skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just tried using this app and it crashes every time I try to take a pic on a fully updated iPhone 4, after a fresh restart. I'm not sure what they're doing with that $41 million (besides buying trademarks and unoriginal domain names), but there are some really talented people doing much more with much less. I'm sure they'll fix it, but seriously guys...

The idea is interesting, but not defensible enough for them to stop a couple of hackers with $15k from besting it.
TipTheWeb will remain focused on being a service for voluntary support of web content and specifically _not_ a payment system.

http://tiptheweb.org/answers/#tipping
truth. JLB + Andres are both awesome guys.
This is the deal which firmly cements my belief that there is a big big bubble.

Anyone with the technical skills and idea to launch a tech startup should collect the cash now. Act fast, at this rate the foolish money wont last long.
but that is their right to believe what they wish. If they want to believe whole-heartedly in Norse mythology, that is their right to do so. It only becomes an issue once they impose their beliefs on others. It can even be thought that atheism is a religious belief in itself. It explains all the things religion does in a unique way.
Nope, there's so much irony in this whole story that if you dug it all up and mixed in a little carbon, you'd get steely.
note to self: clear up the desk now!
Ah, okay; I skimmed and missed the non-profit part.
You know its a bacterial film you're trying to wash off, right? Short of alcohol or some antiseptic, its still completely disgusting.
It uses the same construct as VLOG above does, which allows you to << an error string into CRASH_UNLESS and VLOG. The weirdness comes in when you want to conditionalize the log stream, which isn't implemented in the stubs here. The real Google logging classes are probably more sophisticated, and this is just a shim to get the snappy code to work unchanged.

Specifically the answer to your question is that printing in the destructor is there to print a newline right before calling abort but after having printed whatever was <<'ed to CRASH_UNLESS.

Check out libjingle's logging implementation which has some similar weirdness in it: http://code.google.com/p/libjingle/source/browse/trunk/talk/...
> Does anyone else dream of buying up a suburb, fencing it off and creating a CoD Nuketown-style paintball arena?

there's a joke here somewhere about parts of it already being a CoD Nuketown-style paintball arena. except not with paintballs.
Yeah, I went to another blog post just to find the app. He kept saying "tout" and never linked it. I didn't think to check the sidebar.
I totally agree with that idea.
GPS Satellite Outage Information
You know what? Mine looks exactly like that too. Except for the giant pile of crap off the left side of the picture. Does that mean I'm not zen-like?
Please choose ONE of the following:

1. One or more developers working full-time on fixing bugs and working on new projects/features

2. One or more developers working full-time updating Class and ID names and staying on top of the latest Plugins and Greasemonkey Scripts...

No, seriously - make a choice.
People are free to add money to their TipTheWeb account to use to fund their Tips at any time. Making a Tip isn't a financial transaction; this allows Tips to be as small as 5¢! And Tips can be made even if there isn't enough money to back it at the time it's made, and can be funded whenever the person wants to.

We’ve made everything about the service extremely flexible and low-key, and shouldn't cause any tense feelings. For example you can cancel Tips (up until they are paid out) if you made a mistake.
Take a sand castle. The sand clearly exists here and now, as do the bonds holding it together. But I see no reason to presume some (undetectable) layer of reality in which the castle would really exist in the same sense the sand does. The castle is just our rolled-up perception of how the bonded sand happens to behave until the tide returns.
Randomizing your knowledge base
I posted my entire application here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2361753
Rent and utilities are only part of the story. I'm reminded of that old saw about what are the most important factors in real estate:

1. location

2. location

3. location

Location effects many important things, including the number and quality of neighbors, what sorts of things happen after dark, and generally what will be considered "normal" in the local culture. You can change a lot of things about a property after you buy it, do a lot of fixups, remodelling, heck even totally tear down and build up a new house on the land. But you'll have a much harder time changing the sorts of neighbors and larger community you'll have. Especially over the short/medium term.
"I wonder if there are any ex-CS people who similarly go into Linguistics."

It's surprisingly common in my personal experience.
Also, HP is currently using Think Beyond.
True. But does that alone deserve a 100 million dollar evaluation? I dont know enough tech luminaries who can constitute a team that can command such a high price tag, on launch day none the less. What do I know? My own wife wouldnt put down $100 on me to win :)
I'm going to avoid this argument. I'm not going to change your mind. The only thing I can say is look at the CNN homepage, and then look at the NYTimes. EOM.

Update (since i cannot reply to your comment): I don't know the %, but i know is greater than 2. I can ask and see if anyone can give me an actual figure.
I usually keep my area looking much like the photo, but when I'm rushing to meet a deadline, the tiny amount of operational overhead it takes to stay neat seems to slip enough that clutter starts. Especially when working on little embedded dohickeys that need cables and connectors etc.

What I adore is that little space "in between" when the deadline has been met and I decompress by putting things away, setting things back into their right order, and getting ready for the next big push.
Making MySQL Scalable for Big Data applications
You could perhaps try to learn calculus the way it was taught three hundred years ago, but I'm pretty sure it would be more difficult, not easier, than the standard presentation. In the early years calculus was considered black magic only the smartest few could master, probably not unlike the way, say, String Theory is seen today.
I think the VCs realize that this is the start of a bubble and soon wall street will bring loads of public money through fancy investment instruments to the game.

It is always wise to invest at the start of the bubble and withdraw your money before the euphoria peaks. Maybe they are hoping to create a bubble with these ridiculous deals.
Microsoft Research has contributed a lot to GHC.
> Making a Tip isn't a financial transaction; this allows Tips to be as small as 5¢! And Tips can be made even if there isn't enough money to back it at the time it's made, and can be funded whenever the person wants to.

Tipjoy basically did this, but they still had the fundamental problem that the user has to remember to click in order for the tip to take place. I just don't think people are wired that way.

I admire the work you've done (I am, in part, working on a for-profit "competitor"), but I just don't think it's the right model. In terms of human factors, Readability is closest to perfect IMO.
Fascinating. Can I assume GPS coverage has in fact become more robust over time as the number of healthy satellites has increased? Or is there a non-linear relationship between the # of birds and the likelihood of picking up a strong signal? (E.g., are they covering new territory rather than better covering existing territory?)
...and they have mostly left it in this case. Fine; but lets not pretend open-source GPL projects are significant to the world at large; they are backroom projects with no future.
Uppity startup Readyforce steals Flickr's baby.
The giant baby used to live at flickr, but it was liberated to the bar at Readyforce in some late-night shenanigans.

http://www.flickr.com/people/giantflickrbaby/photosof/

This is totally a fluff piece.
Not sure if this was the OP's intent, but doesn't
"a place where people can learn by being given some random topics" basically describe sites like Hacker News?

Edit: Just noticed that the OP is the post's actual author, so I assume this was not in fact the implicit joke. Given that, the blog post would be more compelling if it indicated how such a place would be different than HN (or, say, Reddit)...
You can overcome the visual indicator (at least in zsh, not sure about bash): http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/547/make-my-zsh-prom...

I'm a recent convert. I don't like using control sequences for anything but screen management.
I generally don't find creationism offensive. While I don't believe it, I'm not offended by it. And I think that's true for most people. It's certainly not the type of thing that ever comes up in free speech arguments. I can't think of any atheist I know (although I'm sure some exist) who want creationism banned in speech or writing.
You should have a very high expectation of sales results from them, and you should give them a guaranteed commmitment that you will measure their results, and you should follow through on that commitment. Salespeople are notorious for giving excuses when they don't meet the sales targets they agreed to.

Fire them if they haven't got results within a reasonable timeframe which you both agreed to.

Offer nothing you can't back out of (like equity) until they have been on board 12 months at least and proven themseves invaluable.

There are lots of salespeople out there who can sell themselves to prospective employers better than they can sell your product.

You must learn how to be a good manager of salespeople rather than trying to "find a good salesperson" who will magically start bringing in the sales for you.

Probably you should do it yourself - you need to know first hand how hard it is to sell your own product, and you know how to succeed selling your product. Only with that knowledge can you effectively manage someone else to do the same job.
I think it's worth posting the original here; http://www.zurb.com/article/623/clear-desk-clear-mind
As I see it, you should either check in the flex and bison binaries themselves (and whatever runtime dependences they have) and only use those during the build, or accept that your build will fail and require maintenance as time goes by, doing whatever's simplest without trying hard to avoid that. Autoconf is intended to facilitate dependencies on components outside source control which happen to exist on a single machine, so it's only appropriate to use at all if you go the latter route.
"The only thing I can say is look at the CNN homepage, and then look at the NYTimes."

I don't see that's relevant to how much the NYT spends on investigative journalism. You say I'm closed-minded, but you're the one whose not willing to disclose the actual percentage.
It's disappointing someone discovered it did not filter dupes and decided to post, many times apparently, "WE CAN FLOOD IT BECAUSE IT DOESN'T FILTER DUPES". I'm certain they felt clever in doing so.
Looks like they spent most of the money on the domain name. Color.com is now live..
ifconfig is deprecated, so probably a good idea to get out of that habit. Particularly if you are using it in scripts.

'ip addr' should give you all the information that 'ifconfig' does. You can also make the output a little less chatty by doing 'ip -o -4 addr' to get IPv4 addresses on one line per interface, or 'ip -o -0 addr' to get MAC addresses displayed similarly. This can make awking / cutting for addresses to use in scripts a little more elegant.
[...] other than a graph is generally an easier way to intuit what a derivative is.

Even that is a matter of personal preference. I honestly believe it's easier to get the concept of a derivative by linking it to instantenous velocity.
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Wow - the first thing it does is to ask you to give your name and take a photo of yourself, then it shares it with random strangers without warning or asking your permission or giving a way to delete it.

Pretty unpleasant initial experience!
No desk = no mess!

http://www.tagbento.com/243/dereks-desk

:-)
If a customer was screwed by the Itanium end-of-life, and responds by choosing SPARC (under Oracle's custody) to migrate to, they almost deserve what's happening to them.
Great example of how much better magazines generally look printed as opposed to put online.

The 'physical' copy of the magazine is inviting with attention clearly lavished on each page. The website, although nice, puts the text into a tiny little column with a few pull quotes and is identical for each article.

I just wish I could buy a physical copy of the print edition.
Not really.

Way back when, I wanted to hack sleepycat db support into a closed source third party platform that had an extension API. It would have taken a bit of code, and a dll load.

Not my application, I didn't have source for it, and I was willing to release my extension as GPL. Sleepycat didn't
see it my way and wanted something like 10k/year and a maintenance agreement for the right to do the code and release it a GPL.

So, to sum up, the GPL prevented me from writing and releasing GPLd code.
Ha. I got a little carried away at the end. I know some people, my girlfriend for one, prefer a little "clutter" in order to create a more comfortable environment.
This is a perfect fit for something like Diaspora.
Yes.

The easiest way to monetize is with banner ads from one of the 40+ authorized Facebook ad networks. http://developers.facebook.com/adproviders/ Believe it or not, people DO click on banner ads, and you should see about a $0.10 eCPM for US and UK traffic. (Traffic outside of those two regions often have less than a penny eCPMs.)

The second-easiest way to monetize is to create a virtual currency that has value to your users, and sell that currency via Facebook Credits. http://developers.facebook.com/credits/

I've personally built about a dozen Facebook apps, and have been involved in close to 100. A general rule of thumb is to expect to make $100/month for every 10,000 monthly active users (MAUs). A modest success on Facebook can garner about 100K MAUs which should net you in the low thousands of $USD per month.

If you want to support yourself full-time, you'll need to aim for 1,000,000 MAUs.

Hope this helps, and good luck.
Debatable. Right now the only significant revenue stream is advertising on the site. However advertising took a huge nose-dive last year (or is it closer to 2 years?) and that IMHO was a huge wake-up call.

Having a solid subscriber base would help offset the risk of being soley dependent on the ebb and flow of advertising.
Ah, the refrain of the neat freaks who feel a desperate need to trumpet their position (and obliquely judge all dissenters), justifying with simplistic metaphors that have no scientific basis...

How quickly we fall off the bus!
To clarify: are you talking about the U.S. or another country (a moment on Google suggests maybe Australia?). I'm almost certain that writing "God Hates Blacks" (or waving a sign saying that, etc) is perfectly legal in the United States.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech#United_States
Actually he didn't state there was a causal link between writing unit tests and writing good code. In fact, if you look closely, you see that there is a full stop in between those two statements, they are in different sentences!

Well, idiomatically, the second sentence is a kind of restatement of the first. My comment was really a reply to all nikster's similar comments in this page; he's talking about unit tests, and those he's talking to are mentioning good code, so it seems as though he believes that good code is essentially the same as "have unit tests", which is what I took issue with. :)

For all code, as soon as you start debugging it you start reaping the rewards of doing it properly. For non-trivial code, those costs will rapidly outweigh the initial savings of just banging something out.

I actually don't disagree with this at all. It's just that I don't think the costs will necessarily be in hours spent, though sometimes they will be. Sometimes the cost will be that you have to find someone at least as smart as the original coder, and that might be hard. It might be so hard that hiring someone to completely rewrite the system from scratch might be cheaper.

So, I'm not saying that people shouldn't take the time to write good code. I'm saying that it's possible to write working code at the speed of typing for some people on some projects, and this can be kept up for long enough for the savings to completely outweigh the other costs if the number of bugs is small enough. I wouldn't recommend depending on this being possible for a given team and project, but I've seen it done -- I've done it myself. The result wasn't what I'd call good code, but it worked and it was done in time to be sold for enough to keep the wolf from the door; if I'd spent half my coding time writing tests on that one, I would simply have failed to deliver.
Agreed. As a newbie in the HN community hoping to share some of my work soon, this is really disappointing. There's a difference between being constructively critical and judging. I would welcome more of the former.
Empty desk, empty mind?
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Thanks @pinko for your comment. You are right. It might sound similar to HN. But HN is sort of like tech-related. I am thinking of a place to learn truly random stuffs, or scientific stuffs. But you made a good point, it sounded quite like Reddit!
You want a story, here's a passionate story!

MSR Asia is based in Beijing and is one of the fastest growing research outfits in the world. They're slowly showing up all over the place in the CS world, and this is just one of the examples.

Consider Microsoft Academic Search. It BLOWS AWAY Google Scholar, Citeseer etc. in terms of features. Once they attain coverage parity, there is reason to use anything else.

Academic Search, Trinity, and similar projects out of MSR Asia seem to be directly having impact in Bing. In a matter of a short few years, you're looking at a barebones search engine (Live.com) building an R&D infrastructure, with prototypes, and production modules feeding into what is now a pretty rocking search engine. [Example of Academic search integration with Bing: http://www.bing.com/search?q=donald+knuth , scroll to bottom -- page also shows Freebase integration in middle]

Ironically, Microsoft is playing David in the David vs Goliath story here, and the passion is showing in terms of the ecosystem of computing projects and products that are making it into Bing.

If you want to look outside of Bing, consider the Kinect effort. Did you know that the _hardware_ ships with mathemetical models built at MSR, trained using Dryad? (Dryad is an MapReduce competitor out of MSR) The training is the "secret sauce" and why you don't have to spend days calibrating the Kinect.

None of this is privileged information -- you just have to follow the hyperlinks :) The open source world is built on collaboration and sharing, and hence the "story" is the backbone of most work. But that doesn't mean other people don't have stories and passion!
Did anyone see dhh's tweet about this? https://twitter.com/dhh/status/50764612001476608

I think he may be on to something here...
I couldn't forget their product name and domain if I tried.
A carrot and a stick :|
I really hope it works out fabulously for you. Say "Hi!" to the Andele guys and their delicious burritos. My experience was that working at Google was unlike any other place I've ever worked before (or since).
innovate and deliver products that are aligned with my long-term objectives

I'm tempted to simply make a joke about whether Red Hat also leverages your synergies and upscales your key metrics -- but I'll ask the question: what does that mean?

Can you give me an example of what you're talking about? (Vis-a-vis another distro?)
Completely agree with your question- we can't help you until you tell us what exactly you're hating about CA and where are you living...
WikiLeaks announces t-shirt design competition
With Readability you still have to "remember to click" the read now/later button, and you don't get to choose how much you want to support that article; you actually have to support it _before_ you even read it.
sparkmuse.com is a growing interest.
Yep, the blogpost linked here reveals the notification center[1], which gives you a bunch of options as to what notifications you want to receive.

[1] https://github.com/account/notifications
The error graphs show gradual decrease from 2007 to 2011 - http://adn.agi.com/GNSSWeb/PAFPSFViewer.aspx
The Customer
Traffic Intersection that Generates Clean Power
I think the main reason yelling "fire" and the like are illegal is that such speech is intended to and does cause action on the part of others. Solicitation to commit murder, inciting a riot, making a false report of a crime, uttering a forged instrument and making (credible) verbal threats are illegal for the same reason. None of these are illegal because of the lack of opportunity for analysis or debate, but because of the direct link between speech and action.
Ideabing is a website that aims to share ideas - http://www.idea.ideabing.com/about/
Thanks -- I had trouble producing a long-term graph on that page. Did you just load each year separately and eyeball it?
Yea, similar to initial Google Wave experience.
Career. When you're ready for the latter... you'll know; no need to ask.
I know keyboard shortcuts are second nature for some people to hide/show windows. But in web/mobile app development, being able to see the mockup, the website, and the code all on one screen is a thing of beauty (and efficiency) to me.
FastSpring, the company behind them, is well regarded by many shareware developers I know.
When you mix location + user generated content, you need to deploy city by city.
I haven't heard that one, but there's a similar one in the Frank Zappa Book about the song "Montana". He wrote a song about dental floss, yet people's teeth didn't get cleaner.
What is the goal of mathematics?
Ask HN: f & t logos are everywhere, but for how long?
The ubiquitous Facebook & Twitter "app icon" logos. Every website, every TV commercial, every magazine, every poster, even on radio... "Like us, follow us!"

Companies are spending millions of dollars promoting a website because it's "in", cool, trendy. How long can it last? Most of them just have the f & t logo with no explanation as to why they are there. Just f & t. What does that do to benefit them?

You can't click a TV, magazine, poster or radio. How many of you actually watch a commercial or read a magazine, see the f & t logo and think to yourself "I'm gonna go Like or Follow a laundry detergent company."

Obviously f & t are proven and effective ways to connect with consumers, but how effective is it for companies to promote them on their own ads without any incentive?

Seems that the "hype" is dying down for f & t and that it's become common place. I wonder how long it will take for people to become numb and uninterested in them and move on to the next latest and greatest thing.

I'm interested in learning what other hackers think about this. Please add on. Thanks.
WOW that gave me a good IDEA!!! Feel free to take it. Promises ;) Who keeps them and who breaks them!!! Scratch that personal commitment stuff -- I'd rather know whether someone will keep their promise! I'll take 2.5%, thanks ~ JB