skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Web App Development Specifications Save Time and Money
277L per day per capita is quite impressive. I lived in Santa Fe, NM which is a near-desert city in the US with a small catchment area and at 2000m+ elevation. In 2010 they used 400L per day per capita.

I've been trying to find comparisons for other cities. I came across http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2010/world/the-price-o... which shows just how hard a comparison that is.

That is, it shows that Boston and Milwaukee use less water per capita than Santa Fe. They get more rain so there's probably less use of water for outdoor use. Boston only used 150 L per day per capita?

That's still a lot more than 20L/d/c.
This article states that 37signals uses online ads in addition to their 'thought leadership' marketing strategy, which, if true, I would find slightly discouraging.
ShowHN: Smartphones to a wireless network camera over 3G
http://www.hci-class.org/ is still up but doesn't seem to have been updated in a while.

There was an email sent on Jan 29 announcing a delay, but I haven't seen anything else since then.
> You are, by far, in the minority of users. It doesn't make sense for dev's [sic] to extend that "cross platform" capability to use cases such as yours in most instances.

Then it follows that devs shouldn't support, e.g., deaf users.
NAT-style floating IPs have other benefits though. Putting multiple IPs on a cloud server is a mistake imo (it makes them less cloud-like :) - it's not usually needed, and you lose the benefits of having the IPs at a different layer.
Hubble's Panoramic View of a Turbulent Star-making Region
The Faceless Crowd
Checkout Motorola WebTop, its exactly that.
And the award for "scumbag reply from a high horse" goes to driverdan, for telling others what they must and must not do while showing no empathy for their personal situation. You have great talent lad, keep at it.
It is worth mentioning he has been an active member of the HN community (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sriramk)
Bought it today!
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If you decided to achieve a great celebrity looks physique, only strength training can be modified individually to achieve a different affect and greater results. In addition, you should always keep in mind, the most important quality each celebrity physique should possess is good symmetry and shape.
I'm not either. But I am aware that the Newton was a huge flop and the Palm Pilot was a huge success... probably timing.
Great post and just the right level of detail too. Thanks for taking the time to write this up. We're just about to encounter this problem with our own startup (http://www.staffsquared.com) and my head of ops has been on my back for weeks about how we're going to handle our roadmap for the product vs. bug fixes vs. user feedback.

One point I would make as a brand new start up - I'm not sure how willing/able I'd be to handle the uncertainty of not forcing my dev team to tell me the number of hours a fix/feature will take to implement. I say this because sometimes our road map will include a feature request that upon receiving an estimate for I then decide not to proceed with as the cost/benefit ratio doesn't add up. When this happens I de prioritise the task and put it in a backlog. Having said that, we're at the stage where every second counts; perhaps when we've got a steady stream of income I'll be less picky.
If Microsoft is aiming for an all-in-one situation than they're doing it right. I don't understand why I'm not yet able to have a truly unified experience with all of my devices including smart appliances. I think a hardware maker will have figured it out when they are able to deliver products that provide a consistent interface, delivering smart-content on demand without having to have a gazillion apps. Build devices so they are connected with each other out of the box, not after downloading the remote app and TV guide app and remote desktop app...
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You didn't read him very carefully, because he doesn't blame Apple.
Homeland Security's 'Pre-Crime' Screening Will Never Work
From the article:

we're in a "post-PC" world

in five years, the PC won't be what it is today.

Allow me to be skeptical. Those statements sound just like 'the novel is dead' from the 60's of the past century. It's now fifty years later, and we can still buy books; and desktop PC's, desks and chairs won't disappear anytime soon.
I wish Stargate was real
Didn't all of the guid libraries solve this already?
Unlike twitter's bootstrap, here it's not really clear to me if it's available outside of the organisation. It looks more like just a presentation of their new design to me.
For a comercial programm aimed to promote space exploration it would be just logical to build non-exclusive launch sites.

And again Europe was not part of it...
What are the facts you should know about coffee?
You must be already aware of that coffee is one of the most loved drinks of worldwide. The increasing number of coffee lovers has resulted in a tremendous growth of coffee shops. People visit there to have their favourite coffee no matter how expensive it is!
The top post in this very thread demonstrates how that protection can be easily bypassed.
iphone 4 - so I don't know what they mean by recent. No clicker thing, etc. etc.

OT: I've been stupidly downvoted for many things recently, including my observations about the exercise that kids get a few days ago (I have three boys, 11-17 y.o., coached in the town leagues for years, know a helluva lot of kids and watched them grow up, but I guess that doesn't qualify my observation or make them pertinent to such a discussion in any way...).

I've never complained about a downvote-- until now.

Somebody downvoted me because my fucking iphone 4 didn't come with a mic. I'm afraid our community is getting really fucking stupid. It's not that I care about karma, but I grieve the loss of the community.
Lol interesting I will have to share this with some of my old school Telco mates :-)

So whats next Google reinvents x.400 and x.500 (not the special needs version LDAP)
I was thinking exactly the same thing. The value is compared to the commercial DDOS protection services that many of these hosts offer like liquid web http://www.liquidweb.com/services/ddos.html ($$$)
We're probably working from two definitions of the word "value" (with mine, being McKinseyspeak, being the more confusing).

Apple does a lot of excellent things. What they do not do is shoulder a lot of risk. Compensation for having put capital at risk is part of why the labels get such a big cut, and why the brick & mortar stores did too.
Really? 100% CPU for me in Firefox and my macbook pro fans went crazy.

I decided to test Chrome - better but still peaks around 50%. Safari was the best peaking at 30% while using it.

Also, are you sure a Flash version would use more CPU? This only uses 60% when I'm walking around - http://www.unrealengine.com/flash/
To me, that seems much more like a standard attribution than a "haughty explanation".
Yeah, this page was mostly written for internal use and hasn't gone through the usually editing process. I'll clean up those typos though. Good point about the cursor too (it's the difference between anchor tag buttons and form input element buttons). Cheers.
Try to apply the 80/20 rule to your customers and ruthlessly cut out all the customers that are costing you more (in terms of money and time) vs. the ones you enjoy having. You already did that with the 8% - tell them to leave, if they don't like the product/conditions/whatever, but tell them in a friendly way. I'd love to give you more advice, if you'd show me the product!
...because Google left the Internet's core like it is and didn't build a walled garden around it.

The commenter I was replying to claimed that Google chose not to build a walled garden around the internet because of their good character.

If they were able to do this, they'd be able to limit the threat of Facebook and other advertising based competitors.

They haven't done it simply because they can't. Not because it wouldn't be to their advantage.
Known issue - fix is in the queue. A fragment of code from the soon-to-be-released responsive layout variation made it into the live site before the rest.
Hm, interesting. It might be very functional, but this really answers questions like, "What source control software you used in your past three jobs", or allows you to compare side-by-side what technology/language you used across jobs. I do find that the format helps me answer those questions I usually have when reviewing resumes. It might not be as skim-friendly (it's packed to the gills with info), but don't find it particularly obtuse; maybe not as 'pretty' or breathable and it's definitively not traditional (wonder if that is what makes it look uglier)
>The ideal of the efficient and ruthless economic model human being, Utilitus Maximus

We all know what you mean, but the conventional phrase is "Homo economicus".
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Take a look around, but remember: we're in BETA!

Constructive criticism welcome, please don't hesitate to ask questions.
I don't have the requisite knowledge to comment on fields other than the life sciences, and I certainly agree with your point that every new scientific and technological advance necessarily has to be more sophisticated than the one(s) that it's built upon. But the notion that the past was chock-full of low-hanging fruit just waiting to be picked seems exaggerated and doesn't give enough credit to the people who did all that work that, in hindsight, looks easy, trivial, and obvious, but at the time certainly required significant insights, advances, and effort.

John LaMattina, former president of R&D at Pfizer, weighs in: http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2012/03/02/there-h...
No, because guid/uuids don't necessarily sort by time. You might argue a Version 1 UUID, which may fit, but was designed for a now outdated purpose.

You have more problems, if you cannot allow the number of bits a UUID spans, which is one of the things Twitter's Snowflake solved.
And PRESTEL was another hack (and one produced by a PTT) they worked out they could produce an asymetric modem standard 75/1200 to work with the slow speed lines of the day.
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Awesome Steampunk Game Trailer – Dishonored
Looks like a Mixup of Assasins Creed, Skyrim and Steampunk.
If you need the time, couldn't you just add a timestamp?

Sometimes ordering by ID makes sense, but I don't understand why it would be seen as necessary.
I believe that if it were not for various antitrust action (in both the EU and the US), MS would have continued bundling IE with Windows in a way that made the two inseparable.

"Would have continued"? MS still bundles IE with Windows and uses its backend rendering tech in the system. The decision made by the court was that they had to provide access to "secret" APIs, not that they had to stop bundling IE.

This would have led to the collapse of the Windows, because IE was too bug-ridden and security-vulnerable at the time, just barely acceptable. There had to be a separation of the two for Windows to remain viable. The EU had a particularly harsh ruling on this, IIRC.

But there was never any separation! All copies of Windows with the sole exception of Windows 7 in the EU come with IE as the default and only browser. The HTML rendering technologies are still the same (Trident). And IE is still the most used browser.
To me this is another example of a fundamental difference between the Web 1.0 entrepreneur generation and today's superstar startup CEOs. The former's ambitions ranged from data liberation, information freedom and up to interplanetary travel. The new generation's ambitions end in their stock valuations.
I think a lot of people wanted to use the Palm touch devices. There was a time when "Palm Pilot" was the "Kleenex" or "Band-aid" of the PDA world. Everything was a "Palm Pilot" even if it wasn't. Even future Palm products were "Palm Pilots" to the outsider. Now, Palm did not do a super job when it moved to the PDA+Phone mashup. It was clunky... not sexy.
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"You can be successful with your product on the WWW without employing any Google services"

It is often more difficult to be successful on the internet without devoting significant resources to Google specific SEO. Doing so without the benefit of Google search would be orders of magnitude more difficult, and Google is under no obligation to return any particular website in their results (e.g. Safe Search).

Google is a company just like any other, only, perhaps, more so.
Supporting it in the enterprise environment would be tricky. You don't want users loading their phones with malware and then bringing that infected phone inside the network.

This happens today even with corporate laptops. If they're allowed outside, they will get infected. Working in information security, I send a few form emails each month telling someone to call the helpdesk and get their computer reimaged. If the company has a good enough network team to know how to properly segment a network (and/or implement a reverse proxy) and a security team with enough resources to monitor network traffic, the risk becomes acceptable.

Basically what you describe is BYOD, and it gives me job security :) For the record, I would totally buy the same desktop on three form factors if the same apps and same data could be synced across all of them.
One thing with kickstart projects, and other social funding sources like it, is that sometimes people are essentially donating to something that they think should exist but that they personally don't need or want. They are just trying to help increase the overall "cool"ness of the world by helping a neat idea get off the drawing board.

There are many things I see, either real things that already exist or design ideas, and think "that's great" or "that really should exist" but which I myself might not need/want to own or use. Some of the funding going into kickstarter projects, especially at the higher funding levels, comes from that sort of thinking.
Outside the US, governments take the promise of being able to take a SIM and put it into an unlocked phone very seriously, so I'd say this is a strictly local problem. In fact, I'd wonder how Deutsche Telekom's regulators would react if T-Mobile (DT's US subsidiary, at least for now) started doing something like this (that they probably wouldn't permit in Germany).
The funny part is that I know a lot of people that miss having a stylus... so much so that many are buying them now for their phones. I miss having one every time I have to take off a glove to interact with the nav app on my phone.
Sure, you could. The post refers to the case of just time+randomness. This case is unfortunately not sufficient when you apply the additional constraints mentioned (such as number of bits).

It's not necessary, but if you try to store data in things like Cassandra (or even Redis), it becomes crucial for your data model querying strategies.
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That's fair enough. It sounds like you've made up your mind, so I wish the the very best.

There are people here on HN and in other places who can help and offer advice. My advice now is to do stuff, lots of stuff, to show that you've done the work and are willing and able to take advantage of advice they offer.

Remember, 90% of everything is crap, so you need to do 10, perhaps 20 or even 30 times as much work as you want for your final output.

Volume, along with introspection (so-called "deliberate practice [1]) and "taste" [2] will be your friends.

[1] http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Do_Lot...

[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html
Weird design choice, especially for a developer audience.
On http://nightly.mozilla.org/ those narrow spaced vertical lines made me think first that my display was malfunctioning again, had anyone else that first impression too?
For all the reports that Google is full of idealists, I hear just as many that it's a very 'careerist' place, and it's clearly attractive to people who want to make money as much as it is to those who believe in internet freedom.

I agree that culture is not irrelevant. I don't even dispute that Google attracts people who have a certain ideology. I just don't think that Google's ideology is all that clear or meaningful.

When they use words like "openness" or "freedom" these become a rorschach onto which people project their own hopes.

I would like to see Google succeed by proving the competitive advantage of openness, not by moralizing about others who are choosing to test another theory of how to provide value.
A year ago I was talking about how cool something like this would be. I knew it had to happen but it happend faster then I thought.
I think you are right about the gmail issue. I use adium on an iMac and Macbook for work and Digsby on my Windows box at home and the application specific passwords work fine for me.
AT&T’s 4G and T-Mobile’s 3G found to be nation’s fastest wireless services
The goal for this one was 400k :

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613260297/shadowrun-ret...

The point being, that you should lower the goal and the main milestone. Esp. as long as you don't have a team to show... if there's interest it can go up many times over your goal anyway. People would ignore the goals if they can get something compelling from their individual deals.
Boston's use is remarkably low. I think it's over half of Melbourne's use is industry, so I'd take a wild stab that Boston gets an unusually large part of its wealth from services rather than industry, which would use much less water. That's just guesswork, though.

A curious anecdote - in Melbourne in the '50s and '60s, it was actually against the law to have a private water tank, and this wasn't changed until the '90s, from memory. My mother installed an illegal water tank in the late '80s. It sounds crazy now, but Back In The Day, water tanks weren't well sealed, and Melbourne had a massive mosquito problem. Fast forward a few decades, mosquitos are no longer a problem but drought is, so now you get incentives to install tanks...
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I guess it's time to start using localstorage and etags
Wow this is is good. Can I embed images by providing links? Or videos?
I am wondering if someone flagged it.
Think about traffic reports on the radio

Thank you for that analogy, because it actually serves to illustrate my concern.

Here in NJ there's a station that reaches most of the state, and makes a big deal of its every-15-minute traffic reports. I used to listen to these while commuting, until I found from experience that their reports, at least for the roads I deal with, carried data that was either so stale as to be useless, or was just plain wrong. So now I don't listen to that station anymore. Instead, I use an app called Waze for my phone. This uses crowd-sourced data (i.e., decentralized), which also isn't wholly dependable (there's not always another user there ahead of me to make a report, and it's still susceptible to gaming), but on the whole it gives me a better picture of the traffic situation.
This will be especially interesting considering how many of the people taking advantage of these courses are outside of the US and primarily-English speaking countries. Check the box if English is your second language? We'll see how the crowdsourced evaluation model goes, but then maybe they've got some tricks up their sleeves to rescue it from [potential] disaster.

Edit: The first thing I can think of is an advanced rubric that would allow almost anyone to break down an essay and feed the results into their own grading algorithm. A sizable group of writing teachers are clenching their teeth...
Big Data vs Little Data
Won't the breach-of-contract damages be a lot less than the awards from using the patent offensively?

It just seems to me that if some evil company buys the patents, they're not going to respect the agreement the inventors and Twitter signed. For the agreement to cause financial damage, the inventors would have to sue the evil company that obviously has a ton of lawyers. Can you afford to sue Microsoft? I can't.
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I don't think they can sell the Facebook shares yet, so I don't know if that calculation is correct.
It is well known that google do not delete old emails. They mentioned it around when gmail started/
What is UI Kit and Why You Should Use it
UI Kits are files (usually PSD's, but the premium ones comes with a lot of additional stuff, as you can see above) with a lot of useful components – User Interface Elements - for user interface design.
Appcelerator Now Offers Cloud Services and Mobile Web SDK
The anatomy class is also gone.
The IPO structures the company so Zuckerberg has ultimate control anyways. He has 28% of the class B shares (which are 10x the votes of the class A shares being sold in the IPO).
Clojure 1.4 released
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Changelog: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/changes.md
It is a big subject. But there is a lot of information out there in blogs and in the Google documentation. Take a day or two to read and learn the basics and expect to spend lots of time tweaking. I have written a few articles here:
http://successfulsoftware.net/category/adwords/

This one covers some of the worst and most common newbie mistakes:
http://successfulsoftware.net/2010/02/10/5-great-ways-to-was...
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Well, the inventors have the leverage in this case, because they can license the patents to whoever is being sued. The whole point of the patent hack is that the inventors continue holding limited rights to the patents, that is, the acquiring company does not fully control them. They can breach contract all they want, but their offense can be neutralized by the inventors by simply licensing to the victim.
Pardon, you are totally misleading.

Google could do this—there are multiple options to silently wallgarden the user. Just check how much traffic Google moves. If they want they could arbitrarily redirect traffic and subtly punish user's not using their tools.

But that's not their culture. Just look at their products, how far they pushing the boundaries and still stay open, give back and contribute to the community. Look at V8, Dart, Go—all open, all free, all top-notch, all following the Internet's principles and look at Apple, FB—I see no groundbreaking innovation that's free or not protecting their walled garden. Even if Google has some hidden agenda with their products (like with Chrome) the products are always best-of-breed and never deadlock the user.

The point is: Google benefits of an open Internet, their business model is fully based on an open Internet. Therefore they will do everything to keep the Internet neutral, free and decentralized. In contrast, the bizmodels of Apple and FB do not rely on these values, they need walled gardens. Enough reasons to trust them less.

RE-EDIT: Took out later added passages as wished.
Teletext Lives On in Scandinavia
Use Python’s sys.settrace() for fun and for profit
Variety and style are both benefits. Besides, we don't all learn the same way. Multiple teaching approaches to the same subject can increase the cohesiveness of learning.
Yahoo Will Be Shutting Down 50 Services
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That is indeed of key importance. I know some musicians who have this and some who don't. I notice that the ones who don't tend to learn tunes that we mutually like, but play those tunes without the things that really make them work.

I think the same thing happens with products.