skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nintendo has said that none of the games for the system are allowed to require 3D to play, so I don't know if you should expect anything too groundbreaking there.

I think the 3DS's biggest problem is the overwhelming success of the original DS. Damn near everyone owns one, so people are still making titles for it. Aside from the 3D feature, this leaves little incentive to upgrade, unless your original DS is on its last leg and you still want to play those games. Otherwise, you've still got a working system, a stockpile of games and you still have access to newly released titles. Until there are some worthy 3DS exclusive titles, sales will continue to be pretty slow.
I don't think people argue solely on hardware specs, you should count the maintenance and related salaries into the total cost.
Dr Pepper Scholarship 2011
Wikipedia puts the BSD (open source) at 1988 introduction with the GPL being 1989. NeXTSTEP was released September 18, 1989. So, I would say your dates do not mesh and joejohnson's comment is correct.
I think you have to distinguish between where you rent whole server capabilities, and more managed models like Google App Engine. It seems to me that GAE should deliver more consistent performance.
There may be some truth to that for the type of person who reads HN, but it's certainly not true for the wider public. Most people don't care about having full control of their mobile device, they just want it to work.
Wouldn't it be possible to limit the AI's APM to somewhere a human/pro-gamer could achieve to prevent it from being detected?
Durham based startup
Such income shifting costs the U.S. government as much as $60 billion in annual revenue

No, it doesn't. The US gov't never had a claim to this money, so there's no way they can lose it.
"You would think that you could get better prices by signing 1 or 2 year contracts, but interestingly enough, out of the initial 5 providers we talked to the two that didn’t require contracts had the best prices."
(snip)
"We’ve moved 100% of our machines that rely upon performant (sic) disks to dedicated servers hosted at Softlayer. Roughly speaking, this corresponds to about 80% of our hosting costs. Eventually, we’ll move everything "

If you don't have a contract there is nothing to prevent a provider from raising prices on you. The reason to have a contract is not just to get the best price. It's to have a price guarantee. Edit: Moving 100% of your machines won't be something you will want to do. If you have a contract you can renegotiate well in advance of any price increase.

Prices always drop?

People thought housing prices always go up as well.

How long is the price guaranteed for? I'm assuming mixpanel has this issued covered but it's important to keep it in mind. Not having a contract goes both ways.
Of course Richard Stallman does not inspire poetry. There is no beauty coming from him. But you can just be baffled by beauty. Do you see the harm that apple policies (not products) do to innovation? to your freedom? Do you care?

I admire Stallman for his values. I respect him for his perseverance.
It's a timing attack remember, not an ordinary brute force. The randomization adds almost no extra time.

You only have to calculate the random average once, and you anyway need to collect lots of timing data.
I go outside sometimes, have both real & internet friends. Well I'm trying to enjoy my life.

But I have many thoughts about my future career and my future at all.
And if you were using paper Alice could photocopy the document and hand it Bob. The answer to this problem is Alice needs to know who this information can and cannot be shared with. If she isn't capable of that these permissions won't help anyways.
Best Fresh Free Leads for MLM
His original post should have been more along the lines of this correction. The original had awful timing and was totally tactless. Correction noted, doesn't make thing right, still dislike him very much.
Open Source All the Things
Why Analysts Never Give Open Source a Break
Poll: Do you believe informative titles should be swapped for original titles?
Something I've noticed: Articles are submitted with informative titles, only to be switched to their (sometimes non-informative, sometimes link-bait) original titles.

I believe that editorialized or misleading titles should be changed, but a descriptive title helps me decide what to read.

Perhaps I'm completely off on this one, but I was curious what others thought about this.

*small edit for accuracy.
Submitted titles should always mirror the original.
Descriptive titles should be favored.
I don't care either way.
The majority of that market is getting VPSs or renting dedicated boxes. There is no hardware maintenance or related salaries.

Even for multiple boxes, you call up your provider, and order a cage with hardware filled. They'll provide everything.

95% of "Cloud" is just a new marketing term for VPS.
Well, to be honest I didn't really read yours either. I glanced at the headings, picked up a few words in the body, and said "Ohhhh, he's just describing the teaching methodology he's used in the past, not providing some general philosophy of teaching". And I was satisfied with that.
I'd consider spending time with SystemVerilog.
I find it mildly disconcerting that DARPA's server infrastructure is clearly not scaling well for this announcement.
Google+ launches ‘Ripples’ visualisation
Well, I also noticed a lack of good bug reports. I don't want to start with projects like Rails, because they're too complex. On another hand minimalistic projects like Sinatra have almost no issues on github. I want something at the middle, not complex, but not so easy as 1-2-3 that have no bugs.

I can't choice a project anyway. Some your suggestions please?
You raise some very sound points. No wait, I meant to say stupid.

Guy says "I have kids". No problem.

Woman says "I have kids". Problem.

Whether it's legal to ask or unnecessary to mention is irrelevant.
I look at this and say to myself "Felicia is using the wrong Twitter client. She should switch to the one that she actually wants. The only difficulty is that it might not exist yet."

Does it exist? What I think we might be looking for is a Twitter client that displays the usual timeline, but also can act like an RSS reader: For a subset of your followers, you can display a list of all their Tweets over the last 7 days that included a link, along with a preview of the content at that link. Surf down that display and mark a Tweet "read" and it disappears from that display (though it remains in the usual timeline).

Actually this might scream "Instapaper addon". I'd love to be able to select a subset of my Twitter followers and have their Tweeted URLs beamed directly into Instapaper to be read at my leisure. Come to think of it, I wonder if I could hack that up myself.
Google Maps is dead, long live OpenStreetMap!
"We recently added a new backup machine with a crappy CPU, little RAM, and 24 2TB drives in a hardware RAID 6 configuration. You can’t get that from a cloud provider and if you find something similar it’s going to cost an order of magnitude more than what we’re paying."

I tend to agree with his points but, for back ups the cloud is perfect. If he stayed in the cloud, he wouldn't even need the server in question.
They will audit the code, no matter the nationality of its author. There are plenty of US residents who would sabotage the code if they could.
Google+ Ripples for Dalai Lama hangout
That is exactly what I hoped would happen with bitcoins. The day we remove that barrier to innovation is the day a lot more startups will be created.
since it's being positioned as the more cost effective option as views go up, that still doesn't make sense. Can you provide a link?

EDIT: ok, so that's an order of magnitude difference from your first post. that's well below the CPM for the "overage" charge, but well over it if you take into account the 25k initial views per day. It still doesn't make sense if they are legitimately offering that as the better high-end option.

I don't want to go all ad-hominemy, but based on your "Google Maps is dead, long live OpenStreetMap!" comment, I'm going to go ahead and take your numbers with a gigantic grain of salt :)
Facebook to give a users friends the ability to unlock their account.
>I simply like to encourage people to hustle. I do this with my friends and family constantly.

Have you ever asked them if they think this comes across as condescending of you?

As far as you lacking self confidence. Maybe not, but to "affluent" people, that's how it looks.

You don't have to apologize, you didn't hurt my feelings or anything, I'm just pointing this out to you so that I can help you work past it. Keep at it, and eventually you'll get the self-confidence you need to not make stupid remarks about cars.

(See how that sounds? Condescending, eh?)
"I don't care about the 'glory' of a startup, glory is something you tell stupid 18 year old kids so they feel good about going to die for 60 year old kids."

Beautiful :-) But what about passion?

"Did you know that the people who sell plastic wrap for hard drives have a higher profit margin than those who make hard drives? Think about the ramifications of that for a second."

No I didn't, but that's very interesting. Yet I doubt anyone here would be funding a company making new plastic wraps.
Malthus has been debunked plenty of times. The school of thought has been predicting overpopulation disaster for 200 years which hasn't come close to materializing. The key point is that resource production also increases -- all those extra humans have a way of figuring out how to produce the resources they need.

Okay, eventually there's a hard cap on resource production, limited by the total insolation energy to Earth or perhaps that which can be captured with space power satellites or a Dyson sphere. And you can continuously predict Malthusian disaster until that comes true. But that's a bit like predicting "recession!" for every year from 1992 through 2001 and then claiming in 2001 that you were right.
hahaha, the existence of this service... are macs expensive? How expensive are they really? "Yo a desktop mac is so expensive there's this service to give DEVELOPERS (knowledge workers) access to one on TIMESHARE." Like real estate.
Gaziantepspor Trabzonspor ma� �zeti
HP: We're keeping the PC unit
About as fair as calling an Indy Car a Buckboard with an engine instead of a horse. Perl and OS X are quite a bit more.
It's not a trend; we've always done it.
Command Line Time Tracking via Toggl API
#ubuntu and #fedora on freenode are both full of trolling, albeit of a less "harassment" style. And oh god, ##linux....

On the other hand, #vim is absolutely lovely, so the problem is clearly not systemic.
Whilst I agree that this is a problem (especially since it looks like my Nexus One won't get the the upgrade) a mitigating factor as an app developer is Android's backwards compatibility.

For instance is my app targets 2.1 it will run on all on 2.1 and above which is currently ~97% of all active devices.

Check out http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve... for the active OS version stats collected by Google in the last 14 days.
No one publishes only on RSS, so the non-techie's can go to a web page to see what's new on the Foo blog. I think a bigger problem is that Foo blog's web site is different in hundreds of small details from Bar blog's web site. In other words, one reason non-techies are more likely to follow someone on FB is that they are already familiar with FB's user interface.

The bigger problem though comes when the non-techie has written something online that I want to read...
HP to Keep PC Division
I was not directly countering Stallmans' "Jobs is evil because he creates popular, 'closed' systems" with the fact that he is an asshole. I was merely pointing out that he is an asshole.

No ad hominem here. I don't have the time to take on the differences between practical and theoretically closed systems of which Stallman speaks.

And the implication of your Godwin reference is the height of absurdity.
You're absolutely right, but I think you overestimate the general public's preferences with regards to quality. From low bitrate mp3's, video clips (movies or otherwise), laptop speakers, car speakers, computer monitors, etc. there has always been a multitude of products / services people just want to work, and could care less about whether they're high quality (within reason, of course).

I would never use this service, but I would be willing to wager there are a lot of people who could care less about the quality of preservation (again, within reasonable range).
The problem with Stallman is he and I disagree on what the word "oppressive" means. I have no objection to people running FOSS software on their computers, but he objects to my running non-FOSS software on my computer and labels me "oppressed".
CrashPlan displays pricing in exactly that manner: https://www.crashplanpro.com/business/store.vtl
Actually I know lots of people with scanners. Somewhat counter-intuitively, these people tend to be the least technical of those that I know.

Most of the tech-heavy people I know have pretty much abandoned personal printers, but the non-techies still have and use them, and most of them are using multifunction devices that scan/copy/print.

In my purely anecdotal world, this app is then a good solution for the techies who have a smartphone but no scanner. On the flip side, those techies tend not be the type to collect tons of sentimental photos, so I'm not sure how large the market would be.
1) So Stallmans rhetoric serves only as a counter-point to popular culture?

2) I don't think you understand what the word 'connivance' means.
Nice, I better work on my Karma. Thank You!
There's no downvote button on stories. That encourages people to leave negative comments, because they can't express their "negativity" by downvoting.
Free Download : PDF Suite Professional 2011
Ask HN: Startup equity - time and expertise V money, market vision and a network
Hi,

Question: Can I expect a 30-50% equity share in a startup where the other partner has invested $y, no time, less expertise but good market awareness, and I've invested x time, lots of expertise, but no money?

Details:
I'm entering an interesting situation. I've been discussing with a clothing retailer in Europe a plan to architect and build a software product / web-service that will be very useful for their business, but also will most likely be commercially viable as a standalone web service; if it looks good we've agreed to spin it out and form a startup to move forward with it. In such a case I would probably work full-time on the startup, while they carry on with their business but potentially continue to add investment to the startup.

They have significant business expertise, particularly in their space, and we will initially work very closely to build the service so that it works well for them and fits their needs. I will be paid as a consultant for this task.

So, x months labor in exchange for $y.

However, there are many technical challenges involved in making this product a success, not just from a software point of view, but from an architectural and research point of view. I'll be looking after all that too. Won't go into too many details, but they couldn't achieve what they want without me (or someone with a similar skill set to me, and they're not many of those available).

Likewise, I could go and build this on my own, but they have a great network for getting future customers or even getting the startup acquired. Building out the product first as a bespoke solution for them and looking at its commercial viability seems like the right approach for us both.

Equity terms haven't come up yet as they work hasn't begun.

Once it's built, the company are going to have a great product that works well and fits their needs; I'm going to have been compensated for the work - is it reasonable to consider ourselves at that point square, and thus entitled to reasonably equal stakes if we move forward and commercialise the product?

Thanks for any advice!
All I'd say if you use this, give it to three active users that you know from different places. For maximum security.
Best IRC Client - Opera Browser
URDU SEX STORIES: Village Main Suhagraat
Captcha replacement
I was being half sarcastic. I wanted to point out the religiosity around Apple. People read Stallman's statement, saw that it was about Steve Jobs doing bad things, and just shut down their brains. Some nearly accused Stallman of being happy about Job's death.

Of course those strong reactions are totally unjustified. And despite what pg seem to suggest above, Stallman is very probably justified in doing his comment: Steve Jobs is being a martyr, and martyrs are nearly always a good thing for the cause they defend (here, the locked-down model of the iPhone and the iPad).

The error of Stallman was purely strategic (or tactic). He didn't foresee that people wouldn't read what he wrote as he wrote it. He didn't foresee that they would quote him out of context. He didn't foresee the near-total lack of rationality of Apple fanboys.

The problem is, I don't know how I could have avoided those mistakes if I were Stallman.
You're right, it is a very naive statement. But it's also a very serious one; the freedom to speak one's mind is the entire topic of this discussion, and I am of the opinion that freedom of speech is so important that it should be a reserved right, inalienable and indelible.

That was a good essay. I liked it. What conclusions did you want me to draw from it?
This sort of advice always makes me sad. So to get a great letter, you need to, at least a year in advance, do independent publishable research with the professor? I try to imagine what sort of undergraduate, say, could do this - one who already earned his degree in the area, I guess... (Reminds me of the high school advice for getting into great colleges, which boil down to 'be a good college student before getting into, you know, an actual college, so you have awesome stuff to put on you resume'.)
Right, but after one of these big social platforms eliminates the other big social platforms, it will be in its best interests to stop providing RSS feeds because that will be an easy way to force more people to use their platform. (And non-techies will not take the trouble to post the same post to Twitter or Facebook and to a service that provides RSS.)
What’s Really Next for Apple in Television - Siri
It was naive in not seeming to grasp that there are many senses of "can't" and "freedom," and that the sentence could be either true or false depending on which you mean.
HBO ONLINE
They're a clone in the sense that they provide a device to let you take payments with your iPhone / iPad.

They're so far off from Square in terms of customer experience, though: their signup process involves a 10+ page online application and they require that you obtain a merchant account to take payments are amongst the opportunities for growth at Payfirma.
HP Will Keep PC Division
Recurring Payments Cost Calculator
Curious to see how much this bumps the active Google+ account numbers. Google claims about 40 million Apps users right now.
It's actually kind of funny... I had a Klout score of 1 for the longest time, and now suddenly it's 21 despite never doing anything.
Siri-Powered Apple HDTV Is Definitely Coming, and Pieces of It Exist
Maybe someone at OneSchool can clear this up:
http://oneschool.com/students/

"We're the #1 app for college students at campuses around the country. Want to bring OneSchool to your campus? Email us and we'll get back to you faster than you can say "I need you now.""

Really? It's been awhile since I've been a student on campus, but I'd venture to guess that Facebook, Shazaam, Pandora, and Instagram are all more ubiquitous than OneSchool. In terms of use, at least, and probably in terms of install rate.

So I'm guessing that there is a specific category and specific use that maybe OneSchool is the leader in. But whoever wrote the copy for that webpage clearly does not think such distinctions matter or that OneSchool's customers are the kind to be bamboozled by such a claim. But I think most API developers do care about such things as granularity of data.
It's an ego thing - something Steve had no lack of.
>there were no Froyo devices being sold by summer

What? There are still Froyo devices being sold now, as described in the article we are currently discussing:

That’s because every US carrier is still selling - even just now introducing - smartphones that will almost certainly never run Gingerbread and beyond.

Example: http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/huawei-impulse-4g-at/450...
I agree with everything you said except for:

>The moment a popular site like Reddit switches to the cloud, is the moment it becomes barely usable during certain times of the day.

Reddit is largely on EC2, do you even know what you're talking about?

EC2 is part of Reddit has so many problems, among others.
I'm a US citizen living in Canada.
In my experience, your sentiment is common amongst Canadians.

The thinking usually goes "Our banks might not be convienient, but at least they won't fail like the ones in the US".

My understanding of the mortgage crisis, however, is that most of the problems were with large banks, not small ones.

I can tell you that small US banks an credit unions offer substantially better service at better terms than Canadian banks do.

In Ontario, for example, there's only 1 bank that offers $0 checking accounts without absurdly low transaction
limits (like 1 transaction per month). That bank doesn't have branches, and offers almost no services.

It's absurd if you think about it. "You want me to pay you a fee for the privilege of loaning you money."

The only way that kind of business can be sustained is through negative externalities.

No fee bank accounts are standard practice in the US, precisely because there are many banks to choose from.
Choice drives competition.

Regulation of big banks may have prevented a banking crash, but I think it's a mistake to extrapolate from that notion to "many small banks are bad", because that was not the problem in the us...
Is that a hardware issue? Never had a touchscreen problem myself when charging.
I've worked both in environments that are 10:1 women to men and 1:10 women to men. All of the "oh women just don't understand a good joke/don't ball bust/don't talk dirty" is pure BS, in female dominated environments I've encountered plenty of that. The one thing I've never encountered was anyone who made me feel even slightly out-of-place due to my gender (male). On the other hand I've been in male dominated, tech environments that make me feel uncomfortable even as a man. I've heard men discuss their wives education as a merely something to do so that they could marry a programmer, seen numerous times where women are put on the spot for their gender ("whoa there's a girl in this class"), incredible amounts of misogyny, continual use of the "men"/"girl" dichotomy and the cherry on top of all of this is the "oh women are just being sensitive/can't take a joke/etc" whenever this is brought up. With a background in the humanities I've actually spent a lot of time reading up on gender studies and reading real (ie not the pop culture) feminist writings, and it's frankly embarrassing how regressive even reasonably intelligent tech teams can be (and disgusting how awful the less talented ones are). To refuse to see this issue despite the incredible amount of evidence that it exists if ignorance of the highest order, which of course is to be expected anywhere this type of behavior is a problem.
This is really awesome. I don't understand how it works yet.
Do you mean idealistic? I don't think RMS fails to perceive reality, he just thinks fighting statu quo and the current trends is worth it.
Too complicated and busy. A definite interruption to the user flow.
HP will not spin off its PC business