skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole Flash thing is just a lame argument put forth by marketing departments trying to find some edge over the iPhone. Mobile Flash sucks, and Flash itself is quickly falling to irrelevance.
Cool. like how it gives you a subdomain, that way you can tell people the address in conversation. What are you using to host/script it?

http://littlepoem.pen.io/
(password: password)
Map of Sydney Buses in real time
Co-founder of Milo.com (bought by eBay for $75 mil) answering questions
You find it scary that they want that, or that this is how it is turning out? I don't think the former is scary -- that's obviously their best bet for paying their bills. There's nothing scary about Facebook not wanting to reduce their ad impressions by allowing me to talk to my friends on FB via Outlook.

If the latter is actually what worries you, then there's nothing we can really do about that, nor should FB be forced into changing the way things are working out for them. There is a lot of value in a central hub. Email sucks for what FB is great for and decentralized hubs for FB-like communication will likely always suck unless there is great cooperation between disparate hubs and a great way to ensure there is a level of trust between data sources. Not likely to be developed in the near future. It's a difficult problem, but there may be some hope with the Semantic Web initiative and with linked data. Either way, you will most likely be signed up with one of those hubs and that will be your hub.
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I'm amazed we're still paying for email clients - I have no issues with Gmail, so I don't plan on buying this, but I am intrigued by so many people being in love with it.
Drag-and-drop contact importing for Gmail
Title says it all: Google REALLY needs to implement drag-and-drop contact importing into Gmail. I'm sure they could do it, especially within Chrome. They've allowed this for file attachments for quite some time, and allowing for single or bulk email drag-and-drop importing would just be awesome.
Surveys: http://surveymonkey.com/

I'm currently using the free plan for a handful of projects and it's awesome.
Nice reminder to use throw away passwords on untrusted sites. (no offense feint)
> Microsoft AND Intel being effectively missing from the tablet race is staggering.

The real staggering fact is that it's just not the tablet market. Both Microsoft and Intel are also absent or significantly behind in smart phones, eBook readers, portable media players, connected TVs, and almost every market that represents computing (devices) beyond the PC for consumers.
"I dreamed of the number seven for seven nights. And seven times seven is 48."

I think his lack of multiplication skills won him the lottery. It was luck indeed.
Yeah, everyone keeps trying to make this into a technical or business decision, when it's clearly not. Partnering with an also-ran doesn't make sense except in the context of Elop coming from Microsoft and bringing along a team of softies.

Only a Microsoft fanatic would look at the mobile landscape right now and think, "I know, I'll team my struggling company up with those guys. They really know what they're doing."
Well thanks, but I didn't pursue anything with Airbnb (I'm not looking to move to SF right now). But I agree that having an online persona is extremely helpful for landing your next gig.
Absolutely the dead-simple install has been huge for Wordpress. Getting into Wordpress’ bowls is disgusting, and some configurations you might think would be trivial are impossible, but they hook you in those first five minutes. It’s just so easy to start blogging.
Seems to work from Chrome... Would still be better to throw in a <meta charset="utf-8"> for browser compatibility I guess.
This guy created a trampoline in his home, built a chain mail to keep him fit, built his own windmill, etc:
http://jamius.com/

More (including his wife announcing the baby then): http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/e5qgr/so_this_guy_li...

He's pretty open about his life if you go through his personal site.
The Spotify API has the same restriction.
rising acidity = lessening alkalinity. Let's be more precise and use more benign statements.

The Ocean Acidification scare falls directly under the types of scares this article talks about. It is unproven, untested and not subject to high levels of certainty. Talk of changing the entire ocean pH fails to cover the fact that there is no one set pH level for all the oceans as whole.

Further to that, shellfish and crustaceans are a pretty ancient life form, and have existed throughout many different levels of atmospheric co2.

All I'm saying is that the article advises a data-driven approach to these matters, and the data on the ocean decreasing pH theory is still full of a lot of 'maybe, possibly and if' disclaimers.
I understand but "make the source available to others under the GPL" may mean give their clients source code under the GPL, not necessarily publishing said source code on the internet. (Though of course, the client may publish it on their own). Or I'm missing something and they do have an obligation to make it accessible?
Anyhow I have chosen the Apache License. Thank you for clearing my doubts and for your reply.
I haven't played My Japanese coach but I have played my Chinese Coach.

It's is exactly the kind of boring, unimaginative software I was referring to.

The games are incredibly joyless. Matching cards gets old soon.

These games were not developed by Nintendo

I was thinking more along the lines of a cross between a Nintendo RPG and warioware
There are still millions of windows users, and the phone is quickly becoming the computer. If you can make phones do "computer things" in away that is just like the computer these folks are used to, you might have an angle of attack, which is more than nokia has now.

Betting on the same plan as your nimbler competitors is a dominated strategy game theory-wise.
You're surprised people are paying for high-use-volume tools that improve X, Y, or Z over the free stuff?
This is mostly a gimmick, though, because other people who uses arithmetic as he says manage to go to near opposite conclusions. His website is written such as his conclusions are claimed to logicallly follow the data, at least that's how I read it, and I think this is slightly disingeneous. For example, David Mc Kay and his website/book(http://www.withouthotair.com/) are mostly based on data in a similar fashion, and his consequences are radically different.
I'm going to -4 on this, but: it absolutely still remains to be seen whether or not tablets are worth a damn.

Seriously, people play shitty games on them, and I guess read ebooks (though I see vastly more Kindles on the subway, than iPads). I do not, at all see a compelling product yet, I see a trendy gadget that early adopters and trend followers have purchased. Sure there's great lip service to how revolutionary this concept is, but that's just talk.

I'm not saying that the iPad isn't the second coming of Christ. I am saying that it's not proven itself to be that just quite yet. I don't think the PC is (even close) to dead.
Thanks for the reply, Matt.

Google believed that queries and clicks on Google search results were being used in Bing's ranking

I thought it was the search results that Google accused Microsoft of stealing. I guess I need to go refresh my memory.

Things we don't know include...

Good summary, thanks. I don't guess anyone is very surprised that Microsoft isn't quick to offer up how it treats a single data stream.
I find the GPS World publication [1] on this subject a lot less alarmist and better balanced.

[1] http://www.gpsworld.com/gnss-system/news/data-shows-disastro...
Time API - Convert natural language queries to time stamps
If true, I wonder what this means for Mac syncing. Nokia's Mac software works wonderfully with the E71 and I'd hate to see that go by the wayside.
I scanned the article, rushed to judgement about the context, and totally missed that part.

Basically I was that guy on the internet I complain about.
Exactly - how on earth do you compute 'teen email use'? If it is self-reported it is likely to be inaccurate. If it's based on some type of network analysis, the amount of spam would skew statistics, because spam is only sorted generally at the point of arrival.

Anyways, color me skeptical.

Even if it was Facebook messaging taking over from email, that's hardly a problem, because in the eyes of the user, facebook messages are email. You have an inbox, sent items, new message, etc. If/when the teens get to a job or study, they aren't going to be stumped by viewing a messaging client instead of a facebook page.
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I started using it because it was easy to install and tinker with. I stopped using it because I fundamentally disagree with Matt on a variety of topics.

I don't like the management, but it is a good product.
I am on FFox 4 beta 11 on WinXP and I tried it with IE7 also.

I get this on both:
http://imgur.com/q0PfT
Are you serious? You think the choice is between Apple or gamer?

Hi my name is Tux.... I don't make Steve Jobs rich(er) and I'm the greatest developer operating system ever made.
Or TiddlyWiki?

http://www.tiddlywiki.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3433 <-- Check out the low id, '1432 days ago'

Such an awesome thing.
This happens to me on my ATT iPhone often, at which point I have to reset it. I always thought it was bad luck.
Fight Club meets Software Engineers [video]
Egyptian torturers were trained by the FBI
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8314475/WikiLeaks-Egyptian-torturers-trained-by-FBI.html
Where Games Go To Sleep: The Game Preservation Crisis, Part 1
CSS is aspect-oriented!

[1] http://plpatterns.com/post/482063133/every-time-you-use-css-...
Another, but free: Compiler Construction (http://www-old.oberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/CBEAll.pdf)
Ericsson 3D Landscape API
I recently spent three hours trying to track down an algorithm to convert celestial (or equatorial) coordinates to ecliptic. I found several Matlab scripts that purported to work and I tried them in Octave. They never gave answers even close to the NASA Calc [1], so then I searched for something in Python and found pyehpem [2], pulled it down with easy_install, and had the correct answer in two lines of code.

[1] http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/toolbox/tb_coordconv.cfm

[2] http://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/index.html
The license debacle got me to switch (I clearly remember Dive Into Mark's spirited long rant), but Movable Type's weird Perlisms, and quirks like rebuilding all the posts when you changed the layout, would have sent me running eventually anyway. MT just wasn't a great package in the first place.
you're the unusual one. apple market share is only 10% or so.
Check out ericflo's answer to a similar question to this on Quora: http://www.quora.com/What-makes-convore-com-different-than-c...
What exactly is it in Gmail's Conversations that you prefer over Apple Mail's Organize by Thread feature?
Guitar hero to be axed?
Re: Rear Facing Camera.

This would be most useful on a device with a daylight readable transflective screen. Then you could use it outdoors with augmented reality apps.
The possible disruptor is the Kinect, but Apple are going to have a hell of a time getting into that space, this is Microsoft's big chance.

I think Apple are going to stay away from it and instead of pushing computing on a far away screen they are going to do everything to put screens in peoples hands and on their laps. The Apple TV will continue as a way to put your iOS content up on a TV screen (maybe including things like games), but I don't think they'll push an iOS TV Screen device as a big thing on its own.
I don't know about that, my iPhone 3G was unusable even before 4 was released, which doesn't bode very well for iOS. On the other hand, Android is very responsive on a $200 Samsung S, which can't be that much faster than the 3G...
It can't be right...often during the day I won't look at my phone at all - so it could be down for hours without me knowing. That's not good, as I can't go hours without being available via phone. AFAIK, the problems w/AT&T were largely related to dropped calls - not inability to make or receive them. Hopefully it is just a bad phone! Thanks for your affirmation.
> There's so little value in doing it that way that the cost of slipping up just once demolishes it.

The average child doesn't do an in-depth cost-benefit analysis before deciding whether to disobey his/her parents. With the right mix of peer pressure and childlike impulsiveness, your children will have Facebook accounts in no time.
Correct, ads are not present in the paid version. There is not even a checkbox to turn them on.
TapHi.com- Startup Blog
This is quick note from TapHi.com the new social network that connects people to places.We look forward to seeing you on TapHi and here is a brief explanation about it. TapHi.com is a social networking startup created by a dedicated team working to bring you a social experience based around people.
Yay! We can now finally have an offline Mac client.
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 is 24 orders of magnitude more than 1. Reddit isn't near that traffic yet.
Unlike many other phone manufacturer's (and like Apple), Nokia has long placed strategic value on phone operating systems. For a company with that tradition, a Microsoft solution makes sense as a replacement for inhouse OS development because Microsoft's core business model is B2B (unlike Google and Apple).

In other words, nobody is likely to question Microsoft's ability to deliver and support a company the size of Nokia given their track record with large worldwide companies. Nor are people likely to question Microsoft's ability to provide user support when WP7 is placed on commodity phones given their track record with Windows.

What the article misses is that the first victim of Microsoft Nokia partnership is likely to be RIM. A Microsoft and Nokia partnership is likely to be a powerful player in enterprise. And from a strategic perspective, Microsoft can benefit even if the partnership is not a cash cow because it allows them to solidify the vertical extents of their product line. Reducing the penetration of Android and iOS into the enterprise isn't a bad thing for Microsoft either.

[Edit] Pitching Java in favor of .Net may also be a factor influencing Nokia's thinking - given the way Oracle has been acting recently.
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connecting people and places together' live locations, global chat, invite friends, share photos,discuss, debate, its free, fun and its in your town. Be amazing. . TapHi.com is a social networking startup created by a dedicated team working to bring you a social experience based around people.
Ask HN: Sites that connect HN designers with developers?
Can anyone point me in the right direction of a few sites that connect HN users with each other for design/development projects? I've seen the posts numerous times but can't seem to remember the names of any such sites.
For me it’s Mail’s lack of native support for Gmail labels. It can organize emails into folders easily, but as far as I can tell, only one at a time. That makes me worried that when I sync with Gmail, my multiple labels for each email would be lost.
The acronyms are how Media Temple refers to their different hosting packages. A look at their website reveals (gs) = grid service, (dv) = dedicated virtual.

Personally, I have worked on one site that was hosted on a (dv) server with Media Temple (for three months.. I was only filling in), and had nothing but good experiences with them.

Their prices are definitely high though, so I don't know if I'd call them exactly startup-friendly. I wasn't the one paying for the site I worked with, but if I had to pay for it myself, I'd probably look elsewhere.
They should have an API for creating subscription accounts with an already registered credit card.

That way 3rd party apps can create new keys and issue them to their users transparently.
Aside from Xerox, what large company has originated a UI paradigm or OS?
Apple bought the multi-touch stuff, MS licenses Kinect, etc, etc.

Nintondo maybe with the Wii?
It has been there for quite some time.
I hope HP has a plan for reaching out to consumers and getting them to look at the TouchPad because the Apple Stores are doing a very good job at it. People get to use the device and can make a purchase decision easily.
Shaking up the Market: We made our topo iPhone app free today
Twitter Thinks It Can Become A $100 Billion Company
>The internet has more than ample information for a man to become a genius if he desires to spend enough time.

No one denies the amount of information available. But it is the careful mentoring, vibrant environment, constant testing, presenting your ideas, convincing people that you are correct, discovering newer ideas with your colleagues and discovering more about yourself that made my college life amazing.

For example, I could list you 10 good operating systems book, point you to the projects that we did, exam papers that we had and even video recordings of our classes. I did all of that too. Actually I had read most of the books and I thought was well prepared for the course. BUT I cannot even begin to enumerate the things that I learned from the 3 months of the OS course that I took last sem. I am a LOT better system designer because of the professor and his guidance. I am a lot better team player because of the stressful project that we had to complete. I am a better problem solver because of the constant examinations.

Yes you could probably learn these things at your job and in your weekend. But wouldn't you rather just take some time off and really get into the fundamentals? Wouldn't you want to hear opinion of a concept from someone who actually discovered it? Wouldn't you rather learn the "art" and the "intuition" from someone who has been doing it for his entire life? Wouldn't you rather spend your time surrounded by people who are smarter than you anyone who you have met? Wouldn't you want to be surrounded by ideas and challenges?

Dude go to a good engineering school. I stress that go to a GOOD school. You will not regret it.
I am an younger person who sends a magnitude more emails than text messages and facebook messages.
Email is useful for classes, coordinating groups, and etc. where facebook and text messages are too limiting to use. Email is also a useful tool to communicate to all age groups.
Yes, when there are several free options that work wonderfully.

Maybe it's because I don't have an email problem - I don't know, but it seems like more buzz than substance, at least to me.

Edit: I have no qualms with this product, and I'll probably buy it just to see what the hype is about. I'm mostly just surprised that it reached #1.
I'm looking forward to a VOR/DME receiver in my phone to make up for the loss of GPS.
Yea, tptacek has warned about it for a while now, particularly after the rainbow table fiasco started by Jeff Atwood.
I don't think this means the 'end of email'. This seems to me like a natural progression. Before FB, Twitter and cheap SMS, email was the most effective means of digital communication. Now we have different tools for different types of digital communication. That doesn't mean email is becoming obsolete. It's a bit like saying mobile-touch computers will replace all other types of computers. I don't see that happening at all. Instead, we just use a number of different computers (in all shapes and sizes), for different situations.
Anyone know of any user-generated content sites with quality design?
There seems to be a huge gap between a typical SAAS and a user generated content site when it comes to design. The former being much better.

SAAS: Heroku, MailChimp, Vimeo, Dropbox, Indinero

User Generated Content: Reddit, HN, Ebay, Craigslist, Forums in general, ect.

TLDR: Anyone have any examples of sites that are based on user generated content AND have top-notch design. Or any info on designing with dynamic content.

I guess Fourquare/Digg qualify.
His comment didn't say they have Macs, he said they have Apple products. The dominance of the iPod makes it more probable that everyone he knows has at least one Apple product. Also, you assume that market share is evenly distributed in all demographics. I think the preceding discussion was about Apple's market share among tech enthusiasts, which I have never seen solid numbers on, but which seems, anecdotally, to be higher.
This has potential. I asked for this very thing about two months ago and surely someone is delivering.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1980806

How far do you plan to go with this? You could certainly make a buck or two if, say, you start offering a premium IDE with auto-complete, server-side compilation, etc. Not sure there's a big demand for this. Maybe you could sell this to enterprises and they could just deploy a lots of thin clients--save some cash on powerful workstations--and can log in from anywhere to develop and compile the code server-side and seamlessly deploy. But I'm just thinking out loud now. Best of luck.
A loose way of collecting/tracking pages you've created.
I love the idea, but I hate the domain. Still, going to use this to replace the PDF's I've been penning.
I need help getting "Likes" and/or opinions on this site
Twitter has been in takeover talks
The supposed Microsoft Nokia partnership isn't joint development of a phone OS. It looks more likely that Nokia could get out of the OS business altogether.

I'm not sure that OS/2 is the best analogy. That wasn't a hardware company and software company teaming up. And it is unlikely that Nokia and Microsoft will evolve to become direct competitors in the way IBM and Microsoft did in the late 1980's and early 90's.
"emails may simply be too long or too stuffy for daily, non-professional communication"

Nah. The reason is no-one wants to log in to two things. People who start out most of their online life on a social network aren't going to want to log in to a second thing (email account) to communicate.

I started out on email, and don't want to log in to a second thing (Facebook) to communicate. I let Facebook notify my email when it gets a message though. I didn't want to get into Twitter, but Buzz fit into my Gmail habit (and can even link to Twitter).
Socket.IO 0.6.10 released, with native SSL support
I work day to day on a compiler backend. It's used in an emulator (as a JIT), with the JVM (as a JIT), and with various static languages (as a static compiler).

You'd be surprised at the similarity between a JIT compiler and a static compiler with profiler feedback. Much of the optimizations are the same, and a lot of the code generation is the same. In fact, the biggest difference is just that there's a VM for jitted languages, but just a runtime for (most of) the static languages.

I will say however, that this book looks pretty decent, looking through the table of contents shows that it's not missing that many optimization concepts and is a good start for understanding how your compiler (JIT or otherwise) works. Understanding how your compiler works is a big step towards mastering a language.
Wirth is a bit out of date imho
I put out a price and you say I must be looking at a different length course. Clearly, I am not getting the right price info and you are implying there is better information there. Then you say I have as much information as you? That doesn't make sense.

I am not going to bother responding any further either way, but hopefully you just answer the question with a number, approximate, guess, average, median, I don't care. Maybe other readers will find it useful, I am done.
What iPad rivals must do to compete with the Apple
But the interpreting process often is a form of compilation - e.g. many interpreters compile source to bytecode and interpret the bytecode - to say nothing of JIT, which after all stands for just-in-time compilation!

Compiler design I think will always be a vital field. The LLVM project I think shows the direction we are headed - with more and more detailed bytecode to allow for better optimization before a 2nd pass compiles down to machine code.