skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AOL also did a lot with 'buddy lists' and offline friendships. They didn't have social networking figured out, but they definitely tried to own communication and relationships as well as content.
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I just added Facebook's "Like button" to one of my sites, it was surprisingly easy to do. You can see it in action here: http://www.peoplemarks.com/BruceLee
I have done some work on this. I think the best way to tune a system for playing diatonic music is to ensure that the major and minor chords on tonic, dominant and sub-dominant are perfectly tuned in harmony. This sets exact frequencies for every note of the 12 except for the diminished dominant, which is not used much except in modulation or more atonal music. This tuning gives very good sounding harmonies. If the tune modulates, the best thing to do is to change the tuning of all the notes to match the new key. You might also shift the pitch of the new key note to its equal-tempered value, or to the value in the original "base" key, to which your piece will probably be returning. This will give excellent sounding music. Even the chromatic scales sound really brilliant with proper harmonic tuning like this, if you listen to a random segment of a chromatic scale, you can get a feel for where the tonic note is! equal-tempered scales just don't give that. I have written a simple computer-keyboard app that implements this tuning and modulation, it not complete, a work in progress.
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When I emailed Pair.com to tell them that my site was about to get a writeup in the Wall Street Journal, they moved my site to a dedicated server within an hour, left it there until the spike of traffic was over, then moved my site back to a shared server--all at no charge. If you use Pair.com properly, they are more than excellent.
Are we at the point were we have to deal with robotic janitors too?

Geez, and I thought that watching the janitors while the work was over the top, now I gotta watch the rumba too :(
This article is so incorrect that it's a joke. I guess there's a reason why Michael Lewis and Maria Bartiromo don't talk about the differences between splice() and sendfile()...
This is a huge part of Android that, IMO, doesn't get enough press. On the iPhone, an "app" is a silo. You run it, it takes over, you go back to the home screen, it stops (modulo some limited background processing in iOS 4).

On Android, an "app" can be seamlessly integrated into the entire system. Think "extension" in classic Mac OS. My first experience with this in Android was "Rings Extended," one of the first apps in the market. It can (at your option) COMPLETELY REPLACE the ringtone selector, system-wide. Other "apps" can completely replace the home screen (OpenHome, aHome were two early examples). Other "apps" can complete replace the system-wide keyboard.

[disclaimer: I work for Google but not on Android stuff. My experience on Android is 100% based on phones my employer gave me for free.]
What is the basis for the "P" in your "P/E" calculus?
Link to the announcement on the developer's blog: http://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com/2010/04/ive-been-working-o...
this system does keep every key sounding the same, for me that is a desirable quality. Some variety of harmonies might be used to achieve different feels. The key of the system is that it is designed for an electronic synthesizer - a different tuning can be used for any piece or key within a piece, and the tuning can be varied at modulation.
This reminds me of the hidden identifying markers put on all printed color pages for later possible "forensic" investigation by FBI/spook types:

"Government Uses Color Laser Printer Technology to Track Documents"

http://www.pcworld.com/article/118664/government_uses_color_...
Got an idea:

The Punisher

1 - article has bad headline

2 - submitted to site with author's email and your email, and customizable note with dropdown of issues with headline, or something within article

3 - you get email with reply-to of author's email and attached note

4 - you reply to it, sending note to author

5 - submission has a dedicated page on site making it easy for others to send the note

6 - author has opportunity to reply to note, as will be listed on the site's page for that article

--

a - when author replies, all users who sent the note get a point

b - authors that reply get a point if majority of senders approve the author's explanation note

--

the email that is sent to each person can have ads at top
This is the kind of technology I like; a simple effect, instantly understandable, that requires rocket science under the covers to pull off.

Historically, most "rocket science" grade technical implementations in software/Web fail, except for stuff by NASA (and the likes). Keep it simple under the hood, but no simpler than what's absolutely required.
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Python is fine for Norvig.
Ask HN: Spokeo + Reputation Defender: Different halves of a coin?
Spokeo seems to have partnered with ReputationDefender. See http://www.spokeo.com/privacy

Seems somewhat unethnical in a "We aggregate info about you but you can pay to remove it" way...
I have trouble feeling bad for someone who works with biological weapons.
Thanks for the overview. This is one of the things I love most about HN. Sometimes I see something that seems interesting linked, I click and see it's very long and I'm not sure I should read it. Then I go check the comments and there's usually a comment like this one that helps me decide if I should or not.
Just got over 9000 with a snippet in Perl, using regular expressions.
I'm excited about the prospect of seeing this on the iPad...
Heh, I remember reading your troll-hugging post when it came out.
i'd rather support 'get "in god we trust" off our money'
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Does the codebase matters more than the ideabase?
I'm curious if there is any sort of EULA or click through licensing that prohibits this, or if there was any low level DRM that needed to be hacked around.

Apple has a history of trying to thwart efforts to run their software on other hardware, but I don't recall any efforts to prevent other software from running on their hardware. They area a hardware company, after all.
I'm sure that's what the general News.YC/YC stats show. But as the Pair.com tech mentioned, today's logs only become available at midnight ET. If there was a surge this morning -- to the static resources only, as if by offsite deep-linking -- Pair's logs are the only place it would be evident.
The speed of it was my first comment as well. It's even more impressive, if you consider that this is running a debug build of Android on an iPhone 2g; not exactly a recipe for performance.

I tossed a donation his way; hopefully we'll see a port to 3G hardware shortly, at which point I'll probably jump ship quickly. As long as the phone itself and SMS works, I can deal with little bugs and quirks while it stabilizes.

Sorry Steve, I'm just not that into you anymore. But, you do make nice hardware. :)
Makes me happy to hear. The news is fresh but already you're thinking higher, faster, different and more.
We should have used something ridiculous like windings just to add to the conspiracy theories surrounding the hidden meanings in our currency.
A possibly related issue is that I occasionally find myself logged in as someone else when I load the front page (ie some other user's name/karma are displayed in the top right). This goes away after refreshing or loading any other link (so I can't post as someone else, for example).

Plus I get that "unknown or expired link" error sometimes when trying to post (including when trying to post this message). This seems to occur when clicking on a thread from the front page loads an out-of-date version of the thread, and can be fixed by force-refreshing the thread page.
Dave != XML; Dave == RSS

RSS ⊂ XML
Perhaps I'm old fashioned, but what's wrong with using Bluetooth? The last thing I want to do with a $600 phone is smack it into somebody else's $600 phone just to transfer some pictures.
RSS and XMLRPC.
So let's see... you're hosting a website that has gotten large; that is, it's grown to the point that it will need higher-cost services in order to meet demand. You have a chance to add a valuable customer to your client base. How best to handle this?

a) anything

b) except

c) killing their service
Hmmm.... Basecamp points to Highrise.
Geez, I thought by now someone would have chimed in. Yes, I searched around, but sometimes my HN family is more reliable than Google ;)
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The decision to do bootcamp on Mac was strategic because there was a ton of software that was windows-only, and for many people a windows pc was necessary even if their primary computer was a mac.

In the case of mobile phones, Apple is way ahead in terms of third party software, so I think in their eyes allowing double-booting will not improve the iphone substantially.
"Alaska Airlines knows volcanic ash. Its decades of experience navigating around volcanic eruptions in Washington and Alaska could prove useful as airlines return to Europe's ash-plagued skies."
Ask HN: How do you buy foreign domain names without an address?
1) I would like to buy a foreign domain name, but an address in the host country is required. How do you get around this?

I know some missionaries in this country, but I don't want to get caught up in some legal misunderstanding and risk losing the domain.

2) Also, how much risk is involved in using a foreign domain?
I dangers of online privacy have been in the news for the past 5 to 6 years since myspace et al. initially became popular. Since then more people have put more information about themselves online because they believe there is an advantage in doing so. Unless some 'major event' leading to the deaths of thousands of people occurs, which is very unlikely, I do not see the trend diminishing. In fact, I predict that within a decade if your job history and some social information about you is not readily available on the web your professional opportunities will be constrained and people will view you with suspicion.
I haven't installed Foxit in a while, but that's what I have had installed on my machine since forever and have never had these problems.

Perhaps they too have become corrupt...but maybe next time I will take many people's recommendations and try Sumatra.
That explains why they have hard disks, but not why they keep simple copies on the hard disk.
Turn Bluetooth on. Set one device to discoverable. Send contact. Wait for approval. Enter PIN. Wait for transfer. Accept transfer.

Compare to: lightly tap your phones together.
I'd sacrifice increased counterfeiting if it meant we could get rid of all those colors. For the longest time, the US had currency that was truly unique looking compared to the rest of the world. Now, it's beginning to look like every other foreign currency: rainbow colors, large and detailed faces, and asymmetric denomination marks.
Is this a widely held view? I'd like to understand the logic, so a reference would be appreciated.

If a suitable standard exists, you would think they'd take advantage of it (increased adoption), no? I also don't like the idea of duplicating efforts, but apparently I have missed some technical limitation.

[Edit] I think I just found the part of the answer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1283507.
Someone needs to write a JSON-to-XML mapper for poor Dave so he can still read the streaming internet.
Not "more like" - they actually are scanners and laser printers. With some special paper handling for the printer.
Bluetooth doesn't work very well or reliably between two of the same phone (such as iPhone to iPhone). And lots of people have Bluetooth turned off to save battery (you can't turn it on programmatically, users have to leave your app and goto settings). And it definitely won't work well between any two different phones (such as iPhone to Android).

The official recommended bumping techniques is hold phones, and bump hands. Like a fist bump. That eliminates the risk of damaging your phone and actually works better.

The long-term goal is to bump more than contacts and pictures. For instance you can bump money using the new PayPal app on iPhone.
This is creepy because Facebook is making "private" information available to other private companies, who can do nearly whatever they want with it. Also, anybody can write a crawler to find the private information of thousands of people with little to no hassle. Google, on the other hand, keeps your data locked up for use in its advertising programs. Google doesn't hand your data over to other companies.
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I think virtualization takes you a long way towards the solution to this issue. With Win7 I've gotten into the habit of routinely working on virtual instances using the boot from .vhd feature. This means that if something goes wrong my host is not impacted and I can revert to an earlier version of my .vhd to solve problems like this one. The standard IT "wait and see" policy makes this something that will take awhile to become common but I think it is the way to go for pretty much any critical path task you do on a Windows PC (other OSes such as OS X have similar features as well but I only use OS X for "media" stuff).
You should've seen what was going through my head while watching the original iPhone keynote speech...

This was before we knew that the iPhone wasn't planned to ship with a native API (or that the eventual API and the phone itself would be so crippled), but for a brief, shining moment, I saw a world where everyone had a real computer in their pockets, always connected.

I really ought to go through my notes and implement some of those exuberant ideas for Android.

(To my delight, at least one of them has already been made: Google Sky Map. It's also smarter, as it uses GPS to determine where you are; my idea was to use the camera and image processing to recognize constellations).
Madison has many parallels with Boulder but not necessarily in the realm of nurturing tech startups. So there is a lot to learn. Bring me to Boulder for the week, and I'll soak it all in and bring it back to Madison.

Hopefully, in a year or so, I'll have an opportunity to reciprocate.
Now, either me, or someone else, is going to have to do a friendly writeup on how to install this. This could soak up the better part of a few days. I need this.
More accurately, based on the Bump FAQ[1]:

Bump your phones together. Bump them together again. Wait for both to connect to the central Bump server, potentially failing to do so. Approve the transfer. Accept the transfer.

Now, lets assume the same amount of development effort goes into writing a proper interface for Bluetooth transfers. It could be something like:

Put two phones near each other. Drag an image/contact/money onto the "Bob's Phone" on my screen. Bob drags it from his inbox to wherever he wants it.

That seems easier to me: it doesn't involve third parties[2], complex bump-matching heuristics, or physical contact.

[1] http://bu.mp/faq

[2] Even if Bump's servers have 100% uptime, how do you know that the local cell towers will have similar records? What if you're in San Francisco or New York, which have notoriously poor iPhone reception?
This manual is clearly the work of some right-wing, neo-conservative, hawk bureaucrat, so common during the Reagan era.... part of the group of lunatics who so nearly convinced the Soviets we were contemplating a first strike that they almost got us all killed.
the caching should refresh the url stored (may have already, just not my machine). If you save the page, you can edit the url's to point to your subdomains/login urls anyway. thank you for pointing that out.
Not all pages are slow, and not all the time (though pretty frequently).

But the "threads/comments/submissions" pages are almost always slow.
Now this could be interesting.
No. I'd tell him to get a Facebook/Picasa/Flickr/Twitpic account.

Dad used to get a shared hosting account for things like that, but now we have services that host content for free. They are much easier for Dad to use as well.

In this age of $20/mo VPSs and free content hosting, I'm honestly not sure how shared hosting survives. It's not as flexible as a VPS for hosting sites (and with more than two sites, isn't even as cheap), and it's not as easy to use (or as free) as Facebook.
Really? In the end the public pays for counterfeiting. I do agree it's beginning to look the same and it seems like we could come up with something more original, but in the end I don't care what it looks like as long as whats in my back pocket is real.
I've determined that Facebook is designed to have something to hold your attention for 45 seconds to 3 minutes on each page before something else shiny jumps out for you to click on it. It's a brilliant interface when you're dealing with people killing time. It's a horrible interface for anyone who actually wants to get something done.
Ask HN: Indeed 'Ruby' trends - what do you think?
This graph was passed around at work today. Although the number of postings about ruby is low, the relative (growth) is amazingly high.

What do you think?

Edit: My own take a few years back - http://jobalytics.tamersalama.com/
I found it a little confusing at first (couldn't figure out what it does at first glance), but once I searched for an app and added it, I got the idea right away.

One gripe: lots of webapps, such as the 37signals suite of apps, or the app offered by my startup (PagerDuty), use subdomains in the URL. So if I wanted to quickly access my Highrise account, I'd go to something like acme.highrisehq.com instead of highrisehq.com. Maybe you can add an option to customize/override the default URL?
Go to something like http://www.101domain.com (or any of the other foreign url providers) and see if they can get it for you.

If they can't, then its not worth trying to get around the system. Just pick a different name and stop trying to be too creative with your domain name.
Why isn't it polymer?
> If their work had been in the climate science domain I don't think we would have seen the same outcome. I know we wouldn't have seen the same process.

But of course, that is entirely your own conjecture. You "know" this for a fact.
Video Games are already art, Mr Ebert
W3 Total Cache really is a fantastic plug-in. It's significantly reduced my server load, and hasn't caused any problems as far as I can tell.
for rather low values of desktop-caliber
a different tuning can be used for any piece or key within a piece, and the tuning can be varied at modulation

How hard is it to vary tunings with existing synthesizers?
None of them saw Google coming until it was too late.

Umm... yes they did.

From 1998:

"Yes, there is a better search engine
While the portal sites fiddle, Google catches fire.
...
There is a better way to build a search engine. And a Silicon Valley start-up company with the unlikely name of Google.com is showing the way."

http://www.salon.com/21st/rose/1998/12/21straight.html
(Yes, it's Salon, not TechCrunch - but it was 1998.)

Wired did similar articles. Here's one from 2003: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/google.html

None of them told me that Apple was going to be the 7th largest company and a dominant player in music and mobile devices until Apple was the 7th largest company and dominant in music and mobile devices

I'm sure they didn't use those words. But here's a prediction from 2008 (by Gartner!!!!) which talks about a $225 shareprice: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/03/26/morgan_stanley...

More broadly, I'm not sure what your point is. Of course predictions are usually wrong. But the point of Techcrunch isn't the predictions, it's the analysis behind them. Often that's wrong, but the details of why their analysis is wrong is often where the interesting parts of the technology industry lay.
He was picking an earnings number ($1 billion-ish) and a P/E ratio (20ish) and solving for the P.

Of course, the $1 billion is revenue, not earnings, so that number is likely to be lower (or negative) and the ratio is likely (if history is any guide) to be higher due to that, so this kind of calculation is pretty pie-in-the-sky.
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That was a great article. It used multimedia wonderfully, was intriguing, had a subtly-humorous tone, told an interesting narrative, and most importantly it taught me something I knew absolutely nothing about in the meantime.

This is what Hacker News is all about, in my opinion.
People have been saying that for over a decade about Windows and Office, and they've kept chugging along. I have a strong feeling the same will be true of the next decade.
Actually, it looks to me like you can't put html into the notifications. It's treating it as plain text.
While this is indeed really cool, I don't think there's any way Google can even semi-officially back this. Thanks for mentioning the donation link though, this guy's earned it.
Regarding the "planet has not been warming for the last decade" claim, here's why that doesn't disprove global warming, even if true (tl;dr: 1998 was an anomaly):

http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2006/04/warming-stoppe...
The shareprice, based on a fixed P/E. If their earnings are $1 billion, and their P/E is 20 (similar to Google), then their cap is $20 billion. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P/E_ratio

(Note the error I made above regarding their earnings, though)
Apple seems to be everyone's emeny right now. I guess this adds Intel (with their new low power chips) to the list.
Facebook is a company that makes software. It's also a platform on which much software is developed. Seems quite fitting to me.
"the local cell towers will have similar records" I didn't see anything about cell towers keeping information in the faq and why would they. Bump manages all the handshake (and probably uses something like diffie-hellman for security) and the location information seems like a secondary heuristic.

I am sure Bump uses more than mere cell phone reception, for iPod Touch is supported, which means wifi must/can be involved as well.

In a perfect world, yes, Bluetooth would do what it's meant to do, but in the real world people like to bump into each other :-)
okay reworked the copy: Cloudomatic(start) makes forgetting login URLs a thing of the past by keeping your company's web apps in one place .

I like that a LOT better. also <b> some key phrases.

thank you, that suggestion was helpful. Will iterate on it more tomorrow.
> ... because they believe there is an advantage in doing so

That is one possible explanation, but I think it is really simpler than that: People like to talk about themselves, and they like to find out what other people are doing and talk about that too.
"be in the minority of internet users"

That's okay. If a popular product doesn't add value for me personally, then I shouldn't use it.
you can do that already :D. Just save the page to customize URLs.

// Updated style.css to make #form_register be 670px and the button text to be: "Save to customize URLs"
I find its user interface confusing. I'm used to cleaner, simpler, more task-focused web 2.0 sites.
Every time I start to think that our country might be on a trajectory towards improvement, a story like this comes along to throw that out the window.

It really astounds me that Dr. Hatfill managed to put up with the abuse for so long without doing anything irrational - just reading about it makes me understand why someone would want to mail anthrax to the government. Imagine how many innocent people might have been subjected to similar treatment without our knowledge, simply because - like Dr. Ivins - they didn't manage to survive?
I thought the other reason for the variety of colors and sizes was that it made it easier for visual impairments to handle money. It would indeed be nice, though, if US currency became more usable while remaining unique.