skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It should be noted that the Corona SDK uses Lua on top of Objective-C and is geared for Game apps. If you already have some Objective-C or C knowledge I'd recommend Cocos2d-iphone, which is nearly pure Objective-C, with a little pure C in the rough parts.

Going the Cocos2d route will also help you learn some of the peculiarities of the platform, like memory management and object lifecycle, while giving you enough skills to jump right into pure CocoaTouch.

Nothing against Corona, it has it's place. Bubble Ball[1] was developed with Corona for example.

[1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/216880/8th_graders_iphone_gam...
Really not sure I agree with that. Coding is tough, and in my experience developing iOS apps well (and Cocoa apps in general to a lesser extent) is one of the most difficult forms of programming.

And as for marketing and promotion, I'd say even more challenging is coming up with an idea which doesn't need marketing or promotion :)
Still no GUI programming support!
> if I buy anything anywhere in the world, I owe the French government 20% of the amount of that purchase; if I'm able to hide my purchase in my suitcase, then I'm evading taxes, but I'm certainly never exempt.

You are not evading the system, there is an exception:

http://www.douane.gouv.fr/page.asp?id=533

Sont exonérés de la TVA [...] les biens contenus dans les bagages personnels des voyageurs en provenance de pays extérieurs à l’Union européenne.

(Goods contained in personal luggages of travelers coming from a non-EU country are exempted from VAT.)
You're taking that statement too literally.

By giving traffic to an ads-based websites, you're generating revenue for them even if you block their ads.

Even if you're not paying them directly, that's "voting with your wallet" in my book.
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This was back in the day when programmers were real men and pixels were as big as your fist.
I think you missed the best one—Fall 2010
http://itunes.apple.com/itunes-u/developing-apps-for-ios-hd/...
Downloads: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/drupal/download...
I think the whole series is here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=2y8IkcUGV9w
You're basically just saying that if you delete all copies of X software in the world it would be really hard to recreate X software.

Anyway, writing a C-- compiler in x86 ASM isn't really that bad. It'd probably be even easier to run the compiler in an interpreter.
I'm surprised you're so calm about it. I would have been furious!
The original poster child for the 2001 dot.com crash was a social media website
That's a bold statement.

Many SaaS/e-Book/App-People think, the money comes in even when they're sick. This might be true for a short period of time but as time changes the value of your work decreases. Let's say you stop working for 6month on your project — usually your sales will collapse.

People bashing freelancers/contractors usually ignore this fact. I for one prefer to get e.g. 10k$/month freelancing instead of 30k$ for an e-book that requires 6month work to write + promote.
This is smart. Wish I'd thought of this. I love hacking GA to do fun stuff. My recent favourite is tracking real page load time (i.e. not just server response times but actual user load times in the wild).
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Interesting how Alaska manages to be both first and last on that list.

Mainly because of its long "tail" (stinger?).
I love initiatives like this.

One I was thinking.. why can't Facebook put an 'Alert box' on everyones Facebook feed if they're in that area.
Also, I still forget that to be over 18 I no longer have to fill a fake date before my actual birth date. Always go to the 1960s...
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I was pretty impressed -- within literally a minute the #1 result (which looked stylized, so "other than usual" results were at play) for "earthquake" had auto-pulled info about the earthquake and a link to the metrological association. That site is #2 right now, after the government agency in charge.

Above the proper search results you have a Google News thingee and instructions for using the "Report If You're OK" / "Ask If Someone In The Affected Area Is OK" phone systems. (These are well intentioned but useless because, inevitably, everyone just calls directly and the phone network goes down. It happens virtually every time. Still, I can't fault the government / phone company / Google for trying this every time.)
Terry Pratchett told us a tale of making a crude vision system out of one of these. If I recall correctly, he figured out the memory modules were light sensitive, and if exposed to a focused image, the image could be 'read' straight from memory. I THINK he mentioned part of this in his speech at Penguicon 2.0 (Novi, MI -- 2003)... Actually, he DID!!! I just found a recording of his speech:

http://www.archive.org/details/Penguicon_2.0_Terry_Pratchett...

He starts talking about playing with the ZX-81 about two and a half minutes in, and at a little after five minutes, starts talking about making one "that can see things." This so impressed fellow guest Eric S. Raymond, that he came charging out of the banquet hall after the speeches to demand to hear more!

I had something of a front row seat to this conversation, as I'd already approached Mr. Pratchett to ask about how he'd wound up too radioactive to enter a nuclear facility (also mentioned in the speech, but kind of glossed over). So there I am on the inside of a crowd of onlookers as Terry's elaborating on the radiation story, with a flabbergasted ESR staring in disbelief, and each of us standing not much more than a meter from each other.

It was... an interesting experience.

I do wholeheartedly recommend that speech. Terry Pratchett is every bit as funny at the podium as he is on paper. He had us rolling!
Good for them, however would be better if it was clickable to more information... But I guess that would be different per country.
Is it on their RESULTS page?

Because many people bypass the search splash page.

They are also doing good with http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/
Indeed. But since selling seats is now much cheaper, other aspects changed too to squeeze costs. Though you could argue that changing regulation did as much if not more to effect [sic] the rise of low cost airlines as the internet did.
$500 was my monthly salary when I had a job. Today I wish I had $20, I'd eat for a week with that.

I think I fucked up something somewhere...
Last year I experienced the chilean earthquake. It was 8.8. There were tsunamis in various cities and a lot of friends lost their houses. The days after it the earth wouldn't stop shaking. A new major aftershock every 5 minutes, and a new tsunami alert every couple of hours. For about 3 months. We still feel the occasional 6.5 aftershock every couple of weeks, more than a year later.

It's really sad to wake up and find that it has happened again.
Same prob on Ubuntu.
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It's awesome. You might want to consider preloading the hover states though, it seemed to take a while for them to load on my screen.
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Ask HN: Companies named after actual things?
I'm considering naming my product and potentially, company, after an actual thing. Would this be advisable? What other companies are named after things? Are they better than acronyms or fictional marks?

Immediately, you think of Apple, Shell, Amazon - all have obviously done extremely well. Products seem particularly suitable e.g Blackberry and Square (though the latter not a physical thing is obviously). My concerns are basically IP/legal related; all of these companies have had problems with this at some stage I'm sure.
Don't know about real men, I was just hitting 8 when I finally got my hands on a hand-me-down zx81.
How about, when someone highlights text on your site, it immediately searches itself and presents the results in the margin? (Without causing the page to reflow or otherwise getting in the way.) Perhaps with links to search Google/Wikipedia/etc as well? Too creepy?
I have a small doubt about one of the questions.

"Please tell us about the time you, ONE FOUNDER NAME, most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage."

We are three founders. Do you want just one founder to answer or is this a mistake(probably mine)?
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I did: the post is nonsensical. Can't get into tight spots with SVN? It's hard to imagine anyone that's actually used SVN saying that.
Yes, the whole labor of hate argument was discussed in the foreword (written by Donald Norman):

“Sure, we love your foreword,” they told me, but “The only truly irksome part is the ‘c’mon, you really love it.’ No. Really. We really do hate it. And don’t give me that ‘you deny it—y’see, that proves it’ stuff.”

Norman remains suspicious, but the preface claims: "We have all experienced much more advanced, usable, and elegant systems than Unix ever was, or ever can be."

Personally, I imagine for many of the participants, it was a labor of hate, not of love. We could chalk up any ambiguous love to Stockholm Syndrome.
Are you from Russia as well? Nice too meet you! I think that the fact that Milner is now working with YC will have a little or zero effect on Russian startup ecosystem. Money love silence. What would help Russian startup ecosystem to grow is a couple of successful rockstar startups. I was shocked when I told about Milner and YC deal to a local VC and she didn't know that. They are years behind US VCs.
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Oh that's nice. Looking forward to reading it.
I can't even see google.com. I'm being redirected to google.de. Though if you set the
Interface Language to English the Alert appears as well.
Everything that has happened to you, it's very sad. IT money is waiting from you is the same as that of other entrepreneurs - blasting projects that will benefit.
Three years ago, immediately after the launch of my first startup in one month I had a 30-years crisis, then the divorce and then subsequent major depression. As a result, I went through 7 coma and tons of tranquilizators. But human body is amazing - three years of rehabilitation, and, behold, I am alive, all in the past and I am doing a new startup.
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Next time before you go off on a tirade against my so called claims, go back and check your facts. I did not say "better". Whomever submitted my post did.

You have interesting ways of respectfully disagreeing with people.
A small plug for my startup. We created a page partnering with the red cross where folks can donate to the relief effort. http://www.fundly.com/redcrossjapan From there you can donate or get involved via facebook.
From my experiences in Germany, SMSes send around midnight New Year did sometimes take several hours to arrive.
I remember Myspace use to do that.
Are you speaking about the attention economy, or something else?
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just finishing up a grad PL theory course, and RWH was definitely among the reading material. but i did find it anemic in many areas. i'll come back to that in a moment.

the pros of the book is that it offers a good introduction to the language and a reasonably good survey of some of the more advanced language features and tools such as QuickCheck, STM, concurrency/parallelism, etc.

the cons are that it leaves out one very new interesting direction called functional reactive programming, FRP, and i also thought its treatment of monads (esp. monad transformers) to be a bit thin. most of the time i just found myself going to publications on the more advanced topics than using a book such as RWH (or learnyouahaskell, which i actually quite like).

here are a few links i came across in the course that i think are worth sharing (in no particular order):

(1) http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/monads

(2) http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/monparsing.pdf

(3) http://www.grabmueller.de/martin/www/pub/Transformers.pdf

(4) http://pubs.doc.ic.ac.uk/error-handling-for-Haskell/error-ha...

(5) http://horna.org.ua/books/All_About_Monads.pdf

(6) http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~mpj/pubs/springschool95.pdf

(7) http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/QuickCheck/manual.html

some papers on FRP:
http://conal.net/papers/icfp97/icfp97.pdf

this below is a link to a postscript version of
"functional reactive programming from first principles", by hudak.
http://j.mp/hkk6VC

and, finally, yet another haskell tutorial:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikibooks/en/wiki/Haskell/YAHT

*EDIT: attempted to purtify multi-link mayhem.
50 weeks seems high, Finland gets a minimum of 5 weeks a year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statutory_minimum_emplo...
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Article content starts out in a straightforward, easy-to-process form, as created by the reporter/author, in a content management system. Then the CMS chops it up into pages and adds boilerplate for presentation as a web page. Then you expend lots of effort to stick the pages back together and filter the crap back out, to arrive at an approximation of the original. Generally a noisy, imperfect approximation that is less useful for your purposes (indexing, information extraction, etc).

If technical considerations were the only considerations, we would find a way to get at the content directly instead of using this Rube Goldberg mechanism. But of course there are also economic considerations. Content owners don't want to give you unadulterated content for free; their business model requires that ads be served along with it.

Will an arms race develop between scrapers and publishers, similar to the arms race between spammers and spam filters? Will publishers start randomizing their HTML generation, or otherwise making it difficult to separate content from peripheral material?
Google aids Japan quake victims
My MSc thesis was on exactly this - adaptive web sites. It's a fascinating research topic.
Every version of XCode I've used has required the OS it is installed to be the latest one. 3.2 required Snow Leopard, 3.1 required Leopard, and so on and so forth.

4 might not require Lion but you can guarantee that 4.1 definitely will.
Here is the map [1]. The Aleutian islands are hit first, but it seems the big effect is the slowing-down of the wave in very shallow waters. (Here's depth maps: [2][3]). Note the contours -- it takes ~9 hours for the tsunami to cross this small sea (Bering), the same time as it takes to cross the entire Pacific from Japan to British Columbia.

According to [4], shallow-water waves (including tsunamis) have speed proportional to sqrt(depth). Not sure how accurate this approximation is, but it seems to get the order-of-magnitude right.

This FAQ [5] says that much of the energy should be reflected off the continental slope (where it goes from deep to shallow abruptly), so the tsunamis there should be pretty small. The tsunami height-forecast [6] says the same thing.

[1] http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/2011/03/11/lhvpd9/06/ttvulhvpd9-0...

[2] http://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gebco_world_map/image...

[3] http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/oceancolor/additional/science-...

[4] http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/ocng_textbook/chapter16...

[5] http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/faq/ArcticTalkingPoints.htm

[6] http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/2011/03/11/lhvpd9/energylhvpd9-04...
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I also got a futuristic feeling from the science-fiction covers of the manuals. http://james.istop.com/zx81/cover.html
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Landline phones (pre-ISDN) can get their power from the network, thus mitigating one failure vector.

Also, it is much cheaper to provide enough cable than radio transceivers. Thus mobile networks nearly always run close to full capacity... ever had "network busy" on your phone when dialing in a downtown? So they are easily overwhelmed in emergencies. With landline, in contrast, you always have the line, so it is mostly a matter of installing big enough BX station.
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Well, no, because buying any other laptop would have probably served you just as well. Any other stock would not have.
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The tsunami has already arrived in Taiwan - very little effect - I heard a report of 10-20 cm swelling - much less than it could have been - probably due to local geology. Philippine and Indonesian islands are probably more at risk especially low lying islands.
Show HN: My awful Kickstarter campaign. Good idea, terrible presentation.
Is he trying to being ironic by saying his fee is 2k? Its pretty much the same as Eva Evangelista's gambit.
On an unrelated note - has Jobs' voice itself changed at some point? It seems a lot more...high pitched and "airy" now than it was back then.
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Yes, I hacked supply chain and wrote several pieces of software, and now our profit margin is around 40% of total project estimate. While it's still below the market for the customers.
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It's articles like these that make me wish I was old enough to have experienced computers before they became "fast". It was these machines that formed the thinking of many of our greatest coders today and I can't relate to that as I'm too young. Oh well
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Japan has declared a state of emergency because of the failure of the cooling system at one nuclear plant, according to the Associated Press. Officials say there has been no leak of radiation.

Let's hope this does not get any worse than it is right now.
You have to separate the building of a brand and the services you are offering. Too often people elect to go with "tradition", my advice is don't. There are two things you need to focus on when building a brand, a name that is identifiable and a beautiful product. Kona, Hawaii is one of my favorite places in the world and we named Konaa Social Marketplace after it. Konaa is easy to remember and we hope people love what we are building as much as we do.
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Forces of nature are hard to hack...
In 100 years from now, it might be a different story.
Boast: after writing a character scroll (trivial, just a block memory move - one Z80 instruction, LDIR), I worked out how to do one using the quarter-character "pixels", the heart of which was three bitwise boolean instructions. I was delighted to later see in the source code for the ZX81 basic (by Steve Vickers), that the line drawing routines using those pixels used identical instructions.

Boast: at 15, I wrote a game for the ZX81 (in machine code), that had many simultaneous sprites, all animated at once; a tiled scrolled background; a massive ship explosion; and even different keyboard control selections. I showed it to a game retailer, and they agreed to stock it! All I needed to do was supply them with cassettes + covers...

Shame: I didn't do this.

A good effect was then when I next was running a business, I resolved to not cop out on the difficult things (read: boring). It's important to recognize mistakes as choices (and not things beyond your control, such as intrinsic inability, "I can't"), because then you have the power to choose otherwise.
It was just a one-off program not a series, but it's been broken up into sub-10 minute chunks for Youtube.

Well worth watching. It's probably got relevance for startups as well as historical interest for geeks generally and it touches on the beginnings of ARM which of course is a big deal these days.
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Operating within the law doesn't imply something is fair - especially when we are talking about a law change.

I think that the law should fairly target mail-order companies as well as Internet-order companies.

Of course, levying taxes based on where the buyer lives makes things difficult for the seller in terms of compliance costs; I think the best solution would be for the federal government (or even organisations like the WTO) to request that jurisdictions provide a register of who taxes should be paid to, and enough information to automate tax payments, by geographic region. The private sector could do this, but a government or International Organisation backed solution might see more participation in the scheme by tax jurisdictions.
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> Grooveshark is one example that comes to mind.

Why does it come to mind? What it so different between Grooveshark and Spotify that Spotify is on the AppStore but Grooveshark can't be?

I see their iPhone application page saying they can't be on the AppStore, but no explanation as to why they can't be (and no, "Apple is unwilling to work with Grooveshark to approve our application." is not an explanation) and the blog post announcement does not provide any more information. The only mention I found is an other, older blog post saying the following:

> Earlier this afternoon, Apple sent us a letter notifying us that, due to a complaint they received from Universal Music Group UK

Apple's behavior seems logical and sensible here as the "gatekeeper" of their store, it's not their job to resolve trouble between UMG and Grooveshark.

And again, Spotify was still in the AppStore last time I checked, so what Grooveshark's app is not, in and of itself, "a [...] killer apps there which would never make it to the AppStore."
I completely agree. They must improve (or at least) maintain the quality of their search results to keep users. The fact that it is the most popular search engine is what brings in advertising dollars in the first place. So, the users are the key. SEO spam hurts them, just like it annoys us, so this is one of the attempts to fight it.
You had my sympathy till this post.
Why on earth not to just drop a link to your website, or, if the company doesn't use one, give name, location and such?

I can only hope it's business is not something too questionable to state it openly...
Model View Controller is an odd mental model? It's quite popular right now and I think that it's the best pattern for decoupling user interfaces from the underlying code.
Yes, obviously I would like to be making more.
It still applies. The things that are hard to do today - and those that require ingenious hacks - are the ones that future computers will find trivial.