skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only difference between this and, say, O3D:

a) it's not a browser plugin
b) it's ambiguous whether or not it will be compatible with the working WebGL spec (I'm guessing not)
Not to mention that I started with VimClojure. Trying to get Nailgun working felt like I was using a real nailgun on my computer, with similar results.
I agree. The iCalendar specification allows for some crazy complexity, but I'm not sure I've seen a UI that allows you to use every feature possible with the spec.

I'd think you could do a "discoverable" UI, where the default case is is relatively simple but you can expand recurrence options when needed.

If anyone has an example of this being implemented I would appreciate a pointer.
Yeah, this screams microformat. Indicates a specific type of content, but doesn't have to make it into the spec and can be administered in a decentralized fashion.

http://microformats.org/
"Samsung should come to you".

This is the exact opposite of what we are experiencing at the moment. We have reasonable traffic (500k UVs / month, 9million PVs), but regularly miss out on campaigns that would fit our site perfectly. Infact, we usually see them on other websites (same industry, different space) and then call up the buying agency who have "already spent all the budget".

Frustrating! We have an advertising agent which is currently taking 35%. Between them and our backfill we still only monetize around 50% of our inventory each month.
sounds reasonable, MSFT is already doing it with the Surface. Be very interesting if they could be further integrated these smart tables with you via your phone (which could pair your cloud data, bank account, etc.) - if you were at a restaurant with a friend you could look at pictures of your latest trip and then split the bill right through the table's interface!
Taiwan seeks baby-boosting slogan
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I'm in Boston too and my experience is 99% with hardware based startups (from big networking switches to little embedded security cameras).

If you want to get together for a coffee (days are better for me) sometime I'd be happy to share with you what I know or can help with.
My friend Seema is CEO of a robotics/toy startup in Pittsburgh, which she co-founded with other students from her grad program at CMU:

http://www.interbots.com/
Not only is this a fun Easter egg, but it seems to vary. I would swear that you used to be able to do New York to London (by car), but that no longer works.

Sure enough, the nice folks at Googlesystem wrote about it: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-maps-shows-f...
should be quick again, sorry for the blip
Isn't there a release candidate out for FF 3.7? If so can you confirm that WebSockets support is in there?
Yeah I am interested in learning clojure but cannot get an environment to work (this guide mentions enclojure not working; same thing happens with me).
Thanks for the feedback. I will keep researching it and post my findings.
The 95% CI is going to be roughly 15-31%.
Graphics look great. Any chance you can point out who the designer was? She/he might be interested in other contracts perhaps?
How about making a Mac version?

I probably wouldn't use it, but the more browser choice, the better (healthy competition pushing everybody to do better).

Apple has Safari for windows, it would make sense for Microsoft to do something similar...
And then sell it on clickbank for 9.99!
Rove learned most, if not all, of his tricks from Lee Atwater, who was the Karl Rove of the Reagan/Bush era.
Do you have any basis for that guess?

whoishostingthis.com says Rackspace. This tweet implies that it's probably Rackspace Cloud http://twitter.com/etacts/status/10410920004
I added a comment to the blog post about my own experience with getting enclojure to work. Here it is again in case you missed it:

I had the same null pointer exception about a week ago when creating a new project with Enclojure. Try opening the Enclojure preferences page and then selecting a Clojure version — it doesn’t seem to initialise this setting properly. Fixed it for me.

I also had to fix another null pointer exception before that, caused by having a Ruby version of NetBeans instead of a Java one — adding the Java module before installing Enclojure fixed that.
How did you make the video for the homepage? I like the circle that represents a touch.
Good Job. Just know we're all expecting to see your sales numbers 1 month, 3 months and 6 months out ;)

Congrats!
I don't understand why they need hardware acceleration just to reach almost-par with the existing browsers.

Also, no UI work whatsoever in tech preview. One would hope they realize their competition is lightyears ahead of them UI wise.
OT, but how did you get into that time tracking habit and what do you use to track your time?

(not) Properly tracking my time is my biggest weakness.
I'll always have a soft spot for Squeak. And still don't totally understand the damn thing.

Pharo is pretty slick, http://www.pharo-project.org/home. And Gilad Bracha of Strongtalk and JVM fame is also doing interesting work with Newspeak, http://newspeaklanguage.org/.
The headline is sexy, but I think it gets the main point wrong. The first sentence in the article that, I think, is the proper lead is: As artificial intelligence continues to evolve however, we are beginning to see the introduction of robotics in many “high-skill” fields such as research and medicine.

The point isn't that a robot was able to make a discovery that human researchers could not. The point is that biologists who do this kind of research will be able to work at a higher level of abstraction: something that used to require manual work on their part can now be automated. We don't replace the biology researchers, rather we've improved their tools.
Anyone saying the interactive section is not tech-focused is out of the (tech) loop.

Case in point: I attended the Infochimps Data Cluster Meetup. They kicked it off with a debate around SQL vs NOSQL. 5 minutes into one of the NOSQL guys saying why his stuff is great, Werner Vogels gets up and basically lays the smack-down on the guy. This talk is followed up by BOFs on different aspects of working with big data.

I guess this wasn't an official SXSW party, but you'd really have to not be keyed into the events around the conference to not know it was going on.

EDIT: I should also point out that the guys from Factual, WolframAlpha, Rackspace, Cassandra, (oh and me from 80legs :) were there. It was really awesome.
There are a few. Here's a popular one:

http://www.reputationdefender.com/
It would be a device that plugs into your car's onboard computer. There are dozens of devices out there that do things on the hardware side that are very similar to what I'm looking for, but just not exactly. I don't think I'm going to get very far asking them to change their products either, since the changes I'd be asking for are too specific to what I want to do.

Does that help you point me in the right direction? It doesn't seem like an overwhelming project for anyone, but none the less, someone would need to dedicate themselves to getting it built, and I just don't know how to find that person.

I also have the chicken/egg scenario here where I'd love to get funding for it, but need to partner up with someone on the hardware side to at least get it to the prototype stage.
Ask HN: A site where devs can exchange back-end skills for design skills?
I found a post a while ago about a site where developers can exchange their skills with designers that need some back-end work done. I haven't been able to find it.

Does anybody know about any sites?

I'm willing to exchange dev time for UI design time with a fantastic designer.
I just compared that 45 gbit / sec with Amazon pricing. If it was hosted on EC2, bandwidth alone would cost ~$1.2M / month.
I was told once that they don't rank on karma, but if they recognize your name from discussions around here it helps your case.
You can do that... but it is much easier to have compile/load shortcuts, paren-match highlighting, and automatic indentation....
Cool Timing! Looks like "Go Test It" may live another day!
Kudos to the team that properly defined the problem and employed the use of an expert system to solve it.

Not yet sentient as the title delicately alludes however. Were a Nobel Prize awarded it would still go to the team not the device.

Where are we on the Kurzweil timeline btw.
I'm with you. One of the great things about git and its ability to 1) easily branch and 2) rewrite history is that I can go down a certain path in a feature branch, realize I need to approach it differently, make mistakes, fix those mistakes but still commit a clean patch for public consumption.
Twitter's '@Anywhere' platform
There's an Alpha3 'technology preview' of Fx3.7: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/3.7a3-candidates/

I don't know if WebSockets is included or not.
Unfortunately, the "stoner" niche isn't known for having a lot of money (or at least spending it online) so it can be harder to find advertisers for. In your case, it would depend on the number of visitors you're receiving and where they come from. Visitors from search tend to do well with adsense or similar advertising. You may want to try buysellads.com or a similar service. Also helpful could be reducing the number of ads on the right side, focusing on the more relevant ones with hire payouts and present them as something more than advertising. Write a blog, make it a sponsored post like textsfromlastnight.com does, etc.
Not quite. You can still downvote any comments except ones that are immediate descendants (i.e. direct replies) of your own comment or post.
Doubtful any. It's FIOS business, and I'm directly connected via to their fiber backbone.
Ah, but their Box Model is miles faster. Common sense would tell you that knowing an element specified to have a width:100px will actually take up 100px on the screen will speed up rendering. Actual practice shows that it is indeed really fast.

There's a reason why Twiddla is so fast on IE. It's because we intentionally leave the Doctype of the whiteboard, thus enabling IE to use its fast Quirksmode rendering engine. Testing showed that adding a Doctype didn't effect FF or Chrome performance at all, but simply slowed IE down to their level.
I'm in the process of changing these links to https.
How can I look for dupes before posting?
TL;DR
SXSW sucks because when you leave your shit unattended it gets stolen and nothing interesting came and knocked down her door.

Instead of dismissing people she's never met as douchebags maybe she should talk to them and she'd find something "bloggable". "Content" isn't bloggable, it's the context and the story behind it all and how it relates to people. I guess when all you have is a douche, everything looks like a douchebag. The last thing the world needs is yet another blog entry about "twitter" or whatever the latest fad is. The tomorrow's stories are in today's crowds, a big part of finding the next big thing first is sorting an incredibly huge pile of shit.
Microsoft to Expand its Collaboration with the jQuery Community
I guess they missed the fact (in their claim to be the first to have GPU-accelerated graphics) that Safari (and any modern Mac application) has been GPU-accelerated since about 10 years ago (moving more and more into the GPU with Core Graphics over that time).
They use different bands for their 3G service, that's why they aren't in the same phone. I'm looking forward to when there is a chip that supports both so that we can get a GSM phone that supports any 3G service (or at least the common North American and European ones). Anyone have any idea when/if such a chip is coming out?

[IIRC, Rogers (Canada) and AT&T (USA) use a non-standard frequency for 3G service, but T-Mobile (USA) and WIND Mobile (Canada) use the same 'standard' frequencies that are used in Europe.]
Our about page is now dedicated to answering this question: http://duckduckgo.com/about.html
If you're unhappy with ad sales, and your agent is taking a moderate percentage, perhaps he's not doing a good enough job. If you could manage the same ad sales as current yourself, your advertising revenue would increase just by dropping the agent.

For anything more specific, I'd have to see the site and have some questions. If you feel comfortable, post it, or feel free to email me at proexploit@gmail.com and I'll see what I could recommend in terms of advertising improvements.
Ask HN: Ruby on Rails paid tutor? Impossible to find...
I've read a number of posts in the past regarding finding a mentor. My city doesn't have a great tech community and I've tried numerous resources to get a little extra help (Google search, oDesk, forums, freelancer websites).

I'm trying to find a paid tutor to help me get off my feet in Ruby on Rails. I've done some reading, installed all the components, followed tutorials and played around with various components. I'm a real hands on learner, and I'm looking for someone to walk me through building a simple website in ROR on OS X (Submission form and FAQ section with admin).

Here's what I'm hoping to learn:
* Using git (via command line).
* Work-flow from creating project to deploying (I prefer Heroku).

About me:
* I'm incredibly friendly and intelligent.
* I've got some understanding of PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JS (JQuery), etc.
* I've worked with ROR developers to create websites, just haven't got the chance to code them yet.
* I'm a very quick learner. I would honestly estimate I'd require between 1-3 hours of your time.
* I'm graphic designer if you want work in exchange.

Ideally, I'd like to pay less than $30/hour, but would pay more for the right help. English, during standard US availability, would be ideal.

Any interest or suggestions on where to find such a person?
These aren't the same category. O3D/WebGL uses the GPU to draw 3D graphics; IE9/Firefox uses the GPU to draw regular 2D Web pages.

http://www.betanews.com/article/Will-Firefox-beat-IE9-to-Dir...
No, the requirement is specifically to use just ANDs, ORs and two NOTs. There is a solution, I did find it. It's not particularly easy to find.
I believe it was a joke
Did anybody get some video of this smack-down?
You are a life saver! I was looking for something exactly like this and was surprised there was really nothing good out there. This is great. Thanks!
If you haven't already, you should have a look at the free Pharo by Example book. http://www.pharobyexample.org/

The Blue Book (Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation by Adele Goldberg and David Robson) is quite old but still one of the best book about Smalltalk. You can get it for free in PDF.
UI polishing is generally one of the last things you slap on before shipping. That is, unless the release is all about UI.
New Powerful Three Minute Exercise Improves Memory and Brain Health
Strangely, this technique is used as a part of prayers every morning in South India.
nevermind, I see it's all in Twice now :)
Go to your nearest hackerspace - http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces - 4 are listed in Boston.

MakerBot, the maker of affordable, open source, 3D printers, grew out of Resistor in NYC.
I’ve Seen the Future of Silicon Valley
There is no question the growth of the conference has made it harder for the hallway conversations to happen.

As for the changes in the content, you can judge for yourself, here's an archive of the 2006 schedule which includes 14 sessions with the word "blog":

http://web.archive.org/web/20060315165103/http://2006.sxsw.c...
It isn't us older professional folk who really have to worry. It is the 13-15 year old crowd. If you thought what you said at 18 was embarrassing, try the things you said at 13.

These kids will be seeking jobs some day, and guess what will come back?

My wife taught middle/high school, and we always wanted the kids to remember one thing. "If you post it online, it is public. Forever."

Even if not technically accurate, it is a safe mantra to follow.
Here is a pretty good list. Also, including some information in your profile can't hurt either.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052950
I think they had video there.. check the Infochimps blog for info: http://blog.infochimps.org/ (not there yet, but hopefully they'll post it if it exists).
How much would it cost to buy all 168,747 iPhone Apps?  $483,082.61
Neither the book or the ad contains demon sheep. That alone elevates it above much of our country's political discourse [1] ... ;-)

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRY7wBuCcBY
By "plugs into your car's onboard computer" do you mean through the OBD port? If so, there are a few open source projects out there. Searching the usual OSS repositories may turn up a hardware engineer who's startup minded. There must be lots in Boston!

Here are a few search results to get you started:

http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1222013546

http://hackaday.com/2009/05/12/obd-ii-automotive-data-loggin...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/obdgauge-plus/

http://github.com/benvm/garmon

A mix of hardware & software, but you can take it from there. Good luck!
Seems like you are located in Mumbai! I am the cofounder of
stareable.com based in Lamington Road.

Very cool to see a Mumbaikar doing cool stuff like this. Would love to have a chat with you sometime.
brk - That would be great, thanks for the offer.

Send an email over to michaelisaok@mailinator.com so we can connect.
We published similar findings on March 1 with the Web Ecology Project http://www.webecologyproject.org/2010/03/chatroulette/

When we were doing the research the geo-ip information wasn't factored in, but overall we saw quite similar. Good to see that the results are reproducable (almost like science)!
Xyndi at Dublin Pitchslam.
tldr version (although I highly recommend reading the whole thing):

Search is relevance + reputation. Reputation is the hard part. Communities must/will come around that assign reputation to their members. Google (and search as we know it) will be replaced by something that will calculate reputation of the communities, not the individual members.
Wow. What an idea. I've always wanted to meet someone I could personally exchange work with like this, but never considered an app to hook me up with a designer.

Please someone post a link.
Ok that was funny. So I thought I try one out.

from: Los Angeles to: Honolulu

It suggest going to the Seattle Washington and then Kayak across the Pacific Ocean.
Relief through digital media
Nah, not useless -- come on. The speed variations aren't going to be that huge, and the variations will matter even less on an iPad. I can imagine a number of technical solutions to this issue that don't involve any signal processing. It's a valid point insofar as it would need to be addressed for advanced players, but let's not be so quick to dismiss this guy: the app is absolutely beautiful and he's clearly skilled and thoughtful.
D.C. home to most cyber-criminals
I think you're mostly talking about the hardware compatibility, since the actual OS / default software coming with it, while OK, personally I've had lots of problems with it (including Samba sharing not working, wireless connectivity at a conference not working, Finder crashing on me, etc...) Not to mention that most multi-platform software packages are better supported on Windows (Flash, Photoshop).

Related to hardware problems, when coming from Linux, it may be quite true, but in case you're thinking about a future Linux-powered device, search for the ones that are compatible (for example Dell or Acer laptops are usually fine).

On both Windows / Linux ... it's much harder to do QA on hardware compatibility when your list of supported devices has all the devices ever created. Try installing OS X on top of an AMD processor.

The people I know that switched to Macs have done it because ...

* they want Unix and their company only allows Windows / OS X
* they love Linux but need commercial software (Photoshop)
* they want Unix, but hate Linux's problems
* they want to look cool

That last point shouldn't be underestimated. Almost every Hollywood movie that features a man/woman in front of a computer, it's from Apple.

I've never seen a single normal person that voluntarily choses OS X over Windows / Apple over Dell ... because of technical superiority or because of the lack of viruses (if they do, they saw it in an ad).

Normal users don't think about such things because normal users blame themselves when the shit hits the fan and they always have a friend that can fix it (over and over and over again). And when they buy from Apple, guess who are they're gonna call when their old webcam isn't supported or when some piece of software they've got from work isn't working :)
I think squashing is useful for a feature branch whose history looks like:

1d9322f Added model & migration for feature x
3fa93f9 Unit tests for feature x
38ce239 Fixed intermittent failure in test_feature_x_foo
6728eca Added view and css for feature x
8fed23d Added missing background image for feature x
392ea84 Refactored feature x controller to handle foobaz

Instead of littering the master branch with those 6 commits, wouldn't it be nice to have just:

84fac31 Added feature x with tests and support for foobaz

This has the advantage of

1) Less noise in history, so easier to page through and see what has happened

2) The feature is in a single commit, so I can more easily cherry-pick it into a release branch if I need it

3) Impressing your co-developers as it looks like you got it right the first time
Looking at random pictures on the chat roulette map is pretty disturbing lol.

I wonder if these people knew a) they were being tracked and b) they picture was being saved would they have still done what they did?
There are reasons plenty of women on HN keep their gender 'to themselves', one of them is that it is all to easy to get stalkers giving you a 'certain kind of attention' as one phrased it.

If someone does not go out of their way to post their picture, why would you ?

Private stuff should be revealed by the person themselves, unless they're scamming or something like that, then I have absolutely no problem with it. But even then, a picture ?
The web-of-trust is really a pain in the tail, but for the purist it's the only approach you can have faith in (or, more correctly, it's the only approach in which you explicitly decide how much faith you're prepared to have).
My family makes about 100k a year and the parent contribution is only 17k (about the same I would have been paying for a state school).

What I'm saying is that it's a graduated scale so even though you are over the 60k limit you won't be expected to pay much
JQuery appears to be incompatible with IE9 preview
I have been experimenting with GPU accelerating computations from Javascript using WebGL. It is pretty bleeding edge but I've succeeded in speeding up matrix multiply. Here is a link for anyone interested: http://learningwebgl.com/blog/?p=1828