skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps the government is filled with really nice, decent people who are every so often doing token things like this that won't really impact on us, in order to appease the industry that pays its bills whilst still maintaining our freedom.

Perhaps pigs can fly.
What's a typical percentage rejection rate for your tasks?

I find that for some classification tasks my rejection rate is around a third (this includes careless/sloppy answers, so the rejection rate of honest answers is lower).

Even though there is always a right answer, some answers are almost correct, but they get rejected and the worker's stats are affected.
I'm shocked lower back pain isn't higher up the list.

I guess everyone here has those $5000 chairs, or they stand up or whatever.
You might be right that desktops will always outperform portable devices (even though the gap is certainly narrowing), but mobile phones used this way are so convenient that the tradeoff is worth it.
Can you go into more detail about the right way to handle EINTR? When I wrote a server I wound up using the "if at first you get EINTR'd, try, try again".
From 14, yes. From 1 it wouldn't be - so it's not just 'quadrupling' itself that's impressive here :)
> some kind of bounds

Definitely. I can give a lower bound right off the top of my head: twelve. There are at least twelve functionally distinct C programs.
YouTube is not free to do whatever it wants with the videos of legitimate creators. The true content owners don't waive all their rights when they upload their videos.
Might want to be a wee bit careful with Oracle stuff. I heard some of them were rumoured to be axed in favour of Oracle's own offering.

But of course, rumours are unconfirmed.
They say that, but with all the device consolidation features (iCloud, syncing, unified messages, launchpad, dock with no indicator lights, automatic process management), they are playing out a different tune.

I think Apple is aware of this trend, and is going to eventually act on it.

I still hope Ubuntu does it well first, because I'd love to have an affordable OSS solution.
Agreed. What a strange, and frankly embarrassing, way to present yourself when the chief complaint against you will invariably be your maturity. That funny anecdote aside, this line turned me off:
>While little data on the phenomenon exists, venture capitalists say they are funding more chief executives under age 21 than ever before.

It seems a bit disingenuous to jump from "We're funding a lot of really young people these days" to "Rise of the Adolescent CEOs" but I guess that's how you get readers.

With that annoyance also out of the way, I was encouraged to hear that these guys were doing fairly well, no bullying or anything, and that they were primarily interested in building cool new stuff rather than just making some cheap iPhone games for a quick buck.
This is really motivating all the efforts you are making to be prepared for the bus. Im really proud that Mexico is on the map of the start up world and this kind of initiative are arriving.
I've been playing with ember also. It gets better. I'm trying to look to where ember will be vs. where it is now. The documentation leaves a lot to be desired. But they are working on it. Here is the todo gist that peter posted today on irc: https://gist.github.com/1856842#comments
A good nugget of wisdom. I would also add that investors are, by no means, the only people who suffer from this false idea of scarcity.

It's very difficult to encourage first-time entrepreneurs who fall into the belief that their idea is the most valuable asset to their success. You hear it all the time, "I had this great idea, but then I got online and saw that it was taken." This is no way to think when it comes to business.

In my mind it is absolutely critical to understand that markets are always changing and consumer taste is always changing. To be sure, there ARE some formidable challenges in more established and saturated markets, but nothing is guaranteed. There is always room for innovation and elegant solutions.

You can rest assured that if there is no competition, there will be. You can also rest assured that if competition exists, someone is making money. Why not you too?
Get your faces off of your articles' headers!
If that's a bet, I'll take it. You'll still be able to buy desktop computers in 10 years. They might not be common, cheap or easy to find, but you'll be able to buy them. IBM still makes lots of money selling mainframes, and HP still makes and sells OpenVMS minicomputers.
I still don't understand why people jab at the iPad by saying it's "only for consuming content." You don't hear people leveling the same complaint against TVs and MP3 players, which are specifically designed and marketed solely for consumption of content. Heck, even personal computers probably spend most of their time helping their owners consume content.
If consumer networks were as reliable as roads and the electricity grid, why would I bother giving my data to someone so they can put it in a datacenter?.

The future I would like best is a device on the end of my home internet connection.

I could authenticate myself to other online services against it.

It could be a node in a social network (much like diaspora) where I can control all my own data.

It could have access to a NAS at home, allowing me to stream my favourite music and movies to wherever I happen to be.

In the future, with resilient enough networks, the datacenter will be distributed.
You don't get a patent license, I know. What I meant was that if a company is willing to license a patent by putting a so-patented bit of code under the Apache license, then they are likely to be willing to explicitly give a patent license to reimplementors as well.
>(On task switching) "Nothing else I’ve seen comes close."

So true. It just feels SO much more like multitasking than any other platform.

And notifications? I agree, amazing.

I wish the article had covered the Gesture Area. I know the Touchpad did away with it, but the Gesture Area made everything so fluid, easy and intuitive.

Another interface feature I LOVE is the swipe-to-delete. The super-hot iOS ToDo app "Clear" has that exact behavior and people love it.

And how about TouchStone charging? Sooo nice. Pretty sure Palm was the first mainstream phone maker to have this functionality built-in.

One more feature that was amazing was the ability to bump-to-sync with other newer webOS devices. It's like the popular app Bump on steroids.

...And of course we all know how the apps were HTML/JS which was a brilliant idea. Why make everyone learn a new language just to write apps?
from the article:

> We split time into a sequence of intervals, of lengths
t1, t2, t3, . . .. At the ith step the man runs for time ti in a straight line that is perpendicular to his radius vector at the start of the step. He chooses to run into the half plane that does not contain the lion (if the lion is on the radius then either direction will do). So certainly the lion does not catch the man in this time step. The man then repeats this procedure for the next time step, and so on.
I don't see why this would be the future.

I'm going to want to carry a "phone" for sure. Most people who've ever had a smartphone expect to have one the rest of their life.

I'm also going to want (at least) a machine with a keyboard and bigger display than my phone.

Why in the future would I want to tie one to the other? I wouldn't want that today — my computer works just fine without having to do some weird sync/plug-in dance with my phone when I want to use it. Even if this was seamless and even if we ignore concerns like finite batteries, what would I have gained besides a single point of failure?

I of course would like pervasive data sync. But why would I want the hardware of my computer to rely on the hardware of my phone?
Its the obvious extension of the current model. Kudos to Canonical for giving it a go.

I was expecting Apple or MS to move in this direction and I seem to recall a POC/patent application/Mock up from a few years back showing an iMac with a removable iPhone/iPod as the home directory. Maybe I'm misremembering.
Hmm . . . I thought HTTPd used the even/odd convention for stable/development at the minor number level, which I don't see mentioned in that doc. And that would go against semver altogether.
Danbury kitchen remodel
UK Meteorological Office has "insufficient supercomputing capacity"
Why would anyone base a company out of St. Louis?

New York gets away with this because it's NYC.

But STL competes with bigger, better cities that have no city earnings tax: Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, Kansas City KS, Overland Park, Des Moines, Memphis. The only nearby cities that have earnings/income taxes are KCMO and Indy.

City taxes baffle me.
The Passion Myth
Show HN: The Clear iphone app in HTML5
Please note it's mostly an experiment on touch events and CSS transitions - there are still quite a few bugs and there's no database/local storage syncing at the moment, though I might add it later.
Show HN: Hurricane now runs Rails and Django
Written in Erlang, lots of new features--I hope you find it cool/useful/interesting.
I tried to train bayesian (and other) classifiers to reliably pick the same stories to read as I would. Despite looking at a variety of things - title, poster, domain, corpus from the article, corpus of the comments, I found their accuracy was never really better than 60%.

Then I tried rating the same set of articles myself several times. My accuracy was only around 60% too.

Figures.
It may sound trivial, but the thing I appreciate most about Nginx is its lightweight config file syntax.

It's very easy to glance over and see what's been set up compared to Apache's verbose pseudo-XML syntax which is about the worst syntax you can come up with: the verbosity of XML but without the benefit of being able to generate or parse it using standard XML tools!
How to make any cloud your cloud
> faster than Ackermann function anyway

Alas, it grows faster than any computable function.
The differences between Joxa & LFE (Lisps on the ErlangVM)
A facelift, basically. As an ex-Yahoo! the problems which plagued Flickr run deep. They need to perform open heart surgery on that sucker, not put some make up on it.

Disclaimer: I work on The OpenPhoto Project :)
Confusing Attackers with Artillery By Dave Kennedy
For a good description of OLAP data structures and algorithms, I'm a fan of _Data Mining_ by Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber
I would really love them to put in more apps for the chat[1]. GChat, AIM, etc. Some of this may be up to the developers of the application in question: Google may not allow Microsoft to do the GChat. Google doesn't even supply a Google+ app, nor a truly working web interface for Windows Phone.

I'm using ICS on my Touchpad. It's nice as a tablet OS for a power user, but after using WP7 I don't know how much I would want to go back to Android on my phone. There's just not that much I do on my phone where I need to sacrifice a slick and intuitive interface for the sake of deeper access to the system. On my tablet I need that and am grateful for it, but I'd rather not fiddle with my phone.

[1]I should add, this is a sticking point for WebOS for me as well. Very nice chat app, but no Facebook chat drops it down the drain for me. There's no way to integrate Facebook chat into it without Facebook doing it themselves, and they aren't planning on doing so.
On a related note. I was involved prototyping olap cubes (Microsoft stack) at my dayjob. HUGE success in terms of value added to the business. Sr Management was used to getting stale data (at least 24 hours old) of things like trading positions, profit/loss, alpha/beta/gamma for portfilios, etc. in Excel pivot table canned reports. We turned that into same-day, build-your-own reports in your web browser.

My group spun it off into a separate project group that took it all the way to effectively-realtime views of the entire company's money. The project rapidly became 100% mission critical and the related display framework absorbed just about every other reporting tech in the entire company. (This was in a 9billion/yr trading company with a few hundred employees)

So, if you're a pythonista looking to make yourself more visibly valuable to the management of your company. Consider taking something like this technology and running with it.
But they give YouTube a license to them:

"8.1 When you upload or post Content to YouTube, you grant:

A. to YouTube, a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence (with right to sub-licence) to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that Content in connection with the provision of the Service and otherwise in connection with the provision of the Service and YouTube's business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels;"
> For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

You probably want your bound to be a function of the length of the program. Because for programs of length 1, there are not 12 distinct C programs.
I feel that you missed an opportunity to mention the gesture area, probably my favorite part of interacting with my Pre 2. It seems so intuitive and it's something I miss when using my iPod Touch. Though, I suppose that's more of a hardware feature than a software one.
Like the built in Messages, or Gmail, or Browser apps? It's hard to have a general rule when it seems that most apps on the platform break it. :(
How content marketing can make you some extra income
I agree that if you try to optimize everything before proof that you need it you'll be wasting a lot of time. But the case i'm talking about is a function in mod_heartmonitor.c which calls apr_strtok, strchr, and ap_unescape_url(x2) for three iterations and returns the values in a table. And that function is duplicated at mod_lbmethod_heartbeat.c. For a cluster of 850 servers that's 10,200 function calls every second. When they could have just copied a raw network-order bit string into a struct. Or something.

Yeah it's probably insignificant, but they could have just done it that way the first time. There'd be no optimizing needed thereafter, and no side-effect as it's only used in two places for a limited function. It's actually smaller and easier and faster to write AND to run. You make the right choices at design and implementation time and you come out with better code which doesn't need to be optimized.
I'm particularly happy about this because I spent a bunch of time yesterday trying to get any of the current lightweight web browsers (Dillo and Links2; I couldn't get Arachne not to crash at startup, and I couldn't find the source to hv3) to log into either twitter.com or mobile.twitter.com, with no success at all. m.facebook.com worked, more or less, but no love from Twitter.

Apparently you can't log into Twitter without 64MiB of RAM, which is what Midori uses. Dillo and Links2 use 6MiB.

Hopefully this means they're switching to a more normal HTML interface and will become a web site instead of a DHTML application again.
good point, I'll add a link to the old icon and screenshots
Very cute, completely confusing.
(I reversed engineered that procedure: it does nothing. Just a placebo.)
If I had to hazard a guess, I would think that maybe the title of his video "talking head to camera" triggered the match, as there is a band called "the talking heads" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Talking_Heads]
Now this raises the whole question of, is using a title that overlaps a band name a copyright infringement, a trademark infringement, or none of the above. While we all may agree the latter is the correct answer, YouTubes infringement algorithm probably says otherwise. And while we're on the subject, how interesting is it that you tube filters content based on title, and most likely not based on actual content.
Why not carry the dumb terminal in your pocket and drop it into a monitor and charging station at a client's, a cafe, a friend's, etc? That way you have local access to things that should be local (I don't always have Internet access on my phone here in Michigan, but I still want to listen to music), but cloud access as well? Phones are pretty well tied to the Internet these days anyway.

These two futures don't have to be mutually exclusive, and I'd argue we'll see them both on the same device at the same time.
True, but if that alone were the explanation then "shortness of breath, vomiting, and chest pain" would also be higher.
I didn't notice it until you pointed it out.. That makes this the second time I've thought of it today.
We get a lot of Romans. Who knew the Romans were so into Agile? :)

It's a year-long project. One book down, several to go. Wasn't really sure what to do with the other pages.
That's too complicated a solution. Linux has had excellent boot time detection of hardware for years now- dock your phone in the desktop chassis, hit reboot, the OS gets loaded from the phone's storage and runs on the tower's CPU and GPU.
However, can you incorporate a minimal portion of the HP code to get the patent license? Maybe just use one function or something, just to make it a derived work?
I don't think it is such a bad thing to brag about, unless you mean that he might get into trouble with customs.

He is a CEO of a company and is building it (in part) with other peoples money. He shouldn't have to put up with stupid rules that are meant to fence in kids.
You can get some of these features on your iPhone now if you jailbreak. Jailbreaking makes iOS so much better.
It's not a good thing. We're reluctant to fund people who haven't done enough of college to know what they'd be missing if they skipped it.
Awesome video! I might have to give that a shot. It looks much more responsive than Gingerbread on my Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Note: what I'm about to say has zero technical base since uh, you know, I don't care about technicality or purity, we're talking about pure business direction here.

I'm unsure regarding Scala since a few articles have risen regarding getting burned by Scala (Yammer) or plainly suggested that Scala may not be it (David Pollack, one of the Scala celebrities).

Having said that, knowing Java developers, most (not all) of them would definitely flock to either Scala or Groovy instead of LISP. Have you heard anything about Groovy lately? Yep, nada, cricket. The cool kids (Yammer, Twitter) are using Scala (to some extend) so there you go.

Clojure on the other hand has that "LISP" tales behind it (LISP programmers are like gods or something like that) and it runs on Java so that gives people some kind of hope and smile on their face or something.

I don't know if either would be in high-demand but you may want to look around and do a bare minimum, out of the thin-air, lots of grain of salt type of assumption:

companies_who_use_X/people_who_sang_X_tunes = ratio_of_X_demand

or something like that.

e.g.: 10 people love scala, 10 companies using scala = 1

e.g.: 2 people love Clojure, 5 companies using clojure = 5/2 = 2.5

Guess who gets a better chance of aiming higher salary? :D

Of course that's just out of my arse type of calculation (for fun) :).
VIM: Intellisense for C/C++ via clang, tags navigation and NERDTree
Google may not allow Microsoft to do the GChat

Well, GChat is openly accessible via XMPP, so it's quite possible to do it without Google's permission. The question is whether MS would want to do it, at the risk of marginalising Live chat.

I'd like to believe they've moved on from that mindset, but I'm not quite convinced. Certainly, I'm not sure if they'd want to provide user support for GChat through official WP channels. What I'd love is for WP to provide hooks for developers to make their own GChat XMPP service, and slot it into the OS.

Services as opposed to apps makes a lot of sense for WP, because it's already deliberately non-app centric.
Yep, it's utterly dire. People bitch about X11 config files, but this is in many ways worse because it pretends to be XML. It'd be nice to submit a patch for Apache so it can read YAML, XML, and JSON based configuration. Or even just some sort of consistent fucking format, so we can generate configs for a bunch of servers with lxml or something.

The other thing that fucks me off is that the server will reboot happily and fail to start without having first checked that it can start, and configtest doesn't pick up things like directories being missing.
I like the point the author makes that "If prospective users are still available, the idea is still available."

Take online time tracking applications for example. I was looking through Mixergy earlier and there was an interview with an entrepreneur who runs a time tracking app ( http://mixergy.com/tom-rossi-molehill-interview/ ) which reminded me of an interview I'd read a while ago with another entrepreneur who also runs a time tracking app ( Clockspot , http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/12/11/engineering-... )

And of course HN user, Amy Hoy, also blogs about her profitable time tracking SAAS app Freckle ( letsfreckle.com ).

I bet they weren't the first to come up with the idea of online time tracking applications, and more people will come up with similar businesses in the future but as long as they have some differentiation and find users (or rather, customers) its irrelevant how shiny and new the "idea" is.
The App Store Is A Republic
If they did that all that happens is you're stuck with a crap tablet os and apps, the goal is a full-fledged workstation you can work on without compromise.
An explanation of how they are different, and why creating Joxa was necessary, from the creator of Joxa, Eric Merritt.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3610985

Full disclosure: Eric and I are co-founders of the company he references in that writeup.
So you are willing to commit to cloud-only, controlled by a random corp and subject to network availability but you are not going to trust the hardware you can carry in your pocket?

Notice that no one is saying that a secondary cloud-tier is excluded from this vision...
Very interesting, thank you. There is a big opportunity for someone to re-imagine the power of Lotus Improv with a more intuitive touch interface for tablets. Perhaps it will be me, but I'd rather it be you than that it not happen.

Data analysis as a service could be a big market. Why do Google Analytics, Mint, my time-tracking service, my to-do list and every other online app I use implement their own, custom, proprietary versions of the table/sort/pivot UI for advanced use-cases? I'd rather they provided clean interfaces for easy things and allowed me to join all their data together into one data cube for serious reporting.
Do we necessarily care about the overall size of the industry? When I listen to music, I care more about the composer and musicians than the guy who writes the contracts. If more artists are able to make money producing good quality music sold at a reasonable price to the consumer, then the music industry as a whole has done a good job, whether the industry comprises 100% artists or not.
We observed that we had exact concept matches for over 2/3rds of the symptoms searched on the first try.

To get the rest we are doing two things:
1. adding common queries without matches into our symptom vocab
2. improving the suggested searches algorithm
The rumour is that Microsoft Office is going to be released for the iPad in a few weeks.
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/post/1322323

This chap is trying his own home rolled version.

I'm just wondering how fiddly the wiring would get when you decide to go desktop on another monitor somewhere.
Eidetic USB plug
Misfortune Teller
quickly looking at the bootstrap javascript they are making calls to $().offset which also doesn't work for hidden elements, so yes were talking about the same thing.