skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kudos to you both for being optimistic about it :)
I was referring more to the thing where they look through your pictures, see pictures of you at a party holding a plastic cup and make silent, little judgements about it.

It only crosses my mind because I've actualy watched people get DQ'd from the call-back list with my own eyes because of photos where they weren't doing anything more than leaning in with a few close friends, clothed, acting sensible holding a bottle of Bud Light in their hand. It was actually...depressing.
Amazing documentary about origami and applied math
Nothing yet on Campaign Monitor, but I've added it to my list. (If it helps, Constant Contact is in the works.)
It doesn't exist at 1900 karma for sure. I think if we allowed downvoting on submissions there would be a lot less about Google and Apple, and perhaps less Zed Shaw, and definitely less politics, less Ruby/Rails, because then the wishes of non-fans would be weighed more in comparison to their fans. Heck, non-fans have no weight presently at all actually.
I think it's partially about the hardware. iPhone OS is a lightweight, stable embedded OS that runs well on cheap, low-power hardware. The old Apple TV is expensive in part because it's a low-spec Mac desktop with a custom UI (read: expensive Intel + Nvidia hardware). An iPad logic board without a screen or battery is probably pretty darn cheap, and more than powerful enough for video and music.

Touch is just part of the UI layer. A D-pad for navigation and two buttons (Go + Cancel) are enough for a set-top box. I don't buy any of the "touch remote" theories, and I don't think games are going to be a part of the picture. In the casual games world, iTV doesn't have the same advantages over Wii that iPhone has over the Nintendo DS.
I had a similar reaction. You can often tell where a writer's bias/agenda lies by what is cherry picked and what is ignored.
A highly compressed 1080P movie encoded in H264 must be something like 10GB or so? For the average US broadband connection (4Mbit/sec) that's going to take at least 54 minutes. No one wants to experience buffering in the middle of a movie so that would probably be a 10-15 minute buffering period before you started watching. That might be a little too much. They could do something like play locally cached movie trailers while the movie did its first 10-15m of buffering for a movie theater-ish experience. Steve Jobs singing "Let's all go to the lobby" Monty Burns style would work too.
For most "panda" tasks, isn't that the case? When people use a product to do something, they evaluate it based on how well it helps them accomplish that. Speed and reliability are important features there.

This model completely falls down for "lobster" tasks, which may be why Google sucks at social. But a URL-shortener, along with most of Google's products, is a panda task. I don't think that the emphasis on speed & reliability is misplaced there.
I've had nothing but good from Sony Ericsson phones, and the PSP is a great device. If anyone can turn Android around for gaming (who are already in the phone market) it would be Sony as they're the only one with a true credibility on games and an existing history of portable gaming.

I'd also prefer to be playing PSP-quality games rather than the many atrocious pay-for-flash games you can play for free online . . . but not on an iPhone/Pad because it doesn't support flash.

Edit: I remember saying this before, why can my PSP do flash but an iPad can't . . . well I guess this is my answer, a phone in a PSP.
Thanks! We are very fortunate to be working with a truly awesome designer (@limedaring on twitter). We simply did not stop working on the site until we felt it was awesome (I think I spent almost a week fulltime on it, and I wasn't doing the design).
I find this to be at extremely odds with the idea of innocent until proven guilty.
What makes it worth paying for?
The concept of distributed version control makes vendor lockin on a product like GitHub almost a moot point. For instance, see the _why mirror: http://github.com/whymirror - while not the same situation, it is similar.

GitHub's issues and wiki pages are not included in your repository, although I know the issues have a very nice API (I'm not sure about the wiki).
Even if we immediately see how wrong the feature comment is, it's still likely many of us won't come up with anything as useful as Rapportive's "gmail feature". That's the real kicker.

I fell in love with Rapportive the moment I installed it, but probably because I'm a regular blogger and glutton for info about people.

I had no idea it had 10k users in 24 hours, that's Facebook like numbers.

What I'm most surprised at is that they went into YCombinator after such amazing traction and gave up equity for such a small cash offering. The could have had any angel round they wanted with that type of fire. That's a big compliment to YC, but a strange business move for a new company.

Did they give up less equity for the 20k?
There could be a business opportunity in interfacing between asshole genius programmers and normal people. I wouldn't want to be that person though.
We do not want Google to know the true size of our service, so we have analytics code in every 5th pageview (when templates are constructed by scripts, it inserts the analytics code only when the UNIX time is divisible by 5.
Why we switched to Google Apps
Sure.. can we see the other pages? Is there a resource for that already? A for-sale site for designs that aren't being used?
We're working on it, actually. But the DOM is really hard. It's the browser, not the JS engine that parses the DOM.

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At one time, Google itself was thought to be a Yahoo feature.

It's sad that these "it's a feature" comments keep getting voted up.
Things are indeed changing, but I don't think it's for the better; five years ago they weren't demanding that companies pay them license fees in order to be allowed to use Linux, Samba, and other software they didn't write.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100806143457345
This is largely just a trick of marketing, if you look at the cost of the phone over it's lifetime it turns out much cheaper to buy up front, My n1 cost me 600 AUD, I then bought a 129 AUD 12gb 12 month SIM card and a VOIP account for 3$ a month for an incoming local call number in the current capital city I'm located in, which will be changed next time I relocate at the end of the year.

Total cost over 12 month period will almost definitely be less than 1k unless I go completely overboard on voip calls, to boot the voip calls are far cheaper than normal mobile operator calls, and work fine over 3g with the sipdroid client.
Or just set a shortcut key to a search box (e.g., a for amazon's search), and you can shorten that to 'a foo'.
If you're giving Google data, you're most certainly supporting them.
Sorry, can you explain what constitutes a "panda" or a "lobster" task?
I hope D-pads become standard on smartphones. I loathe playing games using virtual joypads.
i dont know about your question but they say that the only purpose of education is to get the child out of the house for the major part of the day so that the mother can get a breather
Knowing Apple, they will just say "HD" and keep the tech specs off the main product page. Only us techies will complain.

Not that it's a bad thing. Apple has convinced consumers that they will provide a quality product (and they will), so they don't need to stoop to number wars.
I love the food at Facebook. People underestimate how important good food is.
> "benevolence" does not mean "doing it for the sake of some one else". It is more like, "doing what is right; right for me and right for others"

My sources, which include http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/benevolence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolence disagree.

What are your sources?
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GMX[1] ain't that bad, if you like your webmail to look like a fake desktop client (cf. Yahoo Mail). Also has file storage etc. NB: I'm talking about gmx.com, if you live in Germany/Austria/Switzerland, you have to live with the inferior original service. Unless you register over a proxy, that is (access is possible, just registering is turned off).

I've become really fond of GMail's navigation, though. Beats desktop clients, although sup[1] wasn't that bad and you could probably do a lot with Emacs MUAs…

[1]: http://www.gmx.com

[2]: http://sup.rubyforge.org/
ExpressionEngine doesn't have themes like Wordpress or Drupal has. It's templating system is a little different. It's still all HTML / CSS though.

Here is what I would do. First have your designers create PSD mock-ups for their designs. Then, pick the winning design(s) and either have those designers build HTML / CSS from it or have someone else do this. Lastly, hire a guru of your chosen CMS to build that HTML / CSS into themes / templates.
Same in Spanish ('usted' and 'tu', respectively).
France comes to mind:

... and France's first university on the Shanghai Jiao Tong list: about 40. And it goes down from there, probably in large part because its universities are underfunded, like most of Europe's.

Free from the students perspective is actually a net gain for society because a better educated general public benefits everybody, not just the students.

The question is what happens on the margins and whether there are enough university slots for everyone who wants to go. In the U.S., there basically are, especially when one takes into the community college -> four year path. From what I understand, in most of Europe this is a continual problem.

I think your example does more to prove my point than disprove it.
I'm a fan of Sony Ericsson. I hope they can get back to their glory days.

My old W810i was the most dependable phone ever. I dropped that thing so many times, one time out of a first floor window onto concrete. Barely a scratch. I went on a five day trip without a charger. No problem. Gave it to one of my friends and he's still using it years later.

It was there for me through thick and thin. Today's smartphones can't hold a charge past dinner time.

(Edit: Mahmud, yeah I now remember the dodgy proprietary connector. That was a terrible idea.)
That's actually something I thought on for a while, but never got the time to implement. Sort of an anti-Reddit; you add your RSS feeds, and then like or dislike various things you read. The software, using various ranking metrics, then begins to recognise the content in the RSS feeds, and displays what you consider more interesting more prominently (so it acts as the ranking algorithm without social input).

I don't think something like that would be hard to implement. Ranking metrics could be simple at first: whether a site is "preferred", whether content is agreed with or disagreed with (the software should display both prominently, otherwise it ends up as a circlejerk), and whether the content is interesting or disinteresting.

However, the big problem I saw with such a setup was that it de-socializes the web; while I get a custom news feed, I don't get the quality comments I generally find on aggregators like HN or Reddit (so long as it's a decent subreddit anyway). So, the next iteration could use a distributed database backend (like CouchDB) to allow comments to be shared cross-node; people share a small web presence on their site, and you can choose to follow their comments on articles, like some sort of distributed Twitter.

The self-defeating part of the exercise that got me was that at that point, you've basically made discovery difficult. Which you'd address with a central hub. At which point, why not just use HN/Reddit anyway?
There's no such thing as idiomatic C++. The language is so huge and complex that all successful teams I've worked with that use it have selected a subset to use as part of their coding standard. In each case those subsets were different
If you're going to switch search engines, you should start blocking out Google advertising and analytics services as well; AdBlockPlus and an /etc/hosts killfile are good places to start.
Women that code SVMs, listen to Ulver, and read 18th century European literature actually exist?!?!?

Does she have sisters?
I think it's already been done: http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/04/09/node-js-yui-3-dom-man...

And the comments from when that was first posted to yc: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1253268
The fact that people have time to do that is disturbing to me.
Yeah, I bet Cerf is considering resignation.

http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2010/08/netw...
Relentlessly Resourceful[0]

[0]http://www.paulgraham.com/relres.html
writing compilers is a fairly involved computer science topic, and while it does happen that some people without formal education in CS have written compilers, I'd suggest that most compiler nerds are educated to at least undergrad level, more likely masters level in CS. So sure, neither of those are PhD's, but it seems odd to praise one aspect of formal CS - writing compilers, and not another - gaining a PhD.
Good catch. Firefox's auto-correct is still not smart enough to catch misused words :)
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In my experience, PhDs are generally smart people and pleasant to work with. They work hard, and the ones from engineering and the sciences are relatively immune to bullshit.
The ensuing discussion has completely failed to add to the thread in any way, and now it's taking up all this real estate at the top. For future threads, please refrain from indulging in this sort of thing.
Thanks for the correction of the typo.
> Personally, I have a small measure of respect for the Ph.D title, but it does not sway me unless the focus matches what I need. "It's great that you solved P != NP, but can you write a financial app for this customer?"

I do see that. But... well, quality PhDs aren't going to be applying for jobs that require you to do code monkey work, they'll be the ones writing new financial models, and a quick PoC in haskell.
http://ifindkarma.posterous.com/pandas-and-lobsters-why-goog...

Was all over Hacker News for a while, with several discussion threads referring to it afterwards.
Paper #4 was a mistake and slipped in by accident. Sorry about that.

I think you're misreading and/or selectively quoting on most offer others, though.

Please remember, the argument is not "carb cutting has no beneficial effects". The argument is, "carb cutting has no long-term effects on weight loss."
What Happened to Yahoo
I did an experiment on this last year. Both Y!S and ask.com (of all things) came out as reasonable alternatives. Bing didn't. Things may have changed by now.

http://canonical.org/~kragen/search-comparison-2009.html
What's the reason to hide your size from Google (or anybody for that matter)?
I had the W890i with boombox and all the gadgets. The charger slot functions as headphones, the headphones function as antenna, and everything uses everything else.

I had a tiny pin break off and the whole thing was rendered useless. Also, a year into it the battery started dying within a few hours of full charge.

I really loved walking into my apartment, throwing the phone on the couch and having music play through my boombox, but a year into it the thing felt dated.
Has there ever been a controlled study about whether collective bargaining leads to higher wages in the long run? (Excluding effects like lobbying for restrictions on entering the market.)

From what I know, I can't rule out that collective bargaining for higher wage is like advancing the tide with a bucket.
This is good news. However, in order for Android to become a more viable and successful gaming platform, google better make some DRASTIC changes to underlying Dalvik VM in Android 3.0 or provide us developers with better C++ libraries to write games.

Currently, the Garbage Collector in Dalvik is a total piece of shit. When the GC runs, your game can freeze for up to 100-200ms, totally kills the gaming experience. What most developers who code in Java does is to use object pool and manage memory manually, its a huge pain in the butt.

If you are a C++ developer using the NDK, you are in for a world of pain as well, you can't control EGL context from C++, you can't receive events, can't play/mix sound, can't access assets (easily). To do all of these, you are stuck with using a JNI layer, which just decrease performance.

On top of that, current devices with similar hardware specs (1ghz snapdragon, wvga screen) are all fill-rate limited to 30fps.
Well, you either have to publish your member variables and their names to the world, or use PIMPL, which is (I think) a bit of a hack. Having partial classes (a la C#) would be nice for this.
A Timeline of Google APIs
Smart vending machines in Tokyo train station recognize age, sex
Tell HN: In Skype chat, using s/rong/right/ will amend misspelled messages.
I love this attention to detail. In some versions of the Skype client (e.g. it works on my Mac version 2.8.0.851, but not a friends Windows client), when you've sent a misspelt word, you can use the old ed command s/rong/right/ to fix it, and it will amend your previous message, even after it's sent.

It only seems to work for the most recent chat message sent though.
There's an incredible amount of cool stuff you can do with this kind of email integration, and mostly it's done in-house by companies for competitive advantage reasons.

A real world example I've seen: A potential clients emails you, the system checks if they know any of your colleagues or friends, pull up data on the client's company (company news, figures, creditworthiness, etc.), finds common interests, etc. With the extra information instantaneously to hand, your chances of converting the prospect to a client go up by an order of magnitude.

That kind of functionality can be worth a fortune. But at the moment it's only large enterprise companies that can build it, making it affordable to small to mid-size companies seems a pretty solid business plan. I think Rapportive in going the more "generic" route (api, etc.) are going to steal etacts thunder and the marketplace. It's a brilliant idea.
Yeah. "C++0b" is most likely at this point.
Not at all. Behind the compiler curtain, they're the same as functors (http://www.newty.de/fpt/functor.html)
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I'd be more worried that:

* The session token you come up with will be insecure, like PHP's have been as recently as (I think?) this year

* That you'll end up reinventing session fixation vulnerabilities

* That you'll screw up session timeouts and logouts and succumb to "permanent" session hijacking flaws

* That you'll try to encode encrypted information into the session cookie itself, rather than just an opaque random token, and open that whole kettle of worms.
Ok, so there are actually quite a few variables when you are considering. Mainly, the type of T-shirt you want to print on and the type of graphic you want printed.

The three main types of shirt printing are...

Screenprinting - The Old standby. Looks good, washes fairly well. But can get expensive when you get into multiple colors. Also, only higher end houses are going to be able to handle larger resolutions on your graphics.

Direct 2 Garment - This is the new kid on the block. It's essentially an Ink Jet printer that has been hacked to take garment dye. Upside is it prints RIDICULOUSLY high resolution graphics. And you can generally get a small run done for not a ton of cash. Down side is, the house doing the work has to know what they are doing. Poorly cured DTG work will fade almost immediately.

TRANSFER PRINTING - This is like a hybrid of one of the two above methods with the Iron ons you get at office max. Don't hate though, Transfer printing can be awesome. Pretty much every sports team ever uses transfer printing. It makes the graphic stand out (physically) from the shirt.

Find someone local to you. I guarantee there is a hungry local print house that is close to you that would trip over itself for your business right now. The economy has hit printers pretty hard.

I will be happy to discuss your order specifics with you in more detail and point you in the right direction. Full disclosure, I'm from a Garment Industry family and I currently own a T-Shirt company myself. Not sleazy though, as we just print our own stuff for resale and I won't be trying to get you to buy from us :-)

My contact email is in my profile, or we can discuss it right here in the HN Comments section.
> Why would you continue to support a company whose policies you no longer support

I use tools not because I want to support a company, but because the tool is useful to me.

Things can be legal without enforcing them.
For example, you can breath air without government enforcing it.
Or you can switch search engine providers without government enforcement.

More important observation here is that this particular article and discussion in comments is too politically charged (my comment above got even downvoted twice already).
That's a bad sign and most likely nothing good would come out from this discussion.
> Is that equitable? No. But the problem is more on the side of private sector jobs providing no benefits rather than govt jobs providing too much.

Those private sector jobs are paying for the public sector benefits.... If their beneifts are inadequate, why should they be paying for someone else's better benefits?

If you think that you can run a private sector biz and provide more benefits than SOP, go for it. Your employees will have it better and you'll have better employees, which will let you crush the competition, which you clearly think is, at the very least, wrong.

That's pretty close to a moral imperative so ....
I have an actual smoker in my garage, but my partner Dave just built his own smoke gun out of $15 bucks worth of parts. Write something up about your smoke injector thingy so we can all talk about smoked food next!
Linux, sandboxes and happy accidents can help a soldier.
My point is to get experience with a solid company then use that. I think working for free is ok, obviously far from ideal, but the ends justify the means if it gets you where you need to go.
In some ways i agree, but in others i disagree.

I'm a person who loves traffic lights, because the traffic light specifically tells a road user You can go or no you cant go. nobody has to do any guesswork as to who is allowed to go.

I see the whole "more alert because its more dangerous" every day. There used to be a single lane roundabout that i traveled through every day that they have now changed to a double lane roundabout. I am not sure of actual crash statistics related to it, but i see that people are more alert, because it is far more dangerous to what it used to be.