skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, if you even just switch tabs for a few seconds and return it does the same.
It was a first generation Honda Insight IIRC. Although it was also extensively modified if what I heard was correct. It's still in the same building (Quonset hut) as of 2010.
Nice site. A little bit of feedback:

- Once you click on "Settle Debts", it's not clear how to get back to the list of expenses.

- I like that you auto-create debts and participants from entries. The downside is that if I make a typo in someone's name, there doesn't seem to be a way to delete that person, even if I delete the transaction w/the typo.

- I mindlessly entered $10000 into the expense field, and it was automatically changed to $9999.99. What's the reason for the $10k cap?
Kate Middleton Goes More Designer On Her North American Tour
I use voice control on my iPod touch when I'm driving with it hooked up to my stereo. That's the killer use case for voice control as far as I'm concerned.

It works about half the time.

"Play Machine Gun Fellatio"

*"BING! Playing songs by Marvin Gaye"

"ehhh, good enough"

It works slightly better if I put on a fake American accent.
Did that thing ever actually ship?
Well quantum physics has this at it's core - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle

I'm not saying it's directly applicable but the anyone who has grasped it, should be capable of understanding market effects as well.
Keek Lands $5.5 Million In Funding For Its ‘Microvideo’ Platform
I'm not sure what Appel Pete Corp has to do with anything, but AAPL was also down 6%.
This is a time of change, and changing times brings more opportunity.

Maybe funding will be harder to get, but I believe there will be a lot more opportunities for entrepreneurs despite that.
Which really is the problem with modern Unixes -- legacy features that expect things done in a broken way, leading to complexity and ugliness where none should exist. The new features and simplifications continue to exist in a complex world, have arcane restrictions and interactions with the old system, and generally end up increasing the complexity, instead of making things simpler.
Depending on exactly what they get from Comcast and Verizon, this could be big in the US. Is there any video showing the feature set?
Liked your "try a demo". Super cool screenshot feature in the feedback tab. Can I customize the colors ?
Wait a minute. What's all this "the iPhone 5 didn't arrive because LTE chips weren't good enough" ?

It wasn't mandatory for an "iPhone 5" to have LTE in the first place. Just because it wouldn't have had LTE ,doesn't mean they couldn't have made an "iPhone 5".

And if it's all about economics, then I guess it makes even more sense to keep the same design for 3, or even 4 years, no? That's probably what would happen if the iPhone had no competition, seeing how even with strong competition from Android, they still don't seem to care about using the same phone over and over again.

What's funny is that when HTC releases a more "refined" design (but still basically the same), the media is all "oh, same old design from HTC". But when Apple does it, "well, they are just refining a work of art!" or "It's the inside that counts!"

Yeah right. Most people buy phones for 3 main reasons:

1) design - and they don't want the same old one over and over again. It's no coincidence the iPhone 3GS was the most disappointing iPhone launch so far, too - until now that is

2) price - people will buy the phone they can afford

3) value - the most bang for the buck
I think you would need several very powerful bombs in order to erase the NYSE. Even then, pretty much every firm that trades equities has an internal database with tick-by-tick ask/bid information.

I don't understand all the hate for Wall Street. They are doing as poorly as anyone else. Compare BAC's YTD share price:

http://www.google.com//finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1...

And take a look at it 5 years ago:

http://www.google.com//finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1...
I can agree. On screen keyboards will probably become an equal standard at some point. Besides it will be a lot better than no device at all.
On a two-year contract, the difference between a $199 iPhone and a $99 iPhone is, what, five percent?
(a) He is qualified to speak about these issues in so far as he is the designer of node.js and is a programmer.

(b) Rob Pike's comments are a "big deal" because Rob Pike is one of the "original neckbeards" that worked on Unix, Plan 9, and has recently been developing the Go language at Google. i.e. He helped developed the OS that Ryan is complaining about.

(c) "right or wrong" depends heavily on what you are trying to accomplish. Much like anything in the real world, there is no right or wrong answer.
What, exactly, is a Product Manager?
Glad you liked it. Yes you can. Moving forward, we'll also let you change the text "feedback" in that tab.
Mozilla introduces Project Sagrada
Dude, it was CC licensed.

Just because he took down his copy doesn't mean he wanted it to disappear completely. Where did he explicitly state that? Nowhere! You're making a big leap there.
I'm having trouble parsing this. Who is "they", and are both "they"s the same people?
Why is the Little Black Dress So Enduring?
Agreed. But to me she doesn't need to be a subject expect on financial markets. My point was her education has trained to be able to understand models of complex environments. I'd argue that gives her better chance of actually understanding what her financial experts are telling her.
Yes. But you forgot about the delays and cancellations often happening between these steps.
Personally, change the rom/kernel and try different stuff on my phone is a big part of the fun to me. Even the standard roms (like the one for the Galaxy S II) are quite decent now, you just have to change it if you like to try different stuff. I have a Nexus S and even always having the latest version available to my phone I am always changing roms because I like it. My wife have a Galaxy S and she is pretty happy with the last official update provided by Sammy.
That may be true. The one I was thinking of was a GM EV1 nicknamed Electric Blue.

http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/39888
tldr: "Client side code is awesome with backbone.js and CoffeeScript! Come to our seminar!"
I had to be told, years back, so I think it's just an assumption.

Also, for those pesky secured sites that have unsecured static assets on a separate server, it might be that those servers aren't configured for SSL.
It's hard to find any concrete details on the resolutions used by GE, and it varies massively by area. I recall their recent investment in one of the (GeoEye?) satellites had a theoretical resolution of 40cm, but is restricted by US regulations to provide a maximum (edit: minimum) pixel size of either 50 or 60cm.

Assuming 1m x 1m pixels, a standard[1] QR code could be fitted inside a 25x25m square. You'd probably want to increase pixel size, and maybe use a smaller version (along with a url shortener, if necessary) to increase the chances of a successful decode.

Aircraft orthoimaging can work at much higher resolutions. An article from 2005[2] shows pictures capable of distinguishing individual faces. I can only assume things have since improved.

[1] of which there are many: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/QR_code

[2] http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2005/09/ultimate_goo...
Haircuts For Women 2011
There's only so much business logic you can push off the client. If the app is mostly in the client seems like that'd be adding a whole new level of complexity to how to seamlessly deploy new versions, model changes, etc.
DIY QrCode driveway: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericrice/5031494545/ But google got to it before he was done.
SF govt said it would take 5 years, hackers built it in 48 hours.
Can't stress enough that this is a PROPOSED list of demands by one guy.

The Occupy Wall Street people on the ground actually have a pretty good democratic system setup with committees and a pretty fair voting process. I hope it continues to grow and the worst thing they can do right now is nail down a set of demands. Let this thing grow for a while until it becomes national, gather as many people as possible and see what comes out of it.

To the people that are saying "what are they about? what are they against?" check the name again. Look into it. Don't wait for the media to copy down a press release, because there isn't one.
But what do you do with a $35 tablet with WiFi when there is no electricity, let alone internet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_electrification#India
Is social going to kill SEO?
Gold is "barely useful"? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold#Use_and_applications , especially "Industry".

You are right that the price of gold is far higher than it would be if people weren't using it for investing, though.
I like that you used !==.
Chrome 16/Ubuntu 11.04 works.
It's easy to look back and say, oh, those case mockups or cases shouldn't have been reported on since they were wrong.

But at the time, the entire case industry was moving forward with producing cases. They weren't just prototypes, you could actually buy the "iPhone 5" cases. It would have been impossible not to report on the cases and what they represent.

I believe and have been told that the iPhone 5 design was real -- just not ready.

As for mockups. Both sides tend to point and say, oh - look what they got wrong. or look what they got right.

Here's our assistant rendition: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/30/a-look-at-apples-assista... which was pretty spot on.

But the thing about rumors is it's like a statistical distribution. You can't take any one rumor and say "oh, this is it". Eventually, by the time the event happens, the rumors settle around something that frequently is very close to the truth. See, our Rumor Roundup right before the event for the final conclusion from months of rumors: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/10/03/lets-talk-iphone-rumor-r...
The problem with the iPhone 4S (Funny)
You can also a standing desk. If you are into nice keyboards, you might want to give the Kinesis Advantage a try. (It's expensive, but nice.)
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Long nicknamed the “favorite yo-yo” of daytraders and hedge fund managers – Apple’s high beta of 1.43, its prominent position in finance media and its vulnerability to rumors has made it a choice stock in short term profits, both through long and short positions
http://www.investorguide.com/article/6809/apples-aapl-mini-c...

Hedge Funds, Bloggers and the Origin of Apple Rumors
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/30/about-that-iphone-5-d...

Samsung employee caught leaking information to hedge fund manager before iPad launch
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-14/ex-samsung-worker-s...
Put another way, republishing an otherwise unavailable CC-licensed/open-source-licensed work is explicitly respecting the author's wishes, the author that published it under that license.

I doubt (but obviously don't know) Mark wanted to excise his work from human memory, he just didn't want the personal responsibility of maintaining those resources/participating in their development as a leader. That's the wish worth respecting.
It will really help if they provide affordable or better free WiFi countrywide
Thanks! will try it out on my site and send you the feedback
But they do have a list of grievances: http://nycga.cc/2011/09/30/declaration-of-the-occupation-of-... You just didn't know.
Neat service! A few comments:
* Put the value prop and the subtext closer to indicate they are related? And set the subtext font size to more readable.
* Maybe "Choose a plan" is redundant in the call to action link?
* Under the What does Webengage do? It'd be nice to have shorter explanation in larger font so it takes less cognitive load and stands out (which is what you'd want).
Disclaimer: I know the founder
Ask HN: We are dying to get some feedback about our design and flow.
Hey HN, I'm a huge fan of this community and I'd love it if you guys can just give me some feedback on how I could improve my iPhone app. Feel free to be as honest and raw as you please: http://itunes.apple.com/app/drumbi/id463689632?mt=8
When you're in the store it's twice the price.
Show HN: Does this college course update project have any potential?
Hi HN, I'm an accounting student with a little background in programming but I have the passion for Start-ups. Over the summer I coded up a script that checks my school's course enrollment system in case someone drops out of a full course and sends a text alarm to students who are interested in signing up for the course.

While I created the site mostly as a way to teach myself programming, I'm wondering if there's potential to scale the project up and sell it to universities. I currently have some paying customers but not enough as a viable income source. Do you think it has potential?

Thank you!

The URL is http://www.coursedetector.com
It's DRY writ large. With that one command you get free text history for every program you use. You don't have to include history handling in each program individually.
National Cybersecurity Awareness Month activity-a-day calendar
The Samsung Galaxy S2's display "pro" is battery life? Does not reflect real-life use then...

Small thing that happened today: a collegue of mine happens to have an S2, and he had to charge his today at 3PM. I gave him a strange look and asked if he had charged him over-night. "Yea sure". Then I asked him what he had done with his phone today, I wanted to compare his usage with mine, which was imo an average use.

This was my iPhone 4's activity up to that point:
1) In the car: connected to the car-kit with Bluetooth, making 1 call of about 5 minutes
2) In the car: connected with a cable to the car-radio playing music for about 40 minuted. Since the car-radio kit was only intended for old iPods, this causes the display to be constant "on" while playing music, and displaying "charging not supported with this accessory".
3) Calling about 30 minutes in the office
4) Sending about 20 texts
5) Receiving about 50 texts (some servers went down and spammed my phone)
6) Playing music using my earbuds for about an hour.
7) Checked twitter and facebook when I got a notification
8) Played one Planets vs Zombies level.
9) Installing Infinity Blade and 5 other smaller app updates from the appstore over WiFi (Infinity blade alone is 500mb+)

My battery level now, about 3,5h after he had to charge his phone: 65%. Now his answer was:
1) a 5 minute call
2) and sending/receiving about 10 texts in total.
3) 5 minutes of checking the news in the browser during lunch.
4) Searching and installing a small app on the Android market and playing with it for a few minutes.

I almost couldn't believe this, so asked him about a carkit? No. Music in car? No. Music at the office? No. He then made it worse by mentioning he had a "battery improvement" app installed, which he claimed helped a lot, and that he had bluetooth and wifi disabled. Certainly the wifi struck me as odd, but he explained he had a 2gb/month data contract, so he didn't really care, and enabled his wifi manually when he thought it was needed.

We both started the day at 100%. Ok, so he did start his day about 1h earlier than me, but still, it should at least make it through the day with that little useage?

So yea, apparently, the AMOLED really helps to improve the battery life...
Amazon S3 announces Server Side Encryption Support
How long until Microsoft comes to screw it up for them and make the price $75?
That is incredibly good advice. Thanks!

Excite them about the Market so they are intrigued about the product.
It would be cool if they could put everything in SRAM.
Yep, you could buy it new up until a couple years ago.

http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-GC-RAMDISK-i-RAM-Hard-Drive/d...
I am in a pretty good shape, working out and playing basketball multiple times per week. Still, the few times I tried yoga it literally kicked my ass. I've grown a lot of respect for those old ladies doing it.
Given that an iPod touch starts at $199, can it really cost that much more to stick phone parts

This. A basic GSM phone costs less than $20; attach it to an iPod Touch and voilà: a cheap iPhone!

I've been wondering if this is true for a long time, but couldn't find an educated answer...?
How do you demonstrate great customer service? With this:
I can't seem to install it on my HTC Evo 3D.
Game of fua
one day appeared a video of a drunker saying fua and this is his game
Package fmt is used all the time. It makes sense that it should have a short name.
Human Evolution: No Easy Fix
> Who is "they"

Incumbent german politicians, from the "traditional" german parties, I think.

> and are both "they"s the same people?

That's how I read it.
Thanks for adding the -moz prefixes too! (Yes, Firefox supports CSS3 animations now; most web developers only use the -webkit prefixes though, sadly. Glad to see this is changing.)
I was thinking a vinyl banner, to have it easily interchangeable -- plus painting it yourself could be prone to error.
You're right, it's a GM EV1, just kinda reminded me of an Insight.
It should have just been named the iPhone 5.
I spent several hours sitting in various chairs in the store and settled on the Aeron. Everyone's different.
As someone who used to make these decisions, the answer is both.

On a device like this the life-cycle support is just as important as the initial sale. By creating great documentation, a safe package for the delivery, and caring enough to make it not look like a repackaged Dell system, it's a good indication that you'll care enough when I call at 3AM with an urgent issue.
To expand on this point a little bit: many of the things the game assumes a $15k/year worker has are more expensive than similar things we had when we were making 6 figures. Of course it's going to be hard to make ends meet if that's the lifestyle you're trying to maintain.

Just the things mentioned above -- car payment, smartphone, and pet rent -- make up over 40% of the hypothetical person's monthly budget. If you're in that situation, make some cuts!
They run on battery, no?

My bad. Downvote me to oblivion.
I know why Mark Pilgrim quit the internet.
> Instead of focusing so much on lawsuits, they should've focused on launching the new iPhone on time

There's no such thing as "not on time" when there is no timeline, no announcement and no preview.

And the longer-than-usual refresh delay was due to iCloud, it has nothing to do with iPhone itself.
I think the point is that libdispatch requires kqueue, so you can't use it on Linux.
what a typo, sorry, of course it is 40 )
Economics and Quantum Chemistry accually have a lot in common. They are both looking for mathematical shortcuts / models for highly complex systems and use similar tools. So sure reading a few book is not going to give you an in depth understanding of economics, but being able to look at the math and call Bull !@#$ is invaluable.

EX: It is generally accepted that money is created when a bank creates a loan, however, you can make also make a similar argument that it's only when banks fail that new money is created. Both are in some ways true, but the second is actually a more useful when looking at what happens when the economy takes a real dip, because the banks created IOU's not money, but the FED get's to create money to replace those IOU's.

That's not to say Economics is easy, lacks depth, or had no concrete progress. However, there is a wide range of models out there and evaluating there relative merits in the short and long term during such complex times takes deep analytic insight.
INoobs: What is FTP? 
I was just working on a project where a client misused FTP – or didn’t quite understand the role it plays in the hierarchy of a website, building a website, and the maintenance of ones web properties. So I thought I’d write a post today in the iNoobs series in relation to FTP. Sure, you could just wikipedia FTP, but you come here for the amazing prose and rapier wit that only I can offer. So read closely to learn what FTP is.
Sorry - I though you were responding to the nice story about the bear trap, and wondering why all that story stuff was necessary, and whether the conclusion wouldn't stand on its own.
Thanks for feedback!

- Yep, the navigation is a bit asymmetric now. I think I'll add more focus to the navigation bar, and maybe even remove the "Settle Debts"-button.

- Actually there is a way. After you have deleted the last transaction of a person, a small "x" button appears next to that person's name in the participants-list. A bit unintuitive maybe.

- Actually, there are no good reasons for the cap. The best is probably to avoid long rows, but 10k is a bit low for that. I'll raise the cap or remove it completely.
The competition for a $2000 Nano isn't "walking", it's a used Toyota or Hyundai. I'd rather have a used "proper" car than a new worst-possible car.
Twitter knows just how exciting or dull every NFL game is, researchers show
"Something BIG", and a combination. Netbook / phone combination?
> Backbone.js is the best client side MVC framework I’ve used, but there are certainly others.

Sproutcore is much more powerful. If you haven't checked out 2.0, you really should. I've been following it for years and always thought they had the best KVO system but avoided it due to the js-based layout and enormous size. The 2.0 version binds to handlebars--slightly extended mustache--templates instead of relatively opaque widgets and reduces the wire size to right around the size of jQuery. It's larger than backbone and you have to wade through more concepts but you add an object to an array and the dom updates without any further input. Eliminates the majority of dom manipulation code in your app.
The real reason Apple called it an "iPhone 4S" is that they want to start selling the 4 to the large segment of the market shy of the cutting edge.

Plenty of people will buy something called a "4" when the state of the art is a "4S" -- there's no embarrassment there: "Oh, my discount phone is almost as good; it's just missing an S. And it's not like my friends will be able to tell that I'm using last year's model. It looks the same."

But if the latest model is called the "5", then suddenly there's a stigma to having the 4. You're stuck one full number behind the Joneses. And everybody knows, because you're still using the phone with the unfashionable flat back while everyone else has the slick new teardrop design that's all the rage.
Kuwait Arrests Social Media Users: This Week in Online Tyranny
Show HN: BestSFBooks, Mashup of the Best SF/Fantasy Books
I'm releasing BestSFBooks today:

http://www.bestsfbooks.com

I was inspired by this HN post from a few weeks ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2978027

BestSFBooks ranks science fiction/fantasy books according to how many awards they've won or been nominated for. I included all the big ones (Hugo, Nebula, etc.) and also more obscure awards that I like such as SF Site Editor's choice. Once I had all the awards in there it was easy to start creating a New Book list based on award winning authors.

I could tell the app was working as soon as I saw the two book lists on the home page. They're excellent!

The stack is virtually identical to the stuff I used to build PickHealthInsurance. BestSFBooks is built with Rails 3.1.1 (HAML, Sass, CoffeeScript). It's hosted on Heroku and MongoHQ. I used the Twitter Bootstrap CSS toolkit, which I continue to find hugely innovative and useful. As always, data acquisition and cleanup was the hardest part.

I've wanted to build something like this for quite a while. As my time becomes more valuable, I'm becoming less tolerant of bad books. For a laugh, check out the "prototype" that I created ten years ago - http://www.gurge.com/amd/top100

Please send feedback!
I don't think that's completely right. I believe if they do release a new design, it will, in fact, be called the iPhone 5. We already know the number behind "iPhone" does not stand for the generation (second generation being 3G and now we have 4S). Apple will likely adopt a naming convention that correlates to aesthetic upgrades.