skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which platforms are that? I'm using Chrome on Windows, Mac and Linux. It can be run on FreeBSD if you're willing to deal with the bridge troll running the show there.

http://i.imgur.com/1Amu3.png

Do you really think this feature doesn't exist for Firefox?

Further, it'll even sync with your google account making it global if you give it access.
Get ready to get out your wallets all you retrophiliacs: http://www.dawnmetropolis.com/
Completely agree with this article. Wide-screen of same diagonal is cheaper to produce. May be situation could be better if we measure screen in megapixels or useful area.

I've never watched any movie on my laptop. I don't need additional distractive windows with documentation, browser or sidebars. But now with different toolbars working area is very narrow.

May be one of the reason why sales of windows and android tablets so bad because all of them use widescreen but iPAD is not widescreen and has quite good screen with large useful area.

I believe that there is a market for laptops with high-DPI IPS non-glossy screens for professionals (not only developers).
What exactly is the best refrigerator test? Searching for it on other sites (Google, Wikipedia) just return refrigerator results in the former and nothing really useful in the latter...
SOAP really just exists to keep a tools/consulting/appserver/softwarestack business alive. Pretty sad.
Mr. Jobs is widely known for taking the ...

He certainly is.
I think that's a great idea. The activity of "co-watching" and any social networks growing up around that are still going to center around the TV, so integration is going to be necessary. A small device acting as a smart-remote would be ideal. Free apps on smartphones would be a good way to get this started.
If mass die offs are so commonplace, why haven't tin foilers started tracking and pointing them out before (as they have with "chemtrails")?
Mobile internship position in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Ask HN: Are there any easter eggs on HN?
I think I remember reading a while back (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575487) that if you have enough karma you can change the title bar background. And the Hacker News title eventually, too? Anyone know what # gets you to these marks? Are there any other easter eggs for which I can keep an eye out?
Hmm, I don't know much about the science behind global warming but this looks quite convincing, it basically argues that temperature shifts are natural, not man-made.

Anyone care to put some holes in this argument?
Gorilla marketing is marketing that attempts to be subtle, witty and genuine but instead, blunders around the place in an obvious fashion, making a lot of noise before it's finally shot, put out of it's misery, stuffed and mounted. Also, it has a small penis.
How to stand out in a jobless market
Please check out the Ben Nanonote -- this is just the sort of thing that it might be good for. I know that some kind of inform interpreter has been ported for it, but a nice little adventure client could be very spiffy!

Project page: http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Ben_NanoNote

Sales site: http://sharism.cc/ (You can also use ThinkGeek, I believe.)

I have one of these things with the latest firmware (OpenWRT linux with some modifications). It is an incredibly cool device. You actually have a keyboard that has all the stuff you need for programming (or general unixy/emaily things), a pretty nice colour display and a reasonable amount of horsepower. I like to think of it as an SGI Indy that I can put in a pocket...
JQuery isBlank()
I guess it could be made pretty secure with good old code signing. Most distributions already sign their packages, but as this concerns the booting process it could be somewhat more difficult.
If you're doing these on an industrial scale a liquid salt battery might be worth while.
Who is going to sign it?
(disclaimer: I've never had or used a TiVo so maybe I'm missing something)

I don't really see why Apple would be interested in TiVo? TiVo allows you to record content and watch it whenever you feel like it. It gives you control on the schedule and makes everything on-demand.

But Apple doesn't need that since their model is already all on-demand in iTunes. There's probably good talent and IP there, but I'm not sure the product is of any interest for them in itself.
The Cloud Security Paradox
Blekko has individual blacklists -- that's what the "spam" button by every result is.

This topspam list is algorithmic, and is not affected by user "spam" clicks.
I recently bought an Archos 101 Android tablet and installed
Angry Birds (from the included AppsLib).

I never saw any ad...

Bug or feature?
From the article:

> Each place name is represented by a UTF-8 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8) text line record (variable length) with more than 15 tab-separated data columns. Note: The UTF-8 encoding assures that a tab (0x9) or line feed (0xA) value won’t occur as part of a multi-byte sequence; this is essential for several implementations.

What? I guess that they use a longer (2-byte?) encoding for those codepoints, but from the very same wikipedia page that they link:

> a sequence that decodes to a value that should use a shorter sequence (an "overlong form") [is invalid]

...

> Implementations of the decoding algorithm MUST protect against decoding invalid sequences

Are they advising to use an invalid and potentially broken UTF8 encoding?
Commit often, fix them up. This is why I just can't side with the people who claim rebasing and rewriting your personal history is some sort of affront against nature. Take their argument and add it to the need for useful commits and what it unpacks to is that you should forgo all use of your source control until you have created a Perfect Patch, at which you are finally allowed to commit, until you create the next Perfect Patch. Of course that's not how they see it but it is what it actually translates to, inescapably. Really misses the point of the whole thing if you ask me; it really feels like accidentally raising old hacks to best practices.
Commits are like actions.

For example, think about the "fast-forwarding", "rewinding" and "replaying" that Git does. When you rebase, Git rewinds your divergent commits, fast-forwards the branch, and then replays your commits again. What happens when it replays those commits? Fix login bug. Update copyright year. Ignore log directory. Done!
On the final level, where you face the giant Paul Graham with eye lasers, you can defeat him fairly easily if you disable his parenthesis by stealing them from his keyboard.
Try walking down Hackney-in-the-hole 250 years ago.

The poor today really are fucking lucky.
The recent-ish vim syntax file for git commit message takes
those recommendations into account - they don't do anything about the present vs. past tense obviously, but come up with color warnings, which helps a lot. That's actually how I learned about those preferences and the reasoning behind in the first place btw.
It's a loss for the Mint, which sells coins at face value to the Fed. The Mint is taxpayer funded, so there really was a $20MM loss of taxpayer money in 2009.
NC here also :D
With all due respect you don't know what you're talking about. I grew up very poor. Not only were we on welfare but my mom would turn around and sell the food stamps to get money to buy booze. Yet I still had food, shelter, education and even a few incidental things like toys. There's plenty of assistance available to the poor in this country.

What you are mistaking for poor are people with deeper problems. People who are drug addicted. People who have mental illness. And others who for whatever reason can't find a way to function in society.

There is plenty to debate about the difference between the poor and the rich but don't mistake those living on the street for the poor in this country because they are something else
If you're really desperate to read this - http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=&q=Apple%27s+Jobs+Take...
No, he isn't.

"One thing I should make clear, given some of the email I’ve gotten this week, is that I’m rooting for Android, big-time." --Gruber

Personally, I'd rather not see his articles here as they never contain any discussion of the topic, rather tons of bitching about the man himself.
There's a been a press release for a study on erectile dysfunction in Brazilian men and now it's a trending topic.

http://zerohora.clicrbs.com.br/zerohora/jsp/default.jsp?uf=1...

Based on the portuguese trending topics, it looks like Ronaldinho isn't going to be playing soccer in Teofilo Ottoni.

Edit: It's extraordinarily difficult to find the signal of the original story amongst the noise of Portuguese tweets saying "lol, erectile dysfunction is a trending topic!"

Perhaps someone with a better handle on tweet mining can get to the bottom of this.
Inventables: The Superstore That Sells Sci-Fi Materials to IDEO and Nike
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It's also a law that any field with the name 'science' in it isn't a science. (Health science, social science, military science, earth science, computer science...)
I consider "ability to write a good SCM commit message" one of the boxes to check on my "Is this person a good developer?" checklist.
There is virtually no difference between the keyboard on my current 15.4" 16:10 Thinkpad W500 and the 14" 4:3 Thinkpad T20 I had years ago. The only things I can think of that have changed are that they added Windows, back and forward keys.
>* That's the problem when a very niche and exclusive product gets mass adoption *

Personally, I think there is a lot of facebook alumn echo-chamber cocksucking going on in the valley.
You can do some crude approximations by looking at reviews and ratings. (Reviewing or rating is only possible if you downloaded the app from the store.) Those are obviously very problematic metrics so take this with a grain of salt.

Unretina was downloaded 3,283 times in the US App Store, it was rated 16 times and reviewed 8 times. 0.5% and 0.2% of all downloaders rated and reviewed it, respectively.

Here are some top paid apps which received a similar amount of ratings and reviews (excluding Apple’s apps):

1. Compartments ($10, 17 ratings, 7 reviews, 4 stars, #16 in Top Paid)

2. Contacts Cleaner ($5, 15 ratings, 8 reviews, 4 stars, #18 in Top Paid)

3. Courier ($5, 19 ratings, 7 reviews, 5 stars, #20 in Top Paid)

(…)

All those apps are bunched together pretty closely (all are between #16 and #70, none have any lower spot on the Top Paid list; the number of ratings and reviews generally tapers off on the list). That certainly supports my hypothesis that there is a relationship between ratings, reviews and downloads. I would dare to speculate that all those apps sold a few thousand copies on the first day.

You have to take into account, though, that those are the successful apps. You probably could expect to sell a few thousand copies of your $10 app only if you made it into the top 70 or so. (Unretina is similarly one of the more successful free apps. It has the #39 spot on the Top Free list.)

TUAW puts the number of available apps in the UK App Store at about 1,000 (http://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/06/mac-app-store-by-the-numbers-...), if we assume that number to apply in the US App Store, too, you would have to have been in the top 7% of all apps to sell a few thousand copies on launch day.
M and N are fixed and independent.
This is awesome. You know what would make this super-awesome? Being able to filter by keyword. Though they're probably already filtering down the tweets or else the map would be a complete mess.
If apple were to buy TW and I am not saying Apple will, but if they do, the market will be driven by customer demand. Enabling part of the market true IPTV experience will start pressuring cable companies to open up. Since IPTV is arguably superior technology customers will demand and in case when they have choice will prefer true Apple TV like services over traditional cable.

At the right price point, buying a current content provide would turn out to be a good move.
Ask HN: Do you take subway regularly in a big city?
Hello,

In New York City recently they switched to recorded announcements to announce the station that train is entering, transfers etc. I thought that was very dehumanizing. But asking in this forum http://www.nyctransitforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26180 to my surprise I saw that people actually like recorded messages.

I would like to ask the international crowd here if you use subway in a major city and if they make recorded announcements. Thanks.
I believe that the syntax file is the work of Tim Pope - the author of the blog post we're talking about.

http://vim.runpaint.org/extending/integrating-vim-with-git/
It's great to see how ThinkGeek uses April Fool's day as a way to gauge customer interest. They did this before with their Tauntaun sleeping bags which they produced/sold after a lot of positive feedback to their April 1st joke.
> wrapping your commit messages to 72 columns

> On an 80 column terminal

> Good email netiquette dictates we wrap our plain text emails (for) an 80 column terminal.

I think format should be separated from presentation and presuming people should use a particular display device is wrong. These are well established principles and Unix, although lacking a tradition of interface design, isn't some kind of exception.

* I use a modern email program (I use gmail but this would include, say, mutt).

* I sometimes use a wider terminal. Sometimes I use a narrower one. On my system (OS X default 10.6) less handles this just fine unless some 72-character-neckbeard screws it up.

* I sometimes use a GUI tool to examine messages, like github. These may be wider or narrower.

In all these cases forced 72 character wrappings look terrible.
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Complete guide to the Twitter API using PHP/AJAX
The total now is $31,337, no joke.
Stack Overflow - What problems have you solved using artificial neural networks?
He missed to most important way to start testing your hypotheses: go talk to customers
It's very easy if you're in London. Spend a couple of days in Techhub or White Bear Yard!
Exactly. That's why you write it to the lowest common denominator, so that everyone can use it well.
And there are only 1.3 million people in Estonia...
The communist comment is even too dumb to give it an answer...
What isn't mentioned in all this, is that the runways were slightly east of true north in the first place. Please see the FAA diagram on wikipedia...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8e/KTPA-FAA.pdf

If probably didn't take that much more magnetic north change to prompt the need to relabel the runways.
Well iOS for one.

Also much as I like Chrome, I can't run it on my Linux box because the font rendering is terrible and it lets sites' font choices supersede the user's. That means I can't overrule their painful font choices with ones that look good, like I can in Firefox.

But that's another rant...
That is probably good advice no matter how you slice it. It's not like SMS is a secure method of communication.
You're missing the point - the author says that poverty is relative. Our poor in the US or the EU are far better off than their grandparents were, better off even than the kings of yore due to technological progress. How much do you think a plantation owner in 1840 would've paid for air conditioning? How much would your father have paid for an iPad?
Don't be disappointed! check out http://www.hackrtrackr.com/ Also, this old thread may not be up-to-date, but it's encouraging that there are lots from the east coast: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=527681
This is huge. NFL will be the last to go, and it's the biggest.
Glad that you got a chance.

I pitched, they gave reasons why they rejected me, I gave projects they supported that rebutted their reasons, they shrugged.
I guess Estonians do trust their government, at least the IT part of it, they even vote online.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_Estonia
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Right, funny that how never manifests in his writing, no? I can point to many instances, but here is a fairly recent one: When CBS and a few other networks started banning Google TV from watching content, a lot of people thought that was a bad example of Big Content making decisions for people - ie, why can I watch online TV with my HTPC, but not a specialized HTPC like Google TV? These people criticized the networks for doing that. Grubber's take? The equivalent of a Nelson Ha-Ha. Very insightful and mature of him.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/11/22/google-tv-viacom

This characterizes most of his writing on Android, Google TV, etc etc.
splitting a project in small steps and moving from step to step based on results analysis is something i've suggested even for contracting web projects
This is exactly the answer to the question I posed today:

What is the key to success? Show up and do it.

http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/what-is-the-key-to-succes...
Harvest also has 32 plugins, 82 gem dependencies

yikes
Gigapixel Cameras Create Highly Revealing Snapshots
... Did anyone else read the title and do a double-take?
Because you can only conspiracy-theory about what you've noticed. They don't actually notice anything new, or at least not very much new, the essence of conspiracy theories is to weave existing readily-visible facts and a healthy dollop of made up fantasy into some new theory. From what I can see they hardly ever do anything like a real investigation and even when they do there's a lot of the aforementioned fantasy in it. Like, someone writes a book in which they claim to have spent a lot of time investigating UFO issues but it's still mostly just regurgitated theories and a few allusions to trying to get more info but mostly not. Info mostly just circulates and gets endlessly chewed on, very little new info gets added into the morass by the actual conspiracy theorists from what I can see, with a handful of exceptions.
What's the point of staring at the browser for 2 minutes to get the info you are looking for? If you are retired, that is another story ...
Agreed: re: making sure that everyone can use it well, but targeting LCD will break newer devices sometimes. As far as I can tell, using linebreaks for linebreaks will give you readable output on the widest variety of devices.
This is a nice article about some recent work from my research lab. I'd be happy to (try to) answer any questions people have.
With all due respect to Facebook and many great engineers at Facebook, if you look at quality of Facebook API ( documentation, bugs, reliability, compatibility), I don't think they followed "hiring the best" in the division working on Facebook API.
Interesting that on a six core machine there is very little gain after a Degree of Parallelism of 3. The problem does seem highly data parallelizable (is that a word). So why isn't it able to better utilize the 6 cores?
My experience in London is that it's easier to make out the words and thus understand a recorded announcement.

Set against that, I find that hearing the same recorded announcement several times in quick succession (e.g. generic "look out for terrorists" announcements) grates, when it would not if it was being read live every time.
Princeton "mind over matter" research - 4 decades of PEAR Lab's findings (video)
No. The magnetic declination can be quite significant even in the continental US, and it isn't determined by latitude alone:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IGRF_2000_magnetic_declina...
Technical but helpful discussion of QSB stock (2011 cap gain exclusion)
It would be great to see a heatmap of all the tweets that they've collected since November 1st. The real-time thing is pretty cool, but I think it would be interesting to see the most active locations from the last few months on a higher resolution heatmap.

Or even better, let the user select between fixed time periods (all time, one month, one week, etc.).
In short: can our minds influence physical systems?

description: "A very brief synopsis of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory of Princeton University, whose research into mind-matter interaction forms the foundation of Psyleron Technology.
Watch interviews with key PEAR lab staff, as they explain their experiments, including random event generators, their findings, and finally some of their implications.
This is footage edited from Aaron Michels' The PEAR Proposition - an 8-hour DVD set detailing the PEAR laboratory and its discoveries. You can find it on the Psyleron website."

Project URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/
That pneumatic system sounds interesting. Do you have any links, por favor?
>iOS for one

whistles and pops finger

> it lets sites' font choices supersede the user's

Googled, found it 5 seconds. Sure there are at least 3 other ways to do it, one of them while rubbing your tummy and patting your head.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=2121...
Eliezer is, indeed an unusual human. But, speaking as a male human who knows other male humans, not an unusual male in his erotica tastes.
According to Wikipedia, there were 2.354 billion pennies minted in 2009. At a cost of $0.0162/penny, that's $38MM of taxpayer money spent making pennies. Whether the mint gets part of its funding in the form of money it mints is irrelevant.
This is great. My (so far, only) experience with SOAP started when my boss asking me to investigate the new version of a (very big) vendor's SOAP API. Support for the old version of the API was being dropped in a few days.

It turns out that our framework has SOAP built in, so I had it suck in the WSDL and make a sample request. It was rejected with a generic error. As it turns out, our framework was generating requests that looked like this (simplified with much SOAP nonsense stripped out):

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
<Authenticate xmlns="http://bigcorp.example.com/elements/global">…</Authenticate>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

…and the requests in the API documentation look like this:

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:bigcorp="http://bigcorp.example.com/elements/global">
<bigcorp:Authenticate>…</bigcorp:Authenticate>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

the difference being that our framework declares a "default namespace", while their API expected a "namespace prefix". As far as I could tell from reading the spec (always a bad sign when you're using a standard that both ends support) the difference shouldn't matter.

- - -

I went to my boss. He showed me the old code; all the requests it needs to make are hardcoded based on the docs, and substitute XML-encoded variables in the right places.

Save a few minor changes, that's the process we still use today, and it fucking works.