skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good idea at first look, but it would be tricky to get the trajectory right, though. The Moon's sphere of influence is tiny compared to the Earth's. You would need a guidance package and, perhaps more importantly in terms of cost, onboard rockets to change delta-v (and only one-use because they would be destroyed on impact).
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Why run thru a platform? Isn't it obvious just by seeing them?
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I'm not sure who would need to actually fill out the submission form. But wouldn't this: http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/#3 be convenient for working with a data set like this?
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The article was posted back in February. I'm baffled as to why it's even on the front page of HN, considering this is a relatively old and known feature of the split keyboard. (Well, I was aware of it, at least.)
Thanks! I've gone back and forth on the scrolling animation. There's definitely a balancing act between trying not to be annoying and trying to make money. At some point I'll have time to do a real A/B test and come to a more informed decision, but for now I'm thinking that the site is so free of the normal distractions (no pop-ups, only one section of ads, no video, no flash crap, etc.) that I'm comfortable being in-your-face with the scrolling animation. I'm on the fence though, so I guess I'll need to give it some more thought.
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For most sites, the vast majority of anchor text would be the domain or brand name.
Well actually I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm just trying to show you how the world is. We have to learn to live with this thing. The way programming has evolved in the years is scary to say at the least. And we may see more and more of this kind of stuff.

This is almost the same fury we saw when YC announced they would fund Ideas. Although they are not the same, but YC really was ready to fund stuff which wasn't really into material existence. While many who had working stuff might not have got funded, many of them might have had good enough experience and skill building stuff. At the same time there might have been ideas from non tech founders.

Sounds strange ain't it? These days you can do a lot of things by just knowing how to discover things and be a little productive.

No wonder yesterday there was thread on software engineers hitting dead ends at 40. There is simply too much competition and tools are reducing the barrier to entry opening a flood gate of people looking to make money here.
I have a tablet and no phone. I mostly need a phone to occasionally call my mother but there are also times people ask me for a phone number for some reason. I can text with it, I think, at least get texts but not actual calls. I can't understand that. I am not a phone person. I used to be but I am much more an email person these days. It annoys me that I can't also make calls with a tablet. I really do not want yet another device, especially one I use so little.
I don't like being pedantic, but a sync'ed copy isn't a backup. It might protect against hardware failure, but it won't help against accidental deletion or corruption.

I'm not sure if GDrive has file versioning/restoration built into it or not, but there is an important distinction to be made here.
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It's something to do with CPU usage, on my core i7 flash is using 90% CPU.

Maybe you have to look at how often you're updating the screen, I'm not very familiar with ActionScript but it feels like there's a constant loop running as fast as it can, is it possible to use an event based system to update the screen instead?
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Or even in some cases causing the encoding gremlins to get in.

I always have major problems with pretty quotes breaking when copying from GoogleDocs to Netbeans.

"That's how" becomes
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Reminds me of what Valve did to Axel Gembe.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-21-the-boy-who-sto...

Basically, Gembe hacked in to Valve's servers and obtained Half Life 2's source code. Roughly half a year later, after Valve had given up on the case, Gembe admitted to it later in an e-mail to Valve. After quizzing him on the attack vectors used, Valve conducted a phone interview, then wanted an in-person interview, stating they wanted to offer him a job. The latter would be in Seattle, where they actually planned to arrest him.
-- well yeah, its a cpu thing, we may need to lower the kb size on the imgs that made up the sprites, and less fps I guess... we need to do more optimization...
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Hi. I’m Nicola. I am the founder of FitIntegrate. FitIntegrate is essentially an automated temp agency for the fitness industry. More specifically, FitIntegrate matches relevant instructors to gym classes.

I'm looking to bring on a technical co-founder to take our current MVP to the next level. Some of the work we have in the pipeline includes payment gateway integration, SMS notifications, and a new user interface design.

Where FitIntegrate is at:
•	Launched Private Beta in Feb 2012.
•	Over 100 users signed up (a mix of instructors and gyms)
•	FitIntegrate secured a spot in the AngelCube 2012 accelerator program in Melbourne.
•	Has first “big” deal/customer in the pipeline.

Going forward…
Ideally, I am looking for someone who enjoys the gym/fitness space, and has worked in a startup environment and/or is SUPER passionate about getting involved.

On a technical level, I'm looking for someone who is more of a software generalist, has been working with Ruby for a number of years, has frontend development experience with Backbone.js / Ember.js or similar MVC frameworks, and is passionate about user experience and understanding the customers needs.

Some quick points:
•	Experience with Ruby on Rails
•	Experience with object-orientated JavaScript
•	Experience designing web applications
•	Experience working in an Agile and TDD environment.
•	The ability to understand and be understood well by others.
•	A level of comfort working directly with customers to identify and develop product features.
•	Ability to get Sh*t done!

So, what’s on the table?
You will be joining an early stage Angel backed startup in Melbourne, and as with any startup I am offering considerable equity, and cash when we start generating revenue.

A bit about me…
The idea came about as a frustrated instructor myself. I’ve had over 6 years experience in the fitness industry in a variety of roles, ranging from instructing to gym management. This means I know customers well, and have also built up a strong network. FitIntegrate is my first start up; however, I have had experience working with startups through my internship at Adventure Capital. Currently, I am one subject off achieving a Masters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Business + fitness is pretty much me in a nutshell.

You can check out FitIntegrate at http://fitintegrate.com/users/sign_up

If you're interested, drop me an email at nicola@fitintegrate.com with some feedback on the site and a bit about who you are and what you have done. Links to recent work would be awesome, especially open-source contributions and your Github profile.

I'm based out of Inspire 9 in Melbourne, so if you want to drop in for a chat please get in touch.

Cheers,

Nicola
In theory, you're right and this is the distributor's responsibility. However, as we've seen with the agency model, even Amazon ends up taking the distribution terms large publishers give them. Most publishers (and, in particular, all of the large publishers) are the ones who insisted on DRM in the first place. They're the ones who are going to end up handling the aftermath.

Speaking of Apple, so far as I know, no one got their DRMed music officially unlocked for free. You either had to pay for an iTunes Plus upgrade or, more recently, subscribe to iTunes Match. That's the sort of thing that I would like to see avoided in the ebook space.
People will still be buying record players long after the last cd player gets tossed.
It seems like everything you're talking about seems very specific to the kind of web work you do. As a professional web developer, I've never had these kinds of problems due to Chrome's or Firefox's rapid release schedules, and I've never heard complaints of it from other web devs.

And the specific case you mention here is also something that could happen in a longer-term release; rapid-release lets you fix it faster.
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Reminds me of this. http://xkcd.com/732/ (Hover over the picture.).
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It's an interesting proposition, but my intention has always been to find where I can be of greatest leverage. SpaceX is at a place in time / life / hiring that I think I wouldn't really be able to contribute to its mission (and mine) as much as I might by doing something else first. That plus I doubt I'd be of terrible appeal. The following are also true:

a) SpaceX appears more specifically to be looking for rocket engineers, etc, a background I do not have. (Good business / analytics / etc, but, a rocket engineer I am not). This problem likely applies to Planetary Resources as well. However...

b) Planetary Resources is more directly aligned with the mission I find most important - SpaceX is doing great things, and Elon Musk is super cool for insisting on his goal of making humans a multi-planetary species, but that's still a ways out. I don't know that I'd have as much ability to contribute. It's for this reason I've been trying to gain skills that would be of greater value down the line (business ones, in particular) in order to do what's necessary to help run and grow a commercial space venture.

c) I actually asked Elon Musk something on the subject - 'What advice do you have for people interested in getting involved early in these kinds of capital-intensive but world-changing businesses' and his answer was that, of course, it's helpful to have a few $100MMs from something like an internet company first :)
That's actually just the percentage of projects that hit their funding goal. There is no indication of what percentage delivered.

I suspect someone could figure this out. To my knowledge, all funded projects still have accessible pages. You could go through them all and see which have updates that indicate shipping...
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Here is one example: http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/12/mongograph-qa
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Perhaps...but there would be a diversity to it. It wouldn't only be their domain and exact match anchor text.
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Sorry, this is what the first link should have been:

Why I feel this way (from about a week ago): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3849318
Completely predictable. Both Google's PoS ToS and the articles in the tech press.
I think this isn't a resolution issue at all. The issue largely has to do with motion blur. Here's how I understand it (and poorly):

When capturing video at X FPS you thus must hold open the shutter of the camera for some fraction of the time each frame in order to capture the scene. You can hold it open anywhere from 0 to 1/X seconds. If you hold the shutter open too long as a fraction of the frame time, you get too much motion blur and moving objects look blurry. If you open it for too short of a time, you have the opposite effect: things look jumpy. Your objective is to find just enough motion blur to trick the eye into seeing things as smoothly moving from frame to frame. As a rule of thumb, IIRC that amount is usually half the frame time, that is, 1/2X seconds.

If you are shooting at, say, 48fps rather than 24fps, and you're using 1/2X shutter speed to get the right motion blur, the total amount of time your shutter is staying open (during a length of film) is exactly the same, but for each frame you're staying open only half as long. Thus each frame is only getting half as much motion blur in 48fps as in 24fps, and this has an effect on the psychological "look" of the medium. The "feel" of film is largely due to its low frame rate, resulting in shutter speeds of 1/48 seconds and corresponding large motion blurs in each frame. Video has a shutter speed of 1/60 and thus smaller motion blurs in each frame, making it feel more "live" or "realistic". Move to 1/48 FPS or 1/60 FPS and you're talking very small motion blurs per frame (shutter speeds of 1/96 or 1/120), resulting in an exaggerated "live" look. It doesn't feel archival any more, it feels like you're watching through a window at something going on now. And this can really break the fourth wall.

BTW, the faster shutter speeds have another effect: they make it much harder to shoot dark scenes. You don't have many good options: your aperture is already dictated by the look you want to achieve, and all you have left is upping your ISO, and no one wants a grainy video. Given all the other problems that the RED cameras have given Jackson's team, forcing them to exaggerate set colors and makeup etc., I'm surprised they'd add this problem to the pot.
Yes, but that's a two point failure. You don't engineer for two point failures until you're absolutely sure that you've covered all the single point failure cases, which basically means never.
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that's why i said clitmouse, not touchpad.

my touchpad was ignored until i transformed it in a square-scroll-wheel.

that's a clitmouse http://www.clickykeyboard.com/2005/trackpoint/14288_classicd...
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i blame the OS you were using. honestly.
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Personally I only think it's annoying if you're only skimming the article and scrolling fast. What about pinning the affiliate images fixed above, but scrolling a smaller, less intrusive "Find all the ingredients for this recipe here". And possibly instead of scrolling, fade it in. (Just my $0.02)
Browser updates are more than just html/css/javascript functionality updates. For examle, if Google updates the UI of Chrome and they can push it to me now, why not? I don't want to wait, and Google is giving me the option of not waiting. Or if they update their extension APIs and I want to make or use an extension that relies on them - why wait? Or if they make javascript run twice as fast for me. As a user, I love being able to get those things as soon as they're ready.

> That means everyone needs to code a fallback approach anyway unless it's acceptable for their product to support only specific browsers.

This has been and always will be true until 100% of the web uses the same browser. I'm not sure what the point of stating it is, or how a rapid-release schedule makes it worse. It doesn't.
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Although the guide does mention "Separation of concerns", I've seen quite a few instances of markup that looks like the following across multiple Google API docs/sample code snippets

<body onload="initialize()">

The Maps API documentation here https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/... still recommends it. Fortunately, they seem to have updated their maps API code samples to use something like this instead

google.maps.event.addDomListener(window, 'load', initialize);

Probably a minor thing, but I've seen people, especially beginners, who pick up the former style (which is generally considered a bad practice) because they've seen it on places like the Google Maps API docs.
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> All Steve Jobs did was return and re-focus the company on products instead of marketing.

Actually, if you take the textbook "four p's" definition of marketing, what Steve Jobs did was take Apple and finally do the marketing right.

Product: The right product in the right place at the right time. No more need be said.

Price: Thanks to Apple's tireless devotion to operations, they can offer that product at a competitive price, even if it has a retina display or a new type of glass that has never been mass produced before or laser-drilled microscopic holes in the bezel to make an indicator disappear.

Promotion: Bringing back Chiat/Day, turning the keynotes and product announcements into major events, and playing the press like a violin.

Place: Apple's online and retail stores.
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It's an established perception issue. Not only people expect blur from the movies, but they also associate the lack of blur with lower quality production.

To explain - the same problem exists with never LCD TVs. Many of them has a logic for resampling 24fps source and interpolating it into higher frame rates. In theory, this is supposed to remove the blur and make dynamic pictures more detailed. In practice, it actually does that, but it also makes movies look like soap operas. A quick google search brings up ton of complaints of this nature, and the root of the problem is that soap operas are shot for TV broadcasting and at higher frame rates. Hence, the visual aesthetics one typically associates with them. In other words, you bump up FPS, you get the soap opera impression... which hardly the vibe Hobbit should have :)
That's a great idea. It actually solves a big problem that you might not have even thought about. One of the challenges with having the ads scroll with the page is that it means the ads can't take up much vertical space (because small screens wouldn't ever be able to scroll to see the bottom section of the ads). This means that we only show a maximum of four affiliate links per page which sometimes isn't enough to cover the core ingredients. With you idea we could have as many affiliate links as we wanted without losing the ability to find the ingredients after they've scrolled down.

I'd guess this would lower the click-through-rate, but it would probably increase the average orders per click, so it might work out. Thanks for the idea!
It's a shame you don't have a reproducible test for the rendering issue in Chrome. Until you can reproduce it there's really no telling what is going on. Do you have any links to similar issues already reported? I'd be curious to read up on them.

The rounded corners problem I referred to was a rendering problem that made pages using the CSS3 rounded corners

Any test cases for this? It really is important to see a simple test case. I've never had any issues with either Chrome or FF with corners.

Sure h.264 is a mess. If it bothers you then don't use it. The fact is that Flash is still defacto standard for video, so for consumer facing pages that's probably what you should use.

Sounds like you're upset because you got burned by a recent issues with firefox. It's reasonable to expect such a big breaking change to be caught in their regression testing. Unfortunately it slipped through. The reality is that software has bugs. All software. Yours, and mine. Every product ever shipped has gone out the door with bugs. It's unpleasant, especially when you have no control over the fix.

Seems to me that a rapid release cycle actually works in your favour. Certainly better than the MS cycle where you can expect to have to live with bugs for 18month-2years between releases. Auto updating in particular is a boon for developers. If you look at the Chrome version stats, most people are on the latest stable build and this is mostly due to auto update.

Compare the difference between the graphs for IE and for Chrome under 'Version Adoption':
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/internet-explor...

Also, if you're developing an app which is actually used for 'multimillion $ deals' then why aren't you distributing it as an application inside of some kind of wrapper such as Qt? Sounds like deploying as a regular web app was a bad technical choice for you product.
When you upload a file, you just licensed Google to go whatever they want that they think is going to promote or improve their service for unlimited time.

IMO, the first sentence "You retain ownership" actually means nothing to them.
I bought a Galaxy Nexus for work use in January from an Australian retailer.

Just recently it started malfunctioning - it somehow thinks there is always/intermittently a USB charger attached, even when there isn't. This wrecks havoc on battery life since the screen lights up every time it thinks there is a USB charger attached. This does not seem to be a very uncommon issue. (Google "galaxy nexus always charging".)

I am moving to Sweden in less than a week, and average repair time seems to be two weeks judging from online reports from other victims.

And.. this is the kicker: Samsung doesn't offer worldwide warranty repair for their mobile devices. :/
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haha. just realized Hartli currently thinks Facebook is "cynical and accepting" :)

http://hartli.com/facts?site=http://facebook.com
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I think we may also want to note that many CEO's are in it for the power and money. Steve Jobs was in it for creating the most awesome product ever. Two very different passions.
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