skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've just counted default icons on iPhone iOS 3, and even with a generous interpretation in your favour I get 7 blue and 14 non-blue, and that's leaving out Maps as Google related and counting weather, camera and remote in with the blues.
You have to be extremely careful in a mixed license setup. Lots of folks make the mistake of linking to GPL'd libraries, thinking it's like the LGPL.

But yeah, external calls seem to be the safest bet right now, even if it isn't always the most optimal solution.

(e.g. you can often use GPL'd components by writing a server wrapper around them and communicating from your non-GPL code via network communications for example, an arbitrary, and silly distinction from just linking in the components and using message passing, but hey...apparently that's what freedom (as in free, not as in beer) is all about).
Not only that. Promoting Sokrates and defying Plato, doing away with Kant while praising the rise of enlightenment is, too say the least, amusing.

I already feel irritated with the apparent need of the companies to describe themselves as having a "philosophy" (read: 2 points which distinguish them from their competitors), but this rambling is different, though not better.

To enjoy your lunchtime, i suggest though you read through until you find that Lisp is a language with moral baked right in. Bless JMC.

Signal vs. noise => Low.
I'd suspect that's why he used a Border Collie; they were bred for intelligence, in herding sheep specifically.
It varies greatly from system to system, but I don't know enough to comment in any specificity.
Speaking as a parent of 3 young boys, I can't see myself using this, let alone paying for it.

We've got a house stuffed with crayons and colouring books. At the dollar store, they're probably a buck each, so it's not as if this is a cost avoidance issue.

In my mind, part of the fun of colouring is putting something to paper. My kids used to play on tuxpaint and they'd just see if they could fill the page with stamps. Give them a colouring book (or blank paper) and they actually try to make something. Something that I can put on the fridge. A story they can tell you. This has none of that.
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Serious question. I don't have a horse in this race, and I don't know the specifics of the Australian system, but:

"These people know they live in a flood zone. [...] People choose to live in these place of their own free will in the full knowledge the river might one day come and flood them."

Doesn't this end up being the usual privatize the profit, socialize the risk scheme? People enjoy their property on flood-free years (which I understand to be most of them). In a flood, the society sticks together, volunteers, the government steps in and helps out the flooded areas. People who live above the flood level, who might have chosen to do so consciously because of the flood level, get little reward for their risk avoidance.

I don't mean to sound heartless and I am sure it is horrible to have your house under water -- but isn't this an issue at the end of the day? Is there a factor I am not aware of? Is there an overall shortage of suitable, natural-disaster-proof land? Do you get flood insurance and pay back for the help received?
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Pegasus Mail: Twenty years and counting...
That's because it's obviously a Decepticon and not an Autobot: http://media.photobucket.com/image/decepticon/Decepticoncaus....

Tsk.
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> casual games that arguably do little for the collective human experience but consume a growing amount of it each day

Who's to say that whatever people were doing with that time before was doing something significant "for the collective human experience"?
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TLDR: if most of your traffic comes from search you haven't written enough linkbait articles...
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Thanks for verifying, it's working for me as well now. Apparently, I had JavaScript disabled. D'oh!
If he doesn't want his friends to see his health information, I don't think he'd feel comfortable linking to a screenshot of it showing up on YouTube...
We're amazingly modest too.
Also, when this is used, it's likely to be quite small - the gap between the tail of the '5' and its upper curve is slight. I think it will have a tendency to resemble a '6' at smaller resolutions.

Someone realized this. If you look at the favicon, they've dropped the tail.
I could see one running out of inodes for a sizable dataset. Also, this seems like it would incur a good deal of iowait opening and closing all those fds.
I have to say that I find the icons to be really, really ridiculous.

It doesn't look like something someone hired from outside did, and the HTML5 logo looks like the header on a Tutsplus vector tutorial.

Most of the different icons have very poor symbolic value, and look really unintelligible.

They could do a lot worse, so that's always something.
It sucks balls.
I don't even know where to start with this because there are so many things I would like to respond to and I don't really have the time right now, but I at least want to point out one point that really bothered me:

"This is the classical philosophy of Aristotle and Socrates which is rational absolutism. It is NOT the charlatan 'philosophy' of mysticism, positivism, relativism, perspectivism, nihilism and altruism of Plato, Marx, Imannuel [sic] Kant, Kierkegaard, Hegel and so many others..."

First, it's simply not possible to make a clear distinction between the philosophy of Socrates and the philosophy of Plato, as Socrates never wrote anything himself and all we know of him is through Plato's writings. Even using Plato's writings it is impossible to truly discern what the philosophical differences between Plato and Socrates were exactly, as we only have access to Plato's Socrates.

Also trying to separate Aristotle's writings from a more "religious" tradition is a pretty ironic mistake. Aristotle's biggest contribution to modern society probably comes through his influence on the early Catholic church. In fact, the prevailing Aristotelian worldview of the Catholic church during the middle ages is exactly what was called into question by the Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers when it was replaced with more rational and humanist philosophies, like those of Immanuel Kant (who is also on the "wrong" side of the author's dichotomy despite probably being the most in line with what the author is trying to espouse.)

I've probably over-generalized myself in the last few paragraphs as I am not an expert on the history of Philosophy and I wrote this quickly, but I at least wanted to point out some obvious inaccuracies in the author's portrayal of that history so nobody gets the wrong idea.
that's beyound crazy ... a simple health ad maybe but with personal information it's beyound crazy... do you have an example ... the url from that AD
I've spent the last few years getting very heavily into SEO, working out ways to increase relevant search traffic to my business sites. I've spent lots of time on seobook - an awesome private community for anyone serious about learning SEO.

In many ways having a good understanding of SEO is fantastic. When you understand what search engines want, and you know how to give it to them, you can get traffic that your competitors have no idea even exists. The small guy that understands SEO has a tremendous advantage over the big guy that doesn't.

However, for a small software company, I think it can be important to avoid going overboard. If you're making software (or a web service or whatever), SEO is just one piece of the puzzle, and there are only so many hours in the day. Generally only 24. Keeping close track of rankings, keywords, inbound links, and new linking opportunities is time consuming, and, when you're operating in just one niche, you can reach a point of diminishing returns. For niche products, there's only so much relevant traffic out there.

If you have multiple SEO-savvy competitors competing for your keywords, then maybe you do need to focus more time on day-to-day SEO, to keep the traffic rolling in. But many niche software businesses are doing something new, and actually don't have all that much competition for the keywords that line up well with what they're offering.

I think that often the best way for small software businesses to approach SEO it is to bake it into the systems they create, then leave those systems to do their job, building links, awareness and search traffic that will increase over time without direct involvement. By "systems" I don't mean scrapers and bots, I mean systems that encourage people to market your site for you (including building you good, natural links), and maybe systems that generate good link-worthy content for you as well.
What is the 1/10/99 activity pyramid?

And yes, this doesn't really apply to non-technical markets, remember the "Facebook login" debacle? There's a whole slew of users that don't use the address bar, they just use the Googles.
Darn, this used to work. I don't have IE8 to hand, but I'll fix it shortly...
Ah, well, I think that impacts on consistency.

The smaller version of the logo should be the primary use-case imo.
This was actually leaked quite a while before the movie was released, although I'm not sure how exactly the original leak matches this officially released version.

http://wiscreenwritersforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/S...

Side note: Sorkin is an absolute legend, in my view the best film and TV writer there is right now.
No, I'm not OK with pollution in China at all. I'm from China!

And having lived in Germany for a while, I do believe there are clean technologies. The place where I used to live is close to a coal-burning power station. I can see the white smoke from its chimney everyday, but the quality of air in that area is insanely great (compared to what I used to have in China).

I'm not sure how much more clean technologies cost there, yet somehow Germans found a way to keep their industry within its border. I hope U.S. firms could learn something there. However I'm not so optimistic given the vast financial benefits of moving dirty industries to other continents and relatively small number of people like you guys here that worry about such things. Most people probably won't give a damn.
Easing into SICP
"The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" by Abelson and Sussman (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html) is often recommended reading on HN and elsewhere. However, you may find it to be much denser than the breezy computer books that are typically published. To help you acclimate to the concepts in SICP, I recommend the following steps:

First, read "Concrete Abstractions" by Max Heilparin (http://gustavus.edu/+max/concrete-abstractions-pdfs/index.html) and "Simply Scheme" by Brian Harvey (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ss-toc2.html). Neither of these books assume much programming knowledge, and should be accessible to anyone.

Next, listen to or watch Brian Harvey's lectures for "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978502). This course uses SICP as a text book, but takes a less mathematical approach. The lecture notes are also available (http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/reader/vol2.html). This is a full semester course, so it will take you a while to get through it, but Harvey's lectures are easy to listen to.

Third, watch the lectures by Holly Yanko (http://www.aduni.org/courses/sicp/index.php?view=cw) for a SICP course. These follow the book very closely, but Yanko covers the material at relaxed pace. Unfortunately, these videos are Real Player, so you may have difficulty playing them. There are notes for the first few lectures.

Finally, watch the videos of Abelson and Sussman (http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/). At this point, you will certainly be able to understand the more subtle and/or complex points that they make.

Overall, this is a big commitment of time, but it will certainly shake you out of any rut that your current languages have put you in regarding how to solve problems with computers.
Poor kids are dumb. There's nothing we can do about it
Coming soon: The Angry Birds Movie...
Anybody tried using this on HFS+ in OSX?
It was horribly slow for me, but it could also have been parameters in the conf that were bad.
The 3GS was an evolutionary product. If the Iphone5 is a revolutionary departure from what Apple has been doing (e.g. like the iPod was from Apple Computers), then who controls the company matters greatly.

It's very likely that without Jobs, the iPhone5 will be released with all kinds of little warts that a team under his guidance would have caught.
99 visits, 10 demos, 1 paying customer ?
A simple question remains: what are they going to do with 30 mil $? If the site is profitable already, and the business model won't change significantly then the only space for growth is yet another meme niche site ( which they have been doing in the past). Anyway I think their potential for growth is limited and the 30 mil valuation doesnt reflect the potential earnings - bubble or not.
You mean other than create it?
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What the hell is org? As a standalone blog post this left me more confused than anything else.
What irks me more is that they made another one of those one-page scroll-till-your-eyes-bleed sites to show the logo off. I don't know where this new "trend" is coming from, but I find it really tiresome already.
ShareFile launches Sync, aimed at enterprise
just for clarification: their production plant is in Dresden [1], not in Munich.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Saxony
Yeah sure. But something tells me it'll be less technical people who'll use this service(which is better imho :D) so I'd focus on a simpler plug and play solution.

But setting up an API wouldn't be too hard so why not.
No way... the new HTML5 logo reminds me of a 2d paper cutout version of the Master Control Program.
None that I know of, fingers crossed on a Greed Corp board game though.
Well, the unnamed platform you are referring to has already made public their intentions to work with no hardware buttons in the next version, so I think things will remain fairly even.
Thanks for the thoughts. Here are some questions for you:

- How would I know which days and times are open before you tell me which services you'd like to schedule? It seems this idea would result in more effort since you might have to go back to the calendar a bunch of times because the services are not available on the selected date and time.

- It's not possible to schedule two services in a single appointment if they are not offered on the same day. I'm sure this will come up at some point. How would you work around that?
Yeah, me either--I keep getting either (seemingly arbitrary) double prompts or "ajax errors" in Safari 5.0.3...
Not one member joined in to say he was making any serious money from apps. Interesting.
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This is a viable concern, but it applies to pretty much any activity a startup can engage in. There are a lot of paths to revenue you can choose to take, and maybe over-optimizing is an easy one to be led down, but I don't think that this is a danger that is unique to SEO. Ignoring SEO and your analytics data is probably equally dangerous and just as common.
Came here expecting tacky tie-in... Slightly ashamed to say that I really want this.
Thanks for the proper URL. Richard Cyganiak does great work. I especially like D2R server (wraps relational databases as SPARQL endpoints).
Writing good and useful content (like you do patio) is always a great idea. However, trying too hard to work on SEO without understanding your target audience is what we are debating in the article. If you can turn visitors into customers, more search traffic is great. However if you can hardly turn any visitors into customers and still keep working primarily on SEO to bring in more traffic, you may be wasting your time. The idea is to work on your funnel as much as you work on bringing people to the site.

We wrote the post because we see a lot of people focusing on traffic when it makes more sense to tighten and work on the funnel. We have been guilty of this too :)
This is my first blog post ever, so I welcome any kind of criticism about it (length, tone, subject, ...)
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I really like it. It looks acceptably corporate, but it has a hint of the whole 'unicorns are awesome!' early-adopter-webdev aesthetic that will put a smile on the face of the people who actually use html5 day to day, and evangelise for it.

Sort of like dog whistle politics but used for good :)
How about turning it into a regular web service which parents can use to upload any photo and turn it into a coloring page (PDF) they can print out.

You could have a "free" service for producing, say, one paper a day, and charge for version with more. Any parent whose child likes it will want to buy it.

You could copy some of patio11's ingenius marketing tactic - have a set of pages (done using your tool from freely available (or purchased) photos) that people can download, and hook them on the app.
Article should be titled "I like Org better than ReST".
Historically, a rough rule of thumb is that there is one content creator to every ten people who interact around content (say, comment on it) to every hundred people who consume content. You can play around with the numbers a bit (they're not really that important -- it is an order of magnitude guesstimate) and come up with 1:10:89 as ratios of creators : interacters: consumers.

This is an important thing to keep in mind, since as an SEO you'll typically be wanting to influence folks in those first two categories with the eventual intention of increasing your reach among folks in the last category who only want to pull out their credit cards.

If you want to get into it, you can do a lot of sociological work on how creators are quirky fish and how/why to optimize for their preferences. (For example, there is a strong anticommercialist streak among many influential folks on the Internet, so a core skill for businesses is not looking like they're just in this to separate you from your money while still successfully separating people from their money.)
Rusnano - is state owned Russian corporation headed by a close friend of Putin and an oligarch Anatoly Chubais. This is basically a shell company created to steal taxpayers money. Everyone knows it and there is lots of jokes about these "nano technologies".
So be sure that out of 1 billion ,big chunk of it was in kickbacks to company's execs and middle managers.
You forgot to mention a future filled with unblockable canvas advertisements filling up 70-80% of the content on every page, eating up huge swaths of CPU time.
I don't buy it. We might see an option to make Home inert, but to be completely buttonless hurts discoverability and familiarity with non-techy consumers.

(I won't say it's completely impossible that Apple would do it, just that it's overall a bad idea.)
3G was also an evolutionary product, as was the 2G. The revolutionary products take a long time. Long enough for Jobs to take a vacation, come back, and they will still be working on it.
You probably can't trademark a five-pointed star in a circle, but that part of the logo immediately got me thinking of Daring Fireball.
For those in the US wanting to follow this advice, FEMA has an online map showing flood hazard zones at http://msc.fema.gov/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/info?storeId=1...
Regarding Kurtzweil's "mathematical principle," our mathematics is a reflection of the universe we live in. Mathematics is based on axioms, which make sense to us only because we observe them to be always true in our universe. For example, one of Peano's axioms of arithmetic states that "1 is a natural number" (here I am using the base one axiomatic), and another axiom states that "no natural number has 1 as its successor." One could imagine (though not necessarily describe in detail) a strange universe where there is a natural number larger than 1 that has 1 as its successor (i.e. the way modular arithmetic works).

To summarize, I do not see why the "mathematical principle" has to be postulated separately from the "anthropic principle," which we all know has an alternative deity-free explanation mentioned by Kurtzweil himself: there could be "a zillion universes, each with a different set of physical laws, and we just happen to live in one that is compatible with life."
Jobs is not on leave. He went to meet his alien friends to get new iPhone design.
You got me banged to rights! Apologies, I was looking into flying to Munich for the weekend just before I wrote this. Munich on my brain!
Of the people that visit a site, you'll get one 'producer,' ten passive signups, and 99 bounces, basically.

It's like when you see those twitter statistics that suggest only a fraction of the userbase actually Tweets, and the rest are consuming.

This is relevant with regards to the 'Why aren't people talking about you?' angle that they bring up.
> I can make my status "girls suck," but I'll never make it "my girlfriend cheated on me and wants me to take her back and I love her but I feel like it's going to be a slippery slope"

I agree, Facebook has lost its personal touch (if it ever had that), and has become another form of public.
Ask HN: Who are Russian Investors?
While reading article about Plastic Logic's 700m investment, I noticed another major investment by 'Russian investors'. There seems to be a gigantic amount of investments by Russian investors in last few years (not only in tech like facebook, zynga but also in real estate etc.. google for more).

You don't hear so much about investment from investors from other countries (say Chinese/German/French investors). Does anybody know whose money is referred to as when we hear the term Russian investors? and more specifically, how they have this much free cash to invest (given Russia isn't obscenely rich)?
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Xero, a really good web-based accounting system
>Salesforce is basically just a very flexible database with hundreds of custom fields, i.e. to a programmer it seems like a $25/user version of phpmyadmin... but it’s money well spent.

That is the most underwhelming endorsement of salesforce.com I've ever seen.
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Yes. I am using FF as well. It is very annoying.
http://boardgamegeek.com is probably the resource you want to look at for board games. You can probably find a list of boardgames for video games.
I have a friend who once talking about how he had "one or two" one night stands in his life.
Apple didn't pay anybody; the users paid, Apple skimmed, the developer got what was left over.

I'd like to see the headline: Apple leeches off of millions of developers.
But as Zuck didn't say to Eduardo: "they might get laid."

http://www.allfacebook.com/11-have-had-sex-with-someone-they...

It happens. If it gets you laid, it sure is making the world a better place.
My bad, I could have just as easily submitted that page. It's not even on HN yet. In retrospect it would have been more useful for framing the content.
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Goodbye Facebook
Russ Cox developed regular expression searching for Google Code - hence his interest in non-pathalogical regular expression engines unlike Perl's which can go exponential time on you - http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/

Here's a search for 4 letter only .coms i.e.

@[a-z]{4}.com[^.]

http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%40[a-z...