skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People always make it sound like checking email, facebook, twitter, etc. updates is not a choice, but something that just happens by itself without you having the chance to get away from it unless you totally discard said service...

Whenever I work I just close my mail client, put away my phone, open my work browser(yes, I have a work and a play browser because I'm one of those people who always have a gazillion tabs open at the same time) and TA-DAH! No distractions!
I expect to find this information without having to leave google maps. Store hours is the only reason I end up going to a website when I need contact information, which I despise having to do.
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I can't imagine the pain you must feel with so many books around, it must be excruciating.

Certainly you haven't lived if you haven't read them all, and even if you manage that, some college punk might release yet another novel just as you find yourself in the final moments of your stressful life; Jeez, the horror.
I love WebOS. My DSL line just dropped this morning, and I'm using the WiFi hotspot built into my Pre to read HN. The 3G link is only slightly slower for web browsing (2.3 Mbps down, 330 kpbs up).
Yeah, journalists and authors are one of our primary customers. Do you know which service Rashmi used in the end?
I think your list is the end. I can microwave metal. I can put a newspaper in my toaster. I can submerge my hairdryer in water and be amused as it pumps the water around.

Most consumer devices can do whatever you want. It's just gaming consoles and phones that can't. Everything else... do whatever you want.

Hell, handguns are still legal in the US, and you can use those to do some mighty antisocial dealings.
Not sure about that: qick sort is generally said to be O(NlogN), but its worst case is O(N^2) (the simple implementation anyway).
They make it possible to identify someone (with some degree of precision).

Swiss law defines personal data as „alle Angaben, die sich auf eine bestimmte oder bestimmbare Person beziehen” (all information that refers to a specific or determinable person), license plates clearly fall under this defintion.

Usually, personal data cannot be collected. The law names three exceptions:

1. Consent

2. Predominant private or public interest

3. A law

In this case, the court looked at the exceptions (especially the second one) and determined whether Google’s collection of personal data falls under them.
In Switzerland it is simple to search which license plate number is registered to whom [1].

Which makes license plates as bad as faces when it comes to personally identifiable information.

[1] http://www.stva.zh.ch/internet/sicherheitsdirektion/stva/de/...
With page.ly, our first 100 customers came through my network on twitter. I think I had about 1300 followers at the time but probably 250 or so people I had some sort of relationship with beyond just twitter.

A tweeted a bit leading up to launch sharing screenshots and such of what we were working on, announced we were live on twitter and got a handful of customers within minutes.

The first 100 are the hardest, but leveraging your existing network is an easy way to go about it.
Actually, I was more thinking of banks like Northern Rock in the UK.
The interface (Luna) should be quite portable to Android, I suppose.
Twitpic wants to sell your photos without cutting you in on the proceeds.
I didn’t even know that. I think that independent of that, license plates would be personal information even without a central database. There is no central database of faces yet they are still clearly personal information. License plates are similarly associated with one person (or, unlike faces, a few people).
Quite so – my view has always been that making something so valuable that people will steal it is a great problem to have.
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If your revolutionary banking startup can't dredge up $500k in the land where Color managed to get away with $41 million, then your banking startup probably isn't such a good idea to begin with.
Because I used to work with people that worked with ad agencies all the time.

There you go. Talk to those people, and have them set up some introductions.

I have also spoken to a few people that work at various agencies and they have confirmed that this a problem. But those leads haven't worked out.

But even if those leads don't "work out" in terms of sales, they should definitely be a source of information and contacts in terms of setting up the next prospect. The people who liked your solution but for whatever reason choose not to buy it can be a very valuable resource.
Compensation for whom then?
what i would really do is to microformat the address and relevant data so i can be sure they're properly crawled and treated. presentation clearly doesn't matter much here.
His assumption that people read the whole newspaper just because they paid all of 50 cents or whatever for it is such a huge leap...the whole post is predicated on that being true and it's actually not...

Besides that, he has a point - reading only things that you agree with leads to narrow-mindedness, but it's not something that's new to the Internet era. It's been around for quite some time...ref: religion.
Nice. Looks like a Node.js port of qpsmtpd - http://smtpd.develooper.com/

Edit: Just found that author has noted that Haraka is quite similar to Qpsmtpd.
Depends exactly on what you mean by iterative and recursive functions.

Summing a list could be done by:

sum_iterative( list ) {
sum = 0
for( element in list ) {
sum += element
}
return sum
}

or

sum_recursive( list ) {
if( list.empty ) { return 0 } else {
return list.head + sum_recursive( list.tail )
}
}

So saying everything that can be done iteratively can't be done recursively is false, and also vice versa.
I really did. Looks like it was much more of a European concern which would explain why I didn't hear about it.
"The reason why you cannot recreate a Rails clone is because Rails works basically by redefining everything at runtime, over and over again ... the whole Ruby language is built from the ground up on redefining classes (for the "class" construct, defining new classes in case they don't exist, that's just a side-effect)."

I don't think that runtime overwritting and creating of classes is
something good per se. It's just better than code generation tools in
Java. Well, monkey patching is even worse.

Why is this even needed? What is missing in the programming language
to be able to describe these things without the need of dynamic
code generation?
Anyone knows Company of Heroes? It's not an indie game but a game from THQ. The developers decided that adding mechanism to it to prevent piracy is wasted money. And they were right because everybody I know bought it and the is/was a huge success.

Mechanism to prevent piracy are so expensive that it is not worth the money. Plus in the and the game will get cracked anyway and that means all the money you put into it was just useful for a short time.

Another thing about preventing piracy methods is that in most cases the paying customer are losing. I buy a game for 50 bucks from Capcom and can't play it cause they wanted to prevent piracy with a phone-home DRM. This is ridiculous.
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It was Dropbox that took down the file, though I bet it was taken down by some sort of automatic hotlinking protection system.
This looks great! It sounds like the async call unwrapping solves the concern from my Ask HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2539148.
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PLEASE someone make a Notational Velocity equivalent for GTasks. I would pay for that.
Works fine on Chrome 11.0.696.65 (84435) Ubuntu 10.10. This is on a manky old 2.8GHz single core thing.
That’s a great point, you are right.
Great response, and I think you're right.

But I wonder... lets say you show how to solve some problems with Google Tasks, you get a higher page rank, and people with a problem with Google Tasks arrive at your page... where you incidentally note problems that your solution solves better than Google Tasks (which will be true, since they are mass market and general, and you can be happy with a smaller, more specific niche).

When your competitor has made larger market share than you, this can work. It can be help that is applicable to every product, even advising where your competitor is a better solution.

But I guess this mightn't work for a developer API, if they want the platform with the largest install base.

disclaimer: I'm not seriously suggesting this - just thinking aloud.
That's funny, I could have sworn she already did work for them...
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Having frequented large amounts of game forums over the past 10 years, I can assure you: The big game developers get told exactly this hundreds of times a day.
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Can someone post an image of what the "Remove this app" picture actually looks like? does it show as part of the newsfeed?
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No they don't. If you don't renew your ADC membership Apple won't pull your apps from the store.
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Great, you found a script injection. However, I think you misunderstand "Hacker News"
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It's already extremely close to being valid HTML5. All it needs is a DOCTYPE declaration and a title; all the rest is optional.
I see enormous potential here for SaaS startups dealing with businesses to ease 1) initial hardware costs for a computer with a competent browser, and 2) support issues from hardware / software fragmentation.

You can now give businesses an option that doesn't light the checkbook on fire while supporting all the bleeding edge web technologies we all wish were more widely supported. Sounds pretty awesome to me.
I think he just means that "Urgent" is in the subject.
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Compensation from Sony to the game makers. I agree, quite a few newly launched titles on the PS3 are likely to suffer loss of sales that will never be recovered. Like how a movie that makes most of it's money on the opening weekend.
Kinda reminds me of the Amazon outage. Except that they aren't apologizing. And they are looking to blame anyone but themselves.
That is false. If you let your iOS dev credentials lapse, Apple will indeed remove your apps from the store. I saw it happen to a guy I know. He wrote one game, it didn't sell at all, he didn't renew, so his app dropped out of the store.
Just prepend "Ask HN:" to the title and it'll automagically go there I think ;)
Their website is obviously there for exactly one purpose.

A potential customer says, "I want to go to BikeTek, but how do I get there? When are they open?" googles biketek "Oh, ok!"

That's it.
1. name

2. location

3. opening hours

4. menu with prices

Might not be strictly necessary, depending on the restaurant:

5. some way of reserving a table (even if only a phone number)

(But "ultimate" =/= "minimal".)
Also, should be JavaScript not "Javascript." A small quibble perhaps, but capitalising the 's' renders the name properly.

In addition, "It compiles directly into javascript [sic] that is very similar..." Similar to what?

The English could use a little work; just sayin'.
What I really like about it is you can find their store hours right away; countless shops here have that information very well hidden under unsuspecting links like "about" ("Impressum" in German).
http://i.imgur.com/wljHt.png Seems to be a decent example.
You're missing the point. Its awesomeness is in the fact they're hosting this on an iPod Touch submerged in four gallons of pizza sauce.
Privacy has traditionally been taken very seriously in Switzerland due to the Swiss' love of financial privacy. As far as I know it's one of the few countries where the right to privacy is defined in the constitution.
It's not an ultimate website my any means, but a Facebook page is a certain kind of strict minimum restaurant webpage.
They're not trying to impress or sell you anything

You seem to have forgotten that part.

By the way, remember that this is a bicycle shop we're talking about. They probably spend a lot more time thinking about bicycles than SEO or optimizing click-through to visit ratios, and IMHO that's how it should be.
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Well, now that the Google Tasks API is out, that should get integrated too.

Synergy is a great idea and it works for the most part. Still needs improvement though as some calendars have issues syncing.
If you're not yet in Europe you should consider starting there. I'm in Europe and the only option I have for my SaaS service is PayPal, for some reason all the other processors require a US merchant account (which you can't get without presence in the US).

I agree with most of the criticism that has been said in this thread already, but if you can fix that your key selling point for me is "no merchant account required", you should target outside the US where that matters most.
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I see where you are going with this, but as a 'middle-adopter', I might wait until I can just install ubuntu on my phone.
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If anything, that's the single biggest problem with HP / Palm.

Execution is extremely shoddy. That and what seems like low attention span sometimes.
I never understood how it could get to the point where people would actually enter username and password for something on a completely different website... like e.g. those free SMS websites asking for your yahoo, facebook etc logins to "find friends" and then spam everyone in your address book and countless other sites doing the same thing.

Even facebook has a "feature" like that - does no one think about the implications when they do that at all??
"However, can you clarify why you would argue for type classes over duck/structural typing? You indicate that 'type classes are the way to go' but don't explain why."

Like kscaldef said, you know at compiletime if something
can quack, and the overhead for doing this is quite small.

Haskell:
instance Quacker MySpecialDuck where
quack = "qqquuuuuuaaaaaakkkkk"

"Scala of course does have a form of Type Classes and while they tend to be what I reach for more often than Structural Types in Scala, it doesn't obviate Structural Types completely and I'd be interested in analysis of the diffs."

In which cases do you need duck typing? Adding dynamically
a method to a class?
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Too bad that Mark S. was there first, looks quite a bit older too... So who has to change their name? Is your answer "not me, the other guy"?
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Have you ever read the EULA for a proprietary platform? Not only do they disclaim liabilities, they also threaten to take a kidney & first born should you so much as dare think about holding them responsible.
The relevance to HN comes from:

1.) Sony was hacked, people here care about what effects that has

2.) It's a piece criticising DRM, which is a subject of interest to a technical crowd
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Some of these (I'm looking at you, BBC iPlayer) aren't even available in the USA.
What's up with russians? I wouldn't give a username and password to americans either.
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I try to explain this type of thing to people who are ardently anti-piracy:

You can never, ever, expect people to miss out on the culture that's happening during their lives.

If money, or geography, or whatever is preventing it, they'll still do the best they can to make sure they don't miss anything.
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I don't get the downvotes, but whatever. Is it really hard to believe that the watchdog group in question really hasn't considered that there is a difference between "blurring 100% of faces" and "blurring is performed manually?" It's likely they think that, if you force Google to perform manual blurring, then every face they photograph will be blurred. It's even more likely we've already thought about this issue far more than they have.
No, it's not a place to discuss things of interest to startups. It's a place to discuss things of interest to the people who are interested in startups. Often that will be the same thing, but often it won't. To quote the guidelines:

Anything that good hackers would find interesting.

And how can you say something should be on the front page but not at the top? Either it's of interest or not, and while that is subjective, you can't just decide that something shouldn't be of interest to as many people as it is.
Yeah, but in my case we usually ended up annoying the other kids' parents because they were cooler and had more goodies than mine ;-)
Since he uses The Sixth Sense as his main metaphor, I should point out that I figured out "the twist" before seeing the movie, since I watched it after many other people. Everyone talking mysteriously about "THE TWIST", made it pretty obvious, in combination with the trailer.

I suppose we could extend this experience to startups. Everyone who hears the constant "bubble" talk, and knows about the .com crash would probably be wary of being dead already.

[edit: Serves me right for trying to constructively engage a tortured analogy]
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I'm starting to think that I'm reading Digg here. Please reassure me. Where is the value?
Not only does Mixpanel have the traffic to justify this, they're also (were?) a 2-guy shop doing things on shoe-string and sheer engineering.

Misplaced snark is misplaced.
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So when those new phones they showed some months ago at Mobile World Congress are coming out?
Wasn't me and I don't understand this comment.
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There are several people on HN who have tried to attack that market, in various ways. I'd be interested if any of reads this how they've fared? It's a hard, hard market...
Same goes for Holland, this, and TV is very unreliable and a year behind the USA. Plus movies are usually released a few months after the USA.
Sorry, a lot of us are just really tired of glibertarianism.
For what its worth, Tim Sweeney appears to endorse GC for game programming in his POPL talk:

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and add an a-href-mailto to the email address.
I have an old Sprint Pre and a Pre2. Even with the it clocked to 1.1GHz and an increase in the compcache the difference is quite noticeable. The Pre2 absolutely trounces it in performance. That extra 256MB makes a big difference.
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The Dropbox link went down quite fast, it was mirrored by another site nearly instantly and the hack remained in working condition. Then I'm guessing Facebook took down the App and deleted all the comments that were spread.
> There’s no cost to become a developer.

But there is, to submit (signed) apps?

https://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_register&... says

"Benefits include:

Enroll in the webOS Developer program ($99/year; covers up to xx application submissions)
Submit you webOS application(s) for review and approval by Palm"

Am sure am missing something. Also, these devices are too costly for geeks on other side of planet, if at all they are launched here.
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This is just anecdotal, but I signed up and received my developer Pre2 in about 2 weeks. I assume I must have gotten in before the rush because I signed on as soon as I heard about it.

On the other hand, I've been waiting 4 and 6 months to get a Cr48 laptop from Google and not a peep. So its not like only HP is the only one bad at communicating.
You should bring up that injustice with your Member of Parliament.
What, exactly, does bragging about how you foresaw the major plot point of a 10 year old movie add to this discussion?
OK. But I suspect HR everywhere will use Outlook.
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Germany is usually even more behind, and TV broadcasts and movies are horribly dubbed versions. I'd gladly pay three to five times as much for Netflix as it costs in the US if it were available...
I wonder if they'll offer an Opera Turbo style proxy to compress sites with SPDY and WebP etc. for Chromebook users?