skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well for example I searched for "grow a vegetable garden" and I still see a lot of results from URL's like:

http://howtogrowavegetablegarden.net/
http://www.grow-your-own-vegetable-garden.com/

And I just know any domain name optimized for a certain search term is going to be garbage.

I guess a simple version of this feature is you'd have a setting: "Exclude domains that contain my search term".

When the user clicks that you'd compare the domain name (removing all special characters) with my search term (also removing all special characters and white space). Maybe compare via edit distance and exclude if it passes a threshold?

Although edit distance might not work too well, perhaps looking at the longest common substring and if it's > say 90% of the length of my query exclude it?

I guess it would take some playing around. But there should be a good algorithm to exclude domain names very similar to my query.
Another great addition to the android family. Samsung is a forward thinking company unlike the other guys. Sure many of us may not use it. But it's a TOOL and many of us will use it!

My Android device has HDMI out, reads SD card and even picks up FM radio for Emergencies . Apple's iPhone is a deathtrap without the internet.
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Note that apt-get isn't a supported way to upgrade in Ubuntu.
You are supposed to use "do-release-upgrade" (or "Update Manager" in the GUI).
The bigger point is, these figures (even $300 million) are a pittance for Google/Sun/Oracle compared with meeting their wider business goals. Google must have spent about that much just trying to launch a competitor to H.264 (e.g. roughly 130 million to buy On2).
Exactly - what are the odds the battery doesn't actually last 3 hours? And how functional is it to project a movie on your phone, but then have a dead phone that you can't use the rest of the day.
I'd argue it's better in the long term to change the API than to maintain an increasingly elaborate facade as your data structure changes. OOP doesn't solve the core problem; it just lets you sweep the issue under the carpet until it becomes too big to easily deal with.
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Since the blog is down here
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&...
is the judgment
and some commentary:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-02/copyright-can-t-blo...

most important bit:

Consequently, the answer to Questions 1 to 5 is that Article 1(2) of Directive 91/250 must be interpreted as meaning that neither the functionality of a computer program nor the programming language and the format of data files used in a computer program in order to exploit certain of its functions constitute a form of expression of that program and, as such, are not protected by copyright in computer programs for the purposes of that directive.
again, this is probably a kick back from Motorola for Microsoft going after them[1]. You can't expect to be a bully against a company that has been a good arsenal of patents (Google bought them for this), and not expect to be sued back.

Bottom line: Microsoft was being a troll on Android. Motorola kicked some ass by blocking their two big products in probably their second largest market.

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20018305-56.html
Ask HN: Increased HD failures after Taiwan floods?
Hello,

one of the side-effects of the massive floods in Thailand last October was a shortage in hard drives. HD prices went up as stocks dwindled.

The plants cleaned up and restarted production but such bootstrap events often brings with them elevated failure rates. In electronics manufacturing it normally takes anywhere from 6 months to 2 years before quality is back on track.

According to a Google study(1), HD failures are most notable in the first 3 months of usage.

My question: did you encounter abnormal HD failures in the past months for new drives in your professional/home setups?

Thanks!

(1) http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf
That's interesting, because in CompSci screen coordinates (and vector coordinates when programming graphics) are usually rooted at the top-left, so we have a more "consistent" natural perception of it - those of us using mainly left-to-right language scripts.

Anyway, I really don't see graphs as sequences. I have my perception of cartesian graphs and sequenced lists completely separated.

But the important thing here is the idea :-)
Why shouldn't we talk about net profit? Taking 30% off the top can quite easily mean the difference between viability and not, quite easily, when you factor in employees, rent, marketing, legal fees, and absolutely everything else. Isn't this precisely what the discussion should be about, whether it makes non-viable a lot of businesses that provide value to people?
Well, I like Xbox and Windows 7, and have only had a bad experience with Motorola.

Even so, the optimist in me is really happy about this. The reasoning is that if stuff gets screwed up enough, really having stuff messed up, then something might give and things might get better. Imagine a wonderfully chaotic future where iPads can't be sold one week, Xboxes another, and so on. It'd certainly further help illustrate the absurdity and innovation-limiting inherent in patents.

Realistically, I know it probably won't amount to much. Motorola and Microsoft will fight, come to some settlement, and the world will be worse off with yet another precedent set for legal abuse instead of actual competition.
As a budding robot maker, I'd much rather they build a focus-less laser projector that's higher power and daylight visible. I don't give a rat's arse about handheld projection, but projectors on mobile robots are the future, and changing the focus of a regular beam projector on the fly by measuring the distance to the wall and then adjusting feels like a dodgy hack when I know there are laser devices in the market that just don't need to do this at all.
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Am I the only one that thinks their use case of leaving the phone in your child's room projecting a unicorn on the ceiling to help them sleep is just pure nonsense?

http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxybeam/use_occas...
Not without a pan/tilt mirror or reducing the available resolution.
Right, but I suspect those who would find advantage would be the incumbent market leaders in their respective fields.
The truly disruptive startups, the innovators, would be weighted down considerably by such legislation, since they might unknowingly replicate an obvious part of a copyrighted API. The situation would quickly spiral out of control.
If that were the case, the copyright-ability of APIs might result in the stagnation of software development itself, in the absolute worst case, though I suspect, as I have previously stated, that people would get around that by relocating to more friendly legislative environments.
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I use it all the time. I'm almost always interested only in stuff written over the past year or month. I even wish Google made the default results the ones over the "past year". But I guess they think that will hurt relevancy.
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It looks like they're still keeping the subtleties of each OS (eg the ICS action bar), just adding they're own styling, icons, branding, and flow on top.

Looks a lot better than apps that just port iOS apps to Android pixel-for-pixel.
Bing styles itself as a retro Google, to capture people who long for the old days.

Chrome OS styles itself as an old Windows desktop (compared to forthcoming Win8) to capture people who long for the old days.

Business as usual.
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A nicely done user interface to a blood test strip. It reads directly instead of interpreting three binary variables into 8 strings.
This could be the device for coding on the go.
Pair it with a camera, to close the feedback loop:

* The phone can track the environment and transform the picture to keep it stable.

* Augmented reality applications (a la http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/)
given that signaling is one of the biggest challenges in online ed, and these are two of the best brands in edu, i hope they're coming together with some kind of credentialing system for their online offering. getting more backing behind mitx could go a long way
http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Licensors.aspx

Motorola does not seem to be a licensor of H.264.
Somone is proposing Node.js for a project and I was wondering if the advantages/disadvantages in this article are still current. This is for a web application with lots of CRUD, but will also require a custom JSON API.
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It's what people want. I think they nailed it.
Get in touch with the silicon allee and www.gruenderszene.de, they know everybody. The Gidsy founders are Dutch, definitely get in touch with them.

I'd love to show you guys around (I'm Dutch and living in Berlin), but I will be away during that period (except for 17 in the morning). Get in touch if you have any questions or if I can help with anything.
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In these screenshots, the borders of inactive tabs disappear. This doesn't seem like a good idea. Wouldn't it be hard for users to identify them as tabs?
What I find quite interesting is this _disruptive_ design first appeared (to my knowledge at least) in Shenzen knockoffs at least 4 years ago[1]. Maybe there is prior art from Samsung but it seems like more evidence of the rise of hardware innovation in China and Shenzen.

[1] - http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/worlds-first-projector-ce...
I'm not in US - screenshot please?
Nice to know, as I'm currently reverse engineering API calls for a few organisations in the UK who don't supply their data in easily parsable formats. It's not for anything malicious; I'm actually trying to drive traffic to their sites and help them gain more visitors. Try explaining to non-technical people the benefits of an open API and why they should pay for one :\
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It is very difficult to not give every single minute to a startup. There is always so much to do. My first question is, if these guys were able to accomplish this with short days, would they have gone further and achieved even better results if they worked just a little bit harder. How do you know when you are giving too much, and is there really an amount of hours of work per day where you go from progress to regress? Does somebody say hey I can see your project and at this stage you can add a little bit at a time?

My second question is would this company have received so much more than the 500k had they had investors, and ultimately be better off?

I would appreciate any feedback or suggestions. My startup is http://1800businesscards.com and it is all self funded. Do I continue to put exhaustive hours in or do I step back and let it mature slowly. Should I seek venture capital or do I move slowly? There is just no resource or place for advice on these issues in my very small world. Thanks all.
The mobile porn industry will like this too.
* Credit card numbers
* Social security numbers
* Plain text passwords

Can't tell you how often I find them in databases. Its mindboggling.
And here I thought Google is one of the most important services ever provided in human history.

Yeah, that's not how they earn money, but they do provide value for people.
As someone who has forgone any TV's in place of a pretty heavy duty projector in my living room, I can say with some certainty that 15 lumens will barely be visible even in a pitch black room! My full-size/spec projector puts out about 2500 lumens and is still hard to see with the curtains open in the day time!

I view this in the same way I view "fun-size" candy bars...an interesting novelty for kids, completely impractical for most everyone else!
This technology feels ahead of its time. If battery life wasn't an issue on mobile devices this would be a massive product. Unfortunately battery life still sux.

We would all love a projector on our phones, but we need battery power.

Ever run a flash light app on your phone? Imagine watching an hour of video on a projector...
If you limit n then than the algorithm is actually O(1) time too -- his answer is wrong either way.
I was agreeing with you, in fact, complimenting you.
It's not true that Apple is making a killing with the App Store. Where is it visible in their earnings reports? Are you sure that you're not confusing revenue with profit?

The App Store runs at just above break even: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple_app_store_runs_... http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20008540-37.html -- figures of less than 1% or 2% of gross profit. That is not "a killing."
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Rys 13! Very Good Point!

Tweeting is very powerful We can also see that it was a tool for the Arab spring as well...
http://www.bing.com/search?q=bing+%3D+retro+google%3F&se...
Ask HN: Who's going to Work At A Startup 2012
If you got into Work At A Startup 2012 post about which companies you're most interested in learning about or meeting.
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Speaking as a Mac user I agree. The Mac Firefox browser has always been clunky and never felt particularly 'native' to Os X. Camino was a far more native Gecko-based Mac browser.
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Sounds cool. Are you working on anything in particular where you use a mobile projector today?
I like it but why couldn't they go all the way and leave out the dropdown image on top? It's jarring to the otherwise clean and enticing page. Put a non-intrusive link instead.

The above rant aside, I think it's a good move on their part.
My 25 lumen 800x600 res pico projector does just fine when I close my shades.

Of course you can't expect that 2500 lumens much against the power of the sun..
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Clojure is currently significantly slower than Java in general, likely due to dynamic typing. See:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=al...
Taiwan, Thailand, Tokio - same thing, right?

As for the question: not yet. First, I suppose the drives I'd buy right now, especially in prebuilt computers, might still be antediluvian (given the latency between manufacture, assembly and retail - I'll check the S/Ns on my new computer when I get to it); second, even if they were, most of my early HD failures (two out of three - not very many data points, there) were somewhere around the 1 year mark, so this wouldn't manifest yet.

So, there's a lot of variables in play here - IMNSHO saying that drives failing now are result of last October's flood would smell of the post-hoc fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc
I think this has the potential to revolutionize higher education given enough time. With two of the most prestigious institutions in the country offering knowledge for free, it will get harder for other universities to rationalize the exorbitant cost of their education.

Once full fledged video of lectures and ways to interact with others who have knowledge in the field comes into play, this will really become a heavy hitter.
FRAND isn't really anything to do with a gentleman's agreement, it's a basis for licensing patents required for standards.

The ND part of FRAND (non-descriminatory) actually means that start ups should be treated no differently.
Its being an open standard doesn't stop Microsoft asserting copyright over the APIs it describes. As far as I can tell, while ECMA controls the copyright of the standard document itself, they make no claims about the software described within it. Neither would the patent pledge.
The article is showing the wrong screenshots. Here is the accurate one: http://imgur.com/NdNif
>Better half doesn't necessarily equate to girlfriend.

The original post was talking about girlfriends, so contextually it sounded like you meant girlfriend by "better half". You're a terrible spokesman for ending sexism as you seem to replace one form of ignorance for another combined with hypersensitivity (having said that, yes the original "joke" was a lame one).
It's not that different from the default look and feel of DuckDuckGo. Just sayin'...
Don't use Node if you have a lot of CRUD, because you'll still have to do a lot of stuff manually. Node's ecosystem is relatively young which means you'll have to do a lot of manual labor (as opposed to something like rails and mature, production-ready gems) and stitching of components. It cat get messy rather quickly, so my advice is "the right tool for the job".

These guys nailed my point pretty good: http://www.perfectline.ee/blog/optimizing-ruby-on-rails-appl...
I include a URL to the license in every file, and the license as part of the codebase. I don't believe that's a standard, but it's what jQuery does:

http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2.js

And it seems like a good balance between honoring the license and also keeping it out of the user's way.
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> I would argue that Facebook and Google are bubbles too since they do not provide value

But you'd be wrong. Facebook and Google create enormous amounts of value. Enough to support their high valuations? Only history will show.

> Advertising is a joke of an industry - it produces nothing

Please don't confuse your personal opinion of the advertising industry with 100+ years of empirical evidence.

> look towards to entertainment industry which also provides nothing of value yet charges through the nose for it

"Entertainment" is doing fine. The current industry establishment is not. Not the same thing.
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I use it as well but I think it's a bit of a crutch for the search algorithm. The search algorithm should weigh age when ranking items in a domain where information ages quickly.
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The forward-button still appears when there actually is a link to go forward to (instead of having it greyed-out a lot of the time). My personal opinion is that it looks good, and that the round back-button has become a way of recognizing Firefox. The option to shrink it isn't that hard to find though, you just choose "Small icons" in the UI-settings.
I'd still use Vimperator.
If you cut through all the YC hype ... the most telling thing, imo, is that Dave Morin invested. This pretty much guarantees that Pair and Path won't step on each other's toes ... and that Pair will benefit from Path's learnings and eventual discovery of the right way to monetize.
Both are in the business of storing data that can later be retrieved again, so I don't think your analogy really holds in this case. Maybe you are thinking of one particular nosql solution but I think almost all projects could find an alternative to a database that uses SQL. That is not to say that it shouldn't be a relational database or that there's a one shoe fits all solution out there.
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jQuery is a DOM wrapper. MooTools is a JavaScript "extension." (Note the quotes and please don't crucify me)

What that basically means is that jQuery makes working with the DOM tolerable and MooTools makes working with JavaScript tolerable. I, personally, have issues with the DOM but no issues with JavaScript, so I opt for jQuery.
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Hi -
Here is a list of colleges / unis in the NYC area => http://www.ny.com/academia/colleges.html . Some of these colleges have student housing that they rent to others during the summer. Try emailing them all to see. I've stayed in NYU / Columbia / Barnard student housing in the past and had a good time. Good luck and congrats on being accepted into the Dreamit Venture summer program.
Percentage of Apple's overall revenue doesn't matter here.

It is amazing Apple somehow spends so much money on reviewing apps and providing the app store that they can't make much money on a 30% cut.
The browser is an exempli primus of an app allowed to break the OS UI guidelines. This is becase the browser is becoming the OS, and the OS becoming the browser. Said differently, the only UI on the OS is coming from the browser.

This of course is not yet the case, but soon it will be.
According to the Marvel Wikia he can easily lift 90-100 tons. Tons in all their forms are about 1000 kg and on Earth weights go like ~10 Newtons = 1 kg, so he can easily muster 1000 kN of force when lifting. This suggests that he's plenty capable of enduring the now-600 kN of force from his legs that he needs to jump to the top of a 120m building. It still takes him about a meter to do it, and he now produces 6 MPa of pressure on the ground -- less if his feet are much larger, but again he might jump from the balls of his feet, decreasing their surface area.

The only surprising thing is that he goes from 0 to 120 mph in at most two meters of pushing (assuming he somehow ducks down to the point where his center of mass is only 2ft above the ground -- that makes this an upper limit). That means that he completes the jump in only about 75 milliseconds, or half of a human reaction time. You have to imagine that he ducks down, and then before you can blink, he is already off with full automobile speed flying into the air. The effect on the ground is basically the same as a car at 70 mph crashing into a concrete barrier; you can see a couple cars crashing into walls done by the Mythbusters at this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8E5dUnLmh4

The wall escapes pretty much unharmed, though I don't know what it's made out of.

The question posed is whether the concrete cracks, and it really depends on what's beneath the concrete. The problem is that concrete is basically made up of packed rocks held together with glue. This gives it an odd structural property: it is much easier to pull it apart, structurally speaking, than it is to compress it. Concrete does very well under compression, very poorly under tension. Bending a slab of concrete means putting compression on the near side, where the rocks have to come together, but putting tension on the far side, where stuff bends outward and apart. Whether the Hulk breaks the concrete depends very strongly on what's happening on the outward side -- does it generate cracks which propagate all the way up through the concrete? That's much harder to answer.
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