skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tablets Driving Growth of Solid State Drives
As a designer, I have to say this is great news. But it's probably easier to build a startup as a programmer with no design experience than as a designer with no development experience.

So it will be interesting to see how the funded companies manage to actually build their product.
Personally I have no experience. But I'm routinely monitoring the clang development mailing list and sometimes discussions of the C API surface and it appears it's active and supposed to be operational.
Regional graphs of venture capital for q4 2010, looks like there are worse places to be than Michigan, but silicon valley it is not.

https://www.pwcmoneytree.com/MTPublic/ns/nav.jsp?page=region
Thanks for all the links, I'll check those out.
In fact I wish Apple took some hints like for example giving us a choice of normal (as in Windows/KDE/Gnome like) window management.

As a lifelong Windows user who has continually heard about the superior UI of OS X, this is what's kept me from ever buying a Mac. I've tried a few out (I have some Mac user friends), and I just really hate the dock style.

Similarly, it's also kept me from buying Windows 7 until I've had a chance to see how configurable the window management in that is.
For those of you that have Firefox 4, it might be fun to play around with the new "-moz-element()" function that allows you to embed one (or more!) html elements as a background image, using this to create a series of prime-spaced overlapping colors.

A fairly pedestrian example that I whipped up: http://web.njit.edu/~md224/backgroundtest.html (Firefox 4 only!)
Agree. Though I have C++ available to me, I always use C for embedded and low-level I/O programming.

When it comes to real-time and low-level code, you sure don't want the language doing crap behind your back or during critical parts of the code.
Is it sad that I recognize that xkcd id?
There's a ';)'
Show HN: Patternify, a CSS Pattern Generator
> It's among the worst C code I've ever seen

I already hated the interpreter before I dug into it, and my expectations were reinforced. I was a college intern, I didn't choose PHP!
GameStop retail giant opens a store on Facebook 
Video game retail giant GameStop has opened up a store to sell games on its Facebook fan page. The store will sell physical games that users can receive in the mail or pick up at a local store.

The move is part of GameStop’s strategy to stay relevant in the age of digital distribution of video games, since it doesn’t want to go the way of the now defunct Hollywood Video and Tower Records chains. It also shows that Facebook is becoming a big distribution channel for retail sales in the emerging category of “social commerce.”

GameStop is tapping Adgregate Markets, a Sausalito, Calif.-based start-up that has already built about 50 stores for major brands on Facebook. GameStop’s store could be a big one since the chain already has about 1.8 million fans for its Facebook page. GameStop has made digital distribution a priority as a way to offset the potential decline of physical store sales.

By 2014, GameStop hopes that its digital game distribution businesses will generate more than $1.5 billion in revenue, or roughly 12.5 percent of its sales. But GameStop still has 6,600 stores and plans to expand overseas with new stores. The Facebook page is a way to more deeply engage with millions of fans who might otherwise not visit a store.

Adgregate’s system is directly tied into GameStop’s backend game web site so that the system can verify that inventory of a game is available at a local store, said John Underwood, chief operating officer of Adgregate Markets. And because the site is built on top of Facebook, the retailer can add merchandise Likes and Shares, gifting (buying a product for a friend) and group deals.

Adgregate, founded in 2008, has built more than 50 ShopFans stores on Facebook pages in the past year. Grapevine, Texas-based GameStop already ranks as the No. 115 retailer on Internet Retailer’s Top 500 list. Its new page is here.

Underwood said the Facebook user interface is moving from rigid templates to a real social shopping experience. Game fans will be able to pre-order the most-anticipated games and earn rewards via GameStop’s PowerUp Rewards loyalty program, which has more than 8 million members. Users can promote and discuss upcoming titles on the fan pages. Underwood said the overall social shopping experience is much more convenient than other ways to shop.

Adgregate charges a fee to build a custom site and charges a monthly fee and a per-transaction fee. For the most part, the service is aimed at large retailers rather than small, independent ones.
I hope they fix the blurry font rendering in Firefox 4 under Windows 7 (when hardware acceleration is not switched off).
I use the excellent Pandoc for my conversion needs: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
It's a relevant explanation of the technical for the non-technical. I'd much rather a verbose explanation than a reference to "magic code" or some other nonsense.
Or using a system of time not correlated to the rotation of the planet. (It is convenient though :( )
Political clients, especially with regards to smaller/local elections are notoriously cheap.
Microsoft's office: Why insiders think top management has lost its way
7.1 is big. One of the deadliest earthquakes of all time was a 7.1 (although it was a 100 years ago...) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_earthquakes#Deadliest_...
That's kind of like saying, "Well, I tried out visual basic, but it sucked, so I decided to cobble together my own language." Pointing to a specific poor implementation of an idea does not invalidate the idea itself.
Looks cool! Nice chatting to you yesterday
Bacteria are winning the war
I wrote in C during teh late Jurasic period. But I love C#!
So here is my story.

I have been android app developer and been using admob for past 5 months to monetize my apps , since most of them are free.

My apps are in the android market , they are not a website that anyone/bots can access and since it works by google login , all my app users are actual human being so there is no question of invalid click activity

None of the apps have a high CTR or eCPM , my apps range between $0.10 - $0.20 eCPM , which is very low but since they have aggregate impressions of 20-30 million per month , they make up for the low eCPMs

None of my apps violate admob's policy , since they are in android market they are compliant with Google's content policies which is essentially the same as admob's

So i am having a hard time trying to figure out why my account has been banned ? and that too without explanation/prior notice whatsoever

An email explaining why they picked me would have been appreciated , but they have not yet responded to my email.

I will update the post when i hear from them , which i have a feeling is unlikely

Edit : On the side note one of my app offered a ad removal key for those who wanted to remove the ads from the app.
now since the ads are gone from the app , everybody is a premium user and my "Ad removal key" sales have come down to 0.

i hate you admob... i hate you
The 10am-10pm work culture is a market inefficiency.

I am so glad I'm not the only one who feels this way.
What, no talk of about the impending Y Combinator S11 decisions?
It depends on how you bill your clients - is it generally per project or hourly? If it's per project, I would include limited bugfixing for 1-2 months. Beyond that, the client either needs to pay you hourly for work, or you can offer a maintenance contract at a lower rate. You should also make sure you have a very detailed scope, and that every list item can be confidently checked off before you deliver it. On the same note, you also need to be strict about deadlines and payment terms, and make sure the client is getting billed for any requirements not explicitly scoped out in the initial quote.

With freelancing, the most important thing is to make sure your projects stay on schedule, and that you get paid. Being too forgiving will just end up biting you in the ass later on.
I think the Applle ripoff of virtual desktops is a far more egrerious offender. Not that I really care; as far as I'm concerned it's better if we don't concern ourselves about who was the first to come up with an idea.
The " transition into management" is one of my biggest career related fears. Let me code please :)
user:	steevdave

created:	29 days ago.

Please don't introduce these types of commets here. I left reedit over it.
Quick links for others who may not know what "SICP" is:

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Second Edition

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of...
Odd, hardware acceleration is on in my Win7 and I didn't notice anything.
The Startup Kids - documentary about US & European web entrepreneurs
500 Startups Live Stream Demo Day
There is some evidence. Maybe not yet convincing, but if I was a daycare provider, I think I'd try to minimize hyperactivity induced by artificial colors. See:

http://children.webmd.com/news/20110330/fda-mulls-safety-of-...

Obviously not conclusive, but I don't think I'd cringe if a daycare instituted such a policy, especially since they provide the food anyways. And I'm not sure what "feeling" people get about artificial products in food. It's not the type of thing people get "feelings" about, is it? I suspect someone there read some studies about potential negative impacts of it, so they decided to play it safe. If there's virtually zero cost to such a thing, I'd hardly consinder that irrational.
> Things like Digg work because you can tell people: “it has a double g”

Digg works because Snoop Dogg paved the way.
We're on Convore, come join us!
I guess what stuck out to me about this article is why would Google want to spend that much money on a social network that no one uses?
Painting corners: How startups can make decisions when the options are uncertain
Only extensions I had that weren't updated for FF4 were ones that were just not being actively developed anyway (eg, the Delicious plugin). It was probably time to drop those anyway.

FF4 has tons of improvements, I'm incredibly glad I updated despite a bit of a rough transition.
From the submitted link, as I see it at this moment: "This earthquake can be considered an aftershock of the March 11, 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku earthquake. The aftershock sequence of that event has been ongoing since March 11, and has included 58 earthquakes of M 6 or greater up until April 7 2011, two of which were greater than M 7 (M7.7 and M7.9, both on March 11)."
Anything over about a 6.5 or so is a pretty big quake. The '89 bay area (Loma Prieta) quake was just a 7.1 (and struck 10s of miles from downtown San Francisco). The recent Haiti earthquake was just a 7.0.
At various times I have seen songs that look like they have been uploaded from someone's MP3 collection (e.g. search for "mp3") - this makes me wonder how legit their licensing really is. Although perhaps they recognise which songs are being played and pay the appropriate people, but I can't really see the music industry going for that.
Cool. There are some classics in there.

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol27-1948/articles/bstj2...
Code please.
You make a good point about video availability between different channels (something I hadn't really considered here, surprisingly), but I'm somewhat more optimistic. Some of the best television I've seen over the past few years has been exclusive content. The example I always come back to is The Wire.

On one hand, I'll be sad to see online services becoming the new premium cable channels, but on the other, I look forward to more excellent shows. It's worth the problems with distribution if we can get some more high quality content.
Understanding "The Cloud"
It depends very much on what you want out of life.

Find what you want out of life, then find what you need to get it. Then work towards it.

Long story short, there are some tradeoffs involved. If you want a product that can make stupid amounts of money, it needs to be automated and scalable that provides people something they value in a way they cannot otherwise get it in a fashion such that competition is hard or impossible. It's also a good idea to have a clear income stream. It takes a lot of thought, a lot of effort and a lot of time to produce something like this.

So you need to ask yourself, do I really need the billions of dollars? Or would something more modest be "worth it". You are then a lot less limited in the things you can work on, and can think of other options. Small niche things that can't really be turned into the next blockbuster idea, but still make reasonable returns may still be worth your time if it achieves your goals in life.

Tl;dr: Learn what you want from life. Once you understand that, then you will have have solved this.
My advisor (I'm a senior in college now) does pretty much everything in C. I've written a compiler, large parts of a couple distributed systems, and various Linux kernel hacks. C certainly isn't my favorite language, but I like it a lot. Well-written C is pretty beautiful in its own way.
I can't give you specifics or tell you about the surrounding area but I can tell you that Hong Kong island is expensive. I've got two friends living there, both in small apartments, and they pay US $1800 and $2300 / month respectively.
The Help Wanted Section
just saying: http://miniqr.com has a (js) api, too. one line is propably possible.
Talking to the neighbours: A proposal for an interstellar communications network
You can't also access an RDBMs from C without paying for Visual Studio Enterprise Edition, or using any of the myriad of Free compilers out there that are much better anyway, which everyone else uses.
From whois - Enrique Allen registered domain. According to his linkedin / crunchbase profile he is a Stanford researcher / TA, and founding member 500 startups. Sounds interesting.

Also, http://venturebeat.com/2011/04/06/500-startups-designer-fund...

Edit: thanks for correction. Sincere apologies for silly oversight.
PS3 CFW 3.60 JAILBREAK RELEASED NEW LAWSUIT? CHECK IT OUT
Very good idea. I'm starting to really see the meaning behind "all you need is an angle". I guess you can recycle virtually anything.
I think these are the papers that lead to the blue box:
http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol33-1954/articles/bstj3...

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol39-1960/articles/bstj3...
Its important to note that you are describing two things here: Objective-J (a language extension to JavaScript) and Cappuccino (a framework built on top of Objective-J).

Objective-J is just a language that adds what we consider to be a lot of nice things to JS. You can use it and still keep HTML/CSS/etc (much like you would use CoffeeScript). Similarly, you can use it to, say, write command line apps for the terminal and never touch any web technology at all.

Separately, there is Cappuccino. I do not personally believe the situation to be either or (or not necessarily anyways). I think HTML and CSS are very powerful tools, given the right task (presenting documents). However, if I wanted to write super mario brothers, I would not miss lists and links, but would want strong graphical abilities. HTML has basically conceded this by adding the canvas element (which if you think about it goes against everything HTML is about -- semantic meaning). In the end, you should use the best tool for the task. For example, our GitHub issues app builds its chrome using Cappuccino, and displays the actual bug report as an HTMLView. No re-implementation of all of HTML, just literally loading HTML when we want it (Similar to how Mail's chrome is Cocoa, and the actual mail message rendering is an HTML WebView).

And, as you say at the end, of course it is only a matter of time until everything is "post HTML/JS". The fate of every language or framework is to either die or to be built on top of and abstracted away, there is no "last technology".
Saw some posts on twitter that nhk switched to a documentary about cranes about 40mins ago, but channel 1 here was still showing coverage until a couple minutes ago. Don't people mean NHK G when they mention NHK?
Benfica Vs PSV Eindhoven 7th April 2011 - highlights | Footy Station
I've been at Grooveshark for a while. While I'm not going to comment on this story, I will say this: every single employee (now about 70) has sacrificed immensely for the success of this company since its start. It's pretty clear to everyone who works at Grooveshark that they don't do it for the money. They show up everyday because they have fun working with a great team, an awesome product, and the hope that one day this industry will be changed for the better. We've gone through a lot- lawsuits, employment without payment, app store removals, people saying crazy shit ("a legal jihad"??), competitors sprouting up every day etc. I'm sure this won't be the last either. But what keeps us going is hearing just how many people NEED us from my little sister who sends me her iPhone every month so we can put a dev build on it when her certificate expires, to the numerous artists we meet at music festivals both large and small who need a better way to distribute their music and get heard.
Understanding the Language of Innovation - H. James Wilson - Research - HBReview
Twitter search - 3x faster by replacing ruby on rails with java
Just launched - Freelance Funnel. more leads, less headaches, better gigs.
The quotes are great. I searched for some of the phrases on Google to try to find the source, but found nothing. Can you submit the original so we can read more?
A small app I've been working on these last few days. It's a simple pattern generator, and you can export your pattern as a PNG, or as base64 code.

If you export it as code, you can paste it in your CSS straight away. You don't even need an image file anymore!
Description from OP

"Inspecting the WakeMate bracelet, it’s nice. I have exceedingly manly wrists thanks primarily to YouPorn and long nights of StarCraft 2, and the fit of the bracelet is snug."
nice post! there is always angellist which connected me to a minnedemo mtg next week with an Angel.. St. Cloud MN 4/12, as a backup plan!
If you've also got Firefox 3.6 or Chrome installed, compare the rendering side-by-side and you should see the difference.

There is also http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/791489 and some other web pages reporting this problem.
Reducing movies to pictograms
I used to have the C operator precedence table memorized as I taught C classes weekly. But I never use it these days. Your know it/use it options are conflated.
How about funding where founders (3) are

1. understands/responsible for design.

2. understands/responsible for technology development.

3. understands/responsible for business development.

Edit - I personally do not agree to have artificial requirements of "one founder must be designer" or such sorts (including the above mentioned) for creating innovating/successful startups.
I would not do any work for the first 2 weeks after the baby is born. Or work for a few hours a day, but get out of the house for those hours.
Unless your new design is 10x better, borrowing a popular precedent is probably a good idea. That said, I think GNOME would benefit from studying sources beyond just Mac OS X.
Twitter, Are You Going To Remain A Utility For Ever?
> Read captions from the livestreamed sessions in real-time. Plus, to make sure all our content is accessible, all remaining videos will also be captioned. For international developers, captions will be machine translated to all languages that are supported by Google Translate.

This looks like the most interesting announcement. I assume the English text will be provided by a human captioner, but even so, this shows a lot of confidence in their translation system. I wonder if they'll be buffering at the sentence level, or whether they can handle partial sentences on the fly.
I am using this for two different projects. The font issue can lead to a lot of head banging. Try messing around with your css to get it close to what you expected.
It seems as though you are correct. http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/13/grooveshark-slips-past-emis... They have signed with some labels and as such can legally play some content. On the other hand, they were recently kicked off android over copyright concerns, so apparently they arn't airtight http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/04/google-kicks-gro...
OK, point well taken. Thanks for the correction.
AppleSeed program gives pre-release copies of OS X Lion to non-developers
I just interviewed Josh out of my own personal curiosity; the original source is from a book called Startups Open Sourced which I'll post a link to on Hacker News in a week or two. I'm currently looking around and trying to find people to read samples and provide written feedback, maybe get a few positive reviews out of that process if I'm lucky.

The Grooveshark interview was really great, Josh was very open about a lot of the questions I asked and gave lots of detail. I'm glad he took time to do that.
> I don't think you're giving enough credit to the author of this summary by calling it "breathless."

I think you're right -- on rereading I shouldn't be laying the smackdown on the Ars article: he does use the paper as an example of the scientific process at work. Nonetheless I think that by advertising a paper which hasn't been through peer review, he's promoting it. It'd have been a lot better if he told his story with an example which has already gone through the cycle of being proposed, shot down, and buried.
Const correctness has existed in C since 1999. Again, knowing C++, and even being able to constrain yourself to some C-like subset of it, is not the same as knowing C.
TAI, then? TAI is UTC but without any leap seconds: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time
My little to suggestion to Facebook and other sites w/ in-web-page notifications
It's useful (especially the base64 part), but I didn't see any way to actually "generate" a pattern. Maybe call it a CSS Pattern Editor?

Also, it would be easier to use if painting didn't use mouseup. Using mouseover+mousedown would be nice for dragging the mouse to paint.
We have the same problem but on a bigger scale. We are an ad agency with 9 apps and 8million impressions/month. Admob disabled us while we actually paid them. Suddenly, all our campaigns are stopped, and our clients are super angry, and are starting to sue us.

A step by step guide on how to get screwed by AdMob: http://t.co/qcyHHbv #fail #admob #google #advertising #marketing @google
Intel Announces 10-Core Server Chips
This lack of transparency of a huge Achilles' heel for Google.
awesome thanks everyone. i'm looking forward to meet cool people, hackers, etc
C is my first language. Learned it about 3 or 4 years ago.
Euro vs US Appliance Interfaces
My usage is that which is universally accepted in any university math department. As a freshman in a math/science/engineering major, you take (or finish after beginning in high school) three semesters of Calculus, always referred to with a capital "C" to mean specifically Newton's calculus. Here you learn to calculate integrals and derivatives so that you can use them as a tool. If you major in math, then as a junior or senior you will take analysis. Here is where you rigorously study integrals and derivatives. An introductory analysis course typically begins by defining Cauchy sequences, and then defining the real numbers as equivalence classes of Cauchy sequences of rationals. Building on this foundation, you then construct the basic theory of continuous functions, derivatives, and Riemann integrals. Finally, you use this theory to prove that the transformation rules of Newton's calculus are sound.
The plural of anecdote is data, after all
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