skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks pretty cool, nice job on the UI. I don't really understand the name of your service but at least it wouldn't be hard to remember.

Are you guys planning on allowing users to customize their cards to match their actual business card?

Either way good luck taking on Bump, it's good to have a couple options in the marketplace.
Fantastic! Congratulations for building on open standards.

If you have any time for this kind of thing, maybe the draft of vCard 4.0 would be of interest to you. We added synchronization features, and there is an extension being written for social networking.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-vcarddav-vcardrev
Given that Honeycomb is for tablets only, the answer to your second question is "0". :)
That is a good point but the problem I have is that I click a link, read the article, go back to HN, and look for the link to view the comments. At that point, I sometimes can't find it because the link blends in and I scan right over it.

I wouldn't have this problem if I just started opening all the links in new tabs, but that isn't my normal browsing habit. I guess I am a depth-first instead of a breadth-first user.
I hope to God that they fix Unity by then -- my non-technical spouse loved Ubuntu netbook edition, but ultimately dumped Linux when 10.10 came along because Unity just had too many problems.
Key difference here is that Ryan Paul doesn't go on a hyperbole, make numbers up, show poor logic and clear bias in advocating against what he doesn't subscribe to. That is why you don't stop reading his articles. It is because DF/Arment/Asymco do outrageously illogical, facts-be-damned, bigotry-without-fail that I stopped reading their articles. If even once they offered a balanced view point I will reconsider.

To make it clear - If for example Paul went and started telling people on a daily basis that don't use Windows as it gives too much hardware choice, kills puppies, gives your data to NSA, Windows will never succeed and what not - that is totally different than what he does currently - covers open source and may be hints at "you should try this" which is way more reasonable. As far as I know he hasn't done the former.
The thing is though, car manufacturers only update their cars once a year, and for the most part, they keep the same models, just with small updates. Verizon might be getting a brand new Android phone every month and retiring old ones just as fast, making it hard to keep track of what the best phone at the moment is.
> If you take Ruby, Python, and Perl, and line them up next to each other simply as languages, Perl is at the bottom of the pile on it's own merits where OOP is concerned.

Reminds me of a Larry Wall quote: "I don't really know much about Python. I only stole its object system for Perl 5. I have since repented."

Really, Perl's native OO stuff just lacks syntactic sugar. "Bless" is admittedly weird. And you have to write "new" yourself. If you get over those 2 things, it's really quite the same as everything else.
Glancing at the front page, it seems that the social graph is made up of technophiles and business junkies.

But then, we knew that, I guess. It's just funny, this is basically SF/NYC tech/business talk, while a trace over the RL social graph would probably bring up something more like Us Weekly or ESPN. Even at a sample size of 1, I talk more tech/biz online and more ESPN offline.
this should be very useful. just hope the script loads quickly, as that's my only real concern with badges.
This has nothing to do with Ferris not working for the civil service.

The physician is refusing to confirm the results b/c Ferris signed an NDA prohibiting the university from releasing the results. Ferris, obviously, was not bound by that NDA.
Thank you! We think our name will work in our advantage.

Yes, a Card Editor is definitely in the planning.
Or clothes, or buy food...etc.?

Is it just turtleneck and jeans and turkey and swiss on rye everyday?
The title reminded me of a hilarious video from some years ago, "Heap of trouble". "Nine naked men walking down the road would cause a heap of trouble" indeed :)

Crappy quality: http://www.myvideo.de/watch/4293877/Heap_of_Trouble

Donate-to-view-in-good-quality at artist's website: http://www.stevesullivan.co.uk/heap.html
With simpler laws, you might get by with more stupid lawyers.

Like, managing an index fund can be a part time job or even done by a computer, compare that to the hot shots that hedge funds attract for their active trading.
I guess the analogy with mobile Apple products is obvious (which I presume is why this post is on HN at all), but in hindsight I just realized that I have been following a similar strategy in my personal life all along (never let myself play video games or really watch TV except movies).
The article that was posted before was bs. Thanks for coming up with a rebuttal.
>the codec will quickly improve

I am sorry, but codecs don't work like regular software. Fixing bugs and issues in the encoder could make the resulting video incompatible with older decoders (decoders and encoders are not easily updateable in firmware devices such as consoles, set top boxes, mobile devices etc.).

Therefore it's important to have a proper spec in place and then improve encoders and decoders. A dump of C code is not a spec like Google did with VP8.
One of the reasons I'm skeptical about advertising going forward (among several) is that as metrics get good enough, advertisers are going to want to stop paying for people like me who are minimally affected by ads. ("But you're affected subconsciously like everybody els..." Yes, thank you, I said minimally.) And we're not going to be randomly distributed. You might be able to make an ad-based business in bulk or on a band fan club site, but technical sites are going to be in a lot of trouble, I think. Can you imagine being kicked out of a site because you never click on ads? The tech is coming.
>>if you compare it to another programming language simply as a language

Perl is extensible by design. Your "point" of refusing to accept that is just strange. If you can't handle it, use something else.

>>good software development practice

As __david__ noted, you're just strange here.

Variables really should be declared, as I noted before, just because of spelling problems. That is good software practice.

Edit: I might be missing the point re "strict", but you can't explain it to either __david__ or chromatic, either. :-) And it seems your "point" about downloadable extensions is that you don't have anything to complain about without that arbitrary limitation.
Also, those ads are probably getting some unintended interest through the legal system...
How to Stop Wikileaks
Which I get from the video. Hopefully you can see why my initial concern was that your product wouldn't be appropriate for what I'm trying to do, and (more importantly) why I appreciated the video talking about the compatibility with normal cards. My current card is the marketing tool; your app makes the contact information more practical.
I appreciate the message, but am I the only one for whom the "fail fast" mantra is becoming grating? It seems like it was originally a good idea: if your startup is dead, let it die. Don't cling to a failed idea. Now, however, it's almost used instead of a plan, or as an excuse not to carefully consider your options. It seems as if it appeals to our innate laziness: "Take a shot. If you miss, oh well, better luck next time." There's no hunkering down, no in-the-heat-of-the-crucible, just give up and try something else. It feels like a truism packaged for the Twitter generation.
I frankly speaking didn't know about this. But reading Wikipedia article about Tim Ferriss I got the impression that it might be his book (4HWW) that earned him money that he began to invest in these companies. The timeframes match perfectly. I don't know, may be I am wrong here.

Still I fill very allergic to all this positive thinking, self-help, goal-achieving and motivation literature. The skeptic in me just cannot stand it, everybody who writes it automatically gets "scam" mark from me. I'd rather suggest reading something like "Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America" by Barbara Ehrenreich instead.
Why is passing a reference by value so hard to understand?
All I know is that Unity was pushed out way earlier than it should have been in the Netbook edition. I've had it chew resources like crazy, and unilaterally hijacking the left-hand side of my screen? Not cool.

That's before you get to the utter Fitz-law failure that is buttons animating out from under your mouse pointer...
You are not old school. In fact top-posting is sign that you are a relative newbie.

Long ago there was USENET, and everyone knew how to properly format their posts, and by extension, e-mails. Windows didn't even have a network stack, back then.
That's a misunderstanding of tax law.

Borders partnering with Amazon does not give Amazon a local presence within the meaning required for Amazon to be subject to that localities tax authorities.

Amazon buying Borders (the company) would have the same result, because Borders would remain a separate taxable entity.

Amazon buying Borders' assets (i.e., the stores, inventory, etc) would be the only situation in which Amazon would acquire a local presence allowing the locality to tax Amazon.
Of course, there's a great comparative advantage in forcing a lesser being to work for no pay. Also, what about the scenario where we are the resource? Best case: Matrix; more likely: extinction (if they could sustainably cultivate people, they wouldn't have crossed the galaxy to find us)
And so do a lot of Danes.

As I said, the reasons are primarily cultural. Some things in Denmark make it easier, some things make it worse. Culture is why YCombinator is in the bay area, even though higher taxes and high prices make it one of the worst areas in America to start a company if you exclude cultural factors.
I brought MS into it, not to bash MS, but to point out how hypocritical these arguments often are. If MS says something with no substantiation, but merely an attempt to create fear, uncertainty, and doubt in the future, people are up in arms yelling FUD. But when Google does it it's about the greater good of humanity.
Not only that, it's getting worse.
I love async, but I can't code like this
Interweaving works great as long as a note is included at the top to look below for the replies or comments.
From a comment: >>> Collecting police badges is a popular hobby for many policemen and they didn't want to have to stop.

They rate their hobbies above the safety of the public. I guess this is nothing compared to all the other security screwups going on.
1. My understanding was the same as benreesman's: breach of an NDA only makes the person who agreed to it liable. IANAL but I did some searching around for the precedents you mentioned, and I found a few that back up what you say, but they all seem to set a fairly high bar for "helping/instigating" someone breach their NDA; for example knowing about the terms of the NDA. It seems unlikely the professor, who simply mirrored the code, would fall under those precedents.

2. Right on here, actually. Last night I was particularly annoyed at dangrossman's tone elsewhere (eg "So you've never heard of an NDA?") hence the snark in my original post, but after sleeping on it I'm sort of embarrassed it got to me that way.
Wouldn't the solution be better approaches to ads? Something like AOL's Project Devil (http://advertising.aol.com/creative/projectdevil) seems to be the way web advertising should work going forward.
I find this truly bizarre. Who are these 8%? Is there some new, widespread form of obsessive compulsive behaviour that involves clicking through EVERY link on EVERY page?
To be fair, the last LTS was pretty good. The next probably will be, too. Between now and then, though, we all get to be beta testers.
This was a fun side project I built with Adam Doppelt (co-founder of UrbanSpoon). Pretty interesting data so far-- we're trending to having pretty solid reputation data on hundreds of thousands of folks after our first week. 50% of users do 50 or more duels and 20% do 100 duels or more.

The goal of the project was to get an opportunity to work together a bit, explore some new technology (RackSpace Cloud, MongoDB, beanstalk, bluepill, HAML), and do some fun design work.
Twitter API bug still not fixed 3 years later
An edit-compile-test cycle of several minutes + a hang or so quickly eats up the days.

That's why the micros are an interesting option, they're running on real hardware but can be flashed in seconds and debugged in realtime with a JTAG cable. Very convenient. But on the other hand they tend not to have much storage or network connectivity, so it depends on what you're interested in if they're the right choice. Blinking LEDs and controlling step motors is always fun, though!
The erk and priv values in the printed website shown there are truncated, so it is not the whole key.
It seems a bit interesting, but I see a couple of points.

1. I have a small pool of people on my linkedIn profile, so I don't think there are a lot of relevance to my results. IE: I will run out of battles very soon
2. How well does this scale to people that have a huge number of people on their profile, for example a recruiter? They probably aren't qualified to give their opinion.
> With Android? Not so much...

Headphone jacks are amazing things. Perhaps none of your equipment has one?

(usb is also quite cool)

One thing the iPod connector does have going for it is a better 2-way interface. But in practice most devices just give me an optional, equivalent screen, inches away from the iDevice anyways. It's like a wireless remote for a car stereo.
That's why the successful companies have to pivot and find a way to monetize those broken windows. When the market shows you a demand, you need to find a way to take advantage of it. In this case there are a lot of men who want to show off their junk.

I'm very impressed by Andrey's ability to use the very thing that is causing his site so much trouble and turn it into a stable revenue stream. It's a very shrewd business move, even if it does diverge from the original vision.
What the hell? Who cares? The effect is that I can't and never will be able to watch Hulu in an open Flash implementation.
That only makes it hard if you're buying a phone by name. The answer is always, "Whichever one is in the store," which is what most people will buy anyway.
Authors at Google with Tim Ferriss 
Video of his presentation
> Apple's reasons for not supporting Flash on their mobile platform are primarily performance reasons.

But Apple also wants to protect its monopoly for iOS app developers and App Store distribution. The Flash plugin would allow application developers to write cross-platform apps and bypass the App Store.
Sincerely wish you success with your startup ...
+1 for the spirit!
I know the feeling. I gave up on Kubuntu when they moved from KDE3, which I was used to and liked, to KDE4, which did loads of things in a news way, and which had bugs in to boot.

I guess if software vendors made cars, they'd randomly switch round the pedals to create "an unforgettable user experience" or whatever the bullshit du jour is.
Sure ActionScript is an open standard, but Flash is not. The file format has been published, but has the actual swf format (including its streaming protocols) been ratified by an independent standards body? If so, which one?

Flash's file formats are well-documented, but Adobe decides how it evolves. I can write my own Flash player today, but Adobe might decide tomorrow that they're going to completely change Flash 11's format so that my player is suddenly useless for any new content. They might have even decided it already, and after a year of development, the first I find out about it is on release day. Anyone who's invested time and effort into implementing my player in their software is suddenly screwed until I support the new format (which, because of things like proprietary streaming protocols, I might never be able to do).

This is actually the same problem with WebM. The source code is open, but it's not a community project in the way that something like Apache or PHP is. Google is the one in control, and this is Google's standard. If they're interested in openness, are they going to be submitting WebM to a standards body? Because unless there's a published standard that everyone (including Google) has to adhere to, WebM is even worse than H.264 because there's no guarantee that the money you've spent today will bring you anything tomorrow.
We put a lot of thought in to loading times of the badge. There are some performance notes here:

http://lanyrd.com/services/badges/docs/#performance

We're serving the initial 2215 byte script from Amazon's CloudFront CDN, so it should load lightning fast. You can place the script link at the bottom of the body to make absolutely sure there's no chance of it blocking the load of the rest of your page.

Once that script has loaded, it looks through the document finding all of the badge configuration links. It then assembles a single URL to our badge service which fetches all of the badge data in one HTTP request. This goes through a 10 minute Varnish cache, so it should be nice and fast too and should survive even if your site is getting a huge amount of traffic.

Finally, the badge degrades gracefully so in the event that Lanyrd.com is down (again, the Varnish cache is meant to help protect against that) your page will load fine, you just won't get the badge content.
And not embedding h.264 may prevent it from becoming a de-facto standard while pushing WebM, a fully open competitor (that's not perfect yet), may give it a chance of becoming, rightfully, part of a standard.
I think the assertion here is that Google would have researched their patents and prior art BEFORE actually buying the company (this is what the due diligence process is for). Google's only had a year go convert the VP8 code into open-source WebM code.
YouTube Brings Ads, Music Videos to Android Phones
That's really amazing. Were these introduced recently? Do you think there's much chance of them realizing what a great deal they are and discontinuing the plans?
Thankfully I did, because today it's still
dog slow to develop and to execute and
now it' belongs to Oracle.

Can you name a language beside assembly, c and (in some cases) c++ that executes faster than java, in any significant way in anything but very uncommon circumstances?

Nobody says you have to like java, but unsubstantiated anti-language propaganda doesn't really add much to the conversation (as perl user you should be the one to know ;)
Ha! A politically correct hot or not. I found it incredibly easy to get started and quite addicting actually. Before I knew it I had voted on over 30 co-workers.
If someone is in an advisory role, it's easy to take their advice as condescending.

When a non-IT person has correspondence with an IT person about IT stuff it could come off as condescending because more often than not, the shared common knowledge is not there.

You probably could come off less condescending if you teach your users in terms of "Best Practices" instead of "Things to Avoid".

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There are a couple of problems with this.

First, encryption keys are not subject to copyright in the first place, so it makes no sense to say they are "now" public domain. For the sake of argument, though, let's assume that they were subject to copyright, so we can go on.

Second, a copyrighted work does not enter the public domain by being published in a court filing or record.
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Hey thanks Satyajit! Perseverance counts, as they say... I hope! :)
> Why doesn't Google release the source code of the flavor of Linux that it uses after earning tens of billions basically leveraging Linux code?

Because the GPL does not require them to do so.

If the GPL required them to do so, nobody would licence their code with it, and only the most batshit-insane people would dare use code licensed under it. Would YOU want to run a Linux server if it obligated you to provide a complete dump of source code to anyone who asked? Seriously people, think before you write.

> MPEG-LA cannot be a patent troll let alone a known one, because it's a loose organization of companies

MPEG-LA manage a suite of patents and can issue press releases, therefore they can be a patent troll.
> Can you imagine being kicked out of a site because you never click on ads?

If they did that, people would click on ads they didn't care about, and advertisers would be annoyed.
Totally agreed. I really hope we'll start seeing more Android phones which aren't basically iPhone rip-offs. I'm not sure what the form factor of my ideal phone would be, but I know it isn't the form factor of the iPhone.
Presumably quite a lot of them are being paid to go around and click on ads to increase revenue for certain sites.
> Then ask the whole internet to chip in.

And enable them? Let them become irrelevant.
I live in Austin and if I want a tech book from borders, there is usually 0 inventory here. There is something about those San Antonio Borders, though. They seem to have all of the books in stock. Are they that much larger than the stores in Austin? Or is SA a growing tech hub?
I think people on HN actually do a great job of interleaving in comments and replies.
Or we can stick to the LTS:es, which is what I'm planning to do at least. There's just too much potential trouble with upgrading Ubuntu every six months.
For instance you can get real concurrency. Example: using a Scala framework called Akka, you can easily set up local map-reduces tasks, which trivially speeds up computation: http://metaphysicaldeveloper.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/high-l...
I think I've found something I didn't know I was looking for.

Also...when I start to add a bookmarklet and click "cancel", it takes me to an error page.

I think I'd rather not lose the page I'm on when I bookmartlet it, but I haven't used it enough to decide. If I click cancel I definitely don't want to. Maybe a new tab?
Terrible article. What the hell is a “secular zealot”? And why is proofreading considered something no one has time to do anymore? Hint: Rationale ≠ rational; you’re missing the word “century,” and no one in the world uses this supposed “citation style.”
The only ads I can ever remember clicking on were accidental.

The only ads that really make sense, I think, are the branding/image/guiding type ads, not the performance-based CTR ads that have taken over the tubes.

Toyota did a whole damage control series during the purported uncontrolled acceleration debacle, and I noticed them and it influences your opinion. As do ads that build an image or general awareness: If I know about a brand of SSDs, maybe I'll search for that brand the next time I'm looking.

Ads that succeed or fail based upon a click have always been dumb. Remarkable that Google built a whole empire on it.
That's fine for bulletin boards, where all you have to do is scroll up to read the rest of the history. However, until very recently (i.e. GMail) viewing the history behind a particular e-mail message required you to go back through all your e-mail and find the previous messages in the thread. On a busy list, this could be quite a bit of trouble. Hence, having the entire history in the message itself could be quite useful.