skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people who didn't follow App.net/Alpha on the first go around, are going to look at this and say, "Why on earth would I pay $50 for a twitter clone that has 1/10,000th as many users, and that absolutely none of my friends or celebrities are on?"

Think of App.net/Alpha as an experiment, funded by geeks who want to see if a service can be built in which the users are the customers instead of the advertisers. The $50, I have to believe, is "Startup Capital" to get Dalton running with a bit of infrastructure, cover his salary for a year, and maybe let him hire a couple designers, and developers.

This service, more than likely, is not meant for you right now, as it's just gotten started. Clients are under development, features are being added.

Check back in six months before passing any judgement on it's merit.
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And I suspect that they wont sell this kit to civilains (subs) as you need to have a licence for those 4g bands - if your lucky there might be an exception for low power expeimental licences for bone fide reserchers but I would not hold my breath
I don't think it's the main reason. If he really wanted to open source it he could do it anyway. What can the respective patent holders do? "Bring it on", get bad press, no money (assuming he doesn't make any off this) and Streisand effect.

Assuming he does want to make money off this, it makes sense to hold source (or indeed the whole prototype) closed for many reasons.
It's just a Twitter clone, that charges users for membership, instead of monetizing them through ads or selling their data. A lot of people think that will lead to a better service, so it got a lot of hype recently.
Will the real app millionaire please stand up?
Not that OP's isn't nice, but I like this one more.
Nice set. I believe I was there already once (wasn't the address a bit different back then?), but managed to forget about it.
Hmm, that's disappointing, especially after the initial post that was about Twitter's potential to become the web's real-time feed API.
Programming languages are standalone products, that can evaluated regardless of their environment. For example, anyone reasonable can see that is brainfuck is a deeply flawed language regardless of the applications written it. If you cannot evaluate a language on its own merits, there is really no point in talking to you about this.
They invented a specific kind of marketing where the product was the message. There is no other company in the world to my knowledge that can do that.

See their advertising for the iPod with the white headphones and the silhouettes.
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An experiment with high carb and high protein/fat diets using identical twins
It depends where your site falls on

content_page<-------->web_app

continuum.
How to build an ultra cheap computer to start programming
I found this weather script that behaves much better than the discontinued by Google. I hope it helps. http://www.freeweatherforecasts.com/
Cheapest Linux Box Ever [pic]
Linux users are so creative… and cheap. Sometimes their love for free open source software takes hold in other ways. For example, check out this picture of a custom Linux box.
so i didn't like my phone?
Dogs able to quickly, economically shake themselves dry, experiments prove
Paradoxically, Lisp depletes the ego. Too many choices.

http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html
Exactly. Imagine what Twitter could be with third-party developer support, and then ask yourself if that would be worth about $5 a month. Or just wait for half a year as stated.
You have a lot of faith in the German authorities. The Indian embassy and the Indian consulate would be probably of more help.
Reads like a constructive version of http://thedailywtf.com/ , maybe because of the anonymized stories. But good read :-)
You could hack a tablet app to find out which way the tablet is oriented, and using the flight data, annotate the image from the camera with the phone information.
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We are not afraid to try new things: our labs team has written audio decoders in JavaScript for MP3, ALAC, FLAC, and AAC, along with a pitch detector. We know the difference between production code and research code. We love open-source and it loves us back.

The ideal candidate has:

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Our stack includes:

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For those interested in the full paper:

• Dickerson, A., Mills, Z. & Hu, D. L. (2012) Wet mammals shake at tuned frequencies to dry. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Interface. http://www-old.me.gatech.edu/hu/Publications/Hu12-dog.pdf
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Did you ever stop to think that, despite this being a potential problem, why it has not been a problem?

Android isn't an immature product. google have activated something like 300 million devices. 300 million opportunities for your theoretical issue to manifest and yet it hasn't.
I couldn't agree more... I don't live in the US and I usually feel the need of some of the services you guys have, like mint or Glassdoor or any other thing.

With one of those things I got so fed up that I build it with a friend, and sometimes when I see someone complaining about this problem that we have tried to solve and I tell them about my site every now and then I hear "Hum... that already exists in the US, that is nothing." all I can do is laugh.

Because I think that it doesn't matter at all if it already exists. I have build it because I enjoy building it I don't aim to be the next Twitter or Facebook even they didn't ( Orkut already existed BTW) and if it becomes a company or any other thing Great! otherwise I can point my finger at the screen and say "I build that from scratch" and that for me is worth a lot.
Oh, but that has been an issue since the ancient times of the beginning of Linux. Being it monitors/screens, (win)modems, audio, etc.

Slashdot comments are full of "Works-for-me" replies to real issues with varying levels of "you are lUser" for not being able to make it work.
Will it last though? Seems to me that it's a lot about the novelty that's making people excited about app.net.
HP, Dell and the paradox of the disrupted
UK Government Minister by day: SEO spammer by night
I found out you may also click on the easy-to-miss left hand side bar -- there are, uh, 'accessible' shortcuts to each slide.
Have you looked at http://pyjs.org ? I can't understand why it has got so little traction. Is GWT not considered a "proper" GUI library?
Show HN: placecodr - geolocated short URLs
I don't think it will convince anyone who doesn't do more or less all of that.

And the scrolling is annoying.
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> It would have been Russia if it hadn't been Germany.

You are technically correct - Germany invaded Poland first. But German and Soviet invasions of Poland were just 18 days apart: 1 September and 17 September 1939. All according to Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact [1] signed shortly before that - on 23 August 1939.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov-Ribbentrop_Pact
"Startup Capital" is certainly how it's been marketed, but it's not true as far as I can see.

Mixed Media Labs, the company that owns app.net, has taken $5 million of venture capital funding from Andreessen Horowitz [1].

1 - http://mxml.tumblr.com/post/1539239012/off-to-the-races
IChildren: How Apple Is Changing Kids’ Brains
A nice blog post about him: http://blog.smartbear.com/software-quality/bid/167059/
The problem is most people are not devs and don't care about twitter tightening up their API rules (which is entirely up to them), I understand and applaude the idea as a developer but I can't see it rivalling twitter.
It's not about religion. Equivalent would be something like saying an important Mexican scholar was Canadian.
I am not sure this adds anything. I got all this from the original articles. He was clearly labelled wrong, either due to a mistake on his behalf or on Samsung's. If he new he certainly should have fixed it before he left. If he didn't then, what can you do?

Stranding someone in a foreign city is never a solution.
We run a couple of short URL and disposable e-mail websites like http://melt.li/ or http://www.fakeinbox.com/ that make around $280 per month. That's not much, obviously, but there was one month last year where we made $3.400 due to a traffic surge caused by someone using one of our short URL domains for spamming.
The twitter clone is a proof of concept. A better description would be that its a paid social graph designed to be used by third party apps. Just like Facebook apps or apps that use twitter to sign on, app.net can be used as that identity- the difference being that app.net is promising not to put arbitrary restrictions on how it is used.
Wouldn't it be nicer if you could double-click anything, see how it was done (formulae/code), change them, add on to them and share them. I think that's how this math book could work for a very broad age spectrum.
Have you looked at sites by computer scientists? Like some of the Microsoft Research related sites? They serve the purpose. Don't expect them to be pleasant on your eyes.
GSM GPS shield for Arduino
There is an existing project called OpenBTS, http://wush.net/trac/rangepublic
Please do not fill this position for the next year and a half, then I will apply.
You have to consider the risk/illiquidity that's taken on to achieve that return.

It's my understanding that VC works in a manner similar to PE, where investors are given their returns when the entire fund they invest in is run down. Each fund has a vintage, so if you invest in the 2006 fund you might get paid back 7 years from then in 2013, that's kind of a long time.

For a liquid asset class to compare to, equities have done something like 6-6.5% real historically.
Exaustor para Banheiros 
Simplesmente a melhor solução para banheiros sem janelas ou que não tem uma boa circulação de ar, os exaustores são muito úteis para renovar o ar, eliminar umidade para que os móveis não se estraguem e também a umidade, os exaustores podem ser utilizados também em lavabos.

Simplesmente a melhor solução para banheiros sem janelas ou que não tem uma boa circulação de ar, os exaustores são muito úteis para renovar o ar, eliminar umidade para que os móveis não se estraguem e também a umidade, os exaustores podem ser utilizados também em lavabos.
> they're interested in being profitable, not innovative

I'm confused. Any rational business is concerned with making money. Profit growth is a symptom of innovation.

> No, the reason why Apple has eaten's everyone's lunch up till now is because they're interested in being profitable

And Microsoft and IBM were not interested in being profitable?!?!
Friends and family != users.

You can cater to the variety of platforms your users want to use whilst at the same time having useful and meaningful conversations with friends and family about what the best browser is for them. You don't annoy your users by trying to 'educate' them, but collectively we see a move forward.
If you're not sure about joining the app.net bandwagon, it really is worth your fifty bucks. It's become a fun place to hang out over the last few weeks. It's like twitter, but reading the global feed is actually possible, and the tone of the place is more geeky. No spam either, which is always nice.
well the story still doesn't add up as the original article said the blogger /had/ registered as a reporter. To be honest I get the impression that this article is manipulating the reader for page views.
The very best of luck when it comes to debugging the code when it is running in the browser.

Maybe your experiences are different to mine but I avoid such abstractions wherever possible.

It has become fashionable to say things like "JavaScript ... is not well suited for developing large systems" - indeed so much so it often passes without comment but when it is JavaScript that will be run by the browser then JavaScript is what you should be writing.
Yes, a seriously impressive man.
Cute, but why does it not say I use Scheme???
Samsung launch IPTV solution for Smart TV - eliminating the set-top box
I would not be surprised if his intent is to first make money on his insanely hard and smart work and then make it open source later on. I think he has done something similar with another project of his - I just don't recall which one.
>This all strikes me as an example of a sunk-cost fallacy. Either memristors will make more money, or they won't. If they will, it doesn't matter that you have a billion dollars invested in X that won't be useful anymore, because you've already spent that money.

That's nothing like the "sunk cost fallacy". For one, in the sunk cost fallacy you cannot get your "sunk costs" back.

But those companies CAN (and will), sell their old flash tech stock.
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The point that keeps being made. Here is that innovation != invention. Inventions tend to be innovative but innovation does not require the creation of new inventions. Otherwise one might argue that there does not exist an innovative chef who does not invent new ingredients.
You can chain the coalescing operator in C#
It does have a custom scrollbar, but the normal one still shows up (at least on FF and Chrome), so I don't see the problem.
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How is that different from following geeky twitter users on twitter? Other than you will have orders of magnitude more choice on twitter. I am not being a dick and trying to trash App.net but I can't see it's utility.
Obviously it's a joke. Hackers tend to like jargon jokes.

I'd expect an article about the pre-Christian era world to include similar references like "BC_ENV_ARGS="-q $(echo ~)/.bc"
Things We Learned This Summer About the Boston Tech Scene
No, of course I didn't stop to think, that would just be a waste of my time - much better to just send off a response without any thought what so ever...

Of course, back in reality, I do actually know someone that installed Swype on their Android phone, didn't like it, and couldn't figure how to get back to the default keyboard, so I don't know why you think these types of problems aren't already cropping up in the Android world.
"I will learn at the root, not the abstraction:
JAVASCRIPT BEFORE JQUERY"

I'm not sure why one high-end abstraction finds favour over another slightly higher high-end abstraction, but this sure sounds a lot like the people who insist that you can't be a good programmer unless you've learned some kind of assembler.

On the "shoulders of giants" means we don't need to know javascript as well as jQuery. It means we don't have to know assembler as well as pascal. It means that we don't need to learn IP when we can just learn TCP/IP, and we don't need to learn TCP/IP when we can just use REST over HTTP.

Learning at the root goes a lot further down than you want to go, need to go or are capable of going.
Why you should probably disable Java now
>Programming languages are standalone products, that can evaluated regardless of their environment.

Only in some abstract way, that is of no consequence to the practice of programming.

Because in the real world the environment very much matters, and the best proof that "it works and gives results" it to see it, er, working and giving results.

>For example, anyone reasonable can see that is brainfuck is a deeply flawed language regardless of the applications written it.

Only the C/Lisp issue is not that trivial. Brainfuck was designed to be "deeply flawed", whereas C/Lisp were designed to have different, specific, constraints and strengths.

Or, reversely, it is because there are NO applications written in in brainfuck that we can safely deduce that it has some problems (empirical observation). If hundreds of killer apps were written in it we would have to reexamine our assumptions about it (but of course, it would have to be a different language for that). So cause and effect are lined in a feedback circle in these evaluations.

>If you cannot evaluate a language on its own merits, there is really no point in talking to you about this.

Languages are not works of art. They are tools. Tools are not to be evaluated "on their own merits", they are to be evaluated by their results.
The two are not mutually exclusive as you seem to imply.

> Your users do not NEED to be educated by you.

I think educating clients and users is actually crucial.
For a lot of users browser was conscious choice, but there is big group that don't even know that there are different/newer browsers.
First group can ignore advice but second group might benefit a lot.

>It is not your business what browser they use.

It absolutely is.

Silly car metaphor: I'm taking my car to a service station. I expect mechanic to tell me that oil I'm using is not the optimal one. Whether or not I take his advice is my business. But informing me about substandard oil is very much his business.

Also - If all of my users used modern browsers, I could save money by not spending time on ensuring my site performs well on old buggy browsers.
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I created a way to make a cheat sheet of any how-to video, then print it. So I created Vidinotes app in Flex. Some people used it for a while, and the paid version ($1.99) per use did well for the amount of traffic. Site is down but a user did a nice video review of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-7JCg5fGho
Maybe MS and Google, definitely not Apple. You can say many things about them, but their PR team is locked down. Apple only started reaching out to bloggers very recently (I seem to remember a Gruber post about it a few months ago after the iPad launch), and even then it's only to 'blockbuster' bloggers. Apple's 'outreach' tends to work rather differently to MS or Google.
"Me-too" products are good. "Me-too" ideas that require network-effects to deliver value aren't, and that's a key difference I see with a lot of 'me-too' ideas that are destined to fail. It's not that you're copying an idea, but that you're trying to clone a network.

Being another time tracking tool has a pretty good chance of being successful, assuming the definition of success is profit. Being the next facebook has a pretty low chance of being successful, with any definition of success.

Bring on new time trackers, calendars, etc - people will flock to the execution and ideas that give them value, competitors will learn from each other and good ideas will get incorporated in various services and products. That's great. Build another social network system... unless you're serving an extremely targeted niche, nothing will happen.
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It uses a USRP N210 (https://www.ettus.com/product/details/UN210-KIT) which has an FPGA that is most likely used for the signal processing. However, quite a lot can be done on a standard PC these days with SSE or GPGPU programming.
http://affililink.com
Started as a way to earn affiliate commission from a forum I manage after spotting a lot of eBay links appearing, and didn't want to spam the site with ads.
Made a hosted version, didn't really gain traction, so I decided to create a self hosted open source version and upload to github.
Haven't had much time to get the word out there, but I wouldn't consider it a success just yet.
Don't feed the underpaid troll.
An interview about Microsoft’s Surface
I'm a computer graphics student with a little linear algebra background.

How you would implement pinch to zoom was immediately obvious to me after seeing it.
The first hackathon I attended I was a beginner programmer - but was welcomed and found it a great learning experience. Many experienced developers like the eye of a younger coder to help them rethink an idea rather than to do it the way they've been doing it for years. Also, there is more than just coding to be done!
Sorry, but I disagree. It's not about being trustworthy, it's about incentives and avoiding the appearance of bias.

"Professional journalist" means you get paid enough money to conduct independent journalism without compensation from the subject of your research. It also means that even relationships which could appear to be conflicts of interest (such as receiving early samples, letting them buy you lunch) are fully disclosed to avoid even the appearance of such.
Actually, debugging is quite simple. The generated script (unless minified) is very similar to the input code. Are you also against other options such as CoffeeScript? And do you think it is very hard to debug higher-level languages such as C, C# or Java because "if you are writing code to run on a processor, it is assembly you should be writing"?
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I'd really love an invite, please =)
This is a 7-minute audio-only piece.
Why Most To-do List Apps Are Doomed to Fail
What a drab 33 page article. Maybe I'll read it when NASA actually lands on moon !
On IT Readiness – And Innovators Dilemma. VMware Delivers Sad Reality
Show HN: RemindEat - never forget what you ate
I like going out with my fiancé and tasting new dishes in new places. Once I get to a place I've been before I never remember what I previously ate.

So we decided to sit down and think of something we could do to help solve this and came up with our first project together. RemindEat emails and/or sends you an SMS when you check-in at any food place, reminding you to note down what you ate. Next time you check-in you'll be reminded of what you've eaten there before and to note down what you'll eat this time.

Its built on top of Flask, Twitter Bootstrap, uses Twilio for SMS, and Postmark for emails. Obviously powered by Foursquare.

Please go to http://remindeat.com, try it out and let me know what you think.
Confessions of a growth hacker: If people don't hate you, you are not growing.
I defended my stance and criticised your spelling in one sentence. I think that's pretty good.