skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, don't bother. The chance of you being able to get that specific person in all situations is low anyway.

Don't ask for "your" lawyer. Ask for "a" lawyer. Unless you're in a serious mess (in which case you will need proper, expensive, legal counsel) anyone will do. Usually the rote lawyers provided by the tax payer (here in the UK that is a right, Im not sure if it is elsewhere) are fine for these situations.

Lawyers can get expensive fast - especially if the Police decide to play awkward.
When I used Reddit, some people said they downvoted submissions on niche topics they weren't personally interested in, e.g. a Rubyist downvoting Haskell articles.

There are enough Haskell enthusiasts here that I don't think Haskell submissions would suffer, but who knows what niche topics would?
Wired.com: Why did you stop making videogames after that?

Iwatani: After that, I became a producer. Namco was a small company, and because the organization expanded, I was promoted to section chief. Someone had to coordinate the younger developers that we’d hired.

Maybe this has to do with Japanese business culture too? If your supervisor asks you to do something (like, become one of the managers) it would be rude to not comply. "No thanks boss, I'd rather stay coding games" as an answer would be acceptable in western cultures, but maybe a bit problematic in Asia.

Probably he also got a salary raise and higher social standing as a manager; from how he talks about it I get the sense that he wasn't opposed to that.
I myself may be guilty of "diluting" the site as I'm not from computer science or engineering by background, I'm just interested as a hobby, and I joined around a year ago. Having said that, may I ask whether the point hurdle to upvoting is static? If so, an easy way to keep the quality constant may be to mark it up every year in order to account for point cumulation over time or to introduce a scheme similar to the rating of articles (i.e. points divided by time). The "natives" will have been around for a long time and/or will have a higher point/time ratio while interested bystanders/observers like myself will not. Why am I harming myself in this way? Because a few interested bystanders, not synchronized, will do no harm but add more and possibly synchronization and they may even harm themselves unintentionally (not to mention the "natives").
>>Comparing the G1 to the first iPhone on the basis of software compatibility ignores that Google and Apple operate in very different environments.

It should be ignored when comparing the devices. Consumers don't want to hear excuses for a flaw in the experience, they want the experience to not suck. Those environments are the result of very conscious choices by both organizations.

But agreed, the pre-3GS iPhone hardware frequently feels very laggy.
It's not dimensionless, so mc^2 = mc is a type mismatch
As a win32 programmer, I always try things like createwindowex and I expect to get msdn as it is the most informative page. I can get it on DDG (doesn't even, show up ). It's the first result on google, even if I mistype it like createwindowe or createwindoaexaze. But may be I'm a dinosaur.
I have, but I'm not craving extra integration, just a more Cocoa-y chrome that loads faster. Mailplane still relies on loading Gmail's HTML/JS/CSS to display itself; it's no better in that regard than creating a Fluid.app called Gmail (which is what I've done for now.)

Right now I can click on my Gmail bookmark in an already-open Safari session, then open the Mail app on my iPhone, read and archive three messages and close it before Gmail is even finished loading on my computer. Mail.app, on the other hand, has a ridiculously-slow IMAP sync every time I open it, wants to keep a local index of every message (9/10ths of my used Gmail quota is in the index, since I always send files out-of-band) instead of using Gmail's search API, has no conception of labels, and does its own horrible local spam-filtering, and no conversation view.

So, to reiterate: why can't there be a native OSX mail client that uses Gmail's API, and exposes the UI affordances appropriate to that API, while being made completely of regular Obj-C/Cocoa, and not loading a Webkit component unless it has to render an HTML message?
Ah how I wish the US had Sweden's net/mobile infrastructure.

Carriers here like to complain that people are downloading too much rather than just upgrading the infrastructure to deal with it. I shudder to think what would happen if people started downloading over the air on a serious scale, it's already pretty bad with normal web surfing.
there's a world to steal from the cartography and typography traditions, not only because these are already established "visual languages", but also their subtlety and respect to the viewer.

it is a shame that today's infograph designs are mostly going after 3D-rainbow-eye-candies, screaming too much of the designer him/herself.
Submitted app to YC, emailed YC, want to make sure it did not go to spam
Do religious fanatics/suicide attackers not fall under that definition? (Serious question, I'm not sure how they're classified in that whole discussion)
awesome job
I really want to know how that guy in the white 4wd keeps it on two wheels for so long.
~Go Nero

Stop this madness

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=33723&id=142983457...
This has got nothing to do with Hacker News!
wish our streets (in Texas) were as well paved as those
Visual Basic sounds right for you
Back in 2003 I tried introducing many of these techniques to our customers to look at their data in new ways. No one, not even the phd's among them had a clue how to use the visualizations.

We investigated and found that very few people even understood our basic charts (time series etc). An even bigger issue is that ~ 1/100 customers had the ability to take the numbers from a chart and use the numbers to change the way they did things. In other words few people could understand the charts, and even fewer could understand the charts and convert that into actionable information. To reiterate, these were basic time series charts.

We ended up writing a system to interpret the charts for them in plain language (making action easy), and highly annotating the charts with colors and indicators so they became able to be interpreted without any cognitive load.

I've completely gone away from all of the advanced visualization tools given my experience, and before introducing them again I would need strong evidence that it's actually working for our customers.
One success could mean you got lucky, more than one is meaningful. Blogger is Evan Williams' only business success; if Twitter actually makes enough money to justify the amount of money invested, that would be meaningful.

I think it's too early to pass any judgment on Square.
If you watch the video closely at around 2:05 - 2:20 you see that the driver of the two wheeling white jeep zig zags across all lanes building up horizontal tipping momentum and at a certain point the car tips over on two wheels. At that point you can maintain that position with the correct application of acceleration and steering... practice makes perfect and YMMV ;)
Mail.app actually has a conversation view these days, someone told me earlier this week!
That's why every time I look at the un-hyped kind of work I do on a daily basis writing system level C++ applications and bootloaders and begin to get depressed, I just have to think about how much fun and how mentally stimulating it really is and I get a smile on my face :)
It's proper name is "Parallel Coordinates", popularized in the 90s.

Pro:
- Spacing saving. Cartesian space is expansive as the X/Y axis can quickly take up the entire 2D plane. Turning the axis parallel to each other saves a lot of space hence the possibility for multi-dimensionality.

Con:
- Messy. A normal dot in X/Y scatter plot is "stretched" into a line. So a lot of crossings/overlaps.
- Order of the axes matters

Interactivity can help reduce the visual complexity, through axes reordering, or highlighting (also called "brushing").
Also, after little bit training, people can easily develop the ability to recognize patterns in Parallel Coordinates, just think how you learned to read the regression lines in scatter plots : )
I opened it in a background tab but didn't lok. Spent half an hour looking at some bugs for work, came back and did a double-take as I thought my Mail had transformed to someone else's inbox. :)
I imagine that once you have it up on two wheels and going in roughly the right direction, it's much like how you control a motorbike's angle: steering and acceleration. I can't imagine it's very comfortable for the passengers, though.
I don't think so... I've been using Mail.app for 2 years now, haven't come across this feature.
It also helps to over inflate your tires a bit.
I like the homepage and the idea, but I don't know how to install this. On Windows, all I get from the download link is a file called Breve5 that's 87.5kb.
>>Notice how your comment missed the mark emotionally.

Yes, that's true.... It's been like a roller-coaster of emotions, and that influenced my comment. I've been thinking a lot before posting this to HN.

>>Notice how you are describing depressive symptoms

True... It has a LOT to do with the time that I've spent on it, the numerous negative feedback of people (that wouldn't work, too hard, you should do something else, etc).

I learned that you can fight back those comments, but there is a limit, and after that it start to play with your head.

Tks for the hint, I can see how it is influencing my judgment, but I believe that will still proceed and contact a possible buyer on Monday.
Roller-coaster of emotions...

Petervandijck actually replied and made me see that was a good answer.
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If memory serves Evan Williams had to fire everyone including himself in the process of getting Blogger to the break-even point; a point that it reached only a few months prior to it's sale to Google. He seems like a resilient guy but it doesn't seem like he has any exceptional ability to generate profits. I don't know Jack Dorsey's back story so I can't comment there. Can you explain your thinking?
Her lawyer is on the record that he made that claim up, and it was baggage handlers, not customs officials.
You're saying what I'm thinking. I have a (European) HTC Hero and HTC combined with T-Mobile make the crappiest, most sluggish update experience possible. I am very disappointed with them - so much that will probably buy an iPhone next time around.

Also HTC's Sense UI is a perfect case of what you call "phone vendor wants to muck around with it to no great purpose".
Phone call or no, somehow I don't see anyone taking their sites offline in only 15 seconds without prior knowledge of what was going on.

That seems an awful lot more like a, "shit, someone's connected the dots" response. Especially if you're claiming ignorance about the domain name being called about. 15 seconds isn't even long enough to walk down the hall and ask someone about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-pin_bowling

some missing links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti#Defence_electronics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DATAR#The_DATAR_prototype
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Martin Gardner dies, aged 95.
Trust me, we're not laughing. We have to use our own products every day too :(
payment protocol.
That's why I like the !g option. If for whatever reason DDG does not seem to "get" what I want (probably because of me being trained to "google it") I can easily search with Google while leaving DDG as default search. Granted, I'm using it as default only since about a week, but this is quite alright when considering that I came from 100% Google. My previous attempts ended very similar to yours..
If someone refers to the "standard" algorithm for factoring on quantum computers, they're talking about Shor's algorithm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shors_algorithm

(Also, remember that factoring is not (known to be) NP-complete.)
Update, check out this kid: http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=24116068

#97 in the world, only 16 years old. That progress up the rankings chart is amazing.
The most practical lesser known types for my day to day programming are:

- element trees (etrees), partiocularly lxml implementation. Simple insert and append operations at xpaths (eg /body/html/table/tr[3]/td[7]), iterating over children, accessing element properties as object properties.

- dependency graphs (aka graphs). I have no idea why they're called graphs (I did business, not CS) but anywhere you have dependencies to store and work out (say for a project management app, or a packaging tool) these are the best fit.
Nice. I will switch when it handles mathematical expressions well.
I have no kids and I'm not planning to have one, so I can't express my opinion on how to educate children about technology, computers and social networks. This is a very difficult matter.

But if you decide to allow/encourage children to use these instruments, I believe that a secure social network aimed to protect children is better than Facebook with its lousy privacy rules and controls, where they could meet a lot of risks.
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Guys, do you know what forum did Andrey (chatroulette) promoted his site first time? DOes anybody know ?
> I'd much rather that a site just give me a long list of results, and allow me to scroll through them without loading delays.

I think that is a balance between server load and user convenience.

On ddg it is already pretty fast, if you aren't in a real hurry it is hardly noticeable and faster than clicking through to a second page.
I can't make sense of your thesis at all.

Is King Lear The Iliad, or The Odyssey? The Little Engine That Could? King of Kong?
thanks. and yes,forgot to mention I am NOT a programmer.I have been exposed to programming but have not done it.
The way I see it,I am the guy who can take the car to the repair shop, tell the mechanic that I know the problem is the radiator, but I am not able to fix it
They made Gmail default to HTTPS, and the same argument could apply for both.
thanks. How far can you go with drupal? what is the more extensive/impressive implementation on Drupal that you have seen?
Yup,but I have been exposed as Product Manager to the process of programming.
will try that. thanks!
Interested to see if anyone can suggest the equivalent tutorial in PHP?
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Can you offer a summary of it?
If you can avoid the mess that is PHP, do.

Don't ever try to build something in PHP that needs to be clean and clear. Messy and obscure is easy in PHP, clean and clear is hard, therefor the system will be working against you all the time.

However, you can't always avoid it. Sometimes you just can't use anything else.

RoR has as down side that it requires a lot more control over the server then PHP does. Also, you need to learn to think in RoR's MVC model. It you can, RoR will be a great assistent helping you along the way. If you can't, it will be as helpful as a bureaucrat.
When you think about things women like, you think about fashion, or fortune-telling, or food or dating boyfriends. So I decided to theme the game around “eating” — after eating dinner, women like to have dessert.

Fascinating. I had no idea that was the inspiration. When I first read this comment of his, it sounded so sexist to my Western ears. However, coming from a Japanese maybe it was far more matter-of-fact. My second thought was, "think of the trouble you could get into in the politically-correct UK, America, Canada, or Australia if a man said this in mixed company." Thoughts?
If you can get it working safely, I'd recommend obfuscating. It's easier to remove it later than to add it when your full source is out in the wild. Getting the genie back in the box is impossible.

Yes, some will find a way to get at it, but there is no reason to make it stupidly easy for everyone else. Your competent competitors would probably rather write their own code than sniff through obfuscated code, but they might be quite happy to have your full source at hand when solving problems. Also, very little is stopping someone from simply lifting your code, making a few changes and releasing it as their own, for 10 bucks less than yours. It happens, I assure you.
for those like me who asked who?

Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914 – May 22, 2010)[1] was an American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing micromagic, stage magic, pseudoscience, literature (especially the writings of Lewis Carroll), philosophy, scientific skepticism, and religion. He wrote the Mathematical Games column in Scientific American from 1956 to 1981, and published over 70 books.[2].

From wikipedia
While PHP is incredibly messy, if you already know HTML, I'd go with it.

It's a fairly gradual step up from static HTML/CSS, and will probably be less frustrating at the start.
I also have a HTC Hero and exactly the same experience. I don't care for the Sense UI and next time I'll get a phone that runs the native Android UI (a Google phone or they should force that any phone with alternative UI's also can run the native UIso upgrades are possible) or an iPhone.

The future looks good for Android but there's still a lot of work to be done.
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> Not only is the N1 much more expensive, but it also has a much worse music-playing interface. Until someone fixes the Android music player or writes their own (luckily, an app can have all the privileges that the core apps have, so anyone could just write the Awesome Music Player app and put it in the market)

I really want someone to fix this. Android needs a WinAmp type thing to play and catalogue any music.

The built-in player I've abandoned as it doesn't support FLAC.

I'm using andless ( http://code.google.com/p/andless/ ) which supports FLAC and is probably the cleanest interface. But it lacks a bit of polish (smooth transitions between screens, a tactile feel).

It also lacks album artwork read from meta-data and stuff like that. And it stutters occasionally on playback.

I really don't know about music file formats but just because I want a decent music player once I have some time I'm going to see if I can find any open source libraries elsewhere that I can plug in to see whether I can figure out how to fill these shortcomings.

Justin Frankel if you're reading this... we all know you could do this in a week or two and improve our lives in the same way WinAmp originally transformed the music experience on Windows.

[edit]OK, So I just realised I should do something about this, so I've just asked JF if he'd consider it: http://www.askjf.com/index.php?q=662s and I'm going to grab the Android SDK and work out just how inept I am at this. I guess the andless code is a good place to start.[/edit]
You should really watch it if you're interested because it doesn't have a simple summary. However, I think the core idea is that games are art and they can be used to convey strong emotion just like other forms of art. They don't have to be about fun, they can be about the experience like paintings, books, or movies don't always have to be comedies.
You can set up 4 processes with thin, just do:

> thin -e production -s 4 start

The problem is that each process listens on its own port. They can't all listen on port 3000, so you need some sort of proxy to parcel out the requests.
Ballmer basically laughed the iPhone off as insignificant. Yeah, he's obviously clairvoyant.
> One area where the iPhone has been far ahead of Android is in terms of backing up and restoring data. Buy a new iPhone, or install a major OS update, and when you re-sync with iTunes on your desktop, all your apps and data are re-installed.

Gruber doesn't seem to get that Android is cloud based: buy a new Android phone, sign in, and your contacts, apps and bookmarks are available immediately, no finding a PC to tether to.

Music and (for some odd reason) text messages are currently excluded though.
I think importance of owning UI/UX has been underestimated lately because importance of APIs and 3rd party ecosystem has been recognized. Especially in mobile space, many investors seem to suggest that don't concentrate building UX, but outsource it to 3rd parties by creating good APIs.

I'm not convinced that this is the right approach as UX really defines what your service is about. Twitter might be an outlier here, it's a rare startup that is succesfully operating mainly in protocol space.

Many other successful services are owning their main UX. E.g. Facebook, Dropbox, Foursquare, 37signals products to name a few. They have APIs and it's clear that those provide real value, but core experience is still defined by their UIs.

Now that we are starting to have open source or inexpensive scalable solutions for backend, developing good UX is actually becoming the hard part. If you outsource this hard work to 3rd parties without providing great financial opportunities for them, you are actually not providing value .
Have been using it for over a month now, no problems yet.
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Interesting, am I the only one that got into reading Gardner for his debunking pseudoscience? A half dozen comments so far and no one has even mentioned that. My introduction to him was the classic "Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science". I still have a copy of "Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus".
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your title is really misleading
So far it seems that every state I click on has "Megan Fox" in the interests list. I wonder if he cherry-picked his data. :P
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the same reason google do it?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=terms

people dont like reading stuff, when the search they scan for the relevant content.
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It's not all good however. Try representing all valid Sudokus with a ZDD
The question is valuable still. I'd like to know.
I think he does, but he acknowledges that data isn't included in the previous cloud based offering.

I was blown away when I first got an N1 (my first android) and signed in on startup and immediately had my contacts, email, calendar, etc wired up.

No computer required. No special software required. It just works.

What Google are doing now is taking that further and making that include data like music, pictures, TXT messages, etc. So now when you replace your android that stuff automatically comes across.

What would be lovely is that instead of just sync, whether we could manage the older devices. i.e: Get a new mobile, sync it, declare the old mobile to be wiped and have the old mobile hear that and purge itself.

This helps on the security side, as you could remotely wipe a stolen device. But it also helps with re-selling used phones safe in the knowledge that your data is intact and you're not leaving any on the device.

I think it's the next obvious gap filler in the cloud-owning-the-data space. We can move and sync, now clean up behind us.

Well, that and the fact that if data is persisted across all devices that you eventually will exceed the storage capacity of the device itself. But I'm guessing that network speed will keep pace with this and by the time we're at that crunch point Google will be able to serve that stuff on-demand and just use the phone as a local cache rather than as the persistent storage itself.
Anything start-up related should be in the main HN, all other items in a sub-HN.