skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The size depends on which mapper chip was used for the game. Castlevania III (which uses the MMC5 mapper in the USA) nearly fills the cartridge space.

You may be interested in checking out: http://www.nesdev.com/
That's why I wrote: I realise that this entire situation could be avoided by using tools meant for the job. Sadly, that wouldn't go down as well with a lot of clients who aren't as technically-savvy as the average HN users.

Edit: Being more helpful, have you ever had to try and explain to a client who would much rather be doing other things, why they can't edit the document you've sent them?
> and I'm not seeing any interest in making it work on mobile

An accepted grant to make it easier to compile perl5 on Android is currently in progress: http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/05/grant-application-imp... | http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/09/improving-cross-compi....

Also there is Perldroid - http://code.google.com/p/perldroid/

And I assume SL4A is still available on Android? - http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/

And for many years I had perl5 running on my Symbian phone :)
How many tablet apps did Android have while launching tablets? How many are even tablet compatible now?

Why should developers launch now instead of polishing their apps and launching at RTM?

I think this is much ado about nothing, once the platform launches and people start buying laptops with touchscreens and tablets, the number of apps will also go up.
Think of it as a competitive/non-monopoly marketplace rather than P2P then.
Nexus One owner here. My device has a lot of scratches and scuffs, it has been magically lifting itself out of my pocket on a few occasions including riding a bike at full speed. Needless to say, when it hit the ground it not only totally disassembled itself, it also received a few more scratches here and there. My MacBook Pro is different by the way, no scratches after lots and lots of usage.

The verdict: I couldn't care less. It's a phone and after putting the battery back in and the cover on, it never ceased to work, it didn't even change my user experience in any way (broken glass, buttons etc.)

I would not buy a phone that requires me to put in in an ugly case, but I would also not care much about a few scratches here and there as long as the phone doesn't break.

So if you buy a phone partially for it's supposedly amazing design and then hide it inside those ugly rubber casings or whine about small scratches, well, than you lost me along the way.
Best of luck! A months down the road, don't forget why you left and all the momentum you had when you left! Never stop learning! :)
> What material would you suggest they could use?

Bamboo would drive Greenpeace mad.
Games are still generally missing on Macs relative to PCs. It's also increasingly irrelevant given how much game playing has shifted to consoles and mobile. (Arguably, this--along with the iPod/iPhone/iPad halo effect--has helped fuel the Mac's gain in share. Breadth of desktop apps doen't matter as much as it used to.)
The github repo[1] says they are under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

[1]: https://github.com/subtlepatterns/SubtlePatterns
"A lot of software developers are seduced by the old '80/20' rule. It seems to make a lot of sense: 80% of the people use 20% of the features. So you convince yourself that you only need to implement 20% of the features, and you can still sell 80% as many copies.

"Unfortunately, it's never the same 20%. Everybody uses a different set of features."

-- Joel Spolsky http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html
Welcome to the age of Aquarius.

Think: BioShock.
Thanks. I have updated the copy to better reflect the distinction between the two versions.
You are correct: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10149328-37.html
It looks like there is also a 2 year old github project that does something similar: https://github.com/bluesmoon/404kids
You missed farting app
Nice! If you remove "google" from the URL it will be a cleaner googleless experience :-) Also, can you make the back button work?
Would be neat if it took the first link directly a la "I'm Feeling Lucky" instead of redirecting to the Google search page.

I like it though, even just for its novelty.
thanks for the insight. i am not starting entirely from scratch but i have no actual product/users to speak of. just a few ideas, a few months worth of savings, and a good bit of boilerplate code from my training projects.
> No people have ever had these problems on any other phone than an iPhone.

Not sure if trolling or delusional...
what kind of strategy is "We want to be #3"?

It is not a strategy. It is a futile attempt to make it sound like they have a strategy. In most businesses, there is a natural market for #2. Somebody, somewhere, wants to be different. Somebody, somewhere, is offended by #1's size. Somebody, somewhere, finds #1's product too bland and watered-down for the masses. There will always be a Pepsi for every Coke.

The trouble with trying to be #3 is that even in saying it, you're talking about going after #1's market. And you will lose to #1 and #2 so huge that you'll be bankrupt.

The right way to be #3 in smartphones is to be #1 in education, or #1 in the 10-12 adolescent market, or #1 in the handheld gaming market, or #1 in the dweebs-who-use-Linux-on-their-phones market, or what-have-you.

This was detailed decades ago in Reis & Trout's "Marketing Warfare" book. There are four strategies:

- Defence (#1 in the market)

- Offence (#2 in the market)

- Flanking (Disrupt the market through an indirect approach)

- Guerilla (Dominate a niche market)

Nowhere in this list do you find "Lose the major market to the Offence and Defensive players."
From personal experience, I have had an anodized aluminum computer case for over ten years, and in all my accessing and bumping into that case I have yet to scratch the coating.
I hate to bash fb but the truth is that it keeps spamming me at my old email asking me to join fb even though I am already a fb member using a new email.And these are not 2 different accounts. All I did was to update my email address.
I wish you all the best!!! There are going to be times when you might think that you didn't make the right choice but keep your head up and trust yourself and always have a vision of success and success will come to you.
Several down-votes? Odd not seen problems before with people singing the praises of suppliers the like - I don't work for these guys, just think they have a pretty amazing good deal, and was following up to the numbers that had been given above... anyway -

In the UK you should check out http://giffgaff.com/ - £10 a month for unlimited internet, unlimited SMS and 250 minutes of calls (mobile or landland, and free to other GiffGaff numbers) - not a bad deal at all. Runs on the o2 network, so pretty reliable.

£120 for 2 years is an amazing deal, and if you can buy your iphone 5 (or other mobile) on an interest free credit card, then you can make a very nice saving - £649 for 2 years service and the 16g iphone 5 (£529 from Apple).

My girlfriend just did this, but is paying off the phone at £50 a month (on a 0% card) so will be clear in 10 months, with just £10 a month to pay.

Also, it's just a rolling 30 day notice period - no 2 year contract.
The program uses the Objective-C run-time, but the core routines are written in C.
Does that really qualify as open-Web facilities, though? Is it “show it to these people”, or is it “show it to these Google Plus users”? The latter is not appreciably better than the LiveJournal case, for me, and in fact this provides a demonstration of the lock-in effect.

Here's another one: Dreamwidth runs an LJ-derived codebase, arguably an improved one (they had considerably better separation of “subscribe” and “authorize” last I checked, rather than a “friends list” that conflates these), and some of the people I contact on LJ have moved there, but they all have continuous crossposts back to the original LiveJournal, and if I moved there I think either no one would read anything I wrote, or else the comment streams would be so disjoined that I would be effectively a strange-looking LJ user anyway.

That last is also a concrete example of why nonexclusivity is not a complete solution. The resource that's being fought over is not where one can read but where a bunch of other people do read. If everyone views your content at Phuubaar's House of Crossposts, then if Phuubaar cuts you off, you are still hosed in the general case even if you provide the same stream somewhere else, because those users are not going to know about it or are going to find it too inconvenient to subscribe.

And the tooling around Atom and RSS aggregation all seems to be built around the idea that feeds are almost always public. I haven't had any success with the idea of creating a private Atom feed and expecting any of my friends to be able to read it. Either it'll require authentication, at which point the software usually won't be able to access it, or I can try to use a capability-URL style, at which point one of them will punch it into their favorite everyone-shares-everything social aggregator (Google Reader?) and then my (illusion of) confidentiality is gone.

This is terrible, and I don't know how to fix it.
It is easy to criticize the things closest to you.
For what I know about Ruby (which is next to nothing), I would expect Ruby shop also scouting for perlist, am I wrong ?
Thank you for the info. Now it seems it will be better to suggest Google to build a slim version for those who prefer it.
More renewable energy for our data centers
Thanks, I will check some of them out.

I admit the one thing I miss is good games for my kid (toddler age). It seems most serious publishers tried the iPad first for such things, Android is lacking behind.

Not a concern for my mum atm, though.

Discovery of apps is actually a real problem for me. I don't have the time to follow app review blogs.

I think Google Goggles also does QR Codes. Not sure if Connect is also an offline reader? I ended up being too lazy to mark articles for later reading, so I just keep some ebooks on the phone for boring situations without internet.
But making it out of plastic would lose some of the thinness/strength benefits from a unibody aluminum enclosure.

Apple uses a single block of aluminum: http://thetechblock.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/iphone5_t...
Hauling, vacations, kids, bike rack...the list goes on.

Many, many cars get customized for one reason or another. You can't do that with a taxi.
IOS Layout Helper
I also like the color scheme. Might be a good idea in the future to allow every user to have his own color scheme, profile theme a la Twitter.
Everything's down >1% this morning. Stocks that are less proven will be more volatile. I'm not sure you can put any credence to that price change and blame it on Formlabs' new announcement.
No outrage, sarc, or boggle in my comment.

New names are all good if they name new concepts. But new names for old things just sound like buzzwords.
Totally.
What's unfathomable to me, however, is that in the age of Gmail, in this ocean full of strident accusations, not a single person has been able to produce something like this. That's all it would take.
Thanks. I've been testing on 3-4M records on a quad-core laptop, and it works great. I would guess that 10M records will be doable on an 8-12 core Mac Pro, but I don't have access to one to test this particular hypothesis.
Hard time find perl? Sure. Hard time finding someone who knows {PHP, Ruby, Python, real-Javascript}? Not so much, and they cross-train into Perl pretty quickly. (I say "real Javascript" to distinguish those who really know and can write JS vs. those who know how to put a couple of jQuery methods together to drop a couple of event handlers onto the page, then hit their limit.) Especially if they know more than one of that list.
> Actually Apple are pretty bad at picking phone materials period.

Which is funny, because they filed a patent[1] over two years ago for a process to make scratch-resistant stainless steel.

[1] http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/apple-to-patent-process-f...
I'm 18 months from doing the same thing... I hope you succeed.
This article brought back to memory the first paywall like functionality that was implemented in Varnish, since it was done using the cURL VMOD (and the reason why it was developed by Varnish Software in the first place).

"Development of this VMOD has been sponsored by the Norwegian company
Aspiro Music AS for usage on their WiMP music streaming service." from <https://github.com/varnish/libvmod-curl#readme>;
Startup user statistics comparison 14 days post launch...
I’m curious if the HN community can give me a comparative sense for how we’re doing 14 days after launch (we needed five of those days to fix before our internal team started sharing it with their contacts). We’ve also utilized maybe 2% of the mass marketing approaches available to us, thus far.

The site is Kumbuya (http://www.kumbuya.com).

It’s early, but how do we stack up against sites that were successful? that weren’t successful? Right now, success for us is defined as securing a Series A investment.

If any other startup CEOs (current or former) could post similar statistics, and their subsequent target milestone (and if it was achieved), that would be great.

User Registrations: 548

Tribes (our communities): 494
Largest Tribe: 104 members
Second Largest: 63 members

Average Tribe Size: 4.2 members

No. Tribes w/ 1 member: 184
No. Tribes w/ 2 members: 123
Average Tribe Size w/o Tribes w/1 or 2 members: 9

Total Posted Content: 1636
Total Posted Comments: 894

According to Google Analytics:
Visits: 4,844
Unique Visitors: 2,969

Percentage of Visitors that Register: 18.5%

Pages per Visit: 6
Average Duration of Visit: 8:15

Bounce Rate: 45.7%

New Visitors: 58%
Returning Visitors: 42%

Days Since Last Visit: 0 (4,282 w/ 25,354 page views)
Days Since Last Visit: 1 (129 w/ 967 page views)

Visitors Never Returning: 109

Kumbuya offers community leaders (influencers) control over what businesses access their members (for the purpose of marketing, product sales, etc.) and the ability monetize their network in a respectful way. We offer businesses better targeting of existing (and new) marketing initiatives and the ability to build relationships with influencers.
Good suggestion. Will look into it.
"Are you measuring your weekly growth?" No, and for very good reason. For pete's sake, you should not be measuring your growth numerically and targeting it weekly. This is not what Paul meant, and I don't think it's what he would recommend.

Growth happens on a larger and more complex scale than a weekly sum. Furthermore, if you're expecting your actions for any given week to correlate directly with growth that happens that week, you're doing it wrong.

Do you need to work hard? Of course. Should you procrastinate? Of course not. Is the key to this tracking your weekly growth. No! You risk misdirecting your efforts, becoming far too short-sighted, and falling into the dangerous trap of running your company only on those quantifiable and measurable numbers. You risk missing the complexity which results in growth, and instead narrowing your focus to the point where it actually stagnates growth or produces the wrong kind of growth.

See W. Edwards Deming's management treatise that helped bring Japan out of a recession—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming#Key_principle... - one of his recommendations was to "Eliminate management by objective. Eliminate management by numbers and numerical goals. Instead substitute with leadership." And a pitfall he pointed out—"Running a company on visible figures alone." More can be found in his books, which mostly are targeted toward manufacturing but I find apply incredibly well to software business.

Please, don't limit yourself to this sort of narrow-minded analysis of your business, or at least be very aware of the consequences and consider it only as an interesting result, never use it as a target or benchmark, and especially don't use it to try to motivate or pressure your employees. Your results will slowly shift toward optimizing your measured goal alone, and your company will become as narrow and pointless as the number.

Can this metric be used? Of course. You can look back on your efforts over the long (or short) term, and if you see a decent 6% growth rate, great. If you don't, then you may need to change something. But you have to understand it intimately; that it's not a goal, not a target, but a simple metric to be used post-facto to make useful and realistic changes to your strategy. I'm not warning you against using all numeric analysis, but I am warning against using it as a true goal or target. Just keep it in perspective, and I fear a web site that makes the metric as clear and visible as this site does brings it far too close to the front of your daily attention than it should be.

Growth comes from many complex sources, toward many time frames and overarching goals; and the target is not a weekly number, but instead, a growing and sustainable company. Work toward that.
Nitpick: There are tons of high-durability glasses that you'd have to try pretty hard to chip or break.
MS has lots of employees that worked on Windows 8, maybe they can give them some "free time" for a month to write apps.
I've found a surprising number of jobs want perl skills as only a small part of the job. In case Excel or Access isn't sufficient to process the data as needed, they want somebody who can whip out some Perl and get the job done.
Good luck! I'm sure it will be a huge learning/growing experience. Feel free to send me an email if you want someone to bounce ideas off of or just free thoughts on marketing any of your ideas.
Andrew,

I think you have something here but it still seems a bit cart before the horse. The presumption is that we all want to be excellent to each other. In my experience when people are being rude it's more often a conscious choice rather than an inadvertent mistake. Granted, I don't live in an area where residents have to battle or shuffle around for parking and neighbors will be "neighborly" and register. However, during events with large numbers of people from outside the neighborhood, we often see rude behavior. In these cases there is no opportunity alert the offender of their "mistake". We either must be proactive to guard our parking or start a a tow truck parade to coincide with the event.
I operate an Objet Connex260 that also has separate resolutions for the X/Y Axis, and the Z-axis 'layer thickness'. Objet specs it at '600 dpi' in the X/Y axes, and '1600 dpi' in the Z axis.
http://objet.com/sites/default/files/C260_A4_il_en_lowres.pd...

As it was explained to me by objet, the X/Y resolution is the size of the individual droplets of resin that can be laid down by the Connex's digital print heads. They are larger than the thickness of each layer, therefore the resolution is better in the Z-axis than in the X & Y.

In Formlabs case, I would imagine this is the 'width' or diameter of their laser. The way I read it, the smallest cured point they can produce in a layer is 300 microns, or 0.3mm.

The Formlabs printer does look well polished, but I don't think it is 'disrupting 3D printing'. the B9 Creator* is in the same price range with higher resolution, and may have the ability to include multi-material printing eventually. I believe resin may be cheaper for the B9, too.
*http://shop.b9creator.com/?pn=B9Creator+-+KIT&p=621&...

[EDIT] include link to B9
Giving developers an environment they can play with and build great products around is the best way of achieving success.

Let's not forget that Twitter would have never been that successful without its developer community. If you can attract developers to rstat.us, then you will probably attract more users over time.
Here's an opportunity for AMD to buy the OMAP division from them.
I like. I hit some bugs when adding/working with tables, but I guess this is beta. I am looking forward to really trying to use it in the not so distant future.

It would be great if you could not only let me select the starting template but if you could let me choose from a dozen skins - say from Bootswatch, or similar features like lavishbootstrap.com, and the 'dice' feature at boottheme.com).
Good luck!

I did the same thing in the fall of 2008, except that I taught myself to program _after_ quitting my job. I went into freelance consulting with Ruby on Rails and have been doing that ever since.
Well, let me clarify just in case: the “impossible” is an exaggeration, since they will eventually respond to things like email, but it's not enough to keep up. Many of the socially-important multicast messages only occur on Twitter. I've been meaning to subscribe to them with a local aggregator, since for those whose tweets are publicly visible that should be sufficient, but while my existing RSS links still work, I can't find any way to acquire new ones, so right now I'm reduced to manual polling.
Meanwhile back on earth...
Using the Post Function - Introduction to jQuery UI - Part 21
You can use Xaml with WinRT. But beyond that cosmetic similarity, it gets pretty different. WPF is implemented in .NET, whereas WinRT is more of a replacement for Win32.

You can still write WPF apps for Windows 8, of course, but they won't be Metro apps, they won't run on ARM tablets and, significantly for the current conversation, they won't be allowed in the Windows app store.
You realize he works at Twitter, right? And that he's responsible for Storm, and Cascalog?

I'm not going to say anything better than it was said in the slides / book draft, so I'll just encourage you to take these techniques seriously... they're born out of necessity, not because they sound like fun, and real people are using them to solve problems that are hell to solve any other way.

That said, these are not problems that everyone has. If you're not nodding you're head along with the mutability / sharding / whatever complaints at the beginning of the deck, you can probably still get by with a more traditional architecture.

(Also, rereading... I should probably note that not everything needs to be kept forever; only the source data, since the views can be recomputed from them at any time. That makes things a bit cheaper.)
Good job guys! The results look amazing and the device itself looks beautiful.
Shift+Enter apparently does this.
Actually, I think bamboo is supposed to be much more renewable than traditional wood, since it grows so darn fast.
I can't believe they don't care about it.

Considering the last time MS released a C compiler I can fully believe it.
The majority of Android phones are also made of plastic. It should come as no surprise that a Casio sports watch has a higher survivability than, say, a metal and glass Swiss timepiece.

Build quality is not isomorphic with survivability.
there's an instruction when you sign up

"JSON Format

Expected JSON is a dict with key 'data' and value an array of 7 integers for last 7 days, last day last."
Love travel? Vayable (YC S12) is hiring engineers and designers.
Tent's success is far from certain, of course. Sounds like you're convinced that just because something might not happen, it almost certainly will not. Also a fallacy.
Nginx as a reverse proxy with WP: TTFB drops 92%
> Glass is probably the poorest material possible for the obvious reason.

Yet the iPhone 4 that I own since about release day has fallen an impossible number of times from unsuspected heights, and both front and back panels survived the abuse. I'd buy another such "poor material" phone anytime.

The only shattered iPhone 4 panel I encountered was my boss's, and it fell from the kinetic equivalent of second floor onto concrete. He's still using it because only a corner is affected, and a replacement front panel costs too much (I bet he'll get an iP5)
Good luck, hope to hear of whatever product you work on