skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two things:

1. how will this impact Californian affiliates?

2. this is baffling- do our politicians not take Econ 101- higher taxes will not bring the state higher revenue in the long term.
A conversation with Jason Fried
WHO: Cell Phone Use Can Increase Possible Cancer Risk
The best part of that is where it's placed in the chart-

It implies that the users of HN a subset of the overall nutjob population, but one worth addressing at least ;)
Instagram, Meet Your Android Rival. Camera360 Surpasses 6M Users In 12 Months
It's like they don't even _want_ to fix the language.
Lots on personalities and drama.

Is mostly about 1890 to about 1910 and then stops.

Really slow finally driving a stake through the heart of the quasi-mystical quaternions and killing them off.

No mention of the Gauss, Green, and Stokes theorems, exterior algebra, what is now called Grassman algebra, manifolds, differential geometry, orthogonal polynomials, Fourier theory, linear transformations, etc.

No mention of connections with systems of linear equations, linear transformations, or functional analysis such as Hilbert space.

There is serious question if the author really understands the subject. It looks like he got sucked down into quaternions and never really got out.
Scala 2.9.0 on Android
Camera360 is made in china, downloaded across the world. It's mind boggling how many downloads they get, without much press coverage. Is anyone here a user of Camera360?

Also, when is Instagram's Android version coming out?
While I agree with the main points of the post, I'd like to defend learning proper tools.

Even if a good text editor like vi won't make you a great programmer, it most definately will make you a better programmer!

First, you'll be more effective and thus achieve more. You can squeeze more refactoring and trying out different things when you are more efficient. This could lead you becoming great at some point.

Second, it's about your mindset. Programming is about automatizing and a great programmer should aim for the highest achievable level of automation. Why should your tooling be left out of the equation? With proper tools you can automate more.

If a developer has more then 1 year active developing to do, learning e.g. a good editor will pay off.
Unseen cost of all that filtering. And for how long is it going to keep up with spammers?

Oh and all the false positives that are a nightmare for so many legit uses.
I have not released the product I am building. I have been supporting myself doing contract work.

My bad experience came when I was the first employee (not founder) at a VC backed startup. I was originally a developer but was promoted to be the technical liason in sales. My job was to sell the incomplete product. We went back and forth between government and enterprise sales while I was there. The company is still around but is doing something completely different now.

In the interest of not burning any bridges, I'll only say that when we would bid on contracts, every vendor from big guys to the other pre-product startups were stretching the truth beyond what I consider simply being optimistic about delivery schedules and ROI.

So yes, I do know what I'm getting into. My plan this time is to build a product that has obvious value to the customer on day 1, and leave selling by 'hustle' to someone else.
It is definitely useful to be able to do linear differential equations by hand. It's not useful to keep doing these things by hand. Just like it's useful to know the algorithm for multiplying two numbers, and it's not useful to keep doing multiplication by hand.

What lets people invent new circuits is their good intuition about circuits, not their ability to solve linear differential equations quickly by hand or to compute integrals by hand. When an expert is analyzing a circuit on paper he is thinking about "what happens if the input to this circuit is a sine wave with high frequency", he's not going to solve the differential equations by hand.

Rather than circuits look at how electromagnetism or quantum mechanics is taught in college. In my case it was integrals, integrals, integrals. Doing these by hand provided approximately zero intuition into the physics. We could have covered more ground if the instructor would just type these into maple, instead of doing them on the board or in the book by hand. Or how many times have I not had to compute eigenvalues of 2x2 or 3x3 matrices. How many times have we not applied crude approximations in class because doing it by hand was too difficult, when typing it into a compute would give you 100 digits of precision in a couple of milliseconds. One time one of my maths teachers how to compute tan(2) or something like that by hand. After half an hour of calculation he had 2 digits. Computing the integral of something to a crude approximation in an edge case strikes me as futile as computing tan(2) by hand.
Why are you even using MongoHQ and have to live with bearable latency? I mean if you don't even use AWS, why not just deploy your own db server?
I've smiled at many a piece of HN serendipity in the past, but never expected it to happen to me. I wrote this car park post, and also DJ'd at the arty last friday night. Perfection.
5 Things Every Startup Should Know About Online Advertising
These trolls have made 2 MASSIVE mistakes: First they threatened the developers before their single largest gathering on the planet, and second they actually filed before the conference. I'd be willing to wager any amount of money that Steve and the Apple legal team will be addressing this at WWDC.
I feel that this is a part of a major Camera.app overhaul. Right now, it's been left up to third parties to create the best camera experience (see Camera+), which Apple has never liked any developer doing. Something very similar to iPhoto for iPhone would be my guess.
Not being SEO friendly is an interesting argument. While learning Python, when things like list comprehensions came up in code I was reading, it was very hard for me to figure out how it worked when I couldn't Google the syntax.
I find it crazy that it is assumed to be the parents role to pay for their kid to go to college or get a mentorship. What ever happened to being an independent adult when your 18? I feel like the type of kid who's parents are going to fork out the big bucks for this stuff aren't going to be the type of entrepreneurs the world needs.
Show HN: BetterYoo - Recurring Reminders In Your Pants
This is a perfect example of where blind training and lack of common sense kills.

I had a similar experience a few years ago. I arrived a local pond and immediately saw a man slapping the water and grunting. He was just past where he could stand. My lifeguard training kicked in and I immediately realized he was drowning. I starting yelling for help and jumped in the pond to save him.

Then I stopped.

My training said I was never supposed to go into the water without a floatation device. Without evaluating if that made sense in this case -- the pond was perfectly flat and the guy was maybe 3 feet past where I could stand -- I jumped out of the water and tried to find a floatation device. I ended up with an inflatable couch, which was absolutely enormous and would not have helped at all.

Luckily at that point another guy had heard me yelling and started swimming toward the drowning man. He got to him within a few seconds and with two strokes was back to where he could stand. Everybody was fine.

Training is a blessing and a curse. There are plenty of cases where people jump in fast moving water to save somebody and die as a result. I'm sure firefighters are told endlessly about such cases: never enter a burning building, go on ice, jump in water, etc. But these dangers don't always exist or are often remote. In my case, the training taught me to recognize the signals of drowning, but also taught me not to use common sense. It turned out okay, but could very well have gone differently.
I have been wanting this for eons.

I cant wait to get hold of this.

I also think that laptops should be configured to be able to access and play media from an SD slot without the full machine powered on. E.g. play MP3 files from the SD slot for hours such that if on a plane - going to sleep - I can play the files through the headphones utilizing very little power.
How to pick the perfect co-founder
If it is/was that obvious, care to share any other 'obvious' practices that may not be common knowledge?
My friend had his bike stolen in Long Beach, Ca. Decided to chase after the (very young) teenagers who took it. Got shot and killed.

Just FYI that vigilantism really isn't the way to go -- you just don't know what can happen.
From his videos, it would appear as if Matt Cutts is a Nice Guy. Can anyone confirm this?
So and your point is now, that it's okay to be unethical like the people you mentioned, just to get rich?
$1000/dev that they threaten. They have only threatened a handful of people.
Was just about to point you there! Another broad category of use that is emerging is around notifications. ex. IF "I am tagged in a photo on FB" THEN "Call my phone". Its all still in the early going, but we've have seen a lot of interesting uses already. Working on a simple way for others to share the more interesting ones now!
Could it be you're (gasp!) not informed instead of it being "non-sequiturial"?

Saying Miami is more Latin American than Buenos Aires is stereotypical and prejudice because this statement suggests there is something intrinsically Latin American about Latin America. Latin America is a huge space (a population of 580,086,590 which the parent seeks to generalize), there are various cultures and subcultures, various languages and dialects. Whatever J. Lo has brainwashed people into thinking is "Latin American" is not all-encompassing and should not be representative of it.

Thus, Buenos Aires is just as very Latin American as La Paz or San Juan or Rio de Janeiro or Havana.

The fact that more Italians immigrated to Argentina does not make them more "European", since Spain, the country that colonized most of Latin America is European. Since its colonization, Latin America adopted a lot of traditions from Spain and the rest of Europe, thanks to many Latin American governments asking for more European immigrants to "fill the void" and work the land. However, not all countries adopted the same traditions to the same degree and some preferred other European traditions (that could also be shared with Spain, Portugal and the rest of Western Europe).

Thus, the statement "Buenos Aires is not particularly representative of Latin America, it's more like a hybrid between LatAm and Europe" is wrong because most of Latin America includes Europe in its transculturation, acculturation, syncretism, miscegenation and hybridity.
If you were an investor, would you feel lied to, or is this a cause and not an effect?
It's true. It's the difference between 'hustle' and 'hustler'. I think most confuse 'hustling' in the sports sense, with 'being a hustler' in the black-market sales sense.

I think Fred Wilson's quote is referencing entrepreneurs who 'hustle' and try very hard/use alot of energy in the sports analogy --- and NOT entrepreneurs who are 'hustlers' and use shady means to fulfill their needs.
Matt is an incredibly nice guy.
Transparency is worth $1bn today
I knew sitting here in Edinburgh and writing nice things about Glasgow would pay off... :-)

Actually, I seem to remember that I owe you some thanks, I blagged a very early copy of Java from you in early '95 - which led to some fairly interesting stuff (at least for Scotland).
Ouch. Sounds like you've had a particularly bad time - was that in Plymouth specifically or Exeter? I can imagine racial issues being far more serious in the SW given the absolute lack of racial minorities. Luckily I never witnessed it/plus my friends and I were brought up to despise racism. It is more the chav families I think.

And yes, the cavern is nice :)

Anyway I fear we are digressing from the discussion rather here :) email if you fancy, address on profile.
"It is a literal gold mine for black hats that learn how to exploit its millions of users and curtail its terms of service."

Either he doesn't know what "literal" means or I need to get a pickaxe and head on over to Craigslist.
Should we hack our memories?
Confessions of a Perfectionist
56.000+ Tweets in 3 Days. I think one of the best Twitter Campaigns.
Please let me know, if you know other popular low budget campaigns on twitter or post them here on hacker news. thx and enjoy the video.
If you are in public and someone snaps your photo, they can and use it for pretty much anything non-commercial. This is because, in public, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy.

In this case, the guy is using a photographic device that is not his (we don't know if he stole it or not), specifically, he is pointing the camera directly at his face. My gut feeling is that it would be a fine line to walk, but that there might be a decent argument that he has no reasonable expectation of privacy. It's not his device, he knows there's a camera in it, and he's pointing that camera at his face...

Just another way to look at it.
moxie marlinspike did just that: http://www.wpacracker.com :)
ifttt has been up and running, in private beta, for a number of months now. Sorry to hear your company is already blocking us. We hope that ifttt can eventually save you precious web browsing time, not suck it away :)
Why not make it more readable? Because I feel like every attempt made to improve PHP are refused by the community.
> the effective draggable area in Chrome is a thin 10px strip at the top of the window.

Weirdly enough, if you use a tiled window manager (http://awesome.naquadah.org/) this is a feature instead of a detriment. On my netbook pixels really are at a premium and chrome is admirable in its space-saving efforts. I wish they would fix the download bar thing, but they're aware of that and I believe it's a priority for some of the next releases.
I've just spent a while reading the most recent of the discussion threads linked from there, and they're just further examples of the hostile and insular communities that form around far too many open source projects. Frustrating to read, painful to participate in.

http://markmail.org/message/4brot4f6kthjfzse
"Free labor is the exact point of interns! Why else would you waste your time mentoring someone who is gone in 10 weeks?" How utterly, utterly naive.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/opinion/03perlin.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/business/03intern.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-10822784

To quote just one example: "One Ivy League student said she spent an unpaid three-month internship at a magazine packaging and shipping 20 or 40 apparel samples a day back to fashion houses that had provided them for photo shoots."

That's what internships mean for many students not in IT or engineering nowadays.

The problem isn't that nobody wants to mentor people and pay them, the problem is that a whole host of companies aren't paying interns and aren't teaching them anything either, knowing full well that colleges will keep sending interns their way, and that the interns themselves won't complain as long as they get course credits and something to put on their resume, even if it means nothing.

"If you want to do grunt work in exchange for having Apple or NBC or GE on your resume, you should be allowed to do it. If I see a kid come in with those three companies on their resume, she has a good chance of getting a job -- I don’t care what she did there."

... um, yeah, right.
happy programmer and better programmer do have high correlation though -- as better programmers tend to have more leverage on their environment to make themselves happier.
Seems interesting. The big caveat I see is how the final code is generated, unlike CoffeeScript which is more 1:1 with real JavaScript.
nah. its all Plymouth. the place has changed now but we were the only ethnic minority for miles and felt like a tourist attraction at times.

Cheers
Modern English speakers really need to sort out their usage of 2 words: literally and physically.

I think we need a movement against improper use of these such as "do I have to physically login and chage the details" rather than manually, and this "literal gold mine" which is clearly metaphorical.

What can we call it? How can we stem the tides before the dystopian precitions of Idiocracy become a reality?!?
"Everyone's doing it" isn't a valid excuse.
It's not, but pointing to DC as an example that gun laws don't work ignores a number of significant factors; specifically, the fact that guns are easily purchased just outside of the District's small expanse.

NYC's another interesting data point (but merely that) -- violent crime rate is roughly the same as Phoenix's... one city with a heavily armed citizenry and one virtually defenseless, same results. Obviously, other factors matter more.

If you go down the list of US cities with violent crime problems in order, the unmistakable trend is they're all at the bottom end of the economic spectrum. Safe bet that the local unemployment rate has a lot more to do with crime than gun laws.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_r...
Gotta love self-hosted flowcharts :)
This is infuriating. I wasn't even given a letter, but I'd be happy to donate money to a central organization, if there is one, ready to fight these assholes.

Patents are bogus, and software patents are even worse. In this case, we're talking about process and not technology. Maybe this is needed to bring light to the issue and perhaps piss Apple off enough that they'll work to invalidate the patent.
IPad Newspapers Exploit – Full Disclosure
Using a service to sell users on an upgrade, at least from what I understand. It's not just IAP, but using IAP to get people from free to paid.
How do you find Prey? I'm trying to decide which one to go with:

Prey, Hidden or Undercover.
So there is official support for Ruby and Node.js, and inofficial support for Clojure?

Are there any other languages that are supported inofficially?
i gathered the opposite from the conclusion, unless it somehow leaves a window for another patch
Functional programs encode their dependencies as arguments/return-values. In Haskell, using the par combinator is guaranteed to only affect performance, and not the actual result of the program.

This is already a huge boost.
JSONKit author comments on the JSON Schema draft specification
please share similar campaigns below in the comments or post them on hackernews. would be great. thx.
Four factors that affect network performance
This is an awesome idea, I'm curious to see what they come up with. Tying things together loosely is exactly what I've been wanting to do for a while (looking at you, Google Reader and Twitter).
Hey there...I am one of the founders of MongoHQ. We get this question often. I think that the issue is less about getting up and going with a technology (generally, that is the easy part), but the reality that it is something that you still have to manage as you get increasingly busy. So:

1) How are you going to handle monitoring?

2) Do you feel comfortable making the right moves when you are faced with growth?

3) Do you feel comfortable optimizing your database as things change?

4) Do you have time to stay up on all the updates to MongoDB and how they can affect you, what improvements are right for you, etc.? The space is very busy.

As part of both of our shared and dedicated offerings, we offer this to our customers and can assist them as they grow and their needs change. Hosting the data is the easy part...mastering the domain is what takes effort. We do our best to help our users in this way.

One final note...we do offer consulting, installation and monitoring of in-house MongoDB setups. That way, if you did want to run MongoDB on your own platform, we could assist you. I'd love to talk to you more about it if you would like. My email is jason@mongohq.com.
IANAL, but is it even possible for Apple to get an injunction, given that they technically/formally are not a party in this case?
That's what antivirus is, essentially; it doesn't replace real security, but it can help.

I'm glad to see Apple realizes that it should be part of the OS, not a choice between bloated third-party poorly-integrated expensive trialware applications, as is the ridiculous status quo elsewhere.
Tempe, AZ has an Oakland style PD I guess. After calling them and reporting an assault they asked "what do you want us to do about it?". I want you to do ... your f*ing job!
We already do documents for clients in electronic form where possible. The limitation usually is outside bodies such as banks who insist on 'wet ink' signatures.

It does reduce fussing, for example when signing a multiparty contract, but it doesn't fundamentally change or services.

Standard contracts were always available and any decent lawyer has their own precedents, but part of what the client is paying for is how to use those precedents.

Just like standard open source software is available, but people still pay developers and sys admins...
Is anyone here hosting their Node app with Heroku ? Right now I'm using Linode but could do with a little bit more memory. of course, the price is right $19.95/month)
Their own public description of their patents[1] seems to cover both (and more). However, the example Apple cites in their letter[2] refers to "user feedback":

Once again, Apple provides, under the infringement theories set out in your letters, the physical memory in which user feedback is stored and, just as importantly, the APIs that allow transmission of that user feedback to and from the App Store, over an Apple server, using Apple hardware and software. Indeed, in the notice letters to App Makers that we have been privy to, Lodsys itself relies on screenshots of the App Store to purportedly meet this claim element.

If anybody has a link to an actual notice from Lodsys, that would be the best source.

[1]: http://www.lodsys.com/our-patents.html
[2]: http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/23/apple-responds-to-lodsys-...
I knew that both times. my brothers and sisters and i have been brought up unorthodoxly and have all had our asses handed back and noses broken for standing up for each other and ourselves.

rightly or wrongly I'd do it again and both times in the past I expected to be stabbed as I know chavs have a thing for flick and butterfly knives. I had recurring dreams when growing up of being stabbed in the neck, always defending someone. I always wake up in a pile of cold sweat with my heart going a million bpm. thankfully I rarely get them now.
Google Mars: Structure Or Pixel Seam Artifacts?
C2D is not something you install. If you have Froyo or later you have C2D .
Though unethical. If growing a billion dollar company means setting aside what makes me a good person, then I wouldn't want a billion dollar company.

Nor would I want to work there.
You missed the "obligatory" xkcd. http://xkcd.com/725/
I assume they couldn't be honest because it would've violated Craiglist's Terms of Use, namely:

You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available Content:

k) that constitutes or contains "affiliate marketing," "link referral code," "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or unsolicited commercial advertisement;

l) that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitation if: posted in areas of the craigslist sites which are not designated for such purposes; or emailed to craigslist users who have not indicated in writing that
it is ok to contact them about other services, products or commercial interests.

m) that includes links to commercial services or web sites, except as allowed in "services";

I wonder if Craigslist could legitimately sue Airbnb.
Realizing true validation: a follow-up
It is not fluid user experience at all. Click and drag the scroll bar to the bottom, and keep trying to scroll down. It violates expectations. The scroll bar should be sized to the amount of data that exists, whether or not it is fully loaded/rendered.