skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Theoretically. See section 2.8: http://pastie.org/1236378

> Apps that duplicate apps already in the App Store may be rejected, particularly if there are many of them

I've been kinda down on users voting on things, lately. I mean, on Reddit, does voting ensure that the best things actually go to the top?

Also, you're assuming that users actually want this; most people want a decision made for them. At least, that's what the data I've seen from a few different sites has shown.
I think people do want access to social media through their TV. I think "co-watching" with realtime voice comms, optional video, and some form of cooperative channel/site surfing would be very popular.
Yeah, sort of. If they decide it, I don't think that it'll be used in a "There are only 5 word processors" way, more like a "1000 fart apps" way.
"We wouldn't be lost if Bob here hadn't drank the compass."
I'm rather sure that it does. Imagine it was coming in on telephone support - which bug is getting the most attention, the one with two reports or the one that's getting 200 calls an hour. The difference in visibility to management would have been dramatic anywhere I've worked.
yellowbkpk explained one reason: we fly with magnetic compasses, so we need the runways to be magnetic as well.

Even if we could come up with a safe and reliable way to always have true heading displayed in the cockpit, there remains a very pragmatic reason for keeping runway numbers magnetic rather than true: under the current system, we have to change a few runways every once in a great while; if we switched systems, we would have to change every runway in the whole world all at once. It's not just a simple matter of re-painting the runways: publications have to be changed, notices have to be issued, etc. Changes would cascade out into literally every aspect of the aviation industry.
The Future of User Interaction
Isn't this PubSubHubbub, but not? What differentiates your protocol from PuSH?
To be fair, while the format shift has made laptop screens less suitable for programming, it has improved laptop keyboards a lot.
So, is pornography actually illegal in Tunisia, or is this a case of "Well, we just don't like it when you do it."?
I don't know about that. Considering the number of devices affected, chances are that some teenager has sexted their parents by now.
I aso hope that they backpedal, and do so swiftly. For a very long time I loved a children's librarian from Bermuda. She taught me a great deal about liberty and censorship. She strongly believed that some books should not be carried in a children's library. She also strongly believed that books should not be revised: Either they were fit for the library or not.

I haven't asked her, but I suspect that she is fine with the original, and if she wasn't, she wouldn't be fine with the revision either.
I think owning the social mobile space is a great idea!
This could be fixed with an on/off button on the fobs, no? It takes some of the convenience out of the fob, but it would still be somewhat easier than fiddling around with a physical key, though quite a bit of convenience is lost.

Another way would be to attach the key to something like a smartphone. The car finds it location via GPS and stores it on a server somewhere. If the fob receives a signal from what it thinks is the car, it asks the smartphone to confirm its location is near the car's location. The fall-back in case the smartphone is out of battery or the car did not post its location would be this vulnerable method where the fob simply responds if it has received the message from the car.
Hacking Logos (Minimalist effect in the maximalist market)
"benefit the company" is kind of relative. That model trainset might use a revolutionary system that could help Google if it decides to try transportation.
I'm not sure there's a big distinction under an authoritarian regime
Are you a satisficer or a maximizer?
Are people angry at FB for being popular?

yes, pretty much.
I didn't get that feeling. A revealing quote:

"The astute reader will point out that there are many 15″ notebooks out there that feature 1920×1200 LCD’s. To this, I will refer you to my previous point: that widescreen sucks for software development and most business purposes."
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As of September 23rd, 2010, you should be able to get less expensive insurance for you son: http://www.healthcare.gov/law/provisions/ChildrensPCIP/child...

It also looks like there will be a federally run plan that your wife could be included in: http://www.healthcare.gov/law/provisions/preexisting/states/...

I purchased the domain, http://healthcarelawfacts.com, to answer these types of questions. I really need to get that going... Anyone wanna help? ;-)
The money quote:

> First, spend 15 years working hard on projects with no reward but community goodwill.

Instant success takes 10 years of work.
Hi -- I run BuildItSolar. Its a non-commercial site for people who want to build renewable energy projects. Its a retirement hobby, not a business.
Some of the projects are my own, but many are projects that people have built and sent in the details. Its a site that is of, for, and by DIYers :)
Gary
Oh, I see. All the wireless car keys I've seen need a button to be pressed to unlock the driver's door.[1] I'll have to watch out for buttonless keys when buying a car next, it seems a pretty unsafe concept in itself, e.g. loitering hijacker getting in the car before you do/with you, etc.

[1] You usually need to press the button a second time to unlock the remaining doors. There's also often a separate button to independently unlock the boot. A typical procedure is therefore: open boot with the relevant button, put shopping inside, close boot, take trolley back to the stand, walk back to the car, unlock only the driver's side, get in, lock door with button from the inside, drive off.
T-Mobile plans to hit 672Mbps with its 4G HSPA+ network
Google demos live video conferencing on Android 3.0 (video)
I'm in NYC. If any of you east coast folks find yourselves here, ping me -- I'd love to meet up (email in profile).
When I make digs at Dan Brown’s work, they are anything but gratuitous. I should have thrown The DaVinci Code across the room when the narrator declared that Leonardo had invented public-key cryptography.
Some cars, like my VW, require the key fob to be in the car or the immobilizer shuts the car off after a very short distance. I believe all VW cars have this now, even the ones without keyless entry/ignition. This of course just slightly complicates the hack.
If you're a Windows user, you can use EasyBCD to add a bootable ISO to the boot menu by just pointing and clicking: http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

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6 features Apple should include in the iPad 2 (not the ones you think)
How Dave Devitt Has Doubled Sales Yearly Despite A Bad Economy
The key doesn't have a battery. It's usually RFID.
Even better is to aim not for something you can get people to use, but instead try to build something you can charge for immediately

I don't get this. If no one can use it, what are they paying for?
Everything old is new again. It would be interesting to see online groups much, like militias in the 1700s, getting called up by the government in a time of war, but keeping out spies would be difficult. Let's face it you are working with some of the few people on the planet that actually understand encryption and stenography.
Suggestion for anyone inundated with Quora auto-follow spam: Go here: http://www.quora.com/settings/index

and click "Email Settings" -> "User-related" and then uncheck "Someone starts following me"
I did the same thing - bought an older 16:10 model to avoid having to go 16:9. I have a Thinkpad W500 with a 1920x1200 15" screen. If 4:3 screens were still available, I'd have bought one of those. On the bright side, if you're shopping for a discontinued model and screen resolution is more important that other stuff, you can get a phenomenal deal.
The one where you show a bunch of nouns (around 25 I think). Then ask the user to type in as many as they can remember. Then make the one group look at the nouns again after the test, and the control group just left alone.

If his theory is right, the group that studied after the test should do better I think.
Posted in 2007.

Also the dell outlet still gets some 4:3 16x12 "workstation" class laptops in in 2011 (albeit, from a few years ago) - so it really wasn't impossible to find them in 2007.

What I really wonder about is a guy who is a technology entrepreneur and goes 6 years from 2000-2006/7 without replacing his laptop. Check out the specs for the Inspiron 8100 he was using: 8lbs, P3 1.1Ghz, 128MB RAM, 48GB disk (as reviewed in late 2001).
Wow. This sums up my entire exposure to SOAP over the last few months. Thanks for the humorous, yet factual exchange of information!
How can it be common and unusual at the same time?
That rate is actually in-line with other family plans. What makes it more expensive is you don't have the employer contribution component being self employed. I have a PPO plan that is actually more than that per month but my employer covers ~75% of the cost.

Some states, like MA, have a "Health Connector" which is a marketplace for insurance. Unfortunately FL isn't too progressive when it comes to state funded insurance initiatives so you probably won't find much, particularly if you are in the non-poverty income bracket. The self-employed get the shaft when it comes to health insurance in the US because they lack collective bargaining power against the insurers. .

I'm not too well versed in what is going to become of "Obamacare" as nothing major has been rolled out. Some of your more immediate options are:

- Consider looking into a p/t gig that includes health insurance.
- Have spouse look into p/t gig (Municipal/Town Job!) that includes insurance. This is what many tradesmen in US do.
- Look into joining a trade group or professional group for discounted rate
- Look into state funded insurance marketplace.
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The explanation I have read is that it is a "wet compass" (a ball floating in liquid), which was abbreviated "W compass", which is pronounced "whiskey compass" in the NATO phonetic alphabet that pilots use. I doubt whiskey was ever used to fill them, since even water would have worked better in terms of cost, transparency, evaporation, or boiling point.
I loved your icon.
The Daily Show Discusses The Facebook Hoopla
So looking at the chart you would describe App Sales as trickling.

Geez.
I am beginning to use this mode to Google search more, cut out a lot of the spams.
It's surprising that none of the major laptop manufacturers have thought to offer a model for developers. All I can think is that we're just too small a minority for it to be profitable.

As it stands, there are almost no laptops out there that are suitable for development. Widescreen knocks out 90% of the choices, and that overlaps with the 90% who break up the ins/home/pgup/del/end/pgdn block that programmers need to be sitting up there intact under our right pinky.

Dell Latitude and Lenovo's T series were keeping me alive for several years there, but both of them are now getting skinnier and wider to the point where I dread having to buy a new dev machine.

Worse, netbooks have pushed small notebooks completely out of the market. There is simply no modern equivilent to the ThinkPad X51, with its tons of power, intact keyboard, 4:3 aspect ratio, bombproof steel case and 12" size.

Here's hoping things will change...
Well when it concerns yourself it's a bit easier to gauge performance. I'm an embedded systems developer, sometimes able to write 5 device drivers in 5 days, but on others barely able to begin, let alone complete, even the most trivial tasks.

I guess this averages out. Just that some people seem to have incredible mental stamina.
This is a protocol flaw. The design assumes that proximity (signal) implies authorization, but the researcher proved this isn't always the case. The protocol should at least provide assurance that authorization really comes from the person who has the key fob. Old style physical keys do that, and so do key fobs with buttons.
It's not that hard to get a high resolution laptop. For example, the higher end ThinkPads always always offer a WUXGA (Wide Ultra eXtended Graphics Array
Resolution) option for up to 1920×1200 resolution.
I'm the maintainer of the project and it's homepage is http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/
The original article is here:

http://wanderingbarque.com/nonintersecting/2006/11/15/the-s-...

I am glad to see it get more attention. It is a classic and it is really about more than SOAP. It is about the way technologies get hyped and over-sold and over-promised, and then made unusably complicated. SOAP is just the example.
I'm not betting on a $5 billion+ acquisition by Apple any time soon. But my prediction is that Disney is the target IF Apple spends billions on a big acquisition.

Apple would buy Disney for the same reason Ted Turner bought MGM/UA. If you are going to be a media distribution company (which is where Apple is headed) and you want total control (which Jobs always does), then owning content is part of the strategy.

The fact that Jobs sits on the board and owns a bunch of stock is evidence of his personal interest in Disney, not evidence against it. From a branding standpoint there is no better combination than Apple and Disney - don't be like Cringly and live between the Atlantic and Pacific - think worldwide. Jobs isn't insane enough to spend billions on a US cable network just to shut it down on the off chance that everyone in North Carolina will start using MobileMe 2.0.

BTW, Owning Disney would allow Jobs to dictate terms to other content distribution channels.
There's no advantage against a motivated, state-sized actor. Against other attackers there is still substantial advantage.
This story never gets too old to re-read.
Mass death hasn't been particularly uncommon throughout human history, either, but it's probably not something to aspire to.
Thanks for the question!

I think that PubSubHubbub is mainly for integration with feeds (RSS, ATOM etc) - correct me if I'm wrong! So the PubSubHubbub is somewhat restricted. So I would say the difference between PubSubHubbub and LiveDirectory is that with LiveDirectory the data that is passed around is JSON, which means that:

1). It can be almost limitless in its structure (using combinations of objects, arrays, string, numbers and booleans) - RSS & Atom have very fixed data structures, so if you want to represent some other data structure, for example a client list, your latest special offers or your company office addresses you're out of luck.

2). JSON data is often far easier to parse and process than XML, so the callback notifications are much more 'developer friendly'.
I'm really disappointed by the state of Quora in the last week. There has been a flood of useless answers into once-useful questions and terrible questions into once-excellent topics. The state of the "Entrepreneurship" and "Startups" topics must be abysmal right now.

Quora could remedy this by identifying redundant questions for new posters. Let's say someone asks where to find the best technical founders in City A. Instead of accepting that question, Quora should suggest that they look at topics on "how to find technical founders" and "how to develop enough technical skills to produce a MVP." Many message boards use this right now.

I've only posted one (unique) question, so maybe Quora filters posts in this manner and I haven't come across it. Regardless, I'm amazed at how a crowd-sourced site can lose quality as it gains traction.
Good article, it's a good starting point to let the people to decide where to start in using a NoSQL solution. But what about OrientDB? Do you plan to add it in this feature comparison?
Speak for yourself. I do all my web- and application development on laptops and desktop systems with wide screen monitors and I love it.

Yes, my code always takes up the full height of the screen and only part of its width, but I use the remaining space for keeping documentation, utilities and the app I am developing open alongside my code. I wouldn't go back to 4:3 at all.
I want a music playing app on my TV.

It's hooked up to an amp with decent speakers - so streaming music (from Spotify, or from a bunch of MP3s) is damn near vital.

At the moment I'm using XBMC on an Apple TV to stream them from a NAS drive, but I'd love to get Spotify onto there.
This may be a mundane post, but it's sorely needed IMO. Way too many people create crappy commit messages. I've started kicking them back to the developer to fix.
After rereading parts of the article, I concede your point. He is hating on width, but he also complains about lack of vertical height. I may have been sleeping when I read it the first time.
Thanks, I'm looking!
Good to know. Does Facebook collect data about how they're doing internally to avoid these systemic biases? Is this tracked?

Although it appears orthogonal, if everyone starts making hiring decisions without any checks and balances that an HR person would put in, I'd assume more bias to creep in. At the very least, I'd want the "standard" to be clearly defined.
And of course this has nothing to do with the fact that 94.21% of all consumers prefers to watch their YouTube videos full-screen without letterbox.
Seeing this I have some faith that my latest lark might get some attention (not money attention, but people attention). I am going to work on a hand held text adventure play thing. Going to post the schematics on the web, I could use an aruduino but that would overshoot my small (very very small) budget. Lets see where this goes.
I'm a developer and I never use the ins/home/pgup/del/end/pgdn keys. I use the equivalent readline and Emacs keybindings for those.

I develop on Debian running on a MacBook Pro. Sometimes the screen size bothers me, but the laptop being bigger would probably inconvenience me more.

I might be an unusual case, but perhaps what you imagine the market for developers to be isn't the actual market for developers.
Jon Stewart Calls Out Facebook, Goldman Sachs for Their Shady New Deal
People use web apps with wildly different designs all the time because there are no UI standards and there is no basic toolkit. It's a bug, not a feature.
I was rather surprised that the energy transfer loss is only 10% in batteries, but 15% in flywheels. It's pretty amazing that the chemical process in a li-ion battery (developed in the last 50 years) is more efficient than our best engineering efforts in the simple wheel and axle design (over 5500 years old).

On a side note, an engineer at our local power plant once told me that the inertial energy available on "the grid" was sufficient to cause one of the steam turbines at our local power plant to "jump out of the floor" should someone fully engage it out of phase.
I thought this was an especially interesting point:

"Every great man that I have known has had a certain time and place in their life that they use as a reference point; a time when things worked as they were supposed to and great things were accomplished."
I do wonder if any of the parallel features of their Lisp will ever migrate into newer Lisp / Scheme implementations.
The other side of cyber armies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
I'd never want to go back to 4:3 - but I do miss the higher DPI we had, what, a decade ago ? My 15" 4:3 1600x1200 toshiba was awesome. Give me a modern widescreen laptop with the same (or given it's been a decade, how about even higher) DPI and I'll be happy.

The high-DPI laptop screens didn't stick around long - I suspect mainly because OS support at the time didn't adjust well - fonts were too small for many people to read, the settings to adjust them for the higher DPI screens didn't work all that well and caused a lot of apps to misbehave , and so the market clearly preferred the lower DPI screens.
Given they were probably much cheaper to produce - it's a no-brainer for the manufacturers - drop the high-density displays.
Hi andreaja,

Thanks for the response. I'm the author of the article (Macco, thanks for submitting it!).

You're right that the $50B valuation isn't based on current numbers. It's based on what Facebook might be able to do in the future. Imagine you were buying a house. It's a great house, has a solid foundation, beautiful interiors, and is in an excellent neighbourhood that is constantly appreciating. Would you pay what it might be worth in 3 years, today?

I understand the argument about growth, but even from that end, it doesn't completely stand up. If we were to use the PEG Ratio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEG_ratio), for Facebook to be fairly valued at $50B, it has to grow its Net Income by 100% annually, on average over the next five years.

It's possible Facebook might be able to do that next year, but then it'll have 1 billion users. That's 14% of the world's population. That's huge. Being generous though, let's extend that 100% growth into the year after. Then, Facebook would have 2 billion users, 28% of the world's population, and assuming current margins, they would only be eeking out $2 billion in profit.

Will it be worth $200 billion then? I would say no and I would say Facebook's not worth $50 billion now.
And in case anyone needs negative examples (or a good laugh), check out http://whatthecommit.com/
A good read every time. This part stood out:

"In retrospect I realize that in almost everything that we worked on together, we were both amateurs. In digital physics, neural networks, even parallel computing, we never really knew what we were doing. But the things that we studied were so new that no one else knew exactly what they were doing either. It was amateurs who made the progress."
I agree that vimdiff is great on a widescreen. I like it so much that I do all my development with vertical splits now (instead of horizontal splits as I used to). ^w v
Thanks for clarifying your intent, but I think the original commenter is right, there seems to be little here so far that PuSH cannot do.

In fact there have been recent proposals for PuSH to gain JSON message formats (I believe superfeedr is now providing JSON data as well).

That said, there certainly seems to be room for more PuSH hubs, perhaps that is a direction you can take LiveDirectory.

References:

PubSubHubBub JSON Draft: http://martin.atkins.me.uk/specs/pubsubhubbub-json

SuperFeedr JSON: http://blog.superfeedr.com/json-pubsubhubbub-notification/
I think it's a law that any protocol or technology with 'simple' in the name invariably isn't.
Let's say there is no advantage against (maybe) the U.S. government. I fail to see how any other state or entity would be able to manipulate certificate authority chain in general.
I suspect it would have been freezing point that was most important, and whiskey was a readily available source of low freezing point liquid.
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Bummer. I was hoping for more insights into how he doubled his sales.
Hehe, makes me happier I don't use sms and just use email. If that happened to email I'd shoot the phone. Seriously that's an odd bug, anyone looked at the patch? How those the bug happen?
Someone could do this for Hacker News but merely focus on Facebook rage.
My worst memory of SOAP was dealing with an attachments API that required each byte in a byte array to be wrapped in an XML element.

You ended up transferring ~10x the size of the file. I suppose gzip would have helped somewhat.