skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are downvoting my comment but I really think you could be more articulate when writing your question. Now that I read your other comments it's a bit clearer but still...

For instance, if there are megacorps successfully selling their stuff in Asia, then maybe Asia is not such a completely different world as you seem to assume? Not saying that it's easy, but then it's not necessarily easy to sell your stuff in (say) Brazil or Italy either.

For instance, Google and Yahoo have a big market share in many countries. But social startups don't tend to fare that well, probably because of network effects and not because of specific technology. Amazon is big in several developed countries but has no presence in the developing world. You would think that they could easily reproduce their business model in more countries and make money.

I wonder if you're selling your stuff outside your country already?

By the way, I live in Japan and I have thought of a company who would help web and tech startups to enter the Japanese market. There are plenty of companies who do translation and localization, but I don't know of any that does something both more comprehensive (PR, advertising, possible deals with local companies, etc) and more specific to web companies.
There is a minimum amount of mass necessary for an object to be able to collapse upon itself and form a black hole, such as a large star does when the outward pressure due to the internal fusion reaction stalls.

However, any amount of mass can (in classical theory) be compressed far enough to obtain a Schwarzschild radius, from which light cannot escape. This has only to do with the density, not the total mass: a very small mass can still cause a large curvature of space, though only in a very small region of space.
Please don't say things like this. Why should it be a "gender thing"? This only alienates people. "You don't close your windows? Like a girl?"
> download an export again on my computer

What does this step achieve?

The process was pretty easy for me - install Motorola Phone Tools, export the CSV file containing my contacts, make some changes in Excel, upload to Google. There's even an 'Import from SIM' option on my phone (possibly a feature of HTC's People app).

Even on a featurephone your SIM contacts will conflict with your phone-stored contacts. There's an easy solution: don't view your SIM contacts.

I don't see what shit Google needs to fix here, other than documentation, and in this case isn't that the handset manufacturer's responsibility?
From that story one doesn't draw the conclusion 'Linux is awesome'. At best, it would be 'Google is so cool, I allows me to fix things'.

Let's face it, this 'article' was utter fanboyism, and does not exhibit any form of proof that Linux is better than whatever.

(I've run Linux since 1998 and I do prefer it for some tasks, like server tasks. I have many years of experience and am well aware of its strengths and weaknesses. Interoperability with the files that 'regular' computer users use is not one of those strengths).
The problem with Java Reference jokes is that you have to continually reference them. Otherwise they just become garbage.
You get rich in a gold rush selling shovels.
it's bigger than just apps. telecoms are in big trouble due to imessage and increased voip. also, all these new icloud features are going to put a heavy burden on their network. as soon as a relatively cheap and reliable data only service comes out, that's pretty much all you're going to need.
If you send probes off with the intent of "birthing" and raising children in some far-off unknownhostile environment away from all of civilisation as an experiment, expect to be on trial for cruel and unusual treatment, or similar.
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Ever since its introduction, the web world has undergone a lot of changes and has become quite advanced. The way websites were developed and maintained has also witnessed a sea change.
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Doctors don't diagnose purely on the basis of the DSM or similar statistical tools, and haven't for decades, at least here in the UK which is the system I am most familiar with.

This is too big a subject area to go into here in a HN comment but if you want to know more, a good place to start would be by familiarising yourself with the difference between nomothetic and idiographic knowledge, which is completely key to modern diagnostic practices in psychiatry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomothetic_and_idiographic

VERY VERY simply, while someone might be considered severely abnormal from a nomothetic viewpoint, from an idiographic viewpoint clinicians might decide that they have always been that way and they have a history of being happy and getting on well in their society and with those around them and being successful, and therefore they cannot call that person crazy, however statistically abnormal their actions may be.

But yeah, it's a lot more complex than that.

EDIT: an important point to remember is that not every doctor is some sort of sucker, prescribing whatever big pharma tells them to. When you see a microsoft press release, do you read it and say "well that sounds convincing!" and start building everything on MS platforms? Thought not.

Obviously this largely depends on the economic relationship between healthcare practitioners and big pharma in your country and your healthcare system, whatever that might be.

If you were unlucky enough to live in a country where MS could just pay you per line of ASP.NET checked in, well I guess there would be a lot of misery and shitty code.
My experience opening .mdb file on Linux:

0. Make sure Kexi is installed.

1. Click on it.

It's numbered from 0, because Microsoft Access isn't a standard part of Windows either.
Javascript is also popular because it's FUN and FAST. I'm working on a project where I've been doing parsing of HTML in Perl and I'm ripping the guts out to do in an embedded V8 engine - has the added bonus that I'll also be able to deploy the guts to a browser.

Getting up close and personal with Javascript changed how I programmed in other languages. Passing anonymous functions around, abusing map and grep functions (which are easily enough hacked in), and the knowledge that many people will be able to read and understand and contribute to your code...
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Have you ever heard of journey virus? I bet you haven’t. But I have and I am the victim and I proudly proclaim I am happy to be ailing with the journey virus. Yes, I have got into the habit of visiting a place and writing about it.
The survival of your species after your death is not a vested interest (a "special interest in protecting or promoting that which is to one's own personal advantage"). It affects you nil, by definition: you will be dead by then.

What affects you is having children before you retire, because then you'll be fed and survive a lot more than otherwise. Evolution is a conclusion of that, not the other way around.
Not "arguably", "actually". But he literally did that on purpose.
What was wrong with the plain text version? http://attrition.org/misc/ee/protolol.txt

Much easier to skim through quickly.
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"The same technology that simplifies life by providing more functions in each device also complicates life by making the device harder to learn, harder to use. This is the paradox of technology." -Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things.
IMessage, Skype, Google Voice, and the death of the phone number
I think that should be "there is an epidemic of diagnosis of mental illness".
Only consider using those if they really go along with your name.

If you're planning something that relies on a lot of traffic anything else than .com is risky if you ask me.
I'd rather have a longer name and use .com than .net.

Of course if I could get a great, short, catchy .net domain I would. But these days it's not too likely, so the chances are that whatever you're trying to register is already not that great so you can still rename it.

Whenever I see a non-com link it gives me the feeling of it being a B-class website. No matter how un-true it might be that's how my brain works.
If I give you 1 bitcoin and you give me a donut, we've agreed that 1 bitcoin is worth a donut.

(it is similar to the situation with barter, in the U.S. it is taxable and the IRS will expect you to put a dollar value on the income and be able to defend the valuations you use)
The "slingshot effect" or gravity assist involves a vessel robbing angular momentum from a large body.

If you launch a vessel towards a planet (so that you come near but don't collide with it), then in the reference frame of the planet your vessel will leave with the same velocity going away from the planet as the velocity of your approach. However, since the planet was moving with respect to the Sun, you will have gained or lost velocity with respect to the Sun, depending on whether your space craft approached from behind or in front of the moving planet. Typically in these assist maneuvers, you wait for a large planet to be a bit ahead of the Earth's orbit. You launch towards that planet, and the gravity assist accelerates the space probe. Some of that acceleration will be tangential (mostly useless to you) but some will be radial, increasing your velocity from the Sun.

The Voyager probes took advantage of a once-in-every 180 year planetary alignment, with all of the outer planets mostly aligned. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Voyager_2_path.png for a good illustration. All the outer planets are traveling in a counter clockwise direction, and you can clearly see the outer planets accelerating Voyager 2 tangentially. It should be clear that there will be a radial component to that acceleration as well.

I don't think you can use the Sun in these circumstances; it doesn't have any angular momentum for you to steal.

Incidentally, the discovery of this method is sheer brilliance; without using gravity assists it would have taken prohibitively long and required a prohibitive amount of propellant to reach the outer planets.
This is the kind of lame post Facebook was looking to avoid when they blacklisted certain blogs from receiving these pre-release features.
Again, not an example of any form of superiority of Linux. 30 seconds of google shows us http://www.oreillynet.com/wireless/2003/10/10/sms.html , allowing you to (with a free tool from Microsoft) do the same. Oh, and you can do it over Bluetooth and infrared, in 2003.

Have you ever tried to get infrared data connections to work on Linux? I have, and I can tell you that it takes many, many times longer on Linux just to figure out how it should work (in my case, infinitely longer, since I never did get it to work).

I'm not here to say that one is better than the other, just that the examples here do not prove one or the other, or not even give a hint in the direction. They're all completely trivial things that can be done by a competent user on any OS.
I've known two people who've been on this stuff. It's pure evil - nearly killed both of them through side effects and made the problem significantly worse:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paroxetine

The mind should not be fucked with if possible using medicine. It's too complicated to create a "catch-all" drug for.
'but my mac is better' like comments when it comes to linux related links make me sick.
Yea, he was amazing. Too bad he doesn't get more big roles.
Is SCOTUS restricted to just the questions raised to them, or can they make their holding on another question that wasn't raised? For example, could they have said in this case, yes, the lower court applied the right standard for evidence, but the patent itself is nonstatutory following the Flook precedent?

P.S. Law school qualifies as guru for any questions I'm likely to ask.
oEmbed is a spec. That site does nothing.
The slingshot effect lets you add or subtract a fraction of the orbital motion of a planet you closely fly by. The key is that the speed relative to the planet will be the same going in as coming out, however the angle of the trajectory of the spacecraft relative to the planet's orbit can be different. If you want to change the plane of an orbit the slingshot effect can still be worthwhile, since it can help kill some of the speed in the ecliptic plane, but it won't help adding to the speed perpendicular to the ecliptic.
I don't think a new one would take 30 years.

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/ion/overview/overview.htm

It tops out at 90,000 meters per second.

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/interstellar.html

The furthest one out is 17 billion kilometers.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

That's about six years, though I don't know how long it would take to reach the top speed.
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Every site is different and some don't even offer oEmbed. A ton of work has gone into embedly. You can repeat the effort, and host your own solution, or just use us. We think using Embedly is a cheaper solution.
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Beatquest.fm - node.js music quiz
I'm happy to announce that I finished a small node.js experiment using socket.io and redis.

beatquest.fm is a small and simple music quiz which uses the itunes preview files. guess the artist / title and earn points for proving your music knowledge.

have fun playing the game. for song suggestions please use the chat, I will create a suggestion form later. :)
Voyagers ride 'magnetic bubbles'
This is an Android application I have made for my company.

It is a Messaging replacement with a twist: You can include your location in the message, while still using standard SMS or MMS without any special requirements on the receiving end.

To make a location human-readable, the app uses a global landmark database that we have developed and are constantly updating. Our database was originally developed for communicating tracking device location over SMS, and we are now looking for other ways to utilize it.

I am somewhat ashamed of the current state of the application, so this should fit the "release early" philosophy.

We have tons of further development ideas ourselves, but would love to get some feedback from real users to figure out what to do next.

Any comments are highly appreciated (on the app, the Market copy, the look&feel etc.).
It would be completely trivial on Windows since mdb files are accessed with the Jet database engine, one would set up a database connection string just like when accessing an Oracle or SQL Server database through ODBC and then use whatever database api is available in one's language of choice (vbscript, javascript (both of them available as 'standard' cscript engines on any installation of Windows since 2001), powershell, visual basic, C++, ...) to extract the data.

Or, one would google for 10 seconds like I just did and find for example http://timothychenallen.blogspot.com/2007/08/vb-convert-any-... which does that for you and converts the file into a csv file, and then process it like other csv files. No Office or Visual Basic required.

So his claim 'this would have taken a couple of hours' (about converting the mdb to csv on Windows) is a load of bollocks and FUD. He didn't even search for it I'd wager, and let his ideologically myopic view cloud his pragmatic judgement. I'm not sure why people are defending this sort of juvenile fanboyism, it's drivel like this that makes the rest of us serious users who propose Linux in situations where it actually is better than the alternatives look like nutcases.
Isn't Synaptic just a GUI front end to apt-get?
Joel Spolsky is one of the most influential programmers of our time

Need I say more?
Yeah, Charles Stross is such an unimaginative backwards thinking Luddite.

Come on, wake up a bit. It's a reasoned essay, explaining his assumptions and exclusions, not just some babbling end-of-scientific-progress scaremongering.
I think this story speaks more to the joy of excellent package managers, something I am sorely missing in OS X.
I too believe we will (unfortunately) never leave the solar system. But for a quite different reason; consumerism. People are much more interested in stuffing burgers into their faces, living comfortably to a very old age while living unhealthy, buying tons of inane crap which they will never use. Downloading ringtones, spending 99% of their working day glued to Facebook, not cooking but ordering in every single day. Having a nicer car and house than the neighbors and getting their education while preferably not spending more than a month a year with their noses in books.

The smart/educated few are not enough to offset the masses and for the masses it's simply not 'comfortable' to work on space travel; why would you, you already have a pool? Maybe poorer countries where people are not comfortable could be of use? Nah; you see around the world; when GDP gets over a certain level, out come the gadgets, mobile phones, ringtones, bentleys and other useless crap.

A very small (fractional) % of humans is busy with the problem of energy and space travel. If it would be a few actual %s of humanity we might stand a chance, unfortunately, the rest of the collective brainpower is spent arguing if the latest X Factor was won fairly.

I don't think we'll ever meet aliens either; after a certain time in the evolution, every race of 'intelligent' beings will invent paid ringtones, after that all chances of interstellar travel are gone.
It comes down to which side of the human spirit you are betting on. Do you think that no matter how hard and how smart we try in the next 200-300 years we will never overcome some of the fundamental challenges of space and time? Then yes, what Stross says would make sense.

Personally I am an optimist on these things - in 1711 you could not have imagined regular Aircraft - something we take for granted today much less Spacecrafts. Electricity, Computers, Cell-phones, Internet, etc would have been inconceivable.
Today we have been to the moon ~40 years ago. Villagers in India use cellphones and electricity and a fifth of humanity is interconnected via the net.

So I have to believe that by 2311 we will have cracked the problems around Interstellar travel and be living around a different Sun than our Sol.

Anything else is just underestimating the Human Spirit.
Clickable: http://beatquest.fm/
I've heard it described as the 'pick and pan' strategy
Like it or not Javascript is where the action is.
All the dev tools (C++,C#,VB,ASP etc.) are free on Windows via Visual Studio Express. And although I've never tried I'm pretty sure the database drivers needed to read and write .mdb files are included with Visual Studio Express. So no need to buy anything.
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Oh, the ego, what a marvelous thing!

Believing that what we currently know is applicable to humans in the future, that our current limits are immutable.

We know all the laws of physics, right? We know if the universe is finite or infinite(because we had traveled there and seen the limits), we know what creates gravity and exactly how electromagnetic attraction really works... the same way the people Socrates asked 2500 years ago knew it all, and Socrates himself did not knew anything(in his own words).

The same way people already knew everything about the small things before microscope invention(in their own words it was unnecessary because "why we want to see what we already know smaller?").

That someone develops better ways to control active fission(atom by atom) and fusion reactions, that someone discovers something new about the universe,that someone discovers how to create antigravity because understands what gravity really is, that someone discover the way to crack the code on aging on our DNA, that someone discovers why the light limit on vacuum is what it is and some way of going faster, all of this impossible, because we know it all.
Great news, congratulations!

Embedly seems like a great service. I haven't started using it yet, but it's definitely on my roadmap of things to do. A service that does a simple but incredibly important thing for you, without you having to worry about it.
Sure, and for a reason - they contain a lot more information than a csv file can. It contains metadata on the table columns, relationships, etc. We don't complain that MySql or Postgresql files are binary, so using 'it's binary' as an argument against mdb is bollocks.

Of course, maybe the source of the data was wrong in choosing mdb as the format, and a csv would have sufficed. I don't know, that's not the point here. The point is that mdb is the easiest way to get 'database-like' information that is more complex that just a flat list of records into the hands of 'regular' users, as much as that may dismay those for whose platforms nobody has written software to open them.
Tagging for (ordered) items with Redis and NodeJS
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And this is exactly the type of short-sighted thinking that dooms us. The vast majority of scientists have come to a consensus yet you don't like it so label them bureaucrats with some sinister motive of destroying the economy behind it.
Do you even know Cocoa? I do, and I can't even begin to explain how they did the linked code scrollviews comparing the diffs. Trust me: implementation was extremely complex.
This whole 'we didn't fail' thing is just feel-good nonsense.

While they did indeed 'show that it doesn't work', they failed to create a company, and they failed to produce money for their investors. Those investors aren't saying 'Well, that was money well spent.' They are saying 'That was a failure.'

The fact that they are willing to invest again is a tribute to the company's handling of the situation and apparently technical know-how, not a sign that the investors are happy with the outcome.
i am just looking for a list of real world problems experienced by people so we can pick an interesting web project to tackle.
Guess who actually runs the GPS network? The US Air Force. Guess how much of a shit they give about civillian applications of it? Zero.

Back to the drawing board...

EDIT: I'd like to point out that this isn't really meant as a criticism. If I was in the air force's position I wouldn't give a shit either.
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How does hardware have anything to do with the availability of dev tools?
PostgreSQL, hpaste, and EDSLs
Or MacPorts [1], or Homebrew [2]

[1] http://www.macports.org/

[2] http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
No, they spend on both, keeping in mind the benefits they'll get from each.

Why do people expect companies to throw money around just because someone needs a job? It's not a company's mission to create jobs. It's to make money. Sometimes that means creating jobs, but that's a side-effect, not a primary goal.
We use VGo telepresence robots at our company right now; there are a few other companies in the space as well.

An engineer from Google has semi-famously made a nice homebrew rig with an iRobot base and a netbook: http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/2011/02/low-cost-video-...

I'm guessing this unit would run around 12-15k as a product, based on the hardware involved. Right now, the VGo, which I consider the best solution on the market, costs $6k per robot.

The big advantage I'd see from a Segway-based solution would be stability and driveability.

What's really needed is better peripheral vision and A/V qualities - not something the iPad can deliver right now, but something I think this kind of rig would really do well if it had.