skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can downgrade? Because I'd sure like to, until I get around to ordering the iPhone 4.

There are guides or official ways of downgrading?
I wouldn't be so fast to dismiss 3G. T-mo is in the process of rolling out HSPA+ updates to their 3G network that have higher theoretical speeds than current 4G networks. The first round of markets went live within the past few weeks; something like 15 major markets (ATL is the only one I remember for sure).
Few dedicated software companies can even compete with Apple. I mean, at the moment it's just Apple and Google in the smartphone space, and Google's barely competitive despite Apple only having one phone on one provider. To assume Asus can somehow just will a brilliant new software platform into existence to compete with Apple's in a matter of months makes no sense to me.

The hardware companies have always depended on the software companies for things to run on their devices, and right now the software companies just don't have anything to compete with the iPad.
I like Intelligentsia, which has roasting facilities (and coffee bars) in Chicago and Los Angeles. They do a lot of single origin coffees from Central America.

Probably not available in many locations, so as a fallback, I'd agree with cpr on Peet's (I have their Arabian Mocha Java for espresso at home right now). Illy is a good option as well.
I don't know if things are improved, but the last time I looked into HW random number generators, it was RS-232 connected ones, and the quality control was terrible a fairly high percentage of them generated very low quality random numbers. You would think you could mitigate this by xoring two of them together, but this made things much worse since 2 connected to the same outlet tended to be somewhat correlated!

My impression of the HW random number generator industry was that it was all snake oil, only the people selling them didn't necessarily know that was true.

Se also:
http://web.archive.org/web/20011027002011/http://dilbert.com...

[edit]
The technical section of the webpage[1] directly addresses most of the problems that the RS-232 devices I looked into a number of years ago had; namely it detects when the diodes are going bad, and tries to not exceed the estimated entropy rate (the RS-232 devices just blindly XORed them together at a predefined bitrate; boxes typically had 4 diodes, since 1 or more was bad in almost all shipping boxes). My experience was so bad with those devices though that I would want to spend a lot of time with any HW device before trusting it.

1) http://www.entropykey.co.uk/tech/
You still haven't answered my questions, but sure, I'll answer yours.

If copyright law stopped existing, and authors could no longer be compensated for what they'd made, TPB would stagnate:

* There would be no incentive to run servers in exotic locations (Sealand, Saudi Arabia, etc) that don't respect creators rights.

* Sites that own content would distribute their own data so it could be released and consumed quicker (it would probably be ad-supported since selling IP isn't possible anymore)

* There would be no need to pirate anything as nobody has to pay for anything anymore.

The domain would expire, or the servers have a prob, or the hosting bills come in, and not get fixed/paid as there'd be no point to stealing anything anymore.
Here's what I think about exercise:
Find a sport or activity that'll make you move: salsa dancing counts! ;-) (golf doesn't.. unless you're walking the whole damn course :P). When you get bored, find another fun sport or activity! =). You might even end up finding complimentary activities (I like to swim and go sailing - swimming helps when your boat capsizes, hahaha).

As far as eating is concerned, here's what I suggest:

- Figure out what you usually eat.

- Now figure out what you need (in terms of proteins, vitamins, minerals etc..), and figure out whether your current diet is providing what you need.

- If you have been getting everything you need in your current diet but are gaining fat, figure out what you can start cutting back on.

- If you are deficient in your daily intake nutrients but are also gaining fat, then figure out what you can add to your diet to complete the right nutrient intake, and what you can start cutting back on.

All this diet and exercise shit is a bit evolutionary. Just stick to it, build it up over time. Don't be too hard on yourself but don't give up or go easy either.
Sorry, what does AT mean?

In order to burn the same amount of fat you will constantly have to be doing more exercise, maybe that clarifies?
I've seen claims in both directions. To play it safe, I'll keep my 3G on 3.x. There was only 1 new feature in iOS 4 (that also worked on 3G models) that attracted me anyway: the unified mailbox view thing.

Actually I have a short list of desired improvements that might make it worth it, despite a speed drop:

* photo synching to my desktop (so not limited to the lame select-up-to-4-then-email-them thing, which is way too time-consuming if you have many photos and/or add new ones frequently)

* in Safari, when hit Add Bookmark, and goes into the Bookmarks view, it should start in the top-level collapsed state, that way I can quickly navigate to the right folder to select. Divide and conquer would speed it up in the case where there are many nested folder categories.

* making the Back button in Safari take you back to a cached, post-rendered view of the previous page -- rather than having to re-fetch/parse/render all over again, wasting my time, battery and the network (groan)

* cached application state restoration in general, consistently -- i realize the critical ingredient here is partly having enough memory and flash, so just beefing up the hardware with each new model refresh should get us to an ideal state eventually. Right now, lots of frustration and wasted effort when I go back in Mail and Safari and it's forgotten where I was last at and has to redo everything, sometimes reseting to some default state (such as scrolled to the extreme top rather than down in the middle where I was)
Per capita, people in the UK are more likely to have a degree - they converted all tertiary schools (formerly polytechnics) into universities in 1992.
Engadget agrees:

We're not going to beat around the bush -- in our approximation, the iPhone 4 is the best smartphone on the market right now. The combination of gorgeous new hardware, that amazing display, upgraded cameras, and major improvements to the operating system make this an extremely formidable package.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/iphone-4-review/
P2PU's School of Webcraft
Yeah; screw the T-shirt... I've had migraines for years, and my current one has been messing me up for a month or three (yes, a month-long migraine -_-). I wanna hear more about how Rands mitigated (mitigates?) his headaches.

He's one of the lucky ones with migraine auras, so he's got a free 15-30 minutes between when his vision goes wack and when the pain pounces... I don't have that luxury, and once the headache hits, it's pretty freaking hard to relax... if I even knew what relaxed me.
Clearly, even an hour a day of exercise doesn't account for much food. And what's the likelihood you'll find the time to spend a full hour, every day, month after month, year after year, doing those exercises?

What if the post is too conventional in its thinking? I think this is the Real Hacker Exercise Regmine: http://www.instructables.com/id/Treadmill-Desk/ (courtesy of the founder and CEO of Instructables)
tldr; those who value their data use postgres.
AT = Anaerobic Threshold

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaerobic_threshold
If nobody else will hire you, hire yourself.
Plastic Brains, Femmebots, and Aliens Watching TV
>“The problem is, over and over again, that many very creative young people, who have demonstrated their creativity, can't figure out what the system wants of them—which hoops should they jump through?

I think that's the main problem. The system doesn't know what it wants.
Far and away: http://capulin.com/
Anaerobic threshold. It's the point where your body produces more lactate than it can burn, so excess lactate accumulates. (When I say point, this is generally expressed as both a heart rate and also a speed, but you usually pace your workouts based on HR.)
There should be some kind of utilities. So far I have at least used one for Atmel AVR-s and MIPS architectures.
I guess this would be a really good time to build your own web site. If you are really serious, get a few old computers and serve your own site. You could then simulate high traffic in the comfort of your own intranet.
regarding situps: I've read that crunches give much the same benefit as situps, but without situps increased risk of hurting something.
This will explain everything.

> Real artists ship, dabblers create concept products

> But there does appear to be a weak correlation between a company’s ability to churn out concept products and its ability to design, manufacture and profitably sell products based on those.

http://counternotions.com/2008/08/12/concept-products/

Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?oe=UTF-8&hl...
Can you tell us more about your data set?
AT&T's suckage continues to amaze me.

I carry both an iPhone 3gs and a Blackberry around most of the time (I'm currently justin.tv's iPhone developer). I find the iPhone pretty much useless around San Francisco because of AT&T's abysmal network coverage - I tend to just not bother and use the Blackberry instead, even though it has a worse web browsing experience (at least it always works! I haven't found a place yet that doesn't have good Sprint coverage).
Situps and leg lifts don't destroy your back.

Doing them improperly can destroy your back. Doing them properly can really improve core strength and make you a much safer athlete, as core strength is needed for most activities you do in life.

Unfortunately most people are never truly taught how to exercise their core properly. (I'm certainly no expert, but have had a couple of sessions with trainers who actually know what they're doing.)
Hah.. Mouser wants me to pay 40€ extra for backorder :S
I'm not sure what definition of 'full' means separating the chrome and content - but that's what Electrolysis does. As far as separation of plugins by process - this is full in every sense of the word.
Thanks for that link, can't wait to read this!
Writing a baked blogging engine in Clojure, heavily using Enlive for a large chunk of it. Many fewer lines of code than doing it in Python/Ruby.

Plus, honestly, it's a lot of fun to use.

Next up is some data analysis: I'm looking into the excellent Incanter for that.

Great libs, great community and a fun, fun language that's practical and elegant.

EDIT: to expand on what I like about the language; it's a lisp, so everything that comes with that. It's also got some syntax that simply makes it more pleasant to use on a day-to-day basis. And so much more!

(excuse typos: my phone is acting up today/can't handle HN for long comments.)
It might be kind of cool to have a little quiz style game at the end of each story, and you earn points for correct answers. I'd play... (I think)
How much arguing do we have to do about the optimal way to lose weight before we maybe come to the conclusion that different bodies are different?
Thanks for the link. The first thing I thought when I clicked through was if I could find a copy of this book :D
Teach yourself skills that companies with huge web sites value, parlay that into a job at one, and then learn all you can while you're there.

I went into Java desktop apps when I got out of college, mostly because I'd done Java desktop apps before I went into college. After about 8 months of that, I realized there was no future in Java desktop apps. So I started hanging around the interaction/web designer at my company, got him to teach me some CSS and JavaScript, supplemented it by reading voraciously, and got on a web project at my employer. (I wasn't exactly a complete web newbie either...I'd done a fairly major PHP app in college, but I viewed that as a technology dead-end that I didn't want to get into.)

My employer's technology stack was a dead end too, so I quit to found a JavaScript gaming startup. The startup died, but in the process I learned more JavaScript than I ever imagined I would. It was enough to get into Google.

Once you're at Google, you'll learn all about building highly scalable web sites. I work on search, one of the most highly trafficked web sites out there. I think this focus on scalability is rather silly, though - I'd rather learn about machine learning and data mining while I'm here, because those are the skills that can open up big new startup ideas for you.
I ordered a Droid Incredible at the beginning of June and it still hasn't shipped. I think I'll just get the iPhone 4 instead and return the Incredible when it does finally show up (I apparently can't cancel the shipment, I have to return it).
Zuckerberg Admits He "Paid Too Much Attention" To Twitter
The idea is to push things out that help users as fast as possible. Things that require users to rethink how they use a product require longer release cycles as to not confuse users. In other words, rethink releases from a user's prospective, not a developer's.
FWIW, Dead-simple replication is in the current postgres beta and due to enter stable soon.

Here are the docs:
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/hot-standby....

Oh, and unlike the MySQL replication this implementation can not silently lose or corrupt data.

In fact the above document could also be considered "The missing Manual for MySQL replication". It tells you all the things that MySQL doesn't take care of.
Perhaps Apple wants to hide the spec for 45 days because it would reveal a CDMA radio?

I enjoyed this line: "it manages to make the 3GS appear bulbous by comparison"
Nintendo Files Downloadable Games Strategy In 'What We Don't Do Well' Category
Yes, in the backtesting trials I ran, I tested three technical trading strategies using EOD adjusted closing prices between January 1, 1985 and May 1, 2010. I only conducted trials against current S&P 500 member companies. I licensed the data from Norgate Investor Services. I am not affiliated with that company. They just had a price that I, as a poor graduate student, could afford.
Since when was CSS3 part of HTML5?
No it wouldn't. Immediate red cards for "faking", determined by the video ref, would solve all the problems soccer has in an instant.

The number of refereee interventions would go down, not up, and the number of games won by theatrics instead of skill would drastically decrease.
Shameless self-plug, but I love this greasemonkey script I built and still use it across 3 machines. Pretty much you enter your tags/watchwords and it does a string match. It's very simple (I taught myself jQuery to write it) but I can't live without it.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/65211
working out at a fixed % of AT will make sure you cross over into anaerobic everytime. That is true. but at the same time, you will have to do more and more work to get to that point, and I think people underestimate how much that is (and thus get frustrated with cardio and blame exercise in general, poor genetics etc.). Purely as a time measurement, the amount invested just doesn't make sense vs. lifting. why not just cut to the chase and start with anaerobic exercise, since it looks like we agree that that's what burns the fat?

edit: I should also reiterate, as many have below, you ALSO get the cardio benefit from lifting.
How many months do you feel would be sufficient? What extra information should I be looking for in those months?
Ed Baig (USA Today): “Cutting through the hype, Apple has given longtime diehards, and first-time iPhone owners, plenty to cheer about.” [1]

Pogue (New York Times) doesn’t even seem to try: “Apple releases only one new model a year, so the new iPhone had better be pretty amazing to compete. — It is.” [2]

Any other reviews out yet? (Better collect them here so the front page doesn’t get clogged.)

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/edwardbaig/2010-06-22...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/23/technology/personaltech/23...
I had terrible speed issues until I did a full reset. Now it seems even faster then with the older os.
Thanks for the feedback, it's had mixed responses. I hand rolled the snap out to copy the NYT, if that counts (it has subtle but important differences) ;)
Yeah, just download your firmware from this page, then option-click Restore in iTunes and select the IPSW.

http://www.felixbruns.de/iPod/firmware/
Excellent analysis !!! Good job !!!
Just find a good local microroastery that sells very freshly roasted beans.
Some of these things may be going away in Fx4.0.

The UI for 4.0 will probably move to tabs-on-top, although it looks like there may be an option to return to tabs-on-bottom: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/4.0_Windows_Theme_Mockups

Some of the modal dialogs and windows may become web pages. The Extensions Manager (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Extension_Manager:UI_Update_oldvers...), for instance, looks like it will become a web page.

I agree with 100% though on the superiority of Fx's Awesomebar over Chrome's Omnibox.
Offering an stunning device like this for $199 and $55 per month will likely result in an extended period of short supplies. Most people are accustomed to paying this for much lesser phones.

Apple is fighting with both hands tied behind their back by limiting availability to one carrier in the US, though.
Ruby on Rails developer, primarily. Heaps of demand at the moment.
From the 'tech' page:

> "...it has a pair of devices that are wired up in such a way that as a high potential is applied across them, where electrons do not normally flow in this direction and would be blocked, the high voltage compresses the semiconduction gap sufficiently that the occasional stray electron will quantum tunnel through the P-N junction. (This is sometimes referred to as avalanche noise.) When this happens is unpredictable, and this is what the Entropy Key measures."

'Unpredictable' would qualify as random.
Of course it's interesting. There's no such thing as an uninteresting number. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
Am I right that most uses of this would rely on plugging in sensors and other devices for it to monitor or control?
This is very very simple. Regarding weight loss simply stop drinking anything that is not 100% water and possibly 2% milk. Stop drinking soda. Stop drinking alcohol. Stop drinking sugary juices. Stop drinking coffee. Just cutting those sugar/carbs will trim a lot of weight off of you. Combine that with exercise and a man will lose weight insanely fast 10 pounds in the first month is not even a problem.

As for exercise - do everything that makes you sweat. And I mean fall down, can't breath, can't move sweat. Running, biking, swimming, weight lifting, dancing, rollerblading... whatever. At least 30min - 1hr every day. EVERY DAY. Be consistent. Don't stop.

I just did a 2 mile swim in the Hudson river on Saturday and a sprint triathlon on Sunday. This will be my third season training for triathlons. The tri season is just getting underway for me in earnest and my training (swim, bike, run) will considerably pick up. You don't have to do a tri or compete in a run but for me it makes it more 'real' and I get to put events up on my calendar that I know I won't back out of and that I know I have to be ready for. My first half Ironman will be in September.

In addition, I do P90X with my sister everyday (according to the schedule). P90X alone is a rock solid regimen that if you stick to will definitely improve your physique. It is very taxing but dead simple to do. Just pop the DVD in and do what the man says. If all you want is an above base level of fitness and a nice body - do P90X. It works, it's hard, it's probably too hard for most programmers who sit around all day reading HN, but it is definitely worth doing and it will definitely get you into shape. Do it one full time around with less weight, less reps, more rest and then step it up on the second time around.
Are they using bespin for the syntax highlighting in the playground?
Ask HN: Anyone interested in buying hackruby.com
I got this domain hackruby.com, which I'm not interested in using anymore. Any Rubyists like to own it?
find a publicly funded gym. I pay $6 a month for a pool, full weight room, and exercise machines. plus I can run there and back. done.
I think the main advantage is that this RNG gives you the same results as a crypto-strong PRNG, but much faster. That said, I didn't see any benchmarks on their site.
That is different I believe. The key feature for the Ipad would be it's touch screen technology.
It's not full, it's literally whitelisted to only kick in for Flash, Quicktime, and Silverlight.
Umm I have to disagree. The lack of a notification bar / system, widgets really detract. I think the over glossed UI is getting stale. I think the new design is worse than the old. It looks like something LG was making a few years ago. People calling it "gorgeous" are fan boys sorely in denial. It's a brick. A shiny brick but still a brick. It feel cold and sharp in your hands just like MBPs (not a compliment).

The screen is not huge revolution it's slightly more res than has been going into pretty much every smart phone for a year. Telling the difference between those resolutions at that scale is nearly impossible.

I just don't see anything to be impressed by blockier design, OS upgrades that still doesn't catch Android in core functionality, and not to mention ATT.
I think the conversation about this post is considerably more interesting and enlightening than what you would be likely to see from the same post on reddit.
One even said that squatting is a very unnatural moment for human body and is best to avoid it

Then babies need to fire their personal trainers:

http://personaltrainerbath.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/BA...

http://www.malvernstrength.com/.a/6a00e553cfae8a88340120a4cb...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_X0yQkonFwHQ/SeINrYNoy9I/AAAAAAAAAU...
I think you're getting into the zone of training philosophy at this point (ie: no right answer, YMMV etc). Absolutely squats by definition are not bad for you, but it's very easy to hurt your knees (and your back) doing them if you aren't careful.
Then why do people pay more money for phones that haven't been upgraded? I figured it was because you can't go backwards and the newest versions can't be unlocked.
A 4G option will probably appear when 4G networks and chipsets do not drain battery power faster than a mortgage broker hoovering blow off a prostitutes ass.
AT&T's awful network is the reason I ended up switching to an HTC Evo 4G on Sprint. I knew the iPhone 4 was going to be great, but the fact that AT&T is awful in my city meant it wasn't an option. If I was the sort of person who used a BB for business and a separate phone for personal, the iPhone 4 on ATT would be tolerable, but that isn't me.

After years of ATT's awful network, my first few minutes on Sprint gave me nerd chills: the same nerd chills I got when I was 15 and surfed the internet with broadband for the first time.
If you don't need video and is looking for a similar hosted solution like WebEx, I say go with GoToWebinar. They can support larger groups, even up to 1,000.

If performance has been an issue in the past, maybe you should consider self-hosted products. Since its on-premise, you'll have more control over it. A good one is RHUB (http://www.rhubcom.com).
Cutting juice, alcohol, soda etc. is just about the easiest thing you can do to lose weight (there is ZERO reason for you to have sugar at all in your diet - even fruits [relatively high in sugar] can be cut entirely as well as long as you eat you veggies).

P90X is great, but all the other stuff you are doing (while also great) goes against the OP's goal of targeting hackers who don't have a lot of time. Sounds like exercise is a big part of your life.
Just found one from Boing Boing:

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/22/apple-iphone-4-hands.ht...