skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can certainly believe that. I'm a long way from perfect sighted, but I am apparently close to the average once corrected. The fact remains though that the pixel density is comparable to phones released a couple of years ago, and the distance between 'retina' and 'non-retina' is mere inches.

It is the old audiophile argument I guess, we'll never know for sure without double blind testing. I would like to give that a trial, sit people at 10" from a black mask screen with a small rectangle in it, display a pure white image at the lowest brightness and see what people report.
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If they are actively logging communications for future decryption due to predicted increased computational power, and the allegations of them leaking confidential communications to US firms to gain competitive advantage are true:

Then this is another argument against (foreign/multinational) businesses conducting anything sensitive in the cloud, even if it is encrypted end to end and stored encrypted. Particularly for information that the businesses want to keep indecipherable for many years.
Github wasn't hacked. Github had a programming error. The RAILS docs clearly state to be careful of mass assignment. It's a known issue.

Your product is only as good as the people who build it. Github devs are amazing I'm sure, however it just takes one moment of, "Sheesh, why am I wasting these lines of code when I can consolidate it into one line."
Discuss the ideas with other smart guys. I've always found that when I think about an idea by myself, I can overcomplicate it and tend to underestimate how much work it will be. Sharing the ideas with other smart guys can counteract this.

Your question is super good. This may be the hardest part of coming up with a new business.
My thoughts: Do you have even one person who is using the site?
- If yes, get a quote from them. Show us their pictures. Social proof makes it easier for us to trust the site.
- If no, talk to friends, refine the idea. Get 10 (ideally 100) on the site. Ask them why they are using it, and change the phrasing on the site appropriately.

Personally, I can't imagine needing to Archive a repo. Yes, repos get old, but that's what a source repo is for. If you can give me reasons, then I might signup.

Now, maybe you are:
1. offering me a way to save money because GitHub charges per repo. If so, tell that on your homepage.
2. offering me a way to save time by not having to see junk. If so, tell that on your homepage.
I got the same spinning popcorn problem. Nothing else loaded.
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NPR Retracts  This Am. Life's Foxconn Piece: “Significant Fabrications”
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Has no one considered the possibility that this Chinese citizen, who lives and works in China, might not be well served by asserting the truth of Daisey's story?

His apology seems to concede a fair amount of dramatization, and he didn't (in advance of hearing the Ira/Mike conversation) appear to assert the truth of those specific parts of the story. But supposing he did stand by some of these details, we'd have a he said/she said, with strong incentives on each side.
A bit arbitrary. Many "Japanese" and "German" cars are manufactured in the US.
Github is down
Twitter update says connectivity issues.
Mike Daisey admits to the fabrication.
It is possible to live in Manhattan for $70K/year--with roommates. However you should not have any financial shocks. You should not, just to name a personal example, find yourself suddenly needing three dental implants at $2700 each, not including the cost or surgery. You should avoid cabs and use public transportation instead. And you should avoid taking advantage of any cultural activity that isn't free.

One downside of taking lower paying jobs is that employers often decide that you really are worth the lower salary. Programmers can end up doing system administration and desktop work. Perhaps that's not too bad in moderation, but it's very easy to get sucked into an on-call mode. Then again there may be exceptional people who can program in their heads as if they had an office with a door they can close, while some administrative assistant is nagging about corrupted email.
I think your criticism applies more to the consumer behavior than to this analysis of it.
The scale of things
Github is down
http://status.github.com
Came here to say the same thing -- perhaps less educated individuals are more amenable to lower prices, more willing to bargain, less understanding of market prices... but that's all correlative.
“I think the UI isn’t so good.” == "trashed"?
Have anyone tried drizzle? It looks like its developers are trying to bring some of the postgres goals to MySQL codebase. I wonder if anyone has seriously used the software?
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Well, compared to Startup Bootcamp, what Enterprise Ireland are offering doesn't seem like a brilliant deal to me. For one, do they give you that money outright? Last I checked, they only matched investments, so if you wanted 15K you had to raise 15K yourself too. Also, I'm not sure what they want in return and what kind of mentorship or introductions to investors they offer.

Startup Bootcamp on the other hand also gives you ~15K and seems to be modeled on YC - you can do what you want with the money, they provide mentorship with a large network of entrepreneurs and investors, they have a demo day where you pitch in front of investors etc.

Maybe I'm a little outdated on my information on EI however.
You think it's random that Detroit buys American cars and New York doesn't?

I'm sure there's some noise here, but the above strongly confirms conventional wisdom.
I don't at all disagree.

But it isn't these people's fault for thinking so, they spent twenty years of their lives working "hard" (for the wrong definition of hard) and being told this lie.
It took a lot of convincing to get them to switch from using Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator.
This is not as green as it sounds.

This area of the united states suffers from huge water shortages, and the river they are using is a major source of water for Atlanta (I'm not sure if they are upsteam or down from Atlanta).

As a result by the time the river flows out of Georgia into Alabama and Florida it is very diminished. This makes those states pretty upset since they also want to use the water.

So what does Google do? They evaporate the water! What a waste.

Water cooling is not really a very clean thing in this part of the country.

I would like to see some numbers: How much energy does it cost to desalinate the amount of water they are wasting? If it's more than the energy they are saving then they do not have a net win.
No, he would have never done the lend-lease in WWII, and it is unlikely we would have been targeted in WWI.
During the original piece, host Ira Glass gives the impression that they were originally sceptical, saying that they "actually spent a few weeks checking everything that he says in his show." So I guess they need to check a bit harder next time...

Full quote: "When I saw Mike Daisey perform this story on stage, when I left the theater I had a lot of questions. I mean, he's not a reporter, and I wondered, did he get it right? And so we've actually spent a few weeks checking everything that he says in his show."

From http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/t... or http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.thi...
Very cool! Are you involved with that site?

I see it's got a map showing bike share docks in London (by default, with a bunch of other cities available), with a circle for each docks whose size is proportional to the size of the dock, and a color ranging from blue (for empty) to red (for full), and the color scheme is configurable. And it's got a neat graph showing the number of bikes in the dock over time for the last 24 hours.

One minor irritation is that the graph is overlaid on top of the distance scale line (labeled "1km 1mi"), so it looks like that line is part of the graph. Also, it'd be nice if the graph were labeled by time of day rather than hours ago.

(One funny thing is the use of "scheme" even for the US pages, since as Wiktionary notes "In the US, generally has devious connotations, while in the UK, frequently used as a neutral term for projects: “The road is closed due to a pavement-widening scheme.”".)
I thought this was supposed to be fun
I appreciate the feedback! Your social proof point is compelling.

I am paying Github for the middle individual plan, but I only actually commit to 1 or 2 of those private repositories. So, I archived the repos that I don't have any intention of committing to and freed up those slots by deleting them on Github. Therefore, yes, I am trying to offer you a way to save money because one way they charge is per private repository.
The most ironic part is that this new app's UI sucks as well. High res photos != UI
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Where do you think your used car is coming from? If no one bought a new car for a year whose car would they buy?

Buying used (or coming off lease) is generally a wise choice, but sometimes there really is a qualitative feature difference between this year's model and previous ones. If you are selecting a vehicle with mediocre milage in the first place, getting a new model could mean a 15-20% difference in mpg and that will probably pay off the price differential between the new car and a used car.
Wow, again, why not just use jgit & your own S3 account and push to S3. If they are just compressing your git repo, why not just upload yourself?
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PubStandards, programming user groups (both Ruby and Python Ireland groups are excellent means of networking and I met many startup enthusiasts and entrepreneurs through them), attend a Startup Weekend

Also, don't wait until you graduate to attend these - start as soon as you possibly can. Its never too early to network and you may well save yourself some false starts.
Detroit I get - but what's special about New York?
> What is threatening Netflix right now?

Hostile rights holders who are forcing their catalog to shrink. Continually whittling away the streaming catalog's value is Netflix's biggest problem, not competing services.
I'm sorry, but the marketplace slip up seems pretty inexcusable.

I could see if the guy had maybe not earned some medals he claimed he had, or if he was lower rank than he claimed, but he claimed to be a returning veteran and was never even in the army.

Maybe it's just me, but verifying his army background and veteran status would be the first thing I would check going with a story titled, "Returning veteran has few marketable skills"

Admitting they were wrong is nice, but that's a pretty big wrong that was easily avoidable by doing even a little checking.
guessing this is US only?
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Susan Lyne Joins Female Angels Backing Levo League, LinkedIn for Ladies, for $1M
Go back to Atlanta, learn to code, and work hard on your ideas. Come back out here in the summer.

You dont need to become a great developer. Learning to code will help you understand both developers and software development. Like for example, how difficult it is. A lot of guys your age have already put 10,000 hours into coding. You dont have any credibility with them today.

If you want to create products, translating the Aenied and reading James Joyce may not be the best use of your time. These are not the only subjects your school has to offer. Maybe in the fall you can find classes more aligned with your future plans. Marketing? CS? You figure it out.

You need to start your 10,000 hours today if you want to become a great product guy.
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Show HN: Hacker News for bitcoins
tokbox blog went down! but you can read it on venturebeat too: http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/15/the-rise-of-the-hack/
Google transition
but the story feels so true!
100% agree. I did this myself a while back.
Google, in many cases because of GA, knows a users behavior once they reach a site. I wonder if they take into consideration, how long a user stays on a site they find in search or how active they are at that site, when ranking search results? Wouldn't these metrics be an indicator of quality?
Our city, well a private group of enthusiasts, tried making a free bike loan program here and it failed horrible from theft and vandalism.

If there is a way to record people's info and/or financial responsibility, maybe that is the key.
I don't remember how I found it, but this it's a killer feature to use S3 to host git repos for archival. I now have 3 copies, it's overkill, but Heroku, bitbucket & S3. Unfuddle also has free private git repos.
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You can barely read it but the zigzags are pretty
Ask HN: What should I expect in a technical due diligence
There's a company interested in buying my website. We've already agreed on the terms. The next step is their technology person is going to do a "technical due diligence". What can I expect? I assume he's going to review the code...what else? Thanks in advance.
NPR has had a bit of bad run in general lately, the Native American adoption story from South Dakota was pretty much wrong (proof was in the budgets).
There is no such thing as an "American" car anymore. All (major) car companies operate at a global scale, and are dependent upon many different nationalities to produce their products. There are thousands of Americans employed by foreign auto manufacturers just as the opposite is also true. Yet Detroit is treated as if it were a sacred cow, and their advertising is geared toward instilling nationalism. However if you were going to buy a new car would you say it was any more patriotic to buy a Toyota that was manufactured in South Carolina or a Ford from Mexico?
Yes, but the population of Rhode Island is ~1M, half as big as Brooklyn, a borough of a city.
Marketplace purchased the story from another non-profit producer (http://www.mylifeistrue.org/). They assumed the original journalists had done the basic due diligence, so blaming marketplace for failing the obvious background checks is a bit unfair. They took accountability for someone else's mistake.
My concern extends to non-accessible batteries. I see these devices as potentially having many year long lifespans. But batteries still do not make it that far.

(Also, separately, these days, there's the "remove battery to prevent tracking and/or covert access" aspect.)

I'd like to know that when the current battery goes tits up, I can replace it. There are certainly enough units to support an after-market, if Apple does not want to service said market itself.

When it comes to final "recycling", frankly I don't see convenient disassembly being a significant factor. The item's probably going to be stripped for raw materials, regardless. Though having these easily segregate-able and as non-toxic as possible, once the case is cracked, would be nice.

P.S. Regarding repair, I forgot glass repair. Although I see that more as a matter of form factor. If you want Apple-sleek, you're going to get difficult mountings.

Again, though, not being able to pop the battery out of the back, does bother me. I suppose "sleek" might be considered to apply there, as well, although with its perhaps more workable metal surface, I wonder. Although, again, structural integrity and rigidity might well be compromised enough to put the unit, including the glass, at significantly increased risk.

I think I've had too much coffee...
What does jgit have to do with S3? From the description on the project page it's just a Java implementation of git.
No one. That's how much faith I had in that test.
Google Play store update, again.
An excellent point, if somewhat weakened by the behavior of the banks as of late.
This American Life is NOT carried on NPR. NPR is not a radio station.

Furthermore, The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation has no connection to Microsoft, and even if it did, it would make no sense for Microsoft to put out a hit on Apple by way of Foxconn: Foxconn makes a lot of hardware for Microsoft.
yep, good point. will add that soon. thanks!
To whomever downvoted this: if you think I'm wrong, I suggest you look at question 6.3 from the comp.lang.c faq: http://c-faq.com/aryptr/aryptrequiv.html

If you think I'm being too pedantic, a reply rather than a mere downvote would be appreciated.
This is quite the stretch. I don't think anyone could reasonably argue influence on TAL editorial decisions by Bill Gates. Yes, his foundation is a donor to NPR which runs on many of the same stations, but anything done by TAL shouldn't have any effect on those donations.
Refcounting is usually considered garbage collection - if going to zero means deallocation the refcounted object. But here we (fsvo) merely use the refcount to not drop objects out of the hashmap while they are in use, and a specific algorithm is employed that decides which objects are actually removed (and thus later dropped by the JS GC).

This is much like WeakRef/WeakHashMap, with the difference that the decision which objects are dropped is not random/up to the GC implementor.

And because of those two thing - dropping things out of the cache isn't random, and it is not triggered by actually running low on memory (is it not?) - I'd not consider this GC. GC tries to keep the illusion of infinite space, and this algo explicitly codes to a specific amount of available space.
yeah... sorry! i'm not sure where to even get movie showtime data for europe, etc. ideas?
When I hear "Bitchin' Camaro", I think "Dead Milkmen".
Blaise Pascal: "We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others."

With a hobby, the simple act of doing it is the reward, and when money becomes the reward given to you by someone else, all of a sudden it becomes work. Hobbies are fun. Work is rewarding (and sometimes fun). But rarely do the two intersect. I think the point is if you can't find your hobby rewarding and/or you can't do it for 8+ hours a day, every day, then it shouldn't be your job.
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the worse "unintended consequence" so far hasn't been the proliferation of crappy links but the disappearance of useful links. anybody who could give you a link knows (1) it's a valuable commodity and (2) it detracts from their rankings.

Paid links wouldn't be such a problem if there were more free links.
I think you are 100% correct on going against eBay.

We don't want to do that even though it may look like it.

Through some research and suggestion of others. We found out that there are lots of transactions taking place on the internet on no particular platform. They are done on forums, Facebook, twitter(as Status update)..ect.
The reason why they don't sell on eBay is because eBay takes too much time and has too much hassle and it's expensive.
I used to be an online seller. But never on eBay. I used to flip websites and offer my services on various SEO forums. There are hundreds if not thousands of communities that sell their stuff in their own forum section. They do this because it's free, simple and quick.
I agree that pulling people away from eBay only based on the simplicity and being free is going to be hard.

That's why we are open to pivoting to the particular category that might use our site the most. For example if the bitcoin community starts using Classfy more than others, we will become a bitcoin marketplace. If people start selling car parts on classfy then we will pivot to that category.

However I love the idea of becoming a front-end tool for eBay and mixing the results with listings on Classfy.
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I got into Planet Money during the GFC meltdown but more recently I've found the quality of their shows waning. They seem to be dumbing down topics (a recent show on the Greek debt crisis made out that the problem was essentially "office politics" between the ECB and the Greek government with no mention of the structural economic problems of the Euro experiment). For a deep dive on economics and politics from the left check out the Behind the News podcast with Doug Henwood, as opposed to Hayekian/Keynesian blathering it is firmly Marxist.
Go to https://twitter.com/#!/speg and you can see all my tweets.

How is that different than going to http://oink-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/speg-export.zip and getting all my Oinks.

I never read the Oink privacy policy because I assumed everything was public. It's kind of weird that they let you download anybodies -public- data, but in order for it to be a breach of privacy, it would have to be private in the first place.
This is extremely common, but it's all about how you handle it. When I was working for a company that shipped large products, I once told a customer to keep one and they were angry. We literally had to pay for someone to pick it up and take it to a electronics recycling depot.
Interestingly I do know one guy who's job is both development and IT support roled into one.

He literally sits at a desk in an open plan office with a headset on while he writes code.

At any given moment his headset beeps and he has to quickly switch from visual studio into his ticket logging application.

I have no idea how it would be possible to write half decent software that way.
But "reading the room" among experts, e.g. FBI agents, is only accurate 50% of the time according to "What Every Body Is Saying." So is it really that much of a liability? Or is there another reason the under 35 set isn't allowed to actively participate?
Are you seriously suggesting that he was telling the truth the in the original piece, but is now lying in his retraction?
sorry we had an intermittent blip. working on it now.
The funny part is I have a friend slightly bigger than you and he fits great in the SmartCar and the Toyota Yaris. When he got in the SmartCar during an auto show a large crowd gathered and was pretty amazed.
Lots of neat stuff here. "Event listings"--movies, music, etc.-- can still improve a lot in terms of ease of use, so I'm very happy to see people work in this area.

A few thoughts:

- I'd want more movie options & theaters (need a much bigger radius).

- When a single movie has showtimes at multiple theaters, the action on the map confused me at first.

- I personally know where my local movie theaters are. I do care very much about which theaters are available for a movie, because they vary in quality and convenience, but I have to hover over showtimes to see the theater options for a particular movie. So there may be a different UI which helps me optimize my decision (e.g. with less emphasis on the map)

- Title says "pick tonight's movie", but I can't actually figure out how to see the showtimes for later tonight--movies with a lot of showtimes are only showing the midday options.

- Can ads be removed from the video trailer? Seems unpleasant to see an ad during an ad. Also, normal video controls would be handy.
The most chilling quotation from the article: "Binney held his thumb and forefinger close together. 'We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state.'" In the Future, you will be tried for crimes you committed in the past. Even if you didn't know you committed those crimes.
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Michael Foord's mock lib also made it into the standard lib the other day, but I didn't manage to make the HN front page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3705923

(I'll never figure out what the trick is.)