skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I prefer Google's results nearly 100% of the time. Quite often, it's more trustworthy. Not only that, most people are familiar with the Google maps interface, so that's what they would prefer. How do I know that his web site is going to be littered with custom maps and great information? I don't. He could be using yahoo maps or something I don't want to use, or could have his own opinions which I don't want to hear. Google Maps is going to be unbiased, easier to use, and better integrated into my phone.

Not only that, I EXPECT Google Maps results to be at the top of the mobile search view, if only because I don't want to have to find a suitable web site for which better data might be found. What if the top web site on Google's results was bunk (this happens more often than not), and then it was SushiKartan? I'd have to look at the top result, learn it was horrible, then click the second in hopes of it being relevant (it probably is not).

Basically, while this guy actually DOES have the best information, Google doesn't necessarily know that, and neither does its users. I don't want to waste my time looking for quality results ALL the time.
Owning an iPhone? Surely you don't believe Apple is the only company using modern day slave labor? Do a little investigating into pretty much everything you own and everything that made those things possible. Our standard of living would disapear instantly if we lost this slave labor.

It certainly seems unambiguously morally wrong (despite apologists suggesting otherwise) but I can't imagine any other way our current global economy could run. Want to pay them a proper wage? Now the western middle class is poor and the poor live in boxes. Raise our salaries then? Oops, back where we started.

As bad as what we're doing is, I don't see any alternatives in the current system.
Herd immunity doesn't mean "safety in numbers". It means insulation from transmission vectors because the rest of the herd is immune from diseases that might infect you. An isolated OSX machine surrounded by Windows machines in a network is relatively isolated from virus transmission vectors.

Then again, Jeff Goldblum was able to write a virus on his Mac that he used to infect the alien mothership, so maybe they're not so secure after all...
jQuery is a great project, but it's definitely NOT how JS should be written. Its goal is to be fast, unobtrusive, and work in most browsers at the expense of comprehensibility.
New R Interface to Oracle Data Mining Available for Download
Mark Zuckerberg: An Entrepreneur’s Perspective
>Think about what you're saying, you're saying Google is going to sit there and review all of the source code, and all patches and new releases to that source code. Really? Do you actually believe this...

Maybe not Google by itself, but the sum total of everyone reviewing all the source code and sharing what they know is that it's far easier to develop a more complete security profile for Linux than it is for a proprietary system we can only study by reverse engineering.
Although your point is reasonable, it's a bit like comparing apples and oranges. If someone uses my code, they won't be making money off of it directly (if they did, I'd be highly surprised). If someone publishes and sells an article that I wrote, that is making money off of my work directly.

If you genuinely prefer a less-restrictive license, more power to you. But the argument that people should license their work under a CC license to make things easier for publishers is a bit like my boss saying "Why don't you just work for free so I don't have to go through the hassle of having to pay you?"
What It's Like Inside the Head of a Reactant Person
"Full disclosure: I write this as a fervent fanboi who has used Macs since literally the first day that the original Macintosh 128k became available in 1984."

Pretty much every negative view of an Apple product has something along the lines of this. It's like he knows the kind of reaction he'll get to his own, personal and informed opinion.
Is this official? The site is looking better than news.yc :)
Are these slides from Luis Giglio?
The outer body must be spill resistant. very important since kids tend to spill a lot, everything from food to water. Oh and the worse case, since you are looking at 2yo or upwards, who knows... your spill resistant body might also protect against accidental pee :)

If you do it right, you can have your own app store that lets parents buy apps therefore allowing you or other developers to develop apps for it (be sure to approve each of them to fit the audience). But you'll need to hide this option since you don't want a kid to even accidentally find it and wondering how to close it :)

I wouldn't start with Android beacuse you don't be able to run it faster on cheap hardware. But maybe linux kernel with ARM support and modified XFCE with touch-screen (capacitive or anything cheaper).

And maybe an accelerometer/compass will be cool since that'll help kids play games easier :) (kids 2/3yrs old don't have firmness in their hand to play games with touch screen)

checkout "Julius", for text to speech on linux.
The 2.5% actually applies to currency conversion. So as long as your PayPal account currency is the same as the currency that you charge in there should be no conversion?

While we're talking about PayPal, if you want to do small transactions there's a special micro payment account with fees of $0.05 + 5%. Works out cheaper for payments < $12. It was hidden somewhere, not sure how I stumbled across it.

http://www.paypal.com/IntegrationCenter/ic_micropayments.htm...
Definitely. My first thought was, "Oh, another diff viewer" but the binary comparison is an excellent feature.
It's just for text files, but opendiff is a pretty nice GUI diff that gets quietly installed as part of the Developer Tools package on OS X:

http://data.agaric.com/node/1101
If you can generate an epub file, please consider distributing it via fifobooks.com (my startup).

We can make it available for non-epub devices like the Kindle and Blackberry, as well as the iPad, Nook, sony Reader, Android, etc.

You can continue to give it away free, or a charge a fee for it, and we're accessible from any country.
Aren't comments included in the maganize? One would think that comments would become something like "Readers opinion"...
Publishers don't pine for a universal e-book format, they pine for a universally working DRM system which they, and only they, control as they see fit.

The problem? DRM can't work! Not in an "open" world.

http://bit.ly/9AoZeo
http://www.changethis.com/4.DRM
http://craphound.com/msftdrm.txt
Really nice, thanks for this!

Feedback: I noticed some small typos in the "SR-71" with missing dots at sentence endings. Another thing was that the contents page shows "2 Steps to Becoming a Great Developer" and "This is why I sell beer" in reversed order.

The positive is that it looks professional and was a pleasure reading! Big thumbs up! :)
from what I've read he's wrong as often as he's right

[citation needed]

I linked to articles by more than one scientifically trained medical doctor, so "he" is not the correct pronoun, unless you are referring to the more-cited author in my reply

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?page_id=223

in his role as executive editor of the Science Based Medicine site. He's not a crank, definitely, and the site has a number of pointed articles by various authors on the use of the "term" shill as an ad-hominem, invalid dismissal of scientific claims.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?s=shill
It's a beautiful application, the one thing it does that Emacs can't is the binary image diffing - a cool feature! If I were a designer I would buy that in a heart beat...
In order to speak rationally about it, you would have to give the likelihood ratio you believe they could reduce the sum of existential threats by, however low that is; then multiply that by the utility you would receive from saving human civilization. Compare this to the utility you receive from saving a puppy, multiplied by the probability of saving that puppy. Compare the two numbers.

Rationality means thinking quantitatively where applicable, not qualitatively.
((1+1)=2) No one sees the plate, he parks in the handicap spot. Maybe he has a legitimate handicap plate for the car.

I don't think someone has to be totally physically depreciated to qualify to legitimately use one of the spots. I'm not sure if I was hurting to too much to walk a long way I would want to advertise it to everyone with a special plate, and I'm not even a world famous person--yet.
You should add shipping to more countries.
I'm in Argentina and would love to get the print version.
What a belief in alien meddling says about the modern view of ancient societies
I think this is a major point that is surprisingly left out of many of the 'Mac vs X' debates. [The thought that goes in to 3rd party GUI apps, not their websites]
You've got it. Maps and study / lesson book integration would add to your list. A sharing function for notes / annotations would be good.
"We're wired to concentrate for just 90 minutes at a time"
I will send you a message on your contact form. I'm too far from the Bay area.
A different kind of calculator
Startups don’t get summer off
I predict that in a few years there will be commercial softwares to determine the date of an audio file, or if the cheating husband was indeed in the country he pretends, shortly followed by softwares to remove that information. There's a market there.
As much as looking a gift horse in the mouth is poor form, I can't resist doing it. In the download page, drilled down to the "Get Support and Extra Features" link: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2/express/support.html...

[Feature Free Paid (3k USD/yr)]
...
Data replication No Yes
Max. processor utilization	2 cores 4 cores (max 2 sockets)
Max. memory utilization 2GB 4GB
...

As a chaser, I like to read Robert Young's opinions on DBs, such as http://drcoddwasright.blogspot.com/2009/04/what-i-told-bob.h...
An old boss of mine had one of his physician friends (or brother?) help him get handicap plates for his minivan. His disability was being flat-footed.

It was a bit obnoxious as he walked his dog along the Charles for miles every day.
Big botnets and how to (try to) stop them
Adobe announces magazine digital publishing platform for Apple iPad
Happiness May Come With Age
It actually works really well. I kinda wish there was a setting in iPhone OS 4.0 to turn off multitasking. I think the behavior I am seeing confirms your thoughts.
Seems like a suitable countermeasure would be a localized source of randomized ENF (say a Zener diode in cascade overload in a low-freq oscillator), but the coupling would be sufficiently different as to highlight the deliberate attempt at ENF obfuscation.

As the U.S. has essentially 5 power grids, they would need a more detailed database too. Still, fascinating stuff.
Does anybody remember the original Kalediscope for Macs. It was awesome for a different look other than Mac OS defaults. I suppose it went away with the classic OS.
I had the same response, but then I thought "wait, I don't do any covert and sketchy surveillance, this doesn't affect me".

Can you think of any privacy concerns with this technology?
AJ Jacobs: My colossal task burden (completely stopping multitasking)
Yeah I did, my fault, sorry. Will be more careful in the future when using my german milestone/droid for commenting (or any other text related matter).

Since I can't delete/edit my original comment any more, here is what I intended to write:

"Yes, it’s difficult but by no mean impossible if you are willing to invest some time an thought.

As far as I know the best organisation focusing on the effectiveness of charities is www.givewell.net. Might be a good startingpoint, even if you are only donating small amounts (all their research is available online for free)."
Dreaming big: planning a human mission to outer solar system
Looks nice on paper. Where is the free software implementation?
Earlier discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1392601
No catch. Unless you need more then 2gb ram and more then 2 cores.
ql project in EU
Absolutely beautiful UI, icon and website… but it doesn't do merge resolution. This is practically all I use opendiff (Filemerge) for, so it's useless for me. Add it, and my €29 are yours in a heartbeat — I tend to do lots of merges, and I find this is one of the very few cases where a proper desktop app can make the job so much easier than a command-line tool like vimdiff/emacs. And let's face it, Filemerge is pretty horrid… having to quit the entire app to move onto the next conflict and watch as it spews SIMBL errors over your terminal is hardly ideal.
Payday loans no credit check: Facilitating access to financial solutions
Thanks for asking the follow-up question. I'll quote here from a review of the book I wrote for friends on an email list about education of gifted children, and sum up an answer to your question in my last paragraph:

"For many kinds of errors in cognition, as Stanovich points out with multiple citations to peer-reviewed published research, the performance of high-IQ individuals is no better at all than the performance of low-IQ individuals. The default behavior of being a cognitive miser applies to everyone, as it is strongly selected for by evolution. In some cases, an experimenter can prompt a test subject on effective strategies to minimize cognitive errors, and in some of those cases prompted high-IQ individuals perform better than control groups. Stanovich concludes with dismay in a sentence he writes in bold print: 'Intelligent people perform better only when you tell them what to do!'

"Stanovich gives you the reader the chance to put your own cognition to the test. Many famous cognitive tests that have been presented to thousands of subjects in dozens of studies are included in the book. Read along, and try those cognitive tests on yourself. Stanovich comments that if the many cognitive tasks found in cognitive research were included in the item content of IQ tests, we would change the rank-ordering of many test-takers, and some persons now called intelligent would be called average, while some other people who are now called average would be called highly intelligent.

"Stanovich then goes on to discuss the term 'mindware' coined by David Perkins and illustrates two kinds of 'mindware' problems. Some--most--people have little knowledge of correct reasoning processes, which Stanovich calls having 'mindware gaps,' and thus make many errors of reasoning. And most people have quite a lot of 'contaminated mindware,' ideas and beliefs that lead to repeated irrational behavior. High IQ does nothing to protect thinkers from contaminated mindware. Indeed, some forms of contaminated mindware appeal to high-IQ individuals by the complicated structure of the false belief system. He includes information about a survey of a high-IQ society that find widespread belief in false concepts from pseudoscience among the society members."

So Stanovich, based on the studies he cites in his book, concludes that the cognitive strategy of being a cognitive miser (using the minimal amount of information and thinking possible, even if it is too little) is such an inherent part of the human condition that external incentives and societal processes of decision-making are necessary to overcome that weakness. He has a fair amount of optimism about filling mindware gaps through educational processes that would train more thinkers in correct reasoning (as, for example, the kind of statistical training that I recall was part of your higher education). He suggests that actively counteracting contaminated mindware (which is something I have a penchant for doing here on HN) is considerably more difficult, because it is precisely high-IQ individuals who are best able to defend their irrational beliefs.
To be fair he did say you are getting the full version of DB2 not some neglected DB2-lite, so you have to expect some catch. The restrictions are basically saying DB2, free for small websites.
I'd like to start using Chrome for everything (currently I use Chrome for browsing, FF for dev) but until I can clear the cache with a single button AND be able to quickly delete the cookies for the domain I'm on at the time, I gotta keep using FF with webdev toolbar.
I don't think hyped-up textareas are the way to edit content in the future, or, for that matter, in the present. We should be using transparent editors and @contenteditable IMO. Way back, at an old company, we implemented a WYSIWIG editor on IE/ActiveX (I know, I know, this was back in the day) for our CMS product which made us one of the first on the market to offer live, in-place content editing. Now the time and the tech are ripe to bring that to all browsers. Imagine, instead of a beefed-up textarea entry, you just get your blog page and fill it out "live". Or your mom's little webstore. And so on. These guys are building one and want to open source it (push them to use Apache License/BSD :)): http://www.slideshare.net/draftkraft/aloha-editor-contentedi...

I'd love to see more work going in that direction.
Also, they have pretty good UI ideas in that, some of which we had in Habari for a while (media silos, everything-is-a-plugin).
A million miles away, but still at home when we have Net access
Random ENF would not work, since you could filter it out and look only at the 60 hz +- a few ppm signal. You need a random source that is very very close to 60 hz, but just slightly different.

But that might not be enough - the original signal is still there, and it's much stronger than your noise. The frequency is still powering your power supply, and still causing a 60 hz variation in the voltage.

You would need to isolate the power supply completely, or run it entirely through your noise adder. It would work best if you could add the noise to the DC output of the power supply.
Doesn't seem all that stupid to me. It's just a tool. Certainly, if someone happens to find out that I've got card 2e9c9735b1c972c8 and that I use every other letter from the blue row for my bank password, yes, I'm in trouble, but that's enough obscurity for me.

Better yet, I'll simply look like I'm using the card, but actually using my trust old "" for my real password!
i'm in, see you guys there.
I wish Google would take this one step further and redirect to maps when I enter a string that looks like an address.
Looks really cool, but I wouldn't go so far as to classify NodeJS as a "toy" solution. Using your definition, Sinatra is a "toy" solution, as is default PHP. None of those have "deployment processes, multi version processes, system setup, server tuning, database scaling, backup processes, security policies, monitoring, profiling, admin console etc, etc." baked in either.
Red vs. Green Buttons Redux
"[The App Store is] a platform that can change at any time cutting you off and kicking you out, with no course of action but to whine on some no-name blog. There is no alternative platform, despite what others may say about Android, it’s immature and their app store(s) are a wild west nightmare."

These aren't unrelated.
"Damn, I'm running everything off a UPS from now on, and in a faraday cage if it's not far away enough from a mains line."
Seems nice. Although, just makes me wish Beyond Compare was available on the Mac as a native app.
Not really. The vast majority of iPad articles are just "first magical experience" reviews. I haven't seen nearly as many actual reviews of how people feel after a few weeks with the thing. Anyone can dash off a quick first impressions article, and it seems like everyone has. It's nice to see an more thorough review of what having one is actually like, especially after countless articles claiming it will change your life.
In 1967, the Muppets starred in a series of in-house films for IBM.
Of course they can. But on what grounds, if you eventually ace your exams, and do nothing wrong within the university?
Ask HN: Anybody have the link to download Soluto
Due to high demand, they closed the open sign up process. Can anybody share the link or download?
This is a blatant copy of a great application from Acqualia software called Soulver:

http://www.acqualia.com/soulver/

Granted, Soulver is only available for OS X, but the author could at least give some credit to Acquilia for the idea.

Soulver is a fantastic piece of software, btw. I use it almost daily.
Diaspora has mastered selling promises.

But can they build?
Another technophile power-user (somewhere in 1% of the iPad market) finds that it isn't a machine for technophile power users.
JsConf 2010 Slides
I have exceptionally bad memory for numbers. I used to store the PINs for my credit cards on the back of business card, disguised as phone numbers. "Malcolm: (xxxx) 1234xx" was 1234 for mastercard, "Val: (xxxx) 1234xx" was 1234 for Visa, etc. I had my wallet stolen and both cards blocked due to multiple failures to enter the correct pin.

Anecdotal, small sample size, luck, etc., sure, but I'd still trust the concept. I'll be using it next password cycle and deleting my current PITA flash app on my often-forgotten mobile phone.
Why they didn't simply make a touchscreen MacPro is beyond me. The iPad is crippled.
What does "abuse" mean? Does "abuse" mean cheating your workers? Or does it simply mean paying them less money than you would accept to do a job you wouldn't want to do?

If the latter, what makes your utility function correct, and the workers utility function incorrect? I.e., what right do you have to tell them you know better than them, and that they can't take a job they prefer to other available options?
Factory work in electronics industry is not really a "catch"; most Chinese kids end up doing everything from sales to service industry to retail. If you're stocking shelves with jeans and tshirts, you're looking at 300RMB/week, entry-level sales jobs in SZ are ~400RMB/week, etc. So, the factory work is bottom of the barrel.
1. change the app a little, give it a new name

2. resubmit

3. if denied, go to 1. otherwise go to 4.

4. profit

Actually after writing this I have a thought, I wonder what is the cost/benefit analysis of buying several developer accounts and submitting your app ( under different names ) and just use the one that gets approved first.
Most commonly used passwords
I tried exporting to epub to read it on an iPad. Both Calibre (calibre-ebook.com) and www.epub2go.com stripped almost all layout information, making the result unattractive and very hard to read.

I ended up buying GoodReader for iPad (0.99c) so I could read the magazine in the form it was intended to look on paper. Recommended.
This is basically it, that someone who was allergic to roses would also have an allergic reaction if they saw a plastic rose. (The actual incident of a patient having an allergic reaction to a plastic rose was observed by a doctor in the late 19th century, but there are controlled studies showing placebos causing allergic reactions from the modern era.)

That is why the anecdotes about allergies being cured with LSD make sense, because if the allergy was psychosomatic to begin with then it would make sense that someone could get over their fear of the substance under the influence of the drug.
Browsers ready to show SVG--are developers?
Not "instead". Stanovich is pretty clear that IQ tests measure something real and useful - no debate about that. The trap he's talking about is that in most occasions people live on auto-pilot, and fail to engage their higher cognitive skills. The frequency with which they do this is largely independent of the IQ.

Unfortunately I don't think there is much study into teaching rationality skills systematically. Scientists tend to be rather methodical about such things, and they'll probably want a working RQ test before attempting to do serious teaching. And as Stanovich says, a good RQ test is doable right now - given enough time and money.