skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At SXSW, Todd Park Talks Startups
Popular game developer halts work on Android
One thing all my clients are screaming about is "Where did the email report as pdf option go?"

That's been on the "coming soon" list ever since the new interface launched - no sign of it yet…
IPv6 by the numbers
What if they bought HN? Then throwing money at the problem would probably be a good thing for them.
I worked at Sony Music during the time of the rootkit fiasco and I was a bit surprised by the reaction of the internet. There were many organized boycotts of Sony Corporate, Sony Playstation, etc… while nobody tried to boycott any Bertelsmann products (and there are plenty). The irony is that the individual in charge of that division of Sony BMG came over in the merger from Bertelsmann.

While Sony certainly stood to reap the brand benefits, they also reaped almost all of the negative publicity.
"Danielle started her PhD at 17" -- Thanks for ruining my monday!

Just kidding, awesome idea. We're so used to IT startups that we often forget about other engineering. Very cool stuff.
Saying "Firefox will support H264 and MP3 decoding with OS codecs" is just speculation.

Quoting directly from the link:

Initially this will be enabled on Gonk (B2G). In a few weeks we will add support for Android as well. We will support encoding any video/audio format that is supported by existing decoders present on the system, including H.264 and MP3.

Of course it's possible that the bug doesn't land. But calling this speculation? Please.
reStructeredText has been adopted by Python community as a de-facto standard for writing docs, it's simple, clean and extensible.
Learn Three.js by writing 3D Tetris
You reference good feedback from HN last time around, but there's no link to the discussion.
You clearly know nothing about Wikimedia if you think it "works".
I've been doing stuff with Mojolicious with the YUI App Theme, but it sounds like using Bootstrap instead is the way I really need to go.
I do not have any sort of anti-worker agenda. I was simply pointing out a special interest group that I found out about in the past 1-2 years that I'm guessing most people here are not aware of. I believe I was correct.

Never, anywhere, do I imply (it's clearly your assumption) that CCOPA or other unions benefit the most.

Look back at the structure of what I said and then reconcile that against what you're accusing me of. You had an emotional reaction to what I said and jumped to conclusions.
Exactly, Udacity courses have around 50 minutes of lectures per week and 6 weeks of lectures. In total just 5 hours of lectures for the whole duration of the course.
I don't believe anything substantial can be taught in such a short duration.
On the other hand, most of MITx, and Coursera courses run for 10-14 weeks with 2-3hrs of lectures per week with additional assigned readings for some courses.

I personally had pretty bad experience with Udacity's AI-class last year, IMHO their teaching material is mediocre at best. I don't plan to waste any of my time on their classes specially when there are so many other better options available.
This is what your website looks like to me http://cl.ly/3B0V2u0x3g3M3d0l242N

(It's down)

Might need to get that fixed to take advantage of current Hacker News traffic.
Broward and Palm Beach
Kids Fairyland Serving In Broward And Palm Beach Also In The Miami Area, A Way To Give Your Childs A Day Or A Party That They Will Never Forget.
Trend Micro releases HijackThis source code
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3517863 probably.
Branching.

A simple feature everyone is trying to avoid, but sometimes it's like am open door from golden cage.

Guava is the "from inside out" project presented as "take it or leave it". I would not personally beat Google because of their attitude towards changes. But they have to state it explicitly, otherwise more contributors - after so much work they invested - will feel betrayed!
Shameless self-plug:

www.getmetricmail.com :D
Redi-Data acquires KM Lists
Redi-Data, Inc., a leading provider of healthcare professional lists, consumer and business data and email lists, announced the acquisition of KM Lists, a full-service list provider for over a quarter century. KM Lists’ products and industry experience across all data verticals – particularly healthcare – will augment Redi-Data’s already robust offerings, furthering the company’s position as an industry leader.
This was not my basic message at all.

I'm here telling you this right now.

They are a special interest group that promotes incarceration. There are others, as well.

People are far more aware of private prisons than they are prison guard unions. I've known nasty things about private prisons for 10+ years. I found out about CCOPA and other similar entities in the past 1-2.

As stated earlier, I was simply presenting something that I figured people here likely hadn't seen.

You're too emotional to reason with, I'm afraid.

I'm done.
Real-Time Website Stats on the iPad with LiveStats
I feel the same way, and I like to have an approach I call just-in-time-learning. If you focus on formal education methods you often end up with a lot of time spent in knowledge that's not very interesting to you or that doesn't fall within your work/hobby real needs. In a just-in-time-learning methodology, you roll up your sleeves at the first sign of a lacking area in your knowledge that you need to tackle right now.

Of course that isn't without it's own pitfalls. That lacking area might need a bunch of pre-requisite knowledge you also don't have and would do if you had adopted a traditional approach early on. It also may lead you further into the rabbit hole if you don't put a stop to it somewhere along the way and turn back to the original problem.

Right now I feel that you have to be able to mix and match the approaches. Reserve some time for just-in-time and rabbit holes, but also remember to reserve some time for fundamentals too, in order to prepare for future lessons. So it is important to do a bit of studying about the subject in order to understand if that's the right fit or not for you.

Actually, I think the real drive for any kind of learning is about the same for anyone: curiosity.
damn...this is so great....i always wanted this....
i dont need ny tools now....:D
They're not talking about the details of the plan, though. They're encouraging you to empirically test your belief that people will behave the way your business plan is expecting them to (paying you for whatever the service is, sticking around when you monetize them with ads, or whatever it is.)
Setting Up A Linux File Server Using Samba
I was talking about Firefox Desktop.
`iPhone only?': `No'

What else is there? You only have an App Store link on the site.
Website Reviews
This website is providing you huge material.Here you can find several top websites and their reviews. You can also share your websites here. if you are interested and want to know more about it then visit this website.
Republic of Moldova - the information free zone
Hi Stan,

We did a group chat product at groupflier.com and got great traction on the free version but the SMS costs killed us and we had to switch to a paid model. Happy to trade PM on our experiences if you are interested and have a blog about it at:

http://gcrawshaw.posterous.com/group-texting-is-a-telco-game
Kudos for forking and working on an alternative version of llvm-py.
Gowalla officially shut down, uses Facebook to check-in at SXSW 2012
Samsung Galaxy S3 release date
Here is are some news about the release of android galaxy s3.
"Draw Something" is one of the highest grossing apps on the UK appstore right now. They have a free and paid version. You could take some clues from them.

The great thing about getting money is that you can buy traction with it.
I have quit university when I realized that the only difference between reading books on my own and reading books for a uni course was that university is a place where you learn how to work. You are spoon-fed work discipline and research methodology. I already had all of that, and so I quit. At that point it wasn't difficult at all to continue on my own.
The solution lays not with the accused, but their lawyers. The lawyers can simply refuse to defend cases and the system will crash. And no one, no poor defendant, will risk jail. In the 1960's there were "committed" lawyers who took a stand against the Draft, as well as legal organizations that took a stand--the National Lawyers Guild comes to mind. Unfortunately, the idealism of the 1960's turned to drug defense work in the 1970's and by the 1980's the pendulum had swung back and hard.
Even if only a small group of lawyers refused to handle cases, such as federal Criminal Justice Act attorneys (18 USC 3006A) the system would not be able to cope.
Unfortunately, it's easier to herd cats than to get lawyers to act in unison. But this is a better solution than asking the first few defendants to risk life sentences: no one wants to be the Wildebeest that enters the crocodile-infested river first. But a work stoppage by these lawyers would carry little risk of consequences other than a serious reassessment of the broken US criminal justice system.
I like the Udacity Robot AI course but I can see that it is dumed down. If the course wheren't I probebly would not have the time to talk it.

I trie do to Udacity Robot AI, Coursera Algo 1 and PGM. Lets see if I can handle that. My math background is much to thin and all the math stuff gives me a hard time.
I was reminded of this by the post on the goto statement -- having used the AST module recently in a limited capacity[1], I was really impressed by how easy it was to use. There's a good pycon talk for those interested specifically in this part of the process[2], and you can also see the full grammar[3].

[1] http://blueprintforge.com/blog/2012/02/27/static-modificatio...

[2] http://blip.tv/pycon-us-videos-2009-2010-2011/pycon-2011-wha...

[3] http://docs.python.org/library/ast.html#abstract-grammar
I guess in the pseudo-analogy (universities are government-like), there is also indeed a pseudo-analogy of the form, "if you don't like your government and its tax system, move somewhere else. Oh, you don't like any taxes? Well what did you expect -- that governance would be a free lunch?" -- and that "oh, you can change your government, it is subject to competition in a quite-unregulated market of international governance" and so on. The larger point is that there is an opposition to governments which isn't opposed more generally to government-like structures -- and that arguments which libertarians would support for government-like structures are ones they would confidently reject for governments. ("I shouldn't have to change governments!" becomes "I shouldn't have to change universities", or "I can't change the government, I'm not a senator" becomes "I can't change the university, I'm not a dean.")

It seems, as you say, that the only distinguishing feature is its size -- that there is no libertarian ideological opposition to big government, because it's the same things that they ideologically support at small scale, but there is just a pragmatic opposition to big government because it is big. So all of the stuff about Initiation of Force is at best inconsistently applied and at worst total crap.

Now that works for most modern libertarians, but I think it would not work for Ayn Rand. More interesting are the libertarians who take a doctrinaire opposition to the government, but it really requires, as I said earlier, an anarcho-socialist vibe of "governments shouldn't enforce real estate regulations or trademark laws, those are already Initiation of Force in some fundamental sense, 'don't walk here or I'll hurt you', 'don't say this name without my permission or I'll hurt you'."
For h264 to be enabled in Firefox, you must already be using a mobile device or in the future an operating system that (financially and technically) supports non-free codecs.
Ask HN: Is there a standard for representing phone numbers in text?
I'm stuck as to the "best" way to represent my UK phone number in an e-mail and I am wondering if there is a standard way.

Currently I have "(+44) 01234567890", but I have seen...

..."+44 1234 567890"
..."+44 (0)1234 567890"
..."+44.1234 567890"
..."44-1234-567-890"

and various combinations.

I'd be interested to see the regex involved in things like Skype's phone number plugin if there is no standard... :\
MIT fiber could be woven into glasses-free 3D displays, and battle cancer
The main takeaway here(if true) is about branding.

There is hardly any proprietary software any more these days, it's been largely commoditised.

In this situation, the wise words of Warren Buffet ring true. He said that the best investment is one where you take a commodity, brand it, then sell it. So make great software, brand it and sell it.
Rabbit-holing and yak shaving happen when you're still committed to working on the problem domain but struggling with some aspect of it. Social media and TV happen when you've explicitly given up for the time being.
I messed up the formatting on that.

I agree with your point, and posted that job ad in support of it: To disqualify someone because they are using C#/.NET is arbitrary and stupid, and apparently came from engineering.
Several seconds ago I would assume. Just because real computer science doesn't get talked about much here doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.

As an addendum GOTO is still bad because it is much harder to parse (as a human reading the code) than using equivalent branching control statements. That was the whole point of Goto considered harmful, it's not mathematically needed so it's not syntactically needed either.
This is fantastic - absolutely the most satisfying method of interaction with an app that I've experienced in a long time. Expand the gesture set to include skip forward/back and it's a winning consumer app. Personally, I'd love (and would pay for) a library allowing me to add gesture control to my own apps.
I've not knowingly let anything with "Sony" written on it directly touch machines on my home network since. People think I'm weird...

I do remember seeing an apology and promise from Sony about the incident in the form of a press release. Though my reading of it was "we are sorry they got caught and embarrassed us" and "we promise not to do exactly the same thing in the near future" (which left them open to doing something just as bad right away and open to doing the same thing now, years later, without breaking their word).
Great app and hope to use it soon. Just have to find a decent event to go to!

One thing I'm wondering about is the Follow sharypic on Twitter and Like sharpic on Facebook buttons in the About screen. Is it just using their respective APIs or just a plain link?
M-Pulse Episode #9: Developer connector Caroline Lewko of WIP
> While Sony certainly stood to reap the brand benefits, they also reaped almost all of the negative publicity.

That sounds like someone failed in their due diligence role, rather than any reason I should pity Sony.
Free High Quality Link Building
different interests highlighted: great. But what about the programme itself? That is the value proposition for founders.
TCC/LE: A Windows CMD replacement to make Linux users feel slightly more at home
If you accidentally kept typing ls, cat, etc., it should make you pretty happy to have it respond expectantly. Also pretty nifty is the support for more complicated commands and utilities, like 'find' and 'history'
Also, John Varley's story Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
Motivational Speakers
Successful Speakers P/L is a specialist bureau that presents people who have earned the right to speak from experience. Individuals with extraordinary success in their chosen field and have hard - won learning’s to share with audiences.
Ask HN: How much equity for a second employee?
I currently work with a growth stage startup doing about 700-800k in revenue, and very little profit. The product is hot with a solid client base. I do sales, generating about 20% of revenue. I got on board as the 2nd employee, and there are three founders. The first emoloyee is a coder, and received 5% profit share but no equity. My compensation consists of salary (below market) and commissions, which are generous at 15% of what I bring in. There is a real possibility of being acquired in the next 2-3 years, hopefully in low 8 digits.

I would like to propose cutting commissions in favour of equity. My thinking is that somewhere in the realm of 3.5-4% is fair. The business had seed/angel investment which sustained the pre-rev stage but since then all growth has been from operating revenue and there are no plans for VC funding. Investors own somewhere in the order of 10-20% and founders own the rest.

My thinking is that commisions are a cash flow pain, and we could probably get a bigger valuation if profits are better, which would be a win for all. I've already been working with the company for nearly 2 years, which does complicate things a bit.

Any thoughts on this, in particularly how such a deal could be structured? I was thinking some kind of vesting schedule tied to performance, similiar to commissions, with a clause for early vesting if being acquired?
I don't know how well $(foo) is supported outwith bash in practice, but it is POSIX: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3...
Maybe helpful for the orga of the programme:
Most accelerators underestimate the overhead for a young team to move for several weeks/months to london or fly back and forth for weeks. You should try to provide help or even space for that.
Used Car Parts Detroit MI | Call Now | US Auto Supply
This Week in Location Based Marketing #68: Instaprint, Wallit + Momentfeed
JSON.org License Literally Says it "shall be used for Good, not Evil"
If what you took from "The Wire" is that many gang members are "worthless thugs," then you sort of missed the point of the show.

"The Wire" is as much a commentary about the social conditions leading to crime (broken education system, blighted cities, etc.) as it is a commentary about criminals and law enforcement.

David Simon, the show's creator, has gone on record as stating that the show is really about three things: 1) the pointlessness of the drug war; 2) the social conditions of the underclass in America; 3) society's misguided obsession with simple, reductionist statistics (i.e., judging police effectiveness by "clearance rates," judging teachers by student test scores, etc.) at the expense of more complex and nuanced systems analysis.
Yes my thoughts exactly. They are not selling themselves at all. Anyone here been through the programme?
Get Asus Motherboard Drivers Download for Better Performing System
So, you've planned to get your computer checked with the technician at the service center. Wait, it can be your Asus motherboard drivers that's troubling you, have you considered checking them?
Short Term Income Fund
HN is a great example of this. Down down down the page goes the thread and my productivity.

It takes discipline to apply what you've discovered during an intellectual deep dive. Discipline, by its very nature, is a learned behavior. And it can be very hard to learn for the easily distracted ultra-curious types that tend to make up most of the "smart" population.

Take it as a challenge, learn then apply, learn then apply. I frequently find that I've learned something down a rabbit hole someplace that, when I apply it, impresses many of my co-workers. When all I think I'm doing is regurgitating some fact.

Note: don't forget that other people may have gone down different rabbit holes and have an entirely different set of apply-potential knowledge just waiting to make the world better.
French team brings down IE9 at Pwn2Own hacking contest
Did you even try to read the linked article :) ?

Here's the second section:

A language-advocacy digression

------------------------------

This article doesn’t attempt to suggest the addition of an until statement to Python. Although I think such a statement would make some code clearer, and this article displays how easy it is to add, I completely respect Python’s philosophy of minimalism. All I’m trying to do here, really, is gain some insight into the inner workings of Python.
Cell network doesnt broadcast time. You can install ntp client, but it needs to run as root, and I wont let anything from the market run as root, and I havent got around to building an ntp client myself...
I'm all for more things like this, especially in the UK, heck I'm currently in London working for a consulting company in a bank and would love to jump into a startup but I have to say that what they're expecting compared to what they're willing to put in seems a little...lopsided.

"Once a year, we work with a group of very early stage companies and provide them with up to £15,000 of investment and a three month programme of support"

"If we’re going to tackle climate change, we need new products and services that will help people reduce their energy use by a factor of 10 not just by a few per cent."

I can't see £15,000 getting you anywhere with something of that scale, even if you're a seriously smart cookie basic operating costs still apply. . . especially considering London rent etc.
This just looks like a typical UK 'jobs for the boys' venture - draw a salary for three years, wrap it up, move onto the next one. Little surprise to see NESTA throwing money at it:

Bethnal Green Ventures is co-ordinated by Paul Miller. Paul has spent the last seven years learning how to start new organisations that use technology to solve social and environmental problems, primarily through School of Everything and Social Innovation Camp. Before that he worked at the think tank Demos and the sustainability charity Forum for the Future.

So basically he's a quango man, who's added a few tech names as 'advisors'.

Nothing will come out the other end. But it will keep a few Shoreditch hipsters gainfully employed.
I was thinking about quitting university after taking part in Stanford's AI Class and then realizing that they have around 12 courses planned for the next semester. I don't believe that any university in my country could beat the quality level of what's offered now by Stanford, MIT and others. I decided to stay, but I'm not lying to myself anymore about the reasons. I stayed not to get knowledge - which I can get faster and of better quality elsewhere - but because of:

- Master degree (as in, formal title; it may come in handy)
- Access to expensive/difficult to get equipment - for all those
crazy ideas of mine that involve e.g. a piece of custom hardware
- Access to people who know some particular area inside out
- All the smart people who study at the university - there won't be
any other chance to meet so many amazing people and maybe Build
Something Amazing with them, and then keep contact for the future.
- Cheaper tickets for public transport.

But as I said, I'm not there for the knowledge. Not anymore.
It is frustrating that their Alumni page lists some groups they worked with, but does not have links to those people.

A google search for one returns some information, but it's 404 on the bethnalgreenventures website.

Perhaps some cultural notes about Bethnal Green - an area in the east end of London - would be useful?

I was born there, but left something like 40 years ago.
I imagine like YC (and other seed accelerators) the idea is to give you enough funding to build a prototype in three months which you can then use to raise further financing.
OP Ventures: A new European VC is born, with €300 million in its pockets
It would be an interesting position for Mozilla to take, to capitulate on this issue on Mozilla's very own platform (B2G) and the fastest growing mobile platform Mozilla is currently active on (Android), yet not do so on the platform where the largest current userbase lies.

I do not see what benefits it could have.
Well, your parents' garage might get pretty crowded.
Vakantie: genieten van natuur en cultuur in Koksijde