skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a fair point.

I've always thought that the government should have their own IT agency. The NHS would do well to fire all the paid up consultants and commercial software and start a Google-style technology cooperative and share their results to other agencies. The NHS has the biggest IT problem of all and with the right minds on the job we'd have massive progress in the organisation and some serious advances in computer science to boot.
Great call on the TMZ analogy - it's become too mainstream and gossipy. I'm all for hearing major news about the big name startups, but I feel like they have sold out by not giving as much exposure to the up-and-comers.
If you are inspired by this project, why don't you link to the kickstarter project [1] more directly?

(It reached its goal easily, but it's a matter of pointing to the source/project imo)

1: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/97103764/capture-camera-...
Anyone using the Amazon S3 Firefox Organizer extension will be disappointed as I am to discover that it doesn't work with FF5.

EDIT: Luckily, I had a moment of intelligence and copied FF4 before installing FF5, so I would recommend doing that if you use S3Fox with any regularity.
We use CakePHP. Our MVP was hacked from Drupal, but we trashed that quickly due to performance issues with our project management system.

I think there are plenty of startups using PHP. It just isn't quite as trendy, so you don't hear about it as much. There are many reasons to pick PHP over Ruby/Python. PHP and its frameworks tend to be quicker to start working with, and PHP often executes faster (sometimes much faster) than Ruby or Python ever will. Apps that need to scale would probably do better to use PHP/HipHop than Django or Rails. Plus, there are definitely more PHP programmers out there than Python/Ruby, so there is the added benefit of having a larger pool of talent to hire from.
The sun is the best optometrist
2011 is proving to be a good year for job demand
Skyfile file sharing API on iPhone or osx. 
Skyfile.co file sharing API.<p>Has anyone got experience using the API at www.skyfile.co I'm wanting to use it in a iPhone app to store files.<p>The API can take a torrent file then download the files and email you a direct download link for the folder.<p>Thanks for any ideas
Yeah, it seems to be a bit of a leftover from the days when each major version was radically different and customers would demand to stay on an old one.

I like Chrome's way much better, even though I admit it does play a bit of havoc with the enterprise-y types that don't use standards-compliant sites.
I never changed any default settings, and still got a dialog box asking if I wanted to upgrade. And I'm glad I got that question instead of a forced upgrade, because some of my installed extensions weren't ready for FF5.
Thanks a lot!
I moved the presentation to the top of the page. Also, I'm definitely going to change the name! :)
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The Sneaky Psychology Of Advertising
I'm currently getting the following error when I try to view your site:

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That can't be good for business.
Shockingly naive article. "If he sold one million books at $100 each he would make so much more! What is he thinking?" Uh, maybe no one would buy his books if he charged more? Perhaps he's an intelligent man and has experimented with different prices? Perhaps the author of the article should have asked him?
Erik Naggum on Emacs and muscle memory
the hardware would stop working unless a physiological level of background IR light is picked up.

It would also make the camera useless in situations with low light or lit by e.g. fluorescent lights. I don't think that would fly.
The CPU and the GPU are the juice machines sitting inside pretty much every cellphone that matters nowadays and the Nokia N9 is a disappointment in both.

Parse error. Juice machines? Is this idiomatic in some other language, and directly translated? Granted, I'm not a native speaker of English, so perhaps the failure is all mine.

Also, I'm not sure which audience the site is for, the price reference of "30,000" without unit was also a bit opaque.
France has borders with Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Spain and Andorra. Plus Britain just across a channel (and connected by a tunnel).

I can't see how they could possibly achieve this.
That revolutionary history was quite a long time ago. France has a pretty conservative culture right now.
Firefox does use binary diffs for updates, and has for years:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Update:MAR

It downloads the update automatically, but it will prompt you to restart a while after the update is downloaded (if you haven't restarted on your own). We are actively working on making the whole process less intrusive and more seamless.
Is FF planning on coming out with a auto-upgrade system?
The issue with Dropbox recently is that for 4 hours, there was no password check. So it's not as much to protect public/shared files, but to protect all files you have on Dropbox, in the eventuality someone gets full access to your account.
Archaic? The N9 is the first shipping product form Nokia with Meego a newer OS running on a qHD display with a 1ghz processor. It would do you good to read the actual article.

It may just fail because the market is already saturated with mobile platforms.
Seems like there is an opportunity to simplify local encryption with TrueCrypt / Dropbox integration into a neat, streamlined package for the layman.
Firefox does automatically download the next version in the background. It prompts you to restart a while after the update is downloaded, but we're working on making the prompting less intrusive than it's been in the past. Also, I think you get a more intrusive prompt if the update will disable any extensions.

See this article for some of the work we're doing to make add-on compatibility work seamlessly in new versions:

http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2011/04/19/add-on-compatibili...
Considering that they were known to die and they only recovery methods were to destroy the device to get the drive out or to send it to Apple who won't give you your data back potentially, it seems a very poor choice for backups.

I had one and liked it while it worked. When it died, just like everyone else's shortly after the warranty expired, I decided not to trust them anymore.

I now use normal USB or Firewire attached drives for local backups and use CrashPlan for the what-if-my-house-burns-down scenario.
I've noticed that even in the flow I welcome the disturbance in concentration. It gives me a chance to step back and take a few moments to analyze whether what I'm doing is actually the best way of doing it.

It also often happens, unfortunately, that taking a 6 hour swath of time to do a single thing is simply a luxury I can't afford.
What are the good alternatives to TechCrunch?
Is Meego a newer OS?
Mini iPhone is critical
I wonder where people are getting this (you're not the first person I've heard this from)? The syntax is not compatible at all. You can write programs in the same style, e.g. object oriented with inheritance, global state, side effects, and so on; but the similarity ends there.
> Fortunately, there are elections next spring

I would say you are mistaken in the belief that these policies exist because of certain leaders. In my opinion, they exist because the electorate is misguided in believing that this kind of 'censorship' is a good idea. Therefore, I would suggest that voting out the incumbent will not necessarily make the problem go away. I believe that the best way to deal with this is by spreading the counter message to show just how foolish and misguided the policies are. In addition, you should write to your government representative and let them know how you feel, ideally providing some good justifications for your argument.
Even that could be circumvented:

---------IR Filter----------

------IR Light Ring-------

---------Camera----------

Besides which, when Apple adds features, they traditionally do so to benefit their users. I'd suggest that, even though they cite concert censorship as an example of use in the patent, that's probably a cover-all-bases addition; we're more likely to see an iPhone IR sensor that enhances the user experience rather than one that impedes it.
Cui bono? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_bono)

The $500+ SSL rent-seekers, of course.

They didn't need to create fake Start certs or steal data - damaging Start's reputation may have been enough to liven up interest in the competition's wares.
FWIW, he did say "price in India", so I'm pretty sure it's in INR.
What is Floating point
Floating point is the point which had been developed for the use of real numbers which had been supported by many large numbers or values. In the floating point in some of the cases, the exponent valu
Ask HN: Please review my uptime monitoring service
http://tagbeep.com is a simple to use website monitoring system (Beta and free)

Please let me know what do you think about the app and
if the SMS alerts work in your country (the SMSes are free but some carriers charge for them).

http://tagbeep.com/blog/?p=61 - here are the features that I want to add.

I have little experience with selling stuff online.
The current plan is that after beta I should have a free plan
and a plan with unlimited SMSes and additional features.

Please write here any suggestions and feature requests.
Thanks HN!
Setup pingdom (or another monitoring service) on a Tumblr site and you can witness the other bigger issue with them.
Why moving to Scala - Part I - Writing less code
TreeStyleTabs is working fine for me in FF4 (and mostly did throughout the betas), does it not work on the right hand side?
I thought the actions of anonymous did have ideals. They were protecting free speech through disobedience.

I've seen 4 chan. Its no more than the corner teenagers playing around. They may once in a while break a window, or inconvenience some person, but they do not go to steal banks, or hit a police officer. All that is metaphors obviously, perhaps imperfect metaphors.

All I am saying is that I, we, do not know who or what Lulsecs is. Anonymous is everyone. You can apparently just enlist your computer towards some action. Lulzsecs is who?

Considering what happened to wikileaks why is there no probability, though slight, that it may be some dirty trick?

For example, anonymous is everyone right? Yet this guy who has been arrested, the "lulzsec mastermind", is apparently someone who has connections with anonymous.

Moreover, since lulzec appears to logically have no motive to take such a grave risk, as shown by someone who just got arrested individual and may possibly rot in jail, but many groups have an interest to get rid of anonymous, thus would want to blur the lines and sway the public opinion, I think there is at least some probability that they have been either corrupted or are affiliated.

I'd rather keep an open mind. We'll probably learn much more once this Lulzsec guy goes to trial, hopefully here in Britain, rather than extradited to some extrajurisdictional American prison, or offered a job in some company.
Combine it with a piezo-electric setup in your hiking boots and you may have a sustainable power supply.

Serioulsy that sounds idyllic. Hiking and writing. You make me imagine a modern day Wordsworth,
Official website: http://parishackers.org/
The original post was not about archiving only. To argue that archiving is easy, and ignore the other needs, seems to miss the point.
It automatically updated for me when I restarted it, without prompting. This is on Windows.
You can probably hack the extension to support FF5. There haven't been too many changes that should affect this.
I guess it wouldn't be good marketing to say "hey, here's my new project done in PHP!" so even if you actually enjoy working with PHP you probably end up not talking much about it. I know that's what I do.

I don't see it go away anytime soon but I also don't expect it to grow since most new developers probably run away from it and to more talked about stuff like Ruby. Still, I have recently heard some stories about how Rails is losing its hype.

Finally, when I had to choose a framework to work on I chose to go with CodeIgniter for its freedom (no conventions) while giving you MVC (and models being optional) and the dead simple but complete documentation.

PHP is like C#, startups don't talk about it but it's what the rest of the world use.
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It's had one for years, and it's enabled by default. Firefox will automatically download a binary diff in the background, and apply it the next time you start the browser. If you don't restart for a while, it will eventually prompt you to restart. (Much like Chrome, except that Firefox currently uses a dialog box prompt while Chrome has a more subtle toolbar icon.)

Previously there were two types of releases: "minor" releases which were installed automatically because they contained security fixes, and "major" releases which prompted the user to choose first.

Now there will be no more "major" or "minor" releases. All new releases will be installed automatically, though I believe there is an exception if any extensions are broken by a new release. (EDIT: I mean, if any extensions that you already have installed will be disabled by the update.)
The Trouble with Erlang Concurrency
Updated the currency, fixed that line. Thanks.
Firefox 5 is here
Downloading as we speak... will all the addons work?
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657554 where there are many, many comments already.
GigaOM
How times have changed. Not too long ago people loathed automatic updates and some said they're boycotting Firefox for having an autoupdate feature.
Yes. Initial release 26 May 2010.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo
Edit:

Seems there are at least 2 people who find pithy comments not worthy here so let me expand upon the point in a more verbose way to please them:

If you're Nokia you have zero chance at capturing imaginations with your products the way Apple does. There is no novel approach their corporate marketing team can come up with that will rival the winning formula Apple has produced. Apple's marketing today is probably better suited to the market than even the Think Different campaign in 1984.

Moreover, Apple has made their bones by contrasting themselves against beige corporate culture. Nokia is very beige.

Apple has framed the debate on their terms. So Nokia can choose to flail around in a mediocre attempt to find a different marketing strategy that works.... Or they can copy the unrivaled, unrelenting market leader. They are trying to produce a cool, trendy, powerful little smartphone. Why not embrace the Apple formula as best as you can. You're playing on their turf, so try to present yourself the way they do.

Or, in other words, when in Rome do as the Romans do.
Again, LulzSec is not Anonymous nor do they speak for them.
And for web developers, some more detailed notes at https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_5_for_developers

By the way, if you are a web developer, I strongly encourage you to use the Firefox Beta or Aurora channel:

http://www.firefox.com/channel/
What the.... I just ungraded to Firefox 4 not long ago, haven't even got used to 4's interface (I use Chrome 99% of the time) and Firefox 5 is out...

I wonder what's the logic behind this release schedule
Exercise is key! It refreshes mind and body. Unlike watching 132 episodes of How I Met Your Mother.
Could this lead to a massive boost in the use of tools like Tor?
I can see Sarkozy not being re-elected, but Ron Paul ? That guy is nuts just as well as the other right wing candidates. Furthermore, I am pretty sure you want him only because you don't know him too well. Only his more palatable views have been touted around the web.
I suppose the Amazon CEO could just buy .bezos from ICANN and not have to worry about any of this.
>If he sold a million Kindle e-books at 99 cents, he'd clear $346,500 -- nice work if you can get it. But if he were working with a traditional publisher, that $346,500 might be a lot closer to $1 million.

If there's an "if" in every one of your hypothetical sentences, it's probably not an argument worth pursuing.
Mystery solved by Occam's Razor.

Why do people insist on saying this? Yes, it might be the most likely reason, but Occam's Razor is not a law. It's more of a saying. Why are people repeating it as if it is always true?
Really slim on details.
The shader language is called AGAL, here is an intro: http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2011/04/intro-to-adobe-...
Ignoring for a moment the objections of value (which a bunch of other commenters have already pointed out), your two scenarios don't line up at all:

Piracy: A has bits X. A wants to give B copy of X. B wants copy of X. Third party C (record label) objects. [A pirates a copy to/with B]

Bitcoin: A has bits X. A does not want to give B copy of X. B makes one anyway. A objects. Third party C (person who mined coins originally and willingly transferred to A) does not care. [B steals coins from A]

The two scenarios do not line up at all. In fact, if you made a bitcoin scenario that did line up:

Bitcoin': A has wallet X. A wants to give copy of wallet X to B. B wants copy of wallet X. Third party C (original miner of coins) objects. [A wants B to be able to spend his coins for whatever reason]

well, in the Bitcoin' scenario, I think almost everyone would agree that C has no moral authority to object.
The ELB could check the "host" http header before redirecting
Congrats to Sam and Nick. Sound exciting!

This has to be a bit disappointing from Facebook's perspective. When they bought Divvyshot it was described as a talent acquisition ... turns out that at least for Sam, it was just a short-term talent rental.
If you consider Tumblr to fill some of the same space as Twitter (albeit in a more media-rich way), it has roughly "industry-standard" uptime. =]
16 digits of precision != 16 digits of accuracy.
How to tell whether you are an introverted personality
Peter Thiel, Lerer Ventures And Others Put $600K In BestVendor
Given the circumstances I think they did a beautiful job with this first release. Great job.
I have stopped reading techcrunch.com about 7/8 months ago even though I still subscribe to its rss feed. The website is bloated and takes forever to load. I have also noticed the quality of the articles go down in the past year or so.
That product looks to be already designed, manufactured, tested, patented, and is ready for release without a need for a single dollar to be pledged.

This is a very good marketing tactic.

There is no doubt that this is going to be a hit.
It turns out you can literally fit an elephant with four parameters if you allow the parameters to be complex numbers.

That's cool and all, but it kind of strikes me as cheating, given that complex numbers are vectors. I mean, heck, with four parameters I can fit three elephants, if you allow the parameters to be vectors in 6-space.
Mozilla, just call it Firefox, and make it always updated to the last version.
True. FaceTime was touted as a big innovation, when my classmates used video phones back in 2003. I also went to university with a deaf and mute girl who used it to communicate with her friends in sign language.

The video cinematography was a bit too Apple-inspired for my taste, though, but at least it looked professional. Not used to seeing that, at least from competitors.
Well, it depends on how much you like the other person :-P. I've certainly done it, but the hammock's design is going to press the two of you together. It definitely isn't something I would do every night.
Isn't Meego a rejuvenation of Maemo which was dying?
its moving more towards chromes rolling upgrades, luckily you are already familiar with them

The interface wont have as massive changes during faster releases
A related comment that supports your thesis:

From the developer of the highly successful Professor Layton games for Nintendo DS:

"from our analysis, we found that light users – users who had the Nintendo DS Lite system – were more likely to possess a game system for the sensation of having a popular item than because they were seeking ultimate excitement and quality from games."

http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/news/iwata/iwata_asks_-_...

Sounds like the description of a lot of iPhone and iPad users to me. (Note I have a DS and an iPhone, and family have iPads, and think they are all great products).
Agreed. Likewise the article is wrong when it says Java is built "on top" of C/C++. It compiles to JVM bytecode which is JIT compiled to native machine code.

So its whole "thinking logically" premise is broken.
Cloud9 IDE gets $5.5 million funding from Accel and Atlassian
Is Microsoft poised for turnaround?
With products like Mango [WP7], Kinect, Skype. And stake in Facebook and a partnership with Nokia. Is'nt Microsoft poised for a turnaround? Thoughts?
Yes, that's our basic plan. Updates are automatic and enabled by default, and the official press release does not mention a version number anywhere:

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/06/21/mozilla-delivers-new...
I have pretty much the exact same setup as you :).
Read their section specifically on Scala. The algorithm as implemented in Scala was a different bag of oranges than the apples in the C/Java implementations.

If you want to say that idiomatic Scala is so great, fine, although I wouldn't be so absolutist about it (remember the article on HN 2 days ago about the scala for loop being 20x as expensive as the while loop because of something to do with closures?).

Anyways the point is that the comparison was not between two things that were at all the same. All that says is that this particular problem was better expressed in Scala, and nothing about how one was faster than the other.
I think you'd be surprised.

Persistent data structures allow the VM or compiler to determine when things need to be copied. Mutable structures require programmers to worry about copies, so they will make copies when they feel they might be necessary. In very well-defined cases a smart programmer can optimize this to a point where it probably uses less memory than a persistent data structure, but in the average case (and with the average programmer), the VM will likely do a better job of knowing when to copy and when to not bother.
CSS3 of The Dead: An HTML/CSS3 only game
>a family that is happy I'm not coming home complaining about "the office"

That was why I quit my last job. I was emotionally invested. Couldn't help it. When you come home and 90% of the time you're complaining to your family about work - it's time to leave.

My current job is a 10 minute walk. 9 to 5. And I'm paid well. I come home quickly and have plenty of time to spend on whatever I want. And right now, it's my family.
A Visual Representation of the Law School Bubble
"Before she became a staff writer at the Times, she was the editor of LAist.com, web producer for the public radio show Marketplace, and a web consultant for the Getty. She is on the board of the National Book Critics Circle."

Agreed.
This article fails to bring several factors into its economic model. It should be about incentives and demand elasticity here - the "steepness" of the demand curve.

According to the article, he recieves $0.35 from a Kindle sale, and ~$2 from a traditional book sale. In this case, he would need to sell (2/0.35) = 5.7 times as many Kindle books as traditional books to be neutral between the options. To get the equivalent incentive from traditional books, he would need to sell ~175,000 traditional books.

Since he offers both physical and Kindle editions for his books, the question becomes, did ~175,000 customers purchase the Kindle book who normally would have purchased the physical book? Probably not, IMO.

So basically, it sounds like Locke actually knows what he's doing - he's driven by monetary incentives and his arrangement has more-or-less maximized his proceeds.
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