skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Containing the content in some div tags giving it some left and right margins, could be good.

Since this is a 'fun' site, it could be probably do well with some more color and jazz.

Based on the type of crowd it is likely to attract, it would be better to have 'cool' colors than sober colors.

Pictures always help.

How about a search?

Good luck.
It's on par with the services where people charge you for them to Tweet about something and they don't seem to to have been received to badly. Just another form of advertising I guess.
Thanks very much for the reply. Yeah, that's interesting. I wonder how much Blackberry's new OS will leverage that, especially since they seem to be targeting the ability to write apps that run on OS 6 and the new Tablet OS. I suppose that's probably more at the UI level whereas services that can be cleanly separated could still perhaps use a separate service model on the QNX based OSes. And of course there could be some interesting implications for the OS' ability to manage these granular processes for maximizing battery life/etc.
Title is a bit misleading. It's actually just a brief introduction to typefaces and contains almost nothing about how professional designers work with typography.
Whenever someone is advertising for "Rock Stars," I immediately have two thoughts:

1) Will they be paying me Rock Star money?

2) Oh great, another bunch of douchebag middle managers trying to sound trendy....

There is no way that they really want a rock star, i.e. a fussy, unreliable prima donna who won't work unless they get things their way. What they really want is a genius who's inexplicably dumb enough to work for median salary.
Do you find Sipdroid usable? I tried it and my call quality was horrible, even over wifi. The lag was seconds and the sound was totally garbled. Was entirely unusable on my Nexus/T-mo.
I found the "condense rain out of fog" statement interesting, thanks! I looked into it more and have a nitpick: if I understand it correctly, redwoods will directly absorb (or at least condense onto itself) much of the fog. Rain must fall under the influence of gravity.
> On Android, while still possible, it's a really big tour through nearly every screen the OS can throw at me before I finally can close down the application for good.

What are you talking about? The Skype client itself has the option to either go offline or sign out completely, which stops the service altogether.
Using the name Lava would surely get you sued. Only one char difference. The trademark holder would be all over that. NcDonalds can't sell BigNacs and get away with doing so.
Interesting, the rfid card I've worked with (I did a similar thing) only worked at 9600 baud I think.
Social networks bring us closer to isolation
Another one that's missing from the discussion is Gradle.
Is that the app that lets you watch them send your password to the Russian spam factory in real time?
One of the best books I have read on meditation is:
"Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: Meditations on the Buddhist Path"
Not sure I agree with you there. I had the opposite experience with google talk: I started messaging on my laptop, then left the laptop thinking I could continue the conversation on my phone. But no, it apparently helpfully decided that the messages should only go to my laptop, so I never got them on my phone. A small annoyance of getting too many messages far outweighs not getting them at all, imho.
It added that the patents had been sold and any damages awarded should reflect that market value. The patent package is believed to have been sold for $5m.

If the patent package was recently sold, doesn't that do a pretty good job of establishing the value of the patents, and thus, the appropriate judgment against Apple?
I don't think you understand the difference between a patent troll and an IP company.

The company I work for designs antennae for cell phones, wifi, GPS receivers etc. We barely have a website, just a couple of PhDs and a lawyer. We rely on licencing our designs and file a lot of patents.
It's judgements like this that stop cell phone makers deciding that it's cheaper to just copy our inventions than pay us a licence fee.

The fine is supposed to be a dtterent - to say that it should be limited to what the company was bought for is like saying the fine for murdering a child should be limited to the hospital maternity bill.
try groovy's gradle you will be amazed..gradle.org
To add to the other commenter's reply. These damages have little to do with compensating the damaged party and far more to do with punishing the infringer as a way to provide a dis-incentive for them to do something similar in the future.

An example is in some average lawsuit where someone is hurt by something and unable to work.. let's say they can never work again... Now if we assume the company, or person, responsible would only have to pay for their hospital bills (200k maybe?) and their lifetime salary (50 years of working at the US avg of 50k a year) we only get to about 2.7 mil...
In these cases the courts generally find that the compensatory damages aren't large enough to provide the dis-incentive necessary... Or so I understand it.
The idea here is a page that allows you to search any website you choose, in the easiest manner possible. To me, that means having auto-complete available as I type my search, choosing whether or not I want the results in a new tab, and not having to load the landing page of the site before doing my search.

I've been using this as my startpage for about a week, and it's added a layer of convenience to anytime I'm in "research mode" about a topic. I can flip through Google, Twitter, Youtube, etc, and get a good all around feel for the prevalence of a topic, in a matter of seconds.

The filter function on the left searches through your list of search providers, but also instantly searches through Dashler's database of sites. You can specify part of a name, or a tag like "books" or "shopping" or "blog". (If you have a site you think should be there, please let me. I can add it right away.) In the "tools" section, you can add/edit/delete the search provider selected.

You can also add your own search provider. All you need is a URL with a "%q%" in it, which will be replaced by what you type in the search box.

Try it out, and let me know what you think.
Awesome. Finally. I really needed a news site like this. I'm tired of reading the same articles all over the place.

More so, I hate having to explain to some of my nerd friends, "yeah I read that too."

Now hopefully it can be implied that we all read the same stuff.
What about the more interesting case - what if apple had made the software, licensed the patent, and paid them a royalty for every copy of itunes downloaded, every copy of time machine shipped, and so on?

You know, the way patents are usually handled.
that's the point!
For Apple to have caused "Mirror Worlds" any harm, they would have to be competing with each other.

Not so. The harm done is in one's granted patent monopoly being infringed upon. In principle this is patents protecting the little guy's invention from being exploited by the big guy without compensation. There is of course a fine line between that and patent trolling.

What gives?

Probably one or both parties declined to enter a licensing agreement.

Nothing. Vaporware.

Scopeware was around in the early 2000s. If I remember correctly it had some traction in the legal profession, but fell very short of the vision described in Gelernter's books. That's why you've never heard of it.
"use at your own caution" It may be a closed system, but hackers would have discovered if it was sending all your calls to the government.
Depends on what you want.
See also: http://www.tweetforatrack.com/
I believe programming will be some day a mandatory subject in schools. Not like everybody needs to be an expert but at least some basic knowledge of it.
What was your site?
Hm, at first this is not a bad idea.

As opposed to spam or other Twitter ad-networks where you need thousands of followers before you can earn a dollar, this creates a win-win situation for both the payer and the payee. Instead of hoping that people who downloaded your free product will recommend it to others, you can now rely on it.

However, you tweet before you have seen the product. Thus you might be recommending crap to your followers that you would rather warn them about.
The A9 is readily 25% faster per clock than the A8 for scalar integer operations. Scalar floating-point is 5-10x faster depending on the exact operations. Vector instructions are mostly the same or slower than A8 due to lack of the limited dual-issue present in A8. I have yet to run a proper benchmark to compare the difference in vector performance in realistic situations.
Are all the good tech-company names taken?
>Zuckerberg was actually a pretty good programmer. Its unlikely that Facebook would have gone anywhere had he not been.

Is this built on the caricature presented on "The Social Network" or something?

But anyway, that seems flawed -- there are plenty of products that make it big even though the developers aren't amazing -- simply because it gets the job done.
Managing customer/user expectations is just as important in the open source world as it is in private business.
"Not found - The request item could not be found." after clicking the link to download. Great
I don't use Sipdroid to make calls - but I use it to receive calls from a geographic number that I've set up via SIP.

I've found the quality to be pretty good - but I do only use it via wifi.

I signed up for a free geographic number from Sipgate, and set up sipdroid to automatically answer any calls that are made to it whenever I have connectivity.

I've found it's a fairly nice solution, as missed calls (e.g. when I don't have connectivity) are automatically taken care of by Sipgate's free answer service (and I'm sent the message as an mp3 via email).

I'm using it with an HTC Desire.
Diaspora isn't meant to be a site, it is an open source project to power social networks.

Maybe you should look into what you are commenting about before commenting.
I was disappointed... which sucks. Back before release I did have a lot of concerns - not least that the money and hype would not leave the right environment to work in.

Once the product was released I had a number of concerns:

* The security is abysmal, it needs a complete audit and someone with real experience here (plus maybe months of work) till it is safe to use

* They didn't seem to have done very much. The UI appeared to have a lot put into it.. but only on the surface, at any depth it became confusing.

I'm afraid that I think they shot themselves in the foot dramatically here. Because they rose to the hype with a pretty poor "product" - so now many supporters are disillusioned with their promise.

It will take a lot of time to create a working system; months at least. This was always going to be the case, but the hype forced them to promise something much sooner. And now it is a "semi-failure".

With luck they can refocus and come back in a few months with a serious product :)
I would guess that it's because of the Verizon deal. Skype probably had to promise to make it only work for them.
A Depressing Yet Fascinating Look At Poverty In America (video)
I know, but 1GB of RAM isn't that lot if I want at least reasonably fast file sharing (especially if the primary storage would be the harddisks via USB), run some network services and even some desktops apps via networked X11, which is roughly what I want (so I'm asking if this is the 'doing it wrong' case).
I am a corporate generalist who is transitioning to software sales with no real experience in the field. The only thing I really understand is what our clients want because I was one of them. Don't categorize yourself. If you are passionate about a startup, it will show, and you can sell it. I would take the advice of noahc and start pitching your idea to companies who would want it, ask how much they would be willing to pay for it and hold them to it. "Bootstrapping your business" is a good book and describes how Greg Gianforte sold a product before he had one.
I think there's a large issue of luck. Your advice certainly improves the odds, but it's no guarantee. There's just so much getting submitted nowadays, of front-page-worthy quality, that you need to get lucky with the first 4 or 5 upvotes. If you don't get them, you're toast. If you do, you make it to the front page where the real crowd sourcing magic kicks in.
Will be interesting to see how well it works with 1 million nodes.
I love couchdb so much. It has made relocation and big data crunching so much easier.
The article says:

the interference pattern tends to cancel out some of the light passing through the lens, which reduces the contrast of images viewed through it.

The example image also shows this effect.

The claim is that:

the brain adapts to and minimises the reduced contrast within a few seconds.

My point was that this adaptation may not work for everyone or may not be comfortable. Also when the glasses are taken off do your eyes have to readjust to normal contrast?
I recently subscribed to their development mailing list, and then rapidly unsubscribed. It was mostly an echo chamber of people (rightly) bashing the code written with no thought to "security as design principle" mixed with people (rightly) clamoring for more documentation and some kind of architecture spec so they could help.

I was excited about Diaspora, but the work released after months and months of development time is, in my mind, severely lacking. Maybe the beta (if there ever is one) will change my mind?
And of course, the moment I get one of these from some person is the moment I unfollow that person.

And if they become truly prevalent, I'll delete my twitter account (which I was already kinda on-the-fence about).
It's inversely proportional to the money received by a VC. That's why it's a must to have your startup as small as possible.
Just curiosity but how exactly do you market yourself? How do your clients find you?
I think generally people know that cappuccino is for building applications, not websites. And there really wasn't much misleading as the discussion was around the app itself.
I noticed another thing about this book. The index has a dozen or so references to Lisp, but no mention of Forth. This is unfortunate. I bet there are more true DSLs in production in Forth systems than Lisp ones. They're scattered throughout the industrial world. Real people, i.e. with no knowledge of computing who are simply at work in their domain, use them to do things like calibrate lathes. Since the main thing we need if DSLs are to become more than design patterns squared (a technical scourge making things unnecessarily complicated for years to come) are real working examples, it's bad to ignore the richest source thereof. Of course this is one of the hard things about writing about software; where are you going to find such examples? On the other hand, I don't think people try very hard.

The DSL philosophy runs as deep in Forth as it does in Lisp. Consider this passage from Thinking Forth:

"Programming languages designed especially for particular applications such as robotics, inventory control, statistics, etc., are known as 'application-oriented languages'. FORTH is a programming environment for creating application-oriented languages. (That last sentence may be the most succinct description of FORTH that you'll find.) In fact, you shouldn't write any serious application in FORTH; as a language it's simply not powerful enough. What you should do is write your own languages in FORTH (lexicons) to model your understanding of the problem, in which you can elegantly describe its solution."

That's from 1984. Yeah, that's right: 19 freaking 84. Has there ever been a clearer description of the idea?
I suggest reading through at least 0.1% of the tens of thousands of papers which have been published on the subject of graphene alone in the last five years before declaring the entire field of physics to be stagnant.
Samsung Galaxy Tab priced at £599.99 ($953 USD) in the UK, is that too high?
Is there any build system that doesn't have it's problems?

edit: The discussion on Reddit points out many details about Maven that the author has gotten wrong: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dmu26/java_buil...
Actually I have my own contribution to this space:

http://ebuild.origo.ethz.ch/wiki/ebuild

Although unfortunately the documentation is not ready yet, it is quite capable and is designed to solve what I perceive to be critical short comings of maven.
Announcing Read Replicas, Lower High Memory DB Instance Prices for Amazon RDS
It was when I was at school 20years ago.

And the ability to write

10 print "I am great" 20 goto 10

has led directly to the wide understanding of technology and the rational approach to science and computers we see today among both the general population and our political leaders.
A distributed data exchange system with everyone running their own servers will never get anywhere, look at what a terrible failure email was. </sarcasm>

Far, far too early to tell frankly. The pace of development at the moment is frenetic, when things start stabilising then we'll see whether it swims or sinks. I am however hopeful, if it gets any traction at all it stands to become a platform on which a panopoly of awesome things could be built, free from the limitations of the monetise-your-personal-life motivation of Facebook.
I work for a startup that sells software to big banks and my role is somewhere in the middle of dev and analysis. Depending on the phase of the project, I do everything from development to analysis to project management.

We work with big banks but are a small company and so I get to experience both worlds, which is great for me because I haven't figured out which one I hate more :-)

We have offices in NYC and South Jersey and are hiring, so if you're looking to make a change, shoot me an email and I can give you more background on the company.
I suspect for any kind of skill there is a way to get through life without it. Apparently a lot of people can't read. Does that invalidate the claim that "everyone should learn to read"?
usually putting the link between < > corrects the problem, with most applications I tried at least.
Yep, there is no magic bullet here, and I've written as much in the article. But it certainly won't hurt and it will help to improve the overall quality of the stuff that does get submitted.

Of course it would be really funny if this post didn't make it!
The other day I thought that maybe building a social network on top of email would not be such a bad idea. Would it scale?
This is how the music industry is adapting. There are facebook apps that behave similarly - you have to LIKE the band to unlock content and downloads.
I don't think it's that capable of doing all that. As far as I understand, CouchDB does a "dumb" version-control type synchronization. Server A can copy all the data that Server B has and do it in a nice clean manner over HTTP.

I can think of several disadvantages (though I may be wrong and naive):

1. If you're running a node, and I'm running a node, my data schematics might not be compatible with yours. If I write a uniform backward-compatible RPC, then it'll be a little better.

2. I can't selectively allow you to copy some data (photos) and not others. If you are a user on my database, you can access everything you have permissions to. It's hard to set fine-grained permissions.

3. Push notifications will be hard. I'd have to poll the database for changes.

For that matter, the same can be achieved by putting a giant XML file on Git, and having each person set up a remote, or using a complicated set of shell scripts and rsync. Couch's replication facility is really neat, especially if you want to scale horizontally or if you're adding redundancy, etc.

CouchDB is becoming the new hammer. It'll get tempting to write source control, file backup, etc, using this database because of the data sync, and decent query capabilities. But I feel that building a social network on top of CouchDB's replication might not be the best of ideas.
Hold on, so what is the difference between your company and a patent troll?

Not that I'm accusing you guys, I'm just not sure how I can readily draw the line between the two.
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The Real Cost of Free
Facebook vs iPhone vs Android
It is less than or equal to 92 (my current karma).
All we really need is facebook without the crap, I'm not sure if it is possible to do that but if someone ever launches a facebook competitor with an ironclad privacy policy that they will guarantee they won't 'change on the fly' you can count me in.
> this creates a win-win situation for both the payer and the payee.

And a loss for every follower of the "payer".
Although programming is a wonderful profession with unique benefits ranging from philosophy to economic value of being able to code (not mentioning the fun aspects of it): If everyone on this planet would be a programmer, we might loose all the views and opinions of people that see the world from a different angle that their professions encourages them to view things from.
Then why are people giving them money? What makes you think that you (or some regulator or something) could do a better job of evaluating their worth.

First off, I don't believe that we should impose a different system for valuing people's salaries, and I didn't mean to imply that if I did. I just think that there are obvious flaws in the current system. I wish I had an answer that would fix all the issues, but, of course, it's not that simple.

Essentially, my impression is that you believe that the market which determines people's salaries is entirely rational, and I disagree. As in most (all?) marketplaces, it's not really about the value, it's about the perceived value. Some people (and they are not evenly distributed across all career paths) are better than others at convincing people they are worth a lot, so they get paid more. This is partly due to proximity to the money making process, which is one of the reasons that salespeople are paid so much (it's easier for them to make an argument based on "look how much money I've made you!").

In addition, people don't value CEOs (or anyone else for that matter) in a vacuum. They look at what other CEOs are being paid and are primed to base their valuation accordingly. If their pay was truly based on value-delivered, this wouldn't be the case.

I wholeheartedly agree with you that government involvement via tariffs and salary management is generally a bad thing. It only makes a messy situation messier. But that doesn't mean the free market is perfect, and examining and understanding its weaknesses can only benefit us.
I've noticed lately that having a very discussable, opinionated, or judgmental topic will also propel your post. For example, meta-topics, like this, seem to do pretty well. So do articles or local posts like "Why you should[n't] X" or "[Why it's | Is it] OK to X". So, I think you'll do alright. It's an interesting topic and everybody will want to chime in about their own experience posting to HN.

My "rate my start-up" post, however, is probably going to die.
Oh wow, that actually makes a lot of sense dude.

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In Yugoslavia in nineties during the big hyperinflation everybody was calculating the prices in German Marks, still hyperinflation progressed until the specific political decisions happened. I also consider the article as such an oversimplification that the real insight is actually lost.
I'm not on Twitter, but I'd immediately point out to my friends that I don't want them to spam me.