skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used conventional movie cameras for most of my life (videographer for my high scholl movie club, family stuff), but you would have to forcefully pry my Sony EX1 from my hands (unless you were swapping in an EX3).

A good hidef digital video camera is a joy to use, and great software like FCP is so much better than splicing film when editing.

Even digital cameras are adequate (http://youtu.be/zIe3EKO43Sg - I took this last week with my Canon T2i) and in some cases when you want a very narrow in-focus zone, better than a digital video camera.
A Regular Guy - Steve Jobs fictionalized
Is Apple pushing away professionals?
I upgraded to 11.10 today and guess what, suspend works! I had to add `i8042.reset` to grub config but finally, working suspend!
This is an amazing blog, just ordered his book - thanks for posting this.

I love the overall theme of his blog, which is that society brainwashes us, or most people, to derive utility out of life through consumerism and materialism.

Jacob Fisker, the blogger behind ERE, I think is far richer than what his finances and personal budget indicate because he's actually living life for himself and optimizing it for maximum utility (spending the time wisely to do what he really loves doing).
People usually have a limited amount they will give to charity and will generally spend the rest on something selfish. Cryonics feels selfish, so they will spend money on it that they would not have given to charity anyway.

People who care about the state of the world after their deaths are not in the same position as those who actually expect to experience it. They are not as likely to care as much or to employ rational means to that end, because their concern is a more altruistic and abstract one, the sort of emotion which evolves for signaling/tribal purposes rather than personal survival. Entirely different neural machinery is employed when evaluating the problem differently.

I don't know how you reached the conclusion that my argument relies on no one caring about the future in spite of death. My argument is that you can increase your rational, self-interested incentives to care about the future by planning to be cryopreserved.
Maybe he has the same keyboard and has seen a can of Diet Pepsi before. It's not hard to imagine that being true.

I think that the 4S shot is too red/yellow compared to the Galaxy II. This sort of comparison is pretty subjective though.

(aside for evanwalsh: for the record I hate my Nexus One and have a 4S on the way)
then Larry Page what ?
Related enormous advantage at the theater: no scratches, no dings, no reel-change markers... and the quality is exactly the same on the five hundredth showing as on the first.

Oh, and changing from 2 screens of last week's unexpected hit premiere to six is as simple as a call to the distributor. Speaking of which, expect distribution as a business to disappear. There's no reason not to do business directly from production house to theater chain if you never have to ship anything bigger than a FedEx'd hard disk, or an authentication license for download.
Documentation & Reliability.

I can suffer through any problem with a remote API so long as the documentation is clear, thorough and contains relevant examples. Stripe's API documentation is about the best I've seen in recent years.

They get bonus points for making the 'cut and paste' examples actually cut and pastable, as they don't have instances of "stripe.com/method/<your_api_key_here>", and instead of have "stripe.com/method/my_actual_api_key", which is super convenient.

Perhaps the only thing that good documentation can't trump is unreliability. This includes (obviously) an API that doesn't always return the right values, or that sometime's fails, but also includes rapidly changing API protocols.

Take the time to think about your APIs early, and try very hard to keep them from changing once they're established. Nobody wants to have to refactor their code because you refactored yours.
Full size photos on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scobleizer

His stream, which has some other test photos with commentary:
https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853/posts
even then I'd argue that something more controlled would be better than just hoping you shake each phone the same.
The importance of 'noatime'
This article is very timely, but I'd argue that lack of focus is a more common reason developers fail to complete work. Otherwise a great and timely (for the guy who posted this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3114749) piece of advice.
I generally agree with you, except in this case one of the specs they touted in the iPhone announcement event was capture speed. It captures much faster than the iPhone 4, and would be a good explanation as to why the 4s appears less shaky.
Why Can't We Drink Sea Water?
Visualizing Music
Google to Shut Down Its Buzz Service
My only point is I prefer HN without meta-talk about karma and comment scores. Your disclaimer paragraphs probably do nothing to soothe the apple fanboys and can be annoying to those who actually agree with you. (Enough with the meta from my part)

Edit: brainfart
In San Francisco, you can go to a place like Greenburger's and get yourself a really fine burger with fries, and it will run you about $11. In North Carolina, you can go down to the Steak and Shake, get an okay burger with fries and a shake for around $3.
Except it doesn't. It's the shakiest of the three.
Your parent's point is that the reason Microsoft doesn't do this as much now isn't because they are more benevolent, it's because they were so over the top tyrannical that they've been forced to stop.
Should I block all of China from my online store?
So, I have a not-really-in-beta-yet online store I'm developing in Drupal, aimed at 3D animation geeks. I've been a 3D developer since '85, and have some pretty advanced stuff going into my online store (see www.flixor.com, my technology company.) Anyway, perhaps because I globally patented my more advanced technology, companies in China are constantly crawling both my not-really-open online store and my technology company's site, consuming some significant bandwidth. But more important: their constant traffic impacts my work getting the store open.

I've also noticed that every variation of my technology company's name has domain squatters in China. Plus my patent in China receives challenges, but I've survived them all so far.

At this point, as I get closer to launching my store, their crawling and seeking access to my backend is getting out of hand. Last weekend an IP address in China consumed all public data from the site. I can, through my Drupal backend, simply ban all of China's IP range.

Would that do any good? Any suggestions?

This looks promising: http://www.parkansky.com/china.htm
...or it is easier to cone github if you actually use github.
I'd completely agree. Getting stuck loses you time and excitement about what you're doing. Getting stuck sucks.
Also, if you borrow to buy the boat and you use it as your primary residence, the interest payments are tax-deductible.

(That means if you have a decent interest rate and reasonable risk tolerance, you can invest the cash elsewhere and make more money than you would save by buying the boat outright.)
Carmack definitely mentioned that they were not going to license id Tech 5 to companies that aren't being published by Bethesda.

All existing licenses they probably have to continue supporting because of the contracts that were signed before they were bought by Bethesda.
House Bill 3011 Disallows Parody of the TSA...Sort of
Read the paragraph of the bill (295) here: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h112-3011&version=ih&nid=t0%3Aih%3A449

Excerpt from the bill:

‘Whoever, except with the written permission of the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Security (or the Director of the Federal Air Marshal Service for issues involving the Federal Air Marshal Service), knowingly uses the words ‘Transportation Security Administration’, ‘United States Transportation Security Administration’, ‘Federal Air Marshal Service’, ‘United States Federal Air Marshal Service’, ‘Federal Air Marshals’, the initials ‘T.S.A.’, ‘F.A.M.S.’, ‘F.A.M.’, or any colorable imitation of such words or initials, or the likeness of a Transportation Security Administration or Federal Air Marshal Service badge, logo, or insignia on any item of apparel, in connection with any advertisement, circular, book, pamphlet, software, or other publication, or with any play, motion picture, broadcast, telecast, or other production, in a matter that is reasonably calculated to convey the impression that the wearer of the item of apparel is acting pursuant to the legal authority of the Transportation Security Administration or Federal Air Marshal Service, or to convey the impression that such advertisement, circular, book, pamphlet, software, or other publication, or such play, motion picture, broadcast, telecast, or other production, is approved, endorsed, or authorized by the Transportation Security Administration or Federal Air Marshal Service;’.

Now, this doesn't necessarily on free speech at first glance. However, I could easily see why someone that is a bit...overzealous...might think they can get away with trying to disallow any parody. Think of the SNL skit about the TSA.
I don't think capture speed has any effect on the sharpness of the image, sharpness is more down to the lens/shutter speed, I'm assuming the "speed" touted by Apple refers to the startup time of the camera app as well as the responsiveness of the UI and the ability to take consecutive shots faster.

Looking at the shots again, it does seem that the sharpest image, that of the original iPhone 4, is also the noisiest, iPhone4 autoexposure set it to high-iso/fast shutter I suppose?
id Tech 4 is a weird beast. Carmack has said on multiple occasions that this engine is not made to generate a world like Elder Scrolls or Fallout. It will be interesting to see if they attempt to improve id Tech 5 and make all companies inside Bethesda use it or just give them the option if it fits their game.
Who exactly is robert scoble, and what is his claim to fame? His name seems to come up somewhat frequently
we could escape them!
"I suspect"

"my hunch"

And I stand by it. Feel free to email me if you want to discuss further (erik@snowedin.net) but I'm backpedaling on nothing. And all three of them of course were thinking totally innocent thoughts. Sexism is rarely conscious these days.
WordCamp, Jabalpur 2011 : Live Blog
Cars and UP were far from failures.
WSJ Excerpts Upcoming Bezos Bio
Woah woah woah, you seem to be confusing "small experiments Google hosts publicly at labs.google.com" with R&D. Since your wiki link seems to be about publishing academic articles, here's a list of academic article produced by places that are not Bell Labs:
http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/dp/pu/publications.aspx

The software industry is also producing patents at an absurb rate, which is another byproduct of research (theoretically).
We don't need another hero... or do we?
CSS3 Text Effect Tutorials
Seems to be missing some important points:

const methods - if you declare a const rectangle r, you can't call r.surface() unless it's declared int surface(void) const {....

references - article seems to be confused why they exist. They enable some extra handy features, e.g. you can pass a temporary to a function parameter taking a const reference. e.g. you can pass f(MyClass()) if it's declared void f(const MyClass&), but not if it's declared void f(const MyClass*).

STL - things like std::string, std::vector, std::map - totally invaluable!

And lastly, the fact that programming in C++ is completely different to C. It's not like C with bolted on features. It's a whole new paradigm. For example, in modern C++, you very rarely have to manage memory. Smart pointers and containers can generally manage it all for you.
The problem is that downvotes make the text lighter colored and harder to read, which is a huge motivator for partisans to censor things they don't like or find inconvenient.
I disagree, templates in C++ are great! Just make sure you declare all the code (both declarations and definitions) in a header file, and it should work fine.
If you were to find out that there are well defined solutions for every single easily identifiable problem, would that convince you to invest?
C function Pointers Explained
Facebook is well aware that they can do pretty much anything with their users and they won't leave. That's the strength of social influence. And even if people 'leave' Facebook for another service, many of them will keep their old accounts because of the services it provides, like events.

I hope that Google+ becomes more social. It feels more like a tool than a hangout. And a GCal counterpart to Facebook Events would really help.
Conozca Que Negocios son Mas Rentables
What tiny thing in iOS 5 makes you smile, or has caught you off guard?
Yes ... it's a sad day. And a further indication of how little big-G's management cares about engineering is how poorly they made this change. As of 1200 EST on 10/15, Labs is still available on the "even more >>" page (http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/products/index.html).
-Seeting up achievables goals is what should work. Needs to plan on that now.
Medicines that can talk to doctors herald a new direction for drugs firms
Maybe move to a country with more decent healthcare?
AI , the cutting edge
Have you ever eaten a #pizza with 2000 pieces of pepperoni?
Not surprised. This is insurance. You don't get car insurance after you've gotten in a wreck, and you should expect to pay more for it if you're more likely to get in a wreck (e.g. lots of speeding tickets, etc).
You seem to be assuming an absence of compound interest, overfunding, external funding sources, and future advances that make things cheaper.
Have you tried looking for him on Google?
Nuance, Swype, Siri - the next steps in Mobile
hehe ... I guess I've been wasting my time with "Simulated Annealing", "Great Deluge" and "Genetic Algorithms" then. If someone wants a definite answer, I just need to provide one that has no rationale for refutation?
Nobody has a monopoly on ideas.
Reading List doesn't have an API, so for the moment it doesn't come close to what instapaper provides in terms of instapaper and third party apps.
Experts, Charlatans, and the Intelligence Committee
I've found the built in white balance compensation to be quite poor in Android.
Assembly Evolution P1: Accessing Memory and the strange case of the Intel 4004
(Via http://www.pagetable.com/?p=663)
Show HN: Learn iPhone and iPad development in less than an hour
An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Global Warming Impacts
This is great, the idea of deconstructing well known games as a teaching method is pretty cool.

Knowing the effect that you are hoping to achieve while reading the code really helps in understanding the implementation.

Very nice, keep them coming :)
Vikash!!!! is it beginning of the end for Apple (Or d second nail in the coffin of Apple- First nail everybody knows!!)
spot on. the fear kills motivation
For anyone who's curious John Cage would be considered the grandfather of 'sound'. Beautiful example here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KKE0f1FGiw

When I watched the Soundcloud video, I thought of the sheer influence Cage had on modern music.
You could just do something else then. I'm not saying "everybody copy me". There are paid versions of my activities, but I eventually found the versions there were free or almost free. This holds for almost everything unless you insist on a particular paid version. For instance, when it comes to going out. Lots of people like that, but why are they really going out? Probably not to sit in a particular restaurant and pay money. Maybe more about not having to cook and meeting friends? If so, this could be accomplished by taking turns inviting each other for dinner at home. If the cooking isn't great, that's something that can be learned. Just an example.
GTeamPeopleString a Social Community
Well, Microsoft never set itself up as the gateway to install third-party software, or as the authority on taste and acceptable content, or on taking a cut on commercial activity taking place on its platform.
The math does not work out for that.

Let's say you make $100,000 per year. Saving 80% would mean saving $80,000 per year, and living on $20,000 per year. After 5 years you would have saved $400,000. 3% of $400,000 is $12,000, which is only about half of what you need to equal what you'd lived on for the past 5 years. You'd need a 5% return in order to make $20,000 per year from $400,000.

And this doesn't even take taxes in to account. Good luck saving 80% of your net when taxes alone eat away more than 20% of your net. You're also going to wind up paying taxes on the 5% return, effectively requiring maybe a 6% return (or probably significantly more, considering how much you lost in income taxes in the first place).
Much of the world lives on less than $1 a day. Dirt-cheap or zero rent, simple foods, minimal medical care.
Welcome to my life.
This is an article about why we can't drink salt water :)

On hn I usually expect these titles to be tongue in cheek and the article to be about an invention that would allow us to inexpensively purify sea water for drinking.

Speaking of which, IS there such a device? If not, why not?
Having to put both declarations and definitions in the same header file is what feels kludgey to me. It is a break with the normal way of doing things.
Been using gitweb with a custom theme by some dude (https://github.com/kogakure/gitweb-theme). This seems much cleaner and easy to use. When I have some time I'll probably switch over to this if it doesn't have any problems/bugs
"A quick reference for aging programmers" .. anyone else offended? Maybe someone should write a post titled "From C++ to C: A quick reference for young programmers who think they're clever"
What you describe sounds reasonable to me. Is there coinsurance on this plan? High deductibles don't bother me. But coinsurance, where you have to pay 20% or 30% of costs, scares me. If you get seriously ill or are hit by a bus or something, the cost to you could be huge, way more than the typical deductible.
It sounds like a law against impersonating a TSA/FAMS official. Your country probably already has a law against impersonating an FBI / other police officer, but has no trouble producing a wide variety of crime dramas.
The elegance of Ramsey's proof of R(3,3) was what turned me on to Combinatorics and Graph Theory.
My Soapboc Advice to the OWS Movement and then some
This is a good point. Here's something I've found when arguing about similar things:

Some people define "work" as "unpleasant tasks I do to get money," and by this definition I support the OP. Minimise that crap, get it off your plate entirely if possible. These people would never consider a book that they wrote or an app that they made as being real income, even if it eclipsed their other income, because it was fundamentally done out of a sense of fun rather than work.

If you don't think of work in those terms, your argument is true. For instance, I would much rather do an extra hour's work than to save twenty bucks by shopping at an out-of-town supermarket. An hour's work is fun, wading around a big soulless store for an hour is not fun (this is a personal comparison, you may disagree).

This is where I think frugality is overplayed as a tool for personal liberation; instead of finding yourself liberated from money by abandoning the rat race, you tie yourself to it in the piles of bookkeeping and pleasures denied that are the province of the penny pincher. But this wasn't the point that the article was making anyway, rather it seems to be advising to think clearly about what you want, and choose things that will last more than six months.

So yeah, what was the point I was making? Oh yes, moderation is good. I'm not qualified to make any of these statements, I'm hardly an example of good financial management myself. But I've been typing for too long not to hit the reply button now.
His plan must be subsidized by the state - I have a very similar plan (with an even higher deductible) for myself and my family and it costs $950 a month.
He does excellent interviews with startup founders, which he posts on G+ and also on http://www.building43.com and http://scobleizer.com/.
Lindsay Lohan, Kicked Out Of Program
Lindsay Lohan who always in the eye of Media and people now she has been kicked out of Community Service Program due to the violation of Rules, Lindsay Lohan has blown off 9 scheduled visits and would often leave after only “working” for an hour! Also, sources say that the hours of community service she as done at the Women’s Center is very unimpressive.
For those living in RVs, boats, and so on, can you comment on the amount of time you spend maintaining your living space?

As a startup founder, as much as I am concerned about cutting costs, I am also concerned about the opportunity cost of spending time doing maintenance. E.g., even if you fully own a house, a house can be a lot of maintenance work. Depending on how you value your time, that can reduce how much you "save" on rent.

Any comments?
I suspect that you're an ass, and my hunch is that you're smug and self righteous.
Artemis Entity Framework for games ported to C#
The AppStore isn't just a payment gateway. It's essentially a retail store. You would be hard pressed to get to keep 70% from many other retailers.
Uncompromising - Kieran Healy
Looks like IBM is quite far up there in terms of publications as well.
Power C/C++ Declarations
Ask HN: How to find an attacker? Gmail hacked; prior work spearfishing attemps
Hi all -- I'm a longtime HN reader/user writing this from a new anonymous account to describe an incident this AM and ask for any tips / tricks. Many thanks in advance for the help.

This morning I woke to find my mobile not connecting to my Gmail account. After trying to log-on on my computer, it became clear that my password had been unknowingly changed late last night (~2am) due to activity logged in from a foreign IP address.

I've changed my password and performed a range of other items from the Google security checklist, but am wondering specifically: What can I do using the provided IP to try and determine the origin of the attack?

While it's likely nothing, I am concerned as I have been the target of a number of sophisticated spearfishing attacks against my work e-mail.

One additional detail: I did log in a few hours beforehand on my computer over an unsecured Wifi network. However, I do have "Always use HTTPS" on in Gmail.<p>Again, greatly appreciate any advice. Thanks.
It is all a matter of how useful it is already.
If it is already much better than using the normal touch interface in many cases, the technology will evolve a lot in some way. There will be more users willing to pay for it, more competitors, and so forth. I really hope for this to happen.

On the other hand, if it is not good enough to be an improvement over the normal touch interface it will likely not be very used if not to show it to your friends for the first months. Next phone you buy you'll not care if it has or not that feature (unless somebody else or newer iPhones will be able to improve it a lot), and the technology will hardly evolve.

I don't still know as I don't have an iPhone 4s, and stories I read still can't tell me if it is going to be used a lot or not. Also in the specific case of Italian, I guess the at least the recognition can be near perfect as Italian is a lot simpler than English to turn into text (probably simpler than any other language given that things are spoken exactly as they are read). But then the interpretation I guess will pose very similar problems, with the disadvantage of not being a mainstream language.
In the film Waterworld, they have a device to purify urine - you crank the handle - but funnily enough they aren't using the device to clean seawater. Just another plot hole...
You mean distribute it, not use it.