skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Olympus Stylus 1010 Digital Camera, Black 
The Olympus 1010 sits at the higher end of the Stylus line, intended as an all-around "family" camera, good for taking along on outings.
All those companies just got stuck and see no way out?

Same was true of say Visual Basic for many years.
Secretive intelligence court upholds warrantless wiretaps
and to think that swombat thought "There can be no useful and constructive dialogue on this topic"
University of Vaasa, Finland
from University Of Southern California (USC)
Comparing Mobile Browsers For Symbian(S60) Phones
Compare Opera Mini vs. JB5 vs S60 vs Skyfire browsers
Yes, seeing as how you're the perfect and complete representative of the general Internet-using population, it's inexplicable that anyone would try to do something so clearly and directly contrary to your desires.

I mean, I would have answered the questions directly, but they are so open-ended and have so many different reasonable answers that I don't even know where to begin.
I'm not saying the parent is entirely wrong. I just expressed my opinion that getting stuck is not the main reason for PHPs success, which is what I think the parent was implying.
yes! thanks,
It could be effective on the ground around the runway where the birds hang out until a plane flies into them.
U. of Arizona, Tucson (graduated)
Ask HN: Has Facebook Connect helped your user growth?
We're thinking about adding it to our web app to reduce registration barrier, but it is going to be a bit of work to integrate into our account system, which will mean delaying other features.

For those who have implemented FC, has it helped convert a lot more of your site visitors, and has it helped growth a lot through the mini-feed messages of your users?

Any feedback or stats would be great..
Epita, Paris, France
yeah, if you don't like it, change it (you could even put them on a USB stick or a server somewhere so you could install them on a new machine quickly). That one could change it honestly didn't occur to me til you said it.

There's the favourite DOS->unix:

alias cd..="cd .."
Oh damn. I looked you up on donut, and I live right down the hall from you in Marks (117) :).
Even more important in Amsterdam: Pretty much every one driving car also rides a bicycle from time to time. So cars almost always have a sympathetic attitude towards cyclists.
just wondering, are you in china, I currently am in guangzhou.
That wasn't constructive, it was destructive (i.e. it destroyed the premise of the entire article), and it wasn't dialogue, it was a monologue.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.

I think it was Kissinger who said that academic politics are so intense because the stakes are so small. These kinds of essays get old after a while.
University of York, UK
If they wanted to be really clever, they could also analyze the data when it's uploaded and encode it in a less redundant way... for instance, it's quite likely that large numbers of people will have very similar mp3 files... if you could figure out that 99% of a certain file is exactly identical to 99% of another file, why store that data twice?

But, that gets very complicated... you're just shifting the hard drive costs into developer and cpu costs... so it may not be economical.
Agreed. In fact, one of my friends lost over 1TB of painstakingly collected mp3s (mostly scene stuff, prog house, techno, sets, etc), and was devastated by the loss. It took him over 10 years to assemble that collection.
UNM, surprisingly had to point that NM was part of US! keyword 'Mexico' makes ppl jump to conclusions..
The man is a PR genius when it comes to creating drama.
just make users want to register and then make registration really really easy - allow them to trial your service before registering, allow them to register without having to verify their email.
Hiding complexity is not the same as reducing it.
ZumoDrive is not going to change anything. There was an app exectly like this back in 2001 or so. Back then, it did not work because the connections were too slow and space was not cheap enough - at the moment, it will not work for those same reasons.

There is no doubt that there are a lot of people who will use this - but it's not yet ready for mainstream. It's much easier to store you stuff on an external hard drive than on Zumo, and till it becomes easier, this will not really hit.

The startup will be profitable very quickly, they will gain hundreds of thousands of users, but ZumoDrive does not represent any big change in computing... for now.
It was intended a constructive addition to the debate; whether it's constructive or destructive to this particular article's premise is neither here nor there.

And I disagree with your interpretation of my post as a monologue, obviously. A monologue implies a one-sided stream of writing or speech to which any other views are given little to no opportunity to respond. Many blogs are an example of this sort of thing. But this is HN: There's no restriction or limitation on anybody writing a response to my post that's equal in status, relevance and visibility. That makes it a dialogue.

To be honest, I also have reservations about these kinds of stories appearing on HN, but since this one's already here and still active I wanted to enhance the dialogue by providing more information about the legal background surrounding WP's use. If you're unhappy with the submission then flag it as unsuitable, but don't try suppress actual discussion on the subject if it gets underway.
Calculating the Size of the Downadup Outbreak: 2.4M to 8.9M infected machines
Creative Commons Documentary on White Phosphorous Usage in Gaza
It's not a niche - it's a large market customers in the millions - and customers who are used to paying for such stuff, and will pay for such stuff.
You should know this by using mathematics. Do the following:

1. What age range is your primary consumer?

2. What country is your primary consumer?

3. What is the intersection between facebook users and the two questions above?

4. Based on whatever statistics you can find - how many users get turned away because of sign-up problems?

5. How many consumers will your initial marketing push reach - i.e, the consumers you hope to gain in the period when you don't have hard feature choices to make?

Intersect those 5 criteria and estimate what the benefit of facebook connect will be. You may want to contrast it with the benefits of the other features. Understand your numbers before spending time on stuff.
It's easier to find the simpler solution after you implement the complex solution.
Over-analyzing smart-ass comments leads nowhere... I wasn't putting down your comment, I was putting down the equally smart-ass "look, there's useful discussion here" comment that was addressed directly to me.
Savonia University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Speaking as someone who lost a close family friend to an accident where a helmet would've saved him... I still think I would wear the helmet.

Even if you do get injured, I'd think it would be far less likely to be the kind that puts you into a vegetative state.
Gothenburg Uni, Sweden
AMD will also halt its company 401(k) match.

The cynic in me says that won't be coming back.

It's interesting to see this as a ripple effect, lots of individual companies say lengthening their upgrade cycle, each one makes no difference in the grand scheme of things but there are a few companies like AMD and Intel that are very vulnerable to lots of tiny actions adding up across the entire economy, not just a single industry in trouble.
I don't completely agree with you, from the current discussion on this thread, I found Maktab comment interesting.. There were also interesting link to the wired article on the point of view of the UN, a link to the use of White phosphore during the irak war.
And, most importantly there wasn't any flame war (except between maybe between those who think that there can't be any constructive dialogue and those who think that there can be)....

Now, of course, I'm usually more interested in articles about startups, software, business and science but I also like Hacker news because I find the discussion interesting and the people well read. And reading the different points of view of people here on such a topic is interesting (as long as we don't get articles about Gaza every day, it's nice and as said it _is_ an important topic)
The most interesting thing about personal bankruptcy is how society (and the media) responds to it. In my experience it's a big negative in Europe; but as my former employer used to say: "When you lose everything, just start over.".
+1 (alumni)
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Average quality of Python and PHP code differs drastically, so there must be something about the language.
ZumoDrive is not going to change anything. From box.net to liveMesh there are simple to complex solutions. With Live Mesh you not only can access your 'share' from anywhere you can also remote login to your home PC from anywhere and vice versa (yeah access office PC from home even across firewall).
:) it's so lame
this is a very very good idea!

I'll be implementing this, kudos. Hope twitter doesn't fix this "bug"(?)
My 4 hour app
I don't doubt that it is important. It still doesn't belong on HN. There are many issues that are important that don't belong on HN. If HN becomes a general news source, it will lose its usefulness for me, and no doubt for others.
doesn't appear for me. I'm going to assume this is some custom plugin the author hadn't noticed?

I wonder how much money yourtube.com makes in ads.
It seems to me the fundamental question is whether the amount of data or reliably available bandwidth grows faster.
John Goerzen on Why You Should Learn Haskell
Basic Thinking (German TC) Sells for $62k
Long since graduated. Attended University of Minnesota, where oldest son now attends as a dual-enrollment "eleventh grader."
seems low - no word on revenues though, not sure how accurate it is to call this Germanys Techcrunch..
University of Illinois at Chicago
If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. </quote> http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ditto! Soda Hall is my home.
Incidentally, I was just parsing some XML Schema documents, and the error messages were more helpful than I expected - it gave the rule of the grammar that was causing problems. However, this rule looked like it was taken from the English specification of XML Schema, when it could be (and should be) automatically inferred from the machine readable version of the grammar (i.e. the XML Schema for XML Schema documents).
With malleability, I think you're talking about low-level control, where you work directly in terms of the data structures that will be serialized as JSON. You might be translating between the domain data structures and the JSON structure; or they might appear direction as JSON. This is malleable in that you tweak it however you want; and it's simple in that you have direct access to everything. You can do validation in the same way. If something goes wrong, you have all the information available to deal with it as you see fit.

The wire format doesn't affect this approach - it could be JSON or XML. However, JSON and data structures maps cleanly, because it's an object format already. To do the same thing with XML requires an extra level, and you get a meta-format like xmlrpc, which is pretty ugly.

So I think you're talking about a kind of object serialization, with object-to-object data binding.

XML Schema is an attempt to factor out the grammar of the data structures, so that they can be checked automatically, and other grammar-based tasks can be automated. I think this is a worthy quest, succeed or fail. One specific failing we discussed was error messages.

I'm trying to grasp your point of view, and presenting what I think it is, so you tell me if I got it right or not (assuming you see this reply).
I did say probably. Most people don't take music quite as seriously as your TB-collecting friend.
Very theoretical responses - I suppose Yeti had those thoughts before he posted. I think he is looking for something like "Yesss, our signup rate went up 50%" or "Nope, not really a difference".
It's more like a personal blog, albeit the most popular one in .de
While I agree with you in general, in this case I don't think there's a whole lot of insight to be had, other than "is this illegal?" or "is this immoral?".

A good "standard" for Hacker News material might be "would Hacker News users bring a different/better perspective than the average [relatively intelligent] person?"

I don't really see that applying in this case.
I'm going to go with worse. That was the stock market tanking, not, you know, do-gooding.
I have written some information here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=423707
> Revenue was disclosed; 37.000 Euro per year.

errrr...
buy site for €46,000 eurors - €37,000 revenue a year?

operating costs can't be that high ...
0.5% is 200 vs 201, not 20 vs 21 (that would be 5%).

All an individual cares about is 1 vs 0 crashes-per-flight, not 200 vs 201 crashes per bajillion flights. So if I could buy a ticket on Qantas (0 fatalities in their entire jet era) or Aeroflot (31 in the last 19 years, including 2 unrelated on the same day from the same airport) for the same trip, I'll clearly take Qantas, even if the Qantas flight is 3x as expensive, as I assume most people would.

But here's where humans don't do math well comes in. Even a tiny difference in actual safety is dramatically over-valued. "No child of mine is going to be subjected to an extra 0.5% risk just to see some big mouse in Florida! I'd sooner drive there than fly THAT airline!" And that is how airlines with a bad reputation for safety end up merging, getting bought, shutting down or simply changing names. And how people who can't rationally make decisions end up driving 800 miles to Disney instead of flying, because the risks of driving are much less visible to them.
Open-Business Model v2
Babson College alumnus
Wow it's kind of expensive!
Fantastic music hack
Comparing it to TechCrunch is a bit of a stretch, to be honest. I'd almost say they paid too much, given that Robert Basic will no longer be contributing. What's a blog without the people?
I don't know about you, be if I was the founder of Jaiku I would be very upset. You sold your company to Google, hoping it would become this great tool that everyone would be using, and then once google gets a hold of it they kill it, because they can't get it back out the door. So it dies before it ever evens has a chance. The company was Google's and they were free to do with it what they like, but that is just sad.

Then again maybe they aren't to sad, because they likely made a good bit of money on the deal.
Yah (alum). Majored in psychology, if you can believe it (early Pleistocene Era: Programmed in Fortran, if anyone has ever heard of that;) ).
Tarsnap news
What about University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)? My graduate school. Anyone remember when they built their own campus-wide system - wasn't it a rather unique hardware - early Amdahl or something?
As of right now I don't think there's any private mode in Boxee, just FYI.
One of the aspects I love about HN is that nobody here has to prove anything to anyone else. Maybe I'm terribly naive, but it feels like lying happens far less here than in other corners of the tubes.

So I believe icode, personally. My feelings are "good for him" and "I hope he enjoys his steak and strippers".
The way I see it, if you're intelligent enough to do it once, you can sure as shit do it again.

But you're completely right, it'll surely sting.
Playing with ZumoDrive and already like it. I think this is going to be HUGE, provided two things happen:

1. The clients become less buggy. They have a very alpha/beta feel to them; Mac client random crashes, can't remove dock icon, etc.

2. Linux support is added. You know most of those netbooks you speak of are running linux now, right? ;)

Good luck gentlemen, I will be keeping an eye on this one...
True. Usually because it's very easy to identify and call out anyone who doesn't know what they're talking about.
UF Alum.
Me too. Nice to see a fellow here!
I like ZumoDrive, but I can't understand why anybody in their right mind would want all of their stuff in "the cloud". I'm still not comfortable with anything in the cloud, though I cautiously make an exception with Zumo because I want all my music everywhere, dammit.

To me, cloud-based storage is a convenience that should never be completely relied on or trusted to reliably store or give access to anything. And it surely should not be considered secure, unless all my data is heavily encrypted in transit and storage.
Evidence emerges of factless reporting on White Phosphorus usage in Gaza
"Ironically, this is exactly what made PHP successful. Everything is included in the box. It wouldn't have been half as successful without including every useful library they could find."

I am all in for including interesting stuff, but not at the expense of forcing everything in at once and thus cluttering the only namespace people have to work. While C has only one namespace, you only include the libraries you need.

"You're not going to get closures, classes, meta programming, etc, etc, from libraries in C. And guess what, PHP has libraries too!"

While C has no syntactic support for closures and classes, C programmers learn how to build them from scratch (or use some other person's library to support that - after all, C++ stated as a preprocessor that generated C code). Are you sure you are familiar with C?
"It's the C of scripting languages"

Really, it's the BASIC of scripting languages.
Okay, sorry, no. This story is ridiculously Reddit.

"This sort of story is important; I don't care if we call this 'Hacker News' or not."

pg once linked to a Reddit comment by a passionate Redditor who refused to follow the rules. The gist of the comment was, "I refuse to post this Ron Paul story to the Politics subreddit because I feel it's just too important."

And now here we are about a year later and Ron Paul hype turned out not to be even remotely important, and so yes, maybe Israel is using phosphorous, or maybe the whole thing is staged to make Israel look bad, or maybe....! My point is, you can't know the whole truth, so please post this to some other community that values importance over intelligence!
University of Miskolc, Hungary
I worked with a guy who turned this law around.

He said:

"Everywhere piece of the system that has a supported API should be a separate group."
Cambridge University (alum)
Nonviolence (1)
University of Kentucky
"The more Isreal can turn Gaza's inhabitants against Hamas, the better it is for Isreal."

And that's exactly where the military action fails. It will not turn Palestinians against Hamas. It's quite natural they turn against the one who is bombing them, not the idiots that provoked the attacks. Thus, Israel is not defending itself from rocket attacks - it's only escalating the conflict. Really, it's the best thing that could happen to Hamas and the reason why they keep firing rockets into Israel.

Let's turn our attention to Iraq. How many Iraqi civilians are grateful to the US for getting rid of Saddam Hussein at the cost of being bombed back to stone age and being pretty much caught in the crossfire between radicals and American troops?

War is not where diplomacy fails. War is where diplomacy gets really ugly. Yet, it's still all about diplomacy (which is nothing more than cross-border politics).
Why yes, it's a blog
Serious things have been happening in that part of the world for more than 2000 years, and will continue to happen long after we're all dead.

Your argument seems like "This is not my problem, Why do i care" kind of thing. It is very important for smart people to bring out a solution to this serious conflict which has continued for almost 60 years. We can clearly write it off as an conflict which cannot be solved and it will continue forever. I am pretty much sure there is a solution to this conflict and it has to come from a bunch of smart people who want to change world in a good way, HN community looks like that group.

I think they are given ample coverage on other sites, and there are plenty of other forums to discuss them on the internet.

There are tons of sites to discuss Ruby, Python, Erlang etc and there are bunch of other sites to discuss Google, Yahoo or the current Economic Situation. Why should that news even be discussed here? The answer is in HN, we get a different and rational perspective to certain news stories unlike other places. I would pretty much like to say, any news which is serious and impacts lot of people or a region should be discussed here for finding peaceful solutions.

'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing' - Edmund Burke
Very true. And you bring up a good point. If nobody was accountable for posting nonsense, then the discussion would probably contain a lot more of it.

I'm just making a personal choice to give icode the benefit of the doubt. If he's uneasy about broadcasting his difficult struggle to tens of thousands of people, then that's entirely his personal choice, and I'm happy he was willing to share few details about his experience.
I'm in Hong Kong.
The U.S. is on pace to take on $10 trillion in debt over the next decade. What happens when the credit runs dry?
Okay guys, listen up. I think azharcs is on to something.

SwellJoe, you're in charge of making contact with the Palestinian leadership. unalone, you'll be writing excellent-yet-slightly-sensational articles that will shake the belief system of the zealots perpetuating this conflict. stcredzero's job is to apply Buddhist techniques to invoke a general aura of well-being and connectedness. pg, you're going to set up an Arc-powered community for Israelis and Palestinians to have constructive dialogs about the pros and cons of calling a truce. And if you rename Arc to Ark then we can use the tag line "drowning hate, one comment at a time".

By our powers combined, we can end this conflict once and for all! Let's do it, people!
Full version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjBDfZZQz54&feature=relat...
It's a bit subtler than that, even. The M doesn't tell P that he's wrong, he says why he's wrong. He never comes out and says P is wrong, he just lets everyone around "get it." P gets it too, and tries to back off. M keeps spinning the illusion that P is sticking to his guns.

I never realized how evil M was until I thought about it again.
Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone at HN was from there too... we have quite a number of computer-interested people. Anyone?
Slightly OT, but I'm curious about the criteria for making submissions "dead". This one was briefly dead, but reappeared after a few minutes.

Can posts be made "undead" by additional up votes, or was it explicitly brought back by a moderator?
I'm speechless. That defies description.
Rochester Institute of Technology.
Do you drink your whiskey clear?
University of Central Florida. They paid me the most to go to their school ;)
Agreed. It made my day.
not even close. That was a quick slap-together for an undergrad class. And the look and feel is just painful. SPSS would be a better model.
You would have an excellent point if the practice of using phosphorus flares was what was being reported. Unfortunately, the issue that's most heavily reported on is use of phosphorus-based artillery. I invite you to explain to me how reports from UN staff that WP-based artillery shells where used on several warehouses of aid supplies in the midst of a UN compound doesn't constitute use of WP as an incendiary against heavy concentrations of civilians. While you're at it feel free to discuss how WP artillery shells can be deployed in an urban environment without affecting "heavy concentrations of civilians".