skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is an example of how it works in Denmark:

https://www.telmore.dk/t2/shop/shop.do?shopUrl=product.actio...

The slider let you choose between low initial price, high monthly payment (top position) and high initial price, no monthly payment (bottom position).

No matter what, the phone is always unlocked.

The only exception is this one

https://www.telmore.dk/t2/shop/shop.do?shopUrl=product.actio...

which is only sold with a high monthly payment, and locked for six months.

So I don't really see Apple as saving us from the tyranny of the carriers, in this part of the world.
I have been asked similar question in an interview. it is not so trivial, it is NP problem.
Very cool! I wish it had NTSC composite video...
I didn't see (from a quick reading of the docs) how developers get paid: via Heroku, or a direct charge to end users?
You're wrong.

You still need iTunes to put music on your phone
Yes you are right. I am thinking about changing that image. Do you have any suggestion aka link ?
Will we ever see a separated appstore ecosystem anywhere?
Oh, you should fix wikipedia then:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton

which is based on this:
http://www.cbo.gov/budget/data/historical.pdf

as confirmed by factcheck.org:
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/during_the_clinton_adm...

Actually this was (from the site you linked) show positive saving too (though I am not sure if it's relevant):
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?chart_type=line&...

Could it be because you sent data for gross change in debt? Or maybe because those numbers include the extra interest rate paid by the debt (i.e. the government started saving, but the debt was so huge that the extra interests from the previous year compensated for it?).

Dunno, I am just trying to put the two pictures together.
I desperately want for this to be true. It's too awesome not to be.
I'm already building an addon as a Heroku app. Of course, I work for Heroku, so it probably doesn't count.
It's via Heroku. They handle customer management and billing, and send revenue to you (after taking a cut).
I had some fun creating graphical output for the various algorithms I used to solve their packing problem.

You can play with them here: http://dbpacker.samwarmuth.com/ (make sure to scroll horizontally to see all of them -- there are 10 different methods)

I'm planning on doing a short write-up of the process once they remove it from their jobs page.
An Android version doesn't exist because there are strict hardware requirements and capabilities that devices must have before they can license the Android Marketplace. Right now this requires phone, internet access, and etc.

Google is rumored to relax these restrictions in the upcoming releases so tablets and other devices can use Android and also be able to license the Android Marketplace at the same time. This is when you will see the Google sanctioned Android be on more devices.
Yep, we haven't gotten around to filtering and cleaning up entries, but we'll definitely look to eliminate big outliers from our average calculations.

A lot of people have been pointing on the same thing you've been pointing out lol. That's why we added the n= for the time being.
Thank you for these answers! Two half-days of interviews is quite reasonable. I had the impression that things took longer than that, though perhaps I was mistaken because Google takes relatively long to make an offer.

If their interviewing process is anything like the ones I've helped organize, at least 49 out of 50 applicants could be dismissed out-of-hand, either because they didn't read the position description, because they can't write fluently in their native language, or because they can't write simple programs. So taking that as an estimate, Google is accepting perhaps 5–25% of "serious" applicants.

I think the large fraction of non-serious applications is caused by a survivor bias—the qualified candidates get hired quickly, but the unqualified ones keep applying to hundreds of jobs.

And you make a good point about interesting problems—Google certainly works on some neat stuff at an impressive scale.
..the famous line from the Joker...

Ah America, where memory is indeed short.
I don't think he's denying your right to have a preference - that being said, avoiding things with a rational reason seems mighty weird to me.

So you prefer chocolate bars with >75% Cocoa, I can get that - so do I. I like the taste of pure dark chocolate more than the taste of milk chocolate, say.

So, if you were avoiding HFCS for health reasons, or taste reasons, I totally get that. But "I just dont' want it in my food, mmm'kay?" seems weird to me.

> "Blindly consuming anything put in front of you is weird."

Oh come on, now you're just taking this personally and getting rude. At no point did previous poster suggest that either you or him "blindly consume" anything put in front of you.
That's quite a literal reading of my statement there.

What I meant to convey was the number of employees that Goldman has (a lot), and how many similar companies there are (BAML, JPM, Citi, ...).

A lot of people have chosen the "peon at a big bank" position, and it's probably not because they think that it will make their life less enjoyable.
I would look at how many repeat visitors, how many people share it with another person, and ultimately how many people pay for it. Cause people vote with $ and make a commitment.
Baking soda = sodium bicarbonate = a base

Baking powder = a base + a (dry) acid (+ an anti-caking agent)

Baking soda lowers acidity of foods. Baking powder, however, will create air bubbles whenever exposed to moisture. ("Double-acting" versions create a second wave of bubbles after being heated to around 150F. This is actually kind of a Big Deal.)
Picture yourself as a philosopher-king trying to write wise laws so that your people prosper. You are going to have to face the distinction between rival goods (usually made of atoms) and non-rival goods (often made of bits). The difference is important in economics and hence to the prosperity of you people. You will end up with different laws, calling the misappropriation of rival goods theft and the misappropriation of certain non-rival goods copy-right infringement.

Perhaps one adviser will argue that theft and copy-right infringement should both be criminal matters and attract the same penalties despite the differences.

Perhaps another adviser will argue that theft and copy-right infringement should be criminal and civil matters respectively because of the differences.

Perhaps a third will try to elide the differences between rival and non-rival goods by calling both misappropriations theft.

You should kick the third adviser out of you council because the difference between rival goods and non-rival goods is central to the discussion. Burying the point by stretching the meaning of the word theft is an obstacle to a sensible discussion not a contribution.
I'm an academic, and I rarely use absolutes such as 'always' or 'never' (this sentence being a good case). It's just so ingrained in academia that there are very few absolutes, and that there are almost always edge cases. As such, I refrain from making those statements...

But that doesn't make it any less tiring... my mental output filter requires a decent amount of effort to keep going and makes things more verbose...
Amazon has a really nice MP3 market that is well-suited to compete with Apple/iTunes. I contend that my hypothetical MP3 player would be designed primarily to drive content sales in that marketplace. Therefore, they don't need early mover advantage, because they already have the marketable content in place.

"Why don't you make that sweet-spot MP3 player and offer Amazon exclusive right to sell it"

You just had to throw down the gauntlet, didn't you? :)
And a collaborator in general.
While I'm more than a little anti-marijuana, I commend you on your use of tech in ways they weren't intended to be used. Original hacking. ;)
I think one problem you will run into is that you are attempting to compare prices while also keeping fuzzy distinctions like quality. Alabama has cheaper "high quality" weed than California? That tells me that what would sell for $400/oz in CA is not available at any price in AL.

If you cut out the user-supplied quality metric or figure out some way to try to normalize this across the samples (e.g. ask submitters if they have purchased in other states and how they would rank this purchase against that past purchase) you would probably get better useful data.
No, it is not correct to attribute a line to someone who is merely quoting. The line is spoken in Batman but it is not "from Batman".

Like Ronald Reagan said, "ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you"... Lol
Oh, those Germans
Oh yeah, I should mention I posted this on HN a little more than a week ago. Combined with Reddit, you guys helped us get close to 500 entries in a couple days.

With the data and suggestions, we were able to map it out on googlemaps. We added metric units (grams), manual location selection, and region pages. Thanks HN!
If this sort of thing tickles your fancy, then have a look at http://www.fpgaarcade.com

Several implementations of classic arcade games and home micros are available, and Mike is just finishing up a board for these sort of projects.
Function hooking for OSX and Linux (Defcon 18)
I would focus on the marketing and project management side and use your other skills to help you. While coders/developers are very valuable to tech startups there is just a valuable position in project and product management which requires a blend of skills. The ability to talk to developers, do some basic marketing and design and then manage a product from start to finish.
Great summary. I look forward to the talks going on youtube, especially Metcalfe's, which I missed.

My notes and pictures are here: http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-startup/2010-09-11
I have a 15" (1680x1050) laptop with a 24" (1920x1200) second monitor. KVM switched to my Mac as well.

This setup is great. I have background tasks on the laptop screen (email, system monitoring, directories) with my main dev work and auxiliaries on the big screen.
You're making the assumption that they don't overprovision at all.
You have some line breaks on the frontpage in this section you need to cleanup:
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We will deliver you a teaching tailored to your case, if you specified that on the additional instructions or by email.
Otherwise we will deliver you a random teaching, related to how your daily life could be affected by past mistakes, in short, we will try our best to make you more aware
of these subtle mechanisms to increase your life`s quality.
And don`t panic, we won`t keep you on the phone for hours, it will be short, very short. Think it as your little personal oracle.
If you`re not around, we will leave you a voicemail.
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Personally I would branch out if I were you and call about more than just reminding you not to focus on failures.

For example, how about calling someone in an Austin Powers voice and telling them they've got Mojo, baby, Mojo!

Buddhist quotes would eventually get on my nerves I think.

Also, people like texts better than calls. I would switch to texting- I bet it'd be more popular.

And make your front page shorter and get rid of those images that might be copyrighted.
Adding zipcode in the search might not be a bad idea.
Censorship resistance attacks and counterattacks
Of images hosted on wikimedia or freely usable obviously. There are a couple but we are not sure.
This UI would be similar to Windows 7 Windows Explorer's location bar, which shows "breadcrumbs" of libraries or folder directories by default, but changes to actual filepath upon click.
RSS is not dead, but as a technology it is fairly stagnant. There were a solid five years when little was accomplished other than repeated version forks based on the dumbest sort of squabbling imaginable.

I don't think it's dead, because at this point it does solve a problem reasonably well, and it's still a problem many people are interested in solutions to.
Intel announces Atom Chip paired with an FPGA
an addon might be overkilled. try the heroku gem.

you can check out the example here: http://github.com/pedro/delayed_job/tree/autoscaling

for worker, you might have to track the number of jobs in your queue. for dyno, you might have to track the number of requests you get within a time period.
>I wouldn't call them trolls, just writers with a taste for controversy.

I wouldn't call them $word, just definition($word)[1]?
Something You Knew Already: Rich People Trading Magazines for iPads
Yes, extensions named 'Flashblock' are pretty universally mediocre and don't actually keep Flash from crashing your browser — they just keep it from being displayed.

ClickToFlash for native Webkit views on OS X actually blocks Flash for real — it's a native Webkit plugin that registers for Flash's primary mimetype and preempts it. When you selectively enable a flash embed, it replaces itself with Adobe's NPAPI plugin.
Indeed, quality is highly subjective and relative to product available on the market. I have a personal hypothesis that most average smokers can't distinguish high quality vs medium quality.

I'm not sure how practical it is to get users to try and compare product quality from different locations; the sample size would probably be very low because most people buy and consume where they live.
Hilariously, their output for the packing problem is wrong. Oops! an 8x8, 4x3 and 3x4 set of rectangles cannot be easily packed into an 8x8 square without resorting to ... the third dimension ... (cue music)
I do not find it's the same filter for me. As danilocampos points out in a cousin comment, I feel a difference between 37Signals essays and an essay where I feel the author is working with, and respecting the reader.
Addressing specifically your comment on being fat: this could be explained by the fact that getting fat is no longer expensive.
I don't recall what Zune called the music sharing, but it was a stupid word. And the commercial forced its use.

I believe it was called "squirting", which was very unfortunate at the time because zunes were a shade of brown. Jokers would ask "What's brown and squirts?"
Because they're better at it now than Americans?

Actually, most still agree that the Japanese professional baseball is close but not quite at the level of American major league baseball. The top Japanese players obviously can compete at the top level in the US but most people think that Japan would probably only have enough players for a half-dozen MLB-level teams at the most.
This could be a game changer to reduce the power consumption in the data-centers and increase I/O bandwidth.
"I know a guy who constantly talks about wanting to start his own business. He’d like to build it around his very own iPhone app. He’s a talented Flash designer who resolved several years ago to teach himself how to develop apps. About 6 months ago, he bought himself a book on how to do that. He hasn’t cracked it open yet. Instead, he spends his weeknights watching Netflix."

Yeah but the guy who does build the empire around a flash app has to have the impulsiveness to actually do that, too. It's equally possible to be gridlocked by fear of failure masquerading as "impulse control".
Ask HN: What language are you learning and why?
I've spent the last year and a half learning ruby. I've used it for scripting tasks, building apps with sinatra, rails and eventmachine. There were a few reasons for my choice. We have a RoR team at work so I would have colleagues to go to for help, there is a great community surrounding ruby and its dynamic scripting language with OO.

I'm now looking for another language to branch out into, the likely candidates being java or scala. The reason for that is, I would like to learn a solid language on the jvm that is statically typed, has a good concurrency model and can be used for doing heavy backend processing.

What programming language are you guys currently learning? What are your reasons for doing so?

I'm hoping this thread helps give a bit of insight into why people pick languages. Whether its popularity, solving a certain problem, or just out of curiosity.
The add-on that I've built has the provisioning system and server management portion on Heroku.
I would just eliminate the URL bar and the back button entirely. These concepts are relics from the Internet 1.0 age and no longer have the correct meaning. Some sort of bookmark/search/wiki replacement navigation system needs to be developed.
Interesting! It looks like none of them are optimal. Is this an NP-hard problem?
Sent.. thanks..
Definitely not. :)

I'm just saying that - to me - a job is just a means to some end. That end (for me) is providing for my family adequately. That I happen to enjoy what I do is an extra bonus. I'm just saying not to lose sight of why we do what we do. If you start placing too much importance on a job, you let your job define you. IMHO, it's much more empowering to remember that your job is just a tool like any other.
"One thing I’ve noticed is how rarely you see very ambitious people who are overweight. It’s probably because of metacognition."

Caesar also feared thin men, because they could overcome the smaller temptations that small-time power brought with it, focussing instead on going big-time.
Let's not forget that this is all fairly US-centric; In Europe the handset manufacturers are more powerful. As a consumer, you select a device first and add-on the network operator after. That's 180 off from what's going on the in US. However, it hasn't created the device innovation that we see now in the US with Google and Apple weighing in...
Here is a great example to the contrary:

"How do you retain startup employees long after an acquisition? Rackspace acquired Webmail.us in 2007, and today an astounding nine out of the ten original employees including the founders are still at the company and going strong. Can you believe that?"
- Bill Boebel, Rackspace VP-Strategy

http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/6405?return=/ideas/in...:
The Wire was an awesome show, probably one of the best I've ever seen.

Some characters, like Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, were casted right from the streets.

Highly recommended to get a less romanticized view of the streets.
Watching someone else do an action can make you think you did it yourself.
That's cool. I'm surprised you say that finance always takes a backseat to writing amazing code, though.

In my experience, traders don't want cool new snazzy Google Wave. They want Excel. They don't want cool new Web 2.0 streaming quotes/risk calculations/portfolio calculations, they want VBA macros in Excel.

Even if you are working in actual trading/strategy area and write up your backtester with Python. They want your P/L in Excel. To implement the strategy though, they want it in C++.

Wall Street: Excel for life!
The Reader exploits probably involve a PDF with embedded Flash.

Synergy!
The 88 in the output is the area of the smallest square (an 8x11 square)
The Zune HD seems to have been designed to be a competitor to the iPod touch. I think their main failure was not hyping it up enough. However, with the onset of Windows Phone 7, we may see a bit more hype on the horizon.

Archos has some touch devices that look pretty sweet, though they aren't exactly a household name.

Cowon has the S9, which seems to have been designed around the same idea as the iPod touch, but they're even lesser known than Archos.

Creative probably has something too. I think it mostly comes down to the fact that Apple has ridiculous name recognition when it comes to mp3 players. Most of the players I mentioned are better featured and more "open" than an iPod touch, which sounds great to hackers and tech enthusiasts, but normal people want something that is simple, shiny, and recognizable (trendy). And Apple has their fists clenched tightly around that market.
Developers! Win Trip to NYC, Meet USV Partners Brad, Albert, & Fred Wilson
Even easier would be an add-on that allows you to bump up your resources for a pre-determined time period, after which they return to baseline values.

That way there would be no need for further user intervention at all.
http://www.webehigh.com/city/detail.php?CITYID=2205

I visited my home country after 2 years and it has gotten better. You can actually rent out a nice room in an innocuous house. You can order your choice of movies and music. For $10, you can get weed that will last 2 for a month.

Come to Nepal man. Seriously.
That's bullshit ... what you get is lock-in for 2 years, a period of time in which they can fuck with you however they want, all for $300 ... which you pay back one way or another, especially when you've got a functional oligopoly: i.e. SMS messages are 4 times more expensive than receiving data from space.

Yes I've been with the same carrier for 6 years, but I'm using a pre-paid plan, and I get better deals than customers with contracts. I can also scale down my monthly payments ... i.e. I'm only paying for included 3G traffic when I need it.
On the topic of the global write lock, you can run mongostat and see what the write lock percentage is at any given time. How much throughput you can squeeze out of a server is partially dependent on your sync delay setting.

If your disk is saturated during a sync due to a lot of writes, you might see the write lock at 100% for several seconds and everything will momentarily grind to a hault. If you set sync delay to zero and just rely on the OS to sync, you'll never see this happen.

We're using MongoDB in production and have a few boxes setup. One runs without sync delay and is used to process feed data. If Mongo crashed, and the data was irrevocably lost, it wouldn't really be the end of the world as the data only hangs around for about ten days anyway.

The second box runs with a sync delay and is used to store session data. In either scenario, Mongo is designed to be run with a slave at all times since it's not single server durable.

Regarding performance, the feeds box without sync delay can consistently write 25,000 records per second without ever going above 75% write lock. I find that pretty amazing. Doing preliminary benchmarks and performing batch writes that completely lock the server, I was getting about 250,000 writes / second.
GPON != Gigabit
GPON = Gigabit shared between up to 128 subscribers.
What if your computer could detect your presence?
I've been going somewhat retro on the monitors lately. I used to have a billion virtual desktops, two physical monitors, etc. But I now find I get more done with a single, relatively small monitor, in Linux console mode (!), running some reasonable but not huge resolution. I don't go all the way to 80x25, but 132x50 works nicely. The fact that it causes about a second pause when I ctrl+alt+f7 back to the X console (due to reinitializing the videomode) is also a nice deterrent from ADDish alt+tabbing.

The main time I find two monitors productive is if I'm doing a lot of iterations on something where I need to keep looking at the output, like webdev stuff. Then it's nice to have the webpage on one monitor, and the code on the other, instead of arranging two half-screens or alt+tabbing a lot.
It has been working pretty well for Microsoft. A large portion of their products were bought along with the developers. They were able to develop them and turned out huge product success.
Thanks for the link. Last month I found a gem in a charity shop - a first edition of Introducing Z-80 assembly by Mr. Sinclair. Only cost me 10p!
Thanks for the great suggestions. I have already changed the site according to your advice. Regarding the other suggested models, yes, i have considered SMS and i will probably include it. The other sites part of the network will be less serious than this one. Maybe you are right, most people does not like buddhist quotes, but we are not limited to that. What exactely does make you think that we are limited do that ? i am asking that so i can fix it. Thanks in advance and Kudos