skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I would suggest to all you coders out there... PLEASE place a demo within the post in which you are writing the tutorial.

For example big demo button on CodDrops: http://tympanus.net/codrops/2011/10/12/flexible-slide-to-top...
At first I was like :D

Then I was like :|

And then I was like :C

IE is a cancer.
Yahoo basically has nothing to lose at all, I meant they dont even have to give the startups $40k at all.

Once Yahoo create a link to your website, you should be able to get enough traffic to make the money from the ad sale especially if the website will get the 2/3 of ads income.

They can choose several startup partners and review them every quarter or year whether to continue the partnership. Its like Y Combinator, where you got advice, etc for equity exchange.

And even tough everyone say yahoo is not doing well. I will be just happy to get 0.0001% of their traffic.
You are aware Android is an operating system right (the same domain where Microsoft holds most of its patents) and not hardware (where Microsft holds the rest of there patents)?
RIM's week from hell: Is it really over?
It isn't, not at the moment anyway.
Show HN: Community to connect startups & VCs by helping each other
Hey everyone - I was inspired by HelpAReporterout.com and thought that maybe there was a place for something similar in the startup world.

My idea is that VCs and VC-backed startups could benefit from having access to entrepreneurs with knowledge and skills that they don't have. Likewise, those entrepreneurs could benefit by building relationships with VCs and their companies by helping them.

The site is fully built and you can check it out at helpavc.com . I've already got a few VC firms signed up to use it. But...would you use it and participate? I'd really love your feedback. Thanks!
Sure. Do you honestly believe they cannot update the store on the fly?
Mind-boggingly Large Array
How did 'they' become aware of it? I would talk to a few lawyers.
Pizza - yes, once. Cake/pie - never. But this is orthogonal to the eating vector.
Using alloca() with unbounded string lengths is terribly unsafe, which defeats the purpose of the idiom.
iCloud seems to work very well once it’s up and running. (I had not problem getting it to run, though.)
Off topic: please un-break the ability to zoom in on an iPhone.
Tribute to Steve Jobs: Commencement Address Text Version
The following address was delivered by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, at Stanford University’s 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005.
Try to list all the other functions that need "x" equivalents. Here's a free one: xcalloc.
I suppose one good way to sequester carbon is to plant trees then cut them down at maturity and build durable buildings out of them

Or dump the trunks into any oxygen starved bog.

Or ship them to the northern parts of the world and bury them in the shallow permafrost layer.

Except both of those hold the risk of a sudden return of massive amounts of CO2 to the air due to some unforeseen (fire!) event.

The most low risk is probably to turn them into charcoal, mix that charcoal into the soil they came from and plant new trees there. As long as some of the carbon is still in the soil by the time you repeat the process, you have a net gain of CO2 sequestration.
Sorry. I can't read today. :)
This is a REAL potential game changer and I've been patiently waiting to see how long it would take before a major internet video streaming company made this move.

The underlying reason for Netflix's current woes is because CONTENT producers are squeezing it to them and will be increasing their prices significantly in the next year. The reason Hulu wasn't acquired even though many companies considered it, was because the CONTENT producers (who also happen to currently own Hulu) planned on increasing their prices to anyone who was dumb enough to buy Hulu without long term costs locked in contractually.

With this move, Google is moving to consolidate distribution as well as content production into Youtube. The significance of this can't be underestimated. If YouTube can produce a hit show, there's no middle man to step in and charge them arbitrary licensing fees to host the show.

I don't see any reason why youtube couldn't produce a show like MythBusters or the Jersey Shore. And in a few years, maybe even a show like Breaking Bad.

Once this ball get's rolling traditional cable will be in for a rough ride.
I have received many compliments about my writing now but I can tell you that two years ago my writing sucked.

Since then I have written hundreds of articles, a 270 page book and hundreds of thousands of words.

There truly is no substitute for practice, but its the right kind of practice that works.

I would highly recommend reading www.copyblogger.com, which covers all the major tips and techniques around writing online (Make sure to dig deep into the archives).

What you will find is that every few articles you read you will pick up a tip and if you make a concise effort to implement the tip into your next article then it becomes almost second nature and your writing improves immeasurably.

For now make sure your double if not triple checking all your posts looking for ways to make them more readable and fluid and get reading about writing techniques and skills.
Blogofile works for me. http://blogofile.com/
Given your bent on sustainable business models, Silicon Valley startups, VCs, and the effects of the existence of Google-like entities, you might find interesting Jaron Lanier's recent brain dump[1] on those topics and a little more. It's a one hour video, and the most immediately relevant topics are sort of far along, but there's a (cleaned-up, prosified) transcript available, too. (That might be a bonus in its own right, if you're someone who prefers to read rather than waiting on a speaker's own cadence and pauses.)

1. http://edge.org/conversation/the-local-global-flip
No indeed; Still down for me in CA.
SpiderOak does all of the above.
Your data is encrypted end-to-end.

https://spideroak.com/engineering_matters

They cannot peek.

Also, my favourite feature: The client allows you to mirror the encrypted blocks to a remote FTP/SFTP target owned by you.

There's your N+1.

Talk about a zero-trust environment!
Your wording is very vague but I'm going to assume when you say 'your firm wants your home-project', you mean they want to buy it, rather than they are demanding you hand it over under some kind of IP rights squabble.

Do you want cash and/or stock for the sale? Or, do you want a %age of future royalties of the sale (that might tricky if they want to incorporate it into a bigger product). (Or a combination of both cash/stock and %age)

Do you want to remain involved in the project, or even moved into the team that would continue to work on this? If so you should get that contractually agreed as part of the sale.

How much do you feel the project is work, and separately, how much has the company indicated they are willing to spend? If it is more than, say, $20k I would go and see a lawyer to draw up the contractual issues. Less then $20k, you can probably do this on your own given the amount is small. You could also incentivize the lawyer to negotiate on your behalf in return for a %age of the sale - particularly worthwhile if you are not a good negotiator. It's also a 3rd party, so none of the mind games that could be used against you by negotiating with your own boss/boss's boss/etc comes into play.

You might be wise to incorporate the project into a company, transfer the IP to the company and then sell them the company.

You should also review your code to make sure you are not using any OS code that has an incompatible license with selling the code.

Perhaps you could provide more answers and people could advise you better.
Ice Cream Sandwich launch will take place on 19 Oct at 10AM Hong Kong time
Yes, but not perfectly, it has the occasional sleep of death, the power management isn't all there, and wifi my not come back on without turning the wifi off and then back on.
It’s Not A Passion Deficit
I believe as a public company, the only point of making a billion dollars is shareholder value, by law. Before they went public they could indulge their geek kink until they went blind.

I'm not saying Code Search doesn't (necessarily) contribute to shareholder value. But it sure has to be easier to make the case for something that can be measured, as opposed to "geek goodwill."
We don't even know if this is a contentious idea. Another reading indicates that the OP wants the company to have the project.
How does 20 Under 20 change education in any way? How will Thiel change the problems behind higher ed by teaching twenty of the brightest teenagers how to become entrepreneurs? What will that prove for the other 99%?

You also completely skip one of the main arguments in favor of a college education. Does Khan Academy also provide an atmosphere where students can study, party, hook up, make mistakes, and otherwise learn how to become members of society? I don't think there's a YouTube channel with that feature.

Granted, kids shouldn't pay $40k a year to party, but you're declaring victory over lecture halls with a collection of online classes that started a week ago. We're a long way off from fixing education--a couple of YouTube videos and a single co-working space on the West Coast are one in many steps we need to take.
Thank you. :-)
They would be the first and last then I guess, cant quit my job and cant search for more clients alone.
Why I expected Buzz to be a failure, based on a cursory UX analysis & comparison with existing social products: http://alanhogan.com/buzz-is-already-dead (Feb. 2010)
You can't use alloca from inside a library function, since it would allocate within the library function's stack frame and the allocation would no longer be valid when the function returned. (Or rather, you can use alloca within library functions, but you can't return a pointer to that allocation, so it wouldn't be useful here.)

Theoretically you could define an alloca()ed-pointer-returning Xsprintf as a macro, though... (but ask tptacek notes, it's probably a bad idea).
Sprint calls the iPhone the most successful product launch in company history
Project Clients Vs. Product Customers – How To Stay Sane By Building Products
Patent analyst is being paid by Microsoft to create a new study about patents
Note also that a $100 Trimble Thunderbolt available on eBay can get you reliable timing results to within about +/- 20 nanoseconds, given a good GPS antenna.

Compensating for special relativity in the timing calculations was a job that had to be done, and done perfectly, long before the first GPS satellite was launched.

My guess is that the bug will indeed turn out to be a relativity issue, but a consequence of GR rather than SR, arising from the fact that the detector cavern is under 1400 meters of rock.
Just have them make the same mistake Bill Gates had IBM make (not sign an exclusivity agreement), and then think about what to do next. Opportunities might unfold if you keep an open mind.
Haha, indeed -- the Yale alumni database is super useful, but of course, you won't have access to that quite yet. YEI is helpful for tapping part of the network, but you're right, there's no real good way to do it.

You can find me at victor.cheng@paperg.com
"What do you mean unmeasured resources?"

Ah, sorry, I had saurik's comment in mind when I wrote that.

"2) I don't think Google even tries to make things sustainable. During all of these "Google shuts down X" that have been happened recently, some posts here by ex-Google people indicated that Google internally didn't even have reporting on per-project costs... hopefully now that they see how much certain things cost they will cause less market-level problems going forward."
Well, by that rationale, every company should just zero out their advertising budgets.

Seriously though, I see what you're saying, but there isn't always a direct metric for everything. No one fully understands a variety of drug interactions within the body, but does that mean everyone should stop taking their pills? Likewise, when technology companies stop caring about the community that develops software for their product(s), although it doesn't immediately affect their bottom line, one can usually point to it as a contributing cause for their slow decline (think IBM, Microsoft, Oracle).
Sure, I'd sign up for a weekly newsletter, but nothing beyond that.
There are lots of reasons why their travel expenses could be so high - I don't think it moves the conversation forward to suggest arbitrary reasons without some specific proof.

It's also worth noting the foundation has had issues to expense irregularities in the past [1], and so if anything there is cause to have pessimistic assumptions rather than optimistic ones

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/05/jimmy_wales_and_dann...
The funny thing is that the supposedly mature "we're a public, billion dollar grown up corporation now" approach almost always ends up robbing the company of its ability to lead and innovate.

Google is neglecting products it's great at (eg GAE) to focus on areas it's completely clueless about (like Google+). There's no real risk here, the ads are going to continue pumping cash in, but it's slowly becoming a big dumb company.

My bet is that within 2 years they will buy someone like Twitter or FourSquare for n*$100m, and you'll know the new AOL has arrived.
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What advantages does this give you over AngelList?
| Handling tabs in browsers makes no sense

Opening new links in a new card is by far one of the worst user experiences I have ever seen. Also a pressing another button to switch to different windows ( default android and mobile safari) is not any better.

As someone else said, maybe the shortcut isn't obvious, but holding down the home button allows you to see a recent apps and switches apps (Android) must faster than scrolling through cards.

How is copy and paste different in WebOS (haven't found a use for it yet)
with growing complexity of civilization and growing length of human life, it is natural that to maximize the productive lifetime output of a human person, the amount of education that person receives has been necessarily increasing through the history.

Wrt. current state - if you can make people learn basic amount of the knowledge necessary in today's human civilization [ie. BS = K12 + college] in 12 years - fine, drop the college years, otherwise the public education standard must be increased to K16. Higher education right now means MS or PhD. People with bare K12 are the ones left behind and deprived of a chance of being a productive and successful member of the civilization .
What I never understood is why college and success always come up in the same discussion. College is not an investment, it is a pastime.

Some people love music and so they start a band. If they are good at what they do, they might find financial success from their efforts. While the potential is there, you would be laughed at for calling a band an investment in your future.

And yet, college is no different. It is a place for people to exercise their passions and collaborate with others who share in the same. Just like the band, if you are good at what you do, you might find financial success by being in college. Or you might not. It doesn't matter – you are not there for that reason anyway.

College is an awesome place. People should go. But they should be going for the right reasons, not some made up idea that you can buy your way into success. You cannot and will not.
based on what i understand, though most of the people might not agree with me

1. if you are developing something, even tough as side project on your offtime, it is usually own by the company you work for (it will be on your employment contract most of the time)

2. On the other hand, if you think you can make money on your project, and based on what i heard in_California

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#Exceptions_-...

Non-compete agreements are automatically void as a matter of law in California, except for a small set of specific situations expressly authorized by statute.

3. but the company is going to argue that you get the idea of developing the side project based on your current project

4. so at the end its a matter of getting what you want from the company vs. making the situation into a terrible one.

You can ask for promotion with more money, or options and even run the project as a stake holder.

that all depends on how you and your company react to each other.
Former lets break'ing out, latter doesn't.
The enormous cash reserves in companies like Apple and Google represent significant accumulations of unproductive capital. If these and other large reserves were invested instead, the positive impact on the economy might be substantial. Should we start limiting the cash reserves a corporation can accumulate?
IPhone 4S Crushes Android Phones in Web Browsing Benchmark Results
Without better software, science cannot progress.

Science can progress even without software - the only difference that software makes is rate of progress and its cost.

But the culture and institutions of science have not yet adjusted to this reality.

Did you ask yourself why ? Maybe, because what's now, just works for them ? I didn't see any description of problems on this page, that this manifesto wants to solve.

The code is the only definitive expression of the data-processing methods used: without the code, readers cannot fully consider, criticize, or improve upon the methods.

The code is not as important as descriptions of algorithms, and the ideas behind code - readers should not concentrate on the code, but on everything that's behind it, and if they want to verify results, they should write code themselves, in order to increase plausibility of the results by independent verification - including independence of code.

I'm not buying this.
Thanks for the reply. I think the advantage would be that this would be a way to build a relationship with investors before you're ready to raise money, while AngelList seems to focus on connecting entrepreneurs and investors once they are already raising money. It also would provide a venue for investors to broadcast the needs of their current portfolio, which AL doesn't seem to do.

Does that make sense?
Don't think so - based on logcat and just how instantly it is there after pressing power button, only seems to turn off display.
Microsoft kills the Google toolbar in Skype as its first act as Skype owner
I think I'm probably your target market (startup founder) and I've spent 90 seconds reading your front page, but I'm still not clear on what you actually do.

What's the one big problem that you solve for me?
I've seen both the old way of carrying water and a Q-Drum being used in a rural village and was blown away by what a difference the Q-Drum makes and what a fantastic idea it was.

It's inspiring how even seemingly-simple ideas can make a difference in people's lives.
> you can safely free() NULL, which saves a conditional

This makes for a clearer code, but the conditional is still there, tucked in free's code. Obviously.
down for me as well.
The text says unless they can think of a way to vary the scheme, it can't be re-used, presumably because it's not useful as an identity check if it cannot uniquely identify a single person.
i dont even think they need to do any benchmark at all, and i am talking this based on experience

take the best of the two, ipad2 vs samsung galaxy tab 10.1

anytime you browse website on samsung, it feel like its going to fall apart. with ipad2, the experience is just smooth, even with all 9 tabs open.
Yeah -- the $40k is there so you can build the product pre-launch.

And I'd LOVE to get a link from their homepage, even once.
Yes. I have no reason to believe otherwise. Do you?
The most important piece: if you did it once, you can do it again. Remember this.

Now the details:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire

You should read your contract with them. As a rule of thumb, if you are in an "innovative" job, that is you were hired to invent, than they might have a claim.
Nevertheless, if you want to keep the job you will have to settle, but they don't know it? or do they? I don't know the details... Can the project run at all w/o you? Are you essential to maintaining it? You can negotiate anything. Cash, future share of an exit/profits etc. Look at their demand as a starting point of the negotiations.
This is just silly. I started reading this article with a couple biases in mind: I can't ever remember reading anything by Wadhwa and thinking anything other than "That is the conventional wisdom, yes," and Thiel is correct that college is a bubble (http://www.byrnehobart.com/blog/higher-education-the-next-bi...)

But Wadhwa's advice is just ludicrous. If it's 2005, and you claim that housing is a bubble, the proper response isn't "Go put your money where your mouth is: start manufacturing mobile homes, or tents, or something." It's a non-sequitur: people are overpaying for education because they treat it as an asset: if you double the sticker price, buyers react by assuming that they're buying twice as much of it.

The right responses to a bubble: short it, or at least structure your life so you're not dependent on it. In real estate, that means renting rather than buying; in higher ed, that means dropping out and investing your efforts into tasks that better measure your underlying talents, and don't cost tens of thousands of dollars.

It's just a weird defense of the status quo: nowhere does Wadhwa ask questions like: have we overestimated how many people should go to college? Are we even willing to tell people that they'd be happier (and society would be better off) if they became electricians or plumbers? It seems like Thiel's framework is flexible enough to imagine a country where 50% of the population earns a masters, or where only 5% pursue a BA. Whereas Wadhwa's framework is robust enough to imagine a swing of half a standard deviation away from whatever the status quo is.

Full disclosure: it's a little early to tell, but I'm fairly successful; I dropped out of college my freshman year.
I am in the initial stages of the talks. The manager has mentioned about money being involved, I was looking for a "%age of future royalties of the sale" kinda thing. Yes the product can be of more than $20K as per me.
If anyone can come up with a law that basically forces companies who give up on free products to open source the code they no longer use, that would lead to amazing opportunities!
It's returning a blank page at blazing speed.
I would be very surprised if they only updated they store a couple time a year. You know, they sell tons of other stuff, accessories and so on.
I have to tell this one:

Early on in urinalysis, we discussed the physical examination of urine, which of course included odors. One of the odors mentioned was "mousy," which prompted one of my fellow students to ask if we were talking about a live or dead mouse.

It's been an interesting year.
True! It's already in xmalloc.c, but xstrdup isn't. And if you're using third-party libraries that call malloc(), you're probably screwed unless you have a way to change malloc()'s behavior. So you've basically convinced me.
And (void) in front of printf() is what for exactly?
Show HN: Feel who is calling you. Caller ID with vibration patterns for Android
Nope they arent forcing anything and yes they have shown interest in buying the product.