skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Dear Hackers, care to join for beta testing and feedback?
Dear Hackers, I'm about to enter the public beta with my service http://www.gmbhnews.com/make-mobile-site/ a mobile site making service. Simply put, it uses your rss feed to generate a mobile optimized version of a publisher's content, the publisher can also monetize it with advertisement.

I'm looking for some beta tester, the ideal profile: you have a significant mobile traffic on your site , from many devices: androi, iOs, Palm, symbiane....etc. I'll also be glad to receive any feedback.

Thank you.
For 5.1 OurDelta are MariaDB builds. So there are only two to consider. See this thread on Stackoverflow, and my reply:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2450534/which-mysql-fork-...
The math class in school got some TRS-80 (trash as it was called) which nobody used. I stayed after class to play with them and learned its BASIC. My sister bought me an AppleIIgs, some BASIC books and an obscurely dense data structure book. I started by typing in the BASIC programs from the books and learned how they work.

Of course I spent way too much time playing computer games throughout high school. The only obvious benefit was it motivated me to learn about programming to write my own games, which never happened. I got into assembly because most games were written in it back then.

UCB had a summer program to let high schoolers sign up for classes. I took a Pascal class but felt it's too restrictive. When I signed up for a night class on C in a community college, I knew I found my language.

In university I got the formal training on data structure, compiler, database, Scheme/Lisp, etc. Compiler and database were my favorites. Somehow I didn't like AI. At the time I thought may be because it's the poor teaching of the professor, but now I think it's because there were fair amount of AI bullshit in the class. The things that I didn't have a chance to get into were network and graphic. It's years later that I took night class on network and communication at extension program.

Of course, once started working, it was database, database, and database.

Now if people asked is a formal CS education good? I would say yes it definitely helps. It forces you to explore many different topics that you might not be comfortable with.
Ask HN: How does Opera make money? Why isn't their browser not so popular?
HN, Is anyone here from Opera?

My question is simple as in title: Does anyone know how Opera makes money?

Feature after feature, we see being ripped off from Opera browser into other browsers. Why isn't their browser eating into the market.

AFAIK, it's only the mini browser that does have a tiny bit share in the mobile market.

Anyone?
These claims need citations.

And remember, we don't just pay federal income taxes. We also pay state incomes tax (most states), sales tax (most states and locales), property tax, item taxes (like luxury taxes), FICA tax, etc...

While I'm sure a LOT of money goes to the military, I'm not sure I believe it is most of it.
Yes, once you start to "promote" yourself your personality becomes "public" and different privacy conditions start to apply to you. Don't be surprised of the effects.
Indeed. I feel offended when I have to spend (usually) over 5 GBP for a Kindle edition of a 20-year old book, and get a poorly formatted, poorly indexed piece of text that someone at a publisher has spent perhaps 20 minutes looking over, judging from the quality of the product, when I can go to a library and borrow it for free, or go to a second-hand bookstore and buy it for 50p.

The prices of books on Kindle are simply scandalous for the quality of the product and the lack of a secondary market. You're lucky if you get both a table of contents with hyperlinks and chapter markers that work; if you're unlucky, you end up with something the length of a Dostoyevsky that you have to binary search through with page number gotos.
Nobody is being taxed on the cash one has in his bank account. You're taxed on the income your cash generates.

So cut the crap.
Terminal workflow automation? too much kool aid :)

I'm using this gem, is very handy, but it is not a workflow.
If the goal is to create economic activity...

- Taking actions that result in rich people having more money is more likely to result in them saving or investing it, and not in them going out and spending it right now.

- Taking actions that result in someone who is just scraping by having more money is more likely to result in them spending that money right now.

If the goal is to get the economy moving again, I tend to think the latter solution is a better one in this instance.

Also, public works are a great thing to spend on - we're going to have to do it eventually, labor is really cheap right now, and it's better to fix before it breaks and more people die because of broken gas lines or collapsing bridges....
It's not very deep data, but you can get traffic numbers per project by going to Graphs -> Traffic from the project page.

(As an example, here are the numbers for Cyclone: http://github.com/fiorix/cyclone/graphs/traffic )
This is not a replacement for captchas.
Normally, I refrain from writing such bad things about start-ups and people's ideas, unless there is something really awful about it. In this case, it's obvious how terrible this service is, both in terms of how it treats the user (who wants to do you a favor by signing up) as a cow to be milked, and how the implementation of it does very little to solve the actual problem of spam. It's just a greedy and short-sighted idea. I won't write any more about how stupid it is.

What I will note is that it is somewhat inspiring to see that an idea like this can get off the ground. I haven't dug into the details of "Solve Media", but I assume that some people poured a sum of money into this. Maybe there's a sucker born every minute, or maybe confidence in anything internet-related is just that high. Hopefully, both things are true, and I think that's a good thing. I'm not advocating taking suckers' money, but rather believing the following: If your idea is anything better than this, which it likely is, you have a shot at it.
Perhaps they know something we don't i.e. their own sales figures in intimate detail. I think this sudden openness is a response to Android.
WOOHOO! \o/
Awh, thought this was going to be about binary compatibility and DLL hell. This is good too, though :)
If people put the documents available for download for free, I think they should be left that way, no one likes someone else to makes actions for them without their knowledge.

Everybody is surprised when someone tells him "Why have you made the document available for download only via purchase?"

If they don't fix this thing soon I'll stop using Scribd completely.

Also, a really funny sentence in the response from Scribd:

> You’re right that our communication around the Archive should have been more clear.

It sounds like, yeah, we know, but we like it this way for now.
Here in Spain rich people are not angry, the gov don't want to increase taxes because rich people will fly away, so they are who pay less, why should they be angry?

Pensioners should be the angry people, they will see their pension be lower each year (and nowadays it is extremely difficult to pay for food with an average pension) just to help government to reduce its deficit. They don't have lobbies and this year is not time for election so put more weight on the back of poor old people this is just the face of justice.
It's easier to target the iPad right now because there is only one released hardware revision at the moment. The iPhone has 4 so far, all with varying capabilities in software and in hardware. They need to test for that.
I can completely understand that, but the results are going to be commensurate with the effort those people put in. If someone prioritizes something as the sixth most important priority in their life, then they really have nothing to be disappointed about when the performance for that area of their life is not as strong as the above five things.
Zynga CEO Mark Pyncus, scolds new HBS dean on ethics (2006)
It may or may not be the "secret". The fact is that it's a well known business model (so not a secret at all), it's actually so well known that it IS the example used when describing that business model.

Whether or not it's the ONLY reason they are succeeding it a pointless argument to make. Businesses are complicated enough that single reasons for success/failure are useless. But they are a successful business that was able to attain success with that model. So it's possible isn't it?

TLDR: A badly run business may not succeed with that model. But a good one can. Gilette is an often used example.
I used to use gradmed.com for cheap major accident coverage
We added links to the sites on Friday! :)
It's true that if I had grown up in the US and not in Sweden, I might be more tax-averse than I ended up being... There is a difference between what you get in practice for paying your taxes in the US and the principle of taxation in general.

One of the things that amaze/frustrate me about the US taxes is that noone ever suggests that maybe the military budget could be cut by 50% or so...
There are tons of VLC authors, only one needs to complain. This sounds like it's going to happen sooner or later.
Wouldn't this have also been how old time-sharing mainframes (i.e. in universities) were used? And if not, why not?
There are several reasons why I use it:

- I can post papers or other documents that other people might value but not otherwise be available, such as court docs, academic papers, etc.

- I can embed the documents easily in my blogs (and before at the publication I worked at)

- I don't have to worry about hosting. I could easily upload the PDFs to the Web server my school grants me, but after I graduate, it's gone, and I have to find another solution and change the links.
Link Juice to your own site. I think Patrick's bingocardcreator.com domain did get good link love because he hosts his A/Bingo project (http://www.bingocardcreator.com/abingo) on his own.
Even if it's these elusive "points"?
Animal Planet shows animal faces. Anything with a recognizable mouth and set of eyes is still pretty engaging to our wetware.

(In fact, I just tried "Animal Planet" on Google images, and got mostly face shots -- human and otherwise.)
When I was about 13, I was given an old PC XT. A neighbor, friend of my grandfather, was very experienced with computers having had a whole bunch of them... he came over to fine-tune the computer for me. He was editing config.sys when he looked at me and told me "you'll be an expert when you understand every single line in this file."

That was some 16 years ago, and I never stopped learning since.
Custom splash page & personal analytics dashboard
I really only glanced at the code so I could be wrong here. But it appeared to me as though the main loop was written with something like, 1000 / 60, which was probably intended to cap at 60fps.

If you took that code and modified the loop to run more frequently, do you get even better performance?
It's an interesting idea but I have a few small concerns.

Billing the site as a site where people can vote on attractiveness of the person giving the opinion would personally turn me off. Speculate as you wish about my attractiveness, but it's just not something I'd be crazy about participating in as either a person who is posting (my lack of desire to have many strangers judging how I look) or as consuming (my assumption that anyone posting a video would simply be an ego-maniac). Yes, those are quick and possibly unfair judgements, but with the myriad of sites out there vying for my attention, they'd be my first ones. A tweak would be to keep quiet about the attractiveness angle and have someone Academia point that out later in a groundbreaking study of influence on "FaceOpinionSpace" (best I could come up with in two seconds).

One might need to incorporate something to ensure that users are really posting a face (Imagine a /b/ campaign called "Post Your Penis's Opinion"). Or maybe that last part is a whole other business idea. Automated video analysis and Flagging of videos could help avoid this, but if it wasn't handled well I wouldn't visit the site.

Lastly, it would take a lot of capital. Video isn't a low bandwidth endeavor and if the big "feature" is attractiveness of the person posting their short opinion, quality would have to be somewhat reasonable.
Very nice. It would be considerably enhanced by some examples of how the algorithm performs on real data.

(I wonder how it does if you feed it not words from a natural language, but tokens from a programming language. Can this sort of technique be adapted to infer the whole grammar? I guess that would be more difficult -- you're trying to learn a much more complicated sort of structure.)
I was literally born into it — my parents met working at a software company and quit to start their own out of their apartment in the early 80s.

My dad started using computers in the early 60s at Berkley to do Mathematical Psychology for his Architecture PhD. His father started using computers as a naval officer in the early 50s, I think related to bomb testing when they lived on Kwajalein Atoll. My mother started programming in high school where she had dialin teletype access to a PDP to do her homework. Her stepmother started a little bit later when she took an office manager job at an early hosted multitenant accounting software company and worked her way up to being its CEO as a pc software company, and after it was acquired by a very large public software company was a VP there for a few years before retiring.

I'm a third-generation software guy on both sides of the family. What else would I do?
Note that from December 1999 to December 2009, the average annual compounded rate of return for the S&P 500 was -0.6%, and the average annual inflation rate in that same period is around 2.8%. A 5% return over inflation may be a little optimistic.

Also, "in the bank" has now become "net worth" and our family with a 3 BR condo has now become a couple with a 2 BR that has what, doubled their investment on the condo bought in 1997? I'm not sure that's a typical case. Even at the height of the housing bubble I think that represents a fairly exceptional return, e.g.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USA_home_appreciation_1998...

But you don't need to convince me. I agree with you: I'm 100% confident that there are many reasonable scenarios that lead to well over $500,000 in net worth by 39.

I'm just pushing back on the "easy" part: If this were easy more people would be doing that, but that fact is $0.5M is 10 times the net worth of the average American in the cohort we're talking about, and more than twice the net worth of the average American at the time of retirement. By living frugally and choosing investments wisely you can certainly do it, but those are easier choices to make in retrospect than working forward.

(Edit: I said $500,000 is 100 times the net worth of the typical American 40 year old, but it is really just 10 times.)
I think you have to differentiate between a chef and a restaurateur. Bourdain's success as a chef comes from hard work, skill and merit. His success as a restaurateur has on the other hand benefited from his writing, self-promotion and no doubt luck.
Am I the only one who got really excited upon seeing the domain was octobot.taco.cat, and then very confused when going to www.taco.cat? It seems to be an art gallery in Spanish or something...

I realize this is not germane to the topic, but .cat!? What other really interesting tld's exist that I have never heard about?
Dream Time
This cannot be said too strongly: there is no security anymore except in self-development. Continue to expand your skills and you'll be fine (at least, you'll have a decent chance). Allow yourself to stagnate and you'll find the economy passing you by.

And, as others have said, entrepreneurship is a tremendous way to stretch yourself, to learn a breadth of new skills that you might otherwise never acquire.
What does "mature" mean in this context? (The same goes for "unstable" and "incomplete". Is Python 3 immature and unstable and incomplete because it has the GIL and no official JIT?)

I have no problem explaining the presence of Parrot and Perl 6 on my CV to employers willing to ask honest questions about my participation in both projects. All of our successes and failures are visible to anyone willing to understand them. We deliver working software every month, with continual improvements. We review the way we schedule, develop, and deliver that software regularly. We have a good testing infrastructure. The software gets more and more usable and more and more useful and we manage to attract more and more users and more and more contributors. Parrot has to walk the fine line between making architectural changes Rakudo Perl 6 needs and maintaining a stable base for Rakudo -- two desires which often conflict.

Yet somehow, month after month for almost three years now, both projects release usable, useful, well-tested software. You can see the monthly improvements.

Does the fact that Parrot suffered a critical project personnel failure four or five years ago forever taint everything good it's done in the intervening years? Does the fact that Perl 6 had to invent new parsing techniques ruin its suitability now? In five years? In twenty? (Just how long should it take to invent something new anyway?)

I believe that an honest assessment of both projects as they stand right now will demonstrate that we can make and meet commitments. What more can you ask of developers and project managers?
I don't post very often on HN, but I like to recall my little story.

So I was around 6 and we had a 386 at home, with DOS. I knew the very basics to "cd" into a "dir", and type the dir name again to start the program. Of course this didn't work for every program, probably not for those I shouldn't be using :)

One day I saw someone playing the snake game. I asked how could I go into that program too, and it turned out I had to "cd" into "qbasic", start "qbasic", and then hit F5. I never questioned why, but after hitting F5, the snake game started (I think the name of the game was "nibbles").

One other day though, just before hitting F5, I read a bit of what was on the screen of "qbasic", which was, well, some BASIC code for the game. And at the top was a line the intrigued me:

CONST SAMMYS_LIVES = 3

I knew the snake had 3 lives on every game, and that "Sammy" was written somewhere on the screen during the game (English is not my mother tongue; I surely didn't know much at 6). So this time, before hitting F5, I replaced the 3 with 9, and then hit F5. Behold, I actually had 9 lives!

I immediately quit, started "qbasic" again and changed 3 to 9999999999999999999 (something like that, probably longer). I was baffled when F5 didn't start the game anymore, and a strange line appeared. I kept reducing the 9's until it worked again.

That day I finished the game, but soon enough I was changing the colors, removing walls, creating levels, and figuring why F5 sometimes didn't work. The rest is history :)

(for the sake of my uh reputation, let me clearly state I never "coded" in BASIC since then ;) )
good decision. thanks.
I was interested in math and computer science. During some time I was trying to prove P != NP or designing algorithm and learning new languages Prolog, Lisp, Ada, C, and the like.

As I have a steady job, I used to read everything that interested me about algorithm and computers: neural networks, matroids, statistics, machine Learning, data mining, computer vision, cuadratic programming, convex optimization, groebner basis, topology, numeric computations, partial differential equations, some nanotechnology.

Now I read HN and take some leisure. I am expecting some new field to appears just to dive into it. But I am not so young anymore.
One of the major difference is lens coating. Uncoated glass reflects roughly 7% of light per element. On a simple normal-length prime like this it may not be a huge issue, but you would see a major difference with a longer focal length consisting more elements.

Visually, coated lenses yield more contrast. In the case of more modern (usually after the 70's) multi-coated lenses, there is also a UV-reducing layer that maintains more detail at a distances due to minimized haziness.

Some of my favorite examples of a classic, uncoated lens showing its effect are from the Lewis Hines photos of the Empire State Building construction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Old_timer_structural_worke...

There is some obvious dodging and burning done to this print in particular (the worker has been darkened compared with the cityscape in the background) but notice how much the detail fades with distance.
I've heard of places that lost the ability to accept VISA/MC payment for imposing their own minimum.
Krugman's article actually speaks to this in a roundabout way. He seems to contend that side B has given up the pretense that they are trying to make the world a better place.

And I think you've seen some of this in statements from people like the lieutenant governor of South Carolina, when he said, "My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much further than that. And so what you’ve got to do is you’ve got to curtail that type of behavior. They don’t know any better."

Their belief isn't one that they can make the world a better place. But rather of actual superiority (hence they shouldn't be forced to give resources to inferior people). This I do think is a fundamental difference.
That's what any good library is like. The OP seemed to be indicating that his library was a total ghost town though.
Well, the docs are a little out of date but most of it works as it did before. I had about 3 lines to change when I started using the webgl version. (details of what needs change is available here: http://code.google.com/p/o3d/wiki/GettingStarted)

Some parts are not yet implemented but I've managed to get work done without using any of them. The core devs are often on the mailinglist: http://groups.google.com/group/o3d-discuss

The repos are active, last update was last week. I just use whatever they have in SVN right now, the packages on their webstite is very outdated.
> Krugman believes that the government can, and will, spend money in a way that benefits society as a whole more than the people who earned it would if they were allowed to keep it. The rich disagree.

Except the government tends to heavily subsidize the rich. I'd be happy to get rid of taxes, earmarks, bailouts, pork, etc. I don't expect that to happen without the aid of a collapse, though.
What is there to complain about? The source code is available for anyone to download.
Post "papers of other documents": You can upload them on your free web account (like, Google Sites)? Unless you don't have the right to distribute the documents, they will remain there.

Embed: Who really needs embedded PDF? What for? To have it harder to read? Just give me the plain link, thank you.

Hosting: See the first paragraph.

OK, anybody knows some better reason?
Awesome, I was beginning to wonder if this book would really come out or not. It's back on my Amazon wish list!