skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Found through Techvibes: http://www.techvibes.com/blog/confirmed-salesforce-just-boug...

And here's the TechCrunch article: http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/09/salesforce-com-reported-to-...
Microsoft abused me for years. They had a monopoly, I had to use Windows and Office ( I still do at work for many things).

Now , thank god almighty, I have choices. They will have to do a lot better than Windows 8 to rope me back into the corral.

Metro and Windows 8 might be good enough if introduced by any other company. Microsoft is not any other company.

I am not a ludite nor a nutjob. I have real work to do and am forced to use Microsoft products. But I will roast in hell before I give them any benefit of the doubt. Ever.

I hate Microsoft.
Sure, if I got a designer tote bag.
Are You Ready To Be Lucky?
You can do a lot more in vim without plugins than with most text editors. In fact, I'd say that was one of it's major advantages over the competition. Relying too much on plugins and configuration makes things hard when you're switching machines or using shared logins a lot.
Two problems:

(i) things like this have a very low ARPU; this makes it hard to write a business plan that people will take seriously.

(ii) two-sided market. if you want to read tweets, go to twitter. if you want people to read your tweets, go to twitter.

two-sided markets can be attacked by removing one of the sides; for instance, a site that lets you read or write tweets while also letting you read or write into their systems.

Twitter controls the API precisely to prevent that attack.

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In general though I think there could be a market for something where people pay some $ to have a better social media experience or to look "cooler" than other people. I think anything people spend above $20k for a car, for instance, is because people want to be seen driving a Lexus or BMW. If people could turn their cash into visible social media status, you could kick Facebook to the curb in terms of ARPU.

Premium accounts on LinkedIn are a model, except for the fact that premium accounts on LinkedIn have practical value -- if a $50 a month subscription helps a recruiter get one commission for filling a position, that's a great investment.
Looking forward to seeing this on Kindle fire soon.
Beg to differ / disagree. I'd say there's a lot less than 200 features, most are "refinements". I mean, really, is "Date Picker in Calendar now has a mini Calendar" is a "new feature"? A new widget on a control?
You have to be kidding me. Discoverability is lower in a system which uses logically arranged tools, with larger buttons for more frequently used options than in a system which, perplexingly, hides everything behind nonlabeled buttons, in menus and sub-menus and ridiculous dialog boxes?

The ribbon is a massive, massive step up in usability, the difference is you already knew how to get to features in the old version, so there was a learning curve. Show two people who are brand new to office Office XP vs Office 2010, and I an completely certain that they'll have an easier time with 2010 (especially Excel, the usability difference there is incredible).
hope this results in expansion beyond US residents.
To some extent, the startup scene is about high valuations, making the investor the customer.

The filters that gatekeepers and valuators use are very hackable.

Is it easier to hack a gatekeeper's filter, or to make an awesome product? I suppose it depends on your skill-set.

One can reasonably estimate that some double digit percentage of funded startups are where they are because they were designed to appeal to investors and receive high valuations.
You have to select the text first for that to work. The quickest way I can think of is Ctrl+a, Ctrl+k, Ctrl+y.
Just bought a new Macbook Pro and have recently gotten my first taste of Lion. Two words: kernel panic.

Hoping for a stability boost on this one. No way my entire overpowered system should crash from running a browser, text edit, and Skype.
I remember reading somewhere that they were looking for extra capital to expand support and such for their Enterprise offering.
> He’s focused on expanding Stripe outside the US; The company’s Canadian beta just started today and Western Europe is next.
sorry guys, the link posted is for 10 Google Chromebook tips, tricks and tweaks
I love both. They're incredibly polished, work fantastically, and were crafted with very fine attention to detail. Perhaps you don't like the details they focused on, fine, but if you think these are crap software, you don't know actual crap software.

I encourage you to buy a cheap consumer embedded NAS to learn.
I've kicked around ideas for something similar to, but not exactly like Twitter. I think there is possibly a market for more controlled, but still fairly frictionless information sharing similar to Twitter.

For example: A group of us from the same company are going to JavaOne - how do we do stuff like share snippets about sessions we thought were useful or broadcast where and when we are going for dinner? Twitter itself isn't great for that, email lists are cumbersome and tricky to use from mobile - but if you could quickly create a group of some sort and have everyone join it, it would be fairly easy.

It could also help avoid spam issues that plague Twitter - a while back, my previous employer held a small conference and gave out hashtag to use when tweeting about it. Spammers quickly co-opted the hashtag, which rendered it useless (this was doubly embarrassing since a lot of the spam was adult-oriented and my previous employer was a religious organization).

Giving out a group + simple password would have dealt with that situation.

I see a lot of potential uses for something like this, but whether you could convince enough people to use (and even more, pay for) it, I'm not sure.
Good points, thanks. I hope this doesn't occur, but we'll see in due time.
I like Kippt but wish it had a tagging mechanism. The only way to simulate tags is to put the link in multiple lists - which can be a pain. The Chrome extension only allows the link to be added to one list, and so I was often adding a link with the extension, only to then navigate to the site to add it to other lists. I ended up just giving up and using the search feature in Chrome bookmarks.
I can't tell if that's sarcasm. You mean the new Kindle Fire which will be released for Christmas 2012, right?
Oatmeal's photo of money raised for charity
DVD to Galaxy S3 - Play Dvd on Sumsung Galaxy S3
This is a step by step guide will show you the way to transfer DVD to Sumsung Galaxy S3.
John Oliver Loses His Mind
That's true: in a classic system, the original user will notice its password had been overriden. With 'security through obesity' the original user AND the hacker will be able to login (each using their own password).
Control slices two ways. Control can be a burden.
Check your hardware. xnu is incredibly stable. It may also be a 1.0 driver, considering what you're running it on. You _are_ on the absolute cutting edge of the universe right now, GPU-wise, after all.

Lion itself is rock solid.
Neat. I built something similar, it's a Flask blueprint for doing stripe charges/subscriptions:

https://bitbucket.org/lost_theory/flask-stripe-blueprint

It's meant to be integrated into an existing flask application (just override & instantiate the blueprint, then mount it on your app).
Underwhelming by what means?

Small features like VIP whitelists for Mail.app, the Finder "share" button, and bigger features like Power Nap are significant improvements for many users.

I'm all about the future made into reality, but what kind of features do you see in other recent OS updates that are a) successful and not buggy as hell and b) ambitious enough to be not considered "underwhelming"?
I was a big proponent of Windows 2000 as well. Though not marketed/positioned as such, it was really the start of the merging of the consumer and corporate OSes... based on NT kernel, but had support for DirectX and other APIs Microsoft never bothered to support in older NT releases.
I'll bet those tires were purchased brand new...
But still no MSN integration, right? I still have some MSN contacts that forces me to stick to Adium.
>"a good sign Github is never going anywhere."

Right. Because we've never seen a company take a huge VC investment then disappear.
Enough of this "Growth Hacker" Talk
Really ?

Company with a proven modal, proven team, proven management and a massive growth opportunity (company hosted Github).
For some reason I read that as 32 bits to start with. 32 bytes is a hell of a lot of salt.
Health & Wealth
I'd love to get a rough idea where australia fits on their timeline.
I disagree that skeuomorphism is only about taste. It's not just a skin, it also removes and limits functionality. I can even give specific examples. If you have lion, go to your address book.

It probably opens and lists people on the left with their details on the right. It looks like a book. Can you group people? It's certainly not obvious that such functionality (which is useful!) exists.

Now click the red bookmark thing on top. Not very intuitive. It looks like a bookmark, not something that switches to a different view. Anyways, viola! The grouping interface! But now I can't see contact details. I need to "flip the page" back to see the details. This is a huge step backwards and is so inefficient that I completely stopped using groups when I moved to Lion.

Now consider Mountain lion:
http://6.mshcdn.com/wp-content/gallery/apple-os-x-mountain-l...

Hey! It's the three column view from the old address book! Now I can see my groups, contacts, and details, just like before. Not as skeuomorph though. Now it's just an app that is skinned to look like a book. It doesn't function like a book. There are no pages to flip. It still has the dimensions of a book I guess, but that only makes that left page looks mighty constrained.

UI is about displaying and working with information, and this skeuomorphism is arguably not a very good way of doing either. I can lodge similar complaints about iCal. For instance, why are months always on separate pages? When I'm near the end of a month, I have to keep switching back and forth (with a slow unneeded animation on top). It's a computer, surely we can come up with an interface that discards this old page limitation of paper calendars! Not if you are thinking with skeuomorphism though.
D'oh! We're sorry :(
Woohoo, Stripe coming to other countries!

Stripe is one of the few companies I know of where people are literally begging them to expand to their country which is a good indicator of their potential.
Salesforce.com to buy Halifax startup GoInstant
That is correct dminor :)
Have a look at thylacine:

https://github.com/2tablespoons/thylacine
Hey, you are right. the method I was thinking of does require model theory to justify its axioms (IST). It had been waved away as you put it, so that the core could be focused on. But you don't really need to understand why the axioms are justified any more than most people understand the axioms of ZFC (excepting those like you of course). And if the outcome is a better first intuition of calculus, I don't think it is accurate to label it a fly.

I did find out that there is a constructive approach though, so the axiom of choice is not actually necessary. www.math.ucla.edu/~asl/bsl/0403/0403-001.ps
Betable Could Bring Real-Money Stakes to the Social Game Tables
Come on, nobody is suggesting the copy dialog is the pinnacle of Windows 8, but it's important because it solves a very common and very visible frustration with previous versions of Windows.
If there are any Android game devs that are interested in being alpha integraters for a similar (but better?) gaming layer, please email: contact@atstakegames.com
1a) Exactly.
1b) They are still using Craiglist's site by interacting with the cached copied of Craiglist's site. I don't know how clearer I can make that. The only way they would not be using the Craiglist site is if they used another listing service altogether.

2) Legally, Righthaven did not own* the rights in question, and that is why the Colorado court kicked out their lawsuits. The court concluded that Righthaven merely owned the right to enforce the copyright because it had granted all the actual exploitation rights back to the newspapers. In other words, Righthaven's "ownership" was illusory and intended solely for the purpose of given them standing to sue. Unfortunately (and I do not know how Righthaven missed this), it has been longstanding doctrine in IP Law that a transfer of all exclusive rights to an IP constitutes an actual transfer of the ownership of the IP (litigation rights are not considered rights in this context).

3b) They are accessing the cached copy. They admit as much. A duplicate is the same as the original, for copyright purposes.

3b) Posters license Craiglist to use their content. They do not license anyone else to use their content. Padmapper is thus an unlicensed user. This can constitute tortious interference in many states because it interferes with Craiglist's ability to full exploit their license.

If Padmapper was using a competitor of Craiglist that the poster had also posted to, there would not be any problems. But Padmapper is using Craiglist's own service, and that factual distinction matters.

4) I don't know how to say this more clearly: you are misunderstanding the legal holding of the Righthaven opinion and how the IP law works in the U.S. It is probably an honest mistake, since IP law adopts a lot of physical property concepts that most techies instinctively reject.
Windows 8 computers to go on sale in October - A game changer?
Probably at:
http://www.submarinenetworks.com/stations/north-america/usa-...
I agree with you, the wording from the WSJ sounds like they want the investment size to seem ridiculous. How about "quickly growing and profitable software company github..."
I thought they announced they were moving to a yearly release cycle.

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/44444/mac-os-x-updates-yearl...
I think he means an unofficial port. I expect those will be available fairly soon.
Don't Accept Gifts From Strangers – Even Through HTML Form File Elements
That's local search, not online. If you're syncing folders then spotlight/whatever already works locally.
>> Reducing inventory is a Good Thing and you should do it,

This to me seemed like one of the most important points of the article but I am not sure how this works for a software factory. In the bread factory business what if you had an endless supply of flour and sesame seeds available to you that costs next to nothing to buy and store?

Now in case of software the cost of "purchasing" and maintaining the raw material (feature requests and bugs) is much much lower than what it is for a bread factory.
Ask HN: Affordable sports stats services?
Have an idea for a product that relies on sports stats but having a hard time finding an affordable service to use. From what I've been reading, Stats.com is considered the leader in this area but they charge over $1000/month. Their competitors aren't much better, still charging several hundred dollars per month.

Where should an in independent developer turn for this kind of information? The obvious answer might be scraping the info but that's a legal gray-area I'd rather stay away from.
Is it just me or is Ctrl-P really slow for me?

The moment I start Ctrl-P in Vim, it takes about 20 seconds just to index and then when I began to type, the letters I type appear really slow and it takes ages for it to actually type out the whole word. Same when I delete a word by hitting backspace.

Command-T is, I would say, 40% faster for me but there is the same lag when typing/backspacing.
1) Databases are protected by copyright, but there is no such thing as "database rights." As I have repeatedly pointed out, the selection, arrangement, and presentation of facts is copyrightable in the U.S. if such activities involve any actual choice.

2) A copy of the Craiglist site is visited. The fact that the copy is hosted by the Google cache is immaterial for copyright or TOS purposes, unless Google cache did not have any right to keep that copy. Google operates the cache under the fair use doctrine, and so has compulsory rights to the Craiglist website. Ergo, visiting the cached copy is the same as visiting the original site, for legal purposes. If it were not, then all TOS could easily be avoided simply by accessing a CloudFront or Akamai-hosted website, or through any third-party aggregation service or software.
Given the choice would you rather be integrated into a deaf community or the rest of the world? Also, nothing will stop ASL users from signing to other ASL users. How would the keyboard idea stop this?

As an alternative, they could always have an e-ink display that the words can be projected onto.

There are only 500k ASL users in the entire world. Deaf people are not that common. They don't interact with each other that much in the real world.

This would never work anyway. As an ASL user I can tell you that there are so many similar signs and body language that are used, only a couple hundred words will be available to the users of these gloves (just like those before them). The keyboard thing would allow mutes to have unlimited conversations with complete strangers.

Would you rather be able to have unlimited conversation with anyone or only be able to speak a few words (just enough to get by) but be able to speak with an occasional mute. These gloves are crap so stop making stupid excuses. ASL is only good for communication between ASL users (few and far between). Every person signs differently and some $25 gloves will never be able to interpret all the signs and body language an ASL user uses (Thus the limitation of 200-250 words)
My complement and gripe: Mixergy is great. I listen to it because I enjoy it a lot. It's because I enjoy it so much that I tolerate the host projecting his insecurities onto his guests.

Its interesting that Marc Maron's comedy podcast is a very near parallel. He is a good but slightly lesser known comedian who interviews masters of the craft about their histories and how they succeeded.

But also parallel is Maron's tendency to frame his questions around his own neurosis, effectively assuming his guests deal with the same demons he does. To some extent both hosts are correct and we all struggle. But in both cases, they almost put words into their guests mouths.

Again, Mixergy free and premium are well worth it and, if you read this Andrew, despite my unsolicited criticism, I do love your show and appreciate all the work it must take.
Now that you mention it, yes builtin gpg support would be the last thing that I would like to see in it before they put it into maintenance mode.
Tagging is something we're adding soon but we're doing it a bit differently: You can use hashtags in notes which will work as filter for search.
I think Windows 2000 Pro was the peak of the windows line.
Here's the $211,223.04 the Oatmeal raised for charity
As an ASL user I can tell you that there are so many similar signs and body language that are used, only a couple hundred (very distinct) signs will be available to the users of these gloves (just like those before them). The idea I typed in my other comment would allow mutes to have unlimited conversations with complete strangers.

These gloves are crap so stop making stupid excuses. ASL is only good for communication between ASL users (few and far between). Every person signs differently and some $25 gloves will never be able to interpret all the signs and body language an ASL user uses (Thus the limitation of 200-250 words). Get real. Sorry for the harsh tone, but how about some real innovation.
Exec is hiring an Android developer
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Show HN: resize pictures online
So what if everyone made generic replies to comments? I think your comment only works because not everyone is saying it.

;)
Wanted to share a sweet little tool I've been using a lot lately for my blog, (since I work off multiple computers and don't have GIMP installed on all of them).
Pic Resize saves to multiple formats (jpg, bmp, png, gif), can add filters, crop and rotate images off your desktop, a website or your clipboard! There's no watermark, and no limits on bandwidth/usage currently. But it's a busy website with some ads, which we tune out anyways.
Is getting a patent worth it?
I know that's a vague question, but I'd like to hear your personal views and experiences on the subject.
"If you are at home and have multiple computers, why not borrow your desktops CPU to do heavy processing (say for photos or video?)"

You can do this in Compressor.
So, I take it you haven't actually been in an Apple Store, since you don't need a reservation to make a purchase, or to ask a question of one of the employees. Nor is there a queue to have a clerk assist you. And the clerk not knowing which device you own is laughable.

Pretty sure I've just been trolled, but whatever.
I just changed it back in the Preferences. I tried to get used to it but somehow while it makes total sense on-glass it seems absolutely backwards on a touch pad. Maybe just too much muscle memory.
Archimedes Labs Backs M.dot In Their Largest Investment To Date
Datomic transactions are entities
These are the kinds of battles that break out when your business model is truly disruptive.

The price of taxis is held artificially high and really it is a loss for the consumer. We are left paying the higher prices for what should be a relatively free market.
I think the iPhones are named so as to be easily tiered. Right now Apple sells iPhones at 3 price points (minus extra storage models for the highest end). 3GS at $0, 4 at $99, and 4S at $199.

The 5 will likely bump the 4 out and move the 4S in to take it's place at the $99 tier.
I don't know if throwing away is a better mechanism. I feel the throwing away should also include at least some justification of why it was not important as compared to what you already have on your plate. This will help when the same feature request/bug comes back again.

Software landscape changes much more frequently these days. A feature that did not make sense a couple of months ago might be much more appealing today. Knowing why it was rejected in the past would help some channel the discussion better when it shows up again. Also it would help recycle the brain cells that were spent on it last time.
Any embedded device programmer will tell you that a VM in a printer is an expensive novelty. Putting a VM on an embedded device will incur extra overhead in both memory and processor requirements. This will only raise the processor cost by a couple of dollars likely, but quantity is always the problem here. If HP ships 2 million LaserJet X's in a given year, the use of the chip just cost them 4 million dollars extra. Now which is cheaper? hiring 2 C gurus to program the firmware at 150k per year, or I Closure programmer off the street at 90k per year (don't forget the 4 mill in hardware cost differences)?

Simple math.
Cheap Air Jordans
I don't know if Jobs would have stuck with market-specific terms in the primary pitch (tablet) or yet been able to drive things on their terms (iPad). I think it would've been termed a "way" of doing something.

e.g., iPad is the simple and easy way to enjoy the things that matter to you.
If taxi services would keep up with technology and allow the market to make and break companies, Uber would not be able to eat their lunch. Same story, different industry.
yes the unofficial port.