skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Supports audio and non-drmed video
I'm becoming increasingly strict avoiding things like that: if Google doesn't care about wasting my attention, why help them by using their service?
I don't even understand how you found it, I can't seem to navigate to the announcement from their front page. If they make it impossible to find, it's quite understandable nobody knows about it.
Well either the app object is global, in which case you've got global mutable state, or you're defining your handler functions later than module load time, which is pretty uncommon practice.
They dropship everything (it's why delivery takes so damn long) so your explanation sounds like a more likely scenario.
He could also piggyback over existing copper/fiber owned by the large telcos. It's allowed by law even.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_local_exchange_carr...
Having met Dan Shipper in real life was really cool. We still occasionally talk on Skype. I think this is a great idea. I'll definitely be looking into this and seeing who else I may meet.

EDIT: Bah, no WP7 app, but it's understandable since most of HN probably isn't using that OS.
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They charge $500 for their data set. An easy way to combat this litigation would be to release the set gratis. Let the information flow.
I think one of his extensions provides an accessible interface.

https://plus.google.com/113186623583029971455/posts/fFbRYcvZ...
I think my opinion is also a bit biased - I've met far more liberal arts types of folks than MIT grads. But the MIT folks I have met are some of the smartest
Love your Lisp tips, not your lolcats!
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Arduino was built for the arts community who were already using Processing, allowing them to take what they already knew, and apply it to hardware. That's why it looks like Processing.

Of course, the Arduino board isn't limited to the Arduino programming environment. Hackers tend more towards programming the AVR directly, providing greater performance and environments more familiar to them.
Interesting that the same part is now being used in iPads 2. Sounds like they're getting ready for the next iPhone, maybe a speed bump for the retinal iPad.
Scott, with a straight face and no controversy at all I'm definitely saying it. Beijing is indisputably not only the 'Silicon Valley of China' but also for all of Asia. It was initially sparked since the seat of gov't is here and there are so many universities here but there are many other reasons why it's become the hub for the largest wireless and largest internet market in the world. But due to language, the Great Firewall of China and failures of so many int'l internet companies here in the Middle Kingdom, and other reasons there's relatively little press about the thriving geekosystem here. However on just about every metric it is surely the #2 behind the Valley.
Hi mate cheers for the response! I'm from Australia, nothing of interest here either unfortunately.
I guess I'm mostly surprised that so many web developers and HN submitters still browse with permissive vanilla browser settings.

My point is that you shouldn't be.

I've never heard a compelling argument so to why anyone should change their settings.

(I do have some sympathy for the argument that people should change the default blocking of third-party cookies in Safari to allow them, and in the pre-XP SP3 days changing the defaults in IE was sensible at times, but these are exceptions)
former NSA technical director. AFAIK he's been "former" for quite a few years now.
You're right, I haven't used version 10 so much as it isn't installed on my Windows partition. Barely one year ago I installed Windows 7 which for some reason still came with IE7, which I promptly upgraded to IE8. IE9 came out which I skipped on my laptop because Chrome and FF were more productive. What's hard to stomach is the fact that even while Microsoft is willing to push out version after version, the features that I care about (and really, should we still have to call standards compliance and consistency a feature?) seem to improve in only the smallest increments. What's worse is that all of those older versions stay out there, and each major release tends to leave behind its own black whole which I then have to support, for 2-4 more years.

Now all that being said, if IE really has gotten it's act together as you say then I'd be happy to call it a day. Unfortunately no matter how wonderful it is, it probably won't matter until IE8 and IE9 virtually dead (<7.5% of sessions for a site).

Edit: Release schedule of Internet Explorer... IE7: 2006, IE8: 2009, IE9: 2011, IE10: 2011 (announced "3 weeks in development")
Fair. Then what's the name of the implementation? The same as the language? How do I refer to:

* Go, the specification

* gccgo

* 6g and friends: the compilers
Actually I want both. I don't want to hear about Lisp from some noob I don't know, I want to hear about it from Peter Norvig and the like. Need both people + topic/interest for that.
This probably isn't the best place to ask, but is there going to be a migration tool for us Google Apps users any time soon?
I literally can't stop reading! Thanks a lot!
They are different. Processing is built on Java, Arduino is built on C++.
http://37signals.com

http://facebook.com (Lucida Grande is a fab choice)

http://readability.com - one of the key things this app changes is typography.

Check out default typography on thesis theme - http://64notes.com/thesis

Examples of bad typography:

google groups, Google Plus

http://wierd.com

I've many more if you want.
You're making a lot of assumptions about what I am and am not saying. Check my profile if you want to see how I think Python should be introduced (hint: by doing actual stuff).

TL;DR: Beyond the very basics, PHP is only going to frustrate beginners. It has confusing syntax and weird special cases. You should pick something different as a first language.
This is one of the best things I have seen on HN in a while :)
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That's actually the sort of programming I like best! I don't want to care which sort algorithm is most appropriate for my dataset, I just want to call sort() and move on.

I love gluing things together that do the nitty-gritty stuff for me because it lets me focus on the big picture of making things happen, which is what I love about programming.
yeah, you are seriously missing the point if your instinct upon seeing this is to buy him a claw machine.
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For reference (everything else has been covered by the other poster replying to you) I was talking about the 16:10-16:9 move forced on consumers. 4:3-16:9 didn't happen directly, there was a brief stop off at 16:10.
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No, I want a system based around both people and topics/interests. As I mentioned above, I don't want to hear about Lisp from some random folks I don't know, I want to read about it from Peter Norvig and other experts. Need to be able to cross-reference both people/posters (Circles) and topics (hashtag filtering or whatever).

I can actually get the pure topics/interest stuff from subreddits like /r/haskell and speciality sites like lamda-the-ultimate.org.
I love this, simply the "Requests" of option parsing.. option parsing for humans.
not only are you the "big bummer guy", but you're also totally wrong about the appropriateness of this to hacker news. so, bummer, big bummer guy.
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One-in-a-million events happen all the time. Unless there's a pattern of these guys doing stuff like this, I see no reason to think there's anything subtle going on. You just got lucky/unlucky.
For those who prefer video, Dave Brondsema gave an excellent talk on decorators and custom context managers at PyCon: http://pyvideo.org/video/883/decorators-and-context-managers.
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First, I think it is inappropriate to down vote this comment as it is a valid point that you can actually solve the color problem in current CSS.

However, building your CSS in this way probably takes a lot longer to render since the selectors are expensive and setting attributes is cheap. Further, I have never seen a page of any complexity where this would make sense.
I'd like to see if the new iPad 2s get better battery life. It stands to reason that they would, but Apple doesn't really talk about the iPad 2 anymore. I'm not willing to by an iPad 2 just to perform this test but some tech sites should do some battery benchmarks on the new iPad 2.

It makes sense to me that Apple is testing out yields for the next iPhone. This new, smaller manufacturing process will allow Apple to put LTE in the next iPhone by having the CPU take up less space and consume less power.

I don't envision a speed bump to the Retina iPad this year. Rather, I expect the iPad to be revised again next year. It should be on the new, smaller manufacturing process, but I'd expect the new iPad to be ARM A15 based, not A9 based like Apple's current iOS products. The next iPad may have double the CPU power while also getting better battery life.

In fact, with the new GPUs that Apple will be using next year and the new CPUs, I expect the next iPad to be more powerful than the XBO 360 and PS3. That'll be a very interesting day for gaming.
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Around that same age (9-10) my parents enrolled me in a program called FutureKids which held computer classes for young children (we played educational games more than learning about computer architecture, but still).

I went for an hour every Thursday for many months, and loved every minute of it. So much so that I built a computer out of legos and gave it to the instructor -- it included a chassis, a motherboard, ISA cards, CPU, memory.
I would think of it this way. If the idea is that easy to steal (Or replicate) then (without knowing much about the idea) it sounds to me that it's pretty low barrier to entry idea so ask yourselves how big can it get. Really?

The other and more important thing is - ideas are dime a dozen but it's all about execution. My issue with stealing the idea is that you are not going to be able to execute it as it will never be your true passion. You will always have that doubt. And because of that, you will not have that bullet proof conviction - so essential to success of any startup -required to transform the idea into business.

The reason the guy whose idea you are trying to steal appears stubborn is because he has convection. Just know that execution requires absolute conviction - thousands of people during execution will say how terrible the idea actually is and it will require sheer conviction to transform it into a business model.

So - my suggestion is that the guy who had the idea should be the CEO and you guys should be the cofounders.

I am not big on stealing anything. If you are smart - you will have something original. Remember cream always rises to the top. So forget about stealing and start hacking something original!
[video] The D Programming Language by Walter Bright at Lang.NEXT,2012
The typical reason people see ebooks as being too expensive is that, post-agency, they often cost more than the hardcover edition of the same title. Since it is fairly obvious that the cost of producing and distributing the ebook is substantially less than the cost of producing and distributing the hardcover book many people feel there's something fishy going on there.

I'd add that if you're right and it is more profitable for ebook publishers to charge more because ebook buyers are typically more affluent that, by itself, suggests that there are issues with ebook competition. In an appropriately competitive market we'd expect prices to be more related to the supplier's costs (and the costs of alternatives like getting a book from a different publisher or getting the hardcover) than they would be to the customers ability-to-pay.
It make sense to test the new die shrink on a CPU that has been around awhile and on one where disabling broken parts is an ok thing to do. I wonder if any of the shrunk A5's that have both cores working are ending up in shipping products yet (iPhone 4, iPad 2)?
Unless it binds directly to the alsa device (which I think you need to have a rooted phone to access) it still uses audioflinger. So the terrible latencies (into the hundreds of milliseconds) will still be there.
Bit of a stretch to call it a "conversion". He and Walter Bright simply set out to fix the glaring problems with C++ after long experience with it.
I know plenty of non technical people and they all understand the concept of bounced emails. Error 238B is terrible but "can't deliver email to ben.cornwalll@test.com" and 90% of people can understand they miss spelled the guys email address. It's only after that they their eyes gloss over and their mind shuts down.
You obviously missed the sarcasm.
A relevant blog post - http://www.jackkinsella.ie/2011/09/26/why-bother-with-cucumb...
I'm guessing people here aren't that familiar with Andrew's work. I've been listening for a long time now and can tell you that few people have done for start-ups everywhere what Andrew has done.

He's interviewing people just about every day, people who are making money, people with stories that can help others looking to do the same. Not every moment is gold, but Andrew is contributing in a major way and it cost you nothing but your time.

It's just upsetting to me to hear these comments on HN. While criticism is good, I'm afraid some of these just sound too unappreciative for me to take.

Andrew - Keep up the good work.
Unfortunately they are using PayPal - I would bet that account is already frozen
Someone just donated a pinball machine to Caine:

http://twitpic.com/98d6fr
Linguality (http://www.linguality.com/) prints French and Italian novels with the original text on the right pages and a page-specific mini-dictionary on the left pages. No need to keep stopping to look up words in a dictionary.

Unfortunately there are only a few Linguality books. Can you do this with an e-reader?
> Wait what? Is there collusion in the digital app industry built from the ground up with the agency model?

In the digital app industry, there isn't collusion there's coercion where some (not all) platform owners say that if you want to sell apps for my platform you will adhere to my rules about distribution, pricing and related matters. That's not exactly a model of competition.
It would be an interesting case. I hope it goes to court but there's probably no chance that it will unless somebody takes it on pro bono. Is there any organization like the EFF in Canada?
> Except the need for IPv6 is verging on dire

But we just got all of Iran's blocks back because they are removing themselves from the Internet, right?
That's true for the _languages_, but the Arduino development environment is built on Processing, see second para here:

http://arduino.cc/
Marketing is a fundamental part of distribution - if you're claiming wholesale catalogues (ie: marketing, 'hey folks, this is what we're selling') are not technically part of what a distributor does, you're moving the goalposts.

There's also pipeline management - while product inflow is not physical entities in the digital world, there is still the issue of finding new products and managing digital license agreements. Being a 'distributor' is more than just 'sending out a product from storage'. If that's all you're doing, you're a 'shipping department', not a 'distributor'
I love the technology but aesthetically the unit itself looks pretty horrible to my eyes. Watches are one of the few accessories men can wear and it always saddens me that these types of wearable electronics are always so ugly.
I'm really hoping for a major price drop in SSD. I went SSD a couple of years ago and regular hard drives feel so sluggish in comparison. Putting an SSD in my iMac and Macbook was by far the best thing I could have done performance-wise.
Hrmm, it'd be much easier (better) to just do it for a fee. Considering most startups fail, and they'd have to setup their corporate structure a certain way to give stocks to more than 75 investors, this may or may not be worth building.

The programming aspect of this concept is easy enough, it's the legal aspect that you guys should do more research on.
This was also my first thought. But with changes as big as Python 3, there is probably no way around this.
When I started at my previous company we had a server room that was full of computers. When I left we had consolidated to a single rack, and nothing had been moved to the cloud. While the companies demand for compute power went up during the time I worked there, the compute power available in a single machine went up faster than the demand.
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Google pre-renders tiles. They have publicly stated that they use MapReduce for this.
It's not easy to find, but I've managed to work out what seems to be the shortest route.

Step 1: Start at http://geocoder.ca/

Step 2: Click "Free Data" -> http://geocoder.ca/?freedata=1

Step 3: Click "You haven't made it until you get sued" -> http://geocoder.ca/?sued=1

There seems to be no mention of "sued" in the source of the front page.
Actually, more than 70% of Fab.com's products are not drop shipped, and we've cut our delivery times in half the past 2 months and are making tons of progress there.

I'm jason, the ceo. chat me up.
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Prices weren't lower because of Amazon's leverage over publishers. They were lower because Amazon was willing to lose money to build a platform and a market. Remember, pre-agency publishers made more money along two dimensions:

1. Wholesale prices were often higher than their share of an agency price.

2. Since the prices to end-users were lower sales were higher than they otherwise would have been.

And don't forget, publishers had a much simpler, pro-competitive response if they were afraid of Amazon's dominance: drop the DRM. Then they could have sold ebooks to all of Amazon's customers (including Kindle device owners) without Amazon.
Why not? If any of them turn out to be good, then we've improved something, haven't we?
I am not familiar with his work, but I also don't think I should need to know his reputation in order to watch the video.

To me it seemed disrespectful to the person he was interviewing, and honestly a bit egotistical to be talking so much.

Hopefully this feedback reaches him and it's something that can be considered.
Are we small yet?
>In the C++ world I come from, the Spec is treated as being holy.

That's ridiculous.

>You don't write code that invokes undefined behavior or relies on unspecified behavior.

This happens all the time, and not only is code written that relies on unspecified behavior, vendors maintain backward compatibility for programs that do this.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html

> If you do, you're on your own and no one will touch your code with a ten foot pole if they can help it.

Not really. If you do this and you're a huge success, you're the center of the universe. If you do this and no one notices, you're fucked.
Great to see you respond here. The time that lost me was when you were telling the story about your wife's issues. I understand your intent with that story, but it was quite long winded and it looked like a few times your guest went to speak and was effectively cut off.

I didn't watch the whole video, I was put off by the signal to noise ratio in the first few minutes.
They are suggesting that the client generate those UIs based on the message in the email, not that the message have that UI in it.
Hey, Jason Goldberg, CEO of Fab here. I just looked into this.

This was just our standard process of making sure that every order is completed properly. A critical part of our long term differentiation is making sure every customer interaction with Fab is a good one.

We want nothing short of every Fab customer to LOVE Fab. That's a big goal. People like a lot of websites but not many people LOVE an ecommerce site. That's our ambition.

Smile, you're designed to. And, keep challenging us to make sure we deliver fantastic service.
Ha! I hadn't seen that, thanks. That's cool. Definitely more refined than our cereal box machines. :)
Regarding starting from the highest zoom level, I believe it's the other way around. If, for example, at z2 a tile is all water, then it is also all water at all higher zoom levels, which can then be skipped.
He replied to you in this thread.
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I'm disappointed that they didn't fix pydoc to handle Partial objects correctly (i.e. show them as methods and display their __doc__ text rather than show them as variable of class Partial).
I would miss a world without Word. Word is how I know whether to apply for a job or not.

If you only accept resumes in Word format, you're not the dinosaur I want to work for.
Did they redesign their name policy or do they still have this very exclusionary policy that make G+ unfit?
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I got my profile suspended because they didn't like the way I wrote my name.
I have built one of these map rendering systems on EC2. We decided to go with a 100% on-the-fly + two caching layers (one HTTP on top and one application-specific in between [TileCache]). There were dozens of layers (now there are thousands) so pre-rendering all of them was not feasible. Since I left that gig, the current team has added some processes to "warm" the caches before new data goes live. It just takes a few minutes though, nowhere near 2% of the tilespace.

From what I remember, the biggest performance trick was figuring out how to properly pack worldwide street data (geometry, categorization, and label) + indexes into RAM on a single machine without using a custom file format. It involved stripping out every little unnecessary byte and sorting all of the streets geographically to improve access locality. I believe this got down to ~15GB of shapefiles.
Jason,

What's the rationale for bringing fulfillment inhouse? The economics and market trends seem to move the other way, in favor of drop shipping as much as possible. Catalog data problems? Financial? Branded customer experience? Partners can't ship properly? Just wondering...
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I'm not sure how many of you actually want to learn Arduino, but for those that do:

http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/

Read it, learn it, live it. I started working through it and even just through the first ~5-10 chapters, you'll be able to understand most electrical diagrams in beginner Arduino projects. This way, you won't be assembling a jigsaw puzzle by pictures - you'll be interpreting the diagram.

Arduino uses C, with a few libraries that you'll get familiar with following any set of beginner projects.

http://arduino.cc/

If you're on the fence, and have ~$80 to spend on a hobby - go for a beginner kit that comes with LEDs and a servo, and resistors, etc. It makes life easier.

I have no idea why, but it's just so damned satisfying.
Impressive! Congrats on the launch, Denis!
You may want to consider putting a "share your experience" call to action (like EXEC) if the meeting was long or how we can improve if the call was short. I was really impressed and wanted to share at the end of meeting page but didn't see anything there.
It wouldn't be unprecedented for them to release an update which enables features which were always in a chip but were unusable before, although it's not an identical situation:

http://blog.macsales.com/9102-secret-firmware-lets-late-08-m...
Very cool presentation. I wonder where they get the source data to render the map tiles.