skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are several, they just don't get much attention these days.
And the counter argument is television.
How many had been sold when Google started promoting Android? I doubt it was more than a few million. Other companies outsell Ford a century later, but they still revolutionized the industry. We're talking about history here, not the current market.

Apple revolutionized smartphone design, but they didn't revolutionize the industry. Google did that by creating a good smartphone operating system that anyone could use freely.
Why waste time with this kind of thing? Is there any evidence that any congressional office or other significant legislative influence checks the "White House petition site" and uses it as a serious barometer of public interest? It just seems like a distraction, a waste of energy. Why not call your Congressperson instead? Why not start a rally that will be picked up by the local news station? Why not get everyone you know to call your Congressperson on the matter? These things all seem much more effective than promoting a petition on whitehouse.gov.
> It makes you wonder how these people get hired.

They must have forgotten to ask "Will you eventually lose our company billions of dollars in a bad derivatives trade?" in their interview process.
It's easy to place blame on hiring someone after something like this happens, but would you have made the same criticism before the trade, when he had made the company lots of money? Interviews are imperfect. People change after you hire them. Etc etc.

Edit: clarification
Crap Detection 101
I feel like that cuts out some of the uses...
perhaps you could us ML techniques to separate out different voices and then individually transcribe them?

edit:
wow this is a complicated problem now that I am thinking about it... the amount of processing the brain does...
No, see the link in the comment below. If the shares go up, the underwriter can close his short position by buying a number of shares from the IPO company, at the IPO price (which is below the market price), therefore effectively profiting.
I don't think the "big" and "small" was a comment on the size of a startup, but rather the size of the idea. Facebook was once small in size, but always big in terms of its vision. The next Facebook game is "small" in size and in vision, and may still be small in vision even if it is successful and is big in size.
You're right, but let's not trivialize the difficulty of programming in general. Want to build a UI in .NET, HTML + JavaScript, or <insert UI framework here>? Sure, that sort of programming is relatively easy and not usually technically challenging. However, that is hardly all that we do.

I don't touch UI's in my day job. You make it sound as if all programmers code UI's and perform other relatively mundane tasks. That may be what you're used to, and yes, it is relatively easy work, but there are a bunch of people like me out there who design infrastructure at a low level so that you can more easily build software at a high level.
Why? They can change their focus. With all that money and talent they can build and buy almost anything.
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I own a coda 1 license, but i'm not sure any of this will pull me away from sublime text 2.

I only use coda for remote wordpress sites. It looks like it's even better for that, but for anything significant, sublime, along with a raft of individual tools seems to work way better.
> managing servers, deploying to Heroku, managing source

I'd hate to say it but if you're introducing someone in Windows land to source control then NONE of the items on that list are part of their skill set.
What if time-travelling, pre-Apple Jobs&Woz applied to YC without startup idea?
The armchair lawyer in me cringed reading this entry. Black Rock's lawyers could swoop in and eat the author for lunch, given the legally-strong words he's throwing around in his prose. This is dangerous, dangerous territory and take heed, folks; any chance you have for legal recourse in a case such as this is completely and irrevocably undermined by temperamental writing in the heat of the moment. This has liability written all over it for the author, in fact, and one should really think twice before squaring off against a legal team that has been in the trenches against all of big tobacco for the very same program.

Morley Safer is one of the old guard, one of the few journalists (the traditional meaning, not a blogger) left who has actually seen Vietnam. His work on 60 Minutes is, typically, quite strong, and he has doubtlessly been on 60 Minutes longer than this person has been alive. I find myself siding with Safer here instead of this blogger, and that's even with a deep-seated distaste for the media these days; that's merely on the credibility that 60 Minutes has established, in my mind, and I really hope the author is prepared for many people with similar mindset to mine.

Namedropping your blog on Forbes isn't something that gives weight to your argument, since they've been comically easy to get for the last couple of years (troubling for Forbes's image, in my opinion). I don't think this entry will have the effect the author intended, as I'm more prone to indict the author instead of the person he wanted me to condemn.

EDIT: Clarifying a remark that confused my intent.
Based off of their team page, Pinterest is up to 31 employees.

http://pinterest.com/about/team/
Please don't; it's my secret weapon.
The trend for that graph appears to hint at one wave abstracting and building on top of the previous wave (especially in the later stages). So I guess the next wave has something to do with the abstraction of social media and using it to build new technologies and services? If that were to be true then Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter etc. are all destined to become social media service providers - that is, high level utilities.
We're almost there: http://youtubedoubler.com/49ni (LEAP vs Minority Report)
This is part of a social media strategy. This petition will spread thru Facebook and Twitter.

It worked against SOPA.
Nice to see this happen. Though Git Bash running on mingw32 actually is very handy, TortoiseGit also does a great job. But it is also good to have options.
Looks nice, I'm still trialling Sublime text 2 so theres a chance for Panic to win me back - although I am loving Sublime, Coda is what I learnt with so ...

I wonder if they will honour the offer they made during a coda 1 promotion in early 2009. I forget the exact details but there was the promise of a code 2 discount or some kind.

Either way, nice job
For many people there Github = git, so saying github isn't much harder to set up than Git isn't saying much.

Using git on Windows has historically not been super fun. The CLI installer mostly works, but it's pretty clunky. Cygwin works fine too, but it's also not especially elegant. At the very least, known of these solutions conform to the expectations of people of the platform. The GUI clients on Windows last I looked (a year ago) were pretty terrible, especially compared to TortoiseSVN, which isn't bad. OS X, on the other hand, had several very nice GUI clients even before the official Github client came out.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4002418
I definitely commend the self-review, the clearly defined points and being left with the sense of future fixes. Assuming Social Blendr does well, will you continue to be as reflective? And, what type of development process have you in place to aid in avoiding the same pitfalls? Even the most lean Agile Scrum process and tools can aid in the framework to support future success.

Kudos.
my feeling is: When you are using method_missing hacks to build an object that watches what methods get called on itself, you will eventually get into trouble. There are enough things in Ruby that aren't really methods, like the != operator, which won't do what you expect, and you will produce very confusing bugs, because the code will look correct. The hours that I've seen wasted because people tried to use `x.should != y` in RSpec is enough time to learn a language that supports hygienic macros.

Writing these libraries is a great way to learn about ruby, but avoid them in production - there's usually a safer way. (For a simple example of dangerous-methodmissing-hack verus sane metaprogramming to accomplish the same task, compare http://andand.rubyforge.org/ with http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Object.html#method-i-try )
As a hearing child of two deaf parents, I'm one data point against the notion that such a child's language skills are harmed. Sesame Street is a wonderful thing.
Ember makes me think of longer burning coals at the end of a bbq. Maybe better to call it "Lighter Fluid"?
Looks good but I think this is still more like iWeb than a true hacker's editor. Too much GUI. It assumes you are dealing with more-or-less the LAMP stack and basic PHP websites. Also, I feel like this is kind of another example of do one thing well vs. do a lot of things decently well. If you're depending on one single app for your terminal, MySQL GUI, CSS editor, etc... it feels like bloat. Hand-holding development. Fisher Price. I think most hackers would rather use individual tools that might be more powerful and configurable.

I don't know anyone using Coda except a friend who chickenscratches together jQuery scripts and pieces of PHP. He's not a craftsman.

Just to be clear: Panic makes some great software and they're some really talented guys. I just dislike Coda.

Just for fun: Textmate user for 5 years, have shifted to Sublime because I enjoy some of it's key commands better. They're very similar though. vim on the server.
For a five year old who wants to build robots, I would recommend cardboard, duct tape, poster paint, encouragement, and staying out of their way.

Let them express their understanding of robots, not yours.
i agree the 51% that has been retained is there so that he can retain control, he doesnt actually care if it tanks , his made a huge wad and still has command, perfect!
I agree. However I think this is only possible because of how well the company is doing. I could be very wrong on this. Indeed I hope I am wrong.
tl;dr. Guy upset with the tiny snippet of himself on 60 minutes and how it was used to illustrate one of their points and not make his.
A Chrome extension that actually implements xkcd #37 and fixes the Web #xkcd37
Beautiful site -- lovely to see open source design in action.

It's fun to look at this new site in the context of the progression in the various iterations of the SproutCore saga over the years:

http://web.archive.org/web/20081003190606/http://www.sproutc...

http://web.archive.org/web/20110211051741/http://www.sproutc...

http://sproutcore.com/

http://emberjs.com/
In a peer-to-peer network, it may be the case that 10 peers each share 1/10 of a file to 10 other peers. Would each of the sharing peers hold full responsibility for sharing the file even though technically they only delivered 1/10th of it. I would expect awarding damages to hinge on this kind of hair splitting.
Absinthe iOS 5.1.1 Untethered Jailbreak Is Almost Ready
I have no real idea of who Leo Laporte is, but the article you pasted doesn't paint him in a negative light to me.

He was separated from his wife for a year, and has (apparently openly) been dating this other woman. Some of their personal chat was accidentally displayed "on the air".

So where's the problem and how is it any of our business? And more importantly, how does it reflect badly on him?
I would not be surprised if FB is positioning itself to be the "front page of the internet". Many people spend lots of hours on Facebook and most of the time FB serves as their portal to current events, news, events, etc. Search is definitely missing, but I am sure that is in the works. FB is still a relatively young company and it's exciting to see where they are headed, especially now that they have plenty of cash to invest in the business.

Of course, this is all just conjecture at this point.
er this IS Zukerberg, his screwed over pretty much everyone he's ever worked with, hardly surprising
I think the telegraph, telephone, and internet where both similar to and far larger than Facebook.
>Or more precisely to maximize the speed at which we acquire knowledge/technology.

Who do you mean by "we"? Because you certainly can not be referring to "we" as in
mankind. Locking away knowledge behind walls of bureaucracy and artificial monopolies
will certainly not speed up progress, but instead slowly grind it to a halt.

Just look at the state of the patent wars. Everyone is suing each other, or claiming
to just collect patents to be able to counter-sue. Microsoft, Google, Apple, and all
the other big players probably each have patents on all technologies all of them use,
a good amount of those more than once and worded as ridiculously over-general claims.

So if by "we" you are referring to the few dozen mega-corps that pretty much control
our shared heritage of knowledge, then yes, you are quite likely correct.

If, on the other hand, you want to maximize the rate of technological advancement for
the "we" as in all of humanity, then embrace Open Access, get rid of patents and
all that other nonsense, and realize that incremental, cooperative development
will speed up progress by magnitudes.
On the other hand, Java did bring acceptance for GCs and JITs, and significantly quiet the "can't use non-native" crowd.
I'll purchase if it supports Wordpress in a meaningful way.
Well, minority shareholders do have some rights. They can sue him for breach of responsibility if he runs things into the ground.
Fun fact: on the Oxfam slide where he talks about opt-out monthly donation, the ad reads :

Be there and change lives with a with a regular donation

(http://i.imgur.com/ZGoqw.png)

I wonder if that is done on purpose or not...
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Paused the video when it showed the iPhone being docked into the guitar and a certain interesting use cases came to mind.
Imagine having beats as you play your guitar along, or maybe a strumming pattern to pick a lead on or to be even more ambitious, you could even think of sampling music live, a la Zoë Keating.

From a beginner's perspective, I could see some immediate wins, a built-in metronome, an auto-tuned guitar, an intimate yet digital "teacher" etc. These are things I'd definitely have loved when I started out learning.

Its great, the barriers to entry into creative fields are being lowered. Its happening well with programming and this could really encourage people to get into music. Even if it does not churn out professional musicians, just the joy of playing your own music is worth it.

PS: Been playing/learning on my humble acoustic guitar since 5 years.
This isn't really "pinning" a pull request. The problem is not that "GitHub Pull Requests are dynamic".

Any branch name is just an alias for the latest commit in that branch. For example master is just an alias for the latest commit in master so you can reference that commit without the SHA1 hash. When I submit a pull request for foo/master then push new commits for foo/master, I just changed what master points to so my pull request changes. By using the commit hash you avoid the commit alias problem because new commits won't change what a commit hash references.

In fact, virtually anywhere you use a branch name in git or github you can also use a commit hash.
Woo! I was at first a bit disappointed to see only two guides - good thing I checked out the docs.

Hopefully now the docs around EmberJS can stabilize and really take off.
I noticed it's nice new CSS feature only generates Webkit specific CSS[1]. That is not good.

However, I think their usage of CSS3 transforms to focus on different parts of the video is pretty clever. Watching the video on its own feels rather bland in comparison.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/rpVUw.png
is it useful for anything other than php/css/html?
"I basically told people they weren't going to get any, and luckily, it proved to be a bust," the adviser said.

Seems like this type of attitude is part of the problem as well. If everyone is assuming they will make a quick dollar, then certainly the underwriters will price things high. If people are investing for long term value then you can't exactly call FB a "bust" quite yet.
Is there more info about the Microsoft investment in Apple regarding the OP's claims that the brilliant and merciful Steve Jobs allowed Microsoft to spin the deal in the press? By all accounts, it seems extremely out of character for Jobs to just allow something like that. I'd also be more willing to believe it if the article source wasn't macrumors.com and the post itself didn't ooze a strong pro-Apple, anti-Microsoft bias.
1. Full File Browser

2. List View and Groups [for Sites]

3. Git support

These features make me incredibly happy. Though I will probably stick to maintaining my ragtag collection of tools (vim, cli tools etc.)

I'm wondering if there will be an upgrade license.
David, that was a very eloquent and well-written post and I certainly hope that you came away from writing that with a better sense of well-being.

I, too, am deaf, but our experiences are different. I was born deaf and am profoundly deaf with 85+ db loss in both ears. At the risk of sounding conceited, I'm what you would consider a success story.

A background:

As a child, I lived in San Diego, and my parents (at the advice of my speech therapist) enrolled me in a deaf school in Los Angeles that specialized in mainstreaming deaf students. I went there for 3 years and then joined a normal school in San Diego in 2nd grade wearing hearing aids.

At some point in time, I developed an ability to lip read and was able to speak without difficulty. This enabled me to have normal conversations with my hearing peers, and I was able to socialize.

So, trying to keep this short, I went through high school, went to college, received a cochlear implant (about 6 years ago), graduated from college with a degree in design, and I've actually worked with a number of companies in teams. I also met my wife (who is hearing) in college, and we've been together 10 years and married for almost 4.

I'm currently in my third week working as a lead designer for a YC startup in San Francisco, and it's a 6-member team. Great people, and there have been no issues as far as communication, and the team members here are very willing to accommodate any challenges I may have.

With that said, because lip reading requires me to intently watch people, I share your frustrations when it comes to conversations in an open office environment and in group conversations, but I found that one of the best ways to try to control that is to engage in conversation rather than be the 'fly on the wall'. I greatly rely on context when I lip read, so it's important to know what the context of the discussion is. It's actually much harder to lip read someone when you don't know what the context is.

Now, I have to say something - you said you use Cued Speech, and you sign. I believe that if you continued to do so, it would only frustrate you further. Furthermore, I'm surprised that you didn't make use of your speech therapy benefit, as that's probably the best way for you to overcome the difficulties you have. Learn how to lip read too - it's a fun party trick. :) Also, try to engage in normal conversations with your co-workers, no matter how challenging it might be. Practice is important. They will respect you for it. I completely understand the challenges of having a handicap and the challenges behind getting accommodation for your handicap, but I find that the best strategy is to ignore your handicap, overcome it, and come up with ways to accommodate yourself, not others.

If OP is David, you can contact me here on HN.
People still pay for ringtones, on iOS even. If you have an iPhone: Settings -> Sounds -> Ringtone -> Buy More Tones.
99designs crowdsources its own website redesign
They mentioned in the blog post about the release that it would be 50% for the first 24 hours, and a free upgrade for recent purchasers.
Sorry, I understand this comes off as harsh - but I think your time would be much better spent previewing the actual product.

Even if I did spend all the time to read the tiny text (which is a huuuge bet for users that click ads) I still wouldn't be much wiser to what your product can do for me.
Business schools also teach students how to play golf, why doesn't he mock business schools for taking $200K off people to teach them to play golf?
NOW designers will use it...
I think it would really help you to have a play with command line Git, just to get a feel for what's going on. SSH keys aren't hard to learn and are useful enough to be worth the time spent.

By all means switch to using the GUI after.
It seems to take less effort to press lightly against a surface than to keep your hand in relatively fixed, but unsupported, area.

(sample size of one: myself)
Response to "Nikola Tesla Wasn't God And Thomas Edison Wasn't The Devil"
My understanding is that the White House really cares about petitions with backing from tens of thousands of people.

I have talked to many policy makers in D.C., and science funding agencies, and they need to know that the public wants access to taxpayer-funded research, if they are going to push that kind of legislation through Congress. They believe that this petition could provide the ooomph for the US government to start pushing for increased public access to taxpayer-funded research.
Those kind of articles makes me feel so stupid. Even though those technologies are ready to go, making them work smoothly without any interruption always seems hard to me. I believe, there has to be lots of tips and trick. ( in other words you have to be experienced with all them or I am very lazy) I was wondering if any common receipt exists or if there is someone who can answer my couple of high scalability questions.
I suspect it's an illusion and that does not represent their true 3d point cloud. It's probably a skinned 3d mesh of a hand which is then moving in sync with the detected hand.
Looks good. TextMate remains my go-to editor (and that's not going to change, it's just not), but I've always appreciated Coda when doing WordPress work.

The new features make it look like for WordPress or other MySQL-backed CMSes, it'll be super nice.

Would love to know if they plan on doing more to get developers to create more add-ons for Coda. The community is there, but it's super small compared to TextMate, Sublime Text and even Espresso.

Still, as a rule, I buy anything Panic puts out so I'm getting this on Thursday.

ETA: I think the real brilliance here is Diet Coda for iPad. AirPreview is genius and bringing subset editing functionality to the iPad in a meaningful way is great.
My apologies, I abuse "PKI" to mean "PK infrastructure" (which I know is what the acronym stands for, I'm making a bit of tongue-in-cheek commentary), I think it's silly that PKI implicitly means CAs but according to Wikipedia at least, you're correct.
I would say that what work against SOPA was big names like Google and Wikipedia weighing in on the matter.
Coda has been getting long in the tooth for a while (and is still my daily web-dev buddy).

It's nice to see Panic coming out all guns blazing with the new hotness. Software I actively enjoy paying for.

The pun in the iPad version name is a nice touch and an emblem of the way Panic rolls :-)
>let's not trivialize the difficulty of programming in general

No, let's trivialize it. What exactly do you do on a daily basis? Give me an example of a task that you worked on that took a lifetime to master. Something that you could only truly appreciate after years of focused experience.
tv is a very effective medium for improving command on english. in my case i started with english when i was around 10 and then slowly built up my language skills starting with disney cartoons > national geographic > tv and movies
Reid Hoffman On PayPal's Pivoted Path To Success
That's how nerds get controversial things accomplished without pushback. They do it while the rest of the world, which is busy with other things, isn't looking.