skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Install via OpenAppMkt, whose "Learn More" link describes it as:

>OpenAppMkt is an app store for HTML5 mobile apps.

The easiest way to discover and install mobile webapps on the Open Web, where freedom reigns and dreams come true.

It's only missing an "... And unicorns!" finisher. Interesting site, however; I'll have to look through it more closely some time...

edit: wait, what am I saying? I can add my own! http://www.cornify.com/
They also automatically grant state tax-exemption, if you are tax-exempt for federal taxes
Now that you put it that way, why not? Maybe not all of them, but the high-spending ones offset the poorer ones, no? That being said, I've read earlier that Fb actively dangles the $100Bn valuation post-IPO scenario to lure new hires. So perhaps it's not entirely a surprise that GS wants in on some action.
I'd like to see Socrates' take on this.
Hah! Was away from HN for one day and missed those yesterday. Thanks for the info. Thats a long list.
Well, Google has essentially the same number of users and is traded at 190B capitalization. So, a Google user is worth over $300. As people spend more time on FB then at Google, I can understand why FB user is seen as $100 asset.
I don't think he needs to be. It's just a standard tactic at their blog. They always come off as being a bit contrarian for the sake of it. Or they just want more traffic.
Three To Power
But a fee makes it only affordable to large companies, which is the exact reason against extended copyright protection.
This news (although not this particular link) was posted over a year ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=729335
6.912 - MIT Pokerbot Competition
mapm_ is also looping construct.
Congrats to Facebook and their team. Well-deserved for building a site millions love.
Cupcaking: a fun, sexy, secure way to heat up your relationship. Risky startup.
Nor did it say all numbers from 1 to 1000:

int main()
{
printf("13 47\n");
return 0;
}

:D
Nope. This is a Zend master: http://www.buddhanet.net/bodhi-tree/images/photos/bodhi-uptr...
Thanks, it works! Still cool use of jQuery Mobile though.
No problem :-) Good luck with the hunt!
Do you need a Push Notification Manager? – Redis PubSub to the rescue
Might I recommend: David Bohm wrote a very accessible book on creativity--what it is, how it works, etc.

http://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Routledge-Classics-David-Bo...
Wait. It's a sexting service?

Cool idea, but you better be careful not to get any underage users or your service will go downhill fast...
An even better sign would have been:

<- Central
*Intelligence*
Artificial ->
Also... no gold :(
Awesome work, now forced to go learn jquerymobile because of your app! A little better than the offline packs of videos released by Ximarc, which are still very nice for offline usage.
Here ya go, posted it on the SD Ruby group (the best bunch of Rubyists I know):

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sdruby/7KI7vKwNtQg

The Ruby folks in San Diego are always slammed with work, so odds are there's some overflow work available.
Sure, sounds great; except what's to differentiate it from the actual sites like Lifehacker, Zen Habits et al? Aren't these links aggregated by even other social news websites such as Reddit (or dare I say Digg)?

Don't get me wrong, I'll hear you out and I'm certainly interested, but it's hard to get excited about "let's re-create xyz" posts. What makes this idea unique?
Can't enter without an MIT email... :-(
I don't get it. I read the entire post looking for an actual debunking of the "myth."

He mentions change.org - which shortly after it launched had several competitors. It wasn't until the company changed the way it was executing that it succeeded. If any of the other companies had executed better with the same idea then change.org would not have been a success. So it all came down to superior execution.

Everyone has ideas, not everyone can execute on them. Look at facebook/myspace - can you honestly say that facebook isn't a better executed social network?
Guards won't give prisoners guns because that would present a real and direct threat to themselves. Is the difference between prisoners having guns and prisoners having access to telephones really that blurred to you?
It's interesting—this is a war, with Google on the losing side, and yet there's very little discussion of the winners—the spammers.

Considering how amazing Google's accomplishment has been until recently, the spammers have obviously really, really stepped up their game. But all anyone talks about is Google's "failure."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_(complexity)

Buh? Anyone care to explain what sort of problems would fall into this description?
This seems to good to be true.
Which works enter the public domain in 2011?
Wordpress is a gateway drug to programming. Not happy with the API, write your own... I think that one of wordpress's major strengths is the incredible amount of man hours spent on that product, probably more than a hundred thousand people have programmed to some extent on it, and that gives a product which possibly can fulfill any need, but also has a security patch twice a month.

Myself, I've written my own blogging engines/cms which is fun but I've gone back to wordpress recently and the latest versions are pretty slick. I don't think django could easily do wordpress selfupdate.
Technically, he's using relational operators
if/else are conditionals that evaluate the boolean datatypes that result from the relational operation.
Is it breaking the rule? Not really.
Is it a loophole? Probably.
The original question probably intended it to mean "no comparing" rather than "no conditional statements"
tl;dr run production with swap off
AirDisplay (http://avatron.com/apps/air-display/) lets you use the iPad as an extra touch-screen display over WiFi.

Friends who tried the initial releases said that it felt like a 'slow VNC connection', although I think they've improved responsiveness in later releases.
So many dupes of this... for a counterpoint see [1]:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/oct/20/dirtbo...

Watch enough of the video to see the mention of the photos of the "abandoned" high-school ... as the camera pans over to the brand-new high-school next-door. And stuff like that.

[1] Found via: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2059208
Varnish is great, and it's something I'd recommend to many people in many cases, but most people don't have their caching headers set granularly enough to not get caught off-guard by unexpectedly stale content at some point.

Gotta be careful, but if you know what to expect, Varnish is great.
I was thinking of the movie "The Beach" when I wrote that. As I remember, hollywood execs decided the idyllic location (a remote Thai beach) wasn't idyllic enough, and bulldozed large sections of it to improve it
Tunisian gov hacked
His portfolio is in his profile.
0.001% would be around ballpark.
Sounds like this would be better as a stack exchange mini-site? I went there and didn't see any lifehack, diy, etc.
The real comfort that faith can bring is one of the biggest neutralizers to science education I have seen. The willingness of someone's ability to take their deep-seated need to belong to a group is the first step to embracing science and truth. It's not easy to follow the premises to logical conclusions. Sometimes they go places we don't want to go. To be a scientist you have to want to boldly go to chart the uncharted.
direct link
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/12845890
[Have to be careful what I say here. I'd love to describe just how easy it is, but I'd better not]

I know, dealing with "legacy" PR based on controlling the message that is fundamentally flawed.
Facebook: worth 50 billion?
Btw, evidence for good ideas can only be obtained by actually implementing the thing and throw it in the hands of customers. No amount of market research can substitute that (notice the hundreds of failed projects coming out of big corporations that have the resources to do that, but still fail).

If you're having a good idea for which evidence exists means you're not the first to try it out, and this diminishes the value of the idea since you have to differentiate yourself with a better implementation and / or marketing campaign.

People need to make a difference between having a (somewhat) original idea versus copying successful recipes with a few improvements here and there.

For example ... I'm building a service similar to Yelp (simpler, with a few twists); but I'm doing it localized for a non-English speaking country. I do have evidence that it works; but the idea is basically worthless as there are already both international and local competitors; and I'm only doing it because I know I can provide a better implementation to all of the alternatives for the people targeted (only question is the actual time to build the thing, because I may be too late at some point).
Hence my point, it's the guards participating, they are breaking laws and should be prosecuted.

Put a few guards behind bars and maybe the others will stop allowing cellphones?

You'd think seeing how horrible prison is would encourage the guards to follow the law themselves.
I'm re-doing my architecture because it will allow me to push these said features out much faster.
Thanks! I will shoot you an email. I discovered while doing this that KA videos are not avail. as HTML5 videos using the iframe embed code. Maybe not all videos on YT are converted yet.
Well stated argument, but I think Google (at present) is much more diverse a company product-wise, and way better at monetization in terms of screen real estate and multi-modal revenue streams. (infrastructure, ad networks, functional products, etc)

Virtual gifts aren't changing the world anytime soon.
I'm one of the guys behind this. I realize it's MIT students only right now (we have a special 1-month term in January with no classes for competitions like this) but if there's enough interest we would love to hold an open tournament in the next few months.

We're also looking at opening our scrimmage server up to the public this month if there are enough people who want the intellectual fulfillment of competing :)

Edit: Created a small mailing list. Feel free to sign up if you want to be updated when we decide to launch an open tournament (towards the end of the month, most likely).

http://mitpokerbots.com/interest
Sorry man, I like architecting things. And as a result, I now have a framework that will help me crank out lots of stuff, instead of that one-off project.
> rather than an iPhone 4 as I have for the past three years.

Hmm.
Really interested to hear more about the details, especially the format - will it be a single tournament or a cash game with thousands of hands? Since it's all bots playing, I assume they'll play through enough hands/tables to diminish/negate the role of luck.

Will the bots adopt to patterns in the other bots' playing styles? Most interestingly, will a bot come out of this that can go head-to-head with the likes of Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey and other poker pros? Most bots I've heard of in online poker just follow a set of rules for what to do with certain hands in different positions and scenarios. A bot that can adapt/pick up on betting patterns from the other player (over the course of thousands or tens of thousands of hands) would be really cool.
i'm interested.
A reasonable point, but Google has several years' worth of results under its belt. When the IPO was conducted I think the company was valued at about $25 billion; now it has net annual earnings about $6-7 billion - so while the P/E ratio is still high, at least it's based on actual numbers. I'm not saying FB couldn't be worth even more than Google - it's just that since they've never had to file earnings statements etc. yet, all such estimates are far more speculative.

http://www.google-ipo.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google#Financing_and...

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/03/04/investors-bet-on-pric...
A stutter 2/3 of a frame long means there's a 2/3 chance that you'll draw a frame that doesn't match the current finger position, followed by a frame that catches up more than it should have had to.

The ~40ms input lag shown by most desktop IPS LCD monitors is noticeable even though it falls below the reaction time. On a touch display, it should be even easier to notice input lag, because you can see your finger moving and the screen around it not keeping up. 10ms sensor lag may be below the threshold of perception for circumstances like this, but probably not by much. If you add even a few milliseconds of processing lag after your app receives the touch event, you'll be behind by a frame.
I'm a staff member on a community site (ticalc.org), the biggest fish in a small pond. We get about 250,000 visitors in a normal month, averaging about 3 pages per visit. For the past 5 years or so, the site was hosted off a dual Pentium Pro; before that we had a 486. Currently it's a VM living in Germany. Postgresql, Apache, Linux.

We've been Slashdotted several times, without any appreciable slowdown. How does that work? The whole site is static content. Dynamic content is either rendered out to disk when it changes, or is a couple of static page fragments that are combined at serving time--and this is only for logged-in users.

(Granted, the last time the site was redesigned was 2001. I'm working on a new design right now. I have no plans to make it any slower.)
It's very true. And if you decide to fork it
than that's what you hear: "OMG, YOU CAN'T
FORK RUBY. ARE YOU CRAZY? THAT WOULD BE TERRIBLE."

Or not:

http://pragdave.blogs.pragprog.com/pragdave/2008/12/forking-...
Thanks for setting this up - it sounds really awesome. Could you set up a mailing list or something where we can subscribe to updates?
Not entirely dissimilar in Ruby:

p [*1..1000]

Or being anal about the formatting:

puts [*1..1000].join ' '
Wow! Thats above and beyond the call of duty. Thank you so much.
I don't understand how you arrived at those percentages. Facebook already has 3k+ employees.
Good point.

Many blogs like Zen Habits don't offer fostered conversations. Zen Habits doesn't even offer commenting, resulting in a subreddit with 6k subscribers: http://www.reddit.com/r/zenhabits (many of which links aren't from zenhabits). Lifehacker doesn't offer much fitness-related content (How can I bulk up quickly? etc). They tend to aggregate everything as well -> too much noise.
Show HN: Just opened floxee.com to public, looking for feedback
I recently took over Floxee (http://get.floxee.com) from my previous employer, where it had sat without much attention over that past year.

I've put a few hard weeks in getting it to a point where I could take it out of 'private beta' and it's now 100% open to the public.

Would love any feedback the community here has to offer, especially in terms of the marketing site.

Thanks!
Actually the one that uses function pointers is by far the best, simplest way, and it doesn't segfault. Since x/1000 will always be floor(x/1000), once it reaches 1000 it calls nothing and exits cleanly.

This one (not mine):

#include <stdio.h>

void nothing(int);
void next(int);
void (*dispatch[2])(int) = {next, nothing};

void nothing(int x) { }
void next(int x)
{
printf("%i\n", x);
dispatch[x/1000](x+1);
}

int main()
{
next(1);
return 0;
}
If they can't keep phones away from prisoners--a population that has been legally stripped of many of the freedoms and protections that we on the outside enjoy, how can they expect us to believe that they can keep bombs off of airplanes?

The prison population is less than the number of people that fly in two days, so the TSA has a much bigger population to deal with, and the TSA doesn't have 24/7 access to flyers, nor the right or ability to control who they talk to, and so on.
His wife works at Twilio :)
Reminds me quite a bit of MasterView (http://masterview.org/).

There are static HTML pages that can be used to walk a client through an app,but they are also used to generate the actual Rails templates.
How will this affect BootCamp? Won't it put a stop to the ability to run Windows natively?

One of the factors that help people move across to OSX seems to be the knowledge that they can still install Windows if they need/desire. Perhaps Apple will buy Parallels and include it as part of the OS (although VMWare will have a case if they see this as being anti-competitive)?
Another thing that's included in Google's market cap is their technology and assets. The # of users might make up a portion of it, but it's not fair to just divide the market cap/users and come up with a figure that's easily comparable across companies.
If a company is not growing anymore, the only reason to own shares is to get dividends. If the P/E ratio is too high, then the amount of annual dividends per dollar of share won't be worth the risk of the company going bust.
It will be Hold'em. Almost 100% of bots out there play Hold'em.
More than that- this type of deal could potentially greatly harm current Facebook equity holders, or much more likely potential buyers of the IPO. If Goldman Sachs is both an investor and the bank that eventually takes them public this deal is rife with conflicts of interest.

Ex: In order to invest at this "low" valuation Goldman had to promise to set the initial price of the IPO to be artificially high. People buy the IPO in Facebook excitement, and right when insiders are legally allowed to sell they dump stock and exercise options and later investors are screwed. Goldman makes huge profit in this situation- on both fees and their sale of stock.
Yep, on it right now. Will post the link in a few minutes.

Edit: It's up, see my above comment.
It probably depends on how much of the original text and plot were used in the parody. It would certainly be considered illegal to write Harry Potter and the Zombie Hallows now, just by virtue of using the same characters as the original.
I don't know if I agree.

Ford became a significant car company through a combination of some pretty radical ideas: cars cheap enough to not be luxury goods; assembling cars on an assembly line like a meat-packing plant; mass-production factory workers being paid as if they were skilled artisans, not day laborers; and the vanadium steel that finally made the Model T possible. Ford's ideas about worker pay were so radical that they gave rise to Dodge v. Ford, where the court ruled that he was operating his business as a charity against the interests of his investors.

Wal-Mart's supply-chain automation is legendary throughout industry.

GE was founded on the idea of using charred bamboo for a lightbulb filament --- an idea that made practical the replacement of gaslights with electric lights --- and, more generally, Edison's invention of the modern industrial research lab, which produced the practical incandescent light above and a number of others. (More details at http://edison.rutgers.edu/list.htm)

HP was founded to commercialize an improved design for an electronic audio oscillator.

AT&T's history starts with some ideas cooked up by Bell (or maybe Elisha Gray) and continues through more than a century of continued innovation. They've abused their power to suppress innovation any number of times, but they've also had to carry innovation forward merely in order to survive the company's growth.

Now, most of these ideas weren't original to these companies. To my eye, what distinguishes the companies is that each of these companies made big bets on those ideas. If they'd bet too much on the wrong ideas --- as GE nearly did with direct current --- they would have gone broke.

Of course, picking good ideas to bet the company on isn't sufficient. You also have to have the discipline to execute those ideas. But if you're executing dumb ideas with great discipline, you aren't going to be "X done right". You're going to be "X done wrong".
Anecdotally, I know a few companies spending between $15k and $50k+ per day on facebook's version of adwords to shovel the masses into games.

You know how people attribute worth to meaningless points in games? Kid CEOs these days attribute worth to the live-updating user stats (DAUs and MAUs, oh my) of their facebook casual-social-viral games. They'll do anything to make those numbers go up, including spending $200k to $1MM+ per month on ads.
It's not a conspiracy. The google results has sucked for a good year and a half to two years now.
Decentralized and Defragmented: The New Social Graph
$500k still isn't anything to sneeze at...
I guess you have a good tolerance for 'spam' or your keyword generation algo for search is very good. I haven't been able to get good results from google for sometime. In fact this year (oh I should say last year), I wasn't able to get results that answered my queries on the first page many a times.
When I moved to DuckDuckGo, I was a happy man. Now DuckDuckGO is my default search engine. I use Blecko when I am exploring for sites and content. I use vertical specific search sites for certain domains, citeseer and mendeley for work related stuff, and surprise, surprise, I find twitter to be a good source for searching too!

google search sucks is not a meme, at least for me it's a reality.
If these were $50M and not $50B your analysis would've been correct. But with such enormous amounts, it's not about money anymore, it's about power. And Facebook has the power to understand and influence what ppl think.
My point was that it's just a game of cat and mouse. I could come up with lots of workarounds for almost anything you throw at me. Example:

var expectedHost = "crockford.com";
if (expectedHost.length !== location.host)
throw "Stop hotlinking me!";
for (var i = 0; i < expectedHost.length; i++)
if (location.host[i] === expectedHost[i])
throw "Stop hotlinking me!";

(though it string[x] might not work in every browser)

So thanks for further demonstrating my point!

But really, just check the referrer header.
This is sort of unrelated, but I would love for you to swing back around to this thread and give some feedback on how this whole thing worked out for you. It'd be interesting to see how HN as a community was able to swing meaningful $$ your way. =)
10:1 would be a fairly low P/E anytime soon for Facebook. They might need to settle there when they're a 35 year old company like Microsoft (which is currently at 12:1). Google is at 24:1 right now and Amazon and Netflix are pretty hot at the moment with 66:1 and 72:1 respectively.
then also study what happened after 1959

A better sense of history would do our industry a world of good! Heck, also be aware of what went on from 1960 through 1985. If there was some more awareness of this, a our industry would be years ahead of where it is now, instead of having wasted so many man-hours reinventing the wheel.
> I don't care particularly if Reddit or Twitter goes down, but I care a great deal if Bank of America suddenly lowers my balance due to a rounding error.

I believe that, if you are writing the latter kind of software, you already know who you are and what you should be doing (whether or not you actually do it is another matter.) Most software isn't "important": it doesn't affect the user's life or health or wallet or relationships or anything when it screws up.

Defaulting to assuming your software needs to be as security/privacy/stability-conscious as online banking, is just as much of a waste of time for the average programmer as assuming every website will get hit with as much web traffic as Facebook/Google/etc. and so needs to be "web-scale." Your company's intranet to-do list won't get a million hits a day, and if it goes down, people will just write things down on paper instead. It can be a 20-line Python script. Really.
It's about as coherent as IBM's TV commercials today.
I have a feeling they don't really think of themselves as ever being on the other side of the bars. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't if I had a job like that.
Mark,

How did it go? Is the traffic still sustaining? Also tell us if you have been able to monetize it? Share your experiences with a blog post.
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