skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had spotty reception trouble around Minneapolis, but Uptown has always been the worst. For instance, I usually can only get a single bar of reception inside Spyhouse on 25th and Hennepin on my iPhone 4, and 2 outside if I'm lucky.

Also, I should mention that this experience was from Summer 2010. Maybe there were some issues with ATT's network in July, or maybe they've been bringing a lot more capacity online over the past few months.
Do it yourself.
Be sure to mind BigZaphod's comment in that thread about the suicide note.
I'd venture to guess that nearly all LinkedIn users are on Facebook, but I don't think the opposite is true. Along with that the information recorded under both sites overlaps quite a bit. At that point it's just a matter of how and to who you show your information on Facebook. I don't think Facebook is the least bit worried about LinkedIn.
Is there any doubt it was suicide, or is the word "apparent" in the article heading unnecessary?
Those small traffic light buttons come to mind. The traffic light buttons are tiny and extremely difficult to acquire targets. The resize handle is another. It's not only small, often times it's right near the dock at the bottom and ao whenever you try to resize a window you end up moving over the dock. This is exacerbated by the magnification effect on the dock of it's turned on.
Heck, you always need take leaked specs with a grain of salt, if not a whole shaker of salt, a lime, and a shot of tequila. I think your down-vote was a bit reactionary.

Those leaked specs have been on the pdadb for at least 9 months even though the device was only just officially announced during CES this week. I think the verizon iphone specs have been up there since shortly before (March 2010) the release of the iPhone 4 (June 2010), hence the iOS version it was claimed to be running (during the end of development/prototyping). The first "preview" of iOS 4.x was in April 2010.

Similar was true for Droid2 and Droid2-Global specs being available 9-12 months prior to device releases/announcements. In both those cases, the leaked specs matched up very well with the eventually released products.

Even when a device is "finished" (hardware engineering-wise) the lead times for manufacturing ramp-up and marketing build-up can be many months.

EDIT: Added rough dates to leak and iOS releases

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history
This is interesting, but would be 10X so if it were a persistent service instead of a one-off social science project.

Also, I doubt strongly they could determine my origin. (I'm from the US, but I don't think they could figure out much more than than using my stream.)
Hmm, was I misunderstood? I didn't mean to ask you how many articles he did supporting Apple's HIG consistency. I was just pointing out that that it's a small minority among the total articles he writes about supporting everything Apple does. At least that's my understanding. Like I said, I wouldn't really go to Gruber's blog for objective analysis, though he does make some good points. I used to enjoy his writing about Apple quite a bit a few years back. Now the blatant fanboism kinda turns me off. FWIW.
Providers in the rest of the world have been rapidly losing iPhone exclusivity in the last few years and months. AT&T shouldn’t be surprised and certainly shouldn’t be pissed. It’s honestly surprising that they had the iPhone exclusively for such a long time.

It seems obvious to me that it’s not in Apple’s best interest to let AT&T keep the iPhone all for itself, not at this point in time.

Does anyone know why AT&T had the iPhone exclusively in the first place? Did Apple actually want that to happen or was it merely a concession to get AT&T to accept Apple’s demands?
Suicide is fine, if your parents are dead, you have no children or no spouse. Have at it.
The WSJ has had a particularly good record on Apple announcements shortly before they happen (the iPad announcement, the case program in response to antennagate), so I think we can be pretty confident about this.
Facebook Purity can go a long way to helping with this sort of stuff too. It started life as a Greasemonkey addon (and still is available in that format) but is now also a native FF addon and Chrome Extn.

www.fbpurity.com
FileVo is another victim. They were shutdown by none other than Softlayer without providing a reason for termination.

I do admire your courage.

Regards
Driving a real car with a videogame controller
37signals does this, iirc... Do you think they're consumer unfriendly and, dare I say it, evil?
You don't have that many options if you want to provide the user with a free ad-supported application. I bet almost all ad networks are using the UDID...
Could be an LTE iPhone; nobody actually knows...
Not just IT, but nearly all subjects are actually learned mostly outside school. The exceptions are a few topics such as indoctrination into propaganda, and learning docile obedience to authority, which do happen mostly at school.

Falk and Dierking found that 95% of science education happens outside of school. They also found that American adults have greater scientific literacy than the adults of any other nation. Americans only do worse when they are in state schools. Once they are free from them, they become educated.

http://caise.insci.org/uploads/docs/FalkandDierking95perc.pd...

If one wants a more educated populace, the answer is less school, not more. School makes people ignorant, docile, obedient, and kills their natural curiosity and creativity. Also puts them into crippling debt if they keep on the treadmill too long.
I think the issue basically comes down to preference: there are advantages and disadvantages, some of which I talked about from my point of view here: http://jseliger.com/2010/09/29/the-last-word-on-this-version... .

I still mostly read physical books -- in part because I'm in grad school for English Lit, and the edition problems with eBooks makes them hard to cite and harder still to cite authoritatively.

But a doctor I know observed that he and his wife switched to Kindles because now they don't have to take 10 lbs of books with them, per person, when they travel. I definitely identify with that.
It is a case of letting the best people determine when a new tool will speed up a process and having the environment where they can take the time to write the tool.

Too often the environment is hostile to what might be a risky investigation. I've spent a week investigating a tool to potentially save four weeks. I failed, as I hadn't sufficiently understood the complexity of the problem. But ultimately that failure led to a better understanding. I changed the way we carried out the task, saving us a week anyway.

My project manager at the time thought that week was a total waste of time. (Thankfully he was later "let go" when 360 degrees of people who had contact were saying the same things). If I do that task again, I will have a go at v2 of the tool, and probably get it right.

Too many people think tools are a waste of developer time. It appears that the best tools where I've worked have been created in developer's free time, and then used widely by the team, almost to the shock of the management. Only then do the developers get a little work time to maintain or even improve them.

But yes, you can go the other way. In the largest organisation I have worked in, there was the "infra" team. Their job was to provide the environments, from source control to db instances (Oracle ones), test environments (multi VM set-ups), etc. However their removal from the actual development team resulted in tools and processes which took about as long as for us to do these things with our own tools... the same ones they'd taken to improve.
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I've wondered about the same.
Here is the public info about one such analyst Gene Munster - http://www.piperjaffray.com/1col.aspx?id=7&analystid=131 .
Some choice bits - "specializing in Internet" , "holds a bachelor's degree in financial management and new venture strategies from the University of St. Thomas" "coverage includes Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, Baidu, and MercadoLibre" . Sounds like a good gig to me!

Someone should compile information about these tech analysts, their educational qualifications, their official job details (organizations they work for, job duties they perform over a typical year, their goals and objectives etc.), the data they work off of, their predictions from 2008 onwards, hit/miss ratio, stock price fluctuations attributable to their predictions and any other interesting tidbits.

May be something sinister will come out of it or may be not - but it will still be interesting to look at.
49% assumes you are in a very, very high income bracket. And 0% assumes that your mythical Carl would not be able to survive if he were taxes on what little income he had. You would benefit greatly from a society that does not allow Carl to fall through the cracks, this has been proven. Carl may use public infrastructure and a social safety net to pull himself out of poverty and set himself on a path of entrepreneurship. Conversely, you may find yourself without your high income, your savings eliminated, and in need of the social welfare that was used to help others out of a cycle of poverty.

I'm not clear on what your important point was, but I think the point you try and make here is relatively short-sighted.
Too lazy to Google, but I think they have deal with Rackspace.
I think inline async has its place. I'm hopeful this will speed adoption of PEP 380 which should cleanup the syntax a bit. I'd prefer C# 5's await keyword rather than yield from, but that's minor.

That said, I agree that Python needs better function literals. I'd also like a better solution to query syntax than all these variable__gt=5 hacks and strange Q(variable__lt=2) objects that encapsulate what is easily expressed as a python expression. I wish you could pass expression trees, something like db.where("age>5 and alive=True") without the quotes. Not sure about the best syntax...
Well to be completely fair to DNSMadeEasy, this failure wasn't necessarily their entire service, it was just the one nameserver pingdom was testing, ns10.dnsmadeeasy.com. However, both GoDaddy and Dynect were tested using just one nameserver, so the comparison is fair.

I'm not sure what the cause of it was though.
Ask HN: What are the drawbacks of living outside the bay area?
If moving to Silicon Valley, what are the drawbacks, if any, of living in, say, Half Moon Bay or somewhere similar? Is the traffic bad? Is it a drag on nightlife, etc.?
This is the joke those guys in the thread above were looking for.
I love how this is all possible albeit not practical.
Very nice. Love point #10. Needs to be approached with localization in mind.
I used to randomly pick up books at bookstores or the airport when I didn't have a book. I just realized now that I haven't bought a physical book in person since I started using my Kindle a year ago. I've got 150-some books on there, most of them free from Gutenberg.org.

It's not obvious that the Kindle stopped me from buying books - I didn't realize it until now. But I certainly would've picked some up wandering past a bookstore or at the airport if I didn't have the Kindle.
I think I can say pretty confidently and without providing any data that most people use Facebook to connect with people they know from real life.

I believe that adding a complete stranger is seen as a bit creepy. Maybe the new Groups feature (like the hacker news group) will change that, but that's only a recent addition.
Web-based inventory & rental management system?
My wife coordinates weddings etc.. and we've amassed a substantial amount of equipment and decor that we're hoping to turn into a simple side revenue stream. I've been looking at inventory or rental management software, and most appears to be Point-of-sale focused. I'm looking for something (ideally) open- or shared-source and web-based for convenience and customization.

So far I've turned up Tracmor (www.tracmor.com) and Rentventory (http://www.rentventory.com/), and the bright idea that I just need to build something myself. A combination of those two would be what I'm looking for.

Any recommendations on something built or in progress? Or should I convince her that this is a worthwhile evenings & weekends project for me? :)
agreed. plus Goldman can profit on the Greater Fool effect. i was just assuming that, if you weren't Goldman, and weren't going to take advantage of the Greater Fool effect, etc., and you wanted to buy-and-hold rather than buy-and-flip, then, the numbers don't look too compelling at the $50bn valuation.

but yeah, anything can happen, and there are lots of factors involve.
> the claims of vapor have gone up in a puff of smoke.

Really? Sure, it's finally happened, but people have been predicting a Verizon iPhone "next week / month / quarter" for, literally, years. It was practically inevitable, seeing as Apple has no ideological qualms with multiple distributers in other countries.
You're right, but at some level toes are just a high-bandwidth interface between your brain and the world ;)
Silicon Valley sees big shake up (literally)
"...the merger turned out to be a disaster: AOL's revenue stream was reduced to a trickle as net users ventured out onto the Web directly."

So facebook will fail when people venture out and socialize in real life?

Seriously, though, I get the point generally, but I don't think it's quite the same. AOL and MySpace were assimilated and stifled by their parents' ways of doing things, whereas Facebook will likely continue to do things its own way. This is a company that is able to convince its investors that it knows best, and I don't think things will change with the Goldman investment.

I don't know if Facebook will be on top in 10 years, but I don't think this is the beginning of the end.
I wonder if this will be a repeat of the Sirtris story - big pharma buys magic pill company for 500 million dollars for a drug that doesn't do shit.

Diet and exercise have been shown to improve CAD, HTN, Diabetes, even cancer risk. It doesn't cost nearly as much(probably), and leads to more than 9 lb weight loss(if consistently done). If only they made a motivational pill that made people want to eat healthy and exercise...
Pretty good memory. The article says the numbers are 7 and 5, not 4 and 3, but the idea is the same. I wonder how the conversations went when the others initially overruled Feynman's recommendation and then, months later, were forced to use it and admit he was correct all along.
Daring Fireball: Why Next Week's Event Is Hosted by Verizon, Not Apple
Step 1, send us your PS3.

Step 2, we will send it back fixed.

Done.
Hours spend doing social networking things on sites other than Facebook cost Facebook money and relevance. Also, plenty of "important" people avoid Facebook like the plague because it's a time sink, so there is plenty of pull in the other direction.
Linkedin does a very good job of keeping me engaged.

When any of my contacts update their info, it sends me a weekly email. I like that. (And when I click on a link in the email, the web page HIGHLIGHTS the changed sections. I love that.)

The interactions on Linkedin, although fewer in number are of higher value.

And they charge to contact people outside your network. I think this is fair and lucrative to them. This seems like a steady source of income.

All in all, I'm impressed with Linkedin. They've avoided becoming sleazebags and managed to remain useful.
I guess they could 'lend' the syntax from SQLAlchemy, it has exactly that. query.filter(User.age>5) and such.
A good reminder to be attentive. Thank you.
What now: The future of computer geeks
I'm just truly lost for words, hope he finds peace.
I didn't know about FileVo. I just read up on their situation and curiously, it's another issue involving UK2 (in this case their MidPhase brand) and SoftLayer.

Both the SimpleCDN and FileVo shutdowns do look bad. But I'm not relying on courage, I'm relying on experience. Over four years I personally have had hundreds of phone, email, and forum interactions with SoftLayer at every level from their CEO to first level support. And countless DMCA requests. If I believed based on those experiences I was at risk hosting my company and my livelihood there, you better believe I would beat a path to the door.
I didn't think it was rational or positive at all. He suffers constant feelings of helplessness and inadequacy that permeate his every word. He is irrationally fearful and mistrustful. He's a misanthorpe--though I bet he wouldn't call himself that, because he'd rather blame himself than blame humanity, such that he would rather go to the grave than risk therapy... and his utterly twisted view of his fellow man led him to hide his problems until he dumped it all out in a way such that he wouldn't have to deal with the consequences he so feared, because he'd be dead.

The real burn is that he not only didn't want to put his rapist in jail, but was terrified of any steps that might remotely end up in that possibility. It's certainly very sad, but it's also, not to mince words, fucking cowardice that might even lead to seeing this tragedy repeated.

I don't want to be harsh, but we cannot cannot cannot talk about this stuff as positive or rational at all. Because it not only isn't, but these patterns of thought are extraordinarily dangerous to someone who might think they are rational.
No LTE, the infamous metal strip will be almost complete flush with glass top & bottom, metal strip will only be segmented once, instead of 3 times, mostly resembles an iPhone 4 otherwise. Talk & data simultaneously. No Vzw bloat on board. iOS 4.3.x (just changes for cdma).

If you're considering downvoting this, wait until Tuesday to do so :)
It's not really 'lock-in' unless the potential switching costs are too great to overcome. If another social network could set up your friend network with minimal effort (and are better than Facebook), they will win. No one has long term contracts to use Facebook or pay a monetary penalty (like a cell phone). So if someone can re-create your social graph with you putting in less effort than you normally put into facebook, they will win.
Why the quotes around the word brilliant in the title? Am I missing something?
Also, this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l9FsmhiMEY
The "context" is entirely a fabrication of programmers.

If you have years of experience with computers, you know what they should and shouldn't do. You know that a programmer might call a user an idiot in a comment or on a Usenet forum, but not in a dialog button.

If you've never seen a computer before, you have no such idea, which is exactly why testing like this is necessary: Programmers have too much experience with the "context" to recognize when something might be confusing or outright offensive.

See also: "Abort."

p.s. re-reading my text, it might look like I'm disagreeing with the parent comment. that is not my intention, rather I'm agreeing with the parent and attempting to explain why this might be the case.
You can compare the two styles in Tornado: plain Tornado uses callbacks, or you can code with generators using e.g. http://code.naeseth.com/swirl/

In practice everyone uses plain Tornado with callbacks. The problem with generators as coroutines to me is that you can't compose them nicely: you can't call a subroutine that yields, you must yield only from your top level. This and the fact that it's another layer of leaky abstraction.
Hm on my laptop (same configuration) it works fine. Must be some configuration problem or misbehaving plugin at my side.
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Because it's quoting a comment from Anil Dash. (More of the comment is quoted in the body of the article.)
What about the Linux desktop :(
Not sure, but I think it's a journalistic convention. Since the person was not generally well known, the quotes indicate that it's something others who do know him say. They're not being sarcastic.
The Guruplug has wifi:
http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-guruplugdetails.asp...

I have a few, they're pretty cool.
Demonstrations of silencing, a visual illusion
I understood your point the first time. I still respectfully disagree, but perhaps someone with more understanding of macro can step in here.

In idealized, infinitely large, rational labor markets, wages are still driven by the interaction of supply and demand. Even in this model, you are ignoring the other half of the equilibrium--that only where employment is available and desired are wages available. It is perfectly possible for large pools of skilled workers to fail to find employment because of insufficient employment opportunity (as an example, consider the tech crash, or Detroit), or for jobs which do not require special skills to command astronomical prices as a result of insufficient labor supply (e.g. Alaskan fisheries or nursing).

Of course, the market is finite. This makes it possible for group pressures to distort the wage price point. You correctly identified one half of these pressures: unionization. The other half is employer pressure, in which a company dominates enough of the job pool that it can set uncompetitive wages. That's a form of monopoly, and is why some folks get really angry about Walmart showing up in their town. Oh, and government regulatory pressure is acting on both sides of this dynamic in various ways, from tax structures to discrimination and safety laws.

It gets worse, actually, because perfect information is not available reflecting the market state, there's a significant lag time between training and employment, and people were never rational actors to begin with.

If this is unconvincing, I encourage you to consider the constraint of social capital.
Buildings on Rails
You don't start laughing because you know what the end of the story is going to be as soon as you see the words "Do It" in the article. The joke requires the reader to be in suspense as to why the user was confused, else there is no comic release.

I agree that the article remains informative :)
Felt it in North Beach!
Why the PlayBook is better than the iPad 2
http://idearoulette.appspot.com
It's funny, my mom just sent me a Facebook message saying that I need to build a replacement because all of her friends on Facebook are getting sick of the ads and spam...so it's not just "us geeks" who have had enough.

I told her I'll get on it.
Internet Identity System Said Readied by Obama Administration
Leo Apotheker's Choices at Hewlett-Packard
Everything is negotiable
I think repression is an area where people use the same words to talk about different things. Which is why I try and separating things as Successful repression which is used by most people on a regular basis and can be extremely helpful. However, "Whenever I think about what happened I feel manic and itchy and can't concentrate on anything else." suggests that the pain was not repressed just ignored which does not really deal with the problem.

Don't get me wrong ignoring things is also a useful technique for short term pain. However, it's best used for things like planing the funeral etc and if you are still using it after a few years it's really time to try something else / seek help.
The new new telco – confused of calcutta
"We will fix the issues through network updates, but because this is a security issue, we are not able to provide you with any more details,” [Sony] said.

Wrong on two counts. First, Sony can't really "fix" the problem, merely patch over the current situation until their "fix" is compromised. At best they can hold freedom off for a little while longer.

Second, there is no security through obscurity, and failing to explain exactly how they will "fix" the compromised hardware is vainglorious. If a fix does exist, it will be so resistant to exploit that an explanation won't change anything.

It's conceivable for them to have an impervious fix (without conceiving of the fix itself), however experience has shown that the strongest schemes are the ones that have been exposed to the most eyeballs.