skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I absolutely love it. I use it for everything but development/work... and I mean everything: browsing, email, reading, ordering pizza/food, as a reference when making food, buying stuff online, researching stuff to buy offline, listening to music, sharing photos (like, physically I mean), checking the weather, playing board games (and other multiplayer stuff) as well as single player games like Osmos and Angry Birds. I use it to keep up on Facebook and Flickr happenings as well as managing twitter accounts... The list never ends, really. If it broke I would absolutely go right out and buy another one immediately.
I had always had more respect for Bill Gates than anybody because of his contributions for welfare of humanity. Now, I have 39 more in the list. This is just awesome. I hope there were more people like them and you don't have to be a billionaire to give back to the world. Keep up the good work.
This is from the BES Security Technical Overview [1 p.30] [pdf]:

Before the BlackBerry device sends a message, it
compresses and encrypts the message using the device
transport key. When the BlackBerry Enterprise Server
receives a message from the BlackBerry device, the
BlackBerry Dispatcher decrypts the message using the
device transport key, and then decompresses the message.

Doesn't that mean that BES has the plaintext?

[1] http://docs.blackberry.com/en/admin/deliverables/16650/Black...
I think you're stripping what you do down too far.

Organic SEO and Adwords are tactics, but your business is a strategy that addresses the needs of a very narrow group of people who will pay to make study exercises (and occasionally family entertainment) easier and more effective. There are lots of other tactical moves you make, like figuring out how to demo your product, moving customers to the web version of the app, keeping metrics on task completion inside the app, etc.

But, yeah, the underlying theme here is that if you can execute these tactics and knit them into a coherent strategy, there are thousands of other niches you can address besides "people who will pay money so they can easily spend class periods playing bingo". Why waste time fighting over the bingo pie?

I'm not even a little bit worried about hurting your feelings. ;)
+1 on Dropbox. Apple really mashed up the file uploading.
There are some studies that point to many benefits of the act of breastfeeding itself, but I think from a health/scientific perspective I think it's stretching things to suggest that putting your milk in a bottle and then into your baby's mouth somehow reduces the benefits.

Obtuse bitches that happen to be employed as lactation consultants notwithstanding.
It is a cool benefit, albeit a philanthropic one, which in and of itself defeats the argument the OP was making.
Sauce Labs responds to UK govt's decision to stick with IE6
Battery life is simply outstanding.
CIA, Google Invest in 'Future' Web Algorithm
Git hooks aside (MacOS's "say" command can also help here), I like the way Brandon's picture pops out from under the article. It is one of those pieces that's so fun to use that I end up using it a few times extra, like the cup holder in my former boss's Saab 9000 or the carrying handle of my girlfriend's Bernina sewing machine.
As a single hetero male I have never seen a single episode of Sex and the City, but I can speak wonders on what it has done for the single man in NYC (and the world for that matter). Thank you SJP...I say the former (better).
Gamers beat algorithms at finding protein structures
often I hit N instead of spacebar

I often hit spacebar instead of N! Perhaps meeting like this will cancel out our habits... :)
IE Use Grows Worldwide, but Europe Loves Firefox
And still cached in their search cache
There's Dragon dictation software available for it, no idea if it's any good though.
I have read five novels ( Carpe Jugulum, Blackout, The Graveyard Book, Never Let me Go, and the Accidental Time Machine) and and find it far more convenient than my Kindle1/K2 for indoor reading - Ironically the battery is always charged on my iPad (I tend to let the kindle run down) and until the graphite kindle comes out, the ability to read at night is the deal breaker.

When I go on vacation though, I expect the Kindle will be in heavy rotation as my primary reader though - particularly out in BRC during the day.

Netflix, even with it's so-so iPad interface is frequently in rotation, and when Hulu-Plus -finally- sends me an invitation, I expect to get a lot of use from it.

Videos are in frequent rotation.

I've spent way to many hours on Games (PvZ, Build-a-Lot,BloonsTD)

DropBox/Good Reader/Instapaper get rotated every other day.
Innovative Use: I have a Go program that I worship (SmartGoPro) - and every Friday Night, when I get together with a Friend for our six-hour Go session, we go through a bunch of Life-Death problems, both new and old, on the iPad.

All-in-all I really like how the iPad and the iPhone compliment each other. I use the iPhone for taking pictures, Blogging, GPS, SMS, eMail, instapaper a lot. But I find that general browsing I now typically reach for the iPad.

The Laptop at home gets very little use - only when I need to hop onto Terminal.App or use Remedy (Grrrr Flash) do I actually bother to open it up.

WSJ is killer - I open it up every morning and read it on my walk to/from work + they keep improving the App! The WSJ really, really are good. What's going on at the NYT - they've totally lamed out on the iPad.

Of the three magazines I read - Time, Popular Electronics, and Wired - Only wired really wowed me, and now I actually look forward to the new magazine coming out. I haven't looked forward to the day a magazine comes out in 20+ Years (Dragon Magazine).

So, for me - iPad is a huge win. Looking forward to iPad with a retina display. :-)
If you too would like a reason to donate some money to Teach For America, you could suggest a series of design changes and bet that they'd A/B test significantly better with his audience than his current design. I'm guessing that Patrick wins either way on bets like this, and so do we (since the writeups are great). So... what's the next thing you'd change?
The technologist in me loved being able to write and deploy software accessed by over a hundred of thousands users a day.

I've learned so much about running a (relatively) large website from userscripts.

I used to have time to watch munin, new relic, ... every day - it has been a month since I've checked http://munin.userscripts.org :(

I don't really want to get rid of it, but my life is too hectic to give it the time it needs. The site went down for half a day last week due to a DMCA takedown request that occurred while I was traveling for work. It needs someone who can pay attention.

Maybe I can find a product / hacker / designer who can run it with me - but I don't want to make myself the bottleneck, so if someone comes around who can do a better job, I should probably step down :(
Startcraft II sells 1.5 Mil in 48 hours... huh
“Ugly” Sites that Make Millions (and What We Can Learn from Them)
For a simpler project, I usually start by building a basic library of classes/functions I know I'll need (for example, a database factory class and MySQL or PostgreSQL interface, helper functions for cleaning querystrings and form fields, etc.). Then I'll do a basic mockup of the front page and at least one or two internal pages (if they differ from the default page).

Finally I start building code out, starting with a very basic theme for the front end and concentrating on any security that needs to be in place.

Yes, I generally start from a blank slate each time, just using pieces of code I already have. I don't use frameworks or CSS grids.
A lot Gates philanthropy goes to vaccines.
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article17644.html
What about vendors for Wall Street? Anyone know where I could find vendors to Wall Street that are still essentially tech companies? I figure that market is huge in New York and might be a good alternative to the tradition IT in an IB job.
I've found the complete opposite - I can hardly work an iPhone keyboard now. I'm amazed at how fast typing on the iPad is - although I've still not worked out where I should be looking keyboard (for finger placement), or text (for typos)
I interpreted that to mean

value = worth - price

So as the price goes up, the value you get goes down.
B/c the OP just finished writing several paragraphs about women. Getting laid with men obviously doesn't 'suit' him, so the comment was a bit misdirected.

Generally it's correct, but sounds a bit snarky when directed at someone who is clearly hetero.
Is there a market for a screen darkening overlay? Even with brightness right down it's too bright for me at night, and I think it disrupts my sleeping slightly.
I guess if one camp is clearly more popular than the other then it will win out all the time, instead of both winning out all the time.
My macbook is my new desktop machine and my iPad is my new laptop.

Dropbox + omnigraffle + numbers + keynote + safari + mail means I basically have all the information I need when I'm out in usable form.

I do have a ridiculously large case, though. I've been wondering if I should go for the apple case as opposed to this incase thing that makes the footprint larger than my Dell mini 9.
Which, in turn, reminds me of "6-Year-Old Stares Down Bottomless Abyss Of Formal Schooling" http://www.theonion.com/articles/6yearold-stares-down-bottom...
In Japan, Living Large In Really Tiny Houses
How about http://tf2wiki.net/w/images/8/83/Heavy_positivevocalization0... ?
FTC to Intel: No threats, bundling allowed
Top Interior Designer Schools of the World
I'm shocked, shocked! that electronic strip searches might be misused by the crack team of professionals at the TSA.

This is very simple:

(a) call these things what they are: electronic strip searches.

(b) refuse to submit to them at the airport.

I just did this on a flight from Kansas City. Guess what? Not a big deal. You'll get the same pat-down search you get when you're "randomly selected for additional screening", which is not a big deal. It'll add 5 minutes to the security line for you.

To those who suggest that the pat-down searches are as intrusive or more intrusive than the electronic strip searches: no. By and large, the human beings manning the security checkpoints are as squeamish about invading the personal space of another actual human being looking them in the eyes as you are about having your space invaded.

The same is not true of a series of images on a screen in an isolated room. Images on screens are not people. There is no social conditioning that normal human beings have that will cause people to automatically respect images on a screen.

Step 1 in defending your rights from ludicrous invasions like this: be an actual person, not an abstraction.
Painless IMAP email migration
I sincerely hope that the president sees fit to put the full might of the US military to the task of ending the tyranny of these TSA terrorists.
> And what should he do?

Stick to business and stay out of trying to be a folk hero? Or pay higher tax rates voluntarily to set an example? Campaigning for a tax increase when a lot of his money came from helping people use a tax loophole created by his industry doesn't seem particularly righteous.
The Important modules of an Academic Term Paper
Academic paper is a very important part of the coursework in undergraduate and postgraduate courses. As per the writing styles there are components to the academic paper. Components and structure for the term paper is shown in this article.
what is the expected outcome if someone fights hard for years and sees no success?

is it never justified for someone to fight hard, see they're not getting anywhere, and then drop their effort level down to match the situation they're in, permanently or temporarily?
> It also doesn't help that my comment was upvoted a few times, and when Dons & Co. replies, it drops to -3.

Interestingly, I saw it happen almost everywhere. It looks like people are more likely to down-vote comments which are contradicted by a recognized authority. This is of course not a good thing.

> You aren't really an outsider considering your participation in the Haskell Cafe mailing list and being credited in Real World Haskell.

I didn't post more than a few messages, 2 years ago, and I posted about 3 minor comments in Real World Haskell. I've read a few papers, but seldom have written anything (except http://www.loup-vaillant.fr/articles/assignment of course). I'm not an outsider, but hardly what I consider to be an Insider.

> You also don't have any proof that most software is custom or private.

I don't. But in this (huge) niche, my point still stand: being afraid of the GPL is silly. Corporations that are should stop being.

> you cannot deny that the shrink-wrap industry is huge

I cannot and I won't.

> The answer is to avoid GPL code in the language […]

Yes, assuming you want the (proprietary) shrink-wrap industry to use Haskell. I want it gone. Therefore, I see the GPL as the solution.
All of Boston's Universities are located downtown or in Cambridge; no slums at Kenmore/Brookline/Downtown, but go out to the outskirts of the city, like Mission Hills, Roxbury or Dorchester (away from Huntington Ave. Medical Campus). Or the part of Brighton and lower Allston that's further away from Harvard and BU. Or the true Slumerville of Somerville away from Tufts. Even East Cambridge away from MIT and Kendall Sq., although that part of town is fast gentrifying a la Davis Sq.

The misconception is that Boston is this global city of about 4.5 million people living in academic utopia when it's a really smaller city of 600,000 people, where even a smaller percentage are actually living in ivory towers. The rest of the 4.5 million people live in typical post-industrial New England towns surrounding Boston such as Lynn, Revere and Quincy.
This is a great point and is something we're planning on adding in an upcoming release of our Python library.
Great quote in this article:

"For its part, the TSA says that body scanning is perfectly constitutional: "The program is designed to respect individual sensibilities regarding privacy, modesty and personal autonomy to the maximum extent possible, while still performing its crucial function of protecting all members of the public from potentially catastrophic events."

Of course, the weasel words, "to the maximum extent possible" render this a mere sentiment, at fucking best (as Zed might say), meaning of course that your "privacy, modesty and personal autonomy" are toast.
Careful here: I think you'll find that borrowing trades off with buying (i.e. people who buy don't borrow, people who borrow don't buy). Aside from a few industries where one does not have to have money to get it extracted from you, people who don't buy do not make good targets for advertising.

Try chatting up some middle class housewives. I may be totally off my rocker here, but I'm thinking borrowing items of significance is vastly, vastly more common among twenty-somethings in communal living situations than it is among people who own property.
The bombshell in the story is - "The settlement will require Intel to change agreements with AMD, Nvidia and Via Technologies Inc. in Taiwan so the chipmakers can enter into mergers and joint ventures with other companies without fearing a patent-infringement lawsuit from Intel. ". Suddenly AMD becomes a viable buyout target!
Thanks Mark!

I'm one of the founders of IActionable and would love to answer any questions.
please educate me how is space/ocean exploration better than saving lives, even if its "bunch of Africans"
+1 from a guy that did 2 startups in NYC over 3 years as well. My sentiments exactly.

They are different environments with pros and cons, but I preferred the social scene in NYC to SF by far.
Because it's kind of fun ;).

But really it's hard to have a friend attack my hometown like this and not respond. I just answered in kind.

Also, I think these types of things are probably much older than 15 years.
Poll vs Epoll, once again.
Just flag the article. When it reaches some threshold, the story gets kicked.
It doesn't excuse, but it does explain -- hence, it shouldn't be surprising. Deplorable, perhaps, but not surprising.
"The Year of Linux on the Desktop" may never arrive but it looks like "The Year of Linux" might be this year, or next. Mobile phones could soon make Linux the most popular OS in the world.
Is the honeymoon over for Blippy?
Blippy's traffic has diminished to unimpressive levels over the past 3 months since the privacy leak scandal. Author predicts a massive paid and viral marketing campaign is coming.
On the other hand - times ripe for a east coast-west coast nerd RAP war. Time to bust some moves yo.
See, I would find that makes the table a lot less sacred because it's where a lot of conversation goes on, and barking orders at my iPad isn't going to be popular ;-) Not only that, I'd rather my wife didn't know I was goofing off instead of working, ha!
The score system is different in Bulgaria. There was nothing like N% of the students get A. In fact - the class I've been in, graduated with 5.50 (6 is the max in Bulgaria), the other class graduated (averaged) with something like 5.75. I graduated with something like 4.40, and the other guy was 4.20, the next worst after me was 5.20 I think. About 30 people in the class.

I basically skipped a lot from the school, but because I was in the computer science (informatics) team, I've got A's (6) on certain subjects, because the teachers decided not to care. Other decided that I should be present more and I've got 3 or 4 - like C or D here in US.
>I like Android, I make an Android app

What app?

>Over 230,000 iDevices sold per day, compared to less than 100K Androids

Groan. Android was past 160K per day many months ago. It has only accelerated since.

>Multiple studies say people buy way more iPhone apps than Android apps.

Why does this matter?

>Apple owners are on average wealthier.

This one gives me a chuckle every time. Every burger flipper owns an iPhone -- It is not the status symbol it keeps getting ridiculously paraded as.

All smartphones have a net cost in the $2500 range, adding in requisite data plans. The iPhone is no big expense.

>but end of the day, Android revenues sucks.

Again, what is your angle? You seem to be saying "for people who make gimpy little micro apps and hope it's going to be their payday, distort all metrics to validate your worldview."
People are advocating not saving settings to source control. F-that, I want to be able to clone my repo and run the project without scp-ing an additional file around. A file, that by all rights should be part of the project.

Here's my solution - github 'extends' git somehow, so files can be marked private. Then, unless you have commit rights to that repo, you can't see the file's contents. So a public http checkouts lacks the secret password.

And because it's git, someone you give commit rights to is someone you trust. People you don't trust can just make their own repo.
Maybe this is the wrong place to ask but doesn't the site make enough money that you could hire someone? I see you have "sponsors".

How much time on a weekly basis do you estimate would be required to maintain the status quo?
Tumblr transmits your Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo password in the clear
Pretend for a second that you realize that girls read HN too.

If you massage the truth about your company, it's inconceivable that I would sleep with you, let alone take you seriously.
Our kid is now 2 and a half, and I'm puzzled - there is Regio Emilia, then Waldorf, Montessori - geeezus!

I'm not sure where is going to be best for him. I mean his just a small child :) - Just playing should be enough for him...
Object while you can, before it's mandatory to surrender all civil rights in order to fly.
It's some delicious sour grapes.

Go back in time a while, and the reason that Android was absolutely doomed was that it was a fragmented collection of devices and interfaces that would only confuse and turn off the consumer, with little or no coherent branding (many consumers don't even know what Android is), whereas the iPhone is one or two simple devices that have a singler back, a very strong brand identity, you know what you'll get, etc.

MG Siegler is worse than John Gruber -- at least Gruber is seeing the writing on the wall and is starting to sing a different tune.
Help us figure out who the top 10 UX pros are
The same is not true of a series of images on a screen in an isolated room. Images on screens are not people. There is no social conditioning that normal human beings have that will cause people to automatically respect images on a screen.

I'd argue that has pretty much been proven by the Milgram experiment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
> Ergo, breast milk is a better option for a baby. You've presented nothing to support otherwise, beyond your own personal bias.

My claim was that breastfeeding should be encouraged, and that your claim of scientific proof was less solid than you might think. I agree that I have not presented evidence that breastmilk is not a better option - I don't think that, and I certainly haven't said that, hence my lack of presentation.

I've asked for causal evidence that there are significant benefits from breast milk. That study's conclusion specifically warns against inferring it.

You've now changed your claim from "proven" to "suggest". I'm happy with that - I agree that evidence suggests it is a better option, I disagree that there is proof that people who are breastfed are healthier due to the breast milk. I know it is often repeated, but it is not true.
When we began building our Python library, we looked at both django[1] and sqlalchemy[2] for inspiration in designing our search DSL. Your example seems to closely match the django style. We preferred the sqlalchemy style, but both are solid choices.

[1]http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/topics/db/queries/#chai...
[2]http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/ormtutorial.html#common-filte...
Depression-era color photos
If you are implying that the opportunities in Japan are equal to those available in the US, then I wholeheartedly disagree. Both in terms of startup culture or slogging through a corporate job, Japan is vastly different from the US.

Opportunities exist everywhere, and a poor economy is certainly no excuse for apathy. However, discounting the challenges the economy posed to the rising generation of Japanese is pretty unfair IMO. The 90's really really sucked.
The guy was an investment banker who had some sort of existential crisis when he realized that he wanted to work for a startup.

Let's get over it.
Phew, I thought it was an ad-supported home.
http://whytherearenogirls.blogspot.com/. Enough said.
I guess I don't see this being a problem "all the time" the way you do. Sure, every so often you start seeing lots of articles about the same contentious debate happening in a pretty tight echo chamber (or sometimes you start seeing nothing but Erlang articles at PG's behest), but save for the occasional dud most of what rises to the top around here seems pretty well worth my time.
You should enter the RedGate challenge. It isn't 100% up their alley, but if your user-base is primarily IT and Devs, it might be.
> until the graphite kindle comes out, the ability to read at night is the deal breaker.

Could you explain this? The only thing that's been holding me up from preordering a K3 is that I'm not sure if I want white or graphite.
How Platforms and APIs Debugged the Technology Labor Market
My First eBay Seller Experience
I like how some of them state what kinds of charities they will help in their letters.

I mean there are charities and then there are self-serving charities

(ie. the Dominos pizza billionaire literally built his own catholic city).
Thanks for the feedback as well! I've been wanting to revisit that text and this is just the nudge I needed!
99% reading blogs, managing emails, quick checking calendar on couch, in kitchen, in bed.

Killer app is the start-up speed / always-on state for those uses above.