skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you factor in the cost of a monitor or TV, keyboard, and mouse (plus any other peripherals required for your curriculum and the USB hub you would need to use them), I think that this $200 laptop is probably a more cost-effective solution:
http://www.norhtec.com/products/gecko/index.html
Podolny was a star at Yale - presiding over a massive change in the MBA curriculum that made it a a lot more useful than the traditional subject by subject based approach.
I actually like whitespace.

Especially with two-finger scroll or iOS inertial scrolling, the "cost" of scrolling is near zero. Why not encourage scrolling?
But if I want private repositories at github I have to pay!
My first thought when looking at your graph was "why lower price to 33% for the same growth rate". Glad to see you were on the same track.

Hike it to $1.99 and double your income.
Duh. It's a way of purchasing things outside of Apple's store. They can't get their 30%, so they won't allow it.

Edit: seriously, that's an incredibly solid reason why they wouldn't accept it. I considered making one briefly until I realized this. I'm not even remotely surprised this happened.
They mentioned it as 1800Flowers.com, so their CMS probably turns anything with '.com' into a link. I'm sure their SEOs high-five'd when they noticed that :)
All Hail the Public Library
I am able to buy CDs without signing any contract at all. So it appears that a contract is not necessary for copyright infringement to still be illegal and the contracts are completely unnecessary for the stated purpose of "preventing piracy", which is already illegal, even without a contract.
Many of these contracts contain a clause that the company can change the contract in the future without restriction and without necessarily notifying you of the changes, and you agree in advance to the changes, without knowing what they might be.

Apple has a version of this: "Apple reserves the right at any time to modify this Agreement and to impose new or additional terms or conditions on your use of the Service. Such modifications and additional terms and conditions will be effective immediately and incorporated into this Agreement. Your continued use of the Service will be deemed acceptance thereof."

Note that no notification is necessary of the changes to obtain your consent.

If these sorts of contract clauses are really legally binding there is a very serious problem with the legal system.
And if you want Fossil hosted on a web-accessible server you have to pay for that somehow anyway.
You read a scrolling UI quite a bit slower than a static one. (However, Google probably knows that most people click on the first few links anyway.)
Local Storage is limited to 5MB. Bitcoin requires much more than that --- on the order of 500MB.

This is because it needs to verify the block chain history, in order to provide cryptographically secure transactions.
Looking at it just item #2 you cite now, it alone is over 15,000 words long. The standard pagination formula used for paying for articles is 250 words per page.

Therefore, a standard legal definition of the length of this contract is that it is 15,000/250 = 60 pages long.
A P2P network means nothing to a country infamous for filesharer penalties up to trillions of dollars.
Though I really don't like the idea of an "Us vs. Them" mentality in global development (it's been commented many times that this is not a zero sum game, there doesn't have to be winners and losers like in football), this article is inspiring. Congrats to Elon and SpaceX on their wonderful innovation.
The chart sort of makes sense based on my limited knowledge on population growth, but two things pop out at me.

1) Can the US really continue to expect such growth over the next 100 years? I was under the impression that the fertility rate of the united states was below replacement levels (perhaps near 2?), and that the immigrant population makes up the difference to bring our fertility rate above replacement levels (ie growth). With many states bringing in anti-immigration bills, I could see this possibly hurting US population growth.

2) Why does Brazil have an odd inflection point near 2050?

As to the main topic regarding Africa's population. I can't help but wonder if a more natural solution will find itself. With some many countries predicted to have a declining population, I can't help but think immigration will be the solution to fill the probable labor shortages caused by declining populations in nearby countries (China, India, Russia, according to the graph).
I just tried the following HTML:

<input type="text" value=`asdf` />

In IE, the input box contained the string asdf. In other browsers, it contained the string `asdf`
Beyond Gender in Computing
Here NEA refers to National Endowment for the Arts. Not, as I thought, the venture capital firm...
Your federal income tax receipt
Don't forget: he has written tons of documentation for several GNU projects.
"Steve Jobs doesn't have expectations for janitors."

That whole ideology is unsettling to me. The way in which janitors are singled out as not having the same level of expectations to accomplish their tasks as a VP or any other position. I was a janitor for my high school, and I can tell you from my experience we busted our tails making sure the floors were swept and mopped and the all garbage was taken out on time every single day. Management had high expectations of us and refused excuses, which I respected them even more for. If you started slacking, you were out the door, period. Janitors are professionals too and I don't think it's professional to exemplify them as having inferior expectations or purpose compared to any other job. It's still a job and somebody has to do it, and do it well.
I don't know — but it would have been interesting! Imagine if Apple started to really fail and then Google purchased them after Jobs had been there...
I started using this. Its still rough around the edges, but it really is a contender for my new editor of choice once its complete
The white-space makes the results far more legible. It makes the user focus more on the results rather than going straight to the next button (or changing the search terms).
Switch off and work - why planes are the saving grace of a connected world
Does it have a patch mode for stashing?

Use case: A commit should only do one thing at a time, but sometimes I'm not as organized. I like to do a whole mess of work and when I'm ready to commit it, I use git add --patch to separate out unrelated bits of work into separate commits--even if separate bits of work end up in the same file. It's amazing how much a load off your mind this is--you don't have to be quite as OCD while you're coding if you're a little fastidious about your commits later on.
I've been following Copenhagen suborbitals. It's a great enthusiast club. Their submarine is really neat but is certainly not a commercial submarine, nor are the subs built by Columbian drug runners using similar technology and sophistication.

To say they are 3 years from launching humans into space is very amusing.

There is no chance they will be doing that in 3 years. No chance at all.
And this is relevant because....?

You can rest assured that the actual bug was not in a CRT library DLL. They may have had a good reason for updating ulib.dll which wasn't mentioned in the KB article, but fixing an off-by-one bug in an app-specific memory-compare loop wasn't it.
You're right. I was mistakenly testing only a limited case (described at http://html5sec.org/#59). Thanks!
Immersion in “worlds” is how you truly understand something

You could actually argue the opposite- once you truly understand something, then you know enough to perceive a "world" and yourself immersed in it.

Disclaimer: I only read the first and last paragraphs (as usual of well-written pieces like this)
Right, she has a very wordy disclaimer, but how is her disclaimer different from an investment disclaimer? Over the past 8 years or so every other story Kara wrote was about Yahoo while she almost never wrote about Google even though Google arguably was much more newsworthy over that period. It is hard to believe that her relationship with a Google exec didn't have something to do with that.
This is surprising considering the good relationship between Apple and Intel.

A couple of recent examples are Thunderbolt and the unreleased Z68 chipset that is in the newest iMacs.

I really doubt this will happen anywhere in the near future simply because ARM chips don't have good performance compared to x86 chips. Most people would be unwilling to accept a performance downgrade.

I could see the MacBook Air line and other consumer products going in that direction, but certainly not the MacBook Pros or the Mac Pro desktop for that matter. These products are targeted towards serious professionals who need performance. The notion of ARM chips in a workstation computer is laughable for the near future.

There's pretty much zero chance ARM will ever reach performance parity with x86. Not to mention Intel's near two year process technology lead over everyone else.

The only scenario I see something like this happening is far in the future, when everything transitions towards the cloud and thin clients. But for now, we need real computers with real performance.
Fully agreed. Which leaves me slightly annoyed each time HN falls for it and pumps TechCrunch to the top of HN.

And then I can't refrain from posting about it, and then I lose karma because people tell me I can just ignore those headlines and scroll by. Not so, people — yes, I can try to ignore those dramas, but I feel like they take away a little bit of our hacker souls each time they make it to the top.
Google Earth Flight Simulator
Airplane Games
Not if you have a dozen different email accounts with different passwords.
According to a meta tag, it was generated by Amaya-- http://www.w3.org/Amaya
The class that built apps, and fortunes
The goose is out of the bottle.
I saw this today for the first time as well. In a thread about why the US would inflate the cost of Bin Laden's mansion, I did a GIS for James Bond Bambi Thumper, found an image, clicked, and it was a anit-virus malware scam site.
Heroku's distributed architecture
Silly me, I had to go see it for myself and now my Linux machine is apparently affected: http://i.imgur.com/YVE3e.png. Funny that they chose "opensuse-antivirus" as the domain name.
The author, Simon Kuper, is British and studied at Oxford (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Kuper), so while he may be wrong, it's not because he's unfamiliar with the country or the eduction system.
A fundamental limitation on contracts is you must gain something for any contract or contract update to be binding. So EULA's are only enforceable if you don't already have the right to use the software / service. In other words, Sony could not prevent people from using other OS's on Plantations that where not updated, but a patch could constitute value that allows them to get a new contract with you. As to a service like Facebook things get a little more tricky (and I don't know how that works out).
I believe it is a violation to store the expiration date without encrypting it. I could be wrong, here is a link to PCI DSS standards documents.
Sony is a big company and Sony Ericsson is only 50% Sony. Why the Xperia phone is "PlayStation certified" and not the "PSP phone".
A long time ago (about a few months after the acquisition of techcrunch by AOL) i came to the conclusion that arrington is trying to get himself fired by AOL.

I happen to show some techcrunch articles to a psychologist friend of mine because she was doing some research on the tech industry and she casually mentions that all the articles by "this arrington dude" sounds like a man who is trying to get himself fired. Note this is coming from a person who is reading techcrunch for the first time and does not follow the tech industry at all.

After her comment, i did a filter on all arrington's articles and i understood what she was saying right away. All you need to do is just look at the general tone of his articles after he moves to Seattle.

So the question is why. Is he trying to end his vesting period early and get a big payout? Or is he genuinely sick and tired of the press industry?
The best part of that was the headline "the tech press:" Doesn't arrington realize that he is as much a part of "the tech press" as any of them?
An answer to a question that no one asked.
Im not sure if this is the one or not, but definitely a great resource and more or less what I was looking for, thanks.
I've been seeing this behavior from Google Image Search for a few months now
I know it sounds "get off my lawn"-ish, but I still can't believe people continue to use AIM.
They encouraged Linux on the PS3 once too, remember?
Thread on Reddit: Would you ever pay for a desktop linux application?
When generating output for a browser what you're really doing is writing an HTML serializer. Kind of tricky to do right by concatenating a bunch of strings together. Some template systems (such as Genshi for Python) actually parse the template as HTML or XML so they understand how to encode all of your outputs correctly for their context.
Jailbreak Iphone 4.3.3
Why?

Not only do people continue to use AIM -- entire companies use AIM.

The last two game studios I worked at mandated this. Everyone in the company either already used AIM, or created a new account with the company initials as a prefix.

Skype chat is superior, I agree. But AIM solves "the communication problem" just fine, too.
Please don't use URL shorteners on HN. If the URL is long (that one was not) you can use the footnote notation[1].

[1] http://spartanpodcast.com/?p=1510
Ask HN: Address Form With No City State (just Zip Code)
TL;DR; How do I automatically infer city/state from zip code, and ask for clarification if ambiguous?

I'm building a website that needs to collect the user's address, but I absolutely abhor typing in city, state, and zip code. It seems redundant.

However, I'm aware that there are sometimes more than one city that corresponds to a single zip code. Apple's checkout page has an interesting solution: when you type in the zip code, they perform an AJAX lookup, and show you the city state if it's not ambiguous, or give you a drop down if it is (see: http://www.lukew.com/ff/content/apple_checkout_zip.gif).

Has anyone built something like this? Is there a good database or API available for determining cities and states from a zip code?
This is very detailed and chock full of great visualizations, but I still can't figure out how harmony search is fundamentally different than your run-of-the-mill genetic algorithm. What am I missing?
Hell, Cisco's messaging system was interoperable with AIM.

Or it was, not sure if the new-new Webex one is.
PS: Here's the original blog that was the source of the apple image: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?968
Sure, I remember that too. I guess MS did seemed to headed in a stellar direction circa 1996 or 97. To me, they lost their shine as the internet picked up steam... I'd say 92-96 was the end of the golden age of the desktop computer as envisioned in the 80s. Just three years later, everything was dramatically different in a way only the savviest people would have expected in 1990.
That's silly, many users expect that. What you can do is geolocate their country so they don't have to select their country but other than that I still ask them to type in their city and state...
Not surprising at all. Everyone knows that Apple.is the most evil company out there.
It's not overloaded. Respectfully, you simply don't understand what it means.
AFAIK, HTML has been standardized by the ISO based on the W3C HTML 4 recommendation.
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Why on Earth would I prefer to use Skype? A bigger bloated more easily exploitable client?

The only things I've used in GMail/Google Apps chat and IRC. I love IRC. I can private message people, we have rooms for different projects as well as idle chat area for random chit chat.

I guess I just see AIM as really juvenile but that may have more to do with the gaudy AIM Windows clients.
A gene which determines happiness?
I still ask them to type in their city and state...

Why? I am sick to death of typing my name and address in stupid forms that aren't tagged properly for my browser to fill them in. Zipcode I can live with, and is not that big a deal to look up.

What annoys me even more is on some form where I am typing in my full address and it can't even work out what my zipcode is. How about doing a little validation, and taking the opportunity to impress the client during the otherwise-tedious signup process?
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Not at all. The Java bitcoin client doesn't store the entire block chain. http://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/

You don't even need to know the current block to send transactions, if I remember right (haven't dived in deeply enough yet to be 100% certain). The block solver (miner) is the only one who needs to know the chain, as they choose what transactions to include, and your transaction may not even be included (ie, if fees are too low), but may in a later block.
You forgot sign bugs. It's very, very important that you have an even number of them. Many developers forget.
what struck is the diminishing of links you get on above the fold. With the new spacing between titles and descriptions, I get only 5 answers above the fold. It's a good thing: I focus around the first results.
That's not the original version. See http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_aesop_farmer_s... for a several thousand year old version.
My dear journalists, this meta-journalism is boring to those who aren't in your profession. Your vanity is troubling.
I have consistently found the dynamic, emotive people to be disastrous in crisis situations. They tend to act rashly without thinking through the consequences and often make things worse. When faced with a technical problem I prefer dispassionate experts who can apply a discipled, scientific approach and never get flustered.
> Personally I’d just consider quoting attribute values to be best practice. And BTW, escaping < and > is not even necessary if you are using quotes with HTML attributes, unless you need compatibility with browsers prior to Netscape 2.

<a href="...">Label with evil angle brackets</a><script>...
Wow, I was not expecting this article of mine to appear on Hacker News. The error I found was in volume 4a page 574 (as the memo line on the check shows). The solution to exercise 67 on that page says a particular circuit uses 6 ANDN gates, which I thought should be NAND gates. It gets a bit more complicated because Knuth was referring to the ANDN op code for MMIX, but there was still a mistake. (The other error I noticed was n choose k on page 824, but I checked the errata and it had already been found.)
This is a non issue, everybody knows media is biased because it is made up of human beings and human beings are biased. Save the drama, consumers should always balance a story with one from another publication. It's kind of like if you see something on the fair and balanced fox news you just gotta balance it out by watching the coverage of the same event on cnn or msnbc. People who choose to be informed objectively do that anyway.
Did you even read the first sentence of the article? It links to the recent discussion about Apple moving to ARM hardware: http://semiaccurate.com/2011/05/05/apple-dumps-intel-from-la...
How long is your long run?
I agree that data is the main issue here. Most companies using recommendation algorithms are over-relying on math to do the magic and make up for the fact that they are blind to what they are recommending. In order to recommend you photography related items based on your past interest in painting, the service would have to understand an awful lot about the two realms and what they have in common (art, visual, etc). Algorithms alone can't figure this out. No, I'm not blaming math, math can do amazing things to help us deal with situations where we have no data. But meaningful, accurate recommendations require meaningful, accurate information about the items being recommended. IA techniques can help automate the cataloguing of this information, but 'blind' algorithms alone will never make high quality recommendations - the kind that make you say 'Yes! Exactly!'

I aslo agree that social recommendations have to be able to pinpoint which friends have simialr taste, otherwise the result is just noise and junk.

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Unless Ron Paul gets elected in 2012... He is in favor of abolishing the federal reserve and a champion of liberty.
Sorry, I forgot to say within attribute values.
I did. It's a discussion that no reasonable person would take seriously. Where is the rationale for moving Mac to ARM? It's nowhere.
well what the f_ck, a site with "seo" in the url that isn't a massive bunch of crap! It's not as complete as one would want it to be though. A "nothing new, but conveniently formatted" article should be very comprehensive, and at least contain links to more in-depth treatment of each subject.
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That's basically how the small startup I'm working with works. We're a total of 4 people, and at this size, and although we have a founder (or founder and a half), we all basically do what's necessary and everything we can.

The founder is very much against defining roles and job descriptions, despite us sometimes being tempted to go down that road. In the end it makes everything so much more pleasant.
Part 1: http://blog.douweosinga.com/2011/05/leaving-google.html

Part 2: http://blog.douweosinga.com/2011/05/leaving-google-part-2.ht...
Knowing how evil and secretive Apple is, I would not expect them to care much about open licenses.
Here is a great post that was posted on here: http://uxmovement.com/forms/innovative-techniques-to-simplif...

And here is the link directly for what you're asking: http://forumsblogswikis.com/2007/08/15/using-ajax-to-get-cit...

Good luck
Interesting. Do you know when that MBA curriculum change happened? Have details on how it is structured now? Have any studies been done on the effectiveness of the program post-restructuring?
Suggestions for hiring sysadmins / programmers for short-term work?
We are looking to hire a sysadmin (perhaps with some programming prowess as well) to help with some general Linux tasks on CentOS; such as resolving issues (various failed dependencies and esoteric error messages) with some third-party software we are trying to use, and other similar headaches beyond my personal expertise.

Ideally I would like to find someone who is available on demand for just a few hours of work or to look at specific issues when they come up. I am aware of sites like Guru, Elance, oDesk, etc and was hoping that maybe the HN crowd had filtered through the best of these.

I tend to do most of my own admin (and programming... and design... and...), but as launch grows closer I am feeling stretched pretty thin.

Thank you for any suggestions in advance!
To me pasting few lines in INSTALL_APP, running pip install few times to start a project is not a big deal. It's writing code to wire up user login, user profile, change password, verify email that wasting the time. I said 'wire up' because most of the functionalities already exists either in django itself or some 3rd party app but still you need to write some code to glue all that together.

That's why I'm more keen on app that I can add to INSTALLED_APP, add one line to TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS (because it provide few useful template context and I have a complete environment to start development. It already provide login and nice base template that I can extend. In short, an admin like app but not for admin.