skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what about a site that allows local communities to organise and co-ordinate? Your big problem would be astroturfing, but if you did it right, it would be as simple for them to arrange for 'Lets get rid of taxes on oil firms" as "Lets get the garbage taken out properly in the xth district in y area", then to link them together.

I think the key thing is to disrupt the lobby structure. If we can do that as well as MP3 downloads disrupted the RIAA then we win.
If I haven't visited facebook.com in months, am I safe?
"The airlines would rather have an empty seat than sell it for 50 bucks on a 200 dollar flight."

Makes no sense, the marginal cost of an addittional passenger isn't even a bag of peanuts anymore, why wouldn't they want your money, even if its $10? Plus luggage fee. I'm sure you have a valid reason, so please share.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20061878-266.html

CNET Confirms
Thought that you might be interested in this old thread :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1966021
No, there's no way to completely hide the source. However, we do have a key manager API that can be used to hide encryption keys so they're not exposed in your source.
And here is more http://blogs.igalia.com/mario/2011/05/11/an-unexpected-e-mai...
say what you will about Zero Hedge, but I find it to be an invaluable site. The comments are utter crap, and a lot of the stories are selectively chosen/biased in other ways, but the same is true of the Wall Street Journal and other mainstream news sources - I find it to be an extremely valuable counterpoint.

No, I am not surprised.
The irony is... running back to native platforms because the web sucks is exactly why the web still sucks.
If about:gpu shows that your video card is blacklisted, you might try starting Chrome from the command line with --ignore-gpu-blacklist to see if it still works.
I think that's a great commercial website, better than the majority of commercial websites in existence today.

I would include several sentences about the business and a photo or two for perfection.

"BikeTek sells and repairs all kinds of bicycles, with an emphasis on left-handed 7-wheeled racing bicycles. We maintain an inventory of about 700 bicycles and can get anything you want in stock within a week."

I would also probably make it a minimally valid HTML page. But other than that, perfect.
Regulation and control is by its nature an adversarial relationship. You cannot be an effective adversary if that will compromise your ability to be an advocate or employee of whomever you're regulating.

Just as an auditor doesn't need to be a domain expert to audit a companies books, a regulator doesn't need to be one, at least from an industry POV.
That's deep man, but I posed an actual question.

BigTable (which I use daily and have extensive experience with) offers atomic and transactional updates at the row level. It uses Paxos to guarantee that at most one process at a time owns each row and can mutate it. That process keeps a sequential log that imposes an absolute order over updates to that row.

So it appears to me that despite being a NoSQL database, BigTable rows offer both ACID and the "C" of CAP. In fact, I bet it would be possible to implement a MySQL backend that uses a BigTable row as its storage.

I get strlen's point that C != C (it's more analogous to A/I), but my real point is that NoSQL (at least in the case of BigTable) doesn't appear to be fundamentally different than SQL in the offered guarantees, but rather in the granularity at which those guarantees are offered. NoSQL just takes the traditional one-single-ACID-entity model (a SQL database) and breaks it apart into lots of little ACID entities called rows/keys/documents/etc.

CAP of course applies to both SQL and NoSQL equally.
I've got my own servers so I just run openvpn on one of them and use tunnelblick on my mac to connect.
The conventional orientation for light switches is opposite in the US and the UK. But it's not a very strong convention because it doesn't apply to multi-switch arrangements as on staircases.
it might have been a good idea to do that before quitting...
Lessons learned in iOS development
It could be. Who knows. What I do know is that Chrome & ChromeOS have got some of the most diligent security-minded hackers in the world working on them. I get occasional updates on the stuff they are doing to make Chrome secure. Things like the sandbox, SPDY, HSTS and more. This sort of thing will just motivate them to work smarter & harder.
You can defeat the variable interval by simply checking rarely enough that there is always new mail.
Far too often I spend what seems like ages clicking around a store website trying to find where they are and when they are open.
That's the problem with big government... it size as a consumer builds in a need for companies to schmooze with and influence the government. The US government EVERY DAY than ExxonMobil makes in a year.

That doesn't excuse crony capitalism or outright corruption. But it does help to know where it comes from.
I've lived in Berkeley, SOMA, Mountain View, now in san jose.

I'd recommend you live at the tail end of bart in the peninsula. Technical networking tends to be better in sbay but the most interesting events are in sf. East bay doesn't compare unless you're somehow involved with ucb.
Anyone working on a command line client? I suppose I should get to it.
Gradients are working much better in webOS 3.0, coming on the HP TouchPad
Lil' B, stop trying to outsmart us all, MongoDB works, supports JSON, and autoshards.
ps. no need to sign your comments here: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Okay, to 'out do' the competition.

But that is a relatively new reason or emphasis if only because in the past 'venture capital' could invest in something on the back of a napkin and was needed for a lot in buying hardware and software, office furniture, recruiting, salaries, doing the development, building a marketing organization, starting the selling cycle, etc. before any revenue.

Now a motherboard for a 4 core processor with a 3 GHz clock is about $100; a server farm style 1 TB disk drive is about the same; Unix style software is not very expensive, and the Microsoft BizSpark program will let a startup use Microsoft software for free for a while, etc. The venture people want the development done, the site live, users, and, thus, likely revenue, and users and revenue growing rapidly. So, the situation now is much different than before.

So, before there were a lot of strong reasons to take equity funding, and now the reasons are much weaker.
I've passed this on to our dev portal design team. I hope we can get a fix for the blog theme soon; the scaling broke as part of a portal redesign back in March.
Yes, but it's still easier to change his idea now rather than after spending 4 months building something.
Why haven't they made a tool/framework for porting WebOS apps (non-native) to iOS & android? This would be a great way to leverage their superior developer experience to get more apps on their platform.
WebOS is definitely very cool.

I doubt WebOS can overtake Android or iOS at this point, but it should be a solid third place in this market (I don't think other competitors like WP7 or Bada can make it).
One of my main issues with WebOS from day one has been the lack of what I would regard as decent hardware.

Another issue in the past, which I hope has much improved since is the developer outreach which really sucked when I tried to engage. This was pre-HP acquisition. The fact that @unwiredben is active in this discussion is a good sign.
I'd like to see the arguments for a bill like this. What exactly can they say that prevents it from infringing on the basic rights listed in the Bill of Rights
"Sorry, you must be in the US to use PintPay"

Ugh. I'm a Canadian. A Maple Tree just died because you made this a U.S. only service.
Somebody forgot to renew Processing js's domain
I don't think it's a problem of awareness. NPR just now aired a brief story on the Comcast lobbyist.
A compatibility layer on top of say PhoneGap could do the job. There would be a bit of a performance hit I imagine though. I doubt that V8 is any faster on Android than it is on WebOS, but the added layer of abstraction would slow things down a bit on non-WebOS platforms.
"ex-DoubleClick exec" gives the image of some kind of ad executive or something, which is not what Dwight is.

http://www.10gen.com/video/mongosv2010/replication
You do understand that people are literally going to google to watch this animation, play pac-man and whatever else cool that happens on the frontpage? Made it to Hacker News frontpage and people are talking about Google's homepage. Job well done.
I am quite happy with my Pre 2 (a gift by the developer program - they aren't sold in Brazil). There are a couple issues, as it appears to have never been tested here - GPS seems slow and may have a bug in its software, various reception weirdnesses (hard to get it to use 3G), but, overall, it's a very solid and responsive phone.

I expect the 3 to up that a notch. Right now, I prefer it over iPhone and Android, as actually doing things (as opposed as to opening programs) happens more fluidly.
Some obnoxious bint beloved by people who clamor to be his oppressed, destitute underclass.

(What's that? They all think that they'll be him? Statistics would like to have a word, folks.)
Though Ms. Baker was appointed to what is considered an independent regulatory agency, she signed the administration’s ethics pledge upon taking office in July 2009. Under the pledge, she will not be allowed to lobby anyone at the F.C.C. for two years after her departure.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/f-c-c-commi...
JS11: A compact version of JavaScript
I actually like the slider keyboard. If offers much better typing than an iPhone 4 and infinitely better than Androids.
So, what do they do?
The beauty of digital photography is that you can take pictures all day at no cost and see your results instantly. So instead of running this program, get your friend with an SLR to go on an outing with you and let you do most of the shooting.

Go outside and fill up a memory card while you systematically work through the settings. After you get the hang of exposure you can start in on the different settings for metering, autofocus, manual focus, jpeg processing, black and white, motor drive, use of flash, different lenses, not to mention composition choices, interacting with the subject, use of filters, creative panning or rotating. Real photography is more fun than tweaking sliders on a flash app.
Lots of A/B testing went into this.
Why Ruby on Rails is Hot
Java and Open Type Systems
I love it simply because its the best SSH experience of all of the smartphones. One click gets me the phones real terminal and then "ssh -l me whereever.com". No bogus setup screens, with each server requiring a 5 minute fill in the blank session to connect to, no menus full of special keys to transmit (most covered with the orange key), just pure .ssh/id_dsa public key in my home-dir win.

Its 10x easier than the best thing on my ipad and its with me 24/7 because it also happens to be my phone. Other problems with WebOS and Pre? Sure there are. This makes up for all of them. Smartphone makers: rent-seek my terminal, you lose.
Literally much better than every single restaurant website I've ever had the displeasure of visiting.
No and if you are legitimately shocked, then you don't understand to what extent the government is infiltrated with Goldman Sachs-men.

Goldman Sachs' Revolving Door: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20001981-10391695.html

"A CBS News analysis of the revolving door between Goldman and government reveals at least four dozen former employees, lobbyists or advisers at the highest reaches of power both in Washington and around the world. [. . .] For example, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is a former Goldman CEO; Arthur Levitt, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission is a now a Goldman adviser; and former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt is now a paid lobbyist for the firm. "

They then go on to list another 49 high ranking government persons who are Goldman Sachs-men.

Goldman Sachs is only one of the vile companies that have infiltrated the government and dominate all sorts of positions and committees to directly promote their own agendas (or, in some cases, bail their own companies out with trillion dollar plans after using the media to scare-monger the entire country about impending doom if we don't let the Goldman Sachs guys in the government give the Goldman Sachs guys in the company the bailout). There are plenty of other companies, too. Monsanto has a pretty heavy representation, but the list goes on and on. Just get googling and you'll spend days learning of all the unbelievable corruptions that we've been letting go on for decades. A fun one to look up is how corporate employees within the government have used their positions to fast-track things through the FDA for companies that theyw ere employees of (or became employees of as a reward, after they left the public position). Sometimes, even directly against the advice and complaint of the FDA's own scientists. Look up stuff like the rBGH, aspartame, round-up ready monsanto corn seeds, and manipulating data and fast-tracking FDA approvals for companies officials have been cozy with.

There are plenty of other examples that I'm probably not even aware of. These are just some of the most documented and commonly covered.
Their next app (web?) framework, Enyo, does exactly this (in fact, apps are developed in Chrome). They haven't announced the licensing options (i.e. if it will be legal to use on other platforms), but I've run the betas of it on my iPad and they work quite well.

When webOS 3.0 comes out, it's really up to HP Palm if they want to allow this.
Goldman Sachs didn't have to convince anyone of anything. They already ran the treasury and the SEC.
I don't know, it seems to me that businesses and schools would have little use for these machines. I have a pilot CR48 and there's no way I could have used it as a primary machine at uni and I can't think of one employee in my company that doesn't rely on some non-web application.

For me, the CR48 has been an amazing couch and travel machine. It's lightweight, cool, instant-on and has a great battery. The 3G is awesome while on the road, just one click and I have internet everywhere. If I have to do a non-web task I connect to my home desktop with Teamviewer (works great).
Facebook, too.
Google tasks is integrated into Google apps gmail. That's why I use it. Marking an email as "todo" is great, and sufficient for my needs
Founder greed and bad timing.
If I love one device over the other because it gives me more potential earnings, does that make me less of a geek?
Lol :) ...

Well the one thing you cant do is be totally transparent to them about your "successes/winnings in efficiency". Ie be transparent about mistakes but your only communication of "success" is to deliver the product or a release to production.

Your art is yours. This increases your power as well. The problem with sharing "successes/winnings in efficiency" is that they dont understand what it means. For them its just a reason to shorten the timeline.
BigTable enforces integrity constraints defined by a schema on a per-row basis? This is interesting news. Why hasn't Google included this information in any of the published materials describing the system?

- Forever Malone
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4327846/calculating-fibon...

It's straightforward (if messy) to calculate two rationals exactly, then approximate √5 to within certain error bounds.

I wrote some code which does this, just as an experiment... and it's unbearably slow. Just try it.

import Control.Arrow
import Data.Ratio

newtype Matrix2 a = Matrix2 (a, a, a, a) deriving (Show, Eq)
instance (Num a) => Num (Matrix2 a) where
Matrix2 (a, b, c, d) * Matrix2 (e, f, g, h) =
Matrix2 (a*e+b*g, a*f+b*h, c*e+d*g, c*f+d*h)
fromInteger x = let y = fromInteger x in Matrix2 (y, 0, 0, y)
fib n = let Matrix2 (_, x, _, _) = Matrix2 (1, 1, 1, 0) ^ n in x

binom n =
scanl (\a (b, c)-> a*b `div` c) 1 $
takeWhile ((/=) 0 . fst) $ iterate (pred *** succ) (n, 1)
evens (x:_:xs) = x : evens xs
evens xs = xs
odds (_:x:xs) = x : odds xs
odds _ = []
iterate' f x = x : (iterate f $! f x)
powers b = iterate (b *) 1
esqrt e n = x where
(_, x):_ = dropWhile ((<=) e . abs . uncurry (-)) $ zip trials (tail trials)
trials = iterate (\x -> (x + n / x) / 2) n
fib' n = (a, b) where
d = 2 ^ n
a = sum (zipWith (*) (odds $ binom n) (powers 5)) % d
b = sum (zipWith (*) (evens $ binom n) (powers 5)) % d
fib2 n = numerator r `div` denominator r where
(a, b) = fib' n
l = lcm (denominator a) (denominator a)
r = a + esqrt (1 % l) (b * b / 5) + 1 % 2
Every time I go to a restaurant that's practically empty, I check the website on my phone and it's always really bad (busy restaurants usually have at least a decent site). The worst part is I often offer to do a redesign for a modest price but they never see the value in it.
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Strange, it works for me on iPhone 4. You might also try two-finger scrolling, which is a hidden workaround for independently scrollable divs.
And once again (I'm going to start keeping track!), we don't want to believe something is true, so we invent a controversy to avoid grappling with its implications. Go us!
WebOS keeps getting more and more compelling. If the hardware becomes sturdier, this could do very well, especially in the tablet space.
As a commenter on the article mentions it doesn't prevent her from Lobbying congress or simply doing it through a proxy to the FCC.
The Surprising Reason Publishers Are Finally Saying Yes to Apple
The "employ a hacker to catch a hacker" methodology of hiring is fine, if your hacker is going to catch other hackers. If you're actually just hiring thieves to help themselves to all they can carry in their pockets, then their expertise really isn't relevant beyond their own self-serving exploitation of that knowledge domain.
Intersection of HN and Techmeme
I would link the email address, but other than that, it's nearly perfect. I agree a description of what they do would be helpful.

I treat my website the same way: http://nathanmanousos.com/
I'm not really seeing how this wins in the "computer as appliance" market when the competition is the iPad, the Playbook and all the other imitators...

Am I missing something here? Why wouldn't you just purchase an iPad?
I would love it but I can't make myself like an HP product because HP has been selling thousands frozen WindowsXP + IE6 computers to the universities in my country.
Wired/Poulsen/Lamo attack piece. Flagged.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Lamo#Greenwald.2C_Lamo.2...
In this case, the "lobbying" was done from the inside as a regulator, and now comes the cushy job in which she can barely operate except to dump her rolodex and manage people.
hack comment used:

"hack", interesting use of the word
If HP made an iPod Touch competitor, I would buy one in a heartbeat. I don't want to buy another phone, but I'd love to have a WebOS device to play with.
Yelp moves to Spain
Yes. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2538550
How to Install and Play Angry Birds Online on Google Chrome
This is exactly my situation. I work remotely as an Engineering Manager. I have a 19 month old daughter. I have a nanny that comes in from 9-530. If I need to work longer than that, I typically do so after our daughter is asleep. I've been doing this since I went back to work when she was 12 weeks old: at that time I also took breaks through the day to breastfeed.

Good luck. It's the best arrangement ever.
It seems like a cross between CoffeeScript and JavaScript, leaning towards the JS side. I haven't tried it, but some of the new features it adds seem interesting (like the ability to use "if var isn't value { }"). I like that it translates 1:1, so that you don't have to hunt down strange errors in code that you didn't organize. However, the automatic semicolon insertion a) is already in JS, in some cases, and b) could get obnoxious.
I vote we prepend "Claims:" to this fabulous list, submit it to the patent office and put Myhrvold out of a job.
Yes, there are honest, well-meaning, hard-working people working in government, but there are also lying, corrupt, self-interested politicians lobbied heavily by corporations. When news like this comes out, it just adds to the suspicion and paranoia that all the war lies and government bailouts have already brought upon the American people. It doesn't help.
Typical Wired sensationalist bullshit.
Because it's not an iPad?
Four Elements of Web Performance
What about a social-network-like site where people communicate directly with their elected officials?

This would need someway to make sure that the politician was actually looking at the site and not just the delegating it to subordinates. Having a direct line to these politicians (that cuts past all of the subordinates that answer email, snail mail, etc) is one of the strengths of lobby groups.
It's really become a sad state of affairs in the telecom industry. All of these "leaders" claim to foster innovation with their decisions when they're actually just lining their pockets. It's comforting to know that the old regime is slowly dying off. Let's hope the future wave of leaders call out the bullshit and actually do something with their time. Really disappointing to see this taking place.
I wasn't aware there was a consensus that prompting for reviews is a bad idea. I would guess the devs thinking it's bad is doing it wrong. Yes, personally I hate being prompted to rate an app right upon launching - I launched it to use the app, not rate it. On my app, I prompt after the user saves - which marks the end of the activity.
http://www.justice.gov/contact-us.html
same for me :P
some of those seem off. The first EV, for example, predates its "prediction" by like 60 years: http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/History-Of-...
Slow and laggy. MB Air with latest Chrome and OpenGL enabled.
Well, I wouldn't be betting my shares on that particular marketing point.
nice logic. According to you the GP is guilty of having the trillion dollars taken from him.
Don't be gratuitously mean. I (and others) put in comments like this when we want to express more appreciation than an upvote.
Thank you for the suggestions, I'll work on making the site more clear to a technical audience.

Our first draft of the site was actually very heavy on the tech details but we ended up trying to dumb it down a bit to appeal to a wider audience. It's tough trying to find a good balance between the two.
Considering how many management changes ago it was and the number of different divisions in HP, that's almost like not liking Germany today for WWII. How many years ago that happened? (IE6? must've been ~2004)
In a sense, I agree, but I guess I'm applying Apple business practices to Google in my mind. If they create their own operating system, in their own language, they have essentially gained a large amount of control. Given that Google is the most popular search engine and many people want to use Google products, it wouldn't be too hard to gain the majority foothold. Google is even making a Chrome notebook!
I was not aware that BigTable worked that way, but it doesn't change my original point about "C != C". That a given NoSQL system is architected for both does not imply that such a design is always desirable or representative of the NoSQL database space. It is not and it is not. Thank you for your kind and compassionate suggestions about signing comments.

- Lil' B
Have you tried Maemo? With Maemo, I can just launch an xterm and ssh to my heart's content. For that matter, I can also set up an SSH server and ssh into the device. I'm guessing Meego probably has the same support.

In my experience, it's the closest experience to have a full Linux box that I can stick in my pocket.