skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Acquired Motorola & somefacts
I know i might be a bit late with this news but i said i post it up any. As you may know Google acquired Motorola yesterday for $12.5 billion this is great news for android.
I'm really curious to see how long it takes for smart phones to become the expected norm in Africa.
Someone posted the following on the article:

"This's never made sense to me. When you consider the inverse square law for electromagnetic transmission in light of the distances we're talking about, any signal big enough for us to receive would have completely cooked anything at the point of origin."

A quick Wikipedia search says that the inverse square law does apply to radio waves. Can someone that understands this better than I explain why this may or may not apply?

It seems like a total deal killer for the project.
Sounds like you need to be paid tons more than that guy, or he needs to be replaced.
Interesting, WakeMate was a YC company and is now part of 500Startups. There may be other.

I wonder how does moving from one incubator to another work? any info? Or, did they kinda failed at securing any funding after YC and tried luck at another incubator.

NOTE: I'm more curious about the process and am not pointing finger at WakeMate.
This isn't "pre-cognition" any more than when Wal-Mart's supply-chain management software is.
You have to compare apples to apples.

A degree in medicine is a MD + a Bachelor's. An undergrad English degree is only 1 degree. Medical schools are their own beast, too.

Better compare the Bachelor's in English vs. the Bachelor's in Biology.
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Right now he can claim the moral high ground, even if he is kind of being a jerk about it: "I didn't get paid, but I gave them access to their work anyway! (I just gave it to some other people, too.)"

If you added the proposed restriction, you demonstrate that you will take revenge on deadbeat clients by trying to give their competitors a leg up.
It's amazing how much a simple name changes things. People are typically trepadatious about eating something like blood sausage but they have no problem eating powdered bone slime so long as it's called jell-o.
Evolution of the Foursquare iPhone app
I think you're implying Amazon (or any normal business) wouldn't have kicked wikileaks off unless it had explicit federal contracts, which is pretty overly optimistic.

For a $20/yr revenue customer, I'm pretty sure most businesses would kick off a customer costing them lots in DoS and other expenses.
I hate core hours.

If your workers are too big of cowards to negotiate among themselves when they need to meet to get things done, then you have bigger problems.
While in school I was taught and learned that all water went through a filtration system including sewage and after cleaning it would go back into the drinkable water lines running to our house.

I grew up in Europe :-)
Kagi sparks controversy with $5 VisualHub Lion update
The LinkedIn engineering blog did have a post praising CoffeeScript a little while back: http://engineering.linkedin.com/21/coffeescript-javascript-t...
It would make loan companies charge more for majors that aren't productive.
True. 'Looking' at otherwise empty space can sometimes yield some incredible results: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Deep_Field
"Ever hit ⌘Q and accidentally quit an application when you really meant to press ⌘W and close a window?"

At first I was really puzzled when I read this sentence...Q and W are so far apart on the Dvorak keyboard! ;-)
This is great, I have heard about many public safety customers who wanted to move to cloud computing, e.g. for compute intensive stuff like face recognition in videos, but didn't because of security considerations.
This exact phone is for sale in NZ, though not quite at that price point (around $150NZD here). I don't see your point.
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Wonder how quickly this availability zone will become a target for attacks? A concentration of government data in a single location? Won't be (shouldn't be) classified data, but HIPAA data has it's own risks.
True, but I actually see that as a "feature". It's the one keyboard way you can quickly quit an app without going through the hold-and-wait. But I'm sure your workflow probably differs from mine. Noted.
> Even if Hulu turned off cookie respawning via etags, you can still track users this way, on the server side. I guess the tricky thing is to correlate the etag of the tracker resource with the rest of the requests that a user makes on a site.

The important distinction is that the ETag is literally no different than a cookie, when used this way. Turning off caching is the new turning off cookies.
Very cool idea. I don't know if I'll personally use it; as a dvorak user, it's harder to accidentally hit cmd-q when you mean it hit cmd-w. Then again, it's also easier to hit cmd-q some times because the q sits just above the cmd.
This kind of thing is often not as obvious as it sounds. I used to work for a company that did a similar trick for ambulances, and it was an amazing amount of work to try to persuade customers that this kind of statistical prediction could be useful.

Also, there are often other considerations; depressingly often there's political pressure, for example. One could easily imagine in this case that there might be pressure to show a stronger police presence in low-risk wealthy suburbs over the hot spots that might tend to be poorer.
> The software picked a location to patrol. Locations don't have cognition.

The software is being compared to Minority Report's precognitive mutants, who directed police forces to avert crimes before they happened.
FWIW, T-Mobile USA sells this same phone stateside as the Comet[1] for $125 outright.

[1] http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/Phones/cell-phone-detail.aspx?c...
The Elephant in the Computer Lab
Core hours are usually used as a punishment for a team that isn't doing well. Other times it means a dud manager was hired who gets anxious when there isn't enough real or perceived face-time.
Chromebooks start at $350.
Interesting. I wonder how much that skews hiring, including in other fields.
Because it reeks a bit of airing dirty laundry, similar to the guy who added a "my client John Smith hasn't paid his bill, so I'm uploading this message to his website which I still control, in order to publicly shame him" which we saw a few months back.

Don't get me wrong- I think he's totally within his rights to (publicly) exclude him from the license. And as a developer who's been stiffed before, I sympathize. I think the restraint he's shown so far in that README is noble, and I hope he gets some good PR (and thus new clients) out of this.
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I agree that hours are bullshit, but I have always found a morning standup to coordinate goals and objectives to be exceedingly useful. But i often run into opposition by the "free and easy" types. Thoughts?
I definitely agree that it isn't an obvious choice at the current price point, but perhaps that's because Google knows that it isn't ready yet (needs better hardware, offline support in Google Apps, a more sensible approach to managing files). It's definitely worth borrowing one to try it out though - you do get a good sense of what a cloud-orientated machine will be like.

I suppose if you're going to try out a ChromeBook, it's only fair that I try out Windows 8. That prospect doesn't exactly fill me with joy though!
Since the caption text is always the same, you could set it up so you could push a button when a commercial came on and push it again when the commercial was over. Then it could scan backward to the previous black transition before each button press to find the actual beginning and end of the commercial, and store the caption text in between. The next time it sees that caption text, automute. :-) At least this way you'd only have to see a specific commercial once.

You'd probably need to do some tuning of the number of keywords it sees before going to mute -- it'd be a tradeoff between false alarms and having to listen to more of the commercials.
I wonder how well this works. The closed captions I look at on TV from time to time are so regularly garbled and misspelled that it might miss most of the proper nouns I am filtering for.
Seems fairly enforceable and easy enough to prove. It just might take a while.
Nope, $15-$20 an hour while others in similar roles earn way more. Then comes a speech that says "be lucky you have a good job choice and we're offering you this. There are so many unemployed people in this economy and it's a privilege to find work" and so forth.
I can't imagine Why's happy about this annual tribute by his fans.

Still, it would be a shame if his contributions were forgotten. The link in the article preserves about all of it:
http://viewsourcecode.org/why/
Doesn't Auto Resume in Lion render this useless?
Looks like most of the responses assume integers. It would be impossible to print all real numbers, so printf("numbers from 1 to 1000"); looks like the best answer to me
Based on what suspects were thinking; it's a dystopian fable. This is just good policework.
Here: http://www.seti.org/page.aspx?pid=225

They address this under "No More TV for Aliens". CTRL-F for it.

Also: yes the inverse square law does apply to radio waves.
Girl frozen in time may hold key to ageing
Murdochs in deepening sh*t as evidence mounts of phone-hacking cover-up
You did nothing wrong. It's the Internet: people say fuck.

Some sort of legal action should be brought against your host.
The beauty of uncovering entirely unanticipated skillsets
Whether I should go for a venture funding to get my app noticed? 
I have created android app "TextOnly-Browser" which makes it easier for user to read articles on android phones..It also saves on data usage and load times are faster when compared with a normal browser

I have emailed(multiple times) almost all the top tech blogs but none of them seem to be taking notice of it...

Some of the questions I like to ask
a)Why there is such a dislike towards startups or apps which are boot strapped?

b)Only when you get venture funding from some dumb xyz venture you seem to get noticed by these blogs

c)It's not only for mine..I have also noticed other apps/sites getting rejected like this..

I have seen even dumber apps than mine get funding from incubators/ventures and get noticed..So whether I should also go for venture funding???
It seems that corrupt officials and citizens who don't pay taxes go hand in hand. I wonder which came first.

Regardless, intuitively it seems to me that these problems will be solved when poverty is reduced and everyone moves up the economic ladder.
Ballmer sells windows 1.0
Parse (YC S11) adds User Accounts to Android.
I explored this idea for some time.

Basically, if I wanted to put together a 'Wufoo for the Medical Field' the easiest way to get around the HIPAA compliance is to use the Google Health model. Essentially your 'Primary Relationship' would be with the user, not the HealthCare provider as a vault for them to store their stuff and 'authorize a data push' to the healthcare provider on an ad-hoc basis.

The largest roadblock to an idea like this is that the healthcare industry is decidedly anti-innovation. Not on purpose, its just how the economics work. Industry consultants and solution providers have been trying to get e-health going for a LONG time, and only now are we seeing things like doctors carrying around ipads.

Integrating with healthcare systems involves either integrating with the large integrators, who dont have an api and who arent in the business of opening up hooks for data pushes (Unless their customer says they want to do it) for potential competitors OR hanging out with the small 1 doctor office medical practitioners who most likely dont understand their technology and don't understand why they need to move things online and 'into the cloud.'

I reached out to the drchrono guys to try to get access to their api so that I could build a proof of concept for this and do an end run around the established tech providers, but I never heard back from them. Their API has been 'coming soon' for a long time.

If you decide you want to store information on behalf of the HealthCare provider, then you have to be HIPAA compliant and then getting something like this off the ground becomes an order of magnitude more difficult. I looked at the process/paperwork for becoming HIPAA compliant, and it doesnt look that difficult, but it does look like something designed to keep small guys from entering the field.

Sorry for the ramble. Hope it helped.
You haven't seen Minority Report, have you? (nor looked it up, despite it clearly being referenced in the title of this post)
Are there any other games, text-based MUDs, for example, that approach the level of complexity of DF?
500 Startups also has a seed fund.
And then that water in the clouds falls as snow and rain and then feeds into rivers and reservoirs where fish, insects, deer, ducks, beavers, bears, bird, etc. urinate, defecate, bleed, and die into it. That's why pure unfiltered river water doesn't feed directly to a municipal water supply and is filtered and treated first.
Nano: a minimalistic couchdb driver for node.js
Uh oh, doesn't seem like a good situation for anyone.
how to watch this without itunes? and what is this itunes thing, by the way?
In the context of another site, that article may be fine. In the context of this site, that article is terrible.

There is a mismatch in the target audience. There is an assumption the reader has not heard of projects and services common to Hacker News readers, such as Github itself.

You also just promoted yourself in the response.
"How sure are you that the treatment systems remove 100% of the micro-organisms? 100% of the chemical hazards? All the time?"

I am 100% sure that they do not. It's impossible. No water in nature is that clean, either, by any standard.

But also, you are not a wilting flower that can only survive on the purest triple-distilled angel tears. There absolutely is a such thing as "good enough" and any water that meets existing US standards is well in excess of "good enough". It is certainly far, far, far cleaner than anything your ancestors ever had to drink!

This isn't about safety. All "room for concern" has been abundantly addressed; US water standards are incredibly strict both in theory and in practice. It is entirely about psychology.
PS: I once got stiffed for $6500, so I put up a "client hasn't paid" notice on the (demo) website for my code. I later learned that the guy I was accusing of non-payment was very likely a stolen identity. Some guy from Eastern Europe was using many fake identities and scamming lots of developers. So I ended up:

1) out $6500

2) feeling dumb for getting cheated in the first place

3) feeling bad for having pseudo-publicly excoriated a likely innocent

I wish in retrospect that I had taken the higher ground, open-sourced the code and just moved on.
System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> App Shortcuts -> + -> select app, menu entry is usually "Quit <appname>", and set it to cmd-ctrl-q, or something similar.

(There's probably a more generic way by editing your ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict, but I'm not sure what the appropriate selector would be)

Of course, these just change the binding, the 'hold to confirm' is quite a nice UI feature.

Edit: The reference I was remembering is http://www.hoboes.com/Mimsy/hacks/disabling-quit-rewriting/ and appears to still work in Lion. Still on a per-app basis though.
That's a risk, but EC2 actually provides better security in most ways than your average government datacenter does now, at least for unclass data (and is far superior to any classified system I've ever seen for usability and availability and cost).

There's a substantial net benefit in doing this. There are other cloud providers focused on the government market today (Terremark, EDS, Savvis), all using mainly VMware or in some cases Hyper-V; the benefits of being able to use EC2 are that EC2 is in a lot of ways more innovative itself, and that a lot of companies using EC2 can now build a Federal version by just running an instance in a new zone, rather than negotiating for a new hosting provider and porting all their provisioning infrastructure to a new system.
That's more than just a nitpick, especially since that's in the headline.
Introducing SproutCore Touch 2.0 Beta - A Gesture System For SproutCore
The safehistory plugin doesn't seem to work for the newer versions based on the comments on their page.
You're focusing on the wrong blogs. Find ones that specialize in reporting on Android app, that's where your potential users are, not on TC getting the latest Apple news.
My standard contract terms:

* Deposit required, typically 25%, depends mostly on the estimated length of the project.

* Payment on milestones (typically first beta and completion, possibly more depending on length of project)

* I own the IP until paid in full

* 50% kill fee less deposit

Though, honestly, I prefer day rate over project based fees. If I do a day rate, payment is due every 15 days.

It's worth the $1-2K of going to a lawyer and getting a contract boiler plated.

It basically boils down to this though: You are in business, act like it. I don't do favors for clients I don't know. Once we establish trust and relationships, I become a lot more flexible.

I thought when I started implementing these terms that I would lose business, and I have lost a few projects because of them, but honestly if they can't respect the terms, they probably aren't going to respect your work and you'll be caught in that endless freelance/consultant cycle of hunting down payment.

It's your money though, do as you wish.
So is it generally agreed that $(window).load() should be used over $(document).ready() in most cases?
Hi, kenyan guy here. I bought the ideos 3 months ago. Love the android OS, I'm writing this using swype n what a breeze. the battery life off the phone is a but of an issue but if u disable things like GPS then you can get almost a full day worth of charge.

About data plans, i usually subscribe to 10MB per day at a cost of 8shillings(about 0.1 of a dollar). Though you can subscribe to 25MB pet day at cost of 0.25 of a dollar. You can also subscribe to unlimited data plan for 30 dollars per month. Of course this are figures for my carrier but those from other carriers don't differ by much.

I can say most people will move to android (at least my friends are planning to after seeing my apps). I mean, they were impressed by th fact that they can listen to any song using my jango android app.
There's no dislike; there's thousands of apps and app authors out there; the tech blogs are overrun with people pitching their apps; you need to stand above the crowd - and not by trying to shout more, but by being outstanding in some way; as for the marketing part, here's a classic article: http://blogs.balsamiq.com/product/2008/08/05/startup-marketi...

There's a number of ways you can market your app: submit to app directories, use AdMob and other ad platforms, "sell" a compelling story involving your app (see kreci's series of "independent developer progress update" articles, he posts them regularly), etc.

Sorry if this is a bit harsh, but: you seem to think venture funding is a way to raise your visibility - which is partly true, but if you can't get the blogs to write about you, how do you plan to get people to write you cheques? Also, unless your app is truly groundbreaking and has potential to grow into something much more (eg what Rovio did with Angry Birds), is there really a point in trying to get funding?
Pretty sure in dinero and ginza metrics are YC as well.

Both offer money, contacts and expertise.
I first saw this post on my mobile and didn't click on the story link. Taking a look at the site, I was expecting something really user friendly, with big letters and numbers with explanations alongside. Perhaps the mint.com of public finance. To me, this site still looks like market watch or bloomberg or any other finance site.
Wait you are saying the key advantage of US taxpayers funding this is people overseas in paypal blocked countries (Libya, North Korea...) get it for free?
Agreed,

That's why I qualified my statement by saying:

> Perhaps at the undergrad level there is some truth to this.

Evidently this upset someone though, sigh:(
Just don't forget that you can use .delegate() now, instead of the solution offered in the article (which is more than two years old).
Developer of Several Kid-Centric Games Ordered to Pay $50,000 in COPPA Fines
Hey we were just about to blog about this but you beat us to it! We also have some other good stuff we're set to announce this week so keep an eye out.
This should be standard contracting policy, with net terms and in the base contract.
Wouldn't wearing wrist supports all the time atrophy your wrist muscles and make the problem worse later? I always hear that doing free weights solves this issue. He says he's strapped for time, but there's also the old "spend time being sick later" adage.
There are a bunch of YC companies that go on to get additional funding from 500Startups. Dave McClure comes to YC demo day.
MIT to Open Center on Mobile Learning With Google’s Backing
unless your app is truly groundbreaking and has potential to grow into something much more (eg what Rovio did with Angry Birds), is there really a point in trying to get funding?

Exactly. How is this app different/better than the many great Android RSS reader apps out there. What sort of business model could you build around your app? Text-based ads? I think venture capitalists and tech bloggers alike would ask these questions before giving you the time of day.
The main point is always worth reiterating (take care of your body), but before a bunch of people run out and buy wrist supports I just want to add that things like this are not universally endorsed by physical therapists (or fellow injury-prone hackers). They can lead to secondary issues like atrophy and poor circulation, which in turn lead to more issues, etc.

Having been through multiple versions of these (the kind he has, less restrictive ones, custom-molded ones), I found my body held up best when I kept it active and strong on its own. The term "crutch" has a double meaning in the English language for a reason: sometimes it's truly necessary, but when it's not truly necessary it's actually hurting you in the long run.
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Add some sort of edit-distance metric? Might need a bit of tuning for your specific interference and the nature of the words you're matching for, I suspect.
Orange County in SoCal has been doing this for a few years. They start with the type of treated sewage you mention above; then they microfilter it; then they do reverse osmosis; then they treat it with UV and H2O2; then they use it to recharge the aquifer (where it takes some time to trickle through before they pump it back out of the wells).

http://www.gwrsystem.com/the-process.html
I find it hard to believe that you have read it, I have too. A common tactic of his was to reduce hours to increase total output - you are agreeing with him.

A great example of this is where he employed a foreman for the sole purpose of enforcing rest periods. Forcing the workers to rest for 56% of the day - resulting in a 4x increase of output.