skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much more than users apparently. It looks like everyting is thrown in here:

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api
There's something to this. Modern society taxes (enslaves) the high earners (specialists) in favor of mostly giveaways to the middle and lower middle class (liberal arts majors) and to the very rich (bailouts).

*note: originally I was writing this as a joke but it stopped feeling like one halfway through.
Weird Habits That Will Change Your Life
So you're able to get someone's facebook id and name? How useful is that? It seems about as useful as scraping web pages for random names & numbers. Might as well go to classmates.com and get a list of names there.
EtherPad is open source now. Granted it's a totally different application than drawing, but who knows, some of the code might be interesting/useful.
Demonstration of Powerful CSS3 : Making a Sunset Picture
What about printing? Does canvas maintain resolution independence like SVG? ... I.e., can you print your beautifully drawn graphs and expect to get quality output?
My “graph” link is public, but my “public page” link is not. It might be because I don’t allow my profile to appear in public searches (non logged in), but still they made it visible to anyone in the graph API. I hope they add a privacy setting to change this.
If you represented drawings as text (e.g. as postscript) you could use the rest of the code unchanged.
How Much Energy Per Tweet?
With HSDPA/HSUPA you can get 14.4 Mbps down and 5.76 Mbps up (under best conditions, of course). Yes, it is slower than state of art wired connection, but is the state of art wired connection available? Do you have 1.25 Gbps FTTH or 300 Mbps DSL available?

Wired providers became complacent, but wireless didn't. They caught up with wired and offer extra convenience, usable everywhere, not just at home. Wired providers should be afraid, very afraid and do something to change the situation, fast.
And Facebook is becoming evil.
I see them everywhere, from banks to car dealerships.
I think it's ok to limit how many iPads you may buy for the time period when they are scarce. But banning him from buying another iPad for _life_ ist just ridiculous.
I think it has to do with the law requirement that every employee should be able to adjust his/her workplace to be ergonomical. In practice, the only reasonable way to do this is to give everyone height-adjustable desks and chairs. I'd love to see some monitor arms tho.
never said it was a factor
and http://graph.facebook.com/default.html
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Another way this could be a good scheme is if people trust it and start sending it as a way to educate people, and when it starts getting momentum, it is changed and does start recording numbers.
Do you mean ruby-lang.org? The problem is, what you consider excellent, other people may hate. I have far less problems navigating python.org than ruby-lang.org
and I find the design of ruby-lang.org cheap.

My all time personal favorite project website is openbsd.org.
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

In all seriousness, this is awesome, but...at a price $100 higher than the entry-level iPad, it's hard to justify. I was super-excited for that Optimus keyboard, too, but at the end of the day, they're both keyboards, even if they do crazy stuff on top of it.
Handling Microsoft Windows NTP sync
or:

modified google/blogger, default private +

existing rss that blogger already has +

some kind of permission/auth mechanism

Not as free/open as you might like, but quicker/easier to implement.
How I Sync Application Preferences through Dropbox
Not only that, but the 3-rd party ecosystem around iPods is huge.

e.g. the gym I go to has a new set of exercise machines that have iPod connections on them - I can plug in my iPod (which has a lot of ripped DVDs in it) and watch the movie through the large screen on top of the machine rather than using the tiny iPod screen.
Temporary ones, resulting in a lifetime ban.
When Apple released the iPhone, I distinctly remember Steve Ballmer laughing it off, saying it won't make a significant impact. He summed it up as the world's most expensive phone.

To him, the success iPhone achieved was unimaginable, and Steve Ballmer ain't no nobody in the industry. We can pretend that everybody else knew how and why the iPhone would become a staggering success, and only the very top guys in the industry were too blind to see it — but then we'd be lying to ourselves.

Nobody saw this coming. The concepts for what an "iPhone" would be, prior to Apple announcing it, were pathetic. Our collective imagination didn't go further than to imagine a regular phone with an Apple logo on it (or, how about a phone with an iPod click-wheel).

The iPad was largely being written off as a "big iPhone". The iPad is a "big iPhone" the way a swimming pool is a big bathtub — everything changes with scale. Played water sports in your bathtub lately?

Unimaginable — or lack of foresight due to insufficient imagination. That about sums it up.
If anyone else is curious, the Wave protocol is also open source, as is Google Mobwrite (which uses differential synchronization instead of operational transformations (which is what Wave and I think Etherpad uses)).

My "drawings" are represented by text (JSON), and if normal text merging methods will work, I might want to use differential synchronization (seems easier). But I wish there was something proving that it won't mess up the integrity of my structured data.

Links:

Wave protocol: http://www.waveprotocol.org/ and http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/source/checkout

Mobwrite: http://code.google.com/p/google-mobwrite/

Etherpad: http://code.google.com/p/etherpad/
I am looking for new application and platform services
Running Google's Android On An Apple iPhone
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I got a sore neck just looking at the picture of that thing. I'm surprised that anyone thought such a device would sell.
I really appreciate the innovation in this product. It might need a number of iterations though before they get a really good product out of it.
I think he means the original tweet: http://twitter.com/Jason/status/12621363849 (Not that you want to see that again...)
"Ruby on Rails application could not be started"
"Disc quota exceeded"
You realize that Armageddon was just a Hollywood movie, right? :-) I am not sure if the same thing would be feasible in the real world, with current technology.

Nor am I convinced that we will eventually be able to escape our dieing sun, but I keep my fingers crossed.
While the metrics behind his assertions are short-sighted, specifically ( years in workforce / number of jobs ) = job-hopping likelyhood, I think he left out the most absolutely critical reason why I and other hiring managers look at the duration of employ at previous establishments.

I've reviewed hundreds of resumes, hired great people, and hired some not great people. Sometimes they leave because of you and your company, sometimes they don't. In my experience, a history of short employment can mean one of two things:

1. This candidate is extremely talented, independent, and a self-starter. Hire these people. Now.
2. This candidate leaves before he or she is truly accountable for the code they write.

2 is very dangerous. You don't want to hire an engineer who will write a subscription billing platform and quit the week after launch. It's often tough to determine the difference between 1 and 2, and it takes many pointed questions to figure it out.
This is pretty sensible. If India passed any draconion law, then it would be a trouble for the citizens who are already pissed off by high-prices of content that is pirated.

e.g. The price of buying a track is pretty high. $0.90 for a track in US is acceptable, but not in India where standard of living is not like other countries.

The chief reason piracy is a hit in India is due to stupid pricing. If a book costs $10, then it will surely be pirated by a lot number of people. Classical example was "Harry Potter" books. It was priced at 700INR IIRC. Not everyone can buy it. Pirated books were available at 150-200INR and sold like hot cakes.

Moral of the story:
Fix your damn price and see the sales shoot up.
The dinosaurs beg to differ.
Ah, good point. I only ever commit from my workstation and laptop, and it’s been a year or so since I set the keys up - easy to forgot.
I think i want a 1200x300 display above the keys. Split into three tabs, and i could almost edit code and open a terminal to fix a server or two.
Clearly, the inability to exert full control of your profile on Facebook is very problematic esp. since your average Joe doesn't realize this, but this is a ticking time bomb and it will explode with a far more destructive force than Beacon/gBuzz. When that happens, I truly, truly hope people wake up and demand more controls (and demand opt-out by default!!!).

Their opt-out-by-default (that is, they opt you in) policy as well as Google's--anybody's--drives me nuts! It is EVIL! They argue that they provide you with value but who are Google and Facebook to decide what value means to you and when you should have it shoved down your throat? We own our data, and we get to decide who to share it with and when as we go, not by default.

I agree with J. Jarvis, Facebook is clearly thinking about themselves and the opportunity to finally bootstrap and rule the ever-so-elusive semantic web--that's really what they're building if one thinks about it w/ their Open Graph protocol. They want to rule this upcoming decade, they want to cut into Google's ad revenue with machine readable content, explicit interests, real identities, "personalization", etc.
Actually, Eric Schmidt has had quite a few roles over the years. Hardly a "job hopper", but it's not like he founded one of the majors and stayed there forever (like Gates, Ellison etc.).
In fullscreen the cursor can still hit the edge of the screen and stop. Kinda breaks the immersion when you're trying to turn left quickly to shoot a baddie and suddenly can't turn anymore.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1241479
Why not just move the Preferences folder to your Dropbox then make a symlink?
So because banks are robbed more than my home, they are less secure? Don't think so...
Nice work dude...the hidden blocks that fade in/out got a little annoying after a while (felt like a "fake" challenge that didn't quite fit the theme). But overall great mix of possibilities from some fairly simple elements. You've got a good sense for games.
Exactly. Nobody wants to work for a) peanuts or b) evil spammers. Life's too short. I suspect it's probably happened to Calcanis before, which is why he's going nutso on Twitter.

Solution: If you want people to stay at your company, then pay them reasonable amounts and don't be a dickhead.
Power of CSS3 : Making a Sunset Picture without images
Anyone knows why they are skipping IDs? Why didn't he pick id=1?
Tripoli: a new CSS reset
It's a little nostalgic coming from C64/Apple II days having a keyboard+computer in one, but this doesn't make sense anymore. Once you consider the cost of a display, why not just get a netbook or a nettop with display? Even in a developing market, this is pointless.
If you don't define your circle as 'workplaces from jobs.perl.org' then you have trouble using Perl ;)
Who said anything about low productivity? The issue at stake is whether you should hire "job hoppers".

If I need to launch a complex product in 6 months or die, I don't care whether my senior developer had his entire family die from serial dysentery.

Yeah, yeah - really respectful and caring.
Yeah, anecdotally, I've found that if your company is doing things that the general public (or at least, the peers of your employees) considers vaguely sketchy, it's best to counter it by getting a reputation as a great place to work. Zynga is a decent example: there is plenty of negative press about it, but none of the negative press is about working there, since by all accounts they treat their employees very well.
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From article, emphasis added: "Apple's iMac has long embodied the notion of an entire PC crammed inside a monitor, but this is the first time we've heard of someone trying it with a keyboard."
What is wrong with the article?
well all i can say is "if you want loyalty, go buy a cocker-spaniel..."
Put the screen on the other side of the keyboard and I might go for it. I cram my neck the other way. That's where my 2nd monitor is.
Every software project has bugs. It's far scarier seeing bugs go unfixed than it is seeing that they exist.
what a fucking pompous blowhard. I find it patently offensive when employers try to posture their employee culture as anything other than what it is, business. "We're all family here..." Fuck you, you are not my Mother or my Father & I resent that implication. Loyalty...please. If Im in on the ground floor, then that might be different, but in that scenario, loyalty swings both ways.
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Keynote on memristors by R. Stanley Williams of HP Labs
I gave up on my PowerBook 12" last year. It had pretty good software, but the hardware was really disappointing. I've bought a Lenovo Thinkpad, put Ubuntu on it and I'm very very happy.
Well an unrealistic timeline, if your idea is solid enough you shouldn't have to promise the world in a couple of months to get VC backing. There is the slowly building up a startup or leveraging big VC money in an all or nothing approach, one which you don't take if your goal is employee loyalty.
They refuse cash?? WTF. Is that even legal?
If you're responding to a poorly-disguised lazy homework solution request, then the really strange version is the one you should give. Any student who tries to turn it in will arouse the suspicion of the grader, and they'll deserve it.
Who's your favorite domain registrar in 2010 and why?
It looks this topic was last discussed in 2008.
Perhaps those were just tests, and databases use incremental index but don't care if you delete a record.
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We just want you to be protected and not have to worry about a macbook the dings and scratches that can happen.
The title plays off the ambiguity of "hacked" to be needlessly sensationalistic.

Someone has modified and redistributed GPL-licensed code in an apparently shady way. That doesn't strike me as newsworthy.
Aha! Online credit-card-information catcher?
This 45-minute keynote presentation has pretty much everything you could possibliy want to know about memristors. If you want the 6-minute condensed version instead, try http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvA5r4LtVnc

It seems as if memristors have the potential to be very important to the future of computing, but the one question I haven't seen answered yet is endurance. The operation of memristors involves atoms physically migrating back and forth. If memristors wear out like flash memory after a few thousand switchings then the talk of them replacing DRAM is just hot air, and building artificial synapses seems unlikely to work either.
US Air Force launches mystery robot spacecraft
Number of people people killed in major wars in the 20th century (moderately pessimistic estimate): 100,000,000

Number of people in the 20th century saved from starvation by green revolution: 1,000,000,000

Average life expectancy in 1900: 35 years

Average life expectancy in 2000: 65 years

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_disasters_by_d... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug

Net 900,000,000 lives saved? I'll take that deal any day.
For more technical details try this video of a keynote by R. Stanley Williams: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGhvKyjgLY

Submitted as a YC story here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1287576
>if the guy wants an ipad legit he can get someone to buy him one later.

How can you call that "legit", as it is exactly what he got banned for, and could get that "someone" banned, too?
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1272569
ElusiveHippo.com (from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1286919)
Why the editorialized title? the "is it selling data?" addendum is just commentary as it's not related to the article....
I completely agree with the P2P approach, for sometime I was thinking about P2P as a means to deliver a social network for families. Everyones graph and data would be under their control and "local" to just those that needed it.

The one key element that makes the web possible, isn't HTML, HTTP, CSS, blah, blah, blah... it is the fact that it is decentralized. If for some reason we are tricked into moving away from this we are not longer using the web. We are just using AOL 2.0 - Google, Facebook, twitter, bit.ly.... are all trying take control of not users, but their information and the web.

Don’t think it will happen... it already has. The URL is the essence of how the web works and you no longer control yours. Link shortening, makes it easier to paste and share links but it breaks the web. Currently, I am sitting in China writing this comment and every link that bit.ly has under its control are completely useless to every person in China. My slogan that I came up with for Bit.ly is "Billions of links useless to billions of people!" Please don’t respond its China’s fault; that is too simple. The issue is that we haven’t responded fast enough from a standards perspective to combat this hijacking. The solution is actually quite simple to implement.
It's actually $2000 now.
Fixing the asymmetry of our internet connections will require political effort. But we don't need the reliability. We already know how to make suitable backups, like fall-back MX.

"Average user" mostly means "clueless user". This is unacceptable. Everyone should know a minimum, like the difference between a web browser and a search engine. When they do, they will easily see the privacy problems.

I agree $99 is too much for most people. But this is only the current price of a Sheeva plug. I think we can eventually lower it down to $30, which would be more like it.

We have both the hardware and the software. Packaging the whole only takes a dedicated GNU/Linux distribution (or even just a meta-package). So, without the political and teaching issues, Facebook and Gmail could be made obsolete within the year. With them, we'll need a decade. But, to quote Eben Moglen: "It's not that it can't be done".
This should work as well, however I found that I only wanted to synchronize settings for a few apps. Some apps have settings, which you’d like to have different between systems.
And http://graph.facebook.com/.htaccess
I don't like the fact that Facebook makes any of my data available and doesn't provide me options to make it private at will. I have my privacy settings turned all the way up for everything. Perhaps I, and others, simply would like to not have any of our data available in this manner.
It's just a value-add thing. I work for one of the smaller MSOs that hasn't yet deployed wifi large scale but all the vendor material I get on focuses heavily on the value-add angle. I'm not super convinced it works but let's say you're considering a switch to telco video or satellite you might think twice about it because you use Cablevision wifi at the coffee shop. Telcos pioneered most of the bundled wireless deployments so there's some pressure for cable to offer it just to say they have it. It's cheap to deploy and maintain too so why not? For the bigger MSOs it's a tiny expense.
I set my profile to private. I turned off "Public Search Results" and "Facebook Search Results" is set to "Only Friends".

If you're not logged in, my URL returns a 404: http://www.facebook.com/davetufts (or by ID: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=603069147 )

Not a huge deal, because the graph page only shows my name and ID, but they are publicly accessible: http://graph.facebook.com/davetufts or http://graph.facebook.com/603069147
To disable, Go To: Account > Privacy Settings > Applications and Websites > and [UNCHECK] "Instant Personalization"
or life quality.
lol @ comic sans, it asks you if you are alone first.
Hmm...could ICQ inject itself into other websites?
These two lines seem somewhat obvious, but are actually quite insightful to me now that I think about:

> This is not because [kings] are hostile to markets. On the contrary, they normally encourage them, for the simple reason that governments find it inconvenient to levy everything they need (silks, chariot wheels, flamingo tongues, lapis lazuli) directly from their subject population; it’s much easier to encourage markets and then buy them.

> This actually helps explain the rather puzzling behaviour on the part of royal courts: after all, since kings usually controlled the gold and silver mines, what exactly was the point of stamping bits of the stuff with your face on it, dumping it on the civilian population, and then demanding they give it back to you again as taxes? It only makes sense if levying taxes was really a way to force everyone to acquire coins, so as to facilitate the rise of markets, since markets were convenient to have around.
No one wants to train new employees. It is expensive.

I totally disagree with the filter. I don't want employees that aren't going to tough it out and quit mid-project either. That isn't what we are talking about though. We are talking about people that probably switched jobs for any number of reasons. Not hiring someone just because they switched jobs or independently consulted, that seems so arbitrary it is almost comical.

It really is a two way street. I worked at a place that had 98% employee retention for multiple years through the boom. Almost everyone there was heavily recruited and almost no one left. Even the people that were previously independent consultants and the ones that had job hopped. Why? It was a great place to work with above average compensation and awesome people to work with.

My point is that if you compensate people well and you provide a great place to work you don't have to filter for potential job hoppers. You are then free to filter for the important things like work ethic, aptitude, skill, and fitting in.
Joe might have long term strategic reasons to want to keep his product out of that particular market, especially if the product can be seen as a loss leader for other products. In that cases the efficient solution for Joe is to to everything he can to keep his product only in markets where he stands to make the most long term profit, even if it means sacrificing short term sales.

In the real world you often have to think two three steps further than you had to do to pass econ 101.
Much better article:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=397335

I really hope these make the hard-disk and RAM obsolote. The hard-disk of course is the current bottle neck, so removing it entirely from the picture with potentially smaller, and cheaper devices alone will lead to an insane amount of innovation.

For example, the idea that we can move away from the von Neumann model and have in-memory processing (so-to-speak) could lead to a revolution in computer vision and other highly parallel, compute-intensive, pattern matching applications.

For now, HP will begin to deploy these things in tiny, very sensitive sensors that will lead to, potentially, more efficient discovery of oil:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2009/oct-dec/cense.html
I wonder if that is even legal. I thought the legal tender laws required anyone to accept cash as payment for any debt.