skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If tablet computers were cheap enough to be effectively free, might this not be a good and effective way for a senior manager to get his work done?

Instead of "Hey Captain, I need you to read this document and sign off on it, please see the attachment" you could just hand him a physical device with the document on it, he'd read it, press the "make it so" button on the bottom, and hand it back or have it sent back to the originator. He couldn't neglect it or forget to look at it, because there'd be a physical token associated with the file, which could itself be tracked through the ship at all times.

I wonder if this will be a trend, in fact. Getting away from "one device that does everything" and more towards "a large number of identical devices for different functions". Give me a pad that handles my email, a pad that handles my calendar, a pad that handles my to do list, and hang another one on the wall for use as a videophone. Then maybe I'll have a pad which reminds me where all my other pads are.

NB. I've watched, like, three episodes of Star Trek in my life.
McAfee Sees 76% Increase in Android Malware
Paging is workload is generally dominated by random IO. In general paging will be much faster on an SSD than a spindle because random IO destroys throughput in MB/sec on a spindled disk.

Memory is the new disk and in general what will kill you performance-wise between the Pro and the Air is the CPU cache. You're only going to notice the difference between 4 GB and 8 GB if your working set exceeds 4 GB.

On 8GB I run Photoshop, XCode, Chrome, a couple VMs, and some other memory hungry processes, however, at any given time I'm generally only using a couple of those processes, eg. Chrome / Photoshop, or XCode / Photoshop, or Vim / VMs, or Vim / Chrome. It sometimes takes a few seconds for the VMs to start performing properly or XCode to become responsive but it's only when I switch tasks that I notice it.

I'd recommend against switching to the Air for increased performance. If you really want to know what it's like with 4GB why not just take 4GB out of your Pro and see if you can live with it?
Clarke also foresaw the ipod in his book "Imperial Earth" (calling it a minisec).
Make your deploys blazing fast by making them git-aware
Ryan Tate: Check Out the Repulsive Side of Silicon Valley
The example might not be analogous to the initial situation but the possibilities for abuse would certainly extend to the example of a client implementing an api - if you copyright a server side api or a single computer api, you can copyright the client side of an api as well.
Samsung Invokes Kubrick Defense in Apple Tablet Fight
Ahh Speedtest.

Running a speedtest and reporting the results is akin to running a ApacheBench on your index.html, recording how fast it goes, then telling everyone your PHP server can serve pages that fast.

Speedtest by default finds a local server, which is almost always delivered over local uncontended peering. Of course you're going to see great results, you might as well be testing to a Speedtest server plugged into your LAN.

Run speedtests to ~10 sites around the country and a few around the globe and report those figures.
Seek latency is 50x faster and transfer rates are 2 to 5x faster for SSD vs HD.

Paging on the SSD is faster. Situations where you would have trashing (i.e. seeking during paging) are noticeably faster.

If your working set doesn't fit in 4G, it's still going to be too slow.
Inventor Bringing Thought-controlled Robot Avatars to Quadriplegics
Something I've been thinking about: at what point does the pain of maintenance of a service outweigh its usefulness?

Between Facebook's new privacy settings, Google+ Circles, etc, these services have become much more about protecting and curating who sees what I do rather than doing anything with them.

Twitter I get much more utility out of with much less maintenance.
They should include WordPress blogs using the OnSwipe theme in the block list. They often crash the browser due to their out of control memory usage.
"Earthquakes make Web Servers sad". Dude. What the FUCK?
Disk space is cheap but your access to it goes through quite a narrow bandwidth.
3. option / Open a new incognito window, I've been using this method to manage multiple google accounts for a while.
Some footage could be considered "enabling". For instance if I wanted to patent "Slingshot-launched rideable rocket as a means for catching roadrunners" there'd probably be prior art.
You're arguing service (I guess. I've no clue about Comcast).

I'm arguing that your ISP knows _everything_ about you, unless you are really making sure that you're using encryption everywhere.

Now - you'd opt in for a plan that gives you great access to the network where all traffic is handled by the company that stores everything forever and ever and already owns most of your online activities? Really?

Maybe I'm _seriously_ paranoid, but I'd never fall for that. Free, like in the article? Maybe. With precautions. But that won't last forever, so they will be announcing a plan. And at that point I cannot imagine supporting G anymore. You're feeding the beast..
Neat idea, and I know it's a cute hack, but

1) You ask for all data on my personal computer and all data on all websites. What?! I imagine you might require local data access to get my GPG key and Chrome doesn't allow it more fine-grained than that (but forchrissakes tell me that on your site), but why all sites? Why not mail.google.com and gmail.com? Because of apps for your domain?

2) You're providing a crypto product. I want to see your source code, and don't tell me to unzip/tar/whatever your crx.
The circumference of the earth is ~40k km, which would make "the other side of the earth" ~20k.
Sprint to get iPhone 5 in mid-Oct.
tata's running the isp for google i guess.
In other news, FB's chat system remains a blight.
This question (5-star?) was also the first to my mind once I signed up and jumped into interaction with the app.

Given that each item shows a positive or negative number as its rating, it is unclear to me what the effect of a 5-, 3-, or 1- star ratings is against the net score for that item. I'm reasonably certain what the net effect will be, but it isn't totally obvious. The fact that it isn't so obvious is a friction point that makes me somewhat less likely to interact.

Using the familiar pattern of the binary up/down as arturadib has suggested (and taking a page from StackOverflow, Reddit, etc.) would make the interface much more familiar to me.

Though a binary up/down system would make this point irrelevant, I'll add it to the conversation anyway: It seems to me that over a long enough period of time, the rating for many items (using a 5 star system) will average near 3.

Congratulations on getting Listry out in the wild. Looking forward to witnessing future developments!
No, I can get 400 from speedtest.net occasionally. I get inconsistent results sometimes though:
(300mb/200mb on the first one)

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1447015910.png

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1447014970.png

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1447013001.png
Yeah, you're seriously paranoid.
I remember there were plenty of iPADD jokes when the iPad first came out. I'm fairly certain there is a LCARS-interface app for the device as well.
or just calculate statistical significance?
>"Worse" translates to "urban" or "rural" schools. Think about what that means. (Hint: It's not a money issue)

Duff, please spell it out for us? What are you implying the problem is?
That black people and white people are stupid? I'm really not sure what forbidden truth you're supposed to be getting at here.
SpaceChem - "concurrent programming game"
We don't store the password in the DOM. When you choose to sign/encrypt, the password is passed to gpg (via the plugin) and promptly goes out of scope. (It means you have to enter your password every time you want to sign/encrypt, but this seems safer)
How to regulate payments
Facebook Places is the feature I've been using the most on Facebook since it was introduced. And I can probably say the same thing about the rest of my circle of friends. It is very sad if they are intentionally going to limit such an awesome and well designed feature (way, way better than anything Foursquare, Gowalla or Twitter offers). Especially if they are going to require you to attach a status message or photo to every check in. Most check ins I do is simply to passively tell my friends where I am to coordinate social gatherings in an informal way without having to attach any greater meaning or social significance to the fact. I'm sharing my location. I might not necessarily be interested in sharing anything more than that.

It's a bit like saying: "Oh, by the way. I might be hanging out down at the bar tonight. Swing by if you feel like it". Without actually having to say it out loud.

edit: The more I think about this, the more angry I get. It feels like the Google+ nerd mafia is slowly destroying Facebook through bad influence. They simply don't understand how and why Facebook works and is popular. The whole privacy and circles stuff for example, which is just stupid. No normal person cares about that. Facebook is a tool for sharing and connecting and to limit that in the name of privacy is insanely counterproductive. It only adds a wet blanket of politics on something that is better understood through social psychology and sociology. Facebook used to understand that, but now it seems they've started to become distracted. Sad really.
It's fine, but I didn't really read it that way. It probably doesn't help that this place leans to a strong "business guy = moronic jackass" mentality. I'm sure that led to some assumptions on my part.

edit:

Let me add, that other than the comment I commented on, I really enjoyed the series. There was a lot of creative ideas to test that extended well beyond the usually published A/B test results that test fairly mundane changes, like the color of a button.
Interactive map of today's East Coast earthquake built using open source tools.
Scaling a presentation is not an edge case -- as other commenters have mentioned, working with undesirable screen resolutions is the default for presenters. It would be better to have the presentation scale automatically to the window size than to have to press Ctrl+/Ctrl- to try to get it reasonably close.
Depends if the filmmaker is the one uploading the movie, as I have been in the past!
Adobe Flash auto installs Google Chrome?
Since when is that happening and why isn't there an opt out check box or something?
MakerBot Takes $10 Million In Funding From Foundry Group, Angels
But that's not what they want to measure. All they want to know is the speed of the local link, and speedtest measures that.

It's not everything you need to know, but it does provide the desired measurement.
It's not necessarily the funding round or age you should be considering. Look at the people, the product, the market and traction to make your decisions.

Do you like working there? Are the founders fully involved? Are the customers happy? Is it a great product in a growing market?

Series C doesn't mean a company won't succeed; they could easily be on the growth path and using additional capital to finance expansion. Don't write them off prematurely but do your due diligence as well :)
Not Google Fiber

Local ISP with fiber

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1447021540.png
To expand it really depends on what the results of the testing are:

If you split your 170 customers into two groups of 85, if 40 of 85 pick A and 5 of 85 pick B then it's extremely likely that A is the better choice. If 39 pick A and 40 pick B then you'd need a larger sample size to overcome the margin of error. Of course at a 95% confidence interval any result even in excess of the MOE is pure chance 1 of out 20 times.

What I'd do is split your customer base into 3 groups of 50% 25% and 25%, test each 25% and then apply the winner to the 50%.
nonsense. on both Google+ and Facebook you can quite easily lump everyone into one group/circle and leave your default posting level set Public.

just because a service provides more options doesn't mean you have to use them if you don't want to.

edit:
granted, twitter's culture is more open to following strangers than facebook. my experience on Google+ has been a nice blend of the two extremes, so far.
Samsung hOzc
Final blow to G+, not that it needed it much. It's deadpool for me already.
The problem is that they can't allow programs to execute parts of the memory as instructions. This is needed for efficient JITs like the one in Nitro.

Apple is actively (Frequent commits) working on fixing this problem. The project is called Webkit2, and features a Javascript interpreter that runs in a separate process, and thus is able to safely execute Javascript on iOS. This model, btw., is inspired by the multi-process architecture found in other major browsers.
Link to the src has been added to the site. (sorry we included it when we mailed the gpg mail list, but didn't add it to the page)

Direct Link: https://github.com/RC1140/cr-gpg
I guess that makes sense, I doubt they'd abduct the whole team :P
Hey, that looks great. Thanks!
Openmeetings.de - Free, open-source conferencing
Finland has a policy of providing (wherever possible) early-stage immigrant education in the child's first language. Bilingualism, and an eventual transition to study in Suomi (or Swedish -- which seems to be a level alternative officially) are encouraged, of course, but the object of the game seems to be to get the young minds working as well as possible as early as possible, even if that means teaching reading and math skills in Somali, Vietnamese or Arabic in the interim. It seems to work.
I am not the intern myself, just posted it on his behalf. The startup was a few months old when he started. Both co-founders had years of development experience so I think we gave a pretty good internship experience.
I don't think the age of the startup is as important as the people behind it to determine how much an internship will be valuable.

Thanks,
That's a great suggestion, thanks a lot!
Don't Let Apple's Latency Mess With Your iOS App
It's the same as "Don't optimize prematurely". True, but also don't be stupid.
Goes...out of scope.

I am suspicious that that's not really sufficient password protection. What protection do you have from an attack that provides access to your machine's address space? (or chrome's address space)?

I'd like to see the source code before I use this. If that sounds paranoid, it's because if I'm using crypto, it's because I'm concerned about snoopers.

---
edit - source got posted. Thanks!
I was wondering about the same thing.
The article is extremely enthousiast about Foursquare, which I had stopped to use over Facebook.
Foursquare adds a gaming layer to check-ins, which tends to get boring with time.
Facebook however adds its social layer, with the ability to passively say "Hey I'm there", and actually be read by people who might care.
I feel like this a very forceful response to something, but I don't know what. I'm missing some context to be able to make sense of the article.
Nice that refutes my point. I was basing it on this link http://speedtest.net/support.php under "What are the requirements to be a testing host".

Edit: But now I noticed that they follow it up with "[in some countries] we are now requiring gigabit connectivity."
Fancorps Bootstraps to Cash Flow Positive, 100+ Clients and 300k Users
Disable Facebook oubound link tracking - Chrome extension
Verizon Video makes it easy to blow through your data cap
good idea. horrible name.
code.google.com page with demo-video: http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/
Wow, if those numbers are true then it sure falls into the "uncomfortable truths" category:

'''

* Asian Americans outscored every Asian country, and lost out only to the city of Shanghai, China’s financial capital.

* White Americans students outperformed the national average in every one of the 37 historically white countries tested, except Finland (which is, perhaps not coincidentally, an immigration restrictionist nation where whites make up about 99 percent of the population).

* Hispanic Americans beat all eight Latin American countries.

* African Americans would likely have outscored any sub-Saharan country, if any had bothered to compete.

'''

scuze me, I couldn't figure out how to italicise something when it contained asterisky bullet points.
Did you guys get rejected during the interview or application stage?
Be very careful of Generalizations. Some have said in the comments that crime could be an issue. In some countries crime is far worse than the USA, in others crime is far lower, again in some countries some people are late for meetings, in others people are early.

It all depends. The only generalization that you can make is that it will be different. In the other words everywhere has advantages and disadvantages. As a start up "pilot" you have to maximise the advantages and minimise the disadvantages.
+1 for both thumbs up/down
You can't save your way to innovation
More comprehensive data about income distribution in Finland over time:

http://www.stat.fi/til/tjt/2009/tjt_2009_2011-05-20_tau_002_...

Statistics Finland provide data about income distribution, but not much about wealth.
1 little thing -> Your "Browse Popular Articles" and "Contribute to New Articles" buttons are not vertically centered. The white space above them is 6px less than the white space below. It looks like you wanted them to be the same in your css but the #mainbuttons is 65px in height and the buttons are 59px in height.

If you change #mainbuttons height to 59px and bump the margins a little bit more to 29 or 30px you get a nicer look I personally think. A little bit more white space separates the buttons from the top header and to me is easier on the eyes.

I really like the site thought. There's lots of these but yours is different, the content stands out more than the site, and to me that's what matters.
Curious - what is your bounce rate like? I'm in time-wasting mode so I watched a bit of the video to get an idea of what the product was but I would have much preferred to see some bullet points - or anything really - other than the video to give me an idea of what Chorus was about.
A quick note, apps for domains are still served from https://mail.google.com/a/example.com/
Ask HN: Looking for hackers to share east bay office space 
Im a solo developer looking to find one or more hackers who are willing to find some affordable office space in the east bay, preferably in Oakland. If I was in the city Id join Noisebridge and Im aware of Blue Door in Berkeley but I havent seen many other options. If you are looking to find some office space w/ a relaxed co-worker please get in touch.
Google Maps Short URL
Linking to your video page here was confusing. I wanted to quickly understand what your startup does and I can't do that from the page you linked to (not set up to watch a video). I assumed that you linked to your home page so I had to dig around awhile before I could figure out what it was.

Just including the "Customer Radar - High engagement, Increased Customer Satisfaction, All in Real-time" text that is found on most of the other pages on that page would have made the experience a lot better; specifically pointing out a link to the home page would be helpful, too.

(Tip for others: Click on Home after clicking on the link for a list of bullet points.)
Finland has free college education. Mainly for that reason, the future profitability of a specific discipline doesn't appear to be a major factor in how young Finns choose their majors (as evidenced by the enduring huge popularity of objectively unprofitable disciplines such as media and design).

It seems to me that those that become teachers in Finland have chosen the career fairly early on. It's a vocational thing. Money doesn't influence the decision, but of course there is the financial baseline that teaching is a stable job that offers an extraordinarily long summer vacation (something like 11 weeks, fully paid).
I've always thought the math on this was sketchy. Where are there enough users concentrated to make checkins commercially useful? I just can't see it, but I reserve the right to be totally, completely, wrong.
-nod- an attack with full access to chromes address space would grab the password in memory.

I'm guessing someone with that sort of threat model isn't using gmail for comms. (I guess even then, it could be useful to verify signatures (when gmail doesn't break the mail) without risking your private key)
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Saw demo day yesterday and it was pretty awesome. Lots of interesting startups, and the way Paul & co. coach teams to present is fun to watch. They really make what they're doing seem exciting. It's also kinda like bingo to figure out what the the common phrases they're coached to use are. This batch it seemed common to have some really awesome accomplishment such as "8 bajillion users within 3 seconds of launch," be followed by, "But this is just the beginning ..." or "This is just a trojan horse." We were coached similarly last year, but it definitely stuck out.

Anyway, a lot of them were really cool, some of the presentations were hilarious, and it just amplified the feeling that there a ton of enormous opportunities in software (which is pretty obvi.com, I suppose).

The most interesting trend I saw was a surprising number of cos focused on "the future of banner/display ads".
When a VC funded biz shuts down are the VCs responsible to the remaining staff?
Really great news, as most people don't know what HTTPS is or why they'd enable it.
What Is Dubli?
I have to admit to being confused by this: what does selling printer ink have to do with selling tablets?
Entrepreneur Makes A Fortune Selling Virtual Land, Banking and Fashion
Google is not going to look at your traffic, because if they did they'd be hit with something ten times worse than the street view fiasco.
That strip is less about errors and more about the science news cycle. Another good reference for that: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1174
Real Companies Spring From Latest Twilio Contest
I don't see a reason why private keys should be accessible via Javascript at all. It's a plugin and not a JS-based extension. With the right API the JS code would never see the private keys.
But Finland doesn't have any immigrants, that's why they seem to be doing so well.
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Major Kids Entertainment Co's to Discuss App Development & Partnership Needs
I don't think it nonsense. I think there is a threshold where the maintenance/anxiety from the provided options exceeds the value of the service. I think its a sweetspot for any service actually (not just Google+ and Facebook).
Yes, this appears to be an attempt at social engineering.

As far as I can tell the piece is complete fiction.

The 'goal' of the article is to convince people to buy gold.

The fiction is that it was written at some time in the past and purports to be as true today as it was in 2006 (although it was written 5 years later).

I can assure you that in 2016 I will be able to write a piece which, had I written it today, would have given you all the advice you needed to invest wisely.

I expect it would be simpler to invent time travel, pop ahead 5 years, look around and then pop back.
MixRank lets you analyze competitor's ppc campaigns
Groups.io
We've just successfully moved our assets to Rackspace Cloud which uses Akamai's backbone and we couldn't be happier. The pricing (UK http://lncn.eu/379; US http://lncn.eu/bci) works out much cheaper than S3 and we're experiencing fantastic performance hosting JS and CSS files, especially over mobile networks.
It should be anything they detect malware on, or any of their detection procedures so shouldn't be a problem if its affecting the site they would block or warn.
>...vs. limits on the basic physics. Still the main limitation seems to be the far lower thrust-to-weight ratio.

that exactly the basic physics limit of the scramjet that i was talking about :
"the other side of the same issue - trying to impact even small amount of additional momentum on the already fast moving air"