skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3D Dynamic Reflection in Windows Phone 7
30-minutes with Final Cut Pro X
Jamboree sounds a little too campy.
Those both look very cool. The one thing they lack that Wacom has, however, is hovering.
I imagine it would be frustrating for companies which have actual real revenue and growth as opposed to ones that have grown 800% from 1 to 8 users in 3 months.
I don't really think so, but I guess it's possible. The reason I don't think so is that this thing is much harder to read than plain text, and I have to spend time figuring out how to read it.

Chances are, if I like someone's resume, it's time to talk to them on the phone, not read a secondary resume that's in a weird format.
Flash 11.4 introduces Concurrency via Workers
I gave this a brief shot - an explanation of benefits, and use, like the short one above, is very much needed on the homepage. In addition a walk-through / example would be very helpful upon login.

The welcome email, is quite helpful here - but having it In-site would be much better.
The listed price is $25 (
$34
), but when I went to PayPal, it was about to charge me $34. How do I buy for $25?
IKEA's New Catalogs: Less Pine, More Pixels
How to take care with security loopholes in website development
People who say typing is not their bottleneck are saying they are not I/O bound but CPU bound. Makes me think what other things you need to improve before you notice your typing can't keep up? But that's kind of backwards. You will never know until you can type fast and freely, liberating your brain to actually think about the problem and code and not finding keys on the keyboard. Besides not everything you do is original and new or inventive. Sometimes you are just doing crap that you know how to do already, and typing or not using smart editor is the bottleneck. But people who can't type usually don't know this. What you don't know can't hurt you, or it can perhaps?
It looks like there's room to really stand out by drawing a graph that goes up and to the right, then down and to the right, and then up and to the right again.
"Life Model Decoy"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Model_Decoy
Working with HTML5 Map Tag
This device is priced like an iPad, but it is clearly and thoroughly outclassed by Apple's hardware and Apple's software. So what then are Samsung's strengths, exactly? Beside their ability to dupe people into overpaying for inferior "me too" products, I mean.

I have to ask, for those who shop by performance rather than build quality, what part of the iPad's guts is better than this tablet's guts?
C++ for Kernel Mode Drivers: Pros and Cons (Windows, article from 2007)
Apple’s eventual downfall tied to the rise of products with no UI
I think Twitter understands that there is a much lower barrier to leaving their service for a competitor, compared to the other social services.

What data do you have in Twitter that you wouldn't be prepared to leave behind?
I thought this was fixed in Lion, but I believe it used to be the case that OS X terminal didn't support mouse. Check out iTerm 2 instead.
A Map of the Limits of Statistics
Retina Friendly Favicons?
There's the rub. All due respect to Leo and the guys at Buffer. It's a wonderful product. And he's sharing his learning process. I'm not dogging on them.
However
The email exchange with Noah Kagan is shows the mentality that so much of startup culture is stricken with: "how can I sell my soul to hit it big" not "educate me on building a sustainable business."
I don't have any of these problems when I use js. I mostly use delegates and notifications instead of callbacks. I always use this to refer to the called object. The inheritance model is very simple and better than many other oo languages like Ruby. I agree that the method for cloning an object is a bit obtuse but it is easily corrected so you can just call clone on any object. The lack of forward is a small but significant problem but it doesn't significantly hamper design of complex software. It isn't ideal that you that you can't import modules but again it doesn't prevent you from building well designed complex software.
A Software Entrepreneur On The Madness Of Software Patents and Trolls
This is great news. I wrote some articles and made other contributions back when Kurt had it live. Had a shirt too! My #1 hangout for that time, invaluable resource for aspiring coders. Today's game DEV landscape has really widened, though. Years ago you could be certain that a C++ vector class was used by anyone, but today there are flash and webgl and iOS and android... Makes me wonder if there's still a common thread at a code level.
Thanks :) That seems to have done the trick. Now I just need to get my color scheme working right in iTerm. Still pretty new to Mac OS. I'm really a Linux guy.
Thanks -- that's exactly what was happening. We've removed the favicon from our Tumblr blog.
And yet they can't block obvious spam: new accounts posting @mentions with spammy words and links.
That was in English when I thought it :-)
The tumblr crowd is not a tech crowd, though. I can guarantee my daughter will side with tumblr over twitter on this, and, as a result, will never have a twitter account.
interestingly, we intentionally didn't show a graph, nor did we actually say any of our numbers when we presented yesterday. Our goal was to tell a story about why what we were doing mattered and I think that resonated really well with investors. Not sure if our presentation works for everyone else, but I do believe being a bit different was immensely valuable.
I don't disagree, but I also think this system is a great way for investors to get a quick glimpse of a ton of awesome companies at once, and find the ones they are most interested in and chat more. Someone else in this thread already mentioned this, but the point of the pitch is not to close a deal. That takes multiple conversations, sometimes days, sometimes weeks.

Personally, I only want to talk to investors who are actually interested in our space, or have expertise and connections in the space, especially when there are hundreds in the room (half the conversations would be a complete waste of time otherwise).
Onlive assets sold in sale; new owners to still operate consumer facing service
Obsessing over typing efficiency doesn't make much sense, but being able to reasonably quickly with a high level of accuracy type makes a huge difference. By being able to touch-type at ~30 words a minute (making a rough guess here, I have no data to back up where the speed actually lies) means that you can quickly and easily get the bit of typing necessary over with and get back to thinking, planning and studying for the next bit of typing that's necessary. As an anecdote, I type extremely fast, but type for probably 45 minutes of the day in 30 second to 1 minute bursts every so often. In that burst, I likely create or edit a couple of functions and put in the calls to it. And then go to working on the next piece. There's rare times where it'll be a concentrated stream of typing, but that's following a large period of scrawling in a notebook.

I cannot fathom how people can find the time to actually approach any particular problem at a reasonable depth if it will take them more time to type out the solution than reading and understanding the existing code and determining how to solve the problem. Sure there's code where there's boilerplate, or add a line to a bunch of files, or tons of ways that raw typing speed doesn't play much of a benefit, but when it comes time to type, having to move your hands and look to find the { is akin to a carpenter having to read every label to find the bottle of glue.
When I was a musician we had a saying:
"Playing and performing are like food and water. Writing is breathing."
- You play, you promote. You maintain, you sustain.
- You write, you build. You create, you grow.
Buffer will succeed by building and improving, not maintaining and sustaining.
Show HN: Kopi teaches you how to order coffee like a native Singaporean
Amoeba Interview Question
Amoeba Question: A population of amoebas starts with 1. After 1 period that amoeba can divide into 1, 2, 3, or 0 (it can die) with equal probability. What is the probability that the entire population dies out eventually?
I tried scanning the article to find out what made it illegal, and was fairly disappointed to find that (once again) I'd been lured by a sensationalist headline.
I'd feel better if it was an app that taught people how to game the lottery. At least then the nonsense would be equitable.
source link with commentary: http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/4768/amoeba-intervi...
I think the main problem is the time constraint. None of these solutions can lead to investors figuring out which businesses to follow up on out of 75 businesses in under 3 hours.

Also why have demo booths when it's an online service? Why not try it out from a customers perspective and log onto the website. If you need someone in a booth to step you through it then I would be very surprised.
I think this is okay, but I really hate the current landing page. It would be nice to have a description of the service instead of a message warning you that you are not logged in. Seeing that message I almost went to do something else because it seemed so off-putting. The service itself is oddly addictive however, so long as you remember that your product is entirely driven by your community (which you are probably well aware of). Other than that, I think I could see myself flipping through random status updates on occasion.
We had a similar new and noteworthy experience with our app (labelbox) in spring 2011. We were asked a couple of days before to provide artwork and assets. The app got featured and we got similar results. We peaked out at 100K downloads in one of those days, enough to get us just inside the top 25 in the US charts.

We've also had an experience were we were asked to provide assets and graphics 'incase' we were featured that week, but ended up not being featured at all (phototreats). The process is a mystery, but one thing that seems common is that almost all apps that are featured have great beautiful, easy to use design.
True. The accelerator that operates out of the space I work at, they emphasised the idea of including a slide about what type of people the startup is primarily interested in working with.
I have the EXACT same problem and I came here to see how many more people were running into this wall ... the thing is: I'm using Chrome's latest version (21.0.1180.82) ... is this a bug ?
Racial Profiling at Boston Airport, Officials Say
* 1. indicate somewhere on the top/menu if you've read enough to start publishing

* 2. I like the header (very clean)

* 3. save button should publish and then show the post you created rather than a message

* 4. walkthru would be nice
How would you try warehouse software, a wireless network, or a developer tool? A number of the companies that presented yesterday are not easily try-able and some that simply wouldn't appeal to this demographic in any meaningful way.
AT&T Blocking FaceTime over 3G
Yet another incredible project out of Disney that belongs in the future. When did they get back to focusing on the world of tomorrow?
They're not going to let users use FaceTime unless they have a "mobile share" plan.
I think this might be a minority constituency at this point.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. To Twitter, one Kardashian is worth thousands of developers. Apps don't matter to twitter. Developers don't matter to twitter. Celebrities matter to twitter.

As DCurt points out so eloquently, twitter is largely a one way medium. Celebrities -> everyone else. If you need proof, look at anyone's twitter stream (including your own) and note the ratio of famous people to actual friends. The average person clearly doesn't care about apps or developers or even social networking. They just want to feel a little bit closer to someone who is better known than they are.

The real twitter killing app is whatever attracts celebrities. Anything else might have a long road.
Ask HN: Is there any place like HackerDojo in NYC?
An optimist! I like it!
"it is clearly and thoroughly outclassed by Apple's hardware and Apple's software"

Unless you want expandable storage, different connectivity options, a digitizer, a more customizable OS, actual file system access, etc. One size most certainly doesn't fit all.
YouTube Star Freddie Wong Launches a Summer Blockbuster -- Without a Film Studio
This really needs to scan for images in a page rather than taking just image urls.
A mistake in the sense that it ignores a standard that everyone else ignores, but delivers the correct language to 99.999% of the visitors?

(Hint: most people in Japan speak Japanese. There are 126,000,000 Japanese in Japan, compared to 1,000,000 foreigners. Most of the foreigners are Korean and Chinese and probably understand Japanese just fine. Hell, so do most Americans, probably. My point is: if you're in Japan, it's quite reasonable for a website to default to Japanese.)
Absolutely love the design and the idea! Just one small issue: I'm using a MBP but, for reasons that that I won't take the time to explain, I spend 90% of my time in bootcamp (windows 7). I can't seem to get past any single quote(') characters.

http://i47.tinypic.com/ilbm1x.png
The screen? That's a pretty big one.

Having all the CPU and GPU power in the world is pretty meaningless when the screen it's powering is that low resolution.
That sounds like pretty good advice. I do not have a very large base of factories and tests yet but I can see how unwieldy it could get without really sane naming conventions.
I actually can kind of understand a wheel chair ramp. You will never need it if you don't have one, because nobody with a wheel chair will ever come. I can't imagine how frustrating it must be to be in a wheelchair and kept out of so many places.

The rest? Most of it sounds like a combination of people wanting to believe nothing bad can ever happen to them and the nanny state wanting to keep itself employed.
The ‘Sleeping Giant’ May Have Awoken
It says right in the article what made it illegal. Take some goddamn time to read if you're that interested.
More people will read it because of the headline. How is that bad?
What's with the smear campaign?
I've been thinking about this for a while too, and I agree that the peer-to-peer element is essential. So far, it appears that all the would-be open social media apps/protocols/whatever rely on you having your own server. That, frankly, is a deadly failing. Per Metcalfe's Law, social networks are only valuable when they are maximally inclusive, and the requirement to have your own server is something that will always exclude the majority of (non-technical) users. The need for easy non-technical access means that there are only two viable paths for any social media application. Either:

1.) Go to web page and use application, or
2.) Download app and use application

This is how Facebook / Twitter / etc. do it., and they're clearly doing it right. But there's no law which says that the application needs to keep its data on a third-party server. Why not have it run a Peer-to-peer service?

In fact, I think that Peer-to-peer is especially suitable to social networking, given that social networks are typically highly clustered (eg., people who are my friends are much more likely to be each others' friends as well). This means that if the every client application is able to redistribute copies of friends' status updates as well as its own status updates, then a sync between any given pair of clients is likely to allow them to bring a large subset of their friends' statuses up to date.

Of course if you're rebroadcasting your friends' status updates as a P2P host, then the question of spoofing/authentication becomes paramount. Obviously that would have to be solved by having all status updates transmitted in encrypted formats which can only be decrypted / authenticated with a users' public key.

Oh, and once you've got dual-key authentication embedded in widely-used social trust networks, you could probably solve a lot of other authentication problems while you're at it.

All of this would need to be completely transparent to the user, of course. If it's any more difficult to set up and use than standard Facebook / Twitter, it will fail. But I don't see any fundamental obstacles to making it that easy.

Unfortunately I don't have time to do anything about this!
Let's take a look at it from a different angle.

Say, I have a group of developers who have been trained to use Java (both best-practices, idioms, tools, etc).

Let's say that JEE 6 shows up (no, I don't remember JEE 2.1, what is that? is that thing even exist?).

JEE 5/6 introduces a few things on top of my head (please pardon me of the syntaxes):

1) Dependency Injection via annotation (CDI in JEE6, EntityManager in JEE5)

Introduction: annotate the instance property you'd like to inject and GlassFish will magically give the class to you.

Example:

@Inject

AccountService accountService;

2) JAX-RS

Introduction: A class, that works like servlet, but without doGet() or doPost(), instead you have methods that maps to the request-path based on the annotation.

Example:

@Path("/account/{id}")

public Account get(@PathParam("id") final long id)

3) Transaction (in EJB3 which appears in JEE5)

Introduction: Sprinkle annotation in your class or method, you get transaction magically.

Example:

@TransactionAttribute(REQUIRED)

public class AccountRepository

or

@TransactionAttribute(REQUIRED)

public Account updateAccount(final Account toUpdate) {...}

So I'm not sure how complex all of these to grok, granted if you need to do something out of the ballpark, you may have to learn a bit more of each individual component but to get started and be productive seems quite easy for me.

Now let's compare that with picking up Scala from zero (given that you know Java already) and get comfortable and productive with Scala, its tools, and its libraries to build web-application with the similar setting of that in JEE (web-service, REST, persistence/db/orm/transaction layer, unit-test, integration-test, etc).

No cheating though: no calling/utilizing JEE. Has to use all-things Scala libraries.
It's funny to contrast to Noisebridge, which seems to me must surely be illegal by all sorts of codes. I wonder if the equivalent authorities in SF just have more important things to worry about.
Two candidates, same name spells trouble
How about the purpose of teaching our children better?

That's what PaulHoule is talking about in the original comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4419805
Yeah, the headline did make it sound like hackers were protecting The Pirate Bay headquarters or something... we should be able to downvote bad titles :)
Who's behind Tent, does anyone know?

I can swear I saw a section with names on the site, but can't seem to find it now. It looks like it was taken out.
Google Consumer Surveys (http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/home) achieves a similar end for a surprisingly low price, and they've figured out all the boring details like how to poll a representative sample of the US internet population and how to get stats right.

Disclaimer: I work on the product. I think it'd be pretty useful for startups to gauge the market.
Where do people get these .io names? Are they really $50+ a year?
I came here to say "how the hell can I get a backspac.es account". Loved it, absolutely loved it.
Bootstrap-ajax - Declarative ajax support with Twitter Bootstrap
In Github README.MD... I'm looking for a job now. See HIREME.md.
Show HN: Community ASCII Wall using Socket.io for Real Time Updates
I just built a wall of text app using Node.JS and Socket.io... It's just sort of an experiment and break for me, but let me know what you think.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/384590180/an-events-spac...

^ Chip in here if you are inclined to support fellow hackers. They need to raise $250,000:

“If they can’t comply, they can’t use the building as
they want to,” said Anthony Ghiossi, the chief building
official for the city.

Hacker Dojo opened without a permit, Mr. Ghiossi pointed
out. It is currently prohibited from hosting events that
draw more than 49 people in any one room, he said. That
means no large classes or overly enthusiastic happy hours,
which are a regular feature on Friday nights.

Ellis Berns, the city’s assistant community development
director, was eager to point out that Mountain View, which
is home to tech giants like Google, did not wish to evict
Hacker Dojo. “We try to be as supportive as we can,” he
said. “Businesses spin out of there. We are not at all
interested in them closing down.”

But retrofitting the space will cost upward of $250,000,
according to the Dojo’s estimate. It has so far raised
$173,000, including donations from its neighbor, Google.

This is as clean an example as you can get of regulations blocking innovation; a $250k fee just to get started, from the building that gave rise to Pinterest and Pebble. Compare and contrast to pg on "The Power of the Marginal":

That's one of California's hidden advantages: the mild
climate means there's lots of marginal space. In cold
places that margin gets trimmed off. There's a sharper
line between outside and inside, and only projects that
are officially sanctioned—by organizations, or parents, or
wives, or at least by oneself—get proper indoor space.
That raises the activation energy for new ideas. You can't
just tinker. You have to justify.

In my opinion, in addition to donating, you should exercise your rights as a citizen and give these officials a piece of the public's mind. Their emails are below. It is very unusual for local officials like Ellis Berns and Anthony Ghiossi to actually have their bad decisions checked by bad publicity, but it's absolutely necessary in this case.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/marginal.html
[2] anthony.ghiossi@mountainview.gov
[3] ellis.berns@mountainview.gov
If you haven't checked out Calibre for conversions then you should.

As others have said - the issue with PDF's is that they assume A4/Letter size. When you're reading on a smaller screen (especially a basic e-ink one) the content is much more important.
Awesome!

For now you can just sign up on the homepage (http://www.backspac.es) and we'll let you know when we're good to go. Should be any day hopefully!

happy to chat more on the emails, twitter etc, cheers!
37signals retires Backpack
I'm not convinced that this is true. Here look at this random kid I picked. Nearly everyone he's following looks like a peer:

https://twitter.com/#!/fireattherocks/following

At the very least I'm not willing to believe your premise until someone can back it up with data.
Slo-Mo Science Videos - Eliminate Poop Splash?
Legally, we cannot keep files indefinitely. We do hold on to a file and its corresponding book material for two weeks after it has been processed for QA reasons, among others. This rules out file reuse for us.
I'm an investor, how can I block this from my iPhone/web browser/etc?
Holy crap that's a lot of employees. I was imagining something like 100-200 at most, which leaves plenty of $$ to pay for servers etc.

I wonder what all those employees are doing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4xaWMKBlw4#t=25s
Typical big government telling people how to live their lives.

> No sprinklers.

> No handicap access.

On second thought...
Hmmm...syntax highlighting for characters, locations and other tag categories (items, plot coupons...whatever the writer wants to add); Dynamic DAGs from tags (see every scene where they appear in a tag cloud or force-based network layout; metapages for tag items; relationship builder between scenes using nodal sequencing concepts. This paper describes some music software I find interesting and presents some innovative UI concepts for representing procedural rules for constrained linear outputs: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~cema/nodal/downloads/Nodal.pd...