skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tough thing here is that you have to essentially monopolize a certain market place like craigslist and ebay have done. If you want to bid on a product you are going to go to ebay, if you want to search for something in your area you are going to go to craigslist. These are your competitors and to take users away from these, while implementing a monthly fee is going to be really tough.

Take a look at what a difficult time oodle is having, even though it is teamed up with the monstrous facebook. People are going to go to the one with the most listings and that's why the big two will remain so.
Relationship: Being in love.

Personal Project: Mental illness.

Family: Organized crime.

Farm: Harvest time.

Anime: Watching Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Yes I do agree with your points.It would have been a lot easier to get funded if you were a citizen.

-But at least now the dream is POSSIBLE as opposed to IMPOSSIBLE.

-You have to make up for these shortcomings by making something that much more awesome.

-And lastly if a VC is not willing to take this simple risk,maybe he should drop the letter V from his designation.
I wish they will do more so every news piece will stop quoting the terrible Florian Muller
Do we need constants?
How to Track Your Computer with Prey
HP is getting out of the tablet and phone business
You painted everyone here with the same broad brush, when opinions were not unanimous. Hell, most people don't even bother to comment.

Please post to Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter if this is really you.

Hard to believe it's real.
Indeed, I didn't want to add even more cruft to my comment, or I would have clarified that I didn't think you saw people skills that way.
WordPress has a lot invested in SVN, so it wouldn't be a trivial switch. I imagine we'll switch eventually, but there are no concrete plans at this time. I actually use Git and git-svn to do all my WordPress core development:

http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/developing-on-wo...
People have been writing bad checks forever, which is why there are safeguards such as withdrawal delays. ExhB is turning off the safeguards.
Not checking for prior art when filing the patent application. Sorry, I guess my comment above looked like I was talking about the current litigation.
I am, thanks! Luckily everything is going fine so far, and GAE is a champ.
Certainly, if you work on an assembly line. If you work in some industry where you have to come up with solutions to problems, the workload may be more lumpy because nobody has figured out how to build a production line for it yet.
Ask HN: Looking for a free, excited young programming intern? I'm right here!
This year, my county school board is offering ten students the opportunity to be part of an official, school sponsored internship program (translate this as legal absence for work time and a justification to my parents on why coding isn’t a waste of my time) where I can work as a free intern with any company that will cooperate. Most students work with local companies that operate in the field of their choice, but I face a dilemma. There is not a large number (or any I know of specifically) of computer science/hacker/developer companies around where I live. So, if there are any companies or startups out there looking for free, offsite intern work from an enthusiastic 17 year old programmer out there, I’m willing to fill that space! If you’re interested, I can contact my school board and see if I would be allowed to intern for you. You can read my resume at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8525185/jgoldsteinresume.pdf, browse my GitHub at github.com/mrjordangoldstein, and read my blog at jordangoldstein.wordpress.com. This should provide you with an accurate picture of my experience, programming skill, level of education, and general qualifications, but if you need more information, I can be reached via email at mr.jordangoldstein@gmail.com. I really enjoy coding, and have been doing so for a number of years. I hope that as an intern I could not just learn, but provide a major contribution to whatever I am part of. I understand that, being 17 and offsite, I may not seem like a potential help, but I would work to the best of my ability on whatever task is needed to fulfill a useful role.

Thanks and looking forward to hearing from you,

Jordan Goldstein

P.S. If you are, for some reason, located in or around Lusby, Maryland USA, I could work onsite.
I had my H-1B visa transferred between companies last week. Took seven business days, not months. My new company paid for premium processing, which is supposedly guaranteed to complete the process in 15 calendar days.
New IBM computer chip mimics the human brain
I'm astonished that they aren't even going to bother selling it off. With the Google/Motorola merger, surely one of the Android partners has to be feeling a little uncomfortable right now. Hell, Motorola was always rumored to be working on its own JS-based OS because it didn't like the position of relying only on Android.
Tragic. It makes me wonder: Now what is Jon Rubinstein's future at HP?
I dislike traditional autosave for one reason: if I open an old document, say a spreadsheet, and play around with it, I definitely don't want any chance that the document is saved.
Boston: Startup Action Slowing, But Still Strong
The masters students must have sufficient funding too.
So does Microsoft come a-calling with a bag with a giant $ on it, and suggest coming back to Windows? Does Google dangle Android?

Or does this mean HP is getting out of mobile altogether? If so, that's a huge mistake, given the state of the market right now. Especially if they are spinning off the PC side of things, what's left for HP? Printers?
Latency is a big issue for the app we're building [plug at the bottom]. Ideally we'd serve content in under 200ms to users around the world. I really can't see how to achieve this without either crazy Javascript hacks or Akamai. Looking up benchmarks suggests Akamai CDN has latency of around 10ms vs 100-200ms for everyone else (!!!) The killer feature, however, is Akamai's edge computing -- there are only two companies I know of that offer this. Unfortunately Akamai are stuck in the crappy business model where everything -- even basic information -- requires you to contact them. So we have to go through the bullshit salesperson theatre while they work out how much they can shake us down for. Not really what a small startup wants. So crazy JS hacks it will be, I expect.

Op plug:
App is http://mynaweb.com/
I just broke the sign up form so email us if you want in on the beta.
I have absolutely no problems with people who don't speak and write in my native language. You're misinterpreting my comment, which was intended to be constructive, and responding with an ad hominem attack by suggesting that I am bigoted.

I think it's quite rational to suggest that work is of dubious quality if something as important as the tagline or elevator pitch contains errors that should be caught by a proofreading or spell-checker. The author spelled it correctly in the title and elsewhere in the text, so it's a simple error, not a lack of knowledge. It would be impolite to not suggest improvements, because the author could use my help.

A rational response to my comment would be exactly as you have done with drv's comment: "Fixed typo, thanks!"
I had the same experience during a snowstorm in Seattle. My flight was cancelled, worse weather was moving in, and I just wanted to get to California for a family holiday.

I got a ticket to San Jose---from Portland. Because I was willing to change my airport and take some extra hassle myself, the agent was willing and able to help out. Ask for something nicely, be flexible on how it happens, and people can do good things for you. (Meanwhile, the lady who was screaming to get the exact flight she'd bought in the first place was turned down, because there wasn't a flight like the one she bought available and she wouldn't flex at all.)
Repeat after me..."It is never too late to be awesome"
On Opera, whenever the spinners are visible, page scrolling is extremely laggy and slow.
'KinectFusion' Kinect 3D Scene Recreation Based on Feature Point Tracking
Monetize your website using private adverts [free limited time offer]
Monetize your website using private adverts [free classified listings]
I loved webos, but I've developed only for iphone/pad. Why? because I know this time next year there will still be iphones being sold that will run what I make today. Can the android platform even say that with certainty?

I'm still bummed. I really wanted webos to make it.
He includes a link to get a Google+ invite for the first 150 people that click. As of about 5 minutes ago, it was still working (I'm in)
Big Brother (US) Season 13 Episode 19
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HP should open source webOS.
Next week, Compaq will spin off Digital and they'll will relaunch their Alpha-based lineup...

One can dream...
Are they going to make Windows 8 tablets?

>HP’s wording up above leaves things a bit vague, with at least two potential routes left open: licensing webOS to others

Why would anyone license something that's basically stillborn even with a company as big as HP pushing it? Obvious choices for OEMs seem to be Android or Windows 8.

Sign me up for a $150 Touchpad at the firesale if there is one(resisting temptation to call it the Ouchpad like a headline did).

That's how much I am willing to spend for the latest OS with no future joining the ranks of good-but-dead ones like Amiga and BeOS.
it's amazing to see how much advancement has been made w/ the kinect - for example, this is where the kinect community was just months ago:

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/11/14/hacked-kinect-is-now...

gj kinect hackers - keep it up! =]
I agree. I think it could make for a very interesting desktop OS, if done right.
If you're interested in the underlying implementation, come hang out on Freenode/#dotcloud. Lots of fun in-depth conversations with the dotCloud team.
HP to ditch webOS
I have the feeling that, if they are getting out of the PC business, they're probably getting out of the tablet business as well.
If it's a raw image with little to no OCR, you won't have that problem.
Poll: How many tabs do you have open now?
I always end up having anywhere between 10 - 25 tabs open at any time. I'm not sure if it's that I need to use Instapaper or get into bookmarking more but i'm interested in if anyone else is in a similar situation.
11 - 20
21 - 30
31+
It ships a lot of derivative and buggy games while chewing up game developers like consumables.
Doesn't matter. He led the destruction of what could have been a great product.
Would there be any problems (aside from the people who've cloned this git repo already) if you got rid of the -branch in branch names? Seems awfully redundant in git. If not, I think it would be an improvement and the sooner the better!
HP Discontinues TouchPad
It is sad that you even need to 'seek discovery' to check such things. Why is it even possible to do business anonymously?
TouchPad canceled, WebOS is dead
When Posterous did it the article discussing was the top story on HN for two days:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1309403
"Listings never expire" is a long time. You may be lucky enough to regret that one day.
I want to do this with all my books and paperwork (old bills, receipts, notes from college, photographs (crappy snapshots, really)). This was my plan:

Buy a ScanSnap s1500m for $420. It does double sided scans at 20 ppm but that doesn't include OCR time or paper jams. Let's guess it averages 500 pages an hour.

Pay a neighbor kid $10 an hour to cut and scan.

Even if I sold the scanner when I was done, this is still way cheaper. It's a shame they don't scan things besides books. Although, I'm not sure I want to send my old tax forms to a sweatshop...
Not Verbs
眼科准看護師鎌倉市口コミランキングで比較！！
It's pretty impressive that no matter how much technology advances, Tivo always manages to make a sluggish interface.
The TouchPad launched on 7/1 in the US; 48 days ago. By a strange coincidence, that's how long it took for the Kin to be cancelled as well.
Me too. (Another case where seeing up votes would be useful)
Amazingly IE7 on XP (work PC) handled that like a trooper! Good job
It is amazing to me that of everyone who has made tablets, only Apple seems to be successful at it. Maybe it is just like someone said recently: there is no tablet market; just an iPad market.
Wow. That was incompetent. Talk about ignoring your OODA loop. Who is the new guy running HP these days?

Had HP been smart they would have stayed in the tablet business and aggressively integrated it with their software stack. Letting customers buy HP from end to end, sort of like Apple.

They've just handed Apple a much easier path into the enterprise market - which they don't seem to be wasting.
The solution with HomeBrew is shown here :
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=278883...
Is the SEC covering up Wall St crimes?
HP is moving deeper into the Enterprise business. First with hardware and now with software. Are they trying to clone IBM or SAP?
Game Addiction (video)
It's a mix of hating Delicious and Bookmarking not fitting with how I get things done. I feel like if I want to read something later I have to leave it open or I never will. When I bookmark or instapaper anything I never get back to reading it.
Projected Capacitive Touchscreens
Imagine you are CFO of mid-sized public company, raising capital to get you through an industry downturn you expect to last several years. It's generally agreed the financing markets will close up at any moment. The financing is an important cushion against bankruptcy, and mass layoffs, 18 months from now. Your deal is almost lined up, but a key investor has raised important and tricky but answerable legal questions about the structure. At 3pm, you schedule a 7:30am meeting to allay their concerns.

You will want your attorney physically present, and never mind that they live in another city.

When your attorney lands at 9:30pm, you will want them to eat something better than Olive Garden. Good food relieves stresses and refreshes body and spirit. You will care a great deal more about the quantity of wine drunk than you will the money spent on it.

Now, imagine you are hiring for that attorney one month previous to this easily-imagined scenario. You are meeting with a candidate. You will care about their dedication, their thorough familiarity with your situation, their ability to confront make or break problems on short notice. Are you satisfied with a video-conference? Or do you maybe want them to fly down for lunch?

This is about your imagination. You can imagine "the upper percentile of wealth" is populated entirely by greedy, stupid people, paid only for structural position and spending only to indulge their ego and appetite. Note, this belief doesn't leave much scope for the reason and ability and pride of the people beneath them.

Or you can generate some curiosity about the world beyond _your_ cocoon.
Hardware seems to have be panned but are the dev tools bad?
>You're assuming that because you don't have days where you've got to travel several hundred miles an then back that nobody else does...or should.

The initial statement in the blog was that everyone has days like that.
Lenovo Ultrabooks With Mainstream Prices
Tallinn and Helsinki truly booming! Garage48 Tartu (http://garage48.org/events) is on next weekend and after that Steve Blank is visiting Finland for a week (www.steveblank.fi). Truly great stuff happening here!
Akamai doesn't deal with small groups, that's probably why they make you jump through hoops.
I'm not expert, but what wallawe says makes sense.

So the next step/question is, what can you do, that ebay and cl already do, but an order of magnitude better. What pain do ebay or cl users experience that they would pay to make go away.

Alternatively, what can you do that ebay or cl don't or can't do.

I've never used ebay, hardly used cl, so I don't have a source of pain to suggest. Since you came up with the idea, hopefully you have something that really pisses you off, perhaps the very thing that motivated you to do this in the first place. If it's just spam, they seem to be doing OK right now.
This breaks down as soon as you have dependencies, e.g. a family, as you can't simply abandon your source of income. But aside from that, just because it takes a couple of years to grow a business into profitability doesn't make it not worthwhile, even if you have to put in a lot of work during those years. A large customer with an gradual payment system based on accreditation would be such a scenario.

Of course it's incompetent to cling to an unprofitable undertaking, but there are valid reasons for working overtime over an extended period.
http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2009/7/22/if-youre-typin... is the best reference.

(Don't do it!)
Here's another link for 150 if that one runs out - I don't know if this adds me to a circle for you to start you off:

https://plus.google.com/_/notifications/ngemlink?path=%2F%3F...
Kin brought some decent tech to the scene but was heavily hampered by Verizon requiring a full cost data plan for a phone that was aimed at teens. Also was an abject failure of the Danger acquisition by Microsoft, so lets see how Google/Motorola does.
e.g. a Bayesian classifier that updates word counts:

INSERT INTO words(word, spam, ham) VALUES(?, ?, ?),(?, ?, ?),(?, ?, ?),…
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE …

and n-grams to this, and document with few thousand words will need 28k parameters.
wtf?!?!?!? HP Pre 3 just launched on Palm Europe??? this makes no sense
I would like to contact therealdiego too -- how do we do it. Just got my letter from Manatt yesterday. Def cannot afford a lawyer.
It looks like IBM with a side order of overpriced corporate IT hardware solutions as well. (PCs/Servers/Printers)
If the hardware were $150, someone will figure out how to put honeycomb on it
Logitech G300 - Budget Priced Gaming Mouse
Hehe. Sorry, that came across more accusatory than I intended. I totally agree with your overall point.

I think Twitter's follower numbers are an example of gamification done right. Useful information that's also a dopamine trigger.
Sure, but I like to dream about developments that I might actually get to see. Full human level AI? Making your brain smarter? 6th senses? I don't see these happening ANY time soon. But a little coprocessor with dedicated functionality seems like an almost-realistic enough possibility to enjoy thinking about.
Good luck!

Clickable:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8525185/jgoldsteinresume.pdf

http://github.com/mrjordangoldstein

http://jordangoldstein.wordpress.com
WebOS has always been the most impressive mobile OS IMO, it's just never had a competent owner or decent hardware to back it up. I hope they do something with it.

This, of course, is coming from one of the suckers that paid $599 for a Touchpad on launch day, so take it with a grain of salt.
Lodsys didn't file the patent application. As far as I understand, these are patents filed by Intellectual Ventures (Nathan Myhrvold's company). Lodsys is just a front for them.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/27/intellectua...
Are people still lacking invites to G+? I've got over 100 left, still, e-mail me if you want 'em, etc.
It appears that the AI is, as they say, 'baked in':

"systems built with these chips won’t be programmed the same way traditional computers are today. Rather, cognitive computers are expected to learn through experiences, find correlations, create hypotheses, and remember – and learn from – the outcomes, mimicking the brains structural and synaptic plasticity."

(Quote from the original press release:
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35251.wss)

This is either marketing fluff, or the most important story I've read this year.
I've been both of those people. I spent 5 years working every waking minute of the day; even if I wasn't at my computer, I was thinking about what had to be done next and constantly anxious to get back to it. I ruined several relationships and generally had a piss-poor life because of it.

Now, though, I work my ass off at my day job, I spend a couple hours a night and the weekends working on my startup, and I spend as much time as I possibly can with my girlfriend. I'm a much happier person, and I'm still making tons of progress in life in general.
I don't think that's right. The Motorola Xoom seems to have done ok, and so did the Samsung tablet.

HP never exerted any effort into its tablet. It released a faulty device just to catch up with the rest of the vendors releasing devices.

I believe that the next wave of Android tablets will be awesome, so the next generation from Motorola and Samsung. HP doesn't seem interested.
Mark, is this a read only repository or pull-requests can be accepted?
There should be a permission for contacting external sites. That's where the biggest security threats lie and most extensions, like a screenshot extension, don't need to be making requests to other sites (like Amazon).
They spent $1.2 billion on Palm, only to kill the whole project after it had been on the market in 48 days?! I had no doubt that HP would bungle that acquisition, but I didn't think they'd do it so spectacularly.
I didn't expect my prediction to come true quite that fast: RIM and HP are the big losers here; I can't see any reason to buy into the Blackberry OS or WebOS from either a consumer or business point of view.
(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2879195)
I guess the writing was on the wall when their UI designer left for Google.
Who would buy it? HTC or Samsung? Nokia? The OEMs are worse at making OSes and dev ecosystems than even HP which has experience making a UNIX based OS. And it's not as if buying WebOS will stop the patent attacks, in fact, it may increase them. They would simply be better off with Android/Windows 8 for tablets

As Nokia's CEO said, it's a battle of ecosystems now, not devices anymore. Maybe RIM's next, either for a takeover, or a failure.
Everyone is so quick to criticise.
It's a rip-off from the University press release which can be found here: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2011/Title,72748,en...
Note that PDF is an open standard...
Apple should just sell the cables at cost (or near-cost) so that they maximize adoption of Thunderbolt. They can make money elsewhere and therefore afford not to profit, but they would gain better adoption in the long-run.