skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any chance that this increased ETF might be a sign they'll offer larger subsidies when the new iPhones are released? With several very nice looking Android alternatives out I wonder if AT&T wants the new iPhones to be priced much more aggressively.
If they aren't ready to listen, it doesn't matter what you say
You're only getting access to the unencrypted channels. (and generally I believe only SD?)

The vast majority of Comcast's channels and content can't be accessed without a cable card or cable box.
Chinese: the language so hard the Koreans made a new language!
Google is feeling the heat from http://duckduckgo.com/ ;)

By the way, for me this does not work, https://www.google.com/ redirects to http://www.google.com/
Maybe you don't talk to religious folks much, but that attitude hasn't changed all that much.
I worked recently with http://www.justalab.com/ - I totally recommend them !
Azure has a local simulation environment that ships with the SDK - you could try that out if you want to play with it. On the cloud, programs like Bizspark get you there at lower cost.

If you have a MSDN subscription, you get a ton of free hours/storage every month - you can run decent sized websites off that
thanks Capt. Buzzkill
Except that data's still available on all sites you land on, to all the 3rd party analytics platforms people use, all the ad networks people use, and to everything you pass through on your way to a destination.

As the duckduckgo guy puts it:
"When you search on Google, not only is your info stored, but also when you click on a link, your search terms are passed on to that site via the Referer header. A lot of sites use this information to tailor content and advertising to you specifically. Your searches also show up in analytics tools, which people use for SEO and other tracking purposes. This information leakage creates legitimate privacy concerns."

And what's to stop ISPs logging the plain text https urls you access anyway?
It works just like on Windows. The rule of thumb is if something can run on Windows (well, in specific Windows Server but that doesn't really matter), it'll run on Windows Azure.

The book has a chapter on how to do this with PHP examples. I recently did a talk on how to do RoR on Azure http://www.sriramkrishnan.com/books_talks.html. Folks have run Python, Erlang, Clojure, etc on Azure without any issues.

The thing to watch out for is that Azure doesn't come installed with these runtimes so you need to package them with your app or install them on the fly inside your VM.
Where do I donate to ensure I don't live till 1,000? Nuclear weapon research?
Twitter Display Guidelines
I guess they are getting ready for a non At&T iPhone.
Thanks! Do let me know if you need any help. I do work on the Windows Azure team and we're always interested in what people are doing with our stuff.
Nitpick nitpick: This statement refers to the first "than," not the second, which is used correctly.
HTTPS doesn't send referrers to the sites you visit, so no one will ever see your query string, or even know you were coming from Google.

"And what's to stop ISPs logging the plain text https urls you access anyway?"

URLs aren't sent in plain text over HTTPS.
Try to install everything needed on the server side using macports (lamp stack, memcache, etc). MacVim and svn/git from command line to write code/manage.

I started running all the server software on my laptop about 5 years ago and haven't looked back since. I don't need a network connection, ssh, or anything to work. I've done quite a bit of development in the air as a result. It's also wicked fast (never any network latency) --- which adds up over time.
For those curious about the idiom, "It's Chinese to me," here's the directed graph of prevailing "It's X to me" idioms among world languages:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1024
Ask HN: How quiet should one keep ideas?
How quiet should one keep their ideas when thinking about potential ventures? There certainly is potential for gain by discussing things with others, however there is potential for loss as well. ConnectU and Facebook have been in the press recently and who knows what those 3 lost when Zuckerberg went forth with Facebook?

Would the area of the idea matter? (eg some web 2.0 apps are easy to clone and being early might make a huge difference compared to making luxury furniture that requries expert woodworkers

Is this event the right question to be asking? I would be interested to see the differences, if any, in opinion between those who have started multiple ventures, one venture, and no ventures.
Development Server:

- In-house racked 64-bit dual processor Dell with Raid-1 SCSI & 16 GB memory running:

- RHEL 5.4 with XEN virtualization

- Apache

- Zend Server Community Edition PHP stack

- MySql

- JRE & JDK

- Subversion

- JIRA bug tracker (nice features and surprisingly affordable)

Workstations:

- Windows XP SP2

- Zend Studio

- Various browsers for checking site display

- ZoneAlarm set fairly restrictive

- Windows Live Messenger for easy free SMS contact when needed
Celebrating 70 years of Alan Kay
A nice book to celebrate his birthday, click on the picture for pdf.
There are three b's in dribbble :)

http://dribbble.com/
BTW, you can avoid the ETF by simply "moving" to a region that only offers "partner coverage" or none at all ... you may have to give proof but that's fairly easy to do.

I don't normally condone hacking out of a contract like this, but AT&T is probably my least favorite big company on the planet. When we moved our company to Oregon, I actually had my account suspended because of "excessive use of partner coverage" ... despite the fact my wife and our staff all had iPhones but were never suspended.

AT&T offered to let me out of my contract (despite me pleading). So, I unlocked my iPhone and put it on T-Mobile.

I'll never give them another dime.
I can't seem to find anything about a databinding engine in Javascript MVC.

Is there one? Does it have any MVVM support?
"To add it to the address bar, type about:config into the address bar, search for keyword.url"

Actually, it's much simpler than that: just right click on the search field and choose "Add a Keyword for this Search…".
The Anatomy of Determination- The Non-PG Version
More here :)

http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html
k, thanks, have added it to the firefox, will give it a try. The first impression was pretty bad with that Ad showing up.
On the Mac, I edited /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/searchplugins/google.xml, changing http to https where appropriate. Now the builtin Google search plugin uses SSL system-wide (and so does the autocomplete, AKA suggest queries feature, if you edit that link, as well). Hopefully, Firefox will make this the default.
I understand you might not want to live that long, but why would you want to take that away from others?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1368570
does "profitable" mean "paying the $20/mo to slicehost" as some people around here seem to think? or, paying the founders a ramen wage?

Edit: nm, I see the answer below.
Anybots is going to be there. Come try driving a robot. ;)
I don't see the difficulty with compiling. Just get out your install disk, open up the optional installs, install XCode. You now have all the standard Unix developer tools (in addition to the XCode app, which you don't have to use).
My biggest problem with them is their empty promises; more than once, they've said, "really soon", and apparently that means nothing to them. It's important they say what they have to say ("won't be ready for six more months"), rather than what they think the customers want to hear ("coming really soon"). Be precise, not vague/subject to interpretation. "Six months" may be "soon" in a certain context, but as a customer, to me "soon" means "the next 10 minutes". They should instead be more precise.

It feels like they take me for a fool; I do understand and accept that projects slip schedules etc., but I don't enjoy being exposed as a naive fool every few months when the Wakemates wake up and make a "coming soon" blog post. In their last blog post, they said, "coming soon, but this time we learnt from our mistakes, so our projected ship dates are even bogus, we are actually going to beat the dates we posted!" -- http://blog.wakemate.com/2010/04/01/first-units-shipping-new... -- so now my expectation is that they in fact beat the date they posted, and if they simply met their second commitment, I'd still feel like they screwed up! This is them setting themselves up for failure. Further, they invalidated the brownie points I would have handed out ("wow, they promised date X, but they actually beat it; maybe they're not so lame after all!") ... if Wakemate shipped right now, they still don't get the brownie ... ("they promised they would beat the Sep 2010 date, and hey, they just beat it. whatever") ... kinda sad side-effect which probably wasn't thought out before they made the blog post.

After all this mess, there is no space left for sympathy; "oh, building hardware is hard!" - sure it is, but if you make me look like a fool in the process, I don't really care if it's hard or not. The value of setting expectations is vastly under-rated, in my opinion.

Edit: And the blog post title could not have been more inappropriate - "WakeMates are shipping!" was the title - I clicked that to see where to get my tracking information, and instead I'm told "Oh, wait until Sep 2010". I mean, really guys?!
Best Information Security Commercial Evah
Well as far as spit on the tongue goes, any water that doesn't boil off remains in contact with the tongue/cheeks, conduction being way faster that radiation at 37c any spit that did freeze due to evaporative cooling would thaw out again very quickly.

It's different for urine which lacks the continual heat source. If you had a mouthful of water, instead of a thin sheet of spit, you'd likely end up with an ice cube for a while.
The biggest issue with this whole WakeMate fiasco was the original ship date announced. Given all of the recent communication and delays, it is clear that the original January ship date was a fantasy from the start. If they had pre-announced their product but gave a more realistic ship date, they wouldn't be dealing with all of the negative press they are now. While figuring out how to ship hardware is very difficult for a company doing this for the first time, it appears they were nowhere near a shippable product when they set their original release date.
I am german and that viewpoint is entirely new to me. Thank you for the link.
Ask HN: Too much soap opera news as of late?
So am I the only one that has noticed the rise of company-vs-company soap opera news. All these he-said-she-said stories and analysis.

Is it just me or is HN turning into more a CNN type outlet than hacker news (useful / fun shit we should care about)?

And who's upvoting it all to the frontpage anyway? Why?? :-/
I use my caps lock key as a right arrow key. Reaching for escape in Vim doesn't really bother me, and I find it surprisingly useful pretty much any time I'm typing.

I use AutoHotkey (http://www.autohotkey.com/) to remap it on Windows, and xmodmap/xset under X on Linux. If anyone has suggestions for doing this easily under OS X I'd love to hear them.

The AutoHotkey script is this:
SetCapsLockState, ALwaysOff
CapsLock::Right

And the xmodmap/xset commands are basically the same as those mentioned in the article for remapping backspace:
xmodmap -e "remove lock = Caps_Lock"
xmodmap -e "keycode 66 = Right"
xset r 66
I don't know how much SENS Foundation has raised since it diverged from the Methuselah Foundation. For the period prior to that, you can look at the Methuselah Foundation records:

http://www.mfoundation.org/?pn=mj_donations_funding

http://www.mfoundation.org/?pn=donors

These are just ("just") a few millions - though I'm sure the folk reading HN will appreciate how much work went into raising those funds for a visionary project. By any account, a grand success in putting forward a new idea and bringing on board people who think the same way. Like all grand successes, it's the first step on a much longer path.

(You may or may not know that one of the largest donors is Peter Thiel).

In essence, SENS is still looking for the big hit, the scale up to mid-7-figures. By donating modestly now you add your name to hundreds of others who have already stepped up to help make the ramp needed for that goal.
It would be cool if people could rent them remotely and attend the fair virtually.
Yeah, there is an economy which is competitive on the world market and that's a problem.

Sure.
I knew Jonathan. And Josh (in fact I was best friends with him up until the 7th/8th grade, when we changed schools).

Funny story. Whenever I went over to their house, Jonathan, Josh, and I would always play Command & Conquer, Red Alert. In fact, we were pretty near obsessed with that game. I'm assuming that's where Jonathan got the c0mrade alias (just a guess).

It's sad that things turned out this way though.
> Multiple inheritance and operator overloading aren't bad, but at the time Java was designed, nobody had any idea how to use them properly.

It's not hard to figure out a better the way to do it than not doing it at all with a few hours thought. And in fact Dylan got both multiple inheritance and operator overloading right before Java existed.

Method ordering is the most significant problem with multiple inheritance. You arrive at the simple (just use the lexical ordering of the superclass list) or the more complex (Dylan's method ordering, now also in Python) purely by reasoning logically. I'm pretty sure someone like Guy Steele would be able to figure this out.

Operator overloading: what could possibly be worse than x.multiply(y)? You either have a fixed list of operators that you can override by defining a method in a class, or you have an expandable set of operators for which you can specify the precedence and which way it associates. This is not a hard problem.
Cool.

But I still think it's mostly a hollow offering since they're the ones collecting and profiling us the most (or perhaps tied with Facebook).
Please be on the lookout for my buddy's booth:

http://www.pearlbiotech.com/

Find Tito--he will answer all your questions about hacking your genome!
Check with your local AIGA chapter. The very best designers are usually affiliated with the AIGA.

You could also call up a print shop. They know plenty of print designers, though to be fair they're not always up on web design.
They say that they "Are Rolling out" not that it's "Immediately available", it takes a while for it to go live on a million+ servers.
I agree - as worded, that sounds ridiculous. A majority of them were multi-millionaires according to the list. As if you would encounter such a thing in a random sampling of 43 people! I wonder what they meant by that line.
It went live a couple hours ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1368499
The value proposition for not-quite-founders when you compare your market-rate salary vs. a startup-salary + equity tends to drop steeply. I don't have data, but from my own anecdotal experience you'll probably take around a 20-25k per year salary cut for 0.1% - 0.5% in options if you take a position at a series-A to Series-C funded startup.

This economic situation is really a kind of hybrid of full-salary and apprenticeship, where you're partially compensated in startup experience. I'm doing it now so I can learn the ropes of an early-stage startup while paying off my student loans. But long term I suspect your EV is better as a founder or cash-compensated so long as you properly invest your cash compensation.

<only-marginally-realistic rant>

Even better is to be one of those VP's who come in during Series C at an already-successful company and somehow make a market-salary and get 10%+ in equity. You know, the fuckers in suits who come in and do nothing.

</only-marginally-realistic rant>
Don't agree with your understanding of hedge funds and markets. Also, I am in favor of regulation. Just not the kind that gets dished out like bad cafeteria food in this country. I am in favor of big banks listing each and every position for all to see--not just for the cozy Fed or the dozy SEC.

Real transparency would allow problems like these to be seen and analyzed by people with the skills to do so--perhaps you yourself. And we don't have to pay such people a cent--just don't shoot them when they don't like the bets others make and take the other side by shorting.

I can understand why short sellers who operate with little information get a bad rap. In a market starved of information, it pays to start panics with rumors. Let's add more information to the market so these people can serve some use.
Thank you. I added them to my list at givv.org
Agreed. The "Facebook problem" is not solvable by writing better software in my opinion. There is just a difficult balance to strike between over-sharing and not sharing enough to enjoy on social networks. Until consumers become more educated, or you are writing for a niche, that issue just won't go away.
I have read more than 3000 screens (pages?) on my iPad so far and my eyeballs have not melted yet. I think it is quite a personal thing whether you like using an iPad for reading a lot of material or not.

I find it a lot easier on my eyes than my Macbook Air, for reading, not sure why. But there it is.
I think Apple as a very mature company likes the long term strategy. They start with a bang but they also realize Version 2 of a product, at its core, is strikingly similar to Version 10. I don't think they feel pressured to dominate a market probably because their business model doesn't require it. The iPod was a bit of a fluke in that sense. It had a lot more to do with the competition losing than Apple being hell bent on domination. Google on the other hand, like Microsoft in the past, needs to succeed with big volume. More searches, more data collected, more services to serve more advertisements, new places to put advertisements, etc.
My friend did the same thing and died. True story.
That depends on how platform gets defined. At the OS layer, a reasonable argument could be made for (cpu, northbridge, southbridge). Of course the whole northbridge thing can actually not include usb support, or disk io support, which can then throw more multipliers in there based on chip...

Sure there are standards to describe hardware interactions, but any reasonably experience sysadmin will tell you horror stories of when they found a weird issue with chipset X not following the standard just right, and needing a special case driver that no longer worked with the OS of choice. This means there are combinatorial multipliers on a per device basis (or some percentage thereof...)
Congrats! I plan on doing some WP7 stuff and I'm thinking that Azure seems like the right place to host the cloud infrastructure. I'll take a look at this book.
Excellent! It's fun to read about his impact from his friend's perspective after meeting Alan in person ( http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/01/a-visit-with-alan-k... )

Btw, the 32MB PDF under CC license: http://piumarta.com/pov/points-of-view.pdf
Newzbin resurrected? Code leak presages Newzbin Two
Nice, I hadn't heard about this yet and I'm in a start-up with just 3 people total that just formed. So yeah, this is looking like it will work for us. Hopefully vs2010 is a free download, that would save us a nice chunk of our limited startup dollars. Thanks for posting this.
wait, Transmission? Did you mean Transmit? Or do you have a cool bittorrenty way of uploading/downloading source?
If you meant 'photovoltaics' with your 'sellenium' (which is Selenium, and that, while light sensitive is not the compound used in solar cells, but Silicium) then the answer is a bit of both.

And it would need a lot more information from you to give you a real answer.

go here: http://www.fieldlines.com/
I'm pretty sure that all four major US cellular carriers use billing/CRM software from the same vendor.

There's really only one nightmare billing system!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1368920
It's good they're updating, I'd like to think my HN post helped with that. Now as other suggested, if they keep us all in the loop with (bi)weekly updates, then they're golden. Let's hope they do.

Edit: Just got an email from them stating they are planning on weekly updates. Awesome guys, keep it up! :)
I called them and the rep said it's b/c of the load. She assured me that it will show up eventually.
I understood Dijkstra to be arguing for simple languages, being more susceptible to formal proof, easier to understand, etc.

Langauges like, say, C# are complicated _and_ patronising. That's the sort of language I thought the article was comparing Ruby with.
What kind of proof do they need that you moved?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1365094
I used to think the writing system was ridiculous too, but think of how many different dialects of Chinese there are! I am Shanghainese and don't understand Mandarin, and I'm sure there's a lot of Cantonese people with similar issues. We can't talk to each other, because the phonemes of our respective dialects are still so different, but the beauty of these non-phonetic ideographs is that we can still read the same newspaper. And that's very important! If we had a phonetic alphabet, it would be nearly impossible to communicate in any kind of written medium.
I have a similar setup as you – work on a mac with a Debian testing box. I've always run a local server with PHP and MySQL to run things natively, but have been moving more and more to working on the testing box. My favorite software for this is Coda (www.panic.com/coda).

I use the built in SVN support of Coda to setup a repository on the dev box. I also set up a dev domain (dev.domain.com or beta.domain.com). I use the local server on my Mac to run rapid quick testing changes and then use the GUI on coda to see which files need to get pushed to SVN or the dev domain.

Oh and for MySQL, can't live without Sequel Pro.
Kinda figured this would be the case, was planning on waiting until tomorrow to bug them. Glad to hear someone already got it confirmed though.
That was the first model...the second model has a much lower center of gravity (too bad the 45 yo. danish man couldn't wait till the region got the second version) but there should be a sensor if more than 2 wheels are off the ground for more than 1 second the blades disengage.
I don't know the details but from my observations they are:

- Office space
- Legal fees
- Events (demo days, etc., are catered)
- Salaries
- Weekly food costs

I actually thought the operating costs would be slightly higher. The office is a comfortable space and the food is great(IMO, others might disagree :) ), the events are always well done, you'd expect the legal fees to be high, not to mention how much time everyone at YC puts in.
It's a cool idea. A few months ago, I set up

http://www.isthisgameworthwatching.com

for the same kind of reason, although mine is deliberately spoiler-free so you can find out whether or not you waste your time watching a tivo'ed game before you watch. For people who don't care about spoilers (or indeed even the score!), I like your idea a lot.
I'm not considering leaving.

Every day, we post things on the internet that are completely within public view. I simply don't post things that I don't want strangers to see.

To me, Facebook embodies the opposite of privacy. It's a site for sharing your life. What's the difference between the people on your friend list who you haven't talked to in five/ten/fifteen years and a complete stranger? I just don't care all that much.
How can the features debate be old and boring when Froyo was just officially unveiled yesterday? It's a very relevant debate.

And lets not give Apple too much credit. While the iPhone was best of breed it wasn't nearly the innovation that the GUI was or even WSIWYG word processing. It really felt like an evolution of the smart phone. A very well engineered product, but not the revolution that a lot of people seem think it was.