skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reflects a larger issue about project management: Do you want more people working a little on the project or a few top performers working at their absolute maximum productivity? If I was them I'd keep running the project in the way that makes the top 10 contributors as productive as possible, and it sounds like keeping the discussions in Japanese is the way to go.

Think about if we were discussing Apple. Would you really suggest it would be worth making the top performers (including Steve Jobs) do their day to day work in Japanese if it meant more people could participate in the discussions? Or do you want to do everything you can to have the people who really know what they're doing working at their optimum?
Full text RSS makes it really easy for your content to show up on spam blogs, which is why I think it's not used all the time.
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I spent last year going through the ~300 interviews. I can't recommend them enough.

The only problem is remembering the best ones.

I was thinking of creating a wiki with notes on what you will learn. When you want to learn about a topic (ecommerce, building a community etc), it'll be easy to find the guests who can help.
About switching jobs - 2 great articles from Mark Suster's 'Both sides of the table:

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/04/22/never-hire-job...

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/04/25/job-hoppers-re...
I like it. I'd use it, if it wasn't too expensive...
The product of a human being's work is rightfully his property; that's part and parcel of living in a civilized society.

This argument is only considering one side of the equation. The other side:

Pretty much all products of a human being's work in a civilized society are built on top of previous products of other people's works, in both a material and especially in an intellectual sense.

Giving such an unreasonably long time for copyright protection is breaking the chain. It argues, wrongly, that it is ok to build on the previous products of civilization while effectively locking up anyone from building on yours for 100-200 years.
Being creative? Easy. Using that creativity and actually DOING something with it is much harder.

Be it building an application from nothing through to something useful to the wider world or writing a novel, the ideas are the easy part, follow through that sucks. Funny enough I find novel writing easier than finishing an application of late.
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If you think it that important, feel free to improve upon the list; it's maintained at https://github.com/bendiken/unlicense.org. Fork the repository, update the list, and submit a pull request to merge. Easy as pie.

Given that the list at Unlicense.org doesn't even include all of my own projects, it's really not comprehensive at all. So, here's a tip: just set a couple of Google Alerts (in addition to the obvious "Unlicense", searching also for the first line of text from the Unlicense is particularly effective). Much easier.

Note also that there isn't much point listing hundreds of projects directly on the front page of Unlicense.org. If we wanted to actually be comprehensive, we should do something like a tagged and searchable database of projects. This has been discussed previously, but isn't a priority.
You are right about speed. However, I would like to have handwriting simply for symbols and drawing (i.e. mindmapping). How are you going to enter math formulas faster with a keyboard than a pen? Same goes for marking and annotating things. IMO, precision and speed for marking/annotating is pretty bad with iOS.

But I don't see how apps like Omnifocus can make use of it.
Automate pro sports officiating, with hundreds of independent centimeter-resolution 3D viewpoints giving instant and precise judgements on bounds, contact, and motion issues.

For fast-moving sports like basketball, this would introduce new possibilities for tallying up net fouls realtime without a whistle constantly stopping play — somewhat like hockey's concept of delayed penalties.
It sounds to me like you don't have a time problem so much as you have a wife problem. Here are a few thoughts (from a former wife, fwiw):

1. Find out what she wants and needs from the relationship and make sure she gets it. That is probably the best way to get a spouse off your back about something. (My ex husband and I could have saved thousands of dollars on furniture if he had just been willing to talk to me and pay attention to me. I really wanted his attention, not a new couch, but couldn't get it unless we were doing something like shopping for furniture.)

2. Work on rearranging your life so other stuff doesn't suck up so much time. Maybe shorten your commute, hire a maid, or in some other way make more time so you can pay attention to the wife and also work on your ideas.

3. You also might check out this previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1527830
when will the US stop? anyway the data collected is immense; probably machine learning can help, probably something like adaptive image-capable classifiers?
Bundler is designed for its primary use case: web apps.

(1) is acceptable for web apps because they need to start once and stay alive until the next redeploy. Granted, the starting time is pretty stupid for desktop apps and even command line apps like the RSpec runner, but as people have already mentioned web app developers who deploy on Debian are the biggest part of the Debian Ruby userbase.

(2) shouldn't ever happen. Bundler is designed exactly to avoid inconsistent breakages, e.g. breakages that happen in production but not development. Bundler guarantees that things fail in the same way in any environment. If something fails then that means you're missing an entry in your Gemfile. I'd like to have a look at your problem.
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I think we can thank RIM for that. While they were not the first, they arguably made the QWERTY keyboard ubiquitous and (for the first time) more than tolerable on a phone sized device.
I miss YellowBox (OpenSTEP, NeXTStep, Cocoa whatever you call it for Windows). I still have installed on my Windows XP from the last Objective-C based WebObjects - 4.5.2, but can't redistribute apps with it.

It came with built in Sampler, one was able to debug with Visual Studio the compiled executables (there was a converter that took the dwarf debug info and converted it CV (CodeView) compatible one for Visual Studio).

The apps looked natively on Windows (unlike GNUStep), much like Cocotron, but you were able to develop them on the system.

That to be said, Apple's OS and the underlying Foundation/AppKit/UIKit are truly hameleonic - I'm sure they can migrate easily to new platforms.
But who are these "naturally creative people"? I think the point the parent is making is that no matter how effortless it may seem, the very creative actually put in a lot of hard work to be so. That's been my experience.
Two weeks ago, I got the samsung focus to replace my iphone4. The phone is really really good. The author is right about the tiles approach. It is a nice change from the app model of the other phones. I can see all my contacts, feeds from facebook and linked in in one view. It's even better than desktop experiences.

People have complained that the hardware is plasticy and cheap, but after using the iphone4 over a 2 month period and seeing the glass screen smash. I prefer the light feel; plus most people covert their phones with a case and they all feel the same after that.

Complaints on the phone:

The browser isn't as good as the iphone; change between pages isn't as nice and the back & forward is a pain. Rendering is also not as good.

The zune navigation system was better than the windows mobile. In zune you could navigate up and down the system by clicking the title of the current screen to go back in Playlists click "Playlist" to go back to music, click "Music" to return to the main screen. This was super convient because navigation could be done with one hand. In the Mobile OS it would more on a backwards only system that requires using the phones "back" button which is at the bottom of the phone. I find it not as easy operate as the zune, but the same as the iphone.
What stops using multiple passes to render the image? One for primary rays and then invoking another pass for the secondary rays.
> I’m talking about pure poundage of production

Creativity does not equal pure poundage of production.
Google operates the largest RSS reader and largest RSS host... I'd say they have no problems with it.
Why do iPhones have so many alarm bugs?
That natural rights justification needs to be subordinate to the actual text of the US constitution, which makes it clear that intellectual property rights can only be granted by legislation, with limited term, and only for the purpose of stimulating progress. Without appropriate action by congress, the default under US law is for writings to be public domain, and it is unconstitutional to grant someone power over their writings simply out of the sense that they deserve it.
Here is the entire list of new stuff:

http://repo.or.cz/w/emacs.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/etc/NEWS
It is that way because fanboys like you vote up everything that comes out of his blog.

His predictions also come true for things coming out of Apple since he is part of their target demographic. Making a claim about Android is out of his area of expertise.
I can understand! I actually also use vim a whole lot, which is absolutely wonderful as well. For the pinky/chords thing in emacs, I've be able to adapt by actually using other fingers quite a bit (shifting my hand so I can hold control with my ring or even pointer); and I really don't use multichord combos that much, usually using longer sequences instead (e.g. for indent-region, I hit Esc, then type C-\ rather than typing Alt-Ctrl-\ .) Fortunately this has worked well for me and my hands over time.
> Are you seriously complaining about a compatibility breakage that conforms to their compatibility policy?

Yes, I am. Just because they have a policy in place doesn't mean that I lose my right to air my opinions.

The point with the <% thing is that it feels a bit too much like gratuitous code churn to me. <%= is what you use to output something, and you do want to output a form, so <%= is what they should have stuck with from the beginning.
Oh, I didn't know about this. If I were using Windows, I'd give it a shot.
Not sure regarding rate-limiting from Google. Needs investigation. If anyone has any comments regarding this, I'd be interested in hearing.

Sites are checked every 30 minutes.

Fixed up the FAQ and Contact Us pages to be visible without requiring a log in. Silly error, fixed.

Fixed "your're". I hate when people spell that wrong - I really messed that one up!

Thanks again!
Right. But a copyright law that doesn't have the purpose and effect of promoting that progress is unconstitutional. Congress can't just hand out intellectual property rights on a whim, nor can they be used to stand in the way of progress.
> First things first. If you want to build Windows Phone 7 apps on your Mac, prepare to jump into Boot Camp. The emulator does not work in VMWare Fusion.

It works just fine on Windows 7 running on the latest version of VMware Fusion under Snow Leopard. It's just not very performant.
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The thing you're missing here is the privileged place "/usr/bin" has on the filesystem. It is reasonable and proper for a package to expect to install a real, unadulterated version of itself in the standard user path. You can't simply say "well, developers can just install their own version" while at the same time installing a broken version of Ruby in the standard path.

The right call would have been not to package Ruby at all.
Let them defend the current policies as promoting, "the progress of science and useful arts..." - as opposed to promoting corporate wealth.

Then let's also define "for limited times..." in terms of decades not centuries.
Why was Eldred v. Ashcroft argued on 1st Amendment grounds?
There seems like a relatively straightforward argument from the Takings Clause.
> There is a compelling natural rights justification for intellectual property

But Copyright as law is only about 300 years old and wasn't implemented because of "natural rights".

> If people's intellectual property rights are not respected, it will not be profitable to develop intellectual property.

And, yet, a lack of copyright didn't appear to stop people from creating works before copyright existed. And maybe there's more important things for a culture than profit.

Even more so, there are people creating works today who go out of their way to specifically disclaim copyright protection using Creative Commons Zero and similar licenses. So copyright isn't a requirement for creation.

> In this case: you claim that it's important for the public good to move works into the public domain. Well, how is it good for the public to move Horton Hears a Who or Sports Illustrated into the public domain?

Well, in some cases, because that was the agreement at the time the work was created until the law retroactively changed the terms of the contract.

And in other cases, because then the next generation of film-makers gets to make their animated re-interpretation of Horton Hears a Who (or even Horton Hears a Sports Illustrated) without it being illegal or financially prohibitive thus ensuring society more culture works.
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That natural rights justification needs to be subordinate to the actual text of the US constitution

An argument for natural rights is totally independent of the government of any particular country. If the U.S. Constitution has it wrong (which it may), that's what amendments are for.
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Great feedback, thanks a lot!

All valid points and if this grows into something larger than what I intended it, I'll certainly look into some more advanced/clever ways of handling the email side of things.

Index Ping was intended for top-level domain names only. IE, "Bob" launches a new website and wants to know when it is indexed. Not down to the individual page level, just when he "breaks" in to the index. If people want more granular control over this, I'll take a look.

Cheers!
It should be a simple thing, but I do know that working with timezones and daylight saving time can often be a huge pain in the ass. Lots of opportunities for bugs.
Look...the author is the CEO of Box.Net which is a company whose business model is the cloud. So there's obviously a bias and I do think he's a little hyperbolic on some of his points.

That said I'm someone who runs what is considered a medium sized enterprise and have been testing Box.Net for a few months now and I've been impressed. It allows me to extend file sharing beyond our network firewall without having to configure (or pay for) an expensive VPN license (I'd started moving the rest of our Intranet to EC2 in 2009). Plus it duplicates all the Sharepoint functionality that we were using.

I can honestly say cloud computing has saved me from creating at least 1 new position at a savings of around $53,000 a year (that's subtracting the EC2 and Box.Net bills)
One needs not inherit wealth through death to carry it on.

That's what living is for.

The privileges afforded from wealth certainly give you a leg up. Take it, or get out of the way.
I love this idea that somehow creative people are somehow "special"; I really like the articles preface of "Creativity is a nebulous, murky topic that fascinates me endlessly — how does it work? What habits to creative people do that makes them so successful at creativity?"

Here is a good interview with Craig Wynett ("Chief Creativity Officer") at P&G, in which he attempts to explain how they at P&G are trying to approach creativity from a scientific approach:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLBJ9pda7TA

In my opinion, cognitive science will be a huge topic in marketing in the years to come.
I tend to be someone who would emphasize the importance of execution relative to the importance of ideas, however I certainly don't believe that ideas don't matter.

Ideas have value to the extent that they are coupled with excellent execution. One without the other is worthless but combined they have value. Because of this interaction simplistic statements such as "ideas are valuable" or "ideas are worthless" are both incorrect.

The same situation even applies to something more concrete than a simple idea - code. I may have developed a high-quality code base with extensive functionality. However that code has little if any value in and of itself, unless I can apply it to solving a problem that people actually have and are willing to pay for.
I am also in the process of building my RoR app and need a wysiwyg editor. I have found a gem which installs tinyMCE on your rails app: https://github.com/kete/tiny_mce
It took me 3 minutes to integrate it into my app. My only backdraw is that it lacks the ability to upload an image - so I am looking into that now.

Good luck.
Just thought I'd make a simpler, more accessible tool that focuses on one thing, finding your site in Google's index. I think simplicity is the main differentiator. Not that Google Alerts is difficult, but it's main use is not geared towards finding your site in Google's index.
Ask HN: Sencha/PhoneGap/jQuery Mobile/Appcelerator Titanium/Rhodes/jQTouch?
I'm starting to evaluation development platforms for the mobile version of SproutRobot, and... well, there's a lot out there.

Good things are: App Store/Android Marketplace/Mobile Web capability, single core library that can be reused in all three, feels like native, fast, works offline

I'm leaning towards a JavaScript framework because I need a mobile web version of the site anyway, and I might as well re-use that in the App Stores. Rhodes is tempting since the site is already written in Ruby, but I'm not sure how well it would integrate with my existing Rails server.

Sencha seems nice, I like that my use case is their bread and butter, and that I can use it free but that support is available for purchase if I need it.

jQuery Mobile is tempting because jQuery is a juggernaut, and it will surely be widely used. It seems like it's being very actively hacked on, although it's still quite new and is only Alpha release. But I've generally found jQuery to be quirky, and I don't want my apps to be quirky. Sencha gives me the feeling that they're making something "iOS-worthy", although that's just a gut feeling. I've heard performance is weak on Android.

ArsTechnica is using PhoneGap, and they have a mobile app for iOS and iPad that's in the App Store. They're nerds. I assume they've done their homework. But I wonder why their App isn't in the Android Marketplace if it's so portable?

Anyway, just a few thoughts as I poke around. Does anyone have any experience with these? I'm going to play with some of the apps built with them and see how they feel.
No such amendment has been passed, or even to my knowledge come close to a vote in congress. So why is it okay for congress to be acting like they have the unconditional power to hand out intellectual property rights?
Or BlackBerry.
If FHS religion means you can't put something in bin(7) if it's an admin-only tool, and the author of that tool built it in a way that only allows it to be installed in bin(7) and not sbin(7), then don't package the tool. The "alter the tool so it fits with our doctrines" approach hasn't worked.

Again, this isn't Ruby saying "Jeb's network configuration script must go in bin(7) even though he wants it to go in sbin(7)". This is "every Ruby developer writes tools that go in some variant of bin(7)", and Debian not liking that.

Which, fine. Don't like it. Just don't package them.
I work at gamedev studio, and we briefly tried CUDA for DXT compression. Now the speedup (the actual compression part was roughly x10 - x20 faster).

But there were couple of problems (solvable, but might require changing of habits):

- Once you have CUDA running, you can't Remote Desktop to the machine (you can do VNC). We are still on Vista (and we stared trying this on XP). Things might be better with Windows 7.
Alternative: VNC

- The IT requires every unattended machine to be logged off after 15 minutes. This means that CUDA might stop working for you (no video driver). Same somtimes happen if you do Ctrl+Alt+Del and brought the Task Manager (that's inconsitent - it happens rarely).

- The biggest problem was that there were 2-3 models (DELL, then HP) machines. We always use Intel with NVIDIA, but now and then every machine would convert to DXT the texture data a little bit different. Visually no problem, but this was messing up MD5 sums of the produced image, and locally people were getting different results than the one stored on the cached asset server.
Alternative: Keep the MD5 sums of the source images + arguments for encoding (though this would not detect cases where bad images were encoded).

We had one very smart guy working for 6 months on new radiosity tool. He started with CUDA solution, but moved back to multithreaded/process solution with SSE code. For radisotiy (precomputed lighting for the levels) data we did not kept MD5 sums, so it did not matter.

So for us what worked sanely was OpenMP - speeding up the nvidia compressor by processing blocks with height of 4, and length of the original image - another smart graphics programmer came up with the idea.

That to be said - it's still exciting, but too hard for a lot of common tasks.
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You're correct that we build upon the previous efforts of others, but I don't think that's a counterpoint to what I've said. For one thing, copyright doesn't prevent you from building upon previous intellectual and material gains made by civilization; it just prevents you from, for example, making a movie of Lord of the Flies without permission from the owner of the copyright.

Separately:

There's a legitimate discourse to be had about how long copyright protection should last. But I disagree totally with people who claim that it should be nonexistant.
Because if you're that worried about Facebook tracking your browsing habits, accessing information via RSS will only prevent some tracking. The Like button is damn near everywhere, not just on news sites. The only way to prevent it is to prevent your browsing tools from communicating with Facebook at all, and hope the servers you're accessing aren't doing it behind the scenes. And/or anonymize your connection (TOR), so even that doesn't give them anything.

The point is that paranoia (valid or not) is not a reason to keep a technology alive when that technology does not solve the problem, especially when solutions do exist. If you want a solution, use a solution, not a crippled, bundled-in-your-browser partial solution that only works under certain circumstances / assumptions.
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This is a good question. LOTR is being actively commercially exploited and the commercial exploitations are darn good. Meanwhile, it's cultural impact hasn't been noticeably blunted by copyright -- that novel launched at least one industry, to say nothing of being repurposed by virtually every book in adjacent genres.