skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know anything about these guys, but I don't think it's too good to be true.

Ever since the Raspberry pi shipped, credit-card sized computers have been coming out the woodwork. As expected, now there are projects on vWorker (ex RentACoder) asking for engineers to design such computers with state of the art specs with a maximum bid of $499. I can't make this shit up! $499! At least toss us a bone and add a zero so we don't laugh quite so hard!

Anyway, aside from that rant, this is a Great Thing. I predict an array of products that are now possible due to a flood of dirt cheap, physically small computers that can run Linux. One off industrial controllers that would have taken a week of development time can now be pushed out in a day, etc.
Something in the charts doesn't make sense to me. Death rates per 100,000 are about 1.5x higher in 'global' vs. 'U.S.', yet life expectancy for 'global' and 'U.S.' is almost the same.
Any explanations?
Don't see anyone ripping into him for his nickname. You seem to be overreacting . . . a lot.
You have got the last characters wrong, see my messages below for the correct link. But there is no useful content in the imgur link because the person who made the image messed up and truncated their message.

As for the "promote release" Bitcoin account, somebody posted the ASCII string 'prove it' (I'm repeating what I said below since this thread shows up at the top).
All,

The copy needs to be worked on a bit.

The value prop when you understand it (which I admit is lacking currently) is a solid one.

I've had an account for a few months and never completed my app profile because there was NO CTA. After the email blast today and review of the site I finished (or at least partially) my app page.

My suggestion would be to do a quick WIIFM (what's in it for me) for "discoverers" and a different one for "Developpers". This will help a tonne in IMHO.
Both RHEL and Canonical already offer that kind of support.

Specifically for Ubuntu: http://www.canonical.com/enterprise-services/ubuntu-advantag...
>Obama, on the other hand, has released tax returns going back to 2000.

Pelosi won't release her tax returns because she was only the 3rd most powerful person in the US government...

She jokes that she will release them when she runs for president.

I think that all these crooks in government be required to release all of their financial information. They need to be held accountable to us the us public. After all - they work for us. We need transparency, we need to see when they are taking kickbacks or making side deals, bribes ETC.

What is your take on this?
Thanks for doing this - while certainly it existed before in Clerky I believe having it in angel list lends credibility which will ultimately save a lot of money and time for people.
I think he touches on a lot of good points, but has his priorities a bit wrong.

In my opinion, the most important factors to consider are actually your diet and your lifestyle. RSI and similar types of issues can usually be traced to high levels of general inflammation in the body. It's not the usage you're putting on your body that's the culprit - it's how your body is reacting to that usage with an inflammatory response.

Programmers are very high risk group for factors which cause inflammation:

1) Toxic diets. E.g. high sugar, high processed carbs, high industrial seed oils, high intake of meat from unhealthy animals. Low intake of high quality fats and omega 3s. Poor gut health.

2) Lack of sleep / poor sleep quality.

3) Lack of movement.

4) Chronic stress.
Thank you for the excellent link!
I suffered from (mild) RSI a few years ago. Mostly in my right hand and arm from using the mouse. At first I switched my mouse for a Logitech Trackman. That helped a lot. Then I decided to use the keyboard as much as possible, which helped even more. The things I use:

- Vim for coding

- Vimperator in my Firefox

- Muttator in my Thunderbird

- Awesome WM as my window manager

Now I only need to use the mouse for graphics applications like Inkscape. It's been a dream so far.
I'm with you on this one.I also don't like to play with people I work with, Its that simple...
People at work should judge me on the value I bring to the company, not on whether I like techno or their preferred brand of alcohol (see original post)
Tumbleweed Smalltalk
Well... arguably they make it easier in the half-dozen simplest cases. Which just happen to be what's needed 90% of the time.
But doesn't a 'hardware failure' imply failure to a specific piece of equipment/hardware? A cascading issue with actual data isn't a hardware failure, it's a software failure.
Of course, we've also known that "junk DNA" wasn't "just junk " for a long time. It's still the case that DNA contains parts which can be taken out with no apparent consequences.
Open-Source Battlestar-Galactica published
The source article that VentureBeat used, which has more detail: http://nashvillecitypaper.com/content/city-news/secret-servi...

The ransom note: http://pastebin.com/1j1yzQ9S
What I am confused on, and maybe there is something missing from the story, but it sounds like the office stumbled upon those text messages in his normal activities. I don't know much about the law but I assumed what he did was okay.

Was he over stepping his bounds in answer someone else phone or was it that the court didn't believe he was doing it only to get to touch with the birth father?
I totally agree. /k/ommando here Thanks for keeping it relatively the same. I've thought about creating a bookmarklet or something to add some features I originally thought would be nice (threading/grouping linked comments, or alerting you when you get a reply) but I realized that features like these could fragment each thread and distort the flow of the conversation.

Two features I still think wouldn't conflict with the site are buttons to expand images inline in a thread and turning the text links clickable (copying and pasting on a tablet sucks). I know there are bookmarklets which do this but I can't display my bookmarks bar on chrome on my tablet.

I understand that 4chan isn't very/at all profitable. I think there really is opportunity for you branch out on some boards rather than just links to that jlist site. Have you considered doing more contextually aware ads or even relevant amazon affiliate links in threads to boost your revenues? There will always be detractors but I think most users really appreciate 4chan and would love to see you better compensated for it as long as it doesn't ruin the site in the process.

one more thing, This API will no doubt be used by people to create their own sites which add the features they want to 4chan, do you consider the API a potential source of revenue by perhaps charging for faster versions of it?
Details on OIS in Nokia Lumia
Being Real Builds Trust
This appears to be an elaborate troll.

A commenter on the Reddit discussion of this news item is shedding further details here: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ze9zn/hackers_say_...
Yep, it's pretty cool, my co-founder swears by it. It's on the market here in Sweden at least. Same shape as the other phones, but running apt instead. :-)
Future of top U.S. Bitcoin exchange [BitFloor] in doubt as $250K [in USD] stolen
Granted the term is probably overused, not in this case though. Picplum is building a scalable web business and has taken on funding, seems pretty much a startup to me.
You do realize basically all these rules applied to the ras. pi when it was first announced too? Considering that was over a year ago, and comparable parts have been regularly available from China (e.g. Allwinner A10) for many months, it's quite hard to find any surprise in this project at all.
Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 With Windows Phone 8
I have always thought that not releasing the returns was part of Rommney's strategy. The Dems will put so much effort into slamming Mitt for this that it serves as a distraction. In the 11th hour he will release them and there will be nothing much there to criticize. This will not only have distracted the Dems, it will make them look like bafoons.
Chuck, you reference a footnote in your post but I don't see it.
I was planning to replace my Android phone with an iPhone when my current contract ran out. Now I think I won't.
Great Questions + Feedback!

Our goal it to improve surprisingly each demo day! So really appreciate you sharing how to make it better.

Great feedback for the founders! I will email them and suggest they read this post.
Motorola releases 3 new Razrs
PwC has already made a statement to the effect that no such incursion has been detected and no documents were compromised.

In a story that smells like a big pile of bullshit, the one easily-believable piece- No, the one downright-expected part is that a private company was unaware of a data breach.
Police lie to suspects all the time to trick them into confessions. I don't see how that's any different.
More here: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9230919/BitCoin_excha...

"BitCoin exchange loses $250,0000 after unencrypted keys stolen: BitFloor's founder wrote that he failed to encrypt a digital wallet containing the secret encryption keys"
My take is that this little token of transparency doesn't really matter all that much. It's not like there's a line item on the 1040 for "bribe income". Fixing the transparency and disclosure requirements for super-pacs would probably be even more valuable than opening up everyone's taxes, which does have personal privacy implications.

Nancy Pelosi, like Romney, is making a strategic decision not to disclose because she sees the drawbacks as greater than the benefits of doing so. And just like with Romney's taxes, or the Obama's "short form" birth certificate, I'm not going to jump to the conclusion that anyone has something to hide
I think that's the wrong lesson. Go with companies where you can use open software stacks that you can migrate elsewhere if need be. Google's price hike wouldn't have been very important if you could easily run App Engine code elsewhere. You can never be sure whether a company is going to suddenly screw you, but you can control what kind of code you write.
highly doubtful.
Thinix RetroUI lets Windows 8 users step off the Metro
"Mr. Tower's [your] distinction [...] is spurious. The essence of censorship is the suppression of a particular point of view [...] over the channels of the mass media, and the question of who does the censoring is one of form only."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_censorship
Election day is now getting close, how scientifically can we vote?
Startup has a very specific definition. It refers to a company that aims to solve a problem and/or create something new in a particular industry. This means that it is a subset of the small business category; the corner deli that just opened up last week is a small business, but not a startup. On the other hand, a new tech firm that is trying to figure out an innovative alternative to email is both a small business and a startup.

I'd say the biggest thing that distinguishes startups from other small businesses is the risk factor. When your goal is to solve challenging problems in your field, then by definition your chances of success are low. After all, the problems are categorized as "challenging for a reason: nobody has been able to find a simple and elegant solution to them yet. Whereas a typical small business operates on relatively safe territory - they are most likely providing identical products and services as other players in their industry. So their risk is a lot lower.
Very cool, looking forward to reading.
I used to suffer from RSI until I bought a 22 inch touchscreen monitor and put 2 happy hacker keyboards vertically each side (I can touchtype). Got rid of the mouse and trackballs and now can code again for hours a day with hardly any pain!
Rather than a single lens element being shifted to compensate for camera shake, Nokia’s
OIS system moves the entire optical assembly in perfect synchronisation with the
camera movement, or to be more precise, unintended camera shake.

Nokia’s new OIS system can cater for around 50% more
movements per second than conventional OIS systems – up to around 500
movements every second

shutter speeds slower than 1/30th
second
typically results in camera shake. Depending on the amount of camera movement
requiring compensation we’ve found in testing that shutter speeds as long as 1/4th second can be used. This is a 3EV improvement or 8x longer shutter speed
Apple reportedly wants to hog the market for iPhone dock adapters
Unfortunately no, but you're welcome to email me at tristan@senseplatform.com.
> Address was visible yesterday (now encrypted) as mr.hipboy@gmail.com. lolwut? What a handle. Very professional. ...This guy really likes hips.
No not at all. My comment regarding bewilderment at the sense of entitlement behind making demands of companies has more to do with personality differences than anything else. I realize that I am a consumer, and they are the producer of a consumer good. That is my relationship with Apple. That's it.

The "entitlement" is just my perspective of what I see as a group of individuals who align themselves with the OP's viewpoint in scolding Apple, taking shots at, and generally nitpicking it's wall-garden philosophy; A very vocal, relatively speaking extremely small minority of consumers who demand that the company change it's policies to fit their whims and philosophies.

I guess I would never be so presumptuous to think like that. To me, the company does what it wants, and when the public votes with their dollars, their business decisions are either validated or they are not.

And there is something that I just can't grasp about the hand-wringing and scolding about the app store. The iPhone is a great product, the app store is arguably one of the most successful new ventures of apple in the last decade, arguably the most successful app store for any mobile device. And by and large, the system works. So this barrage of criticism of edge cases is just...confusing to me, to say the least.

I appreciate that the writer is concerned about Apple and about consumers. But this concept that the writer's ideas are protecting Apple's long-term survival as a company in a fluid land-scape while at the same time bringing about pro-consumer changes just rings hollow to me. It feels like energy misplaced.
Keep in mind that a huge portion of our requests are rendering code. Syntax highlighted code. With line numbers.
Perhaps a better analogy was made by (General Sir Peter de la Billiere I think) about UK troops patrolling in Helmand Province.

He said something like "Even when they think no-one is watching, no sargents, no generals, they still monitor their surroundings, check the garden walls as they pass. No-one is letting the monotinity reduce their awareness."

In short, if there is a job worth doing, its worth doing well.
Explore with the Knowledge Graph carousel in English globally
The trend of many people with a deep vested interest is to lie?
People make the argument that it's a measure of character, but I don't buy it.

I kind of like that it has provided a concrete example of how different people pay vastly different effective tax rates, but that could have been done in a bunch of different ways.
Skeumorphism is no more an "easy way out" than black Helvetica on a white background is an "easy way out". They can both be used appropriately, or used badly and in excess.

The address book in OSX is an example of bad skeumorphism -- it's a fake book with pages that don't actually turn, trying to shoehorn "advanced" computer technology into a visual representation that doesn't work. It's a bad metaphor, a bad analogy. It confuses more than it helps.

The "Notes" application on OSX is a fantastic use of skeumorphism. The legal-pad look shows us at a glance that it's for taking notes, which a plain white background wouldn't do. The analogy between individual note documents and pages is perfect. Anyone can use it instantly, without worrying where documents are saved or anything like that.

The fundamental question is, are design choices helping or hindering understandability and usability? Apps and the web have evolved conventions like share icons and tabs and underlined/colored links, etc. which people understand. Skeumorphism just adds vocabulary from the physical world to the toolbox.

And in the opposite direction of skeumorphism, I think the SVBTLE blog platform itself goes too far to the minimalist. I can't tell people's blogs apart, because they all look virtually identical -- that's bad design. And what the heck is the "kudos nipple"? Why do you hover instead of clicking? A simple thumbs-up icon would be understandable by everyone, which is almost skeumorphic in its own way, since it refers to a physical thumbs-up... Reference to the physical world can be a very useful thing.
Ah. I wonder how long he's been in Cambodia...
5 LifeTopix Tips to Help You Manage the Family Calendar
Wow, those are some of the nicest reporting tools I've ever seen. Usually any application that involves measuring metrics like page load, average response times and whatnot looks horrible. It might be a small thing, but wow the design of that dashboard is really nice.

Github are absolutely killing it right now.
Regarding financial sustability, have you thought about charging for the new API?
Oscilloscope clock
This article actually reminded me of a couple reasons I want to buy organic food - not contributing to superbugs, and concern for field workers.
That really sounds like a job for a niche subreddit with a throwaway account, not a 4chan BBS.
I was a physicist, with a Ph.D. in condensed matter.
Industry is more fun, at least you have more options to experience different things. And you can still read physics books for fun, if you like, at your free time.
I don't find the lede here unreasonable. However a couple of nitpicks:

The linked chart and article both imply these are only for sales at carrier stores. i.e. not including Apple Store sales which are significant and Samsung has no equivalent for.

Accurately weighting ranked charts with no numbers attached can be unreliable. Further the people on commission at carrier stores have an incentive in promoting devices that put more money in their pockets, making verbal sources like this even less reliable.
Very true. The best way to buy a car right now is to figure out what the cheapest is that you can get for it. Particularly if it is a new car you can generally get down to somewhere around invoice pricing. Email a handful of dealers in your area saying "I'm shopping around and I'd like this car at x price with x features, can you do it? Yes or no?" and if they say yes, print it out and take it with you to the dealer. Carwoo seems to be very helpful with this process but at the time I was purchasing my car Carwoo didn't even have an option for 2012 vehicles.

After that it's just a matter of keeping your eyes open as they can sometimes try to change the price on you or some other cheap shot. The internet managers at dealers generally seem a bit easier to work with but beware of their managers that start pulling out all the tricks. I've even had a dealer finalize a price, hand me the papers to sign and they conveniently added a $2,500 fee that "they add to all purchases"

When you go from working with internet companies all day to old-fashioned car dealers suddenly the convenience of straight forward "honest prices, no surprises", zappos customer service and a generally painless sales process is gone.

Maybe I'm spoiled from buying too many things too easily on Amazon all day with 1 click purchasing at fair prices but even if I am, why can't car sales be this way? It even seems like less hassle for the dealership and the ethical thing to do.
Congrats Luca, you have achieved the ultimate goal! If you don't mind me asking, whats next?
I'm sure this is about trying to improve site performance, and charging for it would inevitably cause everyone to continue scraping the HTML, thus defeating the point.
To be successful online you need to write for people with personality disorder
A key advantage would be if you could actually buy it. Raspberry Pi is still "due to extreme demand the estimated delivery time is uncertain and may exceed 12 weeks."

Gumstix are more expensive but easily available in any quantity, so that's what I'm designing with now.
When would? iPhone sales are very predictable, strong now and coming up to Christmas (plus any other major contract ending time that I'm not aware of). If you're aiming to be flattering to one side it's too easy.
Upon further investigation, it's not just the API, it's the entire site.

A significant cause of the issue is their SSL implementation. Specifically it negotiates a new connection every time instead of resuming the session, eek!

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/5511/ssl-session...

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=github%2ecom&...
Love everything about Vim. I found "Vim Essentials" here on HN for free and was mostly bored reading it. This seems a bit more interesting.

How about a promise on the page not to share our email with any third parties?
A Brief Introduction to Probability & Statistics
You could do this with faxes even in the days before the internet was so pervasive- even getting dealerships to bid against each other in metropolitan areas.
Rapid user insights
I hate to be negative, but this is just marketing research, there's absolutely no content at the linked site.
Is this going to be in print or just as an ebook?
There is plenty of excellent content (consequently, statistics), you just have to look a little harder. I would hazard a guess that you've taken a quick glance and dismissed the entire community. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Hail Jeremy Hunt, the new minister for magic
Svartholm has been in Cambodia for more than 5 months, hasn't he? Not to mention it's a known fact he's been there many times before. So wouldn't it make sense that the Swedish government made this look like it wasn't related by pre-planning in advance the all of a sudden generous and higher than usual aide payment in exchange for Svartholm being deported?
Alquiler de oficinas compartidas Barcelona
Coworking es una empresa de alquiler de despachos y oficinas compartidas, con salas de actos y de reuniones, se alquila por dia o tiempo ilimitado en el centro de Barcelona
Coming from the country where needing a parking permit to the garbage dump is the norm (i.e. only way to get rid of your trash) and can actually be a desirable activity (I can't even tell you how many books, monitors, speakers, etc. I've either restored or recovered in perfect condition for no cost)... I can't wait!
The Will to Believe
FCC to start tracking Mobile Broadband Speeds
> To be fair, _all_ of them would have closed without the massive government bailout.

There was at least one offer to buy Chrysler (from Penske). I'd be surprised if there weren't any offers to buy GM.

Of course, those offers involved real bankruptcy. The resulting companies wouldn't have kept the UAW contracts and pension obligations and they wouldn't have been able to keep the tax-loss carry-forwards either.

They'd have kept dealers based (more) on economics instead of political pull.

And, the bond holders would have gotten their cut first.

GM makes sense at the right expense point.
DARPA's Cheetah Robot Can Now Outrun Usain Bolt
Startup Crush: Coffee and Power
It seems like the lesson here is that Skeuomorphism is OK if you're modeling it after something that is gorgeous and tactile to begin with. Not all real-world objects are things that I even care to interact with in the real-world.
Just an ebook to start. If there's enough interest, I'll see about doing a print edition.
Needlework? Voyager mission? Stop-motion? Voyager for iOS is absolute whimsy.