skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Project | Social Networking + Art
I'm currently working on a web based project, pertaining to art, and merging contrasting industries with an innovative online community. At this point, I'm looking to recruit a lead developer to oversee the entire development process and the rest of the programming team- one whom shares similar social networking philosophies and with a respect to aesthetic detail. We would like to sit down, discuss our philosophy, and go over a few blueprints, must be located in the Los Angeles area- my email is, CoreyKBall@gmail.com.

Thank you,

Corey Kimball
One thought I had was that Hulu/Netflix should buy the rights to cancelled shows that have popular followings and pay to have new seasons made. Obviously this is fraught with potential problems (people are committed to other projects) but it could be cool.
This will never happen. Ever. It just doesn't make sense if you know anything about Apple and their reluctant acceptance of gaming. Apple is also not about to go around maintaining software for other people's platforms.

> Apple already missed the opportunity to make Angry Birds it's Mario Brothers for the ios platform.

They aren't interested in owning the killer 3rd party apps or games for the platform. If Apple was at all interested in this they would have bought Tweetie, Reeder, and a number of other apps that are ubiquitous on iOS devices.

> This is could be one of Apple misses if PopCap stop making games for Apple's platform, we know the story of Bungie.

Bungie was a totally different situation. PopCap makes its cash from its multi platform strategy, make games that will run on anything and them port them to everything. Bungie desperately wanted Apple to buy them and become a company that it's not.

Frankly releasing Halo for the Mac even with Apple's help would have been a bad idea. It was unfortunate at the time, but everything worked out for the best. Bungie needed a bigger & simpler market for Halo, and Apple didn't need to be tied down by the demands of supporting gaming while they were still in the middle of fleshing out OS X.
That's hilarious. Unfortunately trademarks are phonetic, so this can't fly.
FileMaker Pro in my case. I build my own DB apps, but then I'm only a SOHO, so I'm stretching the defn of company.
All the unemployed people, that's who...
Yes I have, I'm even creating all my plugins in CoffeeScript from now one.
I like it because I can stream current season shows on the television.
How is this related only to MongoDB?
The Anatomy of a Fundable Startup by Naval of AngelList
Part of the reason that they were willing to pay so much was because they have a lot of international money that they couldn't easily bring back into the US. Popcap is in the US so they don't fall under the same issue.
> I’d buy the NYT (for a mere $1.5bn!) and recruit John Gruber to be Editor in Chief of the “Yahoo! News” division.

Are you kidding? I get Gruber is a popular blogger in some circles, but in what way does he have the kind of insight, ability, or experience needed to run the new york times and yahoo news?
"This path" is what I don't understand what you're talking about. I'm a non-American who married a US citizen, and I just got my green card. There was no requirement that we leave for any amount of time. The whole process took 5 months and was about as painless as anything dealing with the USCIS could possibly be.
Well, no, this is assuming the problem gets fixed and most of the undocumented people living in the US suddenly become eligible.

If a rule is unjust to begin with, I don't see how being fair in its application is all that paramount. Insert any number of parallels to the War on Drugs here.
Not mention even if they had the $20B to buy all those companies. You now have a portfolio of companies that really don't make much/any money. Those smart people aren't going to work for free!
Jeffrey, there is no such requirement. Someone who marries an American cannot immediately adjust to permanent resident status, but is (typically) granted conditional residence, which is in practice the same thing except that it can be easily revoked if it looks like the marriage is a sham. After 2 years the not-so-newlyweds can (in fact, must) apply to have the conditional status removed, at which point the foreign spouse becomes a permanent resident. This is almost always a formality except in cases of marriage fraud or involvement in criminal activity. There is no requirement to leave the country. In fact, for people who have been married longer than 2 years or living together a long time, USCIS will sometimes waive the conditional status (and thus the fee to have lifted later) because they have prima facie evidence of a bona fide relationship. It's only in cases where they have serious doubts about the honesty of the applicant that they require the couple to leave the US and wait several years to reapply.

IANAL but you are definitely misinformed about this, and should not allow it to interfere with your love life.
Hulu to let Reddit users choose what videos appear on featured list on Friday
How to Choose the Right Incubator for Your Startup
One shouldn't form trust based on a single anecdote.
I think the asciilifeform meant to say 'converse' instead of 'negation'. I think the converse is a "Thing you can't say"
How to Select Your Angels
Up until a few years ago I would have agreed with you. But, then I started studying genealogy and history and I had to revisit just what the definition of a nation is. Wikipedia states that a nation refers "... to a community of people who share a common territory and government; and who often share a common language, race, descent, and/or history." The USA is comprised of a community of people who, except for recent immigrants, are mostly distantly related. For example, 25% of USA citizens claim descent from the Pilgrims. Also, Obama and Cheney are eighth cousins. My personal ancestors have been here for nearly 400 years. USA citizens are distantly related. The same holds true, and probably more so, for other nations around the world.

Immigration is the official process of adoption into this large family. Illegal immigrants are masquerading as family members. Yeah, the situation sucks for this guy, but he has not gone through the official adoption process either. Instead, he wants us to think that it is cool that he has been knowingly stealing opportunities from legit members of the American family, and that gall, that cheating behavior, just doesn't sit right with me.

I cannot condone it.
They would have to buy those rights from TV studios, who would for obviously reasons be loathe to part with them. Even producing their own shows is problematic, as the studios can blackball any actors/writers/directors/production people who work with them.

The television and film industry is a tight-knit group, and I can easily see them circling the wagons in order to protect their distribution monopoly.
Unlisted: Do awesome shit.

Want awesome devs? Do awesome shit.
FYI, the HIV+ exclusion was abolished 18 months ago. It is no longer a barrier to entry or adjustment of status.
only because apps have had better traction and have a billion dollar industry behind it, its comparing the wilderness with the walled garden
Well, even if it is Zynga, the talent at Popcap will get a big payout and if Zynga proves to be as stultifying and dull an environment as it seems, then they'll eventually drift away to form new ventures. Not a great deal for gamers, but at least the Popcap folks will get paid. Good for them.
I don't agree with the premise. If Apple had nailed the basics, why there are still many popular apps for camera, weather, clocks, photos and maps?

I also take issue with the fact that just because someone uses a few apps 95% of the time, they don't need other apps. Some apps are really valuable only in some circumstances like when you want to know how to go to an obscure place.
If it's not clear, re-examination is a big, big risk for Oracle.

Not only does it reduce their chances in this case, but it weakens their hand in any future licence negotiations because it (potentially) destroys the value of the patent. If a patent enters re-examination with 21 claims, and finishes with 3 the potential for infringement is vastly reduced.
Netflix has HD streaming also.
> Would it be positing to tentatively suggest that men don't generally like to do things that they don't think they are good at, whereas women innately like to see a project successfully managed

I personally think that (a) nobody likes to do things they are not good at -- neither men nor women to an equal measure, and that (b) from a very young age, girls are encouraged to rely on other people for help and support, are taught that other people are important, and that it is important to be nice them. In addition, most girls in Western culture acquire far more superior image-making skills to those of boys since they learn how to present themselves at a relatively young age and since they compete with their peers on this basis, while boys compete mostly on who is physically stronger (a culture of violence). In addition, anti-social behaviors in boys such as physical intimidation tend to be looked over the shoulder while they are strongly discouraged in girls.

TL;DR: Men in our culture (except gay men) often never learn how to be social and how to communicate with people.

Another TL;DR: I can't understand how so many people tend to their children in completely different ways depending whether the child is a boy or a girl, and then act all surprised when they hear how gender-divided the society is.
Has the latter (friend registers expired domain name) ever happened to anyone?
Curious – what do you use Screens for?
Notes from the event that Orrick held. May come in handy for anyone who missed it! Also, you can find notes from the 'How to Choose Your Angels' event here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2686092
You mean the eventual persistance store.
Controlling the Mac Mini under my TV.
Start a meetup group that hacks on open source software that your company uses. Bonus points if you provide beer + pizza.
Git Extensions is not bad either, although I'm not using the VS addins. The GUI is nice for visualizing histories and things like that.
Some rough notes from the event that Orrick held. A friend found them useful, so you may too (whether or not you attended)! I also put up notes from the 'How to Choose the Right Incubator for Your Startup' event here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2686089
Me too. I'm on-and-off billable all the time. Ask my dev team how disengaged I am with the product we're launching.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_set
Basically it means the portion of the total data set that's frequently accessed given a short time period.

The best practice totally depends on your work load and what kind of trade offs you're willing to make. I believe this is exactly the reason why there doesn't seem to be any good "best practice" documents for databases: it's different for everybody. In my case, there are a lot of writes and only occasional reads. My database is insert-mostly; once inserted, the data rarely changes. All data is timestamped. The reads usually pertain the most recently inserted data. In my case it makes sense to optimize the database in such a way that the most recently inserted data is in my working set.

This does means that querying old data is slower than querying recent data. This can be made faster by ensuring that all data fits in RAM, e.g. by adding more shards. But given the huge amount of data I have, placing all shards in RAM is way too expensive, and I'm not confident that my users are willing to pay 20 times the fees just to have faster queries for old data. The alternative is to store things on SSDs which should also make things faster, but this would still result in a 3-4 times fee increase for users.
I see, for the keyboard mostly? I always thought using a mouse over VNC on an iPhone seemed awkward.
Check public domain images: http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml
No, before micro-USB it was mini-USB, which worked great on fucking everything from portable hard drives to Blackberries (remember those?) for years and years.

Seriously, micro-USB is a solution looking for a problem.
Tell HN: College students creating machine to summarize from abstraction
HN,

I would like to share some insight on a stealth mode project that a company founded by college kids have started named Memsparx and the revolutionary implications that are entailed.

Memsparx is creating a machine named WINSTON that can understand human language, reason, and create summaries from abstraction. They are applying this technology to the Media/News industry. This team is doing the impossible - many features from IBM's WATSON machine are in this machine including natural language processing, reasoning, info retrieval and so forth. And they are doing it on top of creating a news summarizing company. The description goes as follows.

The problem: Text summarization is a super hard problem. IBM and only a hand full of companies provide this software (at a high price to financial/medical/etc firms to shorten reports and index them). This current technology takes words, retrieves the definitions of each word, and then can create summaries through statistics and other methods. This software gets the job done but its not good enough. The summaries are not quite proprietary and the machines will typically form awkward sentences out of context. The problem is making a computer (software) understand the CONTEXT that the word is used in (i.e. fly can mean a ton of different things such as | fly through the air | fly through a book | the insect "Fly" etc).

Solution: Memsparx is creating WINSTON. Winston is a super smart software that can not only read (parse) an article but it can truly understand what it is/has read (as well as a comp can!). It can understand what the human language in all of its complexities and nuances are trying to communicate. This is rooted in a number of text mining applications but specifically NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, REASONING ALGORITHMS, and so forth. Kind of like the popular movie Terminator's Skynet...
Did Reason Evolve as a Persuasion Tool?
clickable: http://memsparx.com
FYI - Your _id trick is similar to the ObjectID type mongodb uses by default.

"A BSON ObjectID is a 12-byte value consisting of a 4-byte timestamp (seconds since epoch), a 3-byte machine id, a 2-byte process id, and a 3-byte counter. Note that the timestamp and counter fields must be stored big endian unlike the rest of BSON. This is because they are compared byte-by-byte and we want to ensure a mostly increasing order."

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Object+IDs#ObjectIDs-BSO...
The unmentioned flipside is that other countries love to export people to the USA in order to get foreign remittances back to the home country up.

The elite , about the top 2-10% in those countries own most of the businesses, and like things the way they are - no need for political change, as the remittances take some of the pressure for change off, while they eventually end up pocketing a large portion of the remittances due to those monies being spent for products and services (at the businesses they own).
I need the first hit on Google for my product to be HN'ers complaining about its price like I need a something something in the something.
Well, for one thing, they both have very pretty UIs that are severely dysfunctional in exactly the same way: you can only have one window open at a time, which means you can't use the app to look at two repos at the same time.

For seriously using git for development, I find that pretty nuts.

Every time I want to browse a different repository, I have to destroy all the work I did opening the window for the current repo and drilling down through the UI to get to the part I am interested in? Seems crazy.

I think more apps would do well to learn from the windowing strategy of Mail.app on Mac. It too has a monolithic main window where everything happens--but Cmd-Opt-N creates a "New Viewer Window". Another complete window with all the power of the first. Search for foo in window 1, read mail list bar in window 2.

This sort of arrangement would make Github for Mac (and Tower) worth looking at.

As it is, if I have to throw away several seconds of work every single time I open another repo, those seconds are going to add up -- and annoy me -- very quickly.

(By the way, just to check, I tried out making a few copies of the app and opening multiple repos that way. Just like Tower, the app started to puke modal error dialogs and show blank windows, so that doesn't work.)
> I know the radio-wave science makes most of these claims far-fetched.

The radio wave science specifically says:

- wifi - 2.4 GHz , ie. 5in wavelength. A well-formed conducting channel in the body of 1.25in length makes an antenna. The channel can be blood vessel, nerve connections, etc... Some voltage and current will be generated - thats just the hard science. How much of the current and voltage, how (and whether) it will be felt depends on how its all connected, its biology defining electric characteristics, etc...
It mostly drives Rdio.
Tell HN: Android app NBack and other cognitive tasks
I have released an android app which has Dual N Back and other standard cognitive tasks. I have done this as I was learning HTML5
. Please let me know your feedback and suggestions on how to improve this.

App URL: https://market.android.com/details?id=in.microangels.bodhi

Website: http://bodhi.microangels.in
Clickable Links

https://market.android.com/details?id=in.microangels.bodhi

http://bodhi.microangels.in
Interesting idea, but they've picked up Playdom already and if you listen to their analyst calls you'll hear that the investment community isn't sold on them owning game/tech assets vs. licensing them.
fastfinner, you may just want to stop trying to convince them or your karma might drop 20+ points in an hour like mine just did.
If you are in an area with ample developers and/or students, try a hack-day with prizes.
On the productive use of metrics in development of gory vampire games
That's an argument that holds ActiveX in high regard, isn't it?
Does this portability compromise performance at all?
I know you are joking, but it is not a good idea. I know some people who have done it successfully, but it is risky and can even lead to revocation of citizenship if it is discovered many years later. Operating a startup like this would result in a lengthy prison term if you were found inside the US, as in >20 years.
Inside Windows Azure, the Cloud Operating System with Mark Russinovich (video)
Eh, it's not THAT easy.

For skilled workers, you're in if belong to a narrow category of professions and have worked for a year in the field[0], or you have a job offer. Otherwise, you need to score enough points[1] on this semi asinine questionnaire.

Things that work in your favour: Knowledge of French alongside English, a bachelor's degree, having studied in canada, being 21-49 years old, having lots of work experience, having a spouse with lots of work experience or who is studying or working in Canada, and having immediate family in Canada.

Frankly, I think we could do a lot to improve this scenario since there is this perverse catch 22 where a lot of employers (for good and bad reasons) will not heed attention to foreign qualifications claiming you lack "Canadian experience". This results in having engineers and doctors drive cabs for a living which feels... unethical.

On the other hand, my personal experience with immigration suggests that a majority of people skirt around the legal pipeline precisely because this system, while somewhat more humane than the US, is still somewhat too onerous.

[0] http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/apply-who.asp
[1] http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/assess/index....
On this forum I have a feeling that I'm in the minority when I say that Android is superior to the iPhone. The one area that Android needs to improve on is the hardware design. However, unfortunately this is the one area where Google has not stepped foot in yet. I would love to see an android phone on a major network (read: Verizon) that is completely designed and engineered by Google and not Samsung or Motorola. I think this will give Android the boost it needs in order to counteract the rush the iPhone 5 on Verizon will give Apple.

I have always been shocked that Google has outsourced all of its hardware. It has the capital and resources so why not do it all. On a side note, I think the biggest opportunity Google has is to partner with Verizon and other TV providers to bake Google TV into the cable boxes...a cable box designed and built by Google. Now that would be big.
Hulu is probably the most surprising success on the internet today.

Remember when Google referred to it as ClownCo because of the chance they thought it had of succeeding[1][2]? Most people agreed with that assessment, given the lack of success News, Disney & NBC had with digital projects prior to that. What chance did a company have when it had to try & get them all to work together?

The Hulu CEO (Jason Kilar) has done an excellent job.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2007/03/22/confirmed-tv-networks-launc...

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2007/03/23/what-we-know-so-far-about-n...
This is actually quite an interesting (if somewhat poignant) argument. In a way your name as a merchant might suffer even if you didn't add yourself to the system. This might be the Achilles heel of the whole operation.

Edit: typo. 'Achilles Hill'? Really?
> You can find fixes of open-source projects as soon as they are committed.

That might be relevant if it wasn't for the fact that Silverlight is not open source. They are under no obligation to show/blog their fix until they actually release. In fact, they would probably want to withhold it as long as possible if their intent is to damage WebGL.
Ask HN: how to spend your (early) 20s?
Traveling? Building a "big" startup? Running a smaller business or website? Go to work for a large company? Graduate school? What are your suggestions?

I'd love to hear opinions from those currently in their early 20s - what you're doing - as well as older folks - what you did, and what you wish you did (if they aren't the same! :) )

(by early, I mean age ~20 to 25)
what wuld those extenions be?
Portfolio/Places I can see your work?
> Are you suggesting that we should have interstate border controls, and require Americans traveling from one US state to another to obtain a visa first?

Are you suggesting that US borders with Canada and Mexico, as well as our maritime borders, should be as open as the borders between states?
The reason why all declarations happen at the top of the current function body, instead of inline with the first assignment is because in JavaScript assignment is a statement, not an expression. You can't do this:

alert(var one = 2);

In CoffeeScript, (nearly) everything is an expression. So you need to be able to do this:

alert one = 2

By pushing up all the var declarations, all assignments can be themselves assigned, returned, or passed as arguments to function calls directly.
This. I can't tell you how many times I've inquired about a company that I thought was doing amazing things.
> Now you're assuming that our current regulation system is right.

No, I'm arguing that it's more right than no regulation. But I'm not that interested in debating with someone who puts words in my mouth.
How is he cheating me? His family "cut the line" in building a life in the US, one of the best nations to be in, in the eyes of many on this planet. His chances of winning a Pulitzer would be severely diminished if his family had stayed in the Philippines. So he cheated me by not being subject to the same US immigration rules as I and the rest of the world. He cheated the many other aspiring college students, journalism interns, journalists by occupying a spot each time he was employed or given the opportunity to advance with fake documents.
Ask Ars: which image services might commercialize my photos?