skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks beautiful and I like the more rounded icons a lot. But I wonder why the hell is Nokia launching a non-winmo device? People will not find apps for it and give it bad reviews and Nokia will end up getting even more negative publicity.
Sorry, I don't deal with imaginary currencies.
> not the medallion owners, who are the ones renting the cabs to drivers 6 days a week at an outrageous markup and preventing the city issuing any new medallions.

Umm, no. The medallion owners are NOT preventing the city from issuing new medallions. Yes, the medallion owners have consistently convinced the relevant authorities to not issue new medallions, but the responsibility for that choice rests with said authorities, not the current medallion owner.

If you can't figure out who is responsibile, you can't fix things....
Statistical Learning Theory (Olivier Bousquet, Google)
Nokia dumped Symbian for Windows, not MeeGo (although MeeGo was also heart-broken by the announcement). If the N9 does well enough, there will certainly be more where it came from.
On possibility: A developer short circuits permissions checking for local testing and accidentally checks in the change. But automated testing should catch these kinds of mistakes.
"we’re giving the Bitcoins that have been accumulated, or that may accumulate in the future, in the account set up in our name to the Bitcoin faucet"

If I understand correctly, EFF has some legal doubts about Bitcoin as a currency. So they give up and will give back randomly the money. Why not doing the same for the existing currencies? or the current financial system? we may have some doubts but it's not a reason to give away the money.

The donors usually expect the money to be used for their cause. As a EFF donor (in USD and Bitcoin), I would like to be sure that the money is used for the objectives of the non-profit organization.
> But unions shouldn't be locking other workers out.

Locking out other workers is pretty much an essential union function.

Disagree - name three unions that don't.
Really? UX carwreck? I have always been kind of pleasantly surprised when I load a wordpress blog on the iPad.

Maybe could do with improvement but carwreck is quite strong language ...
Austin Chamber launching intiative to create a startup district
I would have expected it to be much higher. But, I guess I shouldn't surprised it isn't...since I don't know anyone that uses it with any regularity. But, I don't live in the valley, anymore, so I'm out of the echo chamber.

I tried it, checked in at maybe four places, and then stopped. It's just too much trouble for no value I can discern. I mean, I see the value to the vendors, I see the value to Foursquare, I just don't see what I get out of it. (But, I also don't have a facebook status and I don't constantly tweet what I ate for breakfast, so I'm not the target audience, I guess. I'm not the self-reporter type.)
Honestly, I hadn't heard about this, and I think it is great news. And I think a really interesting technique used. While appeals to authority are frowned upon, the author list is impressive, and gives me more hope that this is not quackery or extremely poor science.
Animations are slow, but I like the look when it's not moving.
I dunno. It seems like he understood that the sell order was fraudulent (from his post -- "If there was an attacker in the system . . .," a hypothesis in support of which he calls the very trade he just participated in). Since he had a belief that he was buying hot goods, it seems reasonable to expect him to abstain.

This is the case in physical realms too. For instance, if you buy a stereo for a hugely marked down price out of the back of a guy's car and the cops find out about it, you may get charged. You will certainly have to give it back to the original owner, and if they don't catch the crook, you are the one who is out the money. Even if you don't get caught, you probably wouldn't tell your friends because this is not the sort of thing decent people do.
There's plenty of apps for it because they're Qt-based like Symbian and most apps need just retargeting. http://www.developer.nokia.com/Devices/MeeGo/
Actually, I was referring to the assertion that you're in the 35% tax bracket when your salary hits ~375K. There is a lot of confusion in this area, especially when things like pass-through entities (like LLCs and S-Corps) are involved.

Keep in mind that salary income from an LLC or from an S-Corp is also taxed by Soc. Security and Medicare (the dreaded ~15% self-employment tax) while capital gains from an LLC/S-Corp isn't necessarily subject to it.

My point (and I do have one) is that the tax picture is considerably murkier when there is a business involved, be it a small one or a large one. Income taxes for salaried workers are a relatively straightforward matter. Income taxes for owners of businesses are another thing entirely. Deductions for business expenses are just a small part of that circus. The rules for businesses are a BIG part of the tax code and responsible for much of the shenanigans. If you think paying $250 for H&R block to prepare your return is steep, try paying something like $15-$30K for a moderately complex return for an LLC.

(NOTE: My next-door neighbor just retired from the IRS after 30 years doing small business audits and my ex-fiance is a tax accountant. I've also owned and filed taxes for S-corps and LLCs as a principal. Shit just got real.)
What are people storing on dropbox that they're getting so upset by this? The chance that someone took advantage of this bug and accessed YOUR account are so small. I thought the blog post was fine, but I guess it's a good lesson for founders to take these kind of security issues more seriously than they they are - or else your users will freak out... It shouldn't have happened, but they'll learn from it and improve their system so it won't happen again.
A Bash wrapper for GCC which serve as C++
They took it to the next level with curved screen and removing all buttons. :)
As another developer that definitely isn't in the 100x category, those are some nice sentiments to hear.
It looks likely to become MeeGo's flagship phone; they have a flagship tablet already.

I don't know about the mass-market appeal, but for my part I want an OS that actually feels like Linux under the hood, and Android doesn't. It has Linux at the core, much like OSX has BSD at the core, but it doesn't feel like Linux any more than OSX feels like BSD.
What moratorium??? There is no moratorium against new nuclear facilities in the US. It is true that there haven't been any new nuclear reactors in the states for a long time, but there is no moratorium. (I think a couple of individual states may have moratoriums, but there is no federal moratorium).

The reason why there haven't been any new reactors is probably commercial. Investors are realizing that nuclear power is actually very expensive and will not build new reactors unless the taxpayers somehow pay for them.
Educational Expenses and the New Jersey Divorce
On the bright side, AT&T doesn't classify the N900 as a smartphone, so they don't require a smartphone data plan. :) Hopefully they'll continue to apply the same logic to the N9: "Does it run iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, or Symbian? If no, then it isn't a smartphone."
This is interesting but I don't think passwords gathered as he has constitutes a very representative sample of what normal people might use for normal services.
Universal Music goes to war against hip hop blogs
A good example of applying reality tests to controversial ideas is the Science-Based Medicine blog,

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/

which corrects quite a few mistaken ideas found in the popular press (and, thus, here on HN) about medical research.
BTC or Euro?
I think it's the way it is because the order is constantly changing and thus an infinite list does not make sense.
There has been a lot of comments bashing Arash's response. His post certainly wasn't personal (and should have had a more apologetic tone), but beyond that what would you've liked to see him communicate? He seemed to do a good job explaining what happened and outlined a plan moving forward.

I'm not trying to defend him but I am genuinely curious what other people think his response was missing.
As far as I'm concerned, the real feature is that all these things are now on Nokia hardware. Nokia hardware is the feature.
This is why cars have pieces of paper called titles (which you are not supposed to keep in the car itself).
I've been involved in trying to rectify this sort of mistake before...

At least with .com.au domains, there's not a lot of risk of losing a recently expired domain, what you do suffer is a ~$100 vig for the registrar to "expedite the re-registration"...
I get this error message when I try to post it as a status:

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It's a psychological hack.

Basically, by intentionally depriving myself of something, it stops being "normal" and becomes a luxury. I was at my parents' house for Christmas in December, and felt like I was at a 5 star hotel.

I've done similar "hacks" to my diet. I did a month where I ate nothing but rice and beans (a very very healthy dish, actually). The first week or so when I was finished with the experiment, everything I ate tasted amazing.

The car that I drive is fairly beat up; I drove my sister's car to San Diego a few months ago, and I might as well have been driving a Bentley. A CD player? I can listen to whatever music I want!? It doesn't rattle when I go over 55?!? I can hold a conversation inside without having to yell?? etc. etc.

Silly, I know, but effective.
He doesn't know they are stolen. It could have been a legit attempt to panic the market by someone hoping to recover their losses plus some profit in the recovery. It's not illegal to ride along.
Haiku OS Alpha 3 released
New Features

This is a glimpse into some of the more notable improvements and additions to Haiku, since the previous release, R1 Alpha 2. It should be noted that over 950 bugs closed as fixed since R1 Alpha 2. Additionally, more than 250 subtle bugs have been fixed, which were discovered by Coverity.

Improved read (and write support) for various file systems, which includes btrfs, exFAT, ext2, ext3, ext4, NTFS, UDF, and others.
Various enhancements for hardware support, such as IO-APIC, ACPI, video drivers, network drivers and USB.
Gutenprint is utilized to provide additional printer support.
Partial fallback for displaying unsupported glyphs of any font. For example some Japanese and Chinese characters will now display.
MediaKit's support for decoding and encoding file formats has been improved.
Addition of a general MIDI SoundFont by Tim Brechbill which enables support for many BeOS MIDI applications.
New IMAP implementation. Mails are now synchronized with the server and not just downloaded like in POP3.
The mail daemon replacement (MDR) and parts of the Mail Kit have been rewritten. MDR crashes are fixed now.
Integration of StackAndTile, which was originally pioneered by the University of Auckland (available via setdecor SATDecorator).
Additional window management controls for moving and resizing windows (CTRL + CMD + first mouse button and CTRL + CMD + second mouse button).
Update of the secondary and experimental compiler to GCC 4.4.4 (available via setgcc gcc4).
Support for weak symbols and symbol preemption in GCC 4.
The user interfaces of several programs have been overhauled and include BootManager, DiskUsage, MediaPlayer, ReadOnlyBootPrompt and ShowImage.
The locale support was extended and consolidated to use a single backend (ICU) for both Haiku's native and POSIX's locale API. The interface and reliability of the Locale and Time preflet were improved considerably.
More applications now use Haiku's Layout API, making their GUI's more resilient to font changes and localization. Furthermore, the layout API has continued to progress towards being stable and public. However, this API is not finalized: it may change at any time, so developers beware.
Support for PAE (Physical Address Extension) was implemented, so that physical memory beyond 4 GiB is used now.

Missing Features

Haiku does not yet support WPA encryption for wireless networking, only WEP encryption is supported.
Package management is still being developed and is not included in this release. For the time being, a temporary script is included to help install a small set software (available via installoptionalpackage).
USB keyboards attached to OHCI or to USB 2.0 hubs do not work in Kernel Debugging Land (KDL). They need to be connected to UHCI root ports to work in KDL. Also note that when entering the kernel debugger by means of a panic it is possible that the keyboard does not work. To work around this issue you can manually enter the kernel debugger once and leave it again to enable the USB keyboard.
If you're using Chrome or Firefox, there's a great extension called Autopager that retrieves the next web page in a sequence and loads it inline: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mmgagnmbebdebebbcl...

I discovered it a few months ago and can't imagine living without it anymore.
Totally agree... It sucks that it happened, but come on, take a deep breath. I've been trying to think of any documents I might have that would really cause me to get so upset about this... Some might be a little embarrassing, but I really can't think of anything that would make me this pissed off.
He knew the trades were unusual, but there are also other explanations for weird trades than dumping stolen goods.
The US had really, really bad crime in the 1980's and 1990's. In a lot of large American cities, infamously including New York, things like street muggings were literally a fact of life that nearly everyone had faced one time or another. I'm not aware that things ever got that bad in Europe; it's not fair to criticize our solution to a problem Europe hasn't even had.

Why were things so bad? We're not a culturally homogenous society, so we have lots of oppressed classes of people who are more likely to turn to crime. We have a history of high immigration and a history of puritanical, prohibitionist laws, which means organized crime from all over the world can easily gain a foothold here.

And, unlike Europe, large parts of America were basically frontier less than 150 years ago. The "wild west" wasn't as violent as you see in movies, but it wasn't a very nice place, either, and harsh measures were sometimes necessary. A lot of American sentiment on capital punishment dates from these times, and these circumstances which Europeans haven't been familiar with for centuries.

Pragmatically, the American justice system (capital punishment and long sentences included) does a very good job at containing criminals. We can be fairly certain that as long as someone is in prison, or dead, they are not going to go on and commit more crimes.

Frankly, the bulk of the problem in America has been urban gang violence. You can't fix that by rehabilitating individuals, because gang violence isn't an individual crime. Sure, brain malfunctions might explain individual criminals. They don't explain entire criminal subcultures. They can't all have brain damage, they just live in a culture where gangs are normal. Any human will do violent and terrible things to fit in with the culture that surrounds them.

As for the jury system, Americans consider jury trials to be just as fundamental to democracy as elections. Of course juries can be swayed by emotion--but if you only allow trained, expert judges to pass verdicts on a trial, by that same reasoning, shouldn't you only allow trained experts to choose your country's leaders? After all, voters can be swayed by emotion, too.

On another note, I'm curious as to how the justice systems you're talking about would handle criminals like Timothy McVeigh or Charles Manson. Don't you think that someone who kills children with truck bombs, or arranges a series of murders in order to incite a race war prophesied in Beatles lyrics, is too dangerous to be let go? A lot of experts believe that true psychopaths can't actually be rehabilitated--at best, they only learn how to fool therapists into believing they're healthy again. How is that handled?
Apple’s SaaS: Software as a Soul
I've seen this used before this past week.
True... perhaps it would be better stated as the GPL gives you the right to distribute derivative works.

I always thought that fan fiction lived in a legal gray area that was tolerated by some and not others. So in my opinion, it's a bad example to use in this case. GPL is very explicit as to your rights and responsibilities.
Sometimes the news is really interesting: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10971-cheap-safe-drug-...
That's essentially a very literal interpretation of the phrase "cult of personality."
Creating Public AMIs Securely for EC2
not really sure what you mean. MySQLdb, i.e. this project: http://mysql-python.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html ? When you ask this library to execute a query and return rows, the network communication with the MySQL server is done with C code, i.e. with _mysql . It doesn't make sense to say "_mysql is twice as fast as MySQLdb" - "_mysql" is an intrinsic component of it. The Python portion of MySQLdb does very little.

Here is from the FAQ included with the project:

"MySQLdb is a thin Python wrapper around ``_mysql`` which makes it
compatible with the Python DB API interface (version 2). In reality,
a fair amount of the code which implements the API is in ``_mysql``
for the sake of efficiency."

In fact, if you do want MySQLdb that's pure Python, there's an entirely separate project for that called pymsql: http://code.google.com/p/pymysql/. This library will be a lot slower than MySQLdb.
1. download http://dl.google.com/chrome/install/797.0/chrome_installer.e...

2. Unzip

3. unzip again until you see a chrome.exe

4. move the chrome.exe to the folder in the same directory

5. Now you have a clean copy of Chrome Dev. Create a shortcut of chrome.exe to your desktop and enjoy!
Thapar university, thapar university admission
Ask HN: Any of your site affected by the most recent farmer update?
Do you see any positive or negative impact on your site in the very recent panda update?
I read it as he was watching a market free fall and was looking to capitalize on it. He had no way of knowing if the sell order was fraudulent. It could have been someone trying to drastically crash the value of BTC, but still a legitimate owner.

Buying them through MtGox wasn't the same as buying bitcoins out of the back of some guy's car.

What about people who had standing buy orders? They could never had known about the market free-fall and conditions surrounding their eventually accepted orders.
The laptop I want, 2011 edition
Good point.

Probably worth checking your own sharing and connected device settings.

== Connected Computers and Devices
https://www.dropbox.com/account#manage

== Sharing
https://www.dropbox.com/share
I wonder how the swipe task switching gesture interacts with games and other apps that involve swiping? I have it enabled with Dolphin (browser) and it's always a bit hit and miss whether the swipe gets picked up by the browser or as a gesture. I'm sure they can do it better than Dolphin, but still - you need it to be perfect, I think.

I love the design though - distinctive. Quite promising if they can make similarly bold designs for their phones running WP7.
I built http://spotwoo.com in a couple of days using jQuery Mobile. Some weird gotchas, but I really enjoyed how quickly I could make something that looked decent. Congrats to the jQuery Mobile team.

I've got a couple of clients who've been mumbling about needing mobile apps, and I'm probably going to steer them to jQuery Mobile instead.
Hi I'm a postdoc in biology and just stumbled across this as I was thinking of ways to use electronics to help automate things in the lab. This is very neat and impressive, keep it up! I look forward to seeing it in action. What is your background by the way? If you're interested I was thinking of playing around and maybe building a PCR (for fun) and, more practically, a 96-well plate auto-washer (for those laborious ELISA wash steps -- basically it's filling the wells to the top, usually 400ul, then vacuum sucking it all off, repeat 3 times). I bet you could do that, maybe offer me some tips if I do try it? I have some experience coding with the PicKit but was thinking maybe the Arduino is the way to go in the future.

Thanks for sharing your creations!
Git is simple enough to set up with some basic unix skills and with something like gitosis you can manage access to repos. GitHub has added many more features and make collaborating super simple. Totally worth it IMHO. Git is not just Github though.
You'll note that in the link it just says Chrome without a version number. They'll support their own browser differently. Unfair? Some might think it, but considering Chrome's success in forcing version upgrades on people it will work fine.

I think people are putting too much/too little thought in to this version number thing. With Firefox's six-weekly release schedule now they'll define a major release differently from the version number.
UK Serious Organised Crime agency website down after LulzSec Ddos attack
Mercedes GLS In The Works - rpmGo.com
Reading the article and the Discussion page, there doesn't appear to be a lot of strong evidence for a Rural Purge.
Another infographic resume creator: http://inforesume.heroku.com - Create a simple resume infographic by logging in using LinkedIn.

I mainly built this site to improve my RoR/CSS skills and also to play with heroku. If you have any comments, please let me know.
This is the same guy who has a very understandable introduction to quantum computing on his site. Worth spending some time on his blog in general to see what other goodies you can dig up.
You’ll pry transactions from my dead, cold, broken hands
The market intervention that people are demanding is only possible because Mt Gox is a centralized exchange. Had this been a hack of a pure BitCoin client, it would have been even worse, because the theft would have been irreversible.

If the community wants rollbacks when transactions aren't "fair," what's the point of BitCoin again?
very informative, thanks for this
How think is it I wonder? Nokia has this strange inclination towards producing phones that are 25% thicker than they should be to be comfortable.
No special insight for most Hacker News readers, sure.

Try showing it to that strange religious uncle of yours, or the crazy guy who lives under the freeway, or a typical middle school teacher. I suspect there's some insights for some of those people to think about / argue against...
Very young person on the porch here...

but I really don't care for infinite scrolling on desktops.
If they increase the volume of the audio signal, would that do much to increase the range? It would be awesome if someone could use this technology at a range beyond NFC... for example, using it to hack together a pseudo-mesh network inside a subway car.
Snow Falling in Colorado on Eve of Northern Hemisphere’s Summer Solstice
The overhead of keeping BTC is probably low, but what happens if they lose that private key? How many people have access to it, what's the protocol for using it, ....? I know if someone sent me some BTC there's a good chance they'd be lost to the world forever.

And then people will throw a hissy if you aren't "using" their donation. Maybe their choice of the faucet can be viewed in a different light. They are using the donations to promote and ensure a bright future for bitcoin by spreading the wealth. :)
Go to HK. The amount of money you could probably make in the semester you'll be there is far outweighed by the experiences you will gain. And yes, it will look great on your resume.
Keep up the great work. We are looking at jQuery Mobile for http://infostripe.com and am impressed by this update.
"IT Admins Gone Wild" -- atrocious PCWorld article