skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if they are selling these at a loss? I can see it going down well in the XDA/Hacker community...
I highly recommend you check out oasis (http://oasis.forge.ocamlcore.org/). It's a meta build system which is quickly gaining traction in the OCaml community. It's still in early development but works extremely well for most projects.
MeeGo rebooted as Intel and Samsung launch new Tizen platform
There also seems to be a contingent of knowledgeable Twitter users in a boat off the west coast of Africa.
(I'm kidding - this is due to tweets where lat,lon = (0,0))
I know lots of people who work at Apple and I assure you their taste in clothing is not what's making the products great. When you argue that someone's taste in clothing is significant of their taste in other things, you risk being perceived as condescending.
Wikipedia Co-Founder Jimmy Wales Describes The Site's Hold-Out On Social Media
On the plus side: what are the odds that you both get locked out AND you desperately need your backups on the same day? They're both unlikely events. (You might want sync, but hopefully you won't need the backup due to a hard drive crash or some such.)

Of course, if enough people use the service, then statistically, it will happen several times.
Dressing however you want is fine, until you start calling it 'dressing better' and looking down on those who don't do it with you.
You misread that - the hourly rate and dev time in hours refer to the buyer (a developer) having to develop a functionally similar product (instead of purchasing it).
> "One is great for movies with a larger screen (and that is just about the only thing my iPad gets used for"

And this is why I think Kindle Fire has a chance.

The author himself admits that his iPad is really only good for movie watching. Well, now you can do it for a shockingly low price of $200, and everything streams from the internet, no long download or sync necessary.

Remember all the people complaining about the iPad being a pure media consumption device, and how that will destroy the creativity of the world? Well, this is that idea taken to the extreme - this device practically does nothing else. And I think it will work.
one thing i didnt understand.. this fire thingy has an eink display or not? and what about the digital library of books someone was talking about?
Easily solved with this chrome extension which gives you a dropdown with links to the google cache, as well as The Internet Archive, Yahoo Cache, MSN cache(Bing Cache), CoralCDN, Gigablast, and WebCite.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/coblegoildgpecccij...

or, as others have said, just google for cache:<url>
Wow. That looks a lot like an old Palm device.
Agreed. I don't think the language is right for newbies:

"What is computing with Unix?

Unix is a family of operating systems and environments that exploits the power of linguistic abstraction and composition to orchestrate tasks."

That isn't a question a newbie would ask or an answer they'd understand. Instead, I think the following would have been (less accurate but) much more helpful:

"What is Unix?

Unix is just an operating system, like Microsoft Windows or Mac OS."

Know your audience!
Hands-on with Amazon's new Kindles
Amazon Silk web browser adds new twist to old idea
>they have hundreds of stores that will serve as points-of-sale for the Nook.

I've seen Kindles in Wal-marts and Targets recently.
Have you successfully marketed a game? If so, what were some things that you did to market it? I see games in magazines and websites, and usually it's the AAA companies that get easy marketing no matter what they do, but often times when a small guy gets popular, I'm left wondering how he was discovered when a million others weren't.
The effectiveness of deception is not mitigated by your opinions of its likability.
ASIHTTPRequest no longer developed
Strange messing with user agents. The only one it shows an ad on is the "iPad" user agent.
Hi, thanks but that is what I've been doing for ages.
I was 2 years into my search for seed funding for what some other guys launched as Gigwalk. I keep looking at GW to see what they are doing and it is not living up to the potential that I had imagined for it. I want someone to build a Gigwalk service that is aimed at professionals and also that allows the buying and selling of information with complete anonymity at both ends of the transaction. Tasks may be interviews, covert video or photos, translation of foreign texts - all aimed at professional journalists and information gatherers and all paying a lot more than current location based tasking chores.
The fastest mobile phones (and even tablets) are still significantly less powerful than a netbook. Amazon's own devices will probably have even weaker CPUs than cutting edge mobile devices simply because the price point.
It isn't 100% of the user base. I would guess the majority of users don't care/use/know about page caches so overall it is a simpler UI. The simpler UI will improve the UX for 80% users (lets say for the sake of the argument) and the other 20% will either be able to figure out the marginal increased complexity or will be outweighed by the improvement of the previously mentioned users.
"Apple charges a premium because of the perceived value of its products"

Is this necessarily true these days? Air vs Ultrabook pricing for example?

I take the general point. In the UK college education sector there are two main players for providing virtual learning environments. One is open source, the other has a lease contract price in the tens of thousands per year (depending on the number of seats). Both are widely used!
Right but they solved that problem in 2009. It's 2011 and Grooveshark is still mostly pirated content.
"My iPad can replace my laptop for basically everything but work" - so I guess my point stands. I was trying to argue against OP's point that all these things "Web browsing, listening/browsing/buying music, twitter et al, emails, games, books, movies/tv shows, etc, etc" can be done on a Playbook too.
I'm really interested to see how this plays out. From casual observation, I see a lot of people wanting a non-ipad tablet as their requirement, and the amazon one will fit the bill perfectly (cheaper, non-ipad, relatively hackable, is going to have a lasting presence as a product line - unlike touchpad/playbook).
I think the title was somewhat of a dark humor double entendre: "made a killing" might also refer to Merckle's death.
Two major points: (1) It uses a single SPDY connection to the Amazon cloud. (2) It compiles JS down to ARM machine code.
Wow ... I think there was a definite misunderstanding on Marco's part, but that's a pretty snarky response veiled as an "apology". And even a little bit of "it was completely accidental" thrown in for good measure.
But not so lazy that they couldn't install turn-key server software or a proxy that would do it for them. Much of it wouldn't necessarily require new standards, it could work using existing technology. For the parts of it that would require new standards, provided there is a proven reduction in latency, it seems like the win would more than make up for the expense of making a new standard.
Weird - according to this http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393740,00.asp#fbid=rvU... it is running 2.3?

But they say they are not doing anything to prevent root - awesome!
I've closely followed the development and rise of Unity3D for the last four years and now i'm planning to do ALL my future 3D related projects with it, because it streamlines and simplifies the whole cross platform(PC, MAC, iOS, Android...) development process. There are of course drawbacks.

It is not that convenient to work with larger teams on the same project and documentation on how to do that is sparse.

It has been done however, even EA has adopted the engine for a few projects (Tiger Woods Online) and there are whole MMOs built with it.

As more and more larger companys start to use it, the focus of the developers behind Unity will shift to all those Team issues.

The pricing and license agreement is VERY competitive and they are having sales every few month.

Qualcomm even released their Augmented Reality Platform as a Unity Package which I currently use to do some projects with.

Overall i think its the best middleware package for indies and mid-size companys today.
His audience are CS students: As a professor, I worry that the upcoming generation of programmers is missing out on the Unix experience, and with it, the power it grants.

Your answer is too simple for them.
Keep believing that and you'll be in trouble in the next 6 months to 3 years.

I will? We don't market directly to consumers, so I have the added benefit of maintaining an attitude towards marketing not skewed by the cognitive dissonance that I have watched build in my friends as they ramp up their marketing efforts.

For example, you mention the difference between spamming and "ethical marketing" there is only spam and spamming that happens to stay on this side of the CAN-SPAM act.

Not sure I understand "quit trying to destroy your customer relationships with sms marketing?" What do you mean by that?

Every single time I receive an SMS about something that I didn't explicitly and narrowly ask to be informed about, someone loses my buisness. Everyone from some startup I forgot about months ago to my previous optometrist.
Totally agree. There is a reason I don't use Bing...I don't like all the clutter. Now Google seems to think that adding more stuff to a SERP is going to help them save market share...I don't get it.

They must be testing this stuff, so maybe it's just me. I could get used to Google Instant....but not sure about Instant Preview.
proof or it's bullshit
I didn't grow up with K&R, so I'd be very interested to hear reactions from the crowd here who did.
I thought the ad-hominem-ish bit about rvm was disappointing. The Ruby landscape is a weird place where each project belongs to one and only one name. Instead of improving on projects, people prefer to invent their own, and then the drama race begins. Open your Gemfile and try to find a gem with a truck factor != 1.

I think it is natural and understandable because there are many Ruby freelancers around who desire to build a brand around their name. But the "competition" between rbenv and rvm was not constructive at all so far. It would be much more helpful if there was one .rubyversion file that both would respect, for starters.
It's Gatorade these days; I've been cutting back on my caffeine steadily for the past few years. I can't quite make the switch to tea like my coworkers. I don't like tea. :c
where's your proof then?
Hyperpublic Launches Free POI Database
That only works if you don't fail so badly that you can't try again.
Clothing is a symbol, and shortcut. A guy in a nicely tailored suit in the business meeting shows that they care about details, are successful enough already to have the suit, etc, etc.

Shortcuts are important to social interactions, and outside physical labor, much of work is social interactions. (yes, even in software).
Geez, the point is that he is really fighting and going all-the-way for his company. A lot of guys would have stopped on the original "No". A lot of guys would have left after having sat in the lobby for a few hours. A lot of guys would have ceased pushing when being asked to show "respectable" company premises. See why he is so respected?

A comment from PG about him I will never ever forget even though I had never heard of Altman before goes like this: "You can leave Sam Altman on an island full of cannibals and when you come back a year later, he is the king of the cannibals."

This is one of the most awesome character traits to ever have. You WILL be successful by being like this, it's just a matter of time.
> This is much more like collective bargaining than giving up freedom.

Well, it is giving up freedom, regardless of what it is like.

Keep in mind that there is a strong tradition in political discourse (in the U.S. at least) that using the word "freedom" is a signal that we are in favor of something, and thus, that "giving up freedom" is a negative thing. However, "freedom" is a word with a clear definition, and we can use it without intending the above signal.

So, it seems to me that this policy of Princeton's is a fine idea. It is nonetheless a reduction in the freedom of Princeton's faculty.

In contrast, at my own university the faculty contract explicitly assigns rights in their research to the researcher. The university gets a royalty-free license, but that's it. I have never had occasion to consider this contractual clause in a negative light, but here it is: my university could not enact a policy like Princeton's without violating the contract. (OTOH, my university is not nearly as big of a player as Princeton; at present such a policy would probably not be helpful.)
Even more so once you use VoIP for all your calls and XMPP for your text chats.
Nope, still need a DX for PDF and images. Even zoomed, it's hard to make out small notations in graphs and pictures.
When I originally wrote CouchRest, it was just the "non-magic" parts, and was a clean little library. Then one day I had about 3 hours fun, adding a query generator as an experiment. Next thing you know, that aspect had gained contributors and grown into a full blown ODM. If you just use the basic features, CouchRest should treat you just fine. The only reason you'd use the extended stuff is if you are more comfortable with Active Record style APIs than with HTTP. Turns out that's not a small set of people...
IIRC US bandwidth is increasing roughly 10% per year. I'm pretty sure it's some private company that does these metrics though, as I think this is the only thing the government releases:

http://www.fcc.gov/measuring-broadband-america

I forget the exact numbers off the top of my head, but I just remember it being really difficult to actually find the statistic. But the takeaway is that although we are theoretically #27 in terms of broadband speed, our actual broadband speeds aren't that much lower than in other countries.

edit: http://www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet/

The Akamai report here is probably the most credible source. I remember there being one other report that covered this info, but I can't find it right now.
Isn't this quite well known? There are loads of sites using display:none for valid reasons
That's kind of contradictory to how Amazon is positioning them:

"These are high-end products"

That's the first phrase of the first paragraph after the product image.

I'm not saying they need to cover them in alcantara, but the old smooth-matte finish is much better than this.
This is a hoax. Put down your pitchforks.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2042717/Alessio-Rast...
Announcing Drift
Ask HN: Successful startups that didn't come from top-tier Universities
Reading about startups I always have the feeling that most of the "hyped" startups come from the Ivy League so sometimes it seems like it can be very difficult for someone who didn't come from that circle to succeed, specially in the Valley.
Can you give any examples (or are you an example) of a successful startup that didn't come from a topnotch university? Would you mind sharing some of your story, the problems you had to deal (if any) for not being from a top-tier university?
Heh, I think the objection to suits and ties is that they are often no better looking that shorts/t-shirt.

I had no style for the first 20 years of my life, regarding it as simply vanity and not worthwhile.

Turns out it can be fun to develop your own style. It is a lot more than 'wearing a tie three times a week'. It means moving beyond Dr. Who tees and thinking about colors and lines; and looking in a mirror once in a while.

It doesn't take too much time or money, and is great when you get complements from strangers.

It is correct that fit is important. I would say the most important. Get rid of the too-large t-shirts and too-short pants.

And never ever buy an uncomfortable dress shirt.
The articles are about Samsung's first, 7", Froyo based tab. The 10.1 and 8.9 Honeycomb tabs are selling so well, that they are nowhere in stock (you are given about week delivery time on order). And yes, that's in Europe, German judges have jurisdiction only in Germany, nowhere else.
There's this little market called enterprise software...
Didn't Tribes.net get acquired from Cisco for like a lot of money?
Amazon Will Lose $50 For Every Kindle Fire Tablet Sold. Here's Why?
I'd like to be able to read outside or on the bus next to a window comfortably. I don't really want an iPad since I'd rather have a device optimized for reading documents than watching youtube.

As for Kindle DX vs regular Kindle - I don't have the best eyes so I usually prefer bigger screens. I have a Droid X rather than an iPhone or another Droid because the screen is easier for me to use. I'm also very tall and have large hands. Bigger products are usually more comfortable for me to use.
So I work in a niche consulting area (helping companies build out developer platforms). I like to earn the most money I can, so I tend to only work with public companies, large corporations, etc because they can afford to pay the most.

Startups approach me all the time, given that I'm quite well connected in the startup scene from my other activities here in SF. But they can't afford to pay me what BigCorps will pay me. There's no point in me telling them the value I can provide and doing the dance because the bottom line is they usually don't have the kind of funding to make it feasible.

And for me, there isn't the equivalent of "well this is what I can do for $500" - I charge by the day and you either pay my rate or you don't. Fortunately I have enough business that will.
He didn't promote himself. Why is he unqualified? Is it because he said things that you don't want to hear?

He is right, bankers and traders are there to make money and don't care about anything else at all. He exposed Goldman Sachs and their ilk for the vampire squid they truly are.

The big players have stacked the world in their favor and the fact that this is an unpleasant truth does not make it otherwise.
Groupon may need more cash from its investors prior to IPO?
already posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3049123
I can't agree more with this evaluation. I'm happy that at least Amazon didn't kill off the e-ink Kindle.

Doing a lot of testing, I use an iPad 1, iPad 2, MacBook, Galaxy Tab, iPhone, and a netbook near-daily. My favorite electronic device is definitely my Kindle, because it doesn't feel technical and encourages me to do things - to read often, and pay attention - that I want to do in my heart of hearts, not things I'm distracted into doing, like cheap games and so-called social networking.
From the 3rd video, it looks like the scrubbing calculator could be implemented as a "plugin".
Kindle Fire: Developers be Warned
There are a lot of sites that are just mirrors of SO questions now though, which is also incredibly annoying.
> The major cost of a journal is the peer review process, editing, and printing.

Nope, just printing.

Peer review is unpaid. In technical fields, at least, editing these days is done by the author (and/or whoever assists at the author's institution) and sometimes by peer reviewers. With LaTeX being standard, the author even does the great majority of the typesetting work. None of these people are funded by the journal. So you are certainly right about the time required; but the people who spend all this time never see that money.

Now forget the paper version and just put it all on the web, and we see that an academic journal can be run very cheaply indeed.
Google joins the quest to discover the Bible
Ask HN: VISA permit to stay in a startup incubator
Coming from an European country, can I use "participating in an incubator program" as a reason to join the US as a business travel?
Alan Kay Presenting Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad (Video)
America's Fertility Class Divide
The fact that strength athletes do not follow this regime - powerlifters, Olympic-style weightlifters, strong-man and bodybuilders - should give you pause. What should give you further pause is that people who use strength training as a supplement to their main sport also don't follow this regime.
I am wondering could it internally be webkit node.js/webwokrer combo?
GitHub Maven Plugins
You should see if you could also become a distributor for milkymist.org (open hardware VJ system).
Facebook fixes its cookie ‘bug’
You're missing the point -- the site owners probably WANT that content to be indexed, but traditional spam protection measures have included (in the foggy past) not indexing the contents of hidden elements. BMW Germany famously stuffed a hidden DIV full of spammy keywords.
Comfortable dress shirts and ties do exist.

I disagree, at least for off-the-rack clothes. I have a 17.5" neck, and looking at me you wouldn't think I'm a no-neck football player. When I get a fitted shirt that is correct for my neck, it means that I've got to fold in at least 4" extra fabric around my waist. It seems that all clothes here in America assumes that some people are obese, and the rest of the population is merely fat.

I think the only way to get a dress shirt that's anywhere near the right size is to have it tailor-made.
I'd like to contact you to talk about business, could you send me some contact info via the info in my profile?
Yikes! That is almost 100% taxes.
Specifically, well fitting clothes accent your body where you want it accented. If there's no spot you want accented... well...
No plan for making money on it. Just doing it for the fun of it!
Some people do things like that and either seem seem desperate or overbearing while doing it. It's the rare individual that can remain confident and drive forward under such circumstances.
The granularity I'm referring to is in the nuanced behavior of an individual in the act of shopping. Apparently, the algorithm has established that you follow a pattern of contemplating Cadburry chocolate bar purchases on every visit, well now your Inbox contains a buy 2 get 1 Free Cadburry coupon that only works for you.

Once this is cheap enough that anyone with a high def webcam can consistently track/identify faces, this technology is going to be used by everyone.
This is a very good example of the kind of thing I see in all sorts of frameworks, where someone (often me) is trying to do something that isn’t 100% plain vanilla, and TheOneTrueRightWayToDoThis isn’t obvious. Our hapless programmer thinks of something, tries it, it appears to work, and they move along. Meanwhile, it only appears to work “by coïncidence," and in reality there is a hidden bug waiting to bite.

The ideal situation is to do more research and really understand how the leaky abstraction actually works, but there is never enough time in the day and deadlines in the calendar are closer than they appear...
"Negative text-indent can cause accessibility problems. Scenario "CSS on-images off" will see no content at all."

What disability is overcome by leaving CSS on and turning images off?
It sounds to me like you really want to believe that this guy has the absolute line on truth. I see you've made similar comments here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3049244

and here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3049240

So I suggest you read the article linked to from here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3045980

Quoting from that article:

"They approached me," he told The Telegraph. "I'm an
attention seeker. That is the main reason I speak.
That is the reason I agreed to go on the BBC. Trading
is a like a hobby. It is not a business. I am a talker.
I talk a lot. I love the whole idea of public speaking."

Sounds to me like he has no real qualifications, and I should pay just as much attention to him as other self-proclaimed experts. Whether I want to believe what he says or not, there seems to be no reason to believe he knows more than anyone else.

However, you seem to want to believe him uncritically, and that's your prerogative.