skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then maybe we're thinking about different versions of what the news is. Telling people to shut off the news is destructive because the news is not all indoctrination and entertainment. I'm not an idiot. I know what the news is in that sense. But when you put out a broad call to shut it all off that means shutting out the good stuff too. The better solution I'm talking about is knowing how to tell the difference. If you can do that and be informed with the news that's worth consuming that infinitely better than tuning out completely which is what Joel calls for. Maybe he didn't mean it like that but when you have an audience that large you have to assume most of the audience will take it as its written which, if they do, will lead them down an ignorant anti-intellectual path. We don't need anymore anti-intellectuals in this world (especially in the US where it's recently become cool to be an idiot and somehow being elite is a bad thing).
By looking at the API, Instagram immediately knows that they indeed can post a picture on someone’s timeline,

Today. At this very moment.

And tomorrow, without an actual contract, that mechanism could be taken away from you.
Yes. 1280x720 and 1920x1080 were the original two defined HD resolutions for American television. Both are referred to as "HD", though it's common now to refer to 1080p as "Full HD" to make it clear what's being talked about.

The iPhone has a high resolution and a very high PPI, but the resolution is still too low to count under any accepted definition of "HD", so Samsung is technically correct. Whether anyone actually cares whether the iPhone is HD or not is an entirely different question, however.
My favorite part is that you guarantee that anyone who joins gets a real, working email address for questions and suggestions.

I wish more companies sent every (even automated) email with a working mailbox to reply to.

Just out of curiosity, have you tried sending automatic welcome messages with your email address to reply to and the same open-ended request for questions and comments?
> What principle lets me differentiate between things that are just "hurdles" that I'm allowed to knock down to be successful, and things that I'm not?

Easy: employ your own ethics system built around the Golden Rule, rather than blindly follow a system designed largely to make rich people richer.
You can't just take the quotient of the processor clock frequencies and multiply by the number of threads! A current generation processor does a lot more in a single clock cycle than they did 30 years ago. Pipelines etc... didn't exist back then. The 6502 only had a single 8-bit general purpose register (although the index registers could also be used when not accessing memory).

An Intel Core i7 is probably more than a million times faster.
Yeah, it's fairly simple to compile the Android source. Plenty of tutorials out there on XDA, Rootzwiki and from Google themselves.

Basically, one just has to grab the drivers you mentioned above and pull the source using repo/git and compile using Linux (Debian/Debian forks are the easiest generally to do it with) or OSX.

I compiled the source the day after it came out for Android 4.1 for my Verizon Galaxy Nexus. Ran it all the way up until yesterday when I switched to Cyanogenmod 10.

I'm an admin (yarly) at Rootzwiki, so if anyone has questions on how to build the source or mod it, you can head over there and post questions in the development forum. There's usually a few of us that reply in our free time.
That's fresh-apples-to-rotten-oranges comparison. It's pointless.
Learn to program by making arcade games
This is a very stereotypically asian way of comparing phones. For a long time, Japanese manufacturers fought it out with spec lists showing the most features or the greatest spec.

Not really related to the mobiles in question, but an interesting lack of marketing talent.
WireframeApp is for sale: Please, help me find a new home for my app
http://wireframeapp.com/

After almost a year of work I have made a very hard decision: I will halt any further development on my iPad application and I will try to sell it to someone else.

I came to this decision after a startup I have received a Series A funding this week and we will be applying to Y Combinator 2013. This means I will not have any time to continue the development of this application.

I feel like abandoning a pet.
Thanks, unfortunately it's too late to edit.
With the wave of a hand, Intel wants to do away with passwords
According to the article, one of the main advantages of Thiel's program is the contacts they make. So how different is it from the Ivy League?
Policies for Windows, Linux, and Mac: http://www.chromium.org/administrators
many thanks! this looks great and useful.
I did this a lot when starting Hacker Newsletter (http://hackernewsletter.com) and it seemed to always have a positive response and in a couple cases lead to more (like twitter mentions, reviews, etc.).

If you want to do this, your friend is Rapportive, as it can quickly give you a starting point when tailoring your email and/or help you decide who to email.
No, it's the truth. Absurd is taking a single sentence of what I wrote and pretending like that was my entire point. Put that in context and you'll understand how it isn't absurd (didn't Joel recently write about that too).

The news is about reporting facts but facts are meaningless without context. Journalists take facts and put them into the proper context so that we don't have to. This isn't a new idea. It's been around for as long as there's been news and while some hacks do it badly and purposely distort the facts it doesn't mean doing it in and of itself is a bad thing.

I stand by what I said. Unless you've got a whole lot of time on your hands it's awful hard to put facts into context the way journalists do. I'm glad they take the work out of it for me because I have a job and I need to eat and I don't have time to play reporter and get my own facts so that I can some pure ideal version of the news. But I still need the news because I need to make informed decisions about things that affect me like where political candidates stand, how the new health care law affects me and if they recalled my car or some toy because the engine spontaneously explodes or the toy has some chemical that's going to kill my kid. I want to hear these things from people whose jobs it is to find out these things and not from Joe Schmoe who works at the local Walmart who read it from a guy who works for the guy that some news is about.
Some of my favorite quotes about X ( from http://quotes.cat-v.org/programming/ ) :

"Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals." -- Henry Spencer

"Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks." -- Dennis Ritchie speaking about X

"If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than
five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed
the same principles – but you’d be able to shift gears with your car
stereo. Useful feature that." -- Marcus J. Ranum

"The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you." -- Ken Thompson
They could do that, but they don't want to. Their point is that web technologies can't deliver the experience they want. Telling them they want dumb things is not a legitimate response, especially as they can get the experience they want using other technology.
Fancybox and Fancybox 2 have mousewheel support for navigating backwards and forwards through a set of images which is just fantastic.
You can't just upscale most apps for a higher PPI. The art is mostly pixel based and upscaling will create artifacts. So for some boosts in resolution, this is ok, the art just gets smaller, and app developers slowly adapt by making their art bigger. But from 1X to 2X...upscaling works a bit better but is still not ideal, while you really have to go and completely redo your pixel art.
Why are they advertising the iPhone?
I didn't realize there were a lot of low cost options when I asked. I'm also not sure what I need, so it was a general question about what people on HN find helpful in terms of making sales.
Early education and intervention saves a ton of money in the long term.
Agreed - getting sick of these thoroughly underwhelming "done right" and "you're doing it wrong" blog posts. Nuts to 'em.
> Once again, the Unix-Haters were right. As usual.

Except that the creators of Unix were some of the biggest X-haters, as I noted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4528049

Unix gets blamed for lots of things that could not be further from the philosophy and design its creators had in mind.

I guess that is why they gave up on Unix and went on to create Plan 9 (and then Go).
Fenwick trees were invented for context modeling with arithmetic coding. Reads and writes are perfectly balanced. For every symbol, there's one write to update the model and one read to determine the cumulative probability.
I had the same experience as you did. I tell you what, though: You will get used to that resolution very quickly and after that everything else is like a punch in your face. I wonder whether OP will feel some regret when using a below 2200p or so screen again.
I also doubt that Gates worries about finding links for his blog. He probably has microserfs to do that for him.
This is a wild guess, but I guess it might be a synonym for content addressing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_storage#Con...
Just change GOPATH and you're done.
You should look up how Plan 9 handles debugging, you just import /proc from the remove machine, and run the debugger locally.

This works even across different architectures, and the debugger is completely network unware, is all handled transparently by the file system interface to processes.

Some goes for the window system, which also works across the network even when it knows nothing about networks.

See this paper by Rob Pike about how to design window systems: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/transparent_wsys/
Ask HN: Would a small touch interface on the back of mobile devices be useful?
I imagine a small bit of glass on the back, that just records scrolling, and could be disabled. I think it would be nice because you could scroll without obscuring your screen, and it could allow for differentiation between scroll events and touch events. What do you think?
Personally I can't imagine this kind of strategy being used, it doesn't seem like Valve's style. Not to mention that their history favours give-aways and promotions over playing 'dirty' (there would no doubt also be a TF2 hat). You also have to remember they probably only control the games they've actually produced in-house.
I know CouchDB doesn't do read locking. What are other ones out there?
That would be an interesting idea. Isn't there already a controller for some console that implements that?

Edit:

It may be the Wii U, I'm not sure.
I don't agree, and I explain why in the OP. Unless Microsoft perfectly handles scrolling/click in their implementation, this solution won't work.
"All GUI lengths / fonts have the size of their 1440x900 versions, but there are twice as many pixels"

At 2800 x 1800 there are four times as many pixels.
It really is amazing to me how even in 2012 a company, one competing with Apple, mind you, can be so transparently clueless when it comes to marketing.
I have the previous model macbook. I've upgraded the ram twice, and I have the higher resolution screen option. The setup described by the author would mean I'd lose screen real estate and be stuck at whatever ram I bought, so they don't seem like bad points to me.
Aura Pro from http://www.macsales.com
What the heck are S-Beam and Smart Stay?
Check out http://phonegap.com/ - if you're more interested in getting to the end point of having an app, vs. learning the platforms natively, you'll probably find it a lot easier to stick with the technologies you're already somewhat familiar with than learn a whole new set.
Politics definitely does influence speed limits. Example 1: a freeway was planned for decades, and when construction was finally ready to start, environmentalists sued to halt construction. Several years later, part of the settlement was a 55MPH speed limit.

Example 2: a small town declares with pride that all streets controlled by the city finally have limits of 35MPH or slower, even though there are several roads capable of much higher speeds.
What a load of absolute tosh. Governments provide a lot more than 'cracking down on criminals'. Or are you one of these supposedly 'intelligent' people who see public schools as a sequestering station for criminals? When an industry receives a government subsidy, how is that 'cracking down on criminals'? Perhaps we should ask the street-sweepers how effective they are at 'cracking down on criminals'? What about firefighters and paramedics, how are they turning the common citizen into a criminal?

Why must libertarians so egregiously misdefine common terms? Why are they so wilfully self-delusional?
If anyone is reading this and wants to know what it means, this is the best resource I have found for people with some math knowledge who want to develop a practical knowledge of statistics. http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/
Holy crap, I have a statistics exam on Wednesday and I was looking for something like this...Talk about lucky, thanks!
In terms of intellect, I'd think that the returns to society from state schooling are greatest from educating the bottom 95%, as the geniuses tend to be more auto-didactic anyway and usually need more in the way of social support and access to academics rather than traditional school teaching. A society that reserves high quality education only for those children already considered to be intelligent, is a pretty stupid one in my opinion.

Also, high quality education is not the same as teaching advanced courses, although obviously advanced courses should be taught to a high quality. High quality education is about the ability to bring standards up across the board, not just the production of geniuses, which educators largely can't take credit for anyway.
S-Beam uses NFC to initiate a Wi-fi Direct connection between devices to transfer files/pics/links etc.

Smart Stay is a feature which uses the front facing camera to check if the users eyes are looking at the display and won't time out the display when the timeout threshold is reached.
Man, I would think that Chuck M. would know, but this time, apparently not. The Sun 3/80 shipped simultaneous with the SS1, the 3/60 pre-dated the SS1 by several years.

(Jim "netgod" Thompson)
Aaron Swartz "JSTOR" case indictment revised/expanded
It's an interesting idea, but I'm trying to imagine it while holding my phone, and it feels really awkward. The fingers behind the phone are supporting it, so I can't really "scroll" while keeping the screen stable enough to read.

Interesting concept though.
That would've been an interesting campaign. I'm sure there's a lot of people who don't actually know what Apple are doing to innovation around the world.

Though I wonder if you could do it without actually coming off as a whining loser...
Nokia, why you so phat?
Thickness comparison of the Nokia Lumina 9200, Samsung Galaxy S3 and Apple iPhone 5.
I don't think anyone here wants to raise speed limits in pedestrian-heavy areas. Talking about pedestrian fatalities is not constructive to an argument about freeway speed limits.
None of this, none of it at all, has anything to do with what happened to ...

Nice try again, but this is directly addressing something else altogether. It seems to show, that you most likely have never personally handled information at this level.

You're just wrong to think unless something is "TOP SECRET" and a government document, its not a "leak" in contemporary usage.[1] YC's email that ended up public was not meant to be public, however you want to debate the wording. It was provided here only as an illustration people are familiar with. There is no opinion expressed here about the situation, nor implied (its been discussed by PG on numerous threads).

There are well-trodden notions of confidentiality, privlege, and confidence outside of govenment. Things that are familiar to people operating at the level of founders, vcs, board members, etc. If you are't familiar with this, that would explain some of your comments. You were the one who needed a citation. Here is a typical excerpt:

Most other folks are too nice to actually mention it, but since I'm not a VC or big deal business tycoon, I'll just say the most important point outright: Asking for someone to sign an NDA also often makes you look amateurish. -- Anil Dash

But, that would genuinely surprise me, to the extent I almost don't believe you would not be aware of this. I'll be charitable and assume you mis-read or mis-interpreted what I wrote. It seems most likely you mis-inferred something about what may or may not follow as a result.

For this reason, you'll note there are [now] more footnotes and citations, for the benefit of others. [This was one]. Some of these were added after you made initial comments -- I'm happy to take advice to make things clearer -- and I happy to aknowldege these changes.

_______

[1] The original post is at ... and includes a leaked email ... http://uncrunched.com/2012/09/07/turning-the-drama-down-on-y...

[edited for tone]
Airbrite (YC S12) is hiring a full-stack engineer to define mobile commerce
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We're building e-commerce software designed for tablets and smartphones. We're on a mission to power the next generation of mobile-first shopping experiences and reimagine how people consume on mobile devices.

As founders, we’re a small team of hackers with experience building and scaling world-class mobile experiences (Foursquare, Groupon, Angry Birds Rio, LinkedIn) and all of us are 2nd time entrepreneurs. We're well-funded and backed by top-tier institutional and angel investors.

Delighting our users creates exciting problems that require us to creatively bridge web/mobile technologies. We're looking for a versatile engineer eager to take on a wide range of technical challenges.

You'll be our first hire, which naturally comes with significant equity, competitive salary and the expectation that you'll be shaping the strategic direction our company. Aspiring founders are a great fit - we'd love to support you in your path to becoming a technical founder in your next role.

Please send a LinkedIn profile or resume + your Github username to jobs@airbritelabs.com

We're based in SOMA, San Francisco.
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you could also put it on one of the device's edges
Yes and no. The pirating situation isn't that simple. I used to pirate a lot of games, but then Steam came along and I've pretty much not pirated anything since. Pirating was, for me, not just about being free in cost, but also a way to get the games via the internet without having to go into a shop and see if they had it, then possibly wait until they ordered it in. There was also the pain of license keys when they didn't work - it only takes a couple to start making you gun-shy.

Admittedly it's not music and I'm not familiar with the pirating in that arena, but it seems to me that pirating is a more complex beast than most people paint it.
Unfortunately, this IS how people differentiate between Android phones/iPhones. It's not good by any means, but there's a reason they do it.
We'd all be doing the same thing with tomatoes and chips if they could be duplicated for the cost of wiggling some electrons back and forth.
Maker time and significant others
There is a lot of conversation, analysis, and general agreement of the dichotomy of maker time va management time. I occasionally find myself appling the same concept on top of maker time vs family time. As a hacker who is soon to be married I often feel like my SO doesn't understand when I'm struck with inspiration or motivation and need near a full day to get something out of my head and into code. I don't even have kids yet and I feel like its hard.

So here's my question to the makes who are also family men/women out there: how do you do it and do you think your SO understands? Where so you strike your balance?
Slow news day I guess.
I think most people probably don't agree with this and certainly no welcome email is worse from a marketing standpoint.

Given that you are sending a welcome email, a personalized one is clearly better than a robot generated one, if you can make the time for it.
What is the rank history of the app?
How many monthly downloads does it get?
How many monthly active users does it have?
What is the monthly revenue?
No, I haven't tried any auto messages yet.

Good point re: working email address. That situation has come up a few times - the person didn't reply to my initial welcome email, but remembered that they had received it, and replied to that email when they had a question later on.
Good point. APIs can speed things up, but ultimately you'll need bizdev people to close the deal.
This really is a fairly thorough overview of an undergraduate statistics degree. It reminds me a lot the summaries I would write before exams. The first few sections covering probability are especially good. Though some of the later sections do simplify whole subjects a bit much. For example, an introduction to stochastic process (http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/gordanz/notes/introduction_to...) will cover more about state classification and absorption.
Also, if you are interested in learning R while you build your knowledge of probability and statistics this is pretty good: http://ipsur.org/
Yes, Rapportive is very helpful!

One problem I've notice with Rapportive fyi - the info is a bit off/conflicting if the person has ever changed their twitter handle (rare, but it does happen).
He is talking about highway speeds not side streets in a city.

I grew up in Maine, I-95 while I was younger had a completely baseless speed limit of 65mph. North of Augusta there is an average of about 20 miles between exits and very few travelers, there is no reason what-so-ever to impose a 65mph speed limit.

I now live in Boston and I-95 north to Maine travels though New Hampshire (for a whopping ~10 miles). Everyone knows that you follow the letter of the law in regards to the speed limit in New Hampshire. Why? I assure you it has nothing to do with safety, just as the $2 toll has nothing to do with maintaining 10 miles of highway. The state farms income from that highway in the form of tolls and tickets.

I'll give you speed limits make sense in cities, but given the fact that I've lived in Boston for 6 years now and seen about 3 people pulled over for speeding in that time, it doesn't really appear to be much enforced. Highways on the other hand have absurdly low speed limits and are farmed for ticket income regularly.
If you are going to fake comment on your own submission then maybe you should remove the website from your profile first.

Just a thought.
One of the most helpful things I've heard is the "very disappointed" framework that Sean Ellis uses. The idea is that if 20% of some user group would be very disappointed if they couldn't use your service any more, then you've nailed it.

I disagree. The biggest flaw with that survey is that it doesn't include pricing. Just because someone says they'd be "very disappointed" if your product disappeared does NOT allow you to conclude that they'd be willing to pay for it, let alone at a profitable price point.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslows_hierarchy_of_needs