skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can help you with this problem towelrod.

Two solutions present themself. Solution 1: Give user a separate feature for "Mobile Access" only stick that on the appstore.

Solution 2: Apple may grow wise to solution 1, in which case, make an API to your product, then have a 3rd party developer legally unrelated to your first company make a native product which accesses your product.

Apple has no relation to your real product, however you can offer a free subscription app to your service as it's unrelated an just using an API (a la dropbox or freshbooks).
Particularly relevant given Watson, who crushed his Jeopardy competition on night two, is being fed the answers / questions in text form rather than intepreting Alex's speech.

I wonder if, subjected to speech recognition as well, the playing field may have been leveled and the criticism of Watson 'electronically controlling the buzzer timing' been reduced?
That is just what the evil, power-mongering scumbags want you to think. Just because it is (probably) true most of the time does NOT mean it is always true.
Can a Single Pill Change Your Life?
Thanks for the insight. Yes, perhaps they inflate the pageviews (somehow) to garner interest and get you to throw down money.

In general, I'm not a fan of paid search since it creates an artificial boost in traffic. It's fine if you're a large company with a big ad budget, but even so, as soon as you turn of the spigit, the water runs dry...
Thanks for posting this, its an excellent insight.

It was interesting when Intel fail to deliver on their roadmap. Here is a link from 2000 where Intel was alleged to be saying 10Ghz by 2011 http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/intel-predicts-10ghz-chip...

Which of course lead to the great Multi-core debate (AMD started it, Intel followed with two physical die on a package later to integrate into a single die).

Which lead to the great Memory channel bottleneck (Intel was in-order single channel, AMD was multi-channel) and resolution (everyone now is multi-channel).

GPUs on the other hand have always had memory bandwidth issues so they went wide, the GPU equivalent of multi-channel, from the start. They also benefit from a feature of graphics which was 'do this same algorithm on all of these texels' which is straight forward to parallelize.

And as nuclear weapons designers, and genomic researchers will tell you, GPUs are also useful in doing MIMD simulations.

Its less clear what the parallel architecture breakthrough is for OLAP type problems (or parallel file systems as an even easier example) These have lots of operations in parallel but they also have high connectivity of data synchronicity across those parallel threads which, at the moment, brings everything down to earth.

Fun times!
RSS is a standard for content syndication. It doesn't have to be exposed to ”end users”. But it sure isn't dying as a syndication layer for pretty consumer facing apps.
Get a merchant account if you can. Shop around. Although I haven't tried Fee Fighters, seems like it would be a good place to start for looking up a merchant account: http://feefighters.com/

Also merchant accounts often have a separate gateway but some banks own their own gateways which saves you money on top of the rates you negotiates. Factor this into the equation when you're shopping around.
How so? Since the 555 and 595 are in the same series of headphones they should be more similar than dissimilar. Much like processors or graphics cards in the same line, it starts off as a good way to sell defective high end parts as middle to low end parts. Then as the process gets established high end parts are crippled to keep up with demand for low end parts.
It's a pretty good thing you did there: improving your weakness in coding and leaving your strong points for later (design). Thumbs up for you. And your a girl, which makes your story even more awesome!
1000Memories (YC S10) Raises $2.5 Million to Digitally Memorialize Loved Ones
If your ROI isn't going to cover the $100/developer and the cut that apple want's then you have bigger problems to deal with.

If you want freedom why not choose Android?

Then you don't have to pay anything and you get all the profit.

Only problem of course is that no one on Android is actually paying for their apps.

You are paying for access to a platform where many people actually pay for their apps. That is worth something and it is hopefully worth much much more than what apple charges.
Pretty much correct — I built it in plain HTML/CSS to get it working, then retired to Photoshop to build how it would essentially look (which I took a lot from the existing weddingtype.com design, so that helped with the speed), then threw in CSS at the end. None of the extraneous pages, like "About", were built either until the CSS point, so it wasn't all design.

Thank you!
The article text definitely needs some typography love. It's way too small and packed together (no idea what the legitimate phrases for that are, sorry typography-guys).

I find it amusing that the comments are more readable than the article itself.
Friendships don't normally form on the basis of shared mobile platforms. I hope they're thinking outside the Apple campus. Even if MobileMe is brilliantly integrated with iOS, it'll be mostly useless if it only works among people with iOS devices.
Django strongly enforces MVC (MVT to be pedantic) programming. The templates and backend programming are kept not just at arms length, but in separate rooms.
Google One Pass
As we become dependent on products which are centrally produced (very efficiently) and widely distributed, we all become vulnerable when a disaster strikes the producers.

True, and I tend to underestimate just how centralized the production of a lot of things are, since what I do isn't really based that heavily on geographic location.

My counter to that, though, is that there is usually at least a couple of producers of most products, and that sometimes -- though not always -- they are geographically separated enough that the risk is somewhat mitigated. Other times, though, geographic constraints sort of mandate that every supplier be located within a small number of miles of one another; suppliers of natural resources (coal, oil, etc) come immediately to mind.
I'm really thinking hard for new ones we could add now. I feel like there must be one around how we share knowledge and also how we market ourselves (pretty much one and the same thing).

I wonder if we could design language to help people get that element of our culture quickly when they join...
Doesn't really look like that, no.

Transferring an average music collection, say 10 gig, over USB2 is a much better way to do things than using WiFi. In addition, of course, although it seems you're mostly interested in being difficult and dishing out random pettiness, using WiFi would also involve making a connection to (gasp) your computer, where your music was likely residing before you purchased the mobile device in question.

So yes, Zero, I have "heard of" the Internet. I've also heard of plugging a cable in when it's much faster to do things that way, and when you have to plug the device in to charge it anyway, usually at least once daily.
The developers who got their app featured might disagree with you. It is a bit of a lottery, but not more so than, say, sending out press releases.
Let's check:

Google Checkout,

- Not present at all in a number of countries

- Impossible to sell from an even higher number of countries

- No customer support at all

Paypal

+ present virtually everywhere

- customer service generally considered frustrating, becomes terrible when dealing with their fraud detection

iOS AppStore

+ present in more than a hundred countries (though some parts e.g. iAd may not be available everywhere)

± customer service generally regarded as good, except when dealing with the approval process (and even that area shows progress)
Three Words
Industrial Strength Magnets.

Priceless.

The guy's pretty intelligent (duh) and funny. Fortunately, he seems to be accepting the challenge quite well.

Last thing we need after such an AI breakthrough is someone complaining about the fairness of the game.
XP mode is only included with Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate.
Yeah, I think a lot of it might be to target the areas you're uncomfortable with first to make sure you can get them right, and then end with what you're comfortable with and what you're good at.

I think doing the reverse might sometimes end up being a subtle form of procrastination where you might be afraid of doing the part you're not as familiar with.
Belgium, maybe. They use bank transfers a lot (definitely not France, where bank transfers are very rare but debit cards are everywhere)
I wonder what impact that had on the contestants, themselves subject to human emotions like frustration (which doesn't help me when playing Trivial Pursuit, that's for sure)?
He seems to be arguing that you shouldn't handicap the computer by removing one of its advantages, but they've already handicapped the humans by removing lots of their advantages: at least in the parts I've seen, there have been no audio or visual clues, and it's my understanding that Watson gets the text of the question over the wire, not even having to OCR the same text that the humans get to read while waiting for Alex to finish reading the question.

I'm an IBMer and I think Watson has been extremely impressive, but as a Jeopardy fan it gets tiresome to see Watson win the race to the buzzer this often.

Finally, I'm hoping that tonight features more of the wordplay-heavy clues that I hear were present on the first night (why oh why was that on Valentine's Day???), because that is the element that excited me most when I heard about the challenge.
Can you please show me an utopia where you are not fighting against thousands of competitors?

What is this sissy attitude?

It's hard to make a living it's hard to make money. You are no paying for the privilege you are paying for access to paying customers.
I think that's standard for both EULAs and free software licenses.
This is really cool. I hope to see it on Google's homepage soon!
Are Silicon Valley’s Engineers Underpaid?
He gave an author talk at Google a few years back, and he was surprisingly charismatic and hilarious.

50 minute video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YMRVwdeHB4
On the other hand, even debit cards are usually called credit cards, at least in france (either that or "carte bleue" which is the french standard for these things).
Proposal: Client-Side Encryption in Federated Social Networks (work-in-progress)
"Nothing kills a new idea better than taking too much time on it."

I feel like this might be true of very simplistic ideas, I don't think it holds in any generally applicable form. Some ideas take time to fully germinate and flourish. Imagine if the original pyramid builder had put down the first level and 'launched'.

I think what is clear and of general applicability is that its important to launch at the right time. Some ideas are timely and need to be synchronized with what else is going on in the internet space. Some ideas are just ahead of their time and premature launch is a waste. Some ideas come too late. Like bringing out a faster fax machine now vs 10 years ago.

The idea that startups should be a frenzy of quickly thrown together systems only holds because they are built using tools that are solid and robust.

That said, your site looks fabulous, it has all the charm and modern design of tumblr and the right colors, the right voice and just a great looking site.
Another discussion that appeared a few hours earlier:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2226912
I fight for the users.
The fire that changed an industry (2008)
They compare instructions per second with nerve impulses per second. That's a pretty useless comparison. I'm sure that all GPUs and CPUs could simulate a human brain more quickly than a human brain could simulate all CPUs and GPUs.
I watched that match back in high school (his streak corresponded with my own academic bowl team's season), and "What is a hoe?" was my response, too.

I'd never heard that semantic sense of "rake" before, and felt somewhat scandalized that "hoe" would be a response on national television (while in high school, I felt great affinity toward the puritans).
The payment angle is timely given Apple's recent moves, but am I correct in reading this as Google offering an officially sanctioned way to get paywalled content into the index?

In the past, publishers had to either offer First Click Free or resort to cloaking or other black-hat techniques for their for-pay content. If Google is now willing to allow paywall content into the index for a 3% fee then that's a big deal.

I can't imagine this pushing search results quality in the right direction, at least from the perspective of a typical user.
that should be the most important of the bunch.
Now that I'm free what should I do?
That would make for a good corporate motto, actually.

"We fight for the users."
Greplin’s (YC W10) Social Search Opens Its Doors To All
I'm a dev at Crocodoc. For document assets, we're doing tremendously obscure things to our CSS and Javascript in order to optimize our document loading experience. The unconventional use of Javascript to embed resources relates our needing to work around a few browser quirks in order to load resources faster when fetching assets from our server.

But yes, we really could do a better job of merging the other browser resources mentioned.
Creating an effect for Camera+ for iPhone (with Xcode and Photoshop tutorials)
True, the other 50% of their annual revenue comes from selling lemonade in a small stand across the street.
that just shows how bad developers are out there
Traditional unit testing doesn't work well with the strategy component in high-frequency trading programs.

* The need to rapidly iterate and refine strategies is not supported by writing tests which can prematurely lock-down the logic. Likewise, freezing the business logic with tests can become an impediment to adapting to changing market conditions (some opportunities have a short life).

* Like chess and poker games, the opponents have a say in how the logic plays-out. You will not be able to create a mock-object that accurately simulates how the rest of the market will respond to your bids and offers.

* Trading can be viewed as a concurrency problem. A flood of messages (orders and cancels) from independent actors (your competitors) go into an exchange computer which matches orders and emits quotes -- this is a race condition by design. Behaviors of concurrent systems with race conditions are notoriously hard to test.

* The OP mentions an order simulator (fake orders used for testing) but should be aware that that system can introduce a new risk, that of failing to switch the inputs when going live with a strategy. I've seen this happen (fake orders in, live orders out, not good).

* For managing risks, there are reasonable alternatives to testing. For example, strategy monitoring can shut down a program with order streams that are too large, too frequent, or that accumulate large positions. These dynamic reasonable checks provide protection against irrational strategy logic. Dynamic monitoring of trading logs provide real-time logic validation (i.e. with the actual inputs received, did the strategy make correct decisions).

Many components of a trading system are unittestable, but the strategy engine (the business logic) is more amenable to other techniques.
Keep your high-priced mobile access plan to yourself buddy! Or at least keep it with iDevice users. Us Android folks have gone with a corporate parent that doesn't abuse us or our vendor friends.
I'd also be careful about waiting too long before starting the search. Rather than looking once "your efficiency breaks down"; get started early speaking to candidates.

If you're bootstrapping and need to find the ideal person - you'll want to give yourself a lot of time to find them.
"But I wouldn't call this unfair...precise timing just happens to be one thing computers are better at than we humans. It's not like I think Watson should try buzzing in more erratically just to give homo sapiens a chance."

Wouldn't it be better to build a distribution of champion level response times and have Watson draw randomly from that distribution? That would seem more fair.
Not being from the US (and not getting Jeopardy in my country), i've never heard of this guy. He's incredibly entertaining in this interview, definitely caught me off guard considering how serious and straight-faced he seemed throughout the Watson matches (Thanks, YouTube).

This interview is the funniest thing i've read today (3 hour work commute, I read LOTS.)

Oh, and did anyone else keep wanting to upvote his answers?
Scammy recurring billing apps to explode on the scene?
Mancora
No, you really don't. You just have to be modestly creative.

Fiction is full of allusions and references and expies of older works' characters and settings. Rather a few stories have been written as answers or counter-arguments to other works without having to use the same names or be explicitly set in the same setting.
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Let me put it in simple words.

GPL is not about freedom for developers. It's about freedom for users. MIT and BSD-like languages don't care about user rights. They don't even care that much about the rights of programmers. All they demand is some form of recognition.

GPL, on the other hand, allows you to build upon the work of others, provided you respect their wishes as to how you should use their work - that you don't disrespect your users and provide them with the same rights you received.

As was pointed out elsewhere, nobody is forcing you to stand on the shoulders of giants. You may as well stand on the ground and reinvent your wheels.
Many tech publishers sell unrestricted .mobi files if you buy directly from them. Some sci-fi publishers do as well, though most of what I read on my Kindle comes from feedbooks.com.

I didn't say don't do it; just to be aware that by buying books from Amazon, you're sending a message that you're OK with DRM.
Ken is super-great. He was a fun and friendly guy when I met him at a book signing. I've become a regular reader of his blog, where he shares random trivia and his love of cinema, hipster bands and the 1980's era of Games Magazine.

And if you noticed he's a computer programmer and you're wondering, the answer is emacs.
indeed. a lot of interesting ones, too. not just random letters. i was definitely surprised at some of the things available still.
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Rüdiger, yor nick sounds like you're from Germany. Care to chat? If yes, email me pls (see profile).
I understand it's refreshing and promising to see women in programming roles, but (and I say this realizing it may or may not be the intent of such statements) it's a bit condescending when someone comments along the lines of "and she's a woman too!" like its a surprise.
and those are just the ones that correspond to english words.

If every 2/3 letter combination were available as a tld, you would have 320,797,152 3-letter domains . . .

I'd like to see some kind of analysis of how many WORD.xx domains are actually in use, just to get an idea of whether the cyber-squatting market is due for a correction.
Yes, +1 to the site looking great.

I would also say that quote goes hand in hand with this one:
"If you’re learning a new language, don’t do tutorials verbatim"

So true, there will never be a tutorial for exactly what your working on because if there is, why are you reinventing the wheel? Also if your busy with tutorials, you might spend to much time on them and never accomplish your main objective. By then your will to finish starts to diminish.
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If you prefer plugin-based reader then it could always be used as a fallback option for those users without plugin. That is if you just need vanilla viewer. Embeddable and configurable viewer would be gold if you want to build more advanced functionality on top of PDF documents.
The first rule of competitive game playing is that anything in the rules is... game.

Illustrating that the computer has the advantage over humans is the entire point. Competitive game play is not about 'fair,' in fact, the best players specifically try to make the game as unfair as possible, within the rules of the game.
This is a very unlikely combination. Strangely fun though.
This made me think of Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax".

"I speak for the trees, as the trees have no tongues."
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Definitely not the first. Vuzit has been offering a non-flash document viewer for years. http://www.vuzit.com.
I apologize for my bad wording. I meant an NYT viewpoint, not the official views of the NYT. I would still be very interested in your answer and opinions.
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I would love feedback about the product and any interesting ideas about growing/monetizing. Thanks HN! :)
I agree it would be very interesting to see that analysis. What do you mean by a correction?
The last I looked (a couple of months ago) there were still a lot of 2 letter domains available on .io. Has that changed?

[Edit: Nevermind, I see that this is using 3 letter words, not just any 3 letter combination]
Great show. Keep it up!
Not to rain on anyone's parade, but Vuzit (http://www.vuzit.com) has been offering a similar service, including its own API for years.
Nonsense! The Free Software movement is a political movement informed by philosophical and ethical values.
Ken's answer was hillarious

"They give Brad and me bottled water during every commercial break. I think you can see where this is going if the machine starts to build a big lead."
6th paragraph

"The median net return to VC fund investors has not been positive for any vintage year since 1998."

I'm curious, did you read the article and miss all the talk about vintage years? Or did you only skim it? Or did you only read the comment? Or did I misinterpret your comment?
I really enjoy it being not that fancy.
I Too Was Raised On Processed Foods..
Ask HN: relocate to Bay Area
I have been lived in Dallas, TX for almost 10 years. Currently works as a staff engineer.

The city is great, but I found in terms of startup opportunity, it is not that good. I tried to find some startup to join in, but there are just rare. I want a perm job and I do want to join an exciting start up. However, I am very frustrated that every day the tons of job posting in Dallas area just about J2EE in some old fashion corporation and non-ending short term contractor jobs.

I started to think maybe I shall leave here and come to Bay Area. So my question comes down to:

1. What kind of company I shall approach if I want Bay Area ? I did try some startup, but relocation looks like something difficult, so I am not sure I am wrong about this or not.

2. How much risk shall I take to join startup ? I have a family to feed, so obviously I don't want to stay in a very short-life startup.

3. Maybe my mindset is wrong ? Shall I take some other approach?
Any advise, suggestion and critics are welcome.
My startup is sponsoring a campaign to raise awareness for this issue.

www.mylastiphone.com
I know of people and groups who are talking about it, the kind of folks who actually do stuff.

The problem is that the single point of failure in this system is the registrar operating in some legal jurisdictions. Registrars do provide a useful service some large percentage of the time.
Rules exist to make for fair play. That fact that people push the rules doesn't change that. That's why rule making is itself part of a larger iterative game. In this case there's a big gaping whole in the rules. You might as well let Watson pull the question out of the database before the clue is even spoken.
Flash-equipped smartphones now outnumber iOS handsets