skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Works fine for me, Chromium 9.0.597.107 Ubuntu 10.10 64Bit
We were a middle-class(-ish) Catholic family in the suburbs. I think alienation from the larger community is not that abnormal of an experience these days.

For example, if you read books or watch TV from the fifties, you might have a twelve year old boy with a friendship with a man in the neighborhood, perhaps in the context of sharing their common interest in carpentry or fence-painting, and doing totally innocuous things like having iced tea together during summer. Are you of the impression that remains normal behavior today?

I would be scared out of my wits if a neighborhood kid took a shine on me and started coming over to my house to say hello. That's one worried phone call from mom away from my life being ruined.
"These companies, generally newly created, are in a phase of development and research for markets " wikipedia .

before internet become popular there was no concept startup , when jobs was making lisa in garage he didnt called that startup.
You know what I can't even express the amount of dislike I have for puppet from variables that have 4 purposes (who ever thought up :ensure that can be "latest", a version, a requirement of being available or not or if a service is running needs to be shot buried and encased in cement) to the DSL that tries to be declarative yet puppet isn't and allows for half installs due to failures. Chef isn't any better as it's extremely opinionated - AMQP have to use it, deprecated merb have to use it. Cfengine is in it's own world of suck (ever write unportable scripts with no abstractions? well you do now). I'm not being snarky, I gave each a fair shot while evaluating them by implementing a provider for a distribution.
The VM image idea might be most palatable under a kernel-threading scheme like Linux OpenVZ or Solaris Zones. They are very inexpensive and quite efficient.
GrassValley Edius
GrassValley Edius gives you so much versatility wrapped with sheer speed of editing.
There are a couple of GUIs for cross-browser CSS, many of them are web based. A quick search with searchyc, or Google will yield numerous results.
Digital Goods has proven to be a very promising model with lots of opportunity. Subscriptions are now possible across platform and very successful. Freemium model is also used often and effective. Advertisement in mobile has proven not profitable because of its infancy compared to web. You're better off charging upfront than advertising.
We can and we are creating a new open platform built entirely on open technologies so it can never become yet another walled garden.

IkoniqueOS
I don't think we're going to be supporting SVN natively anytime soon..
It's really easy to use git-svn to import your SVN repo to git, and you
can use it along with svn. You can then deploy to appharbor with git and
use SVN as usual.

If people need any help with git and git-svn though we're happy to help!

Ref: http://feedback.appharbor.com/forums/95687-general/suggestio...
Ask HN:  Giving up anything for lent?
When somewhat looks into my eyes, and says "Are you Christian", I struggle to muster a "sort of". What I want to say is "I like Christianity". In any case, I am giving up alcohol and sweet dessert for 40 days. Anybody else giving up anything?
Or, even, suppose that you're in another, non-software tech industry, like pharmaceuticals. That's way harder than it was 15 years ago, because of tighter FDA regulation. Just try getting a drug to market with less than $100,000,000 in capital, and very few people can raise that kind of capital.

Hell, even IN the tech industry... I'm extremely interested in VLSI, and I'm told most commercial available processing units cost in excess of $1,000,000,000 just to reach the first actual chip!
I know a lot of people think and profess that that matters to their decisionmaking criteria. I also know a lot of geeks think and profess that button color has no impact on whether they'd sign up for something.

There is compelling data with regards to the on-the-ground truth of one of these propositions.
What I don't understand is how Angry Birds became so popular, but other similar (almost exactly the same) games failed (eg: Crush the Castle). Those games also tackles most of the issues that's talked about in the post.
How is Android a wakeup call? Apple's profits have been rising in that market segment, independent of who currently sells more phones and what OS phones run.

Apple now has Verizon support and is available in a lot of international markets.

Next the could diversify to different models, if that would help.

Apple lives from the focus of integrated hardware and software. But the real strength is the attention to the user.

With Android you got Google as the software sponsor, Google as the service provider, Google as the ad platform through which they drive their revenue and you got a multitude of hardware companies using their software.

We have seen similar models in the past, where the hardware companies had to pay the software provider their share for the software license. The Google model is indirect.

Apple has shown in recent years that they have no problem competing against these business models, even with a tiny market share. Apple does not sell by features or price.

My main problem with Apple is not about how their deals with developers or partners work, but that they don't allow me as a user to take full (or 'more') control of the device software. That for me as the user, I have no other choice as to get software from their store is limiting me.
Ask HN: Columbus HN meetup
Any interest in a Columbus, OH area meetup late March? Very informal, chat, beer, NCAA hoops.

3/24, 6pm @ Brazenhead in Dublin.

Let me know if you plan on attending. Email in my HN profile. Thanks
Language Detection Library for Java (using Wikipedia data for profiling)
Same setup here. When you type with your physical keyboard you should see the virtual keyboard animating but not the other way around. Took me some time to figure...
All we can do is what we can do - Thoughts
I must agree about adolescence.

Consider the story of Romeo and Juliet. At an age where he has not yet grown a beard, Romeo has killed (at least) two men. He secretly marries his true love (and the Church blesses the marriage).

Imagine, if you can, the reaction of parents, churches and schools today to such behavior.
I realized it while playing the game, and to a greater extent after reading the article, but it's a very meticulous game. The amount of detail and thought into all the aspects of the game are top notch. I really respected the architecture of some of the more complicated levels in regards to all the little angles, small blocks scattered, combination of material types, etc. In my opinion it's what the game is centered around. The fluff - sounds, visual cues, appealing characters, would not stand on it's own merit without the excruciating detail put into the level design. If it takes half an hour to an hour to complete a level, it must be exponentially more to design the level.
Agreed that if you're misleading investors that's generally going to be fraud of some type of another. But presumably his investors already had his numbers, they aren't waiting for a blog post linked to by tech crunch to find out.

It seems like you're blurring the line between a public company and a private company. Why use accounting tricks? This isn't a 10Q, it isn't certified, it wasn't prepared by an auditor. It also isn't his tax return, or testimony to the government.

I also think you're overestimating your ability to back out rev numbers from headcount. I've worked at a similar sized company that booked $0 in rev, and I'm sure plenty of 1 person companies book more than that.

My point really isn't about the numbers, it's about credibility. This guy got barred from the securities industry by the SEC for telling the public one thing when he believed the opposite.
> browsers will do exactly what most have done with alert()

In case anyone was wondering why pak said "most"... this is somewhat scary: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59314
SoftwareMaven says:

"I'm always looking for good reading on this subject (truly guiding your kids to adulthood), so if you have any good pointers, send them on!"

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
Excelerate Labs Pre-Deadling Shindig (Chicago, this Friday)
It's because the target user was fakestevejobs.
Can you tell me where you got to that url?
Show HN - ShoeVox: Kinect-Like Voice Control for Your PC Multimedia
Yeah, I am wondering if Google is planning on getting the functionality I had with gizmo5 into Google Voice.
Love it. Runs in the background, I don't have to do any work at all. When I need it, it's updated. Nice work keeping it simple.
McDonalds. Time to break a new habit before it becomes an old habit.
Crush the castle doesn't look fun to play, graphics are very boring. It's way more fun to drop birds at pigs, than rocks at small statues.
I'd blame homework, not education in general. Kids have gone to school since Shakespeare's time. But they went home and either helped their dad on the farm, helped their mum do the housework, got a part time job, or read books and hunted crawdads.

Now, many people would consider it abuse, forcing a child of 14 to help out at work. Especially if they were only paid a nominal fee. They should be doing their homework, getting one-up on their peers. Unless they are from a family that doesn't value education, and then they should be learning to cope with a job market that won't value them.
I'm surprised they didn't mention this:

http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/p/188504/2059127.aspx#2059...

Few people realize the TSA is randomly searching people at bus stations, train stations and closing bridges for car searches now. There is zero effectiveness to this tactic which is even named to demonstrate their point that it's "just for show" (theater) visible intermodal protection.

It's almost like they are testing the waters to see how far they can go before someone says something.

When exactly is mainstream news going to start covering these events?
As a sysadmin, I have to say that I hate Launchpad. I always have click many levels deep to find the thing I want. The interface just sucks.

I also know plenty of other sysadmins who use github but find no value at all in Launchpad.

Also: FWIW, I never notice folks' names on github. The important thing for me is that the code is right there front and center. If I want to download it, I click the clipboard button and then go clone it. Boom.

Edited to add: I also think that if it's not immediately apparent which fork is the "canonical" one, it probably doesn't matter. Just grab whatever looks most popular. If you decide you'd rather have a different one, then grab that later. shrug
Senate Nears Final Vote on Patents
There's a snowball effect that's been demonstrated in lab tests for popularity of items within a social group - something that gets a little moment early on will be come massively popular because the popularity itself breeds more popularity. It's also been demonstrated that if you take the same group of options to multiple similar pools of people, which ones become most popular will largely be driven by the somewhat random actions of the first few people to interact with them. Quality helps of course but a lot it is just being in the right place at the right time.
With this, remember that there's a 10GB/day bandwidth cap for free accounts. https://www.dropbox.com/help/45
I'm sorry, the notion that this somehow levels the playing field is completely wrong. It's very difficult for a layperson to file a patent properly, in the proper legalese and keep track of all the necessary actions. This bill definitely opens up patents to large corporations and patent holding companies that can essentially throw teams of lawyers at particular fields.

After spending 5 years and more money than I'd like to admit on our patent that has still yet to be awarded I can tell you from personal experience that every response is cryptic, and the necessary follow-up actions are extensive and intensive. Furthermore, if they're not written in the proper legalese you have even less of a chance.

This is yet another boon to large corporations and their lawyers. Now that companies such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft don't have to worry about prior-art we'll see innovation slow to a crawl, and startups will have even less of a chance of disrupting the status quo as a lawsuit won't be too far behind. I can see it now, We demand you shutdown as you're infringing on the patent we were recently awarded, it won't matter that you were already operating. They can simply pay extra fees, get a faster approval and you're gone. This is supposed to be progress and improvement? Only to the lobbyists and their employers.
All I'm saying is you can't tell how accurate it is, but it doesn't sound like to me they are fudged. Companies play with numbers to make one set look favorable to investors, and another set look poor to the government at the same time so you avoid taxes. For all you know, that could be the number he reported to the government for his tax return. But there are laws saying you can't lie about it, especially if you have investors (public or private - linked a couple above). Tax evasion comes into play because even if you have two sets of books, those have to tie out at some point, and if you're lying, there's likely some issue you're running into with the IRS.

I'm not estimating revenue. I'm saying ~4.8M rev - (45 ppl * ~80-100K avg all in comp) - operating costs checks out to around the break-even profit. Nothing more. Both numbers could be fudged - I don't know.

Agreed with you that he has questionable credibility. And I'm also saying that that could certainly be happening here as well. But we have no way of knowing, even if we had the numbers in hand
This combined with, THERE IS NO BUSINESS INCENTIVE TO DO SO... is pretty much a reason.

Time is a zero sum game. If I can make features/fixes that brings me money, why would I spend time/money/effort to design system for effectively... well, NOT make money, at the cost of the former?
Feedback from a real customer.

Nothing has ever given me more focus and motivation that someone saying, "I would pay for that." Especially if it's someone who has paid me for things in the past.
Warner Bros. to Rent Movies Digitally on Facebook, Starting With 'Dark Knight'
I deny the possibility of such a thing: I'm the professional communicator. If I get misunderstood then there was an opportunity for me to have phrased it better.

(Ditto for when Mrs. Smith thinks she was triple charged by The Googles for her software because she thinks one mail from me, one mail from Google, and one confirmation page counts as three charges. Not her fault -- my fault. I live and breathe e-commerce -- I should have made that more clear for someone who might only buy one thing online ever.)
How does Beluga's offering differ from push notifications on any other platform? Are they actually making SMS cheaper? If so, does anyone know how?
Agreed to that and tomkarlo's comment. But I wonder why no one's taking credit for the original idea. With so much publicity for Angry Birds that seems really weird.
Almost all of the news posts about Angry Birds praise the team and seems to ignore the fact that it was not an original idea at all.
> they took the relatively simple and easy-to-use search screen and combined a bunch of separate functions into one bizarre combo search box that felt unintuitive and annoying.

I noticed that too. Felt like the first sign that Loren was no longer in charge of the design. Sad moment. I haven't upgrade to the newest version, but from other's comments, sounds like the UX has degraded further. And I'm also one of the folks who'd gladly throw a little money at Twitter periodically just for letting me keeping using the service, and keep using Tweetie as it was before it was assimilated. No ads. No crashes. Delightfully smooth and refreshing UX.
As an addition to that last question, about the Eygptian protestors, I also often wonder how different Mark Zuckerberg's positions on privacy, anonymity and identity would be if he were gay...
Launchpad is kind of poorly designed, looks a bit messy. I think that matters too.
Angry birds reminds me a lot of the gameplay and level design of Lode Runner for the Apple IIe. Simple concept, artistic levels that were pictures or boats or houses, and totally addictive gameplay.

Now all we need is a level editor for angry birds...
"This question pops up when products become massively successful based on their user experience design – think iPhone, iPad, Google Instant Search, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Kinect."

Google Instant Search?

While I'm working on an app with vague similarities to Google instant and I like the idea of it being a wild success, I can't see evidence that it's anything like a "run-away success" given that it was simply a make-over of an already successful interface. Google had most of the market before and after so what could you say about this. I don't remember it getting good review either.
A very interesting analysis, that still seems to be a bit off the mark. I felt like it was pointing at one media and saying "See! This works in all cases!"

It feels a little like when, working in a large supermarket, they force-shoved the "FISH!" video down our throats, even though the business model didn't have any flexibility in it. We couldn't apply the principles but they management team hoped that simply being exposed to it would work.

Most of the experience I've had with enterprise product design has demonstrated that "Being engaging" is very VERY low on the product design list, because corporate companies don't care how engaged their staff are.

Developers, however, are loud and wonderfully obnoxious (No, really, I love it) about their tools, so I see a lot more room for engaging behavior, BUT I imagine a developer will also be a lot more annoyed at any perceived duplication of effort (No matter how clever you 'wipe' their short term memory).
By "making upload time much shorter" you mean "making apparent upload time much shorter." They'll still take the same amount of time[1] to upload, except that that time begins while they're being recorded.

[1] Or more, in some probably unlikely cases, for example if the upload speed exceeds the bitrate of the video.
False dichotomy.
Also, github puts the author name before the project name for namespace reasons, not for egotistical ones. At least do your research before bashing them.
seems to ignore the fact that it was not an original idea at all

Is this contrary to expectations? This is what we mean when we say, over and over again, that "ideas" don't matter a hill of beans. To misquote the best line of the movie: if they had had the idea for Angry Birds then they would have developed Angry Birds.
YCombinator.
I personally found Crush the Castle a lot more fun than Angry birds; you don't get stuck in a linear progression, and it feels a lot more "tactile" to me as bits slam into other bits and people scream and die.
WiFi Printer
There are many different types of printers such as LED printers, laser printers, Wi-Fi printers, all-in-one printers etc. Wi-Fi printers have become very popular in the recent past. Wi-Fi printers can be set up and used any where.
Last.fm didn't let you listen to music through them at all in the beginning; they were just a sharing and recommendation service. And for a lot of people, that's what they still are. They also are an affiliate for content delivery platforms. They also let you listen to music via youtube on their site. They also aggregate metadata from other sites like wikipedia. How do you differentiate yourself from them?
Why Silicon Valley trumps Boston (data)
Crush the Castle didn't fail - I'm pretty sure more people have played it than Angry Birds, although obviously most people didn't pay to play CTC / CTC level pack / CTC2. I know for a fact that CTC2 is immensely popular - it's one of the most popular games using Playtomic.

The reason I think that AB is more popular is it fits a more general audience, the graphics/story/etc are all neutralized so they're covering every demographic while CTC is more male-oriented.
Government grants for single moms
Single mothers need to be 18 years of age at the very least before they can even think about applying for the government grants for single moms.
"You have one identity. The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly … Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity."

It's not a lack of integrity - what people say and how people act is always based on the context it's in. There are things you'd say to your friends that you wouldn't say to your family or even other friends. It's always been this way, and it's pretty arrogant for Mark and, consequently, Facebook to assume otherwise.

This has actually pretty much pushed me off Facebook, as the only stuff I post is what falls in the relatively small subset of stuff I'd tell to my family, coworkers, boss, friends, and people that I know online.
Probably true, but it would be trivial to run the physics loop a few times before rendering the first frame to remove the jitter. A neophyte developer would know how to do this and the folks at Rovio are pretty experienced. My vote is with conscious decision.
Or if he ever had to to apply for a job, after getting caught calling other students "dumb fucks" for trusting him.

I mean what I say, but I can't rely on every stranger out there to treat me rationally afterward, so I intentionally limit who knows it was me. In venues like Facebook (and now linked forums), solely because I can't do that, I never say anything beyond the inoffensively vacuous when I bother to use them at all.
Women prefer men who are taller than them. I rarely if ever see a woman with a man shorter than her.
Streaming music service Mog targets TVs and cars
Link to watch: http://www.facebook.com/darkknight

Fascinating move by both Warner Bros. and FB. I wonder if this is streaming from FB datacenters or Warner Bros? No wonder Apple hates FB, they just went up against Apple, Netflix, Amazon and Google/Youtube (EDIT: Also, Hulu) in the video rentals space, and social is one aspect that affects movie watching the most. Very smart.

EDIT: Ooh, they also launched an iOS app that allows you to buy the movie: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-dark-knight-app-edition/i...

Also, Imagine being able to use facebook credits earned in Farmville to rent movies...
In Season 5, Episode 17 of House, a guy loses his inhibition which causes him to speak his mind having no control over what he says. Now if you watched this episode (or read the recap), I hope you would understand the difference between stating a comment because you take notice of those around you versus saying the first thing that comes to mind.
Roger Ebert Tests His Vocal Cords, and Comedic Delivery
I'll summarize for you:

Nietzsche was nuts and Heidegger, like some sort of pre-computer age Perl programmer, had extreme difficulty explaining or even, apparently, _understanding_ what he had previously written. Sound familiar? Today philosophers' continue to argue about what they believe Heidegger was _trying_ to say as well as what he said.

If you absolutely _must_ consider any of this further I could do no better than recommend "Why Heideggerian AI Failed and how Fixing it would Require making it more Heideggerian" by Hubert L. Dreyfus, perhaps after a half-carafe of wine. For true inspiration, LSD would likely be better.

Sorry, that's the best I've got.
IndexedDB, neutered SQLite without benefits of transactional KV store
Indian Salwar Kameez
I tried pressing Caps Lock and Escape depressed, then I remembered that I have it mapped.
Android Takes #1 Spot in USA for Total Subscribers