skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tnx...much appreciated.
It might not be considered a startup (anymore) but maybe Sofa (http://madebysofa.com)
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Just install the readbility firefox addon or go to: https://www.readability.com/read?url=http://blog.zx2c4.com/6...
The headline is misleading. The story is about the land speed record for wooden bikes.
Apple Provides Fans With Religious Experience, Brain Scans Reveal
Yes, but don't discount the trivial-- that's where a lot of the money is made.
I don't see Apple buying a phone company. Maybe they will buy a competitor. Amazon is "only" worth $90 billion, which means Apple could pay out of pocket with cash very soon!
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Amazing, this guy is impressive.

BTW. It would be really nice to include an SSH client to JSLinux.
Security Through Obscurity
Hi, thanks for the feedback. I like the simpler re-structured sentence you've suggested.

I'm not offended about the non-native comment - I presume you are trying to say that some of the copy sounds like it's been written by someone who speaks english as a second language? This is interesting because it has been worked on by 3 native english speakers (one of them is also an english lit. graduate!). Maybe the problem is actually the fact that three people are working on this copy and another problem being that we are all very close to the product.

We would like to say more about the type of content - it's not music, so the fact that you think it is, is not good. It's all spoken word programmes (audio documentaries, interviews, discussions, stories etc.). Does 'spoken word programmes' sound like a good way to explain this type of content?

I also agree about the periodical comment. The fact that we will be pushing you content on a periodical basis is more of a detail for later explanation. Maybe the word 'regular' sounds better than 'periodical'.
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Oops, I forgot to ask where are you based? We are in the UK and I though it may be relevant to your non-native comment. We definitely want something which is universally appealing and understood.
Good points, the anonymous part is just to make it easier to try it, or if you just want to blow off some steam in frustration. If register you get a pin code to use and post will be posted with screen name.
And the draw, yes, I was going for another welcome site explaining why and how, but was convinced by one of the co-developer that it would be nicer to get right in to "action". Now you need to look for /why or /help
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Does the color temperature of a computer screen affect sleep patterns?
and to point out the advantages I see in web apps

- Consistent used experience, the same app can be built for every device, not duplicated (at least) 3 times which will lead to inconsistencies.

- Intercommunication, I can right now, open a web app on my mac, start using it, then send my current screen to my phone

- Availability, I have an app on my phone with my data that works offline, I still want to be able to access thing same thing using someone elses computer / phone.

Thats a few quick ones off the top of my head, we all know the common benefits of web applications, they dont need to be thrown out the window because of some low hanging fruit that can be fixed in the frontend, I mean not having offline access is not a fault of being a web app, it is purely a technical issue that can be fixed on playboys side.
http://yaletownsoftwaredesign.com is also Canada-based and writes some neat stuff for Windows. Not sure if they are hiring though.
Startups in Google's Apps Marketplace get snapped up
I had exactly this idea last year but I never took the time to actually implement it. Nice to see someone did!
Brilliant tip, thanks. I am based in the UK and am using it now.

BTW, we have also decided to change the name to Super Owl. Too many people associated a negative tone with the word 'smug' - we were trying to be cheeky but perhaps it was a bit too cheeky! :)
What kind of enterprise app is better as a desktop app? Other than working if the Internet is down, what are the advantages of desktop over web?
Just increase the font-size (ctrl + plus/equal). It's big, but look normal then.
Well, if you buy direct from Microsoft, then yes, they need to help you with their product. The overwhelming majority of microsoft products are bought through other agents, though (I was unaware they even had retail).
Ask HN: Social News Timing Study?
Has there been a study of timing of posts to Twitter, Facebook, and social news sites? I bet there's a Directed Acyclic Graph of such sites suggested by the relative timings of a given link/image being posted.
So do you:

x86 architecture, HTTP, Microsoft Windows, Adobe Flash, Water based urinals, internal combustion engine based cars, the modern English language, mobile phones.

All of these disappear into the background once you get used to them - until they get replaced by something better or worse (to the point that you can't find the previous one) - and then they are visible again, either with an appreciative or nostalgic look, but only for a short while.

Case in point for improvement - almost all pre-iphone phones are clunky (by today's standards), and almost all post-iphone touch screen phones are copies of the iphone. The clunky phones were just as clunky in 2005, but until the world was aware of the alternative, it wasn't obvious _how_ clunky and style free they are.

Case in point for degradation - my 1280x1024 17" 4:3 matte LCD monitor that I got in 2005 still looks brilliant and useful on my desk - and I have a working 2001 17" CRT monitor that can do 1600x1200 without blurring or breaking a sweat. Both were not the cheapest available at the time I bought them, but were far from high end. I was recently looking for a replacement and can't find a freaking 4:3 LCD monitor; and all the 16:9 ones are glossy, 17" don't go above ~800 horizontal lines. Where's the style in that?

And zed - since you like programming languages like Python and Lua (which both have a very well defined style) - you might like K (commercial version at kx.com ; open at https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona ) it's the ultimate stylish language. (And you can't look at software engineering seriously again after you've mastered it - everything looks so convoluted and unneeded. Think R on steroids, to the point that plain R seems as verbose as Ada)
"We cannot allow your website on our AppleNet, because it doesn't follow our AppleNet rules". insert Yao Ming laughing rage face here
Their iPad app is a bit more comparable, but you'd really be pushing it to say that their iPod/iPhone app can replace a point-of-sale system.

Square is perfect for mobile business like landscapers, plumbers, artists, etc. But for businesses with a brick & mortar location, they're missing a lot of the things so they won't be replacing pos system as is.

Some of the standard point-of-sale features that Square is missing I don't ever see them getting in to. Things like cash management, re-ordering inventory, employee time clocks... that's what store owners are looking for in a pos system.

The iPad app is OK for more simple businesses, which is why they always show it in a coffee shop and not a retail store. If they offered a payments API I think they would be able to break into this market not by replacing the POS, but by replacing the credit card terminal.
The Xi3 ChromiumPC Might be Worse Than a Double Rainbow
Summery: solve the tl;dr problem with summaries.
The spectrum is immensely valuable, but it's fundamentally owned and controlled by governments who have the power to decrease its value by imposing more regulation on current operators and/or opening up new spectrum bands to new competitors.

Current operators appear to me as not unlike the railroad monopolies of the late 19th century. Immensely powerful and seemingly irreplaceable, but on the brink of being disrupted to irrelevance.
It is obviously due to demands from the studios, and I suspect it has something to do with DRM.
Your debunking is appreciated, code speed!
Fair enough to wanting the 'why' and 'how' be self explanatory, but the site doesn't even convey 'what' it is. A line of text could do that in the least.

Having to listen to a audio message to get any idea of the content would perhaps be a bit like using twitter one tweet at a time, so you'd have to solve that somehow. If it's meant to be a sharing service, you'll have to show why it's better than using youtube. That won't be easy.

Maybe it would be better to use the tech you've built as an easy way of 'phoning in' content to youtube, facebook, twitter etc? not something I'd use myself, but I can imagine more use cases there, and it's instantly worthwhile to those users without needing a community of users first.
People somehow were finding websites before the AppStore arrival.
Human identity in the cloud
The only "registry" today that is secure against such attacks is .bit. It uses a concept similar to Bitcoin, but instead of "mining" coins you get domain names.

.bit is not available over the official root servers, to access .bit names you can:

1) Locally install a resolver for .bit
2) Use one of the nameservers on http://dot-bit.org/HowToBrowseBitDomains instead of your provider's nameserver
3) Use a domain that mirror's the .bit hierachy to resolve names, such as bitname.org

The nice thing about .bit is that there is no central authority, but at the same time the ownership of names is clearly defined.
I imagine they also have a bank-by-mail option, which (I find) is useful if you don't go near your branch normally anyway and don't care about a few days delay in your deposits.

True, it'd be nicer to scan in the check (and not have the mail delay) but it's not a huge pain point for me to drop the envelope in the mail; so I haven't been to my bank's branch in 5 years.
I usually play it at d9b with 2,5 sec intervals. I intend to advance higher though.
Be careful with this trick. Although it appears to work well for Riak, it can cause lots of problems for BigTable style stores, like HBase, since it bottlenecks all the writes through one node.

See: http://ikaisays.com/2011/01/25/app-engine-datastore-tip-mono...

HBase (and I've heard BigTable) work best with purely random row keys - like the author of this post was using initially.
The dictionary definition format combined with a tag line is confusing indeed. I've dropped the tag line and it looks clearer on the page.
Bizarre thinking to say "Apple would charge $35/month for unlimited usage". When has Apple ever gone the route of price competition? They'd charge $99/month or more and people would gladly pay it.
So those who do not attend college don't have access to do substantive work? I agree.
Too many job postings minimum requirements include a college degree even if the actual work -- substantive or not -- do not need a college education. So, a person cannot start in industry in a less substantive position and move into a position which includes more substantive work.
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Yes, it is amazing how it changed the way I viewed email. But why hasn't a copycat mail client come about, with all of the advantages of running native, come about to surpass it?
And if I want to lend more than one book at a time, I would need to buy even more Kindles? Very scalable idea...
One thing that was a little annoying was their discussion about purpose of undefined behavior.

Could you quote an offending passage that claims that the purpose of undefined behavior is for speed? I see discussion of how undefined behavior creates opportunities for optimization, but nothing about purpose. Indeed, the word "purpose" does not appear in parts 1, 2, or 3 at all.

So please share whatever passage has the semantics you claim.

It may be the llvm folks bypass this point because llvm is "virtual machine" rather than a chip.

I'm curious: what exactly do you mean by this?

I don't mean to be rude, but whenever I read anybody say that LLVM is a virtual machine, it always comes off as if everything they know about LLVM came from learning the acronym.
I would add "conversation view" to the list. It's much better than threaded view, even though it's only slightly different.

I have lost emails in other clients due to the fact that I was viewing them in threaded view and the conversation was really old. They just didn't show up in the first couple of pages of emails and I missed them.

But the question wasn't meant to be about which features make GMail better. It was supposed to ask why a desktop app hasn't copied the features.
It's not about the platform, it's about the idea which implementation other people will be willing to buy.
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With Trump and Huckabee dropping out of the Presidential race, the GOP is getting down to business.
No, a phone company doesn't scale. A national phone company doesn't help Apple globally.
A quotation inside the article points to the public policy issues connected to the value of college: "This isn’t just a matter of harnessing people’s resources more productively, Altucher insists. It’s a matter of harnessing the country’s resources more productively. 'Let’s take a step back,' Altucher says. 'What’s the other American religion? Owning a home.' For years, the government encouraged home ownership for all citizens. 'So we got more and more loans that were considered subprime, and look what that did. The idea, the religion of home ownership for all, turned into a national nightmare, a national apocalypse instead of a religion. The same thing’s going to happen here.'"

Indeed, if government subsidies for college attendance (government allocations of funds to colleges, individual grants for college attendance, and below-market-rate-terms loans for college attendance) change individuals' estimate of the cost:benefit ratio of college, without increasing the actual societal value of college attendance, then current college funding policy might end up being as harmful to the national economy as previous decade housing policy was.

P.S. This article had a previous submission (no discussion that time, perhaps because of the title change):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2522135
An iPhone costs $50-$199 on contract, same as Android phones like Nexus S or Galaxy S. iPods don't cost more than Zunes. And iPads are cheaper than their competitors.
When has Apple ever gone the route of price competition?

The ipad.
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There are things that are better done on the desktop. Take Spotify, for example. One of the key to their success is the fact that they keep bandwith costs low by using peer to peer technology.

I've done some research, and found that on average, 80% of the music I listen to on Spotify was coming from peers rather than from Spotify's servers. If I'm anything like an average user, that means that Spotify may be cutting its bandwith costs by something like 80%. That would be impossible to do as a web app, and web-based competitors face huge streaming costs indeed.
My intention was more "why haven't desktop apps copied the best parts of GMail and made it irrelevant?" But here are the features I'd like to see in a desktop client:

Conversation view (one line per conversation in folder view, all emails in conversation shown when viewing the conversation, and the emails are sorted by most recent message, etc)
Fast (fast search, fast email viewing, no pauses while waiting for emails to download, etc)
Simple interface (single screen which changes views)

The thing I'd like most that gmail doesn't have (even with offline gmail) is to have my mail stored locally and be able to use it while I'm not connected.
I love GMail's threaded view.
I believe the world portrayed used metric, though. They at least talk about nano-meters and etc in their blurbs.
I saw this same story a while back right after the Zipcar IPO. Seriously I expect better from the NYTimes. Especially considering that everywhere else is reporting this as a bubble.

Which is it, did LinkedIn scam investors or have investors scammed LinkedIn?
Flash has a built in p2p facility

http://www.flashrealtime.com/basics-of-p2p-in-flash/
I suppose the fact that more people use Dropbox than Google Docs shows they overestimated the speed of the transition.
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So, we need a gun store that uses bitcoins.
I'm going to hazard that a lot is based on inherent properties. probably 'most' of the ease. They were mucking around with silicon computers with basically hobby chemistry sets back in the fifties and sixties, where today, with some of the best materials science we have, we're only able to manipulate graphene on the nanoscale..
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I thought about the parody defence, that might also work.
Yammer's desktop client sucks. Perhaps it is because writing for the desktop is considered so passe that the art is dying among younger devs.
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Yes, you actually got the idea as it started. When registered you can use your RSS feed to post to facebook, twitter etc. Or log in and post your chosen recording.
I think a first change is to switch the landing site to a more explaining. And then click through to the call stream.
There is a lot of misunderstanding of this on the net, largely due to the press doing their usual crappy job of reporting Supreme Court decisions when they covered the Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music case (the "Pretty Woman" case).

And largely because people believe the law is either (a) whatever they think it should be or (b) whatever some other random jerk on the internet told 'em it was.
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Several layers of graphene put together is graphite, and it's pretty non-magical.
IIRC, Chatroullete was streaming the both audio and video p2p over flash.
Found the original (non cropped) image and more info:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/
Is Com Sci as a discipline going downhill?
I'd like to know why American university courses cost so much. The UK punches above its weight in research and quality of education, yet the maximum fee universities can charge is around $14k per year. The majority charge substantially less than this. Whilst government subsidy explains some of the mismatch, it's still very significant. In addition, the cost of buying books, which seems to make up a gigantic portion of college costs in the US, is not even remotely as large.

I can think of the following theories:

- In the absence of a "socialist" state, US colleges provide poorer students with a free/subsidized education by charging richer students more.

- US faculty receive massively higher salaries.

- In a country where college education is commonly used as a mark of social status, they can charge a premium and people will still pay.

- There is limited public understanding of the drawbacks of debt, so people are more willing to incur it by paying extreme fees.

- It's a big bloody racket.

Do any of these hold any truth?
The article is talking about a 'sheet', in the colloquial sense of the word, of the thickness of a piece of cling wrap.
I used Grinich's app before the one this thread is about and I have to say this new one is much better: it also has readability and Instapaper support, so you won't miss that; it works a lot better: you can see user names on submissions and comments, and scores on submissions; and has more functionality: it has the new stories page, your profile, let's you submit, etc.
I would guess it is not the "temperature" but the overall (feeling of) brightness. And that is a no-brainer for me. Of course bright light means day and activity for us.
Incidentally, did folks know that Virgin Mobile is now offering prepaid unlimited data + text + 300 voice minutes for $25 a month on a prepaid plan? It's an insanely good deal.

Anyway, the days of $99 a month phone plans are presumably coming to an end.
Perhaps because they are the best in the world and there is a huge demand (from across the globe) to get in? http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2010.jsp
Boy am I tired of hearing about bitcoins.

.bit is different from popular domain registries in that your users actually use it. Also, it's hardly a new idea. if you want to host a web site that can't be shut down, I'd go with a Tor hidden service: https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en
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Ask HN: Good UI/UX metaphors?
I find myself stuck on overall design style of a webapp and am looking for examples of interface metaphors, especially that carry the motif thru to multiple elements. Basecamp is a decent example. Tryin to break a creative block here. Thanks.
No, but that is already difficult enough. How many non-preinstalled apps does your mom have on her pc?

The app store changed all this. Suddenly, downloading apps was cool and fun. With this new web-app paradigm we're back to square one unless Apple steps in.
Dropbox and Spotify come to mind as high-profile startups whose product depends entirely on the capabilities afforded by being on the desktop vs. just doing a web app.
UK fees, even at the new £9k (~$14k) rate, are still heavily subsidised by the state. To study my course (Imperial, CS) as an overseas student is £22.5k (~$36.5k).
They should also add:

Math.floor(someNumber) // 2.6 becomes 2
someNumber | 0 // 2.6 becomes 2

Not only because it saves characters, but because it might actually be used in the real world (Whereas most of the ones in the article should really be left to a minifier)
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It wouldn't surprise me about .me. .cc is actually run by Verisign: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/30/tvshack/
Popularizing a term does not automatically mean you can trademark it. Purely descriptive language like "app store" generally cannot be trademarked unless it has "acquired distinctiveness" through use in trade.

Apple has to show that people think "app store" means Apple's app store. How many people have to think that, and how technically inclined those people have to be, I don't know. The reaction to this story shows at least that the tech community does not think that. I don't know how trademark law deals with large rifts in public perception.

Further reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_distinctiveness
Can anyone imagine Apple operating, supporting, maintaining, and upgrading a national or global commodity telecommunications grid? Strikes me a small distraction from Jobs' vision - create great products.

The idea is completely contrary to what Apple is good at and what they want to do.
Unless we're talking about the particular class of problems which involve finding things. As in:

"Sorting problems are easy, finding problems are hard."

And of course, finding problems is a finding problem. No wonder it's hard!
There is no evidence that the SHA-512 cryptographic hash algorithm is breakable by any modern machinery, so why are we keeping password hashes secret?

Yes, but we're still working out the theoretical underpinnings of hash algorithms.

http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pa...

Also, if one looks at past performance, it seems like it's only a matter of time before a hash algorithm is broken in some way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function#Cry...

There is nothing wrong with obscurity, provided that 1) you don't use it as a replacement for standard security and 2) it doesn't interfere with the operation and auditing of your standard security.