skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was in college I wrote some software that did something sorta like this. My target was to post-process video content from TV shows with the channel logos in the corners.

My approach was to detect the logos based on rudimentary pattern-detection (mostly finding parts of the screen the didn't change over a period of time) then calculate the replacement pixel-color based on the other pixels around the edges of this logo, weighting their impact on the replacement pixels by their proximity to the pixel being calculated.

It worked reasonably well ... albeit much slower than the demo in this video ... and transparent logos were then introduced complicating the calculations. Also, sitcoms worked much better than sports. Their cameras were more stationary making detection and pixel-color replacement-calculation easier.
Don't worry, that's crystal clear, i didn't post the original link above just for that reason, an nonsensical/hilarious announcement.

But that announcement made me remember of that security researcher sent to jail for his analysis of the voting machine last month or so, who knows how that ended...
According to the court documents he noticed strange patterns in orders being placed on a stock he was trading and through careful observations of these patterns over several month in 2006 he managed to conclude that there was an algorithm at the other end and managed to reverse engineer how that algorithm worked.

He apparently also documented his findings and conclusions on a trading forum so there might have been other people out there doing the same thing that haven't been caught.
And a gallery of the trucks:

http://www.newsweek.com/photo/2010/10/14/toyota-trucks.html
Depends what you mean by "Stock Market"

If it's a gateway to business ownership then it's not zero-sum.

If it's purely game to out-arbiter other participants then it is zero-sum.
Correct, now it is only easy, loser pays makes it ridiculously easy.
I lived in the Zambian bush for a year, there it was usually a sign you were dealing with the catholic church... thats the truck the priests drove.

edit: Here its being used for public transportation, tail gate town for increased storage space http://yfrog.com/c8fxbj
Kiss or Death
It's interesting that Afghan (presumably Islamist) insurgents would have any tatoos, considering that these are frowned upon in Islam.

EDIT: Not sure what's getting a negative reaction here. I was just pointing out an apparent inconsistency in the story - interviewees/journalists are known to embellish sometimes and they can get tripped up on little details.
I am sure if I get it. We use Nagios to monitor our EC2 servers (CPU, etc.) and then AlertFox for external transaction monitoring.

What advantage would switching to CloudKick give us???
Building a (mostly) web-based photo booth app
I will be out of town Rusty. Wish I could be there.
Alex
Gordon - really like the sound of this.
Obviously the challenge is of overcoming Googles dominance of the online spreadsheet. However having a spreadsheet that you can link cells from other spreadsheets, sounds like it adds real value, and the ability to publish in more of a wiki or actual web page is really appealing.

Good luck and look forward to hearing some reviews of it over the next few months.

Colin
Adblocking in real life
Add together:

- unlogo - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/816924031/unlogo-the-corporate-media-filter-0

- 'diminished' reality - http://www.kurzweilai.net/diminished-reality-software-removes-objects-from-video-in-real-time

- wearable computing (camera, video glasses, portable computer)
The RTs I see are often very insightful and tell me which people I should be following. Also, RT are probably more insightful on average because at least two people found it worth saying.

Now what has been bothering me are unfunny "OH"s, which don't even mention an author...
I think it depends. For teaching I would start with Scheme to teach the basics. Then switch to C to explain how all that stuff works.
three killers domain I own (and what I paid):

- kokua.com (5k) (to help in hawaiian)

- 20.com (70k) (20 means location on radio)

- aday.com (40k) (as in joke.aday.com, ".... A day.")

- lowimpact.com and noimpact.com (10k)... wanted to do a green blog.

If there were technical founders who wanted office space, angel backing and me as a founder/partner, I'd consider using one of the domains. You would have to be willing to live/work in Santa Monica (a really nice place to live fyi), I'd be open to any pitches....

i had my own ideas for each domain, but with Open Angel Forum booming (8 cities, 24 events a year... going to 12 cities, 36 events per year next year), Mahalo booming (20m uniques a month) and ThisWeekIn.com on fire (25 shows, $1m run rate, 14 employees in < 6 months) I'm too busy to lead new companies.

oh yeah, i'm hosting the launch conference on Feb 23rd and 24th and launching the email newsletter. so, that's like five companies in a year on top of my 15 angel investments a year.

ping me jason at mahalo.com
Personally I was looking for a simple assembler, not a full blown C compiler to use on my OS X machine.

This seems to me a better fit for someone who want to assemble some small (or big) project. Seems a nice weekend project to test it out.
The idea that the process of science is largely about producing a lot of wrong answers in the process of sifting for the right ones is not novel. But it is somehow the nature of this age for people to trumpet every study that makes it into the public eye as True and Wondrous.

So patient advocates get stuck with the additional duty of having to explain that a good half of what you read is wrong, and evaluating science for the layman is not simple. Possible, and not hard, but requires some work:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2009/05/how-to-read-the-o...

"The scientific method is the greatest of inventions: when used to organize and analyze the flawed output of we flawed humans, it leads to truth and discovery. It is how we sift the gems of progress from the rubble of short-sighted human nature, magical thinking, willful ignorance, and other self-sabotaging but entirely natural behaviors.

"The scientific community doesn't produce an output of nice, neat tablets of truth, pronouncements come down from the mountain, however. It produces theories that are then backed by varying weights of evidence: a theory with a lot of support stands until deposed by new results. But it's not that neat in practice either. The array of theories presently in the making is a vastly complex and shifting edifice of debate, contradictory research results, and opinion. You might compare the output of the scientific community in this sense with the output of a financial market: a staggeringly varied torrent of data that is confusing and overwhelming to the layperson, but which - when considered in aggregate - more clearly shows the way to someone who has learned to read the ticker tape."
Samsung releases Android 2.2 for its Galaxy S
Yes, and maybe someone more innovative than me can do something more with it?
I do not think so. We use Nagios to monitor our EC2 servers (CPU, etc.) and then AlertFox ($199/month) for external transaction monitoring.
That works well for our 25 EC2 instances (+ a few at the Planet)
Benefits of a week-long media fast
Thanks, I missed the sentence about early payments when going through the site before.

In a typical payday loan scenario, you'd be paying the origination fees every two weeks

Saying that ZestCash is significantly better in this regard assumes that a person taking out multiple payday loans in a given year isn't going to be taking out multiple ZestCash loans in a year. While there are certainly some reasons to guess that might be true, there's simply no way to make that claim for certain. You've already shown that you're better at going through the site than I am: do you see anything saying ZestCash won't let someone take a second loan while they're repaying a first?

I should also point out that my arguments aren't centered around the idea that ZestCash's model is worse than or just as bad as payday loans. You can be better than a payday loan and still be Not Good. And what's actually making me angry is how ZestCash is marketing itself. As another example: on the "A Word From our Founder", Merrill descibes payday loans as bad because "they are very expensive, charging more than 400% interest in some cases." - completely ignoring the fact that ZestCash charges more than 400% interest itself.
or Jews that live in Tel Aviv?

It's interesting that American (presumably Christian) citizens would murder, considering that murder is frowned upon in Christianity.
Why should I use this web app instead of updating my Facebook status or posting a tweet?
Nice one. I can imagine this being huge. But please work on the UI and UX.
I registered apithings.com and apithin.gs for a side project that I still haven't gotten around to finishing. You can guess what the general theme is. I also managed to snag lus.is which made me infinitely happy. Not giving that one up ;)
Re: tldrd.com, TL;DR

An idea would be to move the summariser's name to the top so it said...

philcrissman summarised this article as....
How would that be useful? If you want a domain and it's available, you can just register it. If it's not available, then listing it here won't change its availability and -- worst case -- will make it more expensive.

A list of available and suitable domain names seems like a bad idea... We already have squatters snapping up expired names. Publishing a list of useful and desirable names practically guarantees that someone will register the whole list just to squat on them.
A better question would be "How many awesome people.."

Just asking how many people doesn't disprove anything.
Mozilla gets a new boss: SAP mobile exec Gary Kovacs
The $1 Billion Home Is Complete
Yes, execution time in seconds. And I throw out any program that fails on any Python, or takes longer than a minute on any Python.
Some of those, maybe 3, are in fact land cruisers and not Hiluxes.
Yeah, but it takes a few seconds. In Emacs, the change is instantaneous.
I don't like the name. It sounds too technical. How about "Insteadsheet"? Because that's really what you are, right?

Edit: Some elaboration. I'm a branding guy, and this site has a branding problem.

Hypernumbers doesn't really describe the product.

There's two elephants in the room that the site doesn't even address: Excel and Google Docs. A name like Insteadsheet addresses that all by itself. It becomes the fun, easy alternative.

The complaint of "too technical" gets downvotes here on HN, but I feel like that isn't the market they're after.
Marketing with no budget
Perl has it, Python has it, Ruby has it, PHP has it, Haskell has it...
As does every other JIT. This is an apples-to-apples comparison.
I want to learn programming, which language would you recommend?
I'm non-technical, and I've never done any coding.

I'm thinking of learning a bit of programming, mainly because - if I have some idea, (after validation) I can build a prototype and test it out with real users.

- Which programming language would you recommend and why?
- And is there any good source where I can learn it from?
Preferably a language that would help if I need to do some social network API integration.

Thank you!
How is that a free market?

A free market doesn't guarantee that you get to stay in business.

what good is a socket set for 15¢ less than the competition when the socket set company that used to pay you $35,000 a year moves to Indonesia and now pays you $0?

Over the long term and looking at the bigger picture, we'll hopefully wind up with a good number of people in Indonesia who are better off.
I am all for tort reform, but this can get a little extreme and stop several types of legitimate suits. Just because you lose doesn't mean the suit was totally without merit.

One of the simplest reforms would be to limit lawyer's cut of lawsuit rewards to keep them actually about the damaged parties. Look at the recent case where the school spied on the students. The lawyers got well in excess of their clients. Making it less attractive to take a chance on suing is good, but the focus should be on what will keep companies from screwing people and what will keep costs to innocent / small mistake companies down.
Which bit of the UI/UX...

The spreadsheet bit is all kinda - make it like Excel/Google docs as much as you can...

The main frontpage is because Hypernumbers self-hosts on Hypernumbers. Laying out a product page inside a spreadsheet is a bit of challenge as you can imagine :)

We are still figuring out how to make that part of it easier. Its more of a meta-problem than just polish it up...
Not the release notes, but here's the documentation/changelog (note the "new in 1.4.3" tags):

http://api.jquery.com/category/version/1.4.3/

Also, it's on their CDN now:

http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.3.js
http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.3.min.js

Release notes look like they'll appear here tomorrow, during the conference:

http://blog.jquery.com/2010/10/16/jquery-143-released/
I can see this helping very much with rapid testing of new scheduling ideas.

With good testing tools, development becomes much easier.
Isn't it just tatoos mourning the dead?
10 Myths About Domain Names
How  To Battle Coder's Block
Single page link: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/14/why-rebel-groups-love-the...
That's a tough one. Psychologically, customers feel that any difficulty they have is due to a defect in your product, and they shouldn't have to pay for your defects.

Also, you don't want to charge for Installation problems, and God knows they are the source of many support calls (I'm looking at you, InstallShield).

Customer Support can be a benefit to the company that makes the software, because they signal bugs or imperfections that you want to address. For every customer that calls, there will be many that don't bother and don't buy either.

Try two-tiered support: a free Support Forum with 24-hr response, where customers have the option of searching for questions from others who had the same problem, and what the solution was.

Phone support is available to premium customers who buy a yearly maintenance contract.
Here's the second part where they put it on top of the towerblock and demolish it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfZDtC9kjVk
No technical difference, but as a TLD, they should be held to a higher standard.
Hacker Slide: HN front page over time
I remember idlingdomains.com being posted here on HN at one point which sought to solve the same problem. The issue I remember people having with it at the time was that you had to redirect the idle domain to their website for it to be picked up and added to the list.
It's an extremely popular and durable truck, and yet in North America we don't get to have it. Blame it on people wanting bigger and comfier trucks instead of real workhorses.
Like a former employee of mine, you get sued, then you get a judgement against you, and then they come to your workplace and garnish your wages. At that point the borrower either pays the bill through paycheck deductions or quits and goes to a new job. If the new job is on the books, then the process repeats itself. If the new job is cash-under-the-table, then the loan is never paid back.
While this is intended to be a crash course, I do want to note that event listeners don't quite get called like that. The event bubbling and capturing is quite accurate, but there are some specific differences in how listeners on any given element's event are called when compared to simply looping through and executing them:

The order in which they are called is not determinate. All of them will be called, but you cannot rely on the order in which they are called. Throwing an exception will also not prevent other event listeners from executing.

See: http://ajaxian.com/archives/the-differences-between-callback...
To add to what Jason said, I own 5g.com and would likewise entertain similar ideas/participation -- and would combine with other opportunities/partners for the right group: steve at radwebtech.com
If anyone want to work on any of these domains, let me know. I don't have time to work on these right now.

ADSENSEHELPFORUM.COM

ADSENSESUCCESSSTORIES.COM

FLASHCARDSBABY.COM
no no, this isn't for customer support.

lets say I want to run a sex hotline. how do I charge you for calling?

(I'm not actually running one, but thats the example)
Sorry folks we seem to be having some DNS problems - let me get onto it...
I haven't used IRC in years, so it may have changed, but the big wins:

* Stateful server. When you enter a room, you immediately see the conversation that has been going on there. That means it's possible to have conversations that are long-spanning (more like email) because you don't necessarily have to see replies scrolling by

* Integration with Stack Overflow accounts and reputation. Bad behavior is almost completely eliminated thanks to the tie in to the reputation system (you need some rep on Stack Overflow to chat, for example)

* Super slick user interface. You have to see it to believe it. Try it for a while and see.
People who can not manage their money...

I realize that this is sort of a personal nitpick and that it does nothing to invalidate your central claim, but when you make minimum wage and your car breaks down there's not really any money to manage. The thing about living paycheck to paycheck is that unexpected expenses are insuperable (by definition).
Millennials grew up with constant communication through MSN, IM, BBM, Skype, etc. And then things moved to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn everything and everyone is at our fingertips.

You can't take any credit for that - it was all built by the Gen X types you're so contemptuous of.
The Hilux is featured prominently in William Gibson's new book. This might be a reason for the recent interest.
"When they dug it out of the rubble, all it took to get it running again was hammers, wrenches, and WD-40."

OK, I'm impressed.
As mattmcknight points out elsewhere, I did miss a sentence that indicates they will accept early repayment. The 30% origination fee on every loan is still significantly higher than most payday loan places, though (it's usually something more like 15%).
I find it mildly annoying when writers co-opt words for their own [marketing] purposes and then redefine those self-same words in order to validate their point. I am quite sure this is a logical fallacy of some kind. I'm just not smart enough to know which one it is. Let me provide an example:

First, the author says,

"Over the years, I've been accused by the press of many things, but one of my favorites is the articles that claim that I create cults or even religious orders in my companies."

Then, he goes on to say,

"...by 'cult' what I mean is a group of super high quality people who trust each other and have similar ways of thinking, learning, reacting, problem-solving and working together. Further, this team needs to bond together under a leader they trust and respect."

Well, no dictionary I can find defines cult in that way and the press were probably not using it in that manner either. In other words, he isn't addressing his favourite of the "many" accusations leveled at him. Instead, he is skirting the debate--if there is one at all--and repurposing it in order to aggrandize himself.
And that is bad why... ? :-)

Actually there is a major class of problems people have where they are so stuck that they don't even know what question to ask on Stack Overflow. Being able to ask a question live, and get immediate feedback, and have a quick conversation with someone more knowledgeable than yourself, before (or instead of) asking a question on Stack Overflow, will allow programmers to get help with a whole new class of problems.

And of course, that's in addition to the "social hang out" feature that chat provides to the Stack Overflow community.
Those typewriter noises in the video are incredibly annoying.
I thought it was known as the Tacoma in North America?
Five killer domains I own … looking for technical co-founders.
Correlation is not causation. You could just as easily interpret his statement as P(CJ|A) > P(CJ|~A): the conditional probability that someone had a crappy job at some point in their life given that they're awesome is higher than the conditional probability they did given that they aren't.
Also worth reading:

AK47: the open-source weapon that took the world by storm

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/03/ak_47_60_years/
I have three domain names that I have added to the spreadsheet and would sell.

NHS.info
LoveVenture.com/.co.uk
SeedRound.co.uk
Speaking of Lua and text editors, I've been keeping my eye on this for a while: http://code.google.com/p/textadept/
Ok. I like this idea but here's my issue: How is this different from Google Docs spreadsheets?

It doesn't look like you mention it on the landing page and Google Docs is pretty well known at this point. As a consumer I'd like to know how it's different and why I should use your spreadsheet instead of theirs.
That was funny, about a minute earlier - I had to work out how to turn javascript off! I use my own style sheet, and sometimes site scripts hate it and play havoc.

Not wanting to be down on the browsers, but most of them don't present particularly intuitive options/tools, might be a good idea to tell the end user what javascript first...
She also didn't get millions. She initially won big but it was later overturned on the grounds that McDonalds was being singled out for being successful (i.e. having deep pockets to pay that kind of damage).
Let's hope this has a better future than Efuns[1], the Ocaml emacs clone. More likely that most of its unique features will be assimilated into vim plugins and Emacs modes.

[1]: http://pauillac.inria.fr/cdrom_a_graver/prog/unix/efuns/eng....
That's a fair statement. I think there were two big ones:
- the service registry/init system
- filesystem paths

The second is minor in the grand scheme of things. It only affects my user account but the first one was greatly annoying. My history is in AIX/HP-UX before going Linux full time so I'm familiar with the smit/sam model of doing things but have you ever tried to actually usea traditional unix/linux model for managing apache in the default OSX install? What about LDAP? It's weird and annoying. Launchd? Seriously?
100% agree, i still have my x86 GEM's 5 1/4" floppies somewhere (with the additional painting and writing apps, i guess it was an "ultimate" edition).
Another interesting thing is that the GEM release i had already contained a basic interpreter with windowed graphics support (not complete as visual basic that was released in 1991).

EDIT: Looks like i had GEM2, the "lawsuit friendly" version. DRI had been sued by Apple for similarities between the MacOs of Lisa and GEM, they removed some features like overlapping windows on the desktop and a few animation effects.
Left at a dead end on a comment edit as a result of me turning js off on this site. Oh well.
great post lkrubner! Can u give some insight about python, or is lisp better ?
Thanks!
Briefly on Using the MiFi With an iPad
Ruby Dropbox gem
I own a lot of domains, but the best of them all would have to be http://meatgalore.com I bought it with the intention of making a meat focused groupon type site, but upon realization of its awesome porn potential the project kind of died.

I'd be willing to part with it to someone who wants to make a kick ass gay porn site. Its not really a profit thing for me. I just want a story to tell.
I thought about that, but decided against subtracting out startup time. This is a real-world benchmark of how long it takes to run some actual code that I care about. Startup time counts, but the cumulative execution time will be dominated by time taken to run the slower programs, not startup time in the trivial ones, so I don't think I'm counting it too much.

But I think next time I do this I'll increase the max runtime from 1 minute to 3. That will keep more of the slower programs in the benchmark, and make startup time count that much less. Without actually removing it, because that seems too artificial and contrived to me.