skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If all you've done is copy-paste stuff from the internet everywhere, then you haven't actually written any code. Regardless, that's not the point. Including GPL code doesn't magically obligate you to release the rest of your source code free to the world - you always have the option of, say, not distributing your program until you've removed and rewritten all the GPL-licensed stuff.

I'm really not sure what you're getting at with your 'viral and inadvertent' comment - it almost seems like you're willfully ignoring the points being made in reply to your comments.
If Google serves AdSense, it already knows how long you as a reader spends on site before clicking through an ad. Presumably, if statistically speaking, visitors have high probability of hitting the back button or clicking through immediately, then it is a red flag that the content wasn't useful.
I originally envisioned this as a replacement for delicious, and have been thinking about instructions as nice-to-have but not essential (I don't bother adding them myself, I just open the original recipe). However, your goal is probably common, so I'll see about catering to it. Thanks again.
"Relevant ads might offer a better user experience than irrelevant ads. You know what offers an even better experience? No ads."

Know what? I get a lot of discounts from ads. Just a thought.
Thanks everyone! Looks like this time I did a bit better. :)

To address some issues raised:

1. Hosting is included; the user has to set the domain's CNAME to sites.soonhere.com. The page is also accessible via http://soonhere.com/site/whatever.com, so it's easy to set up a framed redirect if needed. I'll create a downloadable index.html for this purpose if it's an option people would use.

2. There are some additional data collected with visitors' emails (referrer, search engine keywords, country). You can export it to csv (everything) or plain txt (emails only).

I added this info to the plans page; will add more details and polish it later.

One question -- did those of you that said it's too expensive thought it was hosted or not hosted?
There is constructive criticism, and then there is a blog post listing a bunch of reasons why this particular individual doesn't think this company should be given any money to give their idea a shot.

Constructive criticism is great, it's just there has been a notable lack of worthwhile criticism lately. In my opinion of course - but honestly, did you read the linked article? Does it contain any valuable insights into Qwiki? Yet it has over 100 points - this is the start up 'criticism' echo chamber at work.
Push Notification on Symbian, with PubSubHubbub
I'm thinking about doing it. Positively geared properties sound very enticing.
Yes, but we also have non-programming vernacular that we use outside of the act of programming that encompasses CS concepts. It's a bit like having a specialized vocabulary to describe another language.

I can conversationally say to fellow computer scientist "I organized the pieces of data into a red-black tree" and that's totally programming language agnostic and conforming to English syntax while still requiring a hefty amount of CS knowledge to grasp the actually meaning of what was said.
Be wary of any advice to buy ARMH merely on the fact that ARM chips are widely used.

ARMH doesn't make money on the chips, but the designs - take a look at their business model before you decide that is something that will cause the price to grow significantly long term.
Twitter Thanks 'White Hat Heroes' Who Help Keep It Safe
Preschoolers better at navigating iPhone than tying their shoes
The reference to rsync in Dropbox's YCombinator application is a bit of a tipoff --- rsync uses exactly this technique to avoid recopying files that already exist at the destination.
Alsa settings can be saved using `sudo alsactl store`; most distros have their startup scripts configured to load up the generated config file when they start.
Yep...I never dived much into that reason - but that's why I quoted it and quoted the definition of 'Diff'. I guess I never brought it home as coherently as I wanted to.
That's a fairly good example of a failure, really:

>The most common symbol is the red and white heart combined with the blue infinity sign[.] Therefore, [the California SSM ruling] legitimizes polygamy and polyamory.

The first sentence, which is missing a period but it pauses on like it exists (correctly so), goes with their picture of a purple, upside-down, half-twist-on-each-side triangle. Whups.

The second sentence makes no sense in context.

I wonder if they pull phonetic information from Wikipedia. If they do, then polyamory wouldn't benefit from it, as it has no phonetic pronunciation there. If they don't, they probably get a lot of foreign-origin words more incorrect than we're seeing right away.

edit: Another odd pronunciation: http://www.qwiki.com/q/#!/.sch

>www...sch.uk

is a) incorrectly written, and b) pronounced "w-w-w [long pause....] s-c-h-uck". (letters, followed by "yuck" minus the y). And the "contents" tab is failing to load for me.
I'm definitely outside the norm here, but I hate the trend toward video, especially in tutorials. I can read and absorb much faster than I can sit and watch a video -- it's also easier to go back and look at text.

Mostly, though, it rubs me the wrong way because I have a lot of problems hearing. Now, maybe if everything had subtitles...
Yes, that's what the "Scrum of Scrums" idea is meant to solve, in exactly that way:

http://www.xqa.com.ar/visualmanagement/2009/08/scrum-of-scru...
Yeah, but which hard class do you return as an IList? Does the bloat go away if you return a List from an IList typed method?
> Also buying walking distance from the beach gives you that security that land value will never go down.

Sure, just like all those condos in Miami... There is no economic law that says that properties near the beach can never go down in value!
So you start at 5am and work for 10+ hours/day ? Ouch
Chua (蔡), not Chau. Thanks.
Except that it does apply in this case. If your director can keep away from close foreground shots, you don't get this problem. The angles between the eyes and the focusing power of the lens differ minimally once you get several meters away on out to infinity. From several meters to your nose, yes, heaps of variance is required and it would be very hard to do.

This is just Ebert being an idiot and saying "This is my opinion, stated as fact, case closed. I won't enter into any discussion because I might be wrong", just like he said when he declared video games weren't art. It is /profoundly/ unscientific to dismiss something as unfactual simply because you don't like it.

Back in the day, my honours degree was specifically involved in investigating ocular vergence (research jargon as 'angle between the eyes' as opposed to the /action/ of converging), comparing between a collimated image (= light coming to the eye in 'parallel' - from a military helicoptor pilot's HUD) and a real image (= light coming in 'non-parallel') displayed at 3m. At that distance there is already not much difference between focusing or vergence at 3m and at infinity (ie collimated), though discrepancies slightly increase as you move towards the periphery of your vision, though this may have been an artifact of the presentation of the HUD.

I am not an expert in 3D and don't proclaim it to be 'there yet'. I do think that 3D is doable if the director stops the temptation of the 'power' closeup to showoff the 3D. So yeah, I think within constraints, 3D is doable. All film has constraints though, and those constraints are gradually eroded over time - such as night-time filming. Fifty years ago we would have heard Ebert proclaiming that it's impossible to film in natural light at night because film needs a certain amount of light, case closed, yet we've seen some amazing cameras arrive recently that can film at night using natural light.

EDIT: Another example constraint is limiting yourself to a 'viewing box' - you can't turn your head for a full view of the scene in a movie. You're limited to a particular forced view. Despite this rather incredibly limiting constraint, film has managed to do some pretty amazing stuff.
A folder called Bibliography with files named as follows: "first_authors_last_name' 'year_of_paper' 'title_of_paper.extension"
Genghis Khan: history's greenest conqueror
I was surprised at how good the... cadence? emphasis? was in kwiki's synthesised speech. Compared to the traditional badly emphasized speech you'd hear in, e.g., one of those computer generated 'I want an iPhone 4' videos. I have no idea if that's just because I've not been paying attention though.
I think they had an informal policy of letting as many different people as possible experience space.

So you trained for years to go just once. Not the best use of money, but I can easily understand why.
Seems like an unfair comparison... using an iPhone and playing most games takes one finger to poke and/or drag.

Tying shoelaces takes at least four fingers -- or even more, depending on what technique you're using. That's a lot of fine coordination!

Swimming requires you to coordinate your entire body and breathing...

Riding a bike requires you to have an internal sense of balance and also to coordinate your hands separately from your feet...

It seems like this comparison is like saying "Children are better at sitting down than sprinting in a race!"
Seals on NJ voting machines, 2004-2008
I found that about 40% of execution time was the the "double br to p's" step (running in mobile safari). Removing that speeds stuff up greatly without compromising quality too much.

Also, the publicly available port of readability to python is ridiculously slow... I was about to make it about 10 times faster by re-implementing it myself.

I can't release the source code, but the idea is to invert the algorithm: do one pass through the DOM collecting stats about children nodes, text length, and link density, instead of repeated queries at each step.

You can get up to 10-20 docs/second on commodity hardware with this approach with an cElementTree DOM and python.
Huawei? I don't know
But remember, they are already working a 4 day week, so the chance of being burnt out and forcing themselves to work is lower than normal.
What are you basing that claim on, just your own personal experience? It's a pretty extraordinarily claim to say that linux on the desktop requires no configuration, and I think such a claim deserves at least a little bit of evidence above and beyond your own personal experience.

Depends on the hardware, mostly. Our university LUG does an event called Free Your Machine every quarter, and for most people, it's just defrag, install, show 'em how to use Synaptic, and they're out.

It also depends on what you're trying to do. The basic things have been mostly ironed out by now (wireless is still a bit iffy), but the more advanced things, sure, they'll take some time and swearing.
Thanks! I noticed the resizable textareas in Chrome as well; it's on my bug list. I'll look into the centering thing -- I wasn't able to replicate it so far (Chrome on a mac).

About me targeting hackers -- I simply assumed, that a lot of people in need of hosted coming soon pages peruse HN. I know I do. :)

Re. freemium -- there is a free version (no emails, one page) tucked below the paid plans, 37 Signals style. I'll think about exposing it more -- I wouldn't want to add email to the free plan, because it involves more user support and is used only by serious users, which should afford $9 anyway.
Train before you hire
Not to argue the example, but Python's garbage collection disqualifies it for real-time systems as well. In fact, I'm having a hard time find a "system" task for which Python (as a language) is qualified by Haskell is not.
Very true. Done!
There is definitely room for simpler. jqGrid and others tend to favor convention over configuration. This certainly makes example code shorter. But usually I'm adding the grid to a site with pre-existing data sources, UI conventions, and other requirements. I have to override all the defaults, and the result is less maintainable than if they'd forced me to configure everything up front. In particular I always have to override the AJAX stuff, and it's always ugly.
That's a really hideous portfolio assembled from two public figures not known for individual investing. Taleb is a great writer and thinker, but he's a trader and the guy in the article says specifically he's a passive investor. Scott Adams is an interesting guy and index funds are a good idea, but 50% US/ 50% emerging equities is a really undiversified portfolio for an individual. I think he should read a bit more about investing from an individual investor perspective. I'd start with William Bernstein's brilliant "The Four Pillars of Investing".
I thought this was common knowledge. It wouldn't make sense to store Pirated.Movie.DVDRiP.avi thousands of times if it's the same file for thousands of users. Files that translate to the same hash, get served from one single file on DB's servers.
I am talking specifically about: a $750K house in San Francisco, bought at a time when the market has recently dropped ~15%, holding for 5 years, and with 15% down. That still does not qualify as 'always', but it seems to be very improbable that you wont be able to sell (w/o loss or default) in that case. It's not a 0% chance, but as I said in the edit to my original comment, buying a house is risky, but with risk comes reward.
Unfortunatley, they also waste money on bandwidth. Here's the scenario:

1) Copy file into Dropbox on Server1

2) Client1 & Client2 on the same LAN will start downloading the file from the Dropbox servers at the same time; wasting their bandwidth and mine.

I wish the LAN sync feature would be expanded for downloads.
Eh, what are the odds that you're actually good at finding such a house?

I mean, everyone thinks that they're an above-average driver; people naturally overestimate their own skills. And most people have absolutely zero training or practical experience in assessing either real estate markets or houses. And buying a house is not an emotionally neutral task that most people can remain clinically detached from: most people can't help looking at a house to buy and seeing their future there, visualizing their kids growing up there, etc. So they're likely to be emotionally attached to any house they like well enough to buy, which further reduces their ability to make a rational decision.

My claim is that for every person who is actually skilled at this, there are many more who think they're skilled but really are not skilled at all.
Sure you can, as in "Let me know when your flight leaves" or "Let me know when this discussion becomes extremely dull".
Email me when stable browsers support webgl
I think the best way to do this would be to inform the end users of the goal (to lower costs and provide better availability), then allow them to turn on the feature if they wish. A checkbox in the settings/preferences pane and maybe a popup option box on first startup could be enough to convince a significant number of users to help out.
Google Search vs. Content Farms
I actually do include hosting; if possible, I'd rather not walmartize the thing and be a "cheap no-brainer" though.
I am 100% sure. Pirated MP3s "upload" in seconds and my self-ripped music takes the regular amount of time.
Well perhaps the technology was common knowledge, but the business model behind it - I don't think was ever popularly discussed.

It must have been overlooked.

If it is true that this is what they are doing, then Dropbox has literally discovered one of the most profitable business models ever!
I doubt that OS X has better driver support than Linux

Apple knows exactly what hardware you're using if you buy a Mac, and thus are able to accomodate you quite nicely. This of course doesn't count peripherals, but it's still quite significant.
It needs some rust
Investing in commodities futures gives me the willies, but if you're going that route anyway, also look into rare earth metals (or anything that goes into solid-state electronics besides silicon and copper, really) and phosphorus.

On the chance that we never move over to Thorium-fueled nuclear reactors, Uranium futures might be interesting as well. I'd really, really hate to have to take delivery of that stuff, though. >_<
Conversely, why is it so hard to find good developers, people who really know something? For example, here's what we are looking for at Maxeler (http://www.maxeler.com):

Software Engineers: HPC Application Acceleration, Palo Alto, California

Application acceleration engineers work with client applications
to deliver order of magnitude speedups. You'll be involved
in every stage of accelerating applications, from analyzing
multi-million line code bases through developing new algorithms,
to implementing complete solutions running on FPGA, GPU, or
other technologies. We are in the early stages of growing and
building up the Palo Alto office, so you'll be part of a very
small team working in a start-up-like environment.

You will need a degree or equivalent professional qualification
in Computer Science or a related discipline as well
as experience in some of the following:

* » High performance software development in C/C++ or FORTRAN.
* » Program analysis and transformation
* » Compiler design and implementation
* » Computer architecture / digital circuit design.
* » Working with scientific software code in HPC application
domains such as computational finance, seismic processing,
life sciences or fluid dynamics.

We've looked at a many resumes (sadly, resume writing is frequently creative writing) and interviewed many candidates without finding many people who even come close to our standards.
Yeah, I thought of that. Nice thing is that "soon here" is a brand easily expandable into anything startup related.
Well..considering the alternative, that's the least. The alternative being that they store every file X number of times, where X is the number of users that upload that file.

Wasting money on bandwidth by doing multiple transfers is minimal in comparison.
What worries me is that I just upvoted your metameta comment.
>then the HTML 4 badge needs to include all the CSS2 features that never got widespread support.

Yea, first it was NS4 that was non-compliant, then it was IE6 that was non-compliant.
I think I'm missing something on as far as the copyright issues of this project....

You say that you're downloading the entire internet for content, and that you'll be serving it up to your readers directly for the various reasons that you site through your app.

If you're linking to the content, no issues. But this doesn't sound like linking: you're stripping the content, and now you're serving it to your readers yourself, so isn't that taking the content from the provider and using it for your own purposes? Are you only doing this with providers that gave you permission to do so? And if not, is there some sort of fair use clause that you see applies here?

Just very curious as to how you see this model working with copyrighted content (and/or definitely let me know if I'm just missing the model here/misreading what was written in your post...end of a long day! ;-)
Nothing against what you've said but search terms are hardly my bank account details, I'm well aware that they are being 'leaked' (although, I'm not sure that's even the correct term given that it's quite delibarate) and I doubt my whole search history would reveal more than which language I was working on and what error message had me stumped. Oh, and maybe which celebrity I have the hots for too.
No, deleted files don't count.
http://www.dropbox.com/help/14
No, though deleted files/revisions are purged after 30 days unless you have a paid account.
There is constructive criticism

And there are other forms of criticism that are still valid and useful. Not all criticism needs to be reassuring and/or useful to the subject of the criticism. It can be quite valuable to others to point out how and why something just isn't very good or when something unreasonable is being done - like throwing millions of dollars at something that isn't very good.

Now, what exactly is the value of complaining about an "echo chamber" or saying that people would be better off just shrugging, going back to work, and hoping they're lucky enough to get $8 million showered on them regardless of merit?
They're called Project Managers. :-)
Nearly half of parents friend their kids on Facebook
/r/scholar on Reddit is very useful for this. A polite request almost always brings a .pdf within a few hours, or a day or so at the most.

However, I find this rather harsh aversion to paying a few bucks for peer-reviewed, scientific content curious.

I don't have a harsh aversion to paying for content, unless I've already paid for it with my taxes, which is often the case with scientific papers.

I do have a harsh aversion to rent-seeking middlemen who do nothing but put up a website and collect $15 fees to let me download other peoples' work.
The responses all have the theme, "Inadvertent? Who would do that? Only irresponsible ninnies would do that." So they ignore the premise of the article, which presumes that inadvertent inclusion does happen.

Additionally, I posted a few examples below where otherwise responsible contributors to a codebase might leak some GPLd material into the codebase. Over a long enough time, with enough developers contributing to your codebase, it's inevitable.

"Not distributing your program", for a business, may mean a lot of money. It might mean bankruptcy. How do you know it will be affordable to replace the offending code? The author said "inadvertent", not "tiny".

That's the viral part. GPL source code is all over the net. Any developer on your staff could look at something on line and derive some code from it, and drop it into your codebase. You'll never know about 99.9% of it.
Cook : Apple: Ballmer : Microsoft?
Zynga buying spree extends to New York City
Agreed! But didn't want to include that in the post, lest the RIAA and MPAA start breathing down their throats.
A note on the chart: it's very pretty, but why? As soon as you load it up you see cities floating around the map in a way that cities really don't. And once they stop floating around, the cities aren't quite in the right geographical locations; to find the unlabelled dot that's Oakland I had to first click on an unlabelled dot that happens to be Sacramento.
This is more up to councils and state governments, and there is movement in this direction, encouraging high to medium density housing rather than low density.
I've always been a fan of typing things out in notepad++ and never even realized that there were CSS preprocessors. What's the advantage of using them versus using raw CSS?

It just seems like one more thing to learn, at this point...
JetBlue + Facebook Places = let the games begin
" Compared to system administration, being cursed forever is a step up." -- Paul Tomko.
Moral Dilemma?
It seems a logical way of treating it.

The additional income is treated as taxable income. The additional expense (aka Interest) is treated as a deductible expense.
Ask HN: Need App ideas for ice cream product
I'm working on a campaign for an ice cream product and need to develop some ideas to promote this product via an app or social media concept.

Now, I'm not too experienced in developing apps, so I figured the HN is very helpful and would love to contribute ideas since that's what its all about!

I came up with:
app shows you local store locations
app that let's you check-in showing your friends which flavor your enjoying

All help is appreciated. Thank you.
So how long before people have autoscripts that game this... game.

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/checkin
No, step 14 is definitely executed after the rest of that expression. Steps 2, 3, 5, 8, and 10 assume that $ equals [].

If you still refuse to believe me, I give up.
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