skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These guys are great. Working with them to build something on their api, I confirm their customer support is top notch.

Inspired to hear they've done it all without additional funding, and they have a "nest egg" as Kevin puts it.

Would love to work with a team like that someday.
Second thoughts and notes:
1) Clearly, bluetooth has its place. But, Bump is for the rest of us who'd rather get things done quickly. Ask a random iPhone user how they'd share a file or contact with you using Bluetooth. But Bump is easier to explain and it works fine. The bump is a mere ritual for explanation sake and coordinating accelerometer data and is probably not meant to be phone shattering (And seriously, why did anyone pay $600 for a phone these days?)

2) No, the bumping together seems to be perhaps calculating two similar accelerometer signatures within a certain probability (of course location seems to be their secondary heuristic).

3) I don't see why this should this insecure. They are probably using Diffie-hellman for some pretty badass security measure - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exch...

4) To those who don't think this is not going to make any money on the "business" side, maybe you should tell Sequoia, one of Bump's funders, that.
Indeed. Normally when a person or company makes a highly visible mistake they make sure it doesn't happen again. I think that Danny's defensiveness was a lot of what fueled the bad PR, since it drove expectations that this could happen again. An explicit commitment that it won't is a big improvement and exactly what was needed.
It's fine.

I also remembered that I hate touching my mouse, and I prefer to keep my ring finger on "page down" when reading on a computer. Having to physically lift my hand, move it to the mouse, find the cursor on the screen, aim it at "next page" or whatever then click, and if I misfire... start over. This really breaks my flow and is quite disruptive.

I know I'm not the only one who cares about stuff like this.
The first time I ever used Bump, I "bumped" in the air (just moved the phone back and forth). It asked me if I wanted to exchange contact info with someone who I had never met; I tried it again and it asked me to accept contact exchange with another unknown person.

All of my attempts since had no effect. Granted, I haven't tried to bump that many times.

My theory is that they use a GPS location to determine where you are. Then when the phone senses a particular type of motion, it considers that a "bump". The server looks to see if anyone else is "bumping" in that GPS location, and, if so, they connect and exchange contact info or whatever.

If this is true, it explains my original success with bumping into strangers: these two people were probably in a nearby house trying to bump! The server thought they were close to my GPS location, and connected me to the stranger.
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Well, that's one way of getting porn on the iPhone.
Ahh, interesting (I bet you didn't think I'd notice your reply, 11 days after my comment :))
Google rumor puts focus on ITA
Nokia Concept Phone RUNS ON soda?
Interior Floor Tiles, House Floor Tiles, Dream Home  
Interior decoration creates moods in and around the house and these moods reflect on the way we live in our homes and inspire the feeling of living from within.
Google buys mysterious firm run by former Apple employees
Danny, Words whisper, Actions scream. In order to combat this situation, offer the cut teams tangible help. And, don't let it be something like:" If I could help in anyway!"
Jesus Christ man, you already know how you could help; these guys need money. Use your connects to link them with some angel investors/ VC.

After, this am sure everyone would forgive and applaud you. And the publicity and the goodwill gained goes a long way. It is just too easy to say am sorry.
It's a sign that investors think Apple's revenues are going to grow further.
World's 3rd oldest profession?
Acquiring ARM only for the chance at an end-to-end vertically integrated design seems quite expensive, albeit not beyond the "insanely great" motivations of Mr. Jobs.

Not beyond? I'd take that a step further and say that end-to-end vertically integrated design is very much a Steve Jobs sort of thing to attempt. He has said he thinks of Apple as a software company and, attributing it to Alan Kay, that "People that love software want to build their own hardware." That said, I'm not sure this would require total ownership of ARM -- just sufficiently large stake in it to exert some direction on its future development (sort of like sharing PowerPC with IBM and Motorola).
Wow - I've always run away from harpsichord recordings because they're usually so stringent and cold; but the harpsichord samples in this article are so very rich and warm.

I don't know if its the tunings or something in the recording/mix process; nevertheless I'm going to seek out the cd recordings - thanks for sharing.
By definition itself, you can't predict black swan. As they say, day trading is not about making successful moves. It is about making successful moves even when you account for commissions. Reasons everyone is not doing automated trading is because commissions eat up any profit that you can expect to make.
>Doesn't adding CSS and JavaScript inline hurt your google rank?

Why would it do that?
And now being halfway through Freedom TM, I can also recommend it.

I would not be surprised if Daniel Suarez is a member of HN. He is incorporating game theory, reputation, our current fiscal mess, and social upheaval - Very good read!
A guess: presumably whatever checksum they invent will have a severe risk that hackers will reverse engineer it and then devote their vast botnets to manufacturing virii that give the same checksum thus handing them even more control.
Gizmodo and the Prototype iPhone
I agree, I need to search between 200 notifications about quizzes, games, etc etc and I miss "important" things about my friends. That's sad because I want to know what my friends are doing or what they did, not if they have reached level X in farmville or what's their "Photo of the day".
Not MIDI, but CV: Ondes Martenot / The French Connection

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondes_Martenot
Not deliberately. I think they just don't have a very high standard of customer service.
As I talked about in the post, I have some pages that are popular with search engine visitors. They generally come to the page, read, and then leave. I serve CSS and Javascript in <style> and <script> tags on those pages so it's fewer HTTP requests, and loads faster.

Unless someone has a reason I should do otherwise?

UPDATE: From Yahoo: http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2007/07/rule_8_make...

"The key factor, then, is the frequency with which external JavaScript and CSS components are cached relative to the number of HTML documents requested. This factor, although difficult to quantify, can be gauged using various metrics. If users on your site have multiple page views per session and many of your pages re-use the same scripts and stylesheets, there is a greater potential benefit from cached external files."
That is true if you have a one page site. Bundling all the JavaScript and HTML in with the CSS means downloading one HTTP resource instead of three. This is good for sites like the "Yahoo Homepage" - basically just one big page, Netvibes, Facebook.

But if you have multiple pages sharing the same styles, yes for once off load times, having the CSS and JavaScript inpage is better, but for a visit of more than one page, having the CSS and JavaScript as separate cacheable resources is far better, since the differences are now the page size of the pure HTML plus images, saving at least the packet sizes needed to transfer the same CSS and JavaScript on each page.

So the major multi-page properties of Yahoo use primarily one external CSS and one external JavaScript file on each property.
Yes. The code I released is identical to the files on the server. Or at least to a snapshot of them in the past.
You're right! I will continue to work with everyone involved. Another accelerator was interested in possibly taking Status.ly in for their summer program, and I let Jamie know.
But will this guys take the money now, or even trust anyone connected with them?
another similar issue i've come across is when there are multiple like buttons on the same page. e.g., does one like this blog/site or just the article?

not a terrible confusion or potentially too sinister, but a bit more attention than usual is required than the simple share.
I liked the part where you called it a "stupid debate" and said "You cannot even have this argument" and then wrote a long post doing exactly what you criticized.

Also, "[x] is not art" statements are a tremendous bore.
Google 'not interested' in privacy
Google Discloses Government Demands for User Data
Nginx configuration is about as powerful as Apache, and personally easier for me to grok, but you have to be able to get past the lack of documentation.

Here's the configuration file from my new project -- with the domain name removed. I've marked the magic bits that gets you Wordpress pretty URL compatibility. If you're actually asking about more complicated rewrites, those are all possible too -- look at the Nginx rewrite module docs.

http://www.pastie.org/929223
Anyone got a good round up of what happened? The post provided links to parts of the previous conversation but I'd rather read a good article summing everything up.
Ok I'll bite. I think you should make one for her.

Maybe not the answer you wanted but I've never been a fan of wysiwyg editing if you you want to learn how to program websites. What I mean to say is that it's good to be tied directly to the code and understand exactly what's going on through an actual development workflow. So having her sit in a text editor, then reload the browser page gives her that rawness. This also acts as a test to see whether shes is into the whole idea of being hackerish. I can tell you that writing "color:red" and reloading the page to see the color turn red was the catalyst that got me down the word to being a programmer. I never got the same feeling from using photoshop, which I think is a good analog to using a wysiwyg editor.

No offense to designers but I think this approach eventually pays off a lot more than being handicapped by dreamweaver.

Best of luck to you.
You can, but the support is only optional. I don't know why, but if you use recent gnome notification-daemon and that standard (black, I believe) theme, it escapes the markup. In fact, it already shows all the text in notification in bold, no matter what you do. I have no idea why, that small HTML subset is directly supported and used in GTK+, so they actually had to explicitly filter escape it, otherwise, it would work. Older notification-daemon themes allowed it. (Example: http://i.imgur.com/gaLvt.jpg)

This is quite weird.
So, wait, when I push "Print + Delete" it deletes the page from the job queue, but still stores it on the hard drive? Now that's misleading.
I wish I had enough money to buy some digital photocopiers from interesting places. Government surplus sales would probably be the most fun.
Thanks for that explanation. Based on what you said, I think I'm approaching it okay. On a few posts that have really high bounce rates, I use the Custom Post Template to serve CSS and JS inline on those pages (amongst other customizations). The rest of the site, I load them from external files.
Brazil, Germany, US top list of Google user data requests
Soutpark episode 201 was not allowed to appear as is on TV
I notice that a few others have complained about what is likely the same issue in regard to form submissions.

I generally have hacker news open in the background throughout the day. If I leave it for a while I inevitably get "Unknown or expired link" when next clicking on the "more" link at the bottom.

For example, (I assume this link will give the same result for everyone) http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=x4ipaJEME2

Why do the links expire? I'm sure there's a good back end reason but as a user it seems weird that the site dies if you ignore it for any length of time. Its like a Tamagotchi.
That's a much more attractive configuration file than an Apache one.

I see that you're using FastCGI. Something I didn't mention was that I attempted to use FastCGI, but gave up because my memory usage kept snowballing until I had to reboot my server over and over again. I don't know for sure whether it would have made things any faster.
How to hire the best engineers without killing yourself
The "FAQ" link below the description leads to:

"Chennai Central is a bandwidth saver plugin that makes your wordpress site support conditional GETs by search engine crawlers , feed readers and more."

(followed by more detail about what conditional GETs are, and why they help)
Etacts is looking for Software Engineer #1 (and a designer)
I think the importance of freedom as it applies to software is often underrated. The idea of freedom in software use and development is really a near-perfect model in microcosm of intellectual freedom as a whole, and there's little that can compare with that for importance.

I also think the importance of Stallman as applied to freedom of use and development of software is often overstated, though.
Your equivocal words aren't going to help-"Possibly".
And, they don't need the money couple months from now; they need it now.
Is this where we all sing kumbayah together?
> It's better than watching re-runs of 7th Heaven.

What isn't better than that?
. . . or use Vim with `:set spell`.
Well, at least they can say they did their best to help. Currently, I don't think they aren't going all out to help these guys.
"the consumer pays money with the expectation that their purchase will be fulfilled."

That's a very broad statement that disqualifies nearly all paid performances as a form of art. Video games are art, or much or what is commonly considered art isn't. Gesamtkunstwerk is a word/concept that describes a whole artwork made up of other pieces of art. It isn't a new concept. It's been around for nearly two centuries. Take a look at theater for instance. No one doubts that it's art, but it is made up of costume design, acting, the score, etc. This whole debate like everything else will finally end when all the older people who don't believe video games are art grow old and die.
IMO ARM would be better choice compared to Intel/AMD/NVIDIA, etc. as Apple is getting into more portables...

But I wish they would buy Foxconn, so that they can control manufacturing too!
When nobody can possibly lose, that means nobody can possibly win, either.

. . . which sounds a lot like everybody losing, at least to me.
Didn't Apple finish dumping the last of their ARM stock a few years ago? I recall it getting them through their bad times. It doesn't make much sense to me. They already have a ARM licensed design firm or two. They don't need ARM to get their custom chips.
He should upgrade: http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM
Wow. This is one step closer to have a mr. fusion powered car. Next: hoverboards.
I'd suggest this as a business opportunity, but I suspect non-sucky shared hosting is a hard sell.
Stupid debates can be fun
I think we should add braille like some countries
Not everyone wants to work for the big G...
Death and Taxes: Where Does Government Spending Go?
I see no reason why you can't make that with the iPhone API right now (with 3GS hardware). It might be faster with a native OpenGL ES implementation too.
This will be useful! Now you don't need 2 devices to develop for android and iPhone.
reminds me of this funny XKCD http://xkcd.com/463/
Don't really know what apple is up to, but watch the 4 hours on the London Stock Exchange before NASDAQ early hours opens and if it's happy buy a lot of ARMH.
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I agree with you that Hitler is fair game for mockery. However, I think part of the equation for the film distributors is that they may think it distracts from the gravity of the scene and of the movie as a whole.

The particular scene is where Hitler is confronted with the facts that the defence of Berlin is completely fucked. I would not be alone in enjoying a very malicious kind of schaedenfreud in just how fucked they are - they're going to fry. Maybe not the kind of punishment he and his kind deserve, but knowing that they knew...

While I appreciate the meme that the subtitling activities has generated, being able to speak and understand a little German leads me to the opinion that it is a little cheapening towards the actual movie. I believe it's this element, plus perhaps a lack of understanding how media remixing and social networking benefits content producers, that led to the film makers issuing the take down.
Gizmodo knows Apple won't sue because it would be a public relations nightmare.
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I'm familiar with the report. Programs that were detected as false positives include:

* the task manager

* Quicken

* ATI Drivers

* the GIMP

* other antivirus programs (including products from Kaspery, ESET, Avast, and Trend Micro)

* VLC

* Cygwin

* Acrobat reader

* text editors (including Notepad2 and Notepad++)

* TrueCrypt

AV run in the real world on these settings would be disastrous.

Issues with the samples used by AV Comparatives:

* The malware sample size is only around 1 million.

* The sample size of clean programs is far too small.

* The malware samples used aren't public. We don't even know if the malware used by AV Comparatives are found in the wild anymore.

More generally, evaluations like those done by AV Comparatives and similar organizations are misleading. What actually matters is the vulnerability window. This window is generally a week or two and occurs after a piece of malware is released into the wild. It is the amount of time it takes AV vendors to get a signature distributed. Most damage is done during the vulnerability window, during which infected machines will have their AV disabled by the virus. The fact that your AV can detect viruses released years ago actually doesn't have any bearing on your security; it's a meaningless evaluation of the product.

You have to ask yourself, why don't AV vendors report numbers like the percentages found in AV Comparatives? They don't because they know it's bogus. Sure, most AV vendors will list AV Comparatives and others as an "award" or a "certification", but they'll never list the actual number. I think that should tell you something. In the real world no one is experiencing detection rates like those in the report. If they were, you can be sure the numbers would be part of an AV marketing campaign.
Why is he personally offended by this?

I can understand if someone (including me) not really agreeing the way Gizmodo handled this situation, but are you offended by this?
You'd think the largest explosion ever recorded in the universe would make the front page of CNN.
Are they art like you might find at a modern art museum? Sometimes, but very rarely.

The argument was that games by definition cannot be art.

The counter argument was not that all (or even many) games are art, but that at least one game can be.
I thought that lots of studies had been done like this, and these types of gains always turned out to be short term. The article doesn't say whether the gains stayed with them weeks or months after the games ended.
Wordwrap on you page is pretty nasty on the iPad.
Here's the summary as I understand it.

Bootup Labs accepted 7 startups into its program this January. The proprietors of these startups agreed and finalized the paperwork and moved up to Vancouver to participate. They were told shortly after arrival that there may be some hiccups with the funding but not to worry and they'd get it all straightened out.

In the meantime, Bootup Labs paid the living expenses for at least some of the startups but the capital never materialized. In March, Bootup Labs had secured new investors, but the investment wasn't enough to keep all seven startups alive. They cut four of the seven loose just like that, with no money to help make their way back to their places of origin, no capital invested, and nothing more than a "Thanks for trying, sorry about this."

Status.ly proprietor Jamie Something wrote a post about it and the thing kind of blew up.

Again, that's the story as I understand it. All corrections are welcome.
The evidence doesn't support claims of increased geological activity
"Facebook users are generally careful about what they broadcast."

there are already lots of spam websites and fb apps, that trick into being a fan... i mean, "like" pages using js. this iframe only makes it easier.

i can even imagine spam js links altering a legit iframe, hoping a user clicks it afterwards.
Considering their recent press coverage, I don't see why that would stop them. They probably wouldn't want it to interfere with the press coverage of the new phone launch, but after that is over I think they would be willing to take some bad press in order to make sure that there are repercussions to doing something like this.
You can also say a_dict.setdefault(key, default) which is like a_dict.get(key, default) but will also do a_dict[key]=default if there does not already exist a value for key.
Todays's logs are similar to other days. I guess the traffic is high for a shared account, but I've never noticed it being slow so I didn't think about it.

I would have been happy to respond to an email saying I should upgrade & pay more, but even after a few emails with tech support that option didn't come up.

The only limit they advertise for that class of account is data transfer, and because it's mostly just serving uparrow.gif -type files we're well below that limit.
I don't believe Apple is dumb enough to buy ARM as part of a grand anti-competitive scheme. Even if that was their intent it wouldn't work legally or technically. If Apple wants to expand their chip designs for their own use, or to sell OEM, they don't need to buy ARM. An ARM license will do and it costs considerably less than $8B. That leads me to believe Apple wants someone to think they're interested in ARM. Kind of makes me think about the AdMob deal and how strange it was Apple just let the clock run out on that deal, quickly turns around and buys another company, and has a unique platform on the market <6 months later. Just makes you wonder if they ever had any real interest in AdMob or just wanted to force Google's hand on it.
Unless my memory is playing tricks on me, I recall Luis Von Ahn mentioning this as an example of ways people had attempted to defeat his system at a talk of his several years ago. He may have been talking about theoretical attacks and not actual ones, but I'm on my phone now and can't effectively dig for a video if one exists.
The definition of Art suffered its crisis a long time ago, with some people proclaiming the end of art. I remember reading books in the eighties by Gino Dorfles or Arnold Hauser (I hope the names are correctly spelled) and about the Bauhaus or Andy Warhol. My humble conclusion was that Art is now defined more as a concepts than as a technique. The concepts are the kind of making spectator think about interesting ideas (the basic questions we all ask) or even the media through which they're transmitted and their relation to the message.

I don't think what you pay for it is the key, nor is the technical excellence (an ad can be technically superior to some classic paintings) but the intention and ability to make us question our nature and society's.

In this sense, video games are not Art, the same way that design isn't. They can be art in other sense that two hundred years ago was associated with art works, but was later dissociated by the industrial, and now digital, revolution.