skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really, my eye is on the Next Cool Android Phone

I think that was FraaJad's point; you probably don't care about the next HTC Android phone but the next Android phone regardless of vendor. While the iPhone gets one new model per year, there are three or four Next Cool Android Phones per year. Thus the original article isn't a troll; it reflects the way Android users actually think.
So you're saying that one can't express strong emotions in writing without swearing?
The original article said it the prototype was discontinued.
Stainless steel is also quite hard which means it can be a bit more brittle than milder steels, and probably not appropriate for some applications. Springs come to mind and any time the steel will have to dissipate heat quickly.
Not that I've seen, and the NDA you have to accept is pretty strict.
Hypothesis Driven Development
Tell me more about it :)

I myself have a Long Straddle on CYB since some time last year, betting that it moves in either direction.

Let's just say hoping to make guaranteed profit cause chinese promised it isn't such a great strategy :)

They have 1 week more to move though, just in time for Paramount Leader's visit to D.C.
USDA Funds Secret $12 Million Bailout of Domino’s Pizza
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Color you confused, actually. Addison-Wesley is the publisher, as they have always been. They are a subsidiary of Pearson, as is InformIT.

But feel free to get out more, anyway.
~6% worldwide, ~8% Europe, ~13% US according to to http://www.netmarketshare.com/

I would canonically count IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera as "major browsers".
Nope they are interchangeable.
Interesting. But I disagree with a number of them.

> I love the copy, but it feels off brand ...

I remember the first time I saw a McPizza ad. It talked about how if you didn't like one kind, then you could get a different one. And it felt really strange.

Later I figured it out. Until then, McDonald's ads had always maintained the premise that everyone likes everything they sell.

> If only this solution was more scalable...

I am constantly annoyed at the idea that "scalable" is a meaningless word. Nonsense, it is a precise, well-defined, and useful term. True, it does get misused by marketing people. But the fact is that anyone who is purchasing a large system of any sort, if they know what they're doing, will have some concern for scalability.

> Finally, a place for me to share MY story!

Isn't this a huge reason for people going to blogging platforms?

On the other hand:

> This website's music is great - turn it up!

Definitely. No one has ever said that, ever, in the history of the web.
My understanding of the story was that he was not going to be able to pass the bar because of his plans to try and get out of his debt by ways other than paying it back, even though he assumed he would pass the bar? Might be wrong, it was a bit hard to dig through the outraged writing.
One good thing coming out of all this is that Daring Fireball has become a good link aggregator and a collection point for anti-Android news and views.
This article seems a bit behind the times, after it came out that the WSJ article was ripped and rather heavily edited from Chua's book, which is about her realization that her parenting style was failing her kids.[1] I'm okay with criticizing the wsj article, but Chua really didn't have much to do with it, by all accounts.

[1] http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-01-09/books/27017338_1_chine...
Here in Uruguay, I'd buy 2 or 3 houses, which would give a return of about U$ 1000/month.

That's U$ 12k/year right there (and rent is inflation adjusted here).

Yes, we do have a housing boom here, why do you ask :) - it's far cheaper to own than to rent, but most people don't have the capital - I rent, as I make U$ 13k/year
You could create un-authorized hardware and apps using the 30 pin connector, but they would only run on jailbroken devices. There are places to buy knock-off (non-apple made) dock connectors so some people must do this.
Have there been any fascicles published for volume 4B?
Help? Someone is writing Turkish messages from my Facebook account
Somehow someone wrote the message

"bu kimin facesi lan ne ariyor aq telimde"

from my Facebook account at 6:52 A.M. Pacific Time via "Mobile Web." I don't know Turkish so it couldn't have been me that wrote it (though Google Translate says it means "what is this man who is searching for faces telimde aq").

I went to Facebook's Help Center and clicked on Security. It disabled my account until I changed my password, which I did. Under the list of recent logins, nothing showed up around 6:52 A.M.

This is kind of irksome. Can someone at Facebook please fix this? My user ID is 82.

I'd e-mail customer service except that I've done that before and it's been totally useless (much like the Security page).
> My Droid Incredible got 2.2 pushed out within a few weeks of when I bought it (mid september).

And what's the status on the official 2.3?
So, I should feel richer than you because my country provides a far better safety net?

(even though I probably make between 10 to 20 times less?)
no pink

Flickr?
I know, I signed up for an ATT plan soon after landing in US, I already had a GSM Phone that I wanted to continue using. However, choosing to use my own phone did not reduce my phone bill in any way nor was i offered a cheaper plan.

So, why not take the free phone that comes with the contract anyway?
Alternate title: some random red and blue logos arranged by color. (Does this mean that BofA wins, with a bit of each?)
Hey from http://pollerbare.com - Just keep plugging at it. Most people with a head on their shoulders are able to find their way. I'm sure you're one of those, so just keep truckin' along!
I recall being extremely impressed with the Finnish demo video. Sad to hear that they didn't make it.
> Definitely. No one has ever said that, ever, in the history of the web.

Unless the site was specifically about that music.
Show HN: I am trying to re-define communication
I am trying to build a way to let people communicate not only with text- but also emotion and animation. Its a great challenge, part of which is developing a language syntax in a message format that anyone can use easily and still work with existing technology.
Canada here, but - here's one scenario.

One of the local carriers, Wind Mobile, added a plan in December that includes a lot of goodies - unlimited calling in home areas, unlimited text, unlimited data, etc. - for $40/mo.

http://shop.windmobile.ca/ProductCatalog/VoicePlans/PlanDeta...

This is miles ahead of the competition - the catch is that Wind coverage isn't great, but not an issue if you rarely leave the metro area.

At least 3 of my friends have told me they would love to switch, but don't want to pay the cancellation fees for their current providers.

That alone is reason enough for me to avoid multi-year contracts - even if I don't end up ahead financially by switching to better deals, I have almost a philosophical objection to this kind of coercion.
If you aren't happy with your release schedule, you can download a custom ROM for your device that implements the new version of Android. I use CyanogenMod 6.1 (Android 2.2) on my G1, which officially is still on 1.6. It's not very bad for me, a bit sluggish but definitely still usable and workable.
Scoble vs. Scoble - which should scobleizer use?
> Not trolling, really, but - In America, what is the upside to buying an unlocked Nexus? AFAIK, my plan options will be the same price whether I have a contract or not

I haven't seen anything else yet (though I might just have missed it) in western Europe. There are even countries (e.g. Belgium) where you don't get pack-ins (so the phone is full price) and the contract price's as expensive as in subsidized countries.

On the other hand, buying your own phone means you're not forced to remain with your carriers for the standard 24 months (that probably is more of an advantage in europe, where all carriers are on the same GSM bands, so the pain of switching amounts to getting a new SIM and telling your old carrier to shut down your account)
shameless affiliate link drop man, come on now
> I don't really see the scientific basis behind any of this

Are you trying to find the scientific basis of fashion?
Verizon's Savvy
Marketing people say the darndest things.

It reminds me to this youtube video somebody posted recently on Twitter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRDhx8Lo37E It's totally viral!

No, I'm not related to the video or whoever made it.
Three things to note:

o Amy Chua did not come up with the Title of the WSJ article.

o The WSJ went out of their way to string the most controversial elements.
Think of it as LinkBaiting.. They certainly got a lot of attention.

o The actual book is much more nuanced, and, to some degree,
comes to different conclusions than the article about the true
nature of parenthood.

I've spent quite a bit of time reading the reviews, and snips from the book, and have come to the conclusion that the WSJ editors, indeed, did a great job of writing a satirical review of that style of parenting. The high level of conversation certainly demonstrates that they accomplished their mission.

See Jeff Yang's Great Review of the "True Story" behind the "Chinese Mother" essay at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/01/13/...
I disagree, and to speak so broadly as to say it's not a usability problem regardless of context or audience is irresponsible at best.

You designed an interaction that requires the user to press a button. Take an additional 30 seconds to describe on its label what the effect of pressing that button is.
That's what I was afraid of. In the quantities we're looking at, maybe we'd be better off jailbreaking and selling the whole thing as a package.

Or maybe I'll just drag my feet a bit and hope there's a decent Android tablet with USB host and an SD slot coming soon...
Sorry for the poor math -- You would have to have roughly 100 10 second outages each month to approach a 4 hour outage one a year.
The Last Psychiatrist: Are Chinese Mothers Superior To American Mothers?
The original example wasn't very good, but try this one: would you prefer 240 1-minute outages or one 4-hour outage?
This reminds me of an analysis I heard on the radio yesterday.

The synopsis is that it's better to offer people less choices, because given more choices, people are more likely to be unhappy with the one they choose. Apple does a really good job of handling that.

If you were to only single out one manufacturer and line, say Motorola Droids, the chart would look exactly the same. But since there are 5-6 manufacturers offering good Android phones, it seems disappointing that there are new ones coming out right after yours. Really, it's a good thing.

I felt regret at buying the Android phone I did, as the Nexus S came out 3 months later. But you have to buy one sometime!
They usually want you to pay for insurance so they make these things difficult without such plans. The insurance has been worth it in my experience -- it adds $7-$10/mo, but covers a lot of damage that the warranty excludes, and you don't have these hassles or worries after warranty expires. I agree that it's a greedy, crappy scheme, but that's how the carriers want you to get your phone "repaired".
And lets be clear Safari on the desktop isn't the interesting one. Its the iOS devices. The iOS devices won't have Flash to fallback on either. So basically every iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch won't be able to watch your WebM videos AT ALL. There is no fallback, unless you encode to H264.

Now maybe you can say that in this new HTML5 web world mobile Apple devices are irrelevant. I personally think you'd be wrong.

H264 is the only codec that will generally be supported on every device, either directly or by Flash. From Chrome to Firefox to iOS to IE.
The Next Major Version of Firefox is Ready to Test
Interesting. I´ve found better, free ¨physics¨ games in the past with simple exercises in kinematics. The engine seems slightly off from my limited playing after seeing this article, and the graphics almost detract from the game. It´s just odd that this particular game ended up with so much popularity.
We've done something like this at my previous company. The lesson I learned was that it works really well for some staff but that it goes poorly for the non-technically inclined.

We ended up having a scaled down IT services for the "poets" and the techies could use their own thing. That worked well and people were happy, although security was an ongoing debate since laptops get stolen a lot and people don't tend to put encryption on anything unless you force them to. We ended up doing "spot checks" on various occasions to check if backups/etc, were up to scratch.

After I left new management was too worried about security and brought it back in house (although we'd never had serious incidents). The dissatisfaction that caused among employees was huge, it's really much harder to give up freedom than if you've never had it in the first place.
So, there are two wrongs here instead of one. So what? When did "two wrongs make a right" become the height of debate instead of a childish error?

And people wonder why I see "politics!" pouring forth from every orifice here. Put them both in jail. If that's what the rule of law demands, do it. Doesn't bother me. I want to live in a country where my elected officials do their dealings on the record as required by law and people are not allowed to break into my email merely because I am a politically unpopular target. (Thanks to the fact that I think this way, I'll never not be on the politically unpopular list if one is ever actually allowed to come into existence. Freedom's important.)
I'm nearly in the same boat. I've been at the same company for some time now and started bringing my personal macbook to work to code on. After awhile, I was so productive they bought me a one for work use. However in a 1000+ person company I'm the only one on a Mac, but I also have to do my own support.
Frequentist estimators try to estimate an uncertain quantity, but they don't define what the goal is. Is the goal to get as close to the true value as possible on average (i.e. minimize |t-e| where t is the true value and e is the estimator). Is the goal to minimize (t-e)^2? To minimize some other cost function? No, they don't define the goal all they do is define some desirable properties that don't fully specify the problem.

It's like asking a physicist "how do I throw a ball". He can't give a good answer unless you define what your goal is. Is the goal to throw as high as possible? Throw straight up. Is the goal to throw as far as possible? Throw at 45 degrees.
Sigh...I will be the first to admit that I looked at the link for 2 seconds and assumed it was some kind of Apple Library/IDE I'd never heard of (I do zilch iphone dev cut me some slack.)
I think that you would have to be careful with that. To my knowledge, with lazy sequences in Clojure, the thunks are grouped into segments of 32.

This chunking is for efficiency, but it has the (sometimes) weird implication that you ask for the first element in a sequence and it evaluates that first element, and the next 31 elements as well. This is troublesome if you attempt to use side effects.

(Mr. Fogus has a nice writeup (and workaround) of this phenomena here: http://blog.fogus.me/2010/01/22/de-chunkifying-sequences-in-...)

I have to admit, I am not quite getting my head around how using a lazy sequence to the same effect would work (ignoring the chunking issue). I see how they are similar, a lazy sequence is just a flattened trampoline. Could you maybe pastebin or lisppaste an example?

Anyway, I guess the point I was trying to make was not that it is impossible to do these things, but that TCO is a compiler level optimization of the function calling convention (manipulating the stack), and although Clojure has 'tail calls,' it can't really be called TCO in the true sense of the word. (Which is OK, as you said, there are other ways to do this sort of stuff).
It would be nice if we knew more about the test.

How it was conducted, sample size, length of test, etc.

Only thing I can tell from the post was that they changed the text of their button and that it was an A/B test. Pretty light on info.
I'm willing to bet that some back of the envelope calculation would show that the savings are not anywhere near that many pages, and that the pages saved by either reducing the font size or the measure of the lines would dwarf the savings from single spaces after periods.
I don't think that advertisers want consumers to consciously think these things.

Relevant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYEf8XZKlUU
i think the idea is awesome, brother. i would say to expand what kind of content is included or else it might just be too bitter or mean-spirited of a site. i would try to create a tool, process, environment, function etc that lets people RESPOND TO and ADD TO what they already see and hear, that way they don't have to come to the site only to complain but instead they can add to a story/discussion by jumping in. create a conversation people want to jump into. only 1 person writes an article, but zillions might respond to it, right? aesthetically it is very minimalist right now so think about sites that look good to you and see what they are doing--imitaion is a good way to learn. a facebook page is plain and ugly until bells and whistles accumulate.
With iOS, you get one choice of hardware and (for US markets, at least since it´s come out) one choice of carrier. The hardware and software are controlled by the same company and you can get updates.

With Android, this option is also available in the form of the Nexus series... you get Google hardware, T-Mobile, and you can get updates. However, you can also get hundreds of other phones across different carriers and manufacturers and also varying upgrade options.

Stick with the single company option if you don´t want to get ¨screwed¨ as it´s available too.
Ask HN: Review my side project (free iPhone game - Bullseye Factory)
Hey everyone.

I've spent the last three months of my free-time working with my sister on an iPhone game called Bullseye Factory. I did all of the programming and game design, my sister did all of the graphics. It uses the gyroscope so it's iPhone4/iPod Touch 4 only. Here's a YouTube video of the gameplay for those of you without a device:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0La1-7MXDk

If you do have an iPhone 4 I'll post promo codes below so you can check it out.

I'd love feedback on the game. Any aspect of it really; from gameplay to graphics to pricing to anything else. I released it a couple of weeks ago and have gotten very few downloads so far. However, I just yesterday released the 'lite' version that has just a handful of levels for free, so we'll see how that drives sales.

promo codes:

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W4MTP9EM7NH4
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There are some inaccuracies when it comes to the relative drug prices. They got the general picture right (coke most expensive, heroin in between, weed on the bottom) but some price comparisons are a bit inaccurate (shrooms < weed).
Maybe a giant frickin' laser beam? It could prevent them from condensing.
I worked for a startup that made owning / bringing a laptop to the office a requirement of employment. We had one incredibly awkward incident in which we hired a kid without making this rule clear to him. He showed up for work on day one empty handed, was called into our founder's office, left ten minutes later and never came back. It was a bad idea with even worse implementation. Often times our founders wouldn't mention this requirement in the interview. "You got the jobs! Congrats! Oh, and by the way..." It was terrible and the company failed.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/period.htm

This is a prob. I tested!

This is a problem I tested!

This is a prob.&nbsp; I tested!

This is a problem. I tested!
Which is a direct copy of the Christmas plan offered by Mobilicity. Boy, it's nice to have competition in Canada again.
2010: The Year of VC for Solar, Wind, and Energy Efficiency
Here are the download links:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bullseye-factory-lite/id41388... (free version)

http://itunes.apple.com/app/bullseye-factory/id408231799?mt=... (full version)
Evidently more of YouTube's videos are being encoded in WebM, previously it was just 720p videos uploaded after the WebM announcement in May 2010:

http://imgur.com/rWIIf
http://cubescrewed.com - great domain name
> No stock will outperform the market over the long term.

So all stocks are below average...Sort of a reverse Lake Wobegon effect?
To relate back to the original post, the salesman at Wind told me that they have no plans to update any of their phones. Which is why I'm on Mobilicity which offers a Google phone.
1: Well yeah. Humans can be immediately seen to do harm (stimulus-response), radiation can't unless it's at phenomenally dangerous levels that the harm can be detected immediately. And by then there's likely been enough damage to kill the animal anyway. Animals (us included) aren't very good at connecting hugely-delayed effects to their causes. We get by with society and science.
Anonymous urges global protests
FYI: Knob Creek just announced their "Single Barrel Reserve".
http://www.uncrate.com/men/culture/drinks/knob-creek-single-...
Yes, this rebuttal article is horrible. Somone with a PhD, presumably a researcher, should have read the source material (Amy's book).
Girl Falls In Mall Fountain While Texting
Nice, is there something similar for hyperbolic trig?
Reed's Law: Why Facebook beat MySpace
Malware researcher Dancho Danchev gone missing since August
Yup, that's what I do. I have an HTC HD2 that shipped with WM6.5 and am running Android 2.2 on it now. Just a few days ago some hackers figured out how to run WP7 on it too.
Is Windows Azure Suitable for Startups?
Of course it's trolling, but people respond seriously because (apparently) this style of parenting is common.
http://www.uncrate.com/men/culture/drinks/knob-creek-single-...
When are they going to remove MP3 support from the audio tag?
That's the point, right? If COD:MW1 does decently at this pricing in the Mac App Store, the argument will then exist that the Mac's distribution system makes up for some of the slack in its market share; it'll incentivize more game ports to the Mac.
Checking your website's position in search engines
We were looking for a cloud-based solution to track our website's position in search engines and didn't find anything reasonable working/looking so we've built such a tool in our spare time. What do you guys think? Do you track your site's position in SERP somehow?
Ridiculous linkbait title.

It's a 6 legged John Deere (apparently by parent-company purchase) prototype machine, primarily developed for logging in difficult terrain. Looks remarkably steady and well designed, and it's discontinued.

And AT-STs are the two legged ones, AT-ATs are the 4 legged.
Thanks Che! I was hoping it would remain on the somewhat light-hearted side but I know people get frustrated with their work environments so I'd like to offer them a place to let some steam off. :)

In terms of interaction I have the ability to implement Disqus and I actually had it on there and working for a day but then removed it because I wasn't sure if seeing a lot of "0 comments and 0 reactions" on the homepage would drive people away from the site. I was going to implement it again once traffic/participation numbers were up.
You can easily create true one-at-a-time lazy-sequences. I've been working on my own implementation of miniKanren (from The Reasoned Schemer) in Clojure. It's been quite challenging since the original implementation assumes the presence of TCO. Also one-at-time laziness is very much required here to enforce interleaving of streams results and to avoid divergence. I was happy to find I could get the same non-stack consuming behavior and that it turns out to perform better than miniKanren under Racket.

https://github.com/swannodette/logos/blob/master/src/logos/m...