skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I guess we have to see if Android is still a viable platform in 2-3 years time. Don't under estimate the power of patents.

Also don't under estimate the power of the enterprise and company issued phones.
Chord chart on paper. Play, improvise, revise.
It can definitely be done like your mentor said. As a Rails developer myself, I'm kind of biased to coders being part of the DNA of the company and having a strong stake in it.

This is a great article on humbdledmba for non-tech co-founders: http://www.humbledmba.com/please-please-please-stop-asking-h...

They make a good point. The coder's biggest is fear is wasting his/her time. Do as much as you can to alleviate their fear. For example - start a blog, get a following.

I hope this is helpful for you.
Android on the HP Touchpad (Alpha Release)
I'd love to read such an article. Platformer physics can be very fiddly and there are a lot of small variations that have a significant impact on "feel".
I haven't had a chance to verify this myself, but according to Marco, this does not actually avoid the iCloud sync:

https://twitter.com/#!/marcoarment/status/124587437799374848
US judge: Samsung's products infringe on Apple design patents
I liked Buzz's idea of integrating a social inbox with the an email inbox, and in particular I liked Reader integration with Buzz. If Google doesn't integrate Reader and Gmail with Plus more effectively, I'll be spending _less_ time being social with Google than before.
Drupal.org most likely was not the only site they no longer indexed. Probably no code site was still being indexed, at all.
Hi!

Here's a list of the equipment available today:
pipettes, pipette tips, realtime PCR machine, OpenPCR PCR machine, incubator, shaking water bath, vortexers, gel electrophoresis boxes.

If you don't have an experiment in mind, we have lots of awesome classes where you can do things like sequence your own DNA and make glowing cells: http://meetup.com/biocurious

Tito
co-founder BioCurious
I agree with you to the extend: some products needs to be cut.

However, the problem is that Google is synonym for search and getting out search business even for niche is a very dangerous move.
That allows small companies to attack them from low-end and then slowly growing (from code-search, they add bug search, then add stack-overflow search, then social search, ...) and eventually they can become a Google replacement.
Iphone 4S: Improvements and new features.
This is a great discussion of the mechanics of rendering star ratings in a browser. I'd love to see a companion theory post on how to intelligently compute and rank such ratings. The arithmetic mean is notoriously sensitive to outliers, and the consequences are sometimes severe: I know a resort in Thailand that used to be ranked #1 on TripAdvisor on its island (Koh Phangan), only to fall to #17 after a 1-star review. (The tragedy is that, if you read the review, it's clearly positive—the reviewer evidently thought that 1-star was best. D'oh!) In addition, any sensible ranking should take into account statistical significance, so that (say) a 4.6 ranking consisting of 45 reviews (possibly) gets ranked above a 5-star ranking consisting of one review. How does Airbnb handle these cases, or does it just punt by calculating and sorting the arithmetic mean?
Please please do this. It would be great. I'd love to read a comprehensive breakdown of classic console platformer code.
Isn't there a lot of awful video game code around? Optimization is usually delayed until the end of a project, and crunch time is a norm at most AAA game developers.
Right, I know the advantages of Node over Tornado/Python, but my comparison was Tornado vs Pyramid, not Tornado vs Node.

Node makes sense for the OP's brief project description, but if you're also considering Python for a "Large scale and quite complex project with possible 500k or more users", why Pyramid and not Tornado?
I recently learned how a weeks-dead human smells. I doubt I'll ever forget it. But I don't know how to describe to someone else ANY smell, other than comparing one odor to another. About as effective as the old joke about an unfamiliar meat, "It tastes like chicken."
Citizens United involved some folks who made a movie about Hillary Clinton.

Feel free to explain why their movie should be treated differently from one made by Mirimax.

Feel free to explain why either one should be treated differently than favorable (or unfavorable) coverage by ABC News or the New York Times.
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Sure, thousands of years of torture are possible for you if you're a cryonicist -- but in such a world the same risk would apply to trillions of other sentients. If you aren't completely selfish, you're better off investing your energy in preventing such a world instead of trying to dodge the bullet personally.
Thanks Mike!
Your feedback and suggestions are really useful.
And you raise the issue about you not being able to understand how it can be helpful.. Surely it is an important point that we should think more about. Thank you so much! :)
Show HN: Tag Along (my first iPhone app 37 days later)
The problem with that thinking is that this has become a war of ecosystems from a battle of devices (to paraphrase Nokia's CEO). Only a few platforms can hold developer attention and if you're a 10% player in 2015, the developers might not care enough to make a version of an app for you. If the ecosystem is not there, the users aren't, too. The desktop market exploded in the 90s, but where were the incumbents in the mid 80s like Amiga?

This lead to Palm/HP's exit from the mobile business inspite of having a nice product, the lack of ecosystem is quite damaging. This is the reason RIM is in trouble too. MS has a better shot with their developer tools, developer relations and perseverance(see XBox). Not to mention Android licensing fees and the Windows/Office/Server cashcows. They were able to get developers to write ~30,000 apps in less than a year for a nascent platform with zero users one year ago.

Nokia wasn't going anywhere with Symbian, wanted to get Meego going, but it wasn't ready fast enough on enough phones and wasn't confident on seeding yet another new ecosystem, so they took the drastic decision of ditching it and aligning with the WP ecosystem.

RIM is a one trick pony with nowhere to go, and the attempt to come out of the decline with the Playbook seems to have gone badly wrong. BBM works for only so long as a lock-in mechanism.
Yea, it's super fun, even kids can do the experiment. Here's some pics from our last Glowing Cells class!

http://www.meetup.com/BioCurious/photos/3739322/#61569752

Tito
By 2050 it's estimated that over 50% of the world's population will live in "chabolas" - i.e. in semi-urban shanty towns with no formal infrastructure, yet still very close to major city centers. So distribution is increasingly less of a problem than you would assume, simply because population centers are concentrating at a very quick rate.

It's an antique method of thinking about these things, but one way to conceptualize "third-world" countries is that they lack a middle class. However, these aren't entirely "urban poor" people either. The movement to these poor slums also has a large degree of private innovation and some leap-frogging that brings millions of these new urban dwellers into a "pseudo-middle-class". They have cell phones, they organize informal water and electricity for their dwellings, improve them, and basically begin to see an slowly improving standard of living.

So, there really is a billion people who aren't well off, but not too-badly off to not afford a $2 pair of eyeglasses. They're working, and moving up socially, and this new class of people need affordable products. There's an enormous, growing market for this stuff.

Anyhow, just my two cents.
Do you have any documentation about this? I see a few scant references in the developer forum and nothing in the docs.
I may be biased, but: I feel like Google's "geek cred" is slipping. It feels like PMs (and their "monetization strategies") are gaining control over at El Goog, shutting down anything that isn't "revenue positive".

You can't measure geek cred. You can't measure the second-order effect of services like Code Search.

So the slow slide of Google turning into "just another tech company" starts...
bless the author then, to solve the mystery, the referral code is simply the one here :

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~skiena/#books
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But then they found the error afterward. These physicists were looking for an error, hard.
Forget about Mobile Marketing in B2B as it's too personnal
I haven't seen any blogging platforms written in Python that requires hundreds of queries to render a homepage like Wordpress does in PHP. If your site is running on a single modest server, needs 190 queries to render a page, has zero caching, and gets a spike in traffic then it will go down like a sack of bricks. That same scenario with <10 queries is a completely different story.
In image_new, doesn't he want to allocate enough memory for an Image rather than for whatever the sizeof an image* is?
Interesting factoid: Roller Coaster Tycoon was written entirely in x86 assembly (released in 1999) http://www.chrissawyergames.com/faq3.htm
When it comes to 60 nanoseconds, I'm not sure anything is negligible.
Will Facebook's IPO mark the beginning of the end?
There used to be Zine (http://zine.pocoo.org/) - it was basically WordPress in Python, but it never picked up sufficient community and now it's dead. Now, if you want a server-side blog in Python, the standard solution is to write one yourself in Django.
Interesting article from the time, before Jobs took over:
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/18/business/apple-s-newton-po...

I think Newton was both a failure (in its original goals) and a success (in the more realistic industry specific use). It did not light the world on fire, and the average consumer did not care for it and was not interested in buying it. So I wouldn't really agree with a blanket "it was not a failure", especially when part of the argument is "it was catching on right when people who knew the financials killed it."
If you enter "+" into your URL bar and hit tab does it say "Search+ for Google Chrome"?
Elphel sells something similar - http://www3.elphel.com/eyesis-4pi
increasing plate density has been the primary driver of the increased stream performance of the HDDs - with the same rotation speed the more dense plate results in the more bits to fly under the head. Random IO of course is a different beast. Though is you look at the data filling the disks - like movies - it is more about stream not random.
Also: there will always be people decrying Google's tendency to launch and phase out new products and there will always be people decrying its reticence to try new things even if they fail, and they're probably doing a good job if they're attracting roughly equal amounts of these responses.
Though not written in Python, I'm a fan of Jekyll (https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll). You write your entries in Markdown, it converts them to HTML, sets up links and embedded content, and then publishes them to your server via Git to be served up by Apache, Nginx, etc.
Misleading headline , but a nice, and useful, anecdote about the techniques they used to find a memory leak, ending with a good explanation of why the typical ruby tools would not be able to find it.
Interesting, I need to read up on this. I would have thought compensation plans are what drive share buyback programs rather than the tax handling of dividends. Thanks!
But "Watson" does not excel at chess, nor "deep blue" in jeopardy
A macro for calculating the size of a buffer for a C-style string containing a (signed/unsigned) integer:

#define CS_INT_SIZE(int_type) ((size_t)(0.30103 * sizeof(int_type) * 8) + 2 + 1)

int x = -1000;
char buf[CS_INT_SIZE(x)]; // instead of char buf[100];
snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%d", x);

Another macro for calculating the length of a string literal in compile time (just like strlen would do). Note the extra check for string literal.

#define CSLLEN(s) (sizeof(s "") - 1)
int len = CSLLEN("hello"); // len == 5 here

Another one for logging variable arguments or no arguments at all.

#define Log_Trace_(...) Log(__FILE__, __LINE__, __func__, LOG_TYPE_TRACE, "" __VA_ARGS__)
void Log(const char* file, int line, const char* func, int type, const char* fmt, ...);
Log_Trace(); // prints just the name of the file, line and func
Log_Trace("Error %d", error); // prints the same as above and the error number
reminds me of: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7618374/bresenhams-circle...
http://mezzanine.jupo.org
Does anyone know what he was working on during his last years at Bell Labs ?
By any chance do you know if there's anything like this in L.A?
That won't live update with results as you type though. Search+ pulls in recent results from Plus and lists them in the drop down. If you select a result it will open that post directly instead of going to Google+ and showing results.
Why Clojure doesn’t need invokedynamic, but it might be nice
How stealth hasn't helped us one bit.
Here is a list of 5 reasons being stealth has done nothing but provide problems.

1. Single founder. I'm on my own on this, me myself and I.

2. Harder to convince people that an idea form nowhere is plausible.

3. Seed investment was super hard when I wouldn't even tell investors what I was working on.

4. Lack of new connections. Almost Chinese wall between myself and other Entrepreneurs.

5. Feedback hasn't been allowed from sources that could provide that much needed kick up the arse.

Next time round I'm going to tell the world. Literally, I'm not going to hide one thing and I'm glad I did it this way. It means I will NEVER do it again.
The first thing to know about the crazy limitations of Atari 2600 development is this number: 128.

That's how much RAM there was. That's 128 bytes. The entire in-memory program state was one eighth of a kilobyte. Then imagine everything else was limited like this. It's hard to understand how challenging it was to get a coherent game out of this thing.

Someone who was really inspired by "Racing the Beam" to try 2600 programming recently was Xbox daddy Ed Fries. Here's him talking about what he made:

http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/166916-halo-for-the-260...

Yes, it's a loving rendition of Halo on the 2600 platform! You can even play it now online:

http://www.codemystics.com/halo2600/
Great thought behind this manifesto. I wish more authors would attach their source codes to their manuscripts. Even when the code is not clean (academic codes usually aren't written with extensibility in mind), it would be very useful to be able to verify precisely what the code is computing.

Many times I've had occasions where the paper doesn't clearly explain parameter values, order of updates in the simulation, etc.

A tip I've discovered: you may have a chance to get access to the source code if you email the corresponding author (if they're still alive!).
Be careful not to fall into the same fallacious reasoning as plagued the original dot-com boom (and was partly responsible for the bust). No amount of marketshare comes for free. Whether it's 10%, 1%, or even 0.0001% of any market that business has to be earned.
I built this in 37 days with no prior iOS experience (though I did have experience with ruby/rails). I think it could be useful but I'd love some feedback.
It might not be simply a matter of money, there are other limited resources. For example there could be trouble staffing the project due to nobody wanting to work on it. Or be unwilling to staff it since they feel that anyone working on it could make a bigger impact elsewhere.

(And before anyone starts nitpicking that either of those issues could be solved by just throwing more money at it, money and people aren't actually infinitely fungible).
I was IBO(International Biology Olympiad) participant during high school, majored in Bioengineering and now a full time web programmer(entrepreneur). Knowing both domains pretty well(better than average person) I have no idea what kind of books should one read, or what kind of approach should one take in order to start biohacking. If any bioprogrammes around here, share some thoughts and recomendation.
Sorry, I wasn't talking about the string literal; I was talking about the buffer you're comparing it to. I'm saying: yes, you're right, you have to be careful that it's aligned.
Hey! I just added a signup on meetup for you -- thanks for reminding me :)

Advanced Personal Genomics (hacker friendly!)
http://www.meetup.com/BioCurious/events/37411362/

Tito
A well reasoned argument -- for those who caused this mess. The 99% are pissed. They want the corruption stopped. They dont want "fixes" that transfer more wealth to the rich, e.g. Cain's 9 9 9 tax reform. They want a Congress that is responsive to the needs of the populace. Insisting on a "plan" greatly reduces the effectiveness of the protests.
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google truly proves the sky is limitless on what you may earn on the internet. they always empasize they generate a fraction of what could be possible on the internet.
Even with 8-bit bytes, the layout of the bit-fields is unspecified. Using char as the declared type of a bit-field is also not defined by the standard (although may be supported by an implementation).
It appears that the software is well received but my question is where are the handsets? I am looking forward to seeing Nokia's offerings as the LG and HTC phones have not been very appealing.
Hi Doug,

I have to echo much of the sentiment of other comments here. The project is so busy. It does so many great things, but does it do any of them really well? I would identify the primary features the people appreciate most from your project and mercilessly slash the rest off. (If anyone wants to keep it, you've open sourced it so tell them to fork off!) In all seriousness, if you focus your project and show how simple it is to use, you'll find your adoption will improve.

Once you have simplified your offering, start improving your messaging to the public. Walk-through or tours will help greatly with communicating your value. People are typically visual. Large blocks of text tend to scare people away from the page. (You've got approx 3-5 seconds to grab a visitor's interest before they hit the back/close button.)

Hope this is helpful. :)
The Python equivalent is, of course, Hyde (http://hyde.github.com).
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Why not just declare "char buf[100]" for snprintf's target and be done with it?
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Playing devil's advocate here, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend any new Mac or any new iPhone to an average computer or phone user. Even Apple's lowest priced options are up to the task of all but the most demanding applications (state of the art 3D games, video editing, multi-track music processing, etc.).
Even worse is that modern x86 (and probably other) CPUs also have instructions for 16-byte vector registers that can be used to copy or compare data much faster than 1 byte per cycle. Recent versions of glibc use some linker magic to pick the optimal code to use for strcmp, memcpy and friends based on the instruction set available to the CPU at runtime. Of course gcc and glibcxx's developers must not trust glibc and will sometimes replace calls to these functions with thier "optimized" builtin versions that use the lowest common denominator ISA. An easy way we got a 5% boost in througput in mongodb was to force them to call into glibc. https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/blob/master/pch.h#L47-56
Which means that both our company, and any other company, that thought it had a sustainable model for running such a project, and at this point would probably be "pretty awesome", never started, and we are all suddenly thrust back into 2005, unable to search for code.

I see two viable reactions to this:

1. There's now a vacuum where Code Search was, and, evidently, some demand. Why not startup now?

2. Not even Google could find a viable model for Code Search, even with their resources and scale, and (ugh) synergy. Google did the research for me. (And if you think Google dropped it because they couldn't find a viable free model, and you think there's a viable paid model, see #1.)

As for startups, the phenomenon you describe seems to apply mostly to things that depend on network effect and probably advertising. If you have an idea that brings value to someone and can demonstrate a sustainable business model based on charging for that value, I would imagine that to be a much more attractive option for people who want something they can depend on than a VC funded free product startup.
This looks really great!

Congratulations on the launch.

Does anyone know if anything like this exists in central Florida?
If there were both "on the phone and backed up in iCloud" and of "stored only on the phone" kinds of data, either your app would decide for you whether your data is worth backing up, or it would let you decide. Apple finds both options unacceptable.

The mental model for iOS is that it stores only two kinds of data: discardable because it can be reproduced, and backed up because it cannot.

That ensures that all your data always is safe. You do not have to worry about losing data when your phone breaks down, or about forgetting to move some data when you upgrade.

I think this also is the reason iOS devices do not have memory card slots. It complicates data management; Apple does not think that is worth the extra complexity.
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Some gadgets have social features so interact with friends who also use the same gadget. For example there could be a gadget that lets you search for and watch YouTube videos and friends you allow can see what videos you watched. Those gadgets are going away. You Chat will still be there and gadgets that interact with third-party social sites will still be there too.
In the first phase of modern smartphones the core applications were enough of a selling point: mail, browser, and maps. Now there are plenty of low-cost phones which do all 3 of those well enough they aren't a differentiator, so the decision point has switched to games, apps, and other features which has put more emphasis on the ecosystem.
Use the algorithm given here:

http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating....
>>It costs money.

Then slap a Gogle Payments icon on the page and charge a dime per click. Or a nickel. They can make a pretty penny, no pun intended :)
Hi. Horses are very important animals in where i live(We even have ministry of horses...). So me and one friend of mine tried to isolate DNA from best horse breeds and then make a database, and later mine that database to perform selection predictions by computer... Its a big project and founded by gvt. I am not a part of it, my friend just consults me from time to time, since I am both acquainted with programming and biology. We are stuck with DNA isolation from horse blood right now. Do you think this kind of experiment would be interesting?
It looks nicely designed, professional, and persuasive to me.
> Adding cache plugins, back up in a sec :)

The next thing Google will cache is your maintenance message.

You should serve those messages with HTTP 503, not HTTP 200.
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I know you're looking at this from the handset maker's point of view but I think it's equally applicable to the consumer. Exactly why should I chose a Windows Phone over an iPhone or Android phone? At this point, you can get Android phones and iPhones for free with a subsidy, so they can't compete on cost.

Windows Phone may be nice, hell it may be better than Android, but there is no "OMG that is so cool I have to have it" feature. Until Microsoft can find a way be not only better but different, they won't regain marketshare.