jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As a general rule, short term movements on Wall Street are "dumb" because there's a lot of emotion driving trading on that scale, plus lots of weird automated/hedge fund trading going on. To give just one example of something that probably contributes to noise: naive trading programs that see an uptick on "Hathaway" in the news streams, assume that's a signal indicating some new item about Buffet's company, so they buy up BH -- but in reality the spike was caused by a wave of news about the actress Anne Hathaway. I'm sure there's a lot of dumb/naive algorithms like that out there. Plus who knows how many pre-scheduled trades or triggered trades. In the short term, lots of dumb noise and froth. I think overall movements on Wall Street are the most meaningful and valid in the longer term, and across a large class of things.
No, it's not. iScheme is in the store and its only purpose is to evaluate code entered by the user. (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ischeme/id395305584?mt=8)
You need more than 5 minutes, you also need access to the computer associated with the phone: http://www.cellebrite.com/images/stories/support%20files/App...
Google will not allow it to be installed on my hacked Color Nook running CM7.

Arg.
The article fails to establish any causal link between Netflix subscriptions and decrease in bittorrent use. It is just as likely that an increase in Netflix subscriptions is evidence of a renewed interest in movies; and this renewed interest will also produce an increased demand for movies not yet available on Netflix.
HBO on a cable subscription is still 15 - 20 clams. Even if it was available streaming or unbundled, that's still a lot more than the cost of netflix.
My DVD player broke right around the time that I got Netflix/AppleTV (I'm in Canada). I was planning on getting a new one, but turns out I can watch all the movies I want between Netflix and iTunes.

Now I have a giant box of DVD's I spent $1000s on and aren't worth a fraction of what I paid.
Since JavaScriptCore is LGPL, you could probably demand them from him after buying some app that uses this.

"For a library, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the library."
Isn't that basically what compass does?

http://compass-style.org/
Tables FTW. It's the HTML element for controlling horizontal and vertical relationships at the same time.
The first part about small bits of interstellar matter impacting the starship becoming an increasing problem as the speed approaches the speed of light is something as surprising as it is obvious in hindsight.

I had hever had though of that until yesterday when, coincidentally, I finished reading Arthur C. Clarke's "The Songs of Distant Earth".
Actually, it was just the registrar that I use but gi.gs was taken anyways.
There are rough corners, but there's also room for improvement:

"Now Herman Miller, the firm that, however unintentionally, started the shift to cubicles, is trying to reshape the office yet again. The “Living Office” is a new attempt to combine the best of private and social space. It looks rather like a fancy hotel: open-plan but with desks set in friendly clusters and separated by low, clear partitions. Workers can also perch at a counter-top next to the coffee station, or lounge on sofas in a plaza or café-style seating in a courtyard. Benches nicknamed “landing strips” are placed outside conference rooms to encourage post-meeting chats. Pods are available for concentrated work, and even for relaxation. Everywhere there are glass-encased meeting rooms and a few solo spaces. About 30% of the staff have no permanent desk.

Light streams in and sound is controlled with dividing walls and “pink noise”—white noise focused on the frequencies of human speech, which can reduce the distance at which a conversation is audible from 50 feet to 12-16 feet. The result, the firm says, is greater focus, accuracy and short-term memory."

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21637359-how-wor...
I think you're correct in recognizing that inanimate objects like guns or software do not have agency and cannot have moral value. The actors who use them should be judged on the morality of the ends to which guns or Tor are the means. This doesn't mean that you can't advocate for the free use of one inanimate object and simultaneously advocate for the regulation of another. Just because I'm in favor of gun rights doesn't mean I have to be OK with nuclear-weapons rights or dangerous-exotic-animal rights.

There's another similarity between Tor and guns (at least in the US). Neither can be eliminated anyway, it's better to discuss how to manage their existence. Tor has no central server that can be shut down. Guns are durable hunks of metal that can be easily hidden, and they exist in huge quantities across the US and could never be confiscated.
I don't know about the previous commenter, and I don't know if the tools have improved, but when I tried to use the billing and cost management page, I couldn't figure out what was actually costing so much. It broke it down into (EC2, S3, etc.), but I couldn't figure out how that mapped out to the bill (i.e. was it the snapshots of my instances, the storage for the not running instances, the old backups in S3, etc.). It didn't seem like it was telling me "exactly" what I was being charged for.

For me, when I saw a $300 bill for one running EC2 instance, a couple of halted ones, and a few hundred GB of storage for something I thought of as a "toy" project that I didn't want to invest serious time or money in, I knew I was done with AWS. A small colocated server could readily provide those resources for vastly less money (and I work on tools to manage cloud and VM resources, including a reasonably good API for spinning them up and down and such, so I don't really miss the Amazon API or UI). This was after I'd already gotten a shock from an automated backup gone wrong that ran up a huge bill. So, it took me a couple of times getting burned.

Of course, it's always been my fault for not understanding how Amazon bills for things, what services cost money (i.e. a down instance still costs money), how much things cost, and sometimes how the API works (or at least confirming that it's doing what I think it's doing, in the case of removing old backups). I'm not blaming Amazon. I'm just saying, I don't trust myself to use Amazon for anything that I'm not going to spend a lot of time and energy on, because I'm obviously not capable of using it without making mistakes when I treat it like a toy. I readily admit I shot myself in the foot; Amazon just provided the guns.
It wouldn't be a texting only to post site then would it? My point is there are free services where one can get a second phone number for uses like this.
SourceTree seems like such a complicated mess. `git gui` and `gitk` are my preference.
New site that asks you questions on how you want to use a gadget and based on your answers recommends a gadget for you. Try it and let me know what you think in the comments.
What is Magic?
http://melodi-diamondsandpearls.blogspot.com/2012/09/what-is-magic-can-you-share.html
Many people write books about magic and the invisible spirit world. There are more spirits than there are people on the earth. There is no ONE truth on this topic. What YOU believe IS magic because it will come true as you see it...
الوليد بن طلال
http://www.qwled.com/vb/external.php?type=RSS2
http://www.qwled.com/vb/external.php?type=RSS2
What I wish I knew when I first arrived in Silicon Valley six years ago
http://20bits.com/article/getting-ahead-a-letter-to-myself
Self-written letter from a future (2012) to younger Jesse Farmer (2006), now a co-founder of Everlane
Show HN: Emotion Driven Development, rethinking project management
https://www.onomojo.com
Hello everyone. I have created a project management service to help improve work environments by focusing on how employees feel about their work. All employees are very used to being viewed simply as a commodity and the current state of project management tooling reflects that. Traditionally the primary metric management is interested in is velocity. Velocity alone does not get to the heart of how productive a project is or how sustainable that productivity is. Onomojo seeks to change that by making employee sentiment the primary focus in project management. Day after day, if you are grinding on work that you aren't happy with you will eventually burn out and switch jobs. By focusing on how employees feel about their work, we can better prioritize stories so people are working on things they're actually interested in. We put employee sentiment first.

I've been working on this for about 10 months and I'm pretty happy with how it's progressing. The site is built with a Ruby on Rails API and a Nuxt frontend running on Heroku.

I'd love to hear your feedback on how I can improve the user experience, messaging, or any other ideas you might have. Thanks
Creating a social object – ZooZoo Characters
http://www.rajeshsetty.com/2011/04/10/creating-a-social-object-zoozoo-characters/
Rajiv Rao from Ogilvy creates one of the most successful ad campaigns in the recent history (for Vodafone). ZooZoos have become social objects in India.
Startup advice from Tim Ferriss
http://vidinterest.com/video/4811/tim-gives-startup-advice-and-answers-the-question-when-shoul
Tim gives startup advice and answers the question, when should you take a skill, learn it yourself or delegate it to somebody else or hire a new teammember? Also find out what is the startup pitfall for most entrepreneurs
Pakistan has developed smartest nuclear tactical devices
http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=10640&Cat=13
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s nuclear programme has made some extraordinary progress by developing one of the world’s smartest nuclear tactical devices, it has been learnt.

According to a western diplomat, the former dictator and the then President General Pervez Musharraf, during one of his meetings with US officials, had deemed it proper to convey it to the Americans what Pakistan possessed and how the country’s nuclear scientists had secured the defence of Pakistan.
Youtube version of turntable.fm
http://turntube.tv
Built at Olin college of engineering.
MIT Media Lab in Shenzhen, 3 Weeks of Factory Tours for MediaLab Designers
http://www.freaklabs.org/index.php/Blog/MIT-Media-Lab-Shenzhen-2013/
Bunnie Huang organized a 3-week long industrial tour of Shenzhen for designers from MIT Media Lab. The purpose was to give the designers an idea of what manufacturing is like and how it differs from the design world. It turned into an epic tour of the manufacturing side of Shenzhen and I decided that it all needed to be documented. I put them up as long form blog posts on my site along with pictures. You'll have to click through for the pictures since they're all bunched up at the bottom of the posts. Hope you enjoy :)

Akiba
Scientists fight flames with electric wand
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/03/30/fire.electric.wand/index.html
In a new study, Harvard University scientists say they used an electric field to extinguish an open flame more than 1 foot tall -- a development they say could yield fire-suppression options to water and chemical retardants.
Pimp my development environment
http://www.cjohansen.no/en/rails/pimp_my_development_environment
Over the past few days I've been adding some bits and pieces that has really pimped by development environment into a slightly more productive one, and certainly a more enjoyable one.
Open Sourcing our Operational Scale Tools–Meet Trigger 
http://loosebolts.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/open-sourcing-our-operational-scale-toolsmeet-trigger/
Network device & ACL management python tools from AOL open sourced.
Why its not to late for Microsoft in mobile
http://darangedshaman.com/2010/07/29/why-its-not-to-late-for-microsoft-in-mobile/
Since 2007 after the launch of Apple’s extremely popular mobile device the iPhone, it seems like Apple killed Microsoft’s windows mobile platform overnight. To make matters worst search engine powerhouse Google got into the game with the introduction of their own mobile operating system Android in 2008. Android since then has been rapidly gaining market share and mindshare.
Should You Sell Your Startup Now?
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/10/should-you-sell.html
If you have a tiny Web startup, this seems like a great time to be a seller. Last week Google bought Jaiku and CBS announced that it is buying Dotspotter, a 10 month old gossip blog. Expect more soon. But the flip-or-build question is harder to answer than it looks.
Show HN: Groupd – an AI-assisted service for categorizing online content
https://groupd.co
NOTE: the actual service is still actively being worked upon, but we have decided to publish the landing page as early as possible and get some early adopters.

During our work on http://murmel.social, we have come to the conclusion that AI assisted content classification can be a game-changing tool for small teams or knowledge professionals (journalists, researchers, writers, marketers, etc.) This is why we thought it would make sense to direct a part of efforts on sharing our in-house classification tooling with those people.

Even if you have absolutely no clue about content classification, or how it would help you, if you fall into of the groups above, you might want to sign up and get our further updates. We believe that we can help build a tool that people may not even know they needed.

Thanks for your support!
Fake apple stores popping up in china
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/fake-apple-stores-popping-up-in-china-20110721-1hpjz.html
Products get knocked off all the time - designer bags, Oscar-night dresses, watches. But entire stores? That's something new. Which is why the internet is going crazy over a blogger's report that three fake Apple stores have popped up in her neighbourhood in Kunming, China.
Best b Schools
http://www.chakreview.com/Careers-and-Education/Top-B-schools-in-India
To simplify your B-school selection we have categorized India's top B- schools into eight clusters. The list of B-school in India can go on forever, however, we have tried to limit our classification to the better and more known B-schools.
Startup Waffles - Waffles for Founders and Hackers
http://thestartupdigest.com/2010/03/28/startup-waffles/
Decided to throw together a fun and random event for hackers and founders in Palo Alto. If you are around Silicon Valley come by!
I'll be returning my Apple Smart Case
http://phun.me/post/25030273812/hands-on-with-the-ipad-smart-case
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/12/3080925/ipad-smart-case-hands-on
How Small is BigData?
http://meedabyte.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/how-small-is-bigdata/
How deep the analysis of ourselves and our society should go thanks to the disintegration of technical limits on storage? How small are the pieces of the huge BigData pie?
Microsoft goes social
http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/28/technology/hempel_microsoft.fortune/?postversion=2009042904
NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Facebook might have a larger audience than the population of Brazil (200 million users vs. 191 million citizens), but the site doesn't yet have a viable business model. Twitter is wildly popular but it loses money. Could the codgers at software giant Microsoft (a Facebook investor) be the guys who end up figuring out how to make money on social networks?

The company on Wednesday will begin testing a new social-networking platform called Microsoft Vine, and chief strategist Craig Mundie tells Fortune the company is planning on pursuing a subscription-based model instead of trying to support the platform only with advertising. Vine's other twist: It plans to target public safety officials and concerned citizens seeking emergency information.

"All governments have this issue. Many of them struggle with safety as a problem," Mundie says. And he says he is optimistic that Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) can crack the code for making money off social networks. (More on that in a moment.)

Think of the platform as the updated version of a 9-1-1 call or the local public radio station. Consumer users of the service can create profiles and make groups "my family" or "my softball team," to whom they can send messages. Activity will be limited to two actions: alerts and reports.

A tree down in your neighborhood? You could post a report about that. Practice canceled because of the rain? Send an alert to your teammates. And in more serious situations, a flood, say, the site will provide information on how to handle the emergency. Vine will also offer updates from sources such as the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

So far public officials have been reluctant to use social media as a formal way to interact with citizens. Barbara Graff, director of the office of emergency management for the city of Seattle, is willing to test the service with Microsoft, in part because she's eager to get more data and insights into how the city can use these new communications tools.

Microsoft says it would make basic service available free, but would charge for premium services, such as access to the platform via smart phone. The world soon will know if consumers are willing to pay for social networking, or if the subscription model is destined to die on the vine. To top of page
Exploding star is oldest object seen in universe
http://uniknotions.com/fulldebate.php?debatenum=610
Edo Berger got an alert early last Thursday morning when a satellite detected a 10-second blast of energy known as a gamma ray burst coming from outer space.

Telescopes around the world swiveled to focus on the explosion, soon picking up infrared radiation, which is produced after gamma rays in this kind of event. Berger was ready to view the visible light, which should have followed.

It never arrived.

"We were kind of blown away. We immediately knew what that meant," Berger said.

What it meant was that he was looking at the oldest thing ever spotted -- an enormous star exploding 13 billion years ago.

"At that point the age of the universe was only 600 million years," he said. In other words, Berger said, he was looking "95 percent of the way back to the beginning of time."

The star which exploded was 30 to 100 times larger than our own sun, and when it died, it gave off "about million times the amount of energy the sun will release in its entire lifetime," Berger told CNN by phone from Harvard University, where he is an assistant professor of astronomy.

Full Story: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/29/gamma.ray.burst.space/index.html?eref=rss_tech
Vote Lafayette to Help Gamification Bring About Positive Social Change
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/19/vote-mayors-challenge-fan_n_2716857.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
We're working with our Local Acadiana Open Source User Group, so please give us feedback and vote!<p>Additional Information - https://www.facebook.com/beejhuff/posts/131621353670742<p>http://acadianaos.org/
Inchirieri Masini
http://www.inchirieri-masini-bucuresti.ro
Promotor Services va ofera pe langa aceasta varianta, care este dealtfel foarte practica, si posibilitatea de a plati in avans un plin de benzina/motorina (in functie de capacitatea rezervervorului respectivei masini); veti putea asadar sa returnati masina cu rezervorul cat mai gol! Aceasta varianta este buna pentru persoanele care inchiriaza o masina pentru o perioada mai mare si vor sa nu mai aiba si aceasta grija atunci cand predau masina! De regula , in cazul in care masina se preda cu plinul facut si se returneaza cu lipsa de benzina/motorina, diferenta de combustibil se taxeaza la un pret mai mare decat cel practicat la o statie peco. Desi toti clientii Promotor Services stiu ca trebuie sa predea masinile cu plinul facut, la fel cum li s-a predat, exista cazuri in care, datorita lipsei de timp , masinile sunt returnate fara combustibil, trebuind astfel sa plateasca un pret mai mare decat la o statie peco. Tocmai pentru a evita aceste cazuri, aveti posibilitatea platii in avans a unui plin de combustibil, doar la Promotor Services Inchirieri Masini. Ne adaptam cererilor dv si incercam sa gasim solutii cat mai simple si cat mai practice pentru ambele parti.
Histolines, a database timeline of all history
http://histolines.com/
Histolines is a platform that compiles a full record of precise occurrences in lives of historical characters with account of time and place.
As this platform matures the collection of these events will give us an infinitely precise view of history.But unlike disjoint books and websites the composition of all the events will give us a refined perspective of historical interactions and relations that might not been seen otherwise.
To imagine how it would work pretend that Facebook and Wikipedia had a child.
when you enter the main site you will see a story line of occurrences much like the Facebook news feed.But instead of the latest rants and check ins of your friends you will see the real life events of historical figures.Unlike Facebook, this site will borrow the original attributes of Wikipedia. No one will have a personal account, instead anyone will be able to add a life event of any known character.<p>Each event that one will post, at least initially will be confined to a predetermined collection of event types.For example birth, death, battles won or lost, music composed, war started treaty signed, novel written...This will guide the creators to actual, factual occurrences and prevent the usual bias and interpretation.
To control for less relevant details we will create a significance indicator that will be populated by the reader.Also to account for garbage posts we will create an accuracy measure which will again be determined by the reader.Each event will allow the creator to link a reference in order to justify their claim.And the reader will be able to filter out events based on lack of reference or low significance or accuracy.
The structure of this website will allow the public to generate precise historical timelines and make detailed history more accessible to view, write and interpret its significance and accuracy.Thus eliminating the influence of the victors on history.
Is it really cathartic to get a secret off your chest?
http://www.youthinkyouknowbutyouhavenoidea.com
Another one of those "sharing secrets" sites. Don't know if there is any benefit to really sharing secrets, but people seem to want to.
Uncharted 2: Among Tweeters
http://timesonline.typepad.com/technology/
I don't want to sound too much like the unpaid marketing arm of Sony Computer Entertainment here, but blimey, Uncharted 2 is a great game.
Open Design Platform for Product Designers
http://launch.magma.io/
trying
Skobbler's GPS navigation at Android
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/05/16/skobbler-brings-its-openstreetmap-powered-offline-gps-navigation-app-to-android/
What Android GPS navigation app do you prefer?
When You Don't Have Photoshop Access Check Out These 25 Web Apps
http://wondersuite.com/photoshop-browser/
Photoshop is amazing when it comes to creating, editing and perfecting photography or making retouches or small changes.

However, Photoshop is not the cheapest, most portable or most comprehensive tool for image editing.

Therefore, we present to you 25 web based applications to help you take your photos to the next level.
Lalu Prasad Who had addressed hundreds of students at Harvard and Yale convicted
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/1895896/report-fodder-scam-lalu-prasad-yadav-s-fate-to-be-decided-today
Lalu Prasad Yadav, an Indian politician who had addressed over a hundred students from Harvard, Wharton and others in Hindi and who had once received invitations from eight Ivy League schools for lectures was convicted in India on a Fodder scam after several years!
Ham Radio Growing In The Age Of Twitter
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125586086&ft=1&f=1019
Anyone on HN have a ham radio license?