skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing I've ever used bluetooth for is audio; my cell phone has it, my iPod has an adaptor for it, and I have a pretty acceptable set of headphones that receive it. I'm also planning on getting a car stereo that supports it. Has file transfer every really been a use-case for bluetooth?
I don't really know what sharepoint is, so my viewpoint is that of an outsider, but what I can gather from what I've read about it, it seems to be the inspiration (or one of the inspirations) for Google Wave. Also pretty much any job listing in I.T. seems to mention it.

It's like describing .NET before it was released. WTH is it? Here's a theorem I'd like to posit. If you can't clearly describe a MS product, I'd say that it's something to stay away from, for those of you that run your own businesses and can make those decisions.
This phrase is only fun to subvocalize because of its resemblance to "Fire the Torpedoes!"
Isn't that exactly what people do with BaseCamp?
Would be nice but my feeling is that the simplicity of SQL CRUD statements could be grokked by way more teenagers in the "past" than will be able to grasp map-reduce in the "future".

Myself I'm also into document DBs and graph DBs, a lot. But for the kind of rapid prototyping that got most of us going as teenagers in the first place, I'd argue table based data with the simplest incarnations of INSERT UPDATE DELETE SELECT WHERE haven't been beaten yet by those no-SQL DBs.
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Google Wave is the next Zombo.com, as far as I can tell.
We're running Intranet DASHBOARD. It's an incredibly cost effective Australian-made product. When you're quoted upwards of $1 mil for Sharepoint licenses you'll understand.
pair -> pare
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I didn't expect this thread to grow to 56 comments. Here's what astounds me: Sharepoint is Microsoft's fasting growing business ever. Faster than windows or office. It's also a source of 1 bil+ revenue a year. YET, comments from 40+ educated people who know technology very well cannot explain its purpose or real value. This is or something like it is what opportunity is supposed to look like.
Everyblock is a bit complex.

Nathan Borror's Basic Apps are pretty solid examples:

http://github.com/nathanborror/django-basic-apps
I really don't want to mention our product again on the same page, but you mentioned Drupal, which is what we built our, I guess I have to say, Sharepoint alternative: OfficeMedium ( I won't spam another link on the same page )

I think we're on the same page though: Simplicity is key.

Drupal is the best...
abook with dropbox/ubuntuone for the geek who is concerned about privacy.
"Sousa was making the argument at the heart of copyright: that it promotes innovation, and that without any protection for works, many will never be created."

What I would love to see is a study to see if this core argument for the copyright industry /has any merit at all/. Music, and masterpieces, existed long, long before copyright became a social reality - the idea that we, as a culture, /must/ have copyright to defend our poor artists and creators is disingenuous at best.
But I thought KDE guys would be the first to go with CouchDB.
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You're right. Shall we go with "king of a hill of quicksand?"
I don't think we should ever stifle technological innovation in order to satisfy the interests of some industry. Just as we accept the fact that if someone leaves money out in the open, it may be stolen, the copyright industry should accept the fact that certain technological advancements will force them to do things differently.
We would not even have developed Language if these kinds of rules existed in the past.

Really. You spoke of what you saw? That's a public performance. Pay up.
In his defense, long ago there wasn't the technology to trivialize copying. So human performances were like mechanical/digital reproductions and mass distribution through copying was less of an issue.
We use Sharepoint in our university as a place for teachers to store documents for students to download. It also serves as a portal for accessing lots of information for different departments in the school. I work in a Chinese university and Sharepoint is one of the few MS products the school actually pays for. They must pay for the license if they want any support, thus it must be a huge cash cow for MS in a country where most software is pirated.
If your issue with cut is what I susect, you need to flatten the whitespace first with sed.

At that point, I'd just use awk, though. It has better defaults for field delimiters.
Possibly Nietzche's ghost being chased around the house by Ayn Rand.
I posted this site in that it claims that it uses AI (more like crowd-sourcing) to help make better decisions. It was created by Caterina Fake of Flickr fame. See interview http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/adam-penenberg/penenberg-pos...
Of course it is. That's the point of locavorism: to create a market for locally-sourced food. As more people buy from farmers, CSAs, and farmers markets, those suppliers will scale, and prices will come down.

The "boundaries" promoted by locavorism aren't arbitrary. Local food is seasonal, has a lower environmental impact, and tends to come from smaller farms. It's part of a farm-to-table ethic that makes food traceable and creates a relationship between suppliers and consumers that isn't arbitrated by huge multinational corporations. It also tastes better.
Getting pictures off of cellphones.
I remember they had lot of press (or at least Linux press) releasing their Linux version. I think they are quite good in marketing or being very lucky (Now you HN people know what luck means :) ).
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I have no such scruples: http://www.officemedium.com/
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Yogurt Park on Durant and Telegraph is the best frozen yogurt I've ever had. Plus the cafe next door has free donuts and wifi.
But was copyright law developed out of /fear/ of theft, or out of actual, documented loss of creativity post-innovation? What quantitative basis does the copyright industry have to assert so much control over our artistic culture, in the name of protecting it?

(my bias appears to be peeking through at this point, I'll admit)
Ask HN: Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, or ExpressionEngine?
For a website CMS backend after it is implemented and designed but will used by clients (non techies).
Ask HN: Best graduate schools out west.
Hi everyone, I am currently in search for graduate schools that have a PhD in computer science. I want to study artificial intelligence and robotics. I live on the east coast(NC) and only know of local schools around here. I'd love to move out west somewhere(I've looked at colorado), but I'm not sure of any good programs or where to start? I was wondering if anyone could recommend any schools? Thanks.
OK, that was it, exactly. I was using getFields before, I completely missed the 'Declared' option.
I've been using Sharepoint for 3 months so far on a big ($100M+) government contract project. Our prime is hosting it. I'm not a fan, but I don't maintain it and it does the job.

The most use I've gotten out of it so far is for document management and document peer reviews. It IS convenient for editing Office 2007 documents if you're on Windows using IE. You can just checkout files through the browser. This feature does not work for Firefox.

One big problem we have is that the VPN breaks Sharepoint links so that the links that the people on the inside pass around break for those of us using VPN. That's not necessarily a Sharepoint issue, but it is annoying nonetheless as it does not have pretty URLs.
Links are nice: http://www.publictivity.com/
Old HN thread about Hunch: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658292
Yeah maybe if they dumb it down a little to be more similar to Gmail it would really catch on.
Box.net was calling a war with it.

http://sites.box.net/simple
If you take a cab from SFO to Palo Alto, get a quoted price before getting in. Cab rates are bad as it is, but there's also a +50% penalty if you go outside of SF. It's ridiculous.
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Except food. Most of us need to buy it and that is why I don't buy into giving anything out for free except as a 'loss leader' in Freemium models.
Ironically the first time I was forced to use Sharepoint was when I was writing a book for O'Reilly. They used it as a rudimentary source control system for documents.

The best definition is that it's "an intranet in a box"
College / Certification Hack. I took A+, Network+, and Linux+ and got transfer credits for 3 linux classes, 1 networking and 1 hardware class, spending only a few hundred dollars and saving several thousand, shaving time off my time to graduate and having several certs to show for it.
Ask HN: How do you convince someone that you are the creator of an app?
I have an interview where I need to talk about an app I created. The app is closed source and doesn't identify me anywhere on screen. How do you persuade someone that you're the creator in that case?
Palo Alto Hacker House is having a BBQ Friday night... feel free to stop by!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=185108368975&ref=m...
Haha..

If you're into Drupal, check out our initial case study on the development. We've put together some interesting innovation for the platform.

http://drupal.org/node/599402
The real answer to this question depends on your needs. The more complex your website is, the more requirements you'll have. I don't have experience with Joomla or ExpressionEngine so I won't comment on them.

If your website is simple, Wordpress is probably the route to go. In fact, it's the most popular CMS system precisely because it services the needs of 80% of websites. You can get off the ground with Wordpress in minutes.

If your website is complex and will likely get even more complex with time (such as a news website), you should consider Drupal. It offers more flexibility but the trade-off is that it requires more time and technical knowledge to get going.
Wordpress - for a simple blog

Joomla - for a run-of-the-mill CMS

Drupal - for a more complex CMS

Expression Engine - for extensive PHP hacking
it is based on CodeIgniter and
designed using MVC

It really depends on what you want to do with it.
If you take a cab, get a price quoted for you beforehand, because drivers tend to omit the nasty +50% surcharge for taking you out of SF.
If they're skeptical (and you haven't given them reason to be skeptical), you probably don't want to work for them anyway. There needs to be an atmosphere of trust-by-default; if you don't have that at the interview stage, what's the job going to be like?
Much as I may disagree with Coburn on a lot of other issues, I'm glad that he's most committed to things like transparency. So far as I know, he hasn't tried to pull a stunt like this on religious or abortion bills.

The party of Obama is not Obama's party, it seems.
During the interview, simply talk about the real challenges you had with making it, the decisions you made as you went along and why you built it in the first place. These could probably be faked but I'm sure most people would be able to pick out a fake and they'll probably be able to tell that you're credible.
I'm not super-experienced with the others, but you can do a lot in WordPress if you know how to hack it. And uptake is so high that even if you don't, there's probably a plugin that can get you there.

But I would say it depends on your needs, either way.
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Ask HN: Does anyone know when winter's (march 2010) demo day will be?
Has it already been decided? Is it on the same date every year?
What's missing here - and which you can't really test with mice - is the emotional side of things.

Exercising because you've been placed on a treadmill, as was the case with the mice, is akin to people exercising because they "have to", or get a trainer to "stay motivated". When you actually do it because you "want" to and it feels good it's a different story because the feelgood chemicals have a lot to do with your immune system.

For many years during my late teens and early twenties I went to the gym so that I could get buff and be fit. I hated exercise, but forced myself to do it and pushed through the pain. Yes I even got a personal trainer at one stage. The results? I either got sick, injured myself, or just plain depressed (at the lack of results), only to repeat the cycle over and over again.

Back to this article - what I'm trying to say is that stress, anxiety, happiness all play a HUGE part in your immune system (and fitness).
3-7 on Friday isn't that convenient for those of us who work down south... why not a Sunday afternoon/evening thing instead? I'm often working there on sundays
I nearly had a heart attack when I realized I forgot about the next Discworld release. At least I know what I'll be doing this weekend! Living in the bookstore again...
Drupal, especially if you have any development experiences or real customization needs. It can be modeled to do anything - yes, I mean anything at all. I've developed some amazing applications using Drupal - not just the typical 'blog' like site that the others generally create. So it depends on your needs. Drupal also has, what I think, is the best community out there - tons and tons of modules, themes, support, customizations, tutorials, etc.
And an economic argument against that is that if many of those works are never created, then that would make those that are created more valuable. Copyright thus limits the income potential of the _really_ good creators.
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One of the very, very few times I'm glad a Republican's saying "No" to something.
the file exists!
Now someone will downvote this comment. But that's not what should happen.

HN is having too much of dupe links lately. But what's wrong with it?

It might take one more useful link away from the audience. And that's HUGE damage.
That's a difficult question to answer without knowing what content you're going to put on the site.

For a simple 5 page site + blog with frequent updates, I'd say Wordpress. There are lots of plugins and templates are very easy. It's the only blogging software I'd recommend for a basic blog.

For a site with a lot more content, Drupal is a more robust option. It's really easy to expand with modules for blog, forum, shopping cart, etc. I find the template system more confusing than Wordpress.
It turns out you didn't have to write your own program. Sometimes I know there's somewhere a unix tool that does what I'm looking for, but writing it can be pretty fun.
We haven't decided for sure. It's usually a thurs and fri
about 60% of the way through March. We may expand to 3 days this winter, because it was getting a bit crowded.
Does OfficeMedium have samba sharing or similar feature so documents can be added without uploading via a web interface? I've been looking for a good content management system for my job. Alfresco ( http://www.alfresco.com/ ) seems to present itself as a shared drive on user's PC but it doesn't do events + calendaring that OfficeMedium seems to support.
I can play too!

SiteCore, TeamSite, TypePad, Blogspot?
" ... then that would make those that are created more valuable."

Only if they are hard to copy.

Lack of copyright would alter the kinds of things people produce.
Reminds me of ruby's builder (this blog has a simple, quick example:
http://beust.com/weblog/archives/000025.html

Implementation of the xml builder.
http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2528

This is supposedly quicker than
http://builder.rubyforge.org/

I imagine there is a python equivalient.
Agreed and is an interesting application, which probably has evolved since it was first posted.
Fortunately at my workplace (a Microsoft/Exchange/Blackberry-Enterprise-Server -related software shop) we went the other direction. Sharepoint was so bad people got used to using e-mail and file shares instead. By the time I managed to get a TWiki in there it was kind of late, it's hard to break entrenched habits.

Sharepoint doesn't easily let you create free-form context and structure for content. TWiki takes a minimalist approach that's very easy to use.
Looking for Hypercard-like development environment
A friend of mine is looking for a development environment similar to Hypercard (pref. open source) that will enable his to create standalone apps (obv. with the runtime included). He's not looking to make any money from these, hence the interest in open source, but does need to be able to provide most of the functionality associated with Hypercard (incl. video playback) as well as data grids. I've looked at a number of for-pay options and things like PythonCard (not rich enough in controls) and Shoes, but they don't seem to fit his requirements. LIkewise, he's not a "heavyweight programmer" (his description, not mine) so something at the level of Hypercard seems to be the best fit. Anyone working on or know of anything like that?

Thanks!
If you're in town for longer and don't know what to do, try to check out the Computer History museum in Mountain View or the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Both are worth every penny!
>The top House negotiator, Rep. Ed Pastor, D-Ariz., didn't recall why his side insisted that the Senate drop the transparency provision. But a Democratic aide said later that there is concern that making every report public automatically might cause agencies to be less candid in their dealing with the Appropriations Committee. The aide required anonymity to speak candidly.

Lovely debate, can anyone please post it online? :)
Tell HN: overcomming programmer's block
These are the simple tricks against programmer's block that I use. Not how to prevent it, but what to do when I'm having it. I'm not sure if they are useful to others, but I suppose so.

- be sure to accept first that you are blocked and your production is going to be worse than usual for a while

- try to understand why you are having a block... are you bored of routine work? your brain is tired of challenging work? are you just stressed? different problems have different solutions

- if you are bored of routine work: remember this, you are not going to be productive anyway, so anything is worth trying; then try this: forget your todo list, just pick something that you like doing that is somewhat related to your work and do it... work in a relaxed way, do pauses if needed, but do something, and keep it related to your work...

- if you are blocked because you are tired of challenging work, keep everything simple.. do simple tasks, and if you have to do complex stuff, divide them in a lot of very small tasks, so that each of them require very little effort to do ... then start doing them

- if you are stressed, sometimes doing very challenging work is a distraction, and a solution... works for me

- every day you should feel that you are doing good work, even if slowly... this sensation is what's going to end the programmer's block
oh dear god .. i feel like i'm going to do an impulse purchse this evening.

drool
No, I would say it's something that managers AND admins love, the latter because it will keep them in work forever. Developers and users hate it =)
I think copyright law was developed with the intention of promoting innovation. And in theory, it should do this. But this assumes that everyone is motivated by monetary gain. So copy right law might have applied more when it was first developed because more people were creating things to sustain living back in the days when lower level needs like food was more of an issue. Nowadays we might have more people innovating for the sake of doing something great, so copyright law might be applying less and less everyday to our current society.
"These huge featurefests from Microsoft are complex animals and require training and work to get right."

Yes, that was precisely his/her critique -- and mine.
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Can I assume it would be the week of March 15th? Thanks for the help, my g/f is looking for a commitment out of me, and I'm hoping to be apart of YC :)
Terence Tao: Advice on Writing Papers
Has anybody here actually been involved in purchasing this product? What use case did it solve for you?
I wonder how they are calculating users... The iPhone app has 10m downloads, hard to believe that the other platforms (BlackBerry, Android, etc) account for more than 80% of their users.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s12Jb5Z2xaE
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No, I'm sorry to say that it doesn't. Yet. There's a list of additions lined up for the future (even though I know that doesn't help you very much).
You don't have to be a Linux person to get that feeling. I've been doing SharePoint development for exactly three years now (before that, classical .NET), and it keeps being 'rough' (not in a cool way) and sucky. Yes, every once in a while you still get a moments worth of development joy, before you run into another entirely MS-inflicted, never-seen-before bug, spend more hours re-administering IIS, web.config, SQL Server and SP itself, or mostly wait for ages on a 4 GB machine for Visual Studio's SharePoint extensions to compile your code into their CAB-based "solution packages". There's no reason why this should take forever but it does. Sure, I'm on a Mac and love Python, CouchDB etc. privately and for hobbyist stuff -- but sadly, the market that pays my bills rewards MS crap at the moment.

This is a market ripe for disruption though, because when developers and HNers realize something sucks, then corporate IT will eventually too, 5 years down the line. The question is where the disruption will come from. Some people bet on Wave, myself excluded.
Your two last statements are correct.
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It's a microsoft-based web-centric document management and workflow system.

What part of that do people not understand?

Seems like you already have some sort of point or answer you're trying to get to. Perhaps it is "Microsoft sux and hackers can replace SharePoint!"

If so, then get to it. That Billion-dollar market awaits you.
No idea why this was downvoted. Intranet DASHBOARD is very good solution if you are looking at Sharepoint syle features.
the "enterprise wiki" is horrible, so that one's a mystery to me
Never, ever use Joomla. It is a steaming pile of shit, and no good can come of touching it.

The rest are decent, depending on your exact needs. I find Drupal a bit heavy for non-techies unless you spend some time removing stuff from the admin side that they don't need. I try to use Wordpress over Drupal when I can.
I had a terrible experience trying to extend Joomla. The code is a freaking mess. I would not consider Joomla to be a viable solution for anything.

Lately, I've been using Drupal and it is monumentally better. The API (really the hook system) is small and flexible. There is a module for almost anything you can think of. Nine times out of ten you don't need to do any coding at all to get almost any behavior imaginable (CCK and Views alone are tremendous). As an added benefit, the community is very strong and receptive.

Having said that, if its a simple blog, Wordpress is probably your best bet. Its a bit friendlier out of the box from a user perspective. I have no experience coding for Wordpress and I don't have any experience with Expression Engine, so can't comment there.
UC Berkeley, Stanford, Caltech.