skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My immediate thought was to do a hough transform. The equation for rectangles has very few parameters and finding "complete" rectangles at any given point would fast, though slower than this technique in honesty

the bonus of the hough transform approach is that you'd get ALL the complete rectangles. Also you could (optionally) get the biggest rectangle which is almost complete (let's say missing one or two pixels). Which is nice in the practical case when you are looking for shapes because "noise is a bitch"

word.
Even better, products that charge by the month have a way of making you more money every month.

This bit of advice is probably in the top 3 of "Things I wish someone had told me in 2006."
In general, I agree with you about domain squatting.

What makes this case a lot more palatable is that they have actually put the time and effort in to mock up a logo to go along with the domain. Sure, it's not much, but they did actually add some value, they are not simply generating names and registering them automatically. It may or may not be worth $250, but it's a lot better than people selling just domains for thousands just because they got there first.
I use Perl almost exclusively. CPAN is my one word argument. Aside from that, though, Perl can become whatever you make it. Want Ruby-like method calls on literals? Use autobox. Want list comprehensions? Map/grep. Want to rip apart language built-ins at runtime, tie data sources to filehandles, or just use it for one-liner awk replacement? Done.

Python and Ruby are sexy but they both feel like subsets of Perl to me.
Microsoft ahead of Apple in something
I think it's a great idea. They need way more domain names though (100x).
"The real motive on the both sides is to reduce the sales of the opponents."

Only so much as they want to increase their own sales. Samsung is looking for validation that their close copying is not illegal so they can continue doing so and reaping the benefits. Apple is looking to force Samsung to differentiate their products more through court order or public shaming.
it depends...if avg over a period is X, i am willing to pay atleast 7-10 times X. But i have a cap for the upper limit. If you have pls mail me the details. will discuss further.
You don't. But given a large enough group of people, some will contract the infection "organically." So some people get a vaccine and some get a placebo and then you check back in years later and see if the vaccine group has a lower infection rate.
That's fine, but we must also keep in mind that the difference in competencies can also lead to different definitions of success, of which Samsung's might be less visible. Samsung can still make a pretty good impact with a strategy for a symbiotic profit-sharing agreement on the iPad (Apple doing the OS and marketing, and Samsung supplying crucial hardware); with the Galaxy as a sideshow, its only purpose to achieve a good bargaining position vs. Apple regarding the profit shares.
Destructuring in CoffeeScript
Disadvantages perhaps, but this is still one hell of a concept
This debacle is what made me finally switch to Pinboard. Well, that and I like the Pinboard guy's developer blog. http://blog.pinboard.in/
When you have to think about an entire manufacturing process, your supply chain, how many you can ship at a time and for how much, the marketing implications, the user experience, concerns over crushing the device, concerns over crushing the box itself, etc, designing the packaging becomes a considerably more complex problem.
Disqus uses this technique to inherit the font color of the embedding page,

To accommodate this wide range of design scenarios, we decided to use our own
custom web font via @font-face instead of traditional raster-based icons. This
provides us with the flexibility of inheriting font color and size from a site’s
existing aesthetic at an incredibly small file size (5kb). Since font-faces are
vector-based, we are able to serve these icons at any size without consequence.

http://blog.disqus.com/post/2944356158/introducing-houdini-t...
Grouper founder's pants seem to be perpetually on fire
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Not sure what signed employment contracts have to do with someone flaking on starting a job. Guy doesn't want to work for you, he's not going to work for you. No contract in the world changes that. Companies that give out 5-figure signing bonuses still lose people to better offers. That's life in the big leagues.

You don't make yourself look better by slagging people for doing something that everybody does.

If you want to pick this apart, I'd be interested in knowing the whole story. What was the comp package you offered him?
There have been two recent developments that lead me to believe RIM definitely needs to get out of this market.

The (obvious) first is the Kindle Fire... This device will succeed and will cannibalize sales from tablets not called iPad (and maybe the iPad too). Plus the Fire is virtually the same hardware as the playbook at $200 with a thriving ecosystem.

The second is the state of Android on the Playbook. It just came to light (through some very damning articles) that virtually no android apps will work on this device. The idea was gimmicky and the execution on that idea seems to be even worse. There's no android utopia here.

I hate to say it, but RIM has no other option than to sit and watch. Maybe they can maintain a decent niche in the corporate world, maybe not. The reality is that they are not in control of their destiny. Their survival depends entirely on what their competitors choose to do.
I can take one!
To say nothing of Amazon's proven ability to extend and differentiate Android and integrate it's own popular media applications.

Even if Samsung could manufacture tablets that matched Amazon on specs, the price delta couldn't possibly be large enough to attract a consumer to stock Android media apps over Amazon's offerings.
From my classes in veterinary medicine, I believe the herd immunity is around the 80% mark, at least for livestock and their diseases.
Where to find a Reliable Link building Company
Wordnik explains coffee lingo (USA coffee day today)
Yeah she made a remarkable recovery - she was left with a very slight scar on her forehead. However, she was still bothered by pain from the afflicted area for years after.
Bezos: “If You Are Just Building A Device You Are Unlikely To Succeed.”
Bi-Xenon The Best in mya shop
> Like pay them a lot of money

Highly unlikely, considering Apple's complete lack of interest in licensing or having a clone market.
A live and public website in use for a long time by so many people, goes back to beta and breaks everything. In an offline world, a service like that would possibly call for lawsuits all over.
I don't want to bum anyone out, but there have been quite a few potential vaccines that have made it through Phase 1 trials (several made it all the way to phase 3) only to be ultimately abandoned as ineffective or unsafe.

Phase 1 is generally a small trial that is primarily designed to test the safety of the drug, not its efficacy.
Who on earth is voting this up?
You're trying to find a technical solution to a people problem. That generally doesn't work.

Finding a people solution will yield better results: stretch targets; output quality reviews; regular 1-2-1s; discussion about career progression; more responsibility.

If they're actually at a low enough level where a program will obviate the need for you to fulfil your managerial responsibilities, why not outsource, pay for piece work, etc. There's no benefit to you to keep motivated workers employed - there's nothing to motivate them /with/.
I'll second the dancing idea. Salsa and other types of latin dance are especially good, since the culture of those dance forms is (generally) that there is nothing wrong in asking a girl to dance whether she is in a relationship or not.

But if you're the introverted type and not comfortable with your dance skills (like me when I started), you still have to swallow your pride and get out there. There is no getting around that. Just don't go join a dance club (or any other hobby-based group) with the sole intention of meeting women because (1) you won't enjoy it and (2) the women will sense it.
I also block AWS/EC2 on my servers because it's a relentless source of badly behaved bots, freeloading SEO scrapers, and poorly misguided startup ideas (no, I don't want you to proxy SSL connections for my users--just think about it for a second, for crying out loud).

Now with Fire & Silk in the mix, how do you even go about protecting your content from Amazon, if they can get it directly from the browser, cache it, and make it available to their own paying customers (who might have been blocked by your firewall, for whatever reason)?

I can accept that since it's technically possible, they'll just do it, and resistance is futile. But if you want to locate bad netizens, AWS/EC2 is an excellent starting point.

Remember, this isn't just about publicly-available content, it undermines the entire trust model of TLS/SSL (and exposes some of its underlying weaknesses, hopefully spurring development of a better solution in the long run).
How We Built Our Real-Time, Location-Based Urban Geofencing Game
I wouldn't focus so exclusively on someone who specializes in bi-directional video. Given the somewhat desperate nature of your situation, that seems too narrow. Just try to find a kick-ass hacker and assume that he can quickly learn the finer points of your niche.
Homepage re-vamp 3 weeks post launch... Can you figure out what we do?
We launched our little start-up about 3 weeks ago and have seen tons of traffic (yay!) but discovered that many of our users didn't have a clear idea what we do (yikes!) until they poked around our site a little. So, we've revamped the homepage to make things more clear (we hope).

Please take a look and let me know if you could confidently describe what we do to someone else and, if not, what we should tweak on the homepage to fix it?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Link: https://www.TheWisdomofOthers.com
Since the article doesn't give much of an answer, I will:

Because it is setting with more blogging capabilities, meaning you probably don't need a small personal blog on a one-off site like livejournal/blogger/etc anymore. It's easily set up to both share with your friends and share with the public, and easy for the public to subscribe to you in a less-confusing way than having both people pages and fan-pages (like on fbook).

I have a site and blog for serious posts (mostly JavaScript Canvas stuff) and I used to also have a blog that only my close friends followed (it was Livejournal). Most of the stuff posted there was amusing or interesting to me but I didn't want to crowd out my serious blog.

On Facebook you can write "notes" but they aren't very typical. On G+ long-form status updates (5+ paragraphs) are typical so I can use it to replace what Livejournal used to do much more naturally than I could have with Facebook. Google+ is essentially much more of a blogging platform than Facebook seems to be, and I really like this.

A lot of people are already using it like this (a blogging platform for friends or the public) ie Tom Anderson (of MySpace fame):

https://plus.google.com/112063946124358686266/posts/2ggynxog...

I've never seen similar posts on Facebook, save for the very rare note.

I too had a Flickr but I don't use it anymore. Few people looked at it and most of the images I want to post are not professional enough to post there, meaning I'd only post maybe 1 image a month on it. With Google+ I can give my friends more image-laden updates into my personal life. I like this. (I could do this on Facebook too).

There's nothing wrong with keeping up both. If I think something is good enough to share on facebook then I will post it on G+ and post a link to it on Fbook.
An Apology for Agile: When to (Not) Use It and How to Make It Work
It says they used 30 people.
This type of stuff happens all the time. It is the result of completely depending on a technical cofounder. Never, ever do that.

This happened to me with one of my products. I am a hacker but the level of expertise the product needed was beyond what I had to offer.

After a certain point in the development process, I was completely dependent on my partner. He never delivered anything on time and finally just stopped working on it when a paying client came around (although I offered to pay him many times).

Now, when I pursue something new, I make sure I can build it myself even if I do find someone I want to work with.
>I let Ted’s former CEOs [the one who hesitated on ‘dishonesty’ word association] know what happened

I don't think this was a good idea. As you mentioned the warnings and red flags were all there but you didn't heed them. It's pretty clear that your awe of this guy was clouding your sense of judgement:

"... disappointed because of how much of an impact Ted would have had in taking us to the next level."
Death of BlackBerry PlayBook Means CIOs Must Plan for an Apple World
I have been using this method for nearly a year on various projects and theme designs. The font icon method is incredibly useful when you want to give user the flexibility to change up the color of the icons. Plus, as mentioned using CSS pseudo elements with content should not effect modern screen readers.

One of the disadvantages mentioned in the article is the file size, but it can be drastically optimized. My favorite icon font is Pictos by Drew Wilson (http://pictos.drewwilson.com/). When I use it in a site design I will actually recreate the font file with just the few icons I need, usually 6-8 characters.

To reduce the font file size just load up the icon font in Font Squirrel's font-face generator (http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator) and use custom subsetting to specify the needed characters.

Full Pictos Font
EOT (19 KB), WOFF (13 KB), TTF (18 KB), SVG (41 KB)
Total - 91 KB

Optimized Pictos Font (8 characters/icons required)
EOT (6 KB), WOFF (4 KB), TTF (5 KB), SVG (5 KB)
Total - 20 KB
It's funny to me how people are reading this. I was going to challenge your quote from the opposite direction (i.e., as being too weakly stated): I think Amazon's entry into the tablet market proves that HP's exit from it was very much the right call. I thought so before, and it's inescapable now. HP would only have been throwing good money after bad to continue.

I like WebOS (I used a Pre for a while) and sure, it would be great if HP could somehow be a significant player in the tablet market. I just don't see how it can happen. HP was late to the party and there's massive competition.

The only justification I could see for continuing to sell the TouchPad is if customers (primarily business customers) came to feel that HP's offerings were incomplete without it, and that drove them to other suppliers for desktops and laptops. I suppose it's possible things could get to that state, but I don't see it happening soon. Trendiness aside, I don't see many problems that businesses have that a tablet solves better than a netbook ... as witnessed by the iPads I see people carrying with cases and external keyboards.

Edit: clarification.
Your FUTURE
If you lost your job or your income today... how long would it take you to lose your car,your house, your sanity?
Wait .. you're saying that good leadership is setting expectations early, being consistent, and following up on them?!

Of course it is. In my experience those are the two hardest things for people (including me) to do.
No, he would lose creditability with everyone. You do not "punk" other companies. All future meetings would be clouded with the thought "is this real, or another punk by this guy".
I think this needs a little more thought. Think about this: Delicious doesn't really have a successful business model (if any). Yahoo! was about to kill it.

Now AVOS picks it up. Why would a startup pick it up? There is no way they can make a successful business out of the current state of the site.

But Delicious does have one thing: a big set of users and their bookmarks. Information.

It is obvious that AVOS was going to have to change the system enough to build a business model to experiment with. These changes are doing exactly that. They very well could be experimenting with the features, to see if their business model (hopefully there is one) works.

Now I agree with experimenting, I am EXTREMELY disappointed with the execution of it.

There are things that you just have to do right. Experimenting with features is fine, and since I get Delicious from free, I am willing to experiment. But if the site FAILS most of the time. That is unacceptable. I don't care if Eric Ries says "EXPERIMENT", use the "SCIENTIFIC METHOD". This is no excuse for doing a poor job with your tools and your subject of experimentation.

Unfortunately for them, and I do feel for them, I don't think the site will recover from this. The trust is gone. At least with me.
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Ask HN: 23yrs old. About to inherit. What would you do?
I'm a developer living in a major city in the US. The sum of inheritance is really small in the scheme of things (35k) - but I've never seen that kind of money in a lump sum before. I work at a startup making 75k. What would you do?
CSS Web fonts have been in IE since (essentially) forever, and the :before / :after pseudo-element since IE8.
F.lux for iOS devices now available
Hidden in the comments on the f.lux website is an announcement:

"Hey guys, if you have a jailbroken iPad or iPhone, f.lux is now available for iOS. Go to Cydia > Manage > Sources > Edit > Add: flux.herf.org > Search for "f.lux". Install! It's nice on phones, but amazing on iPads. Let us know how you like it!"

After the install, you can configure it in Settings. I tried it out; it works really well but right now it has just three options:

Choose lighting: At night: [Candle | Incandescent | Halogen | Fluorescent]

Disabled for older devices: Long transition: [ON | OFF]

Turn off for color-sensitive work: Enabled: [ON | OFF]

Unfortunately there's no way to configure the daytime color temperature or the duration of night, so you have to keep resetting the clock if you want a reddish screen during the day.

You might be wondering how it works; a disassembly reveals that it uses these functions:

_IOMobileFramebufferGetGammaTable
_IOMobileFramebufferSetGammaTable
_IOMobileFramebufferGetMainDisplay
Spirit of a Hackathon and PennApps 2011
And they're still blaming losing god-only-knows how many accounts entirely on the users. "Missed the opt-in emails" my arse.
Actually, circumcision is a proven way to reduce infection rates that doesn't involve behavior. Though, as one might imagine, it can be a tough sell in cultures where that isn't the norm.
Why Zynga's Profits Plummeted 95%
Totally with you Matthew. That was one of my main concerns going into the project -- that we were getting in a little over our head with the tech. We were building on top of another API which was supposed to be relatively plug and play, but turns out we spent almost all of our time (about 6 months) working with them to fix it...that's when I realized that we needed a superstar...lesson learned == exactly what you said, though, thanks for the comment!
I went through a similar situation earlier this year. I think it's pretty much always better to cut your losses, especially for your mental health. Most of the time, it's just not the right idea and you'll drive yourself crazy trying to make it work. In rare cases, you need to give it some time and put more effort to make it work - but only you will know in your heart if more time and effort will really help.

I myself prefer not to open source the code because I may wind up using it for my next project. For the same reason I prefer not to sell my code either. Instead, take the lessons you've learned and the site you've built, and try something new, either another startup or joining someone else's startup. If you're joining someone else's startup, leave it up temporarily as a testament to your ability, you'll get a job in no time.
I guess Googorola is the elephant in the room?
Since most reviewers are probably from Universities or Companies, it is likely that their employment contract prohibits them from doing professional work not associated with their current job. It should be fairly simple for these Universities and Companies to start enforcing this and take away the supply of qualified reviewers from Journals that lock up knowledge.
Quick question: why tags with no listings? ie. Health and Jobs. Did you create the tag list first?
Solid bi-directional video streaming isn't the kind of thing you can just "pick up" by reading a book or taking a class.
A Visual Analysis of How People Shop in IKEA
Cuanto cuesta bajar de peso
Martin D45 Electric Acoustic Guitar 
Martin D45 Electric Acoustic Guitar
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Tahsan Ft. Minar- Aari [Eid Album 2011]
I think you can block this behavior two different ways,

1. From Spotify, disable "Get personal recommendations by sending music you play to your Facebook Timeline."

2. From Facebook, find a story Spotify published on your Timeline, click on the "edit this post" control and block Spotify from posting to your Timeline.
The Go image/draw package
This is the model used by video game console makers. The cost to develop, market, and sell a console (e.g. Playstation, XBox) far exceeds the sticker price for each console sold. In 2005, each XBox 360 sold represented a loss of $126 for Microsoft. They make that money back on licensing fees they charge to game and accessory vendors, as well as through XBox Live subscription fees and on-console purchases.

Source: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6140383/microsoft-taking-126-hi...

Mobile phone carriers also employ this model. They often give away phones for free or at a token price of $99, when the hardware easily costs hundreds more. In exchange, you have to sign a 2 year contract, where you promise to pay them $1200-2400 whether you use the phone or not.

Dell used this model for a while with their Dell-branded LexMark printers. They would give the printer away for free with any computer purchase, but the printer only accepted Dell-branded ink, which was identical to the LexMark ink, but had a special chip that identified it. They sold this ink at quite a markup over the LexMark ink to make their money back on the printer loss.

To be successful at this, you need to have a captive audience and a lot of traction. The phone company has it easy because you sign a contract. With the video game console maker, you take a big gamble if the console doesn't take off (ask Atari how this works out). If you are planning on something like the Dell printer, be careful that counterfeiters don't steal your market.
And Picasa: http://picasa.google.com/
Well, ethernet is kind of a big deal, and arguably a pretty important factor in networking in general. Sure there are other technologies, but a decent standard is a huge part of why we can all just plug in.
I'm with tptacek on this one. This is provides tremendous value to those that need it.

It's the classic out of the box software vs custom development argument we see every day in companies around the world. Some people will yell "BUT IT'S NOT EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED" but the bottom line is that it provides value to those that don't need a "perfect" branding fit.
Securing VMs: Security Through Purity — Bypassing the Red Queen
Proof of that is the fact that we can't even get water to all of these people.

Not sure how good an analogy this is. I suspect it would be moderately expensive (i.e. on the order of a few billion dollars), but possible to deliver a liter of clean water to nearly everyone in the developing world. The problem is, that solves their water problem for about 12 hours, if you're being generous. Solving their problem long term is the hard part. With vaccines, you only need to visit the people a finite number of times, and then you're done. Given that HIV is sexually transmitted (and assuming that the vaccine can be given relatively young), you wouldn't even need especially frequent visits to immunize the next generation of people.