skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people buy phones more on manufacturer than anything else. I really don't think your average man on the street really cares whether their phone runs Android or WP7, to them they have a Samsung, an HTC or a Motorola.

My friend got a WP7 phone without really realizing it; it was sold to his as a new HTC model (he's happy with it BTW).
While suggestions 3-5 are relatively facetious, the first suggestion, for NRGY, is kind of interesting. While a 7.9% dividend is not the highest out there, it's nothing to sneeze at.
It is.

And lots of soccer moms would complain if a car for sale had that kind of wheel.

However this wheel is not for the mass market, it is for a very small group of professional drivers that make a living using it, so it is totally irrelevant if a designer likes it or not.
The stickers that scare me the most are the Microsoft stickers on the ECU's...
I haven't read the bill, but does it really require court orders to be shown? For what I've gathered is typical for this kind of legislation, private companies get privileges to send some kind of takedown notices (see DMCA) to the others. If those went through courts, I wouldn't be as worried.
If there's one thing that really irks me about Reddit, it's when folks link to photos and images without any context or attribution. I should hope that HN does not follow suit with more direct-to-image links like this. I appreciate that folks in the comments have done the legwork already, but those links should be what's posted, not a single image.
I think it's to actual end users as they talk about sales to the channel dropping off, but sales to end users being flat. So they seem to be differentiating between channel and end users.
Nice to see mainstream articles on Dropbox's lies. I was starting to think they'd get away with their stupidity.
See, enlightened self-interest works against that principle. If you've got a self-interest time horizon longer than 10 minutes, you'll see that it makes more sense to sell the customer something he or she won't regret buying any time soon, or you won't get repeat business and word of mouth. There may be a little bit of oversell, but with the calculated aim of the customer growing into the oversold features.

If, on the other hand, you sell mainly to passing traffic and/or tourists, or from a temporary stall, then you genuinely don't have an incentive to hold back.
Why Style Sheets Go at the Top and Scripts at the Bottom
Please forgive my ignorance. What does "leaving money on the table" / "taking money off the table" actually mean?

EDIT: I guess I get it after reading the article -- leaving money on the table effectively means raising money via the IPO at a valuation less than what is real. Thus they left money on the table that they could have otherwise harvested from the IPO.
Immersive Cocoon // Step Into The Future
ChromiumOS Vanilla Nightly Builds
Which is enough for two to three thousand thick books. And I believe that, unlike Apple, Amazon will let you delete and redownload books at will.
Microsoft helps stop malware, while Apple blows off malware victims
This is awesome. Especially because now his app is going to get tons of attention for his good attitude with this post being #2 on Hacker News. Being generous pays off in the end :-).
Okay, wow, your samples are far and above what I expected - I thought you'd merely put up with Torvalds-style directness, or perhaps simply had a couple of Russian coworkers. I didn't think that people in the real world actually called their coworkers retards, or threw chairs through windows.

I now think you were perfectly justified in asking for those people to be fired and quitting - I'd have probably tacked on a discreet phone call to the police, and maybe scraped together enough cash to get a lawyer to threaten a lawsuit.
It's my sincere hope that those companies have long since failed.
I think some buy the unit after playing with a number of them, some buy brands, some buy the platform/OS (which overlaps brand for half the market) and some just buy whatever the salesguy pushes on them.
Ask HN: Feedback on javascript one-liner to add image moderation to any site
Hello fellow hackers!

I have a service[0] that makes integrating tasks into your app that require human intelligence vastly simpler than using Mechanical Turk directly. The problem is you still need a developer to complete the integration.

To combat that, I'm working on a prototype to allow anyone to add a javascript snippet into their site, and it would automatically start moderating images via Houdini. No setup or developer needed. Pricing would start at less than $0.01 an image, but my ultimate goal would be to get it down to $0.001 per image.

Would sites that allow user uploads be interested in this? Photo sharing sites? Forums?

Demo video of very basic prototype: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2cwTSGZCY4 (25 seconds)

Thanks!
Chris

[0] Houdini, http://houdiniapi.com
Business ideas are worthless.

Proof: Try and sell an idea.

If their implementation succeeds, they've done you a favour by doing the hard work and establishing a market. You can avoid their mistakes, build a better (or more niche, or prettier, or better marketed) implementation and profit.

If their implementation fails, they're done you a favour by either demonstrating that there isn't a market, or by highlighting fatal mistakes in their implementation.
Clickable links:

Demo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2cwTSGZCY4
Houdini: http://houdiniapi.com
> while breaking all existing apps so far

Thats seems like the point.
the current top crop of F1 drivers are remarkably un-superstitious. in particular the "playstation generation" which are remarkably competent professionals who have usually been extremely focused on performance since their early teens.

I would tend to believe that the swerving is mostly to feel the tyres and the car.
I think she is asking you to help take the pressure off her. She feels pressure to do something and is panicking.

Tell her she doesn't have to do anything at all and that's ok, or can do anything she wants, ANYTHING - nothing is out of reach!! Bring her to a place where she starts to think she does not need the money or societal approval, all is needs is to find and follow her true passion. She will herself come up with the ideas that honestly you can't think of in a 100 years, and your job then would be to facilitate her ideas into reality.
And soon to be Vettel :)
He's willing to pay $20.00 for Ubiquity on Chrome. I don't think that he wants it hard enough.
Outwardly charming, on a surface level? Yes. Impossible to work with, or worse, for? Absolutely. They have close to zero conception or awareness of other human beings, making them poor communicators, irrational decisionmakers with regards to anything other than their personal interests, and something approximating pathological liars.
James Altucher / Almost Everything You Ever Believed is a Total Scam (audio)
I'm happy, as I've argued for this a few times on the CR-48 list. Not sure how this will work with lack of direct access to extensions and so forth, but perhaps this will spur innovation among 3rd party UX developers.
I think there is a noticeable slowdown when the wing goes back into normal position so the driver will know if something doesn't work. It may still be a problem.
003 RR Templating Languages for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
What are you interested in investing in... I am sure there are plenty of hungry startups here on HN that would be interested in at least getting the chance to pitch you so they can learn and you can learn.
Ask HN: Want your site/blog to be featured in our new app?
Hi HN,

Our new app, BlogFire, is an RSS reader with push notifications. The app comes pre-packaged with a set of sites/blogs that people can subscribe to so they don't open the app to just a blank screen. We submitted to Apple last week and were rejected today because we need to have written permission from all of the pre-packaged blogs in order to use their names and images in the app.

Of course, trying to get permission from such sites would be a long, horrible process, so we are looking to replace these sites with ones we can get permission from quickly.

Here is a screenshot of what the app looks like on initial launch:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/960396/Screenshots/blogfire.png

The user can re-arrange/edit the list to their liking by adding/removing sites.

If you own/write a blog and would like to be featured as part of the pre-packaged sites in the app, and you are willing to give written permission to that effect, please email me at chad@jazzychad.net with "BlogFire" in the subject line. Also include a link to an image/icon/avatar I can use for the site in the app.

This would be a great opportunity to get your blog featured in a shiny new app and potentially increase your readership. The app is free and has some viral sharing components, so we hope it will spread like, well, wildfire.

Also, if you are connected with any of the blogs in the screenshot and would be able to help get permission from them, please email me as well.

Thanks! -Chad, chad@jazzychad.net

EDIT: In your email, PLEASE also include a link to an image I can use for your site... preferably square at least 48x48
I hack on the aforementioned Silverline at http://librato.com, and we provide system-level monitoring at the process/application granularity as-a-Service. (We also have a bunch of features around active workload management controls, but that's out of scope here). It actually works on any server running one of the supported versions of Linux, not just EC2. Benefits of going with a service-based offering are the same as in any other vertical, you don't need to install and manage your own software/hardware for monitoring.

Here's an example of the visualizations we provide into what's going on in your server instances: http://support.silverline.librato.com/kb/monitoring-tags/app...
clickable screenshot: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/960396/Screenshots/blogfire.png
It means that WP7 is probably selling about as well as Android was at the same timeline from release and writing them off as a failure today would be dumb given how much Android grew with 2nd and 3rd generation devices and how the OS improved with another year plus of iterations.
My favorite Keynes quote: "Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent."
I would love a copy as well, if you don't mind.
People react to images they care strongly about.

Film at eleven.
I want to get mad at you for talking trash, but it's obvious you've had issues with me for a while. Why don't you just let it go? We've never met before and you really don't know anything about me.
You called him petty twice for adhering to definitions, but without these definitions it is difficult to speak precisely. The other part of your comment was much more constructive: perhaps our definition should be amended. Until the, no, these cannot be planets by definition. What is wrong with that?
Fine article, but what's up with the hate against Stella Artois?
1k/month before taxes :(
If you are already doing a full time job in software dev, you are probably paying 30-40% tax already.
I doubt those were my exact words. I said if you can get more in finance, then do it.
> People struggling to succeed are all the same.

What does "to succeed" mean anyway? I was always wondering, and don't really know to this day.
How Earbits is Changing the Way We Share Music
B-Cycle, the Zipcar of Bicycles
TV or Monitor? Let's erase that line
Apple Patents A Streaming Music Service
... in Austria
I hate to make a comment like this, but it should be noted that this was a side project of his. I would speculate that he would have a different reaction if it were his bread and butter.

Note: original forum post at http://xsellize.com/topic/137904-the-f-ing-word-of-the-day/
because the world bank chief is always American
Intel has the most sophisticated and advanced semiconductor technology in the world. They are not going to be so easily killed.
your book was an insight of what life could've/would've been if I pray I become as wise and as productive as you have demonstrated.

good job/ haspy birthday>!
Chrome version? 11.0.696.68
no, not really.

an F1 car has fewer controls than a ordinary car. different controls yes, but fewer. most people would not consider the controls on their cars "complex". because they are familiar. What sort of familiarity do you think you'd develop if this was what you did for a living?

next, most controls are sort of "modal". for instane, the clutch bite, and the two clutch paddles, are only really relevant during the start (the clutch will be used if the car spins and needs to get going again, but that is a completely different, less demanding, situation). the mix buttons and a few of the other buttons are not really worried about by the driver. the engineers tell the driver what to dial in. the reason those buttons are there is because they are not allowed to be remote controlled.

for the most part the driver will only routinely fiddle with the brake bias (not on the steering wheel), the diff and the KERS controls.

of course, if you have spent all of your teens and your adult life in race cars none of the above will be "complex" to you.

in fact, my TV and its remote is arguably much, much more complex than the user interface of a an F1 car.
San Francisco ballot measure aims to ban circumcision
1994 - A little dated. Interesting to see where we went in difference to the article
That's a good perspective, thanks. It's looking really promising.

I still wonder how I can inform a social search that I'm "me at work" -- i.e. I'm more interested in what's popular with Hacker News users, not the people I jibber-jabber with on Facebook. I'm constantly searching YC comments for any technical subject.
OK, This is the first tangible evidence that we are indeed /now/ in a Bubble!
So long AWS, and thanks for all the fish: FathomDB (W08) focusing on its new DB
I met this guy at Startup Weekend in Manhattan last fall.

His "Sausage Status" pitch was hilarious. He started off by running and jumping onto the stage. A very spontaneous individual.
put options?
tl;dr

Article is advocating the use of plain text in the form of Markdown & a solid text editor for distraction-free writing.
"Use single-threaded programs, which are easier to design, write, and debug than their shared-memory counterparts."

Not really. Well, only true in simple cases. Let's say I have a 16-core box and I want to crunch some data using all the cores. What's easier, clojure with a single shared memory data structure that collects that stats, or a multi-process system where we not only have to manage multiple application processes, we also have to use something like redis to hold the shared state?
Genrich Altshuler's TRIZ (theory of inventive problem solving)
History of the Network [Infographic]
I can't believe this simple, kind of stupid thing I did has gotten so much attention. I also can't believe so many people hate Stella. It's not the greatest beer I've ever had, but it's no bud light.
"The argument in favour of just focussing on Linux exclusively goes like this: why should GNOME be held back by advances in technology simply because Solaris and the BSDs can't keep up with the fast pace of development in the Linux kernel?"

What on earth does systemd need that it can't get from solaris/bsd, or are systemd and the gnome team just lazy?
haha! That was actually my friend jeff greenspan. I'm not that good with crowds.
Aren't all transactions public? Would anyone like to look up and check to see if the transactions he's mentioned have actually happened?
Good point. Especially about browser compatibility.
The comments here do not seem too promising for CentOS. Too bad...

Whats the replacement then? Debian and FreeBSD spring to mind, but both are rather different beasts.
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If this is your bread and butter, you might want to take note of the fact that his was an effective tactic. Freaking out probably wouldn't have helped.
That doesn't mean you have to stop innovating. It just means that your customers might not be the people who are already using what you want to replace.
Does the pettiness solve a problem with our communication? I would argue that it doesn't. I would be very surprised if anyone was actually confused by this or other similar articles. This is not even so much a problem with preciseness. All those articles say, in so many words, that they are talking about 'planets that don't orbit stars'. They amend the definition right there and then, problem solved.

This is a common way of describing things. Something is described in terms of something else, the properties that are different are pointed out separately. One might describe an e-book in terms of a book made of paper, pointing out, along the way, the important differences. Since e-books and books made of paper are very similar nobody would protest if, in that context (and after the explanation of the differences), the naked word 'book' would be used to refer to e-books.
I have to laugh at you pointing out 'redis', redis can not scale at this time. Clusters are planned sometime mid-year but it'll be sometime before it has more features. Maybe you meant the MongoDB?

Alerting is quite flexible from what I read to the point that they are quite customiseable. I agree that a server dying at 3 am is not as important but should still be a valid alert to make an API call to the host to start a new server (Not sure if possible, alerts seem to be shell based).

Here's what your offering needs top in what I'm considering lately: http://www.zabbix.com/features.php

I'd love more competition but even you point out community involvement won't be as much because there's a lot of competition. Including your offering, soon.

Disclaimer: I started researching server monitoring a few weeks ago and considering Zabbix since last week.

Edit: The one issue I find is that there's lack of web transactions like New Relic has: http://newrelic.com/features/performance-analytics

You can see it in action with average response time: http://blog.tstmedia.com/news_article/show/86942

As far as I know, no open network monitoring service offers it.
Although I find this fantastic, I also find it quite odd?

I think his attitude is fantastic for someone who is having their apps ripped off, I find it strangely odd that in the comments people think this is the attitude that developers are meant to take when their work is ripped off, humbled.

I purchase all apps from the app store, I had Cydia but I took the jail break off my phone. I think the 59p - £3 for an app is nothing for all the hard work that has gone in and I am more than happy to make the purchase.

I think the whole episode has been strangely rewarding for him but again I think it makes people think that all developers should have this attitude. I think it's funny that in the comments that someone said that developers should treat all consumers with positive and constructive humbleness. I'm sorry but the meaning of "Consumer" is "A person who purchases goods and services for personal use". There is a keyword here, "Purchase".

Kudos to the guy for some great PR but I really hope that all "consumers" don't get this mentality when trying to rip off apps
Design tasks can look really easy too. It cuts both ways.
or on the internets
This is the google alert that started it all: http://imgur.com/wovz3
IBM:

Without the benefit of patent protection, software companies
would be forced to rely on secrecy which limits the public’s
ability to learn from software innovations, since patent
documents are a significant source of technological disclosure.
See, e.g., In re Alappat, 33 F.3d 1526, 1571 (Fed. Cir. 1994)
(Newman, J., concurring). Given the reality that software source
code is human readable, and object code can be reverse
engineered, it is difficult for software developers to resort to
secrecy. Thus, without patent protection, the incentives to
innovate in the field of software are significantly reduced.
Patent protection has promoted the free sharing of source code
on a patentee’s terms—which has fueled the explosive growth
of open source software development.

and

The economic benefits that flow from software innovation are the
product of significant investment in research and development.
And the incentives provided by the patent system encourage that
investment by providing the same quid pro quo as in other
technology fields: the promise of economic rewards in exchange
for the public disclosure of useful inventions. See generally
Testimony of Nicholas M. Donofrio, Executive Vice President,
Innovation and Technology, IBM Corp., Before the H.R. Comm. on
Science (July 21, 2005); Cong. Office of Tech. Assessment,
Finding a Balance: Computer Software, Intellectual Property, and
the Challenge of Technological Change, 23 (1992) (recognizing
that “patent protection is of importance to the U.S. software
industry”). The exclusive rights granted to patentees
encourage software innovators to pursue inventions that they
might not otherwise pursue, in broad and diverse areas.

and

Patent protection for software protects innovators from
appropriation of their efforts by “free-riders.” Without
patent protection, the risk of appropriation may force software
innovators into other, more promising ventures. See, e.g.,
Richard S. Gruner, Better Living Through Software: Promoting
Information Processing Advances Through Patent Incentives, 74
St. John’s L. Rev. 977, 1004 (2000). The free-rider problem is
particularly acute in the software sector because software
products are “vulnerable to rapid, inexpensive copying that
undercuts the initial developer’s opportunity to benefit * *
*, thereby undermining its incentives to invest in software
development.” Pamela Samuelson, et al., A Manifesto Concerning
the Legal Protections of Computer Programs, 94 Colum. L. Rev.
2308, 2332 (1994). While literal copying is the province of
copyright law, the ease of appropriating software source code
makes the patented inventions included in the code uniquely
susceptible to instant appropriation.

These are all taken from the amicus brief IBM filed in the Bilski case.
http://www.patentlyo.com/08-964-ibm.pdf

edit: fixed to replace duplicate quote with the quote I meant to paste in.
If it was legal, there would be two or three engineers remotely controlling all those knobs and buttons. F1 rules ban any aspect of the car from being controlled remotely or automatically and mandate a spec ECU.

It's unlikely that they would drive by remote control as feel is so important - a racing driver relies on his backside as much as his eyes. Drivers use physical sensation to feel the limit of grip and the balance of the car, something that would be very different to control remotely.

You could potentially go much faster without drivers, as cornering speeds are artificially limited by the rules to maintain driver safety. The severest corners in F1 induce 5G of lateral force. Inexperienced drivers often spend later laps of a race resting their head against the side of the cockpit, as their neck muscles are exhausted.

In a completely free racing formula, cars would have vast amounts of mechanical grip and downforce, weigh next to nothing and corner so fast that no human could survive a lap.
... in France and Netherland too.
FWIW, they had 250M revenue last year. 15M in earnings might indicate they are aggressively investing in growth. So if you're going to look at that critically, investigate where the other $235M is being spent.
Google at Carson’s Speed
For a second, I thought that meant the author made the app open source :)
http://www.bitcoinmonitor.com/ has a nice visualization of this data.