skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest criticism is supporting. People don't come to HN for positive feedback only. Their users certainly won't be so nice.

Shitting on half baked ideas in my mind is a public service. I'm saying that it isn't negative, and that saying "looks cool" and "keep up the Great work" isn't nearly as helpful as "I would never use much less pay for this and here is why".

My point is that if people think constructive feedback is negative and they get butt hurt over their poorly received Show HN post, they probably aren't fit for entrepreneurial endeavors. That's all.... Just man up.
Ask HN: How to combine two Facebook groups to 1?
I was hoping someone at Facebook or outside of Facebook could help me combine two alumni groups I manage in to 1.

All members from:
http://www.facebook.com/UCFAlumniBoston
Moved over to:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Boston-UCF-Alumni-Club/311929645565028

Any help would be appreciated. I tried to contact the users to let them know, but there is no way to directly contact them using the alumni group.
I wonder why the most common HN post on this topic comes from torrentfreak -- certainly they're objective in this case.
What the disk is capable of and what the Wii is capable of may be responsible for that difference.
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Could you update that post with city names in addition to the airport codes? I think most of us could recognize ~2 of those at most.
Yes, but at the time, UTF-8 could encode up to 31 bits per character using six-byte sequences. It has since been restricted to four-byte sequences at the longest.
Well if there were no docs or other knowledge about the project then that's a complete failing on the part of whoever ran the project.
Update: can't seem to edit my original post, but there is now a link, someone came to their senses
Since fares can expire/disappear at anytime - do the experts still get to keep their commission if its gone by the time the contest creator decides to book it? Do experts have time caveats around their entries?
Edit: Grammar
my 9 year old makes a lot of little stuff like this too; lego constructions, sticks woven together, playing card pyramids. Pretty cool stuff...
pwd also works
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Blogspam, here are the direct links:

http://blog.programmableweb.com/2012/07/10/your-neighborhood...

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/07/10/kicksend-teams-up-with...
I've also tried 'sudo shutdown now' and while it did shut down the OS, the site says they are still running and the times are still increasing. How will I know when they've actually stopped? Also +1 for an API to end instances, please.
Hi actuary,

Apologies for the confusion. Typically, a customer puts up a contest so our flight hackers can find them the best or cheapest flight.Often this contains a lot of personal information, as well as the secrets of our flight experts. Flightfox hinges on competitive advantage, so we keep the flight details private.

I've posted some of the flight details above, so you can at least see where the flight stops.

But be assured that if you put your own contest up, you can see everything. Also, we're constantly adding more and more flight information to help you make an informed decision.
so this is basically BOINC but also allows for-profit/non-research companies to tap its resources
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In Microsoft's lab was a bunch of unfinished work on voice recognition and handwriting recognition.

In Apple's was a complete port of their main OS to an ARM platform ready and tested for years.

The board should have been called to account why the NT kernel hadn't been continually tested on ARM, leaving them to build WP7 on CE (but making it incompatible with CE apps due to the off screen buffer replacing GWES/Gdi) and the abandon the product.

Surface looks great, the public stance is Ballmer owning it to the shareholders, failure should come with consequences at that level.
Looks like this uses themes from over here: http://bootswatch.com/
Done, please see above.
> If he's innocent, he'll have his day in court.

Are you really that naive? I don't want to be dramatic, but take current events into account (Julian Assange, the NDAA, Guantanamo). There is plenty of abuse.

The question is not whether people used Mega Upload for piracy, its whether or not their service complied with the law (DMCA). For example: if I mail narcotics, is the Post Office breaking the law? If I Drop Box a pirated movie to a friend, is Drop Box breaking the law? Plenty of people email files around, do you think Google checks for/blocks any pirated attachments? Youtube? Come on, what song can't you find on youtube uploaded by some random person who added the lyrics. I'd be willing to bet that much more "pirated content" is streamed through youtube than ever was through MU.

What would you think if China extradited Sergey because people are uploading Chinese artists' music to youtube?

The fact that so many used it for pirated content is only a testament to how easy and scalable his file sharing/transferring service was and their effort to protect their user's privacy.
Privacy means a lot to quite a bit of people, me included.
The one thing boggles my mind is that Unicode is, as a matter of fact, not a universal coding. It's a cluster fuck of multiple encodings (from a same code point). We really should call it multicode, it only solves problems by introducing more. You got problems with Unicode? You are not using the right unicode. Try another unicode.
> After googling 'omnibar', I found the menu you speak of and I swear blind the option to email the page is not there...

Hopefully you get this - see the areas marked in red on the attached screenshot: http://imgur.com/N2tL9
If you're going to downvote, please explain why. This is from the conclusion to the paper.
This looks like a combination of one-way and RT tickets. Do your experts give instructions on how these tickets can be booked relatively quickly?
That's great, at least for massive, scorched-earth file loss.

With my most recent loss the were missing folders I wanted back, but other items I deleted earlier on purpose. Even in the mistakenly deleted folders were items I didn't want.

I'd be happy if there was a way on the Web site to either select "Restore entire folder" or check off files in a folder and opt to restore all selected.

But good to know about filing a ticket. Thanks.
That's actually not a bad idea, because we kinda of do that right now, just very inefficiently.

I'm sure 10-20 years from now, we'll have a collection of drugs that target specific mutations in cancer (the number is already getting large).

Doing it via a med device is actually not a terrible idea. You can at least screen for the mutations, but predicting how the drugs will act in the human body (especially in combination) is much tougher.

However, with many forms of cancer, there are very few options, so higher risk method of treatment are much more tolerable.
I really hope they improve indexing speed with these updates. Maybe I'm a but more of a heavy user than normal but I have 500k files in dropbox going a little over 70gb and recently indexing even a few hundred more small files is painfully slow and the hard drive is constantly thrashing (so slow that I've had to turn dropbox off while working as the computer is almost unusable).

It seems indexing speed has become slower and slower the more files I already have in my dropboc. Has anyone else experienced this? I'm on windows 7 with a standard 7200 rpm HDD (only 18 months old too). The pc runs nice and fast when dropbox is closed.
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I think showing the actual disassembly would help people understand. it might lose some so maybe as a side bar.
todsul beat me to it (good show!), but in the spirit of teaching a person to fish:

for airport in JFK GEO TXL SXF AGA LGW LTN SAW IKA KUL PER BKK KBP; do
curl "http://airportcode.riobard.com/airport/$airport?fmt=JSON";
echo;
sleep 1;
done

Semicolons are present because I did this in one line, left so you can too. Linebreaks are for HN convenience only. echo is because curl doesn't add linefeeds, sleep 1 is to be polite.
This is really great, thanks. Could you shed some light on the variable height row solution? Do you still use absolutely positioned rows, or do you do something different?
On a perfect world, they'd get a special partnership with google to get an extra OUYA tab to the play store. For OUYA dedicated games, which would show on OUYA devices and pay OUYA developers with that. Even if google would sacrifice their 30% for it. It still seems like this would be the ideal deal for all parties: users, developers, google and ouya.
Yes, the experts give step-by-step instructions on how and where to book.
This is good news for those who need bigger storage. However, I just use dropbox occasionally. Thanks anyway dropbox!
It doesn't need .*
http://livegrep.com/search?q=%5BFf%5Duck%7C+%5BSs%5Dhit%5B%5...
@Kevingadd - great points. :)

As a game developer (hobbyist), I see a number of problems with this platform.

1) It does not solve a real problem. There are many Android devices already I could hook up to a TV, and add in a bluetooth controller (my Asus Transformer is one of them). If I already own a device, why buy another? Also, couldn't Google's new $200 Nexus tablet do all this?

2) While I do play a fair amount of handheld games, it's usually on the go. If I am playing at home, I want to make use of that multi-gigawatt power supply I've got. I don't want my games bogged down by weak hardware.

3) I do not want to travel backwards. I feel many consoles are already too limited in their compute power, which is why I prefer the PC. A normal PC can do all of the things they suggest (even run android!).

4) Android has already displayed a fairly weak gaming market (at least relative to iOS) - I actually prefer Android, but ultimately its the games available that sell the console, and I do not see developers rushing to this. I'd rather fool around with a $25 Raspberry Pi.

I am all for their goal of getting an affordable console into the living room, but this feels too much like cashing in on something that already exists, rather than innovating.
Geography nitpick: The airport in Istanbul is actually east of the Bosporus, making it Asia.
Love it. Sometimes I feel like we nerds get caught in the weeds and forget to solve real world problems. We have enough JS frameworks by now... Funny thing is most of them are the same given a few differences.

For JS specifically, it's starting to look like there is no "right" clientside model, at least yet. Web apps behave so differently and have different requirements that no one framework will fix it, sort of like rails, or game engines that solve a large class of problems pretty well.

For side projects or "helper apps" (I make a lot of them), I still use rails 238 and prototype because I'm productive with it. Think of all the things you could accomplish if you didn't spend all that time fiddling with 0.0.1 version software.
Hi science_robot,

The entire premise of Flightfox is that humans beat machines. Of course, in some cases if you only consider price this is debatable, but in many more cases, humans really do win.

Why? Because there is a lot of flight data and there is a material cost to performing a search. If you want a 6-Continent RTW trip, a flight search engine can't run 1,000,000 queries just to find you the cheapest route. The data providers impose pretty tight limits. When you hit those limits in aggregate, you risk very high costs.

Apart from that, and most importantly, humans have a wealth of knowledge that simply isn't catalogued. That's because it's too broad, too often changing, too obscure, or the airlines don't want OTAs to use that info; e.g. award flight availability across all airlines.

Our challenge now is to expand into many of these non-price factors and offer value even for short trips where we can't beat airline advertised prices. But as you can imagine, in its current state, Flightfox really comes into its own for complicated flights, even if just slightly complex.

The posted contest really beats anything on the web by a large amount. 6 continents for $1730 is pretty remarkable, or at least we think. It's not us who found it, it's our experts, who are the fabric of Flightfox.

Hope that helps.
Solid copy!
You mean you don't believe in making your own AMIs? I don't see how you could run an instance without an AMI.
Facebook's flawed display strategy
Showing some C-like pseudo-code would probably do the trick nicely.
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I mean I don't believe in AMIs. You seem to think I'm an Amazon customer.
Just to follow up on laumac's comment, the booking instructions tend to be a large part of the secret sauce. In this case, we fully verified them and all the flights were bookable at the time of verification. We disallowed a few itineraries that didn't properly visit all continents. As an aside, it was interesting to define what countries fit in which continents. For example, Guam, Curacao, Turkey.
Out of interest, how hard is it to get data feeds? Do you have to pay or is cost based on referrals? Do you have to enter an agreement? Understand if you can't answer.
The Nexus 7 has no HDMI output. So, no, it couldn't do all that.

Also, your point #1 reminds me of a Steve Jobs quote, regarding the Apple I (a kit computer):

"It was very clear to me that while there were a bunch of hardware hobbyists that could assemble their own computers, or at least take our board and add the transformers for the power supply and the case the keyboard and go get the rest of the stuff. For every one of those there were a thousand people that couldn't do that, but wanted to mess around with programming - software hobbyists. And so my dream for the Apple 2 was to sell the first real packaged computer."

Yes, you don't have any interest in this machine. And maybe I don't; I still run Linux on the desktop, after all. But there are apparently a lot of people who are voting with their wallets they they want this experience without having to jury-rig anything.
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Would you have an example of a tool which you could use to inspect source code to give this output? I imagine a general lexer or some description would be great for this as you could identify functions, comments, classes etc... and use that to add weights.
I also believe android has potential in the market. I wonder why the thread seems to go against it.
I'm under the impression that the dependence on spacial locality in it's parallelization that it would actually perform pretty poorly as a general real-time graph database.
Or the author could have added 'virtual' to the method declaration and discussed why that code now crashes due to a NULL dereference...
According to [1] this is (strictly speaking) undefined behaviour. It also won't work with virtual function calls, because they'll try to access the vtable and segfault.

If your compiler isn't cheeky you can use this stuff in funny ways with constructs like `if(this)` in your member functions. Technically such a check could be optimised out because `this==null` can only result from undefined behaviour, but in practice it probably won't be.

1: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2474018/when-does-invokin...
Actually, the last example won't even run because cout doesn't have the >> stream operator. Not sure how identical code samples in the same article could get those mixed up, unless the author typed each example out manually.

Not really contributing to the conversation, but it jumped out at me.
Hey mseebach,

We had a few issues in the beginning defining these border countries and decided to allow Istanbul as Europe, but will definitely group it for Asia in future.

We had a handful of difficult decisions, but luckily the winning entry visited all continents without contention.

Guam was the tough one for us. Would you say Oceania?
> The problem is, there were no competitors because (at least back then) game developers were not interested in solutions they didn't invent themselves. Maybe that has changed.

I'd say that if you disregard indie development, that is still pretty much the case. There is certainly a bigger market for middleware, but I think it's generally met with skepticism.
Which part of email requires advanced training? The writing - covered by grammar, etc. The thinking - covered by critical thinking.

The spectacularly complex system you have set up to filter your email? That would be worth a semester or so. It's worth it for you, I'm sure, but the average person probably would collapse trying to set that up.
> My point is that if people think constructive feedback is negative and they get butt hurt over their poorly received Show HN post, they probably aren't fit for entrepreneurial endeavors.

Constructive criticism is fair but most of the comments are straight on aggressive and in most cases not greatly useful or constructive. Many of them are pedantic. In fact, in my opinion most insightful comments are almost always the comments that don't paint the picture in black and white and take everything into consideration. It's almost obvious if you think of it. The smartest people understand and deal with nuances.

> Just man up.
While this is true and most people should not take the a stranger on the internet too seriously. However, what most entrepreneurs do is hard. Trying to change the way things work. Most people give it all they have and still fail. What is wrong with being a little supportive? Why not help out a fellow hacker/entrepreneur/community member?

Criticism and friendliness are not mutually exclusive.
If we learned anything from the TV show Cops, this is it.
Many of the facile assumptions designers make about email are wrong.

The sanebox service, for instance, has the same wrong assumption -- that the problem is spam and unimportant emails.

The toughest problem I have in email management is important emails that are difficult to answer. For instance, before I took off for San Diego this week, I had to answer an email that required a prompt reply. This email involved an important relationship for which the circumstances had radically changed -- I wasn't sure what I wanted out of the situation or what I could do for the other party.

Given an email like that, my natural temptation is to put off dealing with them, so I have a plug of "important and somewhat urgent" messages sitting in my box at any time.

Spam and other unimportant messages, on the other hand, can be deleted in seconds, and pose very little cognitive load. If there's any real cost of dealing with spam it's that I have an itchy trigger finger and occasionally delete an email that I shouldn't.
I don't mean that it won't be useful in game development, just that I don't think it'll make games particularly more "massive".
> But when did people really start using more than the 16bit unicode chars?

1996.

China even made it a legal requirement for computer systems in 2000, through mandating GB 18030.

There's the Private Use Area if nothing else. There is NO excuse to not support anything other than the BMP. Adding support is trivial unless you have been using UTF-16 in the erroneous belief that it's two bytes long always (in which case you've really been using UCS-2).
thought the article was gonna conclude doing something like:

void Cow::milk()
{
if (!this) throw std::runtime_error("NULL isn't a cow!");
// rest of the code
}
As you can imagine, this is a fairly big challenge for us. As we grow it will become less important because experts in your timezone will tend to reply, but now, we simply implore customers to book quickly. We haven't had too many issues because a lot of the value comes from not-so-temporal factors.

Aside from that, we offer a full refund to anyone that asks for any reason.
I'd throw in 5 or 10 bucks to see that.
While the head-mounted display is very interesting, it does not make sense for a product like this to target a platform that has not yet been released when gaming on the TV will be around for at least 5+ years. Maybe a future version could target a head-mounted display.
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Hi hahla, please see my post above. We've listed the individual flights and airlines. All the best.
This looks almost identical to Sparrow with the exception that Sparrow simply uses a star as an action item.
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On debian install ttf-ancient-fonts version 2.56-1 or later (currently in testing - the one in stable does not include the symbol).

I installed it and now I see it as well.
Ask HN: Monitoriong and IoT
Hi,

I'm trying to figure out the difference between just monitoring solutions and real IoT (Internet of Things). IoT seems just ome more buzz word, I have been hearing about smart houses, cities and more, since I was a kid, and we are getting to that, but it seems that only geeks like to measure things.

Is IoT just a buzz buzzword to sell monitoring solutions in better prices or do you think there is a real difference between them?
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What do you do when a major music technology company releases an official version of its tablet app, when you’ve already been working hard to produce your very own unofficial version?
Especially if you are a protestor looking for handouts.
Pivoting is great, but sometimes you have to give it some time. You need to pivot strategically. Almost every startup experiences a curve, first you launch. Maybe you make some news sites, growth goes up. Then people promptly forget about you. Usage plumits, and you fall in to a depression. You don't come out of the depression until you 'make it'. Starting a new projects puts you right back at beginning.
Show HN: Web News Bot, text mining the news
It's disappointing that this works so reliably, even with the simplest of examples. I would have thought that if the compiler could resolve the function call statically it would do away with the vtable lookup, but neither g++ nor Clang do so at any level of optimisation.
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To be fair I've hardly seen an article on the benefits of NoSQL on the frontpage for a while.