skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of SXSWi's downfall is due to the "Social Media Experts" who are starting to infiltrate our world. I saw a tweet the other day that said it best... Social Media Experts are just people who can't design or build. I can't agree more.

I went 2 and 3 years ago respectively, primarily because I had heard so many interesting things about the panels. I'd see tweets or blog posts about interesting design panels and new technologies or startups being announced and talked about in Austin. I remember really enjoying the scalability one with the guys from Automattic (Matt Mullenweg), Digg (Joe Stump), etc... I haven't heard a single thing like that this year, and am glad I didn't go. I don't doubt that there were some decent panels, but no one seems to have cared about them.

Why? It's become a place to party among the twitterati and "elite" of the startup and web world. It's like going clubbing on Sunset in Hollywood and hoping to run into Lindsay Lohan shooting up in the bathroom. Spotting guys like Kevin Rose, Daniel Burka (digg designer), Gary Vaynerchuk, Ashton Kutcher, (and girls like) Justine Ezarik, etc.... I'm not saying it doesn't sound like fun going to parties every night and getting hammered, but thats really all that it has become.

I could go on and on complaining about how lame SXSWi was... my company was going to pay completely for me to go last year and I turned it down knowing it would suck. There are much better things to spend money on. If I lived in Austin I might go just for the social aspect... but really the conference itself is worthless.
I think Chrome will eat more IE market share than Firefox and Safari in the following years, mostly because Google's massive advertisement capacity.

More likely because Google is big and ubiquitous, and people trust them. "Oh look, Google does one of those browser things, and they tell me it's fast. I wonder what happens if I download it..."
Primary source:
http://squeak.org
I tried this mode today and it makes searching and editing terribly slow, even on a relative small file (~700 lines).
I love it. This is exactly what I've been looking for.

But I don't own anything Apple. Is there an alternative coming, such as a web-based version? I'll pay.
SVG support amongst web browsers
First that type of panel was rare. For every panel like that there were four such as "Twitter and Dating in 140 Characters or Less", "Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change", "Interactive Documentaries: A Multidimensional Narrative", "Millionaire or Artist? how about Both?"

Second "tech" focused has different meanings for different folks I don't think debating SQL vs NOSQL is very tech-focused. Tech focused for me is here's this thing, maybe some of why/how we built it, but definitely some how you can use it, and esp here's the code.

SXSWi maybe a tech conference. It sure isn't a developer conference. But, I'm glad it's not. People whining that SXSWi is not the type of conference they want need to stfu and go to the correct conference.
Why do you expect a $250B company to be able to dominate the market immediately?
Companies do learn, and the article clearly shows how Microsoft did in fact manage to learn and produce better and better products.
In my opinion it even missed some other big impact releases such as office 2010 web, which may be the largest player in the online docs market.
Can't sell your iPhone game?
Functional Ability of Scala Comparing to Haskell - an Example
ZumoDrive Brings Cloud Storage And Syncing Application To Android & Palm Devices
Four Things About You
interesting. Also interesting that Forbes crashed Firefox on my machine.
ooh, i see, so it was a matter of there being two different models of the nexus one, very interesting.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work.html

As you can see CSS3 is very far from being "finalized" so any implementation that mozilla or webkit or someone does is just their best guess at what the final standard will be or experiments to provide recommendation. They leave the prefix free version for when they actually know what it is they are implementing to cause less pain in the long term allowing developers to know full well that what they are using is far from finished.
Clash of Security and Social Network Marketing
Though not explicitly written in the article, it seemed to me that JJ was recommending this approach for dealing with short-lived 'topic' branches like bug fixes and small features. At least, that was the nature of each example branch he gave.

I agree with you that if you have a longer-lived branch that's shared among repositories, you'll want to see that merge in the history and optionally squash some of the commits as needed. For short lived topic branches, I often like to squash down to a single commit.
Investment would allow us to do more promotion, grow our catalog, bring a designer onto the team and seek out another developer.

There are several things I want to do, but I get so caught up in day to day things (answering the phone, responding to customer e-mails, etc.) less development gets done.

Further, we write every description on our website, writing isn't cheap. We have over 1,000 products now, but have about 5,000 in a database we want to carry. Everything needs photos, often they need to be cleaned up, photoshopped, the specs found and fact-checked. Basically, each product we add costs us about $20. New products come out every week, so a lot of money goes to that. The ability to increase our catalog quicker would be awesome.

Beyond the investment, the expertise the person has, the contacts, the outside interest he/she could bring, would be far more beneficial for us than the money.

To answer your question directly, we are not doing manufacturing, but we could. And probably should. Not yet, anyway.
Enabling Single Sign on with OpenID for the Google Apps Marketplace
OMG The selling point of the Palm WebOS finally takes hold! Wooh that took a while, I think if a Palm exec saw this post they'd shed a tear of joy.
Is this basically Drop Box?
While the author's analysis of the current situation is fairly accurate, his predictions seem to me to be wildly off.

There's a pretty strong movement going on, bringing scientific method to teaching. It's chronicled in a great NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Teachers-t.html...

Basically it boils down to:

1. Find good teachers, based on how much their students improve. (Students of the top 5% of teachers improve test scores a full year more per year than students of the bottom 5%).

2. Analyze what the good teachers do that works better than what other teachers do. (For a small example: Stand still while giving instructions: moving around distracts).

3. Teach these techniques to other teachers, and analyze the results.

This process, if scaled, seems to me to have far more potential for improving the current system, than any wild-eyed tech-mediated vision of home-schooling [not to knock home schooling: it works great, but it ain't gonna scale to anywhere near a majority of the population].
I don't see why it makes any difference that the virus was genetically engineered. The problem is (allegedly) poor safety practices, which could cause infection by non-genetically modified viruses as well.
Agreed. My uncle used to have an old g3 macbook, and a Windows notebook. A year ago, he dropped both for a Macbook (when they dropped the price to €999, not the unibody one) with OS X Leopard, because he had this "notion" that the Macs just "works", and are "virus proof".

You had to see his face when the OS would hang when he performed an update, or the wireless connection problems.
Thanks, great idea. Yes, I do mean interfacing through the ODB port, so these would be a great place to start.
I suppose you hate namespaces in your code too?

The vendor specific prefixes allow a playground for vendors to define and test things their own way without setting expectations for things that are not standardized, are being standardized, or have not even been conceived of yet.

It's like the X- prefix on mail and HTTP headers.
This is the biggest thing I've noticed. For example, the HTML 5 sessions were all stuff I've read about. The thing to know is SXSW isn't for the we're all hardcore HTML5 experts lets get into the grittiest depths of the subject. It's more hey all you folks who don't have a clue, this is why HTML5 is hot.

The key to SXSWi is to go to panels you know nothing about, and/or you're not sure are that applicable to your "world".

Both this year and last year the best panels were the ones I ended up in cause I got lost and went to wrong ballroom or I thought were gonna suck.
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True. I used this forum post to help me get started with nailgun:

http://www.mail-archive.com/clojure@googlegroups.com/msg1620...

The other tip not mentioned is that you must evaluate each expression. So if there are two expressions or functions and the second uses the first. You must first run <Leader>et for the first and then <Leader>et for the second. Although this is an "issue" with some Emacs commands as well.

We need a vimclojure wiki.
Well I think your definition of tech-focused is too narrow for me, but fair enough.

User Groups are more for that stuff. The cool thing about SXSW is that you can totally set up an impromptu user group and get 20-50 attendees if you want. In fact, that is how the Data meetup happened last year.
I think that's part of what the Surface already does, or at least part of what Microsoft has demo'd on the Surface.
I'm happy to read the flight simulator easter egg will finally be playable.
Or the equally fine http://squeakbyexample.org/
One thing I didnt see in your FAQ was whether you make time shifts based on time signature: 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 or tempo marking: allegro, adagio, etc.

Also - while I think the settings of .5x fast - 2x fast are user friendly I would love to see a metronome and the ability to adjust beats per minute. As someone who has done classical training and testing based on bpm I can say it makes or breaks learning a piece.

I wouldn't put this on my iPhone due to legibility, but I would absolutely put it on an iPad.
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Skrutkové kompresory boge. Predaj a servis skrutkových kompresorov. Náhradné diely pre skrutkový kompresor boge, ghh rand, hafi, renner. Náhradné diely pre kompresory všetkých značiek.: olejový filter, olejový separátor, vzduchový filter. Sušičky vzduchu, cyklónové odlučovače, odvádzače.
I prefer the word "database."
I feel like the real story isn't twitter/chatroulette/whatever, but these awesome things artists do with them. Shitmydadsays comes to mind.
What I Have Learned About Health and Fitness
While the robot is definitely impressive, without substantial AI in it, I dont think it qualifies to be called a 'scientist' just yet. It clearly cannot appreciate what its doing -- it might just as well have been cleaning the dishes.
Again, thanks.
Will it work with Remote Desktop (Microsoft Windows one)? It will with VNC, and stuff based around VNC, but VNC captures the whole screen, while RDC relies somehow on the driver and it's more optimal.

The problem with RDC is that it fully replaces the graphics driver, making any GPU accelerated stuff to disappear.

Also how it would work with people which machines have been locked after 15 minutes?
Not really.

ZumoDrive doesn't use space on your drive for it's storage. It simulates a network drive as far as your OS is concerned.

Dropbox actually uses space on your drive , and syncs that across your machines.

So , ignoring local caching done by ZumoDrive , we could think of it being network intensive , whereas Dropbox is space intensive.

(I could be wrong and would love clarification. Also, 'intensive' is probably not the word I'm looking for , but I can't come up with a better one now)
Thank you for this link. Brigtened my day. I was an intranet webmaster at a bank for some time...
If this is the same Dover book we used in our graph theory class, I found it difficult to learn from without a professor explaining the unclear sections. Not just doing the exercises, but some of the things they presented as trivial had some important steps missing.
Thanks for the recommendation, that book sounds great. I've ordered it, at a price of less than one pence per page!
Nothing new except the license.
13%? That's all!? I figured it would be much higher, especially since 89% of the users are male.
The django group posted a progress update today regarding this roadmap:

http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2010/mar/16/django-1_2-r...

Perhaps this is what the OP intended to post?
Ask HN: help me think of a domain name
My co-founder and I are working on an online-auctions start-up but we can't agree on a name we both like (that has an available .com domain).

current contenders:
snapfive.com - entirely generic but easy to pronounce and spell
rumblesale.com - rhymes with jumble sale
bidnsee.com - make a bid and see if it's accepted

do you guys have any other ideas?

Raj
"The eat low-fat advice was the biggest health disaster in the last 30 years"

Literally everywhere I look this appears. Research (that I've seen) has been ridiculously supportive of this, and I find myself edging towards primal more and more (cutting out grains and sugar whenever I can) but I still can't believe why this whole anti-fat movement came about. It can't be all politics, can it?
NPR & WSJ developing Flash-castrated apps for iPad
The first video should be available today from The Changelog, and a better quality copy in the next few days: http://twitter.com/changelogshow/status/10581052288
rumblesale.com
More and more people will have this problem in the future, which also means more and more people will probably be more understanding of it. I think that our culture's attitude will shift to be more tolerant of permanent, public statements from one's youth.
Hmmm... I like dropbox because it works when you are offline vs online only, like on the train, then syncs up when you go online.
You got a great point there.

Its the crap we do unaware, that hurts us most.

No one really expected this open-social-revolution nor prepared us for the dangers/effects. Glad to hear teachers are aware
I haven't read the paper, yet, but it seems as though the article really inflates the claims for the robot's cognitive achievement. There were a set of candidate genes to test as the cause of each enzyme. This was a matter of creating a set of deletion mutants and checking whether the mutants produced the enzymes, a laborious task which would be pretty easy to automate without artificial intelligence. It does seem to be a helpful automation, though.
I'm had no idea what IExplorer 9 is about ... and what's interesting to me is that they are adding HTML 5 support.

And they are supporting SVG too?
Saint Patrick
Haha, it's clever. Did you limit the list of compressable characters by frequency? Since there seem more of them; U+3370-33DF range (from which you took 'ms', 'ns', 'cc' etc) also has 'da', 'bar', 'in', 'log', 'mil', 'mol', 'ha', 'gal' etc. Also U+32CD 'erg'
U+2480-249B and U+1F101-1F10A has digit(s) + punctuation (i.e. '1.' ... '20.' and '0,' ... '9,')

I wonder how these play with searches, though.
I had the same worries about SXSW, and while I agree there was too much walking, talking spam this year, that didn't prevent me from having an awesome time, and great conversations from some of the most genuine people I've ever met. I'm not exactly sure what "we all deserve to have fewer people and more and better technology" means, but it seems we should be happy to see technologies turned into tools that all these "douchebags" can be excited about.

It's sad to see it become less of a grassroots conference than it was, but that's how a market evolves. Then again, the first time I ever went was only three years ago, so maybe I'm just not cool enough?
A bit of a tangent, but what exactly is the problem with GPU acceleration and screens coming back from power-save mode? I'm having a problem with a GL context not drawing correctly after my monitor wakes up (Windows). I'm not quite sure how to google the problem without getting a bunch of hardware results.
Zumodrive has selective sync, so you can keep files local when you want to. ZD is actually less network intensive than dropbox, because only file metadata is synced down from the server until you actually access the file.
$20 CPM is absurd unless you have brand advertisers going after an incredibly lucrative demographic(like middle aged women). As an advertiser, in order for my ad to be profitable, I need to pay no more than $2-$3 CPM for highly targeted niche sites. You might have better luck with affiliate programs, but other than that, even getting $2 CPM would be very good.
If I were looking to advertise on your site, I would probably consider it lower tier traffic and try to run mobile/gaming offers.

Email me at ilya[at]unviral.com if you want more insight into the reality of online advertising, it's funny I saw your comment on HN, I was just recently talking to one of your cofounders :)
That might be the case at $.99. But if you go up a bit (even to $1.99 or $2.99), the amount of bad reviews like that decreases pretty quickly.
Annotated CoffeeScript Grammar
You could say this is bad news for developers... or good news... if more jobs are created by news sources wanting to court the iPad crowd.

But in the larger scheme, if this trend continues, it could bring a tipping point where major sites start to look for non-proprietary development platforms other than Flash. None too soon for this consumer.
7 more days to win a XIA Configuration Server 2010
I switched to OS X about 3 years ago and here are my reasons for not using Linux on my laptop (I still use Ubuntu on the desktop):

* battery life sucks. Compared to the 7 hours I get under OS X, on Ubuntu I get about 2+ hours on the MBP

* external monitor support was flaky, and really not functional for different resolutions (important for presentations)

* wireless was flaky. This was still a problem 2 years ago when I was using my company issued Dell with Ubuntu. I hope it's gotten better since.

* flaky suspend and hibernate. This just works on OS X.
If we assume the robots cost money , and research funds are limited , and the robot's research is important, there's no reason why it won't "replace" biologists.
Excellent, this does work. (The preferences page is under Tools -> Options -> Clojure).
This is why China is going through all of the effort to keep the debt hidden. One really big problem with state-backed business is that the credit-worthiness of the business is fundamentally tied to it's backer.

If your doing business in China, massive debt heightens the risk that you simply won't be paid. The real risk here is ever tightening controls on Chinese borrowing and investment dollars flowing in. That would have a crippling effect on overall growth.
To boot, the headers are being generated with Flash. I guess this is one of those use your favorite typeface everywhere frameworks.
Eventually Microsoft will be able to produce something as good as a current iPod. Unfortunately for them, by that time, it's quite likely Apple will have raised the bar once again with another gizmo.

It's also possible Microsoft will leave the copycat behaviour behind and start creating original products instead of knock-offs of the market leaders. That, however, seems unlikely.

I can't remember a Microsoft product that was genuinely pioneering something.
Well, there's some irony in looking to iPad/iPhone app-store based proprietary hardware to smash the Flash proprietary hegemony.
Very impressive, but as others have said: without AI at the helm, this is mostly a complex robot taking the place of a human technician. ( Which costs more? )

I suspect that much of the macro-scale manipulation performed by this robot (and humans) will be made obsolete in coming years by microfluidic analytic instruments.
FWIW I enjoyed the typography (IANA graphic designer).
Design needs to be understood not only in how things look but in how they work and how the business is constructed to support them.

Apple is doing great not because Jobs is a designer but because he applies design thinking to his company.

Mind you Apple have almost complete vertical integration both on the hardware and the software side which is pretty unique.

Design is what matters you just have to change your perspective on what design is all about.
"When it came time to choose a font, Rove selected Garamond, a kind of type developed in France, and NOT by hard-working Americans."

Shoulda gone with Goudy.
Maybe, maybe not. If you start facebooking at age 13, by the time you're looking for a job at age 22 there will be nine years worth of crap about you on the Web. Finding the embarrassing bits won't be that easy.
Maybe their previous position was entirely accurate for older versions of IE.
what restrictions have you encountered on the publishing of scores on the app. I think sheet music is more locked down then actual songs. When I used one sheet music service, it wouldn't allow me to store a digital copy of the song I wanted, I could only print it once - if my printer jammed in the process, I had to pay again. I asked the owner of the service why and he said the industry was tightly controlled. He also said he wasn't allowed to offer an unlimited download subscription for a monthly fee ala netflix etc which I suggested he should do even though he wanted to.
There might be an opportunity to collaborate with the startup http://www.noteflight.com
Can someone translate this into Mercurial? Thanks.
Flashblockdetector
Sorry to get all MBA, but do you have a value proposition in mind? That could help with branding.
Truly stunning design & idea. On a similar note, I'm planning to work on a music composition app for the iPad starting summer when I'm done with the semester. It's basically an extension of an iPhone app called Symphony, which still needs more work.
Could you summarize the "smackdown" please?

My take is that NoSQL is a return to the hierarchical databases that the relational model replaced for many uses (both have a place of course).
Where the nobel prize goes is an interesting question.
let's say that some robot discovers an important discovery , that deserves the nobel. let's also say the methods of operation of the robot are standard practice at the time of building it. and the discovery came through luck and tons of robotic work. who should win the nobel? would the robot be considered by the nobel comity ?
I mean replace in the sense that we will still need biologists to do the science. The robot can not do science on its own, it's only a tool that scientists will use. It might replace pure lab-workers who just do grunt work. So it's possible undergrad bio students won't be able to use that as an "in" into a research group.

Also, biology labs are already expensive to equip. This development doesn't change that.
The article addresses this:

Of the perverts that were identified, only 8% were female. Combined with the overall female rate, that means less than 1% of chats feature a female pervert.
Devices have already been made and sold that accomplish this -- presumably because the idea is so obvious.

http://www.google.com/search?q=electronic+sheet+music+reader

My keyboardist/drummer friend has one such device.
I imagine the event sucks a little bit more if you're a journalist. Or an attractive woman.

The author is both, which probably makes for the worst SXSW experience possible. The theft and hit-and-run are the cherry on top.
14-hr Virgin America LA-NY Flight Riles Passengers
Do you know this from experience? I'm really curious how iPhone app customers "work".
an OBD ii interface isn't that complicated. I bet you could find an upper level EE student or grad student willing to partner up pretty easily. Put a decent bounty on it and they could use it for a class project or self study credit.

I don't think you need to go to a boutique engineering firm.
awesome, could this be the start of Knuth's literate programming for the 21st-century web world?

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming