skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are you talking about? I'm referring to the investment Microsoft made in 1997 to rescue Apple from bankruptcy, not to mention their contributions to add value to their system. Definitely a bailout.

Edit: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/08/dayintech_0806/
This one is really stretching the definition of an acquihire. It may be that the $2-$5M is unvested stock for the team itself.

See points 3-6 here: http://daslee.me/quick-thoughts-on-acquihiressoft-landings
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The attribution is right there within the iframe itself.
Yet it somehow causes 10fps+ drops in virtualization, and is nigh unusable on older hardware (yes yes anecdotal and meaningless i'm sure).

Again, I wouldn't care if they would have just left 2d alone.

I for one am getting very tired of being told how I should be using my computer.
So, they aim for max 1.4 million in revenue (100k x $20 - 30% for apple, minus an unknown amount for beta testers) for the lifetime of the app. How many people have worked on it?

It does show the limited upside of twitter apps under the new rules(yes, 1.4 million is still a lot of money, but no home run for a company).
The guys selling umbrellas on the street are not creating a brand -- they're direct response advertising. As you mentioned, they're anonymous and disappear when you don't need them.

Brand is different. I don't turn on the TV when I'm ready to eat fast food, drink a beer, or buy a car. But McDonald's, Budweiser, and Ford all advertise on TV so that I'll remember them when I do.

Promoted searches and tweets work more like display/brand ads than direct response, where advertisers associate themselves with certain accounts and keywords. I think we'll see more innovation in this space as they figure it out, but I do agree that treating Twitter advertising like Google advertising is going to lead to disappointment.
Sometimes it looks complicated, but if you already worked with something like that, it is an easy task, maybe just some lines.

People answers questions in StackOverflow for free, so sometimes $10 is a good reward. I don't know the answer to this bounty, so I will not use my time to learn omniauth and answer the question, it is not worth $10.
I'm a little confused. I don't see a change log. I also don't see an easy way to upgrade from 12.04 which is what I currently run. Do I need to do a full reinstall? Am I missing something? (probably)
There have been many discussions here on Hacker News about the risks inherent in building your product—and hence livelihood—on top of someone else's platform, over which you have no control. Unfortunately for Tweetbot, this sort of complaint will possibly strike a chord with the almost negligible minority that would read a tech blog, and of those, an even smaller and more negligible minority will actually complain to Twitter.

Twitter is putting these guys out of business, and it's completely in their (Twitter's) right to do so. Playing the blame game may feel good but it won't solve anything; the hard work these guys put in is likely going to quickly stop being a viable source of revenue, and there's nothing they can do about it. I can't think of anything to say about it other than it's a real damned shame.
Yes. But like miahi is saying:

"It takes at least 20 years for a tree to mature so it can be harvested"

If cork demand doubles tomorrow it means you will have to plant new trees and it will take at least 20 years before those trees are mature enough to be harvested.
"[...] and you get your name in lights." ...and the prize for the greatest attention whore of the OS BDFLs club goes to...
> This infuriates me. Sharing copyrighted files isn't what pisses me off. What does is the arrogance of Dotcom to try to pass this thing off like its for legit sharing of files.

You're attributing to arrogance that which can be adequately explained as a desire for plausible deniability. If Mega acts like a legitimate file depository site, and they don't do noticeably more to help with copyright infringement than things like Google Drive, and they say that they're legit, then this decreases their chances of getting in more legal trouble.
This is not as bad as when NATO bombed Libya's TV station during its attack on Gaddafi.
It does? Isn't everything tiny? What resolution is it using?
Who says they need to "enter the automobile industry?" They just need to license their tech. Also, nobody else is going to be able to do it anytime soon without their data. The cars rely upon the street-level map data Google has, and nobody has as it or is any position to get it anytime soon.
Free markets are not immune to panic.. a few hours break in trading that affects everyone is fair, and allows participants time to analyse whatever news release occurred, rather than knee-jerk liquidization of their positions, which they may come to regret after cooling off.

This one was automated AFAIK, since GOOG dropped so hard. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_curb
Procreation ?
The model number is XE303C12 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009LL9VDG/
The Android app manages to get stuck buffering a song nearly every time I use it, even on a wifi connection. The widget on my homescreen still has a spinning circle instead of a play button even though I killed the app after it got stuck days ago.
That's what "lead generation" in Mila(http://mila.com) is doing: tweets matching vendor's products/services are presented as potential leads for the salesperson to act upon. When you tweet "looking for a cool new shirt" Old Navy would see your message and could give you a coupon.
welcome to the world of business.
Show HN: Fight bias with Details Redacted
After having a conversation with a friend about unconscious bias in hiring decisions, I thought it would be interesting to see if there might be any interest in a service that removes names and gender pronouns from application materials.

Is this something you'd be interested in? Are there any features I could add to make it more appealing?

Check out the live site at:

http://www.detailsredacted.com
> I keep running into big bugs in windows all the time and I'm using it only as an outlook box.

Examples of said big bugs?
> I don't see a change log.

That's not a change log but new features are listed here http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/whats-new

> I also don't see an easy way to upgrade from 12.04 which is what I currently run.

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/upgrade

I never had any problems with it but some people prefer a clean install.
Developers know who other superstar developers are. If you allowed superstars at different companies to band together and market themselves as a team, that might be interesting.
Clickable:

http://www.detailsredacted.com
"You go to services every Saturday."

Funny that you would use "Goldsteins" as an example. As you probably know there is a Goldsteins Funeral Home in Philly. And your example is dead on to how people in the funeral business operate. They belong and attend. But here's the thing. In order for Goldstein to get the burial business (or service, whatever) they have to continue to attend social functions lest they are forgotten. All the time (similar to your example "every saturday". Otherwise, while they do have a benefit from a memorable name (so someone might be more likely to call when seeing their other advertising) if they are not in front of people regularly (and willing to take the time and effort) they aren't going to get the benefit.
Did you use a published data set or did you scrape the site?
Very much so. The pain with Windows 8 is going to be the UI change- switching to Ubuntu will require a very similar adjustment to a new UI (one that, ironically, Canonical forced on a userbase that was unsure about it).
Marketing-wise this would absolutely be an effective strategy, but you have to take a page from Apple's book and spin your motivation to be positive. You can't say "I'm sick of critics dissing features before they're ready" because that sounds whiny.

Instead, you have to express that you are working on some really kick-ass features and you want them to really "pop" when they debut. You have to focus on the positives and pretend that the critics don't exist. (Publicly, that is; internally, you had better listen to the critics).
There is a separate bug for the same issue that has been marked as fixed:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-lens-shopping/+bug/1060979
I didn't mean that the founder would start posting employee groups up for sale, I meant that A-level developers would find other A-level developers and band together to get a few million as a signing bonus.
I'd rather see these panels in the Oculus Rift than a 'Phablet'. As mentioned in the article, these screens can be held much closer to the eye, so why not put them as close as possible?
Great questions. I couldn't stop thinking about #3 while watching that video.

Edit --
Seems like he answered #1 in another commment:
Right. It turns out a lot of the work comes from gluing the various services together. For ex, when a user signs up with an email account, and then forgets and signs in with Facebook next time.
This takes care of deduping accounts, and flattening the social data, etc.
I use my ($350 in 2008) Acer One a lot more than my cr-48. Although the cr-48 is decent for remoting into VMs via ssh.
I think they were using so called in the traditional sense rather than the colloquial sense. Rather than being sarcastic like is common with that phrase, they meant "using what is known as the Advanced Encryption Standard".
I am what would be called a "Power User", I have used Linux for years, from Slackware to Arch Linux, and DE/WM from KDE to DWM.

I tried GNOME Shell twice, once with Fedora 15 and 3.5 in Arch Linux: I couldn't use it for more than a couple of hours, it was painful.

I just finished installing Ubuntu 12.10, and I must say that I like Unity, I like the global menu: I like the direction Canonical is taking.

For me, the problems with Ubuntu are the Repos/Apt which I dislike and are somewhat broken: And mainly the Community, which is not as helpful as the Gentoo community for example.
I know html, css and some javascript.

So what are the pros and cons of starting Django or Flask? Maybe I should make this as a separate HN question.
I was saying that if you want to start a cork supply business (grow cork trees because you see an increased demand), you'll have to wait for at least 25 years to make any cork at all, and probably 35 years to make any revenue.

A tree reaches maturity after ~25 years after planting, and the first harvest is usually low quality, so it doesn't bring money. After the first harvest it can be harvested every 9-10 years, and you can do so for hundred of years (a healthy cork oak can live for 5-600 years).

Cork does grow on trees, but slowly :).
So will this always be invite only or will it be opened to the public eventually?
$250,000 per developer with qualified subject matter experience in your company's native technology. And there's 20 of them. It's a friggin' steal!
It wasn't showing up in update manager for me on 12.04 LTS.

Fire up Terminal and run 'update-manager -d' and it should show up.
EC2 is relevant today, but it will become less and less relevant as the Platform-as-a-Service services (S3, SimpleDB, App Engine, Heroku, etc) get better. There will reach a point where fewer and fewer companies will actually use VMs directly. Seems like a reasonable play for Google to sit this round out and focus on winning the next one.
What a strange article. Clearly he's writing from the perspective of "small technology firms", so why extrapolate his perception of how regulation affects his industry with all industries?

Please, Matt, speak to someone trying to run a business in the "more conventional trades" and see how government regulations hurt them.

That is if you can find any such small businesses in the areas that federal government regulation have killed off. Just take banks for example: in the last 4 years, the federal government has basically made it impossible for any bank with less than $100,000,000 in deposits to exist. New regulations essentially require 40+ hours per week to keep up with the "minor nuisance paperwork." That's simply not doable if you're a small bank, which is why you're seeing all of them gobbled up or closing down.

Obviously, this has dramatic affects on the ancillary small businesses that made their living serving those small banks.

Just because the harm isn't visible to you doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
That's a bit of an unfair comparison. The surface works entirely offline, if you're using it for offline tasks. The Chromebook also works offline if you're using it for offline tasks.

The number of offline apps available for chrome is pretty limited, but so is the total number of apps available for winRT. as far as i can tell, both of these devices are basically just a web browser plus potential.
Very well made. Best of luck to you guys!
This is probably more for a hobby than a business, but I'd love it if you extended the site to cover musical 'goods.' Like people could submit riffs, melodies, drum loops, sound effects, to be bought for a small fee.
Coming soon!

http://blogs.computerworld.com/laptops/21164/googles-new-chr...
Why? Because there's basically no-one that can be trusted to decide which kinds of speech can be outlawed. In particular, I'm deeply familiar with the main group that's trying to get /r/CreepShots shut down and their views on how speech should be cracked down on, and they're pretty much identical to the ones that lead to the BoingBoing fiasco described here: http://www.popehat.com/2012/10/09/frankly-i-dont-care-how-du... In fact, their main subreddit at r/ShitRedditSays has a policy of doing this to anyone that points out when posts are outright lying through their teeth to get people riled up.
That's cool to see that the idea is being explored, although I think gaming is absolutely the wrong market for it. My understanding is that GPU processing is really where the money is for mining, and while a gamer's system likely has idle CPU cores to exploit, GPU is a rather precious resource for a game.
Can you please quantify the "most consistently innovative large-cap around" comment? What Google did lately which was innovative?

I'm not trying to be anti-Google, I'm just honestly asking.
For example, can you compare innovations Google put forward in last couple of years and compare it with, lets say, MSFT?
...and I'm guessing those reading these threads may be in those pictures. I don't know how many; neither do you. It could be any of us.
You could also have 'LAN-crafted'
So I am trying extremely hard to convince myself that these css grids are much better than html tables. Yet, when I see projects like these that make the act of making two columns of arbitrary widths such a big deal, I find it hard to convince myself that css for your basic page container is worth the hacks. I really want to be convinced otherwise because I'd like to believe if so many people are for it, I am obviously not seeing something they can.

So dear HN, please help me convince myself that CSS and its hacks are superior than tables.

My mind's first objection: "to make a simple two column layout that would typically take a few lines with the table tag and be compatible across browsers. The same thing in css would require the use of an open-source grid or bunch of hacks and testing--taking much more effort than the table tag". How do I respond to this objection?
Fort 5.5
I'm proud to announce Fort 5.5 release.

-Directory encryption support.

-Windows 8 is now officially supported and Fort is 100% compatible with it.

-Vault no longer displays files that do not exists.

-Vault view no longer decrypt files unless "Decrypt all" is clicked.

Several stability fixes for the encryption engine. Standard version of Fort is also now freeware. Official explorer extension and support is available for $14.90.

Also, there is now community forums available. Enjoy.

For more see http://byteptr.com/fort/
But how dedicated to the default interface are they really going to be? I imagine there is going to be a lot of developers who decide that if they have to re-write their app anyways, it makes more sense to port it to the web than to port it to metro.
You couldn't search for content on the old Megaupload. Third-party crawlers always took care of that.

In one of the articles discussing his arrest it was mentioned that they had an internal tool that could search for content, maybe that is what you're thinking about.
Say, has somebody come up with a clever way for me to try this and then revert if I'd rather stick with 12.04 LTS? Besides, of course, backing up and restoring everything?
You can do that putting this on the firefox URL:

chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
Because they will see links to the content on third party sites and then take down the content behind the links.

This is just as it worked before.

The only difference really is that they can't apply deduplication to uploaded content.
CQL3 for Cassandra experts
This is apparently true for VS2012 + Win7, at least from my tests. On a quad-core machine the max numbers of threads spawned by std::async is 10.
iOS/Mac OS and WP8/Win8 are much more similar than Chrome OS/Android. The disjoint between the latter two is much more pronounced.
Oh, I'm sorry. I'm not familiar with HN formatting.
That's still quite a leap when programmers are notoriously bad at predicting time scales. But prediction isn't the programmer's job.
Fight Darth Vader in Augmented Reality
Employee non-compete agreements aren't enforceable in California.
Symbian – a post mortem
But they're not all anonymous, and it doesn't matter whether or not they are. I wrote the other day here about a girl that posted about her friend finding herself on there and how humiliating the whole ordeal was. One unfortunately-placed birthmark or tattoo could completely oust the person to her peers. It's absolutely violating, and who's to say the guy that did it to her won't do it again? Can you imagine the fear of wondering if every person you encounter is going to try to take an unwanted picture of you and your body to post to a bunch of people who don't respect women? It isn't innocent and it shouldn't be treated like it is.
> Javascript has no way to output data that is then saved to disk.

First, there's HTML5 window.saveAs which apparently nobody has implemented. Second, you can always fall back to some swf.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2897619/using-html5-javas...
Hey, there's a reason "Won't somebody please think of the children?" is such a devastatingly effective argument. I've found it is an effective cognitive defense to learn to become pissed off that somebody would be so manipulative as to reach for that. It's the cognitive-emotional equivalent of grabbing you by the balls, and it's not a polite move.
Related documentary on how corks actually get inserted into wine bottles:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/19187
One fundamental problem with the idea of passphrases is that they are sometimes (often?) longer than is allowed by the website being accessed. One important website that I must access limits passwords to 10 characters, and forbids special characters. Another one ignores case in passwords.

My solution to the password problem is to use a password hash generator. I only have to remember one master password, and an identifier for the website, and the generator gives me a 12 character random password that includes upper and lower case letters and digits.

This discussion assumes we are talking about passwords for websites.
Bias is like local accents when speaking - Everyone but "this.you" has one, and everyone else's is weird/wrong.

And it's as popular to civilly discuss as politics, religion, discrimination, etc.
The 1929 stock market collapse was an accurate reflection of real-world economic conditions, it wasn't a panic crash and it didn't cause the great depression. There are a ton of theories about why the depression happened but pretty much none of them claim fiddling with the stock market rules would have helped anything.

Stock prices during the depression were reasonable, they were just news nobody wanted to hear.
Great questions -
DailyCred does the account linking, so if someone signs up with email, and then later Facebook, the accounts are linked. You can also explicitly connect users to multiple to services, for ex if you want to have them add their Twitter account after they're logged in.

We do both normalizing the common data, and returning the raw info/access tokens for the social provider. So if you just need the user's name you can grab that from us, but if you want some data that's unique to FB you can still access all of that. We look after maintaining these social tokens for you.

Yay - we win the lottery! Or another scenario, you decide to roll your own later.. We store passwords using standard (non-proprietary) bcrypt hashes so you can implement your own auth system if you like. And social permissions are granted to your Facebook/Twitter/Google apps, so you own that connection to your user too. We're basically a proxy in the middle that handles the glue between all the providers.
This, and other actions like it, are only going to drive more people to the underground bot/warez economy wherein terms of use and official API channels don't apply. unfortunately in that world many of the tools also compromise user security as well.

Unless Twitter, and other widely adopted platform providers, find a balance between corporate interests and supporting users interacting with their services in the ways that they prefer to do so, we will see more and more people obtaining Tweet-bots and Friend-adders, from illegitimate sources which bypass API's altogether.
Ubuntu 12.10 Released
Ok somewhat better now.
I love the concept, but wonder why it doesn't come with 4G/LTE (seems like a 'new' device should)

Oh, come now. You can't even buy an unlocked phone with LTE for less than $400. That cellular stuff is not cheap!
Why not use a virtual machine? Then you can be worry free about your current setup.
The Future State of Retail
It's partially self documenting. As mentioned elsewhere, there's a vague implication that putting something else there could mean "don't use utf8", where if you put the utf8 X character that corresponds to the check you are still asking for utf8.

edited to add:
This seems related to a problem various "try to sound like English" programming languages (e.g. Inform) have, where it is easy to assume invalid syntax will be valid because it's valid English.
You can even write your own foreign data wrappers in python: http://multicorn.org/implementing-an-fdw/#id3 Their "Hello, world" example is less than 15 lines of code.
Kubuntu Linux 12.10 brings KDE software compilation 4.9
Demystifying Microsoft’s Surface tablet hardware: When 32GB isn’t actually 32GB
That fix (2012-10-05) predates the majority of the comments in GP's post, which is still unfolding. I rather doubt this has been fixed.
BloomReach Nets $25M New Funding
Really doubt it (about Win8/RT having more users than Android, ever), Smartphones are already selling more than PCs. Windows 7 took 2 years to reach 500 millions, and Android is already on that many hands (counting only OHA devices, ignoring Amazon/Nook/China Androids), will be on 1 billion by middle next year.
That's an excellent point. I actually don't remember why we all moved away from tables (it was before my time). Do you know what was so bad about them?
Hands-on with Google's $249, ARM-based Chromebook
Good catch.

Edit any of the H3 elements in any of the gray rows and simulate a tooltip:

<h3>col-1-1</h3>

Replace it in Firebug with a basic tooltip:

<h3 style="position:relative">
col-1-2 <span style="border:1px solid blue;background:yellow;display:block;position:absolute;width:300px;height:50px;left:0;top:-55px">Hi there</span>
</h3>

The tooltips get cut off. :(
Prior Art for Apple Heuristic Search Algorithm