skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The worthiness of journals, for the purpose of determining how much grant money a publication should count for at least, will be determined by official regulation soon enough if Danish politicians gets their will through.

And woe to any upstart then.
Can anyone deduce what the DRM position is on books sold via Google Books?

Closest I can get is http://books.google.com/help/ebooks/content.html which says PDF and ePUB formats that might have DRM in them -- but I wasn't aware there was any (significant) DRM in PDF format.
mmmh. I was not impress with the iphone 4 and I am not impressed with this either. I have a nexus one and the only thing that make me jealous with the S is the NFC.
Are we reaching a plateau in mobile phone development?
Under features, portable wi-fi hotspot is touted with no additional carrier fees. This currently works on T-Mobile with my Nexus one, but I assumed I was "getting away" with something. T-Mobile charges $15 for tethering/hotspot on other devices.
IR is used a lot in japan to exchange contacts with people you meet. For English speakers it's not that hard to punch in someone's email, but since email addresses have to be roman characters, it's actually a pain for non-english speakers. Thus IR. A new Sharp Android phone was just released on Au that I think is the first android phone with this feature.
I'll add "The Elements of Style" by Strunk and White. Some people don't like it, but I love it's "reference book" nature. Open to any random page and learn something new, or check the table of contents when you're not sure about something.
"Masters of Doom" by David Kushner

It'd been on my list for quite awhile but I just got around to it a few months ago. It was fascinating to read about all the games I'd played growing up. For those who haven't read it - it covers pretty much the birth of the gaming industry as we know it today not just Doom. It goes all the way back to when Romero was writing games and sending them in to magazines to be included on disks. Carmack has always been an icon for me so it was interesting to read about him on a more personal level.

In addition to the interest factor - it was also quite inspiring to me. It certainly increased my drive to get stuff done. If the early history of PC gaming interests you at all; or you just want to read a page turner of a book about people not that dissimilar from you I'd highly recommend it.
Excellent points. Do Not Track is enormously popular, just as Do Not Call was, so it's a real challenge for companies who have prospered by tracking customers without telling them or giving them a real opportunity to say no.
I always considered "refuctoring" to be refactoring, but without tests to ensure that the new version actually works.
How can you be impressed or not with a device you have not even touched? What about it isn't impressive?
Heated, filtered, chlorinated water is an amenity he can live with, though!
Android 2.3 Platform Highlights
I recently coined (afaik):

enbug - v. to program; the opposite of debug
Would have loved to see an electronic version of Car Wars.
I host a ccTLD domain with Godaddy's Off-site DNS. I'm amazed by the fact that it's completely free even for domains not purchased from Godaddy, in compare to other DNS hosting services like DynDNS or Nettica. They limit 40 records per domain but i don't think you'll use more than that. The service fits perfectly if you have a domain portfolio with low traffic.

http://help.godaddy.com/article/4041

Disclaimer: I don't know/care about support since my site is non-critical but Godaddy promises premium service coming soon. My site is running smoothly serving 10+ mil. pageviews per month. Time using Godaddy's DNS until now: 3 months
Can you point me to a company that does this already? Someone to go through?
You need to be off grains. Permanently. Forever

So what. We didn't start eating them until a few thousands years ago. The only reason to eat grains is that they are cheap. Better to save on other things.

No milk forever

Why? The previous book (GCBC) itself talks about how well Masais are, living basically on milk and blood, and it's an indictment of bad science research (cholesterol and sat fat paranoia) and a suggestion on where the problem or part of it could be (sugar and refined carbohydrates)
Well - Google have to be friendly with the networks. It's in their interest.

A phone OS which allows the networks to be totally supplanted wouldn't be marketed positively (by the networks).
well, for me, it's a deal breaker
Are there any additional licensing/regulation requirements around FM radios that would prevent them from just including it?
Real World Happstack: The Cabalized, Self-Demoing Happstack Tutorial
Hmm. That's something that I'll have to look into. It should be served the same as anything else.
I don't disagree with anything you have to say here. The problem is, you're talking about how things would work on a site that isn't Hacker News, and I'm talking about how things are not working on a site that is.

I think it's fair to say, even from the perspective of an impartial observer (I'm not one), that Wikileaks ran this whole comment thread off the rails. This is a discussion about what will probably be the biggest news about DNS over the next 2 quarters, and DNS has --- literally --- taken a back seat to someone trying to explain to Jacques what Joe Lieberman represents in US politics.

The arguments in favor of injecting WL into these discussions strike me as very similar to the arguments Ron Paul advocates used to inject Paul into discussions in early 2008.
Scientist-oriented Programming Tutorials for Cocoa Development
How to scan ports, get IP address and other quick TCP/IP Rebol Tips
I have read that. What I think he misses is that there isn't really a conspiracy - there is no bright line between us and 'them' - we all collude in the current state of affairs through want of something better. I think he has the opportunity to lead people to demand less corruption if he plays this right, but he equally could cause the opposite effect if he simply damages countries.

If his agenda is to test only that hypothesis without regard to the consequenses then I'm saddened. The path taken to get there makes a difference to the outcome, and he's responsible for that too.
Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners
Dakota has some combos that sound different to English speakers (e.g. phrase: "Mazaska wacin", Mazaska = money, wacin = 'I want').

// my choice of example phrase is based on what I valued as a teenager (and can still remember), not some weird social commentary
Learn Prolog now
Is Twitter censoring Wikileaks related tends?
That may be what they say, however we contracted with Pivotal for several months and the results were not uniformly excellent. And the fact that the Pivotal contractors generally pair with themselves, and not with permanent members of the client team, can lead to a number of bad outcomes including: coding decisions which no one on the client team understands and code written (or changed) without sufficient understanding of the larger context or of the business domain.
Visualizing Types: Hussling Haskell types into Hasse diagrams
Are rfid cards used for payment on any subway systems in the states? If so can you already use that card for payment in shops etc?
Garrett Lisi on his theory of everything at TED.
I wish this book had been available around 1996! Even so, I'm glad to have read it more recently.
That name is already taken.
Linux Command Sequences in the Bash Shell
The only reason I switched from T-Mobile is for the iPhone. If Android is in a good enough place when this phone dies, I might switch back, because T-Mobile knows how to treat customers and the other carriers just don't.
I believe this technology is usually implemented smart card style, ie in a tamper resistant package with an integrated cryptographic processor. So while yes, you could lose it it wouldn't be (reasonably) copyable - and you'd be in a similar situation to if you lost your keys or your credit card. In this case you'd need to revoke the keys, similar to changing your locks or credit card numbers. I also believe the contactless payment functionality should at least have an option (or require) a separate PIN.
Android 2.3 Platform Highlights | Android Developers
is it just me, or does a lot of the "bubble" discussion seem like people sticking their fingers in the ears and saying at great length "I can't hear you I can't hear you I can't hear you and it doesn't matter even if you're right"?
Ugh. Before you thank T-Mobile, try actually signing up for their contract-less service. I literally spent two hours on the phone, and they still managed to screw up almost every aspect of my plan. Many other aspects of the service become more expensive, nullifying the (minimal) cost savings, and the activation fees are outrageous. Additionally, they will never allow you to sign up for T-Mobile contract again.

In short, they try to neuter the no-contract option in any way they can. I am actively regretting it right now, and the only upside is that I'm looking for a different carrier, and I don't have to worry about early-cancellation fees.
Audi to Add More Solar Panels Atop its German Facility
Favorites: Smug, Drug, Chug, and Shrug reports. Will have to remember those...
Hey Patrick, Won't you tell us what Anchor Text will you prefer? I want to write a post about your new business on my blog and want to link with a proper anchor text.
15 minutes? :) Joking, joking

I used to think this is a great idea too, and got all enthusiastic about it. Somehow I changed my mind, no idea why... maybe trying to think about it being cost effective? I'm not completely outside the problem either: a few years ago a co-founded a small courier company, so I did spend some time thinking about how to best move stuff in a big city.

Right now I'd say the right way to go about things is more computing power. A "swarm" of couriers can probably be efficient and cost effective enough. The real break will come when we can have cars that drive themselves, so you don't even have to pay a full time human to move packages around.

But digging holes? In the few instances where you can actually do it, they're great. It's just that I really doubt it's at all scalable.
I don't know if you're looking for any design critiques, but since that's what I know here goes:

- The logo is not very readable. The letters are squashed together and the gradients are a little too strong. Subtle is always better.

- The pure white background behind the tagline is very harsh. I suggest using a light shade of beige instead.

- Your content needs some rythm. People hate reading big blocks of text, so you should add in some headings and lists.

- Maybe you're planning to add more slides to the carousel later, but right now you really don't need it. You could take out "who is it for" and put it in the sidebar instead.

- The two call to action buttons get lost inside the illustration. I suggest putting them in the brown bar instead.

- The tagline could really use some typographical love. There's a ton of gorgeous free fonts on FontSquirrel.com, just pick one from the top 10 most popular.

- The sign in link should probably not be placed inside the nav, most people expect it to the top right of the site.

That's just the things that jump out at me from looking at the homepage for 5 minutes. Hit me up on Twitter (@SachaGreif) if you have any questions or you'd like some more advice.

PS: I almost forgot to say, congratulations on launching what looks like a truly useful product!

PPS: I often go to Kyoto, not that far from you!
have you tried google adsense?
I saw that a while back, but I was looking for something with a more western basis to see if the current attitudes could allow something like this to work.
I once took a job that involved picking up the pieces after a team of Thoughtworks programmers were fired for incompetence. They pair-programmed some of the worst code I've ever seen.
The hunters of four American states would be the largest army in the world
No kidding. At first, I assumed "/be" was some board on 4chan.
Well obviously I wasn't following his experiment. It was from a book on how to deal with my particular kind of hair (which is rather difficult).
Almost all Android phones are rootable in the same sense that the iPhone is rootable -- only by virtue of an accidental security flaw. The Nexus One/S are the only Android phones where root is not a privilege you have to take back from the manufacturer by force.
Microsoft funds an organisation that lobbies against Google
Using an algorithm with a better average case and very bad worst case instead of an agorithm that always executes in linear time is pretty common - for example, in grep:

http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2006/05/30/old-age-a...

Makes sense, as long as you and the people using the code know the tradeoffs involved.
Congrats on the launch. One bit of feedback - I might link the Coming Soon! text under "Enterprise" in the pricing page to some kind of e-mail collection form so you can let users know when it arrives.
Did you pay your taxes already ? I wonder what
would be your after-tax income ? Again, $2.5k
is still very low even for Eastern Europe.

I don't know which Eastern Europe you live in - but $2,500 per month (even if he ends up paying 50% taxes on it) is considerably higher than average income in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia or Hungary.

And if we are talking about non-EU member like Ukraine, Russia, Belarus or Moldova $2,500/month puts you firmly into the ranks of the higher class (except maybe in Moscow).
How to find a name for your new startup
Since 2003 or so, Microsoft has licensed the source code fairly widely to universities and governments -- and it had been stolen a couple of times before that. So hopefully nobody's surprised that it could be used for cyberwarfare ...
Pick something which comes natural to you. I'm #1 for "appointment reminder" and am loathe to give particular suggestions because over concentration on it will cause me to probably hit automatic filters, since this site is still relatively low-trust by Google standards.
I've only done a quick skim, but their prices are really high. The ebook version of many programming books are more expensive than their paper counterparts at amazon.
So how do you define a "terrorist act"? Is it any action that is contrary to the interests of the United States or is it just releasing information that terrorists could conceivably find useful? In which case, Google is, by far, the biggest, baddest, terrorist on the planet.
Back in the day, a terrorist act involved doing shit that terrorized people.
Arnold and Bill both like to sing. Arnold sings in several groups (including a chorus), takes voice and ear-training lessons, and continually strives to improve. Bill sings in the same chorus as Arnold, but otherwise he doesn't practice. Nevertheless, Bill is a much better singer than Arnold.

If you haven't ever seen this phenomenon, you simply don't have much experience with activities that require both talent and skill in order to excel. You can't reach the highest levels without practice—Bill could never compete with Charlie, who has Bill's talent and works as hard as Arnold—but that's not enough. Talent and practice are both necessary to be the best, but neither one alone is sufficient.
cyanogenmod any ? http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/forum/33-google-nexus-one/

(Forums currently down because everyone must be flocking there)
"Google’s voice search/input applications and Google Navigation continue to make Android phones in general significantly better mobile devices than the iPhone."

3-4 mentions of "apps" in the entire review, and all of them focus on Voice and Navigation. Are we going to pretend that third party app selection is a non-issue on mobile platforms, not even worth mentioning?
Google Opens Doors to E-Bookstore
Amazon is not selling eBooks to anywhere. Yes, selling in 100+ countries is impressive, but there are 200+ of them.
"Good Calorie, Bad Calories" was a pivotal book for me. It freed me up.

Me too. Probably the most important book I've read in my life. I lost the 12 kg I didn't need and I only regret I don't have a time machine to tell my younger self to stop eating all those damn sugary crap and grains for breakfast.
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I also looked into it recently, and Damon from the Gnome project attempted it in 2002 or so. Also Adobe+Google are trying to get it into WebKit. The problem (as far as I can tell) is that people have tried to do it all at once, and pushing such a large thunk of code upstream is very hard.

I suspect that if you take it in pieces: first get a decent hyphenation algo into Pango, then get that into FF and WebKit, then work on the line-breaker, and then get a new CSS rule approved by the W3C... well, maybe you could get it done in 3 or 4 years.
I'm not sure which city are you talking about, because there isn't any land left in NY to buy up and build on. If you are talking about dozing and rebuilding, well, there's not much incentive to do this anyway, since existing investments are often so profitable that it's pointless to incur risk. Opening apartments _IS_ an extremely attractive investment and happens constantly, but you are talking about an area with EXTREME scarcity. No amount of flood of new development is going to bring housing prices down in Manhattan, an area with a residential population of 13 people per square foot of land.

Modern rent control laws only really prevent the landlord from raising rent (EDIT: more than a certain percentage every year) on existing tenants. This is considered "rent stabilized," which covers almost half the available units in NYC. Less than 2% of the available rental units in the city area are considered rent controlled, which is where the government actually mandates a certain rent level. The pricing of over a third of the rental units in NYC are unregulated.
Your tagline "You didn't go into business to spend the day on the phone. Let us handle that." uses a prime, ', instead of a proper, curly apostrophe, ’.

It's also amazing to see a site free of any social network buttons. You don't get to see that often.
Please explain the - In office music bullet. I worked at a consultancy once that piped a local top 100 station over the PA all day long and it drove me mad hearing the same awful songs/advertisements/DJs ad nauseum.
Radio interviewer calls UK Minister 'Cxnt' in Broadband discussion.
True, I don't think it's working as-is. I'm picturing HN the way it could be, and it's clouding my judgement of its current UX (I picture "jumping down to the next sibling node to this node" as a single atomic action, so my brain doesn't record the time I spend doing it.) And, since people had to scroll so far to get to something relevant, they were more likely to give up and comment on the tangential sub-thread instead, which deprives the relevant threads of comments (assuming posters that don't read the entirety of the discussion.)

However, we do have the Arc source; what is needed now is a good incentive to actually implement/fix this stuff, other than just scratching itches (because if that was enough, it would have been done by now.) "A competitor to HN that does it, runs ads, steals traffic, and makes money" wouldn't work, because the value of HN is 99% the community...
Except maybe those unnecessary consumables you've been paying for all this time? ;-)
Do you do any marketing/promotion at all, or just stick your Apps up on the Market?
Bruce Schneier says 'Cyberwar hotlines' are needed
Mac App Store to Launch As Early as December 13th?
for a site like http://demotivatedposters.com have you looked into an affiliate program where you sell real posters? or maybe selling other funny stuff... like an affiliate program for busted tees or some site like that... http://www.bustedtees.com/affiliates
A lot of it is pretty backward and antiquated though. Take its contents with a grain of salt.
On top of that, the last thing the economy needs right now is a bunch of VCs and other investors afraid to invest. We're teetering between job growth and job losses already.
From Amazon:

Amazon Route 53 supports wildcard entries for all record types. A wildcard entry is a record in a DNS zone that will match requests for any domain name based on the configuration you set. For example, a wildcard DNS record such as *.example.com will match queries for www.example.com and subdomain.example.com.
Basically any Android device can be rooted and flashed but how difficult it can be is the problem. The HTC Vision (T-Mobile G2) has a complete copy of it's ROM on board to "restore" if you flash the phone. Motorola has also done a good job of locking bootloaders.

It won't be surprising if these "security" measures keep escalating as carriers try to find new ways to extract revenue, such as charging extra for tethering.
Can we agree that an upvote on this thread = NO?
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1626305 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=466845 and I was about to link to the rediculous fish post, but I see zdw beat me to it.
Racist is an awfully strong word.

You may not like it, but it's surely just pragmatism on their part. It requires a considering investment in lawyers and time for each country they launch in, so it makes sense to start with their home (and likely largest) market.
google.com/adsense should be a first step. With 1m pageviews, you should be making much more than $5/day.

chitika has some potential. I used them on another site, it didn't outperform google adsense even though I was passing terms that were somewhat related to campaigns they had. It was good, they do have ads that would work for a game site better than it worked for my sites.

adbrite perhaps. With games, hit or miss, but, worth a try.

ad4game. I haven't worked with them personally.

Have heard good things about tribalfusion, have no experience with them.

If you can convert those games over to Facebook, you open yourself up to SuperRewards/Offerpal, though, your game needs to have the hooks that require a virtual currency.

As for your demotivatedposters.com, connectcommerce (google's affiliate arm) has quite a few business related advertisers like Daytimers, etc. and despair.com has an affiliate program.
Connectivity

Quad-band GSM: 850, 900, 1800, 1900

Tri-band HSPA: 900, 2100, 1700

HSPA type: HSDPA (7.2Mbps) HSUPA (5.76Mbps)

AT&T doesn't work on any of these bands in your area? Which frequency do they use?
You might start reading a book on your computer at home in the morning, and you might leave that open as you rush off to work. You might open a second copy on your e-reader as you go to work, and so on.

Therefore there are natural use cases where you have the same Google account logged into Google ebooks on multiple devices at the same time.

Therefore Google must allow for those use cases.

Those use cases can be mimicked by friends sharing a Google account.

Google could check for obvious misuse. For example, they could look for two devices separated by a large distance and using the same Google account with Google ebooks at the same time. I know they already do something like that with Gmail (for a different reason).
Japanese is SOV (subject-object-verb).

I yoda conditions very much hate!! Crazy they me drive!

But I Japanese like.
Yeah, it has some remarkable similarities to Google Video.
I'd certainly describe the Pentagon as a symbolic target in exactly the same way as the WTC was a symbolic target.

I don't fully disagree with the remainder of your comment, but I would also say that it's not a trivial factor that the targets you listed also have something else in common: they're all U.S. targets that are local or relatively easy to get to locations. Another consideration is that those are all older attacks. More recent attacks around the globe to Western facilities have focused on non-military targets. Based upon the result of 9/11 (U.S. engaging full force), the non-military target has demonstrated to be more productive for them.
Umberto Eco: "the crypts of state secrets are not beyond the hacker’s grasp..."