skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was curious so tried an install but it gave me an error. Shall check the log later, but will mention that two others in this vein are Knime and Rapidminer. Both have R integrated now but appear rather similar to the cursory glance I took at the Red-R site.

Did note that Red-R uses Rpy so those benchmarks are worth noting. Often much room for error when dealing with blocks alone and its best to learn at least some of the language concurrently.
> Just because people are willing to pay money for it doesn't mean it's worth your time.

By definition, if someone is willing to pay money for something, it's worth _their_ time, which is the whole point of making products.

We preach "Making something that a customer finds valuable. MVP and iterate. Get lots of feedback to build something the customer wants." So kreci builds something people want.

> ust as AIDS or cancer research is more "useful" than penis pills or breast enhancement surgery regardless of profitability

This is where the main discrepancy comes in. You guys are talking about two different things: 'value' within a capitalist framework and 'nobility' within your particular moral one. Neither one is necessarily 'better', but that's the core difference.
No, the one is about copyright, the other is about information.
Doom: from proof-of-concept to finished product
If
post to proper resource.
I would also redirect my feeds/rss to FeedBurner, just to have an idea the number of subscribers I might have, and which are the more popular items people read about me.
But what to do with such a cache? Build a new search engine to compete with google? I sincerely hope they will do that, but it cannot be easy. That said, if you have the cache, you might as well try.

By the way, what about online banking etc. They are introducing yet another weak point by playing the middle man.
The blame there seems to be more that the Trent 895's fuel-oil heat exchangers (FOHE) were presented with too much ice than that the design of the engine was at fault: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_38#Final...

"3) The FOHE, although compliant with the applicable certification requirements, was shown to be susceptible to restriction when presented with soft ice in a high concentration, with a fuel temperature that is below -10°C and a fuel flow above flight idle.

4) Certification requirements, with which the aircraft and engine fuel systems had to comply, did not take account of this phenomenon as the risk was unrecognised at that time."
Silent prayer for your soul, only $1, no shipping cost!

No, seriously, I like his crazy optimistic attitude. Probably get some fun stuff out of it. Non the less, there are really people selling this kind of enlightened service on eBay, not for $1 though.
Mac OS X Server running Open Directory worked well for us instead of running an Active Directory for integrating Solaris, Linux, Windows and MacOS clients. Unfortunately, Apple pretty much pulled the rug out from under us a while ago, the system administrator was replaced with a Windows zealot and now nothing really works at all.
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Thank you! That link is much clearer than the article.

One thing wasn't in it that I found cleared this up a lot, though: with a normal sail, wind that gets caught still moves forward relative to the ground, just slower. With this thing, it winds up going backwards. That supplies the extra needed momentum.
I would use it, but probably not pay a TON, as my interest in Android development is as a hobbiest not a professional.

I'd definitely pay $99, probably pay $199, but definitely wouldn't pay $499.

By the way, you might get a better sample posting this same question at http://programmers.stackexchange.com -- it's a more Microsoft-centric crowd than Hacker News.
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Speak for yourself, we may not be anywhere close to fascism, but I see a whole lot of hero-worship of "real americans" and not a ton of most people fitting the classic free-thinker model these days.
I'm actually an old Doom fan but I thought I'd share this with HN, as we're all probably old enough to know what Doom looks like.

The 0.2 release here is little more than a POC: a generic texture, no ceiling or floor heights, some keys to test different lighting conditions.

The game then evolves into the Doom we see today, with some interesting deviations along the way that never made it into the final game:

- A helmet style HUD

- A bayonet

- 'Unholy bibles' and a myriad of other evil themed powerups

As someone who loved the end product to bits, watching iD try and then throw out these concepts is fascinating and makes me consider what I myself may throw out along the way to my own final product.
I read up to the point where they cited GoodHealthInfo.net (this site is full new-agey pseudoscience). Is it worth reading the rest of it?
"That "major" announcement from Nokia - "Nokia reaffirms its commitment to the Symbian platform"
Yet somehow Apple managed to translate great UX into $
It starts to lag up really badly if you go over the top edge.
Even though every Clojure book out there says something like "We're telling you, wrapping Java libraries in Clojure functions isn't idiomatic!"

I know one Clojure book that doesn't say that. ;-)
Yes, I read that. Care to summarize?
Eclipse+ADT have saved my day in combination with Eclipse Memory Analyzer Tool. I'm sure there are other Java power tools that would be missed if you gave up on Eclipse, too.

Having said that, and bearing in mind the utility of stuff like the File Browser and debugger, I never liked working in Eclipse. I use eclim and send it commands from vim, and that's all the IDE I usually need. I also avoid using ADT for commands that can be better used through adb and shell script - e.g. logcat is much more useful when I can tee it to a local file and analyze it in a real text editor than it is in ADT's view.
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RIM does too. But it doesn't have the ability and/or the inclination to swap out ads.
Seems like saying, MS DOS had been a failure.
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Why not put it up on Github so we can help you finish it?

I'm currently a full time jQTouch developer, but I would much prefer a working environment like the one you're describing. I would certainly be willing to help develop it.
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The iPhone has two massive things in its advantage:

1) It's made by Apple. If the Tivo had been made by Apple it would have sold vastly better.

2) You can carry it around with you, and let people play with it in public. When the iPhone first came out every time someone got theirs out they were surrounded by people wanting to have a play. Tricky to do that with something that's plugged in under your TV.
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That's a good point.

I did not realize UCF was that new. I'm guessing USF is probably not that old either.

I've only lived up in north Florida (tallahassee) while in college at FSU and that town is almost 30% students so that number doesn't match my experience in the state. I think that holds for Gainsville and Jacksonville too albeit, Jax it's mostly due to the type of industries there.
How I've done it is something like this:

(1) Client sends auth info to backend server

(2) Server sets auth cookie on client

(3) Every request goes through a proxy written in Ruby/EventMachine which either just passes through the request to the backend server if requesting something public or first checks that the client's auth cookie is valid if its requesting protected resources.

This certainly isn't as simple as it would be in a server-side framework, but otherwise it works pretty well.
i hope when the author refers to zuck's "rejection", he/she isn't referring to the narrative popularized by The Social Network movie that he started facemash/facebook purely motivated by getting rejected by girls (or 'mainstream society'). from what i've heard and read from the news, it doesn't seem like zuck was a 'reject' at all. he grew up in an upper-middle-class community, went to a prestigious boarding school, then Harvard, all while having great opportunities to develop his amazing hacking talent. it seems like he grew up surrounded by geeks and other uber-smart people, so i hardly think that the origins of facebook were from a sense of 'rejection' (although that makes for a more sensational blog post).
There is a chinese proverb that also says something along these lines: "In order to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand."
The secret is in establishing long term business relationships with your contractors.

I've invested close to $10k on Elance over the course of about 50 projects. But that represents a fraction of my total outsourcing budget because the real work is getting done in one on one email discussions.

You can leverage the work & the money you put into Elance (and others alike) by making sure every developer you work with becomes someone whom you can trust long term. And someone whom you can eventually contact & commission outside of Elance, to speed up the process.

The key to making this happen is to reach out to them in your project descriptions. Ex- "the best candidate for this job will recognize the benefit of a long term business relationship in working with me." Posting a project is as much about selling yourself and the benefits of working with YOU as it is the project itself. If you want the best talent you have to be best kind of person to work with.

That said, other tips;
- pay promptly, be forthcoming with bonus, and don't nickel and dime
- as others have stressed: be articulate with the requirements and what you expect out of the final product. Ie- make it easy for your developers to work with you
- avoid large firms. Your looking for one man operations or small,talented teams

Goodluck!
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Opera Mini on the iPhone 4 is a pretty bad experience. Hope they get time to update it soon.
An even better headline would be "A third of Milgram’s subjects told him to take a hike, hallelujah." It would have the benefit of being true.
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iPhone too, uses FreeBSD at its lowest level ...

Wait, what? Is this just a reference to OSX's BSD heritage or something that I've missed all this time?
see also one of 10k contestants with similar game: http://10k.aneventapart.com/entry/177
guys created this game said that if not IE9 support requirement for 10k competition they would be created 2.5d version with css skew scale transformations (this is a sample of their renderer http://habreffect.ru/files/e8d/aa56d8ae1/kitty.jpg )
google translated article: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&h...
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I seem to have gotten stuck on on the fourth level or so (whenever the wall textures first change). I can only explore the upper left quadrant of the map, and there are no doors or stairs in the accessible area.

I've also bumped into all of the exterior walls, in hopes of finding a hidden passage. Help?
The paragraph about finding the date of the Battle of Trafalgar is particularly funny today - the correct answer can be quickly found and verified on Google, Wikipedia, Wolfram Alpha, and so on.

None of which existed in 1995. I don't know how old you are, but I suspect you weren't on the net back then.

I was doing web development in 1995 in the UK, and let me tell you, it was a whole different world. Searching was something you did on Lycos, or by drilling down through Yahoo's manually-curated subject indices, or on a Z39.50 WAIS server; AltaVista only launched in December 1995. Apache only forked off of NCSA HTTPD in 1996 -- back in '95 we were doing stuff on the old NCSA server, scripting in Perl and scratching our heads over the new-fangled OO extensions to Perl 5.001m. (CGI.pm was immature; PHP barely existed.)

Netscape Navigator 2.0 only showed up in beta in fall '95, with this funny thing called "LiveScript"; Java was the hot new language from Sun, and Netscape Navigator 2.0 (which featured exotic HTML extensions like frames and framesets) could run compiled Java applets at a pinch, if you had a machine with 16Mb of RAM to run it on.

The company I worked for had a 64Kb leased line; if we'd been paying full fat for it, we'd have been coughing up GBP 12,000 a year for the privilege. A 64kbps ISDN line cost 400 quid to install, 200 quid per 3 months to rent, and then fees of around 3 pounds/hour to use. Most people were using 9600 baud or 14.4kbaud modems to dial up from home. And "most" was the proud, the few -- I think Demon Internet were up to about 20-30,000 subscribers in 1995, and they were the pioneers. In early 1995 (or was it late 1994?) I attended a Demon meet'n'greet session in a pub in London, along with about 80 other folks -- the early home internet users. A couple of years ago a friend of mine pointed out to me that almost everybody in that pub had gone on to find work in the telecoms or dot com sectors. But at that point in time, we were just hobbyists, because the former meant "working for the phone company" and the latter didn't exist yet.

The sort of interactivity we take for granted today wasn't possible unless you were playing with remote X11 apps and had a dedicated workstation sharing a LAN with the server. (Something like a steamingly powerful 486DX/66 with 32Mb of RAM, talking over 10mbps thin ethernet ...)

Kids these days: we've come a long way, baby!
The items are worth whatever people are willing to purchase them for in WoW and IRL. All you have to do is keep track of how various items are selling. You could implement a browser plugin to capture your hover and give you a floating window with stats from your database. About the point where I had this realization, I stopped caring about WoW auctioning and decided I would rather spend that time making real money.
hi, the forums are already available, there's one for each puzzle, at the bottom of each puzzle page (i.e. http://www.coderloop.com/puzzles/helloworld )

they're a bit hidden, in the next design phase we will give them better visibility
While it's an interesting post (and in general I completely agree with the notion of hubris v. humility), I think the author chose a couple of bad examples. TiVo vs. Blackberry is a complete apples to oranges comparison. Forget that one is a "productivity tool", while the other is strictly for entertainment. Or that one is in a rapidly growing market (mobile devices) while the other is fighting in a dying market entrenched with DRM, copyrights and other such bullshit.

Another big piece he's missing: through 1999-2003 blackberry had enterprise sales teams selling into companies driving corporate adoption, vs. TiVo being the redheaded stepchild that none the satellite and cable providers wanted anything to do with. Not to mention they would later ape it's features, or in the case of tivo/directTV fuck the consumer over completely.
Discussions from postings past:

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=143333

2. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1491020
There's a plugin for NetBeans that works wonders, here http://wiki.netbeans.org/IntroAndroidDevNetBeans all the instructions to install it.

If you, like me, come from VS, NetBeans is an excellent substitute for it.
yes that's the idea, and you can compete with other people to create the most efficient solution.
This is new because the purpose of project euler is only to create a correct solution...
OpenID cancels IDs without notice
OpenID.net issued 2 openIDs then canceled them without notice and have ignored 9 emails seeking clarifcation.

David Recordon dismisses, then ignores the problem on his blog.

Can OpenID be trusted managing human identities online?
If I would want to spy on my <wife, child, whatever> I would simply write a GPS logger application and plant in on his/her Android/iPhone/whatever, I think that would be more practical and cost effective, still I can't take photos with that, so I guess this would be nice too.
Separating the domain from the UI is just common sense and good business practice. Having the two melded is probably the most common way for companies to get stuck using an old application. Their business logic (the real value) is stuck in a glob of UI outdated code (which no one cares about anymore).

I say this as a Smalltalk programmer of 10+ years experience. Unfortunately, it's often been the worst Smalltalk apps that have had the longest life. In those cases, it's just too horrible to migrate to a different environment, and the rate of change in the current application makes the opportunity cost of freezing ongoing development too painful. The result is often one or two failed Java projects seeking to replace the Smalltalk app, which continues to creak along beyond all expectations. Often, the apps with the good architectures got replaced quickly.

I think a lot of that could be fixed with automated translation to Groovy and some custom UI frameworks.
Imports goods from China.
Refurbish those goods and export them back to China.
I'm very interested to see how well this sells. If WP7 rocks the market, then Google and Apple will have to do incredible things to make even more awesome phones. Sounds exciting!

On the other hand, I kind of want it to fail; it takes the mobile world in a direction I don't like. Mobile sites will no longer be able to use HTML5 if they want to support WP7. And I love HTML5. Also, it looks like you can only write managed C# apps that have to be approved in an app store :(
Bah, us cool kids had Pentium 75s back then with 28k modems, enough to go on and playing with vrml chat applications.
I still, for the life of me, cannot understand why this is used. Why would you leave the users environment responsible for templating?
It's probably just a question of server-side frameworks being more mature at this point in time, and client-side logic being a more fertile ground for innovation due to longstanding cross-platform roadblocks. A client-server architecture is always a balancing act, and it's just teetering a bit towards the client side at the moment.

The future is being able to divide work arbitrarily between front-end and back-end depending on the particular needs of your application.
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Trademarks are not limited to just one per word/phrase but instead based on classes (categories). It's possible for someone to have a TUVW as a software program and also a TUVW pharmaceutical drug. I've got a similar case with one of my software programs where there is a similar trademark related to a plant seed. If there's another trademark in the same class as your product, then simply adding Online may be a tough sell.

However with today's legal system and intellectual property rights, it's not always a case of who is right but rather who has deeper pockets. You'd definitely be advised to talk with an intellectual property lawyer if there is a possible concern.

Also simply owning a domain name that displays ads or otherwise doesn't have a full business is not necessarily cybersquatting. "Squatting, or cybersquatting, is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else" [1]. If anything you may could be considered a cybersquatter if you registered TUVWOnline.com and attempted to benefit from TUVW's trademark. I know that's not your intention because you are asking how to stay legitimate here on HN but the mislabeling of cybersquatting is a pet peeve.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting
...there are always nay sayers, who are usually wrong as time passes..
You build an ad network that 'performs arbitrage on competing ad networks'. Opera makes money on the margin that potential advertisers save. This works because Opera controls the pipeline from web to phone.
My point was that it was neither marketing nor sexiness that was the root cause of failure. It was simply that most TVs are already plugged into cable cos or Dishnetwork boxes. They had an opportunity to make a deal with the "gatekeepers of TV". They chose to fight and had their ass handed to them.

Also note that Apple entered the smartphone market after securing a deal from AT&T to subsidize the cost of the phone. That was their execution strategy and it delivered.
Beyond useful is building something that lets your customers say "Hey, check this out".
I find the argument of language favoring base-12 very weak. If a groundbreaking change like replacing base-10 with 12 (or anything else), language would also be able to evolve and adapt to it.

Spanish has words up to fifteen, by the way.
Neat! I descended down to around the 7th floor I think, and found a bug: there are only five small rooms on the map, no staircases, and no doors to the rest of the map. I can't descend further or ascend back up to wipe up the mobs I left behind.

http://imgur.com/P7csK.jpg
I'm surprised that you haven't switched already. Mac Server is generally only useful if your network is above 60% macs that are managed. If it's something small, you could just stack an Airport Extreme on top of a Mac Mini, fire up the mac-centric services, and call it a day.

Running Exchange takes away about half the benefits of a mac server, too.
This comment on the article particularly struck me:

There was a time in the U.S. history could have launched
a dozen or so satellites in its sleep. “Need another GPS
communication satellite? It’s on order. We’ll build it by
Friday and launch it by Wednesday. We’d do it faster, but
it’s Presidents Day on Monday, and you know how those Unions
are with holidays” I read some NY Times articles about the
U.S. response to the Pearl Harbor attack. How in months, we
built giant cranes, uprighted ships, and rebuilt our fleet.
Now, we can’t even build another measly two track tunnel
under the Hudson river without political posturing.

http://www.cringely.com/2010/11/any-port-in-a-storm/comment-...
I know there is a lot of Microsoft bashing here (and most of it deserved) but I think it was a smart move for them to be willing to start from scratch and it shows someone there is trying to put out decent products. Whether they succeeded or not in this case I can't judge but I think this shows an honest effort.
All of that is true, but it hardly detracts from jacquesm's point. I would call them not toys, which are truly good and meaningful, but novelties, which are cheap throwaways that appeal to fairly base senses of humor.
Personally, I don't really think there's anything wrong with a "x tips for y" title, but it does go against the submission guidelines for HN:

If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

I think the point of the guideline is to keep things fact-oriented here, and to keep the amount of sensationalism, hyperbole, and "link-baiting" on HN to a minimum.
when it comes to starting a company, being a good salesperson is far more important than engineering expertise. i've considered switching just to be more well rounded. most software startups aren't actually trying to do anything difficult. they need designers, salespeople, and marketing, not phd computer scientists.
I don't really get it either, but one reason I can think of is that it saves some bandwidth because sending the data that gets inserted into the template will probably be smaller than the HTML after templating.
Is there anyone here who doesn't read XKCD?

Actually, I've decided I am interested in the answer to that question, and it's not purely rhetorical. Here's a poll:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1882957
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Thank you for putting an actual price in your comment! Expensive is relative and knowing someone else's point of view is very helpful.