skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Samsung software I have seen on their TVs, laptops, phones has been adequate at best. I wish them best of luck developing another closed ecosystem. However their track record of developing good, functioning software is not very promising.

When you use Apple products everything is tied into Apple. I didn't like some parts of their ecosystem (Itunes). It is all or nothing for Apple, so I said farewell and moved on.

When I switched to Android I discovered it is strongly tied to Google, their services are great and free. However I grew increasingly worried about a future in which my account ends up as a "false positive" and my life get's deleted. — Seriously those horror stories about people's Google account getting deleted for no good reason are very scary to a startup founder. The probability is very low, but I am scared enough to invest money and time in moving all my data away from Google.

So Samsung if the article is right and this is your longterm strategy, I wish you best of luck, don't expect me to be a customer at any point in the future.
And which one you hate the most?
I vote for LinkedIn.. real piss off.
Zelda is not simply a single instance of a static puzzle with a well-defined solution, it has code creating things dynamically. The title implies that the NP-complete problems are part of the actual gameplay. If you're only looking at mechanics you can pick nearly any game with movement and pull out traveling salesman.
This is especially interesting to me. For the last month or so I have been creating a free online training center for game development.

http://www.digitalscienceacademy.com/

We are getting funding through Google Adsense and it has worked out so far.

I think this could be the future of education: delivering quality content with as little overhead as possible.

I guess we'll see how it works out.
Omega: Google's next-gen job scheduling system (2011) [video]
i loved all of this except the [1] thingy - it smacks of the trying-too-hard pretention that causes all the bland US javascript salesmen to worship "professionalism" and conformity. maybe you could edit it out and just put a link instead?
>Reminds me of the DHMO hoax

From the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) [1]:

"CARCINOGENIC EFFECTS: Not available. MUTAGENIC EFFECTS: Not available. TERATOGENIC EFFECTS: Not available.
DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICITY: Not available."

"Precautions: No specific safety phrase has been found applicable for this product"

"Ecotoxicity: Not available.

BOD5 and COD: Not available.

Products of Biodegradation:
Possibly hazardous short term degradation products are not likely. However, long term degradation products may arise."

"Small Spill: Mop up, or absorb with an inert dry material and place in an appropriate waste disposal container.

Large Spill: Absorb with an inert material and put the spilled material in an appropriate waste disposal"

"Personal Protection: Safety glasses. Lab coat."

[1] http://www.sciencelab.com/msds.php?msdsId=9927321
Finnish = äiti

Hungarian = anya

Kannada = ತಾಯಿ (taayi) ... "avva" sometimes colloquial.

Telugu = తల్లి (talli)
I was always a huge evangelist for this service and it was incredibly useful to so many people I know. I'm both surprised and disappointed to see it go but I guess you can't serve ads via SMS (well, you can, but...).
Because word wrap and fluid layout are design decisions made by web developers and designers, NOT the web browser. Fluid layouts work just fine on iOS and wrap as expected. IMO the decision by Apple to scale a site's layout proportionally without breaking the intended layout is a valid one.
I posted this when it was pulled a couple days ago, to no traction :/

Google says their mission is to 'organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.' To me (and several others who have posted in that forum), this seems to be counterintuitive to that mission. Many people can't afford or don't want to pay for a smartphone or the data plan. When you try using SMS search now, google responds "SMS search has been shutdown. You can continue to search the web at google.com on any device". This isn't exactly helpful for someone lost in an unfamiliar city without a smartphone or GPS.
Depends on your audience. Do most know what it means? Do most even notice it?
No, I wasn't in ketosis -- my carbs were well over what it would take to go into ketosis.

I was thinking part of it may have been the wheat/yeast throwing my intestinal microbes out of balance (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/health/studies-focus-on-gu...) and so when I cut it out, things returned to homeostasis.
I like to use them for simple cases only (No nested comprehensions, etc). When in doubt, the Google Python style guide [0] has some useful guidance.

[0] - http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pyguide.ht...
Ask HN: Should YC become a non-profit?
YC has many of the features of a top tier college. Careful admissions process, strong alumni network, great branding on resume, lasting relationships with talented peers, high cultural cachet, etc.

Universities are more persistent than companies or investment funds (the best universities have been around for centuries). Part of this stability is rooted in alumni having a powerful drive to give back both money and time.

YC seems close to being a new sort of top tier educational institution that could really persist, however alumni are less inclined to give to an institution that primarily exists to enrich individuals. If YC established an endowment and went non-profit, it would have a shot at being a new MIT.

I'm not a YC alum. Just an observation from the outside.
GA realtime does not differ in tracking methodology, it uses the same onload beacon, just like the long-tail reporting.
Things like the CAP theorem, monads, functional programming and distributed systems knowledge, programmable graphics pipelines, and the pervasiveness of unit testing and CI infrastructure certainly look like advances in mainstream programming technology to me. Are you sure you're not defining "mainstream programming technology" to mean "what I know", and arguing that you don't feel like you know much more than when you started programming?
There is an excellent book called "Metaprogramming Ruby" I'd recommend.
In spoken croatian, mama is mother, tata is father. In some dialects baba is grandmother or old lady and dida (deda) is the grandfather.
showing too much class obsession is a red flag, probably. like saying the word "classy."
The fact that many colleges are subsidized by the government prevents many other solutions from gaining traction.

When an 18 year old looks at the options he goes to a public school because all he has to do is sign on the dotted line. These students will not even feel the burden of the cost until they leave.
I don't know if there's a best, but I use DigiCert.com. They're the perfect combination of easy, quick and affordable. Plus, the support is great.
Picking a 'constant' of 2^k, with k the entire memory space of the console, is a rather inaccurate representation. It's like arguing that a desktop computer is not turing complete: true in such a narrow sense that using it to win a bar bet is going to lead to someone getting punched in the face.
There's some truth to that, but their profits are growing because their annual revenues are consistently and exponentially growing, not because their costs are going down:

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AGOOG&fstype=ii...

Digital advertising just happens to be a very good industry to be in right now.
I don't recall noticing any special powers since passing 500, so everything I know about is unlocked by then.
What's a company that you wouldn't ever buy an SSL certificate from again? They all seems about the same to me and I don't think I have ever heard of a bad one.
What's strange to me is that everything Samsung does to try and differentiate themselves just makes me like their phones less. Their hardware design is plastic and cheap feeling and I hate the touchwiz layer they put on top of android with their gimmicky features (camera based gesture controls? - who cares?).

I think Apple, Nokia and even HTC make much nicer hardware (although HTC still puts its Sense on top of android). I really wished Nokia had partnered with google to make the nexus phones instead of joining up with microsoft - then we would have had awesome hardware and a solid vanilla android phone.
I think this is a super realistic way to approach project management in when we're using a bunch of different services, all in different tabs in a browser.

I use Evernote to do the task management that the Contextinator Home Page gives you and I have a shortcut to open up all my project-relevant tabs quickly in a browser. It's a pretty similar setup, and a bit less elegant but it does the trick for me. If the task-management side of Contextinator looked a bit more like Evernote (tags, sharing, etc...) I think it would be even better.

That being said, I think it's a super cool way to manage projects. Keep it up _ankit_!
Backend infrastructure at Spotify
Android was designed to kill the smartphone business. Samsung is smart enough, and well run enough, to use Android and then discard it. Other Android OEMs are roadkill.
A startup nowadays is a business entity that tries to maximize value in the short-term (i.e. flipping), while a small business is a business entity that maximizes value for the long-term.

The problem with long-term stories is that they're usually boring until the business sells or dies.
What you are missing is that he is not an apple fanboi.
> there's something wrong with cursing in the first place.

There is when it's used in regular speech for no reason, like using "like" every other sentence instead of just pausing.
PG put it best in his essay "Startup = Growth"[1]:

"Let's start with a distinction that should be obvious but is often overlooked: not every newly founded company is a startup. Millions of companies are started every year in the US. Only a tiny fraction are startups. Most are service businesses—restaurants, barbershops, plumbers, and so on. These are not startups, except in a few unusual cases. A barbershop isn't designed to grow fast. Whereas a search engine, for example, is."

A barbershop is a great example of a small business. A barbershop is obviously different in nature from a search engine because it's not designed for rapid growth.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/growth.html
Time Magazine Confuses Russia with Finland
Google 'boutique hotel near x' or read a wallpaper guide. Call hotel directly, ask for corporate discount if AI expect to be in th city a lot.

Don't like chains as I find they have poor food and service.
A small business was once a startup. Startup doesn't have to mean explosive growth and a quick sell, it can also mean long-term sustainable growth.
Why virtual worlds died
Can you provide sources showing this? I wasn't familiar with these numbers and would like to tell people about them.
I'm not that experienced in the subject, but do we really invent new genes. My understanding is that we take take existing genes from unrelated organisms. This is still substantually different from cross breading, as when we do it, the organisms to not need to be sexually compatible (or sexual), and we may insert them in ways that nature does not.
A word of caution: make sure to set the "opt_noninteraction" flag in the event tracking to "true" otherwise your bounce rate will be off.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
Google says their mission is one thing; their actions seem to point to another. Actions speak louder than words.
Fundraising for school groups, sports teams, etc. has always been such a challenging and tedious process for youth. How many candy bars and candles can you really sell to your friends and family?? PiggyBackr does a fantastic job making group fundraising FUN and "competitive" for youth. A much needed application!!
I think darkxanthos is talking about centuries when you're talking about decades.
I think some of your stats are a little excessive, nonetheless, and to some extent, I agree. Still though, It really left a bad feeling when the author went on about how much money he was saving. My undertone (could have been more clear) was that, that is ridiculous.
Yeah, I just added it to http://www.gwern.net/ . At first I was all 'o.0 you expect me to load a bunch of JavaScript just to add a button' but then I spotted that there was a purely static version and added it without a problem. We'll see how it goes.
A bit behind schedule, but here it is:

http://www.shomisearch.com/api/vocab/grade/8/

http://www.shomisearch.com/api/vocab/grade+sources/9/

...etc. The two lists available for now are "grade" and "grade+sources"; the first list will return the vocabulary list for that grade, the second will return the vocabulary list plus the sites that the data was pulled from.

Valid grade levels are "pre-k", "k" (or "kindergarten" if you like), "1" thru "12", and "college" (or "collegiate").

Currently it just returns results as text/plain with no bells or whistles.

On my to-do list for this is: documentation at /api, json result formatting, more lists & list options, and the ability to POST some text to the vocab api and get back the median & mode of the grade values for the text.

I don't intend to do any of that right away though, since this all just started out as a planned feature for a larger project.

There are currently ~21,000 entries in the database. Lots of duplicates and disagreements on grade levels for words, as expected.

If there's anything else you think is important enough for me to get on right away, let me know.
I wonder how Kahn Academy is making money. Looks like they are getting donations. This makes me wonder how sustainable this kind of site is.
I expect it will depend on:

a. whether you want a certificate for a single hostname, several hostnames, or a wildcard;

b. whether you want extended validation or not; and possibly

c. what country you're based in.

Perhaps other factors as well.
Went to Best Buy, typed "laptop", first result

Toshiba - Satellite 15.6" Laptop - 4GB Memory - 320GB Hard Drive - Satin Black
Model: C855D/S5103 • SKU: 8119044
62 Ratings
$279.99

That's 2x the ram and I get 320 HD which even if you don't want to use it for storage it's pretty awesome when running any OS that supports virtual memory. Have you looked at how much virtual memory your average Linux distro ends up using?

That was just the first hit. There's plenty of machines in the same price range as a chromebook that have better specs, more power and therefore more freedom.
Serious question: is there a community like HN that focuses more on small scale success a la patio11 and other Microconf types?

I love the tech I see on HN, but I don't relate at all to the obsession with acquisitions, venture capital, workaholism, and status seeking.
I am an android developer.

Are you suggesting that screen sizes and resolutions are uniform among Samsung devices? Drivers are the same? That is nonsense.

Aftermarket distros include no warranty warnings, it's up to the packagers to solve bugs in their builds.

Here is the reality: if they had opted to use the MediaPlayer classes with whatever streaming service they use on devices 2.3+, they would have likely had to deal with a few corner cases. If they didn't, they have made a poor decision. If they did, they are restricting allowed devices for reasons that are non-technical.

> Even between virgin android devices there is a LOT of fragmentation, these devices just happen to be popular with developers so most people aren't impacted by it.

I use the emulator for almost all of my testing and then test on a Galaxy Nexus. I beta test across a large net. The number of corner cases that are not related to pre-gingerbread versions of android is tiny. [EDIT: In the streaming media field, as of now. This was a much bigger problem several years ago. Obviously, the differences are more of an issue with games, which we are not talking about here.]
Turtle Power Emerges From Shell In South Korea
Jeff Atwood has lots of links here:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/03/does-more-than-one-...
Not in lots of countries.
Isn't this an issue coworking spaces solve?
Sure, it isn't helpful for those without a data plan, but decisions doesn't exist in a present day vacuum. People with phones without data plans are a dying breed, and I think any reasonable person would focus their efforts on the premise that the world is moving toward smartphones.
That's not wrapped text, it's a mobile layout. Also if the layout is fluid it's wrapped quite nicely by mobile Safari.

What I assume Android browsers have is something like Opera mobile, which force-wraps all text no matter how the site is coded.
> I don't think I have ever heard of a bad one.

Diginotar
Sometimes when a google service shuts down I think, "Hmm, what did that one do? I don't remember hearing about that."
People with feature phones are still going to need to find info, and this move shifts the traffic onto services with less resources than Google (eg. https://twitter.com/Telefact). As additional services shut down due to increasing traffic, that traffic will move to the surviving services, until they all shut down.
Your man is gonna make some serious money.

1. Clearly he is politicly connected. You don't get govt funding in India without being connected to some member of parliament or another.

2. And he knows some serious science.

3. Is clearly an entrepreneur.

Well done him.
"The occupy movement rallied against what they perceived to be a rigged game: a financial system that required their participation but did not offer them a seat at the table. Then they went home - maybe because the weather got bad"

Occupy Wall Street was cleared out by police starting at 1 AM on Tuesday, November 15th, 2011. It was done at 1 AM as they only had to deal with people staying at the park at that time. They arrested 200 people in a well-planned operation.
One of the reasons given for clearing the park was unsanitary conditions, which I can personally attest was BS - OWS was always sanitary, and when the mayor began using sanitation as a reason to clear things out OWS became fanatical about cleanliness. I watched people sweep the same spot of ground multiple times an hour. Compare that to the parks and recreation cuts where some NYC parks can go more than a week without any cleanup.

The police pushed back attempts to re-occupy the park in the day of November 15th and November 16th. A more organized effort to get back in the park was tried on New Year's Eve, and was met by pepper spray, dozens of arrests etc.

While this is the reality, which can be easily verified, I realize there is this hegemonic false way of thinking. I realize this requires reporting that OWS were a bunch of trustafarians not affected by Wall Street shenanigans, and who went home when it got cold. Because to talk about what really happened, as opposed to the invented ideas of what would happen from someone embracing a propagandistic model of explanation, would require revealing things which are not allowed to be revealed.

While I embrace ideas that came out of OWS, I didn't go for the first week or two even though I knew about it before it happened, because I didn't see how occupying an area would do anything, and I didn't think people were interested. On that latter point I certainly misjudged - people from NYC and surrounding areas who had pent-up frustration about unemployment and the economy came flooding into OWS. Any how, it's funny how Russian governments or Chinese governments and their press organs lied, and much of the population knew its BS, yet the corporate press organs in the U.S. lie and say it got too cold so OWSers went home, and it is accepted as fact by so many. That the press lies is not surprising, that Americans are so credulous is what's surprising. I guess with so much fundamentalist religion among the working class and a different sort of warped thinking among professionals in the US, I shouldn't be continuously surprised by this, but I am.
It took me a while to figure out how to use Work Flowy in a way that will help me. Here's what it's become for me:

1. A To Do list separated by due today (or this week), due this month, due this quarter, due this year. Some stuff winds up on multiple lists (e.g. grad school is on this quarter and this year to keep it in my mind).

2. A few shopping list templates with basic items. I don't ever update them, but when I get to the store, I look and make sure to get whatever I know I don't have (the list has stuff like eggs, meat, vegtables, fruit. It's extremely vague, but helps me not miss a section).

3. Random notes that I've written down and may or may not ever go back to. I used to have a collection of these on my computer in assorted Doc files (and some on google drive) and I never knew where the one I wanted was). I read through my whole workflowy every month or so and get rid of what doesn't belong anymore. A lot of times, though, I am reminded of something I wrote down months ago and can now think of it again.

4. A few small projects that I'm working on broken into steps to make the whole project seem less daunting. Currently have a bathroom remodel on there (I used to do construction, so this really is a small project for me) with tasks like: tile, plumbing, electric and sub sections for what I need to pick up from Home Depot.

It's not perfect, but the apps that are currently out there never worked for me (Orchesta, Clearly, Remember the Milk, etc.)
Is their any reason we cannot bread in genetic diversity? For example, if we cross polinate are artifical strains with wild strains, and then use standard artificial selection for the most high yielding strain, we should return to genetic diversity.

The only way I can see this not working is if the specific changes we made that yield improved output are the same ones that cause problems.

However, my understanding is that this is extremely unlikely, and the likely problem is that in order to get those changes we were only working with a small number of strains, so we lack genetic diversity across the entire genome.

There is still the economic problem that doing this is expensive, yet causes no benefit to anyone in particular. This seems to make it the perfect candidate for the government to step in and do it.
I have a t-shirt site, w/ inventory, I'd be willing to part with, anthony@coderindustries.com
Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class
Have you done any view caching? You should take a look at fragment caching and how Russian doll caching works with the cache_digest gem.
The nice thing about education: it only takes one to deliver to many. If we could have one person make an open Algebra Textbook millions can benefit from it.

We just need a systematic method to pay for this material to be produced.
I don't understand why Canonical felt the need to use the GPL for such an intimate part of the display stack.

I find it hard to believe that the license that Xorg is using has somehow placed it at a disadvantage. If anything, by choice of license, Canonical has ensured that many commercial organizations that contribute to Xorg today may not contribute to Mir.
The term you are looking for is efficiency which is the measure of how much of the business is dedicated to the parts that provide the revenue versus the parts that don't :-).

I left Google a couple of years after Patrick Pichette joined. Patrick is a great guy and very focused on putting as much money as possible into the bank account (great for share holders, not so great for lifestyle benefits).

But the point is that there is a target return on capital that every group is being held to and those that don't make the cut are being tossed. That helps the overall number get better (assuming those freed up resources either join more profitable projects or leave)
British Psychological Society calls for "paradigm shift" in psychiatry