skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm, yeah, we may be underestimating the work it'll take to productize it.

I think we have a good shot, though, because our hardware engineers are experienced in shipping very high tech medical devices (and fighting robots!). Compared to complying with FDA regulations, a telepresence robot is relatively simple.
Yes, but the iTunes music store has been rid of those for a while, and like you said, they've specifically stated that these will be DRM-free.
Sure, thinking of good features is the first step. But then isn't the next step figuring out how to make money?
Confusingly similar to "When banks compete, you win"? (A live trademark of Lendingtree, Inc.)
The OP quoted Spolsky mentioning “a feature... for dentists”. That’s one example of a vertical market.

My last employer made a search engine specialized for geography: government agencies and energy companies (two other vertical markets) paid beaucoup bucks for it. (Not beaucoup enough to satisfy the VCs, alas, but the product itself is still being sold by another company.)
I don't think you quite understand the scale of the problem. We don't have enough usable organic waste of any sort to put on our crops.
I expect this will give me firmer grounds whenever I need to send DMCA takedowns.
I guess the question is: When I upload something to iCloud, does that actually get synced to all of my devices or do all these things just have streaming access to iCloud? If it actually syncs all of the files, do they go away from all but the original computer after the service is terminated? I.e. if you use this to convert pirated files to legal AAC, do all of the synced AAC files disappear, leaving you only with the original pirated MP3s when you stop paying Apple?
Extra revenue stream for Apple: sell the database of which users pirated which songs to the RIAA so they can sue.
Perhaps they might start to adopt a different model...instead of company=single product they might revert to a more traditional company=company with a range of offerings.

Even my local sandwich shop sells salads, chips and soda.
The follow-graph feature sounds neat, and is something I hadn't considered when wondering how direct Twitter integration could make iOS more interesting. Every iOS app now gets a baseline level of "social" functionality, for "free".
OTOH he could achieve superior integration with iCab, Skyfire, Opera, Sleipnir, etc.
someone should do a parody of that ad
No. I did read an article about the GHC LLVM backend and it mentions the Cmm language (a variant of C--). But there was no mention of GC.

In fact, this thesis:

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~pls/thesis/davidt-thesis.pdf

seems to state that Cmm implements almost everything but the runtime aspects of C--. In particular GC and exception handling are done more directly by Haskell without the need for direct support in the back end.

I do know some hooks were added to LLVM to support Haskell, e.g. the calling conventions used by GHC.

If you have any references regarding the GHC garbage collection, I'd be interested in seeing them. Of course I can also dig some up for myself.

I assume they do something clever.

(Pretty much everything that is clever that is missing from Scala, from a mathematician's point of view, is in Haskell or Lisp I suppose. Shame, because most mathematicians refuse to learn something as mind bending as Haskell.)

Edit: OK, now based on what I do know, I'm going to take a guess at this. The GHC GC is written in Haskell? Now that's gonna bake someone's noodle.
So what refinements could Apple make, or what features could they add, without stepping on someone's toes?
Also, I don't know if I really want to hear about Enya from Bakersfield any more. Please do something about ad fatigue and/or inventory.
Any number subtracted from a re-arrangement of the digits results in a multiple of 9.
My understanding is that delivery and read receipts are features that BBM users are loath to give up. Could iMessage simply be a way to siphon off more RIM users? Enterprise IT departments might be more easily swayed to support IOS and abandon RIM with iMessage in place.
The price will go up now. Tons of new people will google bitcoin because of that article and some will end up buying them.
A better question is can dropbox be acquired since it is already profitable..
Joel Thomas Zimmerman aka Deadmau5 does some programming for his Monome.

Link: http://www.wired.com/video/dj-deadmau5-is-a-gear-head/203906...

James Zabiela also plays his music on his iPad (Hooks up to Ableton Live)

Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jasVTIHP4mA

On stage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9st7RDn8oc
Would love to see some compare-and-contrast between the two ...
-10 points to Engadget for inaccuracy. This is a side project of a guy who uses Mozilla stuff, and not an official Mozilla project. It is, however, based on Mozilla Chromeless.

"The Webian project is a not-for-profit venture founded by Ben Francis. Ben is a full time software engineer at a startup in Cambridge (England)."

"...when Mozilla Chromeless came along it was suddenly possible to rapidly develop a working prototype using standard web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript. As a member of the wider Mozilla community this was an opportunity I couldn’t resist..."
True, but if you 'convert' a large collection today, then you skip the possibility that Apple will implement anti-piracy features in the future. With Amazon and Google, no one can really be sure what the status is right now. Especially since you are uploading bit-for-bit copies of the files to those cloud services.

In financial terms, Apple is running an exchange, while Google and Amazon are running a safety deposit service. If someone looks in the safety deposit and finds illegal items, you are caught. If someone looks in Apple's music locker, you only see Apple's AAC-encoded content (though I guess they didn't cover how that works with music that you didn't buy through Apple and they don't carry on iTunes).
There is a "dead" answer in this thread that you might be interested in too. (You can activate showdead in your profile.)
You can't copyright an idea.
Here's hoping Apple doesn't use their 95% market share in smartphones to force everyone to adopt their plain text website view as a standard.
Yeah, it sucks for those who've already paid for stuff through iTunes, but they were hardly in the majority of music consumers anyway.

I'm now very curious as to what this means for the iTunes music store? Why would you bother now if you can download it, then add it to Match?
Completely! People still believe in developing new things and not just trying to patent the market into a corner - right?
Sure, but Djikstra's point in that letter was that the goto statement really was harmful. Do you really think the Startup Genome Project's report was harmful? If so, I respectfully disagree. If not, then a different title would be more accurate.
Microsoft devs in the dark on Win8 client dev story: 9M view discussion thread
It's not a way to cheat the system though, since you still have to advertise the higher price. Even if you also say "5% discount for cash transactions".
Can you explain how the structure of Agile makes it harder to blame individuals?
Not really. Apple is the new middlemen (and has been for a while).

So more accurately: it's better for everybody but the previous middlemen.
I'm still a few years away from using "web apps" as first class programs. Google's home page takes 3 seconds to load here (Opera, 3 Mb/s, Brazil) and it's the fastest website I use. To me, they are simply unusable as a first class program.
Exactly my experience as well
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Guarantee you this guy is not making money hand over fist; any business is paying far more in hidden taxes than you would expect, including taxes on all forms of energy, telecom, property taxes, etc.
Yes. The iOS dev center has a download for iCloud control panel for Windows. Calendar and contact syncing are available with Office 2007 or 2010.
Sorry, I was not clear. The military uses a light touch to shape perceptions, but the most powerful force is still indirect censorship.

Filmmakers don't offend people without gaining something from it. It's not just a question of the military + audience but also producers and actors etc. Also, sound effects people don't bother using actual hoof beats when people are so used to hearing cocoanuts and writers / producers don't challenge perceptions unless that's their direct goal.

PS: The DoD does not try and get people to think that most US soldiers are Captain America wannabes. The goal is closer to: "Well trained, Deadly, Loyal, Young, Americans, that need all the support they can get." For various reasons they would rather be seen as crazy than infective.
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Microsoft had a very real monopoly on personal computers, and they engaged in illegal anticompetitive practices to maintain that real monopoly, illegal practices this simply wouldn't have worked in a fair market with real alternatives for consumers and manufacturers.

The only monopoly Apple has is a monopoly on iPhones. Their only interest is to make their product as attractive as possible in a market jam packed with innovative alternatives, and history is filled with instances where features are added to an OS at the expense of a previous 3rd-party add-on.

I don't think there is any comparison between Microsoft of the late 90s and any tech company today, when it comes to monopolies and anticompetitive behavior.
Have the same issue with Time Machine - clearly needs a better way of detecting the system in an idle state.
Apple’s OS X Lion Pricing and Distribution Domination
No, because your owning the file is the 'license' for streaming the bits from the apple repos.

The idea is really simple - and is a fantastic move by apple given the nature of their iCloud model.
when I try to register I get error: "Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 110"
> flac amounts to a digital copy of the physical CD

So long as your CD doesn't include any square waves, you're golden.
Instapaper also works from any browser on any platform. I don't see that happening with Reading list anytime soon.
The kid that got busted by the FBI was not actually a lulzsec member, he was just hanging around the lulzsec public IRC channels.

Lulzsec response here: http://pastebin.com/yut4P6qN
I think the arguments against Windows 8 and quoting the price of OSX Lion, miss the point that you can't run it unless you are on Apple hardware.
Full screen terminals with space persistence: Vim/Emacs in space one, automatically launched and fullscreen on login.
Wrong product. Apple itself states it has 90% marketshare in tablets.

If I were Apple legal I would advise against explicitly stating tablet marketshare.
And yet Haskell is still #44, below some rather obscure languages (I'm looking at you, Alice and Q). There are serious flaws in Tiobe's methodology.
>It is a win for iOS users who only deal with other iOS users.

It is a win for fanboi hipsters.

FTFY
Looks really good in principle, although I think they're offering too much for a first version. The app backend alone is compelling enough for v1.0 IMO.
Probably by testing them all out. Though it would probably help if there were more reviews of the options out there.
In the meantime, I've been using the SIMBL plugin MegaZoomer: http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html

It works quite well with Terminal.
"Providing any further information, he said, would give the hackers a blueprint for how to mount further attacks."

That's quite a danger sign! If your security relies on attackers not knowing the details of your system then your security is quite poor.

(As opposed to a random secret that has no particular meaning and is different for each device.)
"Google’s frame is the browser window. Apple’s frame is the screen."

So by extension Google's applications are more cross platform, and Apple's aren't?
Well, a whole web based OS I understand, and maybe I even get using html5/js to do a few things in an OS interface -- though I'd personally not go that route myself. This though is completely confusing to me. Perhaps the article and video provide a poor explanation, but it seems like I can already achieve the main advantages of this experiment by just pressing F11?

I get Chrome OS because it's different and gives a certain set of people what might actually be of some use to them (ie, all data online, you're always in sync, etc). I get enhancing desktop UIs with the things that worked well on the web -- but to start throwing out almost everything that evolved on the desktop just to get a webby feel? Not sure what problem that tries to solve.

The most interesting thing though is that after years of hearing that the future of the desktop will be web based, the idea finally seems to have picked up.
> offline use remains fundamental

Absolutely agree. The ChromeOS platform is absolutely focused on offline capability as well. A huge number of apps within the Chrome Web Store work offline without any connectivity. Many regular web apps work offline. All of Google Apps will within a few months.

I think many people forget that you can take web apps offline, perhaps because launching a mobile browser while you have no connectivity feels so awkward. Anyway it's just a myth to be dispelled, and some remaining evangelism work to be done. (Disclaimer: I work on the Chrome team or whatever.)
Why, realtime performance distribution, of course.

Think about it, with state-of-the-art piracy, currently you 1, can listen to 2, any music 3, anytime, 4, anywhere. So the only thing that's really a competitive advantage to channels is time between performance originally recorded, and general availability.

Not sure how this could be really "liberated" with the performance business still remaining profitable -a moneypooling service maybe? But there's definitely room for improvement on the current distribution model.
In a civil prosecution (which is how copyright violation ought normally be handled, particularly at the individual consumer level) the burden of proof is usually only "the balance of probabilities" (i.e. more likely to be true than not be true), not "beyond a reasonable doubt".

(Of course, media companies would prefer that the government pass laws, pay for and implement the job of enforcing media company contracts, and this muddies the waters.)
I think that the way to succeed is NOT to fuck over your co-founder. I know of places where that has happened, and it is not a happy situation. You don't really want to optimize for the present, but on building connections that you will keep for the rest of your life. It is super-easy to throw someone under the bus so that you do better now, and a lot harder to make sure that you all make a bit less but continue to work together in the future. Don't be short-sighted.
How much does external API integration suck? (survey)
Having read Marco's blog and listened to his podcast, I can't see an official client for android from Marco ever. His opinion of android is crystal clear. As a Nexus One owner, it requires some effort to disregard most of the hyperbolic insults in his podcast.

So, I'd like to say I'm surprised too but all too often he pans the platforms as well as acts like he's making enough revenue for the hassle.
I don't think Apple is about native so much as Apple is about making the best integrated services for devices and selling those devices. Apple isn't native-oriented so much as device oriented. It's just that native apps fill a large and indispensable niche right now.
Haskell has some great features, such as type classes (the power of these has not been fully realised).

In other cases I have mixed feelings. The monad business is sometimes absolutely brilliant (Parsec is a good example) and at other times tremendously painful (dealing with simple IO).

Other features are just a pain in the neck. Very strict type checking means that using types that depend on parameters that are integers (e.g. m x n matrices) can be a real bugbear. It's apparently possible, but requires some deep magic and incantations (which I don't know).

As much as I personally love Haskell, with its elegant syntax which makes better use of white space than just about any other language, it is really sometimes a head screw to get your mind around its more intricate features. As a result, people in my field (mathematics, specifically number theory) by and large won't touch it.

Scala on the other hand is familiar, at its core. Anyone who has used a Computer Algebra System and done some basic programming with it can get somewhere with Scala. It makes a handful of pragmatic choices whilst retaining the theoretical soundness of the language. It also offers many advanced features which you don't know you need until you've been programming for a few years.

What has been lacking, however, is an efficient and simple way to interface with the many high quality and high performance native mathematical libraries that are out there.

Python has filled this void. But it's terribly slow for computationally intensive stuff. Its interface with C is dreadful, leading to solutions like Cython, where you lose the interactivity of the Python interpreter. And everything is left to runtime in Python, so there's no theoretical soundness. And from a theoretical point of view, Python makes easy things trivial and hard things really hard. It's an extremely elegant language which looks a lot like the mythical mathematical pseudo-code language. But beyond a certain level of complexity, you very quickly get into hot water.

Aldor had a lot of things right. But no one will use it because of its not quite open license. So there's just a massive void there which is neatly filled by a Scala on LLVM. It cannot come soon enough for me.

Having said all that, I did once believe that Haskell was by far the best language. It's the only language I ever used where I thought, "oh, finally I am using a grown-ups' language rather than a toy". That was quite an epiphany. But it was followed by the dismal realisation that absolutely no one cared that it was so great and that this was because some of the things that are so natural in an imperative style become a lot like solving a very difficult problem in Haskell, unless someone already solved it for you.
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World’s first open source flashlight?
I know nothing about Singapore or their motivations for the racial integration, but the official response is at least plausible; see e.g. Schelling's segregation model: http://www.google.com/search?q=schelling+segregation+model

There are several Java applets around that demonstrate the model.
A bunch of banks don't allow special characters, some people have said it is so you can enter it over the phone (something I've never come across but I kind of doubt that.

If that really is the case, they are probably throwing out whether each character is upper or lowercase as well :/
which is even more amazing since Facebook killed Google, ergo Apple killed Google.

Checkmate!
Ask HN: How to sell mobile source code
About a year ago I wrote and released a fun personal project: a real estate app for iPhone. Besides the technical and UX excellence it is consistently getting low rating and retention numbers. The reason for this is that I can not legally get my hands on enough data to make it useful and engaging.

Knowing that I can't attract enough users made me scrape all plans for great enhancements and cool features. While the server and the app practically run themselves and require no maintenance, I don't have any incentive or desire to keep it either. I imagine some of the agencies in the industry may be interested in releasing their own apps and they can probably benefit from my code.

What is the best place to search for potential buyers? Industry groups, app marketplaces, social media, etc?
Thank you, I'll try it.
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I found myself asking the same question. Not sure how heroku's system is much different. Running a web application is running a web application, right? Saying you need "push" is a lousy excuse IMO. Its a "the backend is the backend, right?" question?

Unless I'm missing something, offering sinatra or something lighter would make sense... but it still seems like PaaS to me.
Wait you started the copyright analogy. The bottom line is you can get sued over anything and saying "we're copying X" is a good way to get sued imho.
If they added borders to everything, how many pixels do the borders take up? I'll probably avoid the upgrade if there are borders I can't get rid of...
Something like this: http://brehaut.net/blog/2011/ring_introduction ?
As long as you can upgrade the browser, OS probably doesn't matter for many organizations.
Ghostery. It's like AdBlock, but for all 3rd-party code.
A gem to take 1 character off of your model routes?
Are your reading list, email, calendar, to do list, and office documents not tied to the google cloud? If you use enough of them, isn't switching to yahoo/msn/apple going to be a nightmare? There doesn't appear to be much difference to me.

Also, minor point, your music is not tied to a subscription. The syncing is. Cancel the subscription, keep the files.
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Intel hired Chris a couple years ago, and he has been doing awesome things ever since. Like this SNA thing. :3
As I understand iCloud it is syncing with the cloud. You don't have to "understand it" or "sell/explain it" to users, they will just "use it" with their Apps. In the demo the Apple VP made a picture with his iPhone of the toy car and then the photos were just there on the iPad. Without explicit upload. The same with documents in iWorks. I expect third-party developers will integrate iCloud rather quickly.

That said: Dropbox can do some stuff like sharing files in the public folder with other people. I have friends who mailed me a Dropbox link for sharing photos instead of uploading it to flickr/photobucket/picasa/Facebook/iPhoto Gallery. I didn't see any feature like that in iCloud. It seems like an automagical data storage for Apps, but not like an individual "file system in the cloud".
This is pretty awesome! It means I can access legally purchased and ripped CD collection via iCloud. I'd happily pay $25/year for that convenience (even though I don't buy CDs anymore, it's all iTunes).
Creating switching costs is in fact a regular market strategy and is certainly more than just doing something so well that people will have trouble giving it up.

Facebook has switching costs because all your friends are on it, not on another network, plus you'd have to learn a whole new set of privacy settings, right? The Kindle has switching costs because all your books are in your Kindle library and you can't transfer them to the Nook. Moving has switching costs because you have to give people a new address, learn a new neighborhood, memorize new driving routes, etc.

Strong businesses often have very natural switching costs built in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switching_costs
Compare some of the apps Apple just "killed" with Lala, Coverflow; the latter just seem like a win-win to me. Even if it's not technically the best deal for Apple the developer good will might just be worth it.
This is correct. Once you have a nice feature, you realize Apple's doesn't run everywhere.

Marco is also correct about social. A simple commenting system and a highlighter and a red envelope would be useful. People want insightful quotes highlighted and commented, and want to be validated when people reply to their messages.