skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My gut reaction is that this sounds like something I don't have a pressing need for. So the real answer is, you'd have to come up with a really compelling story for why this would improve my life and then build a slick implementation to match. I'm definitely not sold by this quick description/bullet points.

I'm not even quite sure what you're suggesting. Is this mainly a picture cross-sharing implementation? (Or are you thinking more broadly about social data? If so, how would status posts/tweets be handled... as files?)
You're starting to see a bit of this already with app integrations of Dropbox. There is little reason this apps couldn't monitor the status of their sandbox folders to get desktop write functionality working.
We believe working remotely is counter productive in a startup. There is something about a bunch of people in a room with a whiteboard that can't be beaten. Since in a startup so many forces are already against you, we think it's important to not compromise on the factors that you can control. So to maximize our chances of success we need to all be in the same room with a whiteboard...

Interesting that many of you think we're looking for an employee rather than a co-founder... We must have not made that clear enough. If we find someone to join the team in the next few weeks, they will be an equal co-founder. No pay, their fair share of equity and an equal vote in decisions.

We can do this with the 2 of us, but we think our chances of success go up with an extra co-founder. Someone as excited as us about the idea and with the right incentives.
Microsoft, feel free to send a hefty bribe my way and I'll start using Windows.
I rarely use for loops in Python. Most of the time I use list comprehensions, which are much more terse and expressive than loops and, at least to me, are easier to parse than map/filter/reduce functions.
http://tarpipe.com/
I think this is an awesome trend by the way. I love the idea of my social/web data living on my dropbox and I get to choose which apps use it. What would be even more compelling would be a standard interface for this sort of thing, so there could be many dropbox-like providers of storage.
that's the plan. Copying a folder with pictures from your ~/Pictures folder into a facebook album or copying all your facebook albuns into your ~/Pictures folder, through your very own operative system at least (Windows, OSX, Linux, iOs, Android).

An web management application is also possible, although i would be not as much flexible with "downloading"
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Why advertise your Facebook site?
Does this include use of cookies in analytics services such as Google Analytics, KISSMetrics, etc?
It's funny because I bookmarked this on pinboard.in
Mmm, from here it looks like YouTube had a sanitizer in place that failed: it's not clear that the Android Market was sanitizing the output here. That's what I meant by the underlying cause being different.
i know tarpipe but it's different
A very wise person once said that nothing brings out the worst in people like divorce and probate.
There's something to be said for "Getting in on the ground floor." It's always a bit of a gamble: You may do amazing work, but if the platform dies your work dies with it. But you may also end up building a brand as one of the early successes in that market.
LOL. yep - pretty quiet here. I earn most of my cash from other states of Australia
<Khhaaannn!!!> My back button! MY HISTORY!!!! </Khhaaannn!!!>
You're kidding right? KnightsRush or Battleheart are simple rpgs NOT MMORPGS which are much harder to create and offer way more playing time. Along with the element of interacting with other players.

It is those games that are child's play compared to pocket legends. You are silly being impressed by the shiny graphics.

If you're going to insult a game at least know what you're talking about.
Not data as e-mails, twitter posts, but i'm targeting media files, as in:

- facebook albums
- twitpic, instagram, picsplz pictures

any web application which has an API and allows red/write capabilities through it.
How would you easily transition from IE6 to IE8?
I've heard enough bad mouthing about IE6 and I agree to it 100%. I don't use it mainstream at all but the reality is a considerable portion of the corporate world is still stuck with IE6. Wanted to see how one can transition from IE6 to IE8 without too much overhead?

Cross browser can be done on a single machine because it let you install all those browsers but Windows won't let you install IE6 and IE8 side-by-side. Wondering how one can deal with the migration as easy as possible.

Any tips?
I think there is the kernel of a great idea here.

"Come work for startup pre-funding, we'll give you housing/food/etc. for now, and equity, and once we have funding, we'll help you find a place of your own, pay market salary, etc." is a good deal for a lot of people, if they believe in the startup itself.

A lot of people get overwhelmed by the number of (individually relatively minor) changes in a big move like "move to silicon valley and join a startup" -- if you can simplify

I'd expect founders to be willing to personally help out new hires or co-founders at the very early stage (especially if you are hiring people who have to relocate, or who are freshly out of something like college, grad school, or Google), but later, I'd actually go so far as to have an "ops" person who has the responsibility of handling all these tasks for people. Palantir, a pretty big/successful company, does this very well. You can see elements of it with free lunch, dry cleaning, etc. at Google and Facebook. The military does this exceptionally well -- basically, sign up, and your life is managed for you (for better or for worse -- the ideal for a regular tech company would be to provide acceptable defaults but let people override as they wish). Aaron Patzer did this for Jason (the designer at Mint) -- gave him a room in his house, a car, and introduced him to his future wife (!!!).

In addition to making it easier to join, this kind of "total institution" builds loyalty. There is a lot of value in getting your best people to stay 6 years instead of 3.
Despite Living Online, Teenagers Don't Want to "Like" Your Company on Facebook
Sure thing, CountSessine. We all have that inside person who validates our bullshit opinion

I do. My wife works at a telco with a couple million handsets on its network. The 'negotiations' they had with Apple are well known among the company's managers. But thank you for playing.

Again, Android's dominance has been on the backs of Motorola Droids and Galaxy S' and HTC Evo 3Gs, and the like. All high-end phones.

And again, I'm telling you that that's not what's happening now in 2011. When the Droid/Milestone was king of the hill in the Android world, Android's marketshare was a fraction of what it is now. What's changed is that Android has set the low-end of the market on fire. There's no reason to buy a feature phone anymore. This is also the reason the software attachment rate on Android is so low - cheap people don't buy software.

But you keep trying to make yourself feel better as you clutch, desperately, only your iPhone.

Wow. Troll much?
An Internet Levy is a Terrible Idea
If it would allow me to delete my Facebook wall history... yes. Only then :)
No, you aren't trying to "improve JS semantics", you are trying to 'Rubyify' Javascript. You've created a language that is NOT javascript. Sorry, but no matter how hard you try to sell it as === javascript, it still will never be javascript. It's a Ruby syntax wrapped around javascript with some bells and whistles. It isn't a solution for javascript programmers, but it might be a solution for Ruby programmers.
Could I use it to delete / wipe my account info if required too?

EDIT: As in deleting the info contained in my Facebook Account.
if the facebook api allows it, it can be done. you would see your wall as files, hence, deletable
How to find the latitude and longitude for international locations?
Given just a zipcode (or postal code, for other international places) do you know of a simple way of getting the latitude, longitude and timezone of the location? A country code can be considered as well along with zip/postal code.
Ask HN: Where could I find a co-founder that wants to change the world?
Hey HN,
I am sick of the "quick buck" people, and people who want quick apps that dont change anything in our lifes.
I am a front end developer/ui/ux designer with a very solid startup and a solid direction. We are bootstrapped and are already profitable. In order for me to move to the next level I need a very smart technical co-founder to help me solve some serious issues. This is not another game app, location game or group messaging, its actually something that if executed right has unlimited potential.
Please message me if you want to know more, I am just very tired of meeting people who are not really passionate about changing the world and just want a quick buck because of this mini bubble.
Hope this message in a bottle finds someone.
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Isn't that different though? In the case you linked, the camera was in the homeowner's house (where as a guest, I would expect little to no privacy), whereas in this case the recording device traveled with the child into several different places (where there's an expectation of privacy).
I am in a similar situation. Good luck to you.
Seriously cool!

Direct link to actual site: http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/

The dataset is 280 GB, and they also provide a 10,000 songs (1.8 GB) version for a "quick taste".
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How to achieve a 94% female contributor ratio on a wiki
FBook removes dissident's profile for using pseudonym. Zuckerberg's dog has one
Or you could use Portable PuTTY: http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/portableputty.php

Edit: A different version is available at http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/putty_portable
Web Developer Needed - Technical Cofounder Opportunity.
We are looking for a web developer to potentially join our venture. Learn more about us here: http://stickyframes.posterous.com/pages/about-us Sticky Frames are magnetically attached frames that contain messages that users create and print themselves. At this stage we are going forward with production of prototypes/low volume test series but we need a functioning web platform to maximize the potential of the product. The web service should help our users to create and manage content of their StickyFrames. We can offer up to 14% of stake in SF project - but we are also ready to discuss other forms of compensation. Essentially we are looking for a website similar in functionality to something like this: http://www.signazon.com/car-magnets/ If interested please contact me via HN or email at computerfix at gmail dot com We are very easy going. We are also YCombinator rejects. Join Us.
P.S. We thought that we have a match, but it did not work out due to schedule constrains.
Apologies for the lousy title - tough to fit the whole premise into 80 characters.
I would like to know more.

I'm a server-stack guy looking for something to get into.
I think by the fact that MBAs are always looking for "code monkeys" speaks volumes about what's wrong with many folks going to a biz school. This isn't to say that there isn't value there, but it shouldn't be seen as some sort of magic wand or silver bullet.
Apache has a lot of distance to make up. Nginx with PHP-FPM and uWSGI are very fast and light on the memory. I also save time with my setup by not having to configure both Nginx and Apache (since Apache is way too slow to serve static content).
Thanks for the link, interesting read. Reminds me of some similar comments made by Warren Spector after Deus Ex - that it was a big wakeup call to them once they had a single playable level, because you could suddenly see that some aspects of the game didn't work as they were.

Possibly this suggests pg's minimum viable product + iteration strategy as being just as applicable to game development too, although I imagine the "minimum viable product" for FFXIII is a hugely significant amount of work in itself.
When targeting Node, one runtime and ES5, vanilla JS isn't so bad. Writing JS for browsers is painful, and CS addresses a lot of those pains.

A function that does nothing useful but illustrates some pain points:

function frob(obj) {
var rest = [].slice.call(arguments, 1)
, results = []
for (var k in obj) if (obj.hasOwnProperty(k)) {
v = obj[k]
if (blurgh(v, rest)) {
results.push(v)
}
}
return results
}

This is roughly the same function in CS:

frob = (obj, rest...) -> [v for v of obj if blurgh(v, rest)]

That's at least 5x more expressive. And it works in browsers, node, and pretty much every other JS environment. I don't write CS but you have to be blind to deny its benefits.

edited: Fixed the CS to iterate over keys of obj using 'of' based on other comments here
I think I understand #4. What you have is past proof of concept, but not in a shippable state.

What is the price point we are dealing with?

What kind of sales cycle does your target customer have?

Is this an enterprise sale?

Do you know how many people you need to convince within a target customer company to get sign off?
I'm curious what flaws he sees with the WebOS notification system. It's hands-down the most elegant notifications I've seen on any platform.

Initial notifications are minimally intrusive (similar to Growl on OS X). From there, they can be trivially dismissed or minimized and left for later. This makes triaging incredibly easy and lightweight.

On my Pre, I'll often set alarms on my to-dos and then use them as kind of an on-demand dashboard of my daily tasks. As something gets finished, the notification gets dismissed with a flick of the thumb.

On WebOS, notifications actively make me happy. In comparison, Android is kind of clunky and the iPhone is horribly broken.
How would you manage metadata?
I would still have to download or carry a usb stick with me, which is less than ideal.
> # be fluent in English.

> # have native-level Japanese fluency with polished business Japanese skills

Ray, you might find it necessary to soften those requirements. As you know, most Japanese hackers aren't nowhere near fluent in English. And by requiring "native-level" in Japanese you exclude all the foreign developers, even those who speak Japanese fluently or at "business level".

I work in a mixed environment (Japanese and foreigners) and we have both Japanese and foreign clients. We try to hire bilingual people but often it's not possible if we also want high technical skills. Even companies like Google Japan and Amazon Japan mention in their job ads that fluent English is not required! My suggestion is that you require fluency in one language and business level in the other.

By the way, I'd apply for the job anyway, but I don't have a lot of experience with web development.
In the interest of being fair, it is (by internet standards) quite an old blog post, which was probably a bit of a toss off effort in the first place.

If 'the bug' is just a copy/paste problem of a variable that doesn't exist in that scope, then compilation will fail at that point, so again, I don't see how that could be the one that Turoff said would survive for weeks in the wild.
Zuck doesn't get that some of us have multiple online identities: I see the biggest drop off rate in Facebook occurring in Teens who drop in and out of the service. My prediction is that there's a good chance that Facebook will go out of style in a big way with everyone under the age of 25. At that point it will slowly become a gray haired version of MySpace (or think AOL 2.0) unless Zuck can open up things a bit.
I'm not the author, and I think this was kind of a cop out, but:

http://notes-on-haskell.blogspot.com/2007/02/whats-wrong-wit...

"A few people have commented that none of the examples use closures, but in Haskell closures are used not only to represent functions but also unevaluated values (i.e., thunks). For example, in the simple expression

total = sum array

the variable array is free and refers to some value, possibly unevaluated, in the enclosing environment. Until the value of total is evaluated it exists as a thunk that closes over array (and sum, for that matter).

So the examples do indeed use closures.

Cheers! ---Tom"
As in deleting your twitter account? Not really. But wicked stuff as seeing your facebook friends as an address book/vcard's is possible
I'm still waiting to hear about a Mac version of the UDK that was to be shown at GDC[1].

Until Mac support is on the table, I'll be sticking with Unity.

[1] http://twitter.com/MarkRein/status/42236794099466240#
There's room for improvement in Android's notification system. I get serious notification fatigue with Android. I see that there are 5 or 6 tiny indistinguishable icons up there but I have to pull down the tray to get any useful information. In this sense it's more like an Inbox than a notification system to me. It also treats all notifications equally. To me a missed phone call is a lot more important than application updates. I would prefer to get the higher priority notifications (voicemail, SMS, etc) pushed at me more aggressively. Ideally show them on the lock screen like WebOS does so you don't have to unlock the device and goto the notification tray to check manually. There's also the problem of third party apps using the notification tray for SPAM which I do not care for one bit.
Don't get me wrong I love Guy, but after leaving Apple a few eons ago how many companies has he actually launched that have even been a modest success? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Kawasaki
This is good, but not nearly as good as manually setting single character "keywords" for common searches.
hey thank you for responding. email me at fffseek@gmail.com
lets talk. we are based in rails hope thats fine.
this might help answer part of your query (from the comments)-

Timothy Fitz Says:
March 8th, 2011 at 6:38 pm
The iPhone 3GS almost always ends up being the fastest of the iPhones. While the iPhone 4 has a faster CPU, they both have the same GPU (PowerVR SGX 535). While the iPhone 4 has twice the ram (which is fully addressable by the GPU), and could have a faster CPU clockspeed (I couldn’t find reliable sources), at the end of the day the iPhone 4 needs 4 times the fill rate to meet the increased resolution of the retina display, and it doesn’t have even close to 4x the fill rate of the 3GS.
Pre-Launch preview: Socialize, by AppMakr (avail for iPhone apps 3/15)
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You are not the only one, I actually clicked through to the comments to make this same rant. So upvote for you for saving me some typing and expressing my opinion exactly.
I think another great exception is the elder scrolls series by bethesda. Every time I see new physics engine, better AI, or better graphics, I think, 'What can Bethesda do with this?'
Sandboxed natives, Fusebox, and FuseJS
I agree (on apachetop). I wish it were easier to discover essential tool like this beyond post-mortems. This will be a lifesaver in the future.
Honest question: Do people really care enough about their "social data" to pay for services to manage it?
Looks cool, Daniel. :) Congratulations!
I'll send a 15 page article to the Kindle and read it on the train, there is no similar feature and even if there was I'm not sure I'd take advantage of it. I'm not a huge video fan to be truthful. I'm too ADD for it I think, I can listen to music and read at the same time, with video I find myself listening to the video and reading something else at the same time. Doesn't work so well when it's an interview though. Apparently I learn better via reading rather than listening.
"What about the other 98% of creators that have been enabled by new technology that were previously kept back?"

Um do you mean the folks writing Buffy fan fiction or the "contributors" on wikipedia who copy-and-paste text?
I feel like we need a "library" of freely available hi-res textures and models that can be adapted for a given game. From what I understand, a huge part of the development costs go into the art, and having a huge library to draw from seems like it would mitigate that somewhat.
Thanks man! Launching for all apps made by AppMakr on 3/15. The Seth Godin app will have it before then (I'll post link here when live.)
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Thanks, this is good feedback. I'll probably soften the English fluency requirement.
Disclaimer I'm a co-founder of Wikifashion.

Wikipedia Signpost also had a bit to say about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/20...
i don't really plan to, but i've thought about it and there are ways for simple cases.
For example posting into a blog. You would create a folder bellow "tags" with the tag name of the post, and create an (HTML) file in which the filename would be the post title and it's contents the post itself. As you can see, it's not very flexible. My main goal is easier managing "media files". For further categorization, you would use the webapp's self interface. But getting the file attachments of your blog posts would be a piece of cake, if the blog has an API. Or even your posts as files.
The fanboy is strong with this one.
"What am I missing?"

What a noob!

for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {

If args.length is zero, the body of the loop won't run, since 0 < 0 is false. Duh.
s/naughty/stupid
Fan fiction is a very vibrant and creative part of our society. I know many people who contribute to it and they find it to be a very rewarding outlet for their creativity. You may write code, they write fan fiction. Both are methods for expression and both are often misunderstood by others.
Yes, this has been one of my pet peeves for a while too. Everybody: a closure, as the parent says, is an implementation construct. It is not something you can find in your source code. The syntactic construct -- the thing you write in your code -- is called a lambda expression. Not a "lambda function", and not a "closure"!

Lambda expressions are to closures as `new' expressions are to instances: a lambda expression evaluates to a closure, and a `new' expression evaluates to an instance. Since any expression can be evaluated multiple times, in general the relationship is one-to-many: a lambda expression can be evaluated N times to produce N closures, just as a `new' expression can be evaluated N times to produce N instances.

(Instances and closures are closely related: an instance is a piece of state with several operations that can be invoked on it, while a closure is a piece of state with one operation that can be invoked on it.)
at least some people care about getting data out:

http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/03/03/2054246/Ask-Slashdot-...

it's one of the many use cases. The problem seems to be "sellable"
We use CouchDB and Python to backup your salesforce.com data which allows us to capture all your history and then when you're ready to take a local mirror, we can just use the CouchDB mirror function to send you all the data on an ongoing basis. Uses rackspace and a pile of open source / free software.