skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This leaves a goodly number of Windows XP machines at one of my K-12 educational Customers unable to use Google Apps effectively. I suspect many other public schools will be in the same boat.

Chrome has design eccentricities that make it interact w/ some Windows management functionality (redirected "Application Data" folders, specifically) in a very suboptimal manner (maintaining 10MB+ of files in each user's redirected AppData folder is a problem on a server hosting 3,000 users' folders). Installing Chrome on the Windows XP machines isn't a slam-dunk.

I suspect we'll just have to bite the bullet and use Chrome while, simultaneously, giving up functionality in Windows to do it.
I wonder if RIM missed an opportunity several months to a year ago, when they didn't consider porting BBM to non-Blackberry devices.
I.TV is the startup behind NintendoTVii
The Stripe CEO was in Nairobi two days ago for a meetup at one of the startup incubators. This was the one question every dev had on their mind - the short answer, at least for those of us in Africa - is "don't hold your breath". I have to agree with runako on this one.
Not necessarily. It's possible that with a lower minimum wage, Canada's unemployment rate might be even lower. The best you can hypothesize is that all things being equal minimum wage does/does not negatively affect unemployment numbers. Obviously the economies of Canada and the US are vastly different.
Very cool post. The code samples really make me want to try out Go when I get some time to do so. Thanks.
Honestly I love the design of Nokia's phones (at least the symbian phones from years past), and my phone when traveling internationally is a pay as you go simple nokia candy bar that I love. I really wasn't sure I wanted to get a windows phone, but I'm sorrta turned off by Android now. I'm gonna try rooting and putting a good rom on my phone, and give android another shot, but if that is a botch, I'm gone from that system.
Care to provide the source for the $0.13/hr? Inmates are paid as little as $1/hr and as much as minimum wage with the lowest hourly rate going to the inmate firefighters due to how the budget is set by the forestry service. The last time I saw the $0.13/hr number trotted out it was also skewed by jobs that paid per piece and not per hour. Inmates that have to pay restitution pay about 5% of their wages, and each working inmate pays deductions for room and board as dictated by the state legislature. I've also seen those with an agenda perform hourly wage calculations on the inmate pay _after_ deductions. If you've got a reputable source that can show otherwise I'd love to see it. I'll also note that I'm related to a recently retired department of corrections officer and have used other prison industries services and am familiar with how it works and what the wages are from dealing with the services and the personell running parts of prison industries in Nevada.

wsj article on prison industries in nevada: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020391180457665...

High Desert Prison with current work being done and wages (most facilities don't list wages): http://www.doc.nv.gov/?q=node/25

A now very outdated paper on the economic impact of SSI on Nevadas economy which includes a small section on wages: http://www.cabnr.unr.edu/uced/Reports/Technical/fy1998_1999/...
GitHub is an awesome product that I truly love, but more and more I'm finding myself awe'd by the company more than the product. The fact that they've been able to take some of their principals (no managers) and scale them up as they've grown very quickly is truly remarkable.

I suspect we'll be seeing a lot of other very interesting companies get started up as GH alumni eventually start to spin off...
It's sent on the control channel, not the payload channel. But that's not the important bit - This is: to sniff wifi you need a computer with wifi and a freely available, easy to use program. To sniff GSM you need a rather elaborate setup.

It's not that it's "hard" to sniff SMS in a crypto-sense, it's just that that bar is a lot higher that sniffing unencrypted wifi traffic.
I have used Instruments.app for my programming and I've used Valgrind, and there have already been two cases that dtrace (the provider that Instruments uses) has found memory leaks in my programs that Valgrind did not complain about, nor care about.

As for tracing system calls, dtrace is extremely powerful, and I much prefer it over strace where I a lot of times get a lot of garbage and have a hard time slimming down the output. I bet it comes down to what you are used to, and this guy is used to his Linux developer tools, whereas someone like myself would feel lost without dtrace, ktrace (trace on Mac OS X), sample, and various other tools that I use on a regular basis.
'The cameras work to slow people down' is the most annoying, nonsensical BS. If the cameras were supposed to slow people down they would not be cameras that capture information that leads to a citation; nor would the money go into local government coffers. I f-ing hate pathetic liars.
Emacs Live uses Overtone which is a Clojure layer over SuperCollider.
thanks for reading! I recommend starting with http://tour.golang.org/. It's a very useful learning tool.
Most of these things don't matter if, as I already explained, you just mount a network share from a Linux machine and edit the files over the network.

What are the advantages? You can test all browsers, including IE.

> - It's ugly - Windows 95 GUI elements often poke through everywhere

Not in Windows 7.

> - No package management - I have to download software from sites all over the web

What sort of software are you talking about? I don't have any development tools on my local machine except for Notepad++ (text editor) and KiTTY (SSH client).

> - If I'm deploying on Linux (or other Unix) why deliberately use the most different OS possible

To the contrary, I'd say it's the most similar OS. Windows will be the OS used by the majority of your site's visitors. They will be accessing the site from a Linux server, which you will be also be using, for development.
Only for international use. Domestic use is still locked to Verizon.
Like Oscar Wilde once said, everything popular is wrong. Quality is well down in the list of things that matter to have a successful product.
I was just discussing this with the owner of an independent mattress/furniture store in Seattle (Bedrooms and More in Wallingford). He is now refusing to carry non-flippable mattresses because he finds them to be too wasteful.
Even more OT, but Angry Birds is $0.99 on iOS and free (with ads) on Android to this day: https://www.google.com/search?&q=angry+birds+android+OR+...

Just the nature of the different app ecosystems, really.
PDF generator in JS
12-year old with higher IQ than Einstein develops his own theory of relativity
It's definitely more of a John Lennon kind of "Imagine" than a Steve Jobs kind of "Imagine".

I like the Warren Buffet quote, though. Thanks for sharing it.
KakaoTalk, I switched to this from WhatsApp over a year ago.
Just as interesting, in my mind, is the inverse library -- jspdf [1] lets you create pdfs in javascript. For automatic document generation, I find I can quickly whip something up in jsbin or jsfiddle that will give me a pdf I can download and do whatever I want with.

[1] http://jspdf.com/
The last time I had stretchy jersey sheets, they didn't hold up well at all. I'm wondering if that's a problem with them in general, or if I just bought crappy sheets.
You can't stop supporting IE8, but Google can? Everyone would like to not support IE8, but most people still find it benificial to do so. I can't help but think of this as a political move against Microsoft.
I see your style mashup and raise you a honey boo boo style
Rumor is that it's in the works.
The reducto ad absurdum was a poor choice, and likely obscured the point, so my fault. :)
In Go, the coroutines are in the same thread. There is a single thread here too(just like node.js). Coroutines are just multiplexed to the one main thread. Multi-Core Processing is handled by coroutine internals too i.e. there may or may not be more than one threads and even if there are more than one threads, they too will be multiplexed with the one main thread.
Kristi from Braintree here. From a technical perspective, having multiple simultaneous merchant accounts shouldn't be a problem. If you'd like, shoot us some details, and we can see how we can help - support@braintreepayments.com
That's actually why I haven't built it yet. I think it should be done, but I'm not sure who would actually care enough to use it.

What would change your thoughts regarding a secure messaging system? Open source?
Yeah, you and me both Mr. Musk.
Westin makes a lot of fuss about how great their beds are and how you can buy the whole kit for your home.

http://www.westin-hotelsathome.com/bed.aspx

I was a little disappointed when I stayed in a Westin a few years ago, the bed was nice, but didn't live up to the high expectations.
Twitter Turns Over ‘Occupy’ Protester’s Account Info To NY Judge
Indeed. For anyone who complains "Apple is ripping off consumers", I dare say we could dump the pile of parts in front of someone and they would, at best, have a terrible time assembling them - never mind the costs of setting up a supply chain going from raw materials to completed product in a matter of days.

When my wife was starting her MBA, she asked me out of the blue "what do you think of supply chain management?" Having nary a clue what she was talking about, and being a sarcastic sort, I retorted "I think it is evil and should be outlawed." Now, having for some years observed Apple's supply chain development, I realize how critically important it is and wildly overlooked it is by pundits.

To great degree, it is thanks to Apple pouring BILLIONS of dollars into suppliers & supply chain management that they can construct something as mind-blowingly Star Trek-ish as the iPhone for just $167.50 in parts. You're sure not going to wander into a well-stocked Radio Shack or Fry's and get the same parts for that price.
Very valid point - especialy given that many text-books and other Ip education material would tend to bias you to use 10.0.0.0/8 as that is what you do, remember many companies who used the old SCO IP range as there `network chap` learned IP from a popular book that used SCO IP's in there examples.

Thing is though, if a pretty compitent company like IBM who know how to do IT have not moved to IPV6 and use public IP ranges for there internal networks albiet router blocked. Well, it just don't bode well for other less technicaly compitent people to move now does it and the cycle of procrastination with IPV4 carry's on :(.
level 1: futs around with OS X / brew / macports / whatevever package manager you pray to for hours to setup a dev env
level 2: virtualize your target platform with vmware fusion
level 3: vagrant + chef your target platform and rebuild them at will

The technical debt of level 1 will eventually kill you.
Disclaimer: I am at level 1
Microsoft's icon format is remarkably flexible and backwards-compatible. It's grown from what was once a 32x32 1-bit icon format, to one which supports multiple versions of the same icon, from resolutions ranging from the tiny 16x16 to the huge 256x256, and supporting 1-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, and now even 32-bit (alpha transparent) colour, with PNG compression.

And the great thing about it, of course, is every browser supports it. Even the Nintendo DS.
No. I wouldn't drive a diamond-studded SL. I would prefer the more modest SLK, actually.
One of my favorite examples is the one by DollarShaveClub:

http://www.dollarshaveclub.com/

This video of course has pretty high production value, so any other examples people suggest don't necessarily have to look this polished.
As a recent college grad...

1. obviously helps

2. if you read through his blog he makes 103k a year, which after taxes over the amount of time it took him to pay off the loan is 40 something k.

3. He has mortgage payments, also that may be cheaper than renting it depends on where you live, but it is why i am looking at buying.

4. you don't? he was 27 and had 40k saved up, not a huge amount. Why you wouldn't have a retirement account to take advantage of compound interest for as long as you can is beyond me.

5.depends where they are working but I just graduated from college and i have that much, granted i live cheaply and throw most of it towards student loans.

what he's saying is that being frugal you can pay off your debts quicker and save money on interest. Its nothing groundbreaking but in America a lot of people make stupid decisions about how they buy things (on credit) and end up paying a lot of money in interest and retiring wayyyy later than they need to.
Great to hear, I look forward to it. :)
> They have a 100% predictable support lifecycle and don't pull the rug out from under people with virtually no notice.

Google announced last year that they were only supporting the two most recent stable version of IE. I hardly call that "pulling the rug out".
It's really easy to spot the industries that have ridiculous margins; just find the shops that stay open forever, yet seem to make about 1-2 sales a day. I've seen mattress stores that seem to be able to sustain one full-time employee and about 20000 square feet of showroom on a couple purchases a day. Some with sunglass stores.
Exactly. And the model is from someone at Moody's! After the mortgage backed securities rating fiasco, it's hard for me to give them any credibility.
It should be noted that speed cameras can only be used in construction and school zones in Maryland. They're mainly used in school zones where the speed limit is either 15 or 25 MPH (depends on the access to the school.)
The majority of Americans live in cities, not suburbia - 71.2% of the U.S. population lived in urbanised areas as of 2010.

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2012/03/us-ur...
Maybe you want to try Musubi, an experimental message app from Stanford's MobiSocial lab which really cares about user's privacy. It's available for Android and iOS
Quite skewed analysis if it's based search terms, given that some parameters have shifted in the last years. Google used to be a jump-off/quick navigation point to go web-sites people were very familiar with. It was convenient instead of having to type in the web-site url to just Google it, and then go. But recently, most links are clicked withint/from a social media context; thus Google is becoming less and less a jump-off/quick navigation point. I would say, the graph shows the fall of Google more than the fall of Social Networks.
How does one even begin to model things like this?
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I actually had this idea while shopping for mattresses a couple of months ago.

It's nuts. I started thinking about the economics of a new mattress and couldn't get it to work out, financially. The biggest thing the big stores (like Mattress Firm, etc.) have is distribution and floor space.

You need to try out a new mattress. There's nothing around that. After trying over 50+ mattresses, I realized that. There are so many different kinds and not a lot in common. You'd be tough pressed to find 10 people like like the same mattress. It'd be like buying a car without test driving it. That never happens.

Then there's the economics of it:
- Retail Price: ~$1,000
- Price of Materials: I'd estimate to be around $100. Labor, probably close to $25.
- Modern Mattresses Companies put a TON into research/development/marketing. I'd estimate that to be about another $100 (on the low end) of the cost of the mattress.
- Shipping, even freight, for something this size has got to cost at least $25.
Right now, we're at $300 for a $1,000 item.
- This is the (fairly) hard cost of making the item. I wouldn't be surprised if the Sealy's of the world sell it to the Mattress Firms for $500 and make a $200 profit (reasonable, to me).

Then, to pay for even more marketing, floor space, employees and delivery service - you better believe that Mattress Firm demands a 50% margin.

If we could somehow fix the distribution/store front option, we could get the price down - but that's the tough part.

In case you were wondering, after all of my research, this is what I ended up buying: http://chip-hanna.com/how-to-find-the-perfect-mattress-for-y...

It was, honestly, the best money I've ever spent. A great bed makes all the difference.

I'm not very sure of the legality of this, but one possible option is to have "If you like the Sealy Optimum Radiance, you'll like (insert new brand here)." That would drive people to the Mattress Firms of the world to try them out, but online to purchase (what happens with most products today anyway).
Not in store - Android allows app installs from outside of the store.
"Where did the start menu go", "Where did IE go?" -Millions of office workers...
Yes, it took a while to find. This is one example where changing the headline on HN to match the headline of the blog, where it expects to sit inside a lot more context, is just confusing.
Goroutines running Go code are multiplexed onto a variable number of system threads (GOMAXPROCS, in the gc implementation), Goroutines running C code, for example via cgo, or when they call a blocking system call, have their own thread.
typical monthly data use is "overcounted by 5 to 7 percent"?! im scared to even think how much money AT&T has stolen from me over the years.
A simplified S3 pricing page
Yes: Teardowns from Isuppli often include a BoM:

Lumia 900 + Galaxy S2: http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/Nokia-900-Carrie...
Catfi.sh is live
Deutsche Bank urges rival investment banks to go open source
If Uniloc wins this lawsuit they will have a precedent with which to sue every app developer on the Android Marketplace who uses the Android License Verification Library. Given how this can be a crippling blow to the Android Marketplace, I'm interested to see what Google's reaction will be to this lawsuit.
The ACA/Obamacare also added new expected costs to hiring... further aggravated by uncertainties over how completely it will be implemented in the face of political opposition.

Every new bit of cost/uncertainty around hiring makes it relatively more attractive for those who could be hiring to instead (1) automate or otherwise replace workers with capital investments; (2) outsource or offshore; (3) take the afternoon off instead of struggling with hiring-led growth.
The challenge of staying simple
now they caved in. oh well... Twitter Caves and Hands Over Protester’s Tweets to Avoid Fines http://blogs.lawyers.com/2012/09/twitter-caves-and-hands-ove...
The Big Switch: How We Rebuilt Wanelo from Scratch and Lived to Tell About It
How many mobile phones made per day that support some form of internet access and how many of those use IPV6?

Scary thought is it not!

The first real opertunity to move to IPV6 in any way would be mobile smartphones and there like and yet that is not happening. It realy is a case of the ISP's and mobile telco's that need to start initiating the IPV6 move and until they do nobody will be dragged into following.

Maybe if it was illegal to sell devices that don't at least support IPV6. But of a messy situation when you can buy devices made brand new that still dont offer IPV6 support, criminal realy.

Still when you look into the history of British railways and the better modern alternatives you can see how some legacy designs just carry on with there limitations of capacity oversight.

Another aspect is cunsumers have in many respects forgotten how to complain to a company and let there frustrations out on the internet in area's were the companys offering the services will completely fail to notice and allow you to complain and vent of without them even knowing or indeed having to care.

How many of you have asked there internet service provider if they support IPV6 or indeed what there plans are to offer it? Reason I ask is that I can bet it's lower than 1 in 100 or indeed 1 in 100,000. I can't even recall any one of my friends or anybody I know or have dealing with ever mentioning they had made such an enquiry. I know I have, please tell me I'm not alone at least.
App piracy is actually a substantial issue on both stores:

On Android, sideloading of apps from unauthorized sources (not the store), and frail DRM makes piracy really easy. The US government has been targeting these sources[1], but as you can imagine, there are many. Some have said that Android app piracy may be up to 60%[2], but I think there's some sample bias in these figures and suspect it's a fair bit lower.

On iOS, piracy is a bit more difficult, requiring a jailbreak and then a hack that allows cracked apps. From there, cracked apps can be downloaded from various sources. There are fewer solutions to crack in-app purchases, but recently a few have come into the mainstream[3]. On the whole, Apple's DRM helps, but pirates have found ways around it.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/22/3259808/android-app-pirate...
[2] http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/7/3225154/dead-trigger-dev-in...
[3] http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/13/3156875/ios-free-in-app-pu...
Kickstarter Project Fail 17 Months and Counting
An absolutely extraordinary feat of video editing. This isn't just from mere "splicing together" of photos; the original source is only 4fps and with much less color quality.
I hate to break it to you, but you could in fact update from Windows XP. I know it's hard to imagine. :)
After effects can do this easily:

For the glow: duplicate the video layer, add a fast blur effect and set it to overlay or color dodge blending mode.

For the scanlines: AFX has a scanlines/cathode effect that you can tweak to re-create that look. I can't recall off the top of my head how it's done, but I can look it up if you'd like (I've done it before, while fucking around in AFX [1]).

[1]: https://vimeo.com/41453548
I think they were more pulled in my wanting the best phone out there as early as possible.
Does Chrome Frame pose the same issue?
The whole charge after one year model on other platforms is incorrect. Iv never met anyone except for IOS people that was charged by whatsapp after 365 days have elapsed.
Yes I get that. I just wanted to point out that a single threaded model is not necessarily a bad thing. It happens in GO too by default.
They already have such things. They are called Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnetic_energy...

They're currently used to regulate power grids from unexpected load changes. Superconductors are good at absorbing and releasing large amounts of power very quickly (since there's no resistance), so they are ideal for situations like this.

There is a still a big energy cost in cooling these things though.
>If you did, that would eliminate the reason for the ETF.

I always figured the early termination fee is because you broke a contract. It's got nothing to do with if it costs the carrier any money, it's simply a penalty for breaking a contract.
let me know if folks have any problems / would like any additional features
I understand your point. That's the problem really, the only way I'd vote for Romney would be as a "punishment vote" against the Democrats (I was also a big Obama supporter back in 2008, although I didn't vote.)

I don't have an issue with unions getting more benefits. It's not a coincidence that high-paid individuals, like those in our industry, don't feel the need to unionize while blue-collar workers do: they are the segment of the population getting the lion's share of the recession's consequences.

As much as I hate discussing taxes (specially with Californians who love telling you how left-leaning they are until you touch their taxes) the issue is very clear: the breach between rich people and the 'slaves' in the 'lower classes' is getting bigger and bigger. There's no way in hell that's good for the country (although, there might be an argument in saying it's good "for the economy" if you don't factor social inequality) in the long term, no matter how you look at it.