skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure the falsification of records is really at the root of this, in the sense that it was a deception that did not really deceive anyone. There was a bit of consensual hallucination going on: nobody really believed Greece's numbers, but it was convenient for everyone to pretend to believe them. Lenders who bought Greek bonds should certainly have conducted their own analyses and had a decent idea that the headline figures were not accurate (I would guess they did, actually, but assumed that Greece wouldn't be allowed to default, so bought the bonds anyway).
Are you 100% sure?
IPhone cover which doubles as a speaker for cyclists
Indian eCommerce And The Hype [Interesting Infographic]
How is it that Apple seem to be the only ones with the balls to say no to carrier logos?
Sure it's personal preference but the trend seems to be moving towards larger screens on smartphones in fact doesn't the very definition of a smartphone mean it has a large screen?

If it's a smartphone I would say it's main purpose is to view websites and use apps such as Facetime or equivalent which would be uncomfortable on a small fuzzy screen.

Some day we get the roll-up displays and have scroll like phones with large folding/roll-up screens.
iphone 4s was only announced yesterday. It is normal that the latest phone has the "best" features. The next Android will probably wipe the floor with the iPhone again.
PRS Custom 22
Bleeding Honesty and 5 Other Things I Learned From Charles Bukowski
Those three round contacts on the side have me intrigued. Some form of dock connector?

I have a Nexus One and I still love it; I was hoping perhaps HTC would build the next Nexus. I just couldn't go for the Nexus S due to it lacking an SD slot and a notification light. Looks like the SD slot is back but probably still no notification light (damn you Samsung, my multi-colour trackball is brilliant for alerts) I am getting excited though, I would like to upgrade to a new Nexus unit but honestly the Nexus One still doesn't feel old.
I can see that happening with a large tax, but surely it's not a step function, where no transaction taxes results in huge liquidity, while any non-zero tax causes a catastrophic drying up of liquidity. How about, say, a penny-per-trade fee? That would discourage trading at the sub-penny level of liquidity, which is not particularly useful anyway, while still making it profitable to provide liquidity if arbitrage opportunities of >$0.01 were involved.
Democracy I think is the least evil of the types of government that a society can have, but is still inherently terribly flawed (but less than other types of government) because of basic human failings (e.g. moral corruption, greed, "sheeple" mentality).

Perhaps only a benevolent dictator could actually make decisions in an unbiased "best for everyone" manner...but then again how long would any dictator remain benevolent once he/she's had a taste of absolute power?
Agh, you're right. I shouldn't comment before coffee. Thanks :)
In what way is it different from any other tax? A percentage of your earnings goes into it, you have no control over what happens after that point, sounds like any other tax.
5 Facts You Should Know About the Wealthiest One Percent of Americans
Is down IPO market due to bear market or SOX regulation?

I think IPOs went down well before 2008. Classic unintended consequence, where SOX hurts IPOs, which hurts VCs, which hurts startups, which hurts job creation...
Coming Soon To A Store Near You: Tagtile, A Square-Like Mobile Loyalty Service
Too much hassle. Start with one persona and just keep revising estimates as word comes out without mentioning it. Then obfuscate by "calling out" other experts. Nobody can be arsed to click the link you provide and wade through commentary to refute you anyway.

Just remember to answer any question with "It's what I've been saying all along..." and use short, choppy sentences.
Research shows that starlings recognize context-free grammars.
But think about all the poor high school kids who can't afford a mortgage.
I recall this missive from Linus Torvalds on the design of Linux:

"If you want to see a system that was more thoroughly _designed_, you should probably point not to Dennis and Ken, but to systems like L4 and Plan-9, and people like Jochen Liedtk and Rob Pike. And notice how they aren't all that popular or well known? "Design" is like a religion - too much of it makes you inflexibly and unpopular."

http://kerneltrap.org/node/11
Has anyone here actually ever scanned-and-decoded a QR code?
REAMDE: A Review
Does make you wonder why we got the reputation for being Whinging Poms then!
Skype would probably be the choice plus you can have group video chat.

It is odd that there isn't any ready-to-go Samsung app for it (I have an SGII) or at least I didn't see one yet.

It's not a big surprise though since not all phones which use the Android OS have a front facing camera so it would be up to the individual phone manufacturers to add an app if their phone has a front camera.
There is a word in Japanese "tawake", which means "stupid"　or "foolish", but the literal translation is "splitting the rice field".

Every time you split your fortune, it becomes far less powerful. As generations pass, your "fortune" splits and splits until you've got a bunch of insignificant sums among your descendants.

This is why the powerful families choose ONE child who will receive the inheritance, while the rest must make their own way. The common practice is for the firstborn to take the inheritance, but the best practice is to wait and see how each of your children deal with money before deciding.
The app doesn't seem to be loading!
Iphone5? fact or hoax? happy reading~
It's also worth separating the descriptive and prescriptive aspects of Keynesian economic theory. On the descriptive aspects, it seems to be doing fairly well so far. In particular, Keynesian models predicted that we wouldn't suffer significant inflation from the stimulus program + QE/QE2, due to a liquidity trap, whereas some monetarist models predicted that high inflation would result (and the Austrians were even predicting hyperinflation). Since high inflation hasn't materialized, that seems like at least some evidence in favor of the Keynesian macroeconomic models.
Hiten Shah: Applying Lean Methods to Fat Companies
You know, I honestly don't know why people are saying that they're disappointed. For me, this is the first iPhone since the original that gave me a real 'Wow, the future has just arrived' moment. For the original phone it was the Minority Report UI. This time around it's the Star Trek computer that talks to you. When Apple start running TV ads showing off Siri, the average consumer is going to love it.
Actually, I am the second born. I am making my own way.
What Double-Dip Recession
There's an interesting extension of this line of thought. My sister-in-law works in Istanbul for a Greek company. She says that most of the actual profit-generating work done for this company is done in Romania or Turkey. The Greek offices, from what she describes, are more or less completely dysfunctional.

Now, take that insight of conditions on the ground along with a chart of the growth of the Greek vs Turkish economies over the last decade, and then ask yourself: why is Greece a full EU member and included in the Eurozone, while Turkey's membership negotiations have completely stalled (and will probably conclude with Turkey not joining the EU)?

Can you imagine a world where Greece is allowed to leave the Euro, massively devalue its debt (and take the decade or more of restructuring/rebuilding its economy that would come with that), and Turkey with its strong manufacturing sector and youthful, growing middle class is brought in in Greece's place? The EU and the Euro would be in a far stronger position...but it will never happen. Unfortunately, European cultural prejudices are still to ever-present and will result in Greece continuing to be dragged along while Turkey gets shunned.
Well i mean, sort of, but not really. The influx in immigration took place in the 90s and stabilized, and is now falling due to the economic collapse in the US.

Either way, i think we're well served by including some specific claims (and that's why i cited the wikipedia page)
The man has a point, though. You're just disappointed that there was no iPhone 5.
aptitude also has a CLI. For a while it was recommended over apt-get/apt-cache/apt-file because it tracked packages that were installed only in order to satisfy dependencies and let you automatically remove them when you uninstalled the package that needed them. However, now apt-get does that too.
Now we just need to get Niklaus Wirth complaining about ancient Unix' complexity to close the circle…

Ok, maybe Chuck Moore complaining about Oberon after that. Can we go any deeper?

(Also: Discussing this on the web is a wee bit ironic.)
3 tools for flogging your Ruby: the Ruby Sadist
It's about compromise. A smartphone with a one inch screen would be an obviously stupid idea, as would a smartphone with a ten inch screen. Seen that way "bigger is better" or "smaller is better" doesn't even make sense.

My claim is: 3.5 inch screens are a good compromise, allowing for comfortable browsing, reading and writing. The additional screen space would never be worth the additional bulk (also: uncomfortable one hand use) for me.

That's all about personal preference.
Also, in chrome, try to inspect the DOM using the built-in inspector: the diaphragm will close. If you click again inside the window, it'll open again.

Pretty impressive.
Chrome extension API is javascript. What did you think the listings in the article were written in?
Doesn't that say that market segmentation doesn't work as a strategy?

Staying mid / high end seems to be working fine for the Mac 25 years on, and has started out pretty well for the iPad (though we'll see now the Fire has bought it a serious low price challenger).

Sure it's a risk, but so would getting involved in a low end race where they have no experience and where profit depends on a high volume low margin model they're not familiar with.

Incidentally PG's piece is here: http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html

It's primarily about start ups - saying starting low and working up is easier that the other way round, but I'm not sure how it applies to mobile. Nokia owned cheap phones, Apple piled in at the top and that's worked out pretty well for them so far.
Well, if we decided to add a chat we want that it will match the overall blog/chat design ....
What do you think?

RumbleTalk
The Galaxy S II’s processor/GPU combo is the fastest in the mobile industry according to Anandtech with the major difference being the A5 with the SGX-543.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4760/arms-mali400-mp4-is-the-f...

In terms of performance, the Mali-400 MP is only slightly behind the PowerVR SGX543MP2. The only major performance difference is the A5.
Visualizing the Cloud
Which is exactly the definition of misaimed fandom...
Pirate Party Germany now at 8% in nationwide polls
The best case for Apple is indeed great: The old phones will be clearly marked as less desirable, which allows Apple to sell to more price-sensitive customers, while also communicating to the faithful that they really need to ditch the old junk and buy new phones. Perhaps most importantly, they grow the market share of iOS.

But the potential downside is that there will be Apple-branded hardware out there that is seen as cheap and less desirable, and that many people won't understand the distinction. If that happens, the 4/4S guy will now just have an "iPhone" like the rest of the riff-raff, which opens up the high end to competitors.
As posted in my other thread - the subsidized cost to customer is $50 (cost of manufacture is $35).
The blurb: http://tech2.in.com/news/tablets/indias-very-own-35-tablet-t...

Will be available for purchase in November.

The specs are:

Android 2.2

Wifi, 2 USB Ports

7'' resistive display, 350g

366 mhz processor

256 mb RAM

2GB flash

microsd support

2100 mah battery

can play 1080p video
I have written a lot of text (and enjoyed doing so) on my tiny smartphone touchscreen so you are wrong.
Future of Storytelling: a Conversation with Transmedia Creator Andrea Phillips
I'm starting to do some job hunting for a professional programming position and I'm a bit nervous about these types of interviews. I think I have the skills, but having been a solo programmer for a long time, I'm nervous about people looking over my shoulder and watching while I try to think through a problem. It's probably more a lack of experience with these types of interviews than anything else.

As someone hiring a developer, can't the submission of previously written code provide good insight into the type of person you're interviewing, or is there concern that the code is not really theirs?
Why does your comment sound like coming of 'iphone 5' is the most important thing on earth that humanity couldnt survive without?

Seriously, I dont want to troll and I understand that iphone's are cool, people want them and even many people in HN have businesses based on it, but "we all wanted to believe"? is iphone5 that important? This is beyond simple fanboism. This is a disaster.
In the new Chrome beta for Mac, when you pull the page down too far to see the grey browser background, Chrome messes up and the background appears as a smear of red.
Hidden Tools Find What You Want on YouTube
Why a QR code and not a big freaking advertising banner?

If it is because there are regulations against advertising.. the QR code is still an advertisement, so that shouldn't be a loophole.
Hell no. Maybe it's childish, but I just assume every one of them is a Goatse link. Probably at least 40% of them actually are.

While I was at SXSW this year, I realized how easy it would be to print up a bunch of QR codes that point to whatever terrible thing you prefer, and then paste them over the QR codes that are present on every single poster, sticker, etc. The QR code itself has no visual indication of what it is or what it links to, as opposed to a URL which does. Even if a URL shortener is used, the people who make the shortener can block redirects to spammy or offensive/illegal URLs.
I think the cheapest car model really stigmatises it. Not a smart move. I would still like a Nano, I don't think it looks half bad.
Which Generation Took The Greatest Hits From The Recession
We all know someone fighting to keep their home, looking for a job, or extending their retirement due to the recession.

The Millenials (in their late teens and twenties today) are fighting to find jobs out of college, many becoming boomerang kids, heading back home to live with Mom and Dad. The Gen X’s (32-46) would normally be in the highlight of their careers, but are struggling for better positions as the Boomers try to squeeze in a few more work years to make up for their plummeting savings.
currently lacks the ability to download or share the captured video. works well otherwise.
Why thank you! I was unaware of that beautiful expression. This explanation is hilarious - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Whinging%20Po...
The 10 Most Innovative Tech Products of 2011
Happy to try to help, and good point about whether we should update the docs.

P.S. This incident aside, nice job on the site--bootstrapping is cool, and I like the idea of lo-fi mockups that are quick and easy to make.
Then you should probably stick with Billmonk.
You're correct, "no signup" is mainly a benefit for those who are not already registered to some competing service, but then again, most people don't use Billmonk.
The Greeks are neither...
Motion Blur with WebGL
By nonsense I meant that they compared HSDPA speed (I believe, though there are conflicting reports online, that the iPhone 4S does not support HSPA+) so they placed an artificial cap on the speed of the other phones and explained it solely with an obscure acronym that no-one would understand.

(And of course historically, the use of Altivec-based Photoshop filters that didn't reflect general processor speed).
Saw the common reaction to the iPhone 5 disappointment summarised loosely as: "If this new product looks like the last one, how will people tell that I'm superior to them?"
Startup School Rejection Letter
So I got this email this morning:

Thanks for applying to startup school. Unfortunately we couldn't
accept you this year. There were a particularly large number of
applications this year: over 2400, and the auditorium seats only
716. So we had to turn away a lot of people we would otherwise
have accepted. We are however going to stream the event live on
Justin.TV. And we are looking into options for even larger venues
in the future.
(I decided to turn this comment into a blog post with pictures here: http://wensing.tumblr.com/post/11062968069/hacking-angellist...)

Stormpulse first appeared on AngelList on 8/24/10. We go no interest whatsoever and didn't even make it past the gatekeepers for any kind of introductions. It stung, bad. We had lots of traction, some revenue, and millions of visitors. And the best product in its class. I pretty much swore off AngelList with the same attitude you have right now.

13 months later we have 46 introductions and 149 followers, and the gatekeepers are saying it's one of the hottest listings on AL.

How did we do this?

* I applied to StartupRiot in Atlanta. I got accepted and pitched my heart out for 180 seconds. Didn't win, but met a guy from IBM.

* Guy from IBM invites us to Austin, TX to IBM SmartCamp. We pass through each of their interviews and become an Austin finalist. I pitch to a room full of investors for 5 minutes. We didn't win, but we met a lot of interesting folks in Austin, including Joshua Baer.

* Things were going pretty well for us earlier this year. We decide to try fundraising again. I email Joshua Baer. Joshua Baer invites us to Capital Factory Demo Day 2011 in Austin. I pitch for 180 seconds to a room full of investors. All of a sudden investors start handing us their cards and other entrepreneurs start offering to introduce us to anyone they can.

* We re-apply to AngelList, voila.

If you want to raise money, there's no substitute for working hard on your reputation. I'm a nobody from West Palm Beach, Florida. Seriously. If I can do it, maybe you can too. It's worth a try. (Also, please understand I'm not saying that working hard is the key to success--you may work just as hard or much much harder than I did and still fail. But that's for another blog post).
It is not a Government's job to make tablets.

If they can only fix their corruption, bureaucracy and the totally broken governmental system, thousands of entrepreneurs can emerge and create millions of gadgets...
That is a somewhat silly comment from Linus given that ken and rob designed and built Plan 9 together. (For example, ken designed UTF-8 while rob helped write the code: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history )
Isn't this sort of cross promotion of apps something that Lodsys was targetting? I haven't heared anything about Lodsys in a while so I could be out of date...
It looks to me like these two posts are perfectly complementary. One is right if you can only sell to big customers - and if you sell a $50,000 email appliance, you're not going to sell it to small businesses or individuals.

The other one is about selling to small businesses (and the same could be true for consumers). It only makes sense that you should use two completely different approaches.

One important corollary of the first article is, imho, that you should never start a business geared towards the big guys if don't have enough investor money, even if your technology isn't so expensive to develop. You will be very difficult to be taken seriously otherwise. And this resonates with my personal experience with multinational customers at my day job.
Subjective. I use Firefox because it's a more stable, modern, and featureful browser than Chromium in my opinion. That doesn't make one of us more "on the edge" than the other.

You're basically saying that since one community prefers strawberry ice cream to chocolate, they're more modern somehow.
Non-startups doomed by The Innovator’s Dilemma? Moore’s Law says NO
Even if we accept your argument about what is a spec and what is not, the download numbers seem obviously cooked and don't reflect actual speeds experienced by users but theoretical limits that your are unlikely to ever see for various reasons.

And I've read that people are having trouble replicating the photo speed numbers, so we'll have to see exactly what circumstances lead to these numbers. Apple's benchmarks have never been very fair (not that they're alone in that as far as marketing goes) so I'd rather see independent confirmation before taking anything they say in a keynote as gospel.
the blue spinner never vanishes? Did reload help?
Precisely. That is why Germany does not have a great domestic economy, all of their wealth is generated from exports, i.e. first we lend you the money, then you buy our expensive cars with the money, then we ask for the money back ;-)
How many people ever tried using the Voice Control in the iPhone 4? Siri is one of those features (awesome technological achievement notwithstanding) that's great to demo but largely irrelevant (or even unknown) to most users. It's this generation's Carousel view.
Regarding Turkey negotiations, I guess you know why.

Human rights issues ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Turkey ), Cyprus, death penalty.
Dangerous Chemicals in Skin Care Products
Clojure Update Literacy
Last time I checked, NYSE internal trading is on a Savvis backbone while nyse.com is on an Akamai CDN. I highly doubt there's ANY connection between the two.
this would be impressive even if it was flash.... very nice!
It can be as gorgeous as anything, but if it has as terrible of signal as my nexus s (sprint), then it is just an expensive ipod. Hopefully if this released on a CDMA network, Samsung will have gotten their act together and put out a decent radio.
Interesting!

What I wonder is: given how inefficient Minecraft is (in general), how can you have healthy tech margins when a single server can take up many hundreds of megs of memory (and chew through a respectable allotment of CPU time)? As I recall, this grows linearly with each player added.
You're right, Apple does use specs when they make Apple look good. This is marketing we're talking about, after all. And checklists certainly are helpful when the presence or absence of a particular feature really does matter.

But I just can't see myself as a consumer using a comparison chart like this to decide which one I will actually buy. I don't care if the screen is "Super AMOLED Plus" or "Retina", I care which one looks better.
I think I was half asleep when I wrote that :-) wtf
some interesting points:
*
More than 90% of Americans still don’t own an iPhone. Heck, two-thirds of Americans still don’t own a smartphone. So the iPhone 4 design isn’t “old” to them.
*

http://www.splatf.com/2011/10/iphone-4s/
The real reason (according to a CNET blog) is that iPhone 4 users are still locked into their 2-year contracts. The iPhone 4S is a good intermediate product which might attract former iPhone users (out of contract) or Droid users.