skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you can only check-in using the wi-fi connection and not the GPS location to avoid "cheating" ..

How would one check-in if the store you're at (The Gap, Burger King) doesn't offer free wi-fi for customers? Will the stores now equip themselves with wireless access points just so that the users can check in?
When you say "public employee" are you referring just to law enforcement officers and other officials with authority or do you actually mean all of them?

I can't see a need to permit the recording or some guy who sells tickets for a municipal railway, or sweeps the streets and is paid by the local authority (although I don't particularly see the need to ban it, either).
It sounds to me like these developers didn't read the app store guidelines.

The app was accepted, and for sale in the store, and only then did it get pulled - so says the article. Not even the unnamed app store reviewers spotted that this app went against the guidlines.
Being a Starter in a Recession
Finger on nose: how to make fast decisions
Also, to shamelessly plug my own work: http://flarevideo.com - Open Source HTML5 Video player (with Flash fallback).
That's probably true, and in fact underscores the point even further, smaller == better.
How long does "being in the zone" last?
Just curious... often times, when doing some work, you hit your stride and get "in the zone".
How often does this occur and how long does this period normally last for you guys?
Does it take some distraction - like someone calling, a sudden IM pop-up, etc. - to break it or does it just recede on its own?
I've built a website to do that! It's called Curious Reef http://curiousreef.com/ and I launched it a few months ago. People have been steadily learning a variety of subjects together since then.

The most active class so far is MIT's OCW 6.00, Intro to Computer Science: http://curiousreef.com/class/mit-opencourseware-600-introduc...

There are others learning Vim, SICP, bash, etc. I'm also experimenting with a guitar class.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the site. My goals when designing the site were exactly as you have described above.
there are a number of things going on. The best place to get connected is the monthly Dallas Startup Happy Hour. Currently being hosted at CoHabitat, a co-working space home to a bunch of startups. Next one is this coming monday.

http://launchdfw.com/news/dallas-startup-happy-hour-monday-j...
I almost love HN.

(will remove `almost` if they remove table layout)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_v._Thomas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_v._Tenenbaum
You want to keep your startup a secret but you have a newsletter sign up? Are you stealth or not?
The opinion piece you're looking for would be suited for, perhaps, 'Autistics Monthy'.

People who read WSJ don't expect to have to tweet about the latest LOLCat (or haskell framework or whatever) to get your attention.

I can see it now: "This months Quarterly Earnings report is rather like this LOLCat, holding onto the metaphorical cheezburger for dear life"
4GB is a safe bet for best quality stream, but it depends on the encode. For iPad its scaled down. Assuming top encode rate is 1Mbps. 1Mbps * 7200 seconds = 7200 Mbit / 8 = 900 Mbytes
Someone has already posted a cheat sheet:

http://allaroundgeek.blogspot.com/2010/06/toughest-developer...
Oh? I think they wanted to get rich, but not to sell out:

In fact, I'd say that almost 5 minutes after the meeting Steve and I knew in our hearts that it wasn't time — that we didn't want to join Apple (yet). We maybe went through the motions of "deciding" on the flight back home, but I think we knew the truth. And the truth went something like this:

"This is our only chance to do Panic. We don't have kids, we're not married, we don't have huge obligations. We didn't invest our life savings into it, just a few hundred dollars. We don't even have life savings. We probably won't get this opportunity again in our lifetime — the full chance to take a complete risk, to experiment, quit our day jobs, start a business that certainly may fail, put our hearts into the soul of it, and try to make it fly — making the best possible Macintosh software we can without the threat of mortgages or the cost of braces or kids wondering why we're never home. And while there may be a time in our life where we crave some stability, or there may be a time in our life when things don't work out with Panic and we return to be a player in a larger, awesome team like Apple, that time is certainly not now. Panic's time is."
8 kilobytes / second in hours until 2 gigabytes = 73 (http://tinyurl.com/3yrdjq)

Basically you get 3 days of streaming music per month. Wow, that's pretty low.
But I thought the surveillance rule was "If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear"?

That is what I find most hilarious about this. We are supposed to submit to warrantless wiretapping, and routine public recording because it "makes us safer". Yet Police aren't required to do the same.
Not necessarily. It's well-known in the entrepreneurial community that most lawyers don't understand startups and will take an inappropriately heavy and expensive approach to these questions. Also, few embryonic startups can afford much in the way of legal fees. Hint: a good startup lawyer will typically agree to defer fees based on the level of funding the company's level of funding, i.e. you pay a certain amount at $100K, more at $250K, etc.

If I were the OP I would do as he/she has done and ask questions of other entrepreneurs first. For the record, I agree with aditya that vesting is the main technical answer here. Maybe you'll get lucky and grellas will chime in!
Comparing this to the "unlimited but not" are two different things, because at one point at&t specifically said the iPad got REAL uncapped data, not the fake 5 Gig unlimited that smart phones get. But the fact that that goes away for new customers and the like is rather lame.
Ask HN: Crazy idea #12539: smart rss to email gateway
Has the following been done to your knowledge and if not what do you think of the idea?

RSS is one more 'inbox' you have to monitor. Some people on HN are working on improving RSS by applying bayesian filtering to RSS feeds to pick out the items that you are most likely interested in.

I'm a little bit old-fashioned in a sense that my email inbox doubles as my to-do list. The reason for that is simple, email is something I'm going to have to deal with anyway, so I send myself one-liner emails with a [todo] header in the subject so I can easily sort them.

RSS would add another input queue to monitor, and that's why I have so far stayed away from 'readers', instead I just have a very limited set of sites that I visit.

But even then you have to filter out the items that you are interested in.

How about tying in the idea of very smart RSS filtering so that that the stream gets reduced to manageable proportions (with caps on the number of messages per day and so on), and gateway that in to a periodic digest to your inbox?

That way you only have to monitor one stream for events.

Crazy ? Or useful ?
Apple hypocrisy at it's finest!

So it's okay to make VNC, Citrix and other kinds of apps that can connect you to remote Windows and Linux desktops, but any app that looks too different from or too similar to Apple's Springboard faces automatic bannination? At this rate, Apple is going to need to start employing teams of Theologians and Talmudic scholars to interpret and administer the Kafkaesque Laws of the App Store. Never mind the fact that Apple, nor any software company should ever be in the position of censoring the content of any software that runs on their machines.

What did Steve say on the D8 video yesterday—"companies don't have to be rude to other companies" That's the Apple we want, not the Sith Inquisition.

Big corporations bend the rules all the time to help other big corporations—everyone knows and accepts this. But when big corporations make the rules secret, and then use them to help each other while hurting the little guy, well, that's just as rude and arrogant as it gets from a company!
Why the hell would you want to waste an iPad on using it as a picture frame?

Why the hell would you want to use an iPhone to make farts? But the app store is full of them.

I, as an iPhone developer (reconsidering the thing every time I read news like this one) don't see all that quality in the app store. Sure, there are a lot of high quality apps, but there is a lot of garbage that just piles up hiding worthy applications.
Nuclear Fusion Startup (old article)
If the question is, Can they meet the challenge?, I'd bet there's enough in the history of imprisonment to answer it. Some go nuts, some write great literature. I think they're trying to stack the odds in favor of the latter. An interesting literary experiment, and the first collaborative novel, they say, using Google Docs (woohoo! hopefully not also the first to use Google Translate).
Meet The 24-Year-Old Who Just Sold A $70 Million Company To Google
I used to do this for very long stretches, longest I remember is while building a 'softmodem' but I paid for that by nearly falling down two flights of stairs.

The last couple of years the longest I've been able to manage was probably a couple of hours, 3 or 4 at best.

The thing that will get me out of my concentration almost invariably is some kind of sound. When I really sit down to hack I exit (not minimize) all software that might distract me, and I like to work like that at night, which doesn't help because it screws up my day/night rhythm and then it can take me a long time to get back to 'normal'.
I use Facebook Connect as the only way to register in my new venture site. I realize it is far less than ideal, however, we're just starting out and FB connect provides a really good way of getting genuine people and traffic. It cuts out spam by the ton and there is lesser resistance to 'sign up'.

I agree though. Building on top of platforms is one way of being bitten in the derriere at some point.
Poorly designed was a harsh choice of words. A better way of putting it would be "not yet optimized for single program execution processor counts > 6 or so." The allocation wall (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1639949.1640116) is something a lot of folks are seeing in practice across a variety of virtual machine-based languages (including Java) when scaling to about 8 cores.
" Yes, it’s possible that SJSU, Google, and Joby Energy are all being hoaxed here. What do you think?"

Could be, especially considering the video linked on this page to the treadmill demonstration. I'd like to see this "blackbird" actually "spread its wings" on more than a short sprint, after a thorough inspection. I suspect its average speed would end up below that of the wind.
> Each week, a renowned Russian Science Fiction writer like Sergey Lukyanenko [...]

Wow. That's the guy who wrote Night Watch, one of the best sci-fi/fantasy movies I've watched in the last 10 years:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0403358/
I think the question mark serves to denote surprise/disappointment that this is a fact.
> This is something that could have been equally effective as a brief email to pg. As the current top-ranked post here, it's kind of ... masturbatory.

Disagree - I think this thread will be far more well-read than the site guidelines by new members and will show them why we love this place and why we want to preserve it.

Nobody wants a post like on the frong page every week, but once per six months or a year is probably good for the community.
RIAA messed up its litigation strategy by pushing its cases to the extreme and drawing headlines such as "$4.2 million verdict for downloading 28 songs" and the like. That strategy was clearly a bullying strategy but it was a stupid bullying strategy. It was stupid because it caused the public to recoil at the thought that a poor student (or some such person) would be ruthlessly crushed at the hands of a bunch of greedy record labels for having done something that didn't seem to deserve anywhere near such punishment. Eventually, the courts themselves came to the same position and dramatically reduced the damages awarded in such cases. RIAA had to abandon this strategy once it became clear that it would not really deter such downloading that much and, if it did, it would not be worth the price of the public relations disaster it was causing.

One thing to note about the RIAA strategy, however, is that, whatever the caliber of the legal talent on the defense side, RIAA still managed to win most of the cases on their merits. In other words, however much a defendant resisted, liability tended to be imposed at some level. Thus, it was primarily the excessive damage claims that got RIAA into trouble, not the legal merits of its claims as such.

Given that background, in this current spate of cases, you still have nothing more than institutional bullying, just as with RIAA but it is a low-level type of bullying of the "pay us $1,500 and we will forget this ever happened" variety and not of the "we will crush you and take your last penny" variety. This means that anyone who wants to fight this - even with good defense help from quality lawyers - will be at risk of incurring costs and liabilities that will easily exceed the walk-away payout that would simply allow them to put a bad episode behind them. And, if even a quality defense will not likely spare you from liability of some sort in the average case, it just isn't worth fighting for the average person. Thus, by not overreaching, the plaintiffs in these suits have actually strengthened their position. In effect, they are playing the numbers - by intimidating thousands of individuals into paying small amounts, they are ultimately gaining a significant payout in the aggregate.

Of course, this would not necessarily hold in more doubtful cases where a real defense might exist. But for the average user who simply did an improper download, there is no percentage in fighting it.

It might be that EFF has a good answer and their hearts are in the right place - but, unless there is radical change made to existing copyright laws, basically there is no good institutional response to this pattern of low-level bullying. Yes, an individual case might be successfully fought but, even if that case is won, it will only be for some failure of proof to show liability in that case alone. This does nothing to change the template for the mass of cases. And, if the plaintiffs in such cases can't be shamed into dropping them (as RIAA was), I don't see that they will.

Sorry to sound a down note but I think this is a realistic assessment. I would love to be wrong on this.
The propeller isn't producing thrust, it is acting as a sail in the wind and transferring that power to the drive shaft
That surely depends on how you define winning.

Apple actually makes money with their mobile products. Not sure do or will do.
BP and long shot bias
Ask HN: dissertation project, simple Analytics reports. Feedback?
Hey everyone,

we are Chris & Tim (timme) and are currently studying E-Business and Innovation at Lancaster University in England.

We have both been building smaller and medium-sized websites and clients oftentimes ask us about their websites' statistics. All these websites have Google Analytics installed, but people hardly ever log in. For many people, especially for smaller clients, the format and complexity of Analytics is intimidating.

As part of our M.Sc. dissertation we are working on an application that addresses this problem. We put an additional layer on top of Analytics by providing a "human-readable" version of the data. Every week, users get a PDF report to inform them about their website, based on the data from their Analytics profile.

Currently it's only a sign up page, but we already have a working version that is being refined. With a bit of luck, a beta version will be available within a few weeks.

It would be really great if you can take a minute to have a look and let us know what you think:
http://getmetricmail.com/

Thanks a lot,
Chris & Tim
Charles Bukowski, Family Guy
I've already decided I'm waiting for the Android hardware/software platform to stabilize before buying a smartphone, due to Apple's policies, but I was really looking forward to buying an iPad this summer. Yes, the policies are the same, but it's got no reasonable alternative and it looks so sexy and useful.

However, reading this article outraged me so much I changed my mind. As a developer I don't want other developers to have to put up with Apple's 1984 policies, so I'll wait for an Android based device on the tablet front too.
Two JS solutions to run SQL-like statements on Arrays and Objects
Email? Hint: Google the image name.
The first to offer public stock was its Dutch counterpart, the VOC, which in turn engendered the first stock exchange on 'Damrak' in Amsterdam in the same year (1602).
Two weeks later I'm loving the HTC EVO
I think those people are actually not that significant when compared to some other main contributing parties such as university professors, grad students, independent consultants, and those employed by companies explicitly supporting free software.

You are also probably relatively happy with the tools you already have available to you, which is fine.
http://developer.apple.com/programs/iphone/enterprise/

Basically this allows side loading of business apps to approved business of a large (500+) size. I'm not sure if the apps need to be approved by apple still, but I'm guessing they would.
But divs I always saw as a step backwards in one aspect: programmer ease of use.

It's always a lot easier at first to overlook structure in your app/code/whatever. It's when you or others come to work with your code or extend it in some way (with Greasemonkey, say) that all the extra work comes along.

If you have to "spend time thinking about" writing tests, it takes longer to build the prototype of your software but.. that's not a particularly good rationale for not using tests (though it is still a rationale, of course). Same goes for semantic markup in my book.
Bless This Mess: Wading Through the Shit with the Disaster Masters
Very nice, love it! I got to say, just as good as flash in quality and much less weight
Would be nice if the <esc> button was bound to leave-full-screen.
It would not surprise me if the states with these surveillance laws equip their police cars with on board cameras that record traffic stops and other incidents. Can we order them turned off too?
Raymond Chen: "Everybody knows that Apple does everything right."
Take a look at pyglet: http://pyglet.org
I give credit to the writer as an entrepreneur, but one thing he missed for sure is: platforms were made for an adaptable market. Maybe it was just the nature of their operation that didn't fit into the equation
What does your opinion of this app have to do with the app store approval process?

How does rejecting this app help Apple ensure overall quality?
So the Rodney King tape would be illegal. In fact most police abuse tapes I can recall would be illegal, since people don't like to get very close to packs of violent officers.
So far as easy to deploy webstack platforms go, Joyent's SmartPlatform seems to be open: http://www.joyent.com/technology/smartplatform/
Code on github to run your own instance: http://github.com/joyent/smart-platform/
I actually think the best way to display these types of comments is with nested UL/LI's. It makes it really easy to call a recursive function to write out the comments then adjust the indentation with CSS. For my mobile HN site, I do just that. From there, it was trivial to add in the ability to collapse and expand comments. For example, view this page through my reader (It's meant for mobile phones):

http://toadjaw.com/hn/comments/1398250
this is gold: "the simplicity and minimalism of Hacker News' feature set that keeps it usable for everyday, busy, -- real people --"

Agreed.
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In this case you could surpass it momentarily but the average speed of the vehicle would still never go faster than the wind speed, like one of the posters mentioned above.
I almost wanted to upvote this, but I might have regretted it, so I didn't.
AT&T is still trying to pretend it isn't just a dumb pipe for your data. I expect this to change eventually, but it might take a while since barriers to entry in to the mobile ISP market are pretty high.
I seem to remember some pundit stating they believed the reason AT&T agreed to the initial pricing in the first place was that they didn't think many people would be using 3G on the ipad, preferring wifi instead.

Can anyone find that quote or story? I'm drawing a blank, but it seemed to be one of the stupidest things I'd read in a while at that point.

My guess is that people have been using so much 3G data that AT&T realizes they'll be in a horrible situation as the iPad adoption grows - could be 4-5 million 3G devices with long battery life basically in an 'always on' state, using up far more bandwidth than anyone predicted.

That said, I just can not figure out why people can't seem to predict this. Most active users (the early adopters) can easily use 5-10 gig on a ipad as part of their 'always on' lifestyle. This isn't rocket science.
The Gulf Oil Leak May Last Until Christmas
I find this all very disturbing. One of the principles of democracy is transparency and government accountability. Clearly at this time the citizens of Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland and wherever else this happens deserve the government they make for themselves. I would like to see a broad ranging Supreme Court ruling allowing everyone the right to film in public. If not by the court, then some action by Congress.
It will be interesting to watch the outcomes of the appeals.

The dangerous underlying issue is applying statutes to situations that they were not written to cover. If the government wants to make it illegal to videotape police officers, the law should say "it is a class 1 felony to videotape police officers". If the intentions of what a law prohibits is not made clear, how can people be expected to comply? When the law can be shaped to cover whatever a prosecutor dislikes about a particular person, then law becomes a tool of oppression, not a way to ensure an orderly society. How can I not violate the law if I don't know what the law is!?

The second dangerous underlying issue is that it is not clearly illegal to pass such a law.

People tend to misuse the expression "police state", but if these convictions stick, that is exactly what this is. When you are legally unable to prepare evidence in your own defense, there might as well not be a criminal justice system at all.

I propose that we pass a law, perhaps with a clever name like the "PROTECT CHILDREN act" (you make the backronym), that makes it a Class I felony for any police officer or other government official acting in an official capacity to interfere with any video recording of events that would otherwise occur in the plain view of the recorder. (You can't go into someone's home and videotape the police, but you can videotape the police when they come to arrest you.)

This will never happen, though. Oh well, at least everyone has McDonalds and a big-screen TV...
Java 7 : Translucency and shaped windows
What Twitter Must Learn From TechCrunch in Order to Thrive
Or the doom or Reddit. Sugary one-note posts that are just visual jokes or one persons attempt to get another's attention. cough

Anyhow, I just hope posts about "do you hate this" start rising to the top of HN.
@Semiapies:

A: if the vehicle can accelerate under the power of the wind to several multiples of the windspeed, what would suddenly make it slow down? Are you suspecting stored energy is being used somehow?

B: How long of a run would convince you?
I went to my profile yesterday and the list of friends is completely broken. It's like there's no actual programmers left there.
[searches a bit, finds this]

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