skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun feature. Would be killer with support for non-latin based language. Imagine walking down a street in Japan, seeing a restaurant, and wanting to search for reviews. Oh no! It's written in kanji and you have a hard enough time reading basic words, much less names. Open up Google on your phone, write the kanji and add the japanese word for review behind it, and off you go.

Great potential, anyway.
>Do you put the source code anywhere for employers to peruse?

Much of the front end stuff isn't obfuscation (thus open), but the back-end stuff is closed sourced and all done in .NET. I can speak very intelligently to how it's done, the challenges I faced, and the solutions I came up with. If they ask nice, I can show them code as it's all in a private GitHub repo.

>and how much is using example code?
I take advantage of various libraries, but these are mostly resume builders, like jQuery, KnockoutJS, SugarJS, Massive, etc... The code that make it all work is completely custom.

>How do you host puppyshowdown?
I have a dedicated server at a hosting company, but a VPS would also work fine...512MB is a bit low though.
Sometimes opening a keyboard and typing is just too efficient. Sometimes you need a technology that will slow your life down and make it more prone to errors. Google handwrite: why type when you can awkwardly scribble?
That's really good. Nice to see some innovation in SERPs - it lists ingredients that go in/with, for example, gazpacho and you can choose to include or exclude them from your recipe search. You can also set cooking times, eg "less than 15 mins"; and set calorific values, eg "less than 300cal".
wow, Patrick Mckenzie is really THE main influence behind this kind of marketing.

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/05/31/can-i-get-your-email/
Ha! That is going to kill the revenue of whatismyip.com and whatismyipaddress.com
Dear god, please stop abusing that word.

If we don't it will lose all meaning, in some ways it already has.
FYI, it's $0.15/GB for additional data transfer:
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/appfog-users/UtTmKrxSTYA/d...
It's only in the downtown core, and you have to sign in to a Google Account (and agree to god-knows-what in the way of tracking of your use.)
What is the primary, if not only, use for a weapon? That's hurting, killing, and threatening. Goals can be eating, revenge, crime deterrence, whatever. But the primary use of a weapon always did come from its ability to harm and kill.

I bet most pro-gun Americans would agree with me. They want a weapon to defend themselves. How? By threatening to hurt or kill, of course. They're not going to propose a foam sword contest to someone they deem dangerous to their property, their lives, or their families.

Recreational use? It sure counts. But if we suddenly ban weapons in the US, there won't be riots over a hobby. It will be over the ability to threaten with death when you need it for self defence.
Content for the website was written by freelancers, yes. It all sits in the database. My AdWords landing pages repurpose a subset of the same data with different templates relative to the (publicly exposed) content.
I guess that the silver lining is that a young person starts to be switched on about how humiliating and insulting it is to be screwed by idiotic authorities and their pathetic rules.
Errr. Have you tried it?

I've spent several playing first person shooters and it's easy to forget you're not playing locally.
I think the logic is that if you have successfully guessed a name that is good enough for them - remember - we are talking about people who are literally walking in off the street - they aren't trying to 'game the system' - they might not even know where the hell they are

some places ask for ids - but really a lot of places you just need to have the name - that's all
I wonder, what's the biggest fire that this could put out? And how much the placement of speakers matters?

I can imagine in 20 years, fire departments having pick-up trucks with huge speaker cones driving around to put out fires.
What's even more hilarious, about gun laws, is that the same folks who tell you that the entire system is corrupt (that you can't trust the military or the police because they're just a bunch of power hungry savages) are the ones who think that only the police and the military should be able to use guns. Not a very logically consistent worldview.
Humble music bundle
Is the conversion to ARC something you guys are doing or is it an open-source effort?

This looks really great, by the way :)
Facebook's Q2 Lands On Target
I remember last year when Greplin was still working on improving search in Gmail - unfortunately I was never that impressed with the results, but I love the premise.

I would especially expect Google to do a better job with email search than they do. They know pretty literally everything about me, and have some amazing natural language processing tech. Of course, using all of the available data and, worse, the NLP algorithms, immediately becomes very expensive computationally. As covered in this Quora thread (http://www.quora.com/Why-does-Gmail-take-longer-to-search-my...), there's an awful lot of email out there to search.

Maybe local clients like Sparrow are the solution to the high costs of good email search - I don't really mind if my computer bogs down for the half second it takes to get really great results.
Changing my mind on Microsoft
Name on a list, sure, fine. Pretty standard practice in big office buildings.

Running the guest list against some database of banned names, not so standard.

One reason it's not standard is that properly operating a list of banned names is very difficult, for the reason pointed out here in this post.
I was arguing that this policy would be bad for Steam or other PC marketplace services. It's possible than on a closed system such as the XBox some of the disadvantages of this are alleviated or solved. I still think charging the dev for adding extra content for his game is a very bad idea, though. Team Fortress 2 for the XBox sucks for it, for example. Regular updates is a good model for the user, and it hurts the user to charge for content that would otherwise be free. Alas, I know that helps greatly reduce the number of bugs in the system.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. I think you're trying to be pedantic?

I said he didn't print a "rifle," you say "in the eyes of the ATF, he DID print a gun." I respond with, if you're being pedantic, he printed a "part which the BATFE classifies as a firearm requiring the stamping of a serial number should the manufacturer transfer it to any other individual." A part which, we all know, in and of its self is NOT a rifle.
The overhead with transactions doesn't come from the fields being in different tables...
For most investors, it's recommended that you minimize the amount of stock you own in your own company such that you reduce the risk of having both your job and your stock drop at the same time. When a company or industry gets hit hard, you often hear tales of people who lose their jobs and find their company stock has also tanked, and it's devastating. Whether you work for Zynga or Valve, I'd recommend taking money off the table and diversifying.

Berkshire Hathaway is special in that it's a holding company with extremely diverse holdings. It is, in essence, already internally making the sort of investments that I would recommend others make externally.

Point being, regardless of what you think of Pincus, he's doing what sensible investors should be doing at any company except for a Berkshire-type holding company.
Introducing the Facebook Recommendations Bar
I split this book up into chapters:

http://jason.pepas.com/sicp/sicp-ebook-split-into-chapters/

by using pdftk:

pdftk A=SICP.pdf cat A25-117 output SICP_chapter_1.pdf
pdftk A=SICP.pdf cat A118-286 output SICP_chapter_2.pdf
pdftk A=SICP.pdf cat A287-460 output SICP_chapter_3.pdf
pdftk A=SICP.pdf cat A461-624 output SICP_chapter_4.pdf
pdftk A=SICP.pdf cat A625-777 output SICP_chapter_5.pdf

I then use some booklet-preparation software to turn it into booklets which I could print out at Kinko's, because I didn't want to have to haul around the entire book with me:

http://jason.pepas.com/sicp/sicp-ebook-split-into-chapters/b...
I disagree. This is not a "fix" it's an incompatible change to a widely used option for no better reason than a programmer thought the different behavior would be a useful addition to grep.

And yes, we have to continue with an ugly bikeshed for the rest of eternity, because a) beauty is highly subjective, and b) the color of the bikeshed is less important than breaking existing software on billions of computers worldwide.
That's an oversimplification of Google's approach to mass creation of pages vis-a-vis organic SEO. Google will let (many) pages that would never appear in the main results appear in AdWords ads as long as one's credit card doesn't get declined. (There are things Google disapproves of in landing pages, but "having lots of landing pages" is not one of them.)
I managed to create a mod where you mostly use plain text Clojure files: http://metaphysicaldeveloper.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/conjcr...

Nonetheless the API is good news.
The video shows a Japanese woman doing just that :)
That's kind of a silly comment. Obviously entering a building is not a civil liberty; private buildings have the right to enforce security policies. That doesn't mean Yelp shouldn't be held accountable when their security policies are really, really dumb.
If you do that you will no longer be able to tell the overall structure of your project at a single glance without using an IDE like Eclipse. Adding and removing packages becomes harder without the IDE. What are the upsides? You've increased the complexity for no good reason.
Page.js: Micro client-side router
Not very long ago, I'd to wait for ~30 minutes in a line that stretched out to the street at my local Comcast office to, wait for this, exchange the set top box for one that had HDMI out! For such privileges, and cable and internet, I pay over $100 a month.
Only with open carry.

It's possible that pulling out a gun may defuse a situation, but lots of people seem to think "I'll just wave my gun and it'll stop the people harassing me."

You should only pull out a gun if the situation, at that time, is dangerous enough to warrant pulling the trigger.
Amazon sells almost $13 billion and made $107 million
Interesting article. Time to make your own job.
Judging from the commercial it does. Although I won't embarrass myself by guessing the language.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyeJXKfAcpc
Basically google wants more data to improve their handwriting recognition for something else down the line. Smart move
Signin with Facebook and on the Facebook authorizations page, choose 'not authorize'. Then i'm brought back to the app and to facebook again and so on and so on.
Microsoft's Lost Decade
I don't understand this point:

"I don't hold it against the security guy, he was just following instructions."

Why does everybody assume that while what he's doing is awful, he's just following instructions and that he wouldn't do anything truly f'ed up.

I would assume that a guy who is willing to take a job that involves excluding a kid from their class field trip based wholly on that kid's name being on some magic list is the sort to be willing to do all sorts of evil stuff if ordered to.

I'm not saying he IS the type to do evil things if ordered, but that is the safer assumption.
To their credit, they've made a couple of interesting moves lately... Radio Shack stores now stock Arduino kit, for example. And they seem to be giving at least a little bit of attention to re-embracing the DIY community.

I'm not sure that that's enough though. I do think that embracing electronics hobbyists and makers/hackers, DIY'ers would be a good step. Yes, you're still competing against Amazon.com and online retail in general, but my thesis is that hobbyists, working on a project, who need a part "right now" would be willing to drive to a nearby Radio Shack, and pay a few dollars extra, so they can get their $GIZMO working.

More discrete components, more microcontrollers, more robotics parts, more tools, etc., is my suggestion for RS. Yes, it's niche, but isn't most local retail going to be forced to go niche?
I suspect it would be much nicer for both the dev and the users if there was just a single "Upgrade to the latest version for $5" option. Don't try to splinter the upgrade path into features or sub-steps. So, as a consumer story: you buy v3 for $10. Over the next year, v4,5,6 come out and you pass on them. V7 finally convinces you to upgrade and you shell out $5 to go from 3->7 with a single click. Meanwhile, if you were a power-user, you might have been impatient and shelled out $5 each for v4,5,6 along the way. But, I think that's a pretty reasonable way do perform price discrimination.
World of Warcraft is a bad example of this. The client you have downloaded is always patched to the latest version, even if you haven't bought the expansions.

Each expansion unlocks content. So once you buy The Burning Crusade, you get access to the Outlands zone. That only matters if you have a character that's level 58 or higher.

Blizzard redid the entirety of the Vanilla WoW experience in the Cataclysm expansion. Even if you did not buy that expansion, the level 1-60 are still the new content.
What are you doing in terms of getting traffic onto your site?

Get traffic, and make emails a micro-conversion. Do whatever it takes onsite to build that list. Landing pages, modal windows, play around and see what gets you email addresses without upsetting users.
> A gun's primary use for law abiding citizens is that it intimidates things. The most effective way to use a gun is simply to deter crime.

A purpose they are quite clearly failing at. So the question is what, if anything, citizens of the U.S.A. wish to do about the fact that, empirically, legality and availability of guns has not resulted in crime rates comparable to comparable states.
Having to handwrite the Kanji seems like an extra step though - it'd be easier to simply take a photo.
I've heard that the employment prospects with a humanities degree were... not optimal.

But to think that so many people with Bachelor's or Master's degrees are out there fighting tooth and nail over meager admin assisstant jobs that barely pay anything.

I'm shocked. o.o

Also, have you ever thought that maybe having a Master's degree makes you seem over-qualified for a secretary (sorry) position? When I think of a Master's in English I think of jobs like Editor, or Journalist.
This is pretty cool, and works really well! For me, though, Jelly Bean voice search from my lock screen is still the quickest.
Facebook Modestly Beats Wall Street's Low Expectations
HP Offers Free Access To OpenStack
Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales up 29% to $12.83 Billion
Sadly, the strong reactions to the extreme (and not exactly accurate) "Nowadays nobody under thirty writes anything on Microsoft developer tools unless they are demented or brain-dead" insult eclipse what could be an interesting discussion on the future of the PC market.
That is not at all clear from your post. It sounds like she just wasn't on the list at all.
Flash vs HTML5 Games - Virality comparison
>> You can't compare traditional software to games. A game is finished at some point. There are only bug fixes to come.

>> Traditional software is expected to get feature updates.

One might make the argument that DLC might be the gaming equivalent of a feature update. There are quite a few games that are released with the promise of new functionality via DLC.
I agree with you, but at the same time I think it's great that somebody is at least trying to innovate the tools we have for interfacing with technology. I know handwriting recognition isn't anything new, but the idea that the keyboard is all we will ever need can only contribute to the stagnation of advancement.

I'm still waiting for the day I can telepathically control all my devices.
In my opinion, there are three major tiers of gifts:

1. Things that I want but could not have done before

These would be experiences or collectors items. Having lunch with Linus or PG would be examples of this category; items like a box of AirBnB's ObamaO's.

2. Things that I want and could get myself

For this one, there are two sub-categories: A. relevant B. shiny.

A. For a hackathon like photohackday, give away cameras. For something like hackforchange, hire exec to do community service for me or donate an OLPC under my name.

B. Give me something shiny. Galaxy Nexus, Kindle (though these are hard to split among a group). Money also works though a bit awkward (unless it's a big sum).

3. Things I don't want

I know you think your service is super awesome, but please don't just give me a pro account. Most of the times, I don't use it and therefore it's value to me is 0. Give it away with something else. (nb: dropbox space, on the other hand, would be valuable)
There are many people in the world who a) don't even know what a landing page is, b) hypothetically, if they knew they were at a landing page, would not be able to tell if it was programatically generated and c) if they knew it was programatically generated, still would not care. All they knew is the Googles had the exact answer to their question. Thanks Googles!

More broadly, "My behavior is not a good proxy for the behavior of all people everywhere." and "I may be smarter than substantially everyone in my industry but that is not the way I should bet." are two lessons to learn early and well.
Thanks for those insights and tips. As for "let food be thy medicine" I think it's possible to "let fiction be thy medicine." The trick would be to find the right fiction. What is the news but an interface into other people's stories at a time of relevance or interest to the wider community?

Incidentally, my great-great grandfather was an author whereby "he uses the novel as a forum for discussing the nature of Polish anti-Semitism, for defending his fellows against charges of usury and lack of interest in Polish national life. He does this by throwing the characters, both Polish and Jewish, into difficult and sometimes fantastic situations." http://goo.gl/JFBN2

So I suppose what I seek is functional fiction. Maybe I'll have to resort to writing my own fiction if I don't find anything worthwhile. Haha.
I have around 69,000 and I find that due to the fact that most music players choke on that amount, that often sorting by filename is one of the fastest ways to get my music into a decent order.

Also in response to other post - you can quickly rename your music with something like Musicbrainz Picard (cross platform) or foobar2000 (Windows).
Server statistics in Excel with Python
The electronic section keeps getting smaller and their cell phone section keeps on growing. They are kind of losing their differentiation from competitors.

I personally think they got on the arduino a bit late. If they were smart they should stock raspberry pis.
There are a few other similar startups working on this problem that are worth checking out:

Sidetour - http://www.sidetour.com/
HipHost - http://www.hiphost.com/
A gun doesn't have to be visible to deter crime. Just the possibility of a victim having a gun is plenty of deterrence. I'd much rather burgle an Australian or English home than one in the US, given how many homes in the US have guns.
> Bolt Action means less killing power?

I meant "less" because it's so much slower to reload.

I was not commenting on the "power" of the rifle/round itself.

Obviously, a muzzle loading .50 has lots of "power", but I'd wager you couldn't kill many people in a movie theater with one, as apposed to a semi-auto (of any caliber, really).
Facebook Reports Second Quarter 2012 Results
Except that soon you'll be able to just print the guns out at home.
This article doesn't mention, that these panels don't have the decryption hardware for DHCP. That means you won't be able to watch blu-rays on this monitor.
Great post, way to walk the walk about the scary thing called making money with your startup.

An aside, posts like this make me wish hn had a separate section/tag simply called 'results', separate from opinions.

I enjoy the variety of geek-interested content here, but this kind of a post for me is real signal.
Climate change may cause ozone depletion over the US
Evernote founder interview..
Wow, I can't believe Twitter would alienate their API developers by shutting this feature off. Very soon, there will be no point in even integrating your app or site with Twitter.
Microsoft #1 Spammer
Sometimes the only way to stop a criminal trying to kill you is to kill him or her first. To do that you'll need a tool designed to kill things.
CatchFree Acquires KISSinsights
I agree. This is the place to take a stand. It seems minor and annoying, but when we overlook minor violations like this, they soon evolve into major ones.
> it might be difficult for many localities to come up with the financial resources to implement it.

Which is why they should issue voted-upon bonds, instead of tax incentives to the corps.
Then, to avoid confusion, a clearer title for your book might be a better fit.
We’re familiar with the art of the job search: day after day, scanning the classifieds, Monster, Indeed, Craigslist, etc. for open positions; forever touching up résumés to appeal to specific job requirements; writing endless cover letters that never seem to sound quite right; applying to dozens, maybe hundreds of jobs per week; staring vacuously at the familiar monitor glow at 3 a.m.

This sounds horrible. I've never gotten a job that wasn't through personal or professional connections, so for most of them even handing over a resume was essentially a formality.

I work in a specialized field, which I think accounts for why this is possible. But I do only have a humanities education, and most of my day to day skills have been developed since leaving school (without a degree, mind you). It's just a matter of finding a niche.
Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4295711
Standard practise to do what exactly? Which names are banned?
Microsoft Scraps Microsoft Flight, Project Columbia
> Probably the most famous of these was the IBM-originated quad-HD 3840 x 2160 22 inch panel. Memory fails but I'll say that this panel goes back at least fifteen years. OEM cost started out around $20K and dropped to about $6K with time.

3840x2400. I paid the equivalent of 1800 USD to buy, insure and import two IBM T221s in very good condition into South Africa about a year ago. They're pretty interesting displays and quite complex to get up and running optimally even on modern hardware.

My buddy imported 3 others along with mine. All 5 displays have a strange blue glow exactly in the centre of the screen when the screen is displaying pure black. It's completely unnoticeable except when you know what to look for. One of the displays needs a 60mm fan replaced -- each monitor comes with two such fans, and the display is rated at 150W power consumption. Seems to keep the room quite warm :)

If you want to run just one at 3840x2400 @ 48Hz you have to spend extra for another set of cables and have a graphics card with 4 DVI ports (good luck with that), or order some of the newer specialist cables that allow you to get away with a pair of dual-link DVI ports. Your graphics card needs to support a Single Large Surface mode to present the virtual panels (4x1920x1200 or 3x1280x2400) as a single high resolution panel (3840x2400).

Furthermore, if you're working with animations (video, games), whichever graphics card you get needs to support frame lock across the display ports otherwise you will experience tearing across the virtual panels. I believe NVIDIA only supports this in their higher end workstation graphics cards, or across multiple cards in SLI. For this reason I went with ATI's Eyefinity on a Radeon 6750/6770.

Working with photos from my DSLR at full resolution on these two monitors is well worth it though :) (That being said, Windows application support for high DPI is unfortunately a bit pathetic.)
Facebook Q2 2012 Earnings