skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also "that let's you create notifications" -- should be "lets you".

Also, next screenshot has a title of 'baby cots', but the message below it advertises 'baby cotes'.
Part of the problem is that people will inevitably associate upvotes with a consensus of agreement with the author, and thus trust advice they probably shouldn't.
A double digit percentage overall is still on XP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...
With WP7, Nokia is fighting with one hand tied behind its back. It can really only offer a handful of similar spec'd phones b/c of the platform's limitations. WP8 will allow them to do what Nokia does best and offer a wide range of products across a number of price points. So, I think it is a little premature to count them completely out. With that said, they will live or die with the WP8 launch. Personally, I hope they succeed b/c they have been doing a lot of cool things with their hardware and value added software.
I think you're glossing over the fact that POSIX time was designed to correspond to UTC without needing additional information. Since leap seconds vary in response to solar and geological phenomena, converting from TAI to UTC requires an up-to-date lookup table, while the possibility of out-of-order times can be accounted for in code. I think that's the reasoning behind it moreso than "math is hard".
I just sent you an email - thanks.
Well what is a lynch mob if not a group of people harassing someone (for good or bad) who then is forced to defend themselves (for good or bad) until the group get riled up enough to take them out (in any way, for good or bad)?

My argument was that this backlash could cause enough harassment to put the lawyer out of business, in an attempt to refute the parent's claim that a digital lynch mob could not exist on the Internet. I don't claim to be sympathetic to the lawyer's cause, merely trying to hold a reasonable discussion on a web forum by debating new-tech terminology.
I disagree that panic/recover is worse than exceptions, I find it a more pleasant and lightweight mechanism, but the big difference is that panic/recover are not used like exceptions at all in Go, they are basically used only for programmer errors.

They can be used for other things, but in those cases they never cross API-calls so you never have to worry about whatever a library you call might panic, you can basically ignore panic/recover exists completely, and do just fine, and that is what most people do most of the time.
As I mentioned in the post, we changed our answer because we were overwhelmed by the YC Alumni placing an important emphasis on the figures.

You can't advise someone to put their PhD on hold if it's a great idea without knowing the status of their PhD progress. I'm very close to finishing, I only have to write my introduction and conclusion chapters, the rest is all done, and I have published several papers. So I don't think it would be wise to put it on hold when I'm so close to finishing.

If I was YC, I'd be placing my bets on the companies who say they can give me bigger returns. So I think YC's final decision might be heavily influenced by figures.
"I'm not wild about mob rule (which this is getting elements of) but I'm not wild about law suits by arseholes who in a reasonable world shouldn't have a leg to stand on"

Mob rule is wrong on a few levels one being it is based on normally one side of a story w/o knowing all the intricate details which can sometimes change the way someone would think about something.

"law suits by arseholes who in a reasonable world shouldn't have a leg to stand on"

I agree with that 100%. But once again is the general public (the mob) in a position to determine within a reasonable certainty that the majority of the time the lawsuit doesn't have a leg to stand on?

Speaking generally of course not specifically to this situation.
I know it's poor HN etiquette to pile on 'Me too' responses, and I'm ordinarily very good at refraining, but in this particular case, Primer can't be recommended enough.

I've watched it about 8 times now, and I'm only 'mostly' sure that I understand all of it. It's brilliant beginning to end, and is sometimes on Netflix.
Could you keylog/model a user when using another machine i.e. a public library computer, then use that model to simulate the user (playback) elsewhere? Do you have to capture them typing the 'passphrase'?
The phone app only replays a recorded message from yourself. I have one that runs on a laptop that does text to speech (it plays my music getting gradually louder with the time spoken every minute along with any other messages you want read out (either every minute or at specific times)).

I didn't have much experience with text to speech before this so I just used the open source stuff I knew about (espeak and the mbrola voices). I want to find a good way to do this in the app because I like the functionality so much that I use the laptop app more than the phone app. I'm talking about android so there are a few options I'll look at when I get back to this project.

I can see doing it as a service if you plan to add all sorts of magic on the back end (text to speech, read news/headlines/weather to you). All stuff you could do in an app but when you have that many features you can charge a monthly fee instead of a one time app sale and you can probably monetize the user data as well somehow. So yes, it does make sense.

For some reason this kind of thing trips my privacy alarm, I would be uncomfortable sharing the messages with a third party (even if the most personal message would be something like "get your lazy ass up on time today, you haven't gone for a run in three days"). On reflection this is probably just me and wouldn't apply to most people, I have a strong bias against storing private data or messages in the cloud because I work in those industries and am aware of how common it is to trawl the user data for funny stuff to share with coworkers.
Is there any data on how long that should run for?
RPX is defensive aggregation only - they don't go out and sue people.

There's also value add whenever you have centralized expertise: think PGExperts, Percona, and EnterpriseDB (mysql and postgres consultants) - if I'm running a company whose core business is not in the data, it's usually more economical to outsource that expertise than hire a 'superstar' DBA. Same with RPX: if your core business isn't IP law you might as well outsource that.

This is why consultancies of all shapes and types exist in the world, after all.

Companies spend millions just to defend a suit whether they win or lose - that's why they settle. The genius of RPX is that they basically identified that as an inefficiency aka market opportunity.

A lot of startups could learn from this model: taking an existing market and making it more efficient. That's usually a better bet than building an Instagram or Twitter analytics company - the big caveat of course is you actually have to have domain expertise in an industry to do this type of startup ;)
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Since Apple and Samsung are the majority of the market at this point, it makes a big difference.

Beyond that, you have a number of vendors able to use ARM cores to make product. Never mind AMD getting using ARM cores. Intel has a chipset they want to sell everyone. The ARM ecosystem consists of multiple solutions from multiple vendors all with the core CPU software being the same.
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The word-choice is really a minute issue. The more appalling one is that the "entrepreneur" potentially wins half the prize while his "resources" split the other half. This seems grossly unfair given that the entrepreneur doesn't seem to bring any value other than his/her idea to the event.
Someone asked the question that must have popped into everyone's mind:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/v17kn/iama_former_meth...

> How accurate is Breaking Bad as far as the cooking processes they used in the show?
It's all good, homie. Don't gild the lily. You've already hit the home run by comparing the very real, very brutal killings of blacks, gays, and other minorities at the hands of actual, real lynch mobs to silly Internet jerkoffery. And car engines!

Let your masterpiece speak for itself.
How is this (technically) different from tool already running on mashable.com | blogs.hbr.org ??
Right, transcription. I think Twilio has speech-to-text?
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I think the GC in Go only runs when allocations have been made. No allocations = no GC.
231MB for the linux version, but it's 32bit only.

Yeah, no thanks.
Hm. I have no issues with playback for any of those browsers.
If they make a request for it, they will most likely get it. ICANN has stated they will give preference to non profit/community programs. I would assume the LoC would fall into that category.
I'm not interested in the same old argument either. If you don't consider that hard work or decision-making abilities at least factor into the subsequent states of existence in which people find themselves, what good would data points or arguments be? You have a set of experiences or mental filters completely contrary to my own experiences and understanding of how this society works. Go figure.

It's like when I used to discuss religion with my mother-in-law. When she first declared "There isn't a single error in the Lord's Bible", I really should have just smiled and walked away. Anyone who had lived 55 years on the planet and not absorbed the fact that the earth is demonstrably and astoundingly older than 6,000 years wasn't going to be listening to the rest of my so-called "logic".

I'm still curious when I see people express opinions like yours, though.

With all those preconceptions, what kind of affinity would you have with a site like Hacker News that glorifies the success of the entrepreneur? Are you just observing us in preparation for an invasion? :)
The only distinction I can think of is that in this case, copyright claimant is the original artist, and not a corporation.

In cases of movie & music piracy, the copyright claimant is a corporation. I suspect that copyright violators will rationalize the act as something that has negligible effect on the artist.
According to a recent meme going around, the answer is "no" because the question is a headline.
I look forward to the extra second of sleep.
They seem to implement a variety of graph centric APIs. From a query standpoint, it's easier to use a graph database to do something like find all the people who share interests with someone (person <--> interest <--> person), or find all the grand children in a family tree.

Now whether or not Titan implements these performantly, I have no idea.
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He wasn't asking the guy to take it down in this instance. He was directly responding to the legal threat. The history of the situation is there for context.
> Like many others, I can barely get through their captcha service. I'm actually happy people circumvented it. Maybe someone will think it through this time around.

Anytime you're ready, we're listening.
Yes, his code style is bizarre at best, both for C and Go.

This is particularly jarring in Go when gofmt exists and is used almost universally (I think this is the first time I see non-gofmt'd code in quite a while).
The Verge has better description and size of device:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/14/3078382/karma-4g-pay-as-yo...
It's just the headline that is stupid (altough note it says may), the article itself states in the last paragraph:

This study was unique in showing that telomere length determination by paternal age was generationally additive. It was not designed to determine if older paternal age translates into longer lifespan.

The bibliography in the actual paper cites lots of articles concerning the impact of telomere length on various health-related issues, so it seems that this really was not the point of this study.
Fascinating, I don't think the ycombinator guys run the 'hackerne.ws' site, it looks like a pure MitM type deal (registrar name.com, hosted by ThePlanet in Houston TX?)

I don't doubt you're past the research stage, my comment was that your advice to 'make up numbers, multiply by 10, and then bullshit' is really horrible advice, Scottish or not.

My opinion is that if someone can't providing the reasoning behind their numbers from first principles then you're not in a 'business' you are in a research project.

I've heard dozens of pitches from folks who 'hand wave' around numbers and I sigh. They say "You can't know this, we'll just have to try it and see." And its true you cannot know what sort of revenue you will get but you can do the research to isolate what you know and what you don't know, and then you can come up with some tests for what you don't know which might inform the possible answer.

You're blog post advice tickled a bit of scar tissue that a lot of people reading this share.
I can only answer for one advantage I specifically know of regarding graph DB's over key value:
dynamic, mergeable schemas which enforce data integrity WITHIN the database rather than with code on top of it.

There are many, many people on HN who are much more knowledgeable than I am on graph DB's, and I sure as hell hope they answer on this question.

I'm curious if this supports the RDF, OWL, and SPARQL standards?

I'm a little tired of graph DB's that focus on scale, rather than speed and flexibility though. A good one to check out is Stardog. http://stardog.com/ I think it just went into 1.0.
The idea of a "defensive" patent is that you only ever assert it against another company asserting its patents against you. If you file a patent with the intention of preventing people from using an idea, I suppose you could call that an "aggressive" patent.

> Wasn't protection against copying the original purpose of patents?

The original purpose was to provide an incentive for inventors to (a) invent stuff, and (b) disclose their inventions, so that after a limited time, the invention would be free (as in freedom) to use by any other party.

The problem now is that frivolous patents enable trolls to prevent, discourage, and stifle innovation, and the original purpose of the system is turned on its head.

When my cat plays with reflected lights dancing on the floor, she may well be in violation of somebody's patent.

When you see Google/Apple/Microsoft spending giga$ to acquire patent portfolios, it's not because they're short on brains: they need these patents to play the patent game. And that's so much money that's not being spent making better software for you and me.
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Where's the SPARQL support?
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I actually had just noticed this, and was about to add an "edit: actually, the journalists did note this". Thanks for pointing it out, however. It is then quite silly of me to have spent time reading the paper but not adequately reading the journalistic summary ;P. (I will even then further defend Extreme Longevity by saying that "May" is maybe pushing it, but not unreasonable.)
What makes this graph database "highly scalable, distributed"?

There are difficult theoretical computer science problems that effectively limit the parallelization/distribution of generalized graph operators. To achieve high scalability you have to solve these computer science problems first. If this design offers a novel solution to the longstanding computer science problem then kudos, but nothing at the site suggests this is the case.

Many graph databases have claimed high scalability and distributability but none of those claims have held up over time due to the aforementioned computer science problems. This may be a very nice graph database but I am skeptical of the claims of "highly scalable, distributed" unless there is evidence that it uses fundamentally new theoretical computer science to achieve that.
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"I'm much more fearful of a legal regime that could step in and simply dictate the business operations of a private entity."

Which is so unlike the legal regime that backs up that "private" entity when it uses government granted privilege to keep competitors at bay (such as with patents and insane copyright legislation).

I would be perfectly fine with having their own little private ecosystem where they pull the rug out from under developers -- if they would stop trying to undermine those trying to compete with it via lawsuits, for that would just mean that they would ultimately learn their lesson. But when the government stands behind their tyranny over developers, they never learn.
I'm sure the way I type is quite different when I type on another computer's keyboard... I don't see the point of this...
Link without framespam: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/5511619/14-year-old...
Not quite (this was discussed just yesterday). There's a framebuffer driver that works just fine. There's a binary GPU driver you can grab from the MeeGo archives which will run on current i686 distros. Graphics are about as well supported under linux (which is not to say "well") as this device is, which limits you to this "Puppy Linux" thing.

And of course for things that are not graphics, it's a PC, not a no-name ARM SoC. You can run RHEL or Ubuntu on it, plug in your favorite PCI card, etc...
They can power down specific instruments to stay within the decaying threshold. Wikipedia has this timeline of instrument power-downs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1#Interstellar_mission
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Would be cool if you could record tomorrow's message by responding to the current wakeup call - I find something like talking involves waking up more than just listening.

Although judging by my mood in the mornings, my message would be along the lines of "Don't wake up, don't do it. It's too late for me now, go back to sleep whilst you still can!"
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You're right; it was designed to make interoperating with UTC easier.

Converting from TAI to UTC requires a lookup table; but consider that this is already a problem: your local clocks almost always keep time in seconds, not UTC. In order to keep UTC/POSIX time, it needs regular updates from the network (NTP) or shipping around a lookup table. This probably made more sense before large-scale use of NTP, but nowadays I don't know anyone who syncs their clock to a UTC source.

UTC is in general fucked because two different systems, depending on the state of their lookup tables, may not agree on what time a given number represents. This is an especially big problem for embedded systems which can't receive regular updates; consider that a UTC device manufactured in the 70s may disagree by up to 30 seconds with a modern UTC clock.

The easiest resolution to the problem is likely to drop leap seconds from UTC altogether; at which point POSIX, TAI, and UTC can proceed in lockstep corrected by a fixed offset. [1] Then we can use fixed lookup tables to compute relationships for the period where we were using leap seconds.

[1] I think. Need to check SI/NIST on this.
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Why didn't you just link the actual article?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/5511619/14-year-old...
Right. The internet is not confused about this issue. The internet backlash is against FunnyJunk threatening a lawsuit against the Oatmeal. The Oatmeal could not have raised $100k+ in support of suing FunnyJunk.

edit: removed personal reference
Yes, but that's only true if you get down to zero allocations. Memory pools reduce allocations, but you cannot get down to zero allocations--even if you somehow managed to convert every allocation site into a memory pool (which basically means not using the standard library), you'd still have to allocate the pool (unless it's stored in static memory, but then your maximum number of allocations is fixed).

The only code I've seen that actually had zero allocations in a GC'd language is actually Emscripten-generated code in JS, which is of course not actually JS but C.
Why would Android as a latecomer have worse prospects than "OS nobody wants as a latecomer"?

They have been capable of creating good hardware, which is all Android users really want. Of course it is an ego thing, but I think in the beginning Symbian also did not belong to Nokia and they didn't mind using it for their phones (I might be wrong about the history here).

Other companies like Samsung even manage to publish Android phones and phones with other OS.
I'm curious about that. Does every major website typically have two access points, one with "www." and one without, where one is redirected to the other?
>> A red hot, pea-sized piece of rock then hit his hand before bouncing off and causing a foot wide crater in the ground.

That's crazy. I don't understand how it didn't take his hand off.
For one of our clients they had 100k+ hits from IE6/7 alone in the last 30 days. It's not that uncommon a browser, no matter how much it should be.
"How to circle people, how to perfect your profile, how to craft effective posts, how to comment, how to respond to comments, and how to share photographs."
This warrants a book?
"Damn, FunnyJunk is stupid. Couldn't they have just grabbed the image files off Inman's site?"
A sandbox for XML development including XSL,XPath,XQuery,Schema,DTD
Just enter your code in the various panels - whichever you need to use - and generate output.
What if there were only few users because it was rather hard to get devices and it was never really advertised outside the tech circles?
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I'm perplexed as to how it was going fast enough to leave a 1 foot wide crater in the ground, but only left a scar on his hand. I would think anything hitting your hand at 30,000mph would simply rip your hand off?
Conspiracy theories aside, WebGL is more a threat to the Adobe Flash monopoly than anything else.

> you will see WebGL games starting to take down PC games sales

More like Angry Birds and whatnot... we're a long way from running something like Skyrim or Call of Duty on a browser.
It sounds like there's room for someone with appstore submission experience to offer a service with a faster turnaround and official submission guarantees (i.e., we'll review your app in a day, give you feedback, and if we say it's good and it gets rejected, we'll refund your money).
It's just that lately all sites seem to go the video only route, which is a shame. And really, why not have both?

It's not about complaining about everything - it's just that I won't care to check out their product. Their loss, not mine.
I agree with the skeptics here. If it left a crater in the ground he wouldn't have his hand (scientists, feel free to chime in). I call BS.