skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats Patrick! Successful entrepreneurs ship, and it looks great. In the thread where you introduced the concept of appointment reminders there was concern voiced that computer calls went in the direction of undervaluing customers by cutting down on human interaction. However, seeing the experience demo'd out I think it actually adds professionalism. If I received such a call I would be impressed, and actually view it favorably because getting a reminder is in my interest, too. Keep going!
Show HN: Announcing Nsync - Git based database synchronization
Kind of sounds like my Powerbook G4 from a couple years ago. Pretty remarkable how quickly things change.
Answer my own question: ""The reader itself is built in Java, and will be accessible on mobile devices via the browser or the standalone apps — the Android app should be available now, and the iOS app will be so soon.""
Nice! I have an N1, love it, and was apprehensive about my options going forward.
My problem with pair programming is that it doesn't allow me to get in the mental state of "flow". The most productive state at least for me is when, for a period of time, I'm so focused on the job at hand, that I'm not aware of my surrounding. This is where my most productive work happens. You're completely immersed and focused.

When pairing I never can get into that state because I keep getting interrupted with "name that method x", "move that method before that method", "refactor now". It really breaks my focus.

I find it useful when tracking obscure bugs, where you can bounce ideas off of someone and basically nail the problem faster.
Pretty sure normal soap doesn't usually kill bacteria. It just removes it mechanically. At least that's how it deals with virus particles. That's why proper hand washing procedure isn't "use a lot of soap and let it sit on your hand", but "scrub everywhere while singing the alphabet song".
The FAQ says they support AAAA

http://aws.amazon.com/route53/faqs/
I prefer washing with rest.
Also note that for some people problems like dry skin, dandruff and a few bowel issues can be caused by an over-abundance of yeast in the gut. A good preventative measure for this is to take coconut oil as a supplement.
Ask HN: Help me repurpose my old laptop
I've got 2 old laptops sitting around and have no idea what to do with them apart from using them as local backup servers. Does HN have any creative ideas?
Do Australians get a kick out of hearing that a phone is rootable? I am led to believe that the word means something entirely different there...
Fair enough. When I blog about it I'll just quote his language directly.
Yeah, I've never used shaving cream. Easiest time to shave is just out of a hot shower. I don't even bother with any oils. Wet the face, and you're good to go.
CPP Netlib is an embeddable HTTP1.1 server in C++
The specs are nearly identical to the Galaxy S/Captivate etc.
I can't quite articulate why, but it bothers me that passing a new law was necessary for this.
Congrats on going live. It looks like http://www.supersaas.com provides much of the same functionality at a lower price though (free for small users).
From the consumer landing page someone else linked to:

After December 16, Nexus S will be sold unlocked and carrier-independent initially through Best Buy stores in the U.S. and after December 20 at Carphone Warehouse stores in the UK.

{update} It looks like instead of selling the unlocked phone themselves, and selling carrier-locked phones in carrier-controlled retail outlets, they are using external partners to push the unlocked phone this time. At least they are learning from their mistakes. Presumably Best Buy will do some marketing for the phone (compared with the lack of marketing for the Nexus One).
Not sure I 100% understand the response, but I guess I feel it should either look like a blog or not look like a blog. Even my dad knows what a blog looks like, and right now that post sort of looks like it's part of a half-implemented blog.

If you don't want it to look like a blog, why not get rid of the "06. DEC, 2010 CATEGORIES: UNCATEGORIZED BY PATRICK MCKENZIE COMMENTS OFF" byline completely? And maybe "comments off" at the end too, since if it's not a blog what do you need comments for.

And if it's not a blog, I sort of wonder why you're using a blog engine rather than whatever other CMS or static pages, but I can completely understand if the blog engine is the easiest way to do what you want to do.
Can It Be A Huge Bubble If Only A Few People Are Blowing It?
It's not.

Try taking the words at their face value, instead. The motivation is avoiding another 20-comment thread that spends 70% of its time dancing around the subtext of one commenter liking WL and the other commenter not liking WL.

Try what Wikipedia tries to do: Assume Good Faith. There are people on HN I, too, have a hard time doing that with, so if you're not assuming good faith because of a 'tptacek issue, please feel free to email me about it.
Wikileaks: Swiss bank closes Julian Assange's account
I don't know if this is true, but i have a theory.

Shampoo removes natural oils from the hair. The scalp responds by increasing it's production so you get oilier hair. It could be that the same happens with shampoo.
I like the white label idea - I think that's going to be pretty successful.
As this is a product page and not a comparison matrix, why does it specifically call out the omission of some features like infrared and physical keyboard? Not that I don't appreciate Google being forthcoming about what they chose to leave out (though who expects IR anyway?), but it seems an odd marketing choice.
Multiple contributors does not necessarily mean pair programming.
What's a SIP account?
Here's a link to an excellent hello world program using this framework: http://cpp-netlib.github.com/0.8/hello_world_server.html
"This is a bad thing", "This one is a bad thing", "This is a bad thing".

I don't think that kind of reasoning is the best way to question peoples ability to think rationally.

There might be "bad things" in these leaks, but that the natural gas industry is important to Qatar and the US exports to Qatar is just as far from a secret there is. Even someone totally ignorant on Qatar as a country could find this out on wikipedia.

Economy of Qatar [1]:
Export goods > Liquefied Natural Gas
Import goods > Machinery and Transport Equipment
Main import partners > United States 13.3%

Not even the facilities[2] mentioned nor the people involved[3] are even close to secret. Just because something has a "SECRET" label and is posted from an embassy doesn't mean it's damaging or that information that could be damaging shouldn't be published[4]. To me it's the people who keep repeating that everything is bad regardless of the actual content, that make it close to impossible to have a critical debate on the leaks.

Qatar also has much larger security problems then "random unhappy people". For example to quote the congressional research report on Qatar[5]: "On March 19, 2005, an Egyptian national
carried out a car bomb attack at a theater popular with Western expatriates on the outskirts of the capital city of Doha. [...] The suicide bomber was an engineer employed at Qatar Petroleum"

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Qatar
[2] http://english.mofa.gov.qa/details.cfm?id=56
[3] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/world-leaders-1/wor...
[4] http://www.nytimes.com/cfr/international/slot2_021106.html?_...
[5] http://opencrs.com/document/RL31718/2008-01-24/
And?

By comparing it to the iPhone 4 are you implying that it shouldn't be release because Apple 'scooped' them on these specs. They should just kill the project and redesign with better specs in an attempt to 'beat Apple?'
Wow, a Jedi and a Samurai. What a fabulous job description (for someone whose actual job is sitting in front of a computer for twelve hours a day working on a project that somebody else thinks is a good idea for thirty grand on the promise that maybe they'll get a hundred grand later on).

Anyway Jason, I'm afraid I have better things to do today than argue with you on the subject of whether you are as awesome as you think you are. Apparently this is your favourite subject, but it's not one that interests me very much.
this is way out of date.

However, this link is pretty up to date (3.5) http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/

and very detailed...
People have spent years studying all sorts of things that are impractical to implement in the real world.
men·da·cious/menˈdāSHəs/
Adjective: Not telling the truth; lying
Almost completely unscientific answer:

I have dry skin and can vouch for the fact that your body tends to "find a balance" if you stop using soap, and I would imagine that it would be similar for those with oily skin (it could be that you are creating a lot of oil because the soap is drying out your skin.

On the other hand, you may find that you just end up even oilier.

The only way to truly find out would be to test it yourself. You may just want to try a less drying soap so your body doesn't need to generate as much oil.
We'll be back shortly
In general it looks like they are moving closer to pure-native app support -- native life cycle and more access to Surfaces as well. This is interesting as even quite recently the official position was apps would be written in Java with JNI portions to accelerate the slow parts. It's a good shift imo.
There are many places where there are large tech companies but few startups. That's because the people who quit to do startups go to the Bay Area, which has a lot more to offer little companies.

For instance, there are a lot of ex-Amazon employees doing startups in SF now. There's a reason they left Seattle, and it's not entirely due to the crappy weather.
Oh yeah, the battery on my EVO doesn't last much more than a couple hours. Even sitting overnight will drain the battery 30% it seems. Even with that its such a better phone than any other I have used on sprint.
Map of the World's Countries Rearranged by Population
I dunno. I've been completely shampoo free for about 10 months, and soap on anything but my hands is a pretty rare occurrence. Things seem to be going well for me. Your mileage may vary.
Finally. Google waited until the telcos told so to enable voip.

Remember most telcos a while ago removing the unlimited data plan? And apple forcing skipe to only using wifi on all platforms.

Truth that google allowed work arounds for being evil this time... you could use sip with the buggy sip app. And you could even get free sip from google voice if you had an old gizmoproject account.
Andrew Mason has publicly said (at Startup School and other places) that they have a 97% satisfaction rate from merchants. Groupon clones exist because there's such a long waiting list to be featured that merchants go elsewhere while they're waiting. The fat margin Groupon charges gives the restaurant a lot of editorial and consulting about how to best structure the deal to get maximum exposure, customer satisfaction, and profitability for the merchant.

There are anecdotes of unsatisfied businesses but statistically, everyone is winning for now.
I don't think this is google's fault.

I think it is still too hard to turn a book into an ebook. Google did a fine job of digitizing a bunch of library title, but that wont do it.

They have to share a spread that technology (make it cheap). I want to put my books into a backpack, go to a store nearby and pick my books up the next day together with the ebooks.
In germany that would not be against the law, because it's a private copy.
Maybe for 10 bucks per book (1Cent/page?).

That would jumpstart the whole ebook thing in europe ... finally.

This is my naive consumer perspective, not a publisher perspective.
Think about it. Really hard. In your visualizations use terms like "licensing" and "international". You may find enlightenment this way.
You can donate them to Think Computer Foundation (http://www.thinkcomputer.org), and we'll use them as cash registers for small business FaceCash (http://www.facecash.com) merchants that need them.
Single data point: I had oily skin in my teens and early 20s, stopped using shampoo and limited my soap use in my mid 20s, and have had people who use many products to maintain their excellent skin remark on how nice mine is. Haven't tried going back onto facial soap to test how much of that is due to aging.
A voip standard
The new NDK lets you write an application entirely in C, no need to get your hands dirty with Java at all. Of course this only works with android-9 (2.3), so if you want to write a game that people can actually play you'll still need a Java wrapper, but going forward you can bet that a lot more game ports will be Gingerbread-only.
The appearance of MathML sadly depends on native fonts installed. If your user has STIX or Computer Modern fonts installed then MathML looks very readable compared to say Mathematica's typesetting.
Spiffy. They're welcome to folks who think $79 is a lot of money -- I will, seriously, recommend them by name to people who complain to me. I'll happily take the part of the market who thinks calling phones is worth paying for. I didn't ever compete on price with BCC and I'm for darn sure not starting now.
The Nexus One also had a 1GHz CPU and 512MB RAM, and came out before the iPhone 4.

What's your point?
Since it is an upgraded Samsung Galaxy S, I'd expect it in the same price range, mavbe sligthly higher.
Ask HN: gifts for geeks?
What are the best ideas you've seen for gifts for geeks this holiday season?

I thought I had a couple of brilliant ideas (space flight simulator and TED tickets) before realising they cost about $1,000 and $5,000 respectively.

I'd love to hear creative ideas at all price ranges and I imagine there are others here who would as well.

My favourite recent idea was a flying trapeze lesson I bought for my brother. I'm not sure why this appeals to the geek in us - probably something to do with pendulums - but it's a great fun present for active geeks.
I don't want to sound too critical of it, but it doesn't seem as compelling as the Nexus One was. When the Nexus One came out, it had an 800x480 display which was higher than most devices at the time, it had a 1GHz processor which was considerably faster than competitors, a 5 megapixel camera, 512MB RAM, etc. This new Nexus S doesn't seem to improve on that formula much: same processor speed, RAM, megapixel camera, screen resolution.

Plus, I think there are more compelling options for T-Mobile right now. Both the myTouch 4G and HTC G2 have HSPA+ allowing for much faster speeds than the HSPA that the Nexus S will come with. Plus, I feel that the 2-color-per-pixel model that Samsung is following with its AMOLED displays makes the devices a lot less useful for my primary purpose: text. AMOLED displays don't have the smooth text that is available on all non-AMOLED 800x480 class devices.

The Nexus One was a big leap forward. It doubled the specs we were used to seeing on processor and RAM, was higher-res than anything except the Motorola Droid, and it included a top-notch camera for the time. The new Nexus S seems like it's playing catchup and is, in fact, not as nice as competing devices.

Now, not having to deal with (Samsung|Motorola|HTC|LG) for OS updates and not having their or (Verizon|AT&T|Sprint|T-Mobile)'s crapware installed on it would be really nice. I guess (for me) I'd just rather get a device that supported HSPA+, had a 3-color-per-pixel display, more RAM (the myTouch 4G has 768MB), etc. The hardware isn't severely lacking in any way, it's just the type of hardware that was average for a phone coming out in July of this year.
I think it was called Adnix, and it was featured in Carl Sagan's book Contact. /pedant
If it's anything like the Android App Store search on my phone, I think I'll stick with my Kindle, or real books. I'm confused how a company that made search work so well has such poor offerings for things like my apps or these books. What gives?
I want a registrar to sell domains, not be a platform for marketing other services to me. I want one registrar which will sell me any tld, many of the nice-looking registrars don't support .uk or .dk domains. I want there to be a well-documented API for setting up dns, and this may be a partnership with Zerigo. I want their website to not make me think. I want to have sub-accounts for my clients to handle their own domains, white-labeled if possible. I want one-click setups to point to Google Apps, Heroku, etc. And whilst I'll pay a premium for this, I don't want it to be so expensive I can't afford it.
I can't speak for soap but I know I have never used shaving gel/cream, or whatever you call it, in my 29 years. And it's all fine. So maybe these guys are just trying to get us to spend money.
I'm sure there's lots of research out there on the effects of caffeine. A review of the literature on its short-term effects on tiredness, concentration and ability on various tasks would be pretty interesting, but a single result in isolation on some artificial test really isn't.
I think this takes our personal library into the ubiquitous cloud, which is great. But again, the key question is, will Google be able to integrate with existing eBooks like Kindle, Nook or Plastic Logic. That will be the one big thing that will determine their success...

Another cool feature I really like is the ability for small bookstores to create their own storefront. That is a smart move. By opening the cloud, they will capitalize on the marketplace created by someone else.
No, I've set up Route 53 on my own domain (ramov.com) and queried the results via DNSCog (http://www.dnscog.com/).

I've used NSD once, it was good. Other than djb 'non standard' conventions and installation procedures, I see no other issues with his software and am happy Amazon opted for djbdns, especially since I don't have to manage it :)
Just use a mild soap and put lotion on your skin in dry weather.
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.

From my own experience, I strongly recommend NOT to quit your day job. Try to run it at least for a year, then you will make a way better decision.
Tim Bray on Nexus S with Gingerbread
Love how you can't read the android site in a android phone

Unless you send a android user agent, then it changes most of the css to enable it. Really a dumb move
The UK Carphone Warehouse has it listed as 550 pounds unlocked, which is about $860 or 650€.
Interesting; next time please put some paragraphs breaks in to make it easier to read. ;)
I agree about reinforcing the mental branding of .org, because people are really dot com brainwashed. This could even become a distinguished part of mental recall: What was that reminder site again? Oh yeah, AppointmentReminder.ORG! The only drawback of that is if he does eventually acquire appointmentreminder.com, which appears to be held by domain name investment company domainnamesales.com.
I hope it's not just PR, because it's exactly what I'd like to hear.
That video also loaded incredibly slowly for me. I'm not on a terrible connection so you should consider a) where you are hosting it b) the audio/video quality to help speed up downloads. I probably wouldn't have watched it if I didn't know you.
I have not used shapoo/soap for my hair and body for more than 10 years now(my skin was not happy with soap). Have not had any issues(and I shower everyday). Also I try to use hot water whenever I can instead of soap. In my case this has more to do with sensibility than for the environment. Also I feel that, not only shampoos & soaps may actually not be good for the body, the real way to have health hair and skin is having proper nutrition and good life-style.
Just a quick warning before you click through: pages and pages of puns.
In my experience, this does not work.

I gave up on shampoo for about a month and a half, but I still used conditioner. I never used soap on my body when showering to begin with, except for ahem the bottom area.

It actually worked for a little while; the conditioner dissolved the grease out of my hair (like dissolves like). But then for about a week my hair was determined to stay greasy and no amount of conditioner would get it out. So I gave up and started using shampoo again.

There's a reason that in the old days everyone wore hats or bonnets regularly.
Still no FM Radio. I don't understand why it is so hard to get that feature.
For those who have No Fucking Clue what NFC is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Field_Communication
"They aren't the guarantors of anyone's rights, that's the government's job"

But what you do when your government refuses to do its job? Sit and wait until it decides to protect free speech?

I think the US government officials are taking this too personally. That's what they wrote, right? Shouldn't they stand behind their own words?

I agree this whole cablegate thing is annoying and I would be annoyed in their place, but I seriously doubt this will impact significantly US diplomacy. It's news to me and you, but it certainly isn't news to whoever they wrote about.
This is very much the direction I am trying to go. Of course I will be releasing as early possible. But many of the things you mentioned are on my radar, except for the dns api. I'll have to check out Zerigo.

I am starting out as an Enom Reseller. It looks like I should be able to do .uk domains day one.
SIP-based VOIP

Good. Let's get some competition to the adware SIP apps that are out now (I'm looking at you, SIPDroid).
This is a giant tangent but - what is HTML5 about this site?
Link is broken for me. Relevant wikipedia page for those interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_transit
Is China the Next Bubble?
That's why there are standards, and the Google Bookstore supports two standards (ePub and PDF).

You know, there are also people out there with Sony, BeBook, and iRiver readers.
From http://www.whatmobile.net/2010/12/google-nexus-s-launches-ex...:

Pre-ordering is available later today from www.carphonewarehouse.com or www.bestbuy.co.uk and this is almost certainly the only way you’re going to get hold of one before the new year. The handset will be free on £35/month contracts, or available SIM-free for £549.95.

I'm not sure of US/T-mo pricing though.
Why do you think this will be rootable?

Also, The nexus one barely was (in the sense that you couldn't replicate a os Build as done by google with the provided source code)
i didn't find the blog all that readable, but the report itself is interesting: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/docs/lf_linux_kernel_developm...
There are two kind of ideas for startups:

1) There is a problem, and current solutions are ugly. Think how to fix it and sell your fixture, and you have an idea. Many programmers when faced with some problem will quickly solve it with some script/whatever magic and not even consider that they could turn that solution into a service/product. How to get such ideas: use more stuff, always look out for problems / poor experience.

2) Those ideas that start with "It'd be cool to do X". Think twitter. I've no idea how to filter out good ideas of this form from bad ones, but with enough iteration I think a lot of even dumb ideas can fly.

I've started game dev recently. http://chopperdefense.com is my first game. I did not know what kind of gameplay or graphics I wanted when I started it. There even were no helicopters in the game initially. But with enough iterations I think I made a pretty decent game. While I was doing it I got a lot more game ideas which I duly noted and also iterated on. "To a game developer, everything looks like a game". Top idea in your mind, as PG says.
Well for one, the whole thing is HTML5 given that the page's DOCTYPE is

<!doctype html>

I don't have time to look deeper right now.
Wow. You love the buggy touch screen?

And the fact that google gave zero support for the phone, to the point of shutting down the community help forum.

Amazing.
? But niMH batteries are 1.4 V instead of 1.5 V and the point of having different sized batteries is that they have different current ratings.
Next Success?
National Discard Day