skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buying unlocked will save you money over two years because T-Mobile will give you a discounted monthly rate. I do it this way.

Also, if you are considering a variety of T-Mobile phones, then you can buy them and return them within 15 or 30 days. For example in the past season I've bought the Samsung Galaxy S, the Google G2, the HTC MyTouch 4G, and will buy the Nexus S.

FWIW, T-Mobile has been great for me. The network is significantly better than ATT in San Francisco. Also, the customer service people are head and shoulders above the other wireless providers. They have taught me how to tether in Linux, how to root a phone, and were especially helpful diagnosing a GPS chip issue with me.
In order to move this away from debate about semantics I think this meshes nicely with an alternative view of intelligence. Specifically Human intelligence as a social endeavour rather than an individual struggle.

If you look at intelligence in that light we have gone through a huge transformation with the printing press, industrial revolution and now internet revolution.

Basically if you think of it as each human brain just being a small component able to try out new ideas then spread those ideas... Well that massive human spanning brain is undergoing massive ongoing upgrades in memory capacity and speed of communication.
I just read this and the post-mortem.

Whether by luck, or more likely experience, Lanyrd ventured into the event space quite differently from EventVue and all of the companies listed in the article. The emphasis on crowdsourcing to build up the database is, as far as I can tell, unique.

Most of the companies listed in the article want to build a private, ring fenced social network for each client & all the tools. This only really works if you already have an existing network, with incentives other than just the conference. For example the telecoms world has the TMForum, and their site is a private social network. Works for them. O'Reilly have their own tool too, as a big conference host, with lots of events and followers (&authors).

The value in lanyrd, to date, is not trying to enter that space. Personally I'm finding interesting content from events I would have loved to go to, but did not, mainly because a) I didn't know they existed or b) my interests were not in that space at the time of the conference! There are literally dozens of interesting use-cases which could or could not be monetized.

There are some great ideas in that article for Lanyrd to look into in terms of revenue generation though, especially with respect to tracking user referals/sign up flow.
Ask HN: User authentication via Facebook and Twitter?
Hi all,

I've been working out an idea over the past few days. It would essentially be a social network of sorts, but I am not trying to create a new one per se. I'd like to leverage an existing social networking sites user authentication. I'm thinking of allowing Facebook or Twitter logins.

Are there any gotchas to doing this? Anything that I should be aware of that might not work so well if I were to use these user authentication APIs from Facebook or Twitter?
The mint produces coins. The bureau of printing and engraving produces bills.
I'm still slightly surpised there has not been an optional "email address" field in the profile page, in preparation for the day this comes!
It seems surprising that a stack of bills could have a lot (30%) of folds in them without making it obviously bulge in the middle.
You're absolutely correct.

I'd do a screencast and try and push the word out more, but to be honest I feel "burned" by Google for scrapping it.

When the Apache version comes out, i'll definitely be spreading the word (if it's as good as Wave was from Google, though i'm assuming it's going to be even better).
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We're only catching up to Japan, that's all. ;) For better or worse....

"It used to be you would get on the train with junior-high-school girls and it would be noisy as hell with all their chatting,” Yumiko Sugiura, a journalist who writes about Japanese youth culture, told me. “Now it’s very quiet—just the little tapping of thumbs.”

http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2009/03/realtime_kills.php
For someone with 23544 karma, I think you use the web quite a bit, even if it's from within Emacs.
As his friend, I'm surprised that you would accuse him of ripping off a competing site. Since you don't know him, I'll tell you straight up that it's not in his character to do something like that.

When Ivan showed me the initial prototype of his app (over 6 months ago), neither of us had heard of The Wiki Game. We had however, heard of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon) before though, and I'm sure many others have too.

If you've ever worked on an idea, especially for the internet, you'll find that nearly all of them have been thought of before in some shape or form, so it's not surprising that they came up with this independently.

edit: language
My response to TC's Google +1 pics. Unraveling the mystery
It's a basketball catchphrase where the player attempting the shot makes it i.e. the desired result for an offensive play.
Postmedia launches Groupon-style site with model that infringes on Tippr patent
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and snakes and sharks.
Agreed. Not only does it not answer my question, it's against the HN guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
"... This mentality is encouraged because otherwise it would be harder to recruit soldiers, but it's bad strategy. There are times when the success of a mission may depend on leaving someone behind. ..."

I'm a civvie.

This idea here can be equally applied to many civilian situations. This year it was at the top of Australia's tallest mountain (not very tall, but cold) where a hapless walker got out of his comfort zone & didn't prepare very well ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/4797709801/ and another who got injured coming down ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/4797709801

Last year it was looking out ~ http://seldomlogical.com/2009/04/21/getting-stuff-done-with-... for my old man ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157616765213435... & a mate who's family copped it ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157621928042355... in one of the biggest fires recorded where I live ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/collections/7215762118... or the bloke I found sitting in his car, post fires ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/3405148567/in/set-7215...

I observed the type of attitude you portray while Casevac'n ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualty_evacuation a youngster in Highschool. I remember watching groups of "potential" helpers look, then walk out of the train while I made sure he didn't bleed out - then moved him 5km in 8m to medical help. I didn't do it by myself. I enlisted a team of ppl to help. Obviously they understood the need after a bit of coaxing?

I've read the psychology behind why people are so callous or reluctant: at group level "bystander effect" at personal level where low agreeability, low responsibility and low morality levels that don't compel action. But I don't understand it. Maybe that's why USMC have the idea of a "blood chit" as a motivator? ~ http://www.usmcpress.com/heritage/blood_chit.htm
> Paper doesn't last very long.

This is an argument for polymer bank notes. Australia has these and they're very durable.
Sorry, that was probably poor phrasing.

I meant to say that people are creating web applications that act more like "real" applications. Websites will likely follow a different evolutionary path.
Now all we need is a futures market on each of these, and we'll start to see progress.
Care to elaborate, or are you just making baseless accusations? Is it just classes you object to?
Good idea, but _lots_ of work to implement it the right way.
I can make out some of the characters but not nearly all. How can you decipher that?
maybe there is a problem. this is not the solution.

another checkmark on a long list of frustration with firefox 4.
none of which were 'your basic pleasure model'
does not compute.
I actually went though everything I want in my 'awesome but not extravagant' life, and it came to a total of just slightly over $250k a year. (and that's with tax calculations included)

If you go through the calculations you often find the numbers not as high as you think.
Early to bed and early to rise: Does it matter?
Perhaps the scientific revolution was not an innovation of a single person, but of the collective entity formed by the proto-scientists of civilization. That conceptual advance, along with communication, tool, and other conceptual advances since that time, have continued to accelerate civilization's collective intelligence.

We don't expect the singularity to improve the intelligence of transistors. Perhaps it is unreasonable to expect that previous intelligence explosions of a collective being massively improved the intelligence of the humans comprising it.
free like speech, not free like beer.
My very quick (5mins) take on the Chrome Web Store
Which at a 4% annual draw is a lump sum of $6,250,000 (after taxes), not taking into account inflation over the years.
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What else can they do? If the websocket protocol is insecure, they need to wait until its fixed. They'll probably re-enable it in Firefox 4.0.1 or 4.0.2 with a fixed websocket implementation.
The best thing there is Ted Danson winning a bet on the Red Socks.
Martin Fowler blogged a bit about it: http://martinfowler.com/snips/201012080613.html
The 8 hour work day is very much a left over from the Ford style of management and productivity experiments, not something that really works for the knowledge workers of today but very much applies to a factory environment. I guess the 8 hour work day is very much entrenched into our culture to just get rid off.
Or an argument against them; if they stay in circulation forever it gives counterfeiters longer to work on them.
> exploration is always a serious business

What did you explore? Nothing, it's all documented, explored, exploited. Hell, it's a tourist attraction.
PGP's Full Disk Encryption for Mac is a no-brainer... on my admittedly brand-new i7 MBP I can't see any lag or slowness yet I know everything is encrypted.

I do wish it would encrypt RAM during sleep, however.
This is great. I can't wait for the other vendors to follow suit.
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It's been said that you can pull 4% of your investment safely while preserving your capital. So, figure out how much you need to make in a year and multiply it by 25 and that's roughly your FU lump sum.
Hopefully they fixed the rampant spam problems as well
I think Lanyrd's "tracking" feature solves this, because it shows which of your friends are interested in the conference right alongside those who are slated to attend and/or speak.
Serverless enterprise, freedom from the "fat laptop"
Very true, but although these optimizations may not increase the actual speed of a database-heavy app by much, they can certainly improve the perceived speed. I've found this to be especially true if you can leave the expensive queries until after the initial page load.
Catchafire - Skills-based volunteer matching
It's from basketball. You can use it when an especially accurate shot sails straight through the center of the hoop without even touching, only making a little "whish" sound as it passes through the net below. It doesn't get you more points, it's just impressive :-)

I think it fits because Chrome OS doesn't need most of the other apps or extraneous OS stuff, and a "nothin' but net" shot doesn't use the backboard or the hoop. They're similarly clean and to-the-point.
sometimes that's all you need, broseph
How to Really Get Funded on Kickstarter
I'm pretty sure this is only a UI change.
Note that though it is now possible to be PCIDSS certified on AWS it doesn't mean that every AWS app is certified. You need to get your own software audited regularly.
"... who's attending (and which of those are your friends), the planned sessions, and the date/time. ..."

Didn't see that. I was trying to think of how the service could supply you with contrary data - reasons to not attend. If I want to try a new restaurant, I'll check for balanced critical reviews not just the facts.
If you mouse-over, I think it's supposed to get darker.
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Most computer users are not powerusers and they don't need a powerful PC or OS. Current operating systems are over complicated for casual users and limitations work as an advantage for people like my parents. They shouldn't need to understand what a file system is, everything should just work in the background.
Dollar bills are actually made from more than just wood pulp, they also include cotton, silk and linen -- along with red/blue fibers inserted to create texture.

According to the federal reserve, bills have the following lifespan before they wear out:

$ 1.....22 months

$ 5.....16 months

$ 10.....18 months

$ 20.....24 months

$ 50.....55 months

$ 100.....89 months

http://www.federalreserve.gov/generalinfo/faq/faqcur.htm#13
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Reading this book The Possibility of an Island which postulates the same, though through a more socio-religious angle rather than technological.
Agreed, finally a use for TPM that isn't customer hostile.
Can someone shed some light on what JSLint has to do with performance?
Hahahahaha...

This is the only sensible comment I can make.
It goes some way of solving that issue yes. Ultimately though the problem of "few people registered" is poor sales, and to a degree marketing, by that individual conference.

There is a reason why conferences (as opposed to trade show events) heavily discount early-bird tickets. Cashflow and the ability to market more heavily. Lanyrd makes marketing easier, down to the organiser (and ticket agent) to make sales work well!
Chrome updates much more frequently and I think you discount the amount that users ignore the update warnings.
WebGL Demo (use page up, page down, and arrow keys)
This is one case where I think the number "Four" in the original title would have been better left in. Without the number, the title made me think this site might be a community bug tracker for Diaspora design mistakes. With the number, it would be clear that this is one person's many ideas.
> I remember coming out of Saving Private Ryan thinking "that looks like fun", despite what I know intellectually.

Going through live fire infiltration training cured me of any such sentiment.
Back when BCC was a desktop application, I once got complaints that someone missed my "busy bees" on the splash screen after she upgraded her computer. The JRE load hit below one second and she didn't see the screen anymore.
It is a little bit of a stretch. I'd guess that proper use of variable declaration, which JSLint enforces, could make more efficient use of memory. It also doesn't tolerate idiosyncrasies like missed semicolons which might amount to a touch less stress on processing.
Oh my! Hacker News is littered with dead, exposed bodies!

I never knew what any of the setting were.

Well, what do you know. Those are documented in the FAQ. You'd think that the explanations would be near where you use them!
A quick way to mass de-sensitize people to these videos.
I sympathize with this:

Opening Safari is an actively destructive decision. I am asking that consciousness be taken away from me. Like the lost time between leaving a party drunk and materializing somehow at your front door, the internet robs you of a day you can visit recursively or even remember.

I struggle with internet addiction. On my bad days, I feel like a walking corpse. I breathe, I eat, and nothing memorable or valuable happens. I wonder what made me think I could handle a career in technology. I admire engineers and wanted to be one. But I need to flee from technology to take a piece of my life back, to reawaken to autonomy. I envy you who can ignore the internet and manage to be productive.
Just a guess, but every non-cavendish variety I've seen in southeast asia is much smaller. Haven't tried them though. Maybe they taste better.
I think my favourite is "Large Hadron Collider will destroy Earth."

Stakes: $1,000

I think the reality might be a little higher than that ;)
I agree with your first point, with one caveat: Only good developers try to learn new languages enough to get good at it.

At the price of arrogance, the "Average" developer in the "Average" company is pretty bad at developing. The experience I've had is that learning things is usually a good indicator of the love for doing things well.

The people who write crap code tend to also be the ones who don't even want to learn new languages, let along et good at doing so.
After reading this and some of your previous posts, I can see that your English is excellent. There's no need to second-guess your corrections.
My point is more that I've known more than a couple of frontend developers who leap on nifty frontend profiling tools like these before they've even tried a couple of well-placed table indices, or asking the database developer or systems guy about them. In my experience it's a lot easier to wrest 500ms from a bad query than 5ms from some bad JavaScript.
> OK now what sequences would you like to present to the algorithm for training? Ones from the environment? Great, but those will take time to collect. Simulated ones? It takes a lot of knowledge to generate good ones.

With AIXI and variants, since they are universal predictors, it doesn't really matter what sequences you supply so long as they have some connection. Heck, just your algorithm access to an email server or something.
Doesn't work in China.
You heard right, think about it for a while.
Did anyone else not receive a confirmation page of any sort? I submitted the application and was routed directly back.
Unless you're Level 1, you can get away with the Self-Assessment Questionnaire (in 99.99% of cases) if you're using a certified provider.
aka OOVM it took a novel and interesting approach - use Eclipse as the IDE to edit text files (there was a syntax for class definition) and sync bytecode with an image on a remote device through tcpip.
Threading is hard for even Haskell, which is a pure functional language (unlike ML). GHC has a bunch of fantastic people trying to do a good job, and they haven't finished yet, though arguably they are as good as Java in many ways.

What I mean by "lives on UNIX/lives on JVM" is a fuzzy statement about the Right Way of Doing Things. The Java way is to build a large system, integrated with the rest of the world via one or more public interfaces, potentially accessed via RMI. You'll talk to the database via JDBC. There are highly configurable enterprise tools for almost everything. This is an ecosystem you need to replace if you want to replace java.

The Ocaml way is to write a program that takes command line input and processes a stream of text (which can come from a file or stdin). To write a daemon, you double fork. Most of your interaction with the outside world is simply via a posix interface.

That's not to say you can't write command line unix utils in Java, or gigantic enterprise daemons in Ocaml. But you'll be going against the grain.
I use the ctrl key a lot on ssh sessions. If the web is now reduced to youtube and valleywag, I'd gladly abandon it.
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This argument isn't even internally consistent, let along based on good predicates.

He states that the better languages are the ones being learned. Then shows that Scala is the most popular language to learn ATM.

He then states that you should use a language with lots of popularity, which he also shows to be Scala.

Then dismisses it because there aren't many other companies using it, or developers who know it. Well, no shit: They're all busy using it and starting their own companies that aren't yet big enough to hire!

I have a bias that states that people who use github, hackernews and learn new languages are better developers in general because they give a shit about their profession. By this articles hypothesis, those people are worth exactly the same as any other developer, when we KNOW that a good developer is a MUCH better developer then an average one.
I realize you get update actions. But what if you have different types of updates? Perhaps editing basic info like a project's Title. Or locking it? Or archiving? Are they lumped into the same action?
USA=USA[:-1]+'SR'
But I just can't see much benefit for anyone else.

If the mountain climber's goal is to be a stronger person, both he and the people around him benefit from his achieving it. If he comes out of the experience a strong, unintimidatable leader who inspires others and fights hard to make the world a better place, it's even arguable that the people around him benefit from his experience more than he does.
I should have posted earlier, but for what it's worth, here's a character reference:

Ivan is one of the most hard-working people I have ever met. He aware of what he capable of, and is constantly striving to improve his skills.

I had the opportunity to work with him on a project and would gladly work with him again in the future. He's brutally honest, but never comes off as rude. In an argument he will always give your side some fair thought even when he disagrees with you completely. Every time I meet him I am impressed (and slightly envious) by the progress he's made in his ability and projects.

So if you're looking to hire someone for a challenging and interesting project, he comes highly recommended.
Politicians are quick to mouth the right phrases like 'We will have freedom of the press', but unfortunately to them, “We will” can well mean “we intend to”. And “we intend to” can mean “we're thinking about it”. And sometimes “we” can mean “you (as in anyone but us)”.

To paraphrase a quote from Batman Begins, '(It's not what you say), it's what you do that defines you'. Unfortunately, hosting UN events won't make you have freedom of press if you can't back it with the 'do'.
"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."
I guess this is a good place to ask, but does anyone know why GitHub opted not to list the file size in the file viewer? Whenever I browse other peoples' code I always want to glance at file sizes to see which files I should peruse first.
Why is quantum mechanics ugly?
I think values actually are a useful thinking point... They provide a common framework against which to evaluate actions and plans.

Sure, not everyone agrees on their definitions, but they're like unit tests: Even one unit test is better then none, so start testing.

What I think is of NO value, is companies using values as a tool to try to encourage certain behaviours in their staff, without living them wholely. If you say you have "Superiour Customer Trust" then you don't tell them when you've got an outage, hoping they won't notice, you don't REALLY demonstrate that you deserve trust.

I guess the organisations whose values are most held too are those who don't need to tout them to all and sundry. They have no need to convince anyone of them, they're just... there.
Ctl+1 through 9 switches spaces directly. If you enable the spaces menu bar in system preferences, you can click on the icon and choose which space to switch to (in snow leopard at least).
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Of course, I don't think it's bothering him any.
s/Cho Oyu/Baruntse/

Oops.
If you intend to make a living I would suggest you heed the GPs advice and make it work on as many devices as possible.

$ trumps function trumps design in the real world.

Check out Apple (the company whose product you just ruled out) to see how it's done.

The correct way to deal with such issues is graceful degradation.
Isn't Firefox 4 where Mozilla want to start using silent updates?