skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ericsson and Veracode prizes at the AT&T public safety hackathon. The app is about finding shelters and using CCTV via Google Glass to see whats ahead and if one should turn left or right
This is a list of apps to handle file and data transfers between 2 computing devices. All of these suggestions will work fine with Windows or Apple desktops, and most of them will also work on iPhones.

Yes, there are 12 at least ways of moving data from one storage device, through the host OS, across a physical (or wifi) connection or 2, sometimes through the cloud, another physical link, to the target OS and onto its storage device.
Ask HN: Co-founder compatibility test
I've created a co-founder compatibility test and would like to get feedback from the HN community. Please let me know if you find it useful and any additions, deletions or edits you would recommend to the questions or answers, thanks!

https://www.matchcodes.com/users/mc-big-g/surveys/co-founder-compatibility
Didn't porn pick HD-DVD to win?
The issue is that we celebrate the people who follow Feynman's approach and succeed, but forget all those who (like yourself) end up failing. It's a simple matter of survivorship bias. For each person who "thinks really hard" about a particular problem of this magnitude and finds a solution, there are hundreds, if not thousands, who end up failing.
I think you're spot on. Cloning the technologies is relatively easy. But getting attention is a hard problem.

As a general rule, companies rarely[0] win because of superior technology. Rather, they win because they use their tech in a way that provides superior value to their users.

This is something all aspiring entrepreneurs should keep in mind. Nobody cares if your company uses incredibly elegant code or highly sophisticated Machine Learning/NLP/Functional Programming/whatever. All users care about is whether your product provides value. And remember that "value" is highly subjective-you may not think that Facebook is useful, but many people will disagree with you.

[0]: there are certainly exceptions. If you know that the problem you're solving has major market demand, then you can win with superior execution. Viaweb is a good example, as pg tells it they won mostly because they could roll out features much faster than their competitors.
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The too-smart city
I don't think you can really blame the Europeans because cultures isolated from and even predating Europe's conquest across the globe have demonstrated similar traits. If anything, this is more a symptom of survival of the fittest. An evolutionary trait that isn't really required in modern culture but sadly (and as you rightly pointed out) we still do reward those who are ruthless.
If your main goal is to learn something, django will not help you that much same as web2py. But when it comes to development, both will help you a lot.

If you prefer Python instead of Ruby I suggest you to start with micro frameworks like Flask or Bottle to get an idea how frameworks really do their job. And don't let that "micro" word to mislead you. You can create great applications with them.
No, Tumblr's acquiring Yahoo.
Yahoo feels kind of wrong. Is this goin to be a new Flickr?
I wouldn't rule out individuals with individual axes to grind, but most of the anti-yahoo sentiment is based on: their track records of no interesting products, acquiring and then squandering interesting products, and management decisions that run counter to HN's preferred "attract and retain top tier talent" approaches.

The reasoning doesn't change, just the examples.

See Also: snide comments about Microsoft.
Save the snark, human. It's free for others because she chose to plunk the B.
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Quantum mechanics solved a bunch of real world problems that were relevant at the time. As one example, people were trying to predict heat capacities of gases (for things like chemical engineering industrial processes) and the theory they had, based on equipartition, produced results that didn't match experiment at room temperature. And we're not talking a few percent mismatch; we're talking significant differences.

Special relativity likewise addressed specific experimental problems people were having.

General relativity you may have more of a case for.
"I don't understand money. Well, specifically, I don't understand how companies are funded, classify shares, or any of that finance stuff."
lol - stopped reading
Some time ago I made this: https://github.com/fabriceleal/Jsoned
using node.js.

It allows you to use Javascript expressions using a map/filter/reduce paradigm to edit the Json stream, like this:

echo "[1,2,3]" | jsoned -m "' _ * 2 '"

which will print "[2,4,6]"

you can even put the javascript code in files.

Check the wiki (incomplete) for documentation: https://github.com/fabriceleal/Jsoned/wiki/Usage
Exporting housing services: A huge economic opportunity
Apple as a whole is pretty anti-porn, and they dominated the profits (though not necessarily market share) in the smartphone/tablet market for a long time.
Whatever happened to civic virtue?
Now, if only they could talk Zifty (Zifty.com) into merging, Atlanta would have every restaurant available in one service.
"Tumblr finally started rolling out ad products in 2012, starting with Highlighted Posts in February, which function like promoted posts on Twitter and Facebook. In the following months, the company rolled out several additional features, including a Pinned Posts, Radar and a premium analytics tool for brands and marketers that costs $500 per month."

http://mashable.com/2013/01/02/tumblr-revenue-13-million/
If you had RTFA, you'd know that by "get along" the author really meant, share/synchronize data between your Android device and PC.

TL;DR Before Android 3.0, you could just plug your device in and use USB Mass Storage. After Android 3.0, to share data with your Linux PC, you have to install MTP protocol or use a cloud storage service like dropbox.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/12/how-to-connect-your-andro...
Your example is exactly what I refer to as being politely asked to leave.
jQuery is a pleasure to use. It's just plain useful. If you need to manipulate the DOM in legacy IE, nothing compares. I'm reading a lot of complaints about the overhead for legacy IE support (presumably from people with better clients than mine...) but I'm surprised no one has mentioned Zepto. I haven't had a chance to use it yet, but isn't it just a stand in for jQuery where legacy support gets stripped out? I'd love to see the benchmarks.
If I think hard about what it was that inspired me to work with computers and teach myself everything I know - it was John Lasseter, Ed Catmull and Pixar. At the time, I didn't even know the story behind Pixar and Steve Jobs - but what inspired me then was the fact they did it, and they made something so great too.

The acquisition is inspiring to me. But not totally because of the exit and the financial win for everyone involved - but also for the fact that I feel like it's a 'your hard work paid off' stamp.

So thank you John Lasseter and Ed Catmull (and I didn't know it at the time, but Steve Jobs too).
That really depends on what it is and the scenario. If you are applying to a job, including a GitHub link on the resume or 'cover letter' (email body) does the trick. Showing up with a laptop that has your code samples could also be effective for an interview. If you ask a more specific question I may be able to give a better answer, but generally giving them access to code you've written in any form is better than no code portfolio at all.
Surveying semantic web tools
Removing assumptions about data integrity
The Twin Prime conjecture is probably the most elementary unsolved mystery in math.
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World lens does update in [practically] real time.

And "practically real time" isn't going to cut it for something which occludes your view, that was why I brought that, and my other points up. I didn't claim it was infeasible; I claimed it was currently infeasible to do it for the entire FOV of a human, and with that being true, it was impractical to assume that VR and AR can currently be applied to the same problems. In the future, the distinction between AR and VR may not need to be made, but before that can happen, VR (as it currently is) has a long way to go.
http://deskthority.net/ and http://geekhack.org/ are both great resources for everything keyboard, ergonomic, and beyond.
"75 million more each day" -- those aren't "blog posts", those are expulsions of reposted Internet content, perhaps with an additional comment
Ah, that explains it. I can't submit Firefox results, though. The crappy native equivalent just locks up after throwing several "unresponsive script" warnings.
Cutting costs is nice and all, but these are Internet companies. It's expected that an acquisition will bring about much more substantial synergies than they would for the merger of two ketchup companies.
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As I see it solution for the customer is not clear. How do I do link-building myself if have no expertise in the field?
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No, acquire's Tumblring Yahoo.
There is however a significant performance improvement to be had by optimising the inner loop, which is what any good programmer would do first here:

http://jsperf.com/d97b341f-cfc1-4057-bdc9-60e80adb5cf6/2
Angelina Jolie, radical strategies for cancer prevention, and genetics denialism
Google Glass Thingy
Many of these security Companies are like preachers. They need a devil so that they can sell their salvation. China seems to be the devil right now. In a few years, it'll be something or someone else.
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Tech conferences are broken. Classroom teaching paradigm must go
> We’re not turning purple. Our headquarters isn’t moving. Our team isn’t changing. Our roadmap isn’t changing.

Spending 1.1 billion on a company that says it's "not turning purple" may have some impact on morale in Sunnyvale and on Wall St.
So far, this has worked perfectly for me:

function ajax(url, post_parameters, callback, data)
{
var http = new XMLHttpRequest();
if (http != undefined)
{
http.open(post_parameters == '' ? 'GET' : 'POST', url, true);
http.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
http.onreadystatechange = function()
{
if (callback != null)
{
callback(this.readyState, this.status, this.responseText, data);
// readyStates: UNSENT = 0, OPENED = 1, HEADERS_RECEIVED = 2, LOADING = 3, DONE = 4;
}
};
http.send(post_parameters);
return true;
}
else
{
console.log("no ajax.. sorry.");
return false;
}
}
That's just the accepted legal term. By definition they both can be the same thing. When the law was written they could have just as easily as gone with tax avoidance as tax evasion.

But in the context of the discussion, avoiding taxes is being used in a negative way by implying that the companies are not paying taxes that they should be paying by whatever criteria society dreams up, such as "fair share". I simply object to this characterization since these companies are following the law until a tax court says otherwise.
Every company that has refused to discuss salary until last minute has been a complete waste of my time. I'll never have an interview without discussing the salary before hand ever!
A summary of the article is pre-android phones assumed you use windows on the desktop therefore the only way to move files onto the phone was some clunky buggy proprietary (but I repeat myself...).

So use dropbox on the phone and linux desktop (yes) or something called "box" that is just like dropbox but has a different name or google drive on the phone and drive in the browser.

Article also talked about a bunch of different options like spideroak, and connectbot SSH (or was it sshdroid? well, either way..)

Foldersync is entertaining, I played with that a year or two ago although the article only talks about some complicated webdav arrangement, it supports most any protocol. It costs money, as I recall.

Finally the article explains USB connection was too complicated for the author to get it to work, although the few times I tried it, it worked fine for me.

On a personal note out of 3 android devices on my desk only 1 does not have a memory card. So most of the time I just pull the card and copy stuff to it. I donno if android and memory cards no longer mix, or what. Also if we allow "cloud based" I often upload stuff to evernote and access it from android. Ditto the google play, where the author went to great effort to transfer some mp3s when he could have just uploaded them to google play music using the linux desktop client. Or I just simply download stuff on the android device from the net or a machine I control.

Some things take two steps. The simplest way to upload something like a .mobi file of a pragmatic programmer magazine into the kindle reader, seems to be to stick the .mobi on dropbox and then export it to kindle from the dropbox, as I recall.

The article seemed to avoid "wifi file server" (name of app, I believe) which basically runs a non-daemon ftp server and the screen spits out the URL and password for people to access. I've copied gigs of stuff using that. My biggest annoyance is not being able to force a set password / password rolls to a new one every 5 minutes or whatever, which is unholy annoying if you're doing 2 hours of work and need to reauth dozens of times.
I use services like Yelp, Netflix, and Amazon to give me targeted recommendations all the time. If ads could somehow read my mind and bring up good recommendations on my browser's sidebar that would actually be very valuable.
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Yes. I've spoken to TFL Licensing a few times about their map and basically they will claim copyright over any map that features the circle line in a "bottle" shape.

There are also restrictions over the font, logos and symbols.
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I have however seen people get around this by making their own version of the map; often opting for a map that more closely resembles the true relative positions of the stations.

Naturally this CSS map is an almost 1-for-1 copy of the original. But how far would it have to diverge to not be copyright infringement? Different colours? Use rounder angles ?
You are mistaking Facebook's 900 million users vs 900 million users willing to chip in $18 for 1/900 millionth of Facebook.
Grubless?

Joking aside, this seems to make perfect sense. I spend a decent chunk of time in New York, Boston, and California, and have noticed that Seamless xor GrubHub seem to be well-populated in each location.
I got an N9 late-ish last year for €430, so €399 doesn’t appear entirely unreasonable?
Google+ has a vibrant Android developer community where a lot of folks post this stuff. Square has an entire community there devoted to their open source offerings.
(Android - https://plus.google.com/communities/105153134372062985968)

(Square - https://plus.google.com/communities/109244258569782858265)

Most interesting libraries find their way to weekly Android mailing lists like this one:
http://androiddevweekly.com/

Following Android ecosystem superstars on G+ helps too, great post from today by Koush:
https://plus.google.com/103583939320326217147/posts/bfAFC5YZ...
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Ceteris paribus, it would build its Dyson sphere out of us.
The Commodore 64 had some nice hardware also. I liked tinkering with the sound generators.
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This is a strange comment to me. Does buying a large corporation make you relevant? I didn't see people making the same comment after Google bought YouTube and Motorola, or when Facebook bought Instagram. Now those companies have been attractive places to work for a long time, arguably since they where founded. I don't believe that Yahoo has the attractive engineering culture that Facebook or Google has. I believe if they screw this acquisition up, it will be the nail in the coffin for yahoo. They will go the way of AOL. I think Mayer has the toughest job in Technology right now, I hope this is the move that will spark the turn around.
What happens after Yahoo acquires you (2011)
Dilution at Tumblr: How Much Did The Founders Make?
That's kind of like asking "how did Bruce Lee fight?" innit?
That's right. For example, Betamax (technically superior) was not licensed to porn studios, while VHS was. See also, American Express would not enable "gentlemen's clubs," whereas MasterCard did, which is one of the ways MC broke into the market.
I would expand that to hard work on important problems. Many scientists worked as hard as Einstein, but few stuck to the major problems as much as he did. After years of no progress most people will opt to solve an easier, lower-priority problem than continue working on a difficult but important one. A good essay on this is Richard Hamming's You and Your Research[0].

A good set of articles focused on the practical issue of overcoming the tendency to focus on easy problems is Eliezer Yudkowsky's Challenging the Difficult series[1].

I particularly like the phrase "Shut up and do the Impossible!" I have found this highly effective in getting myself to work on hard problems (here I'm defining "hard" as problems where my initial reaction is "that's impossible!", or something similar.)

[0]: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

[1]: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Challenging_the_Difficult
George Packer and Ken Auletta on the culture and politics of Silicon Valley
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just curious: when would you need a signed cookie though? i.e. What need does it fulfil that neither the session store nor your database do?
The same way the Groupon IPO was good for Chicago?
I use PHP without any shame, I even think MySQL might be just fine for me; but I also like raw JavaScript way too much to ever have bothered to use jQuery even once.

That said, I have nothing against jQuery, but what used to annoy me was seeing Javascript questions being answered with jQuery snippets without anyone blinking, everywhere and all the time... you see, that's actually coming onto "my" turf and wantonly murdering there. That was too much, and if a "backlash" is needed to restore some sanity and balance, I say lash away.
I love watching Phineas & Ferb with my sons (6 & almost 3). The biggest problem I have is that sometimes they'd rather watch it than learn from it (creativity and the like). Fortunately, as a parent, that's where my wife and I come in.
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Counter example: HD DVD was selected as the format of choice for next generation porn media. Didn't turn out so well.

I think tumblr was easier for people to post stupid pictures of cats and porn. The friction to entry was lower IMHO.
Blimp finally launches due dates and Google Calendar integration
I believe 72K POSTS were transitioned to Wordpress, not 72K individual blogs. [1]

Replicating posts to a different platform does not mean users are defecting. Many are just planning ahead in case of any issues.

[1] http://ma.tt/2013/05/yahooblr/
if you have to ask this, then you are not qualified to handle other people's money over the internet. not to be an ass about it... just the harsh reality.
TLDR: Use this URL and replace USERNAME with any Hacker News user

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=9c88dd117c9c12408e...
Off the cusp, $1.1 billion seems like a staggering amount of money to pay for yet another content hub. My gut is screaming that this is sure to go down as a horrible waste of capital. Yahoo has much stronger footing in open source than many other companies. They still have a vague sense of coolness about them, and I feel they're pissing away a ton of money for no reason here. First they prevent employees from working at home, stomping out what could've blossomed into at the very least a novel and progressive work model. Now a billion for tumblr. What in the actual fuck are they thinking? What is the long term strategy here for Yahoo?

They'd get more out of their money by selecting 1,000 open source projects on GitHub at random, and investing $1M into each.
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"We’re not turning purple. Our headquarters isn’t moving. Our team isn’t changing. Our roadmap isn’t changing." - D. Karp

Spending 1.1 billion on a company that says it's "not turning purple" may have some impact on morale in Sunnyvale and on Wall St.
Marissa Mayer Just Bought A Ton Of Porn Blogs, But It's Not A Problem
Thanks for the feedback. I am looking more for an introduction to programming so perhaps Dev Bootcamp does make sense. I feel that it can't hurt to have a general understanding of coding when trying to get a role as a PM.
VM startup effects I can get behind as a confound; page faults and cache effects are below millisecond level (filling the beefiest Sandybridge Xeon L3 cache you can buy from a completely cold state is on the order of 1 millisecond, and a micro benchmark like this doesn’t come close to using that much data).

I would also note that one is sometimes in the position of needing to measure performance of a compute-intensive task that is latency-critical but will not be running constantly; in such a scenario, using long-running benchmarks can be misleading because the processor will become thermally constrained and drop in and out of lower voltage/frequency bands, further confounding measurements.

I agree with you that a tenth of a second is on the shorter side of what I would like to see in such a benchmark, but I don’t think the situation is as dire as your first post suggested; unless the system is exceptionally noisy, the measurements seem to be valid, despite the relatively short duration. 60 seconds is overkill for a simple task like this.
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The IT professionals road map for navigating the cloud revolution
I have seen people get around it by making their own version of the map. Those maps usually end up having the stations match their respective locations to each other more closely. They naturally don't look as 'good' as the official map though.

But where does the copyright infringement start? Could you technically get around it if you changed a couple of the colours and fonts around and used slightly different angles?
>I think we will see a complete analysis of go before we see one of chess because of its simpler structure. Reason is that go is mathematically simpler

This is a false issue I think. Actually, the complexity of chess allows us to reduce the search space a lot more, whereas in go the inherent simplicity in the game itself is built in a way where the entire search space is "potentially" useful, meaning the search space is really big.

This is just my intuition, but I feel like the simplicity makes the game irreducible in itself.
Understood.
Is it possible to create a mutual fund that invests in start ups? May be something like a VC backed by many small investors? Small investors can be an important resource. Loyal customers, promoters, extra help, etc.
I am not sure what WTSHTF types would be doing reading Hacker News.
Doesn't work in IE and doesn't support cross-domain requests. Oh, and yes, I'm sure every user knows to check their javascript console when an app does nothing.
Can yahoo repair the broken email experience?

Can yahoo repair the broken Flickr experience?

Can yahoo do some interesting product that delight users?

If not, what is the point?
And so, Microsoft ruins Skype