skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Only two things matter: The price, and the OS.

Honeycomb based Android tablets, for the first time, are getting it right on both counts. You may not like Honeycomb and that would be your personal taste, but both feature wise and aesthetics/attractiveness/usability wise, it is looking great in comparison to iOS 4.x.
Leafly.com has a great looking implementation of a couple of the features we offer at IActionable.

http://www.leafly.com/achievement/overview
The hack is that the advert directs to the Advertirials on someone else's site, looking like it's legitimate.
Facebook pages are worthless for your startup. Go where the early adopters are.
FYI, it looks like Anonymous is aiming for total humiliation as far as HBG is concerned - they have even set up a pretty web interface/search for the entire collection of stolen emails - see http://hbgary.anonleaks.ru/
This is yet another TC post without substance. Pulse is using APIs to pull content from popular sites (which is a smart move). This is not "moving beyond RSS" as the post claims since Pulse still uses RSS for news and content.

RSS is not very accessible or used by most internet users, but RSS is still heavily in use today. RSS is not "face down in a ditch" as the sensationalist post title claims. There is much room for a better alternative (pubsubhubbub? etc) to RSS, but RSS is not dead today.
what happens if the global logistics infrastructure breaks down because of war/rising oil prices/political turmoil etc?

What happens if some local infrastructure breaks down in a way that that the local community is put to a standstill until things get fixed?

A good example of this: a major highway bridge becomes impassible in a way that is not trivial to repair. The lack of this bridge becomes a huge expense and drain on quality of life in the region. You can either ride of self-sufficiency to get this bridge rebuilt, or you can rely on the efficiencies of volume producers of raw materials, machinery, and whatever else you'll need to build that bridge back up.

Self-sufficiency, in the sense that you exchange with few or no other people for your own wants and needs has huge costs as well; but, because most of us aren't self-sufficient in that sense, we tend to romantically gaze in that direction and only remember all the good that comes out of being self-sufficient. The trade-offs are not that obvious and one-sided.
Xoom is running a stock install of Honeycomb with no Motorola UI modifications so hopefully this means quick updates. Also a Wifi only version means no additional delay due to the network carrier.
If it's for a class project, how about lending the domain? The student gets full rights for 1 year, then it goes back to its owner. It's not like most class projects produce lasting value either.
In most browsers, copying from the input box will work. But I don't yet support pasting into the input box.
It's worth noting that proposals, like JSR 83 (http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=83), to address Java's multi-dimensional array shortcomings have been around for quite some time. Of course, JSR 83 just sat around for five years before being abandoned; maybe Java folks don't think efficient multi-dimensional arrays are useful and/or common.
Funny. But I'd rather they were getting email about and working on not shutting down any more domains.
The student can still use it in his portfolio, just not at the original URL.
It wouldn't cost apple anything if they just allow applications downloaded of websites to be installed on iDevices. I'm sure subscription services would be happy to host a small application package themselves.
“Kind of disappointing to hear that Watson basically ignores the FJ! category, if true.”

How are you getting that idea? It didn’t bet much because it wasn’t at all confident, we don’t know what it would have done if it had been more confident.

Watson likes to play it safe, though, as can be seen in this demo game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgYSv2KSyWg&t=20m26s (I skipped ahead to Final Jeopardy.)

He was $16,000 ahead but one of the contestants could get within $1,600 by betting all of his money. So, naturally, Watson bet only $1,599 even though it was very confident (and ultimately got the answer right). That secured Watson’s win, no matter what the others did. (This is really not impressive or anything like that, if all you want to do is win the game, that’s what you do. Basic game theory.)
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"Increase" and "decrease" are only meaningful in relation to some baseline. The GPL doesn't decrease freedom relative to nothing at all, and only a little bit relative to proprietary software. But relative to the BSD license, you have less freedom with the GPL. I'm using it in the sense that the FSF says proprietary software decreases freedom: It gives the people who receive it less freedom than it otherwise could.
Ask HN: Review our startup: Cloudy - let your friends decide
Cloudy is a free iPhone app that lets you quickly and easily ask groups of friends for their opinions. The basic pitch is: "Need help making a decision? Let your friends decide for you!"

Direct iTunes link: http://itunes.apple.com/app/cloudy/id417694713?mt=8

Website: http://www.askcloudy.com

Our team consists of two students at and one recent graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, and we've been working on Cloudy for about a year.

We'd love to get feedback on a few specific areas:

- The design and functionality of the app

- The concept itself

- The SMS functionality (that is, how questions are sent by SMS if you pick a recipient that isn't a Cloudy user)

- Requiring Facebook for login (we're certainly willing to add a traditional login option, if users seem to want it)

- Our marketing copy, both in the App Store description and on the website

- Whether we should focus on improving the iPhone experience for a while or quickly move on to Android

- Anything else!
Thanks for this comment. The reason it doesnt work is that the input box is built from scratch, so devices that use on-screen keyboards (usually mobile devices) don't know to automatically display the keyboard. On android devices, long-pressing the menu button will reveal the on-screen keyboard. I don't know how to force iOS devices to show the keyboard...
I have no graphic design skills (or ego). thanks for the comment.
> when some other language comes along that is better (or if it is here already), then people will switch to that language.

That part is actually not entirely true. Languages have positive network externalities, as well as some very serious lock-in (see: Cobol) and switching costs.
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I should've said meaningless. The List Apart is not known for empty statements.

My primary tongue is not English, the sentence may sound less offensive to native ears.
Are you talking about profile guided optimization or a new Intel compiler that produces and application that is capable of dynamically rebuilding its own binary code on the fly? Presumably in the event that it can detect a better way to execute a chunk of code.

There are JIT libraries for C++ for building applications which dynamically compile stuff, I'm not aware of any that dynamically recompile the C++ though.
Clickable -
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/app/cloudy/id417694713?mt=8

Website: http://www.askcloudy.com

I downloaded and played with this quite a bit - its actually really cool. I especially like that your "questionees" don't need to have the app in order to participate.
Its going to sound odd, but the first time I used TurboTax a couple years ago was one of the best user experiences of any online property I have ever had. And its freaking TAX software!

I prior to 2 years ago, I always used H&R block. The first time I chose them simply because I knew the brand, and they were at the top of the list on the IRS's free filing site. I then stuck with them because I was already there.

My buddy convinced me to try TurboTax, and I was utterly amazed that 45 minutes later I was pulling my bank card out to pay for the filing (I owed some money that year). They put a lot of thought and testing into the usability of the site. It was able to effortlessly take me from step one through to payment.

At no point do I remember ever actually providing a username or password, but apparently I did. You know your interface is good when people forget that they signed up and then have nothing but good feelings about your product.

I'm lucky to work with a fellow who used to work at Intuit on TurboTax. He said once that they spend millions of dollars every year on UX, testing, etc. It really shows.
Knowing how to configure Apache and configure Exchange server is a far cry from I need to build a SaaS webapp.

You claim you have run multiple companies, hired/fired 60 people, you claim to have multiple investors committed. And now you ask HN for how to hire a programmer?

May I suggest to leverage your contacts/advisor network instead, which you surely have built during your previous endeavours?
Apple's Plan for MobileMe: Think Facebook, Foursquare & uStream
It is against the terms.

http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/static.py?hl=en&...

"...advertisers cannot use destination URLs that automatically redirect to another website or that act as a bridge page."
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For those like me who didnt have a clue what "statsd".

Here is the link to it:

https://github.com/etsy/statsd/
I think you may be confused with a couple things.

Devise and AuthLogic are both authentication gems, and wouldn't be used together. They only authenticate a user, but they don't authorize actions. For authorization, a gem like CanCan would be a good fit.

saasramp looks like a way to do handle CC's and submit for processing. From my experience, don't do this. Let Chargify or someone else handle payments on a hosted payment page. It's not worth the risk.
Excellent, Facebook can turn into the GeoMyAOLSpace it was always destined to be, and the rest of the internet can continue unmolested.
You should not just focus on twitter, but leverage community sites like HN. Also, social media is just one ends to a mean. There is always the good old fashion hustle in the streets to get that initial traction.
Against Adwords guidelines or not - it's brilliant. I'd like to meet the man behind the curtain here.
Apple didn't get away with anything, because there was nothing to get away with. I know android fans hate to hear it and will likely pound me into oblivion for it, but the reality is that the antenna on the iPhone 4 is better than all the previous devices Apple has shipped, and better than most in the industry.

An external antenna is going to pull in more signal most of the time, and this makes it better. Every device must find compromises to provide the best signal as much of the time as possible, along with convenience. Most android and other smart phones use internal antennas and that is a good design from a usability perspective. Apple did to for the first three iphones. For the iPhone 4 they found a new way to put an antenna on the outside of the phone, without having the silly pull-out antenna that predominated ten years ago.

This gave them better signal pulling capability in almost every situation, with the usability of an internal design. This is a significant innovation.

Which means that the entirety of antenna gate was fueled by anti-apple forces (eg: hack journalists looking for a dramatic story, and general apple haters who posted to blogs and spread the story).

Apple got away with it because there was no real defect in the antenna. The observable effect exists in all modern mobile phones to one degree or another, and this particular design is superior to all past iPhones.

The real lesson here is that a dedicated social media campaign can create massive hassle for a competitor, even when that competitor produces a superior product. I am quite astounded that they were able to make such a big deal out of this. Apple produced an innovative design that was superior in usability and reception, and they managed to turn that into some sort of a liability. They did this even though within days it was revealed publicly that the claims were nonsense by people who understood how radios work. But the few people with technical knowledge cannot beat the masses who don't have it who propagate the FUD. This is the power of FUD, and this is why you see it so often.

Even today there are people who think there is a defect with the iPhone design. For many of them, it is a matter of ideology. They hate apple, and therefore they will continue to believe.
but is it worth it?
This behavior, I'm well aware of. The sentiment, I'm not sure I understand. People have been using the internet for at least a decade now.
Exactly. The Nexus One at $599 (I think) was competing against Verizon's Droid at $99 with rebate. A Google WiFi-only tablet would compete against the WiFi-only Xoom at $599 and could be price-competitive.
Wagers are made after the category is shown but before the the clue is revealed. It can only use the confidence in its knowledge of the category, not the question itself.
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It went up to 500 not so long ago.
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Jeopardy Champion Ken Jennings Q&A about IBM Watson
I really liked Turbotax.com and used it for about four years up until last year. It doesn't support multi-member LLCS, so it's not useful to me anymore.
Shit, I did not realize GPUs packed such a tremendous performance advantage over CPUs (FLOPs wise). They seem to be several orders of magnitude ahead--that is positively mindblowing!

And yet, all GPUs and CPUs of the whole world can just barely match one human brain (http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/02/adding-up-the-wo...). If that's not mindblowing, then what?
Odd. While I found that there were lots of different kinds of pages, I found the site engaging. When I visit a Q&A site, I very rarely visit other questions, because when I go there for a question, I go there for the question. Once it's answered, I'm done.

But with Quora, I viewed question after question for fun.
PDF viewing isn't natively supported by any browser as far as I'm aware-- plugins/extensions are required, which makes the content significantly less accessible.
Annualized. If they were total, you'd be way better off with practically anything else.
The freedom to eat pizza
The last time I used TurboTax was for my 2005 taxes. In 2006 I moved overseas, and they don't let overseas filers (unless you have an APO) file for free. --As I recalled back then, they wanted me to buy the full version of the software.

To be honest, I don't miss using TurboTax. Even the year I had to declare income from 3 countries, the tax forms weren't that bad. I might spend 2 hours doing my taxes this year, so TurboTax wouldn't save me that much time anyway.
10 years ago the 5 year return for VC funds would have been absurd. Would it be close to 500%?
Absolutely. Twitter helps to cultivate relationships, but meeting people in real life is where it's at. Twitter is a great tool to make that happen.
> Also GPL style licenses are a virus that while they promote freedom, in reality they take it away

The only freedom the GPL takes away is the freedom to take away other people's freedom to use modified versions of the software.
Wagers are made after the category is shown but before the the clue is revealed. It can only use the confidence in its knowledge of the category, not of the question itself, in the calculation of the bet.
My experience is the reverse. I recently stopped using Chrome and switched back to Firefox 3.6 because Chrome was using over 3 gigabytes of memory with about 40 tabs open. (40 tabs sounds like a lot until you realize that no single workspace of my 10 active ones had more than 10 tabs).

With Firefox I've had over 100 tabs open simultaneously.

Love/hate with Firebug, though. I can't work without it, but it does eat a lot of memory and slow things down.
Your points about your Facebook network of friends not being your target market is many times true, and something I had not thought about. Good insight Paul.
It's a reference to the robot laws from the Foundation series by Asimov, not the laws of thermodynamics ;)
sorry, i just sorta checked everything ;) i'll remove some of those. it's seriously not used for anything. you can actually just watch videos by going to /watch.

this was hacked together in a few nights so it's very incomplete. (collaborative) filtering coming soon.
We're talking about expert systems here, with no layer of consciousness. We're not talking about silicon intelligences.
The Innovator's Solution (by Christensen, who wrote the Innovator's Dilemma) says that assembly can be profitable or non-profitable, depending on what qualities are currently in demand in the market.

As an example, Dell made a lot of money being an assembler.
I love how he handles the, almost guaranteed, defeat with great grace and humor. For comparison, Kasparov was in tears. Not the same scenario of course, but I truly admire Kennings' attitude and acknowledgment of IBM's (and humanity's) accomplishments exemplified by Watson.
Agreed. There are advantages to an HTML5 PDF reader. Aside from just being more accessible, I could see how sharing and collaboration tools become more effective with an in-browser solution.
Actually this post was written by Robbie Abed, one of our new writers.
you can just go to /watch. i probably should've added a link ;-)
0. A developer may not harm the user, or, by inaction, allow the user to come to harm.
Wow! A very impressive UI. Love the UX of the download feature. I hope these guys go far—they're certainly on the right path. The only thing I would have like to have seen is hover states on the buttons.
There are many architectural differences between CPUs and GPUs that make it difficult to draw the kinds of conclusions suggested by these graphs.

Data parallel algorithms with high computation-to-communication ratios, good data locality and low local branch divergence will see these kinds of speedups when rewritten for GPUs. This is an important subset of algorithms, but don't expect GPUs to replace CPUs for more general-purpose computation any time soon.
Anyone realized yet this post is from 2003? Further - "first step - write a business plan", "find an accountant"? Really??? After all this time speaking about MVP, validating your idea with paying customers, and finding product/market fit. gimme a break
http://www.hackernewsers.com/users/cfontes.html in case you need info about brazil.
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five and Erlang
Just got back from my last visit to CR. If I wasn't married I'd seriously consider moving there. Seems like a great place for startups, low burn rate and all.
I wonder if they altered that logic for the two-game tournament though, so that it would only play more conservatively on the second FJ.
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Ah, didn’t know this. Sorry, there has been no Jeopardy on German TV since I have been 12, it was not really clear when the wagers are placed. Well, makes sense. I guess they are very nervous about FJ! and know that it’s not one of Watson’s strengths.
Asimov added a zeroth law later in the series:

"A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm."
> 2) "Intelligent discussion". Would any forum aim for unintelligent discussion?

Yes, actually. YouTube, for example.
0. A developer must not harm Steve Jobs or, through inaction, allow Steve Jobs to come to harm.
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Just to elaborate on your point, the outsourcing model works for Walmart because Walmart is selling numerous separate products, rather than an integrated whole. It seems that Boeing forgot that lesson and started thinking of their airplane as a "collection of parts flying in close formation".
You are the first to actually hit that point, and I believe rightly so. I don't see how you could actually comply with V3 and release your software on any of these stores. The obtaining of a developer signing key is not free, and there is no guarantee that the derived work would actually be accepted.
Thanks; the link is in my post, but when submitting here you only get title and link.
https://raganwald.posterous.com/the-freedom-to-eat-pizza
And there is a zeroth asimov law. Time to read 'Robots and Empire'
It's a very nice reader. I recommend putting all of your CSS in one external stylesheet and combine your JavaScript into one external script file. While I'm at that your HTTP expiration date for your CSS is tomorrow, even though you have cache busting. Set it to for the longest possible time and just update your cache busting version number when you update the CSS. The benefits are caching. This will be very important for an embedded product. I also recommend not using JavaScript to detect IE versions to load external CSS and JavaScript, especially since you're already using the better means, conditional comments.
Not all that surprising. Most existing smartphone users are still under contract. The interesting question is what many of those users will do in June when another iPhone is released. Or in June 2012 when all existing contracts will be up.
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The confidence estimations are most impressive to me, and of course absolutely crucial in a game where you have to risk points to make points.

But the fact that bulk correlation mining can answer even some 'vague and indirect' questions isn't that remarkable. Jeopardy clues are a very constrained domain: short clues in English with some distinctive idioms, and short answers that are drawn from some well-defined and constantly recurring classes.

With true natural language understanding, offline searchable copies of Wikipedia and Wiktionary – 64GB, tops? – could be used to answer almost every question. Instead Watson uses 15TB of RAM and 2880 cores.
Not exactly. You'd get logrolling--the worse the name, the fewer votes it would get, meaning that former voters can tone down the name.

What you'd actually get is accuracy, like the "Necessary expenditures with a side of pork act" or the "Handout to lobbyists that will also probably protect consumers, but not necessarily enough to justify the higher costs" bill.
Watson is not general AI. Watson is a clever data mining algorithm running on a supercomputer.
Sure can't wait for "net neutrality." What could possibly go wrong in having politicians determine what fair traffic is rather than letting sysadmins manage the bandwidth on their privately-owned networks as they wish?
When the asker disappears (which happens even more at SO) a cleanup crew will come and either accept an answer (but give the experts chance to discuss which) or delete it. At SO it just sits there, with whatever votes and no accept. When the opposite happens, you need to do a bounty at SO which may or may not work (never worked for me). At EE the question is first marked abandoned, attracting experts who subscribe to that zone - if no reaction, a moderator will send out requests to know experts in the zone and re-zone if needed. Works well
Those are the consumer terms. Devs and publishers would instead have to look at the approval terms. (http://developer.apple.com/appstore/guidelines.html)

And lo & behold, I give you Section 11.13: "Apps can read or play approved content (magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, video) that is sold outside of the app"... yadda, yadda.

Sounds like a definition of "content" to me...
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