skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"sidesteps a whole swathe of engineering challenges"

Isn't it funny that as time marches on and certain technologies improve, that other areas become much simpler and cheaper to deal with. I can imagine that components such as this making it easier for more engineers and hobbyists getting into electronics, embedded systems, etc.. because of this.

As a kid my parents had one of those fiber optic swans you put water in and set atop a "light bulb"; this was in the early 80s or late 70s and I thought at the time (being a geek and familiar with RF) that this fiber optic technology is going to have long reaching ramifications in a good way...

I'm excited..
Click the Youtube watermark on the right bottom corner of the video. :)
Fascinating. Since it seems from the article that smaller companies are less worker friendly, and people are literally desperate to work for Foxconn, it's hard not to see Gou as a good thing for China & the Chinese.

A business epic...
I try not to spend money on things that will result in watching more TV. Things like cable, DVR, etc. I want some of these things, but I feel like this sort of spending results in lower life-happiness which is the opposite of what you want from spending money.
Not so fast! Pivot and make it for blind kids

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBv79LKfMt4
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"these people commited suicide at work" - they live at work, in dormitories.
I believe this should be "Ask HN:".
Okay, point taken. Except the yield statements return plain tuples, so in fact it /is/ code as data(I just execute it as Python though). You can also have quoting by leaving of the yield, which will make it a plain old tuple.
Just guessing but I think the biggest market will be for flash will be for games development.
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This looks similar to Dynamic DNS service from DynDNS.com. This is useful if you would like to have a domain name for your home network, for example, but don't want to purchase a domain name and have to update the IP address whenever the ISP changes it.

The downside I see here is that some (many?) home routers support DynDNS service to automatically update your IP address with DynDNS whenever it changes. I don't know whether home routers can be configured to do the same with IPQuick service.
It's great that Apps accounts can have Google Voice now (as well as all the other servers), so Apps users don't have to maintain a separate address book. I hope that it is possible to transfer Google Voice numbers from an @gmail.com account to an Apps account.

Apparently it's been possible to transfer between @gmail.com accounts, so I'd imagine they'd support this.

Here is the form you can request a transfer through:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cjlWRDFTWERk...
You keep repeating this bullshit about protecting users over and over again.
Sorry, but the only interested users of the source code are programmers, so restrictive licenses do hurt true users of the product. As for non-programmer users they don't give a damn about openness or closeness of the code, lip service at most. The thing either works or it does not, period.

I believe there are lot of those who chose Android because they heard it is open. Now ask, how many did see the single line of Android code.
How did Android being "100%" open help those poor solus have skype and tethering on their phones.
Exploring Lisp on the JVM
Great starting point even if it's not all the way to Lisp :) Shouldn't be too hard to add the rest - read the SICP on the meta-circular evaluator and translate http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/sicp/book/node76.html
HP Ramps up Memristor development
Claims it's part of the Illumos Foundation although I don't see any evidence of that in a quick check of the latter's website (which of course doesn't mean anything).
"until Twiddla went big"

How big to have to change?

"half dozen boxes ... for S3stat"

What kind of boxes do you use and how much do you need to process?

(I use 2 of your services and I love it)
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Networking equipment is another place where 64-bit systems are useful. See chip offerings from places like NetLogic and Cavium, for instance: their multicore MIPS chips are 64-bit.

Databases are another place where 64-bit systems shine. Maybe you already assumed that was included under "HPC-type applications", though. When I hear HPC, I think number-crunching, not databases, though.
Let me see... what about an antitrust investigation?

- http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20013263-37.html

- http://www.intomobile.com/2010/08/10/eu-joins-ftc-apple-inve...

And Apple removed even the restriction it imposes to advertisement (again, FTC may be a good reason for this):

- http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-11/ftc-said-to-prepare...
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probably better knowing he didn't pay for the compliment :)
I think they go hand in hand. You can only treat someone as a guest if you know something about them. It is the influx of data that has given character to customers. The more data you have, the more you will build their persona.
Another Paypal horror story added to the list.
If someone was wondering (as i did), no, he didn't let 600k on his paypal account. That's what he's earned since they limited his account 25th august.

See http://twitter.com/Toucanator/status/24089600756 and http://twitter.com/xnotch/statuses/24089647124 .

EDIT: Minecraft complete steam sales data,amazing: http://m00d.net/minecraft/sales/
It sure doesn't feel like they have a coherent plan. They have two new OS (Meego and Symbian^3), they say "QT everywhere" but most of their apps don't run on Symbian and Meego/Maemo at the same time.

They don't provide much support for the n900 users which was supposed to be a developer's phone but said "Maemo is dead, we're moving on to Meego". Some of those users are moving away to Android and it won't be easy to win them back.

Nokia can't wait an extra 3-4 years, they've already lost 2-3 years.
Why on earth would you keep 600K on your paypal account anyway?
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The "paypal blocked my money" stories are frequent.

I'm curious to which extent this is legal. I'm pretty sure a bank isn't allowed to block access to your accounts without a formal request from a legal entity.

Paypal doesn't "own" the money. This sounds to me as extremely abusive.

Is that this frequent?
Yes. I have that. Its very annoying.
A half an hour?

I don't want to get all "Get off my lawn!" on your ass, but really-- if this is important to you, you ought to spend more than a half an hour on it before asking someone else to do the research for you.

If it's not important, well then, all the more reason not to fob the research off on other people.

Sheesh.

Anyway, the answer to your question is in the TOS (http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html)

9.1 Free, Public Accessibility to Your Maps API Implementation. Your Maps API Implementation must be generally accessible to users without charge. You may require users to log in to your Maps API Implementation if you do not require users to pay a fee. Unless you have entered into a separate written agreement with Google or obtained Google's written permission, your Maps API Implementation must not:

(a) require a fee-based subscription or other fee-based restricted access; or
(b) operate only behind a firewall or only on an internal network (except during the development and testing phase).

So sure, you can use it on a commercial site-- as long as you are not (directly or indirectly) charging for the map access.

For example: suppose you have a site selling CDs. You could use the Google Earth/Maps API to show where the CDs were recorded, as long as this part of the site is freely available to all comers.
What is the worst design or programming mistake you've ever made?
At least he's a known internet guy, it's pretty clear where the money is coming from and this post alone will get paypal to sort it immediately.

But why do you have to be a celeb to get decent support from paypal? Freezing over half a million euros and they don't even assign him a dedicated support person? They don't call him? Disgraceful.
Actually, unless it sucks they pretty much have to - otherwise the backslash against them is going to be way bigger than it was last time.

And yes, users can give apps they don't like a bad rating, but that is something they can do no matter what language or framework the app is written in.

Finally, there is no reason to expect that an App written in flash is a priori inferior to one written in objective c; especially not as a developer of a higher level language can spend more time matching the capabilities of his app to the expectations of its users.
That's the rub--Paypal is not a bank. They can do whatever they want with the virtual money that is exchanged on their servers. Which is why a real merchant account is the only serious option for a larger-scale business.
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Perhaps now, but I when I was using it 4 years ago, it wasn't the easiest thing to get going. Perhaps I will check it out soon, but I'm reasonably content with my setup right now.
I bought Minecraft so I guess part of this money is/was mine.

I never understand why people still use Paypal. There are so many horror stories and so many alternatives. Just don't use them.
I'm building a website that I would like to launch soon and were planning on selling digital goods. My initial idea was to just use the PayPal shopping cart, since I already have a PayPal account and it so easy to set up(I definitely don't want to go through the hassle of setting up a merchant account).

But all these horror stories I have read on HN the last few days have scared me a bit. I also seems that its even worse if you're not a US citizen, especially if you live in a "suspicious' country (I'm South African, not really a country with high internet fraud cases, but all African countries are painted in a bad light for some reason). But are there really any good alternatives?
Yeah, ABCL is solid on the JVM. I am still struggling to get it on Android though.
It seems to me he could switch to Google Checkout or Amazon Payments in the meantime until the situation gets resolved.
Well that's me told!

I did find that ToS but I wasn't sure that "Maps API" and "Google Earth Maps API" were interchangeable. I'll dig deeper...

My intention is to provide a map based preview of some real-time data as the entry point to the service (publicly accessible, no charge) and then to charge for extended information/alerts. It sounds like that should be acceptable use.
Ask HN: Would you employ a developer who talks to himself during work?
I know this question might sound bizarre. I have never met someone in my career talking to himself in front of his computer until recently and puzzled myself about the reasons and the impact on his work...
They are a bank in Europe, just not the US. Sounds like the whole legal status in the US is a bit of a mess really:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#Regulation
Because bandwidth is cheap. Programmers and system administers are not. And neither is your time when you have to fix the broken system.
They are a bank in Europe - or at least, they have a banking license in Europe.

Edit: mattmanser got there first.
How do people not know that Paypal does this by now? Wouldn't you want to avoid Paypal?
Neither of those have good support for countries outside the US. It's sad, but to date there's still no good alternative to Paypal. They suck but they're also the best.
What is HDR:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging
http://twitter.com/xnotch/statuses/24089647124
Regardless of coursework, a lot of this stuff should be on the to-do list for even experienced people. The further you move through your career, the more second-nature your technical skills, and the more need there is for communication and persuasion.

Personally I spend more time reading up on these things than I do reading up on the latest technical developments.
First: It should have been possible to download the Mail for Exchange directly to my computer for installation -- like it was a few months back. But no, you must go through the Ovi-store these days. (OK, I agree this is kind of a step into the right direction, but for me it would have been dead simple to get the SIS to my computer and install it from there...)

Next: I needed to start Download! in the phone, and install the Ovi-client. This went nicely, but is an extra step and took a few minutes.

Then onto the "horrible, awful and terrible" Ovi-experience;

1. The client is clearly built on the browser. It felt like browsing someones website rather than using an S60 app. Pressing up takes me to a random button somewhere above current focus. Almost never the previous button as you would expect. Down worked a bit better. It did not even feel like using a website someone designed for S60, those usually have well aligned buttons that clearly focus.

2. I managed to find Search-item, wait for a few screens to load (why can't the system load any data beforehand, does it need to reload the page for every action?!). I also realized I must separately click select to actually focus the text-field, instead of just starting to write after Options/Search (and waiting for page to load). So I found the app, and a link to it's info page. Finally, a download link. BUT: I must login, with an Ovi username, to download this free add-on! Why? So I go to my computer to figure out my credentials...

3. I enter my credentials, and the loading bar shows some action... I wait. I wait. Seems like it's not loading anymore, but still shows the same login form. Due to my understanding of how the system might be implemented, I figure a redirect has failed or something, so I press Back (like I might when browsing) to go to previous page and indeed: I am logged in!

4. Logged in and ready to press the link, I press it and it does indeed install the software. Once it has done that, the indication of "successfully installed" is not clear enough so I spend some time wondering about that.

5. I go trough a few steps of Menu to get to Installations, and indeed find "Mail for Exchange" there, ready for action.

So lot's of small annoying things that I think would have made a "normal user" quit the task. Admit I was tired, but the process put the thought "why does this have to be so hard" in my head all the time.

(Note: I may remember some details incorrectly, but this should be pretty accurate as I did this yesterday evening).
actually this tweet explains it a little better: http://twitter.com/xnotch/status/24100656191
Thinking about this some more over lunch today I think that a merge of the functionality of Dopplr and FourSquare would be a really interesting thing.

Combining the social gaming and tips from FourSquare with the trip information and tips from Dopplr would probably be a really useful result.
Stories like this have been frequent for almost ten years now. I remember writing about this in 2005 and it was already old news by several years then.
>Now I feel they are back on square one: running around like headless chicken looking for a solution. They should have given their current solution a real chance

They are most likely to continue with their new products and solutions. I believe it is quite common for publically traded companies that have been having problems to switch CEO when things start getting better. The point of that is to restore the trust of the stock holders. Nokia stock gained 5% in Helsinki stock exchange after the news was published. Kallasvuo will even continue at Nokia-Siemens so one might think the change of CEO is mostly cosmetical.
What alternatives?
This was my initial reaction. I thought about emailing paypal to let them know that I had purchased a product...

...but their contact page wasn't working.
That'd be nice... Write the current function to the point where I can write itself, and then add everything needed for a real Lisp. Then it wouldn't be 5 minutes anymore though.
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The fact that you and many others said experiences were more worth it is not so surprising.

http://lifehacker.com/5608980/spend-on-experiences-instead-o...
So he's sold 60k prepurchases at EUR 9.95 in a little over two weeks?! Holy cow.

Found some stats - http://www.minecraft.net/stats.jsp
i think this is a great idea but one month is too long. why not have different options like 1-3 days, 1 week, once every month or special occasions (birthdays, anniversaries)?
Google is trying to create their own payment system. It hasn't gotten much traction. Why don't they go ahead and support countries throughout the world (if they want to leave out a FEW places like North Korea that would be fine)? Seems to me that then they would have a ready-made constituency. Not to mention pleasing a huge number of Android developers. Yet they don't do this... Why? There must be something difficult or dangerous about it, but what? Does anyone know the answer?
Well, you can bet this kind of experience would quickly convince somebody to add alternative billing/donation options :)
You guys have failed projects, too? Nice to know that :-)

Is there anything new coming out of you guys in the near future?
What.. just bought Minecraft last week, awesome :)

Hope he gets this sorted out.. Also i think it's quite interesting to see one person making such an amount of money with an alpha version of a game that has not much content and graphics from the last century but fun gameplay. EA and friends should learn from this.
Granted, the Half Life episodes haven't exactly been truly episodic, but it's only been three years since episode 2.

Fake edit: damn has it been THREE years?
It wouldn't increase the resolution, it would increase the dynamic range; for two shots with different exposure you would do 4 pixels white if both were white, two pixels white if one was full white and the other full black, etc. (your flat panel probably already uses a similar approach to get roughly 8bits of overall color-depth out of 7bit elements)
I'd hardly be concerned with the impact on HIS work. Developers can be strange people, as long as he's got a good head I wouldn't be concerned about it. The problem is the impact on the others. If everyone works in an open area this would be a bit of a problem.
Well yeah, I thought it was a pretty weird idea too. I speak a few Indian languages, but I can only imagine desi people hurling abuses back at random people calling them to say "Bhai waah aap ka to jawaab nahi!". Might work with some niche like Indians abroad doing it for their extended families or something.

Or maybe people from other countries might buy it.
s/laptops/netbooks as atom competitor.

It could allso give you better allways on with a real laptop where you dont need to hibernate to save power.
I didn't realize that...in that case, I volunteer to let him use my PayPal account!
I think I would want to purchase it right now actually. My girlfriend is somewhat a depressed personality and this would def be a good self improvement for only $15.00.

Shes the type that always thinks negative about themselves. I imagine everyone knows the types.
It's possible, I have done this to my transitioned Google Account.
Is he doing some kind of rubber duck debugging?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

I don't talk to myself, but sometimes by simply talking aloud about my problems to my peers I can flesh out a solution to a hard problem.

I have seen other programmers talk to themselves to find a solution when they're stuck, and it seems to work quite well.
Show me a device. I feed up with a paper tigers. ^_^
I stand corrected, good to know!
Can anyone explain how PayPal is not constantly in court defending against class action law suits? No lawyer anywhere has considered the possibility of a massive payout from representing all of the clients over the world whose money PayPal has swallowed without explanation? Or, somehow, PayPal has managed to craft contracts so legally airtight that they can do absolutely anything with anyone's money with absolutely no legal obligations on their part?

It seems like the latter, but that seems to indicate that the legal systems of the world are fundamentally broken.
Achieving reliable fraud detection is apparently very hard
Yes, I would. Thinking out loud helps a lot in my experience - and that's what most people perceive as "talking to himself".
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Again, you're applying your definition of fun. Your definition is something that allows you to grow in skill. I certainly enjoy that.

Scott Adams wrote a very good article about the illusion of skill this week. Skill is mostly the result of a compulsion loop. I play Scrabble, I improve, so I play more Scrabble. It's not much different than harvest crop, get money, build another crop.

If I play Scrabble more than you, I will probably beat you when you and I play Scrabble. If I play Farmville more than you, I will have a bigger and better farm. Both of those are generalities (it is of course quite possible to play both games sub-optimally, though easier with the former).

Also that's not the only thing anyone considers fun. A lot of people look at a virtual farm full of crops and chickens and barns and think "boy that looks fun to play". Millions. There's more to it than compulsion loops, they don't keep players around for very long.
The problem is that it's difficult to find a better solution.

If all goes well, Paypal is generally by far the best option.

If all goes poorly... not so much.

But for most, it goes well.
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Ah, lovely manifest problems! It's truly a new hell today for C++ applications.
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This game is nearly everyday on the front-page of reddit/digg/etc... , and a lot of people are making youtube videos of their creations. With all this web coverage he doesn't need to spend money in advertising :).

A game that makes people build something (even if useless, it's still a game) and make it easy to share, instead of bovinely click around like in Zynga's games. Recipe for success?
I have one complaint with the Twitter login dropdown, when you miss the arrow it loads the login page. That's fixed here but it doesn't work without JS. You should probably fix that.
For me, yes. You lose all of your vanity URLs from Profiles, Youtube, Blogger, etc because you can't move those to your new account. You'll still have to manage 2 Google Accounts. Everything actually becomes MORE difficult because managing multiple accounts using the new "Multiple Sign on" feature is terrible. You constantly have to switch between accounts and many times if you switch accounts in one tab, a previously open tab is still in your other account. If you try to Compose Email, or Add a Cal Event, or something else, you'll get prompted for errors because Google doesn't know which account you're on.

This is terrible for Youtube (which isn't compatible with Multiple Sign on).

These new transitioned accounts are a complete disaster for existing users who have been using Google services. You can't merge your accounts at all, so plan on managing multiple accounts. It's sad too because the existing users were the ones who cried out for help on Google's forums. Existing users are the ones with the problems that need to be solved. Unfortunately these new transitioned Apps account do nothing for us...
There's Google Checkout and Amazon Payments, neither of which work outside the US. There's also AlertPay, which is apparently used by IPREDator and which is sometimes used by 7chan. I'm not sure whether I trust them more than PayPal.
Honest question: do you think a phone call from someone paid to say, "You're awesome!" will help your girlfriend's mood?