skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The full article is not available for non-subscribers
Create a business on Mars
It's a tough thing to do -- particularly with Excel -- many spreadsheets include VBA code and other stuff that has dependencies on other parts of the Microsoft stack.

OOXML is a beastly specification, because it's not just a description of how to create a document or spreadsheet -- it includes artifacts to maintain compatibility with MS Office software from the early 90's.
Another PaaS for devs
Why QR codes never took the world by storm
ThetaBoard adds Markdown Support and Comments
I really like that scrolling date picker! Anyone know if a library is available?
How fast can I get a median programmer to learn Erlang, learn the libraries, and be productive enough to be able to make these high concurrency apps?

Let's say they are a full stack programmer who knows some html, some css, some javascript, some java, and some sql.

I have a pretty good idea how fast I can bring someone up to speed on node.js -- I have to teach them some advanced JS concepts, some node.js conventions, and the APIs of my library. Async takes a little bit to wrap your head around, but it's not terrible.

Node.js seems like it is on the way to "worse is better."
The present ranking for golds is...

continental Europe 71

native English speakers 66

East Asia 56

Islamic nations 11

central & south America 10

Sub-Sahara 6
I'm using C# for my game Tribal Hero (www.tribalhero.com). It's still in early beta so I've only had 450 concurrent users . Our CPU usage and memory usage barely moved from 0 to 450 users. We're using socket selects and not even async sockets which would have even better performance. It's also backed by MySQL though we want to eventually move to Redis. Why is Node breaking at 1k connections? Doesn't seem like much at all.
That was a fun read. A bit further than I take my honesty however...
I loved the original release of Things on the desktop, but wish I had never bothered with the iOS app. It took far too many taps to do anything and syncing was clunky to the point of uselessness.

It was the wait for over-the-air syncing, with months of overwrought blog posts, that led me to abandon Things. I recreated my use in the Reminders app and have been much happier since. With this 2.0 I see they have finally, years later, released "cloud syncing".

I don't see $50 worth of functionality, but still, wish them well with the new release.
Ask HN: multi-account WEB email client?
Is there any website that is a webapp version of mobile (phone/tablets) apps like k-9 or kaiten etc ?

I would love to access a single site and be able to manage all of my inboxes, either combined or separated.
Yes, really. It's about time to start selling your products, instead of their users.
Dumbledore. Gandalf. Yoda. Keep them straight.

/ob pedantic
When I hear the words 3D printing, it still sounds like something from a Sci-Fi movie.
Here is the Best way to Play Angry Birds on Computer
Kickstarter Ouya: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-...
What do you think extra megapixels would give you?
Judging about quality of the camera by pixels count is silly.
Perhaps in silicon valley, but outside it most of us were expected to be a jack of all trades. There may be a specialized DBA, and a designer, but we were responsible for understanding the full stack. The designer worked in photoshop, and the DBA only came in on designing the tables and optimizations, but we were responsible for the real work.
Seems more like an elitest social network than anything. That might not be such a terrible thing- after all, Facebook started out only allowing people with .edu email addresses. Metafilter now charges a one-time fee of $5. I'll be interested to see what happens with App.net.
This is not a point-and-shoot camera for your grandma to use. It's hardened against radiation, vibration, heat, cold, dust, etc., sending back high-quality RAW images for a planned two-year mission.

So no, it's not "$100 more".
I think it's his testing machine, so it's shoot & forget setup.
It's Viral: Bob Ross Remixed
While everyone seems to be commenting on the impact this will have on hardware manufacturers, I'm more excited about the impact this will have on the big software distributors. I would love to see a disruption to the likes of EA.

The console video gaming world has become, mostly, stagnant; full of sequels upon sequels. Current games are chocked full of DRM for overplayed, non-innovative titles. The market has become less about making great games that people love, and more about making executives money. It's terribly depressing and is directly responsible for me stopping my, over 25 year, love of gaming.

I, along with others, have doubts about the platform. However, I would absolutely love to see it affect some change in what the video gaming market has mostly become. I would love to see more independent developers making lots of money and pumping out cool, fun to play, games on a system that is accessible beyond the PC.
Now the question is how much actual development Digia can actually afford to keep.

That's my concern as well. Hopefully they will develop it and not just do token work to prevent the license from going to BSD. They may also just be trying to protect their previous investment by keeping Qt with a pulse.
Cardiio app measures your heart rate using front-facing camera
It was an intentional geek troll. Geeks love to run into the weeds over stupid little things. I think that was part of his point.
Can we please all agree to upvote this to the top?
As Mac Pro stagnates, PC workstations muscle ahead
Hmmm...I think this probably will make it to completion, but not on their aggressive timeline. Prove me wrong Ouya!

Also, not sure how many Ouya-specific games will make it out, but it should be great for emulation and media streaming.
Probably via the "-20"
U.S. Should Adopt Higher Standards for Science Education
China won all the table tennis gold medals. I got the impression from the commentary they they could probably field a team of players who missed selection and get the same result.
Would you mind enumerating some of the most glaring omissions in existing Linux alternatives?
>It says "Coming Soon" on that page, not "Released".

Note that I said "will" not "does".

>If you're a developer and you make an app that doesn't violate the rules of the store, you should be able to submit it.

You can. That's just no guarantee you'll get in.

>Having to rally community support with no promise of what the threshold for acceptance is is crazy.

Allowing every random to put their garbage up on a trusted store with no vetting is crazier. There's a reason the Google Market is a bit like the wild west. Malware and adware and garbage, oh my!
Is that a date in the url? If so, its in the future ;)
about a week
Great, thank you.
Excellent app otherwise.
Unfortunately for appwhateveritis, I suspect the cool wedge users that got facebook where it is are more price-sensitive than the old folks they want to get away from.
What did you think about diaspora?
Pretty sure you wouldn't send armed police to arrest a kid who infringed copyright. Certain you wouldn't pistol whip an unarmed kid while he is sitting in his chair.

I was expect a hard hitting short video showing the facts about the effects of hollywood lobbying on US law as well as the greater effects of its implementation on countries abroad.

Instead we get a video that made me laugh at the ridiculousness scenario someone dreamed up.
This is more like your primary school art teacher letting you stick the brush through your eardrum without saying anything.
The nice thing about OUYA being based on Android, is that developers can either make a game for "Android" and then just tweak it to run well on OUYA and with the controller, or they can make a game "specifically" for OUYA, and then just port it to all Android devices. So either way they can get access to a huge user base for the same game, regardless of how big OUYA's base is.

Google could've had this advantage as well with Google TV, but they never cared about making Google TV a console, or better yet, a "console platform". Too bad. I'm hoping OUYA succeeds, although I still can't get myself to buy one unless it has a 2013-worthy mobile chip inside.
I'd be interested in seeing a time series representation of this data, similar to http://www.gapminder.org
Marissa Mayer wants Yahoo to focus on product, not profit
> OOXML is a beastly specification

Not to mention the various versions of it (e.g ECMA vs ISO, and their revisions) which led to differing and incompatible implementations, numerous areas where things are ambiguous or undefined, and things that are defined by referencing the undisclosed DOC/XLS spec.
Tapworthy – Designing iPhone Interfaces for Delight and Usability
If you're a hacker in need of a Mac/iOS todo list, I couldn't recommend TaskPaper (http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/taskpaper/) enough. It's a hybrid outliner and todo list, but scales from simple lists to multi-project, tagged lists with loads of notes and documentation.

Best of all, the file format is plain text, so you can keep it in source control, edit it in Vim (there's even a vim plugin - https://github.com/davidoc/taskpaper.vim), or whatever you want.
Exactly - publishers shouldn't upload and claim content with public domain footage in it; they should specifically remove any videos with content not originally produced by the TV station from the CID system. But that takes work, and generally people just shovel content from TV -> Web, let CID make the decisions, and move on. It's one mouse click to turn off CID matching, really easy.
Same experience here - cut way back on my Twitter use. I see Twitter as mostly for celebrities and community leaders (tech community or whatever) to entertain us, provide interesting insight, or spread important news. Overall, though, it all isn't very important in our lives and it's not worth it to monitor all day every day.

Take people like Gruber, though, who now integrate this type of social service into their work - it is now really important to them. And of course they will communicate to us that "hey, this is really important!".

I'd say for most of us ("the general public"), it's just not that important.
>It's counterproductive to bathe ourselves in outrage over mistakes that cannot be rectified when there are problems today that could be solved, or at least improved on, by calm diplomatic negotiation, if either side could distance themselves from their hurt feelings long enough to cool off a little and be realistic. Getting everyone riled up over the injustice of it all pushes this process into the future and benefits no one.

If you want to have diplomacy in the middle east, it is absolutely crucial that we first acknowledge that creating Israel there was a mistake. Not doing so is just continuing to say "fuck you" to Palestinians. We need to say "look, putting Israel here was a mistake, but it's here now and we have to deal with this."

>Feelings have a way of being irrational, but ignoring them exacerbates problems rather than solving them.

If, whenever someone disagrees with you, you feel like you're talking to Hitler, you're going to find that your feelings get ignored a lot. There is simply no way to have a productive conversation without ignoring feelings like that.

>The idea that dissolving Israel was ever on the table is absurd.

Are you taking offense to my mention of dissolving Israel after you brought it up?

>I'd like to know how that could possibly be true. It's quite a stretch for me to imagine that when the leadership of Israel's enemies call for "the Zionist entity" to be pushed into the sea they have something else in mind.

Ugh. So now what you're saying is that when someone mentions that putting Israel there was a mistake, you immediately attribute to them the positions of Islamist extremists. How do you ever expect to have a rational discussion when you can't stop thinking in kneejerk feelings?
It seems you can still pre-order from their official website: http://www.ouya.tv
What happens when our smartphones can predict our every move?
47126 Ouya

7755 Ouya + Controller

2500 Ouya + 2 Controllers

826 Ouya Dev Kits

By April 2013. Good luck guys~

It's interesting to note some figures; if you assume $50 US per ouya that's $2,910,350 or 33% of the collected costs to make the hardware; double that to a guess of $100 per unit and you looking at ~68% of the collected Kickstarter.

Realistically the hardware is probably relatively cheap to manufacture in bulk, and it'll probably end up towards the $50 rather than $100 mark, especially if they decide not to upgrade to newly released hardware.

Just interesting numbers.
EA and Activision are the heroes gamers deserve.

Honestly, when your target audience are people so devoted to a frivolous activity that they willing buy devices with no other purpose than to consume carefully curated content, it becomes hard to see them as anything other than a paycheck.
This Super Angry Birds Custom USB controller offers tangible game play
StackOverflow has been overrun by anal people. Internet power attracts this kind of douchebags like moths to light. If you write 'Hello,' in questions the system will automatically delete it, if you - god forbid - write 'Thanks!' other users will edit your question to remove it. I can't explain how fucking weird it is that people take time to remove the word 'Thanks' from a website they don't even own.

StackOverflow is a crazy good system for Q&A. Just like in Wikipedia, the problem is no longer trolls - but bureaucracy and pedanticism of the moderators. People are assholes who like power, and I don't think any q&a software can solve this.
Yes that quote was key to the whole article. If you subscribe to the view that success is defined by scale, then pretty much everything he said follows logically from that.

Of course we know that App.net will not compete with Twitter on volume. But leave it to a guy with a blog titled Massive Greatness to assume that's the only thing an A-player would want to do. One has to wonder what would happen to MG Siegler exposed to the Apple of the mid 80s if his Apple fanboyism was forced to confront his idea that greatness is by definition massive.

As for giant figures like Linus or RMS, remember, Linus is still around, and the work he does creates more value than probably any single company, because his software is everywhere. Probably 95% of all companies are realizing some value from the existence and maintenance of Linux. The economics of this work because the work he does is just manipulating a small number of bits and publishing those changes for everyone to take advantage of. The economics of this are completely different from running a service where costs scale linearly with adoption. There have been many attempts to make distributed versions of Twitter to gain the economics of open source, but a centralized service is too valuable.

What Dalton is doing here is seeing if he can create something sustainable for developers that has the benefits of a centralized service without the risk of users being outbid by advertisers. It doesn't have to go anywhere near Twitter to be a massive success. Just validating the business model at a small scale will already be producing proportionately orders of magnitude more value than the huge volumes of banal shit floating through Twitter's tubes.
> Namely, short-term ("a few weeks") use does not have long-term ("a lifetime") antibacterial and antiperspirant effects.

There are a couple of sentences that I didn't do a very good job with delivering here, but you're reading into it too much.

I don't claim that 1) it has any type of significant antiperspirant effect (just that it did seem to help a little via perhaps a secondary effect) and 2) it has long term effects after you completely stop using it (just that now I don't need to use it as consistently as before).

Maybe I was a bit overzealous delivering some of that in a few posts here.

My only real claim is that it works for me, and others, better than the regular stuff.

You should try it.
Did Fortress also prevent you from searching for explorer.exe using Internet Explorer and starting it from there?
$8,580,682 (from 63,277 backers) - keep perspective guys. 60k - That's like one week of sales of one of the consoles in Japan only. And those aren't even pushed units numbers. Not to mention amount of money that rolls in the likes of EA titles. It's all nice and all, but nowhere near disruptive word.
I too tried to love Things, but just couldn't get into it. The to-list needs to be simple enough to use without thinking, yet powerful enough to offer a specific set of features.

With the release of Mountain Lion I am getting along fine with Reminders. I use Fantastical in my menu bar to add things, it's always synced to my phone. Has priority, time & date, and geolocation.
Your app has a lot of potential! Nice use of Bootstrap too. Oerfect use case for Scrollspy.

It'd be nice if it allowed you to create a plan for a whole week. It could even give you a shopping list.
1. Click on Meal Options

2. Scroll down to Nutrition options

3. Change 'Target macronutrients...' to 'As a percent of calories'
For perspective, a single nut or bolt often costs hundreds to thousands of dollars by the time you are done with the Mil Spec qualification. You are off by a factor of at least 3, likely 4 or 5.
The only real limit is compression. Many public service vehicles locally are switching over to natural gas.
or so it would seem. Don't rule out chasing an idea for years before you find it's successful. AirBnB, Pinterest, Craigslist etc etc

“Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.”

— Bruce Barton
> How are you supposed to maneuver a 2 ton (or any rover for that matter) rover without cameras?

It's one ton, and you can't, which is why it has 2 navigation cameras and 4 hazard cameras near the wheels.
http://www.amazon.com/Launch-Pad-Combinator-Exclusive-ebook/...
I flagged the hell out of that article and comment train-wreck...just like I'm flagging the hell out of this article.

I don't want to see politics on HN, just like I don't want to see meta posts talking about comments talking about politics on HN.

Stop.
Could his "magic torch" product be repurposed to stabilize a laser pointer? I just sat through a presentation and the guy's laser pointer was shaking like crazy the whole time.

Thoughts?
Not for me. I think the issue for you is that you use a to-do app for "notes, ideas, trivial record keeping, etc.". I use other apps for those things. I do have personal things in my to-do list but nothing I would be worried about anyone else seeing.
When did they announce that cloud sync was coming soon? 3 years ago? I'm not sure if I trust them to continue updating Things on a reasonable schedule. I have a lot more trust in Sam Soffes adding lots and lots of features to cheddarapp.com
Excited for the technical write-up as well. I've been building an app in Angular myself and I absolutely love it. Coupled with a REST-ish API library, it's a breeze in terms of testing and separation of concerns. After using Angular, I can't stand the circus of "server renders HTML that includes JS that has server return JSON that's handled by JS that has server render this other thing..."
Give Thanks to your Competitors:What I Learned from the Starbucks-Square Deal
Using P2P Clusters to Do Big Data Analytics.
Introducing Pulse for Web
Pssst.... <command> <+>
I ever dreamed of having such a controller. Good news for folks who are tired of touchscreen controls.
Exactly, they can pan the camera and stitch the images together - something that is not as easy to do with your handheld camera
I think they will just kick out any advertisers they discover.
I bought TaskPaper both for iOS and Mac and I've been very disappointed.

At first, it looks great but the Dropbox sync'ing is completely broken. I was losing data many times a day and ended up giving up on it. Many have reported sync'ing issues on their forum as well. That's too bad because I really liked it otherwise.
I would be interested to know how Chinese classic painting fits in these theories about blackness: it should represent something not to far from half of all paintings ever produced by human beings and theories thereof, and as far as I know its main mode is shades of black ink on white paper.
Adjusting by amount of money spent would be neat too.
Sorry. How annoying. I apparently came to the article from some blog. What will make the article appear in its entirety is to get there from a Google search. It's top result when Googling for:

yahoo makeover site:wsj.com
Pulse, the mobile news reading app, makes its way to web
Is there anything like Things for Windows? The one place I most sorely need a syncing GTD-style tracker is work, where I'm on Windows.
IPad emulators - a blatant lie?
Why not change the system so that new technology is able to be fitted?
I bet that author that's featured in the article didn't even try and see what's actually happening with LendLink.

I wonder if next they're gonna go for Amazon because they're posting reviews.
I really wish there was an Android version, or some way for a thrid-party app to sync with Things on the Mac.

Now I have to use a note taking app on my Android phone and tablet, then manually copy them into Things when I get back to my computer. It’s a bloody hassle but Things is so much better than anything else I tried that it’s the only way.
Well, Android IS the long awaited "Year of Linux on the desktop", only it's not on the desktop, because the desktop is no longer the center of the consumer digital world.

I'm also happy that an open-source based operating system is becoming the mainstream. It's an exciting time to be a developer or an entrepreneur :) (these technologies becoming mainstream enable so many things, I don't know where to start!).
I mean, look at the guy. Even if all the things he was trying for failed, he could still get a great job as his last choice.
For reference, oil is at $113 per barrel today (August 9, 2012).
I wonder if even adjusting for the amount of money (involving cost of living into the equation) would be a more fair way to adjust?
Goodbye Slideshare, thanks for auto-following my Facebook friends
Isn't part of it that there are relatively few Olympic sports that are big participation sports in India which really limits the pool India are drawing from?

Just offer to play the Chinese at cricket.
Full article here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044351710457757...
>Access to this site was blocked by system administrator

>The page you are trying to browse to is categorized as "Games"

>If you believe you are getting this message by mistake, try contacting your administrator or Helpdesk.

Should I contact my administrator?
In a mission to gather data then clearly extra megapixels give you extra data. You cannot argue against that! We aren't talking amateur photography here where the quality of the shot is important and a decent lens beats higher megapixels, we are talking acquiring measurements of the amount of photons in a discrete spatial region. Clearly a higher resolution of sensor might allow scientists to see something not visible in lower resolution images. Although I do admit that in this case I understand the choice due to specification and testing, but to suggest that extra megapixels do not give more information is silly.
ack. And additionally, this "tu quoque" accusation also insinuates that WSJ reporting focuses on hype - whereas the author explicitely mentions their reporting as a example of high-quality journalism (and other commenters here seem to agree).
Not just compression. NG also has a much lower energy density than oil/gasoline. Not as compact
Is it possible to sue all of those people for defamation? Even if they believe that LendLink is a pirate site, they have a plethora of evidence to the contrary. The law should punish them for attempting to destroy someone over their refusal to either: 1) do 2 seconds of basic research or 2) accept the truth that presents itself to them.