skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love the complexity gotcha in the power example:

function p(x:real; n:integer):real;
begin
if n = 0 then
p := 1
else if odd(n) then
p := p( x, n div 2 ) * p( x, n div 2 ) * x
else
p := p( x, n div 2 ) * p( x, n div 2 )
end

Can you see why this is O(n) and not O(lg n)?
I've seen that (or its equivalent) in so many people's code.

This is the one place where "pure" functional languages have such potential. If the function is guaranteed side-effect free then the calls can be memo-ised, and this routine becomes O(lg n) "for free".
There's a difference between predicting which decade a technology will be in use by the consumer, and whether it is possible. Almost all technologies are possible (teleportation included). The question is when they will land in yours/my hands.

I'm more impressed with Kurzweill saying:
"Early 2000s

* Translating telephones allow people to speak to
each other in different languages."

And being off, admittedly, by six or seven years, then someone positing:

"Teleportation is possible" and it becoming practical in 2170.
This reminds me of that post by the ex-Facebook manager, who said that tools are top priority. This article really brings it home for me.

However, despite their purported effectiveness as engineers, I'm not sure what Backtype is really doing. I generally see them just below an article, in place of comments, with a long list of useless tweets referring to the article (usually of the form "article title - bit.ly/shortened". That's probably not doing them too much good for marketing, unless you think any publicity is good publicity.
Was wondering the same thing, but I've got no idea. Curious if blur from the visual scan of denser grooves has anything to do with it. Really interesting sound.
I was thinking the same, and then was surprised to find that there isn't yet a good free transcription service, likely because there isn't yet a good open-source solution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition_in_Linux

Dragon proprietary software's been around for a while, so this must indeed be a difficult problem. :)
The original theory of chiropractic made spinal misalignment out to be the cause of all disease. Over time, chiropractic has become less virulent as it adapted to the host organism, and in fact in many cases can be considered symbiotic.
This is surprisingly good, actually.
OTOH:

seach result: directory: NN, file: NN.

as in "search result: directory: 1, file: 0." or "search result: directory: 4, file: 23."

ie: nouns only, singular form, no verbs, no plural, etc....

Sure, it does not look "good" but its probably much more easy to translate.

Worse is better
would be more readable in a tree form
Good times, I used to install windows 95 with 20 floppy disks!!!
SVG: The best way to graph quantitative data
If I understand correctly, the h264 license would protect these device makers from lawsuits since the devices probably decodes both h264 and WebM. Thus they already have a license to the patents and the MPEG-LA can't do anything about them.
This flow chart seems to leave out quite a few "work for free initially" scenarios I've seen happen to friends, etc, that eventually led to companies being formed, productive connections, etc. While nobody should work for "nothing", there are far more subtleties to this than are expressed by this flowchart.

I'm sure there are more than a few HNers who can attest to this. Many here have worked on side projects with friends (or even strangers) with hardly any hope of profit or payback. It's not always exploitative.
God no it's not.

Apple's SMS implementation/interface is terrible. Group Messaging is just broken.
But why doesn't Bing have this for their main site? Probably because their infrastructure would not be able to handle it.
I don't want to sound like a jerk, but there are a few things you might want to consider fixing:

- The jarring placement of the YCombinator image, throwing out the alignment and flow of the page.

- The over-sized numbers for each item.

- The excessively big header "Hacker News", and what appears to be a strange effect in the screenshot.

- Lack of a fallback font for Helvetica Neue (Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif).

- The centred nav items along the top bar are awkward.

- The tiny up and down vote buttons are what people struggle with the most in terms of mis-clicks, maybe these could do with some attention.

- A slight gap between each article so the "slab of text" effect isn't so strong.
Current state of support for strict mode:

WebKit nightly: yes

Firefox 4 nightly: yes

Chromium Nightly: no

Opera 10.6: no

IE9 beta: no
This illustrates that a staff of three highly skilled innovative engineers can bring to market an innovative solution.

Jeeze, these guys developed their own database and language to accomplish their objectives. Others might take 10 million in funding, already be focused on the 2nd round, all the while not focused on delivering first.

You have to get there, before you can get there.

Congrats to the BackType team.
Personally I think a <marquee> would have also sufficed.
Looks great. Having this feature would actually lure me into being a more active user on Forrst. I currently can't really relate to what's on my feed and I haven't really been presented with a walk through. Would be happy to give you more feedback. email in bio if you dare. :)

Best of luck
That just reeks of awesome. I thought it was cool that our kids have two passports (each, I mean).

You should arrange for the child to be born in Antarctica.
I just watched Helvetica last night. Apparently you are either a brilliant designer who has mastered modernism or terrible shill for the Vietnam War and all that's wrong with corporatism for using Helvetica. Just thought you should know. Heavy stuff.
Now how do I get you to redesign my site? My plan: (1) Get you to use it; (2) Make it completely unusable..
this reminds me of the geocities shutdown. you can't trust companies enough to keep data available and around forever. if you get too popular, controversial, or inactive, you should accept the fact that your data could be removed at any time.
Ask HN: How to Deal with low activity on an awesome FOSS project?
There's an open source project awesomely done, some part of which I am using in my research. By awesome, I imply that the work alredy done on it is extensive, and it has won several awards and recognitions throughout.

Here are some publications

http://tinyurl.com/63cwy55

Its sad to see low activity/contributions on it though!

Project Homepage: http://www.lipitk.sourceforge.net/

Continuously for past 2 years we're getting 4-5 downloads a day however we've no track of what the users are doing with it.

- Is it the problem with sourceforge and its overall interface? Shall we move to GIT. Though moving everything of this scale would be a trouble.

- Any other suggestions that could pump some energy back into the project?

I am officially not supposed to do this, but it'd be awesome to see a phoenix breathing back to life again! Cheers!
Delusions Aside, the Net's Potential Is Real
To be followed by use warnings, use integer, use bytes, use 5.008, etc.
The problem with this study is that the tested search queries are completely different than what people type into a search engine. Besides being 30% vile, real search queries are very tailored to search engines algorithms -- two to three words, maximal idf (inverse document frequency). People type in the minimum number of least commonly used terms that distinguish what they want.

Both Google and Bing use human evaluators (sometimes with domain expertise) to evaluate real queries against the search results. None of those real queries look anything like these.

Unfortunately, their hasn't been a good public release of search engine query data since the AOL fiasco.
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He did it by providing a shitty product though.

Admittedly, a lot of people used it due to sheer network effects. So it provided utility.

But personally I would be ashamed if I built POF.
She has engineering background. I met her recently and asked her a question about the using the search API. In the same conversation she mentioned that UX is just as important in startups, but often overlooked.
The false dichotomy is exactly as he said: that one or the other has to be infringing on the other.

As to your point, h264 has been on the market for a while now and is implemented by some seriously deep pockets. If you were the captain of the submarine patent ship, you would probably have fired the torpedos by now. If you're a new company, you'll feel pretty safe standing with Apple and all of the other MPEG licensees who have a vested interest in fighting. This is not the case with WebM.
pretty amazing that there are 1482 certificate authorities in 52 countries that are trusted by most browsers.
Weather gives me way different results to the BOM: http://www.bom.gov.au So I don't trust it at all.

Notes is okay - but I prefer simplenote.

I also don't use the contacts app (you can get at contacts through the Phone icon) but I understand that people might want to use it.
You know what actually amazes me these days. I once had to explain this exact same question to someone and they were very interested in the answer.

I remember back in the old days when I would bring up anything tech I got called a nerd and/or geek and it was the kind stuff you dont talk to normal people about.

I got made fun of by people for talking about IRC channels and being on internet boards, back when they were command line.

The weirdest change for me as been the acceptance of knowing about technology. Today if you dont know what the interent or a computer is you are consider old and out of date. Back then if you knew that stuff you were an outcast.
Airplane Flying on Google Maps Satellite
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I had no clue such things were even "possible" using CSS, thanks!
I've been looking around this same issue, and haven't come up with anything for Django. Hoping someone here has recently worked on this.
Agreed. I pretty much got my start in programming by working for 'free' by programming stuff for the company in my free time (no not my 'free' time at work, my free time at home off the clock). If you have nothing to offer in terms of experience then it could be very beneficial.
Mark Suster has several articles and videos on the subject. This might be a good starting point.

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/08/30/is-convertible...
Good point - for some reason I was only thinking of their web products. Chrome is excellent.
Ask HN: How to handle one (of several) co-founders providing seed funding?
I am in favor of evenly splitting founder equity. What typically happens though when one co-founder is in a position to bootstrap the company but one or more co-founders isn't? Specifically is this handled with an equity round where preferred is issued to the funding founder? How is valuation typically determined? Or should this be handled some other way? Is there any reason to avoid this situation entirely?
Google SketchUp is the awesomest for initial stage prototyping! And if you know how to use a keyboard and mouse, it won't take more than a couple minutes before you create your first model! Goodluck.

Also the 3D warehouse on it is awesome, for pre-loading community developed models into your own.
Wasn't that right guy Gary? I would guess that the model just lacked something to tip it over the edge, perhaps.
I don't see how Facebook trading privately would directly impact our access to capital. What is most important is that early stage investors are able to get attractive exits. SecondMarket allowed Accel to do exactly that. I view this as a great thing for us, because now those VC investors are unlikely to apply pressure for an IPO when the entrepreneur doesn't want one.
your proposed layout isn't bad, but I'm an engineer so change is tough. hackernews as it is feels like home, a new layout will take some to settle. btu thanks for the topcolor=ffffff suggestion. I like that topcolor change a lot, and the homepage still feels like home.
This. Frankly, there has to be TOS around any API released, because there are always nefarious uses just waiting to be exploited by non-"legit" consumers.

I realize that "legit" is a subjective term, so well, that is why TOS for API's are needed.
I'm not someone who desires fancy design, I like reddit, but something about Hackernews isn't quite right. I can't put my finger on it and I don't like this "redesign" either. I wish I could work out what it is, something just doesn't feel right. It's functional though, so that's good.
Ask HN: Hosted CRM software for small businesses?
I'm looking for a way to track my customer relationships -- not especially sales funnel. But you know, a place to track people I need to follow up with after I screwed up, touch base with super fans, etc. I would also love a link to some guidelines of best practices for this sort of thing - perhaps a book?
Coming in groups of four the likely culprit is a slight misalignment in the assembly of the pieces of the scan.
The AutoComplete widget is awesome! Check Ryan Grove's 150 slide deck covering its capabilities:

http://www.slideshare.net/yaypie/introducing-yui-3-autocompl...
Yes, I don't think they have ruled whether Goldman's SPV will be viewed as a single investor. If it's not it may eventually force Facebook to go public.
My guess is never. The universal train icon for signs has a funnel and a cow-catcher, and it's a long time since a train looked anything like that.

Same goes for the universal sign for telephone - nothing like a modern cordless handset.

We can already seen this in action as the icon for 'mp3' on signs looks like a first-gen ipod. Already no players (even ipods) look like that, but I think it will stick around for a long time.

Some things get stuck as icons and the original meaning is lost with the sands of time. Once the icon is assigned to a meaning for most people, it sticks. There's no reason to update the icon, even if it no longer represents the object, because everyone agrees on the meaning.
Ubuntu, Chrome Dev 10.0.634 looks like this, i.e. logo broke:

http://i.imgur.com/plzvg.png

I'll try it out for size for a while - easy to apply using Stylish extension here for Chrome users:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/fjnbnpbmkenffdnn...
I know! Makes me really proud to have gone to school there and pissed that I wasn't in computer science and learning from that guy
The SoftLayer SSDs are Intel X25-E's, so just find benchmarks for those and it'll be the same. :)
I see http://searchyc.com/ mentioned every other day, might be that HNers are overwhelmingly not aware of it, and many don't know how to search just any site with Google. If that's the case then it begs to be linked to from the front page, or a simple search field needs to be put up that will take your query and put it into Google like so:

http://google.com/search?q=site:news.ycombinator.com%20queryterm
If you do free work for a company that hasn't been formed yet you should be part of the startup and share the wealth/risks. Only getting compensated for your work if (and only if) they ever become successful is completely unreasonable.
RaphaelJS offers the advantages of SVG with an IE fallback. It's a Javascript library that outputs VML in IE6+ and SVG everywhere else.

The graphs can be manipulated in JS after their creation to create animations.

http://raphaeljs.com/
Sorry, was off the top of my head.
If you think I have any level of respect at all for community college, or the education system in the United States in general, you are misinformed.

A poorly trained ape could graduate from any community college in this country. Fact.

I had hoped you would glean from my comment: "If a Cornell grad can't find a job, and I just went to a lowly community college, I must be fucked, right?" NOT SO.
If all else fails, pick up a copy of the book Fab, which is about personal fabrication -- ie "printing" plastic and such with your computer. I read it about 4 to 5 years ago and at that time a lot of the ideas were pretty cutting edge and not really available to the public. I bet a lot has changed in that time.

http://www.amazon.com/FAB-Revolution-Desktop-Computers-Fabri...

And good luck.
Naw, SVG is a good way some of the time. It's very context specific.
I'm saying they may have had more success if they'd focused on those things explicitly. Great design and financial objectives are not mutually exclusive - see Apple iAnything. Of course it's an unanswerable question whether more focus on design would have helped some of their failed products, but unanswerable questions are the most fun to argue.

As an example, in my opinion a big reason that Wave failed was that it had an awful user experience - people simply had no idea how to operate the interface. I think there was also a marketing failure in that people didn't even know why they were supposed to use it, but that's a separate issue. When I have multiple tech-savvy friends tell me they have no idea how to even use a product from a major corporation like Google, I worry a little bit.
The root is a cycle, so that wouldn't work.
well Gary didn't really have time to work on it, so though he could've been, I don't think he was dedicated to it enough in order to be.
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highrise is definitely one. I'll give it a whirl.
Geez, I hadn't even heard about this site. Wish it wasn't shutting down.
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I didn't intend for that comment to sound quite as snarky as it did. But my point is that real time speech translation needs to work precisely in those situations. Voice recognition and computerized translation have been around for a while. They are nearly always stymied by the problems mentioned in the article we have been "close" to this for at least a decade. What would impress me is if they had developed new algorithms to overcome these exceptionally challenging problems.
Lots more like this on http://googlesightseeing.com/
John Borthwick of Betaworks explains their model (compared to YCombinator)
Lead candidate for guest of the year on TWIST.
This is awesome.

I remember DeCSS, my favorite was people getting tattoos of the source code.
Is it that p is double called the majority of the calculations, thereby making the function call itself twice when a simple "save" of the result would have stopped a geometrically growing tree? I've never studied this, just curious.
Google's H.264 decision: It's all about YouTube costs
JavaScript Full Screen API, Navigation Timing and repeating CSS Gradients
What you're seeing is Disqus' Reactions feature, which we help power. Part of our business is data services, which companies like Disqus, Bitly, The New York Times, SlideShare, etc use.

Our own product is a marketing intelligence platform; essentially, it provides analytics for social media marketing programs so brands understand what's working, what isn't and how to improve.
If you set your top banner color to white either with user CSS or in your profile (if your karma is sufficient) it will fix the header.
I would be more interested in hearing the results/reasoning of their recent introduction of a paywall.

Seems the business model pivoted slightly.

e.g. http://backtweets.com/search?q=yongfook.com%2Fall-about-litt...

anything beyond the last few weeks, you need to pay $100/month.
so, how long before we get an augmented reality app that lets you play your (parents) records just by pointing your iPhone at them?
There's no point of dedicating resource on fighting freedom of speech. Sony just has to shift strategic position. I mean you don't see Microsoft and Apple whining about it. I know that Sony has dedicated A LOT of money on each individual PS3 console, but they knew this day would come. Instead of trying to sue and put restrictions on the first amendment, they should learn how to make money with a hacked system.
Well A) given the state of affairs I can't imagine that geohot minds the show of support.

B) I think it would be kind of hilarious of Geohot gave CMU a takedown notice for it, yeah it would be a dick move, but really hilarious.
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Clicky:

http://www.lipitk.sourceforge.net/
Good idea but not a fan of the design.
You don't have to write a parser because it's already built into your Lisp system in a way you can use.
Give this one a shot: http://usehipster.com/?referred_by=5457
An impressive list... though the first one I actually enjoyed has been this impressively well designed one quite a ways down: http://sketch-out.appspot.com/
Yes, thanks - have done that now.

Also Ubuntu doesn't have Helvetica Neue installed natively, so I change the body to fall back more gracefully to sans-serif:

body * {
font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
}
I think your title needs work. I read it to mean "one person company" rather than "one of two (or more) founders" and "bootstrapping" has been defined on this forum as "making enough money from it to support yourself while you grow it" (or something along those lines). I didn't hear "one of the two (or more) founders supplying the seed money" at all.

Good luck with this.
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From "Mreza" a Croatian IT magazine ( http://www.bug.hr/mreza/travanj-2010/94275.aspx ), translated and paraphrased:

The seven wisdoms of a successful CRM implementation:

1. Solve specific business needs, don't just "implement CRM"

2. Focus on small wins on the road to the big victory

3. Understand the culture and motivation of the individuals and fit them in the design

4. If you're ordering the CRM solution, don't specify the way it should be implemented, specify the desired business effect

5. Don't be scared to make changes, even big ones, in the flow and way the solution is implemented

6. Optimize the look & feel of the client's UI

7. Establish processes for managing data
Mozilla Exec: Firefox 4 Will Arrive in February
There's a world of difference between playing h.264 in software on an older mac and what playing WebM in software (or not at all) would do to iOS devices.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~perspectives/firefox.html

We have developed an extension to the popular Firefox browser that contacts network notaries whenever your browser connects an HTTPS website.

The extension provides two primary benefits:

1. If you connect to a website with an untrusted (e.g.,self-signed certificate)*, Firefox will give you a very nasty security error and force you to manually install an exception. Perspectives can detect whether a self-signed certificate is valid, and automatically overrides the annoying security error page if it is safe to do so.

2. It is possible that an attacker may trick one of the many Certificate Authorities trusted by Firefox into incorrectly issuing a certificate for a trusted website. Perspectives can also detect this attack and will warn you if things look suspicious.
Ditto. Anyone?
Stealing Passwords is Easy in Native Mobile Apps Despite OAuth
Geohot should send a cease and desist to Professor Touretzky
Spanish and Portuguese plurals are exactly like English ones, except that the articles and adjectives also have to agree in number with the noun, not just the verb.