skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two questions:

1) Will it be available on the Mac Appstore? :)

2) You mention that adding some bytes on the end is instant, and so is modifying bytes in the middle. It seems that for most filesystems (and definitely HFS+), it should be possible to insert data in the middle of a file (not really that common in most of my hex editing habits, but maybe for some people?) without incurring much of a cost either. If the inserted data is between extents, then you simply stick a new extent between them, and if it's within an existing extent, you can split it in constant time and do the same thing. Do you know of any Mac OS APIs provide low-enough-level access to do this? Or does it not seem feasible for some other reason?
I also have a few titles in the mix. On the game charts, currently #14 (Blush), #59 (Crane Wars), #61 (Off-Road Velociraptor Safari), and #107 (Time Donkey).

We're always very open with our numbers--I'll post initial results as soon as I have them. I shipped everything with our Blurst accounts for leaderboards/achievements/etc, so I should be able to infer some ballpark figures before official numbers tonight. Will post to http://technology.blurst.com and http://twitter.com/mwegner
You can actually use Nemo alongside Django-templates.

It registers a Mako template loader with Django, that by default points to your /templates directory in your folder.

However you can override it by modifying MAKO_TEMPLATE_DIRS in your settings.py. MAKO_TEMPLATE_DIRS is just a tuple containing the directories to look under for Mako/Nemo files.

My full project runs under Mako, but 3rd party apps, and the django admin run with django-templates.
+1 for shipping. I live in Canada and I can order a part from Digikey up until 7pm and the part is guaranteed to arrive the next morning at 11am.
> Go talk to Dropbox

Hey, your selection bias is showing.

You can't choose one outlier that is already PROVEN and use that as an example of a typical startup, which is what the GP posted about.

That's like someone saying the lottery is a bad investment, and you telling them to go ask the latest Powerball winner if they thought it was a bad investment.

The truth is that the MAJORITY of startups under-compensate. That's why so many are desperate for talent.

If they don't have the money to pay for the talent they need, they need to raise the money; and if the CEO can't raise the money, what does that say about the company's prospects? You live or die based on the quality of people working on the problem.

Startups can't realistically expect to attract top-flight talent paying what the average Yahoo! developer makes.

I read about how it takes 6 months or a year for some of these Internet start-ups to find someone for an IMPORTANT position, and the question is, how can you ever make it BIG when you need to move in Internet time but you're hiring in geological time? Asked and answered: They don't.

Here's the key line from Jeff Bezos's original 1994 Amazon job posting:

"Well-capitalized start-up seeks" ...
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ComScore: Android Passes iPhone In Total U.S. Subscribers
> Much older Google and Amazon have monetized adequately.

Google is an advertising company. Amazon is a retailer. Facebook is a data mining company, with the one problem that they're too focused on getting the data and not focused enough on monetizing it. Seen in that light, it makes sense that they'll be able to monetize well, eventually.
Ask HN: Tumblr Followers List API
Does Tumblr have an API to get a blog's follower's list.

I know some themes can access this functionality.

How would I go about getting a followers list
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Demo and full version of the app could easily be combined into one entry and that would solve the clutter problem.

I don't know about you, but even 50€ is a lot of money for me, and I'd like to try the app first and buy it only if I find it useful. And I suspect that the average Joe will not know how to find the demo version on the internet.
I think what you quoted means that Apple can also move off of Intel. As far as I know Apple are not currently moving off of Intel.
How Netflix uses SimpleDB
How does one ask questions without question marks.
I agree. I am not discounting what I learned from college, which was how to suffer through and reach a goal. Can't discount that experience too much :)
Do you know if the UK has the equivalent of the US government's vaccine event reporting system?

Perhaps at the least, there is a UK website that you can report the event at (link is the US site): http://vaers.hhs.gov/index
Recruiters love LinkedIn, and pay lots of money for LinkedIn Pro accounts. If you're not getting regular mail from recruiters on LinkedIn, you either don't have enough buzzwords in your profile or don't live in a big city.

It's also the place to separate your work life from your social life. Your LinkedIn profile is strictly business. I wouldn't work for anyone who would hire me based on my Facebook profile, and my FB friends don't really care what I do for work.
I'm not trying to do that. I'm just arguing that classifying it as spam is not fair. I remember (before SO) finding some useful info there from time to time. Whereas junk mail trying to sell me a bride from Russia for 50€ is defenetily a hoax :)
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1) Google and Apple are also in this game, even we we pretend Microsoft isn't going here, nor will the Telcos.

2) Skype has a decent install base. But look how fast Qik took off, as example for how much friction there is to competition here. With the App Stores, anyone's install base is ripe for easy poach. See also: Instagram.

3) Qik has 5 million users. Skype Mobile has maybe another 5m? 10m? Most of which can't even do voice? These players are not entrenched. The market is wide open. If anything, a nice Qik exit encourages other entrepreneurs to jump into the space.

4) Seriously, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Telcos. I can't believe you think Skype+Qik is somehow an unstoppable monopoly in this space.
DropBox. I wish there was a middle ground between the free and $20 a month option.
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So awesome! Was looking just for this last week! Than you sir! Kudos! =)
There really aren't equivalent x86 and ARM processors yet; IIRC even the slowest Atom is faster than the fastest Cortex A8 (I'm still waiting on A9 benchmarks).

I don't think Intel is being lazy, but Atom is certainly an immature design and the mainstream Intel cores target a much higher level of performance; brainiac cores are fundamentally inefficient because power efficiency decreases as performance increases (in other words, each marginal increase in performance costs more in power than the previous one).
Yeah, I noticed the same, not on my own domain but on my gmail account. Since old spam is auto deleted from the spam folder at 60 days age the counter next to the folder is a good proxy of a 60-day moving average. A couple years ago mine was close to 10,000 spams for 60 days, currently it is at 1,444 (which is up from a week or two ago when it was at 1,310).
Perhaps 10 seconds of using your favorite search engine would have found you this link:

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm

The approximate odds of having a specific reaction, are listed. Seizure (jerking or staring) are listed as 1 in 3000 .
I work on the ibrix team at HP and would like to help you. How can I reach you to discuss?
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"My point is, examine any claims by government or big Pharm or sensational reports about autism very carefully and make up your own mind."

Being careful to consider who paid for any studies you examine, as that is very important.
Scala also hits the sweet spot of both new but usable in production. Linkedin, Foursquare, and Twitter all have significant portions of their apps written in Scala.

I'd be a little more hesitant about creating a production app with Haskell, though it's been done.
I sense an unwarranted hostility in your comments, which puzzle me.

There's no rule that by default story titles have be used verbatim, only that they should not be changed gratuitously. In fact, if you look at past submissions to HN, you see that many times the title was changed by the submitter. I see no problem in having titles reflect personal opinion; of course, this should not be overdone.

NYT, being a newspaper has to impose limits on their titles, so as to serve the common denominator. when posting to HN, I'm not bound by the same rules as NYT. In this particular case NYT's title is too weak, as evidenced by the commentators, i.e. quite everyone agrees this is bowdlerizing Twain's text.

P.S. Thinking of hand crafting submission titles to attract more clicks, i.e. karma whoring, is laughable, I'm too old to waste my precious time on such tricks :-)
This is a really good article, and just the fact that it's published in a mainstream publication like The Atlantic shows how much internet pornography has changed American sexual mores in the last few years. And I think the author makes a good case that it indeed is technology that has changed the thinking:

"When a 13-year-old girl can sit in math class, hide her Hello Kitty smart phone behind her textbook, and pull up such an extreme video in less time than it would take her to text a vote for her favorite American Idol contestant, we’ve certainly reached some kind of new societal landmark."

The writing is solid and bold. I'm impressed. Author's website is here: http://www.natashavc.com/?page_id=62
Male Pattern Balding May Be Due to Stem Cell Inactivation
http://www.rawsignal.com is made by one
New "How Airbnb Works" video (shot at 13 locations around world)
This is an interesting concept. I've never thought of using Unix pipes style text syntax for musical effects. I know that some of the visual music programming environments work in a similar fashion, where effects are defined and then linked together in chains (see Supercollider or PureData, both open source). Perhaps some of the livecoding musical langauges work similarly, I haven't dived in to see how the syntax on them functions (like Impromptu http://impromptu.moso.com.au/).

Keep us updated if you make anything cool in this space.
"But let's get real. The only reason x86 is behind right now is because ARM had been working on low power processors for years, and the chips came up that it was the hot area. Intel isn't sitting on their hands, though, and I have no doubt they'll have some killer solutions in the very near future."

This reads like something from 2007, back when the Atom was almost ready.

When Atom arrived, it simply drew too much power for it to compete with ARM SoCs, and in the intervening years, the ARM chips have been improving more quickly than the Intel chips.

It's been more than 2.5 years since the Atom shipped. When are we going to start seeing the results of Intel's earnest effort?
Poll: Will keyboards still be around in 20 years?
A discussion about the 'end of the PC era' prompted the following question:

Do you think QWERTY keyboards will still be ubiquitous in the year 2031?
Yes - keyboards will still be common.
No - some other technique (voice, gesture, etc) will supplant traditional keyboards.
There are more people using Facebook than there are people in the US. AOL and its chat rooms were the "AOL days" of social networking. We're in a type of middle. The line from Space Balls comes to mind: "We're at now, now."
I disagree- Apple could have used Atom for the iPad. They Purchased PA Semi, and seem to be taking an interest in that space. I dont think they bought them without at least entertaining the idea that they may be able to transition this to Mac someday.
interesting! what kind of materials need to be used so that crowbar doesn't burn-up on reentry? isn't it a little bit more expensive than using traditional explosives?
I love the German system. Here in Canada half my friends got absolutely nothing out of grades 9 through 12. The one non-university geared guy that actually made something out of his life noted that working hard at "applied" (here applied means "dumb" rather than actually applicable) courses was a waste of time because all he really needed was to graduate. He ended up working 40 hours a week during high school. Only now am I finally catching up with his net worth. Compounding interest is really working in his favour and he should be retired at 50 or 55 if he keeps it up.

Also, he is earning about 50% more than his other "applied" friends because his years of experience put him into middle management, rather than front line. Anyways, streaming early is good, especially if it is self directed.
HN Poll: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2076992
There is a reason that they use 6 year old games like the warcraft rpg to demo underpowered gaming platforms like those based on atom chips. You really need a last generation core 2 culv at a minimum to see decent performance on games that have come out semi-recently and aren't intentionally crippled. The GPU can make up for a lot but it doesn't magically remove the cpu ops needed. They'd have a hard time fitting a decent gpu in there too, my 14" with a mobile 5650 and a core i5 still struggles to play many modern games at anything but medium, and gets up to ~85c in a much larger chasis.

take a look at the alienware 11" if you want to see the realistic world of ultra-portable pc gaming.

verdict = pipedream
I like what I see and of course I had to optimize it for my very peculiar taste:

html
head
title My web page
meta name=this content=that
link rel=stylesheet href=style.css
script src=jquery.js
body
header
logo
img src=logo.jpg
main
content .center
h1 Welcome to my site
p
This is my first post
Feel free to comment at the end.

pre #hello
a=1+2+3
print a

footer
p no copyrights at all

Assume every first word is a known tag or convert it to div with id. Use significant white space. Content tags like 'p' or 'pre' are closed by a blank line.

It may work for 90% of my own projects and it is by far the simplest markup I have seen, evar.
Downplaying known complications does not serve your argument ...

seizure occurrence for MMR is listed as 1 in 3000; mild fever (1 in 6), rash (1 in 20), temporary stiffness in joints (up to 1 in 4) , etc.

Note this is MMR, not MMRV, which is listed separately, and for which seizure is listed as a 1 in 1250 occurrence ...

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm
desktop was implied. I mean even Microsoft is off intel everywhere else.
They look really lost. It's 2011 and they just demoed "printing"
She can also swing a string of solid double entendres, "The difficulty of acquiring this material may have hinted at a great, and therefore pent-up, demand. Then, technology produced the Second Coming: the Inter­net. And then the Rapture itself: broadband."
Adam, great post. We are aiming to do that with www.collegejobconnect.com. Undergraduate recruiting needs more diversity and a better way for students to connect with a whole host of employers, not just those in consulting, finance, or the big tech companies (although these are great places to work too, I myself went to Wall Street before jumping into startup land). Startups offer a great place to work, you'll likely not a find a place where you'll work harder or learn more. I think pay and uncertainty are strong detractors, however.

The overall point is there should be more optionality and more exposure. I'd be happy to chat further, we have some cool stuff going on and I'd like to get your thoughts. In November we generated 50 interview offers to companies that never have the opportunity to recruit on campus and we just signed up a big player in the geo-social space. Hit me up at jeff _at_ collegejobconnect _dot_ com
Very interesting. Will more information on this be included in the CIDR paper on Megastore?
Tried to search for F#. Ignores the #.
Both, imho. Our design is based around giving tools for our users to create with (subreddits, self posts, commenting system etc) and letting them work their magic.

edit: unfortunately, we haven't got the benefit of a visible community on hipmunk - but that's a challenge for me to overcome as I try and build the same kind of fervent community on a site where no one can start a pun thread.
I'm not exactly bullish on Facebook, but you have to admit the upside is completely unknown. No company has ever had so much detailed information about so many people; and thanks to Facebook Connect, Like button, and FBJS in general, they are continuously growing the personalized data they are collecting. There's no telling where all this data could lead. Why would they potentially strangle the golden goose to extract a couple billion today when they are healthily profitable and still agile and innovating on a daily basis?

Personally I think Facebook is and has been playing its hand perfectly, and I think the potential is definitely there for the stratospheric valuation; no one really knows what it will be worth, but it's not too hard to imagine Facebook becoming the most valuable dataset in existence.
On trying to delete millions of files from S3
A while back, I wrote a very small Python HTML rendering library that gives some of the benefits of this notation while still being Python source code. You _may_ find it interesting if this is the sort of thing you find interesting...

http://hotwax.cjmunday.com/python.html#sec-1.2

See the CherryPy file browser example later in the page for a demonstration of how it's used.
Google's link operator is not reliable - it intentionally hides links to confuse SEOs. Take a site you own, for example, and compare the number of links that webmaster tools shows for it with the number of links that Google's link operator shows for it.

That site you point to has many more links than Google shows. You can check yahoo to get a more realistic count:

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=www.genericvia...

But even that is probably only indexing a small fraction of the links that are likely to be pointing to that site. Generally when a site has a few thousand spammy links, they've usually got tens of thousands more that haven't been indexed.

Now I'm not for a second saying that that site should be ranking where it is, just because it has a lot of links. I really wish Google did a better job of discounting spammy links.
My counter-point (written earlier): In defense of A/B testing http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/08/26/in-defense-of-a-b...
Given the subtitle, "The new world of porn is revealing eternal truths about men and women", I'm not sure that your interpretation is complete - as far as I can see, the author is arguing that porn reveals (and partially legitimizes) male... appetites.

I must admit to being somewhat taken aback by the "males are aggressively, dangerously sexual" undertone. Is this a common (female) attitude?

(For context: I'm male, living with my wonderful girlfriend.)
Because I'd want to add a list of excluded sites for pretty much every single query I do.

Would you want to type out a string of 20 or 30 excluded sites every time you search Google?

Ranking clearly isn't going to be good enough, because algorithms can be worked around and gamed.
Yes, because my claim was that closing apps is for experts only, just as uninstalling apps.
Relevant: https://sites.google.com/site/pfcmanning/
Ah I forgot about Mint.

I don't want to talk badly about it--because to be honest it has some really cool features like chained-method-calls that allow you to quickly compose HTML attributes via inheritance----but Mint has always struck me as more Perl than Python.

Look at this:

@p.class(title).title({{ doc.title }}) {{ doc.title }}

That transforms into this HTML (unescaped urls because Mint produces XML by default):

<p class="title" title="&gt;b&lt;title&gt;/b&lt;">
<b>title</b>
</p>

The alternative in Nemo is:

% p .'title' title='${doc.title}' || ${ doc.title }

I don't know why Nemo looks better in my eyes but I think it has to do with explicit separation, and string substitution instead of a method-call syntax.

Mint feels like a programming language that happens to produce HTML as a side-effect.
'Functional music composition' is chapter 20 in the book 'The Haskell School of Expression: Learning Functional Programming Through Multimedia' by Paul Hudak.
... and so...?
That sounds really interesting! I'd be interested in the link if you find it. I need my stuff to run behind the firewall, in the going out to wikipedia, will that compromise the privacy of the searches?
It also seems like if you're good enough for a startup to want you then you're good enough to start your own startup.
Assuming that you have a sufficiently large sample set. :)

The key here, of course, is that we don't know what C is. It could be that high IQ causes high wealth, regardless of degree. High IQ could also be a prerequisite of completing a CS degree, so necessarily the two correlate.

My point is that you know what A is, and you know what B is, but without measurement, you can't know what C is.
Regarding OS X version: how do you go about upgrading OS X? I am a new Mac user.

I was given a free 2008 MacBook 13" in colledge. It came with Mac OS 10.5.2 installed, which couldn't run some new programs, so I did an update and it updated to 10.5.8 which solved all my problems so far. Are you supposed do buy an OS upgrade? Or buy a new Mac?
People keep mentioning non-x86 ports of NT in the context of yesterday's news, but I think a more nuanced recollection of history may be in order.

There's one very important apparent difference between the move to support ARM and those old NT-on-RISC ports of yore: Microsoft never, for even a microsecond, took those ports seriously. They were brought into being for the sole purpose of creating uncertainty in the unix market to slow enterprise adoption of Unix on those exotic RISC architectures. NT, recall, was supposed to be "a better unix than unix" in those days. As soon as that move succeeded in neutralizing the competition, those ports became legacy.

By all appearances, on the other hand, the port to ARM appears to be intended for actual consumers — that is, not merely to freeze a market, but to enter one.
About your second point: it looks like App Store.app only scans your /Applications folder for matches, so if you want to see the prices of products you already own, just quit the App Store, move the application out of your /Applications directory, and relaunch App Store.
I interested in this one, but I'm just not sure if it has features like fuzzy text search, do you know if it has all the google-like features I listed in the description?
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I do not share the majority opinion on The Sparrow, but I'd rather be positive and suggest a few alternatives which I feel deal more inventively with the themes of first contact, the alien, and colonialism: Gene Wolfe's The Fifth Head of Cerberus and Stanislaw Lem's Eden, Solaris, The Invincible, and Fiasco.

Wolfe does a fine job of modulating his prose style according to the dictates of his content, and unpacking the workings of the book over repeated readings is a pleasure -- both admirably Joycean qualities in a writer.

Lem I admire for his commitment to imagining the alien as something truly alien, resistant to simple analogies with our existing store of experience.
Damn, thanks. I guess I gotta figure out how to send that query to IndexTank.
By definition any investment that is subsidized is overvaluing the base asset.
Sketching the iPad: free Omnigraffle stencil kit to develop iPad mock-ups faster
so lets remove them from control
I am already tired by "monetize everything with ads" mentality, and the moment your scenario comes true I won't be using FB anymore.
This is along the lines of a startup idea I've been kicking around for a bit as well. Interested to hear (eventually) what tacks the two YC teams are taking.
This is going to sound so fan-boyish -- but I really respect what team Airbnb has done. Its so exciting to see them continue to kick so much ass and grow.