skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They could probably sell it off if they happened to get some traction, but given that it's been a week since they launched it and every item on the homepage is self-referential, the chances seem low.

Going from a Facebook competitor to this is just really sad.

Then again, maybe they've got something up their sleeve that we don't know about given that they're YC, but from what I've seen I have my doubts.
I mentioned this in the Tweetbot thread, but http://rstat.us looks very promising. They syndicate your posts to Twitter, are working on a Twitter-compatible API[1], and use OStatus so are compatible with other services running the protocol (like the somewhat more neglected-looking identi.ca).

[1] https://github.com/hotsh/rstat.us/tree/twitter-api
These are all the (now) older and therefore even cheaper models. I think in general, Apple seeks to "decommoditize" the smart phone market.
"I've yet to read any convincing argument about how this verdict will lead to more innovation"

The verdict will lead to more innovation and R&D from Samsung, instead of just copying from Apple.
Add turntable.fm!
>has no meaningful controls

There are two meaningful controls, which combined hint at a causation. The IQ test from age 13, before many people begin pot use, is a control over who makes the decision to start smoking weed, and the non-smoker and smoker groups provide a control over whether pot made people stupider.

So, what factors could cause the study to show the correlation but not be a direct causation? It would have to be a confounding factor that both makes people want to smoke and something that causes them to get stupider over time that isn't the marijuana. That's possible, perhaps some sort of addictive personality disorder. But I think the simplest explanation is a causation, there is other evidence that marijuana affects the brains of adolescents.
Hackers Leak 1 Million Accounts from Over 100 Websites Worldwide
Twitter can't afford to be feated? Sure it can! The only people who could possibly fear twitter are developers. Regular Twitter users mostly don't give a crap. They jump on whatever client they like, Tweet a bit, read a bit, and go about their lives. I really think developers are really overestimating our importance to Twitter at this point. We're a small portion of Twitter's users and they arguably don't need us anymore. We made it popular and better but now they can cut off access to their API completely and replace all third party functionality and our screams would echo in our echo chamber but fall on deaf ears the moment it escaped the chamber. Non-developer users may shed a tear and write an angry blog post but they'll all forget, move on to the new official Twitter apps and the rest of us will still be complaining about it on HN (a couple hundred of us may pay to scream about it on app.net in protest too).

It's not right but it is what it is. I think it's better to accept this now rather than have to deal with our denial later.

Edit: I mentioned they could cut off all functionality. That was hyperbole obviously but they can cut off access to a hefty chunk of the API and replace what third parties are doing nonetheless.
What are we in grade school?
> But oh no, they're typically the same price or even more expensive. This is nothing but greed.

I don't understand why this is greed. If I grow an apple, is it greedy for me to sell it in a way that maximises my revenue? And if I write a book or record a song, is it greedy for me to licence it in a way that maximises my revenue?
I have mixed feelings about this...

1) Why in the hell would anyone want more CSS floating around their codespace? Note: This is partially addressed in "Doesn’t CSS Suck for Apps?"

2) If this becomes a thing, does that mean that everyone involved in the actual drafting of the CSS spec will finally get their shit together and treat it the way it deserves? Note: You too, browser vendors.

3) Does this mean native app developers can finally pay me for more than paper storyboards? Because then...
The via stamp told you whether a tweet was posted via desktop or mobile, which can be useful to know.
iTunes songs are currently DRM-free. You can just copy the files to wherever you want, or re-sync the whole library to another iTunes match account for $25.

That's one battle won, now we need to get rid of DRM for video and ebooks...
I love and reiterate this point consistently. ML is ultimately quite often very dumb. It's simply a good tool that must be wielded with understanding, intuition, and ingenuity if you're going to make it valuable.
The doctors of Semmelweis' day definitely missed an opportunity. (Note that it was contended that chlorinated hand washes were common in England at the same time.)
Regarding the downmod, did I say something false?
WolframAlpha should be on that list, possibly as a replacement for some of the items now there.
The article is about an IQ drop after marijuana use, not the absolute IQ after marijuana use.
Surviving Orbit the DIY Way
I don't see any reason why LESS/SASS wouldn't work, provided they've ported the majority of the actual spec (comparable at least to any browser out there). Since they simply compile your code into longform CSS it doesn't actually leave any footprints.
Wireless Sensor Tags Help You Keep Track of Your Stuff
Really interesting, I hadn't thought it this way. I was in a more basic stage like tech vs. non-tech
Level 64?
>Nobody forces authors to rely on copyright and authors are not all stupid sheep. So why doesn't the market lead to copyright-free books if they are viable?

Huh? Of course people will take copyright if it's offered, because they get it for nothing. Just like most farmers will take subsidies offered to them, whether or not they actually need them. Just because someone retains (and makes money off) the copyright to a novel they wrote doesn't mean they wouldn't have written it in the absence of copyright.

>Just like FOSS is a good model for Linux and lots of science/enterprise/commodity software, but still hasn't caught on in many other areas. What is holding video games without copyright back from overtaking traditional AAA titles?

I think it's a very unusual set of circumstances, and some dedicated idealists, that have lead to the success of OSS. But again, even if there were no OSS programs, that wouldn't mean that a world without copyright would have no programs. People tend to take rewards they are offered.
Where has the link's site gone?
Design and Social Entrepreneurship
Presumably an internal pay-scale ranking system. Government jobs, for instance, are ranked in a G(1?) - G12+ scale. Sounds a little goofy, but large enterprises need some method to standardize and track compensation.
The friends I have who have gotten offers from Microsoft were all informed that Microsoft, as a matter of policy, pays 60% of the top market salary. Has that policy changed?
We believe that taking something complex and adding a familiar, declarative syntax, while keeping it all 100% native, will appeal to both developers and designers. We believe so because we've asked many of them.
Most of the applications were far more advanced that what you find on the iPhone and Android (at least until recently after pouring years of development into iOs and Android) - there's no way you can disqualify the PDA apps as being "not really interesting", and you had access to phone functions through the development environment. Of course, there was no accelerator, no multi-touch screen, no GPS, so a number of functions were missing but the software part was advanced and very capable. That was when the iPod was big as a brick and could not run any application, for your information.
Lockerz CEO Joins Yahoo as Chief Marketing Officer
This is awesome. I don't understand why people are hating on CSS (for one, their hatings don't include reasons why); to me it is a beautiful way to separate form from function. Changing that one button from green to blue? Easy enough with or without CSS. Changing that same button in every one of its 163 possible locations? CSS saves lives in these scenarios.
Google Shuts Down Private Weather API
ddd is a graphical frontend to gdb and a few other debuggers (like jdb). ddd's UI is straight out of the 90s era of commercial Unices, but I prefer it to gdb since it visualizes source code with breakpoints and the ip and has some nice variable displaying / plotting features (ie it's very easy to visualize a matrix AS a matrix if you're doing some graphics work)

edit: ddd also has a gdb prompt at the bottom, so you really don't lose much by using ddd over gdb unless you can't run an X server
If you can transmit light through a sample curvette to the spectrometer, you could use it to measure optical density (i.e. the amount of stuff in the way that blocks or scatters light). You could use that to measure the concentration of particulate in engine oil, or the strength of coffee.

If you can detect at 405nm, you could measure blood coagulation time/extent (separate blood cells from plasma, measure attenuation at 405nm though plasma).

You could cludge together a pulse oximeter if you can detect at 660nm and NIR (905, 910, 940nm) and have light sources to emit at these wavelengths. Absorbtion at these wavelengths changes as hemoglobin picks up and loses oxygen. The ratio at 660nm and one of the other wavelengths could be used to show blood oxygenation.

If you were into photography or cinema, you could measure the emission spectrum of a light source and fit a blackbody curve to it to find its color temperature--useful for white balancing.

If you wanted to match paint colors, you could use a spectrometer to do (along with some additional calculation and knowledge about your pigments).

If you perform a flame test, you could use a spectrometer to learn about elemental composition.
Google Voice lost me the very first time I tried to make a VOIP call from Brazil and couldn't figure out how to make it work.

Switched back to Skype (which worked trivially in Brazil) - never looked back.

The irony is that whatever limitation Google had with Brazil, might have been fixed in the last few years, but because of that one international hiccup, and never once having any problem with skype in any country I travel to, they basically lost me forever. (Even though last time I was using it, Google Voice was free, and skype charges me by the minute)
That's the second level for a "Senior" developer. The senior level band starts at 63. Below that are 59 (college graduate) to 62, which are the bands of Software Engineer and Software Engineer II. Above it are Principle (65-67) and Partner levels.
If you can't provide proof of US citizenship there's no way you can be approved for Amazon Payments and launch a Kickstarter project. The only way to do so is to find someone in US willing to participate in your project. I assume for a fee.
Next time, use grsecurity & pax. No excuses not to. Kernel hardening that you must absolutely have on a shared box.

http://grsecurity.net/
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Grsecurity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grsecurity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PaX

Grsec's RBAC isn't strictly necessary, but it's quite nice too.
If you fork Mayan EDMS into a closed or private respository, stop and think about what you are doing because you going about it the wrong way. Likewise if you fork Mayan EDMS and the first patch you commit is to change the name, stop.

Both of those are allowed under the GPL. See http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/61038 for the former, and the latter is allowed under just about any open source license so long as you adhere with the rest of the terms; in fact, that's the pre-GitHub definition of a "project fork". Under the GPL, others are even free to sell your software as long as they link/ship the source code (probably not what's happening in your case, but I'm mentioning that anyway for the sake of discussion).

How will this affect the future of Mayan EDMS? It is too early to tell, what is certain is that the latest technologies being added to Mayan EDMS must be protected until they are ready to be released.

I might be biased because anything I write is MIT/BSD-licensed, but I don't understand why the fact that there's a few "unauthorized" forks of your project out there is deterring you from continuing working on it. Chances are, those forks have not a single user, and even if they do, so what?
Samsung V. Apple And The Obviousness Standard
Intel's Ivy Bridge chips use that technique of eliminating bias to ensure true random numbers for the RdRand instruction (it gets random data from thermal noise).
A project that isn't being actively developed is dead. The idea of a "finished" program that does everything it needs to, one "so simple, effective and reliable that it doesn't need to be changed, except for bug fixes" is an attractive one but it's a myth; there has never been such a program, and I doubt there ever will be.
It's never too late to start.
Likewise, when an automated stock trading program makes unfavorable trades, the company running the program is responsible for those trades.

To the extent machines are allowed to proxy for humans, the humans are fully responsible for the actions, automated or not.
One other thing: Since some B&W security cameras are designed to work in low light, they can have pretty large sensors or least decent sensitivity.
Most college hires enter at level 59 (SDE/PM/SDET I)

Once you hit level 61, you're an II
Once you hit level 63 (maybe 64?), you're Senior
After Senior, it goes Principal then Partner.
There's been ample citation of prior art, everything from prior working and publicly shown prototypes to actually shipping devices. Apple was not the first company to show a capacitive multitouch screen (LG Prada was), they were not the first to show pinch-to-zoom (numerous examples, Jeff Han, Diamond Touch, 20 years of research prototypes), they were not the first with double-tap to zoom (there's 2 decades of ZUIs, zoomable-user-interface work that predates this), they were not the first with software to detect phone numbers in text and make them clickable, they were not the first with an uncluttered rounded corner flat, face-plate design (see disallowed Samsung F700 face), they were not the first with universal search (PalmOS had it first on the original palm pilot) and on and on.

And don't give me that crap about "it's not about the idea, it's about the implementation". Apple's pinch to zoom patent, for example, covers implementations on ANY kind of touch surface. It claims are vague like "That gesture adjusts an image in some way", covering not just zoom, scale, and rotation, but any transform of the image.

When someone makes such an absolute claim, that they've never seen any genuine prior art, even though tens of thousands of engineers in forums are pointing to research and devices that are at least arguably prior art and cast Apple's patents in a grey area, to have such an absolutist assertion indicates to me that that person is not interested in fairness, or truth, but on banging the drums of tribalism.

There are for sure, people in the Android camp that are rooting for Android in this case because they like Android devices. I'm not one of them. For me, the issue is about software programming freedom.

Whether it is SOPA/PIPA, or patents being used against open source, attacks on computing freedom in general are more important than Samsung, Android, or Apple. We should not assign away the future of software or networking by granting monopoly power to the largest corporations in the world.

Not when the whole edifice was started by Homebrew hackers to begin with.
Can you point me to an example? I'd like to see what they say on that.
"Doable," without the hyphen, is the correct spelling and has been for a very long time: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/doable .
I really appreciate your reply, definetly on my todo list. I was thinking of finding someone because I have a day job to deal with too.

But now that I think about it, when I told about my idea to a partner, he didn't understand it and started suggesting ideas that didn't match with the original.
A little looking suggests [1] that the high cost of shipping to Canada was from import fees:

Shipping + Import Fees
Canada $ 35.75 $ 162.63
United Kingdom $ 42.60 $ 85.65
Hungary $ 55.72 $ 98.13
Austria $ 47.61 $ 96.66
Germany $ 42.60 $ 91.71
France $ 42.60 $ 95.74
Spain $ 47.61 $ 80.32
Poland $ 55.72 $ 106.44
Switzerland $ 47.61 $ 47.66
Netherlands $ 42.59 $ 91.71
Sweden $ 47.61 $ 117.07
Finland $ 47.61 $ 104.82
India $ 47.50 $ 125.21
Japan $ 42.06 $ 35.16
Taiwan $ 42.06 $ 71.82
Australia $ 47.50 $ 55.82
Singapore $ 42.06 $ 43.23

No idea why import fees were so high.

[1] http://forum.openhandsetdevelopers.com/android-dev-phone-1-a...
Can github have a legitimate policy that they don't accept dmca takeowns from bots?
NaN's Just Don't Get No Respect
> "But first, there needs to be another city-state."

Facebook? I'm unsure if Twitter's userbase is as married to the 140-char limit as Twitter thinks they are.
How and why to use social media icons
Then you should have chosen a license that doesn't explicitly allow that. Like the previous poster said, this is perfectly fine under the GPL as long as they provide the source code and since it is in Python I assume that they do.
Nope. I have a Thinkpad T530 though. Discrete GPU running on Mint 13 with Bumblebee ftw.
Wow hard to figure out if the post is sarcastic or mad or just a matter fact this is how it is. It seems like a sad place. :(
While I'm more on your side, it's worth noting that it's more than what smartphone, it's "are they tweeting about the party from their phone or from their laptop/PC", which I think does say something about a person, even if it's not something I'd pay any attention to.
Dear Microsoft

You may have received a payment from me, likely for something X-Box related my kids have requested. On my payment, you will notice a number, from one to five. The breakdown for the numbers are as follows:

5: Wow, I really love your products! Each one is a groundbreaking example of "the road ahead." The design and execution are an example to the rest of us of what success looks like. Sadly MCSFT, you just didn't make the cut this year, but don't worry, only a few of your competitors ever get this number, i.e. Google and Apple.

4: Rock star! I couldn't make it through the day without one of your products. To be honest, you didn't really perform as a "4" this year, but work hard! I'm sure you can do it!

3: Thank you! My 2008 copy of Word still works great, and on the rare occasion I boot into Windows 7 I think, "Hey, this OS isn't so bad. I've used worse."

2: By "worse," I mean Vista. Yeah, it works, but honestly, I'm still a little put out by the whole experience. If you really put your heart and mind into it, I'm sure Win 8 will be the run-away success I know you've been working hard to achieve. But, don't screw this up, okay? People are watching.

1: Don't let the door hit you on the way out. Failure to actually deliver innovation, years of being a bully, and products known for their bugginess is no way to run a company. I might care more, but I don't. I'm too busy watching netflix on my iPhone.

I hope this helps. PS - I'm sorry, but thats not what I meant by "you're number one."
wandering around can be ok too
Troy Hartman Builds And Flies His Own Personal Jetpack
>The only thing that makes an apple not "junk food" is the fiber.

This is an oft-repeated mantra among proponents of low-carb paleo-style diets, but it largely ignores the role of micronutrients and particularly phytochemicals in human health. An intelligent choice of fruits can provide a bevy of phytochemicals that lower the risk of a wide variety of ailments. Looking at the macros when talking about the role of fruit in diet is largely missing the point.
It's ok, Taubes doesn't take most dietitian and nutrition researchers seriously either :) (thankfully, imo). -demagogue
Betteridge's Law of Headlines - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
Doesn't sound bad to me. Seems like a good place to be if you're performing well.
The only people I'd expect a 30-40 year old "smart, but not tech industry" person to know are Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg -- younger people wouldn't be as likely to know Bill Gates, except maybe for his philanthropy or due to references in classic rap music to "Bill Gates money". Sean Parker might be higher in the mass market than expected due to his colorful portrayal in the movie. Then probably Trump, Ellison, and Branson for their non-tech accomplishments (TV, racing/living, and airlines/music/etc.), and then probably rappers (Jay-Z, 50 Cent, etc. are all clearly entrepreneurs as much as musicians), and maybe Oprah.

The only person I'd expect everyone to know is Steve Jobs. I wonder if that will be true of people who are 5-10 years old today, in a decade.

I'd assume Musk is more popular than tech entrepreneurs overall due to rockets and cars; even in tech no one knows about Zip2 and "one of the many founders of PayPal" is kind of a stretch (outside HN/VC, who knows Keith Rabois or David Sacks?)

Even the most successful business/tech entrepreneurs are less famous than a B or C list media celebrity.
Microsoft, I think, will be looked back upon as a great example of stack ranking's failure or success. At GE, it is looked upon as a success. But GE's workforce is (mostly) not in the world of knowledge-workers. They're not expected to come up with great products that sell to the masses, for the most part.

I often wonder if Microsoft's inability to get great products to market in a timely fashion is due to stack ranking. They clearly have great people who work there, who can make great products. Even the Zune was a great product. They arrive on the market about 3 years too late, and then require iteration on top of it. Is this because people there optimize their careers for "their number", rather than what's truly best for the company? Only time will tell.
Ah so I wasn't dreaming, I was sure I used it for about a week then it was blocked.
It IS really nice to see something on those mysterious monads not written in haskell. I got hung up early into the article though, where the author says something to the effect of "the monad hides the complexity", and that seemed like a silly goal. I need to make another pass at it.
How the Internet and Silicon Valley are changing China's office politics
Please Participate in Research on Hackers (7 minute survey)
I'm not opposed to the forks, there are 31 forks in github alone. My gripe is with at least three fork, two being distributed under different names and whose only patches are a name changed. Those may not be illegal, but are unnecessary and unethical. The last fork is being distributed with just a simple change of name also but being sold and no instruction or apparent source code is being distributed.

"If you are distributing the software, your responsibilities kick in."
Some airlines in the middle east, Europe, and Asia allow phones with (of course) no issues [1]. Let's hope sanity prevails here, but I'm not holding my breath.

I'm sure this rule started out as a prudent idea when electronic devices were rare. Once in place, a rule like this is almost impossible to remove. Any bureaucrat is afraid to revoke the rule because he runs a risk of being blamed for some crash some day. It's not even irrational, given how randomly causes get assigned. It's maddening and ludicrous and not surprising at all.

If the rule had never existed, the people defending the rule would never even think to have it implemented.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_on_aircraft
What platform or apps are you talking about? I remember WinCE (Compaq Ipaq) which I hacked to run Linux, but I only ever had the PDA form of those, and it was essentially a small laptop (ipaq + cradle + 4GB HDD on CF card + metricom ricochet modem), and the Handspring (PalmOS) things. Nothing on PalmOS was particularly advanced. WinCE did have a lot of desktop-app-ports, but I didn't know anyone actually used them.