skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and thanks for the feedback. The main reason we are on here is so people can tell us what we need to do better, what they'll like to see more of and less of. We are taking note. Thanks again!
I really dislike registries like this. It removes a lot of what makes gifts special from a gift.
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Actually, Amazon has an "Add to Wishlist" that supports products from any site. You can get it at http://www.amazon.com/wishlist/get-button
Cheers, I hadn't noted that, the new deals look OK:

£10 goodybag (change)
250 UK Minutes
Unlimited UK texts
1GB Mobile Internet (Tethering will be allowed)

or

£12 goodybag (new)
250 UK Minutes
Unlimited UK texts
Unlimited Mobile Internet (Tethering will not be allowed)

Not as brilliant as they were, but still not bad. The only outage I saw was the o2 outage - was there others?

EDIT: just spotted their earlier one caused by the burst water pipe. Interesting how they spin the outage, as 'too expensive to prevent': http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/giffgaff-outage-too-expensiv...
But even the iPhone 5 looks more zoomed in then Lumia 920, though. Look at the initial filming, when he films the other people filming him. They are bigger on the iPhone. The quality is poorer as well.
"It's like Grooveshark but monetized."
Hiku: Barcode scanner + WiFi = easier shopping lists
Not exactly, she said that OpenOffice as Office has a firewall. Not that it is a firewall.
The materials pages discuss the various processes they use:

http://www.shapeways.com/materials

A lot of the processes involve replacing a temporary binder.
Doesn't this take away the character building experience of putting on a happy face when given a truly terrible gift?
That's pretty much exactly what http://koding.com/ is working on. They've got a good leg up.
I am working on an edtech startup for PK-6. I have a few questions however.
1) What is the selectivity of ImagineK12? How many apply and how many get selected typically?
2) When is a good time to apply? I started off about 2 months back and have conducted a fair bit of customer development and some product development.
3) I am the only founder and I don't code. For now, am getting it done through freelancing friends, looking for a more permanent technical cofounder. Is that viewed negatively?

Thanks,
AK
I knew this would come up.

Haskell and Rust cover the same space as well. HN seems to have some weird obsession with Go at the moment, but the reality is that outside of this little bubble no-one knows or cares about Go. I use "no-one" in the to-within-rounding-error sense, not the literal sense. Go may gain sufficient mindshare in the future that it gains a space in the average developer's head as their goto tool for a certain job but it isn't there yet.

While we're at it, Java is not the only language on the JVM. For example, Scala is growing fast and it has polymorphism AND sane error handling (http://www.scala-lang.org/archives/downloads/distrib/files/n...), features which AFAIK elude Go.
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They did but they did it with a professional camera and implied it's the Lumia 920, when it wasn't. I'd be fine with them doing a commercial but actually using the device to show its capabilities. Filming with a much more advanced camera and then saying "that's how Lumia 920 does it, too" is just false advertising, and that's what they did initially.
Look at the slide entitled Gmail (5), and compare the picture with the first graph on my blog post http://jeremykun.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/the-perceptron-and...

It just goes to show, Google steals content without attribution just like everyone else.
We don't want to make you feel like it's a registry that takes away from the experiece. I just have found that most people return or re-sell gifts they get not because they are in need of cash (only a small subset do), most do because they don't need or like what they got. So the point of giftsocial is to give the people around you an idea of what you want. There really aren't any restrictions to.
Lots of midlist artists make below-subsistence on concerts. The payouts from club appearances are very low. Deadmau5 is anomalous; comparing his take to that of a typical indie musician is a little like comparing Slint to U2.

It's probably true that most artists make more now from concerts than recordings, but don't kid yourself: that's just because most artists can't make anything significant from recording anymore.
Ha! It would seem like it.
For those of you who are Portuguese, check the video at 0:07. "Linguagem C" by Luís Damas is the C programming book we all studied ;)
Apple's software development seems to play a second fiddle to their hardware development a lot.

This is OK in most instances since I don't buy a lot of their software, but if you fail to get the firmware and the drivers working, it's a major problem.
hey, I entered my email, I try to press 'get invited' and nothing happens.

firebug log: http://dpaste.com/806325/
So, you're looking for consulting requests?

It sounds like it's a narrow field, wouldn't you be better served by in-person networking?

I profess my ignorance about the field, and I don't know who the target audience for your website would be.
I'd say that's almost inevitable.
You can add any item from any store on the Amazon wishlist and people already know to check it if they want to - you don't need to tell them you have a wishlist somewhere else. One fewer awkward email.
Ask HN: What is your experience with BlackBerry 10, Windows 8 & Firefox OS?
Firefox OS, BlackBerry 10 and Windows 8 are set to be released later this year or early 2013.

What is your early experience with them?.

Here is my experience with Firefox OS:

Since source code & developement of Firefox OS is open, with help from other developers (#gaia, #b2g on irc.mozilla.org and #arm-netbook" on irc.freenode.net) recently i have ported Firefox OS to 7 inch tablet based on allwinner a10 SOC (Video - http://softonaut.blogspot.in/2012/09/tablet-running-firefox-mobile-os.html). Having worked with web technologies, enjoyed creating applications for Firefox OS (Backbone.js Todo app - http://www.github.com/selvan/gaia-spikes). You may have a look at out-of-the-box firefox OS applications at https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/tree/master/apps to explore more.
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Agreed. Even the concept of a "bad gift" implies that maybe we are forcing the whole gift-giving thing a bit too much.
On the one hand I totally agree with you, on the other hand there are some people I know who I find it insanely hard to think of a gift for and often end up thinking I may not have made the right choice - there are also people who presumably think this about me, given how much they will nag ahead of birthday/Christmas about what I want to receive.

Overall I come down on your side, in thinking the downsides outweigh the benefits, but I can see how people would come to the opposite conclusion too.
This infographic w/ the article sums it up: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044418000457801...
How many 404 pages have you seen today? I just looked in my Firefox history, and it appears I didn't see a single 404 page in all of August or September. So first of all, there's the question of whether you would even get any page views.

And in general, I think the HN mentality will push back against empty feel-good gestures. If this is an important issue, it deserves to be addressed prominently and in a way that will get results. Will putting a picture of a missing kid on your 404 page get any results? Wouldn't putting a picture of the same kid next to your front door be more effective?
I think professional CDNs can deliver large files to a lot of people without choking bandwidth or crushing servers. And they give you more control over how long the file is available, maybe some statistics on who's downloading it etc. What I really can't understand is why they zipped a H.264 video, it turns out slightly larger!

Here's a torrent if you really want one :) https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4NmQa1UbwBCWW1nQzRfcDJOd0E
First of all, good luck on your new life. I quit my job last year to do music (sounds crazy, and it actually is a bit) so I know your feeling.

Here's some advice though. Asking to wish you luck sounds like you're not entirely confident about your decision. Furthermore, posting here on HN makes it look you've already achieved something, but it's really just the beginning.

Whenever I intent to do something important, I never tell anyone in advance. It's not about fearing to be looked at as a failure in other's eyes. It's about not considering taking a decision as an achievement. It's like when someone decides to work out to lose some pounds and tell everyone 'Hey, I just bought a new running outfit, check it out!' thinking 'Wow, I've done it!' when they actually haven't done anything yet.

I care about what I've done, not about what I've said I would do. So I keep things to myself until I've got something concrete to show.

I'm sorry if I sound harsh, especially when I don't know anything about your situation. I just wanted to say to stay focused, and to find motivation within yourself first and foremost. Your decision is a great one, but it's just the start.
> Wouldn't it be nicer if the browser could tell the server which version of the interface it understands?

It would be nice! However, many packages people want to develop clients for REST APIs with have terrible HTTP support, such as Flash. If you ever see an API that supports a "method" parameter in the URL or POST body, it's because Flash is terrible.
I don't want gifts of stuff thanks. Time spent with people is great. Money is more efficient. Gifts of stuff are fail.
Was it just me that found this curious?

“Negative emotions like fear and sadness can lead to brain activity and thought patterns that are detrimental to creative, productive work: (a) avoidance of risk; (b) difficulty remembering and planning; and (c) rational decision-making.”

'a' and 'b' I'll grant, but rational decision-making is detrimental to productivity and creativity? Fear incites rationality? This seems out of place to me.
hmm. its working for me. sometimes it takes a second to respond which I need to improve but should go to a new page. can you use the contact us form on page and let me know your setup?

Edit: thanks for sharing debug. looks like geoplugin didn't load for you. will investigate.
The older I get, the more I turn into my father, who despises wishlists and won't tell people what gifts he'd like. Only receiving gifts that were on a list removes the mystery and wonder from the process.

I've begun telling people who ask that a good gift is anything interesting that I wouldn't buy for myself, and I've been pleased with the results.

(This isn't a commentary on GiftSocial as a product, but on wishlists as a social construct.)
A single hand of poker is a game of chance. But nobody just plays a single hand. A series of poker hands is a game of basic statistics and psychology.
Give money or don't give then.
Here's my problem with gifts and I don't think this site solves them.

I never know what I want to get as a gift. If there's something I need, I will buy it for myself. If there's something I want, it's usually expensive and I feel bad about asking people to get me it.

So the only gifts left are things I don't know I want or need.
Exactly.

What I really like when typing in the URL bar is that it looks for what I'm typing in my history, bookmarks, etc. This way my productivity when opening a website is greatly improved. By example, t opens a new tab (vimium), I then hit n and it instantly selects news.ycombinator.com because it starts by n, then enter. Or m for mail.google.com, d for docs.google.com, etc.
Now i can be sure that my family and friends will know what to get me and i will know what to get to my friends
I found it odd that there is no direction here. What are you working towards?

Also Tynan seems to be making the mistake of giving advice on how to be Tynan. This isn't really anything to do with "hustling" or an MBA (Is Tyan running a sucessful business? It appears not).
It's time to expand our lexicon of metaphors used to explain computing. Desktops and filing cabinets are becoming dated, but beer never gets obsolete.
Do they still heavily rely on PageRank? With the amount of traffic data Google has, I would expect more statistical approaches based on what users click (rather than graph algorithms based on how the web is linked) to be the backbone for ranking their results.
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Awesome... Go for it! A wife and son are pretty good inspiration to get it in gear! :)

Be sure to post your project here once you launch.
It's much better-looking :)
Tip: if you want to use base64 for URLs, you can remove any trailing =s and add them back in yourself by inspecting the length (they're just padding) for prettier URLs.
Out of my depth here, but I think functional languages are relevant to distributed/concurrent programming because they tend to provide (and enforce) explicit ways to avoid or manage side effects and mutability. They're likely to be very different at an interpreter/compiler level from a language that happens to allow you to avoid side effects and mutability, but isn't designed to know when you're doing that or to optimize for it. (I'm thinking, for example, of the insane way Clojure implements dictionaries under the hood in order to efficiently copy them rather than edit them in place, which in turn enables its approach to efficiently rolling back and retrying operations that contend for the same shared transactional memory.) The upshot is that an imperative language like JavaScript will let you borrow some nice techniques from the functional world, but won't have a lot of the benefits of a language that's designed to only be used that way.

Again, no idea what I'm talking about, that's just the impression I have from the little I've learned about functional programming so far.
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He definitely forgot to check his privilege, big mistake...
Just finished reading it for first time. Clearly pg was wrong. It now reads like one of those classic wrong predictions.
ShareAlike means they're unusable for commercial applications. I suppose you can still use them on a website, but I'm not sure how much of the website you'd also have to make CC-BY-SA.

Their FAQ implies a more liberal license, though:

http://subtlepatterns.com/about/
oh sure, SFTP is better, I thought we are comparing FTP/SFTP to DropBox and the like
If we're honest, this is hardly surprising. Before Nokia made it's commitment to Microsoft, they were a company at the forefront of phone technology, including their cameras. However, what this does actually do is beg the question of why they opted for Microsoft. I'm without a doubt in my mind that if they were making Androids right now, they'd be dominating.
no problem. setup: ff15@debian
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Amazon does this at scale. By the title <and site name>, I thought you were going to enable a quick post, sell, or donate of unwanted gifts. That would be cool. I typically hold on to unwanted gifts for months and then simply donate or dispose. I bet there are $Bs of unwanted gifts sitting in houses in the US right now.
>But they have to be written using WinRT.

No, they don't have to be. The Windows 8 app store on non-Windows RT devices will have links to desktop apps.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227907/Microsoft_tip...

HN comments on Microsoft related stories(only negative ones i.e, the positive ones are usually flagged to death even if they rarely get on the front page) sometimes remind me of the blind leading the blind. Some people who don't even use or follow Microsoft technologies are the first to vote up such stories and then comment snarkingly in the comments about things that they seem to have no clue about .
If the article had suggested roulette or even blackjack, _that_ would be delusional. The house always wins.

Poker, however, is not especially delusional. It is unlike other casino games in that you're not playing against the house, so the odds are not stacked against you. Obviously there is luck involved but if you play with discipline over a long enough period of time you can beat the fluctuations. Really, all you have to do is learn how the game works and play against people who don't understand it as well as you do. It also helps if they are drunk, tired and on vacation. It's not a rewarding job, but it's actually pretty doable.
Seems to me he is abusing the Accept-header. In his example, the application provides a JSON-response, but with a vendor-specific media type. Once the API version changes, he changes the media type again.

This is both impractical because if the client application consuming the content happens to be a web browser, it will not see JSON and at least to me seems like a major flaw: if it is JSON, use the appropriate media type.

If you need to fiddle with HTTP headers, probably a X-API-VERSION header would be more logical instead of clobbering the media type.
Our approach is to also give you a livefeed of what people in your network are getting as gifts, when we built this feature we thought of people who could use a bit of a "suggestion" of what they may want. So hopefully by looking through your feed and "browsing" other people's gift ideas you'll find inspiration for what you want.
Also started this week with 50k online students: Learn to Program: The Fundamentals (pyton from 0) - https://www.coursera.org/course/programming1
Rational decision-making can lead you to talk yourself out of great, gutsy ideas:

In the article about Steve Jobs at Corning re: Gorilla Glass:

> This turned Jobs around, and he said he wanted as much gorilla glass as Corning could make within six months. “We don’t have the capacity,” Weeks replied. “None of our plants make the glass now.”

> “Don’t be afraid,” Jobs replied. This stunned Weeks, who was good-humored and confident but not used to Jobs’s reality distortion field. He tried to explain that a false sense of confidence would not overcome engineering challenges, but that was a premise that Jobs had repeatedly shown he didn’t accept. He stared at Weeks unblinking. “Yes, you can do it,” he said. “Get your mind around it. You can do it.”
PageRank is definitely still used, although it's doubtfully the sole determinant of ranking results. See http://jeremykun.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/googles-page-rank-...
I traded fantastic flexibility in initial development against easily maintained longevity.

Great quote, btw, and spot on.
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Wait, they just used your graph and didn't even contact you about it?
You make the point that playing poker is a crazy idea to rely upon and then go and say all you need to do is "create a product/service that creates recurring monthly income"

How is that any easier or reliable?
It's one guy who happens to work for Google, rather than the whole company.
Anyone wanting to give me a gift is pretty amazing. I don't know about anyone else, but just living a life where friends and family can give me gifts is awesome - i'm not about to go complaining about that.

The site itself is a good idea, I just don't like the title 'we got tired of getting gifts we don't like/need'.
I dunno, Prometheus was pretty average!

It's a demo reel to test a projector, though. Not sure if it's going to turn into a full film?
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That's a feature we are looking to add soon. Please keep a close eye on this to be released in a few weeks.
What do you do with the Brilliant Jerk?
I feel it best to supplement your REST API with a pure-URI scheme available on _all_ of your resources that is dependent on the request type. You might have both;

https://api.test.com/v1/resource -- standardized API response
https://test.com/resource -- "pure" object if JSON is requested, pretty HTML-wrapped version if not.

You can rely on the versioned API to have a specific format and metadata (things like number of results, query times, etc), while the "pure" version is just a raw JSON object.
Malicious obedience via retro tech.
I def love this design way better. you are def right!

Simple and easy to use. I am signed in :)
No, ShareAlike means you have to distribute them under the same licence. Unless there is a NoCommercial, that doesn't mean you can't sell them, you just aren't allowed to change to a more restrictive licence. IANAL.
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The more I use it, the more I love it!!!
I don't think it would work in exactly the same way you are describing but there may be alternatives. Manufacturing equipment is very expensive and the only way to justify the cost is to keep it running daily, sometimes 24/7/365. The change parts for each unique product are also quite expensive (easily $10k+). If I want to open a KickManufacturing plant, I have to buy/maintain/service hundreds of different kinds of equipment which includes the cost of the hardware, software, and technicians. On top of that, each new product will barely have 10k - 100k units ordered if I'm lucky. After that the change parts are useless. The other problem with this is the manufacturing equipment that can do lots of different configurations is slower, error-prone, and more expensive than specialized equipment that does just one thing. So if one of the Kickstarter products does become a success and they want 100m units, you need to buy new equipment or source a better large-scale manufacturer. And worst of all, most of the equipment will be collecting dust 95% of the time unless someone has just the right Kickstarter project for them.

What most entrepreneurs spend their time between getting funded and beginning shipment is finding the right manufacturer who can allocate runtime on their lines. The manufacturers lose money when the lines aren't running. The entrepreneurs get delayed when the lines are busy. This is a very complex B2B market that has no current solution. If someone solves this problem, we can have significantly better fulfillment of Kickstarter orders.

Such a site would have manufacturers periodically uploading capacities and capabilities of their equipment, warehouse/distribution resources, and costs associated with each line/product-type by time/quality. The entrepreneurs would be able to book the best-fit manufacturer (be it in US, China, or Norway) and pay a reservation-fee to the manufacturer which sits in escrow pending successful contract. The reservation-fee would be high enough to deter fake orders and be credited towards the actual product order. The site could fund itself by collecting interest on the escrow or charging per new B2B relation.
Engineers and scientists have large datasets to share. Gigabytes. Terabytes. FTP can handle it.
1) Even with hard drive prices inflated today, we're at over 9GB/$1 for storage. That means for $1 you can store 1.25 billion 64-bit integers. From that perspective, there is very little data (at least in terms of traditional RDBMS data) that is actually cost effective to throw out. To the extent that you do need to throw it out, you can wait until all transactions involving the data have long since completed.

2) I think you misunderstood what was meant here. His point was that your limiting factor really becomes throughput if you have the right architecture.

3) Indexes and cache locality also tend not to play well together. ;-)
i will try to implement a workaround if that script doesn't load, but seems to be loading for me everytime. Let me know if still an issue after refresh or if anyone else experiences similar.
The mentioned (but not linked) study by dr Deci sounds extremely flawed. Where is control group C which received continued monetary incentives? And control group D which received increasing monetary incentives?
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Love him or hate him, he definitely makes waves in the industry. I'm hoping this takes off.