skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rendering of data is data itself.

We structure databases semantically for backend developers. Why shouldn't we structure display markup semantically for frontend developers?
Neat idea. One thought: allow users to "register" for routes they often take. i.e. I drive the same legs (home to downtown and back, home to a northern suburb for an Ultimate game ont the weekends) every week. If someone could make $10-20 doing a drive they already do, it seems like it'd be a big win.
How did a Hacker News reader happen to open a sorbet shop??

Opening my own ice cream shop (in the south Rockridge/Temescal neighborhood, no less!) has been my (half-joking) dream job if I decided to switch careers. When Scream Sorbet opened in Temescal, I was both excited and frustrated that someone saw the same market opportunity! <;)
That was mentioned on his interview on 'the setup'. I wondered at the time how he finds Web pages of interest. Suggestions by e-mail?
Supporting a two year old phone might be important to say X% of users, but I'd argue that Android phones include features that are important to Y% << X% of users.

My girlfriend cares way more that her 3GS runs iOS5 than she does that it doesn't have a 4.5" screen.
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IF this were to become law, that would definitely be scary, but from the description of what they require of the ISP, it sounds like they aren't blocking access to the server, just keeping the DNS from resolving to the IP. Thus, could you not use a public DNS (or foreign DNS) server, thus getting around the blocked DNS from your local ISP? Just an idea, or wonder, of mine.
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RMS likes parrots, but because of his frequent travel he can't take care of one himself all year round. What better way to be around parrots than to combine his travel activities with meeting parrot owners?
Crawl and multiply by 3 (assume that 30% are direct web servers)
The N1 has 512MB of internal space, and doesn't guarantee that the user has a MicroSD card inserted. Many Android apps (including Google-provided ones) only install to internal storage, and require janky hacks to work from the SD card. If it's impossible or impractical to update or remove ICS features to fit in a half-gig, it's impossible or impractical to port ICS to the N1.
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Only slightly less random than what Java's RNG usually produces:
http://www.alife.co.uk/nonrandom/
Is anyone putting together any kind of concerted, consolidated effort to kill this bill?

There must be some kind of movement one can throw their weight behind to help stop this nonsense.
They keep a sticky post in their announcements forum with the current list. The post as of today is https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=1199, and the forum link (in case that didn't work) is https://forums.aws.amazon.com/forum.jspa?forumID=30.

(You probably have to have showdead on to see me because I'm hellbanned. I've emailled pg to try and get this fixed, and had no response. If you happen to see this, please check my comment history to realise that I'm not at all a troll, and consider upvoting me on the offchance it will get my account back into positive karma land. Thanks!)
I think it is kind of an irony that code displayed underneath those excellent logos is so hard to read because of those same css effects.
You should give Dolphin Browser a try. The best mobile browser. Period.
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I recommend these:

On Writing Well - http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Nonficti...

The Artful Edit - http://www.amazon.com/Artful-Edit-Practice-Editing-Yourself/...
Massive security flaws at Amazon Web Services discovered and remedied
To add some perspective:

WolframAlpha measures an average US household's yearly consumption at 12,000 KWh, or 32.8 KWh per day. The upper bound in the parent comment with the 50% fudge factor, 375 MWh per day, would power (375 MWh/32.8 KWh) = 11,430 households day-for-day, or 22,860 households day-for-day without the fudge factor.
Or play Google and Microsoft against each other when negotiating to renew the Firefox/Google contract that expires in November:

http://www.businessinsider.com/is-2012-armageddon-for-firefo...
No one has ever asked and lived to tell the tale.
Exactly. Someone hacks your server, downloads your entire database containing email addresses and bcrypt-hashed passwords. They can plow through these at full-speed on their own system and will be limited to calculating a handful of hashes per second due to the computational intensity of calculating the bcrypt hash. Compare this to MD5 where they can generate tens of millions (or more) hashes per second, salt or no salt.
Pardon my pedantry, but that's a terrible mixed metaphor in the title.

Who goes hunting for dogs? No one; rather, dogs accompany hunters, perhaps while in pursuit of big game.
> This isn't a hardware capacity issue.

The Nexus One has 512MB of internal storage. The Nexus Galaxy has 32GB of internal storage. If ICS weighs in at much more than 400MB and has the stellar (read as: "perfunctory") MicroSD support we've come to expect from Android, it'd be about as enjoyable as a fart in a spacesuit on a Nexus One.
First COICA, then Protect IP, now E-PARASITES Act? Looks like I have to contact my local congressmen again. Seems like they spend more time renaming this bill than actually reading it.
Nokia shows off flexible phone [YouTube Video]
Silver lining: the word "IP" is apparently so unpopular that it's better not to associate your proposals with it.
Hi Ian, I'm a 2nd year CS student at the University of Bristol. Out of everyone I know on the course, I'm the only one that regularly reads HN/Techcrunch and has an interest in start-ups; it's also how I found out about siliconmilkroundabout.

The start-up path isn't at all prominent here and I think there's a few reasons for this:
Lack of presence of start-ups at recruitment/careers fairs (it's all the big names).
The compulsory Hi-Tech units on the course aren't done right - hours of lectures filled with slides rather than guest speakers from start-ups, case studies, or any interactive processes whatsoever.
Little to no communication between start-ups and students (groups or individuals) using social media or otherwise.
Everyone sees messages posted on our CS FB group but nobody really reads the emails sent through the CS HR.

I think your best bet is to communicate directly with Society heads (i.e. students) such as Computer Science society or entrepreneurship society and to organise some guest speaker events. Lastly I think it's really important for students to know how they can help your start-up - specifically what skills they would need and what they would learn as well.
Support for gun control in America at a 50 year low. Are video games the cause?
I just read this article http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66874.html

In 1959 60% of people supported a handgun ban. Now only 26% are in favor.

Who else thinks this is because those of us who grew up playing video games are more comfortable with guns?

A bit of anecdotal evidence--Many of my otherwise very liberal friends own guns or are comfortable with them because they were exposed to them in call of duty, not by their parents.
A fair jump, but not a huge one. The Adreno 200 is an ES2 part with acceptable performance. I'd be very surprised if there were serious performance problems under ICS, but obviously without having seen the software we can't say.
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You might also turn in a blank ballot. Depending on circumstance, this might be a fine way to signal to the incumbent that they did not do a Good Job, though you in general support the policy of their party. Close races, etc, will change the calculus of voting. Some states do not include blank ballots in the vote totals, others do.
This is great. I'm always looking for more django resources outside of the excellent docs, but there just doesn't seem to be a ton of up-to-date stuff out there.

Hopefully you can keep it up!
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I think a big part of the problem is probably talent.

A hot shot kid coming out of a C.S./engineering program wants to work at Google or Facebook or a startup, not the federal government. A kid coming out of an econ/math/finance program wants to work for a "big dog" at an investment bank or a PE fund, not some wimpy bureaucrat.
Interview with Emanuel Derman on his new book
BadassJS: Call to end negativity
> Example: instead of '$^P |= 0x10', something along the lines of 'sys.debug = True' is a lot easier to read, right?

That's what we have use English for.

http://perldoc.perl.org/English.html
Android upgrade for Google Nexus S ‘in weeks’
Am I missing something or don't your assumptions assume that over those same 48 months Amazon's price remains static? Note that any assumption of Amazon's margins remain the same is kind of hard pressed. Their revenues this quarter was 40% greater then the same quarter last year - yet their earnings were down 73%.
Who Creates High-Tech Wealth in Africa? The Case For (& Against) Government
New methods in jQuery 1.6
jQuery is an actively-developed JavaScript library with a fairly rapid release cycle. As well as general enhancements, performance tweaks and bug fixes, new methods are frequently added to the library.In this article we’ll take a look at the new methods that have been added to the 1.6+ release and some of the enhancements.
Why We Need More Tax Brackets, Not Fewer
Ask HN: How to buy-out my co-founder?
My partner and I have an iOS app (and LLC) that passively brings in about $30,000 year. Ownership is 66% me : 33% her.

I am now an indy dev working on various projects and few freelance gigs as a supplement. I have 100% control in how I choose to allocate my time.

My partner is a typical full time software engineer without much flexibility in her schedule nor extra energy to work after hours.

The app was initially my idea. I co-opted my partner to help rapidly get the app into market in time for a certain deadline. Initially her contribution was significant and we simply agreed to a 50/50 split. Later we adjusted the split in response to me putting in much more effort.

I see a lot of potential in this app if we put in the work required. The app is sustaining a decent level of sales with no support or marketing because it solves s meaningful problem. I've talked with my partner about this and she agrees in principle. We have planned the next steps but we keep having false starts. Many times but she can never work up the motivation to stick with it. When that happens I either forge ahead alone or agree to stop working until it's a better time for her to pick up.

I want to work on this full time. My partner is unable to do so.

The most appealing option I see is to buy my partner's share of our LLC from her. I haven't asked her about this yet because I have no idea what a fair offer would be.

How do I value the company? What things should I consider?

She may not be open to selling or changing the current situation at all. If she doesn't want to make a deal and doesn't want to start putting in adequate time into the company are there any other good options?
Twitter Quietly Rolls Out New Timeline
If you want to see sensitive, there are other language communities you should troll instead...
We're thinking about that. For now we're enabling already existing couriers to be more efficient. We have over 30 of them on duty in San Francisco during business hours. However, we're looking to launch a crowdsourced feature as well.
Another concerning section is the power to take action against, "any entity that knowingly and willfully provides or offers to provide a product or service designed or marketed for the circumvention or bypassing of measures described". Does this mean that the Tor Project would be shut down? It would be nearly impossible to eradicate a piece of open source software, but if this bill has passed, it would not be a leap to imagine a bill making the use of Tor or related services a felony passing.
Made something similar a while ago:

http://sy0t0s.bplaced.net/demo/hero/ - Apple logo

http://sy0t0s.bplaced.net/demo/tubes/ - Nixie tubes

http://sy0t0s.bplaced.net/demo/opera/ - Opera Browser in your browser

I have more, but don't want to spam links. If you want to see more you can crawl through the /demo/ folder on the page.
Most of them are experiments with CSS3, javascript and html5.
Right -- I've done my share of being a guest of and a host to many people of different cultures, and a decent share of his points are either a "how to be a good host" checklist, or removing the difficult aspects of being a good host to him (i.e., guessing the needs of a guest who may not express them directly).

I think I'm generally a good host, because I read people well. But armed with a document like this, even someone who reads people terribly could be a good host to rms with minimal effort. It doesn't look very hard once you know what he's hoping for; some of his points (like saying he sometimes makes suggestions that may cause inconvenience, and please let him know... like his request that hosts not offer to help him with everything) are basically "I know how to be a good guest if you let me."

I've been in those situations (carefully avoiding praising things for fear that your hosts will find some way of giving them to you...), and it's really quite frustrating.

If I was a constant guest (and constantly faced with the same frustrations), I'd start compiling a document like this. Over time -- and I'm pretty sure this has been underway for a long time (notice the reference to changing the tape when recording him?) -- I suspect it would grow as this one has.
Engineering Is the Way to Bring Jobs Back to America
> http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international...

I can't imagine any scenario where Greenpeace would actually be happy besides companies never using any sort of energy at all.

To replace coal (7PWh) with solar energy, you'd need the entire state of New Jersey (~22e9 m^2) filled solar panels averaging 20% efficiency and the equivalent of 4 peak hours of sunlight over the year. With the area of Pennsylvania you could start to approach the total energy consumption of the US. Maybe those environmental impacts would be worth it?
GPS and the 4th amendment to be considered by Supreme Court next month
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Google Kills Its Other Plus, and How to Bring It Back
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Didn't Wyden put a hold on the "PROTECT IP" act in the Senate? Does that make this moot, or will there be a new bill in the Senate?
In MSIL, there's actually no such thing as a try/catch/finally -- only try/catch, try/finally (and the lesser-known try/fault and try/filter). When you write a try/catch/finally in C#, the compiler generates a try/catch inside of a try/finally.
I wish they had let Wall Street crash and burn when they had the chance. It's obvious that the majority of credible advisors had an inherent conflict of interest in proclaiming that systematic failure would destroy the economy irreparably. I say it would have been better to let the economy crumble and then rebuild it rather than allow this precedent to be set that investment banks can take any disk imaginable and it'll be backed by the taxpayers. If these rich fucks think they have such huge brass balls, let them take some risk, and I don't mean the risk that their bonus might only be $1 million instead of $50 million.
Both illegal immigration and skilled immigration problems will be gone eventually with no action if the opportunities are no longer better here. Do the majority of Americans really want that?
Nokia's flexible user interface prototype demo [video]
How do you differ from another startup, Taskrabbit[1]?

[1] http://www.taskrabbit.com/
To misquote Clinton - "It's the software stupid"

You can buy an MSP430 dev board form TI for $5 with more features but the thing about the Arduino is that somebody with NO knowledge of embedded programming can go from box to flashing LED in <5mins.

I have spent longer than that trying to work out which target configuration I have on some embedded systems (Yes Keil I'm talking about you!)
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I still like my Nexus One, but between the sagging power button and the lack of "real" multitouch, I'm not inclined to buy another HTC product next time.
Aging Brain's Decline May Hinge on a Gene
Whatever you do, do NOT let him stay in the home of someone you respect or like.

I've done it twice, and both parties ended up literally burning the sheets, and wouldn't discuss further what had happened.
If you can, take it in to an Apple Store. It really sounds like you have something going wrong in hardware. Like vondur said, it sounds like bad flash memory.
Um, zero?

That was pretty much the case whenever I went in to a bank branch in past years. Often I was the only one there, never was the employee to customer ratio less than 5:1, and anyone who was there was most likely to be 60+.

A visit to a physical bank branch is the anomaly today, not a lack thereof.
I'm not long on Netflix, and here's why:

1. Netflix is at the mercy of media companies that control the content. Media companies can basically charge whatever they want for their content on Netflix. If Netflix can't afford it, they'll let their contracts expire and people will no longer get to see the movies and shows they want to watch. Unfortunately, the pricing hikes made consumers realize that it was extremely expensive to spend $16 a month to rent 1 DVD a week with streaming, whereas before at $10 they could justify the cost.

2. Netflix is in a crowded market with Amazon, Hulu, Apple, Google, and the media companies themselves. Sooner or later Starz, HBO, Warner Bros, and all these other media companies may decide to start their own version of "Netflix" and cancel all their existing contracts entirely. This would be more profitable for them, and would essentially kill Netflix.

3. Poor customer relations. The Qwikster snafu significantly hurt their brand, and a lot of customers (800k so far) have already left their service. Not only are they going to have to convince their existing customer base to stay, they need to convince more customers to join, as to drive revenue growth.

4. Netflix is predicting that its combined loss of customers and European launch will push it into the red next year where it may stay for all of 2012, according to a letter to its shareholders. http://goo.gl/3VdED
PapayaMobile Announces Game Engine and Social SDK Launch for iOS
I did. It's great. I still think the stock browser should 'just work,' considering that Google also makes Chrome. I want to evaluate competitors' offerings in terms of added functionality, not basic stability. It's a bad advert for Android, just like inferior wheels on a car would be a bad advert for the car manufacturer.
Thanks for the clarification, that wasn't clear from the original post.
So if your system is heavily loaded, nobody will be able to login if bcrypt takes longer than half a second? If processing power is an issue, there are alternate solutions such as dynamically lowering the work factor (upon successful login, rehash the plaintext password they supplied using a decreased work factor) or offloading logins to a pool of servers.
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That's like expecting... Mother Theresa to do an arms deal for you.

You didn't know the real Mother Theresa, did you.
I agree with you about the persistence problem; the government acts like a rotten two-year-old that keeps trying until it gets its way. Like a two-year-old, it learns what it can get away with and tries harder each time. Unlike a two-year-old, it doesn't grow up and learn what not to do.

We shouldn't need a constitutional amendment here; the constitution is a whitelist of things the federal government may do, not a blacklist of things it may not do. While the constitution does sadly include the notion of copyright, it does not include anything allowing regulatory authority over the Internet.
That's a good point. They may not be able to fit the standard image. But if that's the only issue, then expect Cyanogenmod et. al. to have this fixed within weeks. Running real filesystems on the sdcard has been routine in the AOSP community since forever.
I have been unable to donate blood because I take Avodart. Is this the same for donating bone marrow?
I am 70 years old in good health and am a B+ blood type
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Fashion critique of Star Trek (video)
Why? What would Cocoa add to this project that would compensate for the additional work?
Quick economics lesson. The money on Wall St doesn't belong to the guys in red braces - it is the pensions of ordinary Americans and the savings of little old ladies.

Letting Wall St crash and burn means everybody in America's pension disappears - everybody over 65 is out on the street. Everybody who saved money has lost it. Nobody accepts cash anymore, after all if you put it in the bank it might dissapear. You are back to bartering chickens.
>You might also turn in a blank ballot.

Which is equivalent to boosting the winning party.
I am constantly running out of internal space on my N1. It's the worst thing about it, and the main reason I would upgrade.
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My whole point (which you've carefully elided in your response) was that you didn't need to do any of that to get the new Market, Maps, Youtube etc. on their own update schedules. Most would consider these key features and selling points of the OS and as such Apple bundles them together with OS updates and corresponding yearly(-ish) hardware releases.

Even the stuff that you have to seek out, like installing a new launcher or keyboard from the market is hardly at the level of recompiling a kernel and wouldn't even be necessary if you've already chosen a 3rd party replacement such as Swype for typing, again updated on its own schedule via the Market.

I could and did do the rest (rooting, seeking out and installing custom Roms) because I enjoy fiddling with things. I don't think a JIT is the kind of thing an average person cares about, or can make decisions about its hardware requirements. I don't recommend, or see much reason, for anyone else to do it if they are not also geeks. Your phone will not disappear in a puff of smoke, on the contrary it will still silently get better without any action on your part even if the version number on the about screen doesn't tick up.

But the facilities that lets me do all that customisation are the same thing that lets anyone use Opera or Firefox as their main browser, set to open URLs by other apps, unlike in iOS where Safari will always be the default browser. Or to change the launcher, use a different dialer or theme my phone differently. These are all good things, even if you don't use them. And there is no need to if you don't wish to.
The fun thing about transpilers is that you can chain them together. Waiting to see some C stuff ported to Lua using Emscripten via JS.
This actually is pretty cool. Two wishful additions:

- Indoor navigation.

- Integration of live video streams at location.
Python is used extensively in Big Science because it has some very powerful, very fast numerical packages such as NumPy.
According to the .NET CLR spec, you're not allowed to have a tailcall within a protected ("try") block or it's handler.

On the other hand, tail-calls can be optimized into a while loop, and the F# compiler does this in some cases (check out the IL it produces), so then you could have a recursive tail-call within a try/finally there, it just wouldn't be using the 'tail.call' / 'tail.callvirt' / 'tail.calli' OpCode.
And yet, his "words to avoid" talks specifically about "GNU is not a tool set", either...
The precedent was already set before. S&L others, it's a regular, periodic occurrence.
Most powerful US nuclear bomb dismantled
REally cool site! Thanks!