skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The air force actually developed seat belts from scratch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stapp demonstrated that the human body could withstand vary high G's for short periods, and because more pilots where dieing in car accidents than airplane accidents the air-force was willing to do some vary important basic research.

Which brings up the basic issue, the incentives of car makers / home builders / bankers to create safe products does not line up with society's benefit from safe products without some external input.
There's definitely a need for this. Some ideas if you want to make it so people can integrate it into apps:

1) Turn around time should be faster (hours).

2) Pricing matters a lot. Get the price down as low as you can. Go for volume.

3) Offer a simple API for adding audio and retrieving the text.
Talking about your work is one thing; talking about what you’re working on, that’s something else entirely.
Just used it. Very smooth process for signing up, though I didn't really like giving my phone number. What are you thinking the pricing will be?
Which is why we don't need to keep encouraging people to create content. Rather, we need better way to find great content to enjoy.
This is so overdue. Good to finally have it.
Generally speaking every commercial business will stay alive as long as it has customers and it's profitable...
Why Cash Flow is King
Bigger slice of a smaller pie.
If it wouldn't get you in trouble, I would love to know your experiences from the inside of the daycare that aren't easily discernible from a parent's point of view.

I have a 1 yr old child in daycare and while everything seems great so far (she's only been there for 3 months) I've heard other parents having issues sometime - but no one I knew well enough to ask.
How did the android apps that are in the market get my task lists without the api?
That is a limitation of SSL.

If you don't like it, ask your browser vendor to support section 3.1 of RFC 3546.
usually some sort of hacked together html scraping
How A "Business Class" And "Economy Class" For News Sites Would Look
Isn't the whole preach that it's free?
Holding payments with a Net-60 term? That hurts.
I hate subliminal attacks like these ... if you have a problem with someone, come out and say it, don't let me have to figure out what or who you're getting at.

And with regards to Mongo ... they've since added a feature that allows 'safe' writes to your database (confirms the data is written before returning a response) ... so what's the rant about?
I'm talking about consumer devices in general. XBOX, PS3, iPhones, carrier locked Android phones, iPads, you name it.

Also, this is not an ordinary x86 laptop. I think most people would assume that considering that you cannot by default install anything on it, and that it has a verified boot sequence (will not boot an unsigned OS by default) that it would be completely locked down.
Google App Engine at I/O 2011, Day 2
I thought he'd use perfect Bayesian spam filtering algorithm which he secretly developed that can bang out every non-urgent not-so-much-worth-reading email.
Not just Mongo though, there are a lot of NoSQL companies out there right now whose marketing claims the impossible.
Anyone knows if building stuff like Chrome on Windows is faster than Linux/Mac?
3 years x $336 per year= $1008, granted it includes a 3G connection, that seems incredibly expensive to me for what they're offering.
You're screwed if a bunch of people download from your app from anywhere, for sufficiently large values of 'bunch'.
Firefox has the Audio Data API, Chrome has the Web Audio API.
How The Martha Graham Google Logo is Animated
COME ON. I know Comic Sans is not well-liked here, but a comment like that is just not on. He's an outlier in a community of outliers; so what?
I suspect the misdirection in the title is intentional link bait - if it said "Google Employees" instead, nobody's first thought would be "Brin can not be that much of an idiot" and it would have been obvious that the article is no more revealing than one stating that most Apple employees don't use Windows at work.
> It’s not just bad in the way that Bubble sort is a bad sorting algorithm; it’s bad in the way that Bogosort is a bad sorting algorithm.

Nonono, Bogosort is way worse than naive recursive fibonacci - the former doesn't even guarantee termination, recursive fibonacci still does.

If you want to calculate fibonacci numbers not as a misguided exercise in algorithms but actually efficiently, use an algebraic form: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Computation_by...
Basho has always had an issue with the way Mogno was architected and marketed, and they have no issue with letting people know. (several blog posts, killdashnine parties)

I actually like both Mongo and Riak. I think they both solve a different problem set, and can actually complement each other in a polyglot persistence setup. It's a shame that there has to be so much negativity between them, because at the end of the day, this type of whiny blog post doesn't really help anyone.
How an eBay Partnership Turned into an Acquisition for Milo.com
What about Yeti? http://mth.github.com/yeti/ ML-like, runs on the JVM
This is an interesting alternative to StackOverflow, though I think that you might be able to hit a wider and more skilled audience in an already established community.
How are you going to have "the latest hardware at all times" if they require a 3 year contract? http://searchengineland.com/google-chromebooks-out-june-15-3...
Strategator - Business Intelligence portal 
Strategator.com is a business intelligence portal that provides enterprises with real-time and complete information about companies, allowing them to monitor their e-reputation, to perform marketing research and to track the competitors activity.
Ask HN: Any interest in Mobile SaaS solution market?
While building ma.rs, app for easy/drag-and-drop mobile site creation, we've created tools for images transcoding, mobile device detection, QR code creation and analytics.

My idea now is to give these tools to 3rd party developers in a form of web service, API, hosting ... with which developers should be able to create SAAS mobile solutions that can be sold through our MA.RS Store.
End user could purchase solutions and use them to create HTML5 apps. These could be for creating feedback apps, retail, hotel, publishing apps etc...

Does this make any sense?
If you want to be informed about progress of this idea please go to http://ma.rs/store.html and leave your e-mail.

Any feedback would be appreciated!
Then sell the app.

The only value iFlow-as-a-company added to the world was their apparently awesome app. Being an unnecessary middle-man in the ebook retail market didn't bring any new value to the world.

They should've just charged for their app, and allowed people to add epubs to it in the same way as Stanza.
I don't know, to me the narration puts good emphasis on the loading difference. If the target is people who value their time -- as many business professionals do -- I think it's a good attention grabber.
In a somewhat similar genre, I enjoyed this paper on computing primes, and some of the very-inefficient algorithms that have been used for such purposes (often mislabeled as the "sieve of Eratosthenes"): http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/papers/Sieve-JFP.pdf
What programs do the Windows devs use as a terminal? When I'm using my windows box I use Console 2 - which is great. But still doesn't compare to Mac OS X or Linux terminals.

Of course using a Linux VM or VNCing into one is the easy solution but it's heavy weight in comparison to having a great terminal app :)
To me, leadership and overall direction indicates how cutting edge a company is; thinking about Apple, Google and Microsoft in these terms, and I think it's an apt statement.
I'm not making any value judgements here - I am just wondering whether or not there will be any official way to download an ISO (in the manner of Ubuntu, for insance) of Chrome/Chromium OS and run it on arbitrary hardware.

I guess the question really comes down to whether or not Google is planning significant work on the hardware hooks into the OS - will it be possible for manufacturers to write ChromeOS drivers for their devices, or will Google develop that on their own?
Even if they could, why should they, if they don't have to?
The 'safe' feature isn't on by default, yet. Also, the benchmarks 10gen publishes are based on default setup, so basically, Mongo writes to RAM, therefore it's fast.

I love Mongo and am using it in a few apps, but their marketing does blow, I admit.

Also, Eliot Horowitz came out and bashed on Riak's eventual consistency promise by basically misleading devs into thinking that writing to MongoDB will always result in 'full consistency'. Listen to the ChangeLog episode on Mongo to hear that.
not the openstack storage api..
Which side was wrong or right is not the issue with "big company atherosclerosis." The issue is the very fact that parties now feel that decision-making requires deception and FUD. That's a clear sign that there is some serious dysfunction.
Software Virgins
Chromebook will sport offline versions of Google Docs, GMail and GCal.
Might be true. But in the corporate world, (Google Apps) Google is all about Windows.So someone at Google is running Windows.
To be honest, Mongo's execs have done pretty much the same thing. As I said in another comment, the Changelog episode on Mongo was very illuminating with regards to the marketing tactics of 10gen.

I do like both, as well.
I've sent him emails and received hand-written letters within a few weeks. I once sent an email and received an email (written by Knuth, sent from his assistant's email account) within a few hours. I'm guessing that I just happened to write at a good time.
No, I meant "I'd" to mean "I would", as in "I would think...".
Not so easy! Currently most people use a build by Hexxeh, which is a slightly tweaked version of Chrome. Installation is nowhere as easy as, say, Ubuntu. I don't understand why I need to use builds from third parties rather than directly from Google?
True, but I've written enough of those for Gmail that almost every single email gets categorized automatically, so I know exactly which ones are important and which ones are not.

The tiny minority of new, unfiltered emails that ever actually hit my inbox are usually interesting. And they end up having filters written for them if they're going to reoccur.
World record for the most innovations in a single experience?
"You must be in U.S. to use this page."

What if I'm an American Citizen travelling to Europe? What if my company is incorporated in U.S.? Banning IPs is uncool.
> > well, ISO + TIME + APERTURE are ingredients of EXPOSURE, and that should be all you need to know to start shooting

> So depth of field and the way metering actually works aren't important?

Well, we can say "everything is important" and there's no sense to number this stuff to infinity. But if you insist: metering is also just a tool, which you can live without (using exposure value tables), knowing how exposure works is the core of photography.
It's hard for the rest of the world but incremental for them... Let's see how they turn ego into code.
G1 isn't necessarily the right solution for everyone. In my measurements I found it to be more unpredictable than concurrent mark&sweep. I'm still waiting for it to be improved.
In the classes I taught this past semester it was roughly 70:25:5 Mac:Windows:Linux. It was mostly international students still using windows.

I was in CS undergrad 2001-2005. I remember first day of class Fall 2002 or 2003 suddenly a quarter of my classmates had macs. That's when I knew Apple was back.
If you're writing in JavaScript it's a nice candidate for self memoizing functions. Obviously this is only helpful if you're making numerous requests to the method, a single request still produces a series of recursive calls.
> I'd of expected Windows boxes

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/couldof.html
My personal favorite has always been permutation sort, where you try all possible permutations of a sequence and check if it is sorted.

What's nice about it is that it is deterministic yet ridiculously slow.

It can also be really easily implemented in Prolog[1] where you simply define what a permutation and being sorted means. After that you just search for a sorted permutation.

[1] http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithms/Permutation_s...
Black: Why Meltdown CEOs Avoided Getting Busted
Features:

- boots in 8 seconds
- updates itself without bothering you
- battery that lasts all day
- backups taken care of (all data is in the cloud)
- built-in 3G with 100MB/month included
- doesn't get viruses
Chrome Now Has 160 Million Users
Why USA only? Makes it unusable for me:(.
Has anyone else read 4 hour workweek where Tim Ferris suggests checking email only once or twice a day at fixed times? Sounds like an idea to me. Avoid distractions but still stay on top of things.

This is similar to Donald Knuth's routine except that the frequency of checking/replying is higher and there is no secretary.
I've had email for 23 years now. Maybe I should plan to cut it off at 25.
Your video is great. Leaves no doubt about how much faster you are.
I'm specifically excited about productivity applications and even third party mail clients (Sparrow, etc) taking advantage of GMail emails being associated with a task.
How much does it cost to get a website? Prices explained
Estimated website costs based on the amount of time (hours) needed to complete a specific project.
"The world is full of wicked men Wyatt" -- Gene Hackman in Wyatt Earp
Very very interesting. A level editor is where Angry Birds has been heading since Day 1. Hopefully we'll see one soon :)
Hi, the net 60 is just during the beta period and really there to combat fraud. I assure you it is not to help "bootstrap."

We intend to lower it later to 30 days.
Edit: if you email us at feedback@pintpay.com we would consider lowering that number from 60 for approved/verified merchants.
I like the trash talk - gives personality, instead of boring, corporate-speak.
I hate to burst some bubbles, but Donald Knuth actually has an email address. He just doesn't give it out. Presumably he states otherwise to discourage people from emailing him.

If I recall correctly, he has a secretary who sorts through the cruft for him, most of the time.

Having the benefit of a secretary handling your email doesn't really mean you eschew email.
If they're doing the same thing, that's just as shitty. But I've been meaning to listen to that episode of the Changelog for awhile now, so thanks for the reminder!
I think a good comparison is to an iPad, where the top-of-the line model with 3g costs $829. So this isn't too much more expensive than that; the question is whether it's $180 better than an iPad 2.
Why do you require that passwords only contain letters and numbers? This never makes sense to me.
Yeah, that doesn't matter. Being an American Citizen or being a company in the US doesn't matter. As an American living abroad, I know the pain. It affects not only payment processing regulations, but also copyright as well. For example, despite being a Netflix subscriber, I cannot access Netflix while inside the US.
As a meeting host I cant tell you how much of a pain it is when using one of the big box solutions that requires a download for attendees.

The first 5 mins of your conf call / meeting are sometimes just spent troubleshooting for guests.

Our goal was to fix that and illustrate just how simple & fast it can be :)
How about "Money-back if not completely satisfied"?

I realize that it's no less complicated than "We ALWAYS give refunds when asked" but perhaps this particular wording works better for you.
I prefer a TV :-(
People tolerate Steve berating them because of his charisma

Or fear, or something, but the charismatic people I've come to know don't berate people. They don't have to.
Philip Morris CEO: Cigs not that hard to quit
SEO: How to Separate Fact from Fiction?
I've been a "work from home parent" off and on over the last ten years. My observation - when a child is young GOOD daycare is probably going to be better than anything you can provide.

Because the day at daycare is structured around your child and the people who are interacting with your child do not have something that they would rather be doing or feel that they need to be doing, good daycare workers are more consistently present in the moment for the children in their care - they are not feeling like they should be checking their email or writing code or attending a meeting.

Finally, without a signed contract the economics don't work and even with one, getting new clients and new projects is going to put pressure on you to be elsewhere while your child is in your care.

Good luck.
Automatic permissions granting

That's an UI problem easily fixable by browsers.

Discovery and monetization. Both suck
for web apps right now

Somehow products like Smugmug, GitHub, Basecamp haven't had this problem. There are easy ways for discovery, including Google, Facebook, Twitter and plain word-of-mouth. There's also an easy way for monetization -- it's called Paypal Websites Standard. I myself discovered this link by coming here, to HN.

That's the beauty of an open web.

Knowledge that the browser installing
the app supports a common set of standards

Easily checkable by other means.

You're basically trying to redefine the problem to fit the solution.

It doesn't work like that - App Stores are only useful for the platform provider, keeping that provider as an intermediary between the developer and his customers, getting a share of the revenue. The Internet changed that and now platform providers (e.g. older like Apple, Microsoft and newer, like Amazon, Google) are now fighting back.

And the situation is exactly as in the old days of IExplorer - when devs developed for IE because they had consistency and it was the most popular browser anyway.
The point still stands; this isn't an example of why startups shouldn't fear giants/incumbents. Just because Google couldn't/chose not to get a product like Amazon S3 out the door to compete with Amazon, doesn't mean incumbents can't replicate and dominate a bootstrapped start-up's low-cost, innovative web app or mobile app.

The statement should say that startups with innovative, hard-to-reproduce products have nothing to fear; you'll either produce a product that they'll choose not to compete with/can't compete with (Twitter, Facebook) or get bought by them.

How many startups get killed because they can't compete with the big guys, though? Here's an example: http://family.go.com/assets/bubbleshare/
We'll always have a free version that's fully functional with no-ads for attendees (ad supported is how other free webinar systems work).

We'll have a paid version for people that need bigger meeting rooms, corporate features etc.

But we'd like every HN user in the world to be on a free version of MB when they're meeting with their distributed teams, clients, etc
I think their strength is "less fiddly."
This is a great collection of ideas, some of which we have seen turned into products. (would love an anti-gravity belt but alas).

A entrepreneur friend of mine and I were debating the "value" of an idea vs the making of it into a real "thing." I'm in the camp that execution, the getting it made into reality is the 'hard' work and coming up with the idea is the 'easy' work. He was taking the other side that imagining something that nobody had yet thought about or mentioned was much harder.

Most of his argument rested on the claim that the creative spark was rare and could not be duplicated by any sort of process. Thus ideas, like music or art, were intrinsically valuable because only one person in the world could have them.

While I agree in principle that the idea is a requirement before execution can begin, my counter claim was that ideas are probablistic expressions of a useful combinations of available technology. Given that things could be combined in a useful way, I claim there is a finite probability that someone seeing all of the components, will realize the combination as a viable idea. So the more people you expose to the components, the more likely that one of them will see the idea and share it. This is subtly different than there is one person who is uniquely qualified to come up with the idea.

I don't believe either of us left the discussion with a truly different point of view.

I was wondering if the expression of ideas in science fiction would provide data to help illuminate his position or mine. I conclude that it does not as good writers should be familiar with the writing and concepts of the other writers, this would lead to limiting idea re-use since a writer would not want to be perceived as plagarizing their ideas from their peers.

There was a series in Scientific American that compared the ideas in Star Trek with what was available today. One of the claims in that article was that engineers were inspired as children watching the series to build the gadgets they saw on the screen. If that linkage was born out by solid research data it would make a strong case for having the characters in science fiction creating solutions to problems posited to occur 20 - 30 years hence. Prepping future engineers to start working on solutions early.
Ask HN: HN/Tech Meetup for Central NJ?
Hi folks,

I've got friend and fellow HN reader here in Central NJ. We were thinking of starting a meetup for people interested in programming/technology in the area. I'm talking North/East/South Brunswick, Kingston, Montgomery, Princeton, and all the rest. We have a sneaking suspicion that there are some people working on startups or cool software projects within the enterprise that we'd like to meet about. If you're generally interested at all, you can find my email here: http://scr.im/daveslab

Thanks!
Just last year Google eliminated Windows from their list of OS options for new employees after the Chinese hacks, leaving just OSX and Gubuntu, iirc. No surprise Windows has fallen to 20% then.
CIA.vc service shutdown indefinetely
The popular open source notification service has been surprisingly, and without warning shutdown. I know a lot of people who have come to rely on this server, I wonder if someone will pick up the project, or as the author is looking for, a new, modern service crops up.
Most fuel-efficient car ever, the XL1 from Volks
Service to schedule followup emails?
My company offers customers a 14 day free trial of our online tool. I'd like to email them 5 days after registering, 10 days after registering and 14 days after registering.

Anyone know of an online service that would allow us to set this type of email up easily? How are other companies handling this problem?

Thanks,

Mike
Credit where credit's due, the 10gen and MongoDB guys have done a great job convincing developers to adopt their product despite the existence of technically superior alternatives. I guess that's what happens when a bunch of ex-DoubleClick execs start a database company.
I have a Coworking space in Mexico, but run my business from the US. Does that work?
Polyglot: How I Learn Languages (Kato Lomb, pdf)
Others have noted that this is not an exact analogue to the App Store. Nevertheless, the thing that strikes me about this is that a lower percentage is not that interesting.

If Apple need to lower their cut to keep developers on board, they can. They have "economies of scale" when it comes to developer mindshare just as they have economies of scale when buying screens and RAM. They'd rather not, of course, but they can.

Far more interesting is when the price crosses the Rubicon to free, as Google has done with Android. A business model that doesn't rely on charging money is disruptive. Can Apple go all the way to free? Maybe not.
Force update Chrome.
Great idea! The reason we didn't include this is because yearly automatic subscriptions causes chargebacks, due to people forgetting about an annual charge. Something we might implement is a renewal type annual feature, which will remind customers to renew.
salesforce bought a company a few months back that did this...

I think it was Etacts?