skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also skeptical about the floating lens claim. That doesn't seem like something you can just turn on and off.

It looks more like software stabilization if you look at the video in their apology http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/09/06/an-apology-is-due/
>It's also the page I get when I use my phone to access the site.

That's how it's supposed to be. When you go to grooveshark.com on your phone you get the html5 app, from anywhere else you get the main (flash using) site. Using html5.grooveshark.com takes you to the html5 site no matter what.
UX amateurism and why I’m not a UX designer anymore
Time. We are a very small team. It will happen eventually, but at least now everyone has an option.
I guess the real question is if you can get a BMW to 100 MPH without ever going over 6K RPM. I'm guessing you can. =) I was certainly able to do it in a rental crackerbox Opel.
I did something similar with some galvos, using an oscilloscope with a 'z' input (most Tek scopes have this) lets you modulate the beam intensity.

Somewhere I've got a copy of the Scelbi-Byte Primer which has an article from 1979 called "Beer Budget Graphics" where an R2R ladder is used to create a point display on an oscilloscope. Its tougher when you're using a 4Mhz processor :-)

EDIT: Update apparently its from the November '76 issue of BYTE.
That was a joke I was having with a work colleague that was there for about 2 minutes. I think it's good to have a laugh, I'm sure most people would realise that's a joke.
Isn't that what is hacking all about? Using thing in a different way than it was intended?
If a company is paid to transit something, and it pays a trucker to drive though a state then clearly that's a business activity. It's complected, but for a example is states can only regulate the emissions of vehicles registered in their state. As a counter exmaple states can regulate weight limits for trucks.
I've heard this referred to as the "Peasant's algorithm," though I don't know why. Interesting fact: In binary, the peasant and traditional multiplication algorithms are actually step-for-step identical.
The counter example that comes to mind is a detective who gathers physical evidence in order to convict a criminal. Where is the deception there?
You're welcome! I have heard a few requests to keep to one language--so perhaps I'll stick to Javascript. We'll see how it works out!
Press doesn't seem to have mentioned, this is a US-only launch for now, for business reasons. It will be coming to the rest of the world in a month or so, I believe.
My RSI only flares up when people talk about RSI.
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I'm probably twice Dan's age, but I am not sure about the "go to the gym, whenever you feel like, just do whatever, doesn't matter if you skip a week or two" advice.

I mean, that's traditionally thought of as the road to failure. 90% of people who do that, or 90% of things you try using that approach, will fail. You'll go to the gym 4 times, and then get too busy to go. And then never go.

I think you have to force yourself to go for the first month or two. Set a goal. Lift X pounds. Run X miles. And try every day to reach that.

At least until it becomes a habit, and you get to the point where you miss not going to the gym.

Good post though, and worth thinking about.
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Wish I knew this 12 years ago at your age:) Now that I have gone through years of becoming a more 'effective and efficient person', I agree with they key points you lay out here and really appreciate you writing it (so I can refer others to it). It seems that much modern thinking on 'how the brain works', choices, and productivity is in line with what you are talking about here (that habit forming is essential, but most people's brains find a way to get in the way (or most people let their brain find a way to get in the way)).
I was curious, so, here goes; 'foo' was a file of ~1G containing lines made up of of 999 'x's and one '\n'.

$ ls -lh foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 ori ori 954M Sep 5 22:57 foo

$ time cat foo | awk '{print $1}' > /dev/null

real	0m1.631s
user	0m1.452s
sys	0m0.540s

$ time awk <foo '{print $1}' > /dev/null

real	0m1.541s
user	0m1.376s
sys	0m0.160s

This was run from a warm cache, so that the overhead of the extra IO from a pipe would dominate.
do you have some more ideas? these are really good
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Cool. Much obliged.
Umm... the site isn't taking orders, which you would know if you'd bothered to make even the most cursory investigation before putting finger to keyboard. So if it is a scam, it's one with no way of making money at present, which would seem a very strange form of fraud.

Would you like a spade at this point?
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They would definitely make it into the top 30.
But if Python really ♥'d you back, it'd at least attempt to offer something resembling first-class Unicode support.
Of course Nokia didn’t want to announce the Lumia 920 this soon
That's actually really nice! Seems like their marketing worked on me.
Sounds more like a list of reasons to quit Hacker News to me. I refresh that way more often than Facebook.

I consume Facebook with an RSS reader. It is quick, efficient, filters out the crap, and ensures you don't miss anything without constant refreshing.
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The left one in the video is not 920, it's probably SGSIII.

It's real OIS, but I'm pretty sure they also use some software on top of that, especially in video stabilization. I'm not sure if any software solution is effective on still images.

There was white paper released earlier on the camera tech: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4481549
Wouldn't 'laundering' look exactly like 'sending the BTC to any of the dozens of services which store BTC for you in a centralized account, (SR, instawallet, etc) and then withdrawing that same amount? This produces bitcoins not visibly linked to the originals - it's exactly like depositing and then withdrawing money from a bank (a bank which doesn't make a record of people's identity).
Reputation Capital and the Dawn of the New Era of Credentialing
I don't see how pressure can be applied to a position with a lifetime appointment. You could say, perhaps, that the powers that be could try to extract some pledge of allegiance before nominating/confirming a new justice, but what's to stop the justice from immediately reneging on a clearly unethical / unenforceable agreement?

Edit: I think the argument could be made that it weakens the checks and balances though. As it stands the court can overrule lawmakers, but it takes a long time generally for laws to wind up there. If they have a more immediate veto power who checks them? Not the lower courts which, to some extent, acts as a filter today.
I believe Peopleware said it best:

"Allowing the standard of quality to be set by the buyer, rather than the builder, is what we call the flight from excellence. A market-derived quality standard seems to make good sense only as long as you ignore the effect on the builder's attitude and effectiveness.

In the long run, market-based quality costs more. The lesson here is,

Quality, far beyond that required by the end user, is a means to higher productivity."
And the worst part is, it still doesn't fully match the spec unless you go through and strip out comments first.
Ask HN: A Svbtle Skin For Posterous?
I still think Posterous is the cleanest/fastest/simplest blogging software on the planet if you're interested in writing & posting content as quick as possible.

Seeing it was a YC company, I still see quite a few blogs that utilize it but since it was acquired by twitter, it hasn't seen many updates - including available themes.

While I'm not quite sure I "get" svbtle but I love how clean it looks. Is there a svbtle-like posterous skin available anywhere?

I'd think it'd be pretty simple to set up and I think I've seen a few Svbtle skins for wordpress. Is anyone interested in seeing one for posterous?
President Obama 1-on-1: How does he justify having a "kill list"? [VIDEO] 3:43
Talk about promoting way-skewed sampling bias. But then again, that was pretty much always what the Kinsey Report was about, wasn't it?
The current title, Apple will no longer license aftermarket power adapters for iPhone 5, is not supported by the article. The word "power" doesn't even appear in the article.

The article does say: Apple is said to have stopped approving third-party proposals for connector-equipped accessories in recent months. That is the existing 30 pin connector. An unnamed person claims they are stopping developers from designing new gear for the legacy connector.

The new 9 pin connector is a secret. That means Apple won't share the specifications until after launch.

They are plugging the gap in the interim with a $10 adapter for your boom-box-with-a-dock or whatever, and extra USB cables which let you use anyone on the planet's charger, computer, or automobile are $19, which is about as cheap as Apple can be bothered to sell a cable. Like your existing cables better? Great, stick an adapter on the end. (I'll need the three pack to cover my existing cables but retain iPad charging capability. $30. Sucks until I replace the iPad2.)

The physical fit between dock, adapter, and iPhone will be highly variable, but it was going to be a bit different anyway from the phone's form factor change.

In short: Set down the pitchforks someplace handy and get back to work. See what the third party folk say on September 19th then tweet back to the mob.
But if you construct the chest so no one can verify what's used to make it, what's the point?

If Apple's products are quality all the way through, why can't I easily open up my iPod/iPhone/iPad?

If it's quality all the way through, why would you hide what's on the inside?
Netflix: Game Over
Is "responsiveness" the same as "responsive design"?
A few notes:

I liked the presentation, swanky.

I liked it a lot less that this required permissions to my google account, I don't like doing that, reluctantly gave it my alt. Why is this necessary?

Your linked personal website is down.

I think I like this anyway. Kudos. Will play with it some and report back.

Edit: nope, don't bother - this is just a funny skin for an iPython notebook, the tutorial goes nowhere.
Something that auto-retires tabs after some egregiously long delay, with some kind of latent tagging functionality (based on tags for similar pages I've bookmarked) might be useful.

Then again, it will probably just encourage me to open more and more tabs...
It should be noted that grep-dot only prints filenames if you give it more than one file.

Also, it skips blank lines. But of course that might be in the feature-not-a-bug category; and if you really want to see every line, there's always grep-quote-quote:

grep '' *.txt

In any case, fun article. :-)
Additionally, the second half of the video (the HDR low-light photographs) is also completely bogus. The crispness of focus on the girl contrasted with blur on the car in the background as well as the range of light and saturation of color are all evidence of a diligent composite of multiple exposures.
send the emails with an unsubscribe link. you'll be fine.
Hackers Uncover the Location
doesnt look like they implement 3d transforms which is where the performance would come from.
Oracle's Java Patch Not Enough to Stop Hackers
Try http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.3.0/
It really is all about the small incremental steps, but sometimes, it just has to be enjoyable. I think that's really what he's getting at. If you find that going to the gym with friends is fun, then you'll never work out ever "work out again." I also agree with the forcing-yourself-to-go mentality too. I think that maybe better for some people.
Contacts is an absolutely awful app on the iPad, truly disgusting (and not just because it looks like a book).

But iMovie? The movie browser looks whimsical, sure, but it’s at least very well executed and looks great. Also, the actual interface is very matter of fact, no skeuomorphism at all there.

So a very, very small part of the app is a bit whimsical, nothing more.
Not the first fake by Nokia. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJpEuMidcSU for Nokia's fake N97 commercial.
Songs recorded using actual heartbeats
Do you really think they are going to report illegal stuff on their taxes? Those get sent to the IRS.
Before I can even test it out, it asks for Google account permissions - and that's where I stopped.

Don't ask for permissions before I can even play with it.
What is Networking and Can I Do It?
As someone relatively new to Rails who is working on a "near" realtime system this was great, thanks for the article.

Wanted to point out that you can simplify your "folder count updating" code by using a relatively unused jQuery function: ".load" [1].

$.get($section.attr('data-url'))
.success(function (response) {
$section.html(response);
});

would become

$section.load($section.data('url'));

[1] http://jqapi.com/#p=load
Worked great on my iPad.

Suggestion: start on the Popular tab, not Search. There's already a dedicated search field, and when I got to the page the big empty search area made me think the page was broken. Starting on Popular also would give a one-click-to-experience factor.

Very cool app!
Australian e-commerce start-up BigCommerce secures a further $20 million
Blog spam - the source article is here http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/5/3294545/nokias-pureview-ads...
To a degree they do, since users of one walled network can't communicate with users of other walled ones, and if they want they need to create an account in each of them. While federated XMPP is like e-mail, i.e you can use one ID to communicate with users from many servers. So there is an obvious comfort even for the end user.
Agreed. I'm a full time dvorak typist after years of having used qwerty. I re-learned vim's shortcuts for dvorak. The transition took approximately one month. My wrist used to ache after 10+ hours a day typing querty. The fire finally died after I switched and became comfortable with dvorak.

My first impression when revisiting qwerty is a revulsion at the placement of the "t". What a horrible location for such an oft used key. However, most qwerty users will have a similar response when typing "ls -l" on dvorak. Actually, a lot of unix commands were clearly written with qwerty in mind, their letters centering on qwerty's home row. The unix monikers get easier with repetition for dvorak typists, but dvorak's true power comes in writing English, which in my case is most of my typing. Vim works well with either layout, luckily. Most of the programming languages I use - SQL, golang, python, and c# - seem about the same in either layout.

Once you become fluent with dvorak it "rolls" off your fingers. You'll know what I mean once you're there. "The", "another", "masticate", "friend", and most other words with vowels and common consonants spend most of their typed lives on the home row. Both hands share evenly in typing. The common punctuation and quotes are right where you need them.

If you use RDP for most of your remote work the transition is surprisingly easy. Switching between layouts is simple in Windows and Unix. Hell, even my copy of Amiga 3.1 supports dvorak out of the box.

Some here seem to switch their keycaps to a dvorak arrangement. I did this in the past with my Model M but eventually set it back to querty. I'm not embarrassed to admit that I need to look at the keyboard now to type qwerty, thus having the keycaps set to querty serves as a convenient reminder. When typing dvorak I never look down.
Yes you can. I have photographic evidence.
Hi, thanks for your response. The goal of this would not be to stop you opening more tabs but, to help you manage those tabs. Kind of like Dropbox for tabs, I think. Would you be interested in using something like this?
Did he use grid paper to do the schedule? Excel is really not very skeuomorphic. One variation on being more skeuomorphic would be that it came with various templates one of which looked like a typical work schedule sheet, but leveraged excel's strengths of automatic calculation. That skeuomorphic move would have helped him realize the possibilities and he could have achieved self actualization and gotten that extra 20-30% without your help.
Why do that when a loop is clearer, safer, and shorter?

find images -name '*.jpg' | while read jpg; do
convert -geometry 200x "$jpg" "$(echo "$jpg" | sed 's/.jpg$/_thumb.jpg/')";
done

This version works even when there are spaces in a filename, whereas yours will break.
Another option, pay the ransom yourself and then there would be no way for Romney to prove it wasn't him.
Thanks; I'll give it a whirl.
Is this chip - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllWinner_A1X

It can run a variety of linux variants. But all ARM processors that I am aware of can, even going back to the chip in the old Acorn Archimedes from the late '80s. Also, I have personally never heard of a chip that is able to run android but not able to run linux and I am not entirely sure how you would even go about making one.
Buying a new car isn't necessarily a stupid idea from a financial perspective. It's true that cars depreciate in value at a ridiculous rate (which starts the moment you drive off from the dealership), but buying from a private seller means you have no way to tell if the car has been maintained properly. I've heard that a decent number of car owners don't even get oil changes on time. Is it worth saving, say, 30% up front but risking that the car will drop dead at any moment? Maybe yes and maybe no. It depends on how reliable you need the car to be.
Congratulations on shipping but I don't understand something. What exactly are you testing with your MVP? Yes, people will sign up for a free service but shouldn't your goal be making money? Don't you need to test that?
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This is a rather unfair comment given the huge efforts that have gone into python 3 and migration of big projects like Django. Unicode support is clearly an important issue for the python community.
Thanks for that- very interesting because IE seems to have parity on the desktop- MS must be really working hard.
When I bought my first car the finance guy tried to rip me off. After catching him in his trick we finished the deal to my terms. When I left his office he told me not to come back

Oddly enough that was the most patient I ever was with a car dealer. With places like carmax available it doesn't make sense to deal with any hassle.
Just like I encourage my tax man to find every possible way for me to reduce my tax burden, I would expect everyone to do that. A loophole is a legal way to do that. If a person has the know-how to aggressively find and use the resources available to them... that shows a great deal of character to me. Don't hate the player... hate the game. You have a problem with a loophole, lobby to get it closed. Or use it also. But I imagine this view is not shared by everyone.
You see, so what stops them all from implementing their clients and servers using conformant XMPP with enabled federation? Can your Facebook messenger connect you to users of WhatsApp and vice versa? No. With Federated XMPP it'd just work. Is it just their greed, or lack of thinking? Actually Facebook does use XMPP, and I think even WhatsApp in some way internally does, but Facebook server lacks federation, and WhatsApp isn't even conformant to standard XMPP. In the end - you have no way to connect the two.

This situation resembles the early period of the Internet, when users of Compuserve couldn't send e-mails to users of AOL (and other way around). It sounds completely weird today, but how is this situation with IM networks different?

Understandably there are historic isolated networks (AOL, MSN etc.) which predate any serious federation efforts, and even they are slowly enabling XMPP in some ways. But creating new closed ones in the present time is just weird and only serves to make the situation worse.
Note that xargs actually takes a whitespace-delimited list. This often leads to problems when a filename has a space in it. To fix it, you should either use:

find ... -print0 | xargs -0 ...

or:

... | xargs -d'\n' ...
America Online began as “AppleLink Personal Edition” before the company struck out on its own, Apple tried a service called “eWorld,” and the replacement for MobileMe, iCloud, scaled back the scope of online services. I think Apple has learned by now that even they don’t have the resources to compete with the Internet at large.
Back in the crusty old days, FreeBSD used to take forever to install over the network, but would start an "emergency holographic shell" on pty4. The 'echo *' trick and various other shell built-ins were very useful for exploring the system before /bin and /usr/bin are populated.
Wow, that website is annoying to use. Even if it wasn't glitchy, it would still be pretty annoying I think.
Its an advertisement so of course its shot with proper gear. Nokia didn't make it themselves, the production company would have.

A few years ago ads for the Panasonic GH1 were revealed to have been shot with a Canon 5d - Panasonic said that the advertising company pitches the idea and are left to their own devices to shoot it.
We don't need a book.

We need a vim installer that can do all those things which you will have to otherwise spend time and work endless hours customizing vim to do.

The reason why people move to modern GUI based editors is those editors do many things out of the box which you have to otherwise spend time learning and then do it.
Ask HN: What Do You Do In The First Hour of The Day?
There's been speculation about whether fructose and glucose have differing effects on satiety and insulin resistance, but the studies I've seen were conflicting. I assume it's possible to make high-fructose syrup out of other starches, and corn is only associated because it's cheap and commonly used.
They say well begun is half done !
"Also, the S III has a barometer. How cool is that?"

The number of sensors in these portable computers is astonishing. If you look at them as a tricorder-like sensor kit, there's very little else on the market that can match them.

The fact that I have something in my pocket right now that can almost detect individual photons, EM fields (within in a limited set of bands), barometric pressure, magnetic fields, orientation, intertial measurements, planetary magnetic bearing, gravitational fields, etc. and can provide global satellite positioning to within 1m, global communications network access on several wire-free networks via voice, video or data, and can translate my voice in near-real-time, scan barcodes,

and then

can play games, movies, music, record my voice, take photos, be a flashlight, compose music, let me paint a picture, take notes, access a global encyclopedia, the internet, be a web server, an ftp server, a wireless headset to my computer, act as a strobe light, act as a visual Morse-code broadcaster, rolodex, email system, several kinds of graphing calculators...and myriad other uses...

it's absurd. I'm living, literally, in a science fiction future.
The N97 was an absolute joke. A close friend of mine went through a 6 month long battle here in Australia to get his contract nullified because of the blatant lies that Nokia told about the phone.
Right, because if you wanted to send a message to the Romney campaign, you would do it through a regional GOP office in TN...
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