skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The State of Mobile Apps
Google Acquires another video company - Episodic
Emergency Locksmiths
911 Locksmith services provide all of your locksmith needs and are experts in all service,installation,and repair of any locks/Keys and safes.
NTP seems to work fairly well for this. It takes into account network latencies and attenuates over time.
A tour of Haskell Concurrent Collections schedulers : Intel Software
Ask HN: Is jamglue really gone forever?
Any chance for a CC-only service?
One that was (unless I'm mistaken) never released.
Yeah, I've been a Gomez user before and the pricing was utterly shocking, to say the least. Additionally, I think our pricing plan only even allowed tests from 10 nodes or so. I was wondering if I could write a php endpoint that acts as a testing node and just buy cheap hosted php boxes all over the world on as many backbones as I'd need to cover. Obviously testing through real users is better, but 9 times out of 10 the interesting stuff in Gomez is a function of problems in your backend, not ISP problems... and anyway, what are you going to do about those? We got all kinds of false positives when the Gomez nodes would glitch out. Almost no signal and all noise.
I dunno, quantum mechanics / oddness with atomic-and-smaller implies partition tolerance wasn't one of the choices.

Maybe Availability was all that was chosen? And it's doomed in a mere some-billion years anyway...
Hopefully he can start up a patent market, where moms and pops can invest in patents they like the look off, in the hope that one day they will make them some money back.

That way, say when a new company like Apple gets into making phones, there can be a rush on mobile oriented patents.
He's not your friend, guy. That phrase needs to go away.
Apart from the name and the outward apperance, this doesn't look too different from other cheap Android tablets like the Eken ones ($99-$130US shipped):
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.39169
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.39448

I just received a $99 Eken M001 and, essentially, you get what you pay for. It's fun to tinker with, but it's no iPad.
It's beginning to stick out to me as the one thing from this list that I should make a go at.
Pixel Qi vs iPad
YouTube video demonstrates the comparison of Pixel Qi screen and the iPad in broad sunlight.

Why hasn't Apple picked on this screen technology yet?
I thoroughly disagree! I would kill to take a company to the point where it can flourish with someone else at the leadership.
Except in email everyone has a separate mailbox. On twitter everyone's mailbox overlaps and there are an infinite number of possible public views of the tweets (searches, lists, etc.)
Thanks, I just contributed.
Of course OpenBSD does better still. (If Google offered OpenBSD as an option, I'd take it. Just because.)
Just as Bugs Bunny taught me in his informative educational movies. If you can't beat them, join them.
Yup, now if they can sell those features to their customers...
Steve Jobs Muses on All Things Apple (at D8 Conference)
I wonder if the iPed name is part of the
'16-point program'. The manufacturer must demonstrate 16 differences between his product and the original

From http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=139
Version 1 UUIDs require 128 bits.
Of course it flopped. People who have strong objections to Facebook have already quit, or never joined in the first place.
rf;dr

(requires flash, didn't read... on my iPad)
awry
Stupid question: what font is used for the headers and quotes? (I want to use that font for my web app home page).
are you implying that other companies do?
Less press coverage is good for the government as well, as the focus will only turn to "why haven't you been able to stop this yet?"
This is true. However, I'll settle for Microsoft following OpenBSD's lead and implementing ASLR and DEP in the world's most widely used desktop operating system.
Cops are being complicit because they know long after the press is gone, BP will still be there handing out the cash to those that helped them cover this up.

Remember BP has other rigs running in the area which made them $3 Billion this year alone. They probably won't even bother renaming themselves and just spend the money on lawyers and their PR machine instead.

As a corporation they've also been handed unlimited votes via unlimited advertising, hence politicians working with them.
Diaspora's Kickstarter funding closes at $200,647
Hrm. I wish this was the entire video, as opposed to an edited version.

EDIT: ok, they seem to be putting them up one by one: http://video.allthingsd.com/
1) I think we can all agree that porn would find a way!

2) It seems to me that the better part of building any technology is just knowing that's its possible in the first place. If memories of the internet "before the crash" were still fairly vivid in the people trying to recreate it, it could be done much faster the second time around.
Default vs. Inflation: Is the U.S. like Greece?
I think my primary concern would be to preserve the mnemonic qualities of the Internet; storing the knowledge within the Internet is not just a question of a physical apocalypse, but a cognitive one as well. Another concern I have is the growing government sentiment on censorship: New Zealand and Australia have already made strong legislation on censorship, and South Africa is considering this as well.

I myself faced censored Internet in Syria — I used a server back in the States to get to sites like youtube (it got to a point where I just used youtube-dl and rsync after additional compression).

Thanks for the link.
Well the article doesn't really dismiss the idea as false, rather that it's unlikely.
Their approach for this is genius: they have some ideas for designs, some things they tested out - but while it's still alpha and not yet in production they open source it, allowing lots of other developers to take a look and find problems with their ideas and hopefully make it even better.
2 - yeah, I think there are multiple challenges - #1 sales cycles and custom requirements #2 how to bootstrap testers #3 the infamous problem of "no one googles your solution when they don't know the concept exists" -- do companies think "oh i should go look for a company that provides beta testers?" don't think so. maybe it just means that paid search won't work. maybe it just needs a lot of CPM marketing on sites for developers and good old word of mouth.

4 - not sure, never tried vox.

5 - no one seems to be directly attacking the vertical very well. i think "families" is a vertical, right? :) some things you can repurpose to get what you want, but the average person would never think to use it that way. the ones that are specifically built for families -- well they're either just awful, or seem like some kind of re-skinned groupware.

6 - you can do that in google analytics. it's a hack, but you can definitely post up metrics from the server side, if you just build up the urls that it needs. but anyway, this is definitely something where i was just thinking more about availability and performance monitoring.
However, this only helps if you're a typical desktop user whose primary threat is a random virus or other malware attack. If you're like Google, on the other hand, you have to worry about highly developed targeted attacks -- to stretch the analogy, a large bear that has specifically picked you out of the crowd.

When that's the case, all the random scattershot viruses in the world become irrelevant, and your platform's inherent security mechanisms and development practices are the only things that matter.
What's as equally important to note is the young brain power in the area. Over 400k students in the city and its surrounding areas. Higher-education institutions like Harvard, M.I.T, Tufts, BC, BU, to name a few.

You can also find cheap places to live in many parts of Boston. Lower cost of living in Boston than say, in NYC.

If you really do need to get to NYC, you can vie for a train ride there (~200 miles).
I have multiple Facebook accounts back from the day an edu address was required. I never bothered to delete them. Same with my main account.

I am not sure why everyone takes Facebook's 500 million member number at face value when a quick look around reveals numerous spam, fake, and barely updated accounts.
Of course, it does make it much harder to delete emails; that'll probably cost a pretty penny when the US DOJ next comes knocking...
ezmail forever.
It's the APad (as per the manual). The iPed is the equivalent of the iPod.
He seems angry... like he's really offended that people are criticizing his decision to leave out Flash from the iPad. He says he wants the market to decide. But when the market decides, then it's too late. Even diehard Apple fans are not happy Flash can't be viewed on the iPad. Big opportunity for Android tablets, courtesy of Steve Jobs and company.
Speaking as a someone who's worked as an ER nurse for 18 years... Steve looks like hell.

I'm guessing he's down to about 120lbs. More pics here: http://d8.allthingsd.com/speakers/steve-jobs/#slideshow-1-32 I know it's a touchy subject, but holy crap. I did a double take when I saw the pictures of him. He is not a well man.
Boston Plus Atlanta Almost Equals Dongguan (Infographic)
Hrm, in 2007 people were able to intercept traffic from Tor quite easily by using a packet sniffer on an exit node. It looks like wikileaks got information through an implementation of this hack possibly?

Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/249388/
These sites look great. I love that you can get started at Genevine without signing up, I tried to do that at http://todoneapp.com too. The price point seems a bit high (consider that Flickr is what, $25 a year or so?) - but the functionality looks spot on and the website is really elegant. Same thing with Flow.. seriously, who does the design? I love it. It seems more focused on e-commerce/affiliate than I intended for my own idea; I think I was specifically trying to avoid that angle because there are SOOOO many solutions out there. But yours looks like it could stand out :)

Thanks for the feedback on #2. I'm starting to think I should make a go at it.
Well, if Google switches to Google, they can save up to 50-70% on their enterprise email costs. Presumably they can then do this again, until they are paying a vanishing fraction of a penny on emails costs. No wonder GMail turns a profit.

In other news, the blinding geniuses at Google, whose shoes you are not fit to shine, recently announced a compression algorithm that uses MapReduce on BigTable running in The Cloud (TM) based on Node.js async javascript running on top of Chrome's V8 running in mobile data centers powered by renewable energy that can compress any data by at least one bit by harnessing the mighty power of buzzwords. Google is preparing a presentation in which they will shortly announce that they will be putting up a torrent containing every file on the internet using this technology.
Steve Jobs at D8 on Flash, iPad and the Post-PC Era
PDF summary:

http://www.gonegoogle.com/poster-report/90c6d40a87ea45a7a5c5...
Turned out for the worst. This wasn't someone working their end of the system. This is an actual practice of their because of fraud in the past. Supposedly this confirmation allows them to sleep better at night.

Not very impressed. I thought companies were not allowed to keep records of a customer's credit card number? Wouldn't this be breaking that very rule and than some?
I like your feedback, since I am a pessimist and can see the truth in all your criticism :)

1 - totally agreed it's a Twitter feature waiting to be vacuumed up. but it's SO easy to implement. and I know how to make it go way viral. i think? :)

2 - why does anyone beta test anything? i think people just like feeling special, having special access, being early adopters, being influencers, etc. plus, i imagine the site as totally having badges/rewards built into it by design. and version.future - framework to allow companies to reward their testers (name in credits, direct payments, tip jar, whatever)

4 - agreed. maybe i could use #3 to solve this problem :)

5 - i know there's a market for this one, just from being a parent and knowing lots of parents. i don't think facebook is acceptable since there are weird issues with friending your parents etc, and grandmom is probably not even on the site. blog-wise, there are verrry few blogging platforms that have the right security controls.

6 - agreed. it would be easy enough to try something simple: 10 urls, 10 sampling nodes, 10 tests an hour, $10 a month - and just see what kind of interest is out there.
Flash really isn't able to run on devices slower than 1.5-2GHz and 500MB-1GB of RAM. It uses software rendering most of the time.

So really it is not obsolete, it is stuck in a gap in time that is well known and being taken advantage of. All software rendered animation and interactivity is slow on a device running < 1GHz even html5 content. Anything hardware rendered or accelerated is faster such as native or hardware hooks into canvas.

Adobe should have made flash hardware accelerated (or more hardware accelerated) to not be caught in this pickle in time where mobile is taking off but the hardware is still too slow. When devices get to 2GHz and 1GB memory flash will run fine. By then they should be hardware accelerated to provide a competitive advantage if they are smart.

I like Flash and html5 (<canvas>) and have no preference. Adobe made Flash, Apple made canvas and some key features of html 5 with supporting webkit which they open sourced very wisely. However html5 is still a few years off on web and flash is still a few years off on mobile. What happens next is anyone's game.
TTF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_gordon
Employees at Microsoft will be 2.8 times more productive when mobile

Except when they don't have an Internet connection, in which case they are 100% less productive!

Microsoft could add 612,500 GB of email space

Does anyone have any evidence that e-mail storage on Outlook is an issue? Since the e-mail may be stored locally and hard drives are infinite capacity (compared to the the 2GB allocation of Gmail), this sounds like a bogus argument.

there's a single version of the doc so everyone knows they are working on the latest version

Yeah, right. Works great until you need to really modify a document locally, because you are experimenting with major changes. Good luck merging it back with either platform.

Microsoft may spend as much as $3,750,000 in data recovery services to protect from natural disaster. By going Google you'd spend $0 and wait 0 weeks

Does anyone who is in charge of mission critical stuff advises to trust Google storage and not perform any extra backups? Really?

I love watching how Google slowly but surely loses all the goodwill they accumulated, in their quest to become just another $10B company. Business as usual.
Safe Levels of Radiation
SpaceX's blog is a great read, particularly the launch descriptions. Going through them is a good way to pass a slow day.
Minimize your expenses.

Get fired/laid off.

Live off unemployment.

Work on your project.

???.

Profit.
I'd rather see communication restricted to nearby cells, but possibly a way to leave messages in place (like ants do with pheromones). This would require cells to be a bit more autonomous, and would prevent information from propagating instantaneously. As we can see from real-world ants, this doesn't preclude cooperation, but does make it a bit harder.
Is this ready for primetime? The documentation I found on it seems a bit tentative to me, but it may simply have not been updated. It is worth pursuing if so. Combined with standard OS limitation mechanisms, which I would certainly use in addition to this, it might at least be worth a try.

I would wait to say PyPy has "perfect" sandboxing until it has been attacked for a while, though. CPython used to have a sandbox module, too. But at least PyPy has been designed with this use case in mind.
If you are accredited with the BBB make sure to respond if they contact you. Failure to respond to an inquiry will result in loss of accreditation.

A previous employer of mine learned this the hard way.
Some clips are beginning to appear on allthingsd.com.
I like the email me forwarder idea as well. I have wanted to contact fellow readers in the past
"When I mean intuitive I mean something which will give a decent idea what that method or class is supposed to do."

OK, but that's fraught with peril. You first have to know what the method or class is supposed to do now and in the future, and code has a tendency to mutate out from under you. The trouble is that the change can be slow and subtle, and then one day it strikes you (or, more likely, another developer) that the class has become kind of gnarly. The absence of fairly clear-cut guidelines means you're winging it all along.

"Also I am sure you must have some idea of how you can group code modules your project."

Things go together until the don't. Over time the behavior some code creeps over to some new realm, and one day you find the code a bit tangled. I'm wondering to what extent there are, or can be, applicable rules to alert you before your gut kicks in.

"Moreover looking at types of cohesion can give a decent idea of what elements can be grouped together."

True, understanding the different ways things can be associated can help. But there's quite a bit of subjectivity. Maybe that's unavoidable, but the article (and perhaps most similar articles) don't go far enough in discussion concrete, repeatable practices to deal with this, or discussing why this may not even be possible.

It is very much like design articles that advocate being "simple" without offering a compelling definition of simple or how you actually achieve it.

But that's the hard part.

(Also, I have to wonder to what extent this is more a problem with OOP and less with FP. )
Common threads: Awk by example, Part 1
With Windows 7, we added improvements to BitLocker
for disc encryption (we also introduced BitLocker-to-Go
for external USB devices), and added enhancements to the
built in Windows Firewall for better protection.

OS X equivalent is encrypted disk images and FileVault (and the firewall, but whatever).

Windows 7 has Parental Controls built in that can be
combined with Windows Live Family Safety to create a
safer experience on the PC for children.

Yeah, OS X has that too. I wrote large parts of it.

His most compelling point is ASLR. It'd be nice if OS X had that.
Exactly. That's what I meant when I said all it takes is hustle. When you freelance, your have very direct and tangible control over how much you make. You have some control when salary, but the correlation with effort is a lot murkier, in my experience.
1 - not sure about that. i know it's not a problem, but there may be a need. it might only target the younger end of the twitter demographic. i think the proof is in how feverishly people customized myspace, and added widgets to their FB back in its earlier incarnations. even LJ - you mostly read it through your friends page (e.g. your own theme), yet you still themed it to show off to whoever visited your profile.

2 - interesting. did anything come of you getting your ideas off your chest? :)

4 - agreed. it's probably a hobby or in the best case a one hit wonder.

5 - i think something really customized to the problem could be successful. everyone is forced to shoehorn social networks or blogs (e.g. CMSs) into the solution. i really picture something that's fundamentally different, while incorporating elements of each.
Best, How?
There is something I really like about #4 the guided daily diary. I wonder if you could turn this idea into a dating site -- users can submit a guide and the top ranked ones get answered the next day. Users of the site can browse everyone's answers for that day.
Ask HN: What do you want from a conference?
I'm hosting an upcoming conference (which I'll avoid promoting here) which is targeted at developers. We've put together what I believe is a pretty solid list of speakers all speaking on technical talks. I read Hacker News every day and watch many of the video presentations various developers make on coding and scaling apps.

In the hopes that I can make an incredible event for developers, I'd like to ask the community what things you want out of a conference. Would you attend one? What were some of the best aspects of conferences you've attended in the past? What were your favorite conferences? How do you hear about them?

I write a top 100 blog that's often submitted on this site, but rather than promoting the event I'd like to hear the community's thoughts on conferences. Thanks!
Given there are followers of Islam out there who (off the top of my head) bombed the Danish embassy in Pakistan, murdered Theo Van Gogh and put a bounty on Salman Rushdie's head I don't find it shocking at all that there were people willing to stand up and declare that they weren't intimidated.
The fact remains that it is much easier to:

- Perform Unit/Functional/User Test

- Use version control

- Be exposed to a variety of both tools (editors/ides) and services (github.com, getexceptional.com)

- Work in a distributed manner

- Get real world feedback on your application from people other than the Professor

- Work with more than the String class of your language

- Collaborate on related, but not dependent, code in the same codebase

- Learn different patterns (Observer, Singleton, etc)

- Develop the way you would in the real world (Scrum? Waterfall? You name it. No real cowboy coding)

when doing web development than doing most "Random Number generator" or "Porpuquine" projects assigned in CS to show recursion or proper OOP.

I'm probably biased though, as I'm a web developer who went through the Java bullshit and didn't learn a damned thing until I actually tried to make a web application that someone other than my Professor of Data Structures and Algorithms II was testing/grading/using.

ADDENDUM: As for the CS portion of the degree, learning all the aforementioned skills will hopefully allow you to more easily grasp things like the difference between PSPACE and NP-Hard problems, Genetic Algorithms, AI, etc. I'd hope to god that someone designing AI would at least use version control on their application. It would be a nightmare to find a bug that sliced a person in half when they are in surgery without a tool like "git bisect" :)
It's an interesting idea, but honestly, I find any boilerplate claim to ownership of content posted on a site or imposition of a license, well, frustrating.

The magazine is fantastic and I completely support it, but I do think this should be an opt-in. Perhaps it would be easier for commenters who wouldn't mind their work being published elsewhere to just drop a note like "All comments licensed CC/NC/SA" in their profile?

(I've dropped this in mine).
If this can be ~$200 I am definitely getting one.

Positioning Android as the high end and Chrome OS as the low priced vision of future is a fantastic move.
A couple of these were text books in my undergraduate CS program. Not exactly books nobody's heard of.
> people said it was completely stupid to not choose the Gecko engine

That's not how I remember the reaction of the (few) people familiar with both KHTML and Gecko.
Can you upgrade Android to the new version on it?
That's their active user number, not their total-user-accounts-in-our-database number.
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