skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes!

[to first question. can't comment on 2nd because I don't have a delicious account and am not sure how well pre-existing widgets work for it]

[ http://widgets.opera.com/search/?order=name&q=del.icio.u... http://widgets.opera.com/search/?order=name&q=delicious]

[Opera's Awesome Bar is so Awesome it does intext searching too. Ex. If I have an HN page in my history containing a link called "blah ... analytics ... blah" that I never clicked on, I can still find the HN page containing that link by simply typing "analytics"]
I think there was, though. Apple's release read:

“Apple Reinvents the Phone with iPhone”

So you can easily convey the goal. Then:

"Apple® today introduced iPhone, combining three products—a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod® with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, searching and maps—into one small and lightweight handheld device."

Some puffery but reasonably clear what's going on.
I think in the context of "which is harder, building the product or building the market?" most programmers will admit that the coding is (almost) trivially easy compared to actually getting users. Perhaps trivial is too harsh a word but I understand what he means.
Ask HN: How does GoogleBot treat url encoding?
Suppose I have the following situation:

I used to have all my url's nicely url-encoded on my website in <a> tags.

Then someone made a mistake causing half of the url to be encoded and half of the url NOT to be encoded.

For normal webbrowsers, no problem, but what about GoogleBot?

Will GoogleBot understand that this is a single resource or will I end up with duplicate content & get punished by Google in the search rankings.
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Ask HN: Tumblr or Posterous, which do you like better and why?
I am asking for your preference, but if anyone wants to pose the question, "it depends on what you are doing with it", assume a simple blog, primarily text based posts. Thanks!
I'm genuinely interested in hearing more about the non-starter. I've stripped hundreds of starters over the years and every time I thought, there must be an easier way of doing this!

I think you would seriously struggle with an open ECU.
There are multiple reasons for this but the two main ones would be:

1) Manufacturers charge a ton for mechanics to use their software to acces their ECU and there is a recurring subscription charge for said software so you would be competing against a very monopolistic market.

2) Every car is drasticly different. A universal ECU would need to be a remarkable feat of engineering for it to be able to handle a honda civic as efficiently as it handles a Ford F150. Considering the amount of responsibility ECU's now hold in a vehicle, creating one which can handle parameters for all cars would be almost impossible and probably ridiculously expensive.
He's a smart cookie, and for the types of applications he sells and suggests writing, he is absolutely right. CRUD apps have minimal execution risk. Any programmer on HN who has shipped software could write BCC, bar none. Maybe it takes a weekend, maybe a month, maybe the UI is prettier or uglier, but you cannot fail at bingo cards. You cannot fail at invoicing software, or scheduling software, etc etc. You can certainly fail to successfully sell a single copy.
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The bundle is costing about $130 more than the iPad, plus whatever sliver of profit they get on the iPad wholesale. No risk taken by Verizon, no need for a contract.
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I have an iPad and a MiFi from 3 and it's a good combination for occasional 3G access (most of the locations I use my iPad at have WiFi).

The MiFi with 8GB PAYG was about £70 whereas a 3G capable iPad is £100 more than the WiFi models here in the UK - also means I can have other devices (laptops/ipod) on the MiFi when required.

[Edit: I would never get a MiFi on contract - PAYG works fine with no risk of silly bills]
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Mostly agree with Linus that typedef abuse is annoying except one example: size_t is platform-dependent and not the same as unsigned int.
why is wireless data so bloody expensive? what are verizons margins on $20/1GB?
Wow, what a neat thing you have on the go there. It's a pity I don't fly much any more (and most of that was intercontinental anyway), but I can really see how this is - for a while at least - going to be useful to people.

The reason why I added the 'for a while' bit is that I think that internet access is like seatbelts, airbags and power steering. First it's a luxury, then it's common and finally it is simply standard.

So over time there will be a lesser requirement for this but during the transition period you'll make out handily.

For an 'encore' you could try to find if there are other things that airline service can be discriminated by and add those, that might give your site more relevance in the long term.

Much good luck to you!

And congratulations on getting covered by TC, hopefully the rest of the Tech writing community will pick up on this news.
Sorry, what?

$ cat test.c
int x;
unsigned long addr_t = &x;

$ cc test.c
test.c:2: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast
I agree @ stand alone mail clients, but I'm betting on webapps. GMail really is a great webapp.
About $20/GB.
I had a version of Cameria working but it used a (very nasty) xss hack to allow the avatars to appear and to facilitate the chat balloons above each avatar, maybe this idea could be revived using layers and node.js ?

It was pretty weird in the beginning, but after we got used to fooling around with it we actually found some neat use cases (remote collaboration).
I would be hugely surprised if Google was stupid enough to identify them as different urls.
"When I worked at the World Bank..."

Sit down and shut up, you've done enough damage.

As far as I can tell his thesis is that civilizations that weren't technologically developed aren't technologically developed. Uhh, ok.
Did you have to clear this with your university/advisor? AFAIK, my university has copyright on code I produce on paid time or using university facilities/equipment, which covers my research and even a good chunk of my homework.

They're very unlikely to stop you if you just go and do it. It only really becomes an issue if you try to make money off of it.
> I couldn't decide whether to vote you up or down.

My policy is when a post or comment has one grain of insight or new ideas amongst a bushel of wrong-headed chaff, I vote up. After all, I have a fully-working pattern-match filter built into my brain, and so does everyone else. The world is a better place when people are encouraged to make positive contributions.
Their successful in spite of announcing a lot of vaporware, but their biggest win of all; windows was top secret until it was released, right?
Don't get me wrong--Carrie Fisher is pretty. She could have easily been the homecoming queen at my high school. As long as she wasn't too busy doing coke with Tony Bennett or whatever children of famous actors did in the 70's. I'm just saying that she wasn't Daryl Hannah. (For those of you born after 1985, Daryl Hannah was the Megan Fox of the late 70's/early 80's.)
In the UK the trains had free wiki which was fab - made going to London productive. Found out last night that they are now charging for it - cue grinding of teeth and endless rage.
You can get the same MiFi 2200 device from Virgin Mobile (my local BestBuy carries them) which uses Sprint's 3G network for $40/month unlimited bandwidth and no contract. I bought one last month for a road trip and love it.
Ugh. I for one am sick of the discussions of whether to use maven or ivy, etc. in a Java project. Just as old is the conversation about whether the project should be an Apache project. The ant (later: ant+ivy) vs. maven thing and whether a (major) project should go into Apache has been ongoing since the early 2000s in one project or another.

It is interesting in relation to Voldemort, but egads... this is one of the reasons I'm glad to sneak away into Ruby, etc. a good bit.
Don't take this the wrong way, but why did it take a Zed rant to see through this? Usually "department x is more important than anyone else" arguments are flawed to begin with.
Some of the bus services have free wifi as well.
He gives some good advice at the very end:

Know your fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, machine architecture, systems) and know several programming languages to the point where you can use them idiomatically.

Know some non-computer field of study well — math, biology, history, optics, whatever. Learn to communicate effectively in speech and in writing. Spend an unreasonable amount of time on some difficult topic to really master it. Try to do something that might make a difference in the world.
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I definitely feel the opposite. While there is a lot of crappy code out there, if you look, you can also find a lot of good code, which you can learn from.
Help me understand: What is there about this constructive feedback that belongs in the HN comments as opposed to a helpful email send directly to Zed?
My wife had a MiFi for her Macbook, until she went to visit her family in Canada for a weekend. As far as we can tell, the Macbook decided to update itself in the hotel while she was out and had left the MiFi on. With the indicator light design on the MiFi it's not simple to tell the difference between "I'm charging" and "I'm eating up all of your allowed bandwidth at roaming rates". The result was an almost $900 bill for data roaming charges. I don't think we even exceeded her 2GB/month allowance, at least not by much.

Apparently, in Verizon's view, Canada is such a technologically backward nation that it costs an order of magnitude more to send data over their maple-syrup-soaked drunken-beaver-operated telecommunications system than it does here in the US.

There was no recourse; Verizon doesn't care why the bandwidth was used, even if it was unintentional. We canceled the contract.

EDIT: Contrasting point: for my Android, Verizon gives me unlimited data for $45/month. I use at least 1GB/month, and that's without watching videos or doing any other data-intensive stuff that I'd probably want to do on an iPad. (I don't pay the extra $20/month they want for tethering. I've found the Android is sufficient for my mobile computing needs.)
Exactly. Except I would not use inflammatory as the word. More I use titles like that to get people to read something that might not have, not to anger them. :)
re (1), there are actually some movements against this, most notably in the EU where such monopolistic practices are actively targeted

re (2), yes, but there is less variation than you may think
Well..."Opera 11 will have extensions" so probably.
do share holders have any right to know the actual figure?
Can anyone recall the names of the two products I announced on my blog and then abandoned for various reasons? Was anyone here even aware that happened at all?

Just failing isn't nearly enough to get people to remember you. You have to be truly epic to be remembered for that. (How many enterprise deployments go years late for every Slashdot joke about Duke Nukem again?)
If you wonder how that got on the front page of the BBC you might like to read http://blog.jgc.org/2010/10/how-to-hack-media.html :-)
Completely agree with you. It's just a matter of time before every flight has it available. The problem now is that some people have become highly dependent on it and almost expect it to be available, or go out of their way to make sure they book a flight where they know it's available. My goal is to make that a little easier for them.
Q: "How do you create balance?"

A: "...I have an algorithm."

Good idea. I think I need to come up with a balance algorithm too.
Another reason you may want to delay pre-launch marketing is that if you plan on patenting your product you can invalidate your ability to do so in certain juristictions (including most of the EU) simply by "disclosing" your invention.

If your landing page could be construed as an "offer for sale", and goes up more than one year in advance of your patent application, you've lost your ability to patent protect the idea in the US as well.

Of course most startups these days (the ones reading HN at least) are working on web apps and patents are not as commmonly employed. If you ARE working on a patentable idea though, you should do some research and consult with an IP lawyer before you go and put up any public marketing material before you have applications in to the jurisdictions where you want protection.
Perhaps I'm old school, but I view undocumented functionality as something that may not always be there or behave the same in future releases. While I can deal with that since it's open source, it doesn't mean I want to. Libraries with good documentation are frequently much safer bets, and I've found good documentation is a great indicator of the maturity and stability of the project.

Example: How many people would use Linux without the man pages?
WTF- this is not the thread I posted to, I swear. I'm sorry.
>"Lesson: Let people come to you. Let them have the need first."

That is not the lesson your experience. The lesson is the make sure there is demand before putting in a ton of time, especially when you're going to be bitter about it later.

Your project was doomed from the start.

You committed the time to build 5 websites and SEO them to the top spot before you had any demand.

If you had waited until a restuarant actually wanted a website, and then realized that even a small application can be made in a few hours for a few $hundred, then you may have had better results. Pre-emptively making websites or scripts is the opposite of what I've suggested.

So the next lesson is to not do work before getting paid (unless it is also a hobby - like building a database class that you will use in freelance projects).

I would have also approached selling the websites differently. Showing someone a website you're trying to sell them and then finishing with "I just need to change some pictures and stuff" isn't that compelling. You have 5 websites. Customize one for each restuarant you're talking to. They pass? Change it up with different pictures and titles. Let the customer see what they're buying, not some representation. This is more time consuming, but it will help sales. You already sunk time to designing, building, and SEOing the sites, so an additional unpaid 20 minutes probably won't hurt you too much.

Also you can't just assume why people didn't buy the websites. You should have done some random calling after the fact to determine why people weren't buying. But I will throw out a few ideas on that too.

You approached restaurants trying to sell them a commodity without knowing what they want. They could have not bought because of the price, because they didn't like the colors, they were intimidated by it's complexity, underwhelmed by its simplicity, or because they didn't think they needed a website (you really need to be making calls).

When someone comes to you with a budget and a need for a website, you are in a position of power. You can dictate more terms. Building a random websie without requirements or a scope and then approaching people takes the power out of your hands.

Finally, there are thousands of companies that don't have a website because they don't know how to make one or think they cost tens of thousands of dollars. These are the types of companies you can be trying to advertise to (but not cold call/approach).
Here's a Planet Money podcast on manufacturing (http://goo.gl/rEg8) in which you can hear how the world changed around a button maker, but he did not evolve to match the changes.

Also, in my unstudied opinion, the theory seems to go that those who are best at launching a new venture, are not necessarily the best to run it long term. These require different skill sets. To profit most from your entrepreneurial skill set means getting out once that skill is no longer required by your business.

And finally, in the recent (last two decades) business environment research has shown the most likely new companies to survive are those that are 'disruptive', one set of criteria is considered to be cheaper and poor quality - so as not to incite the competition to try it your way (forgive the lack of citation). The theory suggest that working towards sustainability (that is, not looking for an exit) is statistically a doomed strategy. Just like they say about stockbrokers though: past performance does not guarantee future results, so take that theory cautiously.
It actually varies with the train operator, where you're heading and what class you travel.

That said, you can pick up mobile broadband packages for around $10/month here with 1GB usage which should have coverage for most journeys in to London.
I take what this guy writes on statistics with a large grain of salt; despite the domain name the author is not an economist. He is an MD and it goes without saying that he's very smart and accomplished -- but not in the field of statistics.

This is relevant to this particular article, because he may be missing subtle, but important factors that a lay-person would miss. For example, see yummyfajita's post in this discussion.
non-starter. I wonder if the car manufacturers aren't interested because starter motors are a nice little consumable?
(argh! somehow this comment got posted into the wrong thread originally: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1790564 )

Sculley seems to be saying the following about Jobs:

- Straddles the line of micromanagement vs. personal communication with workers. (Interested in every detail of the process.)

- Acknowledged all workers (memorized first names of Mac team).

- Directly communicated with all workers. Example was telling developer that their code isn't good enough.

- Is a perfectionist.

- Kept teams small (Mac team limited to 100) and fired people if needed new talent on the team to keep team to that size (enforced accountability).

- Hired well.

- Focused on simplification.

- Got rid of the bad.
* Really flexible UI and hotkeys - totally customizable

* A lot of the features I care about have native support, meaning they look and perform better (visual tabs, mouse gestures, ad blocking, etc.)

* Great performance

* I think Opera is probably more innovative than anyone else in the space - many of the new features that have shown up in other browsers recently are copied from Opera. I've had speed dial for ages.

* On Windows, at least, I think it looks a lot nicer than any of the other browsers. Though I guess FF4 copied it a bit so maybe that advantage is less now.
"I'm a little embarrassed to admit that until seeing the first photo just a few minutes ago, it never really occurred to me that they would have had to film the opening crawl that way."

I recently discovered (from browsing around the bonus material on the DVD on a lazy Sunday, naturally) that the multi-layer CG starfield effects created by ILM for Star Trek III were put on film by pointing a camera at a computer monitor and recording the output.
Interesting that part of the pledge is to create a simulation of the AE - would be kind of fun to get a TCP/IP stack working on that.
Seriously, come on. A rose is a rose is a rose.

"minimum donation" = fee

"perk for making a donation" = services bought

"crowd-sourced funding" = a bunch of customers pay for products or services.

I mean I'm not being negative here or criticizing you, but let's call things like they are. Why make up fluffy feel-good terms for things for which we already have perfectly viable words?

Referencing the Diaspora guys basically reinforces my point re: the inexperienced team - a bunch of kids straight out of college why manage to hype together 200k and then turn out a complete disaster after a couple of months does not a trustworthy example make.
Co-browsing for shopping, etc has been long-done, right? I remember wondering about that years and years ago.

A questionable idea on my list was weather widgets where the weather would be depicted by the attire of a character. A core set of code would run it all, but could be branded according to a celebrity, cartoon character, etc. e.g., on your CelebX fan site, CelebX would be in wet-weather gear for storms, shorts and singlet for a heatwave, etc.

I had a basic idea the other day and built it today - just a bookmarklet that will take a page (news article, for example) and load it in Spanish in the left half of the browser, and English on the right, as a way of trying to learn the language: try to read in Spanish, but you have the back-up at hand for when you get stuck.
RMS uses a Lemote Yeeloong laptop for that very reason.

Of course it's made in a sweatshop but hey, software freedom trumps human rights any day of the week, right? Right?
What has always interested me in this vein is the intersection between Jobs' own "Real artists ship" and his obvious and well documented details-oriented perfectionism. It seems to me the real power of Jobs intellect is in that ability to know that the product has reached some critical mass of good enough to ship (and improve later).
Thanks for the link. I swear that I clicked on the right thread. I wonder if HN is moving so fast now that it is either easier to post to the wrong thread somehow, or it is actually posting to the wrong thread. Or maybe I'm just getting old!
What's interesting to me is how similar the MBP touch pad is to a touch screen. I don't know how many touches it can keep track of, but it's at least 4...
Verizon working with Apple: Does this just validate all those rumors of an iPhone next month on Verizon?
If you're worried about the lion eating you, you can just feed it until it's not hungry.

Lions are surprisingly not vicious towards humans at all--since there's no species that can fuck with them they don't have the vicious fear response most animals have. That's the real trick to lion taming--and the reason you can tame a lion but not a jaguar. Tigers are the same way. The big danger with either of them is actually playfulness--they don't always realize how strong they are.
you have documentation? lucky you ...

Seriously, a 'library' can be anything, from a standard, well document library that comes with the OS, to a chunk of code you got from a coworker. No all of them will have documentation, and then even if you have it it's often the case that the documentation is not 100% correct or up to date.
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I view untested functionality that way but not undocumented. That said, you are right, documentation is very important.
If real wars were like trade wars...
If investors are obsessed about it, entrepreneurs have to at least have an interest in exit strategies, and one picked out to placate their potential investors.

Don't take investor money if you want to work on one company for your entire career.
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>>People of Japanese descent: 84.5 years in the US, 82.6 years in Japan.

What if someone was to add something like "People of Japanese descent: $85 000 average family income in the US, $50 000 in Japan." (I've made up the numbers from personal experience) Obviously richer ppl live longer.
I think it'd be useful to benchmark GWT-generated JS (and also Objective-J), but not Scheme2Js, which is rarely if ever used in practice. Compilers for different languages will emit code with completely different performance characteristics and feature usage patterns. (For instance, Objective-J particularly stresses the call site caching mechanisms in modern JavaScript engines with its "objc_msgSend" equivalent, since the indirect call in that function branches to so many different call sites.)
Unlikely, they'd jump on the weight and cost savings.

Most starter motors are re-wound, not replaced so the manufacturers don't see a dime of the secondary market.