skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$54M, well if they had charged someone for it they would have charged them $54M for the launch according to their price schedule [1].

I don't believe the Soviets publish prices and sadly NASA does not separate the cost of resupply from the crew replacement missions. [2]

[1] http://www.spacex.com/falcon9.php

[2] http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/apr/HQ_C07-18_Roscosmos...
Interesting discrimination lawsuit by her husband last year:

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/the-money-manager-who...
Great news and a market niche that needs innovation. Nice, clean interface though I'm getting 500 errors posting /api/getrate/ while trying to get a quote. Chrome ver 19.0.1084.46 on Win7 x64
Bingo! You've made my day.. this is exactly as the service is intended. In fact our first ever rule was the exact text message scenario you've described.
Via neo ITX android PC preorder now for 49$
Wow I didn't even realize the recorder had 4 tracks. Amazing!!
It will probably be under the GPL just like Emacs, so I'm not sure I understand the concern?
This seems to be a digression. The point isn't that the "task" of development is easier than web development. Of course it's not, that's ridiculous. It might be done with fancy Java IDEs, but it's still embedded systems development on physically disjoint hardware.

The point was that the added cost to development due to platform incompatibilities is less than it is in the web world. And I think that's largely inarguable. Where is the list of Android incompatibilities that is anywhere near as complicated or exhaustive as http://caniuse.com for example? People in this thread are having a lot of trouble coming up with any specifics at all, in fact. Mostly just a list of apps that break somewhere; no one seems to actually remember any real bugs or workarounds.
Airbnb Will Now Cover Up to $1M Worth of Property Damage
> I wonder though why would one opt for Leap motion and not buy a real touch screen if he needs to be that close to the screen anyway.

A couple of reasons that came to mind:

1) Smudges! I tolerate them on my touch devices, but they really annoy me. Gesture-based manipulation takes you three-quarters of the way to touch UI without the actual touching.

2) Gestures detection can occur in a plane that is different than the screen surface. A big reason we don't all use touch screens on our desks is because of the "gorilla arms" problem. Any interface that requires you to extend your arms to shoulder height must be limited to infrequent use because of fatigue. With a remote sensor like this, you wouldn't have to reach all the way to your screen.

You can see the benefits of this with a simple exercise. Reach forward at chest height to the point that your hand just barely passes the front edge of your keyboard and hold it for a 10 count. Now do the same exercise, but reach all the way to your screen. Hold that for a 10 count and the difference will become clear.
I design and support apps for iOS (Tablet and Phone), Android (Tablet and Phone), Blackberry (Tablet and Phone), Windows Phone 7.5, and various J2ME (Nokia s40 etc).

Android is not the very worst one to support (that would be blackberry), but it is the worst within its own ecosystem. As a designer it infuriates me to no end to never know the Dimensions, PPI, or general experience of any given user. It makes any refined UI design nearly impossible. While I can't create great experiences on specific devices, for Android I have to make glorified web apps at best.

If I were a Android customer, I would be irritated that my platform has significantly handicapped my apps.
Life is complicated. So are airlines.

In this case, airlines are a business designed not to have runaway profit. The unions are very powerful. They know how much money the airline is making a demand large percentages of it. They leave a nominal profit for key investors but shareholders as a whole are regularly left out. In fact, if you look at the entire history of commercial flight, the industry is break-even.

That's not a fluke. If costs were higher, unions would get a smaller cut. If costs were lower, unions would take more.

Philip Greenspun has some great writing on this, as well as the old, shortlived but fantastic Enplaned blog.
Yep, I meant C. Though from the French article I read that the new motorcycle engine is positioned a new way that all the smoke ends up on your face. :)
Really sad if true. Most sites that have these pages will only fill them with legal boilerplate.
nope - this would be a troll road...
Acme supports constantly improving how you work in little ways, better than tools with plugins or extension languages, by not having many features, and providing a good interface to route text through shell pipelines.

For a simple example, Acme has no paragraph justifier, but it doesn't need one, since fmt exists. To use it, highlight a paragraph of text with the left mouse button, highlight a typed-in |fmt command with the middle mouse button, and release the middle mouse button to run the paragraph through |fmt and replace it in place.

With this I can leverage anything I can call from the command line, in any language, to be part of my editor. No need to rewrite tools in the program's specific extension language, whether Elisp or Smalltalk or Clojure.

As another example, since it's so easy to just run a shell command from Acme (highlight the command text and middle-click it), I'm constantly customizing pre-written shell commands to e.g. grep for lines in code (to the point of creating indexes on the fly for files), and then right-clicking on grep -n output to jump to a specific line in a file.
If it is in fact a real risk, spreading the material around the environment while destroying things doesn't sound like a good way to address that risk.
Will you still tip if the service was bad/not adequate?

Personally, I don't get tipping either. Aren't they supposed to do their job well in the first place? This probably leads to only having them treat you badly next time if you don't tip them well or at all the first time.
http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/ and ditch JSP or use pure JS+HTML.

A typical setup is to use Rails for front-facing website and Sinatra for web-services (RESTful).

What I'm saying is that that can be done with Spring MVC + JAX-RS:

@Produces("application/xml")

@Produces("application/json")

// Want more? add your own? very flexible

// @Produces("application/atom")

// @Produces("text/plain")

// @Produces("application/something+xml") <-- custom

public Employee get(@Parameter("id") final int id){

// code no need to pepper with respond_to

}
No, his ideas are not worthy of much debate, since they are so deeply flawed. What constitutes "technology", and who gets to decide at which level of progress we say "This far and no further"? The answers to these will necessarily be completely arbitrary, since the scope of the actual problems being solved is so poorly understood.

If a convincing case can be made that particular technologies are causing specific harm, they should be addressed on a case-by-case basis as best we can. Instead, Ted is a modern day Don Quixote who couldn't cope with society and chose to tilt at windmills, at the unfortunate expense of innocent blood and suffering.

His intellectual value is largely cautionary.
wow the app is really nice from a UX point of view. Looks like you nailed the fundamentals of manipulating the objects well.

Also the design is slick.

great work!
I think the objection here is that the game isn't actually multiplayer by design. There's nothing about the single-player gameplay that warrants requiring an internet connection.

I actually didn't know it was online only, and I've been playing it for a week. I had assumed (apparently incorrectly) that if I didn't have an internet connection I could play in Offline mode. This is how single player titles on other platforms (e.g., HL2 on Steam) work, and it seemed like a reasonable assumption.
Hard question. A rational decision would lead to high salary w/o equity:

- Probability that startup fails > 95%

- You will get usually about 0,5-2% vested over 3 to 4 years with a cliff, you'd get more if you joined before a funding and took the entire risk and had no salary for some time

=> So working at least 3yrs for max 2% (rather 1%) with an exit probability of less than 5% yields too high opportunity costs; as a talented developer you could miss many other opportunities
I wouldn't go so far as demanding only salary because it kind of implies that you are certain that the startup will go bust rather than _might go bust_. However, I definitely prefer as competitive salary as possible; I don't know about the rest of the country but working long hours in SF gets expensive (apartments, eating out, laundry services etc).
There are some new devices (I'm looking at a Huawei M835 running 2.1) that don't have 2.0 support.

As for "OpenGL is hard" - I think a major point here is that Apple has made it far less so. Because of their extreme curation of devices (re: only Apple produced devices), and the ease of software updates (well over 30% of phones are upgraded to the latest iOS version [1], with > 80% on a 5.x version [2]), iOS has continued to be a remarkable homogenous platform.

As far as Apple choosing a new graphics chip for the new device, it's certainly possible. With iOS, though, you can support a known list of devices and have 100% coverage rate. On Android you either have to whitelist phones (and therefore exclude users), or try to do feature detection at runtime to enable the correct codepaths.

[1] http://david-smith.org/blog/2012/05/11/ios-5-dot-1-1-upgrade...
[2] http://david-smith.org/blog/2012/03/10/ios-5-dot-1-upgrade-s...
Why can't they switch to key holds (the likes of which Apple uses)? Hold down Windows+R ('R'ecovery) during boot to access the menu, no frustrated tapping required. It seems like a fair compromise solution between "make a bunch of special incantations before you reboot" and "press buttons in a tiny window during startup."

I realize that there are some issues that need to be addressed even with this approach - POST attempting to reset the keyboard repeatedly because a key is "stuck", for example - but it just seems more elegant than anything requiring interaction with an already-booted system.

As an example of why booting the OS fully to reboot the OS is bad, malware could hijack shutdown/settings/shell so that the system never enters the boot menu, precluding safe mode.
You can see the same principle in a lot of places. This makes me think of a passage I recently read about the legal system in Germany:

…Unlike many developing countries, German legal doctrine and practice avoid this
result. German regulatory violations seldom void contracts, and German
prosecutors seldom act on regulatory violations revealed in a civil trial. Thus a
gardener in the German gray market who does not pay taxes can sue an
employer for unpaid wages without fear of triggering regulatory prosecution.
And a customer who buys a restaurant meal at an hour when law requires the
closing of restaurants still has to pay his credit card bill. The same applies for a
construction contract that violates zoning regulations, or a credit contract that
violates banking regulations. Although seldom discussed in constitutional law,
separating the civil courts from the regulators and police is an important part of
the separation of powers, especially in countries with a large gray market.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/05/sol...
The guy actually got a ticket for riding a vehicle which is not conform with the local legislation ;-) http://chameaudacier.free.fr/pv.jpg

That pic is so funny, don't miss it: http://chameaudacier.free.fr/moto8.html

That would be a great subject for analysis by the owner of this blog I like to read: http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/
Is ip spoofing generally do-able on todays internet? don't core routers In general implement ingress filters? So if I send a packet with a src ip outside of my providers op space it will get dropped?
Ask HN: Best way to recover and deal with carpal tunnel?
I'm 21 years old, so I was surprised to have been diagnosed with carpal tunnel about a month ago. Thanks to less typing, I am feeling much better. I have an ergonomic keyboard and mouse, and I've done the reading, but does anyone have some advice to help stave off this annoying condition?
OT: Another Svbtle blog in the wild—anyone likes them? (serious question, would like to hear some opinions)
Estimates of underwriters' estimates are presumed to be indicative of management opinion. That's a touch shady to begin with, ideally the analysts shouldn't have any "extra" information in the first place, right? Given that a change in those estimates is interpreted as a change in management opinion -- if that change is communicated to one set of investors, the others are disadvantaged.

To me a lot of this falls within reasonable expectations of how openly subjective information can be communicated in the first place. Any communication involving judgment and ambiguity and anticipation is going to travel better and faster within some social network, and that's going to advantage some over others. I don't think the advantages are insurmountable, crowds are often wrong and anyone good at this stuff can find their way in. But I definitely see why other people find the whole thing fishy.
Related, my boss just ordered one of these for me to play with: http://www.asiapads.com/product_info.php?products_id=2246

I'm looking forward to it.

Internally, it's called "chrisk's Crapper Computer" (my name is Chris last name starts with K)
Google builds a search engine, forces the competition to start improving.

Google buys a webmail service, forces rapid improvements in the competition.

Google builds a browser, forces rapid improvements in the competition (Firefox).

Google buys a smartphone OS, competition already doing ok but probably tweaked some things.

Google starts building an inexpensive fiber network, makes incumbents sweat a little.

Google buys a smartphone manufacturer, forces competition to improve.

Next up, probably a mobile telco provider.

Google's thing seems to be improving the transfer and display of ads. Somehow they've turned that into a benefit to technology as a whole. It's a business model built on disruption.
You can use the arrow keys to control the knobs, and letters/numbers/punctuation to control the keys.
Depends on definition of high, and what the startup is (if I think it will work). With no other info I go high salary every time though.
What I'm saying is that it's immoral to play kissy-face, even intellectual kissy-face, with murderers.

Somehow this is controversial. But you can see it easily if you flip the political polarities. Hence, Eric Rudolph.

Something obvious you can't see is called a "blind spot." Is there anything else in your blind spot?
It depends on what you intend to do with it. My mom's computer is due for an upgrade and she would probably be happy with a beefier version of this machine. Swapping the motherboard should be trivial enough and the PC would continue to look familiar, at least.

She's used to Ubuntu and she couldn't care less about the ISA the machine is running. Moving to Android could prove an interesting experience, but I suspect machines like this will have outstanding support for other Linuxes as well and I'd assume Via has a lot to gain by cooperating.

By now, most likely, someone from Microsoft will have called to offer some incentive if Via favors Win8 over Android on the platform. We'll see what happens.
Thanks for the help, if you let us know the email address you used (by emailing sayhi@leaky.com) we'll be able to better hunt down the problem.

Edit: We've found the problem, let us know if you encounter anymore difficulties, thanks again for the heads-up.
So basically a Mac mini, but Android.
You'd probably want to use a service like Postmark[1] or Mailgun[2] or Mailnuggets[3] for that as they already exist and are built for that sort of thing. They can handle attachments and the like too. They're simple enough to use depending on what you want to do, although if you just want to use "if email is to support@domain.com forward to crm@otherdomain.com" you could use gmail filters on their own.

[1] http://postmarkapp.com/inbound [2] http://mailgun.com [3] http://mailnuggets.com
Where does this idea come from that the title should be the same?

It is suggested although not mandated by the Hacker News guidelines:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important."

. . . .

"You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it."

The retitling in this case seems to have been effective for eliciting more discussion, and I appreciate the various interesting comments here. I regret cases where I submit an article with an original title, only to find out that the same article was submitted hours before with a retitled submission title, one that is missed by Hacker News participants and does not elicit discussion. Most professionally published articles have well written headlines, and it is often hard for HN participants to improve upon those.
I love the "blizzard hosts the game" aspect of D3. Sure, the login servers going up and down there was a bit annoying, but the HYPER social nature of the game make is fantastic. It is almost impossible for me to play by myself (and I mean that in a good way) due to friends constantly dropping in, doing a level or so with me, then heading out. It has definitely consumed quite a few evenings last week.

After trying to play Magicka, Borderlands and Dungeon Defenders with friends, but constantly being defeated from minor internet blips cancelling games, I hope all multiplayer games go this "must play on our servers" route.
Have you guys seen this? Textmate bundle for auto-completion. https://github.com/libin/RubyMotion.tmbundle
Linux Kernel 3.4 released
You realize Sony is one of the top 10 largest manufacturers of PCs running Windows, right?
Strictly speaking the white `gas` is water from the delightfully humid Florida climate condensing in the presence of the extremely cold Oxygen boil off.
I've come to realize that equity is really just a proxy payment for the risk that the company will not continue to exist / how much influence and impact you may have on the continued existence and success of the company.

Likewise, the salary offer is about the combination of your negotiation skills, expected marginal utility of your work, and the current state of the company
I think the fear is in the "probably". YCombinator, for instance, doesn't have a good record of doing things just for the community good, they are after all profit seeking.

That's not to say it won't happen, but the fear is there.
What in particular in your linked article contradicts the original article?

1) The estimates were changed in mid run-up - check

2) This was considered unusual - check (your article, not Henry Blodget, has the screaming caps "very unusual" in it).

3) This may have contributed to Facebook's less than stellar performance - check

4) The estimates were disseminated only to large clients - not confirmed or contradicted, so the Blodget, for better or worse, is saying more than your link.

So, the problem is ????
I'm specifically excited about Light Table (and the second half of this video where he dives into Python/Flask), because as a front-end guy, I generally spend most of my time in views/templates. I occasionally have to dive into models however, and it seems to me Light Table would help me navigate something I consider a bit of a wild west much more efficiently, resulting in learning much faster.

Basically, I'm excited about Light Table because I think it will help me become a better programmer.
I hope "brogrammers" exist.
It doesn't matter to me that they can't link the click data with my Google account due to the arbitrary rules of prior agreements. They're collecting it; they're using it; they should let me have it -- simply by me providing the cookie that they're using as the master key, even if that's not my Google account.
The overall tone of the Unabomber Manifesto is pretty crazy, but substantial parts are rather profound, or at least concise and effective restatements of important ideas.

In particular, Kaczynski's discussion of the Power Process, Autonomy, and Surrogate Activities rings true and explains a lot. I get the impression a lot of this stuff has only been further confirmed in recent years: people without autonomous, difficult, and meaningful tasks are unhappy.

http://xahlee.org/p/um/um.html

I also thought his discussion of the psychological character of the Left has some value.
Also irrelevant to whether this case has merit or not. Not saying you're implying it does, but I see a lot of commenters on Techcrunch and other places making that jump.
That's great. It actually has a really good sound - wonder how it's implemented.

Couple of niggles though - the 'doodle 'link you can make of your recording is a short url that doesn't jump back to the au site. Worse than that, the recording doesn't come out sounding anything like the sound I recorded in the first place.

Really cool though.
It's not really "in the wild". It's a part of the Svbtle network (http://svbtle.com/) started by Dustin Curtis. Check the link in the lower left corner.
Dear Rubyists/rockstar ninjas/brogrammers/whatever you're calling yourselves this week: please stay well away from whatever community develops around Light Table.
This looks awesome

I had the same idea to build a web based graphical design tool: http://upmock.com/earlybird (https://github.com/daleharvey/upmock-client)

It works as a nice demo, but would take a lot of time that I dont have to make it reach really useful quality.

I am hoping a web based tool for graphically designing user interfaces at high fidelity comes around soon, this looks great, and certainly a better start than mine. but its still early days, I would love to see some momentum around contributing to it
I don't know why, but this is a topic about which people often hold very strong views. I agree with the author, but I feel like this viewpoint is discouraged, at least in the US; tipping is mandatory, and it is considered rude not to tip.

But, if tipping is mandatory, why not just advertise the real price? Take a cabe ride for example: I pay the driver to take me from point A to B. He (or she) completes this task, and I pay them. Very rarely do I feel like I have received exceptional service, and often the drivers are rude and impatient. But I have to tip at least 10-15% or I'm an asshole.

Maybe we'd all receive better service if we stopped compulsory tipping, and instead only tipped when we receive good customer service.
The facts were public. The analysis was not. Here's the information that the analysts were working off of:

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/0001193125122...

The facts were that Facebook had less profit for Q1 2012 than Q1 2011, despite making 25% more revenue. It was blamed on lack of new revenue from the mobile space.

The "disadvantage" is to people who were blindly buying Facebook without doing due diligence.
Code for America's civic seed accelerator
Software can't guide?
Show HN: rtcool - an api for newsreaders
Just releasing this to the wild and wondering if anyone has an idea of what should happen next with it. What features would you like to see? What could be built with it?

url:
http://www.rtcool.com/

Example:
http://rtcool.com/api/article?url=http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/05/upside-down-apple-logo/

Note: It's not perfect, yet. :)
I tried to come up with an appropriate rebuttal, but you're right - it wasn't the middle class that was taken advantage of here, it was truly the "dumb money" who decided to buy a stock with a 100:1 PE ratio. Point taken.
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