skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1.) LOL I dunno!

2.) I never talked to PG, I can't speak to that.

3.) The problems were absolutely cumulative over the course of development. Neither Greg nor Arun were engineers or technical in any way and the hardware developer had a full time job that was not WakeMate. I started ~1.5 months before launch and was told the hardware was functional. I managed to get the iOS version to work most of the time but the firmware was hosed in such a way that pretty much all units would fail over the course of a few months.
What about the reverse? If one co-founder leaves, does that make you “founder” and not co-founder?
I think he ment Dalvik by "The Android JVM". It's really JVM, sure, but it's similar.
It's still in beta, so not bundled with the OS yet. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
Check out the name of Greg's new company. I'm sure it's designed to sound like the original company:

* Wakemate: By Perfect Third Inc. (http://wakemate.com/about/)

* MiLife+: By Three Thirds Inc. (http://www.indiegogo.com/GregNemeth)

Somehow this all reminds me of the JooJoo tablet (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/12/crunchpad-tablet-jooj...).

Picking the right Co-founders is so important! I would not start a company with a person unless we have a proven track record and have built trust over several years and having worked together on a number of projects.
any information about PostGis compatibility?
Whether or not you believe we're approaching or passed Peak Oil, it's astounding the impact that technology improvements in horizontal drilling and shale gas are having on domestic oil and natural gas prices vs. the rest of the world.

Currently, natural gas trades for ~$3 in the US vs. ~$12 in Europe. No pure arbitrage available here, because Nat Gas is extremely expensive to transport. But, as the US infrastructure develops (natural gas gas stations, more power plants running on nat gas, etc.), this discrepancy will deteriorate.

Deliberately ignoring the environmental implications, this is a great thing for the US. For once, we might actually be able to use energy for leverage vs. the rest of the global economy, not the other way around.
Yeah, it almost looks like a premultiply issue, but PNG should be non-premultiplied, so...

http://imgur.com/6ovIu

Also, the original has values in the RGB channels for pixels with no alpha that aren't visible (due to the alpha) but need to be compressed, so it's not a fair test (although both do to some degree - turquoise area around the bear), so the new one could be compressed even more.
Eh, opinion pieces like this typically annoy me. They are about as bad as your daily horoscope: They talk about the future as if it is something that will happen to us and is already largely predetermined rather than something we can activly participate in creating and shaping. We all make choices every single day which help shape the future. I think the world would be a better place if we talked more about what we want and how we can make it happen and less about imaginary scenarios of this sort, whether they are gloom-and-doom or pie-in-the-sky.
$ pngquant -iebug image.png
Which is better, two 20WHr batteries or one 40WHr battery?
With a normal, functioning sleep cycle, or sleep/wake patterns that are predictable or manageable, there's little benefit besides the cool factor of tracking everything. Some of us have sleep issues, whether environmental or biological that we'd like to understand and manage better. I, for example, have been diagnosed with non-24 hour sleep disorder. The treatment is basically cycling through sleeping pills and amphetamines. I think the necessity of that is absurd and would rather find better ways to deal with it (like having alarm clocks actually work. I have a 50/50 shot of not waking up when my alarm goes off and instead wake up hours later with it having been going off the whole time, even when I would have had plenty of sleep). That being said, the technology is still very primitive and expensive for what it provides.
When you look at an acorn, do you see a nut or an oak tree? :)
You're right, proper transparency support is step 1 -- but that isn't to say that GIMP couldn't have some sort of automatic lossy compression tool (akin to this) on top of that tech.

EDIT: I suppose this software is equivalent to gimp's "Automatically select palette" option when converting images to indexed. Perhaps that option could be replaced with a list of algorithms to choose from, like how the Size dialog lets you choose your own scaling algorithms.
Not to mention the huge-type "Click here for all the detials" typo. Painful.
Infusion make it Open-Source
And with gyroscopic and GPS info, also every interior space as well.
How does the NSA hire computer scientists?
The platform fragmentation is still fairly poor for game development, even with the support libraries.
My buddy owns Rail Yard! Great stuff!!!
You know the tech world is in a sorry state when "Made for Google Play" is openly touted as a good thing. Where's the mobile platform that aims to be a computer instead of the next TV?
Interesting. If people are going to be wearing glasses all day to have access to all sorts of data, then they may as well have prescription lenses on those glasses if they are nearsighted. This could potentially destroy the market for LASIK.
Founding a company and being able to work for it are two completely different things.

e.g., you can easily start a US company regardless of your US immigration/citizenship status - but you won't be allowed to work for it (and you might be denied entry when you come to board meetings ....)
Speaking a Foreign Language Reduces Decision Biases
Interesting.

I wonder if instead of dedicated hardware controllers, the touch screens on phones could be used as a substitute.
If we can move coal and oil loads to natural gas, it's an environmental win, too. (not as big as nuclear or wind or solar, but still better, especially for everything except CO2).

I would almost argue for natural gas + global warming abatement (ocean seeding, atmospheric modification) as the least bad likely path through the 21st century. At the very least, move other fossil fuels to natural gas while working on other energy sources.
Psychological Studies on Pricing
Let me offer a solution: It's time for Google to offer a Google+ Certification for Android. These certified devices would have two important characteristics:

1. They are guaranteed to run the latest version of Android for 5 years.

2. They are guaranteed to have a clean version of Android, without any carrier or device maker modifications.

No doubt the marketing people can come up with other things to add to the list, but that's the gist of it.

If such a certification existed, personally I would only shop among those options.

Such a certification would require that Google have some sort of compatibility criteria, and that their future development efforts run well within those criteria. So it constrains Google just as much as the OEMs. The certification should be cheap, but not free. And I picked the name for Sergey's buy-in.

The nice thing about this (voluntary) certification program is that OEMs don't have to participate. And in fact could have certified and uncertified devices. The program captures the essential qualities that made the iPhone successful, in my opinion. The App Store is a big part of their success, and developing for the iPhone is far more pleasant because of the stability of the platform.

EDIT: Okay, if it was 3 years I'd still be happy.
Does anyone have a pointer to the backstory to this? The response and the discussion here don't make a lot of sense without knowing about what previously happened.
I do indeed, but it's sort of an increase by default. SV pays that level so to attract you have to price accordingly, or that's my shaky not based on anything but gut feeling theory.
"91% of the Android market is covered by 3 major versions (2.2, 2.3, and 4.0). 72% is covered by just two major versions (2.3 and 4.0)."

Disingenuous. 65% of that 72% is 2.3. And now, yet another major version has been released.
Why the snark? There is much talk on HN and elsewhere about how new ideas are generated, how companies try to be "innovative," etc. This is just his take on one way he comes up with new ideas. I don't have the same fascination with screws, but he obviously didn't mean it to be literal for everyone to do the exact same thing. It certainly made me think about both the physical things and processes all around me that I constantly take for granted. Questioning these things is how we are always evolving and improving. I'd say reminding people of this is valuable.
The thing that really bugs me with SQLite3 is the inability to modify tables. It's not much of a problem unless you have foreign key constraints and then it's a nightmare. Ultimately I resorted to just recreating the entire database from a script every time I had to make a change. If this is "fixed" in SQLite4 then I'm sold.

I'm surprised that there aren't any real binary integers stored anymore but I can see how that would reduce complexity compared to how numbers were handled in SQLite3.
It was the Verdana wasn't it? My fault.
That is why mailinator.com was created...
Same link, discussion from earlier today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4167721
Ask HN: Hacker's List of Favorite FE Dev Tools
I'm having to do a lot of fe dev lately and would like to know what all you expert fe guys most favorite tools and libraries are? Currently, I'm using chrome for js debugging, less.js for more managable css, jquery as my stdlib, etc. But I'd like to have a list of your favorites so I can look at them and test them out. Also a powerful js unit tester would be nice!

Thanks!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4167436
The 7" form factor: big enough to be a pain in the ass to carry and small enough to be useless for most tablet stuff anyway.

In my opinion, a mobile device should have a keyboard big enough for me to type using ten fingers, or it should fit in my pocket. Using something in between baffles me.
Why? Do you think someone will release a consumer-ready one before that?
I agree it's too much. It's got to be the amplifier that's pushing the price up so far right? I'm not sure what else it has that the other boxes don't.
This is a really smart insight regarding seniors. So often technology is something that leaves the elderly behind, but occasionally something wonderful and unexpected happens as a side effect.

Specifically, I'm thinking of eReaders ability to adjust font sizes and the 'magic' side effect of making every book a large print edition.

I could see similar outcomes with augmented vision glasses: magnifying modes for reading menus, high contrast adjustments for when it's dark, etc.
The first one. (The Xoom 2 isn't a Google experience device ~= nexus)
It's manufactured (mostly) in the United States, which is probably pushing up the price some.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/technology/google-and-othe...
I guess that must be it. I'd actually pay $100 for this without the amplifier and just an audio output I can plug into the speaker system I already have. Who is buying this product that doesn't already have an amp?
FWIW, this is from recent Morgan Stanley coverage entitled "Tablet Landscape Evolution
Window(s) of Opportunity":

Amazon.com was not in our Blue Paper a year ago. After
a rapid Kindle Fire ramp in 4Q11, its long-term share
looks uncertain. The company gained 17 points of tablet
market share in 4Q11 after launching the Kindle Fire in mid-
November. Just as quickly, the product lost steam and fell to 4% share in 1Q12. While the company looks to be committed
to the tablet market long-term, it is not a preferred way to play tablet proliferation given the current uncertainty in our view.

[...]

Amazon.com’s Kindle Fire is also seeing less interest—
with only 4% of the current tablet installed base and with only 3% of prospective tablet owners planning to purchase an
Amazon.com tablet. However, we believe Amazon.com may
refresh the Kindle Fire in Q3, with an update to the current 7-inch product and potentially a new 10-inch Kindle Fire.
Amazon.com has been elusive about any upcoming product
releases and consumers have not seen any prototype, so
potential demand for a refreshed 7-inch Fire and a new 10-
inch Fire tablet are likely not fully captured in this survey.

It was mostly about other topics, but I think their sales research is accurate.
You still don't understand.

The if test is correct. It's using non-zero as "truth". That's what you're talking about, and there's absolutely no question that it's doing the right thing here.

The negation is not using non-zero for truth, because it's a negation of a bool, and bools are restricted to only being 0 and 1. However since this particular bool is undefined, the in-memory representation happens to not meet that restriction. But that doesn't matter. The value is undefined. The negation could, quite legally, cause demons to fly out your nose. The fact that you've observed, prior to the negation, that the value appears to be true has no meaning. Undefined values remain undefined even after observation and after manipulation.
You could, but then you may as well just run the game on a tablet.

For playing games, especially action games you really want tactile feedback (so that it's easy to judge the angle you are holding the joystick at without looking at it etc). It also helps that good controllers fit well into your hands for long playing sessions.
> . Are you optimizing for the lazy company that won't set up an OLAP for analytics and is trying to make their OLTP database do the work?

What you have described is pretty much every startup (rationale: moving too fast to bother, not enough time to do it).
While the amplifier may be "audiophile-grade", 12.5W per channel is pretty weak.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if this is selling below manufacturing cost? At least, I thought that was the case with the Kindle Fire, which has less impressive specs?

Either way, could be interesting times ahead if Amazon, Apple, and Google are all marking out their tablet+store territory...
http://www.dailyscript.com/
You didn't buy your OS from Google. You didn't buy your device from Google. Your phone doesn't have the latest OS because your device manufacturer isn't giving it to you.
> A website is the most user-friendly and accessible platform possible

A website requires a browser, a human, and bunch of clicking around. Every single time you want to do this.

API / library requires script to be written and added to production pipeline. Once. Then runs without human intervention.

The most human friendly interface is the one that saves humans from doing boring, tedious, automatable tasks.
It's a Kindle Fire competitor. Without doubt. Having played with one at one of the IO Extended events today, and given the massive emphasis on the play store and video/audio/written content being made available Google are definitely making a play for Kindle territory here.

Like you, I'm pretty ambivalent on the 7" format, but that isn't stopping people from buying Kindle Fires...
Here's what I can tell you from what I've gathered.

--There was WakeMate, a YC company
--They were having issues (with hardware, customers...)
--Greg (one of the founders) left
--He started a new company that is trying to make a similar product by crowdfunding the capital needed
--He emailed all of the WakeMate users
--Nobody told Arun (another founder)
--Arun discontinued WakeMate and apologized to the WakeMate users for the unauthorized email

I think you're caught up.
Founding a company is an act. Those who found a company are its founders. It can't be undone.
If you're writing code in any environment but an early-stage startup, the qualities it has when read by a human are ALSO the primary criteria.
Boss, wanted to fire, Boss got fired, got Boss position. Similar plot line IMO.
Is this thing actually any different than an AppleTV + AirPlay[1]? It seems like essentially the same thing at 3x the cost. I'd love to know if there's anything I'm missing.

[1] I mean besides that this is for Android instead of iOS
Well thats crummy, it was a link that was posted in the comments on TechCrunch.
Chill Heats up with $8 Million in Funding and a TMZ Content Partnership
This is great. The only thing I have a gripe with is:

> They are guaranteed to run the latest version of Android for 5 years.

5 years is too long. The HTC Dream, the first Android phone, was released less than 4 years ago. It only has a 528Mhz processor and 192MB of RAM. I don't want to know what the ICS or JB experience would be on that device...

Keep in mind the iPhone only turned 5 this year (the App Store turns 4 in a couple weeks). And the last version that supported it (with limited features) was released 3 years afterwards.

I think 3 years is more reasonable. Most people are eligible for a discounted phone upgrade every 2 years. I think that would fit in for most folks.
I sincerely agree. However 5 years is a long time, perhaps 3 is more appropriate. Keep in mind that the first iPhone was introduced 5 and a half years ago.
My buddy has a TMobile MyTouch phone (forget which one) and he goes through three batteries per day. My Samsung Admire lasts a day and a half on one battery with similar usage.

The difference is his MyTouch is "thin and sexy" and mine has a battery bulge and a tick smaller screen. Small battery + large power hungry screen = angry user base. He hates it but he's pretty loyal to TMobile. I suggested getting another Android phone but he's rather soured by the experience and plans on getting a WinPhone or iPhone (if they get them) when his contract is up.
Yes, this is the point I was trying to make.
I've found tools like SQLAlchemy do let you compose queries pretty well.

I've been told ClojureQL has a similar property.
This means the world won't descend into chaos before we finish the transition away from fossil fuels.

I'm not worried about advancement in renewable energy. It will slow as oil gets cheaper, but not too much. Energy companies will continue to develop it as a long-term plan since they've already spent so much time and money working on it.
I agree entirely. I meant it as a joke :)
Actually ... this is a valid question. I have a pretty high prescription and can't bear to wear contact lenses. Am I out of luck?

Note: I think the price is pretty fair. If this was open to non IO attendees, I'd sign up for it. I want to understand what the solution is for people with prescription glasses.
The next phone you buy will not come from the OEM that screwed you out of an update.

Theoretically, at least.
Interesting point. Has anybody charged for Android updates? IMO, $9.99 for a major upgrade wouldn't be offensive and could be a pretty decent chunk of revenue...
It's probably relevant that the company was in the Netherlands, not in the US. In my experience Dutch companies are much, much more reluctant to sue than American companies. Even though under Dutch law as under American law it would probably come out in their favour (I say probably because his boss fired him for writing the program on company time, if the company afterwards claims that this was work for hire rather than abuse of company time then they may have screwed themselves on the legality of the firing).

I'm also skeptical of such a perfect story, but the company not suing is not such a red flag to me.
A few questions Ankur:

1. How many rows were actually present in the tables (in all)?

2. What did the VSZ and RSS for mysqld and memsqld(?) look like at peak and after benchmarking was completed?

3. What did the CPU usage of each mysqld and memsqld(?) look like at peak and what was the total amount of processor time used by each database?

4. As a percentage, how many statements were inserts and how many were queries - am guessing I might be able to get an idea my looking at the code, but it's easier to ask - esp. since you'll know more about the code.

5. AUTOCOMMIT ON or OFF? (dunno what the defaults are).
Five years is ridiculous. The phones three years ago are vastly less powerful than the ones now - building Android so that it definitely fitted onto them would be nigh impossible.
You're somewhat wrong. Chrome will put browsing contexts that normally can't reach each other via the DOM on the same event loop (and in the same process) if it decides it's got too many renderer processes spawned already. Once it does that, they can try to reach each other via the DOM if they have window names.
Five years is a really long time in the mobile industry, and will be for the coming decade, even if the crazy tempo is slowing somewhat. According to wikipedia [1] typical high-end 2009 phone (which is just three years) had 256 MB RAM and 600 mhz ARMv6 processor. I think two or three years would be enough, with todays rate of improvement.

Other than that, it's a great idea.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Android_devices
When Chrome first came out it didn't have a super-mega-fast-quick JS engine. Certainly not by today's standards. ;)
Sqlite is really just one of those rare software projects that simply makes the world a better place. No more thinking about file storage formats, searching and indexing strategies, long term file readability (it's almost as future proofed as ASCII), extensible, flexible, fast and all around awesome.

The number of projects where sqlite turned a difficult project from impossible or very hard to doable is almost uncountable.

Here's a fun use case. Generate sqlite databases for each user, let them do whatever they want in that database from whatever interface you are letting them use. Store the sqlite file as a binary blob in a "real" database with associated metadata for fast look up and retrieval, plus whatever other things your database gives you (replication, redundancy etc.) And now you basically get sand boxed work spaces for your users almost for free.
Judging from the screenshots on the page of Google's tablet, text and the UI is really small. I hope it can be adjusted.
Exactly, it's not competing on features, it's competing on price. That's sort of what it means to be "price-competitive" :)
What I mean is, you said these two things back to back:

"Steve Jobs never needed to have someone jump out of a plane to get people excited about a product"

"I was far more impressed with the Nexus 7 and Jelly Bean than any of the rest of the demos."

Doesn't the second sentence mean you're excited about a Google product? A product that they didn't demo by having someone jump out of a plane with? Isn't that a direct contradiction to what you're saying about Google with first sentence?
TV is a better fit for same-room multiplayer. Could even do multi screen games like with the Wii U. Trouble is the GPU is a bit on the weak side, it's fine for the 4" Nexus but probably won't scale up to 1080p
Ex wakemate engineer as well, documenting all of this: http://storify.com/mvidutis/wakemate-returns

Ask me anything
> lol open up a phone

You don't sound like someone interested in having a conversation. Have a good day.
I don't think these were thinking that a particular tool is necessary for creating good art, either. It is more about the fact that any craftsman becomes quite attached to their particular tools.

This is the root cause of the endless Vi vs. Emacs debates as well.
Thanks. That's definitely some good advice, and stuff to think on. As a user I remember being initially taken aback by subreddits, but it was a brilliant move for those reasons.

I'm already following r/michigan, but I'll check r/grandrapids out. So many people say good things about GR. I'm in Ann Arbor, yet I never get over there.
You can alter tables to add columns. Doing more complex modifications would require SQLite internally to do pretty much what you do - recreating a new database from existing content.
It's a pipe dream, but otherwise it's fine.
Why not put your company in your profile too?