skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this is the BSD vs. GPL issue. If you want to ship BSD/Apache-licensed stuff you better have good marketing so that someone doesn't use your own software to crush you (BSDI-style, if anyone remembers that).
Enhancing the rules is the real rub here. They could exert more and more control, and since it would be gradual, people would be less likely to bail than if it had happened all at once.
I've heard a lot of good things about Olin and have always been impressed by it's grads. Seems like they are doing it right. I get the impression it's still a smaller school, is that true?
> Throwing money at this issue only moves the same group of smart, educated, and skilled people from the same level of jobs. That's not the problem. The problem is that the supply of these talented people is small because the lower education is weak.

You think the problem is that the math/science education isn't there? Please. There are a ton of universities across the country with great CS departments who would be happy to have a bunch of new students. The students just choose not to enroll in those degrees. If you want more students to enroll in those degrees, make the field more attractive for people.

> Finally, I think it's interesting you advised someone stay out of STEM but out of the "banking/consulting/law/medicine" you mentioned, only law is not explicitly STEM. Banking and consulting still have elements of Mathematics and Medicine is still very much in the realm of Science.

I didn't mean I'd encourage them to avoid STEM degrees. I think those degrees are very valuable. I meant I'd encourage them to take their STEm degrees to professions where they'd get better pay, better benefits, etc.
Ask HN: Best resources to learn + implement online marketing plan?
I have a web-based application that I've been developing over the past year. It was originally developed for a client's own use with an agreement that I'd be able to re-sell it as a generic solution. Since it went live, I've received a few new clients just through word-of-mouth from other organizations that have seen it and want something similar. In my (admittedly small) sample of 10 organizations I've talked to in my local area, they have all reacted positively to the app, and 4 have actually paid money for their own instance so there appears to be a real market for it. For the implementation/sales process think of it as a BaseCamp-type site where most of the customers would be paying extra for a custom skin, though there are some pre-built skins that would allow for instant setup & use.

I need to develop and implement a marketing plan to actually get this launched as a business, but I haven't a clue how best to go about it. I understand the basics of SEO, search advertising, email marketing, A/B testing and analytics but am looking for a guide on how to put it all together. Can you recommend any good books that layout the basics of the various online marketing activities, gives real-world advice on what works best for which goal, what order to do them in and how to maximize the return on time and money?

Thanks
Enterprises love IE because it has Active Directory Group Policy hooks that allow you to customize and lock down the browser.
Ask HN: YC preparing some competition for Google AdSense?
This is cheap, two stories, same thing:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4587017

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4585043

coincidence or..?
Familiar metaphors like an egg hatching into the prey of its parents?
You say that now with the hindsight of LinkedIn's IPO, Facebook's post-IPO struggles, Twitter's struggling to monetize, but in the time period when Color was raising funds was late 2010 / early 2011 when we were at the height of the social mobile apps bubble.
Easy Wins
That is an inputrc configuration not a shell feature.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7179642/how-can-i-make-ba...

Yay Unix. Input collection is a pluggabls component.
I haven't seen any MIPS-based devices yet, but I also added x86 support before I saw any evidence that it was needed at the time. I try to make the app as widely compatible as possible without creating undue work for myself.

I did not know about that bug, but thanks for telling me!
I have had a few reports of the app running slowly on the One S, which didn't make sense at the time. I'm not sure if only supplying the ARMv7 code would cause the device to pick the correct library, or just exclude a lot of (half decent) ARMv6 devices I'd still like to support for now.
Show HN: A simple memory bandwidth benchmark for Android
I'll share how wavii does this. We use amazon elb and chef. The first chef recipe that runs on our frontend is "touch /tmp/website_should_drain". The website then returns 404 from the /status health check URL. We wait 30s, update the site, and then rm the draining sentinel file. If the deployment fails the host stays out of the elb. If more than 1/3 host fail we abort the whole deployment. This works well for us and was very simple to implement.
As an extension developer - I'd definitely be interested in hearing if others are experiencing this and if so, how you resolved.
Posted yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4583752
Remove your alarm safety net and fix your sleep
So basically you linked to your squeeze page at HN.

Here is a lesson in conversion: make your video auto play next time.

Other than that i really hate where HN is going upping this thread
It is a simple memory bandwidth benchmark application for Android. Simply install, press "Run" and it will give you a score for achievable memory bandwidth.

Alternately, you can try out various settings such as number of threads. You can also run the "Misc" tests which are a variation of the STREAM benchmarks. The "Simple" simply tests the memcpy performance.

edit: Some scores. 1.25 GB/s on Samsung Hummingbird processor. 1.8GB/s on the previous-gen dual-core Snapdragon.
I have a problem with videos in Chrome lately, too. I think since version 20 or 21. I think it's related to Flash. Whenever I play 2 videos at once in different tabs, it starts sounding bad, like the hardware can't handle the video or something, but I have a pretty powerful laptop, and I'm sure it's not the hardware's fault. It's very weird. It also didn't happen before.
My brother and I both got iPhone 4's around the same time and we both have AT&T. He had death grip issues and I did not, simply because he is left handed.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/faqs.aspx

Q. What is the difference between Office and Office 365?

Office is productivity software (including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and OneNote) that is installed on your desktop or laptop computer. Office 365 is an online subscription service that provides email, shared calendars, the ability to create and edit documents online, instant messaging, web conferencing, a public website for your business, and internal team sites—all accessible anywhere from nearly any device.
Did you not just read Tim Cook admit that the new Maps is inferior?
If this person is applying for a QA job with Apple they have the right mindset for it. Its always great to come up with interesting ways to measure the quality of something, I see a few problems with the methodology but hook it up to an automated bug submission process and it could do wonders for quality over all.
Got some good potential. I think a much bigger playing field would be a good idea, or smaller relative bubbles. Homing bubbles etc could be fun.
It's only a matter of time, Microsoft and Apple won't have a choice but to adopt WebGL.

It's amazing what WebGL and Javascript can deliver, we've got models with hundreds of thousands of polys showing off really nicely on our site. If you like this car, check out the hundreds of models like it in Verold Studio - http://studio.verold.com
I don't consider that a fair assessment, as a snowy day is a very different thing from a rainy day. Seattle gets maybe a handful of snowy days a year, and never gets punishingly hot/humid like some cities do.
I call this the tech "circle of life". You can trace the occurence of stage 2 pretty closely by spikes in the number of people majoring in CS. You can make a ton of money by investing in tech companies at stage 4/5 and selling at stage 2/3.
I disagree pretty strongly with your comment re: pricing model. For services like this, the incentive to upgrade is going to be there regardless of price, since there's a strong incentive to have your entire company / department using the same tools.

Atlassian is a great example of an extreme version of this. The cost for me to have 10 users (on-premise, but hosted is similar) is $10 ($1 per user). The cost to have 11 is $800 ($75 per user).

It's a smart, if unintuitive pricing model - you can demonstrate the value of your product to cash-strapped startups that are going to be extremely cost-conscious, and start charging more on value once the company has started to see success.
I've been seeing color abberations in text since my PC updated to Chrome 22. Most noticeable has been blue links showing up with a purple tint -- significantly different from the color showing in the Inspector. It's browser-wide, with extensions disabled -- I first noticed the change in link color on a Reddit comment thread, then saw it on Google Plus and my own website as well.

http://i.imgur.com/Wjay2.png

Has anyone else noticed this? I've been watching Google's "Past 24 Hours" search result and only one other person has talked about a similar problem; he's seeing the same thing but only on external monitors.

This is the first show-stopping Chrome bug for me... I can't work with a browser that won't display the colors I tell it to display when designing pages. Frustrating that I can't even get confirmation others are experiencing it.
Sorry guys, meant to tell you if you want to try Promofly and bypass the wait period, just use this link.

http://www.getpromofly.com/invites/hacker/
Show HN: Alexical - Project management meets bookmarking
Reminds me of this post: "What the hell does ≡ do, anyway?" http://ada.mbecker.cc/2012/06/14/goddamn-three-bars-icon/
Not directly related, but there was a comment in the original article that got me thinking:

>To test if your page is going to change, go to Chrome's about:flagsand turn on/off "fixed position elements create stacking contexts"

Wouldn't it be cool if webdevs could alter Chrome's rendering settings to simulate IE and Safari? This would be a huge productivity boon. I think it might be an interesting challenge for Chrome devs (to expose a reasonable set of levers) and webdevs (who would probably be responsible for coming up with collections of levers that work.
But, em, yet Google still have a custom search engine for torrents.
I think being able to differentiate in the browser market is a great thing. Chrome can offer tools for enterprise use, but I seriously doubt that they are ever going to offer long term support for old versions. Meanwhile that's Microsoft's bread and butter, but that means that if you want a larger portion of experimental or recently finalized web features, you have to go somewhere besides IE.

What's bad is when you have to cater to old, broken IE behavior because you have to support that part of the market. We're seeing much less of that and more just "IE doesn't support new feature X". That does hold back some of the newest stuff, but not having typed arrays is not at all comparable to having to support IE6, for instance.

Personally, I would be ecstatic if we can maintain for as long as possible this nearly even split of marketshare over three (desktop) browsers.
For example, check out this future bike live in 3D:
http://studio.verold.com/projects/505cda001499740200000028/s...
You're in a small minority, what you want and don't want is irrelevant. It's 2012, nobody reads dry reference manuals cover to cover, nevermind doing so before firing up a shell window and an editor.

Reference manuals are still nice to have of course for clarifying edge cases and solving language lawyer disputes. However claiming that they are a superior learning and time-saving tool than the learn-by-example techniques is way out of touch with how most people actually learn.
Here's what happens when you grade schools based on standardized tests
Awesome way to learn javascript
I just found this on r/javascript. I thought it would be cool to share it here. I'm not involved in this project at all I just thought that you guys would appreciate a new look at tutorials.
also, if you follow the blue "yes please" link on the front page, you can register via a page that is much more responsive than the rest of the site. that appears to guarantee your participation in the scheme (they say they will email you when the site is back to normal).
It couldn't find 8 California Street in SF for me.
>Chrome 22 Breaks Everything

Followed by two things that are broken.
Here's a great approach to solve this issue. Also, it's a good talk too.

http://blip.tv/pycon-us-videos-2009-2010-2011/pycon-2011-doc...
Well, I have to say that a lot of work goes into explicitly taking advantage of NEON, and even Google states in their docs that you must check at runtime whether NEON is supported (and not just ARMv7). So if you're using NEON, you're already spending effort, and should be aware that you will need to support different architectures (even if only ARM variants).

All things considered, the NDK offers a lot of cross-platform interoperability for very little effort. Recompiling really isn't the issue, unless you live in 1995 and you're still hoping Java will save the world.

Also, many apps don't need any native libraries at all. AMD will be able to support a large portion of Android apps without doing any binary translation, and can use the same market filtering mechanism that Google uses to avoid apps that would require an ARM architecture.
I used zsh for years. Loved it. I just don't do as much command line stuff anymore so vanilla bash works fine for me. I do miss the history stuff mentioned at the end of the article, though.
We pay a similar amount for HipChat, which is basically the same thing as Grove. Most of our users would eat up far more of the costs of just using a service like this dealing with setting up IRC clients, explaining IRC to them, etc. rather than just pointing them to a web app, which is far more familiar.

The problem is, "hosted IRC" is a ridiculously bad marketing strategy. IMO, Grove should view IRC as a backend implementation detail, and not any part of their public offering. The only people who are going to care that Grove is backed by IRC are exactly the people for who hosting an IRC server isn't a big deal for.
I'm speechless. I realize how far I've been reading his articles without knowing it. Only since his reactive variable binding in js I've known his name though.
Warning: Auto-playing ad with audio that you can't pause.

Apparently you are supposed to find the tiny "auto play: off" link BEFORE it starts playing in 5 seconds or so after loading.
The usability of Office before the Ribbon vs. the usability of Office after the Ribbon is like night and day. It was a massive overhaul, and it was for the better - the product is, IMO, far easier to understand.

It's a huge innovation, and frankly I think it's silly to discount it as a "coat of paint".
There's nothing stopping anyone from dumping an HTML page on to a server.

But I'd agree that less people would do that because the alternatives to creating your own are so strong. Why learn HTML at all, when all you need to create a blog is to login to Wordpress.com?
> I've talked to people who have IOS6, and the consensus is that the maps are fine in California, and completely useless everywhere else.

I haven't had any trouble at all with them here in New England, FWIW.
In my mind, brilliance is associated with (successful) innovation. One can innovate in two basic ways, in methods or products. For example, Rails is an innovation in method. The webapp itself (however it was written) is an innovation in product. Both kinds of innovation do occur at JPL (they've created a substantial toolset around Eclipse, actually, and are pushing into Cloud computing in a serious way), but the nature of the space-based/rover projects (years between "qa" and "production") means that those programmers are prized for their high skill and low tolerance for risk.
When Color where all the rage in the tech circles a year ago, weren't they represented as the epitome of "invest in talent over the product", with Mr. Nguyen as the star?

Where does that leave them?
12 years in the making, FFmpeg 1.0 is released
First of all, this has been going on for a month and I have been trying to figure it out. I have spoken with people across Google and no one seems to no how to fix the issue or even be able to access what the issue is.

I am not asking for sympathy, I am asking if anyone has experienced this and if so what they did.

Even our YouTube Account Manager said, "I have honestly never seen anything like this before"

I filled out the online form stating my case and received a reply in less than 4 hours. Stating that the account was still disabled.
Another alternative is to have an agency sell spots for you.

You tell them how much you need for a spot, and they'll do their darnest to get the listing out.

If you contact me (email in profile), I'll put you in touch with a few people I know.

Ofcourse, you'll need to (a) have a site operation and (b) have at least more than 5000 visitors per day.
Yerp yerp the demo uses a desktop browser!
Mixpanel had some downtime 2 days ago, from 22:59 until 23:23 UTC according to our error logs. It might have only been for API users, but downtime nonetheless.

It's certainly possible it was scheduled, but it's not clear where that downtime is announced if so.
Well, they did target places where items had been reported stolen before.
After just today reading news about the ios6 map app failing, and then this article, I really am amazed at the deterioration of the company. Nothing too surprising as all goods things come to an end, but still, this is fast.
3 person office in Silicon Valley $900mo
Our startup is moving out of our office so we can lengthen our runway a bit more. There is now a 3 person office available, we were paying $900 a month in the San Jose NextSpace. If we can fill it soon, we can eliminate the 30 day notice.
I'd go to Maui, and later resign. ;)
It's unbelievable how many haters there are. Unbelievable.
But, are you in charge of a lifecycle email campaign? For whatever reason, it didn't feel like a wall of text to me.

But if the topic wasn't of intense interest, maybe it would have.
Well, here's an "Option 1" for you then ... "Pythias Brown, a former TSA officer at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey who admits he stole more than $800,000 worth of items from luggage and security checkpoints over a four-year period"

$800,000!!!

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/convicted-tsa-officer-reveals-...

This was so ridiculously easy that the only way that he got caught is that he got VERY lazy, and didn't remove the CNN stickers from a camera he stole from a CNN producer's luggage.

Others that worked with him seemed to know about it — one co-worker even warned him, "They were talking about you in the office. Be careful." But no one did anything.

Absurd.
PressPausePlay - a documentary on creativity in the technological age.
Do you have any reference to the webOs marketshare statement? I don't remember this being true.
Spurned by VCs, a Chip Startup Turns to Kickstarter
Thanks Michael! With regards to your questions...

1. The flat-rate is $27/mo per channel. TelAPI also offers channel bursting . This ultimately means developers and businesses have on demand access to additional channels for TelAPI numbers with unlimited inbound calls. E.g. You have 1 unlimited inbound number with 10 channels. Then you receive an 11th call. Channel bursting ensures the call can still access the application and won't ring busy.

2) CallID unmasking allows developers and businesses to identify the number and ID of calls received from 'Blocked' and 'Private' numbers to your TelAPI number

Our parent company TelTech uses it for one of their products:
http://www.trapcall.com/
> maps are fine in California, and completely useless everywhere else

Our personal, relatively microscopic sample sizes are the problem with the sentiment on this. I've used them in Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, and they worked fine for restaurants, turn-by-turn, etc.

As others have said, a combination of the vocal minority and the human race's love for drama is what's keeping this discussion alive.
Smells like subpixel aliasing?
What an outrageous thing to say! This guy stole the iPad. Period.

Seriously. If someone leaves their car running on the street that's a stupid thing to do, but does it give anyone permission to steal it? "Oh look ... I 'found' this car."

Finder's Keepers applies to a $5 bill you find on the sidewalk with no one around, not iPads.
It has to find and validate the model, but that's an amorphous goalpost. Startups stop being startups retroactively. They could look back a the recent past and say, "that point in time was when we finally validated the business model that we're now kicking ass on, that's when we stopped being a startup and became a fast-growing company."
i'm sorry you're in the mess you are in. i think my reply contains suggestions for how you could manage things better. and i do not think that the link above conveys the message "has this happened to you; what can i do to fix it?". it reads a lot more like "google sucks".

even your response here is purely defensive. you don't mention anything about local clicks at all. i don't know what more to say except that you really do not convey the message that you seem to think you are sending.
Show HN: JavaScript simulation of Langton's Ant (View famous corridor)
Pretty broad set of topics but I agree with the direction.

I think content-centric is the way to go. Stuff like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-centric_networking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_addressable_network

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapestry_(DHT)
That sucks. Looking at what you said and others in the thread, it sounds like the biggest problem is the data. I've done a bunch of spot-checks of locations near me, but I'm in the NYC area. I assume the NYC area would get a lot of attention for map data.

(By the way, the above is response is much more constructive than saying "un-fucking-believeable" in response to someone who is not aware of problems.)
Do you know how many things are left behind at checkpoints? On a flight I was on once the lady next to me realized she had left her laptop at the checkpoint. It happens all the time.

If TSA agents can't overcome the desire to take what is not theirs, they have no business doing that job.
not everyone wants to worry about managing a vps.

you could say the same thing about heroku in many ways and yet they have done very well.
How does the iPhone 5 camera compare to previous iPhone cameras?
Bankruptcy Auctions Go Online to Boost Cash for Creditors
Brightblu. wins Plug and Play Expo
That's the intersection of the following sets:

* Small companies.

* With some legal or contractual obligation preventing use of a public IRC server.

* But not preventing use of a third-party outside-the-firewall solution.

* And not having any criteria for the third-party, such as HIPAA compliance, warranties/guarantees, etc.

Seems a pretty small set...

Interestingly, grove doesn't seem to promise not to disclose the archives of your "private" server at all. Lots of ass-covering in their Terms of Service in favor of grove, and they have a privacy policy pertaining to their website, but nothing I could find about not telling the world whatever you happen to send their IRC servers.
Hand-crafted for horsepower: Apple A6 SoC
Sadly this is true in most instances...
I'd guess that the risk of losing 40 million was worth it, in this case. And that's probably not a lot of money to stump up, for some people/groups.
Not if you use FireFox and NoScript.
tldr: Snooze is bad. Just get up when it goes off.