skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mobiles yes, but Tesla clearly seems to think (at least according to this article) that there will be no 'intermediaries', that the transmissions are 'station-to-station' (or peer-to-peer as we'd say nowadays) instead of the way the cell phone network actually works, with calls using fixed base stations plugged in to the trunk lines.

Station-to-station would indeed require transmission without loss, and power loss for a transmitter is roughly equivalent to the cube of the distance for an omni-directional antenna.

That doesn't diminish the power of this vision, but even Tesla had to abide by the laws of physics.

One 'Nathan B. Stubblefield' apparently holds a 1908 patent on a wireless telephone: http://www.google.com/patents?q=887357
iirc, Eckhart Tolle breaks time into clock time and psychological time. Perhaps, he does this to make it easy for audiences. But basically he does not debunk time. Psychological time is a mind created state which allows for the existence of a personal story.

When one stays in the present moment, one breaks out of psy time, but clock time still exists. I hope i have not misquoted him.
Of course they can limit the grounds for Jail Breaking, if they allow side loading of applications without the app store.
Sure you can be loyal to a corporation. Just like you can be loyal to your government or customers can be loyal to you. The real problem is when you're asked to put loyalty to the company above all else.
When older people complain about supposedly whiny, entitled, self-centered and disloyal young people, exactly one work comes to mind: Projection.

We came of age while society fell apart. We're in our 20s and won't be able to own a house or have children until our mid-30s, due to the still-absurd housing costs, absent job security, and lack of a decent health care system.

The Boomers were born into an affluent, forward-looking society in which it was embarrassingly easy to advance. You could be a pot-smoking hippie dropout at Woodstock in '69 and a CEO by '75, whereas we have to start racking up internships (unpaid, in most industries) in high school. They inherited a society that would go forward and achieve great things so long as no one came along and fucked it up (as the Reaganites did). We inherited a giant, potentially intractable, mess.
Yes - if my employer is loyal to me, I feel more inclined to be loyal to them. If they make it clear that they'll fire anyone, anytime, as soon as profits drop, then I'm happy moving on whenever I please.
Ask HN: Take a look at my weekend project: Newsalyzer?
You require more minerals.
No. We're sure. We can observe that the universe was hotter and denser in the past because light takes time to get here, so when you look far enough into space you see older things. Also, there are tons of incidental facts about the doppler shift that can only be explained by Hubble Expansion. The best one that comes to mind is the "Finger of God" effect where galaxies are stretched out in doppler phase with an axis pointed toward the observer. This isn't caused by Hubble Expansion directly, but by the peculiar velocity (velocity within spacetime rather than metric expansion) caused by gravitation bonding acting against the Hubble Expansion. That is, when Hubble Expansion tries to pull a galaxy apart, the gravity of the stars keeps it together, and there are effects from that which we can calculate very precisely, and we see exactly what we would expect to.

The existence and relative long-term stability of Hubble Expansion is, frankly, one of the most certain things anyone knows about physics. If you can replace it with something else, it has to be something that reduces to the exact phenomenon of Hubble Expansion under the normal conditions our Universe is currently in.
Infoblox Acquires Netcordia
Not to mention a global wireless Internet.
It is site for organizing news in a simple, straightforward way. Anyway, that was the goal, I hope I was successful :)
Just out of curiosity, what exactly do you do? Do you do consulting?
Willow Garage Selects Eleven Recipients of PR2 Beta Robots
XKCD is powered by Happstack - http://dynamic.xkcd.com/comic/random

Back when I submitted http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1186025, you could insert any path any level deep inside dynamic.xkcd.com and it'd take you to a random comic - looks like that's changed now :-|
How I will vote…
This should be taken with a grain of salt. Yes, change jobs enough to get lots of experience and pay raises. Don't get stagnant somewhere.

But imagine you never stay more than 6 months! Potential employers may think "is it worth our time to train this person before he/she leaves? And is he/she too fickle to accomplish anything?"
No experience, but there was a recent Ask HN about the same. This response says something about GoDaddy's certificates vs more expensive ones:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1308619

Not sure if that helps you any.
Wow. Yes, it seems like an awful lot of psychologists are in the field because they're trying to understand their own problems. This, ladies and gentlemen, is why you should never date a psychology student.
Strange.
When I install _any_ software on my Symbian powered Nokia phone neither Nokia nor my carrier void the warranty.

I can get a Maemo (or MeGo) phone and there's a documented process to grant myself root privileges.

I get a warning that I may seriously bork the phone, but that doesn't void the warranty on the hardware.
So is the internet a new age "pit of despair"? Is there enough social interaction for children these days or do they replace it with WOW and other "almost" social situations?
Fond memories of editing Scribe the night before some deadline, the load on TOPS-C getting higher, and suddenly the message %DECSYSTEM-20 NOT RUNNING. One moment of quiet in the terminal room, then everyone cursing and wailing.

Good times.
The modern cartographer (GIS expert?) is interested more in data than in style, I daresay.
He spent 4 books laying out the basis for his opinions, along with citations, medical research, and the like.
That article is just a summary of a long body of work by Pollan.
Without Gizmodo, The 4G Would Still Be "Stolen"
Design is a side effect
I'm not sure that those two situations are in any way comparable.
I have a lot of experience in this field. Lots of financial websites offer data exports in a variety of formats (html, csv, tab, excel binary, ofx (the format), qfx, xml, etc). Most times those exports are only available through the web interface of the financial institution.

I worked on a system that gathered data from over 3000 FIs, and I can't remember any of them having an API for data retrieval. (I don't include OFX).

OFX is a whole other beast, it's the protocol the Quicken software uses to communicate with the banks. Often times the data coming out from OFX is drastically different or outdated. Generally the OFX server addresses aren't published publicly(strike this, it appears some people have made lists easy to locate via google, though appears they are out of date...) and if they are published at all they are in the documentation only accessible if you are logged in. One trick is to download a Quicken trial version, and set up some dummy accounts, and see where it tries to login to. Once you have the address you then need the login credentials and an account identifier, which usually isn't ever the same account id you'd expect. But OFX the protocol does have an account discovery feature which is helpful.

My best guess is the import features are just importing the csv, tab, excel, etc exports that many banks offer from their web interface.
If your old enough, you remember software that could damage the monitor on the IBM PC.
If the mind were not there --- thoughts and memories -- we would not remember a previous moment, we would be in the now. So there would be no time perceived by us.

We would of course then not invent instruments that keep track of time. Is it possible that our clocks don't keep track of time, but of our notion of time. Just wondering??
I agree, PCI is a really cool book. All you need is some basic Python knowledge and it takes you through so many actual data mining examples. I used some of that code to analyze data using Amazon Elastic MapReduce, and got results that I thought would have taken an actual CS degree to get.
Why I went without hot water for a year
This sort of thing goes back at least to Themistocles before Salamis.
There might be exceptions. For example: the government. Unfortunately to get those jobs, candidates must have experience in SAP HR, PeopleSoft, Oracle Financials. Probably a good plan nearing retirement (i.e. when you're 45-47 years old).
I wish I could use ipv6 but my ISP doesn't really have the same feelings.
I assume it shows the comment count if they're in memory, but if they aren't in memory it won't load them just to count them. Comment counts probably aren't worth denormalizing for.
Love your job but do not fall in love to your company.

On the other hand, where I live, one must switch job to get a better/increase pay. Yes, sad.
It's your kid, but I'd temper the advice with this:

1)There's no such thing as the perfect mate. Looking for perfection will make you dissatisfied with everyone you date.
2) A lot of what makes a relationship work or fail is how you treat each other, not who you're with.
3) "Playing the field" too much desensitizes you. Your memories with your mate are mingled and confused with memories of lots of others. You keep doing mental comparisons. You have fewer unique experiences together. It just seems less special. So look around, sure - but don't make a sport of it. Lasting love is way more satisfying than a lifetime of flings.

(Employment, of course, is totally different.)
Exercise doesn't just burn calories during the period of time in which you are performing the exercise though. '200 calories' after 30 minutes of running doesn't mean that the run burned 200 calories. It means you burned 200 calories in that 30 minutes - over time, the running also builds leg muscles and encourages other physiological changes in your body that boost your base metabolic rate, allowing you to burn more calories even while sleeping.

To build that muscle, you have to feed it, so consuming more to burn more isn't necessarily out in left field as far as nutritional science goes.
Same here. And I was expecting some levity (I thought it might be a Princess Bride reference).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z05StkAKKF0
It's like the App Store. Things get disapproved occasionally for unknown reasons. Like the App Store, most posts make it through, but some submissions are rejected while other similar submissions do not.
Seems nice, but I would try just to see it working and then give up. You have bills and it's a free service... Not having any kind of paid plan or income strategy makes you look suspicious.
Main Point: Diving a little deeper into the law, you can see that in California, a legal defense against receiving stolen property is claiming innocent intent. Simply put, you can’t be convicted of a California Penal Code 496 charge if you intended to return the property to its owner or the police when you bought or received the stolen property.

Think about it another way, the only chance that Apple had for getting the phone back (if the person who found it didn’t give it back), was for Gizmodo to buy it before another, less well intentioned buyer emerged (think chinese knockoff factory).
I organize Hackers and Founders Indianapolis. Our most recent meetup had 40 people.

Like @iamelgringo said, I don't post our meetups to Hacker News because the post falls off the page immediately. I know there is a community of Hacker News people in Indiana who aren't connected but would be if there was a way on Hacker News to see when others are gathering for a meetup in their area. i.e. an events listing.

Other than that, meetup.com really serves all of our other meetup organizing needs.
It is certainly possible to communicate between Java applets and JavaScript, and in a widely portable way. One of my current projects does it all the time, for much the reason you suggest: it means I can have the model in a well-structured Java system, but branch out to JavaScript for the parts of the UI where it is helpful.

To call from JavaScript to Java, you can just use the public members of the applet object.

To call from Java to JavaScript, you can use JSObject.

Aside from working around a few minor gremlins in particular browsers, most of the basic things you'd want in this context "just work". In practice, when I'm transferring big chunks of highly structured data from the Java model to views using JavaScript, I use an intermediate layer in the applet that looks up all the relevant data Java-side and builds a JSON representation that is trivial to work with in JS, which avoids any trickiness with things like marshalling arrays and means rendering specialist types in Java world into suitable strings or objects in JS is all done in one place according to consistent rules. This all runs fine on IE, Firefox, Chrome, etc.

The biggest practical problem I've found is that because relatively few people are doing this for major projects, there is also relatively little documentation around on the web (including the official Java pages and the developer pages for the various browsers). That means if you do run into one of the awkward cases, it's not always a five-second search to find the answer. Still, so far I've been doing this for over a year, using the same techniques in a couple of different contexts, and most of the problems with "incompatibility" have quickly been resolved by updating to the latest versions of things.
Thanks for the link; I did a search before posting, and the only other thread I found was more than 400+ days old.

I don't understand the chaining issue described, but I can research that a bit more.

It makes sense there's some sort of catch with GoDaddy, since their certs are orders of magnitude cheaper than the others (everyone else is $150+ per year).
This reminds me of a bit of painful personal history.

When moving back from Canada to the Netherlands we took our dogs that we had acquired while in Canada back with us. Sarah, a three year old Irish wolfhound and Lisa, a 2 year old labrador / husky mix.

They went by plane, in crates specifically designed for the purpose.

On arrival the wolfhound had completely lost it, didn't recognize any of us and was totally out of it for at least two weeks, after which she slowly recovered. That was just 8 hours in a crate, not even close to the 'pit of despair' shown in the article, and anybody that willfully places an animal in such conditions just to see what damage will occur ought to be shot.

If I had had any idea something like that could have happened I would have gladly taken a boat with her, no matter how much longer that would have taken. It was incredibly sad to see her in that state, eventually she completely recovered though.

The other dog didn't show anything strange at all and took the whole thing in stride.
You also can't in the US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, etc. There might be some country where speech on the internet is completely unrestricted, but its population is likely too small to matter except to bittorrent operators.
It's very interesting to see where all 'content industries' will end up going over the next few years.

I put out a side project a week or two ago that makes it really easy for artists to release their stuff under the Radiohead 'pay what you want' model. I don't have enough data to provide any interesting statistics yet, though. I'm hoping to encourage the kind of thinking that sivers talked about a while ago.

> the ultimate measure of success should always be whether someone is willing to pay money for something; not because you want to get rich, but because a payment is one of the purest forms of endorsement.

This is a pretty interesting statement. I've never heard this put this way before, but it reminds me of things that I've been asked by angels and VCs: "Have any revenue yet?" Convincing somebody that you're worth paying money to is a pretty strong endorsement from that person.
A fully-polished business plan may be a waste of time, but it is definitely useful to put together financial projections for a couple years in the future. Especially for a social networking website. If his only revenue stream is advertising, he'll quickly learn how many pagviews and users he'll need in order to make money. If he does research into it and finds out what the average CPM, PV/visitor, etc. are, then he'll learn a lot and maybe change strategies. A few days worth of research and planning are worthwhile if it can prevent wasted development time.
Y Combinator’s Clustrix rolls out databases that scale
They do. They add 120 to each player's ELO when queuing as a premade. The actual advantage you get from playing together ranges from much more than that (with a full team of players who coordinate well) to much less (a 2 man and a 3 man combined who don't coordinate well). We win almost every 5 man we play because we coordinate well, and none of us are that great individually so when we solo play our ELO drops.

Also, as I told Tom "Zileas" Cadwell, you can easily have a matchmaking algorithm that ensures you win 50% of the time but is not fun. If 50% of the time you're playing against hopeless newbs, and 50% of the time you're playing against the top guys, you'll win half but have fun on 0. LoL is not far from this.

LoL's matchmaking has 3 main problems that I can tell.

1. Radically different advantages to premades. Some premades get much more benefit than others. Starcraft 2 takes this into account by giving each unique premade its own rating. So if I play a 2v2 with my friend John, he and I will get a unique rating that doesn't affect matchups when I play 2v2s with my friend Chad. I'm not sure if this is an option for LoL given that it's often 5v5 (might work better on Treeline, which is 3v3) and a team is often comprised of one small premade and a few randoms, or 2 smaller premades.

2. Traction. They don't have enough people in the queue at any given point to create good matchups in a reasonable timeframe.

3. Elo. Elo ratings were meant for deterministic heads up matches. In chess, Elo works because the player who won simply played better.

LoL tries to compensate by determining why your team won or lost (and what part of that was your skill or lack thereof) when handing out the points. This is VERY hard to do well.
Not at all. I switched, and love it. Console windows love the suggestion, and Eclipse is running with it. I'm still debating on the size, but it was a great suggestion. I'm glad you replied, as I can now give you another upvote. =)
It doesn't make me glad. I think we could achieve much more significant progress in science if we weren't held back by ethical demagoguery.
Yes, another nice example of bad hardware design.

The reason that happened was because they didn't have a 'safe range' on the frequency that drove the CRT, driving it too slow would burn up one of the coils in the high voltage circuitry that drives the coils to do the deflection.

Never monitors have been designed to shut down when presented with an out-of-range synch signal, and digital ones will display a message to that effect.
> anybody that willfully places an animal in such conditions just to see what damage will occur ought to be shot

Are you talking about sadism or scientific curiosity? I detest the former but I'm comfortable with the latter.
Just listen to this: http://twit.tv/floss18

TL;DL: It's Post-Grez-Que-Ell
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Behind the Shady World of Marketing Junk Food to Children
If hardware is properly designed, then software should not be able to break it.

It would be exceptionally difficult to write software that manages to physically damage a hard drive.

The only thing I could think of would be constantly writing to the SSD, using up the write cycles, but that's a long shot too.
It is free. I just thought it would be a fun experiment while learning the android SDK. It ended up being more difficult than I thought it would due to how the camera preview works. There doesn't seem to be any way of getting the camera preview without displaying it on a SurfaceView. The only way I could figure out how to get it to work was to put a View on top of it to draw the edge image on. I also tried making the View I draw on top a SurfaceView which allows for more control of when you update the view but you can only have one and for some reason that I don't understand I only ever saw the camera preview when trying this.
The algorithm itself is just the most basic edge detection algorithm I could find: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_detection#Other_first-orde...
I'm not entirely sure if that is what you were asking. It just requires the android NDK and SDK to build it. The source is at http://github.com/bwr/edgefinder
Voting you up because I see your point, but the problem is that without ethics committees you get cases like these slipping through.

When the public hears about these cases it serves as a rallying cry for the animal rights movement and makes it harder for everyone doing animal research, even those who aren't torturing monkeys because they're emotionally disturbed.
Have you read about his maternal bonding experiments in the 60s? He was clearly messed up before he switched to looking at isolation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harlow#Surrogate_mother_e...
I notice others are talking about hardware; and, yes, you have a point.

But by damage I meant all sorts of things - corrupted backups, viruses, inability to restore the phone. Etc.
I'm pretty sure it's just using a slightly modified Elo rating, and the updating the ladders on a weekly cron. The reason I say this is that when I first signed up, it assigned me to Silver league. I lost a bunch (it was before the beta was opened more widely and everyone there was good) at first. Then I got considerably better and won something like 17/20 games, but got bumped down to Bronze.

I can't think of any reason why I could get bumped down after a considerable winning streak other than a cron, especially since it always told me my opponent was a favorite over me and was presumably a higher Elo. It had to have been accounting for the 20 or so games I lost before I figured out what I was doing, otherwise I would have been bumped down far sooner.

(Bronze was a cakewalk, I won most games in a few minutes.)

Then they did a reset and now I'm in Silver and winning more than not. I might actually make Gold whenever the cron runs next.
I somewhat agree with your statement while I can't explain what's going on in this world we live today.

There are many CEO out there that read or listen advises on how to make sure their company "lean, mean, and profitable" by laying off people or pushing them to work for more hours and pay less under whatever reason.

I'm not asking the leader of companies to pay younger generations more money, at least treat us decent, provide us with trainings (how many companies do give new grad/hire trainings these days?).

While I don't mind with below average pay (just not too much), I would hope a bit of compensation in the form of trainings, advancements, bonuses (bigger than 3-5%), etc.
Wow, I was just asking a question not making a point. I think that it is fair to do that.
you're not locked in to using Happstack's state management system, MACID, for everything.
Immediately quotations from Spiderman ("With great power comes great responsiblity") and Jurassic Park ("Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.") come to mind.

Human progress without ethics and compassion is no progress at all.
Understanding Cloud Datacenter Economies of Scale
I'm themaroon there.
How do they sleep at night? :(
I find I learn the most just watching replays on YouTube.
An Anti Essay
Do not imagine that writing an anti essay is an easy thing to do. Your knowledge of the issue needs to be balanced and complete if you have to present an informed picture in your essay.