skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't mean to imply they could all just jump around in their birthday suits... but considering how big of an issue (that is, end-all) oxygen leaks are in any sort of constructed microatmosphere, provided there is no catastrophic damage to infrastructure it seems like this would be a pretty big help.
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It's the apple ecosystem that's the problem for me. Not everything they touch turns to gold, and force feeding us the lead with the gold is a becoming a turnoff.
Read Jobs' comments about going nuclear on Android and you can see this is just an execution of a strategy he set in place. If there are no more suits by Apple against Android vendors in the next year I will buy you a case of beer.
Just close your mouth. You lose water via your lungs very quickly, but through your skin less so.
"We are Women Against Rape but we do not want Julian Assange extradited"
just did 10 as well. Every bit counts. Keep going people.
I've wondered what it'd be like to have a company that capped its growth at around 500 people, but made damn sure that those 500 were among the brightest in the world. Would it be an innovation think tank? Or would they find that those 500 brilliant people spend so much time doing drudge work that they can't get any actual work done? Or would they just automate all the drudge work away?

I imagine it might be a little like RenTech in the financial world, which according to Wikipedia has only 275 employees and $23B in assets under management, for roughly $100M/employee. Wonder how that would translate to an organization focused around building actual products for people.
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Seems like an attempt to get over some of the extremely bad press to me. While it's good for the ex-employees, it was still a really crappy thing to do in the first place.
My first thought: increased endurance. Would this injection work while breathing, for an increased oxygen flow to organs?
I donated $10, but you know what I was deeply upset. The author is doing something great but 1) he should link to the Indiegogo page because I have no idea who he is, and could have easily thought he is a scammer if it weren't for the fact that he is on the front page of HN, and 2) for God's sake tell us how much he needs (this one goes to IGG page). It's not five grand, it's more. Tell us the number so we can do whatever we can, each one of us, to help a brother in need.

I apologize to the author, but I hope my comment helps you raise way more money for such great causes next time.
Well deserved but I do have a bone to pick with awards retrospectively given after the outcome and then attributing success to individuals ex post facto.

What exactly is the point of calling a success after the success? Seems like redundant ass kissing to me.

A fawning mix between humanity's hindsight bias mixed with a large dollop of the sharp shooter fallacy.

Indeed, if I recall correctly, two of the most awarded companies of the late 90s were Enron and MCI WorldCom by the likes of Fortune, Forbes and other "respectable" business journals.

Not stating that Musk is like those guys at all - but it does make me wonder about the true purpose of awards.
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I don't have any particular loyalty to Samsung but these cases set a chilling precedent for the platform that looks likely to dominate the computing industry for at least the next decade. There's much more at stake here than a few billion dollars and a few icons and scrolling techniques.

If this continues we're going to spend the next decade tiptoeing around every trivial implementation detail of mobile UI instead of boldly exploring new ideas. Apple's successful use of the broken patent system sends exactly the wrong signal.
"Nearly." So lets say they're 99% effective.

100 people = 1 person.
1000 people = 10 people.
8.2 million people (the population of NYC) = 82,000 people.

That's a non trivial number, and that's just for one city.
Not giving practical How-To instructions. Reference material in itself is very slow to work with, especially with new development. Documentation needs to include real examples of different calls, and the use of multiple calls to accomplish various tasks.

The best documents give core API references, example calls, multiple calls chained together, and the full back-and-forth HTML exchange data to see authentication and calls working.
I really wonder how the cybersecurity prowesses of US, Israel, China, UK, Saudia Arabia, etc. compare to each other. China, of course, has a reputation for possessing extremely skilled hackers able to penetrate US government networks. The US and Israel are responsible are giants, too, having created Stuxnet--not to mention that the US invented the whole Internet thingy and has the best universities in the world doing research into security.

So what about countries like Saudia Arabia? How do they find engineers and computer scientists to do research in cybersecurity? They do have their own universities, but I imagine they send an awful lot of young men overseas to study at Western schools. Will this become a political issue in the future? For sensitive US government research facilities (national labs, NSA, etc.) citizenship is a basic requirement. I suspect that in the future, Congress will act to prevent universities from training foreign nationals in cybersecurity. The jingoistic rationale will be indisputable--they'll say, "We are training our opponents to defeat us." I cannot conceive of the sea change such an event would bring to higher level education and global politics.
that's stand up. At WebTV, at acquisition, he gave the staff a considerable amount of his stock in gratitude to sweeten their take - so I honestly don't think he has made the moves he did out of a desire to screw the staff but to save 50% instead of having to fire 100%.
NIST BIOS Protection Guidelines for Servers (Draft) [pdf]
Honestly? It looks like a vision of hell.

If there's one thing Microsoft got right, it's that they read Peopleware and took it at least half seriously.
Not so. Your skin is actually more than strong enough to prevent your blood from boiling. And without an atmosphere, radiative cooling is really slow. Exposure to vacuum (or just really low atmospheric pressure) kills you by anoxia after a couple of minutes; less than a minutes of exposure tends to do no lasting damage, unless you try to hold your breath and end up rupturing alveoli.
This is early, but I want it, now. I have a huge number of questions.

My mother has idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a disease that irreversibly scars the lungs, restricting breathing over time. My grandmother died of it; my aunt just had both lungs transplanted; my mother is at the front of the list for a double-lung transplant (and can be called in at any time - we all have to keep our cell phones on). There's every chance I or my sister will be diagnosed with it in the future. And it kills as many people in the US as breast cancer each year.

This would dramatically increase quality of life. Instead of having to cart torpedo-sized oxygen tanks everywhere, sufferers could inject themselves with this substance, and either downgrade their oxygen equipment or do without it entirely. It wouldn't be a cure, but it would almost certainly increase health overall while waiting for a transplant, and increase the chances of survival during one.

Forget Mars exploration, or undersea military missions. For a lot of people, breathing normally while living normal lives is science fiction enough.
The pressure difference because of lack of atmosphere would cause strange effects (I don't know what might be, I'm no physicist).
Would it have been less crappy to shut the company down completely?
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Of course profit is ultimately the metric that counts.

But time and time again in the tech world we've seen that it's much easier to build something cheap and ubiquitous and eat your way up the value chain than it is to start at the top and try to tenaciously cling there. It didn't work for Apple last time and I think it's starting to slip for them again now.
Letting the company run dry and not telling anyone until paychecks bounce would have been even worse. It doesn't seem like anyone made a clean getaway from this at all (Perlman himself isn't even taking salary from "OnLive2").
Big user of Scipy Sparse. Anyone know if this is compatible?
Here is a mailing list thread with the results of a simple benchmark: https://groups.google.com/a/continuum.io/forum/m/#!msg/numba...

Looks promising!
He seems to have done something that we very, very rarely see in corporate america, which is show genuine leadership. I'm wondering, keidian, what you believe you would have done that would have been less "really crappy." Genuinely interested.
Being able to dump in 50k after bad press and saying

"I just added $50K to the bucket and will add more as needed"

makes me cynical I guess. shrugs
Good. Hopefully they'll put their talent to good use, instead of squandering it.
Microwave ovens may help produces lower-cost solar power
None of us knows the terms of the deal such as would be necessary to have any sense of what is possible.
Apple's strategy assumes that a single company and a single line of devices can indefinitely command the lion's share of the most important computing platform of our time. This just doesn't seem tenable to me. For every consumer that's completely satisfied with the Apple experience there will be 3-4 others that prefer some other product for any number of reasons.

When in the history of the world have we ever seen a single company and a single line of products dominate a mass-market consumer segment for more than a few years?
How do you define reasonable?
Not sure what you are complaining about here. :) Facebook has 1/4 the number of employees Yahoo has and less than 1/16 that of Google. It's smaller than my high school.
Honestly? Doing a mass layoff will suck regardless, but doing it by shutting down the company and making a brand new one immediately rubs me the wrong way. While no one likes to be laid off, I think people would have been able to at least hold their head high about the work they had been doing rather than the stigma of being remembered as working at OnLive before AND being out of a job.

Side note: Wonder just how low my karma will sink after this post and my original one lol. Seems like people don't agree with me, which is fine :)
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Elon probably shares your sentiments, since he was an avid reader of Feynman. Source: http://www.iop.org/careers/workinglife/profiles/page_37749.h...

Feynman himself once said that he didn't like honors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f61KMw5zVhg

So when Elon won the Lady Vivamus sword after accepting the heinlein award for advances in space commercialization, he fools around with it instead of just being another trophy, sometimes to impress the ladies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRpqZjfFzGg
Yes, the best solution would be cure the disease, but the nursing home staff are not going to be the ones working on a cure. They have a different set of responsibilities than the noble goal of finding a cure for Alzheimer's.
It's pretty bad... this is the list of blocked stuff from Ghostery:

AddThis
Commission Junction
Digg Widget
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Facebook Connect
Facebook Social Plugins
Google +1
Google Adsense
Google Analytics
LinkedIn Widgets
Pinterest
Reddit
Statcounter
StumbleUpon Widgets
Twitter Button

also, this sentence broke my brain: Well what if they really couldn’t “breathe” water” but since the urge to breathe is natural, that must take place…

To me, and I really have to think of the the Simpsons movie when I say this, that just goes to show when you dream a dream, it can also become a website with technology in it. At the end of the day, that's something you can take away from all this, and that's nothing short of okay.
No, in this case. The arstechnica isn't very clear, but the original article explain more details ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4429424 ).

They found a solution with a negative w and negative k, so it travels forward. They "neglect" the solutions that travel backward (with negative w and positive k, or positive w and negative k). The more clear parts about this is the Fig 1(a) (page 2) and the paragraph below it.
A. Pinch and zoom on surfaces was invented by Microsoft Research years ago. Almost all of the "technology innovation" claimed by Apple since the Mac has been stolen/borrowed from other companies.

B. Samsung devices were rounded-rectangle designs WELL before the iPod existed, and the concept of rounded-rectangle iPad-like devices that played video existed back in Stanley Kubrick's 2001. Ei ther should invalidate a "design patent" on such a look -- "black rounded rectangle" is absolutely insane to claim Apple owns!
I don't get it. How are you going to get enough oxygen (trapped in pockets of) a 3cc lipid injection to stay functioning? I breathe 10x that amount of air in a second. Even if I only get 1/10 of that as oxygen into my blood stream,... what that 3cc delivers is still practically nothing.
The limited selection is even worse than the price. I vastly prefer Moleskine's soft cover notebooks, and these are apparently only available in hard cover. Then again, aside from "disaster recovery", the flatbed scanner I already use to scan notebook pages probably works better than the iPad's camera even with special deskew logic anyway.
Sure, I found some funny stories from different places across the internet to seed the content. Search for "stoner stories" or "funny high ideas" or "weed thoughts" or any remotely similar phrase and you'll find some stuff.

The idea that I targeted a specific site with the intention of ripping them off is absurd, though. That wouldn't even be the right approach to getting something like this off the ground.
> Or would they find that those 500 brilliant people spend so much time doing drudge work that they can't get any actual work done?

[Maybe] Not if a couple of those brightest 500 have enough respect for and include amongst them a couple of the world's most dedicated and efficient administrative assistants.
Yeah, personalized analysis beats treating the population as uniform.
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The RAND study on health insurance and healthcare consumption showed that healthcare is indeed an elastic product.
Usually I do, but I make an exception for Drupal. I've got the battle scars to prove it.
What's stopping Facebook from adding a filter by "Pages / Music" feature?
Liquids are much denser than gases.
Well I have great news for you. Right on the 1040 form there is a spot where you can elect to pay more. I suggest that you do next year. Or just send the treasury a check.
Cool book, but sad that the public on average seems hopeless at understanding that variance exists.
Thanks for the necessary groundwork.

The OP is a terrifying vision of the future of journalism. A warmed-over rewrite of some press release, with no links to the original material, tarted up with an array of unrelated links so huge that they even creep into the author's byline:

The author of this article is… an SEO tactician and SEM strategist. If you enjoyed this article, you can follow me on twitter... I am writing on behalf of Wilderness Aware Rafting who offer some of the best Colorado White Water Rafting trips in the state.

I thought Ghostery would have a stroke. I'm just going to flag this.
I'm on OSX/Chrome21, and it is quite hard to read for me as well. In addition to exploring other font options, I would recommend you play with the `line-height` css property to give the text some breathing room!

In the article "Secret Symphony: The Ultimate Guide to Readable Web Typography" [1] the author covers `line-height`, line width, proportions, and stresses the importance of getting typography right for to your readers. The article then goes into some golden ratio stuff, which may be a little more than you are interested in, but give it a look!

[1]: http://www.pearsonified.com/2011/12/golden-ratio-typography....
When 30 minutes of additional breathing are enough time to bring a crew back to Earth or a space station. That is to say, in 340 years, give or take 5 years. By then they'll also bring condoms, because we will have realized that space isn't much good for a whole lot, except to have sex in it.
I can't see a meaningful analogy with the old Apple; to assert one is to assume that totally divergent situations (Apple owning a market wholesale, versus being a niche player) and companies (Apple 2012 is very different from Apple 1998) somehow combine in a way that papers over the very real changes that have happened internal and externally.
its hard to follow the rules when the judge defines them as they go along. If you followed it, sometimes decisions are left ad hoc up to the judge.
The shutting down/new company business is essentially a convoluted form of bankruptcy[0] that allowed them to keep the lights on; out of context it looks bad but it could have been much worse.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_assignment (note this technically/legally isn't bankruptcy, but has a rather similar effect)
Looking at only the earnings reports and comparing profits is meaningless. If you follow the Gruber link it shows that Amazon's net profit is only $7M. That does not mean Amazon is having trouble making any money. It's that it's costs of expanding are swallowing the profits. Apple has a ton of cash in the bank lying around because they don't see a need for using it. Directly comparing the numbers makes no sense whatsoever except to people who's profit depends on telling people what they want to hear. i.e Apple this week is better than X in Y metric and hence Apple wins and X sucks, where X and Y are carefully picked.

Wasn't it just yesterday that Gruber was comparing revenues from a hardware business(iPhone) to Microsoft's primarily software business, instead of profits which would make more sense?
...that lost them the desktop wars after taking an early lead with the Mac

The fact is that they never took an early lead with the Mac [1]. They did take an lead with iPod. See how that worked out quite well for them.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/08/from-altair-to-ipad-...
What I'd like to see is a healthy market with two or three real competitors.

As would I, although I would like that market to offer real choice, and not just one first-mover and 1-2 copycats. Microsoft, Palm and Nokia managed to figure out how to make a touchscreen phone that isn't a warmed-over iPhone, I hope this provides the push for Samsung to do the same.
One quick trick is to refresh the page, and stop reload before social bar loads.
Find out how many fake followers do you have?
I saw it in a movie. I think it was called Total Recall :)
Where is this thing supposed to go? Are they designing to a particular site?
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Hello HN,

I built www.sftransit.us to make it easier to get live transit arrival/departure times on your cellphone. Right now, it does Muni and BART. You don't have to download anything, and it takes one click to find times for nearby stops.

I don't live in San Francisco right now (but am moving out there in a few months). I'm really keen to know if this is a useful service, and to know if there's anything that would make it more useful to you. I'm aware there are a few existing tools for this (like Routesy, and the official site [of course]), but I don't think any are as hassle free...

http://www.sftransit.us
Do either Evernote or Moleskine really qualify as startups, though? (not that that necessarily changes things, though I'm not convinced that it's as revolutionary as being made out to be... certainly evolutionary).
Having to manage an externalized representation of your relationships is what is against human nature. Feeling social pressure to check daily, weekly, or even monthly on the activities of every person you may have ever met is what is against human nature.
It's a tabloid, nothing to fear for the future over.

Especially since this is two month old news.
Not only that, its going to set innovating in the mobile space back even farther. While Apple outlines every decision meticulously for planned obsolescence, Google and others take a more throw something out there, see if it works and run with it approach. With both strongly competing it pushes the entire industry forward faster.
the shills will eat this up
I just love that plugin.
I think I understand the reasoning behind open floor plans, but what's the point of having everyone in a single mega-room? It's not like the two people in opposite corners of the hangar will be able to communicate seamlessly just because they're in the same "room"; they'll have to walk over to one another just the same as they would if they had walls separating them.

(Of course being in the same room doesn't hurt in that respect either, but partitions have other advantages as well, e.g., aesthetics and noise.)
clickable: http://www.sftransit.us

If you're interested, it's built on Python/Flask, redis, geo.js.
I think you make it seem slightly more harmless than it is..

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_will_happen_to_a_person_witho...

After about ten seconds a victim will experience loss of vision and impaired judgement, and the cooling effect of evaporation will lower the temperature in the victim's mouth and nose to near-freezing. Unconsciousness and convulsions would follow several seconds later, and a blue discoloration of the skin called cyanosis would become evident.

At this point the victim would be floating in a blue, bloated, unresponsive stupor, but their brain would remain undamaged and their heart would continue to beat. If pressurized oxygen is administered within about one and a half minutes, a person in such a state is likely make a complete recovery with only minor injuries, though the hypoxia-induced blindness may not pass for some time. Without intervention in those first ninety seconds, the blood pressure would fall sufficiently that the blood itself would begin to boil, and the heart would stop beating. There are no recorded instances of successful resuscitation beyond that threshold.
You're talking about John Gruber. I'm just talking about profit. Obviously, companies routinely defer profitability. Is that what you think Samsung, or any other Android vendor for that matter, is doing? I don't. Comparing the iPhone business with Amazon is an apples/oranges comparison. Comparing Samsung's Android business with the iPhone isn't.

Like Gruber, don't like Gruber, I don't care. But let's not introduce the meme that "profit" is a meaningless metric. It is the only metric. Companies that are optimized for something other than profit today are doing so in the service of profit, and nothing other than profit, tomorrow.

"Revenue", less profits, is money that doesn't belong to you.
Poor documentation is #1. Second is abstracting things into unintuitive objects/calls.
He runs an organization/project called Reglue (http://reglue.org/). They give out computers to children who otherwise would not be able to get one.

If you live in Texas you should consider cleaning out your closet and donating some computers to the cause. They're basically looking for P4 class machines and better. Something gathering dust in your closet can changes a kid's life forever.
Samsung is the only producer of screens that can meet the quality and quantity requirements of apple. I remember hearing they even had problems keeping up with the demand. I seriously doubt Apple could come up with another supplier.
The technique in the article is small bubbles filled with gas.
I never "got" Evernote, but this is trés cool.
>The fact is that they never took an early lead with the Mac

@eddieplan You might not be old enough to remember but the macintosh and earlier apple computers were the first commercially successful computers for the home market.