skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure.

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GrandCentral is now Google Voice
Quilts for Peace
The crux of the mobile developer conundrum: Forget the 99% without iPhone
Ask HN: Whats with Erlang
I just returned to Hacker News after a few days, and there seems to be an unusually high number of erlang entries. Was there a major breakthrough or something that I missed?
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Hacking your body: replacing a missing finger with an USB stick
Tell HN: Mathematica Home Edition available in the UK on Monday
Mathematica Home Edition will be released in the UK on the 16th, the price will be GBP 195 + VAT. Some more info here:

http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematicahomeedition/qa.html
Can governments create sector hubs?
Ask HN: Help naming an iPhone app
We have built an iPhone app that cleans the iPhone address book. It removes duplicates and merges multiple contacts through various algos.

We initially named it Contacts Cleaner but the name was too long (name contained ellipses on iPhone). We thought of Janitor but it just doesn't fit.

Any suggestions?

Winning name will get an ad hoc version of the app. Thanks.
Can governments create entrepreneurial and innovation hubs
As Cities Go From Two Papers to One, Talk of Zero
JavaScript damn well needs Elvis
Have the user metaphors changed at all from Vista? I find more and more that the reason I don't enjoy using Windows has little to do with speed or graphics gewgaws and more to do with the fact that I can't customize many commands or shortcuts, and that I am still expected to click to launch most applications.
that is exactly why it isn't converting well. he should have noticed that after the kotaku review - but instead he submitted it to slashdot and burnt through 100k potential users.

all those people who have already visited won't take a second look after he lowers the price. its too late for that - he should have realized the price was wrong and that he needed a lite version after the poor kotaku conversion rate.
cleanup ? Or cleanitup
Thanks for the psychological aspect, Pavlov.
Part of the "hacker ethic" includes the notion that information should be free. How you use that information is another matter.

If it were commonly known that this default code existed it's less likely that those who are responsible for setting up these keypads would leave the default set.

Those wishing to exploit it are the ones who actively seek out this sort of information.
Readability fights back against "today's cram-all-the-ads-on-one-page Web"
Google redesign (Google in a grid)
The Broadband Gap: Why Do They Have More Fiber?
Ubuntu didn't do anything too incredible (GUI-wise). They just themed gnome. It's pretty, but there are so many more notable GUIs for linux.
I don't think it's of general interest, but I can drop you an email with a precis if you like.
My thoughts are with the family at this time.

Despite having lost someone to suicide myself, I can't even begin to understand what they must be feeling - the 'not knowing' and helplessness - it must be awful.
"Intuitive user interfaces often use metaphor as an effective 'vehicle of exploration', according to David Siegel in Creating Killer Websites. His examples of metaphors include: 'galleries, TV remote controls, magazines, tabloids, store environments, museums, postcard racks, amusement pars, going inside things (computers, human body, buildings, ant farm, and so on), safaris, cities, and cupboards."

-David Whitbread in The Design Manual

Also... check out Microsoft Bob.
CleanBook
It looks like Cuil.
If selected, I'm willing to dedicate myself full-time to this.
True. I suspect if he temporarily lowered the price to $2-3 while he was getting all this attention he could have gotten a lot more sales. I have very similar price thresholds to yours.

He missed out, and perhaps that says something about why his product isn't doing too well.
Recession takes a bite of world’s billionaires
This is actually very interesting news for someone like me who would open up a good number of high CPU instances at any one time but only for short periods to do some rendering. Typically a few hours

Now I guess I gotta do a cost analysis and figure out which will be better, as both models have their strengths and weaknesses for my particular use.
Google announces Google Voice
Good point. I'm going to build this thing regardless if I get selected or not. It costs little to nothing to build web software these days. Absolutely no reason that I can't pull it off on my own.
That was really cool of you. Thanks!
ChatGraph
eeek. that should have said GC info (stupid iPod touch keyboard)
When perfectionism becomes a problem
The YC partners do not like the idea of being responsible for you leaving college. They are ok with it in the situation where you are so incredibly dedicated that you are leaving college with or without them. Or if you have some plan to finish while working full time on the company -- some of the Weeblies finished their degrees at PSU with online courses.
Second Genesis: Making Synthetic Life
Unlike most light bulbs, a monitor has a brightness setting that can be set to a comfortable level.

Also the metaphor of ink on paper is still with us in a big way. Dark text on a light background is the norm, light on dark is the exception.
Actual Erlang Innerds
Us Erlang users have been a bit discombobulated by this rush of Erlang stuff - especially since not all of it was very interesting. This one is relevant to start-up folks though.
Not to mention that many languages written in C use unions to describe their primitive -type- [ed: object]. The result is that the minimum number of bytes for storing an integer for instance, is the minimum number of bytes that can store a value of the largest type.

For example, if you have an string type, which keeps track of it's length, then you might need 8 bytes. 4 for the pointer to the string of chars, 4 for the integer to keep count.

Here's a better example from tinyscheme:

struct cell {
unsigned int _flag;
union {
struct {
char *_svalue;
int _length;
} _string;
num _number;
port *_port;
foreign_func _ff;
struct {
struct cell *_car;
struct cell *_cdr;
} _cons;
} _object;
};

As a minimum, each object takes up max(sizeof(_string), sizeof(num), sizeof(port), sizeof(_cons), sizeof(foreign_func)); And num is defined as follows:

typedef struct num {
char is_fixnum;
union {
long ivalue;
double rvalue;
} value;
} num;
On Being a Management Consultant
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So that was the strategy: generate lots of bad impressions with Vista and then improving the perception with a somewhat better OS a short time later.

Not that I dislike 7. It's really a better Vista, faster (less slower) and remarkably stable for a beta, but that is the major problem for me: It's still Windows Vista under the hood.
> Can you adjust the price and test whether the sales respond to changes of price? If you can do one-week experiments at different prices, you might get some very interesting data.

Yes.
Optimizing a recursive algorithm by memoization
(2) "I have 41 cheap and simple (but useful) apps on the App Store right now and have been growing my catalog since late July. Each app took me less than a day to do. Some days I've cranked out five apps (and no, they are not the stupid "Countdown till Easter, Countdown till Christmas" apps). I easily have pulled $10k/month for the last 6 months in a row, quit my day job, and now do iPhone stuff full time. I have no employees, no costs (besides tax), minimal no-cost marketing, and no time schedule. I work MAYBE five to ten hours per week on this stuff."

###

I can't believe he has the audacity to brag about making 41 crap applications that take less than a day to build. Maybe I'm making a presumptuous statement, but I seriously doubt his apps are as useful as he claims. This is exactly the problem with the store, particularly when you combine it with the broken economics driving it.

I'm an iPhone developer and consumer, and my days of searching for great apps are gone because of developers like him. Affluent/older customers are pushed out while the children with hours of time on their hands are searching for .99 novelty apps, so you couple that with 24-hour volume driven charts = perpetual waste land. Now I just wait for the media to report on a cool new app or via twitter, but then this type of group-think strips away the charm of the AppStore in regard to finding awesome indie developer creations.

We've got 5 applications (1 is pending approval), and 4 of which took much longer than a month to build before releasing version 1.0. Since version 1.0, we've spent a lot more time than that continuing to improve the products and listening to our customers. We've had modest success but nobody has quit their day job.

The problem with guys quoted above, they build these shit apps with limited functionality and no long-term vision, but they insist on gaming the system and releasing 'faux' updates so their shit apps dominate page 1 of each category. In turn, developers who are seriously committed to making a good product are over-shadowed by parasitic profit scrapers and the 30% cut given to Apple for distribution/marketing benefits are minimized. In addition, the 30% cut also makes it difficult to have extra funds to advertise outside of the store for bootstrappers.

@wallflower — never quit! Do it because you love it, not because you want easy money like most of the schmucks turning the AppStore into crap. If you have a vision, build it, improve it, support it, and thank your customer. Half these guys don't have a clue about building a consumer product or listening to their customers. If Apple is actually listening to the complaints (speculation that they like the volume-driven charts to churn sales), then the long-tail looks pretty good.
The job was as a system administrator, emphasizing troubleshooting and automation. The question wasn't job related.

I can handle Fibonacci when the problem is described, but a page of math means nothing to me.
Orkut was a creation by one of their employees in the early days of social networks. It was experimental, no one had yet determined if social network sites really had any staying power. Up to that point I think Friendster had really been the only one to break any ground.

Orkut also never really got Google's blessing. It wasn't fully integrated into Google Accounts and for the time I was on it, never even had a Google logo on the site.
Yup. What I'm seeing again and again is that developers under-estimate what consumers are willing to pay for (i.e. devs do too much, too soon).

My first app did about 340 sales in the first month, for a development cost of $0 + 6 hours of time. I haven't had a day of 0 sales yet, and I'm not nearly played out in terms of updates and improvements.
That's actually a first MS OS which I must say I like without any 'but's. And definitely it comes as a huge relief after Vista, which made me stop by Apple shop more and more often. Performance-wise it seems even better than XP and that's with all eye-candy on, which is rather impressive in itself.

I've read some articles on W7 architecture and there does not seem to be any single reason for this speedup, besides new profiling QA team. So kudos to them. Going in the right direction there, MS.
This lacks quite a lot of (interesting) detail. The differences between Windows and Ubuntu are more than the icons and the games; what about Office (OO is quite different, particularly for advanced uses of Excel), Outlook, Active Directory, NTLM authentication for internal (web)apps, .Net for in-house development, etc? These aren't all strictly speaking part of Windows, but they are part of the Windows ecosystem, particularly at large sites, and usually don't have Linux slot-in equivalents that are trivial to implement.

So, either the Gendarmerie Nationale didn't use any of those parts of the Windows ecosystem (which seems unlikely), or they made savings in spite of having to replace them (in which case the 'icons and games' remark is disingenuous), or they haven't accounted properly (which, this being a governmental entity, doesn't seem impossible.)
Using iSCSI On Debian Lenny (Initiator And Target)
"Erlang is trendy Haskell is not."

What!? You must not visit reddit.
Isn't that what energy futures markets effectively do?
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Tri, Tri Again for Aptera 3-Wheeler Loan From Feds | Autopia from Wired.com
You can launch any document or application in Vista by pressing the Windows key, typing any part of the name of the app/document, then pressing Enter. Even in Windows NT and later, many (but not all) applications could be run by hitting Windows-R, typing the name of the executable, and then hitting Enter. You've also been able to assign applications shortcut keys since Windows 3.1 (right click on the shortcut in the start menu, choose properties). Windows 7 automatically assigned your applications shortcuts like Windows-1, Windows-2, Windows-3 according to their position in the start menu.
I hope it isn't as unreliable in cold weather though: http://www.clubscuderia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1539
I doubt Arc is the cause of any problems. I think this data model would be problematic in any language. You can't just let your processes die when you are low on memory, you need to evict unused pages from the cache.
But of course, any sane database will cache as much in RAM as possible anyway. But instead of dying when you run out of memory, it just evicts the least recently used page.
I keep hearing people say this, but the actual voice quality (you know the reason to use a phone) on cell phones still sucks a lot of the time. I hate when someone calls me from their cell phone.
This is really interesting at the level of sketchily navigating regulations.

I believe that the Aptera (which, in full disclosure, I lust after) was clearly set up as a 3-wheeler to qualify as a motorcycle to avoid a whole lot of regs -- safety and otherwise.

Whether or not they made it safer than a regular car is questionable.

But I really don't buy the argument that "if only it had four wheels". I think you could just double up that back wheel and be done. I believe there was even a land-speed record car that did exactly this.
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I can't agree with you more. At least here in the States the law enforcement agencies use specialized software that runs only on windows (Think report writing, ticket tracking, officer tracking, booking systems, accident reconstruction, computer forensics, etc). Do the French LEA use software that's cross platform? Or did they already move to web-based software so that the workstation OS is a non-issue?

As the parent stated there's a lot more to an IT eco-system than the icons and games. Surely the French used special LEA software, and I'm wishing the article included details about that.
How can people call themselves programmers and don't know more recursion thatn this guy. It is not recursion that is slow, it is your algorithm...
Solving the multiple phone problem by forcing yourself to have only one phone is like solving a rubik's cube by painting all the squares one color. It kind of misses the point. Also: if this were a story about the ipod in 2001, would your comment have been 'I already have that. It's called a cd player'?
Cell phone companies have to port numbers between carriers, I wonder why Google can't do it? I would be all over this if I could keep my cell phone number...
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JQuery gestures
Paul Graham uses Erlang to solve scaling problems
http://twitter.com/madhaxor
Patents do - Software patents don't. However, if you want to sell your stuff in the US, you must obey the rules there, and the US is a pretty big marked.
I really like Google's strategy in doing this. They've been rolling out small social based updates for awhile now across all their various applications. Some examples of how it's evolved for me personally:

- In Google Reader, it used to be just me. Now I share stories with (a small handful of) friends. Now, just a few days ago they added commenting features for that. Soon, it will probably be public sharing/comments.

- In Gmail, it used to be just me. Then they added Google Talk into Gmail and the general routine will be receive email from a contract employer, email back and forth, and then we end up talking in Google Chat. I never have to leave Gmail to do all this.

- With Google Maps, I've created a few maps that I've shared with others. When we were going on a trip to Montreal I made a little map of hot spots we should check out. Then, we just loaded it up on the laptop when we were there and we had our own little guide ready for us.

That's just a few examples, but I think what they are doing is very impressive.
The difference is that on a $5 coffee or lunch I'm getting something that I know I will enjoy. It will also last for a reasonable amount of time while subsiding hungry/thirst/tiredness.

With a $5 app I might enjoy it for maybe a couple of minutes if it's not crap. I've seriously downloaded free apps, played them for 30 seconds, thought "this is not fun", and exited the app. I'm personally scared of having that same experience with a $5 app. With a $0.99 app I could try out 5 different apps instead of just one, while putting the same amount of money at stake.

If I spend $5 I want to be fully aware of what I'm getting for it. I hope that the author's new Lite version helps achieve this.
Previous thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=480171

hint: http://searchyc.com
Releasing early and often... how it failed for us
Hooray!

I vote for a permanent ban on fluffy links.

The Fluffy category ought to include:

- MBA related stuff

- Suit related stuff

- Content free linkbait articles that mention the words "hacker" or "hackers" in the title, like the absolute jewel we had yesterday, where one of the supposed must have skills for a hacker is a high wpm typing speed (I really do think that - in the near future - humans will be able to train monkeys to type)

- Anything that would appeal to the majority of the "social networking" crowd

- Anything that offers anything remotely related to the "program software (or any other worthwhile computer activity) with this product, no brain, education, or hard work required!" crack dream

- Did I mention MBA/Suit related stuff? :)

- Wannabe MBA fodder

- Last but not least, I mean (sigh), how can I say this without coming off negatively? well, can't be said, but I will do it. I really do think that the best Heuristic is the Room Temperature Test: anything that would appeal to people whose IQ hovers even close to room temperature ought to be kept off the site period - this includes all of the above, particularly the MBA/Suit Neanderthal stuff.
Sure, but the reason it's an open letter is so that others will read it too.
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I think the main advantage of Windows 7 over Vista is just the passage of time. Most developers of mainstream software have finally made sure that their software works on Vista. A lot more old hardware (whose makers did not make Vista-compatible drivers) has been replaced, and other drivers fixed, so that the likelihood of running into a driver-related problem is much lower now. A lot more software has been fixed to work under a limited (non-Administrator) account, which means UAC is practical. I develop software under Windows Vista all day long, every day, using dozens of tools, and I almost never get a UAC prompt.

The focus of Windows 7 development has been on reducing end-user frustration. Windows itself is limited in how much it can reduce that frustration because a lot of it is caused by third-party applications and by Microsoft add-ons. So, while the Windows 7 UX has already improved over Vista, the real UX benefits won't happen until applications adopt the Windows 7 style guidelines. For example, applications need to get rid of their "minimize to tray" options and they need to quit installing icons on the desktop. (Actually these were the guidelines even for Windows 95, but Windows 7 really makes it counterproductive to break the rules.) They need to integrate with the new task bar features. They need to integrate with the new restart infrastructure so that installers don't have to reboot your computer due to files being in use.