skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many people actually use shell redirection to copy and filter a file?
I think you're being a little unfair. It's screen is bigger than the iPod Touch and it's cheaper. If you, for example, were a developer who wanted to build an open platform iPod competitor this would be a good starting point.

And let me just say I don't work for/with/or in any way with this company. I just believe in both openness and the portable market and can see how a device like this is a good thing.
Will it fly? by Evan Williams (2007)
Fighting The NoSQL Mindset
The full title of this post is "The Impact of SSDs on Database Performance and the Performance Paradox of Data Explodification" but I thought the first heading summed it up better.
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And this is why Steve Jobs sees Android as a direct attack against Apple: these devices (which Apple would like to sell at a high margin) can be made really cheap in a world of commoditized hardware (thanks, Microsoft!) and free software (thanks, Google!).

Edit-reply: while Apple can try to split off a premium market as it did with PC's, this is going to be a lot harder (and the premium market will be lot smaller) when then OS provider isn't trying to make a profit.
Probably from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ens%C5%8D
Oh, fun :) I'm just about to launch a similar service, called Zeropoll. It seems you're pushing the event-handling logic to the client side, whereas Zeropoll generates Javascript on the server (ala RJS) and pushes that to the client.

Your demo apps are great, by the way. Just curious, what's your business model going to be?
Also... cheap, renewable hydroelectric energy from the TVA.
Don't get me wrong. I'm glad you posted it. I think a big part of me is just thinking "If he's a total crook and I lose the $155 completely it's really not that big of a deal". I mean, he takes Paypal so I don't even have to give my CCard number.

But yeah, if the price were higher or if I needed the money more I could see being more weary of this.
another fun fact, the entire world population fits in Texas with the same population density as paris
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This is even better than his last writeup. Interesting about the financial tradeoffs of running his own server instead of something like EC2, but he still relies on S3 for terabytes of storage. He mentioned that they have a fairly even load with few spikes, so the advantage of spinning up new instances on EC2 is not applicable to his and his wife's business.
Absolutely, and there will be plenty of them:

http://www.androidtablets.net/

Not a week goes by without another announcement.
Very impressive, especially for that era. They then used the good chips from that batch to help make the first commercial one.

I also liked how they very strongly desired that its waste heat be below the limit for a plastic package (1 W), and that due to the general lack of tools for that at the time, they used good olf fashioned Victorian conservatism, which resulted in a 0.1 W chip (!). Which of course set them up for vast success in the mobile market.

A great example about how far a good combination of ambition and humility can take you.
A few weeks ago, this was called the ePad. The link at my post still goes to the same site.

http://ipadtest.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/apple-ipad-meet-and...
I do it all the time. Is there a better way? I'd love to hear it.
My wife bought me a Firefox laptop bag a few years ago. I've had some people mistake me for a Firefox developer and thank me for my work, so I have to correct their mistake and explain it's just my way of supporting their favorite browser too. After all that it's always been a dream of mine to work on Firefox, but I've always felt too busy and intimidated by the size of the project to contribute on my own.

Perhaps this is my chance to finally earn the ability to say, "thank you," to those people on the train.
I look forward to learning modesty from the Middle Kingdom.
2009 Demo Day - 370 days ago (First comment with 101 points = completely dismissive and a huge rant)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=522675

2008 Summer Demo Day - 587 days ago (First comment = snarky remark about the company logos... sound familiar?):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=276333

2007 Demo Day - 957 days ago (Half the thread is [dead] and full of bickering similar to this one):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41269

So no, HN did not ever do better. It only seems worse because instead of 2 complaints about company logos, HN is now 10x the size and you see 20 complaints. There's still a lot of great articles posted, HN "Ask/Tell" discussions, and it's still full of intelligent people. However, it takes wisdom to know when to shut one's mouth, and intelligence != wisdom.

I've been here about 3 years myself, and that's why I try to stay logged out and make my bookmark to HN = /best. It's just gotten far too noisy and I was wasting tons of time keeping up with the sheer volume of (both good and bad) comments.
This post is way off.

Each of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet have created 3+ billion dollar businesses each. Steve and Warren have sold multiple companies when the prices rose above 1 billion. Larry treats sailing and real estate like a startup designed to flip as well.
Especially with Americans new found willingness to accept overreaching law enforcement measures. So long as one of the right trigger words (terrorism, children) is used, the average purchaser of certificates won't blink at the idea that law enforcement completely subverted the chain of trust that enables their customers to believe they are dealing with who it says on the certificate.
sponge (1) is a simple way to do this, but not available on all systems. See http://joey.kitenet.net/code/moreutils/
This mismatch or risks is also what get's VC's and founders into trouble many times. They can both agree on what the risk is of not selling and come to correct but opposite decisions. What is too risky for the founder is just right for the VC. One of the solutions to this is letting a founder take some money off the table. This would align risk tolerance, but could also take some fire out of the founder's belly.

Selling certainly is a very tough decision and I think DHH may have oversimplified to make a point.
The proper spelling of "social media" is "digital opiate".

While chemical drugs bind to the neural receptors abusing the basic reward circuits of the neural system, digital drugs tap into basic human needs originally designed to promote productive compatriot-ship. Both end up being addictive and corrosive to a different degree.

Interestingly, digital opiate is encroaching on the niche previously filled with religion. Religion, too, binds to basic needs of belonging.
From the specs, it's not multitouch (a significant feature). From the video, it was stuttering on just scrolling the application lists.

It may be a competitor to the iPad / iPod Touch, but it's not a serious competitor. Apple still has the "premium" edge on it, their market doesn't seem likely to be overly affected. An Android tablet definitely appeals to me more than an iPad, for software purposes, but I'm not one of the iPad's target consumers. Though I'm not interested if it doesn't have multitouch.
The fact that for you $155 is not a lot of money is immaterial, there are people here that might be suckered in for who $155 is a lot of dough.

Until the guy comes clean and shows that he's able to ship (which means he has at least the funds to buy a number of them, most companies in the far east have a minimum order volume, typical 100 or 200 pieces for devices like these, at some fixed discount, and has a written guarantee that they will be delivered at a certain date) he has no business taking any money at all. And even then, given the history of these threads (there was at least one other one) I'd like some more proof. If you start of by fibbing about your ability to deliver then you will need to overcome that later.

Selling fake watches on ebay is one thing, selling hardware like this is a completely different thing.

So far, I'm not aware that he did what he said he would do, which is to ship units to blogs for review. I think that would be a major first milestone on the way to large volume shipping.

Sending out a couple of review units is peanuts when you do something like this.
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Anyone find the original device?

This one is close, http://szboeye.en.alibaba.com/product/255890895-209487612/5_...
Get some busines knowledge in some domain. A lot of business folks do not care about what technology one uses as long as one can solve their problems using it.

We are actively using Clojure, located in New York City and looking for programmers with financial experience. Send resumes to (->> ["dimitry" :dot "gashinsky" :at "picotrading" :dot "com"] (replace {:at \@, :dot \.}) (apply str))
If that's so, why is Africa still a mess? We have no shortage of knowledge about the scale of corruption south of the Sahara (and north of it); the problem is that those who are prepared to fight in, let's say, Nigeria and those who want to stop corruption in Nigeria are seldom the same people.

In the end, weapons are the most important weapons. If a group of people no longer care about anything but their own power, and they're armed, the thing to do is to deprive them of those arms -- not to catalog their abuses and trust in the power of words.
A nice writeup, but I wonder why not just use Scala? It is true that Scala has a steep learning curve compared to Java but you get all of the efficiency with a concise notation. (Substitute Clojure for Scala - just about the same argument, except Clojure is easier to learn.) re: Groovy: too slow - I would rather just use JRuby if I want a slow but really nice programming language on the JVM.
Conspicuous passivization: even better than a SarcMark, with no licensing fees required!
From Game Programmer to Coffee Farmer (2006)
According to the article, the deal did change:

In late 2008, just after the Beijing Summer Olympic games, the censoring took a turn for the worse, Mr. Brin says. Chinese authorities also began to tell Google it needed a number of additional licenses to operate its business, according to people familiar with the requests.

Last year, Google was further hamstrung when Beijing accused it of having too much pornography on its site and forced Google to disable some features for a period. Google's YouTube video service, which China had blocked periodically over the years, became inaccessible in the country.
In Viacom vs. Google, legal shenanigans abound
From http://enso-now.com/n/info.php

> Upgrades to Android 2.x will be available within 1 month to our customer on their private section for simple downloading and upgrading. Easy instructions will be provided.

Funny -- from http://enso-now.com/n/Images/Slideshow/dimensions.png

> Designed by Enso in Hong Assembled in China
"people familiar with .. say ..." This attribution was used 3 times. I hate that.
Not to my knowledge. For their current low power niche I doubt the case is compelling, especially since you can buy MIPS 64 bit IP that's I gather is at least a bit stingy in power consumption.

Also note that to make this work, you might need on the order of say 6 GB of physical RAM just to break even given that a canonical pointer doubles in size. Given that there's a lot of work in the ARM world for reduced, 16 bit or mostly so instruction sets ("Thumb") to run the CPU when it's basically idle and most of it is powered down, I suspect it'll be a long time until we see a 64 chip from them.

Especially since their market is 5-9 billion parts per year; people who want a 64 bit chip are in the noise.
The most impressive thing about it, is that they still manage to put in so much useful stuff in such a small amount of time. If this keeps up, I doubt I'll ever use more than 30 minutes to photoshop an image. Ever.
You are correct, it does not have multi-touch, and I think that the panel it is built around doesn't support that. The mobile network connectivity is handled through a dongle.

The price seems to have dropped from $189 two weeks ago to $155 now.
Yep good points - in the code I abstracted vanilla followers to just be another list, but I think almost everyone considers their followers to be something really different than a list.
What's your contact information?
Just wondering, do you attend Cohpy?
Not to call you out or anything but I am constantly reminded the fact that we live like kings unheard. So many people around the world would get physically emotional over $155. It's definitely not something I, or my bank account, agree with, but I'm sure you aren't alone. Amazing.
With the internet you can take on the DoD. If you know what you're doing, you can hack the DoD in such a way. Transparency all the way: look how Wikileaks are being so open on Twitter, look how we're all discussing it.
http://www.smit.com.cn/English/proDetail.asp?InfoId=126&...
This is really awesome; except as an app developer, I really rather get a library that I own and have on my own infrastructure than a SaaS model, especially for something so critical to my application.
This is great, I was thinking about making a similar app, but never got around to it.

I'd love a simple ACL for channels. For example, you could do S3-style channel+timestamp+hash authentication, with the hash generated on the server with a secret key. Then for every channel I'd have channel17@r for read-only access, channel17@w for write-only, and channel17 for rw access (default). The way I understand the current system once I have the key for a channel I have unlimited access to it forever.
From a recent email exchange with a female software engineer (heavily paraphrased):

Get to know some female engineers, if you don't already. Not necessarily as potential hires, but as professional contacts. At that point, they may decide they're interested in the jobs you have, or they may know women who are. If they refer female candidates to you, their implicit endorsement will help your credibility. It will be very hard to hire female engineers if you don't know any.
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That site is full of gems like that.
Aye, lumping in 2003 (which is current -1, ie, still supported by MS and most corporate customers) with 2000 and Express (which aren't supported) and weirdly omitting XP is odd.
I don't understand this article. Saying "Replacing the contents of a file on the UNIX command line using the standard cp/mv commands is surprisingly tricky" is like saying "driving a car using only your ass is surprisingly tricky". That's true, but when there are standard, simple, non-tricky ways to do it then you're really just limiting yourself.

But hey, I'll play along. Won't this work:
cp file /dev/stdout > file
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Sprint CEO: Rate Plans Will Move From Minutes To Gigabytes
Try Socket.IO: http://labs.rosepad.com/socket.io/
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Aye! I was looking right at that page and I missed the comment about 2.x. Thanks
Prize quote from there:

> thanks for posting about our product. I have to admit that the image mockups could be better

What's wrong with simply photographing the device? (If you have them...)
It's usually writing a good server that is the pain point here.
Yeah, most of my RMIT knowledge has come from aeronautics students, but apparently they have a good rep in mechatronics too. Otherwise it's ANU all the way. Don't know much about UNSW.
http://carbonmade.com/examples

Some examples of what the actual portfolios look like.
I've always assumed that the government possessed the capability of creating false certs, but it is perhaps more troubling that boxes like these could be available to anyone.
tl;dr: Some people named Hróbjartsson and Gøtzsche did a meta analysis on clinical trials suggesting that the placebo effect is solely a reflection of bias or rigor in the given experiment, not of some physiological, "mind over matter" phenomenon.
Even if wallflower made a mistake, that would be no reason to be disrespectful.
I am working on something exactly like this, but as an open-source NodeJS project.. it lets you define a parameter (by default, session_id) and then checks a memcache instance for that key, and uses that to get access to channels with a specific prefix (by default "user:")... so you can have a channel "user:34343". This shoves authentication back into your app with the only dependency being a memcache instance shared by the NodeJS server and the web server. All of the other communication is similarly RESTful. if you want an email when i've got more to show, let me know.
http://github.com/Rosepad/Socket.IO-node/ powered by Node.JS, check out the basic chat app in 10 LoC
I'm sure this is doable. Better still would be to create a few population centers of this density but slightly smaller. say 9 of them, 33x33. This would allow for redundancy of civilization (in case of disaster and whatnot). It also would allow better access to the appropriate resources (which is frequently a major motivator in which cities are successful). It still reduces the number of transport corridors, so trains an such become viable.

The problem comes for people like me: I enjoy my small city experience. I live a short walk from downtown, but have a house w/ yard (and a big garden), and a garage/workshop (mostly workshop as I don't actually have a car). Such space uses are unrealistic as density goes up.
Kauffman's Litan: Proposed 'Protections' for Angel Investors are Unnecessary
Congratulations on your new position. Could you give any insight on the interview process?
I'm sorry you're feeling ill. As somebody who spends a good deal of time in China, and as somebody who feels that US freedoms are atrophying at an alarming rate, I sympathize somewhat with your position, but in all honesty, I really have to question the sincerity of somebody who would state what you just stated.
If stealing such information is illegal, fencing it (and making money of it) should be too.
That, and it demonstrates how bad the default SSL trust model is. If the gmail.com certificate came from Thawte yesterday and comes from the Department of Defense or CNNIC today, your browser will happily accept it without warning.
No accelerometer either. I'm not sure how it knows whether to display in landscape or portrait. Says that it's "controlled by software".
I figured, so I just don't see W7 or the full OS X on ARM. It took too long to get to 64-bit, I just don't see them going back with the full OS.
It may not be perfect, but isn't this what HN is supposed to be? Most of the time, I read the comments before the article and use them to filter the fluffy ones.
Somebody could nuke that small area and effectively kill of the entire country..
So to counter this kind of MITM attack the browser (or other SSL-app) should allow the user to store the certificate/root certificate for a certain site, and then provide a warning when it doesn't match the stored one. Doesn't sound that hard, maybe even an extension to Fx could do that?
not when it is called "journalism"
LinkedIn is a great place for web developers (front-end) as well. In 7 years our team has only lost one due to chrun, the rest all still work here. Feel free to reach out if you are interested. http://www.linkedin.com/in/scott
Sorry, locals or willing to move only for these positions. We do have a remote employee, but I wouldn't want to do it unless the dev started off local
Let's Not Celebrate Google's Decision to Abandon China
New Research Suggests That Governments May Fake SSL Certificates
Key points from article:

1. Under existing law, startup companies can raise money easily and quickly from "accredited investors." There is no need for the companies or the investors to gain approval from any state or regulatory official.

2. This would change if Section 926 of the Dodd bill is included in any final reform legislation. That section would require, for the first time, companies seeking angel investment to make a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which would have 120 days to review it. This would both raise the cost of seeking angels and delay the ability of companies to benefit from their funding.

3. The negative impact of the SEC filing requirement would be aggravated by the proposed doubling of the net worth or income thresholds required for investors to be "accredited."
And we did it before with the School of the Americas.

It was in Panama as the "U.S. Army Caribbean Training Center" and was forced to move as a result of the Panama Canal treaty. Then they changed the name to School of the America's and focused on fighting communists (with the same tactic of training what we now call insurgents).

After the killing of nuns in South America it started to get bad press (referred to as the "School of Assassins") and eventually was forced to "close" and reopen as "Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation".

Gitmo seems like it is about to undergo a similar process.

Edit: Just saw that today is the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. The people responsible were trained at the School of Americas.
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Could be wrong, but don't think anyone at Innova is involved with Cohpy. We contribute at OWASP (both corporate and time), and have been a big supporter of PHPMeetup in the past.

We'll give Cohpy a look.
Not that anyone cares, but I don't want to live that way. I certainly understand how many love the urban life, I just prefer suburbia, thanks.

That being said, a more relevant question is what the societal effects would be. My first question is how this would affect crime rates. A quick search seems to indicate that crime rate may go up with population density, though other factors are, of course, more highly correlated (such as poverty).

Some of those other factors also correlate highly with high density areas. No clue what the causative links are ... could be that density has no effect, or even reduces crime rate, I suppose - I'm way to lazy to research it for ta quick hn comment!

I do know that being too close to too many other people makes me think about perpetrating violent crime, though! ;)
I think you'd need something of a revolution in transport infrastructure to serve a Brooklyn that was the size of New Hampshire. With the current Brooklyn, the longest public-transit trips, if you're very unlucky with where you're going to/from, are about 90 minutes, and most are around 30 mins. But if you just organically grew out the same infrastructure to a Brooklyn the size of New Hampshire, it would take 5+ hours to get from one side of New Brooklyn to another.
It depends on the type of app you're building. We built Pusher to complement existing AJAX workflows and make adding collaboration easy. There's lots more you can do with it though.
I like to use "neurotypicals" when referring to "normals".
Slightly more condescending, but not quite as hair-ruffling as "troglodytes".

Plus, the /euro/ syllables can be stressed for extra condescension points!

The fact of the matter is the phase, "normals" used in the article is just a way of referring to a large group of average consumers in a succinct way.
But you forgot to mention that it is the Chinese communist party in the first place who blocks ordinary Chinese from obtaining information (and forcing others to do the same blocking). Let's talk about why Chinese netizens "can't have it all"...that's the fundamental problem, not Google. Really, why they can't have it all?