skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Tweetdeck. An actual app!

2) Hootsuite. A bookmark to hootsuite.com

3) Aviary. A bookmark to http://goo.gl/VOFHH which seems to work fine in Fx.

4) Box.net. A bookmark to http://goo.gl/Osbby which works fine in Fx.

5) nytimes. A bookmark to http://nytimes.com/chrome which works fine in Fx.

6) eBuddy. A bookmark to http://web.ebuddy.com/ which works fine in Fx. Although it does open in a popup window if you install it on Chrome, so Firefox users will miss out on that feature.

7) Flixster. A bookmark to http://flixster.rottentomatoes.com/ which works fine on Fx.

8) todo.ly A bookmark to http://todo.ly/chrome which works fine on Fx.

9) Read Later Fast. An actual app!

10) Springpad. A bookmark to http://springpadit.com/chromestore.action which works fine on Fx.

11) Fiabee. An actual app!

So that's 3 out of 11 apps which aren't just bookmarks.

edit: and of those which are actually apps, I think from a cursory glance that Read Later Fast is the only one which actually uses Chrome-specific features. The others seem initially at least to be 'apps' just because they can be.

What's massively damaging is that the other 9 websites (sorry, 'apps') now have an excuse to not bother testing in other browsers, to allow bugs in other browsers. When really with a very minimal amount of effort they'd be able to be nice open web apps like we know and love.
This is nothing more than Eco-terrorism for nerds. What's wrong with blowing up some buildings, after all they only cost money, and the fate of the world is at stake! Please. This is terrorism pure and simple--do right by Wikileaks or we will hurt you. Maybe it's terrorism you finally agree with because this time it's for the Internet, but let's be under no illusions it won't utterly backfire.
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I applied, but from a UK address. So I'm not expecting to get anything.
If you have the technical savvy to set it up, encfs works REALLY well as overlay encryption for Dropbox. Unlike other options such as Truecrypt, it encrypts and obfuscates at the file level, so Dropbox's per-file synchronization and conflict resolution still work.
China has figured out how to successfully embrace capitalism under communistic rule. China needs democracy and freedom of speech when its citizens get pissed off enough to demand it...or there is a revolution.

The vast majority of Chinese citizens are poor and are more concerned with getting their next meal than how the country is governed. I think this will change once the standard of living reaches the levels of other countries.
At least several, maybe all, of those were directly inspired by rails migrations. Whether something automatic, but imperfect (renames, anyone?) is actually better than something explicit but easy enough seems a matter of taste.
Same. No confirmation. The box had a guys name and Kentucky address. I'm in Boston. Really confused at first. Can't believe how fast they got these out.

Edit: Nope, not your name. I had no idea why he would have sent me a box.
You sound like someone who isn't afraid of soldering. Perhaps you want to test the alpha equipment. ari.krupnik@hackerdojo.com

Ari.
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I'm in the UK, so no :(
Man this place has become Slashdot. I mean was that sniping pop shot well though out? Or was it just a quick personal attack for karma? Seriously I want to know, I shared a pretty detailed story, like it or not, agree with my conclusions or not, it was a story that I thought long and hard about to add some conversation to HN. I mean do I really sound like a toxic customer or was that just a pop shot. In the course of one thread I have been called a lair, stupid, and now a toxic customer all on a site that state clearly in it's FAQ's to try to be civil. So I would really like to know your mind set in doing so, do you just not care about HN not being just another "mines bigger" contest. Or in all of this did you glean some insight that you can boil me down to a one liner?
Usenet does quite well without moderators - not least because sensible news providers will drop spam before you see it. Google Groups doesn't.
Why the dismissive, acrid tone?

This is a piece of free climbing protection. This, along with the rope is used just as a safety device in case the climber falls. If it was used for making progress, he would be aid climbing. If you read the article, you will see that there are still risks, however. His homemade gear could pull out. Or even if it catches him, the traversing nature of the route would cause him to take a huge swinging fall into a wall. These types of falls are very dangerous because you hit with your torso and your legs aren't there to cushion the blow to your internal organs.
Was version control used? Preferably something like Git or Hg where you can see each changeset? Start at the beginning of the project to get a feel for the overall structure then follow how it grew from there.
That's awesome. They provide good service. I'd like to meet him sometime.
Parsing the impact of Anonymous
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If you've every done Electro Static Discharge (ESD) testing you should get a good laugh.
If you've every done Electro Static Discharge (ESD) testing...
"Google Groups has no spam filter at all as far as I can tell."

Sure it does. In the admin section are a few different options for controlling spam. One of the best is to require that first-time posters have their initial post held for moderation.
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that link gave me a 404... did you mean: http://www.popsci.com.au/2010/12/how-secure-is-julian-assang...
Did you try the same story with the other company?

Did you try to get bids from both company's?

Did you varify that they where in fact idential pieces of software?
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I wouldn't be so sure that they're just going to lose interest in a week. Look at scientology, that's still going on.
That was the page for the live stream for this past Monday. If you look at it now, you see:

Thank you for your interest in this course. We regret that the course you selected is not currently open for enrollment.

At some future date (hopefully soon), the video should be posted to http://scpd.stanford.edu/knuth/index.jsp, where the archive of Knuth's previous lectures lives.
In case your rudeness springs strictly from ignorance:

- Any time you're moving up under your own power, you're climbing.

- Any time you're moving up on a suitably steep cliff under your own power, it's rock climbing.

- If you're placing gear into the rock, then pulling on that gear -- sort of making a moving ladder -- you're aid climbing.

- If you're using ropes and gear strictly for protection, moving up with hands and feet on the rock only, you're free climbing.

- If the gear is at the top of the climb, you're top-roping. Falls are usually very safe and only a few feet.

- If you're placing the gear as you climb, then climbing above it, you're leading.

- If you forgo all the safety gear, but stay low enough that you're only risking your ankles, you're bouldering.

- Otherwise, free soloing.

The vast majority of climbers use safety gear for good reason... I'd be dead many dozen times over without it.
Texas has been creating over half of all net new jobs over the last few years. It's actually making it through the recession quite well.
Dropbox does keep a cache of recent file versions. So a server-side screwup won't entirely ruin your local files. Still, you're right that more backups are needed to avoid a single failure point.
WikiLeaks Supporters Launch Cyber Attack on Amazon
Indeed. And the bit about making "better decisions" is particularly rubbish; they make the more rational decision in one artificial situation which has been engineered (would you like $2 or a fifty fifty chance of winning $10 or losing $5?) so that the risky option is the more rational one.
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Did you try the same story with the other company?

Yes, they did not give me the discount, but explained why they where unable to and pointed me to an evaluation version that was full featured but had a save limitation.

Did you try to get bids from both company's?

No

Did you varify that they where in fact idential pieces of software?

Both had the requisite functionality.
GMail is great for, well, email. It is quite bad for saving files and ideas.

Yup, it can save any filetype. However that doesn't mean much if you have to download every file before you can find out what they contain. With 200 different images and documents for example, it is much easier to find the right document when you either can look at the thumbnails or search directly in the content.
Why unpublished novelists keep writing: why not?
> The submission app asked me to play with it an talk about it, so kind of the opposite of an NDA

Fantastic move from google side. I hope more companies adopt this strategy in future.
Flakes are common on granite routes. You can usually put cams or nuts behind them, though. In this case, the flake is very loose and the gap between the flake and the rock behind it is very wide. If he did manage to place any large active pro behind it, it might pry the whole flake off in a fall. This would probably kill him, his belayer, and any people on the ground below. This is why it wasn't climbed by anyone until he invented this device, which won't pry the flake off the wall.

One of the most famous granite flakes is the Texas Flake on the Nose route on El Capitan. The gap is so wide that you can't place any protection and must chimney up the 5.9 pitch with no pro.
and be personally responsible for nearly 7 tons of CO2 emissions
He was free climbing the flake, which means that his only means of progress was his hands and feet on the rock. The clamp he built (more of a reverse cam, really) was used solely to catch him in the event of a fall.

He mentioned that he practiced placing the gear on the route while top roping, meaning that the rope started from the top of the route. However no one had successfully trad climbed the route before, which means that the rope starts from the bottom and is clipped into removable protection along the way.

Trad (short for traditional) is what most people consider "real" climbing.
"Learn more on Labels" doesn't do anything for me - tested in FF and Chrome.
Amazon braced for DDoS as WikiLeaks retaliation continues
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Samsung Galaxy S uncertain about getting Android 2.3 update
Here is a list of patents and industry vendors sued: http://intellectualventures.com/Libraries/Article_Reprints/F...
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Very nice idea.

That's a great pivot, and one I'll seriously consider using on my site.

If it works as well as I hope, I think you may wish to reconsider your pricing model.
Guys, let's not get hung up on how many days you get with light use and that you already get more than a day. InclinedPlane's point stands whether you get 1/2 a day or 4 days out of your battery with light-ish usage. Hell, I can get 2-3 days out my iPhone if I don't use it much.

It's not good enough until we can get at least 24 solid hours of use out of a modern phone with a big display (>= 3") while using at least one or two of the radios inside it (e.g. 3g and bluetooth).
Wasn't this already known? I seem to remember a discussion months ago about why some highly upvoted articles disappear faster off the front page than others.
Indeed it is approaching 'No True Scotsman' hair-splitting, and that's unfortunate, but shared definitions are important for discussion. My objection is to the watering-down of 'mob' to mean any 'group of people', including those who have the noblest aims. A 'mob' is not a 'movement', nor is it a 'rebellion' or 'revolution'.

It's angry people breaking rules and doing unfocused damage with the exercise of raw bulk power. That we can cherry-pick a few examples where similar action caused (or more likely, just correlated with) beneficial change shouldn't make 'mob' a positive-connotation term for the 'group of people' that via its 'support' determines whether society is 'free, just, and rational'.

We should prefer to rely on free speech, elections, courts, legislatures, voluntary assemblies, armies and even 'well-organized militias' over angry anonymous 'mobs'.
"It’s great day, possibly deserving an entry into the history books about how we all came together and started a revolution. Adam, as we love to call it, is not a tablet, it’s a dream come true for many of us. We have pushed the limits of current technology and raised the expectations from other devices as well, especially the fact that it’s not just hardware or software, but it’s both. Android on Adam is no longer a phone OS; it’s Eden, a new play ground for big touch screen devices."

Wow, that's some word play..
Possible flaw in LOIC - Tool used to DDoS Amazon
I have a vendor that provides a product that has bugs all over the place. I am really, really sick of finding my own workarounds for these bugs. I gave up even looking at the poor documentation long ago and just email them every time now. If they want me to stop they can either lose my business or fix their software. I expect other products and clients are similar.
One of the commenters there raises valid points.

Are you people seriously going to buy this thing with:

1) No video of the device
2) No video of the UI
3) No estimate on shipping
4) Mystery Devices
5) No details on Support*
Hopefully not my name!
I wish I could have one. I applied for it from Turkey. But as we all know this program is US only (for now). Looking forward for an extension of the program.
I suspect that at production levels you'll wind up encouraging a mono culture in the host cells. So, the viruses would be poorly suited to the real world.
It looks kind of route-specific / very, very niche: You need a quite skinny flake, attached either too far away or too loosely to the main wall to put normal cams or big bros in behind it, all without any other reasonable protection nearby.

And if the flake is so loose that you're really worried about pulling it off the wall, running it out might actually be the safest thing to do.

(That way, if you fall, you won't load the flake with your momentum. This gizmo will load it strictly downwards, which is the whole reason it's being used instead of normal cams -- which will pressure the flake out from the wall in a fall.)
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Are you married to MySQL, or is there an opportunity to influence you in the Postgres direction?
How to Make a Thesis
If the process of making a thesis is understood, the writing of the thesis can be handled with ease. Therefore, this article will provide students information on the most effective way to make their thesis. This will ensure that their theses are written in the proper manner.
Attacks against Amazon imminent
Thanks a lot, seems like a solid stack. I've got to check it out. I've never really used flask for anything other than some light experimenting.
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So I'm sitting here typing on my laptop. To my right is a large monitor. Sometimes it's a little hard to type on the laptop while watching the monitor, so I have a second keyboard under it in case I need to do anything significant. I have a mouse between the two.

Let's say I'm coding on the laptop, and I want to scroll the docs that are up on the monitor. Three things need to happen here: 1) focus on the docs, 2) scroll, and 3) focus back on my work. My goal of course is to do this as swiftly and effortlessly as possible.

So, using the keyboard: I alt-tab from editor to browser, hit the space bar to scroll down, alt-tab back.

Alt-tabbing is more of a hassle the more programs I have open. Additionally, the scrolling is either a lot (page down) or a little (down arrow); usually what I want is something in between. It could be made easier if I had a specific keystroke set up to switch to Chrome, or to scroll by x amount, but that's far from intuitive.

Using the mouse: I move my hand down to the trackpad, or over to the mouse. Wiggle it around briefly to locate the cursor, then drag it across the screen to the second monitor. Use two-finger scrolling or the mouse wheel to scroll to where I want to. On OS X I blessedly don't have to click to focus scrolling, so I could start typing immediately, but to avoid confusion (and because I want to scroll my code) I need to drag the pointer back.

This provides a much better scrolling experience, but the process of moving focus across monitors with a pointing device is a huge drag.

Using a hypothetical desktop gesture reader: I lift my hand in front of the second monitor. This focuses on the window. I draw two fingers down (or up) to scroll. I drop my hand back to the keyboard and begin typing immediately.

My elbow stays on the table, so it's quite comfortable. I have excellent granularity in scrolling— not as good as the mouse wheel, since I'm not actually touching the screen, but probably about as good as two finger scrolling. Most helpfully, the task of focusing on the browser and back is about as effortless and intuitive as it possibly could be without reading my mind.
Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker on cyber espionage v. cyber war
I don't think the price is too bad. It comes out to $13 per seat per month for a team of 5. Drops to $10 per each additional.

I think this is more an issue of pricing psychology. The price should be marketed as $65 a month for a team of up to 5, $10 for each additional team member.
People seem to substitute it for "automatically" as they please, and I find it annoying as well.

But I'm in the seemingly tiny minority that cringe when they see "begs the question" misused, "should of", etc. Most people don't seem to care about these things.

"I know this seems like a semantic quibble, but words mean things."

One of my favourite quotes, no idea where it's from.
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We don't state these in the job description (perhaps we should). Rather, it's the natural tendencies that we're looking for.
I too had to go to a specialist I was attacked last year and
my provider Time Warner could do nothing in our case.
We went to Dosarrest.com and they fixed everything in about an hour.....if your stuck its the fastest way to get back online.
So I hadn't hear about the Pixel Qi screen. Wikipedia just says

>The company [Pixel Qi] designs liquid crystal displays (LCDs) that can be manufactured using the same fabrication machinery as conventional LCDs. However the Pixel Qi displays are also able to turn off the backlight to save energy, and switch to a low-power black and white reflective mode which can function in ambient light.

Is it correct to describe these as LCD's with a Kindle-style e-ink screen sandwiched on top? Am I wrong in assuming that it has two distinct modes: back-lit color (which is hard to read in bright light) and e-ink B&W (which only works in good light)?

Sounds pretty great.
It looks like they are intentionally trying to fuck the marketing part up. (Quite typical of companies run by engineers with no marketing background.) If the product isn't ready to be shown to the public, it isn't ready to be sold.
After seeing the Honeycomb sneak peek from Rubin the other day, I am pretty well convinced that Android has legs as a tablet platform. But seriously, who is buying these things without even a decent "hands on" report from the technorati?
thanks so much, that gives a great idea of how the whole thing happened. a great episode :)
I'm pretty sure that up until a month ago or so I would have said that a mouse or trackball is the "best" interface approach. However, we were away for a couple of weeks and I only used my iPad during that time.

Coming back and using a desktop PC with a mouse felt very strange - so I'm now far more willing to consider that approaches like this might be feasible after all.
This is only our 0.0.0.3 version (meaning Im underwhelmed too). We plan to add new features weekly. Would love to hear what it is that you want, and I will let you know when they are going to be released - micah@graphicly.com.
It's slightly route specific, but when dealing with expando-flakes, particularly, this could be really useful.

There are plenty of other pieces of protection out there that are feature/route specific (Big Bros and ship-anchor size cams come to mind). This will be useful to some climbers.
not after WakeMate (YC S09) fiasco.
Ars video tutorials and more science contest entries
A very good point - though as a counter the plank-road mania of the early 1800's was a fully private sector road bubble: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plank_road
Yes. The Pixel Qi screen was developed for the OLPC and it works really well. It's also got fast screen redrawing in "e-ink" mode, albeit grayscale.
So the results were worse, even though everyone involved thought they would be better on the updated version.

Any theories?
yea that was something we struggled with due to the massively negative connotations of 黑客 (heike) lit. "Dark Guest" or "Black Guest". We toyed with 白客 but found 网客 was the general term we found on Baidupedia （百度百科）.
I was reading superfreakonomics in the store, really enjoying it, until I got to the chapter about IV, and walked out in disgust. I'm sure the massive bribes they got form Myhrvold will overcome their lost sales, though.
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"We get excited about things like scale, proportion, and shape. We are committed to design and quality in everything we do."

That would make more sense to boast about if they weren't, for the most part (entirely?), collecting existing icons and assigning groups of nouns to them.

Also, many of their choices are rather less than international. A No-P no-parking icon? "<3" for love? Really?

Otherwise, a fair little resource if you want a very standard icon in vector format. (Mind, you apparently have to download and decompress each one separately - I found no links for a collection.)
From what I understand that is exactly what the Notion Ink is aiming for - standard LCD with an Electronic Paper view mode.

I will wait until it's been vetted by my peers before laying out money on it, but I do have high hopes for this one.
So it's running a customized version of Android? How's that going to work with standard Android apps?

Because if I can't use stock Android apps then I'm not interested - I'd like an app ecosystem that already exists, rather than relying on developers to produce versions specifically for this device.
Information is the Antidote to Fear: Wikileaks, the Law, and You
Even though Notion Ink is not anywhere close to Apple, I would like to point out that the points 1-4 applies to every Apple product until it's announced officially. But people trust Apple. And some people trust Notion Ink too.

Edit: Missed the pre-order part. I thought they are announcing the price only. I agree with the parent.
Sadly fake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udo_of_Aachen
Will he sue me for royalties if I watch this video?
Most awesome pen ever (but how can I buy it?)
Hi Michael, thanks for your feedback. The pricing model is tentative, but we're in the process of getting funding, so any revenue/real customer is essential. In other words, we sort of need to "validate" the product as quickly as possible via revenues.