skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and the Kindle Fire is substantially lower spec'd and is often claimed to sell at a loss while the Nexus 7 has weaker distribution but is claimed to sell at cost. Exercise left to the reader.
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When you are not right, attempts at public shaming look fairly stupid.
Why would I choose a $1000-solution when I can use wordpress.com for free or a minimal fee for more customization?
A developers framework for (beginner) UX design
Scoutzie is a mobile design website made with the design community in mind. IMO thats what makes them stand out.
I see that the video is from 2010. Is there anything newer since?
Very nice anecdote. There's a lot of controversy on how to handle piracy and piracy attempts. Many developers and companies get angry and create police-state quality authoritarian solutions that punish their legitimate users. Obviously from the way I express it I feel this is not the best response. We draw the line at providing hand holding customer support to pirates, but we do gratefully accept well formed bug reports from them, without judgement. Being polite but firm and reasonable sometimes results in a conversion.
I never said Metro is a design failure. I'm saying Metro isn't designed and the explanation is because it can't.

As to what I am/am not, it should be pointless: you should analyze my argument and agree/disagree based solely on itself. Am I the greatest writer there is? No. Will I never change my opinion? No. Is this a rational argument based on the information given to me? Yes. And to this point, I haven't changed my opinion (but may in the future).

As to my domain being blocked, I'm sorry: I never spammed, hosted spam and it doesn't even contain any ads. I would argue against "corporate proxies" but that'd be off-topic… ;)
The vulcan node build server seems to have a handful of dependencies that aren't public (unless I'm missing something? - e.g. logger, spawner, cloudant): https://github.com/heroku/vulcan/blob/master/server/web.coff...
MLB teams now offering web-version of their Instagram feed
Great idea!
I love this type of projects, and mobile is a great niche to work on nowadays.
Some feedback: it's a bit annoying that the "Show more ???" ajax buttons send you everytime to the top of the page.
Looks cool. On the show more designers button, change the href from "#" to "javascript:void(0);"
In the comments of this post however I saw exactly the same point you're saying in your first paragraph, maybe in other discussion forums people denying this is more common.
Let me guess, you never used Opera yourself? Otherwise, you wouldn't question the facts, you would have lived them: Google sites intentionally blocked Opera based only on the User agent.

The most recent intentional annoyance is less than two weeks old:

http://www.zdnet.com/google-annoys-opera-users-who-wont-swit...

"(...) it's a mark of pure arrogance from a company that isn't afraid to act like Microsoft (1998) when it needs to muscle out a competitor.

The Google roadblock for Opera is crude. If you change the User-Agent string for Opera so that it identifies itself as Google Chrome, the Blogger editing and management screens work perfectly."
A free non-commercial version will remain available, fear not!
Mozilla takes Firefox 14.0.1 out of Beta, grab your download here
Studies have shown that the first 5 years of a child's life is when the brain develops the most. Proper nutrition and exposure to simple problem solving will significantly increase the chances of the child having a higher IQ.
Dreaming? or doable?
I am not a hacker, and I'm definitely not a computer geek. As I was growing up, I didn't have the resource to learn programming, and explore what I really wanted to pursue as my career. I have kept up with technology by consistently reading magazines, watching startup conference online, and recently my new great resource HN!

Let me get to the point… I have several ideas (10+) written out with marketing strategy, target market and such in business plan format, which I studied business in college. Some of these ideas were written about 5 years ago, and now I see similar ideas having huge success, example: Garage band. At the time it was all about myspace rather than using iPhone for music scene thus my idea was based on using myspace rather than iOS app. I have never shown or discussed this business idea and plan with anyone, yes it's collecting dust in my office. I have many ideas still collecting dust and still coming up with more day by day.

I would like to discuss and show my ideas but short tech knowledge puts me at a limitation, I do not know how to assemble a team because I have no clue which staff is needed to complete certain tasks… (Software Engineer? Computer Scientist? Backend software developer? Front end specialist?)

I'd like to show some of my business plans to someone to find out the first step to bring this idea as a product rather than just an idea seating in my office rotting and collecting dust… I just want to find out whether I'm living in fantasy world or if the idea is doable and have potential… Any suggestion who I should contact or what would be the first step?
I think it's twofold. You've got it right that the plagiarism is probably the biggest reason, but the other reason is that they're using this "stolen" material for their own personal gain. If I download some MP3s and listen to them myself, there's no personal gain (besides the literal gain of having the MP3, of course). If I download some MP3s and put them in my product, now I'm illegally benefitting from someone else's work. I would be willing to call that stealing the MP3s even if I'm not trying to pass the MP3s off as my own creation.
> This strategy follows Christensen's disruptive innovation to the letter.

Really?

They offered a different package of attributes valued only in emerging markets remote from, and unimportant to, the mainstream.[1]

So basically it's the same exact device but cheaper. That doesn't represent "different package of attributes". Sorry, but I'd barely call that "to the letter".

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation#The_theor...
I apologize in advance but I get pretty annoyed at the linkbait accusation. It's a strong, somewhat provocative headline yes, but how is it linkbait? Yes, Squarespace is not currently a competitive alternative to the self-hosting option of Wordpress (which I use everyday), but as you admit it's still an exceptional proprietary option for smaller scale websites. These and a million other nuances don't fit in headlines.
I'm kinda out of my depth here, as I know next to nothing about C++, but I'm pretty sure it's not. These functors are fundamentally different thing (first-class function object?) from what that other article and what Haskell calls functors (container that can be mapped over).
The American company is supposed to withhold the income tax on behalf of the contractor from the outset. There is no minimum payment. The moment you hire someone from international sources, you're required to withhold income tax on theie behalf. This is usually 35% of the amount paid. You effectively treating the contractor as a W2 because he's outside the united states.

The international contractor recieves a 1042-S and at the end of the year the US company would file the annual report 1042 to summarize all of the 1042-S they filed.

The american company would report of these payments under its quarter 941s and its annual 945 returns.

The foreign contractor gets a 1042S at the end of the year and would have to file a 1040NR to get a refund of their taxes withheld.

its an insane and complicated process but its all so that the IRS gets their fair shake. Most companies should be wary of hiring offshore because its actually a butt-ton of work but they never know these things until its too late.

The real horror story is that this is considered payroll tax and you're ALWAYS personally liable for these taxes. Thus, any company shareholder, director or executive is personally liable for these taxes. They can levy your bank accounts anytime for restitution.
He meant that the studies are of poor quality, not that the studies only used poor quality fish oil.
>> Chinese companies reputations are already destroyed.

How so? You have to be known to have a reputation that can be destroyed.

There aren't many Chinese (not to be confused with Taiwanese) brand names in the mainstream in North America. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Haier, and calling them mainstream is stretching it.

I'm sure as Chinese brands expand into the west, their reputations will be cemented more by the quality of their products than the fact they're Chinese. And given that China's already producing some pretty high quality stuff for everyone else, they don't have the same mountains to climb as the Japanese and the Koreans did.
Interestingly enough, MIUI is based on Cyanogen.
Yes, video of Obama belting out "I'm so in love with you" is fair use
"it won't be long before they are making Apple-quality stuff."

Wait, they actually make actual Apple stuff today. I realize these aren't China designs but when we're talking about build quality, the know how is already there although in most cases spoken for by foreign capital.
New Mobile Chrome Experiment - Interactive Music Video
Or, it could be a submarine piece (http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html) for Sqrrl.
Post them all here. We'll tell you which ones suck.

If you're worried about someone stealing your idea, don't.
> A period is a terminator; it says 'This thought ends here', while a semicolon is a delimiter

Pascal takes this literally: semicolons separate statements, and a full stop ends the unit contained in a file ("end.").
Looks neat, but clicking the "shuffle" button completely kills the back button.
Do you use SharedDataMiddleware with Flask on Heroku?
If you're in the Bay Area, the LLNL tour [1] is well worth it. Ever seen an 800-pound crystal [2]?

[1] https://www.llnl.gov/about/tours.html
[2] https://lasers.llnl.gov/multimedia/photo_gallery/overview/?i...
We'll consider it ;) I think Github and Stack come close, but there you still need to know what you're looking for. InterviewStreet does a good job at pre-filtering candidates. Non-the-less, we'll keep that in mind!
Nice job Scoutzie! It's a great way to connect high quality designers with companies and developers who need them.
The title changed, and hence the topic. So no instead of a conversation about visualisations in JS, we'll have one about prime numbers.

If the OP thought the "prime number" aspect was interesting, he would have posted it as such.

Instead I'm sitting here looking at the OP thinking...this is not a very interesting visualisation of prime numbers.
If he's smart and a quick learner, make sure he's always got something to do. No faster way to kill productivity than to get bored.
Notch, of Minecraft fame, is well known for these types of shenanigans, even shaming a Minecraft pirate in a Quake 3 match (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120412/07474418467/friend...)

Not sure it's scalable, but sure makes for a fun alternative to perpetual legal battles
Still not fully sure how the model works. You announce that your project needs a designer on this site and you get to pick a designer?
Thanks! For some reason this worked fine all morning, but then of course I found a way to break it right before pushing. Thanks again!
Maximize[...], Minimize[...], LinearProgramming[...] thats it...
But Mathematica costs money.

Example:

Minimize[{x + 2 y, -5 x + y == 7 && x + y >= 26 && x >= 3 &&
y >= 4}, {x, y}]
LinearProgramming[{1,
2}, {{-5, 1}, {1, 1}}, {{7, 0}, {26, 1}}, {{3, Infinity}, {4,
Infinity}}]
I think there a number of interesting use-cases that were underserved by Twitter's decision to become a widescale media company.

I described my vision of what opportunity I think was lost here:
http://daltoncaldwell.com/what-twitter-could-have-been

I am running this experiment to establish, to the best of my abilities, whether or not there is a market for the sort of service I described and want to exist. The practical applications would be fairly different than a celebrity-focused gossip site.
I'm reminded that Google+ hasn't caught every time I log on.

Between visits, I think I forget it even exists.
Unless I have missed an article stating otherwise, there is a lot of noise about it not being fixed in Mountain Lion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4235432
Yep. See above, the trick with javascript:void worked. Thanks for the bud reporting!
I agree. This is definitely not a long term business model and could only benefit if its built to sell. These people build a business out of tricking people into clicking their misleading title and video thumbnails that are populated from their Facebook Feed(almost like ads) to increase their stats and app users. People don't usually get fooled more than once, so their traffic is starting to decline. Like our president Bush once said "Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again"
It's been an awesome day of demos and pitch decks so far!
We regularly do 800-1600 dollar WordPress sites in a similar timeframe (assuming 24 hours = 3 business days).

These sites are fully customized, and include design.
Cyprus is going to have it's first hackathon
In short, the first ever weekend-long hackathon in Cyprus. We're excited about it and you should be too. Sun, sea, surf and code. Hacking meets the cradle of Western civilisation.
The logger, spawner and cloudant coffeescript files are in the lib folder: https://github.com/heroku/vulcan/tree/master/server/lib

When the app is created it sets NODE_PATH=lib so the app can find those files without specifying the full path: https://github.com/heroku/vulcan/blob/master/lib/vulcan/cli....
Designers get to pick you, should they consider the project worthy of their time/interest.
Designing the Windows 8 touch keyboard
It can't be scientific and objective, because it is not measuring something scientifically and objectively defined and most of the differences being discussed can be erased by manipulating the testing circumstances.

That doesn't mean it is never worth measuring, but it seems particularly silly to obsess over IQ when better data on actual outcomes exists for things like educational interventions. The best applications of IQ are in identifying areas of deficit in individuals (one definition of learning disability is an area of cognitive performance that varies significantly from all others.) The worst applications of IQ are to funnel more resources to already-advantaged children or to make demographic generalizations. Given that, it hardly seems unreasonable to mostly ignore the IQ-obsessed research and focus on specific, repeatably-defined cognitive tasks instead.
Interesting. The difference could be A/B testing or serving up different scripts to different browsers.

At a quick glance you can definitely see some differences between the different scripts we were served. For instance, in the one you were served there are some unminified portions that include the license notice for some of the code (easyXDM). In the script served to me there are no unminified portions, with everything being served on a single line.
Elance would deliver in shorter turnaround on 1/10th of that amount (or even lesser). I am not trying to spoil your idea but this is the reality. If you can surmount that possible hurdle, then your idea might just be great. But until then...
No it isn't [0]. The way DMCA works is that someone files a claim, Apple pulls the app, the defending party files a counter-claim, Apple restores the app. Now it's between the two parties. It's not Apple's role to be the judge to which one must disprove infringement.

[0] See 17 USC 512 (c)(3) & (g)(2): http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512
At least you're not succumbing to the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, gwern.
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Politicians got pissed for a government branch doing a better job than some corporate campaign contributor? Where's the news in that?

Now seriously. We'd be better off coding something out that emulates monkeys doing their jobs. Really.
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Blog spam about photo hacks with zero photos.

Fail.
Kirill, would a project hitching one of your designers as full-time co-founder be against some Scoutzie rules / be frowned upon?
You don't get a degree now.

Mark my words: in a few years, you'll be able to certify that you passed each course and you'll get some form of certification for passing a sequence of courses. It might not be called "BS in CS from MIT" but it'll be looked at the same way.
Always have been... Maybe I should, like Mark Zuckerberg said "Not taking a risk is biggest risk"
Thanks :) We were really bored with the selection of cases coming out and thought we could make something that was a better reflection of the concept behind the Pi.
TapEngage (YC S11) acquired by Dropbox
Based on your comment history you're probably just being sarcastic.

That said, I agree with your point even if you probably don't: using the wrong word in the wrong place is not a good thing. Conflating copyright infringement with theft is bad even if you empathize with the person whose copyright was infringed.
The post I was replying to was talking about Linux software distribution in general. I wasn't suggesting using the package as a delivery mechanism for Steam software, which seems like a pretty silly idea.
That'd be especially useful for when you're looking for consulting gigs and other temporary projects. I'd use it :)
One theory:

As Twitter continues to disfavor outside clients, there might be innovation (especially around mixing info from many sources) that's only possible in an alternate system... a system that doesn't require end-user/endpoint interface control in order to collect its sustaining revenues.
Does "Google Plus" also cover "G+" and "Google+" and whatever other variation of the name there is? That's probably the last way I'd think of searching for statistics on it.

Everything else you listed doesn't have any common aliases.
Really nice. My only suggestion would be to show more designs above the fold – perhaps make the current image rotate with a few others.

Do you say 444 because that's all you have signed up currently, or are you restricting it to that number? I think it'd be interesting to see what would happen if you did the latter, almost as if you were curating top talent, something like an agency. Imagine if 37signals kept the number of designers in each price bracket it represented on Sortfolio to only 20 or so. A part of me thinks those design firms would have gotten a lot more business than they would have otherwise.
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Sure. I have a Google+ account, two even, because they are both attached to my private and business Google accounts. Same goes for almost everyone I know, they all have at least one Google+ account.

Only nobody I know, ever, ever uses Google+.

I'm guessing many visits I make to Google applications whilst logged in count as Google+ usage. In reality, I haven't used it since after the first month or two, and that is pretty much reflected by the people around me.
Meetings.io now enables embedding rooms on any site
Google maps interior of Shackleton and Scott's Antarctic huts
Actual Google maps link for those interested https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en-US&sll=-77.552923,166.168368&layer=c&cid=18136866687947903283&panoid=IOpxazFg6mE9O-qaLRC_uQ&cbp=13,82.46,,0,0&gl=US&t=h&cbll=-77.552947,166.168246&ie=UTF8&hq=+loc:+&hnear=&ll=-77.553746,166.170294&spn=0.001448,0.012059&z=16&source=embed
Firefox 14 Encrypts Google Searches
Secret History Of The Credit Card
A quick skim of the related NYTimes article [1] indicates that the cameraman was alive at 82 in 2010.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/science/14atom.html?pagewa...
This is why I like Hacker News, its a good way to quickly evaluate an idea.
OK, I'm thinking like someone who's trying to get software for free. I still don't get it.

If they were modifying an existing valid key, it doesn't seem like people would keep using the same one. Unless people are downloading a keygen or something.

Any more hints?
the problem i see with this whole thing is that twitter (which is the company you are disappointed of) is a pain only to developers because they want to use their (more and more restrictive) api but not to the users. obviously they suffer too in the long run by not getting any innovative third party twitter clients or other useful stuff that's based on the twitter api. but this is (a) too far away in the future and (b) most of them won't know why that is or worse not even care.

the thing is: the reason why developers want access to the twitter api in the first place is because the users are there. you cannot just make a paradise for developers when there are no actual users feeding data into the system. one of the main reasons twitter got to where it is today is because celebrities started using it and their fans followed... you cannot reconstruct this phenomenon in the way you're trying to pull it off.

maybe, what you're trying to do is something completey else. maybe you want a service rather for machines to talk to, as a service purely for developers. than that's something completely else.
Yeah, that is a serious concern. Its hard to compete with people who can live for a week on what I need in a day.
Naming our product: how we landed on Simmer
To check your biases what percentage of someones Height is based on DNA vs environmental factors? Ok, now compare that with IQ.

In the US environmental factors represent ~20 point shifts in IQ. However 50 point differences are not all that uncommon (75 vs 125) even among family members. Which suggest huge differences based on DNA.

PS: When the average nutrition level increases the importance of DNA also increases.
Actual Google maps link https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en-US&sll=-77.552923,166...
Your title is misleading because "Wordpress" as a general brand encompasses the open source Wordpress.org CMS workhorse, which most of us on HN typically associate with the name. Wordpress.com the cloud blog platform has lots of valid competition, notably Tumblr and Blogger.

I enjoy learning the bootstrapped rags to riches story about Squarespace, but your title frames the story as if its about a new competitor to Wordpress the open source CMS, and it is not.
I would whitelist the hosts, stackoverflow.com, google.com, and dev* - should cover 90% of productivity related websites :)
Isn't this incentivising people to pirate before buying a legitimate license?
I meant a 24 hour period, so 1 pm on Monday to 1 pm on Tuesday. The idea would be the quick turn around, I assume we'd need to give service on par with you and your company.
A book by a VB programmer? Nah ... thanks ... I'll pass on this one.
We obviously have to offer much more then the free solution.
As mentioned on a comment a little below, this was designed with security in mind. Requesting mouselock can only be done together with requesting fullscreen mode, which is only possible in response to user input (like pressing a button) and after that requires explicit authorization. Afterwards, pressing escape will always leave both fullscreen and mouselock.
Nice work Kirill - As a designer, you've really done a great job creating a site that I think people would want to actually use on a regular basis.
A lot of the hacks are expected to put up their URLs by end of the week (per organizer info) and I'd be happy to update the post with photos once we get them. In the meantime, at the end of the post, you will find a direct link to the googledocs with lists of hacks. Check them out.
Absolutely, the Japanese did some pretty heinous things. But Japan and South Korea are different in a way none of the responses have dealt with.

China is still behaving badly and a fundamental change in their government looks generations and generations away, if it is even on the horizon.
Don't forget Sqoot's new motto: http://i.imgur.com/FZjjy.png