skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love if this thing could be used as a boot jump drive in a fully featured computer as well. My dream scenario is having my work house computer with my file server, music and video streamer with a netbook thin client and a portable way to securely connect to it from anywhere. If I can connect to any monitor and keyboard and be remoted to my machine, or even better, boot into a thin client on a fully fledged computer and have my environment with me all the time... that'd be great.

I'm basically all of the way there, if I could only get an NX client built for my Cr-48. I think that things like this Raspberry Pi and Motorola's smartphone-dock-powered-netbook are going to be rather big soon.
If they do ports, then Nintendo stops being a hardware company.

They'd have to fire a /lot/ of people, for starters.
I vote for "do nothing." I don't see this being a big problem, and to the extent that it is a problem, I don't think it merits risking the unintended consequences of a possible "fix."
As a Nintendo customer, their software lineup has become very uncompelling. To the point where my Wii & DS haven't been turned on in over a year+ and there's no reason to buy the 3DS (even with price drop). N64 ports and other remakes aren't appealing.

Nintendo has been complacent riding the gravy train of casual gaming (Wii Sports type minigames, fitness, etc) for great financial success that doesn't constitute epic AAA gaming (core franchises like Zelda, Metroid, etc).

They aren't competing well VS direct competition (Sony, MS). With iOS & Android platforms to contend with, it isn't going to get any easier for Nintendo.

To compete against free & .99 cent app store games, Nintendo needs compelling, epic AAA games at the $30+ price point that they charge for. Not 3rd party shovelware.
As much as this sucks for EJ, she is being quite the crybaby. This has nothing to do with AirBnB and everything to do with the fact she handed over the keys to her personal flat (containing many expensive items and personal documents) to a complete stranger. The medium through which this stranger found you, be it a pinboard at a supermarket, craiglist, airbnb or through a foaf, is irrelevant.

Initially AirBnB may have been populated with California Apple fan boys (you can trust), but it's just a matter of time before Joe six-pack (who you maybe can't trust so much) gets on there.

If you rent out your place through AirBnB it should be YOUR responsibility to vet the person and / or make sure there is little to steal / destroy. This isn't the responsibility of the founders of AirBnB.
Social File Sharing Start-Up Minus Raises a Mini-Round
A whole bunch of data and graphs and other neat stuff on hurricanes: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/climo/

The part I found most interesting was the points-of-origin graph, and how closely that correlates with the Tropic of Cancer. But, there's also a historical graph there for your edification.

Tornadoes: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/severeweather/tornadoes....

The historical graph here does not appear to show any upward trend 1950 to present for frequency of EF3-EF5 tornadoes; if anything, they may be becoming slightly less common.

As for droughts, I will link to a report from NIPCC, who are -- to say the least -- climate change skeptics: http://www.nipccreport.org/articles/2011/jul/27jul2011a2.htm...

In their report, they found no long term trend for drought conditions. I can find nothing that casts doubt on their research.

If I were serious about figuring out whether the cost figures for natural disasters were attributable primarily to increased costs or primarily to increased severity of natural disasters, I'd use earthquakes as a comparison -- if it's an increase-of-cost issue, then I'd expect to see the same increase-of-cost for historical earthquakes. If the increase-of-cost for earthquakes is substantially less than of the natural disasters in this report, then I'd be inclined to attribute it to a greater frequency and severity of natural disasters.
First, just checking the data is often not enough and can be hard to do right. The better option normally is to paramaterize the query which makes it very difficultto prevent it.

And no, not everyone paramaterizes or validates their data at all.

I wrote about some of the defensive techniques at http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/learn-sql-server/sql-injectio... a couple of months ago.
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Froyo is the OS version that made Android competitive. Gingerbread is the gravy that made is excellent.

I've had 4 Android devices, all the ways back to cupcake on the G1. In the early years I absolutely saw the issues that the GP observed, tolerating the platform for secondary reasons while hoping it would get better. I, too, had to pull my battery to end a call more than once. Until Froyo I never recommended Android to non-tech friends or peers. With a modern Gingerbread device I would recommend it in a heartbeat.

But...wow...reading their post is like a blast from the past. jm4 seems to have a really bad sense of timing "buy high sell low!" because Android today is a slick, smooth, reliable platform.
That's what I keep thinking too. Ignoring all the ethical and legal issues here: this was just obviously a huge risk to the company from the instant they heard about it. How do you let weeks go by without getting closure on this? Get the senior executives on the phone with her every day, make sure she knows everything you know, make absolutely certain she isn't stewing in silence thinking about writing a blog post. Really, that's just customer service 101.

Instead AirBnB stuck their heads in the sand and ignored it until it went viral. Bad, bad sign. Which new company-breaking disaster is going to be ignored next?
+1

Article says: "This is because users don’t have to tab as much."

Strongly disagree - 'average', non-technical users simply don't tab between fields. They mouse and click, mouse and click, etc.

I can't remember ever seeing a user in a field test (I do UI testing) use tab to traverse a form.
Paying for SMS is awful. Just out of curiosity how would you suggest we don't, "just bend over and take it?"
"I really, really, really wanted to like Android, but you can damn-near put an 18 month countdown on the majority of the Android phones before the manufacturer abandons it and you're stuck using XDA developers or the like for updates, patches and improvements, or just to fix the stock crap they ship. On a 24 month contract cycle, that's just unacceptable."

Somewhat broad generalization ahead...

About once a year, Apple comes out with ONE new phone, an iPhone. If the phone is bad, Apple goes out of business. Apple bets the company every year on that new iPhone, and to make that a reasonable bet, they spend tons and tons of marketing on design, engineering, quality, and customer support. Apples knows a bad iPhone makes WSJ / New York Times front pages. Apple knows that to make a bad iPhone loses them iPad, iPod, Macbook,... customers.

And so ... by and large, Apple does not make bad iPhones.

In contrast

Four times a year, each, HTC, Samsung, Motorola, LG, Kyocera, Huawei, Sony, and others, come out with a new Android phone. This phone is one of many many products made by each of these companies. The success or failure of any of these phones means almost nothing to the company. And so, the product development and rollout of any of these phones is not a bet-the-company gamble. Accordingly, very little effort is made on design, engineering, and customer support. None of these companies have terribly loyal customers, most seem to buy a given phone based on carrier affiliation, or based on costs. Losing a customer here is bad, but does not carry the long term cost as losing a customer at Apple does.

And so there is very little incentive to make anything but competitive (in all the wrong meanings) phones here. There is a race to the bottom mentality going on.

"We think the phone we make is good, at least as good as the phone they make. Let's get some more marketing dollars from our partners for it and we will all be happy"
I know the analogy was horrible... -_-

Regardless, the intention of my point was that manufacturers were given "blueprints" and "tools" and they built a shitty product. Even though Android is Google's product, the end result is not and to point fingers at Android is wrong. Is it the fault of Google if people are using the tools improperly? If anything, Google should've better managed the Android trademark so as to not associate their toolbox/blueprints with sub-par implementations.
There's a quick bit of discussion about this already here on HN[1]

1: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2819709
This is very true - sadly.

The top nav of the NYTimes is a political minefield ("HOME PAGE, TODAY'S PAPER, VIDEO, MOST POPULAR, TIMES TOPICS". Part of the problem is that links to some of these pages exist nowhere else (or relatively few other obvious parts). Its a big big web site and over time some organization was lost as new pages crept in.

BUT... Do you know what happens if you remove it? Nothing. No meaningful impact on traffic. Yet there it still ives.

The Left Navigation bar on the Homepage is a recognized problem internally. However you need to weight:

- Same argument as above, some links to these pages don't really exist anywhere else (Skimmer, Times Wire, Multimedia, Times Machine). You need to solve that problem first.

- Various departments would make a stink if they did not have the glorious link from the Homepage.

- If you remove it, you're probably talking about a solution that would take up more horizontal space and push the content down even further.

Those are the two immediate ones that I recall. I don't see this being addressed specifically anytime soon - it was hard enough to clear space for the Facebook module.
Title is missleading. Nosql is an umbrella term for keyvalue-, document-, object-, graph-, column- etcetera- databases. The API's these provide are probably using a paradigm most natural to the actual habitat the data lives in already. Is this "no sql for nosql" really a problem that needs solving or merely a flakey abstraction thats super interesting to implement?

Unql seems to only focus on json based document stores so it might actually make a decent abstraction.

Too easy to dismiss as impractical and i hope these guys pull off something amqazing if only for json document stores.
I think you've hit the nail on the head.

For people like you, who want to be able to plug their phone into their Linux box and access their data - Android in its current state is a fantastic operating system.

For people like the author's mother (and my mother actually) who want their phones to "just work", Android in its current state isn't living up to its potential.

I have no doubt that if Apple allowed manufacturers and carriers to use whatever hardware they wanted, and install whatever apps they want on the iPhone, iOS would have exactly the same issues.
From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please submit the original source. If a blog post
reports on something they found on another site,
submit the latter.

This article seems to add nothing that isn't already in the original blog post, submitted and discussed here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2820615

If I'm wrong, I'd appreciate some indication as to what this article adds, because I've missed it.

========

ADDED IN EDIT: I remain completely perplexed by down-votes on this sort of comment. I see I get them, but I just don't understand. The submission is just duplicating something already submitted, it contravenes the explicit site guidelines, and it risks splitting and therefore replicating discussion.
Readability increases but sortability decreases with ddmmyy as opposed to yymmdd.

Readability increases. Dates we use in day-to-day work are probably power-law distributed going backwards with more recent dates being more common. That means if most of the dates will have year 2011, we can guess that, and the day and month become more important. And if most of the months will be current or previous month, we can guess that too and day emerges as the most important piece of info- we will want to read that first. The yymmdd is less readable because it gives us information we (probably, given the power-law distribution mentioned above) already know first, such as the year.

But you lose sortability, yeah.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that when most people think of a DS, or any other Nintendo product, the Nintendo properties are the first thing on their minds. If you are getting a DS you probably want to play Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, or Metroid. If those do not interest you, then you are still more likely to be interested in some sort of JRPG or maybe a fighting game.

I am a gamer, and I was not even aware that there was any sort of market for LEGO Harry Potter or Sims 3 on a DS. In this case I think the stats support my view: http://www.gamestats.com/index/gpm/nintendo-ds.html

You may note there are only four non-Nintendo properties in the top 20 popular games, and of them only one (GTA) has a native iOS port, while one more (FF6) could technically run on a SNES emulator. I hope no one asking you for game platform advice was hoping to play any of the most popular portable games of the day.
+ If lots of people did this, then we would quickly wind up with exactly
| one post about a topic on the front page, so people's discussion would
+ mostly go onto that post.

If lots of people did this, then we would quickly wind up with no posts about a topic on the front page, because we often disagree about what constitutes "better."
"In fairness, this is stretching the meaning of `binary blobs' a little, right?"

Stallman doesn't seem to think so, he labels it serious and calls for immediate correction.
Interesting essay. I'd like to be in the room if Paul Krugman discovered he was being compared with Douglas Holtz-Eakin.
Ask HN: What are some real problems that need to be solved?
I know this is a very broad question, but I want to take a step back from working on and reading about the latest social-mobile-gamification app. I'm curious to learn more about real world problems, especially in healthcare and developing nations, that need more attention. I believe getting vaccines is a well addressed problem. It can be a small problem or a large problem.

For example, I'm pretty inspired by what charity:water is doing, providing clean water to developing nations (http://charitywater.org). Also, Khan Academy in education.

The problem doesn't have to be related to developing nations. It can be something simple that helps you do your job.

The more specific you are with your problem the easier it will be to think about a solution.
I see.. i think it wasn't there a while ago.. or i really missed it. Great! I'll buy this great piece of software!
Not at this point, no.
>These included doubling the size of its customer support team, setting up a 24-hour telephone hotline, and offering insurance products.

That is a pretty weak response. Peddling insurance...really?

Even worse I can't really think of a better response. i.e. The model might be inherently flawed & un-fixable.
Weak supporting evidence: reddit does not appear to have the same problem. (At least not on my front page; YMMV.) Of course, there could be any number of reasons for this.
So.. it plots tweets on a map.

I live in a sparsely-populated area, so there'd never be the density of my Twitter friends to make it work for me.
Money going to the government to "fund programs" doesn't go into the economy either. There's a possibility it will go to salaries and things, but that's hardly a guarantee. The government doesn't create the economy, private sector growth does. When money goes to "private accounts of executives", and those accounts are in banks and investment funds, that money is going to be used to capitalize new growth (unless they're hoarding that money in Swiss accounts somewhere).
It would be really cool if they offered this in an arduino form factor with i/o pins.
Google TV Fail, Apple TV (modest) win
I'd endorse a script that auto-submits "Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine" every 2 weeks. It'd have a deeper psychological impact than just putting "Please search before posting" on the submissions page, and it's an article every newbie should read anyway.
Checkout forrus.org. I'll send you an invite when you do. You can register with your HN name if that helps.
I'm in favor of pg remaining the benevolent dictator of HN, but perhaps -- just perhaps -- if a trusted person or cadre here were to implement their own "duplication identifying/deprecating" service that passed muster, he might be willing to consider interfacing with it.

For example, if someone developed a third party tagging mechanism, there might be one or more classes of tags that identify duplicates.

The tagging could remain a third party browser-based overlay, or it might at some point be given access to write appropriate comments re its discoveries or even, gasp, moderate.

With this approach, third parties do what they're going to do, and if it's liked enough -- no guarantees, and no pestering! -- maybe it gets "blessed". Kind of like how search eventually ended up getting a textbox in the footer.

Anyway, I'd favor a design where I can quickly tag; if there were someway to conveniently incorporate the ID of the better post/resource, all the better. Then either let other users see/reference the tags directly, or (and/or) feed them into some form of meta-analysis and/or moderation.

We might also take a pass at improving the existing duplication detection.

I haven't really thought the above through, particularly how it might be gamed or otherwise end up being a negative.

P.S. Ideally, but perhaps not practically, I'd also like duplication detection/flagging to catch the all too numerous instances where people grab references from comments and post them as new posts. It's fairly prevalent and a readily apparent karma whoring mechanism for some. (On the other hand, sometimes such an elevation is warranted; it's not an entirely black and white issue.)
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CrowdFlower challenges Yelp
Marc Maron's First Things First Keynote
His argument is a total straw man, he wants us to tear it down. He also begs the question that eval is for a repl.

So the ClojureScript folks decided to give up flexibility for speed? A Lisp w/o eval is not a Lisp. Strikes me as a motherly premature (de)optimization.
So this is a competitor to Adobe then?

That makes me think Palm should get into this. It is a mostly JS based app platform. They should make it cross platform. A very good way to make their development tools attractive to devs and also help themselves in the process.
Indeed. And it's not even a discussion of any actual utility, it's just finger-pointing. The question of precisely how we should dole out blame for the debt problem (actual answer: a big ol' helping of blame for everybody, including politicians of both parties and the population in general who failed to make it a political issue) is completely irrelevant for the question which needs to be debated: how to solve the damn debt problem.

I'm not really interested in helping politicians out as they try to shift blame onto each other. They're pretty good at doing that kind of thing themselves.
Interesting. I got 1.8 seconds off my site load. Wonder how this would affect seo.
Apple has huge stashes of cash. I keep wondering when they'll do something, like purchasing Nintendo. So far, all of their purchases have seemed pretty minor.

I think most iOS games are low quality. Even when they are extremely polished, they lack depth. Having brand new mario and zelda games on the platforms would reverse this.

Beyond that, from the little bit that I know about Nintendo's next console platform, it sounds basically exactly like Apple TV plus an iPad.

Beyond that, Apple also has a really strong platform for distributing software over the air to non-desktop/laptop devices. I think Apple is in a better position for next-gen gaming. I don't know if the next Nintendo console is going to have games that are distributed via physical media, but if they do, I wont be buying one. At this point, having to go out and buy a game, and getting up to switch games, are big negatives.

I'm not sure if nintendo has enough experience to do this right. It looks like 3ds games are still sent via physical media, not over the net. Besides that, using the Wii for watching Netflix nightly leaves me with the distinct impression that the Wii was designed with internet usage almost as an afterthought, certainly not as a core function of the device. Which is fine, but even basic functionality improvements haven't happened. Every time you switch networks on the wii, it asks you to perform a system update, which takes 5+ minutes to check to see if your system needs updated. Which seems insane to me for something that amounts to sending a hash of app_ids -> versions.

Additionally, Apple tries to remain very family-friendly, which is a market that Nintendo dominates in the traditional gaming market.

It certainly seems like a smart move.
This is great news. I want to love PhoneGap, but I also want my apps to look 'native'. I wish it was easier to match up the two.
But recall the Toyota "brakes not working" debacle from a year ago. Even if there are no assurances of safety in the marketing, people expect their cars to be safe under normal conditions. Breaking that implicit contract is still very expensive in both PR and money.
Thanks for this. I forgot about this essay.
I'm happy with their choices regarding the allocation of their time.
I'd rather see more maturity and more core libs being made available to ClojureScript than eval/browser-repl being there immediately.
Services like Google's geocoding API (http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/) can help with this; it's pretty good about figuring out the address you mean and returning it in a normalized format:

>>> from geopy import geocoders
>>> g = geocoders.Google()
>>> place, (lat, lng) = g.geocode("10900 Euclid Ave in Cleveland")
>>> print place
10900 Euclid Ave, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
You're ignoring the important middle-ground, which is machines with software parts which, today, includes almost all machines.

If I make a machine with a vital mechanism in software why is it not entitled to the same protections as a similar machine which implemented the same function in hardware? And when does hardware transition to software? If it's an analog circuit it's hardware, but digital is software? ROM is hardware but EPROM is software?

If someone clones my "mechanical" device by implementing the patent-protected part in software is that a violation?

Assuming stuff is either like a sewing machine or like Photoshop is missing the point.
I saw your comment last night and it bothered me, but I couldn't put my finger on exactly why.

I think it's because it doesn't actually respond to my link, evidence, or argument. You acknowledge that I made a comment, but then reassert your prior point of view, and attempt to silence further discussion by declaring your position correct, making the point moot, and implying that I'm too recalcitrant to be swayed by debate with you.

If you're not willing to engage people in discussion, and not willing to entertain an alternate narrative on the basis of evidence, perhaps you're right that continued debate won't get us anywhere. Because you're not engaging in debate: you're not adding anything new in our back-and-forth, but rather declaring it pointless given that your original position was obviously correct.