skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Idea 1) Option to collapse tweets containing replies, mentions or retweets when viewing an individuals profile.

I think this would be great for quickly seeing what a profile is really all about. Remove the extraneous content and get down to the individual.

Idea 2) Enable filtering, browsing and sorting of public timelines by source client.

Would be good for spam control and discovery. For example, one could quickly pick out which profiles are posting junk from twitterfeed or browse tweets from a specific source website of interest.

http://twitter.com/DotSauce
You can remotely exploit bugs in network card firmware, and use that exploit to DMA read/write the host machine's memory AND overwrite the network card firmware permanently in EEPROM with firmware that you control.

The article also explains some potential defenses against this sort of exploit but notes that none of them are currently viable.
"I take it that George Bush and Al Gores houses will not be that far apart in total energy consumption."

Just to clarify, do you mean grid energy consumption? Unless I read incorrectly, George Bush's Crawford ranch house is twice as small as Al Gore's house. Does that not matter much in terms of total consumption?

I believe Bush owns a huge home in Dallas, and it seems obvious that the ranch was a PR vehicle, so I doubt his combined personal energy footprint is worth talking about, but based on the article above his Crawford ranch is impressive.
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The text is copypasted from the official arduino home: http://www.arduino.cc/.
Financial 'reform' is the status quo:

> So Congress is in a lather working on a new set of regulations that will prevent problems like this from ever happening again. Really? Ask yourself these questions.

> Did the government sanctioned ratings agencies prevent the meltdown?

> Did the voluminous disclosure laws already on the books prevent the meltdown?

> Did vigilant SEC inspectors prevent the meltdown?

> Did a well financed FDIC prevent the meltdown?

> Did Sarbanes Oxley laws prevent the meltdown?

http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2010/04/28/did_you_... (GR BTW)

No matter how hard we try, we simply can't regulate greed (esp. not when the regulators are paid by the banks!). Plus, no one in Congress even understands finance!
American have to learn to consume less. Otherwise they are fucked anyway (That goes for oil, food and pretty much everything else).

see:
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_u...
There is haptic feedback.
Performance is still awfully horrible.

Just opening that page causes Safari to hang for quite a while, and memory use to shoot up from ~40M to ~670M. That's not even close to being acceptable.
tl;dr - Nothing is secure. Even Intel's specially designed Trusted Execution Technology (close to the Trusted Platform idea) has known flaws. You can be hacked at levels which you cannot control (firmware). It's tricky (not a script-kiddie level exploit), but possible and many existing holes are not published/known, because researchers would rather do something interesting than uncover yet another bug using the same technique. If you have government-level influence, start complaining to Intel (et al.).
The Intellectual Situation
It looks a lot more like a distraction from how flimsy the reform is.
I don't know enough about the details of H1Bs to comment on the changes made, but this looks promising:

-Green cards will made available to foreign students after completing a STEM-related MS* (or greater) assuming they've stated an intent to immigrate.

-Per-country immigration caps will be lifted for these individuals.

* Corrected, thanks jorgeortiz85
Thanks for the replies. It is strange because I had maybe 5 submissions; some of which were upvoted around 7 times or so. The only submission I now realize was bad was a press release about a new release of one of our apps. So that got my entire account nuked I guess? I suppose I should just post further news under this name then?

Edit: Hi PG; Again, I'm new at this so I'm not sure what you mean. I posted the link to my submissions on an iPhone developer forum I frequent; asking other developers to check them out and upvote if its useful. Is that what you mean by bogus? If so I'm sorry and won't do it again. I think you just banned this account as well so that is why I am saying this in an edit. I want to be a useful contributing member here; I am reading the guidelines over again now. I apologize again; please be fair with me. Thank you.
Grid energy consumption is not what it is about in off the grid houses, that's a big fat '0'.

The amount of money spent on the installation and insulation of the property is the big factor, and I suspect that if grid power was available where that farm is located that it is nowhere near cost effective.

The house I built was to learn, not to save, just to give you an idea of how inefficient going off the grid if grid power is available is.

If grid power is not available, in other words if you do not have any other options then it is a totally different matter.

The total cost of a 10 KWh/day installation in the Northern latitudes of Canada was 5 years ago about $CAN 60,000, probably in Texas where you have much more sunshine the cost will be significantly lower, but you still have to factor in stuff like the cost of charging / discharging batteries, which alone already costs more than using the grid...

It's not that easy!
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The bank bailouts could have come with regulatory measures attached. Was this an intentionally overlooked opportunity?
Like lisp or c (although back then 20 years ago, I actually prefered modula 2 & oberon)?
Note it's big enough to display pronounced counter-clockwise rotation.
Outlook only runs on Windows, and Office costs a lot of money. Unless you're already buying Office it's probably not worth it.
Improving your resolv.conf file
If you put up a building with a bunch of windows birds will fly in to them and occasionally get killed, so yes, windmills will kill birds, but:

Windmills are portrayed as 'bird slaughterhouses', the reality is that while bird killings do occur they're nowhere near as frequent as the FUD would have you believe. If it were the blades would be dripping blood, and a good place to shop for dinner would be at the foot of a windmill tower.

I've had a 5 meter (15') very fast running (600 RPM) mill up for well over a year and not a single dead or injured bird was found near it. Big windmills rotate a lot slower (even if the tip speeds are roughly identical) so are easier to spot as obstacles, the small mills turn so fast the blades are visible only as a blurry disc.

As for the side note, that's 30% of the total landmass of the continental united states usable, that's not 'not much potential', that's enormous potential.
It was not so much the content of your posts as the bogus upvotes on them.
Usually on interesting links i middleclick the comments-links and leftclick the link, so that i read the link first, close the tab and read the comments.

An extra page with most popular comments wouldn't be as interesting for me, as a comment without context (the link) is rather worthless. And if i first read the article i might be interested in all sorts of comments. Quite often, only because a comment has many points, it doesn't mean it's the most interesting.
True.

You could do worse than start with aesop:

aesopfables.com
Why was that upvoted? Somebody discovers ten-year old technologies? How about "Coredump in 15 seconds using C" then?
I wonder if myths like this explain some fraction of a country's economic growth. I suspect that in Europe, this kind of myth would end with the perpetrator being executed for lying and committing heresy; even the Geek myths wouldn't have a god show up to make good on someone else's bogus promises.
Very true - and even more so if you're able to tell these stories in an engaging way to make a point. A good storyteller beats powerpoint any day.
"Some dystopian future"...like the U.S. in the 50s, when Joe McCarthy was demanding the removal of material he deemed "inappropriate" from State department libraries? (Wikipedia says some libraries actually burned the banned books: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism#Senate_committees) If that sort of suppression is possible in the U.S. when private companies aren't holding vast amounts of data on exactly what "subversive" material citizens are reading and finding important, what's possible when that information is easily accessible and searchable by anyone with a government order?

Not all of Amazon's customers live in the U.S., either. It appears that they don't currently sell the Kindle in Iran and China, for example, but if they did, I sure wouldn't want to own one there.
Plot Thickens: Free Android phones coming to Adobe employees
I use Gmail to manage four separate accounts.

You can set filters that label each message based on sender, or any search really. For example to:main@gmail.com gets labeled and color coded.

You can set up multiple inboxes for your accounts.

Also it's easy to switch between accounts when replying, to reply from a different address for example.

Gmail is just too good for me not to use it, but use whatever works for you.
I will go for Github's Gists, then.

Thanks for the replies.
Except it was neither pointless nor simply for the sake of change.
I believe I understood you correctly, and that is what I do for the articles I am about to read, but I'm referring to the "comments" at the very top of HN.
I mean, it's probably not very helpful on a netbook with a 1024x600 screen, but I still think its worth it on your average desktop flatscreen.
This has nothing whatever to do with (1) the comment it's notionally a reply to or (2) the OP.
I'm missing it, let me know

http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments
Are there any details available on the build? How did they interface the Droid to the lego controller for example?
Oh i see. Well, my comment applies there.. for most comments on that page i have no clue what they are about as most comments are oneliners
Yeah,the wooden shaft of 200 years ago is hard to beat. There have been some ergonomic improvements in high-end hammers http://www.stanleytools.com/xhtml/literature/StanleyHandTool..., but simple metal shafts are actually a step backwards.
What is good collection of these Indian myths? Is there one akin to One Thousand and One Arabian Nights; with more focus on India?
kronosis
>> "This isn't like moving to a new city to broaden your horizons. I didn't find changing the side the buttons were on expanded my consciousness and brought about a refreshing personal transformation."

Not everything is a revelation, or a revolution. Small details matter. Hence the fact that we're even talking about this one.

>. "but for the simple day to day stuff, if it isn't broken, don't fix it unless you're actually making it better."

I would argue that it is better. Now everything is grouped together on the left. Since we're speaking to each other in English, I can say that "we" read from left to right.

Left makes sense. The buttons are positioned the same location from the top-left of the screen whether I'm on my 1024x600 netbook or my 1920x1200 laptop. They're no longer at the farthest possible point away from where my eyes typically linger.

You can say that's a small thing, you can say it doesn't matter to you. But to simply say it's "change for the sake of change" is to woefully undersell the idea of good design. (Of course, in this case, it's mostly aping the design established by Apple, but better to perpetuate good designs than bad ones)
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Google Maps, Bing Maps, & Yahoo Maps: Cartographic Design Differences
Make the text NOT green on green background. I can barely read any of the survey questions.
The market might summarily "take care" of iPhone itself.

There are many people (young people) who don't know anything about design or hacking, but they know enough to make an app in Flash--sort of. And when people buy those apps that look, feel and work like crap, they'll think iPhone itself is crap. Sure, they might pay for more expensive apps (those that are still in business), but once you get in the habit of paying little, it's hard to start paying a lot. I still buy cheap motherboards and curse myself later. And, once you get in the habit of getting crap, it's hard to expect anything more for your money. At this point, Apple has no edge over Android. Et cetera.

I can see a strong case for why it's evil, but to show that it's stupid would require thorough understanding of what a clueless, fickle public would do. Maybe the business morlocks at Apple are better at that than we are, and maybe we're better for it.
It's only troublesome if you use Chrome (like me) as the buttons of chrome stay on the right side.
I am happily switching it back to the right side because i really don't see the point to put it left. No benefit but the disadvantage to learn to become accustomed to it, so whats the point?

edit: I've used the new version since beta2 and it was no big deal for me to click on the left side. Still i changed it to the right side yesterday.
H.264 Already Won—Makes Up 66 Percent Of Web Videos
Loading up http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.get/ and skipping to the examples is, I think, informative enough.
Two things:

First, what is a financial transaction that the government isn't aware about, if not black market?

Second, the government wants financial data for regulation purposes. I fail to see how a "competitive environment for financial data" (IIRC, private companies close to financial interests) could be trusted with the gathering of such data. We could easily have conflicts of interests.
You're right about the moral angle.

If you position your service as one thing, change it after the fact to become another you are shooting yourself in the foot, even if you are 'completely free to do so', not communicating with your users about such course changes is simply dumb. It costs nothing and will help you tremendously in the long run.

If you pretend that you did 'an experiment' whereas to everybody but the most deluded it is clear that you were simply trying to get away with it you again shoot yourself in the foot, this time you are coming across as dishonest.

Those are not long term strategies, even if you are legally speaking in the right to do so. If you liberally interpret your terms of service, instead of taking them as indicating the spirit in which a service operates than you are again playing fast and loose with your users.

If you want to be in the hosted content business in the longer term that is not a good course to be on.

As for the money changing hands bit, we've beaten that to death I think, here where I'm from (NL) no money needs to change hands for a contract to be in place, though it definitely helps if it does, especially since you can't really claim any damage if there was no monetary factor to begin with.

The way I've done course changes like that is to simply alert the community, either through newsletters or postings on the homepage, changes to the terms of service that spell out what the deal is in plain language that we do not try to interpret in some sleazy legal way that no ordinary user would ever think of.

It has served me well. I can't imagine doing it in another way would have served me as well, and I have some empirical data to back that up.

You build up your reputation slowly, it takes only one or two cock-ups like this to lose that reputation for good.
Really? I don't understand the point except perhaps that Ubuntu now wants to look more like Mac OS X than Windows.
Hurl
It is a useful view on which threads currently have active discussion. That's nice b/c if you're the last person to comment on the thread, you get to voice your opinion but that's about it. You want to participate on active threads.

Also, sometimes I load the "comment" page, and scroll down to the area where the comments are 30-60 minutes old. Generally anything that's gotten voted up at all is pretty interesting, so the insight efficiency ratio is pretty high.

I picked up that second habit from something similar that I think a lot of people do on the "new" page: if a submission is 40 minutes old, giving it it's fourth vote can make a real difference to the arc of the submission, in terms of how much attention it gets.
As for me, I'd like to know if anyone has ever been convicted in India for impersonating a god.
Yes. Please, yes.

I run Hackers and Founders, Silicon Valley and SF. http://hackersandfounders.com. We've been going for around 2 years and have around 900 members. About half come from HN, the other half through word of mouth, or Meetup.com. I don't make any money off this, I just enjoy having a beer, and geeking out with startup geeks every 2 weeks.

I also try to contact other people that post meetup listings on HN, and try and help them get off the ground if I can. I've been in contact with meetups in NY, Chicago, Indianapolis, Tel Aviv, and Wellington, NZ.

The churn on the front page is so great that unless you're in a major metropolitan area, you're not going to get enough upvotes to have a meetup posted. So, it would be helpful to those in non metropolitan areas to have a venue to post their events in a place where it wouldn't fall off the front page in 8 hours at best.

Honestly, just a simple "events" tag at the top of HN would be great, and allow people a self-referencing post Ala "Ask HN:..." I think there's a big demand from HN readers for something like this.

For instance, we just hosted a meetup for 6 guys coming in to SV from the UK for a week to check the area out. The only reason that they knew about Hackers and Founders was because our first event 2 years ago was a meetup before startup school, and the organizer of the group came to the meetup before startup school. The guys that came in were really cool, and I picked up a lot of great ideas for my startup from them.

I try not to announce hackers and founders meetups here anymore much, because I really don't want to pollute the front page with event listings. We have events every 2-3 weeks, and I think it would be a pain in the ass for HN readers to read event announcements from us every 2-3 weeks.

I'm pretty sure that Brennan that runs the Indianapolis meetup and Dave that runs the NY meetup don't post here that often either. Brennan uses Meetup.com and Dave uses a twitter feed + Anyvite. The Chicago meetup uses a Google group.
This is a somewhat misleading presentation (unsurprisingly, given the source). The Washington Post article it links to is somewhat more informative:

The version of regulatory overhaul legislation passed by the House would allow the FTC to issue rules on a fast track and permit the agency to impose civil penalties on companies that hurt consumers.

[...]

Advertisers and retailers, for example, are wary of new rules from the FTC, which acts as their primary enforcement agency. The House financial overhaul bill would make it easier for the FTC to issue rules on privacy that would curtail an advertiser's ability to collect personal data on consumers' Web habits.

A much more detailed analysis of the FTC changes here: http://thebalanceact.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/today-at-the-a...

You can read the text of the house bill here: http://financialservices.house.gov/Key_Issues/Financial_Regu...

The Wall street Journal rather likes the House bill, or at least significant parts of it: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125729617077326787.html ..and yes, those things are still in there.
Definitely not disagreeing on the epic, just on scale :) And didn't know most of that, thanks for the info (haven't followed this spill very closely).
Project Amiga Juggler
Your keyboard example is poor. The point is to not be so ridiculously oversensitive to change as to freak out over very minor ones. Your example is on a whole other order of magnitude of chaos, and as such is not a valid comparison.
This is Hacker News, not a My First Javascript Blog.
And the checkboxes's labels look like links because of the different color em hand cursor. I actually tried to middle-click on one of them before trying the left click and seeing it just checks the box.
I would put phi before a lot of those.
We don't need a national id card...we will have a biometric social security card.
You're in luck: silky smooth it is. Upgraded sensor over the Nexus One. Better multitouch, better responsiveness in general, lower battery drain.
This actually has a pretty good breakdown of data cost/task. It also points out that there is a break-even point at the 500MB mark with the unlimited plan.

Having never reset my 3GS, I was curious to see where I fell in. If it were offered, I only need 250MB about every 27 days it would seem - an opportunity to save $157/year on phone service if AT&T provided the means to do so.
Maybe Twitter isn't that popular...
Winston Zeddemore from Ghostbusters: "Ray, when someone asks you if you are a god, you say YES!"

awesomely enough, this too is a criminal offence under Section 508

Come to think of it, a lot of India's "God men" could conceivably be prosecuted under that law.
I am officially scared even more by knights and mercenaries now. I mean, look at this sword and what it does, and imagine it in the hands of someone with like a decade of experience yielding it.
"the time between election and counting" - This is of course quite critical , from what i know of India, in certain parts of the country - ballot stuffing of paper ballots was very prevalent. EVM's at least preclude that possibility.
For those who haven't met Sanjay he is the nice guy who organizes Startup Riot, which is a free (and large) demo day conference in Atlanta.

He was nice enough to invite me to go last year, which led to minor coverage on CNN and eventually an offer to buy my company. Your mileage may vary but I'd recommend looking into next year's event :-)
The golden age of movie critics (by Roger Ebert)
I'm getting the following error "Cannot allocate memory - fork(2)"

You can check out this video to learn more about hurl
http://vimeo.com/6238577
You can get comments pushed into the page you are currently reading using this small greasemonkey script:

http://share.shmichael.com/hn_comment_embed.user.js

It shows a small tab on the right side of the page that expands to display the relevant HN page.

Here's a screenshot of the comment panel, once you open it:
http://shmichael.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/hne.png

And for chrome, ported by a friend:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/hhedbplnihmkekhg...
http://www.instantrimshot.com/
I would recommend switch Chromium to use System titlebars. Along with the Ambiance Chrome theme, you get a really nice appearance: http://imgur.com/ccAKI.png
Yep, me too. Seems like a useful service though.
Well, green cards are immediately available to anyone who already has a STEM degree from a US university, and a job offer - regardless of their previous intent. Not quite pg's founders visa, but close - a US partner with some capital to employ the person would qualify, I think..

Caps on immigration are lifted for anyone applying for permission to study an advanced STEM degree.

The H-1B modifications fix (or attempt to fix) a lot of things about that program which critics of immigration say allow foreign workers to displace US ones, which should reduce opposition.
I can donfirm that. Only on the baconfile-example, tough. "Cannot allocate memory - fork(2)"
Right side: gconftool-2 --set “/apps/metacity/general/button_layout” --type string “:minimize,maximize,close”

Left side: gconftool-2 --set “/apps/metacity/general/button_layout” --type string “maximize,minimize,close:”

Far faster than using the gconf-editor GUI, IMO.
It's open-sourced, http://github.com/defunkt/hurl
Ebert really gets it. How often will you find someone from the Old Guard so excited about the new usurpers of the throne? This really is a golden age for critics -- of all disciplines.
No, i couldn't do that.

One of the best features of Chrome is the tabs-in-the-titlebar thing, i couldn't give that up :)

Thanks for the hint anyway