skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With Vimium, press f-S-E and you're there. Not as good as one keystroke, but better than using the mouse!
SNOBOL did a pretty good job. (I learned it through Icon myself.)
Idea is certainly viable. Spec-ing HN will be hard though, even with (almost) everything being open-source.
Most critically, is any kind of jailbreaking or exploitation of bugs needed to get builds not released by the manufacturer onto the device?

Yes. What's usually left out of the discussion about Android vs. iPhone's "openness" is that you have to root and unlock your Android phone to install any non-vendor approved operating system mods, just like the iPhone. Here's a good starting point if you want to do this: http://androidandme.com/2010/01/hacks/video-how-to-unlock-an...
Why wasn't it included to begin with? My Nokia N78 has had tethering and Wifi hotspot (with Joikuspot) since day one (got it two years ago).
(I imagine the consequences for flattening a vice presidential candidate would be...staggering. Maybe the lesson is to wait until they're no longer famous before doing the flattening?)
Time for me to be pedantic. VC is plural in this case, not possesive. Therfore, it would be more correct to say "How VCs Value Early Stage Companies".
At this pace, she will earn 10 or more times more in 1 year of doing nothing good - nothing stellar, for sure - for the company than most people earn in their lives.
1> Intuitive is not everything

2> To actually make said message more intuitive, it could have a "type git help error ffwd for an explanation"
If Oracle winds up making more money with Sun's assets than Sun did, would that necessarily be a bad thing?

I'm not saying losing the likes of Tim Bray and Gosling is good but having them didn't help Sun much either.
All code is ugly, but some code is uglier than other code.
The main goal is probably just to annoy them.

The problem is it annoys everyone that deals with significant quantities of cash. I keep cash on hand just in case a bank glitch messes with my checking account. Forcing me to keep larger bills reduces my available hiding places and makes it easier to rob me.

PS: I suggest most people without significant debt keep 2 weeks living expences (food/fuel/etc) in cash just in case.
When that spreadsheet of Facebook alternatives was posted the other day, this one ticked the most boxes. Taking a look at their site though, I was greeted by talk of protocols and invited to 'get code'. I know its just early days, but this isn't how you get people using your social network. I want to jump right in. This... is not what I want.
>Mike, Git seems unintuitive because you don't have a good grasp of what it does behind the scenes

I actually believe that's what "Unintuitive" means.

However intuitiveness is not everything. Power is often more useful than easy to learn.
Why not just use a vpn?
Comma-first is beautiful! Comma-first is functional.

When we make lists, do we put the * at the end, or up front? Comma-first serves the same purpose. It delimits a new entry. "here is a new entry! here is another!"

Comma-first is column aligned with the least about of white space. It visually identifies the list as such, set apart from other code. Easy to parse, easy to skim, easy to elide, depending on your need.
Id be very interested, I wonder if there is already someone in the Boston/Cambridge area doing something like this.
"The universe is rational", true but I don't have faith in that I have no evidence to suggest anything else. That is very different from faith which requires no evidence and can/often does ignore contrary evidence.

This all seems like a very weak argument that at best comes down to semantics and at worst implies that only people of faith can save jews from nazi germany!
I applaud them for their simple ingenuity. Even with my privacy settings to the max, my basic personal information is still displayed (profile pic, name, city and state, etc...). Facebook has successfully de-anonymized a large portion of internet users.

GNUnet here I come! (a social networking application on top of GNUnet? that would be awesome)
Another Reason To Avoid Diet Soda
I recall one of Jobs' major points against Flash was not providing support for touch-based interfaces. Here we have a clearcut example that the tool you use (HTML5) does guarantee you anything in the final product.

On a contrarian note, a cross-platform game framework here could perhaps provide for remappable controls and performance tuning. This same cross-platform framework is labeled by Jobs as a threat to Apple's marketshare.

Perhaps Apple should not be so quick to bludgeon developers with claims of The One Best Way to the exclusion of all others.
Celebrity Sighting and Gossip Start-up
TopStalker (www.topstalker.com)is where you can share your celebrity sightings, post gossip, and catch a glimpse of what celebrities are really like in their everyday lives. By sourcing photos and gossip from millions of people versus one blogger or reporter, Top Stalker offers more authentic celebrity photos and gossip than can be found anywhere else online, in magazines, or on TV. <p>Top Stalker is an online community dedicated to celebrities that offers a greater breadth of more authentic celebrity photos and gossip because it is sourced by millions of individual users. Users can harness the power of their camera phones to capture celebrity sightings in their everyday lives and post them to Top Stalker where they can identify the time and location of every photo. Users anywhere in the world can “virtually stalk” their favorite celebrity by viewing photos, organized by time and location, and by posting gossip on any photo. All photos and gossip are ranked by fans around the world providing status and recognition back to the contributors.
Please do take one minute to watch the video.
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I disagree with the title statement, as there is little in life more subjectively judged than beauty, but the post itself is very well written.
It's a purely psychological effect.

When it's way overhead - it's the moon. You've seen it all your life. It's just there.

When it's on the horizon - your automatic distance-judging machinery (we're talking more than just parallax and depth perception here - I mean the whole process) says "hey that thing is really far away, and way, way past the horizon, way further away than those mountains, so it's obviously really, really big by comparison (which is completely true).

Humans perceive the world more or less on a horizontal plane - so we interpret things in that plane differently than we do things above/below us.
Adobe attacks Apple - "You're undermining the next chapter of the web"
Paying people to leave actually sounds like quite a good idea to me.

Pay people 3 months salary to leave; don't pay new employees for the first 3 months.

It's much easier to identify an underperforming existing employee than to pick the best potential employee at interview. Not paying newbies filters out people who aren't motivated.
The "decent neighborhoods" are fully built out in LA. New development is an hour drive (without traffic) from the interesting parts of the city. What priced me out of the housing market was a) extremely high demand in the areas of the city with decent livability and decent schools and b) the willingness of people to take on extremely risky loans to buy those houses. (Since I had this silly, old-fashioned idea that I would only buy a house I could afford with 20% down and a 30-year fixed, the initial monthly payments I was looking at were nearly twice that of the people doing 90/10 option ARMs.)
Worst-case thinking among business lawyers:

One of the worst traits of a bad business lawyer is to fixate on remote risks when advising a client and driving a transaction. Negotiations along such lines rapidly enter into a surreal mode that leaves entrepreneurs scratching their heads and wondering, "why can't we just cut through this garbage and get to the heart of the deal?"

This sort of fixation normally adds significant costs to any business deal ("we'll need to thoroughly research all these possibilities"; "we'll need a 3-page indemnity clause instead of the 1-paragraph version"), tends to paralyze deal momentum and cause the parties to shift their focus onto side issues in their deal ("this deal can't possibly move forward until we can absolutely eliminate these risks"), and winds up causing parties to negotiate 50-page contracts where a 10-pager might have done the same thing without necessarily addressing every remote contingency that might occur in hypothetical scenarios where things can go wrong.

A good business lawyer should be neither a deal killer nor a CYA type but should be sharp in identifying risks and have good judgment in weighing them against benefits so as to strike a practical balance that moves deals forward while keeping them honest, with the client making the final decisions based on such guidance. Of course, some deals are incredibly complex, or have very large amounts at stake, and this does warrant more fastidiousness about risk issues. The key is to know which is which and to handle each accordingly.
Or if you need features that are still not present in HTML5. Flash is used for more than playing videos and simple games.
GoDaddy apparently uninterested in fixing their security hole
To be pedantic, that's not MS deliberately sabotaging the project. That's perhaps MS being reckless with their upgrades, resulting in (I would suspect), an alienated customer.

My lesson from this comment and the story is that configuration management is more important than I thought.
Old post. Also, there is a startup that does exactly this. They turn an email address into a social connection - http://flowtown.com
Brain Management
I would use the hell out of such a thing, but I expect that I'm a pretty small niche market.
Adobe hearts Apple in tough love ad campaign
> "Is it $500 better?"

For me, sure.

I looked at all the things that a desktop is bad at, that the iPad is good at. Like reading on the couch, occupying the kids in the car, annotation and note-taking away from a traditional desk, reviewing a load of pictures in the field, diagramming or sketching.

I've spent more than $500 on an assortment of devices to meet those needs and none of them have been half as good as the iPad. So for me, it's absolutely worth it.

But my finding value in it certainly doesn't speak to whether you will or should. Maybe you don't have any of those needs.
Up and Running With LaTeX - by Alex Kahn
"His first [hardware] appliance was developed as engineers found that hardware bottlenecks slowed the pace at which computers could process information stored in Oracle's database software."

Are they sure it wasn't the poorly written software?

Is it really easier to design hardware nowadays than to optimize a huge mess of enterprise software?
It's no longer 2003.

A Macbook Pro equivalent back then was a lot more than $1800.

An iPhone equivalent would have been really expensive and it would have had a 10 minute battery life. Combined WiFi+GSM chip sets were still new back then. Wireless data plans were running at around £2 per megabyte (packet) or a max of ~50kbps (channel at 1.5c/min+).

Trying to build a useful tablet, with wireless capability, with the money left over in the electronics budget of the average consumer, after paying for a MBP and an iPhone? Not possible.

There would have been too many compromises for Apple at the time, whereas in 2010 they can do a pretty good job at it.
That's an interesting point - I normally have very little cash on me and we don't keep any at home as Pin-n-Chip cards are taken by pretty much everywhere I shop.

However, I remember reading about the financial crisis of '08 and how a lot of UK banks (RBS & HBOS) were close to shutting down and how terrified the politicians were that the cash machine and EPOS networks would stop working.

It did make me think that keeping a wad of cash somewhere might be a good idea.
my heart disease risk would also sky rocket if I were a civil servant.
Understanding the web to find short answers and “something different"
I don't believe companies can legally discriminate based on family status, either in hiring or pay. However, they can, and do, make people with families pay substantially higher premiums for health care. At my company, a employee w/ family pays 7 times as much out of their paycheck for health insurance than a single employee does.
do they say which cloud?
This is a cool engineering project, but hardly seems like an efficient approach, at thousands (hundreds at best) of dollars a pop. Traditional chemical elimination methods (C02 traps, pesticides) seem much more effective, and biological approaches are probably the most promising (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_insect_technique).
What about gold? or is too difficult to exchange? especially when the zombie apocalypse comes :P
Lots of good commentary about this:
http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?ent...

http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100513/adobe-to-apple-y...
Graph Databases, NOSQL and Neo4j
I assume you've seen the git svn crash course (http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html) which is good overview, but falls short on the subtleties of merging (particularly using git pull --rebase). The side-by-side commands in the two VCS it has is great. The ParrotVM wiki also has a git-svn guide (http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/git-svn-tutorial) that I've found quite helpful and has an introductory workflow.

(Alternately, it looks like svnimporter (http://www.subversionary.org/projects/svnimporter) can import ClearCase which gets at a tiny subset of your problem.)
Adobe co-founders target Apple with new Open Letter
Except there are verifiable differences in the product of hormone augmented, traditionally industrialized milk and the organic milk Whole Foods stocks. There are legitimate ethical arguments about environmental impacts and the treatment of animals between both systems.

There are not legitimate ethical arguments against someone coding something in python and porting it over to another environment. Without investigating the company in question, one could not determine what a piece of software was originally written in.

Even if something is technically legal or not worth pursuing in court, it still doesn't mean a company isn't acting uncouthly.
Real life "Neo" discovered ... in Latvia
I had definitely tried that before, recall issuing a 'mkdir .mozilla/plugins' & moving a .so in there.
Can't remember why I rolled that back and reinstalled it through apt thought.

Anyways trying it again nonetheless, the blinking is still going on with scrolling, going to see if performance/crashing at least improves.
You'd write a MapReduce program to do it. Cassandra 0.6 has full support for Hadoop.
$ ping recovery.gov
PING recovery.gov (64.14.118.222)

$ whois 64.14.118.222
OrgName: Savvis

Answer:
http://www.savvis.net/en-US/infrastructure-services/Cloud/Pa...
A few more years of forward progress and the noSQL movement will make it to 1959 level technology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CODASYL
Criticisms come directly from the 2 co-founders - Chuck Geschke & John Warnock - love the Sepia-toned photo of the two of them together :-)
The conclusion to the "hit by a bus" problem is correct, even if the argument to get there is wrong.

It's still correct to spread knowledge around as much as possible. First, it prevents a single person from becoming a bottleneck in development. Second, a better understanding of the rest of the system helps developers understand their assignment better.
Possible prototype. Rick's "coworking retreat"

"The first location is on a remote island in Bocas del Toro, Panama, right on
the ocean, by a coral reef, on an island with no cars. We use solar power,
have running water, propane refrigerators, and, of course, reliable Wifi.
We're right on the border to Costa Rica, and the closest airport is 30 min
away by boat.

This is definitely a place for seriously adventurous souls - you can be
working online one minute, and snorkel or kayak the next, or go for a hike
in the jungle, or snorkel, waterski, ...

We have lots of space -- several common areas to hang out, and a place to
stay for everyone. We plan to have 6-10 people there at a time... We have a
cook who prepares breakfast and lunch; dinner is self-organized; there are a
few restaurants in the area, or we cook together.

As far as I know, this is still a very new idea, and I'm curious how it
works out... We're also looking for anchors/volunteers who would like to
spend more time there and help run and improve the place, and to help shape
the community. Any thoughts on the idea in general would also be appreciated."

http://www.cocovivo.com/
Google trends issues hot media: Three Moscow metro bombing 'organisers' killed
I disagree with this article.

> This type of thing [faith] would not stick around within our societies were it not useful.

Cancer sticks around but it's not useful.

> If I were in Nazi Germany, the rational thing would be to not help any jew.

This is absurd. Depending on what you knew at the time, it may have been by far the rational thing to help jews. Because then when it's over, you could claim you were one of the few who helped, and wouldn't be as guilty as all the rest.

> People who have faith have one absolute advantage over those who do not - their path is always clear. They know what they are doing, they know why they are doing it, and even when they doubt, they can always fall back in blind trust in some invisible thing.

I fail to see how this is an advantage. Suppose you had a well-defined, crystal-clear path walking off a cliff. That's good just because it's clear? Also I'm not convinced that faithful actually have clear paths; they're just as confused as the rest of us, but they don't like to think about that.

> And they are happier, because as each step along their route unfolds and turns out to be right, their faith increases and their belief that the problems will always be overcome with more faith grows.

And this is where I suspect this author is simply a troll. Is it really the case that the faithful are happier than other people? This contradicts my experience. I think the faithful are probably no more or less happy than anyone else. Indeed, frequently faith is a source of unhappiness, like any time they are faced with something that contradicts their faith.

This statements also claims "as each step along their route unfolds and turns out to be right", but actually they are right less often than rational people! And the author has ignored all the times when they turn out to be wrong. Being wrong more often than rational people isn't a bad thing?

> Don't dismiss blind belief in something. It's an extra-ordinary tool. It's fundamentally human, and when you rationalize it away, you are are taking away one of those quirks that make us human - those strange things like love and laughter and revenge that should not be there, but are, and separate us from machines.

Personally, I see faith as a meme, and we are seeing its tricks in action here. It's taking something that's not extraordinary or useful and making it sound extraordinary and useful. It's not, but it needs you to think it is to survive.
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Art Studio tapers from the start and to the end of a stroke over time of the stroke. So a faster stroke looks thinner, as more of it is drawn within the tapered times. Quite a few line strokes look quite pleasing due the effect. It's very neat.
See Slide, Yelp, Facebook...
Yeah, it would be nice if they had an open server that allowed you to sign up and check it out. There's nothing stopping anybody from setting one up though.
And in case you want a local, mechanical option - don't those electric fly killers with the blue light work for mosquitoes as well?
Comcast's New iPad App is Full of Surprises
Hackers Handy Hideaway Hook
Check thisShort film at the CANNES ONLINE SHORT FILM CONTEST
this is a beautiful short film, which has been shoot in a real jail and with real women prisoners. I think it deserves to win the competition!
Optical computing's bright future: Light without logic
I remember hearing about a movement in Japan to eliminate cash a while back. (Here's one story from about a year ago: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/art...) Has anything happened with this or was the proposal dead on arrival?
The more you use mobile data, the more it costs your carrier. This becomes a big issue when you allow tethering and have some customers using massively more data than others, but paying the same price. Sure, I guess we can continue to have low-usage customers subsidizing the high-usage customers, but I don't think that will last.

I don't think this is a bad thing. If I use less data than average, I should be able to pay less than someone else.

(And as an aside, I don't recommend testing the theory that your home DSL/Cable connection is truly unlimited.)
Actually there is more than one service offering this and most of them are built on top of the Rapleaf API: http://www.rapleaf.com/
The sooner? ruby 1.9 is around for more than a year??? now. 1.8 is still the standard in ubuntu and about everywhere else.

With respect to performance boost: Startup time didn't improve. And IIRC the same is true for certain string operations. Both are important in the field where ruby originated and where I personally still find it most useful -- scripting or rather as perl-replacement.
But Flash is popular with developers for building smartphone apps. Many developers use automatic translation tools - some built by Adobe - to convert Flash code so their apps can run on Apple gadgets.

They do?
No, it means you're using the wrong abstraction.

It seems a large number of users prefers to work at a different level of abstraction than git requires.

git makes you face up to the fact that your abstractions are wrong.

Strangely mercurial tackles the exact same abstractions, yet has a much friendlier user-interface. The standard-rebuttal at this point will be "Fine, use mercurial then". I wonder if, at some point, more users will start doing that than the git-community would like. I, for one, am certainly tempted, but have so far held out due to the switching cost and because hg is, of course, not without flaws either.

However, I don't think this "If it hurts then you're doing it wrong"-attitude can be healthy for git in the longterm.

A bad user-interface remains a bad user-interface, no matter how you spin it. The big problem I see is not even with git currently having this bad user-interface, but rather with the widespread reluctance in git-circles to even think about ways to improve it.
Pick on mom at your own peril (family responsibilities discrimination)
Switching to Chrome? Download these Extensions
Check out this paper 'FlyByNight: mitigating the privacy risks of social networking' (it can be found on ACM).
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1456405&dl=GUIDE&#...

These people tried something like your idea.
If you're going to do something like what they did then in my opinion it isn't really feasible. For starters there are scalability issues. Also, if you're concerned about your privacy but want to message someone who doesn't have this app then you're forced to message them insecurely. I remember having some other reservations about this when I read it but it's been a few months and I've forgotten them.