skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that you mention it, my touchpad doesn't work right. (It is stuck in "absolute mode", not "relative mode".) I rarely use the mouse, though, so this isn't something that occurred to me to check.
Gadget freaks are not like you or me.

(What's funny is that most of my acquaintances think that I am a gadget freak. I, who own an original 2G iPhone! By the standards of the true gadget freak I am a hopelessly mundane fuddy-duddy.)

What you have to realize is that an actual operating gadget that one uses from day to day is a disappointment to gadget freaks. I suspect that a gadget freak's favorite moment is the one right before he or she opens the box... the moment when the device is fully alive in the imagination, the moment before one's dream collides with the drab reality of the actual world and the inevitable letdown begins. That, I hypothesize, is why there's such a fetish for "unboxing" videos.
The eee runs slow because it is not built well. But there are netbooks that are built well, and one can imagine in the near future when better parts (improved SSDs, better low-power processors, etc.) make their way to netbooks that they well be even better still.

If you want to fix your eeepc and you are willing to put money into it, I'd suggest replacing the hard-drive with either a decent SSD or a decent magnetic disk.
For some reason, if I use the binaries to install it, it works fine as long as I remove

import autopy.bitmap

from __init__.py
Regarding Authorize.net APIs
Does authorize.net have APIs to facilitate transfer of funds on behalf of a buyer to a seller(aggregation)? We would also need to keep part of the fund for ourselves.
Ask HN: The Widget Economy Discussion
I was persuaded to write this article because I am building a struggling new widget (defined loosely as a single feature product, i.e. iPhone App, web 2.0 startup). However this is ask HN is not about my widget, but about the enormous quantity of widget makers and widgets being made. I would like to start a HN discussion about the widget economy and how we entrepreneurs can “get the best of it”.

First, I would like to discuss why these widgets are important. A widget seems to be a low cost way to solve a particular pain point. In order for a widget to be viable (Such that the widget maker profits from making and maintaining said widget), there must be a minimum number of users. The definition of profits may vary depending on the maker/maker-organization such as financial or social gain.

Second and most important, how many widgets can people actively use? (i.e. Online tools, iphone apps, etc.) A better way to state this is: How many widgets will one actively pay for? I would speculate a guess that there is limit after which people become saturated. It follows that there would then be a consolidation of widgets into features of a “suite” (defined loosely as a collection of related widgets). At this consolidation point, an entrepreneur would like to be a suite maker rather than a widget maker.

Would anyone be willing to speculate answers to the following questions?-- Preferably quantitative
1.How many users must a widget (again, a single feature product) have to be a viable business?
2.How many widgets will a person actively use and pay for?
3.At what widget count do you tend to see a consolidation into "suites"?
4.When (in what markets, with what user base, etc.) is it advantageous to build a single feature product vs. a product “suite”?
Sure, but in general it's not as bad as your post suggests.
> Art seems wrong to me as a descriptor because it would imply that I'm writing code for a sort of aesthetic beauty.

I think code can hold the same kind of beauty that math has when someone says that a proof is elegant, or a theory is beautiful. It's not a visual aesthetic, but appealing nonetheless.

Anyway, I think that the idea of programming as philosophy is interesting. I'll have to think about that more.
Some surprising quotes from Rasmus Lerdorf (php creator)
Yes, but countries do not like to take an unlimited number of people. So they may settle for second best (or third best etc).
My netbook is an old Sony Vaio SRX51P/B that I bought for £2000 back in 2001. It had sat on the shelf for a couple of years as the Lucent Orinoco WiFi chipset didn't support WPA, had 256mb of RAM and the hard drive kept crapping out.

I recently put a 30gb hard drive in, an atheros USB wifi stick and installed Arch Linux on there and it's fantastic. It's not as quick as a modern laptop but is more than capable of basic browsing and xterm-based fun. Aside from the two years that I haven't used it, the overall cost works out at roughly £250 per year. It has a 10.4" screen and aside from the memory is roughly comparable to an EEE PC 701 in terms of performance.

I'm more than happy with it and it still holds a charge, 9 years later.
It's definitely UVB.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D#Production_in_the_ski...

http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/vitamins/vitaminD/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19812604
one possible avenue for your search would be for offshore servers rather than specific proxies - apache and mod_proxy may be sufficient depending on your particular needs. I think the challenge is to find some place that offers proxy services that china has not already blocked...
Google apologizes to Chinese writers
They did provide a convenient way for the Chicago River to flood the basements of many buildings downtown, though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Flood
rent a linux or bsd-based virtual machine at any web hosting company and install openvpn on it.
Yes, that removes the libpng and zlib dependencies. Those should be statically compiled in on Windows though.

Unfortunately, I don't have a Vista installation to test this on, which makes it a bit difficult for me to debug.
It's not really sample bias; had those people returned their netbooks or complained bitterly how small they are, then I'd have posted an entirely different comment.

I didn't even want a netbook, it was given to me as a gift from someone looking specifically to get me a completely superfluous technology item. I didn't think I'd use it since I have a really nice laptop. I have no complaints with the keyboard -- it's the lack of vertical pixels that is annoying.
tough to quantify answers without more data. if we're talking an iphone app,it's simpler to answer 1) once we know the expense to build it and the per-download charge.

@ 2), I actively use a dozen apps; 3 are paid for. 3) not sure; 4) where the need can be best met with what you've built.
From the documentation is correct!

Passing a string instead of a float and expecting it to behave a certain way is undocumented. Oh my! Relying on undocumented behavior... a simple duh in the production world.

I'm not adding to the conversation, and I realize this. But simply my $0.02.
I didn't call them any of those things. Projecting much?

You don't have to be a fascist to think fascist thoughts. I was saying Rand espoused a fascist philosophy. People endorsing Objectivism are endorsing a line of thought that's fascist in nature. That doesn't necessarily make them fascists. Could be they're merely ignorant.
This Will Be The Year Adobe’s 2 Million Flash Developers Come To The iPhone
PC's have "pretty" screens as well but if you ever have a problem the wall-of-text will come up instead. Much more useful.
What's evil is offering Twitter software that lets people auto-follow followers and auto-tweet rss feeds. The former helps perpetuate all the follower spam out there and the latter fills Twitter with yet more redundant content.
This would work if programmers actually documented their code.

I remember posting similar sentiments on Reddit about 3 years ago and getting downmodded to oblivion. In hindsight, I think I was wrong and the herd was right. If you restrict yourself to what's documented, you'll miss out on most of the interesting and cutting-edge stuff. And that's what lets you build a cool, differentiated, useful project.

Instead, I think you should budget time and money for crying later. ;-)
There doesn't have to be a binary distinction between real and imaginary.

I use to talk to my toy soldiers, I knew they weren't alive, but I wished they were. So they were somewhere in between perhaps.

It is very important for children to setup make-believe situations and use their imagination. I think that is a good way to later develop planing and abstract thinking skills.
I liked the CERN story at the end. Imagine having to factor that into your experiments.
New Guniea tribes are post agricultural. They indicate nothing about "paleo" tendencies.

There are no living or even especially recent hunter gatherer models to look at. People sometimes point to african bushmen, but they're stunted refugees scraping by on marginal wasteland. They don't match up with the consistently strong and healthy native american hunter gatherer skeletons.
Maybe because antennas are designed to operate in a narrow frequency band, not the entire EM spectrum?
I just got a Droid after having the same old Motorola phone for several years. The Droid has pretty much knocked my socks off. Contrast my old phone, that could make calls, text message, and take awful pictures, with the Droid which can be used as a phone, an email client, a web browser, an OS for a ton of applications, and even a metal detector (haven't tried that app yet). The one thing I would say that I do miss is a real keypad. I used to be able to punch numbers by feel alone, so if I had to make a call from the car I could just key several numbers of the speed dial without looking (and yes, I do use a headset).
Whole grain bread is the foundation of western civilization for a reason. It contains a huge assortment of what the human body needs as a single food source. Combined with a little meat and a little fruit and a human go go from a child to live a long and healthy life eating nothing else. However, you can also make a healthy diet by completely avoiding it. A large part of a healthy diet is variety and while that can be a pain in our modern society blaming any single highly refined food as horrible while ignoring the other components of your diet is missing a large part of the story.

The less verity in a persons diet the closer to perfection what they do eat needs to be. When you consider the quantity of fructose in the average American diet of course there is a problem, but mainly because of what it replaces and not what it is. If you burned 4k calories a day and drink 1k worth of sucrose water you can still have a healthy if unusual diet. However, when you are only consuming 2k worth of calories a day 50% of which provides zero nutrition your body is probably missing out on important things.
The first story isn't so great. I mean, a program that was used to estimate the phase of the moon had bugs that depend on it. Oh my!

The second story is great.
H+M slashes up clothes to be unwearable as people freeze outside
You seem to be very interested in grouping software by distinctions which do not matter to your users. I would suggest not grouping software by distinctions which do not matter for your users.

Your users do not have a point at which their demand for software is saturated, any more than they have a point at which their demand for products is saturated. Your software solves a need or a want for them. Needs or wants are essentially infinite. (We live lives of ridiculous abundance compared to 99.999% of all humans who ever lived, and yet we still don't have enough. Whether that is just a statement of fact or indictment of consumerist society is up to you.)

Nobody looking for bingo cards for mom's birthday party says "Hold on, wait a minute -- do I need a widget for this, or a suite?" Nor does playing the software taxonomy game help me sell a single copy to any customer anywhere.

As to the question of how many paying customers you need to make a go of things, that question actually matters, but forget about the impact of widgets. I'm going full time with about 1,000 sales a year, which puts me more than ramen profitable at my price point ($30) and cost structure. That is not a one-size-fits-all answer: if you have multiple founders to support, have a wife and kids in San Fransisco, etc, you might need more. If on the other hand, you're billing customers $20 a month, you need rather less.
One thing that Google, in their current or projected business model, will never overcome is: the scarcity of natural resources.

Food, water, building materials, and energy. Commodities by technology, but still essential for life.
"Municipalities are probably the best form of government".

Unfortunately municipalities are arguably the most corrupt form of government, the major sins being nepotism and crony favoritism.

If all that TSA social network analysis software used (largely unsuccessfully) to locate criminals and terrorists was instead applied to _any_ large US city's municipal employee and political system a major scandal would result and heads would roll.
Most of them aren't that surprising if you've used PHP. ;-)
I think you need to distinguish between active and passive widgets.

E.g. An app that lets you find good coffee is an active widget. An app that blocks SMSs from people you don't like is passive.

People can probably deal with many more passive widgets than active ones.
This reads like an Onion article.
Well I had you beat in terms of crappy old phone ownership. I just upgraded from my good old Sony Ericsson w800i (had it for ~3 years) to an iPhone 3GS. I thought long and hard about this move, I've seriously pondering upgrading my phone for about 3 - 4 months now. I finally went with an iPhone mainly for two reasons:

1. I bought myself a Mac desktop last year and I love it. I felt the iPhone would compliment nicely.

2. They've had a couple of iterations to sort out the kinks in the iPhone now and IMHO it shows.

The 3GS feels very polished to me and I don't regret my decision. I've only had my iPhone for about 10 days and I already have Google Sync set up for email/calendar syncing, I've used it as a Skype VoIP handset (in conjunction with my home Wi-Fi), I've got games on my phone that are actually worth playing, mobile Internet access that's actually practical to use and I've got an awesome remote for use with the VLC media player.

I've even made a few phone calls.

I really thought about getting one of the slightly less mainstream phones that might give me more "geek cred" or something. But in the end, I just want as good a user experience as possible and I felt I would get that from the iPhone. YMMV.

Granted, upgrading from a SE w800i I probably would be more than happy with any of the current generation of phones and I can't directly comment on the N1. But all my research led me to the conclusion that if you're looking for polished, go with the iPhone. If you're wanting a little more bleeding edge and experimental, go for one of the other options.
His anecdote about Macintosh repair costs is excellent. Case closed, Californians, you should have gotten Dells.
Our neighbors Uganda discovered oil just an year ago.
Estimated size of the reserves 6-8 billion barrels.
> bread is the foundation of western civilization

Yes, and there is a panoply of diseases only people eating grain get. They're referred to as the "diseases of civilization."

Do your own reading. I did mine and concluded bread intake should be minimized, whole grain or not.
Google sells ads which may or may not promote consumption. Do you blame the Bittorrent tracker for the content its users run through it?
How the AOL-Time Warner Merger Went Wrong
The crux of the conservationist's point is that some resources are mispriced due to uncaptured externalities, and that this leads to overuse.

There's a secondary argument about risk tolerance in that some people default to doing things until proven harmful, whereas others default to not doing them until proven safe, and the whole spectrum betweeen.

But that said, as far as I can tell, the heart of nearly all environmental/energy debates is "is X mispriced?", where X might be gasoline, natural gas, water, trees, or darned near anything else. I'm not sure why you choose to deny that.

----

edit: full disclosure, I believe that decentralization of energy production is important for a number of reasons, and that increased diversity of energy production methods is also important for a number of reasons.

I believe this so strongly that I have invested a fairly large sum of money into a startup that works to make energy costs more transparent, and that works to help entities evaluate and integrate multiple energy sources in an intelligent and cost-effective manner.
I work somewhere that does this. The reason is not to prevent employees from wasting time; it's to prevent someone from unintentionally putting internal data in Google Docs or something like that. The filters are stupid, though, and only cover the very mainstream. Digg and Reddit are blocked, but Slashdot, Hacker News, and Metafilter aren't. Plenty Of Fish is blocked, but OKCupid isn't. Even sillier,
http://voice.google.com/ is blocked (because it's "voice over IP", which it's not) but http://google.com/voice/, the actual URL, isn't. Etc., etc. It's really stupid, but it's essentially government-mandated.

In exchange for this, though, nobody dictates what technology I use to do my work, I can show up at 2 in the afternoon and nobody cares, and I get a lot of money. (The company I worked at before didn't block any websites, but the work was boring, my manager micro-managed every library decision, and I got almost no money. Trade-offs.)
Yikes. The app store is already flush with mediocre apps. Adobe is really opening the floodgates with this one.

I might be the only iPhone user who feels this way, but I'm totally pleased with Apple's decision to not support Flash within MobileSafari.
I would find it almost impossible to eat low carb without dairy. But it's fairly easy with whole fat yogurt and half & half.
At least he's not trying to kid anyone.
As am I. But I'm also pleased that Flash developers don't have to learn a wholly new language to port their app. Flash is a standard for indie game developers, and there's a lot of talent to be found there.
Better title: Introduction to Program Verification with Coq

See the site guidelines.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"The iPhone’s lack of support for Flash is a major inconvenience for both consumers and developers"

As a consumer and developer I don't believe this statement is true. If Flash ran like it did on OS X the iPhone might explode. Why do I need to almost max out both of my desktop's processor cores for a Youtube video?
I agree. Will immediately look much more professional.

Also you have CC link at the bottom, but not to what license and not what bit of all the content is licensed that way.

Also take out the tag cloud on the main page. It probably slows down things for both you serverside and the user's computer and is so far down the page no one will ever see it.

Overall I would just say to cut down greatly on clutter. It detracts/confuses from the overall point of creating a conversation around the community of each school.
That was a little bit creepy read.
Google is and will be quite influential for next 10-20 years, but it would definitely have strong competitors and computers wouldn't be called "Google".
What I really meant by Freedom is the ability to do whatever I want with the products I use but especially those I have to pay money for. If I buy a product, what right does the company that built the product have to dictate how I can use it? So included in that is the ability to mix and match devices. Now I'm not saying that Apple, or anyone else for that matter, has an obligation to support every possible combination in the universe, but by using well-documented, open standards for connecting devices and what naught, they make their device much more attractive. By inventing their own and keeping it closed, they force reverse-engineering and, as a result, cause frustration when they make breaking changes. While a company is, as I said, under no obligation to play nice in this way, I'm also under no obligation to buy their products. In theory "market forces" would solve this problem as the closed products would die. Eventually this may happen but, unfortunately, Openness and Freedom aren't valued by most people.
Every serious proposal to "conserve" oil that I've seen consists of two core components:

1) An incentive to use a preferred technology

2) A disincentive against using an unfavored technology

The basic functionalities of commodity markets aren't questioned by anybody. Implying otherwise is nonsensical.
Clozure CL (formerly OpenMCL)
goal: selling a book for entrepreneurs, and asking for help (promotion) in reaching them?

screams annoying-advertising-that-tries-to-mask-as-philantropy to me.
That... is actually a good point. That's the only reasonable rebuttal I've ever heard to my "who cares" argument. :-)
Make Money Online - Work From Home
You’re about to discover the simple secrets that most people will never know about how to create easy monthly internet income, without ever leaving your house. Work from home and earn big.
I assume Motorola is doing that just to be safe. "Droid" is a dictionary word.
Car Parts Products
Car Parts Warehouse is your online source for both OEM and aftermarket car products. Get to select from a huge line up of car and truck parts for all makes and models. Trust Car Parts Warehouse to deliver you the finest quality parts at wholesale prices.
"Rails" is a great name for a web framework? "Hpricot" is a great name for an XML parser?
Also, self-hosting your compiler in itself can provide a great performance suite; compilers can be fairly complex things and they do memory and cpu-intensive work, so the speed with which compilers compile themselves is a useful benchmark.
Right. But that is a big assumption of his position. If there is life on Mars and it is DNA or RNA based I would say the independence assumption is less certain. Then the author can go on happily assuming that the "filter" is probably behind us. Not sure why that is such a big thing though.
Not surprising at all.
For a racing game, that wouldn't work well at all. You can't change your heart rate with sufficient speed to control a vehicle.
http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/22764/

The link is not necessarily the same tech, but it says that current levels in prototypes are at 3-5 mW from a wide range of EM frequencies.
Those quotes aren't surprising. Someone with the attitude shown in those quotes would create a language exactly like PHP. And that language would be hated by most of the people who actually enjoy coding.
I think 2010 is going to be the breakthrough year for Linux on the desktop in China. Microsoft's attempts at litigation have driven the Chinese government towards Linux.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux (Red Hat based) and http://www.xp.com/ (Ubuntu based). Xp.com very closely duplicates the Windows XP interface and the Chinese government does not care about copying a visual interface.
Ah yeah, I'm pretty sure you are correct after re-reading that part.
> Don't AM, and TV signals have way more energy? Is WiFi really the highest energy source available to you?

Per photon, according to Plank's equation:

E = hf

So the higher the frequency, the higher the energy carried.

> What about visible light? Even indoors, if the lights are on, there is far more energy available via visible light.

For the same amount of photons light carries a lot more energy. That is why pocket calculators can work just form a couple of photo-voltaic cells.

But of course if you live next to a powerful TV transmitter or radio station you are surely better of harvesting that.

> Or is this just to make it buzzword compliant?

Yes.