skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article seems to suggest that Android could make a billion dollars in 2012 in revenue, not profit:

http://blogs.forbes.com/ericsavitz/2011/02/08/googles-androi...

Is there a source for $1B in profit in 2010?
There are three or four competing HTTP-based non-Flash live streaming protocols duking it out in the IETF. AFAIK Chrome hasn't implemented any of them yet.
This is probably just an attempt at on their part to see if they can get a competitor to just go away.

If you're successful, this won't be the last.
This article is fiery and it has every reason to be. You can replace India with Russia, Brazil or any other country which has a dysfunctional government apparatus that is prone to endemic corruption. I wouldn't say there's no way out for India (we are in the midst of youth led democratic revolutions in middle east). Anna Hazare, a highly respected social activist, is fasting in Delhi and he is catalysing and crystallizing many Indian youths' feelings and aspirations to fix the root of this problem (my friends in Chennai, India are fasting to show support). I am optimistic of the future.
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multiplication and division have the same precedence, and division (like most operations) is left-associative. For example, exponentiation is right-associative, so 2^3^2 = 2^9 = 512, not 64.
T-shirts are achievement badges for tech employees, with the interesting restriction that you can only wear one at a time.

This is why every programmer has about 5-10 times as many t-shirts as years of work experience.

I would love to see a photo essay about the story told by the "t-shirt timeline" of a programmer or other tech figure. Definitely more colorful than a resume.

In fact, that would make a great site. I remember there used to be a great site cataloging the early shirts of Apple. I would love to use a site where I can catalog, compare and (yes) show off my tech t-shirt collection without having to actually wear them daily. Maybe others would want to catalog their rare rock band shirts. And everyone is curious about the black YC shirt, right? You could easily monetize with promoted orderable designs. Pleeease, LazyHN?
https://convore.com/yc-s11-apps/

We have now sent out all the email so if you haven't received anything then check your spam folder....
Kirsty

if it isn't there, email me at kirsty at ycombinator dot com with the HN user name you submitted the application with and I will look into it for you.
Kirsty

yes I'm getting emails from you and I'm investigating. It looks like those of you that didn't receive an email from me were marked as late applications and therefore were not emailed as part of the ontime application process
Kirsty
Not necessarily. They are getting very receptive to being open at the pre-competitive stage. The data are just too large and complex now for any one company to manage and figure out. Number of initiatives along these lines, but it will be slow progress for sure.
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Very interesting. Be very curious to see if it is enforced (although I think google is more prone to not risk it since they are under so much scrutiny if nothing else).
> the Civic Center area where Twitter wants to move is a toxic waste storage area

Maybe, but I thought this corporate welfare is supposed to instantly turn it into a paradise for young urban professionals, right? Or did I miss something?

Nobody ever woke up in the morning and said "you know where I'd really like to get a job today? Brisbane!" Anyway, mid-Market sucks far less than Brisbane on a number of axes. You can walk or bike to work if you worked in mid-Market and lived in SOMA (as many Twitter employees do); have fun doing that in Brisbane. On Market Street, you can walk to lunch; in Brisbane lunch would be a 10 minute car ride away. Mid-Market also has excellent public transit to get to and from work and other places in the city. In other words, SF is a real city, with real city amenities. Real city amenities cost money. Taxes are how those things get paid for. If you don't see that, then you (and the rest of the tea party) have some growing up to do.

A 1% tax that amounts to "thousands of dollars" means your annual income is hundreds of thousands of dollars. Congratulations on that, but let's get real for a minute -- someone with an income in that range is going to have a bigger problem with an extra 15-30 minute commute each day than the few dollars they never see in their paycheck. And anyway, if the absolute dollar amount were really an issue, market forces would easily compensate for this (that is to say, people who work in San Francisco would be paid more as they flee the city in droves).
Yep that's built in though I should probably highlight it more on the tour. There are two possible ways to request time off:

- In your profile. These are times that you can never work and they are recurring. You can set yourself to be unavailabile every Monday from 2-4pm, for example.

- In the Requests Off section. This section is for one time requests off, as in your exam example.
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1)LEGO mindstorms
2) NI DAQs (expensive)
3) BasicStamp (parallax.com)
4) BeagleBoard (then you wont need the PC)
5) Xport (lantronix - has digital IO)
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"How are well paid government workers the "economically disadvantaged"?"

Speaking for myself, most government workers do something that's more valuable to society than what I do for a lot less money. That probably holds true for 90% of the HN readership, although I suppose YMMV for the societal contribution of serving ads and flipping bits vs administrating social security.
Rockstar Developers: With all these groupies around it's hard to type.
It is amusing to see how many of these look like proto-facebooks
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I wish I could downvote you. Not for, because you are wrong, but because one can make any reasonable sounding claim about future and get away with it.

Oil prices have been especially kept artificially high by Oil Producing countries. And think about it, if they go high enough may be middle class people will start using Public Transport (and start caring about Public Transport). Rising oil prices is not an issue.
At various times westerners who dont understand the various forces at work in india have predicted the fall of india. Churchill said: India will fall back quite rapidly through the centuries into the barbarism and privations of the Middle Ages (source: http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-w...)

Even we Indian barely understand all the forces and the interplay so I dont hold it too much against ppl who pass such pronouncements.

In the last 30 years or so in every parameter (health/education/life span) India has developed and this has happened to all stratas of sosciety. Please understand that I am not refuting the nytimes article. I am saying that poor people are also getting better.

Estimates for India also indicate a continuing decline in poverty. The revised estimates suggest that the percentage of people living below $1.25 a day in 2005 (which, based on India’s PPP rate, works out to Rs 21.6 a day in urban areas and Rs 14.3 in rural areas in 2005 ) decreased from 60% in 1981 to 42% in 2005. Source: http://www.worldbank.org.in/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/SOUTHA...

Yes, the rich are getting richer but the poor are also getting a bit better.

I have hope.
We found out about Staticloud after we started but decided to keep going because we wanted to create something that people could use for their serious websites (like portfolios). Thus the need to have ownership of your subdomain and be able to add and remove files etc...

We were inspired partially by the struggles of our less technically minded classmates [we go to design school] who can piece together a simple portfolio but end up paying $5 a month to tear their hair out trying to figure out how to host their site on Godaddy.
Typical liberal media crap
I don't really get worked up over stuff like this this, it is just an arbitrary title assigned by one publication owned by a massive conglomerate. These are time waster debates. Any time spent debating whether Assange should have won it could just be spent actually helping the Wikileaks movement. Fighting actual problems > fighting for worthless awards.
As a "non-nerd" software developer, CS major and general lover of computers I find the generalizations in the article nauseating. I've never seen The Matrix (although nobody can really escape the many clips, references and spoofs). I certainly do not want to be Neo and I don't need to be allowed to wear a t-shirt to feel like I'm not working for the man.

I'm tired of this tyranny of the Peter Pan set. They are the reason why I never talk about what I do. It has been given a bad image.
ITA is special not because of the data but because of what it does with the data. The others haven't been able to reproduce that. Think of it as the Google of airline data.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.

-- Dijkstra

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EW...
Best bet is to replace x÷y by x*(1/y) as division is not commutative while multiplication is commutative. Therefore 48÷2(9+3) => 48(1/(2(9+3)) => 2
And how much would that cost you?
I've seen android prototype devices by vendors for demos and they have ethernet ports. But I guess that's not a usb interface either, it's native.
The article gives several examples of how things have changed from a few decades ago.
Likewise, a few decades from now, things would be different as well.

This too shall pass.
This article is not about Twitter ditching Rails, because Twitter is not ditching Rails.

This seems worth repeating [1] because this is the top-voted comment, even though the submission title no longer implies that.

Absolutely go with Rails [2], because it's a great way to get started quickly and large successful startups like Twitter are still using it at scale.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2424393
[2] Or Django, or whatever
Orbitz and Kayak both use them, check the wikipedia page on them for more info in that area[1]. ITA's real claim to fame, at least in communities like HN, is that they're one of the largest Common Lisp shops still around. Also my experience interacting with their employees has been that they're an exceedingly smart and talent bunch of people. Additionally, and especially if you lived in the Boston/Cambridge area, they're pretty well known for there rather challenging interview puzzles which used to be plastered all over the T [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITA_Software

[2] http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/puzzle_archive.html
TellMe is also used in Windows Phone 7 and it works great.
If you don't have the drive or the hunger, then you probably never will. Why not jet around in daddy's yacht for a few months ?
Do these protocols also capture video input from the camera?
"Prolog is a pure functional language ... so there are no variables to update?—?only method calls."

It's been a while (some decades) since I wrote my last prolog program but this seems to be rather wrong to me. First of all, there is also the paradigm of logic programming and prolog is it's best known child. I don't think you can equate logic programming to functional programming. Secondly, there are no method calls as such. IIRC a prolog interpreter basically does a depth-first search on a graph made up of assertions. The very point of prolog is though that you don't tell the interpreter "call this method with these arguments and then do that" but rather you tell it "show me valid solutions that fit this template assertion, do however you think is best". At least that's what simple interpreters did. I don't know what more sophisticated compilers like gnu prolog made out of it. Please somebody correct me if I'm wrong. It's possible that my memory fails me.
T-Shirts work for -everything-. Non-crappy t-shirts (if they're actually witty even better!) will boost the morale of almost any group. See the group of grumbling engineering students. Now see them happily putting on and wearing their purple engineering t-shirts, temporarily forgetting the tortures that the faculty unleashes on them. They might even -like- the faculty for a while. If only so they can make sure they'll never -ever- be confused for an arts student.
I wonder how much Google worries about the popularity of niche sites like stackoverflow. I go there for all my programming queries now instead of searching on google. If more and more sites take up niches like this the over all search volume should decrease for Google. Though I would think its not a lot as a percentage.
Lotsa Drobo, Lotsa Hard drives, several pogoplugs.
It would take 41 drobos filled with 328,2 TB drives. I don't think I'd hook up more than four drobos per pogo, so 11 pogoplugs.

328 HDs at $84.99=27876.72
41 drobos at $1,511.11=61955.51
11 pogoplugs at 98.75=1086.25
Total=90918.48 including shipping.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822240...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822601...
If these rumours are true, FB will be deploying a new product for China. Is it too cynical to remark that one of the motivations may be that the Chinese government's ideas about privacy may be incompatible with the safeguards against government snooping that Facebook has already put in place in the wake of the recent populist uprisings?
I've found the Android speech recognition works great for voice search and sucks for everything else. I've written a HN post or two with it; it either needed much hand editing or an outright translation to be intelligible.
"What you're worth" is totally dependent on the skills you bring with the needs the company has. Even in something as specialized as web development, there's huge room for variances.

Couple of points...

Soft skills - can I comfortably discuss a range of topics and ideas with people at all levels of an org, including their clients? What is it worth for you as an employer to know you can bring someone in to a meeting who is, not just presentable, but groks what's going on, says the right things, picks up what they need to know, and can act on it?

Domain knowledge - even outside of your core org's focus - can be invaluable when trying to come up with solutions to some problems. If the knowledge is there with the right problems, there's value created. If not, no value.

A friend works at a company which had some security problems based on some poor decisions that were made in the web services APIs. Someone with practical experience - like me - wouldn't have made those decisions. What 'value' do you place on the tens of thousands of dollars in man hours, customer relations issues and lost opportunity cost would you put on bringing someone like me in vs someone else with less experience?

So... "what do you think you're worth?" is very hard to calculate before the fact, because you usually don't have much insight in to the inner working and problems. After you're hired, you can generally expect to be on the COL-raises and mild bonuses - usually computed based on the dept or team's collective efforts. If you can get some form of profit-sharing negotiated, you may be better off, but even that is still subject to the company's overall financial health, and you normally have little positive control over that.
I would be surprised if in-browser tools are the main way that content will be streamed. Other sites usually use external software.
Yet like Google, Baidu has been unable to execute a successful social network or microblog to-date. Hello Facebook, welcome to China.

Considering this from the article:
"Facebook is really on the eve of entering China, the contract has been signed, with some Chinese partner who will build the new site according to some model, but which will not completely connect to Facebook.com."

I'd say, it's still not clear that Baidu/Facebook will be able to execute a workable social network (above board means monitored by government).
I'm to the point that I dont try to watch anything on youtube directly. I use keepvid to grab it and play in VLC.
I've been to Palantir a few times for dinner, and almost everyone there wears Palantir t-shirts. They give out one for each release, and it looks like they're each themed around an element of the periodic table. The critical part is that they are nice shirts (American apparel), and really nicely designed. They also seem to order women's sizes.
raising awareness > winning worthless awards.

You see, the award itself is not worthless, because the real value in it is making the general population aware of yourself.

"Any time spent debating whether Assange should have won it could just be spent actually helping the Wikileaks movement."

Arguments of this form are always silly. I don't dedicate all of my free-time to any one task, nor do I have any desire to do so. I lose nothing by taking 2 minutes out of my day (2 minutes that would have otherwise been spent picking my nose or staring at the wall) to complain about Assange not getting this award.
The problem is that most software development is novel, so there are zero previous data points from which estimates can be derived.
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I think its because they had shitty UI design. The yahoo pages ALWAYS were too cluttered.

They should have done minimalism and dropped the cartoony icons and lame yodels and focused on a classy interface.
I agree that it has good chance of turning out badly and could be used to bolster support for Sony both in the public eye and in court, but how do you drive home the point to someone hiding behind a corporate veil? Corporate execs can make all the destructive decisions they want and can almost universally avoid being held accountable.

Circumventing that protection and making it personal is a pretty obvious choice, even if it's the wrong one. It also appears very poignant to me since Anon's actions basically mirror Sony's.
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This is how I'd solve it too. Plus, with a username like that and a LaTex formatted answer, I'm already inclined to trust your math skills :)
Good point, Mike. This is not a call to action. Not sure if we share the same idea, but person of the year used to be a big deal. It reminded me of Pres Obama’s Nobel Prize, until which it used to be a deal too. Talk about brand value dilution.
I've noticed the same thing. I'll routinely struggle to understand an academic paper with a notation-heavy theoretical bent, but when I found I had to dig out high school math for a couple 2D-graphics problems recently, it all came back easily.

When you're in high school, you don't realize how much of a gulf there is between Ph.D/MS-level (or even professional-level) math and what you learn in school. The public school system teaches you the barest foundations; there's a gigantic world out there beyond it.
I do not think that author considers it useful in real world programming. It is a cool hack, therefore we should treat it like one, and not complain about readability.
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This is a problem with reporting (and public perception) of computer software/services in general. I don't think it's widely appreciated that "breakthroughs" by consumer software/services companies generally are the tip of a decades-deep research iceberg.
The creator of the software posted an AMA: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/gllgr/i_am_the_creator...
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I think Indians should break free like USSR.

Except Russia, remaining USSR republics are relatively free from corruption and prospering rapidly. http://www.doingbusiness.org/economyrankings/

Georgia - 12,
Estonia - 17,
Lithuania - 23
Latvia - 24,
Armenia - 48,
Azerbaijan - 54,
Kazakhstan - 59,
Belarus - 68,
Moldova - 90,
Russia - 123,
INDIA - 134
Tajikistan - 139,
Ukraine - 145,
Uzbekistan - 150.
Amazon staffing up to become a huge advertising player
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I use Google to search stackoverflow. "site:stackoverflow.com query", they do a better job at search than SO.
To clarifiy: the Times person of the year award has never been something that indicates praise. Hitler got it after all.

Similarly, the nobel peace price was worthless long before it was awarded to Obama, precisely because it was being awarded to people that had not earned it.
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The data is available (not cheaply) from an company called ATPCO, which is owned by the airlines. The airlines publish fares and rules through ATPCO, and ITA, SABRE, and many others fetch the data and run the computations.

The computations are the hard part.
The Philippines were in point of fact an American colony; I presume you meant English-speaking, as the English did their colonizing under the flag of Great Britain in any case and it is customary to refer to their colonies as British.
InboxQ's core functionality is very nice, and I've been using it lately to help promote one of my products.

I haven't been able to figure out why it is delivered as a browser extension, though. It doesn't seem to add any value, and in fact makes it more difficult to use than if it were just a standard web app. For example, if I have InboxQ popped open in Chrome and then I switch to another application to do some research or copy a link, then when I switch back to Chrome, InboxQ is closed.
Anti-corrupt people are considered to be incompetent in Indian society.
Lokpal is going to be another epicenter for corruption.
TFA seems to think wearing t-shirts helps you keep the man down which is weird.

I'm not so sure I'm fighting the power while working in my my nice office in a good part of town in an engineering job. The fact that this guy works at linked in, a business built around yuppies networking, makes that assertion even more cringe-worthy.

Not to knock linked in, but they aren't exactly 'rebels'.
Very neat. But I think the site could definitely be more pleasing to the eye. In terms of user interface, the onmouseover probably isn't the best method of axis variable selection. It can be a bit awkward.

Also, when using color-based visualizations, keep in mind colorblind users (~5% of males, I believe). I think the red-blue spectrum does a pretty good job of this, but I'm not experienced with it myself. Maybe vary the shade to help contrast between data points.

But solid execution. (Man, Dwight Howard just cannot shoot threes.)
I have been starting to think more about stages of launch for a project I am working on it. It is awesome to see the initial "how" that got Mint to what it is today.
So if Hipmunk, Kayak, or whoever wanted to remove their dependency from ITA (by doing more computational stuff themselves), what's the best place for them to get their data?
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From my experience, while feature films in theaters are often subtitled (and when dubbed, are shown either subbed or dubbed on alternate screenings), most everything broadcast on Japanese TV has been dubbed into Japanese. Granted, anything that has been dubbed is almost always broadcast with both audio streams present. However, the default is always Japanese audio, so there would have to be a conscious effort to watch a show in English.
I believe between the high cost of movies in Japan and the almost universal OTA TV penetration that most foreign content in Japan is consumed dubbed, as opposed to subtitled.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Larry Page, I think.