skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the info! Definitely did not know this was a new feature. It just seemed to me like applications doing this were checking for window closed events, finishing up any work, and then closing as soon as possible. I hope more Mac OS developers take advantage of this but I fear it will be seldom used.
You are of course referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

Which does not actually break Einsteins limit, although it does work like a Star Trek warp-drive. Of course the energy requirements are virtually impossible to satisfy in addition to all of the other problems.
Boot To Gecko: Mozilla’s Open-Source, Mobile Answer To ChromeOS
I wish I had linked to where I found this. That's

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/25/faqd

Linking there is probably best in terms of attribution, and it answers some of the questions others might have, including who is responsible for FaqMe?

Which is not me, I have no involvement whatsoever, I just liked the name...

TechCrunch says:

Blippy and FuckedCompany.com founder Philip “Pud” Kaplan is at it again with his whimsical and sometimes useful ADHD Labs experiments, this time launching FaqMe, a FAQing free service that helps people build snazzier FAQ and Contact Us pages. “Many websites have sucky (or non-existent) help pages and customer service,” says Kaplan, who aim to make the whole FAQing experience more FAQing frictionless.
The MathsJam event in November is £165 (pounds sterling) with a 10% discount for early-bird (before August 15) and 10% discount for the unwaged. That covers lunch on Saturday and Sunday, dinner, accommodation, breakfast, tea, coffee, biscuits, squash, and all sessions.

Just thought I'd mention it in case anyone is interested. November 12 and 13. http://www.mathsjam.com

Numbers are limited, we have 50 rooms (of 100) already reserved, and 32 paid for already.

ADDED IN EDIT: Wow - a downvote. Do people think this is inappropriate for HN? It's in a submission about conferences, and pricing thereof, and I thought people might be interested in another data point. Not least, I thought people on HN might actually be interested in the event.

If I'm wrong I'll happily delete the comment, but I'd love to hear your reasons, rather than just getting a drive-by downvote.
their grade is (sometimes) largely based on how well they pass unit tests.
You'd be surprised how seemingly smart and dumb the Google ranking algorithm is. SEO's have been witnessing this for years. Techniques that shouldn't work do, and ones that are extremely complex and tricky are sniffed out by Google engineers quicker than anyone could anticipate.
Just some feedback.

1. The signup form has a checkbox that is opt-out and after the submit button. As someone who "tabs" through forms I don't want to go through a few extra steps so that I don't get unsolicited email (since it is opt-out)

2. faqme.com/faqme, the FAQ page doesn't work with JS disabled. I really don't see a need for JS (although I admit I'm in probably a terrible minority to disable JS by default on all pages). At least it must gracefully degrade if JS is disabled.
AJAX+REST as the latest architectural mirage
It's been basically my primary portal to the internet since it came out. Other than HN and reddit, which don't really produce super useful feeds, I don't really browse any sites directly anymore. I have always been looking for the next big thing to replace it, since there hasn't been a tremendous amount of effort put into it lately, but nothing has compared.

The feature that I have been sort of daydreaming about is the ability to use your subscriptions to weight your search results so that sites you've subscribed to are ranked higher.
Traditional scroll wheel. I love the Magic Mouse, but its flaky right click is a deal breaker..
Glasses on: Einstein. Glasses off: Monroe.

So that's pretty cool. Of course, by the time I can see Marilyn, even the headline under the photograph is already blurred past recognition. If I squint so I can read the text, I can make out that it's actually Albert.

So, more of a cool face hack than a real utility.

Edit from below, for people who aren't nearsighted: Close one eye, put your thumb on the screen just under the image, and focus on your thumb as you draw it back towards your face. You can see Albert change into (blurry) Marilyn before your very eye!
OTOH, around 60 people die per hour in the US from cancer.
Hosted product page?
Earlier this week, I saw a startup that provides other statups with a Hosted Product page. They provide various templates. I did quite a bit of searching, but can't find the link to the product. If anyone knows what it is called and could let me know, that would be great and much appreciated.
And they broke all the links on their site, thanks dudes.
"So you tell them "swipe left or right with three fingers" and then they'll know"

I hope this is not the only way to get out of full screen mode? I think it would have been the last thing I tried. And there are a lot of things you can try - "three finger swipe" is completely arbitrary, after all.

I've been using a Mac for two years now, but I never learned any gestures and I would be screwed if they became mandatory. I guess I am still stuck in the "basic Windows switcher mode".
Show HN: Books meet questions. My first proper web project.
I don't believe you're serious. Not only is that untrue (practically everyone is insecure in some way) but it's also a non sequitur; it's not the +1ers that suffer when their clicks don't count, it's their friends, who would otherwise benefit from having better recommendations.
How Social Media Saved the Starfish Circus
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Driverless vehicles won't prevent all deaths on the road. Pedestrians and cyclists account for quite a few.
Why? Is this market research for a new reader, or is this tool next on the Google chopping block and your looking for demographics.
It's a plus, but is it a Google plus? /rimshot
Setting up McDonalds WiFi, Windows vs. Mac
Spammers will probably abuse it for back links, that's about all I see it being used for.
What's this design or trend in fonts called that this page is using?

You know, the one that makes them look great on OS X but terrible on Windows. And I'm not talking about font rendering in general, but specifically whatever trend this and other pages have been doing.
I'm not sure if it's related to their troubles, but their corporate structure has always seemed odd to me. Starting with the whole "co-CEO" role, which seems like an experiment that hasn't quite panned out.
btw, you can test drive Lion's new scrolling behavior on Leopard and Snow Leopard with the free app "Scroll Reverser":

http://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/
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Show HN:How IKEA uses a Charity as Tax Shelter to Pay 3.5% in Taxes on 5 Billion
Great idea! I can suggest a few places to start your research:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year

http://www.wolframalpha.com
Yes, one of the main advantages is having all the historical posts there, since RSS is used only for latest posts.

Another feature is automatic translation, I follow a blog from Ukraine there.
Google have a few options here:

1. Attempt to detect these scam +1 votes, and either ignore them or penalise the targetted sites (although the latter is risky as it can be exploited to destroy the ranking of competitors)

2. Focus on encouraging more genuine use of the +1 button, so any +1 results that can affordably be bought are lost in the noise.

3. The spy vs spy option. Start selling +1 votes themselves under a dummy name, and then immediately remove them as spam (whilst optionally continuing to display them in google analytics). Google could of course afford to undercut all other sellers, and their +1 selling services could appear at the top of all relevant searches, rather than other sites attempting the same.

Option 1 seems the most likely for google, but if I were a small startup I'd definitely pick option 3, then blog about it a few months later.
"Pascal really had only one new feature compared to Algol-60, pointers." -- Well, records were pretty significant too.
I pretty much leave reader open my whole work day and jump over to it whenever I get some down time.
So imagine you are a black hat for a moment. You've run your drive by malware campaign and harvested a couple hundred thousand Google login credentials, or maybe you just sit and wait and when the browser is open you send a +1 to the site your master told you to send it to.

So now Google has hundreds of +1 votes coming from otherwise legitimate users. How do they fight that?
You may prefer a modified reddit feed [1] where the article URL is the main RSS item URL, which makes the RSS feed much more useful.

[1] http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=bnYqwjiA3RGJxTckBR...
Try closing one eye, putting your thumb on the screen just under the image, and focusing on your thumb as you draw it back towards your face. You can see Albert change into Marilyn before your very eye!

(That's what it's like for nearsighted people all the time. With glasses on, I can roughly simulate the blurriness of no glasses by focusing on my thumb about six inches from my face, with the image about two feet away.)
In reddit's 'hot' ranking algorithm, the first 10 votes are weighted as heavily as the next 100 which are in turn weighted the same as the next 1000 [1]. So maybe purchasing 100 upvotes is optimal for that particular system.

[1] http://amix.dk/blog/post/19588
It is obvious that the overwhelming majority of HN dislikes software patents. Hence, links like these are simply religious arguments.

If Angry Birds wins this case, people will complain that given enough money companies can ignore laws. If Angry Birds loses, people keep complaining about patent trolls.
I generally use Feedly (http://www.feedly.com/home#my) now, mostly because their Android client is much faster, at least for the way I read. They sync subs, and status with Reader so you can bounce back and forth. Their web client really isn't any better than Google Reader's but it's somewhat habitual now to go there instead of Google Reader.
My understanding is that +1s only affect your search results if you're connected to the person that's +1'ing. This makes ballot stuffing pointless. (edit: effect -> affect)
This is the perfect example of a clever and disastrous brand name.
Missing option: Yes, but would use something better.
That would be a very interesting feature. My Reader search results are by far more useful than google.com results.

I'm also waiting for post to G+ from reader.

Read Later would also be very useful.
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I ssh into my server and run Newsbeuter (http://newsbeuter.org/). I highly recommend it for anyone looking for a console based RSS reader.
You do forget the details — that particular situation with what Microsoft called "Custom XML" was rather less absurd than you remember: http://milan.kupcevic.net/custom-xml-microsoft-office-word-d...

It's not at all about just using XML as a file format, but about being able to build your own private business extensions to a vendor's (Microsoft's) file format and ecosystem. It may be a software patent and have all the attendant problems, but it is at least an invention and not pure bullshit.

Plus the plaintiff isn't in any way a patent troll — they were a real company with a shipping product that Microsoft was well aware of when they integrated "their" feature into Office.

This case is to software patent reform as "Hot Coffee" is to tort reform — it's almost perfectly constructed to spark nerd rage when initially described, except that the facts of the matter are entirely opposite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonalds_Restaurant...
I also would love to see some confidence intervals and p values, just out of personal interest.

Either way, really glad you did something with the data beyond collecting it!
I think esr lost a lot of credibility with his claim that the iPhone was facing imminent collapse, followed by Apple's record quarter. He seems more interested in finding any evidence whatsoever for the proposition that Android will dominate the market, than in doing thoughtful analysis. The post you linked is a case in point. He's also cherry-picking his past predictions to highlight only the ones that turned out to be right.
I don't have any data to back it up, but I do remember seeing statistics which showed that, after the successful PSA campaigns in the 90s, the UK had to start seriously considering the effect of the road quality as contributory to accidents.

Reading between the lines:

a: car manufacturers make safer cars

b: driving education is both better than it ever has been, and one of the best in the world (but there's still some to go! see scandinavia's skid pan training and such for ALL drivers!)

c: driver error is a lot smaller than it used to be.

Yes, there are still those who will drink and drive. I think we need to go thru one or two more generations before this is essentially eradicated. But the gulf of difference between the UK and US attitude to this is astounding.
affect, homie
Apple enforcing eReader restrictions, Google Books no longer available to iOS
I don't think that you can equate knowing that you have 'Office XP' vs 'Office 2003' (which is a difference that I maintain is inconsequential in daily use) to the difference of seeing your screen move off sideways onto another kind of application. Even if there is no application in another screen, that's still a difference that you at least will experience and wonder about.

Sure, web apps are getting closer to native apps and that's a great point (why is switching between web apps that much different than switching between spaces). However, most web pages still tend to look much like a web page and I maintain that people will discover the concept of different applications by associating them with what comes up once they click the dock icons (iCal, Mail, Settings).

Another point is that if this distinction is useless to novices (e.g. they don't use the gestures or they don't "get it"), then the more experienced users can pick up on this, and take advantage of this knowledge. Just because it's a fundamental aspect of the gestures does not hurt the novice aspect.
Do they normally prefer Dojo to jQuery?
With my left eye, I can't focus on objects closer than 12 inch.

With my right eye, I can't focus on objects further than 26 inch.

I have glasses to correct this, but without glasses I can comfortably use a computer at a 'sweet spot' distance of 18 inch ;-)
Then it would be appropriate to say "the United States executes prisoners while Norway doesn't." That makes the point fine.

Car crashes are commonplace here. Drunk driving accidents are. Executions occur less often than once a week in the US, mostly in a few select states, and the US has a population of over 300 million people. We (I'm from the US) even have a disproportionately large prison population and the death penalty is still extremely, extremely rare.
Yeah, I'd settle for a high quality search within reader itself, realizing that integration into the main search might be impossible.

I find it really confusing that the "Share" link in Reader still goes to Buzz, which is sort of associated with my G+ profile but not quite, in that it doesn't seem that people who are in my circles are necessarily able to see them.
the main reason i'd want this - right now I have 2 options:

1. build an faq scaffold with drag and drop
2. have a simple html page and be bothered everytime the business/product team wants to make a change to the faq

neither is difficult, but faqme seems easier then both options
New tools for handling copyright on Blogger
Chinese Wi-Fi monitoring requirement goes into effect at Internet cafes, etc.
Confusing array of security job titles complicates Pentagon cyber war strategy
Thanks, that does look useful. It might be a good way to follow some low traffic subreddits without subscribing to them.

My main beef, however, is less with the content of the feed per se and more with the fact that they are in a fixed order, so you lose the curation aspect of voting.
Nothing like a little encouragement for adopting this feature as a condition of being accepted in the Mac App Store to drive system feature adoption.
Many messages here like "why not do X?" or "why in the world are you doing Y?" All good suggestions, but sometimes X or Y may not be good enough, or you may have implemented them incorrectly (like the author's errant regex), or the completely unexpected Z might happen; no one expects Z.

I don't see anything wrong with having a human backup. Heck, what if you die and things need to be wound down?
Great stuff here. Thank you for the inspiration to keep going. As an aside, my only side project that has made me any $ is a blog from which I've earned $0.24. Not enough to withdraw from, but better than nothing.
Nokia Needs a Windows Phone (Badly)
Over the long term I'd say work towards the tablet environment because that's where the action is going to be

No. Avoid cramming the latest shiny fad down the kid's brain for now.
if you have some suggestions I ask you to help me :)
I am a big fan of Hayek (not exactly von mises, but close). Hayek himself was very wary of demogogery, which is something that I often see from austrians, and from Schiff.

Further, Schiff seems to think that he personally has the ability to "fix" the economy and make it work properly. IMO A liberal (economic liberal) single all-knowing leader who wants to plan the economy (or anything, really) is just as dangerous as any other central planner.
I'd post on the page this bookmarklet is hosted, but there's no commenting on it, so I'll post here instead:

This is great! MG was one of the reasons I was tempted to unsubscribe from TC. His headlines are over the top to drive traffic, and he is not at all objective when it comes to Apple (for) or Android (against).

Arrington's rant against Caterina Fake was what sealed the deal for unsubscribing from TechCrunch.

Now that I subscribe to HN and GigaOM, I'm better in the loop with less sensationalism.
Someone has one of these printed out at my grad lab. I can only see Marilyn from a very long way away. You might have to print it out.
I was just curious. I'm addicted, and I wanted to see if other people felt the same way.

When they dropped Reader from the global nav. I was very upset, but was glad to see there was enough of a ruckus to get it put back.

I don't know that I would pay to keep Google from axing it, but I would consider it, and thats saying something.
Not directly related to the article but I think it is also worthy to remark that this spike in attention that the "hacking" scene got recently (whatever are the reasons, even if I think espeed[1] might have a point on this) is of course very welcome by those who perpetrate these acts, but also —and that's what I want to emphase— very well used by them. The communication of Anonymous and LulzSec is exemplary at many levels (the language used in the writings, the use of memes and media...).

I continue to want to compare this movement with the Yippie movement[2], at least on the handling of media and communications. Having read "Do It!" by Jerry Rubin several times during high school, I really feel similarities between the two movements on this subject. I don't have the book with me but it would really be worth reading it again and try to make some comparisons on actual examples rather than vague ideas (usage of the medias, "for teh lulz" as part of the motivations, relation with the authorities...) like I'm doing here.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2804347

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yippies
How the carriers screwed themselves out of mobile payments
In my experience Reader doesn't store all historic posts. Posts older then a month or two start disappearing.
I've been using Fever for (what I think is) a few years now and haven't looked back: http://feedafever.com/
i meant highly skilled non-immigrants, but this thread is done anyway.
It's the fact that Windows basically requires well-hinted fonts in order to render well, since Windows has always tried to render fonts to match up with pixel boundaries.

OSX, on the other hand, anti-aliases fonts perfectly, and thus has no need of hinting at all. It's a philosophical difference as to which looks better.

BUT, the recent trend is in starting to use non-system fonts in web design, now that the Google Fonts project has taken off (together with widespread browser support for custom fonts).

The problem is that freely available fonts generally either have no hinting, or "automated" hinting -- because well-done hinting is incredibly time-consuming and, in the age of "retina displays", slowly losing its usefulness.

So, all these web fonts that render beautifully on OSX look like crap in Internet Explorer, since they have no hinting. (It actually bothers me so much that I run GDI++ on my Windows computer at work -- it renders all fonts Mac-style without hinting, instead of Windows-style.)
From what I've been able to gather:

* there is no lottery. If you apply after the cap has been reached you're out of luck (not sure about edge cases).

* if you were to apply right now, you would be able to start working no earlier than October 1st. After that you could start within a few weeks of application if your employer pays for expedited service. But you don't want to apply much later than autumn either; last year the cap was reached in January: http://1.usa.gov/H1Bcap11
The current batch is at 1/3rd: http://1.usa.gov/H1Bcap

* I've heard people say the market is more "hot", because of the potential bubble, which may mean they run out faster this year. On the other hand I've stats that say total investment is the same as last year, it's just more concentrated.
Well, I like the new look, but they BROKE ALL OF THEIR LINKS and utterly failed to put 301 redirects in place. Google hasn't recrawled the site yet so all links from Google are broken. I just found this out because I'm looking for "media mail" shipping prices, and the first 3 USPS results in Google are all broken. Google will eventually recrawl them, but I'm sure there are many sites all over the web that link to their old pages, which is gonna hurt them bigtime, SEO-wise.

To anyone working on a site redesign: redirecting old URLs is one of those things that is easy to overlook, but it can make a huge difference in the way prospective visitors see your site. Do not neglect this important step.

Edit: also, their new search sucks, which makes the site nearly unusable. Again, I'm trying to find prices for Media Mail, and I know they have an entire page dedicated to it. But if I search media mail, look at these results:

https://www.usps.com/search.htm?q=media%20mail

The first two links aren't even on usps, they're on eBay! If I surround "media mail" with double quotes, I get better results, but naive users are rarely aware of this trick.
have you looked at Mahout?
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/Itembased...
Yes, although I rarely ever use their web interface to view the feeds. (I use reeder, if your curious)
When you go around actually touching people intimately, you are not a victim nor abused if some of them interpret that as you wanting to be touched back and act on that. It only becomes abuse if they don't back off if you tell them to stop at that point.
A much larger version of this (and its explanation) is on display in the MIT museum.
I wonder if this could be used nefariously? Buy someone a 1000 +1 package, and watch as their account gets banned for spam.
No, it makes perfect sense. She's black, and she faced an all-white jury. This is in suburban Atlanta.

This is where "jury of your peers" can be pretty useful. Apparently none of the jurors had ever ridden in a bus before.

I really also want to put the city planner up for trial, because the reason she jay walked was that the nearest legal crosswalk was half a mile away from the bus stop. In suburban Atlanta, however, I've never seen any evidence that city planners even exist.
Capitalization and periods, good buddy. (I couldn't resist.)