skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, and what I really don't like about this is not that they are doing it, but they won't share it with their users unless the tech world makes a big deal out of it, which they will. So they announce it on the dev blog, but not the public blog, which I think is poor form at a minimum.

I looked through my profile info and I didn't see a way to hide my phone or address from applications, which means that I have to choose to not post them on Facebook, or provide access any time I want to use an app that requests them.

Obviously, this is much more useful to developers than it is users.
I live next to a small industrial estate, my employers's campus location has houses the other side of the road and behind some trees from memory. Offices often have bars and restaurants around them which do good trade in the evening, sometimes city centre apartments mixed in too. I certainly follow the principle but I think there's less urban clear 'this time is OK' areas than you might think, low enough to further penalise this against traditional construction techniques.
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With privacy settings set properly, you aren't doing that at all. You're sharing your address and phone # with your friends. From what I can gather, this bypasses those settings.
http://support.getaround.com/kb/insurance-infractions/what-i...
Indeed: http://www.topdesignmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ad032...

I like that at the time, the mall photo shown inside the monitor would have been understood as purely evocative/figurative – whereas in another few decades, people looking back might wonder: "was that a real screen and was this the first rendered virtual mall environment?"
Ah, it's a slideshow without mouse controls. Felt stupid for a good five minutes while testing in various browsers, just trying to get /something/ to work. Not a great experience.
Still Hiring Mobile App Developers
This s the third time I've posted this request but I have faith that if I keep posting it the right person will one day contact me. I'm starting a goal sharing website based out of Maryland and I've hired everyone I'm going to hire except for mobile app developers. You have to have alread created an iphone app that is in the app store. If you are interested please email me at klownkeeper@gmail.com.
Just because it is difficult in practice does not make it any less important. That sounds like a Facebook problem more than a user problem.
Wikipedia's Battle for Paradise
Timeline: Tunisia's civil unrest
But how does one find those follow up posts? I don't see any pingbacks on your blog either.

Its an interesting problem though, I actually find a lot of value in comments, especially when the topics aren't too sensational and the people aren't entrenched in their camps. I actually come to HackerNews and Reddit specifically for comments but not every story gets there.
Yeah, that's a good idea. Thx!

You may be interested in this:
http://web.getaround.com/eligibility
I am watching the main evening news on the BBC and it is the lead item (as it has been for days now).

It was the major multi-page article in all the Sunday Papers here.
Hey Max,

I now work at True and was a part of the first TEC class in 2009.

Was curious if you could go into more detail about why VCs shouldn't run these types of programs.

Our main goal is to help college students connect with startups so they can discover alternatives to the traditional big company career paths they hear about all the time at school. In the end, more people graduating and looking to join startups is good thing for the ecosystem, no matter who is running the program.

I'd propose the opposite, that all venture funds should be running these types of programs. Both to help their portfolio companies recruit and to help educate students about opportunities at high-tech startups.

P.S. If you're looking for the West Coast equivalent to HackNY - you should check out Startup Roots.

http://startuproots.org/
This tech would have a great application in robotic fruit-picking/pruning applications.
You're playing the wrong sport
"prepare meals a day before"

This is a big one. I didn't do this and needed to grab anything close for my meals in the office and it was usually not great things to eat like chips, crisps, sandwiches etc.
Here in Paris this is a huge story. In addition, Tunisia is a major source of programming talent for French companies - if you work on the web in France you are sure to meet Tunisians on a regular basis. Tunisia is very "real" place for us.
Check out J A Konrath's blog, http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/ , he does various experiments and publishes their results occasionally. He self-publishes e-novels. And offers space to other self-publishers on his blog who write about their experiences.
That's the point of the article- there is no such problem in germanic languages and many other European languages that the google algo have been tweaked for. Search on google in english and swedish, without any URL string shenannigans, get good results for both.
5 Jobs I'd Prefer Over Web Design
It would be nice to mention that this is about airport terminals in the title. I feel there are plenty of us here who are far more interesting in the more HN related type of terminals...
If I was trying to find a good Perl programmer, I would try to read some of their code before asking a single question. If I could read it, that's a good first step.

Because you can know the answers to all of those questions and still write "write-only code." Easier in Perl than in most languages. ;)
Yes, this very much a "conspiracy coincidence" thing.

But I wouldn't have posted about it if I'd thought it was just crazy or just coincidence.

Pose the questions this way and it looks a little different:

How many people were fingered by name by Gregory Perry in the allegation of code tampering in 2000-2001? One: Jason Wright

How many people did significant work on the OpenBSD IPsec stack and crypto stack in 2000-2001: maybe half a dozen, including JW.

Seriously, how many people were pentesting SCADA security in 2006-2008?

What does OpenBSD network code maintenance have in common with the stated mission of INL in 2006? I.e., if you drew a circle which contained all the professionals with relevant experience to hire for the public cyber security projects of INL, what is the probability you'd pick JW at random? Probably somewhat low. Did he have unique qualifications that INL wanted?

It's an interesting enough coincidence to mention, that's all I'm saying.

FWIW, there's other things that I haven't mentioned because I didn't feel that they passed the test. Do some digging yourself and tell me if what you find makes things seem weirder or less weird over time.
Mozilla has proposed a FullScreen API. It's also in the latest Webkit nightlies iirc.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko:FullScreenAPI

You can also prevent the default behavior for almost all keys already (Opera is still a bit reluctant in that regard).
Well, for Yandex, livejournal is as important as .gov domains for google.
Livejournal.com is very important for Russians on the internet and completely irrelevant for everyone else.
It's where american teenage goths write diaries about fat issues for us Yankees. In Russia, a lot of important people blog there, with thousands of readers and followers.
More than 60 apps have been downloaded for every iOS device sold
Web Trend for 2011 - human search engines
This is cool, but it has some serious numerical issues that ought to be ironed out. I took their example cubic function, and plotted the first, second and third derivatives. The third derivative goes crazy as x goes away from zero. (See screenshot http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5088/5361267299_a976c64dcb.jp...)
Hi Paul,

The goal is to try to make this cost-neutral for the students participating in TEC.

When we talked to students who were considering taking an internship at a startup versus a big company, the big issue in many cases was that most startups weren't offering cash compensation. The problem being that even if students really want to try working at a startup, it is really expensive to live in the Bay Area - even for 8 weeks.

So the goal was not to compete with big companies directly on cash compensation (which most startups would never do even for a full-time hire), but rather enable anyone who wants to have experience working with a small team - the opportunity to be able to afford to do so.
The reason why there are so many startups is because most people want to work on ideas that they conceive. People love to create something of their own.

If a company allows their workers to choose the features they work on, programmers will automatically take ownership and immerse themselves in the product. Most developers I know are bored out of their mind when working on someone else's idea, although there are a few exceptions.

There's really not much more to be said on this topic imo.
I think that all the arguments against it assume that management automatically has a better vision for the product than dev. I think dev also recognizes their falliability in choosing which features to develop so hopefully they'd do it according to A/B testing or other more scientifically sound methods for feature selection.
Well, if Mary Poppendieck wants this as her title, I don't feel comfortable changing it. And in the end, it is not about terminals at all (airpot or otherwise)! It is just about lean practices and self-organization.
No, it's not. But I see what you did there.
!!!! Exactly!
if you don't employ a sufficient numbers of native speakers for these languages, you will never get sufficient results. All other employees can't help you out. Translation software is useless, if you don't know how to weight the possible results from the cultural canon.
Any suggestions for places to look?
Yes, it's not a perfect comparison since he (along with many other OpenBSD devs from the time) wasn't a US citizen, but read the document from Mickey.
I absolutely agree with you - one should use the right tool(robot) for the right task.
Google Places for Address-less businesses
Lambda the Ultimate: The AST Typing Problem
I've been cleaning up after a flood disaster for the past few days, the most amazing technology i've seen in that time is the bobcats and their drivers. It takes 10-15 people a few hours to empty a house of all it's waterlogged belongings on to the street, and then 15 minutes for the bobcat to get it up on the back of a truck. When I see a tech demo like this I'm very optimistic about it's potential for disaster relief, where simple structures, shelters, and platforms would be of great benefit.
Couldn't get it to work on iOS.
Vital ingredients for an e-Commerce homepage
I too have been following this on the BBC News (UK) website for several days. Does it appear on the US version of the BBC website?
This is a good way to describe a good computer science or engineering degree.

Can you describe what really happens when you visit a web page? How does a flip flop fit into the grand scheme? Why does it matter?

As a generalist it is critical to understand as many different levels of "magic" as possible. This lets you put into perspective just how important new technologies like SSD hard drives or multicore processors will eventually become.
A former French colony too.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/French_occupa...
Well. I don't watch TV. But I guess my friends do. And pretty much everyone is talking about in facebook status in France.
No. These people took a cheap ball and a cheap kinetic energy device and combined them into an expensive thing that's bad at being a ball and bad at being an energy source. This sucks.
Wow, what a cop-out.
Is it just programming or other fields too?

I've been to Tunisia and was surprised that everybody knows French there, and I know there's at least one university with some good students, so it is not unexpected.
I hope the author of this post thought pretty carefully about posting that

Keep in mind, the NYT is publishing a four page Sunday article here and serving up the INL slideshow document with all these names in it.

I am simply pointing out the connection to the other weird scandal of the year, the OpenBSD thing. I doubt "and you backdoored our VPN too!" is going to be the thing to push the Iranians over the edge.
The driving force behind the revolution, as presented by the media here in Portugal, was one of a large group of disaffected youths with little prospects for advancement. This is a recurring issue across the majority of Arab nations and throughout the region. The ramifications for other countries would appear to be rather profound.
Amazon has publicly stated that they want to move to DRM free e-books eventually.

However, as you say, the sticking point is the publishers. This is all the more relevant because the profits on most books for authors and publishers are not nearly as good as with music. And also because e-books are far, far smaller and that much easier to share or pirate than albums or movies (even in pdf form a full e-book is likely to be smaller than even a single mp3).

Which I think helps explain some of the skittishness of book publishers. Though a few have already made the jump. Manning (a technical book publisher) allows you to buy DRM free e-books (which come in pdf form and are watermarked with the purchaser's name).
spycam in shower? I'd expect chance of prison is nil.
Stealing wallet / jewelery / etc? Again, prison is a long shot.

I'm by no means saying it happens all the time, but I can see the incentive to use airbnb as a way to lure victims.
Thx man. It would be great if we could work on a track or something for 2011, I have a few tracks here http://planktonman.com
Blaarghhh why is this invention framed in terms of “Look some women invented something!” instead of letting the focus be on, you know, the invention?
But it's only stored in one service. If amazon goes bankrupt tomorrow, it's gone.
I'd estimate that the number of people doing security testing on Siemens PLCs is a very small community

Right, and how big was it in 2008? And how many of them do you suppose were also committing to OpenBSD's network stack in 2000-2001?
I wrote this opinion piece for VentureBeat a while back, and I stand by it. In fast moving industries like software, some innovation deserves to be protected in some way, but nowhere close to the 20 years that the current patent system allows.

http://venturebeat.com/2010/03/04/in-favor-of-software-paten...
Ask HN: What are the most useful design resources and tools you use regularly?
Could you recommend some useful, valuable, helpful design resources that you've been using for a while and that you find extremely helpful in your workflow? Some time-savers and handy little resources such as these ones

http://tableizer.journalistopia.com

http://fontsinuse.com

http://darkpatterns.org

http://scr.im

would be very appreciated.
Not to mention that using the left and right arrow keys pushes the current page onto your browser history which is unnecessary. It's far easier to go back/forward with the arrow keys you're already using, plus it'd be nice to be able to click the browser's back button to return to the site that linked to the presentation.
It's still great in Canada, too. Don't even say it, we're totally different and unique.
Ask HN: What would you like to see from a new IDE?
I find myself hating every IDE I have ever used.

So, in a personal "put up or shut up" challenge, I'm going to try to build a prototype of one in my free time over the next few months.

Personally, my focus is going to be on speed/memory performance, but as I'm starting from scratch, I figure that it can't hurt to ask what others might like to see from an IDE; if not for this project, then for the real IDE projects out there.
Baloney! I never claimed it was "journalism", merely a blog post written at 2 AM pointing out an interesting connection I came across.
Asmyco: Each iOS Device Has Downloaded More Than 60 Apps
My friends in DC and in the military are following it since it's a big deal in terms of precedents for Arab/Muslim revolutions. But no one else I know is really paying attention to it.
Of course it's wrong, legally and usually morally too, but complaining about it won't fix anything.

If 800 people a week were downloading something of mine, after I was done dancing in the streets with joy, I'd try to figure out how to convert those downloads to fans, then sales.
No single given state of the universe is more likely than any other single state, but very few states are actually interesting.

Here's an analogy: If you were to generate a random bitmap, there's a possibility it could look like the Mona Lisa, or a picture of Obama tapdancing next to Churchill, or the exact schematics of Iran's Natanz nuclear facility...but it will almost certainly just look like random noise, because that's what the vast majority of states are.

If you start from an interesting state and make random changes to it over time, obviously you'll tend towards a random state. And as I described above, randomly selecting a state has a high probability of yielding an uninteresting state.
when you search in French from Canada, do you get results from France as well?
Augmented (hyper)Reality.
That's not feasible in a lot of cases. Commercial software, for instance, is not generally welcome in distribution repositories.
If this is true, then why was it announced to developers and not users?
Applications Open For Summer 2011 YC Funding Cycle
George Brock had some interesting thoughts about why this didn't get a lot of coverage in the US: http://georgebrock.net/the-power-of-social-networked-media-i...
It's not far off that now. One annoyance at the moment is that loads of books are just scans of pages in a pdf. So they aren't computer readable text, no searching, no font size chasing, no reflowable text. It's a pain by eventually Oct will get good enough.
As far as I know every French newspaper made his first page about Tunisia since one or 2 weeks.

http://www.liberation.fr/

http://www.lefigaro.fr/

http://www.lemonde.fr/

Spain:
http://www.elmundo.es/

Germany:
http://www.spiegel.de/

I suppose that the US media don't focus on news that are not on the national political agenda and they tend to be more focused on the inside.
No smarts? From their behavior, I got the impression that the robots were assessing what was the next step in construction, which included assessing if another robot was still working on construction. They also had to avoid collisions.

Anything programmed by humans is a "dumb machine doing exactly what they are told." I think you meant that to mean each individual step was hardcoded. I don't think it was. I think they were all following the same algorithm. The group certainly spends a lot of time on path planning: http://repository.upenn.edu/grasp_papers/
Chinese and Indian Entrepreneurs Are Eating America's Lunch
I run http://vidinotes.com - suitable for eLearners and the DIY crowd.

I like the interaction of your site. Its a very helpful function.
Agreed in general. Fans of EFF and Anonymous are also paying attention; but even a lot of online activists are overlooking it. Too bad, because there's a lot to learn ...
Gabe Newell had an interesting take on this. [1] He was mainly talking about piracy and why it was so prevalent in Russia, but his point was that American companies are generally pretty terrible at localization. The reason Russians pirated as much as they did was that the crackers made much better localized versions than did the game companies themselves.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87pevh2Q0hg&feature=playe...

The entire interview is great, check out the first part here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3xHJ_vhAkc&feature=relat...
Yeah, you can approve each renter personally if you prefer.
You mean like nurses/doctors (prime example of people who are trained and employed to serve the public) that kill their patients?

Some references to well-known cases:

http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ve...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lainz_Angels_of_Death

Todespfleger von Sonthofen -
http://www.crimezzz.net/serialkillers/L/LETTER_stephan.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan_Letter

Ever heard of Mechthild Bach? Can't find an English link right now.

Everyone's trained not to do bad things (it's called education), HR departments are not able to screen out killers, thiefs, rapists etc. In the end, people working in a hotel are a random selection, too. So whoever downvoted me, please reconsider.
What's your username? I'll have someone approve you.
hmm ... it's almost like it's a bubble or something ...
Android SDK Works on Death Star
Something to be said for planning ahead.
Why do you hate existing IDEs?

(If you need to create something yourself for it to "just work for you," then I understand that.)
Downloading is easy. We need metrics for active use.
If advertising becomes that prevalent in day to day life, somebody please shoot me.

Not to say there's anything wrong with ads, but please, not all over my cupboards. I like my kitchen the way it is. Thanks.
I did the same thing. Got tired of .NET and the attendant environment, walked into a Django job mostly blind, fell in love.

The next job will be Python too, although I've always got me eye out for that chance Clojure gig. :)
Techdirt often does case studies of people in various creative industries that have made this kind of thing work. See for example: http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20101026/0...

Musicians, authors, filmmakers, artists, whatever. Lots of creative people are able to leverage a dedicated fan base into a livable, if not insanely lucrative, salary.

The key is to provide something scarce. Since books, music, etc. are digital, they no longer are scare, but you can offer things like a day in the studio with the band, or for an author it could be advanced drafts, a $1000 dollar option to get your name as a character in a new book, signed special editions, you name it.

It may not get you to the top of the NYT Bestseller List, but if done with an eye toward your core fans, you can absolutely make a living on your art.

There is a whole list of them at: http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/
This story is especially timely for me - I'm building a website http://www.booklends.com that will let Kindle and Nook owners lend books to each other easily. It's kinda my weekend startup right now. I'm hoping to have the site ready enough in a few days enough to do a "Ask HN: Review my startup" post...

It is now possible to lend some Kindle and Nook books to other users for 14 days - but only if the publishers allow it. I feel that if the current craziness in eBook pricing continues, this will only drive people towards using the lending features of their devices.

This story did also answer another question for me: I never understood why Amazon removed from their API the ability to get a Kindle book's Offer Price.

(somewhat terse announcement here: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=854 )

You can query the List Price, but this isn't what people would actually pay for the book. Sounds like they removed this ability because the publishers are making them play games with the actual price that they can offer to customers.