skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it that hard to spell late?
http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=How+X+...
New Working Draft of File API published. File list, URI scheme and more.
> But what your non-technical founder brings is the knowledge of what to build.

Does she? Where does that knowledge come from? Why is it necessarily true that technical folks don't have it and that non-technical folks do?

Yes, there are non-technical folks who know more about selling houses than I do, but that's a long way from the above claim.
I don't think assault weapons would do much, either. Don't bring a machine gun to a tank fight.
Angel Funding: Deals Are Up, Dollars Are Down
Technical interviews - Different kinds and approaches
I haven't used an N8, but with my much older (and less consumer-focused) E71 it's pretty easy to send photos by email as well, which covers 90% of my use cases. You can upload photos to Facebook and Tumblr (and others) via email, so that pretty much covers social media integration as well.

Are you sure this isn't merely a confusing UI (something Nokia definitely suffers from), rather than missing functionality?
Acne Scars Natural Remedies
I guess that is why the music industry got all up in arms about. that tiny minority who used Napster and limewire and such. According to some counts the number of this tech minority was about 80 million on napster alone, not including your mom and sister of course.
> C is a perfectly good language with just the most basic standard library.

Unless you want to write cross-platform networking code. But in that case C is an excellent language for writing networking libraries for your favorite scripting languages.

I'd argue that nowadays C is used more to implement other languages than it is by itself.
Business frequent flyers would tend to care about this metric - imagine yourself going through multiple iterations of "please turn off all electronics at this time" could easily get annoyed in a hurry by an overly long boot sequence.
This looks very cool, but can't replace GR(for me) for two reasons:

- The whole point of GR is I can read the original site even when it's not available - works nicely with restrictive filters etc.

- It's slower than GR - for obvious reasons.

However, it's great to see somebody taking a stab at an alternative news UI. Good luck on your project.
I agree, but I feel like there should be some fill in the middle of the page. When I first clicked on it, there was a big white space in the middle. Maybe a carousel of prefetched articles would work?
Just a note (as the X series does seem great, IMO), but the X series' modern CPU is offset rather by its graphics performance.
Maybe they could target a few specific machines, making sure those work perfectly, and then use those as reference machines that people can buy if they want a no-hassle experience.
Adobe's "Molehill", a set of GPU-accelerated 3D APIs for Flash and AIR
Tell HN: Hiring Ruby dev in Boston Area (Waltham)
It's been 25 days since the last "Who's Hiring" thread, and I don't think it's time for a new one yet, but I did want to post that we're actively looking to hire a Ruby developer near Boston. The type of people who read HN are exactly the sort of folk who'd be a good fit with us-

Email jobs@savewave.com.

SaveWave is looking for Ruby experts to help us transition the world away from paper based coupons to the digital couponing future. If you live and breathe web frameworks, if scaling a website to millions of users sounds like fun and if you enjoy a fast paced, flexible environment with challenges to spare, this is the job for you.

Responsibilities

Design and implement web services and web sites for the SaveWave Platform
Help to design database schemas for SaveWave
Work with partners to integrate SaveWave into their environments

Skills

Deep knowledge of web frameworks such as Rails or Django
Experience with dynamic languages like Ruby, Python or PHP
Database experience a plus (Relational or NoSQL)
I have always taken "full-size" in this context to mean that the area of the landing surface on the top of the keys to be the same as on the desktop offerings. That said, there is a bit of cheating in that the height of the top row of keys on the 11" Macbook air is definitely much smaller. Not sure if that's a big deal. The horizontal and vertical distance between key centers seemed comparable to my iMac's keyboard, though.

I remember a number of times being attracted to the ultra-portable Fujitsus and Sonys of the world a few years ago and being totally unable to type effectively on them because the keys were so close together that my fingers kept getting in the way of each other when typing.
I use watch continuously for just about everything.

watch -n 1 "ps aux | grep something"

watch -n 1 "killall some-runaway-process"

etc
The Chinese are very good toolmakers and are significantly cheaper than the UK. By going oversees you same money and give yourself more in the budget for more complex tooling with side actions and collapsible cores.

We tent to work with local injection moulding firms that have all the facilities on-site to make modifications to the tools and would check the designs of the tools by the Chinese before they start cutting metal.

There obviously is a risk in going to china that you will have to go out there to solve a problem but we are much happier with that being during the six weeks that they are making the tool and not the 5 years that it is being used.
IBM Tech Uses Hard Drives to Predict Earthquakes
Getty images bought a company like this in the mid 2000's. They did current-event photography from phones. Might be something worth looking into.
My top 4 list of GNOME/freedesktop bugs is as follows:

4. nm-applet crashes a lot!
3. Often, elevating privleges (sudo and the like), runs the program as root, meaning that any files it makes belong to root, and the home folder isn't used but the root folder.
2. If several users are on, only one of them will be able to run nm-applet.
1.Keyrings, aka. can a design be a bug?
No one is questioning the community's dedication in this regard. It's just that, if the manufacturer nixes the idea, for whatever reason - from the users standpoint it just doesn't matter, the software doesn't work with their hardware. When it comes to devices working there's no such thing as an A for effort.
Link to the patent:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
It's interesting you use plain text for your ZestyLogos logo, yet sell a logo design service.

You could use some testimonials. Coupon for HN?
Watch has a nice difference flag, so that whatever is different from the last iteration is highlighted. As in:

watch -d sudo netstat -tnp
I would also mention somewhere that this is a marketplace for photos. There is a heavy focus on selling photos but almost none on buying them until the third box at the bottom.
Firesheep usage leads to Idiocy
. . . relatedly, from Jim Blinn, from Marvin Minsky -- drawing a circle (near enough), or doing incremental rotation, using just integer add, sub, and two shifts:

N = 128 * 3.14159
X = 1000
Y = 0

MOVE(X,Y)
FOR I = 1 TO N
X = X - (Y >> 6)
Y = Y + (X >> 6)
DRAW(X,Y)
I do not think that this is equivalent, it looks like querying complex JSON objects and not "simple" arrays.

From the "Array Element by Position" example:

db.blogposts.find( { "comments.0.by" : "Abe" } )

PostgreSQL doesn't have JSON support but it does have XML/Xpath support.

If you stored XML documents in PostgreSQL the similar query to the MongoDB one would be something like this:

select * from blogposts where (xpath('/comments[0]/@by', doc))::text[] = array['Abe']

Yes it's a little more verbose but not terrible so... at least in my opinion.
The iPod makes no sense before people had multi-GB collections of music.

Why did I buy a larger clunky gen 1 iPod from Apple when I had a Windows machine? Because I had a pile of music on my computer and the flash player I had before then (a Rio?) fit about 16 songs.

And lets be honest, people have multi-GB collections of music becasue of Napster, Kazaa, and bittorrent, not because of iTunes.
Perhaps we should start applying "Object Capable" to other languages like C and C++ and the Lisp family then? I like your distinction (and your article) so you get an upvote but I don't really find it that useful other than for anti-marketing.
You're quite correct, it's a known fact that Apple hardware is not nearly as diverse. This is a valid point in the carping about Windows stability in many cases - Windows has to deal with orders of magnitude more hardware than Apple does, and the difference is one of the big reasons for OS X's stability (along with the Unix underpinnings). As for the hardware vendors, it may well be their "fault" but the average user won't care - as far as they're concerned it either works or it doesn't, and at the end of the day, they're right.
>Its not like they send you a PGP key to go with it..

Sounds like a good idea to me.
The unfortunate circumstance is that most students only study to get good grades, but if they studied instead to really learn and grasp the material they would be incorporating those tips throughout the course of the class and retain most if not all the information. Cramming is just to pass a test, not to really learn anything. People often ask, "What is algebra really going to do for me later in life?" Well if you learned it over time and not just crammed for it there are many ways you can use it. Math is a proven and powerful way to develop critical and analytical thinking skills which end up being useful in every area of life, but will not get those skills cramming.
You might find technical folk who've been deeply involved in a business sector, can articulate that sector's needs, know how to sell to them, and have lots of contacts. I'm just saying, on balance of probabilities, it's unlikely.
-- This seems like a crowded space, how do you differentiate yourself? I was looking for an "About Us" section to tell me why you're different than 99 Designs, Logo Snap, etc.

-- The price point seems off compared to other options. For example, Logo Company offers logo, stationary and business cards at roughly the same cost. Do you offer better quality? Multiple designers? A more personalized experience?

-- Once you get off the ground, a few customer testimonials wouldn't be a bad thing. Also, the option to actually talk to a person about your logo design throughout the process is something attractive to those of us who would like to actually interact with a human being.

-- The site is fairly broken for me, but that is probably because I'm at work and we're forced to use IE7(!)
Thanks for pointing out this book. Its a very interesting read.
Direct link to the online version of the book : http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html#c1
Fun with colors.
http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+is...
Want to get acquired by Google? Get funded by YC, Sequoia or these VCs
It's interesting to see somebody tackling this (these) problem(s) of managing feeds through AI. As I said before http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1362554 , kudos and keep up the good work!
Remember, this survey is more about self-validation than what bosses actually think about their employees. I would theorize that most employees give their boss the benefit of the doubt, since it would be very difficult to get through the day otherwise. If you know with enough certainty that your boss does not respect you to admit it to yourself and to a survey, she or he must have been very obviously disrespectful, or the employee must be completely paranoid. I'd be more interested in the boss's opinion, really.

And the statistic that 86% trust their boss combined with the 91% think their boss trusts them means that 4-5% think they're getting away with something.
Regardless of whether one believes HN should be a job board or not, if you do post a job, I would (personally) ask that you please post some idea about compensation/remote-working options.
> HTML5 just can't do- or not easily at least -some of the things Flash can (e.g. webcam interaction, RTMP, multi-threaded animation).

Webcam integration: Sure, I'll buy that.

RTMP: Of course HTML5 isn't built with a technology that was developed for Flash. You know what Flash doesn't have? A <video> tag! Can equal functionality be built with Flash? Of course, very easily. But don't go calling Flash-specific protocols things that are against HTML5; that's silly.

multi-threaded animation: HTML5 has WebWorkers and multithreaded JavaScript. Not sure why you think this can't be applied to animation.

HTML5 is stronger than you think.
IMHO Ycombinator seems to be very founder centric. Tell us a little bit more about yourselves to see if it makes sense to submit to YC. We applied in YC 2010 Fall. Did you look at the questions they ask? eg. how long have the founders known each other, what other projects have they worked on. Interesting stories. If I read PG correctly these seem to be more important that the idea itself. Nice site BTW!
If this had an ajax VNC-like interface as well it would be very interesting but on its own it is just a simple admin tool where they have used JavaScript to imitate the native app.

StackVM (http://stackvm.com/) by pkrumins is much more interesting as a project.

EDIT:
Just noticed that they do seem to have something they are calling a "detached" console. http://phpvirtualbox.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/images/phpvb8.p...

My apologies for saying its not interesting, it now is.
Sure, I get jittery easily, don't like sitting in front of a desk either. I'd love a small, really powerful machine as well. I'd also love to sail around hawaii with an entourage of super models, but that's not going to happen. If you want a really powerful laptop - on par with a strong desktop machine - you need to be prepared to drop some serious bank. That's just how it is. Otherwise, leave desktop tasks to desktop machines and use laptops for what they where intended for - non-intensive tasks on the go.
It's cool that they've attached a Like button to every app. I'm surprised no one else has done that yet.
NASA has delivered no huge leap since satellites, aside from funding military applications at defense contractors (and while I have no problem spending billions to kill people more efficiently, I prefer to be honest about it).
Todos: a Backbone.js example Single-Page-App (with LocalStorage)
I don't use Google Reader, so I would love to have an option to import OPML files.
Edit: Scratch that. Found the option I was looking for. But, don't like that uploading an OPML resets existing feed list. It should ideally check for duplicates and add the new entries.
FOB usually means Freight On Board which means they will load it onto a truck at the specified site

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOB_(shipping)

Free on Board means the goods are counted as delivered when they pass the rail of the ship that is going to carry them
Aro Mobile Wants to Simplify Your Mobile Phone
Strangely, this is one of the things I don't really like about OS X. There's nothing to do to it. It just works and doesn't require any real tweaking or customization to be sleek and effective.

It's a point of pride to me that my Win7 box at work is so slick and well-tuned, compared to other peoples' Windows machines. But for the life of me I can't make my MacBook look any better than my Mom's. Nothing makes me happier than being able to be brutally effective on my cool-looking Ubuntu box at home that uses customized window managers and a dozen productivity hacks. But you don't even have to be nerdy to use a Mac well. Where's the fun in that?

This comment is only half tongue-in-cheek.
I'm not disagreeing. But that's what TheSteve (tm) mentioned during his webcast.

Personally, I loved the keyboard on my T23 Thinkpad.
Ask HN: Please review my crazy idea.
So I took one of jacquesm's ideas from his list:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1790564

... as I told him I would do:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1791494

... and build a gadget around the (5) AdProfs idea:
http://fcgadgets.blogspot.com/2010/10/ad-spaces-gadget.html

... and honestly, I have no idea what I am getting myself into.

I would love it if some friendly HN folks would chime in and tell me what they would do if they were in my stead. And, if they are knowledgeable about such things, let me know what kinds of pitfalls to avoid here.

Thanks!!
> but I can't help but think that this all gets back to political affiliation: if you don't like the politics, then leak the information.

This happens somewhat, but I think you're overstating the case.

I want bad _policies_ and bad _actions_ leaked. I want bastards abusing their position caught. I want bastards not abusing their position to be afraid of getting caught. Naturally what I think of as _bad_ depends on my politics. And naturally the policies and actions taken by those in power depend on their politics (though not all that much.) And naturally there is some bias in how I judge based on the politics of those in power. But I still want abuses leaked no matter whose watch they're under, because I want the abuses to stop. I want the public to be made aware of the consequences of war, both intended and non, as they need to be the ones judging if it is worth it.
Attempted to make a slightly better summary: http://quippd.com/show/4540/The_North_County_Gazette_a_blog_...
I don't know, I do a lot of work on both computers and cars, and I can understand why people want nothing to do with the internals of either.

I was working on changing the oxygen sensor in my car this weekend, and it started raining. It is a major pain in the but when you have the car jacked up and the hood open and parts strewn about with tools and you get a random rain storm (I guess this is why I need a garage). I didn't finish the project and my girlfriend had to drop me off and pick me up at work yesterday. It would have been a lot better if I knew nothing about cars and just had a mechanic do it (hundreds of dollars extra aside).

The same goes for computers. I can reformat a hard drive and go through a Gentoo install - but I haven't done that in years. I don't have time to deal with that stuff anymore so I want it to just work. It is an inconvience to stay up on it.

Likewise, I know almost nothing about accounting or law. I have to do a little bit of both now for my startup, and I want nothing to do with it. I turn to people who know what they're doing and ask for help rather than dive into it. I am perfectly capable of learning it if I wanted to, but I just don't like learning it. Those guys come to me for car help and I go to them for legal advice.

Everyone has different passions, and when you get busy it is easy to just delegate/ignore the stuff you don't like.
When done correctly, it should at least avoid this sort of cookie stealing scenario, though - HTTPS-only cookies won't leak into HTTP requests for non-active content, though malicious Set-Cookie: injection into the HTTP responses can obviously log the user out, etc. and may even reveal unwanted info if the HTTPS server doesn't handle the situation gracefully.
Whether or not its ultimately a success, you really developed a kick-ass product! It looks good, seems to work pretty well. If you did this all on your own, thats a tremendous accomplishment.
Author: I read (well.. began reading) your previous post on the TrueSkill algo (http://www.moserware.com/2010/03/computing-your-skill.html). Great job!!
You can import OPML! When you login, just click on the green + button in the bottom-left. (There's a callout that says, "First things first..." right above it). There you can easily import OPML.
I appreciate the disagreement. And I do agree that some knowledge is better than no knowledge. But there are always limits to what we can know and do, if simply because of the number of hours we're alive.

But even the way you phrase your comments indicates you're wearing a large set of winkers. "If it's useful to my life" is so broad as to be unimaginably large. Just thinking through my day: do you know what makes good soap or shampoo, and could you make it on your own? Can you purify dirty water? Can you fix the plumbing in your house? Can you make a toothbrush or toothpaste? Spin yarn or other thread, and use it to make material goods like towels, clothes, or shoelaces? Can you hone a blade's edge to razor sharpness using a leather strap? Can you skin a cow? Can you re-sole shoes? Fell a tree and use the lumber to make a bed, dressers, cabinets, or a door? Can you make elastic? Harvest grain and use it to make food? GROW grain in the first place? Re-wire your house? Fix your fridge/stove/microwave/garbage disposal/dishwasher/vacuum cleaner/etc.? Power your house without relying on the grid? Make and level concrete? Build a house? And on and on...

I have no doubt that you could, should you want to, learn some of those things. But you have to rely on other people at some point -- even if just because "there's significant risk". But just because you can learn things you're actually trying to learn says nothing about the MYRIAD things you aren't learning. And the sooner people realize that OTHER people find those things interesting, and that some of those other things even take immense skill or knowledge, the better off they'll be. Right now, it mostly sounds like you're completely ignorant of how many things you rely on that you have no idea how to do yourself.
I had a Sony TX3 back in the day -- the predecessor to the Z -- and yes, it ran Ubuntu rather nicely (unlike many Sony laptops it had a sensible enough chipset that the only device that I couldn't get working was the fingerprint reader). Alas: the price was comparable to a high-end Powerbook, it was relatively gutless (especially when the Core Solo was ramped down for power saving), murderously hard to upgrade the internals (upgrading the hard drive ... I looked up the engineering FM, turned white, and cancelled the whole idea), and had Sony's inimitable approach to warranty repairs if anything went wrong (i.e. six to eight weeks and a fat bill if you want your laptop back).

(Oh, and the keycaps rubbed off the keyboard inside 18 months. Not just the letters, but the silver finish, all the way through to grey plastic. They did not build it for the long haul.)

If Sony were to focus on quality of after-sales service for the high-end laptops, and maybe ditch the bloatware installs, they could probably compete with Apple. Their design aesthetic is there. But they fall down on the whole experience thing once you get it home (or in the office).
PHP will continue to do well because it is the most extreme example of the "Worse is Better" (http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html) design style. "Worse is Better" software designs (e.g Unix, C) have shown to be far more popular in the market than more elaborately designed systems (Common Lisp, etc).
One of the reasons I like DuckDuckGo.
Lance,
the design looks great but as others mentioned before me, it takes a very long time for the background to load. Also there should be more of a demo before signup (that's something we also had to learn with our project)

BTW I tried to signup on the site and it wouldn't work (I'm using the newest Chrome on a Mac)
http://wikilivres.info/wiki/The_Little_Prince
There is not one time during an air trip when I shut my laptop down completely.
A little backstory...

With the help of jashkenas, I created this app to test my implementation of Backbone.js for MooTools (http://github.com/jeromegn/backbone-mootools) and my localStorage adapter (http://github.com/jeromegn/Backbone.localStorage for those interested). It just so happened that jashkenas had been aching for a decent example app, so he reported it to jQuery and included it in the repository.

My own version of this demo is available here (with an extra sorting feature, and built on MooTools) http://localtodos.com/ (source: http://github.com/jeromegn/localtodos)

Hope you like it.