skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't worry, people are on it - http://www.dotcloud.com :)
I'd say times have changed. You cannot "win" in any sensible way in mobile space without making consumer happier.
If they were going to switch to iOS, can't they just switch to Objective-C too even if they used to work with C++ before?
ups downvote was not intentional sorry. Stupid small arrows!
My 2c:

Only take a job if you are 100% sure you can do it.

Close a deal first. Deal is not closed until you have your contract signed.

Get and stay in touch with your champions/ decision-makers inside a company

Set realistic roadmap and deadlines. Realistic = youthinkitwilltake x ±2 (imho)

Keep communication strong and regular.

Be a nice guy, not just soulless contractor who suck money.

Work hard.
If you upgrade, we do go fetch all the link content. We have users with 70k+ archived bookmarks, so you'd really be just a drop in the bucket.

It comes down to this - storage is cheap and development time is expensive. It would take considerable work to retrofit the crawler to only fetch dependencies for certain users, manage the case where they upgraded/downgraded between levels, and so on.
Thank you, I really appreciate that!
Why not? Note that it's not necessary to build in Visual Studio to use VS as an IDE.
Right, and even if they get a sweet deal from Microsoft, they are still betting on an unknown with much of their success dependent on Microsoft.

In Android, they'd build on a known platform with success or failure in their own hands. Don't like what Google is doing in the future? They'd have options without abandoning the platform. Hell, they could let Google develop the core, port Qt, use Bing maps and search, and Amazon Appstore.
Yes, I agree.

Too often researchers think that AI must be perfect under all conditions. The truth is that we adapt our usage of tools to their limitations all the time, which makes me think that AI-powered vision systems that work well in some limited circumstances would still be very useful.
3) Qt c++ devs will learn Java or Obj-C and targets [iOS|Android], where there're already lot's of customers.
As a Qt dev, neither option is appealing to me right now. Maybe when things calm down...

By the way, the consensus in the Qt community is that this is bad news both for Qt and for the entire community.
Nokia and Microsoft Strategic Announcement Live Blog
I cant imagine anyone switching to Silverlight now, its already dying, as MS have admitted, they only cant kill it before they release HTML5 for WP7 later this year.
If the person I was dating didn't find that amusing and endearing then we'd be doomed anyway.

I'm dating a psychologist, who has a reductionist approach to such things. She says things like "You just gave me a massive surge of oxytocin." It's awesome.
This is crazy talk. It's interesting that HP had the same crazy talk for its relaunch of webOS.

It's one thing to say "yeah, we can put out a quality product that can hold its own and go toe to toe with any other product in the market", it's another thing entirely to say "absolutely positively we will turn this product into a world beater, we will utterly dominate this industry soon" ... starting from a niche position at the bottom of the crowd. The former is sane, and capable of being fulfilled. The latter is not sane and a recipe for self-sabotage and failure.
On the other hand, take a moment to think about how high at the morale at Microsoft is right now!
However, If HTC hadn't jump the Android bandwagon it would be as good as dead now. So I am not sure if this example counts.
A site that would help one make new friends would be very interesting. Right now (AFAIK) there are only two kinds of sites: those where you interact with your existing friends (Facebook) and those that help you find dates (OkCupid, Match.com, etc.)

But what about a site that would let you make NEW friends (but "just" friends)? Would that be awkward? Online dating used to seem a lot awkward and is now kind of mainstream.

Meeting new friends is incredibly difficult; one ends up seeing the people they met in school or at work, and that's it.

Or maybe such a thing already exists? Or it's kind of available through Facebook...?
Ethical Placebos-Seth Godin
Please review my startup (again)
A while back I asked for a site review and I got some very constructive feedback. I honestly was not happy about it all at first but I'm glad I pushed my ego aside and listened... because my new landing page is a thousand times better than the first.

It took me a while to come up with something [relatively] concise... I probably spent a week just trying to come up with a way to explain all of the things my app does in as little time/words as possible (went through 5+ revisions)... while matching the current look/feel... and not being too cheesy.

As for a little background info on myself... I'm 23 and this is my first startup with no funding or guidance. I've basically spent the past 7 months by myself glued to my computer with only my dog by my side and occasional contact with family. I make a little money here and there doing some freelance odd jobs. I'm just taking it as it goes and quite frankly I'm ready to move forwards because my current situation has grown incredibly stale and depressing. I'd bet I'm far from alone in this kind of situation here on HN. But I think it's time for me to really move forwards... live life and have fun again.

I came up with the idea behind this startup when I was a professional touring musician. It takes care of all the boring, tedious number-crunching aspects to being a professional in the industry. (In advance, the term "soundscans" is widely known among all serious touring bands in case anyone asks.)

With that said, please check out my startup and I would be so very grateful for any advice and guidance in moving forwards with this. My main concerns are whether or not there are any security holes and/or crippling bugs. (Edit: Small question... how many of you have to download a plugin to hear the music when clicking play? I'm trying to minimize the number of required plugins while supporting older browsers.)

I'm also wondering about a "terms of service" agreement. Does anyone have any advice as to how to properly approach this?

And one last thing if anyone would be so kind... My laptop resolution only goes up to 1280x800 so if anyone with higher resolutions could let me know if it does okay I would very much appreciate it. I've also only tested the mobile version on my phone (Samsung Instinct) and my father's phone (first gen Droid)... so any input there is also greatly appreciated.

I'll include working links in a comment. (Side question: Why are working links not allowed in text submissions?)

Fullscreen:
http://www.rela.cc

Mobile:
http://m.rela.cc
Fullscreen:
http://www.rela.cc

Mobile:
http://m.rela.cc
Aww, I bought a 2010 in the summer of 1995, and have been using Nokia phones ever since. Next one is going to be something with Android probably, too bad it couldn't have been a Nokia as well.
- MeeGo is already open-source

- "a product" sounds like "one single product" to my non-native english reading comprehension skill

As a ex-maemo user (N810) and someone that took a long, hard look at the N900 last time a new phone was due I'm sad. This is the sure death of that platform imo.
Related discussion, 111 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1820320
They have very different programming models, think Simula versus Smalltalk. You can use the two-headed beast that is Objective-C++, but there's varying levels of compatibility between the languages (in the 64 bit ABI, they share exceptions, in the 32 bit, they don't) and other various oddities they essentially mean they still remain two separate languages that have been kludged together.
I don't know - it was a genuine question!

[Edit - if there any current or ex Microsoft people who could answer this I'd love to know about the set of tools actually used to develop Windows]
Get your free AppSumo bundle while you can
Your iPhone Passwords Can Be Extracted In Six Minutes
Anybody else watched the whole thing hoping to see people actually working? And how they worked? And where they worked? Desks, computers, OSs, software, hardware, meeting rooms, etc.

No such luck.

Instead, that looked like the tour of a kindergarten: here we dance, here we play, here we sing, here we eat, and the view is great.
Cool, that makes me feel guilt-free... one upgrade coming.
I love these offices. They have the sophistication of the 37signals and yet without the sterility. There's warmth and inspiring comfort.
Noticed how Yahoo! has a higher success rate than Google? That alone is proof that these numbers do not correlate to the real world experience.
Note - I chucked an affiliate code on the end there, but I don't think it will do much considering it is a free deal :P

And if you ask 'then why did you do it in the first place', I don't really have much of an answer - I just knew that if I did people like me (aka HN) prefer a disclosure.

So cheers guys, make the most of the free stuff - I'm not affiliated with the company just thought someone might find this useful.
I'm trying to work out which of Wikipedia's list of cognitive biases (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases) best describes a CEO abandoning the majority of his company's intellectual property in favour of a partnership with his ex-employer.
I did not know that :) So if you can use C++ on iOS, why the hell are people using the horror that is Objective-C?
I use FB, Google accounts but only on sites I trust. If I don't trust the site and there is no classic u/p system then I leave
Silverlight on the web is dead, but MS is pushing it hard as a local app platform, and for business applications. In those segments, it's far from dead.
Python's list comprehension is actually inspired by Haskell (or was it the other way around)?

What do you mean by dated? What new ideas have come up for List comprehension syntax?

(I agree that Lambda should be call fun or fn or \. An implicit _ might also work, though that's somewhat against Python's spirit---c.f. the explicit self in methods.)
Requests per second for a static file on my server via HTTP: 400, limited by bandwidth

Requests per second for a static file on my server via HTTPS: 10, limited by CPU

:(
I upvoted you, I needed that laugh.
Show HN - socl.in
Social twist to calendar+todo list - http://www.socl.in/
A few good social features - still in very alpha stage, your comments are welcome.
Because Objective-C is far from being an horror language, but perhaps your impression (and so mine) is conditioned by your past experience with your languages of choice.
The problem is that unit tests aren't for today.

My unit tests are half for today—they actually let me code faster and better—and half for next month, when I discover a much better way to do things and reorganize my code savagely.

3 years from now? That's just a bonus which lets me feel smug. The real payoff was immediate, and did not involve any virtuous self-discipline.
Disagree. Plenty of us live to work, because working is living. If you're not creating and producing, you're merely existing.
"you can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company"

Awesome insight. Absolutely breathtaking. Explains so much of what happens at larger companies.
Probably "fame", "power" and "money". Notice how happiness is not there.
I think it's more that their system doesn't sound like it has anything that existing systems haven't already tried.
War of Currents
Don't over promise and under-deliver.
Dating (online and offline) in the UK is a totally different ball game.

If it wasn't for alcohol, i think all British people would die out.
Does the new NDK actually provide access to the UI API's?
The question is this: have we seen a truly open device on the market yet ? If not, then none of the stats that you quote really mean much, at least at this point.
Yeah, being eVIl, they probably use Vi.
There's also the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) :
http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/efl
No, they have been verified up to perfect accuracy.

There is no such thing in experimental physics. You are glossing over a number of experimental details surrounding these 'experimental measures'. This experiment does not succeed all the time. The measures are taken a million times and the results averaged. You don't know the results of the switch of two individual particles. Hell, you can't even know for sure you actually switched them. That's a nice conundrum.

And your claim that this notion can 'of course' be extended to larger things is begging the question.
On iOS C++ is generally only used when you don't need to make much use of the Cocoa Touch APIs. If you do, you will be using the hybrid 'Objective-C++' language, and you will still need to use some Objective-C.

See this Stackoverflow answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3804219/what-is-the-diffe...

Basically, it's probably easier and less messy to just learn Obj-C.
Hacking Body Growth- How to do it?
> Yeah, I don't think you can use i % 2 as an equivalent of i % 2 == 0. Maybe it's a python 3 thing, but on my 2.6.1 the mod operator just returns the remainder, it doesn't change its output if it's a boolean context (which would be perlish and highly unpythonic).

$ python3
>>> not 0
True

Python doesn't have Perl-like contexts, but it does treat lots of values as True or False. I do agree that

i % 2 == 0

is more explicit here.
Thinking about affairs with married women
Many believe that an extramarital affairs can be emotional and can happen even if no sexual contact has taken place.
Ballmer and Elop: Nokia-Microsoft alliance focused on scale and Office/Bing
Ask HN: What does "stack" mean?
don't they already have major manufacturers producing wp7 phones? I am quite sure I have seen a commercial showing a samsung phone with WP7 installed (and android as a second option)
Though I agree that love and family come above all else, of course, I do quite dislike the whole 'it's just a job' attitude. Isn't the whole point of all this that we do what we love and are passionate about?

I, for one, adore programming and would do it even if I was working as a bank clerk.

Obviously there are awful days and truly crap aspects of running a business, and even when coding, as things you love aren't a pure, crystalline edifice of positivity but necessarily embody suffering within them. What counts is the net meaningfulness of what you are doing, I think. And I believe when you are doing something you love it pays infinitely more than it costs.

I say this with all respect, as you have achieved amazing things, and are clearly a very competent (far better than me) hacker.
I just hope Qt doesn't die.
The Nook Color is pretty different from other Android devices - it's locked down by B&N and they're planning on opening their own app store for it. It's also missing menu, back & search buttons, found on every other 2.x device.

In addition, it isn't being marketed as an Android device.
And you responded to my post where i didn't mention MS throwing money at phones but throwing money in every direction they think to have problems. Maybe, just maybe, they just start to realize the importance of mobile. I think you can't compare Microsofts engagement in the mobile world in the times before WinMob7. Either they realize now to put _a lot_ of effort in it (money/resources) or they will never catch up. Whatever they invested in the years before the iPhone clearly wasn't enough.

edit: It is also said that MS offered Nokia several hundred millions of dollars multiple times to make this switch.
Hacking the Growth
For Body Growth GENF20 is the best as celebrities use it too to stay young
More at http://www.productshgh.com/
In Haskell this is caught as a type error. But you can make your own version:

class ExtendedBool t where
toBool :: t -> Bool

instance ExtendedBool Int where
toBool = (0/=)
instance ExtendedBool [a] where
toBool = not . null

if' v a b =
if (toBool v)
then a
else b

main = if' "String"
(print "True")
(print "False")
Higher order life has this "defect" because, from an evolutionary perspective, there is little reason for us to stick around for very long after reproducing.
After passing our genes on to our children we have some years where it is helpful for their survival that we are still alive, but pretty soon Darwin has no more use for you.

The various problems that you imagine might result from curing ageing can be solved _after_ we solve the problem of hundreds of thousands of people dying every single day.
step 1: write code
step 2: ???
step 3: big profit
> its a 105 year old historic landmark

As a Brit, this made me laugh.
Not unlike setting up a news.arc forum called Anonymous and letting people upvote ideas to do certain things and anyone can join, and anyone can upvote. A forum like this doesn't exist per se, but that's the archetype. There'd be no (or optional) usernames either.

Things that involve scientology, wikileaks, involve lulz (uploading porn into YouTube), censorship or counteracting actions against the board get the most upvotes and galvanize the most people into action. There is no leader, but on certain items, there is someone that posts, and there are a few key contributors to the outcome of the item.

On that note, does an anonymous (not Anonymous) news.arc exist? Say an anonymous HN? (IE in effect randomizing usernames for each posting ...maybe public randomizing, but privately tied to the one user, that way users can have some degree of vested-ego, ie regarding karma, but publically be without inhibition-- maybe downvoting on the front page too, and more than -10 downvotes per comment)?

Is the cloak and principle that is called Anonymous an outcome of 4Chan?
Microsoft just bought Nokia for $0
You cannot "win" in any sensible way in mobile space without making consumer happier.

Does this observation cover the carriers? How about the handset and smartphone manufacturers that are held in thrall to them?
Interesting analyst comment here - baisc thumbs up but Nokia warned not to become a box shifter. HArd to se how they will avoid it.
I love my job and find a great deal of meaning in the work, but there is no level of Yay This Is The Best Job Ever that would make it more important than those other things. (It is my favorite job ever. This morning aside, I practically bounce with enthusiasm about it. I am probably spoiled for doing anything else. But if it were ripped away from me, I'd still be living a very blessed life.)

I appreciate the praise, but folks overestimate my skill at hacking. I'm good at it. There are a lot of people better at it than me, including on HN.
Well, this shows just how good are these buyouts by big corporations:

1. create great product
2. get people on board
3. success
4. get bought by BigCo
5. ???
6. get crushed when BigCo focuses on something else
HTC grew by jumping on bandwagons. Windows Mobile 6 was the product with an established market.

Furthermore, Microsoft engaged HTC in many matters of industrial design, and all these competencies allowed them to effectively move from being a PC company to a mobile phone company.

The situation for Nokia is somewhat different. MS is no longer the dominant platform in the mobile space.

However, MS still has the advantage of outlook/exchange being the dominant enterprise email solution. If MS can do a good job of integrating features like Sharepoint into WP7, then it has a strong position to defend.
Créer et supprimer
I've only spend a relatively short amount of time studying the subjects you mentioned, so correct me if I'm wrong, but the meta-programming aspects you're mentioning here are either highly exaggerated, or significantly less impressive than you make them sound.

Machine learning is really computational statistics - it applies fairly standard and well understood techniques to fit a function to a noisy data set. Genetic algorithms and neural networks are really fancy words for optimization algorithms - they're merely a set of tools (not unlike hill-climbing) for searching a large space. The de-facto books on AI are PAIP and PPAI. I've read both, and example programs there, while very interesting, are not much different than a combination of reasonably clever techniques.

"Generating new code" is the same thing as generating a data structure and running a predefined interpreter over it. These systems do that, but in a much more restricted way than you imply. They certainly don't design new algorithms in an intelligent fashion, merely use a set of predefined inference rules, not unlike any other rewriting system.

I don't know anything about Watson, but it is a well understood fact that every AI system to date is nothing more than a clever marionette (and it's very unlikely that this will change for a very long time). You can't just throw terms around - show an example. In every case so far a result that initially appears impressive, when understood, is immediately disappointing. They're all clever, but they're a far cry from "self-learning systems" for any reasonable definition of the word "learning".
The browser might only cache the js code, not the work that happens on load or the memory the app consumes.
I think an important point is also that Nokia isn't abandoning MeeGo and their own OSes. Those I imagine will play a significant role in the future (again).
This is great for building your own app. For hosting a mildly popular phpBB forum, though, I've been stuck with its built-in clumsiness and 1sec+ load times.
City of Boston Developing iPhone App to Automatically Report Potholes
I think basically at any one time there are a lot of competing new-born technologies, and it's only in retrospect that we can see which of them will go exponential through a feedback cycle of improvement and growing adoption.

It's not so much that technology always goes exponential. It's that in retrospect, we notice the ones that did.
Relish - Browsable Cucumber Features
That's all I am to you? Amino acid chains?

No darling, of course not! Fatty acids, if deposited in right places in the right amounts, may also produce a visual sensation that will trigger the emotional response in the occipital lobe!
Groupon Must Avoid Becoming Just Another Useless Coupon Site
Nokia says they will still run symbian on entry level phones. Increasingly these will compete with cheap android phones like huawei ideos. Nokia's advantage will be battery life, but the android phones will have the features that consumers want.
Nokia "Elope"d with Microsoft.
I know that one as "you can't tie two bricks together to make a life boat"
Paypal launches Micro-Payments for online content
Ipfw-for-traffic-shaping
sometimes we try to shape traffic with ipfw for freebsd
It’s like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they’ll run faster.

http://www.fakesteve.net/2008/02/ballmer-im-completely-out-o...
I'm using my monitors rotated 90 degrees (i.e. portrait instead of landscape). Unfortunately, there's only 1060 pixels from left to right.

Also, the restriction to something around 80 characters stemmed from technical considerations---but it may be good for readability, too. After all 66 characters per line is the rule of thumb for type setting books. Newspapers also divide their pages into narrow columns.
I think their pricing is too high. 5 percent plus 5 cents for purchases under $12. An item priced 50ct (used as example in their screenshot), that'd be 15%. Quite a lot.
I don't think he would be allowed to have Microsoft stock while running a company that competes with Microsoft on some fronts.

Well.. Stranger things have happened.
I'd be curious in knowing the mean response time of Watson. That would shed some light on the topic.