skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would the US electricity infrastructure care if the electrons come from coal heat or sun light?

And if renewable power becomes cheap enough you can synthesis gasoline from air. Renewable power does not have to become incredibly cheap for this work. If the price of oil rises high enough that alone could make synthesizing fuel using solar power profitable.... in theory.
Exactly. Many of the benefits of Obj C's dynamism come into play with the UI, where the main speed constraint is the response time of the user. And whenever you need to write compute bound code it is easy to drop down into C.
Node.js vs Python with Greenlets
Failing & Doing in Silicon Valley
Internet outage only briefly delays griping via social media
how will alien distinguish this from random noise that is scrached on disk.
Worked for me with Chrome 15.0.874.106
Can you print an RFID tag? Can an RFID tag be read off of a billboard? I like RFIDs but I don't think they'll completely replace QR codes.

I agree that marketers should explicitly tell you what a scanned QR code is going to do.

I've found i-nigma's iPhone app to be the fastest (free) scanner. Blazingly so.

QR codes were never designed for public consumption and look quite digital. I like the trend of 'designer QR codes' and error-correction within the QR code's data payload allows for a certain amount of design freedom.
Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science, Digital Edition
I sent you screenshots.
Microsoft Continues to Struggle for Smart Phone Market Share
This reminds me a lot of my business partner, who will not rest until our projects are perfect. She's driven me nuts the entire time I've worked with her, but this has brought our output to a much higher level than I would have achieved without such an influence.

You have to love and hate someone who has such obsessive attention to detail. The key to making this mindset positive is knowing when it matters and when it doesn't.
International Foreign Government E-Mails Hacked by TeaMp0isoN
I also do something like this for http://jsonifier.com. I had users requesting that JSON pastes could be deleted after they were requested once. So, I know people find these kinds of features useful. I didn't think about building an entire tool around that one feature. Nice thinking!
Validate your product concept in 7 days on a bootstrapped budget.
Does anybody know how deep their natural language processing is? i.e. Will it understand when I ask 'List all of my Twitter followers how also follow John Doe?'
Ruby on Rails 3.1 installation on Ubuntu - the most complete tutorial
Random light-related horror story:

Not long before developing a debilitating neck issue, I got moved away from my excellent desk where I sat near a window, with my back to it. I was quite happy.

After getting moved toward the middle of the room, sitting with the window to my side, I was miserable. After a few months, my neck issues started.

I've only recently realized that this was at least partly due to my astigmatism. My contacts didn't compensate for astigmatism, and without realizing it, I was craning my neck further forward over time. Having the bright light at my back gave a significant sharpening effect, thanks to the pupil constriction, and allowed me to work without eye strain for much longer.

Recently, I've gotten contacts which correct astigmatism. They don't correct precisely enough to come anywhere near the precision of my glasses, so I still experience eye strain and crane my neck. I'm now beginning to ponder Lasik, since it sounds like they're getting consistently better results out of it these days.
Show HN: Why did I follow? - helps remember why you followed people on twitter
I appreciated the tone and contents of the article until this paragraph. Revealing the details of the flaw would allow MongoDB supporters to continue the discussion. I would like to know if it's related to a design choice or if it's a trivial bug.
I don't know, I think the idea of Hangouts with the Google+ Pages is kind of neat. Maybe it won't work for giant corps like Pepsi, but smaller companies might find it an interesting way to engage fans? Maybe demo things? I don't know, seems interesting.
fantastic. any application that has a password should also provide a method to generate a few one-time log-in urls that one could use from untrusted computers/environments. These uris could be issued with different privileges: e.g. for email, providing just access to the data younger than maybe two weeks.
You know what's funny? The company that I work for wrote a web app for a large company and we also host it for them. At one point in time, they requested a way for users to reset their passwords. We implemented it, but they never use it. They prefer to email me their passwords in plain-text. I think I've handled two of these types of emails today, alone!
Actually this service is perfect for finding out if someone has been snooping, since the "secrets" disappear on viewing.
I think they just want to make money off of merchandise that uses the artwork.
This is the HN discussion and comments about this article (How To Safely Store A Password):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004833
Example: I live in the EU. I speak N languages. I want a job in any country that speaks one of those languages, since job visas are easy in the EU.

Example: I live in X. It's near country Y, but only the southern parts of Y. I'd like a job in country Y, since salaries are higher there, but not in country X.
But does it work? Siri's main advantage is that it does most of the time. We've had speech recognition for a long time, but it just wasn't reliable.
The iPhone wasn't merely a "tweak" on existing cell phones, or even the Palm Pilot.

Are you kidding? It was clearly a tweak of the Palm Pilot and the Treo phone. Same form factor, same 'one app open at a time' philosophy, same launch screen. The key tweak was eliminating the stylus.

Calling the Macintosh a tweak on the Xerox Alto I think is also hardly fair.

Why? It was certainly similar enough to litigate the issue. I'd agree though that the Mac was probably the riskiest product Jobs produced, in terms of predecessors in the market.

If that is true, then all products ever released have been tweaks...

Every once in awhile there is a real innovation. The aforementioned Newton, say, or the Wii-mote. The Walkman seems more like a tweak, there were already portable tape recorders in wide use.
Some extra scorn via Bill Hicks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo
The http://moodbe.at one mentioned in the comments of the OP's link is really good IMO.
Really? Maybe I'm just an optimist, but it sounded more like "Every product has its bugs, and there's no point in pointing fingers here when it's not the point of this blog post."

I'm sure that Riak has bugs too - there are very few software products that DON'T (the provably-correct C compiler CompCert[1] being one that shouldn't). But it seemed to me that the post's author was simply trying to avoid getting sidetracked.

[1] http://compcert.inria.fr/compcert-C.html
I think his objection is to the wording, not the concept.
DANG, I just been looking for a lean music player (non-itunes) for ages. release date goal?
Yes. People that don't know better, and people that are only installing dist packaged stuff. I know a lot of people in the second group, though most of those doesn't use Ruby.
OK how about a more recent Guardian article (by Cory Doctorow)? http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/17/why-cctv-do...

Bruce Schneier? https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/06/cctv_cameras....

The BBC? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8219022.st...

A meta-study on the effectiveness of CCTVs in the UK? http://ipvideomarket.info/report/is_public_cctv_effective
I use the Antec lights described in the post; you can see a picture of them in the dark here: http://jseliger.com/2011/10/07/steve-jobs-passes-and-the-int... . They're a definite improvement but don't provide a huge amount of light. But it's enough to make a difference. Plus, they're really cheap, at $12 from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Antec-Halo-LED-Bias-Lighting/dp/B0053B...
Keiferski, I'm actually asking how to build something like that Mockingbird. But thanks, I didnt know that one.
No, it's really not, as long as you follow current guidance on counts for iteration. There are people smarter than <x> random person and sometimes (often with crypto) it's better to follow their advice. Anyone can make a system that they themselves cannot break. Don't be that person.
Gmail blog:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/
Well, it is actually monitored by Stella. What is the issue?
Why you should put conditions on your public contributions
Exactly: random personal bias. Just because you haven't been back there doesn't mean anything about the rest of the user base. The same could be said about anyone that's signed up for Facebook or Twitter and are part of their 600 and 100 million user statistics, respectively.

I'm as curious to see engagement metrics as much as the next guy, but I'm not reading tea leaves to predict doom and destruction for not happening to release those numbers just 6 weeks after the site came out of beta. You're trying too hard.
A standard assumption in cryptography, known as Kerckhoff's principle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27_principle), is: "A cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge." or "Don't rely on security by obscurity.".
1080p output but a 600p screen without any video output capabilities. Why? Are they just saying they can re sample 1080p files to a lower resolution?
A Personal Guide to Digital Happiness
I'm really enjoying the simple and clean interface! A GREAT start.
so glad to here this. I am curious how you decide which courses are worth pursuing and which aren't.

My guess is that it would be useful to review job sites and see which skills are in demand relative to some estimate of the supply of those skills.

I really hope this is the future of education - college is such a waste of time/money for learning practical skills.
You're welcome.

The reason we use it for passwords is because there's no way to know the application or the user account associated to it.
Not true. Amazon's response to support requests is, in my experience, "we're overnighting you a new widget. do whatever you want with the old one."

This isn't documented, but it's how things have always worked for me. Sometimes my request is "the item in the description is not the item I've received" and I eventually give up after receiving the same wrong item 4 times. That's how ingrained the process is; they don't read my email, they just mail me a replacement. Oh well.
I will now take 30 seconds to continuously click my screen where the "upvote" button initially appeared.

A test case that confirms data loss would actually be one of the few things that COULD make this MongoDB discussion constructive.
This is amazing. One click from the homepage and I was ready to learn about iOS development. It's very evident that you guys have put a lot of work into making a great UX. Keep up the great work!
Considering the aliens are examining an interstellar space probe with manufactured materials and systems, perhaps they could intelligently conclude that the disc isn't there for any other purpose than to contain information?
You quoted "incremental or concurrent".
How about http://www.turning-pages.com/contact/1323fb7/c013.jpg
Very funny that you suggest computing enthusiasts are not subject to personal connections with brands. The phrase "fan boy" was essentially created within the technology domain.
I'm thinking that their unique ID (31 char) plus the key (AES 22) is a little long for a URL:

http://example.com/1234567890123456789012345678901/123456789...

I do like the idea though of keeping the secrets safe with a client-side (or non-stored) key. So long as it's known that it isn't about keeping the server honest, since you have to implicitly trust that they won't be storing the key.
I'm guessing since the poster is a really new member, they either don't know how to search for old posts or didn't realize that this was a repost.
awesome. looking for a foobar2000 equiv for mac, but cannot find one. looking to opesource it? would love to help.
I wonder why every alien-oriented mathematical thing I've seen includes binary. It doesn't seem very important to me to communicate that we understand base two, versus showing some more advanced mathematical formulas.
Introducing Dropbox for Teams
Cool design and good quality videos, nice product!

but IMHO the Badge map is confusing. When I click a badge I expect to be redirected to the page of each badge, not to a full size image of all of them.
I had the very same thought.

This mentality is fine if you don't want to (or have to) maintain and support anything—and from looking around the author's site, it appears he makes dozens of small things and then leaves them to rot.
Hello Indrora,

Nice work! I'm afraid the link to the mirror is busted.
I suggest you upload it to Github (if it wasn't already).

While I don't have great expertise on .NET, I'd be glad to give you a hand.

Also, anything that can leave Reflector and the fiasco around it in the past, is good in my book ;)
And one more thing to add. If the speculators are doing their job properly the current price of hard drives is as high as its going to get, as opposed to the zero speculation market where prices don't skyrockets until the supply chain actually empties, and people aren't conserving their HD usage as much before then.
2011 Stack Overflow Moderator Elections
How does this differ from sending pass-phrase encrypted ZIP file via email or IM beyond auto-delete feature?
Krugman, as is his custom, criticizes his political enemies without even knowing their position.

From the article: Let’s face it: a large part of our political class, including essentially the entire G.O.P., is deeply invested in an energy sector dominated by fossil fuels, and actively hostile to alternatives.

If they are "actively hostile" to alternatives, why did they pass a law subsidizing alternatives?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Policy_Act_of_2005

Also, why are we submitting inflammatory and dishonest pundits to HN, rather than a source that might skip the politics and cover some actual science?
A New Way for Robots to Balance on Two Feet
I'm a big fan of Ryan Carson. The sites really cool. The fonts in the intro videos bother me though. Museo in particular looks really ugly for whatever reason.
Definitely agreed, and really great example. It sounds like he is speaking to a 3 year old, which is super annoying and a big turnoff. Just speak normally, and people will have a much easier time handling it
For me sending sensitive information using a 3rd party service, no matter what the privacy policy is, is not an option.

On the other hand the amount of positive comments simply shows how bad user experience do the current solutions like GPG/PGP have and how easy it is for people to choose convenience over security, even on this forum.
but still you need to interpret that data, which can be done in infinite number of ways
Knyle style recruiting
Also agree with this - I really do not like museo with text shadow on the web
I like your comments so much that I specifically follow them, but this comment would be equally as informative if you kept only the last graf.
Whilst I do agree it changes things, this type of interface doesn't necessarily rule out advertising.

At the end of the day, someone needs to pay the bills. With Siri, you're arguably paying the bill when you give your money to Apple.

A future free 'Siri', from Google or elsewhere, might have to rely on advertising money. A lot of Siri's functionality is search - there's no reason why Siri couldn't serve up sponsored results when you make a search just as we're used to with more traditional search engines.
Lasik might be improving, but as far as I understand, the "best corrected vision" is still inferior to glasses. This means that while you no longer need correction, your visual acuity is worse than what it was with glasses.

I'm curious what you mean when you say your contacts "don't correct precisely enough". Is this because the axis/cylinder combination you want doesn't exist or because the contacts move on your eye and screws up the correction?

I have a fair amount of problems with the latter (my cornea has some funny shape that has a tendency to twist the contacts), but I find that it varies a lot between contact brands. So if you didn't already, next time you renew your prescription, try getting trial pairs of different brands and wear them for a week to see if one fits you better.
Cinder: open-source creative C++
no, not looking to
Hey Ryan, great website. I would really like to try your product but its completely out of my price range (I'm a student). I was wondering if there was any chance I could provide you something in exchange for a discounted rate. Say, testing, feedback, or anything in that nature.
Stylus input and finger input are just completely different ways to approach the user interface.

I agree that getting finger input right was the critical factor, but I don't think it was at all obvious that it would produce a completely different user experience. Looking forward from five years ago, I don't think you could call it anything but a tweak---it's only with the benefit of hindsight (unless you share Jobs' unique talent) that you can see that a small design change (use your finger instead of a stylus!) could make such a big difference.
In my experience the Debian problem goes way beyond not having the most recent gems; they broke Rubygems, so that things like Bundler don't work.

No matter what they thought was reasonable, they should have just left gems alone.
Nice! We'll use it for our next app.
What Android fans think of iPhone users
The only software I have used that doesn't crash or hang occasionally is the bare linux command line and bash. Everything else has occasional or worse problems. I'm beginning to think software is another one of those things that has no "Good", just "Bad" and "Worse". (Linux may not crash or hang, but it is a royal pain to configure on/for some hardware.)
+10 for the product, seems really nice.
But I don't like the main site, it's not very informative

I'm doing something similar for my master thesis, a pig console embedded in js and also Cassandra support. I expect to release it in mid-January.
High Altitude Rocket Launch (aka Lunar Rocket for 5K)
Hate paper? HelloFax (YC W11) is hiring mobile developers...
We're using Redis. You?
there you go, from the horse's mouth and fresh off the press:

"For better or worse, many people consider MongoDB and Riak to be competitors. In reality, there are very few similarities between the products."

http://seancribbs.com/tech/2011/11/07/mongodb-and-riak-in-co...
IMO it's going to come down to selection, price, and experience.

Unless either side comes out with a killer feature that the other can't replicate.

What's the selection of titles, movies, and music? What's the pricing look like? What's the buying and consumption experience? Amazon has all 3 down to an art. Does B&N?
I was even gonna write a big blog post and say something similar to what you just said, but (of course) you said it better. Thank you.
You're qualifications also include using the name HilbertSpace [1] on Hacker News.

Seriously though, I've recently graduated from an undergraduate institution where the mathematics courses were rigorous and proof based. While I thought I was learning a lot of math in High School (I was working hard, which should mean I was learning, right?), it did very little to prepare me for any sort of real mathematics. I think this was a function of both the textbooks and the teachers.

However, when I entered college, for most of my mathematics courses, the professors taught out of their own books. Some of these were published texts, but most were collections of notes they had refined over years of teaching. In every case, I much preferred these to doing math from a random textbook. The professors just taught better when they were using their own book.

Part of this may be that better professors are more likely to write their own book. However, I think there actually would be value from K-12 teachers writing or at least collaborating on the main body of their course material. It might help to remove the scenario where a student asks a teacher a question, and they give an answer that directly contradicts what is said in the book.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_space
International SMS reach for Amazon SNS? Yes
Thanks. jsonifier.com looks cool btw.
Selling LTO Tape Media: what you should know
I'm really baffled as to why you're being down-voted. QR codes and RFIDs share some aspects in common, but the points you outlined are the most relevant differences.

RFID also has the issue of discoverability. In order for someone to know that they should scan for RFID, there would need to be some visual indicator. The only reduction in user friction would be the fact that they need not point their phone at the indicator.
I'm really curious hear from those familiar with the subject -- does what these guys say make sense? It sounds plausible, but the devil's in the details.
Asleep at the wheel: Study finds motorists admit to drowsy driving
A little turntable.fm like thing for Spotify
My grandfather wouldn't know what to do with an encrypted ZIP file. A lot of my friends wouldn't either.
And it's a terrible reading device, especially if you've used a high-ppi display. I was ok with reading on the iPad until I got the iPhone 4S. Now I can't stand to read on it, the pixels practically leap out of the screen at me.

Maybe future tablets don't have to hit 300ppi, but they need to be a lot better than the iPad's 132ppi.
http://cogx.org/ not as slick as the OPs but it should hold you over for the next month or two
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This is absolutely incredible. THANK YOU for FLAC support. You have no idea how long I've been needing this.
I think your "extensive file support" + the nice UI is going to be the winning combo.
wait when they find out alien technology infringes some earth patents
Nice. I think you should be VERY up front about why this beats iTunes though as this is essentially supposed to be a replacement for a 1st party app that literally everyone uses. Can I sync my iPhone? I REALLY like that there's FLAC support.
This gave me one of the best "the world is awesome"-feelings. Seeing how much we discovered, how much we know, seeing humans being humans, living their life. And at the same time knowing that we are only a drop in the ocean of the universe. Barely escaped from the claws of evolution. All these messages a tiny hope, that maybe someday somewhere somebody/thing will discover them. A tiny scream against the vastness of interstellar space.
And we we wonder. Wondering how 'they' will perceive us. What will they think of us? Will they understand us? Like thinking about seeing your girlfriends parents for the first time. Only on a vastly grander scale...

Hm, sorry for this little anti-rant. Some things are ... not meant to be captured by words.
Hmm, it crashed 7% into importing my iTunes library. Can I help debug at all (forward you my .xml file, etc)? Email me at my HN username <at> gmail.com.
Can DRAM replace hard drives and SSDs? RAMCloud creators say yes
Sadly no mention of multipart upload. If you use S3's multipart upload feature you can get similar performance for one file by uploading multiple parts of the file at once. I saw a substantial throughput improvement when I implemented some multipart upload code, even when uploading from EC2.
Technorati's Tracy Williams is alive and safe in a local hospital
There's an option to require a password before displaying the secret.
I had the same experience. My Kindle 2 stopped working, and I got a new one for free in the mail two days after I called Amazon up about it. On the other hand, I also love my h4x'd first-generation Nook.