skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears to be, as this doesn't seem to import any GraphViz file formats natively (sadly). From the user manual, it does sound like there's a plugin to handle them, though it's a bit ambiguous, so it may just be as an example of a possible plugin.
I'm not disputing that Line2 was originally wifi only. That's not relevant though, since Apple didn't complain about Google Voice using the 3g network to initiate calls in its FCC statement. From the TC article linked above:

"When [you get a] call, the service can either relay the call to your ‘real’ number (the AT&T number assigned to your iPhone), or it can send it to voicemail, depending on the way you’ve set up your call filters."

This is exactly what Google Voice does, and Line2 even included a similar "visual voicemail" feature from the start. It also duplicated the iPhone's dialer pixel for pixel. In Apple's FCC statement the stated reasons for Google Voice's rejection were re-routing of voicemail, duplication of "visual voicemail," and duplication of the iPhone's native dialing functionality.

Is there a claim in the FCC statement against the Google Voice app that doesn't also apply to Line2's app?

And Google didn't address the flaws, because there were no flaws to address! As the acceptance of the Line2 app makes clear, all of Apple's stated complaints about GV weren't real, so why try to get around them when the app will just be rejected for some other completely ridiculous reason?
How Would You Spend $20k?
tl;dr: use better passwords. Long the better, lower, upper, special characters.
‘Mad as a Hatter’ - The History of a Simile
I completely agree. I don't have a Facebook account but all my non-techie friends have it. In fact, they make fun of me that I don't have a Facebook account. I was convinced about Facebook's power when I found that my x-girlfriend's mom in India has Facebook account and that's how she keeps in touch with her daughters (One is in US, one in Africa and one in Germany).
I'm not claiming full brain simulation is easy, I'm claiming it is much easier than understanding intelligence. Similarly, understanding statistical mechanics of a gas is hard. Solving newton's law of motion for a few million gas molecules is not nearly as hard [1].

Also, you can probably get away with neuron-level simulation rather than molecular simulation. As far as I know, most nerve cluster simulations do this.

[1] I learned stat mech as a senior undergrad, and didn't really get it until grad school. On the other hand, I built newton solvers when I was 13.
not sure of my precise schedule but I'll be in town the 29th thru 30th. Will try and make the Next Mobile App Star event at SuperDeluxe

http://mobileinjapan.com/2010/03/08/tokyo20-mobile-in-japan-...
Why VCs Won't Fund Game Companies
I think distribution is the key factor, but maybe not the kind of distribution you mean. Desktop apps, web apps, iPhone apps, whatever -- getting them to the customer is so cheap it might as well be free.

The real question is the distribution channel and how that interacts with your business model. Web apps and iPhone apps both have amazing distribution channels: Google and the App Store. However, the App Store is really only amazing for the top sliver of the apps, and the rest get dregs. You do not have to be one of the largest sites on the Internet to make fairly decent amounts of money on Google. (Additionally, I strongly suspect that even if one were to look at only the head of the distribution, traditional software distributed on the web would stomp iPhone apps on pretty much any metric with the possible exception of "dollars earned per programmer hour invested".)

Now desktop apps, on the other hand, desktop apps have nearly nothing to offer a developer that a web app can't do better. They can be distributed over the Internet for cheap! But so can a web app. You can get people to download them... but you can get people to sign up for a web app, easier. You can get people to pay for them... but you can get people to pay for a web app, easier. You can push content updates over the tubes, you can collect usage statistics, you can leverage OSS, you can... but you can do it all easier on web apps.

Which is a shame... I liked desktop apps.
_Related question_: Anyone know of a software to display points in 3D space on screen and allow the display to be rotated left, right, up, down, etc. (in real-time using mouse or keyboard)? I need it to run on Windows or Linux Ubuntu. Gephi looks awesome, but my data points are just 3D points, not a network.

There used to be a program called MacSpin which was perfect for my needs, but is no longer available (and I don't have a Mac).

Bonus if I can add values to change the size and color of the points, and/or label them. Extra bonus if the software is Free and/or Open Source.
CBS testing HTML5 for iPad
graph viz = graph visualization
Yeah, but the users of the dominant smartphone demands native apps, because that's what they're used to. No matter how fancy you make your webapp, it's gonna be laggy over a slow connection, and the users will move on to some similar service that offers a native app.
I immediately assumed GraphViz too, but I think the "viz" generally refers to "visualization."
It's a bit like lisp was traditionally. You'll probably never find an employer that will allow you to use it. But it's worth it just to understand a new way of thinking about programming.
This is probably how my World of Warcraft account got 'hacked' ('cracked' would be a better term).

I was using almost the same user/password combination for both WoW itself and WoW-related forums and guild websites. Stupid, stupid, stupid me. One sunday I logged in only to find all my level-80 WoW characters naked and skint.

Luckily Blizzard was able to restore my stuff, and since then I use an Authenticator.
I'm Gephi main dev. Supporting DOT file format is in our roadmap and will be done very soon.
Every year we see whatever operating systems, browsers, and devices get hacked at Pwn2Own, and it seems like the initial attack vector is always the same: get the user to navigate to a maliciously-crafted website, open a maliciously-crafted PDF, or read a maliciously-crafted email.

While technical safeguards against the subsequent attack paths (e.g. buffer overflows, broken SSL implementations, etc) is absolutely necessary, it seems like securing these paths is a cat-and-mouse game for technology vendors. They are consistently forced to react to flaws found by the security community and hackers.

Maybe there needs to be a larger push in the industry to "shore up the front gates", as it were. Things like user education, content-authenticity verification technologies, sand-boxes for interacting with remote (or received) content, etc.
If you can borrow a mac, Grapher is waiting for you. It's free with OSX, it's current, and it easily handles a set of 3d coords. I highly recommend it.
Similar to the revolutionary war being fought over a bunch of dried up leaves used to color and flavor hot water.
Very correct. This is just the second time that RNAi has been tried in humans [1] and delivery was always the big problem. When Merck acquired SIRNA, much of the discussion was around what were the options beyond ocular delivery and while nanoparticle-based delivery was always the leader in the clubhouse, no one really knew if it would work. So, it's good to be cautious. As Derek points out in the article that's been linked to, we don't know if the therapy itself was useful at this point.

Having said that, given how difficult it has been to get here, this is super cool.

1. http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/03/25/nanoparticle...
>> A bit more sleuthing reveals several "webkit" (the foundation of the iPad's and iPhone's mobile Safari browser) calls after peeling open the CSS

Now that I web-surf with Click-to-Flash installed, I am really struck by how many landing pages depend on Flash-based content all over them: from key corporate info to (of course) ads: a situation that I find most depressing.

Perhaps the iPad will provide the extra boost that HTML5 video has been needing?
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I like this news item. However, I'm curious how this falls under the HN guidelines:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

California isn't the first state to have such an initiative on the ballot, so I don't see how this is an interesting new phenomenon.

And for the record, I didn't flag this. I'm just playing devil's advocate.
Its original line of toys started at $175 and included a $3,250 diamond-studded platinum vibrator.

The nouveau-riche joke just made itself.
No offense, but this talk of a slow transition to democracy makes me think of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter From a Birmingham jail:

"Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant "Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

We have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional and God given rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence, but we still creep at horse and buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter."
Just how lazy are you?
It's hard not to have fond memories for my good old commodore 64... Wow, if I could have had this new version back then!
Hmm, that sounds pretty specific. The best I can think of is a thin shell over Ogre3D? http://www.orgre3d.org
I also write (or wrote, up until recently) telecom software and, while I like Actors (certainly compared to monitor-based concurrency), I agree that they aren't really the silver bullet. I spend a lot of time thinking about concurrency and I've come to the conclusion that the dificulties of concurrency all come from the fact that everythings manual - the programmer has to carefully think about how everything fits together, or risk all kinds of problems: deadlock, inconsistent data, bad parallelism etc.

The Actor model certainly makes things easier, but doesn't work as well for some problems. Its also still a manual task. STM improves monitor-based systems by alleviating the task of carefully placing locks around critical sections of code, but you must still determine where to place the transactions and this can still be a big task. So far, the only model that, IMHO, lends itself to implicit programmer-free concurrency is dataflow. Ultimately, I think we need a language that exposes all three models (monitor, actor, dataflow) as language primitives, handling it implicitly and transparently where possible.
Code Conventions for the JavaScript Programming Language
Some thoughts:
* I'm in the target market for this: some cheap slab that I can carry around and surf the internet.
* I know what's on the top of my x-mas list
* The barrier to entry for development on a mobile device just went down
Are they trying to capitalize on the epic name 'Commodore 64'? Commodore itself calls this new machine the 'Phoenix', but in their ad they do refer to the original C64. About the only thing the original has in common with the Phoenix is its form factor.

It looks nice and handy, but in my view it doesn't have anything that makes it stand apart from conventional PC's. This is in contrast to the original C64, which was kind of disruptive.

edit: typos
Talking to Governor Markell in Delaware about State Gov't and Social Media
Potential reason? It's a bloody foregone conclusion.
Yes, seems to work fine now. Thanks!
> Wow. It's amazing, she looks just like every women engineer I've ever worked with

What in particular is atypical?

Is it the designer clothes and glamour?
Well, by distribution I mean the whole lifecycle, which you describe rather nicely, not just the initial download. When you have thousands of users, or hundreds of thousands, it's so much easier just to upload a few things to a server and make it live, rather than trying to get some kind of auto-update system set up. Which means it's cheaper.
>But if 400 million unique visitors ( Population of the USA+UK+Canada), are converging in increasing numbers to ONE destination & half of them almost daily, there is a something here that governments and their politicians could surely learn something from.

Doesn't sound "scarily misguided" to me.
Google Remarketing lets you stalk customers across the web
This story may be off topic but I love hearing hn readers take on pretty much anything.
Childish Creativity
the iSlate
The Impossible Bloomberg Makeover
I appreciate this link. I gave up reddit for lent since it's mostly just a way to waste time for me. I was comfortable doing it since I was confident that anything really good would get linked on HN, too. I'm pleased to see that a worthwhile discussion thread, even on a relatively small subreddit, made it here.
Exactly. If Cassandra fits my needs, I've got a fast, trivially-scalable database that basically needs no administration, for free. Why would I spend money on a commercial sql database?

That said, Cassandra won't always fit my needs. Sometimes I really do need sophisticated queries and arbitrary transactions. I've been enjoying this guy's articles, because he's bringing up a lot of good performance tips for those times when a relational database is the right tool for the job.
I've used gnuplot to display and rotate 3D graphs, but I don't know if single points could be added as well. Have you tried it?
This tip I found on lifehacker got me to greatly improve my passwords strength, while helping me to remember each of them.

http://lifehacker.com/184773/geek-to-live--choose-and-rememb...
From Wikipedia:

"Sexual objectification refers to the practice of regarding or treating another person merely as an instrument (object) towards the person's sexual pleasure."

I don't know of anyone who wants this in the context of work. Even if they're, say, attracted to someone else on the team: they're still not interested in being reduced to only the sexual aspect of their being.
Try VRML.

Transform your nodes to generate the VRML (XML).
Create a containing HTML which links to the VRML resource (like an image, flash) and the VRML client will render it. Most of the VRML clients allow you to 'fly' around the model.

You'll almost certainly need a VRML plugin for your browser. I used the Cosmo player back in the day (1997!!!)

I last did this process circa 2000, so I did a quick google for contemporary resources:

http://cic.nist.gov/vrml/vbdetect.html

http://www.web3d.org/x3d/vrml/tools/viewers_and_browsers/
Ford Saves One Million Dollars By Shutting Off Computers
Citrix Online is hiring Java engineers (primarily) in Santa Barbara, CA and San Francisco.

See http://www.citrixonline.com/careers.tmpl or drop me an email at msb264 at gmail
It looks potentially fake because its such a good final result. In short it's almost unbelievably good (in the video).

Elsewhere in the thread I repeated the experiment on one of the images with resynthesizer GIMP plugin and got very good results too, but not quite as good. Of course I could probably have chosen an image which would have appeared to produce equally good results...
Of course, this is a Commodore 64 in name only-- it bears little resemblance to the original machine.

Personally, I was more impressed by the "C-One" project (http://www.c64upgra.de/c-one/) which attempts to reproduce the C64 in an FPGA.

And, let's not forget Jeri Ellsworth's "C64 in a joystick": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth

What I'd really like to see is a hardware clone of the C64, that takes an external keyboard and plus into a standard monitor. With today's technology, this should be tiny and cheap-- hell, you could probably give it away in a box of corn flakes. Talk about "one laptop per child"....
Facebook as a world is perfect.

Only if the world is as simple as you flicking through your rolodex.
Rethinking design: Not making Design better, but making Design matter
Sounded like an interesting article but honestly, it's late in the day here and I cannot make sense of the language in that article. Maybe I am stupid but to quote the chicken-farmer in Napoleon Dynamite: "I don't understand a word you just said".

Example sentence:

"Typography and typeface design are essentially founded on a four-way dialogue between the desire for identity and originality within each brief (“I want mine to be different, better, more beautiful”), the constraints of the type-making and type-setting technology, the characteristics of the rendering process (printing or illuminating), and the responses to similar conditions given by countless designers already, from centuries ago to this day."

Amazing visual stuff in the article though, but so academic and wordy... will give it another try tomorrow.
I have had a similar idea for a modern version of the C64. This one looks utterly uninspiring, however. It's just a big jumble of parts and features. It looks like a bit of a powerhouse compared to what the original C64 did. The configuration options look staggering (quad core, 4GB of RAM, optical drive, multiple SATA and PCI slots, serial, parallel, PS/2) and it will just run some junky commodity (maybe lightly customized) OS. To sum up what's wrong with it: http://www.commodoreusa.net/i//9100_rear-1.jpg

If I were building one, it would have solid-state storage, a few USB ports, WiFi, Bluetooth, HDMI out, audio in/out, and that's it, and for software it would have to run something Linux-based, but more in line with the old systems that booted to BASIC. Maybe a Lua prompt instead?
This is not a C64. It's an insult to its heritage.

It's not even beige ;-)

Now, seriously, it's a PC. A keyboard PC, but, still, a PC.
Y Combinator Matures: 1/4 of Startups Funded Before They Finish the Program
This was the takeaway point for me (which was depressing):

"Traditional games developers are really difficult for any investor to fund. They look like quite late-stage businesses: they may have hundreds of staff, millions in turnover and a proven track record. But fundamentally, they are always just one deal away from bankruptcy. They look like startups from a risk perspective but are like late stage investments from a reward perspective."
Operation "Knocked down", italian lowest bid auction sites shutdown
As of today the 6 major italian lowest bid auction websites have been shutdown.

* YouBid.it
* BidPlaza.it
* BidMe.it
* BidForFree.it
* AstaBassa.it
* FunnyBid.it

The first 2 sites of the list were reported to be earning over 4 million euros a year in total.
Bidplaza also wasn't paying prizes since 2009.
I wouldn't require account creation until the user wants to post something. Store their temporary preferences in the session.
OLEDs also degrade over time. Blue is still the color with the shortest lifespan. Making blue larger will give an equivalent output for longer.
The Story the NYT won't touch:
http://www.thebigmoney.com/blogs/sausage/2010/02/20/story-ne...

I think your belief that big, supposedly trust-worthy newspapers like the NYT are independent and publish such things, is not warranted anymore. They only publish what suits their interests, i.e. in some specific cases they may refrain from publishing, but that is exactly what counts, sadly.
Anorexia recovery
I have heard it said that the core of eating disorders is self-hatred.Early in recovery, when I was first learning to eat normally and in a balanced way, I would often have slips.My new mantra became "I refuse to beat myself up about food no matter what."
I wouldn't :)
No. Steve.
Forget ROI and Risk. Consider Competitive Advantage
Yes, the rods are not used at all for regular daytime vision, only for nighttime vision and in dimly-lit environments ("scotopic" vision). The rods are much more sensitive than the cones, but can't detect color. That's why you can't see colors at night.

We also have somewhat different spatial sensitivities to the three primaries in a computer display, as far as I know.

This is because the cornea and the lens are not perfect optical systems, so they blur the input. This blurring is much stronger at the blue end of the spectrum than in the red end. The retina has evolved to match this, so it has very few blue cones and many more green and red/yellow ones.

The result is that we have very low spatial sensitivity to blue. This page:

http://www.gamesx.com/misctech/visual.htm

has a demonstration.
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