skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Universities usually don't use "turnkey" solutions, because the point is to actually implement algorithms, that are hidden behind Simple/OpenCV method calls. Matlab, being a very fast numeric platform, most CS students know, is perfect for that purpose.

The algorithms we implemented in CV classes on the University were pretty performance sensitive - enough that running them in Octave instead of Matlab made them run for 15min+. Python with NumPy was much worse.
Fourmii - I'm about a two months away from launching my site after having not one, but two false starts with co-founders that made me decide to go at it alone as well. In hindsight I wish I had a co-founder or at least a mentor who's built and launched a site before. Most of my decisions were off and/or not immediately necessary for the launch. Even choices that I thought were brilliant turned out not as expected. None of this has to do with the product itself, but just getting from development to launch. good luck!
Nope, you've get me wrong - we start application every 5 minutes to process mailbox not for every email.
ideas + execution. both are needed.

execution is not limited to personal skills. if the "ideas guy" doesn't have the skills to implement his ideas, he can hire/partner with someone who can.
you mean I need to buy a version of Windows?
Militarizing your backyard with Python, Arduino, and computer vision.
I'm sorry about my face guys.
Although the heat spreader is oddly shaped, the A5X isn't big enough to justify more than one die. I wonder why they unstacked the RAM; I would imagine either for thermal reasons or for more memory bandwidth.
Kony 2012 screening in Uganda met with anger, rocks thrown at screen
It's pretty, but it's too clever. Just show the slideshow carousel. Why hide it?

Also the copy is awkward:

"We're a few developers who think there is a better way to work." => "There's a better way to work." Of course you're a few developers, that's who develops things. Save the first person for the "About Us".

EDIT: and "Isn't it time to say goodbye to localhost?" => "Say goodbye to localhost." Nevermind that the pitch doesn't immediately make sense, it should at least be direct.
Signing up online is more efficient than picking up the phone. This alone seems like enough to guarantee that it is only a matter of time before everybody in the industry offers online self-service, excepting those who do not need or want new customers.
Rechner, A Gesture Based Calculator
If you're going to survive on Mars, you already need the ability to sustainably disconnect yourself from the surrounding atmosphere (we don't know of any virus that's as lethal as lack of air), so just apply your putative Mars tech to Earth.
AJAX and Django Views
The Browser You Loved To Hate - By IE
What could he possibly be bringing to the table with Google?

Knowledge of how things fail, as much as how they are started. He's not just an ideas person, he's also a signing-the-checks person and a making-the-deals person and a catching-the-flak person. In short, a business guy.

I have never liked or used Digg so I'm not carrying any water for him. But I've had that 'I do all the work and he gets all the credit' feeling, only to realize that the difference was that I had taken a job rather than starting a business. Code is just a means to an end. Sure, architecture and good code are important, but they're important so that users don't have to care what's making it work. When I walk into a store, my life is in the hands of the architects and laborers who built the structure; and having worked in construction, I can tell you that they did a hell of a lot of hard work. However, that's incidental to my purpose in entering the store, and I don't hold it against the store owner that he didn't personally build any of the structure his business operates in.
I want to know if they successfully got it back together.
Inform: a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language
... in aggregate. there are lots of people in even small companies that work for "cost centers"...
How the NY Times Got the JOBS Act Wrong
The choice between (1) 12-year-old operating system and (2) current operating system seems like a no-brainer. But I suspect the choice for some people is between (1) upgrading 12-year-old operating system and (2) paying rent/eating.
Blossom Bindings (Re: Backbone Events vs Ember Bindings: A Benchmark)
Very insightful post. I've been trying to understand the common factor of successful stories and I had a blurry idea of what it takes to be successful.

While your first paragraph is something I came to realize very long ago, I couldn't put the finger on it like you did in the punch line. You nailed it!
Annie: _why was a public figure. The person behind _why was deliberately not. That person decided to kill _why, and the integrious thing to do is to respect his decision, particularly in light of the fact that he's not some criminal shunning reporters but someone known only for sharing his creations.

I enjoyed the rest of your article, but everyone should respect the wishes of the person behind _why and leave him alone.
I love the idea, I can see myself in Brazil for the world cup :)
Show HN: detect new inbound links to your static HTML/Jekyll website (Mac app)
Yale researchers find Facebook an Internet addiction
Not quite ready for primetime. From the post...

[INSERT PAYPAL HERE DEMO VIDEO]

[INSERT MERCHANT TESTIMONIAL VIDEO COMPILATION]
Roots: A better framework
Follow Up: Why Ubuntu Linux is ready for prime time - Part 2
valid points. obviously what we can give for free is not a 4g ram and 8 cores, it's a small instance that runs most of the things- look at it from the bright side, ur program will halt sooner, in case of infinite loop :) and if a company chooses koding to be their dev environment, they are free to provide any amount of ram or cpu per developer, in that case, everything will work as you expect.
Left and right and wrong
Confessions of an App Store Manipulator
Sex-deprived males -- alcohol
Maybe you don't have the data to make that determination.

Maybe fries aren't profitable yet, but you're hoping to make them become so.

Maybe you have to have fries on the menu even though you make more money off soda.
The Best Netflix Device for the Living Room
Thanks for the counterexample. Just to be clear: His vesting clock is done?
Google+ is not cool. It might be a better product then Facebook, but when it comes to social you need a network of people to make a product fly. I see the hiring of Rose as an attempt to give Google+ some street cred and make it cool.
caché = hidden
http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cach%C3%A9

maybe what you really mean is "cachet"
http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/cachet
I know it doesn't have an accent
So backbone is pretty awesome. I've recently been basing a project on it, and I really dig the simplicity it affords. One thing tho, which I feel it could really help is progressive enhancement, but it seems that the case is not on the official radar. Let me explain a bit what I am looking for, related to a different project:

I am building an informational site for an org run by a committee. This is all volunteer, and there are several people who can do changes to different parts of the page. I know that a CMS is the traditional solution here, but the combination of no plugins to do some of the specifics needed, and the fact that a CMS is too heavy-weight for the rest of the use cases, have me looking at a custom solution. (To be fair, my desire to play with some of the underlying tools I'm using also has me doing this... but whatever its volunteer :) ). So backbone is really nice for this case because:

* The collections and models work great when someone is in a content editing role/mode.

* The data on the page sorted as collections and models work great for things like sorting, sub-searches, etc when JS is enabled.

* For the above use cases, the hash based standard backbone routing is exactly what is needed.

However:

I would also like to have sub pages/content pages dynamically loaded in combination with pushState when available, and different from the apps. When pushState is not available, a new page load is OK, as linkability is important. Essentially I want to keep the page loads with minimal transfer and client side when possible, but the server will build the page outright if content-type application/json is not requested. This is where backbone seems to fall apart a bit. There is not a good router option that will do this and work with the above described has routing as well. It seems that the backbone folks don't want this use case so I am experimenting with building my own router as a plugin.

I'd rather not do that unless A) there is desire from more folks for this and B) there is not something out there already that works within backbone, or nicely along-side it. Any thoughts from the HN community? (also sorry to hijack the thread a bit)
Easy-fied iPad Reviews For Very Stupid People
Paypal does bring with them a strong reputation for enjoying fucking their customers. I and my gf refuse to have anything to do with them, and if they're the only option offered, I simply won't buy.
The Growth of Unstructured Data:What to do with all those Zettabytes?
All we are missing is a league where these players can be drafted and traded.
Typecast looks gorgeous. If you're interested in getting listed in the example apps on the Backbone homepage, email me a brief description and a 550px-wide screenshot...
And 1GB of ram confirmed. Apple's policy of not mentioning the ram made sense to me when they started, because it did seem like a amount of ram in the initial model (256mb). But they've doubled the ram with each new generation and made no mention of it. I guess apple has just made the calculation that 1) it doesn't matter to most consumers (the ipad is supposed to be magic), and 2) they'll be outspeced by the competition over the lifetime of the model, anyway.
Google certainly seems to have a trend lately of spending their huge cash reserve to acquire companies to fix perceived problems or holes they have. This is sound business strategy but to a lot of us involved in software/development/technology, it certainly doesn't seem like a proven winning method.
I think there should be a option between the top two.
"We have a test suite that tests most things"

That's where our dev team is really at.
Hm... the battery numbers are surprising. The battery is 43.5Wh, which is huge. Over 9.5 hours us "use", that comes to 4.6W average. My Dell XPS 15 L501x (very much not a "light" machine!) has a 9-cell 91Wh battery and got about 5 hours continuous on it when it was new, for about 18.2W.

So the iPad 3 is drawing 25% the current of a beefy 2.9GHz Arrandale laptop? That's shockingly high, IMHO, especially considering that the screen area of the 15.6" laptop is twice that of the tablet.

Similar, the numbers they show aren't much higher than the range (30-50Wh, 6-9 hours) already achieved by a bunch of netbooks on the market.
We can do both. Hell, even Elon Musk can do both; he also runs Tesla Motors, which makes electric cars on Earth.

Also, I notice that people are much more likely to condemn space development as frivolous than they are to criticize, say, football or whittling. Does that seem like a double standard to you, too?
I'm not sure that's how people think of it, if someone just came up to you and said that your desk is coming up on 5 years and you should replace it, or your car is nearing a decade and you should replace it "just because", I'd be pretty hesitant.
That's a good point; does that imply that it can't be incorporated after the fact? That if a number of dedicated users applied it to the product themselves, the browser makers wouldn't come around to incorporating it?
People also get tarred with one unsuccessful project.

This doesn't actually seem to be the case. The startup space is littered with ex-CEO's who can still raise capital. These folks are seen as battle hardened. I think all of the Color guys are going to end up fine despite that debacle.
Max Levchin left Google and Aardvark was shut down.

Google had Foursquare in house (called Dodgeball) but couldn't execute.

Android is the best counter-example I can think of.
You may be interested in the Panther project, a modification of Scratch, which adds among other things the ability to clone and delete sprites.

(http://pantherprogramming.weebly.com/)
Stanford University defaced by Indian Hackers
Yes I believe they're using a subset of LLVM for PNaCl. The whole idea is to define the semantics of how LLVM should be targeted there for it, since it normally does include some system specific things (how structs and things end up aligned when compiling C and the like). I think they're working on some "sane" defaults for all of those kinds of things so that they can target that subset with their compilers and then in theory run anywhere supported by LLVM. It's a very very interesting idea and if it does actually get anywhere it'll mean that there's a subset of LLVM that could be targeted by "native" applications for a similar effect, e.g. no need for a fat binary, just use the portable subset of llvm bytecode.
They should be making fun of IE9, too. It's about 2 years behind in HTML5 specs adoption, maybe more.
Then there's the question of which products that are sold in your area are manufactured in a facility that also processes food items which while they may not be part of the ingredient list per se, but may have traces present from having shared manufacturing equipment. Seems a lot to keep track of. But not impossible.
Pounce!
Sic transit gloria Square?

Interesting choice with the triangle shape, Square's customers will find the allusion familiar.
A thought seed… At their current pace, from 400 to 600, they will be worth more than the entire S&P 500 by summer of 2013.
Still not funny.
> I am building an informational site for an org
> run by a committee. This is all volunteer [...]

Use a standard CMS. You'll thank yourself later. ;)
Niggle : Cachet is the version that means 'prestige; distinction', caché is 'hidden' - both from 'cacher' (to hide, French).
So You Think You Can Freelance?
Not to mention that people on HN still aren't sure whether said companies will be profitable.
I'd like to see a simulation of what happens when a random factor (deer, child, drunk bicyclist) enters the intersection. (Not because it's a valid criticism - they can just as easily stumble onto a roadway - but because I think it would look amusing.)

An actual problem with this, though, is that it would probably be terrifying at first from inside the car.
His ideas aren't realistic, no, but you have to respect a guy that so consistently and fervently holds on to his ideas. Few people are as consistent.
http://www.caniuse.com/#compare=y&b1=ie+9&b2=chrome+...

No thanks.
While I really do like the social search feature (seeded with the Hacker News Google+ circle, I see things other people believe are relevant rather than relying on SEO), I agree with you on the instant search. Especially since they enabled it in Chrome's URL bar.

If I type "pho" and hit enter, I expect to be taken to search results about "pho", but instead Google automatically fills in the rest and searches for "phone". I then have to backspace and do another search just for pho. Instant search on Google.com is infuriating as well in that it doesn't work reliably. It will guess three or four times as to what I'm searching for as I type, then give up and say "hit enter to perform your search". That's what I want to do anyway! In the meantime, I've been distracted by a flashing page while I'm typing.
Yeah he is saying that money is the only meaningful measure of success.
If you're not being facetious, depth in this context refers to the overall quality of your staff.

A good example of a lack of depth would be the Indianapolis Colts, who with the loss of Peyton Manning had a dismal, almost winless season.

A good example of a team with a lot of depth would be Ask Ketchum's pokemon. He's got a Charizard, a Butterfree, a Wortortle, a Pidgiotto, and Pikachu. If one of his pokemon gets injured, he has a handful of equally good pokemon suited to other tasks that can fill in.
> Ideas yes. GREAT ideas? rare. Great ideas + execution? rarer.

Beatle, I think the problem is with defining what "great idea" is. looking back today at "ideas" from couple years ago websites like youtube or even myspace would look like "illegal, won't touch it" and "oh, who would have time to build groups of friends and post stupid status updates". as we both know, both were/are worth alot in a terms of $.

Take example of Pinterest and read recent article with the founder -- even he wasn't sure about his idea at first. First 8 months there was no growth so you can easily say it was a "poor idea". I am pretty sure today he knows it was a great idea, but just because stats behind it that proves it.

There was a plenty of "good ideas" that didn't take off -- not because there were not great, but either market wasn't ready or internet userbase not mature enough or investors fighting over money, who knows? The bottom line, as much as your comment sounds smart, I think you are 100% wrong.
And here's the evidence, if anyone's interested.

http://html5test.com/results.html
NUIverse application designed by David Brown for Microsoft Surface
诛仙有私服吗
My Git Habits
. . . index funds . . .

Just tangenting off of that: Since many indexes are weighted by price, I find myself wondering if index fund investing has an element of "buy high, sell low" to it. For example, right now Apple alone represents a huge percentage of the S&P 500,* and at the beginning of September 2008 it was weighted heavily toward a number of financial firms who were soon to be making a lot of appearances in newspaper headlines.

Back to the price talk, though, what's striking to me is that even though its price has been skyrocketing, AAPL's P/E is still comfortably lower than GOOG or YHOO.

* (And that alone should argue for thinking twice before buying Apple stock if you already have any money in an S&P 500 index fund. I have more money in Apple than any other company, and I've never personally purchased a single share of their stock.)
What I wonder is, how do "normal" people actually find these sites? Microsoft have these campaigns every now and then, highlighting the capabilities of their new versions, but why would John Smith visit "browserfame.com"?
Current cars aren't going to last a full decade without some repairs and maintenance. People don't maintain their computers very well. And upgrading your operating system is part of that maintenance process after a while.

Plus changing computers is probably cheaper than a new transmission after 10 years.
Perhaps there are dozens or hundreds of improvements over the years you haven't noticed because they were better? People are going to notice things getting subtly worse, not things getting subtly better. Even if they are.
Lastminute.com has trademarked the hex color #EC008C?  Check out the footer
Air is just one of many possible infection pathways. You would also need to quarantine people, food shipments, water supplies, equipment.
I thought success was measured in dollars, not a shuttered web service.
I was at an academic conference earlier this month, and several of the speakers made affectionate jokes about one of the speakers - how he couldn't shut up, how he was impossibly argumentative, how he was terribly rude, and basically how he was a bit of a troll. And they were right, he was all those things, plus he looked a bit like a frog. Imagine a short frog with glasses, a thick Noo Yawk accent, and the social graces of a falling brick.

And yet he was such a persuasive and entertaining speaker than even when I thought he was dead wrong I wanted to hear more and find common ground with him. I liked him even when he was being an ass, and even in cases where I knew he was wrong (eg when he deliberately skipped over some significant issue because it undermined the argument he was making).

The things you mention help, but are by no means essential. You don't even need to believe in yourself, as long as you believe sufficiently in your idea.
Non-emphatic letter-spacing changes are susceptible to automation, thus should be automated.

If, for instance, uppercase text requires wider spacing, the browser — or better still, the font renderer — should work that out; the designer should not have to explicitly tell it things like that.

Since, in any case, most manual typography is already algorithmic (if such-and-such condition, the spacing needs to be increased), and since the 'judgement calls' about the aesthetics of type are already encoded into the font by the foundry, manual typography outside the foundry is /obsolete/: machines can do it better, because they can use optimisation algorithms to find the best trade-offs (compare, for instance, TeX's line-breaking algorithm to the common manual approach of "first-fit, but backtrack if the solution is too poor").
Here's what we did:

1) Derive all views from our own BaseView class (which derives from Backbone.View)

2) BaseView's initialize function sets $el.data('view', this)

3) BaseView provides a `dispose` method which with some default logic for event handlers added in a particular way.

4) We overrode jQuery.cleanData to check for the view data on each element and call dispose on them. This ensures every view is cleaned up when it is removed from the DOM via jQuery.

5) Use $.fn.remove and $.fn.detach appropriately.

This works splendidly in practice.
We need to develop remotely operated building machines first. Test them on the moon and succeed in building a sound, sealed, safe environ for humans to enter before we try to get to mars.

If I were Elon, I would focus on the building of the delivery system to get materials and equipment to the moon - then have an X-prize for people to develop the robots to build stuff.

Get a heavy payload like that to the moon, assemble some stuff and test it. Then make money off moon tourism Parlay this to mars research, funding and experience.
Planning for Big Data: free ebook
Clojure quick reference
This could potentially disrupt the business of Pentagon.
Fantastic idea! Way to be on the ball!
If the Honda dies, get yourself a minivan and an air mattress.
Ah, being an American, when I hear "bitchin' Camaro" I think of a muscle car with a loud exhaust.
The search algorithm should not try to understand people.
People should be enabled to understand the algorithm.

Google is heading the false direction.
Very inspiring.

Consider camping. In which sleeping in your car would be considered a very very small RV. An annual pass to the county parks around here is $80 [1] and there are some pretty close to the thick of things (see Sanborn Skyline [2] for example) Its $24/night but they don't hassle you for sleeping there. 14-days in a row and then you have to go somewhere else.

[1] http://www.sccgov.org/portal/site/parks/agencyarticle?path=%...

[2] http://www.sccgov.org/portal/site/parks/menuitem.106844a55ca...
Rest Made Simple (part 3)
Agreed. I met Kevin at a launch party a couple years ago. Upon seeing him, my first thought was "Hey, it's the Dark Tipper!" I prefer to focus on someone's positive traits. The fact that Kevin still works and tries to make a difference is admirable. Even if Digg is his only big hit, that's still an impressive accomlishment.