skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least on Windows with a proper graphics card, Flash is not a problem.

Not sure about other systems.
Google Street View Hyperlapses [video]
Looks very much like Hipchat. I'm curious as to why it's better (if it is).
> it's clumbersome to use in a browser too.

http://irccloud.com (Although, lot's of downtime recently / growing pains.)
The modding was the best part about the whole series. It created an awesome community and infinitely extended the playability of the games. You could even replace all artwork, ships, missions, planets and create a whole new world - which is exactly how EV Nova came about.

It is a shame that there seems to be less games created with that sort of spirit in mind nowadays.
I remember one time I had to transfer the original EV from one computer to another... using a floppy disk. I learned how to split .sit archives that day and got a lot of exercise on the stairs.
I'd be happy with that. Now to get people to use it...
Well, http://search/ would be different from http://search.com or http://sear.ch/ for example.

I can imagine a lot of scenarios where people could easily be tricked into accessing the wrong URI if these dotless domains become common place.

The same applies to companies whose intranets already use some common words as internal services.
Sendgrid down (again)
Huh? Do you have an idea of how science and medicine works?
It looks like whoever was behind recent events saw this as message claiming it wasn't a DDoS, chuckled and responded by... making a stronger DDoS. MtGOX is down.
For me its being the chosen one, and spending endless hours getting the load out for my ship just right, or more likely pirating and capturing the most powerful ships I could find.
Dang, I'm surrounded by Jacqueses! (Jacuqi?)

Thank you. I changed it to the Americanized form of possessive for words ending in s (pronounced or not) I think this could go either way, but I screwed it up no matter which choice an author might take.
My first thought was that it looks exactly like HipChat. Then I checked the HipChat web client, and it's pretty damned close: http://cdn.userstyles.org/style_screenshots/84237_before.png
Usage share of operating systems
Collaborative chat done right (again)
I see it useful for monitoring competitors.
It would be great to have a kind of charting feature to visualize data à la webnumbr
I thought calling attention to it would be enough. Life, wealth distribution, transportation modes, etc. are very different now than they were 80 years ago. Treating it as a roughly apples to apples comparison is ludicrous.
All of the EV series were developed by external companies, so they never had that expertise in-house.

That said, I probably would have bought an iPad/iPhone version.
Posted 3 days ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5510732
> The US is effectively subsidizing advanced healthcare for every other country in the world.

That's a very misinformed statement.
The Select Project pop out window on Windows doesn't look very nice... But other than that, looks great!
It depends on the lighting for me, and also the screen. On my MacBook with the glossy screen I prefer white themes until it's dark and there is less light, in which case I change to black. On matte screens I prefer dark all of the time.
For some reason it really annoyed me that he was spelling it "Api" rather than "API".
Well in all fairness, outside of La Francophonie, "Jacques" is not a common name. And for English speakers it's just chock full of exciting traps. My favourite is putting 'c' and 'q' next to each other. In French that's a single sound; in English it says "new syllable, please!

edit:

> Jacqueses! (Jacuqi?)

Jacqueses would be closest (-ii is a Latin pluralisation, Jacques comes from Jacob which is Hebrew).

There's an impedance mismatch here: English stores plurality in the word, French stores it in the sentence.
Thank you. Such a shame. Their brand was so well known and their games so loved and addictive. I would have thought it would fit right in the App Store. Perhaps we'll see someone buying the titles, artwork and team?
Ask HN: Is anyone making money from garbage?
Could You Be The Next Banana King? http://cbpowerandindustrial.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/you-could-be-the-next-banana-king/ is based on the real-life story of Samuel Zemurray, who started out penniless but built an empire on discarded bananas.

It's given me the idea to look for money where other people see only waste.

My question is twofold: is there anyone on HN making money from refuse or have any ideas / know of any stories of people who are?
There are a few third party indexes used by SEOs for this purpose:

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/
https://www.majesticseo.com/
https://ahrefs.com/

Even once you own the domain, the links Google reports in GWT can be rather hit and miss...
The article referenced, clickable: http://cbpowerandindustrial.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/you-cou...
Why do you say, "never work in the music space"? Can you give specific reasons?
Thank you for the link :)
Zen photon garden, an HTML5 raytracer for making art
The name is way too close to Jabber
I have only had time to have a quick look at the source code, but it doesn't seem to be in any way related to Jabber/XMPP.

With that in mind, perhaps the name is a bit confusing?
> If a trained human can recognize spam in its many forms, then it's possible for spam detectors to do the same without relying on obscurity.

You mean... it's theoretically, some-time-in-the-future possible? What, we are all to put up with terrible search results until such time as strong AI has been cracked? I think not. It is perfectly valid for Google's spam detection to "rely on obscurity" if that is the best currently-available solution to the problem, and your criticism on this point is not very reasonable.
I don't have any inside information on the news, and NY is still asleep.

However, their PR guru has tweeted from his own account saying they are still up and running. It is clear something has happened; I don't want to speculate but my hope is that the core team is still there and they will live on and support their products and move forward.

As to whether they sell the rights to others for App Store versions, that is an interesting idea and I'd like to see it happen as they have some great products.
By that logic, you should add the population for the other countries and compare to the US, which is about 345m compared to the US, 315m - which doesn't sound like the US is "subsidizing the world" to me.. Although I guess a big chunk of that revenue probably comes from the US.
Garbage is not garbage if it makes you rich. Garbage is garbage only if you find it worthless. o_O
Exquizito - Online Restaurant Reservation Portal
Exquizito (www.exquizito.com) is an online restaurant reservation portal which allows you to book a table at your favorite restaurant while availing great discounts. We enable diners get access to lower prices at great restaurants. You can search through a list of restaurants, see all the available offers and can book a table instantly. We have partnered with the finest restaurants, all promising to excite your taste buds. Currently operating in Pune, India.
That's why I never plan or prepare for anything!
Yep, this has happened to me a couple of times as well. My post would be in the Top 10 for a few hours and then suddenly sink below 30.
Great. I still wish FF's Console was as good as WebKit's, though.
Medicare/Medicaid are specifically not allowed to bargain on drug prices, though. They are a monopsony for hospital/doctor services, with full pricing power, for the old and poor, but pay market prices for drugs by law.
Linda Katz?

http://www.business-opportunities.biz/2013/04/10/the-worlds-...
Put some fresh ginger in some soil and start harvesting your own after a few months.

http://herbgardens.about.com/od/indoorgardening/a/How-Can-I-...
Totally a trolling name but it works so well for chat.
.com has basically become a catch-all which represents that.
You'll have a hard time finding a chromatic trumpet outside of a museum.

This is kind of a confusing statement to me. Most instruments called "trumpets" where I come from are valved instruments which are fully capable of producing chromatics. (Maybe this is technically incorrect and we should be properly calling them "cornets" or something, I don't know.)

My point is, you certainly don't have to go to a museum to find one, and I expect, in a museum (of history anyway), any trumpet you'd find would be more likely to to be valveless and non-chromatic.
> What to me the most striking is the firm belief that demand will keep on growing, just like people believed property prices will keep on going up since the population is growing and land is finite. Sure, but demand spikes can still price these things too high.

I don't think anyone really expected it to go up in one straight line all the way to the value that it should have during mainstream usage.
Square Enix has turned big data into a game development tool
Microsoft Plans 7-Inch Tablet
You've just used a bunch of words that sounds smart, but provide deceptive value. The typical Bb valved trumpet that exists now does indeed play chromatically. And so will any other class of modern brass instrument with three valves or more.

The chromatic trumpet is an invention that allowed us to escape the trumpets natural harmonic series (Those being the notes a trumpet can play in a single valve position) before valves were invented by drilling holes along its tubes.

Wikipedia is not the best place to learn music theory, and knowing music theory is as useful as knowing a list of rules for programming best practice.
Gotta say when I clicked on the link that wasn't the kind of board I was expecting at all. Good on you man! I've been too scared to switch back to smaller wheels after a few months on some soft 60mm's, but you may have just convinced me to go back.
well that's the biggest load of shit i've ever read
It's not true. For a modern eight-cylinder internal combustion engine with a flywheel and a balanced, counterweighted crankshaft, there's no significant pulsation present in the output power train. If there were, it would quickly destroy the transmission and rear differential.

There are a number of excellent reasons to suppress any significant pulsation in the power from an ICE, and the flywheel is the primary way to accomplish this.
He probably time travelled and snuck the story into the news.
This is exactly one of the concerns I mentioned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5353171. It is already exhibited by other controllers of TLDs: http://ydal.de/a-records-on-top-level-domains/

I havent received a reply yet to my request to reopen the public discussion on the new gTLDs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5351335. I'll be chasing up on it today - I would appeal to the rest of you to do the same and help stop these gTLDs ever seeing the light of day.
Almost identical to the HipChat UI.
I found algorithms far superiour than me for 1-2d problems. (inverse pendulum problems, balancing a ball on a 2d plane and exactly controlling its position).

So problems probably are too many degrees of freedom, challenges like proper vision to plan ahead and steer, and in the shoving case also the security aspect (since there's a hard limit on how much force/acceleration a robot can use if it is handled by humans, and if you can shove it, it surely is).

In that sense, a skate-bot (without security limits) seems to be easier than a walking one with limits (which I assume you meant) to me since it takes down the degrees of freedom.
i've worked at novartis. they spend 3 times as much on marketing than research. that's what's wrong with the whole deal
The thing is, there's always someone who can make money from garbage.
- the legal system is a huge disappointment (CISPA, SOPA, etc.)

- the financial system is a huge disappointment (worldwide financial crisis)

It's not that we love Bitcoin (sure, it is an interesting piece of technology, but it's money, and money is a dirty word), we just dislike the alternatives.
keep on believing. you're the defender of freedoms after all
I did read TFA and... pentagram? Do you mean the staff/lines?

Adding more visual cues isn't necessarily a good thing. 'Counting lines' is what you get when you're a neophyte at reading music, and is chaff for the more experienced. And when you're playing a complex piece of music, you want to minimise visual clutter.
The press release did say that they may take the exchange down for a few hours. I'm not sure if that meant unannounced downtime like this though.
If spam detection relies on obscurity of the signals used, then it isn't good spam detection and for every change it's only a matter of time until spammers adapt.

So? It works until they do adapt, then the cycle repeats itself. There's no such thing as perfect spam prevention. It will always be an arms race.

At the end of the day it's not your job to explain their reasoning or apologize for their screw-ups. If you're not a Google employee, then you've got no idea what their internal goals are or what their "job" is.

There's not much content for me to address, here. My statement was pretty self-evident.

If somebody behaves like a jackass, do you tolerate that person?

Google isn't behaving like a jackass. They're simply not going out of their way to do other people's work for them. It's not Google's responsibility to make sure your domain is kosher; that's yours.
Bagnoli: sequestrate aree per disastro ambientale.
Isn't it the torque curve that's smooth for electric motors and not power?
Yes. That last bit is very rare, especially in server applications where you have multiple clients. In any case you might want to be a little more careful before calling something that you didn't understand nonsense.
Ask HN: Best way to launch your product?
We are about to finish coding our first public beta of hotelninjas.com which means we can finally accept high volume of customers. And I was wondering what is the best way in your opinion to let the world know we're out there?

We're a bootstrapped startup with very little resources so everything we're looking at is low-budget, guerrilla stuff.

What launch tactics worked best for you?

What is a complete waste of time that needs to be avoided?
The statement about Europe and Spain is not entirely true. Spain had large spending issues before their current depression, the debt of their football clubs is 752m Euro that is ridiculous. I am far from an economist but the view of the author on Europe seems a bit American. Trough the same way of this inflation system the Euro has brought great wealth to the Netherlands, once a high valued currency (the Dutch currency before the Euro) and the lower ones (e.g. the Greek currency before the Euro), where merged the Netherlands could export their products at a lower price, and they have made a lot of money this way.
That is somewhat, but not entirely accurate.

The lead programmer on all three games was Matt Burch, a freelancer; he was responsible for the main engine. Ambrosia supplied and adapted their large array of libraries (Sound, Graphics, Licensing and more).

For EV Nova, a team under the name ATMOS in Australia were developing a complete rewrite of the story/graphics as a mod. Ambrosia brought them on board (as an external team) and supported them. Matt was still programmer, whilst ATMOS did copywriting and graphics.

So yes, a lot of the work was done by two external teams, but Ambrosia contributed heavily towards the code, support/testing and perhaps most importantly they helped guide the production.

That was a model Ambrosia used on many of their games (though normally Ambrosia were also doing the artwork); they solicited pitches for game ideas from people who had an idea and needed support. It was a great model and lead to same fantastic games!
Because to get it 'right' you have to emulate (usually poorly) IRC, since it has had decades of work put into it.

That being said if this could connect to IRC in a way transparent to the user it would actually be really useful
"What will make Github irrelevant?"

A stable github?

Edit - this was somewhat flippant, and they do a great job, but when it breaks it can stop me from doing what I need to do next.
.com was the catch-all, but I imagine the whole point of opening up TLD-space is to undo that.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5530497
Ah. That's right. That's the github page though and it gives a 404..
What's wrong with it? Honest question? I've used both a bit but I see no big discrepancies?
It depends on what I'm doing. I'd say I'm better than average with general programming, I'm about average when it comes to safety-critical work and I'm below the average of people who do operating systems.
hah, wollongong.

/me waves from the bottom of the bulli pass.
Just wondering what this has to do with Hacker News. But anyway, check out:

http://www.cancer-research-awareness.com/why-chemotherapy-ne...

http://www.smashcancer.com/2010/08/22/cancer-lies-and-the-me...

http://current.com/green/89138817_cancer-is-not-a-disease-ch...

Just a few writings and articles speaking about the lie that is chemotherapy.

I have an idea how medicine works, let me spell it out here for you:

1. Poison the foods (GMO, sugars, fats, overprocessed crap that is the idea of western food)

2. Sell medicine for people who eat this poisoned food

3. Profit!

Now, this is _my_ idea. You are allowed to have your own idea about this.
The “JVM” can use any instruction it wants to use.

If you want a runtime with proper tail calls, use a implementation which supports it.
Wow so many people defending IRC.
In other words americans partly pay for indians for drugs by having these patent laws.
Foursquare: not lame any more
I'm in Australia, it was 4 working days. IIRC The price went up from $60 to about $170 during that time, very frustrating.

At least I'm verified now - but I have to say their lag time and apparent saling issues still concern me a lot.
Which I more or less already said with

> If one cares about proper tail calls, use an implementation which supports it.

Right?
I don't really understand the proliferation of group chat platforms. It's been around the since the dawn of the internet, and it already works great (IRC). Do we really need to keep smothering it in new web interfaces?
Apple?

I mean, Apple Inc. not discarded apples...
You say that US healthcare leads the way in innovation but in certain key measures like Infant Mortality and Life Expectancy it's not leading the field at all.
It may be important to note that while Australia has a huge amount of land, most people live in the cities. Australia's urban population is 90%, versus the UK's 80% and the US's 82%. There are only a couple of large countries higher than Australia in this regard.

We have fooled not only the world into thinking we're all outback-dwellers, but also ourselves. What we like is tarmac and suburban strips.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_by_country
Meh.

There are two roles for Tenured College Professors:

* Making intellectual bets that might not pay off for decades

* Making Graduate students work hard

Everything else is gravy. The university and country that puts most effort into these two will over the long term get the most out. The important thing here is tenure. The next most important thing is you get to be a professor because all the other professors think you might make a good one.

Just pay up the money, and make the empirical sciences better paid. Its like a magic machine is edication. Put in money get out more.

If you want to see my poster-child for College Professors (#) go http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sddb0Khx0yA.

(#) No, not that Playboy spread. Different poster.
I'm just waiting for an appliction for portal. or intranet.
Biggest thing I'm missing in the FF Aurora builds is a console in the Inspector / Debugger panes. Having to switch to the console pane all the time gets annoying quickly.
Bitcoin and the Decentralisation of Everything
Please provide some data to back that up because it is a common belief that the high cost of producing a new drug is offset by the US consumer.
Which made it a lot worse.

It looked pretty much like the end of the system to a lot of people.

Whoever bought at 250 and was looking all day at the graph to see how to scalp some dough, got exactly what he deserved.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
Right, but it can be done so perpetual scarcity is a fallacy, no?
Or that US health research produces far less bang for the buck, because the companies can charge whatever they want, and the suckers (citizens) have to bend over and cough up the money.
More interested by the title... I had no idea unicode emoticons existed.

Found a complete list here:

http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/emoticons.html
But OSS
http://AI/ has address 209.59.119.34

http://BO/ has address 166.114.1.28

http://CM/ has address 195.24.205.60

http://DK/ has address 193.163.102.24

http://GG/ has address 87.117.196.80

http://JE/ has address 87.117.196.80

http://KH/ has address 203.223.32.21

http://PN/ has address 80.68.93.100

http://TK/ has address 217.119.57.22

http://TO/ has address 216.74.32.107

http://UZ/ has address 91.212.89.8

http://VI/ has address 193.0.0.198

http://WS/ has address 64.70.19.33
I assumed this was the idea. Why wouldn't Google want http://google./ to work?
For me the biggest problem is that it doesn't clear upon reload. Having to keep track of which messages/errors came from the previous page is really annoying.

Edit: Also, viewing objects is inferior compared to Chrome's tools.
Big data startup Collective[i] helps business leaders answer questions
I must admit that I find Chrome's devtools the easiest to use, but that's probably because it's what I'm most used to.

I work at a web dev company and there's a pretty obvious split between people who prefer FF or Chrome devtools. Every time someone says "but you can do this with x devtools but not in y devtools", it's met with a member of the other party saying something to the effect of "yes you can! it's here!". I think it's just a matter of opinion/what you're used to.
Given http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy, I am not sure I would accept THINGS as proof that Alice knew the answer. I know dictionaries probably are structured differently. But they might suffer from the same problem.
At first it felt significantly worse for me, but as I started using it there is no significant difference. Webkit's is prettier and I like the being able to refresh to clear it though.
I'd go with that.

I can't think of any reason why I'd want to see the information from a previous load - I just want to see what's going on right now, clearly.
That's embarrassing. What does your glib, mostly obnoxious comment have to do with anything factual? You hate America so much you can't even give it credit for positive things that are factually accurate?
Simple online time tracking software
I never even heard of a system that automatically selects students for any classes. You choose what you want to do, and you can go do it. At least until you go to university or something.

And I thought our school system was bad...