skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also saying "The war on terror" is kind of misleading since troop levels have varied greatly.

Only if you believe the cause is troop levels. There are lots of things about a war that could be responsible for a correlation that are not directly correlated with number of troops deployed.
Apple inks new iPhone deal with AT&T, all exclusive contracts now over
I've found that PDFs kinda of stink (definitely much better on an iPad). However, txt files, and a few other ebooks formats work wonderfully. My Kindle is stocked with tons of Project Gutenberg books (that you can even download with the experimental web browser) and have found the reading experience really quite good.
If anyone is interested, someone out there was nice enough to turn the SICP content into Kindle/.mobi format: https://github.com/twcamper/sicp-kindle
I'm unsure whether it's because of the words I'm choosing, but there don't seem to be any really valuable suggestions in the list, and often the suggestions are themselves unavailable.

I like the thesaurus concept, but doesn't quite solve the problem of people parking any and every domain they can (if that can be solved, grrr). Perhaps breaking the words down to roots and culling new meanings out of those foundations would yield more interesting and useful results.

The idea of suggesting new terms and letting you know whether or not they're available is useful, but the thesaurus function doesn't seem to be as developed as, for example, visualthesaurus.com.
I am still a little troubled by the economics. Could Dexter be made with Netflix / streaming as it's only distribution model? There is no "free money". Either the compensation is good enough or it doesn't get made. If the streaming model can't support itself then I expect Netflix to stop getting new content until it can be profitable for content providers.
I see, that's very informative, thank you.
Possible solution: hire them as contractors. People expect contractors to get paid more, so your current employees will stay reasonabye gruntled.
This is a counterfeit argument. PGP loses "deniability" (and "forward secrecy") if by PGP you mean "the PGP user interface". But if what you mean is simply "the PGP cryptosystem" and "the PGP message format of packets and bulk encryption and signatures", then you can grant your system most any property OTR gives you.

This is a moot point, because most systems would never care enough to intricately position all their features just-so to compose OTR-like features out of PGP primitives. What they need is to be able to encrypt anything without implementing trivially exploitable crypto vulnerabilities that were discovered and solved decades ago.

This is a textbook case of everyone's good being strangled by someone's opinion of the perfect.
Also, because Australia is one of the only places where the iPhone is by far the most popular smartphone platform (it has 36.5% of the market), iPad sales might actually turn out to be higher than in many other places -- halo effect and all.

http://www.macworld.com.au/news/iphone-is-australias-most-po...
Hi, so we wanted to chime in a bit. We are building our node.js hosting platform (nodeJSCloud) on our own hardware, in a data center. Going this route vs using 3rd party hardware EC2 or Rackspace, gives us complete flexibility to do some nifty things. We are going to e-mail out a newsletter shortly with additional details.
Cat summoned for jury service UK
You have to be very nimble and very open minded. Your success is going to be very dependent on how your adapt.

- Jeremy Stoppelman (@jeremys)

http://startupquote.com/post/2820632319
Professional Applications Stencil Kit from UXPX.net
Every professional who designs for web, and not only, should have a library from UI elements. Rich text editor, drop down menus, wizard and other important elements of UI design now in online applications stencil kit from UXPX.net

We would like you to use this kit for your projects, share this kit with others and spend your free time in 2011 on other important things, rather then designing these elements from scratch for your project, we already did it for you!
This sort of response is exactly the type i expect from "all talk" types.

When I read your reply, I see, I'm awesome. I know so much about what you want to know that I can't even figure out to start. Oh btw, how cool am I?
Testing of Tesla Model S
Gap is hardly the issue here. Most people who shop at the Gap won't really care if people wearing $3 black tshirts descend on the store every now and then and start wearing the clothes. For actually high-end products, making it more popular with the hoi polloi can mean the end of popularity with the original target audience, and the new market can often be more difficult to make decent profit in.

If everyone who heard about it on the internet could afford a Lamborghini, no movie star would own one, no matter how fast it went.
I use the Bespin scriptlet to turn the Github edit textarea into a code window.

javascript:(function(){var elem=document.createElement('script');elem.setAttribute('src','https://bespin.mozillalabs.com/bookmarklet/bookmarklet.js);document.body.appendChild(elem);})()

Just tried this out today for the first time, actually, to see if the workflow was doable on my CR-48.
$25,000 Fairlight CMI Synthesizer Coming To iOS
I feel hourly rates for consulting could be driven by "hot" skills, but not employee rates. Any manager who pays new employees less than old ones is asking for trouble like this. HR departments should also prevent this, if they have their act together.

That being said, nobody should get too bent out of shape if someone else makes more than them. If you agree to work for a salary, then live with that decision... don't come crying to management because someone else bargained better.
Let's wait for the official answer, but I also include my take.

Maybe because of the community growth. When I began to hang out around here, 6 months before I created an account I believe, 40 upvotes was a huge amount for a post or a comment.

Today it's common to see posts with more than 100 in the front page and comments receiving 60 or so.

EDIT: The number of comments in each posts also exploded, 20 comments in a thread used to make it very active.

EDIT 2: For clarification.
Ask HN: Programming book recommendation features
I've been mulling over building a site that provides recommendations for people looking to buy a programming or software engineering book as a side-project.

This topic ("what are the best books for learning X") seems to always come up again and again on StackOverflow, HN, reddit, etc and I think the current options for book recommendations and searching are pretty limited. I don't think the 5-star model really works and I want to try my hand at making something better (e.g. a 5-star rated book may be well written, but not suitable for beginners). And trying to google "X programming book" often leaves you frustrated by spam and no closer to finding the right resource then when you started.

So, what things do you consider when picking out a new book? What information do you wish you could filter by? How do you decide between a large set of similar options? I have some ideas already, but I wanted to hear some other opinions.
America has ‘reached the point of no return,’ Reagan budget director warns
I didn't even notice that - that's incredibly annoying.

I'd be fine with it, if the More returned the rest of the comments, not the x next comments.

I don't really see the point of this either; it can hardly be that big of a resource hog on either ends.
I don't know the Historious team at all, so I can only comment on what I see.

I saw Pinboard, Diigo, Evernote and Licorize working to take advantage of this (like getting mentions, actively posting on blogs, answering questions in Quora - all the things we've been doing) but never really saw Historious doing the same.

The other thing (yes I'm biased) is that I think Historious isn't the same as Trunk.ly - Historious is a Delicious replacement service that builds these features on. The attraction to users is that it's Delicious plus.

What we're trying to do with Trunk.ly is rethink how the whole bookmarking experience should work. So yes, we took advantage of the cut through we could achieve by positioning against Delicious, but in reality our market is not frustrated delicious users (which is kind of where I think Historious is placed). There's been very deliberate design decisions to resist at the moment some things that Delicious users think are critical.

We're trying to bring bookmarking back to the mainstream audience who left Delicious behind a long time ago and moved on to social sharing in Twitter, Facebook and others. While functionally there are similarities (how many ways can you bookmark a link), from a positioning and direction point of view we believe we are different and have a different vision.

From a coverage perspective we have a simpler positioning and broader "mass" appeal, which is likely to be more attractive to a larger blog property.

Here's an example of what our press release says "Trunk.ly is a service that hooks into your online social networks, collects all the links you share then builds a personal search engine of the web page those links point to." Not once in there do we actually describe ourselves as a "bookmarking" service, although that does get written about us by others. So it could also be a bit of differentiation.
As I said, "You might pick a different number." I'm only arguing that declining all the equity you are offered isn't a WTF in and of itself.

As for the specific numbers... I really couldn't say anything without knowing the parties involved. Maybe these are completely fabricated to make a simple point, which is that he doesn't want to be lowballed, and he isn't outrageously greedy either.
The author is contending that armed conflicts have an impact on the economy. I'm offering other conflicts with similar troop levels to disprove that theory. I'd be open to any other factors you think distinguishes the Afghan conflict from these other conflicts but just saying there could be other unnamed factors doesn't further the debate.
If anyone is looking for a simpler bookmarking app, I made http://saaave.com/ last weekend.

Bookmarks are added with a one-click bookmarklet that saves your current URL. No tagging or further action necessary. The app indexes the content of your bookmarks for fulltext searching.

It's lacking a UI, but feel free to give it a try :)
I wonder how the graph will continue if we add one possible scenario.

That the war on terror will last for decades to come, escalating conflicts in other locations, say Pakistan or somewhere in the gulf (again)

World wide war without end..
The assertion that the war in Afghanistan is winding down, doesn't strike me as accurate.

In addition the period after the second world war, was marked by a US economic dominance, as Europe was in ruins and the soviet block stifled economic development in almost half the globe for several decades including the Vietnam period until glasnost started to get a footing (in that curious uptick around 1988 perhaps), right till the fall of the Berlin wall.

Things are different now. slightly.
I've bought probably 5 or so groupons, and I've been happy with them. I do feel a little sheepish using them, but the staff have seemed fine with it so far.
Thanks Tom, there's a lot of work still to go - we'll make sure these things are on the list.
Never forget Rachel from Bladerunner. If a CEO offers you 1%, you aren't in the business, packaging up your skills and selling them on to other investors so the CEO can cash out while you stick around for your so-called options is the business.
> Could Dexter be made with Netflix / streaming as it's only distribution model?

I don't see why not, once execs are comfortable with it. Of course, it would still air on broadcast TV, which won't go away entirely, and you'd have to run promotional/marketing materials to make people aware of its presence on the streaming sites (the sites themselves would probably do a lot of that for free, since they benefit too).

There's no inherent reason this can't pull in at least as much money as the current model.
True, but look at the bright side, following the long period of inflation there will be fantastic growth! But really, are any of us keynesians surprised?

I'm more apathetic to this surprise. Everything looks like linear growth when plotted on a long enough time line, in log log with a fat marker.
This is of course true, but ironically, something that is taught in design school and not business school. The most successful designs (and what isn't design?) are made when the author/creator doesn't get attached personally to any idea, sets them aside to create new ones, and learns how to "kill the babies" (critically attacking or dropping an idea/plan). Assuming your idea is good to go and getting right to the details (i.e. programming) is probably certain death for you. Reiterate, reiterate, reiterate. The best idea is almost never the first one.
I don't want to rag on this article but heck if I can figure out what the point is.

This is very easy. If you know stuff that few other people know, you can make more money. Once everybody figures out that's where the money is, the money isn't there any more.

Companies will only pay to train you after they have figured out they need something -- and with most companies this is about six months or more after they actually needed it. So they are in a bind and have to hire talent immediately. Folks who come in knowing what the company wants pick up the extra bucks.

The trick here is that you cannot rely on your company to train you. You have to figure out where the market is going, all on your little lonesome, and then do whatever you can to master the tech -- including writing programs for local charities if that's what it takes to get real-world experience -- before the market gets there. This is called investing in your future. It's the tech equivalent of going to night school.

I've been playing this game for a long time, and I've been the young buck making the big bucks (although I've never been the older complainer guy). After I worked my way through code monkey, architect, lead, and pm roles, I ended up training and watching software teams. So I've literally either participated in or worked with folks helping and evaluating hundreds of teams.

Best teams? If I had to generalize, I'd pick the old guys who keep picking up new tech. They know the business, they've been around long enough to play nice with others, and -- if they've stayed current this long -- genuinely are having a fun time with what they do. Plus they tend not to get stressed out by too much. Second best? A mixed team with mostly young guys with lots of current tech and a couple older guys to provide that gray-beard kind of balance.

But that's just a generalization, and like all generalizations it's very limited in its application. Each team is completely different. That's what makes this biz so much fun. Just like my generalizing, I think companies get too caught up in buzzwords. Smart guys with good attitudes can do a lot. I wouldn't go ape-shit with concern simply because buzz word X wasn't in somebody's job experience (or vice-versa) If you know you have to learn X for this next project and you're sitting around waiting on somebody else to come and teach it to you? That's just a little bit too passive for my tastes.

I hate to sound like such a hard-ass (well maybe not really) but this is a very simple business that hasn't changed much in several decades. The pace might have changed, sure, and the tech is all new, but the mechanics of being a good project member, what makes a good project, and how people get paid and such are all the same as they were in 1980 or something. Not much mystery to kick around here in this narrow area of "why Joe makes 30% more than Fred"
I'd rather the page take 10 minutes to load than have it paginated. I know PG is just trying to implement a quick temporary fix, but this one is so annoying it made me go back to work (gasp!).
I don't understand. How can you commit code that has not been tested?
Also:

1) During the conference call, CFO Peter Oppenheimer stated [1] that Apple still can't handle demand for iPhone and they continually have to increase production.

2) Apple keeps adding partnerships with operators in various countries, the US is just a piece of the pie. They currently have agreements with 185 operators in 90 countries, but that's probably not even half of the major operators out there.

3) Sales are growing fastest in the Asia-Pacific region and Japan. IPhone sales doubled year over year in those regions and I doubt that's going to slow down, also because of Apple's marketing efforts there. For instance, Apple plans to open another dozen Apple Stores in China in 2011. It was also stated that the China retail stores are the ones with the highest revenue per store.

[1] http://www.macworld.com/article/157196/2011/01/apple_financi...
Interesting, I didn't know about that.

One thing that concerns me is that they only decided to do usability testing in Feb 2010, but according to the Wiki page Gnome 3 has been in development since Jul 2008.

Shouldn't a huge UI overhaul receive incremental user testing to stamp out bad ideas before significant dev time is invested? After an alpha is delivered, does anyone really think that if one of their big paradigm changes is found to be disliked, that they will go in and remove or significantly change it? Maybe Gnome would, I don't know--but from my experience, once code is delivered in a semi-functioning state, it's very hard to overcome that inertia to make huge directional changes. (And perhaps no big change is needed--but from these screenshots I can say that so far I personally don't like the new direction.)
Cloud Computing Jobs are on the Rise
We threw the greeters idea away mostly because we selfishly want to choose who we follow on Trunk.ly because we find it really useful. If we follow everyone we'd have to have some other account that we 'really' use.

Seeding the links is a good idea - maybe we'll make new users automatically follow us which would achieve that goal and means they have some links in their Timeline.
Ben Horowitz on Determining Whether You Should Sell Your Company
If You Could Short Facebook, Would You?
Early signups and Landrush on cloodly.com
cloodly.com
Two Reasons Not to Design Anything Without Observing People
Betelgeuse to supernova - could be any day
It's very hard to get a loan to start a business nowadays. Banks like to give loans to businesses with an established business model investing in growth. If you really believe in your idea, why not finance it with credit cards?
Looks like a good start, but I think your result set needs to be better.

For example, I searched for "[physics]book" hoping to get back results like "physicsfolio.com", "physicsreport.com", etc. My result was actually "physicsbook.com" -- which isn't even available.

So, the idea sounds great especially if you could create some intelligent parsing scripts and pull some good synonyms (possibly using the wordnik.com api?) then I think it would be another useful tool while searching for domain names.

Check http://www.wordnik.com/thesaurus/book for a good example of some synonyms for "book" which I'd love to see integrated with rewordio.us

For what it's worth, my favorite domain name whois tool is domaintyper.com -- consider integrating some of the features from that service (or even just the site mechanics) and I think you'd have a pretty decent product on your hands!
Only in zero sum games. ;) OK, that was cheeky. :)
Thanks for posting this. Here are the slides for those interested:

http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/schedule/attachments/135_crypto1h...
Curious - If you add the Million+ Galaxy Tabs sold and every other manufacturer that sells Android like the Archos, B&N Nook Color, Chinese Androids(ZTE, Meizu) (see here for more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Android_devices ) then where does the Android vs iOS equation stand? There is no point in playing the Android vs iOS game if you include all iOS devices. The only meaningful/hard numbers available for Android are for SmartPhones - so Android SmartPhones vs. iOS SmartPhone is the only comparison you could validly make.
Is anyone feeling that Apple products are particularly sticky and viral? I found myself keep wanting to buy more Apple products ever since I bought my first MacBook. And I tend to recommend Apple products to my friends much more than any other brands I love before. Or am I just hooked…
Looking for some help
We are looking for some help building the next generation of photo sharing. For a taste of what it looks like this is one of the screens - http://jasonstrachan.com/clients/shoebox/SB_05.jpg

What is it?
It's twitter for images, its flickr re-imagined, its instagram for the web... but its really something quite new and not comparable to what's out there already. I am a photographer who has been photo blogging for pretty close to ten years (http://www.gosu.co.za) and could never find the right place to share and interact with other photographers, so I though I would scratch my own itch.

Who are we?
We are a team of two who have build stuff in the past (http://listgorilla.com) I am a designer/user experience guy and my co-founder is a Java developer with great experience building rock solid applications.

Who are we looking for?
We are looking for someone who loves to build stuff and has a strong background in Javascript. We are offering a meaningful portion of equity and chance to work on a team who is motivated and committed to building great experiences. If you happen to be a photographer even better.

If that sounds like you please email me (oneintenthousand@gmail.com) with some background and I'll take you through the idea.

Thanks,
Jason
If you are talking iOS devices then adding all of the Android ones here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Android_devices will give you an idea that it is easily possible to come out more than 75000 a day, although hard numbers for many of those devices are not available as Google doesn't activate them or doesn't count them in their "Phone" numbers as they are not phones.
Computers should put complexity accountants out of business, it's a shame they haven't did that yet.

This approach seems really implementation oriented.
The problem with the fonts is more than just aesthetics. It's about gamma correction.

For various reasons, the brightness of an RGB color value is not linear. This means that a checkerboard of white/black pixels will not look the same from afar as solid 50% gray. The correct shade is something like ~75%.

When anti-aliasing crisp details such as letters, this is incredibly important. Without gamma correction, there will be a noticeable change in brightness when a shape lies between pixels vs when it is pixel-aligned.

I think this is why Linux geeks tend to be vehemently opposed to anti-aliasing; they don't realize the rendering method they're using is crap.
The Startup Game by William Draper (NPR interview & book excerpt)
Any tips as far as a favorably licensed (BSD would be nice, public domain is probably asking too much) TLS library that doesn't suck?
Yeah, horrible feature. I get lost where I'm at. I'd love to see it back the way it was please. :)