skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
just made a basic visualization of the data on the balances endpoint. http://aoberoi.me/jonathans-card/

I'm thinking about what types of interesting questions we can answer by visualizing the data. If anyone wants to contribute to that effort, fork me on github (https://github.com/aoberoi/jonathans-card) and send me a pull request, i'll update the site.
Preferably in Seattle, but remote OK

We're looking for an Android developer at Zaarly.

We're a fun team.

You can see our existing app here: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.zaarly.client

Hit me up: peter@zaarly.com
A Six-Step Extreme Makeover for the Economy
Startup vs. Harvard Business School?
Right, and those national government banks do not have credible deposit insurance for national banks. So a bank run is possible. During the US crisis in 08/09 we had the Fed/Treasury complex insuring deposits and supplying liquidity which they can do in infinite amounts. Euro-zone nations are not sovereign and are at the mercy of the ECB. You underestimate the risk of a breakup, the Euro is broken.
I can't find a single product on this list that I could say, "yep, that was worth it".

DCOM - a pile of complexity even most Microsoft employees couldn't understand. Different threading models, security problems, you name it. In my early days as Microsoft employee one unfortunate guy decided to implement an app to manage installing latest build of a (different) product and running tests on a couple hundred machines; he spent month fighting DCOM problems.

ActiveX - huge security nightmare in the browsers.

IE3 - don't know, don't remember much.

WMC - windows-based media centers are a failure. Large, noisy, boxes, poor power management, lack of support for MKV in the latest version. Had they done it right there would never be a Roku, and Apple TV would be too late to market. It's failure.

Home server - they should have solved two simple problems: 1) every windows user should have a backup solution according to his budget (starting from $50 and up) 2) every windows user should have a one-click file-sharing solution according to his budget (starting at zero dollars). They failed at both. I guesstimate 90% of windows users still do not have a backup solution. This reflects poorly on the entire platform reputation. So they came up with a $400 noisy, blinking box that needs its own space. These "features" are most often incompatible with female spousal units. Geeks love those gadgets, which is the market they conquered, leaving normal people behind.

WP7 - they jury is still out on that one.

Overall this looks like a bunch of products only a geek could love. Yes, they are cool, but they failed to live up to the Microsoft's then-ambitions - to change normal people's lives for the better.
If you go with the deposit only card option, you could adjust your feed to display the aggregate of the two cards; but you're effectively capping an individual transaction to $20. The donor therefore sees their changes reflected in real time, but any cheats are limited (hopefully a cashier would get suspicious / frustrated if someone tried to work around the $20 limit by going multiple times in succession).
You're way off base here. The artificial construction of intellectual property exists solely because the state has created it as a monopoly, and a democratic state has no interest in doing such unless it benefits the public, not private operators. Private operators are protected in so far as the overall public interest is served (not being confused, sufficient reward for invention, etc.). If people aren't going to be confused, then there should not and ought not be a conflict.
This is a great experiment. I just added some money to the card. I wonder to prevent abuse, if perhaps you should use two cards , one for people to give to (A) and the other to use at starbucks (B). You can transfer from (A) to (B), when the balance of (B) goes below a certain amount say $15 so that one person can't abuse the card by taking away all the existing balance.
A pair of wireless adhoc wifi usb transceivers is probably what he is trying to describe.
Cisco notes malware increase, urges companies to boost security
Lots of good suggestions here. GE has 'light panels' [1] and one of the things which I am sure we'll see for 'installed' lighting will be 'sky ceilings' that would be a ceiling covered with OLED panels arranged seamlessly which mimic the 'sky' when you are outdoors, providing night views with stars, twilight colors, etc. Probably won't be the 'common' implementation however.

Generally I think one thing that will survive will be 115V ac power distribution. Its got a lot going for it in terms of installed base and understanding its transmission properties. The means LED based lighting will always have some circuitry to rectify and regulate that voltage. Of course they may evolve so it rectifies it to 135v dc and then runs off that.

I enjoyed the psychology comment as well. There were some comments that gas didn't give that 'homey hearth fire' smell when burned back when people were switching from wood fireplaces over to gas.

Even without constraint, I think you will find lighting fixtures don't change too much. You've got area lights and directional lights. The designers will have fun with them, glowing coils, maybe pillows that glow. But a good reading light puts out a uniform beam of light that can be directed easily to your lap. A good area light provides a widely dispersed light without being impossible to look at. Those constraints won't change because the technology has.

[1] http://www.ge.com/products_services/lighting.html
With most new network equipments, you dont need a crossover cable anymore. A regular cable will work just fine.
And if one or both machines is a recent Mac or has gigabit Ethernet (or otherwise supports auto-MDIX) you don't even need a crossover cable.
Amazing Collection of CSS Based Professional Form Design Tutorials
Today we have collected number of contact form tutorials for web developers and web designers. You will get very proficient experience regarding contact forms which have been building up after using CSS technology and you will also get more knowledge about CSS skills from this post.
From Wikipedia on what was in IE3:

"Version 3 included Internet Mail and News 1.0 and the Windows Address Book. It also brought the browser much closer to the bar that had been set by Netscape, including the support of Netscape's plugins technology (NPAPI), ActiveX, frames, and a reverse-engineered version of JavaScript named JScript. Later, Microsoft NetMeeting and Windows Media Player were integrated into the product and thus helper applications became not as necessary as they once were. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) were also introduced with version 3 of Internet Explorer."

IE was clearly playing catch up at that point, but one thing I do remember is that IE was acceleratig really quickly. And like you, I do recall IE3 being behind Netscape, but I also recall it being the first time I thought, "MS is on a trajectory to surpass Netscape shortly".
Do-less go-fast, revisited (2009)
Financial markets don't like uncertainty, and the S&P downgrade introduced a big dose of it. Not necessarily because people think the US is going belly up, but because the US is not going to be the white horse galloping in to save the Europeans, who are in far more dire straits.

The long term implication is that we are in the opening stages of the first big crisis that will require significant intervention from China. That's scary for a number of reasons.
For the record, the reason why Underscore.js is namespaced in the way it is has everything to do with compatibility and future proofing.

It was extracted from the DocumentCloud codebase, so it had to be possible to embed directly in the website of any major news organization ... without conflicting with any of their JavaScript already on the page. For example:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/boehner-outlin...

... the embedded doc still works, even though Prototype.js happens to be on that page, and has already patched in `Array.prototype.each`.
Ask HN: What does HN think of S&P rating downgrade for US?
PyCon 2012 Guidance Survey
As we ramp up our efforts on PyCon US 2012, we wanted to gather some information from the community on what we can do best to serve you at the March 2012 conference in Santa Clara, CA. We've put together a survey about your experiences at past PyCons as well as what your interests are in the upcoming conference. We're interested in what speakers and topics you'd like to have at the tutorials, conference, and the poster sessions, as well as any input you have on what we can improve in other aspects of the event.

If you have 5 minutes to spare, the survey is available at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/pycon2012_launch_survey and results will be used to help us make PyCon 2012 the best conference yet.

Thanks,

The PyCon Organizers

http://us.pycon.org/2012/
Good work, guys! And congrats on the launch. Onward. :)
DefCon vs Black Hat: Cultural Differences
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>I’ve seen a lot of what passes for excellence in high schools, and it’s not good enough.

I’ve encountered many brilliant students in college, with straight A’s through highschool and stellar SATs, who cannot string three or four sentences together into a coherent paragraph. I am now trying to realize a vision of a Khan-inspired service for writers who are not getting the help they need from school. This is probably not the time for a shameless plug, because my site, as a site, still sucks, but if any student here wants free, quality reviews of their writing projects, you can get them at http://www.essayjudge.com

I say “free,” and mean it, but if you want to abuse the service, then I may ask you for a return favor in the form of development advice.

At present, you can submit writing quickly at the site using anon/anon as uid/pwd, but for HNers who don’t want their writing and the attendant review published, you can google-email me (bbquigley). No promises if I’m inundated, except to try my best.
Let alone that GDP isn't a particularly good measurement. For example among many possible, if I sell a house and pay capital gains taxes, the transaction isn't counted
High-Level Biologically-Oriented Programming Language
I've been using Kicksend as beta. I transferred several gigabytes of data to a dozen or so people. The developers were always responsive to feedback and I am glad to have contributed to this project, if only in a way of feature suggestions.
That was just in the filename; the search string in the example is 'asdf'. And UTF-8 I believe is purposely designed so that 7-bit ASCII characters can't appear anywhere else in the stream except when representing themselves (even as part of multibyte characters)--- every other byte in a UTF-8 stream must have the high-order bit set.

My guess is that p9idf has it right, and grep is just converting everything to wchar_t first, rather than trying to do any sort of clever searching directly on the UTF-8 byte stream.
The reason they are so bright is they don't need to worry about color accuracy. I bet these bulbs are very blue.

Also, their efficiency is about 57.8 lm/w which isn't very good (it's not terrible - but once you try to get a good color the efficiency drops a lot).
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=800+lumens+%2F+%288*250...
Don't look stupid: Stop calling parts of Canada Silicon Valley North
Sam is worth well over 500k.
I hate this label so much. It makes people (journalist and policy makers) look silly.
40 Construction Logos That Convey Strength & Durability
Construction firms have special needs when it comes to branding: not only do they need to effectively show that they are builders ready for the next job, but they also need to stand out among the masses of hammers and hard hats that are the go-to imagery for construction logos. There’s a difficult balance to strike between the bold strength required to portray a sense of lasting reliability and the elegance of a well-constructed logo. Construction company logos can’t use colors that are too muted or lines that are too thin and soft for fear of creating the subconscious perception that the company’s workmanship isn’t solid.
The age old debate of chaotic good vs. lawful good

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_%28Dungeons_%26_Drago...
Aha, here is where the skytopia guy explains what is wrong with the "whipped cream taffy structures":

http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbrot.html

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This type is based on fractals in 4 dimensions using Quaternion math. Despite the complex sounding theory though, we can see that the detail is effectively one or two-dimensional with the 3rd dimension being turned into a whipped cream smoothie. I have my doubts that the 4th dimension fares any better. Looks tasty though. (Note that these images are in fact based on the Julia set, which is closely related to the Mandelbrot).

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I can get behind that, even though the chewing gum strings are bent and curved in 3D, the detail is smeared across one dimension, it's very similar across the curve and doesn't vary much. So in some sense, you can't "really" say that it's got 3D detail.

That's a little bit strong IMO, because all the curves are at different angles from eachother, so they do form a kind of detailed fractal shape as a whole, but the awesome spirals and coral shapes are lost as mere ridges in the taffy strings.

So it's not quite only aesthetics he's been looking for, but also a fractal that really does exhibit detail uniformly in all 3 dimensions.
I'm not sure I understand your question - and if I do it sounds like you're trying to frame a very poor argument.
I'm surprised not even a mention of evolution, at least to note that it is only a minor influence (if such is the case).
I wonder why people want 'warm white light' so much. It's not natural. Sunlight is in fact much whiter and not so yellowish as what incandescent bulb emits.
Last time I looked at dotcloud, I found two services in the free plan to be not sufficient; I need at least two (perl, postgres), and another for caching as soon as I get some noticeable traffic.

Anyway, I'll keep it in the back of my mind, maybe I'll try it eventually.
Installing TurboC on windows 7-64 bit(Video)
sort of like what you hear in an anechoic chamber sounds pretty unnatural with all of the normally reflected sound being absorbed.
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very naive assumptions about what it costs and what it takes to train the unemployed (which isn't the problem to begin with, but that is a separate issue)

put simply, if it only took 3 months and $4k to train people to be ready for startup tech jobs, then everybody would already be doing it
Tradeoffs have been around for all of that 70 years, only the ratios and absolute performance has changed.
A small bug: when you go to an invalid URL (e.g. http://jsonifier.com/paste/abcdef), an "Internal Server Error" is shown, instead of a nice error message.
Eastern Germany.
give him 20 GB of pirated video. I would pay for that.

There seems to be a wee bit of an adverse selection problem with the people who are likely to be customers for this.
UCLA Offers Minor in Digital Humanities
Great story Jason. I just started running in my Vibram Five Fingers July of last year and I just reached my goal of 5km in 24 minutes.

I found that Runkeeper really helped with my motivation because I could see the smallest improvements.
I really like this one also: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pymeta2
That would be fun, though I believe that the problem of catching students doesn't provide enough data.
I'm Quitting Breathing
I hope Arrington will respond by quitting TechCrunch.
How do you valuate a programmer?
Google self-driving car crash caused by human
The first implementation of the World Wide Web (by CERN)
AIG's Exhibit 1 on trial should one copy of "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis. You'll never trust any bank ever again after reading that book.
WordStream Rolls Out New Search Marketing Tool for Old Billion-Dollar Market
I wonder what the actual color temperature of the "blue" LEDs is— I've been hoping for a while that the rise of LED lamps would finally mean shifting to more natural colors.

It's kind of absurd to me that in this day and age we're still trying to make our artificial light look like another kind of artificial light rather than sunlight.

(For reference, daytime sunlight is around 5500k— these bulbs are marketed as 2700k, which is about the color of sunset, sunrise, or a large fire.)
The energy cost of individually mailing a heavy bulb is greater than the energy cost of casting a heatsink.

Centralized recycling might work, but not a postage paid mailer. Plus who is going to successfully store a mailer for 10 years while waiting for the bulb to burn out.

And in 10 years they won't want this bulb back, there won't be anything reusable in it. Just recycle it for the metal.
I wonder what the judge will think of this tactic? Oracle has previously been whacked on the nose like a bad dog for overreaching on patent damages and warned that the next bite is "for keeps."

In this dispute, Oracle neglected to give Google advanced noticed of using this, got one magistrate (who didn't know that it was a draft of an email that was ultimately sent to Google lawyers) to refer the matter to the judge, then tried to get cute and say that the magistrate had already ruled that it wasn't protected! True, the magistrate denied Google's motion (not to mention Oracle's), but I have to wonder if they're going to anger the judge again and sent to the doghouse.

That said, I bet some Google engineers will be working on their email systems so that, in the future, it will correctly handle emails sent to legal
Ask HN: Should I build my project on top of YQL?
I am at a cross road in a project where I need to access a number of different APIs. After a bit of research, I stumbled upon Yahoo Query Language (YQL) http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/

I am unsure if I should base my project on this or roll my own? Does HN think that this project will be around for awhile?

Any insight will help. Thanks
Ask HN: Post your GitHub punchcard - this is mine
This is mine: http://bit.ly/pdj0zi

It's interesting to see I am more active after lunch towards the end of the week and the opposite during the start of the week.

You can get your punchcard at:

https://github.com/USERNAME/REPO_NAME/graphs/punch_card
http://prgmr.com/~lsc/incident08072011.pdf - apparently they are buying new UPSs? I dono if this is enough to keep me from leaving, but it's better than what they said last time.
Link to YQL: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/
The Fair Use of Ideas
That's because we like the color of fire and always have. The lux from the sun is so high that the color temperature doesn't matter except in photos.
Clickable link: http://bit.ly/pdj0zi
Google Accidentally Posts Details About Its Next Android Search App Update
The iPhone 5 Experiment
London Riots Map
Man lines up early for Iphone 5, making thousands in the process
Moody’s: Why the U.S. Is Still AAA
You can use CCFL's instead. They are fully dimmable, instant on (no warmup period), and last 25,000 hours.
Great macrology lecture (in PLT Racket)
This is the best macro tutorial ever written (other PLT guys just seems to be uncapable of writting anything as clear as this gem).

Thanks, Eli!
In my view, a focus on the results of scientists is becoming more important than the individual scientists doing the work.
With instant fact-checking and world-wide collaboration, science is, more than ever, becoming a true team sport.
There are certainly innovators and seminal thinkers, and they ought be acknowledged for their contributions. I believe the science must take front stage, however. The moment an individual is deemed unquestionable is the moment an impossible burden is placed upon him.
Einstein is a perfect example of this. Modern scientists and theoreticians hang all sorts of claims on him that he himself specifically rejected while alive. Large volumes of work have been spent pursuing avenues that had been signaled dead-ends decades ago.
But since Einstein said it, even having rejected it later, it remains on the playbook for many modern researchers.

Allow me to post a link that specifically details published, peer-reviewed and vetted work that has clarified, and in some case resolved, many of the problems associated with some of Einsteins work.
Anyone interested in this branch of the natural sciences will find this fascinating reading.
http://knol.google.com/k/einstein-was-wrong-falsifying-obser...

I'm confident that there are great thinkers to be added to the halls of human wisdom alive today, in many fields. Even if we don't know them by name, their work benefits us all. Keep supporting science!
Best wishes-
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I wish these big manufacturers actually start offering the source code from git trees and keep updating them..

These tarballs are usually code drops that happen when device reaches market and are mostly never updated afterwards :(
short-term: bad - especially Fannie and Freddie, long-term: maybe good(?), may close export gap. Also, I could be totally wrong.
Somewhat off-topic, but I'd like an explanation for why startups are requiring facebook in order to sign up for a service? I'd love to try turntable.fm (as well as rolling.fm, and mixapp.com), but I'm not on facebook nor do I ever plan to be.

Is there some advantage to doing this that I'm not seeing? I understand the appeal of a limited beta and exclusivity, but I would think it would be to their advantage to offer multiple ways to sign up.
It means nothing. LED lighting is still an infant technology. Any shortcomings are a moving target given how fast the technology is progressing.

The reference to filament sintering is incorrect. First, it's not sintering, it's a process applied to a filament after is has been drawn. Second, the efficiency gain is around double, which still can't even come close to LEDs. Look here for a bit more:

http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=3385

The reference to "production/recycling/logistics" is also wrong if it refers to the EROI of LED lighting, which has already bettered that of incandescent lighting:

http://www.osram-os.com/life-cycle-assessment
Isn't there a law like Godwin's but different that says someone correcting someone else's grammar will have grammatical errors?
Does anyone know where you can get the phosphor plastic they use in these?
I find Chrome for Os X as being very "aggressive" with caching.
Sometimes it's misleading as what I am seeing is not what I should see.
That forces me to clear the cache more often than other browsers.
I love the speed but start to wonder wether the price to pay is worth.
I'm not even sure what I am saying makes any sense, does it?
When I tell people I'm a programmer they always go "oh, you must be good at math." The truth is that I'm pretty bad at math, but in terms of logical syntax and parsing I am pretty good. Programming (especially high level modern stuff) has much more to do with syntactical and epistemological skills than math. I learned to program from writing.
Introduction to Scientific Programming and Simulation Using R
I've had nightmares about showing up in public places without my pants on, and it actually happened to you! The photos are proof!

Inspiring story Jason. Inspiring because I know from previous posts you had a terrible knee injury, and inspiring because I feel like taking up running now.

I guess I owe you thanks!
Obligatory "what about Opera?"
So this benchmark measured "how the population actually experiences web browser performance", and the article pronounces Google Chrome as the obvious winner, with the slight sidenote that FF 5 has a faster "perceived render time"?

It just seems slightly disingenuous.
With this phosphor plastic you could make some really rad rail lighting. Imagine two long strips with the phosphor on your ceiling in your room.