skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has been observing the tech-industry since 2004[1]. This is what I have to say, Android (as a startup) was supposed to be an open-source alternative to the Blackberry and the first Android device (made by HTC) was in a "Qwerty" form-factor.

And the UI was (at the time) plain and among the most uninteresting that I'd ever seen[2].

To explain things clearly:

[1] I've been a gadgeteer from the late 90's and owned a Nokia 5110 when it came out. I've been an early adopter since and had one of the first smartphones (which included a camera) from Nokia, the 7650. I started covering the industry as a freelancer and was with one of the leading print magazines on tech.

[2] In regards to UIs on smartphones-pre iOS, most UIs were palatable and even interesting. The Nokia S60, Symbian UIQ, WM, etc were all different - none of them were copies, and some were just too intuitive once you were used to it (S60). So, when I used the Android emulator (the first device wasn't publicly released) I knew that it would never succeed with a mediocre UI.

And in response to @brudgers, where is Handspring now? Nokia were THE innovators in the smartphone market, where are they now? Nokia had tons of services before any Google service was palatable - NGage, Nokia Store, Nokia Music (comes with Music later on), etc. WAP and career billing existed pre-Apple. And if you're talking about Apple's mobile browser, the Mobile webkit was first ported over to a mobile OS by Nokia themselves (it was open-sourced as well).

Its all about the implementation. When a behemoth like Nokia could be brought down, just because they didn't anticipate Apple's all out assault. Apple had one of the best strategies one's which would've been known to other board members, are you going to say Nokia, MS, and other smartphone companies where complacent when Apple and later Android assaulted them?

Google had a clear direction on how to move forward with their OS, and it wasn't until after the iPhone was launched (and when Schmidt was a board member) did that idea come into place. I'm not accusing Google of stealing Apple's plans but the data is all out for you to parse and make sense of. And since we have many entrepreneurs and businessmen here, let me just say that business plans are as important as the product itself, even more so in a few sectors. I'm not prejudiced, but I make sense of what I can.
And if he can't be told how big the surety bond has to be, then how can he put up the money?
Dropout? I beg your pardon. I completed 8th grade and then didn't go on to high school; I never "dropped out" of anything. The term you're looking for is "autodidact".
Being able to tag tags is great. My main concern is I don't see an easy way to export notes from folderboy. I've got a TON of notes to move over and I really don't want them stuck on one service (I have no idea if this is representative of other users or not).
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Pervasive lack of transparency regarding going rates helps people use differential access to market data to exploit young engineers, pervasively. All else equal, we should probably strive to decrease exploitation of the disadvantaged side in that relationship.

Put another way: some kids are grauduating with CS degrees and taking $25k offers, because they think doing otherwise would be impolite.. That is messed up.
Tirupati Balaji Temple Wallpapers | Lord Venkateshwara | Richest temple in Asia 
Tirupati Balaji Temple is one of the largest and ancient temples in the world. It is located in chittoor district in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is the richest temple in Asia and third richest temple in the world. The temple is very prosperous with the temple gopuram covered with gold. The temple is dedicated to Lord Venkateshwara. It is believed that in this Kali Yuga, one can get mukti only by worshipping Lord Venkateswara in tirupati. It’s importance because of the richest temple in the world. Here we can see that the black idol of God Balaji with 2 meters high, covered in gold jewellery and previous ornaments. All the activities of the temple are handled by TTD management. It is a place which gets around 50,000 visitors a day.
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The code hasn't been updated in about a year: https://github.com/wbhart/bsdnt

The author appears to be planning a restart of the project, but that won't happen until next year: http://wbhart.blogspot.com/2011_10_01_archive.html
You got two assumptions wrong here:

1. People may very well have an account with a fake name, so that it doesn't show up in search. In France, for example, a large number of FB users are stripping out the vowels from their last name to make their FB account less findable.

2. According to the article, it's not the "gay friend" that put his phone number on his hidden account. He merely has OP's number in his phone address book (wich is normal since they are friends in real life), and the FB app is pulling this information.
That reminded me of some of my favourite YouTube channels -

(http://www.youtube.com/user/CaptainElevator42189)
(http://www.youtube.com/user/gluse)

Just very many videos of people using elevators.
Cool. I've joined. Hopefully LN will be a more democratic forum than HN.
I only recently upgraded to iOS5 and while some things are fantastic - the wireless/connectivity stability is farked up.

I can no longer email pics over 3G - my outbox just sits there, preventing any new mail from being downloaded.

I constantly lose connection on wifi - even so much as my home network doesnt even show up in the listing any longer, and I have to airplane mode it a few times to get it to refresh properly.

I am constantly timing out on connecting to the iTunes app store - even on home wifi.

I cant upload images to IMGUR via the phone, it loses connection about 30% every time.

I've noticed that people say "You're breaking up" a LOT more whenever I am talking on the phone....
I commute to SF on a weekly basis and stay in a hotel because it's cheaper than an apartment. And my bed gets made every day.

Edit: $65/day including tax * 13 days/month ~= $850. Allowing for holidays, vacation and occasional work from home. It's decent, better than Motel 6, more like Best Western. I got a good rate because I negotiated it years ago. It's outside SF itself, but I use Bart.
I would definitely use it! I just know that I'm never going to get around to setting it up.

So, if anyone else wants to they should.
Microsoft channel on Youtube was hacked
In what appears to be an attack on Microsoft, the company had its main YouTube channel hacked today.

All of the page’s previous YouTube videos were deleted and replaced by two others, one of which is a four second video with text that simply says “We are sponsoring!” and the other of equal time which says “Make us a background for a subbox!”. To rub salt in the wound, the videos appear to have been made in Apple’s iMovie – evidence to suggest that the hacker involved is anti-Microsoft, pro-Apple.
The ultimate budget VPS is an Amazon instance. You can be relatively sure that it is not going to go under. You can run one free micro instance (http://aws.amazon.com/free/). You can scale as needed easily, both in terms of file system and CPU by simply rebooting your EBS to another instance type. You can have reliable, incremental snapshots. And finally, you have a great ecosystem of vendors providing AMIs for nearly all OS versions and popular web apps (like my own, http://bitnami.org/stacks)
Those ARE affordable to anyone. Without enumerating the solutions, I assure you it's all out there cheap or free to anyone willing to put in some effort to earn and adapt.

The problem is so many want luxuries brought to them on a silver platter.

Our biggest sociopolitical issue now is that it is illegal to be poor, that varoius regulations prohibit "functional poverty". Jobs below a certain wage are illegal, housing below high standards are prohibited, products & services must achieve lofty idealistic goals. I'm not saying low standards are desirable, but if you're not allowed to stand on the bottom rungs of the ladder you can't climb higher.
This also works with email addresses when your email address is in someone elses address book that has been imported.
Apologies for not answering your question - I misunderstood your meaning. This was after entering the SMS code - so it's certainly not an issue where you can enter a phone number you don't control.
I really liked the part about for ... else statement, the body of else statement executes the code after the loop finishes but not if break statement was executed.

I know about this construct but whenever I have a problem that requires it, I always forget and use old:

if counter -1 == len(obj):
...

ugh.
Steve Jobs pledged to ‘destroy’ Google smartphone
Great description - sorry, I accidentally downvoted when I meant to upvote.
In my experience imath is the best (near) BSD licensed arbitrary precision integer arithmetic library. It also has a bunch of special purpose optimized functions for scientific computing.

imath: http://spinning-yarns.org/michael/sw/imath/
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Because America is the whole world.
I'd suggest the opposite: it's entirely possible that a factory of human workers can create robots which massively scale the production capability far beyond the original size of the factory's employees.
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Seattle kind of falls between the two, for example.
Ford seems to be taking usability and integration with our modern "technology" (in the consumer electronics sense) quite seriously. They even have a website going into the details: http://www.ford.com/technology/
If you know the answers, why ask?
Disagree. The fed does not devalue currency. They set interest rate policy on reserves aka the federal funds rate. Biggest factor in supply and demand for a currency is fiscal policy. Second biggest factor is trade balance and the desirability of foreigners to save the given currency.
Anyone care to follow this up with a brief article on the more expensive VPS providers? (such as A Small Orange) Are those of us on Linode, Rackspace Cloud, and Slicehost missing out at all?
If you think San Francisco rents are expensive I suggest you don't move to Manhattan.

I live in a (true) one bedroom second-storey walkup in Chelsea, which actually has a new kitchen and bathroom (renovations made after the last tenant left to get it out of rent stabilization) and pay $2,000 a month for it.

And that actually seems to be a pretty good deal.

For a decent building (one with an elevator where you don't hear everything your neighbours do through the walls, ceilings and floors) in this area it gets closer to $3k+ a month and can easily get to $4k+.

Still, work is a 7 minute walk away and I live in Manhattan. That's hard to beat.
Hi there. What device model are you on currently?
Heatmap for financial chart? Awesome.
So does this mean using biginteger for small numbers could require almost 30x more memory?
Thanks for this.

I picked up Mr. Singh's book (Fermat's Enigma) at a yard sale quite a few years ago, and found it to be a good read.

If this sort of thing is up your alley, two other similar books I've read:

Music of the Primes:
http://www.amazon.com/Music-Primes-Searching-Greatest-Mathem...

The Rainbow of Mathematics:
http://www.amazon.com/Rainbow-Mathematics-History-Mathematic...
Thank you: I'm very surprised by the HN group mind on this topic. Sure this is a community of technology entrepreneurs who generally do not have trouble finding new and innovative ways of surviving in the modern world's job market. But how naive it is for this community to project its experience onto the masses.

It's also a good reminder that these minimal intelligence jobs that most are falling back on will A) be automated next, and B) should not be considered as good for our society as more challenging jobs before. They lead to an overall brain rot in society.

Sure if we all have more free time to pursue what we wish, that's great. But what no one wants to discuss is how that new society will function vis a vis wealth circulation, assuming wealth continues to be the key to survival.
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Good point, and of course there are the government farm subsidies too, which could go to the poor instead if the farmers were profitable, certainly here in Europe the subsidies have not necessarily achieved the right goals, as there is still extensive poverty in agriculture. There are also buy side issues, such as concentration of buyers. And in the UK I see farm land prices are rising fast, which will reduce much of the potential profitability long term.
You don't know the half of it! Huge pension funds such as CALPERs, the california public pension fund, invest large sums (go long) passive commodity instruments such as oil and agriculture. These pension funds are insured by the federal government. So the federal government is indirectly subsidizing this activity.
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more or less coincidentally

That's too easy. How can we know that? On the contrary, it would be surprising if how well the schools work were unrelated to their philosophy.
> 2. This isn't a bug or a vulnerability, it's something you've actually coded - a feature. It doesn't 'accidentally' match up the number I've just entered with other people's phonebooks, you've programmed it to do that

You assume malicious intent. It might be. But it also might be a engineer who thinks "this would be a cool feature" without stopping to think about the ramifications of this.

Happens all the time; think of the Google engineer who decided that Buzz should auto-follow your most emailed contacts publicly or the NetFlix competition that outed a lesbian in small town America.

Not that I'm saying it's ok if that's the case; it's still a fuck up that needs to be fixed and in general companies need to be better about this - it happens to often.

Just saying I would have reported it to FB first and seen what they did. Responsible Disclosure, and all that.
It sounds like you're implying there will always be waiter, organizer, dancer, and other service jobs with human elements that robots can't do. That seems reasonable, but if there is a huge pool of people willing to do them, wouldn't the supply level depress the wages to below what we consider minimum wage? Unless we lower minimum wage, we'd have massive unemployment. And if we did, we'd have a very poor class of people.

I have a more charitable view of the essay, I don't think he's claiming we should have a war on efficiency, I think he's claiming we need a new structure to our economy that works when you have a massive spread between the rich and poor.

And I think he has a point, if we don't try to get ahead of the curve on this one we'll just end up with our current system with higher progressive taxes using that money on social programs, make-job programs, and bureaucratic jobs that will never go away for lack of budget pressure.

edit: After thinking more, maybe the original author IS implying we should retard efficiency and not just create structural change that copes better. In that case, I think he's misguided.
Ask HN: Have You Written a Book?
HNers frequently contribute to lists of the best books for this or that. Which got me to wondering what have you published that would be of interest to the rest of us. Product documentation or user's manuals dont count, because even I have done that. Technical works are of most interest, but I'll take good SF. And if you financed your first start-up by writing bodice-rippers, that has to be of some interest.
- But readability counts. Having written a lot of Java and Obj-C lately, I honestly prefer the ability to write "if (foo && foo->bar && foo->bar->baz)" in the latter.

- Frankly, it's not a very complicated table. "Zero, empty, or none" summarizes it pretty well. http://docs.python.org/release/2.5.2/lib/truth.html

- Of course conventions vary across languages. If you're familiar with perl, awk, or ruby, some of these conventions will be familiar to you. If you're more familiar with Java, they'll feel odd and you'll feel an uncertainty using them.
Hmm. 1) Fake name, yes -- I wasn't aware of that practice; not that common in India, at least in my friend circle.

2) That was what I meant -- syncing actual details with your anonymous persona.
Agree. I was only using Quicksilver for app-launching before.
Not everyone works in the US - fairly narrow minded view of the world?
Probably not the best thing for me to have read prior to a flight!
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No, I'm pretty sure your first point was not what I did do; it was what you think I (or presumably any entrepreneur?) should not do: complain about or enter any difficult sector. What a pathetic, un-American mentality. You can't be serious.

I don't know where you get the notion that one should only be successful in "an UNREGULATED sector," but if reading my critiques of a system that is so broken people are literally in the streets as I write this--it it's really that painful for you, you probably won't want to read Hacker News, or open a newspaper, for the next few months. Because as I said in the letter, I am not done, and I don't think Occupy Wall Street is, either.

Sheesh.
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I loved QuickSilver until I traced a system-wide drag-and-drop problem back to it and regretfully uninstalled it in favor of LaunchBar (which is not free). This was around the time the original developer announced he was basically ceasing work on it.

I'm glad development has resumed for QuickSilver, but I'll wait and see before giving up the reliably updated LaunchBar.
Well, yeah, of course. But only an idiot would use a BIGInt for small numbers.
Amazon isn't really budget. The free tier is nice, and the tiny instances are priced ok, but beyond that they're quite expensive for a VPs. The nice thing with AWS is the scaling and the supporting infrastructure, but you do pay for that compared to more basic VPS offerings.
Must not mock "elite boarding school" and "your" and "its"...
What is the point is this? Sorry for asking, but you are either curious about how much everyone else is making or trying to value yourself in the market.

If you are curious about how much everyone else is making, stop. Just stop. It won't make you feel good. You will feel shitty because I would imagine the HN crowd will show better numbers than america as a whole, or even just your city. To illustrate my point, if you asked me to write this poll, I would add 250K, 500K, 1M tiers here (as there are plenty of people who are making salaries in those ranges)

If you are asking because you want a sense of whether or not you are properly being valued in the market, you have to do two things: try to find another job, and try to ask for a raise. Simple as that. You don't know the skillsets of people who show higher or lower salary figures.

Lastly, salary doesnt help if you dont consider bonus potential and hours work. I'm thinking specifically of finance, where bonuses in most groups dwarf base salary (and in some fields, the per-hour rate looks pitiful, but that's because it demands >100 hrs per week)
Good article. I disagree with a few remarks.

While there is certainly a huge amount of fanboyism surrounding buyvm, most of it comes from the stock scarcity.

I personally run 3 vps' with them (first three plans) and the performance has always been far more than acceptable.
I run an adult tube site that has exploded in popularity due to a fun domain name and being one of the first to post a leaked sex tape for a latin american actress. It can reach around 200 to 300 thousand uniques per month. Never had a load issue.

Of course, your mileage may vary. I could have ended up in a lousy node. Many people outright abuse their service for portscanning, spam sending and what not. Also, many people won't do this intentionally; they get infected through ancient wordpress installations.

My experience has been worse with Burst. Their IO is acceptable but their network is dismal. Ping times from aroud the world tend to confirm this.

Notes to take home:

ALWAYS make backups! If a provider goes deadool on you all of the sudden, you should always have fresh backups in a remote site. Honestly, there's no excuse these days. You can always get your money back if you file a dispute on Paypal. I wasn't affected by the collossal Hostrail crash, but many people were.

Lastly, always choose Xen over Openvz.

Edit: Forgot to add something very important: Avoid Hurricane Electric (he.net) like the plague. They are an absolute fuck up of a datacenter.
Well over 200k.
Don't forget you also have to pay something like $0.10 for 1GB of outgoing traffic.
I used to disregard this for the same reasons you are disregarding it. But at some point I realized that

(a) I prefer big font sizes (~13 pt regardless of with/without glasses)

(b) I like to have two columns of code next to each other.

(c) IDEs love to cramp up my work space with vertical side bars.

All that conspires to put horizontal space at a premium. I usually go for 80 chars now. Some languages are more verbose than others though. Cocoa at 80 chars just looks wrong, so in that case, I will take 100 chars.

Addendum:
(d) Vim sucks at horizontal scrolling.
Where are the javascript and css files in the repo? I can make a good and quick pull request for you if they get included / I find them.
Honest question, why have you stayed at HN for almost three years if it's a poor community?
1) invoke spotlight
2) hightlight the file of interest (arrow keys work)
3) do command R
4) a new finder window will appear with your file selected.

however, i much prefer quicksilver; it does a lot more than spotlight.
public/javascripts and public/stylesheets :)
Ok, I just really don't see the incentive for most (i.e. 95%+) surfers to do this, for various reasons including: crowds at their favourite waves and no mobile signal at remote spots.

In general, surfers don't want to help other surfers find the best spot of the day. Once you're there it's different, and many surfers are really helpful/friendly. But hardly any will say "this spot X that you've never heard of is going to fire today", especially when they know you'll head to the big town beach break away from them ;)

I know surfers that'd give me a lot of shit if I posted video of a spot firing. I know I might do the same if I found out ;)

My suggestion would be to make this a private group thing. Create a, ahem, "circle" of surfers and share reports with them.
I can see the utility of it. What is not addressed in the site is what you get out of it, privacy policy/data retention policies, and if it's free forever or if there are ads inserted into your email etc.... Maybe add an FAQ to your site.
Indeed. Given that you with pi to 39 decimal places you can calculate the circumference of the universe the the accuracy of the size of a hydrogen atom [1] one does have to wonder.

Calculating pi is a fairly reasonable way of measuring CPU performance though. I've seen Anandtech and the like use SuperPi for this purpose.

In my first year of university we had to do (in Pascal) a library of arbitrary-precision functions for the arithmetic operations. It was really interesting at the time. If you measure something to a trillion digits you need a pretty good library for this. You also may not have the entire number of memory at a time (although a trillion digits is 0.5TB BCD-encoded so that's not inconceivable) so the problem itself has a lot of interesting aspects to it.

[1]: http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=350023
Very nice, a good idea cleanly implemented. One suggestion would be to query amazon recommendations for similar artists to help work out what to play. This is only because then you could also possibly allow people to buy or add things to their wish list from your site. If you were thinking about revenue that is.

Good work.
Link should be http://oknotizie.virgilio.it/, not .com.
You still get 15GB for free in the free tier, which should be ok for many use cases