skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Draw a heart and it'll spell it out. Nice!
Because touch-screen typing, and seeing the phone's wrong answers about what you meant EVERY time, isn't incredibly frustrating. ;)
Yeah, I completely agree, it's just obviously not possible for companies to do research anymore. Anyone who doesn't see this - I just don't understand how you can fail to.
"It should be obvious", followed by a semi-paranoid rant just makes you sound like a wild-eyed conspiracy nut. "Monocultures are subject to waves of viruses." Whoo! Actual waves! That is scary. And buying from the App Store lets Apple know what you have bought. I never thought of that, that is really scary too. But the following non-sequitor just baffles me.
AMZN, FB Down
Amazon reports 83% drop in earnings;
FaceBook down ~15% after hours
Facebook Q2 Stats: 955M Monthlies, $1.18 billion revenues
Sorry, these release notes reflect the 2.2-rc0 release candidate and do not reflect the release of 2.2, which is still forthcoming. rc0 is currently available for testing.
Headlines, calls to action all the same stuff as in print 100 years ago, just the medium is different now. Marketing isn't about fancy tools.

The cutting edge of marketing is usually horribly ineffective (see QR codes).
Perhaps it might not be true? I suppose if you were reading the error then by definition it was down but places like Amazon's EC2 have to be careful about saying "EC2 is down for 10% of the customers in the east cost availability zone #2" or some such.

There are many moving pieces, hence the rise of sites like downforme.org
Spy trojan steals audio, video, keystrokes, from Windows, Mac and mobile
Google Roll out Knowledge Graph Results for London 2012 Olympics.
I did not read in the article that she was not registered?
This is interesting and well written. Find yourself a grad student in Math and you've got your job. I want more articles of a "pop math" variety exploring the numbers of everyday life. Not only are they interesting and engaging, these types of stories provide the groundwork for helping "us" (entrepreneurs) know what industries we should be attacking.
I didn't get this context from the post when I read it first - I guess this begs the question - was this a former employee of yelp or was it a true mixup?
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This looks like an interesting project.

Is there something like this for php?
IBM isn't a public utility with guaranteed profits, but they do a fair amount of both fundamental and applied research.
It's in our plans but we don't have any urgency in doing it. If you feel like doing it, it shouldn't be too hard and we would be happy to integrate your changes.
I generally agree with your comment, but this

>> Berkshire Hathaway is special in that it's a holding company with extremely diverse holdings.

was not true when Berkshire was as old as Zynga is today.
Is there some reason why they couldn't tell you in advance that there would be a problem with this student, rather than waiting until you got there?
Note to telcos: If all your customers hate you, you are begging to be made obsolete. Looks like your wish is about to be granted.
> What part of "HOMICIDAL MANIAC" do you not understand?

I understand we should try to prevent them from getting their hands weapons that can harm or injure tens of people in a matter of seconds.

70 people hit by one person in a movie theater with a semi-auto. How many do you think it would have been with a knife? or even a bolt action?
I've never been denied entry to buildings in NY & Philly. In this situation, the front desk has always called the people I was visiting to confirm that I was a guest.

I've never been turned away without recourse...
What font face and size do you use? I found that Consolas at 12 requires 2560 to get three 100 columns side-by-side.
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>> They'll find out about software the same way that the "majority consumer" used to; reading magazines like Macworld, seeing advertisements in various places, and talking to friends.

I don't know many "consumerish" Mac users who read Mac magazines, Daring Fireball, etc. Hell, I know a lot of more sophisticated Mac users who don't read any Mac related content except when they have problems. Many of the consumer Mac users I know don't pay attention to ads for Mac software either.

On your third point (word of mouth), that one has a lot of validity, assuming that a consumer mac user has a mac nerd or two in his/her circle of friends.

If I look at what most of my consumer Mac friends and acquaintances use, most of their time is spent in Safari, iTunes, iLife, iWork and maybe something like Parallels or VMWare to run "work stuff". A few might install some apps here and there, but few would even know that there was anything outside the App Store that was worthwhile.
Re-read the story. The student was registered, but denied entry at the last moment for undisclosed reasons.
The problem you're describing is well known in digital marketing. It's called "last touch attribution" - basically giving the last touch point your customer had with your company all the credit for the sale when there often are multiple touch points (story in techcrunch, blog post on site, mention on twitter, then finally a click on a banner ad when the customer is ready to buy). Here's a blog post on hacking Google Analytics to help: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-get-past-last-touch-attrib....

A google search for "last touch attribution" will give you other resources. Agreed on it being a very difficult (and valuable) problem to solve, though. The privacy issues with tracking a person's every touch point with your brand makes it even harder.
This just isn't true. The easiest way to kill a lot of people quickly (or even semi-accidentally) is with arson.
Interesting information about Yelp's building security from a Scala meetup group:

http://www.meetup.com/Scala-for-Startups/events/71726662/

They actually require government ID, which is a step above most building security I've encountered. Also, it says that Yelp "shares offices... in a building with security" - perhaps these stupid policies are more the building's fault than Yelp's?
As a student in this class I would like to clarify by saying we're all adults, the class is an accelerated software development program. The student who was kept out of yelp is in her 20s, so I think she managed public transportation just fine.
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"Yelp wasn't gaining anything by people attending"

Yelp doesn't host these events purely out of the goodness of its heart -- these are recruiting events. They also give Yelp employees preferential access to the speakers.

If people don't go to events at Yelp, people don't host events at Yelp.
Patrick is smart and good at what he does, but he is by no means the main influence or the main innovator in the space of PPC, SEO, A/B testing, or e-mail marketing. He took a lot of existing information, tools, ideas, and processes and applied them intelligently to his business. Then he wrote about them on his blog.

People in the affiliate space were talking about and doing these things like ten years ago or more. I've been doing it myself on various projects since 2005. I think he started blogging a lot about it in 2007, which is awesome.

Patrick is not the first, and probably isn't the best, but he IS the first to write about it in a way that developers and hackers understand and can get behind. It's great that he's done such a good job of informing so many people of these very useful ideas and techniques.

Just don't think he is THE influence, because like everyone else, he got there by standing on the shoulders of those who came before.
This works remarkably well. I'm shocked.
Factually correct. It is 24.09 right now. Previous intraday low was 25.52
Don't rule out Android development as a very marketable skill you could pick up as a Java developer.

The catch is that you will need to do your first apps on your own, just so you can get your foot in the door as a mobile app developer - but get them published on Google Play (the former Android Market), and you'll be set.

All you need to get started is Eclipse, and at least one Android device to test on. Two would be great, especially if one runs 2.3 and the other runs 4.0 or 4.1.

FWIW, if you are interested in learning Hibernate, I wrote a couple of books on Hibernate, and the publisher sent me stacks of them that clutter up my closet. Happy to send one over to you.
I didn't say that you couldn't tag them if they are in folders. My point is that a fixed directory structure is pretty much irrelevant to how I usually want to manage/search my photos etc - it adds pretty much nothing to what I can manage far more flexibly through the metadata.
Congrats johndahl and the rest of the team! It seems Zencoder was conservative in how much money it took, and was doing well at the time of the acquisition, so I'm guessing that it was a success for investors.
To be fair, that was in a big city for an extremely generic job. Anyone who is employable anywhere is eligible for that job. I used to hire writers from CraigsList; there were a lot of resumes, but few were well done, and even fewer had decent writing samples.

If you're really looking for a job, you have to look for something specific.
I get a message like that from Time Warner. I love it, because it always says, "A service disruption has been reported in the Los Angeles area. Service is expected to be restored by 8pm." Classic.
I don't understand, could you give an example?
You can already do this on Android in any text field of your choice using the "7notes with mazec" keyboard[0]. The kanji recognition is nothing short of miraculous[1]. It's a little expensive, so check out the free 10-day trial[2] if you need any further convincing.

0: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sevenknowl...

1: http://i.imgur.com/rfHTu.png

2: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sevenknowl...
And the drugs - http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/21/chemputer-that...

And some spare organs in case of accidents involving the guns and the drugs - http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_growing_organs_engine...

And nice little chocolate things - http://www.chocedge.com/

And a new home after you destroy your existing one with the guns after binging out on all the drugs and chocolate - http://www.contourcrafting.org/
How do you get those subscribers in the first place? Ask them. Pitch them something. Offer something of value. Give them a free trial if they sign up to the newsletter. Doesn't matter what it is, just find something useful to offer as a reward for signing up and make the offer incredibly visible.

It doesn't need to be any more complicated than that.
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My company has forced pinpad lock screen on my jelly bean.

Can't seem to find the voice search from there :(
I don't get the teacher-blaming here.

Imagine you're a student in that class; you're stoked to see this talk, but one of your classmates can't get in. You feel terrible but you've been looking forward to this. If the teacher decides to "stick it to the man", you and 8 other of your classmates miss out and possibly become bitter towards the excluded one because of Yelp's security measures.

His having to direct her to the nearest transit might seem cold, but he was responsible for all of those students, and he was trying to offer them an experience they would grow from. I would have been incredibly bummed if I were her, but it wasn't anyone in her group's fault and they shouldn't have missed an opportunity to learn because the teacher decided he wanted to take some sort of personal, "Yeah, well I'll show you!" stand.
For those not wanting to open the PDF, $743 million GAAP loss.
Standard practice in Manhattan and Philadelphia at most office high-end office buildings

Which part is standard practice? Many take any form of ID and print a badge. I have been to none that do any sort of ID check. Have you been to some that Google you?
Nice, the kind of acquisition we like to see where the result is a continuation of the product but with even more capital behind it.

Also another successful exit to add to the YC record so grats to YC as well for helping another entrepreneur achieve their goals.
10% down and testing $24.00 at this point (4:35PM Eastern).
Do all these landing pages live on the primary domain or are they spread around different domains?
I prefer native or html5 for fast deployment - how are the performance in Rhodes (from yours experiences not from "Google Result") vs native?
Anyone have some insight into situations where running map reduce on redis makes more sense than other software like the traditional hadoop?
Interesting to see that Google's Y/Y revenue growth beats Facebook's for Q2 2012.

(Edit : Google's Y/Y revenue growth was 35% and Facebook's 32%. In contrast, Google's market cap is about two times that of $FB)
Oh I hadn't really thought of that part, but that's a very good point.

I had imagined they'd assume you'd be gunning for a raise in short order or they might not enjoy having an admin assistant who is quite possibly more intelligent than themselves.

On a more "ideal" note, they may also not want someone with a Master's because they feel that their expertise would be more useful elsewhere and that their talent would be wasted in a secretarial role.
tear her for her bad homework!
Thats why my card says "Computer Scientist". :-)
People ask what that means a shockingly often fraction of the time!
They ask "so what do you?", I say "computer science", they then ask "what parts?", I reply "all of it". Thats of course ignoring the conversations where they then ask what computer science is or how thats different from programming or setting up a web server. those chats are tough :)
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for someone who'd never flown anything other than coach, the experience was mindblowing, especially since the upgrade was only $50 at the airport.

i'd love to fly first or business again when i eventually go to europe, but as a hypothetical exercise i checked prices, and a firstclass roundtrip tickect is roughly $20k and business, though much better, is still $6k (i just checked lufthansa.com for sfo<->fra leaving august 4 and returning sep 1, so i'm sure better deals exist). If I flew coach, the whole vacation could be $6k.
Jason Putorti had a great post on Quora regarding how Mint.com acquired 1.5M customers without a high viral coefficient. Check it out:

http://www.quora.com/How-did-Mint-acquire-1-5m+-users-withou...
Yelp has its own security team, and they do the administration of the guest list.
If you know a home has guns, aren't you just as likely to burgle it while the occupants are out, probably in order to steal the guns?
This looks like a good way to design reporting dashboards - it's too bad Excel can't update in real time.
We already have setups that can accurately determine where you will be looking a fraction of a second in the future.

Do you have a link to more information about this? That's really impressive.
Note: This doesn't seem to work on an Opera mobile browser. Seems to work ok in the default android browser.
I downvoted this; and on further inspection, I wish I hadn't. Instead, I want to know: what do you mean?
I'm cynical about this kind of pricing. Once you've paid up, in the companies' books you're in the minus column until the end of time. Incentives are no longer aligned. Combine this with the way that telcos treat regular paying customers ... I wouldn't like to put myself in that position, even with a company that tries to be aggressively benevolent.
You can always throw in some noindex,nofollow tags on the landing page to prevent Google from indexing them.

You could also consider using canonical tags for landing pages that are slight variations of each other [to prevent duplicate content penalties]. This one is really just a guess.
The Google Translate app for Android does this. I was recently in Japan, and that app was invaluable. It's also pretty decent at Japanese speech to English translation.
Second Quarter 2012 Financial Summary
In millions, except percentages and per share amounts Q2'12 Q2'11
Revenue $ 1,184 $ 895
Income (Loss) from Operations
GAAP $ (743) $ 407
Non-GAAP $ 515 $ 477
Operating Margin
GAAP (63%) 45%
Non-GAAP 43% 53%
Net Income (Loss)
GAAP $ (157) $ 240
Non-GAAP $ 295 $ 285
Diluted Earnings (Loss) per Share (EPS)
GAAP $ (0.08) $ 0.11
Non-GAAP $ 0.12 $ 0.12

Monthly active users (MAUs) were 955 million as of June 30, 2012, an increase of 29% year-over-year.

Daily active users (DAUs) were 552 million on average for June 2012, an increase of 32% year-over-year.

Mobile MAUs were 543 million as of June 30, 2012, an increase of 67% year-over-year.

Stock down c.10% after hours so far. That's after an 8.5% fall already today.
My office is in the same building as the NYC's counter-terrorism command center and is well-patrolled by uniformed and plainclothes officers.

But the check-in process is not at all stringent in the way that the OP describes. So no, this is not "standard practice."

Edit: I see you meant that "standard practice" involved a check-in on a list to get a badge. OK, no disagreement there. We'd have to hear more from the OP about the list of names sent to Yelp before the event before saying more.
There's no point even checking to see if it's coming to my city. I already know the answer is no.
Let's hope Facebook follows suit!
http://ironspread.com can update Excel in real time as well - that's what I'm working on for my next blog post, which will be available sometime next week.
iMovie isn't free. It's $14.99. It's also slow as shit where Shave is fast as you know what - for a very specific type of editing.

Trust me, I've done the comparison of same editing tasks in both and I can do in a minute in Shave what takes 20-30 minutes to do in iMovie. It's the reason I wrote it in the first place. And good luck opening a DiVX or another weird codec in iMovie. Or editing an Mpeg-2/4 movie without having to re-encode. Or editing at all without re-encoding.
I'm curious, why is everyone in the comments assuming (contrary to the article and chriszf's comments) that this student wasn't on the guest list?
I wonder how UICollectionView might help in designing these kinds of components.
Thank you for the recommendation. I haven't checked this solution out yet, but it looks fantastic! I have never seen an app with this kind of kanji recognition.
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What they are going to use this for?
Awesome! Congratulations John, Brandon & Heff!
Understanding that number requires some context:

"share-based compensation expense related to pre-2011 restricted stock units (RSUs) was not recognized in advance of the initial public offering, and as a result of the initial public offering during the second quarter, the company recognized $1.3 billion of share-based compensation and related payroll tax expenses"

and

"Excluding share-based compensation and related payroll tax expenses, non-GAAP income from operations for the second quarter was $515 million, compared to $477 million for the second quarter of 2011."
Hadoop is a bloated pile of elephant poo. Any and all alternatives are welcome. Disco (http://discoproject.org/) is popular in some parts of the mapreducesphere.
What technologies are in demand? I see J2EE (whatever that means to some people, that's a lot of technologies in there), Hibernate, JUnit, HTML/CSS/JQuery.

Given that Java is one of your stronger areas, and given how much demand there is for Java developers, I'd suggest you continue to focus on Java and related technologies. In that area, you'd probably be well served to learn Spring (the core DI framework), Spring MVC, and Spring Data / JPA... make sure you have a decent knowledge of SQL (you don't need to be a DBA, but some low level SQL never hurts). Knowing the "raw" Hibernate API won't hurt, but JPA is really where it's at these days.

String knowledge of the core Java language is always good as well. Java is a pretty big language/library, but get to know the Collections APIs, the IO APIs, at least a basic understanding of threads / threading (including the java.util.concurrent package), and maybe some basic knowledge around using sockets in Java.

If you have (or can claim) that knowledge, you're in decent shape for a lot of Java oriented positions. Beyond that, knowing the low-level servlet API is still valuable, as well as some of the more popular 3rd party libraries... get to know Quartz, Lucene, Apache Camel, etc.

Learning basic administration skills around at least one Java application server (JBoss, GlassFish, Geronimo, whatever) is always good.

Learn as much as you can about Tomcat.

Knowing how to build web-services (both old style SOAP and RESTful services) is good. Look at JAX-RS and Apache Axis.

Get a handle on all of the previously mentioned tech, and you'd be pretty in demand in the Java world (unless you live somewhere really desolate, where there just isn't any demand for tech jobs!).

If you want to move onto some of the new'ish stuff that's catching on and becoming "in demand" I'd say spend some time learning Hadoop / HBase, Storm, S4, Kafka and maybe another NoSQL database like MongoDB.

Would a J2EE certification help? It might not make a difference to the startup guys here on HN, but would Java experience, no J2EE experience but J2EE certifications get me in the door somewhere?

This is always a controversial question, but my take is that "yes, certifications do help." The question is "how much do they help?" and "where do they help?" At a startup, maybe not so much... at your typical Fortune 500 $BIGCORP, they probably do help. A certification alone isn't going to get you a job if you have NO skill, but if you're competing with somebody else for 1 position, and you both have roughly the same background, and you have certification and the other guy doesn't, it might just tip the scales in your favor. BUT... if you pursue any certifications, do it right... USE the experience as an excuse to do a "deep dive" into whatever, and actually LEARN. Don't just download "brain dumps" and cram for the test. Studying for a certification test can be very useful, I learned a lot studying to get my SCJP back in the day. Doing the certification was it's own reward, even if the actual cert never helped me land a job.
If the odds of submitting your resume and getting any sort of response are so low, perhaps the time would be better spent carving a niche for yourself - such as publishing articles like this blog entry.
I think you'd touch a lot more lives if you worked on solving the photo sharing problem for 3 years than working on electric airplanes for 3 years. Also: your comment is rude.
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That is not a good statistic - I was at MSFT when every few months an exec would trot out and talk about how GOOG/APPL's entire revenue fit inside some small MSFT division's numbers.

And then they had to stop.

The only thing that matters is growth.
Anyone done anything like this for Android?
Yes, but I would rather not spend all of that listening to fur-elise for the umpteenth time while getting lost in the arcane submenus of a corporate telephone system, all the while being told how valued I am as a customer by a repeating disembodied voice.