skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another interesting unit is the Kusec used for Wi-Fi beacons. 1 Kusec is 1024 micro-seconds and the default value is usually 100. So you end up with 102.4 milliseconds for your typical beacon interval.
You can (legitimately) download "Century of the Self" here:

Part 1: http://www.archive.org/details/AdaCurtisCenturyoftheSelf_0
Part 2: http://www.archive.org/details/AdamCurtisCenturyoftheSelfPar...
Part 3: http://www.archive.org/details/AdamCurtisCenturyoftheSelfPar...
Part 4: http://www.archive.org/details/AdamCurtisCenturyoftheSelfPar...
I want to stage a real-life pac-man game in times square. I have worked out the logistics and think it would be really fun. Any PR people interested in helping us make this happen? With say a corporate sponsor?
Seems like just looking at tf-idf would be useful. Could result in some false positive tags, but this shouldn't actually break the system, just perhaps add a little noise to the tag list.
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The shakiness has always confused me a little. Can they not dampen the momentum vectors somewhat - so little back-and-forths in the actual calculations don't propagate up to the render?
I've joined in just out of interest, if I lose I'll follow the winners for at least a month. I never use twitter anyway, and to be honest, if I won the current 'jackpot' of 247 followers, I still wouldn't use twitter much :)
In regards to your first comment, just because Apple makes their own iPhone and iPad cases doesn't mean they can't sell cases made by other vendors. The metaphor here is even if Apple adopts its own internal NFC system, that doesn't mean it can't continue selling Square devices. Of course its hard to say whether or not Apple would feel Square would be in direct competition at this point or not.

On your second comment, I agree that a targeted acquisition would help Apple get a lead in the payment space but we'll have to wait and see how the whole NFC thing plays out to make that judgement call.
Technically, it is not at all.

Socially however, I'd wager that fewer people would let you take a picture of their card compared to swiping it. People are simply used to having credit cards swiped, they aren't used to having pictures taken of them.
http://archfinch.com/tags/hn/spaces%20result%20in%20a%20505

Great project though.
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You gotta disrupt to get ahead. This can only be achieved after rejection therapy and pivoting.
"Smart and talented people fall into ruts of suboptimal behaviour.."

His "optimal behavior" might be to quit and get another job. Or opt out of the rat race entirely.
I don't want to bash our competitor, but I can talk about our goals. We want to craft a clean and simple Campfire experience for the desktop, and we think we're well on our way to creating a unique and easy-to-use application. It will fit each individual's workflow differently, however, and we'd love your feedback :)
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Nothing. Square further propagates the status quo (plastic cards). There's no disruption involved. That's why Visa is an investor.
Useit.com is neither pretty nor useable.
The content is good, the presentation is subpar (and I remember when it was even worse).
Yes, it is accessible, and yes, you can read the content. It is still far cry from usability.
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What's the innovation here? I mean its great if I already have an iPad at checkout. But why would I buy a $500 device to sit next to my cash register? Or if I'm going all credit and debit, there are already services that work with $250 netbooks. And beyond that you can just lease the little boxes for like $20/month+some surcharge.

It seems cool for techies, but is it really going to change the game?

UPDATE: Although this seems like more of a win for door to door sales and maybe mall kiosks.
A lot of us on hacker news have more than 100GB of data to back up. I use Dropbox all the time but have no need for more than the free account. Dropbox is only for syncing. If I need to back something up it goes to CrashPlan, where I store hundreds of gigs of data, with no ceiling, for the same price as 100GB / year on Dropbox.
See that really isn't the main use case for dropbox, dropbox is more like seemless backup and sync.
You have a dropbox folder on your computer you work on stuff in, everything gets uploaded and revisioned while you are saving files and when you change computers everything is there.

You also get pretty good folder sharing with others and a web interface.

Personally though I've stopped paying for dropbox and might consider going back if they implement client side encryption for some users, but til then its waiting for a fast enough good enough replacement or for dropbox to implement it.
No, the opposite. A manual imprint is even more indicative of card-present than a mag-stripe read (which can be easily faked).

Reading QR or other codes with a smartphone's camera is extremely cumbersome whereas swiping a mag-stripe is simple and reliable.
First, winning has nothing to do with it. I would probably hope to win, and plan on losing.

Second, it's also far too easy to hide and let everyone else do the hard work.
This is pretty awesome on both ends. Not only is it great that Mixpanel put so much trust in an intern in their first week but that Carl more than deserved that trust.

Now where do I find interns that good?
Most of the French head south to the riviera, or north to brittany, basically any place with a beach nearby.

The roads are packed so you'll usually see a traffic report with them interviewing people taking a picnic on the side of the road, complete with wine and cheese of course. Also, its part of the draw. When there is a known crowd coming most of the hotels and restaurants pull out all the stops: foods, drinks, live entertainment. A lot of these seaside towns can be quite sleepy during the winter so its sort of a big deal.

And, quite a few of my colleagues have family that moved south for the warmer weather, some just head out to visit family.
Regarding point #1, something will have to change, but I highly doubt Apple will be giving up their 30%.

Do you think it's possible for Apple to rewrite the API to avoid any hint of infringement on Lodsys's patent?
Being a developer I've worked closely with lots of other developers, and been on both sides of this equation; Sometimes I'm the 'normal guy' and sometimes I'm the 'rock star' depending who I'm sitting with.

As the 'normal guy' I observe what tools they are using, how they navigate them and what they are doing, because often times we both know the language equally or close to equal yet have a different selection in tools to aid the development process either 'go to' libraries or editors.

As the 'rock star' I may interrupt the developer to show them a faster way to do the same thing, either algorithm or editor functions. Because face it, the only thing that makes you a rock star is that you can get it done faster and more efficient then the other guy.
Are people this desperate to be followed? I don't get it.
For those not familiar with Jacob Nielsen, take a look at his article - "Flash: 99% Bad"

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001029.html

It was written in 2000 - at the hight of Flash craze. He was right then, and he is right today .. UI/UX designers should pay close attention to this man's analysis.
Every uk company I worked at was like this, from a major university, an us IT company, tons financial services company.
The page is down for me, but the google cache works: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:du8rFYq...
"real data"

That's a stretch. Look how many people are in some of these studies. Well, you could look if he bothered to tell you, which he rarely does, because I'm guessing these aren't actually "studies" but are actually interviews with some soundbytes extracted to back up preconceived notions.

I'm not saying he's always wrong, that would entail gathering and presenting actual data, but he's never given me any good reason to think he's right rather than just a pundit with first-mover advantage.
No, that's certainly welcome here ;-)
> if/when Microsoft starts doing it too

They already do it with Automatic Updates. Turn the update dial to 11 and let your machine apply them at night. I don't believe they provide binary diffs for updates, but I believe it's for logistical reasons rather than technological (e.g., title updates over XBL are surprisingly small).

Of course, MS also hasn't figured out how to update components in-place while they're being used, so expect your machine to be restarted in the morning. :-/
Is the site down currently?
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Your case might be different because you are incorporated (I'm guessing) and in a different position than many indie shops.

In my business, the only shareholder is me, as is the case with many developers that were targeted in this suit. Investors and employees has nothing to do with it.

Lastly, as I said above, this isn't even about winning.
A lot of people asked for a reader simply because it's a neat gadget and it's free, never intending to use it in a business.
Yet you have to have 'rock star' qualities to even want to learn IMO.
For software companies (and probably to all other industries which hire 'knowledge workers'), it should be very important to give enough of vacation time to their employees (developers).

For me that is no brainier, but unfortunately, very few hi-tech companies actually understand that. So you have high-rate of "burn outs" which cause all kind problems (bugs, bad design decisions, etc.). The management mantra is still: The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Also, I was surprised how it is very hard to find a hi-tech company offering something like unpaid sabbatical leave or fulltime sabbatical replacement position (i.e., programmer working in sales for one or two months). Some banks and hedge funds do that.
Rhapsody. No ads, access to tons of stuff, on demand. You have the choice of picking and choosing songs, or just playing on a radio (Pandora style). And I think it's the same price as Pandora's ad-free service (which makes me wonder why people pay for Pandora?)
Orthogonal. If Briquette is better, I'll happily switch to it.
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Despite the advice of her friends, Annie midst of a self-destructive relationship with a man who only thinks of her as a friend of sex. Annie chaotic personal life, budgetary constraints and uncertainty about friendship and Lillian Helen begins to be felt at the approach of marriage.
Summer is free for me, too. No papers to write. It is, however, relatively easy to convince your Prof to extend the deadline into the summer break.
It really isn't so much the religious aspect of Protestantism but the work ethic associated with early American settlers and the lack of fun they believed in. There is a really wonderful book by Harriet Beecher Stowe which outlines the lives of these people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Town_Folks
"Stress is not knowing if you'll wake up after surgery and see your baby girl again. Depression is being on the wrong side of the >10% unemployment rate."

No. Stress is seeing your best friend's brains splattered all over you in a firefight in which you lose your arms and legs. Stress is being the victim of a serial killer or rapist. Stress is spending your entire life in jail. Stress is living through the genocide in Rwanda. Stress is being waterboarded ever day at Gitmo, despite being innocent, and being locked up there without a trial for the rest of your life.

There are always people worse off than you, and compared to whom your troubles are nothing. Does that mean that what you feel is worthless? That it isn't worth mentioning? That you should "just deal with it" and be thankful you weren't a prisoner at Auschwitz instead?
If someone watches the video, please comment on whether it was worth 30 minutes of attention. =)
Flash sucking on tablets, phones, or even netbooks (at least ARM based), isn't entirely Adobe's fault. The SoC manufacturers are tasked to get Flash working on their chipsets. That means nVidia, Freescale, TI, Samsung, Apple. Adobe's NDA for working on Flash is... well, restrictive. I'd bet that anyone who has signed it isn't going to be one of the companies top programmers, due to the nature of some of the restrictions in it.
Square would just build an NFC reader into the Square hardware. The phone doesn't know what's being transmitted down its headphone jack, right?
Yes, very positively. Square will be well-positioned to take advantage of this new way to transmit the account-holder's information to the merchant. While this is by far the easiest part of the payment process, Square will undoubtedly capitalize on it.
Every year in Italy there are 16M people moving to the coasts on August (for 2-3 weeks), and then moving back to cities at the end of the month. This happens mostly on August, but the same happens for Christmas (for 1-2 weeks), Easter (for 3-4 days, sometimes 1 week) and Carnival (for 3-4 days - before Easter, usually in February).
The number of days depends on "bridge days", if Easter falls on Wed, then usually people can relax from Mon to Thu ("bridge" because links the end of the previous week to the end of the fest).

These are the average numbers, for sure there's someone with less/more vacation.
yep, Carl's been kicking ass.
What gets missed is that questions need answers. You might be more willing to ask questions, but you need to answer them differently, too. What you're talking about is a negative loop in which you answer the same question in the same way every time, which keeps you stuck in the same place. This is, essentially, what non-depressed friends are for when you're depressed: they can offer different answers and help you break out of the loop.
My local coffee shop here in Tempe, AZ switched over to using an iPad with Square instead of a cash register about a month ago.

As a customer I like it. It's fast and slick. The employees seem to like it too.

Only one thing: if anybody from Square is reading this look into allowing the option of a bigger, sturdier card reader. The little on you ship now is flimsy and doesn't work too well if you use it 500 times a day.
I personally found it well worth the 30 minutes. And then some!
What about rolling out updated code? No app, especially web app, is static, so this is a huge deal.

I saw no mention of how this extremely common workflow is handled without taking the app offline, and how this deals with e.g. schema changes...
Anyone who is already logged into coderwall.com (probably from the story the other day) will be redirected to their own page... Which is a bit disturbing at first. I had to double-check the URL to see if someone linked to my page. ;)
If you really feel that way about where you work, you need to get out. I've only worked one place where I truly didn't care and that was for one week (end of 2008 after being laid off...still couldn't stomach it). It's not hard to care if you really look at your users as people who you can help be more successful in their lives (even if just providing a pleasant distraction for a busy nursing student/MA/mom like ZombieFarm does for my wife).

The vast majority of people I've met who chronically hate what they are producing (and please understand I'm not saying this is true in your case, but it is worth introspecting) believe they are better than the people using their software. These engineers tend to be brilliant but difficult to keep focused on the user. Personally, if you (generic, not gnosis :) aren't passionate about my users, you don't work for me. My users are too important to me to allow just anybody to write code for them, no matter how much of an artist that developer is.

That differs from the micro-burnout mentioned in TFA. I have experienced that and the best way I've found to deal with that is by communicating with my users. For me, that's what makes the pre-release startup days the most difficult: no users to talk to yet.
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How would a private NFC API be any different than the non-existent stripe reader on the iphones? Should NFC (finally) start to catch on, couldn't Square just add an NFC module and continue to pipe data in via the headphone jack?
I'm very surprised they were able to develop a PSP Phone.

I'm very surprised that they did it at all. In my opinion it creates a confusing story for PSP owners looking to upgrade. NGP or PSP Phone?

Sometimes I wonder if the two teams were even aware of each other's existence.
No support yet for NavigationTiming :(

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570341

Soon? Pretty please?
"Let's price Lady Gaga's new album at $0.99" = "Let's melt Cloud Drive's face"
Show HN: Yet another mobile version of Hacker News
On your iPhone or android device, access:
http://threadit.kaizenrails.com/s/hackernews

What makes this one different?
1) The ability to quickly cycle through the top comments.

2) Context, context, context! A comment and its parent and ancestors are chained together so you can always follow the context of a comment without playing 'guess the parent from the indentation' game.

Each comment has a prev/next link to quickly cycle through siblings. The parent of the siblings is always directly above so that you can easily maintain context.

Edit: Sorry, wrong URL!
It reminded me a lot of reading long posts on somethingawful as a teenager, which were ostensibly some interesting story but were in fact a thinly veiled way to say: "HAY GUYS I HAVE A GIRLFRIEND."

Fortunately a mere superficial resemblance. This article has come at the right time for me, I have been feeling a little of this recently. I see other people talking about burnout and they've been in the game for decades ... I kinda felt guilty that I feel a bit like this only having been out of uni a couple of years, not doing anything particularly significant. It's good to know that there are other people out there feeling this way on a smaller scale as well.

Often the best thing that comes out of these articles is not the actual advice, but simply the recognition that there are other people out there going through the same stuff. It's so natural to feel that one is alone and unique in ones emotions, however statistically unlikely this may be.

It is the human condition to feel alone, but articles like this can head it off, at least for a while.
I would be interested to know where in the US this was. I was once in a Statistics program in Ohio with a bunch of students who were working towards their Masters in Education, and they were solidly in the middle-lower end of the class but the upper end was taken up by dept. students anyway.
That's what I keep thinking every time I see a picture of the thing. Looks like it would just rotate in the round headphone jack every time you swiped a card.
I've witnessed this. Counterintuitively, I think it's a side-effect of not understanding math.

To those without a good understanding of statistics, numbers and graphs are a mystical, magical way to easily improve just about anything.
I gloat a little every time an iPhone user has to ask me to do something on my Android phone.

I understand that position, but to me, it isn't much different than having to bust out IE7 at work to run some stupid legacy bullshit from HR because it won't run in anything good. ;)

Any business (especially one like a restaurant or a night club, where mobile users are particularly relevant) that relies on Flash in this tech climate is run by morons.
A problem that's immediately been raised by shop owners I know is that of theft - regardless of how much of a brick it might be to them (strong non-numeric passcode etc). You can't just walk off with a cash register, or at least fence it easily & for much.
Realms of Despair?
Do you have sites/people you prefer to useit? I'm always looking for good UX info, and would love to find gems I'm missing.
The standards for access to device capabilities are already defined. Just waiting for platforms/browsers to adopt them.
It's fun to witness the statistics, though. There have been over 1000 unique visitors over the past 2 hours, with an 11% conversion rate.
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Ask HN: What stack should I be using?
I come from a very corporate world (.Net, some Java, etc..) I want to build a fairly simple service that checks to verify if a website is up and gathers some information regarding loadtimes, etc... Nothing that hasn't been done before. My questions isn't HOW CAN this be accomplished but rather HOW SHOULD this be accomplished given the vast number of good "web stacks" out there and my rather limited experience with any of them, I am looking for advice on which route I should take?
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I honestly think people would happily pay for web apps/games/etc too....if they felt they could depend on them not going away, and payment systems were as easy as they are for phone apps. I think you can't overlook the ease given by unified payments from a trustworthy source that Apple et al brings to the table.
in Russia we have approx. 4 weeks of paid vacations which don't expire if you dont use them, people work from 9 to 6 with 45 mins for lunch, and from 9 to 4:45 on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays (40 hrs work week). If national holidays fall onto workdays, there's an extra day off. Mostly this is observed now, administration tend to force people go on vacation to make accounting simpler. For several years we had Christmas vacations from 1 to 10th of January.

now a joke story as it is told in Russia.

at one company people worked their asses off very hard, came earlier, left later, sometimes worked until 9 or 10 to meet goals in the plan. and suddenly one man started to appear at 9, leave an 6 and didn't appear on Saturday and Sunday when the deadline was near. colleagues started to look at him with blame, and finally told him, who the fuck you think you are? why you so relaxed when we are tearing our asses? - oh, sorry guys, its a real shame, - he replied, - but i am on a vacation
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Fucking awesome, but how does the retailer know that I paid?
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Must have recently become super-popular

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Folks may also be interested in http://calendaraboutnothing.com/ which keeps track of your commit streak in hope of building a chain of committing every day.
If that doctor had told you you had cancer, your preference might be different.
That was uncalled for. OP is from an ex-communist country, probably with a not very business savy culture and he is limited to ad-supported models, as Google won't let developers from his country to sell on the market.

Yet, he manages to make more money than working for the man. His story is much more outstanding than most of the HNs users.
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Sure!

But Square enjoys a tremendous user experience advantage. It's easier for everyone to use.

Now, in my theoretical universe where Apple is a bunch of dicks and decides that they'll keep the NFC APIs to themselves, and assuming they run a service that competes with Square...

Who's going to want to attach a plastic weiner to their phone versus just having the "magical, it just works" action that Apple will provide with their service?

Of course, it may well be that Apple wants a usurious fee for their service (30%!) and Square could still compete on price. Still – a world where Square can harness NFC directly on an Apple device is a much better deal for them than one where they can't.