skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did exactly the same thing in 2008 for the Google Android Challenge. After starting the app, you would see two big buttons - browse and stream - and clicking on stream would automatically start, well, recording and streaming video. Only after you were done you were required to enter a description and optionally a category (concert, hot event, journalism, sightseeing, etc) of the video you just shot.

Everything would be geotagged and browsable by category, description and radius. Say you wanted to check out the clubs in a 1km radius - just filter by that criteria and see where the hot party is. There is some protest going on right now and you want to see what is happening? Check it out in real time. You are late for a concert and don't wanna miss out? Just watch one of the 50 streams being recorded live. Want to see how war really looks like? You can.

There was a gmaps overlay and some other features I don't remember anymore.

Anyways, I didn't get sponsored (the best 100 or so apps got $25k), and with 10 other competing live streaming services I kinda scrapped the project. Fun to see how history repeats itself, although I thought this was already a solved problem. Maybe I should have pressed on back then :)
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The study involved 3 patients.
My child.

In the past years, while your mother played in the sunlight and your father smiled at girls and drank cool drafts as the evening drew in, before you were even a glimmer or a sunbeam, we had devices called "film cameras".

These "film cameras" did not have electronic components. They worked by using levers, springs and wheels. An emulsion that is reactive to light was prepared and pasted onto a plastic film. The plastic film was exposed to the light, but briefly. Later a complicated process was applied to transfer the reacted image (for that is what it was) onto other media, which could then be copied.

If one looks upon The Sacred Ebay (all bless the name of Sacred Ebay) one will find similar devices today.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Leica-111a-Camera-No-276160-1938-/...

In this way, the dark time became but light.

Ahhhwaahhhh wooooo. Ahhhwahh wooo...

(THIS IS IN JEST)
Have you ever visited India or lived there for a long period of time? I am not just parroting talking points from major newspaper. I have visited and lived both in China and India in several cities for reasonable amount of time. While China is no beacon of civil rights and other things most people in western civilization takes for granted; they are still far ahead of India IMHO YMMV.
Nothing is more brittle than Pulseaudio in a modern linux distribution. Maybe the flash plugin, but still it uses less cpu than pulseaudio usually

Nowadays I only have to restart PA once a week. This is simply ridiculous.

ALSA software mixing never gave me a problem.
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I like it. It would be nice to be able to refresh the entire day's meal, I know you can hit generate again but I spent a minute looking for a "refresh all" button and I'm sure others might as well. Perhaps at the bottom after the user has scrolled down.

Another key (IMO) perhaps paid feature should be the ability to exclude ingredients.

I'm allergic to peanuts for example, plus plenty of people just outright dislike certain foods so it would be nice to save them the hassle and exclude them. Also the inverse of this, a favourite food option, would be really nice.

Edit: Just seen the food filter, this works for the exclude but a favourite food option might be good still.
What really strikes me about this data set is that YCombinator alone has 2x the exits of all the other other accelerators combined, and accounts for 93% of the total exit amount. Whenever someone asks "why you choose YC?" just quote that - its no guarantee of success by any means but I am certainly happy to keep such good company.

I should note the author things the exit value numbers for this study are bogus, so that that stat as an indicator not necessarily a piece of data.
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> The colloquial definition of a spreadsheet app in about 100% of the world at this time is the ability to do calcs.

For me Grid got right the essence how and why some people use spreadsheet for non-calc tasks. If people write long text, they start text editor. If they want to add more "structure", they do not implement new DB application, but they start spreadsheet app.

Especially in corporate world: if manager wants to track tasks (issues, progress of documents) - he starts Excel and uses it like the Grid. The most complex Excel I have seen so far was used for tracking wedding - tasks, guests, deadlines etc ;)

There are many ways how people use general concept of spreadsheet. Some might involve complex calculations, some people use it only as a free-form grid. My guess is that the ratio is 1:10 (in favor of free-form grid). That is why I think BinaryThumb hit the sweet spot and will be successful even if they do not implement calculations at all.
This

You get a credible consumer OS by SHIPPING.

Nokia lacked focus. Just note the Maemo/Meego rewrite. This is like MS saying they're merging Windows with ReactOS and delaying Windows 7 for 3 years
Nitpick: the official name for "Holland" is (The) Netherlands.

Holland actually denotes only a part of the country and a lot of dutchmen do not take kindly to being called a "Hollander".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland
There is now a kiosk outside YC and FedEx and UPS are now delivering to it.
One is not any worse than the other. Both are sexist!
Sorry about the popups. I was trying a new Sociable plugin and I hadn't noticed it messed up the mobile view. Thanks for noticing, it's fixed now.
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This is just blows my mind! - Hopefully one day we will walk on that surface and have a thriving colony.
In Estonia we've had two-way boxes (where you can also send stuff) for a few years now. For example local eBay clone osta.ee uses it for quite convenient parcel service, as you sometimes don't really want somebody to ship to your home address.
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The Guardian have one of these too, with a link to download the data: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/datablog/interactive/2012/au...
Have you ever used a meego device? The N9 is a solid phone, and at time of release Harmattan was far better than the Android offering. What makes you say "they had no clue how to turn it into a credible consumer OS"? That seems to be exactly what they did.
You could set it up to either accept clients to POST a user to the /users collection, or PUT a user at /users/123. With unknown IDs the latter isn't really viable.

This is primarily a matter of idempotence. Several POSTs to /users would create many identical users whereas multiple PUTs to /users/123 would have exactly the same result as just one request. The PUT is idempotent.
It might not end up being "equivalent" to Dropbox, but that would still compete with Dropbox in terms of backing up and syncing files.
It looks like you are using links which use onclick events instead of a standard href. The 30+ javascript files included in the <head> section suggest you might be using it in other places that you shouldn't be if your goal is SEO.

That, the bad text/html ratio, and the non-descriptive urls are what i see as the likely culprits. It looks like you have a good number of backlinks, and that that number is growing quickly.
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In the case of tech books, I think it has more to do with ever changing technologies. And if that's the case, then we need a new breed of tech books that can evolve with technologies, be updated in parallel with the technology it covers. And the tech publishing industry doesn't seem to be ready to evolve in that direction. It's Manning we're talking about. And look at the time it took to O'Reilly to release a half-decent iPad app for Safari Books Online. And even now they are limiting the number of offline books to 3! I mean, don't they know that we tend to use books as references more than we read them linearly.

And this is not the first book I encounter this kind of issues with. It's just the first one where it's so annoying that I can't help posting about it. And behind these books, there's a process, there's a way of doing things, talking about pages and online erratas, that's so outdated that yes, if they don't evolve, they're gonna die.
btrfs cannot show you how much disk space is being referred to by each subvolume, as its used and free space tracking is only per pool. The only way to see how much space a particular subvolume is taking is to use du, which gets slower the bigger the subvolume gets.

This is no longer true. As of Linux 3.6, btrfs has the ability to apply quotas to subvolumes.
These are still from the navigation cameras.

The main camera, not yet deployed, can take 1600x1200 full-color pictures and HD video at 10fps. There's actually two of it, so it can also make 3D images/video. Other features are wide/telephoto lens, panorama stitching and 8GB flash storage.

Before complaining about resolution, this is like having a GoPro 3D on Mars, it has plenty of detail.

One of the articles mentions that the cameras are provided by the same manufacturer as the Viking missions, so they must certainly have improved. Expect some awesome images in the coming months!

More info:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/instruments/cameras/mas...,
http://msl-scicorner.jpl.nasa.gov/Instruments/Mastcam/,
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20110531.html
Do you have a google webmaster tools account? If you were being penalized for some reason (which i doubt), webmaster tools will inform you.
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Trolltech made that legal covenant a long time ago, while Nokia and Digia are bound to it by the purchase of the business.
Looks like author is not aware of some cuncurrency problems, deadlocks etc.
Backend/database might not scale to 100k concurrent connections so easily.
Maybe a crowd-funding drive upfront is actually a good action in that case. If it succeeds, you have roughly ~50000 seed users that have a vested interest in seeing your product succeed.
You should get OnTrac to deliver to it as well, since Amazon often uses them.
I wonder if native UI rendering APIs will be available for these platforms. Will this be a simple wrapper and compile with few native hooks, like Flash on iOS? Or will they take a more integrated approach?
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You can do that with Google Voice and several other VOIP services already.

I had to do it to be able to post from Twitter to Google+ automatically through SMS (Google+ lacks a proper API).
> Whenever they realize they don't understand something.

Which is quite likely to be when their customers' data gets leaked or altered. That's a really bad time to discover a hole in your understanding.
Social Fatigue
How about a weighing based on how many people play that sport (weekly, say)? And if one sport has many types of race, just divide up the new medal weight by how many events there are.

So if 50 million people play basketball per week and 1 million people swim, and if there is 1 basketball medal and 10 swimming medals, then a basketball medal would be valued at 50*10 of a swimming medal.

This way, new events & sports could be added easily, without changing things much. This would also reduce the bickering that happens whenever someone proposes adding or removing an event.
May be you have met wrong sort of Indians (nationalistic) ? I along with nearly everyone I know - understands that India is far behind China. We truly suck as society. Rate badly on corruption, infrastructure, women, minority rights.

There is nothing to defend.
How about this:

China only sent 621 athletes out of 1.3 billion people, and Brit has 1361 with a population of merely 62 million.
"client-side javascript engineer" without any server-side experience.. is that even possible?
It took them far too long to do it, though. They didn't focus on it, and they had at least three public hardware revisions before they even tried to tack a phone onto the platform. In order to make it credible, they needed to put a lot more weight behind it.

They could have beaten Android by 3 years, but didn't because they were organisationally incapable of doing so.
Which would be bad for them, since it effectively releases the current version of Qt under a BSD license:

http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.p...
I may be totally off the mark here (it has been 5 years since I last studied portfolio management) but if you have 2 stocks that are totally negatively correlated, with the same expected return, won't you have a return of 0%?
> I'd love to have an alternative to the App Store that doesn't mandate sandboxing and have Apple's mysterious restrictions

Like http://appbodega.com ?
It's been possible to write Qt applications for Android for a while now:
http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/02/28/necessitas/
Rocks!
Because I was thinking of iCloud and I don't really know anything about SkyDrive. Forgive me if I'm skeptical that Microsoft is gonna blast that one out of the park.
I think the important point is, that there ARE better alternatives out there. There's just no point in defending a mediocre and potentially harmful[0] learning platform. There's no need for hostility, just move on.

[0]http://en.w3schools.com/php/php_ajax_database.asp
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When we accept complexity while striving for simplicity, we end up with actual features.
Have you actually tried using that?

Its really hard to get running. Supporting android and allowing cross platform QT based applications would be an amazing step in the right direction for QT, and quite frankly, android.

Yes please!
Well, I'm finding an operation time of ~46 hours, although the battery life was supposedly 60 hours. I did find this tidbit[1]:

"Shortly after passing into daylight, the Vega-2 aerostat plunged several kilometers, to a level of 0.9 atmospheres, dangerously close to the lower limit of its stable float zone. After the end of signal, the balloons probably overheated and burst, somewhere on the daylight side of Venus."

[1]: http://www.mentallandscape.com/V_Vega.htm
Scaling node.js to 250k concurrent connections
And a Google eBooks/Play version too, just to round things out.
Well this has only been promoted for like 3 weeks, so give it a minute. There's a chicken or egg problem, if no one buys into the dream before it's reality then it will fail.
And a diminished ability to add features in the future.
I'm not disagreeing it took them too long and they did it in a ridiculous way, having already made the MS deal, but I don't understand how you can still say it's "not credible". Go use it.
Isn't this really scaling the underlying C runtime to 100k connections?
A number of normal people I know use linux. The scenario is usually: 1) Computer "breaks", ie needs os reinstall 2) they don't have os media 3) I offer a choice of buying a full copy of Windows or trying linux for free. Some that choose linux find it isn't for them. Some stick with linux.
Finance media should not report on medicine?

-- blah blah blah nuanced point nuanced point nuanced point

still it is interesting. But BCG is a horrible 'vaccine' that isn't all that effective and complicates screening for TB so I would imagine the aim of any eventual research to spill from this would be TNF inhibitors, of which we already have bucketloads for treating Rheumatoid Arthritis, Chron's disease etc etc.

Oh, and this won't cure someone with full-blown type 1 (i.e. zero insulin production) - they have already lost their beta cells and to the best of my knowledge won't grow back if they have all been destroyed
Christ, that's some serious bubble effect you've got there. Not only is it possible, it's quite common. Until about 2 years ago the only place javascript ran was in the browser or a handful of experimental projects. And big, traditionally-organized teams often have people who are responsible only for the browser side of things.
To me it all depends on the size of the codebase / the complexity of the project. Not the complexity of the code.

The bus factor is not a question of so complex code that only N people understand it.

To add to the discussion, do you people think that programming has enough "meta" tools ? (I don't know how to put it.) I mean, we have stuff like javadoc by example, which can help documenting (implies generally understanding) a codebase. But could we think of a really good way/tool to help understand a codebase, be its code simple or complex ?
I still use a self-customized BlackboxWM for my graphical mode needs. It's great on debian. =]
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Many people aren't, yet these days I'm regularly surprised by random folks (some bordering ludditeness) knowing about Linux's existence and role.
I am not sure whether this funding drive is actually meant to succeed. Let me search my tinfoil hat before continuing...

When talking with VCs, mass-market and transaction-based is always a tough sell. So why not try a funding drive that might not succeed, but show a good amount of interest? You get 2 things out of it:

a) Contacts of people actually wanting to buy your product and are vocal about it.
b) Proof that there is interested in your concept.

Especially in the social network space, where fees are something rather unheard of, you won't be able to sell "like Twitter, but with payed accounts" very well. Then again, I regularly meet people that would like to pay for their Twitter account for certain benefits (like being able to verify their account instead of hoping that Twitter deems their request worthy). So this funding drive looks like a proof-of-concept to me much more than a success or die action.
You have setup a straw man here, I hope you realize that. I have never been to China but I will accept that living conditions there - are better than India.

However, we _are_ somewhat proud of our democracy (even though we hate it most of the time) and compared to China human rights situation and freedom of speech is more respected in India. Yes, you can pick few cases where - some right wing idiots pulled a stunt here and there but those things were criticized by everyone and afaik govt. and police does seem to work to protect that freedom.
I routinely find myself hand-tweaking CSS on sites I visit for #333, replacing it with black.

Dual monitors, office, lots of ambient daylight, and occasional sun glare. Drive me freaking nuts.

Black text on a very slightly off-white background: not so bad.
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Qt without native UI isn't Qt. I am very interested to see how they will manage to handle the difference in UI concepts between the three mobile platforms.
We have MDN, dochub, sitepoint, etc, they all have up-to-date, correct content. We don't need another one. What's hideous about them?
You need units on that there table. Is GDP '000,000s of USD?
#2: How is that w3schools fault that they are listed top of Google's search results? What do you expect them to do, somehow reduce their ranking? Surely it is the job of other sites to increase their ranking?
Salmon & Potato Scramble for breakfast, what am i? The Queen?

But besides that, pretty nice idea! I also like the interface! :)
I really do not care when people call it Holland instead of The Netherlands. Enough Dutch people often refer to it as Holland.
Good move, why not?

If I recall correctly, Debian is all about keeping things fast, stable and usually chosen as a good fit for a server.

In any case, most users that expect a "fully blown with bells and whistles" WM would use Ubuntu.

I'm still loving using fluxbox in my old laptop.
You're missing the point of Node. You can construct a web rendering application and its AJAX parts in one codebase. You can move fastly code between server and client rendering. etc etc etc.

Probably Erlang is "better". BTW, Java & C are quite fast also. Java applications, well written, do scale. If they don't, they are folks out there specialized to make them scale.

Also, Erlang is probably easy to learn as language. But when you develop a web app, you have enough other skills to keep up with. Let's name CSS for one ;) The human brain is limited in its capacity to remember API and language specifics.

Also, more popular means more libraries, which makes the product in turn better. This is why so many folks turn to PHP. It's not elegant, but everything you need is already here.

Now I won't argue that you may have good reasons to use Erlang for yourself, may it be because you like the language structure, like to write libraries by yourself, or so on. But it doesn't make it "superior", foremost not as a platform.
I think you missed something... He slammed it as a catastrophe exactly because off the Windows store. Maybe you read a different article than I did, or missed the thrust of it?

http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/08/microsoft-defends-windows-...

What Newell is blatantly raging against is the idea that Windows, in running its own store, will make it more difficult for users to install their own software. No doubt he's chiefly worried about users' ability to install Steam, his store. I felt that was obvious from the onset.

And really? Lost respect for him? For his being an honest business man? And you're on YCombinator?

(Edited for overly mean tone. I don't mean to chastise, I just don't understand what you're saying.)
I think you should email PG to ask him to remove the referral link
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Sure, my comment was about Nokia, not Qt. I love Qt, and will keep using it whenever the opportunity arises. Overall, I'm happy about this development because I really care about Qt, and I care very little about Nokia (for me they're that company that makes nice $80 dumb phones for my grandpa to use. But there are tons of companies like that...)
Already done here: http://www.medalspercapita.com/#weighted-per-capita:2012

and has more options too:

* per GDP

* per year (Beijing, etc.)

* per total medals

* per GOLD medal

* per weighted medal (4=gold, 2=silver, 1=bronze)
Yes, sure at Nokia. This is hardly a reason to hate Qt.
There is no vegetarian option?
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Same here. Vastly more readable for a novice (like myself at the time) than W3C.
You need more foods to choose from, but I suppose that's where the users come in. Very interesting app! I might sign up.

Edit: Just found some of the features I had suggested, whoops.
The Guardian has that as well
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/datablog/interactive/2012/au...
1361? Team GB is about 541 strong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain_at_the_2012_Summe...
Wow. Just wow. The Microsoft redesign that was submitted a month or so ago was.. okay. But this is absolutely horrid. When they got rid of the nod to all the other languages it couldn't be saved.
How bad that would be remains to be seen. It highly depends on how much external work from external contributors is going into qt. if most of the work comes from internal employees, then the BSD fork that was auto-created will stagnate while they can add all the cool stuff to their commercial offering.

They could then proceed to make their maintained version as incompatible as possible to the open source version.

The outcome will likely be a very two very different versions of a toolkit.

One based on BSD qt, maintained by the KDE project, more and more losing its cross-platform features (why would KDE care about platforms it doesn't run on).

The other will be the commercial continuation of old qt. Incompatible with the open source version, but keeping its cross-platform features and seeing heavy development and feature additions.

Of course this is just speculation, but it is at least conceivable.