skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has already been hacked. Basically a voltage drop across 2 pins IIRC.

EDIT: More than 2 pins, actually. According this guide http://pinouts.ru/PortableDevices/ipod_pinout.shtml, depending on the type of device you want to emulate(charger, stereo dock, etc.) you'll need to either short or drop the voltage on different pins.
Reliable trade data for the herbal industry in North America. Where does this exist? Anyone have any idea where to look?
Indeed. Also interesting: Hedgehog lacks any mutation operator, because (paraphrasing) debugging issues caused by mutability over a slow serial line is not an effective use of time.

Also, it sounds like the way they implemented the standard library (at the Lisp level; functions used are part of the bytecode) brings implicit tree-shaking. Probably an excellent trade-off for embedded programming.
IP and Ping Time Based Tracking
They should definitely fix the timezones. Google already know which timezone I'm in (from the ip address, should allow manual override in the preferences) and should use my current location's timezone in the display.
> Since our classification scheme arguably has next to zero effect on someone who isn't inside Australia, their opinions on what we decide to enact are irrelevant and nosey.

(1) Our bureaucrats often look to other countries for ideas.

(2) In every discussion of US healthcare, someone from Oz pops up with "why don't you do it like we do". (Of course, they're not the only ones who do so.)
The majority of that is search revenue, so it is booked in the other org. Android books marketplace revenue, which will eventually be a billion dollar business but not yet.

Chrome is also profitable because of search revenue, although I haven't seen a figure anywhere
I cannot disclose RWW's rate of pay but as I said in that post, the higher you go in that continuum, the more likely you are to be a consultant vs a journalist. And we are journalists ;)
Even for those of us who don't glaze over when you start talking DNS, there's certainly something attractive about the simplicity that you've achieved. With coralrift I can publish a static site in 15 seconds. I'd love to be able to configure the coralrift side to match my TLD in another 15 seconds. I won't mind configuring the other side of DNS "manually".
Right, I was just trying to highlight that a simple metric of LOCs is not enough. One can right cryptic code to minimize LOCs but that usually leads in harder to read and maintain code.
Startup Idea - Live streaming where people say what they're going to do, then collect money in escrow before they actually do it. IE: I'll try and do a standing long jump over these ten people if I collect $20.

If they succeed, they get the money. If not, the money get's returned.

Other use cases could be people constantly streaming and having a "hat out" to "throw money" in, akin to street performers.

Crowdsourced, streaming entertainment.
If you are on the north side, north shore, at NU or anywhere near Evanston, come check out http://coworkingevanston.com/ It got started because there have been a bunch of startups and indie devs/designers working out of coffeeshops and home offices in the area and there wasn't any central point to get together and collaborate anywhere north of lakeview.

We started hosting the Monday Jelly Chicago meetups this week and had a packed house. Next monday following Jelly some of the people here are starting a Startup Evanston meetup http://www.meetup.com/Startup-Evanston/ One of the members here also hosts the well-attended monthly Chicago Web Pros meetup in Evanston http://www.meetup.com/chicago-web-pros/

The startup I'm with is technically based in San Francisco, but I'm actively looking to find another developer in Chicago. If you are a Chicago-area Ruby developer, my email is in my profile.
How to “Sell” as a Startup Founder – A Formula + Hack
Not to mention the disappearing caption.
Great tool - highly recommended.

One tip: go very easy on the movement - you'll make your audience sea sick!
Google acquires ITA Software
... if you're getting the checksum from a trusted source that is separate from the package distribution server, or if the checksum is cryptographically signed.

But I've never seen people get up in arms about someone publishing, say, a github link to some code that isn't accompanied by a checksum signed with a published PGP key you deem trustworthy.
I'd also suggest putting your contact info in your profile.
You can't make policy based on the worst possible circumstances.

Streaming video sites are already used for pornography, rebroadcasts of live TV, etc. It hasn't really hurt them.
It has: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/11/teen-kills-self/
Exactly what I was thinking. I'm generally an introvert, but I don't mind some small talk when I'm not doing anything. It lets people know you're still on good terms with them, and helps dispel that "aloof nerds" stereotype.

But really, I think every article should have a disclaimer that the findings/claims may not apply to everyone. :)
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A tutorial covering the creation of hyperlinks using the anchor tag.
Steal this movie: cult film maker lets digital pirates share his content
It seems even strange to me that the article makes no attempt to survey other current examples of speech-recognition technology in order to support the unsaid implication of their lede. That is: "speech-recognition technology developed by those other than Google does not work."

I just downloaded the Bing app for iPad last night, and noticed it has a pretty decent speech-recognition engine from a company they acquired a few years back: TellMe. I tried all the examples given in the Slate article, and they were recognized just fine.

This makes me curious, are there a number of current-generation speech-recognition technologies that work at the level of Google's?

I should note that I didn't receive the desired behavior once my speech was recognized. When I asked the math question, a link to Wolfram Alpha was given, but I would have to click that link to get the answer. I had to go to maps to get any kind of relevant answer for "Directions to McDonalds," and I had to just say McDonalds and then click Directions to get the actual information. This failing appears to be a trait of the iOS app itself. Hand typing the math query into Bing on a proper browser did give me Google Calculator style results.
It sounds like you've thought deeply about this - have you written more on your ideas here elsewhere? Would be interested to hear how this would work practically as well as your ideas on how the focus on perpetual growth hinders successful project delivery.
>If I speak to someone who doesn't really speak much Norwegian but tries hard to, I'll answer in Norwegian first – but usually switch to English when I see they're struggling.

I'm Norwegian, and had a neighbor from England. He said that it is hard to learn Norwegian because we tend to switch to English when talking to him. We often started the conversations in Norwegian, but (too) quickly moved to English.
26% of Oracle's expenses are sales and marketing. (Those strip club trips add up.) In all seriousness, is it just a necessary evil? If you could hold your nose and do it would it not be a barrier to entry for your competitors also? Could you do enterprise software without the sales army?
I started http://www.onedayonejob.com/ in Connecticut in 2007, but moved to Chicago in 2008. I'm in River North, but work out of a home office since it's only me for now (but the business is profitable!).
> Please note that this volume is also largely in the realm of tape archive. Current tape libraries are fast, and LTO-5 are 1.5TB uncompressed. It can definitely be cheaper in the long run.

A backblaze setup with today's disk costs is <$40K for hardware (for random access!). Even if you don't need quick or random access - how can a tape library compete with that, short or long run, when the ceapest LTOs are at $40/TB (just like disks), tape devices are expensive, robots are expensive, etc?

Also, disk prices keep falling, whereas tapes (for the same technology) tend to remain the same price, so if you're considering future growth, disks win again.

And furthermore, I have two 15GB hard disks from '99 that I took out of a computer in '2002, and I can still read (tested last month when I was cleaning up; I know the oil might congeal, but it hasn't in this case). I connected them to an external USB-to-IDE converter I found for $10, and they are still available.

I also have a tape backup of some kind from the same era - and no way on earth to read it, because I don't have the tape device, and they're no longer being manufactured.
Unless you know they guy in the photo or the circumstances behind it, the term "token" to me sounds derogatory and possibly diminishing. Labels suck.
Although Libya does own that TLD, it's not as though bit.ly or ow.ly are Libyan sleeper cells ready to redirect our traffic at whim. The worst that could really happen is that the TLD is shut down, and none of the links work anymore. I guess theoretically Libya could put a 300-redirect on every .ly domain to forward to some propaganda page or something, but it's not like you're supporting Qaddafi by using bit.ly.
No. Remember the article talked about poaching students right out of college. $90k a year isn't much for an experienced developer, however right out of college (and at the time) that was 10-20k more than they could expect joining another company.
But I had naively given a complete salary history when asked early in the process

I think that was the mistake...it's never a bad idea to have more information when going into the negotiation. By giving them the salary history, you gave them more information, and they didn't give you the same courtesy. Why should you provide a salary history if the company doesn't have to. With sites like GlassDoor, now they do, even if it's without their knowledge.

By using online salary info and not revealing my own salary history I have managed to get an average 20% increase over my previous job for the last 3 job changes, even during the economic downturn.
http://jellychicago.com

Every Wednesday from 12-4 we're there. Usually on the 3rd floor it seems.
There's Microsoft. They purchased TellMe some time back and have had speech recognition in mobile Bing for some time now. I think it may predate Google (though not sure) with similar accuracy.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/tellme/

In Vista, MS included speech recognition as part of the shipping OS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Speech_Recognition
Apple is Better Managed than Microsoft
In all honesty, that was not meant to be mean. Really, do you think Zombies choose between Rich or Poor?

I am an Indian, has lived in US for the past 12 years. Every time I go to India, I am all the more reminded of how the so-called progress has not penetrated in to the lower stratas of the society.

I use public transportation every time I am home, not because I cannot afford to shut out the outside world, but I love watching humanity upclose. To ride in a bus along with 60-70 others, people whose sons I might have gone to school with, finding familiar faces in the crowd, eavesdrop on conversations, and for a moment think of their lives, and their dreams. You cant do that while tucked away in the backseat of a Mercedes.

Class based social racism is a real problem in India. While trying to catch up with their neighbors, we ignore the ones getting pushed deeper and deeper in to the depths of poverty.

Another social equalizer? Education. And the fact that most of its free (regardless of how bad it sometimes can be in India's public schools), I am proud of my country.
I think that's a good thing, for larger communities. Threads become unreadable once they're over a certain size, at least with linear comments. With nested comments, you can digest part of a topic and still participate.

Also, I think the "fragmented community" also has its advantages. The community can different aspects of the article at the same time, so parts don't get ignored. While one person may want to mention they love the design on the site, another has a minor nitpick, and a third guy has a comment on similar articles, they can all say their piece without dragging the entire discussion off topic.

However, I do agree with what you said about everyone being heard and the benefit of a cohesive discussion. The recent topic this really comes to mind for is the one about "How to stop HN's decline". There were a number of good ideas, but they were also repeated numerously, and the same counter points were made. If there was a single linear thread for that topic, while the size would be unwieldy, I think the same points would have been made less.
Is Larry Page's "Rip the Band-Aid Off" Approach to Reorg Good for Google?
Yeah, we relied on hoptoad as our backstop too. We used CruiseControl.rb running on a cheap low end server with a plugin for doing deployments.

https://github.com/thoughtworks/cruisecontrol.rb
https://github.com/aentos/ccrb_cap_deployer

The code is simple to understand, self contained, based around rake, and worked almost immediately for us (after some configuration). We were a two person team. I don't know if the setup we had would have worked with a larger team.

It felt like it made an impact in our ability to turn code faster. We had a solid test suite, which helped.
Is Amazon Entering the Display Ad Business?
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What questions should a company expect from investors after a pitch competition?
I wonder if the Common Lisp codebase will survive the acquisition?
Me too. :-)

All joking aside, I'm still VERY early in this process... I'm in what Steve Blank would call "Customer Discovery," so I don't have a lot to talk about yet. But as I get more into it, and when I have some time, I'll be blogging and writing about my experiences.
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Relativistic Statistical Arbitrage
I'd love to see you write more on this as well. You've clearly thought about it prior to this conversation in a way that I don't think a lot of us have.
For me, it's got kind of the same appeal that lego did as a kid. And The Incredible Machine.

It has other appealing elements, for sure. Exploring large dark randomly generated cave systems with danger at every turn, combining items with other items to make new, more exciting items.

But ultimately, Minecraft taps into the same kind of fun as lego. IMO, it does it even better.
Demand for Twitter hedge fund exceeds expectations
Email me. Lets make it happen.
do you know anyone who doesn't know C but is still excellent at coding/computer-science?

You don't? How parochial. I recommend tht you study a good functional language for a while. It helped me understand coding on a "far deeper level".
Apple Ordered 12PB of Storage (notably for video)
>I remember people using voice chat on the old XBox so much more than they do now. Not sure why that is.

Its the kids and man-children who can't control themselves. Many of my friends either don't use it, or only for group chat because of the prevalence of assholes on live. I enjoy talking on live, I'm the kind of guy who will just be yacking away in the middle of a firefight and even for me, once I encounter an single rude young lady (or at least what sounds like one), I'm done and just toss the headset on the floor. Its not worth it anymore.
> I don't think they've managed to keep up with demand.

They, or our ISP overlords, perhaps.
HTC Desire HD to get Gingerbread update in April
Lean startup machine and the problem with parallel dating
A good company (ie one you want to work for) isn't going to offer you the job unless they really think you're the one they want, and they wouldn't lose that for a few K

Very true...at my current job I didn't even have to negotiate. I didn't provide a salary history, even though they asked. Instead they asked me to give them a reasonable number that was the minimum they could offer where I would accept the position. I picked a number that was 5% over my current salary (though they didn't know that). They gave me that number plus 15%.
As an American living in Oslo, I can say that understanding spoken Norwegian is incredibly difficult. Even Norwegians admit that the divergence of some of the dialects creates problems for them as well. Bokmål's syntax and grammar is not actually that difficult to learn, but because the spoken language is really quite different - even in Oslo - it's very difficult to mentally map the spoken words to the written words. I'm also not sure that I would agree with you concerning the difference in English influence between, for example, Danish and Norwegian. Norway, much like France, does have a group dedicated to coming up with "Norwegian" words for new terms, but those words are often ignored, such as people saying dot instead of punkt when reciting a URL. There was also an article recently about the increasing tendency for Norwegians to say sorry instead of unnskyld or beklager.

Danes and Swedes do not have nearly as wide a variety of accents, and I think that is why they have a much harder time understanding Norwegian than you have understanding them. Norwegians have to grow up learning two native languages, figuring out all the different dialects, and start learning English around the age of 7 or 8 (these days, at least). The affect this has on your ability to grasp languages does not surprise me at all.

Of course, I still find it rather annoying that some of my Norwegian friends expect me to be able to learn Norwegian quickly despite knowing that I work in an English language environment (I share an office with 4 other people, none of whom are Norwegian) and not having a Norwegian spouse or samboer. And, of course, that most of them spent around 10 years in school learning English, not to mention being exposed to it through TV, movies and music.

One last question, though... What's the point of Norway not being in the EU if they keep agreeing to everything the EU enacts? Such as, say, the DLD?
Neat idea, but I can imagine several ways this could go wrong (in the "this is why we can't have nice things" sort of way).

For example, this sort of thing already exists in shadier portions of the internet. It's also the reason why MSFT removed the gift-MS-points feature.
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Why Learning Prolog Can Make You a Better Programmer
In my experience as a foreigner in Scandinavia, Swedes are way way faster to switch to English, many do it almost as soon as I make a small mistake, whereas Norwegians are much more tolerant and will keep up unless I switch myself.
Would love to hear thoughts from the uStream/Justin.tv folk.
YouTube's on a completely different scale. The public and regulators would go apeshit on Google. "We did the best we could" won't cut it.
I could not figure out "(Don't be evil, was a joke?)".
Right, but my point was if you are trying to find that one person 690 meters probably won't help much.
If you dislike your status on a forum, it's easy enough to start a new psuedonym, especially on reddit. I know kleinbl00 has complained about people recognizing him across screennames, but then perhaps it's time for a new one, or a change in writing style.

I think the benefits of a reputation outweigh its negatives though. It won't keep the truly prolific users happy (karmanaut, PDub, kleinbl00, etc), but it will motivate more people overall, I assume.

It is important to have an easy means of becoming anonymous for expressing controversial opinions, however. Perhaps instead of Slashdot's "post as anonymous" checkbox, there could be a "thread psuedonym" button when you want to be anonymous, but hold a coherent discussion.
Kno Bails On Hardware, Takes Another $30 Million. Is An Android App Next?
Tell Carly Fiorina how easy it is to purchase a Senate seat.

About how things have changed in recent years, in Bill Clinton's book My Life one thing that he comments on is how much cleaner politics is today than it was when he was young and just getting involved, and yet how much dirtier the public thinks it is. Based on his insider account I believe that the reality is very different than your perception.
I'm in Virginia, and this happened all the time to me while I was on Comcast, but since switching to another ISP, I never encountered this problem.
apparently the "kids" are older than geohot
He did have a famous tweet :)

#feb11 "Two turkeys do not make an Eagle".
7:45 PM Feb 8th via web

http://twitter.com/vicgundotra/status/35182523650801664
Ask HN: App ideas?
Web and/or mobile.

Two of my ideas:

1. "I Want..." It'd be like fml or textsfromlastnight. There'd be text that says "I Want..." and then a form right next to it that let's the user complete the sentence. Submissions would be ranked via votes or likes. (I'd pay someone who could quickly build this.)

2. Something that aggregates the 10 most interesting news stories of the day and provides (aggregates) thoughtful analysis on those topics from several sources. I don't follow a lot of news online because it changes so fast, but I'd at least like to know a lot of details about a few things each day.
Google higher-ups strike me as not so dumb that they'd misunderstand the crucial nature of that code...
After learning the syntax of a language (let's say C), you are left with the formidable task of learning best practices, idiomatic expressions, frameworks, debuggers, libraries... and then, how to deal with managers, how to hire employees, how to do taxes. And in spare time let's all spend a few years learning C. ;-)

Or rather, a designer is not a good designer if he doesn't have the human anatomy memorized, and no UI specialist is a good UI specialist if s/he's not a good designer. So let's all us who make web forms, go and study human anatomy for 2 years.
No need to take issue with something I didn't say. You mention IMAP, POP and SMTP as targets for replacement. I agree that it's workable to add an additional client protocol without disruption. If it were good then people would support it. If it were good enough then the other protocols would fall into disuse and eventual deprecation. Replacing SMTP would be problematic, though.
Should Your Company Offer an API?
This is how Warren Buffet handles it: (from his memo to managers)

“The priority is that all of us continue to zealously guard Berkshire’s reputation. We can’t be perfect but we can try to be. As I’ve said in these memos for more than 25 years: We can afford to lose money – even a lot of money. But we can’t afford to lose reputation – even a shred of reputation.” We must continue to measure every act against not only what is legal but also what we would be happy to have written about on the front page of a national newspaper in an article written by an unfriendly but intelligent reporter.

Sometimes your associates will say ‘Everybody else is doing it.’ This rationale is almost always a bad one if it is the main justification for a business action. It is totally unacceptable when evaluating a moral decision. Whenever somebody offers that phrase as a rationale, in effect they are saying that they can’t come up with a good reason. If anyone gives this explanation, tell them to try using it with a reporter or a judge and see how far it gets them….

Somebody is doing something today at Berkshire that you and I would be unhappy about if we knew of it. That’s inevitable: We now employ more than 250,000 people and the chances of that number getting through the day without any bad behavior occurring is nil. But we can have a huge effect in minimizing such activities by jumping on anything immediately when there is the slightest odor of impropriety. Your attitude on such matters, expressed by behavior as well as words, will be the most important factor in how the culture of your business develops. Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves.