skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes big IT just doesn't want to change what is currently working. RIM may be dying but they're still shipping product. That is how it is possible. But that doesn't make it smart. :)
Marketplace for all the successful Kickstarter Projects
Seems like a good idea, but I'm not sure how well the templates will apply because each app is going to be different.

Also please left-align your header and body text on your homepage. Could help to fix the line-height.
My Google Wallet Experience
Can can be tweaked or removed if that becomes popular.
Adventures in App Creation - PledgeWall and Parse
It may also have had an 'oh my god, I've been caught!' effect - no longer is the user anonymous, in their own eyes.
for now they'll need to be created manually, but we're in the process of building our APIs which we'll make available very soon
>Unfortunately, all continuing to enforce how special women are (either positively or negatively, in this case) is to keep women thinking they need specialised tools to succeed.

It emphasizes it to you. As a woman, it painstakingly obvious I am "special." At the last tech event I was at I was one of three women; one was the girlfriend of the organizer, one was a non technical person looking for technical help for a start-up, and the other was me. I felt awkward and stood out like a sore thumb. There's nothing that a bunch of women trying to raise money to encourage women to be in tech could do to make me feel MORE awkward at events where it's obvious I stand out.

Look, I think the project itself is kind of silly. But it could bring more women into tech. And more women in tech won't make me stand out more; it will make me stand out LESS. That's the only way it's going to shake out.
I ditched RSS reader because it's a huge investment of time. I get all social media updates in G+. Most blogs would email you blog post. I have integrated all my RSS needs in programs I already use - G+ and Gmail. It is my own personal minimalist experiment.
Yahoo Sheds A Little Light On Its Mobile Activities In Q2: Revenues Up 50%
I kind of wonder about that reasoning, though. I mean, no it's not trivial if you imagine having to foot the bill for it yourself, but proportional to the kind of money Twitter is dealing with, it's, well, still just 1% of a JS file.

But I don't think we need to think of it in terms of Twitter's scale at all. The point is that saving 1% for basically free, is saving 1% for basically free, and that's worthwhile no matter how big you are. On its own, it's a drop in the bucket, but the cumulative effect of many small low-opportunity-cost savings is a significant low-opportunity-cost saving.
Is there a lower resistance alternative for a general consumer transferring money to a friend over the web/mobile phone? I default to using PayPal since the chances of my friend having a Paypal account is higher than the newer services.
They can remove funds from your account for any reason and in any quantity. Not freeze. Remove. Your only recourse is to pursue them in court.

Of course, they put a wonderful provision in that agreement you quoted. You can only pursue them in court in the state of California and Nebraska. Ask me how I know.

Is that how a bank would act? I don't think so.
That's interesting, how so? I found the complete opposite to be true when using both Wordpress and Squarespace for small business sites like local businesses, entrepreneurs, blogs, portfolios, etc.

Designing for Squarespace is by far the simplest process I've used. It's way ahead of even Shopify, which has been touted as being incredibly easy to design for. I can take 90-95% of a completed PSD design to Squarespace in under an hour. If the design is already chopped up in HTML, even faster. It cut my site development time in half, and my clients prefer the user interface versus Wordpress.

The "Selective Display" section are comparable to Drupal, yet they are much easier to work with.

My frustration with Squarespace's previous version (Version 5) was that it was getting a bit dated and it was a bit closed off, meaning some designs and project were just not possible. Squarespace 6 is solving a lot of this.

Regardless of whether or not it's a threat to WP or Weebly, it's an awesome platform to work with and has many features that are simply amazing.
Oh, this wasn't a jab at you. Rather, that's the part of grandparent's post that I think is the most concerning. I just don't have the knowledge and skills to see if it's true, so I was asking you.

Usually, part of the science process is to analyze results in the context of similar work. If the authors are indeed cherry-picking and ignoring counter-results instead of acknowledging them, then that's bad.
First survey on 3D printing community
Thanks to the attention drain, we get a few weeks of relief from their spam.
Wohooo..Hack Cyprus:)
This title is pretty strange... It doesn't tell any of the interesting facts about the story, which sucks.
PayPal Acquires Mobile Payments Startup Card.io
Miles Davis – blind listening test
Aimez-vous les Couleurs de votre vie?
You keep expressing your opinion. Please tell me how there is no "I" in your opinion. I see two of them: o-p-I-n-I-o-n.

Also, I never said not to listen to any of these other folks. It was you who told me that I didn't learn to program in my first programming class because it started with functional programming as the most fundamental concept. That statement was offensive and false, and I am now demonstrating to you why you are so wrong.

This is not to say that there are not many possible reasonable approaches. I think the one I learned was great. Are there better approaches? Who knows? Certainly not you.
Is that how a bank would act? Yes, that's exactly how they act. When you get a chargeback, they remove the funds (and a chargeback fee) directly from your bank account. That's the only place they could come from, since you don't hold a balance like you do at PayPal. Settled payments get deposited into the account, refunds and chargebacks and fees get withdrawn, once a day 5 days a week.

As for restricting venue, yes, that's also something banks would do. It's a standard term in most contracts, let alone most merchant service agreements. Here's the agreement for First Data, one of the world's largest merchant account providers. It's also the same agreement you sign for Intuit Merchant Services. You've probably heard of Intuit; QuickBooks, Quicken, TurboTax, Mint, etc. It restricts venue to Ontario.

http://www.firstdata.com/downloads/international/fdims-1202....

PayPal does not have the ability or authority to steal people's money "for any reason and in any quantity". That's ridiculous. You're spreading lies while admitting not to know how it works anywhere else. We don't do that here on HN.
The problem that remains in Mountain Lion is that you can only use 1 display at a time when in full-screen mode.

It's better than Lion in that you will be able to choose which of your displays is used to go into full-screen mode, rather than always just using the 'main' display.

Disclaimer: I haven't actually tested in Mountain Lion, but this is the only consistent explanation I've been able to gather from careful reading of people's complaints and Apple's description of the feature change.
They're not necessarily storing the data now to analyze later. They're building the capacity to acquire that data so that when the time comes all they have to do is flip a switch.
Q&A with Steve Woz
Venmo (agreed, it's a newer service and not everyone has an account yet, but it's the easiest/lowest friction one I've seen.)
This is probably the best thing these studios did on the Internet.
How Sponsorfied uses Kippt to build their startup
> 8. Make a table with the columns ‘Invest’, ‘Maintenance Mode’, ‘Kill’ and fill it up with Yahoo’s product portfolio. Share it with the employees and the press so everyone finds out from you rather than AllThingsD as to what your priorities are. Favor the kill column whenever in doubt.

Or maybe let the employees vote on it. Collectively, they probably have a much better idea than Marissa Mayer (or any one person) which products are dogs and which are going somewhere.
I read a lot of Encyclopedia Brown and the Great Brain up until the time I discovered Robb White.
Future of HTML5 in mobile application development?
Im just thinking about the future of HTML5. Did you developed cool mobile apps using HTML5 by using its all capabilities and resources? Is there a possibilities in the future that HTML5 can manipulates mobiles hardwares and devices like android and objective c was capable of?
Unless Torchlight is revealed to have somehow copied the assets from somewhere else, I don't see who is being a hypocrite here.
CMS, framework, or DIY: how do you choose?
Build the Yahoo phone.

Mayer has the product experience to do it.

What do people do most with their phones? Email, messaging, photos, news, small games. Yahoo is strong in every one of these and more established across the board than all its competitors.

She can leverage Android/Ubuntu because she knows plenty of Unix developers, Amazon is paving the way for non-Google Android products, and the new Ubuntu mobile OS is pretty amazing.

She can leverage Flickr. This is Yahoo's golden answer to Facebook's Instagram, a $1b equal. Imagine a Yahoo phone with built-in Flickr upload and sharing.

She can leverage Yahoo media content alliances to provide a great content-driven phone, with news, music, and movies. I daresay Yahoo can pull ahead of even Apple and Amazon on these fronts.

She can leverage social networking: Yahoo Instant Messenger is a leader, Games is a leader, and Social Bar had 90m users and was a significant leader of Facebook’s Open Graph.

She can leverage Yahoo mail. Yahoo is still a huge player in email, ahead of Gmail in terms of users and IMHO interface as well.

Manufacturing and distribution can be outsourced. HTC is great for this. Start with a small phone, 3G, for mom and pop, and a $99 price point. Compete with the iPhone on price, and with Google phones on content. Subsidize like Amazon Prime.

Most important, Yahoo needs a rallying point-- a bold vision , something amazing to attract top developers and bring together diverse properties. The best way to do this is to go big.

If you're a mobile developer, who do you look to for leadership right now? Google/Android is splintered, Microsoft/Nokia seems DOA, Apple/iOS is walled, Facebook is admittedly behind, and Amazon is just gearing up.

Mobile is where all the action is happening, and it's where all these big competitors are going as fast as they can-- yet none has the mobile space well entrenched yet. This is Yahoo's perfect opportunity to bring it all together, to hire and inspire developers, and build a world-class integrated product. I believe the board knows this.

Yahoo has all the pieces to make this a home run. What they've been missing is the product leader. My money's on Mayer to do this.
Doing that might give these morons the impression that what they do is legit. In the long run that might not work out well for the smaller websites and their content.
[JOBS] Looking for folks with a passion for play
Hi HN,

I co-founded a Silicon-Valley company called Kidapt (http://kidapt.com) that makes episodic, interactive, animated stories (interwoven with games/puzzles) on tablets for young learners. Our first title, Leo's Pad, is for 3- to 5-year-olds, and eventually we'll build titles to cover the entire 3-11 year age range.

We've just graduated from the StartX accelerator program (http://startx.stanford.edu) and closed a round of funding, and now we're looking to build our core team. We've got multiple Stanford Ph.D.'s in learning/neuroscience, an Emmy-winning creative director, and Pixar-level animation (literally--our animation studio makes movies for Pixar), and we've already built a pilot "appisode" of our first title that has impressed even the most jaded VC's. What we're looking for now is the person/people who will lead the design and building of a complex tech stack.

All the usual things apply (equity stake, great salary, great culture, lots of ownership). What distinguishes us as a company to work for is our mission: we'll be trying our best to transform the way young children learn and the way parents interact with them. So we're looking for folks who (a) have young kids or (b) are passionate about early learning or (c) are just playful by nature. The specific roles we want to fill are...

- Director of Engineering: Design and oversee the building of everything from client (tablet app) to website to server-side frameworks for intense data analysis; we've got some of this built, but there's much yet to be done.

- Psychometrician: If you know what this term means, you might be a good fit. :)

- Game designers: This is where the playfulness and passion for young kids is paramount. We'll be building entirely new gameplay models for young learners--way beyond the digital worksheet/quiz/flashcard paradigms that are dominant in early-learning apps today. (My Ph.D. was in game-based learning; I've got great big ideas for this space.)

- Developers: We want folks with experience iOS, lua, cocos2d-x, Unity, Java, Python, SQL--but also folks who want to participate in the creation/design/storytelling process.

- Creative Production Manager: Provide general quality/continuity assurance for all game elements; manage asset pipeline from animation studio; and pitch in with storyboarding, sprites, etc. if possible.

I know that HN has lots of solid people reading, and I'm hopeful that even if you're not personally interested you may know people who might be interested in learning more about opportunities with us. If so, please pass this post along to them!

Thanks,
Dylan (darena at kidapt)
I know so much of this is a tongue-in-cheek suggestion.

It's one of those, "yeah I meant that" if it turns out right, and, "no, I'm clearly enacting poe's law", when it's wrong scenarios. "I'm clearly joking wink".

Anyway, you could have reduced all of those ten points in to a single bullet point and I still would have upvoted this story.

> Make a huge sign with the phrase ‘the premier digital media company’. Then make a video of you running a bulldozer over it crushing that sign. No one knows what that phrase means. Come up with a goal that people can actually visualize.

This is sooo true. Marissa needs to grab this opportunity and ride the Yahoo-bull-horn for all it's worth.
Ignore investors... Reinvent the entire company that you have stepped up to take charge of.

Don't do what BB's spineless CEO did, and start throwing out quotes like "not much has to change". http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-01-22/Blackberr...

Marissa needs to change everyones perspective of what Yahoo was, and what it can be.

Yahoo are still on my shitlist from the whole FB debacle. Mayer has already shown that Yahoo can still be "cool", so reinvent everything that once was the old Yahoo.

</end major rant>
Seems like solid advice. I have an honest question, even if it's a quote from Office Space: What is it that Yahoo actually does? I honestly don't know.

I know they have a random collection of services (news, photos, mail), but if they were to disappear tomorrow, would anyone really care?
Contiki: The Open Source Operating System for the Internet of Things
MetaLab Launches Design Capital Program for Startups
Single best quote “We ship code, not slide decks”
Tagging is broken
When the most obvious option for avoiding a popup each time one accesses Gmail is joining Google+, it's a bit misleading to call it opting in.
Signs You're in Silicon Valley
Thanks for that Cam, it's not at all how I imagined! Just to be clear, this withholding applies even to money paid to non-US-citizens as long as the work is done for a US firm?

Does the non-US contractor have any US legal obligations if this tax isn't properly withheld? I'm quite certain I'm doing the right thing on my UK tax returns, but I'd hate to find I had trouble doing business in the US because of old unwithheld taxes...

I, and I'm sure many others, would like to know about share options for foreign nationals - again, I'm comfortable with the UK rules and regs, but is there also some US liability for foreigners taking share options?

Thanks again, your kindness is really heartening.
The Big Idea That Can Revolutionize Higher Education: 'MOOC'
It takes a lot of money and effort to migrate that kind of infrastructure, and as I'm sure everyone has noticed, Yahoo doesn't exactly have tons of money to spare to overhaul something that works just because it's not "cool".

That said, I agree with OP that it should be done, if it's possible. Maybe if you wait until after you lay off 10k employees, you'll have less devices to migrate ;-)
HTML5 & Microformats 2
You should really add some screens or a video demo of what you're supposed to do. I signed up but seems like I'm required to post a project. But what happens when I post a project? Do designers bid? How long? Or do they contact me? How? What's the process?
If you can do any real sort algorithm in real code off the top your head, bubble sort shouldn't matter, and any interviewer who punts you for that is interviewing for a job you don't want.
What reason would Google have to object anyway? Bigtable isn't open source so there's no benefit in shutting down work on Accumulo - the man-hours are not going to go into Bigtable instead.
They are good with customers.
3 Design Shops Making Handcrafted Cases For Your Apple Products
OP here. My issue with that phrase is that it means both nothing and everything. You can justify any product saying that it fits in with the vision of being the 'premium digital media' company. I once made the point internally that pretty much any website on the internet would fit within that umbrella.
Romney: Obama Insults Entrepreneurs and Innovators
Hi all -- wondering what you entrepreneurs think about this back and forth between Romney and Obama on innovation.
So basically, this is a way for movie/music studios to remove bad reviews from the public eye?
Interesting tidbit:
> I couldn’t figure out where those numbers were coming from. The people trying the invalid numbers seemed to have nothing in common, and my Google-fu failed me.

You seem to suggest here you track user information to such a degree that you can Google for the individuals in question. That's creepy as hell!

I think you've scared me away from your software forever.
DirecTV CEO Youtube ad: Viacom refusing to sell channels a la carte [youtube]
I found that often it's just muscle memory for going to a particular time sink site, like when the project is being rebuilt for that 10 seconds, I would check out HN but got sucked in for much longer. The hosts file blocking just breaks that habit and forces me to focus back on the project.
According to http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=YHOO+Balance+Sheet&annua..., Yahoo has $1.5 billion in the bank. I think they can afford it.

For all this talk, everyone forgets that Yahoo is (still) profitable! Unlike Nokia or Blackberry, they have a fighting chance, financially.
They don't have the supply chain to pull an Amazon or the gravitas with the open source community to pull a Mozilla. A Yahoo phone would be DOA.
Because sheer stupidity never comes out of the private sector?

Sweeping statements don't generally help in discussions.
No there aren't.

No other penalty / liability against the notice server is provided for in the statute.

So are you going to ignore section f (Misrepresentations) which makes the entity providing the notice responsible for various penalties?
One more buzzword. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying coursera is a bad idea; but people are going to label this all over the place.
To clarify, ReMeme is a side project. None of it is my day job. My day job is a cool project, but it's by no means a startup. There is plenty of not fun work to do on it at times. Also, plenty of the things on ReMeme aren't that much fun either. The outcome is pretty cool, but building it is still work.
Exactly! What could go wro..
I find the whole "if you love it then you don't need this" sentiment at best naive, and at worst arrogant.

Sometimes we all have to do things we don't want to do. This includes, at times, working on your own project. There's nothing wrong with you, or what you're working on, if you actively try to limit your distractions.

If your project is so awesome you never get distracted, good for you. Kindly, take your hubris elsewhere.
How NFC Tech Stole the Show at a New York Event
Exactly my feelings. They were a search engine I never used, a mail account which only received spam, some mailing lists which were moved to better open-source solutions, and then a "media portal company" which seemed like it just regurgitated content from other sites.

I like some of the products which have come from Yahoo like their JavaScript libraries and YSlow toolkit. However, there are alternative (and in most cases better) options for those libraries so I don't really know what I need Yahoo to do for me.
What’s New in Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)? [video]
Presumably what people want is email and maybe chat on their personal device. Is that it? Clearly you dump Microsoft Exchange servers and the whole poisonous 'back office' cling that brings and what are you left? As an operations guy I hear people tell horror stories about blackberry integration and I'm wondering what it was that they 'got' in order to put up with that pain?
"Make a huge sign with the phrase ‘the premier digital media company’. Then make a video of you running a bulldozer over it crushing that sign. No one knows what that phrase means."

No one knows what that phrase means because no one knows what the hell Yahoo! does anymore. Honestly, why does this company exist? What purpose do they serve? What is their focus? Hire the brightest engineers to build what?? Yahoo! should have died a long time ago. It's just riding a dwindling wave of its past glory.
11. Ignore all unsolicited advice that doesn't include the words "customer" or "user".
Oh come on - blackberries are a reasonable work phone even still. It handles corporate email and calendars quite well. Works great while travelling. More durable and cheaper than iphones/droids.

As a personal phone they are obviously well behind the curve.
小时 = one hour (or literally "small time period"). I searched through several dictionaries and couldn't find anything related to guns or revolutions that fit with xiaomi.
Firefox for Android
I'm not denying that Google has had an antagonistic and underhanded strategy against Opera. What I'm denying is that they intentionally designed their compiler to exploit some obscure corner case in Opera so that very large JS files fail as some master plan to break Twitter on Opera.

It's not that I think Google is above using dirty tactics. It's that I think Google is above using dumb tactics.

I mean, are you seriously suggesting that Google assigned someone to comb through known Opera bugs, looking for one that they could exploit in their compiler while masquerading the exploit as a legitimate optimization? And then they assigned someone to implement that optimization? All in the hopes that someday a 4.5MB JS file would come along and break a popular website under Opera? And ignoring the facts that a) Opera might have fixed the bug by that time, b) said popular website might permanently switch to a different compiler when that happened, and c) it would take the Opera team a small fraction of the time Google had spent on this to put out a patch?
They can however get kick backs from open source integrators / specialists / consultants / etc. Companies ranging from IBM to Red Hat (a $10 billion corporation).

The notion that it inherently doesn't apply to open source is wrong. There are very large systems integrators in tech, and they don't care what software they install so long as their fees are big.