skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I gazed around the mess and mused,"I hacked the truth machine"
WikiLeaks launches encrypted social network
Very good and long read; should wake up a few people
If you recall that's actually how Google started in the phone business. It didn't work so open sourcing happened instead.

Closing the business to Motorola would simply make it trivial for Apple to walk all over them.
Google Completes Motorola Mobility Purchase
The funny part about your comment is that vaccines are one of the least profitable things pharma sells.
It sounds like you went to the same school of advertising as Coca-Cola.
See Part 1 and 2 of their marketing roadmap to 2020: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LerdMmWjU_E and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiwIq-8GWA8
Who said the creation of wealth should be or is fair?

(not that I think it shouldn't be)
Google's Servers Housed in Racks on Wheels
photolithography is already limited by heat density's. Going 3D sounds great but it's far less helpful than you might hope and clock speeds are dominated more by how long it takes a transistor to switch than how long it takes electricity to travel though those tiny wires.
This literally brought me to tears. I am so happy to witness the miracle of humanity.
SETI Director Shares Hopes for Interstellar Travel
I use Yottaa as a band-aid for inherited websites at my agency. When a client comes to us, asks us to rebuild their site and take over their old site in the mean time, we use Yottaa to speed the heck out of their poorly-hosted, poorly written previous site.

Also, don't be confused when the sales guys call and say they're from "Yoda". The space muppet is the correct way to pronounce yotta, the SI prefix.
a TB != 1.7GB
This would make a great gift for programmers I don't like.
Has anyone analyzed this data? I'm curious what's in it.
5 reasons Ubuntu 12.04 won't be my main OS... yet.
Yes

One thing I learned from HW manufacturer is that they absolutely don't get SW development

Zero, zilch, nada, NULL

Hence, this results in wasting (a lot of) time with BS projects, lots of NIH syndrome, design by committee, etc

I've heard and seem a lot of stories, I've worked in certain companies and I vowed never to work again there.

They waste million of dollars thinking CrapCase and other "irrational" tools are ok.

And that's why Cyanogenmod releases upgrades quicker than the manufacturers.
It's a little heavy-handed... don't you think?
Space X ship has Scotty's ashes on it
or just use the stolen cards to buy goods from amazon?
I suspect you're on the money here. Android is open source because Google wants everyone using ad-served google services.

Not because google suddenly wants to start making margin on the phone business. (That failed the first time, and they definitely didn't need motorola to try it again.)
SpaceX rocket lifts off for space station trial run
AmEx to Offer a Prepaid Debit Card that Rewards Users in FarmVille Cash
wonder if this shirt would make me more prone to "random" search via the tsa
Agree. The motorcycle may well exist, but it certainly wasn't constructed by a man stranded in the desert. Not plausible.
The motorcycle may be real, but the story is bull.

12 days. In the desert.

I doubt this dude keeps two weeks of water in his trunk.
This is an extreme worst-case scenario. I think the next purest "worst case" would be that suddenly the world explodes, exterminating all life in an instant.

A more likely worst-case is that we get more companies supporting alternative OSes, marketshare evens out a bit from second place on down, and generally the world keeps on turning. If people like Android now, people won't stop liking it because Google is now making it themselves. Even in a worse-case scenario.
It's very likely that it's fake. It's very difficult to survive in the desert for twelve days, even if you have adequate water, let alone survive and find the energy to build a motorcycle, as rudimentary as this one might be.

Finally, in a few of the pictures the supposed engineer of this contraption is shown in a thong. I don't know about you, but if I were in an arid place the last thing I would want is my skin exposed to sun and the air.

It may be a real motorcycle, and that's cool, but it's very unlikely it was built under the conditions discussed in this article.
Any guesses how far down it will go?
Email sent to rm at innovafy dot com. First email failed. I hope this goes through. If not, my email is in my profile.

Thanks.
Samsung makes great phones, but they suck at software and at creating a developer community around their software.

I don't see how this is going to change.
Please correct me if I am wrong since I am not sure if I got all facts right.

Motorola is currently holding a patent on push technology. One of our courts in Germany stopped iCloud from pushing due to patent infringements. Now that Google bought Motorola Mobility do they own they patent?

If this would be the fact I would predict that we will see more lawsuits against Apple regarding this one patent. Sounds like a great weapon - forcing your competitor to kill one of the interesting parts of a service they use for advertisement.
Interactive Tutorial of the Sequent Calculus
There was enough power on the desktop for commercial-grade word processing and spreadsheets, at an affordable price, 30 years ago. Ignoring all the bells and whistles, there's actually not much you can do on a 2Ghz quad-core PC with 8G of RAM that you couldn't do on a 2Mhz 6502 machine with 32k or 64k of RAM.

The failure of the industry is, we have thousands of times more power - and we can't think of anything to do with it. And the keyboard of a Beeb or a C64 was much nicer than most modern keyboards too...
An Interactive Tutorial of the Sequent Calculus
I'm having trouble believing that one person can accomplish this in 12 days with few tools could disassemble a car and build something even remotely drive-able without a welding torch, engine jack, and countless other tools. Was he stranded in the desert in the way that I imagine?(no water, sand dunes everywhere) Or did he end up in some desert town that had basic facilities for him to do this type of work?

Even the most skilled machinist would have a tough time doing this. Seems implausible.
If you want all of your personal data from Facebook, just set yourself up as a Facebook application provider, sign up for your own app, and Facebook will cheerfully transmit it to you.
Wow. I can't believe what I'm seeing here.

"Development isn't easy so we're not gonna bother". Jesus, lets hope the people looking for a cure for cancer don't give up that easily.

Here's a tip. Open IE9 and press F12. It lets you go to IE 7 and 8, in quirks and standards mode.

Now that wasn't hard was it?

Most internet users use IE. If your clients are happy not to support them then good for you. But most of mine would like people to be able to see their website!!!
NASDAQ FB: down around 7%
So, 9k per month.
The rate of BTC generation falls off in a very predictable way. The only gamble is USD/BTC exchange rate.
Microsoft Research exploded the world record for data sorting in a 60s window
"Using standard silicon"...in other news, Samsung just had a breakthrough making logic circuits in graphene, and hopes to commercialize 100x faster chips by 2020: http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Science%2Band%2BTe...

And it looks like memristors will hit the market around 2015, giving us much faster storage and nonvolatile RAM. According to HP, "We put the non-volatile memory right on top of the processor chip, and, because you’re not shipping data off-chip, that means we get the equivalent of 20 years of Moore’s Law performance improvement"
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/22/05/2012/53718/u...

Down the road a bit further, memristors could be used for neural-network coprocessors, since they function a lot like synapses.

The smooth progression of Moore's Law will probably get more jumpy, but the long-term trend goes back to mechanical adding machines.
»At a forward profit-to-earnings ratio of 56

56? Profit-to-earnings?
I watched it with mine, granted, she's only 7 months old so didn't have much say in the matter (it was a reasonable 8:44am here).

Was good to finally be able to put some context to the "Zoom zoom zoom, we're going to the Moon" song that I always sing her :)
Also, I would like to add to the general skepticism. A kick stand? Really?
I don't know. Powerful weapon? Sure. Good for the industry? I doubt it.
"the Windows Phone choice is not giving good results for Nokia"

Nokia's problems have nothing to do with Windows Phone. They're still offering lots of Symbian handsets [http://www.nokia.com/us-en/products/products/] to compete head to head with iOS, Android, and WP7. A renaissance for the brick format or Symbian was no more likely a year ago than it is today.

For me, it's hard to see how betting on a MeeGo app ecosystem would have given them a growing market share over the long term.

Android rose because it was cheap and available as an alternative to iOS. Google realized a first mover advantage in the "not Apple" segment of the market. Now with Motorola Mobility purchase, they have the opportunity to bring more of the profits back in house.

I suspect that Google's long term hardware strategy, if they have one, is to go head to head with Nokia in the developing world by deploying the next generation of feature phones and collecting data in rapidly developing markets like Africa.
Your mobile number helps Google keep your account from getting hijacked. Criminals are very keen to hijack the accounts of Google users, and if you have enrolled your mobile number it's vastly more difficult.
Information security. Biometrics keeping information safe
Rack City - Qualcomm Snapdragon Remix
I think there is still a long future for non-interactive/low-interactivity media. The original RFS acknowledged this. One project that aims to enable high-quality packaging independently of Hollywood is Lib-Ray [1]. Only a small part of the answer, but useful in its own right.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2144275086/lib-ray-non-d... (I don't know how much future there is in distributing physical media, but packaging menus and other stuff that non-hackers like in a standard format is possibly interesting.)
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how does yottaa actually speed up websites? does it involve shifting your website to their platform/severs?
He is more than 99.9% accurate, so perhaps you need to go read the laws of thermodynamics. Heat is energy transferred from one system to another by thermal interaction.
An interesting article, but I would prefer the author presented the issues first in a VCS agnostic way (as they are not specific to git) and then introduce the hypothetical scenario using git.

Actually these issues are not even specific to VCS, but security of most digital information.
Carl Olav Scheible-managing director of PayPal UK on digital money
It sounds like you really want to learn Objective C and the iOS frameworks. For that, I suggest the Big Nerd Ranch books along with the Stanford iOS development class videos.

If you want an intensive study of Objective C itself, look at the Kochan book. It's the bible.

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/drupal/

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Objective-C-Edition-Develo...

http://www.amazon.com/iOS-Programming-Ranch-Guide-Guides/dp/...
It wouldn't surprise me to see Google licensing "Motorola" branding for the next generation of feature phones.
Relogios Replicas de Relogios
Relogios, Replicas de relogios importados de varias marcas e modelos, genero masculino e feminino, replicas identicas..
Sorting 1,401 gigabytes in 60 seconds.
Yeah, this is more Martingale territory than clt. I wrote a proof below that gives a limited Martingale property of the process, but I don't know enough further theory to continue. (slash I'm lazy and have better things to do)
Surely you don't believe everyone should have access to your data just because it is easy to copy.

Straw man fallacy. They aren't analogous.

Unfortunately the defense of piracy is based on it being trivial to copy

That's a pretty sweeping statement. Want to provide some citations?
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Yes. Also, would he really have bothered to attach a kickstand to it, in an emergency like that?
Accelerating Success: A Study of Seed Accelerators
The top 10 bike towns
Your visual system (well really, all of your sensory inputs) have an effect called adaptation, where they "get bored" of any constant input. Your ears stop telling you about a constant hum, your skin stops telling you about the weight of your clothes, etc. So all the parts of the images that are the same, your optic system gets tired and just stops "seeing" them. So you can literally only see the parts that are different.

It's a partial version of this effect: How to Blind Yourself Temporarily https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3992208
Refactor Fortnight: How we manage technical debt
As an alternative to 1Password, have you ever tried KeePassX?

It seems to have all you asked for in the article http://www.keepassx.org/features/
Samsung have always hedged their bets with OS's. Even while making the Galaxy S and SII they also made phones using their own OS (bada) and Symbian OS. They are currently producing a Windows phone (Samsung Focus S) in addition to Bada and Android devices. They are also involved with Tizen.

This is purely for their own phones too, not mentioning the parts they produce which go into others (original iphone processor etc.)
The normal usage of the term "Lean" (ie from Toyota) actually has little to do with validated learning and more to do with the elimination of wasteful aspects of production that don't directly lead to customer value. Usually that means "pulling" work out of a team based on need rather than trying to anticipate need that might never materialize (like the need to scale workforce and infrastructure, which is the case here). FTA: "The idea, he says, is to be “global from day one and have scalability built in.”". Of course in any pull system, validated learning is built-in, because new customer demand is new information, but the focus of Lean is actually the reduction of wasteful production. He'll have wasted a lot of time/money if demand doesn't match the infrastructure he's built.
Why, after 60 years, magnetic tape is a popular storage medium again
It might be then good to analise another country, a poorer one and not in the north, say Portugal. Almost nothing is dubbed in Portugal and you can see quite a difference between Portuguese and Spanish people speaking English. Same for French or Italian people.

Still, Scandinavian youth seem to have almost perfect English and that is not true about Portugal where it's mostly good enough. I'm sure education has a role here somewhere.
Cocos2d-x for XNA类解析：CCApplication
>>"Advertising's not in a bubble..."

Nothing in your essay has anything to do with advertising not being a bubble. Sure, it depends on your definition of "bubble," but in the sense that I imagine most people understand it (over-hyped marketplaces leading to inflated, unsustainable valuations), you didn't refute nor address the concept at all.

In fact, a lot of your post could be used to support jerf's point. The methodologies that you're saying are worthless actually have huge advertising budgets behind them. Inflated value over true, intrinsic value = bubble.

Also, this statement:

>> "One future of advertising looks like the Deck Network, where people so trust the advertisers that they'll click on the ads willingly."

This goes without saying, but click's aren't the intrinsic value of ads. There has to be a transaction at some point for the value to be justified from the advertisers standpoint. It's actually pretty ironic that in your shining example about advertising's golden future, you stop short of the true value of advertising.

>>"The real bubble is: stop treating people like products, start treating them like people."

?
Except your pull handle looks like it is on both sides, and the big flat surface regardless of the shape of the handle communicates "push" to me.
That's not at all what happened. Android was released by the Open Handset Alliance as open source before any phones were released. The HTC G1 was the first one and the first phone released by Google (the Nexus One) was much later.
It was a wrong move for Google to have gone into the social media business IMO. It took focus from their search, which has arguably lost quality, and injected search with too many diversions and "noise".

The level of interest in Google+ reflects "the fallacy of Facebook" as well, it is the same effect: why would people continue to expose themselves like that?

Social media with a purpose, like LinkedIn and similar, are good for business contacts. Facebook and Google+ simply aren't a business environment.

The purpose of Facebook and Google+ is to mine data and sell ads. IMO that is a broken business model, because at some point privacy will inevitably become a barrier.
I see no reason why it can't be true. He left equiped for a long distance desert trip (raid). He had water and food for more than two weeks. At no point was his life in danger.

His car broke down several dozen kilometers from a town, and he knew that. He chose not to go back on foot, because he didn't find that fun, and he wanted to have fun. He's a mechanic and tinkerer, went there on holiday, the military turned him around, so he found something else to do: build a motorbike.

In a subsequent trip he turned the same car model (Citroen 2CV) into a floating barge, just to cross a river. He could have crossed that river farther away in a multitude of ways, but this is his idea of fun.

tl;dr: guy can walk back to civilization in a day or two after his car breaks down in Morocco, he chooses to build a motorcycle from car parts instead.

Why? For fun.

Edit: I feel that reading the full story on the original site (in French) dispels much of the doubt.
This was near Tan-Tan in Morocco, a coastal area likely not completely dry (can see some trees on satellite photos).

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Tan-tan&ll=28.357568,-10....

One having 12 days of drinking water in his trunk is anything but shocking for the area.

Also the motorcycle ain't awesome at all, only one gear with a crappy transmission, making it a barely practical contraption.
In this context, its about eliminating waste through validated learning.
Maybe, but not because of the acquisition and maybe not due to Motorola: it is standard practice for companies that are acquired to operate completely independently until the deal closes and gets full regulatory approval, which would be today.
Android isn't bad at all, but you need to understand why it's so popular - it lets just about every phone maker produce incredibly cheap handsets. Despite the iPhone having a 22% share of smart phones it commands a significantly larger percentage of revenue, so high that Samsung, the android leader, won't reveal revenue figures for their android business. (Samsung reveal that their entire mobile division has 17B revenue, Apple's iPhone devision, excluding iPod/iPad is 23B.)

Apple are very good at making premium products, they have a greater than 94% market share for computers over $1,000USD. They all but own the tablet space despite their significantly higher retail price. The only competitors that succeed against Apple are the ones willing to have razor thin margins producing commodity products - this is where Android comes in, the bulk of Android devices are budget conscious. Google tried the premium Android approach originally and it failed enough for them to abort the approach completely.
Bloodless bean-counters rule over us – where are the leaders?
I hope this means Android updates will no longer take 6-12 months to roll out to Motorola phones.
> Even if Facebook collapses, it doesn't mean it will take the rest of the web down with it.

The WWW was here before Facebook. To even raise that possibility shows people completely lack a sense of proportion. Facebook and Google can disappear from the WWW and the WWW will stay there just like it was before these companies came along.
Every Andriod device, even the ones locked down by the carriers? I find that statement suspect.
Even in for profit market there's a big problem of adopting technology due to fear of losing revenue(the innovator's dilemma).

And isn't the higher education market in the u.s. open to competition from for-profit universities ? isn't the problem that for profit universities have a bad reputation vs non-profits so employees prefer people who went to non-profit universities ?
"... whatever shiny toy ..."

You proved your point about people's attitude.
Show HN: A reactive search engine
I believe that a search engine without tracking and personalisation needs a better way to refine your search. This is what I am trying to build with Kligl.

http://kligl.com

You can click on any word in the snippet to add this word or remove pages that contain it. Clicking on a date should let you change to sorting by date, etc. - instead of searching for an option in the second page of the advanced search options.

Any feedback or feature requests are much appreciated.
(Currently using/testing the product).

No, you don't shift anything to their servers. They give you a long/funky CNAME that you use for your www.foo.com DNS record. So basically all your web traffic is going through their servers, and they "intelligently" cache static content and/or distribute it through a CDN.

It works fairly well and is painless to deploy (mostly, had some minor issues at first).
"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'"

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
Nokia 808 Pureview Mobile Phone Price And Specification in India
I integrated HNSearch as well (not yet linked from the main pages):

http://kligl.com/hnsearch/

I found some interesting posts when testing it:

http://kligl.com/hnsearch/#search+sort:old+type:comment+user...

led to

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2459

Also this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=259132

Funny, that the idea of a search engine for the best 10k hackers from PG's essay on start-ip ideas is already 3 years old.

Another one:

http://kligl.com/hnsearch/#dropbox+sort:old+type:comment
> what else will happen?

Well that is like asking what comes next in the stock market. If anyone knows, then they're the next billionaires ;)
Specially Android ICS. Removing Sense from my HTC Sensation and going to a rom that has an almost native ICS not only gave me a much better iphone-like experience, but it's also way faster the the stock android from HTC. WAY WAY faster and smoother