skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The manufacturer suggests a retail price, but it is up to the retailer to determine what the consumer ultimately pays.

This is quite different because in retail the wholesale cost is negotiated between the manufacturer and retailer. Therefore, the price that the retailer chooses to sell the product at to consumers does not change how much the manufacturer makes (except indirectly, by affecting quantity sold and therefore bought from the manufacturer). Coca Cola gets the same amount of money per can if Walmart sells the cans for 20 cents each or $2 each.

In this case, Amazon essentially gets to choose not only the retail price, but the wholesale price, except that the prices are at a fixed ratio to one another and there is a price floor on the wholesale price based on the suggested retail price you gave.
Mossad's "goal of the whole operation" is to safeguard the jewish state. It's not clear whether assasinating a Hamas leader was worth the price they ended up paying.
Take a ride in the Driver's Seat: real-time transit tracking with Street-View
I don't really disagree with what you're saying but...

Verizon is $50/mo/5GB and that's LTE (4G) -- and if they don't subsidize the device, no contract.

MetroPCS is $60/mo (including taxes) for unlimited phone service including LTE. I don't like what they're doing here but if their service is any good (doubt it), that's a good deal.
The article is correct if by substring you mean exact sequence of code points. This is still remarkable, because even that is not always possible in variable-width encodings.

Problem of searching for semantically equivalent text (taking into account decomposed forms, ligatures, etc.) is higher-level and applies to all Unicode encodings (i.e. using UCS-2 or UTF-32 doesn't solve it either).
Vertical tabs have a huge advantage, collapsible tree. For instance I have HN tab, and all the other links I opened from there collapse under it when I open a new tab. This way I frequently have up to 60 or 80 open tabs without them overloading at the bottom. On the other hand, with horizontal tabs I can't see much more than 20 of them at once on my 24" screen.
Google Wins One Against Microsoft
How about listing requirements that are actually requirements? If you don't need 7+ years Mirah experience, don't ask for it. I never apply for jobs that I don't actually fit the 'requirements'.

Every time I see someone ask for more experience than is possible for a language, I wonder what other lies they're going to tell me or unreasonable things they are going to expect.
here: http://www.metropcs.com/presscenter/newsreleasedetails.aspx?... "The $40 service plan offers unlimited talk, text, 4G Web browsing with unlimited YouTube access."
"I have however realized that I do not have any ownership of what I am allowed to do and that I am working on someone else's dream"

Did you bring this point up specifically? You will run into this problem at any company...because this is what you are doing when you get a job. You are working on someone else's dream and they have control of your destiny.
Ask HN: Who is in the Mac App Store?
The Mac app store launches tomorrow.

I just got notification that my app, Shave, has been accepted. What other HNers have apps in it?
My personal thoughts would be that something like Play would have ousted Wicket, but who can tell these things ;)
I have a job that pays over 150K in the bay area so that is definitely a lot of money. But prudent saving over the last couple of years has allowed me to build a nest egg that can sustain me for 2 years without pay.

I do want to work towards my own dream and could potentially bootstrap it initially. In terms of a plan, I do not have a concrete plan yet - only bits and pieces. The problem is I am unable to devote time to figuring it out due to the time I spend on my day job and therefore this conundrum

Thanks for your advice.
2010 one of warmest on record globally, UK's coldest December
The "Roll" tab is in fact a news feed. However, since you are noy following anyone yet, there is no news to show. I need another way to make these updates though.

The app is basically a stand alone web app. And Iframe seemed to be the most painless way of integrating it with facebook. It was laziness and not any strategy which led me to decide on Iframe.
Population density of Germany is 229 persons per km/sq. In the US it's 32. It's a lot more expensive to run the infrastructure for a country 27 times the geographic area and 1/7th the density.
I loved BeOS back then. I have a thing for cute operating systems -- RISC OS, Epoc 32, BeOS. I even chose to buy a Palm phone because of WebOS, which I'm using to type this comment right now!
Reverse mortgage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_mortgage

Anyway, over the long term (30+ years) inflation is going to increase the value of a home. Suggesting that a 750K house in a good location gains ~2% of it's value on average per year seems like a safe bet in most areas. Granted, it is a risky investment, but so is buying stocks. Anyway, 20% down + a sane 30 year mortgage on a 750K home really is a fairly large investment. If nothing else at some point they don't have a morgage anymore.

Edit: The point being they could probably be safe only saving say 10% for retirement (25K) and put 8k/year into some other use. They are getting close to the point where they could probably swing a live in housekeeper. (Lunches at work 5k, Day care and Babysitting 15K, Cleaning 5K. Dry Cleaning 1.2K + 8k less savings) = 34.2K / year. They could even cut into that 13,659 /year in Food and household supplies...
45Bits
http://45bits.com

I'm working on a service that provides data sets for devs to build apps on top of, I wanted to open up our beta invites to the Hacker News community first. Let me know what you guys think!
That's naieve. They have many products. They may use yours as a 'loss leader', they may experiment with your price, they may decide your product is worse than another one and position it as the low-tier offering and choose a price to enhance the sales of the higher-tier product (not yours).
I hear ya. When you have to get your spouse to pay for simple items because you have to keep your servers running or giving i-o-u-s for Christmas, you really have to start considering if what you are doing is the right thing to do.

But, I wouldn't trade the experience of bootstrapping for anything in the world. It taught me frugalness and prioritization. It also brought me a hell of lot closer to my sig other.
Doctrine is brutal. Massively bloated, extremely slow, and feels (in general) like a cluster-f*.

I like ORMs, and you can make them fast and effective. But in PHP, lightweight is king. I personally wouldn't go with anything beyond what's found in CodeIgniter.
My point wasn't specifically to posit my own reason for Android growth, but to point out that it is irresponsible journalism to state an interviewee's opinion as fact :)

Also, I agree with your "good price points" ideas. Price is a major driving factor for the majority of consumers.
The late 70's British spy show, "The Sandbaggers" might also be of interest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sandbaggers
Same author (a very good, well known writer on the topic):

* http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/opinion/10bergman.html?_r=...

* http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124243059842325581.html

Same topic:

* http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/0319/Dubai-a...

* http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/02/al-mabhouh_ass...
Mobile broadband is becoming mainstream. Congress & FCC really screwed this up at the worst possible time for consumers.
Is there a social network which pays your generated content?
http://www.city-data.com/income/income-San-Francisco-Califor...

Over $200k would put you in the top 14%. Over 100k would put you in the top 23%.

77% of people make <$100k.
I did bring it up. He was quick to dismiss it by saying you have the freedom to do what you want.
I agree that I will run into this problem at any company and I feel that is the impetus for me to explore opportunities on my own and possibly do a startup
I thought Wifi was a commodity market now. So I'm a little surprised to see Qualcomm buying into a commodity market. What does Atheros have that Qualcomm can't license cheaply from elsewhere and use it's own relationships to sell? This seems like Atheros quitting when they're at the top (smart move by them).

Is Qualcomm really interested in supplying to the smallish market for $30 wifi routers and network cards? I haven't ever seen an Atheros-powered laptop, which is a much larger market.

I used always looked for Atheros-powered wifi desktop cards because of their Linux support, but nowadays it seems like several chipsets are well-supported.
Sure, but it can also create bigger problems that didn't previously exist.
I believe facebook shares will be the biggest share rise ever in history. You know why? Because it will run across facebook virally. Anyone who makes money on facebook stocks will announce it to his 450 friends, and so on. The facebook IPO will be huge.
In Canada, there is a Ritual Calling of the Engineer, which has an "Obligation" which is not exactly an oath. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ritual_of_the_Calling_of_an... I'll paste the text here if I can find it.
No. It’s $350 for an “advanced device”. So, backlash costs a great deal more than you think.
Startup Quote: Aza Raskin, co-founder, Massive Health
Yep, and you should never buy stock because companies often go broke giving you nothing. Suggesting that perhapse they could only sat 25K (aka 10%) a year into retirement becuase of that huge morgage payment seems reasonble argument IMO.
Ask HN: Good Mobile/Online Diet Planner or Calorie Counter?
I'm starting Day 1 of the Gold's Gym challenge today, and I need to get diligent about tracking my food intake and exercise plans. I've used "Calorie Counter" on my Droid in the past. I really like the fact that I can scan a bar code directly, and that its got some basic food diary features, but it doesn't allow me to enter the odd-ball portions that I have to use for the various Challenge food plans.

Do any of you use anything like this for diet planning or calorie counting? Ideally, it would work both on my mobile phone (for the great convenience of bar code scanning and on the road usage), but also have a web option as well (way more convenient to adjust things this way).
I Didn’t Know You Could Do That With Google Docs [video]
That could definitely be a possibility which I have not explored previously. I will ask him and see how receptive he is to this idea.

Thanks
You can never let your data dictate design. If you do, you end up following what people currently do and never innovating.

- Aza Raskin (@azaaza)

http://startupquote.com/post/2610564210
Listing any required years experience with a particular technology seems like a mistake.

A good engineer is a good engineer and shouldn't need N+ years experience with a language/framework/tool to make an impact on a good team that's willing to do a little training.
Direct link: http://labs.transloc.com/streetview/
I would like to see the tax code become a lot more progressive, but I cheerfully admit that the AMT is an awful kludge.
PS3 Custom Firmware Now Working
As a fellow KCer, I agree! So do a few others: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2046160

I'll join the linked group.
As an example of something better than a larger group of anonymous users, I'd say yes.
Ahhh that's a whole different enchilada! If you told me that bribery in which money changes hands generally has a higher incidence when the briber is significantly wealthier than the bribee and can provide a monetary amount worth while for the party accepting the bribe, I would definitely have to agree with you.

A valet parking employee might get 'bribes' from different people to fetch their car first in the queue, such people might be DHH waiting for his custom Zonda HH (and giving the valet a 50), me waiting for my 335i (and giving the valet a 10 dollar bill), or the dude next to me that earns as much as the valet waiting for his Corolla (giving the valet a 5 dollar bill). The catch is that to bribe people with money, you need to have money to 'throw away' so to speak. Any one with sufficient disposable income can bribe a valet, and most that can actually do in some way or another, but how do the car and money less bribe a valet and why should they since they don't have a car anyways?
Another thing I like to see is when the posting talks about what sort of projects you'll be working on.

The latest example of this was GazeHawk's job posting:

"Eye tracking gives you a ton of data with a lot of dimensions. We want to show that data to our users in a way that's easy to parse. That means interactivity: HTML5, Canvas, JS."

Just a single sentence, but it engaged me, got me thinking, and gave me a good idea of the sort of projects they're working on.
How to leverage Linux capabilities for full root privileges
Group meetups are great but I envisioned the site to help one-one meetups.

Since only two people are involved, less time is spent on planning and deciding on a date. At least so I thought.
Alcohol consumption is positively correlated with exercise
Does anyone else find it a little sad that in 2011 we're still reading stories like this? 'I was able to get most of my system up and running in Ubuntu, after downloading the right drivers, though printing doesn't work and the keyboard sometimes stops responding in Virtualbox (though I understand this is a known issue)' has been the state of the art for years now. It keeps getting a little better, the interfaces keep getting a little refined, but the overall picture has remained terribly static for a long time. We might be past the point where installing Linux was a dungeon dive, fit only for a seasoned hacker; but I think we've been past that point for long enough that minor niggles like 'I still can't print' should be glaring red flags.
One correction: Goldman did not increase the value of Facebook, just the appearance of their value. Who knows how much Facebook is actually worth? Their profits are tiny compared to the latest valuation. They are up to their ears in invested money. Their business model is showing ads that nobody clicks on. Goldman and the private investors might make out all right. But their recent investment has done little in my eyes to make Facebook more valuable.
Wikileaks: Israeli Blockade Targeted Gaza Economy
The 'us too' quality of that blog post is disturbing. They don't need to defend their architecture choices against people who naively assume that OO is an appropriate paradigm for all domains. The list of how 'design patterns' are really in there somewhere is particularly off-putting. I didn't like developing for Drupal, but I certainly support their right to do the things in the way they think is best for the problems they are trying to solve.
I think this list doesn't go far enough.

Minimum salary should be $300k per year. Guaranteed zero overtime, and you get to spend 25 of your 30 work hours per week on side projects or learning new languages (from home, of course.)

Anything else is just oppressive and restricts creativity. If you say otherwise you're probably just a lame business guy who hates hackers.
Seems like a big story, but maybe we're all tired now.
What were you thinking of hosting? The world needs a decent source of free financial data:

http://www.wilmott.com/messageview.cfm?catid=19&threadid...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/417453/best-most-comprehe...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/281263/where-can-i-get-fr...
You just made my day. Thank-you!
Wouldn't it be better for Qualcomm to supply its own WiFi/Bluetooh integrated SoC like say TI? With Atheros they can do that, no?
Mother-effing hsl()
Wow, sorry I missed a KC meetup. Hope to make it next time. :)
Facebook's worth exactly as much as people are willing to pay for it. If Goldman gets people to invest at a higher valuation then they've increased Facebook's value by definition.
Groupon Risks A Discount By Waiting
I'd love to! Lunches are typically better for me than after work stuff, but I'll try to make it to whatever works for everybody else. I'm downtown, so I can do Westport, River Market, the Plaza, it's all good.
This might be a completely dumb idea and it must've been explored before, but how about attaching the antenna to a string and trailing it behind the ship at a considerable distance to clear the extent of the plasma shield. Is it that no string is strong or plasma-resistant enough?
Everything is dead
> Many lawmakers surely realize this, but their main goal is re-election, and doing something (the equivalent of Dilbert moving his mouse around) gives the media something to report, which in turn keeps the lawmakers' names in front of the public and feeds the perception of positive action.

You're assuming that they would "do good" if not for the pressures of re-election.

How about some supporting evidence?
Until the bubble bursts...
Another potentially easier way to do this is to use elastic map reduce:

http://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce/

This will automatically spin up and tear down the instances your job uses, and will set up the hadoop configuration to access your S3 account instead of HDFS. So, you upload your input to S3, run your job (in this case, a Hadoop streaming job since it's a Ruby script), and the output will be saved to S3 for you to download. The only script you need to write is the actual map reduce job, and you kick off the job by uploading the script to s3 and running the elastic-mapreduce command line tool.
You really need to add searching capabilities or categorize listings by country/state to avoid scrolling every post to find something in my area that interests me.
When I post job ads now, I ask interns for their blog URL, websites they've done, URLs to open-source projects, and their Twitter account if any. I'm not looking to find out personal stuff, but I want examples of what they do, how they learn, and if they'll be a fit for us.

When I used to just ask for a cover letter and resume, 99% of the people who interviewed with me were just awful. Now I tend to get good dev interns who want to be here and have similar drive and ambitions.

I'm not saying that a person who doesn't have any OSS experience, a blog, or a Twitter account wouldn't be a good developer, but then if they're not interested in OSS, teaching, doing things on their own (outside of work/schoolwork) or sharing, then they may not be a good cultural fit.
You will have to pay for it at the BailedOut 2.0. Is Goldman "too big to fall"? Is Facebook "too big to fall"??
If there's even a debate about having a law, it's because there's a real or perceived failure by the market to do the right thing. In this case, it'd be because Goldman's activities have nothing to do with the proper role of finance and everything to do with exploiting the already existing bugs in the market system.

Nobody's saying that the government should write laws regarding toilet paper manufacturing, for example. There's a difference between "make a working complex system even more complex", and "attempt to fix a completely broken system, with full knowledge that your fix won't be perfect either".
Potential cost to the establishment of forcing all the hackers onto darknets: who knows?
Absolutely better to run "to" something rather than running "away" from something.
Maybe this would be an opportunity to start with a content-centric protocol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z685OF-PS8
Bad bonus rules are worse than bad bonuses
The problem is that some non-natural chemicals are GRAS, and the people who make the most noise about 'all-natural' will never accept them as being benign.
Not every competent geek is a frivolous gadget junkie.
Birch bark ingredient comes with many metabolic benefits
When I see something like "7+ years PHP experience", I wonder what it is they think they're using that as a proxy for and why they don't just mention it directly.

It's not like there's a standard progression in technologies where you learn certain things in years 5-7, etc.

I can see there's a difference between say 1 years and 3 years, but is there really a difference you can count on being true if someone used a tech for 5 years vs 3? 7 vs 3?
Coding Colors Easily Using CSS3 hsl() Notation
Software for Programming Microbes
Anyone else see a weird font used for double-F's?

http://i.imgur.com/EpolQ.png
I have to agree on your last point regarding average investors. Hard to have sympathy for anyone who buys something at a certain price and loses money.

That being said, it seemed like there were several aspects of "pump and dump", rent-seeking (we can get FB, noone else can, so we charge a totally made-up premium), as well as "make a big transaction at an improper valuation in order to get the inside track with FB's CFO for big fees on other transactions later" to the deal. That's not really how markets are supposed to work..

Meanwhile, it's still damn near impossible to a get a business loan, I hear.
Steve Jobs Versus Dragons' Den
That depends what you mean by "speeds." I used an ARM3-based desktop machine for a while 15 years ago. Personally I think it's a meaningless comparison, but there you go.
Would this be an oath to not implement technology in offensive ways?
First, Goldman’s cost of capital is close to zero as a bank holding company, it can borrow from the Federal Reserve at negligible interest rates so any capital gain it makes on its venture in Facebook will be sheer profit.

And here we have a very interesting data point reminiscent of an era preceding a previous .com valuation implosion.

Does not compute. Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) is one of the most important metrics for determining a value of a company. This free capital is equivalent to giving Goldman Sachs preferred stock in a pre-IPO. If Goldman-Sachs is given unrestrained liberty to not only determine the "market value" of the company AND the "insider's trading" right to determine the value of individual shares, we have most of the ingredients for another recipe for disaster.
The good news: it's the last bubble.

The bad news: it's the last bubble.

The ugly news: massive failures across startups, high unemployment for programmers, dried up funding for years to come.
Kudzu will die before RSS does
"Can regular exercise avert or undo some of the harm associated with binge drinking?"

My guess is that since exercise is good for mental health and alcohol is bad for mental health, people who exercise are able to get away with drinking more before suffering the affective consequences.
After all these years, XMPP is still a PITA to implement.

Starting at the lowest level, XMPP streams are framed by the 2nd level elements in an XML document. Clients and server must keep an XML parser open for the lifetime of the connection. If you don't have a parser like expat available, then you either need to dedicate a thread to the connection or use ugly regex style hacks to handle the framing. Almost any other framing mechanism in use today would have been easier to use (null bytes between messages, length prefixed messages, and so on).

Moving up a level, the use of XML namespaces is over designed. XMPP uses unique namespaces for each type of connection (client to server, server to server, component to server). This provides no benefit to any party and is ugly for server developers where they need to deal with all types of connections.

I could go on. I have not even gotten to the application layer (RFC 3921).

Other protocols have warts, but not like those that I have encountered in XMPP.
When re-entering, spacecraft are being decelerated, so anything towed behind the spacecraft will catch up with it. A rigid pole might work.
The way of the Droid is near
Developers Question Google on "Low Latency" Audio in Android