skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Whether other sites, like Google, can do this too, is immaterial.

It's material if the FSF isn't putting up a "Google is evil" page on their website and handing out "Don't google me, bro" buttons, like they are doing with Facebook.

The FSF seems to think it's better to attack Facebook with ideological ad corporatio arguments, rather than concentrate their resources on educating people about how to their services intelligently. Facebook isn't sharing anything about me that I don't want them to know. And I understand that if I'm not paying for it, I'm the product. So I don't give them my address or my phone number or my cat's nickname. And that's what I tell every friend and family member on Facebook. I don't tell them that Zuckerberg is "evil". The FSF has tried that before with other companies and you'd think they would have figured out by now that it simply doesn't work.
This is a tablet that has to stand against the next entire year of competitors, at Apple's current release schedule. It's not even caught up to the Xoom in terms of hardware specs. Like the iPhone before it, it'll be tough competition against the wave of competitors that have faster release schedules.
It sounds like a VNC or RDP app for the new iPad or HDMI-enabled Android tablet with annotation features would completely replace this Sympodium.
It's slightly obscene that a tablet that's so similar is being released so soon, obsoleting the first generation and encouraging a fair few people to upgrade for the sake of it.
My take on the Lean Startup Model.
That must be Robert Tables Sr.'s car.
Virtual Job-Hunting: video CV
Hemispatial neglect
Set short, intermediate and long term goals and knock off the short ones one day at a time until you get back on track.
That's not official according to the article.
I would not have a hard time saying no to this at all. There are limits which you can assert without being rude or coming across as paranoid. What's next, access to all your private emails?

Some private content like facebook could add to their liability for discriminatory hiring practices. Imagine if they figure out your sexual preference, or veteran status. Seriously, recruiters would be foolish to pry like this into the personal lives of recruits.
I thought this post made some interesting and valid points. Mainly, don't drink the koolaid without thinking through the best strategy for your particular business/
> Comeon, examples/proof please.

You haven't been paying attention, have you?

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/22/facebook-blocks-lamebook/

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=31987371885&topic=...

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/84319/20101122/facebook-priv...
I don't know about the curation, but the fees are real, according to this:

http://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=11262...
I have often wondered about a chicago business named W W Grainger, but alas it appears that they did not go for www.ww.grainger.com, opting instead for www.grainger.com.
Why not focus on something more productive then Karma points? Your startup, job, school, hobby, significant other?

I can guarantee you that none of the successful people on here care about Karma points. (Unless, of course, your definition of success is having tons of Karma points.)
Bigloo Scheme is pretty cool and can target native code, JVM, mono and Android:

http://www-sop.inria.fr/indes/fp/Bigloo/
I have a Hacker News posting on this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1432193
You peaked too soon. Enjoy your 15 minutes of fame while you can, it's all downhill from here.

Just kidding, congrats.
In the UK the 32GB Xoom WiFi is the same price as the 32CB iPad WiFi. There was a leaked ad with a price that was the same as the 16GB iPad, but they officially announced it after the iPad 2 anouncement and raised it £50.

Of course that's not counting the $40 dollar HDMI dongle that's not needed for the Xoom.
The rumor mills have the iPad 3 out later this year.
The goal is to gain karma points, sure. But, what you should be asking is, why is that the goal? The karma points themselves are only the factor used to measure the quality of a submission.

In turn, by reaching my goal and learning the lessons I mentioned along the way, it improves the quality of my submissions. All I was saying is that if others did something similar, or the same thing, that the quality of HN would most certainly improve, thus increasing the value of each pt.
"These are highly debatable points."

I don't see any debating going on with your post.
>we need to remember that the "accumulation of responsibilities" is composed largely (though not solely) of the accumulation of a set of outcomes from a set of prior choices

Our primary responsibility, if it is really one, is to care for ourselves; we have no choice but to take it. One of the main responsibilities we accumulate is the responsibility to care for ageing relatives.

There are other major responsibilities - care for environment, for society - that are not born out of our prior choices (though our ability to handle those responsibilities is greatly affected by our past choices).
Dropbox sync would be enough for me.
Google isn't trying to grab all that data. And Google has worked with them to protect private data, including measures like shortening the time it takes them to anonymize the data they've collected.

Facebook, meanwhile, is working to sell your entire social graph to advertisers for profit. If they're being singled out, it's because they're the worst of the lot.
Not to detract from post-twentysomething entrepreneurs at all, but this article's references on closer look don't quite support this spin; rather, a significant component of the spike in "business startups" peaking in 2009 involved employees who were let go from regular jobs and either switched to doing the same jobs for the same people on outside contractor status, or hung out a shingle to offer their services as a sole proprietorship on the side, at lower earnings than their former job, while they kept looking for a new regular job.
Ask HN: Are any companies in NYC looking for interns? (March 2011)
Some really bright CS students at my old high school (one of the best in the country) are looking for summer internships, does anyone have any openings?
The only good thing still going for it is the price

Price + Quality. Plus the existing app store. Honeycomb has no apps and it seems really really buggy. Feels like Google rushed it out. iOS on the iPad feels polished and refined.

Two things need to happen for Android in 2011. Honeycomb needs to get stabilized. No more crashing or freezes. AND we need to see a $350 high quality tablet. Until then Apple will continue to clean up.
I'm disappointed this wasn't a 9-0 decision. I'm also disappointed it had to go to the supreme court. These protesters are clearly assholes, but freedom of speech is absolute.
interact with it for every possible configuration

This is practically impossible. You could randomize the input for years and people could get around it. e.g. just make a web request to your website, and depending on the reply, do something nasty. You could never catch this with this sort of automated testing.
Pushing prices up or margins down would make them less competitive. More importantly, they have to be able to manufacture with quality in increasingly gigantic volume. Sure they're making choices, but that's not the same as holding back.
If you're young, yes, go for it. But diversify, launch 2-3 apps a year minimum.
Why do you use words like "Unix pipes" when you don't know what they mean?
Reddit's is cute too:

http://allthatsnew.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/reddit.png?w=...
So myipinjosin returns the server's IP address? I thought it would return the clients IP address. (Link is broken atm).

For your use case, relative URLs seem the better solution?
The iPod touch is wearable computing, at least as defined by futurists predicting such things 15 years ago.
Route 1: Streamline.js, a compiles-to-Javascript language.

Route 2: Mobl, a compiles-to-Javascript language.

Route 3: Stratified.js, a compiles-to-Javascript language.

And then a side-mention for something actually in Javascript: https://github.com/caolan/async

So, to make spaghetti-free Javascript... don't write Javascript? I'll keep looking, thanks.
I hope one of these bloggers is geeky enough to head over to Sunspider or one of the other benchmarks when trying the hands on.
Very true.

http://wikileaks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/01/13/wikileak...
This is just another way of saying that tablets are a horrible form factor.

For some uses, certainly (hence the reason why my TC1100 spends 95% of it's life in laptop mode) but for other uses they're perfect. I see the stand as a way of saying "use a tablet for what it's good for and here's an option for being able to use it for less-than-optimal situations that still beats lugging another device around."
What hardware specs? Battery life? Gyroscope? Graphics Performance?
Replaced the MVA matrix with IPS.

Same bad cameras as 4G iPod Touch - 1MP in the back, even worse in the front. Suitable for video calls only IMHO.

Too bad the models with cell connection don't support audio calls. Could've completely replaced a phone with a wired or bluetooth handsfree.
Using microelectronics to make a pacemaker so small it can be injected
I started writing on (defacing) cash I gave to friends for birthday's with the words "Gift Card". That works too.
Specification comparison: iPad 2 vs xoom vs samsng galaxy tab 10.1 vs touchpad
There is no <head>, </head>, <body>, </body>, or </html>.
So do any of you have any experience in re-launching a free software development tool as a commercial one – or know of any tales in that category?

.NET Reflector, developed as a free tool by Lutz Roeder, and taken commercial by Red-Gate would be a nice object lesson.
Specification Comparison: Apple iPad vs iPad 2
"Because so many sites — including TIME — use Facebook's user-tracking "Like" button, Zuckerberg is able to collect information about people who aren't even users of his site"

I thought you had to have a facebook account to "like" something, either on facebook itself or sites with the FB "like" link. Anyone know otherwise?

edit: Just logged out of FB, opened a random Time article (http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2049569,00.htm...) and clicked "like" - and was asked to login to FB. Hmm
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"It seems to me as though we've tried 'kings/dictators' lots of times, and we've watched communism devolve into 'kings/dictators', and we may very well be in the process of watching capitalism devolve into 'kings/dictators' as wealth and political power seem to being concentrated more and more in the hands of a small group."

Why is it concentrated into a small group? Everyone seems to think the answer is to take the money by force from the people that earned it and give it to the people that "need" it.

"Except that most people are forced to go through more than a decade of training to accept employment by others and do as they are told. That puts people at a disadvantage when it comes to learning how to act independently."

They aren't forced, they choose to make this decision. Anybody can start a company and make money (and not work for anyone), but much fewer choose to go down this path. It's because it takes too much work. Sacrificing your free time for something that may or may not succeed isn't easy. I've been doing it for the past 5 years and I'm only now actually making a profit.

Another problem I've noticed is that many people give up too easily. They want success right now..and if it doesn't happen, they deem it as a failure.

"The solution may be for each person to make their own choices, but it doesn't help to pretend that there are no forces working against that."

This solution is already available and working.
well, yes. But what would be able to happen in A Perfect World is for the intersection of features to have an abstraction layer.
I don't even know what he means. Is he talking about | or BSD sockets? It's a mystery.
Hanging out is definitely allowed. There isn't really any ridged structure outside of pitching and organizing teams. And even then nothing is set in stone.

If you're a developer or designer I'd definitely recommend hanging around, they always seem to be in short supply. 54 hours isn't a lot of time to start a company so teams will take as much help as they can get.

As for an idea that's 'too big', if you're really in love with it and want to pitch it I'd recommend segmenting it. Try to find a feature or a subset of features you could build in a weekend with a team. SW is what building a startup would be in a perfect world, where you have everyone and everything you need right at your finger tips. But it only last 54-hours, so capitalize on it while you can.

Also, if you need help with your pitch just tweet before the event using the hashtag and ask for help. That's what I did and I got people (namely @JoshSamBob) jumping in to help even before it started!
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Curation is the New Search
I'm glad you care so much about my success, and your comment was well received. But, I do all those things too.

The point of the story wasn't about the karma points themselves, but rather how to use them as a unit of measurement to improve the community as a whole, and the quality of an individual submission.

The reason I take the time to do it, and take away from the other important things in my life, is because I've always believed anything worth doing is worth doing right the first time. To me, it would be a waste of time to just submit blindly and not care about the quality of my stories and how they'll be received by other members.

And, for the record, no where in the story did I insinuate that more karma = success on HN, or that people cared about the pts. themselves. I don't consider my measly 1,500 pts. to be a major milestone compared to others, and it's certainly not the reason I am successful in life of on HN.
I think that this illustrates a point that's worth making about the difference between Android devices and iOS devices. There is no 'better' - there is a tradeoff. This is the same tradeoff that Linux elsewhere offers, really.

This is the tradeoff: "if you are willing to invest your time, mental energy, and vigilance into bending your device to your will, avoiding traps such as mention in the article, and doing upkeep, a Linux-based device will give you enormous and awesome capabilities, leveraging the full power of having a general-purpose computer in your pocket."

I am glad that that's available, because for some people, that's a great tradeoff! But it's important that there be another tradeoff available, which iOS is currently the flagship of: "if you are willing to accept more limited capabilities, you can have those capabilities in a form that Just Works and does not require your vigilance, time, and mental energy."

I propose that the market share of Android and iOS roughly reflect the number of people for whom each of these tradeoffs, is the one they want. Of course we may want different things at different times - but when we buy these devices, we are voting with our dollars as to which tradeoff, overall, serves us best. I hope that both retain vigorous market share, because different people are best served by different tradeoffs.
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The "Like" button infrastructure (images, JavaScript) is loaded from Facebook's servers via a cross-domain request. Those servers can theoretically use cookies or IP addresses in conjunction with referrers to do tracking even without clicking Like, for both authenticated and unauthenticated users.

Some content is loaded off of their CDN, which I highly doubt is doing any tracking. The non-CDN pings are quite possibly not doing tracking, but it would be possible for Facebook to enable some tracking with most people never noticing.
Ask HN: Are there Tech Apprenticeships?
I quit my job back in July to learn how to code. (proudn00b.com) Since then, I've learned a ton with Django, Python, CSS, HTML, & JS. The one problem is- I don't have professional development experience.

Does anyone know of any tech apprenticeships?

I think that would be a really exciting way for the experts out there to share their knowledge & help n00bs like myself transition into a tech career.

What do you guys think?
Yes, I was thinking of the RAM.

To support my original point, though, iSuppli's breakdown of the iPhone 4 last summer had the 16 GB flash chip as the second-most expensive component, after the retina display, at ~15% of the total outlay on parts.
The only thing that looks outdated to me is the Chicago typeface on the screen. It's the one thing that seems to tie it to a particular moment in time.
I found the Rails implementation of MVC to be the easiest to learn of the 4 I've worked with (.NET, CodeIgniter/Kohana, Rails, ObjC), followed by CodeIgniter/Kohana. Rails made it clear from the very start with its "Everything is an object" mantra that I could always expect to things to just work if I treated everything like an object, and did a great job separating the three components of MVC. My views in Rails have always looked a whole lot cleaner and simpler than NIBs or .aspx files or even the CodeIgniter view files.

However, I must say I can work a whole lot faster in ObjC now, mostly thanks to XCode's awesome debugging tools.
Another problem is when you really do have self-serving mgmt that would actually rank as a 1 or 2 themselves but use performance reviews as a method to throw other perfectly capable people in their org under the bus to cover their failures.
Hitting a $27 million lottery jackpot by investing $7 million
Haha, I hope not. I've got a lot of plans for my future. I hope there's more to come!
This is a really interesting game, I got to watch Chris producing and growing it over time and then I got to watch him talk about it at FGS the other day. It's been great watching his revenue climb and the game grow, when it first started it was tiny.

If you're making multiplayer Flash stuff you really should talk to him - http://playerio.com/
Apple isn't forcing anyone to upgrade, original iPads aren't going to become useless on March 11.
Looking at the sales page, there has been de-emphasis of iBooks, apps, games, and additional emphasis on ease of hands-off use for watching videos, AppleTV. For instance, the angled cover, using the iPad as a projector.

Either this is turning out to be what people are actually using the iPads for, or Apple is actively steering people towards using iPads. Maybe they don't want to cannibalize the sale of Macs.
In the mid-90s the Republicans believed that people would be surprised at how little they missed government services. Then the news was full of things like people whose vacation plans were ruined by the fact that national parks were closed. Or people whose travel plans were disrupted because they couldn't get visas. Or people who were being laid off because their employer was running out of money due to the shutdown. People blamed the Republicans for it and it was a disaster.

Sure, most people weren't impacted. But news organizations are in the business of finding human interest stories. And all of the human interest stories that you can find around a government shutdown are pretty bad. There will be a backlash. The only question is who the public decides should be blamed. Given that people hate Congress more than anyone else in the government, I would bet they'll blame Congress. (Again.)

As for the savings that you are hoping for, that is not so clear either.

First there is a direct cost to shutting down the government. People have to put their paperwork in order. You need to hire more security guards. And so on. An estimate I heard on NPR is that the last time the cost of shutting down the government was estimated at half a billion.

But then you don't even save that much money. Much of the work that government does is work they are mandated to do. If nobody does it, the paperwork piles up. When they start up again it is piled high, and you need to have people work overtime or hire more until you've worked through the backlogs. In the end you've done similar work, paid similar money for it (actually you may have paid more for overtime), and haven't really saved a lot of what you thought you did.
To be fair, it's a pretty damn cool cover.

It has a magnetic hinge and corners which toggle the device's sleep state. The same magnets appear to hold it together into a triangle shape to act as a stand in two directions. To get that to work so nicely, you really do need to design the tablet and the case to work together.

Furthermore, you just know that Apple looked at all the accessories they stock in their stores and thought "Wow, lots of people are buying covers. We should clearly profit from those and prevent people having to suffer with shoddy accessory manufacturer crap."

I mean, yeah, it's still just a freaking cover. But distortion field aside, it's a quite innovative cover.
1. Tim remembers how some guy tried to make a benchmark of Neo4j comparing it to a single MySQL table, and came out with 'see, it's faster'. i didn't quite get, what was faster it that benchmark, the first or the latter?

2. in the talk it was noted that people, if they want to improve performance, sometimes choose the tool without understanding how does it fit for their other needs. Even in relational world, i've got that Benjamin thinks that most of people using (relational) databases do understand the relational model, indices and things like that on utilitarian level like 'this makes query faster'. does he thinks that at least object oriented programming is more naturally understandable by developers? The question is about how they might use, say, OO DBs with more understanding. may we say that OO approach in programming is much less alien that map-reduce things? because if we say 'people don't understand', then they might even don't understand some other part of their programming job.

3. where did it all happen, why are there so many sirens? :)