skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An old friend:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1799296

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672262

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1649246

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1179277

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=449806

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=156505

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=135111

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126638

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=109724

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=86288
And the award for best dad goes to...
Hack and Tell - The First One
I must be missing something, but couldn't Google just have a device identify itself as a normal browser in the user agent string of any http request it makes?
Got it - Would be worth reaching out to the octoparts guys. They could give you some good feedback.
According to an article I read earlier today, it's not looking at browser user agent, but the Flash player id, which is unique to Google TV.
do you think the kid liked Deadmau5's costume or idolized his music? With kids these days hitting puberty earlier and earlier you never know...
Actually, the last time this happened to me was when I visited SF a few weeks ago. There was pretty shocking rain and awful winds. I had a cheap umbrella.
Oh man ! I wish someone had told me this before. Back when i did research for my BSc thesis, I had an 24 core machine and wrote a script to create 24 bash scripts to split up my task which i would than run in parallel.

Sometimes I have the felling that I am wasting time when I check HN too often, but stuff like this makes me think otherwise.
> We want to fix the “Achilles heel of the cloud”, so that everyone has their data with them at all times regardless of Internet connectivity.

Isn't that what HTML5 offline storage and indexeddb are supposed to solve? Installing couchdb, spidermonkey, erlang and friends seems a bit overkill in my opinion, especially on a mobile device.
Seems like it'll stop the majority of non-hacker Google TV buyers...
That's sort of what Opera Unite is like, without the UI or killer apps or any users.
In fairness, I think the networks are perfectly happy if you buy their content (either on DVD or from an iTunes/Amazon like service).

I think online streaming from their site is the problem. It is a loss leader. It's meant for second viewings or for people to stay up to speed if they missed a show. They don't have a revenue model for their websites to justify their existence if you don't buy their DVDs or watch via cable/OTA.

One thing that struck me is why don't they move to a streaming model that looks more like TV. Three minutes of commercials every 10-15 minutes of actual content. I think this at least would begin to get them closer to their TV ad revenue. And with Hulu, since I can rate the commercials, I now get commercials that I'm generally far more interested in.
As the content on these networks goes to crap and there inability to provide/partner or work with any of the new platforms that put the consumer in the driving seat is just going to expedite their demise. The loud SUCKING sound are consumer running to a free(er) platform with better content.
Gotcha. I let everyone see everything all the time, so I wasn't familiar with that problem. I'd just assumed you'd misread him. My bad.
There's always a way. If Apple decided not to include a Java runtime with their operating system, that's fine. The important bit is that it will become easy to install.

I wouldn't mind setting up my new computer with a fresh OpenJDK (when/if this one becomes the de-facto JDK to use on OS X platform).
Pretty good explanation. A couple of tweaks: 50/50 is a bad split, because it will lead to paralysis, argument, flying chairs, and eventually bankruptcy.

Second, the advice here is to not pitch the idea when you first meet potential technical co-founders. I disagree: I think sharing the same passion is key, so you definitely should tell me that you plan to revolutionize the music industry (a bad example, I know...). Small talk won't get me, the developer, interested.
Google now appears either laughably naïve in suggesting this would "just work" business-wise, arrogant for thinking that they wouldn't get the same treatment Boxee received from Hulu et al. for the same reason, or negligent for jerking around everyone when they had to know this was going to happen. It looks bad, even though, of course, it's ostensibly not their fault.

On the plus side, since their partners will probably have a lot of these left after the holiday season, I think I know what I might get in my goodie bag if I go to Google I/O next year!
The brutal decline of Yahoo (infographic)
Another reason to drop Flash?
Look Out Jetsetter, Here Comes LivingSocial Escapes
The performance characteristics of the JVM didn't match the web IMHO. Javascript wasn't fast in a raw sense, but it didn't trade startup time for running time, didn't trade memory for performance, etc. The basis of Javascript is one that made sense for the web, for pages, for transient code. Since then they've done stuff to improve it, to make those issues less of a tradeoff, but when they started and had to make those tradeoffs Javascript made them correctly. The JVM didn't make them correctly for a web page. But I'm not sure the JVM was every really meant for that purpose.

In general though I think this demonstrates the environment and language mismatch problem. Retrofitting existing languages onto the web won't be very satisfying. There might be room for new languages (CoffeeScript is cool, for instance), and bytecodes could make that process more elegant, but ultimately those languages need to be different takes on Javascript or else it will feel ugly and awkward.
>"I can see the Apple designers starting from scratch, sitting down on their couches in their living rooms and imagining what they would want to use"

The result of imagining rather than testing is a tiny remote that easily falls between the cushions of said couch or gets buried under a magazine on the end table.
Err - nowhere in this article does Matt Cutts say it was "hacked".

He says people are hacking on it. In the sense of this definition: http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html

Though, my bet is you're just having a whinge, as opposed to actually commenting on this article.
A startup without a business plan isn't a business. It's just some code.

I disagree. Users make it a business - and users don't care if I have a business plan. They just care if the product (i.e., code) makes their lives better.
Son, as soon as someone puts their hands on you...
whats your suggested equity split?
Interesting. Although that sort of raises the same question.
I rather doubt that. If you sell something, you can not just change the contract afterwards, in general. Ianal, though.

If what you say is true, all Open Source Software would be doomed.
Nice comparison - I still like both.
Porting a Poker Hand Evaluator from C to Factor
They haven't removed Lolita yet, or Philosophy in the Boudoir? I'm outraged!
The pop-up windows have "Venster sluiten" in the lower left.
Google translate revealed this as dutch.
Thanks for the feedback and we certainly understand what your saying. Basically, the partners that we've signed on board don't want their deals exposed to Google and we're trying to protect their brand. However, I agree with you that we can do a better job of teasing the deals. Thanks again!
Is MySQL open core?
I mostly agree, though I don't think "business plan" in this context is meant to read "a 100+ page analysis of the market and other bullshit." Rather, I took it to mean a sense of how you're going to get the product out to users and (maybe) how you'll eventually make money. Both of those things are required if you want your business to become sustainable.
> Using the remote to enter search terms for Youtube is possible, but is a dreaded chore.

This is exactly what Apple is trying to tell: searching on TV is not what consumers want. If you ask me as a consumer, searching on TV just does not makes sense. I would search on my ipod and just tell my TV to show things I found.

This reminds me of reviews when first iPhone was released. One the problems reported was that it does not have all kind of ring levels as Nokia ("meeting", "silence", "vibrate and ring", etc.). And what actually people like me want is just silence and not.
Some valid usability criticisms, swamped in less useful ones and linkbaity headers. I actually agree that some of the new features are a little too bandwidth hungry, but am OK with that because I want to see greater demand for last mile broadband on the west coast. Reading about the speeds available on FIOS makes me cry.

I'm surprised he didn't take a few stabs at Google News, which really does have fundamental problems. He has touched on them [1] but the criticisms are rather shallow and miss the mark.

1. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2363874,00.asp.

I don't like seeing Dvorak called a troll. Disclosure: I wrote for PC Mag in London for a while, so there's a bit of collegiality at work, but I've always seen him as a gadfly - a literary nickname for the horsefly, an annoying creature that buzzes and has a painful bite, but which perform useful functions of pollination, providing forensic evidence, and contribute to the weeding out evolutionary misfits. Trolls (by my definition) deliberately seek to mislead or irritate others for amusement's sake - occasionally everyone's, but usually only their own. Dvorak honestly thinks the things he complains about are broken, even if he's often wrong about how, why or what extent. He is the Ur-User :-)
[2007] [pdf] A Principled Approach to Version Control
A good follow up source for those who found the Git internals interesting.
For Cats, a Big Gulp With a Tiny Touch of the Tongue
That is certainly the impression I have. I wouldn't expect him to be writing production code anymore but I do wonder if he hacks on anything personally or if any of his kids do.
At the very least it will spark the imagination. The beauty of this is that it doesn't have to have any winner before the end of the year to be a huge success.

All Matt has to do is keep the conversation going, and get people thinking about what is possible. People will build great things, regardless of prize money, if they are inspired - that might be by Dec 31st or it could be 6 months from now...

To this end, its a success.
Those are not at all in the same context, those are literature and satire, not a how guide on how to find condoms for 11 year old boys.

This is not a 1st amendment issue at all. Amazon, as a private corporation, has every right to sell whatever they want and conversely, not sell whatever they want. Why should Amazon help out this disgusting pedophile author? If RackSpace were hosting NAMBLA do you think they would pull it? Yes they would. Why? It's a business decision, the same reason Wal-Mart doesn't sell porn or sex toys.
It might make more sense to say a startup without revenue or a monitization plan is just some code. While likely unintentional I think "business plan" trips people up. The idea should def cover how the startup will get users and make money.
I was the one who added the post and appended that title. Originally I was going to use the term "reverse-engineered" but HN made me clip it so that the title fell below 80 characters.

I apologize for any offense or confusion it may have caused.
Ok, but what's the trick to focusing? It's hard to stop the daydreams. The science says people who can't focus are less happy, but it's a chicken and egg problem. Are you not happy because you can't focus or can't focus because you're not happy?
Agreed; I dropped my cable TV subscription last month as I've started streaming Netflix through my Wii. I would be willing to pay 10x what I'm paying for Netflix right now.
I guess psychology doesn't work like this. People can get quite afraid of rejections, even if it's not personal.
Next step: automated home chemistry setups that turn near-arbitrary feedstock containing the right elements into soap, food, shampoo, beer, plastic resin, ...
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A lot of power in the JVM comes from the JIT. To repro that, you're likely to run into patent lawsuits from Oracle even if you do discover/implement the optimizations in a clean-room.
Lolita is not a "how to" guide. Lolita is a fictional novel in which the protagonist that does engage in pedophilia meets a very unhappy end.
I don't want to turn this into a philosophical debate, but if what you are saying is true (I hope not), the community is wrong IMHO.

Human languages defines what concepts we are able to think and reason about. I believe that George Orwell showed this perfectly in 1984. By taking away a lot of vocabulary, you are taking away a lot of ways of to express yourself. I think that the term "expression" in regards to programming languages explains why this is important.

I only know Dutch, English and Latin (plus just enough German and French to get around when I´m buying a bread or asking for directions) so in no way I've experienced how a language like Mandarin changes the way in which your thoughts take shape. However, I did have the experience of playing around with Haskell and Lisp (not saying I'm experienced or whatever, I've just toyed around with them in my free time) and they did change some things of how I percieve and think about code. I can´t write code in these languages where I work, but just learning them (and learning their different, but just as valid, viewpont on programming) has changed the way I think about some problems and how I should solve some problems.

Language (whether it's human or programming) is all about expressing ideas in the broadest sense of the word. Knowing more just let's you express more...
Does the report find, that couples have more sex after marriage than before, or that married couples have more sex than unmarried couples?
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Some people (myself included) like use Facebook as a mirror to their own social circles. Defriending someone from Facebook for an inappropriate post would be like defriending them in real life for an inappropriate joke. It's easier to just ask them not to do it again.
Maybe this is off-putting because the term business plan has a lot of baggage. However, the point remains valid and correct: you need to have a realistic and executable plan for how to get users. "Build it and they will come" fails way too often.
Well,

I'll call Google as wrong and bad here while they are correct in demanding interoperability for Gmail vs. Facebook.

I would hope that sunlight in these areas would force everyone to be open rather than allowing everyone to be closed.
I don't think they should pull it, because I believe in the principle of freedom of speech. That concept doesn't apply only to governments, you know. Obviously they have the legal right to pull it, but I don't think it's the right thing to do.

Philosophy in the Boudoir was not a work of satire. And I disapproved of RackSpace pulling that preacher, too. I have lost respect for Amazon for buckling to pressure by book banners.
For those who don't want to read up on this, "found guilty" means a £1,000 fine and having £2,600 costs awarded against him. A stiff penalty for stupidity for sure, but he is not doing jail time.

A threat is made, it has to be investigated. He is paying the costs of that investigation. This is why you don't shout "fire!" in a crowded theater. This clown got what he deserved.
I think business plan may have not been the right words to use there. Feel free to replace it with "user acquisition strategy" or something like that.

At the end of the day if you're making something that people want, you aught to be able to make money out of it, but it's not as simple as just making something good. Unless you're super lucky/awesome (read: Rapportive http://blog.rapportive.com/the-accidental-launch), you're probably going to have to use significant elbow grease to get users on board.
I also believe that every developer on HN would use such a client without batting an eye.

Well, except maybe people on ipads....
27bslash6 responds to complaints by posting users personal information on reddit
Cats use gravity, inertia, gecko-like process to lap up cream
Ask HN: Any hackers from Atlanta area?
As a downvoter, for me it was 'people use $LANGUAGE at work?'

These kinds of wars are not helpful.
> All I've read (and own experience), says that scripting languages are much faster to develop with?

Much faster to develop with than what is the question. Much faster to develop with than C++? Or Java? Sure, but that's not a very impressive benchmark is it?
Umm - I don't use any book images on my site so I'm not sure if perhaps you're confused with another of the sites listed here?
I thought the HDMI input on Google TV is for watching real TV and the browser is for watching Web-only video. http://gigaom.com/video/google-tv-exec-cord-cutting-is-not-h...
"Google might very well genuinely believe in openness. But it is also strategically wise for them to be open in layers that are not strategic (mobile OS, social graph, Google docs) while remaining closed in layers that are strategic (search ranking algorithm, virtually all of their advertising services)."

I don't think can call Google "open" or "closed" in the sense of interoperability with respect to page rank. No one else puts information into pagerank. Google's search software isn't open source but that's a different question than social-network/email interoperability.
What is the principle of freedom of speech here? How do you view it? What do you view as Amazon's obligations? What rights does Amazon have and how do those rights interact with the principle as you see it?
Thank you very much for taking a look. Very reassuring to know I didn't mess anything up too bad :)
I was looking at this one the other day but unfortunately the book description has some disclaimer:

"For various technical reasons, the eBook version is a PDF: epub and mobi versions of this title will NOT be available."

I definitely need a .mobi version of my ebooks since PDF are unreadable on my Kindle. I wonder what these technical reasons are...
So when is it ever right for a store not to carry a product? Should all stores carry all products?
I think it really depends on how far along the idea/business guy has taken the project. If he has talked to tons of angels/VC's, or lots of potential customers, especially if those customers have indicated or even signed things saying they are ready to pay money to use the product, the split might favor the idea/business guy more than if he has just been "noodling" over something and has some "sketches" of what it might be.
I'm curious about whether this was real or was designed to harvest data about suspect individuals. I find it hard to imagine that anyone would buy such a thing online, as opposed to some shady brick & mortar bookstore where they could pay cash and not leave a record of their purchase. Then again there are a lot of criminals who are either foolish or oblivious to the social environment they live in.
Furthermore, does Amazon not have a conflict of interest in selling a how-to pedophile guide when they also recently purchases Diapers.com? I wonder if all the parents shopping at Diapers.com will enjoy purchasing from a retailer who caters both to pedophiles and children?

Also, this is not a 1st amendment issue at all. Amazon is not obligated by any means to sell/distribute the book. The issue is entirely economical.
Also, wrt to Dark Castle, were you aware that Return to Dark Castle was released for OS X a couple years ago, runs great on 10.6, includes both original games plus a ton of new levels that full capture the spirit of the originals?

http://www.superhappyfunfun.com/games/gam_returntodc.html
The fact that it worked for one movie does not mean that it would work any other movie.

The hook with Avatar was that it was a spectacle deliberately designed to be seen in 3D on the biggest screen possible, to the extent that there's very little point not seeing it in a movie theatre.

It's a unique example and its impact (and profitability) would be lessened by a) competition by similar movies and b) greater adoption of home 3D hardware.
I think it's now available in epub and mobi. Check again!
I'm really new to this so not really sure. When you enable billing your free limits increase (weird I know) and I don't think I've actually incurred any costs as a result. I don't really know how well optimised my site is so it may be that it could scale up to those numbers if the back end was better? That said, all the limits are daily on app engine so maybe it was just that the spike was big enough to bust my daily limits?
I have no idea what a CSS framework is but I'll put it on my todo list to find out! Thanks :)
Why is this even ranked up? The article even says it's just like last year.
The problem is you don't need a technical cofounder, you need a good technical founder. Just because someone is at a meetup or on Github doesn't mean they're a good technical cofounder.

Finding a technical cofounder isn't too difficult. If you can't sell your idea to one developer you probably can't sell it to customers. Finding a good technical cofounder is very hard.
Almost :) I moved back to my home country after living 4 years there
Yep - I know I should do that. Brings with it a few issues but I'll try and migrate over at some point - same with blog posts, I'd love to use slugs rather than numbers.
Here's one from a friend of mine: a hard drive just failed in the middle of a raid array. An OCD worker there decides that instead of just swapping out the dead drive, he's going to move all the drives up one slot and put the new drive at the bottom of the raid array. So instead of having 1 drive failure, the disk controller now thinks there are 3 drive failures which ultimately lead to data loss and his removal from employment.
I think having a byte code standard is totally possible. Webkit js engine Nitro/Squirrelfish already has bytecode. Spec is here http://webkit.org/specs/squirrelfish-bytecode.html

Nitro follows lot of luajit methods and techniques some are outlined here by Mike Pall - http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/58908
Some adopted by Nitro - http://webkit.org/blog/189/announcing-squirrelfish/ Nitro does the js-code -> bytecode -> jit-optimization.

However the more beneficial question is how long does it take it to convert js-code -> bytecode and how much it boosts overall performance. Seems like it is very small compared to execution times. https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/squirrelfish-dev/2009-May...

On the contrary V8 does the direct compile yet following jvm/jit techniques. More details by Lars Bak here http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Expert-to-Expert-E... and here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWhMKalEicY V8 does some more non traditional things like snapshotting, hidden classes, etc which give incremental performance boost. If there was a bytecode standard some V8 techniques might not be applicable but it is possible to maintain the performance boost.

I would love to see bytecode getting as a standard so that people prefer to stick to whatever language they are comfortable with. For instance I like both js and python but if there was an option, I would stick to python for all my needs.
While I'll be waiting for a review or two before buying, I'm happy to see another vanilla Android device coming (hopefully).
seems like each time i [re] read it, much of it is applicable to today's computing environment as well (replacing the languages and technologies of his speech with those of today). i guess that's part of why it's a "classic".