skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of Cory Doctorow's (fictional) short story Scroogled: http://www.radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/2007/09/google_...
Someone page Zed Shaw to the daily GitHub bashing thread.
What do you do when the other smart guys want to make it even more complicated? - or worse, add even more features!!!
I agree, the question is simple -- If you think the conditions in Apple's factories are abhorrent, fair enough. But whose products are you going to buy instead of Apple's?

To me, this puts the lie to the idea that any of this has to do with concern for the actual workers in these factories. If you think the conditions in Apple's factories are bad, but then you buy something made in a factory just as bad or worse, what exactly has been accomplished?

All the arguments against what you and I are saying come down to branding. Apple's brand is this, but their factories are like that. OK, fine, Apple's brand misrepresents reality. But who seriously cares about brands?! Wasn't the concern here supposed to be humans?
If you actually comparison shop and get final quotes you'll find that the employee discount is actually a much better price, particularly on leases.

The mid 90s was also toward the early edge of the use of the technique to generate sales.

To give you an example, a vehicle that the typical person would lease for around $400 per month would be available to an employee for about $275 per month. Chrysler executives get a new free lease every year, even after they retire.
"The iPad’s new “retina display” boasts a 2048-by-1536 resolution, a display that Joshua Topolsky of The Verge notes has a million more pixels than a HDTV."

Does this seem out of place in this article?
The story where it's Google's fault that a new government took over that made pretty much every past, present, and future action illegal.
Failed? They got acquired by Google for 30million odd dollars
OH CRAP, IT HAS REAL-TIME EFFECT PREVIEWS haha no just kidding
I'd argue that right now is about the dumbest time to buy a used car -- nobody bought cars in 2009 or 2010, so there is a shortage of off-lease or similar vehicles.

The smart money keeps the car they have until the market settles.
Most of the public libraries, at least in California, have free access to Safari OnLine. If you have online library access, check it out :)
I love this app, that it's free and easy to use for the hospital radio station I help run. So thanks to all those involved.

Is there anyone with some design chops who can't help them out though?
With the claims of using "dramatic license," it sounds like he's trying to have it both ways, especially since he was on Real Time with Bill Maher recently, and a lot of these things that turned out to be fabricated he mentioned in the interview as though they were fact: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iebnHvxKqlY
Just FYI, your site is completely unusable for anyone working at a company blocking Dropbox.
Try parking in Queens sometime.

"American" small cars have a reputation that is not so good.
Thanks everybody - didn't expect to make the HN front page! Still working out a couple issues.

And go watch Bret's talk if you haven't - a truly ingenious presentation! :)
I wish I had a better recommendation than flippa since it's completely full of worthless things for sale. I am constantly looking for projects to buy and would love to have a better place to look than what I've found so far.

Anyway, drop me an email with any information you can provide and I may make an offer. If you're hesitant to reveal the actual site, that makes it really tough, but with some traffic and income numbers and information about the niche, I can tell you if I'm interested enough to learn more or not.
Just a small note—US customs and immigration is handled by the Customs and Border Patrol, not the TSA (which handles security screening only).
Scientists build graphene from scratch, heralds new age of designer materials
The problem with big ideas is that they are usually fantasies. And the problem with fantasies is two-fold: First, dreaming about them will largely satisfy you and reduce your urge to actually make it happen. Secondly, you will be more easily discouraged when confronted with the obstacles that will come your way.

According to the book "59 seconds", the trick to getting things done is to interleave realistic daydreaming of the benefits of success with an assessment of the biggest problems and setbacks you are likely to encounter. It motivates you and puts you in a frame of mind of attacking the problems rather than getting discouraged by them.

Also, big ideas tend to minimize implementation difficulties, which is also why they make good fantasy material. Running the USA better than Obama? Easy - I'd close Guantanamo, put the banks in their place, provide universal healthcare, stop all wars, reduce defense spending and make sure businesses that really create value have plenty of investment and freedom. But finding 10 new clients for my web design business in the next month? No way, man. That is WAY too hard.
You misunderstood my (unclear) question.

Whether the human brain is entirely physical is for a philosophical debate which I am not interested in.

I was merely interested in "there's no reason why an algorithm couldn't output equivalent or similar results".
The truth is, we don't know yet.
I personally believe in what you claimed.
I was just asking for any papers that supported your claim, because I would be really interested in those.
I don't really know anything about this, but how does water cooling consume water? Is it not just for heat transfer?
keep asking yourself "self, what is the minimum form of this idea that will provide value?"
Using search data to predict public health issues is legal and good PR. Using search data to trade on insider information is illegal and bad PR. That's why we do the flu thing and not the stock thing :)
Don't Click Here: The Art of Hyperlinking (2007)
I'm sure I'm not the target audience, but I'm surprised that in this day and age there isn't always a shared resource lying around (a linode, a slice, an ec2 instance). Or just allow ssh between developers with accounts limited to git access. The dropbox part seems unnecessary.
STL is now a name for the C++ STandard Library, but it's semi backronymed. Originally, STL stood for "Standard Template Library", when it wasn't part of the C++ standard library.

So actually, STL refers to the standard library only in the context of C++, and only because of how it came to be.
This is not a dumb comment. B&M Gates foundation does put a lot of money into NPR. To think that the management and producers at NPR are not aware of this is ingenuous. Every editor in the country is aware of who's paying for the ads. There's certainly cases where MSFT has gotten prominent puff pieces placed into All Things Considered. Both AAPL and MSFT have "long arm" marketing strategies; don't put it past them to pull a stunt like this.
Each subpixel needs a transistor (hence TFT - thin film transistor) to drive it, along with the addressing conductors to drive it. I suspect the transistors have to have a certain minimum size to be reliable enough, so their relative size to the size of the whole pixel grows with decreasing pixel size. I'm sure they'd make them smaller if they could, as the black areas absorb a lot of precious backlight energy. I also recall reading about progress with making the transistors (which are typically silicon-on-glass) transparent, but I guess that tech isn't ready yet.
Anant Agarwal is leaving CSAIL to direct MITx
RFC 2119 All the things
whoa, i had no idea that companies did that? sorry!
Clues To Weird Saturn Moon Found in Earth Ice
How to win the war on trolls
Marketplace is produced by American Public Media.

http://www.marketplace.org/
It's pretty uncommon, but it does happen. I'll happily check this out when I get home though :)
I want this for LaTeX... for graphics like Tkiz I'm constantly recompiling.
He's probably sold enough tickets over the last 5 months in NY to retire on.

Interestingly his show's run off broadway is scheduled through the 18th; anyone want to start a pool on that?
Just needs a way to mark a theater as terrible and that I would never go there.
Huh! I JUST bought a stereomicroscope. I should try looking.
Defendant in Rutgers Spying Case Guilty of Hate Crimes
Fab: In 2 Years, iPad Users Will Account For A Quarter Of Our Revenue
No, the STL is the Standard Template Library, in C++, by STepanov and Lee at the HP Software Technology Laboratory. It doesn't mean "standard library", even though some inexperienced C++ programmers get confused between the STL and the rest of the standard library, now that the STL is part of the standard library.
The Labor Activist Who Just Can’t Do It Without His iPhone (re: Mike Daisey)
Bitcoin may be susceptible to Goldfinger-style attacks
read this thread on quora , very gud answer for getting ur first 0-100k users in stages, follow the links some great presentations there.
http://www.quora.com/Startup-Traction/How-do-social-sites-ex...
Dutch News site spread Malware on 100000 Computers
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Am I the only one that judges HN stories on an 'I regret wasting my time on this' scale?

As in:

Outcome A) working, take a break, visit HN, read linked post, regret wasting my time on terrible blog post, immediately think: I should be working right now, not reading about some supposed megalomaniac's personal problems.

Outcome B) working, take a break, visit HN, read linked post, judge my time well spent learning something of value.

In some form or another I value appraise all HN stories by this scale.

When the guy started talking about getting his feelings hurt by a stranger's nearly worthless opinion (why would you value a stranger's opinion so highly Mr. Megalomaniac?), and then getting wasted accordingly, I knew I was in for a real special read. When he followed that up by calling himself a megalomaniac, I bailed. And it is thus that piece of junk goes in the 'I regret reading any of this' category.
Shooting the Proscenium Arch: How People Fail to Realize Technology's Potential
Did you read the article? One of the major points is that it's not just the top 1% of the applicants.
I have tried to watch TED talks on my Roku, but the quality is terrible. Many of the videos (especially the older ones) freeze, cannot be rewound, and have audio sync problems. According to the Roku support forums, the TED channel is an unofficial hobby project maintained by a Roku engineer in his spare time. He says the video problems started after ted.com changed their video formats. He can't afford to pay for transcoding/serving of Roku-friendly videos.
Except the Barcelona Supercomputer Centre, in a church...

http://degiorgi.math.hr/~vsego/phun/beautiful_supercomputer/
Not evaporative cooling.
Hall.com violates privacy by displaying email domains as registered companies
Hall.com advertises/leaks full "user" list.
OTOH, it's now a (limited) test market for sonic.net's uncapped 1 Gbps service. ;-)
The customer service for Safari is great too.

1) I got some promotional mail for a new subscriber deal, and I asked if they could give me that deal too. In response they gave me a better deal and a free month.

2) I used my tokens to download what I thought was the latest edition of a book(2005, pdf only), but discovered a month later that there was a newer one just released(6yrs newer, epub and .mobi formats). I asked if there was anything they could do, and they refunded my tokens so I could get the new one. (They also gave me 200 extra tokens which they removed after I notified them. If it was a smaller qty I would have just assumed they were being nice and kept them, but 200 was pretty clearly an error.)
While reading Daisey's response[1], something jumped out at me: as a defense for "embellishing the truth" he says: "What I do is not journalism. The tools of the theater are not the same as the tools of journalism."

Why does that defense (from a disgraced journalist) sound familiar? Oh yeah, David Pogue, when faced with serious charges of conflict of interest: "I am not a reporter. I’ve been an opinion columnist my entire career...I try to entertain and inform."

And where did I read that? The Atlantic Wire piece[2] on Dave Pogue. And how did I find that piece? Oh yeah, Mike Daisey linked to it from his indictment[3] of David Pogue on his blog.

Summary: Daisey endorses a critique of Pogue that calls the defense of "I'm not a journalist" ridiculous, then Daisey invokes the exact same (pitiful) defense. Yechh...

For the record I support Daisey's crusade and think Pogue is a fool on this issue, but it's really irritating to find out that the highest profile critic of Apple labor conditions is both a liar and a Class-A Hypocrite. Now those who want to dismiss critiques of gadget-makers' labor practices have a great new reason to do just that. The campaign to improve working conditions for gadget makers would be better off if Daisey had stayed out of it completely; his contribution was (imo) a net setback.

[1] http://mikedaisey.blogspot.com/2012/03/statement-on-tal.html
[2] http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2011/05/david-pogue-...
[3] http://mikedaisey.blogspot.com/2012/02/david-pogue-is-only-c...
Living in Seattle I'm thinking the same thing reading the responses here. It looks like Seattle averages 944mm per year, so here's a "hello" to our Irish friends enjoying the same gray skies we have...
You're over thinking the problem.

We're not ... I'm not ... talking about anything but intent to harm.

Marine has it.
Cheerleader doesn't.

Cheerleader is harmless.
Marine isn't.

This intentionally simple example excludes random fumbling with controls.
The privacy policy, meanwhile, states…

"We will not share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies, unless we have your permission…"
The commenter in question is afraid of a little girl with a gun. So .. me _might_ well be afraid of plastic bags.
I find it fascinating that the human eye can pick up on that kind of effect, considering the screen is driven at 60Hz (16.7ms). I haven't noticed it on the first-gen iPad [1], but it suddenly becomes apparent when turning some desktop screens into portrait mode. There must be something about horizontal movement that the eye picks up on. Either that or we're completely desensitised against vertical refresh because all screens we've grown up with refresh that way.

[1] I can only assume the new iPad's LCD is more inert in some way? Smaller pixels, slower crystal?
Again, it's irrelevant. NPR is not involved in the production or distribution of This American Life.
the technical term is "tmesis", if you want to read more about it in a linguistic context.
I use Audacity all the time: with customers' permission, I will record short bits of our Skype calls if I think that later I might want to refer back to directions, requirements, etc. This saves needless note taking.

Great app!
It may be that the web has rotted in the way described, so that it takes longer for users to find what they want. But I would argue this dynamic actually benefits Google: searching takes longer, so users spend more time using Google's services.

So there's this perverse incentive to make search as crappy as possible, right up to the limit where users switch to another search engine. And the great thing about this "web rot" (from Google's perspective) is that it affects all search engines, so users won't switch.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that Google is intentionally pursuing this "crapification" strategy, but they may not worry about the web rot as much as the author thinks, at least in the short term.

But while decreasing search result relevance may be neutral or even beneficial, increasing ad relevance is a big benefit for Google. And that is where social comes in: it allows for more targeted ads.
Agreed. The PSD wrapper is kludgy.

Sites that just need to put a brand logo up as part of a content update are just going to resize the logo from available PNGs.

I imagine in any more complicated cases someone with Illustrator is doing the job.
When Jon first told me about what his job entailed I found it interesting. He came to our Startup Weekend and even became the lead designer for our team (HackLadder). I think it would be great to branch out and see Hackathons in different areas.

Jon is spot on when it comes to our community. There has been a pretty big spike in Hackathons around here. I have noticed a lot more talk about it on the internet as well.
Google Summer of Code 2012 accepted Org. list has just released
Not so fast.

Remember James Frey (tricked Oprah and her staff).

He's doing quite well, see "current work":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Frey
It's a dumb comment because NPR has nothing to do with This American Life even if you believe that the largest private charity foundation in the world is a shill for Microsoft.
Maybe, just maybe we can expect more from future internet companies. facebook and twitter seem to be in the right direction. but i think actually MAKING something that is USEFUL to whoever your trying to make money off, not whatever BS g+ is playing at.

Before i was even into programming i was into making. take heed google sheeps.
they eat their fill

That's when you apply the $5 solution: a slingshot.
Oh "one more thing".

There's Henry Blodget as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Blodget
I am an iOS developer and I listened to the episode with "Mr. Daisey & The Apple Factory".

It definitely struck a cord in me; two specific things.

#1 Excellence is in the culture. Unabashed, aggressive, and strident. If you didn't read the docs then why are you even talking? That kind of attitude. iOS more than any other language is a club for readers, because devs here respect the legacy of code. But since I am American and because I have my pick of whatever platform or language, I have a choice. No matter what my situation, what excuse I may make, at the end of the day I chose iOS and I adopted Apple's culture. But, if I were in a different situation, where there really isn't another job out there, and culture is not really a choice, and I was forced to perform on such a level (and Apple's culture bleeds into every facet of its organization, software, hardware, sales) it might be a waking nightmare. It is one thing to embrace the grind to stay up night after night, eating garbage, working on your next startup because it is in your blood, and being broke and poor and performing to the beat of a driven man's rhythm.

#2 I'm sure there is a significant reason why China doesn't see the release of iOS products until much later but it still just rubs me the wrong way. Having iOS products released sooner than later in your country is a privilege. Does the country that make these products not deserve that privilege?

I love This American Life, I love iOS and the objective-c language, and am an admirer of Steve Jobs and the company he created. I don't have any heated feeling about anyone in all this so let me say I have nothing but respect for all parties involved. However there is a common thread in all this between Apple, Steve, China and startup culture--the pursuit of excellence at the cost of normal human needs, and the amount of suffering/neglect man is willing to put himself through to achieve his/her goals--that widened my eyes, because it somehow reminded me of what I was doing to myself. You all know what I'm talking about. If you have ever hustled, tried your hand as a founder, embraced the grind you know; the depth of depravity we all put yourselves through to reach an ephemeral goal. It has no taste though sweet in our minds. Always driven with trained eyes unwavering stares, focused, mental, cold as some might describe us. All for what? But to perform at a high level. All else being secondary.

I look forward to the corrections episode and am working harder to embrace my fun side.
Sorry, but I haven't used Audacity in a while ... how exactly do you record Skype calls with it? Is there some sort of integration with the app or your sound card?
"UNIX in a Nutshell" and "Essential System Administration" helped kick-start my career back in '95-96, and I'll always be grateful for that.

I was in their "O'Reilly Irregulars" group a few years ago, where folks volunteered to go inventory/catalog the ORA books at their local favorite bookstore, in exchange for a free book or two a month. I also ran banner ads for ORA on a couple of my websites. Marsee and the rest of the crew there are wonderful people to deal with.

I go out of my way to buy ebook versions of their titles directly now even though I could pirate them easily for free.
Apple A5X likely still 45 nm
This is a pretty neat idea. One thing I'd consider changing is your use of the Rotten Tomatoes rating icons. You're using the Tomatometer Critics icons, but the % score you're displaying is actually the audience rating. This may not matter most of the time, but occasionally you have a movie like "A Thousand Words" that has a 0% tomatometer rating, and a 60% audience rating. (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a-thousand-words/). Mixing up the two ratings could be a little misleading.

It may be better to just include both ratings on there, or stick with a single rating source.
Can't find a link, but I think I saw somewhere that pg/YC actually pitched reddit to the reddit team because they liked the team but disliked their original idea.
Where are you pulling the movie times data from? I've been trying to make a local application but couldn't find an API anywhere, it came down to web scraping, which isn't very sustainable.

EDIT:
Is this coming from Yahoo?
I use Audacity to record live radio shows, DJ mixes, edit sounds for games and even for the odd bits of quick and dirty sample manipulation for music production. For the price it's a really great piece of software. :)
Subpixel rendering takes advantage of this fact: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering
The comparison is the same whether you normalize to $0 or $X.
When I saw it originally, the question about accuracy was right next to the search box. I didn't click on anything to get it. But that's interesting. I guess it got integrated at some point.
> These are hard topics to write about, because inspiring talk quickly slides into feel-goodness

Don't you think that "Ever­yone is born crea­tive; ever­yone is given a box of cra­yons in kindergarten." Crosses that line? It's really easy to prove that wrong. Statistically, that's a bad advice. In my personal opinion, that sounds like a dishonest mean to get your readers to like you.

I don't blame him tho. I don't think he's doing any wrong. There's a difference between "scientifically correct" and "politically correct". And I understand that, unfortunately, life sometimes makes you choose the political path instead of the scientifically correct one. If a kid with mental disorder asks you "will I ever be an astronaut?", it might be dishonest to pat him in the back and tell him, of course you can, just try hard enough. But I wouldn't blame those who would.
records system input
NPR isn't supposed to be leftist, it's supposed to be journalism. That's what separates them from other outlets, they're either focused on advocacy (fox, currentTV) or entertainment (CNN, MSNBC).
Oh, thanks! I can't believe I never thought of poking around in the accessibility features to look for TTS. What I used instead on my iPod Touch was a dedicated TTS app (whose name I can't remember right now): to hear an Instapaper article, for example, I'd copy the entire thing to the clipboard (which was a little inconvenient since there didn't seem to be a "select all" command) and then paste it in to the TTS app. If I ever go back to iOS, I'll be sure to remember this tip.