skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may have been enabled for some Honeycomb tablets but its not supported on Android mobile phones yet.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1376

They've been holding it back for nearly 3 years now because it adds 1mb to the android build.

iPhone has had it for years and even Blackberry natively supports it.
Interestingly I think that anti-government paranoia in the US is largely itself fed by all those movies in which some corrupt US government agency turns out to be the villain.

As a fun exercise, count the number of movies and TV shows in which the CIA is shown in a positive light. The FBI often is, the military usually is, the CIA almost never. Heck, the CIA has such a bad name in American movie land that on the odd occasion they want to show a good American spy (e.g. Die Another Day) they'll put 'em in the NSA instead despite the fact that the activities depicted are much more CIA-like than NSA-like.
How exactly do you even define an API in real world terms? You can't see it, touch it, smell it, or hear it. If you can copyright an internal API, you can copyright anything.
So, "AWS happened to it," then?
I preferred you would have forgotten to write your post so an empty one would have appeared instead of this one ;)

I treat my cats with more dignity than you treat yourself. Stupid little tricks like yours work for about a week, or longer if you're stupid enough to be sensitive to this kind of thing.

It makes sense to schedule your writing, but this method is not exactly the bee's knees, and the title of your post "How to Never Miss a Blog Post" kinda reminds me of bad advertising.

Your work kicks ass though, and your posts on design are interesting. Get a favicon btw!
$99 tablets would be quite a boon to consumers. Having a viable competitor to the iPad would be good for the market. I wanna believe.
Presumably the earthquake caused a spike in social network usage, microblogging of various popular types, and reload-mashing on cnn.com and similar. If any of those is hosted on AWS then they might steal some cycles from other AWS users.
Thanks, that happened because a troll overwrote the entry for Vim with junk text, and then the people added vim because they didn't see it.

I've manually merged their entries with the main vim entry.
Wood Fence Panels For Your Yard
I edited that comment, but more generally do you see a real difference between say extracting 10trillion dollars’ worth of gold from the world’s oceans from manufacturing it? With Diamonds I can see the appeal of natural gems but with gold it’s next to meaningless.
We care deeply about user privacy and have systems in place to prevent anyone (including the founders) from looking at user data. You can find our privacy policy here: https://www.greplin.com/privacy
"Jason Fried’s mantra while testing was: We need to test radically different things. We don’t know what works. Destroy all assumptions. We need to find what works and keep iterating—keep learning."

The specific learnings are irrelevant. Only the process.
> Gold holds it's value in a remarkable manner over time. You will find, for example, that a fine tailored men's suit has cost about one ounce of gold for hundreds of years.

Can you provide a citation for this?

Wouldn't you find the same thing to be true of other types of resource/materials that had no correlation to the manufacturer of suits - that their monetary value moves in the same direction, likely due to the overall level of inflation in the economy?
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/08/23/itunes-store-rev...
I'm more interested in their real-time monitoring board setup.
I just felt the need for that a few minutes ago, a troll overwrote all of the articles with junk text, and I had no way to easily block his IP. I'll be working on that ASAP.
Samsung cites '2001: A Space Odyssey' in Apple case
Write your own blog. I know it's an unnatural experience for those of us who would rather have our heads down coding, but it's worth it for several reasons:

1. You blog should speak with your own voice. Nobody can replicate your passion for what you're doing.

2. Nothing will help you refine your message more than trying (and initially failing) to communicate it.

3. Like it or not, your startup's success probably depends more on your ability to communicate than on your ability to code (you can already code, or you wouldn't be here). Doesn't mean you have to be awesome at it, but you do have to be good enough to get people to listen to what you're trying to say.

4. When, after lots of practice you do get good at it you'll actually start to enjoy sharing your thoughts with the world.

Good Luck-

- Ben
This reminds me of the Manga Guide to [Physics|The Universe|etc] books by OReilly.

There is definitely more room in this space to help kids understand more advanced topics, and take the fear out of things like Math.
These sorts of articles always smack of cargo cultism.

Not this article though. It proposes pretty clear solutions, and no, they don't involve money or anything political you talk about. In fact quite opposite, it talks that both right and left in Finland agree that all kids should get the same quality of education. Did you read it anyway?
DoubleRecall (YC S11) turns paywalls into advertising dollars
Thanks :)

It's developed with the dynamic language Groovy, on Google App Engine. Here's a comment with some more details: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2916803
In my article I was trying to be brief. If it was a book, I surely could have gotten more in dept so apologize about the lack of "substance" or "passion". This post is just a quick brief rundown.

Call me anything but patronizing towards my employees and other cultures please.

I love my employees more than anything else. They are the heart and soul of a company. My employees love to work with me, love the environment we have, and truly appreciate the type of company we are and were previously.

And about firing someone - I hire slow and fire fast. That is how I do things. Firing someone after a month in a place like Argentina can open you up for lawsuits. And like most Latin American companies the government truly favors employee rights (which is great) more than I would say the US does. You can fire someone in Latin America and it isn't uncommon for a pissed off employee to make up a fake lawsuit, state they made double then they did, say they worked for you for a year, and be strung along in court.

It's an example. Hasn't happened to me. But I was just stating that fact, as it is something I wanted to know when I came here or like any business owner would want to know.
Build It: A Cheap Gaming Desktop Tips, Solutions & How Tos
A couple things you mentioned here are great use cases of Greplin - to find that address you're getting a map for, to find phone numbers of the person you need to call, or to find out information about your upcoming sync'ed calendar event. Send me an email at robbyw at greplin dot com - I'd love to talk about if there is ever anything you wanted to find on your phone but couldn't.
First images coming in of DC earthquake devastation
Link is inaccessible from safari on iPhone. Most frustrating.
And ST: Enterprise had things that looked a lot like smartphones.
Sweet, laser-targeted idea. The quality of the business concepts coming out of YC have increased even as their quantity has exploded. It could be survivorship bias, but in any case I'm impressed.
Subtle Irritations in Lion
Shouldn't you be asking GoDaddy instead of us? Seems like a simple problem to resolve unless they're actively ignoring you.
Whether or not this helps HP, this is probably going to turn out to be huge for the future of tablets. Millions of people who would not have bought one for years will very soon take tablets for granted.
The Xbox is sold at a loss but overall is a profitable division for Microsoft. There is room in the market for loss-leaders, it's just a question of where to build a revenue model from.

Unlike Android, HP could have run an end-to-end product, controlling the hardware, software, and app ecosystem, but could have tried doing it at a lower price. There's no guarantee the market would have supported it, but seeing how eagerly people snatched up the fire-sale tablets, it's kind of disappointing not to even see them try.
Foundry Group Invests In MakerBot Industries
Seth's Blog: Two earthquake-related thoughts about human nature
Learn the 4 c's of diamonds
The average iDevice has less than ~$20 of software on it. (Simple math on earnings call stats.) 30% of $20 is $6. That's, well, rat spit.
Lion Security: Building on the iOS Foundation
> This is why regex comments exist.

Regex comments don't help much with inadvertently writing a non-exhaustive regex (i.e. one for which some possible input could fail to match), or a few other kinds of regexp bugs. Or, how would you write the regexp in the above code with comments so that it would be obvious if you left out the \\$ case?
FWIW, here is the current WHOIS result:

Domain Name: LOGANLINN.COM
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
Name Server: NS09.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Name Server: NS10.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientRenewProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 16-aug-2011
Creation Date: 01-sep-2010
Expiration Date: 01-sep-2012
Android Trojan GingerMaster Uses Gingerbread Root Exploit
He has several arguments; performance is only one of them.
I realize that pieces like this are made to be fluffy, but this whole video seems like an advertisement to me. There wasn't any meat to it... just the CEO talking to a nodding reporter with a bumpit in her hair.

I wanted to see how Zipcar built up their network, remotely-enabled their cars, and so on.
Well, twisted is an async framework, and that's the important thing. Back in the day I actually wrote a Twisted protocol to send/receive SMS messages from a modem over serial. In total the code was like 100 LOC. That's how flexible, well-organized it is.
They have not responded to my emails as of yet. I will be calling them soon, but I was hoping to get some input from the community on the legitimacy of their actions.
Getting our budget under control is "simple". It just requires some combination of less savings by the US private sector, less savings or higher deficits for state and local governments, and a reduction in the trade deficit, due to the basic accounting identity:

private savings + public savings = trade surplus

Here deficits are negative public savings, so reducing deficits means increasing public savings; the rest follows.

Reducing private savings is mostly what we did to keep the deficit down in the 90s. I'm not sure how feasible it is as a strategy now, given that private savings in the US have been so low for so long; people can't really keep spending more than they make.

Which means that what really needs to happen is a reduction in the trade deficit. This is also known as having a lower dollar (and in particular, a higher-against-the-dollar renmibi).

The good news is that getting the renmibi to rise against the dollar is also "simple": just get the PBoC to stop buying US assets (that includes US government bonds) to artificially hold the renmibi down. That will both help the US employment situation (giving us more headroom in terms of private saving) and increase US exports while decreasing US imports.

Basically, at the moment China is using currency intervention to export unemployment and government budget deficits to the US via the trade deficit. To get the US economy to rebalance and be sane, that needs to stop.

Of course we could keep the trade balance as now while cutting government spending and increasing taxes, the way we seem to be headed. That exactly corresponds to reduced private savings. We could do that for a bit perhaps, but it's really not sustainable as things stand.
Ask HN: Full Movies on youtube
Hi HN,

I have learnt a lot from youtube, watching BBC documentaries, watching videos from KA and from Standford videos however now i am able to also entertain myself by watching full movies.

How is this possible ? I know that youtube has limits to video sizes of 10mins unless you request to be able to upload larger videos if you are producing your own content that is educational or informative.

But does this apply for full movies as well ? The movies range from old martial arts movies which I used to watch as a kid to recent movies up to 2007 and i have to say its pretty cool.

Arent there any copyright issues around movies (full movies) being uploaded ?

Thanks
Do the young really rule in the Internet era?
Face.com Evangelist Contest
Face.com com is looking for a developer evangelist. As an official Face.com evangelist, the winner will be charged with traveling the country to attend hackathons and other developer events, helping the developer community discover the power of our Face Recognition API and use it to build awesome apps.
Which Greensboro Area College is Right for You?
Sprint to offer iPhone 5 in October, report claims
A major difference appears to be plastic vs. flush glass bezel: http://obamapacman.com/2011/08/ipad-tablet-obvious-design/
I've used it maybe 5 times since I joined the beta early on. It's really slick, and works perfectly, but I'm skeptical just how useful searching these social services can be for anyone. GMail already has amazing search, and the only other social service that I have a decent amount of data in is Facebook, which I rarely need to search.

What Greplin-supported services do you guys find the most useful to have searchable?
Spending $195 to deliver a $200 platform, and then making an additional $5-10 per customer on app sales, is not a terrible spot for a business to be in. It's not Apple territory, and maybe it's not worth the risk or opportunity cost for HP given their profitability in other spaces. But one need not be a "big dummy" to think there might be room for a profitable player to use that model.

Incidentally, I only addressed the part of Gruber's post I thought needed responding to. He's right that the fire sale doesn't prove anything about market viability for an at-cost device.
Check out Ron Kohavi's publications for a way to calculate this: http://robotics.stanford.edu/~ronnyk/ronnyk-bib.html
(He has a bunch of publications that are just the same thing repackaged, so it probably doesn't matter which one you read.)
For example, if you have a conversion rate of 5% and want to detect an increase of 5% you need about 120'000 hits.
Disagree. Do all of those things in any order you fancy.
Over long time scales the relative value of things can change a lot.

Salt and Grains have both lost a lot of their relative value over time. Diamonds are actually worth far more now than they were in the past. Gold has maintained it's value fairly in Europe for a long time, but it was not worth all that much in south America. Unfortunately, for the gold bugs out there gold’s relative value often changes rapidly in the short time frame.
BankRate Reports Over $80 MILLION in Domain Name Acquisitions
From the interesting submitted article: "Teachers in Finland spend fewer hours at school each day and spend less time in classrooms than American teachers. Teachers use the extra time to build curriculums and assess their students. Children spend far more time playing outside, even in the depths of winter. Homework is minimal. Compulsory schooling does not begin until age 7."

The bit about teachers having time to prepare their lessons is one of the key observations of east Asian schools too.

http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Gap-Schools-Japanese-Educatio...

http://www.tc.columbia.edu/lessonstudy/lessonstudy.html

Schools in east Asia have similar staffing ratios (teachers per enrolled pupil) to schools in the United States, but they have MUCH larger class sizes, with teachers having work periods during the day when they review and prepare lessons with colleagues. That makes the teachers more effective, per teacher, and helps the teachers cope with the larger class sizes, because they teach more engaging lessons. When I lived in Taiwan a decade ago, I had a chance to see in a bookstore some Chinese-language books used by teachers to prepare mathematics lessons. They are unlike ANYTHING available in English, much richer in mathematical content and much more filled with sound, practice-based pedagogical tips than comparable books published in the United States.

Because American schools don't try very hard to engage in best practice in teacher coordination for good lesson preparation, and because many United States school textbooks, especially in mathematics, are just plain lousy, I'm able to make a living as a teacher of supplemental mathematics lessons for children who are already attending their free public schools during other days of the week. In this regard, I'd be happy if the system here changed in a way that put me out of my current job.

Another key fact from farther along in the submitted article: "Applicants began flooding teaching programs, not because the salaries were so high but because autonomy and respect made the job attractive." That explains exactly why I teach in the private sector rather than in the government-operated schools of the United States, which hobble the best teachers and coddle the worst in their employ.
Paste http://sh-blog.at.webry.info/rss/index.rdf into Google Reader's 'Add a Subscription'; it has all the posts since Jan 7.

Or this link to the feed in Reader might work: https://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F...
(Speculation) Daisy Chained Mac Minis to replace Mac Pros?
I don't understand the question. A tracking code is definitively linked to a particular website. It is not linked to a person. Am I missing something?
This is why I feel that all password managers that store passwords are fundamentally flawed. Who has verified the crypto used to store the passwords? Has it been implemented by devs who thought they knew crypto (but really don't) as this article suggests?
Despite not being a trekker, I make surprisingly frequent use of a 'Tricorder' app on my phone/tablet, since it uses the actual sensors of the device as opposed to desirable fictional ones. http://code.google.com/p/moonblink/wiki/Tricorder
Hey OpenStreetMap, less is more
One simple and clever way to test for significant results is to run an A/A/B test. When your two A buckets converge, you've probably done enough testing.
So their only solution is to move the intrusive ads to being part of achievements, and thus cheapening them in the eyes of the players?

Sorry, but in my eyes, that's actually worse.
Gamification is Here to Stay (And it’s not Bullshit)
Donald Duck was used as prior art to invalidate a method of ship raising. This was discussed at length on HN six months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2232857
Tag approval should have been there from the start. Instead they decided the growth of the site was more important than respecting the preferences of individual users.
True. Upvoted.
I like that 37signals tested really different designs, and then refined the winner. This is, in my opinion, the best way to do things to avoid getting trapped in the local maximum.
A Message to Traffic Police Officers
I was imagining it was the sudden violent shaking of the HDD. Thus the "lesson learned" that "servers don't like earthquakes"
Yes, I did. I was specifically referencing that you can now opt-out of auto-tagging.

You see, they opted me in. Long ago. With no option to opt-out. Now they provide the option, but it is, by default, on the wrong setting for privacy. Just like every other update they've ever rolled out.
I agree with the sentiment Bonaldi's post in spite of your reply.

I read the security page, and while I understand that there are "safeguards" in place to say that the founders can't read my email, I find that kind of like me saying that I can't browse porn because I installed a porn web browser filter on my PC. I have all the passwords, so I can choose to turn that off at any time.

If I sign up for your service, your servers contain plain text copies of all of my data. If it's not in plain text, then it's encrypted with a key that you hold so you can decrypt it for indexing.

I think there is a market for technology like this, but I think it would be more turnkey solutions for businesses so that they can own and monitor access to their servers and data. Is this a direction you are considering?
If the young budding scientist is wrong then why hasn't nature followed our ideal 30 degree angle, he's certainly got me thinking?!
Lets say you're modeling a system with Customers and Salesmen both of which are Persons, should you put that travelling salesman algorithm into the Salesman class or the Person class? That's what I mean by modeling domains.

By modeling concerns I mean that you should create a RouteFinder class and an adapter that extracts the coordinates from Salesman, Persons, and Customers. Maybe there is a convenience method on the Salesman class that makes it easy for him to travel to his customers but most of the work (the concern) is modelled separately from the domain.

The primary concern of the program is routing, not Salesmen and Customers. It's like how rails/ASP.NET MVC/django concerns itself with making websites, not modeling domains. If you focus on the concerns the domain becomes an implementation detail. (eg. For the person class the coordinate can be found at Person.Address.Latitude)
Well, that's Kiip's solution, but I think it's an elegant one. Beats pop-over ads anyway.

Honestly, I think the game industry should be looking for other ways to monetize their content.
American schools not only "don't try very hard to engage in best practice," that sort of thing is often explicitly forbidden. My cousins are teachers in Americorps and preparing their own lesson plans or using outside materials are not allowed under their employment contracts.
Starting with me. I know it is cheesy to copy but if it works it works.
One use case is searching multiple gmail accounts.

I often need to search for a message in my secondary account (I'm logged into my primary acct in Safari on my iPhone). Before this, the options were:

1. Log out of primary account and log into secondary account (laborious, especially if you use 2-step auth) and search in the gmail webapp.

2. Search using the iPhone mail app (awful).

(Makes me miss Android's native gmail app.)

Greplin searches both email accounts and tons of other useful stuff.
like this?

http://www.blenderaddons.com/aboutme.php
Tried to upvote.. and missed the arrow landing squarely on the down vote... I wish I could recast my vote after the fact. Sorry.
The Xbox is only useful in tandem with its consumable $30 games. It's a prime candidate for a razor/blades strategy.

In comparison:

(a) Tablets are useful without buying a single app.

(b) The price point on apps is far lower than on Xbox games.

(c) Apps are on the whole less consumable than games, most of which lose much of their value after just a week or two of use.

(d) The sole use case of the Xbox is to facilitate games, which means that everyone who owns an Xbox buys them. The key value propositions of a table are "watch video, browse web, read books", and in each of these three categories the apps to facilitate them are either built in or free.

I share your disappointment, but don't believe my disappointment rebuts economic reality.
Good incremental steps. Dare we hope that Google+'s positioning as "more privacy-friendly than Facebook" is creating a race to the top?
Its been a while, at one point EngineYard was pretty awesome and really moved a lot forward in the RoR community. They've lost so many great people (and theres still some great people there), they've been moving more and more away from their developer roots, and in a series of baffling moves have been pushing away boutique customers in favor of highly commoditized cheap hosting. But PHP, really? I guess this is really the nail in the coffin for EY as a serious developer platform.