skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree a well crafted native app will produce a better end result however the time and effort to produce can be prohibitively expensive.

I'm not sure there are enough published Apps that have been produced with Flash Builder 4.5 to make a judgement on it one way or another yet.

I know I'll be downloading it and giving it a go - I don't mind Objective C but I'd rather be writing my code in other things!
How? I've seen other people link to it, it's just a page with text salad. What is there to use?

I don't understand that site.
Homeless Man Learns He's Rich
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>Demand Android in your phones

Is it just me or is this not a sufficient demand? If we are to live in a truly open world, we need software which is truly Free, not something which is developed on top of open-source.

Google Chrome is no more open source than is Mac OS X. It is confusing to see people count adoption of Chrome as a victory for the open-source community when frankly it seems like anything but.
There could be a spike in HN Trend's traffic http://twitter.com/#!/timoreilly/status/82824209721597952
It appears to just make each face smile more.
You'll get "relatively easy geographic access to Japan" from all three places: It's 12h from NZ or Melbourne, 9h from Sydney--compared to 10h from SFO. Once you start a flight that long, three extra hours is noise.
then used the golden mask to calculate an
objective attractiveness score

Except that you can't calculate an objective attractiveness score, even if there is statistical consensus among raters. Might as well just throw some random numbers on the screen, it wouldn't matter much anyway since your app will be less effective and gather less interest than HotOrNot.com did 11 years ago.

A much better project would be a piece of software that automatically enhances the aesthetic appeal of people in photos. Imagine looking great in any profile picture you upload on Facebook (or whatever), without you or your friends noticing the change (blaming it on distortions from image resizing).
Lady Gaga is probably a bad example. She's actually a very talented vocalist. Unfortunately the music industry isn't about talent and her music is awful. She's also not "hot" so she has to rely on being weird to be successful. For the record - I hate Lady Gaga with a passion, but I do recognize that she IS talented and not some fake bimbo like Britney Spears who really can't carry a tune.
Why I've built an alternative to Github
True enough in general, but that cuts both ways -- I've worked with a number of longtime C++ guys that tend to optimize early, write long unreadable methods and seem positively allergic to standard OOP architectures, much less design patterns.
I agree. Canada uses a concept of FSAs (forward sortation areas) that correspond to regions. I don't think it's safe to rely on truncation under the Canadian postal system. I believe only the first three letters/numbers identify a geographic area, and this is the triple used by politicians and people who need to split up regions of provinces. As you might expect, FSAs are way smaller in major cities than out in rural areas.
People that don't want "filtering", also want their search results in German, Chinese or Japanese? Or is "filtering" on language ok?
I was speaking as a former government worker who loved his job. I'm not trying to put down government workers, it's just a fact that unless you are in something "flashy" like the FBI or CIA most people in the USA think you are not very ambitious for settling into a civil service career. You don't often hear people dreaming about being postal workers.
Maybe he's complaining about needing a computer to charge something, i.e. he doesn't have a wall-plug usb charger.
I cannot reproduce.
I just tried, and failed to reproduce.

So, at the moment, there's nothing to see here.
I noticed this a long time ago. Suddenly I could ask general programming questions and it popped up results in the language I use primarily as the top results (Without me specifying it).

While some may think that this is hiding, do we not often create algorithms to asses and aide? It seems like disabling this would be against the advancement of a learning system.

I for one think its a great feature and have no desire to disable it.
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What about the filter bubble of me only searching for what i am interested in? Will DDG throw in some random results in every search to save me from myself?
I suppose this is a matter of phrasing.

Do car mechanics pray on weak for profit because not everyone learned how to fix their car? They trust mechanics because they devoted many years of their life at becoming good at what they do. Does that make them sociopaths? logic fail.

You could also say that white hat hackers provide a service of security for the benefit of those that spend their time creating other things.
(Cross-post) There could be a spike in HN Trend's traffic http://twitter.com/#!/timoreilly/status/82824209721597952
Paint.NET is fine for small images, but performance really falls off a cliff when images get larger, whereas Photoshop hardly misses a beat. Which I guess is kind of your point, for doing 'normal' tasks under 'normal' loads C# is fine, but if you have to go beyond normal, then you really need the control and speed of something C-like.
That would be an interesting site idea in itself.

CommandLineAlternative.to

Shows several ways to accomplish the same thing with those closest to the minimum amount of characters and intended command line tool.
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Concurrent programming is easy
One comment I found interesting:

"And I didn’t check the source [of OpenBSD] for trojans or backdoors. Do I trust Theo DeRaadt that much? Not particularly, though I have nothing against him. Do I trust “the community”? No. Mostly I just didn’t care at all."

I agree that in practice 1) it's not practical for anybody to audit an entire OS for security and 2) you don't know everyone in the community.

However, I think it's reasonable to feel safer using software that's audited and trusted by brilliant libertarian nutjobs than software that isn't. And if you truly DID need to know that a product didn't contain back doors, and it was worth enough money to you, you could hire people to audit it and stick to the specific version that you'd audited.

Most people don't care about this stuff. But I like knowing that some people do; that push come to shove, when your government becomes a tyranny, there ARE tools that are beyond their reach. And in many parts of the world, tyranny is not theoretical.
The "one price" is an awesome feature for indie developers and small companies.
It would be a cool app, and allot of new techniques may be invented or discovered while developing it. But one should ask what are the attractiveness criteria? what do you mean by "Data-driven". The data comes from other users? I mean aesthetics norms comes from society or the user, or both?! Very subjective! if we build tools to enforce aesthetics norms on users from the "common sense" - (things that never made sense too me), we are basically killing all the peculiar beauties in the world, say, a cute pimple next to the lip.
bug report: scroll some to get text box, click on the dot dot navigations which shifts background but text of previous photo remains present.
The purpose of search engines is filtering content to give you what you want, which might be information, or it might be discussion, or polemics, or gossip. If you want to learn about some topic that has some element of subjectivity, familiarize yourself with the different points of view and read the writing of whoever you are interested in. There are lots of tools on the Internet to facilitate this -- Wikipedia, for example, is built around an ideal of giving people an objective survey of different things. If you type "climate change" or "Barack Obama" into Google and form an opinion based on the top results then fuck you.
Ask HN: Is this project interesting?
Hey guys,

We’d like have your feedback on a new web app.

We (my partner and I) run a small but successful Ruby on Rails and web marketing shop in the UK. We focus on launching MVPs for startups, quickly, well-made and ready for business in 6 weeks.

Now we’ve got an idea for a project of our own but we’d like to know what you think first.
The idea comes from a problem we’re having. Basically we need a solution to easily format our business documents and none of the online editors (Google Docs, Backpack…) really allows us to do that.

The project is called Dododocs and is destined to be an online edition and formatting tool so people can upload their company header and footer, and then simply type in their text. Professional-looking documents without any hassle.

For the formatting, we’ll have some templates available to use, but you’ll be able to customise them or upload your own (HTML/CSS). Then you type the text in a blank editing area, using Markdown and Textile.
Once finished, you can export in HTML and PDF.

So the aim is to have something really simple first. The next features will certainly be a link with Basecamp, Backpack and Google Docs, and maybe a nice and slick interface to browse the document pages.

We’re going to start working on this project in a week and try to have a first working beta version by the end of July.

Is it an application you guys would use? Do you have any input on this (brief) description of the project?

If you would consider using it and would like a voucher for 1 month’s free subscription, please enter your email address there: http://www.dododocs.com/

Thanks a lot!

Nic
> the only people who dont gain anything are the ones sneering from the sidelines.

That's not necessarily true. There are people who are concentrating on other ideas instead of doing the same thing and there are people who are investing all their life's savings and borrowing to launch the same kind of idea as Facebook.
I REALLY don't think that github's plan is unreasonable. I pay for it quite happily. But good on you for DOING something about how you felt
Personalization can, however, fail. I have a German IP address which causes Google to show me predominantly German search results. That’s not what I want at all most of the time.

There are ways to sort of get around that but they are cumbersome and they don’t always work right.

Google is pretty good at figuring out what to show you depending on the language of the search terms you are using. When there are German words in my search query Google will show me predominantly German results. That’s to be expected, that’s what I want. The problem is that Google seems to use my location (IP address, maybe also the language of the interface and whether I’m using google.de or google.com) and override that behavior so that even if I’m using english words in my query it will nevertheless show me predominantly German results.
Must admit I do like the price.
In Windows, the directory is the application bundle
Check the poster's submission history and you will understand.
The future of the “educated” person – From “their” brand to yours
I suspect DDG is having trouble making money hence the need to make a commotion about filter bubbles and generating some linkbait. No surprise... < 1% of a search engine market is not gonna even make you much at the end of the day.
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Zuckerberg didn't try to develop a MySpace killer. He tried to develop a facebook[1] killer. thefacebook.com v0.1 wasn't built as a "social network", it was built as an online version of the college directory. That's why Zuckerberg won and the other thousand guys lost. His MVP was useful with only a few hundred users and a killer app with a few thousand. Everyone who tried to kill MySpace needed zillions of users and had no real way of getting them.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_(directory)
What distinguishes "true geeks" from the pretenders?
RAD tools come to Web development
If you're not familiar with Derek, which wouldn't be hard to believe as he's not a big self-promoter, you owe yourself to go read the essays on his website. At worse, you'll grab great little nuggets of wisdom.

He's also very kind and approachable. A great example of a real "rich" person in this world.
The key word being "(drug) corporations" since they are large enough to afford this.

This is beyond the reach of your average small company / startup. 'Little people' do pay quite close to the 35%.
Why do they never release the applications for these things? Copyright?
Silver Viral Project
Beat the banksters at their own game
the tech support reponse quoted on the page:

hi XXX,
there was a very brief glitch and this should never happen/be possible again. thanks for the email.

-arash
Dropbox very temporarily failed open (i.e. let people in without actually verifying their password).

The question is, do they fail open under a DoS attack on the machines handling authentication? Do they fail open if you just run enough login attempts?
That agrees with what I said. Unless you don't think that much growth in searches over such a short period is significant.

It's even more significant when you look at where it was a year ago. 1.2 million in April 2010, 5.9 million in April 2011, 6.3 last month, and already 3.8 a little over halfway through this month. This is significant when you consider the lack of marketing and that DDG is run by one person.
New Adobe Flash Builder lets devs make iOS, Android, PlayBook apps
Yeah, Scroogle's front page is really bad. Here's a link to where you can put in the actual search terms: https://ssl.scroogle.org/
very bad on android.

Or I get zero content (browser in android more) or I cam only scroll vertically (in desktop mode) in a way I can only read the first few left chars
Looks like a more polished version of http://repositoryhosting.com, which I'm using at the moment. Will definitely give this a try!
The optimist could say that this prevents any mobile phone device having this feature, and hence Apple can defend the common man against opression.
There is no Mobile Web
Certainly C++'s niche is getter smaller every year. It just happens to be a niche occupied by the most interesting (IMO) native apps.

The flood of low-powered mobile devices out there seems to have given it some new legs though.
It sounds like you are describing a "hipster" more than a "nerd", but maybe the two have become one in the same in some ways.

That said, "true nerds" were never in it for the recognition as a "nerd" or as part of some "movement" they just were. And they will continue to be that way after the general populations has moved on to usurp some other image. They may not be called "nerds" but they won't care what they are called.
Is it really necessary to disguise a Linode referrer link using bit.ly in the homepage? I would be more inclined to click it if it wasn't masked...
This is the sort of thing where the submitter (at pastebin in this case) should be absolutly sure that the bug is fixed from Dropbox' side before telling the hole world about it.

This way everyone is happy, and not to mention safe.

I'm so tired of seeing all these username/password leaks lately. It is not doing anyone anything good, except from teenagers and thieves which thinks it is funny to empty Amazon accounts or upload nude pictures on Facebook (etc. etc.)

So, in all fairness, the submitter did actually contact Dropbox first (which is great), but please wait until they definitely have fixed before telling the world about it. Or at least, that is my humble opinion.
Actually, since Apple's products represent a minority of smartphone users (let alone all phones, or even more to the point, all video and still digicams), I think that this is a good point. If Apple's got it patented, then I as an Android and Pentax user don't have to worry about it being stuffed into my devices.
Apparently anyone wearing a blue polo shirt and khakis is off-limits, too.
Except duckduckgo can't find my project and Google can:

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=sphela+github

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=sphela
I agree with you shouldn't form an opinion based on Google's top results: But I believe that's _exactly_ what most people do.
Hacker.

It's still a term that's viewed negatively by mainstream, so you're unlikely to see "Hacker Squad" signs.
concise, functional
Actually, if you look closer, it alters just about everything... Most noticeable is the size of the forehead, nose, chin and jaw.

I don't see it there, but also correcting asymmetry helps as well.
That much trust in the altruism of any major corporation goes beyond anything that could reasonably be called optimism. Is there any precedent in Apple's patent history for this courageous leap of faith?
I think that if you are really passionate about something specific that makes you a geek, although I might add a qualifier that it generally has to be an intellectual pursuit.

Most importantly, being a "geek" is not about an image, it's a way of looking at the world.
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I'm using codeplane for quite a month ... it's really good.

I think the only thing i will miss from github, is the feature to view your code online.
After the Crash, What's Next for Bitcoin?
Sad to hear mate – sometimes I'm happy I'm t1 myself, not t2.

I worked a research project back at the uni, where we set up an analysis tool for diabetics. The amount of data was a sore lack for researchers. You can hook up w/ roche et al, they have the data but it's kinda locked up.

Lemme know how you come along with the visualization and concept! @fdebong or fd at mysugr dot com.
How to do I know what filters form the top results if they aren't transparent? What would lead you to believe that familiarizing yourself with a different point of view would take you down a meaningfully different path through the search graph? None that I can see. Every search has a non-objective filter. The original page rank is one such. What would be useful is to make the tree obvious and manipulable as a separate object itself.
Thanks – will try to keep you up to date!
I just wanted to see how many clicks that would have, but you're right. Just removed the link since I just don't care. ;)
only as long as you don't log in to google or anything else before you search.
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Whether they'll do it isn't the point. If a patent is, by its nature, meant to restrict user and citizen freedom, why have it?

If your neighbor collects guns, that may be no cause for alarm; hunting is a legitimate activity. But if your neighbor stockpiles napalm, his saying "I wouldn't use it" isn't very reassuring. It has no purpose but to burn you to death.

The only charitable reading I can see of this patent is that Apple patented it to keep its evil competitors from using this. But that's highly dubious. If that's what they wanted to do, they could have openly said so and immediately donated the patent to the EFF or someone like that.
Life Optimization
One plan, one price seems like a good tagline, but what if a user needs more than 2GB? I guess you'll want to charge them more money for more space, and eventually will have more plans, or will charge per GB?

Btw, I like both the idea and execution. Good luck... :)
Yeah data gathering and visualizations are the basics of a treatment software – but there's other stuff which is vital.

Will keep you up to date if you wish.

Thanks for your comment!
London to Tokyo in 2 hours: Blueprints for 3,000mph hypersonic plane unveiled
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122... Looks like MoCA isn't that difficult to use. Anyone have any experience with these types of devices? I have a whole-house DVR system that uses MoCA and it works flawlessly, but I love the idea of being able to use the coax as part of my home network.
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/metaschool/fisher/domain/tm.htm

7. What constitutes tradenmark infringement?

If a party owns the rights to a particular trademark, that party can sue subsequent parties for trademark infringement. 15 U.S.C. �� 1114, 1125. The standard is "likelihood of confusion." To be more specific, the use of a trademark in connection with the sale of a good constitutes infringement if it is likely to cause consumer confusion as to the source of those goods or as to the sponsorship or approval of such goods. In deciding whether consumers are likely to be confused, the courts will typically look to a number of factors, including: (1) the strength of the mark; (2) the proximity of the goods; (3) the similarity of the marks; (4) evidence of actual confusion; (5) the similarity of marketing channels used; (6) the degree of caution exercised by the typical purchaser; (7) the defendant's intent.

They sued a priest!
This is much more than your typical license violation -- AVM is suing Cybits because Cybits exercised their GPL rights. So this is a very important case to legitimize the GPL.

more information on Harald Welte's blog: http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2011/06/20/#20110620-avm_...
You're being extremely inconsistent here. "Public space" is not the opposite of "personal space." I'm saying that your Gmail page is not personal, because Google has always placed advertisements and other messages on it. It is unreasonable to single out this Father's Day reminder and claim that you didn't expect mass messages to be placed on your Gmail.

Your newspaper analogy is the most inconsistent yet. Of course you own your copy of a newspaper, and of course there are ads. But a newspaper is not your "personal space," and in fact, I'm sure most newspapers had Father's Day ads.
Really? The reason I should learn awk is "why not?"
That has to be one of the worst reasons ever.

Not that I am bashing awk or anything. I'm sure there are many reasons to learn it. But why not is definitely not one of them.
Company makes cheaper solar wafers, wins $150M loan from DOE
Anyone else happy with Assembla? 2GB, unlimited repos and users, source browser, etc.: http://offers.assembla.com/free-git-hosting/
Yeah, There will be a way for buying additional storage. You'll by a whole GB. Don't want to have different plans, though.
30 day trial for a long term usage pattern?

give me free accounts with a few MBs and you have yourself a user base.

github didnt get that size with 9/mo plans...
Ninja Standups
for updated-infrequently-if-ever repos, github's pricing doesn't make a lot of sense. i have plenty of small, one-off repos i'd love to back up on github but it doesn't make sense for me to upgrade plans for them.

i just back up to multiple boxes, but i can understand why someone would want something centralized and specific.
I thought jerrya's original comment was reasonable until I got to, "citation-needed.jpg." I was actually "lucky" that he included that bit, making me question the relevance of his entire post.

It is not unintelligent or spammy comments that endanger the discourse at Hacker News. It is comments that seem to be saying something worthwhile that get upvoted and take up valuable real estate on the comment threads while being of almost no value that threaten to bring Hacker News too close to the multitude of other sites out there.

It used to be that the HN comment threads were multiple times better than the submissions themselves. I would have a very hard time arguing that today.
RIM is black-burying carriers with half-baked BlackBerrys
What exactly is the casual sexism here?
I couldn't get it to work... Do I have to embed it for the texting to work?

Also, I gave my email but I never received an email.. ?
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