skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it troubles you, it's still very easy to avoid being surveilled by most of these systems. Pay cash instead of using a credit card. Don't use EZ-Pass. Turn off your phone when you're not using it. Yes, it is inconvenient, but trading privacy for convenience means you don't value it very much. People got along fine before EZ-Pass came along.

Until we have mandatory legislated tracking devices in cars, etc. (not a far-fetched idea at all, and something that must be fought), you are largely the keeper of your own privacy.
For a hyperbolic analogue, what % of death row inmates do you think are innocent? I'm guessing less than 1%. I find the concept of that 1% very disturbing though.
Consumers Cut Food Spending Sharply
Also free, and the one I have been using for years: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono ( http://www.bitstream.com/font_rendering/products/dev_fonts/v... )
I remember a research talk where the speaker said that, empirically, there are 3 reasons consumers give up their privacy: convenience, (the perception of) security, and money.
Why Facebook Is for Old Fogies
why is Time totally obsessed with facebook?
Hacker News iPhone App
I am an experienced iPhone developer interested in creating an iPhone app for HN, similar to iReddit. However, there doesn't seem to be an API nor a way to access any of the data, other than through an RSS feed. I want to tightly integrate and include the ability to login, post comments and obviously upvote/downvote stories.

I read from the comments that the guys from 280North are working on it... Any idea how they're getting the data and talking to HN?

I would most likely make anything I make open source and freely available on the AppStore. I love this community.

Thanks.
Both good signs, at least vis-a-vis the current recession, and I don't really by his argument myself, but it sounds like he's talking about a multi-decade change.

Will the current macro-level forces turn Silicon Valley into the next Detroit?

The current issue of The Atlantic has a more interesting article on this called "How The Crash Will Reshape America." You can read it here: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200903/meltdown-geography

That author argues the exact opposite. The most interesting idea he talks about (IMO) is this:
Every phase or epoch of capitalism has its own distinct geography, or what economic geographers call the “spatial fix” for the era. The physical character of the economy—the way land is used, the location of homes and businesses, the physical infrastructure that ties everything together—shapes consumption, production, and innovation. As the economy grows and evolves, so too must the landscape.

He points to a less suburban future, where mega-regions dominate the geo-financial landscape. Silicon Valley is right at the heart of one of those mega-regions.
the housewife thing seems to be pure speculation compared to the controlling patriarch in the submitted article.
I was curious on this, so I just looked up stats. It turns out Bild Zeitung is the most popular newspaper in all of the west, followed by The Sun.

http://www.wan-press.org/article2825.html
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This reminds me of the boxes from Hell Pizza, which can be turned into a coffin "for your remains":

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=hell+pizza+box+coffin&w=...
pg tends to play favorites with the yc guys. You prolly won't get much help if there's a yc group already working on it.
Cool, this expression is about as useful as boycotting gas companies for one day. Anyone who thinks things like this that go down on social networking sites scares the politicians is so naive and silly. The lawmakers aren't going to listen until their threatened with the loss of a big special interest or something arises that could potentially generate a large enough stink in the media that the population doesn't vote for them anymore.

Blacking out profile pictures on Facebook will do basically nothing to help. They need to demonstrate that a lot of people are really pissed off about this. They need something like the Anonymous Anti-Scientology demonstrations, not just a bunch of people that lawmakers perceive as angsty hipsters blacking out their social networking profiles for one day.

I agree that this law seems horrendous, so hopefully someone with a little more experience gets in front of it and figures out a way to stop the thing before it takes effect.
The author spends much of the article quoting things which are relatively innocuous, then claiming they mean something far more extreme, and far more easy to attack, than the original. A rather disappointing bit of intellectual dishonesty for a 'distinguished professor'.

Academic inquiry is a public good as is the news, done by people as a job as do reporters, and academic freedom supports providing that good as does freedom of the press.

The press tend to get quite angry at attempts to control them, and those who go against the interests of their employers are lauded by their peers. I don't think arguing for academic freedom is any more elitist than arguing for freedom of the press.
To assume an identity is a natural trait of every human. It has harmed us the most by far. I feel glad such an abstract topic is put in words by Paul. Thanks Paul.

I agree with Paul when he says we need to keep our identity small. Assuming an identity weather it be religious, national or any other, blocks our rational side from seeing things clearly. An identity levies upon the carries a sense of entitlement; it clots our mind with prejudice.

It is high time we stop doing this. And by keeping our identity small we lift the entitlement burden from our head. We no longer need to belong to a particular group, justify certain legacy thoughts that were forced upon us.

Many of the problems we face today are because of carrying identities which we assume by chance! The country where I belong, the language which I speak, the religion which I follow - every thing was enforced upon me by chance. Why should there be a resentment when one tries to shrug an identity.

It will only make our minds clear and we will be left with less burden to carry,
You could try selling downloadable software:

1) People often do not balk at paying $5 for it. Substantially more, usually. (There are all sorts of business models but common wisdom among a forum of sellers I'm on is that $20 is about the lowest you'd want to ever sell software for.)

2) You get to choose your customers. You could choose, for example, people with a pressing problem who are willing to pay for a solution. (I suppose you could do that on the iPhone too, but you'd have to deal with a distribution scheme which rewards mass above all other things.)

3) Other people will make fantastically more money in software than you can ever dream of and it will never hurt you in the slightest because you do not compete with them for resources, attention, or customers.

4) The sales curve generally goes up over time, as you get higher search engine rankings, learn how to market, update your product, and have growth from customers rebuying the product and recommending it to your friends. This is a sharp contrast to the typical game or iPhone app sales curve, which one can simulate by plotting Wile E. Coyote in the seconds after which he steps into open air.
I tend to point any clients that want low cost hosting towards GeekStorage.com - they have a $35/yr plan. Another is A Small Orange, but I have had much more problems with ASO than I have with GeekStorage.

If you're looking for something 'beefier' - I'm currently with WebFaction.com - awesome guys, great if you need some cheap hosting for your Django/Rails apps (and don't want to pay for a VPS)
Well written. The 'real' India is indeed far bigger than 'non-retards' working in IT industry.

And as was discussed in this forum a few days ago, teachers have the most important role to play in imparting good education and encouraging creativity and learning over marks. They can actually make a huge difference even with this current system.
French banks usually give a (small) credit line above which deposits must stay (interest-free). Below it you pay the full fledged interest rate + fee. The debit cards tend to debit your purchases at the end of the month too. So in the usual case, within the credit line, it is financed by fees rather than interests.

However credit cards do exist, even if they have been maligned for a long time in media:

Major credit card issuers in France are often linked to the retail sector (see http://www.pass.fr) .. others got consolidated into traditional banks (cetelem for example)

The traditionally French "no permanent credit" model for banks tend to raise fees and favour low deposits I guess.

In both cases anyway the banks pray on the poor / moderately poor people to "dress them up" with all sorts of products and credits they don't need. (And arguably, that society pays up after 30 years)
I was working in an office in London, and about once a month we would order pizza. The problem was we either had to trek downstairs for plates or tear off pieces of the pizza box. Needless to say we usually ended up tearing apart the box, so this would definitely have been a wonderful pizza box for us!

Hopefully delivery places start ordering these quickly!
Honestly, I think Droid Sans Mono is my favorite. so clean
Flagged. Please change the title to be more accurate.
If I change my model to change my customers, I am changing my customers, not changing my toolset. You are deliberately confusing/conflating two fundamentall different concepts,and I believe that while you personally, and perhaps others, may derive some benefit from it, doing so inhibits effective communication.

http://xkcd.com/169/

I agree that blaming the customer base for the failure of the bike-sharing schemes is wrong, and I agree that it may be that changing the target customer base is the only effective solution, but do not agree that calling that "changing your toolset" is helpful.
Well that $15b valuation has to come from somewhere. What this says is they want to be a media company with millions of producers.
Recognising that customers behave a certain way and taking that into account is valuable. Blaming the customer for behaving that way is of little use. You have conflated people recognising that people behave in ways that cause difficulty with blaming them for doing so. Not helpful.

Separation of concerns is as useful in customer identification as it is in writing software.
He didn't seem rattled to me... More like, amused, which was what I was as soon as I heard "Ron Paul" and "economy" in the same sentence. (Ron Paul wanted to abolish the Federal Reserve during his campaign for President. Imagine what life would be like now with no Federal Reserve to control interest rates; then put yourself in Krugman's shoes being talked down to by a random caller, after repeatedly calling attention to the housing crisis more than just about anyone else since 2006, and after winning a Nobel prize.) I'm pretty sure he wasn't rattled.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QIdmzL_Miw
Weebly is a great concept, but right now they only have a small selection of relatively bland templates... Until they open it up to outside custom templates (or find a way to convert wordpress templates!) it's a hard sell.
LOL: "At 1130, a spontanous gathering will take place"

New meaning for spontaneous? Perhaps the different spelling has a different meaning? :)
I come from India, a country that does really well in the IPhO and the IChO. Most finalists coming from here treat these olympiads as training for entrance examinations.

It is no surprise that Indians do not show this stellar a performance in the IMO: the math sections of entrance examinations have little in common with IMO problems (exclusively multiple-choice, heavy on calculus; no Euclidean geometry and number theory).

The IOI situation is quite embarrassing. I've been invited to the national training camp. Most of my fellow competitors don't know jack about algorithms. They aren't even aware of some basic STL functions. Some wrote an O(n^2) sorting algorithm in the qualifying rounds, others memorized a quicksort implementation. But they seem to be good problem solvers, or perhaps a little mathematically-inclined; one of the problems for qualifying involved coming up with a recurrence in two variables and then optimizing the program with DP. Nevertheless, people should expect a lot more from a large country recognized as an "IT hub".
Absolutely. I cannot blame the parents entirely, they have not even seen the same kind of opportunities as we see now. The moment they see more success stories in other fields (not just IT), i am sure they will put emphasis on the right kind of education.
Would it be too far-fetched to claim that Facebook's evil terms of use create an opportunity for a new photo-sharing platform?

Facebook makes it very easy to share photos. What if one could still share photos with friends on Facebook, but these photos were not uploaded to Facebook's server?
"My statement was that there isn't really a better metric."

How about other types of standardized tests that are non multiple choice?
Whoever you choose, make sure you always have an up-to-date local backup of everything on the site. Cheap webhosting is prone to loosing customer files when something goes wrong.
One set of data is not the issue.

It's when you start compiling knowledge (I almost want to say "evidence") from multiple data sets that privacy is really invaded. Couple your anonymous dataset with the search histories of the people involved, and you'll likely get your answer.

Or couple it to their travel info to see which hospital are they likely to have visited so regularly - does the hospital have a specialist diabetes or heart disease unit?
I almost never vote. If you think I should vote, please explain how that would help me. Does HN customize my front page depending on user preferences?
What's up with the "trademark" stuff all over that site? If I'm not mistaken, a general word like "anonymous" can't be trademarked. But maybe it's just to make it look more professional.
The spending is down about 4%, blamed on two factors: substitution from more expensive to less expensive food sources, and people consuming food stores (i.e. goods in pantry). The second has to be temporary for the obvious reason (well, absent a return to foraging, I suppose).

Looking at their graph (alcohol sales down 10.5%, candies down 5.5%, veggies up 2.3%) I'm left wondering if they didn't miss part of the story: people aren't trading down within categories so much as they are reducing expenditure on dietary non-essentials. Its not "I was going to have steak but I couldn't afford it so I had burger", it is closer to "OK, I'm going to cut at the fringe of the food budget that I eat primarily for gustatorial enjoyment."
While these are interesting anecdotes, and I am certainly not in a good position to criticize (being especially good at procrastination), I wouldn't not put too much weight on these stories. Maybe some of them are more myth than reality, and trying to follow the ideal might do more harm than good?

Certainly it sounds like a good idea to have a strict daily routine, but maybe it doesn't work for everyone. Maybe it didn't even work for most of those interesting people, but some PR person or biographer or whatever deemed it necessary to portray these people's lives as such.
Croatia cooks up 'world's largest' sausage
Debian Sid treated me well enough until today, when I decided to upgrade all packages before all the post-Lenny stuff started flowing in. libxcb-render-util0 had previously been upgraded to Experimental's version when I installed Awesome 3, which was available only in Experimental. After removing Awesome 3, I was unable to revert back to Sid's version of libxcb-render-util0 (as well as libxcb1, which had also been upgraded) without removing a great number of other packages. After forty minutes of messing around with aptitude and dpkg without making headway, I said to hell with it and replaced Debian with a minimal install of Ubuntu.

Sid has also done some odd things in the past couple weeks, such as removing slocate from the repositories. It took me a few minutes to figure out that I ought to switch to mlocate. The primary drawback before that was the delayed security updates – due to the Lenny release process, the Firefox (well, Iceweasel) 3.0.5 upgrade took perhaps two weeks to enter Sid, leaving me with the vulnerable 3.0.4 for the period. Ubuntu seems to offer swifter updates.

A minimal install of Ubuntu is very nearly as lightweight as Debian. It provides a stable base and a clearer upgrade path than Sid, albeit at the cost of packages that are behind the cutting edge. Security updates for any packages in Ubuntu's main repository seem more timely than for those in Debian Sid; however, a great many lesser-used packages in Ubuntu's universe repository get no security support at all. Overall, given the issues I suffered when mixing bleeding-edge packages from Debian's Experimental with a Sid-based system, I believe Ubuntu is a better fit for my needs.

Regardless of which I settle on, both are a great deal more fun than Gentoo, which I ran for five years before switching to Sid in September. The novelty of being able to upgrade all packages in five minutes instead of fifteen hours still fills me with joy.
My plan is better dealer support. Direct line to my cell phone.
does this help:

jam@jam:~$ nslookup searchyc.com

Server: 192.168.1.254

Address: 192.168.1.254#53

Non-authoritative answer:

Name: searchyc.com

Address: 24.7.119.0

isn't a .0 a network address ?
How many words do Eskimos actually have for snow?
Absolutely, since it clearly has several legal uses that I can think of, and only one illegal one:

illegal:

- thieves could use it to go and steal those bikes

legal:

- bike owners could monitor the index and know they've left their bikes unlocked so they had better go and lock it

- law enforcement could monitor those bikes because they know they are at extra risk of being stolen

- law enforcement could use the index to take the bikes in to protective custody, to return them to their owners upon presentation of proof of ownership.
Tuition for tuition? Hearing this for first time but I have seen students opting for two tuition simultaneously, one of which is correspondence course.

At times, peer pressure is more compared to ones from parents, which more dangerous.
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As mentioned in one of the later chapters in Freakonomics, at least some crack gangs do model traditional structures in corporate America, down to the point of detailed bookkeeping and using titles such as regional manager and CEO.
Nokia announces mobile store; 70% revenue share to publishers
In reality very few teachers inspire. In my 16 years of education hardly three people inspired me. Do teachers here understand their roles and responsibilities? Bad teachers want the students to opt for private tuitions, which is again run by them.
Do you know why rms didn't start with a kernel?
Does anyone here knows, why Richard Stallman choose the order for developing the several GNU programs he did? Why didn't he start with the kernel? Also, why the name GNU? Shouldn't be the kernel the only part of GNU named GNU? After all, all the other programs could be Unix.
Trigger alerts on code quality metrics with Sonar 1.6
To sum it up: the bike system is operated by an advertiser, who is now using negative PR to strenghten his position in negociations with the city of Paris.

Why on earth is an advertiser operating bikes?

The city of Paris lets him use its outdoor displays for free. It seems the only advantage for the mayor is that he can claim the bike system works at no cost. This is probably the reason why he lets the advertiser keep secret the amount of his revenues from the displays. That barely honest financing scheme looks like the main problem.
Virtualization Adds A New Layer Of Complexity To APM
Virtualization adds a layer of complexity to the application performance management equation. So it's critical to have the right tools in place to avoid piling on even more pain. However, many vendors have been slow to realize that customers aren't looking for standalone virtualization management tools -- rather, they want integrated options that work with their existing management tool investments. Organizations that have dismantled the management silos that looked only at Windows,Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO), or storage systems won't let virtualization management become another silo.
A quick google reveals serveral Flickr for Facebooks apps.. but I think a major value-driver for photos on FB is tagging of friends, and the "see all photos of..", "see photos of NN and me" features, and I think those are difficult/impossible to tap into without using FB's own photo app (although I don't know).

An idea could be to make an app that will upload deliberately crippled (low resolution, watermark), yet recognizable, pictures to FB, and a high-quality copy on Flickr, so tags work, but when you go the to picture, there's a note "I won't let FB own my stuff, see a high quality version of this pic on (Flickr-link) that I own. Posted by CoolPhotoApp."..
"I have to wonder why that, culturally, seems to be linked to Asians?"

It is not Asians - it is most cultures where the parents are fairly poor and the children have a chance to succeed in life.

A second generation rich (well off) person will not work as hard as someone whose father is poor.

I doubt that the stressing and pressure that this guy is going trough is good - but the hard work that a lot of Chinese school children do is a good thing.
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Flash Lite Developer Challenge
I'm really sick of reporters judging cameras purely on their megapixel rating. It's a total scam.
On the similar note: I consider Apple at the top of innovation pyramid because they create something with (almost) no predecessors, yet they make something that 'everyone' wants! To me, that's true innovation!
24 magic hours to SearchSpin - Story of a Yahoo Hack Day India hack
I am surprised nobody talked about inconsolata in this thread yet. As for me, it's my font of choice (and a bit clearer to read than anonymous IMHO)
280 North are building a Hacker News variant?
A Small Orange are great :)
Some more details.
From the faq, Store to include applications for both S60(Symbian) and Series 40 devices, including: Java, Flash applications, widgets, ringtones etc.. Store to go live on March 2nd.
Supports both pay via credit card and operator billing (discussion on with individual operators)

Source:
https://publish.ovi.com/#FAQ
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/live/
Auto Scrolling Effect with javascript and DHTML.
Take a look at this post a nice auto scrolling effect using javascript and dynamic HTML. It's useful to display your website headlines and latest news . Just you have to do very few modifications.
Chiang Mai Songkran Festival in Thailand 2009, Water Festival 2009, Thailand songkran 2009
Agreed. Here in Barcelona we have the ignomious fate of Bicing (bicing.com) being run by /ClearChannel/, of all organizations. Jeez.
Been there, done that:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=450172
Consolas is my fixed-width font of choice :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas