skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't know that without knowing where I live. It's reasonably good by British standards, though perhaps not in an absolute sense.

My connection is somewhat above the surveyed "average" speeds and stability for the UK, as frequently reported in the media here. One such story puts the average true throughput of a 10-12Mbps DSL connection at around 3.3Mbps: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/news/a251311/uks-avera... .. As mine is usually around 5-6Mbps (though dropping to 2-3 at peak, sometimes) my connection is, I believe, "reasonably good" by national standards.
What is the rationale behind blocking the market? Is it because the carriers are worried that you'll get a bandwidth hungry app? It just strikes me as completely preposterous and backward thinking.
I see a similar warning over and over.

3d printed parts are relatively lo-fidelity and do not have the material strength due to their construction mechanism to do many things "normally" fabricated things do.
Let's not kid ourselves - all the power Apple wrestled away from AT&T it kept for itself - the consumer didn't see much of a change, or saw a regression.

Prior to the iPhone, loading your own apps and changing settings on your smartphone was standard practice. What Apple did was bring the featurephone practice (jumping through somebody's beaurocracy to get to consumers) to the smartphone market. Suddenly, being in control of your own smartphone is an "openness feature".

Now, to loyal Apple fans, who love and trust Apple, this transfer of power/control from AT&T to Apple is the same as them (the Apple consumer) seeing benefits. To other people, it just means dealing with someone else, without any change in the fact that you still have to go through somebody.
Value Jet renamed themselves AirTran after one of their planes exploded. GTE became Verizon after being horrible for years.

Great hacker branding intro: http://blip.tv/file/319044/

"A brand is a const identifier."

(back story to the video: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-to-make-funny-ta...)
Is this story news because a powerful guy was forced to submit to the rules that everyone else must abide?
Fairly misleading post title. Seems to just trying to get people interested in the Adopt a Hacker movement, which looks to be a somewhat interesting but somewhat lame attempt to recruit more development talent to the NY tech scene.

This quote on the Adopt a Hacker page is pretty scary. Someone should change it: "Matt Mireles, Founder & CEO of SpeakerText - If it wasn't for Adopt A Hacker, I would've had to sleep with normals!" Umm... no.

And is that a mac or mac plus? Either way, nice but it isn't a classic computing page, so you should replace it with a picture of a table with a macbook pro next to a window looking out on the Empire State Building, with some excellent hot takeout food steaming and a clock showing it is 3am with a nice hot cup of quality java next to it. Leave out the lame looking "I look way too cool" developer sitting in the chair- in fact, leave out the chair; you might offend someone with your chair pick.

Also, one of the reasons New York doesn't have developers I think is that New York is about having everything, and developers are about creating everything. If you can focus on the part of NYC that inspires creative, controlling types, you'll have an easier time getting them to come.

Hosting them on your couch seems desperate, doesn't it? I don't think anyone truly believes NYC is friendly. And it's unfriendliness is probably the allure for some developers.
We (I work at Twilio) also announced a new developer contest today. The winner will be flown to NYC to meet with Fred Wilson, Albert Wenger and Brad Burnham from USV: http://contests.twilio.com/
Birth order per se doesn't matter; probability mass does. Birth order is an easy way to show that you're twice as likely to get a boy and a girl as you are to get two boys. But you can ignore birth order and say instead "let k be a binomially distributed random variable with n=2 and p=1/2. If you know k>=1 what is p(k=2)?". Then the answer is a straight comparison of p(k=2) to p(k=1), where we note that '2 choose 1' is 2, and '2 choose 2' is 1. Note that ordering per se isn't entering into this, but to someone without probability background, it's a bit obtuse. Describing the probability space in terms of birth order is not strictly necessary but helps a lot of people grasp the concept.
Pakistan and Taliban, Brothers or Rivals?
The article is a bit too one-sided while not taking in other factors that play in life.

Still, I agree that Self-Control is absolutely important when it comes down to pursuing your dreams. The benefit (or destruction if you don't self-control) comes at a average-over-time basis
No, choosing to not care for order changes the way probabilities have to be calculated. I suppose there was enough discussion about that on this thread already.

I guess it is helpful to think about two coin flips instead of boys and girls.

Not sure how it is being taught in the US. In Germany we use urn models and learn formulas for drawing balls from urns in different variations. Like returning the balls or not returning the balls, or caring for order or not. All these cases have different formulas attached...
Nuts, doesn't look like that'll benefit me, I just use SMS sending.
Thanks; that's what I originally thought, but something about the wording of this article confused me. Outbound calls that result from inbound calls? I guess this just reflects the way a lot of applications tend to use Twilio's service.
Actually, Uncle Same doesn't care if you acquire a second citizenship. I'm American by birth and Canadian by naturalization, and I have responsibilities to both countries, but neither really cares that I'm a citizen of the other.
Ask HN: which affordable SSD do you recommend for a mbp?
Which affordable SSD do you recommend for a mbp?

I'm planning to replace the 5400 with a ~80G. there are a lot of reviews on the web and also reports of lots of bad/forged reviews, so i was interest to know which ones do you have persoanlly.
Solaris licensing changes again
I have a ps3 as well and most of my experiences with bluray have been pretty much the same as dvd with the exception of terminator 2 (skynet edition I think) which took forever to load.

The real problem is that I can't see much of a difference between the dvd version of a movie and the bluray version, if I have a choice for the same price I probably will buy bluray but otherwise the dvd upscaling works just as well for me.

This experience of quality differs greatly than that of a regular xvid rip and a hidef h264 rip which are actually quite noticeable.
I had to +1 your comment, made me 'ROFL'
So because your wife give you a 100 happiness factor(tm), you are now indifferent when choosing between jobs that give you a 20 or 80 happiness factor?

Or are you saying that your meaningfulness bar is so high that no job can possibly clear it? What if you and your wife worked together?

For the most part, we get to choose our lives. I reject the idea that time spent working can't be meaningful.
> Just buy more unlocked phones.

In my experience, if you buy an unlocked phone, you hand the carrier a bonus payment of the cost of the phone. They don't give you any cheaper service.

And, when I went to replace a Nokia POS that died 3 days after warranty, I discovered that Verizon even subsidizes their prepaid phones: you can get an LG VX5600 for $40 with new service, but to replace the Nokia with the existing account, they wanted $200. (Allegedly, they "don't sell" the Nokia in question as a prepaid, and thus couldn't offer a direct replacement; which raises the question of why phones they "don't sell" come with their branding and work on their network.)
There's also something to be said about being "The First That's Good Enough For Most People".
Blue Ocean Business Strategy
State run barber shops? What were they thinking?
Two is the magic number: a new science of creativity
Baseball is more popular throughout the Caribbean and Latin America than it is in the U.S., and many of the best major leaguers come from there. During the World Baseball Classic, most of the biggest names were playing for countries other than the U.S.

And Japan won the tournament, both of the times it has been played so far. The best U.S. finish is fourth.

I see the U.S. relationship with baseball becoming similar to that of England with soccer. We may have invented the sport, but that doesn't mean we're the best at it any more.
granted. but in my 276 days since creating my account (I've been reading for over a year), this is the first thread I've actually been let down by, where there are highly upvoted posts which add zero value to the discussion.
The assumption of whiteness does NOT make you a racist, any more than the assumption of Japanese-ness makes a person living in Japan a racist. This is not the behavior the author is calling out as racist.
In most wars, it's the people who don't have power that suffer.
Ask HN: Can anyone connect us with a venue for 400 people tommorow in MV/PA
Hackers and Founders is having scaling problems. We've accidentally overbooked our Tech Talk event[1] tomorrow night at the Hacker Dojo, and we have over 100 people on the waiting list as well.

We could really use a venue in Palo Alto/Mountain View area that can accommodate around 400 people for a 2 1/2 hour event tomorrow night between 7 and 9:30pm.

We're checking in to space at Facebook. I don't know people of influence at Google :D. Hacker Dojo fits 150 comfortably. Stanford hasn't been very excited.

Feel free to call me:
408-963-7366 or email me: jonathan@newsley.com

If you can help out, we will sing your praises and give you a pound of fair trade coffee that was hand roasted for my by Mennonite/Amish missionaries in Honduras 3 days ago when I was there. It's a tasty cuppa Joe.

ref:
[1] http://www.hackersandfounders.com/calendar/14399920/
I can believe that 2-3x EBITDA is common, but it seems all the exits we hear about here, at least, must be higher than that (we admittedly probably hear about the more spectacular ones). Google bought Aardvark for $50m, for example--- did they really have $17-25m EBITDA at the time of the acquisition? Though I suppose a search engine buying another search engine could certainly fall under Web 2.0 fantasy land.
(I guess you mean "I don't not eat HFCS..." in the first sentence. Substituting "avoid" for "don't eat" might be clearer.)
You eat tons of things every day that are equivalent to X without realizing it.

Would you shy away from foods that have list of ingredients that included fructose and glucose? That's all corn syrup is (and a few random corn solids here and there.)

Apples have a really high fructose content too, so technically drinking apple juice can be worse than drinking a dilute corn syrup solution (depending on the kind of HFCS), but almost no one thinks twice about that because it's "natural." (Although there is a growing anti-juice movement.)

Data from Wikipedia (remaining content is glucose):

HFCS90: 90% Fructose

Apple Juice: 63-78% Fructose

HFCS55: 55% Fructose

HFCS43: 43% Fructose
This article focuses on the process for a vanilla (by Google standards) candidates but does Google place any value on or change the rules based on the stature of an applicant it hasn't headhunted? Let's say Nat Friedman or Alan Cox decides he wants to work at Google. He's not going to be fielding "balls on a bus" type questions, right? Or is he?
Wish writers wouldn't group people by those arbitrary generation labels.
So how are google deciding which emails are important?
That's the only new thing with this Priority Inbox - you've been able to do this for some time with filters and multiple inbox (labs feature).

I want to explicitly filter things that are important to me. Even this article recommends that. Feels like Priority Inbox is just nice packaging/marketing on the multiple inbox feature + auto-filtering on your friends.
Verizon launching VCAST App Store to compete with Android Market?
I hadn't heard anything about this until just now, but man, am I really glad that this isn't http://haystacksearch.org/, as I thought they were talking about.

On the flipside, while the goals of the project seem noble enough, I can't help but wonder why they didn't just try to value-add to something like Tor.

Regardless, I'd much rather they stop distributing while they get things sorted out than offer a false sense of security to their users who could potentially be using Haystack in ways that, if caught, might put their lives/careers in jeopardy.
It's a good tale, and I think it's the same power failure which starts James Burk's Connections book, but I wonder if he (blog author) has cause and effect backwards.

There's nothing so intuitive about an overloaded generator slowing down and causing record players to slow that we'd expect to see it in a childrens story.

Perhaps instead we think lights dimming and record players slowing is the right thing to happen in a power grid problem because that's what used to happen.

Also, distorting music is a terrible thing for a record player to do. It's hard to see that as "the correct way" for a record player to fail.
Yes you can, but you have to do it right. Apple bought SoundJam and turned it into iTunes. Google bought YouTube, and that seems to be working alright thus far. Amazon bought Zappos, and they haven't been relegated to the dust bin.

"As soon as [the talent has] to deal with three layers of reporting, quarterly budget cycles, and swing-door managers, they turn off the creativity and head for the exit."

True, but here is a novel idea: don't make your prized acquisition deal with that crap. Yeah it'll require significant work to get it to be a good relationship, but if both parties can pull it off, it can be hugely beneficial for everyone.

Look, I know 37s really likes to paint acquisitions as black and white, but they just aren't.
Indeed, HFCS and sugar are biologically equivalent. The problem is that since it became available it is being put in everything as a substitute for real flavor. People are more likely to buy products that "taste better" when really it's just saturated with sugar.
Time. Eventually, someone will bring something to market which will reset all of the rules. Like those who came before Facebook, they will ignore it because they are "Facebook".
Lol... ok so... at what point---oh wise one---do police pay become worth? Because the article speak of basically few officers and no detectives. And what happens if we don't find a better way to fill the holes?

The reason why USA has no money is because you keep cutting the taxes for the richest people and going to wars that you've got no money for... and when finally the shit hit the fan you had to throw money after bankers and companies.

This process usually takes two phases:
phase 1, during a boom: "We've got plenty of money, let's cut some taxes"
phase 2, during the crisis: "We've got no money left, let's cut some services"
Eureka How moments of genius happen
I will happily sell ideas.
Seth Godin’s ‘Linchpin’ highlights work of Silicon Prairie News
Alternative healing depression
There is no question that today the healthcare system is in CRISIS. A crisis of meaning, a crisis of economics, a crisis of leadership, and most importantly it is a crisis of models and our understanding of what promotes or facilitates alternative healing depression.
"Given that the first inflection point is unpredictable, it makes sense to consider all traction "verticals" in the pursuit of product/market fit."

Good post. I often encounter entrepreneurs who ask what single thing they can do to promote their web service. This list is a good reminder that sometimes there's no easily identifiable silver bullet. Some companies might latch onto one tactic that works (after a great deal of experimentation with other approaches) and others might find that only the aggregate results from a mixture of these approaches yields any meaningful results. The only way to know is to cast a wide net.
Yes, your domain is blacklisted. All stories with links to it will be [dead] on arrival.
I know what the existential operator is, and C is a predicate, not a verb. But I've always seen predicates defined using lambda calculus (or just English)...this notation makes no sense to me.
No - the Indian government claimed that the tablet was possible because of their world lead in IT and the involvement of Indian universities.
It did this for it's own political purposes and to the embarrassment of the university involved.

As everyone on here knows, like OLPC, it would end up actually costing more than and doing less than a commercially produced model - like every other government initiative.

It seems that in this case they simply got caught cheating.
Thanks for posting this. I'm having all sorts of problems right now (today) with code that worked yesterday suddenly not. And nobody answers their bug posts.
That's clearly the intended meaning, but what it really says is that there exists a set whose elements are of the form C(x) where "x is a context" and C is left undefined. This, of course, is meaningless. Understanding is left as an exercise for the reader?
The comments so far are just about HDCP, Blu-Ray and playback difficulties.

The paste however contains the key matrix used to encrypt and decrypt the digital video signal. If this is valid, every transmission between a HDCP-secured playback device and the display can be decrypted, thus rendering every other encryption method, used in the playback chain, useless, including AACS and BD+.

This is serious, because the keys for AACS can be revoked, if compromised. HDCP keys however can't be revoked.
It was pretty easy to find on a 17" screen. I agree it's a better solution than the fixed menu bar at the top, but that doesn't make it easy to find if your program is on 30" screen #1 and its menu is on 30" screen #2.

You can give it a try with the GNUStep apps that come with modern Linuxes.
The title is false.

Here is why their style works:

We read the exaggeration and translate it from 37Signals to the reasonable thing we expect they are trying to say. For example, he might be saying:

* "Buying ideas/talent rarely works out"

* "Buying ideas/talent only works if you pay with culture"

* "Buying ideas/talent can't work if the buyer is big"

So when we encounter a 37Signals post and generally disagree with it, there is easy fuel for our side of the argument. Those that agree with the general idea get to argue for their favorite interpretation of what they must be saying.

The imprecision and tone creates two sides maximally equipped to have a stupid internet discussion.
Hacking 4 Health - hackathon for health2.0 developer challenge
Inspired by the HN community: Bootstrapping an idea you believe in
I was specifically looking for evidence that scholars believe this. I don't doubt there are idiots who believe all kinds of things!

And by the way, what's up with the people posting that Yahoo! question? If it's not a joke, I'm seriously worried about the state of humanity.
GitHub: Please add a media=print stylesheet to select syntax highlighted code
I sent this comment to GitHub. Am I the only one who thinks this is a good feature? I keep printing raw source from university resources that have no syntax highlighting editors. I made a dopey little hack for myself, but it seems like something they should have anyway.
Wow. I would have expected a better book cover by someone in marketing, but maybe it appeals to students?
Dreaming. If you can snap up a team of smart developers for $1M cash each + $200k/year salary for 4 years, that can have a large impact on your product road map.

Say you're, for example, Apple looking to push out iOS 4.1 for iPad, and you acquired a Mac dev studio of 30 talented people for $60M - that can have a large impact (eg: bring forward your road map by 6 months) for the next few years.

Another example might be Facebook acquiring FriendFeed, Brett went on to be CTO - are you seriously saying that isn't a talented and valuable acquisition for that talent? $50M is a drop in the ocean for companies turning over billions.

Also saying ideas/talent can't be acquired when they took a "minority private equity investment" from Jeff Bezos for:

> ... the wisdom of a very special entrepreneur who’s been through what we’re going through. Someone who sees things a little differently and makes us feel right at home

If you're looking to create, say, a payment platform (Facebook Credits) maybe it makes sense to get the talent that has created a similar product (eg: TipJoy)

Also Apple acquiring NeXT and Steve Jobs becoming CEO and transforming the company - sure there was tech, but you know ...
Geo-Location Data APIs from Carriers (new Alcatel Service)
The big things I want this to do that Urbanspoon doesn't would be to rate dining halls in addition to restaurants and to find very specific walking distances from certain residence halls on campus. I am kind of basing my idea on Urbanspoon, but with more of an individual college focus.

I'll take a look at campusfood, thanks!
I agree that the design and interface is really nice.

I hooked it up to my startup Google Apps account. Basically if things are in my inbox, then I need to act on it, and if not I archive it. But when I logged into the HobsonFiles dashboard, I was unclear of what to do. Even though I had maybe 10 things in my inbox, I only had a couple of things show up on the first page. The people in the "contacts" list weren't people who were particularly important. Maybe it would be useful to someone who started using it religiously, but it would be really helpful if you spent some time looking at it at for the "first time" and seeing if it's intuitive what to do next.
If you are a citizen of a country with a territorial tax system, but make your money in the US. Who taxes your income?
Zeros to heroes: Bayes's probability puzzle
It's like the reason I advocate comments though I know a few people who believe the code's behavior should be self-evident.

The real question for any interesting application is not the how or the what, but the why. You can't answer the why just by reading the code. You need to understand the problem and the trade-offs, and for that you need comments and documentation.
Keep in mind that regulation that forces carriers to be open will entrench the incumbents (that will do absolutely nothing in favour of customers when not a gunpoint) at the cost of new offerings that makes a play to disrupt the market.

The time when regulators gets their eyes open to this problem, is about the same time that regular customers do the same and get ready to leave the incumbents. Best case, you've regulation that says the carriers are supposed to do something they were already going to do, worst case you stripped a potentially disruptive play of it's advantage.
“You just need to get started” is bad advice
Europeans have more pheomelanin than Japanese (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheomelanin#Pheomelanin). A clear indicator of this is to check the softer skin tissues, like the lips and nipples. Europeans tend to be pinker in these places, not browner like most humans.
A Cryptanalysis of the High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection System
I can't be bothered to actually read this article. Does anyone actually think America is in 'decline'?

As a retort, here's Hans Rosling on narrowing GDP/capita and the first world's role in this 'new economy':

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/912
If the connections isn't the key, what is?
Write a Hero Essay
Writing a hero essay can discuss many aspects. It does not necessarily limit students to historical heroes, but will discuss heroes which are more recent. If a good topic is selected which can be discussed in length, the writing of the hero essay will pose no problem.