skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd guess anywhere from 100GB to 1TB every month depending on whether you did the inline style suggestion and/or the gzip suggestion.

This page gzip'd: http://www.google.com/search?q=30+*+1e6+*+(52KB-10KB)

Front page gzip'd: http://www.google.com/search?q=30+*+1e6+*+(25KB-5KB)

So probably not worth it :)
Why? Does a chip that cannot be read render your passport invalid?
It's more likely that they had the phones respectfully silenced, but wanted to see incoming messages flash on the screen. I leave my Droid 1 lying face-up for the same reason.
I always thought that was a jean design problem and not a phone design problem...
> When will they announce the new iPad, btw?

Yearly cycle and no reason to pre-announce the iPad 2, so I'd expect announce and immediate availability for late march to early april.
I believe M-code also operates on 1227.6 (L2). According to wikipedia, they do still use 1575.42 (L1).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_signals#Frequencies_used_by...
> Was that Woz off-screen?

The mannerisms sound similar, but the voice doesn't sound like Wozniak. You can compare it with a slightly more recent sample here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RZrv55B6Js
Good line: There was a time when I browsed - or lived as we used to call it - my life in just one tab.
Probably the more appropriate question is - how it's different than http://minted.com? I know TinyPrints is not crowd-sourced, but Minted is.

Please note, I'm not trying to demean your service or existence by any means, but just trying to learn how you're distinguishing and plan to compete with this super growing startups?
I'll leave my feedback here, but unfortunatley I think they took forums and actually made the problem worse.

I joined the convore.com/feedback group, intending to leave feedback , but theres just no good way to see if what i want to say in an existing topic, and too many topics to view. Shouldn't be that much work for me to tell you about the product. Another problem is overload, it might just be me.. but topics and conversations are moving so fast, its overwhelming, and its like chore by itself.
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> He found a ticket, bought it, and won the lottery. When asked why he was so intent on finding that number, he replied, "I dreamed of the number seven for seven nights. And seven times seven is 48."

Need say no more.
We need someone with air force experience in here. It doesn't seem like they'd let them fly without knowing alternate ways of navigating.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairTax
Ask HN: What CSS template do you use to start quickly?
I'm starting to help on the interface of an open source project but I'm not an interface ninja.

Is there an (openly licensed) collection of CSS templates online?
We’re not like Yammer or Chatter, and we don’t want to be
What would you use this Firefox extension for (other than wget)?
I am NOT the developer--just came across it and found it interesting.
NASA is very big with many largely separate parts. "All of them" is a reasonable approximation.
I hate multitasking on my iPad. This is really a breath of fresh air.

A typical day on my iPad:

- surf surf surf, mostly reddit while waiting.

- kabling goes Apple's shit-tastic notification system. My friend has IM'ed me! Tap on button to chat with him. If I dismiss it without switching apps, the notification is gone forever.

- slooooooow switching between apps. Wait wait wait.

- oh but wait, since there isn't real multitasking, wait even more for my IM app to reconnect. Then download my message.

- finally, chatting with my friend.

WTF Apple.

Also, I go to sleep and my Exchange calendar gives me a bunch of notifications overnight. I wake up in the morning and have to hit "Close" on 20 notification messages stacked together before I can even use my device.
At the end from my understanding. You get the seed amount in the beginning.
Perhaps those suffering from paranoia externalize both success and failure. Failure is proof that They are out to get you. Success is proof that They are setting you up for a fall.
If you’re trying to decide where to go this Friday night - in any city anywhere in the world - HeatTracker can help.

Powered by Foursquare, HeatTracker uses check-in data to identify the number of males and females checked in at nearby locations, helping you determine what spot is hot and what’s not.
Or tables with spacer images. What is this, 1995?
Apparently a free ad-supported version ("Sparrow Lite") is hung up in the App Store review process but will be available soon.
Google cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:I2iCQGc...
I think there is plenty of both types out there on the interwebs. It's just a matter of filtering the right ones.
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My comment didn't say anything about how we should behave; I was merely pointing out that nature is inherently unbalanced.
For the lazy. Personal valentine's wishes from your webcam.
Tab completion is a good one! According to Wikipedia, "one of the first examples appeared in the Berkeley Timesharing System for the SDS 940" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_completion).
Descend until you can see the freeway and follow that is always popular!
Some technical details: we use the php Yii framework. It’s not hard to learn, so any good developer can get up to speed quickly, but if you have experience with it, even better. Other useful skills include the LinkedIn and Twitter APIs, but again, you can learn them in a day. You, ideally, are very much available and live in Silicon Valley. And can afford to forgo salary for a (short) amount of time. Because you are a risk taker and you like to build fun stuff that actually makes people’s lives better.

Us? We launched a week ago. We got picked up on Techcrunch, Mashable, UrbanDaddy and more coming. A thousand visitors is a slow day, and it's only been a week! :-)
Actually, there is evidence to support my model: the fact that classic front page is very similar to the normal front page, except with a different sorting order.

This evidence can be interpreted in (at least) two ways, (a) that most voting occurs based on the front page, or (b) that the front page topic themes, and by extrapolation user tastes, have remained consistent over time.

I (based on my own voting, and now yours too, but also the number of votes front-page articles get vs stuff that doesn't make it to the front page, evident from resubmission successes etc.) would guess that hypothesis (a) is more likely than hypothesis (b); but in any case, the fact that there's an alternative explanation for the similarity in the two front pages means that PG's hypothesis of (b) is on shaky ground.
The title is just missing version numbers. IE8 at the top of the chart. They are simply predicting the death of IE6 to be September, with IE7's death being March 2012.
Oh, is that so? Last I checked, people frequently install browser plugins just to turn modern pages back into single-column plain text pages.
thanks, cd. does anyone know for sure?
Lots of different OSs. Voyager probably doesn't even have an OS. The booster rockets on the shuttle use 8088's and assembler. The mars rovers use vxworks or it's predecessor. And I've heard rumors of embedded linux and QNX for some projects.

Basically you're going to find an OS reasonably suited to the job. Also, you're going to find OLD stuff as NASA wants something where the bugs are known / already worked out. This is why a few years ago they upgraded Hubble to a 486. And why on the rovers it executes code in debug mode and has hardware to interface with the JTAG ports. Everything that works off planet needs to be as bug free as possible and if something goes wrong you need a way to patch it remotely with latencies in the minutes to hours.
Classic view (news.ycombinator.com/classic) looks the same, however the stories are ranked using only votes from older users.

The cutoff is either (1)accounts that have been around for more than a year or (2)accounts that were made in the first year the site was running. I believe that it's (1), but I've heard it both ways.
That may have more to do with the lack of interest in email that most kids have, than any anti-institutional preference of 8-12 year olds, though.
"wallet-sized" means nothing to me since wallets come in all kinds of sizes, from just bigger than a credit card to larger than two iPhones side by side. Credit cards are all the same size.
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It's obvious now that I think about it. Even with GPS, they're going to be told landmarks and indicators (roads and stuff) during a briefing.
Yes, Facebook. If they ever go to a friend's house and they have a computer, or go to school...kids in my church get on Facebook at school all the time, either with no effort or I hear them talking about how to get around blocks with proxies, and these aren't the geeks, these are the "normal", average tech knowledge kids.
Yeah, I was joking a little. Most aircraft would still work pretty well off of inertial data. However there are quite a few weapons systems that just plain won't work without GPS.

BTW, I'm not a pilot, but I work for a government aerospace contractor, so I have some experience in this.
We all have to start somewhere, right?
I have an xperia mini pro, which has the same screen size, and playing games and browsing is fine. I probably wouldn't read a book on it, but I happily read blogs, news sites and the like.
Isn't it as simple as changing the router tables so everything goes to fox news?
I don't see any details about pricing.

Feels bad giving away all my details before I even know how much I'd need to pay.
I see that you've posted about starting your venture: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1519002

So you're speaking from experience. Have an upvote.

I've started my own business, too. I commiserate.
I was heavily involved in the Chicagoland BBS scene in the 90's (disallusioned society, damage inc, whammy bar), and my recollection was that the age group was much more teenager (and even early twenties) than pre-teens.

I was 15-17 when I was most involved, and I remember a lot of us being really weirded out when we found out the admin of disallusioned society was only 13.
I figured GPS-guided bombs would be the only thing impacted. Cruise missiles match terrain to what's stored in memory to know where to drop.
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Of course that is true if they don't take in consideration the 4 finger swipes currently available for developers but more likely to land in the next major upgrade.
So, you're like AIM/MSN Messenger/Yahoo Messenger/Google Talk/ICQ...?
There are loads of "free web template" sites online that offer HTML/CSS templates that could get you started.

Personally, I think Theme Forest (http://themeforest.net/) has the best templates available, for a small fee (~$10).

Start with a template, hack it up to meet your needs, and go from there. So much faster and easier than doing it all yourself on an app where good UI is important, but isn't the point of the site.
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And continuing the metaphor: having the FDA say "If your self-funded trials say it's Ok, then we're satisfied".

The funny part is, some times, that's how the FDA does work. That's how we wound up with all those depression drugs that were only as effective as a placebo.
Thanks. That's the first time I heard that argument considered.
I have just one thing to say:

Please do not change the site.

Sincerely.
Insane vendor lock-in that can be readily and legally circumvented with Calibre, a free and open-source piece of conversion software that runs on the three major consumer OSs?
Murray Gell-Mann came up with it.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FeynmanAlgorithm
That's interesting she uses an alias in real life as well as online. Is there any specific reason?
It boils down to the relationship you have with your money.

For me, bigger bankroll = higher score.
For my wife, a bigger bankroll = more shopping.

The trick is to break your money up into several purpose-driven accounts and automate that.

2 Roth IRAs: maxed out (Vanguard S&P500 Index. 1 more year and it'll be 70/30 split with bonds).

1 brokerage: for fun, for research, for programming. Unfunded, no continuing additions. Go big or go home.

3 checking accounts: mine, wife's, joint - the paychecks

2 MMAs: mine, wife's - excess money must go somewhere. One of which is sub-divided into: health, gifts, emergency.

2 savings accounts: tiny siphons ($300/mo) that corrupt my sense of reality. It's money-out that looks like normal transactions.

Hacks: By having a high-deducible health insurance plan, I'm able to put 3k/yr that would have been my insurance premium into a health-related emergency fund. As long as I don't get injured in an at-fault car accident twice in one year, I'm saving tons of money

Edit: formatting.
I want to be absolutely clear that I'm "voting" properly. If I'm AGAINST UBB being applied to indie ISPs, should I choose "support" or "opposition"?

I've tried to read through the specific notice (http://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2011/2011-77.htm) but when it comes to legalese subtle wordings can make all the difference. If I say "oppose" I want to make sure I oppose UBB and not oppose repealing/investigating UBB. And vice versa with "support"
Except we actually do group chat well. We designed it specifically for companies and teams.
This is very helpful for my CR-48.
I would guess its far too thick to fit in most women's pants pockets-Im not female, but I have a few coworkers who put iphones in their front pockets of jeans at work sometimes and they say its already a tight fit as-is.

Even if that were the case, optimizing for that problem is fairly silly regardless.
At first glance I would think they need to do the same thing Meebo does: heavy branding. But there is a chance they can monetize sufficient by hosting group chat for existing communities that don't want to build the feature, or even for enterprise.
Kind of, but I think we actually agree. "Startup" may just be too vague a word to use for all of these kinds of companies, but I do think it's hyperbole to equate capital-intensive startups, like pharm or auto, with bootstrap operations that make videos easier to email or whatever.
From a brute-force PoV, I imagine you can have armed FBI agents in the offices of major ISPs in an hour or so. If they block their customers and they also block their resellers, then really you can handle most of the Internet with probably a dozen 2-man teams. It's not really that critical if it's deemed too hard to block two guys on the same local ISP from chatting.

Not to mention that even rudimentary steps - knocking out DNS or even just Google, Yahoo, and Bing - would put 95% of Americans effectively offline.

Metcalfe's Law works both ways - if you cut off even 3/4 of the internet, it's now only a square-root of a square-root as valuable as it used to be.
If you are looking for just CSS frameworks try:

http://blueprintcss.org

http://bluetrip.org

or

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/
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>- UBB is anti-competitive

So far as I am aware, for something to be "anti-competitive" it must restrict the (otherwise non-criminal) actions of extant or would-be competitors in a market. From what I've been able to glean about the UBB brouhaha, the change is a removal of such a restriction, thus would be quite the opposite of "anti-competitive."

Perhaps the deeper issue is that relaxation of this anti-competitive restriction would reveal the negative effects of actual anti-competitive CRTC regulations. To paraphrase Henry David Thoreau, instead of hacking at the branches of "anti-competition," perhaps you should strike at the root.
No it doesn't. The teachers use email incessantly. My kids use email regularly.
The only two major issues for me are

* search: the built-in one takes ages compared to remote search. I understand that it makes the search behaviour the same both locally and remotely, but its still a hassle to have really slow search locally.
* labels with archived items aren't shown in the sidebar. I'd like a reminder that there's unread mail in the mailinglists.

Other than that, it looks great!
Before anyone says anything, yes this is a repost, but I made significant changes to the website based off of feedback I'd gotten from other HN readers and people i know in the real world. If anyone has any tips or suggestions on how to improve the site, I'd love to hear them!
I was an op on Whammy Bar and NBFC (Mike works with me, Ken is an old friend of mine). You're right, it's teenaged. I'd like something that would scale down to 10+, but 13+ is just peachy.
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If people are comparing you to Yammer maybe you are pitching to the wrong audience? When I see your video I'm comparing you to Campire! Are you like Campfire?

On a side note: I tested you product a couple of months ago for my startup (campfire was too expensive for our use) and we finally choosed jaconda.im because they have the gtalk/jabber integration and it was a killer feature for us! We dont need to have a special tab or install another program. We keep our current workflow with one more contact in our list. My 2cents

Edit: i wrote basecamp instead of campfire
There weren't any content farms in 2000, and SEO wasn't as sophisticated.

Now both are quite pervasive, and having a marked impact on the qualitative assessments of Google search results.

On the quantitative side, Cutts has recently claimed:

... according to the evaluation metrics that we’ve refined over more than a decade, Google’s search quality is better than it has ever been in terms of relevance, freshness and comprehensiveness.

How does the increase in SEO, content farms, and other questionable results (scraped content, etc.) figure into Google's evaluation metrics?
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Not arguing with you, just some thoughts...

'Government' does not imply any particular form, nor does it imply consent or participation of the governed; the warlord model has had a pretty good run throughout history.

And yeah, none of us drew the border, but neither did the folks who live there...so there figuring it out now. Better late than never, right?
Ask HN: With college, should I go big or cheap?
I'm a high school senior who wants to major in CS. I want to know what you guys think on the "best" college vs. the "cheap" college approach (when I say cheap, I just mean cheaper than the alternatives). As a general rule, should kids try and get out with the least amount of debt, or just go get the good education at the school you want and deal with the debt? It's just money after all.

For example: I've been admitted to U of Illinois UC, which is an amazing school for CS, and I can get out with no debt since I'm in state. On the other hand, I'm waiting for decisions from Stanford, Berkeley, and MIT. If I got in to one of those, I would like to go there over U of I (who wouldn't choose CA over IL), but I'd rack up quite a bit of debt.

I've heard conflicting answers from relatives and friends, so I thought I'd ask those of you who are actually in an industry I plan to enter.

Thanks for any advice,
whackedspinach.
I'm sort of idly hanging out on https://convore.com/appsec/ now, if anyone has appsec questions; happy to field them.
Did you RTFA? It's not talking about dual booting, it's talking about booting multiple OSes (the general purpose one and also specialized ones) at once and then switching between them very quickly.
It's not exactly a template, but I just used the 1140px css grid system this past weekend to get a side project up and going. I had no css experience before this, but the website turned out (i think) beautifully.

http://cssgrid.net/

Pros:
- Took a non-html person about 40 minutes to figure out
- Can look really nice without much effort
- Simple
- Free!
Cons:
- I'm not sure it falls under the definition of a true template
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I think I've finally found the "holy grail" of dual booting. My laptop now has Windows and Linux on different partitions, and either one can run in a VirtualBox inside of the other. That way, no matter which OS I booted too, I still have access to everything in the other.
Maybe I'm strange but I think the trend towards bigger and bigger phones really annoying. I have an xperia mini pro and really wouldn't want anything larger, it's just too inconvenient to carry around. For me the ideal solution is a small phone and a 6-7" tablet.
Awesome! Now we only need to develop for iOS, Android, QNX/BlackBerry OS, Windows Phone 7, and WebOS.

;-)
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I read that more and more VCs want the cachet of having invested in hot stocks like twitter, fb so that they can tell future investors about their portfolio and go raise the next round.

Not that there is anything wrong with that but we need to be more careful with the term 'invested in.'

Primary Investment versus just plain Investment say when you and I buy GE on Ameritrade?
The logo, sketch-y theme and use of birds and clouds is strikingly similar to the Chirp conference website.

http://www.chirply.com/
http://chirp.twitter.com/
It seems it's going to be an instant-on splashtop-like system that they'll add to all their Windows PCs and laptops. Clever move, assuming things can transition from mouse to finger interaction and back.
Luckily all those platforms support HTML 5 and on WebOS you can easily deploy your HTML 5 app as a native app and take advantage of the native functionality as well.
My kids are in an especially unfortunate (for them) situation vis a vis their ability to circumvent parental controls. Sure, they can try to use a Facebook account entirely from their friends house, but why bother? There's so little value in doing it that way that the cost of slipping up just once demolishes it.
I recently started using Sparrow as a secondary app for other email accounts (like my company's support email address) so that it doesn't clog my normal inbox, but gives me the power of a native app running all the time. Actually its a perfect secondary mail client.
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That's jumping to conclusions. I bet tons of marketers would pay mad money for their job postings and other things to be seen by all the high quality eyeballs on hacker news.
You may have a point, but I still find easier to do

111
948 948
289 => 289
--- ---
1237

than

CMXLVIII plus CCLXXXIX => CMCCXLLXXXIXVIII => MCLLXXIXVIII
=> MCCXXXVII

but it may be that it's because what I'm used to.
As a workaround, you could just have a hidden dropbox.com frame.
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I think one key reason the iPad succeeds is that, there's no boot taking place when you want to use the device. So for light computing such as browsing the web, checking email, watching a quick video, the iPad works very well.

Of course, there's the portability aspect. but with something like this, if it comes to fruition, people could start using their computing devices more readily, which would open up for some very interesting uses.

Just my 2 cents ;-)
Because even newspapers have some taste?
The broader definition of the word "fiduciary" (meaning guiding) doesn't require money to be involved, but any sort of responsibility with some expectation of duty. The root fiducial is used, for example, to refer to guide marks on a PCB design.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fiduciary (definition 3)
As a work around for what? How does having a hidden dropbox.com frame stop the extension from asking for passwords?
I think you mean 37Signals Campfire. Basecamp is their project management tool. We're working on XMPP support but it doesn't make group chat easy (or pretty). It's even more complicated when you're trying to get companies of 60+ people set up.
Is U of I local for you? I can't say enough how much pushing yourself by going somewhere new can propel your personal growth. I grew up in New England (a big college town no less) yet went to school in the South and I like to think I'm a better person for it.

U of I is a great CS school so I don't think reputation is a differentiator here for you.