skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think its a great idea. I think that those that will use it most is people who just want to get away as soon as possible.

The idea of finding the perfect holiday destination for the couple is not a strong motivating factor in this case.

Hazard a guess at how many men in a long term relationship book holidays. Why? because its too much effort.

This site makes it easy, based on the one true motivating factor for men when they want to go on a holiday. The price.

Although I must admit when I first saw the 'Send this deal to your lover" email fields I thought it allowed you to email two lovers.
Yea. And good coffee :) There's a lot we take for granted. Then again, there's a lot we could probably do without.
This is going to lead to a Twitter revolution! Oh wait... never mind.
Actually, this is a wrap up post to an entire intermittent series on parallel processing. Bray links to a page summarizing the series, near the top.

He's writing to a pre-existing audience. If you don't already know, or look into, the context, then no, it won't be of much value.
What's the name of the iPhone App?
Thanks for the kind words! We're limited to certain datasets at the moment, but we're always trying to grow our fare data.
How about the FeedBurner feed subscriber count?
Children will attend regardless of truancy laws. See Mary Ruwart easy answers (http://server.theadvocates.org/ruwart/questions_maint.php?Ca...).

"... In the early 1800s, a survey in
Boston found that 90% of the school-age children were
enrolled, even though attendance was not compulsory and
public schooling was not widespread. (3) At that time, the
U.S. was considered the most literate nation in the world! We
learned more when we weren't forced to do so!"

Before you post a rebuttal, please read the link I've given. It has answers to six related questions in this area, so your questions may already have been answered.
When I fly Southwest they specifically announce that you are free to use your phone if it has Airplane mode. Good enough for me.
Ah yes, the Adioso guys are on point with their flexible queries. To begin, we wanted to nail the basics with hipmunk. My dad's been a travel agent for decades and I still go through him for special intl flights, especially because he has access to wholesalers who can sell tickets at rates below what you'd find from the airlines.

One day, we'd love for hipmunk.com to be a one-stop-shop, of course, but babysteps...

Please do check back in periodically and let us know how we're doing: contact@hipmunk.com
The security of that system comes from hoping nbobody will guess your key exchange protocol. The security in real key exchange protocols comes from mathematics problems that would take more computer power than the universe has available to solve. So 'your way' is clearly inferior; the attacker guesses (or is told) that ROT13 is what's going on, and you're 0wned and you will never know. Problem.
What's the virgin mobile deal?
Doing so again will depend on whether they feel the need to seed the developer community with another new device. Do they really need to do this for tablets?

Six months ago, I would have guessed a Google TV give-away, but this year's agenda is pretty light on Google TV.
I think it's ridiculous to say that you only get the "right" to be upset if you're from the specific place mentioned in this particular instance. You have every "right" to be upset about someone insulting someone else, and you not being the target doesn't take anything away.

To take a pathological example, I have every right to be upset about neo nazis running racist advertisements, even if I'm not a member of any of the targeted races.

A better argument in defense of the commercial would be to say that it didn't really do much harm: there wasn't anything malicious like the neo nazi example, just a surprising transition to Groupon's purpose.
I would like to see something about testing capabilities of a great programmer.
Can I just say as a musician who fully endorses modular synthesis (and is the process of building his own physical modular synth) that Reason's design is fantastic. That's the back side of the instruments, you don't really interact with that much - only connecting various things which you don't really tweak. On the other side, yes, the gear matches physical interfaces and each instrument has a different interface. To me, that's the beauty of it! It really keeps your creative juice flowing and you end up doing things wrong and making mistakes, which unlocks all sorts of cool sounds.

Also, I don't really see the issue with Ultrabeat, for precisely the same reason. I don't tend to use that, but that's just because a drum machine isn't my workflow.

I think the author would have got his point across better if he wasn't using creative software as his example.
oooOOOOoooh, I see the subtlety now!
My At&T iPhone Now Shows Full Caller Id. Whoa.
Funny enough, I just saw an app for Android that does this: http://lifehacker.com/#!5599116/how-to-turn-your-android-pho... (God I hate LH's new design)
Ok. For downvoters will try to clarify:

it's not lifes ruined but company ruined in this case. It's just fail, but not life fail. Nobody will die, get in prison for 300+ years, get sick, etc. Your company failed - start it over and do it right next time.
Instead of one man, you have many they're called clients.
Nice. I did something very similar, as an experiment, even before jQuery Masonry, but never released it. I should've known better.
Combing PIM with groupware is obviously a good idea, as is reducing the cognitive overhead, but I feel like this is a miss. It would be much better if it were A) desktop software and B) designed for users with 2+ monitors.

This looks like it might be better than basecamp, but I have trouble seeing it really beating out notepad or FreeMind. What I really want is FreeMind for PIM and groupware on one monitor, and on the second monitor structured data about nodes and appended conversations. Having all that on one screen just isn't useable, especially as a web app.
Nope, you're not understanding the issue.

If you launch the first sat into Orbit A, it still has the orbital velocity of the Earth. Unless you can slow the first sat down a lot, it will continue to track along in about the same place as the Earth.

Waiting 6 months will accomplish very little in that case. The reason is, in 6 months, the Earth and the first sat will be in nearly the same place.

The key concept is known as "delta-v" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v). It's the change-in-velocity allowed by a certain amount of fuel. Here's some more on the STEREO mission trajectory: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/orbit.shtml It's worth it to watch the movie.

Gravity assist can help a lot, but it also takes a lot of time.
I feel like this is a misuse of Airplane Mode. If your photos, etc. are "on the cloud", via Dropbox or something, they may require internet access to use. I think a more appropriate feature, which as far as I'm aware, doesn't exist, would be a no-interruption mode (probably needs a better name) that holds all notifications and calls during the time it's enabled.
> How do you do it?

The pricing is based on our need to get the word out. It's our loss leader so we can start getting customers in the door. We plan on keeping the prices as low as possible, but we won't be keeping them this low indefinitely.

We're working in coordination with Wowrack (http://www.wowrack.com) for our datacenter and systems. They give us a great price on our overhead, so we're passing it on.

> would it be viable to run swap on your disks?

We do provide a dedicated swap disk included with each server (2x RAM). In addition, if you wanted to add a swap file in your VPS, you certainly could.

> what are your network policies?

Customers have free access to do anything over the network as long as it's not an outbound attack against another server. We don't limit the network unless we get multiple reports of outbound attacks. And finally, before we limit anything, we make sure the customer knows about the reports & try to see if there's any mitigating circumstances that we may help in resolving.

> is there a bandwidth limit?

The bandwidth limit is based upon the package. For the Vps256, it's 110GB monthly & $1.00 for every 10GB over.
"HEY Going to be in $CITY_FOO, want to meet and talk about your startup?"
Moving out to $CITY_FOO, looking to meet and network with other people working on their startups. I represent Silicon Tally, (www.SiliconTally.com), a group of startups forming an incubator in Florida. Looking to make friends, colleagues, and intellectual conversation combatants.

Want to grab coffee or a drink on me!?

Best,
adam@silicontally.com
E-Books' Varied Formats Make Citations a Mess for Scholars
How to Create a High-Converting Facebook Page (with free templates)
So how is this different from jail? You're forced to be somewhere you hate, unable to go outside, for a part of your life just because you were born?
An Interview with Blekko's CEO
One can have high ideals without necessarily being brave or persistent in the pursuit of those ideals.
Don't develop human-like minds, or prove the stability of a goal system under recursive self-improvement. (If you offer Gandhi a pill that he knows will make him want to kill people, he won't take it, because he doesn't want to want to kill people.) If you throw a bunch of crap together and somehow get a mind from it, it's most likely not going to be anything resembling human (and so you'd be right that not all AIs would reach the same conclusions). I'm not an AI researcher so I'll stop here, but you're assuming that many AGIs are going to even have a concept of "taste" or "dissent" let alone a preference for it.
http://www.virginmobileusa.com/cell-phone-plans/beyond-talk-...
Whereabouts are you located?
The Techcrunch article does fairly mention the interview was for Egypts On TV.

I linked to the techcrunch article for the accompanying transcripts and links, in addition to the embedded video.
Back-Seat Dictators
The Daily, Hourly, Minutely, Secondly, Real-timey
And much funnier for it.
That's a good idea - but they might want to distribute the SDK on USDB drives beforehand to all attendees. WiFi networks at conferences break often enough without every single person trying to download the SDK at once.
Thanks for the info. I'll be keeping you guys bookmarked. Good luck!
The value of ones time comes to play here. If you are spending hours to resolve an issue with a $5/mo account it just isn't worth it. He should have just cut bait and gone elsewhere the second the marginal savings in hosting was expended. I believe the technical term is "Penny wise, pound foolish".
Yes, that was JR.

For a tl;dw, try http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-cofounder-shows-what...
Internships
we are hiring undergrads and graduate students for this summer!

What you get to work on every day as a Smule Intern:

As an intern at Smule you will be working closely with the engineers on staff behind some of the top iphone apps known to man. You will get exposure to 2 different things - one will be to contribute to the main roadmap of our current projects we are working on. These projects have deliverables that will GO LIVE during the course of your internship. You will also have some defined deliverables yourself to complete during your internship. Last year, our interns were prototyping our Magic Fiddle application (award winning and the number one paid iPad app, and our second generation analytics engine from scratch, they helped to create the 3D visualization tool that makes it easy for us to see people uploading music and how it streams by. There was a project where they worked on real-time musical duets. Our interns also worked on a top secret product - all we can tell you is that it’s on the iPhone and it encompasses the camera, gyroscope and the touch screen all at the same time! You will work alongside of Ge Wang our Chief Creative Officer and professor at Stanford.

Other perks of being an intern here:

•	Being a part of a cohesive vision in a team that is creating strong social experiences with music as the focus
•	Create content rich and interactive social web applications that foster user engagement
•	Team based projects in iterative and highly efficient development cycles
•	Deploy and update apps against defined deliverables
•	Contribute your own insight and reusable code to the Smule code base

What you possess:

•	BSCS in process from a top tier school, graduating in 2011 or 2012

And some or all of the following interests:

•	Some exposure to Django, Python, Ruby on Rails, C++, and EC2
•	Interest in working on integration of HTML email, Flash, Facebook or Google accounts into a product
•	Hands-on expertise with CSS, Javascript, RESTful services
•	Some server-side scripting experience, Ruby on Rails preferred
•	Exposure to Agile methodologies
•	Desire to create elegant, fun user friendly interfaces

How we work at Smule:

•	In a team that rapidly produces prototypes and iterations
•	We meet our deliverables and drive our work to completion
•	Our communication is very open and we love people who have enthusiasm for what we do
•	You are collaborative, upbeat, with a strong work ethic where you can take ownership and have fun
•	There’s a passion for music, games, social experiences and creating great software

to apply: send resume, your GPA and tell us where you saw this posting to - jobs@smule.com
That's the surprising thing -- Patrick's an exceptionally nice guy in person, but his social-media wankery is, for whatever reason, completely insufferable to me. Especially when he's overtly gunning to claim Gruber's pulpit. In that way, he's much like Zed Shaw from the Zed's So Fucking Awesome days: A kind, down-to-earth guy with a strangely abrasive online persona.

Citation: I attended undergrad at Patrick's last employer, and worked indirectly with him in IT Services for a year. He really is fantastic in person.
when do you plan to launch?
To me, this is what separates those of us with the souls of librarians from others.

Sure, the sites may be fluff. But they are someone's work. Promo designers are people too. They have mothers.

It's the trivial bits of history that you end up
missing the most.

And I might not be making this argument if we were talking about an old building taking up valuable space in a city, or even a shelf of books taking up space in my city library. It's a bunch of websites. Unlikely that the lot of them add up to a whole terabyte. Spend three hundred bucks on backup drives and twenty bucks a month on a Dreamhost account. [1]

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[1] Sorry that I can't reliably translate "twenty bucks worth of hosting" into equivalent UK units. ;)
Perhaps you're not the target user for this specific product: the idea is to show people what their destination & accommodation options are at a given budget. It's particularly useful for people who like the idea of taking a trip for Valentine's day but find the process of manually searching flight & accommodation options too slow/hard.

Though it hasn't got there yet, the plan with the main Adioso site is to do what you described; if you have a destination, budget and vague timeframe in mind, Adioso will monitor options and prices, and alert you when a deal becomes available.
You can't drop out of jail.

You can't be home-jailed.

At the end of it, you get a degree.
Six months ago, I would have guessed a Google TV give-away, but this year's agenda is pretty light on Google TV.

Actually, back in December they sent Google TV devices out to I/O 2010 attendees (or at least some; I received a Logitech Revue and so did a coworker of mine who attended). They did not promise this at I/O and an email just came out of the blue around Thanksgiving asking for my shipping address. So far I am disappointed with Google TV but I'm looking forward to the talk at I/O this year that pretty much is concrete evidence we'll see an Android SDK launch for it in May.

I see no reason for them to seed phones again, anyone who wants an Android phone for serious development (or anyone serious about development enough to go to I/O "just for the articles" as they say) probably would have already bought one. Tablets, maybe; I might see them doing an all-out blitz with the Honeycomb release.

The Honeycomb emulator really sucks right now and is pretty much unusable. If they want decent apps as these tablets launch, giving key developers tablet devices might be one way for Google to buy their way out of that problem.
Agreed. I live in New York too. I go all over the city. I have not sought out the "Worst Neighborhood", but I have been to sketchy neighborhoods in all the boroughs and nothing looks like those pictures.
Many thanks :) Credit for the design to James Noble at Carter Digital.
http://www.cartercreative.com.au/
I'd keep attendance compulsory but allow a teacher to remove someone from class for mucking up. I don't think removing them from the system completely is the answer but I equally don't think most of teachers time should be taken up dealing with the trouble makers. I'd say if a teacher felt it necessary remove as many in the class as they had to to make a goo learning environment, these could be just for the lesson but could be longer breaks if the kid continued to play up.
The game operates like a cross between VIM and NetHack. You have to jump between modes of operation (selection,placement,navigation,element action)

If the world was iso metic 2d, with context mouse sensative information, and when clicking on something available
Newsflash: Flickr Beats PicPlz To An API.
This microsite is the first product built on Adioso's enhanced platform, which will enable us to add more airlines and destinations - including Canada - real soon. Stay tuned!
I can honestly say, I have not been this excited about a project (or its potential uses) in a _long_ time.

I'm now weighing up potential back-ends to turn this thing into a database-driven publishing framework, rather than a file-based one. Am I crazy, or has anyone else considered (or already acted upon) this?
It look me a while to find the submit button - it's camouflaged against the background and in front of a bookmark shape...

Also I suspect the minimum price point ($500/£250) is too high. The text of the site is challenging the user to spend more ("How much do you <3 me?") so it will be more difficult than usual for users to select the minimum (or in their words: "A little").

They'd do better to make the submit button actually look like a button, and to set the minimum to $0 (even though no flights will ever be found for that price).
Sounds great but I am never going to pay a subscription for my IDE, or my FTP program or my Twitter client. Relationships require trust and effort from both parties and it's simply not a perfect model for every piece of software.

I don't want a relationship with a company. For most apps I want to buy and own a thing as it is now.

This "old and broken" model persists because it's something that customers get instantly and can commit to knowing in advance what their full investment will be.
I have a friend who is a petite white girl with blonde hair. She lives in the bronx and takes the subway home late at night. When I asked her about feeling unsafe, she said that no one harasses her and she hasn't been mugged.
Android Patterns does a good job of presenting the basics.

I have the HTC Evo and the Android 2.0 software beats anything else I've ever used. The top 3 rated phones on PCworld are all ran by Android 2.0 software (with iPhone coming in fourth place).

Also, for all you app developers out there, development in 2.0 is your best bet. Androids still have less apps out there compared with iPhone OS at this stage, so you'll have a little less competition to deal with.
HTC has a feature like that for its "HTC Sense" phones.

From http://www.htc.com/www/htcsense/index.html :

"Ever fumbled with your phone because it went off at full-blast during a meeting? Well, don't worry! Now as soon as you lift your phone up to see who's calling, the ringer volume gets lower. Want it silenced completely? Just flip it over."
There's no actual domains involved - when the BBC talk about 'top level domains', they mean 'bbc.co.uk/something'.
Ah, but which one would you rather use as your desktop, given the choice?

You pay for features with RAM use, hard drive space or processor cycles, and frequently with all three. It's just a question of how much those features are worth.
I think the biggest risk is a lot of these smaller start ups start getting astronomical investment amounts and pushed to go IPO pre-maturely. Mix in a crap load of bad ideas that get dumb-money going the IPO route, and things start looking like the late 90's again.
Great idea. It would be nice to be able to hide it from some webapps (identified by domains or tabs), like your favorite webmail app.
Your example also neatly illustrates that not all data is equally meaningful. You lose a lot of information when you do JPEG or MP3 compression, but it doesn't feel like you're losing much of value.
You can enable just wifi when you are in Airplane mode. That's what I do.
MariaDB vs MySQL
> What are you doing that is different to other VPS providers?

We're trying to be the VPS provider we always wish we had.

One example is the kernel. Pretty much every other VPS provider gives you no access to the kernel. You either get the choice of running a shared kernel (OpenVZ providers) or having a 'blessed' kernel loaded by the provider on Xen. Ultimately, you are stuck with what they give you. So if you want to run a specific kernel, you're out of luck. And if your provider is running OpenVZ, good luck even loading a module.

Giving full access to the system, including the kernel is the kind of thing we thing a VPS provider should do.

> that popup on your homepage...

Thank you. I really appreciate this feedback. To be honest, I had the same reaction the first time I saw it... I've been working on everything from the order process to the hardware node, but the onvps.com home page has been taken care of by a web designer.
>namely that they kill more beneficial insects than harmful/annoying ones

Beneficial ones? Inside your house?
http://www.canalys.com/pr/2010/r2010111.html

http://www.prweb.com/releases/prwebThe_NPD_Group/Android_sma...
You might like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltron_3030.
This is a totally legitimate point. But it's not that we're not fans of MVP, we're just also fans of vision-directed products like Facebook and Apple.

We have some people who are more MVP-leaning, and others who are "let's build the vision"-leaning. For example, Eric Reis is one of our board observers. But we all believe we should't fall back on dogma rather than using judgment and balance, and we think having a symphony of perspectives on the issue is valuable to deriving that balance.

We're committed to validating our hypotheses via customer adoption and metrics, but we're also committed to investing sufficiently in our framework, platform, and product that we can realize the whole of our ambition. Practically speaking, the user feedback right now is very consistent, and we know where we need to go. We absolutely need search, for example. Adding tons more users or doing more rigorous validation would slow us down from getting there. As the path ahead of us gets less clear, we will scale up our userbase and invest more in metrics and validation.
Pretty lofty target... and in the end, bandwidth and connections will be the constraint.

Sounds like some fun, but it also sounds like something that would be nasty to troubleshoot in real life.

Anyone remember how slow freenet was? Remember who used it the most?