be much less reluctant to dive in if the platform were open.
Too bad it's still really annoying to turn off all those miscellaneous updaters.
That Sun/SI may not be behind it is B.S. and not an excuse. The law firm represents the person/corporation paying them. If SPARC doesn't want these sent out, they would tell the law firm or fire them and hire a new one.
How does this better/improve the existing process...i couldn't think of any way...and Chatbot definitely cannot be used to judge someone...
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Uh, that sounds like a privacy nightmare. Well, one could argue that existing social networks are already a nightmare, I guess. So much of the damage is already done.
Nonsense. You can be annoyed without being a jerk.

Showing emotion is quite ok, abusing people is not.

And if that would filter out Steve Jobs or Bill Gates is an open question, I don't know if they would be rude, abusive or simply not nice in such situations.
Check the link... the disadvantages come directly after the benefits. My note on paper filters came from that.

Very, very few things in life are without both positive and negative effects.

But coffee is bad mainly for people with certain stomach problems or those who are too sensitive to caffeine -- blood pressure doesn't seem to increase from coffee use, claims later research. (This paragraph added since it seems you are not going to check a link if you life depended upon it! :-) )

Edit: Syntax etc in last paragraph
What nightmare? Facebook lets you control what non-friends can see, an open platform could do the same.
I think you're right about it being a mostly automated process right now -- but don't think making them doing a little work will scare away the pirates. I bet there are lots of kids in the iPhone warez scene looking for a challenge.

I did some research into mobile app piracy 3 or 4 years ago and found a thriving scene for cracking WinMo, Palm, and J2ME apps and games. And these were not automated cracks, someone sat there with a debugger and reverse engineered the registration keys.
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I'm loving that Rock Art has been getting so much press about this. Their sales must be sky-rocketing.

I live a town over from them and am lucky enough to be able to pick up their beers in any liquor store and it is on tap in any restaurant or bar around here. Their ridge-runner is my choice during winter.
Without widespread adoption these apps aren't very useful. But I don't see that they are able to convince people to sign up very effectively. A lot of people don't have capable devices yet, either.
Facebook now has a new HomePage:Are you satisfied?
It's actually a limit of the model, not of the measuring device. The electron has angular momentum, but even if it were only as big as the smallest allowed size in quantum mechanics (Plank's constant), the speed of rotation would be faster than the speed of light. Since this is impossible, the model just defines the size of the electron as 0.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plank%27s_constant
Oh my goodness that is so expensive.
And I thought he was a maverick, nope just corrupt like everyone else.
I understand how it works, but my point is that if you use this check to shutdown the app or constantly nag the pirates, they will simply crack the game to remove the check. The only reason this guy was able to gather statistics was because he allowed pirated versions to continue to function normally.

Pirates have been reverse engineering and cracking Windows Mobile games by hand like this years.
Coffee isn't a drug or something. I love the taste of it. But I have done my research and know of studies that have shown that coffee has adverse effects on cognitive capabilities. So I drink coffee during meetings in order to stay awake but never when I have something important to do that requires all my concentration.
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I rely on coffee to keep me awake in early morning class, but during quizzes the jittery feeling does impair my ability to focus. However, it's great when I'm pounding out circuit diagrams and equations for EE!
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I think many people like that their LinkedIn and Facebook personas are completely separate.
Great! Unfortunately the sound keeps cutting out.
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I wish they would sort out the speaker's audio. The audience mics are fine.
(I was surprised I couldn't find the sources installed on Ubuntu.)

Edit: I searched for some of the contents, & found other places with copies -
http://tzinfo.rubyforge.org/svn/tags/rel-0.1.1/data/
http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/sr...

Further edit: removing self-link.
Surprised Latitude isn't mentioned - this is by far the most popular location network amongst my friends.
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My 60-second book reviews would be ideal as ads on these handheld readers!!!
Here's the speaker list (from http://ycombinator.posterous.com/startup-school-final-speake...):

Chris Anderson (Editor in Chief, Wired Magazine)

Paul Buchheit (Founder, FriendFeed; Creator of GMail)

Jason Fried (Founder, 37signals)

Paul Graham (Partner, Y Combinator; Founder, Viaweb)

Tony Hsieh (CEO, Zappos; Founder, LinkExchange)

Mitch Kapor (Partner, Kapor Capital; Founder, Lotus)

Greg McAdoo (Partner, Sequoia Capital)

Mark Pincus (Founder, Zynga, Tribe, SupportSoft, Freeloader)

Biz Stone & Evan Williams (Founders, Twitter)

Mark Zuckerberg (Founder, Facebook)
Red bull is not the strongest energy drink at all. I need to chug 2 of the normal size cans in succession to feel anything at all. Monster and Rock Star are fantastic if you need to keep up physical work but I worry about their effect on my heart after reading about how bad they can be.

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSSYD58461200808...
Payments start with revenue. No revenue, no payments. People say revenue starts "immediately" assuming that the royalty-based VC funds a business that already has some revenue. To your other point, it's not that there is less pressure for revenue, but less pressure for "growth" (ex. hiring, expansion, etc.) at the expense of profitability. VCs often push for premature growth at the expense of profits (so they can inflate the company and sell it as fast as possible), whereas RBF is more in line with rapid profits at the expense of growth - i.e. more organic growth through profits. As for Vinny - in RBF if the venture doesn't earn revenue, no payments go back to the VC. Also, if the venture fails and closes, the VC never gets his/her money back. In contrast if you don't pay Vinny, he breaks your legs. :) Banks too.
It would be sort of like giving everyone an interview. But unlike a normal interview, candidates will need to try to cover a huge chunk of possible conversation space in advance.

Bot performance would show how much thought they have given to the whole matter as well as some indication of their technical proficiency.

Would it require a lot of effort? Sure, but that effort can be amortized across future bot interviews, not just with YC.
Is this list called "Compare a very small group of people to the rest of society and claim they are doing badly?".

People who attend "elite" universities are far more likely to be successful. This of course might not have anything to do with the actual education.
And if you have a way to steam milk at home you can make London Fogs (earl grey, steamed milk, vanilla syrup).
Thanks. I did not think about the permanent link first.
Its strange .. Social networks like Facebook, orkut have a very high share in mobile internet usage...But still the growth of Location based mobile networking seems to be not that high...I would still expect there will be growth once there is heavy integration of the app with local information,deals etc..
Wait, smirk? What's so bad about that? Or is it because they could be reveling in the disorder? That could be bad at times.
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> Startups thrive on young grads looking to preserve the sense of purpose, freedom, and esprit-de-corps of college life. After all, if the last year has shown anything, it's that most people don't make decisions like strictly rational, self-interested economists.

It's only economically irrational if you put a value on "purpose, freedom and esprit-de-corps" that's less than the difference between your salary at a bigco and your salary at a startup.
Hopefully they'll just have video recordings posted online with the slides like previous years.
Why not link to the original article, as suggested in the guidelines:

> Please submit the original source. If a blog post
> reports on something they found on another site,
> submit the latter

Here's the original:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/174280
I wonder if there's some correlation/causation confusion in stories like this. Do the special interests donate to sympathetic candidates, or do the donations influence the candidates unduly? I always thought it was some combination of both, but the exact combination is a mystery to me.
He also works there
Here's what works for me: I used to have a donut/pastry and a 16oz (or larger) coffee in the morning. I'd feel good for an hour or so, but soon would feel jittery and spaced-out. Now, I have an 8-oz cup in the morning with a decent breakfast - but no more throughout the day. I drink my coffee slow, get a little caffeine boost, and feel energized all morning. Moderation.
Depends... "Eskimo" means "eaters of raw meat."
Apart from Chromium, there are also Chrome .deb packages:

32 bit:
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=unstab...

64 bit:
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=unstab...

I've used the 32 bit package on Ubuntu (9.10 beta) and Debian testing the last weeks, no problems so far.
I have tried that tea but it was way off my usual tastes, thanks though.

It is a very interesting kind of tea though.
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My apologies if I've annoyed you, that really wasn't my intention. I've enjoyed this exchange, and would be unhappy to have it end on this note. My questions were genuinely meant to structure the conversation and probe your thinking, not to exhaust you into submission.

One last comment then:

And what causes that crystalline microstructure other than the pattern of positive and negative charges on the atoms involved, resulting in adjacent atoms being attracted to each other?

You must be thinking of an ionic solid such as NaCl, but there are many solids (iron and silicon come to mind) in which the atoms have no net charge, yet the material is a crystalline solid. My point is that there is more at work here than just electromagnetic forces, namely quantum mechanics. Similarly, refering to our original discussion, there is more than just electrostatics that is responsible for the hardness of crystalline solids.
> The top ten institutions in this group accounted for only 19 percent of the entire sample.

These top 10 institutions (3.5% of 287) supply almost 20% of the founders of tech startups. It's nice to know that it's not a requirement but what did people actually expect? I think that 20% is still pretty damn good for these schools. Higher than I would have expected. There's nothing magical about a school that makes you successful.

> Of the Ivy graduates, 28.6% ranked these networks as important.

Ivy schools will attract those who attribute great value to such networks.
Didn't want to make a new submission, but I read this yesterday: 'Anti-depressants cut suicides', http://www.thelocal.se/22842/20091023/

Also includes the origin of the Swedish "suicide myth" at the end.
I agree. The audio kind of fails here...
That only works if you can check what the other person's work is like. When the app is distributed as a binary on a locked system that can only run one app at once you have don't know whether it's phoning home or what it's sending. If it's talking over wifi you can sniff on your lan but if the data is encrypted, good luck.
"The ones who whine, smirk, or the least bit annoyed or confused should be dropped like dead weight."

the gp basically said you can't.
Pretty sure we will. There's a camera in back, and I think it'll be on webcast.berkeley.edu when it's over.
They're really making Google Maps smarter. Making the major thoroughfares stand out more is really clever and intuitive. Accounting for road width is also a huge improvement, especially for cities.

All in all, these changes make Google Maps work more like you'd expect it to. That might be why it doesn't seem that impressive on first glance.
I like the LFLP = languages for lazy people.
Especially for those who don't have flash installed.
I apologize for being harsh, but there has not been one major justin.tv stream that I have seen that has been enjoyable to watch. Seriously. Last year's startup school, this year's startup school, the wolfram alpha launch. It's either the audio cutting out, the video freezing, or both. I appreciate that the service is free and that they're working hard to get it to work, but honestly, this has happened so many times to the point where I'd just rather read people's summaries of the talks than trying to tolerate the choppy videos anymore. It's gotten a bit ridiculous.

I get they're a YC company, cool, but in following years, you should give an alternative, like UStream, etc, if the quality there is better. I try to avoid justin.tv as much as possible in general now.
My opinion is that people who are negatively affected by difficult circumstances outside their control are usually driven to wishful thinking and operate under assumptions, and a mental model, that are far too removed from reality.

Just watch your friends the next time your group gathering is inconvenience by a forced change in plans, and watch out for the first person who becomes angry or yells out "oh great!", etc.

It's just a guideline though, not a dogma.
Reason #4,298 that I love HN -- serendipity. I have a project on my plate that requires a library of popular curve functions. It was my TODO item tomorrow. Thanks for freeing up my Sunday.
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So it is the speaker's mic? I was wondering the same, why the audience audi seems fine but the speakers are always falling out ...
"No mention of expenses for passengers."

Nor of the time factor involved. Commercial flights already take the better part of a day, even for short jumps. I can't imagine having to arrive at the ferry terminal 4-5 hours before my flight so that I can get to the terminal in time to spend 2 more hours waiting for ticketing and security and all the other delays.

"And building a 4 story metropolis underneath doesn't make sense unless there is a reason to visit"

I think his comment about "free trade zones" hints at the reason for so much office space. It seems to me that it would be a conveniently located off-shore haven for businesses (especially from Asia) who do massive amounts of shipping in and out of the ports of SD and LA.

They could also build the Duty-free version of the Mall of America; 400-500 stores full of tax-free stuff that would appeal to international travelers.

It's an interesting concept, and in a way it seems like the only viable solution. With the massive sprawl surrounding SD I think you'd have to go a good 2 hours from the central city to find a big enough patch of land to build a new airport.
The audio's "cutting out" because the mic level in the room is way too high. Notice how the video remains smooth while the audio stutters.
Honestly, as a user, that's not my problem.
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Also: Netcraft confirms, BSD is dying. That is to say, I'll believe it when they turn out the lights. Until then, headline hyperbole ftw, or something.

I don't know if anyone else noticed, but one of the things they're expecting to make available with their pay model is stuff like HBO's series (Entourage was specifically mentioned, which, while not my cup of tea, implies that more of their catalog will also be available). Hopefully, that would mean Showtime's series, too. This is something I, and a lot of other people, would happily pay for.

As others have mentioned, people are moving away from the cable/satellite model, and getting their teevee from the internet in increasing numbers. Hulu is incredibly well-positioned to make a stupid amount of money off that phenomenon, provided they aren't unmitigated idiots about it. (Say, putting all their content behind the pay wall, or charging subscription fees that are a substantial fraction of the typical cable/satellite monthly bill.)
Sorry, I meant wince.

My opinion is that people who are more drastically affected by outside circumstances than the rest of their group, and who have their own private way of suffering, unshared with the rest of the unit, those people don't tend to be team-players and rarely volunteer leadership or take responsibility.

When the bus breaks down and everyone is about to miss their appointment, there is no sense in being the biggest cry baby. Lament is acceptable, but the person who gets out of the bus first and runs for a cab is the real winner. _IMO_.
I think it would be kind of fun to seed a chatbot with pg's essays :-)

(Just give me credit if you go do it!)
Course it isn't. I'm just saying it's not Justin.tv you should be blaming, it's whoever set up the mic system.
I've been trying to watch and the video has been pretty choppy too.

Not trying to hate or anything, but I'm pretty bummed about this. I was really looking forward to watching it.
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I told the organizers here. Hopefully they'l start fixing this.
Here is a sortable table of caffeine amounts in products. The numbers are quite striking.

http://www.energyfiend.com/the-caffeine-database

For example (mg caff / oz):

Red Bull = 80 / 8.46

Rockstar = 160 / 16

Coca Cola = 35 / 12

Fixx Energy = 400 / .17
Maybe I'm too old to "get it" or maybe it's because I'm not in an urban area, but I really don't see the value-add in location-based social networks. I use Twitter a lot and I use Facebook a good amount. How does adding a location component improve the overall experience for me?

It doesn't.

I already know when my close friends are in town or out of town. If I want to know what they're doing on a Saturday night, I'll text them. It's 5x faster than launching an app and looking for their marker on a map.

Oh, and that chunk of the population that–like me–are married and have children ... I don't need a Gowalla or Foursquare to tell me where they are. They're most likely at work or at home. And they're using Facebook to connect with their friends–because their location doesn't matter.

You can argue that they just "need to gain traction" or "need to grow faster", but maybe the answer to this title is that they simply aren't any more useful than Facebook.

Location-based services are great for local commerce, probably great for dating, maybe handy at large events/conferences, but for basic social networking ... meh.
RSS isn't dead, my sisters just discovered it a year or two back.
I think it was a bot run amok.
Direct link to article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870422400457448...
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