skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given how short-term these sorts of events are and how unlikely it is to happen there again (in a lifetime), I suggest just letting them get on with the crazy thing and concentrate on more constructive subjects. One of those topics to keep the media busy.
Syntax Matters...?
This (and all of the author's similar articles) have been really great at giving me a deeper understanding of what's going on in Python at a low level. If you have the time, I highly recommend reading as many of them as you can:

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/category/programming/python/pyt...
I does not scale well compared to what? I might scale poorly compared to your average social network silicon valley mobile app startup, but it scales well compared to any other small business. He does not need a physical space and there are almost no other fixed costs. Also I feel he is using his "computer skills" to gain a competitive advantage by doing SEO and he also has an original brand. If he was able to replace his full time job in 4 month, he should be able to grow enough in a year time to hire someone to do most of the annoying administrative work for him.

Sure building a photo app and selling to Facebook would be cooler. I guess everyone has to figure out for themselves what they want from life.
Indeed, especially with PyQt. The problem is that your binaries can easily be huge on Mac/Win.
Amazon.com has altered the VC business as we know it
The airline Kulula.com did this when there was that big thing where they kicked a ball around in the year between 2009 and 2011 in the country that's towards Antarctica from Namibia.

http://www.worldcupblog.org/world-cup-2010/kulula-vs-fifa-ro...

The international federation of kicking balls around, well, they kicked some balls around.
The little shit who lands the deal gets to say "I brought the Olympics to London". That's why. Whether that's actually a good thing is not only immaterial, it's never even given a moment's thought.

Britain been doing a good job shitting on its liberties already, though. I'm not sure the Olympic Games are going to make such a big difference. So, I suppose that's good?
I wonder how the introduction of Google Analytics' Real-Time beta has affected their business. While it doesn't have all of the social features that Chartbeat does, it does cover a lot of their ground.
They are using the same Aussi plastic.

So now you will be able to go surfing off Newfoundland and the money stuffed into your bikini will still be fine to spend on the beach.
Show HN: We decided not to apply to YC so we could try Kickstarter
Hey everyone! We spent the major part of the year preparing an idea we had for the YC application. At last minute, we decided not to go through with YC.

I mean, we've had our fair shares of failed startups and this was one of those make it or break it scenarios. We took everything we've ever learned and strived to make an app that we were proud of. We spent so much effort into making this app that we couldn't bear stopping short and applying to Y Combinator. (Mind you, there's nothing wrong with YC.) We didn't want to apply to Y Combinator at the last minute because if we had really gone that far and really poured our souls into this time, we might as well go all the way and instead ask for funding from Kickstarter. This the app that we've always dreamed of making and we're finally getting close. We've spent inch by bloody, paintstaking inch working on it and it seriously feels good to finally let if off our chestslana del rey by showing off what we learned during our time as entrepreneurs. Thank you for your time!

Persona is your autobiography in graphic novel style. It's everything you are, in pictures.

http://www.prsna.me
"Summer of sport spirit" actually has a nice ring to it.

I wonder about the allowance of typos? Could I sell merchandise with "Olympix" or "London 2k12"?
I think this is a poor idea. I don't want comments nesting trying to fit only a couple words wide. I dislike sites that squash my window width on the iPhone.

The iPhone 4 display is 960x640, and I feel HN works well just the way it is.

Four screens: http://imgur.com/a/XDzRb

// Browser in screenshots is iCab in chromeless view.
I absolutely love this concept. The game mechanics have the potential to make the concepts extremely clear, though we might end up with a generation of people who need "algebra calculators". I suppose that is why he suggest in game points for doing things by hand.
Thanks. So far, I've had several people mention to go for it. I'm wondering if I should build out an MVP or work on creating just a marketing page with a screenshot on what the product looks like?
OT: in what language are you gonna develop Resumati?
I was wondering if there was something new in here. Instead it's a tale of a company that's been living under a rock for the last four years.
I've used Chartbeat at both, my last and current jobs. It's really invaluable for immediate feedback.

I went by their headquarters last week, and they're a quality team doing really good work. They've got some great new ideas that I hope this funding helps them produce.
I wore dark jeans, a button up shirt, and dark sneakers to my last startup interview and got an offer. But I also verified that was similar to their dress code by asking on the initial interview call, too.

If you want to err on the side of caution, step up to khakis and non-sneakers, but certainly no higher than that. I remember reading a general rule that you should dress one step up from the dress code where you're going to make a good first impression, but never more than that, otherwise you risk alienating your audience.
Which, on the whole, is still "relatively little".
Obviously it's not a good enough reason to vote for someone, but it will bring more traffic to his site and possibly cause more people to look in to him as a potential candidate if they had previously ignored him since he wasn't a main candidate. It's a smart use of social networking and tapping in to younger generations.
UCLA-engineered stem cells seek out and kill HIV in living organisms
I'd have hoped kickstarter would at least vet the rewards offered for viability on new projects. Seems not?
What kind of information are you using from it? And, how does it help you in your business?
Chat for all your online assets. Help with estimation.
Imagine being able to add a stylish chat to your website, blog, Facebook fan page or mobile app. You than have one interface to all your audience no matter where they are, talk and advice them and create a vibrant community around a website topic.

This describe our new startup called rumbletalk, it is basically a widget (one line of JS) that you add to anything (in facebook you use our app).
You can choose to embed it in a page or use it as a floating toolbar.

I would like to pick your brain and help me to estimate the market size as you see it, i will appreciate any input and numbers.
(I have my own figures but i am curious to see if i got it right)

-- Thank you in advance, Miko
How do I get it? Is there a link inside GA?
Om Malik: Why Path is no Instagram
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Baboons can learn to recognize words
There's nothing to be ashamed of! I learned an awful lot from it. The part where you "read" values from the screen was particularly interesting. I had coded up the equivalent functionality in AutoIt, it involved iterating through an array of all possible images (stored locally)....ugh. Utter mess. Your method was much cleaner.

How did you get interested in automating web games? What is your background? Any other interesting projects you are cooking up?

I find the whole area of automating tedious human-driven actions fascinating. If the roulette bot works out, my next project is going to be automating spread betting/forex trading or perhaps some sort of sports betting arbitrage. Loads of possibilities out there in my opinion.

ps. If I end up 'making bank' as a result, let me know where I send the cheque as a thank you. My email is in my profile ;-)
With so much at stake, companies turn to hired hackers
Deploying a Symfony2 and Composer app on Pagoda Box
Those all involved physical supply and distribution chains, each with their own added costs. They also represented an advancement in technology. Yes, there are costs with digital distribution, but I find it hard to believe they are greater than distributing a physical product.
My dad gave me a Kindle he got for free. I have a hard time paying $10 or $15 to buy a book I don't really own, among other reasons.
Go to Home on the top tab, and you should see real time options on the left hand menu
Said constitution can also be changed by any act of Parliament, so I'm not sure. Parliamentary supremacy was supposedly part of the UK constitution until parliament gave up some of its sovereignty to the EU.
Hey, I'm the CEO of chartbeat. When Google Analytics launched their real time we saw a slight jump in churn that month and then things settled down to normal levels again the next month, so not much effect at all thus far. This might have something to do with it: http://chartbeat.com/infographics/measure-different
Oh, that's an easy one to answer.

Because they were so obviously going to succeed that there was no need to test things with users or do a gradual rollout. And they had a great plan with a big pretty chart showing the multi-country rollout, and of course you're going to follow the plan, right? I mean, it's the plan.
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Is there a Japanese plan to evacuate 40 million people?
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Introducing Iris: a completely rebuilt Readability engine.
At the risk of sounding like an elitist hipster hacker, the core audience of this site comes here looking to read articles about innovation, not staid, conservative companies slowly transitioning to established and proven technologies.
Oracle suit vs. Google over Android hits trial
At the end of day, you won't get much more data than from a traditional tool like Google Analytics. But the real-time nature and the presentation make your data so vibrant that you check Chartbeat 100 times a day—everytime you get some small hints and insights you would overlook without. Basically with Chartbeat your site lives and breaths.
Gwern, the main surprise coming out of the post-Summit workshops was that literally everyone wished that uploads could come before AGIs. The problem isn't that high-fidelity uploads are less trustworthy. The problem is that the neuroscience enabling uploads seems extremely liable to enable "neuromorphic" or "neurally inspired" AGIs which have neither a human upbringing, nor high-fidelity human emotions. In other words, the problem with uploading is that it's a difficult technology whose easier prerequisites branch into unFriendly AI. We'd take high-fidelity uploads if we could get them, the problem is we don't see how to get them without getting unFriendly "neuromorphic" AI first.
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London Real-Time Hackathon: An orgiastic festival of social awkwardness
I sometimes wonder about the value of real-time analytics. I use Google Analytics real-time, and it can be extremely addictive watching visitors arriving, navigating, hoping you'll get a conversion, looking at how they found you.

But does it really add anything over none-real time analytics? Much healthier to check your reports once a week or so I would think.

I often think its just another distraction (like checking email or HN) that can moves focus from what I really should be doing.

Though I'd love to hear what uses people have found for real time analytics...
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Co-founder of Avaaz: "We need to go on the offensive to protect the Internet"
What’s Wrong With Being a Shipwrecked Tentmaker?
I would stay stop dancing with Tekes (state R&D funding org), and take a flight to Stockholm, Frankfurt, Paris, or London. Capitalize on successes like Rovio and emphasize that in Finland there is lots of mobile dev talent available thanks to MeeGo and Symbian getting ramped down.
> http://store.elsevier.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780120884780

I don't trust this book; it has an error that I reported to the authors twice but never heard a word back (or any note of the error in their list of errata).

Here's what I wrote to them:

Subject: Errata for "Engineering a Compiler"
Date: Sat, May 26, 2007 at 8:12 PM

Hello,

I noticed that your section on DFA minimization is labeled
"Hopcroft's Algorithm," but doesn't seem to describe the
algorithm explained by Hopcroft in his 1971 paper [0]. Your
algorithm appears to be n^2, where Hopcroft's is n log n. David
Gries gave a somewhat more digestible presentation of the same
algorithm in a follow-up paper in 1972 [1].

Hope this information is useful!

Sincerely, <me>

[0] John E. Hopcroft. An n log n algorithm for minimizing states
in a finite automaton. Technical Report: CS-TR-71-190, 1971.
Available online at
ftp://reports.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/71/190/CS-TR-71-190.pdf

[1] David Gries. Describing an algorithm by Hopcroft. Acta
Informatica, 2(2):97-109. Online reference:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/r5631549671g6251/

> The dragon book is outdated on parsing, too. It's from a time where single-pass parsing and compilation was sometimes necessary because you didn't have enough memory (or time) to do multiple passes. It certainly doesn't have anything on packrat parsing.

I'm pretty sure that all production compilers do one-pass parsing even now because of efficiency concerns. I would be very surprised if any production compiler used packrat parsing which takes O(n) memory.
An evidence-based refutation of the Project Glass parodies
My take was more like the title might be a little hyperbolic, but if you read the article you will find something VERY hyperbolic. Whoa.
Or cyclists! I wonder what would happen if a relatively slow moving, thin wheel rolled over this? I'm worried that a cyclist would sink in to the material, and be well on their way to a header.
you can use xvfb as a lightweight alternative to full X, works well.
I was planning to go for Python with Django back-end and the usual HTML/CSS/JS front-end :)
Or get the people who need their places cleaned to include a non-circumvention clause as part of their initial signing up.
I have a game idea, not sure where to go from there...
Hey good people of HN,

I have a game idea that I would like to bring to life, but am not sure how to proceed. Do any of you know of a site where I can find others to work with on this idea? I don't care about making any profit on this, I just want to create a fun game.

It's going to be a 2d beat-em up game where all the characters will be using musical instruments as weapons. The characters to choose from will be a brute (bass player, strong but slow), the average knight-like player (guitar player, somewhat fast and semi-strong), ranger (singer, fast and favors attacking from afar with microphone - thus "ranger")...maybe even a drummer as a bonus character.

Any help would be appreciated.
Looks nice and there's a difference in concurrent visitors of 50% compared to Chartbeat, anyone knows why??
and the thread

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3843427

also a thread on Memon releasing the sources to Demopaja

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3847017
Doubt it. You couldn't burn €40m doing that for 20 years.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3847649
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Indeed there are. I'm using it right now for a contract job. SVN is just the way things are done there. Before that, they were using TFS.
I thought his comment was insightful, too, until I read the last line. Then it just sounded like arrogance. I suppose I read a positive spin on that comment--something like "well, most people just haven't discovered the facts about how great LISP really is," but the round/flat earth analogy doesn't necessarily foster such a reading.
I understand you get a better feeling off it, but I'd love to hear from people who have noticed something using real-time analytics they wouldn't have seen from plain old analytics.

I'm not sceptical, just curious as I think it can easily turn into a great way to waste time...
I'd be more interested to hear about companies who switched from Perforce to Git.

Perforce seems to be entrenched in more corporate environments.
Sure, and I'm one of them. It's not exactly startling news in 2012 that a lot of people prefer the git/hg model. Hell, I prefer it myself! But I've got a complete svn ecosystem set up here, with 44 projects in a single svn repository, automatic offsite backups, and hundreds of checked-out directories spread across five (or more?) computers with five distinct operating systems. As far as I can see, the one-time costs of moving over completely dwarf the relatively small benefits I would gain from using a better branching model.
The fact that they're not a location-enabled social name.ly for pets immediately makes them more intriguing than 90% of startups.
If you know what platform you'd like to deliver it on, find forums, IRC channels, etc. for that platform? Lining up artists and marketing might help you attract a developer as well ("I have an idea, make it for me" tends to get dismissed).
Same experience here. They're great to watch but generally quite worthless in the grand scheme of things. They have value sometimes but it's not regular, for example if we need to do emergency maintenance we can check how heavily a specific thing is being used, but beyond that...

I guess they appeal to people that are marketing.
An experiment on working exclusively in the cloud
Personally, I'd love to see an attempt to prohibit tweeting of results. The Streisand Effect would be glorious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
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Great dashboard facelift too. I've been following one of their designers on Dribbble for a while now, and his has been consistently hitting the style and usability nail on the head.

(edit) This guy - http://dribbble.com/mattbango
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After a decade of waiting, I think I'm entitled to express a bit of frustration.

Your position is quite contradictory. Do you really think I'd extoll these capabilities for years while mainstream programmers pooh-poohed me, then suddenly change my position to "meh?" "I told you so," seems to be the most sensible response to me.
Sidenote but as a Swede I don't recognize "demo" meaning anything else in Swedish than in English, but rather that they have the identical meaning in both languages (and used in the same way).

Paja means something in the lines of "destroy", "fall apart", "collapse".

If something is "paj" it is broken (alternatively paj can also mean pie :)).
Reminds me of Kulula Airlines vs FIFA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTmlderyH0A
Google only receives pings on the page load so it then assumes that each visitor is there for five minutes to get its measurement of concurrents. Chartbeat is being pinged every few seconds so we can tell if someone is really there or not. The infographic I linked to above explains it better.
Google and Oracle slated to meet in 'World Series' of lawsuits
You might want to check out http://www.gamasutra.com/ they are more geared towards the game industry and you will definitely get solid advice over there.
This sounds like bad news for freedom of the internet. The easier it is to code up filtering, blocking, detection, etc, the harder it is to have a free internet.
I don't think there's much to argue here. Perfect competition is a theoretical state where there would indeed be no profit-making.
The idea of competing with Amazon which seems to underlay Fruugo, justifies the scale of investment. To me the execution failed because it did not draw the correct lessons for Amazon's success.

Bezos's grounding in finance played a key role in Amazon's success over the long term. But more critical was that he was taking responsibility for hauling packages to UPS himself - is there any better example of a founder so focused on shipping?

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/bez0int-4

It's hard to see a former chairman of Nokia doing that.
A very nice interview with Pascal Costanza. It was good to know he does all software prototyping in Lisp, though I wish he could have taken it into implementation as well. Still, I'm already sold on Lisp, and this interview gave me a number of additional reasons for remaining so.
Is it David vs Goliath in the eyes of the consumer though? All they see is they can't buy a book they want through Amazon anymore. They may just think it doesn't make any sense and question why the publisher doesn't want to offer their books on Kindle anymore. Amazon doesn't make books, why would they want to "squeeze everyone out of business" that makes the books they sell.
It would be more precise to say that the UK doesn't have a written constitution.
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Under a rock? Is git _that_ much better? I used to read about how it didn't need a central repository, yet this article, and github, seem to indicate everyone ultimately wants/needs a central repository.

So git is worth switching just for branching/merging superiority? Maybe I don't do it enough, but svn has never let me down. Or maybe I'm not on a large enough dev team?

Guess I'm really just trying to figure out if git is so amazingly better that I really am under a rock (I'm not seeing that), or if it's more of the "if you're not using {latest hip tech} you're not to be taken seriously" kind of thing that we see so much on HN.

(sorry about new account -- can't find original credentials)
Tiny particles key to understanding early solar system
Forgive my political ignorance, but can the US government not also create constitutional amendments?
I live in Frankfurt, it's hard to get venture capital here, fly to Berlin instead.
Google says "MEH" to FCC Investigators; has to pay fines for blowing them off
Does chartbeat not publish their pricing? I'm trying to check what they'd charge us but I don't see anything.
Rushed legislation is usually bad legislation.

As a UK citizen I agree with you, the real problem is the apathetic electorate though, we get the politicians we deserve.
IT Companies Spend 34% Budget On Average On Cloud Computing
anyone here knows if the kickstarter is already online?
Cool thanks! I have no intention of being the "I have an idea, make it for me" guy, as I am a programmer/graphic designer. I just am not well versed with game programming.
An easy litmus test:

Would it be OK for the cleaner to subcontract the work?

If so, it could be legit. If not, they're employees. From the original thread, I don't get the impression he'd be OK with subcontracting, so he is probably non-compliant.

That said, I don't think its a huge deal. He'll get audited, he'll pay the owed taxes and penalties and move on with his life. I've been audited by the ESC, its really not that big of a deal.

He's also learned that his customers will pay a premium for good service, so if he has to raise the price, big deal. He'll be fine.
a liquid will return to a flat hole-filling shape if it's altered, gravel does not. Also not great to spread gravel around your road, especially if it's used by bicycles.
Gravel also hinders repair work

I also like the idea that the bag could be coloured to assist cyclists in avoiding them..
Yes, exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!