skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inside NASA’s Curiosity: It’s an Apple Airport Extreme… with wheels
This is my worry, that the Kickstarter brand will suffer some large blows because of the lack of foresight from its users -- both the listers who use it as their initial means to market a concept and the contributors who don't understand the risks if it meets goal but doesn't meet schedules or ship at all.
looks nifty, will need to try it out a bit then get back to you
> the only OSS problems were with projects which assumed everyone would use Linux with a certain version of GCC & autotools

Projects that assume OS X are even worse. Homebrew, for example, hardcodes gcc as gcc-4.2. I tried working with gcc-4.7 (which is ridiculously easy to install using homebrew), but so many build recipes broke, that I had to just give up and reset to apple-gcc-4.2.
Being called hypocrites by a tech blogger stings a whole lot less than getting sued for patent infringement.
"To hear the carriers tell it, the iPhone is a major inhibitor to their profits as last year they were “only” generating wireless service profit margins in the 38% to 42% range."

It would seem pretty simple then - stop carrying and supporting the iPhone, and they would have higher profit margins. This is basic math. If they want higher profit margins, drop iPhone.

Wait... what? They want higher profit margins and higher revenues? Perhaps those days are slipping away, and they may have to deal with higher revenues and 'only' 20% profit margins.

Uh oh - what if that happens? We'll stop seeing all the innovations from carriers we've seen over the past 20 years like...

Oh yeah, we haven't really seen any. SMS spam? That's been the only change in my wireless life I can directly attribute to wireless carriers, other than wireless service itself. Is there anything else I'm missing?
As a huge technology fan (and moe. fan), I was ecstatic to get to witness the entire band perform live on iPads last year at moe.down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzVhVJaKexk
> Removing the floppy drive and ethernet ports have clear and straightforward benefits, though.

What were those clear and straightforward benefits?

To the consumer, I mean; not to Apple.
Before you agree or disagree with Woz try this simple experiment: Try to view or download your old (e.g. two year-old) status updates from Facebook and see what happened to the longer ones.
Samsung Launches Galaxy Note 10.1 With Impressive Features
20 Ways to Find Your Calling (Single page / print)
Pitney Bowes Hosting Startup Competition In Connecticut
IPhone 5 nano sim cards tray how they look like?   [images]
the complicated series of steps here seems to be:

1. Get alert from OS that you need X11 to run this app.

2. Click link to get XQuartz

3. Install XQuartz

It's a one-time difficulty install that basically amounts to the same thing as a user installing Flash or Java on their computer. Just because some amount of users need something doesn't mean that Apple has to provide it.
This is absolutely right. Chicago exploded from a settlement of a few thousand people in 1840 to one of the five largest cities in the world, with over a million people, in 1890. This growth was contemporaneous with the expansion of the railroads out west and Chicago's status as the major U.S. rail hub.

And it's also absolutely right that it's ridiculous for people out west to complain about the intractability of big infrastructure projects. Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, etc, wouldn't even exist without massive U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects in the 19th century that made the harsh desert habitable.
Email Ad Network LaunchBit Raises $960K, Plans Move To Las Vegas
Tell that to jwz:

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/07/apple-dicks/

The fact it was eventually resolved changes nothing about how idiotic the process to that point was.
I meant it as a shortest time from "I wish I could see my app metrics" to actually seeing them. In other words, ease of set-up, lack of knobs, having metrics appear automatically.

By default, pup aggregates statsd data in 10s intervals, and the UI refreshes it continuously.
> If you can change the light bulbs you can run a personal server.

Uhh. You must have a really tech-savvy family...? I get asked about setting the microphone volume.
The Cellular automaton method for cave generation
It takes all of 10 minutes to setup a site/tracker like Demonoid. These sort of actions will continue to drive people toward private trackers.

Want to combat piracy? Fix your damn business models. I don't want to pay per song, per album, per movie, per game, per book, per whatever! I am willing to pay a minor monthly subscription to get access to a library of content.

There are companies out there that get that. Most, however, do not.
That was an app store thing, not a hardware decision.
Apple may well decide that the Macintosh should go back to being a Macintosh and remove Terminal.app period.

It's undeniably what Jobs would do.
From FEBRUARY:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57381996-263/apple-to-d...

I think someone wasn't paying attention and is just butthurt.
Just registered, and then ran the system check to make sure my Ubuntu laptop can watch the webinar:

Operating System	Failed	We have detected that your operating system does not meet the optimal webcast specifications for listening to and/or viewing webcasts. We recommend the following operating systems:
Windows 7 or Windows XP SP2, and Mac OS X 10.4.
Please note that users with older versions of Windows (Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 95), Mac, Linux, and Unix operating systems may or may not experience difficulties listening to and/or viewing webcasts. Please contact your network administrator regarding any operating system upgrades.

Surprising from O'reilly, but I guess that's an artifact of choosing Flash for this.
I assume you mean "their way" as in: an end to all illegal sharing. If so, why is it unfortunate, surely no illegal sharing is a good thing?
Is it possible to dump magnet-links and launch on another tracker?
Codeception PHP Testing framework to support XPath, Grabbers, Unit Tests
To an extreme example, the Macbook Air.

More generally, saving space, allowing you to add different things inside a laptop. I realise you could argue the same for hard disk space, but it's not anywhere near as limited.
I agree the business models need work, but "let me get access to more product at lower prices or else I'll steal it" does't seem like a very defensible position.
I don't. I see a beginning of decentralized sharing and an influx of more anonymous, secure, internet usage.
What's the worst that could happen? Nobody wants to hire him for that rate? Sounds like he'd be perfectly happy with that outcome.
Advice I Wish I Could've Given Myself 5 Years Ago
Yesterday, it was 'pip install matplotlib' (through virtualenvwrapper). Just a few days earlier, it was getting a dev version of paramiko to work with ansible.

Most likely, both were user errors of some sort, but instead of spending a few hours trying to wade through homebrew recipes, I just decided to boot up ubuntu.
"Tribute" seems like a better word choice than "gift".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribute
what a single terminal window? having multiple xterm windows is a godsend for admins.

and being able to select and past with just the mouse is a realy usefull.
Well, it's a click away - just like java. Not much worse than having to install it from one of the non-install DVDs that came with the OS.
Why do others have to tell designers what they should and shouldn't do? They are smart enough to make their own decisions. I think it all depends on the project, the company, brand, and opportunity. Crowdsourcing and a traditional design process can still coexist.

I wrote a short blog post on this here:
http://blog.fantastic.me/2012/08/is-sepc-work-evil.html
If the goal is to make letters look more genuine, then won't it look a bit odd when the postmark on the letter shows it being mailed from a different state?
My understanding (and please correct me if I'm wrong) is that an 'upgrade' is really a fresh installation, with your user data migrated across afterwards. In that context it's not really a 'removal' as such -- and it's hard to see how else they'd do it.

I'm actually glad they made this change. In the past, XQuartz was sometimes ahead of the officially distributed version, which could be messy. Now they're the same thing.
I am the author of some of the related code in Chrome. It's a Linux Chrome bug caused by text-rendering:optimizeLegibility.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=55458

It's unlikely anyone else will fix it, either. Linux Chrome doesn't get much love. (Alternatively, it gets a proportionate amount of love to the size of its userbase.)

I'm really sorry I never fixed it. I sometimes use Firefox on sites like this if the rendering really matters. You can also use a user stylesheet to unset it for all sites.
The rise of HFT Algo Machines from January 2007 through January 2012
It's called
www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com

Why would anyone go on hackernews to check if a website is down? That doesn't make much sense, there are so many mechanisms out there to deal with this kind of thing....
very useful summary:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6134/khronos-announces-opengl-...
I'm surprised that this wasn't considered fraud.
Sometimes bank tellers make mistakes, but that shouldn't lead to the bank taking a $95k loss.
This guy played a joke on his bank - which would normally be considered illegal, but didn't like that the bank was angry?
Impression sculpting: use AdWords data to become a display guru
Probably true. But at least in the open source community, it's pulled even with CVS and svn and is at least an order of magnitude higher than that of hg (or any of the other also-rans). Obviously "someone" important is going to use any product (see the irate comments for some great examples).

And there are very high costs to heterogeneity in this world. Using a weird SCM means that every new contributor needs to learn a new tool and new workflow, and that hurts. Using the one that "everyone" knows is a big advantage to projects.

And git is good. Not "the best" perhaps; and undeniably ugly in places. But it's more than good enough. And the existence of a community like github make it, frankly, better for new users than other options.
Can't we just say "Fucking"? That little * in place of the "u" isn't fooling anyone.
If locksmithing tools are outlawed, then only outlaws will have locksmithing tools.

From that perspective, the ban makes sense, kind of. If the police catch a burglar with locksmithing tools, then he's automatically a criminal, even if they can't prove he broke into anybody's houses. What if he's not a burglar? Well, law-abiding citizens by definition wouldn't have those tools, unless they have the appropriate certification, which the police can of course check.

It serves as a convenient filter to lower the bar to being able to arrest burglars. Of course, there's the question of whether there are legitimate reasons for non-certified people to have these tools, and whether the tradeoff is worth it (I'd certainly lean toward "no" there, since it seems like a big restriction of freedom for a minor gain), but on its face the prohibition is not completely absurd.
Good point - it seems like they take this risk into account in the design of their service in a couple of other ways too, like in the triggered actions. For example, you can't send a message to an arbitrary phone or Google Talk account, only your own personal, verified accounts. It would be super useful if you could send more customized messages to anywhere, but then you could build entire services on top of IFTTT.
Their reorganization of XCode into an app bundle was really, really annoying and, frankly, makes zero sense; making the command line tools an extra download makes me suspicious that the developers they care about are Mac/iOS developers (as opposed to general purpose ones).
Hard to do if the keys on your laptop keyboard are flush with the palm rest.
Well put. Again, we're being forced to do the work for the machine. Having multiple automatic commits happening in another area that is something we can pull back in between actual manual 'commits' ('saves') would have been a much better alternative.

Once I 'save' to a different file name, from what I understand, automatic saves are still happening to the original file and filename - why? That makes no sense however you slice it.
We'll stop seeing all the innovations from carriers we've seen over the past 20 years like... Oh yeah, we haven't really seen any.

I don't want to be in the position of defending the cellphone networks too much, but things like 3G and LTE upgrades to cell towers aren't easy or free. Neither were the 4G auctions.
I could and have. But, the performance of VirtualBox on my 2011 Lion-based MBP seems much worse than on my windows box (with comparable hardware). I have a task on my todo list to investigate.
Remind me, how many media companies have gone bust due to so called "piracy"? Sony? Warners? Fox? Any?

Any artists gone bust provably down to "piracy"? In fact many really awful "artists" make millions, seemingly supported by draconian acts of government. I mean, would some one like Rhianna be happy to see her fans potentially get fined or even jailed? Ironically if you fine people they have less cash to spend on these muppets.

Any concrete proof that "piracy" is actually costing them actual real money? Is there any proof that the majority of down-loaders would have bought the "art" in the first place? Its mostly grazing.

Or is it just that they want to make even more money? All those profits not quite enough?

OK, fair enough, capitalism is capitalism, so then cant they invest rather than using government to beat on their customers?

Why does government support failing business by using the law to do so? The law is government/public money, its just like pumping cash in to failing businesses. Its stealth socialism.

I'm sorry, this whole thing is absurd. Worse still its based on a fundamental lie.

The simple truth is that people will willingly pay good money for a product they value. Its that really not enough? It certainly was for Louis CK.
This looks potentially interesting, but I can't really evaluate it without thorough and accurate documentation. It would be nice if there were more than just instructions for downloading it and a trivial use case. Without it, your work's not done.
Don't forget to add "Sell my content even if I'm not in USA". Seriously, piracy is the only way to get some content outside the USA.
I do want to pay per album, per movie, per game, per book, etc.

I just want to pay 1/5th of the current cost. Distribution is now free, so why are we still paying for it?
> I like the idea of a framework built using a compiled language[.]

Check out yesod (www.yesodweb.com).

> I imagine it'd be far easier to write a vulnerable application.

In C++, probably, yes. In Haskell, not so much.
Copyright infringement is not equatable to theft.
I have this problem with paying for Utilities in the States. Both my Electric and Internet allow for auto-pay against my checking account without a fee, but my Natural Gas company uses Western Union for their payment processing, which charge somewhere between a dollar or two per payment as a fee.

The cost of a stamp and the free non-personalized checks from my bank end up being cheaper than paying Western Union every month for the "convenience" of online/electronic payments. My landlord also lives out of state and is an individual, not a large company, so I send her a check every month by snail mail.

You're right, the actual dollar is no big deal, but I continually write their annual survey with remarks about how my Gas Company's online bill pay sucks. I'd rather not pay fee upon fee to do business with a company that feels the need to continually lobby the government for the right to add more fees. Everyone else gets by without having to charge extra for 21st century banking methods.
This sounds like a repeat of when Europeans came to the Americas. There were no environmental issues (other than natural ones) in the Americas before "Land Ownership". Land Ownership created deforestation and pollution, not the other way around.

Deforestation causes erosion of top soil, nutrient imbalances, dust storms and land slides. Even the type of farming that goes hand and hand with land ownership causes environment problems.

This view seems like foolhardy view, endorsed because of its prevalence on earth in powerful nations.

Regarding point #2, poverty is relative. Although you may consider not having internet to be poverty, much of the world couldn't care less about it. Hunter/Gathers native to Sudan, central, and south africa live the way they do because it is considered to be their culture (they choose to do it). So there is no "poverty" to be talked about. "Being behind" and "Building wealth" sound like nonsense that they deliberately want no parts of. Their state is not something they're trying to get away from. It is desired. So your notion of 'not owning land' put them in this position is false. Their will-power is why they live traditionally, not land ownership.

Living natively didn't cause the land grab. Other people's notions of land ownership is what caused the land grab. If it were not for people who think they own land, there would have been no land grab...

Your logic seems to be completely backwards.
Who cares about the weekend winning? Meet cool interesting new people and learn a wee bit. Hackathons can also be great collaborative community building events!
Stripe And A/B Testing Made Me A Small Fortune
Cheddar is awesome and Sam seems to have the ambition to do great things.
There are 4 major carriers, and numerous regional carriers. Tell me where the monopoly is, please?
Thanks for your comment. One thing I want to make clear is that we aren't trying to deceive anyone - we simply want to provide a service that allows people to easily send hand-crafted letters and cards, because they are a nicer thing to get in the mail. We also have an interface that gives you a recorded history of all of the letters you've sent.
GMOs cause animals to lose their ability to reproduce
You're assuming that all sharing is illegal sharing. That's the same argument "they", the people working to shut down torrent sites, use.
Illegal and immoral are not the same thing.

It could be illegal but moral in some cases (ok, torrents are mostly used for copyright infringement, I admit, but they do have moral and legal uses).

Furthermore, it's not even illegal in every country (but we'll get the US laws applied anyways).
This is a must read.
A few years later, you will have a totally burned team, half of them in the middle of a divorce because the family had no vacations for years.

A better idea is to give them double leave time, so you can get more and smarter people working in the project. The same people can choose between this project and working in a 4-day-work-week company, for more money.

But actually, a more efferent use of the resources would give the team a lot of auxiliary support, so they don't have to deal with the invoice system of the university and the providers, they don't have to care about how to install the heating/air conditioning, they have some money to hire a mechanical technician to help with the design of the system, and a lot of small things that waste a lot of time.
(I work in a University and sometime I weep when I read http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BionicOffice.html or http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/DevelopmentAbstractio... .)
Can't you use cash? I honestly can't understand most of the comments as it seems here in Russia there's no concept of a check, or at least no 'real person' ever used anything like that.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Captures Amazing Image of Curiosity Rover’s Descent
I had a lot of fun at ecommerce hackathon. I've thought about what makes for a great hackathon, and, credit where credit is due, it comes down to the organizer. Alex organizes the best hackathons I've ever been to in NYC, and I've been to them all. Photo hack days last year were several notches above everything else, and now that Alex is at Dwolla, we're seeing the same thing in ecommerce themed hackathons. Great job, Alex!
Interesting quote from NASA about the cost of these images:

“This movie cost you less than seven bucks per American citizen, and look at the excitement we got,” Dr. Elachi said.
I don't think $1,000 an hour is unreasonable for an expert (I'll leave aside the judgment of whether this guy is such an expert or not). There are quite a few law firm partners that charge over $1,000 an hour for their services (http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/st_TOPRATE0...) (and that's just the small publicly-available slice of what is usually pretty guarded information).

The fact that people here on HN are reacting negatively to the rate reflects what I think is a cultural flaw in the developer community: programmers seem very reluctant to demand real money for their services. I rarely hear people complain that programmers are too expensive, even during this current boom. Given that people complain about everyone's rates: doctors, lawyers, plumbers, etc, that's almost a sure sign that programmers charge too little and expect too little.

Software is where the money is these days. Google, etc, have double the revenues per employee of any major investment bank. Yet, the culture on Wall Street is such that the investment banks (which are public companies too), pay out ~50% of revenues in compensation. There is no reason software development should be any different.
Startup Communities: Focus on Neighborhoods, Not Cities
We need more decentralised P2P systems. Decentralisation has lots of problems that make it crap for most people (e.g. verifying that you get what you think you're getting, and slow speeds). These problems are Hard Problems™. This is chance for a real hacker to solve them.

We can beat them with technology.
Profit is calculated after capital purchases are taken into account. The profit margins should include the amortized costs of the tower upgrades.
Image of the Mars lander parachute, as seen from MRO
Store fluffy cloud-like stuff in the cloud.

I couldn't care any less if my Facebook posts or Twitter updates were wiped off the face of the earth.

I would care if my email archives, photographs, music collection, etc., were destroyed, but with varying degrees of concern. For example, I'll often buy individual music tracks from iTunes, but if I know I want a whole album, I buy a physical CD. I might only use the CD once to rip it to my computer, but I have an automatic backup that, so far, seems pretty robust, as I still have working CDs that I bought in the mid-1990's... which is more than I can say for my email archives!
Nope, it's still a batch process. Usually the day's batch is collected and sent to the Fed, and then the bank gets their net debit/credit for all their transactions. It'll generally show in accounts the next morning. (Note that there are many details here about exactly which method is used and if there's a third party exchange).

Checks can come back anywhere from nearly instantly (e.x if there's a bad routing number) to a day or two (insufficient funds, or bad accounts, or unauthorized on a commercial account) to a month or two (unauthorized on a personal account) to many months (fraud, US treasury checks). The last can be a real killer, since they're normally big checks on trustworthy accounts (though, not necessarily from trustworthy intermediates).

Checks are never really cleared, they just haven't bounced yet.
Because, the price isn't determined by cost. Each artist is its own Monopoly, so pricing is determined by what people will pay for access to that monopoly product.

There are plenty of artists who are coming up who charge much less.