skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do believe that by installing Perian you get support for more formats in iTunes as well as Quicktime.
Ask HN: How is my app doing?
It has been 1 month since I released http://doosracricket.com/ and wanted to check how is my app doing?

In 30 days there were
331 Visits,

200 Unique Visitors, (this includes approx 100 HN users when
I posted for feedback)

1,124 Pageviews

32 users (signups)

18 Facebook Fans

Expenses: $25 on Facebook ads and server cost.

Any suggestions will be very helpful. Thanks
Big reverse opinion from me. I'm big into cataloging and organization of my files. iTunes rescued me from a complex nest of mp3 folders and got me into a unified metadata interface that allows me to slice and dice my collection anyway I choose.

For example, the following smart playlists:
- Top 100 highly rated songs that haven't been played in a month
- Five random Simpsons episodes (hooray bus entertainment)
- Unrated songs
- Highly rated songs from the 90s
- etc.

My wife and I use frontrow (just a skin over iTunes really) to manage our media library: dozens of movies, hundreds of tv shows, thousands and thousands of songs. Couldn't be happier with it.
Any search engine that capitalizes on a new and so far unused element of the content that it indexes (in the case of google the links) and that becomes successful because of this will cause the destruction the very thing that it it capitalizes on.

So, for altavista, that was meta keywords and on page text, for google it is the link structure of the web.
and why are downvoting like a kid everything i say, even questions :) its a conversation dude, chill.
Probably the simplest way of obtaining 3D data suitable for turning into an object model would be using a Kinect.

For large objects, like buildings, you would need either expensive laser scanners or something which solves the multi-view stereo problem. There are systems capable of doing this, such as Photosynth, but in general it's quite involved with no easy solutions.

For medium range models, such as automotive applications, you could have a pair of cameras aligned in parallel and connected to a PC/laptop then use a utility like v4l2stereo.
nice summary.
[OT]
That's a brilliant way of putting it, and had me in chuckles. Thanks for driving the point home :)
What should I use to control a light on CI Build Failure?
I agree with your opinion about Scala.

However, my point was that Java will continue to be always good enough to steal thunder from more promising languages. ( I realize that Oracle may find a way to screw it up)

Had JDK 7 not included Fork/Join and had Actor model implementations such as Jetlang, Kilim and FunctionalJava not been developed, there could have been a strong case to call Java dated and explore Scala in the enterprise. I began exploring Scala / Clojure to deal with multicore CPUs .concurrency etc. but that is no longer a valid concern.

Java was never elegant to start with -- it just barely got the job done -- and continues to get the job done and that is good enough.

They say that when you have a hammer, everything looks like a Nail. Java is my hammer.
The Sparrow
Why would that be? Apple sells more than enough machines to developers to know better than that.

Yes, iPhones and such are locked down. That's the difference between iPhones and Macs.
Mac App Store Launches as Apps Change Form
Hi Alex,

Like you, I've tried using various TODO list applications but got stuck in the same predicament: creating the list, laying out steps, ticking them off when done, setting deadlines is just impossible to integrate into my workflow. Maintaining lists seems often seems irrational and always feels forced to me.

I have taken a different approach: instead of planning my life, I like tracking it. I like writing documentation for my work to be able to come back to it or transfer it to others in my team, I like keeping logs and recording thoughts. I've integrated some high level overviews of what to do into logging what I have already done, or, to put it more simply: I've stopped maintaining a list of TODOs and started maintaining a list of "things to write about as already done".

I guess I am just fooling myself, but it really helps me to realise that by doing this it will help me in the future wheh I have to re-do certain procedures, tell stories to friends, remember my life, and from a professional perspective: hand over parts of tasks that are not interesting to me to somebody else. Keeping a log makes it that much easier.
I'll never understand how people can equate type correctness with value correctness, regardless of the language.
Let's say that I, like the majority, use my ISP DNS servers. And that my ISP supports DNSCurve.

Can it cache (Curved)DNS responses among all of its clients?
Why would someone mod this down ? That's simply not nice.
Sound like CPM...or tv advertising.

With more revenue for the publishers, more publishers come online and drive out supernormal profits for publisher too.

We've been seeing that for a long time...In the mid 90s porn affiliate stuff would pay tens of dollars per click, from banners!

*By "publishers", you mean people that make websites with content that have ads.
Over 50% of Android devices now run 2.2 FroYo
Here's the direct link to the repo:

https://github.com/solutious/bone
Back buttons are there, you know, to get back. Very common usage pattern. Contextual drop down? Not that common. Even Safari does not have it. Neither does Opera on OS X.

Yes, right click doesn't exist, but click and hold certainly does in Safari give you an context menu to go back one or more. The same does not exist for the app store.
> For many people, like me, Twitter has replaced most of the functionality of a reader. I still get the same information, but it's pushed to me, nicely curated, by people I follow.

I'm completely baffled by comments like this. I've tried subscribing to feeds that have just headlines or headline and one sentence and I end up never reading them. Almost all the feeds I read have full text and the rest have at least 100 words of the content per post, not 140 characters, so I can tell if it's worth clicking on.

Sites like reddit (or HN) which have voting and a decent commenting system add value, but Twitter? I'm actually turned off when I read some thoughtful blog post somewhere and at the end it says "if you liked this, follow me on Twitter." Yeah, thanks, but no, I must have mistaken you for someone who could form complete sentences.
I know that an appeal to tradition isn't exactly the most persuasive of arguments, but the core Mac fanbase has been doing things this way for decades. I happen to like it a lot more.

Those few inconsistencies suck, though. Bad apps, what are you going to do? Well, you could reject them from a store...
If your users are the "compile from source" crowd, I agree the Mac App Store has no benefit to you.
Have you looked into Solr/Lucene? They're run by the apache foundation -- Lucene is the actual engine, and Solr is kind of a wrapper around it. Pretty easy to setup, will parse numerous input document formats. solr.apache.org i believe.
Missing the train: the problem with BART
Henry Ford...
"Driving" the point home.

Oh you guys..
Mac App Store UI is so hideous that it makes me want to kick a swan
But for horses to have prevailed even a little longer, someone would have had to have monkey-wrenched an awful lot of cars (IE6).
I don’t know, it’s giving undue weight to the bottom item. Too distracting to use in production anywhere.
I was wrong. This would be considered insider trading.
how does that account for the sudden fall off?
CoffeeScript is largely an alternate syntax to JS with a couple of macros added on. That's more like the prima ballerina changing from her pajamas into a tutu.
is he talking about something like this: http://www.techstars.org/hackstars/
One of the things that really distinguishes pc gaming from console gaming is the availability of lots of buttons. did you see the wow example in the video? you really want lots of buttons for some games. Well, i do anyway.
The document says "UNCLASSIFIED" in the footer of every page. Has this really been "leaked?"
So it's not really an END of the PC Era as the article proclaims but merely a beginning of the end?
The PC era won't end as long as people need to use keyboards to input text. A lot of home/casual computing might evolve away from PCs, but they'll always be on your desk at work and I'm guessing most people will keep at least one traditional desktop/laptop at home for decades to come.
Most of the time you're using some framework on your site, and your neat little demo depends on that same framework.

But what if later on you want to upgrade the framework on your site, but it breaks the demo and its not worth fixing (for example, you're demoing proof of concept or a little study)? It's easier to keep the demo on its own site where you don't have to worry about conflicts with your main site js.

And sure, you should be keeping everything out of the global scope, but sometimes you have some legacy code, or maybe you don't know exactly how to do that, etc.

Other times it's a limitation of the CMS (You can't include scripts).

You could put it inline on your page, but its easier and less error-prone to toss it on its own page.

But yeah, if you're just making a stand-alone project page, you really shouldn't have the above problems.
Well. I was mostly basing the fits and spurts thought on how we tend to get traffic on Wikipedia. Activity and visitor counts do vary wildly; and, of course, one would assume that suddenly high profile news stories would bring in a spike of traffic and possibly donations.

I'm not convinced that uptake would be widespread enough, though, to get enough people to contribute. The big ad-banner prompt is a "once a year" prompt, something that exists all the time I reckon would have less impact.
How to Make the Most of Your New Year’s Resolutions (with data from MIT's OCW)
There was a shot in the video with the device next to a mouse. I think it's still a full on PC, you can bring a mouse if you want to. It's "just" sort of a funny form factor netbook.
It's worth noting that the science behind Vitamin D supplements is far from settled.

On Nov 30, 2010, the USRDA lowered their recommended amount from 2000mg to 600mg for healthy adults. This reflects what the EU publishes as the recommended amount.

From wikipedia: "There is some disagreement concerning the exact levels of 25-hydroxy-vitamin D needed for good health. A level lower than 10 ng/mL (25 nmol/L) is associated with the most severe deficiency diseases: rickets in infants and children, and osteomalacia in adults. A concentration above 15 ng/ml (37.5 nmol/L) is generally considered adequate for those in good health. Levels above 30 ng/ml (75 nmol/L) are proposed by some as desirable for achieving optimum health, but there is not yet enough evidence to support this."

That quote is supported by 3 different citations on the wiki page as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D#Nutrition
I worry that this will just encourage employees to wear fake smiles when they're having a rough day, and to conceal any skepticism about the direction of their program out of fear of what their co-workers might tell the psychiatrist. This sounds like a disturbingly unhealthy and counterproductive work environment.
The app store significantly reduces the friction needed to discover and install apps. In the first 10 minutes of using it, I discovered 3 useful apps and installed them all without loading a disk image, installing it, dragging the mounted disk image to the trash, then deleting the disk image file.

This morning's productivity is probably blown...
Micetrap - a nifty tool to catch evil hackers on the fly
Micetrap sets "traps" (open ports simulating fake vulnerable services), notifies you about scans and misleads potential attackers by giving them false information about services and versions running behind these ports.
This device reinforces the fact that I have an irrational desire for oled buttons.

It would be even better if the button surface was the same capacitive sensor stuff that new trackpads and the old touchstream keyboards use.
Tesla Engineering Cred
Skype to Acquire Qik
Oh, in that case Google is definitely trying to tell you how to make a donation to a terrorist organization (IRA)
I find it a typical conversation between someone healthily skeptical of capitalism and someone unwilling to really consider its downsides. Twitter, irc or posturing have nothing to do with it. I fully understand what DHH is trying to make clear to McClure, while the latter is channeling the naive view that has become American gospel, where downsides are continuously swept aside with a 'meh, worksforme'.
Bundled with OS. One click and easy to use. Not everyone is a "tech geek" and for some even turning on a computer is hard.
How do you get to the Mac App Store?
Skype to Acquire Qik for $100 Million
Other things there is no such thing as a completely safe version of: Cars. Airplanes. Computers. Lamps. Electricity in general. Boats. Food. Ovens. Buildings. Knives. Trees. Swimming pools. Public transportation. Flash cameras. Paper. Other people.

Nothing is completely safe. NOTHING. However, when something is safe for the vast majority of people and there's no demonstrable correlation between using it and detrimental effects (and if there is such a correlation but the net detrimental effects are outweighed by the benefits), then it doesn't matter that it's not completely safe.
Ask HN: Hosted Documentation Websites
Hi Gang-

I'm looking to create a developer-centric documentation site for a product of mine. The major features I'm looking for are:

1) It is to be reached on a subdomain of my main domain

2) It is to support the hosting of various api docs (different versions and programming languages)

3) It is to have some support for forums/help (though if I host these separately that's fine too I guess)

4) It has support for assets of various types

5) I want to be able to easily map out several tutorials on the site

Anybody out there have recommendations?

Thanks,
Nate
Octopart is an insanely useful tool when you're doing hardware. A few years back when I was doing hardware design their site was like a second homepage for me.

It's really exciting to see them succeed. The whole space they're in needs to be shaken up.
That sounds like trying to excuse junkmail and spam because someone out there finds it useful and orders the products being offered.
You're making an apples-oranges comparison, as did Kaminsky. The threat models covered by Curve and SEC are totally different. That's the point I'm making.

Meanwhile: Kaminsky is stipulating that every endpoint is going to implement all of DNSSEC. So, furthermore: I don't think he gets to cite "overhead" as an issue with DNSCurve.
The Sharper Image Attempts A Comeback
Mysterious Bird Deaths Mapped on Google
What a blatant copy of Jony Ive from Apple style videos by this Singapore man. The voice, the camera, the light, is a clone and feels unnatural to me.

This device looks too thick, it seems Intel continue needing big batteries for portable computing and ARM is going to eat them alive in this segment.
"This would solve a lot of people's complaints in one fell swoop."

And doing this would spawn a lot of people's complaints in one fell swoop.

If you owned a site, and created enemies, they could band together and flag your site as spam.
An Emacs fan-boy using Vim
Apple’s New Mac App Store: Our First Impressions
"there's only so much bigger Facebook can actually get"

Here is a hint of their plan to remedy that:

http://twitter.com/BigThingist/statuses/22913399742537728

Also, now that social-networking sites are driving up demand for humans, is there something we can do to ramp up supply? Perhaps some sort of large-scale human production.
Wouldn't implementing this feature be a tacit admission that there's a problem with search results?
If you are a solo founder please join us in the ##solofounders channel on Freenode (note the double hashes).

If you don't have an IRC client you can use this:

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23%23solofounders&...
Engineers as babe magnets
Most users need a web browser (email, FB, gossip sites), maybe a word processor, and maybe an occasional game. They need something more like Chrome OS, not an app store. Sophisticated users (gamers, programmers, tinkerers) don't need an app store either.
Mac App Store hands-on: many nits to pick, but off to a good start
Mac App Store hands-on
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=833954
Livescribe hack lets you play Zork with (smart) pen and paper
And even then it should consider the votes themselves to be suspect and watch for blocks of users who only vote in unison (qualitatively and temporally).
I actually find LinkedIn more valuable than Facebook,because I can do things I can't do as easily in meatspace (networking, getting unsolicited interview offers etc). Their addition of a twitter-like status message is pretty useful especially for those who're not avid writers because the people you really want to influence are the ones closest to you already.

FB is an additional way to keep in touch with friends and "friends" (I use the quotes on purpose). If FB went away, I wouldn't miss it (since I do meet friends in meatspace). But Linkedin vanishing would leave a void.
Buddy, do you know how thoroughly disproven thimerisol complications are? Even mainstream (if they can be called that) vaccine denial has moved away from this claim. You get more environmental mercury average urban life.

And let's say this might have been a legit concern (it is proven that it isn't) for the sake of argument. Thimerisol hasn't been used in single-dose vaccines in the West for the last 7-10 years! It's only used as a stabilizing agent in multi-dose vials; Vials typically seen as part of low-budget vaccination programs in Africa and Asia.

There are potential side effects from the MMR vaccine. Autism is not one of them. A mountain of money and research effort has gone into this. There is no credible correlation.

He'll, the man who proposed this correlation (Wakefield) has been forbidden to practice in the UK because he was illegally taking spinal fluid sample from children without consent or a proper medical review of his study. He recklessly endangered the lives of children and caused them undue pain to try and prove his theory. He then lied about his data because it didn't show what he wanted it to show.

PLEASE let this crazy idea rest. Any rational person examining the evidence can only find overwhelming evidence to the contrary. If you want to claim that you're a responsible adult worthy of making reasonable decisions then you should demonstrate that you've examined even a few of the salient facts about the subject. My reading of your comments suggests you have not.
I think it's pretty evident the scientific establishment isn't perfect and thus has differences of opinion, and you make a good point about lack of openness. But the pertinent facts are that the majority of medical professionals and the NHS that paid for the treatments stood behind the drug companies' testing and the vaccination's safety record whilst the angry parents' law firm, their outspoken shill medic and the media coverage all encouraged large segments of the British public to wrongly challenge the balance of medical opinion.
> I'm guessing most people will keep at least one traditional desktop/laptop at home for decades to come.

I think you're being very shortsighted. "Most people" haven't even had a laptop for a single decade yet. Most people have had one for 1-10 years I'd say. Also, "most people" haven't had desktops for more than a decade and a half.

What on Earth makes you think these form factors / devices will still exist in most people's homes for decades?! To me, "decades" implies at least 20 years....

So do you think, in year 2031, we'll still use desktop computers? That's crazy. No, we will have moved on.

Keyboards will be out-phased for most users by 2031. I image maybe devs will still use them, and they'll be common in specialty scenarios, but they won't be for "most users".

> they'll always be on your desk at work

Also shortsighted. Workstations will evolve too, even if this is slower.
I agree with you and I think all your points are valid but the GP specifically mentioned statically compiling dependencies, not using only what is already provided.

Something else that helps with Apple's way of doing things is their reasonably slow release cycle (when compared to most Linux distributions).
+1 for https://www.blamestella.com/

P.S. Love the pic on the homepage :]
I hope you don't mind. I just thought I'd try this on for size...

I disagree. The Mainframe era is evolving, not ending. How many people still have and use a mainframe when they interact with their bank? PCs are filling a growing demand for an OS on a smaller form factor, but the traditional mainframe market is still alive and kicking, its just not "cool" anymore; it's seen as more of a utilitarian tool than a novelty at this point, whereas PCs currently retain the novelty factor, thus their pervasiveness at BigIronExpo.

Yup. I actually recall people making this argument back in those days. And they were right in a sense: big iron still exists in its niche, after all. Regardless, the PC revolution was still a massive shift — large enough to justify the rise of the PCs as heralding the demise of big iron.
NetNewsWire does its small ad in a very tasteful non-intrusive way. I have yet had the urge to throw the software away for the small ad.

Whereas on the iPhone the iAds and other ads are annoying, intrusive and flashy.
Not true.

I care a lot about how the employees of a company present themselves.
Mac App Store: Apparently only for non-commercial use
Argh, just noticed his top navigation LOOKS like a breadcrumb nav but in fact is not. At all.
I think what I'll be using in 5 years is a 4 ghz device the size of my phone, which can be connected to external displays and input devices. I can already use bluetooth keyboards and mice with my phone. Once it can attach to a 1900x1200 monitor I won't need anything else.
What? You can still redownload, for free, any app you have ever purchased in the iTunes app store.
Very good points. Adding to it, you shouldn't use so many fonts.

Great idea though!
By the very same logic Microsoft should push as strong as Apple because it makes even more business sense for them. They don't sell hardware. Their profit comes entirely in software. Do we see the same behavior? Hell no.
Wow, what a great find!! Sadly I don't think this will work, though I would love to be proven wrong.

A brand new, two person startup in my (limited) experience isn't able to give an intern the support they need.

At Xobni we had a one-month intern from MIT when it was just Matt and I. I still regret that we weren't able to give him the full startup experience. He wouldn't be around long so he couldn't work on anything core, which meant that his work didn't really get much support from me. And he was burning the midnight oil side by side with us, with no definite long term stake in the company.

But who knows. Anyone been through the HackStars program and able to share their feedback?

I also imagined better pay -- like a $90k equivalent salary.
Why would a smart college grad want to join this program and not the real YC?
I think a personal black-list would be ideal initially as those most motivated would be most helped, i.e. the majority of people who might not care about the status quo are then not impacted at all.

As mentioned above, then introducing the shared-ranking via the social graph would be the next logical step. It could be something opt-in'd to ease adoption.

Then, ideally (and this is my personal 'white whale' problem) it would be great to imagine something where the user could whitelist through no action of their own rather than have to do any work to block, i.e. use the result set 'hit' of what's clicked in the results to act as a personal ranking upvote.

There's some interesting engineering issues of per-user indexing though, but hey, you wanted to work at Google right?