skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DIY instructions:

1. Put your camera on continuous shoot. My Canon 20D could do 3 frames/second. My 7D can do 7 frames/second.

2. Make sure your shutter speed maxes out at 1/10th of a second or so. Blurry pics are totally fine. Try to keep it landscape, though. Fixing the portrait shots is a pain.

3. Hold down your shutter button a lot. Turn on AF and give your camera to other people and tell them to do the same.

4. Download your 5000+ pictures to your computer later.

5. Open up VirtualDub, and load in all the JPEGs, tell it to resize to 1/4, and set the framerate to 10 frames/second or so.

6. Layer over with some music. I recommend sorting by duration in iTunes to find something that is as long as your video.

7. Ta-da: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIWek7YwS7w
I am reminded of what C P Snow wrote about the beautiful piece of writing called "A Mathematician's Apology" by G H Hardy:

A mathematicians apology is, if read with the textual attention it deserves, a book of haunting sadness. Yes, it is witty and sharp with intellectual high spirits: yes, the crystalline clarity and candour are still there: yes, it is the testament of a creative artist. But it is also, in an understated stoical fashion, a passionate lament for creative powers that used to be and that will never come again. I know nothing like it in the language: partly because most people with the literary gift to express such a lament don't come to feel it: it is very rare for a writer to realise, with the finality of truth, that he is absolutely finished.
I've only lived in the DC area for 6 mo. or so, but I've been to the Borders in Silver Spring, North Bethesda, Bethesda, and downtown and thought they were horrible, at least on price and probably on selection too. The B&N near Metro Center, on the other hand, had a much better selection when I went there for the first time last weekend. I found at least 4 books I wanted - however, I buy everything from Amazon (lower prices, or used books) and put them all on my wish list there.
It's the true form (generalization) of the old "new proposals require evidence" catchall. The space of possible ways things could happen and be in accordance with our ignorance is enormous. If you want the best chances of being right, you keep you guesses maximally simple!

If you create a more complex model that includes more factors than mutation and natural selection and it is able to predict reality better than one that only includes those factors then you win. As it turns out, people have by using more complete understanding of the actual mechanics of human genetics, but a rough and basically accurate picture can be painted without invoking those mechanisms.

That "mostly accurate" picture is where most people stop when they argue "for evolution". It's a fantastic rule of thumb.
I don't think this forgets Samsung, as in certain occasions Apple is buying so much product from Samsung that they are essentially buying up all the product from the factory.

I don't think the key is necessarily that Apple has invested in this factory or that one, but more that they have locked up the market so competitors can't get the same components.
Charm Nice Ring,For All Of You Gentlement
I struggled to understand this a few years back. This wikipedia article helped clarify things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_di...
Death can never be defeated - besides accidents and catastrophes, there's always entropy - but life can have some interesting twists if your life extends longer and your mind extends further.

However, I think even a few small changes to mental capacity or an extension of life expectancy beyond 2-3x will make the recipients something other than human. Our brains have many quirks that limit our ability to reason, understand, or act rationally, but those quirks are essential to our humanity and our ability to love. I think for this reason alone, few will elect to have very drastic changes made to their minds or their lives.
Was just going to post this. It's by Jake Lodwick of CollegeHumor/Vimeo fame.
They are good at copying...

seen this? http://9to5mac.com/2011/07/18/family-ties-earn-this-smart-co...
By what metric? Phones activated? Apple doesn't care about having a large percentage of the market, as we have seen with OSX/ Macs over a long period of time. Each phone purchase/activation has far greater lifetime average profit than what Google get for each android activation.
Best post Bankruptcy credit repair tips
Get the best self help repair credit advice on the internet. We are here to assist you with your credit questions such as how to remove bankruptcy credit repair and help you to fix rebuild credit to get a loans and mortgages.
(I am one of the authors on the Telex paper.)

> * The participating entry-nodes (proxies?) could be systematically determined with a scanner for future blacklisting or investigation by someone trying to stop this circumvention of censorship.

The "entry nodes" are positioned at ISPs outside the censoring country. By assumption, they are on-path from the censor's network to popular Internet destinations that the censor has left untouched.

> * You have to trust the people running the entry nodes, if they have the key to decrypt your traffic. This sounds like a design that governments can use for monitoring.

This came up in our discussions pre-release, and we think it's an interesting feature of Telex. You're effectively able to select which government's Internet policy you'd like to live under.
Narcos are not terrorists. They are narcos. Al Capone was not a terrorist either.

Put differently, a terrorist wants you to live in fear thinking he will kill you. A narco will just kill you and be done with it.
This is a shortsighted and reactionary post: DH1 or DH2 at best [1]. I understand your frustration, but if you only have frustration to contribute then HN prefers silence. It's the path to maintaining a respectful community.

It turns out, unsurprisingly, that all human phenotypes cannot be explained by naïve evolutionary biology but instead require more genetics and biochemistry to describe. Consider the specifics of eye color: evolution does not specify this feature, so a theory which goes above evolution (not contrary to what EGreg is asking for) is necessary to predict this phenotype. We're just more complicated than that.

This is a rebuttal to using pure evolution to model the shape of human physiology that doesn't introduce religion.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Note: Mostly differences between American and British English.
Neither student is a victim in the scenario you give. Peer pressure does not make one conspirator innocent.
I wonder if they licensed that Curtis Mayfield track.
I thought the exact same thing yesterday, 'Am I running out of time?'.

This essay is like a godsend.
I suggest going to your local Verizon shop and playing with the iPhone and Android phones first and seeing which phone OS you like more.

If you decide on going the iPhone route, definitely wait until September-ish until the new batch of iPhones are [rumored] to come out.

I don't know too much about Verizon's selection of Android phones, but my friend just got a Samsung Charge, and it felt pretty nice.
Ontario peaches are good when they are in season too, though I can't say I've had a fresh Georgia peach in season.
I'm not saying I'm afraid cities will overflow; I'm just attempting to further expand on the point that the people/land ratio is not as transparent and directly comparable between countries as it is sometimes assumed to be.
You'll have to explain a little harder how the great suffering currently afflicting hundreds of millions of people due to aging is both beautiful and good for them.

Or the hundred thousand people who died from aging in the past 24 hours: was it good for them as individuals? How about their families and companions?

In short, I don't think you've thought your position through particularly carefully.
Marshall's proposed problem is just one of many. This may not be a financial success at the moment, but it looks like a forward thinking startup with a core technology that has the potential to be very influential in your daily life. Think about all the things you do each and every day in which your location is a key (independent? not a mathematician) variable. When <here> do x, when <there> do y. I think geoloqi's own homepage[1] has some pretty interesting use cases (under uses).

[1] - http://geoloqi.com/
Would you have said this back when human lifespan averaged 40? Thanks but I think I'd sign up.
It's a fake. He was balanced on top of a wooden pole.
The Future Of Money Is Here
I'm not sure I agree,

Apple has done a very good job of taking the technology others have created and building them into a product and marketing that product so people want it, but are they pushing for new tech?

They used touchscreens that others had developed. If the touchscreen wasn't available, would Apple have created it?

What is the 'cutting edge' technology in Apple products? I think it is mostly commodity components engineered into their products.

The difference with respect to choking the production lines is that when a manufacturer comes to Apple or Apple sources a product from them, they take almost all the stock meaning others can't get that product.

For example, the 10" screen on the ipad, from what I've heard, other manufacturers had a difficult time getting that size screen for a year. but is that really Apple pushing the progress in tech?

Someone more knowledgeable than I could shed some light on this possibly choking technology progress.

For instance, CES 2010 showed lots of tablets before Apple announced the iPad. It took a year for many of those products to get to market, and I believe part of that was due to the limited availability of the screens.

Is that Apple pushing innovation or slowing innovation as others are unable to develop products?
Under my plan, the results would be good. If the process continues as in Georgia's experiment, then we will completely solve the problem of unemployment in Georgia.

Georgia has 11k unfilled agricultural jobs. At the rates described in the article (American workers quit after 1 day), we could reduce the unemployment rolls in Georgia by 11k people/day (330k/month). For comparison, Georgia had only 54k new unemployment claims in May.

http://www.dol.state.ga.us/pdf/pr/initialuiclaims.pdf

This would result in a net decrease of 280k people from the unemployment rolls per month, for Georgia alone.

That's the beauty of my plan - it is guaranteed to solve one of two problems (unfilled agriculture jobs or unemployment). We can't determine beforehand which problem it will solve, but it has to solve at least one.
(Client-side) JavaScript doesn't have a simple, builtin pattern for module dependency the way Python does, though.
You shouldn't be too surprised, it's quite possible they were tracking some combination of IP, user agent, and a number of other things to identify the browser. I don't know that you would have ended up having a "watch" preference, though, especially without clicking on watch ads or visiting a watch site.
Fall fashion
Yes, to be fair that's not made by Samsung. Since everyone else is speculating though... I agree their hand in its creation was probably non-trivial.
You are right, it is not really sinister and I never suggested it was. It is just unfortunate that you cannot go the open source route if you are not within a certain range of products.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s8S7QxpjeY
Yes it's true that the Rails and Ruby community is very talkative and innovative. I see a lot of projects being ported from Ruby to Python and not so much the other way around.

As for getting work done, in my experience Rails and Django are equivalent. The only thing against Rails is that it's slower, which can be a burden for development.
MindTouch Lauches Contextual Help CMS
Same problem as Tower Records. If you can only physically stock 60,000 titles there is no way to compete with an online company that can simultaneously offer all of them.
Students, this is why many great employers don't put much weight on the Education section of your CV.

(Cheaters, you should be figuring out how to crib a nice github account, not how to pass exams.)
A Handy Mootools class for building slideshow like interfaces.
Reminded me of the aristo theme which I quite like
https://github.com/banzor/Aristo-jQuery-UI-Theme
I feel exactly the same. Incidentally just today I have to decide between a job that I know at a company I had been at for a while and new job with more responsibilities, slightly lower pay, longer commute, that might boost my carrier from a "programmer" to something more.
I am old in software terms and that might be one of my last chances to do that. I have a son, and spending time with him is one of the most important things for me.

I am good and successful at what I am doing, but one always looks for the next thing.

As you I spent a lot of time the past ten developing my spiritual side. I meditate a lot, went to 10 day silent retreat... At this junction my peace fails me, though.
Watch Peru vs Uruguay Live online Stream Grand Copa America Football Match 2011
I don't think Apple is directly behind these innovations, but they finance it and make things feasible at industrial scale.

Apple is basically doing what Wal-Mart did for the retail supply chain: they aren't sitting around waiting for their vendors to bring them product, they figure out what will sell and demand it from their suppliers, using their fantastic capital resources to make it a sure thing.
New Construction Homes in Prescott for a Better Living
Hack « Search Results « Google Chrome Extensions
I think this site could be brought by Cosmopolitan some day. ^_^ Top stories are exactly fit for it.
Am I not living the HN dream? A challenge and a market so large as to be beyond most people's daily conception, a time in which the trillion dollar engineered longevity industries of the future are digging their first tenuous roots, and here I am doing my bit to help right at the start.
Delhi hotels offer variety of accommodations 
Delhi, the capital city of India tops the list of cities in every tourists guide book. Anyone who plans to travel the length and breadth of India always begin their journey for this capital city.
good online experience,should save it.
It's insecure in that you don't know the identify of the endpoint without verifying the fingerprint out of band. That problem is already solved in browsers thanks to SSL certs and certificate authorities.
I'd like to see more info in the FAQ. For example, what sizes do they go up to?
> For instance, CES 2010 showed lots of tablets before Apple announced the iPad. It took a year for many of those products to get to market, and I believe part of that was due to the limited availability of the screens.

There were a lot of products speculating what the iPad was going to be, but were no where near ready for mass production. Just because Apple (or any other company with tight lips) doesn't show you what they're working on until they ship doesn't mean they aren't ahead of the competition.
> the owner of the monkey

These macaques live on Sulawesi in Tangkoko National Park. No one owns them.
True. If I'm expecting a bool and just writing is True to program defensively, what I should really be doing is assert(type(x) is bool) if I want to make sure I was given a boolean value or x = bool(x) if I want to make sure I'm outputting bool.
May as well just go to the source and listen to Horace Dediu's podcast.

(slightly ranting tangent)

The "pros" can't make a working link nor can they link to the appropriate page. First link to 5by5 is broken and why link "5by5 networks" to 5by5.com/live? No good reason if you're at all familiar with the web. These people must be incompetent and I'm not using the word lightly. The writers who publish these articles should be able to link things properly. It's CNN, they just hire a dedicated link checker if nobody else is able to do it. Millions of ordinary people links things properly on their blogs every day but the people who do it for a living can't get it right.

Supposed professionals who blunder trivial and ordinary tasks ... sounds like material for TheDailyWTF.
I don't know about Paypal and Facebook, but interestingly enough, both Google and Yahoo have/had fair-sized offices in Southern California, though Yahoo's has gone the way of all Yahoo.
Can you provide some metrics to back-up that comment?

Google revenue on Android is through advertising revenues built into google search being the default.

What is Apple total lifetime device revenue vs. Android?
You got two or three options, as best I can tell.

1) Risk your life. Do something so close to the edge your heart is pounding in your ears and you can taste your life flashing by. (You have to mix it up though. Race cars today, skydive tomorrow, wrestle bears next month. Fear fades with time)

2) Get into shape. Like, really really good shape. The world becomes so full of life it's like it's on fire.

3) Get yourself lost, in the city or in the mountains, with nowhere to go and nothing to do for a day or two. Don't come home until said day or two have passed.
"By the end of 2011, 20 typical households will generate more Internet traffic...than the entire Internet... in 2008"

I'm having a difficult time wrapping my head around that stat. Anyone else?
Who is the DHH of Django?
I've been experimenting with something similar over the past couple of weeks, at the HTTP auth level (as that's my use case), although I don't have browser integration yet as I'm still working on interfacing to ssh-agent (also, insert standard lack-of-time excuse here).

I've been experimenting with SSL client certs for a while. They don't have a decent UX/UI in any browser I've used (redxaxder provides a link in another thread) and are a significant hurdle to general adoption. We could maybe see significant process in this area if some well known, popular site, like Facebook or gmail, supported SSL client certificate authentication.

We need to see more work in this area.
So if you're poor and left-wing nobody should take you seriously? What if you're rich and left-wing?

You lost me. Can you rephrase that point (or maybe I should)?
Why would I want to be forced to use South? There are other migration methods that approach the problem different ways, or perhaps I want to write my own?

Third part != Lower quality. In this case, it means being able to make incremental improvements outside of the Django release schedule. So while Rails bakes it in and forces a release schedule on migrations, South isn't encumbered by this, and is more agile.
http://www.startuply.com/

This is the site where you can get start-up job listings. Also Tutkiun Beta list is a place where you can find startups listed which may have openings.

http://beta.tutkiun.com/
Node-API: Alternative Node Documentation
How a Google doc joined the battle to save lives during the Mumbai blasts
Ask HN: Best way to show off job skills (How to build my resume online?)
Throwaway due to coworkers being on here.

I've been realizing for awhile, that my current job situation is coming to an end, and I'm trying to think of ways to pursue my next opportunity. I've heard a lot about things like GitHub (but have no experience with it), building examples/demos of tech you know (but can't think of what to build). The other downside, is that my resume looks unspectacular on paper (php/mysql developer, no degree, two years programming/one year as a job). But every job I've been at, whether it was a web job or not, I've always exceeded expectations and gone from an entry level type job, to leading a team of people in a fairly short time. I'm a fast learner and strive hard for the company I'm at, so I guess I'm just trying to think of better ways to show people this.

`

Skill set (in case you have ideas for demos I can build):

PHP (Object oriented, design patterns, PDO library)

--Kohana (Built a few apps in it, but am by no means dependent on it. Frequently read through the source)

MySQL

Javascript (the actual language, not just frameworks)

--jQuery

--Dojo (as well as Dijit widgets and such)

Objective-C (limited, just started learning and building basic apps like calculators and physics games)

Python (even more limited, just enjoy the language and learning it. No web experience with Python)

`

As an example, here's some stuff I did for weekend projects to help my wife:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMLflmqMBGc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ9fTSLef4M
LETS watch and see the these future trends in cloud computing
Clickable

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMLflmqMBGc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ9fTSLef4M
Put it this way, I'd like to see human mortality conquered, but I don't want to be alive when it happens. If you think class warfare is a problem now, wait until only the so-called "rich" get to live forever. The others will tear the world apart.
Intellectual property gone mad
This whole comment is rife with ignorance.

> Deploying a serious, hardened service on top of Django is an order of magnitude more complicated than something like Rails.

That's funny. How so? I just start gunicorn, point nginx at it, and I'm ready to go. Of course, you could just as easily do it 500 other ways that might make sense to you more.

> Schema migrations are yes, a "solved" problem, if by "solved" you mean a third party application that isn't baked into the framework.

This is absolutely the most absurd thing you've said so far. South handles migrations very well, the code of of excellent quality, and I'm always thrilled to see incremental improvements come down the pipe when they're ready. I don't have to wait for a new Django release.

> Having built a service that hosts Django apps, I can tell you that serious, hardened, services are not as trivial as you think to build with Django. There are countless headaches, and at this point it makes sense to use Rails over Django if you care about making your life easy.

Completely unsupported drivel. We run two separate PCI compliant websites with well over 10k uniques a day per, and have had a pretty easy time of securing both. Django bakes in XSS and a lot of other protection with little to no effort. SQL injection attacks become all but impossible if you don't do anything goofy.

> I'm not saying Django isn't without its advantages, but those advantages tend to pale in comparison to some of the problems when you scale past 10 users of a trivial app like a blog.

Work we do for client spans in the many thousands of users. Django bears the load well, has kept ourselves and our clients safe for over four years now, and lets us develop and deliver quickly.

I'm sure you can do the same for RoR, but why dump on Django when you clearly don't have a firm grasp on it and/or Python?
Ironically, such a world would have to be populated by people born after the epoch, not before, to fully take advantage of the conceptual freedoms it would have to offer.
Mozilla outlines goals for multiprocess browsing implementation
Housing and transportation can't bankrupt you (unless it is some crazy circumstance that is so rare that most people can't possibly fathom). You can walk away at anytime from your home or have your car repossessed. You simply cannot walk away from your chemotherapy unless you want to die.

If we can somehow find a way to rein in costs of health services (perhaps by disincentivizing supplier-induced demand through price ceilings in both malpractice awards AND gasp healthcare service price controls a la Singapore, Japan, or Switzerland), we can get further away from our dependence on large corporations to employ everyone.
Seeing as Kinect is a camera, what is the benefit of having Avatars for video-chat instead of using the actual video feed?