skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was looking at WINDs pricing, and the unlimmited only seems to be in WIND home areas, and [for the time being] that didn't seem very large.

Also, while it looks like it will work on WIND, it won't be able to roam on Roger's 3G, which seems like it would be useful until they have a more complete network roll-out.
That's what people have been predicting. The glut in commercial real estate has been talked about since 2006; the recession just gave it an extra push over the edge.

A lot of people say that subprime was just Act 1 in the financial crisis. Act 2 will be the bursting of Alt-A, prime, and commercial mortgages in the latter half of 2010. And the total dollar value of those loans is significantly higher than all the subprime loans outstanding in 2006.

You can see for yourself if you drive down Shoreline in Mountain View or any of office parks on 101. "Office space for Lease - Call 555-555-5555" signs everywhere. It's not unique to Silicon Valley either - I was just back to the Boston suburbs for Christmas Eve, and then down in NYC for Christmas, and all the commercial zones are filled with "For Lease" signs, one after the other.
I have a Nexus One and I have to say I've quickly become ALMOST as good at typing as I was on the iPhone. Sometimes the lack of multi-touch (pressing one key while you're letting up on another) bites you in the ass but it's pretty rare.

My primary issue with the keyboard is that it's very close to the four un-beveled buttons below the screen. I'll quite often hit "back" when I mean to hit "?123" which is pretty annoying.

I've also had good success with the new voice recognition feature for short emails and text messages.

Overall the keyboard is much less polished than the iPhone but I was pleasantly surprised at how usable it was.
I'm creating an online power monitoring system so you can see how your home or office uses power. A web platform is great for this because we can centralise the processing / graph generation and analysis and then put simple, cheap devices into people's buildings to do the actual measurement.

See: http://www.gridspy.co.nz/

We offer live data (updated every second while you watch) and multiple channels, all at a price that is cheap for a solution like ours.
Well, to be fair there are only the two metaphors :)
And they're only used to open and close the post. I don't think that's really overdoing it. Maybe it's a subjective thing, but I don't think a little whimsy is out of place on a personal blog, and not all writing should be in point form.
A Virtual Solution for Mobile Development
If you buy the Nexus One with the T-Mobile plan, $79.99/month includes 500 minutes and unlimited data. It's detailed on the first step of the order process: https://www.google.com/phone/choose
Nexus One Review
I can confirm this. Stuck my AT&T SIM in my N1 and no 3G. Here's the deal:

Most of the world = 3G 2100, AT&T = 3G 850/1900, T-Mo USA = 3G 1700/2100 MHz, Nexus One = 3G 900/1700/2100. (For reference, iPhone 3G = 3G 850/1900/2100).
I'm making a phone party line similar to Omegle/ChatRoulette using Twilio.
Agreed. "The Game" was so amusing that I bought "Rules of the Game", but it doesn't have much substance.
Because the software is free right? (Clue: the people who wrote it were full-time Google employees).
I've been playing with the Nexus One pretty heavily for the past 24 hours and I can confirm that the battery is basically what you'd expect. Heavy usage means you won't make it through the day, but you can easily do so on reasonable web surfing/texting and moderate numbers of phone calls.
Anecdotal experience with both AT&T and T-mobile in the USA (mostly southwest) says that T-mobile beats AT&T.
http://invoiceapp.com

small web app we built over the last few days to generate nice invoices and track if they are overdue or paid.

(not finished yet, but open signup and core functionality working)
I'm a front end guy who's turning to physical products.

Building the world's coolest kitchen outfitter... Sign up here if you like: http://gastronautics.com
Is there a reason not to buy a subsidized phone and just eat the termination fee immediately? (I'm assuming it's ~$200, but might be different for smartphones)
I'm not aware of any good books on investing, other than Taleb. (which isn't to say there aren't any, just that the ones I've started to read aren't very impressive)
Tech specs indicate 802.11n; does anyone know if there's actually any noticeable difference in n over g when using a mobile processor/device?
I've seen some of these bodega/local grocer owners. I think the biggest challenge would be to even get these people computers/reliable internet , and convince them of the added value. I think the technical aspect is probable the easier of the two problems.
I'm working on a realtime strategy game in the browser using "full-duplex" AJAX. I started working on it about a year ago but I had to take a considerable timeout after burning out at my former boring job. It's slowly getting somewhere, though.

So why in the browser? Because that makes it instantly hackable! No more bad pathfinding or shitty interfaces to put up with!
I'd add Ryan Singer's "UI Fundamentals for Programmers" (http://windycityrails.org/videos#4) to the list also. He did a really great job of explaining how to think about design and some simple rules to follow.
This is why it shocks me that iPhone owners willingly give up this flexibility and even defend Apple for taking it away from them. I know it's not exactly a general purpose computer but it's pretty close.
I guess because python vm is 2MB while Lua is just hundereds of kilobytes
After a quick search, I see you can get a 1200 dpi black and white laser printer for less than $100. Colour printers can overlay colours or pre mix the ink.
Thanks! Would you be interested in helping us with this project? Seems like you have a lot of experience.
"Sorry, the Nexus One phone is not available in your country."

Oh, well. Another boring phone which isn't even available. Let's move on, then.
Again with those confounded fractals.

It's crazy how organic and of the natural world these look.
Data is same as AT&T $30/month. I just traded in my HTC MDA for switching to AT&T and the iPhone 3GS. It cost about $5 more per month at AT&T total.

My same plan at T-Mobile was $100, new one at AT&T is $105ish.
I'm making a Home Kitchen Inventory Manager complete with recipe suggestions.

still in dev, but just for you: http://fridgereport.com (its hosted on a server in my closet... sorry if it is slow)

It is made with ASP.NET MVC Framework and C#
He solved one of the 18th century's most important problems: Longitude
So a color laser printer do dithering?
I was recently shown this by a colleague. Will definitely be trying it out with my students soon.
Great, it looks like a good book and a valuable resources. It's a shame about the publishing situation. I've been interested in Lisp and scheme for some time, but haven't found a way to learn it by accomplishing something with Lisp yet. I'm looking forward to finding a project.

"Oh, and one more thing: It's not quite true that no mass market product uses Lisp. Microsoft's "Bob" environment for naive computer users was developed (and delivered) in Lisp."

Okay, I'm sold! But really, MS was using Lisp in the 90s?
yes awesome! since your fingers don't get any smaller, maybe that's why they decided to put a trackball on a cell phone. perhaps there will also be a separately sold stylus.
I'm working on some mathematical models of the flirting signaling process and some other social phenomena. I'm hoping to get some interesting / nontrivial existence and/or impossibility results with cool qualitative interpretations out of it
Aggressive plan for Android. Google sharing Ad Revenues with Operators.
Programming a library for interfacing GWT and MongoDB
Ask HN: Guitar tabs online
We do want to change the way people get guitar tabs (chords). You submit mp3 and get guitar tabs back for it. Tabs will be synchronized to your song and could be inserted to any page as flash object.

You can get one file for free in 24 hours. Processing is FIFO based, so expect your chords to be ready in couple of hours, depending on the load, unless you will pay for speedup processing :)

Small history. We had introduced Chords! Winamp quite a while ago, and general comment was additional players/OS, so we decided to go purely web, without any software installation.

Try it http://chords.fm/online/web

Any comments are be welcome.
Whether you agree or not, everything seen so far has been an iteration of Stalinism, without question. Additionally, in either a degenerate socialist state or a capitalist society like the U.S., productive means are most certainly not under the control of workers in any real capacity. Whether the said productive means are controlled by a bureaucratic elite from a single party, or from a "two" party system that unabashedly represents capitalist interests, the end result is still the same: subjugation of the worker.
I love the acronym that Mr. Smith is giving this new technology, however I might be slightly biased.
So, it's like one of the couple dozen scripting languages with OS bindings already available under Unixes, minus the readability...

I understand if one would want it under Windows, but it's not a step in the right direction for anyone else.

How does the Export-Csv know what information you want to be exported?
Sending Customer Development Surveys
Our new approach to buying a mobile phone
I think we broke that session. Can't escape out of whatever it's in.

edit: At least I got off an error message for others coming late to the party session before it stopped responding.

http://img.skitch.com/20100105-mgdxdtt5nqpef6qpba9s9rnkbi.jp...
When building it if you have a build error about gelf.h install the libelf-dev package.
I've been using this since it came out. It's fast, and seems to work very well. It doesn't get in the way and irritate me like AVG, Avast and the other free ones. I've been extremely pleased with it.
Launching a digital marketing startup. I've had the opportunity to fully immerse myself in the CodeIgniter framework and I love it. I have used it to build a custom CRM and also an internal tool that will allow us to launch new micro sites in 60 seconds, including buying the domain name, parking them on the server, and spinning the content and publishing everything. Very fun.

Have learned a lot about linkbuilding and SEO as well. It's interesting to play with different linkbuilding techniques and watch the results happen in just a few days because of how low the competition is in our niches. Am planning on developing a fully automated linkbuilding tool that will require me to wear my gray hat while I work ;-)
The article left out the fact that most of this commercial real estate excess is left over from the dot com bust. At the height of prosperity between the bust and the most recent financial trouble the vacancy rate was still around 16% compared to the 21% it is now. And unless you get somewhat lucky, most owners in the valley still make more money by only partially leasing their building at a higher cost than fully leasing it at relatively low prices. So, while you may here a few stories of people getting decent lease rates they are the small minority.

And I don't see how they article or title infers anything about the state of tech as others have mentioned other than that it says Silicon Valley. While this term is typically used to describe the tech industry in the area it has become a more generic term for the south bay. The article makes it clear that it is a real estate problem and that some tech companies are benefiting from the over-speculation.
I've down-voted it by accidence. Please, up-vote to fix my mistake.
Suggestions: there should be a way to color input / output by user. There should also be a way to send Control-C and Control-X. There should be a way to see who is in the REPL.
It no doubt is the nicest Android phone to date, but for the most part it sounds like it has been wildly over-hyped.

The only thing that seems to make this a "Google Phone" is that Google is selling it.
IIRC, the termination fee brings you up to the cost of the unsubsidized device.
We get it. emacs can do everything. C-x M-c M-Butterfly.
Clue: the software for the iPod touch wasn't found in the street either.
I am absolutely serious. Hardware and software fragmentation proved near-fatal to old Palm, Windows Mobile and J2me.

The insidious part is that this business model results into hardware manfuacturers being disinterested in providing OS upgrade to old devices. Then a developer ends up supporting multiple versions of hardware/OS but given low software prices they don't have enough money to invest properly. A user then faces apps that are advertised as working on "Windows Mobile" but it turns out require touch-screen, different screen resolution or just crap out on latest OS, or demand the latest OS that user can not get without entering a new two-year contract. I personally stayed away from purchasing a $100 mobile app because I could not figure out device compatibility.

Been there, done that. It's a disaster.

Windows mobile had 100% YoY growth rate so at any point 50% of devices out there were new, and even that was not enough. Maybe if android grows 300% YoY they can make legacy redundant, but how long can this last?

But even then, as a developer I have established relationships with my customers, I can't just tell them to take a hike. If I do they will not advocate my product and I will lose the single most efficient marketing channel.

Bottom line is that upgrading OS to latest version should have been made a key design point form the start, both from the technical point and business-model point. Apple got it right, and as a developer I have 99.6% of my users using the latest major rev of the OS and 93% of my users using the latest minor rev.
Clickable link http://chords.fm/online/web/
Which, umm, is why it also retails for more than its parts cost.
There is an organization in Denver that markets the Art District. I'll likely join them, and therefore be included in their marketing. Otherwise, the location I am working on gets a lot of traffic, and the sign in front will be the major announcement.

Our web site will also have an announcement -- it is currently just my wife's blog, but is connected to her etsy shop, so we do have a small following.

If there is interest, I can post on HN as well. I wasn't sure if the community here would have a strong interest in my project or not...

Finally, simply word of mouth - as my day job will pay the mortgage on the property, I don't actually need to profit, so I can just work with my friends on the first few shows, and get the world out gradually.

In terms of timing, I am hoping for August. Once we actually move in (hopefully on the 31st), we need to physically prepare the location (needs new floors, doors, drywall, lights, things like that). So there is quite a bit of work to do yet.
Sneak Peek at Opera 10.5
Here's a short list of advice for how to send customer development surveys. The CEOs of Recurly and Expensify both left great comments arguing for and against using surveys vs. direct customer development.

[Disclaimer, I wrote this post, but I don't submit everything I write -- the comments really push this post into being useful].
You can still get z-machines and lots of old and new games from ifarchive.org (IF == Interactive Fiction). The old z-format has been superseded by Glulxe, Glulxe interpreters will still run the old .z games.
A while ago, someone tried to pitch to me the idea of an in-browser collaborative IDE which you could use to build web apps without ever leaving the browser or even setting up...well, anything, really. I didn't think it would work due to security implications, but it looks like you have solved that problem. You have what amount to project-specific VMs which can presumably run web servers. You have a secure collaboration setup.

Imagine a group of people who want to implement a web app. All they have to do is buy a private server from you, which already has software to allow them to write and serve code. If you nail the IDE, then the web app development process becomes much, much closer to the "normal" method of write/compile/run. In your case, it's write/save/refresh other page.

I realize that you are focusing purely on the REPL right now, but you got me thinking about it and I wanted to share. If you turned these babies into web servers too, it would be pretty awesome. You'd probably have to move to "cloud" hosting, though.

Anyway, great app. I'll probably be using it. But I resent your categorization of Python and Ruby, and agree with gcampbell's UI gripe.
$20

The $10 set is smaller.
How well?
Reproducing Tesla's wireless power transfer
Byron Wien
How does the CRM compare with sugar? I've been looking to replace that for a while.
Have a demo?
I said reference voltage, but I meant the voltage for the summing amp would need to be 9V if that's the step up range he's going for. I totally agree about eliminating the batteries if possible; I just wasn't sure how to get adequate voltage available to the amp without the 9V batteries. But again, it's been many years since I've even looked at a schematic. The floating ground idea looks extremely cool though.
Customer Development Lunch with Jonathan Mendez
It will make people feel safer, which is the only real problem here anyway.
I have no butterfly key on my keyboard...
... And Google made all the software for it. What more do you want? Google Fab?
Working through 'The elements of computing systems'. Just finished testing the cpu and moving on to writing an assembler.
Wow, that's some impressive signal processing you've got going there.

How accurate is it ?

Possible other output channel (if you got this far) would be automated mp3 to midi transcription.
Granted that this is purely anecodatal, but I have not had any complaints with the T-Mobile network.
A secret to making money online
Yes, if microbes are developing resistances to ethyl alcohol, we've got much bigger problems than truth-in-advertising. :)
Twisted Life, a video game written in Flex that uses cellular automata:

http://www.automatous-monk.com/twistedlife/
No it isn't. The book has been available since much prior to the notice about royalties being put up.

I have a single correspondence with the author about compensating him for his effort (I used the online edition) to learn lisp and he refused -- as the publisher has first rights to collect monies on the book -- , I am inclined not to even fleetingly question his judgment in posting the book online.
"Home Zones" only in Toronto and Calgary right now, though.

http://care.windmobile.ca/Support/CoverageMap/roaming.aspx
It's actually a little more complicated than this and the terminology makes it very confusing. The key to this is that the frequency band is different from the actual frequencies used for the radio.

Much of the world's 3G usage is on the 2100 frequency band. This actually operates on two frequency ranges, ~1900 uplink and ~2100 downlink.

In this same vein, AT&T has 2 separate frequency bands, 850 and 1900. 850 operates on ~824/~869 and 1900 operates on ~1850/~1930.

T-Mo actually only has one 3G frequency band, 1700 MHz. This operates on ~1710/~2100, but actually this is not compatible with the world-wide 2100 frequency band.

Most, if not all, 3G T-Mo USA phones support at least the 1700 and 2100 frequency bands. Nexus One also supports 900 MHz, which makes sense since Vodafone uses that band in Europe and Nexus One will soon be on Vodafone.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMTS_frequency_bands for more exact details.
Usually vendors "forget" to use proper exchange rates and instead use something closer to the nominal USD price in euros.
With apologies to Edmund Burke: Those who ignore GNU tools are bound to reimplement them as a webapp.

Assuming that the author had "pedagogical use cases" in mind, I'll have to ask: why not just a plain server with ssh access and screen w/ multiuser support installed? It's really hard to believe that it would take anyone more than 10 minutes to learn how to use screen to the point they can share a session remotely.
Agreed. I am redesigning it for the production version. I'd like to pull everything from the USB if possible.
This runs on ChromeOS...
Otherwise snappy, except it took 10 seconds for the image for the word "fast" to load.
So, unlike the Palm phones, this is not rest-of-the-world-proof...

It's a clever move compared to Palm's incredibly boneheaded offer.
The interesting thing that I haven't seen many talk about is that the subsidized phone is still apparently unlocked. Which makes it great for traveling etc. This alone would be a really big deal for me.

This also means that as long as you stick with the plan for at least 120 days you can get out of the contract and still use the phone for TMobiles $200 early termination fee.

While I love my iPhone it really annoys me that there is no way I can pay AT&T to unlock it like I would be able to in most European countries.
You want to keep the same phone number, right?
Working on web based speech recognition. Have a demo at http://www.speechle.com but its buggy. I learned a lot making it but it gets frustrating at times. Decoding is done using Sphinx.
http://www.lendfriend.net - friends and family lending site built in ASP.NET MVC & jquery. I wasn't the first one to come up with this, but I got the idea after I funded my first startup on credit cards, had some friends with money, but didn't want to complicate things with a DIY loan.

We're launched, but we have a lot of work ahead of us. If anyone has any ideas/suggestions/criticisms please let me know.
I wrote a just intonation library in Java, if you're interested:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/leipzig/
T-Mobile has unlocked all my subsidized phones for me. Unlike most providers, you just have to ask and they send you the code. I believe you have to be a customer in good standing for a few months first.
Well, if Microsoft was selling a "Microsoft Phone", you'd expect something more than just a phone (albeit a nice one) with Windows Mobile installed, wouldn't you?
You may get a better deal if you buy unsubsidized but stay with your current plan. You may need to first change some of the options on your plan. For example, I currently have a "feature phone" with $6/month 3G "T-mobile web" access. As far as I can tell, I can get the Nexus unsubsidized and continue with this plan. This would be substantially cheaper than $180 + $80/month over 24 months.
We are quite good. Try it :)
Isn't the "T-Mobile Even More individual 500 Plan" $39.99 + $30 for unlimited data? This would come to $69.99, not $79.99.
And modulate the size of the dots.
http://xkcd.com/378/ - In geek circles that reference this particular comic, most people write an emacs shortcut that uses M-b instead.
I assume he meant "as opposed to all the other Android phones"
Reading the post again he might be able to completely get rid of the whole circuit by placing two Ge diodes in series with the 0 terminal of the LM35, that will raise the 0 by 0.4 V, just enough to get over the threshold.
Isn't that what Google Voice is for (assuming you've generated a new number in GV)?
http://www.tellmycell.com - A simple, affordable, do it your self SMS marketing platform targeted at small businesses
The interesting thing about PowerShell is that you're not piping really streams of text but COM objects. In a Windows environment this is pretty slick. To give an example, in a traditional shell, you'd run a command, it would do whatever it does, format it for output, then you would unformat it with awk or whatever so you could use it. In PowerShell, you get it structured, eg it's

mycommand2 `mycommand |awk '{print $2}'`

vs

mycommand|mycommand2 $_.myproperty

Which is more readable? Which survives mycommand being enhanced with another column of output? It doesn't make sense to use PowerShell on Unix because none of the existing commands emit C structs, there's no way to get the output of ps as struct after the pipe.