skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is such an interesting company.

Compare this page with an Apple page trying to sell a product: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/ or http://www.apple.com/ipod

There's absolutely no comparison. My non-technical friends (heck, even me) are just absolutely more receptive towards that second page.

For all of Google's resources as a gargantuan company...can't they just find some small dash of good design somewhere?

(Not bashing Chrome OS. Looks absolutely wonderful. This is just what I thought when I visited the page...and HN sometimes is for nitpicking :)
here's a link that works for comcast users http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://thepirateb...

I don't use the site, but I also don't think comcast should determine which sites you have access to.
I am sure they do. But they have to rely on such distribution deals to make most revenue. They won't be able to distribute via main stream mediums like movie theaters and TV channels on their own because of extensive offshore logistics.
Actually, bitcoins being classified as securities might make it easier for governments to crack down on them: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1817857

Securities are more closely regulated than commodities in the US. I'm not sure what the laws are in Japan, where Mt. Gox is located, but I expect they could find some legal pretense to raid the exchange. There may be more exchanges popping up all the time, but almost everyone uses Mt. Gox. As a result, they're holding a huge amount of bitcoins and digital cash. That makes it a major target for a raid.

I wonder if they will start keeping backup servers in multiple countries, like Wikileaks? I'm not sure if that would protect peoples' digital cash, but their bitcoins would be safe in the event of a raid on the main server.
I did this once for a Project Euler question. I called the function "awful-thing". It worked.

;this calculates (a+b√sqr)^n, using exponentiation by squaring
(def awful-thing (n a b sqr)
(afnwith (n n i a r b it 1 rt 0)
(if (is n 0)
(list it rt)
(even n)
(self (/ n 2)
(+ (square i) (* sqr (square r)))
(* 2 i r)
it
rt)
(self (- n 1)
i
r
(+ (* i it) (* sqr r rt))
(+ (* i rt) (* r it))))))

(def fib (n)
(with (pow2 (expt 2 n)
hh (map - (awful-thing n 1 1 5) (awful-thing n 1 -1 5)))
;now hh = '(a b) where (fib n) = (a + b*root5)/(root5*pow2)
;a should = 0
(/ (cadr hh)
pow2)))
They get money from ads, and what ad company will pay for users outside of their market? Ad-free is wasted bandwidth.
BTW: I'm switching over to NetWare now.
osvdb.org shows only one kernel vulnerability!
The news has now gone mainstream in the Netherlands, I doubt if this practice will survive the legal and political shitstorm it's about to cause.
permutation([X|XS],YS) :- permutation(XS,ZS),select(X,YS,ZS).

Where is ZS defined? Bear in mind that I only took half a module's worth (6 modules in a year at my university) of Prolog and we really just used it for learning predicate logic.

Nevertheless, using Prolog (especially when my code worked!) blew my mind. In the assignment I had to write a program that mimicked part of an aircraft controller in that each aircraft in it's flightplan had to be separated from all other aircraft. Do you think Prolog will ever become popular (perhaps with the incoming Semantic web) or is it destined for academic work and system proofs only?
Comcast are denying deliberately blocking it, from their Twitter customer support team:

"We don't block websites. But did escalate and looking into it"

http://twitter.com/#!/ComcastBill/status/68657127429910528
This is fantastic, I was just looking for a way to turn incoming emails into Resque jobs for a weekend project without having to mess with postfix mail filters, and I was just about to resort to paying for SendGrid.
Ubuntu is all about the ease of use. How do you explain to your non-technical wife, for example, what a login manager is, what it does and why you'd want a better, lighter one? I like this change. I wish they'd switch away from Gnome entirely and go with something like XFCE by default. I want my DE to take up as little resources as possible out of the box.
I was going to reply with all the legal stuff on TPB, but I wanted to point out that even the biggest-budget and most popular content can survive even if it's available for free. There are a lot of producers who distribute primarily on P2P and it doesn't seem to be any harder for them to make money. I think http://vodo.net/ is the biggest example that comes to mind right now, and individual artists like http://www.pronobozo.com/ are doing OK on their own as well.
I love the Ubuntu team's willingness to move the platform forward. Even if that means making controversial decisions.
WordPress 3.2, Beta 1
Ask HN: Any advice for a developer wanting to work in SF?
Hi to the HN community.

I'm a french engineer willing to work in SF because i love to travel, explore new cultures and meeting people and above all i love to code and work on exciting projects that challenges me every single day and from which i can learn, and i think SF might be a good place to stop by.

So I'm soliciting your help for finding the best position/project/company I can work for.

And for that I asks you if you have any advice on how to prepare myself applying for jobs.
I heard that resumes companies wants are not the same than Europeans ones.

This is a link to my resume I've made in English http://www.scribd.com/doc/55254341/CYResume , what do you think of it ?

And do you think that open source projects are a requirement for most companies ? A blog ?

Do i have to meet all these requirements before applying ?

Thanks in advance

Ps: If some of you are interested by my profile, don't hesitate to contact me.
Bluetooth keyboards work on webOS 2.0 and later. The webOS emulator runs as x86 virtual machine and uses your keyboard and mouse from the host PC. Some people have boot that image directly on PC hardware with varying degrees of success.
Well, Smooth Streaming (using Silverlight) is Microsofts "new" streaming platform. It's like asking Adobe to not have Flash on their website.
It would be very interesting if this data were broken down both by more than just income, e.g. ethnicity [1] and immigration status. Unfortunately, the effect being described could easily be caused solely by composition changes.

A hypothesis I'd love to see tested: immigrants have shorter life expectancies [2] and are more likely to be in the bottom 50%. Therefore, an increased proportion of immigrants reduces the average life expectancy of the bottom 50%.

[1] Ethnic gaps in life expectancy are huge. Asians life 10 years more than blacks, for example.

[2] Might be tough to get data on this. My understanding is that immigrant life expectancy data is weak because many immigrants go back home to die (which skews the numbers).
Trouble? Download the Tor browser bundle and launch it. It's just about the easiest solution imaginable.
Defaults are what 99% of people use, luckily Ubuntu allows you to change the defaults as easily as "apt-get install gdm".
Ancient. I stand by my response the first time this appeared on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=247753
I used your service to listen to the fire fighters last fall during the fires west of Boulder. Great service, thanks!
IIRC, magnet URLs were invented so bittorrent doesn't have to rely on centralised trackers
Boardgames: a healthy snack for developers & designers
They can, of course, be obscured with port forwarding, but I guess that isn't so big a current concern of the carriers.
Sadly, most of those people don't realize this is what is happening, or what the implications of such control and ownership are.
Mixing it up: when F# meets C#
Antimatter caught streaming from thunderstorms on Earth
We have been using Scala pretty heavily since 2008 at Capital IQ (capitaliq.com) and ClariFI (http://clarifi.com/) - check out this writeup - http://pchiusano.blogspot.com/2009/08/scala-success-story-co.... Since then we've only increased our usage and it's been working out extremely well.
It wouldn't surprise me if they'll just give unidentifiable traffic the lowest possible priority on their network to discourage it.
What scientific concept would improve everyone's cognitive toolkit?
clickable link for my resume

http://www.scribd.com/doc/55254341/CYResume
Browsers are winning as runtime environments, and thry include offline, local apps. The difference between Chromebooks and other devices is that apps written for the former should work on the latter. The issue isn't Chrome OS (or, say, Safari OS or Firefox OS or IEOS); what runs on my Cr-48 runs on every other device too, while apps on the iPhone in my hands and the Ubuntu desktop at my house and Windows desktop at my office all contain apps that can't run on my Cr-48.

HTML, CSS, and JS already won, in the sense that English had "won" a hundred years ago. What I'm waiting for browser performance and developers (myself included) to write apps that "bang", not webbooks that run legacy software.
I do not understand this worry or whatever it is at all. I’m always completely baffled when someone brings it up.

Content creation has never been as cheap as today. To suggest that tablets or netbooks will somehow limit that ability seems crazy to me. Just because the software isn’t yet written? Because that’s what’s happening, the software is written and perfected (Have you seen GarageBand? Google Docs? The list goes on.) and meanwhile we are all in transition anyway. All those PCs won’t disappear overnight.

This is one of those crazy way-too-premature worries.
I used to live a few blocks away from this place. They sell and service bikes and sell related gear. They're a fairly run-of-the-mill higher-end bike shop.
Available in Canada , FUUUUUUUUUUUU
Am I right to presume that this system with regional licences was set up by the studios themselves? What stops a studio from skipping their regional partners and just release their content worldwide?

The internet doesn't really know regions, so local distribution partners are no longer a concern (Except maybo for localizing content).
You need to fill in the tax crap if u want the developer access and the Enyo early access. In other words if you are hoping to get any revenues from your apps. You also need a paypal account. Just for the SDK you can stick to the community member level.
Yet another reason not to bet on Apple
Go for it, you just need a bit of patience in the beginning, but if you comminicate well in your proposal (provide some rough ideas about possible implementations, related experience, etc.) you stand a good chance of getting work. Once you get a few good reviews you stand a better chance that you will be invited to work without having to apply directly as well.
>After all it's not Microsoft's job to further the Linux, iOs, OSX, Android, WebOS et al platforms.

Shouldn't they be using this as another opportunity to win users for their OS. Surely if they show me how well their software works then that's big attraction to use their OS and hence buy in to their other offerings.

This announcement has me really annoyed. I set all the family up on Skype with webcams for Christmas and have been waiting for the Linux client to be eventually updated. Now I'll be searching for an alternative ...

I don't hate MS, they do some pretty cool stuff, they seem to hate me though.
Comcast denies blocking thepiratebay
Audble's Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX)
In case you were wondering, the receiver of the email needs to have this installed as well:

"GmailTeX does not modify any of your emails on the Google server, or the emails that you send out. It only changes the presentation in your browser. The recepients of your emails also need GmailTeX or other typesetting system to view the math."
Can someone edit the title to read “Linus Torvalds on the ‘OpenBSD crowd … of masturbating monkeys’ (2008)”?
Nope, it's like asking Adobe to support Linux with a flash client, oh wait Adobe do that and it's even updated quite often ... you can hardly accuse Adobe of being a one OS only operation.

Get back to us when MS have a Silverlight plugin in the Ubuntu repos and allow their browser to be used on other people's OS.
They do employ masses of quants, though, who can chew through this sort thing quite easily.
For those not familiar with the matter: KPN used to be the state (monopoly) teleco company before privatization of the telco industry. As some other carriers, they banked too much on voice and SMS services. Since that income is quickly evaporating, they have to fire thousands of employees in the near future.

They are now trying to compensate their strategic mistakes by introducing tiered internet subscriptions where customers pay higher subscription fees to use VOIP and messaging services. Since there are only three big mobile operators in The Netherlands (T-Mobile, Vodafone, KPN), the worry is that the others will quickly follow suit.
Much better now! Though I kinda liked the image :) Also, why not have the company name in <h1>? Just an idea though.
Human (me) translation. All parentheses mine.

KPN uses deep packet inspection on mobile internet communications.

In a (Q&A) session with investors, KPN has admitted making use of controversial deep packet inspection technologies. By doing so the telecommunications company might be in violation of the law.

In a question and answer session with investors Marco Visser - VP of KPN Mobiel Nederland - confirmed KPN to have used controversial deep packet inspection eavesdropping methods to map mobile data traffic of it's customers. "As far as we know we are the first in the world to do this", according to the VP. According to Visser one of the purposes of dpi is measuring the WhatsApp-penetration among certain groups of customers.

Tuesday KPN CEO Eelco Blok presented numbers(/statistics) meant to illustrate the rapid growth of "sms-killer" WhatsApp among Hi(KPN)-customers. Now it is understood from Visser's comments that this data has been collected with the use of deep packet inspection over a period of at least nine months.

Visser also told shareholders that KPN intends to apply this same technology to VOIP-traffic to enable them to charge separately for related applications. Earlier this year KPN already announced the introduction of new subscription models and for prices of mobile internet subscriptions to increase, but the company never made clear which methods would be used to detect uses/applications like VOIP in its mobile data-streams.

It's unclear if KPN currently still makes use of dpi on it's mobile network, and if the telecommunications company also uses it on it's other networks; the company has yet to respond to any questions regarding the matter. It's also unknown whether KPN only analyses packet headers, or if their analysis also includes the payload. Nevertheless KPN enters a gray area with their use of dpi, and is possibly in violation of the law.
Do you think Square could take on Visa & MasterCard if they get enough traction?
Actually the difference in performance/resources between a very light WM and gnome is not that big nowadays.

On my 4 years old netbook I run compiz stand alone as WM and I am not getting any slower than xfwm or openbox
I think the idea of people leaving Silicon Valley to go to India is ridiculous, unless they want to take an 80-90% pay cut.

However the idea that companies don't need to hire just from Silicon Valley and in fact can hire from anywhere in the world is an emerging trend that is about to get a whole lot more prevalent.

The concept of hiring from the city or country you live in is an antiquated notion.
Last.fm launches crowdsourcing experiment for tempo (BPM) detection
This was my first thought as well. Whether they like it or not, founders are always leading by example.
Airlines try to cater that with frequent flyer programs.
The only thing Bitcoin poses a threat to is the t-shirt vendors and hosting providers who are accepting it as payment. Until the Bitcoin PR campaign graduates from hacker news, it's at best an academic discussion

At worst, BitCoin at this point is a scam where people who got involved with it early who are sitting on lots of BitCoin need to keep up a level of interest to cash out BitCoin for coin, as the curious poke around with it.
This is the page you should be comparing to: http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/chromebook
Tell HN: Use Pop-Up Log-In Forms and People Can't Use LastPass to Log in
I don't know which direction log-in UX is heading, but I need to make it clear to everyone designing a log-in page that if you are designing a log-in page, do not create one that pops up. Visitors who use LastPass might hate you for it.

For people who don't know, LastPass is, at its core, a service to store all your passwords that can be generated at random by LastPass, when people sign up. This creates a large, protected vault of log-in information. When a LastPass user encounters a log-in page, LastPass can automatically fill in the forms. The alternative would be to memorize your passwords, which, for the paranoid lot of us, are probably base-64, 32-character-long ones.

Let me give you an example of what happens when you use different forms. Etsy does both things which serves as a great example.

If I use their pop-up log-in button on the front page, this is what happens: http://i.imgur.com/x0rZZ.png. Note how none of the forms are filled out by LastPass.

If I use the "regular" HTML form on https://www.etsy.com/signin, this happens: http://i.imgur.com/9rtCp.png.

If the latter log-in is not available, I will have to click my LastPass icon, go to my vault, search for my Etsy credentials, copy them to my clipboard, and paste them into the pop-up form in order to log in.

But the worst is when the sign-up forms are pop-ups; now my credentials aren't saved, and you had better have a safe system for forgotten passwords, because you are bound to receive them. This is because the credentials aren't saved to LastPass, when they are in pop-up JavaScript. A royal pain in the ass.

I can only speak from personal experience, but for the love of everything UX, please, please, please use regular forms without any fancy JavaScript dingus, even though you just discovered jQuery for the first time.

With the increasing privacy concerns, LastPass users are going to grow in numbers - not dwindle - so you are going to annoy and possibly deter a lot of users inadvertently, if you don't get your log-in prompts right.
Book Review: Java Precisely
Unity doesn't strikes me as particularly light ...

I am not sure pissing off core GNOME developers with its ever changing new directions is going to help them in the long run.

On the other hand I might be proved wrong if while increase its user base Ubuntu manage to convert some of them in core durable developer.

IMHO, then it's not GNOME anymore. It's a new desktop akin to XFCE as they diverge more and more. It was foreseeable, especially in light of previous two year that's what was going to happen.

Time will tell.
I'm quite sure Microsoft really doesn't care about Linux. It cares about Smooth Streaming though.
I'm on Comcast and also can't access TPB. Doing a tracert, the packets are lost in inside of TPB network. Thepiratebay.piratpartiet.se is as far as I can reach.
This same thing is a problem with eBooks. They haven't come to grips with it yet.
Fortunately, the current policy of national insolvency will address the situation by making us all equally broke.
What is it about Twitter that gets people into trouble?
Clickable:

http://etsy.com
http://i.imgur.com/x0rZZ.png

https://www.etsy.com/signin
http://i.imgur.com/9rtCp.png
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> oh wait Adobe do that and it's even updated quite often

Your memory must be pretty short, its only recently that Adobe have released new flash version to Linux at the same time as OSX & Windows, and even more recently that they released a 64bit version. Companies can change.
Fascinating. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for now, but didn't they deny blocking bittorrent in general before they finally admitted it later and stopped? Do you trust them? Do you think customer relations would be let in on what would obviously be a PR nightmare?

I worked for AT&T and was regularly left in the dark, finding out later on that what I was told to say was in fact not the truth. I'm not putting on a tin foil hat just yet, but I'm suspicious.
IE6 is Almost Dead.  When are you dropping support?
By race here: http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/subtleties-of-li... .
Problem is Internet distribution is still a small percentage of their business and most distribution partners demand exclusive rights.

Distribution of content globally via Internet would still require regional monetization effort like regional advertisers and payment processing.
You surely haven't missed the fact that the current advertisement push of HP is not about the Pre 2 though, but about the new lineup which starts to be on sale from next sunday on (starting with the HP Veer, followed by the Pre 3 and the Tablet which integrates with those two).

So yes: technically, it is the most recent. Practically, only for 3 more days.
I'm wondering if this means I'll have to jump through hoops again to not have everybody know what usernames are available on my computer.
Wikipedia knows plenty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_%28programming%29#....

My favorite is probably the classic 0xDEADF00D, but I also like 0xCAFEBABE as used by Java class files, and 0xFEEDFACE since it's just funny.

True, these mostly stand out in hex, but they would be "very large" in decimal which often stands out pretty well.
I would recommend checking out some other start ups that may be of interest to you. You should try attending one of the tech meet ups: http://www.meetup.com/sfnewtech/
But why this jumping through hoops when for less money the US could have universal healthcare like every other civilized country?

Then everyone has an interest in generally reducing smoking and bettering diets.
I really like your approach, obvious but it didn't cross my mind before. Using the freelancing sites to bootstrap yourself but aiming towards long-term relationships and referrals.
Two questions though:
1. Can you share what you do as a freelancer?
2. You are not longer active on oDesk or any other freelance sites then?
You're touching on alternative business-models. Alternative as in different than creating shit then selling it directly ... a general business model that has worked since money where invented.

And the problem with these business models is that they aren't general enough (working on a case by case basis) and don't even survive the onslaught of technological evolution.

Music artists can make money from concerts (they always did). But in case you haven't noticed, theaters are in big trouble, artists many times having to seek out employment in sitcoms/trashy TV shows to make a living. One month ago I also watched an opera show in 3D with surround sound ... it was like being there and it will only get better.

Yes, you can find artists that do well by riding the Internet wave / the freemium business model. That doesn't mean it works on a bigger scale or that it will continue to work 5 years from now.

Creating shit and selling it if it provides value is the only sustainable and general business-model. Society would be worse without it, unless you're talking about getting rid of money altogether.