skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and this is a great force in my betterment. I'll see 4 different people talk about 4 completely different advanced techniques they use, and each of them master them so much that they talk about their feats like it's not really hard at all.

So eventually I tend to forget the context of the whole thing and come to think: "Hey, I can master these 4 advanced techniques myself, after all they're not really hard at all". And I eventually succeed ;P
What's the business model? Or do you plan to keep this a pet project of sort?
Atari Co-Founder Allan Alcorn Discusses the Creation of Pong
Far better to teach the farmers dryland farming techniques rather than destroying their soil through the use of irrigation. Wheat can be grown in areas that only receive 12 inches of rain a year, which is technically considered a desert.
Another Gawker bug: handling non-ASCII characters in passwords
Screenings for a documentary about him, Transcendent Man, were finally posted yesterday:

http://transcendentman.com/
It's smaller and lighter. Its screen refreshes faster. The contrast is better. It has WiFi.

But mostly, because it's black.
I'll second this.

The Kinect, in particular, is my invention of the year. I've had it for two months now and the freaking menu in dance central STILL doesn't get old. Just moving through that menu is the single most tactile thing I've ever done when interacting with a machine.

I LOVE it... and I can't wait to see how that technology grows and changes in the coming years.
Rejecting a job offer in PHP
Liar, liar Startup on fire
How I know that it's the future already
Awesome. Should be easier at first and then, instead of just a "Next" button, you could have 2 buttons: "next" or "next but harder".
Cork'd to Shut Down
>Given the fact that it's sitting on top of the front page with 87 points, the community seems to disagree

Since we can't downmod, it just means 87 people in the community were really moved and upvoted.

I don't think HN should be strictly tech either (though I do absolutely think "how I built/sold X" is much better than "here's my opinion on Y"), but I don't see how this story is HN material.
It's possible to write bad code in any language. This guy's disdain for PHP means more jobs for me, I guess.
"A quick trip through your commenting history reveals that you frequently troll vaccine fraud related articles in support of 'anti-vaxers'."

Not only have I never supported any anti-vaccination group, the first thing that comes up when you search for alex3917 + vaccine is:

"I don't believe nor have I ever believed that vaccines cause autism. What I do believe is that the systemic design of the CDC makes it impossible to trust what they say for various reasons." (397 days ago)

Followed by:

"I've seen a lot of evidence since then saying the autism-vaccine link isn't true, but I've seen zero evidence saying that the cover up that RFK wrote about didn't actually occur." (448 days ago)

"The anti-vaccine crowd was also in the wrong for putting excessive weight on this study in the first place, but this apologism for the scientific establishment is completely unwarranted." (6 days ago)

But feel free to make up whatever you like.
I think it is more "this is the most remarkable thing you can say about Sean Parker" to answer the question "wait, who is Sean Parker?"
Rails has Omniauth. Django has... a ton of one-off, limited social auth apps?
My language/framework of choice is Python/Django. In general, the libraries and "batteries-included" nature of those two have served me well. But in the past month I've begun work on a social web app and need a way to integrate signup and connecting an existing user of my application to their social networking accounts.

The Rails/Rack solution is rather complete (supports numerous sites), perhaps because the Rails community has smartly focused their energies on developing/supporting one project. Meanwhile, what I mostly find in the Django world are incomplete, cobbled-together solutions, each supporting perhaps a few APIs.

Am I missing a clear front-runner? Is there any interest out there in collaborating on a specific social networking authorization project to make it "the one" -- the Omniauth of the Django world?
You know, the other day I got through security with a water bottle. Suppose it wasn't a water bottle!?

EDIT: I'm just saying. When it comes to airport security there hasn't been a right way they've done it. After the TSA patdown issues they're being so lenient now backing off that they're letting large canteen bottles of water slip by unnoticed. I mean, sure water bottles should be allowed, but, certainly not unnoticed...
Jake Appelbaum is detained by CBP again; this time with no electronics.
Money gets taxed multiple times. That's not the point. I earn $50. I pay taxes on it. Then I buy something from you for $30. You pay taxes on that $30. Then you buy something for Jim for $10. Jim is taxed on that $10 you paid him. That same $50 got taxed three times in my example and will continue to get taxed until someone stuffs what's left under a mattress.

To your second point: Yes, obviously corporations are owned by people. But nothing forces a corporation to pay a dividend. So if you don't tax the corporation itself, the corporation becomes a tax free investment vehicle. People would just keep everything in a corporation including investments, cash reserves, houses, cars, jets, yachts, etc.

I find Google's behavior to be sociopathic and Enron-like. While it's perfectly "legal" it is socially irresponsible. If Google wants to withhold monies because it thinks corporate expansion is better for society, it should withhold from its charitable contributions rather than its taxes. Otherwise pay your goddamn taxes. I pay mine, I don't want to pay Google's, too.
What's most interesting to me is that Google seems to be moving forward with a strategy of competing with iOS via services instead of just applications.

Services (like Conversation Mode translate, constantly updated turn by turn GPS driving directions, more deeply integrated Google Talks) give them leverage against the carriers, who have to meet Google guidelines for Android in order to include the flagship apps and represent a really high bar that Apple would have to overcome to compete.

I realize it isn't exactly as cut and dried as services vs applications, but it is certainly a strong move that plays to Google's strengths.
Sorting Contest Simulation
These remind me of flash stuff on praystation.com 10 years ago!
There is some[1] evidence to show that higher corporate tax rates result in lower wages so it's at least partially equivalent to a higher income tax rate.

[1] http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbli...
Customer Development and Marketplaces | Market By Numbers
Personal Hotspot feature coming to all iPhones in iOS 4.3? | Appletell
Conversation Mode in Google Translate For Android
How did you get the .ly?
Short answer to a simple question
I was really surprised to see this question asked. I had always assume it was a given that people knew that A: and B: were for floppies.

Just brings back memories of the days when I had one floppy drive. I had to load MS-DOS disk, then swap to my game disk.

Then when I had two floppy drives, I was jumping for joy. Now I don't need to swap disk.

The pain of installing MS Office 4.3 with a dozen floppy.

Ah ... the memories
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Review My Facebook App -- Social Genie http://www.sgenie.com/ 
I have recently launched a facebook app (http://apps.facebook.com/socialgenie/splash.aspx)that lets you create a wish/Fundraiser using a multimedia composer and lets you share the wish with your friends. Friends can make contributions through PayPal. You can also review the wishes of all your friends using the app.

I launched the app 15 days back and am having problems making users sign up for a PayPal account.

I need ideas to market this app to facebook users who already have a PayPal account to increase awareness of the app.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks
Dragon Dictate is available for both iPhone and Android which would seem sufficient for a face to face conversation (or at least better than the alternative).
NLTK Sentiment Analysis with Text Classification Demo
A Beginners Look Into HTML5
HTML5, which has been in development for more than six years, comes with a great number of new elements. These new elements are supported by almost all of the popular browsers.
Very interested on this. How scalable it is? How many nodes can I see?

I ask because it uses a Force Directed layout, I guess it will get very slow after a few thousands of nodes.

Looks promising though. I'll play with it...
> China gets the credit for 100% of the iPhone's export value, even though it is only assembling the product designed elsewhere from parts that are made elsewhere.

More than anything, this just points to the absurdity of the way these metrics are calculated. An American company sells something to an American consumer -- along the way the product is assembled in China for tens of dollars -- and the American trade deficit between the US and China grows by $500 for each unit sold. Ridiculous.
IOS 4.3 Beta is now available to developers
Here are the Django solutions I've found:

* https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth (at least seems to work out of the box, looks to be some of the Pinax account app integrated with a decent way of both logging in and connecting to additional accounts after logging in. Pretty good demo at http://jug.gl/)

* https://github.com/flashingpumpkin/django-socialregistration (basic functionality, note the many forks)

* https://github.com/agiliq/Django-Socialauth (outdated, note the many forks)

* https://github.com/dgouldin/django-socialite

* https://github.com/omab/django-social-auth

* https://github.com/kmike/django-registration-facebook-backen...

* https://github.com/tschellenbach/Django-facebook
If it takes an hour to copy a terabyte of data to a tape, put it in a car, drive to a location and read the tape, you just transported 8796093022208 bits in 3600 seconds, or about 2443359173 bits/second.

edit: I always understood the quote as "the [potential] bandwidth"- the bandwidth that can be available using the station wagon as physical infrastructure.
You will find a lot of (US) companies at http://www.thomasnet.com
Case in Point:
Excerpts from Captain Rich Habib's Journal
during The Race to Save the Cougar Ace

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-03/ff_s...
Wait, what? I used to shave - twice! - while waiting for AltaVista to load its homepage full of crappy colorful ads. Then I switched to a plain white Google page that took like a second to come up. And you're telling me that I wasn't using a better interface?
Same here with Chrome 10.0.634.0 dev (OS X)
Entrepreneur bets big on the WOWee One speaker
Because unless your content rots, like breaking news, having a date is a pure loss. Patio11 has made this point many times. It will hurt your SEO if people are less likely to link to you because they think "Oh, that's old news"
I believe that Amazon's API actually prohibits barcode scanning for price comparison (their own Amazon iPhone app does this).

I had considered doing a more widely integrated application, but it got very kludgy very fast and I've always felt that the most popular iPhone apps were very simple.
Thunderstorms That Shoot Antimatter
The animations for expanding nodes seemed very jarring. At first I wasn't even quite sure what was occurring. I didn't look through the docs to see if it was configurable for users - but I'd recommend something a little less abrupt for your landing page. It took some getting used to and imo is a deterrent to really exploring your site.

That being said - it seems like a very cool library!
On Improving Privacy: Managing Local Storage in Flash Player
The idea that valuations can be affected by staff numbers is one I have heard numerous times. While I wouldn't refer to employees as assets, it seems like a mistake to completely discount the idea that increasing the number of engineers won't affect valuation.

The best I can come up with at the moment are some comments in the wake of Powerset's acquisition:
"At that time we knew that a talented engineer in a tough to get tech was worth about $1.5 million per head. Thus, I knew with relative assurance that since we were going to hire at least 70 people with our Series A money, that our worst case scenario was about a $100 million exit." -[http://blognewcomb.squarespace.com/essays/2010/10/14/cult-cr...]
What is Accelsor?
MOOS Project Viewer A Microsoft Project Viewer Is Available In Italian Language
When I saw the first Saw film, I was convinced that it was directly inspired by this incident.
There was just a presumption of incompetence and an insinuation that Mayer's accomplishments are not _really_ accomplishments, without any given reason. The OP didn't state "Mayer must be incompetent because she's a woman", but that's not how sexism works--people perpetuate sexism by allowing sexist attitudes to color their judgments about the merits of individiuals, often subconsciously. Why do I think it is reasonable to ascribe sexist attitudes to the OP? Because the OP is willing to presume incompetence of an engineer a) without evidence ("I can picture it now...") and b) in the face of substantial evidence to the contrary (the alarming success of GOOG), when the only atypical characteristic of said engineer is that she's a woman.
It's hard to know these days, especially online, but my sarcasm detector went off for the grandparent post.
Yeah I don't get why rowing is seen as significant. What this article is trying to point out is the top firms are looking for people like the winklevoss twins(harvard, olympic rowers, connected family, etc).
Gettext [1] does actually offer a way around this problem, which works fairly well in practice.

You can define the number of plurals and rules to select a plural case. Then you have as many translations as plural forms in your translation (po) file.

Arabic for instance has 6 plural cases with the following rules [2]:

nplurals=6; plural= n==0 ? 0 : n==1 ? 1 : n==2 ? 2 : n%100>=3 && n%100<=10 ? 3 : n%100>=11 ? 4 : 5;

See also http://wiki.amule.org/index.php/Translations#Plural_forms for an example of both a rule and the resulting code in the po file.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Plur...
[2] http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/l10n/pluralforms
I can't believe Marissa Mayer is getting any hate here.

She talked at Stanford and her genius was evident.

She is intimidatingly smart and has business sense most people can only dream of.

The fact that she has been doing it for 11 years for virtually all of Google's products only further proves her prowess.
Adwords Triangulation Method
Are there any common reasons why a startup would be interested in graph visualization? There's clearly uses here for visualizing a social network or RDF graph, but what else?
[Regarding being downmodded]

Uh... okay? I'm completely serious here. Please tell me what you're referring to.
What is the conversion rate on Android ads?

I ask because I have trouble believing that people click on the ads out of intention. I think I clicked on one by mistake before (although, honestly can't remember for sure).

I just find it hard to believe that Angry Birds makes $1M in ad revenue per month. I don't get why you'd click an ad when you're about to play a game.
My Dr is always 2 or more hours late, so I came to an understanding with her staff. I always ask for the last appointment of the day, get an ETA from the receptionist, and usually show up half an hour after that, say 7pm for a 5:30 appointment. Last time we spent 2 hours with the appointment and just chatting. (We like each other.)

The real advice: get a woman doctor. They are almost always more attentive, if not more punctual.
What drives me crazy is that simple is so hard. My original design had 3 tabs for different settings, and functions and all of these tweaks and from user feedback I cut it down to just a few screens.

I ended up trying to make it the most minimalist Netflix app possible as all of the others seem to have buttons and images flying everywhere, but maybe that's what people want.
We live off of my wife's salary, including any costs to run DDG.
Link: http://flickscanapp.com
I agree, I (with rather bad timing) I spent part of yesterday scheduling over a month's worth of tweets into CoTweet, the ability to not have to manually enter a date and time repeatedly would have saved a large amount of time.

However, after watching the video I wished. I don't want to enter my information without at first being able to see what the limitations would be on the free plan. The text on the site doesn't say anything about non-free plans/pricing other than that they exist. Careful scrubbing along the video does suggest its 2 a day (which would be fine for a free plan), with a max of 5 in the buffer which is so low as to completely ruin any plans of swapping it in for CoTweet and makes me much less willing to enter my email address.

May I suggest placing the plans/pricing information on the site? There is a page for it, but it appears to be mostly a duplicate of the homepage without any extra information.
On some SD cards in some SD readers, the write-lock switch is too small to trigger the mechanical switch in the reader, making the card appear as read-only until tape is applied over the switch. This problem affects my BeagleBoard's OS SD card.
In many cases the team is a crucial component of a valuation. That is not the same thing as saying "if the business fails and you built a good team, your worst case scenario can be a talent acquisition". A talent acquisition is on the "good" end of the spectrum of scenarios, is unlikely, and appears to happen only when there's a graceful mesh between what an acquirer wants to do with a specific team and what that team has already been doing.
Melodramatic much?
Well, for starters, I'd suggest making an actual landing page for your dot com. I was going to go check out your site but it goes directly to the Facebook authorization page. I have absolutely no idea what sgenie.com is, at this point. I'm not going to give it permissions to see my information without knowing anything, either.

A landing page would at least allow me to review your concept and decide if I want to use it. You're talking about convincing users to use your product, well why not focus on showing them your product first?
Printing material advice
I am looking for advice on the best quality lowest priced material to print on. It is for 6x9 Material piece attached to wooden dowels on each end.
I'm personally in awe of what Marissa has been able to do at Google. We had a small billing error with Google once and she personally signed off on the check.

I'm not entirely sure how she is able to stay involved with as many different products and services as she does. It's a remarkable ability.

It's why when she switched over to managing the Local team, we all knew that Google was finally getting serious about this category.
What an immature response. I mean, I dislike PHP as much as the next guy, and I would shy away from working with it if possible, but if you're going to have this kind of response, you should save everyone the time and effort and just tell potential employers up front that you won't work with PHP.
Only if you believe the purpose of an economy is to minimize its trade deficit. How preposterous.
I think it would be more compelling with a metagame offering an incentive to play. Edutainment games in which solving the equation slays the zombie are generally lame, but something along the lines of achievements might work.

You could separate the problems into classes -- the sort of thing that could be done with no algebra knowledge (3 + x = 8), simple manipulation (2x + 5)^2 = 6, factoring, quadratic formula, requires clever tricks with logs, requires a numerical approach such as Newton's method, etc. Heck, you could go all the way to Diophantine equations.

In parallel, people could select problems to attempt and earn bragging rights. "Solved a transcendent equation in 90 seconds", "Solved eight factoring problems in a row", that sort of thing.

Give people a sense of progress and achievement and maybe something to show off. They might be motivated to learn how to tackle harder problems, or jealous of their peers who can. I might play it just for fun at that point.

Perhaps monetize it by letting people spend a buck to have a public display space with what they've done?
>If production was moved from China back to the U.S., they figure that Apple could still get an acceptable profit even though labor costs incurred in the manufacturing process would be significantly higher, while contributing to U.S. jobs and exports:

You mean if production was moved from China back to the U.S. through government intervention? Then there would still be an "acceptable", as determined by the government, profit?

I don't mind editorials, but I'd wish they would make their politics explicit rather than hiding behind the allure of objective reporting.
True, but I know that I come here more for the comments than the stories. The fact that there are people who can learn from almost anything around here makes it even more interesting to come here and get their insight.

So maybe the 'bar' should be set based on the comments: get rid of the stories that trigger lots of griping and keep everything that generates good comments.
What I said:

"you frequently troll vaccine fraud related articles in support of "anti-vaxers"."

An example of you doing so:

"Most doctors get their information about medical issues by reading the marketing pamphlets from drug companies. If you actually read the relevant journal articles then you'd be significantly more knowledgeable about any given topic than the average doctor."

I don't have to make up a thing.
Just a note, anti-vaccine sentiment has been around forever.

Even Benjamin Franklin encountered it while he was still alive; in his autobiography he writes of his view:

"In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen."
force directed graphs? or confusing eye candy? Maybe you can do a graph visualization of the difference.

I think the library looks really interesting.
Schoolkids Guess the Ancient Gadgets and Get It All Adorably Wrong
Hoping to get a beta invite for this (I filled in the forms!) - it looks like it could be perfect for some things I had lined up but the site is a bit short on specifics, which I guess is understandable at the moment.

It's nice to see things like this popping up for PHP. I was starting to feel like I'd been left alone here while all the kids go play Ruby.
I wholeheartedly agree. I'm not about to let a random application access all my data... unless of course, I know what it is/does.
Ask HN: Who's hiring January '11 Edition
As much as I would one day love to work in the bay area, or any American start up centre for that matter - it would be good if we could get some more international job postings in this edition.
How aqua regia saved Nobel Prize medals from the Nazis
It's harder to game delicious because you can narrow your search to sites that have been bookmarked by people you have chosen to be in your network. You are essentially searching across curated lists from several trusted curators.
That's a really good advice and I have thought of that before but the application itself is targeted to users on facebook. I don't see a point in putting effort into a web presence unless I am marketing it outside facebook.It will definately come once I get some traction.

I have created a splash page that does not ask for any permissions. http://apps.facebook.com/socialgenie/splash.aspx