skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been waiting for this one for a while. But...doesn't feel right to me.

It synced down my Google Docs files. Except it didn't. They're not, say, Excel files, which I assume the average user will expect. AFAICT they're shortcuts into Google Docs, which I didn't really need since I know where those are already, to a close-enough approximation. So now on my local drive I have two classes of spreadsheet. Real spreadsheets and links to my online spreadsheets, which kinda mirrors normal hyperlinks to online spreadsheets, so we have two classes of those now as well. I can't really predict what will happen if I download the file as Excel and put it into my Google Drive directory. I guess I'll have two files, but will my newly created Excel file be a new doc online? What will happen if I delete the local links?

Created a text file in my local drive. Waited. Nothing appeared in Docs. Right-click the file to "sync", no menu item. Right-click the directory, no menu item. Click different Docs directories. Nothing. At some point, it appeared. That's a temporary issue and can be fixed, but those details count.

Dropbox/Sugarsync feels a bit more predictable. I'll sync, that's it. I have a button I can push to make it do something predictable. Seems less magical.

File sync is a square hole. Google Docs is a round peg. Feels like the reasoning behind this is boardroom-strategy-level, not user-level.

Right now Dropbox/Sugarsync will keep my business. Earlier today I put one minute towards grandfathering a Skydrive account to 25GB free, just in case that proves useful. Hope I'm wrong and Google Drive feels more useful tomorrow.
I seriously doubt NFC will matter anywhere other than US very much.
Already on Rapid Release on my domain, already got it (about an hour behind everyone else, until then I got the "Your google drive is not yet ready" message.
"Roving groups of attenuating meatbags" as a synonym for "people" is my new favourite phrase.
> Lion fullscreen-mode

Why would you want that?
I posted here because I find the HN crowd to be ahead of the curve on news like this (security, tech, etc).

For example, previous posts have called this out as a non-event, which I found informative. I learned that exchanges are not as fault-tolerant as I thought. That is why I posted.
Ask HN: Is there room for alternative planners?
We know that the traditional gridded calendar is the gold standard for planning out your day, but is there room for apps or web apps that allow you to plan your day in a different way? I'm thinking of an app that would pull events that are in your calendar and then allow you to schedule tasks around them. Or is the calendar really the best way to do it?
Doesnt work in webkit nightly.

TypeError: '[object HTMLDivElement]' is not a function (evaluating 'callback.apply(this, (arguments[0] = this, arguments))')
Why there is no servlets in Play (oldish)
Feel free to ask better questions... =)
The Benefits And Solutions Created By The APP Economy
You dont need math at all. I learned to program when I was 12. At the time, my math skills topped out at long division.

Then I went to engineering school. I had taken calculus in high school but failed. I failed calculus again in college. Twice (two different courses, once each). Eventually I gutted through it all and learned it, got my degree and went on to an enlightening, but short career in a very math-heavy role - structural dynamics.

Fast forward, and I do web development for a living. Not once* have I done anything in programming that required skills beyond those that I had when I was 12.

So you tell me, am I above average in math skills or not? I haven't a clue.

* I lied. I did build a ballistics calculator once - but that is a very specialized niche of programming. I can assure you there is little to no math in CRUD apps.
Which is, in fact, strange.
Most languages do not have the v/w distinction, but very few non-native english speakers confuse v with w, especially in write. But Koreans and Japanese tend to confuse r and l even in write.
Well, web startups don't work that way.

The workflow is:

listens for news-highlighting requests

gets each and every webpage/feed

detects the main content

processes the content and pinpoints the relevant sentences from each news article

creates a new enhanced webpage/feed containing the color-highlighted relevant bits

sends the results to your browser (webpages) or gives them to your RSS Reader

The hard-lifting is done by a semantic component built in-house.
Having trouble with scheme
The scheme executable file is giving a lot of trouble on windows. I've downloaded and attempted to install it 10 times, but every time I click the executable file, it gets deleted. I think this may be a problem with my Webroot, but I have no idea how to disable this.
I know nothing of anybody behind it, how could my intent possibly be personal?
Yes, the very same guy that stole my dream life.
Comparing Skydrive and Google Drive's privacy policy
From what I've seen it's not a big problem here because it's unlimited storage for one desktop. The high-end users are only able to go so high.
Ask HN: Are you moving your blog off of Posterous?
While Posterous is not close to shutting down yet, there's no real guarantee that it will be around for an extended period of time since its acquisition. Are you planning to move to a different service or have you done so already?
So you can run apps full screen and swipe between them. It's like focus mode for apps, switching becomes very fast, and it unifies the Macbook Air experience and iPad experience for multitasking.
Google is upgrading your GMail Inbox sizes at roughly 1.824 MB/min
Apple reports profit of $6 billion on $39.2 billion in revenue
Post a link next time, not a conveniently truncated image:

http://www.google.com/policies/terms/

Your Content in our Services

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When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google Maps). Some Services may offer you ways to access and remove content that has been provided to that Service. Also, in some of our Services, there are terms or settings that narrow the scope of our use of the content submitted in those Services. Make sure you have the necessary rights to grant us this license for any content that you submit to our Services.

You can find more information about how Google uses and stores content in the privacy policy or additional terms for particular Services. If you submit feedback or suggestions about our Services, we may use your feedback or suggestions without obligation to you.

Apps have different TOS: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/standard_terms.html
Do we know if Google ever tried to acquire Dropbox or was it just Apple? Sorry in advance if I'm just really out of the loop.
How do I enable this feature? Whenever I try to access my docs offline the page simply does not load.

I am using a google apps account if that makes a difference.
Is there a way to use the Google drive without installing the software onto my computer? My employer does not allow me to install any software to the office computer.
This is a brand-new implementation. The old version was built on MacFuse. This one is a Python+wx.
Designing Around an Experience
Justin, as a business owner, you are not Yelps customer. Yelp customer, or at least the one they care about, is really the people who use the site.
What's the memory footprint like? I remember giving Microsoft Mesh a try since it offered 3GBs more than Dropbox. Goodness that thing had quadruple the footprint of Dropbox.
Sneha Aur Samreen Ki Chudaye
Trestle - now with Windows Phone 7 and ASP.NET clients
Simpsons already did it ...

Wiggum: I mailed these bogus prize certificates to every scofflaw in
Springfield. When they show up for their free motor boats we arrest
them and beat them to the full extent of the law.
Eddie: So the hook is baited.
Lou: Nice metaphore Eddie!
Wiggum: Yeah, good work, Eddie!

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/5F05
DCPU-16 v1.1: Interrupts, hardware, better addressing...
Huh, interesting, and I'm surprised I hadn't heard of Fodor's. I work at http://www.oyster.com/ -- we're kind of the anti-TripAdvisor as all hotels are visited and photographed by our pro photographers and reviewers. We've found the same thing with UGC in the hotel space. For the popular hotels on TripAdvisor, there are 1000s of reviews, and the aggregate rating is always 3-4 stars. In contrast, on Oyster.com there's one review written with the same guidelines as all the other hotel reviews (as well as 100s of high-quality, non-staged photos).
[imgur link]

http://imgur.com/6Is5S
What Scheme executable are you trying to use?
We understand that people get bored and things get stale.

Novelty is a big factor in what we do. Keeping it fresh is part of our core business model--watch and see!

I hear you on price per employee. We feel and have found that there is a relation between what we deliver and the upside ROI. The negative cost of low morale and unhappiness exceeds our "cost per seat".
I use Yelp to get ideas about what places to eat, but recommendations and confirmations from friends is usually the final say. I really like Yelp, but things like this keep coming up and it's hard to trust that their heart is in the right place. Not to mention how slow they are at staying competitive with other services. Check-in feature seemed to take forever, and I still can't believe they haven't tried to implement customer appreciation cards a la Stampt.
I worked down there with IceCube. We had a few programmers in the project, but it was very competitive to get a slot at the Pole. Most of the people sent down were for physical drilling operations. I went down to do data acquisition software. IceCube is done with construction, so they don't need to send people any more. If you don't go with a science project, the other option is Raytheon Polar Services. Raytheon, however, pays their workers almost nothing because they know that people want to travel there. There were bus drivers with Ph.D.'s. The cook was a gourmet chef.
The Oatmeal sums it up, state of the web
Apple Q2 2012 earnings: $39.2billion revenue, quarterly net profit $11.6billion
Hate to be negative, but doing your job doesn't merit a trophy. Millenials already have a bad reputation for needing constant rewards.
I just want to say, my mother has been using Fodor's Forums for years now to help her with planning her trips. So thank you for creating such a useful resource!
Lots of things might not work in nightly builds. That's why they're nightly. ;) I tried the latest Mac OS X WebKit r115090 built on 24 April 2012, and it worked fine for me. If the latest nightly doesn't work for you, please let me know by filing an issue on GitHub and giving more details about your OS and version so that I can track down the problem. Thanks!

https://github.com/square/cubism/issues
The Man Who Hacked Hollywood
Here's another one that had me frowning:

Q: How did you end up in Silicon Valley at
such a young age?

A: I flew on a plane from LA. Southwest,
I think.

It's like a middle-schooler wrote these.
> Politically feasible reform is music to my ears.

You might like the works of William Patry. He's one of the top experts on US copyright law and has written extensively on that very subject.
I know WP7 and ASP.NET don't get the love on Hacker News that other languages get, but we're supporting both on Trestle now. If you're a WP7/ASP.NET dev we'd love to get your feedback. Thanks!
Mathematicians tend to be good at solving puzzles. "Read the problem; state the problem; state what you know and what you need to know; think about how you find what you need to know and how to get there.".

That's pretty handy skill for programming.

Some people think that programming is an inherent skill - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/07/separating-programm...

Other people suggest that you just need to do it. (All those "Learn X the hard way".)

I'd be interested to know what the research says.
HackStore (like Cydia for Mac App Store) released today
Pingo gives free credit of worth $10
When Elephants Attack
Never underestimate the power emotional reward (as opposed to monetary reward). Great collaboration!
Assuming this technology because popular enough to affect the stores' bottom line, how much do you think an enterprising person could charge them to install a system specifically engineered to confuse this?

I'm thinking, Portal-like attachments in the ceiling that randomly move around - probably at night, to avoid scaring shoppers.

Or maybe you could get away with a couple of computers hooked up to half a dozen projectors, projecting random imagery on the ceiling. You could even do something interesting like a rainforest canopy, clouds, etc.
Apple Q2 2012: 35.1M iPhones, 11.8M iPads, 4M Macs, and 7.7M iPods
How much less per shopper would you imagine there would be if a shopper had a pre-planned route available for the three things they needed at a Target or a Walmart?

How true. I was in a Target yesterday (where I almost never go) and started getting really irritated by the fact that kitchen utensils etc., were segregated by brand instead of by function. So the same type of product from two different manufacturers would be separated by 8 or 10 feet, making price/feature comparisons tedious, to say the least.
When are they going to get a customer service department that is easy to contact and talk to?
They have so many service based projects going on that need the ability to talk to a representative to get things fixed and there still isn't a way, that I know of, to contact them.
How do you enable offline use? I have been looking for this for a while. I am using google apps if that matters.
The API seems a simple RPC over HTTP. I don't see why you couldn't write a FUSE adapter based on it.
Mobile Payments Can Expose More Consumer Data and Weaken Privacy Laws
Since it's not mentioned - assume nothing is encrypted and avoid using it unless you encrypt data on your own accord.
Not really an appropriate comment for HN. This isn't reddit.
Direct download - http://www.hack-store.com/the-hackstore/
Agreed. The only funny bit in the post.

The difference between tragedy and comedy is perspective.
> ...whereas there is ample evidence that Yelp directly targets individual businesses depending on whether or not they are paying customers.

Can you link to any of this "ample evidence"? Preferably not just allegations from business owners who don't like their reviews.
No. The GED (HS equivalency) and community college systems are highly effective at getting turn-around kids into top public universities (like UCLA, Michigan, etc.).
Photographers from seventy-six countries in competition for Prix Pictet
A developer's diary on recreating Pokémon: Crystal for the GBA
> if the university purports to teach this stuff,

It doesn't. The major purpose of a university is to produce scientists who do research, not software engineers who write crud apps. We, the software engineers, are just a byproduct.

> they should hire people who actually know how to teach it

They can't and they shouldn't. Why would one want to teach at a university when (s)he has enough skills to work at a company for a big fat compensation, and, possibly, equity? The only way to attract those people to the universities would be for the universities to offer much higher salaries, which would consequently drive up the cost of education (in my own country it wouldn't even work, because education is "free", i.e. mostly paid for by the government).
And for what - to teach the students something they could have easily picked up on their own by poking around the internets or participating in internships? That is not optimal.
If you study formal grammars in class and don't try writing your own little lexer/parser at home, it's your own fault, don't blame the university. It has taught you everything you need to know to write a parser, and it's your job to put it to use.
I was desperately hoping this would be "Interstellar Positioning System", and not something that tracks people around in shopping malls.
very good site for photographers in search of opppurtunity
Hi there -- we've dug in a bit on this problem, and we've found that corporate wellness programs are often not awesome.

We hope employees who hear about this crack a smile and have a good laugh. Keeping a straight face is the least of our worries!
Hi there. Check our our platform at IActionable. http://iactionable.com
Google Drive Apps for Chrome
Not entirely, but if your reason to using a non-LTS is to get the latest versions of your stack, then you've just made a really bad choice. As I've said, you're either giving up security updates or are left to test and upgrade your entire system every ~two years in exchange for no guarantee you're on the latest of anything. That tradeoff doesn't make sense no matter what way you look at it.
AAPL is up ~8% in after hours trading
https://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
Josh Hartnett Reflects on the Minnesota Greater Together Youth Summit
current research suggests that the feeling of making constant progress and being appreciated at work are the most important motivator for people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
In an ideal world, we'd get an update every day. Continuous integration, a comprehensive test suite, a few million hackers test for a day, then and out the door. There's always a train leaving the station.
Obligatory release notes: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/12.0/releasenotes/

Complete list of changes: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/12.0/releasenotes/bugli...
This isn't really Yelp's fault. Sites like this always have fake reviews mingled in with those that are real. The solution?

Assume people with a 4-5 star review are competent. GET MULTIPLE QUOTES. Doesn't matter if they have 5*, if you feel something is off with them they you avoid.

You also will find out when a quote is too cheap/too expensive and reduce your risk to getting conned.

Don't blame the internets or Yelp. Blame youself for not doing due diligence.
"I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."

s/Android/Dropbox
We're new, so everything I say here is subject to change.

We present ourselves as a software freelancing company. We ask our connections to refer people to us who need web applications built. We've also looked at something like Elance (but that targets the Israeli market, specifically). Most of our customers and potential customers were either: 1. people looking to build a new startup (or webapp), and want to outsource the development to us. 2. Freelance shops who represent customers looking to build webapps, and who are outsourcing the actual technical work to us.
LinkedIn open sources its exposé code for iOS
Harvard Releases Big Data for Books
Interesting that they point out a 9-6 hour work day the other 4 days. If you believe in being flexible and not forcing employees to work so much then why enforce 9-6 on the other 4 days?
Protect Your Parse App By Limiting User Authentication Methods
I think its a pretty stupid move. If they really want developers to flock to Google drive, they should not limit the api to their little corner of the world. I'm guessing that they are going to open it to all apps eventually.
But... Dropbox has numerous options for expanding this up to 4-8 GB (maybe higher) for free.
I am willing to help but your question is very vague.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Killer Features of Google Drive
Tal here, I wrote the post and google image searched my way to that photo. Some images on the web are so ridiculous you don't believe they're real or think about them as you would if you saw them in a news context.

I reverse imaged searched to discover it's a real picture of a drunk driver killing a man and injuring 10 in Monterrey, Mexico in 2008. I apologize for those of you who had to see it, and thanks Toan for acting quickly to remove it.
New baby diaper cakes
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Thoughts:

/// invy logo - confused as to why there is an asterisks there.

/// Two main call to action buttons [in green]:
Download app & Available on the App Store - a bit confusing as they both go to the same place.

/// Check boxes beneath the "available on the app store button"
* Friends can respond from any device via the Invy website - does this mean that my friends can log into your website through a web browser on their mobile device? not sure what this is supposed to tell me.

* iCal integration makes sense
* Address Book integration - is this outlook address book, or just general address book integrations?
* Cheaper than a Caffe Latte - just 1.99. I was still trying to understand what the app did before I reached this, so it seemed disjointed that you were trying to convince me it was worthing paying for your service before I understood your service.

/// White iPhone - it took me a while to realize it's a was an iPhone. I thought it was a nice border around your screenshot. Perhaps showing more of the phone would make me realize that it's an iPhone or at least mobile app.

/// Three blue links next to "download app" button. As a new user to your website I want to know more about what specifically invy app does. If we look wpengine.com from the left to right links are: about / blog / reviews / our customers / contact. I would have expected something along the same lines. Customer reviews / some type of blog / how awesome my life will be after I use this, etc. The press didn't really fit (especially when I went to the press page and was greeted by : Hello press people :) and an offer to contact you about press related inquiries.

Overall - I like the design though think you have to spend more time honing the right message to the right customer and what specific problem you are solving for them. Great work on getting something up, out, and reviewed on HN!
Apple Profit Rises 94% on Growing Global Demand for IPhones
Yeah, even if it doesn't say so, it is created, just use the login form.
Not yet! I'll gladly merge psql patches for this :)
Then he died.
Confirmed: Nexus S, 4.0.4, and it looks fine: http://imgur.com/N2cLn
Why we look outside the Valley for talent
In case anyone opens their Firefox 11 client and it doesn't automatically recognize there is an update available, you can go to Help -> About Firefox and it will grab the update.

Wait for the download to finish, then click the "Apply Update" button and you will be updated to Firefox 12.