skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can get a preview of the upcoming release docs for App at http://stage.yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/app
Sounds like they are getting there.
Tim cook looking at things
SO I find reasonably useful - but answering questions on SO rather than getting shit done is a waste of time.

Echoing a lot of the other comments, it is easy to get a high rep by just going for the beginner questions. The easiest way to get "reputation" is by answering an opinion question or asking an opinion question. Once I realized that, I ignored reputation mine or anyone elses.

Any complex question I answer on my blog. I then answer the question on SO with a medium length excerpt pointing to my blog. I want to own my content from google's perspective and I rather get google pagerank than SO's reputation.

Oh yeah, I should add that the best SE (http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/101988/should...) answer I gave in terms of upvotes made it to HN.

It was an opinion question.
Went to a physical big box store (it was a future shop, same difference).

Had to wait 10 minutes for service because one employee was selling the other employee an ipad.

When I finally got an employee's attention, they didn't have my part (a USB->SATA adapter), they acted like I was inconveniencing them, and I noticed for parts they did have they were charging a ridiculous amount. Standard 3-prong power cable for more than $25 ridiculous.

They have some intrinsic advantages to the web store (real salespeople interaction, physical handling of goods) but with the net experience being so negative they are not leveraging these advantages well enough to compete with the speed and ease of online shopping.
Google earns 80% of its mobile revenue from iOS, just 20% from Android
Facebook makes one of the biggest offer of Rs 1.34 cr for an Indian student
Are you sure 'Syria' hasn't simply fired off FB's own automated spam filters? Everybody is posting about Syria these days to the point that I've started ignoring them. Too bad Facebook likes alone don't actually equate to real-life change.
Amazon Giant Aims to Squash PaaS Competition with Elastic Beanstalk
I loved this blog post (and the other one I read, about Battelship), so I wondered who was behind these great posts.

Their homepage says this "DataGenetics is a technology consultancy specializing in unlocking the value stored in large databases. Using a variety of techniques we can mine the trends in your data to help you maximize your marketing and advertising campaigns."

Damn.

Yet another group of smart folks focused on more-effective advertising.
Prince of Persia creator finds lost source code 23 years later
Step 1 in my Ultimate Guide: make sure your site can handle HN traffic.
If website backgrounds really bother you (and surely process.org isn't the only culprit), try using the Reader button in the top bar of Mobile Safari. Or try using ihackernews.com, there's an "Article Text" link that works very well for just showing you the body of an article on a simple white background.
This seems like a problem ripe for solving with a markov model.
What's the point of this contest?

Is it to draw people into the store so their phone can be "smoked" and feel embarassed?

Even if the store wins, they lose longer-term by their customers losing face. Some may take it with a smile and be jovial about it but a few weeks later may resent the idea of some store employee getting the better of them.

After having listened to many "win friends and customers" kind of books, this contest seems to go against all those ideals. Is the cost worth it?
You seem to be disagreeing with a fictional comment that said "People should swear a lot," rather than the real parent, which said "I think it's pretty well justified in this case."
The challenge of mobile customer engagement, with MTV, Coca-Cola, Turner
Good Luck HN: Today is the last day to apply to Y Combinator for Summer 2012
365 + 2 days ago, my cofounders and I hit "submit" for our application to Y Combinator. We were anxious about our chances but excited about tackling a startup with the support from the greatest accelerator in the world.

We were a solid team with a good idea. But still, we got lucky and we're grateful for everything YC has given us.

So I just wanted to wish everyone good luck with their applications today. And remember, you can't hit a home run if you don't take a swing.
Mozilla recently opened a London office, too:

http://thenextweb.com/uk/2012/03/23/a-look-inside-mozillas-n...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/codepo8/sets/72157629224696636/
"there is still a lot of petroleum"......

Thank Christ that will never run out.
Yeah, very interesting business. I think the option to post to a wall might be interesting. Part of giving a gift is the social gratitude that you have given a gift. Which is why these 'pay for virtual gift' apps in Facebook even exist and why people go as far as posting publicly rather than a message. It also makes the product very viral and would allow you to grow much faster, of course making message or wall post a choice.

Update: Thinking about it, not sure if it's possible as anyone could access your giftcard. If it is then it'd be interesting.
haha! Point noted boss. Moving to a new server soon..any suggestions?
How to use Stripe when running a Canadian Company
What's wrong with our website?
I work on the digital advertising side of the newspaper, and don't know much about coding, but I get the feeling we could do more to improve the structure, design and user experience.

If you could change one thing with pe.com, what would it be?
I'm in the 25k-50k bracket, and I can definitely say that a GOOD chunk of that rep came from happening to be the first to answer a trivial question. The reasoning is that other editors also jump on it, see that you've already answered it, and upvote you instead of answering themselves.

But that's why I don't use reputation as a measure of my experience on StackOverflow. It's all about the great answers that you put a lot of time into researching and that you know will stand as a resource for future visitors. And by the way: these kinds of answers give you a lot more money for jam (http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/8116/my-mo...) than the quick ones that never again get visited after an hour.
I want an agent, not a recruiter. Yes, sort of like the ones hollywood actors have (but hopefully less sleazy).

Let me describe to you the what I'd like to see out this hypothetical agent, named "Sam":

* Sam knows me and my personality, not just my resume bullet points.

* Sam of course knows the technology more than just the buzzwords and has at least dabbled in writing code in the domain for which he recruits.

* Sam has a sensitivity to the fact that I would like to progress in my career. I don't want a gig for which I'm "well-qualified"; I want a gig for which I am barely qualified, and can grow+learn in.

* Sam will keep tabs on me even when he doesn't have anything for me, and I don't want to move, just to learn what I'm working on, what I'm excited about or would like to work on, and how I feel about my career at the moment.

* With the above knowledge, Sam can be my advocate and will not try to wedge me into jobs that are clearly dead-ends, either from technology or career perspective.

I readily admit that this might be too much to ask. However, both the demand and pay are quite high for good developers at the moment, so I think there is room for an ongoing relationship, and a more personal touch.

If you had this relationship with your developers, word of mouth might be a satisfactory means of getting more.

However, short of that, there might be some opportunity in promoting your developer's work (as much as is possible, at least) on a blog or somesuch, and become a brand that other developers would like to be part of.

Hope that helps.
I hope that hotel put out free cookies or something for them.
great resource,man. Thanks for sharing.
No worries! Audio emulation can be hard for a couple of other reasons too: Firstly, it's sometimes easy to tell that something "isn't quite right", but unless you have awesome ears (I don't), it's hard to hear exactly what the problem is. Secondly, audio isn't the sexiest part of emulator development - it often gets overlooked, and consequently there's far less information available about it.

As it happens, audio emulation on the ZX-Spectrum 48k is easier: There's a one-bit on/off output wired to a speaker. Even generating tones has to be done by timing Z80 cycles! Some people still managed to do amazing things using pulse-width modulation.
I think there has been a huge shift toward OS X since the days of Locomotive. This turn-key solution may gain more traction in today's dev ecosystem. (Though, I'm still not behind it.)
An analogy is like making a panorama photograph by taking lots of individual photographs and then stitching them together at the parts that appear to overlap to make one big picture, right?
> "NBCUniversal finished second in the contest, as its infrastructure team removed 284 servers..."

Interesting that's #2; that's not very many. Sounds like most companies who retire more than this regularly didn't know this was a thing.
You are comparing apples to oranges imo.

Backbone is an MVC framework only, YUI is a lot more. Each tries to accomplish something very different.
Last week I was searching for a: Sabian 18" HHX Chinese cymbal.
I was considering buying one for my kit and wanted to see some reviews, video samples, prices etc.

DuckDuckGo:
The top there results were American Ebay search results (I live in Canada), a drum shop in Memphis (15 hour drive), and various other online stores (discountdrumequipment.info).

Google:
The first page of results had links to the official Sabian product pages, Youtube videos of people playing it, and the most impressive thing was a 3 day old Kijiji ad (again, I live in Canada) with the exact cymbal I wanted for a good price in a city just 45 minutes from me.

I responded to the ad, drove the 45 minutes, and purchased it.
DuckDuckGo's stance on user privacy is admirable, but Google still gets my vote... it's accuracy still impresses me.
Rails 3.2.3.rc2 has been released
The tweet to nowhere: protected replies
startpage / ixquick
I figure this is to show how wrong both of them were, considering Samsung has already sold 5 million of them, and the people who got it love it. There's no such thing as a perfect screen size. In the end touchscreen phones are just tablets, so it's better to see them from that perspective than just as a "phone", which is a function people use less and less:

http://www.paulgraham.com/tablets.html
This should come with the Galaxy Note
I wouldn't say 12K reputation is "smallish". I have just under 6K (mainly from ruby-on-rails and google-app-engine) and according to Stack Overflow that puts me in the top 6% of users overall.
Good to know. I tend to upvote anything good I see anyway, so I've already been decluttering the unanswered section without realising.
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Here's the original blog post with terrible cowboy metaphors:
http://blog.uptimeinstitute.com/2012/03/uptime-institute-pay...

"AOL sent 9,484 head to the stockyards, representing a 26% turnover in server assets across the company. The roundup resulted in a total savings of $5.05 million from reduced utility costs, maintenance, and licensing costs, and includes cash in hand of $1.2 million from asset sales and reclamation. Environmental benefits were seen in the reduction of almost 20 tons of carbon emissions."
If your answer is accepted with 10 upvotes then being first wasn't the advantage, being right was.
What if we could patent business models?
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Same here (Switzerland/Germany). GGD is still not as fast as Google (noticeable delay between the zero-click info and the search results) but definitely a big improvement.
Oh http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/29/2909537/paper-drawing-ipad...

and again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X41qLxp4QhE
Replace WHOIS: what should WHOIS be?
Wrong caption.This is not Richard Stallman! It's Matz's gardener. He follows him around sometimes, help him carry stuff when he goes to the grocery store.
Making the Android Developer Console work for your whole team
I gave a talk about lock picking at work a while ago. Here's a 30 minute video: http://skookum.com/blog/lockpicking-101/
Teach yourself any instrument
thanks - coming next week.
- Well chosen statistics can extract the needles from the haystack. So collecting more may be better. This observation is so true that some people prefer the phrase "extracting needles from needles".

- Get familiar with the new consumer privacy bill of rights.
Skyrim being the latest notorious example where it's featured heavily (and spiritual successor to Fallout 3, I suppose).
Thanks! I missed the deadline for winter funding but this time I told myself no matter what I wouldn't miss it. I turned it in a couple weeks early even. I just want to remind everyone that is applying with me this time around that even if you don't get funding, you shouldn't quit. Simply applying to Ycombinator means you are more motivated than most people, pursue your dreams and don't surrender. If you truly believe in your idea, then you can make it and be amazingly successful. So don't allow not getting an interview or a getting accepted stop you, you should go and become huge anyways, because I know I will!
> It seems that your analytical process in this is only one-dimensional - maximize impact per dollar. This is reasonable, however it seems to ignore many possible definitions of "impact".

As I said in another post,

> My main point was not "this future is better than that future", but "it is possible to decide which of these two futures is likely to be better".

Yes, I'm ignoring the question of which forms of impact give the most utility. That's something people have to decide for themselves.

I'm saying that it is possible to take two potential actions, look at the potential results, and say "I like the average future of this action more than the average future of that action", even though you don't have perfect knowledge of what the outcomes will be.

I'm saying that I don't think Batman did this.

And I'm saying (though I haven't made it clear) that he's still doing more good than most, in an absolute sense and probably also as a fraction of how much good he could be doing.

And he deserves heaps of praise for this, because I don't want to discourage future Batmans; but I do want future Batmans to do better than this Batman, not because this Batman isn't good but simply because better is possible.
Bogota is the correct term. Thanks.
On the contrary, it's unreasonable to make a broad claim based on one or two examples. When people say "I keep seeing people do this," it's based on a memory of repeatedly seeing similar things, not any one specific example they have in mind. Similarly, I noticed today that a lot of people around here have silver cars, but I couldn't name for you any specific silver car I saw on my commute today.
I agree. People want to know very quickly what the idea is and what it's comparable to. I believe that it gets the audience more engaged in the fact they don't need to make the connection while learning about the product throughout the presentation.
This sort of "sexism" is as baseless and minor as her implication that I'm not manly unless I have a beard, which I'm sure a lot of you missed the first time around.

Yes, there's a problem with sexism in our particularly male-dominated field, but like kaolinite said in their comment, this only cheapens the effort to fight it.
Call The Cops: Android and iOS Are Murdering BlackBerry and Windows Phone
View Your Mind (VYM for short) is a great brainstorming tool that is free software that anyone can download. It would be one available tool that a marketer could use for their brainstorm sessions. I thought maybe someone else out there may not have heard about it and could use it as well. It's one of my favorites.

I thought the article gave out some good basics that are prudent to implement as foundations for anyone's marketing activities. It's a beginning point (as the article suggests). However, it would not be real wise to stop and go no further.

There is no substitute for learning all you can from somebody like Philip Kotler as well as from other business leaders who are successful in the field. Then when you get big enough you hire a marketing department- :).
Well, the phone can be rooted and there are already half-baked ports of CM floating around - shouldn't be long before the phone (which is still pretty new) is supported officially or a good unofficial CM-based ROM is released. Have patience :-)...
A Woman’s Story
Use an attorney for important requests such as visas. Immigration employees are overworked and underpaid, and sometimes rush through their decisions.

An attorney will help ensure that you have all the right papers in order, and give you important advice for the visa process. Now that you have one rejection on your file, it is especially important to get it right next time.
Sort of; though there are more complications.

First, you have to deal with sequencing noise, which can be as high as 1%.. Thus you need many reads to get consensus even for any individual base.

Second, you have to deal with the fact that a human genome has two copies of any individual chromosome, so you have to get enough reads to tell if your mutations are diploid or haploid for instance.

Third, the human genome is repetitive, so there are many mapping errors. This is dealt with by having high coverage and usually by having different size jumps between paired sequencing reads (e.g., read 100bp on each end of a 200bp, 2000bp, and 10,000bp parts of the genome) to help algorithms stitch together the proper sequence.
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Singularity University looks to the infinite potential of Chile
Lessons Learned Building Open Source Software
Automated Design: "Evolution is Cleverer than You"
"Decommissioning a single 1U rack server can result in $500 per year in energy savings, an additional $500 in operating system licenses, and $1,500 in hardware maintenance costs, according to Uptime."

Well that seems a bit optimistic. Lets say your 1U server pulled 450 watts (way over the top, its typically less than 375 unless you're doing the supercomputer GPU thing) that is 3.9MWhr per year or at 11 cents/kWh or $433.62. Lets say you put them in REALLY CRAPPY data centers with a PUE of 2.5 (modern ones are 1.2 - 1.5, Facebook's OCP is like 1.1 but with 2.5 that is $1,084/year in 'energy' costs. License costs of, uh $0, well if you use a RHEL support contract its about $125/machine depending, and we'll assume you lose both disks and a power supply every fucking year so your hardware replacement costs are another $500? So rather than the $2,500/year in expense Uptime claims I would put it under $2K worst case, and likely closer to $1.5K.

So inflated numbers aside, I don't doubt for a moment that it is a Good Thing that AOL is killing off the oldest 25% of their gear. If it was on a 4 year depreciation cycle then they could replace it with roughly 1/3 as many machines using Sandybridge type machines and may 1/5 as many machines with Ivybridge gear.

As a technologist I am sad sometimes that it isn't worth the power to run a 5 year old server, but it is the life we live in.
There was a TC post encouraging startups to pitch their slogan in a concise format which did not follow the x for y pattern. In a few more words they mostly avoided the problem you are presenting here.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/30/startups-give-us-your-best-...

I thought that most of them did quite well even if some ideas were unambitious even when presented in this manner.
I've never heard of any 'good' viruses. I think you're applying the analogy of benefiical bacteria to viruses, assuming there must be beneficial viruses as well. In the artcile he somewhat addresses this by saying any cell infected by a virus will be killed at some point regardless, so DRACO wouldn't do any additional damage.

Now, I think you're implying that there might be 'good' viruses that we haven't discovered yet. I feel like if that's the case then other animals would certianly have them as well and we would surely figure that out before we got to human trials.
> I feel confident in assuming Steve Jobs didn’t pitch OS X by saying “It’s like Windows for Apple Computers.”

Um, maybe not, but Bill Gates definitely pitched Windows as like a Mac, but for IBM compatible PCs. Seems like a bad example.
Not if they're losing business.
I had the exact same reaction when reading coverage of the demo day. Hopefully the ideas seem underwhelming because of the last part of Paul Graham's essay. In the "tactics" section he says, "If you want to take on a problem as big as the ones I've discussed, don't make a direct frontal attack on it." Maybe these YCombinator startups actually do have ambitious ideas, but they're starting out with something small and seemingly unimportant. Maybe in five years some of these companies will be reinventing education and communication.
Yeah, I had to take the time to implement a custom stylish style for the website in firefox before I started reading it.
I am nowadays inherently distrustful of anything related to Kurzweil, and I ignore links to that domain. The article is probably a reposting of http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-moon-fuel-ionic-motor-sm... , titled "Getting to the moon on drops of fuel: An ionic motor for small satellites"
Completely agree. I'm a mid-range user but participated early on. I answered some very basic questions (how to you rotate an image in jQuery) and continue to accumulate residual reputation almost every day.

I've found that it is somewhat harder to get reputation now since a lot of the low-hanging fruit has already been consumed. I still check on it from time to time and think it's a great resource.
If you want to minimize the number of errors, you should try the letter with the most information. In other words, minimize the search space. That is what hythloday suggested.
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Great idea! Does anybody know if there are any good dictation apps for Android that would work while driving in a car? All of my attempts at doing voice dictation to Google maps while driving have failed miserably. This would be super productive to do while driving around town.
I reckon a lot of people would use it if there were actually relevant jobs there. I think you're going to have more trouble finding FP-focused job providers than FP-focused job seekers.
I was told never to tell a man he was wrong, but to be coy and gently nudge him to my way of thinking.

I don't view this is a sexist statement, it is probably good advice for either sex, there are men that for whatever reason react strongly to a perceived challenge. I would give the same advice to my son. I view it as another take on you attract more fly's with honey. I think it exhibits an amount of grace in anyone who embodies such patients, as patients is a virtue.
I think I would still give 2:1 odds for 50 years, and better than even odds for 100 years.

It's possible that what he's doing will have disproportionate knock-on effects. It's also possible (though I think slightly less likely) that the malaria thing would have disproportionate knock-on effects.

Also, I think "a couple of lives" is understating it. With $250,000, I would be surprised if you couldn't save 100 lives.
Props to the writer for going out an getting the interview on a great story: possible cure for viruses project diagnosed with lethal lack of funding.

But there are some "questions" to not ask in a news interview:

"Oh, wow. That’s an amazing idea."

"There haved been articles, but I feel this is definitely front-page material."

I agree, this is amazing interesting stuff and the interviewer and interviewee made it great. But when you tell me how interesting it is instead of letting the content speak, you set off alarms in my head.

Sorry for being a curmudgeon--it's easy to berate things without contributing. Just saying don't let your opinion overshadow the story.
In cancer science, many "discoveries" don't hold up