skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi SudarshanP,

I voted you down because I thought it was spam, sorry. I've undone my vote now so you are back to 0. When I voted there was just one item with a link, and it looked like someone just wanted to advertise their online store.

Your article seems fine for the site. An optimum article would be more than just a list of links though.

Ideally, I want articles to become full-fledged, comprehensive articles. Like the article for "Reasons to Quit Smoking". In time, I hope that article can become a comprehensive resource of all the best reasons to quit smoking. Then someone who is trying to quit smoking can use that article as motivation to quit.

I'll be working on a commenting system so that in the future it'll be easier to discuss this type of thing on the actual article page.

Thanks for trying out the site and providing feedback! And sorry again for thinking it was spam.
Facebook and Dropbox are not like running water yet and even that isn't available everywhere. A lot of users still use USB drives to copy pictures.
First, this is a terrible bug. Shame on Apple for not rushing a fix, but...

Enterprises should not be doing immediate upgrades to any operating system, no matter how sparkly. I'm still waiting to upgrade my MacBook, and it's just me. No OS release goes off without a hitch (though there are some pretty impressive Linux releases!).
Basic data entry and retrieval with a good looking interface
Payback: Physicist donates $150 million to IIT for Research Center
Tight Job Market is Squeezing Out Young Workers
"plague" is a stretch.
This is a very weak argument. I am pretty sure your lawyer says the same thing about the code you write.

Everything is boring when you don't understand its meaning. A good lawyer can easily figure out what is important in a legal document, and make smart decisions based on it.
>>(i.e. same intelligence as a doctor, lawyer, or management consultant)

I keep reading this again and again. A doctor, lawyer, or management is not necessarily smarter than a programmer. They have to work longer before they can start practicing their profession but that doesn't make them smarter.
If you can look past the retro vibe this is a nice overview:
http://programmedlessons.org/VectorLessons/index.html

Some interactive matrix maths lessons:
http://www.intmath.com/matrices-determinants/matrix-determin...

Free textbook on linear Algebra:
http://linear.ups.edu/

and for the intrepid soul actually implementing a viewport:
http://zach.in.tu-clausthal.de/teaching/cg_literatur/lightho...

Good luck ;)
I like it. Does quite a bit and has a minimal gem stack.
>"...building the product was the easy part"

A new 'thought experiment' I've been working with lately is: "Imagine the (minimum viable) product was already built - what now?"

It's easy to get caught up in the challenge of 'The Build' when really that's just a part of the business.

If you want to build a business around a web/tech product, then you need to consider a whole load besides the product.
In 2007 or so I got my work laptop stolen. All I lost were a couple changes in the code I was working on I made during a meeting with the client. After filing the police report, I dug out my old laptop, reinstalled it and checked the code out of my repo. The next day I was able to continue more or less from where I left off.
A crash course in ProgresSQL
In which country is it required that a physician perform an EEG prior to declaring death?
"The public doesn't care": it seems they do, at least here in the Netherlands I see a lot of people (non-techies) angrily complaining about Apple now. There are a few fanboys/apologetics, but most people realize that competition in the smartphone arena is good and Apple is trying to sabotage this by litigation.
I didn't know that. From his bio:

"Bricklaying Business

In 1968, Schwarzenegger and fellow bodybuilder Franco Columbu started a bricklaying business. The business flourished both because of the pair's marketing savvy and increased demand following a major Los Angeles earthquake in 1971"

"By the age of 22, Schwarzenegger was a millionaire, well before his career in Hollywood."

http://arnoldaloisschwarzenegger.com/biography.html
I know that this article is mostly about the medical tech related to this case but I still get a warm fuzzy feeling knowing this happened in my hometown; that it was a crew of volunteer firemen and others that kept the vital CPR going for 96 minutes.

I hope the new technology makes it into the hands of EMTs quickly so that more lives can be saved.
The answer disappointed me. Okay, I get it, you felt bad when your movie flopped. But you didn't address the interesting part of the question: "Don't they know how bad it is before it comes out?"
I find my Samsung Galaxy S really different to the iphones I have tried, and to have a similarity to the samsung netbook I have kicking around at home. These patent infringements seem absurdly minor to me.
Not sure why you are in gray. That's a really good joke.
If it's only the gallery that need an update, they could push it through the market I think.
Depends on how you look at it I guess.

We're trying to relieve people of paying for small things, like reading articles or in-app purchasing new swords :)

You'll always have two options at least:
- input the DoubleRecall
- pay for the content

If you'll hate to type in, you'll be free to lash out your card.

People are willing to do to tremendous lengths just to get something for for free, especially in the case of in-app purchases in games and alike.

Disclaimer: I'm a cofounder.
The Cowboy Coder
Slow, doesn't compile, syntax highlighting doesn't work. Better luck next time!
Alternatively, use a decent IDE. Visual Studio and XCode both did the correct syntax coloring when I tried his bug.

I don't code on linux anymore to compare emacs or vim, but if they don't handle it correctly I would submit a bug with them.
Why buying a HP TouchPad in the ‘firesale’ just plain stupid
0.001329 is 0.13%, and that's just for the next year of your life. On Wolfram Alpha, look under survival probability and you'll see that your chance of dying before age 30 is 0.93%.
> You can minimise the Windows 8 dialog.

IIRC, if you "closed" the gnome one, it went to the systray, which is a UI problem all its own.

Also, you can pause the win8 operations, not just cancel them.

As for ugliness, this seems to be a shot of Hardy, give or take, so 2008-ish. I would say that the Ambiance theme that debuted to much controversy in 2010 is improved over the screenshot. (And neither of these are Gnome's default.)
Not mutually exclusive, but it is evidence of trend that developers are choosing jQuery, JavaScript and HTML5 over Flash.
Then what about the wave of death [1] that happens to people? The body can still release pent up energy well after brain death, but it doesn't necessarily mean the person can be brought back to life.

[1] http://news.discovery.com/human/near-death-brain.html
Ask HN: Good basic Android handset for development?
To date I've been a fairly committed iPhone user, and I developed an iPhone app which I'm using for data collection as part of my PhD (mappiness.org.uk).

An Android port is the most requested feature on the app's feedback forum and, having never touched an Android phone, I think the first step is probably to use one for a bit and see how it works and how it feels.

So, 3 questions:

- I see 'Android Dev Phones' mentioned on developer.android.com, but I can't see what the terms (or UK availability) are without paying to join the dev programme. Anyone know?

- I'm in the UK, and it seems I can pick up a Samsung Galaxy Ace or HTC Wildfire S for around £150 pay-as-you-go. Is either of those a particularly good or bad bet for development/testing?

- Any other opinions regarding a good (budget) dev phone and the best way to get hold of one?
Every time I get my VO2 max taken I feel like I'm dying anyway, so this is only a fitting use of the technology.
My G2 has a back button, a home button and an options button below the screen which takes up most of the device. An iPhone doesn't.

The battery is user replaceable. I can plug in an sd card. On an iPhone I can't.

On the G2 I can switch between recent applications by holding the home button. I can access the contents of my phone by using a web browser. I can sync without iTunes.

Doesn't sound like a carbon copy to me.
Becoming a real developer
'Invented'. For fuck sake, how else were you going to do it on a touch screen phone?
If there is any chance that this will lead to some people in power realizing the ridiculousness of it all then it was all worth it.
Maybe not the software you write but software is used to run all sorts of things, such as medical equipment that could easily kill. Part of the articles claim is that it is the pervasiveness of software that warrants higher compensation, social status, etc.
Then they probably had...increasing the probability of survival of those due to faster response times.

This is the problem; today everything is a cost/benefit analysis.
BankSimple moves to Portland
I like the installation options on a mac: you have the official app store, but you don't have to use it.

In theory, Android could also offer different marketplaces, one where the apps are carefully reviewed, and another where anything goes. Keeps the choices, but also supports safe downloading to those who want to be careful. (Ok, Android already _does_ have multiple app stores, but I don't think of any particular one as "the official reviewed marketplace," which is what I'm after.)
Photoshop tutorials, plugins and downloads : The Photoshop Roadmap
Final destination 5,megavideo
final destination 5,megavideo
This has become a kind of edits to the film Final Destination because paper is in fact a man is having premonitions throughout the film. Some critics have acknowledged that the idea is a big shift in the collection
A History of the Sentence "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo."
This is nothing new.

"... Brain activation for listening is cut in half if the person is trying to process visual input at the same time. A recent study at The British Institute of Psychiatry showed that checking your email while performing another creative task decreases your IQ in the moment 10 points. That is the equivalent of not sleeping for 36 hours—more than twice the impact of smoking marijuana..."

Taken from http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/05/25/the-multitas...
I don't think that's what it means... I've read many T&C (IANAL either) and some of them state, to the effect of, "your stuff stays yours, even if you put it on our site". That, to me, would be closer to "we're not responsible for your copyright infringements."

Just because I post something publicly doesn't make it publicly owned (or in this case, owned by the host)—I want to retain the copyright to my works, and this T&C says "nope, we own whatever you post here."

In the end, it was too much for me, and I didn't complete the signup process. If I'm completely wrong about it's meaning or intent, well, shrug, they should write T&C that you don't have to be a lawyer to grok.
Overall good post, but I have one problem. You say that because China is run by engineers, it is on the right track. First, economies are very complex and there could be several factors that are causing China's economy to grow, I doubt having leaders as engineers matters too much. The US economy has grown too, and it wasn't run by engineers. Shouldn't we also give the lawyers and politicians in charge credit for the times our economy was growing, instead of grief for what's happening now?

You also say:
"Sure, they have problems with pollution and corruption, but so did the US when we were industrializing. Overall, though, they're on the right track, and the US is not."

If engineers were better leaders than lawyers, wouldn't they be able to industrialize with minimal pollution? Instead, they're industrializing in similar ways that we were.

Also, China seems like a lousy place to live compared to the US with regards to personal freedoms, but I wouldn't go out and say that lawyers care about freedom and engineers want to govern with absolute control.

Sorry if I seem to be focusing on only 5% of the post, I just wanted to get that thought out. All that said, you bring up some very thought provoking points.
A Higgs Setback
Shows just how often its actually used in the wild.
I'd pay extra not to have to bother spending 8 weeks compiling gentoo.
LGPL (lesser copyleft) is still a copyleft and this license prevents forms of commercial adoption by requiring that changes to the library be released under the LGPL. While LGPL isn't particularly horrible, it still has restrictions that BSD license doesn't have. Hence, there possible uses (where contributing code back) isn't an option due to business goals of an organization. Even if you have some ability to contribute back, LGPL requires due-diligence that can amount to a substantial amount of time: including involving IP attorneys to render a professional opinion.

I think GPL (and LGPL in some cases) makes sense for dual-licensing situations, where your company turns down contributors who don't assign copyright. This only works if the money invested keeps enough velocity that GPL-forks (ala Drizzle fork of MySQL) don't get traction.

Without the dual-licensing approach, I think it then comes down to values. Do you want more commercial adoption, even if someone makes additional improvements and sells them as proprietary software (BSD/MIT)? Or, do you want to force commercial adopters to contribute back (GPL/LGPL).

I use PostgreSQL has a solid example of how BSD/MIT works, including commercial forks -- some of which is contributed back. It turns out that maintaining your own fork is quite expensive and most companies typically contribute back without being compelled since it's cheaper & provides kudos. Even for companies that keep a proprietary fork (ala GreenPlum), they still contribute indirectly by funding engineers that know the code base and providing commercial options for users of the software. So, I think that if this is the leach model, it's not so bad.
How Android fragmentation actually affects users
5 startups to watch from Y Combinator’s Summer 2011 class
Your book sounds really interesting, thanks for the plug. Any other material you have that you can point us to?
How to sell: tips from a marketing guy who can actually sell something
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Ticketmaster Delivers Social Connectivity Into Interactive Seat Maps
Dutch court: Android 2.3 violates Apple patents, Android 3.0 doesn't
Perhaps off topic, but you really should consider reading Rob's book if you plan to bootstrap a startup or run a micro ISV.
"That those who do not are inclined to do so unless heavily prompted not to is curious indeed."

What a confusing way of ending an article. It would translate into Ruby to something like this:

def ascribe_mental_acuity_to_the_dead?

true

unless believe_in_after_life

false if heavily_prompted_not_to_believe_in_after_life

end

end
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Start with the standard stuff: Objective-C and UIKit. You don't need any frameworks beyond this unless you are building a game and there will be plenty of time to fight with other poeples code when you are adding ad networks, analytics, in app purchases and so on without adding frameworks into the mix.

Objective-C and UIKit are quite large (Just Google NSString and look at all the methods on this basic type) and you need to learn as much of the standard stuff as you can. It's going to take some time and a lot of effort to be able to crank out polished apps in weeks instead of months.

If you are planing on building games then I would still recommend starting with the basics. Make a UIKit based app first. Then try your hand at a simple 2d game with box2d and cocos2d. If you are going to do 3d don't go with Unity right out of the gate. Go make some "simple" stuff using OpenGL ES direcectly. Good luck!

PS. If you are ever in SF stop by our weekly iOS meetup: http://www.meetup.com/iphonedevsf/
Hiring via API
I used to just pull it, but a half-dozen missing and corrupted files (one of which was a final project for a class in college) trained me out of that habit.
Kyata's Place
Apple TV
Apple TV digital media receiver is a device manufactured and sold by Apple Inc.
"We are working with RBS to recover the data from recipients where possible."

Is there some business or legal necessity for making statements like this? When I've got my geek hat on, this seems like an incredibly stupid statement that betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of data. What am I missing?
> Just remember Apple is being sued as much as it's suing.

That doesn't make it acceptable. I'm tired of making excuses for Apple, personally. I like their products, but they've worn my goodwill towards their brand down to a nub by being one of the most ruthless and (in my opinion) unethical brandishers of patents worldwide.
What would your lawyer say if he read a few programs and contemplated the fact that you have to read that stuff every day?

I don't think legal language is as unpleasant to lawyers as it is to people without legal training and experience.
Ncat for Netcat users
What Your Old Graphing Calculator Says About Technology
See also bert-rpc, which is a cross-language/platform serialization standard along with fast rpc support. This is what github uses:

http://bert-rpc.org/
Fukushima robot operator publishes tell-all diaries and videos, now offline
This is not what "patent troll" means. Apple is not a non-practicing entity.
“We are working with RBS to recover the data from recipients where possible.”

How exactly do you recover emailed data?
It'd be nice if the Python version of BSON were pulled out and put in a separate module so that it could be used independent of MongoDB.
Amazon Web Services Launches ElastiCache
I am amazed at his income for 4 prank apps and a couple other very simple apps. I need to get something (anything!) up.

From his website:

X-Ray Scanner for Android (joke)

Cracked Screen (joke)

Detector Pro (joke)

WP Stats for Android (blog stats)

Virtual Drums
Don’t push it! (joke)

Daily Beauty Tip (RSS Reader)
Why are they not using Kerberos and SSL though? Does this affect those users who actually do take security seriously or just the bare bones implementations that aren't safe anyways?
Brilliant Idea!
Ask HN: How does grad school help or hinder being a successful entrepreneur?
Doing a PhD has often been compared with running a startup, in the sense that one is constantly working -- there is no real weekend or vacation. As a recent PhD and an aspiring entrepreneur, I am looking for advice about how having been through grad school can be an asset or a hinderance when doing a startup. To set some context, I currently work at the research group of a large technology company, where I have the freedom to work on pretty much whatever I want, publish papers, build prototypes, dabble in new area, etc.. How valuable is it to first transition to a startup before founding my own?
Prince William and Kate Middleton as Dolls
Princess Catherine and Prince William have entered the world of dolls via the efforts of British toy…
Big Banks: Under-Capitalized, Overexposed, Opaque
I'd love to hear from people who are downvoting you. Why are they downvoting you?
I don't know. I'm a medical student in Tunisia. Here, in order to claim that a patient is dead you need to show its' EEG graph. Well, what's happening is something else.
I see your point, but I'm specifically arguing in favor of supporting local shops, and I would be more than willing to pay more to do so.

It is just a guess on my part, but I assume a custom fabricator might appreciate being able to produce a moderate, steady volume of commodity parts, based on open hardware specs (if they command a premium by virtue of being 'local'). And that same fab would then be more likely to be able to offer a custom model with, for instance, an integrated FPGA.

I wouldn't expect many people to pay $6K when they could pay $3K, but $150 vs. $60? I think there's room for that.
> Is the article saying that estimating the CO2 output via this new method is a more modern / sensitive way of detecting a pulse?

No, it has nothing at all to do with a pulse. It has to do with a much better indicator: blood flow through organs.

The goal of compressions in CPR is to keep blood flowing so organs (especially the brain) can get "fresh" (oxygen-rich) blood and get rid of their CO2 buildup. Because blood "naturally" goes through the gas exchange of the lungs during its travels, CO2 output is a very good indicator of blood circulating correctly, and therefore internal organs having a chance.

As long as the CO2 output is good, the brain (and other organs, but mainly the brain) can be considered protected (alive) and the patient can be saved if whatever went wrong is fixed (generally the heart restarted or arrhythmia managed)

The problem of checking the pulse is that it's a very bad indicator of whether your compressions are working: it does not indicate anything about them, it just tells you if the heart is beating strong enough to generate a pulse. Even though CPR might be keeping the patient alive with a stopped heart.
You can install the trial and it will run forever.
Gadget Rules: A guide for using technology carefully, with intention, for good
Gadget Rules is a growing collection of wisdom about using technology in ways that best serve our bodies, our minds, and each other.

Video introduction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbPVpZowOdY
From the elinux wiki:

There are approximately 16 spare GPIOs, which are brought out to 1.27mm pin-strip. Voltage levels are 3v3. The connector choice is deliberately annoying to connect to directly; there is no over-voltage protection on the board so the intention is that people interested in serious interfacing will use an external board with buffers, level conversion and analog I/O rather than soldering directly onto the main board.

We also bring 2x I2C (3v3), I2S and an SPI (3v3) interface out to the same connector. We support one slave interface for I2C and one for SPI.

http://elinux.org/RaspberryPiBoard
Philosophy for the information age
I am not so sure that the free market does really offer what you're saying. For example, a big problem in have in the US is that a lot of smart people don't want to become programmers (for example, because they don't want to compete with programmers from India). But it is well known that the USA has more openings for programmers than available workers. So, it seems that the free market is not doing its job of moving more workers to the field.

Regulation would have the very beneficial side effect that salaries would increase, and therefore it would encourage lots of people to become trained in the IT industry. This would not have an adverse effect in the competitiveness of US companies. It is well known that salaries are just a small portion of the costs for major software companies. Moreover, salaries for programmers in the US are already way higher than in other nations, which doesn't seem to have had a negative influence in the results achieved by these companies.
This isn't very much information to make a decent suggestion, but I will make some assumptions.Assuming that data entered will be stored in the cloud, I suggest making a quick prototype with html/javascript and jqtouch (important for the native look and feel), and you can bundle it up with phonegap (or Titanium can do this maybe, I haven't looked into that).

This is even better if you're still in the testing or market research phase. This way, you don't even have to make it into an app, just host the html and js somewhere and run it in the browser while you show it to people. This allows for rapid changes and iteration, with the zero barrier to entry (aside from a little html and javascript knowledge). If it looks like you want to go forward, it's that much easier to make a native app because you already have the look and feel figured out. This also makes your wishes very clear in the event that you shop the development out to someone else.