skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sony decided a while back to drop memory sticks and use only SD cards moving forward. Even the X10 had an SD card slot. It might have been around the time they announced the X10 now that I think about it, not sure...
The development had slowed but I've started submitting patches now so at least one new developer has joined the ranks there :-) There are at least three other developers who are are responsive on the development list so you can probably get your questions answered.
Consider at least two copies sold then.

What a neat idea, please, yes, do this.
It's sooner or later for most people to realize that, it is not that safe to rely on a specific deployment system that is not directly controllable. It could be dangerous to use a full stack that cannot easily be replaced without a decent amount of efforts.

Initial laziness now adds up.
I'd be surprised if they don't have custom graphics hardware, of some sort, in there - I imagine the last thing Sony wants is to commoditise themselves by providing the same hardware platform as normal Android phones.

Even if they don't have custom hardware, I'd be shocked if they didn't have some sort of silicon DRM to stop the software running elsewhere.
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Try kneeling for more than a short time - your knees will probably hate you. But you can still take short regular breaks to get up from your desk, change your position, make sure your setup is as ergonomically correct as possible, etc.
We can already use C++ to develop games for Android.

http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html
Ask HN: jQuery for Large Applications
I have been using jQuery since a year and a half now and I really like the simplicity of it. But I normally use it for DOM manipulation.

What would you use for full fledge javascript applications like New Twitter, Gmail, etc.
I think a little bit of pee came out. . .
Please advise.... 
I am working on a project where it is required to have a location on a webpage to have the abillity to draw (figures, shapes, etc.). Can anyone help suggest a good programmer? If interested, please get in touch with me... my email address is nisar.amin@gmail.com
Kinda hard to tell before 500startups announces what they're going to launch, right?

But in the end, it seems like the more choice you have as an entrepreneur for seed capital and more importantly, advice, the better it is...
I like the page: the design is cut and the idea is intresting but you have to let people read the pages 99 without registering. This is what happends to me: I read the idea and I like it so I say, ok, fun I will read, I click on read the register modal appear and I close everything. The idea is great but no so importan in anyones life to take a register, but if I had already read the page 99 and I it´s vote time, then yes, I will register, I had invested some time on your page and I like or not a page 99, I want to share that experience, that´s my motivation for registering, without reading any page 99 I don´t have any motivation, so I close.

Regards
I've been working on a couple of projects tied to some pretty intense cryptography and security aspects. I was in way over my head when it came to math, and I've been digging into a lot of linear algebra, statistics/combinatorics/probability, and number theory trying to keep up.
In order of which books to buy, I'd go:

- Perl Cookbook (invaluable)

- Programming Perl

- Mastering Reg Ex
I think you missed the point of my article (which is OK, as you admitted to only reading 1/4 of it). It's not just about saving money. It's about saving money + eating healthy + saving time + feeling productive + rewarding yourself for a week of focused work.

All of the above. Your diet is good at saving money, and you follow many of the same ideas we did -- plan ahead, shop for the week, stay away from junk food, etc. But we turned it into a system, we turned eating into a routine, and we treated our kitchen as the command center for our company and the meal factory for our diet.

This freed up time to work the requisite long hours incubated startups tend to require, while counteracting the general sedentary and exercise-deficient nature of startup work in the early stages.
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Actually, I specifically bring up beta testing and testing with real world customers/conditions instead of addressing Andrew's question about what's involved in submitting an app. It was that important for me to mention it. Of course, we could spend an entire interview discussing that aspect, so perhaps that is why you perceived me glossing over it. :)
I read it ! thank you for your efforts in helping the original posts ! says a lot about you.
My guess? One of these - http://www.hearingaidmuseum.com/gallery/Carbon/index-carbon....
My project is using jQuery right now but I don't know how scalable it will be long term. Are large volumes of users a concern with jQ?
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Forgive my elementary level question. I'm not a programmer, I'm just trying to learn about what my contracted coder is doing.
I'm not criticizing, but just giving my two cents here to give perspective.

The problem with being 50 years old is not being 50 years old, but coming across as acting 50 years old.

Startups don't need someone who can manage an outsource program to train 200 employees. They need someone who can ship. Someone who is implementing features and building product value.

Culturally startups today want to stay small because that's a competitive advantage that allows pivoting until you either have a home run business model or can be acquired by a larger competitor.

I don't know you or your situation, but instead of calling attention to what you did in the training center in Asia, tell the community about what you've built. What's in your GitHub profile?

As far as training is concerned it's better to train a half dozen brilliant rock solid (as opposed to rock star) programmers that can ship.

I think it's absolutely awesome that you are programming to this day and willing to put in the 12 hours, but I think it's better to see that zeal for training to use trying to creating a hardcore team of "special forces" developers instead of a whole platoon of "grunts" or "marines".

The people who want what you have offered to bring to the table are enterprises. If you want to go after startups, you need to start focusing on startup scale projects. If you are talking about more than 6-8 devs on a team, it's already too large.

On top of that, it's important to be building teams with balance, just like a small special forces team in the Navy Seals or Army Rangers. You need to be able to train and lead people that complement each other and can build a whole product, front-end, back-end and everything in between.

Again, I'm not judging you here. Just putting in perspective that what you are offering in your reply is not what I see the HN community asking for.
Maybe you could offer to help solve bugs that someone has been having a hard time with. Sometimes all it takes is a pair of fresh eyes to spot the problem.
I have always found it amazing that the most complex problems can be solved with solutions so simple that it takes us a while to figure them out.

This looks great, and I can imagine it on all kind of robots.
Phras.in helps you decide which of two words you should use
Until very recently being snowed in all winter meant constantly feeding a fire with wood or coal. Splitting wood or carrying coal is a lot more work than typing.

Meanwhile, I don't think you can assert that sewing at the professional level is approximately as sedentary as keyboard work without data. The cloth doesn't cut itself. It doesn't load itself. You are constantly moving your hands and arms. Until the advent of electrical controls the machines had to be clutched and unclutched by hand, even if the actual power came from a central belt drive system. And so on.
"Two common ethical objections to the consumption of animals is that they feel pain (and that causing pain is wrong), and that their cultivation is environmentally harmful. On both of these, oysters are significantly closer to plants than animals."

---Wikipedia

Other discussion:
http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/why-shouldnt-vegan...
No. I mean to say, jQuery is good at DOM manipulation but a large Javascript Application involves alot than just DOM manipulation.

So is it better to write naked javascript or use any other framework?

I read some where people using YUI, Dojo Toolkit, etc.
I decided to read through the rest of the article right before your comment. It pretty much went where I thought it was going. I do realize it was not just about saving money, but all of the other things you listed. My eating habits accomplish the exact same things (saving money, eating healthy, saving time, feeling productive, etc). The only point I you might be able to argue is saving time. As it turns out, cooking doesn't really take that long. In fact, I think I could cook, eat, and clean faster than I could walk to a crappy campus restaurant, eat, and walk back. Hence, time saved.

The major difference lies in the consumed food. You eat the same (arguably boring) food over and over, and I eat almost whatever I want, switching it up every week and keeping it delicious.
Here’s the Public Google Doc With All Of MySpace’s Traffic Analytics
Ask HN: Can FireSheep read passwords from mobile devices that use WIFI?
If I use my iPhone / Kindle (with WiFi on) at a coffee shop, could something like Firesheep collect passwords as I browse with my device?
was? did he die?
Here is the link to the public Google doc that Arrington is referring to: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=txOH3CTZSXHj5o2iUS6V...
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Greenwall presents a raft of environmental services designed with ease of choice for the property manager in mind. Greenwall are at the forefront of providing a wider range of such “Environmental Services” delivered through its network of professional strategic partners.Several services to choose from, one web site to visit.
Count me in as well. This is truly amazing stuff bloggergirl.
Fair enough :-) Anyway, I fully encourage other ideas of how to save money/time and eat healthily. I do think it's one of the "low-hanging fruit" for cutting costs while running a startup that sometimes is neglected. You're ahead of the game if you're thinking that way while still in college, so kudos!
Why so zealous? PayPal has been focused on competing for small business accounts with Chase, and WePay is attacking them with UX formerly focused on p2p payments, and moving into developer mindshare. PayPal is moving (slowly) to defend (but their UX is not there yet). My prediction is that WePay will convert enough people quickly enough to survive. With what I see from ebay/paypal product quality, I imagine there's a huge opportunity to creep into their markets one by one.
For the past year, Things for iPhone has completely run my life. I think the key is being able to add todos anytime, anywhere. It has essentially become my external brain, and one that I am almost never without.
No, still alive and well. Just a tense mix-up. My co-founder is currently a vegetarian, and in fact he was one then, too!
Complementing pg's answer here about "social choice".

It places the focus squarely on the news content and not on the users involved. There's no following and there's no cronyism this way.

In many services, such as twitter and quora, I've noticed that there is some degree of reciprocity that occurs even if it is neither expressed or implied that you should reciprocate. In fact, in most cases there is nothing written or unwritten culturally that says you should reciprocate, yet people do anyways.

By eliminating this you eliminate this falsely perceived social expectation of reciprocity, thus placing 100% of voting motivation on content. This is the right approach if you want stories and comments to make it to the front page based on quality of content alone.
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It's Javascript...that runs on an engine written with the Qt C++ libraries.
My understanding of the domain market is this.

Regulators realised the best way to provide domains was to let the market determine their value and allow them to be traded at will (with respect for IP). So they wholesale at dirt cheap prices on a first-come first-served basis and people can then buy and sell them based on market value. Works for real estate so why not domains?

The problem derives from the initial price and the expectations that implants. Many expect a domain to cost $10. So when they are offered a price more than that, they are pissed off and blame the person selling it to them.

Nobody walks past a vacant block in a prime real estate location and goes "bastards, if they weren't squatting that land, I could snap it up". They know the land costs $x million and don't assume it should cost $10. However, because domains are a new real estate market and not every possible domain is out of wholesale, people base their expectation of price on the wholesale price.

Now, let's think of the alternative. Anyone who has tried to buy a top level domain for a country that heavily regulates the names would understand the pain of the alternative. It can cost hundreds or thousands for the wholesale price. You're required to own the trademark already (which adds additional cost for a new project) as well as have a registered company etc. I can think of dozens of my favourite projects/blogs which I'm sure don't have a company or trademark registered under that name. This system would not only be a pain for small business, it would stifle innovation on the web.

I'm not a domainer (I do own about a dozen though) and I get just as annoyed as the next guy when I come up with a name for a project and find some punk wants $15k for the domain. But then I think of the alternative.
Where do you live? West coast?
PayPal Bets Its Future on Mobile
Blekko search engine to public launch on Nov 1
East Coast, DC area.
Sony has trailed in digital music, online video, and casual/social gaming. I'm glad that Sony is trying something different to get ahead of the curve as portable gaming converges with smartphones. There are several reasons, however, why I think this device may struggle in the market.

For instance, who is the target market? Kids and teen gamers who buy a PSP or DS (I assume parents often pay) or young adults that currently buy an Android phone or an iPhone?

If the target market is kids or teen gamers, will they be able to afford the price of the device plus the monthly voice/data plan? For instance, while 33% of teens aspire to own an iPhone, only 14% of teens actually own the device, down 1% from the prior year (Fortune, 2010); perhaps this decline was due to the recession or the emergence of Android phones.

For teens and young adults, will this device appeal to them as a replacement for an iPhone or for a different Android phone? The iPhone and select Android smart phones (e.g., Motorola Droid) have functional value, but also serve as a fashion statement. For many, the phone you choose is an extension of your identity (e.g., like your choice of car). How many teens and young adults will identify with a Sony PS phone with built in PS controls?

Perhaps Sony can overcome the cost of ownership issue by partnering with a discount cellular carrier, such as Virgin Mobile or Metro PCS. The second issue about the appeal of iPhones and select Android phones is more of a challenge. The device as pictured in the Engadget article looks interesting. But how many teens and young adults will shy away from the built in PS controls (and the bulk that this adds to the device)?

What are thoughts on how this device will perform in the smartphone market?
So is it better to write naked javascript or use any other framework

Naked Javascript can exist alongside jQuery, and jQuery can exist alongside other frameworks as well, so if there is something that jQuery will make easier, use it. If there are things that plan Javascript can do just fine, use that. Choose the best tools for the job, I say.
My issue with GTD and trying to use a todo system is there seems to be an assumption that you are able to quantify the time/effort to do each of your daily tasks.

Developing software and solving problems all day I can't often gauge by looking at a list how long different tasks are going to take or how much they'll make my head hurt.

I can do the straight forward things quickly, I try to stay on top of things I need to do but have been putting off. But I always seem to get stuck and fill up todo lists with thing's I've go no idea how to get off the lists and I don't believe it is as simple as breaking them up into actions.

I don't need a method for managing tasks, I need something to structure and support arbitrary problem solving.
Qwiki - First impressions?
Just got my Qwiki account, and played around with it for 30 mins.

First impressions: - Does not create qwikis on the fly. Has a whole load of stuff created with it which it serves to viewers. Thats the logical thing to do of course.

- Essentially, just reads out the first 3-4 paragraphs from the wikipedia page. Again logical as there's a very little chance that what you'd want to know about on Qwiki (on instinct) does not have a wikipedia page already. On instinct, all I tried looking for was personalities, companies and algorithms, and I got good quality clean output for all. Its when I wanted to stress test it was when I tried a query like "How to avoid cancer". Of course thats not a Qwiki-like topic.

Overall a great product. Makes me think - its very common sense: pick up the wikipedia page, annotate it with images and videos wherever there is a relevant context, store everything in the backend, and serve when requested.

I think its going to be huge. What do you think.
Bought it, I can't wait. I'm trying get my colleagues to try lisp, but I didn't have the marketing tools necessary to convince them Now i do, the music video gives a lot of personification to world (land) of lisp, thank you!
It's the curse of the Eternal September. The only forums I've seen that managed to grow large while still keeping the posts on topic are ones with strong moderation that don't hesitate to quickly ban trolls, rather than just relying on the community to downvote them.
I would use both jQuery and Underscore.js.
"successful genres are reflections of the social struggles of that time"
...and whether any applicable language is enforceable.
I never thought leaks clinched deals. I always thought leaks queered deals.
I created http://untodos.com last year with similar groupings (today/soon/whenever). I used it for about a year but stopping using it because adding/removing tasks individually was too much work and I much preferred managing nested todo lists in a text-editor with code-collapse features (so I could hide entire sublists). Earlier this year I created http://bulletxt.com (text-editor like todo/outline app with collapse) and have been using it ever since. I really need to finish it up because quite a few HN people have been using it lately.

Funny you mention GTD. I'm driving across the country and earlier today started listening to the GTD audiobook. Five minutes in, I stopped it. Just not my cup of tea honestly. I listened to Feynman and Kurt V. instead.
Maybe don't be logged in to your Google account when you look at this.
From the "Related Links" section:
If you like ycombinator.com you may also like: Graham, Paul

Pretty much dead on...
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Sure! Sounds awesome. Does it work with most smartphones?
Congratulations Conrad on finally getting the book out! I just got my copy from the No Starch website and am reading the ebook now. On first blush the layout looks awesome. I'm looking forward to digging into it.

Also, your video on landoflisp.com reminds me of the music video John Carpenter produced with his band for Big Trouble in Little China (I mean that as a compliment):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D03E9kUTTtQ
Clickability: http://www.digixcard.com
Using lettuce instead of tortillas is brilliant! Tortillas account for a big chunk of the costs in a wrap.
I'm doing the 25 minutes to work one right now, it includes a horrible hill too.
Google Street Cars' Parking
Here a photo of my improvised standing desk setup from a few months ago: http://twitpic.com/1kkmj7/full

I've since upgraded to boxes.
Of course nothing will have 100.0 (repeating)% uptime. But 99.7% uptime means it can be down for over 2 hours every month. Anything less than 99.9% uptime (which means 3x less allowed downtime--a big difference) is probably unacceptable, and if downtime costs you serious money, you're going to want more decimal places.
While I agree that there are limitations with App Engine, I disagree with your two examples; not only are these possible, I think they have a nice solution on App Engine.

1. Wildcard subdomains and multi-tenancy seem to be a nice solution to "subdomains for each user".

2. Unless by "non-www. URLs" you mean naked domains, that is also possible; both explicitly defined and with wildcard subdomains.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting you though.
Yes, tried just a few minutes ago.
What algorithm does Google Maps use to compute directions?
Paypal is disliked because they don't show respect to their customers, not because of their transaction scrutiny.
Hah, the "Common Programmer Health Problems" article you link to says that being a guitarist is worse for your hands than being a programmer. I wonder if being both is doubly bad. And I wonder if the fact that I play 12's is even worse. Maybe I should start doing hand exercises.

Also, please tell me you got like ten free pairs of those shoes for doing that commercial.
There are a lot of tiny little details like that, that in sum make webkit's inspector not as a good experience as firebug
Not sure I follow your line of reasoning. Why not? I couldn't care less if Myspace (or Google) knew that I - along with 1000s of others - had taken a look at a document that they made public.