skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hydrogen and Helium where generated vary soon after the big bang but oxygen is the product of stars which don't die all that fast.
That is a common theme with David Brooks. I'm not trying to be ad-hominem, just noticing a pattern.
'I often joke that my tombstone will say, "The Guy Who Hired Jonathan Ive",'

- Robert Brunner, Apple's former Chief of Industrial Design
Hmm... this actually makes sense.
In a sense. But it's a principle of cryptography that you assume the attacker knows all your schemes / algorithms, and only the random bits are secret.
As you're in Seattle, it would be interesting to know why you're making the move.
Cisco's Chambers named most overpaid American CEO
NewsBlur is very cool, and it's a great UI. It hasn't always been around though. They are missing one thing though, the Human Curation part of Google Reader. There is no built in social core. That is a very big piece of what people will miss about Google Reader.
Except it wasn't the same phrase. It's:

"computationally impractical to reverse"

vs

"computationally impractical to reverse-map"

And even if it was exactly the same, there's still a multiple comparisons problem.
There are a bunch of different solutions to this problem being explored. Being able to give provide location context-specific services in your applications is something that I personally think is going to be a huge thing in the next few years.

My current company is actually providing developers with a service (currently Android only) to provide better location contexts in their apps.

If you're interested you can take a look at our homepage from my profile. We just launched our public beta this week so if this sort of thing interests you as an app developer, please check it out :)
Programming web apps in the cloud? Yes you can
This seems like an interesting semantic distinction. Certainly it seems worthwhile to consider how much you could make if you took a standard salary, or otherwise got paid more for your time. On the other hand, "profit" literally means "revenue minus costs", and "ramen profitable" thus seems straightforward: "enough profit to keep the founders in ramen (and rent)". Opportunity costs don't actually represent costs in the "revenue minus costs" equation, even though they seem worth considering.
Funny how this submission got more attention than the one 9 days ago.
Broader support for BrowserID.
It's nice that he followed his own advice. None of us knew we were reading a sales letter for his new book until the end of the blog post!
In my neck of the woods in quebec, canada where we do not have rogers internet service, it is Bell that is usually the target of hate because of p2p throttling
I second this. Found my cofounder at http://theleanstartupmachine.com/, and it's worked out great. Going straight from one of these events to starting a company can be tough, since you don't really go through an extensive 'courting' period to get to know the person, but since you're both there to learn about startups, interests are already aligned.

It's sort of like going to speed-dating events.
It's interesting (for me, anyway) to contrast this with Wolfram's Computable Document Format (CDF, see http://www.wolfram.com/cdf/ ).

CDF documents can only be written using Mathematica, are only playable using a special CDF Player (or Mathematica), and you have to license CDF for commercial use. Tangle is free and open source (under an MIT License), JS is "playable" in most web browsers, and JS can be written using any text editor.
I think it allows reposting after a certain amount of time. I think this actually makes sense, because just because people missed it the first time doesn't mean it's not interesting.
Can't really disagree with this. After using my wife's iPhone 4S, my Droid X always feels like something less than direct manipulation. [Edit: And to be fair, my wife's old 3GS and her 3G before that were always more responsive to touches than any of my Android phones.]

I say this with every OS release and every major hardware upgrade, but I really hope the Galaxy Nexus[0] and ICS finally make up some of the difference with hardware acceleration of the UI.[1]

[0]: Terrible mouthful of a name, Galaxy Prime or Nexus Prime would've been so much better.

[1]: This is my next/Verge reporting notwithstanding. Reports are that some leftover jitteriness is due to apps not having opted into hardware acceleration yet. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
They still have serious policy issues.

Case in point: a friend of mine needed to transfer ownership of an app from a third party to himself. Apple dragged this on for months, and it has been a constant stream of emails and 3-way phone calls. In the end, their Final Solution was this: he had to create a second LLC, add the third party as a "member" of this new company, get state documents certifying the existence of this LLC and the membership status of this third party, and a notarized letter from the third party authorizing the transfer.

The most recent issue was that Apple kept deleting the transfer request form because the name of his second LLC was too similar to the name of his first (seriously, Apple?).

Absolutely none of this is a technical problem; the whole reason he decided to go through this fiasco was to avoid breaking the upgrade path and losing all his reviews and stats (not to mention forcing his customers to lose data). Obviously, there is some switch that an Apple employee can tick that transfers apps from one developer account to another.

Contrast this to the Android Market's transfer process, which boils down to both developers sending an email to Google to authorize a transfer.
Does anyone else smell talent acquisition? I've been following them for a while and they seem to never have over 400 cards at any given time. Didn't seem to be too active after all the hype.

Regardless congrats on the acquisition!
Seconded. This could kill off the insanity of "Sign in with $OTHER_SERVICE", as well as eliminating the whole concept of generating and remembering passwords.
"Why aren't these topics on your list" is perfectly relevant to a presentation on "subjects a generalist engineer should know."
Obama: 'America's war in Iraq will be over' at year's end
This should be the new "Hello world" for web-oriented languages and frameworks.
I'd love to see this ported idiomatically to different languages.
But I have always used double quotation marks, am I the only one?
i would call it more of a coffee and donut shop then a fast food restaurant...even if theyve recently oddly started selling lasagna
Why is that a necessary quality for smartness? Amazon seems to be doing quite well in spite of it.
I stumbled on this earlier. I happen to use this operator a lot, so I will definitely miss it. I wonder why it was removed. For example, when you absolutely want to filter out a certain programming language from the others when they all use the same keyword, what would you use instead? Their recommendation to use quotes is not applicable in that scenario. Disappointing move overall.
I see no need to restrict linking. Let's take a closer look at the child porn example here. This person has links. How did they get them? If they verified the links then right there you have direct illegal behavior. Even if they didn't visit themselves, if they know who is hosting child pornography then they are expected to report it. On the other hand, if they are some kind of impartial link aggregator being fed by third parties then I don't see a problem. Go after actual promoters.
Now that's just a silly example. A swank gelato bar for Python developers in downtown San Francisco would be hugely profitable!
SPDY already supports server push, where a server can tell the client, "I'm sending over some files (e.g. JavaScript and CSS and a bunch of little images) that you're going to want soon. You're welcome." It sounds like exactly what you want.
How does satellite tracking work? Does a country like Russia or US track every single one of its satellite and each others' satellites?

Imagine if Russia or China just launched a satellite that showed the capability to grab and take apart & examine American satellites while in orbit.

They can clearly destroy them but having the ability to examine them would be a bit of a game-changer, since it is assumed satellite with latest super-secret techs are safe after the launch?

Do some fancy satellites have proximity sensors and self-destruct mechanisms...?

I know Russians have built one of their manned spy sats ( Almaz?) with an anti-aircraft gun designed to be used if American satellites would approach it.
Don't Blink: The Hazards of Confidence
Nope. I always assumed exact matching was simply broken.
One of the problems with client side analytics is they don't give you the whole picture i.e 4xx and 5xx errors are missing from them
No way. The browser still puts the user in control, not the site; let's not replace it with any sandbox that lacks that design constraint.
Nope. I haven't used + since Lycos and co. Now - is a different story altogether.
This article is just describing/ confusing the difference between accounting profits and economic profits.

"That's a wonderful thing, but from an accounting perspective, just because you're not properly calculating expenses, doesn't mean it's profit. To be fair and more accurate, founders should look at their fair market value to determine actual profitability."

No. From an accounting perspective you "calculate" things based on what you actually paid or were paid.

"If you weren't charging yourself any rent for that space, nor paying yourself anything, and the business made $100/day, would you really consider that profitable? You could have rented the space out at fair market value for much more money than that. I'd argue you're losing money -- and I'd be right."

No, you'd be wrong. They are making $100.00 a day. This is a very poor return on equity but it is still a profitable endeavour.

Accounting profits = Revenues - expenses. Economic profits (what he is unknowingly talking about) = Accounting profits - opportunity cost.
It's not just about funding. I find being in Boston makes finding advisors, mentors, ents and domain experts really easy. You don't necessarily even need to be actively networking, you can learn tons 'passively' simply by attending meetups, events etc... While location shouldn't matter when it comes to the company itself, it makes significant difference in terms of getting access to a really powerful support network.
“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”

- Bruce Lee
I love how they copied the people UI and the addressbook from Windows Phone. Good ideas are to be copied. Thanks for bringing them to android.
SimplyListed (YC W11) Wants to Get the World Buying and Selling via Mobile
Didn't he promise it would end immediately after he would win in 2008? Fool me once...
Would it be fair to say the same points apply to Ruby/Rails (with name variances of course)?
I had this same conversation with someone last night.

I suck at meeting new people. But I can email 100 people for a meetup, a few will respond, and the majority will forget they ever heard from me. Ultimately though, there no harm in playing the numbers to make new connections.
Already exists, no add-on required. You can access the file contents from JavaScript, or upload it to the server and process it there.
Are there Android devices released with 2.1 that have not received an update to 2.2?
I am playing on my Ubuntu desktop on Chrome 14, and I was clicking right on the ducks.
GEORGIA TECH TURNS IPHONE INTO SPIPHONE
Ask HN: Non-Technial learning to code - Big tomes or small guides?
Hey guys,

I'm a non-technical guy who has launched a successful site with a coder-friend, and we sold it for decent money (as far as two teenagers are concerned).

I'm now looking to code. I went out and bought Learning Python by Mark Lutz, and have done a bit of Learning Python The Hard Way.

As experienced coders, do you guys recommend reading the big tomes of knowledge, or using the smaller guides and using the saved time to write more code?

One thing to note is that I have pretty good patience and am willing to work through 1000+ page books. I'd also love to have a VERY solid background in the languages I learn, and not just "enough to get things done".
I don't see why this is surprising -- after all, the Nexus S is a previous generation phone released 9 months ago. A more fair comparison would be with a Galaxy S2 or Galaxy Nexus.

Personally, I love my S2, as it's remarkably faster than my first gen Galaxy S in pretty much everything.

And since I hardly ever see anyone extolling the actual feature benefits of Android, here are 5 Android only features I could not live without:

1) Swype - Delightful, much faster one handed, much much better in portrait mode, don't have to change the way I hold my phone to start typing

2) Shortcuts to Contacts on Home Screen (two tap calling, texting, IM or email! Best flow for actual communicating after Blackberry's "Just start typing their name")

3) Widgets (Calendar, Time + Weather, Evernote, Live Weather background, Wifi Hotspot)

4) Dolphin HD Browser - I can use my volume buttons to change tabs!

5) Chrome to Phone - Really easy to clip notes to myself for later
The Groupon roadshow
It's perfectly reasonable to decline calling something a "product" if it doesn't make money. A widget company might produce a lot of memos in its daily operation, and might have its own cafeteria that produces food for its employees. But I think most people wouldn't count lunches or memos among the company's "products," no matter how good they might be.
Comparing last year's Android with this year's iOS? Why not wait three weeks and compare recent iOS and recent Android?

I think it's common knowledge Google didn't work terribly hard on getting a smooth UI until ICS. I'm an Android dev and I fully understand the "smoothness" of iOS is attractive, but it's a bit unfair of a comparison to make at this time - using an iPhone 4S.

Yes, I know the 4S is shipping and the Galaxy Nexus is not - that much I'll give. But this is only a month-long window and not very reflective of the coming future.
> By solving the problem correctly, they eliminated their need to solve it incorrectly.

A correct solution would include a guaranteed increase in the cap yearly (at least) based on the rate of bandwidth usage inflation. I've used massively more bandwidth every year as things like streaming, HD video, etc. become commonplace.
It's not meant to be insulting, the reason why they can make any money with advertising at all is because search is so good that it brings in the eyeballs.
I immediately find this useful. An app I am working on for a client allows for the preparation, setup and intake of candidate interviewees. The app has a few tools that help the administrator predict how many stations or interviewers will be required based on other parameters, like time it will take to conduct the interview process.
Don't fork Abu.js
Cellphone study finds no cancer risk
Ask HN: do you recommend an OCR product/software that processes paper forms?
I was asked by a colleague if i knew or recommended an OCR product/software that processed paper forms, including multiple choices and so on.

Google Searches have been very inconclusive, so i thought about asking HN.

Thanks
Always used it for phrases of two or more words and around a year ago started using it for specifically worded single words since Google likes to autocorrect me. I always assumed it did what the + did, but never had definitive proof.
Having the ability to memorize passwords helps, since you obviously have to memorize at least a couple of passwords (such as those for your personal system). I'd just argue that when you have dozens of sites you use (which you hopefully use different passwords on), you shouldn't try to memorize passwords for them all, just generate passwords and have your browser remember them.
Try using a 3GS after the 4S or even after using a Nexus S ... you are going to hate how slow everything feels. It's definetly the hardware that is getting faster with every generation (with Android devices in faster small steps than only one giant leap once a year you get with Apple upgrades) and that's a good thing.

We are supposed to hate our old hardware after having used something newer. Otherwise would you ever upgrade anything you bought if it still works? ;-)
Rather subjective and very short on details. Comparing the Nexus S to a dual core phone like the 4S is blatantly silly. Blaming the fluidity of a phone experience on the entirety of Android as a whole is just blatantly stupid.

Nevertheless, "it just feels wrong" doesn't sound like a very actionable complaint; not to mention, the majority of the issues brought up seem to have been addressed in ICS. Perhaps the author should spend more time with newer Android phones, and less time making silly and useless comparisons.
Some of these issues seem really frivolous. First if you're going to compare iOS5 and 4s the comparison should be against the latest Android ICS and Nexus. Second, after a week of use of his new toy he wants to compare it to years of usage of his old Android phone. As a 3GS owner, i've had apps crash, loss of data (instapaper).. among other things. I think its funny reviews like this come out before the launch (you can make the connection)
On the contrary, I think it's a management innovation that tech companies have figured out how to keep good technical people in their areas of core competency by giving them the things they would really want out of a promotion, whether that be compensation, autonomy, etc.

The article notes that Ive is worth $128 million and has tremendous autonomy within the company. I.e. he gets compensated extremely well and has a ton of power but still gets to do the work he is obviously very good at. Why would he want to become CEO where he'd spend all his time answering to shareholders and analysts? Just to move up one step on the org chart?

Where you really get the promotion problem is when your corporate structure is too inflexible to give adequate compensation and authority to your best technical people. That does not seem to be a problem here.
My personal favorite apps that use the API:

plaintext: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/plaintext-dropbox-text-editin...

http://ifttt.com

https://www.hellofax.com

http://greplin.com
Yet another entry in the long list of pop psychology books. It seems like they all gear up on one or two navel-gazing insights that just about anybody can intuitively identify with (You have a slow, rational side and a fast, emotional side! Doesn't that explain everything?) and then, they try to run as far as they can with the implications of this overly dumbed-down hypothesis. Carefully cherry-picked statistics from the millions of social phenomena and psychological experiments taking place around the world are sprinkled into the narrative to keep you engaged. (side rant: all of which have their methodological details conveniently obscured to prevent your critical thinking from kicking in, and you are extremely lucky if the sample size is provided, much less any attempt at a p-value or other discussion of statistical significance. Nope, it's usually just "Amazingly enough, 89% of ...")

Example: the silly birdie vs. bogie data presented in this little article. Great, people want birdies more than they don't want bogies, and perhaps it ties back into some aspect of your central hypothesis. But how many other oversimplified statements about human nature could I "prove" with this example? Probably hundreds. Maybe it's a completely rational strategy on the part of the golfer, since their experience has taught them that the (emotional|physical|mental) effort required to sink a birdie putt is not as productive in the long-term as at least making par on every hole. That kind of alternative thinking doesn't matter though, so we simply move to the next experiment and supportive conclusion. Repeat ad infinitum, until we've fulfilled the length requirement for a novel.

No, I did not enjoy Freakonomics (can you tell?).
It seems - hasn't been removed https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=...
It's completely bizzare how distributions with long release cycles (think debian) think they can lock on one version of browser and live with it forever.

Absolutely makes sense for core libraries, makes less sense for server software (bitrotten mysql, anyone?), makes no sense for desktop apps.

Ubuntu desktop LTS is meaningless if it won't update its browser. Why use a desktop OS if the browser is outdated?
I took ETL last semester and loved it! My favorite speaker was Aaron Levie. He was the prototype of the typical silicon valley startup story. built/launched his product from his dorm room in 2005. dropped out of school. created a company worth millions of dollars... etc. I think the reason my peers and I look up to entrepreneurs is because they are (as the article says) "living examples of the exceptional untapped potential within each of us". Success stories like Aaron's makes us believe that we can change the world. Sadly, for every successful entrepreneur that gets invited to speak at Stanford there are a thousand others who have failed. If it were up to me I think we should have another seminar to counter balance ETL, an antithesis of ETL, where unknown entrepreneurs can come to speak about their failures. so that students can see the other less glamorous side of entrepreneurship. In fact, David Friedberg, who spoke at ETL a few weeks back and his advice was why you should not do a startup. There's an article, from an ETL student's perspective on David's speech here - http://rainmakerslive.com/startup-thoughts/why-you-shouldnt-....
+GooglePlus stole it
This article doesn't make much sense after we've seen Android 4.0. Plus, how come he's noticing these differences "just now" ? iOS has pretty much worked like that since day one, and it hasn't changed all that much up to iOS5. In contrast, Android has evolved tremendously over the past 3 years from version 1 to version 4. If they keep this up with future versions, Android will continue its rise in market share and mind share.
Is Android going to be open source again? (Well, I say open source, but what I mean is--will the source code be available, as opposed to development being open. Google doesn't tend to take patches from outside contributors anyway...)
Today's famous entrepreneurs have a powerful platform. I've heard countless tales of people going into science after being inspired by the astronauts on their moonwalks. Not everyone is going to become a Zuckerberg, just like almost no one becomes an astronaut.

But these entrepreneurial idols highlight that it is possible to be successful by creating value through innovation. We need more people to go into engineering and product design. Americans need it in order to stay relevant as an economy, just as the US needed scientists during the Space Race.

Zuckerberg and Jobs have glamorized the concept of "geek". Maybe this glamor will attract power-seeking people who want to be a rich CEO. But more likely, it will attract a wide variety of people (maybe even minorities and women) into careers that create value for our economy.
No. Firefox stable updates are immediately pushed in both non-LTS and LTS.
He didn't recruit him but he got him out of the closet where he was hidden and put him in charge of the design team
"PBKDF1 is recommended only for compatibility with existing applications since the keys it produces may not be large enough for some applications." — RFC 2898, September 2000
How Airbnb Monitors Servers: With Fire
How to use Dropbox to sync files you don't want in your git repos
Also reminds me of Yahoo refusing to buy Google. I am sure they had good reasons for that decision then.
While I agree with the comparison, it would be unfair to not point out the wealth of functions that Mathematica exposes:

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/Mathematica.h...