skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would final duplicate content and automatically merge likely submissions together. Spread the karma between the first 3 submitters in a 50/35/15 manner, so that the latter two still have incentive to spread the link outside of HN.
I think navigation disappears on purpose. The idea is that when a user is on a pricing page, you want to let him focus on 'Sign up' process and not distract with other links. [Have you noticed that navigation disappears during Amazon's checkout process?]
Samsung Sells One Million Galaxy Tabs
Nexus S – The new Android phone from Google
Same here. And no advanced search?
Because:

1. The Nexus One was.

2. This phone will be targeted at devs once again, many of which can use such functionality.
Why not just say "Brendan Eich" in the title?
Things Nokia should be getting more credit for
Nexus S Revealed: This is the Android Phone You've Been Waiting For
Requires extra hardware, and I have to imagine that the vast majority of people would prefer to listen to their 16 GB of mp3s. I think you're just in the minority on demand for this feature.
Can't find the numbers right now, but I'm pretty sure clock for clock, hummingbird is significantly better than snapdragon.

The GPU also matters a lot. One reason why the iPhone feels so awesome despite the somewhat slower CPU is that it's GPU blows 80% of android GPUs out of the water. Once again, I'm pretty sure the GPU performance (if its anything like the Galaxy S) utterly destroys the Nexus One.
The 'Good Samaritan' Story is About Violating Taboos
Some of what i read was funny.You don't use soap but you use what amounts to a corporate advertising gimmick deodorant. Probably much worse for you on the whole. I don't use deodorant because I eat pretty well which I believe results in what your body excretes so the issue of deodorant isn't so important as I shower once or twice a day depending on activity.Good luck but I am not clear what is to be gained
I'm guessing "not flash" - on most sites a few years ago (and probably still today) a product page like that would've definitely been flash.
I hate to turn it around again, but why would they want to be a new tech mecca?

I don't know, I think some people here have the idea that high tech is intrinsically better than other industries. But from a city's point of view, it's just another industry. The SF Bay Area is high tech. Los Angeles is entertainment. New York City is finance, fashion and publishing, except for the other bits of finance which are in Chicago.

New York City has many problems (though not as many as it used to) and none of them can be solved by bringing in a new industry.
Nexus S shows off its camera, video recording abilities
Hasn't Google been producing some very Microsoft-esque news as of late--they join some product space late, with a product that doesn't really differentiate itself except by having Google scale from the beginning? I'm just seeing this as a increasingly frequent thing: Checkout, the Android Market, Buzz, Google TV, HotPot, and now this... can't wait for Google Me or "the Facebook retort" to come out and be completely underwhelming.

It seems at a certain point a large company cannot help but be more reactionary than revolutionary, despite the culture and mantras and everything else.
If the conversation was about anything else, using only the word of Joe Lieberman as proof would be a joke. I'm honestly shocked that you think my standards are exacting.
Agreed, I don't know how much sense it even makes from an advertising perspective. When loud commercials start, we mute the TV and ignore it, not the least of which because it's loud enough to wake the baby. We are not being exposed to the advertising.

Someone from Big Advertising a few years ago asserted that skipping commercials, even going to the bathroom during commercial breaks, was stealing, same as piracy. I find it odd that advertisers would actively discourage watching like this.
You're right. Sorry about that. I need to go through and clean-house a little bit (too much stuff has accumulated over the years).

I'll make it faster.
I read it as about 1% in this case.
Returns to entrepreneurs and closing the value gap between common and preferred
Hackers Threaten WikiLeaks Detractors - Bank Suspends Account
Hindenbug is pretty funny.

catastrophic data destroying bug - "Oh the humanity!"
1. Get a group of friends together with similar reading tastes.
2. Create a new shared Google account.
3. Share books.
4. Profit? (Any reasons this wouldn't work?)
For high traffic sites that aren't targeting a specific niche, CPC ads aren't the way to go. Look for CPV ads, for companies looking for branding rather than selling a specific product. When I worked for Internet Brands, www.modelmayhem.com was our highest traffic site (for the scantily clad girls) but it didn't bring in much revenue. Compare that to something like www.steves-digicams.com where people are actively reading digital camera reviews. For the former, you would sell ads to someone like Groupon or Living Social on a cost per 1000 impressions basis, for the latter you would put CPC or affiliate links direct to Canon or Nikon.
I NEVER use soap to wash my hands. I almost never get sick.

I think it's down to technique.

a) use the hottest water you can stand. With practice you can get it pretty hot.

b) scrub your hands together completely, vigorously, and for a good 20 to 30 seconds.
he signs every email, bugzilla post, and blog comment that way.
Welcome to the club! ;)

http://opencal.com
Wrong is what with Yoda conditions?
13 Tools for Building Your Own iPhone App
Bernanke on '60 Minutes': Grim outlook for jobs
Bouncy scrolling too. Yay.
Barista iPhone app: Make cafe coffee on your home espresso machine.
Nike Targets Women With New Workout App
Here's the pic. http://instagr.am/p/eq62/

I worded that sentence poorly. Mixpanel is killing it from what I've heard.
Startups death = Death from 1,000 cuts
It looks like that's about it (other than a few "data-*" attributes thrown in). Unless I'm missing something, there's nothing here that couldn't have been done in HTML 4.

HTML 5 is great and all, but please let's not turn it into a marketing buzz-word when it's not really necessary.
VoIP and NFC certainly look interesting. Will the VoIP/SIP support allow me to interface with my PBX for mobile extension calling? I sure hope so!
Well, like normal honey, this substance is still being regurgitated by the bees. I'm not terribly familiar with the mechanisms involved but I was under the impression the conversion from nectar to honey was largely done by the bees digesting the nectar before depositing it.
> Requires extra hardware

Are you sure? For comparison the iPhone uses a Broadcom BCM4325 http://www.broadcom.com/products/Bluetooth/Bluetooth-RF-Sili... for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, this chip also can also do FM Rx. Of course that functionality isn't exposed...
Lisa Crispin's Key Factors for Successful Agile Development
High Speed Rail in the US: Why are we so bad at this?
This book has been very expensive in the UK. So I wrote to someone at Steve's ranch and ordered a bunch at bulk rate, which I'll sell cheaply soon. If you're interested, please sign up at http://laughingcomputer.com.

</plug>
I was complaining this morning supervillains no longer recruit scientists and fly them to paradisaic tropical islands...
I've reduced my shampoo and soap usage after reading the same article with largely positive results. I'm not sure how I feel about no soap after ice hockey - will have to see. I've always used Dove and have avoided regular soaps, which leave your skin unhealthily dry. Ads for Zest always make me cringe - I don't want to squeak thank you.

I also lived in Shanghai for some time, where the air is filled with dust and dirt. I'm not sure I could go without soap there.
Twitter is censoring the discussion of #Wikileaks
Conditioner is meant to restore the moisture to your hair that shampoo takes. It makes sense that by only using conditioner your hair felt greasy.
Not really for fat/oil. When I do the dishes without soap it just doesn't work at all. Just a little bit of soap and you get rid of fat/oil so easily.
WikiLeaks loses major source of revenue
Yes, as a former owner of Galaxy S, it is pretty much the same phone but I used to love that phone. Now using a myTouch 4G and appreciating the screen quality of the Galaxy.
I love the Republic of the USA, but I firmly believe that it cannot work in any country where it is not self-organizing and self-chosen.

The fallacy then, is not Western Democracy itself, but the arrogant mentality which believes that where Democracy is not already chosen by any people, that it can be imposed upon them for their own good.

The result of this imposition cannot be called Democracy, for it is only a stage-managed parody of Democracy whereby petty dictators and totalitarian zealots manipulate public opinion with one hand, while pointing a gun at the populace with the other. Only now, instead of being decried for their strong-arm tactics, the west in her arrogance pays them homage.
5 Pitfalls to Avoid When Developing a Successful Mobile App
The Yahoo-AOL Merger Rumors Heat Up, But What Do They Really Mean?
Mac App Store Coming Next Week?
Google Launches Long-Awaited E-Bookstore
You mean there will be a small building in the middle of a large square housing a black... technological marvel?
Just use IE. Unless silly corporate reasons have you on IE6 also... :-p
Those are on the way.

In the meantime, if you'd like a free trial, let me know.
Sounds to me like he's some sort of "born-again virgin".
Wow, nice design job.

I think we're in adjacent markets but aren't so much in competition (as of today, anyhow). I don't have immediate plans to go into online booking, and you might have noticed that mine has a wee bit more to do with appointment reminders than yours does.
The agreement states you must "own or otherwise control all rights to the content". Merely having permission to display the content is not sufficient.

If I were to be cynical, I'd say that the purpose of that clause is to allow Amazon to take down any site they want and have a credible excuse. Realistically it's probably just some over-zealous lawyer, but either way it has that very effect (as Amazon has demonstrated).
Right, burn as in burning a CD/DVD; not the greatest analogy perhaps, but the domain was available.
4 Million Americans Lose Unemployment Benefits Even If Congress Passes Extension
Other than NFC, more internal storage, and Gingerbread pre-installed, this pretty much has the same specs as my Nexus One, which I've been very happy with (no touch screen bugs here).
I'm actually beginning to feel a little pathetic about not being able to help a cause I believe in... What can really be done technologically, economically and politically when the establishment is so anti-Wikileaks?
Conditioners are designed to completely wash out of your hair with just water. It wasn't that the conditioner wasn't getting washed out, it was that at some point it was insufficient to deal with the grease issue.

At least it makes a whole lot more sense than trying to wash your hair with just water, which is completely incapable of getting rid of grease.
Well, at least you can do away with the "Comments closed" bit.
I've never owned a cell phone so I may be ignorant, but isn't IR used all over the place for apps that want to scan barcodes or those fancy encrypted images to download an app off a webpage?
Actually, the iPhone 4 hums along at 800mhz.
Here's the Bible story:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+10:25-37...

And Fake Steve Jobs' interpretation:
The Samaritans and Jews weren’t strangers to each other — they hated each other. Like, seriously hated. Like, Jews weren’t supposed to talk to Samaritans or they’d be unclean and need cleansing or something.

But wait, there’s more. One of the guys who wouldn’t touch the beaten Jew was a priest. The other guy was a Levite — meaning, a big deal super-duper high-class extra-holy Jew. You know why those two guys walked by the injured Jew and didn’t help? Because it was considered unclean to touch a dead body, and they figured that if they tried to help the guy and the guy turned out to be dead, they would be defiled. So they walked by.

Do you get it now? Jesus, your big hero, was saying that if you have some rule or conventional wisdom that causes you to do harm to people, violate the goddamn rule. You probably cannot understand how shocking this story was when Jesus told it. Because this was really, really shocking. First, he’s saying that the priests and Levites are jerks; and second, he’s saying that Samaritans, the skankiest, nastiest, grossest, most reviled people in that part of the world, were better than priests and Levites.
My Nexus One touchscreen works fine. And the one time I called tech support it seemed acceptable.
Welcome Patrick :) I gladly welcome another good competitor in this area. Hopefully together we can drive some innovation in this stagnant field.

http://SmartPointment.com
http://remindMypatients.net
Boycotting Amazon and PayPal
I'm in south america and I'm not blocked.
Acclaimed architect Norman Foster to build Apple's new campus
That's true. I thought of adding it last night but I was too lazy, and I'm too lazy to fix it now. :)
The Galaxy S (which uses the 1GHz Hummingbird processor) benchmarks faster on the Quadrant test (which does test 3D performance) than the Nexus One with Android 2.1, but slower than devices like the Droid X. It's likely that the new Nexus S would be faster than the Nexus One, but not as fast as many other devices that have been out for a while.

So, it is an upgrade, but it's below what has already come out from other manufacturers - in contrast with the Nexus One which was an enviable top of the line device when it came out.

EDIT: In fact, the Nexus S looks pretty identical to the Galaxy S sans the Samsung software.
Ugh, Can't use it in my area of Canada. Need AT&T compatibility. Damn you, TMobile.
No, those use the camera.
That's funny, dancers seem to able to do it without shoving each other.
Sounds like a good solution that would also decrease the asymmetry between first submission, new submission and up-voting. (There's one asymmetry that we'd like to keep: Who gets the karma, but the asymmetry of those actions on ranking aren't as interesting.)
Description of a new developer feature named Strict Mode from Brad Fitzpatrick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Fitzpatrick): http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/eh2jf/gingerbread_a...

Really neat how they are dogfooding and collecting metrics on performance from all the employees walking around with dev builds.
There have been small scale versions of this used in major cities in the past. The primary limitation has been package routing, but that should be a reasonably simple problem now days. Realistically outside major city’s or industrial areas, building tunnels is unlikely to be cost effective. However, in a major metropolitan area it may be cost effective depending on what rates you can charge.

PS: Same day currier companies already use the subway system; they have a "mole" that stays in the subway and hands packages to curriers at each station.
The first book I searched for (Guns, Germs and Steel) shows up in the auto suggest, but not in the search results. Disappointing.
This looks great Patrick. I've been consistently impressed whenever I read your HN input; I just sent a tweet promoting Appointment Reminders.
No, the camera is used for that. IR was used for what bluetooth is used for now.
'Extensions need to be able to "interface" with the existing system without necessarily being limited by it.'

This is the blocker. The way I see this happening is a robotic inner-city courier that can live with humans on a sidewalk. The feasibility of this is no longer pie-in-the-sky, now it's merely "on the horizon". Once you have this, it becomes actually economical in another couple of years. Once it becomes economical, there are too many of them on the sidewalk and you start considering things like giving them their own lanes, or their own paths through buildings, or, eventually, their own access to underground tunnels. From there somebody works out that they can make money building a tunnel from Manhattan to the rest of the city, and the network starts forming.

The advantage of this approach is that once you have such robots you can start using current systems. Put a dedicated car on an otherwise normal freight train for these things, for instance. Eventually you've built a hybrid system that can accommodate all sorts of approaches.

It ends up looking like the Internet and will probably recapitulate its development. There's no point stringing a tube across the country from one endpoint to another unless you've got a network already working on both ends. Attempts to bootstrap will generally fail because they will be too focused on top-down deployments of massive tubes that won't be useful for years; the winners will be the people who successfully bootstrap from the bottom and build the network from the bottom up. The tech isn't quite there yet, though, but getting close.

So, I'd actually say it isn't even that "extensions" need to interface with the system, it is the system that will eventually be interfacing with the "extensions". The flexible robots have to come first, then we will build the tube network. Until those robots exist the tube network economics just make no sense, not even in a dense city.
You don't need conditioner (or, for that matter, probably even shampoo) if your hair's short. I only started using conditioner when I grew mine out.
Art Term Papers—Writing an Art Exhibit Review
An art term paper on writing an art exhibit review require students to pay special attention to certain elements in writing a paper of this type. With the information gained through this article, students will find that writing art term papers on art exhibit reviews can be handled easily.
I doubt that Apple could expose it with a software update -- presumably to receive FM with the chip you would also need an FM antenna and attendant mainboard changes (not to mention room in the case). These things sound like extra hardware to me.
Same here except they do get washed with soap when I do the dishes. Why would you get sick if you don't wash your hands? Because they touch food? You have nothing to worry about, you can eat food from the ground and you won't get sick. Rather than worrying about dirtiness, worry about too old food (especially bread with fungus, I did become sick when I ate that, but I hear it's dangerous).
I have been using soap and shampoo all my life and I also have no problems to report.
Amazon do not sell ebooks equally everywhere. I often follow a link to a book from a blog or the like only to be told the Kindle version 'is not available in my region' (Canada).
This classic book: "A Technique for Producing Ideas"

http://www.amazon.com/Technique-Producing-Advertising-Classi...

is short and sweet.

Bascially,

1. ideas are novel combinations

2. immerse yourself in information from many disciplines

3. think of combinations

4. Go away from it -- do something else

5. An idea comes to you

6. refine it
I have seen much more competitive solutions for large parts of this problem(from the green perspective). for example assemblon's hydrogen storage solution(hydronol). assemblon claims that for $100 million they could build a truck fueling network that would span the u.s. . compare this for foodtubes ~7Billion for the greater london(altought including last mile).

Also , this kind of project requires public investment. since it would be fully automated ,it would probably take a lot of driving jobs.This would be a hard sell for a public entity in a democratic country.
Russ Cox: heir to the Thompson and Ritchie throne of systems programming? Maybe, maybe not, but he sure writes a mean technical blog entry.
Well, that would be stated as "I probably would not," wouldn't it? You can say, at that point, with certitude, that most of the money is on not doing as Amazon did.
Yes.

I also have servers at that location, and in fact I did ask the ISP for a tour so I could see my rack during one of my recent visits to NYC.
You're getting that confused with the QR barcode format.
A mindless defence of a mindless act deserves nothing but contempt. Harsh? not as harsh as the reaction to wikileaks will be. To quote Stan Lee "with great power comes great responsibility" ("Spiderman"). Wikileaks has power, they have not exercised responsibility, this will cost them (and indirectly, the rest of us) dearly.
Nook is on the list, but no Kindle. Though, ultimately, anything with web access. The web reader looks pretty minimal, it'd probably run fine on an E-ink device like the Kindle.

http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/supported-devices
I tried this when it made the HN rounds about a year ago. My results were over about three months and my primary reason was to assist treating moderate eczema. I stopped using all soap and shampoo and just stuck with hot-as-hell water. My skin did get better, but after about two months my hair began to naturally dread. After I looked back on my notes of this endeavor I decided to use some scent-free shampoo to prevent dreads. I use soap to clean up when I finish painting/working on a car or other dirty project. I also use it before I prepare food for my family and friends. My hair did never really 'feel' right, much more like a dogs fur than clean hair. It didn't smell bad it just felt different and didn't behave.

The interesting thing that came out of my tracking this impromptu 'shower log' of no soap use - I was able to correlate my severe eczema outbreaks with inhaling allergens. In my case, breathing in pine dust & glue particulate causes outbreaks. I now wear my painting respirator 75% of the time in the shop and have very few incidents.
You're drinking for taste and Red Bull is really your choice? At $2.79 a can? Let me introduce you to Dr. Pepper.
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.

I use Wordpress for the marketing site because I can concentrate on writing copy and end up with something which looks good very quickly, whereas when I write copy in Netbeans I end up concentrating mostly on balancing my tags and end up with uninspired copy which looks cruddy.
Sucrose is sucrose is sucrose.

No need to be a sugar racist man.
CSS transitions. Webfonts. Doctype.

[Edit: data attributes]
Sainsbury’s programmer steals over £73,000 worth of Nectar points
Wikileaks and the Long Haul
Sensor API now supports a barometer? Are they paying their dues to Gene Roddenberry descendent's yet?
Victorian Book Title Statistics
The tunnels were then used to flood the basements of unsuspecting businesses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tunnel_Company
I'm really pleased to see this particular product from Google though. Not offering ebooks is weird for a company whose mission is organising the world's information.
As nice sounding as rent-control is, you can't change economic law with the power of good intentions.

When the price of some good is artificially capped below the market equilibrium price, a shortage always occurs.

Rent control benefits some people at the expense of harming a larger number of people.
Nice use of sound effects too!!
If there were a "dup" button that let you actually mark what's a duplicate of what, you can try all sorts of things to shift karma and points around.

EDIT: I fleshed this idea out a bit and submitted it as an Ask HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1975950
Exactly, you also need something like a government to make people internalize externalities.
I wish that worked for me. Every time I skipped the shaving cream, I'd get nicks all over the place, even with a fresh blade. Maybe my skin is thinner than yours. Do you just use water? Or do you use soap in place of shaving gel?
"We designed Google eBooks to be open."

How exactly is this open?