skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
also, maybe local newspaper, and try to set up a website sharing your story with the links to the news stories about your story. try to stir up publicity. even email the ceo of AT&T and senior VPs directly.
My friend was faced with a similar problem (10K+ ATT bill) after traveling to the middle east. He hired an attorney, who was able to negotiate with ATT and after some back and forth they agreed to significantly adjust and settle the bill for only a few hundred dollars.
I've heard, but have no way to prove, that Echelon allows domestic spying by arranging for member countries to collect data flows of the other member countries. Presumably this is then shared by some agreement that falls outside what is left of the domestic wiretapping restrictions.

Could be nonsense, but after learning that MKUltra was real, who knows anymore. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA
This is a good site. And our prayers are with the quake survivors in Japan and the responders who are working to contain the problem during this horrible disaster.

Any model of nuclear power reliability would have a high degree of uncertainty (due to intractability) and would need to account for arbitrary faults in design, siting, construction, operation, and monitoring. In CS there's a concept of "byzantine fault tolerance" where every processor in a network can fail in arbitrary ways.

The minimum reliability rate predicted by the safety model would need to be on the order of 1-10^-8 to have assurance that major catastrophic events would not be likely to occur within some reasonable time span.

How much confidence can you have that a model is consistent with reality to within 8 or 9 decimal places in order to overcome the minimum acceptable reliability level? We cannot come close to this in a complex, realistic system analysis. This is not like other problems we normally encounter, where the minimum acceptable reliability to prevent an immediate global catastrophe is orders of magnitude lower.

Due to high model uncertainty and low acceptable failure rate, it is difficult in principle to come up with a convincing pro-nuclear argument whose lower interval didn't have a high expected death rate.

In this case, the heroism of the emergency responders was the difference between an immediate catastrophe and the current situation. Logistical problems and equipment failures impeded the response. Had the delays been exacerbated or had there been other complications (such as aftershocks that weakened the system), it's easy to see the delays could've been extended to the point where intervention wouldn't have been as effective.

Solar thermal power generation and wind are safe alternatives that can provide all 474 exajoules of earth's global energy demand. It's cheaper than the alternatives when externalities are properly accounted for and the initial investment would be a reasonable fraction of global GDP (certainly much less than the global financial crisis cost and it would actually stimulate the economy). Technology is ready. However, there are primarily sociological hurdles now (how do we get powerful polluters to change course?)

Why should anyone have to die for electricity? Renewable energy is safe. Emergency responders and residents are all at serious risk.

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/january/jacobson-world-en...
The laser eyes totally caught me off guard.
That's fine if you don't play flash games.
Using QuadTree for 2d collision detection
When I was between the ages 16 until I was about 22, I would meditate for at least 1 hour per day - at night prior to going to bed.

I would just focus on my breathing. If I had anything in my mind - I would choose a mono syllabic word to repeat over and over in my head, once with each inhalation and once with each exhalation.

I would breath slow and deep, typically, however - when I was focused on healing myself after strenuous workouts - I would breath more rapidly.

I was doing bujinkan six days a week for at least 4 hours per day.

I have recently been trying to regain that level of discipline in my meditation as the correlation between my awareness, my mental fitness and ability to focus while I was meditating then was amazing.

I am now 36 - and I regret very deeply not continuing to have this as my daily routine for the last decade.
How's this different from a service like http://pressitt.com/ ?
We hear about this quite often in the New Zealand media. People are often protesting outside the big "bubble" things and on the odd occasion (I think twice) people have jumped the fences and gotten past security to "pop" the "bubbles", causing "millions" in damages, a couple of guys are on trial atm for this, or very recently were
Let them leave. They're well funded and there are companies in San Francisco with more employees and that pay more taxes.

a) In six years time its more likely that they'll look for an extension of any breaks than begin paying them.

b) If they plan to grow to 1500+ employees after 2011 I can't see them being able to stay in that location anyway.
Twitter enables Always Use HTTPS setting
Do you have full control over the clients which make requests (e.g. it's only AJAX or 3rd party clients written to your api spec - i.e. not browsers making raw requests against some of your urls?)

I backed away from using content-negotiation for an API, part of which would have served data and part content.

e.g. to access file metadata, get /path/to/file with Accept: api/v1 and do a 'normal' GET to get the file contents.

I came across some suggestions that some browsers (recent IE I think, unsure) which suggested that cacheing was broken wrt Accept header - which made me worry that people hitting accessing the resource might get the wrong version.

I don't know if your api is vulnerable to this, if you've come across the problem or have any deployment wisdom to share.
I don't want to sign up. For anything, ever.
Can you link it to github for accounts and code?

It is a good idea, but running JS like this gives me the creeps.

Don't repost either - it just makes you look even creepier.
That is still a case of using two URIs to refer to the same resource. If you use one URI per resource, URIs (and bookmarks) can be shared between clients dealing with different media types. Suffixed URIs require mangling to request a different media type.

Clearly it is a pragmatic trade-off and is popular (Google and Twitter do it). The correct answer will be arrived at by considering the total architecture of your application.
I think it's very helpful to work back to the math, if the students are capable of understanding it. You can start with the familiar white-piano-keys scale and build forward, exactly like the article shows. Eventually, though, it's important to understand the math and how the different tempers were derived.

Instead of math maybe show pictures of sine waves and how they relate. My kids learned that in elementary school and it seemed to make sense to them. You can even demonstrate it pretty easily with long strings and a cheap strobe or the 60Hz lighting in the room.
It's a horrendous thing for consumers but let's remember municipalities lured in cable companies to build in rural areas by promising little or no competition via exclusive franchising agreements. The municipalities usually get a small cut of profits from the cable provider as well. Blame TWC but also blame the municipality itself for 20-30 years of anti-competitive behavior and the voters who allow this to happen. If this passes it will be entirely consistent with the history of cable franchises. In the end this may all be a show to get a higher kick-back out of TWC.
A) He was waiting for 60 senators, not poll #s. 40 Republicans were guaranteed to filibuster anything he put out, even the final result which was basically the Republican counter-proposal to Hillarycare a few short years ago. So a couple of those 60 got to drag it out for ridiculous and crooked concessions.

B) Totally agree on the false equivalency, was trying to highlight that rather than propagate it.
I don't think users actually do this anyway.

I am running a twitter poll on how many web apps people have saved to their iPhone: http://twtpoll.com/r/g3bnth

I have a pretty techy following and this just doesn't seem to be done with any regularity. Maybe half of the people have saved at least one web app, but how many native apps have they installed.

I think this tells us two things:

1) saving a web app doesn't really make it any better than just using that web app in mobile safari.

2) apple has little incentive to prioritize the testing and developing of this feature since so few people actually use it.

Seems like a non-issue to me.
Wait, the check for whether a user always wants to use HTTPS is done after they login over HTTP?
Looks like you guys are doing very interesting work - I've been working in healthcare in the UK for more than a few years now....it's definitely wide open for some decent solutions. Are you open to remote/flexible working or is it on-site only at the moment?
The idea that they have the power to spy and don't use it, when they could and without consequences is a little hard to fathom. Besides, there is very little legally nowadays that is really off-limits in that area. And whatever may not be (like the AT&T spying scandal was), can quickly be covered by new laws (with bi-partisan support).
Personally, I prefer the new one. It oozes strength and confidence -- definitely two traits you want in a shipping company.
It's diluted for sure, but it still carries a strict interpretation that is worthwhile and that some of us are still using.

My main problem with its dilution is that it's usually totally meaningless -- usually other terms like RPC or just plain old "proper HTTP" accurately describe what someone is calling REST, to there point where its supposed RESTfulness can be nothing more than for the sake of buzzword compliance.
Google v. Bing: The SXSWi Smackdown
Working for a visionary often brings about opinions on opposite sides of the spectrum; you either love them or hate them. This is true for Apple as it is for other tech giants. If you are on board with Steve's vision and can even remotely grasp what in fact you are working towards, you will love it. If not, you will probably hate it.

Much of this stems from an outward opinion of Steve Jobs being a jerk, which will of course vary based on who you talk to. This is true for every visionary.

Many people will tell you Bob Knight is a jerk, but he was one of the best college basketball coaches in history. If you talk to any of his past players that were willing to put in 100% effort and understood what his intentions were, they would tell you they loved playing for him.
The worst case in Japan would be a containment vessel blowing up from the pressure. That could kill the remaining workes on site and pose quite a messy cleanup problem, but already the 20 km evacuation zone could be seen as a bit of an overreaction.

However, that is not going to happen, because the containment is rather vented than letting it burst.

Anyway, the carnage and tragedy _actually having struck_ in form of the earthquake and tsunami _dwarf_ even the most horrible scenario at the nuclear plants.
Exactly, UIWebView simply wasn't updated with the latest WebKit engine the Safari app is running.

Web Clips use a special app wrapper that uses UIWebView, that is all.

This affects real apps that use UIWebView to display HTML content, which is a lot of apps, including probably some of Apples own apps.

You would think UIWebView would share the same WebKit with Safari, but Apple didn't do this, I doubt their reason are nefarious, probably just allows them to try new stuff out in the browser while being more conservative for the developer component.
Well, the one on the right was on the bottom
And the one in the middle was on the top
And the one on the left got a broken arm
And the guy in the rear, said, "Oh dear"
Didn't know about this. I have thought about extending my example to run user defined commands on user defined files. Obviously someone beat me to it.

Thanks for the link.
"It seems to me the business guys who did the most for Google were the ones who obligingly flew Altavista into a hillside just as Google was getting started."

(http://paulgraham.com/bronze.html)

Now that I know more about the history of Google, I wouldn't phrase it so extremely, because it's unfair to Omid Kordestani and Salar Kamangar among others.
Strange, my account name is now 'password' and it seems there are many duplicates! Shoot!
The library I work for actually does this. Their last name is their password and their barcode is their username -- yet we display forms the other way around to make their account look more secure (cuz a last name is obviously not a secure password).

It's stupid, but works.
Good point...unless they require unique passwords (huh?) or disambiguate username clashes via password (double huh?), seems like this wouldn't work very well at all.
You don't have to sign up for anything unless you want to rate the bookmarklets. Everything else you can do anonymously. I don't have a github account but I'll look into it tomorrow. Sounds like a good move to make if I want people to trust and use it. Thanks for the suggestion!

And what's wrong with being creepy? >:)
The 400K pageviews he is referring to were for "Feynman Lectures on Physics", which was a PDF, which had zero backlinks and wasn't mentioned anywhere.

You are of course correct about QDF. The first half of his post is indeed relevant to that, but the major point is further down.
Using content negotiation, I can--if the server supports it--take the same URI (e.g. http://www.jerf.org/) and pass it to an image viewer to see your face, to my address book to fetch your contact info, etc.

Anything else requires the client knowing how to mangle URIs (e.g. adding /avatar.jpg, /contact.vcf).
In the interest of never letting the brilliant light of Douglas Adams fade, I'd like to drop his original observation of the phrase "it turns out."

The words of the sadly late, eternally great Douglas Adams:

“Incidentally, am I alone in finding the expression ‘it turns out’ to be incredibly useful? It allows you to make swift, succinct, and authoritative connections between otherwise randomly unconnected statements without the trouble of explaining what your source or authority actually is. It’s great. It’s hugely better than its predecessors ‘I read somewhere that...’ or the craven ‘they say that...’ because it suggests not only that whatever flimsy bit of urban mythology you are passing on is actually based on brand new, ground breaking research, but that it’s research in which you yourself were intimately involved. But again, with no actual authority anywhere in sight.”
Cibs are indeed web optimized format. Thanks for the explanation.
900mb? in the UK? on data? only if you try for a few months. data here is so slow its painful. But fairly cheap ( i pay £5 ($10US) for 1gb a month.

All you can do is complain, and complain hard. Its bullsh*t and they know it.
Take a look at Sun Cloud API. It's one of the best examples.

For APIs that need regular browser support, it's fine to add fallbacks like query params to specify PUT or DELETE. But these are hacks.
If it pleases you, I did end up reading it, and getting angry, as predicted.
actually they were designed 60 years ago. they were built 50 years ago.
Ask HN: Clever ways of implementing "invite" mechanic in dating sites?
What are some ways to get people to invite friends to dating sites? Generally, there is not much incentive to do so, and people often don't advertise with friends that they are on a dating site. Any clever ideas?
Effective Coming Soon Pages
This effects UIWebView which web apps, technically called web clips just so happen to use.

However many normal apps use UIWebView to display HTML content. Any app you use the jumps to a web page but stays in the app definitely does, some apps you might not even know you're using HTML UI instead of Cocoa, the integration is pretty tight, sometimes it simply easier to make parts of your UI in HTML and embed as a resource and just point UIWebView to it.

So yes users use it all the time, but usually as part of a real app.
some links:

downloads - https://github.com/pmuellr/weinre/downloads

doc - http://pmuellr.github.com/weinre/
Introducing a personal, portable dashboard
> I don't think users actually do this anyway.

Ordinary users may not do this (yet?); but I develop webapps for companies (to be used internally) where we have users add the app to the home screen (or we do it for them). Once this is done, they don't know the difference between a native app and our webapp.

For non-technical users it would be quite complex to launch Safari and select a bookmark to operate an "application".
I can relate. Only a couple of weeks ago, days after submitting our YC application, my co-founder (technical half) bailed on me. Fortunately, I had a few other friends that were interested in my idea and they jumped on the opportunity. You can't dwell on it. Shit happens! As an entrepreneur this probably won't be the first or last time that something comes out of left field. I would try to find out why this dude bailed and then use this opportunity to find another co-founder, ideally one you know in person. As an active student, you have access to so many people on campus. Find someone that is passionate about your idea and compliments your skill set. If there is an entrepreneurship club or program at your school, that might be a good place to start...
That's a good reason to differentiate by header (plus no .jpg vs .jpeg shenanigans in the url). Though I can't say I've ever heard of it being used... I'll have to keep it in mind if I'm ever architecting something that anticipates many different kinds of clients in a large API, however.
Putting aside the issues we all know exist with this, I wonder what their rationale was...
Microsoft Patents Universal Scrolling
Ask HN: Favorite Ruby and Ruby on Rails resources
Im just getting started on learning Ruby on Rails and was wondering if HNers had some good resource to look at. Not looking for articles specifically, just resources that aggregate news, links, tutorials, etc.

I guess I'm looking for an HN or Digg for RoR.
What did you write? 3 million pageviews a month is amazing.
Haven't dug into the app much, but couldn't it be used in a business environment to structure the sharing of content to others?
Unfortunately the laser eyes aren't included.
I prefer enabling Click-to-play in about:flags.
>infrastructure is something that is inherently in the public interest and therefore best managed by the public (through government.)

By this idiot "argument", government should go back to the 1950s through 1970s and start nationalizing railroads, power companies, and oil companies again. How did that work out again?
Not antagonising you, but you are aware that he did something similar during a lecture once, right? His lack of concern for social norms is... intriguing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ
While typing from inside a glass?
remember when Steve Jobs announced the iPhone, and said the only applications for it would be web applications? [1] and how, across the next 5 months before native apps were announced, people alternatively wondered how they were going to possibly develop for it, or whether it was going to be a second genesis for the web? yeah, good times.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/11/apple-announces-third-par...
It's great to see more and more companies tackling the healthcare industry. Although you can get the most cutting edge medical treatment in terms of surgical procedures and CT scanners - storing and communicating most types of data is archaic. It's primarily because most physicians and hospitals do not see how moving to an electronic medical records system helps their bottom line, with the exception of electronic prescriptions, which can reduce errors that result in death.

It's actually sad that we need a stimulus to do all this. We really shouldn't. If there are more and more providers offering services at a competitive rate, doctors and hospitals would more readily switch over. Right now AllScript is charging close to $700 a month at our hospital (that's the discounted rate btw) to use their EMR system. With the understanding that one would get the 44K grant from the government.
That's an absurd amount to charge for any such system. I'm not familiar with what DrChrono is offering, but at least their price point is reasonable and if there were other providers in the price range as well, docs and hospitals would switch without the need for a stimulus.

Our own office went electronic before there ever was such a thing as a stimulus. Just cause it seemed like the right thing to do for ourselves and for our patients.
Haw, quite so. Still, even if the SSD were given to you for free, and we measured cost in installation time, the cost in time to install each one versus the resulting gains would be tremendously in favor of ClickToFlash, so awful is Flash.
Outsourcing: The way large american businesses do business when it requires innovation.
EBay Makes Listings Free For Up To 50 Items
Or the password is the subscriber number and the username was their email. Happens often that the online access for a periodical is your subscriber number found on the address label.
Ditto. I've actually done the 10-day course a couple of times (highly recommended btw). One thing that amazes me every time is how busy/noisy urban life seems afterwards. It generally takes me a couple of days to readjust.
I honestly would try to push this as a collaboration network for small biz. I can totally see myself using it for that.
Evaluation and Comparison: MongoDB vs Redis, Tokyo Cabinet, and Berkeley DB
Chrome can not sandbox all plugins without some effort. Only recently did they add support for sandboxing Flash to the stable Chrome release, and even then, only on Windows:

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/03/chrome-stab...
AT&T offering free month of iPad data service
If you are using the benchmark that 10+ uses = a loyal user, wouldn't that mean 76% of users are fickle.
Networking at SXSW: How to Tell if They're Interested in Business or Pleasure
FaceTime for iPad 2 works with video out
JRuby 1.6.0 Released: Now with Ruby 1.9.2 Support
Especially since the rest of the site uses large fonts... it's a bit better if you actually click on the image.
Saturn fly-by video
Love this. The health care industry was due for some needed technology innovation in regards to billing and prescriptions and the iPad is the perfect platform to do so.

Can someone make a "doctor's handwriting" font?
Online news overtakes paper, and nearly half of it is mobile
Look Out, Silicon Valley, the Northeast Is Rising
First of all, recent studies show Chernobyl killed nearly one million people. Don't trivialize Chernobyl!

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2010/2010-04-26-01.html

Secondly, the real tragedies here are the high human health costs in cancer and birth defects, the economic cost of losing twenty percent of Japan's power indefinitely, and the outrageous modern day cost of building new reactors. Given those high costs and the ten year construction times, it is unlikely that these plants will be replaced by nuclear reactors even if we wiped Japan's collective memory.

Many geeks are easily swayed by scientific talk that ignores social variables and whole cost accounting. Remember Google's early motto, "Don't be evil!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_new_nuclear_power_...
Haha - oh absolutely! The first day I was out of the course I just could not stop smiling at people on the street. Have you been practicing regularly? Where did you do the course? I did mine in France - a little south of Paris, great center!
There is a follow-up article linked[1] from the OP article, I almost missed it -- the combination of the two actually makes a really good explanation.

This is a pretty cool algorithm and data-structure set. Thanks for the link, and keep these types of articles coming :)

[1] for easy reference: http://www.kyleschouviller.com/xna/quadtree-code-design/