skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is off-topic, but have you considered adding a link to the actual Web site at the top of this blog? People who want to check out your product may not have the time to scroll to the bottom of the page to find the link.

Back to the topic:

Typing "bvckup.com" in the URL is troublesome, too, especially because the name itself is very counter-intuitive and difficult to type. I have to type "b", "v" and "c" with my left index finger. It's very easy to hit the wrong key, not to mention "bvc" is not in my fingers' muscle-memory for typing normal English words. Weird names like "xkcd" are weird but still easy to type. "bvckup" is just weird.
IOS made great inroads in the enterprise environment, The Iphone is immensely popular, and rightly so, the Ipad is gaining ground as well.

Where inroads are stymied is in the desktop platform - OSX. the Reasons for this can be debated on their merits, But usually this discussion degenerates into a flame war very fast.

I will however volunteer that my current work environment was OSX dominated, and I ventured to keep it so. However, after working in this environment for a while, I made a decision to switch to Windows (windows XP initially, now 7) for the entire organization. using OSX was just untenable for our business practices and environment.

Kept the hardware though, and still buy Apple hardware as replacement, it just doesn't run OSX, which is sacrilegious in some circles.
Well, Apple is actively developing CUPS, afaik?

Instead of CUPS, consider Webkit then, which is used by major competition to Apple -- Google, Nokia, etc.
If we can scale up to a point where people know about us, I'm not again allowing lone writing. You raise a very good point, and I'm going to admit I know nothing of the space except my own joy from writing. I misread your previous comment--allowing users to write at least one entry when alone in an unlimited turn book was something I thought was in there, but I was careless not to doublecheck that it was in the release. (Why would we have unlimited without that???) I'll get that put up soon for you.
Why can't you make the entire system easier. There should be only an UPARROW so you click if the information is related and valuable. Then have a separate like and dislike counter, BUT has no other weight except just a visual of how likable it is.

For example: ^30 Like(30) | Dislike (30)

The point is that people react through visual familiarity. We are to condition to see the UP and DOWN arrows as positive and negative.
I might be biased as one of the cofounders, but I find that the Yobongo icon stands out pretty well relative to the myriad of blue-ish icons.

http://i.imgur.com/VtYUJ.png

The strong border sets the icon apart, and in fact I notice that you have a similar border in your icon!
If atheists have no morals why are they just ~0.16% of US prison population?
Mouse over method seems to work the best and allowed me to see what I wanted to see without the camera zipping in one direction because I moved the mouse a little out of center.
Which company is the biggest? A primer on corporate valuation
"Port Linux applications to Meego"

So that's the plan to save Nokia? Wow.

Surely the success of the iPad vs Windows Tablets has taught us that the touch interface is totally different to the WIMP interface?

If that's not enough, then huge difference in hardware between a 24" i7 and a 3.2" ARM means perhaps the programs should behave just a little bit different?
It's sad how many people I encounter that are so delusional as in they're in Stage 1 and don't even know it and even after a very long period of time, they're still there. It's like they can't even register they're not as smart as they claim they are.
Definitely; I'm from the UK and just took my California driving test - it's amazing how simple it is! Didn't even have to reverse around any corners. Although I've never had to do that outside of my British driving test, either...
Similar to what I asked here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2219418
Can't say I've spent much time on vatican.va and from a quick look at the site, it's not obvious... is anyone aware of any similar work done by the Vatican to make this sort of thing available online?
Clunky or not, it still gives people who have never had a chance to see the chapel in person a perspective of how much beautiful art and history there is packed in this one little place.

Now on a side note, I must have came late in the day because I definetly do not remember it being that bright in the chapel when I went.
While PCs may out-number in sales - I was somewhat taken aback when returning to SFO from LAX (Gate 70B) on Saturday night. There were 14 Macintoshes, of one form or another, 4 iPads (mine was one), 3 Kindles (that I could find), and I don't even want to guess how many iPhones. There were what appeared to be two netbooks of some form, and I _think_ a thinkpad.

Now, those saturday night returnees may be a somewhat biased group of people (I was returning from vacation, Kauai) - but still, it was a little astonishing to see how many people were using their Macs in public.

I wonder if anyone has done a survey of _what Laptops people are using_, as opposed to what Laptops are being purchased.
Plus alimony for the rest of their life?
Why would you buy Apple hardware if you don't plan on running OS X? This seems frivolous, especially in a business setting.
CUPP crams ARM inside of a MacBook Pro, makes it run Android with a button press
Jeopardy vs Watson day 1 videos
Here's the videos for day 1 of IBM's Watson playing Jeopardy.

part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfNBWJTGEEA
part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtHlxzOXgYs

Tomorrow is double and final jeopardy.
Try tackling new problems, don't be afraid to fail, and travel. You're young -- keep your mind open.
Seen The Social Network? Mark created something almost identical to http://leftright.me/
Not everything needs or ought to spark a new discussion. But I would up vote things I disagreed with if they were insightful. Retrodden political soundbites though? Nah
Once you reach a certain level of Karma (currently 500), you can downvote.
Computer ties human as they square off on 'Jeopardy'
Not all top talent is young...
Accidental upvote
Is it possible to block Bing from copying search results using this? ;)
And be sure to stick around for Wheel of Fortune, where two previous champs will take on an Apple II+. Beep.
Throwing in HP/IBM on the revenue and employee details would have been nice. Still - nice article.
My ulterior motive is I'm sick of seeing crap sites like bigresource.com and bytes.com. All they are is scraped/stolen content wrapped around AdSense, and I don't even know how many times I've clicked on them without thinking.

bigresource is the most annoying, one time those assholes put a fricking CAPTCHA in place so you had to prove you were human to get to the source link they STOLE the content from.
There is a handy reference link to one at the top of the page.
Long ago (~2002) when I lived in Beijing, a vendor at the city's Silk Market had Nokia-brand socks on offer. I suspected they were fakes. The Marlboro-brand shirts were decent, though...
Lemmings Revolution was pretty fun. The 3D was almost superfluous, of course, but it was a neat way to retain the 2D gameplay while looking modernish.
Do people still start real technology companies in Silicon Valley? It seems like everything coming out of there these days is some variety of web mashup. The semiconductor launched the original Valley ecosystem, the Internet launched the current one. Where is the technological foundation for the next wave?
Any thoughts on the Browse page? The books on the shelf are representative of a few attributes of the books. Width represents page length, height represents view-count, rating in stars is displayed, number is of authors, and letters represent the genre of the neovella.
Nine traits of the veteran Unix admin
AOL Q1 Luge Update Since HuffPo Acquisition: We’ve Got Work To Do
Executing what? The word execution in the startup world refers to everything you do to build a startup, including cloning the competition. If you're talking about a specific type of startup, you need to identify what's hard beyond simply "execution" since that's a given.
Starting a web product company from India
U.S. Policy on Internet Freedom: State Dept to finance circumvention services
Redis at Bump
I guess that's part of the debate isn't it? Most things don't actually have a tremendous number of academic sources. If I'm fantastically interested in contributing an article about say, a well known jazz band that doesn't have a page on wikipedia, I may be terribly limited in what secondary resources I can call upon.

Jazz bands don't get a terrible amount of coverage in main stream media, they don't become top-40 acts, they don't get academic papers written about them in the ACM, etc. But they may be hugely influential, have tens of thousands of listeners, and may have other qualifications for why they should have a page. But if they don't meet <arbitrary person>'s requirement for notability they may flag it AfD and then it ends up working it's way through Wikipedia's impressively broken editing process where it'll probably end up deleted despite any discussion to the contrary.

Importantly, my hypothetical jazz band may only be well known in Jazz circles, having never pierced more mainstream circles. But just like a singular academic paper that no lay person has heard about, but been cited hundreds of times, this band may have influenced hundreds of other, highly visible bands.

I'm picking Jazz here, but it could be any other fairly insular sub-culture, say Blue Grass, or Model Train collectors. It's not up to me, as somebody not interested in their sub-culture to decide if it's notable. That only tests whether or not something has percolated up to "common knowledge". If that's the test for inclusion, then we don't really need Wikipedia anyway do we? Everybody already knows what's in it!
One of the hardest parts of getting into Scala for me (coming from mostly Java and Python) was that the yield keyword means something significantly different from what it means in Python. This actually broke my heart early on, as Python's generators are one of my favorite features from any language.

Delimited continuations in 2.8 make up for it and then some, but they're much harder to grok, imo. Python's yield gets you 80% of the same benefits with about 20% of the brain bending.
Disagreeing with down-voting and not commenting is poisonous, because it doesn't encourage further debate, where positions can be elaborated and facts made clear.

I've only had a few instances of down-vote spirals without refuting arguments, but I tell you, it feels like crap. I'm very likely to even change my mind regarding a subject when somebody is kind enough to present their point of view, even if they down-vote my comment along the way.

I feel HN is a very constructive environment most of the time, but sadly I'm beginning to keep my opinion to myself in threads with high-fanboy presence, where the damnation of subjective anonymous down-votes sometimes makes it feel more like 4chan.
The allinone package that Apple provides (the imac) is easy to maintain, and get support for when required, we need a compact platform due to space constraints, and other allinones are not much cheaper. Apart from a good online support network, I also can waltz down the street if the problem is urgent enough, this cannot be overstated.

Drivers for the hardware provided by Apple are always a single package making deployment easy, what's more they update cautiously, and updates are easy to deploy, that just isn't the case with many other providers.

The possibility of Installing OSX IF required, is also appealing, and no other hardware vendor offers that, and it happens on occasion.

There is an aesthetic appeal to the machine itself that is hard to deny, Some may question the validity of such frivolity, but in my view, thinking that is selling your coworkers short, aesthetics are important in the work place.
Digital media's Dickensian sweatshop
Method overloading and overriding cause encapsulation ﬂaw [pdf]
brilliant pickup by the way. robby is a god.
JumpBox Now Offers One-Click Installs On Amazon’s Free Usage Tier
I was going to say, seems more like a list of things that introverted people do. Either way (obsessive/introverted), I wouldn't define it as "smart".
Wow! Who are these guys? What do they know about building a mobile ecosystem? Young how young? Looks to me like a bunch of kids who are scared to put their name out ..
Not to be offensive, but I don't think these other measures are very insightful.

Measures like EV and assets dont really tell you much because they are easy to get skewed by leverage. The cash measure isn't great either because it's dominated by financials (where the cash does not necessarily belong to the bank). You see this as you go through the lists and notice different lists are dominated by certain types of companies.

Market cap is actually a decent proxy here, just to see what the market 'perceives' the value of companies to be.

If you were comparing large tech companies, a figure like FCF/EV might be interesting to see which company is yielding the most cashflow.
We do that too. The new MacBook Air has replaced the Dell E4200 as our default notebook for Windows 7. It's similarly priced, even with Windows, and it has a lower defect rate, a much lower incidence of damage (metal vs plastic, mainly), and users like it more.
Games using licensed IP have a very, very long history of only being vaguely related to the original works. In the early 8-bit era this was particularly true because of technical limitations; from around the advent of 16-bit consoles on, the default became "generic action-game gameplay that is visually similar to the IP." The main thing that has changed since then is the kind of generic gameplay used - at first it was almost always platform games; nowadays third-person action-adventures tend to be the default. The inclusion of mock-Japanese elements is mostly a reflection of the NES in particular, but games from the U.S. and U.K., on other platforms, tended to be wacky too, just not as much(probably because the licensors were more hands-on about the content of the game).

Some examples(some bad games, and some really good ones too):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFVEtVEYtBw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqdtn-gaGbo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6x4wQJMLEc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9t_tAGKKkQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJTNGoBvkVU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkBLLH5fiZk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3GmQrQPXc8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2zfOBOYLwo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYFdgyuv6fU

In general, the further the developers are allowed to stray from the original work, the more they can actually do with it as a game. But at the same time, some IP-holders will get obnoxiously protective of the brand image, take a "merchandising tie-in" view of the game that blinds them to other sources of value, and as such are willing to cut large amounts of the game out for the sake of making it fit into their vision. When this happens it can be very discouraging for both parties.

Here's an example of a real game license that I worked on a pitch for(never went into production): Michael Phelps. It was the most perplexing thing. What the fuck do you do in a Michael Phelps game? The publisher had come up with two concepts to work from - generic action-adventure(Phelps...swims very fast...to save the day from terrorists?) or generic party game(lots of swimming minigames with Michael Phelps in them?).

This was shortly after the stories came out about his pot-smoking habits, so one idea we desperately wanted to put into the concept, if it weren't so obviously un-befitting of brand image, would be to do the action-adventure but turn it into a parody and have him "power up" with bong rips and enter bonus stages where he's literally swimming in the clouds. With this simple change, the license does a 180 in terms how much novel/interesting gameplay can be had from it.
It's funny how people can take a number tied rather abstractly to an enormously volatile and effervescent measure so seriously.
Default HTTPS Access for Picasa Web Albums
Ask HN: I just got laid off. Now what?
I've just been laid off, it's not as horrible as it sounds, since I've been contemplating quitting lately, although I stifled that urge since I'd just been promoted.

I've been kicking around the idea of attempting to start my own business, but don't know if I have the technical foundation. As some background, I've been working as a PHP developer for the last year or so. Before that, I had no programming experience, although I've always been fairly technical. I got a Microsoft certification my Freshman year of High School.

I've been through fairly great pains to educate myself though, and shortly after I started programming for a living, I picked up SICP and read through it and did all of the exercises. It greatly improved my skills, and since then I've digested a good number of programming books. While I feel I have a strong theoretical background (ish), I've not taken on any major projects. Most of the work I've done over this last year has been maintenance on an already completed accounting/shipping/receiving etc... system. I haven't had too much time to pursue projects other than working through books like SICP and a few other textbooks like "Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer programming" as I am also a full time student as well as a competitive pianist. I was also working full time.

Financially, I am neither in a good place or bad. I already freelance successfully, and even without my full time job, on average my freelancing covers about 1.5 times my monthly expenses (about 800 dollars.) I'll have a few grand set aside when I leave at the end of this month.

I have some experience using several frameworks and have implemented trivial projects in Django, Rails and Seaside. (Seaside was by far my favorite.) However, I am very lacking in my understanding of lower level computing details as well as systems administration (non-existent.)

I'm also 19, I don't say this to try and impress you, but I've encountered a fair bit of ageism working in technology. I think I'm competent, but a lot of people don't seem to be willing to give me a fair shake because of my age, or aren't willing to compensate me fairly. (I don't make outrageous demands). As an example, I was being paid less than 15 dollars an hour to do full time web development. I was happy with this because the environment was great, I had an office, dual monitors and a beast of a machine, so I felt pretty taken care of.

I guess my dilemma is this. Do I attempt to start a business or do I continue educating myself and freelance to pay the bills? Regardless of what I choose, I will still be a full-time student...
Via http://www.zenit.org/rssenglish-30009, I learned that Villanova's Communications department is responsible for the technology behind the images. There are more links to 360 views at the bottom of that article, including this one to see St. Peter's: http://www.vatican.va/various/basiliche/san_pietro/vr_tour/i...
Mosync: crossplatform mobile framework (iPhone, Android, WM, Symbian, J2ME)
Yes and no. Once you are successful the risk of getting sued raises but also the ability to get rid of the liability.
maybe Google should buy them?

The web is not computing.
It's required by certification standards: 14 CFR 25.335(b) states:

(b) Design dive speed, V D. V Dmust be selected so that V C/ M Cis not greater than 0.8 V D/ M D,or so that the minimum speed margin between V C/ M Cand V D/ M Dis the greater of the following values:

(1) From an initial condition of stabilized flight at V C/ M C,the airplane is upset, flown for 20 seconds along a flight path 7.5° below the initial path, and then pulled up at a load factor of 1.5 g (0.5 g acceleration increment). The speed increase occurring in this maneuver may be calculated if reliable or conservative aerodynamic data is used. Power as specified in §25.175(b)(1)(iv) is assumed until the pullup is initiated, at which time power reduction and the use of pilot controlled drag devices may be assumed;

(2) The minimum speed margin must be enough to provide for atmospheric variations (such as horizontal gusts, and penetration of jet streams and cold fronts) and for instrument errors and airframe production variations. These factors may be considered on a probability basis. The margin at altitude where MCis limited by compressibility effects must not less than 0.07M unless a lower margin is determined using a rational analysis that includes the effects of any automatic systems. In any case, the margin may not be reduced to less than 0.05M.

Vc is the maximum operating airspeed and Mc is the maximum operating Mach number. Vd is the dive speed and Md is the dive Mach number. Vc and Mc are called out in an aircraft's Type Certificate Data Sheet. Vd and Md are usually not on the TCDS.

So, it's not ham-fisted throttle-jockey joy-riding test pilots, but rather a certification requirement to demonstrate flutter resistance up to the design dive speed.
You're talking about two different things -- SMrF is saying that if Jennings or Rutter gives an incorrect answer, Watson is able to run speech recognition on what they said, ruling out the answer they gave. This would happen before the question is completed.
A Facebook like works well for me :)
They'd be crazy not to focus on Asia. (And the middle east) Europe is locked up by Airbus, and the Americas are moving in the other direction toward small regional jets.
Party?
http://www.reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page
Tradeable broadcasts permits would be an improvement, allowing companies with valuable new technologies to purchase spectrum rights from companies whose products had become valued less in the marketplace. Imagine what the country would look like if you had to apply to a regulator every time you wanted to buy or sell a piece of land.
Wow, I hadn't realized that. Yes, that's true: the US as a whole has about twice the population density as Scandinavia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_and_population_of_European...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_populati...

This makes Sweden, Norway and Finland roughly comparable in density to Colorado, Maine, and Oregon, which we tend to think of as relatively spacious states. By contrast, each is about the size of California, which has 5-6x the population density.
Convention says: get your mutual friends to share it on Facebook. My suggestion? A dream within a dream within a dream.
Go to Bangkok. No really.

http://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/2008/05/laid-off-one-t...

If you can do freelance work from anywhere in the world, then this advice is doubly true.
so women are a race now?
Apple isn't a software company (ok, yes they do have software but that's not what generates their profits).
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I think their biggest challenge with going down the MeeGo route would be acquiring the kind of App ecosystem that iOS and Android have. I reckon their best bet would be to implement something like Alien Dalvik[1] to allow very easy porting of existing Android apps to MeeGo, and make their 'app store' as seamlessly alike to iOS and Android's (including working with top app developers to encourage them to bring over the most desirable apps).

Once they can be seen as having the same big name apps as the other two, I think MeeGo has much more of a chance of being competitive, rather than being a 'third world country' of a platform.

[1] http://www.allaboutmeego.com/news/item/12571_Alien_Dalvik_ho...
MeeGo Preview Shows Why Nokia Embraced WP7