skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see handwriting on a small space being faster than typing on a small space if the technology for recognition were good enough.
Google Chrome Web Labs
If your going to have a "Someone's gotta be first" problem, then you need to make sure that solving that problem is part of your business plan.

Having failed to find anybody out there willing to take the risk, at this point they need to be paying to commission games to use their platform or develop some in house if they want to have any chance of convincing developers that the platform even works.
Depends on how they got there. If they just typed in reddit.com in the location bar, you may be right. But I bet a lot of people find the site via a deep link.
Awesome. Yes, this is one thing I was looking for, right on. I will make it a point to check it out again.

I have to admit, Grubwithus appeals to my laziness. I call it "push button organizing." It's not quite there yet, but it's getting close and I think it has the potential to make a really big impact.

I will continue to advocate for Grubwithus. Good luck and great job so far.
32% Y/Y growth isn't rapid ?

And how is Google an old competitor when they were founded only 6 years prior to Facebook ?
Great idea, I might do this myself. It's actually much cheaper than that - I'd say around $400.

1) Get just the panels off ebay for $60-$80 /each.

2) You can get the spec sheets for the panels with enough Googling. It's a 6-bit (yeah, not 8-bit) LVDS signal, same as most modern laptops.

3) The toughest part. Create a DVI-> high-speed LVDS converter. There might be something already available, though. A quick google only shows a Toshiba DSI -> LVDS converter capped at 1080p.

Ballparking the LVDS clock rate:
2048 * 1536 * 6 * 60 Hz = 1.1 GHz

Interesting idea, though.
Just ashes.
Don't forget the sales Google will get from all the movies and media people will buy from Google Play.
Firearms last decades, most of those 300 million firearms are unregistered (indeed the number could be far higher), so there isn't really a feasible way to get rid of even half of them.

Guns last decades to centuries, the underground manufacturers only have to make enough to keep up with criminal population growth to keep the criminals just as supplied with guns as they are today.

It might actually be worse because many of the law abiding citizens who previously left their guns sitting in the basement will be willing to sell on the black market with gun prices rising.
Show HN: Timetable of Croatian ferries and catamarans
Curious, had no idea there were (at least) two tlds.
This is what the "learn programming in X weeks and we'll hook you up with a job at the end of it" programs are about (ex http://devbootcamp.com/). Definitely a huge opportunity there, as companies are desperate for programmers but don't have time to train them, there are a lot of people unemployed and desperate for work, and it's possible to teach someone enough programming in a few months that they can begin contributing at one of these jobs. If you can execute correctly, it's an arbitrage opportunity, which is what all good businesses are built around.
> The decision is especially perplexing [because] Jack Dorsey is also an investor in Instagram and the two companies share Benchmark as an investor.

Shouldn't those be past tense? Did either of them maintain a connection to Instagram post-sale to Facebook?
That's rather high, I once had a 3 hours of interviews and then zero contact after that.
There are things like adblock which allow you to fully experience facebook sans ads.

Yes, there is tivo etc, but you have to pay extra to get out of the ad experience (and it doesnt always work). TV ads are much more intrusive than FB ads, and I'd imagine TV-style facebook ads (like some websites that force you to sit through an ad) most likely will kill the platform.
Discussion is over here -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4298420
What a useless comment. Beside having nothing to do with the comment it is in response to, it completely misses the point that while what they did is of course legal, we can still find it inappropriate and complain about it.
I don't disagree with you at all; I just think that in the appliance-computing future where your computer is basically a toaster, the vast majority of users (ie, potential software customers) won't care about the "missing" apps at all. It's not a coincidence that most of the apps running up against sandboxing are tools aimed at power users -- third-party email clients, application launchers, BBEdit, backup tools, etc. These are specialized apps for users on the thin end of the bell curve. I don't think Apple cares much if they lose all the people who care about third-party text editors if they're able to start selling computers to millions of other ordinary people who have heretofore been terrified of installing software on their computers.

I'm not happy about it either; I guess I just understand what Apple's trying to do, and why Microsoft seems so eager to follow suit by setting up its own store. The "you have to be a computer guy to use computers" era is almost over.
Mostly unreadable on many platforms, along with their affiliate sites, especially with JS disabled.
> The enterprise community was looking for a framework they can use with minimal changes to their existing systems, and for some, a new source of revenues through customization.

That right there is what killed OAuth 2.0. From day 1 these members didn't have the specification as the highest priority. They were only thinking of how the specification could serve their own ends. This isn't unique to the enterprise world, but that mindset has more than its fair share. The web community represented the group that put the specification as it's highest priority. When the specification was perverted, they left.
Wonder how much the weather in Kansas can deal with this. I still might be hesitant to depend on streaming content or entirely cloud storage if I can't guarentee access in a tornado. Even without weather concerns, if I somehow mess up my configuration and don't have a reliable network connection, I don't want to be entirely cut off.

Still good, but I won't be abandoning local storage any time soon.
TV networks are not worth much.
> My skillset was expendable and I needed to realize that.
> I lost my sense of entitlement. I used to think my
> $100,000 piece of paper meant something.
>
> Then I realized it did.

I feel like this part is going over my head if the 'did' isn't a typo (meant "didn't).
I love ZenCoder. The product is awesome and their company culture/fast dev cycle/docs/api is one we should all try to mimic (i.e, the CEO gets onto sales calls and answers tech questions. WHAT!?).
I know that they are promising not to pull a Sparrow, but with all of the aqui-hires lately- I'm scared. Please don't make me go back to a homebrew ffmpeg setup- there aren't many good competitors in this space!
That sounds great but last I checked they where still burning money fairly quickly.
As anyone who mastered PalmOS's grafitti can attest, sometimes writing on a PDA / smartphone is a lot more usable than typing, especially on a soft keyboard.

Input remains the weak point to many or most of these devices.
If he doesn't want people to discuss his actions and motivations, he shouldn't write them up on a blog.
Google can subsist on ads, because it's primary function is to help someone find something. The ads are related to what you are trying to find, so they are sometimes actually relevant as part of your search, and to the function for which you were using Google. So an ad supported environment for search can actually be beneficial to the searcher.

For Facebook, that's not the case. I go to Facebook to see pictures and status updates from Friends and Family. I'm not looking for anything to buy, or for airfare prices, or movie tickets, etc. So I naturally tune out the right side of the Facebook stream and never - ever - click on any ads. And about 99.9999% of the time I completely forget they are there. However, when searching on Google, if I can't find exactly what I'm looking for I will frequently scan the ads on the right to see what's there. And that's been helpful, so I know I'll do it again.

Facebook needs to take advantage of something they have that others sites don't: real identities. They could totally kill eBay. My wife sometimes talks me out of using eBay because we just don't know if we can trust the person on the other side of the transaction. Facebook can fix that. You can see who the people are, know who they are connected to (use a 6 degrees of separation connection lookup, etc) and be assured (on some level) of a buyer's/seller's identity (trustworthiness) in a transaction.

Or something similar. They could then take a cut o the sale just like eBay. And I don't mean relegate this function to some part of Facebook no one would notice, but add a genuinely first class feature to enable something like that (or another equally useful commerce related activity).
Here's my MIT licensed implementation of a horizontal 'quilt' view:
http://github.com/joshavant/JAGridView

In fact, the inspiration behind this layout was Google+/Picasa albums!
Not to mention what good is 6k rounds for a massacre? How are you planning on carrying that much ammo around while firing at people?
That's an artifact of the TN panels... IPS panels are like those on the iPad and can be viewed from any angle without bad color distortion.
For those curious, here are a few of the author's musical compositions: http://pedrokroger.net/compositions/
I don't think the point is to show that the job market is hard in NYC. The point is to try to understand the problem (finding a job) by putting oneself in the other side.

Regarding the ethical part, one application is a rounding error for most seekers. Either you send hundreds of applications, either you send a dozen or two of highly researched ones (and you would have avoided this one anyway).
Early 'Jony' iPhone 4 render shows Sony design influence
European Entrepreneurs and their Government Inflicted Stumbling Blocks
Last night my Comcast cable tv set top box started telling me it was unauthorized. I went through their phone tree twice (they simply booted me the first time ... Telling me to hang up an call again WTF?). I finally talk to a human -- nice and seems competent -- and he can't find any evidence of my having a set top box. Eventually he says that maybe the relevant system is down, try to call again in the morning. Fine, not his fault. But before I hang up he reads out a recorded item about how they are there ready to support me 24/7.

Oh and I love how I have to enter the same phone number twice AND give it to the human ... "For security purposes."
With hat tip to Stephen Walli: https://twitter.com/stephenrwalli/status/228608292144943104
From what Google was saying a while back, the reason we don't see people making programs that consume 1GB of data is because nobody can consume 1GB of data. The theory is that if that much bandwidth is available, new technologies will be built to utilize it, even though we might not be able to conceive what those are right now. Is it possible that we will all have these connections and do the same old thing we are doing now? Possibly, but we could have also been perfectly content with single core chips.
All three office buildings I've working in during the past 5 years would not let you leave the lobby unless you are escorted by a person from the company you are going to visit. The escort also has to have escort rights.

That is different than an escort coming down to the lobby and saying, "ok you, you and you can come up. You over there have to leave the building". That is something I have never seen happen.

Edit: all three have had metal detectors and airport style scanners, really annoying getting stuck in the security line if you forgot your badge and were running late.
> Then I realized it did.

What did it mean?
5. Short FB stock.
Startup founder willing to pay $500 to increase his odds to get Google Fiber
Yeah google has a nice motto.
So this is interesting. I wonder how well this model will match up with the Kickstarter model. This is great for letting artists distribute their music, but will it be able to sustain creation of new music?

Also They Might Be Giants !!
Looking forward to digging through the source code on this one. Pleasantly surprised that text selection with both mouse and keyboard worked intuitively and smoothly (Ubuntu/Chrome) -- usually I'd expect this kind of trickery to break down at some boring edge case like this. Same for zooming with Ctrl+mousewheel.
Here's what I would suggest: Part with $400-500 to join your airline's airport lounge/club for a year. The saved time and stress vastly outweighs the cost if you fly more than five or six times a year--if you fly that much it's usually worthwhile to try to stick with a single airline anyway for the frequent flier miles and the perks they hand out to those with "Elite" status (or whatever your airline calls it). If you fly less often it makes more sense to just buy day passes.

Most clubs have showers, free wifi, numerous power outlets, free snacks and adult beverages and, most importantly, a quiet place to relax before your flight (and none of those annoying "The TSA has recently blah blah blah blah" announcements over the PA). Many airlines offer reciprocal benefits with other airlines' lounges (for example, when flying on Alaska, you can use the Boardroom at an airport without an Admiral's Club).

Earlier this week I had to catch a flight departing at 6:15am. Instead of waking up at 3am, I spent my mandatory pre-flight airport time taking a shower (shampoo, soap, a razor and, of course, clean towels complements of the lounge), eating breakfast (free coffee, muffins and an apple) and catching up on email.
Another point of difference is that Google's $120 plan comes with a free Nexus 7 and 2TB of storage.
The deal hasn't closed yet as far as we know.
Woah! Let's not get crazy here and start requesting compensation for our time. Capitalism would break out, and where would our national recession be then?
I don't know if it's been said or discussed before, but why don't Developers just make yearly revisions to sell on the Mac App Store, or even the iPhone iOS app store. You could have a Genericproductname'2012 or '12, and next year release a 2013 ('13) that has the new features, then remove the prior versions.
I wasn't able to the setting pages on Chrome while I was signed in. Am I blind or was this a UI oversight?
Adding hurdles will definitely reduce the number of applicants, but what you'll find is that if you ask for X, Y, Z in the ad most people will still send you whatever they were going to send you before (most likely a resume and coverletter). You then know they didn't read the ad and thus should probably be deleted.

This is why lots of job ads on craigslist say: "write XYZ in the email title" buried in the text to filter for those people who aren't even reading the ad.
Do the musical terms in this analogy:

retrogradation(transposition(inversion([0, 4, 7])))

also explain the relationship between each part of this function as retrogradation does with transposition and inversion? E.g., if you start with a triad, transpose it to another key, and then create an inverted chord out of it? Or were the musical terms chosen merely to indicate that they can be a "subset" of a particular general idea ("chord" or "function"?)?
I've just looked through WineHQ, and my understanding is that even on CS5, After Effects doesn't work at all, Photoshop is fairly buggy, and Premiere doesn't work at all.
Hi Steve - we have express plans to _not_ shut down or make you go back to a homebrew setup. This isn't an aqui-hire; Brightcove is getting into the encoding API market. Hope to work with you for many years to come.
Correction to the article: The majority of the displays only have DVI, but a few have DP, HDMI, and VGA.
Beyond PageRank: Machine Learning for Static Ranking
That's true, I remember there being lots of prediction and compensation in QuakeWorld especially.

I haven't played the OnLive stuff so I'm not sure what it's like, but with a decent connection I'm guessing it's something that your brain just ends up dealing with. Although if it's anything like using RDC for a long period of time I can see it getting annoying.
That would be a good reason, and a way to enrich the discussion.
It's really unfortunate that this would be so hard to use in production due to lack of a suitable IE fallback. If a browser doesn't support @font-face, for example, you can always fall back to a standard font. For isometric text though, lack of support would likely disrupt the page layout so badly that the only fallback solution would be images.

That said, as easy as it is to think of sites where isometric text would be a cool design element, I can't easily think of an application where it would need to be actual, editable text. Perhaps if you had a heavily futuristic themed CMS site...
This looks fascinating; any chance someone can easily explain the significance of the terms and the image? Seems daunting to look everything up and try to understand as a layman.

Edit: Awesome, thanks everyone! <3 HN
Yes, but less likely to burgle it while the occupants are at home. Insurance covers stolen possessions, but you can't replace lives lost in a botched burglary or home invasion.
That would be kind of perverse given how cp behaves for -r and -R
>they could have provided better support (or perhaps lower prices) to their actual customers //

You can level this at any company making a profit. Are you happy with companies making profit? [If so] Well then why not companies using what would be profits on beneficial research.
> I had broad competition

Maybe it's mostly the bottom 10% who are permanently unemployed / between jobs, no education.
Taking on eBay is a great idea - like you say, a perfect way to leverage social.

I guess one could worry about Fb becoming too unfocused overtime - delving into all of these spaces would require a lot of discipline.
Annoying, and it will probably work. I've never followed anyone on instagram that I wasn't following on twitter, and if the option wasn't available I wouldn't have bothered.
Even 1kb seems like too much. The processing power to handle the time ago logic is so small, having to download 1kb of data more probably takes more processing power than you're saving.
Oh also I actually read the whole article, saw your pricing page preview, bookmarked the article and the left.. And only just realized now I still don't actually know what the product does.

I suggest you also include a product summary somewhere on the blog.
I tend to think that that is just the default behavior by whatever drop-in blog package they're using. You see this in nearly 110% of phpBB boards, where the corner link brings you to the top page of the webboard.

It's a missed detail, though whether by laziness or incompetence I'm not willing to speculate.
Thats why we need protocols and not APIs.
It's an S-IPS panel as opposed to eIPS, which you'll find on some of the smaller cheaper IPS monitors. And as others have pointed out, it's 27 inches and rocking a high resolution.
That is hard to fix with crypto stuff. Good public test cases as part of the spec help, and worked examples.
Ask HN: What about rechargeable pricing plans?
I live in europe and I can't use Stripe for recurring payments. I didn't want to go with other services because they seem too expensive and quite complicated to setup.

So I thought to myself, why not implement a simple rechargeable system, where the user simply pays through a PayPal Pay Now button? 1 month, 3 months, 6 months and 12 months plans. After the period is over, the users are reminded to re-charge in order to continue using my service.

From a user perspective this has several positive outcomes:

1) The user isn't locked into any month-to-month thing.

2) They don't need to store their credit card info anywhere - Stripe and other 3rd party services are PCI compliant, but users feel safer knowing that their CC info is only used for that specific transaction and not being stored somewhere.

3) The user is in control. Just like my pre-paid cellphone, I charge it whenever I'm out of credit - it's just simpler than having something that bills me monthly. Just the feeling that a service is connected to my Credit Card makes me feel a little unsafe.

Why aren't services being built this way? Am I missing something?
Facebook reports loss due to Zuckerberg payout
I believe that we're also free to publicly shame them for having and enforcing idiotic policies.

The only reason that your statement makes sense is if you disagree with me on that. Otherwise, your comment just amounts to "they don't have to listen to you," which should be implicit to everyone here.

If you do feel that we aren't allowed to publicly shame them, then I'd invite you to expand on that idea.
Zuckerberg: Building a Facebook phone “wouldn’t make much sense for us”
That doesn't follow. There are no comparable states with a comparable history, demography, economy, and culture.

It's possible that gun ownership deters crime, but that something else unique to the U.S. is causing more crime than gun ownership is countering.

The only thing you could possibly do is to compare parts of the US to each other, and in that case you'll find that locations with stricter gun laws have more gun violence.

You could conclude that gun laws cause gun violence, but that would be stupid because many times gun laws exist because of gun violence. What's the difference between my conclusion and yours?

Concluding that guns cause violence without real hard evidence and subsequently banning them is like using the unproven gateway drug theory to justify locking up people for smoking pot.
I really hope that this raises awareness about the dangers of relying on biometric identifiers. Unfortunately, I fear people still won't pay sufficient attention.
Olympic committee banning 3G-Wifi Access points at venues
Generally I think that's a side effect of outsourcing. They point a subdomain of their domain at wp.com or whatever blog host and leave it at that. Of course the blog host is going to make it a default that the corner link go back to themselves. Traceroute to the blog and I think you'll usually see that it's a separate host than their www.
That 30% is anecdotal from ONE guy's company that bought a few of these monitors. The sample size is too small, and also there are multiple Korean OEMs selling similar monitors. Some are using nicer boards than others, the same way some are using nicer casing than others.

I've heard murmurring of people getting Square warranties for these monitors. Might be worth investigating if the failure rate is a concern for you. ~$300+warranty costs will still be significantly less than a Cinema Display.
I don't see how any of what you said is relevant. The distribution mechanism (Mac App Store) has absolutely nothing to do with everyone running the same software. And in fact the required sandboxing (one of the alleged problems with the Mac App Store) goes a long way to mitigate a lot of risks in remote exploits.

If the Mac App Store had a grand total of 5 apps then I could see where you're coming from, but it launched with over a thousand apps and it's had 1.5 years since then to acquire many more. There's no monoculture.
I think we need to be separating the concept of sandboxing from Apple implementation of "Entitlements". From a technical and user perspective, sandboxing is a good thing, it keeps the app from doing what it's not supposed to be doing. However, Apple entitlements are a laughable hand-me-down subset of sandboxing. If Apple expanded their list of entitlements and simply required justification for use of those expanded entitlements during the review phase, they could still keep things safe for end users.
> I wonder if Yelp people ask themselves if they
> might be doing something bad if people want to do
> them bodily harm.

They don't have to be doing something wrong for people to want to harm them.
I personally prefer light grey on almost-black backgrounds, black-on-white is just the most common.
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