skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Desperation? How do you figure? They have a sweet partnership with Facebook. That doesn't sound desperate to me.

We don't know it's a sweet deal. My gut feeling is that it isn't, but that's by-the-by. We don't know anything.

Slightly more legit? I think the phrase you are looking for is "completely legit, as opposed to some of the others who are lawsuit-bait-on-a-stick.

From the point of view of the users it really is only slightly more legit. From the point of view of the content providers, slightly less legit is not the same as illegal, and from the point of view of the service providers, legal and and a one-off court case is better than legal and ongoing licensing fees.

You also appear to be assuming that Spotify are the only licensed game in town, and will continue to be. This is, of course, trivially untrue (Rhapsody).

Only if that other provider had the same kind of licenses with the record labels. At this point, Spotify is far ahead of the pack at that game.

You appear to be assuming that getting those licenses is difficult. It really isn't. If Spotify managed it, any competent competitor can also do it -- after all, the labels have no particular loyalty to a small Swedish online radio network.
I just realised that my previous post may have been a bit ambiguous. Just for completeness, what I meant was that the spreadsheet was previously unsorted (people would add their details at the bottom) and that someone came along and sorted it by location (presumably to make it easier for people to find each other). However, the sorting doesn't really solve the problem, as you correctly describe.

I made a new column and started adding details in reverse (e.g USA, NY). Admittedly I got a little bored so I didn't do everyone. Re-sorting on that column (if it's ever completed) would solve your problem.
Simplify, Then Add Lightness.
don't think it would be a good idea to mount a gun as you need to ensure a clean kill and be 100% sure of what you are killing

Regardless, I was disappointed when I didn't see/hear PEW PEWs.
The lesson to be learned here is to make things happen - to find a way from A to B - to not take no for an answer.

It is not that breaking the rules is a good thing, only that sometimes it is acceptable.
My issue with Kod is that it hasn't been updated in months. Rasmus is simply too busy to keep the project alive.

I've moved to Sublime Text 2 for the most part but you should also look at Chocolat. It's coming along nicely for basic editing.
Just want to address your "500,000 daily Android activations" comment.

During the C64's lifetime, sales were around 15 million units in total. The C64 was "relevant" between 1981 and 1991. So, roughly 125,000 units sold a month. "Making it the best-selling single personal computer model of all time." -Wikipedia, with sources.

Computers have never sold as much as phones. Phones of any variety. So what?

I don't equate "Skateboard = Automobile" because they both have wheels. I don't change my thinking from skateboard to car because cars sell more.

I like skateboards. I like computers. Neither are going away any time soon.

I think you are confusing "relevant" with "popular" or "big piles of money i'd like to take a bath in." I applaud developers who broaden what they are doing. I applaud investors who want to make money investing in whatever makes money. But, businesses come and go. Commodore, in fact, is a perfect example of botching the business, while others continued to make the product, improve the product, and the product is still relevant.

Furthermore, Facebook didn't invent the "generation gap". It's the same thing over and over and over dating back thousands of years. "Being social" is "being human" and not necessarily "being Facebook." There's a bigger picture here.

Regards,
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That's not necessarily true, you can abide the terms and create a real account with real information, but close your wall, etc, making it essentially a profile with your real name and profile picture.

That wasn't my point though. I get annoyed when I see these non-solutions being offered. Of course, barely anyone will mind the linking of their FB account. Those people who don't, have no obvious way out (sign up for a second email address to sign up for a second facebook account to sign up for spotify). To suggest otherwise is a bit insulting. The answer should have been: "We're sorry, this is just how it will be from now on."
Formtastic 2.0
Sounds good! 5 Min lightning talks are cool! Do it! Gute Besserung. :)
The first is support - Google isn't in the business of keeping you in business.

The second is that you are turning over all of your internal communication, almost all of which should never leave the company, to a third party.
View -> Side Bar?

Don't get me wrong, though. You don't like it you don't like it. It's all good.
http://blog.armorize.com/2011/09/mysqlcom-hacked-infecting-v...
Awesome! I'd love to be there (too)!
I've just cancelled my premium subscription and mentioned 'too much forced facebook integration' as the reason
For the sake of argument lets say time spent on line = revenue. This picture shows us top line numbers. What about costs? I suspect that Google's cost for delivering content is markedly lower than Facebook's.
A quadrocopter would probably be a better bet for hovering/stability

http://www.quadrocopter.us/
Oki! See you next time, Bumi! :)
Seems speculative. Haven't they measured the speed of EM, or possibly some other subatomic particle than the neutrino, with the very same equipment, and gotten the expected and scientifically agreed-upon speed as a result? It seems to me that testing the measuring/timing hardware with a known phenomenon would be a fundamental step before releasing and using it.
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The other difference is that a predator or reaper drone is the size of a small plane, his plane (or anything like it) is about just a basic remote controlled model, a bigger plane would fly much higher and be much more stable.
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We all know the importance of backlinks for a website in order to get good positioning in major Search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. But it’s fact that Search engines are only looking for links that are relevant to your websites.
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Cool! I've been waiting for a good excuse to go to Berlin this fall! ;)
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Any companies on that list using Gmail as their primary email service are foolish. But I'm not sure why you think I was somehow equating Facebook with Google simply because I don't agree that everyone has Gmail and is using it.
Chrome Web Store Gets Global Success
> Now the team plans to update that experiment with about 10 times more data

FYI, more data taken by the same experimental set-up isn't going to help. This is already a 6-sigma result, which means that a statistical fluctuation is ruled out as an explanation (~ 1 in a million chance). Instead, there's almost certainly a systematic error which is being made in the same way for every data point, so taking more data doesn't do anything.
This is so cool! It's such a shame you've posted at such a busy time. There's too much going on on the homepage right now, so unless this gets lots more votes quickly, it's going to die off.

If you don't get on the front page in another 10 minutes, repost as an Ask HN post.

Good luck!
The concept I agree with is the Web will look much less like the Wild Wild West. The Web of Grandma needs easily integrated pieces - this is Apple and Facebook, not Linux and Usenet.

It's not all evil, there will still be behind the curtain users. It's just they won't be as visible. People who aggregate customers charge for the right. Just ask Wal-mart!
This is AWESOME! Just the thing I was trying to achieve with various Delicious tags. Already bookmarked

Some quick comments and ideas:

* I think it would be great if one can sort based on categories and price (and also "show more like this" but that's harder with little user data). It would also be nice to gave a total count of the things you have in your db, e.g. say "26,756 toys for the serious hacker", etc. at the top, this gives a sense of how big your site is and provides "security" that you don't miss a lot of the stuff that I might be interested.

* Didn't see much stuff from ThinkGeek, they make awesome toys, which can be hacked.

* Maybe add hackable IKEA stuff, this is not commonly known and would be useful.

* Links to Instructables or other online sites (when possible) that shows how a particular item can be used in a project.

* A checkbox for each item so that I can make up lists of links and mail them to myself.

* Hacker apparel is an area that doesn't usually get a lot of attention I don't mean just T-shirts, but comfy shoes, pants, etc. too).

* Would be nice to have a thumbnail view lister so that I can see more on a screen.

Overall pretty good for just a weekend project!
Scanning "http://www.mysql.com returns "Verified Clean"...
> It's strange that nobody in this story seemed interested in studying why the program crashed.

You are presuming the terms "never never land" and "just thrashed" refer to a crash, i.e. an abnormal termination. I read them to refer to a program that got bogged down in either unanticipated and extensive computation or abnormally slow I/O. In the context of the story the latter makes perfect sense.

What I suspect is missing from the story is something like Sussman shifting from anticipating a system problem with utilization of system resources to the realization that it was a suboptimal library routine. (That is, a problem with a solution that was the proverbial "simple matter of programming".)

Of course, in hindsight we all have perfect vision...
Yeah, great for him. This law is in place prevent the tragedy of the commons from killing NYC traffic because "well, its ok for ME to block traffic selling my shit".
Agreed. The established order didn't work for him, so he was able to leverage an alternative (but legal) way of achieving his ultimate goal.

There have been some other interesting marketing hacks/stunts over the years. I remember from about 20 years ago one involving the late Eazy E of N.W.A., a rap group which helped take gangsta rap mainstream in the late 80s/early 90s. Eazy E was invited to and showed up for a White House luncheon with then-President George H.W. Bush. How'd he get the invitation? Apparently by donating $2,500 to the Republican Party or the elder Bush's re-election campaign. The press was all over it. Eazy E later said the publicity was worth a million dollars.
I instinctively hit Escape to close the table after I chose an element. Would be cool if that was supported.
Yes, yes and yes. If you do that, I am signing up tomorrow. I love consuming content via email, especially if it's curated. Bonus points for an "export all to Instapaper" button. Another tip: sign up for Charlie O'Donnell's NYC Tech Events newsletter for a good model on this. I also have another friend who is also obsessive about curation - email me off list (email in profile) for more ideas.
SendWrite launch numbers, and some love for Canada
Also need to consider that the ships that find port in the storm are more likely to set sail when it subsides.
Sounds just like Turntable.fm. I would love to signup and use there service but I don't use Facebook.
I'd bring up that "outsourcing their internal email" is not the same thing as "using Gmail". But as to your point about centralization, companies (like Facebook) have tried for years to centralize data and it hasn't worked yet. Microsoft has tried it, IBM has tried it, and Google continues to try it.

I think the issue is that there is difference between allowing people to log into an account with Facebook and companies actually sharing their data with each other. There's also the reality that as companies die, merge or change course, the massive amounts of data they have often simply becomes unused.
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This is nothing more than a bricks-and-mortar version of spam. Misleading subject? Check. Message scrambled so it can pass through the spam filter? Check. Exacerbating traffic congestion at pipe owner's expense? Check. Millions of people's time wasted? Check.

Ok, spam is not genocide, and ok, it moves product. But to make it into an inspiring Young-Entrepreneur-Breaking-The-Rules story? Give me a break.
Actually, given the specific circumstances, I'm not sure that your analysis is correct, IANAL, but obtaining a permit and using it under false pretenses despite performing the activity required by the permit might be illegal.
>but these rules were irrational

Yeah, lets just let anyone who wants to set up shop in the middle of NYC roads. Won't impact traffic in the city at all.
I facebook about as much as I game on my computer (phone doesn't count...). It's an active "I'm bored, let's waste time" decision.
> Search is not easily distributable and will remain silo'ed up for a long time.

Faroo seem to be doing a pretty good job, although their UI could do with some love.
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Combining this with emscripten (http://www.emscripten.org) would probably be quite doable and very cool.
I agree. Took too long to update. I was a textmate user for 3 or 4 years and have now moved on for good.
I understand you don't want to change because it does invalidate a big portion of your article. But by dancing around the problem, instead of addressing it, you did weaken the trustworthiness of your article, and make it sound more of a witch hunt (read: chasing idea without much evidence).

You have two points that I think are reasonable to raise: (1) is there a mistake (intentional or not) in the assumed margin of error in the measuring equipment? (2) is the DRAM caching behavior taken into consideration? Neither of these two points have anything to do with FPGA per se. Now by including the enchilada word "FPGA platform" into the fray (whereas it was clearly not the intention at the beginning), I feel like you are making things up as you go, which is unfortunate since part of your argument is valid.
If their agreement is favourable enough for Facebook, perhaps they decided that the level of control that they had was good enough. With Spotify now building its business model around Facebook, Facebook's control is not far from outright ownership, it would seem. Facebook didn't need to spend x millions for any purchase.
Yes, I have first hand experience with this. Dealing with Google "support" taught me a harsh reality that Google simply isn't interested in support in the way that Fortune 500 companies need and expect.
I doubt consumer web is every going to reach the performance requirements faced in the financial world. Even in gaming where latency is key, sub-100ms latency isn't necessary because humans can't process data that fast.

When I was working at financial data provider where we were serving several hundred thousand users with real time equity prices we looked at the rate which human traders could follow price updates on screen and throttled displayed prices to that speed. I imagine any kind of consumer web product will stop at a similar point.
Can someone please port this to the Mac so I can use it? xoxo
Government education is tuned for creating hordes of marginally competent workers well versed in the carrot<->stick of long term repetitive menial task work. This isn't an accident and is highly unlikely to change anytime soon. To solve the problem for our family we choose to home educate our kids. It is awesome.
Fucking disk I/O. Get some SSDs.
The pipeline to your corporate soul
Show HN: I built a webapp to help web "designers" create logos and fonts quickly
The First Law of Complexodynamics
One who knows the laws well can find fascinating opportunities therein.

Few have ever read any laws, much less understand them well enough to find opportunities therein.
Deer have killed a lot of people and destroyed a lot of property. It's a coveted right for a reason.

You must have a hell of a wireless keyboard, typing from up on that high horse of yours.
Anecdotal, I know, but in my experience my blood pressure is directly correlated with alcohol consumption. I used to be a consumer of 2-3 beers daily. At this time, I was also running approximately 15 miles per week, and working out at the gym. I was about 20 lbs heavier and had borderline high blood pressure. One day I cut out the beer intake, pretty much completely. The 20 lbs have fallen off, blood pressure is normal to below, and I cut back my running to 3-5 miles per week. I crave salt and eat plenty of it with an otherwise healthyish diet(that didnt change)
Interesting post.

It is good to see that the author sees that there is no free lunch.

My semi-outside perspective is that there are firms in an arms race to be the quickest at providing liquidity, but his is a small fixed pie. Everything else is being paid to take risk. It is a tough game, especially for folks with skills marketable elsewhere.

It takes a while, but great for the poster to realize money isn't everything.
Thanks for the mention! I thought briefly about going with a subscription fee, but in reality I want to get it in front of as many people as I can. After about a year of doing it and showing that I was committed to it, I started taking on advertising. It is just a side project, but glad to make some money and looking to do a lot more with it in the future.
Okay, so, funny story: one of my programmer buddies worked for a cruise line. He's an almost-autistic free-radical type of programmer. After fixing up their website, he wrote a new application for the onboard ship customer management system. (The current one is atrocious and a decade old.)

But the project never got the green light and was killed.

If a cruise director had some experience in programming, and realized that the system could be better, then the project could have been pushed for more! Maybe it would actually be on the 30-ish ships in their fleet!
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From Under the Desk to the Cloud
I think you mean Berne: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Protec.... The Geneva conventions are about victims of war.
Most of the book is his less-than-riveting autobiography.

The ~16 pages which are in fact about writing ("Toolbox") are worth more than the cover price.
For more on the HTML5 backend see http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2010/11/23/gtk3-vs-html5/

Basically, toplevel windows (i.e. GtkWindow) act as proxies for remote browsers.
At the risk of making this point to death:

> If you took a random person you passed on a busy London street at lunch time, how much better do you think they would be able to do their job if they knew how to program?

A while back I was in a meeting being given a presentation that had previously been given to the CEO of our company (they were giving it to us to keep us up to date). In it, there was a quite obvious problem with the numbers where the reported percentage increase was nowhere near what the numbers suggested. I raised my hand to point it out and was mildly surprised when the manager giving the presentation told me that he didn't want to report numbers that were too high. I decided not to point out that mathematics doesn't care about what he wants to report.

So anyway, this guy who is paid lots of money at a reasonably sized company doesn't even have a passing knowledge of statistics, something that every school child was supposed to learn. Would he have been better able to do his job if he knew math? Probably. But he doesn't know math. All those years in school didn't really rub off on him.

In any case, if you were to ask how many people use literary analysis, math, art, history or science in their work the answer is going to be close to zero. It's true that lots of people write as part of their job, but most people write poorly and most writing classes focus on analyzing Shakespeare, not writing reports on employee efficiency.

Another argument for programming in schools is the same as the argument for literature in schools. Even if you never need to program in the real world being able to program implies that you have certain cognitive and logical abilities that many jobs require. For example, it is important to be logical if you are a lawyer, even though you needn't program.

I would not be prepared to dismiss coding out of hand because not many people are programmers. I bet it is more pertinent then most of the things I learned in high school.
Actually, much of what I've detailed came as a result of my work on Yahoo! Mail and Calendar, which is a highly complex web application. Smaller "classic" sites can get away with not having as rigid of a system. Nicole Sullivan's OOCSS covers a bit about this component-based approach and Nicole formerly worked at Yahoo! and has done consulting for Facebook and other companies with large-scale web apps.

If you have any additional categorization that you think would be applicable, however, I'm open to feedback.
> The first is support - Google isn't in the business of keeping you in business.

I'm not sure I understand this. Why isn't Google in the business of making sure its paying customers stay in business?

> The second is that you are turning over all of your internal communication, almost all of which should never leave the company, to a third party.

How is this any different from storing source code on GitHub, or using Campfire to communicate?
Blink 182 + SimpleGeo + Soundcloud = Listen to new album with people nearby
From the (very pissed) comment thread on getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/can_you_sign_up_for_spotify_without_facebook?

"In the 90's we had to deal with Windows-only software. Now we have Facebook-only software. Great."
About the HTML support: This only simply draws to a HTML canvas. This is mostly just a nice and simple hack but I doubt that people would use GTK now as an alternative to real web frameworks. I have seen similar hacks for VNC, X11 and other stuff.

This would be much more interesting if the GTK components map to real HTML elements.
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It makes installing random things from PyPi more of an issue of trust (though it has always been this way, even people didn't realize it).
That's pretty cool and could be very useful, how is the performance if it's done over the internet as opposed to locally?
This is one stage of deletes (mark for deletion). The 2nd equally important deletion metric is to purge the deleted records (expunge)... this may be a complicated process, stubbing out or redirecting pointers where need be.

You can force local governments to expunge your data (it's not just off the records, it's forcibly erased).

I think this weight of eternal data is both unnatural and unsustainable. All living things die. Things that don't have a natural cycle of creation and destruction are abominations and should rightfully be feared (see Corporation).
Our post on how "rogue" cloud services are making their way into the Fortune 100/500/50 ... a response to 37Signals blog.
Google News Gets Social: Standout, Brand Pages and Personalized News
just watch the vids on the link.
with dependencies making a demo per distro sux
then there's live cds but.. vids on the link are just fine ;-)
I'm still on my desktop(well laptop) at least 8-10hrs a day. Otherwise my phone and occasionally on my ipad before bed.
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