skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The demo video makes me want to punch myself in the face.
The last release of WordPress was originally named Django.
Biggest advantage: you can tag your friends from the SocialCam app and you can't from the YouTube app.
This is cool and all, but are there any uses for it?
I just want to say that this is a very cool idea, and I have found it as addicting as Pokemon was, haha. Thanks for bringing me back to my youth.
Interesting UI decision to feature an HTC branded Android phone on the landing page when so many other top dual-platform apps (Eg - redlaser) stick to standard iphone body for landing page mock-ups.

Would be an interesting element to A/B test.
Sorry for going off tangent but why would you worry about wordpress?
Unfortunately the 'Tweetie never crashed' bit is untrue. I had Tweetie download and cache a profile icon that was trash and it continually crashed until I deleted and reinstalled. I do agree that the app has gone downhill since the acquisition, but I don't think the code quality has anything to do with that.
thx, those suggestions do make sense. I'll implement those tonight:)
I didn't necessarily say that I was arguing. I mean, it's perfectly within their right -- but, where it's generally more acceptable to allow moonlighting on the proverbial Saturdays and Sundays, if they're advertising Friday as a 'day off', then I should be free to do the same.

I completely agree with your assertion that it's their right to request you not to, and I can certainly understand the logic of it, specifically in trying not to attract people looking to do the minimal work effort so that they can reap the benefits of another paycheck.

Regardless, I have questions. If the Friday is a 'day off', then how is it different than Saturday and Sunday. Do they also insist that you not have a second job on those days? What specifically does it prohibit? Can I work on an open source project? Can I boostrap my own projects? What if they become successful?

I was really hoping somebody from Carsonified could speak to this really, and not trying to start an argument, but I do have my own take on things -- I'd just love to know more.
I believe 2000mah charging would require four usb ports
Interesting to see, but I still prefer the temporal compression applied in http://iwdrm.tumblr.com/ .
In that case, let me suggest some other headlines:

Heroku, the TurboTax of Rails Application Deployment, acquired by Salesforce, the TurboTax of CRM.

10 things you can do with Dropbox, the TurboTax of Cloud Storage.

:P
This isn't just about hard drives. Hitachi Storage also makes some pretty huge -- and well-regarded -- SANs, and enterprise storage is one area into which I've never really seen WD make much headway. This acquisition would make them a full-spectrum player in the storage market.

Enterprise storage is also an area with rather higher profit margins than merely hawking spinning rust.
You can see how the teal and amber palette has become more and more popular in recent years.
I would be more excited about this if I didn't have to log in via Facebook.

Socialcam is requesting permission to do the following:
* Access my basic information
* Access my data any time ("Socialcam may access my data
when I'm not using the application")
* Access my friends' information ("Current Cities, Photos,
Videos and Photos and Videos of Them")

Granted I'm already having a tough time keeping up with all the permissions' changes when apps get updated on my phone, seeing the above (especially #2 & 3) gives me the heebie-jeebies. Maybe explain why you need these permissions on socialcam.com? Also, I would rather just create a socialcam user account and share a video on Facebook when I want to; I realize that would take the social out of socialcam.
I think whoever implements this type of model will eventually have the upper-hand, open-sourcing your code seems a small price to pay for robustness, auto-scaling and performance.

I don't think Twitter's success is down to its code being proprietary. I think you're selling them short.
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The APA style term paper is a common type assigned to many students. In order to write a good term paper, they need to ensure that they understand the rules and regulations of the APA format. With knowledge, students will find the writing of their term papers easier.
The problem I have with programming is knowing the actual code formalities and rules (akin to the grammar and spelling rules of the English language). I usually don't have a problem solving the problem or outlining an algorithm, but when it comes down to actually coding it out and making the code compile without grammar bugs, I run into problems. I can read code just fine (akin to reading a language being easier than writing in a language) but writing it with the correct rules and vocabulary is a whole other issue. I guess I should just do it with a "dictionary" in hand..wish there there were programming translators :)
They seek simulated failure of the equipment to test themselves. They do not set out intending to fail in their reactions to the simulated failure. But, if they do, it's a simulator and they can start over with new lessons learned.
This is very cool and pretty insightful. The Matrix represents itself perfectly, looking very similar to the code itself. Pan's Labyrinth was also close, and Bambi for that matter. Its interesting to see how closely we associate a movie with the colours in it, even if we dont recognize that association.
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What about looking at this from the perspective of the site owner? Facebook comments can do more for the site owners than the alternate comment systems. Increased exposure through facebook news feeds should help introduce their sites to new people.

Just as important is the back-channel that allows comments to be created and shown in different places (this was mentioned as an "incidental" note in Tech Crunch's article describing the comments system http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/01/facebook-rolls-out-overhaul...). I find it particularly appropriate to bring this up here on HN because I expect Tech Crunch to look with envy or exasperation when comments are posted HERE (HN) about stories appearing THERE (TC). Why shouldn't TC want to have all of the relevant, useful comments appear next to the content they create and host? Facebook comments could help that happen (indeed, so could have disqus if it were used by HN and TC both. Alas, disqus, RIP).
I'd replace your title tag:

(original)
<title>Quiz Cafe - Download, print and play in a matter of minutes. | Free Quiz Questions - Free Quiz Packages - Free Printable Quiz Questions</title>

(proposed)
<title>Free Quiz Questions and Answers - Download, print and play quizzes in a matter of minutes. | Quiz Cafe</title>

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Free Quiz Questions 27,100 gms (USA)

Free Printable Quiz Questions 320 gms (USA)

Free Quiz Packages 0 gms (USA)

Free Quiz Questions and Answers 14,800 gms (USA)

quiz questions and answers 135,000 gms (USA)

---------------------------------------------

gms - global monthly searches

If you haven't already I strongly suggest you run (not walk) and read everything patio11 has written about SEO and bingocardcreator.com.

I see there is a ton of longer tail traffic on 'xxxx quiz questions' where xxxx is a host of things e.g. science, bible, thanksgiving, christmas, sports, etc...
Fragment identifiers are currently the only part of a URI that can be changed without causing a browser to refresh the page

This is actually the primary reason for most of the hash and hash-bang uris in today's javascript-heavy sites. Once all the popular browsers allow changing URI without reloading the page, the whole issue will become irrelevant.

I am actually a big fan of HTTP and REST (the real one, with HATEOAS), but browsers have a long history of making it hard to write RESTful web sites. HTTP methods had long been restricted to GET/POST; code-on-demand support before XHR had been very rudimentary (javascript was almost useless, and I don't even want to mention java applets); browser addressing conventions led to horrible (from the REST point of view) practices like redirect-after-POST etc.
I'm still a fan of Twitter for Mac. It's one app I think users are safe from monetization, it never felt that important to them.
can anyone find 2001? that trippy space color light show near the end could be cool
Would it still be productive when the 5th day is a company-wide hackathon?
As described in this posting, it's ridiculously vague, and as I said above, I'd like to see someone try to enforce it. What if I want to mow my lawn on Friday? Is that acceptable? What if I want to mow someone else's lawn as a favor? What if I want to mow someone else's lawn and they pay me even though I'm not running a lawn-mowing business? What if, instead of mowing someone's lawn I help them out by reinstalling some software or configuring their home network? What if I do a good enough job that they recommend me to a mutual acquaintance? To someone they know from their work? To others in the neighborhood? There's a huge range of options that this paints over, and the devil's in the details. As they've described their policy of "giving back" Friday, it could be interpreted as not letting their employees do anything except lay in bed because, damnit, they need to know their employees are resting like the owners intended.

Frankly, I'm not convinced you're seeing the implications to such a vague policy.
WD stock is up today. IT seems like a great deal, WD can now sell more aggressively to businesses.
I think it's funny a lot of comments are saying they would be angry about not being able to work on that Friday. I'm not particularly sure why you would be upset if your employer offered to pay you 40 hr/week salary and only expected you to work ~32 hours.

They place value in that day assuming you will use it to rest. Working on it would be counter productive to what they see it being useful for.
I don't want to argue in multiple threads, but you may well have clarified one thing for me, in that it's a 32 hour work week. Honestly, I was thinking it was a 4 day work week of 10 hour shifts, which I generally prefer as it keeps me from having to break when I'm in the middle of something.

Still though, you really brought your argument home when you said that (paraphrasing) "If you don't accept the trade, you shouldn't work there," because that is absolutely right. But... is it fair? If my company imposed a 'no alcoholic beverages allowed on weeknights', it's the same sort of proposition, and you're free to accept or decline it as part of the job offer, but does that make it RIGHT?

I don't mean to imply that Carsonified is doing anything illicit, or immoral, and I'm sure they have great reasons for it -- but without knowing exactly where the line is drawn, it's hard (for me) to say.
I did the UI design myself but paid ~$300 for the actual graphics (image buttons, icons, backgrounds, logo, etc.).
I was trying to use "the nudge" with an older relative who runs a branding company in "the far east." When I was working with her recently, I noticed there was a pattern of the use of puns in the company names of her clients. I grew up in the States, so I knew that the particular puns used were "kiddy grade." (Not a reference in this case.) That is, many of the puns in the company names are ones American kids have thought of by the 2nd grade. By the time one reaches adulthood, such puns seem silly, a bit dim, or are used in deliberately excruciating puns. I'm not so sure that such puns are always appropriate in corporate branding, unless a certain effect is desired. Her own company name contains two such puns melded together, even though her firm targets large companies as customers.

I tried bringing this up in an email with her, stemming from a conversation about something else. I offered my feedback as a native English speaker in such situations. As a means of demonstrating my perceptiveness in such matters, I talked in general terms about the "kiddy grade" pun. This nudge didn't seem to work.

(If you know of the companies I am referring to, please do not post their names here! This would be indiscreet.)
This could be useful if placed along a timeline in an interface for seeking to a specific scene in a movie or video.

Representations like this are also sometimes used for automatic shot boundary detection (vertical edges in this type of image = an edit to a different camera shot) in video content retrieval systems.
So instead of rendering the markdown to html once on your computer, you're going to do it every single time on your users' computers? What possible benefit could there be for this, besides unnecessarily burning peoples CPUs?
20 bits can support a million records. As an average, per node or cluster, it seems reasonable to me.
Keep it simple.

Hopefully they did not use AJAX to serve static content.
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Hey HN, I wrote a 9-part series on how starting Android from the perspective of an iOS developer.

tl;dr I walk you through how I ported one of my iOS apps. There are UIKit references and such, but anyone can pick this up and learn something (I cover parsing JSON from the file system, serializing objects, HTTP requests...yknow, all the useful stuff).

I've never written anything of this scale, so criticisms are welcome!
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This is great! It deserves to be hosted on a dedicated service, though: something with search, at least, and preferably with a link to the software used so that submissions could be crowdsourced.
Love the 'oddities' blurbs! Very cool.
You mean, if every website in the world provided a standardized API that any HTTP-querying application would instantly deduce, understand and begin to process, rebuilding the page as is output to a user on a browser after constructing its markup after JavaScript parsing, would I be happy?

Sure. But i'd rather not discuss ridiculous things which will never happen.

I don't want an API interface to a web page. I want the web page. More specifically, I want the content; I could give a crap about markup if my application is not a web browser of some kind. There's probably a thousand different uses of applications that just get content from web pages and none of them try to deduce an API to call to get an idea of what a webpage's content was supposed to be. They just expect that, you know, when querying a webpage they're going to get the webpage, and not some cryptic scripting.

I should not have to reverse engineer a webpage or read an API spec in order to wget it. This is ridiculous.
seeing this packaged into a embeddable library really makes me want to do something like flattr but just using bitcoins (and not taking a cut. this would be just for fun)

bitcoins are essentially free to transfer in any amount, so you could easily share 100% of what users are willing to contribute.

Also, this would allow the service to instantly transfer a percentage of whatever a user has set aside, or even queue transfers up until coins are available.

I really want to look into this now.
Is it just me or is there no way to preview a video before uploading it? -- nor does it record audio?
Computer science programs use mobile apps to make coursework relevant
http://0xdb.org and http://pad.ma/ use similar timelines for all there videos.
the code create the timelines can be found at http://code.0x2620.org/oxtimeline
Can't help but be reminded of
http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/03/why-why-functional-progr...

Congrats on the job with Relevance, they seem like a great company :)
Loss of momentum. When I'm coding, and I'm on a tear, I generally won't stop for drinks, food, or any other outside distractions. It's this exact reason that I abhor the cubicle culture so much, as it tends to invite distractions, generally when I'm in the midst of my greatest productivity.

If I'm on a roll with something, I don't want to chance that I'll come back from a three day weekend every week and have to remember where I left off, or spend that time trying to get back in the groove.

One of the best places I worked (now defunct) allowed for you to work hours per week -- if you worked over, you were credited it for the next week. It was great to crank out marathon sessions, and then, between projects, you could take the remainder of the time off, to rest. So if I spent 7 days straight on a project, I could take 4 days to rest and be 'neutral' on my schedule balance (assuming 8 hour days).
Scrabble for iPad already does this in part (tile rack on your iPod/iPhone). It's a bit pricy yet but this is obviously a thing which is coming.
All of those damned governments were Stalinist. That means they believed in a dictatorship of the proliteriat and screw everyone else who doesn't believe in "communism".

Stalinism is just one branch of communism and it is such an obvious failure that generalizing it and making it the one and only true communism just shows your ignorance about what socialism is and isn't.

So one branch of communism, one that favours a dictatorship and favours state-owned property instead of public-property (which anarchism and other branches of communism favour), has killed millions.

It is idealistic to support socialism, it's ignorant to support Stalinism or Maoism or whatever dictatorship-favouring branch of communism you want to refer to. Generalizing that garbage is worse than ignorant.
Moving beyond the Microsoft monoculture
You are never forced to share a video on Facebook through SocialCam. We ask for the permissions so that it's one-click to share, not so that it will autoshare every time.

Trust me, we use the app all the time and none of us would want it to autoshare.

As for the particular permissions, they all support the basic functionality of the app.

We need your basic info so we can set up your name/picture in your profile

We ask for permanent permission so that we can keep that up to date.

We need to be able to access your friends information so that we can help you find people to follow in the SocialCam.

The reason we ask for each is pretty straightforward. Facebook doesn't have a particularly granular permissions system, so even though we don't use "current cities of your friends" we get it anyway.
Is there a story as to why Justin.TV launched this project? seems like an interesting product for them to go for. (eg: from live to this)
Google Acquires BeatThatQuote for $61.5 Million
> Can't help but be reminded...

That's what I was shooting for. :-)
Congrat's to @fogus and @chouser - it's a wonderful book.
Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age
Not much in this review. This review of the book was more insightful: http://www.rubyinside.com/a-review-of-eloquent-ruby-by-russ-...
I was looking for Kung-Fu Hustle, but cant seem to find it(?). I suspect it'll have a lot of pink in the beginning
The issue with this study in the context of the OP is this study discusses middle class vs poor. The OP discussed high class vs middle class. The main assertion of those who have argued against the OP is that high class vs middle class doesn't matter. I don't think people have seriously argued that middle class vs poor doesn't matter.
That makes sense. I definitely look forward to playing with it at some point.
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I don't think this is Rands' best work, to be honest. This piece bugged me too because it's almost entirely metaphorical description and has little to no actual analysis. He is a good writer, but this isn't his best work.
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Lots of blues, oranges, and green. I suppose there is either a bias for filmmakers to prefer these colors, or something in the algorithm 'prefers' these colors?
That was definitely the one that stood out the most to me. It's always one of the first movies that comes to mind when I'm thinking about color in film.
I'm not sure why you'd think it doesn't record audio, it definitely does.

You can't preview a video before upload yet, but it's in the pipeline.
Excellent post. I've been struck lately with the fear of being old and full of regret. Perhaps the "each day, one thing" mantra might benefit me. I'll give it a shot.
Hawk-Eye ball-tracking firm bought by Sony
It is excellent work, both the UI and the graphics.

If you don't mind recommending the designer, I'd love to know who did it.

With regards to getting more users, you should at least look into how much it would cost to buy keywords such as "cab sharing" that are targeted to iOS devices. This is a purely anecdotal datum but I don't see any ads when I search for cab sharing on Google so there may not be much competition.

The key question is how you can make enough revenue per user to justify acquisition costs.
Ah okay, that sort of "social" isn't really the sort of thing I'm interested in, I guess this isn't aimed at me then. Thanks for clearing it up :)
But then he mentioned the SUNDR system which addresses storing data on untrusted (not unreliable) servers, which confused me.
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I'm 43. If I want to I can spend all day thinking of my regrets (heck, ask my wife, I just did it over lunch). But its a better exercise thinking of the things to look forward to.
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I'm not sure but a Merkle tree is used so that the amount of data downloaded by a pure client is much smaller than what a full bitcoin node needs to download. This Java implementation would be well suited to an Android phone.
Much more important than any particular tool/methodology/technique is how well a particular person understands and uses/implements these.

It doesn't matter nearly as much if they are doing X vs. Y. The important question is: are they doing X well or in a half-ass manner? Are they trying to do X because it's the hip new thing, but they don't really understand X in any deep way? Do they energetically talk the talk, while they hobble the walk?

The two questions at the heart of the matter: do they get stuff done while using X? How much technical debt do they incur while getting stuff done using X?
It let me opt-out of all except AOL's ad tracking...
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Instagrid.me
Printstagr.am
Instawar.org

Please give them a spin, and let me know your initial thoughts. I liked the idea of building a little ecosystem of apps, each providing a bit of simple functionality.
Basically grabbing out a mini plot of the Instagram open territory freed up last week, with their API release.
Instagrid.me is my favorite.

I'd be interested to know specifically if anyone has a good idea of where to go with them from here, or how to merge them a bit closer together. Thanks!
If you're unfamiliar with this; Hawk-Eye is the system used in high-level tennis and cricket to do computer-assisted refereeing. They've got a lot of IP for camera-based systems (think Kinect) and there are obvious gaming applications here.

But the really big angle: FIFA are probably going to bring in goal-line cameras, Hawk-Eye are in pole position to provide the systems driving it, and the tie in with the FIFA game franchise (already, I believe, EA Sports' biggest property – even over Madden and Tiger Woods PGA Golf) has to be, well, a thing.
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Interestingly, those shots were filmed using a technique called slit scan photography. Though not quite what you were asking for, someone has reversed that process in order to reveal the original images used to create the effect:
http://seriss.com/people/erco/2001/
> Trust me, we use the app all the time and none of us would want it to autoshare.

Using "trust me" in part of a response to security or privacy concerns may be a bad idea. :)