skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this will be rather simple: Export Servers to the Space along with satellites. Let the earth burn or boil, your servers are always safe and Internet is Up as long as sun is empowering it with Energy.

You the users, with a high speed connection you can securely and safely connect to the internet and access your data. People who care a lot about privacy, can send their private hard drives to the space too. A good idea for a startup ;)
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It's okay, after Android 2.2 gets pushed out, you can just use it as a wi-fi hotspot for your iPads.
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There's no ramifications for violating FAA restricted airspace?
Even Eugene Fama no longer believes in the efficient market hypothesis.
I can't speak for Harold - although we've spoken, he's never directly been involved with Elgg or me - but I'd love to. I'll drop you an email now.
> For instance knowing how many searches there are a day for "is AAPL overpriced" vs. "is AAPL underpriced" you'd have data that would begin to correlate to market value - with enough data points you could make some pretty darn educated guesses about what a given stock would do.

You may be right but the only thing that really moves the market is the large institutional funds. None of these funds are going to do a google search for "Is apple overpriced" and then say OMG we've got to sell apple now.
Like many others, I'm not surprised by this post: of course devices will have different graphical capabilities and developers will need to take them into account for decent performance.

These complaints scream out for a framework/engine builder to come in and provide a uniform interface to the graphical capabilities of the many different Android devices.
Wonder how the bumptop acquisition will figure in.
Those are the exceptions, not the norms. OP is correct, most 2nd or 3rd generation trust fund kids end up blowing the family fortunes. No, I don't have any citations :p
But who's using Pandora over 3G 40 hours a week? I would imagine that's a nearly infinitesimal number of people (i.e., not worth investing the money in a plan just for them).

Get on wi-fi, or pay the extra $30 a month and get over it.
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stuck at level 3
No worries, please criticize as much as you like--that's how we can improve.

In fact, you've already convinced us to do the spreadsheet export thing. I see your point there.

The Flash blob :) has a maximum width/height of 2880 pixels, I read.

Thanks again--we'll fix the charting bug and add the gatecount and runtime information.

The VNC interface is a stop-gap that we're trying desperately to get rid of. It's just too slow. Anything that requires installation is avoided as much as possible.
(Except for Flash, unfortunately :) )

A recent HN post talked about Smokescreen, an open source Javascript/HTML5 that sounded interesting. Doesn't seem to be ready yet though.

Thanks!
Your assertion doesn't follow from the article. Like the other commenter remarked, Schneier is merely saying that because of the large amount of open wireless netwokrs, the chances that he's the one that'll be caught are so small that the risk outweighs the benefits.

Secondly, Schneier (as knowledgeable about crypto and security in general as he is) is in no position to be an expert witness on the interpretation of legal concepts like whether or not this liability exists in the present case. Even worse, by publicizing this article, he is basically making it public that he knows about the dangers yet deliberately ignores it, and thus enables eventual wrongdoers. I think he should talk his lawyer friends again that he mentions in the article to assess the potential extra damage he's doing to himself by publishing this. In effect it's what I mentioned in another comment above about people who are technically adept and therefore will be held to a higher standard. He's handing the (hypothetical) opposition their argument on a silver platter.
At least: "released versions of Android are neglected".
Google is not neglecting Android itself.
If your competitors are really watching then I'm sure they'll find out regardless of an email from you.

... but you are completely within your rights to remove them. I don't see an ethical issue with that (I mean I do see the ethical issue, but after thinking about it I do not believe removing them is unethical).

By removing you might by a little (or no) time before they find out.

Is it worth it?

Is what you have to say going to be a huge tip off?

At the end of the day, this is your startup, your job, your company and livelihood and completely your call to make.

my2c
Would that diminish the value of our service if it only runs on companies' internal servers and not enjoy benefits in parallelism that we can give them?

I guess if they are too worried about IP, offering the downloadable service is perhaps the best alternative.
Each fix might be an easy port by itself, but if there's tons of them then maintaining developers to run through integrating all of them, making sure they work, individually and with each other, is not a trivial task.

Andy Rubin stated that the release schedule is going to slow down soon to either 2 or 1 releases per year. At the moment, the platform is immature and they are focused on adding in features. I suspect it will all become a lot more stabilised shortly.
(Hopefully) A free product that does not require command line knowledge. Yeah, current Linux distros up to this point are pretty much at the stage where it's almost comparable with regard to ease of use for standard users, but every once in a while that kernel upgrade goes south or you can't get the wireless driver to work. If Chrome OS can be pre-installed on low-priced, higher-end machines (since Google has a ton of weight to throw around) that has great drivers written, it'll be very good for the market.
Yeah, I'm on level 8, which is where is starts getting hard.

EDIT: Got it. That was fun.
On first reading, I couldn't see any problems mentioned that couldn't be addressed with a Factory pattern. Android game /graphics devs could band together and maintain a framework. iPhone devs would have licensing issues with such a project.
iPad is NOT carrier locked
That title ("Visual Studio COBOL") reminded me of the less-serious "Cobol on Cogs" site: http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM
You're thinking of step 1.
Fair enough distinction, I'll edit.
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I'm really hoping that Nvidia sorts out the supply issues with Tegra 2 and Notion Ink Adam sees the light of the day some time this year
Oooo, an intelligent parser of FPGA code would be lovely.
The parallel nature of hardware code presents very interesting challenges for such a parser, I think.

Recently I came across a company called www.sigasi.com that promised lovely things about VHDL development but I haven't really looked into them yet.

Existing FPGA tools spit out a LOT of warnings that are potentially helpful but are too verbose for anyone to remain sane trying to decipher all of them.

Thanks!
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Or Windows CE.
Your zip or rar or encrypted form or whatever of the IP is directly derived from the original, and as such it is still subject to the same restrictions as the original. Derived material is protected in the same way as the original.

If you ROT13 a book, and upload one chapter, is that infringing? Answer: yes, because it is distribution of a work derived from a protected work. Does it matter if the original is recoverable? No. If the receiver of the ROT13 version doesn't know about ROT13, it's still infringing. If it's even technically impossible to recover the original (because it's part of a larger encrypted file, because you don't know the password/decryption key, ...), is it still infringing? Answer: yes.
True, but if you're at work it can just go over WiFi (or just use Pandora on your computer). I think it's a bum deal because the terms changed just a month in, but as an iPad owner I'd have to try hard to use 2GB per month outside the range of WiFi.
I had assumed the link would be about a 3D printer that cranks out lego pieces.

This is way, way more awesome.
Isn't Bespin more of an editor than a full IDE? I haven't used it in a while. Does it have build and debug functions now? Don't get me wrong, I think we'll get there eventually, I just doubt it'll be this year.
I love that site. They way it flickers and has screen burn effects are so kitch :)
Tim Gowers was always good value - the series on Computational Complexity and Quantum Compuation (http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/545992) very interesting, although I've only watched the first lecture.
As of now, Apple still has not updated their product page: http://www.apple.com/ipad/3g/
That article reads like it was written by a 3rd grader.
Ask HN: PivotalTracker is free, does that make you nervous about using it?
We use Pivotal for a number of projects; every startup i meet seems to be using it. Nobody seems to talk much about contingencies as there's not really an SLA - or at least anything legally enforcable... It's not that I don't trust Pivotal Labs, but it makes me wonder if there's not a business opportunity - clone Pivotal, charge money, provide SLA, profit... thoughts?
level 8 is fun. reminds me of picture books when i was younger
I hope that is true. I agree with Buffett's sentiments when it comes to dynastic wealth in America (namely, I oppose it).
As I've said here several times, the unlimited mobile data simply will not last. It's actually more fair for everyone -- the many people who only use a small amount of data should pay less.
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Wow, I went to high school with the CEO, Nat Turner. Congratulations.
The people who only use a small amount of data already paid less, via the 250MB/month plan for $15.
Upvoted because you partially answered my question -- but I'm not quite satisfied.

My point isn't that "it's just a little piece". Like being "a little bit pregnant", I don't think that "infringing a little bit" could amount to much of an argument.

It's that with certain methods of encoding, a piece is entirely worthless without the rest of the file. That is, I could give a chunk to the IP owner to inspect, and there's no way that he could tell me if it represented a part of his work.

if a certain ordering of bits makes up the left breast of a child if interpreted as part of a Jpeg is that illegal if randomly occurs within...

This makes me think of the Judas Priest "back masking" trial way back when [1]. The wikipedia article notes "The case was dismissed by the judge for insufficient evidence of Judas Priest's placement of subliminal messages on the record", and that's a little ambiguous: do we read that to refer to the existence of the message, or to the intent to put the message on the record?

Anyway, for the danger that you outline, I would think that if it's possible to transform a data stream into a different context in which it could be construed as illegal, then the evidence would also need to include possession of, or access to, a means of accomplishing that transform.

Without some kind of consideration of this, steganography would throw a wrench into everything.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backmasking#Court_cases
Good letter. I have a feeling the class action attorneys are going to have a field day with this one.
That's not surprising, since (despite the name) ADD doesn't imply an inability to focus at all times. Those with legitimate ADD have an unusually hard time directing maintaining focus except under highly stimulating conditions. Complicated computer games are one of the few things that an ADD person is likely to maintain focus with.

That's not to say that your roommates cases were legitimate. They may not have been. But your description isn't necessarily evidence of a mis-diagnosis.
There is a way to make development simple and consistent across a wide range of devices and it's called Flash. A platform that, last I checked, Google was going out of their way to integrate.

(Which is why it's funny that the author of the post points to .NET without mentioning Flash in his article)

The problem with this approach is that performance goes down the toilet (which is exactly what you see with Flash on mobile devices now). So what Google's doing is offering developers and device manufacturers a chance to write to the device itself through OpenGL.

Everything has disadvantages, openness included. The author seems to want it both ways (open platform with Apple like hardware consistency)
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Updating a device is not trivial. But the biggest obstacle is that the effort will be seen as wasted by the device manufacturer, who stopped making that device ages ago.

One of the things Apple has done brilliantly is to make updating painless.
Yes, Classroom.tv.
Based in Palo Alto, we are an early-stage Stanford startup. Contact me if you want to meet (talent@classroom.tv).
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Python gives more fun search results than Ruby
Jakob Nielsen critiques the iPad's usability failings
If this is a prelude to AT&T losing their exclusivity then it's an odd move - the standard "unlimited data" cap on Verizon is 5GB. I'm not sure why AT&T would charge more for less compared to a competitor who was about to offer an alternative for their customers.

I wonder when we'll see the famed Jobs reality distortion field try and sell us on 2GB being enough data for anyone.

This also exposes the ridiculousness of mobile data pricing - the excess charges are $10 per extra 1GB, but the base plan is $15 for 250MB? Hmm.
>Provide only high level access to the graphics capabilities of your platform

In other words, no.
You can print out lego pieces on a Makerbot pretty easily. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:591
In using OpenGL he is basically giving up all the features Android offers him to stay platform independent.
I think it is clear, when you write a whole, complete rendering engine that doesn't use the android stack, you'll eventually have to deal with different screensizes, input methods, etc.

Most apps i use have been running on my G1 from day 1 and now on Android 2.2 on the Nexus One and i've had no big problems between android 1.5, 1.6, 2.1 and 2.2.

I guess the only thing for games to remain relatively platform independent is to use another intermediate layer (to substitute for a not used android "layer") like the unity3d engine.
Yes, but it's good that this is highlighted when Google is touting that 100K Android handsets is activated every day. It means that for App/Game developers, your can target a lot less than total number of activate (let alone shipped) devices.

Nokia/Symbian has used total number of shipped devices as an argument for their platform, but every Symbian dev knows that it is totally meaningless number. For example targeting S60 2nd edition devices is out of question, but Nokia/Symbian is still calculating 2nd ed. devices in their numbers. I once blogged about this and mobile stats in general: http://dirtyaura.org/blog/2009/01/05/worldwide-mobile-intern...

Detailed info about fragmentation issues is really useful for me and I assume that other mobile devs & companies too
for estimating when and how to develop to different platforms.
The developers sent an email to Steve Jobs about the removal of the app, and he replied "We are not allowing apps that create their own desktops. Sorry." If you think that's a staffing problem, the problem staff is Jobs.
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I would write them off as a competitive threat if they're paying attention to startups in the landing page phase for good ideas to steal.
For everyone who's wondering what it is, I found a link on their site to the chemical information:
http://sugru.com/pdfs/FORMEROLsugru_MSDS_Oct09.pdf
Key admonitions:

(a) Organizations and Conferences
(1) Insist on doing everything through "channels."
(2) Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.
. . .
(3) When possible, refer all matters to committees, for "further study and consideration." Attempt to make the committees as large as possible - never less than five.
(4) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
(5) Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
(6) Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.
(7) Advocate "caution." Be "reasonable" and urge your fellow-conferees to be "reasonable" and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.
(8) Be worried about the propriety of any decision - raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the jurisdiction of the group or whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon.

(b) Managers and Supervisors
(1) Demand written orders.
. . .
(7) Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products; send back for refinishing those which have the least flaw. . . .
. . .
(10) To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.
(11) Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.
(12) Multiply paper work in plausible ways. Start duplicate files.
(13) Multiply the procedures and clearances involved in issuing instructions, pay checks, and so on. See that three people have to approve everything where one would do.
(14) Apply all regulations to the last letter.

Nothing wrong here. Just a lot of lawyer-types trying to get things done in the way they know best :).
Replacing $30/month with $25/2GB isn't much of a discount, though.
How much hard science can be done in this experiment?
Yeah I'm on 8. Then I realised I was at work and I should really save it for later.
My experience with imac with a snow leopard is not crashing much(firefox)(it has crashed two times in two months), but yes I have a lot of problems I had not with Linux flash with the mac one.
Just as a sidenote:
I've tried some flashgames on my Nexus One and had no performance problems, at least for the 2 or 3 games i've tried.
my fav (tho i probly won't fly over to attend):

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not so much about Drinking as it is about having a low-overhead, open-ended, cross-language discussion on our overlapping ...

Meetup topics:

Scala, Haskell, Clojure, Lisp & Scheme, Erlang F#
There must be some ISO standard for this stuff - that sounds so much like the British Civil Service.
Ok, this is just stupid. Not the caps, the fact that paying for tethering doesn't increase your cap.

I thought the whole (customer-facing, anyway) point of charging for tethering was the greater bandwidth that the network expects to bear with a desktop-class device. Yet nearly doubling your data charges doesn't actually get you any more data, merely AT&T's blessing of how you use your allotted data.
True. But do you think Jobs took the time to look into this, or just read the review comments from review process?
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5 (To my defense, I am no engineer/programmer)
The principle that there's a psychological difference between 'free' and 'not free.'

Under an unlimited plan, bandwidth feels like it's free, because there's no cap. With caps, I'll _constantly_ worry about how much data I'm using.

Now I feel glad I went with Android... new OS update just straight up gives me tethering, and T-Mobile's still got unlimited data plans.
And here, I was assuming it was a 3D printer that made objects with Legos.

Either way though, it was great.
Any tips on Level 5
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There's a reputable company behind it - I'm not so concerned. A major project (+$1M product budget), should probably be exporting the data regularly though.
Found trivially with http://searchyc.com

http://searchyc.com/submissions/motivates?page=1&sort=by...
Well said! It's hard to argue this is anything but a bait and switch.
Yeah, I don't recognize a bunch of the images in 8. Bleh.

...Ok, I give up.

Nevermind, got it.
The parent is demonstrating how low 2GB actually is. It's not meant to describe a situation in which a user is actually likely to exceed the 2GB cap.
I asked about this on a separate PyPy thread, and got a useful answer from magcius:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1375785

But yes, I'd be interested!
Please stop believing this. Every time you accept a job for temp wages, it creates another unrealistic employer that the rest of us have to explain the concept of "contracting" to.
nobody wants to get his grave pissed on after he's dead.

I see no basis for that statement and a whole lot of anecdotal evidence to the contrary. The article we are discussing being one of them.
Go back to step 1 and look closely at the clue - and what you needed to guess.. (and compare that to where you are now if that doesn't work)
If things get bad enough, can't Apple buy out the rest of the contract ahead of time?
This isn't really an answer to your question, but my co-founder's brother works as a designer at Lego HQ in Denmark, where they have a huge warehouse filled with every block/piece/component in every colour available... That's what he used to make lego versions of us, which we've used on our website ( http://wemakewebsites.info/about ). I'm sure you can get a lot of stuff on mail order.
> Yes, but Taiwan is an island only somewhat larger than the state of Maryland, so telecoms have less area to cover compared to telecoms in the US.

Yet, even in areas that are just as dense, we still can't get good cell coverage (SF) or fast Internet.
You expected something better from a site called "websitemagazine"?
You can't get 3G speed on T-mobile with an iPad though can you?
I was going to sell my WiFi iPad and switch to the 3G, but now I'm going to stay put. I have a mobile hotspot with a true unlimited plan from Millenicom, which I use for all devices. I would have liked the GPS and the 3G, but AT&T just lost a customer. (It's also not attractive to get one for my Dad either, for his month-long stints in Florida.)
It's the latter i.e. a problem with patent law not doing what it's supposed to do.
looks like someone found notpron. http://www.deathball.net/notpron/
The problem is that some of the handset makers (or carriers) don't seem to have much interest in providing updates. Which does make sense, in that there is no money in it for them. It's hard to see what Google can do about that.
Someone suggested that the reason they banned it is because they are preparing their own widgety release, but have a look at the app:

http://www.groundhog.com.au/myframe/

I think its as simple as someone at Apple seeing that and thinking "I don't want our iPad to be used like a picture frame". And if Apple doesn't like how you use their product in your house, they'll do something about it.
No legitimate employer would ask for paystubs from previous jobs.
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