skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good morning, everyone! Thank you for your interest. Synergy's premise is that direct air transport from smaller airstrips at lower-than-commercial speeds is presently inefficient, thus not profitable and therefore underserved. Targeted aerodynamic solutions are necessary and beneficial.

Synergy is a double box tail aircraft that obtains high span efficiency by providing its stability and control through induced drag reduction. Since the tails push down, it is not a box wing, and the physics of this alone are worth your investigation.

What's more, and this is the basis for all the hubbub, it provides powered drag reduction at very high speeds. Both natural laminar flow and boundary layer control are utilized in the wake immersed propulsive integration. This combination of strategies provide significant benefits but is outside the practical experience of much of the industry.

Extensive discussion has been taking place for quite some time about this and some of that is linked here below. We look forward to completing our effort to provide flight test results that corroborate our results so far, which are promising.

I am available to anyone via email or telephone if you have further questions. Thank you once again for your comments. John McGinnis, EAA 797858, AIAA 289792, john (~at~) synergy aircraft (dot) commercial. fourohsix, twofive0, twentytwo twenty.

http://eaa.org/news/2011/2011-04-29_synergy.asp

http://blog.cafefoundation.org/?tag=synergy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UNzch0kuOA (flyby)

http://youtu.be/MJIi0zIwdY8

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Synergy-Aircraft/1123534221815...

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1435870654978.20564...

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2269305930339.21157...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCqk7HUKMug (Synergy OSH 11 pt1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaVCISch7VU (Synergy OSH 11 pt2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlT4V2r4Oz8 (Synergy OSH 11 pt3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOdaI4jQ8PA (Synergy OSH 11 pt4)
http://youtu.be/OC0itjCeGAA (synergy Osh 11 pt4B)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAJ9C5570rY (synergy OSH 11 pt5)

http://www.oshkosh365.org/ok365_DiscussionBoardTopic.aspx?id...
http://www.homebuiltairplanes.com/forums/aircraft-design-aer...

http://www.oshkosh365.org/ok365_DiscussionBoardTopic.aspx?id...
I don't think "social media" will kill Silicon Valley. VCs are certainly interested in a quick return on investment that social media start-ups can achieve. However, most start-ups fail; for every lucky investor who got in early on Facebook or Zynga or Instagram, how many investors backed a different company that's had only modest returns? In general, the majority of VC money is placed in also-ran start-ups that don't generate the media attention of an outlier like Facebook.

Most VCs aren't stupid. They know that not every social media company will earn 100 million in three years. Most will never earn that kind of money. However, a lot of VCs back projects they're passionate about, projects like renewable energy, cancer research, and many others.

This article takes a complicated market (venture capital in SV) and makes sweeping generalizations.
RStudio is a pretty cool IDE for R.
you and parent comment saw the same javascript, really said the same thing, and still came to different conclusions.

How so? You both are right. It uses javascript (as parent said) but doesnt use javascript to the animation (as you said).

This nitpicking is ruining the internet commenting for me. And yes, I see the irony in my comment.
Facebook is a story stock [1] if I ever saw one. According to the WSJ it's the most traded IPO of all time. I imagine a lot of people who use FB but know nothing about stocks are buying and selling it. I expect it'll take a while before people start to settle into similar expectations about how it's going to perform in the long run.

Everyone's looking at Mark Zuckerberg right now. If his team continues to execute at the pace of a startup the stock will go higher. However, if he starts to show signs that the pressure is getting to him (think Google's failed attempts at social or Nflx's Qwikster snafu or the past 10 years at msft) the stock will fall.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/storystock.asp
...until it breaks 30.
Why anyone would buy FB at over 100 P/E is beyond me. The general sentiment of the buyers is that "Facebook COULD earn a lot of money". When has that sort of line ever worked for startups? If a startup says something like that, everyone asks "Well why haven't you yet then?"

Small businesses/startups on Dragon's Den get laughed out the room when they try and broker a price based in part on the 'potential' of their business. Why is it different for Facebook?
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Worst prt is he may be done with marketing after such experience.

He will miss out on the truth. Which is that direct marketing will help get the results he wants.

A pity.
> they're all in one place at the right where I can ignore them.

This is exactly how I feel. The only time I ever click a Facebook ad is to tell Facebook that it's not what I'm looking for.
Uncharted territories make interesting things to me. Once I figure out the secret sauce behind things, they stop being fun to me.

Some sports are enjoyable for sheer thrill and excitement. They go outside the bounds of a hobby, they are more of experiences.
I felt the same way. I still bought the app because I've really wanted something like this. But, weirdly enough, I did look at the iPhone stats first and felt the same way. Other than that, great app!
I looked at the market cap of linkedin ($9B) and then compared it to Facebook (~$92B). I know the two companies are different, but i feel that 10x value is a little out of wack...just my opinion. I wouldnt buy yet.
Apple's P/E ratio is 13.12 [1].
Facebook's P/E ratio is 107.66 [2].

The P/E ratio[3] is:
market price per share / annual earnings per share

This basically means that Apple makes as much profit as their are valued at in 13.12 years, whereas it would take Facebook 107.66 years to afford to buy themselves.

That doesn't make any sense, and if we assume that their P/E ratio should be roughly the same, their stock price should be around [4]
33.54/(107.66/13.12) = 4.09 USD

Edit: Google's P/E ratio is 18.32, and if Facebook were to have the same P/E ratio its stock price would have to be 5.71 USD [5].

[1] http://www.google.com/finance?q=AAPL

[2] http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:FB

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PE_ratio

[4] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=33.54%2F(107.66%2F13.12)

[5] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=33.54%2F(107.66%2F18.32)
I think i'll need to demo this unit before I purchase it. I remember getting burned in the early nineties by the power glove's cool commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93iDhnBcMGo
the interesting thing to watch will be 1) is it correct to price your IPO to reap maximum gain for the company or 2) is there enough positive PR benefit in leaving some value on the table to under price it and have it pop slightly.
I like to have a floating point value of seconds since the epoch for my dates. Python is a wonderful language.
Perhaps, but you have to admit that it's a bit convenient to wrap oneself in the shroud of "research experiment" when launching a public-facing service or application.

Sure. But I don't think it's that rare- Apple has wrapped Siri in a "beta" tag to basically excuse any and all failures of the product. Nothing wrong with that in and of itself, but making a beta product the key feature in a new product (and advertising on TV accordingly) seemed like a slightly dishonest move to me.
You mean UTC? GMT is tied to London, and could be confused with BST during summertime. UTC isn't.
True but most businesses are small business without the time or resources to really do the research. Every unemployed twenty-something is now becoming a "Social Media Marketer" and telling small business owners they have to get on Facebook to boost sales. Along with that every business blog promotes Facebook and Twitter as excellent ways to boost business despite the fact that it only works for certain types of businesses and even then those that it works for need to do a lot of homework before they get the promised results.

I don't blame any business for a lack of success on Facebook. I blame everyone promoting it as a business booster. When the whole world is screaming that you've got to get on Facebook you can't blame a small business owner for believing it.
Yes it does. Store UTC times, display in local timezone.
As a side note (and yes, they could be unrelated) but Zynga has lost around 7.40% of it's value this morning: http://www.google.co.uk/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:ZNGA
Google had half of the revenue, but was asking for 1/5th of the valuation.

In short, they were prudent.
It's not only about the bouncing price itself but it's interesting for some of us to observe the evolution of the biggest "startup" out there after its IPO.
No, they can't. This is a small page so he just assumed all new likes came from advertising.

Page owners can see who likes them, and if your info is public they can view them as any other fb user.
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Does anyone know how Facebook's market cap compares to its cashflow? Or have any idea about the prospects for their ad revenue? (I know HN has had articles bashing DB ads of late, but is this the whole truth?)
So is it expected that facebook will deflate to $23B or will they up their profits to live up to their value?
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Title should read "Facebook shares dips below IPO price". As of writing this, FB = 33.68; IPO price was 38.00.
I have seen too many "it has this bug" in the App Store reviews to think this is a bad thing to do. If my software has an issue I depend on the user to report what they are seeing. It is much more difficult for me if I have to scan the reviews for one-sentence "bug reports" from people I cannot follow up with.

The fact is that the review page is just not about that. I want those reports to get to me so I can fix them issue and I will probably need to have a conversation with the user.

So I like that this feature can possibly catch those issues. Also I don't see it as very deceptive try and catch a good review either. Why can't I? People can freely rate our app and if they want to leave a negative one they know how to do it.

If it is too difficult to do it traditionally than I'm glad they don't do it. They are probably just as lazy about using my app. So I doubt whatever issue they have with it is even real.
Don’t mention income inequality please, we’re entrepreneurs
Companies are allowed to carry high P/E ratios because they've recently undergone a period of exponential growth and people believe they can continue to execute at the same pace. Amazon (amzn) is the perfect example of a stock that continually exceeds people's expectations while carrying a high P/E ratio -- and the stock has responded accordingly.

From listening to Zuckerberg I think he's a true capitalist, more interested in creating long term value than making a quick buck. I'm sure he's not excited that some very hopeful people who believed in his company are hating him right now because his stock (temporarily) seems over-priced.
I think HN told everyone a couple of months ago that this was going to happen and everyone should change away from it!
I have to wonder what some people, who should know better, are planning for the eventual software bubble bursting. Meaning, what's next? Lately it just seems that the big names in the industry right now are just hype machines that are not really innovating anything. It's more that they are riding the big wave started by others that's just about ready to crash on the beach.
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It will be interesting to see whether the dollars from panicking retail investors who were bamboozled exceeds the greenshoe.
I did exactly this in one of my android app. When the user successfully finishes the games, he will be given an option to either rate the game on Google play or retry the game again. If he fails to complete the game, he will just be allowed to retry/quit.
Saygent Launches In-App Voice Feedback System
I believe it's the IPO, it just got serious.
If they claim a submillimeter accuracy; I don't see why you can't type without a physical keyboard.
I believe Google Voice offers machine transcription of voicemails. Not perfect, but better than nothing!

I agree that this sounds like a business opportunity. Perhaps use Amazon's Mechanical Turk to outsource transcription to humans (who tend to be better at this than machines)?
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Well, when people say 50% overhead (the lower bound), they mean that the cost to the grant is `1.5*direct_cost`, not that half the grant goes to indirect costs.

Anyway, research is the primary motivation for purchasing journal subscriptions. It does not make financial sense for a non-research institution to subscribe to many journals. So regardless of which budget the subscriptions are formally taken from, they come from, it should be considered a cost of research. Making the system more efficient frees up money somewhere that reduces the cost of (externally- and internally-funded) research.
You might want to take a look at this:

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
I just started a new project a week back with the objective to apply real time effects/filters to an audio stream.

Main choice of programming language is Perl. Firstly as I have more than 10 years of experience using it. And secondly as its a fantastic glue language. And of course CPAN. The modules I'm going to be using are indispensable - CGI::Application, Audio::Ecasound, POE, Net::LibLO, MIDI::ALSA and more. This is my first project where I'm going to be doing audio stuff and Perl has made the transition so easy!
You make Lithium Nitride with Lithium and Nitrogen.

You get Lithium by electrolysis of lithium chloride and potassium chloride.

You get Lithium Chloride by treating lithium carbonate with hydrochloric acid.

The natural form of lithium carbonate is the rare mineral Zabuyelite.

Potassium Chloride occurs naturally as the mineral sylvite.

Hydrochloric acid is produced by dissolving hydrogen chloride in water.

Hydrogen chloride is produced in a few different ways, usually as part of other processes.

I am not a chemist and my chemistry knowledge is embarrassingly weak. Apologies if I've misused any terms.

I'd be interested to know if energy calculations include the entire production chain, or just the last bit. I don't think it matters, so long as people know and people are consistent to allow comparison.
Then you'll just love TAI64:

http://cr.yp.to/libtai/tai64.html
Good question. Looks interesting, unfortunately I have no idea.
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I chose python and html/css/javascript for my kid, who is 9, the python game book got him started and now I was challenged at dinner table by various Python module questions...

first thing after he started html, is:
why can't html have if-else?
Google got a list price that was 50-100% less than their target price. They tried to play the banks and got played back.

FB did the exact opposite.
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It makes sense if you believe that the profit will go up dramatically in the not too far future. And it looks like many people think so.
Good post and I share you thoughts about the ecosystem and you often do not have a reference.

You are C++ experienced—did you try to build your own native extensions with Node already? I am about to access a existing C lib with Node and wanted to share experiences.
virtualenvwrapper has scripts that run after certain operations e.g. creating a virtualenv. I use this to install bpython, sphinx and tox into every new virtualenv.
The article is likely about the talk "And That's How I Lost My Eye: Exploring Emergency Data Destruction" at DEFCON 19 [1]. A blog post [2] gives a quick overview, and the 50 minute talk [3] is very entertaining. There's no whitepaper, and I couldn't quickly find a more detailed article.

[1] https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives/dc-19-archive....

[2] http://www.sportsfirings.com/?p=4959

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXbq0BFzQQg
There's a reason it's called a demo. No one is actually suggesting that you use this as a proper stopwatch. Everybody already understands the limitations you specified.
Agree, I didn't notice that last time. Not a fan of the www prefix in general in my old age.
Every now and then, I read a piece of news that makes me think if extraterrestrials are watching us, they must be shaking their heads in some combination of amusement, disgust, and despair.
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Tiny Wings Remake on Android Open Sourced
It is true that you can make quick progress as a beginner but there are other areas where is can be painfully slow. Launching a new product while dealing with the growing pains of a new business can cause a lot of wasted time. Having someone with more experience around can be invaluable to a new start up, especially if you are doing something other than software where the start up costs are prohibitively high (tooling, patents etc)
Alternatively 'so cool'... NOT.
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Why is that prudent for Google?
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Facebook stock falls below IPO price - May. 21, 2012
Top Ubuntu app downloads for April 2012 | Ubuntu App Developer
It's true, I should have mentioned RFC3339 in the article. I will make some amendments to it later today.
At that size and price point, it could have a significant impact on mobile UI. I'm looking at you, google glass.
Please list any petitions that have resulted in changes in law?

Or are petitions just some way to keep people busy and feel like someone cares?
"Time to look at the number of our own website visits clicked through from the Facebook pages. Result? Two! €160 quid for two clicks, each of whom looked at two site pages."

If your wanted end result is for people to check our your website, use fb ads to link people to your website. Better yet, you can use a page post link ad that displays both your fanpage (with a "Like this page" button) and the link to your external site, with a thumbnail.
"Likes" are almost as meaningless as karma is on reddit.

Especially as there is no dislikes. What do 30, 1000 or 10000 likes tell about your company ? At what point do they measure success ?
To be fair, Google also traded at a P/E well over 100 in the early post-IPO days. http://ycharts.com/companies/GOOG/historical_data/pe_ratio?s...
My wife went to undergrad for 3 years and has an undergrad degree. You're program doesn't account for credit hours or degree specific degree requirements.
>Once my helpers stopped liking, I had expected the viral phenomenon of Facebook to generate more and more likes as the contagion of their likes spread to their friends and colleagues via their own Facebook pages.

You expected your page to go "viral". Your page for packaging products ... to go viral? The people who care about your packaging products are far between on Facebook. The people who care about packaging products will go into google and type "packaging products", or come from your existing referral base, or from leads generated by your sales department. It isn't critical for every business to have a facebook page or a twitter account.

//
Cats love boxes, maybe you can go viral by hitching your wagon to that meme bandwagon =)
Why would the price matter if the P/E is reasonable?
I'm sure this method works great, but the funny thing is you don't even have to go nearly this far. We use a custom bit of code that presents a dialog almost exactly like the one in the first picture. (We even localized it along with the app.)

The dialog is only set to show when the customer has used the app past the period of time where most people who aren't going to stick around will have abandoned it[1]. Thus, we simply only show the "please review the app" request to people who have already decided they like the app.

The difference between this method and the one presented in the article is this-- every user of our app, who becomes a "regular" user, gets asked to leave a review. The "dark method" only asked those who decide they want to give feedback of some kind to give a review.

So, of course, those who are still grudgingly using our app past the %80 cutoff will be asked to leave reviews and they leave some medium or negative reviews.

But here's the big secret of the appstore that I've never seen anyone mention-- reviews boost sales, even bad ones. Getting a sufficient quantity of reviews over some period, with a sufficiently high net positive value for those reviews, causes Apple to feature your app more in cross-selling opportunities (like the iTunes receipt or the "customers of this app also bought..." box).

So, I'd stick with our current method where every long term user of the app is asked to leave a review, over only asking those who have decided to leave feedback.

The app whose had this feature the longest is currently at 4.5 stars and is getting regular reviews. Another app that was a MVP that failed (but is still a good highly rated app) doesn't have this feature (cause its an MVP) and gets far fewer reviews as a percentage of its user base.

[1] This is part of the reason app prices are so cheap. People use the app store as a place to impulse buy small items. So they want apps to be cheap because often they aren't going to use them long, or they are just trying them out.
Man he sounds like EVERY typical early 20s nerdy guy on IRC. He's talking to one of his heroes and trying to fit in, about a little website thing he was working on and trying to be one of the big boys- there's no way he would know how big it was going to get.

Every one of you has said things that can be perceived as nasty, we all have bad moods, we all joke about serious issues that can be taken out of context.
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."

It takes time and wisdom to grow ethical and moral reasoning. The proper handling of social responsibility is a major component of maturity.

Because you're intimidated/jealous of his public image you can't imagine that he's a normal person, like people being shocked that celebrities sometimes gasp have SEX.

By reacting to this smearing stuff you give nasty people power, just like the tabloids make people more famous, just like the FBI fabricates sex scandals.

It is a major human weakness to be spiteful and by overcoming and understanding this we will grow as a species. There will always be vultures out there feeding on this trash and regurgitating it for a buck, the truth is that they are the real unethical ones.
Forget the desktop. With the sensor being this small, I can imagine hanging this from your neck and have gesture sensing anywhere, SixthSense-style. ( http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/ )
How fresh is the dew: ROSA 2012 Marathon?
It says they use UTF-16 (just like Windows, Java and .NET), which represents code points outside the basic multilingual plane using a pair of 16-bit values and is thus capable of encoding the whole range of code points. The blog post author happens to confuse the terminology, but UTF-16 is sound.
To start, exclusive coupons for their Facebook fans, posted every so often.

Afterward, perhaps a create-a-andwich contest. The winner is voted on by the community and the sandwich is available for a limited time. Successful sandwiches are added to the permanent menu.

Engagement for a sandwich place can be light. Just simple things that either directly benefit fans or don't require much from them.
Developing a Realtime Android Game - Lessons Learned - Part I
That's cool for Linux, going forward. Now we just have to take care of all the old mainframes and legacy system that will never get their O/S updated...