skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also has to do with how much money you give them.

I sell firearm accessories. When I launched my site, I put about $300 in my AdWords account and started to advertise for magazines, scopes, handguards, etc.

My ads were pulled rather quickly, yet other gun dealers are allowed to advertise:

http://www.google.com/search?q=magpul+pmag
http://www.google.com/search?q=rifle+scopes
http://www.google.com/search?q=ar15+handguard

Thats my biggest frustration with AdWords.
Maybe something in a WO System could be intelligent help... Do some natural language searching to see what kind of question is being asked, and provide a canned response.

So, "Can I have [more then \d+|a dog|\d+ cats]" automatically gets them a "Your lease only allows for 2 small animals. Does this answer your question?" type response.
Do you plan on making an Android app that uses GPS? I don't use foursquare, nor do I intend on using it just for the functionality of DontEat.at. I'd prefer to just open up my DontEat.at app and it immediately informing me about the health code status of the restaurant I'm at/next to. Due to it not being limited to the limit of a text message, much more could also be explained in the analysis.

Also, if you do make an app, it shouldn't require a foursquare account to use it.
nah, HQ.
This is either highly coincidental or a rip off of "Don't eat that!", based in PDX: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronpk/5049962228/
Cool, but needs a cancel button that stops drawing and re-enables the sliders.
Seems like this would be very useful in a city that doesn't have an already corrupt restaurant inspection culture.
I think that we all need to remember to K.I.S.S. At least those people who have to urge to add unncessary complexity to simple programs need to remember.
Skritter In Chrome Web Store
Skritter the number one way to learn Chinese and Japanese characters launches in the Chrome App store. Cool.
On Disbanding Teacher Unions and "Paying Good Teachers More"
Data is hard. Let's go shopping!
doesnt work for me, until i enter that last t of utorrent nothing appears, sad.
Forty Years of Fun with Computers
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Either state your counter-argument or stfu, this above the fray snark is insulting and useless.
That is exactly what I surmised the motivation for the "creepy" comment was, hence my speculation the commenter had not actually followed the link. If this is correct, then perhaps the real creepiness is how quickly and superficially we apply our assumptions without checking the evidence. Since the original poster of the comment hasn't spoken up, though, perhaps we are falling into the same trap of making assumptions about an intended meaning. I admit I had the same half-formed reaction before I followed the link, and I was instantly somewhat ashamed of myself for the fact that my imagination had already conjured up a stereotype that proved to be completely off-base.
Pure coincidence. I've never seen that app before and can't find it on Google. Can you link it to me?
Interesting, but I find the form factor problematic. The biggest market would be laptops, not servers, for the 'instant resume' it could offer.
IE9 skunked most of the competition by the looks of it, with Chrome 10 on Windows at a reasonable second place
I don't know if you ever used an Android phone, but I've always preferred the stock UI by far compared to SenseUI, and as another replier mentioned, I don't think there is a noticeable battery life difference between the two.
My friends at Grubwithus (YC W11) are going to help me by organizing a series of dinners in the Bay Area...

Do people outside of California use/understand "grub" as a verb meaning "to eat"? http://onlineslangdictionary.com/definition+of/grub
I live alone, but went with a 2 bedroom apartment just so I could have an office separate from where I sleep and "relax" (although I never got around to purchasing a TV so that didn't work out) because I always figure if I get stressed/annoyed I can "escape" and do something else, although I guess the cheap option is to go outside or something. So uh, home office.
Other in my case means walking around in bad neighborhoods, hoping to get shot so I don't have to go to my crap job.

Every cloud has a silver lining.
Ask HN: Site hacked, where to begin? 
I was just contacted by someone I know who came to own a well visited site in the past few years. I was asked by him to do a little bit of work for him: to switch hosts and perform some minor updates to their existing site. No problem I thought. Well, I have since learned the cause for moving hosts. The site had been hacked over the holidays and now has a threat warning from Google. A backup has been restored by the host (which still includes some badware redirects) and there is no source control or revision history.

The site is very large and I am still trying to get organized. Media files, multiple copies of pages with php.bak etc everywhere, horrible horrible mess. He complained about their last 'webmaster' being a nut. Yeah... Can you guys please recommend site scanners or any tools you would use to find any threats on an unfamiliar code base? I am hooked up with Google Webmaster Tools which is alright but I have found threats on pages they don't have listed. Any tips would be very appreciated. Thanks
As I understand it facial recognition only works that way on tv. Facial recognition is still hugely computationally expensive. In the real world it's used by security services by having a good picture of known bad guy x and then having the system watch cctv in a couple of zones to try to spot him. Even that takes hella cpu time, but it's still matching only a small fraction of the faces... thousands vs. Hundreds of millions.
Not to mention Sharepoint and all the new Office Web Apps.
If things had really changed as much as you're implying, it wouldn't be news. It would just be the way things are.
I too have a speedy Protocol Buffer implementation in Python:

https://github.com/acg/lwpb

It clocks in at 11x faster than json, the same speedup reported by fast-pb. Only with lwpb:

* There's no codegen step -- which is a disgusting thing in a dynamic language, if you ask me.

* You're not forced into object oriented programming, with lwpb you can decode and encode dicts.

Most of haberman's remarks apply to lwpb as well, ie it's fast, small, and doesn't pull huge dependencies. The lwpb C code was originally written by Simon Kallweit and is similar in intent to upb.
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I haven't seen it on Gmail and Chrome 10.0.642.2 dev yet, but the underlying webkit does work on Ubuntu et al.

You can test the feature in Chrome here:

http://slides.html5rocks.com/#notifications-api

edit: Just got the permission banner in gmail now - works fine.
Depends on the season: http://www.flickr.com/photos/technomancy/tags/remoteoffice/ Working outdoors in the summer is the best, but Seattle coffee shops are a nice fallback for the cold months.
I am very new here and not sure about establishing friendship here. Honestly I don't have a lot of time digging into every piece of news. I think I spend more time reading the comments than the stories themselves ... very often you learn much more reading people's reactions.
I was wondering if you had an api or something I could use for my site http://www.onebigmenu.com
I think it would be fantastic to get an idea of the health code violations for a place. :)
drop me a line. (conrad.twizzle at gmail dot com)
Indeed, according to the fact sheet (http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/rii/restaurant-gra...)

Initial Inspection. Every restaurant is scheduled for an unannounced inspection at least once
a year. A restaurant that scores 0 to 13 violation points on this inspection, called the “initial
inspection,” receives an A grade.

Re-inspection. A restaurant that does not receive an A on its initial inspection does not
receive a grade until it receives a re-inspection. The re-inspection will occur at least a week
after the initial inspection, giving the restaurant a chance to improve its sanitary conditions.
At the end of the re-inspection the restaurant will receive a grade card. If the grade is an A,
the card must be posted immediately. If the grade is a B or C, the restaurant will also receive
a card that says “Grade Pending.”

The restaurant has the choice of immediately posting either
the grade card or the Grade Pending card until it has a chance to be heard at the Health
Department’s Administrative Tribunal.
What do you do / what do you use to be able to see your screen clearly while outdoors in the sun?
There may not be an expectation of privacy in public, but I suspect it could be argued there is an expectation of anonymity. The tech is a long way from this being a reality, but the thought of it is beyond scary.
> * In Some tests

In that test protobuf is forced to copy the 512 byte string (200,000) times, while it appears that MessagePack is referencing it.

Granted it's a bummer that protobuf can't do this easily (my protobuf library upb can -- see above post), but I think it's dishonest not to mention that a large portion of the difference (if not all of it) is just memcpy() that protobuf is doing but MessagePack is not.

It reminds me of when I worked at Amazon and we had a developer conference with several speakers. One speaker was plugging Erlang and showed a graph comparing C++ processes with Erlang processes, and the graph showed C++ being much slower or bigger. Scott Meyers was in the audience and raised his hand to ask "what are the Erlang processes not doing, to explain the difference?" The guy couldn't answer that question directly.

After a bit of digging, you realize that an Erlang "process" is a lightweight, interpreter-level abstraction that is implemented inside a regular OS process. So naturally it doesn't have any of the overhead that is associated with an OS process, and you don't have to make a system call to perform IPC.

So when you're posting benchmark comparisons, I think it's only right to mention any inherent differences in how much work you're doing.
Yup. IIRC the R language includes really cool features of both pattern matching and keyword arguments in its function signatures.
How do you see your screen outdoors? I get tired trying to ignore my reflection.

What laptop do you use? Are you enthusiastic about its outdoor use?
Now for "other", there's something: I work for the IT dept of a French administration while finishing a software engineering degree. :)
How is Readability a solution for getting them on all on a single page? I tried using it with no success.
In my head Laurie is eleven, so I'm targeting ten and up. That feels about right, thinking back on my childhood.
I worked in Biometrics for a few years. I was on a fingerprint team, but I was part a wider team that was also responsible for forensic-quality facial recognition technology (a world leader). To put it bluntly, the technology is still very, very, very weak. When it works, it's really impressive, but that's normally during a demo from a nicely curated database. There are some facial technologies that can "work" from a distance (and they are used in airports already), but the success rate is low and the original image still needs to be of decent fidelity. Often times the results from the automated matching will be shortlisted for comparison by human operators. Maybe I was blinded by the awesomeness of fingerprint technology (still blows my mind thinking about it).

Combine this general lack of automated matching awesomeness with the fact that people age, can wear glasses or a beard, etc, and we are still many years away from this kind of capability.

Still, it's always fun to think about the possibilities that biometrics can and will provide.
Is 'useless' not a bit strong?

Granted, I had to make an experimental click or two to test how to select a document, but once I established that -- it's set for me.

I find the current selection method not only workable, but very usable.
AdSense has similar customer support issues too. A legal challenge to Google got a near-instant response. [0]

[0] http://searchengineland.com/remember-that-adsense-publisher-...
re: opening documents

Have you considered showing a button in the center of a document when it's selected? If it appears quick enough, you might be able to retrain users to expect to be able to double-click documents to open.

Another possibility would be replace the browser's right-click context menu. But it's likely not a good solution. It might slow down the interface, take away a feature that users expect, and more problematic: users will initially expect to open documents with a right-click as little as they would with a double-click.

An example of this though would be the Google Docs extension for Chrome.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/img/nnbmlagghjjcbdhgmke...

re: public records custodians

Whoops -- I didn't communicate what I meant to.

I was prodding to see if there was any interest in creating such a general dumping ground for public records (separate from DocumentCloud). I've been mulling over such an idea for a time, and seeing this today is convincing me that it could be workable.

You're right about that fine line.

re: else

I agree with another point of nathan82's about the 'log in' button.

Anyway, I'm glad you guys are putting the Knight Foundation's money to good use. Keep up the great work!

Also, any chance you guys are looking for summer interns?
First of all let me start by saying that I dislike articles such as this for many reasons but mainly because research is few and far between and most arguments turn into a 81 cents argument (i e there is obviously discrimination a foot). [by the way 81 cents on the dollar is the amount women earn annually compared to men, not sure if that needed explanation]

Anyway, here's my opinion on the subject. I had a very bright economics teacher in collage who had many terribly enlightening stories [read most boring but some nuggets of pure gold]. Among them, he said once that some people just arn't cut out for owning a business. Anyone can operate a business, just not many people can deal with the amount of risk associated with owning a business. This teacher likened it to being able to sleep at night knowing there was a chance however small that your company would burn down that night. Some people just can't do it.

Anyway, this article pretty much gave a very long list of reasons why to AVOID starting a company. Mainly, because its hard, there is a great deal of risk, oh yeah and its really hard.

Why do women seldom start companies? Why are there seldom women firefighters? I don't know, because its a damn dirty job and they just don't want to do it. Nothing wrong with that, plenty of men don't want to be firefighters and for that matter entrepreneurs. Its stressful, its hard, and just as often as you hear about facebook hitting it big you can count off dozens of companies that fail every year.

The question isn't why don't we have more women, the question is why do we have so many men?
I think there is a correlation between limitations of Java and how people use it. If functions where a first class operator a lot of the architectural fluff would be truly pointless. However, because of language limitations people start to think of "flexibility" as a feature and try and make a an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp
this is a great use of public data! more value add for checking in and using foursquare.
This isn't a problem unique to small, new, or contentious term advertisers.

I've had ads stuck in review for days, and I say this as someone waiting for his google adwords team to arrive and buy him drinks.
Yes, that is why I added the probably. The vast majority of rounded corners I see are still done with images however.
I do my "work for money" work at an office, but all of my side project work at home without any kind of office.
If I remember correctly, they used to have one (until about 2 years ago?) but it was discontinued, presumably because there was no way to serve ads through it.

Edit: The Google Web Search API (http://code.google.com/apis/websearch/) was only deprecated in November of last year and should still be usable for a while, although the documentation appears to be gone.
Ignorance is bliss.

I went through Philly's health code reports page and didn't eat out for a few weeks.
You have (understandably) been led astray by a poorly considered title.

The article demonstrates a vector based 'hand drawing' algorithm that happens to use the HTML5 logo and be implemented in javascript with canvas.

Unfortunately it doesn't appear to implement a generalised library for scruffy drawing.
I can't disagree. (As a matter of fact, I think my highest voted comment says much the same... ah, here we go: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=790914)

Strategically speaking, if I were a startup totally dependent on the Googles (I mostly am, but hypothetically speaking), and I knew that having a soap box was the only effective method of conflict resolution with Google, then I would make it a high priority to have a soap box. It certainly isn't the only reason to have a soap box. It isn't nearly the best reason to have a soap box. But you should have a soap box.

(Incidentally, it isn't as hard as you think. I know, we have it excessively easy in central Japan thanks to the well-known Ogaki tech mafia and the unending fascination of the tech press with elementary school teaching activities, but even without these huge built-in advantages you could proceed to Plan B and write interesting stuff while trying to help people.)
have you ever been to San Jose....I literally get scared to eat out more than 2-3 places that I have eaten at for years.
A Physicist tells the story of approaching the event horizon of a black hole...
I just started making an office for myself,

http://dropup.net/7mwid4-2w45cb.jpg.html

still a bit bare, suggestions welcome
Awesome job Eddy and Dashin! Love what you guys are doing :)
I have a few invites. Let me know if you need one.
It's not the technical development that matters so much as the sales development. Technical risk is really a non-issue for most products when compared to the risk of a marketing or operational flop.

Sell it, then go raise money.
YouOS: sucessful pivot from web-os to wedding planning
I was talking more about the language and hyperbole used then the length and video.

Nevertheless, it might be "tricking" you, but do people REALLY buy from Apple expecting to not get a tightly closed product?

"Oh, I bought this raptor, but I didn't EXPECT him to eat your son, I'm SO sorry!"
Get a giant white board. Its an excellent semi-temporary brainstorming & task-tracking tool.
Yes (I'm on Ubuntu 10.04)
They should have gone for growl integration on OS X, that's why I disabled it.
I happened be looking to NYC violations earlier at http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/rii/index.shtml You could probably make use of it. It's NYC only.

Your city probably has a similar site.
Has anyone managed to run the fast-pb tests in benchmark.py? I'm not sure where this switch is coming from:

protoc --fastpython_out
My thoughts exactly. Where's Steve? I love reading his stuff and am interested in how he's been changing the world (or not).
There is a breed of female founder that lives to pose for cameras and magazine covers and to be mentioned in Valleywag.
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Your comment seems to suggest there's some special rule that women cannot/should not seek to be recognized in the press for their work. Judging by the frequent coverage of foursquare, facebook, twitter, google, etc male founders don't seem to have any issue self-promoting. Does your rule apply to men too?
I really like the idea and hope you guys will succeed. Here are some specific suggestions:

* Allow the user to customize Q&A list they see, perhaps through filtering tags.

* Indicate somehow about the number of questions still ahead. Some sort of progress bar might help. As of now, some people may not have the patience.

* Leave out some questions from the signup form. Ask them later, eg put location box at the top of the question list.

Hope this helps and congrats for the launch!
Making a social media business management product free free
a window
Increasing sloppiness on one half + hitting redraw a bunch makes the coolest: http://i.imgur.com/60dEI.png
shhhhhhhhh. Lets keep this as our big open secret. Let all the young hotshots chase after then next viral twitface/linkbook mashup web 3.0 dohicky while the rest of us mine the huge seams of paydirt in the unglamourous enterprise space.
I found this link on Delicious which is helpful:

http://25yearsofprogramming.com/blog/20071223.htm

It directed me to http://www.unmaskparasites.com which has helped me uncover that there is a 302 redirect on one of my pages somewhere.
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heh the window is behind from where I took that photo
Subversion 1.5 History, Visualized
One person neglecting to call out of work does not make a boycott.
Social networking leads to sex faster
DuckDuckGo doesn't have an instant search at all so even less-than-perfect Google's solution is better than DuckDuckGo's non-existent solution. I don't see what DuckDuckGo could advertise here.
I sit outdoors alot in the summer. I use an umbrella, and a bit of proper angling and screen-tilt. Nothing special- now that I have a netbook I usually grab it and go outside (using HG makes keeping synced a breeze).
A bunch of us decide to go out to eat. We look up retaurants on yelp, menupages etc and pick a place to go. When we get there, we check into donteat.at and we get notified of a bunch of health code violations, at which point we decide to find a diff place to eat.

Wouldn't the user experience be better served by allowing ppl to enter a restaurant name into donteat.at from anywhere (like from their desktop after reading about it on yelp) and getting the health code violations? Wouldn't this save a lot of time and hassle?

Whats the point of getting notified after getting to the restaurant?
The table is a bit misleading; lots of these entries aren't web APIs - Google TV optimisation guide, V8 source repository, Java developer tools.
Ford Previews Vehicle-To-Vehicle Tech At Washington Auto Show
I agree that it probably won't become a huge success, but I think that if they switch to Android they'll end up with nothing since there's nothing special about the hardware. They'll lose the interest they have now and no one will have a reason to choose this over a cheaper and more available device from another manufacturer.
it's also showing up in other things. I believe KDE is using it as the primary scripting language for their stuff. Apple has dipped it's toe in that water with the dashboard widgets. etc
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I'm new here too. I had lurked for awhile but finally made a username. I come here for the particular mix of stories that inevitably interest me, but more for the comments. I don't comment much yet, both because I'm new and also I feel a little intimidated at times - everyone here seems very smart and experienced. I'm intelligent but the experience, well I guess that will change with time. :)
I'd like to make friends, I guess we'll see there too.
> I don't even think this is accurate. Granted, there is something off about how the terms stall out in instant

There's no stalling, it's completely disabled and will not suggest anything until you type the entire word.

> In contrast, if you type out a sex term it quits instant and auto complete and never restarts them

So? How does that have anything to do with justifing blocking BitTorrent terms? If I type "install bitt[orrent]" or "install ut[orrent]", I get no suggestions as it is clearly blocked.