skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but then in general I don't think that consumers pay more for internet connections for specific features — nor do I think they ever have. I think they pay more because what they have has become a limitation for what they're already doing.
Seconding http://www.withfit.com. You can track the CrossFit WODs at http://www.withfit.com/programs/CrossFit+Main+Page. You can also track your own custom workouts or other affiliates workouts. It's also super easy to use.
Works as well on Linux as it does on my Mac -- using 100% of one of my cores and plays jerky video. What more could I expect from Flash?
As per grandparent comment, the symbol ∀ "can't complete during the life of the universe".
That's true, I agree 100%.

I'd add to that though, if you're a small company sometimes you must recognize that a larger 3rd party can use scale to provide a more reliable service than you can.
I could see a file called "secret_accounts_dont_open.txt" being really attractive to my wife or son. Pass.
There are some good engineering schools in the NYC area that could supply the talent they need (Cooper Union, Stevens Tech, Rutgers, RPI, etc.). The problem is most grads don't know about the startups. I went to Stevens ('02) and at the senior career fair it was all banks, gov't agencies, military contractors, and telecoms. There's a lot of (well-paying) competition in NYC that's competing over a well-indebted population of engineering grads.
This has some well thought out points, but the headline is a little misleading. Facebook could implement these same ideas (none are patentable) to "fend off" Foursquare. There is nothing here that would really be a blocker to Facebook growing their check-in feature.

IMO, one of the benefits of Foursquare is that it is independent of Facebook and can be slightly more anonymous. There are concerns and websites like pleaserobme.com that call attention to the dangers of Social Media oversharing. Foursquare should, IMO, think about ways to make the game both FUN and SAFE, perhaps things like delayed check-in postings, or options to show certain check-in data to certain groups or subsets of your "Friends".
Scala 2.8.0 RC2
Obama Warns Grads of iPad Perils
Wall Street jumps (S&P up nearly 6%) at open after global bailout
yup, my fear comes in two forms:

a) people will laden this with too much junk making this a bloated piece of software that is too confusing and takes too long to get out.

b) people will forget the real benefits to people ala drop in easy.
Twitter pulls the plug on Summize.com domain
The author has ignored the fact that most companies founded or run by by non-technical people don't usually do that well. (citation needed) At the very least, a company run by a non-technical person is oftentimes not a terribly exciting prospect for a hacker.
It's instructive to compare this with Windows 7 (often comes installed on modern netbooks). Recipe: 1. move default taskbar to the left and 2. use Chrome. The result is pretty good, I think:

http://drop.io/dyhgfkv/asset/windows7-png
This is exactly what teachers unions have said in court briefs opposing schools opened by noted extremist religious groups like Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Reform Jews, etc. (There are constitutional amendments in some states which were written for the express purpose of making it harder for Catholics to open schools. Guess why they'll never get repealed?)
The Big Web Show: HTML5 for Web Designers (podcast)
The central server would just contain a reference to your data. Your data would remain on your own hosting or a 3rd party of your choosing and updates you post will only be pushed to your friends. That's how I'm getting the general idea.
Get Ready For C# 4.0
There is a easy rule of thumb.

Make a backup of your important stuff often and regularly no matter how many redundancies are in place (see Murphy's law).

Right now? Yes, like really right now if you didn't.

EDIT: Spelling
First, get Oracle to buy Facebook and for Oracle to shut it down.
In addition to what RyanMcGreal said, I regularly had issues with Firefox in opening a lot of tabs. I've yet to have an issue with Chromium.
I wonder if Jakob Nielsen would have popped a vein and died on the spot had he tried another mobile platform or tablet. Really - 7 users? A handful of apps? And how does the developers' lack of HID adhering make the iPad itself "unusable"? Really...
Social Gaming back in 1992?
The burden of stuff or why less stuff could make you happier
The public schools are obliged to take just about every kid who shows up, including children with severe emotional, cognitive, or physical disabilities. In the US, they are also obliged to provide disabled children with education “in the least restrictive environment”, meaning that if a disabled child can be educated with special accommodations alongside non-disabled kids, that’s what the school has to provide, even if putting the disabled child in a specialized classroom all day would be cheaper.

Private schools, by contrast, have no obligation to accommodate disabled students. For that matter, they’re more or less free to say “there’s nothing wrong with your child, but s/he wouldn’t fit in to our school”.
But if it's not a single entity controlling the whole thing, then if the entity controlling your data acts badly you can change to a different one. If you're paranoid and knowledgeable you can run your own server.

Popular open systems: Email. XMPP. The Web. The Internet.
Three banners stood out. One very annoying from Microsoft, two other banners from them and one, smaller, from Oracle.

I wasn't going to buy anything Microsoft for the foreseeable future. Oracle got one more penalty on my book.
Local caring and local responsibility are key to any system of quality education.

The public schools I grew up with in the American midwest (all lower middle class) were uniformly good but this was 50 years ago when such schools were widely funded by local sources (e.g., property taxes from the community), did not have to account to the distant bureaucracies or have to focus on prepping kids to meet minimum proficiency tests by which educational results could be measured with mirrors, and did not have to deal with unions whose goals seem to be as much about promoting the interests of their members via ever-expansive forms of public funding as they are about helping kids learn. The public high schools I attended in California in the late 1960s were also good, and it was naturally expected in that day that the vast majority of the kids would not only graduate but would also be literate and reasonably taught once they did so - there too, all funding was purely local.

The key is to have the schools, whether public or private, in the hands of people who care really care about what the kids learn and that means local people who know them and know their families. This element has largely been lost in modern America's public schools, and it is a real tragedy.

It is nice to see the resourcefulness of parents who seek to overcome the resulting mess but this is a struggle that is often just plain desperate in light of the overwhelming problems that now beset the public schools. This piece reminds us that there is always hope where people really care.
Statistically speaking, 5 is enough to get a rough idea.

Also, a lot of the problems he has with the iPad do not show up on the N900. He would probably like that.
Technology and Courage - Ivan Sutherland (1982-96)
To Prepare For Dissertation Beforehand 
If you want to prepare thoroughly for dissertation, you have to write research proposal paper. It is an obligatory step for you as your dissertation writing process supposes it. Everyone, who is engaged in research studies, begins with written proposal.
Amazon Addresses EC2 Power Outages
If this were an article about poor people in India hiring their own militia because they couldn’t get adequate protection from the local government-sponsored police force, would anyone be considering this a model for the US to emulate?
I'm thinking more along the lines of: Toy Story THREE?
"The problem is, most people in NYC don't understand the value of stock options."

The problem is actually the number of times people have been burned. Most of the really good, senior level tech talent has been through the blender the first time around. Options always seem to get screwed up somehow, and once someone has put in 70 hour weeks with the idea that their equity will blow up one day, it becomes quite a challenge to do that again as anything but a founder (which a lot of people really don't have the desire to do). Combine that with the amount of finance (read: under educated) money in the investment pool, and the people who bring it (ex-bankers) and their relationship to hackers, the value of equity is really usually quite shitty.

edit: one other point:

Many of the graduates who don't know about the startup scene actually wont be qualified to work in it (those who are into it will mostly be qualified and are a small minority). Generally speaking, you need to really be able to pull your weight in an early stage startup. This is not something most people who have not been hacking on side projects (or working at startups as an intern etc.) for the last 4 years are generally capable of doing. You really need to have had some "real work" experience, and after 4 years of coursework and coffee/xerox internships unfortunately a lot of these kids just don't. We all want to believe the myth of the college kid startup genius, but the simple fact is it usually takes a few years before someone is really capable of the work required in a startup. By that point they already have the golden handcuffs.

So I'm not sure it's as simple as academia and startups don't talk, there is a real reason startups aren't recruiting from NYU and Columbia undergrads.
I suspect it was highly symbiotic, in addition to winning all those writing contests.
I use it all the time on my Linux machines and it runs fine on a single-core Athlon 2Ghz. Sure, it could be better, but it's certainly usable in it's current form, including full screen on a 1920x1200 monitor.
"... your 'friends' can spread information about you without your knowledge? ..."

Yes, "Dark Stalking on Facebook" ~ http://pjf.id.au/blog/?position=590 Paul has also commented on the latest changes here ~ http://pjf.id.au/blog/?position=604
Did you know that the algorithm to generate photo-mosaics is patented?
Making bucks, working outside, getting exercise... fuckin' A!
Robotic Lego Android Phone Solves Rubik's Cube
Ask HN: Feedback: socialvert.com
The idea behind SocialVert is to allow people to spread job referrals through their social network. So if you see a job that is offering a referral bonus, you could generate a link to pass on through your social network if someone you know takes the job you can collect the referral bonus, if they don't take the job they could pass it through their social network and so on down the line. If at any point someone takes the job everyone gets a cut of the referral bonus.

http://socialvert.com
Well, except that when most people say "Facebook" they mean "a place online where I can look up and interact with my friends and family". That's a perfectly reasonable thing to want, and many people do.
There are a lot of errors in both fact and logic in that Quackwatch piece, which is why I suggest that you skim/read the link I posted in my original comment. (That is, read the original source material and make up your own mind.)
F5 Week in Review May 3rd - 7th
Why wouldn't they keep the domain and just forward it indefinitely to search.twitter.com? A renewal for 10 more years would only be $80...far less than the $15 million they paid for the company.
It has a lot more to do initially with how children are conditioned at a young age to think that drugs are bad, a message that is repeated throughout our lives.

In the US there is a huge stigma associated with weed, but in Canada people don't really care. The difference there comes from the official US government message that weed makes people insane and murderous, and the subsequent war on drugs. A good documentary to watch is "The History of Marijuana", which covers much of the post World War II period of the US government campaigning against Marijuana.
Solving the "marketplace" business model
Not hard to get zero trading loss if the government bails you out when you lose... ;-)
Hands-on with Ubuntu's new Unity netbook shell
You're working off of your terminal values, your moral judgement, that the outcomes in Afghanistan and Pakistan are bad. That's a value judgement, not a fact one. So you can't but assume your conclusion, you desire outcome x because you do.

As to the state sponsored indoctrination bit, whether it's explicitly planned or comes about organically through political bargaining between those with the power and those with the strongly held opinions who are willing to fight for it, it happens anyway. You cannot avoid having a value system, and if you do not perpetuate it, it will be outcompeted by one that will.

I'm not denying complexity, I'm providing extreme examples as aids to thought. Look at the two ends of the spectrum and ask "What does my previously implicit value system say in these extreme cases?"

Would I oppose the Amish exemption? No, because the vast majority of students in this nation have access to basic education.

But don't the Amish children deserve to have the option to partake in broader society? And won't they have more and better information upon which to condition that choice if they attend government run schools until the normal school leaving age? Aren't they being harmed by being denied that opportunity?

teaching violent fundamentalism at the expense of basic education

What's violent fundamentalism? What's basic education? If the violent fundamentalists are the only ones providing education of any sort, a minimum of literacy for example, isn't that better than nothing for the vast majority of those who receive it who never do crap with the violent bit of the fundamentalism but who can read and write and probably do arithmetic when their chances to do so otherwise would have been much less?

On degree mills; what's wrong with a solely instructional institution that certifies competence in a given area? Most people don't give a damn about education as growth for the soul, why should they subsidise those who do, and help perpetuate a costly signalling mechanism that is socially wasteful if an alternative exists?
Because we don't fully understand genetics, it's risky to attempt to "give" this condition to another human. From what we can understand, a given gene can control multiple traits. So the "anti-aging"/"anti-development" genes may also hold those other medical conditions too.

I think that no one in their right mind would accept the therapy if it would give them one or more irreversible problems.
I really, really dig how you think :)
"maybe other people would like a way to make a page of pictures of crap they want to sell to point their friends at"

What would make them want to pay for it when they can already easily create a picture album in flickr (or any other free picture hosting website for that matter) and point their friends into it?

I mean that would be completely free for them. I still don't see the point why anyone in their right mind would want to pay 1$ for uploading a picture & creating a web page which has those mentioned pictures - Where's the value for the user compared to other sites ???

It's not the year 1998 anymore, you know...
Sure, I am a Flash developer and I also love my HTML/CSS/JavaScript too but the comments on that page he linked out too just make me sad. When I saw this on the new page I kind of hoped it wouldn't find it's way up, that kind of misdirected hate just doesn't sit well with me.
I call bullshit. I send my son to a private religious school (http://www.jcdsboston.org/) which is not sponsored by any synagogue of millionaires.

The Supreme Court declared in 1925 (Pierce v. Society of Sisters) that parents have the right to send their children to a private or religious school, and upheld in 1972 (Wisconsin v. Yoder) that parents could even get religious exemptions to state compulsory-attendance laws.
Reading the 93 page full report now...

Kudos to Jakob Nielsen:

"We decided to publish the full report anyway (as a donation to the community) because all experiences from the last 30 years of usability shows that early usability findings have a disproportionally large impact on design projects."

http://s3.amazonaws.com/nngroup/ipad-usability.pdf
It is also probably true that, in a risk sense, there are many more attractive options, considering that cost of living in NYC is not cheap at all.

Also, there are plenty of other startups in the finance sector, though perhaps not in the HN sense, that pays relatively well off the bat, with high upside.

People did the math, that's all.
Defensibility as an touchstone for development decisions « Hints and Kinks
Terrific news! I've been using the release candidates for a while, and have found Haml/Sass 3 to be an absolute pleasure for all my markup/stylesheet needs. Well done.
sponge (in package moreutils) for programs that don't have a "-o" feature:
cat foo.txt | sponge foo.txt
will not clobber foo.txt
What "we" really need is a whole bunch of people to use it. An open Facebook alternative isn't a technical problem.
I switched from PayPal to iTransact about three years ago, and it has worked out much better. You get more personal service, too. http://www.itransact.com/marketing/referral/S33oOO
Single Molecule Can Calculate Thousands of Times Faster Than a PC
They didn't have a single trading day in which they made less than $ 25 million. And they had 35 days over $100 million.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886982/00009501231004...

(net revenues are in millions)
Top 15 Tips to Browse and Surf the Internet safely and securely
Interesting findings for iPad developers, there's a free 93-page download at the bottom as well. I would hate to see iPad development in the same quagmire as DVD menus.
Search for friends on Facebook and the top result for "John Smith" is the one in your own social circle. It's not just a raw search for a name.

You could have a central database with all the friend relationships, but you don't need that. You can search the way some P2P networks do it. Send the request to all your friends, who forward it to their friends, for a certain number of iterations. When the target is found it can reply to you directly.
At one point someone at work who should have known better wrote "eMail packets" so that's what we use. "you have an incoming eMail packet", "check your eMail packets", etc.
Pavlovian anti-GS hysteria at its best...
I have bought hundreds of OEM drives from NewEgg, all of them have had the plastic shell around them, and so far I've seen a 2% failure rate.

The plastic shell is the way the manufacturers ship them direct to NewEgg, that is not NewEgg's doing.
Top 15 Tips to Browse and Surf the Internet safely and securely
http://surfing.url-go.com/
QCon Presentation on Sustainable TDD by the Co-Author of jMock
According to Jakob Nielsen 5 users is enough: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000319.html
How can we use placebos as real treatments
Because No Child Left Behind is just every teacher's favorite legislature, and nothing makes teachers happier than 50 hour work weeks for low wages.

The two biggest problems any teacher I know can find with the current public school system are:

1. Over reliance on standardized test as the only metric of education. Making it difficult to teach kids engaging material in various subjects (Nope, can't cover history's 10 craziest revolutions, have to cover the civil war for the tenth time) because there is so much that they have to learn specifically.

2. A lack of any real power.

True story: My mom once gave a child an F in english, he had a course average of 20%, the child's mom came in complained that her child COULD NOT go to summer school because they had a trip to europe already planned and booked, threatened a law suit and the principle made my mom raise change it to a D.

Another: in Florida at least it had become so difficult to hold a child back a grade in middle school that freshman were coming into high school who hadn't passed 5th grade reading tests. 14% of the freshman one year were functionally illiterate.

Neither of those had anything to do with "government inefficiency." It's the mandate to educate everyone. A private school can have very specific terms and as long as they got a good lawyer to draw up the contract the parents don't have a leg to stand on if the private school kicks their kid out, flunks them, holds them back, gives the detention etc.

EDIT: note that when I a lack of power I mean over academic matters. Recently the supreme court said strip searching a 14 year old girl in front of the male principle because she had Tylenol in her purse was okay. That's some terrifying power.
Unless you're doing quantitative research (which is hard when it comes to how people are using stuff) there are practical difficulties in handling all the data if you have a much bigger sample.
Ok, I can buy that. I wonder why he chose 7 then in this case.
http://onesocialweb.org/
there is not, however it is really easy to write a script to freeze the volume and execute a snapshot.

# xfs_freeze -f /data
# ec2-create-snapshot vol-######
# xfs_freeze -u /data
I told them the same and the answer was:

"I understand your viewpoint, and I regret that you are so disappointed by our company's decision. I wish things could have worked out differently.

Thank you again for taking the time to share your comments with us. Please know that we respect your opinions and value your feedback.

Best regards,

Account Specialist
Amazon.com"
I can't find any reference to the word "deckware" other than this competition. I'm assuming it refers to creating an app that actually works, and not just something you can click through for the demo.
Goes to show that the Internet is still not ready to completely leave flash.

All the more reason why Apple needs to get over themselves and support flash.

Push HTML5 because yes it is better but support flash until it is no longer used.
Yeh that would be quite cool - but also a nightmare to get working because of the overhead of searching friends of friends via the friends web apps.

Searches could end up taking a looong time - or just timing out.

There could be ways (especially if people optionally added more info to the search profile) to narrow it down. Direct email searches for example would be easiest.
For the first time, Android outsold the iPhone in the US.
Yes it does play flash and no its users don't blame it.

That whole discussion reminded me of this xkcd: http://xkcd.com/202/
At first I thought the same thing. But I think this is a useful discussion to have on HN, since not everyone here understands probabilities or the realities of 'cloud' services.

Maybe by having this the top rated story for a bit it will make someone think twice about their virtual infrastructure and examine their assumptions for errors. Do it for the data ;)
Your school's annual operating budget is $4.5 million dollars. (Of which ~$1.2 million is subsidized by your synagogue and other fundraising.)

That lets them afford a staff to do things like, e.g., keep immunization records and shuffle them around when students transfer. If they didn't, they would be shut down. One issue down, seventy two to go.

I am not seeing how this makes my contentions false.
Perhaps, but Gnutella did it this way and seemed to work well enough.
Yeah, that's totally suitable to the 400 million odd users on Facebook who don't even have a clue what a "host" is (other than someone who invites their friends to dinner).
Have we not been getting ready for C# 4 for some time? It's been in CTP and Beta variants for most of the last year. Some good new features exist of course.
Too bad those two light sources weren't very well placed.