skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pinger Now Turns Your iPod Touch Into A Free Cell Phone
This + the AutoPager extension for Chrome = infinite game
Too bad, i just left England this morning and won't come back at time. When is next time?
What if "your stuff" are not yours to begin with? What if the stuff you "earn" relying on others to build a system to begin with? How much you are willing to pay to build such a system?

Wealth people built are done in the framework of a society. You can live in an island all by yourself and be your own government and print your own billion of money, and no one would care. When you derive your wealth from a society with people, other people would care about you paying your share since they build the system and you benefit from it.
It seems like it's really popular to bash Bose, and I wonder why. I'm not an audiophile, and I think most of the systems I've heard sound good. Is it something that only those who really know what to listen for hear?

I think it's funny that one comment on this post says that Bose "forgot that there is an entire range of frequencies between the 'highs' and the 'lows'" and another one that says "No highs, no lows, must be Bose." How can both be true?
You are correct about the last node. But the first node knows neither the contents nor the destination.
The answer is: partly

There are statistics that give pay per hour, too.
I heard that acquisitions often involve a merger with a shell company because of a tax or liability advantage. I searched for info on this, but couldn't find anything. Can somebody please comment on how this works?
The 'enemy' would have a very hard time figuring out which parts of the leaked documents were not leaked on purpose.

Distrust alone of any and all information would significantly limit any direct risk due to being named in a document helpfully supplied by your adversary, or at least people in the same general geographical area. And for all we know that's exactly what happened.
i'll take it.
The iPad can play HD video for an estimated 10 hours. That has nothing to do with the glassy interface, but I would still call it great hardware design.
Ask HN: Does anyone on HN work for AOL in a technical capacity?
It's really just a question that spawned from the two recent AOL Transactions, which resulted in me going to their website (http://corp.aol.com/). I used to work for TW some time ago and the new(?) AOL site is such a dramatic departure from the old really corporate-y looking site. Anyway, I really wanted to get an idea of what the [current] culture is like from someone who is on the inside.
For example, over time you dynamically upgrade a module going from version 1 to 2 and, later, to version 3.

During the first module upgrade, data types from the newer module (2) can be incompatible with the data types from the older module (1).

Such incompatibilities are resolved dynamically during the upgrade procedure (implemented as a part of v2) which knows about type incompatibilities between versions 1 and 2.

After the upgrade from version 1 to 2, any subsequent module versions (e.g. 3) doesn't have to know anything about types from the initial module (1).
hey damon,

i know this is a bit off topic, but is it allowed to use the 3rd party maps (bing, google, ...) without the watermark?

best, markus

ps: 3 thumbs up for the great work!
I doubt this is actually the Buran itself--there were a few Buran-class shuttles built to varying points of completion, as well as multiple mockups for aerodynamic tests and the like. The Buran was left in Kazakhstan, and it's unclear why they would haul an abandoned spacecraft all the way to the outskirts of Moscow.

This is most likely the fourth, unnamed Buran-class shuttle "2.02" which Wikipedia reports as "Partially dismantled, remains outside Tushino Machine Building Plant, near Moscow." Here's a picture of it in winter, apparently in a worse state of disrepair: http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/spacecraft/buran/2.02-2...

More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_2.02
As many commenters on Slashdot have noted, this is most likely Shuttle 2.02 of the Buran program (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_program) and was never actually fully assembled.
I don't understand... you say "no highs, no lows" and the poster before you said "only highs and lows".. which is it?
You are not immobilizing the wrist rather you are supporting it so it does not carry the weight of your arm. The roll acts as a spring and roller, therefore gives you full range.
The French monarch found out how well their billions work in the French Revolution. Or the late Russian Tsars.

If you think money can protect you in a class revolt, you are deluding yourself. The guys with gun simply shoot you and confiscate your money. The money guys can only survive if the system protect them.

And here we are talking about how to maintain a system so that the money guys can continue to enjoy their wealth.
I was at Netscape 8 years ago when AOL spent $4.2B on it so that TC deal seems like peanuts and AOL might be on the up and up but it sure isn't as grand as it once was! AOL and Web were never friends.
I'd probably support the idealized Wikileaks that took due care to minimize harm to the subjects of its leaks. But we don't have the ideal Wikileaks; we have the one run by Julian Assange.
Does this rhyme with your pronunciation of Bose?
The article has an extremely good reason for avoiding black: it eliminates an opportunity to use an additional color axis (hue, in addition to value) to create visual hierarchies.

Incidentally, long before this article was ever written, Edward Tufte was recommending that people avoid black and white. I assume that's part of the reason Hacker News has that cream-colored background.
This is the kind of thing that Jacques Littlefield (RIP) could have rescued. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Littlefield I once visited his place. Believe me, 200 tanks, vehicles, and a SCUD missile on its launcher is a sight to behold. (Scud missiles were apparently hammered into shape with ball-peen hammers.)
How to pitch your start up site to tech blogs
if you were sending a pitch about your start up site to tech blogs, how would you do it? examples would be cool.

also... does anyone have a good list of emails... like tips@techcrunch.com, etc.
Yeah, but the cable companies are screwed. At the very moment I can drop cable, I will. As soon as I find decent bandwidth provided by someone who isn't Comcast, they don't get my money anymore and I will piss on their graves. They're the next Blockbuster. I already won't pay for cable television.

I want to give Netflix my money. As much of it as they're willing to trade for great value. I like doing business with them. You can make money by not making people happy, sure. But you can also make dinner without caring how it tastes. It'll satisfy some baseline nutritional needs, but what is the point?

edit: And don't get me started on health insurance companies. They exist in a nauseating little ecological niche carved out through a perversion of the tax code. The moment health insurance stops being equated with compensation, they dry up like weeds, replaced by companies who must be genuinely accountable to the market.

I get what you're saying, but I'd rather rob people at gunpoint than make money like these guys. At least the robber has the courtesy to screw you in person, you know?
USA has this too.
You can calculate the hourly wage equivalent for all monetary-value creating activities.
It all sounds rather silly, like two individuals who have lost sight of their true mission. If they do possess a large volume of documents about Iraq comparable to the Afghanistan leak this may turn out to be important historical information shedding new light on what was a highly controversial war.
California bans malicious online impersonation
Arrington also called Techcrunch's sale a merger at TC Disrupt this morning.
Similar studies that I'll try to track down have it down to hours worked. Unmarried women in the same profession continued to display the same earnings as men. It may have extended to married women without children, but I can't recall- I'll update when I find the study.

The argument that the data supported is as follows: fewer hours worked (counting the expected or not unpaid overtime) led to smaller raises and fewer promotions. Subsequent raises and promotions are based on the resultant salaries and titles, leading to a snowball effect. Maternal leave puts the whole process on pause and puts a mother behind on the snowball process.
Reminds me of Quelsolaar's excellent toolkit for his LOVE game: http://www.quelsolaar.com/love/tool_video.html

It also has Asteroids integrated in a similar way, as shown at around 70% into the video (unfortunately the video doesn't have a timecode, but it's worth watching in its entirety anyway.)
In my experience with Bose, they make great sounding equipment for the average user and they do this by making bass more prominent than it should be to "fool" users into thinking it's good. It's still better than a lot of stuff, and the size and tech innovations like the 3-2-1 system give it a cool factor as well. For the money, though, you can get a much better setup; but then again, being a seasoned sound man for local musicians as well as spending lots of time engineering audio, I'm a bit biased as to what good sound is.
that was my thought. I mean, if I was considering provisioning these in my data centre, I'd set them up as the primary power source, while provisioning enough grid capacity to work as my backup power source. hell, that way I could choose grid power vs. the fuel cell power based on what the spot price of fuel looks like.

When costing it out, I'd compare it to the cost of running on primary grid power plus the cost of buying and maintaining a backup battery + diesel generator system, and those costs are substantial, so yeah, these things sound very interesting, in a few years, for applications where redundant power is called for.

Of course, I don't know how the cost numbers would work out; Right now, I pay "retail" for my data centre space, and I probably eat around, 10Kw in power (plus cooling, so that might be closer to 20-30Kw total. at this scale, in someone else's data centre, your cooling costs are rolled into your power costs.) but certainly, if it's at parity with grid power, the fact that it's redundant, in that a grid failure won't take it out, is a pretty big plus that's worth a substantial capital investment.
W3schools is not "W3", FYI.
So why do they need another name and another project?
I am Debian Developer with upload rights.

If HN people want to get involved with Debian, packaging and so on email me and I'll do my best to help you.

Probably the best way to fix whatever you believe is wrong is by getting involved.
Pentagon Accused Of Launching Supervirus Attack On Iranian Nuclear Plant
Why is the focus on cost, rather than benefit? To take an extreme example, if a country is overrun by a hostile power, the rich generally lose virtually all their wealth. Those on near-subsistence incomes may not notice the difference.

That's even without accounting for services such as protection of intellectual property that add far more to the incomes of wealthy beneficiaries than public education does to a lower income taxpayer.

If the government was a corporation it would be entirely logical for it to price discriminate by charging the super-rich elevated "enterprise" rates
"For the money, though, you can get a much better setup"

This is the key point.

In this case, "For the money" = $5,349 (yikes!)
There isn't anything inherently wrong with a wide rich-poor gap.

There is a floor for poverty but not for wealth. You can be really really poor, but you'll never be poorer than having $x.xx of debt associated to your name (I am just ballparking like $50,000, though I know this can fluctuate some -- please no nit arguments about Bernie Madoff)

The rich have no ceiling to how much they can accumulate. In fact, they can accumulate vast sums (maybe more than poorer people make in a lifetime) by simply letting their money sit in a bank account.

1% holding 35% of the wealth doesn't mean anything beyond the most superficial level. What is more important is if the remaining 65% of wealth is distributed in such a manner that allows the other 99% to survive with some amount of quality of life.
I think that you're deluded if you think that Wikileaks' actions will be of any benefit to the Afghanis. If the United States were to suddenly leave tomorrow, the region would not suddenly become peaceful. Possibly the contrary would happen.
Ah, is it normal for the acquirer to refer to it as an acquisition and the acquired to refer to it as a merger?
I agree with the general premise of the article (that school's purpose should be to help children become adults who know their talents (and have talents)), and will ignore the notion of "discovering" purpose (as acknowledging it requires that we discuss whether purposes are created or found, which I don't care to discuss beyond this cursory treatment).

However, the pragmatics of it all are quite a bit messier.

Helping each individual student discover his/her individual talents and skills and passions requires that we restructure schools almost entirely.

1) The current system of 22+ students per class means that, in a 50 minute class period, each student can get a maximum of just over 2 minutes of personalized time, assuming a minimum of time wasted. Over the course of a school year (180 days), this works out to be about 6 hours. Hardly enough time for direct individual feedback or for solid relationships.

(I understand that there is a lot more to it than simple contact time, and also that small groups can be more efficient than 1-on-1 interaction). If all you are doing is lecturing, it does not matter how many people are in a room so long as their behavior is not disruptive (or so long as their behavior can be controlled). If you are hoping to deal with their ideas, though, there is a definite point beyond which it's impossible to do much meaningful work.

2) The school system, as it is, is mostly designed to get as many kids through as possible. Again, individualization plays only a cursory role, typically only with students who are "exceptionalities" (read: who have IEPs). Not the environment needed for the type of learning the author describes.

3) In order for the changes the author wants to see happen to actually happen, students (and teachers) will need a lot more autonomy. This means freedom to set one's own schedule to at least some amount, freedom to at least somewhat choose one's own learning, and access to all types of competent and caring adults and older peers who can help guide the student.

Personally, I'd love it if a student who was very talented in music was able to spend 4 or 5 hours a day practicing and learning those skills, and the other 3-4 hours per day doing the other bits of learning necessary to be a competent adult (literacy, numeracy, scientific and historical thinking, and so on, as well as reflective and metacognitive thinking).

Conclusion: the current system was built by people who see students as points of data and entries in a gradebook, and needs to be rehauled dramatically to provide the freedom and opportunity necessary for the type of individualized teaching the author suggests.
We don't even have an enumerated right to privacy!

The right to privacy is made explicit in many places, especially judicial precedent. It just isn't explicitly stated in the constitution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut

"While the opinion in Lawrence was framed in terms of the right to liberty, Kennedy described the 'right to privacy' found in Griswold as the 'most pertinent beginning point' in the evolution of the concepts embodied in Lawrence..."

That would qualify as "enumerated" to me.
Speaking as a relatively early (#5 or so) employee in a startup, I second this. I work 40 hours a week remotely, but if I'm on a roll or I head to the office, it's not uncommon for me to put in overtime. I worry a bit that I'm underperforming because some of the other guys put in the kind of time the OP describes, but I don't think it's ever been expected of me, as long as we're getting stuff done and hitting our targets. The founders at my place may be unusually cool, however, so YMMV.
"The Purpose Of Education" - He left out "babysitter" as one of the purposes. Another purpose of education is to babysit children, teach them that they are a number and to blindly follow authority without question. If they happen to pick up some math or reading along the way that is nice too.
GeekSquad founder Robert Stevens always says GeekSquad "acquired" Best Buy.
Solar cells thinner than wavelengths of light hold huge power potential
Its going to be damn awkward managing someone significantly older than myself.

Only if you make it so. There is no reason why it has to be that way. I have often had this "problem" - unfortunately as I am getting older, less and less :-) It has never been an issue for me.

Bear in mind, managing is hard. Managing well is harder - many people never get it right. Good management is not based on exploiting the power imbalance between manager and employee. So an age differential (socially a power imbalance issue) should not matter.

As to your specific question: a software developer is generally an exempt employee. She or he are not paid by the hour, they are paid to do the job done. However, depending on how much you are paying them, you need to make sure that "getting the job done" can be done in 40-hour-type working week.

In terms of office hours, I believe that sheer contact hours are very important in the beginning between co-developers, so that they can have a chance to get in each other's head. After that, you should do whatever works well for you. If you work round the clock, identify a slice of the day where you want to interact with this person that fits with his or hers natural rhythms (ask them!), and call those "core hours" where you expect this person to be physically present. Trust them to develop their own schedule around that, and again, focus on monitoring outcomes, not hours.

The most important thing about team schedules is predictability. I would rather have someone who was in the office 6am-noon every day, rather than somebody who was at the office for longer but with an unpredictable schedule.

I really have to point you to this blog - askamanager.org - go read the backlog. It is full of some terribly sane advice about managing people. It's not about a technical setting, but people are people. Here's a good start:

http://www.askamanager.org/2010/06/deathbed-advice-for-manag...

You know what a difference there is between a good developer and a poor developer. The same difference is there between a good manager and a bad manager. If you work at being a good one, you will be.
You should consider using one of the toolkits, many of them have something akin to Dojo's storage http://ajaxian.com/archives/dojostorage-offline-access-and-p... . This buffers you from the implementation details and as newer browsers come along they are able to update the implementation to take advantage of newer browsers built in databases, while providing you with the same backwards compatible API. If you have not chosen one, I recommended you take a look at Dojo, if you are going to build a full on web app and jQuery if you have lighter requirements.

Side note: we are really starting to side track this thread, why don't you email me (in my profile) or add me to your contacts in Skype (if you use Skype) that way you can hit me up on any questions you have.
I wonder if the irony is lost on anyone that it is Assaange here that is worried about a leak in his organization. Assuming the rumors are true, an individual who believes that leaks in organizations' security are always fair game is reacting badly to leak in his own organization's security.
Could, but doesn't: http://github.com/erkie/erkie.github.com/blob/master/asteroi...

Though, it appears he was trying to implement high scores, which would send some information to another site, including document.location.href, but it is commented out in the version I linked, and removed in the minified version.
That's just the thing, Photoshop actually has fewer features that matter to me than my favored image editor, Opacity. Tellingly, though, those features are centered around making the user experience easy and frictionless. (I went on and on about Opacity in another thread, it was quite a love story.)

As soon as Opacity's vector performance is on par with Photoshop, I'm out!
He reacted in the right way, but on the whole my impression is negative. I'm a bit disappointed, because most of Zed's previous rants were humorous, amusing and well researched. But in this case he didn't put any effort neither in research nor writing. He'd stumbled upon a dependency bug and, instead of reporting it, he for some reason concluded that it means that Debian is evil and everybody should boycott it. Weird.

PS. Excuse me, there was one amusing paragraph in the rant. The one in which he equaled Debian, the most independent and free software obsessed distribution out there, to Microsoft.
There's no obfuscation. It's just JavaScript working on an iframe. The actual page is:

http://kindleweb.s3.amazonaws.com/content/B003X28734/gz_samp...

Which is actually some fairly nice HTML.
You seem to have a preconceived notion on the way the world works: Woman get paid less than men. But when encountering data that would imply the contrary, instead of simply correcting your premise, you rework the analysis of the data in a convoluted way, in order that you keep your preconceived notion about how the world works: "Woman should really be earning even more, but because of prejudices they are only earning x more than men."
I can see why you say this, it seems to be that way in a lot of cases. This is most likely the fault of the system though. Students wouldn't be that bad if they were taught properly from the beginning.
Stow installs packages in /usr/local, bpt in a directory specified by the user (for example under the home directory)
BPT uses the pair (name, version) as install directory, so it is possible to install several versions of the same package and switch between them.

The "boxes" (directories with packages) created with bpt are relocatable, so it is possible to prepare a box with all the applications and their dependencies and deploy it without needing root privileges.

It has first class support for python packages (through PIP) and "autobuild", which is similar to checkinstall.
I couldn't find these features anywhere else.
Simply ingenious :) Loved the idea!
Within 10 seconds of visiting metafilter for the first time, I ran into this and similar comments:

They pulled it because at 0:58 in the video, you can briefly see Elmo's clitoris.
posted by Greg Nog to MetaFilter at Sep 23 at 6:35 AM

So, like Reddit?
Yes, this seems like a major surrender in the consumer space which brings into question any of their other consumer-focused web properties.
Let's avoid a rathole, stipulate that privacy is a Constitutional objective recognized by the Supreme Court, and re-focus on the fact that you clearly don't have a right to be free from wire taps.
Another reason why they might hate you:

...see parts one and two of my column "On Stupidity"...

...professors were worthy of some respect: We were gatekeepers, and we could help you.
I think the algorithm could try harder (or the photographer could possibly point to the shadows to expose them better).

The photos show a good job of underexposing to prevent blown-out highlights, but it could do better overexposing to bring out shadow detail.
It's baaack:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09...

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-12
There have not always been a lot of women (relative to the amount of men) in tenured positions.
Top vs Left Navigation: Context is King
Does this complement or replace AOL SocialThing? (now AOL Lifestream) What do you think is AOL's strategy?

http://techcrunch.com/2008/08/14/confirmed-aol-acquires-life...