skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gassee has insightfully observed that something important is happening in great detail but after his brilliant survey of the trees, he completely loses sight of the forest and predicts Apple will come out with some 2001-era Windows Slate complete with keyboard and stylus. Huh? All of these trends he highlights -- the de-emphasis of desktop computers, the app-ification of software, the convergence of Apple's iOS and Mac OS X -- are leading somewhere else. It's a future, super-powered and acceptably priced Motorola Atrix that's the key.
One of Jon Bentley's _Programming Pearls_ books has a column, "Bumper-Sticker Computer Science" that is worth a glance.
I know where we have one of these in Michigan. It's awful. You need to make it, or you are in for quite a detour.
The big issue is that the US is so big. They talk about the new 4g in nordic countries. That would be like Verizon rolling out screaming fast 4g only in California, and leaving the rest of the country on 3g. That just wouldn't work.

Building a 4g network across the entire US is a big deal.
Weekend Project: Conway's Game of Life in jQuery/Coffeescript and Canvas
A fun diversion to play with Coffeescript and Canvas. Enjoy!
Aw :( Thats something I don't want. Do you happen to know how I can improve detection of faces with dark skin?
Thanks for the advice. I'm about 90% done with my project so I would much rather go all in at this point.

I wouldn't have quit if I had more responsibilities such as a mortgage, kids, family, etc.
no worries, glad we could help get this sorted out for you!
Don't confuse overwhelmed/busy with someone disrespecting you - some people's calendars/inboxes scroll like crazy, and they can miss things without any ill-intent.
Is that true man? I am sure it can happen, I promise I didnt blow it off, life is hectic at time, I would love to resched and I a, sorry ( gary@vaynermedia .com )
Show HN: My new Facebook, Twitter, MySpace & LinkedIn iPhone app
I've spent around a year building a Facebook, Twitter, MySpace & LinkedIn iPhone app, which aside from the API hell, has been a pretty fun experience! I think it's turned out really nice. It's been a technical challenge to sync not only a single address book, but also your address books on all the social networks, but in hindsight, I'd do it all again. I'd love to know what HN think's of it, the app URL is:

http://itunes.apple.com/app/friends-plus-facebook-twitter/id407846513?mt=8&ls=1

Here are some promo codes, not sure how long they will last:

WPTA4M99L3YF
MR39LWPTKNYT
ME346Y3TPNY9
TY69MJN6ARYY
EKR3MAHFJAP4
love this habit to give everything a name.

we do this all the time, just didn't call it anyway.

the next time i collide, i'll come out and say, "i gave you a signal, i was making the Pittsburgh left, you uneducated moron!"
Interview with Don Knuth (1993)
Great job and good luck to you! I'm also a single founder but don't have the courage to leave my job just yet (nor the financial means either) so I'll definitely watch out for your progress.
Ask HN: How to gain traction with projects?
I've been hacking away at little projects for months. I make them up, ask my friends to test them, get feedback, iterate, and get them production-ready. It's what I love to do and I'm not going to stop.

I get pumped up. I post on my blog, Twitter, Facebook, HN, reddit, and I email blogs. I live in Northern Minnesota so there aren't many people around, but I let the few I see know about my latest projects. I even tell people about my projects at the gas station and restaurants. Basically, I try hard.

Nothing goes anywhere. I don't think it's because I make floozy things either; I feel as though my products would interest a lot of people if I could reach them.

It's really disheartening spending days of my life working on something to have a handful of people see it. How do you gain traction with your projects? Is there a magic bullet that works for you?
Interesting to see pymongo on that list.

What about other databases?

Edit: Mysql appears to be represented too
> That would be like Verizon rolling out screaming fast 4g only in California, and leaving the rest of the country on 3g. That just wouldn't work.

Well if that were the case, shouldn't they have rolled out 4G at least in California & New York? Ironically, those are the places with the worst cell service.
>Answers the question "what is Awesome Band?" which is the role of wikipedia, isn't it?

No, it's not. Wikipedia is a knowledge repository not _the_ knowledge repository. It's not there to hold every little bit of trivia, if you want to find "what is Awesome Band" then use a search engine. Wikipedia is there to house notable instances and information that has wider application than mere trivia.

Unless Awesome Band started a new genre, influenced well known bands, is a well known band (eg number 1 tracks, headlining particularly large events, etc.) or is known for something else then it's probably enough to mention them as a footnote as a band that played at Event X or possibly as a notable example of a genre or whatever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About#Wikipedia_conte...
I am glad that we can have this discussion, despite its difficulty. It is an intensely interesting subject, and I can't resist.

For the poster below, thank you for bringing up the p-zombie argument. Indeed, with links to deconstructionism and physicalism, how can you even tell that another human is "human"? Can you prove that that individual is conscious, has subjective experience, and has a soul? Or is it, in fact, an assumption that all humans possess these things? This fundamental assumption is put to the test if a computer can perfectly simulate a human mind. Perhaps we will see that such notions are purely subjective constructs, like "cold". Though we may feel "cold", it is a sensation and an experience. That experience is not provable, even if we might get everyone to agree that -50C is "cold." All we can prove is the behavior of the brain, and assume that that behavior is linked to experience in general.
I suppose that makes sense. Never been involved with an international hire, so I was just curious. Thanks!
Since you got voted down, I see where you're coming from, and past discussions about Wikipedia on HN has revealed that a non-trivial number of HN members have only a surprisingly superficial understanding or experience with Wikipedia, I'll attempt to further explain.

The Anna Patterson one is absolutely a case of where the proposed solution achieves the desired effect (in my opinion). redthrowaway hasn't mentioned whether he or she agrees about the Patterson situation, but that's fine, because it's neither here nor there.

What happens on Wikipedia is that people drive by and will literally create an aritcle like "Shitfuck" and will literally write something like "a shitfuck is a guy named jason form cedar springs". seconds later the page content is changed by them again to something like: "a shitfuck is a guy named jason from cedar springs he really likes to shit but he never gets to fuck".

The proposed solution is to retain all deleted articles. redthrowaway points out this isn't a realistic approach in light of these types of new articles. Opposition to redthrowaway here seems to be in the case where multiple someones somewhere care do care about the information in the Anna Patterson article. Is the Anna Patterson article at all similar to the shitfuck incident? Is someone somewhere going to come along and constructively improve that one?

In case you're wondering, "yeah, but how often does that kind of thing really happen?" It happens. A lot.
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Normality can be statistically proven. If using an abnormal name is not something that will benefit a child, what is the purpose of it, other than satisfying a sick urge to imprint the parents personality on the child?

Would you only buy your boy pink clothes or name him "Elizabeth"? You are choosing for your child, and they deserve a name which is as neutral of a canvas as you can provide for them.
Although this is Chrome only this is a great extension that I believe a few people on this site wanted. I remember other people made a mashup but this looks like a slightly better solution. I wonder why they don't want to do this server side though?
In Washington, you can turn left onto a one-way street on red. This is legal when you are on a one-way OR two-way street, which is unique to Washington and a handful of other states. This applies to turning left onto freeway on-ramps (one way streets) as well.
(pretty bad code)
Agreed, I just wonder what happens when Yellow Cab gets hip and releases a similar app (at a 33% discount to Uber rates)?
I'm 29 and thought about quitting and doing my own and was talked out of it by my older peers at my corporate job. I was about 24 for then. In hindsight it was by far one of my regrettable decisions. I see products and ideas being created that were all in my personal incubator. Not to mention they are all profitable. So I say this, if you have internet, time & a mind anything is possible. Good luck on your ventures. I'm sure success will find you.
There is, however, nothing stopping articles deemed as not notable by consensus at Wikipedia from being included in other references.
When I was in highschool in New Jersey in the 1970s, right-on-red was legalized; a classmate realized that this meant that under light traffic conditions, if he faced a red light while driving down the highway, he could turn off onto the jughandle, then make a right back onto the highway, regardless of whether the cross-traffic light was still green or had turned red.

More recently, Google maps at one point had a routing bug that caused it to propose a 360-degree double U-turn at every intersection while traveling along US 1, which in practice would result in the same maneuver.
Everybody can download a copy of Stuxnet and start reverse engineering the code.
My wife and I have joint finances (she's a stay at home mom), but we each have an allowance. We each get money each month that is 100% ours. We don't need to consult with each other about how it's spent. She can burn it for all I care. It gives us enough freedom to make purchases we don't agree on (unspent money rolls over, so one can save up if needed). Meanwhile, we are both very involved in all other financial decision, with all disagreements settled in favor of the more conservative party.
Entrepreneurs: Do you want to be a fisherman or do you just like fish?
Finding similar items using minhashing
Good work, squeaky wheels.

So: will this eventually be a search settings option once it is less beta or permanently an extension thing?
Try this thought experiment.

Would you feel better if they were both identical, except for labelling, but carried different prices?
The worst offenders are easily the towns that mix the jughandle turns with "traditional" left turn intersections; you never know which damn lane to be in to turn.

Looking at YOU Brick, NJ! >:/
well.. not the best example. California and New York combined have 3-4 times the population of all the Nordic Countries.
The point of premium branding is in fact to prove that you can afford to pay more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
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There's an increasingly-active startup community in DC -- consider staying here and saving money staying with the rents.

Here's a quick overview of the major spaces to meet-up with other tech folks in DC:

Best Resources for Web & Software Product Startups
http://www.socialmatchbox.com
http://dcstartupwiki.com
http://www.meetup.com/DC-Lean-St...
http://meetup.hackernewsdc.org/

Best Resources for Social Media & Consulting Startups
http://www.techcocktail.com
http://www.meetup.com/socialweb/
http://www.meetup.com/DCSPOTTER/ (also misc. startups)

General Networking
http://ngagedc.org/

Best place for events all around:
http://www.meetup.com
http://www.dctechevents.com
http://www.baltimoretechevents.com

Note: this list came directly from Quora. Be sure to follow and keep updated with any new groups/sites: http://www.quora.com/Business/Im-24-living-near-DC-working-f...
Funny to see Facebook now included with "cushy jobs" like Microsoft and Google. What do people at FB think about that? :-)
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Turing's paper is available online: http://mind.oxfordjournals.org/content/LIX/236/433.full.pdf

It's 28 pages, not the 8 pages claimed by Chomsky, but it's quite readable.
Your design looks impeccable. I love the contact and compose screens.

If I had $.99 I would absolutely buy this but it would cut into my ramen budget
In the early 80s I worked in Calgary for a company called Rainbow Software. Their product was an AR system in TRS-80 mdl 2 Basic that was undocumented, full of gotos and completely incomprehensible.

When you asked the boss, Joe Love, for any explanation, you were an idiot, and he would tell you you were an idiot, loudly, in front of the entire office.

I moved Calgary to work there and I lasted a month. On the up side, I got to see Calgary at the height of the oil boom and I think one of my co-workers was OpenBSD ghod Theo Deratt (or however you spell it, he was a very smart knowledgeable dick)
Clickable link: http://itunes.apple.com/app/friends-plus-facebook-twitter/id...

Great update on the UX; Significantly better. The design is lovely as always. Way to go Taptivate!
So HN, what sites are we all blocking?
left turn to one-way on red is legal in michigan as well, it turns out. having lived in michigan and now washington, I'm glad I learned that this is not the case everywhere before it became an issue.
Sprint 4g access is unlimited, and 3g is limited to 5 gigs per month. Still better than any other carrier right now.
I'm from Indiana, and I've always found the Michigan left to be much more efficient on busy roads. I alway liked the way they worked while driving in Detroit. For some reason, to me, they made a lot of sense.
I've heard a lot of good things about the Austin startup scene. I wonder if I can convince my wife to move down there for the summer ;-)
So, Britons still make fun out of French.
I think the biggest problem I have with the notability guidelines is that none of the editors (pedantic as they tend to be) understand what the word "guideline" means. Most of the AfD discussions center around WP:N. Yet notability is a scarily vague and personal criteria. In this case, the original deletion discussion appeared to be 100% in favor of keeping the articles in question with only Monsanto against. The only apparent question was WP:N and despite quite a bit of evidence demonstrating notability, the editor appeared to unilaterally delete the articles.

In other words, this demonstrates that the burden of proof, why an article must be included in AfD cases, is on the people who wish for it to be included. If you aren't personally monitoring thousands of articles that you may or may not be interested in at that moment, you may never even have a chance to participate in an AfD discussion! And if you don't participate, the article gets deleted (or even if you do participate, like in this case, the article gets deleted). The default outcome of the process is to delete, it's fundamentally a knowledge removal operation without any clear method for ensuring continued inclusion! Talk about a process that doesn't make any sense.

So in this particular case, a single individual, unable to recall these languages off the top of his head, flagged these articles for AfD, the discussion voted all to keep, he cited WP:N and BAM! they're all gone.

If this "process" as it were were applied across all of wikipedia (suppose every article in WP were flagged AfD) then we'd be left with only the most famous proper nouns that most people could be reasonably expected to know already as common knowledge! What's the point of WP then?
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Actually, California & New York have 2.2 times the population[0] while having 2.1 times the GDP[1], so I really don't see how that's all that relevant.

Or how about we look at their relative land areas[2] (not counting Greenland) - California & New York only have 41% as much area as the Nordic Countries.

0: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=((california+population...

1: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(california+%2B+new+yor...

2: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=((california+state+area...)
While I don't have much experience with launching anything, it sounds like the projects that you're building aren't exactly useful to the people around you. If you don't mind me asking, what are these little projects? You might want to try and focus on a target audience. Maybe even ask them what they need and gather some feedback? Just my thoughts. It may or may not apply.
Teens Love To Build Strong Muscles
Gone are the times when people were not aware, quite ignorant and did not try to gain strong and appealing muscles. They were focused to different areas like performing arts and households most of the time. But the time has underwent a drastic change during the past decade. The teenagers now a day participate in many fitness programs to shape up their body and give special looks to it for making it more appealing. Several health and fitness programs are attracting our teens for this reason.
Update on Qt
>...explore using it as a potential ranking signal for our search results

Democratic censorship.
This was posted a while back:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1772650

Something seems off with the duplicate link checker. Several times in the past week, I've submitted links only to find out later on that they were already previously submitted.
The website used as an example in the first screenshot (http://thecontentfarm.tumblr.com/) just made my day.
Am I the only one to think that icons that prominently feature a letter to represent the app aren't very... iconic? Is this from the school of thought that gave rise to Adobe's adoption of their new "icons"?

Thankfully this pattern seems to be more rule than exception. Very few of the icons in my Dock have letters (or glyphs) in them at all. Notably, Skype uses a big S in some circle-y kinda thing, X11 has the "X" and Angband uses some vaguely Asian-looking thing.
I'm good at photoshop for sure, but I wouldn't suggest it for mockups, either. It's not what the tool is designed for, and it's not what the majority of the userbase is doing with it.

That said, if you want to edit photos, or do pixel-based image manipulation of any sort, it's superb piece of software.
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Or conversely, maybe Google should buy them?

I wish you had checked the market cap of IBM and Google before suggesting that :). IBM > GOOG
Reminded me of this brilliant configuration for avoiding left turns at freeway interchanges:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diverging_diamond_interchange
I wonder if a strong public sector has something to do with the fact that European and Asian countries always (supposedly) have so much better networking infrastructure.
My first round includes eHow, Mahalo, Associated Content, Experts Exchange, Squidoo and Examiner.

Update: I added answers.yahoo.com as well, which has consistently terrible content and yet is often highly ranked.
I am looking for a freelance remote developer for a web application. The technologies we use are c# (mono), mvc, mysql, Git, CentOs, apache & mod_mono and haproxy basically.

Also looking for an excellent designer to do a redesign of the site.

We are located in Madrid, Spain.
Innovative alternatives to discussion boards
Do you know about new unique ideas how discussion boards can be organized in the modern web? How data and elements can be visually and structurally organized? I am sure it's not the only good way to go from top with the question title to bottom.with comments. May be there are star based realizations where the main idea is in the center and different opinions go to different directions. I am just trying to find new ways for presenting discussions. I have some ideas about this and would like to share them with you if it's interesting you. Thanks.
Jive, OpenDNS, PBworks founders + VCs talk about bringing in an outside CEO
Experts Exchange.
I appreciate the gesture man. If we can chat for a few minutes (under 10) this week, that would be really cool. CrushIt was great btw :)
I was just griping about this to my wife yesterday. The noise is drowning out the signal in my recent searches...
New social media research lab founded
experts-exchange.com
Thanks for the tips, but as a student it seems a bit hard to get access to the data sets etc. needed for those. However, I'll look into it.
China has a huge public sector, a ton of money, and deplorable networking infrastructure. I think it has to do with the size of the country more than anything. Russia's probably not any better than the US either.
1. Does this remove results from each page, or from the resultset? In other words, if 7 of the first-page results are blocked, will I see only 3 results on that page?

2. Any plans for a Firefox extension? I'm willing to install Chrome just for running Google searches, but would rather add it to my main browser.

e: After a month or so, I would absolutely love to see the top 10 or so blocked domains. It's OK if you can't do this, but it would be interesting/amusing.
I disagree. We're just so jaded by the speed of change that we don't ascribe much significance to changes that have completely changed how human beings interact. While many of these technologies are built on the internet, saying that they're insignificant because of this is kind of like saying the internet is insignificant since it's built on telephony.

Furthermore, it's almost without exception that these technologies have weakened big companies, especially in the software industry. Cheap computing power that you don't even have to manage, a massive ecosystem of open source code, and powerful communication tools are available to anybody now. Big companies rely on economies of scale to offset the costs of organization. It's becoming increasingly difficult for them to win in an industry with almost no barrier to entry.
Looks like Google and IBM are evenly matched in terms of market cap so a buy out is unlikely http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=IBM+GOOG+market+cap

QA technology is very different than search because the former makes strong assumptions about quality of the underlying data. Google's search is much better at filtering out and dealing with low quality content (e.g. blogs) and spam.
Yea, I was based in San Antonio. Thanks!
I'd been told by a competitor on the show that timing the button press correctly was an underappreciated part of the game. If you press the button before you're allowed to (before Mr. Trebek finishes reading the question) your button is locked out for long enough (maybe a second?) that you're unlikely to get a second chance at that question. So I assume Watson wouldn't be allowed to "spam" the button.
"If installed, the extension also sends blocked site information to Google, and we will study the resulting feedback and explore using it as a potential ranking signal for our search results."

If that happens, what's to stop this being used by companies to influence the results to get rid of competitors?
It might be a standard practice. It takes the heat off staff with 20somethings getting miffed about being carded or not. So everyone gets carded.

Or maybe no, no clue. But I'd card everyone.
It's possible. I tended to like Learned Optimism because they backed up everything in there with research and data.
efreedom, experts exchange, ehow.

Would be interesting to have collective access to what people are blocking.

I like the approach...being able to click and exclude based on the search results that pop up.
This was more my tongue-in-cheek personal opinion than a recipe to startup success. Please feel free to like other types of music.