skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me be clearer. I don't mean form factor isn't important in general. I mean form factor isn't the underlying principle that unites these various devices.

Is the Droid Pro a tablet? What about the rumored Playstation Phone? Tablet seems to imply a form factor, and I don't think that's what is important in how we categorize these devices.

It's like if we called PCs "beige boxes" when they came out or if we called TVs "two through thirteen dial machines".

I expect the form factors for these devices to continue to evolve and improve, yet I think the general category of device will be the same (much like how a 3D LED HDTV is still a TV, although looks very different than an old B&W TV from the 50s).
I loved how Lieberman actually described the issue: "No responsible company – whether American or foreign – should assist Wikileaks in its efforts to disseminate these stolen materials."

Stolen materials? Every wrongfully classified document is stolen from the American public, the rightful owner of all information produced by the government we instituted.
:-) Or these things might ship with passive RF chips that don't require power.
You only need 30 bits of identifying information to track a billion users.

You need 30 unique bits of information.

Given that there are only a handful of common screen resolutions, for example, they are unlikely to represent more than a few bits in most cases, and if you provided current size of the viewable area in the browser instead (a more useful measurement anyway) then in many cases this would change over time. If you further provide this information only on explicit request, and potentially lock it down to only the host site rather than third party content, then it is of almost no use to anyone with unwelcome intentions.
Romulus: the entrepreneur's entrepreneur.
Very Hilarious Doormats
Very creative.
It's only a race issue because it started out that way. Nobody is turning it into anything that it wasn't already. The whole "turning everything into a race issue" is a copout used by those who'd rather forget the past and justify their ignorance. People too quickly forget that it was only two generations ago that non-whites were mostly deprived of civil liberties. The massive disadvantages of minorities and their families will continue to ripple through US society for decades, possibly centuries to come.

Despite having 403 billionaires, there is only one black billionaire in the US, even though blacks make up 12.4% of the population. Do you think this is a coincidence?
Perhaps the U.S. State Department should think about hiring the MPAA's legal team.
Meh, the Netherlands went further than the EU requirements on data retention. Yes, that's stupid, but...

And yes, creating a "EU government" is almost certainly even harder than it appears. The current system seems to combine the speed of a multi-country democracy with the legitimacy of a multi-country oligarchy (of elected ministers, but still).
The best way I could think of to actually use the iPad for this would be have a person lay his arm (including wrist) on it. The iPad can use the touch sensitive surface to measure how thick his wrist is and how thick his arm is, and then guess his weight.

Using an accelerometer would likely be a worse user experience than just stepping on a scale, but a system where the iPad actually measures your body fat could be easier to use.

However, it will likely not be very accurate. Perhaps if one were to set a reference weight at the start, and it just measures delta using the touch screen?

Using the accel, a possibility is to see how close a person can swing the iPad towards his body. I assume that this would change dependent on the amount of fat around his arms.

A common place people gather fat is on their thighs - thin people often have space between the legs and heavier people not as much. Also a possibility, even if a not very clever one.
Show HN: My Nov app month project - 7courses.com
Although it is slightly late, I am happy to announce the release of my November app project,
http://7courses.com/. 7courses is a recipe management web application, with a focus on a light, usable design allowing YOU to store YOUR recipes how YOU want to, and access them from many different devices. I have a tried different ways to store and manage recipes, and have gotten tired of ugly desktop applications with numerous required form fields. I wanted somewhere online where could store my recipes, and get them from my phone, or computer, etc. I created 7courses trying to leave out all but bare bone features. If more features make themselves necessary in the long run, I will add them. A few features I still need add include adding some copy, which I have been putting off, and setting up some sort of blog and support page. I just wanted to get this initial app out to the public though, as was the spirit of the launch an app month. Please don't hold back with your critique, as I would welcome a fresh set of ideas on this project. Enjoy.
Wow, that's a pretty cool diabetes blood tracking device. Kudos to you and your team.
Strawberry picking robot
ThinkGeek TK-421 iPhone keyboard case review
clickable: http://7courses.com
Which Job Board is good to find senior java talent?
Looking for a good job posting place to find a senior java developer (we know that referrals are best, but nothing so far, so we are going to go out to the net and ask). JoelOnSoftware? Hacker News doesn't accept job postings from outside, so where would you post if you were looking to find talent?

The position is here http://www.optionscity.com/jobs/seniordeveloper.htm

Thanks!
It looks like there is some confusion over whether the correct term is etherialization or ephemeralization.

The wikipedia article on ephemeralization is somewhat more complete and what is linked from the page on Fuller.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeralization

Other internet sources seem to indicate that ephemeralization is the term he used.
I originally read it the way that they feed the list of merchants manually. But it is possible that I understood that wrong, yeah.
Sniff sniff. Whats that smell? O right, Onion worthy.
I've never been very good at data structures, but the increasing size of trees makes it sound like finger trees: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_tree
> Most of the populace understands wikileaks to be bad, engaged in killing soldiers, letting terrorists escape, etc.

We do? Huh? Amazon, typical of any big corporation caved in an effort to protect their number on priority: the bottom line. Cowards.
I don't think I did, but Texas has something equivalent: the TAKS test. I doubt actual copies are available, but the social studies practice test is at:

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/socialstudies/taks/gr08/

There is a math test at:

http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2003/grade8/math.htm

They look pretty thorough to me. At least as good as KS 1895.
Insertion into the middle is O(n) because you have to rearrange everything after that. Adding something to the end (#'add) is O(logn). Inserting at the head is indeed slow (unless you are willing to break the structure) but there are many reasons not to use a vector; insertion time isn't everything. With vectors, you have to make sure your vector has empty space left or is a dynamic array. Here, you don't have to worry about anything (short of blowing the stack).
Portland wants to transform its software culture into an industry
First of all, you're talking right past my whole point and just restating your original point, which is pretty disrespectful of the time I put in crafting a balanced response.

You claim you want frank discussion, but then you reduce the whole debate to a time equation. The problem is that it's only as simple if you measure success by hours worked. As someone who has pulled many many 100 hour weeks, I can tell you that I'm more effective in 40 hours now then I used to be in 80. This may not be true for everybody (I'm not trying to tell anyone how to live their lives), but for me, I draw energy and inspiration from the downtime. I'm in touch with real human beings outside the echo chamber, giving me insight into building products that normal people will buy. When I get to the office, most of the time I know I have only until 6pm to get my todo list done. When I was single and working 100 hour weeks, it was easy to get caught on tangents, or work when over-tired, because hey I have 12 hours on Saturday and 12 hours on Sunday to catch up.

Limiting your work hours can be constraint that leads to increased creativity and effectiveness. It also creates a buffer when you really do need to put in extra effort to make a critical deadline. Time spent away from work lets your subconscious process things and come to more optimal solutions.

I'm not denying that there is a correlation between highly successful entrepreneurs and long work hours, but it's a fallacy to treat it as a causal relationship. How many people work 24/7 in silicon valley and never get anywhere? A lot more than you think because no one is telling their stories. The focus should be on efficiency, creative thinking, intelligence and above all persistence. It's possible to jeopardize all of those by forsaking work-life balance.
Judge in Xbox-modding case berates prosecution and puts trial on hold
We do. http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/7750

Interns ok. No freelance / agencies please.
Why Big Cities Matter More than Ever
An interesting question for the DSLR makers is what they could learn from the tablet. The pictures are great, but especially at the entry level there's opportunity for improved interfaces and easier publishing. (http://www.bythom.com/design2010.htm) has some interesting ideas.
Could you have passed an 1869 MIT entrance exam?

http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/exam/algebra.html

I suspect so, maybe in the 7th or 8th grade.
United recently bought Continental for whom horrendous service is their trade mark looks like they got their monies worth in that merger.
Already exited. It's a black line on the balance sheet. No conflict of interest. Go Paul!
FTC proposes plan to stop web tracking
I, Reader. - on books and tablets
Krugman thinks that Social Security is on financially sound footing...
Judge in Xbox modding trial berates prosecution, halts trial
If Douglas Adams were to write about programming this is how he would do it.

That's a compliment.
Thanks for the link. While they both use trees they're not the same thing.
If you can allow people to simlpy browse the website without logging in, that would be the first great step.

Thanks.
Not a position, but rather a note.
In addition to specifying whether working remotely is accepted or not, it would be very useful to know which positions are open to foreign candidates (especially for US based companies).

I know for sure that some of the companies that posted positions below are open to international candidates, and some are not. It would be great if we could distinguish positions according to that criterion as well.
I also do not understand the distinction between the unrevealed "algorithmic solution which detects merchants that provide a poor user experience" and the "sentiment analysis" approach that they say they rejected. I don't get how it is possible to algorithmically detect poor user experience without using sentiment analysis! Isn't negative sentiment more or less the same thing as a poor experience?
From skimming wikipedia and the code, it looks like a trellis is more or less a VList where each array in the VList is represented by a complete binary tree of an appropriate depth. That gives you the VList's O(1) average performance to find the right tree, but then you have to do an O(log n) walk down the tree to the desired element.

Am I interpreting that right?
You know, I tried clojure out, but the cons cells are implemented in a weird way; they can't combine two objects, only an object and a sequence. So I could probably do something like trellises, but they wouldn't be as elegant.
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I agree MS are a lesser evil than Apple. Their culture is particularly far friendly for developers. However, what you've said is rose-tinted.

MS did try to push people into software as a service (but they failed at it). They support DVD region encoding. They have introduced DRM music services. They struck agreements to hamper attempts to sell dual-boot systems. I didn't experience this but understand that at one point windows media player would happily scan existing content on the drive and helpfully encomber it with DRM. Sharepoint takes data in from all sorts of sources but it's much harder to get it out again.

MS have also EOL'd products that dominate major market segments despite users who would have paid plenty for stability: original VB, excel before UI change, every NT release.

These are the actions of a company trying to increase its control on users, attempting to control what they do on their computer.

By way of comparison, traditional unix vendors would be more helpful of big-pocketed companies who wanted to pay to continue to use old software. They could have reversed a firewall and other patches into NT4 that would have hardened it and kept it going if they'd wanted to - these are the teams that reverse-engineered photoshop and hundreds of games and then hotpatched new code over their memory segments when they loaded so that they could get DOS and W3.1 software to run fine on Windows 95 for the release. Interesting alternate history. What if MS had tried to keep NT4sp3 tight and stable and kept drivers coming, and brought it forward conservatively.
This is similar to the kind of tests we had in India when I was in the 4th-8th grade. We had world history instead of US history, and did not have Orthography, but those are the only differences that I can see. I might have aced it back then, but it would be hard to get about 50% if I did it today.
Around the turn of the millennium two students built a prototype Ryanair website and asked for IR£15,000 (at the time) for it. Ryanair bargained them down to IR£12,000.

Their booking process is held up as a textbook 'how not to do usability' case study. The amount of money they can potentially milk from you in the "services" section of the booking process (stuff listed by default as €0.00 like the SMS booking confirmation) is almost funny.
Pretty much. Finding the right tree takes O(logn) as long as walking down that tree.
They're back up...
There's probably nothing stopping you from getting these types of deals set up. The problem is that you then go from working on your core business to managing relationships as a lead seller.

The novelty of this approach is that RewardLevel acts as a broker and manages all those relationships and then their algorithm supposedly shows the deals that work best on your site. That leaves you with higher signups and in theory more revenue, and RewardLevel's advertisers with more leads. RewardLevel makes money by sitting in the middle and managing that pool of advertisers. You would have to weigh the cost of having someone manage those relationships for you versus the supposedly free increase in conversions on your landing page by having RewardLevel do it for you.

I would caution anyone planning on implementing this that while it is "free" to place the RewardLevel widget into your sign up forms there will be costs associated with those people that sign up for nothing more than the reward. The balancing act is to find offers that only really appeal to your core market to begin with and that is in the hands of the RewardLevel algorithm.
well.. about 4 pages.. to about 100-120 links..
Not to mention it's not easy to just randomly route specific IP addresses to specific locations. The IPs generally have to be part of a larger netblock, and associated with an ASN to enable border routers to figure out where to send stuff without requiring them to need 1TB of memory for routing tables...
Browse the recipes you mean?
We might already be there, given that Jason Calacanis still seems to have the respect of a lot of people.
I haven't read, yet, but I see that laughter is mentioned.

I've thought of laughter as a means of turning weakness into social strength. As an exercise/observation, I can divide this into two categories (without claiming any sort of authoritative definition/categorization):

1) Laughing with someone / a "victim": Expressing social support, thereby turning the "weakness", the cause of the humor, into a strength.

2) Laughing at someone: A form of segregation, strengthening the group laughing while ostracizing the weakened victim.

I've observed what seems to me to be a major uptick in 2) in U.S. culture during the past decade plus, which I don't enjoy. For example, I can no longer watch much of "Saturday Night Live", as most of the skits appear to be based in 2). I find it very malicious and not at all funny; rather, it makes me more than a bit queasy, when not angry.
> I swear that the simulator can take longer to boot than the actual handhelds sometimes.

Agreed.

And the devices need to be rebooted for totally trivial things like changing security settings or deleting apps.
Will there every be a satirical Steve Yegge post on HN that spawns any discussion other than quotes from the article itself?
And yet the concept is rife with potential problems. Which article & title becomes the default, first submitted or highest ranking? What happens if articles get combined that shouldn't be combined? Is there an undo? Who controls that? How simple is merging the discussions?
Hmm... didn't happen to me. I read Chad Fowlers interview on my iPhone in Safari
I agree. Seems to me to be a knee-jerk reaction by Google - bending to negative mainstream press. I bet this decision came from marketing rather than engineering ;)
I think the only way wikileaks can stay alive over the long term is probably through torrents, the combo punch of govn't takedowns and constant DDoS attacks probably doesn't make hosting a website feasible. It would make more sense to release it in digest as a torrent, right?
The two quibbles above seem nearly identical to me. It's interesting what role the assumptions of the audience play in their reaction to a statement.

I assumed that a snopes link would credit or discredit the claim (that this was a test from 1895.)
Now that is crazy-talk.
The title and list are fine, but the full article starts with the following phrase, which clearly has a political agenda: Anyone who doubts that America is the land of opportunity just needs to...
derefr actually proposed using sentiment analysis in the discussion on the original NY Times article. Not a bad call.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1949064
i wish there is direct rss feed for the essays other than some intermediary channel.
I don't have a reasoned argument composed to back it up, but my gut reaction is that this is where/when Google jumped (is jumping) the shark.
Is there a text summary of the node.js roadmap anywhere?
I think it's clear that Steve Jobs is fully aware of this. It's why he changed the name of the company to Apple Inc, just before announcing the iPhone - he wasn't indicating that he was going to start building hundreds of different consumer electronics products - he was telling the world that a the iPhone and it's variants would replace most of them.
Not sure why Freenet is less appropriate than BitTorrent.
How are these better than balanced binary trees that keep subtree size in the node?
James Gosling Speaks at Silicon Valley Java User Group
Information Wants To Be Free, Or Pro-Privacy?
Fourth Amendment Underwear
Gitolite has very easy to follow instructions to get it up and running. (Hosted at Github!) Also interesting is that VPS account + Gitolite is cheaper (perhaps more practical for smallish businesses - if you're only interested in hosting git repos) than a Github account.
What about a dumb add-on mechanism which acts as a cradle for the tablet and which tilts it at an angle depending on the downward force? That was my first thought, anyway. I'm sure the concept (accelerometer = orientation sensor) can be refined.
Oh please. How else can you explain that despite being 12% of the US population, only one out of the 403 US billionaires is black? That's more than a small advantage, it's practically a requirement. I'm not saying they didn't try hard or they weren't significantly gifted, but success comes much easier when the odds aren't totally stacked against you by the proud human tradition of racism.

Your comparisons of race to personality traits are particularly curious. Being born white (and male) isn't a "gift" unless patriarchal white society enforces it. This isn't sports -- there is no significant correlation between genetic advantages and being rich.
Maybe some US funds could offer a good "cover story" for Japanese immigrants if they fail?
At this point is it really about that? I think it has gone past that point to the criminal with Assange. I realize that isn't a popular opinion. I get what he thinks he is trying to do and all but that isn't how the world really works nor is it going to bend to wikileaks. Some of this stuff should be secret because that is how countries trust each other. I have no sympathy for him at all.
Maybe they just forgot to reply. It's hard to remember to do things.
Predictable structure and smaller nodes.

And most of the other advantages linked lists have over binary trees, with some of those advantages being slower.
Though I like this idea, there are now several projects dedicated to cataloguing game mechanics. Is it possible to have some sort of consolidation of effort?

Two others:

* I believe the first one was the Game Ontology Project at http://gameontology.org/, which takes an approach somewhat tilted to the formal-analysis side.

* The biggest one with the most contributors is probably the videogame subsection of tvtropes: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VideogameTropes
The Pentagon has claimed that they could have shut Wikileaks down if they wanted to, but decided not to, reserving "that capability for threats of much higher consequence." Generally, the rhetoric coming out of the Pentagon is not nearly as charged as that emanating from overwrought, fear-mongering senators like Lieberman

Senator Lieberman:
"WikiLeaks' illegal, outrageous, and reckless acts have compromised our national security and put lives at risk around the world. No responsible company—whether American or foreign—should assist WikiLeaks in its efforts to disseminate these stolen materials."

Secretary of Defense Gates:
"Is this embarrassing? Yes. Is it awkward? Yes. Consequences for U.S. foreign policy? I think fairly modest."

Pentagon Press Sec.:
"At the end of the day, as you heard from the Secretary of Defense yesterday ... this creates some awkward and embarrassing situations for the United States government, it clearly puts those who cooperate with us, even some of our diplomats, in difficult positions (hopefully not endangered situations). But, at the end of the day, it does not, at least over the long term, adversely impact America’s power or prestige."
It's interesting that after all of the people in the pirate community screaming that the cost of songs are "too high" and the quality isn't "good enough" and music has too many "draconian" protection schemes like DRM that piracy is bigger than ever, even when they can get everything they wanted.

Why can't people just admit that they pirate because they just want free stuff?