skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just wanted to comment that this is a great post and I enjoyed reading it.
Where's the evidence for that?

Perhaps if the price is $500+, but at $200 it can be an impulse buy.
There are a number of serious problems with this vision:

1) Of course the digital components of cameras (storage size, sensor resolution, processing power) will continue to improve at Moore's law pace, but optics is quickly becoming the limiting factor. In particular, diffraction limits sharpness as you increase depth-of-field (a result of the small aperture size) and the limited number of photons in dark scenes limits our high-ISO potential and resolution on small sensors.

2) "...the ability to keep everything viewable in focus at the same time".

Even if you could do this you wouldn't want to. Depth-of-field and focus point are some of the most important creative decisions a photographer makes per photo, and since they are "3D" phenomenon the effects cannot be accurately simulated during post-processing. (maybe stereoscopic cameras would be able to but then you need two lenses, which would add cost & weight in comparison to a "single" lens model)

3) "But perhaps the most radical thing about this camera is that it's really a camcorder. Rather than take individual stills, Wonder Camera owners would simply have their pick of perfectly crisp photos as frames grabbed from video."

Maybe, but there would have to be a way to have it integrate over several frames to get long-shutter-speed effects, and there would have to be a way to "tag" points in time so you're not sifting through hours of footage later to get the stills you wanted. Much of what this article proposes sounds like it just defers work (choosing aperture, choosing shutter speed, choosing point in time) to a later point, something I would NOT think photographers would want to do, since they already complain about how long post takes!

4) Finally, even this concept turns out to be 100% correct, I don't see it changing the art of photography all that much. As other people here mention, good photography is about good subject matter, framing the shot, clever use of lighting (whether artificial or available), post-processing to get the desired artistic effect, and being in the right place at the right time. Technology can certainly assist us with these things, but fundamentally it is these human element, not the technology, that makes photography what it is, and that won't change. As technology improves the photographer's decision process focuses less on making technical trade-offs (like shutter-speed vs aperture, high-ISO vs noise), but the creative aspects remain as important as ever.
iPhone 4 owner as of day 1 and I have had this issue. I can't imagine that this is false.
I'd learn rails over sinatra. Sinatra is like being thrown into the deep end of the pool when you haven't learned to swim yet. You have to do it all yourself, where as in rails they've done all foundational stuff for you. Learning rails will teach you some good practices for how to structure a project, sinatra assumes you already know how to do this stuff yourself.
Oops - didn't think anyone would be too interested :)

Back in 2006, I was attending a residential high school, so inbetween classes I went back to my dorm and went on Digg to submit and comment. There was still a user ranking system back and I managed to enter the top 5 based on post success (yeah, I spent quite a bit of time on it). Even Jason Calacanis was wondering why anyone would spend so much time on a social bookmarking site: http://calacanis.com/2006/05/22/why-do-people-contribute-who... (that's me lol)

During that summer, Jason decided to revamp the Netscape site into a Digg competitor and needed some users to accelerate the content generation process: http://calacanis.com/2006/07/18/everyones-gotta-eat-or-1-000...

I immediately jumped at the opportunity of a job and fortunately, I was chosen to be one of the first Netscape "Scouts". I managed to somehow get interviews from the WSJ, Chicago Tribune, and some other media outlets in the Chicagoland area.

As a naive high schooler, I treated the whole thing as a fun situation with easy money and never really bothered to network with any big names and never considered social media a viable career option. In an ironic twist, I've switched majors in college (screw law school) and now I'm looking to come back. I never expected any of this to become a life-changing moment, but I'm definitely thankful for being able to experience it all.
Unless it's an Apple product.
Developed largely by engineer (and later famous novelist) Nevil Shute.
A dell vostro 13 with Ubuntu 10
So you're saying that Consumer Reports is incapable of over-reacting and accusing them of such is to imply that they have an anti-Apple agenda?
I was really surprised by the weight of this machine. It's also very low-resolution. But the build quality is much-improved over precedessors. If Apple started to compete based on weight and resolution I might consider them, but who knows--maybe they're trying to avoid impinging on the lower-level ipad market.
I suggest you look at internships. Most startups don't really have the room for someone whose skills aren't among the first steps towards revenue (sales guys physically can't do anything that directly produces revenue until the product is done regardless of how you split up importance etc).

A UX guy doing untrained sales is a lot more valuable in the beginning than a sales guy doing untrained UX (or nothing). The idea that you'd even have one single responsibility is kind of missing the point. Startups that are successful tend to be people who are really knowledgeable and at the top of the game in their field, and on top of that bring in other outside skills (like sales) to the table. Bridging the gap between two industries etc.

Reddit is not really a startup anymore, I think maybe you are thinking of "tech companies" in general, who may have more slack and so the ability to hire full time sales people (or whatever it is you are looking for).

What ARE you looking for if not programming/design in a startup? How would you help lead the company towards a process that produces revenue/profit?
Are simplified hadoop interfaces the next web cash cow?
I bet it will work if you replace the + in the URL with %2B.
The problem with desktops (for me) is that I need a laptop to be mobile, I would love to have a mac pro or imac at home but keeping them both in sync is too much of an effort!
What about depilatory cream? It's true that the instructions say not to use it on your face, but I still wonder what can happen and how effective it is.
And this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/technomancy/3797798785/

And don't forget this:

http://twitpic.com/20sk9y

I love 3G.
That's quite possible also.

We also don't do long-distance airborne migrations, where the ability to innately determine your compass heading would be advantageous, since common weather phenomena like fog can easily hide significant landmarks from your view. On the ground, even if you can't see significant landmarks at a distance due to fog or low clouds, you can still use landmarks if you know what you're doing.

Today we rely on compasses, topo maps, and sometimes GPS devices and altimeters to navigate when traversing trail-free wilderness, but there are still cultures that manage to navigate over long distances without such modern acoutrements -- some of them are so skilled at using methods like songlines (aka "dreaming tracks") that they don't even need to carry extra water, because they know where to find it.
13" MacBook (first unibody model) driving a 24" Dell U2410. Microsoft Natural 4000 Ergonomic Keyboard. I just started trying to go mostly mouseless using Optimal Layout and vimperator, which together cover about 85% of what I ever need one for.
usesthat.com! lets do it
Hey Chris!
Reminds me of the "Blessing for the Czar" from Fiddler on the Roof - "May the Lord bless and keep the executives... far away from us!"
What about technical support and customer service? Are you willing to do that? You could then get into customer development or something like that.

But I can't answer your question as to who is looking.
What area in Nebraska? I live in Hastings :(
I just wrote something similar in another reply. :)
Has anyone seen mjd lately? I haven't heard from him and he hasn't updated his blog since January. I'm starting to get worried. (This PDF was put up long before that.)
Google App Inventor for Android: brilliant for IT devs.
One factor I forgot when buying a PC: noise! The fans are horrible...
Is the Web Finally Ready to Kill Television?
Bernanke: $40B in small biz loans disappears
> i think it would be neat if _the setup_ (http://usesthis.com/) had a version where anyone could submit their responses

The nice thing about the Web is that it's distributed:

http://technomancy.us/137

Spoiler: Thinkpad X200s, standing desk, vertical-orientation external display, custom keyboard setup attached to my pants.
2 notebooks, 2 desktop pc
Do you have any evidence that the brightness of a fully-on iPad screen “hurts eyes”?

* * *

The human visual system adapts to the level of illumination it is looking at, so the times when eyes “hurt” are basically only when going from being dark-adapted to suddenly looking at something bright: for example, going from a darkened movie theater out into a sunny day. If you turn an iPad on in a completely darkened room, it might seem bright when first looked at (even this is not going to do any lasting damage, and is just a temporary annoyance), but if you spend more than a few minutes reading, your eyes will adapt to whatever its brightness is, and it shouldn't really be a problem.
I completely disagree. Rails takes care of the foundation for you, and a novice doesn't need to know how it's implemented for a while. It also has good practices built in like dev,test,prod environments, testing infrastructure, mvc separation, etc.

Sinatra assumes you will roll all of this on your own. A novice won't know to do this, or how to do it, so I think it's better to have it done for you at first.
a few years later stands musing over a nuclear chain reaction in a secret project in Chicago? Puhleeze.

Not only that, but the reactor is in the basement of the University's stadium. Whoever wrote that one must've been reading Spider Man!
I wonder who's done more research into the issue, cschep and his iPhone 4, or Consumer Reports, with decades of history of impartial product testing, three iPhones, and an RF isolation chamber?

Well, since cschep hasn't had the issue, it can't possibly be true.
Laptop :
MacBook 13" Unibody (late 2009) 2Ghz, 4GB RAM, 500GB Seagate "Hybrid" (4GB NAND).

Desktop #1 :
Win7-64 - 23" LCD 2048x1152
Core i5-750(Quad 2.5Ghz), 8GB RAM, ATI Radeon 5770 1GB, 1TB Seagate System drive, 1.5TB Seagate Storage

Desktop #2 :
MacOS 10.6.4 (Hackintosh) - 23" LCD 2048x1152
Intel Q6600(Quad 2.4Ghz)
8GB RAM, Nvidia 8800GT 512MB, 1TB System Drive, 1.5TB Storage

Fileserver :
Windows Home Server
1.4Ghz AMD Geode
1GB RAM
160gb System drive
8TB of total storage space.

My two desktops have my 23" LCD's side by side and I control both with one keyboard/mouse (Win7-64 machine is the server) via Synergy+ with an SSH tunnel.

I'm really happy with this setup.
I cried because I realized snakes are just tails with faces. That high.

Wow, that's funny. And you just have Google ads and stickers? Seems like you could make much more off of direct advertisers, or even find something on CJ.com

EDIT: had to add this link. Haven't laughed this hard in weeks! http://www.thathigh.com/stickiest/
I just bought a hero, while aging I got it because it was available (the EVO is hard to find) and didn't have a keyboard. Plus it's my first "smart phone" so probably better to ease into it with a hero than an EVO.
Nope, just SSH into it, treating it as if it where a plain old hosted box.
Alternate hard and soft layers
Yes, but that doesn't mean "non-developer" is sufficient to come up with working business models. You need to have and demonstrate some kind of useful and relevant skillset.
I concur with this thought. For me, the act of debugging is an act of pure problem solving, even more so than the act of programming. Why the hell is this code acting this way rather than the expected way? And what is the right way to fix it? Oftentimes, programming can be (almost) reduced to pasting together libraries and putting a nice UI on the resulting code[1], but debugging is always a fresh experience.

[1] Of course, I know this is a total oversimplification.
(spit take) Heh... resistive screen and slow CPU. The year 2005 called and wants its N800 back.

Until the competitors really start to care about excellence, Apple will continue to dominate. I say this not as a particular Apple fan, but out of frustration with "open" alternatives I'd like to use that just f*cking blow compared to the benchmark Apple has set.

I mean you're trying to sell me a super-smartphone (HTC Evo) with shitty battery life? In 2010? what the hell?
I also initially read the url as iSwearing...
i don't think apple has to worry, apparently people can't be swayed by facts (see: "How telling people the facts may not cause them to change what they believe" (http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11/... )).

also, every iphone has had serious signal issues, it's a known problem, yet people still continue to buy them–why would this change anything... most people buy the iphone because of marketing not functionality.
2kg? Positively or negatively?
My sister bought this dell (http://www1.la.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx...) and its 1.6kg. Everyone loves the weight.
Search engines controlling media websites, search sites
No, just relating a similar situation.
It's a shame they don't mention the app store jail. I guess it's not high-priority because things like VoIP and tethering aren't really on the consumer radar yet, but hopefully that changes in the future.
If you live near SF, come to my neighborhood for a beer and I'll show you the problem on your phone.
Ballmer says Microsoft's "hardcore" about tablets
Do you have some marketable skill? That's what you need to focus on. Just being enthusiastic is usually not enough.

Are you good at sales? Do you have demonstrated ability as a product manager? Or maybe a background in technical writing? Etc.
ABC's Barbara Walters Isn't Dead: Coming Back in Sept
I agree: I actually wrote a post: http://jseliger.com/2008/12/26/computer-post-desktop-or-lapt... on this subject.
I picked these because the big box book resellers stock them (I think you're looking for background on things like primitives/autoboxing, java.util.concurrent, the JVM's startup options, profiling/debug tools, and maybe tips that make rhickey's clojure source easier to read):

http://www.amazon.com/Core-Java-TM-I-Fundamentals-8th/dp/013...

http://www.amazon.com/Java-Good-Parts-Jim-Waldo/dp/059680373...
I'm a fan too; you can see from this review: http://jseliger.com/2009/07/20/kinesis-advantage/ that I was initially somewhat ambivalent... until I switched back to a normal keyboard, at which point I realized just how nice the Advantage is.
Title misleading:
"communicating with public about their suggestions of what to cut"
is not the same as
"communicating cuts to public."
Works fine for chrome on osx.
What salary can one expect while working for a YC startup? Is it comparable with the industry's average?
Good design, easy to share with friends.

Very specific demographic, so it will be hard to market to the general public.

Possibly allow people to upload other people's pictures (i.e. celebrities or friends), and then have a best of and worst of wall. I feel the best of / worst of would bring a lot of people in.

Finally, add a database of some sort so users can fill out their clothing, and it will be matched up with a link to where they can buy the clothing from. Lead generation will be key to making a profit off of this.
Ask HN: Anyone used an Adwords Consultant?
I have spent a lot of time myself optimizing my adwords campaign, and used to have a monthly spend of about $5k that was getting very good ROI bringing people into my online space game, but about a year ago, I just stopped getting the clicks, and now I'm only spending about $1k a month despite my budget and the advice from the Google people assigned to advise me and any tweaks I do. I've upped my bids by several cents, but that doesn't seem to help either.

Anyone used an Adwords consultant? If you Google it, there are lots of people there ready to take my money if I let them, but just wondering if anyone has any idea if they are worth it or not.
Dynamic Storage Allocation: A Survey and Critical Review
So you're saying that you kill baby seals?
http://rethinkdb.com/jobs/ has one data point

When comparing salaries, http://indeed.com/salary has been somewhat useful as well.
I'd love to hear the backstory and your overall experience in detail about this. Sounds great.
I created a social networking software package, initially intended to be downloaded and used behind their firewall by small and medium companies for free (http://www.jouzz.com). I am currently in discussions with a large corporation that wants to implement it, paying licenses for all its employees!
The history of the Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development is incredible. Their exploits make an episode of the A-Team look plausible.

http://www.uboat.net/books/reviews.html/title/2349
And seal the fence with the Wikkit gate?
You know what, permanent archive isn't for "regular people". For it to be archive, you have to start guessing at what future generations want, will be interested in, their mode of access, and you're at a level of basic precision here beyond what regular joes will pay for right now. I inherently dislike the use of the word archive in pet projects. We're just staring to go through a phase now where storage is chancing at maturing on things like bit level integrity, but ther hold back is the huge money that three leter acronym companies can charge for capacity, two orders more than the underlying spinning rust bare cost. If you ar interested in finding out some failed big budget projects, in the EU you could contact the DGXIII initiative, whove funded or match funded quite a lot of this kind of thing. Realize that's not a short route to enlightenment, heck i spent years in touch with that group. I'm just saying there are, you know, things like national libraries who care quite a bit about all of this, and a few phone calls could get you a bunch of info as to where ohers have met dead ends. I'll say i'm not without my own reservatos about trans-national IGO EU tech projects, but there's been a strong attempt to address whole areas of real concern in archive for 20 years now in that group, and you might pick up quite a bit which could spur you onwards. Not a summer holiday project, though, i don't think. I'm really truly amazed at Y-comb startups being in this field. I've personally thrown a dozen Y-comb sized budgets at the area trying to get personal satisfaction. But don't listen to the self - inflicted poor! :-)
Isn't marketing about getting your product in the customer's hands? Your product should be able to handle it from there.
What I'm saying is that Consumer Reports seem to have put their money where their mouth is. Countless bloggers, Youtubers, and Twitter users have made their anecdotal claims about having signal issues, and nearly every time they get published, a legion of Apple fanatics yells them down with "Doesn't happen on my phone/This is so overblown." There's already someone in the HN comments on this story who says it can't possibly be true because he's never had the problem with his iPhone. Seriously. Dinosaurs can't be millions of years old, because I read a book that said the earth is 4000 years old!

Consumer Reports took the time and money to test three different iPhones in an RF isolation chamber, and presumably through scientific process, determined that indeed, the iPhone4 has signal attenuation issues that cause calls to be dropped.

I think that if one believes they are fudging the numbers, either duplicate their effort, or contact Consumer Reports and ask for more details on how the experiment is run.

I think it's good to question authority - and in fact that's what Consumer Reports often does, and is what they're doing here. The authority, Apple, is saying there's nothing wrong with one face, and with another face, they're hiring RF and antenna engineers. There are real people who paid at least $200 for this phone who are having real signal issues, but I shouldn't believe them because AT&T's coverage in Philadelphia is so widespread that I can use my iPhone underground in the subway?

That's zealous, and I'm glad to see an organization with the means to test these things put some weight behind the bloggers and everyday users who are having real trouble with these phones.
Most of the non-techie people aren't also that interested in Apple. They just care about the product. In this case, I know several non-techies (hair dresser, cake decorator, etc) who really don't care about Apple, the company. However, they have asked about the Apple phone screw up they heard about.

Most non-techies, I find, will see a tech-oriented friend to guide purchases, and they will learn about it through those means.
Glad you like it. I honestly have very little experience, I'm learning as I go. I'd never heard of CJ.com. I was thinking of contacting local businesses, dispensaries, and doctors (heh) to see if they'd like to advertise on the site. Not sure of the legality of that though...
The python/ruby thing seems to be at an interesting point. Python as a language has a bigger mindshare but none of the python web stacks has close to the adoption that rails does.

As far as I can tell there seems to be a lot more peripheral innovation in the ruby camp though, particularly in testing tools. Are there python equivalents to rspec, cucumber, factory_girl/machinist, shoulda, passenger, haml, webrat etc?
Interesting read but the details are a bit scary from my comfy chair here in enterprise software land:

- Six years at Stanford, two CS degrees

- Works up to 90 hours a week from home, has burned out multiple times in only six months with the company

- Founders work even more

- All three appear to be single white 20something males

- Job and tech (Clojure!) sound cool.

Edit: All that said he seems like a nice guy and I hope he gets rich off of Backtype. I love the service. I just can't quite project myself into the profile above.
Chrome on Windows 7, works fine.
Of course leaders have enormous powers. But it was never like comrade Stalin waves and everything stops.
Consumer Reports: Skip iPhone 4
Data Center Containers Going Mainstream
Juggling.

I juggle as a hobby, and someone invited me to give a talk about the structures and theory behind it. I make a lot of money giving that talk multiple times every year.

For the last 25 years - about 1800 talks.
By virtue of the iPad's capabilities, you could also argue that it's a competitor to PCs and laptops. I would argue that most of the people who are currently claiming that the iPad is a threat to computers and laptops are simply trying to draw eyeballs to their blogs with sensationalistic headlines.

I see a lot of cheap keychain digital cameras being sold at supermarkets, but I highly doubt that anyone would seriously consider them to be competition for even a $100 digital camera from any major camera manufacturer.

Competition isn't just about features or market share in the overall segment. Apple has a very specific set of customer personas it sells to, and it does well selling to them. That people outside of their defined persons buys their devices is -gravy-. I highly doubt any of their target customers are even interested in this Pandigital device, which makes it a device that is not real competition for the iPad.
Why is it bad that they're white?