skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counter-datapoint:

I'm in Canada (Toronto) and have fiber to the home, and have had it since about 2002. If you see more of this sort of thing in Canada, I suspect it will likely be brand new neighborhoods in metro areas, large scale condo projects, etc.

[EDIT: speed test: http://www.speedtest.net/result/1145884475.png ]
Oreo’s gimmick Facebook marketing, wait I’m not hating on it?
The question here for the publishers is whether or not this will increase their sales, or just move them about.

If they have all the subscribers they were going to get anyway, AND some new ones thank to Apple, they've made more money and they fact that Apple is taking a cut won't bother them; 70% of more money is a lot better than no more money. It costs them effectively nothing to have more subscribers, so as long as their Apple-based subscribers aren't cannibalising their existing subscriber base, their profits go up.
Apple's new rules snag Amazon, throw wrench into Kindle app
Shaloc location sharing iPhone App launched in US
This is completely weird!

Worst of all: 45 gardeners and no garden? Brilliant! I'd really like to hear their explanation of how these people ended up on their pay-roll. Maybe they all made offers the hospital could not refuse?
The shield shouldn't work at all unless it is grounded.
Sense? Your post makes none.
With $60 billion in cash, changing the terms of service for developers is the most market disruptive idea they had for the iOS ecosystem? In the year of uninspired Apple announcements since the iPad, this may be the most uninspired of all.
You forgot to mention the upload is 10 slower than the download. Literally.
Disrupting College (report co-authored by Clayton Christensen)
I dunno. I was under the impression that New Coke was an unmitigated disaster. Coca-Cola Classic (then just "Coca-Cola") was already the dominant soda when it was introduced, and I don't think they picked up any market share in the months/years after the introduction of New Coke. But they did spend a ton of advertising money on the new soda which failed spectacularly.
I bought 3 EZ430s. While they're interesting concepts, they're not without their problems (most notably not keeping time very well on the default firmware). You do come up against limitations and they're more of a proof of concept than anything else.
I'd really like to see a link to a privacy policy before entering my email and ZIP code.
Unfortunately the brief is not searchable, but I'm not sure where David Lam thinks Kik denies that Ted had access to BBM source code. All I see (paragraphs 41-43) are some fairly technical defenses to the confidential information claim (RIM didn't allege any breach of confidence, RIM didn't serve Kik with necessary documents, this claim is beyond the court's jurisdiction).

Am I missing this somewhere earlier?
This is definitely a neat idea, but I think it's a tough sell for the social media crowd. Unless I live in a high crime area, I don't really feel the need to tell my friends about the service.

I'd say your best bet is getting reviewed by some high traffic blogs.
"monopoly over apple devices" doesn't equal illegal monopoly.

So, I don't think there's a legal issue at all, especially since Android exists and is doing well.
I agree with you. However, our opinions on efficient traffic flow are irrelevant for two reasons.

First, the only rule of the road generally recognized, followed or not, is the letter of the law. What some random Internet guy thinks should also be a rule of the road, even if he is 100% right, does not matter. As someone else mentioned, that is politics.

Second, the key point I have been trying to make in this scenario is that honking your horn (or whatever reaction) is a reflection of your narcissism, your self-absorption. You feel entitled to attempt to control somebody else in order to get your way (even if you rationalize your way to be "for the good of others around me"). Sometimes that control is okay.

The entire thread regards angry reactions. We are angry when something happens that is out of our control, out of our perfect little plan for the world. We are angry because it should go our way.
I could invent one pretty easily. Instead of <form action="post">, it could be <form action="put">.
"isn't this just a less secure Enigma cipher?"

Talk is cheap, my friend. I've described the algorithm and supplied some cipher-text. What's the plain text?

Seriously though, if you know what the Enigma cipher is without having to look it up, you're probably over qualified for this sort of puzzle.
When you ask questions like this, you really need to state where exactly you live. If you don't, all answers are going to be vague generalities since we can't say "Stop by your local Founder's Exchange". However, if you said, "I'm in Pittsburgh and looking to meet a cool and smart co-founder," then I know a dozen different places to meet people, and there's probably a bunch of people on HN from your town too who might grab a beer and introduce you to people.
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So no more iPod Touch competitor?
Perhaps it'll exist, but not be called the Zune HD (and run WP7 Apps).
In fact, that would be quite cool (esp. if Nokia is in on this operation).
Where the author's narrative breaks down is when he draws a parallel between security and proofs of theorems. The closer connection is between security and adequacy of theorems.

It is true that you need to make sure your software conforms to its specifications and that process does involve informal (or formal) proof-like reasoning, but that is only a small part of the challenge. This is the part that mathematicians would be good at, but other technologies are good at the this as well (type checkers prove weak properties, verification tools prove stronger ones). None of this requires a "twisted mind", just attention to detail.

The problem of writing software specifications that correspond to the abstract notion of security is the tougher task. In math, the closest analogy is figuring out what theorems people actually care about. While I don't know for sure, I'm skeptical that a math education emphasizes this skill. Security takes this skill a step further and requires Schneier's "twisted mind" to consider all the real-world ways that things could go wrong (including, among other things, the incentives that might motivate an adversary) and write specifications for secure, but useful, software.
i am not suggesting that they are going to duplicate their content onto other domains, but rather host say a handful of articles with unique content on one domain and a different set of content on a different domain. they dont have to be similar in any way. one will be about grilling lobster tails and the other will be about restringing your tennis racket.
Are you serious? I just subscribed to a stock trading app's data service in-app. So Apple gets to keep 30% of my monthly fee in perpetuity although I've had a relationship with the brokerage longer than I've had with Apple.

This is frigging bullshit. And the sad thing is that Google et al will seek to emulate this ($800 tablet anyone?) rather than demolish it. Also Android devices' UX sucks, which is why I had to reluctantly buy an iPhone.
Would you extend the same argument to net neutrality?

I.e., are the telcos right to be against it?
I'm sure I'll get downvoted for this again but - Apple are the only player who have bothered to implement a subscription model. No competition! Once Android do it (and the others) and they become popular enough to compete, Apple may feel the pressure and drop the 30% rate.

30% sounds like a lot but if I would take it if I were a publisher - there's still room to make much more profit than a print operation - no need for presses, ink, paper etc. I mean the 70% you get is pure profit basically.
I'm talking interstates, not regular old roads. Last time I crossed the country by car (about a year ago) the average speed-limit was very low, absolutely not set at the safe driving speed. I forget what it was exactly, might have been more of an average at 65, but it was dramatically low.

Interestingly, iirc the exception to this was North Dakota. As I recall there were plenty of 70-80mph segments there (still low, but with the 5mph tolerance it was reasonable).
Gray Hoverman antennae do a good job for longer distances: http://www.digitalhome.ca/ota/superantenna/

If you search a little more through the http://www.digitalhome.ca/ forums, you can find newer generations of the design. Various folks have been using genetic algorithms to find more efficient modifications to the original design. http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=119489
Any chance it has infrared for a TV remote that never gets lost?
Here's how Amazon, Sony, B&N, etc., can get around this.

1. They need to get together and agree on a common eBook/DRM format. (I'm assuming the copyright owners of most books won't let them drop DRM).

2. They need to publish the specs so that third parties can implement this, and they need to make sure third parties can license the DRM.

3. Amazon, B&N, etc., then pull their apps from the Apple App Store.

4. People who want to read eBooks from Amazon, B&N, etc., use a third party reading app.

The maker of the third party reading app does not sell content, so does not run afoul of Apple's new rules.

Note the nice side effect that this would have. We'd start to get a competitive market for eBook reader software, as with Amazon, B&N, etc., using a common format and DRM scheme, readers would no longer be tied to one provider.
Life expectancy was only 35 because of infant mortality. Once you grew up, people tended to live almost as long as we do today.

And medical care is not by any means new. Cesarean section is named after Cesar, and it was a well established medical practice before he was born.

He sleeps on a mattress.

Well golly, call the patent office, tell them to shut down and go home, we can't possibly improve on this.

Honestly, where are all of you present defender coming from? Is the future too awesome for you? Sour grapes over the fact that you too get sick, age and can die?
Do you pay $13 a month for it? I'm going to assume no.
As I understand, iBooks lets me highlight and add bookmarks and synchronize these. People read differently, but I'm the kind of person who needs to highlight or use those Post It! bookmarks.
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It would make sense, as a way to build market share, to turn Zune into the WP7's iPod touch. From a developer perspective, that is a powerful additional number of users.
The fact that you will die is positive/beautiful?
I'm in Pittsburgh and looking to meet a cool and smart co-founder. Well, sort of. :)

Where are you best places in the Burgh to find tech entrepreneurs?
Also I think Google get social, they appreciate it's potential but just haven't succeeded at it yet. They weren't focused on it.
Show HN: Hot Death Uno
its simple actually netflix will release an iOS only version, which will make all apple users look like fool.

Thus this will divide the marked you have iOS only users who can watch on {iOS devices} and non iOS who can watch on {internet, PC, Mac's, Android, WebOS, RIM, but..... not iOS}

:D
It was slow and clunky, but that's something I forgave since it was still a preview and I assumed it would be fixed given more time. I'm talking about the core concept of Wave when I say the main problem was marketing. Obviously the product still needed development work, but it was on the right track IMO. It fit into my workflow very nicely, and I definitely miss it. I would love to see somebody take the open sourced code and release a more simplified, targeted version for group collaboration.
This article is excellent! And thank you, chaosmachine, for providing instructions for replication.

It's my strong opinion that everything here is ethically sound. This sort of "hacker" culture is the meat and potatoes of what drives innovation in the United States today, and whether this specific incident results in a new product or simply higher security by cable providers, progress has been made.
As mentioned in the comments to the article, the most likely scenario is that Amazon removes the button which automatically sends them to the Kindle store in Safari and instead replace it with some sort of text telling them how to do it manually.
Couldn't Google just block those directly?
Thanks for your feedback. I've just been playing with this stuff and wanted to put it out there despite its warts.

Regarding the scaling issue. Yes. This is definitely a weakness (I actually mention it as a weakness in the last paragraph or so). We're working on a solution for that using redis as a sort of shared memory. But it's just not ready for primetime and I just figured I'd write up what I had going so far.

Regarding recursive updates of nested collections, the "mport" function in the post works well for re-inflating the entire state. But not quite as well for updates, but for this type of thing, I prefer piecemeal updates anyway, so we don't have to send as much data each time.

I'm definitely gonna check out dnode some more as well. Cheers.
Find places that coders actually hang out and participate. There are too many events where idea guys scavenge for the rockstar developer who will buy into the vision. "All I need is someone to do X,Y, and Z and this thing will be huge! I can't pay you and you'll only get 20% of the company."

Don't be that guy.

Go to actual hacking events. Show people what you have actually done and are trying to accomplish. They'll respect you much more for it and they'll let their guard down. You have to earn their trust. There are simply too many people out there looking to take advantage of coders to put together their "revolutionary" idea.

Edit: Specifically, look for HN meetups and browse Meetup.com for language specific events.
When you say "Zune" to your average consumer, all you get is laughter. The tech might have been good, but in my (humble) opinion, ditching the brand and all it's baggage is a very good idea.
I straight edited that post!

G-YEAH!
I've been teaching myself Flash the last few months, and I just finished what I think is a really awesome game. I ran across a variant of Uno called Hot Death Uno a few years ago, first as a home game where you printed out the extra cards and added them to an uno deck, then as a PocketPC game for old PDAs. I've been getting more confident in my actionscript skillz so thought this would be a good challenge to make, and I'm very happy with it. It took me about 50 hours of coding in my spare time over the last month or so. I love this game, it's so addictive! What do you think?
ya but what if there is no other store in area?
It is supposed to work like that, yet it seems to let the person back on the street at some point. The only real way I can see that as safe is if they removed a tumor or something that was causing the problem.
That's awesome. He can make that strategy pay off because he's Ken freaking Jennings. Usually the money penalty for buzzing in but answering incorrectly (or not at all) would dissuade a contestant from buzzing in before actually knowing the answer.
No they are not! apps mostly use the internet for their data, but provide a richer UX than what a web browser can do. The internet is the underpinning of most apps.
Using Real Names has Real Consequences
Ive been looking for an excuse to do this:
http://www.re-nest.com/re-nest/how-to/how-to-make-a-string-t...
Thanks!
You are right, though satellite transponder frequencies with different polarizations do not typically share the same wavelength. With alternating polarization they are offset by (presumably) half the frequency separation needed for identically polarized signals.
Nearly every geek I know has a MBP, and every startup I've worked at uses the same.
I guess I'm asking more if Microsoft was allowed to charge anyone that built/builds a program for Windows. By your logic, they should be allowed to, because Apple OS/Linux exist.

Now that Apple OS for desktops/laptops is more widely used and Microsoft doesn't have complete control of the OS market, could Microsoft start charging software makers that wanted to provide content on a Windows machine?
Ad revenue on Windows Phone 7.
Seriously. When one has a 60x lead in lifetime over the other, you don't blame 'poor battery technology', especially when they use the same 'poor battery technology'!
Because no-one's challenged it in court.

Historical precedents have been mixed. Games consoles have been allowed to retain exclusivity for software but not hardware (controllers, etc.). Printers haven't been allowed to reject third party refills.

The only way for there to be a clear judgement would be a trial.
CherryTomato 0.5 Is Out
I think a little project called Linux got tens of thousands of man hours with very smart people ... Just saying.
A company has no feelings, no concept of regret or remorse, it simply lacks consciousness. Without this you cannot have morality. A chair, an action, not even an animal can be moral or immoral.
iOS tries hard to make web apps first class citizens. And the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript parts that make this possible are in HTML5.

It's not that Apple doesn't understand the internet, it's that many geeks want "native" apps, rather than having web apps on mobile devices. Apple tolerates these apps, but just barely, and offers the web as the way out of their walled garden.
Which city are you in? I'm in downtown Ottawa and with a store-bought HDTV antenna I get only 2 stations. Maybe I'll have to go buy a spool of wire!
And this is exactly why MS will eat blackberrys lunch. Just wait until enterprise clients can order the Dell optiplex win phone 7 that acts just like a desktop as far as the IT staff is concerned. The first VS dev that shows a dashboard app that displays KPIs from the CRM to an executive will seal the fate of blackberry in that company. The only really powerful lockin that BB has is Pin to pin or BBM as I think they call it now. Phones arent yet powerful enough that a phone from 3 years ago still performs adequately, there are probably 3 or 4 cycles left to really change hardware/OS market share.
Sure, I think I over-generalized a bit - I mean the kind of comments you see from Android boosters and people who are just bewildered by Apple's success.
South end of Ottawa :)
the famous floating point glitch seems to fixed
I'm surprised some people are giving you a hard time in the comments section. I found great value in reading your story. Thank you for sharing. Peace.
I don't have kids of my own, but with my nephews (3, 9) it was very fun and interesting to show them the new toy and watch them learn how to use it. Sure I've had to wipe some serious smudges off of it but I'm sure people with children have that same feeling. One of the reasons I bought an iPod Touch was so I could share it and not worry as much as with my phone.
True, but you can rent something like a state-of-the-art supercomputer from Amazon for fairly reasonable hourly rate. Watson has 90 8-core servers and 16Tb of RAM - to rent 100 Quadruple Extra Large instances (1600 cores, but "only" ~2.3Tb of RAM) would cost you $160/hour. I'm sure there are many other differences (and the fact that you can't fire up that many cluster instances without calling Amazon first), but the idea that an open source package like Watson wouldn't be useful doesn't make sense to me.
TRON concept art from the 1970s
Reminded of a story a friend told me: her little daughter saw her dragging icons to the trash on her Mac (OS9). When she came back again, all her applications and documents had been thoroughly deleted!

Anyway on the iPhone, deleting apps can be restricted in the settings. Buying apps can be restricted. Your phone can have a passlock. As wccrawford says, the best way is just to keep it away from your little kids, or monitor them closely.
direct link (yes, we can use any id element as anchor target):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#418
Exhibit A: iTunes (the service) is essentially blocked off from being accessed by people who don't have iTunes (the program) installed. This becomes VERY obvious if you run Linux. The App Store and the iTune music library are not easily searchable or browseable from your Linux PC.

3rd party websites that do this instead aren't really the point, either.
The software is given away to sell the hardware. iOS 4 was free for my 3GS that shipped with 3.1 same with my iPad
Item #3 makes sense in that a lot of 'casual money' or individual traders do not have access to information about IPOs much less the ability to get involved in the offering. These investors previously were forced to use an advisor or at the very least a broker who is far more in tune with what is new on the market then the individual typically is.
Interesting, was just thinking about this after watching Asana's demo recently

General PM software gripes (jira, project, pivotal tracker):

1. lack of keyboard shortcuts: have to use mouse way too much. org-mode is so much more intuitive and efficient for task management once learned but lacks collaborations and no one wants to put in the time to learn it.

2. Difficult to get a clear picture of the overall status of projects. Project managers have to spend a lot of time gathering status updates and creating reports because we use so many different tools, and the built-in reporting generally sucks.

3. Lack of intuitive structure within data. An ideal PM platform would structure information in an intuitive way that to make it discoverable by people working on peripherally related projects.

Specific gripes w/Basecamp:

1. Don't get notifications when clients upload files, only when they post messages (they often don't understand the difference)

2. Checkboxes to send out email notifications are not checked by default for new messages. Clients always forget to do this, even when we remind them, and then wonder why we don't respond right away.

3. Refusal to use gantt charts. I get that 37signals has a philosophical objection to dependancies and detailed timelines in PM, but sometimes a gantt chart is the best way to visually display a project timeline, especially if certain milestones are missed and impact the rest of the project.
You’re So Vain, You Probably Think This Book Is About You
Another Microsoft digital media strategy reset? Has it been 5 years already?

At least the Zune Marketplace went DRM-free, so people won't get shafted like all those PlaysForSure media buyers.
Economics is about the study of choice, at a deep level: the study of choice under conditions of scarcity, or with constraints (a definition like that is in most introductory textbooks). It's almost like psychology applied to crowds of interacting agents.

(Some people seem to get the idea economics is like accounting but vaguer, like a climatologist is to a weatherman or something. Macro economics is the bit that gets in the media most often, but it's also the most ideology-based rather than fact-based.)
I'm not sure the author meant stone age literally. I think it might have been a more long-winded way of saying, "Where's my flying car?" Flying car being a metaphor, of course.