skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure they do. A whole bunch of changes that have been accumulating in the WebKit nightly builds just became available when Safari 4.0 was released, not the least of which was Squirrelfish Extreme, which was branded as "Nitro" in Safari 4.x. I'm not sure how one could miss that, between Google, Wikipedia, Apple marketing pages and webkit.org.
Finally. The shady practices of Tagged are disgusting, I hope something actually comes out of this(a fine would be nice).
Video of yellow ape robot "running" on treadmill.

Pretty disappointing. The "running" is just rolling on wheels shaped like arms.

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/news.phtml/21900/megawhat-pr...
I think the intention of the graph is to illustrate that the unemployment rate for men has increased at about twice the rate as the unemployment rate for women. And it's successful.
Much less handy than the sliding keyboard approach in my opinion.
Chrome OS Could Offend The Open Source Community
FYI Mozilla does have an open blocker bug about this problem:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501605
I think that is exactly the question to be asking. Of course the other question to ask is whats up with the horrible unprofessional looking logo?
No matter how much Jeff and many other people might take the moral high ground, they have to admit that this is nothing more than an appeal to the true nature of an average human (male). The "problem" is not with the advertisers; they are simply doing their job in the most effective manner possible.
Get something on the front page of Digg? You've got to be kidding me.

No self-respecting Geek has used Digg since 2007, at the latest.
# 5 - Don't get suckered into reading unnecessarily long lists.
The old Mozilla Suite had a start-up preloading tool as well if I remember correctly. Still, Google Chrome loads up way much faster than either IE or FF without preloading anything at all.
huge college town though, might have a lot to do with the attitudes and the hippie shops who make money selling to them...now that I think about hippies owning stores, it reminds me of Thundercloud Subs...man I miss that place.
For those of you interested in a similar wrapper for offline storage (via Google Gears or HTML5 databases), here is the wrapper Google suggests you use:
http://code.google.com/p/webstorageportabilitylayer/
Spec for the extended hNews is at http://valueaddednews.org/technical/techspec
By the way, this is a great idea.
It's a Laconica install. This is pointless. It's like saying, "Checkout my StackOverflow clone" and then linking to a phpBB install.
So, I was wrong. Schneier's analysis wasn't based on the halting problem, but an even sillier analysis by Fred Cohen's U Cincinnati thesis that found it necessary to reach all the way to Godel to come to the conclusion that "it is impossible to write a program that determines whether another program will function correctly".

Virus study is fringe computer science. When there are vast tracts of solid systems research across operating systems, compilers, and symbolic analysis to cite, reaching for the goofy fringe stuff is not a credibility enhancer.

I don't think Schneier has shown he has anything useful to say about Chrome OS yet.
Not to me - PayPal doesn't enter into why I don't go to ebay. It's like vaksel said: I used to be able to actually save money by buying things on ebay. Now I often find that ebay's sellers are so unrealistic that they have higher prices than even B&M stores. Also, from a seller's perspective, the fees that ebay charges today are so much more expensive that it makes it far less attractive for me to put my goods on ebay in the first place.
you can't learn a language without the associated culture. to become a francophone you will have to be a francophile.

Or just move to Algeria, you will learn excellent French will still hating France :-P

Failing that, move to Quebec!
I've been following redfin since their early days and was very excited by their business model. They were featured on 60 minutes about a 1-2 years ago too, which helped them gain some mainstream momentum.

The real estate industry, specifically residential real estate, is in the process of rebooting. A lot of the legwork that agents were doing in the past can now be accomplished by the buyer/seller and much of the information can be found on real estate aggregation sites. Not to say that residential agents will be extinct anytime soon (they still provide a service) but their commissions will definitely be affected.

Commercial/Industrial/Ag. real estate on the other hand, still requires professional agents, IMO. Specific knowledge (legal/zoning issues/environmental impact reports/etc. etc.) is needed in these areas to assist buyers/sellers.
How can you automatically detect that from a video?

that is the point I'm trying to make. it is not possible today, I guess it will be possible in future.

how much can you tag? and who will do all the work of tagging? it has to be automated, like text search. video search is going to be much more difficult than text, and G has tons of videos to mine and refine algos.
Yes: http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm#concepts

Misfortunate Mary who worked full time last month and made $10k in salary and benefits gets fired but reports that she now works two hours/month at a local hot dog stand making a total of $20 is considered employed.

Lazy Larry who sat on his couch and drank beer last month (and every month before that, yea back unto age 15) reports that he is looking for work (but really, who is he kidding?) is considered unemployed.

Homemaker Helen neither has nor is seeking a job so she is not considered employed or unemployed; she is not part of the workforce.

Startup Sam quit his job to work feverishly on the Next Big Thing. He reports not being employed but also not looking so he too is not part of the workforce (per the BLS).

Definitions like these are one major reason why the household unemployment figures diverge from the official BLS figures.
So we're bootstrapping, also in Boston, and also use GAE.

We've been able to manage to stay afloat by keeping day jobs. One of us works full-time and the other part-time, while working on the startup all nights and all weekends. Obviously, it takes a toll on you, and isn't very sustainable in the long term. But we've also learned to delegate: we hired two excellent interns, and we pay them in munchies and free lunches.

$30-$40 in CPU costs seems very high. I'm not sure if you have a technical background, but there might be room for optimization, especially in datastore entity structures and queries. Just the other day, we refactored the way we were storing a certain entity to be able to compute a list of key_names and then fetch them from memcache or the datastore in parallel rather than seriallly. That resulted in a 16x performance boost (measured by response time and CPU cycles). There are some other tricks, like "relational" index entities to speed up datastore lookups so that you're not doing too much processing in Python code.

I would be happy to chat more about our experience with GAE. mahmoud [at] thesponty
I agree, but maybe it should be a sliding scale based on what the house is worth. For a $100k house, even Redfin's flat fee of $5k-$7k is more than double the Netherlands' 1.85% cap.
Scientist shortage? Maybe not
It's very old, pre-K&R C. It segfaults for me, too, in ga.

It got me interested in the language, but rather than trying to rewrite it, I decided to go through "J For C Programmers" (http://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/contents.htm) on my lunch breaks. The APL language family has several interesting ideas, the fanatically terse syntax is just the first one everybody notices.
This is hardly a new development, but it is a particularly ironic example.
Another possible factor is that women who lose their job may be less likely to seek another. I've heard at least one anecdote already of a woman who lost her job and decided to just stay home for the time being.
Google is working on this- One theory is that part of why they are working on Goog411 is to increase their voice reco engine, so that they can apply it to Video and Audio search.

Google hired several engineers away from Nuance (one of the leaders in voice recognition), and they're working hard on growing their development there.
Next time, please submit the single-page version: http://www.slate.com/id/2222546/pagenum/all/
I see you haven't used Nedit.
> Love one another - Be a generous, helpful person - Accept personal responsibility - Don't have a sense of entitlement - Honor and cherish your spouse - Don't mislead or abuse children - Honor your parents - Be proactive - Resist conformity - Abide by the laws - Don't be judgmental - Be kind - Be compassionate - Be empathetic - Don't be obsessed with possessions or wealth - Work hard - Ignorance is not an excuse - People are people, no matter their ethnicity - Be tolerant - Don't cheat - Everything in moderation

I don't think gort would have any problem with those morals. What he has a problem with is:

"Love one another - Be a generous, helpful person - Accept personal responsibility, etc., etc.,... because otherwise, you'll burn in hell"

As an agnostic, I find it amusing that someone would demand that god conform to human morality. But it's an understandable viewpoint.
"the future employment prospects for men in the long term": That would be pretty bad, since most men don't have the ability to become engineers or programmers.

"the obvious feminist wet dream": thank you, that's the least appropriate metaphor I've seen on HN in quite a long time.

"... of degrading men through marginally higher unemployment rates": yeah, obviously feminists across the world are just drooling at the prospect of degrading men through marginally higher unemployment rates.
I don't use a stupidly easy password either, but I'm not going to give you the password hash from my laptop. That's what this scheme does.
Why would anyone want to call Dave Gorman, anyhow?
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It's a one-page draft of an interpreter for a subset of a language, by one of the main designers involved with it, written to the initial designer. It's written in C, but idiomatically written as closely to the language as possible. Having comments would be pretty strange, honestly.

There's an unpacked and commented version of it here, FWIW: http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2002/8/30/175531/763/1#1
Really? The gov setting the rate is the most sensible solution? It may have worked out well in this case, but that's an awfully slippery slope. I couldn't agree more that the commissions themselves are absurdly high, I just tend to think the gov's role should be to foster a competitive environment that would allow the market to arrive at a fair rate rather than picking it themselves
VFAT patent avoidance and patent workarounds
Agreed. I find even a two-way conversation on Skype with blocky, stuttering video is noticeably more productive than a straight phone call. The internet really needs ubiquitous video conferencing. It should be as trivial to set up as a Skype call (which, to be honest, is not always that trivial), but multi-way, cross-platform and much better quality. Maybe Opera or Google could build it into their browsers...
New iPhone patents from Apple: Object recognition and, um, voice changing?
Learn to use a spell checker. There's your review.
Until GOOG approaches MSFT's revenues, I don't think Microsoft will worry. If there's a 'war' between those two companies, Microsoft is probably handling it as one of attrition.

Google has one strong source of revenue (search advertising) and has been thrashing about for years in an attempt to build at least a second source without notable success.

Microsoft has many different sources of revenue and continues to build on each. To take out Google, all they have to do is have Bing, Yahoo and the rest patiently chip away at GOOG's search advertising dominance by a few percentage points each year and that revenue will dry up. Then, without that revenue, all of Google's vanity projects will collapse in a heap.

Google's many projects remind me of the Flying Lawnmower: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNWfqVWC2KI

You can make anything fly if you have a strong enough engine shoving it and Google's engine is its search advertising revenue. Once that revenue decreases enough, their lawnmower will fall to earth, and Microsoft is surely happy to see them tack on new expensive doodads like YouTube and Chrome O/S to hurry that day forward.
Does it matter what he has to say though? The thing isn't even out yet. His speculations are about as good as anyone's at this point and, in the end, it really is up to you to decide what to call bs on, whether it came from a celebrity's mouth or not.
Wasn't there like a nokia phone with a similar k/b form factor with the screen in between?

That one sucked bad and was way to difficult to use!
Floxee Beta Round 2: What to Expect
Tagged sucks, but the article omits the key fact that it only sent out emails to your contact list if you gave it access to your email account. It wasn't as simple as "Any click resulted in the same thing, Cuomo said: Every person on a user's contact list received an email".

Blaming only the company doesn't help people learn the appropriate lesson of "don't share your password."
Most American men don't have the inclination or desire to become engineers or programmers, but cultures have changed due to economic pressures in the past.

In terms of ability, the population of potential engineers is very underutilized in the US thus far. If we fixed education in this country we'd have a higher population of potential engineers, but we tried that after Sputnik and it didn't stick. I don't think all men will become engineers or programmers, but many more will have to in the long run.

I am picking up a self-congratulatory feminist tone in some articles about the downtick in men's fortunes in this recession, but not this one, and it was distracting from my main point. I appreciate your pointing that out.
Google may be playing up the notion that YouTube is very unprofitable. Making VCs think that online video is a bad business will help reduce new competition. And, unlike eBay's Skype acquisition, there's probably little shareholder pressure for Google to prove that it made a good choice.
G.M. Completes Its Turnaround in Bankruptcy
Not really sure that applies in this particular case.

First one looks like an ad for a game. I might have clicked that if bored. Second one? The text is kinda odd, but maybe?

Then it just goes downhill fast. Last one looks like I'm signing up for porn site, with free spam until the end of times. I would have never clicked that.
The Machine Learning Forum: Accountable peer review
I think you could write some sort of simple language that would get expanded into BF.

e.g.

+6 -> ++++++
So far based on the article, I don't see any of the 'science' being mixed with cool.

What makes this more revolutionary or interesting than the toy robots that came out years ago?
And Ctrl-0 returns to default size. Before I knew this I was more resistant to temporarily adjusting font size because of the annoyance of then returning to default size.
Everyone thought it was someone else's problem.
You may realize this by now, but you should never "fund" your startup with credit cards. Get that debt out of the way as soon as possible and never do it again. I've been bootstrapping companies for 20++ years and always used what was in my pocket already and/or found investors.
It's open source (laconi.ca), scalable, easy to install, and easy to theme/develop with. It uses the openmicroblogging protocol giving you the ability to subscribe to users on other services and receive their updates, etc. It allows image uploading via other services APIs from the site itself. It has a twitter compatible API, you can subscribe to your twitter friends, as well as cross post to twitter, etc. It has XMPP, Email, SMS, API gateways. URL shortening, the ability to create groups, etc, etc. I've been following it's development off and on for about a year now, and great project. I don't use twitter or laconica/identica myself, so the usefulness of it is arguable. Regardless, I've had fun playing with the code.
Got it.. This one http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_6800-pictures-369.php

Not a very good picture and am too lazy to look for another one!
But are you their average target customer? That's my real point: people who look down on these sorts of things are not the intended advertising targets.
Tesla: A Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney, one of my favourite biographies.

X-Rays, Radio, AC electricity, Solar Heating, Vacuum Tubes, R/C Vehicles, Torpedoes, Force Fields, Microwave Transmissions, High Voltage Conductors, Wireless Communications, World Wide Broadcasting, Phosphorescent Lighting, Robots, Liquid Oxygen, Under Ground Power Lines, Cryogenics, Radar, Guided Missiles, Automobile Speedometer, Highway Systems, Parking Garages, Interplanetary Communications, Death Rays and so much more!
You must have missed the irony. Those parties and tiny bits of cow on sticks is what he is making fun of. I have to say that I agree with his point. I don't know the London scene, but I keep an eye on the Paris scene, and that article might as well have been written for Paris. Same problem.

He makes one point in passing that is very telling: visiting big UK companies is not going to matter for the startup scene. Europe has a tendency to have large legacy companies, but not much of an entrepreneurial angle.
His point wasn't that it required a lawyer's expertise.

It was that a lawyer could do the work of a buyer's agent, and even at $500/hr, would be cheaper when buying an $800k house. (That hourly rate would buy you 48 hours of lawyer time before you got up to the 3% commission of $24k.)
Interesting idea. I'm not in love with the logo and the page seems a bit unorganized but not too bad.

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Ask HN: Facebook groups being hacked?
I just noticed that the group for a middle school on Facebook was hacked. Is this a new vunerability on FB or just a password attack on the group admin? I though the later, but the listed group admin has changed to a name that doesn't seem to have a FB account.

Here is the group in question:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6103647889

I did find the same "name" listed as another group with related content to the hack:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19563783760

Wondering what happened. Any ideas?
This whole subject seems to circle around here fairly often and it seems like there's not a clear cut answer. There are some advantages to Silicon Valley and some disadvantages. But at the end of the day you just need to build the right project with the right team. Get those two right and the rest is gravy.
Seems like a pretty good summation of the situation. Just as he says, I doubt that Google would by Adobe, but a partnership regarding Chrome OS makes plenty of sense.
i couldn't help but feel a little bit sad as the creator explained all the features... i saw it as a typical example of an adult thinking "ooh ooh, a child would love this!!" and being miserably wrong. i don't doubt there's a lot of cool technology that went into that toy, but it seems the translation of that tech into something a child would want to play with was an afterthought (or quite misguided)...
I was at a party a couple of weeks ago, and the subject of eBay came up. The people there were all 30-something professionals, and none had ever bought or sold anything on eBay! Few even bought stuff online. These people are my friends, and I had just presumed that their buying habits were like mine. As I stood in front of them with my mouth open, they asked, "What kind of stuff do you buy on eBay?" in a gee-wiz sort of way.

We at HN are not at all representative of Americans. Everyone in that room had at least one college degree, and the average earnings were probably $100K. Even then, they weren't buying online.
Urbanspoon's iPhone Visitors Worth About 5 Cents Each
Exactly my point, all those nice things RDBM's give you come at the cost of performance trade-offs. Relational databases are never the fastest option, they are the safe conservative option.

The bill of goods that RDBM's sell is that data integrity trumps all else. The reality is that is doesn't. Data can be cleaned and integrity maintained by background processes if the performance you get is more important to you than absolute up to the second data integrity. There are lots of cases where available data is far more important than up to the second accurate data.

Eventual consistency is more than good enough for many many things common web applications do. In many cases it's perfectly fine that the web app is looking at 4 or 5 hour old data, it just doesn't matter, what matters is that it can look at it in milliseconds without having to rebuild it on every query.
rich food, drink, smoke and women

One of them is unlike the others.
Right, I follow you, that's why I mentioned in the heading that there are things I don't understand. If you think about it though, just like our legal system would hold me accountable for my misdeeds, wouldn't the consequences apply if we broke a law set by a "supreme judge" if you want to call it? In the latter case though, you get off a lot easier for repeated offenses if your heart is right.

Maybe I'm wrong, who knows.
>> Judges who say source code is not art should also admit michalengelo was just some asshole who put grafitti on some holy buildings.

> Michelangelo's frescoes were commissioned. I utterly fail to see why anyone should admit they were graffiti.

The negatives confuse the sentence, but that was his point. Michelangelo's works were not graffiti, and similarly source code should be considered art, even if it is geek art.
Tagged is a bottom feeder, but they they aren't really the worst of the worst. To some degree, I think having annoying, yet relatively harmless (They didn't install a keylogger, execute XSS against bank accounts, or format hard drives) companies like this in the Internet Ecosystem is a bit like vaccinating people against the truly dangerous diseases.

Over time, people will become a _little_ more savvy about clicking on these "Your friend just sent you X", be more alert to phishing, use slightly more secure and heterogeneous mail clients/browsers.

And then, when a truly dangerous black hat shows up, they won't have free reign over a completely unsuspecting populace.
How many requests per day does your server handle? 30-40 dollars per day seems pretty high... I know Hacker News doesn't spend that much serving 10s of thousands of people per day.

And after looking at your app, it doesn't seem like you have nearly enough reviews to justify that high of a cost. I'm no server expert, but it seem like you should be able to cut costs on the back-end.
Of course, thanks jhancock. In the end, the total initial capital (pocket money, friends/family round, and credit) was comparable to the amount invested using the YC seed formula of $5000 + $5000n.
Ron Conway’s How To Monetize Real-Time Data
Reuse - is the dream dead?