skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it's just like jwz's rant on FF vs Safari. Mail.app is not as good, no doubt about it. It lacks almost everything a mail client should be able to do. But it works, does it's job quickly and easily and then is out of my way. I wish Thunderbird was the same way, but it just isnt.
I see a great future for this - hopefully will get more users hacking on embedded devices with Ruby codes (ruby + Arduinio or even Routers - e.g. OpenWRT).

Quick glance in the Make file, sees runtime libraries for Win/gcc/iOS - should be able to build an arm exe easily.
Laptops are still used as a media device for many, so mimicking the resolution of televisions makes sense in those cases. Personally, I prefer a 16:10 screen because I spend more time programming than watching videos on my laptop, but I'm sure there are plenty that beg to differ.

You can still buy laptops with 16:10 aspect ratio, but I think the people that explicitly prefer it are the minority at this point. I'd say most people don't really care.
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> Why do computers need to be 16:9 all of a sudden??

Because most consumers are just users and they don't want to see black bars when they watch a movie.
Ask HN: Re: NO NDA's - How can I Become an Advisor to a Startup?
There is a lot of discussion here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3867723

about the value of ideas and deep domain experience, and how to protect your "ideas" without NDA's.

Here is what I really want to know...If I have Deep Domain Experience about a topic, and Have dozens of excellent ideas and relationships that can drive real value for a startup.
If my end game is to try to become an advisor to the company, the equivalent of an "entrepreneur-in-residence" what would be the best approach to get noticed, get involved, and prove yourself to the founders to reach a point of becoming an advisor.
I can't ask for an NDA, founders are overwhelmed with ideas already, I can't demonstrate my Deep Domain experience without giving away the milk for free, so why would they buy the cow.

Founders, what value do you need to see to say to yourself, "We need this guy on our side, lets throw him a few stock options and maybe a retainer to lock him into our organization and have him vested in our success?
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I don't think PJ ever hid the fact that she was advocating in a certain direction, quoth wiki:

"Groklaw publishes articles (both news and opinion) from a self-described pro-FOSS, anti-FUD perspective"

The comments are similarly policed to comply with this. This certainly isn't a secret, as Florian Mueller's deals with MS and Oracle were, and I don't think I'm making a wild accusation here.

Back in the day a 100% anti-SCO line worked great because SCO was a fraud. But the current issues are murkier and the one sidedness of the site now sticks out like the news channel at your grandparents house.
One I can think of is related to RDS - if you run your own MySQL instances, you can pretty easily migrate away to another set of (MySQL) machines by replicating off the master onto a new slave, and then promoting the slave to master and shutting down the original master. RDS doesn't allow (external) replication, so your only option to get away from RDS altogether is to do a mysqldump, which can get nasty if you are trying to migrate away without downtime (a full export/import via mysqldump can take a long time, and you'll miss any updates during the process). At the very least, it involves either a chunk of downtime or a decent bit of manual migration, which is unfortunate.

That said, I don't think they set it up this way to specifically cause lock-in, it's just technically difficult to allow users to manually manage replication alongside RDSs automated system.
That's an excellent idea, since:

1) the other party doesn't need to sign anything.
2) it's only binding if it's actually a patentable idea.
He was just starting this book around 2008 when I attended a computer music class he taught. Really great class - opened my eyes to the power of functional programming. I'm really happy to see how far he has been able to take this, despite the leukemia diagnosis.
For the applications you are describing, they could be modeled as well in a "property graph" as in a triple-store. The thing about Neo4j is that it is a raw graph data structure, with nodes, edges and properties on both. With a query language like Cypher it is easy to then traverse the graph to find information. And Neo4j isn't just a graph abstraction, it's purpose built database down to the file system, designed for fast graph traversals.

The RDF/OWL approach has a nice advantage with a built-in notion of logical relationships between things, while being a bit more verbose in storage. Ontologies are a mixed blessing.

For the flexibility you mention, it's common with Neo4j to "organically grow" your data by simply elaborating the structures and relationships. This allows, for instance, multiple domains to be intermingled across a common base set of data, differentiated by the relationships they establish to the common data.

Cheers,
Andreas
So ... nothing.
> I for one always cringe at the sight of technically illiterate friends who keep up with bad sitcoms through uTorrent without knowing how the file system (even the high-level abstraction of it) works.

Most embedded and driver programmers could say exactly the same thing about most application and web programmers.
Why is that an important property of searches?
I can't help but wonder, what possesses the CEO of a company to not act on this type of information, in SOME capacity? Is it apathy, perhaps they're so busy that they never see it?
The extensive reviews for the new "ultrabooks" would seem to disagree, at least if you want something that's equally enjoyable to use:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/reviews/2011/12/hitting-all-the-right-marks-acer-aspire-s3-ultrabook-review.ars

That's just one of many, short version:

* ultrabooks often seem cartoonish and feel cheap
* not much cheaper than Apple's offerings
* included software not equivalent
* battery life not as great

Of course you could argue that some of these things are because Apple is in the unique position of creating the hardware and software, but so what? That's part of the point...
The fact that that's not a real quote in the headline but a rather loose paraphrase undermines the author's point somewhat. (And is is pernickity to note he "wrote" rather than said it?)
No wonder you are getting downvoted. HN and sadly the majority of Mac users are 'wanna bes'. Paying more money and justifying it by attacking users who speak the truth is their forte.
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That's fair. But why not at least put public comments on the ones where the company isn't secret?
I could, but it think it would be better for them if the comment were public, because then other people could reply and explain why my feedback might not be good.
What Android hardware catastrophe? I'm not being facetious, I'm genuinely curious.
Dupe of a post that's only 22 hours old: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3864994

Sure wish I could flag posts.
Back to Safari (and Why I Prefer it Over Chrome)
From what I found reading through some stuff, 'tulip' is the term used to describe whatever a whistle-blower uploads. It also has some meta-data including a point of discussion, so that the Global Leaks provider (the recipient of information) can ask the sender (the whistle-blower) to upload some more material or explain something. It seems tulips can be set, by the sender, to expire.

Here's a link to the tulip controller - you can mostly figure out what it does reading through the well-structured code:

https://github.com/globaleaks/GlobaLeaks/blob/master/globale...
Yes. Unfortunately. I'm not sure this is a good solution.
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Making the root domain a free-for-all effectively promotes what .com was to the global root. We can only do this once, and then the root namespace is gone forever.

We will never again be able to create new top level domains that have special restricted meanings, such as .arpa, .gov and the concept of country TLDs[1]. Any sensible name that we want to use will probably already be taken. Even it is not taken, a new special purpose name would never be able to differentiate from squatters using the same level of the namespace.

Not only that, but the special casing of existing TLDs such as .gov could get diluted to the point that the majority will not recognise them as official any more.

There is a place for free-for-all on domain name registrations, and it is .com.

[1] I presume that they will reserve two letter registrations for the specific case of new countries coming into existence, but my point is about the concept of new uses, rather than this specific case.
Just saying because it confused me for a second ("When did they add private messages to HN?") -- you mean email, right?
> It doesn't matter that iTunes doesn't read the XML file.

Yes, it does.

> Any machine will take at least a couple seconds to write out an entire 30MB file.

True, but if it's locking up iTunes every time that occurs then THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOUR MACHINE OR SETUP. End of story.

> And if it does this every single time you update a playcount or rename a playlist, and blocks your user interface during this, then there's a fundamental flaw with the software.

No doubt. Since that doesn't actually happen, there isn't such a fundamental flaw.
This was submitted yesterday, but I'll repeat some of what I said before. Someone mentioned that this isn't an "optical illusion" per se, but one that only the camera sees. I find this exploration of the gap between our vision and machine vision to be really interesting. There have been a ton of separate and great essays around the New Aesthetic that touches on some of this stuff via art (vs phenomenon).

Rev Dan Catt writes more on this too: http://revdancatt.com/2012/04/07/why-the-new-aesthetic-isnt-...

And also more cool Zoetrope-like effects without strobing:

Bass String Video: https://vimeo.com/4041788

The Phonotrope: http://www.jimlefevre.com/?page_id=200
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Problem with new formats is legacy support. Something that could degrade gracefully on browsers that don't add support would be very welcome. Maybe the best solution is to keep the current 'img' tag notation, but somehow indicate to browsers that double-rez assets are likely to be available at something like 'filename_x2.ext', and they should request those when they come across an img tag, instead of 'filename.ext', falling back with a second request for the latter in case the '_x2' isn't found. Something like:

<meta img-x2-res="_x2" />

Encoding the image twice with a standardized addition to the filename is just an extra bit to add to the export macro. The image storage is irrelevant for most cases (assuming you compress appropriately); it's the bandwidth and request volume that's precious.
You should really read Napolean Hill's "Think and Grow Rich." Your comment was written by him in the 1920's.

He discusses how there are two types of creativity, one comes from applying your knowledge and experiences to other situations, and the other comes from what he calls, "infinite knowledge" that is floating out there and can be tapped into under the right circumstances.
There is a growing list of language bindings (http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/stable/tutorials-rest.html), and the Neo4j Heroku Add On (https://addons.heroku.com/neo4j) is now live and currently free.

- James, author of Bulbs (http://bulbflow.com), one of the Python bindings
We've loved it so far, and the core DB is definitely strong. I know the team is working on making it more accessible to new devs, but until then the mailing list helps a lot.
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As I understand it, it's better to learn assembly, algorithms and parallel computing. Some firms even look for PhDs in machine learning. The finance side you can learn when you find a job.
> my bottom touchpad is configured in X to be 100% scrolling

hey, that's a good good idea. i have always just had mine disabled. thanks!
I think that you mean that most users are just consumers.
Ask Alexis Ohanian a question
> Again, I love the fact that you, just like the people I talked about in my first fucking comment, treat me like I'm stupid, despite the fact that I know what I'm doing

I treat you like you're stupid because you present stupid little issues as insurmountable problems.

> (hell, enough to reproduce 90% of iTunes's features in my own media library/player)

Programmers IMO are some of the worst for jumping to "I can do this better!" instead of again attempting to solve the problem.

> You even imply that I run to whinning instead of Googling. Why don't you Google these issues. You'll find dozens of other people with the exact same issue.

I don't imply it, I say it. Because you do.

Also, Google offers the EXACT same solution: Clean up your machine because if it can't write a 30mb file that isn't even being read without locking up, there is something wrong with it.

> You wasted a lot of effort typing that reply.

Personally I think it was used perfectly.

> One of my more infuriating replies I've gotten here.

Yeah, being challenged on your BS can be frustrating. I'm glad I could be a part of that.

> Annnnnd a quick look at your other comments in this thread tell me everything I need to know. You're even running around telling other people describing the exact same problem and acting like they're crazy.

You call it crazy, I call it lazy. Whatever, it's still bitching over fixing. I'm not calling them crazy for having the problem, I'm calling them lazy for having the problem for so long and just bitching about it instead of doing something about it.

> You realize that something working for you doesn't mean it's bug free, right?

Of course, just because something isn't working on a particular setup doesn't mean its bug-ridden either.
Extremely attractive presentation of interesting data - thanks for this. As for where to go next, why not automate this methodology and do the entire world? :)
And since @espeed brings up bindings, if you're using Django check out neo4django (https://github.com/scholrly/neo4django)- it preserves most of the stuff you expect from the ORM (model definitions and QuerySets) to make the transition to the graph easier.
I don't see where I underestimated that?
I'm not sure I can define something as slippery as "an idea", but the people I'm thinking of generally have an elevator pitch. Or worse, more words without more substance.

As an example, consider this: http://earthnationlive.org/

Or the classic X for Y pitch: http://www.itsthisforthat.com/
saw this the other day on Open Processing's Twitter feed "procedural dungeon generator" http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/44400 (requires Java)
>I don't imply it, I say it. Because you do.

>Why don't you Google these issues. You'll find dozens of other people with the exact same issue.

You're a stupid little fuck, aren't you. I DID Google them instead of whining first. You really think I sunk probably a hundred hours into writing something purely from scratch before Googling. Good god how can you breath with your head that far up Apple's ass?

>Of course, just because something isn't working on a particular setup doesn't mean its bug-ridden either.

And we've always been at war with Oceania.
I didn't know about the hype tag, but for a really long time, at least on the Unix Navigator, you could type "about:hype" into the location bar and it would play marca's audio.
The way I've always heard the story told, IBM actually kept the patent peace in the industry for decades. They have thousands of patents going back to the foundational era of computing, and warehouses full of prior art. They also operated for a decade or so under harsh anti-trust scrutiny, which limited the viability of "offensive" patent use. Instead, if some upstart threatened to corner off key new technology, IBM was always ready to fire back with some "method for utilizing a spinning disk to store structured records" patent. Cross-licensing agreements among the big players were the norm, not patent fights (even the big Microsoft/Apple dustup over the GUI was over copyright, not patents).

I see evidence for this folklore in that the biggest technology patent wars we've seen in recent years have focused around wireless, which one might consider the first major new computing technology that IBM didn't take a big part in developing.
Don't worry: you salvaged some of it with that comment ;)
This is a feature that could be done with Twitter too, yes?
Can it track you when you're turning wifi off?
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Zing! :)

No, we haven't. We're not in a growth stage yet. On a normal day (this is not a normal day) Myna doesn't get very much traffic. We've already validated the concept with earlier beta testers and are now refining the offering. Once we've done that we'll by trying to drum up more traffic and start optimising.
Do you have some kind of article or source to back up your first comment? I'm interested in reading it.
Great to c alternative energy making headway. Looking forward to replacing gasoline and removing oil as global power force.
c.f. Alex's idea to start this podcast 3 days ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3848892

A big thanks to Alex for getting this together so fast and for hosting a great first show. It was a lot of fun to be on.
I had to copy & paste into a text editor to read it.
No we haven't. In a normal day we don't get enough traffic to make optimisation worthwhile. Once we've refined the offering (we have a good number of beta testers) we'll start focusing on growth and optimising the page.
just want to share a (kinda related) story:

three years ago i ran 0.5 kilometers - and i was absolutely exhausted, i could not take another step, i was completely devastated (sitting in an office chair for 14 years does such things to your body). three days ago i ran - i think - a little bit more than 22km (on a beach in peru, it was awesome). after that i played with my son and went partying that night.

ignorance is a bliss! i never thought about my range, my limitations, i just focused on running at least one step more with every run. (well this, and i invested in really, really good running shoes).
Queues, hilarious. The funny thing is, even though misspelled, it could be made to work. If levchin is interpteted as a producer and anyone listening a consumer.
LOL, Hey I'm not the one who insists he is a programmer and yet can't solve the missing items issue in iTunes.

You can hire this stupid little fuck for $100/hr, I'll solve all your impossible iTunes problems. If you're really that retarded, I'm sure it will be money well spent.

> Good god how can you breath with your head that far up Apple's ass?

...You presented the problem, idiot. I'm not just guessing as to what your issue was. You presented the simplest iTunes problem in the world to solve, and then acted like it was sufficient motivation to write a competitor.

Head up Apple's ass? I'm not the one so blinded by marketing I expect it to immediately work without issue. It's still software. The only one with unrealistic expectations of iTunes is you, namely that it should function perfectly on a machine that can't write 30mb without locking up.

> And we've always been at war with Oceania.

Give a break. Here: Send me your music player, $20 says I can get it to crash on launch.
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Shit they say in Silicon Valley
Tell HN: Steal my ideas #2
A while back I submitted a thread with ideas that I had but likely would never use. It got a decent response so I'm back with more free ideas for you to steal. Again I apologize if some of these already exist. If you've got your own, why not share them below?

Idea #1) Kickstarter in a box

It seems like every day I see a new story or blog post about X new product that was funded on Kickstarter. But what do the projects that get funded have in common? Usually they tend to have high quality videos, great photos of their prototypes, good rewards, clear and effective copy, etc.

However, the people with neat projects may not know much about video production, they aren't photographers, they may not have a website for their product, they may not be great writers, may not know marketing, etc. So the idea is to have a consulting firm that would offer a full service Kickstarter package. You'd get the creator with a great product a website, a high quality video, good donor incentives, great copy, high quality photographs, help marketing etc. In exchange you could take a % of their funding if successful, just like Kickstarter does.

Idea #2) A YC/Techstars consulting firm

The basic idea is that they'd obviously be a prior team or group of individuals that participated in YC/TS who would help hopeful applicants refine their applications, prepare pitches, interview practice, investment advice, etc.

Idea #3) Freelancer deals

The basic gist is that the site would sell the services of freelance designers, developers, writers, marketers, etc, Groupon style. Say you're a good designer but you're looking for work. You normally charge $60/hr. You could offer a special to this site to do 2 hours of work for X people for $20 instead. This would probably be enough time to make a decent logo/layout for someone. Although the designer may be doing work for far below their normal rate, their portfolio would be featured to everyone visiting the site. In addition they'd have the chance of recurring work at their normal rate from anyone who bought their deal. This also gives the buyer a chance to try someone temporarily at a minimal expense before making a bigger commitment.

Idea #4) Teach me

One on one live video music/gaming/etc lessons. Education related startups seem to be a really hot market right now so maybe some of these already exist. The basic idea is that you'd pick a niche and have a site of professionals in that niche. Say musicians for example. You'd be able to pick a guitar player that you like the style of and the site would allow you to take live streaming video lessons for $X/hr. The instructor would be able to give you immediate and instant feedback, etc. You could do this for a lot of industries I'd imagine.

Idea #5) Codecademy for investing

Many people are somewhat clueless about investing and saving for retirement. This site could help teach you on a basic khan academy level about the fundamentals of investing, guide you on the right types of investments for you based on info you provide, help you sort the different packages by various investment firms, etc.
It's really only the 2010 Airs onward that are "ultrabooks", and intel had prototypes circulating at tradeshows that were approximately that form factor in the summer, before Apple announced/released that line.[1]

So, it wasn't really Apple's innovation, it was just yet another case of them doing it better and faster.

[1]http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/intel-canoe-lake-prototyp...
I'd imagine that more weight is saved because all of the oxidant in the reaction is actively used, and you're not carrying plenty of it around hidden behind surfaces that prevent it from being part of the reaction.
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Oh man, I wish I had the patience for enterprise sales.

This would be absolutely terrific for attributing offline sales to online advertising, and for understanding how e-commerce behavior relates to in-store behavior.
yes...but I'd bet they have a lot more recourse if they are a major Google customer...if a bug lowers your rankings..tough...but if you are a customer it'll get resolved.
I have another viewpoint, and that might be that perhaps the millions of facts don't originate on this machine, and hence, the places where the facts originate could have a SPARQL query node... any other query node could then aggregate the results, and you would then in effect have a distributed cluster.