skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There was no negotiation. In fact, one party(Dalton) did not come to negotiate. The other party clearly did.

Is it that clear? We weren't there.

Perhaps the Facebook executives listened to a presentation about his product for an hour, and realized during that time that the presented product was basically identical to their own intended product, so the last part of the meeting ended up revolving around "hey, looks we might compete with you - or, we might hire you if that interests you".

Maybe it didn't go like that. Maybe they stopped him after 1 slide and told him "your app competes with us. Let us buy you, or die."

Huge range in between those two. You and I (unless you are one of the people that was in that meeting) can't know where things fell.
[...] how many orders in a 1 hour window?

Depends on the city. In large metropolitan areas like NY, Chicago, the VA-DC-MD corridor, etc., potentially tens or hundreds of thousands at certain times of the day (e.g., 7pm, when people get home from work).
What HBO is doing is working for them. We don't know that it's "the best", and we won't until they try something different.
Code snippet author here.

More details about this code here http://dosync.posterous.com/sudoku and here http://dosync.posterous.com/friendlier-shorter

This is based on the excellent work of Claire Alvis, Will Byrd & Dan Friedman who continue to improve their Scheme miniKanren system. miniKanren embeds Prolog semantics into Scheme. core.logic implements and extends that work in Clojure. This code highlights the new cKanren extensions Claire et. al. have developed which enables Constraint Logic Programming in miniKanren - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_logic_programming.

One neat bit about this is that this is surprisingly efficient given the generality and how new this work is. The HN crowd will be familiar with Norvig's fantastic sudoku solver in Python - http://norvig.com/sudoku.html. This core.logic solver can solve easy sudoku problems ~6-7ms. Norvig's hard one that takes 188 seconds in Python takes ~60ms. More benchmarking needs to be done, but this is promising especially since this is a generic all-different FD constraint over small domains as well as intervals - so it's not specific to sudoku.

Feel free to ask any questions.

UPDATE: to be extra clear this is not just about sudoku. The following is also now possible to express under the same framework -

(run* [q]
(fresh [x y z]
(infd x y z (interval 1 3))
(+fd x y z)
(== q [x y z])))
;; => ([1 1 2] [2 1 3] [1 2 3])

This program shows all possibilities where x, y & z range over 1, 2, 3 where x & y add up to z.
Powered off of mini-USB (I have extra chargers laying about), SD cards are cheap cheap cheap (I also have a selection on-hand), and a case can be made out of LEGO bricks (again…).

You forgot to add-on "keyboard, mouse, and monitor". Again, these are things that people usually have.

For the dev cards mentioned up-thread, you'd have to have some sort of programming dongle, which more than doubles their cost, as well as get your hands on the right magic toolchain.
Bad financial algorithm leads to severe stock market disarray
HP wins judgement in Itanium suit against Oracle
>Capturing the video display from the presenter seems almost easier than having a videographer manually time static slide changes along to the video afterwards.

Yes and no.

For starters, it's more expensive. You need a second camera and, at worst, potentially a second operator to worry over it.

Secondly, it's more error prone. Copying the VGA feed off the video switcher will fail in hilarious ways/also require a second person whose job it is to look over it.

I've thrown two conferences, and been responsible for front of the house AV for a total of three and a half. You're often understaffed or overbudget, and something often gives.

Even in the best of situations you end up wanting the slides as a backup.

>This also assumes that people use slide decks that can't be shared afterwards (in their original glory)

Post your .ppt or .key file!

>can't iframe content

PLEASE do not have your talk depend on conference wifi. It's impossible to guarantee stable internet with hundreds of nerds trying to slurp down hotel internet.

>I'm sorry but for developer speakers and audiences, Keynote is a poor choice.

I disagree. There's absolutely nothing these frameworks give you other than the warm fuzzies over the 3d transitions and that you got to style it using css.

You're displaying words and pictures on a screen, and Keynote is absolutely a killer at that task.
To clarify this code snippet is not just about solving sudoku. This demonstrates brevity, generality, and it's zippy to boot! It's an extensible CLP framework, see my other comment.
Just because it's legitimate doesn't mean it's not asshole-ish.

I could invite you over to my house for dinner, and then ask you to pay for the raw materials after you've eaten. Legitimate, but still asshole-ish.

Legitimate is a low-bar.
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I'm working on a scalable and easy-to-integrate web chat implementation (similar to Facebook chat) using Tornado non-blocking capabilities and the long polling technique.

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Someone already ported Qt to android along with Qt Creator integration, all-in-one installer, and a Qt library packaging system for your apps. Appears to be in development still.

(edit) project page: http://sourceforge.net/p/necessitas/home/necessitas/

blog post: http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/02/28/necessitas/
> Or are the incompatibilities too great to bother with it?

Yes. Also Google already has multiple development platforms, including one for Android (two, if you count Java and C++ Android development separately, they do have separate development kits).
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Starting a company on top of FB's platform without the confidence that your API access is safe from FB's "strategic interests" is not business, it's russian roulette.
Keynote's just the state of the art in Powerpoint presentations. Your nearest copy of your favorite OpenOffice clone will more than suffice at the same task.
Once again the HSA shows why they should not exist. I am not saying it is a conspiracy per-se. You give a group of people great power over others with limited oversight or accountability and soon they will be running over everything in their path. This isn't a conspiracy theory this is simple human behavior, one that has been proven time and time again through out history.
Hallo.js looks cool. I like the idea of inline editing. That said, I've already spent a good amount of time fixing integration errors with my current editor so am not sure I want to restart that process with another library right now. Perhaps after release.
"Installing Metro apps from the Store then sure it's metro. Installing a desktop app doesn't go through metro at all."

I just downloaded and installed a program from the web, the shortcut to launch that program only exists in the Metro UI unless I either pin that to the desktop launchbar, or I add a shortcut to my desktop
Look I sympathize, I'm one of the people without cable who would buy HBO Go standalone but there aren't really that many of us.

Most of the people pirating GoT are people who (1) have cable and don't want to pay for HBO or (2) have cable and already pay for HBO but just want to watch it whenever/not wait for the long delayed DVD release.

One sign of cord cutter growth might be an emerging black market of people selling the use of their HBO subscriptions to people who want to stream the content.
+100

First thing I did was type =SUM(C1:C4) into one of the cells...which, based on the title, didn't do what I expected.
It's a game to them. Don't initiate games with children if you don't want to be involved where childish things can be done. Children can do nasty things. They don't understand or possibly don't care of the consequences. Their goal is to create and maintain a controlled ecosystem. They know legally where they stand and they have billions of dollars now to drag out any lawsuit, if anyone decides to waste their energy on such a thing. I am sure they feel invincible, and I can understand how that could develop with what they have power of / are in control of.

I recently had an issue with a local group of 'investors' / tech people, and after learning more details I was clearly mislead into presenting to them.. What they were looking to invest in was absolutely not a match to what I am doing. Sure, it was under confidential and private settings, though I know I taught them a lot and exposed a lot I rather would not have - simply because I don't think these people have good intentions or are honest people - and I don't want to support that as a human being, because I don't think that's good for society.
I would make some default/recommended questions that you can see upon signup. At first, I didn't think of any examples of what to track.
I really don't like propaganda. I don't need you trying to whip me into hysteria. Just tell me what the CISPA does that you think is so bad and let me decide.
OP is equating "“platform developer relations” " with
"ombudsmen" apparently.

Unfortunately this is a business. Not a university, non-profit or a government entity.
Depending on the profession.
Fareed Zakaria's Harvard commencement address
Should I just remove it? It was a knee-jerk reaction to seeing what I thought was just another short suduko solver and was not terribly relevant.
I've ordered alcohol with the app...
It also suffers from the much larger defect of not actually being a spreadsheet at all, but just being a big editable table (i.e. formulas don't work) - if a spreadsheet is indeed what it is intended to be.
HP Cloud Object Storage and CDN Move to General Availability
I had to manually go to the google wallet page on the play store and click install before it actually updated on my phone.

I already had it installed on my phone but it wasn't detecting an update in the play store until I force re-installed it
Ask HN: How do you feel about .io ccTLD used for US web-app?
I have spent a good year developing a great web app for programmers (in the US). I asked a few SEO 'experts' if a .io domain would have an effect on my ranks. I got a unanimous reply: "no." So I bought a really great name.
After all is said and done, and I do some research myself, (naturally) I see that it DOES in fact affect rankings, as it's not considered a gTLD.

I've tried doing some googling, and it's difficult due to the short "io" keyword, but I have a few questions.

I'm wondering how this will affect me trying to make my app popular in the US (ranking wise). I find it frustrating because .io is so popular among 'tech apps' due to its input/output connotation.

1. Do you think theres any hope for this being moved to a gTLD?

2. Do you think in general I should just stick it out and try to keep going? (I have already designed my logo, and everything about my app, around this domain)

3. I read the following on a blog post I found. Can anyone shed some light on if this is relevant?

"Here's to hoping that Google adds .io to their list of blessed domains soon.

Also, aren't TLDs going to be opened wide-up soon? So, that makes gTLD, rTLD and gccTLD stuff less relevant?"
I highly doubt that brigade is 1% of Digg's traffic.
"Developer relations" normally implies a role intended to encourage developers to use your platform. If they're just going to parrot the company line, then there's not much point in them existing, is there?
I had a job where the build didn't work if you started it from inside M-x shell.

On that day I resolved to learn the actual shell.
The "work" is the content as it appears on Craigslist. CL doesn't have exclusive right to the selling of the object, just the content of the ads people post to CL.
On a related note, if an investor with a competitive investment comes a calling, their motives may be less than pure.
Are you guys limiting the invites? I'd love to check it out but haven't received my invite yet.
"There's certainly nothing on wikipedia to back that up"

Emphasis below mine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture

Fabless licensees, who wish to integrate an ARM core into their own chip design, are usually only interested in acquiring a ready-to-manufacture verified IP core. For these customers, ARM delivers a gate netlist description of the chosen ARM core, along with an abstracted simulation model and test programs to aid design integration and verification. More ambitious customers, including integrated device manufacturers (IDM) and foundry operators, choose to acquire the processor IP in synthesizable RTL (Verilog) form. With the synthesizable RTL, the customer has the ability to perform architectural level optimisations and extensions. This allows the designer to achieve exotic design goals not otherwise possible with an unmodified netlist (high clock speed, very low power consumption, instruction set extensions, etc.).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A5

"The A5 contains a rendition of a chip based upon the dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore CPU[10] with NEON SIMD accelerator and a dual core PowerVR SGX543MP2 GPU.[11] ... Among the customizations that Apple has done to the chip is the inclusion of an image signal processor unit (ISP) that will do advanced image post-processing such as face detection, white balance and automatic image stabilization[14] and an "earSmart" unit from Audience for noise canceling"

Look I'm no expert but it's been often reported in the press about the A4 and moreso the A5 that Apple made optimizations to them. PA Semi was originally often attached to such reports but I think later reporting often cited the Intrinsity acquisition.

Here's a comparison of the A5 and the reference ARM Cortex A9 design:

http://www.twitpic.com/4a0ggc
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Why does everyone want to pay for HBO Go so much? Has anyone actually used it? I have, and it's absolutely horrible on both Mac and PC in any browser. It skips often, horrible picture quality, weird colors, not to mention a bad interface for finding and watching.

I just recently got the iPhone HBO Go app and it's awesome, never skips, crystal clear quality, easy to use. Why the enormous difference? Am I the only person experiencing this?
No other people might miss that point :)
You can modify the state by using named return values.

func ContrivedExample() (file *os.File, err error) {
file, err = os.Open("something.txt")
defer func() {
if err = file.Close(); err != nil {
file = nil
}
}()

return
}
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

And you try and tell the young people of today that, they won't believe you.

http://www.phespirit.info/montypython/four_yorkshiremen.htm
Which brings us right back to what tdavis said in the first place: "As much as anything else, this is another great example of MySQL letting you shoot yourself in the face by default."
Apple seeks 'emergency' sanctions against Samsung
Sometimes declining to do an exit interview sends a stronger message about the culture of a company.
In the US, "state" has a different meaning from most countries, and "federal" is rather unpopular in certain circles. Hence the term "homeland".

In most times and places, the institution would be called "State Security". Which is a commonly used name for the main instrument of repression in totalitarian countries (for instance Stasi or Securitate, both of which went by the full name "Department of State Security".)

Most free countries have given their national security agency a rather more neutral name and a less powers to distance themselves from such practices. The US has chosen to actually start an agency with that name and give it unprecedented powers. You do the math.
Reminds me of a few years ago, when many pundits were still poo-poo'ing criticisms of RIM and Nokia, because - hey, they're still selling tons of product to existing markets! Who cares if they're not considered cool by those weirdo iPhone/Android early adopters?
Website to improve decision making and make people happier
The site is going to launch in a few weeks but I am curious to hear this group's feedback on idea which is:
To improve decision-making by employing a new method of choice called surrogation that is based on the actual experiences of others. We convert the hindsight of similar others into foresight for you.
This seems a strange comment to make, given how much of the web is advertising funded. Or do you think Google should charge users a subscription fee?
EBX does great work. But more broadly, local alt weeklies are much more willing to fund this sort of thing than the big papers, and that's been true for at least fifteen years.
Don't build a house on a river and then blame the water.

There has never been a company-controlled ecosystem that has EVER thrived for long without the company swooping in to get that easy money.

In fact, now that Facebook is public, its their fiduciary duty to do just that. They could get sued if they DIDN'T try to cheaply build out their own versions of successful products.

The only surprise is that anyone is surprised by this, or thinks that Facebook has "lost their way", or had any other intentions when they started their platform. This is standard business practice - make a little ecosystem, let people futz around in it for a while. If it fails, shut it down; if it succeeds, go pick the low-hanging fruit.
Better solution - and generally recommended by experts - just decline any and all exit interviews.
"Knowing that I'm accountable for my decisions makes me much more likely to make positive choices."

I found a very similar effect when I started taking pictures of everything I ate and drank for a few weeks. My intention was to eventually write an iPhone app specifically for taking these pictures and tagging them with food items, having the phone tabulate overal nutrition information ,etc.

Turns out I never ended up having time to write that app, but what I noticed was that the simple act of taking the pictures (without ever reviewing them) was enough to force me to stop and think about what I was about to eat, and that was enough to affect a change in my diet.
I also hope Qt can get into Android.
Qt is the best C++ api.
IF you can somehow get a network of local retailers in each city, such that the stores together behave like and otherwise have similar operating and economic characteristics as regional warehouses, then, yes, I agree, it's possible. That's a big IF, though.

I have to take my hat off to you guys for attempting this!
Why can't, there is already Qt for android achieved by just one guy.
Since when does eBay scrape and serve up Craigslist ads? Has there been some news that eBay is going to start doing this?
"the firm seems to be acting 100% reasonably."

And, as a for profit business, they don't even have to hit anywhere near 100%. They just have to do well enough in how they operate not to loose business or somehow jeopardize what they have. It's really that simple.

This is a story that prior to the Internet nobody would ever hear about. No journalist would tell this story except in a magazine piece maybe that had an agenda and wanted to paint a picture.

This tale goes nowhere near even scratching the surface of how business operates. Spying. Payoffs. "Cut off their air supply" (Microsoft/Netscape)

Here's a story from when I started in business years ago. I called a friend of my fathers for a reference on someone who had worked with him in the past. He said "hmm, Bob left his job? Hmm." and then gave me a nice reference on him. Before I knew it he had hired Bob and basically told him "he's a startup you are wasting your time". I lost out on hiring Bob. This was a friend of the family. That may or may not be how any one of us would operate but in business as you say you can't be "a precious snow flake".
"I am still friends with my colleagues and my boss at my last job, but I told them in the interview a long list of tweaks to expectations, assignments etc if they wanted to keep folks like me around."

The same. Several lunchs later with him (months after leaving), I also know he took some of the criticism to heart. This is really all depended on your boss, your relationship with him and how much you mastered the art of giving advice.
Depends on how used to sarcasm and being joshed you are.
Multi-platform iOS development.
You are aware that this whole thing is theoretical since he set the field to bin (i.e. binary)? No database at all would have prevented this.

MySQL chose to coerce fields to fit the type. You don't like that choice, but other people find it useful. And MySQL gives you a choice to change it if you wish.

Judging by how popular and successful they are I think those chose correctly.
Really like it! Only feedback so far is 'Create report from template' is not intuitive to me. Would something like 'Enter today's data' work better, or is there an angle here I'm missing?
>>"Developer relations" normally implies a role intended to encourage developers to use your platform.

no, thats marketing.

Dev relations works with you once you are already using the platform. Don't get their intentions confused. They may be on your side with bug fixes and feature requests, but if you try to do something that goes against their company, why the hell would they be on your side?
I have a few questions:

Why is there a limit of 25 users for the free/ad supported plan? More users, more ads, more money, right?

When I signed in I was expecting to automatically see the public chat room for that page or website (not sure how it works). Instead I saw a list of users. I don't want to talk with any of them, I don't know them. Instead if I could see some history of the public chat, then I might have something to say/ask. It looks to me that the chat is set up the same way as Facebook chat. But in Facebook you talk with friends, while on a random site you talk with strangers and I think this needs to be reflected on how the chat works: you have a button for the chat, you click it, the main public room is displayed with the latest messages and maybe next to that the users list and maybe other public rooms.

After a while, I saw the other public rooms at the bottom. I closed them and I could not find a way to open them again.

Some users are green (active?), some are black (idle?) and some have a picture (active? idle?).

Why I'm not in the user list? I know it says "x other people are..." but if I'm on the site, I should be in the list.

The application looks solid but it needs some tweaking. Of course, as some people here might say, this is just one data point. Mine.
I think you just want to factor out the part that's changing into it's own subview, and then call that subview's render function instead of rerendering mainview, or writing a one off function.
Right. It doesn't exist, so I don't see the point in mourning.