skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I built a VoiceXML interface for Zork back in 1999. It was meant as a demo application for a VoiceXML interpreter that Cicso was trying to push and I was a test engineer on. It had automatic speech recognition and text to speech. So you could say "Go South" and then hear "You are standing in a forest. There is a bucket." Or whatever.

I thought it was really neat but it never made it past demo stage. I wrote a kind of lazy socket engine in PHP and then used phpzork.com for all my data. It was crude and you couldn't complete the entire game on the phone because I didn't have time to encode all possible actions for the ASR engine. But you could move around and grab a few things. All via telephone ;)

I just checked and it looks like phpzork.com is no longer. Pity, as it was a great way to enjoy Zork 10 years ago.
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Friends of Google employees? That's how I got my invite...
Sure. Random acts of vandalism end up all over the news, affected companies' stock crashes because simple random vandalism is highly effective, companies improve security to avoid becoming a target and losing money. In other words, "doing their level best to solve that problem."
1. No.
2. Square and Quora. Can't think of a third.
3. I've done a bit but don't have enough money to do more.
4. The people I work with.
5. Nothing springs to mind. There's probably some but I find it hard to just pull things out of my brain without context.
6. No typical day. Today I cleared out my inbox in the morning, did office hours in the afternoon and the weekly YC dinner is about to start now.
I had pretty much the same experience you did, except with Windows (and later on, iOS). It's jarring how, to get really good looking UIs, you often have to do custom pixel positioning and painting in code.
It's almost offensive after doing expressive layouts with html and css.
Yeah, this is really annoying. My invite is stuck in limbo right now because it's tied to my Google Apps email address, which won't work with Google+.
No comment on whether you should continue, but this would be a poor reason to give up.
I looked to the Hipmunk logo, and then I looked to the 'home' link... then I found it in the sidebar. Its nitpick I'll admit but it seems odd to see so many startups use their blog to direct users to their site and then not optimize a way to get them in.
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Startup Princess
The Mobile Photo/Video is the new Status Message
Finally, it just looks unfriendly and robotic. Blue is a more humanistic color

You nailed it with this one. This is how Google rolls.
They prefer generic screens to ones that are designed by humans, because they want to convey the idea that Google is not a curated source of information, but a machine generated unbiased view of the world.

I'm generalizing a bit, but this is almost verbatim what was written in In the Plex.
If only we could usefully store antimatter ... use a little of Apophis itself as the reaction mass, energised by antimatter annihilation. That's a way in the future though :-)
New Mexico La Concha Fire only 3.5 miles from Los Alamos National Laboratory map
Black is the new black?
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I'm genuinely curious as to why you say it's the other way around. Can you elaborate on this?

EDIT: Oh, you've edited your comment
there is always a trade-off between an online repository and an offline one. take into account the possibility that they can be compromised and also note how you can recover passwords if you lost the password repository (if there is a password recovery system).
Look at Mint (who used their blog to great effect as a startup). All it takes is a simple link at the top of the blog. http://www.mint.com/blog/
And now with instant search you can't even click that button anymore...
> A traveling wave tube—basically an inverse klystron—captures most of the particles’ flux kinetic energy and efficiently converts it into electrical energy

Anyone else think this sounds like sci-fi technobabble?
The most urgent thing I needed on Facebook - "Circles makes it easy to put your friends from Saturday night in one circle, your parents in another, and your boss in a circle by himself - just like real life"

Might just call it a better version.
IMO, $6/mon is more of a nuisance than a hindrance. One has to wonder, though- why six dollars, as opposed to twenty? I would be just as likely to pay $20/mon as I would $6/mon, if I think that what they're offering up is even slightly better than what than Google or Zoho offers.

So, the problem isn't so much the fact that it's not cost-free, but that it's cost-free but cheap. I don't like cheap.
You can still create an account and provide the Apple reviewers with credentials to try it. This is what we did for an iPad project that uses Facebook photos, we provided Apple with login credentials to a facebook account with lots of photos in it so that they can test it, and the app was approved from the first submission.
Separate browsers, or separate profiles (namely Firefox profiles).

An app-specific browser like MozillaPrizm/Fluid/etc might be your best bet, just create specific apps for each user/session.

btw, I generally use 2 google profiles (google-apps vs. google) and they coexist in one browser for me.

The concept of fluid multi-identity in any device or OS has long been difficult to manage, and I don't think it's done well on any UI-based system.
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For each service, they have different features.

From my experiences with different API, Google's geocoding api covers most countries. I suspect for all countries that Google provides street view services, the geocoding service will work pretty well.

SimpleGeo is pretty good, its coverage is less than Google.

Bing supports a lot of countries. But for a lot of countries, it support to major roads. You can see it here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd435699.aspx

Foursquare has around 23 millions venues and growing. I guess in next 2 years, we can see Foursquare's venues covers most mobile GPS coverage area on Earth and if their human administrators can maintain the quality.

Google is pretty good and fuzzy matching address. I tried SimpleGeo 6 months ago and it is kind of strict and pretty intolerant to address misspelling. Foursquare can match venue name to possible entries in the neighborhood in venue/search but I am not sure for address matching.

Yahoo! PlaceFinder seems lack of maintenance in data. Even they were the first one to provide geocoding api.
Thanks, that makes sense. Is it often that these conflicts arise during development on a team of 1-3 developers? I'm also assuming you're referring to the package contents of the .xproj file (specifically project.pbxproj), correct?
"Social networks are very very sticky."

I have to disagree with this. Remember Friendster and MySpace?
I'm excited for this event.
Anything that makes the web better is a win for Google.

This isn't a zero-sum game. Apple doesn't need to lose for Google to win.
The instructions given only work for Mac.
Yeah - please correct me if I'm wrong: I watched a documentary on it called: "The Money Masters: How International Bankers Gained Control of America." That was the impression I got from it.

edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIjxXEZyhzU 1:25:00 - bankers were originally opposed to the greenback, and also Lincoln's efforts to remove the debt based system that had to be introduced to fund the war when the greenback failed -- the bankers wanted a gold-backed currency. (look at 1:18:00 onwards for full background)
You're misappropriating the term 'cross-browser'.
It does not mean open-source or open.
It means the technology will run across most browsers.
And Flash does that.
You have some valid points but none of them seem to refute the idea that Flash isn't cross-platform.
thanks -- i just spent a very enjoyable evening playing violet. first interactive fiction i've ever finished.

if anyone is interested, you can play it online here - http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=4glrrfh7wrp9zz7b (button top right)
I love it. Large buttons, low complexity, pre-eminent search input. Similar to how jQueryUI themes look.
If you weren't actively involved in YC full-time, what type of company would you be starting? Alternatively, what overlooked/underhyped opportunities do you see in the market?
Who would win in a fight between Neal Stephenson and William Gibson?
I absolutely agree with this. Video Games are certainly as much of an art form as literature or film. The stuff about banning the sale of games to minors is somewhat useless as the ESRB(although it has many of its own issues) rates games and any game declared to be too graphic gets an M rating and can only be bought by an 1y year old or older.
The social in Github's "Social Coding" is just icing on cake. Their core product is git hosting. People pay them to have private repos. This is not the case with G+

Wave failed exactly because both of its complexity and its artificial scarcity Google created.
Unless his professor had a similar deal/partnership with Mark, where large swaths of money and opportunity was at stake, then the professor's point is moot.
It worked for me after coming back a minute later, perhaps they had a transient fault.
Should work fine in Linux too, from looking at the instructions.

(Firefox user here... This looks like a poor man's greasemonkey).
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France makes €1bn commitment to nuclear power
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A bit odd that it doesn't mention ZODB. It's a pretty popular/successful graph/object database.
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I don't think the gritty/old timey look is bad, but I think you could push it further to sell it as such. I think you could go a long way by adding SOME saturation back into the world, and tinting things a bit sepia for an aged look. I'd still leave the bullseyes full saturation, though, as they really do pop right now. If you want to keep things feeling deliberately old timey and worn, adding a little bit of aged film overlay would go a long way (some decent examples of this type of aging, though fully black and white instead of just partially desaturated, can be seen in the games PB Winterbottom or Limbo).

Out of curiosity, what led to the bullseyes being spherical instead of cylindrical?

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PB Winterbottom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMZyAsVlMoU#t=1m10s

Limbo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCA79zPaQe0#t=30s

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Edit: I got distracted for a bit but here's a moderately quick mockup of some of those ideas:

http://www.meltwizard.com/stuff/factory.png

You could make people "feel" the gyroscopic movement even more by having the UI's movement be slightly delayed from the player movement, like it's following behind on a rubber band (see: first person games which have helmet art, like Metroid Prime on the gamecube). You wouldn't want to make it too crazy since it has to be usable, but adding a little feeling of sway to the surrounding chrome, tied to gyroscope moves, would probably go a long way towards making it feel less mechanical and more fluid.

Sorry for the armchair art direction by the way. If I am accidentally coming across as an asshole, please know that it is not intentional! I like the concept for the game AND for the visual direction and it made me interested enough to crack open Photoshop and start playing around. I don't know if my ideas are particularly noteworthy or if they actually manage to improve anything, but it's what came to mind when looking at the game. Hopefully no offense is taken!
I see they're using their 'winning' wave strategy again.

1. launch a social platform, but restrict signups to the point where nobody with access has any contacts on the service

2. keep it locked down until the buzz/hype is all gone

3. open it up to everyone and let them wonder why there was any buzz/hype in the first place

If they dont let early adopters use the platform and give the crucial early feedback, they might as well throw in the towel now.
There's a firefox version too:
https://github.com/rlr/dotjs-addon

And Safari:
https://github.com/wfarr/dotjs.safariextension
The licenses are on the individual fonts' pages (try the "Pop Out" links.) Most of them are under the SIL Open Font License.
I disagree. By "math community" I refer specifically to those people who create new mathematics, i.e. mathematicians. That is not at all as inclusive as you argue. Math notation comes from mathematicians and is designed to facilitate communication between people of that profession. The notation is very functional and efficient for its designed task.

To create a new set of symbols and notation designed specifically for those who are not mathematicians is a waste of resources. Professors, whom would be responsible for teaching such a thing, would have to translate all of their concepts from "professional notation" to "novice notation" when lecturing. This involves them learning a totally new set of notation designed for no reason other than teaching. Furthermore, anyone who wanted to pursue mathematics professionally would have to then learn "professional notation".

Aside from these logistical difficulties, I fail to see how a different set of notation would be any clearer or easier to understand than the current notation, which is already widely accepted and considered useful. Essentially, you are arguing that math notation is too difficult and so it should be simplified. That is like saying Faulkner or Joyce is too difficult to read so should be rewritten for those without the ability to comprehend the source document: it sort of misses the point.
We're a Google Apps customer and I'm chomping at the bits to get my hands on these new collaborative meeting features. We're spread out over two states and three cities. We live and die by Skype, but outside of screen sharing, Skype's collaborative features are pretty weak. This looks really powerful.
Nah, it tries to install some OS X "launch agent" thing. Should be quite simple to get it to work in Linux, but it doesn't yet.
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Even switching to free is not enough to gain serious worldwide exposure. It helps, but there's also an element of chance and just getting it in front of the right people.

My current app hit #1 in a fairly major category (music) quite easily when we switched to free, but in the rest of the world it barely cracked into the top 50 before immediately sinking again, mostly because no one knows it exists. Still trying.
This analysis seems very superficial - it's (almost) just a rundown of privacy features and doesn't get in to track records (except for Twitter), attitudes, ever-changing defaults, and backdoors (such as Facebook apps - last I knew, adding a Facebook app gives the app [and its authors] access to your friends' friend-only restricted information without their permission, yet Facebook gets 4/4).
I hereby alter my grand-grandparent post to read "platform independent" rather than "cross-browser".
Depends on how you handle the gradients - CG has some neat tricks about reusing gradient rendering if you don't instantiate the same one over and over.
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It should be okay in this forum for him to mean "worse choice within the realm of reason" when he says "worse choice" without explicitly saying it.
Firefox add-on to add OTR encryption to web-based chats
I like dropbox.com - just a video and download button
For what it's worth, I am a tall but slim male and my wrists are very thin, I can fit my hand around with my thumb and little finger meeting together, the wakemate fits me very well so I imagine anyone with "normal" wrists who isn't a midget would have comfortability problems.
Curly braces.
Real World Continuous Deployment for Startups
Didact Gothic is a nice one for headlines.
Yahoo spins off Hadoop team
As a guy who went 110kg to 80kg, I can attest to it being easier and more fun when you don't have the equivalent of an extra sandbag wrapped around your torso. One particular thing that happened was that it just became so easy to break into a run to get somewhere it little bit quicker.

(Five years later I'm back up to 95ish, but I'm on the way down again. Remembering what it was like is a good motivator.)
> SSH Keys are probably the biggest barrier to people being able to use and contribute with GitHub

The barrier to entry of writing software doesn't need to be zero. If a person is going to write code, they should also learn some of the basic tools of the trade.
This is why UI guys should not be responsible for security decisions.
You’ve found market price when buyers complain but still pay.

- Paul Graham (@paulg)

http://startupquote.com/post/7029845826
Reminded me a lot of Greasemonkey for FF.
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The problem with FB groups is that both you and the friends that you want to share the link/photo/message with have to agree to be part of that group. I usually put my friends in multiple groups/circles, i.e. they could be a work colleague but also a eating out enthusiast. This multiple categorization can easily get messy and definitely doesn't scale to hundreds of friends.

Hopefully, with Google+ Circles my private categorization of my friends is not shared with them. They should only see what I share.
Sane link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/opinion/sunday/26shyness.h...
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The fact that it's Exchange puts it way ahead of Google Apps IMO.

I'd like to say that customer service is another huge difference since Google Apps customer service is basically non-existant, but Microsoft's may be even more frustrating because it lures you to think that it exists, but it's horrible.
well they are not as sticky as a super glue may be like a gluestick :) What I meant is that by virtue of being sticky, it gives FB enough time to attain feature parity with google+ thereby removing a reason for me to switch.
Unlike a search engine where the stickiness is just a habit.
I've sneakily been using this for months on Hacker News itself- I just .hide() stories past around story #15. More signal, less noise. And it's just jQuery, so it's really easy to whip up.

Bonus points for it being so easy to share, too: https://github.com/holman/holman-js/blob/master/news.ycombin...
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Hmm, I don't agree. The game I made for myself is great, I love it. Likewise for a few people here, one guy likes multiplayer trivia games, etc.

So, while it may not be a charts buster, I enjoy my game, and it's one of three that I play (the other two: Arkanoid-style game, and a free card game).
An infinite family seems to refer to an infinite collection of solutions that are all related in some sense. An isolate or sporadic solution is a solution that is unique and unrelated to other solutions. They are both terms used to categorize solutions.
As if we need more than two fonts!
Awesome, exactly what I needed. I was just about to create yet another "inject X.js" bookmarklet.
Try https://github.com/glenbot/dotjs/tree/ubuntu-support-merged
It looks like they are actually talking about specific energy, and through a series of blunders mislabeled it as specific power:

"The specific power of the proton-triggered boron fuel would be so great that a mere mole of it (11 grams) would yield roughly 300 megawatts of power. (According to Chapman, using this aneutronic fusion technique with helium-3 isotopes would yield 493 MW per mole. But boron is a more attractive fuel source because it is abundant on Earth and helium-3 is scarce.)"

This looks like nonsense. I think it was supposed to be megawatt-hour -- the quote is essentially correct, after you r/megawatt/megawatt-hour/, r/MW/MWh/, and r/specific power/specific energy/.

No idea why they are using this unit outside its native context (electricity generation).

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I don't know about specific power, but the (theoretical) specific impulse is very good. The exhaust speed of the fusion alphas is sqrt(2 * 2.9 MeV / 3.7 GeV/c^2) = 1.2e7 m/s (or 0.04 c). Since these alphas constitute all the mass of the fuel/propellant (which are the same in this scheme), this is also the effective exhaust velocity. Or a specific impulse of 1.2e8 seconds.

This is one of the best specific impulses conceived of, and (I think) is about the theoretical limit for a fusion-powered rocket carrying its own reaction mass.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_propulsion#Table_of_...

For some reason I don't see it represented on this (very big) wiki page. They do have the "fission fragment rocket", which is conceptually the same thing applied to fission reaction products.
Hungry Shark: 6 Million Downloads and Get the Third Chapter
Hungry Shark is a fun and popular pastime Android game in which the player is called upon to take control of a small and innocent eating shark that has to eat.
Indeed. If you don't use Facebook (and I was one of the last hold-outs in my social group), the "friend" terminology will lead you to believe that the people you attach to are actually friends, of which you can only have about 20 real ones. Then you hear that people have 120+ on average, and you think the whole world has gone mad. Facebook friends are, as a whole, just people who have meant something to you at some point in your life.

Twitter was better about this, in that following someone is a one-way connection, not a two-way one. Google+ lets you have it both ways: putting someone in your circle means you'll see their public posts (Twitter), if that person puts you in their circles, you'll see their private ones (Facebook).
What use is an exported that that cannot be easily imported to other system. Google should provide connectors to other popular tools e.g. export data from picasa to flickr or smugmug etc. similarly export to hotmail, yahoo mail etc.
HIPAA and the Cloud: The Privacy of Health Information
If you click the I'm Feeling Lucky button before typing something in the search bar, it takes you to the Google Logos history page. I'm not sure if this feature is indeed new, or if the button already did that before the UI update.
i usually just google search to find a web tool, then copy/paste in a big list
WakeMate is the only YC company that left me feeling completely duped for dropping cash on them. My whole experience with the product felt like a sham. Good on WakeMate for having the opportunity at a 2.0, because I personally feel like they did not deserve it :(

Because I love the concept so much, I will give it another shot, and maybe my bitterness will fade, and we can all hold hands and skip in the park one day! Good luck!
Facebook browsing habits don't even come close to the level of personal that google searches do. Even hardcore facebook stalker behaviour pales in comparison to some of the questions people ask google.

Anyways, I don't think it's necessarily something people will be alarmed about, I just think it's something that should be made extremely clear because on the off chance people do start to worry, and how fast FUD can travel. It really could kill what looks like a great platform it that happened.
That is actually an excellent suggestion. Would you have mind if it was an automated canned response?
If they can nail the group video conf & google voice integration, I think they have a winner and people will move over just to use this feature.
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It is very useful for batch vm operation, automation, regression test, integration test...
I'm the OP of the criticism. I thought there was some useful feedback in both my post (available at https://raw.github.com/gist/1051210/fd7008d908c2929f8476ad57...) and the comments which followed.

However, it was slightly rantish, and some of the comments followed that line as well. I should have been more tactful (whether or not this was a YC company).