skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary, the International Olympic Committee will sell sponsorship to any corporation willing to shell out the most money to be "The Official {string} of the 2012 Olympics", no matter the category or how inappropriate it is.
The "we steal your data" tagline in the video didn't give it away?
Brilliant. I'm sure that Brad Bradstone will be one of the first to sign up: http://doublestealth.blogspot.com/
Oh I know they are in no way similar. I was just posting as further background to the issue.
The Difference Between Business Development and Sales
TechCrunch doesn't cover your startup? Look what this italian startup did...
It doesn't seem all that novel to me. They're just changing the source of their revenue from ads to Kickstarter.

You could argue that this lets them be freer with their art and writing, since they won't have to worry about offending their advertisers, but has that ever been an issue for them in the past? (The closest thing I can think of would be the Strawberry Shortcake comic, but that wasn't an ad-related issue.)
Japan's Ambitious New Sleipnir Browser and Smartphone App Linker [Review]
Shot in the dark. Seems like this author, or school of thought, is suggesting, through this therapeutic model, that one should harness the clinical signs of Asperger's Syndrome, chiefly: stimming; or, Go Super Saiya-jin (tense up -- ???).
I was sued for libel under an unjust law
> The horror of slavery was that you had no choice in life

Your argument is all just semantics. Fine, slaves had no choice, and a large segment of Japanese (and other) society have no meaningful choice. Happy?

Slavery is a concept, anyway. You don't have to pedantically compare every single use of the word to some pet historical incident. I think it's entirely reasonable to compare sections of the working class's lives to slavery, and your attempts to "ban" the whole topic are really misguided and inappropriate, IMO.
if you are looking for treatment options for brain cancer, please see http://pubmedly.com/demo there's the standard temodar and then there's the other options that may have better outcomes, like novocure
Looking forward to the title police stopping by soon on this one.
If you'd like to read a more accurate and detailed article on the new study: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/07/tree-r...
First Look at the 2012 Android Development Kit
They're not the first to do this: http://www.isgtw.org/spotlight/greenest-volunteer-grid-them-...
As pointed out by emarcotte, the claim is not that anyone would think that the Olympic committee was making gyros but that the gyro makers are benefitting off the Olympic trademark without paying sufficient money like Coke or McDonalds.
At the very least by running in cooler temperatures, you're avoiding the need for additional air conditioning.
Very entertaining. Hey, can the Vooza guys tell me how you guys did your video? What equipment did you use? How did you get the black background with lighting done well?
Rails - Migrate All of Your Model Classes When Using MiniRecord
I'm a bit confused. I feel like this is an extremely old joke at this point. Aren't we all pretty keenly aware of the memes and absurdities that crowd the startup industry? Am I missing some unique or new observation being made that hasn't been made 50 times already by pretty much everyone?
A new Digital record label committed to supporting musicians and music education
Won't most of your other users catch wind of this and fake cancel just to get the discount?

Ask a simple question, get a simple answer: no.

More elaboration:

This misconception comes from a few places.

Many HNers passionately care about money. Many customers don't. In particular, the best customers (largely businesses) perceive not even the smallest scintilla of pain from software bills ranging from $20 to $20k per month and the person who'd actually be pushing that button at the business perceives no difference in their personal lives based on what the price is.

Additionally, we live in our software, are familiar with all the intricacies, and assume that they matter. Our customers deal with our software only sporadically, and generally only allow it to distract them from things that matter to the extent it is required to accomplish their goal. They don't typically go spelunking for hidden options. They (largely) don't go to CustomersOfFooApp.com to swap hidden secrets about FooApp because customers of FooApp care about FooApp about 1/10000000th as much as the developers of FooApp do.

Finally, most people have what you might describe as either a moral compass or a fear of embarrassment which will counsel them that attempting to scam businesses for discounts is not something they want to be doing. (This assumes you're not dealing with a customer population which is toxic by nature. Charge more.)
Ouya Breaks Kickstarter Records
Apple's response is here:

http://www.tuaw.com/2012/07/11/apple-responds-to-epeat-move/

tl;dr -- EPEAT is out of date, doesn't cover phones or tablets, and you can be EPEAT certified without even being Energy Star compliant (Dell is cited as an example).

So the knee jerk response from City of SF etc. is idiotic posturing. Are they also boycotting Dell?
Ha, something like that wouldn't surprise me these days. Of course I signed up for the mailing list, looking forward to more exciting 'product announcements'.
> A little touchy, aren't we?

I really don't know what you're trying to imply.

But actually I'd say I'm being pedantic at most. Because factual accuracy matters.
I haven't built any complex Android apps so far but I've found IntelliJ's Android support to be very good. The only thing I've really missed so far is the visual layout tool in Eclipse but IntelliJ does give you realtime previews of your layout so it's not too hard doing things in XML.
I'm agreeing with svdad, who emphasized the role of caveat emptor in OTC derivative transactions.

There's no significant distinction (IMO) between a trade on a 3m butterfly on the JPY/USD vs. a the 3%-7% tranche of Abacus - both are derivative transactions with well-defined risk/rewards, and you do your own research and come to your own conclusions on the value of the product. Sure, one is more liquid, more transparent, etc. but that's a factor to be taken into account when buying, not a reason for complaining when MTM moves against you.
You should check some of the MVNO providers in Germany.

These mobile operators compete on price and anything that smells like custom development of a blah-portal-blah is cut.

There was a time when ISPs used to think the could do value-add crap. Orange-dialup had a news service. BT had a portal and email. Like the ISPs, our carriers will become the fat pipe they fear. Just slower than we'd want.
Also I notice you havn't added any videos yet ;) but when you do, if you encounter anything that warrents feedback, please dont hesitate to get in touch <hello@mustwatch.it> or @mustwatchit on twitter
I'm more worried that products like this will put an end to the ease of crowdfunding.

A few more duds like this that raised over $200,000 for developers and engineers clearly without the technical know-how and prowess to pull something like this off and deliver what they promised just makes it that much harder for people to have their projects taken seriously on kickstarter in the future.
How about:

http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume5/lewis04a/a11-smart-...

Also, see previous discussion at:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218335/stop-words-list-f...
This is why the Robolympics is no longer called that.
I believe the main earlier problem was that M:N broadcasting in mysql didn't scale well, but I could be mistaken.
hey robbie, i am working on a crowd sourced site to find evidence based treatment options for a disease. i would like to get feedback from you as you are a med student. would you reach out? my contact is my uesrname at gmail

thanks.
I have two daughters of my own who are roughly the same age as Aaron's and it's crushing to think about how those girls will be affected by losing their Dad. Donated..
Re: Olympic paint - towards the end of the article, they refer to a grandfather clause for names established before 1978.
Internet use undermines religious affiliation.
> So the knee jerk response from City of SF etc. is idiotic posturing.

Is the government of San Francisco known for much else?
Omg, did you read this article at all? Point is NOT about extra money.

Point is about eliminating single point of failure situations, e.g. only one guy knows how to handle really important client..

That should never happen, and by paying an extra buck, and forcing you to be detached from work they are giving you incentive to build fallback measures, write better docs etc.
The article says: A grandfather clause allows businesses named before 1978, like Olympic Paints, to keep the name
The Caves of Clojure: Part 3.4
i'm more pessimistic. i'm expecting something along the lines of a smaller kindle fire....useless unless you are getting amazon e-content.
I've also been previewing what is coming up in the next month's bag, so they have an idea of whats in the pipeline. At first I wanted to preserve the surprise of what shirt is actually coming, but decided we might as well show the main item and surprise subscribers in other ways.
I have flash enabled, but there was no reason for me to click on a video. I have to be at least a little interested before I'll watch a video.
Maybe you need a better flash blocker. The site worked great on iOS.
Or mountains for that matter. It would have been a trademark mess if Seattle had ever gotten the games.

According to the article, Olympic Paints were grandfathered in, as they were using the name prior to 1978.
Part 1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4212948

Part 2: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4214606

Part 3.1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4218287

Part 3.2: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4223832

Part 3.3: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4229181
Rod Johnson leaving SpringSource/VMware
With analog cellular, yes. With digital cellular, several connections can share a given frequency, somewhat expanding the number of connections per tower, although there is still a limit. However, I find that AT&T ignores the pressing bandwidth needs of the customers. During rush hour, no matter how perfect my signal strength, I get terrible data bandwidth. Its not the cell tower, its the connection from there onward.
Yes, the comparison is not about some era (what each company did at the same specified time) but about the methodology (how each company handled a specific transition to a different OS).
A sweet and geeky tour of PEZ Candy headquarters
> ... the list of reasons for which the government will be allowed to shut down a site is now strictly defined ... (and) ... includes web pages which advocate suicide, substance abuse, excessively risky behavior, and child pornography.

Isn't this pretty much the same as they have in Australia and France?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Australi...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_France
I can't think of a better example for buyer-beware. The crowd-funding idea is new and exciting, and a lot of people are jumping in on ideas they want to see come to fruition, without properly vetting those behind those ideas.

We will probably see some money come out of crowdfunding, but only the mindless money that was being thrown at it before that shouldn't have been. This product shouldn't have been funded, and likely, in the future, a product with similar prospects won't be. That's a good thing.
Well I bitch about my vacation all the time (I get 2 weeks and 13 holidays, which really sucks for someone that likes to travel).

But on the flip side, the European vacation schedule can be destructive. I've worked with an Italian company that was trying to expand their market into the US., and the 6 week summer vacation literally sank any chance of their entrance. They invested millions of dollars, hired a bunch of people in the US (and didn't give the US employees similar vacation to their Italian ones), and were really rolling. In the spring they signed a couple million dollars in deals with distributors. Then July/August rolled around and the parent company went entirely on vacation. You couldn't even get the CEO. Phone calls went unanswered. Orders went unfilled. That literally sank their entrance to the market. A year later, they are effectively done and have lost all of their investment. No one will buy from them.

Imagine trying to compete with an American startup company but taking 6 weeks off completely. What happens during that time? I'm all for individual employees taking vacation to avoid burn out - honestly right now I could go for a week off - but shutting down the entire company for multiple weeks in a row puts you at a huge disadvantage. China, Japan, the US, and the BRICS aren't taking 6 week vacations. I don't care how efficient you are, if your company shuts down while your competitors keep rolling, it is unlikely that you will succeed in any competitive markets.
I did a Hangout for a work meeting recently, and the audio quality was terrible. I think we had 4 participants, and every time someone said something it would be "reverbed" like a speech in a stadium. It sucked.
Ask HN: Tracking hours for 20+ person web agency?
Few months ago I have stumble upon on software for running web agency business. It is some kind of tracking hours and project managament tools, but made especially for web agencies with 20 persons or more.

Because 'project managament' is really crowded on Google I cannot find them anymore. I didn't bookmarked and I didn't remember the name. I think the founder is some 20-something years old guy with Russian origins, could be Alexey or Sergey or similar name.

Help from all PM people that are tracking new software would be appreciated. Software is I think from 2012 and fairly new.

Their website is similar to letsfreckle.com and I even think I am on good place, but Freckle is optimized as almost all other PM tools for 1-5 person agenices.

This software done by Russian/Ukraine guys was optimized for my kind of business, 20+ persons agency.

It has those features:
- time tracking (with non billable hours)
- invoicing
- estimates I think also

It is SAAS application.
I think it has blog where founder told it's build by web design studio to web design studios [or similar]

It's not: FreshBooks, Harvest, Paymo, Ronin, BillingApp, Fanurio, Ronin, etc.

HN is the last place I think I could get the right link. Thank you a lot!
It's like Portlandia.. for startups?
I'm pretty used to seeing Hacker News posts about something and having absolutely no idea what they are talking about.

Based on the way headlines are edited, this seems to be on purpose.
Nokia Accuses Google's Nexus 7 of Patent Infringement
It's inspirational in that whole, take failure and make nothing of it sort of way. I need a Kleenex. And Vooza.
Of course, EOL is a huge exaggeration.

I've been running a machine with 10.5.4 on it for 3 years, and just 2 days ago got a brand new Air with 10.7.x

I notice some differences, sure, but nothing that makes my old laptop "obsolete" or "EOL" compared to the new one. The real difference is the new machine has twelve times more storage, 4 times more RAM and another CPU core.
Netflix's lost year: The inside story of the price-hike train wreck
Would anyone even notice if search engines only indexed the top million sites?
And now its about to hit the 3million mark.
$2,935,681
Google Wave tried to do all that and failed.
There's a certain amount of irony in this comment. If only there was a way to capture this sentiment in the joke that is Vooza.
Yep I had the same problem with just two participants. Then switched to Skype using the same equipment and it vastly better. I guess Skype have had years to fine-tune their technology.
The most thoughtful comment unfortunately buried underneath HN bull-fucking-shit (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4229330)

This might be the straw for me. Fuck this place.
Google Nexus Q? Hacked
Energy Efficient LED Lighting Could Be Sprayed on Paper
I'm not worried about that, I'm hoping it happens. It obviously should be harder to have your project taken seriously and raise 200k. I adore kickstarter, but it shouldn't be a gold rush for anyone good at making videos, but not products.
Open-source Ouya gaming platform killing it on Kickstarter
offering different prices to different customers is playing with fire

This is a falsehood believed by engineers for nebulous reasons largely founded in naivety about business. Businesses routinely offer the same service at multiple price points. Virtually every input in your business is offered at multiple price points, from paper to telephone service to your Internet connection to your VPSes to... you get the general drift. Variable pricing is an observable and unremarkable fact of life. It causes virtually no drama.

Not to mention, shouldn't every Fancy Hands customer that reads this go in and pretend to cancel to get the discount?

Want to get a free shake from McDonalds? Buy a shake. Consume it. Take a napkin from the napkins, put it in the shake cup, bring it up to the counter, and say "I am dissatisfied with my shake, because it has napkins in it. I want a new shake." You will get a new shake. Why does every customer at McDonalds ever not scam McDonalds for free everything? Partially because they have principles, partially because they fear social opprobrium, partially because they are unaware of the opportunity, partially because they just can't even conceive of why any sane person would scam McDonalds for free shakes, but it is an observable fact that McDonalds collects revenue for nearly all shakes despite there being (numerous) pathways to stealing them.
TIL: startups = mobile app + real-time + cloud + social + local
I don't disagree, I'm just saying that if we had discussions around REST that started with the assumption that you had to use HTML or something like it, then a lot more people would have a better idea of what REST actually is and could start to make more reasoned arguments about its costs and benefits.
It's like a corollary to Poe's Law. I love it.
I help fund the iKeyboard, which was (is) very similar to the Touchfire. It's an excellent execution of what I now see as a fundamentally flawed concept. Having to remove an object from my iPad when I want to switch apps, which is often, sorta sucks.

IOW, the suck of messing with the iKeyboard > the suck of trying to touch type on the iPad.
Downvoted by Apple fans, lets see how many negative points I will be able to achieve...
I don't understand your comparison. You're looking at individual startups failing vs. the entire banking system failing. If a small bank goes out of business nobody is going to care. If the tech industry went out of business we have to deal with the economic consequences of losing the entire Internet.

What, other than scale, is different when you look at the collapse of a single company? Think of the havoc that would be caused if Amazon or Google disappeared.
"Takes weeks" seems high. As a data point, my May Kickstarter submission was approved after 27 hours.

But your point is true--Kickstarter almost certainly approved this project before it launched.
True. This is OT but still an interesting conversation anyway.

My girlfriend and I spent a total of $3500 to go to Italy for 14 days. With $7500, we would have gotten better hotels (we did the hostel route) but it wouldn't have materially changed the trip. However of that $3500, almost $1500 was the airfare from New York to Milan. This is also a good example of the American vacation system screwing us, I would have stayed for 4-6 weeks if my job would have let me. 14 days was the maximum we could pull off, and my girlfriend's boss put her in as 'sick' for at least one day in there. I worked the day before we flew out and the day after we got home (as a jet lagged zombie) because I was out of vacation days.
It's one thing to drop support for computers that are several years past the end of their extended warranties, based on mostly sound technical reasoning, and another thing entirely to stop issuing updates for phones that are still under contract. And I say this as someone who waited for the update to 64-bit CPUs and then got screwed with 32-bit only firmware. If I had been paying a subscription for my Mac or if the OS updates were as expensive as Windows used to be, I would very upset at Apple's decision to never overhaul the firmware on my Mac, but as it is I'm just disappointed in Apple and Intel for not having a 64-bit EFI ready when the Core 2 processors shipped.
Suppose one company offered you an extra $7500 vacation, and one just offered you an extra $7500. Which company would you work for?
Start/Stoppable video so you can replay scenes http://vimeo.com/44424340

"We believe in the power of iteration, we originally started out as StumbleMonkey, which was like AirBnb but for online-dating, so when you left town you could rent out your spouse or partner. Great idea, but then we found out it was illegal, so we had to pivot.. So we changed our name to Googoprrrrrr. That's 6 r's. And that app was like Spotify, meets Grindr, but for rental cars, but ran as if it were for a hotel. "
The ABCs of My Browsing History
Umm? Is this for real, or are we being trolled?
They are just handing over the cash, I think. The only "condition" of the deal is that people aren't working, though I think Rule #1 (You MUST go on vacation!) is a bit vague. There's a slide later on that explicitly mentions the possibility of lousing around on the couch instead of doing anything special, so I don't think they literally mean that you have to go on vacation, just that you have to take the time off and not be at work.

More like "Here's $7500 for not showing up to work for the next week," not "Here's $7500 that you can only use on a preselected and approved subset of suitably frivolous and relaxing activities". I'd be very against the latter, too.
This sounds like an edge-case, and the solution seems rather simple: implement a policy so that only X% of employees in any department can be on vacation at any given time. Just like employees in retail have to coordinate their shifts (and have to find substitutes if they can't cover their shift), you can have this policy to ensure business continuity.
Completely agree, but notice that this describes not just Amazon. Google and Microsoft are big players in this space, every week generating a lot of "news" for products that fail to materialize in the marketplace. Apple is similar, but I would put it in a slightly different class because they generate PR for real products, not just for PR's sake.
Believe it or not, your analogy would be much closer the other way around. People from the eastern bloc in general didn't work anywhere near as hard as even in the western Europe, let alone America (the running joke was "We pretend that we work and they pretend that they pay us.")

I remember reading an article by Jerzy Urban (a propaganda minister in the soviet-appointed government in Poland, famous for his vicious defense of socialism) in which he argued that while it's true that people in the western countries have a bit more political freedoms, for an average person that matters very little. An average person spends most of their time at work, where people in capitalist countries have vastly less freedom than in socialist countries (he actually mentioned that in western countries, getting drunk at work is a firing offense, whereas in the People's Republic of Poland it was pretty common practice; I'm not making this up.) Therefore, according to Jerzy Urban, people in the socialist countries in reality had at least as much if not more freedom overall.
Maybe so, maybe so. But I seriously doubt that that's the reason REST advocates have a hard time explaining the benefits of being unable to use authentication (and attendant sessioning) under a literal reading of "no out of band info".

I'd have to say that the major impediment in that case is that there are no benefits.