skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is made using a filmstrip of some frames of the movie then streched vertically. I tried to reverse the image to the filmstrip and this is what i've got: the probel is the image is so low res than the frames are recreated with a lot of difficulty. Anyway, i put a actual frame of the movie next to the filmstrip. You can still recognize figures. like body shapes, etc. My try here (Kill Bill vol 1: http://i.imgur.com/ZUUo0.jpg
Status quo for a "40 hour week" at my current employer is 8-5 M-F with an hour lunch. I tried it for six months and decided it was a bad idea.

I was able to renegotiate things to 9-5, but my manager acted like it was this really unusual request and wasn't I lucky that they were willing to let me work "less than 40 hours."

That left me wondering, what do other people consider full time in this industry?
I would give a free non-commercial (or in better words, a non corporate) service this leeway - as a user I haven't paid for it.

But as a paid service - where you've been a paying customer for many months - and a service that is targeted towards corporate customers this should just be a given.

The run around about user data belonging to users and so on is just ridiculous. Yammer helped us to create a corporate network, where the data belongs to the company - so when we want to leave it should be as easy as signing up - hit delete and you're done.

It doesn't matter if their systems retain the data for a few weeks and batch delete it later.

I'm sure that if a larger customer expressed this, they would bend over backwards to accomodate. Just feels like they're screwing the little guy.
>>Nintendo has proven that you don't need bleeding edge graphics to sell consoles

That's true, but you do need a deep and enjoyable gaming experience to be successful - something which I don't think the appstore model of pricing around 99cents is going to bring out soon. So, the DS and PSP are here to stay.

tl:dr deep and fun games > graphics power
You are 100% correct - that was the exact situation with us. If we're leaving a service, and we were told we were in control of that data, any remotely diligent security process would involve exporting all data on the service in a secure manner, then removing the data from the control of the third party provider.
Sweeet job
yes , same here . I cant even explored honeycomb as its emulator is too slo , that's why i prefer runing code direct to device . Its saves time.

adb has lots of problem
Yes, offshore fishing boats in the developed world almost universally use GPS, as do most ships of any size. But there’s still a lot of conservatism in the regulation of what you have to have aboard and know how to use.

Reading nautical charts is nontrivial. They tend to be extremely dense (in areas where you need to use one at all); you have to know a bunch of buoy symbols, implicit rules, and so forth. Switching entirely to an electronic system where you could choose optional display layers and tap unrecognized symbols for help could make navigators’ licensing considerably easier.

Edit: A chart I happen to know a little: http://www.charts.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/18432.shtml . Notice the cable zones (where you can’t anchor), the international boundary, the shipping lanes (where you’re liable to be run over if you’re not a 1000-ton vessel), the magnetic declination rosettes, the angles showing lighthouse visibility, the warning of local magnetic disturbance, the nature preserves … and not far off this particular chart, there are even markings for unexploded ordnance, left over from exercises in the Cold War. And this is a simpler chart than one you would theoretically use to move an oil tanker through the shipping lane, if you did it on paper. So you can imagine how much a good electronic system could clear things up.
If you like it now, check out what's in OS X Lion and (inevitably) iOS with regards to keeping interface objects lined up. No more struts and springs.
Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular?
"I thought I was reading TechCrunch."

Not saying I agree with him, but he did defend his assertion.
How McCarthyism Started(?)
I'm not sure if this isn't an urban legend (I couldn't find any references on wikipedia)) but I was under the impression that the infrastructure used by sms would have been needed anyway for other GMS related services: transmitting things like the time etc., and sms doesn't cost them any extra. In this case at least, it definitely reeks of double dipping.
Until I read this thread, I didn't even think of that as an option -- everything in the Puppet documentation, and the community, and in what they offer as far as training courses, indicates that Puppet's client-and-server are the light and the way to rightness.

I'll have to take a second look at the Puppet manifest system coupled with Capistrano (which I really like), but it still irks me that there isn't one tool to handle configuration management across a large number of servers.
Maybe under some jurisdictions, but the SOLAS international regulations (relevant para 19.2.1.5) only require a backup to your electronic navigation system - this can be another electronic navigation system, although it needs to be fully independent. It happens that paper charts are a durable and trusted backup that meet the regulatory requirements, but most large ships have such sophisticated electronic charting systems that meeting the regulatory requirements is incidental to their design. Laptops have become standard equipment for maritime chart plotting, especially amongst pilots. Harbours and channels have become so busy and congested that plotting on paper is often downright dangerous. The SOLAS regulations recognise that electronic systems are easier to navigate from, will provide checks and alarms to prevent dangerous navigational errors and are more likely to be kept up to date.
Sigh. Who's going to write the first good GUI for cross-browser CSS?
I'm not running a job board, but I run a jobs website.

That's a pretty small market for a job board. Companies that operate in markets that size usually have dozens/hundreds/thousands of properties.

SEO is often huge for job boards. If you can out-SEO your competition (which could be very hard or very easy), then you'll have a huge advantage in gaining traction.

The really tough part is selling job postings before you have an audience. You should use SimplyHired or Indeed to backfill with local results until you can get companies to post on your site.

Competing on price isn't going to make you stand out much. HR offices are very risk-averse, so they'd rather spend what they've always spent than try something new.

I'm not saying you should scrap, but you need to be fully aware of the challenges you will face. I'm happy to share more if you're interested - willy@onedayonejob.com.
Yes, rich kids already take the whole world. I know this far before because I'm a Chinese lives in China Mainland. I'm not sure what's the real career game in western country, but I know the Chinese one. Rich kids inherit everything from their parents the most important thing is social relations which is very important in China.Other kids work for them. That's it.
Are we traveling in a police state?
Meet LiquidSpace: The Airbnb of Office Space
Thanks for the thumbs-up. I snagged the last one in town at Target for $109 (if you view the gift card as 'cash').

I've already connected it via Wifi and downloaded apps. Looks like can play with quite a lot of features without even activating.
See? That's the same as me telling you that to find the code on Launchpad you just... A packager doesn't want to navigate the bizarre tree of forks and junk, they just want official releases. A programmer could care less though.

Then, because projects live under a person, if they want to transfer ownership, the whole damn project basically goes dead and you have to track it down again. Again, if I'm a sysadmin that sucks since I have to keep up on their internal politics. If I'm a programmer I go, meh, and just pull the new stuff.
It's pretty sweet. One bug i noticed: holding down the shift key breaks up the bottom row. (using chrome)
Thanks! If you're in San Diego I'll get you a beer!
I should probably mention that I'm zoomed out (cmd -)
It's not just Launchpad that's "SysAdmin" friendly. Sourceforge and Google Code are much closer to the Launchpad model than to Github's.

I know Zed Shaw isn't saying one is better, but doesn't the popularity of Github compared these sites tell us something?
> Yes, there are cultures or where teens are forced to act as adults to function in society, but that doesn't make them they have the same capabilities as of an adult

"Forced"? This is circular logic.

What makes you think they are forced? It seems every one here agrees that teenager want to be treated like adults.

The only reason to think they were forced is if you think they are still children at age 16. You provided yourself as your own counter example, so clearly at 16 you weren't a child.

> but I lacked emotional intelligence, tact, or general maturity to handle more finer problems

This is exactly what I mean by experience. Emotional intelligence and tact (as you put it) doesn't come suddenly when you're 22; it comes with experience. You could very easily be 30 and still lack these things. I would go further and say you are more likely to lack them if your parents keep treating you like a child and prevent you from doing adult stuff and experiencing the world outside of their "protection".
The Significance of PHP in Web Development
PHP development has become synonymous with web development and it would not be wrong to say that they both are two different sides of same coin. Though in larger picture PHP is a subset of Web world, it is too precious to be ignored as –just another web programming language. Today almost half of the web development industry runs on PHP.
Haha, I guess I'm proving your point since I'm a programmer and I'm having a problem seeing why navigating forks is such a bad thing.

Plus, I usually just let Moonshine/Puppet take care of the sysadmin part for me and trust that it will grab all of the right packages. The people who write the Puppet recipes would probably feel very differently though.
Ask HN: Definition of "startup"? Business entity required?
Does creating a "startup" entail creating a real business entity (such as an LLC), including tax id number, special bank account, and so forth?

Or does simply putting an interesting webapp online with a plan to make money qualify as a "startup"?
I think most cultures consider their elders to have much much more wisdom than regular men.
Fair enough, but that's 1/3.

Of course, none of the three were exactly poor, and all grew up with programming backgrounds. We'll see who takes charge these next 20 years.
That was a joke. You know, those things that make people laugh? In seriousness, it sort of doesn't matter if you're a programmer. Either way works so long as the first thing you get is code. If you're a sysadmin or packager though, that's annoying as hell. You want to just go to /project and not worry about the who's-who of forks.
I agree with you patio but if you are serving to a geeky audience, the ability to leave and export your data can actually help some people decide in favor of your app when evaluating choices.
Bloomberg: Microsoft to pay Nokia 'more than $1 billion' to make Windows Phones
I've recently switched from SipDroid to CSipSimple (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.csipsimple&fea...) - which in my opinion works much better. The main difference is that SipDroid implements almost everything in Java code, while CSipSimple is a wrapper around PjSip (which is a pretty mature SIP library).

So if this doesn't work in SipDroid it may be possible that it works with CSipSimple.
The post above is exactly why I left Hacker News. The level of discourse here has descending to the prattle that you read in the Engadget comments. Yes, everyone here has read all of the talking points (boring, boring, really old talking points). Many phones versus a few. Many makers. Profit margin.

Seriously, how incredibly boring.
> The classical notion of ecstasis is to be outside oneself, as in the phrase "beside oneself with joy".

Heidegger didn't really believe in a transcendent self, as far as my very amateur reading can tell. Rather, I think he was critiquing all things transcendent (yeah, Plato and Kant), and trying to show how things and experience would feel transcendent, even if they aren't.

I also think he used a lot of irony -- he talks about authenticity, and he sort of means it but he also sort thinks that any personal transcendence is just balderdash; so authenticity is facing both death and the lack of any final answer as to what is authentic. (All that a Dasein "is" is something that wonders what it "is". This self-questioning of being, or "is-ness", of both the world and ourselves, is fundamental to the human condition, and is where the "Being" of "Being in Time" comes from.)

Re ecstasis: He was talking about the phenomenological experience of interacting with the world. And I interpret "ecstasis" to mean "the process of expansion into the world" -- sort of getting outside one's "self", but with a sort of ironic notion of selfhood. Again, there is irony and allusion to the classical notion, but recast in his own phenomenology.

My rather loose interpetation of Nietzsche is that supposedly nietzschean self assertion is not really Nietzschean at all, but rather naive and foolish and immature. Zarathustra counsels against going to the city and indulging in pleasure.

YMMV -- I am just a guy talking in a bar about these things.
Great! I'm loving the iTunes support. It's how I do most of my listening. I'd like to see friend recommendations based on listening habits. I'm rome on like.fm, add me if you want to add me.
So currently I'm the only person working on the site, and it would be awesome if I could get some help. So if anyone is interested in working on Like.fm (with compensation) you can contact me at chris@like.fm.
Good work, Argyris, Matt, & co.
And still, I can't find an icon for macvim that's not horrible.
I don't think the launchpad UI is a mess, if you don't expect to be able to browse code in it. The code browsing is horrible. But, the PPA, branch tracking, bug tracking, and other stuff is great.

I can tell you from personal experience though that github's bug tracking is stupid as all hell. Remember that whole blow-up over my book and people turning one damn bug into a massive flame war? That all happened because I couldn't figure out how to contact the project owner directly and figured the bug was the best way to do it. Little did I know that this would turn into a massive idiot festival with no way to turn the damn bug or emails off.

So, I disagree, launchpad's UI is only broken if you're into code. Github's is broken if you're into projects. Too bad they both can't just make both use cases a nice experience.
I really wish Launchpad had at least some support for the GitHub model. Sometimes I don't want to register a project for some half-hour code dump; I want to push it out, namespaced under my uid† to an easily locateable repository.

The +junk feature sort of does this, but it's a lot more awkward to use than GitHub because viewers have to jump through flaming hoops to get to the code.

Ideally, there would be a http://junk.launchpad.net/~jmillikin/ that I could just ``bzr push`` random stuff to and have it show up.

† Zed suggests this is due to developer vanity, but actually I see no need to pollute the precious global namespace with half-baked code.
Can someone explain how your post got upvoted?

Keep looking in the past.
Indeed. They burn far better if you're stranded on an island.
Just wanted to add this in:

Scott Balentine (CSM), Mar-03 10:29 am (PST):
Hey Omar,

At Yammer, our relationship is with our users. All data, whether from a free or paid network, cannot be deleted by Yammer. This would violate our Terms of Service. You as an Admin of a paid account can delete any data on the network. Like you said before, the data is owned by you. Since this data was not deleted before I downgraded you, I will re-upgrade you for however long you need to delete the data in your network at no charge to you. As a paid network, no individual users will have to delete anything at all.

You can delete messages using the "Delete" link under the "More" menu at the bottom of each post.

Let me know if you need anything else.

Scott

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Delete each message manually. Please.
Well, I cooked up an idea:

http://fmlr.me/

But, sort of got stuck at how to do the client. I've recently relearned GUI coding and will probably dust the idea off and try it again soon.
10 points.

Again, another BULLSHIT post. The dominant Android phones are overwhelmingly the high-end phones that retail in the $600-$700 range. They all come with thousand-dollar plus contracts. There may come a time where such a blurring occurs, but it won't be until the cost of data contracts significantly drops. And you can bet that Apple will be fighting for that market as well.
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We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. Rest assured there will be a layoff with extreme prejudice.

....that was my bad. Please no layoffs.
Hmmmm, that's a damn good idea. /project is for projects, and the canonical true ruler of such. /~dude is for programmers and their forks, half-baked ideas, and random pushes. Yeah, that'd work.
i think the odds of the github folks figuring out projects are far greater than the launchpad folks sorting out code (or proper whitespace and padding, for that matter).

that said, i do think that launchpad has some excellent attributes, like a bug tracker that doesn't make me want to defenestrate its author.
You just described a (perfectly reasonable) system which would take a nontrivial amount of code to build.
Not well - selling satin ball gowns to miners, even in San Fransisco, never really got traction.
Glad to hear you are enjoying Socialcast. Would love to chat with you sometime about your experience and how we can improve the service. Drop me an email if you want to chat, tim [at] socialcast.com.
All its telling me is that I want a whole OS based on the Github model. I like the feel of working on github, I'd like to take the RVM/rubygems/github theme and extend it past Ruby, to the whole OS and its package manager.
I appreciate the reply, but I don't know what most of these words mean.

I guess the advantage of talking in a bar is that you can get an intuitive read of where the other person is coming from, then line up your personal vocabulary to better match theirs. This makes for more satisfying communication. Online discourse seems particularly ill-suited to talking about anything hard to define.
I'm a little confused, perhaps I was unclear. It sounds like I'm in agreement with you that I don't think the numbers are crazy. However, accounting is more of an art, and you can play games with numbers. E.g., large companies typically have two sets of books (and are allowed to), one for investors, one for the IRS. The latter typically makes things look worse so you don't have to pay as much tax.

I'm no lawyer, but given the company has investors, I'm pretty sure the SEC can still come after them if they're misleading their investors. Sending out a press release saying your company is making $100B would be very much like what Madoff did. They can still come after you.

Also, think revenue numbers are a bit harder to fudge, so doing a sanity check off of those based on how many people they have, I think it's in the right ballpark.

Edit:
Falsifying statements: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00001001----...

Tax evasion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_avoidance_and_tax_evasion
Technical considerations aside it's still good practice to make it easier for customers to cancel. It makes them feel more comfortable signing up. Joel wrote a few great articles on it:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/23.html
That was my idea too, and why I started working on a light fork of pkgsrc to try it. Sadly, nobody who has to maintain systems at scale will use a package manager that just pulls random repos and "makes and prays". I've been trying to find the middle ground since then but haven't come up with it yet.
Congratulations Airbnb. You're now the X of something else.
This is best description of Angry Birds I've read:

The game involves employing a sling shot to propel small cannonball-shaped birds with really bad attitudes at rather fragile glass and timber houses populated by basically catatonic green pigs.
I seem to be causing a lot of parsing errors this week: despite being extremely satisfied with my upbringing, I think the fact that I talked to only 3 adults in 8 years is a symptom of a problematic mindset which has negative effects in our society. Hermetically sealing off teenagers in a child's world, where they perpetually lack responsibility for anything or authority to do anything, is borked.
Sorry guys. This is not factual. If this is even a real prototype, which I doubt, Apple is notorious for not having one but many prototype designs. Furthermore, Apple and it's designers have nor would go backwards in their design evolution. There is no need to.
Still furthermore, this would be the earliest design leak by Apple in 10 years, other than the iPhone 4. It doesn't make any sense. What does make sense is that a bunch of guys with nothing better to do on Saturday night would fantasize about what the next gen would look like then illustrate it then post it on the internets.

tl:dr... Fake.
Maybe I misunderstand how MacPorts works, but I vaguely recall seeing it pull source code directly from projects.
How much revenue of Apple do you think comes from that ad platform?

Compare that with Google.
Thank you for your response Willy.

I will definitely take you up on your offer as I work on a plan of attack. I like the idea of competing against someone, it's a challenge I do not face in my current day job. So, if anything it will be fun if I can make my competition sweat at least a little.
Outsourcing login and over-reliance on Facebook
cmd + a letter = a stuck letter. And aww, the capslock doesn't light up. And it would be even cooler if you could type with the keyboard.

Otherwise, excellent job. Responsive and looks great - it's kinda fun to watch myself type as I type :)
thnk yu.
And on Chrome on Linux, it doesn't work at all, as in nothing gets typed. However it's still pretty cool from an effect perspective.
Why do the houses containing pigs shake ever so slightly at the beginning of each game play sequence?

I assumed that it's because the initial positions of the objects in the game are slightly off the equilibrium state, so when the physics is switched on they slump a little bit.
New Facebook Feature Empowers the Dangerous "Comment Nazis"
Here's a thought-bubble about packaging and distributions.

In a single piece of software, the compiler can enforce some degree of consistency between different components. In a distribution this is done manually. That's why it scales poorly.

Possible solutions:

* Cross-application consistency checks. This seems to be the way Singularity is heading.

* Smaller distributions -- or rather, standalone VM images that have a carefully curated mini-distro built around single applications.
oops - reposting the [deleted]

What law are you talking about that would penalize me if I sent out a press release tomorrow claiming my company is taking in $100bn a quarter?

Why vet the first number off of the second? Surely if you're willing to misrepresent one...

To be clear, I have no specific reason to doubt the numbers except that he's an unreliable source and that public disclosures of private company financials are so uncommon. If your brother in law got convicted of running a boiler room you're not going to take his stock picks at face value, right?
I think many people say they have a startup, when in reality, they just have a webapp. A startup should be a business (which might involve a webapp or service).