skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like the comments here on HN are talking about pair programming far more than Mark's OP. The top line of his post was that he prefers to work alone, that the arguments and social overhead of collaborative development have made him unhappy. Pair programming isn't the only way (and often isn't the best way) to collaborate; reading each other's commit messages and talking about them is often sufficient.

And sufficiency is at the core of what makes software development fun and productive: a sufficient number of eyes on the code, a sufficient issue tracking app (and/or other collaborative apps) and sufficient amount of automated test coverage is often all you need.
I think he's just saying that cyberwar should be taken as seriously as nuclear war...though I agree I do feel he may be exaggerating for effect.
The attack on Do Not Track
Is Internet Explorer’s justification done for whole paragraphs using a reasonable algorithm, or just line by line?
This just means that you can do with your phone anything... anything.
The boatswain Blog
Crap to Ignore...
Monetate Raises $5.1M to Help Advertisers Figure Out What Works
Apple has brought out new Macbook Airs without any fancy i3/i5 processors...people should understand that there more to a device than just hardware specs. How many times have we seen great specs and a failing device...
Their presentation video in the article is probably one of the worst examples of how to show off your new idea. It is confusing and has some phrases that might seriously lead your discussion off track (e.g. "FTUBES are more eco-friendly and economic than road building"). Never mind the early geocities-web-style-put-to-video feel.
And German.
Other advantages include avoiding knowledge siloing, and integrating/teaching junior devs.
Typo:

"This has been the dominate effect of computers ..."

There's being a lot written about WikiLeaks and the profound and deep-reaching changes that will be wrought by the entirely new ideal of no secrets. I can't say I don't care, because I do. I can't say I'm uninterested, or disinterested, because I am both interested and interested.

But there's an awfl lot of personal opinion floating around from people who, quite frankly, I have no idea about.

Why should I bother to listen to this person instead of that person? I certainly can't listen to all of them, and any selection appears to be completely arbitrary. I'm completely drowning in an excess of opinion, some of which might be useful, some of which might be important, some of which might be relevant, some of which might be informed, some of which might be insightful, ...

I can't let myself care.

I'll just go back to building stuff. It'll all work itself out without me adding to the all-prevasive, low-level noise.

See you out the other side.
At my university, the microbiology class did a test every year to see how well people wash their hands. They were instructed to was their hands in scolding water for four minutes with antibacterial soap. Turns out, even after that they still had more than half the bacteria left on their hands. This of course says nothing about whether you'll get sick.

EDIT: Also, don't try to pull any of this at a hospital. In those situations you can't afford to take chances (as in when others' health is at risk).
No Kindle support (though the web reader looks E-ink friendly). Amazon really needs to open up their SDK and allow you to write book-readers - they could grab a huge market if they did. As-is, they may be left hurting if they don't explicitly support this, especially if Google's claim of "the world's largest selection of ebooks" is accurate (and I have no reason to doubt it).
Nexus one has FM radio hardware. It's available with some custom mods. (like CyanogenMod 6.1)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Market#Priced_applicati...
* open doors/start cars/unlock computers/pay for stuff just with your phone*

Another reason why Android badly needs proper security like encryption of the whole system. I am really scared about losing my phone already and it only contains private information, no keys or money or anything like that.
It had an unlockable bootloader and openly flashable recovery. Additionally, Google themselves have responded to the complaint that the builds are missing some bits. They have taken steps to remove those hooks as being necessary, and some of the pieces of the bootstrap are not their property to place in AOSP.

That having been said, CM had a build running on his Nexus One within hours of source being released...
That was a bit of a rant, but the point I was trying to make was that innovations such as those I was working on will disappear unless the system is corrected. What doctor wants to be told you can't save a life because there isn't a code for it or it violates some regulation.
If it wasn't, they wouldn't state it as a question.
It's interesting that around the 70's the Asian countries (mostly China) spiked in life expectancy but still are at the same income level. There's a year where China's life expectancy just drop dramatically. I wish he had explained why.
An E.R. Doc Learns the Economics of Street Drugs
Or this one: "There are no cinderellas" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rnySBS5Au0
The N1 has a similar Broadcom chipset (BCM4329), and although the FM radio functionality is not enabled on the stock N1, it's been enabled in recent Cyanogen builds.
Ask HN: Do you really need three posts about Nexus S?
Really?!
I agree, and sliverstorm's comment doesn't sound like he disagrees, either.
I'd love to get this book in Kindle format. Anyone know if an ebook version is coming?
Maybe my facts are wrong - if so please feel free to point me in the right direction; but I thought it was pretty firmly established that while leaking classified material was certainly illegal distributing it after the leak was not. Distributors of leaked material are protected - otherwise the New York Times, Washington Post etc would all be participating in illegal activities.

AFAIK the only point of ambiguity with respect to wikileak's legal status is the fact that they "encourage" people to commit illegal activities.
The Hummingbird is a whole new beast though.
Just found out that it's the Great Chinese Famine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine)
Assuming they will restrict the account to signing on from one location at a time, it would be the equivalent of loaning others books in e-readers that allow it.

Or the equivalent of a bunch of people sharing a Steam account.
Clickables:

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com

http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/07/more-on-habits/

Congrats - I'm pleased you're happy, and keep it up!
Integrating and teaching junior staff is our problem, not our clients'. Maybe they're not charging for the junior pair member? (I'd be surprised; those economics don't work well.)
Ask HN: How to improve dup management?
Suppose there were a 'dup' button on any post (next to 'flag', maybe) that not only marks a post as duplicate content, but lets you link it to the particular other post that you think it's a dup of.

This, you see, is the hard part.

Every other thing you might imagine doing about duplicates can be algorithmic. Some suggestions are below, but any good ideas we have require something like a graph of duplicate posts. Some of them only require a tree-based (parent-only) annotation, but if you represent it internally as an undirected graph you can topo-sort it on various criteria (popularity, chronology, etc) depending on the algorithm you want to play with.

Some things you could do with the graph:

- Distribute karma among the various posters.

- Merge discussions among the various posts.

- Include a "previously posted as" link on the discussion page

- Display all the previous and subsequent dups (e.g. in an inset float-right box, or in a list above the discussion)

- "Lend" post karma from one dup to another in some fashion, so the popularity of one post (and its rank on the front page) affects another.

I'm not suggesting that marking a dup would automatically kill the dup---in fact, I'd suggest that that not happen---but it seems to me that the only way we can do anything intelligent with duplicates is if we have reliable information on which posts are duplicate content (and dups of what).
Do you have any data on how many teeth they found per mouth in remains of paleolithic people?
Production Difficulties Plague new $100 Bill Project
Get two keyboards then.
How to get better at writing
Because it's built on a standard format that allows you to compare the Nexus S alongside all the other Android phones that you can browse from that same interface. Eg, compare the Nexus S to the T-Mobile G2 and you will see that one has a physical keyboard and the other does not.
I'm on 2+ months. The first 2 weeks were pretty hard to deal with. Now I feel cleaner than before. I don't seem any less clean.

I don't use shampoo or any of that crap either, but I clip my hair weekly at 1/4".

A washcloth is key.

Now that's the weather is colder, my skin doesn't feel dry or cracked anymore.

It's no big deal, really. I pass the wife test, too. I don't have any mission or paleo-ideology behind it, I just read a couple blog posts and was minorly curious and tried it.
I've actually been waiting for some group to setup a city somewhere with a new basic infrastructure than the road-liquid fuel model. It almost seems like someone could setup a community based on underground / enclosed personal and robot electrical wheeled transport for local movement with rail to get the distance movement. Not cheap, but if it starts small and has very good internet, it might attract some people to give a modest size project a go.
I found those Ryan Waggoner posts inspiring as well. I planned out my habits this weekend and todays the first day. Going well so far :)
The Fresh Diet: Recipe for sizzling growth
Here are a few quotes that I liked - about life, and maybe relevant to the startup struggle.

"There is no man, and no place, without a war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life."

"For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world."
Here's a quick summary from the SDK release notes:

* Alarm clock APIs

* ability to detect first install time and last update time of an app

* Download manager API

* Mixable audio effects API

* A lot more locales (including indic language support)

* SIP VOIP support

* Front camera support

* 5-point multi-touch API

* Barometer

* Gyroscope

* NFC support (near field comminucation) - can interact using high frequency wireless communication with other stuff with NFC chips. Wikipedia has a pic of a phone interacting with a smart poster.

Can anyone throw some more light on NFC stuff and also why does a phone need a barometer?
Like you, I used to use shampoo everyday. I've been doing the no shampoo experiment for about a month now, and found that I no longer need any styling products (I used to use a bit of clay on occasion). I just kind of use my hands to style it and it stays how I like it.
Are you saying the original open source Sipdroid (http://code.google.com/p/sipdroid/) is adware? If so, why don't you remove the ad code and publish a clean version? You can, it's open source.

Or are you talking about the many clones that re-sell it in the Market--which they can do because it's open source?
At least on the Nexus One, your headphones are the antenna...
Loopt 4.0: Redesigned, Facebook-Heavy, And Location-Based Texting
Barometer = Altitude.
It's a textbook example of the tragedy of the commons where the gain on the TV signal is owned by no one and thus not protected.

There's no free rider element here, so I fail to see how this is a textbook case. The temperature at most public places isn't regulated by the government. Is it a tragedy that it's typically colder at the movie theater? No, experience tells you to dress a bit warmer. As with clothing and climate control systems, TV technology gives us the means to control our own environment: volume controls, DVRs that skip commercials, auto-leveling features, etc.

Given how much we can control/regulate our own personal environments, and even to some extent in the marketplace by having merchants cater to our preferences, do we really need this legislation and is it a priority given the current state of affairs?
I also stopped using shaving cream. My method is as follows. Turn shower up just slightly hotter than will kill you. Sit on floor of tub and just let water soak your head and face. The extra distance to the floor of the shower is why the water should be hotter than is normally tolerable. Now just sit there and enjoy your sauna/steam. After a good time soaking I am now very relaxed and the hair on my face should be super soft. I then grab the razer, just a normal disposable, and do a blind shave while sitting under the hot water. When I'm done, turn the water temp down a bit and clean up the missed bits in a mirror. The whole process is very relaxing and easy and takes only a few minutes.
Replace the stock firmware with a custom one. Not only will you appreciate the flexibility and extra functionality the battery life will no doubt improve.

My Evo can go at least a day and usually most of 2 days on a single charge. I use FreshEVO Firmware, but there are other options too.
Skype's Low-Bandwidth Version for UNHCR - Wouldn't Enterprises Want This?
Congratulations Patrick!!! I hope the results blow your expectations out of the water.

Also, because of your blog, I discovered Twilio and it's exactly what I've needed for some ideas I've been thinking about over the last year.
Supposedly there is some sort of issue with the Quadrant test in particular on the Galaxy S. With the fix (the "lag fix") the Galaxy S tops the field.

The Galaxy S is a fantastic device. It is essentially a higher clocked version of the iPhone 4.
Awesome...

"A Duck"

A feature added for no other reason than to draw management attention and be removed, thus avoiding unnecessary changes in other aspects of the product.
Sure, but isn't a 404 a little bit too much. I think a 406 or a 412 would be more appropriate.
I'd like to port a large LaTeX document to a web browsable format but it makes heavy use of pstricks and picture environments. Can anyone comment on how well this would cope with that or what alternatives might help?
Y'know i just use very small quantities of both.
It has helped the quality of my hair and my skin does not dry out anymore.
Would you take a check for $5 billion? Or walk away?
They should be careful about the name. Netlib refers to a collection of high-performance computing libraries, like BLAS and LAPACK.

http://www.netlib.org/
"I find it surprising on how little time coders spend on their development environment (the “dev env”)."

That's funny. I've always suspected that "tweaking my dev environment" was the #2 time suck on every developers' list. #1 always being "checking [HN|reddit|RSS reader] for updates".
Um, almost all Android phones are rootable and can run custom firmware builds (certainly all HTC's and most Samsungs).

Find instructions at http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Pa...

(Just making the point, you don't HAVE to buy a Nexus line of phone for this)
It is supposed to be a "neutral" page for comparison, e.g.

http://www.google.com/phone/detail/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10

If it is a marketing page, it is marketing for Android as a whole, not specifically for Google branded Android phones.

The marketing page for this particular phone is here:

http://www.google.com/nexus/

The tech spec there doesn't list missing features

http://www.google.com/nexus/#!/tech-specs
To root essentially means to fuck down in australia.
Babies' biological clocks dramatically affected by birth light cycle
Amazon should rather support epub format if they care to have some success in Europe and maybe some other non-US markets.
For someone already familiar with any programming, Zed Shaw's 'Learn Python the Hard Way' is an excellent resource. If you have the discipline to hammer through it, I believe it is the fastest way to come up to speed with Python.

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

As someone with a music background, I found this book interesting, as it follows a similar structure to the way you learn an instrument. When learning an instrument, you don't spend days reviewing music theory, you learn the basic notes, then some scales. Then you do that over and over and over until you're proficient. Then you start playing music. LPtHW reminds me of that approach, and it worked really well for me.
So is the search results page, but the number of actual HTML5 features used on the SRP can be counted on one hand.
Rootable like a beaut sheila!
Show HN: get a sense of a links influence around the web
http://hnfluence.com

http://influentialtimes.com

I started working on this idea a few hackdays ago, particularly at the bitly hackday, then kept playing with it at the nyhacker hackday and most recently at the NYT hackday this past weekend. What the site(s) basically does is pull a list of links[1] then using the url, queries a bunch of other api's for stats. All this happens asynchronously in nodejs, results are stored in an array and then shipped out to the client as json. The primary feature I wanted before being comfortable showing it was sorting by the various metrics. Both sites run off one $20/month 512mb virtual machine hosted with linode[2]. More details in a blog post at some point, clickys in the comments.

Thanks to (no particular order, apologies if I didn't list someone):

@paulg for HN and cause I lifted the basic site design.

@ronnieroller for the unofficial HN api.

@ryah for nodejs, duh.

@mikeal for the nodejs request module

apis: @bitly, @timesopen, @backtype, @facebook, @twitter

ToDo and/or things I'm thinking of doing:

-Visualizations. Right now it's just a table. Need to find some time to dig into jquery ui/raphael/processing.

-Change the list of input urls. Right now I have two sites one for HN and one for the NYT. The idea is to just have one sight (influentialtimes) going forward and have the user be able to input an RSS feed or some other list like from delicious or even bitly's new bundle feature.

-velocity

-history

-all kinds of pro stuff people would pay for. I know this, cause I would.

-realtime stats update via socket.io (no, it is not realtime right now)

[1]Currently the front page of HN via http://api.ihackernews.com and the most popular articles from the nyt via their api, http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/read/most_popular_api.

[2]If it goes down, whatever. I'll try and get it up when I can.
Da Vinci prototype on Xbox Kinect
I wish they added partition encryption through the kernel (LUKS / dm_crypt).
I'm in the US on a H-1B visa and we applied beginning of October. In November it was granted and I came here beginning of December.

It required a lot of documentation, but else the process was fast and pretty painless.
For those who don't know the algorithm, here's a bunch of links about it in Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_wrap#Knuth.27s_algorithm
http://hnfluence.com

http://influentialtimes.com
Hmmm. I wonder about much web surfing battery it has. There is quite a jump between talk time and standby time. I assume browsing uses up more battery than talking.

"Talk time	6 hours
Standby time (max)	428 hours"
> It's news to me and you, but it certainly isn't news to whoever they wrote about.

Simple knowledge can have drastically different effects than public knowledge, as can be quickly illustrated in a simplified form[1].

[1] http://xkcd.com/blue_eyes.html
Upgraded internals, sure, but the removal of the fold-out keyboard seems a backwards step given the overall dimensions of the unit isn't much different.
Downtime is rarely intentional but it is often the result of intentional choices (especially extended downtime). Criticism of downtime is fair, though personally I prefer to avoid it since usually it isn't productive.
Like I said, I completely understand doing what's fastest/easiest, and that definitely makes sense. If Wordpress is what you know, it's completely defensible even if it's overkill.

To be fair though, the choice isn't really "Wordpress vs handwritten HTML" - there are plenty of CMS systems that aren't big gnarly blog engines, and there's even just basic template systems.
The Nexus One's goal was to be a new baseline, one above the crappyphones of 2009, and one which would set the base requirements for Gingerbread.

That's done now, the goal of the Nexus S is not to create a new baseline (which would make no sense), it's to be that baseline, mainly for developers.
Not in every situation. Still waiting for TVs to migrate to bluetooth ;)
Amazon Route 53
"Again, this “Bubble 2.0″, if it does exist, is mainly just troublesome for investors."

Riiiggggght. Just ask all the non-homeowning taxpayers how that works. As I've mentioned previously, significant amount of VC and private equity money actually comes from "institutional investors," namely pension funds, university endowments, etc. If they lose a bunch of value, you think taxpayers aren't going to be on the hook?
> Think about it. Really hard.

No need to think hard about it: Google simply doesn't give a shit. Really. Let me remind you that, almost two years in, Google Voice is still completely and utterly useless outside of North America.

> You may find enlightenment this way.

Enlightenment as to why the video of their ebooks demo would be region-locked?
<sarcasm> at least it is still on the United States largest super regional carrier available in all 49 of the states I am not living in. </sarcasm> sigh.
That thing is a desktop PC. It happens to be phone shaped, but geez.
How I turned my painful failure on video into a success
This looks really cool. I'm not sure what you know about Televox but that's what we use and I have to manage our account. Let me tell you they are very nice people but the service leaves a lot to be desired.
One of the reasons it might make a point of saying no keyboard is that the rest of the Samsung family of phones the Nexus S has come from do have keyboards.

The Nexus S looks identical to my girlfriend's Sprint Samsung Galaxy S but hers has a flip out keyboard and this doesn't, but the dimensions are pretty similar. I was expecting this to have that too when I first saw a picture.
Cocoa/iOS: Some notes on threading
There are a few problems applying pure supply/demand theory onto the problem of available space in NYC. There are some heavy external costs involved: moving expense, employment churn, desirable local culture. People aren't going to leave NYC, they'll just keep moving around the same area for a better deal. Instead of efficient allocation, you'll have something more akin to musical chairs, which could have serious consequences for the local economy.

So, economists loves to look at situations like NY rent control and pass judgement, but it's just a much more complex situation than that, even beyond the moral implications of kicking grandma out. I used to think the way you did and was skeptical of rent control, but research has led me to understand it, at least somewhat. The Wikipedia article has some good insight into why it's helpful from an economic point of view.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_control#Economic
Yeah, I wanted to see the "market share" rather than the rate of change.

From page 13 of the PDF, individuals (18.9%), RedHat (12.4%), Novell (7.0%), and IBM (6.9%) are biggest contributors.
Faking Pharaohs Gold: a sordid tale of real piracy
Or it just senses when it's going to rain.
Soap sometimes if I want to shave completely. Otherwise I just dry-shave. But I do use my cologne afterwards to kill bacteria or anything that may cause irritations later.
What Michal Jordan did, was the opposite of Entrepreneurship: It's called optimization.
If he would have created a new game, he would be an entrepreneur.
Or therapy