skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, really enjoyed your post. Quick heads up that your resume on your site seems to be down?
Also mentioned in the article is a prototype for a browser-based version of LibreOffice (there's a link to a .webm demo video).

What's interesting about this, from what I've gathered, is the technology: recently released in GTK+ 3.2, is the Broadway system (not much in the way of docs on the net, sadly). It appears to amount to a new backend for GTK+ to draw to (other, more well known backends include X11 and Wayland). In this case, the Broadway system exposes a web server that a browser can load to "access" the app that is exposed. Drawing, in the browser, happens via canvas + web-sockets.

So, this brings up the question: What's their (LibreOffice's) story for this, if they try to take the product live? It seems like it'd amount to a massive, web-scale vm/server farm to run client instances. In the form presented in the article, this is more like a Citrix deployment than an actual webapp. Whether one prefers one or the other is a matter of personal taste, I suppose (I think there's something to like in the somewhat spartan experience of Google Docs vs. MS Word or LibreOffice Writer).
Jonathan Spingola
I think he's saying that the deforestation that had been happening before must therefore have been contributing to global warming, if ending it contributed to global cooling.
Show HN: Backyard.io - We applied to YC (W12) and need some beta users
I upgraded my production server to Redis 2.4 and saw a MASSIVE decrease in memory usage. 11.7GB to 3.6GB.
I wrote up a blog post about it: http://cosmicrealms.com/blog/2011/10/03/massive-decrease-in-...
By looking at the splash screen, I have no idea what it does. It promises me wonderful things.. but I don't see how it'd integrate with my apps. Maybe an image workflow of the big use-cases? Or a video? Or a tour.
Maybe RDBMS isn't the /most/ efficient way to store the data, but the advantage of being able to write simple and powerful queries against that data is huge. I seem to lose that with file or key/value based storage. Am I wrong? (not trying to criticize, I am genuinely curious)

Also, I don't need to worry about files across servers and rolling log files that file logs usually entail.
Sounds like the http://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem
Freshplum (YC S11) is hiring -- 1920s economics meets 2011 machine learning 
Freshplum (YC S11) is 1920s economics meets 2011 machine learning

Some things about us today:

-team of 4. we're all friends and have fun at work

-recently closed a round of funding from a group of amazing
value-add investors

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-we know and believe this is going to get huge

Some things about you:

-you love to code

-you learn fast

-you like working in a team

-you do well with numbers

-you want to make a big impact

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Ask HN: can anyone help me with Demo video of my app?
My app works on Android, iOS, Symbian and Windows Phone platforms. Is there a tool available to create app demo video, preferably in HD? Or is there any agency that undertakes this kind of demo video creation project for a fee?
Reminds me of XKCD: http://xkcd.com/936/
What was the "design" then? A sketch of a really thin tablet PC? That doesn't seem so creative or innovative to me. I think more credit is due to the engineers who brought it to life. Moreover, I haven't actually seen any sketches done by Jobs. I'm not saying they don't exist; I just haven't seen any.
Either 2.6 that is the current unstable -cluster +scripting, or possibly 3.0 will ship directly with both cluster and scripting.
Hmm, I never heard that, but thinking about it, it makes a lot of sense. Thanks :)
I think the author forgot "Redis" when editing the title to add "final".
But how did Siri learn who Scott’s wife was? The demo didn’t show us, but I have a suspicion about how it works.

The Mac Address Book has long had an entry for setting up relationships between contacts. I can indicate who my spouse is in Address Book. I suspect that the iPhone Contacts app will gain similar new fields in iOS 5.

I haven't used Siri so I don't know whether it'll use those fields, but I do know that if it didn't know who Scott's wife was, it'd have asked him and then remembered his answer.

I also don't know (but would like to!) whether it does said remembering by updating the contact.

Edit: seen on Twitter, "Siri doesn't just remember your mother, father, and other significant people, it adds them to your contact details." So: it's not a separate store.
The gps receivers they are using are NOT $200 off the shelf components. I am pretty sure that when you buy such equipment you will have long discussions with the GPS engineers from the firm.

The GPS receivers they used are form Septentrio, and this guys know their shit. I can't find a reference right now, but if I remember correctly one of their claims to fame is detecting an error in GLONASS, the Russian gps system.
Sounds like the paþ to madneß…
Could be anything.

Maybe he has a scar on his face and the password is "how did you get that scar?". Has the text says, the scheme cannot be used with other people so it's probably something specific with the agent.
A complaint about the occupy protests
Most Memory Leaks are Good
"Microsoft, instead of dealing with the pain of their existing users directly, has trotted out pages of surveys, charts, tables, and even some college-level calculus formulas to prove why the new system is, in theory, an improvement. It gives you the feeling the whole new interface was designed by computer, or by committee."

The author is very proud of his ignorance and has evidently not used windows. Not worth your time.
The first trick is handy but unfortunately it breaks aliasing rules.
Ok, what about skateboards? If you ride one downhill you barely need to use energy.
Wales vs France live stream Rugby World Cup.
A few more cultural traits:

Finger Counting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_counting - this is what caught up Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds.

Cash Counting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g87HVlu55mQ
Show HN: Wanderplayer - your iPhone is a game controller for 100s of flash games
You can see a demo here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tiTzzn2KE0

Our iPhone app is in the appstore here: bit.ly/wanderplayer

You'll need a client (windows only for now, mac is coming soon). You can get that here: http://go.wanderplayer.com/desktop/windows/WanderPlayerSetup.exe

Would love any feedback; its obviously a little buggy, but tell me any thoughts on the design, the games, the gameplay or any issues you have with the app or the client.
Because I can only afford a 120GB SSD and have at least that much on my HDD already.

Plus reliability is an issue. Any improvement of SSD reliability is a huge gain for them.
Sure thing.... thoughts on the homepage:

- Nitpick: The text left of the iPhone on Windows and Ubuntu is not vertically centered on the band. I realize the headings line up horizontally, but my OCD is still itching. (Chrome 14 on both.)

- Nitpick: The active (blue) circle under the text to the right of the iPhone is just a pixel or two too low. (Again on both Ubuntu and Windows w/ Chrome 14.)

- Further Nitpick: On sliding the homepage over a few times, I feel this color band across the back of the page is causing my OCD more problems than text alignment. Maybe find another way to put a splash of color on the page. Or make it more subtle.

- I almost missed that I could slide the homepage over with the arrow, BTW.

- I see the clever active email request form built into the iPhone demo on step 2, but it'll probably get missed by the majority. Especially when there's no reason to believe that anything is active in the demo area. (Even with arrows.)

- You mention a video in Step 4 but I see no video link anywhere.... ????

- Do you track to see how many people get through to the end? Putting your "RSVP" request only at the beginning and end (and hidden in step 2), you risk missing conversions in the intermediate steps. I'd find a way to ask for that RSVP on every screen.

Overall, the layout and walkthrough is nice and give users something to look at if they're really interested. Nice work and easy on the eyes. I'm not an iPhone guy so I can't help you there. Dropped a tweet for you because of the decent execution here!
The do's and don'ts of infographic design
Fair enough, but is mission control as fluid as Ubuntu's virtual desktops? Like SuperKey + S to quickly zoom out and CTRL + ALT + up/down/left/right to slide screens? And can you set it up to have like 9 or 20 some screens? I ask because I honestly don't have OS X running on any systems atm. But I have a feeling OS X cannot match Ubuntu's depth on this feature.
Yes, quite right. Although it would be preferable as 4π steradians as that is the SI unit of solid angle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_angle
Google Killing Off Buzz and Code Search
Thanks! I released 1.0 already, there is a link on that page for getting the desktop version :)

I was thinking of adding a tutorial mode, need to figure out a way to do it without triggering the tl;dr filter.

I'm planning on soon getting the Deluxe-edition out (which will be free for people who bought the current full version), at which point the current version will become the free demo.
How to Convert Your WordPress Theme to HTML5
How to Convert Your WordPress Theme to HTML5 Easily
IMHO, the following would be ideal:

W = Forward

S = Backward

A = Turn Left

D = Turn Right

Q = Strafe Left

E = Strafe Right

That way, you don't need a mouse, and you only lose strafing by using the arrow keys.
If you and your neighbors stopped calling the build ten times a day asking him to do stuff like move the wall over three inches this wouldn't happen any more.
The mile-high toolbar thing is right - a target at the side/corner of the mouse catchment area is easier to hit than a target you have to navigate to stop inside. But this is only right because no usability metric is attached at this point.

If the mouse-button story were just that it takes some milliseconds longer to click a control when there are two, then yes. Likely it does. But you go farther to attach usability claims to it and that's where you become wrong.

For one, the one-button mouse thing was tested on people who aren't used to it. Maybe it takes a few days to get the hang of but it's not the kind of thing where someone who knows what they're doing hits the wrong button.

And even if it were more than microseconds slower for the base physical action, it gets more done in that time. You have to set down your drink and reach for the keyboard with your other hand and I've already right-clicked and am done. Without knowing out workloads you can't make blanket statements like that, and I think that almost anyone could benefit from using more complex control, and macroing, etc, but only once they have a solid understanding of the thing they're trying to do.

"Had to suffer with 2-button mice." Hilarious. Stockholm syndrome.
Totally agree. I recently had to do the same thing (relearning H.S. trig) using the HTML5 canvas.

It would be an interesting exercise to take this example and add a draw_arc() function.
Bugs Bunny Best Photos
If you like Bugs Bunny, you would like these cool pictures. Take a look at them and you will be impressed why Bugs Bunny is the funniest rabbit in the world! :)
Having a short demo would be extremely useful here - I'm not dropping $200+ on something I'm not sure is any good.
At YCNYC the AirBNB presentation showed the startup curve and dreaded "Trough of Sorrow" (http://adam.heroku.com/past/2008/4/23/the_startup_curve/). It's definitely hard to overcome.
moneyjs-noconflict.patch:

--- money.js
+++ money.js
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
return new fxWrapper(obj);
};

+	var NS = 'CurrencyConverter';
+
// Current version.
fx.version = '0.0.1';

@@ -122,28 +124,14 @@
// Otherwise, just add `fx` to the global object
if (typeof module !== 'undefined' && module.exports) {
module.exports = fx;
-	fx.fx = fx;
+	fx[NS] = fx;
} else if (typeof define === 'function' && define.amd) {
// Return the library as an AMD module:
define([], function() {
return fx;
});
} else {
-	// Use fx.noConflict to restore `fx` back to its original value before money.js loaded.
-	// Returns a reference to the library's `fx` object; e.g. `var money = fx.noConflict();`
-	fx.noConflict = (function(previousFx) {
-	return function() {
-	// Reset the value of the root's `fx` variable:
-	root.fx = previousFx;
-	// Delete the noConflict function:
-	fx.noConflict = undefined;
-	// Return reference to the library to re-assign it:
-	return fx;
-	};
-	})(root.fx);
-
-	// Declare `fx` on the root (global/window) object:
-	root['fx'] = fx;
+	root[NS] = fx;
}

// Root will be `window` in browser or `global` on the server:

You can change NS to whatever you like, but I believe that this is all you need to do. Because everything internally uses the enclosed `var fx`, I don't foresee issues.
> The original guy he's talking about was just freelancing. I'm a freelancer and I made money from day one. … We had contacts and relationships already built from working a few years.

Yeah, a thing about that is, it's hard to have those contacts and relationships in place when you're 20. A few people manage it, but most build up those networks over a period of years.

Another thing, which I didn't realize when I was 20, is that if you make contacts with a lot of 20-year-olds, when they're 30 or 40, some of them will be in a much better position to partner with you than when they were 20. The guy who was working as a manual software tester for a telecom firm at 20 may be the CTO of a startup at 30; the guy who's struggling through his CS degree at 20 may be managing a project at Oracle at 30. But he has a lot more time to get to know you when he's working at the telecom firm or struggling through CS. So even if you're a world-class connector like David Weekly or Adam Rifkin, with a Rolodex full of 1500 contacts at age 20, those contacts will be a lot more valuable for business when you're 30.
A New Twist on Artificial Muscles
Design That Solves Problems for the World’s Poor
It is on the very cusp where liberation turns to supplication.
I'm ashamed to say I've never heard of Odesk before, but it looks like I'll be able to find someone there. Thank you all!
Is this specifically about Windows? or about software in general?

I think Microsoft would take it as a compliment that they release too often. I also think Windows is one of the most backward-compatible systems out there.
Thetopspace - Inspiration Photos
Ruby, Concurrency, and You
Then it's the photons that are visible.

A circle is a set of points, and a point is an abstract concept. Having a photon centered on a point does not make the point visible.
San Francisco 49ers vs Detroit Lions live stream
San Francisco 49ers vs Detroit Lions
Match schedule:
Week 6 NFL Regular season
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TIME :1:00 PM (ET)
Venu: Ford Field
watch and enjoy San Francisco 49ers vs Detroit Lions live streaming
and also watch NFL full season live streaming online here.
When Virgin Atlantic started their FAs were young and very pleasing to the eye. However they are also unionised, and as such will suffer the same fate as the rest of the airlines.
Nanotube motors
Thanks for the headsup on VirtuaWin. Another one for Windows is "Dexpot". Its OK, but nowhere near as good as the polished Ubuntu experience.
IPad 3 Headed Into Production
Even if cyro doesn't preserve everything, it will probably be a better record of the past than anything else that exists from our era.

As an analogy think about how we feel about people 2000 years ago - if we could have just a few comprehensive samples of something in their world, we would really like it. Even things like exhaustive lists of every word they said for a week would be incredibly useful for linguists, lists of everything they ate would be useful, etc.

We shouldn't rely on their choices of what is worth preserving - we should adopt a broad based approach and try to preserve the maximum amount of things, and hope it will be useful later on.

I think today we have even used graffiti preserved on the walls of Pompei to get an idea of what the ancient world was like - surely there would be valuable information stored in even an imperfectly-frozen brain?

Who knows what kind of crazy theories they may have in the future, that they just would need to have a few brains to test out with?
Faster TCP Slow Starts
Hi Mike! In your first post you say "I've got great aesthetics and design sense". I could definitely use your advice on my personal website - http://nickknowlson.com

My skills are those of a developer much more than a designer, but I tried to make it fairly clean. Thanks for doing this!
Great ideas! I will work on that this weekend.
It's too bad about code search - that was really helpful for finding example code (and linking to specific snippets of code within open-source projects!)
This article basically sums up the opinion I walked away from Build with.

The biggest problem I have with Metro is Microsoft doesn't seem to know how it scales up. When asked how you'd make applications like Office, PhotoShop or even the file explorer their response is "use the old Windows 7 interface with a ribbon". Meaning the only answer they seem to have is to force the user to work with two different usability paradigms indefinitely.

So Metro is more of a Widget platform than it is an Application platform.

That said I'm not sure it matters. I'm part of the .NET community in the 2nd largest city in the US and I literally don't know a single person who has started a new desktop app in the last year (or who plans to start one ever again). Meaning Metro's inefficiencies are probably moot.
Free 50 GB lifetime account from box.net on iphone and ipad
I have a process for using Dropbox to upload a large number of photos. My goal is to find out (1) is it easy, (2) does it feel easy as you go along, and (3) what unknowns might make users uneasy during the process. (Feedback that doesn't serve this goal is welcome too.)

Pretend you want to try a site that automatically organizes your photos into a blog-like format.

Share a new Dropbox folder with box@ourdoings.com

Think aloud during this process as follows:

time question when-answered

Mostly just "time question", but sometimes you'll go back to note when you got your answer, e.g.

10:30 Shared the folder...what next? 10:45

Much appreciated!

P.S. I filled out your survey and left my email address.
It is possible that both quotes are cases of "convergent evolution" if you will and both are correct. Given how many people there are I don't think its unheard of for two people to arrive at the same idea despite one being much older.

That or he never attributed it, and speakers of only English attribute the phrase to his first use because of it.
This is awful. Code Search is an indispensable tool for finding reference code and real-world uses of various libraries. I don't know of anything on par with it.
It seems Microsoft knows that computing is moving more mobile and into touch screens, and they also know that the standard Windows UI doesn't translate too well in those situations, so they made this new metro UI paradigm. In a way they had to do something like that to stay relevant.

Unfortunately, I think they're pushing the Metro UI too hard for Windows 8. Metro UI to me will probably be about as useful as Launchpad is on my Mac with a mouse. (Not at all)

The only difference I see is that all the PR surrounding Windows 8 is about Metro while Launchpad wasn't completely the focus of the Lion PR, and it's also not enabled on by default. You have to start Launchpad from the dock before it affects you in any way. My solution is to just not do that.

I wish Windows 8 PR was mainly focused on performance improvement and then they mentioned, "Oh we added Metro UI too if you want to use it." Better performance is always an easy sell for me, while new UI's I don't need aren't.
I ran into a problem (having to replace the pictures in my photo frames often since I make a LOT of photographs), and decided to hack together a solution. Then I figured that if I had this problem, more people probably have it. However, I've always felt that having a job isn't my cup of tea. I can and will work very hard, just not for a boss.
I'm very disappointed to see google code search go.

It was very useful (for me at least, don't read this as a comment on the whole committee / process) in finishing the new C++ standard, and answering the question "Well, did anyone ever really write code like X?" (the answer was usually yes).

Buzz makes a lot of sense, although I imagine some users will be disappointed it couldn't be more 'cleanly' imported into google+.
Yes but they are not generally seen as mere transportation. If you use it as that you kinda look like you are a overgrown teenager. If you use it as a platform for tricks and jumps it is again fairly dangerous. This time not in lives lost but in bones broken.

When I see Tony Hawks Segway Pro in the shelves because people want to do those tricks but are afraid to break their bones, then maybe then Segways will be cool. All I see on the horizon is "Ride your Segway like Woz" the iPhone App that really only plays 3 videos (But you know how hard it is to get a video into iTunes).
Tried viewing this in Chrome but it didn't work. The website says it should be supported. My version is up to date. Any tips?

Firefox worked.
Reminds of a video I saw of a guy upgrading through every version of Windows. It's a sight to behold.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14
Hi Mike, thanks for your kind offer!

We have an old Windows XP machine that I would like to replace with a newer Windows 7 one. However, my wife is used to the old machine; in particular she has Internet Explorer manage all her auto-complete's and username/passwords for different sites she uses.

I looked around for tools to at least copy the passwords to the new machine but 1) Microsoft says it's not supported 2) the unofficial tools all look super-sketchy.

Any ideas of how to transplant the auto-completes and passwords to a new machine?
FYI Chrome is flagging your site because the domain name on your SSL certificate doesn't match. Also, the site styling is completely off in Firefox. I don't mean to be completely negative, but fixing those things will probably help in getting people to sign up!
Bluestacks: Play Android Apps on your PC
BQBackup.com -- inexpensive, but sincerely thought out / well done. Used them many moons ago & the owner Scott is a genius when it comes to hardware.
They're all wrong! It's just a massive array of Strings. No wonder I take so long to recall anything.
Democratic Republic of Start Up Music
The headline was extremely confusing to me until I realized that the table salt they were referring to was NaCl, not a randomized bit sequence padded on to a string before hash.
I couldn't find a keyboard shortcut, but you have to drag from either edge. That motion will bring up the other active windows(?) in your stack, switching you out of the app. It took me a while to figure that one out
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For me it was the lack of innovation. I think people are so busy coming up with new new ideas. They forget there are more fundamentally simple solutions to more carnal problems. Its like supersonic planes, and space shuttles, but we are just now releasing electric cars. Lets start innovating earth!!!
Well, if you want to apply the inverse of the analogy literally, everyone would still be using the command line, or, at best, ncurses-style applications.
Hey mike!! Thanks for doing this again. If you have some time I was wondering if you would check out this political satire website I do some work for and let me know what you think of the design and if anything needs to be changed. Also any recommendations on marketing it would be appreciated!

http://thewashingtonfancy.com/